skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ACID comes with costs, those guys may be smart but they're not magicians.
As a rule of thumb, if you never handle a transaction failure or deadlock with something that is not retrying or failing, you shouldn't be using an ACID-based system since you're not getting any benefit from it.

And if you e.g. have multiple dataflow paths with different priorities then you also probably shouldn't be using a DBMS, because they're too much of a closed world. Using database technology as a library would be a better approach; otherwise sooner or later you'll find you need to customize the internals of your DBMS, and with most extant products that's somewhere between hard and impossible.
The title has been editorialized to imply that the IRS destroyed documents because they couldn't be bothered to process them.

That's not true.

The actual article title is: IRS destroys 30 million tax documents, insists ‘no negative taxpayer consequences’

> "The IRS uses these documents to conduct post-processing compliance matches to identify taxpayers who do not accurately report their income."

So they destroyed documents that were already processed. Further, the article is unclear on whether these documents were set fire to or automatically deleted by computer systems.

Great? No. What I expected from the submitted title? No.
There are legal limits to what zoning laws can cover. So HOA can be a way to sidestep state laws.
Russia isn't struggling because of conscripts and untrained soldiers. Ukraine has conscription, and many of its TDF troops are relatively untrained. Russia is struggling because of a military philosophy that has lead to leadership failures from the officer level up to Putin himself. In addition to endemic corruption, the Russians also failed to remember things like rasputitsa, the principal of "economy of force", the importance of unit cohesion, of command centrality, of the 3:1 rule of thumb.

In other words, Russia created a military that was bad at being a military.

The only good thing that will come of this conflict is a revitalization in the study of military arts.
As a C++ dev, compiler explorer has been a great tool. Not only for quick checks, or playing around with new C++ features via small programs; even for code reviews it's a great way to show why doing something in a particular way is better via a snippet on compiler explorer.

I am in the same industry as Matt, and at my firm we use it a lot, all the time, to discuss things related to C++ features, and sometimes the quirks of the language/compilers.
> Financial investments and gambling are both highly regulated industries but crypto is subject to regulations from neither.

We are not arguing about if there is fraud or not because that is not the issue at hand, nor in dispute. Again, this has nothing to do with the original point. Other people's bad choices do not affect the enjoyment of gambling. GL with whatever.
> obscure

not for no reason, this should be protected knowledge

saving, and flagging
Or smack it with the side of a knife to crack the peel. It comes right off.
Ha-ha-ha-ha, ever heard about Hungary?
Sounds like what partially draws Twitch streamers into watching and donating to others just talking all day.
Interesting. I wonder if these 2009 events were a turning point worldwide. I recently returned to downhill skiing after last skiing in the 90s, and was absolutely shocked by the number of skiers wearing helmets. Like 90-95%. Whereas when I skied as a young man in the 90s, it was something like 0-2% (basically only a handful of children). The skier side of my brain still can’t get used to the idea of wearing one of these ridiculous things, but then again the logical side of my brain points out that I wear a helmet while cycling so it makes sense.
Almost everything else about downhill skiing is pretty much the same today (the skis are shorter and fatter for some reason), but the helmet wearing was a massive sea change that happened without me.
A “heat pump” is a specific kind of device that can function either as a heating or cooling device depending on its mode, basically transferring heat from one side to the other.

An “air conditioner”, as traditionally defined, is basically a refrigerator: it compresses a gas and then lets it expand through a valve; it becomes cold due to Boyle’s law (I suppose you could make one like a gas powered fridge instead of using an electric pump but I’ve never seen one). You can use that to generate cooler ambient air and then radiate it outside the way a fridge does.

And in either case the thermodynamics situation is simply the second law: it takes energy to do all that work, which turns into heat. Sure, the energy from a fossil fuel was originally solar power, but that was millions of years ago. You can’t just magically claim its part of the current energy balance.

The significant contribution of air conditioning to heat islands has been widely discussed for decades.
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I think that makes perfect sense, but for some reason people want their max file sizes and max array sizes to be different on different CPU architectures without testing it or anything.
I don’t think so. It is indeed on another level from its predecessor https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxMgheH1Ck-f6FG3o_lcFYLcLZhzb_ZeI...

It is more subjectively art like.
In their demo, I can click as fast as I want in the non-animated version, and add/remove elements as fast as I can click.

In the animated one, I have to wait for the animation to finish.

Seems like a poor example of when animation adds value.
Not directly, no. A range of meds are prescribed for specific manifestations of autism, such as aggression or self-injury, though none are broadly effective.

If there’s an industry making money here, it’s ABA therapy, not pharma.
Maybe spend a minute looking at what the thing does instead of posting a knee-jerk comment based on the title or some tag line. This library animates immediate child addition/removal/movement of elements you attach it to, not “everything”.
Yeah, I've seen some people here say things like "adhd and autism is the same thing", which is ridiculous if you are used to what qualified as autism and adhd in the 80's.

Nowadays it seems like all you need for an autism diagnosis is that you struggle in social situations. But I've seen a class of autism/asperger cases in the 80's, they started speaking very late as kids, have strange walking styles, don't run smoothly so run way slower than you'd expect for their size, are bad at sports for the previous reasons, have strange/unnatural sounding speech/voice etc. Many of them still do very well in school however. Compare that to adhd, who have none of those problems but can't direct their attention properly and therefore have problems in many social situations where you need to be patient, class at school being the major one, there is no way you'd mistake one for the other.
The article did describe some mechanisms, for instance the skin uses UV to make nitric oxide, which is known to lower blood pressure. That said, I'm not sure why this would be better than just taking nitric oxide. The same question comes up for vitamin D, and it's noted that supplements don't seem to help there -- with no explanation for that. So I would agree that the explanations for the pro-sunlight case are weaker.
Certainly the debilitating effects are treated with medication, for example the various anxieties that often manifest. I don't know if medication is being used to treat the underlying causes of particular autism cases.
MasterCard gets hacked (or someone internal steals the data, same effect). Now someone can imitate you to MasterCard, buy expensive stuff, and blame you.

Worse is if everyone uses the same hash as MasterCard. Say, the IRS, or the passport office, or the police. That's outside the scope of your question, though, which was if only MasterCard had the hash.
The term is architecture astronauts. Some may have good intentions, most are just stroking it to their code.

Keep them in check!
The real problem (and with the crc above) is that the fastest version for any given cpu may not be the fastest for any other. Its really short sighted to not spend the area on some of these features (aes, crc32, memcpy) because invariably one ends up with a long term optimization problem where in 5-10 years any given application has to run on on of a half dozen diffrent CPUs and optimizing for -mtune=native, and it likely results in suboptimal perf one the lastest CPUs because the micoarch designers can't be constrained to assuring that the the newer version runs any given instruction sequence proportionally faster than the previous. (aka the overall perf may go up but maybe something like the nontemporal store, or the polinomial mul doesn't keep up).

And this is really the CISC vs RISC argument and why all these RISC cpus have these CISC like instructions. You want top perf in general code you assure the rep sto and mov sequences (or whatever) run the fastest microcoded version possible on a given core. But intel sorta messed this up in the p6->nehalem timeframe (IIRC when they added the fast string flag) until they rediscovered this fact. IIRC Andy Glew admitted it was a bit of an oversight combined with an release/area issue on the original PPro they intended to fix, but then it took 10 years.
Day – 9 Pulumi Testing; Testing your Infrastructure as code
As incremental construction goes, my grandma's house in North Dakota is a pretty good example. It went from a one story small home to a two story home with a wrap-around deck. I'm sure it was some ordered house put on a basement. It had an outhouse in the 70's but indoor plumbing was added. I remember sometime in the 80's putting in a support beam so they could remove some of the walls and support the second story. It was an all-hands task of the relatives with most of my uncle and aunts. I remember Dad's reaction when Grandma announced she had bought a wood stove to put in the house. That was a fun install requiring the removal of a wall, brick base, and running venting.

There was a bit of danger in all this expansion. The look of utter horror on my Dad's and Uncle's face when we turned off all the breakers and the stove was still on makes me laugh but was deadly serious at the time. Fixing that was a bit of an adventure. Dad and Uncle traced every wire in the damn house and I learned some new insults.
The Logfile Navigator is a TUI for viewing/analyzing log files and will pretty-print anything with a keypress, see https://lnav.org/features#pretty-print-view

It's not specific to JSON/XML either, it works on any text that follows the usual conventions for structuring data in a textual way.

You can filter by level as well, but, usually I just press e/E to jump to the next/previous error from the current location.

There are, of course, many other features as well.
I'm certainly not going to argue about such a simplistic model of human economic behavior.
The author says everyone is in one group or the other. By your logic, neither you or I could be trusted, either.

I think what the author meant is that he, like most of us, is in the group that is setup to be manipulated. We don't want it and don't like it, but such are the conditions of modern life as ruled by the other group, the manipulators.

The best part of the post is the link to Elon Musk Today[0]. Elon doesn't need critics when he speaks for himself!

[0]https://elonmusk.today
Depends on the filesystem. ReiserFS used to be popular for mail servers or especially news servers, precisely because it was great at handling millions of small files.
GP didn't say that the science of sun exposure is "settled."

Also, that UV damages DNA and causes cancer isn't simply a "proposed" mechanism, it's been tested many times.

I would say pure "observation" per se has little value -- for it to be scientifically valid it needs to seek explanations.
“Go 2” is a pipedream. It won’t happen
My anecdata is that being labeled autistic is actually way better than being labeled weird/awkward/whatever.
Poe's Law strikes again!

YAGNI indeed.

For those who didn't get it... This article is a sly dig on fresh-graduated architecture astronauts. The tone is absolutely pitch-perfect, giving nothing away to anyone who is not entirely sure it is a jape, until the last line.

Priceless.
When you save it you're only saving a local copy, the server is unaffected.
Minireference is awesome! I love the style and purpose of the textbooks by minireference incorporates!
Bought them a round of Ferraris
> Which is also patently false, by the way. Criminals in Germany usually don't have guns.

Um, that doesn't invalidate "If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns".

∀ gun-holder | gun-holder ∈ criminals

But you're suggesting that:

∃ criminal | criminal ∉ gun-holder

... and that is not in conflict with the above. Your evidence only invalidates:

∀ criminal | criminal ∈ gun-holder

... which no one has claimed.

BTW in general I think we should have some saner restrictions on firearms in the US even if we have to amend the BOR to do it. But I will concede that the abundance of legal firearms will be challenging to suddenly prohibit and could certainly flourish among criminals. I'd like to consider your argument but "Criminals in Germany usually don't have guns" doesn't help much.
Why is that amusing? Government vs private is the distinction. You willfully associate with an HOA. If you don’t like the HOA you buy a house a mile away.
This is true. I have a ton of parts all with 52 week leads. It’s BS.

But… I’ve found that 52 means “Ok, no idea but it will come” and 99 means “lol yea dude, we’ll let you know but you should make other plans”.
The idea behind Pulseaudio was fine, but the implementation was horrible. Lennart didn't have audio programming experience, and focused heavily on the bluetooth music streaming use case. Performance-wise it was awful, particularly for games since it took control of all audio. Eventually it got much better, but it still isn't very good at low latency output.

Pipewire is a completely new backend written from the ground up keeping interactive use cases in mind. It implements the Pulseaudio API for compatibility, so it can be used as a drop-in replacement, but has its own extensible interface.
Maybe a tool that would compare snippets of code with others and find the most efficient one?
>so what... A country has a minority, minority wants to separate, the main country won't let them, and fights happen between the main country and the minority, a big player steps in and destroys the main country to "save the minority" (and gain whatever their geopolitical interest was). Kosovo, ukraine, same shit, different players.

This... almost works for the crimea situation years ago but Russia is now just attempting a full scale takeover of the country. I can tell Ukraine isn't into it because of how much they're fighting back.
Sometimes I create variable names like "runProcessAsync" (instead of "asynchronouslyRunProcess"), "setIsActive" (instead of "setActive"), and even use shorthand vs non-shorthand (e.g. "src" vs "source") in different contexts.

It abuses the English language but makes code much easier for me to read. Most of the time I don't even realize I'm doing it.

But does it make the code easier for others to read? The first 2 steps I think so, and I've seen them in other projects. The last one probably not, and I try to avoid it and use more descriptive names (like "srcPath" and "srcData") when I spot myself making it.
I have a general rule:

Once is an incident. Deal with it.

Twice is a co-incident. Deal with it. But keep an eye out for it...

Third time? Ok, this needs properly sorting out.
Smalltalk-style OO anyway: All You Can Do Is Send A Message.

That isn't the only type of OO. Look at CLOS in Common Lisp for a counterexample: https://wiki.c2.com/?HowObjectOrientedIsClos
I guess you are not a fan of Apple minimalism. Looking forward to your designs for a mobile...
Your first paragraph seems to be at odds with your last paragraph.

I agree with the 1st. There may be some overlap, but engineers and trades are two very different careers.

What I think is the important point is for those folks who are interested in electrical/electronics, if being an engineer isn’t an option, knowing that trades are a pretty well paying choice is a good thing.
Fair enough. I'm not really clear on what 'spatial thinking' is. We spend a lot of time doing mechanical design so have spatial problems aplenty, but they tend to be solved by segment-specific tooling with strong visualization CAD/CAM IDEs already.
That's really not the point. The thought experiment doesn't consider the safety, and far less the convenience (did you call this "effectiveness"?), of drivers. Rather, it examines the safety of all those who suffer the presence of drivers: pedestrians, cyclists, road workers, wild animals, unleashed dogs, etc.
> If for example they raise the rates enough that debt servicing starts to become a real issue

then they would've realized they hiked too much. That's why the current Fed hikes are conservative - a lot of people are claiming that they are late, and should've done it earlier, but i think they are doing it right. Slow and steady, and be conservative.
The metaphor of 'the cloud' is lying to you
How Crypto Disappeared into Thin Air
Unless the person other than you is me. I’ll just delete your monstrosity and replace it with a couple hundred lines of focused, simple code and revel in the mostly red diff on GitHub.
This (like most SEO things) is very execution dependent if it's good or bad.

For every chicken pot pie recipe that starts with a 4 page anecdote about their college days there's other folks making mistakes in the opposite direction.

A friend had a client that didn't want to "waste time" on writing product descriptions for the items they were selling on their Shopify store.

For the type of B2B+SaaS type articles I interact with it mostly comes down to me encouraging them to "dig deeper" into the actual topic and answer more questions around the core topic (edge cases, how using different OSs change things, latency impact), etc.
Pfft. Source?
The author claims to be inspired by SL yet wants to go beyond it. Beyond it to what, exactly? And I would ask the same question of any "metaverse" platform. What does any of these companies have to make it a success when Second Life was niche at best?

In what universe would the metaverse become the "next hot item" when it has resolutely refused to gain traction beyond chat rooms for kids (Fornite) and for adult roleplay (SL and VRchat)?

The idea that the metaverse is a business at all is a fallacy. As Mark Cuban says of some Shark Tank contestants, "That's a product, not a business." SL failed as a product to get widespread interest. And nothing has changed. Today's "metaverse" hasn't progressed beyond SL one bit. Even that company open sourced the original software and gave up on its plans to build a replacement.
OP probably meant corporate bonds? (otherwise I also think it's just wildly unrealistic)
are you familiar with mikro-orm ?
The "~20x increase in damage" may still be negligible. Where I live, damage to neighbourhood roads is mostly caused by the freeze-thaw cycle. Similar damage can happen from wet-dry cycles with eg expansive clay subgrades. Loading at high temperatures is another major one - warming climate accelerates that damage.
> are vastly more complicated and expensive to design, build, maintain than battery vehicles.

True, ICE car are more complicated but its pretty clear that build and maintain is cheaper than BEV. ICE cars are half the price of EVs. Maintenance of good Japanese cars is cheap, I spend like $30/yr on oil changes.
You're already locked in with a specialized compiler for those unusual architectures, and despite being Standard conforming, it still isn't remotely portable.

> you should already know that int is not always 32 bits.

I also wrote a 16 bit compiler for DOS, with 16 bit ints. I know all about it :-) I've also developed 8 bit software for embedded systems I designed and built. I've written code for 10 bit systems, and 36 bit systems.

> Who really cares about porting diff to a system that doesn't have filesystem or text console?

I infer you agree the software is not portable, despite being standard conforming. As a practical matter, it simply doesn't matter if the compiler is standard conforming or not when dealing with unusual architectures. It doesn't make your porting problems go away at all.

I went through the Great Migration of moving 16 bit DOS code to 32 bits. Interestingly, everyone who thought they'd followed best portability practices in their 16 bit code found they had to do a lot of rewrites for 32 bit code. The people who were used to moving between the 16 and 32 bit worlds had little trouble.

C++ is theoretically portable to the 16 bit world, but in practice it doesn't work. Supporting exception handling and RTTI consumes all of the address space, leaving no space left for code. Even omitting EH and RTTI leaves one with a crippled compiler if extensions are not added to support the segmented memory model.

How do I know this? I wrote one. I lived it.
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action' - Goldfinger
I love ruby, built my first business on Ruby/Rails as a Monolith and it purrs along all day, every day. Easy to use and maintain, but I'll never do it again.

Hiring is just too hard. I'm currently building my next product on Typescript. It's much easier to find talent that knows JS/TS, and having the same language across the entire stack cannot be overstated.

The lack of types is also something that I just don't want to deal with anymore.

The JS ecosystem is no where near as stable or mature as ruby's, but it still has everything I need and I have enough experience to avoid the bad parts.

I love ruby as a developer, but not as a business/product owner.
Does fd solve the annoying “the order of the command line arguments matters a ton” approach that find uses?
> I’ve tried the shakers. I’ve tried the silicon rollers. I’ve tried cutting off the stem end and rolling the clove between my hands. All these methods sort of work, which is to say that they end with a snowfall of skin decorating my counter and cloves I still have to pick clean. I even tried the delightful method proposed by Saveur magazine, whose executive food editor, Todd Coleman, instructed me in a video to throw a whole head of garlic into a metal bowl, cover it with a second same-sized metal bowl, and then “shake the dickens out of it.”
> many cities all new construction is HOA-encumbered

“Many cities” and “all new construction” are going to need serious citations. If your lens is through big home builders, then it looks like that but it’s completely false.
I’m not a woke SJW or anything, but man I absolutely HATE this kind of language from the article - “Mothers are understandably concerned”. Sexist and demeaning to men, no different than the commercials that still play on the “omg a father is trying to do something with his young child, disaster will ensue” trope.
Hire literally anyone and pair program with them for a few hours a day. That's your junior developer.

The better question is how do you mentor them and let them grow; especially how do you balance getting them productive quickly with instilling long-term habits and letting them explore their own curiosity?

Either way the real hard one is "how do you convince HR to allow you to increase their salary as they learn, so they don't leave right as they're becoming truly valuable contributors?" If you find an answer to this one let me know.
Also cancer takes a fair while to develop and kill you - well after age of reproduction, at which point evolutions opinion on guiding behaviour becomes much weaker.
Wow, would have been nice to hear about this more than 15 minutes before showtime. :-D

I'd like to hear more about the edits. An article I found says it was done in 2001, but then rescanned? Need better info.
Odd that it doesn't show up until halfway through the brochure.