skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m inclined to believe that the enterprise Java dev can get away with knowing much less. Basically being a master of their domain, which incredibly valuable to the company they’re at, and not at all to the market as a whole.
Thanks for providing some specific examples! I still don't see how any of these would result in a 30% decrease in boilerplate. My main point was I feel like header files are the biggest piece of boilerplate and it seems weird to accuse the lack of features in the standard library as a reason for all the boilerplate.

Just a couple other points though, C++ provides fully customizable iterators. They don't have ranges, but ime the amount of times I need ranges vs just iterating over a container are relatively low. Also, is a lock guard in C++ not the same thing as a guarded mutex? This may be ignorance on my part because I'm not familiar with rust, but it sounds like the same thing to me. A lock guard will lock and automatically release a mutex once it goes out of the current scope.
I once posted somewhere about this and was met with an avalanche of insistence that I was wrong.

For anyone who doubts this, I suggest doing a few puzzles from this book of old Mondays from the 90s. This will very quickly dispel any doubt about this proposition. The puzzles in this book are Wednesday/Thursday-level and sometimes even harder.

https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Favorite-Crosswords/dp...
AWS is a terrible product, unless you happen to be in specific corners they've bothered to document/make their UI architecture not a horror show.
That is against the narrative that women are equal or can do everything.

Nature is different as fertility patterns between man and women.

If women does not have their ducks in line at 32.

This thread happens.

I am not saying this is fair or nice.

However men usually dies 5 years earlier in average.

Things are different saying its not does not help.

Edge cases are not normal.
Of course you can refill freezes, but you need enough credits to do so. You accumulate credits as you complete lessons and hit targets. So OP was, effectively, living for a period off the riches he had accumulated over almost 10 years (!) of efforts. That's not easy.
> Third, people are not forced to take the best paying jobs.

Dunno if you’ve seen the prices for even single family houses in the Netherlands?

Anything less than €100k is impossible if you plan to own a house.
> Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Translates to:

Your Mum’s a slut (hamsters, like rabbits, breed voraciously)

Your Dad’s a drunk (elderberry wine was the cheapest, roughest, homemade alcohol)
The ultra-deluxe DVD comes with subtitles for those who don't like the movie, all taken from Shakespeare's Henry IV, I believe. They're generally appropriate, in my memory. It wouldn't surprise me to find they thought an English-Japanese-English roundtrip woild be funny.
Contracts are amazing… and terrifying. Feel free to send them an email and ask.
Nothing about this is surprising once you understand that your brain is not trying to be happy or sad, but only trying to minimise prediction error.
> We strongly believe that instead of inventing their own authentication protocol, they should migrate to an open standard

Also

> We notified the Australian Government of this problem, and were told by the Australian Tax Office that they do not intend to make the recommended changes to their protocol. [1]

Aust Govt breaks multiple web-security 101 rules, bears no cost nor responsibility for it, and the cherry on top: they refuse to do anything about it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgPdVbUbtBM&t=311s
Understanding the principles of gear effect
When I was at university, one of the senior number theory professors allegedly said during a tutorial that he accepts the normality of pi on the basis of "proof by why the hell wouldn't it be". With tongue in cheek, of course.
First of all, excellent link!

Virtual machines with custom instruction sets -- seem to be a broader problem -- that they can apparently exist within a PDF file is one specific instance of this broader problem...

A selected quote from the article linked:

>"Short of not using a device, there is no way to prevent exploitation by a zero-click exploit; it's a weapon against which there is no defense."

To the author of that article:

Well, "short of not using it", that is! <g>
Nothing implicit about react query caching requests. That's the whole point of the library in the first place, otherwise it would just be a fetch wrapper.

And having it behave differently from useState is fine, and correct. The library is used to fetch data, not state. Those are two different things
“Own” is, for obvious reasons, not the word we use about children , but in practice it amounts to the same thing. A parent or guardian has complete control over what their child does and where it goes. Until the child turns 18. But we still call it “their” child.
Personally I like Drops.
Do regular drivers actually take their hands off the wheel and expect the car to drive them around in an urban road network? And they have peace of mind while doing so?
> Now the guy composing those pieces after going deaf, yeah, that’s in this whole other world called “genius”.

Isn’t this essentially mathematics? Not that that’s not still impressive :)
I want to agree with you: but then I think of the alarm-clock software in my phone, which has a lot to say about what I need to do and when I need to do it, and somehow I don't mind that. I wonder what the difference is.
I track my usage separately in a spreadsheet, which avoids the stress of streaks, but still lets me draw motivation from past effort: https://www.ajnisbet.com/blog/tracking-goals
Have you ever told any of your dates how much effort you are put into finding a partner? If not, why not?

Are you allowing yourself to br vulnerable on dates? If not, it is unlikely that the neccesary attraction is created for a long lasting relationship.
Several mass shooter manifestos have made references to the parties you’re talking about… but they end up killing their families, school children, or shopping centers full of minorities instead.

I suspect it’s because most mass shooters are ultimately cowards and those organizations are big, scary, and often located in “intimidating” areas like major cities. That, and there’s tons of racist conspiracy theories that make it sound like a bunch of working class Muslims, Blacks and Latinos are somehow playing for the same team as Jamie Dimon.
My understanding is that those shared global models are of somewhat lower fidelity.
Same here, and I wonder if anyone close to that guy ever had any balls to tell him how idiotic the whole "Metaverse" thing looked and how stupid it was to bet the whole farm on it. It's like "Google Plus" reincarnated, except yes, the whole company's future was pinned to this one.
I think you missed the fact that the story is meant to be humorous.
How does that help them make more money?
Recent example (last ~6 months): Anduril acquired a 30-person company, Dive, that built autonomous submarines with some novel low-cost process. They had built a small number of vessels for internal testing and maaaaybe had started to generate a little revenue, but nothing serious.

Then, four months post-acquisition, Anduril’s influence earned them a $100M contract to build prototype submarines for the Royal Australian Navy. Dive benefitted from Anduril’s political savvy and connectedness in a new part of the world; Anduril benefitted from Dive’s tech of course.
Can't wait to sell flatulence vodka to hipsters
I don't feel like Duolingo's gamification is dark, so much as counter-productive. They always give you a 15-minute "double XP" reward when you gain a crown; and there was a time when I got into a rhythm such that I always started my session just about to gain a crown; then I spent 15 minutes almost finishing the next crown, so I could start it again tomorrow.

But of course, when you're doing that, you're pressuring yourself to get through as many lessons as possible, not to engage well with the material. You don't want to stop and read the discussions about a particular translation. And (since I'm studying Chinese), you often have a choice between attempting to speak Chinese, typing Chinese using pinyin, or clicking on the character blocks. The first two are almost certainly better practice; but the last is a lot faster and more predictable.

And of course, now when I'm out of that rhythm, I'm totally not motivated to study, since I'm getting half the points I would otherwise be getting. If I'd been rewarded (not competitively, but just personally) simply for spending time in the platform, I'd probably be spending it more effectively.
Same for me. I had a 800+ day streak and I remember that on the days I couldn't practice, I used to play Duolingo story #1 at 1am with half eyes open just to keep it going.

But as soon as my streak ended, my frequency of playing went from 6 days in a week, to 5 days.. and now I haven't played it in months. Fake or not, keeping the streak alive did help me learn a lot of French (well actually there is one more side to it.. even after all that I can't speak a single proper sentence now apart from the basic je m'appelle stuff)
40% of Google users now connect via IPv6
Did they base this off of DarkSky?
The joke was good, but your fear of downvotes and attempt to prevent them by adding the disclaimer is :|
I love how everyone wants to help you/figure out the mystery bug, because, after all, you just need knowledge and experience to maybe avoid getting screwed around by AWS.
Schema requirement is very daunting part of StrictYAML. Basic types besides string are useful.
No, foreign names do exist. they problem is how to disallow confusables then. and this is solved by UTS 39, without needing to compare against all existing names. https://unicode.org/reports/tr39/

and use the secure subset of UTS 31.

you can eg use my libu8ident, and please dont use the broken confusables list.
But is it really profitable and sustainable?

IIUC your report, you are paying developers (and yourself) only USD $30,000/year. The typical software developer would make at least three time that much elsewhere. With 3x salary, I'd say SourceHut would no longer be profitable or sustainable. Or am I missing something?
If it used ticket-points instead of LoC, would that be OK? If it used “a fault-free oracle who told you a perfect measure of value created”, would that be OK?

I’m trying to figure out if you’re opposed to terrible approximations of productivity or to making performance distinctions among engineers.
What was the name of that serialization language “for humans” featured on hn recently as someone's long-going personal project?
Honestly, the thing kinda breaks if you have several sets of rules aka Bitcoin clones. No, ideally, the thing works if you have > 50% computation resources of the planet consumed (and of course, controlled) by miners using one set of rules. This way you cannot have competing chains at all, and the correctness of the set of rules is kinda obvious - they're correct if they make sense to me (paying arbitrary rewards to oneself does not make sense, obviously) - no need to ask anyone - I see an enourmous chain with enourmous burned computation and I see the code.

In this sense there could only be Bitcoin. PoS cannot come close to that at all.

P.S. To clarify a bit more - I don't think the most-difficult chain can be with broken nonsensical rules, not in the long term.
Github actions is the one that surprised me. It's a recent enough invention that it was built long after all these discussions, issues raised, and alternatives proposed.

I've had far more issues getting these YAML files correctly formatted than I should admit, and every test means pushing a commit and waiting to see what happens.
PBS Space Time did a piece on that. https://youtu.be/msVuCEs8Ydo
Except for the first few days when your fever is through the roof, I think that’s reasonable?

I dunno, my mom taught me that if I’m only really sick if I spend the day in bed (in preference to anything else I could be doing).

I think it’s a fair definition.
This article is such an engineering joy to read. I love electromechanics.
There were likely multiple concauses. The non-aristocrats winning parliament seats in that period were typically people who had made a lot of money in industry and commerce (or someone directly sponsored by such). Those individuals were very strong-willed; it's entirely possible that they wrestled control from the weakened aristocrats in many ways, and probably gossiping about "disgraced" young women was just one easy tool. Once elected, these people supported education reforms because they needed it: their businesses required a cheap but educated workforce. Not unlike what Google and friends need now (hence the big push to "learn to code").
Eh, if your boss doesn’t notice that you’re gone for a few days that’s probably on the boss.
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Wait so like, your wife got up to do someone’s hair every single day because the person couldn’t brush their own hair according to their union??
Polars looks interesting. I’ve also come across modin[0] which lets you keep your existing pandas syntax, and just change the import statement, to speed up pandas using either Ray or Dask.

[0] https://modin.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

I don’t have much experience with this though.
Wrong. The jet is a matter of convenience. The fuel (source) being sufficiently inconvenient (expensive, illegal) would force alternative decisions.
My maths teacher used to finish his proofs with QED - which he said stood for Quite Easily Done! My latin teacher was not so convinced...
That’s a hilarious and great point.

I’ve had the same thought before - America does a great job within its population bracket, but it doesn’t make sense at all comparing us to, say, a Switzerland or a New Zealand.
Icons appeared on reboot :)
The exact physics of the reaction impact burner design and how much work is needed to adapt a burner designed for one fuel to another (sometimes impossible even if you're replacing gas with gas).
We do laughat alchemists and astrologists though. We don't know what Australopithecus thoyght they knew.
One thing I found odd about Duolingo is that they disabled offline lessons. It was the most powerful thing they had -- to me at least. I was able to board planes and just grind for hours, I could travel cross country and do the same. Even in normal travels I was able to use it without constant disconnects -- it was great.

But they decided one day to just nuke it... for no reason as far as I could tell. My subscription went with it. Shame.

EDIT: based on the responses below I did a quick search and it appears that it was silently removed, refactored and then returned slowly back to people depending on their account age/device. This is actually incredible news (to me).
Maybe not clickbait, but it's strange the title is derived from this short excerpt where he says his life was ruined (without much detail).
> I get the birds and electricity reference, but nuclear fission?

That was fusion, but you can look into natural nuclear reactors (I think first discovered in Gabon) for the fission.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reac...
From the linked Website:

> Depending on the team size, and the rate of commits, short-lived feature branches are used for code-review and build checking (CI). [...] Very small teams may commit direct to the trunk.
More along the lines of Haskell but Javascript.
Those numbers roughly match what pilots make in USA[0], but 86,000 CZK per month is about 20% (or less) of what an entry-level programmer would make in the USA. The lower bound of 36,000 CZK per month would be only just above USA federal minimum wage.

I think part of the push-back against programmer unions from American programmers is that there's such a wide range of skills, and at the moment the market allocates compensation more-or-less according to capability. In many important ways, a programmer earning $500,000 per year at Google is in a different industry than a programmer earning $50,000 per year at General Motors.

[0] $52,000 per year according to https://www.indeed.com/career/pilot/salaries
Yeah 100% as a union you'd have a bit more power to negotiate a range of things with your employer, and many of them are pretty minor and even cheap. Thinking back to some previous jobs I had, the things that hurt us weren't salary related, but things like:

- as you said, productivity tracking through arbitrary means (in our case it was an arbitrary "story points completed per developer per month" measurement used to rank us)

- expectations around overtime (it was common to be asked to work evenings and weekends, you were remunerated at 1.5x or 2x but expected to do so if asked and singled out if you didn't)

- developers being frozen out of the requirements process (senior devs were begging to be allowed to spend time with the analysts, but prevented from doing so by someone in the management hierarchy, I think someone in charge of analysts)

- work-from-home (this was pre-covid, but there was an expectation that you'd be in the office unless you had an extremely good reason to and it was begrudgingly permitted)

Fighting for improvements in these areas individually is near-futile, but when you've organized yourselves management have to decide whether some very minor things are really worth pissing their entire, expensive-to-hire development team for.
Worked on something very similar and we chose not to move ahead with this kind of feature because of the phishing risk, without redefining the problem (like webauthn, Fido etc) it is very easy to dupe a user / replay attack. Most users don’t pay that much attention and friction hurts adoption.

Kind of funny the govt shipped the feature even with the spam risk and our more commercially oriented competitor product didn’t. You’d Hope they would be raising the bar for security not lowering it.
It's so incredibly demotivating to lose a streak this doesn't surprise me. I quit duo in large part because of the streak mechanism.
While he may not have gotten it more widely studied to evaluate the efficiency… did he publish more information about his process? Or did his methodology die with him?
That is a fair point. I went back through my history in the app to figure out the real numbers:

First day of use: 11th Dec 2014
First missed day: 19th Jun 2017 (921 days later)
First freeze use: 20th Oct 2020 (2,140 days after first day of use)

The missed days were down to (IIRC) time zone crossing and patchy internet, I can't recall if Duolingo let you off here or if there was leeway in the streak calculation. Those could also be Duolingo being down for maintenance.

I think when I started using the freezes was when the value of the app had dropped for me. 2,140 days is a pretty good run.

FWIW: living in a French speaking country has provided the most value. Duo helped initially with vocab building. I find/found the lack of colloquialisms one of the biggest problems with it.
I couldn't spot a date on the article itself (perhaps it could be added to the HN post title); in case others are curious, wayback machine first scanned it 21 Sept 2020.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200101000000*/https://www.thin...
They still list more than a million pounds in assets, 50k in cash, and have been around for 13 years. A bit much for a "side gig".
What made me lose interest in Duolingo was (losing the friends whom I conversate with and) 1. The lessons are so sluggish, if I know everything I want to be able to zip through them. But no - apparently these success animations and transitional effects are good for me. And 2. The totally senseless examples and also the sometimes cryptic questions when you don't know what they are asking for because the language is ambiguous.
"Skepticism is a shortcut to wisdom"
Sounds strange - I've been able to do offline lessons as recently as this week. On android with a free account. Maybe this was something temporary in the past?
> I hope you're not genuinely convinced you can't find similar bliss for an order of magnitude less than what you paid

I’ve got extensive experience commissioning various garments in workshops around the world, buying furs from auctions and hunting around the world for fine fabrics.

An order of magnitude simply isn’t realistic, you could create something similar for 33-50% of the money if you were willing to accept a cheaper exterior fabric and a lesser grade of fur. Keep in mind that regardless of materials a well crafted coat will tend to cost a few thousand euros, fur lining requires significantly more work.

If you were to just walk up to a decent tailor and ask for a quote, it’s unlikely they’d give you a number below 10000 euros.

> That being said, do you have a link to see it?

Similar to this one, from a past collection https://it.loropiana.com/en/p/man/coats-and-trench/winter-vo...

Little signaling value outside of anonymous internet conversations, visually indistinguishable from the significantly cheaper (5k) cashmere version without fur, except for the colorway that some sales rep or a true enthusiast might recognize.
How did this not result in refunds for thousands of people?
> Apples’ “privacy” is that they retain monopoly control over my data.

That's a strange way to describe the situation where Apple is not allowing third parties to share your private data without your permission. Apple is doing exactly what you wanted in your first paragraph, which is to let you decide who gets access to your private data. If you only give it to Apple, that's YOU deciding to voluntarily grant Apple that monopoly. It's only a "monopoly" if YOU choose it to be.

If you want to download the Facebook app from the App Store and voluntarily give your private data to Facebook, Apple isn't standing in your way. Monopoly? Seriously, I have no idea what that complaint could possibly be based on.

> and get to profit exclusively by spying on me.

I'll set aside the weird claim that Apple is "spying" on you, as though you didn't know Apple is involved in the functioning of your device. Really I'm confused why exclusivity would be a grievance. You think it'd be better if Apple were giving your data to other companies so more companies could spy on you?
I'm wondering if the last sentence from the abstract is more of a holy grail than the conversion of methane to methanol:

> ... The confinement of mono-iron hydroxyl sites in a porous matrix demonstrates a strategy for C–H bond activation in CH4 to drive the direct photosynthesis of CH3OH.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-022-01279-1

Selective C-H bond activation (of which this paper is an example) is extremely difficult. It has been the focus of intense research for decades. Having a tunable catalysts system that performed this transformation would be a game-changer for the production of just of about every organic molecule. The authors just focused on methane as the hydrocarbon feedstock, so it's hard to know how general the process might be.
I’m opposed to bullshit metrics to measure performance, lol. I don’t see how you can interpret my statement otherwise I’m good faith. I’m merely pointing out that at the very least the Kickstarter union was able to limit the degree of that particular bullshit.