skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's another meeting on my calendar potentially interrupting whatever deep focus I was in. Alongside standup, sprint planning, demo, sprint review, backlog grooming, and whatever other non-agile meetings there are.

It's an hour plus of sitting there mostly listening to other people complain about stuff, which bums me out even if I was otherwise generally happy.

It is a ceremony without actual purpose because usually the deeper things that people bring up are not within that team's power to control.

It gives leadership an excuse for not fixing things or listening because retro is supposed to be the outlet for gripes about the process (despite everyone knowing that major changes never happen coming out of retro).
Well that is the problem with everything, right?

When Profit is the system's main incentive, it can be easy for decision makers to start viewing "profit" as an input rather than an output.
An architecture like yours has certainly been done before, though AFAIK it never went mainstream. In particular, check out this post from Glyph Lefkowitz of Twisted Python fame, particularly the section about the (apparently dead) Mantissa application server:

https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/06/this-word-scaling.ht...
I would go way further and venture that Space X and those satellites have background relationships with defence industry all along.

Most of Elon's businesses have state related support in some way (even Twitter), it's part of how he operates.
You can use SQLite in strict mode if you prefer. https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html
> Why on earth you will send markup template for every list item over and over again instead of sending just data and only one code-template (to render data on a client)?

I see what you're saying, but I think server-side rendering is simpler, and the concern about repeated HTML tags in the content is likely much easier to address by using gzip over the wire.
> that's literally all a video codec is

Go on then, make a better video codec, as it's just math.
> One thing we never got to do was slay Diablo clone. Installing software to track IP address of the server was too unappealing.

This was actually changed in 2.4 (the patch with the ladder season added). Diablo clone now is tracked by the region.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2/23788293/diablo-ii-r...
Individuals don’t really have lobbying power. It’d be great if we could solve problems like this comprehensively with legislation, but in the meantime shaming a company into doing the right thing is perhaps all that a small but vocal group of people really can do right now.

Perfect is the enemy of the good, especially in this case.
>> "What good is a blog without a thriving community of other blogs?"

This is something I feel every time I think about getting back into blogging. A post wasn't quite the scream into the void it is now. Back then you'd at least get a few views and a comment or two if you wrote something compelling. Sometimes a lot of views and someone you don't even know liking your words enough to share them.[0]

I don't know if it's the context shift or the fact that newsletters are ascendant but drafting a newsletter doesn't feel as useless as drafting something in WordPress. Even with 0 subscribers.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4719730
California's water use is dominated by agriculture[0]. 10% of the water is urban use, how much of that is commercial vs residential? Average is around 100 gallons (~370 liters) per day or much less, depending on the season) Higher prices are already a reality. The cycle is reduce usage, not enough money being made, a water main blows in DTLA [2] since they're 100 years old, increase rates, repeat.

[0] https://cwc.ca.gov/-/media/CWC-Website/Files/Documents/2019/...

[1] https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3611

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/surfs-water-main-break-...
> In general it's kind of a moot point by now, just go with AV1.

You don't always get to decide. E.g. IP cameras will generally support both h.264 and h.265 these days, with HEVC doing vastly better than AVC, yet if that output has to go near a browser, instead of through dedicated software... SOL. Can't do anything with it. The hardware can, the software can't.

And AV1 is decode-only anyway, and only supported in the newest platforms. CPU decoding is just not a reasonable solution.
How is backing for stablecoins not regulated to kingdom come yet? Seems so asinine?
They serve unintended purposes better than their intended purpose.

There’s something better and no one cares to try.
Right, custom schedulers aren't quite ready for release yet -- there's a small missing piece in the VM that's required to fully preserve the spec, and they need a lot of testing that we don't yet have -- so we decided to go ahead without them and add them later.
https://twitter.com/TzahPahima/status/1523761127909658624
Six Wikimedia Chapters Rejected as Observers to WIPO
I didn't say his sabbatical is unwarranted; he can spend his life however he pleases. I simply said that I think it's extremely tone deaf and sneeringly privileged for Jason to describe his current state as "burnt out." This is a very strong term referring to a state of extreme mental anguish induced by an unreasonable and inescapable level of overwork that applies more to people forced to work 60+ hour weeks at minimum wage than to people whose livelihood is posting cool links a handful of times a week. As I said in another post, it would be equally tone deaf for a millionaire to unironically describe themselves as being "impoverished" due to a small cut in their yearly bonus or an underperforming investment.

If Jason simply wrote that he's sick of maintaining his blog and wants to try something new, that would be perfectly fine.

>I imagine it takes a huge amount of work and thought to successfully curate The Whole Internet into something that people actually want to read for 24 years.

I disagree. Plenty of prolific Reddit and Hacker News posters do the same thing in their spare time.

>Anecdotally, whenever Jason has a guest writer come on his blog, I can tell before I even read the by-line. It's just not the same quality.

Isn't that because they usually post more long-form original content (e.g. https://kottke.org/tag/Tim%20Carmody) than cool links?
2022 Pulitzer Prizes
Since both Fly.io and Litestream founders are here - why not disclose the price?
It's not a rant, or at least not just a rant. It is also advertising for the tool the Author is building. I hope they are pleased using their tool or learn a lot in the process if trying to make it
The data lives in a file the application reads/writes directly (and in a cache that the sqlite libraries can park inside the application itself). The point is that you're not calling out over the network to a "database server"; your app server is the database server.
Will loom get support for Blockhound?
https://github.com/reactor/BlockHound
Blockhound supports both reactive streams and Kotlin coroutines currently.
Nobody said math is simple.

Also, isn't that just AV1? (it does seem optimized for the particular niche of streaming vendors though: minimizing bandwidth at all costs)
Loom threads have the same basic semantics as normal threads. There's nothing special about them that relates to immutability.
Traveling to West-Berlin
Apple employees revolt against mandatory back-to-work policy
> But if the seal is laid back down it can act as an additional barrier to air, potentially making the food last longer.

More than likely, you've touched the inside of the seal, and by laying it back down you've made accidental contamination of the jar's contents very easy.

You might as well double dip (which is my pet peeve, along with variations like reusing the knife you're spreading mayo with to get more mayo out of the jar).
This is how my water is priced in a place with over 80 inches a year.
Just move bicycles from being grouped with cars to being grouped with walking, and you're correct.

Dutch cities are designed for walking and bicycles. It helps that the bicycles are also designed for dutch cities. Upright, comfortable, a bit heavy and slow, and can be locked up for short times without needing to be locked to anything.
> Standard trailers deliver into the outer boroughs where it is pragmatic and then smaller vehicles go into places like Manhattan. Of course nowhere can you make a trailer completely 'safe' in your own words. But not every borough is Manhattan where navigating a standard trailer is nigh impossible.

You have this exactly backwards. Manhattan's streets are, on average, much safer for trucks to navigate: they're wider, on a standard grid, and have uniform lights and speed zones. The outer boroughs don't have uniform grid plans (take a look at central Brooklyn or Queens on a satellite map: it's all carriage roads) and have much less consistent traffic light coverage. There are exceptions to this (FiDi in Manhattan, for example), but it's the overall pattern.

The irony is that Manhattan is the best case for trucks in the city, but is also the borough with any enforcement whatsoever. For example: trucks are almost completely banned on West End Avenue, and I never saw one (beyond movers) in the 20 years that I lived there.

And to be clear: I'm not saying that trailers aren't useful. They clearly are. I'm saying that they're not efficient in the sense that the city would be better served by fleets of smaller trucks, and that they're a social harm in the sense of the externalities they bring with them.

> I see weight requirements but not length.

You're right, sorry: Newark's are weight, not length (although I would be remiss to note that an empty 53' trailer truck ways significantly more than 4 tons).

> Do you live in every borough?

I have lived the city my entire life, permanently in two boroughs, and have spent many years commuting in and through the other three. You can treat it as overconfidence if you like, but I feel qualified to make these claims based on about two decades of cycling and car travel.
See for example : https://docs.synthetix.io/synopsis

Basically you mint only a fraction of your collateral (typically 15%), so even a huge downturn of the price won't leave anybody hanging, and you provide a set of incentives for the owners of the collateral to adjust their staking depending on the price you are trying to follow.

It's not too complex, and seems to me way better than trusting tether and Co.
I think we should let kids do what comes naturally. If they like the idea of coding, support and encourage it. On the other hand, if they like playing softball, encourage that.

Not everybody needs to know how to build technology. It's probably good enough to make sure they at least know how to use it.
Hard disagree. If we increase the delay in a control loop it will affect its stability. In fact, it is very hard to argue against the opposite, namely (arbitrarily) short terms from a theoretical pov. How legit is a government which does not have the support of the population at any given time?

Or intuitively as t tends to infinity the system would be tending to some form of dictatorship.
Equal probability of both errors is only if the errors were random. The errors or poor data could be intentional so the outcome is favorable to someone
> Is support for SQLite in the Elixir ecosystem, particularly Ecto, good enough for this?

Why yes it is. I maintain the `exqlite` and `ecto_sqlite3` libraries and it was just integrated in with `kino_db` which is used by `livebook`.

https://github.com/elixir-sqlite/exqlite
No; just TOTP.
They jump on the new thing - thinking it will solve their issues.

But the reality, the issue is them not 'understanding/knowing/being able to build semi-good software.

Think about it - you have the Fed literally printing money, then many VCs giving MILLIONS to half-assed, barely functioning prototypes.

The idea is not there, the craftsmanship is not there - it's just a bunch of kids on Adderall slapping some nice-looking UI and getting paid.

Guess what the thing they like to talk about is - the technology behind it because sure as hell it doesn't solve any business need.

It is hilarious.
If they cut back by 5% then residential people would get 25% more water.
We charge for water now. I'm not aware of any poor Californians dying of thirst due to cost. So I believe your hypothesis is wrong.
I take 1/6 of every paycheck¹ and put it in a CD ladder. This enables me (in theory) to take every seventh year off. I would be taking next year off except I ended up taking an unplanned 6-month break last year because of Covid, so I'm going to wait until 2025 for my next sabbatical. One key thing is to live a far below your means as possible.

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1. I also put half of any “extra” income that comes my way and if I slide money that I don’t use into that fund as well.
> Legislation asking (indirectly) that companies shove even more of these "Click here to read our cookie policy" type messages into everyone faces has only made the problem worse.

Disagree here. It's not gotten worse, it's gotten more visible. It's only ethical to ask people before tracking them, so any site should have done this already. This legislation forces businesses to act more honestly towards users in this regard.

Businesses impacted then take this and frame it in a manner of "we're very sorry that your government forces us to annoy you with this, but if you'd just sign here we'll be right out of your way..." and the vast majority of techies swallow it because it is, indeed, annoying to have to sign away privacy again and again.

It doesn't have to be this way. See the omission of a cookie wall on various sites that don't do anything that requires special consent.
>The problem is it tried so hard to be a 3D movie that it was lacking in all other area.

This is okay IMO. There is no shortage of great movies. I don't mind that we've got Avatar: the incredible tech demo with uninteresting plot instead of Avatar: a good movie.
It wouldn't be easy. It seems like they were providing a sub-par education at >$30k per year.

https://lincolncollege.edu/file/471/21-22%20Undergraduate%20...

Math runs out at calculus. No computer science. Very few programs which would translate to real careers.

Reforming a school like this is much more than cutting a check. It's a worthwhile project, but it's a major undertaking.
Is this related?

https://itnext.io/typescript-and-turing-completeness-ba8ded8...

I'd read this long ago, but my impression was that all the hinting stuff is auto stripped out of loaded web fonts for security/performance these days (maybe after some of those early font vulnerabilities that caused NoScript to block fonts), so most of us can't use it.

That's why I was wondering if ligatures might be a reasonable hack.
it means the data is stored in a file on the local drive of a computer that is also running the application.

it also means that it is the application itself (via the SQLite library) that reads and modifies that database file. There is no separate database process.
Where I live in the Northeast, the natural state of a patch of dirt--or for that matter a patch of gravel--will be to become a forest in most cases by way of grass, weeds, bushes, and trees.
> Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years (2021)

Maybe her best friends. I don't like dogs. In some places they are a pest.
This is mind blowing stuff. I was skeptical that you could use the browser effectively as an intermediary to the file system, and that CRDTs would work reasonably well on files, but they seem to have overcome both obstacles. I’m curious, how do you envision this approach working with version control systems? What would it mean to “explore” a branch of a git repository, for example? Would that overwrite the global version of the file system?
Pulling water out of a desert ecosystem like that can have a profoundly negative impact on the native wildlife, whether or not the water is human drinkable.
I'll have to admit I've never read all of Atlas Shrugged (not even close btw; I made it a bit past Dagny's introduction) but I have read Fountainhead twice and a most of her non-fiction stuff. I'm not sure if it's my age but The Fountainhead got me hooked instantly when I read it at 23. I didn't even try to read Atlas Shrugged until 10 years later but it felt like such a slog and I can't manage to read it.

My view of the characters has evolved into considering them ideological extremes because of how common it is for people to dismiss her on the basis that the characters do things no normal person would do.

So I've just given up on considering the characters people you can _be_. Like you said, the characters are people at their best. IMO that means the characters are meant to be perfect and by accepting the characters are perfect people, and that nobody is perfect, I'm ok considering the characters are extremes of their ideologies their meant to represent. So when the "not real people!!" arguments come out it's just "they're not supposed to be, they're ideologies and a person can't be an ideology".

btw I think we mostly agree and I'm enjoying reading your other comments in this thread. I also recommend The Fountainhead and then using the Ayn Rand Lexicon or her non-fiction to learn more. The nice thing about those is there's quotes from Atlas Shrugged and as long as you know the characters and overall story you don't need the entire book.
B-frames (bi-directional predicted frames with a reference frame in both the past and the future) are patented. I'd say that's a process or method.
> Take HTML/CSS. Ten years ago, I would've killed for Flexbox alone.

I wonder if the author knew about Sciter back then.

Which reminds me that I still need to look into how one could generate Sciter UIs and web browser UIs from one codebase. Preferably with as little client JS as possible.
This is true, however on the whole hiring remote/off-shore usually implied a cluster of people working together in an office, so you get some synergies in terms of communication/collaboration as well as culture -- but it didn't mean people working from home.
Fair enough. This clarification earned you an upvote. :)
Where has processing and transportation been included in your informal analysis? You seem to be quite confident but have not addressed these factors.
‘It’s just more and more lanes’: the Texan revolt against giant new highways
The problem is promotion culture. Once a product manager has enough experience to understand the business and the tech they get promoted and you have to deal with a newbie.

It’s so nice to deal with experienced product managers and project managers but it’s rare to deal with them.
HTTP compression (gzip, brotli) works on byte/text level and doesn't know about your markup template repetition (where structure is mostly the same but small changes everywhrere) so it will be not as efficient as manual template-data separation. Moreover you can also use gzip, brotli for your template and data so http compression doesn't change the overall picture
GPL prevents use in commercial or other applications where it is not then appropriate to share the resulting code. I prefer to allow such uses. For example, for some years there were a handful of lines of code of mine in a phone system helping munge JPEGs not to crash some receiving phones. My original code was Apache 2 (or BSD-like), telco was clearly not going to publish their switch source code, world was a better place. Would not have been legit with GPL original. But people feel very strongly about this stuff.
Use Quick Look. Simply press Space to instantly preview almost any file you’ve highlighted in Finder. You can use the arrow keys to move to the next file in the finder window below. For multiple files selected you get a film strip in Quick Look.

Lots of extra options are surfaced in MacOS when Option is held. Press option while any menu is open and you’ll see new options. The context menu will show that quick look becomes full screen preview in this case. Lo and behold simply pressing Option Space will do the same thing.
In an ideal universe, Debian Stable is globally coherent minus declared Conflicts. That is, there are packages that are mutually exclusive, but they are expected to perform similar functions such that they are reasonable alternatives for each other.

What do we call NixOS, where different users can have incompatible package versions but the whole system allows for that? 'Tolerance' rather than 'coherence', perhaps?
Binarism (that there is only right and wrong, and not a large spectrum of gray scale in between) is one of those huge fallacies that allows one to claim that China and the USA are basically the same, when in reality, neither is white or black but one is much closer to black than the other.
The normal way engineering is done is to create a safety margin so that the probability of a serious problem under normal operation is vanishingly small. Airliners do not fall out of the sky on a regular basis in the United States for that reason. Serious problems have become rare through serious application of serious standards.

Engineering rail systems so that derailments do not happen at all is a reasonable shorthand for almost never. It is engineering malpractice to run things so close to the edge that fatalities or serious property damage are to be expected next month instead of sometime in the next few decades or so.
Or y’know, buy crap products to rant about them and increase your social media engagement
There are some prerequisites like having the same icloud account signed in on both mac and iphone.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204975
I don't care how much booze and drugs and radium-powered neutron guns you die from, if the coroner finds Benadryl in your blood, it's going in the report.
> We'd probably get a better skills/job match by including the major in interest rate calculations.

This brings up the hairy issue that all education should not be focused on eventual income generation. We still need our English, History, and other majors out there in the real world even if we don't expect them to make a great ROI on their degrees. Their contributions to society are still worthwhile.

I think a policy that incorporates the major into the interest rate would drive universities to cut less profitable programs, and MAYBE lower tuition for those majors.

I think my approach to change the system would be to put a cap on the maximum loan that the government will back, and have that cap be influenced by major. This would be similar to the conventional loan situation for mortgages.
Anyone not committing the entire node_modules to their repo is in for a really bad time when npm goes down or gets compromised.
Interesting ideas but I wonder if there will be any distribution apart from Red Hat that would really go all the way to implement these ideas. While it seems to solve many security problems, supporting something along these lines seems very aligned with support contracts.
Yeah I’ve shown PDFs before, and as long as the QR code is scannable the NS conductor doesn’t care.
Someone at my work has a really nice electronic calipers that is solar powered (think like a calculator… low enough power requirement that ambient light is more than enough) and thus will effectively never need battery change.
Great topic for a game, Fallout meets Sim City.
got a link to someone actually arguing that with data?
> you'll have to hop on a bicycle

But that's exactly what you're missing. Hopping on a Dutch bicycle in a dutch city is like walking, but better. No helmet required. No hassle of dealing with cars trying to kill you. No pain from hunched over road bike posture. Just unlock your bike and go.