skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have 30,000 unread emails in Gmail.

I don't see why I need to do anything about it as long as I'm not missing emails. In fact, email management would entail that I do more work (like delete vs archive every message) for the same end result even if it would feel like productivity.
Donating plasma? Isn't that really taxing on your body or not?
> Regardless, Texas cannot hold you liable for an abortion that you get performed in another state.

Texas can do whatever the US Supreme Court allows them to do, and if you think well-established Constitutional precedent is a firm guide on that...how do you think they have the ability to ban abortion in Texas in the first place?

But even under established precedent, I don't think it's at all clear that they cannot punish you for anything you do while in Texas with the intent of getting an abortion, even if the actual abortion is performed outside of Texas.

And even if they can't (based on what the courts will eventually decide) punish you, they can arrest you, charge you, try you, convict you, sentence you, and send you to prison, possibly awaiting execution, before your case is even ripe for appeal.
This is the difference between the long number system and the short number system:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

The long system makes vastly more sense, but in the English world we use the short system, except of course for the English themselves who used to use the long system and tragically regressed to the short system officially in the 1970's.

Of course, in my perfect world, we would use neither because we'd be using base-12: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
First, based on my experience, they usually are able to waive this, if it's an honest mistake and from a small company.

Second, you can apply for credits, you can get at least $1,000 founders credits for AWS Activate, and if you work with any VC, you can get up to $100,000.

Lastly, note that Lambda@edge is (much) more expensive than Lambda, the tech stack I personally pick for any new product, is pure old lambda, serverless-express, and good old React / Vue for the frontend with static assets on S3 (with CloudFront and Route53 for custom domain, ACM for TLS). I'm not that familiar with NextJS but I assume it's mostly used to support SSR right? I would look into the tradeoffs of using it with non edge lambda, vs ditching SSR and using Lambda for API calls only.
Also worth mentioning Roy Underhill [1], who for 35+ years has been on US public television teaching traditional woodworking.

[1]:https://www.pbs.org/show/woodwrights-shop/
> if you are deploying new functionality/service communication, after deploy, monitor for 10-15 minutes, with a wide enough window to see if there is a noticable/unexpected change from before the deploy. It always feels like wasted/burned time, but better to waste time than money.

... have you considered automating this? Alarms are pretty straight forward across all cloud platforms. Since you're using AWS: CloudWatch has anomaly detection. I haven't used it personally but perhaps it's worthwhile to look into: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...
Oh... Amazon owns Ring, not Google. Then it's "how long till stack ranking fires me?" :)
There is a point where that becomes exponentially prohibitively expensive.

At a former startup where I worked as senior engineer, that was our original approach. Then one weekend we tripled our userbase and horizontally scaling required massive changes in database architecture, sharding solutions, etc.

"Just buy more servers and load balance" is the short painful route. Carefully planning out and taking advantage of scalable architecture that can be provided to you less expensively because it too, runs at scale is the hard method. The fact that its easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it doesn't make it the easy route.
There are many mechanisms that influence the gene transcription and/or availability of gene products the keyword is "gene expression regulation".

One way that happens for instance is packing/unpacking of the chromatin (genes in densely packed chromatin are not accessible). The trick is that chromatin can easily pack or unpack depending on what is going on around.

Another simpler possibility is that there is a molecule that binds (stochastically) near promoter region (the place from which the gene is being transcribed) and hence influences the rate at which the gene is transcribed.
I think it’s irrelevant to the discussion, but it seems like it’s not settled:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4313438/
The ZOOM H1N is great. I've powered it via USB and recorded DAYS worth of audio without any issue. Battery life is hit or miss, if you got new AAAs you'll safely get about an hour or so.
You really think it would stop after 5 years?

It may or may not depending on which theory one ascribes to. I tend to agree with all the theories posited by laowhy [1] despite many people not liking him for being so openly against the CCP now.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZHiE96tWY4 [video]
I would consider that a fault of the translation rather than the original writing, though not knowing Russian I couldn't say for sure. Translating literary works is a necessarily imperfect art, and as I understand it this translation was done on the translator's free time without compensation, so I'll take what I can get!
Hotwire and LiveWire make a network request to allow the server to re-render the component on user interaction.

Fresh, in contrast, does SSR and then hydrates the components on page load, making it much more similar to React with SSR or Next.JS.
It was so fun working with Hack Clubbers on this project!

Hack Club is a group of teenagers from all over the world, and we decided to learn assembly together from scratch and see what happened.

We ended up making this guide as we learned, since a lot of the resources we were working with weren't the easiest to parse.

Happy to answer any questions :)
Fair point, but then again, confusing code is everywhere :)
Sending four emails to someone who doesn't even open the emails is not going to help.

The author should've advised people trying to reach Travis to ambush him somewhere, or get the attention of someone he interacts regularly and ask them to act as an intermediary.
This pretty much feels to me what is happening to Mozilla as an organization from an outsider perspective. Engineering is no longer as important as the evangelism and management is making strange decisions that lack focus on what the target audience really is.
It does not make any real money, but there is Mechanical Turk.
interestingly, Malaysia uses British/American style short scales (juta, biliun, triliun) while Indonesia uses short scale... but still retaining the old Dutch longscale just for billion (juta, milyar, triliun...)

There might be other languages where this occur as well, not just Russian and Indonesian.
> Imagine if we forced children to experience Star Wars as a screenplay, read aloud in class? It’s ridiculous.

Wait, is that ridiculous? I honestly think it's beneficial to let young students get a better sense of how all the media they consume is actually created. Seeing how a screen play differs from a film, discussing how subtle changes in reading a line might influence the interpretation of a scene, understanding the nature of improvisation and just knowing where movies come from sounds like it would be both very interesting and very educational.

The equivalent for video games would be understanding how a PC works and walking through some of the actual code that goes into making a game, maybe building a simple mod. I imagine that would also be a useful class and enjoyed by quite a few HS students.
SQLite isn't running in WAL mode. This application isn't just read-heavy, it is ready-only for users, so I wouldn't think this will make a difference. The writes occur while everybody is sleeping, from a cron job that runs once a day to upload the traffic for the previous 24 hs.
> In real life when you hit your card's limit, your transactions get declined. Straight away.

Except for when it doesn't. I've got two primary current accounts, one with a "legacy" bank in the UK and one with a modern bank. The legacy bank is happy to let me go into an unplanned overdraft, and charge me for the privilege of doing so.
Wasn't that part of the plot in "For All Mankind"? That they identified a crash site on the moon. In the series, it was, of course, the Russians.
You can't completely avoid using database-specific features - even the most basic types such as strings effectively require database-specific treatment at least if you want strings that are long and/or unicode.
I've switched to Neovim, but I am considering the switch back now that core vim has incorporated the async process stuff and the terminal support.

The new Vim language for me is a major draw -- I have always found Lua to be a poor choice for Neovim, especially since it exists side-by-side with the existing language. The tight integration of VimL with the editor mechanics has made it attractive for development in vim, and I'm excited to see it moved forward.

I don't know if I'll make the switch back, but I think I'll at least give it a shot.
You can test with PG. Trivially.
For comparison, can we look at what portion of MIT's research grants are Defense related? MIT being the US host.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's similar, but I haven't found it lazily googling.

Most academic CS and IT research in the US is defense-funded, has been all along. Most other countries too. So any reasonable academic home of a web-related entity is likely to have it's research budget be mostly defense funded.
> Refusing to spec it would have just given us another two decades of Flash-equivalent hell.

That's pretty much what we got with EME, since the technology relies on proprietary plugins. The only difference is that EME got a pointless stamp of approval from the W3C as supposedly a part of the "open" Web, even though there's nothing open about DRM-encumbered media.
I do have respect for TBL's achievements, but honestly I don't see the purpose of the W3C, and also have never seen the justification for burning public money into W3C's pay-as-you-go org, before or after this change.

Let's take a look at what W3C did lately, shall we?

W3C HTML 5.2 was published in 2017, based on WHATWG material. W3C HTML 5.3 was "published" as merely a commit vs WHATWG's HTML repo with a promise to keep further sanctioned snapshots, which didn't happen though. How could a snapshot of WHATWG's phonebook-sized "living standard" thing be consistent and deserving of the "standard" badge anyway?

CSS being such a crap specification, and absurdly outside its scope, the only reason of its existence seems to be an organizational stalemate, where Google let W3C have some token significance in web specs and give long-term CSS editors job security. At the cost of giving up any mental discipline, and even versioning, with the goal of encumbering the web to the point of no return.

The state of web browsers is so abysmal, it could hardly be any worse. That situation should've been avoided by a competent real standardization body. But TBL is busy with completely irrelevant stuff such as XML and RDF.

Sorry TBL, you might be a nice guy and tinkerer, but a manager you're not.

Time to take standardization to ISO or another "real" standardization body.
Yeah. I'm with you. You're gonna "invalidate" pretty much literally any sci-fi movie of the past if your criteria for "has it held up?" includes "do they somehow have modern-day tech?"

I just think of a Blade Runner-ish world as an alternate path our society might've taken. Had a few things been different here and there, we might not have had LCD screens. Or we might've had something vastly better.
By this definition then Next.js is full-stack, but I don't think even they claim that.
I think it's the complete opposite - IC was created (rightfully IMO) by technical contributors to reject the idea that the only way to progress in your career and make a bigger impact is to go into management. It's just the recognition of a parallel career path
Upwork is an option for sure. It does take some time though to build up some clients. After a few years i left but I still have odd jobs for old clients who get in touch. It's a great way to keep active and sharp while building some clients.
> Then how do you know anyone feels that way? Where do you get your information?

Google for "I hate my children".

> [social safety nets]

One solution to children growing up in poverty is a safety net - a solution that is strongly advocated against as being "socialist" by our current government. i.e. It ain't happening in our lifetime.

Since that solution is not currently feasible, not having children if you can't afford them (i.e. it will put you into poverty, either from normal costs or advanced costs if the child is known to have a birth defect) is the next best solution. There are four well known methods for this, abstinence, contraception, abortion, and adoption.

Abstinence is not a realistic solution, this has been shown to be the case through the centuries.

Reliable contraception does not exist (or is effectively unavailable: see the crap women have to go through to get their tubes tied). It's also next up on some of the SC justices' hitlist.

That leaves abortion and adoption. The first is much more affordable and less likely to kill the woman than the second. And that doesn't count the already overloaded foster care system and adoption rosters we're subjecting the children to.
Meddlesome demons ruin everything. Too bad Feanor didn't think to create Stormbringer instead of the fucking Silmarils; he could have shoved it up Melkor's arse and then put the rest of the Valar and Maiar in their place.
We've been very concerned earlier about what deepfaking a world leader might result in. Still a concern on that, but we can have endless amounts of additional fun with realistic deepfaking B- and C-list celebs and all "influencers" who have left enormous trails of audio and video.

Picture an adversary setting up a large deepfake campaign involving hundreds or thousands of fakes, esp coordinated with their use of the hundreds or thousands of curated social media profiles that have been raised on a media farm.
Fast Feedback Loop for Kubernetes Product Development in a Prod Environment
Even that has internal logic. "GOTO is considered harmful in the projects that I run, so we don't use it there, and this is why". If an SSD manufacturer explained that they consider the feature harmful, and they are no longer including it in products, that's something.

Here it's a consumer expressing that they think they don't like the feature and think they would like someone to make products a different way. Completely different.
COVID doesn't illustrate anything about human experimentation, because it has nothing to do with it.
This is actually part of why I created Nodewood [1], because every new Node project required pulling all that together, and every new SaaS idea I had had the same basic requirements (user management, subscription management, teams support, etc). Then I figured, if I found this useful, surely others would too, so I packaged it up and have had a few happy customers since then, who have helped me refine it, which feeds back into making my projects better, too.

[1] - https://nodewood.com
> There are lots of patents on electrophoretic displays.

There are lots of patents on software.

Could you explain your point in greater detail?

> And unlike some other industries, these patents are actually used in lawsuits by some players

I'm not able to follow. I work in the display industry. What lawsuits are you referencing? What players? How is it any different than the software industry? Anonymous insiders? You mean one HN post that appears nonsensical to a display industry insider who commented on that post and said it sounds like sour grapes from a guy who bought a few displays from Samsung LCD and expects Samsung to give him commercial pricing terms and special support and handholding for his startup?
Is that $2,000 price a real thing, or just a publicity stunt?

They cite that as happening at a wholesale auction. The photograph depicts mango for 9800 yen, about $100. Still absurd, but more than an order of magnitude less.

It puts me in mind of the guy who breaks records every year by buying a tuna for millions of dollars:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/01/07/168813383/th...
Hardly: erotica is, at least by my definition, textual porn that semantically arouses. This is very clearly visual porn, though it may be textual.
1) An obvious failure of public education. They weren't training/apprenticing enough magicians.

2) Racism/nationalism. Magicians should have been working with dwarves to develop technology. Instead the only magician who concentrated on developing industrial technology worked with a manufactured slave species that lacked dwarf institutional knowledge, and additionally focused all of his efforts in developing war technology.
Devs start with ORMs because they promise to make everything easy.

Then their apps grow complex enough that the ORMs get in the way.

Then the devs get sad.
Exo and Henry Ford Health to Enable All Physicians with Point of Care Ultrasound
This is an important distinction I think.

I generally coach people who email regularly to explain the why behind a question or the value to them of me answering.

If your consistently failing an audit because I am ignoring you then you you can have an answer.
This is what I'm talking about, today in the WSJ:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rural-counties-are-booming-pand...
Texas actually has a criminal trigger ban that has already automatically gone into effect because of Roe falling, but that doesn't repeal the private enforcement law.
Even worse, there are "English sounding words" that mean things in French that don't exist and wouldn't make sense in English. E.g pressing is a dry cleaner, dressing is a wardrobe, footing is jogging.
I would not consider that voluntary.
They don't want a new gay disease stigma, so will just stay mum on this.
Modern insulin being over 20 years old
Much much e-ink has been spilled on the subject of ORMs-good-or-bad. I shan't always reprise that.
The EME spec is a useless junk. It describes a fictional architecture that no browser has implemented. It's not possible to use it for any actual DRM implementation — if it was, it wouldn't be DRM! The authors of the spec are on the record saying they would never use the implementation described in the spec.

The real specs that all the browsers and media vendors used for DRM are vendor-specific closely guarded secrets, as they have always been.

The only purpose the spec ever had was laundering DRM with W3C's reputation.
> geology must work differently on Middle Earth

This is where a lot of people get stuck. They see the enormous effort put into world-building Middle-earth and can't help but see a gaping geologic hole. Yes, geology must work differently, but how? It frustrates people to see entire languages and histories fleshed out in minute detail on one hand, but on the other "rocks just do different, bud" on the other.
I see the purpose of the W3C easily. I'd love to have a non-commercial cooperative entity determining web standards.

I agree with you it hasn't been accomplishing it very well though.
I used to be an Amazon BR and agree with this.
It seems like an inference from correlation that someone extrapolated out in a linear fashion.

In isolation, I don't think that 100ms in delay before paint really causes enough impatience in people that you'd lose 7-8% as a direct result. Humans don't really make that kind of decision within such a minuscule window of time; to a degree, we expect our devices to have delays.

More likely, that loss of conversion is correlated because sites that have longer than 100ms latency have latency that's extreme enough to reach the "I give up" threshold. A site where its pages take 3 or more seconds to load would see a big difference, but that doesn't mean that a site with exactly 100ms latency will see any meaningful loss of conversions outside a margin of error.

People will also be much more patient with a high-value site. For instance, I'm willing to wait a few seconds for each page to load on the McMaster-Carr website because it's an otherwise good experience and a high-value store. But I'm far less willing to tolerate delays on some horseshit Shopify page plastered with ads and reselling crap from Alibaba. And if you've got a blog that's poorly formatted and overall signals low value content, I'll dip out the moment I detect the slightest monkey business slowing things down.
Like 'cry out'.
There was a story on NPR a couple days ago where they were talking to a man that had Monkey Pox. He went to the doctor and told him he was pretty certain he had it. The doctor wouldn't even order the test. There was a fair amount more to the story but, if I recall correctly, he had to go to like 4 different doctors to even get one to order the test; and it came back positive.

They then went on to discuss it with (someone related to the medical / testing field in some way) who explained that it's very hard to order a test for; something about there being a limited number of labs that can test for it or some such. And doctors needed to justify the test and would likely be on the phone for an hour just to get it ordered. As such, a lot of doctors just... won't, because it's such a commitment of time/effort to do so.

Edit: I think this is the story (it was the radio when I encountered it) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/25/1107416...

> Providers have to go out of their way to order a test. They have to receive permission and instructions from local or state labs, Nuzzo says. The process is cumbersome and often time-consuming. Sometimes a doctor has to sit on the phone for hours.
I wonder if a secretary would reduce the friction.

First, let's agree that we almost all do this. As soon as we have a bit of power, we allow ourselves to forget replying. You really need this plumber right now? The plumber suddenly ignores you. They know they can let you work for it, you are the one in need. A new bug report comes in and you are the only one that can fix it? They better get going sending those follow up emails already.

When I was a wee programmer in search of a job, I would beg to be considered and would reply to any email in mere minutes. Now that the tables have turned, I can just wait for recruiters to follow up few times until I grace them with an answer. The ones that do not follow up? No need to reply.

At work I got some high ranked title? The juniors better be honing theirs ping skills.

My point is, as soon as we have a bit of power, it is easy to drop the ball. Because you can simply ignore the issue as you don't need the resolution as much as the person asking.

Anytime you want or need something, you must be ready to spend time asking over and over again. What a colossal waste of time for all humans.

And so I wonder, is this what a secretary solves by being paid to be conscientious for you?
I don't feel that way at all and wrote nothing of the sort. So instead of paying attention to what I actually wrote, you... imagined something I might have meant.

Okay.

For the record, I use the word art in the broadest and most inclusive possible sense. I would use "art" to describe literally any creative work, including television commercials and crayon artwork from three year-olds.

As for the majority opinion? Yeah, I mean, I get it. I don't think it proves anything, but that's less "screw public opinion" and more "I don't think there's any kind of objectively true judgement about art, whether we're talking about the opinions of so-called 'experts' or the general public."

(It may be worth noting that this entire discussion is within the context of me defending a movie that was mostly critically panned upon initial release...)
> then just stop everything immediately

What does stop everything immediately mean for things that aren't compute? Backups and storage, for example.