skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real enemy is optimizing for utilization which people think is the same as optimizing for throughput. Anti-slack is exactly this error.

Optimizing for latency will often improve system throughput, and maximum throughput almost never shows 100% utilization.
Or my favourite flavour of Goodhart's Law:

"You show me a metric, and I'll show you a game."
You might, but most people do and creating policies/laws that they don't is naive and won't work.
> You don’t have to use GraphQL if you don’t feel the problems it was invented to solve.

If only
No, but people want nice homes and are willing to spend a ton for it.
Seems like a neat project, but I was turned off by how they handle Xen Orchestra. Feels weird to have an open source project, but then try and push a separate proprietary product to install it that also gates features between payment tiers. Found a community maintained installer/upgrade tool on GitHub that gets you everything, but guessing they don't officially want to make it easy so they can make more sales.
Nobody who matters disagrees with the comment that race and measured intelligence are correlated.

You are trying to make the further link that race and intrinsic capability to be intelligent are correlated, which does not have to be "acknowledged" for affirmative action.
I have no idea. But I bet he'd love an email from you :D
> Prevotella sp., Lactobacillus intestinalis, and Faecalibaculum rodentium were significantly enriched in the aged vs. young groups

whereas Enterorhabdus caecimuris, Turicimonas muris, and Muribaculaecae bacterium DSM 103720 were significantly enriched in the young vs. old group
They try to make you commit to additional unofficial work/projects for which you get no extra time or resources. If you fail and burn out, that's just you being a bit "overambitious", and if you succeed, they will just make if official. In that way, they can avoid owning up to any failures and only take responsibility for the successful ones. So you have to be a bit careful in casual conversations with the boss about ideas and possible improvements.
If you're using Postgres, it has very acceptable fulltext search builtin that will take you very far.
If you want a really big multiple, use the liter of fuel to run a generator to run epyc cpus performing calculations and compare it to humans performing calculations.
That seems like an excellent, factually accurate answer to me.
> A person's time is indeed intrinsically valuable -- to that person.

That would explicitly make it extrinsically valuable, not intrinsically. The value is assigned subjectively from outside rather than an inherent property of the time itself.

But then all value is really extrinsic, assigned by people to goods and not a property of the goods themselves. "Intrinsic value" does not exist.

> For example: in "company towns", individual employers have so much market power that they don't have to pay wages that reflect the theoretical economic value of labor.

They are paying wages which "reflect the theoretical economic value of labor". In particular, they are paying wages which exceed the perceived value (opportunity cost) of the labor to the employees. Even in a company town one is not compelled to work for the dominant employer—one can leave, or attempt to become self-sufficient, or start a competing company. There just isn't much demand-side competition for labor in that environment, so more of the surplus value accrues to the buyer rather than the sellers. Those who sympathize more with the employees would prefer the opposite, but that's just favoring one side over the other in negotiations. There's no sense attacking the employer here. If you want to improve the lives of those living in the company town, give them better options: more productive employment, for example, and loans to cover the cost of relocation.

> A far, far better approach is to simply supplement those workers' pay directly from the government, to bring them up to an appropriate income level.

Because paying people to remain in unproductive jobs always turns out so well… If a job can't pay "an appropriate income level" (i.e. an income level the employee—not some third party—considers worthwhile, and which covers their actual living expenses) without subsidies then it isn't worth doing. The existence of that job is a net loss to society. Not to mention that this is effectively a subsidy for cheapskate employers, who no longer need to pay market wages since someone else (mostly the middle class) is committed to making up the difference.
It is nice to see an FFI-type system for Java.

On the other hand Java's xenophobia helps keep Java portable and free of "dependency hell". If I'm working in Java I don't have to care what decisions a Linux distro made about C libraries for instance. I don't like being dependent on a Python supplied with a Linux distro because frequently the disto maintainers introduce problems.
Yeah, but then you lose a lot more than the $875 OP is trying to make from the bonds.

Source: I have both a child and an I bond
That claim is more absurd than those you mock.
For me at least I feel like there's a difference between being unproductive due to doomscrolling $socialMedia and being unproductive due to a more 'traditional' way of "wasting" (as in not being productive) time. Spending time on a grassfield in the sun is just as unproductive as doomscrolling, yet it feels a whole lot different. One feels abusive and abrasive to the soul; the other is relaxing and soothing. All while being unproductive. There may be a lot more layers to this productivity conundrum than being just a productivity boolean.
Cool, but chess is zero-sum. How could you get a bunch of people together to build something to compete, instead?
Pity the Billionaire, Marc Andreessen Edition
> I can see that the tooling might've been great and all, but the language is seriously just horrible.

The language wasn't that bad. Classes without inheritance -- that's the new hotness these days!

Since you lumped in VB.NET in there you're definitely past the prime era and oddly I agree that VB.NET is horrible while I still think VB, for the time, was perfectly reasonable. It certainly has less gotchas than JavaScript.
Yea that is what im focussing on "just keep going" no matter the struggle or the ugliness im currently producing :)
City in a bottle: 256 bytes of JavaScript to render a shaded city-scape
why-not-both.jpg?

I hate yaml as much as the next developer, but I've met plenty of folks who far prefer it to using a "real" language. Different strokes for different folks?

The challenge from a product standpoint is how to balance these different ways to do something without (a) ostracizing one group, and (b) creating a confusing mess on the "get started" path.
this tool is great, thank you!

i would love if a tool like this were made based on interactions I've had with authors. generally, i like comment or retweet content that "sparks joy".

would be a good first pass filter
> … is there some convenient way to output parts of it?

The old ways —

"Within each project, a set of changes you make to class descriptions is maintained. … Using a browser view of this set of changes, you can find out what you have been doing. Also, you can use the set of changes to create an external file containing descriptions of the modifications you have made to the system so that you can share your work with other users.

…

The storage of changes in the Smalltalk-80 system takes two forms: an internal form as a set of changes (actually a set of objects describing changes), and an external form as a file on which your actions are logged while you are working (in the form of executable expressions or expressions that can be filed into a system). … All the information stored in the internal change set is also written onto the changes file."

1984 Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment page 461

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractivePr...

The somewhat less old way —

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...
I like being able to filter by country. The small, succinct list of overly delicious Canadian recipes made me proud :')
In my experience the creator of the language (Araq) almost never engages in drama stuff. Are you perhaps mistaking him with someone else?
Big discussion of the original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012865 (659 points | 23 days ago | 304 comments)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220429222316/https://www.nytim...
This tech bubble already popped a leak (Nov 2021) and is deflating rapidly. There’s enough runway to last another year or two. Down-rounds and lay-offs are coming fast.

Companies with ample cash will be fine, of course, but all these spurious startups with egregious VC funding, overpaid Pulumi and Kubernetes and <insert all the other unnecessary tech> engineers will soon be out of work and unable to find similar employment comp.

People who get shit done and can run lean profit driven businesses will continue to survive just fine.
On the other hand I started following only “teaching chinese” accounts on instagram. Whenever I go on instagram I just watch stuff to learn chinese because it’s in my feed.
Hit the nail on the head, you did. Princeton is moving to a more exclusive admissions model where the top SAT score does not guarantee acceptance anymore. Luxury Brand indeed! For shame.
It didn't look like the famous one, at least to me.

Romans were notorious for reusing names.

Even if it were the famous one, he was, in fact, in Germany, yes?
I'm not sure I'm much of one for being able to untangle interpretations of chunks taken from comments spread over literal years but I think the distinction missing here is previously the WT team thought they could get away with using DirectWrite's built in approach to handle the precise issue. It was never that they didn't know there was an alternative to DirectWrite just they thought DirectWrite had a way to do it that would work just as well. They then found out this wasn't the case, completely backpedaled on which was the right architectural way to achieve the goals, and wrote this blog post about having implemented it the other way. This is what the full blogpost tries to detail the history of.

It might be a good olive branch to extend thanks to cmuratori for trying to push that it was the right architectural choice but it was never about being the source of the idea. In either case it probably is a good idea to credit the other terminals that had already proven the implementation can work prior to all of this even starting though.
I suggest that the reason that the item is staying in Texas on display at the San Antonio Museum of Art for about a year is that it's going to take that long to complete the paperwork to export it to Germany. It has to pass through a bunch of restrictions related to traffic in antiquities (looted or not), it has a value to be determined for import/export that's potentially going to require duty payments, ownership is not totally established so everyone who touches it needs some sort of indemnification in case someone claiming ownership shows up (even if they are just chancing their arm), and it'll have to be insured. Unfortunately I don't believe the thrift store receipt helps any - otherwise thrift store receipts would be a fantastic tool for e.g. money laundering. It would have taken her and one or more specialist lawyers to get to the stage where she could safely hand it to a museum. I'd expect her to be considerably out of pocket in time and fees. It would make an interesting plot for a movie if you imagine someone trying all the naive approaches and triggering all the things that could possibly go wrong.
Xen Orchestra is not proprietary at all (fully aGPLv3!). It's just a different approach, mainly for historical reasons, when it was only on top of Citrix Hypervisor/XenServer.

So the concept is that you can build it yourself from Github with all features (see https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/installation.html#from-the-so...) OR deploy a turnkey VM with everything pre-installed (targeting companies) with support on it. Yes, the turnkey VM is having tiers, but it's logical since you have various perimeters in terms of supported features. And it's flat priced :)

Obviously, the turnkey VM (called XOA, Xen Orchestra virtual Appliance) is only meant for businesses and not individuals.

I hope it's more clear.
Jonathan Blow on how Microsoft responded to Windows Terminal suggestions
No. There's a huge difference between intelligence and test scores. Race and test scores are correlated, and that's what schools are acknowledging - they are not acknowledging that race and intelligence are correlated.
The "drought" is not entirely a natural phenomenon. When people were working out the water rights they had an optimistic view because this is how people could get the most in the short term.

Expectations for water availability were too high. I'm amused that the article describes the situation as "unimaginable" because many critics of the Colorado River dam scheme in the 1960s thought the dams could effectively fail in a 40-100 year time span.
Treating something as if it's a commodity does not make it a commodity. Treating two things as if they're equivalent does not make them equivalent.

You might say "your right to choose between houses is a privilege", but literally every culture in the world is going to observe differences between two houses, regardless of how they're allocated.

Even considering buildings where every unit has an identical layout, and all residents have access to the exact same amenities, one unit might be closer to the elevator and one unit might be closer to the garbage chute. These are fundamental differences between these units which make them not interchangeable.

> Endless rows of apartment buildings, each identical, supplying everything you could need.

"Providing everything you could need" is not how we define commodities. Fungibility is how we define commodities. One can argue that we should just be thankful with whatever home we get, but trying to act as if they're equivalent is just wrong.
The piranha problem in social psychology / behavioral economics (2017)
At the level of single process, on one machine, I've found a mix of debug logs, trace points, conditional breakpoints, and the ability to execute arbitrary code when at a breakpoint to be super helpful in debugging complex code with many layers. I was working on a compiler of sorts. The only time I had access to all of these was when working on C# in Visual Studio. Being able to run arbitrary code at the breakpoint-paused stack is incredibly useful.

With multiple processes or machines, it's helpful to pass around a trace ID and then have all the debug logs print the trace ID + timestamp at each event. This is a rather manual process; I wish there were automatic ways of doing this. At Google, the best we get is filtering logs by the RPC being processed at the time; but this ends at a particular process. Cross-process RPC traces are mostly sampled "stack traces"; you don't get to inject custom debug messages in those.
see https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/performance...
> ... top marginal rates in the 1950s and 1960s were extraordinarily high by present-day standards

> ... observers from the 1950s to today repeatedly noted that, at one time, social rules curbed CEO greed.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2016/08/18/executive-compens...

Other sources -- sorry no links -- ascribe the genesis of such "social rules" to a US WW II norm of austerity among elites, who might otherwise have found ways to seize a greater share of the economy's wealth for their own dissipative pleasures.
I'm not sure how Moral Mazes relates to this topic, can you explain the links to me a little bit more?
Nvidia Shares First Look Inside New 'Voyager' Building
Nvidia opened new huge building with huge open spaces in their campus.
> mdfind -name $1 | vipe | xargs -L 1 -I {} rm -rf {}

How safe is this in the face of errors. Can you end up with a situation where you end up running a naked ‘rm -rf’ ?
A Crypto Executive Who Wasn’t Who He Said He Was
I'm Joe, nice to meet you.
After they just spent 15 years consolidating into a handful of providers?
Yeah, my goal with taxes is to pay within a thousand bucks of what I actually owe in a year. It's surprisingly hard to do.
Forming full stack teams doesn't remove the pain of having to build the producer api in the first place. It merely shifts the burden from a backend only team to a full stack team.
A cursory google search would've shown you that Missouri has already attempted this, and just like all the FHB bills/wild restrictions we've seen shot down over and over again (which will now be upheld) there is no way you could argue that they - and other states - won't try it again. [1]

On a related note: Louisiana is about to pass a bill allowing murder charges for abortions. This bill also bars contraception options such as IUD's. It also impacts ectopic pregnancies, which are very common. [2]

Make no mistake: the moment Roe v. Wade comes down the floodgates are opening, and you are going to have a hard time believing the bills some of these states are cooking up.

[1] https://missouriindependent.com/2022/03/29/missouri-house-bl...

[2] https://www.wwno.org/2022-05-05/louisiana-bill-would-allow-m...
https://www.wwno.org/2022-05-05/louisiana-bill-would-allow-m...
Direct link to review article from CNET:
Nvidia has opened up a new building at its Santa Clara, California, headquarters. Voyager's unusual architecture is designed to keep company workers happy and productive.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/nvidias-massive-techno-p...
>VB was basically the MS response to Borland's Delphi,

No, that wasn't the timeline. Visual Basic came out in 1991. Borland Delphi was +4 years later in 1995. (Borland Turbo Pascal for Windows was 1991 but Microsoft VB's internal product development codename "Thunder" was already started in 1990.)

Visual Basic (especially the GUI forms IDE paradigm and VBX components) was built on earlier ideas in 1988 by Alan Cooper : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cooper#Visual_Basic
I agree that it's difficult to unwind the expectation of free (ad-supported) services and difficult for paid alternatives to compete. I really hope we can eventually entirely or nearly entirely do away with that entire ecosystem though. But I don't really see that happening any time soon.
A funny thing happens if you just press the down arrow and keep it pressed. The game area quickly fills up with squares, and then it just continues to add more shapes until, after a minute or so, the whole page turns black.
An Excellent Woman – On Barbara Pym
What a gross, tribalistic way of viewing the world.

e: oh i see, just looked up the author
I've personally focused on improving the quality rather than trying to push down the time.

i.e. browse more /r/selfhosted and less /r/ukpolitics

Leaves me in a slightly better mental state - less continuous outrage vibes.

And same for twitter - I never post, and follow a handful of the hn gang basically.

Not perfect but adjusting reddit subs and follows is a mechanical actionable action you can take and get done today where "spend less time" is a vague aspiration for the future that requires continuous motivation
Read the wall of comments.. I think GraphQL is great for one primary reason: schema.graphql files. Having strongly typed payload definitions that integrate with languages like Typescript is beneficial to frontend developers in the same way that protobuf schemas are beneficial to backend developers. I know REST APIs can accomplish the same degree of type safety using OpenAPI/Swagger schemas. Honestly, REST APIs that have these schemas start to look a lot like GraphQL APIs. To that end, using GraphQL really becomes a question of preference in using GraphQL’s schema definition language versus JSON as a schema definition language. In actuality, GraphQL schemas can be defined using JSON! And so this brings me to my conclusion about GraphQL. GraphQL is just a set of tools and conventions for implementing strongly typed REST APIs with JSON payloads. Who doesn’t want that?
AT&T gave me ample warnings the last year that this was going to happen to my Xiaomi phone. So now I have to carry my Xiaomi Max 2 (because I prefer using it when there's WiFi), as well as an old Alcatel Axel phone they gave me (just barely usable).
We've been hearing the same exact thing since at least 2013. I remember when 2015 was going to be the next huge tech crash, but nothing happened.
For me it's because I come up with roughly 10-100 ideas per day that I'd like to do, but there is (and will never be) enough time to do them all.

So I live vicariously through all of the other people doing the tiny handful of things that they manage to do in their entire lives.

This brings me down periodically, but then I remember that time is an illusion, and our perception that we're wasting time on the internet would seem comical to people who had never seen it (as recently as 1995) and will be remembered with fondness when we near the singularity (as soon as 2035).

Practicing non-attachment and understanding that this is not forever has really helped me rise above the downward spiral of depression, back to the upward spiral of gratitude for being here as part of the human experience.
PowerShell is available for Linux if you want to use it more without Windows.
> I’m generally a social person that enjoys conversations with people, and service energy from being social.

Almost any local bar (not a touristy place) can serve the need of "social interaction". The greatest thing is what you actually isn't needed to drink a lot or anything at all.

It's not a universal solution of course but being able to confirm what you are actually can interact with peoplr, even ones you never seen before (or after), greatly helps to scrath the social itch.
Agree that Paul is a genius, not so sure I agree his best works came post-Beatles. To be sure his catalog post-Beatles is greater, if good songs are a roll of the dice then five decades vs. one is kind of loading the dice....

I'll argue that with John and his "fresh ears" Paul was able to write some of his most creative songs with the Beatles.
That's quite a bit of homework, but that's the sort of thing I was looking for :)

The first link is the one I keep coming back to, and I keep finding interesting idea. But it didn't occur to me to follow the people involved.

Thanks for the references!
Exactly. I've used this system and your purchases show up after about one business day.
" I even made a stratergy to stop this, but no matter what I do, it just...doesn't work. I will follow that thing for 2-3 days then back to that unproductive and mindless pithole. "

You could view it as a failure or you could view it as something that worked for 2-3 days and go from there.
I recently gave a talk about our experience with tRPC. So far it's looking very promising! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1TCueEhhJo
Seems like A&A is sending a clear signal that they are going to do the minimum blocking that they can get away with
I’d also recommend Nicholas Carr’s 2011 book “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains”. I read it a long time ago and was impressed with its insights on attention (or the lack of it) and the usage of the Internet.
As examples:

1) Android keeps a log of everywhere I've been. It randomly turns on Google Assistant and records my voice. There is a ton of telemetrics going to Google, and no way to know what it is.

2) Google Docs literally keeps a keystroke-by-keystroke log of everything I've ever typed into Google Docs. If you typed the n-word and erased it 3 seconds later, that's in your permanent record.

3) Google lies about what data it collects and stores. Your Google Export won't include things like #2. That's a violation of GDPR.

As a footnote, #3 came up when I had my GSuite account attacked by an insider. I couldn't do forensics without a security up-sell. I wanted to know what IPs had accessed my accounts, at what times, and what they did. That kind of auditability once one tier up -- if I switched away from the (at the time free) tier, permanently.