skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really depends on what kind of daycare you have.

If you need a translator to transact business and they only take cash you pick up the phone because lord knows that if they are calling you it's because there is a real emergency.

If it's one of those pad cell for toddlers type places that's harder to sign up for than a mortgage they can go to voicemail.
Here it is: https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/151945555551713690... (source: am fasterthanlime).

No idea what HN's policy is on posting links to Twitter, but since you asked. Also if the consensus here is that that 2020 rant is "unfair and toxic", that twitter thread is not going to go over well either!
> The contraction comes after the economy grew by 5.5 percent in 2021, and by 6.9 percent in the final quarter of 2021 alone.

1.4% doesn't sound like much, is this really cause for alarm after how fast we've been growing?
If you're interested in starting electronics, I recommend getting one of the elegoo ardiuno kits off of amazon. They're a surprisingly good hands on way to learn a bunch of basic theory and how to use common parts and sensors.
Just because inflation is being caused by supply constraints, doesn't mean that raising interest rates is an inappropriate response.
>A whole lotta people, mostly outside the HN demographics, are real pissed off about a decade of public policy that has amounted to making their lives worse and worse at every juncture and now it's finally getting to the point where ends are hard to meet.

They had four years under Trump threatening the city-dwellers and neo-liberals, a literal armed rioting mob, sympathy within the government and law enforcement and a gallows in front of the Capitol on Jan. 6th. They had the half of the country with all of the guns and all of the dreams of patriotic revolutionary glory convinced the election was being stolen at that moment by Chinese communists and the very party they blamed for all of their problems.

If they couldn't make it happen then, when all of the stars were aligned and the winds of populist ferver were at their backs, I don't think anything more than an occasional riot is going to happen in the future.
They touched on something in the article but it deserves more emphasis.

The most difficult and critical part of software development is requirements engineering. I will includes requirements negotiation as part of that.

Something that I have always had to fight against is the tendency to take business stakeholders at their word when they say they have a specific set of requirements or deadline. Project success often hinges upon modifying or rejecting supposed requirements given unambiguously.

The hardest part of this is that business analysts or executives prescribing requirements often have more seniority or political power in an organization than the software engineer. They also don't really know what requirements engineering is or that it is something the _software engineer_ _has_ to do.

It's necessary to understand the details of business problems and then do some level of analysis of how to address them with technology. The majority of projects have done about 50-90% of the necessary depth of business analysis and that is what they present to the programmer as a supposedly complete description. But pushing a little harder on those details it's often possible to find process descriptions scrambled, missing important information, and processes that really aren't required.

Once the engineer truly understands the business, they can think in depth about ways to use technology to deliver value. They can come up with design outlines for the software and think about how to break things up into different iterations. What is worthwhile in terms of programming effort versus business value. They cannot do that without having drilled down into details. It's quite common for an important detail to be omitted in discussions initially, which dramatically increase the programming difficulty or changes the approach. That's why it's so important to always be digging to uncover real requirements (and especially at the start).

Getting all of that resolved requires not only strong communication skills but also favorable political outcomes. If the project management isn't good, they can interfere or fail to provide support during the requirements phases and therefore kill any possibility of success from the start. But regardless of how good the managers, requirements need to be negotiated and agreed upon which is another challenge.

Beyond all of that, programming really is hard. If it wasn't, it would not be programming. It would be copy and paste or configuring existing software. The premise is that you have unique problems that have not been solved yet. So you need expertise but also strong problem solving skills. Which all the while you may be dealing with all the people issues at the same time.
Because slow inflation maximizes the utility of having a financial system. You have a stable currency which allows for long-term planning, its slow inflation enables that growth (by forcing resources to be productively used), while also working to lessen inequalities over generations rather than exacerbate them (your wealth slowly erodes unless you do something with it).
It's unclear what your definition of harm is. It sounds like you take it to mean only physical harm, and not e.g. psychological harm? Are death threats or racist/sexist abuse harmful or not?
Virtual meetings can limit creative ideas
Zebra mussels are actually quite destructive to the ecosystem, and quickly lead to waters that are choked with vegetation (because light can penetrate deeper into the water), and lacking the sorts of food consumed by filter feeders that form the base of the food chain.

There are some species of fish that prefer the thicker vegetation, but fish populations overall decline significantly when zebra mussels invade.
The reflector ensures that's not possible. There are 26 independent circuits that go from the key switch through the pegboard through the rotors and to the reflector.

Pressing a key makes one of those 26 circuits hot. Now attach the reflector: it necessarily connects that hot circuit to a different one.
The article discusses this if you read it.
This should not be flagged, this is a well written article
Hong Kong's iconic Star ferry may launch its final journey after 142 years
(LOL. How did I type "UTF-17", twice?)
Go has a lot of issues. Some of them would be easily fixable if people promoting and developing Go actually admitted the problems. However, the fanbase usually acts as a cult pretending that issues are features. Thing is, just like broken, hackish dependency "management" had to be fixed (introducing tons of complexity for the sake of not destroying backward compatibility), other problems will have to be fixed as well. It will add even more complexity to the language.

For example, Go error handling is shit. People will attempt to fix it with generics now and that will create a lot of inconsistency between different APIs. Because of those inconsistencies the entire language will loose any possibility of elegant, high-level, pre-packaged solutions for certain things (like automated logging, recovery, etc.) This loss will be permanent and the vast majority of users won't even understand why some things are so hard.
A lot of people would freeride because someone else would do it. They aren't really incompetent. They just value something else more than school projects. The "sad" truth is that they'd probably do just as well, if not better than you, after graduation.

Chances are after you graduate, you'd regret spending too much effort on these projects and missing out other fun stuff in college, while the others offloaded their work to you so they could enjoy college life. Maybe you can think about what you want to achieve right now.
I wonder if "free government healthcare" would increase your tax liability by more or less than $9000
The full paper is on sci-hub_se, "Ultrafast and highly selective uranium extraction from seawater by hydrogel-like spidroin-based protein fiber"

> "In the natural seawater, SSUP fiber achieved a breakthrough uranium extraction capacity of 12.33 mg/g with an ultrashort equilibration time of 3.5 days, suggesting that SSUP fiber might be a very promising adsorbent for uranium extraction from the natural seawater."

A 1000 MWe reactor (gigawatt) requires about 115 tons of uranium, and this needs to be replaced about every four years. The silk protein degrades fairly rapidly in seawater, good for about 10 cycles. Some rough calculations then indicate that if the process worked, about 1,000 tons of silk protein would be required to accumulate enough uranium to fuel one reactor for one four-year cycle... with massive logistical problems (i.e. deployment, extraction, recycling, etc.)

I doubt this would be economically or energetically feasible. In contrast, a silicon PV solar plant with enough storage to generate a steady 1000 MW 24/7 seems to be a good deal less expensive.

https://www.nuclear-power.com/nuclear-power-plant/nuclear-fu...
Did your post-production career involve CGI and VFX?
What are you talking about? Biden is going to use nuclear weapons against US citizens? I assure you, there is no food shortage in the United States. The S&P500 went down 15%, calm down, it'll go back up.
Could you do it totally on the client? That is, draw a form and then have a Javascript fill out the template values (say <span class="field_name" />)

It wouldn't he hard to make up Sphinx directives to drawn the form and put in the target spans.
> a bunch of paper millionaires cashing out [to buy property]

so what did the seller of those property spend their profits on?
>From a non-US perspective, it seems that a lot of Americans are quick to conclude that a civil war is around the corner, even on HN where one would hope for a more nuanced analysis. There can't be that many boogaloo boys on this forum, so I wonder how common this narrative is in the US at the moment to make it a go-to conclusion. Is it really common to hear talk of this in the US?

Ive stepped on a hornets nest in my comment quite negatively voted.

I too am a non-US perspective and 'boogaloo boys' aren't going to be a major factor at all.

>From what I see of human nature, most people are willing to accept a good deal of change and discomfort before they are willing to jeopardise their relatively stable & comfortable lives (relative compared to countries where you actually see armed uprisings, revolutions & civil war).

Never in my life have I seen polarization so bad. According to what I read the only ever time it was this bad was the first civil war.

You know what's weird. I predicted there would be self-immolations similar to arab spring and we are getting it. Black, incel, and environmentalist self-immolations in the USA. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/us/activist-s-self-immolation...

I even imagine as well. Lets say midterms happen and there's a clean sweep by the democrats. What happens?

How about the republicans sweep the election?
Awhile back the Founder of Visionect refuted this idea that patents are holding things back on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25067824

My personal take: E-Ink screens have too many drawbacks for 99% of consumers to be at all interested in them.
That talk makes the point that replacing the swiss cheese hardware security models with a software one can shift your performance. You run 1.5x slower, but you also run 1.5x faster by avoiding all the hardware checks. On the whole, you can theoretically run about the same speed, but with better security.

Even better, if WASM takes over the world, you can bake parts of it into hardware and remove a lot of other bottlenecks.
Bro just sue Fox News
For the sake of a mind game assume that assignments and solutions can be copyrighted.

The mind game is: The assignment is most likely produced with a solution, but published without (lets say else it would not be 'assignable'). For deterministic solutions, could you copyright it without publication?
Yes, but at least, he's not selling you the version that says "I hired a bunch of people in {enter 3rd world country} to write books on random subjects, then hired another bunch of people in {other 3rd world country} to write fake reviews about them", and made it into a business.
You can still see the other side when they're big.

When you can't, then you start getting into great territory.
Go out and touch some grass. Sitting at a computer screen and reading about the world creates a warped reality. Live life don't read about it
I'm pretty sure politicians prefer BLM and Jan 6 riots to occupy.

Because occupy actually got at the root of the problem... The other two are distractions.
not sure of you can categorically claim this - why did inflation in the 70's oil crisis happen?
No images, no text, no voice.

When I code, I simply sit in front of the computer and it happens.

It's similar to tying knots or driving a car, except applied to my entire life.

Once people master tying their shoes they don't think "alright friend, let's have this rabbit run around the tree". They just do it and it happens.

When you drive as an experienced driver, you do not think "red means stop, red means stop, look in the mirror, look at the road". You just automatically compute what is going around you.

Simply apply that to everything and that's how my mind, and the mind of a lot of people, works.

I once tried to learn how to speed read. One of the core concept is "do not vocalize the words, just think through them". At first this had me confused as to why people would actually focus for long enough to generate an internal noise for each sound. This sounded like a way to slow down your reading on purpose. Then I learned that some people have an automatic voice that reads everything and the effort is flipped, it's a conscious effort to quiet it while for me it's a conscious effort to generate it.

In my eyes, since people are able to unlearn that, it's not impossible for you to empathize about it. It's simply hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes when the concepts are very alien to how you experience life. Take the aphantasic community as an example, at first many people "call bs" about the fact that other people could see images.
> of digital assets and digital state that is recorded on-chain. The goal is not “how to transfer a physical asset.”

Even with "purely digital assets" you have the trouble with oracles that provide you with data and whom you must explicitly trust, and with trust in general (when someone sells you NFTs that may or not be stolen from someone else).

The sum total of "p2p transfer of digital assets and digital state that is recorded on-chain between parties [without intermediaries - d.] that don't trust each other" is a very minuscule part of a very minuscule subset of a very minuscule number of activities that people engage in.
Ask HN: What Is Going on with Elsevier?
Over the last view months my experience with article publication through Elsevier has been horrible: the proof, after paper acceptance, used to be just 2 hrs of me reading carefully what they have in their system, now it's months (!) of going back and forth, with Elsevier going out of its way to change equations, shuffle figures, etc. Submitted manuscripts are returned to the author after several weeks because certain required statements (data policy) are supposedly not there, when they absolutely are. I was never a fan, but have never had any issues like that before.

Anyone know what's going on? Did they outsource some more over the last year? Are they in their final throes?
And of course the "knowledge" part - the entropy being a function of the probability distribution for the microstate conditional on the macrostate - is there just the same in the microstate counting approach. (Where the latter is applicable!)

If given the macrostate all microstates are equally probable we can just count them. The more there are the higher the entropy.

In general we have a probability distribution for microstates conditional on the macrostate. To have a clear understanding of entropy that should be at least mentioned.
"I used to be With It. But now what I'm With isn't It, and what's It seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!"
This is cool. Make sure and click on some of the spacecraft and check out the “Round-Trip Light Time”.

Space is Bigly.
> It doesn't make sense to count the microstates for a volume of gas at some pressure and temperature.

But nobody does that since the total value of entropy isn't important. What you do is count the factor difference in count of microstates between two volumes, that is what you care about, and it is easy to see how the number of microstates changes when you double the volume or other similar changes.
Solution: replace company leaders (who sound like they come from the financial sector, as they don't understand 'it', other than that others have made money off 'it') with engineers.
Especially for app configuration
So much fun in this editor. I'm surprised it is getting so much regular development. A breath of fresh air, it has helped edit many config files on remote shells.
most services require some material goods associated with the service. Even if wages aren't raised, those materials would cause prices to rise.
Why I’m Skeptical of “Steelmanning”
The press release from BEA:

https://www.bea.gov/news/2022/gross-domestic-product-first-q...
Or is it? we really have very few experiments to determine this. War can certainly cause both inflation, and deflation. While monetary policy can adapt to an extent, it's unclear that it's the primary driver of inflation in all circumstances.
I signed up just to tell you this: Listen to the band "russian circles", it's favorite programming music. Occasionally heavy, no distracting vocals, interesting rhythms (but not too technical to distract), overall very good background music.
Why bring it up?
It's interesting. Is this a difference between European jobs and American jobs?

It has probably chaffed off of me to some degree, but our company owners are of the same cut of wood. In some selected spots, we very much look for people who have done "it". We need people to sit down with a new laptop and solve our problems in these areas and there is no real idea of how it should be. That's what we want to pay money for, to buy time spent learning.

But we also have positions open for which we just look for smart people with some linux background, effectively. We're entirely ready to put in work to make the person we hire successful. For example, we're open that we're looking for a linux and networking engineer and we're happy to work for it with the candidate. We can teach, we have budget for books, courses and conferences, so let's go. And that's how it should be, in my book.
I walk and drive around and don't see much burning.
To say go's simplicity is a lie, then to go and and say this;

> This function signatures tells us a lot already. It returns a Result, which means, not only do we know this can fail, we have to handle it. Either by panicking on error, with .unwrap() or .expect(), or by matching it against Result::Ok / Result::Err, or by bubbling it up with the ? operator.

What the hell? I'm not a rust dev. I have no idea what half of this means. "bubbling up"? What the fuck even is that?
It absolutely does. When operating a highly dynamic site that services millions of requests a day, scaling k8s pods horizontally ceases to be a "win". One bumps up against the node count that is hit by the load balancer. (NodeJS experiences this quite a bit too). Rails excels in heavily cached configurations. This requires less volatile data.

My main point here is, that while one can work hard to try and tune Rails (Shopify's done it, Stripe's done it) - and I would argue that it's more of an effort than some DevOps personnel updating a pod count - it's fairly easy to start with something that is already very performant. SpringBoot is an opinionated framework for Java that has very good raw performance. I'm simply advocating that it doesn't hurt to start with something that's already pretty good. That's not premature optimization, it's just making wise decisions from the start.
The rotor is "per se" designed to never let this happen. The combination from the beginning to traverse all 3 switches is 1:1, so unless the reflector connects to itself, it will never actually collide.
Or let's put it differently. Imagine just 1 switch, as it's the same reasoning. It will always change the letter, and will never return the same letter, given that the first switch always follows the key you are pressing.
Things were fine in my locality, and in the vast majority of localities across the country.
Reddit is big on cargo-cult troubleshooting, you can't show them a TCP windowing problem or path MTU detection failure without "try changing your DNS servers" or "disable auto-negotiate on your Ethernet port" getting a hundred upvotes.
I don't know about fruit, but nuts like pistachios will spoil after 12 hours in a truck. You have a finite time before picking and processing before they rot, and a tractor trailer is about the worst environment as the the load can cook itself from the waste heat of biological activity in a large poorly ventilated volume.
This "behind the paper" write up is a great complement, and also shares more about the actual paper, which is paywalled: https://engineeringcommunity.nature.com/posts/engineered-jum...
Inflation is largely a political affair. It's a hidden tax that is designed to benefit those with large amounts of capital by devaluing capital that belongs to the lower classes. If you own properties, hard assets, you benefit from inflation and vice versa.

Unlikely until mid-elections. No political camp wants to be the one that stops the music and become the destroyer of wealth of the middle class. Yet the soft landing they keep touting is simply not possible with the amount of money printed.

The fed is at a tough place but if the US dollar loses the faith of other currencies backed by it, it could become a national security issue. Yet the decision maker's continued hold on power is dependent on them delaying it as such for the duration of their term.

Something has to give. $1 in 1992 is now $2 in 2022. It's very possible that it reaches $4 in half that time, possibly even as little as 5 years. This is a very real possibility that stakeholders are dealing with.

Hyperinflation is almost certainly followed by a major world conflict. ex) Weimarch Republic
> with low interest 30 year loans

Are those loans supported by other low interest loans they took themself?
Hello - I am the product manager for GitLab Runner. The SIGTERM-related issues have been quite complex due to the different execution environments in which the Runner can operate. Can you add the details of your use case and workaround to the issue below? We need to take another look at this functionality, given the various reports of inconsistent behavior with long-running processes.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/27443
I mean I am willing to talk about keep doing it at the next company, assuming increase in rewards for doing it, but I am not going to be incredibly passionate about continue doing the thing that I really know how to do well as some recruiters seem to want, I will instead be pragmatic and professional.
Yeah, I could not care less about what they do with the loan. I'm not looking for a relationship, just the best deal I can get. Full stop. Do people still think otherwise on loans?

All that said, our local CU does in fact keep their own mortgage portfolio. This may be rare, I don't know. They're a large CU associated with a government contractor.

When I bought my house they had the best deal (rate + closing costs) hands down. When I refinanced they were no longer offering 30yr loans on their portfolio (and I wasn't interested in 10/15), but still were originating them to sell. Unfortunately the 30yr rates were not as quite good as I could get elsewhere and closing costs were close to a wash so I went another direction.
On Becoming a Trillionaire in 2022