skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wiki or other simple (e.g. Markdown) structured document store. Individual docs/pages consisting of text and as others have said various embedded forms of scriptable diagrams (sequence diagrams, block diagrams, flow charts, logic diagrams). In a corp environment this could be in something like Confluence + plugins.
>Its pretty obvious he isnt retarded

What makes that obvious?
It's probably one of those made up founding stories. Max Levchin was worth $50M+ at that time. He could afford a car.
In my experience, the latter can pass the interview with some coaxing. Someone who knows the right answer but who's frozen due to anxiety can often complete a thought that's already in their head if someone else starts verbalizing it. On the other hand, no amount of hints can help the truly incompetent liar, since they can't produce any thoughts on how to solve the problem in the first place.

The problem is that many (most?) interviewers have no idea how to effectively coax a candidate along. They usually sit there in silence for an awkwardly long period of time and then fail the candidate, or offer totally irrelevant hints that don't reflect how someone would actually think about the problem.
Expect to see tankers of (lightly-compressed) liquified ammonia shuttling from solar farms in the tropics to high temperate latitudes in the winter.

The advantage of ammonia as storage is that there will be no upper limit on demand for all the excess you can produce. If you build out 6x solar generating capacity, anytime your local energy storage is topped up, all your electrolysers are producing revenue.

You will only need enough local tankage to hold out until the next shipment arrives. If this seems fragile, consider that it is exactly how we use oil today.
I will be more careful with my verbiage in the future. However, you may want to do some further research on the ethics of medical consent in the case of minors. Also, you may want to examine why gender affirming care is "horrific" to you when other similar non-gender affirming medical procedures are not.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5422908/
It's a feature[a] of any common law legal system. It just has a less catchy name: precendent/case law.

[a]: Whether it's a feature to you or not doesn't change that it's a feature of the system
This seems related to the concept of the degree day. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_day
Google [seccomp bpf].
could you explain what was the disaster ? You had huge uproar from existing employees once they found out that company is willing to pay more to newer employees OR not enough candidates applied for the job posting with salary information ?
I lived in Berkeley for about 5 years and this was my experience. Some comments here argue SF Bay Area has different climates in different regions. I never realized this, but if it's true it might explain gaps in my comment (I still fully stand by it. No long running showers? Did we even live in the same place? Berkeley famously has days-long powder-like showers! I was absolutely sick of them when I was living there.)
The syscalls necessary to do so are blocked by seccomp-bpf.
First time I hear about this, and it looks really interesting. Subscribed to the waiting list!
The biggest problem with LVT is surprisingly simple: accurately assessing the value of land is very hard, and ensuring that the assessment process is fair is therefore extremely hard.

LVT experiments in history tend to run into problems when people feel that their land has been valued incorrectly, leading to a vocal minority that despises the law. That results in something like this:

https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship...
Which of those are conspiracy theories? Hasn't Gates publicly spoken about all of those things?
Is the flowchart system different from a transition system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_system

If not, I don't know of a way to make that machine without some timing assumptions. https://authors.library.caltech.edu/26721/2/postscript.pdf

Maybe other people do though...
I've tried that, but it's not quite as convenient as I'd like. It sticks out in ways that make the phone harder to carry around. It doesn't fit in some of the bags I use to carry it, for example.

That's a small inconvenience, of course, but we're talking about a device that's with me all the time, and small annoyances add up.
The fed actually has more tools than the ones it currently uses, some of which have been used in the past.

Robert Hockett has written a lot about productive investments via the federal reserve banks, and how that could be used to transform the economy.

Here's one recent paper:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4023614

He wrote a short book about it as well:
https://www.amazon.com/Financing-Green-New-Deal-Renewal/dp/3...
Actually in fairness that does make sense given a bit of thought
Thanks for the compliment - so glad we hit the mark!

This is exactly the direction we're taking the product - not just advice but full-on implementation and management - the control panel for your financial life.

For example, if there a credit card that's better for you based on your spending patterns we'll alert you and let you switch over and link in one click.
According to the repo it is more than just username and repo, the local user account and email address is also tracked [1]. I'd argue that you shouldn't be recording email since that is PII. And repo name and repo owner since the names could be considered trade secrets within organizations. Recording the local user account could be considered sensitive information since it could aid hacking the organization. Finally I don't think you should be recording the GitHub username as well since usage patterns could be analyzed to determine the timezone of the user, which is also considered sensitive personal information in some large corporations that track user behavior data.

Sorry, but I don't think you should request feedback from users without their explicit permission. Isn't there a feedback mechanism built into VSCode already, or make and affordance for one in your plugin UI? Maybe at best generate a random install ID that can be reset for analytics and session tracking? VSCode has guidelines for this, see [2].

[1] https://github.com/watermelontools/wm-extension/blob/c389125...

[2] https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/telemetry...
Schopenhauer's 38 ways to win an argument
Soylent Green predicted a grim 2022. What did the dystopian movie get right?
>Now Chicken Tikka Masala is the same dish as Butter Chicken. Alright then.

They are 99.9% similar. Can anybody of sound mind make the claim that they are completely different recipes?
It is sort of shocking that an objectively rich city like San Francisco has considerably worse homelessness problem than, say, Uzhhorod in Ukraine. (With average income perhaps 10 per cent of SF one, if not less.)
I think the current system would be supportable with a collapse. You have fewer developers... but also fewer hackers, so I would guess security stays the same, other than if the collapse created extra crime incentive.

We could just freeze all the fundamentals. If it was a real emergency, we could mostly stop working on new niche languages,Stop adding language features, stop deprecating stuff, and just focus on essential applications with only the tech we have.

We'd obviously want some level or new work on the fundamentals and language level stuff, but we'd just focus on things that help you code with less people and poorly trained people(Replacing C with Rust could be the big project of the century).

Tech is pretty great at the moment, seems like we could just get by for centuries, totally long enough to rebuild, if we just had what we have now, and enough hardware infrastructure to keep the fabs running. We don't really need a new kernel or a new graphics card architecture until society is stable again.
As a candidate definitely. It tells me what is the maximum company is willing to offer to me. Helps to avoid situations when after applying and going through a lengthy technical interview process me and company both found out that their maximum is actually 1K less than what I currently make.
Yeah, if you really want to pick a city by weather, you'd want to take into account more than just temperature. Amount of sunlight is important too, from cloud cover and day length based on latitude.
To get a fully accurate picture, one would have to know the average crashes for each exit.

Some context this exit is for the Washington Convention Center and closest one to get to Pike Place Market.

The video in the story showing a first person perspective exiting is slightly misleading (not saying intentionally). To take this exit, one is traveling southbound and has to get over into the lane that is also a lane people who are coming on to the freeway are taking. This often slows one down as you have to often negotiate getting to that lane while someone in that lane is trying to get into your lane.

Most of the time one isn't going 60 and then going slightly right to get off. What is happening is some people are speeding up in the exit, not failing to decease speed.
I pay my taxes locally. The issue is what happens for the other companies in other countries, do they need something special?
A good reference to compare bitcoin to gold mining (and other human endeavors like brewing tea): https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index

Gold mining and bitcoin are currently roughly on-par. But gold's energy usage isn't just mining. It's the entire supply chain from Cash 4 Gold stores, long term storage, smelting/recycling, etc. I don't have a good reference for the total cost of gold.
They claim to be 5% less efficient than a chain. So with a dead battery, you'd be limited to a speed of 95% of what you could do on a normal bicycle. That's if you're already moving. If you were at a dead stop I imagine you'd need to pedal a few strokes to get enough charge to get enough torque to overcome the stiction.
This is really cool! I tried building something more basic than this a few years back, but this looks a lot more mature. I'll definitely be following and testing it out on a few small projects.
It ends with.

> You look at biological systems and then you try and emulate it, and you end up thinking — and I’m not religious — but you end up thinking, ‘How the hell did this happen?‘

Considering that the project has taken several millions of years to complete and the budget was billions of sentient beings born and dead, (including several major extinction events), I am a bit disappointed by the result.
> certainly for me, it is not true in say Python or C# etc where I find less code can be significantly more difficult to read.

Is it possible this is only a reflection of your experiences and not reality? Surely when you say this, some example sprung to your mind, but where is the proof?

> it's just as important to know why some code does what it does, so splitting up operations, using more verbose with variable names etc can make the code significantly more self-documenting.

I doubt the importance. Quite seriously. When I want to know why the business asked for it, I ask them; There's probably a ticket or a email someplace.

But I have zero interest in puzzling about what the programmer was trying to do[1], and let me tell you why: I think it is very easy for our minds to be tricked into thinking we read something when we actually didn't. If you've never seen Paris in the the spring, you might not know what I mean, but perhaps you've seen some close-up magic, and maybe you've even been fooled before.

I think the only things I need to concern myself with are what the program actually does, and how that differs from what the business wants.

I have on more than one occasion gotten off a long-haul flight just to read someone's code out loud to them over their shoulder. I'm not kidding. The bug is there. I absolutely do not care one bit what the comment says above there, or what you think that library function should do; the code doesn't do what the comment says, it does what the computer says! The computer doesn't know the difference between a context or a ctx (or a c).

Of course we do, and so when we see it, we assume we know what it is, instead of checking. And when we get it wrong? Bang, another bug, and I'm having airplane gin for supper.

[1] I am being somewhat dramatic here. I'm quite interested in watching people use my libraries so I can understand the way that I help, and I'm quite interested in looking out for training or tooling opportunities, so if people keep making the same mistake, it's probably worth some investment. I mean for the purposes of making changes the business wants.
Looks great!

Is there any way to see the comments on a new article without it opening the link first?
I don't think you ever want to make the database backend switchable at compile time. Every database engine has slight semantic differences and it's crucial that your program handle that correctly. If there's a difference, like you mention, you want to tell the user to get the one that you've tested.

Something that has caused me a lot of trouble in the past and is now on my "never do" list is using SQLite for tests against an app that runs Postgres in production. It's pretty similar, but passing tests easily equal failing production. (The last straw for me was SQLite considering "f" true, while Postgres considers it false.) Your suggestion is a little different than that, but the same principle applies. Test your app against the database you're going to use. If you must support two database engines, then you need a test matrix that runs tests against both.
In franchising, playing tough early may support long-term benefits
I'd certainly concur that American Pizza seems to have more variety.
Could you tell us where these experiments were held, and how far they went? For example, were other taxes eliminated at the same time?
25kph eBikes per EU regulations are allowed a throttle if it cuts out at 6kph, IIRC. Just for starting, in other words.
It's unlikely the astronauts would trust their life to this processor alone. There would be at least one backup, and probably a plan in the event of total communication failure. System design!
> The main point of the proposal was always clear up front. I was not the one deciding on KPI's it was a joint choice.

Which is exactly the parent's issue with their statement "I always make it clear". Many rev share negotiations break down quickly due to the nature of these deal:

- The profit maximizing buyer of said services has little incentive to pay you your "fair" share, EVEN if they do in fact create more revenue because of said services effect. They'll find every way to pay you as little as possible within the bounds of your contract.

- A buyer of said services rarely will rarely let you into their financial systems to validate. Even if they do, financials notoriously are easy to manipulate/game (ever heard of Adj. EBITDA?). The overhead of financial clarity is rarely worth the headache. Heck, most businesses internal operations rarely can create clear ROI their projects when they used internal resources much less using external resources.

- There are so many hidden variables that it's nearly impossible to control for your impact. Let's say you help reduce a company's EC2 instances from 10 to 7. Savings...great! Now the company grows and they need 8 EC2 instances. Did you still save them money? Down the rabbit hole we go...

I get what you're saying but you're living in a vacuum if you think you can universally demand that type of contract. They're possible but require the stars to align.

Note - I'm talking specifically about professional services / consulting work.
You can also fairly easily survive winter in the street in Málaga or Madrid, but those cities haven't turned to an Europe-wide haven of homeless people.
Be excited! This means amazing things are coming, from incredibly talented people. And even better when they put out their knowledge in public, in an easy to digest form, letting you learn from them.
But if I reject the offer because its too low, doesn't it simply waste their time and resources as well.
I suppose if you can set the top end of the range to be something that you feel is exorbitant for a senior engineer, to show that you're willing to pay well for good talent. If you come up short, then perhaps you're just not competitive enough and no amount of playing hide and seek with the salary range will help.

You'll need objective criteria as to why you're making a less than top-end offer to someone, and perhaps a contractual way to promise them how they can make it to the top end... then it could work.
True. One difference is that bicycle week spokes are tension-based, whereas I assume chariot wheel spokes were mostly about resisting compression.
While not being a fan of dongles and adapters, I have to note that afaik the power and data/audio signals of usb-c are independent, which allows for charging and audio to coexist on the same port.

Something in this vein: https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/bed1a88d-6cce-4687-acd9-c52...

Though, as others mentioned, putting the analog audio signal next to the power line is questionable, especially in cheap adapters.
>TSLA fell by like $200 or like 20%

Everything is down this year - TSLA isn't down as much as Ford in 2022... I'm not sure twitter had tons to do with TSLA stock being down.
Tailwind support would be awesome. I often use Tailwind Play (https://play.tailwindcss.com/) when I'm "sketching out" the look of a new component since it's so quick to iterate and get immediate visual feedback, as you well know.
Fair, but they are vulnerable to having the rug innovated from out under them like the holy-grail-of-investment railroad companies of yore. I wouldn't bet my retirement on the current crop of big tech companies lasting 20-30 years.
"especially for musicians like me: what happens when you're in a studio with your band, you want to play an mp3 on your phone, but you have no way of plugging your phone to the mixer or the amp?"

Is this common? what percent of the population would you estimate has this issue?

You build devices for the masses, not the very rare "use cases".
The software controlling these things could be backdoored or otherwise vulnerable. Now that's frightening.
The fact that people use Heroku, Firebase, Vercel, and other infrastructure providers means that there are plenty of developers out there that don't write their code around infrastructure at the beginning.
It is correct to say hydrogen is principally a storage medium, although its use as direct feedstock will always be comparably important. The rest is questionable.

You get back the ("enormous") energy used to strip oxygen off of water molecules, yielding hydrogen, when you react the hydrogen again with oxygen. Of course by far the most cost-effective way to generate that ("enormous") energy is with enormously cheap solar panels and wind turbines.

(The round-trip efficiency of hydrolysis and combustion is fairly low because the hydrogen recombines to H2, yielding heat during electrolysis, then the hydrogen may need to be liquified for transport, and then the H2 may need to be split again when making H2O. Perhaps surprisingly, low round-trip efficiency doesn't matter very much because solar has become so cheap; you just add more panels to make up the difference.)

There is no plausible scenario where fusion or fission provides a substantial fraction of the energy used. Fission is enormously more expensive than renewables for the same output -- beyond order-of-magnitude more expensive. Fusion, if ever made to work, would cost another order of magnitude beyond that. Things >100x as expensive as practical alternatives are rarely seen used. AA batteries and bottled beverages are exceptions.

And, of course CO2 is a pollutant. The most dominant one, it has turned out. Taxing release of it, and the revenue used to build out renewables, storage, and transmission lines cannot come soon enough.
I don't know. Which do you put your toddler on when you need to go shopping?
People interested in this might also find my project Pagoda [0] interesting. It's a full-stack web dev starter kit for Go, rather than a framework with any strict patterns or lock-in. It leverages Echo (web) and Ent (ORM) but they can be easily swapped out, if desired.

It also has HTMX [1] integration to create slick/modern UI behavior without writing any JS.

[0] https://github.com/mikestefanello/pagoda
[1] https://htmx.org
> This is such a west coast experience. I have seen this in SF/Seattle, but Boston/NYC's homeless have seemed pretty innocuous. It is local politics problem.

It's a numbers and climate problem. If you're homeless in Toronto, Montreal, Boston, or New York in the winter, you die. If you come to LA, San Francisco, Seattle, or Vancouver, you survive
It's not about revenue, it's about valuation. The revenue can be whatever you want, the valuation determines long run returns.

Tesla could be priced at 20x PE or 100x PE and be the same company. Your returns will be vastly different between the two scenarios.

OPs point, which is pretty obviously objectively true, is that valuations far exceeded future yields by any fundamental valuation metric. Tech has been valued as if every company will be a pseudo Monopoly like the FAANG companies, which is very unlikely to be true
> Toxic mortgage-backed CDOs didn't have to become a systemic risk in the first place.

The problem had nothing to do with CDOs. No matter how you slice and dice risk, you never increase/decrease it. Someone would have owned the underlying MBS.

The issue was that the Blue Dog Democrats in the 90s decided with Alan Greenspan that homeownership should be incentivized. This created a housing bubble which ultimately is what caused the GFC.
Executable Examples for Programming Problem Comprehension [pdf]
Any plans to implement something like Phonenix LiveView? I've never used Go, but from what I've read I suppose it should work really well given Go's concurrency model. (The name "Livebud" gave some hope as well.)
Boba tea shop was cover for ‘massive global’ theft operation, DA says
1) The idea that non-white people can't figure out how to use a website well enough to reserve a park reservation is far more racist than any concept I've ever seen out of the most vile communities. How is this not roundly mocked and condemned as science?

2) Rather than inequality, is it not possible that different groups of people simply have different interests? Maybe certain population groups are more into camping than others? Shouldn't this be considered as a diversity of approaches to life and not necessarily racism?
Great list.

I think #1 is in the process of being unbundled. We _just_ need a coordination platform which brings lead plaintiffs, backers and lawyers together on a platform. Perhaps you mean something else by it?

Abolishing old laws already happens in some states but it needs to be lower transaction cost event. This would be a fun platform to build and something that can bring manifold benefit to society. Changing laws is a special and more complex case of creating new laws and has too much complexity maybe 10x harder than repealing old laws.

The last two evoke too many beliefs about ideology, moralism and nativist beliefs so I won't go there.

Can you extrapolate on land speculation?
I know they can. I see no reason why I should volunteer information they can find on their own with a little effort on their part. If I have to research a corporation to get a job, they can damn well do some due diligence before trying to hire me.
Maybe saying this is revealing too much about myself for the internet, but... honestly I would be supremely confused, pretty sure it wasn't directed at me, and then just bewilderedly assume it was some weird joke at my expense when it became clear it was directed at me.

I'm sure I'd be uncomfortable, but probably not in a sexual-harassment sort of way, just in a "this stranger is a scary weirdo" way.

Maybe that's the intent? I dunno.