skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Nuclear and renewable energy can power modern society and then some.

If it were that easy, it would have happened. Other sources of energy have downsides, such as price, convenience, portability, etc. Mainly price, I would assume. Which goes back to the original point, that if the thing people want most is to live in large homes in far flung suburbs with large pickup trucks and SUVs and vacations to tropical destinations, they are not going to vote for policies that make those things less possible.

If 50 years ago, we had voted to make gas $10/gallon, then maybe those alternatives would have been feasible to develop and implement. But even today, $5/gallon gas will cause the incumbent politicians to lose elections. No one is going to touch that issue and win.
It is worth, as a long time Bash user, to change to ZSH?
> Therefore, any black hole emitting anything more than hawking radiation

What else does a black hole emit besides Hawking radiation?

> Therefore it imparted some rotational energy as it dipped in and out.

You're bringing up an interesting point. So any photon passing by a Schwarzschild black hole should actually set the BH in motion/rotation. Then again, I would expect these effects to cancel each other out, given a somewhat random distribution of incoming photons?
EDIT: This turned out to be fake - sorry. Leaving the rest of the comment here for posterity.

A Russian restaurant chain "Uncle Vanya" has already filed for a trademark that looks very "inspired" by the McD arches. It is basically rotated 90 degrees and a line is added, so it looks like a "B" - which is like the letter "V" in Vanya in the cyrillic alphabet.

Source:

https://twitter.com/JoshGerben/status/1504082125968007174

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/18/uncle-vanya-...
How is NATO going to not be belligerent if we are even thinking about letting Russia slaughter Ukrainians?
If you are in US what are you going to do at tax time ? Each of those payments are a taxable event for you the payer. What a nightmare. No thank you.
I would keep the business open, add a 20% Ukraine war fee to all sales (call it special operation fee if needed), and give it to a Ukraine war relief fund.
The Cultural Treason of the Modern Rich
Having just been through the recruitment hellscape last year the take home tests are absurd. Some companies are asking for whole weekends worth of work before you even get to speak to anyone.

Needless to say if a company is asking for an 8 hour take home, you bet your ass they don't respect you as a candidate and won't respect you as an employee.

I hoped that if we collectively stopped doing these then they would go away but there are a lot of people who like doing these and believe they are a net positive for some reason.
> "You people" need to unionize.

Hiring would just be some other set of hoops and process to jump through. There's no silver bullet.

I love take home projects as I don't have a CS degree (EE) and usually flop leet code whiteboard quizzes.
The nature of every job is you are paid less than the value you produce. Otherwise, there would be no point in hiring you.
> How is Russia going to not be belligerent if we are even thinking about letting Sweden and Finland in NATO?

That's easy: by choosing to not be belligerent to countries exercising their sovereign autonomy.

"You're making me hit you!" No.
I’m confused - are we underpaid?

If people from all those other industries are scrambling to break into tech because it’s so lucrative, what is it you or I are bringing to the table that they couldn’t?
I'm self-employed and don't need a job but am still open to the right opportunity. The last job I interviewed for was looking for a specialist in a particular field, which I am (fairly well known in that circle), and they told me they've been looking to fill the position for a full year before they interviewed me. The interview seemed to go well, and they wanted to continue with the process, but they said the next step was a take-home project. I wasn't thrilled, because my qualifications should already be established, but they said it's their mandatory procedure. I thought, ok, I'm interested in this job, and maybe I can power through the project quickly. But no, the project was rather open-ended, more of an unsolved problem than an already solved problem, and I started to see that I could spend an unknown number of hours on it. So I said fuck it and told them I've changed my mind about the job.

I noticed many months later after I turned them down that they were still trying to fill the position. This is an employer just shooting themselves in the foot. They created their own "labor shortage".

It's actually the second time in a row that I got this kind of absurdity. I was contacted unsolicited by an engineering manager from DuckDuckGo looking for a specialist. I asked them what their hiring procedure was, and it was even worse: they had multiple pre-hiring projects and some kind of probationary period before permanent hire. So I asked if I could just skip this, given my qualifications, and they said no, that's just how they do things at DuckDuckGo, and they believed their hiring process has been "successful" for them. So I basically said no thanks, buh-bye. And they also were continuing to try to fill the position many months after I said no.
I had Altras as I like a minimal shoe, but I have narrow feet and the toe box was huge. I have nearly broken my ankle because my feet slide around so much in them.

My favorites were the Brooks Pure Connects, but they slowly made them bigger and bigger and then discontinued them.
Be careful of thinking that your own personal experience of something can be extrapolated to other people. Each of us experience distraction and lack of focus differently. What may not be an issue for you, might be a big thing to others.
2022 economy, financial markets like the year 2000 all over again
Agree, I should have specified "aesthetic principles" (vs "'principles' of design and aesthetics").

Yes, the actual great designers put function first, then solve the now-harder problem of simplifying the aesthetics without sacrificing the function.

Had an architect (trained, licensed, etc.) propose a redesigned front porch and put a support post right square in front of an existing bay window. Sure, from the front elevation view, it looked great, but squarely blocked the view from inside. Also proposed just building the wrap=around part without moving a natgas meter, just left it obstructing part of the side entry. What a waste of time and money - she just solved the problems she wanted to solve (e.g., make it look good in her drawing) and ignored all the other problems - and was proud of that.

This is the problem - real design is hard because it includes ALL the problems and the constraints they create. Too many (I'd say most, in my experience), just focus on the problems they want to solve, ignore the rest, and think they've done a good job, when in fact they completely failed. And the real problem is management that accepts that crap as completed work and pushes it out on the customers.
It's about image. The most powerful weapon the west has isn't nuclear bomb but its culture and image. McDonald's business is a drop in the bucket in the tax revenue for the Putin regime. But if you (Putin) wants to claim that Russia is a powerful country, it needs to project an image of wealth, stability, etc.. McDonald, Starbucks, etc helps with that image.
Same. Using Boto3. But your packages sound good as well. Also curious about Pulumi. Boto3 really isnt that good :D
Ask HN: Did You Use Netbook?
Some 15 years ago I've had in my hands Asus EEE. It was one of the first netbooks[1] out there. I really liked the concept of it but I couldn't get it at that time.

Did you ever use netbook? What are your thoughts on them?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook
Unions with their "someone else's job" attitude have soured me on the whole concept. They need to clean up internally before they can attract me.

I'm given the impression that unions in Europe are not as bad as Unions in the US though. Maybe if I lived in Europe I'd me more willing for the unions there, I'm not sure as it isn't an option I have and thus isn't worth investigating.
There are always people in vulnerable positions and there are more than enough suckers willing to take advantage of that.

My tip to avoid that is to ask for a phone screening for around a hour, walk away if cannot get one. If they don't want to invest one hour in you, then why would you spend anytime with them?
Web3 is expensive P2P
Classic Lecture on Gyroscopes
That is interesting I would have thought it an absolute certainty at least a non zero number of cars were sold. Either recurring/rollover contracts or some guy making an advanced purchase for later in the year would be reasons to buy during a lockdown.
I just disable emacs garbage collection entirely. Fast startup, no more random pauses, haven't noticed any problems yet. (This was probably like a year ago.)

(On the other hand, emacs is never quite problem free, so maybe this is introducing problems and I just haven't noticed.)

I have tons of customizations and lots of packages, but be as religious as reasonable about lazy loading.

$ time emacs --eval '(save-buffers-kill-emacs)'
real 0.21s

Not bad, but still very noticable, which is annoying.

About half of it is unavoidable.

$ time emacs -q --eval '(save-buffers-kill-emacs)'
real 0.11s

(-q disables reading the config file.)

(With default GC settings, startup is about 300ms.)
Back in 2000s Google used to be the place for any type of search (IIRC).

Now, I've been conditioned to use it only for specific use cases, mostly for convenience. Some examples include:

1. Anything programming related (searching for man pages, error codes etc) is straightforward. (I do have some UBO filters to exclude SO copycats)

2. Utility stuff like currency conversion, finding time in another city, weather etc.

Where Google has really fallen behind is in multimedia search. Not sure if it's due to copyright issues or not but Bing and Yandex provide way better service in this regard.

Not to mentions the "reddit" suffix I need to add to any search that even remotely calls for public opinion. In many cases, Google is just a shortcut to take me to the relevant subreddit.
It's probably much simpler than that. If Putin's going to keep invading other countries for little or no reason, what's that nutbar going to do to your property? There's a $20 term for this but I forget what it is.

In addition to the reasons others here have said, of course.
> Of course, some Russians will interpret the move differently

Russian propaganda will say something like: “McDonalds, evil American company, left our people without jobs and betrayed our trust”

most people would believe this

the blame will be shifted from Russian Government to “evil American corporation”
I've found in the past that if a company presents an onerous task for interviews, and isn't interested in paying directly for the work, sometimes they are willing to donate an equivalent sum to a non-profit of your choice.

Of course, the fact that they won't pay directly is useful information when interviewing, by itself, but a donation can indicate respect for your investment of time and effort.
To add, when such a grievance in described in detail, it is hidden by the HN censorship machine. I suppose we should just stick to praising new Stripe products.
I switched from Bash to ZSH with the caveat that I use prezto and powerlevel10k (included with prezto) and I will never go back.

I had to turn off some of the Zsh-specific brackets and quoting features to make it more bash-like because of the tools I use which make it kinda wonky to use with Zsh but otherwise it’s been absolutely fantastic. Remoting into our systems that only have bash feels absolutely prehistoric.

https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
"Want to become rich? Make a search engine which indexes the fresh relevant data from the big siloed websites, and ignores the general dead Internet."

Did that to some degree. Unscatter.com pulls from reddit and twitter to source links.

I found reddit only created an echo chamber bubble of obvious bias and twitter only diluted it a little.
Never do an interview where you aren’t at least equally wasting someone else’s time.
Careful what you wish for. It's not "easy" at places like that. It's just different. Instead of your work being keeping a system up and running putting out fires or implementing features or coming up with algorithms on a tight schedule... it's, instead: figuring out who is doing what, what you're supposed to be doing, what permissions list you need to be on in order to access X system, asking to be on that list and waiting, submitting a minor feature to code review that takes a week to go through because someone didn't check their email, rewriting a major part of the code in that review because someone came in at the last minute and didn't like some thing about it that was actually decided on weeks ago but they weren't looped in.

The amount of actual lines of code written by an average SWE at a BigCorp is miniscule. The amount of churn and spinning and hand wringing that goes into that code is staggering. But it's like that for a reason. There's just a lot of people.

It's torture, and in order to maintain productivity you need to have about 5-6 of these processes running concurrently, and it's why you get paid a lot of money to do it.

Do poorly at juggling that and making "progress"? Find yourself on the receiving end of a performance review where the label "meets expectations" actually means "you better start kicking ass at this, or you'll find yourself with no stock refresh grants for next year."

All the money and free food and so on is just a salve to try to make the whole thing less unpleasant. Some people get a high out of the process, while it drives other people slowly crazy.

(In my last months at Google the only part of the job I "enjoyed" was the week I was on-call for the first time on my new team. Because it was the only time in over a year where I felt useful even though it was quite stressful. That's how I knew it was time to pack it in)

https://goomics.net/364/
Unions in general are overly focused on job security and fairness in pay at the expense of other things like total salary. While there may be a place in tech for unions the last place that would want to unionize is a big tech employer. A grift mill that churns through underpaid consultants needs a union.
I like it, I think it could use a night mode.
One common-ish case would be from concentrate, since ostensibly it is just the water removed and then re added. However, you're at that point substituting the natural water for whatever is at the bottling source.

This does lead me to an interesting question, that being whether one could make orange juice from frozen concentrate that is 'better' than store bought and reconstituted at a factory
That's literally the first line of the article ... "For evidence of just how tight Shanghai’s lockdown has been, consider this: not a single car was sold in the city last month. "
Walk away. Trust me, 99.99% of the time, you will prove yourself wasting time on similar situations.
Yep, both managers and contributors have a faulty model of agile. We're all guilty of it, even those of us who know it when we see it because we know the theory so well.

Finding people with the right mentality is, as you say, very hard.

The temptation of the manager is to get people with the wrong mentality and wrap them enough process that it will fix them. The temptation of the contributor is to blame the manager without looking at their own faults.

As good a solution as I can suggest is to work with people who are willing to collaborate on a positive outcome, and go through genuine continuous improvement.
Once, and I didn't initiate. It was a person that was so annoyed at my comment they decided to berate me on live chat. Blocked and never opened the thing again.
The article misses the most important point in those cases: how did the team miss that?

It's very easy to predict the past and find errors when you know the result.

It fricking hard to find errors in your reasoning right now. Why did they think that would work? What did they miss? What error got into their reasoning? Was this destined to fail or it was just bad luck? Could it have worked?

I'd love to read about that kind of stuff.
This might be controversial, but I wish Google would exclude those websites too.

Google started punishing keyword spam, then it started punishing black-hat comment spam. Even Youtube backtracked on the "videos have to be 10 minutes to rank".

I wish they would do the same for carefully manicured SEO content farms too, as those sites are causing a harm worse than keyword-spammer sites did.
The headline certainly increased my cognitive load.
This is similar to what happened in Europe at height of our first lockdowns - give a few months and demand will be back with a catch-up.
Most benefits come from a registration. That registration can derive from a job or a home or even a school.
Well, McDonalds, Inc. is not necessarily doing this to hurt the Russian economy. They are doing it to save money.

The war and the Western sanctions have limited their ability to operate restaurants in Russia. Because of this, they have shut down their restaurants while continuing to pay staff, leases on their buildings, etc. This means they have a constant outflow of cash to Russia which they want to stop. Shutting down the business stops the bleeding.

Perhaps the question is: why would public policy makers in the West want to impose such broad sanctions? Why not continue to allow Western companies to profit in Russia (i.e., "rip them off")? The answer is primarily that voluntary economic business transactions like this are generally win-win for both sides. Yes, McDonalds earns money selling branding, etc., but the Russians on the other side of the transaction also earn money through the use of the branding and so on. By cutting off Western companies' financial access to the Russian market, it does hurt the Western companies, but it also hurts the Russians because it deprives them of whatever benefits they were obtaining from the Western companies.
It works for me (with FB blocked). I use privacy badger[1] and tried reloading the website after blocking facebook and twitter (by default it blocked cookies)

[1]: https://privacybadger.org/
isn't Discord a bit like IRC used to be?
I thought it was the Omicron BA.1 variant that caused a surge in the west too. But China is more densely populated, with a less vaccinated population, especially the elderly, and a less effective vaccine.
Sanctions don't work. The goal of sanctions is not to hurt Russia. The only thing sanctions accomplish is to give a feeling of self-righteousness.
I wonder if the same health equivalency applies to jam and it’s analogues. There’s double-fruit jam that doesn’t identify as jam, but as a fruit spread.

It seems like a healthier choice, due to higher bulk of fruit purée versus standard jam on toast (which I assume has more sugar).
Right, but at that point you’re at what’s basically south england latitude and you have similar ranges of temperature. I assume GP is somewhere around London and wants a cooler location, which they wouldn’t really get, summer averages are pretty similar (though london has higher record highs).
RPi's are like lottery tickets. You buy them for the license to dream it gives you. They're potential.
That's how you spend days debugging npm dependency hell between libraries instead of coding with your framework of choice.
Weird proxy to illustrate the problem with lockdowns. On the one hand it's a huge city, so there's lots of people who could be buying cars, but on the other hand... it's a huge city, so you probably don't need a car?
good for their gastronomy too, I for one always pities them patrons
There are surprisingly strict rules about ice cream terminology pertaining to ingredient ratios. Is it ice cream? Ice milk? Custard? Etc. An ice cream-like product that is not actually "ice cream" is not necessarily inferior.

With orange juice... not sure. There's long been the distinction between "from concentrate" and "not from concentrate", but both were still considered actual orange.
I have had very interesting conversations with people who are "casual" users of internet. They are still finding the results of the likes of Google, bing and duckduckgo perfectly suitable. Maybe it's most of us here who have different needs to what's available.
I have an IBM Correcting Selectric III for this exact purpose. I do find it helps.

It’s not very portable, though. I just picked up a Sears Citation for that, but the 1960s typewriter definition of portable is much closer to “you can take it on a trip and type in your hotel room” than it is to “you can take it on a hike and type under a tree.”
Sounds like this webring wasn't curated then.
Ask cubans about exercising sovereignity against the freest world, as said in my main message, we need to give up moral superiority and understand other countries needs
I have network functional in my freedos machines (386, 486, Athlon).

Where there's availability of packet drivers (crynwr), it is trivial.

No packet drivers makes it a lot harder, but still workable, with NDIS drivers. The linked story documents how to do it, and I've done it once before. The end result is the same packet driver interface, but backed by NDIS + a driver that acts as a proxy of sorts.

Ms-kermit is a good way to move data around with just the serial port. Once there is a working packet driver in the system, Etherdfs. It uses broadcast ethernet frames, thus does not require a TCP/IP setup.

This should all also work on ms-dos, but running that implementation is less useful today, as freedos 1.3 bumped up the compatibility considerably.
> People are being paid very high salaries to do nothing.

I'm patiently waiting for some kind of deep-dive historical monograph to be written in the 2050s. What I suspect may have happened is that these companies overhire top talent simply so their competitors can't have them. For the actual work they do, it's massively overpaying. As a strategic investment to prevent said talent from working elsewhere or starting their own business, perhaps it pays off.
Yes, you can achieve also reduce local readability by passing objects containing buckets of state around. But such classes always smell to me - particularly if component instances have other aliases. But I try to avoid it by designing distinct and hopefully coherent service or context classes. And this Kotlin feature effectively requires you structure your context/service/etc. classes in this way - the point is to allow multiple implicit contexts.

When you say 'action-at-a-distance' - I would argue that the "distance" is not on the same scale. One crosses statements invisibly while your example, in all languages I've used, would still constitute a single statement.

But fundamentally, this is an argument about style as it's not a pure binary distinction, so I don't think there's a definitive right or wrong here.

Subjectively - in my experience, codebases (remembering one in Scala in particular) which rely heavily on implicit context objects are more difficult to understand. For me, when trying to get my head around an unfamiliar codebase, explicit is better than implicit unless it introduces so much verbiage that the intent is hidden.
bet they still doin biz in china and shanghai though
I've actually seen "free ample parking" as a benefit.
Wasn't Amazon's increase over a year ago?

And I have never heard of Amazon being a low payer. I guess the people I know worked at AWS and maybe that was an outlier in terms of their payments, because they are paid as much, if not more, than people in similar roles in MS/Google.