skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was the main motivation behind the inventors of dart. They got frustrated with all the hacks they had to put into V8 just because JavaScript was so mechanically unsympathetic. You can hardly blame then because they originally came from a background of developing smalltalk and self VMs.
Sure, but the waste and plastic production significantly increased during covid. It was around 129 billion disposable masks used every month around the world, according to the American Chemical Society. I'm not sure if that number is lowering or not with totalitarian Chinese policy.

- https://www.dailysabah.com/life/environment/disposable-masks...
The population isn't the main factor, it's the density and percent who commute by car that matter most.
Checking for radiation in the basement sounds like something you can do passively as you walk through? All you need is a Geiger counter?
Another way to put it is that 8-12 SMRs can be located at up to 8-12 sites while a 1.2GWe reactor must be at one site.
The problem is sometimes this is done for legitimate reasons and genuinely does lead to stronger outcomes for both employers and employees.

It's hard to tell the difference between "stop the bleeding" title/pay inflation and "aggressively competing for talent" inflation.
They explain what the padding was used for and why it was initially introduced in the article. This isn't something that needs to be theorized on.
Because his death process started shortly thereafter; he was family. His death was the only death of which I had learned around that time.
Life wisdom would seem to be an area where you should be wary of following advice from serial sex abusers... (I know nothing of Robbins, I just wanted to discuss the general heuristic).
You've always had to login to post, so I don't see how twitters increasing push to force logins would impact a preexisting spam problem.
Sounds like urban shootings as well.
Been using Linux for about a year now and was not aware about the middle click being a separate clipboard than the usual Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V. That explains some head scratcher moments I've had trying to use it before.
Framing it as "gender and queer issues" is disturbingly reminiscent of the time when the DSM listed homosexuality as a mental illness.[1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_DSM
Cloudflare Workers allows you to deploy server side WASM apps.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/webassembly-on-cloudflare-worker...
“High end” laptop with a processor released in 2013???? I suspect my doorbell or watch has more processing power
Not a book but I enjoy https://www.moesif.com/blog/
> The cloud has normalized terrible underpowered VMs, so many new developers may just not be aware of how much performance a real dedicated machine has

This. I'm now seeing many younger developers with no exposure at all to hardware servers, only underpowered cloud VMs.

Not sure how to solve this, but I certainly enourage everyone to spend time now and then benchmarking cloud setup vs. local hardware to at least understand the performance spread and cost tradeoffs you're making.

I've seen too many setups paying 4 and even 5 digit US$ monthly bills to AWS, for workloads that could have been served off a single $1000 box without it breaking a sweat.
> the interfaces we’ve defined serve no practical purpose other than making unit testing possible

That's actually almost never true - abstracting the sorts of external dependencies (like databases and web services) that actually cause problems for unit tests make the code more manageable in terms of maintenance and troubleshooting.

The problem is when people go mock-crazy and mock every class that the unit depends on. Rather, just mock the things that can actually make the unit test fail if they're unreachable for some reason independent of the actual code.
oh thanks -- I think I've got some image-jumping-border issues, looking into it right now!
Something like in Toxoplasmosa. It's just a random product of evolution, nothing computational.

> The life cycle of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii goes like this: Toxoplasma reproduces inside the intestine of a cat, which sheds the parasite in its feces. Rats then ingest the parasite when they consume food or water contaminated with cat feces. The parasite takes up residence in the rat’s brain and, once the rat gets eaten by a cat, it starts the cycle all over again.
> Researchers have known for a few years that a rat infected with Toxoplasma loses its natural response to cat urine and no longer fears the smell. And they know that the parasite settles in the rat’s amygdala, the part of the brain that processes fear and emotions.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-parasite-t...
I've been eagerly awaiting this to become commercially available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_(water_vapor_distill...

Not sure it'll ever happen, but it would be huge if it did.
ohhh i fantasize about being 3d artist / producer in the 90s. i collect whatever I can find from this era. I will make use of my Net Yaroze and release a PS1 game one day!!!
My Indigo 2 R4400SC couldn't run 64-bit IRIX. For that I had to swap the motherboard and CPU for an R10000.
Rent control doesn't work because of liquidity preference. Rental income must exceed the liquidity premium of land or else it will be kept empty. Liquidity preference is effectively the concept that people prefer keeping assets exchangeable for other assets.

For real estate this means keeping the property ready to sell at any time. It is easier to exchange an empty apartment and even easier to exchange an empty plot than a rented out apartment.

The downsides of renting out, i.e. the inability of being able to quickly sell the property must be compensated and that compensation is part of your rent. If you cap rent, that compensation will be insufficient to "bait" the property owner into renting his property out. They would rather keep it liquid and wait for a better offer. To keep it simple, the owner has options, the renter doesn't, so the renter must go out of his way to attract the owner's attention by paying higher rent than if he had outright owned the property himself.

Eliminating the liquidity preference of land would require all land to be leased or a sufficiently high tax on owned land (so that waiting and doing nothing has opportunity costs).
> a 37 Ghz CPU with 16 TB of RAM now.

Something common in the hypervisor admin space is expressing the compute capacity by multiplying the core count with the clock speed.

So for example a 64 core EPYC at 2.5GHz is written down in documentation as a 160 GHz processor.

So these Onyx desktops are directly comparable to artists using a high-end Mac Pro or Threadripper workstation.
Tying taxes to average rents seems like it will cause a Prisoners' Dilemma that will send rent skyrocketing.
It wasn't "doesn't scale to 10-100X bigger" but "doesn't burn themselves and their teammates out 6mo from now and needlessly risk a stressful & prolonged sev0 when one of the 1-2 people who did weird things gets COVID / goes on a honeymoon / leaves for netflix".

Spending time on needless infra (scale you don't need, AI you don't need, infra you don't need, things could have been postgres as in this case, ...) both prevents building useful stuff ($-generating features/experiences/...) and increases operational cost (maintenance, debugging, ...). Both the lost revenue growth and the increased costs are compounding. Imagine a maniac steadily piling on a bit more technical debt every day and eat a bit more of the seed corn every day instead of growing it.

A good phrase for this is "playing house": http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html
For me it came not long ago (just starting my 40s): A film I was just watching had a great quote: "The universe isn't evil but it sure has a nasty sense of humour: I found the person I should am meant to be with, but I can't be with her"

Something vaguely similar happened to me: I suffered from a very strong cronic IBS-C for 20 years, since my University time. Around January 2022, I found a real cure for this 20 year long ailment (a very specific probiotic strain). I spent a couple of weeks really living amazingly, as I haven't lived in 20 years.

Then, on February I got the Astra Zeneca booster COVID vaccine, and as a result, I got long COVID symptoms and a stroke (Transient ischemic attack), and now I'm on aspirin for the rest of my life, and feeling like shit.

Aaah the universe has a nasty sense of humor indeed.
Free speech doesn't mean free speech without consequences. If you slander someone, you open yourself up to being sued by that person. If you spread misinformation that provably harms society, I don't see why society can't sue you for the damage you cause.
> Taking the metro many places (for example, from my apartment in an urban "luxury" apartment building to my boat near the waterfront in downtown DC) doubled the time it took to get there. It was actually faster to drive there even during rush hour where you'll sit motionless on the 395 bridge.

Depends a lot on where you live and work. My experience was the exact opposite in Chicago. Heck, for some of my jobs I could outrun car commuters on my bike pretty trivially.

One of the clear downsides to transit oriented cities is that you do need to pay attention to transit access when renting. A unit being “luxury” is no guarantee that it’s in a convenient place for transit, nor that the trip will be short.

> Yes I can redeem a lot of that time with my above average personal mobile computing set up

I find the need to make commute time productive quite an odd but common impulse. How about just making your commute suck less? Reading a book is better than driving in traffic.

> I couldn't get rid of the car entirely because I still needed it to move bulky things that I really can't take on transit.

Again, experience varies. For a lot of people it would be cheaper to abandon the car and pay for deliveries when necessary.

Regardless, do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If you relegate your car trips to just when you need bulk goods, that is far more efficient than the current habit of using a car fo every single trip.

> Most wealthy people (many of my friends) start families and people who can afford it buy detached housing for that. You're not going to be taking transit to these places.

We could, but we’ve built our infrastructure with the opposite assumption in mind. Most other rich countries use a mix of regional rail, bus, and cars to solve this problem. The issue of “mass transit doesn’t go to the burbs, therefore I must use a car everywhere for everything” is an entirely self inflicted wound.

> Bringing me to the fact that I've been accosted multiple times on transit by people who were high, drunk, or just belligerent

Maybe we could solve that problem instead? Because that seems like a rather silly rationale for designing a transit system around.

Also, it’s not like all car drivers are sober. In fact, a drunk driver is almost certainly a far bigger risk to your safety than a belligerent drunk on the train.

> I'm a huge fan of transit but pretending it isn't a large sacrifice to give up a car is just going to get people to ignore you, because it is and for most people it isn't worth it.

It’s almost like I’m arguing that we should make public transit more convenient than using a car for urban transit or something.
Hetzner has some built in DDOS protection but you should add your own:

https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/ddos-schutz
Empty housing is a myth? Please explain.
The jam itself: https://youtu.be/saEpkcVi1d4

>A week before Russia invaded Ukraine, Waters told an interviewer on Russia Today that talk of a Russian invasion was “bullshit ... anybody with an IQ above room temperature knows [an invasion] is nonsense”; he has subsequently condemned the invasion calling it “the act of a gangster”, while also condemning “propaganda to demonise Russia”. It’s a subject on which Gilmour won’t be drawn. “Let’s just say I was disappointed and let’s move on. Read into that what you will.”
I don't believe any reputable psychiatrist would claim that everyone needs therapy.
The law is so toothless it won't do much. Foreign investors will just find a local conduit to "buy" the house.

> The foreign-buyer ban won’t apply to students

People will send their kid to college and buy them a 5 million dollar house to live in while they are there. And presumably they won't be forced to sell once the student leaves.
Hardware is only a small part of implementing a new technology in a business. Most businesses only buy new tech when there is a business need that drives it. For big B2Bs that haven't changed how they do business or how they interact with their customers in 30 years, there often hasn't been a need to change their business processes. If the mainframe breaks, it's much cheaper and lower risk just to buy a new one, than it is to get different infrastructure and reimplement 30 years of code for which no SMEs are around anymore.
If they're going for diversity, I don't understand why they didn't choose an Asian American, considering we currently have NONE in the supreme court?

As an Asian, I just can't get behind any of these "diversity" pushes when they unilaterally mean "we don't like having Asians around."
The First West Coast Computer Faire (1977)
I think a tender is really a blind bid. A bunch of offers from different people (the tenders) are received before a deadline, and then the vendor views them all and chooses whatever one they like (which is probably the highest offer).

I've just bought a house, and it's been interesting to see the selling method change as the market goes from hot to cold - Auction, Tender, Deadline, Buyer Enquires Over, Asking price.
The key informations are here :

> Fast offered $200-240K/year in base salaries with full remote work

> Sign-on bonuses were common and large. Those who asked for almost always received sign-on bonuses of $20-50K as a one-off payment

> Equity issued was lavish and presented as potentially life-changing

> A good part of people are echoing how working at Fast was an amazing experience. People liked the culture, and how employee happiness was a priority.

What's not to like here ? Working for huge amount of money, in a company whose culture puts employees happiness first, and provides an amazing working experience.

Management did "all the right things" : remote ? check ! competitive salaries ? check ! amazing experience working there ? check ! employees-first culture ? check !. Why would you even need to look elsewhere.

And when it all crashed and burned, the feeling is :

> There are people who are frustrated and disappointed with company leadership, and how the bust came out of nowhere.

Trick is that it did not come out of nowhere, people just chose to look away. It's easier to blame management (which is definitely at fault as well !) than to say "I was paid way too much compared to the actual value I was providing". When you are paid $200k / year, you should easily be able to justify that your work generates more than several thousands of USD alone, if you are unable to do that, you need to have a conversation with your mirror as well - or just accept the fact that you are benefitting from a system, which may crash and burn if too many people are in this situation, or keep on living if you are an exception.
The Value of Standards-Compliant Authentication (2021)
putting an exe in a folder on your desktop counts as installation? is creating a word document also an installation?
Honestly 0.5MB of blank space is never a good tradeoff. If you're adding album art that's a significant fraction of a megabyte, then just rewrite the file.

> which can easily exceed 0.5MB

If that happens then you were better off never reserving space at all.
time to raise a $100M and go w e b s c a l e
Really well done keeping this simple!

It's also another one of those situations where good design principles and coding practices pay off. If the app is a tangled mess of interconnected services, scripts, and cron jobs this kind of transition won't be possible.
I can see where OP is coming from but it sounds like he hasn't allowed him/herself to learn to do things the windows way.

You maybe used to coreutils/binutils and piecing together things in bash like a lego but Powershell in many ways allows you to build powerful scripts or compose one liners like with bash except you have access to .NET and any .NET assembly you can load! Don't even get me started on WMI or GPO.

"Windows wasn't made for me" right... it isn't made for anyone that wants to use it like a unix system, it is an entirely different OS. Just like you shouldn't expect Linux to work like windows.

It really isn't a competition. Windows is messy in its own way and that affects its performance as well. If you want to feel like you are in control, windows isn't for you. If you want to get things done, windows is a mediocre but acceptable platform.

The very things that make Linux powerful and controllable like shared library all over the place, package managers, and more make it more fragile and time consuming to administer.

I spent at least 8-10 hours a week getting things to work on Linux when I had it as my daily driver for over a decade. The weeks I didn't do this, it was because I did nothing outside of browsing the web. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed most of that time, and I did feel like I was in control up until distro maintainers decide things for me and my only choice is to beg and plead and be told to fork it if I disagreed.

All I am saying is every platform exists for a reason and has issues.
One of the main results of COPPA is teaching children to lie about their age on the internet.
Glad it's not just me. It's especially infuriating when clicking a specifc tweet to see replies, scrolling down, then seeing god knows what random mess. Oops, you had to click the tiny 'see more replies' text to see more relevant replies, we're just showing you random unrelated tweets. Who designs such a mess and why...
I agree! I'm the creator of phonetonote [1], which tries to integrate with different tools for thought. I just started a `tft-interop` repo [2] with similar goals. We're just getting started thinking through how to make the TFT structures (edn mostly) more interoperable. I'm not personally an org-mode user, but agree it could be a good format to parse these trees in and out of. I've mostly been thinking about OPML so far. Feel free to hop into the discussions where we're sorting through these ideas — https://github.com/phonetonote/tft-interop/discussions/2

[1] https://phonetonote.com
[2] https://github.com/phonetonote/tft-interop/
It's not the halting problem; it's bounding computational depth

Their suggestion is essentially making stack overflow a feature in regex, & then allowing that stack depth to be tuned
> So should I have flagged the original post or are the aforementioned white guys the only ones allowed to make and respond to them

Please explain how you are aware of the ethnicity of other posters on HN?
Birds make better bipedal bots than humans do
IMO it's a huge problem that TDD and unit testing hey conflated way too often. TDD just means you write the test first and don't write code not required to get the tests to pass. It does NOT tell you what tests you should write. I for one am a huge believer in inside-out TDD. This would have you start with an acceptance test that uses the product as a user would. This may be exercise the feature or reproduce the bug. It's for you to decide what the right abstraction level is. I typically will end up testing edge cases either one level down in integration tests or unit tests, but it depends and there are no hard rules. It's all a trade-off. What's definitely wrong to me is retiring solely on unit tests for your TDD that's a disaster waiting to happen. TDD is about fast feedback
loops and quality not about proxy metrics like coverage from unit tests. As others have pointed out, depending on your language you also might need more or fewer tests. When I write Ruby or plain JS, I'll write a lot, a lot of tests on different levels. When I'm writing Rust, I write very few and those that I do write will be focused on complex business logic (granted all Rust code I've written was for toy projects or puzzles where "business" logic might be the wrong term)

Edit: we've also corrupted what "unit" is referring to. AFAIK it originally referred to a unit of functionality. Many now take it to refer to a single class.
The argument below:

>I already have. Different 'curves' for different school. Or even uniform objective standards so that cohort performance is irrelevant to grade outcome. You can create a 'virtual' objective standard by creating curves that are compensated -- i.e. the 'selective' school has a curve where the median score receives a C while the non-selective is curved such that like-performer parity is present and the median receives an F. In practice this is how the non-selective school manages to give F, D, or incomplete/drop-out to the majority of students in a course.

Was already countered with this:

>I'm also well aware that choice of a curve is a random variable. You've stated it multiple times. Therefore if it's a random variable then hold it the same when comparing mathematical models. Assume all random variables are the same and only adjust the relevant variable which in this case is selectivity. In this case selectivity is causal to difficulty.

Please respond to that rather than regurgitate an argument I already addressed.

>You indicated that selectivity doesn't always mean that the school is more difficult.

The curve argument addresses this. You'll need to address my counter argument to your argument against the curve.

>Pretty much agree except I would do UC Berkeley (#3) vs Purdue (#4) since those are the most near peer selective vs non-selective I could find on 2023 engineering top 10 rankings. MIT is #1 vs GIT at tie #7 is a bit wider. As number 1 MIT is probably a class of its own vs 2-10, since they have 'winner-take-all' advantage in anything where only number one will do.

Sure. Find someone. Idc if it's MIT vs GIT or UCB versus Purdue. Also another caveat to keep in mind... rankings aren't exactly a good indicator for difficulty as we aren't even sure about the criteria used to determine the ranking.

To really strengthen your side, multiple people from multiple schools should be used. But one person is enough for me to at least speculate on an alternative conclusion.

Until then, selectivity on average is causal to difficulty.
At any given time, a company is actively working against the interests of 90% of its employees: trying to cut salary, reduce benefits, stack ranking, or squeezing their schedules.

IT departments are among the worst of underfunding, exploitation, stressing. Because fundamentally the cool management guys see IT as a bunch of nerds to bully. But the problem is IT holds all the keys to the castle.

Until this long-standing fundamental bias of management is fixed, companies will be security sieves.

Unfortunately, what will be done is punitive to the employees: more red tape with no allowance for time, victim blaming, and ass-covering.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/7/8/google-shut-down-...

https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/shutdown

Also, there have been plenty of Google products with paying customers that Google has shot down.

At this point, I have 0 credibility in Google.
I will note that this setting occasionally "unsticks" and you start getting the new one again... I assume that's a purposeful "feature" to see if they can cleave off some people who now tolerate it or don't notice.
That wouldn't be a big deal if the house was affordable to begin with.
90s? COPPA didn't go into effect until Q2 2000.
Surpass in destructive power doesn’t mean much since we can already destroy all life on the planet with nukes. That’s what makes the doomsday weapon in Dr. Strangelove so ironic and funny. But if a new weapon type that at least approximates nukes in destructive power while also surpassing them in ease of proliferation, cost of production, or detectability? Those are much scarier propositions.