skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW: The linked article is from 2009.

My experience differs from the article. Where I have been and worked, if someone just copies together stuff they found on stackoverflow, that's not considered productive programming. That's usually a sign of incompetence. Also, pulling in huge frameworks to solve some simple acute problem is also not considered productive programming. It may solve the problem at hand (poorly, usually) but it will create huge future costs for maintaining the dependencies, applying patches, and following changes.

In my world, productive programming means solving an actual problem quickly and effectively, and in a way that minimized legacy costs in the following years. The code you leave behind is easy to follow, has few side effects or even none, is not just correct but obviously correct. And where it is not correct, it is easy to fix. You leave behind code that has documentation and good unit test coverage. Code that you needn't worry about. THAT is productive programming in my world.

That said, I have personally witnessed 10x productivity differences under these definitions, too. My observation is that poor programmers get stymied by frameworks and environments they hardly grasp, and are either deathly afraid to touch anything or they try something and it breaks in horrendous unanticipated ways so they get paralyzed.

A 10x programmer will not be paralyzed by fear but they will approach systematically. First you write unit tests for the existing code, so you understand the problem domain. Then you can start changing things and you'll know if you broke something because your unit tests will fail. Then you can start ripping out chunks of legacy code that is not actually needed anymore or was there to solve some hypothetical future problem that never materialized.

To me the most important skill set in programming is time management and following a systematic approach to problems, as opposed to viewing programming as an art form and then feeling the oppressive weight of existing obstacles limiting your free spirit.

The measure of good programming is not whether you solve that problem (that is a given) but by how much future headache your solution causes. Leave the world better than you found it.
Confused. Is cash the limit for college attendance or is qualification? I thought Germany had free uni but you had to do reasonably well and proceed towards a degree?

The problem might be for profit unis rather than the debt itself. This, coupled with the explosion of non teaching or researching staff and facilities jacks the price.
my productivity craters in the summers because I'm forced to be indoors all day in air conditioning. No random walks around just to clear my head and break the monotony.
Ah damn yeah the overall housing shortage can't be helping things, eh.
But then you’d owe tax on the 50k profit you made. Besides, nothing is ever guaranteed!
Uh, the humans of Gondor were descended from Numenoreans, who were descended from the Houses of Edain, men who morphed from Neolithic kit technology to High Medieval (pre-plate armour and gunpowder) by being uplifted by Noldorian elves in Beleriand.

Unlike the humans from a certain other famous series, we knew the background of Gondorians all the way to their earliest fathers around year... 300? 800? Of the first age of the Sun.

Now, discounting that... I agree, ME has really low population growth. Might be caused by Gondorians and Arnorians living to 200+, 300+ years old earlier, when their culture were established; when the blood grows thin and they live like normal humans, their cultures ossified already; 40 - 50 year old normal human grooms and brides aren't as productive as 80-100 year old Numenorian grooms and brides.
Besides this being an extremely utilitarian way to view of humans that obfuscates inherent value of human beings, it is a general problem with wage labour under capitalism, where only capital earns proportional to its “value”.

I think we should focus our energy more on the question how we can provide everyone according to their needs than how utilizable they are, if we want to live in a more healthy and thriving society than we currently do! At the end there is really no need to give some people 10 times more just because they are productive in a certain way. And this calculation already fails as soon as we add more dimension to it, e.g. someone might not be producing 10 times more productive code but maybe they do offer a lot of social skills that make everyone in the team have a better time during work hours.
Probably not viable where you are, but being able to take a bike seems like it'd fit your mindset. (Sadly, most of the US doesn't know what bikeable areas are like.) I can highly recommend the youtube channel "not just bikes"

https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/
I’m the same. If the temperature at home is over 23-25 deg during day and night my brain shuts down.

I feel kind of fine, but I’m unable to do anything that requires creative or technical thought.

(with around 50-60% humidity)
> I was surprised that this was a real thing

It can happen mostly when you are working for very big companies, they usually have too many people and projects take a long time to complete because you need to get approval from multiple people. If you already know how things work then you can quickly finish your main job work or sometimes there is no work which gives you time to do your second job.
Exactly, it's an avoidance tactic. We already know and there is still huge consensus, but the problem is so huge and difficult and requires so much sacrifice that everyone is just like "welll maybe we should wait for a bit and see what happens, just to check..."

I know it's trite but, don't look up
I've been using a system called PlantUML for a while that allows you to create diagrams using plaintext, there are plugins for VSCode and Word and support in Gitlab is available:

https://plantuml.com/

https://www.planttext.com/
> essential information infrastructure

lol
I was following that until the language thing. How does talking, make more room?
Archaeological analysis suggests warfare helped societies become more complex
What you say is right. And I realise that heavenlyblue is saying much the same. It seems to be about where to account for the emissions.

I suppose walking in a foreign city is not accounted because agricultural production, transport, hospitality etc. already is accounted elsewhere.

There's surely a need to join up all the accounting up though.
It is funny to me that this very thread has people writing personal accounts about temperature and not wet bulb temperatures.

30C in dry Arizona will not have the same effects on one’s body that 30C will in a humid Florida.
Providing examples rather than shallow dismissals might be received more positively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Effection – Structured Concurrency for JavaScript
Mapbox Globe: A new way to experience the world
To have access to NICS you need to be an FFL. So you at least have to go to an FFL. They will charge you to do the check and federally required paperwork (which takes longer than 30 seconds). The only thing that the other poster said that isn't something universal at the federal level is the waiting period.
Wikipedia isn't perfect, it's the best we got and it can be improved further.
> and thanks to swift inflation, the debt burden is melting as we speak

Tough luck, that is true for everyone having monetary capital. Mostly people without the means to strategically invest. Sure, they are bit better off than those living from paycheck to paycheck.

I think the argument against education due to degree inflation doesn't have the correct goal. Sure, more people would have degrees and perhaps there is an inflation. This is without consequence while higher education does have tangible benefits. The author confirms that these arguments are already blowing in his face.

I would recommend that the author takes a look at other countries without education that costly. We live in the 21st century, the logistics of information have changed and spreading it takes fewer efforts.

It is certainly unfair to those that did need to pay their loans and those that granted them with the belief that they will get the money back at some point. The state really cannot really expropriate their loans as far as I understand it.
With 10 USD, I can buy 1 weeks worth of food in my country. I wish SASS, software providers like Jetbrains adjusts their price based on country per capita.
People ie in south Iran or maybe also Pakistan have very high temperatures and high humidity at the same time and they are still living there.

I can imagine it has big impact on productivity of anybody not under 24h AC, but there is still construction, roadwork, maintenance etc. work done. I guess a mix of adaptation from birth plus suffering through work thats just harder than elsewhere, but still possible.
A lot of the design of the human body sacrifices strength for mobility and range of motion. Most muscles have really unfortunate mechanical leverage, to the degree it's quite impressive we're so strong as we are.

Adding to that, without completely butchering mobility is probably no easy task.
Can you develop?

It seems to me the need to rewrite the project at all, depending on the reasons, could be the failure, not that it took one year and 19 engineers to do it.
I think the point is that the population would continue to grow until they run out of living space and go extinct regardless of the exact size of the experiment.
OK then. I stand corrected.
I don't think there is enough context to determine that. It seems plausible that it could maybe be a mix of being highly productive due to the lack of overhead of working with many other people and some obfuscation through complexity probably for the same reason that he wasn't working with other people and could optimize for only his own legibility.
There's the ever-so-remote possibility that this was precisely the point:

But the thing is, this wasn’t Calhoun’s first rodent utopia. This was the 25th iteration. And by this point he knew how quickly mouse heaven could deteriorate into mouse hell.

From TFA.
If you're on MacOS/iOS, "Fantastical" is ... fantastic in this way.
It doesn't make more room but it would help people develop a society that adjusts for the new environment.
Interchange and factors that can influence it
The problem is that western buildings for the most part are not designed for those temperatures in mind, we were more concerned with keeping heat in historically.
I really only want two things out of a wall calendar: the ability to write on it, and a fresh picture every month.

I'm sure someone has a non-overlapping set of needs for a wall calendar, involving displaying some numbers that let you synchronize the weekday and month day, with a bit of squinting. They'll love this!
Most JetBrains products are super slow, and resource hogs. I get red mist in front of my eyes whenever I see a DataGrip icon as it tends to consume all your CPU and memory for complex databases regardless of your machine spec.

These days I am mostly using VsCode for development and TablePlus/Postico for database development.
> This shit is all basic stuff covered in Armchair General 101. Educate yourself.

Based on the snide tone of condescension, this response sounds like it was written by precisely the kind of delusional macho wannabe who fetishizes firearms and dreams of one day murdering someone.
36c currently in Austria and I’d be okay with it if we
were seaside. I regularly go to Croatia and Greece and the dry/salty wind from the sea makes a huge difference
One half of the mice could talk among themselves and go to war with the other half, perhaps.
Fastmail’s calendar does exactly this - infinite continuous scroll - and I love it. I also find it constricting when I use another calendar (Google Calendar, for instance) that paginates by month.

Edit: An image of the Fastmail calendar: https://www.fastmail.com/images/features/cal-1.png
If you're selling a product today, why wouldn't you increase your prices? What force would stop you from looking around and saying to yourself, everyone else is jacking up prices so i might as well. You could release a little press release that says "blaa blaa blaa inflation blaa blaa" and everyone would more or less accept it.

Say you made cars for America and through no fault of your own, dealer stock evaporated due to supply issues upstream. Let's say you could try hard to increase production once that supply issue had been ironed out - but you could equally choose to take it easy, cars are fetching well over sticker price, so maybe be very slow at ramping up supply again to maintain that. Obviously if you colluded with your competitors to do that it would be illegal, but, if there was some kind of global event that put you all in the same basket...

I see the talk of increasing interest rates to solve inflation, i just can't see how that stops price gouging inflation. Furthermore, we don't even appear to have a language for this idea, it's not supply side inflation i'm talking about (although that clearly exists in some products), it's not demand side inflation (although that clearly exists for toilet paper for a while - not sure if it affects much today?)
I personally eat any animal that I kill on purpose.

I should mention that I haven't killed any yet, apart from unlucky insects, but if I were to shoot a deer I'll eat it too.
>I blame Westerners' addiction to air-conditioning for their low tolerance in temperature

Western Europeans at least either have decent tolerance to high temperature, or have low tolerance due to the weather itself being colder

Sauce: spent the first 25 years of my life in a tropical country, then moved to north-ish of England. My tolerance to high temperatures got way, way lower and the only place I've been with AC were a couple of car rides

Air conditioning was far more common back home
I went to my first powerlifting meet in the early 90s.

The problem with powerlifting is it really beats up your body over time and as you age. Once you get past 405lbs or so for squat you are almost insuring future disc herniation. Disc herniation is a concern with aging even without constantly loading 400lbs+ on your spine.
This is patently obvious but when young and indestructible hitting PRs becomes completely obsessive and that is another problem. There are not many things that give the rush of hitting a new PR or milestone with strength. Your strongest pound for pound in powerlifting weight classes relative to your height at much higher body weight than what is healthy. Pull up a group photo of any hardcore powerlifting gym and that will be super obvious.
Instagram and people posting PR videos has caused this explosion in powerlifting popularity and conventional deadlift popularity along with Rippetoe. It use to be an almost deviant aspect of bodybuilding for guys obsessed with strength with a disregard for aesthetics.
If I could start over I would never powerlift. I would train absolute strength still but I would also focus on relative strength. Relative strength as displayed by the number of pull ups or muscle ups you can do. I would always want to be able to pass the army running/situp/pushup standards. I would mostly squat with a belt squat and trap bar and be very careful about loading the spine instead of the ridiculous powerlifting game of seeing if you can get your legs strong enough to break your spine over time.
I've never heard of it and it seems completely useless unless you're good at rote memorization (in which case you probably wouldn't need it): not only do some months have the same number of syllables and rhyme with each other, but also the order of the months in the poem seems completely arbitrary.

The knuckle mnemonic is how I learned it and while it doesn't help with remembering February, it's at least fairly foolproof because it still works if you get directions mixed up.
Wealth vs. Getting Wealthier
Actually, without an objective metric, it's hard to explain why some programmer would be paid more than others...

So most of the time, it's more about some specifics of the job - with a specific job title (like "Lead Dev" instead of "Dev") - or the number of year of "experience" (actually : in the job). These are not really related to productivity but it's objective
It’s because productivity is a function of the environment wherein one is practicing.

E.g. if someone really believes they can make 10x more they should quit and start their own company to do that.

I’m in an organization where I am considered super productive, but I know that is a quirk of how I interface efficiently with this particular organizational structure. If I was off on my own, I wouldn’t be nearly as productive.
We drive on the left, which means we walk on the right (to see traffic coming), so I guess it stems from the latter
Is It Better to Rent or Buy? It's a Trick Question
This is something I noticed experiencing undergrounds in Germany after previously only experiencing them in London - London's escalators are insane, the Cologne U-Bahn is practically surface level by comparison.

If I were to hazard a guess this is because of the soft clay that London is built on - on the one hand the soft material makes it very easy to dig tunnels, on the other hand if those tunnels are dug too shallow they will very easily destabilise the foundations of the buildings above. So you have to to build them at a depth which would be prohibitively expensive somewhere built on harder rock.
> So would it be ethical to rape someone and force them to give birth? Because the babies would be happy to be born and experiencing life? That's the same logic you're using.

People happen to be in a bad situation. There are poor people, ill people, robbed people, raped people, etc.

Forcing people that happen to be raped to not to kill is ethical, and not by Christianity, but by virtually by every moral and ethics that exist.
To answer "On which day is 4th July?" or "What's the date on next Tuesday?"
The ATF keeps the GAO quite busy. It's too bad the GAO has no real power on this and many other issues.
I really wish muttator was still working. It was an extension which turned thunderbird into mutt with a GUI, in other words a keyboard driven email client without the hassle of dealing with calendars, HTML, images... of cli clients. Also unfortunately firenvim (an extension to use Neovim for textfields) is currently broken.
Ha, I thought the exact same thing. Besides that it is a pretty bad story that is written by a “child” not a story written for a child. It lacks any depth. It seems it is just using words without understanding it. Reminds me or searls Chinese room thought experiment.

Think it would be better to chose a topic that fits gtp3 model.
Macroeconomics is whats up with the prices.

It is a three headed dragon, and we see two of them already.

* Massive increase in money supply (more money chasing goods) - CHECK. We printed and our sins do not go away as quickly as we wish they would.

* Supply issues resulting in fewer goods to buy (same or more money chasing fewer goods) - CHECK.

* Wage-Price spiral wherein employees demand higher wages to account for their costs, which increase the cost to the employer, which has to increase prices, which leads to employees demanding higher wages. - POTENTIALLY NOT HERE YET.

Wage-Price spirals are the things of nightmares and when it happens, the only way its ever been broken is via war or a prolonged recession.

Hold onto your hats if that happens.
As a note taker, I’d much rather have the history and deal with the disk space than lose the history and have extra storage.

I almost never truly want to delete any note. And most changes are additive so don’t take much extra storage due to versioning.

I find it maddening to use a note app that doesn’t have detailed change logs and git’s history and blame is really useful.
I remember this reporting coming out over a decade ago.

We are seeing tbe consequences of this in tons of ways, be it the rise of authoritarianism and incel culture, to region-specific issues for China/India.
to me the point of the poem is that it reminds you that there are 3 classes (30,31,feb) and the rhythm tells how many months are in each class. Remembering 4 booleans for which 4 are the 30 day months is easier than remembering 12 arbitrary integers (unrealistic worst case uncompressed memorisation technique)
Wall calendars often have a horizontal stripe with a small window highlighting the current date. That would help solve the problem of forgetting to update it. You'd still need to remember how many days there are in the current month and you need to know the current date and day of the week to set it up but at least it seems workable.
Ha, see what I mean? I can write my heart out in an effort of conversation and and no response! No even a downvote!

What the fck has your technologies done for the world? NOTHING! It is all just a way to get people addicted to something new so you can make money.
Iterate?

That is, make 1st fold so the edge looks like it is covering 50% of the remaining part of the rectangle. Then try to fold the remaining part in half and see if you were correct.

Not correct? Adjust one way or the other the original fold until you get thirds.

(EDIT: Seems it can be done with some precision if you start with a square — easy enough to get a square from a rectangle. I did the trig though and the technique I saw was within a half-percent of thirds but not exact.)
To be fair the SR-71 was scrapped after being in service for 35 years, a point at which there where already multiple different much cheaper and usable alternatives.
There's a ton of research on the effects of air conditioning on learning exploiting (purportedly) pseudo-random introduction of air conditioning to schools. Here's one: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fpol.20180612
The nature of labour and productivity has been understood by classical economists for hundreds of years now. You are not paid in proportion to the excess value you produce, or else you would be an owner of the company.
Human productivity peaks in a narrow range between not-shivering and not-sweating.

With the exact same preconditions (clothing, etc.) you'll find it's a 10 degree window, if not less.
I prefer simple tools for just this reason. I never used Meteor (for fear of what you describe), but I’ve used plenty of 3rd party libs / tools that I was told “do 90% of what we need; just wrap it and do the remaining 10%”. The 90% was usually the easy part, but often had flaws that were a nuisance to (or impossible) work around. Or they’d stop getting maintained and decay over the years.
FYI for folks if you want to convert jupyter notebooks to html you can use nbconvert:

jupyter nbconvert --execute example_report.ipynb --no-input --to html

I have never been able to get a nice looking report in both html/PDF though via the tools to print html to PDF (as opposed to building a nice looking PDF doc using LaTeX directly). So default just worry about making the html look nice.
Fantastical can do this, so I assume/hope there’s a plug-in for it.
> It takes TFL about 9 months to replace out an old escalator for a new one. I think I'm correct to say they have 50 year operational lives.

Seriously? Why? Genuinely curious

It takes them a few days to replace the ones in local supermarkets, including the flat conveyor ones to carry the trolleys.
A small percentage of billions is still a lot more people moving than most countries can handle — economically or socially, especially in that part of the world.

Don’t take for granted the status quo. It’s already yesterday, and the systems we’ve been depending on to tolerate and supply us with viral services haven’t been respected. What happens when the next famine hits India? What happens when South Africa has no water left? It might not be the spark on another regional conflict, but it certainly adds lots of potential for another conflict.
Troubling, and most interesting.
> Westerners' addiction to air-conditioning for their low tolerance

You're aware that barely anyone in Europe even own AC-units?