skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And by YAML, some libraries implement YAML 1.1, some others implement YAML 1.2, and by YAML 1.2 they actually mean YAML 1.2 core schema. And often they implement that poorly.

So it doesn't help that:

* there is YAML 1.1 and YAML 1.2, and you need to know which one you want to use

* there is this thing called "core schema" and it's possible to use other schemas, but nobody seems to care

* the spec itself is complex, and hard to implement well
even if there's 99 people blocking analytics for every person who doesn't, the figure is still 99%
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The other thing about big corps is that they work on stuff that actually matters to customers for a long time, not "Our Incredible Journey" demo software intended to be rug pulled as soon as the founders get acquihired.
The refrigerants (that's what CFC's were used for) in AC's are not consumable, so their environmental impact isn't influenced by whether the AC is turned on.

The CO2 released by electricity generation is a factor in climate change, though.
Can't you see them? It's a CLI app.
Both are in a strong first mover / network effect industry (social). It's definitely an optimization in certain cases.
What are some estimates for the likelihood of these behaviors?

In dentistry? 1 of every ... ? 1,000 teeth? More? Less?
Video-on-demand companies officially inaugurated the European VOD Coalition
I no longer see Google as a neutral "search engine" the way it used to be. Now it's just another company that owns and promotes certain types of content, no different from reddit. For some things Google has the best content, for some things Twitter or Reddit have the best content.
If you self-host Plausible, it's also possible to bundle the analytics package with the website, so that there's isn't an "ad-blockable" lone request for the .js file.

https://github.com/plausible/plausible-tracker
Pro: It's difficult to fire people in the UK

Con: It's difficult to fire people in the UK
> Kelvin is arbitrarily scaled.

Percentages are unitless, you're making a trivial observation that didn't need to be said.

I conclude that you lack the appropriate education to discuss this subject.
This is why a lot of programmers work after 5:00 PM. You can get more done between five and nine than you can get done all day.
"The way to solve this is to allow teams to fire their managers."

I don't follow. Wouldn't most teams replace their manager with a manager who would give everyone the biggest raises and the easiest working conditions?

Why would a team want a manager who cares about the goals of the company?
Yeah you're right, I just meant that Lit was the framework I'd been looking at specifically as a means of building Web Components
might also be google. I've noticed inaccurate dates that don't appear anywhere for some of my pages. my only theory as to why these were displayed is that google interpreted a (server side) randomly generated number in an inline script as a timestamp (but i can't know for sure that's what happened)
it doesn't (or didn't) seem necessary to actually go over there for registrations? https://tld-list.com/tld/af
Additionally Pakistan installed a giant solar farm it lost 30%+ of projected efficiency due to getting covered in dust, requiring a large budget to constantly clean them. So hot/dusty places are bad places for these. Despite a lot of sci-fi books which talk about covering deserts in solar farms.
* "no data collection", but google-analytics facepalm

* based on vue.js -> page does not work w/o javascript ... hmmm

this is not my understanding of "a minimal website"

brv
It’s a reason to think twice about doing that. Some people make a lot of money but most don’t and it isn’t worth the risk and trouble for many of them.
Until recently, .SU had very little to with “Russian government”. Its Wikipedia article is a kitchen sink of useless facts which gave the post author the false sense he knows something about the topic.

SU TLD was given to Soviet Unix Users Group when Demos/Relcom (mostly the same people forming SUUG, regarded as first internet provider in USSR) joined the EUNet. Some relevant discussion can probably be found in old Usenet posts. At the time, finding someone in Soviet — and, shortly afterwards, Russian — government who understood what a domain name was would be a miracle. Further Internet-related committees and legal entities would be formed in the '90s by people from that tech circle.

I suppose the combination of personal contacts between people who created current Internet management organizations, inertia, long growth and transfer period of RU, and probably a convenience of making some money from yearly registration fees resulted in endless deprecated-but-active-in-all-regards state. It seems to me that making everyone using it move because of some formal decision would be as abrupt as making most of .com/.net/.org users move to specific country TLDs which they should formally use. Given how many crapTLDs have been created recently, its notability seems to dwindle.
This section of Smil's book deals specifically with material resources and use.

Nuclear power does not directly contribute to the manufacture of steel, plastics, concrete, or ammonia. There are conceivalble processes by which at least some of these might be addressed, and in the case of steel, electric arc furnaces for recycling existing steel are widely used.

But direct application is limited.

Smil is otherwise generally favourable toward nuclear, though he notes the political obstacles, based on risk perceptions (or miscperceptions) are quite high.
The sheer density of jargon and management buzzwords, none of which points to any actual argument validated by a shred of empirical evidence, is mind numbing.
I think Apple Honey Crisp was a cereal at one point...

And the Honey Crisp apple is very new. Even though released in the 1990s, it takes decades for production to grow, and, for other regions to get cultivars and start selling them too.

Then on top of all that, for most people to even know about new apple flavours, it must compete for space at the grocery...
I would much rather see a comeback of those Transflective LCD displays that Pixel Qi made almost 10 years ago.

Here is a demo of the Pixel Qi10 display :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi6DbFyZde8

They had a dual mode so you could have the look/feel of a normal backlight LCD panel but when you wanted to go outside you could toggle to transflective mode.

This means you would have normal refresh rates, color, multimedia, and an actual useful display when outdoors.

Not sure why they ever went bust or what happened to the IP for these displays.
What if the teams changes?

Yeah, documentation will definitely help in this case. With it, you can swap teams and even companies, and it still works! This only fails in companies which do not review documentation and have no routine for keeping it in sync and testing it on e.g. newcomers, like you do for backups. Cause otherwise it is as good as never tested six months old backup.
someone needs to set up a CNAME or a redirect.
You should try Bing again. Bing doesn't mess with your query terms as much as google does. If you aren't a zoomer typing out whole sentences into the search bar, the fact that Bing doesn't substitute your jargon for more general terms will help with spending less time in the search results.

I just got tired of iterative refining not working as it used to in the past. I once got results for databases when searching for decibels (despite spelling it out in full), so it isn't just a matter of semantically related terms.

The rewriting is just braindead and the ranking algorithm falls for generated content way too easily. Google shouldn't be trying to teach me DHCP when I am clearly trying to recall a config item, but then it gets worse when you read the infobox and realize that it's written at a toddler level of comprehension.

This is with the caveat that all search engines rely on some level of personalization, so you might be able to get good results on google if they deem you worthy.
Yes, but not reduce my angst.
It is easy to confuse "so little perspective" with "a different set of values". This seems to be the case with ^.
I always double and triple check domains because of short links like this. How are people supposed to know what's okay to click and what isn't when a major vendor like Microsoft conditions its users to click on whatever.
Dasung do one as well, presumably with the same panel.

One thing I’m wondering is what’s the power draw of these screens? Ereaders famously sip power, but that’s due to the race-to-zero environment. If you’re running these on a 60fps HDMI connection how do they stack up against LCDs?
I use "site:reddit.com" to fully restrict to that. You can even filter by subreddit that way.

Works well with HN and other sites, too.
Interesting thought. I just went though my browser history and realised that almost every time I use google search, I already know what website I want, I just don’t know the exact link/page. I’ll use google because the search on stack overflow or reddit sucks but I know I’m looking for a page on one particular site.
Smil has devoted a half-century to study of this question, and is a widely-respected expert across the spectrum.

Dismissing his writing as "totally pointless" seems rather hasty.

What evidence would you have to support that assessment? Other than wishful thinking and appeal to consequences.
Contractually? I doubt it. But they have refunded many, many people on their forums after they report accidental charges. Whether they continue is a different story, but I feel safe using it and certain that I won't be overcharged.

To be clear a bandwidth limit would be awesome! And the pricing may not be for everyone. However there is a large amount of leeway as evidenced by the community forum posts.
Can you make an example? I am Italian and I have never heard anyone using feminine for Euro.
> The correct lesson is that the real world is not obliged to conform to your personal model of "better".

(Annoying as fuck, that. ;-)

And that seems to indicate that a(n initially) half-assed, but improvable, model of it that is then iterated upon is a good way to build one's model. Feels to me like that is exactly what "Worse is Better" is about -- shouldn't your beef here rather be with "the MIT model"?

> You have a personal obligation to continuously adapt your model to match the real world.

A bit hard to get a consensus model out of that, since everyone's perception of the real world -- heck, everyone's actual "real world" -- varies.

> This is the model of science, and is opposed to Platonism.

Again, what feels like setting up a Platonic ideal to me is more "the MIT model", rather than "Worse is Better".

> After you have adjusted your model, it is certain to still not be right, and need further adjustment.

Ah, dangit, at some point you just gotta say "Screw it, good enough!" (See, for instance, "The saddest 'Just ship it!' story" the other day.)

[Edit: Reduced repetitive weasel wording.]
Janina Fisher extends the concept of plurality focused communication in her book really well too, which is a modified version of IFS tweaked with empirical evidence over the years. TBKTS is really good but the anecdotes can be retraumatizing for many, so I just recommend "Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors" as a good starter.

Works always from PTSD through DID, which is a great range! :D
Here is a quick CEO dilemma:
You have startup with about 4 people, you did a quick prototype, showed it to some potential customers and the worse has happened:

They want it! and they want it now!

The head engineer says it's all just a temp hack, it is completely shitty, they could give it to costumers but then the maintenance will be impossible, they will need months to add any new features on top of it, they will probably waste all their time on fixing bugs, and they'll quit if they have to maintain it for long.

What would you do? (A) continue develop until you have a nice maintainable product, or (B) sell the product now and face the consequence of wasted developer time and loss of their motivation.

Sometimes in such situations the answer is (A), but not always. It depends. How much money you got? how certain are you of the timeline for "finishing" the product properly? which option is riskier? How much competition you have and how likely they are to publish a product before you? What could having a real customer teach you about your product? What do you need in order to get the next round of investment?

This is just an example, but IMO product graveyard is filled with great maintainable and reliable code no one had a chance to use. I love software and I'm really not disregarding its importance, I just think it's not always the most important thing.
The internet itself is probably gonna die soon anyway. Every country wants to impose its own laws on it. I think it'll eventually fragment into multiple segregated continental networks, if not national ones, all with heavy filtering at the borders.

I'm happy to have experienced the free internet. Truly a jewel of humanity.
"If it works, don't fix it."
In search of organic software
The middle ground was the old Pixel Qi transflective displays, but those never came to market in any great quantities.
Starbucks has built a $12B bank
It's a big difference if it's already 45+ in March when it's usually only 45+ starting in May.
Generally, I'd agree, but I've also worked with developers who are as egotistical, shortsighted, and/or stupid as the worst person with any other title.

Being a logical, cooperative, well-communicating human being is not a requirement to be a developer.
Well, there is that, but you know, the countless murdering of their own people did not help either.
McDonald’s to Exit from Russia
Free/Libre software is free market communism.

It's a free market but with the financial incentive system removed, but maybe social/status/religious incentive retained. Everyone does what they want but at 100% tax rate and the product is shared. Of course this only works in IP because it has zero marginal cost of consumption (and taxation!). In meat space you have the political problem of how the fruits of labor are distributed.
US Dealers Surprised by VW’s Scout EV Brand Plans
> There's nothing wrong with the Microsoft stack.

Except for the security mono-culture, where a single vulnerability can take out your entire operation. Just ask Maersk about NotPetya:

* https://www.i-cio.com/management/insight/item/maersk-springi...

* https://gvnshtn.com/posts/maersk-me-notpetya/
I would do it in the spring when temps consistently stay in the 70’s and water frequently. Don’t mow until it reaches about 3 inches.
As you describe this, it makes me think about how populations tend to migrate to cities and away from rural areas. There’s even a parallel to white flight in the emerging popularity of the chan/gab fora.
The ozone holes caused by refridgerant release (CFCs) have been shrinking for decades.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220321-what-happened-to...

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/2019-ozone-hole-is...
It's a couple thousand files, nothing a modern filesystem can't handle.
Commenting as I didn't know about this option for stereo amplification until a couple of years ago: I'm using Alientek D8, a "full digital" amplifier. It's great -- tiny, affordable, superb sound quality. Digital inputs are optical, coaxial, and USB (works as an external sound card).

To get more sources such as Chromecast, computer, and Blu-ray player I have a HDMI splitter (Portta HDMI Switch) that can extract audio from the HDMI signal before passing it forward to beamer/television.

I'm very happy with this setup.
I think it's safe to assume the Taliban like US dollars
The whole reason it feels understaffed is because there's too many people.

I know it sounds counter-intuitive, but software doesn't really scale linearly. Unless they're 100% independent, the communication overhead will always be there. Fred Brooks and all that.

With 7000 developers working in a connected system, it probably feels slower and less things get done than if there were less people.

It's not simple to go back to having less people, however. The architecture is most certainly tied to the organizational structure (Conway's Law), and firing people will make it worse in the meantime.
This made me curious to try that search engine so I typed "electronic music box" (first thing that came to mind). As far as I can tell none or the 10+ pages of results include all those 3 words. I mean, you might not have any relevant sites in your database (likely if there are only 1000 sites or so as another of your blog posts imply), and I understand you want to show some result to the user, but if I want irrelevant links I might as well go to google.com...
I can confirm that the same happened (and sometimes, nowadays rarely, still happen ) in Italy, the conversion rate from Lira to Euro was 1936.27, so everyone used 2,000 for simplicity, i.e.:

"It costs how much? 500 Euro?! That's 1,000,000 Lire!!"

the conversion was 2002, so only little more than 20 years ago, people 40 and over have grown up "in local money".
Calling it an “altered state” might be normal but misleading. Maybe what has really been altered is the state we call “normal”. Nonetheless, Itzak Bentov would probably describe it as a more evolved state, an Indian Yogi May call it “Samadhi” and according to Sadhguru JV Yoga means “Union”, a sense of unity with all that is or “Law Of One”, this is actually a most normal state for people who claimed to have realized... and this is not about being an atheist or not this is about the learned belief and probably also the choice of “separation” and the final discovery of the fact that matter is consciousness, and consciousness is matter
There's a lot of increased entropy in the brain of sleep deprived people, but long term the effects are negative, and the antidepressant effects are transient. So it can help but really sort of a risk from whst I've seen, unfortunately (spoiler alert, I self medicate this way too).
Messed up dates, plus irrelevant topics showing up because there are matched snippets in “more posts from…”.
Is there a browser plug-in or some other piece of software that can filter, or highlight, which posts / comments are likely made by bots?
The use of the word 'Topology' is especially ... odd. To me, at least.

I understand that it is possible to use technical terms like this in a more casual sense. Somehow it makes me think it is an attempt to use adopt 'serious gloss' of another field.
Yes, some product managers or whatever are terrible at there jobs, just as some programmers/engineers are.

Doesn't mean the job role is useless.
Philosophy, but I divide the work of research and writing into separate activities. This isn't great from a productivity/quantitative aspect, but it's much better for quality.
Signs you are a fake Cybersecurity Expert
I thought of both when I saw the headline and checked to make sure this wasn’t in wet bulb event territory.
I feel more guilty about the cars AC. A twenty year old variety of refrigerant that needs to be regassed every few years suggesting it is leaking out somewhere along with millions of others...
Does that work any more? I thought everyone put nofollow attributes on comment links.
I remember my life before the Internet. It was much more focused and much more creative. The paradox of having all this information but having to constantly battle the context witch, the firehose, the shiny new things has made the Internet a waste of time more than an aide in my flourishing.

Nowadays I've cut most of the site I used to visit. It remains: reddit, HN, YouTube, Wikipedia and some streaming sites. Gradually I will curb even them and will use the Internet as a giant library: a place where I will download books and article I find interesting but the library is not interesting in itself.

Will I be free? Wish me luck.
Considering how companies are implementing the "Half-Arsed Agile Manifesto" rather than the actual "Agile Manifesto", I think reading this article might be what pushes them to jump off a bridge. 20 years of companies failing to understand your 4 line text, and using it to justify things that are utterly antithetical to what it stood for, has got to hurt. It's so simple:

- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

- Working software over comprehensive documentation

- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

- Responding to change over following a plan

Sounds like an environment the author of the post would like, he even describes such an environment later on, one that he enjoys so much he overworks for no extra pay.

Then there's the twelve principles, one of which is:

"Working software is the primary measure of progress."

Another one is:

"The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams."

Another is:

"Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done."

Following bullshit company processes and pointless meetings is the opposite of the above. The one that might be contentious is:

"Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project."

This sounds a lot like meetings, but that's the smallbrained take on it. Here's an easy alternative: Continuous Deployment in a staging area and a Slack/Teams channel for business people to comment on changes they feel are necessary. Not only does the request get recorded (often nothing gets documented in meetings) but the communication is asynchronous and doesn't require booking the entire team for hours.
The discussion is also a lot more actionable because it is about something concrete.

Given the above, what do you think about how an author of the manifesto would respond?
Yeah same, I searched for Leeds grand theatre and the top result is something titled "June 2012 – Sam's Blog' which just mentions the word grand.
This.

It was relatively trivial to switch refrigerants to something that didn't trash the ozone, compared to something like replacing fossil fuels. We could still use the same basic evaporative heat pumps for cooling, it was a minor change.
Pretty well since he at VFX company he seems to working closely as a team and with his customers.
Ask Douglas Crockford to review this? :-)
^ wrote:

> but complaining about needing to do documentation

Here is what the blog post writes:

> You will be asked to write a 50-page documentation for some little code you wrote.

The parent post (^) misread and mischaracterized the blog post. It is notable that the ^ called the other author 'smug' and then proceeded to respond to the least charitable interpretation.