skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn’t there a post on here recently from a wise old man?

I think they pointed out that anything you say before the ‘but’ is invalidated, and what you really mean comes after.
That seems, I don't know, silly? It feels mean to say silly, but I can't think of a better word. Why not use 6 digits, or 7 digits, or 20 digits? Then you'll really trigger some long-term thinking in your readers. I could start writing all my dates in years since the birth of the universe, to give people a feel for the long past and how insignificant their little lives are. But this defeats the purpose of dates, which is to communicate facts about time using a common system of numbering.
> My thoughts: 1. Lots of Steve Jobs talk. There's a whole chapter on the distinction between real assholes, and assholes that just really care about the product quality / customer. The distinction drawn was in motivation - but I wonder if it might just be a winner-writes-the-history situation.

He's been doing a lot of history rewriting.

Don't get me wrong: Building and shipping Nest was a great accomplishment. However, he was a famously terrible leader in many regards and drove a number of great employees away.

When Nest acquired Dropcam, a large number of the Dropcam employees left. Tony Fadell then went on to publicly disparage the Dropcam employees as being "not as good as we hoped" saying "unfortunately it wasn't a very experienceded team" ( https://www.businessinsider.com/nest-ceo-tony-fadell-has-dro... ) Predictably, that's a great way to drive away the rest of your knowledgeable employees and make the company toxic for hiring.

Nest didn't go on to revolutionize the space after Tony Fadell arrived with his hard-hitting management styles. Nest cameras haven't really evolved much and the Nest security system was abandoned.

I don't doubt that there are some lessons to be learned in his book, but in practice Tony Fadell hasn't been a great leader in the past decade. I'd take his book with a grain of salt.
Yes. If I don’t control it, I cannot rely on it. No need to condition myself otherwise.
Same as Wework, but as far as I see, WeWork carved out their chunk of the market (by pricing out competition using price dumping). Now, once they killed some competitors, they are regular player on the co-working market, with regular prices.

I tend to think this is bad for economy in general, as it emphasizes capital over innovation.
switchblade 600 has the Javelin-like warhead, switchblade 300 has something equivalent to a 40mm grenade for a warhead
> arriving at perhaps Mach 5

Quite a lot faster than that actually; Mach 20+ on reentry. The way the media talks about "hypersonics" without getting into specifics is very misleading. Hypersonic cruise missiles are a tough nut to crack, but hypersonic reentry vehicles are table stakes for ballistic missiles and spacecraft.
Yeah, I suppose that is why I thought it required JavaScript (the book instructed me to type --live). I was following the instructions of some books and there was JavaScript such as utils.js and whatnot.

I typed what you told me, but it does have "foo/assets/vendor/topbar.js" and "foo/assets/js/app.js". Not sure what those are though or if they are a necessity. It ends up being "deps/phoenix_html/priv/static/phoenix_html.js" on localhost:4000. Any ideas as to how to COMPLETELY avoid JavaScript? Are there any sources for that perhaps?
> for the EU it's €10k

If one carries a million dollar wallet in an encrypted file across a border is that a crime?
It's a lot easier to compromise an enormous purchased batch of email addresses than it is to do SIM swapping attacks on that scale
If I ever see a resume or a job description that lists "C/C++", that's a red flag to me that either someone might not actually have that much experience, or someone doesn't actually know what they are looking for.
You should really put a connection manager in between your lambda functions and database, like HAProxy or AWS RDS Proxy.

(still, that doesn't change the fact the code is badly designed)
Both "What's That Name"s easily make up two of my top three, with Papyrus being the other one.
> On the other hand, there have been regressions. Nuclear power was being built at a fast pace in the late seventies and early eighties. It's way slower now.

Counterpoint but I think one of the reasons for this is that wind and solar are lower-capital alternatives to building nuclear powerplants. Not spending the capital to maintain existing powerplants does seem like a regression to me though, so we're on the same page there.
Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering
Do you know fonts that feature character alternates prominently? I cannot think of type that I've seen used which used variations on characters to lead to the appearance of natural looking hand written text.
The zinus bedframe I bought came with a mini ratcheting wrench instead of a flat wrench. The wrench is just the right size to fit hex shank screwdriver bits, and so I've used it many times when I couldn't find my screwdriver or I needed just a little bit more torque. I have even used it to repair my John Deere tractor since it's small enough to fit where a regular size ratcheting wrench couldn't.

The wrench definitely made the product feel higher quality, and I have a tool I will keep for a long time, if I don't wear it out.
When I was a Civil engineer with a bridge project that was over a railway, it was required that I take a safety class from BNSF about how to be near the rails, and what not to do. The first thing in the class was that they noted the e,regency exit from the room. (Iirc, the room had one door, to the outside, that we had just walked through to get in the room).
We've had a nest thermostat for five years.

For the past four and a half years it's been on a shelf in the basement, in its box. Gonna throw it out someday.

What crappy tech. Its problem: its backing plate heats up. Causing the house to be perpetually cold.

Three Nest backing-plate replacements later, we gave up.

We presently have a much dumber thermostat that can be remotely controlled. We're happy now, but we'll never purchase another Nest product again.
The almonds in California consume as much water in one year as 56 cities the size of Los Angeles (back-of-the-envelope math from publically available sources)

The issue is not just people but an out-of-control agro businesses that have no limitation to their water usage
But you are not forced to build only monoliths with MVC frameworks. At least with .NET you can do the logic in a few API microservices and render the HTML/HTMX in one or more MVC microservices.
“Lincoln College was a victim of a cyberattack in December 2021 that thwarted admissions activities and hindered access to all institutional data, creating an unclear picture of Fall 2022 enrollment projections,” the school wrote in its announcement. “All systems required for recruitment, retention, and fundraising efforts were inoperable."

How is this possible? There's literally not a second copy of the data anywhere? The people working in the admissions office didn't have a printout and they had absolutely no idea what the numbers looked like? It's one thing to have all the videos for online classes get locked up in a ransomware attack, but this simply cannot be true.
What use does the Supreme Court distinction have? It’s a political position. The lifetime appt likely means your side will defend you at most or all costs.

Even if I am able to verify one side or the other of the Court is being hypocritical with their argument for lifting Roe v Wade (abortion legality) soon via the careful examining of the results, will this mean anything more than catching any politician BSing?
I'm wondering why they even bothered with an external GPU, when an APU would have way more power than the best GPUs of the time even dreamed of.
There's one thing I don't get about mindful detachment and worldly renunciation - it denies the value of many of the world's greatest achievements and relegates genuine creative passion to mere ego. The western world was built by pioneers who followed their passion for grand projects. Like it or not we all depend on an increasingly sophisticated package of products and services just to lead a normal life. Those facilities were built by people with a passion for industry - people who were goal-driven, not disappearing into their navel. Detachment, I'm sure, can be great in small doses for curing the excesses of negative emotions but to build a life-path out of it just doesn't make sense. If you live in some third world country in the East maybe you can survive on what you can grow and live alone in some remote shack but how is that relevant to the world as a whole? How many great films and how much great music would have been created if their creators had lived a life of detachment? Very little, I suspect. Great art comes out of a deep emotional involvement with life.
Got any resources for simple usages of Phoenix? Most of them are all about LiveView and a lot of stuff that uses JavaScript.

> There’s no JavaScript unless you write it into the template.

I want this. How do I achieve this? "mix phx.new" is not it, as there are JavaScript files in "assets/", for example.
> Why don't we just go straight to the source and eliminate the mechanisms that allow for the concentration of power?

Money, and it's concentration, is the mechanism that allows that.

> no individual can be a part of more than two business.

> You can have as many non-controlling/non-voting shares on any business entity, but you can only contribute directly to one.

That...seems rather contradictory. I think your simple rules are not so simple. Because your explanation of “not more than two” is that it is either “a lot more than two” or “not more than one”, depending on what kind of involvement is being referenced.

Also, just as advertisers drive advertising-dependent businesses with no direct voting stake, non-voting owners can substantially influence business decisions, especially if you set up a legal structure that means that most capital will often come from them by limiting the ability to participate in voting ownership.
As-if "collect feedback from customers" somehow couldn't be in "Gather Requirements" and "Design" and "Test" and "Deploy".
Water rights aren't a subsidy, but Water ownership is part of the problem. If the state wants water someone else owns, they should buy it.
I like it. Do you have anywhere you're sharing your config?
If we're going to subsidize something agriculture is one of the things i'd be willing to foot the bill for. The invisible hand of the market is not a good way to make sure that everyone stays fed.
> So why is it okay if you have a need of someone else to force it on them

That's your straw man, not mine.

My point is that some work is essentially synchronous and "be more asynchronous" is not an actual solution because it doesn't reflect how humans actually work.

Remember: I'm not the one making affirmative claims about what people should be doing. Rather, I'm poking holes in the claims other people are making.

> It's not multitasking. It's a context switch

I... don't know what to do with this obvious internal contradiction.

> If you're claiming there is large scale evidence proving sync is obviously and clearly better than async, in an environment which at least attempts to accommodate async, by all means, present it.

I did. It's called 30 years of outsourcing. You're choosing to ignore that point, though why that is you've not made clear. Instead you're insisting I provide evidence to counter your unsupported claim, which isn't the best way to argue in good faith.
> Socialist countries routinely nationalize food production and immediately create shortages. This happens over and over.

Socialist countries are routinely embargoed by capitalist countries, severely limiting their access to global markets. That's if they're lucky, if they're unlucky they're destabilised through targeted assassination of their leaders[0].

If you're even less lucky you'll be captured by the people the U.S. think are the good guys[1] instead of whatever socialist party was gaining traction. I sure hope the torture centre the U.S. military helped set up was built with private capital:

> The United States backed Alfredo Stroessner's anti-communist military dictatorship and played a "critical supporting role" in the domestic affairs of Stroessner's Paraguay. For instance, U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Robert Thierry was sent to help local workmen build a detention and interrogation center named "La Technica" as part of Operation Condor. La Technica was also a well known torture centre. Stroessner's secret police, headed by Pastor Coronel, bathed their captives in tubs of human vomit and excrement and shocked them in the rectum with electric cattle prods. They dismembered the Communist party secretary, Miguel Ángel Soler , alive with a chainsaw while Stroessner listened on the phone. Stroessner demanded the tapes of detainees screaming in pain to be played to their family members.

> That takes capital and it requires risk. Capital is constantly being squandered on ideas that go nowhere, but some are successful and the overall system is more productive.

Government funded research through universities and the military do so much of the foundational work here that it seems crazy to attribute it to private capital.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Fide...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
The water authority in Southern Nevada recently authorized 800,000 new housing connections. So one of the organizations that should be managing the water emergency is actively making it worse.

The problem is that they make a lot more money on new connections than serving existing ones. So existing residents are (correctly) being told to restrict water, but then the same people saying that are turning around and greatly exacerbating the problem.
Your solution is interesting, but would it really work if everyone else wasn't also doing it?

I have difficulty imagining how that society could compete economically, politically, and militarily unless they were already relatively tiny and focused (like a petrostate). I think you'd be losing economy of scale while making it much more difficult logistically to pursue any large scale engineering, military, or even social projects.
Americans are taught to find them terribly unreasonable by default. This teaching used to be done with bullets and clubs.
In the early 1990s, my roommate and I used to visit his family's tiny cabin in northern Wisconsin. The place was very rustic but did have electric heat. It was very cold and snowy during the winter. He could call the cabin's phone number and press * 2-3 times and it would tell the heat system to turn on or off. The system would respond somehow with a beep or two to tell him whether it was turning on or off. Seems like Mr. Fadell could have warmed his cabin up before arriving without building the Nest.

That said, I like the Nest, though I'm partial to the Ecobee because of the remote sensor it includes.
I think it's basically everyone's opinion that watched both, which is why 10 Years Later, 'Avatar' Is the Most Popular Movie No One Remembers https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjw4bv/10-years-later-avatar... which obviously is not completely true, as evidenced by this post, but one thing I have noticed is that whenever anyone mentions the movie Avatar someone always comes in and says I got excited because I thought we were talking about the other one, but whenever anyone mentions the other one nobody gives a damn about the movie.

on edit: I guess 13 years later, but who cares, it's Avatar the movie.
Well, he's a writer. It's not so important that the arguments be new, as long as they're still valid points and provide fertile ground for discussion. It's more important that it's written well and that the examples are topical. And then we can continue the debate.

Even if the points aren't new, the level of wealth disparity we're seeing is new, so an updated discussion is warranted.
I'm in Nebraska now — back in the midwest. I miss it though. I'll pop out this year again too but I suspect I'll miss you.
I think it’s ridiculous since I come from an era where it was considered basic knowledge. I can’t imagine a software engineer that doesn’t have a passing familiarity with the goals of indexes (even if they don’t know exactly how they work).

But that’s turning out to be more and more untrue. Newer engineers really do not know.
There's an overlap between privacy, civil liberties, and anti-discrimination concerns where laws that can be selectively enforced get disproportionately applied to any and all groups that have 'isms' attacking them.

I confess that while I used to spend quite a deal of time thinking about this class of problem, I haven't done much of it recently, so the following is a mix of potentially outdated thoughts and speculative nonfiction.

If you have the privilege to be outside of any or all of those groups, I feel like it falls on us to speak up to ensure that other people are okay, and Good Samaritan laws can be problematic in this respect, because it's too easy to convince a jury to deny 'those people' standing.

I wondered in another response if some sort of self-reporting system would better serve this space. Possibly 'feature-parity' with other citizen-action laws where community policing and reporting are carried out. The latter closes out a learning opportunity however because you're identifying and reporting a suspicion of an issue and allowing The Authorities to look into it. "We will take it from here." doesn't afford you the opportunity to become part of 'we'.

Perhaps there's precedent with confidential informant laws, and we need to reframe white hat hackers under that umbrella.
And this justifies taking away his wealth? In other words, if Elon literally invented the Tesla car himself, would there be no arguments against him being extremely wealthy?
Exactly, in any moderately sized corporation new functionality will be rewritten several times, sometimes deprecated/reshuffled completely and crystalized after some time – that is good moment to start thinking about extracting things. Changes on the service boundaries are much more expensive than internal changes.
A couple years ago Llamasoft/Coupa released a beer game optimized with reinforcement learning.

https://beergame.opexanalytics.com/#/

I don't know where they took it, but my startup at the time saw huge gains in performance applying deep RL to industrial ops and supply chain problems like that. Shifted the whole Pareto frontier.
A Sans-serif font is totally fine for body copy.
Check out his HBO show Los Espookys. It's really good and fully lives in the surreal dream logic world of those sketches.
I think it makes more sense than opening the file - you are looking at a place in the filesystem after all.
Ours is helpful for turning the air up or down when we leave/come home or turning it up in the morning (we cool the house off at night so it holds it longer in the day before needing to fire up).

Granted our thermostat isn't really "smart" it just has an API exposed that integrates into Home Assistant.

I wouldn't put in one of those cloud based ones like Nest or Ecobee
It's possible in PostScript to dynamically modify each glyph. Long long ago, I saw a small collection of typewriter and handwriting fonts that did this. This would have been back in the mid 90's or so.
What does your delete key do?
I just noticed, on some of my machines, the delete key removes the preceding character, while others do the opposite.

What's up with that?
Wish more people had the financial freedom to just take a break. Everyone needs it, only a few can do it.
I hadn't even heard of that, but that's ridiculous. Definite outright ban of water exports, no exceptions!
It's not just a problem for rich people. It's also nice to have if you are coming back home (to your normal home where you live) from a trip and the weather has been very cold or hot while you were gone.
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Atlas Shrugged is characteristically dystopian. Reading the book will not change this fact:

>The book depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations. Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and her lover, steel magnate Hank Rearden, struggle against "looters" who want to exploit their productivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

Prodigious nationalization and planned labor is the entire premise for Rand's arguments in the book.
oh sorry! i forgot the config part

here : https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad
I've seen a claim that Switchblade 300 costs less than USD 7k. No idea how accurate this is tho.
Translation:

“Don’t do it the way everyone else does it or the way you’ve always done it; our designer decided to make that hard for <inscrutable reasons not related to delighting existing users> and instead we offer this hard-to-discover non-idiomatic workaround.

“You will grow to love the workaround because it doesn’t hurt nearly as much, kind of like stopping after you’ve been hitting yourself in the head with a hammer.”
VAT ranges from 0 to 20%. It is significant, but not enormous.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower_replicas_and_de...
Sure, but if we are talking about "low hanging fruit" -- putting some restrictions or adjusting the costs of water use for agriculture would have a massive outsized effect on water tables. Yet we keep trying to nip at the edges on super small issues like...water for a lawn

There is already some math in the thread regarding how its almost 2 magnitudes more of water use for a cow for a month over a lawn for a year
If people want the water owned by agriculture, they should put their money where the mouth is and buy it. Everything is for sale for a price.
Remarkable piece of work that didn't mention #bufferbloat once.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1puRjUVxJ6cCv-rgQ_zn-jWZU...
I find the diagram on this article more clear [1]: pound for pound, beef uses 2x what nuts do on average. If there is an effort to reduce industrial water usage, those high-usage categories are probably where to look to cut (and less on residential water usage).

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/water-footprint-food-...
Speaking of the dictionary, it can be invoked by opening the search with CMD+space, which brings me to one of my favourite features, the capacity to calculate currency changes, just write X dollar to eur and it will automatically compute the exchange.
Nvidia's GPU mining limiter has been fully unlocked for the RTX 3080 Ti
That's funny because there is countless footage of TB2 blowing up the very systems that are meant to defeat them so easily. What's the obsession in India with Ukrainian ops? Is it just a government desperately needing to justify it's wholly Russian-built army?
My brother does it with his Maine house. But TBH you can only turn the temperature down so far when you're not there in winter because of the pipes. (I admittedly keep my house pretty cool in the winter even when I'm there so there's not a huge difference between my away temperature and my in house during the day temperature.)