skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In arbitration, this doesn't work. It's a vastly more even playing field for consumers, who tend to have less money than the companies they're suing and less downside in the case outcome (money damages versus e.g. having been sexually harassed).

I dunno, not my personal experience. I took a large bank to arbitration over a low value credit reporting dispute. Offered to "settle" several times for nothing more than a fix to my credit report, which would have cost the bank $0.

The bank refused and so we went all the way to a final judgement.

The arbitration dragged out over 16 months. 4 days of hearings in which multiple attorneys and witnesses were present on the bank's side. Numerous conference calls, 800 emails, 250 pages of legal briefs, 1000+ pages of exhibits, discovery, etc. I would not be surprised if the total outlay eclipsed half a million for them.
> Hydroponics only makes sense for high price crops like salad or vegetables

That's only true if it's in the city or other location with high cost/sqft land
for existing codebases, doxygen will produce static call graphs for c/c++ and java codebases using dot graphs that are hyperlinked back and forth to lxr style code listings (you do typically have to turn this on as it's expensive to compute and is turned off by default.)

i always found uml and other object style diagrams to be kind of obfuscating and encouraging of overcomplicated oop designs.
I think it is brand and their charging network.
Not sure what you mean by 'uncanny valley', this is just a simple case of raising expectations. The better designed the landing page, the higher the expectations of the product.
imagine if we can reclaim all the land that salad and veggies use and replace it with good grains?

solutions aren't always mutually exclusive.
Interesting stories and discussions. I think the threads about startups and their issues are the least interesting and I mostly just skip over them. Everything else I've found to be positive or creatively motivational.
I've been a wannabe developer since I graduated college with a BS in physics. I taught myself C#, python, and some C++, for a few different things I was interested in. I'm generally interested in tech hardware and computer science. The HN community incredible experience in all kinds of domains, and so I like to see what people have to say on interesting topics.
> It's kind of surprising that nvidia hasn't purchased AMD.

One word: antitrust. The discrete GPU market these days consists of Nvidia and AMD, with Intel only just now dipping its toes into the market (I don't think there's anything saleable to retail customers yet). Nvidia buying AMD would make it a true monopoly in that market, and there's no way that would pass antitrust regulators. Nvidia recently tried to buy ARM, and even that transaction was enough for antitrust regulators to say no.
It’s nice, but I do lust for the stainless steel of the Cybertruck. My Dodge Ram looks like shit after just a few years due to paint chips, rust, etc. It’s really quite disappointing for a vehicle meant to be on job sites and other rough environments.
I never make diagrams for entire codebases. I do make diagrams for specific logical flows (still not exactly mirroring the code, just the logic behind it).

I would never use UML.
Important to note that many tesla models under-perform their EPA estimates when tested in more real world conditions while most other manufacturers tie or outperform them, sometimes substantially [1].

The Mach-E for instance has a -48 mile EPA range compared to an M3LR but only a -4 mile range in the edmund's test.

Same for Taycan, EPA rating of 203, edmunds got 323.

Tesla M3P EPA is 310 but edmunds got only 256.

When you factor in actual expected range and price (especially the federal tax credit) Tesla's range advantage is rapidly disappearing and as far as I'm aware there isn't anything coming down the pipe that will radically change that (4680s maybe, but we haven't seen any of the touted benefits proved out yet).

https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-cons...
Are you telling me the 13", 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage base MBP is a professional machine? The Macbook Air's target market seems to me to be "I want a Mac, the cheapest Mac because I want to save money, but I'm also willing to pay double what a non-Mac laptop would be" with a secondary market of "I don't care about money, performance or longevity, I just want the lightest mac".

Personally I wouldn't recommend any Mac for the average consumer. If they just need "a computer", there's a number of perfectly servicable Windows machines for €600, while the Macbook Air starts at €1149, and if they want to play video games the Mac isn't really a candidate due to worse software support amongst games than Windows or even Linux at this point. Those are the two most common asks for advice for a computer I get.

If you need a Mac for professional creative use, or want a *nix system for development use, you already know what you want/need, and you're unlikely to be asking me.
> The 10x engineer is more likely than not the person most familiar with the project and the codebase,

Nope.

To whatever extent they actually exist, the 10x engineer is the one who starts without a codebase, and creates one that is elegant, flexible, extensible and performant, avoiding mistakes and working faster than most of their peers would. They build a platform for their successors to work with that enables more than it impedes.

If you've never seen this, then fine, but that's most likely because you've not been around during the prehistory phase of a given codebase.
Yeah, it's a solid car. I wasn't a fan of its suspension, but a lot of people don't seem to care!
So what's your solution so that large enough companies that they have lawyers on retainer don't just ignore any $10,000 or less liability, if you in fact think that a 5x multiplier in lawyers fees is excessive?
That's just describing the problem.
"Saving the world" was a marketing campaign to get employees. A lot of businesses have locked into that - lock step - for power. It was required to get employees away from the old dogs. Many of those larger companies from the 50s did NOT market a message of "making the world a better place" yet the world became a better place. Now companies are marketing that - and the world is becoming a lot worse.

I think the problem is that - at least in the United States - the social fabric is being burnt to a crisp because everyone cares only for their followers (which is another way of caring for their own image) - rather than do what is good and moral. If we cared more about our family, real friends and local communities, rather than superficial remote usernames, the social fabric would be fine. I do, unfortunately, think it is too late. I don't think we can re-train billions of people to go back. So now we have to go through. Good luck everyone.
It's worth noting here that % of researchers and % of attempts are very very different things.

You can have a system where 100% of researchers have failed to replicate another experimental result while 99.999% of results are replicable.

That's not to suggest that's what's actually happening here, because the replication crisis is well discussed, but it's not a good statistic to measure things with.
Indeed, the community could fork it, change the name and carry on development. But it would no longer be "4coder" but based on/forked from "4coder", as "4coder" would no longer receive any updates from this point on.
1. stop thinking in terms of "rockstar" anything.
2. wondering how other "smart" people come up with libraries etc? they do what you do.
3. people who create always have countless ideas that never see light of day.
4. you wasted your 20s because you didn't have fun.
5. working hard pays off if that is what you enjoy.
6. LeetCode takes time! years even. if you don't enjoy puzzles you need to try something else.

can you take a break? a year maybe? and reasses?
Thanks for writing this. Saved me some time!
> This is why nothing has replaced it.

I don't buy this logic. It's like saying Facebook is a good social network and this is why nothing has replaced it.

SQL obviously is an industry standard, the first thing you learn at IT bootcamp or CS classes, the first thing you've being asked at a job as a junior, etc. Decades of experience made most popular SQL engines stupidly effective. Yet, SQL as a query language was designed long time ago, when the data was orders of magnitude smaller and assumptions about data queries needs were way different from today.

Let me put it this way – if data query language was designed today from scratch, with all the knowledge and experience we have now - it'll look very different from SQL. I mean, it's just obvious that with more time and real-world practice we get more understanding of how to shape our tools. And then they shape us, of course.
Yeah, I've heard good things about it but haven't been able to see one in Los Angeles yet. Polestar has a nice car too. I've been wanting to drive one.
* 64GB of 2666MHz DDR4 in 2019: $280

* 64GB of 3200Mhz DDR4 in 2022: $240

memory has been getting faster and cheaper, and it really wasn't that expensive to begin with.
They found cuneiform tablets, that's pretty fascinating. There's a really good Royal Institution talk on cuneiform and how difficult it is to translate:

Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfYYraMgiBA
>where is that money going?

One place is that it is used to replace reductions in government support.

"the single most important factor associated with tuition increases was decreasing revenue from government appropriations, with state appropriations
making up the majority of such revenue.[1] (this is an old study, but I believe the pattern still exists, and is even more exacerbated)

Another seems to be that administrative costs are growing disproportionately at the same time that public money has been getting smaller. This seems to be aligned politically, so it may need to be taken with a grain of salt but I can give one anecdote.

When I went to college, I was sent to see the veterans representative. At that time it was just a single person who had those duties tasked on top of her "real" role. Now, it's common for colleges to have entire admin teams to recruit and help veteran students. On one hand, this can be great for the colleges and students; if managed well, those students bring in "free" government money. On the other, it's probably hard to calculate the true ROI of such a team; for example, it may be hard to know how many of those student-veterans would have attended regardless if there was a full team to support them or not. But all those admin teams, across all the different groups and bureaucracies add up.

[1]https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/2002157.pdf
True, but if the input costs were lower, the difference would easily be made up.
After de-Googling and quitting Facebook, I just wanted some place to still serve as a decent news aggregator and discussion forum without social features or anyone building an ad profile based on which threads I'm engaging with. I don't give a crap about startups, but this seemed like the only sane place left for somewhat generalist topics after Scott Alexander's spat with the New York Times made him way too much of a hero for the "anti-racists are the real racists" crowd and poisoned his comments section.
> And I believe we can all agree, regardless of political affiliation, that the fabric of society is itself 'at risk' of collapse.

No, we don't all agree. The most we can probably all agree on is that we're in for some unique and turbulent times. Because this is true of almost every generation, in one way or another.

Consider the possibility that your entire worldview may be highly skewed by an extremely unhealthy information diet. Like someone eating cheeseburgers for every meal, feeling terrible all the time, and then assuming everyone else must feel terrible too.

I would prescribe a new information diet rich in biography/history books to maintain mental regularity and perspective.
All depends on the cost of the land it's on, electricity/water costs, the growing apparatus, whether it requires artificial light, and what the market rates for the crop are. So yeah, there's a lot of variables as one could imagine.
Honestly, for prosaic reasons. Most of the posts are interesting, most of the comments are interesting and there isn't an obsession with "internet points". I'm sorry if this sounds elitist, but it is also less crowded than other places. I almost never see bots or trolls.
>I can run my central AC on this thing for ~5 hours per 10 gallons of fuel.

Sincere question, since I live in the opposite climate: how necessary is running your AC during a power outage? Where I'm from heat is a requirement during a winter storm outage, but my furnace backup doesn't require a ton power. I run most of my house on an 8000 watt portable generator.
Streak's (YC S11) edge-based infrastructure powering millions of tracked links
That some community colleges focused on being 'transfer schools' was old hat when I was in school 20 years ago; there were established curriculums designed to meet the general ed requirements of UC and CSU. Since then, many states have developed programs where you can get guaranteed transfer admission to their state schools for year three and four.

It's a better way to do it anyway. Lower level courses at big schools tend to be giant lectures, but many of those are going to be higher level courses at community college. Would you rather take Calculus in a giant lecture hall or a small class room? Same with Physics and Chemistry (although those at least have lab sections that are usually size limited)
> It's hard to imagine how climate change would lead to human extinction, since humans have inhabited such a wide range of environments across the globe for thousands of years, have technology to help cope with extreme climates, and are vary adaptable. What would make every single environment unlivable for humans? I don't believe there is a single climate model that does that.

Human life today is mostly maintain with infrastructure (water, food, security, health, etc). A cascade of failure due to climate change can destroy all but very local and small infrastructures. With society eventually returning to a pre-industrial conditions. It is not the end of humanity but the pre-industrial world economy can't support food, water safety and health care for 9 billion people. In pre-industrial era world population were less than 1 billion, we might return to these numbers. That means death of the large majority of human. Not extinction but the biggest threat in human history.
I'm here because I don't know where else to go...

I'm here to learn new things that the technical community is doing. I'm also here to share what I'm up to as I hack my dumb ideas together.

I feel there are more reasons to optimistic, and this is due to technology. Here is the thought experiment to contend with: Could Nazi Germany emerge today, or does the speed of information create a barrier to wide spread building of momentum? It's worth thinking about.

The unfortunate aspect is that the noise in the system is exhausting, and I think it's better to just focus on living a good life and not get swept up into any movement.
Hydroponics are limited to low-calorie foods such as lettuce, herbs, spinach etc due to constraints in the method itself. High calorie and/or high fiber foods require complex rhizospheres which is currently only found in healthy soil.

To add injury, the substrate used to provide nutrients to hydroponic plants either require petrochemicals or other plant material (compost, husks, seeds...) to mimic a complete nutrient profile.

Perhaps there are solvable problems, but given the already high costs and limitations, hydro is not an option if our ecosystems collapse.
I think the bit about "social fabric at risk of collapse" is, to some degree, always true/possible. A community is only as strong as its constituents, and if everyone thinks the end is near that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I agree with your general sentiment that quality of life has arguably never been better (for everyone, no just techies from developed nations), but it sounds like OP is coming to terms with the inherent tension of pluralism rather than despairing their day to day comfort. I suspect they may have grown up in a relatively homogeneous cultural environment and are now realizing that different folks have vastly different priorities in life; often irreconcilably different.

The best advice I can muster is "be the change you wish to see in the world". Giving up hope is just passing the buck. You'll never have the whole world on your side, but you also don't need it to be.
AWS contributes novel causal machine learning algorithms to DoWhy
10x powerwalls for 110k or f150 for 40k …

… or generac with 100amp breaker for 4K …

We power our house and our outbuildings/barns with no problems - even using 30a dryer and 20a microwave, etc. - all from the generator.

500 gallon propane tank implies at least 7 days of runtime but much more if we conserved. I can’t believe we lived without this …
I'd like a variant on this:

X% of income *above the poverty line*, no time limit, disappears upon death. Administered through the IRS, it's a line on your tax return and thus automatically adjusted for income.

(And I'd do the same thing with child support--x% up to $y.)
I meant that I recall this repository being even more Java-like, it has a couple more idiomatic examples now, hence, progress.
I don’t think this explanation is very good. We could use a distribution where the expectation is defined and be back to square one. For example you can just tweak his distribution so that the ratio of envelopes over the ratio of successive probabilities is < 1 (he has 10:2 which is >1).
With a natural gas generator though, you don't run out of power once the batteries have depleted as long as you still have gas service.
Gainful employment, building your career, and personal finance might be a better way to avoid being homeless. Getting rich should probably a second priority.
I'm not saying you hold this opinion, but policy-makers seem to have little issue with moral hazard when it comes to bailing out "too big to fail" corporations. I get the moral hazard argument, but if it's truly a first-principle it should probably be applied more consistently.
Putin Is Too Charismatic to Lose the War
I’ve rented in CA as well as other states. CA rental protections were great for getting my landlord to back down from withholding my security deposit for illegal reasons.
Linux ID-Mapped Mounts
Never heard of GittyUp, but I used to use the GitHub desktop client. It was great originally, but then they rewrote it with Electron and it’s been a shadow of its former self ever since.
Clipbanker Malware
> as it will not be, for the case for some single threaded task

Nobody but you is confused about this.
I am here against my better judgment.
Marveling how much time you beautiful people are willing to lose..
Goodbye :)
> Who steals people's used notebooks? Or new ones?

Your nice bag or backpack gets lost or stolen with a notebook among all other things you put in there. You can replace a phone, a driver license, but you cannot replace priceless imprint of your own thoughts and memories lost forever.

If needed, I keep scans of my handwritten notes that are difficult to retype. And then backup, backup, backup ...
If you can get OpenTelemetry/Jaeger/etc integrated with the codebase, you'll be able to visualize requests really easily, especially if you sample everything (in dev).
Afro Techno Productive Progressivism: A Framework for African Development
i’m done with dealerships. i wish ford and gm had created clean-sheet, direct-to-consumer sub brands for their electric products. and didn’t gm do something pretty radical when they rolled out saturn in the 80s (separate dealers with non commissioned staff)? they could have at least done that. instead we get markup and sleaze.
Because if the larger envelope is changed to contain four times as many dollars, then /2 vs. *4 points back towards swapping indefinitely.
This is the Solus founder's new project, created a few years back and in active development.
It has been the main trend in recent decades, but current farming practices aren't sustainable, deplete the soil, and depend heavily on oil-derived external inputs (e.g. ammonia fertiliser). It may well be that crop-mixing makes a big come back in the decades to come, and that may not be as suitable for mega-farms.
I recall reading about many climate factors — Indian crops scorched by heat, Chinese wheat season delayed by rains/floods, etc. I didn’t pay enough attention to know the relative importance of the climate and non-climate factors.
Lol, when there isn't hope, at least we have comedy :)
Documentation is communication, albeit asynchronous.
There are actually a ton of small farms being run around the US at least. i learned of this site from the Omivore's Dilemma: http://www.eatwild.com/products/

This kind of farming is doable, and can be profitable if run well. But it's labor intensive and doesn't scale as well as conventional farming operations. Running a small farm properly is a hell of a lot of work. A modern farm can allow farmers more off time and less effort.
Russia is the biggest fertiliser exporter in the world. Sanctions aren't likely to keep prices down.
For lots of things it's fine, yes, but for tools I would not try it. My brother (a contractor) had two compressors die from undersized extension cords before learning about properly sizing them. More resistance --> lower voltage --> motor spins slower --> pulls more current --> compressor electronics die.

I'll grant you a contractor's usage of any tool is much higher than a typical homeowner's, there's still no reason not to get the beefier cord. Buy once, cry once.
“Caffeine Was an Aid to the Rise of Capitalism” (2021)
I love this one, sad that it doesn't have any new episodes for some time now.

Sort of related: I also do recommend the very excellent Pirate History Podcast.
Lucky you if you work with people who see the value in a language with good type checking or that doesn’t just use strings for everything.
Indeed, that 'something else' being an intercity.
You say this, but unfortunately I've encountered a few life-scientists who think their single threaded R code will run faster because they've requested 128 cores and 4 GPUs.
Urban street tree biodiversity and antidepressant prescriptions
You can have both, with the car serving as extra capacity when it's not out running to the store. Heck, drive your car somewhere that has power, charge it, then drive it back to refill your home batteries.