skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe what you are describing is called stack ranking and has fallen out of favor with tech companies. Microsoft at least used to do that (I think they don’t anymore).
sum types are my number one. the frustrating part is that it almost has it with type sets in interfaces, which you can use in function signatures, but you can't use them in definitions of other types.

example, given an interface that is scoped to 4 types:

type PlayingCardSuit interface {
Diamond | Spade | Heart | Club
}

I can use that in a function signature:

func PrintCardSuit(c PlayingCardSuit) {
...
}

But i can't use it to compose other types:

type PlayingCard struct {
Suit PlayingCardSuit // error
Rank string
}
Maybe we should all live in pods and just interact in virtual reality all day. Robots can feed us and stuff. I think I saw a movie about that.

In all seriousness, your idea is disgusting. Espousing this kind of hard line authoritarian stuff is in the same category as extreme racism or other vile speech.
No, you’re right - they rarely feel native. I also agree about the layers of suffering. This was in line with our experience as well.

The whole thing felt like cutting a log with a dull chain saw rather than using a really sharp pull saw.

Sure we got there and it took a lot of labour away, but traded for another kind. It was a little faster. The end result wasn’t as nice. So… Was it worth it?

I’m still not sure. It’s certainly worth it in cases where you’re well-versed in react native and ready to build and deploy quickly.

But then I have to wonder. What if you just spent the same time and energy learning native tools in the first place?

There is still the fact that transfer of business logic and user interfaces is trivial with react native. That is a great help.

I’m sure this is even more relevant on larger teams with little to no native experience, too.

In any case, it’s a bit of a suffer fest.
Just a few random thoughts in no particular order:

It's ironic that his fake career arc kind of paralleled a lot of people's real ones. After fake-achieving everything he wanted to in the corporate world, he had a crisis moment and/or reached an age where he probably started thinking more about what fake career could come next and be more fake-fulfilling. Hence, the fake cycling thing. (On the other hand, it might just be that the Alexium lies collapsed and he was forced to move on, literally reinventing himself like he did again later when he ended up in the gun trade.)

Lindsey Graham's expression looks like he has already figured out this guy is full of shit. Bob Brookins also. (Though of course my eye has been pretty well jaundiced by this point in the piece.)

I guess Cycling Tips doesn't want to guess publicly what really happened to his wife, presumably due to defamation case law, but I'll go ahead and publicly "muse" that maybe she was about to blow the lid off his fakery. Anyway I've watched enough Dateline NBC to know that

1. Spouses always kill each other 100% of the time. (That's actually just a joke about Dateline.)

2. People who are already hiding something often turn out to have pretty strong motives for murder.

3. Regardless of 1 or 2, lies or changing stories about a person's cause of death (even if, and kind of especially if, it's by a guy who's lying about everything else) is at least cause for an investigation.
yes interfacing with java is generally made via RxJava and reactor. Interfacing is easy but yes nobody wants to use rxjava and reactor in the first place.. I wonder wether loom will enable easier interop and make the magic work from java side POV
If you're interest in exploring this further, I recommend the book "Strategy" by Hart for a dance through the history of warfare and what works and doesn't.

As for WW1, Germany did defeat Russia. It took America's entry into the war to defeat Germany.

But you want an example. Take WW2. When Hitler allowed his generals to run things, things went well for the German army. When Hitler decided he knew better, he micromanaged the Wehrmacht into defeat and ruin. The Luftwaffe's problems were greatly impeded by Goering making a hash of things, despite his officers pleading with him. Goering would dictate tactics that negated the advantages of the Me-109s in the Battle of Britain. Goering also infamously ordered a literal decimation of his pilots for cowardice, an order that was quietly ignored.

In the naval war, the U-Boot commanders knew that Enigma had been broken and tactics had to change, but Admiral Doenitz knew better and sent them to their doom. Some histories assert that the Germans were clueless about Enigma, but the U-Boot commanders knew the truth.
I see. Thanks. The context matters quite a bit I suppose.
Does anyone know of startups / companies working on tools for Urban Planning?
I'm looking for companies that try to help cities / urban planners to plan better / more efficiently?

I know about https://www.goswift.ly, that sort of stuff is really cool to me, I wanna see what else is out there!
When we have gotten to the point where 5 years of bonus might very well give you an entirely feasible retirement nest egg, I'm not surprised people go to great lengths to game it. Most of us go our entire careers to build the retirement fund that some people get in 5 years at Google.
The article has a pretty interesting argument and seems logical. If a vehicle has some minimum set of vertexes and safety equipment that are held constant despite size, then faced with higher fuel economy standards the automaker can choose between lengthening edges (cheap and certain) or changing engine technology (expensive and risky).

"Generally, the larger the vehicle footprint, the lower the corresponding vehicle fuel economy target. Footprint-based standards help to distribute the burden of compliance across all vehicles and all manufacturers. Manufacturers are not compelled to build vehicles of any particular size or type (nor does the proposed rule create an incentive to do so), and each manufacturer will have its own fleet-wide production-weighted standard that reflects the vehicles it chooses to produce." [0]

"CAFE standards signaled the end of the traditional long station wagon, but Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca developed the idea of marketing the minivan as a station wagon alternative, while certifying it in the separate truck category to allow compliance with less-strict CAFE standards."

0. https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/rulemaking/pdf/cafe/2017-2...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy...
Yeah, everywhere that's close to sales it's usually possible to attribute revenue shares directly. But even in those organizations a lot of people will be doing work that can't be directly measured (IT, accounting,...), so either you cut those people out of bonuses or you find some metrics to include them.
Sysadmins should be people who code too: https://opensource.com/article/17/7/truth-about-sysadmins#:~....
Sexual preference is largely shaped by societal influences as well. As I stated at the end there's historical pretext to this: fat women used to be preferred by men. Sexual preferences have changed over time. It's just as wrong as assuming that patriarchal society is some universal truth.

Assuming that it is some innate quality that women are attracted to people taller than them is also flawed. What about homosexual woman? If they both prefer someone taller how does that work?
I've used both Leuchtturm1917 a5 (dotted) and Maruman Mnemosyne N104 Special Memo Notebook - B5 dotted.

I like the maruman for the spiral binding (flat, less footprint when folded over) and I find the paper on the Maruman to have less bleed through but I wish it came with more pages. I also like the slightly bigger pages the b5 gives me over the a5. I still like my Leuchturm too but don't use it as much lately.
From an episode of Parks and Recreation about a city councilor election debate (2011):

"And now, we have a question from Twitter, which is apparently something that happens now".

They had no idea.
> it’s a toss up between giving customers the best experience and keeping an app they need available.

There is no toss up. Any move that removed “an app [people] need” is completely opposed “to giving customers the best experience”.
The problem is that (if confirmed) no one has any clue about how to fix the Standard Model to fix this. It will be a small fix, not a total rewrite like other alarmist articles claim. Anyway, no one know how exactly will be the fix.

So each one propose her/his own pet theory. Supersymmetry? A second Higgs boson? Other ...????

She doesn't like supersymmetry, and rants too much about the people that guess the fix will use supersymmetry.

(I like supersymmetry, but this is not my research area, so she knows much more about this than me about this.)
I thought it might have been why the Windows UI is such a mess.
For one of the examples, I saw it coming down with pyscript.js - 1.1 MB, pyodide.asm data + wasm of 16 MB, and each python package as a separate wheel download (cool!), matplotlib of 6MB :)
"Right to have data deleted" can be 'circumvented' if the data is critical part of the system or is needed for legal purpose (for example it can be mandatory to keep 1 year of IP logs and data associated with it)

In previous companies I have worked for, we did instant soft-delete, then hard anonymisation after 15-30days and then hard delete after a year.
That means the data was not recoverable for customer but could still be recovered for legal purpose.
Yes it's a relative term, but it's a comparison; it's being used as a relative metric.
No, it'd be a terrible ebook reader display. RLCDs are very hard to view in poor light especially color ones and don't have the same perfect viewing angles.

For mostly static monochrome content like text in an eBook eInk is a good fit. There was a few reflective LCD eReaders in the late 2000s, early 2010s but they fizzled out pretty quick once eInk devices reached an acceptable price range. Their only value was being cheaper.
You can make the profit sharing bonus proportional to salary. So if there is 100k available for bonuses and your quarterly payroll is $1M, then pay everyone a 10% bonus. You still have to set salaries correctly but that's a problem whether there is a bonus or not.

I've seen this work well at a small software company. It paid out once a quarter for anyone who had been there a year.
I'd like to commend TFA for being (a) well written (b) full of numerically based explanations of a numerical phenomenon (c) providing plenty of links to dive in a bit deeper (d) properly considering the complexity and broader context of the question in its closing paragraphs. It feels rare to me to read articles that manage to do all four of these, no matter what the topic is.
Very important project, I hope you'll be able to settle into something comfortable!
Farmer impaled by tractor spike in freak accident (2018)
Archive link: https://archive.ph/qO4Xn (warning: still includes ads but no paywall)
>The loop iteration variable is reused across iterations, so capturing it by reference (the default for closures) is likely to lead to bugs.

>defer inside a block executes not at the end of the block, but at the end of the enclosing function.

>defer evaluates sub-expressions eagerly.

Whenever I see this kind of complaint, I can't shake the feeling that the author struggles to distinguish between "bad design" and "learning how things work". There are many fair criticisms to levy against Go, but "it didn't behave as I first expected" is hardly one of them. If it were, there would be lots more to complain about in the languages that are routinely touted as superior to Go, namely: Rust and Haskell.
The fuel economy regulations don't apply to electric cars, so this may decrease as a problem as the fleet goes electric.
AWS’s Open Source Problem
As someone else said, go to any rural area in the USA and you'll find Confederate flags. Less common than southern states for sure, but you'll still find them in the eastern half of Oregon, even.
No, there is plenty of models showing increased likelihood of various types of weather events due to extremes. Nobody has done meaningful analysis on deaths avoided or caused by these probabilities.
Mel would disapprove of modern computers.
My point is that preferences are malleable and there is no objective reality or grounding in modern society for short stature being an undesirable trait (at least going forward). My hypothesis is that short stature historically has been attributed to malnutrition, and therefore destitution as well, which has shaped modern day preferences, but perception lags reality.

EDIT: Also I should add that people are reading my comments automatically into the context of sexual preference, but I was talking more specifically about the general attitude that it's ok to deride people based on their genetic shortness. That being said, even if OK Cupid (Which is just a proxy for dating preference due to the specific nature of how it operates) showed that black woman were the least likely to get matched on OK Cupid doesn't mean it's ok to now make fun of them based on their skin color / cultural / racial background. Our perceptions about short people, black women, etc, are the results of social conditioning. Conditioned behavior will always lag the current reality. It is my belief that short stature does not hold the negative associations it once had, just as whatever was the reason for our preferences against black woman probably do not hold anymore.

We don't go around forcing people to start liking short people or black woman if they have not conditioned themselves to do so yet, but we also shouldn't be accepting adding fuel to the prejudicial fire.
I feel like this is such low hanging fruit. As the public, I think it’s fair to push “publicly owned” services to be at the bleeding edge of new technology, especially when it could have a high impact.

It seems like a USPS route is an awesome fit for EVs:
- It can charge overnight at the facility

- it goes pretty slow most of the time, with a lot of stop and go. No need to go super fast, have excellent aerodynamics, or fancy features.

- emissions wise, 8.6mpg is really, really bad.

- cost wise, paying for gas for 8.6mpg trucks is really, really bad.

- No need for an extreme range. Just driving slowly around city/town blocks shouldn’t take that much energy.

- Lower maintenance burden for something that gets used every single day should save money.

- More space in the truck for packages because there’s no engine.

All of these together mean that a USPS EV doesn’t have the big concerns that normal consumers might have:

- No charging at home or at a rental place.

- No charging where they need to go. (USPS truck would have a static route, always in range of its home charger)

- Crazy features high-tech cars might have. (Can be super basic.)

So all in, I don’t get why they wouldn’t do this. I just can’t see a world where an EV is more expensive than a gas truck. Even if it’s a bit more up front, they have to save a ton over time with fuel and maintenance savings.

And it doesn’t even seem like range would be a problem on the vast majority of routes. I’m trying to think of an extreme route length, and it can’t be more than 100mi, right? That seems crazy high, and is also super low as far as EV range goes these days.

So what gives?
> we have to measure what your individual contribution to the company's profits was

we do?
I’ve got maybe 15-20 moleskine notebooks laying around. I love taking notes and I use a simple cross classic ball pen.
For folks interested in learning Standard ML, check out /r/sml [0] and the sticky post [1] with a getting started guide.

[0] http://reddit.com/r/sml

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sml/comments/qyy2gs/getting_started...
I don't mean to argue that people shouldn't have preferences, but do you know many men who have breast and hip size requirements for a partner and wouldn't consider someone under those measurements? I'm sure there are some, but I can't imagine that's true of the vast majority of men. There's something rather different about a man's height.
I'm from Argentina and I've been "glued" a couple of times by paramedics using a glue based on cyanocrylate
When I first learned Go, my impression (and also tutorials usually imply that) was that they are a nice elegant way to build concurrent pipelines where goroutine A sends work items to goroutine B which can, in its turn, send some work items to goroutine C etc. But in practice for robustness we prefer persistent queues for such pipelines because on power loss, a panic, or if your application is simply being killed on redeploy, your program can lose data or end up in an inconsistent state, because whatever was the in the channels is completely lost (and the work is already half done). So it leaves us with only a few use cases where they're really useful such as basic goroutine coordination. I think what you are saying is that they're a synchronization primitive akin to mutexes, atomics etc., no more no less, and I'm fine with that, but then it's not clear why then channels have a special syntax and why they are sold as one of Go's strong points, if it's just a niche synchronization primitive. The only useful case I found for them was to send an empty struct to a goroutine to signalize that there's a new work item in the persistent queue, to avoid having to poll the external queue too often. I wonder if other web devs have experience similar to ours, or maybe there are other use cases for channels we are not aware of.
If you want to extend your journey into stationery, I highly recommend the Erasable podcast [0]. It reignited my love for wood pencils.

Stationery is such a fun and relatively inexpensive rabbit hole to fall into (as long as you steer clear of the bonkers fountain pens).

[0] https://www.erasable.us/
The Western equivalent is probably braces. They’re not medically necessary in the vast majority of cases and usually more invasive and painful than either nose or eyelid surgery. Yet most people don’t seem to consider them in the same category at all.
This is a good thing. I am not sure why any new passenger vehicle should be purely ICE powered.
If you adjust for inflation, I bet it will happen. If you're willing to buy used, it already has.
Editorial work is not close to sales. It’s upfront product development work.

What Wrox did, though, was very clearly assign editors to book projects. You worked on one book at a time - each book was a little startup venture that shipped a product at the end.
Height does appear to be correlated with income[1]. So it’s entirely possible that discrimination has existed and continues to exist. People seem to think that because something is difficult to measure, it isn’t there, but that simply isn’t true. Lookism could also be a big problem, but the causal effects of being unattractive are hard to identify. Imagine trying to assemble a treatment and control group for that. Who is going to self identify as being ugly?

I understand your objection to drawing an equivalence between racial discrimination, but even if it isn’t as “bad” can’t it still recognized as a lesser form of bigotry?

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~apostlew/paper/pdf/short.pdf
This is a great search engine. I entered "Persian transliteration," since that's what I was working on today. It sent me to the readme for a program written in 1996,[0] which takes a Latin-script transliteration of some Persian text, and generates ASCII art that resembles the way that text would be written in Persian script. Useful? Eh… Delightful? 100%. It would never have occurred to me that such a program would exist.

Best wishes to you, Marginalia developer.

[0]: http://www.payvand.com/gerdsooz/README.html
Looks like this might be it https://github.com/hyperfiddle/hyperfiddle
Median salary of nfl player is about 850k. Minimum salary of a rookie is 435k. NBA median is 3.8 million. Minimum is 925k
Please tell me where I can make this type of money as a software engineer.
I for one welcome our new WASM overlords
> Actually disagree, plug-in hybrids will run on battery for most short trips in the city. It’s cutting out all the low hanging fruit for pollution.

That's true in theory. Unfortunately in practice - at least where I live - Hybrids don't get charged at home. People buy hybrids for the tax/other benefits but just park them on public roads. Which means that you get the worst possible state where you have pseudo-green ICE vehicles that run with a lot of extra weight in the form of a basically useless electric motor. (Except for recuperating but that's not worth it)
I mean women suffer from this too, my gf is 5.1 and constantly complains about not finding things in her size, not being able to reach stuff, so I mean, i suppose it is a real disadvantage
I can imagine how humilitating it must feel if someone has to get a milkcrate to put in your garage so you can reach a shelf.
Web3 or the Space Elevator paradox (or why it's so crappy and how to change it)
Mass murders in the US won’t help if someone isn’t picking up a machine gun in China as well.

You just said “not my problem”, which means you don’t actually care about stopping climate change. You need to stop thinking about how to kill locally when the problem is global.
> That makes sense: channels are a way of organizing concurrent programs, not a way of organizing distributed systems.

Exactly.
That may be practical if it’s the entirety of your commute, but it’s less practical if you then have 70 minutes of riding the train immediately afterwards, right? I’m talking bikes as a response to transit’s last-mile problem.

Maybe e-bikes do change the calculus a bit there too though.
This seems to work well in Japan with "kei" cars.
Immigration as Website Traffic
It's phrased a bit unclear in the article, but the 250kW front engine is actually for recuperation only.
This is a perpetual problem for any organization with a hierarchy - and taking care to have successful off-ramps for those who want to continue to contribute without being forced into a management track is important.

It’s gotten better but there’s still limitations, and many people solve it by switching organizations- which has more costs than many realize.
The fast-paced "fail upwards" where you get a new job at a new FAANG every few months while leaving a trail of destruction in your wake astounds me, and I don't understand how it works and how companies keep falling for it.

There are a lot of excellent ex-FAANG programmers I've worked with, and a lot of terrible ones, and my experience is that usually the ones with the most prestigious titles show up, do 3 months of junior level work which we end up having to rip out later, and then leave to their next high-paying gig.
Package Analysis: Scanning open source packages for malicious behavior
Only if the power charging the battery is cleaner than petroleum based fuels. If we had nuclear everywhere, I'd totally agree with you. But if you in get your power from coal power plants, you will cause more emissions charging an electric car compared to petrol car.

You're also assuming the electric grids around the world can handle this increase in load.
> Gen3 won’t rely solely on batteries for power. Around 40 percent of the energy cars will use during an E-Prix will be produced by regenerative braking.

Definitely bad writing. Where do they think the energy that got the car up to speed originally (which is then partially recouped via regenerative braking) came from?
I guess I'd say then he's just living amongst very, very shitty people. I don't know the right solution in that case.

My point is only that when height is a barrier, there are almost certainly other things that can be improved, with some effort.

(or, buy lifts, which is zero effort and effective for an inch or 1.5" boost)
They’re burying the lede on this story.

This guy runs an OnlyFans where he gets paid to dominate other men. He psychologically wants to be taller because he doesn’t feel like his (completely unremarkable) height is appropriately dominating.