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> I recall it being even more java-like, so, progress?

I'd consider Java-like being a regression, not progress.

In my experience, most of the time when people complain about medium-large Python projects being difficult to reason about, it's because they wrote Java code in Python.
I’m here to be surprised. I love the things I find here that would have never crossed my path just reading the news, and the news I see elsewhere, I’m elated by informed discussion of it here.
How to Train Your Keyboard
I joined in 2010. I visit the site, on average, 4-5 times a day.

Things HN has done for me:

* Gotten me a job

* Helped me expand my technical skills

* Helped me promote my books and side projects

* Entertained me

* Kept me up to date on tech and science news

* Allowed me to "give back" when I have useful advice

* Helped me realize I never want to found a startup

Also want to give a shout-out to HN's moderation team, who do a great job of keeping trolls at bay and encouraging constructive conversation.
Are you seriously saying that your idea that magic is a fifth force (which you called "energy") of physics is as scientific as modern medicine or machine learning?
I love every time this topic comes along because there are a bunch of answers where the authors try subtly (or not so subtly) to imply there is such a thing as a 10X developer because they're living proof of that.
XMODEM in 2022
> Why not both?

Because forgiving loans is a moral hazard. It signals to new college students that they can take out more debt and it signals to universities that they can raise tuition.
This doesn't work though because even the attractive degrees can declare bankruptcy based on having greater liabilities than assets immediately after finishing their degree. Allowing students to default on student loan debt without requiring a minimum time period to do so basically means no one can safely provide loans for any degrees regardless of income potential.
Ah, thanks for clarifying. I wasn't paying enough attention.
To take it further, you're mostly listing luxury items. No one needs an iPhone, internet or TV either.
Sounds like something the type system should have caught!
> we can all agree...that the fabric of society is itself 'at risk' of collapse

We can? Maybe I'm on the wrong site...
I still really don't understand CPU AIOs from a value perspective.

- I've gotten more than acceptable noise performance out of very small mini-ITX cases by using ITX-sized heatsinks with high quality fans/designs/materials (e.g., Noctua). You don't even really need a giant heatsink to get good noise performance in many instances, and in terms of price it’s very easy to beat an AIO to get a higher quality air setup.

- I haven't seen many heatsink/board designs made in recent years that don't take RAM and slots into consideration, and I don't really care if I have to take a heatsink off to remove an M.2 card – by the time I want to do that, it's probably about time to re-apply thermal paste anyway.

- In what world does "weight hanging off the motherboard" matter? I've never seen or heard of any motherboard issue caused by this. The Cooler Master Hyper 212 is massive, and it has been a budget staple for over a decade and nobody's had this problem with it to my knowledge.

- Most gamers don't need anything above mid-range for their CPU (e.g., AMD 5600X at 65 watts), but you'll see YouTubers building rigs with crazy high end stuff that doesn't significantly impact gaming performance and requires better cooling. Unless you're trying to go from 300 to 350FPS in an eSports game at 1080p, there's no reason to go above mid-range, your money is better spent on the GPU (i.e., most people game in a way that's GPU-bound).

- Case volume and well-engineered case thermal design is "free." If all you care about is reasonable cost, low noise, and performance per dollar, using an AIO setup is just about the worst way to spend your money when you can just get a larger case with good airflow design by perusing reviews.

- If you're doing any kind of socializing while gaming (e.g., Discord), you should be on headphones anyway because otherwise you'll be feeding back into your microphone. As long as your computer doesn't sound like a PS4 Pro I'd say it's fine.
Surprisingly, ROCm support has been getting a lot better over the very recent years. In my experience the pytorch support is essentially seamless between CUDA and ROCm. Also, I know some popular frameworks like DeepSpeed have announced support and benchmarks on it as well: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2022/03/21/suppo...
It depends on your use case. If your use case is emergency backup power, then yeah the truck is the hands down winner. But if your use case is to load shift to minimize costs then buying a slightly smaller fixed location (ie: powerwall) battery bank which is always able to be on-line will likely make more sense, since once you drive the truck somewhere it's no longer attached to the house.

It depends on how your electricity generation, distribution, and consumption works for your own location.

But also, holy cow! $130k in powerwalls is a LOT of powerwall!
I watched this video yesterday. I laughed at loud at the rat slime part.

Great postmortem.

Also somehow I was never aware of the Q*Bert cartoon. I’m not surprised they tried it, or that it’s… not good. Just that I’d never heard of it before.
That last part is a huge deal. No meaningful debt and very positive cash flow will give them some meaningful advantages.
No it wouldn't. Bringing 7x houses online is 7x the power usage, day in and day out.

Bringing one battery in that's the size of 7 houses is a one-time fill up, plus the energy expenditure of however much you drive the car, which is independent of the size of the battery.

It's like saying buying a bigger water tank means doubling your water usage.
> Yes I went to a cheap state school that I could afford.

The state school prices have gone way up too. It's possible that the state school you could afford back then would no longer be affordable now.

(By the way, I had to go to a state school too instead of a nicer school that accepted me, because of money. And yet, I still accumulated student loan debt! Because college is pretty expensive no matter what.)
Things don't need to be deterministic to be falsifiable.
Why should this paper be published?
What you are excluding is the risk factors for if you fail to find entry into your specific profession, and the chances of finding a job in a given major. Saying college is the best investment is so generic a statement when degree selection and the barriers to entry into the job market are also variables to success. The question isn't if, as a generic or on the whole, college is the best investment you can make. It's more like, is the major I've chosen going to be profitable after I graduate? What is the degree to market conditions like? Will my job be robust enough to stand against automation? The way I see it the number of available degrees vs graduates entering into the market has a high enough risk that failure to enter the job market becomes enough of a risk as to not be rewarding. Your statement is what is wrong with the industry, because it doesn't preclude the other option, what if you fail? Even if you passed all your classes and graduated top of you class, what happens if you can't find a job? Your statement assumes everyone is a winner if they invest in college, but that is not the case.
Not a great podcast. It cherry picks the stories to highlight the 1% of homeless who people can empathize with, and leaves out the drug addicts, alcoholics, and dangerously mentally ill that they can't.
Yes I do. I've had some lawsuits in the USA, some in Europe and the cost of the US lawsuits absolutely dwarfed the ones in Europe.

It's not that $500/hour isn't 'insane' (it actually is, but that goes for the profession as a whole), it's how much time ends up being billed for a case and US lawyers really are experts at running out the clock, and working the system to the point where the legal fees themselves become a weapon in the case (see the excellent examples in this thread illustrating that).
This especially makes sense these days now that (in most places) you can only sell your solar at bulk rates which are lower than the electricity you buy.

So you literally get your energy sold back to you at a premium for the sole service of storage which is a rather crap deal. Keeping all the power you produce seems like the best option, though you do have to pay for the initial cost of batteries.

It would be neat to see some numbers as to how long it would take to make up the cost back in monthly bill reductions depending on the local prices.
> For historical reasons, this is largely untenable in the USA: if they chose the same, it would be seen as enhancing privilege (both economic and ethnic) and a transfer from poor -> rich.

Devils advocate - how is the current situation any different? Education has skyrocketed in price which disproportionately disadvantages people with less.

I totally take your point and think you're right about picking 2 of the 3. It's just that the people who think that way aren't considering the larger picture (and probably never will).
SE = somewhere else?
1. Find out about new technology from a high quality source with decent commentary

2. Get a sense of what people in technology are thinking about technology and society (though no doubt quite skewed).

3. It's my only connection or source of insight into the Imperium, living as I do in a European province. Admittedly it is not much, but I can't do twitter, facebook, reddit or American news: it's too too bad.
> The Supercharger network is a selling point as well. Much of the US is well covered.

How many truck buyers are realistically driving their trucks cross country? The ideal truck EV owner is the ranch owners in Texas who drives to the local TSC, grabs his stuff and then is doing work somewhere on the 10 acres ranch. If it meant never driving to the gas station that's a huge time saver. F-150 is a great fit for that.

The people I know interested in the Tesla cybertruck are tech bros who have enough disposable income that buying a cybertruck is basically a solution in search of a problem. They'll end up using it to tow their boat or go camping.
You might be interested in the Federal push for hydrogen fuel cell evs as the carbon foot print is smaller compared to the overhyped current electric vehicles:
-green way to generate hydrogen and fertilizer already found
-hydrogen fuel cells have weight advantages over current evs
-hydrogen fuel cells are cost economically advantaged to replace traditional diesel transportation in trucking, trains, boats, etc.
How did the IR community get Russia/Ukraine so wrong?
For sure. I'd try to avoid working at a place like that. At some point, it becomes a cultural problem and then that behavior is rewarded!
PlantUML with C4 and the additional cloud icons, is what I use
Perhaps I wasn't clear. The alternative then is to build the same truck, but keep it as a combustion engine. You're not going to stop people from buying a truck. Which truck do you want them to buy?

Which is worse?
Interesting that you know it as the SSC community, because Scott (TFA’s author)’s original site was Slate Star Codex. The new Substack where this was posted is Astral Codex Ten. Both are (near)anagrams for his nom de plume, Scott Alexander.

Anyway - I’ve lurked both for ~6-7 years. The best summary I can give is that Scott is an excellent and insightful author at his best, prone to certain idiosyncrasies, but who attracts a pretty thoughtful and generally pleasant commenter community.

The bias in astrange’s position is grounded in some factual truth, but I would argue that Scott’s commenter community is not entirely in the “rationality” camp, even if that’s a big part of how Scott reached his audience. The bigger part, imo, are the incredible series of articles he wrote circa 2014-2016 on a breadth of topics, many that still hold up.

I’d say check it out for the articles and see how you feel about the comments. Take astrange for what it’s worth, with a liberal dose of salt
At some point if you make your AI advanced enough it'll generate you wrong answers just out of spite.
That depends on if you believe that’s the real and sole reason their parents are open source.

https://startupnation.com/manage-your-business/teslas-open-s...
Ah, I was thinking it was a reference to some 9kwh inverter ('electric generator') for under $1K, which sounded incredible...
The trick here isn't the final finished content, but that it's increased because of their virus from the base plant's "normal" level.

I have reservations about what numbers like "25% THC" mean in these contexts; there can be a long distance between a homogenized lab sample and what's in your sack, even if everything in between is honest and punctiliously documented.
I can't. Would you be so kind to spell it out for me?
I’ve been lurking on HN for a while now, and decided to make a new account so I can start posting and contributing more. I like this place because it always has interesting things being posted and the people are all generally civil and looking to learn and spread knowledge.

I like the culture of this website. I don’t really come here to solve big world problems. I mostly come to learn new things and see new perspectives.

In a world of instagram, tik tok, and Reddit, this place is a godsend. I’ve tried to quit all social media and spend my time on more productive websites and places. I found myself checking and commenting on HN more.

I feel like even the worst comments here are just way better than a place like reddit. I’ve found a couple other small sites i like to visit as well.
I wouldn't say that he has no factual basis. Ford is aiming for a run rate of 5k/week by the middle of next year.

We know that this was considered the minimal benchmark for the Model 3 and that their targets for CT are higher.

Its a guess about future state, so surely not certain, but noone has this "won" by getting ~50k units done over the next 12 months.
Some thoughts and attempt to visualize Go code in a meaningful way:
https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go/

And, tangently related, visualizing concurrency:
https://divan.dev/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/
Often, at initial stages of a project it's 10x. When the project matures, it becomes 0.1x, as majority of work is now bug fixes, technical support and office politics.
> And instead we're congratulating ourselves on building electric status symbols

Isn't this how you drive change? You have to give people the desire to change before they can actually change...unless you think authoritarianism is a solution (not saying you do, but I'm not sure what other options there are other than 1) give people the opportunity and desire to change, or 2) force them to change).

The speed at which we are changing aside...we ARE changing as a society, and that should be celebrated.
It’s not entirely organic though. “Light trucks” get a tax deduction for business owners and slip through a lot of regulatory cracks regarding fuel economy standards. From there, marketing actually has a bigger hand in shaping consumer demand than people give it credit for. They sell these cars to sell a certain lifestyle aesthetic of manliness.

If the production incentives were different, there’s no reason we can’t imagine they’d have tried to code rugged manliness as a rugged 4x4 like was popular in the 90s or an absurd muscle car like was popular in the 70s instead.
Politically speaking the best course of action for Biden is to say that the repayment pause will continue until Congress passes comprehensive legislation addressing higher education funding and reforms.
Competition will fix asymmetric information? That's _not_ how the theory goes.
I’ve always been super pumped about hydroponics and the absurd yields you can get from it. Hopefully it gets cheaper and cheaper over time.
Meh. The longer I'm in this profession, the less I like rules like this. This is dogma that tries to do something profound but kind of encourages the reader to ignore past experiences.

I don't agree with it, I use mixed visibility members in most languages I use. The closest "rule" to this that is more just a side effect of my experience is that most data members are private by default unless there is a public read/write contract, or if they are data members that are marked const in a language that supports such things.

Beyond that, employing any sort of rule generally means you're writing more code than necessary, or less code than is helpful, and inflicting that pain on consumers or colleagues.

Dogma is rarely the way to go, in my opinion. Being good at being pragmatic is certainly a skill, and it's much more powerful than a subjective rulebook.
> Amazon's made it a little harder to buy Kindle books on Android

No. Apple and Google have made it a little harder. While I have no sympathy for Amazon usually, they're one of the very few that could actually fight this effectively and finally bring this App store madness under control. I would be very careful about messing with Amazon's money. The whole payments/app store paradigm is on shaky ground anyway. It really will not take much for someone like Amazon to get the anti-trust ball rolling.
You can get rid of iTunes launching by renaming it. If I recall correctly, there are a bunch of possible workarounds but that's the one that definitely works if you don't care about iTunes. But it required getting IT approval for upgraded permissions and then a whole reboot into safe mode and change the name procedure using some setting or shell command (something like that). I think it was like two or three reboots to change the name of the iTunes application, but I don't recall the exact procedure.

My CLI do you mean the Unix-like underlying system (like through Terminal, zsh, bash, etc.)? I enjoy WSL on Windows more because it's actually Linux and usually just works. The only trouble I have there sometimes is network related activities, as is usual for VM-like setups.
> not knowing that Python does not do block-level variable scoping, so loop variables leak

For what it's worth, it took me a long time to internalize this (more than ten years after first learning Python), I think partly because the way most people teach Python is to say what scopes Python has instead of saying what scopes it doesn't have. While it's bad style to abuse this, I would definitely consider this a part of Python that a lot of working developers probably don't understand well.
I need one about 1% of the time. However when I need a truck it is for things I can't rent a truck to do. Most rental trucks don't have the right brake controller for a large trailer (rental trailers have surge brakes - I'm never going back to them), and often they don't have the right hitch (permanent 2 inch ball - 2-5/8 balls are common, as a 5th wheel or gooseneck). I keep getting people telling me to rent a truck, while it would save a ton of money, in practice it isn't possible.
Further up the thread there's an attorney who does arbitration all the time, but just in case he doesn't respond to you I will point out that professional specialization is exactly how everything works.
I've thought about this. The United States was the world leader in science and technology in the 20th century. Imagine how much farther we would be right now if more Black Americans had been in PhD programs instead of trying to avoid being murdered.
It's kinda great though, we got John Mulaney and Chvrches -- loved them both. I mean the uni is like the second or third largest concert venue in the area so it's not like it's a huge departure.
I believe the quote is "Haven't tried it yet", they seem optimistic it will work, but will require more compute or closer observations because they are moving much more quickly against the backdrop of stars than the more distant asteroids.
Prior to COVID, Ford was selling 900k F-150s per year (their highest volume vehicle line). Continuing on their path those will all be Lightning models - a large number of very heavy, energy intensive vehicles driving around.
The number of kids hitting 18 goes down every year and in a few years falls off the cliff.
How long do you have it and are you monitoring capacity degradation of the cells?
Checking your actual landing page ( https://propertywebbuilder.com ) and my opinion is... that it isn't a very good landing page. The sizing and spacing are awkward and blocky, your color scheme clashes with your images, the images are generic and tacky, everything is too big and wide, etc. Maybe because you worked on it you feel that it is a great modern style landing page, but that isn't how it reads to me (and seemingly to other people as well).

Maybe you look at a SIMPLER site like https://tom.preston-werner.com/ and mistakenly equate that with a "worse" landing page. Actually though this simple page has bullet proof styling, and slapping some stock images on it like you did on your page wouldn't make it better, it would make it way worse.

Rather than looking for an external factor like a "mythical uncanny valley" to explain your landing page's poor performance, look inwards at your individual styling and what could be improved.
Drug use is far worse in the Republican states that purport not to enable self-destructive behaviors.

It's simply more visible in California because we don't try to brush our problems under the rug and pretend they don't exist.
PartiQL is just a thin layer on top of dynamodb: fundamentally, it’s still dynamodb so e.g. you’re still not gonna have a good time if you want to do a JOIN.

DonutDB treats dynamodb as a virtual file system of sorts: the data in dynamodb is real SQLite data, you can query it just like a real SQLite database, and because DonutDB provides a loadable module for SQLite, you can do this (mostly) transparently to whatever application you’re working on.
This is post # 64 of the series How Javascript Works, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components.
Tangential but I’m under the impression that “The world produces more food than ever” may not be true this year, and may not be true in the following years if the climate keeps being highly irregular.
It’s a 20% increase. Like 20% -> 24%.
Exactly. Not only that, but it also requires you to know about all this stuff and know to even be persistent.
> the fabric of society is itself 'at risk' of collapse

It’s not. We live in a unique time in history (living memory at least) where all parts of society, hidden and unhidden, are interacting in real time globally. We’ve never had this before!

What we as kids and our parents/grandparents as adults mistook for idyllic society where we all get along and life is great and nobody has problems, was in reality a thin veneer draped over a seedy underbelly of raw mess. People pretended to fit in. A lot.

Ask anyone from an underrepresented or even repressed group how great that society was. Bet they’ll say it wasn’t.

Society isn’t collapsing. It is revealing itself. This is the real humanity. The way it’s always been. Varied and messy.

As for why I’m here – same reason I’ve always been online. Because likeminded people who get a kick out of similar things as myself are few and far between in real life. Online, there’s plenty. HN in particular has a good mix of high signal discussion on interesting topics.
Looks like a counterweight. In the newer video above they also have put some hi-vis tape on it :)

Edit: nope, someone else pointed out the drawers are 3m long so they roll in there! Cool
Where i supposed to be?
Free for non-commercial use. Not open source.
Sure - if you want to exchange your ability to get any financing for 7 years for ~$100k.

Additionally, IIUC, you can't just declare bankruptcy because you feel like it.

But maybe my understanding is incorrect.
I’ve heard that before, which is just kind of sad. It proves they’re capable of it, they just don’t care (at least in the US).
Keeping track of CLI commands in software projects