skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hilarious" is not the word I'd use. "Dispiriting", "Irresponsible", "Fucked up".

I don't understand why we aren't pouring massive amounts of money into public transport. Apparently many people in Western Europe seem to enjoy being stuck in traffic for hours every day. For some reason, company cars are still a thing in Belgium, very nearly everyone working in IT gets one. I can't wrap my head around how stupid this is.

Not only does there seem to be no sense of urgency, there doesn't seem to be much interest in doing anything at all..
Nice, but rather unbalanced. Once you get to a certain amount of helium you can just click the helium button repeatedly until you're gaining balloons fast enough to switch to the cart button and you'll be a billionaire are in no time. I currently have 1.7 billion dollars. If only it was that easy IRL...
Turn it on its head: “what lasts forever?”

Cleary it’s a matter of degrees and timespan considered.
Good read from 2017 about a sick organization.
That's an interesting take. I learned Prolog at university but I never thought of it this way.
In tantric buddhism, there is a tradition that the flesh of a "seven-times returner" (a person who has been reborn seven times in succession as a human) is of great value in addressing meditation problems. Their flesh was made into pills; I knew someone who owned a few of these pills.

The phrase "The time has come for you to give up your life for the sake of all beings" comes to mind. You didn't want to get a reputation as a seven-times returner.
ok I'll have a go !

Here is my favorite mental-model for problem solving (and my favorite analogy)

So I have this problem:

I love eating scramble eggs, I hate cleaning up the pan and have been trying over the years many different techniques to make sure the egg's doesn't stick to the pan. (No I don't want teflon thanks).

So I tried different oils, temperatures and techniques, all with the goal of getting those delicious eggs not to stick in my pot/pan afterwards.

Then one day it hit me, I'm solving the wrong problem. The problem to be solved is not "EGGS NOT STICKING TO PAN", it's "FINDING A BETTER WAY TO CLEAN" the pan !

And I have found it, it's using a different type of plastic-scrubber. It looks like steel-wool, but it's all plastic.

So whenever I'm stuck on a problem for too long, I try and model the problem as an "eggs-in-pan" problem statement.
Emacs? Why?

Pull up the debugger in chrome on random websites and start them on javascript.
From the github:
Project Goals:

1: To create a version of Clojure that gets to exist independent of a particular platform

2: To explore a Clojure that, being more independent, has

Proper tail call elimination
Conditions / Restarts
Any other feature it might not normally be able to indulge

3: To, should the project progress, begin looking more serious into advanced compilation techniques, to create a serious Clojure implementation
---

This is exciting stuff!
One of my high school electives included the stock market game. At the time my father had some inside info about several tech stocks that were about to do very nice things for one's portfolio, if one somehow had that inside info. So while everyone else was either just playing around, or spending a lot of time researching, I quietly bid my time. My portfolio ended up being worth more than the next 5 people combined.

The only lesson I learned from that is that insider trading is where the profits are at.
Countries with secure energy reserves are sitting on the moral high horse right now.

Similar to the India criticism above, in Europe it is always Germany that is criticized for importing natural gas from Russia. This week it turned out that Poland and Bulgaria (which Russia has just cut off) relied to the order of 45% and 90% on Russian gas. Poland is now re-importing Russian gas from Germany!

Other European countries also rely on Russian gas.

I suppose we should instead buy from virtuous countries like Saudi Arabia (Yemen war, human rights violations).
India does have some good work in this area but at the margin India will think "should I invest one more dollar in this?" and the answer will be "No, it will only gain me 99c that I can capture".

But that gain, unlike the carbon output, will be bounded by the national border, unless there's some way of exporting it for cash.

EU carbon tariffs will have a similar effect, making Indian goods relatively cheaper on the export market if they invest in solar.

This comes up again and again. The famous "Renewable Energy Without the Hot Air" for example is about how the UK could generate it's own power cleanly.

Which is effectively irrelevant in a global context of 60 Million vs 11 Billion people, but it makes phasing out fossil fuels seem harder so there's a lot of people pushing it as an unstated assumption.
I imagine that's the limit per client IP address [for a single server port], no? The Linux kernel can use multiple pieces of information to track connections: client IP address, client port, server IP address, server port.

Cloudflare has some interesting blog posts on this topic:

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-spectrum/

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-stop-running-out-of-ephem...
Phoenicians wouldn't have gone so far inland. Carthaginians were their descendants, but at the time of Second Punic War, centuries had passed since original colonies like Tarsis or Malaka (Cádiz, Málaga) were founded.

Carthage was a Phoenician colony itself so it makes (some) sense to drop Phoenicians' name in the mix, but I'd never seen "Phoenician-Carthaginian", simply "Carthaginian" for that era.

A nice finding anyway.
People who end comments/messages with ";)" or the like always seem so condescending.
I think they might have a really big opportunity here. They just need to replace/augment the drag-and-drop interface with a conversational interface.
By that logic so has everyone?
AFAIK there's PRAGMA journal_mode = OFF, which may help with performance, but if you want to go beyond that, you may [1] have to modify the code or write your own VFS driver.

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlit...
The GP almost certainly means the US, that's certainly not true in most of Europe.
I enjoyed going through Brown's Introduction to Programming Languages (2012) which uses the book.

http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/
We have "I'm a teapot"[0] already?

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418
[2] does not support the idea that white noise causes autism. It's a pretty big leap from "freeway proximity, even in utero, correlates with autism" to "white noise causes autism."
27,000 chickens boiled alive at poultry farm after computer error
Something to learn for everybody, the article is mainly about Linux tuning.
For what it's worth, "yak shaving" [did originally mean](http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gs...) what the author calls "rabbitholing"; see [the person who claims to have invented the term](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:yak_shaving#Etymology) in the 1990s.
(While it seems that the project isn’t active) I’m interested not because of the Rust part but because of the more independent part, with plans to implement conditions and restarts [0].

I’ve mentioned a few days ago [1] about the lack of a clean and consistent lisp (in the development sense, not in the core-language-is-tiny sense) with a CL-like REPL-driven development workflow: maybe Clojure with conditions and restarts can be part of the picture?

(In Common Lisp, restarts and conditions are a major part of the REPL as it allows the REPL to have a mechanism to catch error conditions and allows the user to resume execution appropriately, after the user debugs and fixes errors.)

[0]: https://lisper.in/restarts

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31179701
Is there data showing that white noise _does_ cause autism?
Agreed, hard seems easier. I think wordle could have a similar feeling. Four letter words would be harder than five because you rule out fewer letters each turn.
Should it be considered world war if it's only NATO vs Russia? WW2 involved millions from commonwealth(India contributed the largest volunteer military), I don't see India, China and Africa getting involved into NATO-Russia war directly. That excludes majority of the world's population.
The experiment is about Java app, but the tweaks are at the O/S level. Does it mean any app (Java/not, Loom/not) can achieve target given correct tweak?

Also, why are these not default for the O/S? What are we compromising by setting those values?
Population reduction is the most effective tool we actually have. So nature doing it for us is a good thing. Sadly it targets more likely those who emit less and not more.
Who will bring ML to Search?
How SmartOS avoids sadness

http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/04/10/libsunw_ssl-or-h...
Unless you are referring to another meaning for the term “transactions” that I’m unaware of, I’ve found running your SQLite queries inside transactions grately increases throughout.
Climate change isn't only new record high temperatures. It's also, as described in the article, temperatures consistently being higher than is regular for this time of the year.
It is easy, we can spit it into two parts: Proving that all even numbers end up in that loop and proving that all odd numbers do.

I'll take the even ones. Who works on the odd ones?
I'm no expert on SQLite, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm effectively guessing.

I don't there is a way of turning off transactions completely, you can either do it explicitly or implicitly.

However, if you do it explicitly (wrapping BEGIN/COMMIT manually), you can batch all your INSERT/SELECT statements inside one transaction instead of one transaction per query. This should make things a bit faster as the lock would only have to be acquired/released once instead of once per operation.
Most people in his country put food on family table without US-level software developer salary. It's hard to lower expectations of life quality, but let's not dramatize.
This post is a pearl! I love writing and I think that I'm good at it. However, I still have to learn and this post gives a sound structure. The point I'm struggling the most is to help my teammates growing their writing skills and to make them love writing. I will definitely recommend them this post!
Try cooking on a cast iron pan that's been seasoned, i cook eggs on these and I can clean it in about ~1 minute with a soft sponge.
I am not talking about Macron, I am talking about Hollande, which is (was?) the leader of the Socialist Party.

And I may be wrong about it, but I think that he increased taxes all across high-income brackets, not just the absolute top. And that certainly leads to a game-theoretical equilibrium.

To me (and I assume others) the following calculation comes into play:

- for what I pay in taxes, do I get a reasonably good public services back? I am not saying that I want to account for every euro, but I don't want to feel like I did in Brazil, paying 38% effective tax rate and receiving virtually nothing back in public services and still having to pay again for private healthcare, private education for the kids, etc...

- how much money do I have left in the bank after I paid all my expenses and taxes, i.e, what is my saving power?

If I had a 250k€/year brutto income, it wouldn't be too difficult to show that I would be better off in Switzerland (higher CoL, but way lower tax rate) or in Greece (similar tax rates, less return on public services, but way lower CoL). If Germany decided to increase the effective tax rate, this threshold would go down significantly.
Instead of relying solely on air conditioning, which often adds to greenhouse gas emissions if run on fossil power, there are a number of passive solar design strategies that work without additional energy:

- Solar chimneys draw cool air in when it’s sunny via pressure differential

- Building orientation along with natural shading from deciduous trees prevent excessive solar insolation heating the building

- Building on top of a thermal slab to provide enough thermal inertia to prevent excessive heat during the day

I wrote more details on this on my blog: https://uplevelgreen.com/passive-solar-cooling-in-hot-humid-...
>What we call “free will” consists of a multitude of forces we have no control over.

Yea I also noted that, I always thought, I like red meat, but it was not my decision to like red meat. Sure I can control the urge or desire to have it or not have it. But I never "decided" to like red meat !
Personally, I have found using a visual scoreboard as a really helpful tool to make/break habits. Being able to see streaks clearly and a more concrete representation of the habit (as well as a reminder to keep it up!) is really useful. And I think a paper version trumps an app here quite a bit. It's for more tactile, which makes it feel more real and meaningful.
To expand on this, journal_mode controls if SQLite should document the transaction or not, not if there should be transactions at all, so you're effectively disabling logging, which indeed should also contribute a bit to better performance.
Zachtronics games [0]. The epitome of educational programming game developers. Solve puzzles and optimize solutions by learning to think like a computer.

[0] https://www.zachtronics.com/
There's always trade-offs. It would be very rare for any server to reach even 100K concurrent connections, let alone 5M. Optimising for that would be optimising for the 0.000001% case at the expense of the common case.

Some back of the envelope maths: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=100+Gbps+%2F+5+million

If the server had a 100 Gbps Ethernet NIC, this would leave just 20 kbps for each TCP connection.

I could imagine some IoT scenarios where this might be a useful thing, but outside of that? I doubt there's anyone that wants 20 kbps throughput in this day and age...

It's a good stress test however to squeeze out inefficiencies, super-linear scaling issues, etc...
It can easily be proven for all valid values of int (of a specific limited size).
Nice of you to dismiss people’s (mostly a single one’s) free work.
Even if the person doing the interview believed in your intentions, the question is still legitimate.
Batching multiple queries into a single transactions of course greatly increases performance compared to have one transaction per query.

But it does not give you the performance you get if there are no transactions in the first place.
Magic.

In rc/arc you can achieve the same by making release a no-op.
Thanks for linking this. I've had this fruit before, fond memories of a childhood visit to Mumbai in early 80s. It's known by the Marathi speakers as "targolay". Its taste can be roughly described as a mix between a slimey coconut flesh with a distinctive sweetness found maybe in litchi fruit, but not as intensely sweet. Some rumour that it is intoxicating after a certain quantity - not sure about this. But it's a taste sensation unlike anything I've ever experienced since. Recent visit to Mumbai (2016) in Dec yielded nothing as explained by a dismissive street hawker: "tadgolay won't be found in winter". Much disappointed!
Every x days I need to revalidate my phone number for Google voice. I would think Google has the mechanisms to validate phone number. In fact they also have the ability to validate addresses which they use for maps business listings.
> I’ve mentioned a few days ago [1] about the lack of a clean and consistent lisp (in the development sense, not in the core-language-is-tiny sense) with a CL-like REPL-driven development workflow: maybe Clojure with conditions and restarts can be part of the picture?

There seems to be some efforts of adding user-land conditions, see for example https://nextjournal.com/pangloss/a-tutorial-on-conditions-an...

One could imagine another user-land REPL that also makes use of that, to give a similar REPL for Clojure as for Common Lisp.
> I can't wrap my head around how stupid this is.

Same as in the Netherlands: It's a cost/tax dodge. Looks like you get 500-800 euro/month in car but it actually only costs about 200 to the company and the company doesn't have to pay a significant amount of taxes over it. Scrap that advantage and it will quickly go away.
Yes, it makes things faster. But not to the level of performance you can get out of a completely transactionless setup.

At least according to my experiments with MyISAM tables vs InnoDB. I never got InnoDB tables to perform as well as MyISAM tables.
I should probably write more software… :-)
As a Hungarian, I love and hate this infographic at the same time.
> But it's also a valid use case for a government to issue certificates to access their own sites securely.

They don't need a root certificate installed on citizen's machines for that...
How to Earn a Livelihood from GameFi: All You Need to Know.
Making a livelihood out of playing your favorite video games is something out of a fairy tale book. Though this idea was a far-fetched one a couple of years ago, not anymore.

Gamefi is the most trendiest niche in the cryptocurrency industry at the moment, no less than a gold rush. Blockchain gaming has caused a frenzy in the video game industry and it is set to challenge the traditional $175 billion global video game industry.
China is left out because the government behavior there for the past few decades has been to deprioritize climate change entirely. Until they take some kind of initiative in leading the world in reducing CO2, European countries are likely where this innovation will be. Right now both the US and China are the problem, this has nothing to do with “white”.
I think it's the opposite. We can move, but we have the intelligence to tame our environment so we don't have to.
I got a warranty, yes. I live in Australia, so there's a government-enforced 2-year minimum warranty period for durable goods such as electronics.

PS: I once worked on a project where 10 consultants sat around burning money for over a month because the customer couldn't figure out how to spin up a lab environment. We walked down to the local computer shop across the street, ordered the beefiest Xeon workstation tower we could build, packed it with drives, put VMware ESXi on it, and then the work could finally start. The "research, ordering, build, and troubleshooting" took half a day. It saved hundreds of thousands of dollars of lost time and money.
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Shift+Arrow keys can be used to select text as you navigate through it

Ctrl+Arrow keys navigates through whole words at a time

Ctrl+Shift+Arrow keys can be combined to select whole words

Ctrl+Backspace can be used to delete whole words
Hi! Saw your remarks about the difficulty of maintaining mobile apps - I agree this is an extremely large overhead, Apple and Google make it an absolute pain most of the time, but if you are willing to put in initial effort to port the screens / main functionality to a mobile friendly website, you can create a hybrid app through a WebView and significantly reduce the shipping times / app store burdens (and most updates, if not all, can go through the web and thus webview, instead of having to build and ship a native app(s)!)

If it helps. I don't know the technicalities of the mobile app at all, i.e. how many native functionalities the mobile app needs, if any.
I very much like the absolute lack of responses to this question.
I assume that adding more compression algorithms would be doable. But zb is, in its current form, a proof of concept, at least. :-)
"Crypto, after all, is the blanket term for all digital, blockchain-based assets. That includes everything from Ethereum, the popular blockchain used for decentralized apps and NFTs, to shitcoins, parlance for all non-Bitcoin tokens."

How old are these people at the verge? "Crypto" has always stood for cryptography (at least in the tech world, the word itself means "Secret/Hidden") and crypto coins are called this because cryptography is used. Thanks to garbage reporting like this we are redefining terms in the public and as it looks like now "crypto" will for ever be redefined to mean crypto currency...

A similar thing happened to the word "decimate". The original definition was: "from Latin decimat- ‘taken as a tenth’, from the verb decimare, from decimus ‘tenth’. In Middle English the term decimation denoted the levying of a tithe, and later the tax imposed by Cromwell on the Royalists (1655). To kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group." Now it means to totally destroying something.
The problem of not having a software that lets me maintain an .org-based website with no dependencies. :-)
That one is easier as you think: 2.2.1. Multiple copies of SQLite linked into the same application

I used two different C# libraries to access the same database. And under the hood, they both used a different SQLite library, with different native SQLite builds (of the same version though).

Took me some time to figure out…
I don't think that's a fallacy fallacy. Fallacy fallacy is when there really is a fallacy in a person's argument, and that fact is used to reason that the argument's conclusion is false.
And canceling transferring mobi, what? No mention of library books support.
The title might be inflated, and maybe the egos too (but that's true across engineering disciplines), but I can tell you the pay certainly isn't inflated. While I was in Operations, I on average was paid 1/2 of what an equivalent level SWE would get paid in most companies, this was typical across the industry, and I'm guessing still is.

Because SRE came out of Ops, which came out of SysAdmin, there's a cultural expectation both by other engineers and by management that you are essentially a digital janitor, and if you can code it's only minimally so that you can write glue scripts, rather than being equally capable as an SWE. The reality is that most of my peers were /better/ developers than equal-level SWEs, because they had a stronger understanding of lower level systems and their interactions than SWEs who spent all their time working in abstractions.

As another commenter notes, I would have been perfectly happy keeping the "SysAdmin" title my entire career, and while I held the title for awhile, it always grated on me when people were hired as DevOps Engineers (I would often tell managers "DevOps is a philosophy, not a job title."). At least SRE accurately describes the work in some abstract sense, you are an engineer and your primary duty is the reliability of the public facing site and its dependent backend services.

Frankly, the amount of derision I see here and in other tech circles from SWEs against basically every other role in tech makes me think SWEs are the ones with the ego, for that matter.
Wet plate photography.