skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most all of them. As people have gotten safer they have gotten progressively more afraid of the remaining danger.

Doom sells, don't buy it.

Economic cycles, political unrest, diseases, on and on and on, these things always have existed and constantly will ebb and flow, while people will pretend what's happening now is the worst its ever been because grabbing your attention is profitable and gives people the sense that their life has meaning.

We weren't living in an idyllic world n years ago, we're not living in one now, we won't be living in one in the future. The things that suck just kind of rotate from time to time. Things remain pretty ok.
Eh, that is exactly what I don't want. Pretending I am this amazingly productive developer and my code is just trash.

I just checked. In 2021, only two defects were created against my specific code changes. If I had to home into a weakness of mine is that sometimes I solve today's problem well, but don't think extensively about how tomorrow's problem in that space might look like.

The struggle is between creating simple solutions vs over-engineering for future proofing. I'm pretty sure I'm biased towards simple solutions.
Obviously you [0] didn't read the article, but that is not their conclusion.

There seems to be some kind of unfortunate "shame brigade" out on the Internet that comes out of the woodwork to overrun any conversation around obesity that even hints that there might be reasons for the obesity epidemic other than individual people's poor choices.

The lab rats whose rate of obesity has increased over the last 30 years, despite consuming the exact same controlled diets, are certainly not "changing their eating habits" -- there must be more to the picture than merely eating habits.

This set of articles explores that. We don't have answers yet, but these folks make a strong argument that the question is worth asking.

[0] It's an unfortunate fact of scientific progress that ideologues have, in other fields, at other times, held back that scientific progress for decades through their inability to consider disconfirming evidence against a favored theory. This kind of comment should be ignored by anyone who values truth over consensus.
The #1 thing that can be done is that the EU should let Ukraine export the maximum amount of grain in by rail and not hang it up on bureaucracy and customs inspection.
Generalists usually manage things while specialists execute (generally speaking, no pun intended). Generalists are very much needed especially in smaller teams/companies where you need that 1 person to keep things on track while having basic knowledge of things.

Generalists can be a CEO, founder or a manager in a team usually. Someone scrappy enough if needed but can focus on the bigger picture a bit more.

Being a founder myself, I consider myself a Generalist. I do it all. Especially over the years, I have no depth in one thing except trying to build/run a business.

If you want to be a generalist, learn how to work well with people, emotional intelligence, empath,ability to read situations and most important of all, ability to get things done without pointing blame/fingers. Specialists usually like proper environments before they can execute. Good generalists, not so much.
I would recommend two things:

- Do lots of tactics puzzles—treat it like exercise, consistency is key. 1 to 3 puzzles per day is ideal.

- Read strategy books. Don’t worry about memorizing, just get the intuitive gist of things like moving rooks to open files, knights to outposts, keeping pawns on opposite color squares of your bishops, try to pile up pieces against the enemy king, etc.
I was responding to "There was some connection troubles for the first hour if I recall correctly", most of which were caused by incorrect ulimits (easy fix; change limits, restart ircd) or server crashes (not so much; investigate, write patch, test patch, deploy patch to half a dozen boxes, restart ircd).
Ask HN: Coffee drinkers, did you have any heart problem associated to coffee?
In the last 4 years, I have had at least five times a problem where my heart had an irregular beat followed by a drop in blood pressure (not sure if because of a panic attack or a real heart problem).

I decided to look for a cardiologist, who asked me for several tests (doppler echocardiogram, electrocardiogram, exercise stress test, blood tests, holter test, etc.).

I'm still waiting for the holter test result, but all the others are within the normal range.
Looking at what might have caused this, one thing I remember that happened in common in all these episodes was, perhaps, I took too much coffee (6+ cups).

I read that some people are more sensitive to coffee than others, so my question is:
Does that make any sense? Has anyone else here had a similar experience?
If you remember highschool AP math, you're good. Otherwise, check out ISLR for a faster intro, capped by your ability to read
which one was it?
It's kinda weird watching team members finish two tickets per week when you know they could finish two per day. I know I should probably relax like them but it feels too much like cheating (and let's be honest, it is).
Time in the market beats timing the market. You almost certainly aren't going to buy back in at the right time.
Ask HN: Advice for a software engineer intern at a big Silicon Valley company?
operating systems which are totally transparent and easily understood by their users

I sort of glossed over this part so now I have a chance to elaborate. Alan Kay has put a ton of thought into this issue [1]. He firmly believes that we can build an operating system and application software with an extremely small footprint (LOC's) so that a single person can understand the whole thing.

Since he gave that talk, we've moved further and further away from Kay's vision. We've made things more and more complex, opaque, centralized, and difficult to change. We've given away our future to big tech companies. Heck, we've even given away the past. We've lost much of the freedom we had back in the 90's, let alone the 70's and 80's when Kay did so much of his work. We're going to have to work incredibly hard just to regain what we've lost.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
Terraform Cloud Run Tasks GA
Yes. I have the previous gen Master MX. The scroll wheel is a solid metal flywheel. It has serious heft and continues spinning maybe 5-10 seconds after a good flick.

On mine, the horizontal wheel does not have this feature. Maybe the newer model does.

And like another poster mentioned, it has a detent when scrolling slowly like a traditional scrollwheel, that then mechanically disengages when flicked fast enough. You can configure this sensitivity in software, and even map one of the mouse buttons to disengage the detent, if you dont like the smart scroll feature.

Its seriously the best designed mouse I've ever used. It's clear logitech spent a lot of effort thinking about what makes a good mouse really good, and they implemented that in this mouse. Truly a flagship device, without cruft or unnecessary crap.

Battery life after about 4 years is so-so, so I keep a usb cable on my desk to plug it in when it runs low. I get about 2 weeks out of it?

Materials are also degrading a bit, it's surface is becoming sticky like many "velvet" finish plastics do, but its not at a point where it's gross to hold.

Its held up very very well after roughly 1000 work days of use. It's cost per day of use is basically 0.
Why would Russia agree? By limiting food exports, they are hurting Ukraine's economy. What makes you think they are concerned about lives of people in other countries if there willing to go to war with Ukraine?
Icelandic horses shows zero-shot task generalization on Icelandic natural language prompts, outperforming GPT-3 on many tasks, while being 16x faster on land and having beautiful manes. Very impressive work!
It’s not a bad decision for a founder to protect the company above all, it’s their job. However, at the same time - cutting people who took a bet on you should be difficult.

When you cut 70%, it’ll make future hiring difficult, it’ll make existing employees recognize where they stand (no where). Getting laid off is one of the worst events that can happen to a person, and you really have no way of knowing what the impact on them is.

Which is to say, If a founder decided to cut exactly 70% of their staff based solely on an email from YC - I’d be very certain to dissuade anyone in my network from working with them in any capacity.
> But you kind of do have to be old in order to have outdated knowledge

I'm not so sure. Google and StackOverflow are chock full of outdated (sometimes dangerous!) advice and knowledge on just about any tech subject, which hurts the young as much as the old.

I've seen just as many outdated suggestions from junior devs repeating the first thing they found on google as I have older devs with stale knowledge. I'd probably argue the former has been a larger problem, honestly.
> one of the neighborhood Karens

Please keep that sort of slur off HN. We don't need it here, and you don't need it to make your substantive points.
OP, don't know you but rooting for you

Re eating/getting healthier,

1) food: this guy Rip is truly a lifechanger (esp if since you're in the zone when it would be smart to look after your heart: https://mealplanner.plantstrong.com/

2) Lose weight (this approach might be appealing to your engineer'y instinct): https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

3) Exercise:

- Warm up (DO THESE): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWyyHfARNI

- Try to get through a round of this w/ good form + then try to do 2, 3, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTSIqbuZC0Y&t=369s

I don't have any career advice for you, leaving is one option but consider that it would great for you to "skill-up" the people around you so when you leave it isn't like they lost their Golden-Boii, but rather bow out like a Bob Iger at Disney & leave them with a glorious future blah blah
Ukraine planning for post-war nuclear power plants
Candy is written in Go (a garbage-collected language), which in theory slower than C (the language Nginx is written in).
When I listen to Chronotope Project I hear the Vangelis influences. Along with Vangelis' inspiration to pursue such solitary and personal musical expressions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARkcu3J8OvI
https://chronotope-project.com/bio
Did you know it's possible to be a team player without having to worry about other peoples' career development? Sounds more like the manager is being an obstacle if the direct reports have to do that kind of legwork.
A little while ago, when 3% loans were still a thing, a $450K loan over 30 years was a $1,900/month expense. An income of $80K with a $1,900/month in debt is a 29% DTI which is comfortably below the DTI limits for a conforming loan (43-45%).

Even at 5.5%, it's still "only" 38% DTI ratio.
I prefer this perspective :)

Honestly, I have no need for validation. I've just started to feel angst and figured if there is a place where I can get good advice, even if it hurts, it would be HN.

From that perspective I have gotten enough good input to make this thread worth it to me.
Thanks for explaining, sorry for the mistake!
But the other thing that was life changing about it was how easy it was to make ajax requests!

What's the "modern" alternative to jQuery in that regard? I don't do much JS development, but if I needed to make an AJAX request today, my first instinct would probably still be to use jQuery.
I just mean that so long as someone's at a certain technical level, I'm more interested in their other skills, where communication would be one of the most important.

For context, I'm in fairly mundane web app development, and technical issues (getting stuff to work at all, or perform well enough) have hardly ever been the main problem on my projects. The hardest part is almost always figuring out what to build.
> Countries that promoted small-scale household farming instead of moving too soon to large scale farming were more successful

Promoting small-scale farming and industry lead to widespread poverty and famine in cultural revolution China.

> very few people work in farming, the smallest amount in history. Why can't it slide back the other way?

It could, but this would probably be a pretty bad thing. I guess it depends how many people who currently have fake bullshit jobs transition to being farm workers. My guess is that almost everyone who would go into an expanded ag labor base is currently doing some actually useful work, and we would suffer a severe net decrease in labor output, if we tanked farming efficiency.
The Netherlands have better height. It is not genetic: they didn't, historically. In the US it is decreasing.

And, shall we compare infant mortality figures? How about life expectancy? Europe does better than the US on all but mean income, which is skewed by billionaires. Having more billionaires does not favor your argument.
And they're really using the word "crisis" wrong. It's supposed to mean something like a fork in the road, a situation that forces change. Not just "shit is bad right now".
If there’s a wheat shortage, people will be eating more rice than usual.
They are comparable in many ways. The fact is it takes more land to make meat than it does to make plants we can eat.
It doesn't. Dude's riding his hobbyhorse into a wall.

Most cars that left the road were the oldest and heaviest. New cars bought under that program tended to be economy cars and are already a decade+ old. To suggest that it took inventory off the road affecting today's markets doesn't hold water.

The biggest issue is that car companies make more money off reselling the loan than they do off the car. Years ago we tried to buy a Subaru in the NYC metro area in all cash and were continuously turned away. Dealers didn't make money off the cash sale, they were spiff'ed off the loan. We had to take the loan and then pay it off in order to get the car.

Since then it's gotten worse. Expensive cars (luxury, trucks) are sold with 72 month loans and are underwater shortly after purchase. It's been a race to the worst terms and empowering the worst purchases to the worse equipped buyers. I'm continuously amazed it's gone on as long as it has.
The usual definition of stated "reserves" is the amount of natural resource known to exist in explored, proven deposits. As the demand for a resource increases, more exploration is done and reserves increase. It is wildly incorrect to use reserves as an estimate of the total amount of the resource available.
Most folks who respond like this are not looking for reasons to believe they might be wrong, but just in case you are, please take a look at A Chemical Hunger [0], which explores these questions in some depth.

It turns out, the simple explanations (people eat more & move less! too much sugar! etc.) are in fact insufficient.

[0] https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-p...
what then?
A tip from me... Try intermittent fasting and spend the 1 hour allotted for lunch on a brisk walk or a short (30-40 minutes) exercise if you have a nearby gym.

I think you will feel better. I certainly do, on a similar regime.
> - chips that don't turbo boost themselves into throttling

Your level of understanding about how CPUs control their frequency, voltage, and power is evidently "none". Why spread comments like this which only serve to confuse and mislead readers?
This is really hard, I had four 8x4 raised beds (all I could fit) for 5 years. The amount of space and time it takes to produce enough food to replace actual meals for more than just a few times in the summer is absolutely astonishing (unless you like squash all the time). I grew tomatoes, kale, squash, onions, lettuce and peppers. It tasted great, and got some salads and side dishes out of it, but that was about it. And it only yielded from July to August, I had nothing in the winter (except some canned tomatoes that were really good). It really takes a community effort to make this work. Like, plots of land that multiple people tend to. I've seen some cities do this and think it is fantastic.
Well it's hard to argue against a language with 25 keywords.
I wanna add a solar panel. Having 50 or 100w is going to make my life a lot better than 0w.
A jet ski. Well, a pair of jet skis. Jet skiing on Lake Powell is one of my favorite experiences.
The Worst CPUs Ever Made (2021)
Same. Only things I wish were slightly better build quality and also I've had issues with Wi-Fi disappearing of late [0], fast battery drain during suspend, as well as battery refusing to charge from zero but there's a workaround involving a dumb USB charger. Kind of hoping these are just early adopter issues and that they'll be dealt with over time.

I really hope some community hardware experts can design more modules for this thing. I want an IMU+GPS+Barometer module among other things, but I'm a software person and don't know how to design PCBs.

[0] https://community.frame.work/t/wi-fi-disappeared-and-reappea...
> well over an acre to support a single person

Source?

https://www.thespruce.com/how-many-vegetables-per-person-in-...

> To grow all the food for one person's needs for the whole year requires, for most people, at least 4,000 square feet—though some diet designs are possible that can use a smaller area.

https://permaculturism.com/how-much-land-does-it-take-to-fee...

> A 0.44 acre of land can produce enough vegetables and fruits to meet up with the daily calories needed for one person to feed for a year.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1993:

> It is realistic to suppose that the absolute minimum of arable land to support one person is a mere 0.07 of a hectare–and this assumes a largely vegetarian diet, no land degradation or water shortages, virtually no post-harvest waste, and farmers who know precisely when and how to plant, fertilize, irrigate, etc.
Pulumi is Terraform for people who hate HCL shortcomings.
Dont forget buddhism, which is basically for funerals only. Most japanese (>90%) get a buddhist funeral (supposedly expensive).
In the fundraising environment of the past few years, well-connected companies could raise a series A before even having a commercial product. (https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/anyscale-ray-project-distr... is the example I remember most clearly)
Selective enforcement is legal though, no (as long as it isn't selecting based on a protected class such as race)?
For sure. AWS and any other cloud provider will negotiate with you. Obviously the bigger your spend the better leverage you're going to have. What they may ask for though is something like a commitment of 12 months, co-marketing, or something like that. But they would rather keep you on as a customer with a smaller margin and your company survives and grows rather than go to another cloud provider or go under.
doyougnu was previously running NixOS on a Macbook so their bar for "working" is probably much lower than a normal person's.

I'm on Windows, but if a Linux could give me reliable power management I would switch in a heartbeat. I don't know what it would take to have sensible power management on Linux without major issues.
Sugar consumption peaked in 1997 [0] in the US. Obesity continues to rise.

In Australia, sugar consumption dropped 23% (and other sweeteners dropped 16%) from 1980 to 2003, while obesity tripled. [1]

There is more to the picture.

[0] https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-p...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257688/
One thing is certain: without change, mass killings in schools and of minorities will continue unabated.

I suppose the population can be divided between those who find these levels of violence unacceptable, and those who find it acceptable.
Thanks for your perspective, and taking the time to express it.

I truly appreciate it.
Sure, but "the coming food catastrophe" implies something more than "I grow some tomatoes in a corner of my yard" as a necessary response.

A garden is great, but it's not gonna solve a global food crisis.
My cardiologist told me to quit and I did after more than a few months.

Note that caffeine is an inhibitor of

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

which has a powerful effect on the heart and you'd think caffeine would have stronger effects on the heart than it does. (That is, it kinda surprises me it is safe to drink at all... There is very little pharmacology of Adenosine other than caffeine, maybe like the way that cannabinoids that aren't structurally related to THC, CBD, etc. all seem to be pretty dangerous.)
Isn't this one of the reasons why farm subsidies exist in the US? Paying farmers not to farm so in time of need or emergency we can produce more? (In addition to not over farming soil and depleting it permanently, keeping the price of food in a range to support farmers livelyhood)
I hear you.

The one problem with being so useful is that all problems slide your way.

While it is hard to hear, you might be enabling the problem. If everyone believes you know the best way or are the most efficient problem solver, they will default to you. There's long maintenance tails in certain problems... so even if you are great at what you do it can quickly become overwhelming.

Making opportunities for others will improve your peer group, improve your life and reduce your stress.

Loneliness is not going to be fixed overnight, and certainly is not "one more thing I got to fix". Give people space, time and mentorship to grow. If you don't see progress after doing this, move on. Perhaps you've been too long in your role.
NAT is not a security feature, nor is everything publicly exposed to the internet on IPv6. With most routers you would have to explicitly forward a port in the router to expose that to the client anyways.
Hurricane Electric is great. These days my ISP offers IPv6 via 6rd, but since it's a dynamic prefix (tied to the dynamic IPv4 address) I still maintain the HE tunnel for a static IPv6 prefix while routing most traffic over 6rd. The routing tables get a bit complicated since I can't send packets with the HE source address through the ISP's 6rd tunnel or vice-versa, so I have to route based the source and not just the destination, but overall it works fairly well.

I'm still hoping my ISP eventually offers native IPv6 with a static prefix but it doesn't seem to be a priority for them. On the other hand they haven't gone to CGNAT yet for IPv4—which would break the HE tunnel—so it's not as bad as it could be.
What was she griping about with the garden? Chickens I can understand if there are smell complaints. In San Francisco you are allowed to keep them but there are rules about the number you can have and the minimum distance their enclosure can be to any neighbors window, etc. But squash? That’s really an odd thing to complain about.
when i type long sentences, it starts visibly lagging, input reflection is delayed by seconds sometimes.
Because those aren't ponies and they didn't have any around? Also, they sized the keyboards for horses, not ponies.
... but the only fix is going to mean higher prices.
That's just a typical high noise comment that no longer gets downvoted into oblivion like it used to. It was a top comment due to HN's comment ranking system weighting new comments towards the top for a while.
You can be fast while also writing great code.
Also for nostalgia - Archon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon:_The_Light_and_the_Da...
First off, the people that mainly will be affected are the poor in poor countries. Most in developed countries will probably be fine.

That said, the rise in these grains will likely spill over to other foods, as people turn to substitutes for their calories.
Garbage-collected language seems to be slower.

Discord have switched away from Go for some performance-critical services because of it. [0]
https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...