skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post you're responding to was pretty obviously sarcastic... Note their use of quotes around "socialism" and "the free market, and the phrase "any day now".

So the other poster was making the exact same point that you made (unsarcastically), but it sounds like you may not have realized that? At any rate, you both seem to be largely in agreement about the current state of affairs.
I would not say that Rust is easy to use; rather, it is hard to misuse.

The guardrails make it harder to shoot the proverbial foot, but also to get code to compile at all.

Well, at least at the beginning. One becomes used to the so-called "compiler-driven development", at which point it becomes a breeze.
Two simple things that you can do are to (a) don’t wash plastics in the dishwasher and (2) don’t microwave stuff in plastic containers. This last will require taking stuff out of the disposable container that many frozen meals come in to cook it. Some brands have a cardboard/waxpaper tray instead of a plastic one although there might be identical looking packaging that has different internals based on the store (I remember being surprised to discover that a frozen meal I bought at Whole Foods had the cardboard bowl while the same meal from a regular supermarket had a plastic bowl).
> My understanding was the single market & customs union etc should make going from 1 to N EU countries pretty easy.

Sadly, every country insist on doing everything else his own special snowflake way. There would have to be a lot more harmonization for it to be that easy.
> Paying off your mortgage early is one of those things folks are always told is good - it's really not.

It only makes sense if there is a legitimate fear that someone might otherwise waste the money on frivolities - for many people saving and the self control it requires is very challenging.
just waiting for a 15inch version to come out. Any ideas when that might happen
The entire 300mm process is different on a microscopic level. For instance generally 200mm fabs don't need to use copper at all because the benefit of that is the dual-damascene process which isn't seen on the bigger tech nodes. Wafer stresses on 300mm wafers is dealt with a lot differently too so that is factored into the manufacturing processes as well.

The major transition from 200mm -> 300mm will be when people like Broadcom use newer nodes for their chips as they go from iPhone 13->14->15->16...and eventually that will require 300mm processing.
Re 4., that's doable if the West renounces some of its existing economic sanctions against Russia, the Russians themselves have said as much recently.

It probably won't happen because the West doesn't like to see itself as being involved in the war (in a way similar to what Russia thinks about itself) and will try to resort to "Russia should unlock the blockade purely on humanitarian grounds!", which, of course, is the type of declaration which has no effect during a direct economic war (like the one the West and Russia are now waging against each other, on top of the military proxy war).
It is the same song. Thanks :)
You need to get a Victory Cat.
I doubt the acquisition would have happened with the union intact. for Fastly in their diligence, that would likely be a dealbreaker. And I don't know the dynamics of the deal and where Glitch was with other options, but that could have very well spelled the end of the company.
I certainly hope not. People need to push back when we get things wrong. Luckily for me they are not shy about doing so.
Like hanoz says above, what professionals wear is not really comparable to what people wear on the subway these days. It's the cheapest of the cheap Chinese crap, and usually used so long and mishandled that it is becoming really fluffy. Especially now that nobody really cares anymore and the use of them is incidental they end up being lugged around more than worn and not frequently replaced.

A fresh mask doesn't shed a lot but I've seen ones that are all hairy and stringy from being rubbed around in pockets with other stuff. I'm sure they shed a lot more material than a fresh mask.

And a lot of the types you mention would not wear masks like this but powered respirators (e.g. people working in clean rooms)

Personally I have major issues the masks for past medical trauma reasons but I really don't think they are healthy to keep around forever.
Congratulations on your progress. Guitarist Pat Metheny has suggested one approach to growth is to "Be the worst guy in every band you're in." Dave Hoover applied that to his own learning in software development and wrote it up, first as a blog post [0] and later, with Adewale Oshineye, as part of a book, 'Apprenticeship Patterns.' [1]

The implication is that you could consider finding a stronger team to work with, which might involve a job switch. There are much larger issues there, involving salary, benefits, commute, effects on family and friends, and only you know the the full picture of the effects of those things on your own happiness. I can say there's a place for keeping an imperfect job as part of a pleasant overall picture. Good luck as you explore your options.

[0] https://redsquirrel.com/dave/work/a2j/patterns/BeTheWorst.ht...

[1] https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/apprenticeship-pat...
For the uninitiated, this is from Sircmpown of SirHat / SourceHut fame ( https://sr.ht ).
-Presumably you are familiar with the Finnish Mustikka liqueur already?

Yes, I have some in the liquor globe right now, alongside some cloudberry!

And you are correct - I find making liqueur quite fun. Right now, I have plum leftover from last year and want to make some spruce tip liqueur if I can catch the trees at the right time.
The funny thing is that the presentation was completely wrong. The "good times" were only about to begin. Within a couple of years, tech went on probably its greatest stock market streak in history. If you look at tech from 2010 until 2021, the gains are so outsized that it caused things like massive income inequality in the Bay Area because the gap between tech workers and non-tech workers was humongous.

AAPL went from $8 in 2010 to $180, not including the 28:1 split during that period. Google went from $300 to $3000, not including a 2:1 split. Amazon went from $100 to $3500, with no splits. Startups like Uber and Airbnb were about to be founded. Twitter was created only a couple of years previous. A tremendous amount of multi-millionaires and billionaires were minted during that time.
Any article with the term "Global Production Ecosystem (GPE)", financialization, sustainability, biotic homogenziation (!) and translational corporations should not qualify to be published in nature. They mean so many things that they don't mean anything (tm).

This article has all of them. This is topical doom-mongering, which always works for clicks, but speaks nothing to substance.
"But as we’ve also seen, these pushes for social change have led to backlash tinged with racism and misogyny — most notably through Gamergate, the unfortunate 2014 movement that essentially underpinned the rise of the alt-right, codified harassment campaigns against women and people of color for years, and helped give rise to the ideological polarization of the internet."

Blah. Blah. Blah.

... blah. I saw the Hugo, I picked up the book. It was that simple for me. I didn't know the race OR the gender of the author. The fact is that there isn't a single novel (or coherent) idea in there.
Slightly superior version: https://http.dog/
Ad hoc storage in Saskatchewan is for fall harvest and over winter storage. Rot isn't a concern when it is cold and dry.

In contrast Ukraine plants a higher percentage of fall crops harvesting in the summer and has about twice as much rainfall. Ad hoc storage is much more challenging. They'll try, but they'll lose a lot more crop than a Saskatchewan farmer would.
Those of us who’ve lived through more than a few years of working life value stock options and RSUs and anything else at zero until it’s transformed into cash.
What angers me most is that we have to deal with software patents in the EU at all, despite the EU patent convention excluding from patentability "programs for computers as such".

Somehow, the "as such" has been interpreted to make the exclusion entirely meaningless, since algorithms in pure software running on generic hardware still get patented.

The farcical excuse is that software is not "software as such" and "is patentable if it provides a new and non-obvious 'technical' solution to a technical problem". But that is already a condition of patentability, so the interpretation is functionally equivalent to the exception being absent. Literally ignoring the law.
It's not about behavioural defects. It's that the _code_ is trash. It is unmaintainable and slows down all future changes, exactly because the person who wrote it didn't take the time to think about the future or even good architecture in the present. Every time I touch their code I have to almost redo their work because:

- It's impossible to understand what is going on (For example when people load huge json or sql files into a single test and you don't know what scenarios it covers because they are too lazy to write dedicated minimal test cases. Another common offense is a not well-defined data model that gets mutated everywhere in dynamic languages like Python or JavaScript where you never know what shape an object has or where it comes from)

- Their code allows so little extensibility that following the same "pragmatism" as they did and just hacking it in would exponentially increase the complexity

- There are no abstraction boundaries which almost surely means insufficient test coverage (which I have to amend before I can even start with my own work so that I don't introduce regressions) or the tests are coupled so closely to implementation details that any change necessary for my own work will require me to rewrite all the existing tests

You are fast because you pawn off your design work to whoever comes after you. Of course you have fewer defects: your colleagues have to put in more time to maintain the same level of correctness or else risk introducing bugs. That's the cost of bad maintainability. It's well known that changing existing code is harder than writing new code, double so if it is not written with care. Someone has to be the janitor to keep the cruft from accumulating and if it's not you, then everyone else has to pick up your slack. Ideally, every person in the team would continually clean up and always leave a code base better than they found it.

Lastly, I want to say that there is very important difference between simple and easy and simple doesn't come for free.
Heartbleed was in openssl. I didn't ask about memory safety in C. Caddy author was pretty accurate with his statement, I asked for proof. Heartbleed is not the only memory leak, there's plenty, C's been around like software written in it. I'm aware of shortcomings.
It's even worse when you realize biofuel is bad for the environment.

> Third-generation biofuels do not represent a feasible option at present state of development as their GHG emissions are higher than those from fossil fuels. As also discussed in the paper, several studies show that reductions in GHG emissions from biofuels are achieved at the expense of other impacts, such as acidification, eutrophication, water footprint and biodiversity loss. The paper also investigates the key methodological aspects and sources of uncertainty in the LCA of biofuels and provides recommendations to address these issues.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7735313/

> Our study examined data from 2005-2013 during this sharp increase in renewable fuel use. Rather than assuming that producing and using biofuels was carbon-neutral, we explicitly compared the amount of CO2 absorbed on cropland to the quantity emitted during biofuel production and consumption.
Existing crop growth already takes large amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere. The empirical question is whether biofuel production increases the rate of CO2 uptake enough to fully offset CO2 emissions produced when corn is fermented into ethanol and when biofuels are burned.
Most of the crops that went into biofuels during this period were already being cultivated; the main change was that farmers sold more of their harvest to biofuel makers and less for food and animal feed. Some farmers expanded corn and soybean production or switched to these commodities from less profitable crops.
But as long as growing conditions remain constant, corn plants take CO2 out of the atmosphere at the same rate regardless of how the corn is used. Therefore, to properly evaluate biofuels, one must evaluate CO2 uptake on all cropland. After all, crop growth is the CO2 “sponge” that takes carbon out of the atmosphere.
When we performed such an evaluation, we found that from 2005 through 2013, cumulative carbon uptake on U.S. farmland increased by 49 teragrams (a teragram is one million metric tons). Planted areas of most other field crops declined during this period, so this increased CO2 uptake can be largely attributed to crops grown for biofuels. Over the same period, however, CO2 emissions from fermenting and burning biofuels increased by 132 teragrams. Therefore, the greater carbon uptake associated with crop growth offset only 37 percent of biofuel-related CO2 emissions from 2005 through 2013. In other words, biofuels are far from inherently carbon-neutral.
https://theconversation.com/biofuels-turn-out-to-be-a-climat...
> Add enough helper functions are you're at jQuery anyway.

I really hate these exaggerations. jQuery is, last I checked, over 200k unminified. Anyone writing enough helper functions to get to a fraction of that is already a pathological case.
Could you share you use-case and current method? I have no advice for you I'm just interested in how this is being used and who is providing said services.
Try talking to some older folks - who at least heard many first-hand accounts from relatives who both had WWII Victory Gardens, and also gardened food during the Great Depression, out of economic necessity. With a few years' experience doing that, sharing tips and seeds with neighbors also doing it, and memories of being pretty hungry at times in the winter...ordinary people can get pretty damn good at growing a lot of food in a fairly modest-sized garden.
When will you support a 2K (ideally) (or 4K) OLED panel? I'm a software developer and I'm not going back to the blurry text era and the non-contrasting movie/games era.
Also come on you need thunderbolt support, egpu is a key advantage in 2022.
So I appreciate the concept but currently you are not enough for my needs.
> Having intrinsic motivation for your work is a huge privilege. Be thankful for it!

Just to clarify, I am intrinsically motivated for my work. I am not intrinsically motivated at work. I've actually begun to see the industry I work in as kind of dumb.
To give an example, the UK has passed seventeen "Statute Law (Repeals) Acts"[0] since 1969, the most recent[1] being in 2013, which repealed the whole of 817 Acts of Parliament, and portions of more than 50 others (on the advice of the Law Commission[2]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_Law_%28Repeals%29_Act

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_Law_%28Repeals%29_Act_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Commission_%28England_and_...
> The problem is people just accept whatever I say. I used to get challenged in some of my decisions, which I always appreciated since I could create better solutions. Nowadays people just accept whatever I say as the best way.

This struck to me as familiar. Not because I'm anywhere near as uber, so to speak, as you seem to be, but because I've noticed the pattern with junior developers, especially people new to the company/team and myself.

What I've tried to very consciously do is to make sure I ask other people about their opinion. I also sometimes deliberately add stuff like "not sure if I'm correct, correct me if you think I'm not, but..."

That usually makes these type situations a bit more interactive and probably less lonely. Also great opportunities to really have conversations about technology choices. I often learn new things along the way as well.
hash.ai and the "block protocol" sound like crypto shams. Nice to see something different, although I feel like the branding really, really makes it seem like crypto.
No, that's not how jury instructions work. Just go look them up! They're incredibly useful for message board discussions about specific crimes.
Not so - we care about this rule regardless of country - it would be hypocritical
otherwise. Unfortunately, massive global trends overwhelm moderation and there's a limit to what we can do under one of those tidal waves. For one thing, it's not possible to read all the comments.
No I dont think that follows. Forces don't cause accelerations. But attention is required for understanding.

> Every additional line of code you don’t need is ballast. It weighs your codebase down, making it harder to steer and change direction if you need to

So code as mass is the scalar part of the momentum. So the directional part is where this code is going in "purpose space".
I wasn't even trying to say that extra space wasn't used 100 years ago. More that the requirements of the space are ever changing. But got downvoted for it anyway. shrug
I like the concept of this laptop. I really want to like the laptop itself, enough to buy one.

But for me, it always comes down to the experience of the user interface--the keyboard, trackpad, and screen. And that always brings me back to Macbooks and ThinkPads. I'm a Linux fan, but 'ability to run a specific OS' is not even in my top three must have features.
Ad hoc manipulation of the DOM contradicts the philosophy of a lot of frameworks, as that is state which is unaccounted for.
Personally, I’d prefer not to have this isolation. I’d rather be able to access my home computer, printer, and other devices from anywhere in the world, not just when I’m at home. Moats and drawbridges are an anachronism from the Middle Ages.
I'm curious: what's replaced Query? I guess it's not a single library, but a set of frameworks...
I looked at it early on, right when I was starting out. That was a little before the dotcom crash, enough that only the really smart people were starting to think it was coming. Everything there looked amazing, and everyone I knew there was miserable every day, and I couldn't spend all my time in the Castro. So I took a powder and ended up in Baltimore.

I wasn't sure I'd made the right call till a few years later, when I heard one of the guys I'd stayed with then had killed himself. Sure, so maybe I missed out on a shot at some lottery tickets. So I'll never have fuck-you money, so what? Neither will almost everyone else - we call them "lottery tickets" for a reason, and that's before we get to the shitshow the next five years are going to be.

With the time I didn't waste chasing after them, I've managed to build a hell of a good life for myself, work included. I sit every day in an office full of windows and surrounded by trees, and I'm even still able to enjoy the birdsong once in a while. I don't have to look very hard for good jobs by now; mostly these days they come and find me. I don't want for a thing in this world that money can buy. And it's been a very long time since I had to work with anyone I couldn't find a way to like.

So yeah, the choices I've made have been more than worth what they cost me. Can you say the same?
Which dev platforms can I join so I don’t get stuck with sh**y cheap clients?
Hi all, I’m a full-stack JS developer with 7+ years of experience. I’m thinking of going fully remote and joining a dev platform that can offer me quality clients to work with.

I’m more keen on the curated platforms that would make it easier to reach the top end clients. Long-term projects are preferred over short. I’m based in Brazil so it has to be a platform that hires from Latam region.

What are your recommendations?
Corn for ethanol production isn't preferred for eating.
The reason you can't have multiple goals in this case is because fun and mandatory are directly opposed to each other. The moment you require somebody to have fun, it no longer is fun.
> High school is relevant for people don't do much after high school.

Odd that Canonical would want such people.
The whole reason I wanted to take up camping was to understand what I can eat in an emergency situation. Now I own a camping stove, a few fuel canisters, some boil in bag rice, and a few large cans of plain freeze dried chicken and beef. Add in the charcoal BBQ and I'll have a feast the day the power goes out.
Lots of young kids surprised by the business cycle. Recessions and downturns happen like clockwork nearly every 10 years for the past 50 years. Get used to it. It's not different this time. Save cash, dollar cost average your investments and keep living. Life goes on.
We are extremely good at it is your take when 900 million people don't get to eat even in times of abundance?

If our food system can't take a little bit of war and drought imagine how will it fare when production starts falling. Climate change is happening at global scale, and we must be able to coordinate and innovate on a similar scale to be able to handle it.

Instead we have a spontaneously formed a shitty system. Most people are ignorant of this. Some pretends that isolation is the solution, let's Brexit it, some are blaming ethanol apparently. There is no shortage of bad takes on this, but the fact remains that we suck at this.
> I expect in michigan like anywhere else in the rust belt that there are plenty of municipalities that are hurting for funding.

Only because we stole their funding, not because they are under-funded.

> You can't lose the population like you've lost within the actual city limits of detroit or flint (never mind the metro area population might be unchanged due to people flocking to suburban municipalities), and continue to sufficiently maintain infrastructure fit to handle twice the population

You absolutely can.

Infrastructure spending in Michigan is less than ~10% of tax revenue in all townships and all counties across the state. You could double all road spending, and it would barely even be noticed. (Using real numbers, in Kent County Michigan, for example, the entire county road commission yearly budget spend is just ~$9.69 per person per month. It's literally cheaper than the cheapest Netflix plan to maintain all of that infrastructure).

Yes, county roads aren't every road (there's city and state and federal stuff mixed in there) -- but those numbers are just tiny portions of the budget their respective budgets too. And yes, there are hyper-rural counties that have no cities and therefore have to spend more, to service those roads across such a small population. But even those counties only average $20 to $35 a month. (Using Cheboygan County Michigan as an example, comes in around $32/month per person).

It's really not a funding issue. There's zero problems with the tax base, or population, or aging. It's truly-and-only a priority issue. We keep taking money away from roads and other infrastructure, we spend it elsewhere (usually on junk) and then complain that "municipalities are hurting for funding" as if it's some great mystery.
The guy in 451 is noted cat fancier Ray Bradbury. I couldn't find the cat's name.