skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Efficiency of software orgs is extremely plastic. An effective 15 person team can outperform a 150 person team and this is normal.

"Software is eating the world", but most companies where software is either the product or a central part of the strategy (as opposed to a cost center) are still managed by people who either don't understand, or refuse to accept, that software is primarily _creative_ work, with a strong _collaborative_ component. In an attempt to reduce risk of an inherently risky creative endeavour, the management will over-hire and over-manage.

Biggest example is open-source: collaborative work done by random strangers on their own time and budget is competitive, and not rarely _way better_, than software produced by well-funded companies with competent people.
> McDonalds in Australia do a decent cup of coffee. It’s not great but it’s consistently decent so I often start my day with a cup.

Ugh lost me on the first sentence
Just my own speculation, but yes. The lack of deep focus is endemic in the culture. There is too much cheap distraction. I’ve gone through my phase of thinking it will collapse. I think that’s possible, but a more realistic base case is a consolidation of key technologies and methods that can get the job done, although standard of living may reduce drastically.
Everything changes.

Your access to a website could change or the server could go down or a website may get bought.

Good reason to keep taking screenshots.

There have been dozens of times I ve been saved by a screenshot.

- insurance cards on phone
- a random screenshot I took of a photo of my citizenship certificate saved me 2 weeks For travel
- names of peopel
- context during a call
Definitely "O pendrive" in my experience. Never heard the other one.
Now to find my copy of No$gmb.exe to try it out.
Strangely, in the Gardner article that she used for the outline of her video, it explicitly states that its eqivalent of the pink side with yellow center is theoretically impossible, in the hexahexafrustragon.
> Otherwise it feels a bit ad hoc that way, wouldn't consider a gist with this many files more ergonomic compared to a repository.

All gists are actually GitHub repositories — you can clone them, branch, and commit changes. There isn’t PRs or an issue tracker, though.

(Same with GitHub wikis.)
One of the major root causes of the problems with the system.
It might be, but in my experience the hardest conversations are the best ones to have. If it all goes to hell, time to vote with your feet and dust off the resume, then.
I know this isn't strictly OT, but I see it a lot and it bugs me. The article mentions "more than triple the cover space" while the title mentions a 300% increase. A 300% increase is a four-fold increase relative to the starting value, not 3x. This is because a 100% increase is a doubling, of course, so it's easy to get mixed up. If something went up by 1100% it's a twelve-fold increase, etc.
"Where a person's good name, reputation, honor, or integrity is at stake because of what the government is doing to him, notice and an opportunity to be heard are essential." Wisconsin v. Constantineau, 400 U.S. 433, 437, 91 S. Ct. 507, 510 (1971).

This case and similar sound in federal employment law. I cite them frequently in the context of military discharges. But the government publishing stigmatizing material about someone is odious, and I see no reason why it implicates less of a liberty interest here than it does in an employment context. It's my personal opinion that this reasoning should extend beyond federal employment -- stigmatizing material published by the government should require a hearing.
Sure, and I do always strive to be nice to anyone I have to interact with whether they're cashiers or otherwise. Social anxiety doesn't tend to be a rational thing though, so the fact that consequences aren't unlikely doesn't really make it go away. I know that nothing bad is going to happen from a minor social interaction, and yet that does absolutely nothing to make me dread it less if I'm happening to be in an anxious state. A lot of mental health things work similarly to this; for example, having depression doesn't just mean you're sad because things aren't going well, but you can be despondent despite everything going perfectly fine in your life. If you can't imagine having feelings like this that conflict with what you actually know about a situation, then you're one of the lucky ones, but you probably do know someone who would know exactly what I'm talking about.
China is good at education, but also good at avoiding certain topics. For example, fairly basic research skills are not taught until university level.
Exhausts vastly improved, got carefully catalysed and filtered. So they actually might now pollute less. Also particulates are nastier than gases, as they locally accumulate in environment and lungs.
>I had a 1 minute look at the "optimized" C code - it's calling malloc for every word.

Neither simple.c nor optimized.c call malloc "for every word". They only call malloc when inserting a previously-unseen word into the counting map.
Ted Nelson was mentioned specifically in his original proposal document, so I would say it had some influence.
This is supported by the the last chart[1]. Breast area has gone up, but breast to waist ratio has stayed flat, indicating that they're staying the same size relative to the body. In other words, the main characters are taking up more space on the cover, and as a result breasts are taking up more space as well.

[1] https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg...
I'm a technical architect by trade. I write clean, concise and discrete product requirement document artifacts. If you can do this and you're able to convey clear parameters of what needs to be done, you can easily score senior developer talent @ $30/HR.

My back-end developer writes Serverless IaC with Python Lambdas for $40/HR. Our app developer writes Swift for $25/HR.

We manufacture a proprietary IoT sensor.
I pay $30/HR for an embedded developer to write C in TI CCS.
I pay a fixed rate for board layout / schematic / BOM edits.

A hard truth is coding skills are commodity if you know how to modularize and write spec. You don't need perfect English to write beautiful Python / Swift / C. I don't need you in the same timezone because you're pushing to a git repo and we review it when we wake up.

For permanent talent, they're more than happy with $40/HR. They like working with people who know what they're doing, they like that I write a PRD and leave them alone until deadline, and they believe in what we're doing.
If cheap tunnels were possible, the cost of maintenance would also be hugely lower. "Maintaining" electrical lines at a given location looks a lot like tearing them down and replacing them.
Such a tedious strawman that somehow keeps getting rolled out every time transit and density come up here... no one is saying you "shouldn't be allowed to have a yard of my own," people are saying that you should have the right to build more densely on your property if you want to, which should have the side effect of creating more efficient land use and less expensive housing. It's about changing zoning requirements to give property owners more rights, not fewer.
I think there are some business dealings some would consider way worse because they effect much more people and much more materially.
I too have wondered whether nobody else on Earth — including Apple engineers and designers — have faced this problem.
Chess robot breaks finger of 7-year-old opponent
I don’t care about styling, and that is exactly why I use (and enforce use of) an autoformatter.
That makes me think that formally proving the code correct using a proof assistant would actually be faster than the process you describe.
> this system was based on institutionalized, merciless bullying

No bullying exist in the US and EU schools, sure.
Made in Germany! (I’m not the creator)

https://github.com/danopia

https://twitter.com/danopia
He was certainly influenced by Ted Nelson and I’d be shocked if he had no awareness of this. He’d have to have been completely naive about the field he was working in, and I don’t think he was naive.
I totally agree, but the reality is that if you don't have a car then you won't be able to easily commute in most cities. I'd love for this to change, but a few individuals choosing to suffer by not having a car isn't going to help anything.
It's not about who is or isn't in favor of it. The narrative has been misleading here.

Check figures 2.c on page 18 and 2.o on page 34 in UT's report on this (https://energy.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/UTAustin%20%28...) for a sense of the scope of how unexpected capacity outages break down.

Yes--a lot of wind was offline. But all of the expected wind capacity could have been met and the grid would have still needed to shed quite a bit of load. In fact, all of the expected wind, solar, coal, and nuclear could have been online and the grid would have still had to shed a meaningful amount.

The scale of the natural gas outages was larger than the entire load-shed, afaict.
Curious: Since Standard Ebooks uses Project Gutenberg's work, why not contribute back instead of 'fork' to a separate project? Are there obstacles preventing this or making it less than desirable?
Yes, for everything I can, and my kids call me a boomer
Main change in the 90's?
> Things that exist in most modern clouds are being reinvented in K8s

I should fucking hope so. I don't want to change my helm charts because I'm deploying on Azure for this particular client.
> "easier to rollback" and "don’t need to wait on a particular change to be merged" to be on the list of upsides

Can you explain how these are not just facts? We’re not using stacked branches because it has enough downsides, but these are indubitably upsides of stacked branches.
Thanks! Makes sense if it's being built as fast as possible given the number of workers available for installation.
The "silence from the Tesla autopilot crowd" may be related to the fact that Tesla accident stories tend to be quietly corrected three months later. For example "Self-Driving Tesla runs into tree, kills occupants" turns into "Guy shows off and floors car into tree, car obeys"
If it helps any, here's the post you made that describes it most simply without needing to go 5 or 6 levels deep of self reference to the same question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26156901

(I had to click a lot of "here's a post where I explained it before" links that had "here's a post where I explained it before" before I found this one)
In Alzheimer mice models, which are completely flawed to begin with. Another pure junk headline.

They also did a retrospective population-based cohort study (no intervention), which is not enough to prove any kind of causality and is prone to confounding factors that can't be easily controlled for (how much time people spend in the sun every day will have a huge impact in their Vitamin D levels and their needs for supplementation or not).
nginx is great, but I've also been hearing good things about caddy[0]. I want to check it out soon.

[0]: https://caddyserver.com/v2
JSONlite: A simple, self-contained, serverless, zero-config, JSON document store
I've had the arrows disappear on the site before; it was fixed by a force-reload. Also, I think you lose the ability to remove a vote after some number of hours.
> And despite its relatively compact size, it's not that light, with an unladen weight of 3,869 lbs (1,755 kg).
Honestly, I think it says more about how distorted your worldview has become that your first instinct is to go hunting for some little factoid to use to confirm your pre-existing bias against " the mainstream media", no matter how irrelevant, incorrect, or out-of-context that fact may be.
> All of these companies have huge, mission critical reasons not to use AWS/Azure/GCP and invest in K8s.

Very true. The problems occur when smaller companies without these mission critical reasons make the same choices because the others are making them.
Boobs are in the front side. So you won't be able to find many covers with butts.
> This scared the living shit out of governors and politicians who realised such a radical agenda might create young adults able to think and politically organise.

Can you provide any examples of this? I'm skeptical of this claim given that Gatto was a prominent Libertarian, which don't really believe in political organization. The Libertarian movement is inherently individualistic. Not to mention his work with a Christian documentary about children failing to learn about family and God in public school[0]. Not to cast stones here, but organized religion isn't big on teaching critical thinking either.

I can't find any quotes or responses from a governor or politician that supports your characterization of his work.

0: http://www.indoctrinationmovie.com/
He didn't clear the disk cache when profiling so of course the IO overhead was negligible. Had he flushed the cache between runs the numbers would have been very different.
It seems like you have a simple set of rules for determining what you will and won't do, and perhaps what is right and wrong. I don't so I can't play rhetoric with you on this one.
I think Home Depot might be more usable because many of their items are too big to be removed from the cart and put on a scale, so they don't have that slowdown-inducing option for under-scanning prevention
Arguable that's not compromising the setup but in fact the correct one. Fit is critically important to something that forces you into a singular position/movement pattern for so long. Not to say the body doesn't adapt but it does have limits and nerve compression and hitting the (physical) end ranges of motion are cases where it's not so great at doing so.
Also the other way will come up in these kinds of "arguments" without doubt.

"How can these horrible critics say nudges don't work? Have they never been nudged with a loaded revolver? Can they not imagine that working?"

Leaving those of us who don't follow the controversy closely in the field and are interested in what has actually been found out and understood about the world with some degree of confidence across many fields of study, leaves us scratching our heads unable to see through the viewing window for all the mud getting flung.
People don't want to do their jobs, but that doesn't mean they're completely unmotivated. Many people with jobs they're indifferent to, also have hobbies they pursue relentlessly.

If you want people to take a deeper interest in their jobs, give them more money. Way more money. Way, way more money. If you want people to pursue deeper understanding of their interests, give them more free time.

To the extent that "shallow knowledge" is a problem, I think it's likely because most people spend a lot of their time doing boring work for not-enough money.
Another good place for free books: https://www.baen.com/catalog/category/view/s/free-library/id...
I usually notice how hot my iPhone gets when I’m using it without a case.
This is about a motorcycle, not a bicycle.

It was on a highway not a regular road to be shared with cyclists.

edit to add as I dont think it was clear- the tesla's system should have been able to detect the motorcycle as it was on the highway operating normally, so imo this makes it all the more egregious.
Vertical integration builds up a resiliency against supply chain issues. You have a guarenteed supply of materials and components for a reasonable price no matter how crazy world markets get.
> What draws people to start projects with AVR in 2022?

There is no other community that has documentation, tutorials, libraries, support forums, modules or just sheer number of people working with it compared to any other community in this space.

I don't want to be too unkind to your question but the tone sounds like you're disdainful of it because of a cost or performance issue (in that there are other options that are cheaper and/or more powerful) and this sentiment betrays a profound lack of understanding of how difficult it is to get into electronics, microcontroller programming or, really, any technical field, for most people. The "community" of Arduino is the selling point, not so much the power or cost (though if it weren't cheap enough this would be a moot point).

Personally, I think the libre/free aspect of it is also important as it allows people to use the tools and libraries in a commercial setting providing a "virtuous cycle" of sorts.

Are you in a technical field? When given the choice between using a new library, framework, programming language, etc. do you shop around for the one that has the best benchmark ratings or do you tend to look for a library, framework, programming language etc. that has a strong community, good documentation and a good track record or success? There are conditions where you do want to choose, or build, the most bleeding edge technology but this is usually when the core technology you're looking at is the main focus of the project. Most of the time, especially when it's not the main focus of the project, most people choose on multiple dimensions, not just bottom basement prices or speed.
> McDonald's politely explains why cooking at home is a waste of money
The potential upsides I can see are: ability to point or move through canals without tacking; time averaging; and geometry to work around the cargo better.

A kite seems like a better solution, but maybe a hybrid might be an option -- ie. get some power from wind and the rest from a battery. Then if you have to wait for a port or canal you're gaining range the whole time.

Could throw solar into the mix, but without high efficiency tilting panels it's hardly relevant.
That wouldn’t surprise me. Everything about the way we’re doing this in the US is going slow. I mean we’re only just starting to get it on gas pumps.

It wouldn’t surprise me if mag-stripe is just turned off in a few years.
See here: https://standardebooks.org/contribute

Our number one need is ebook producers. If you're passingly familiar in a command line environment and have basic HTML/CSS knowledge, you can produce an ebook!
I assume creating a brand of their own makes it easier to get donations which allows them to continue and/or grow the project.
I think incentives are there already, but more and more people start to say "we will leave this to the boring people who love books, and we get all the fun".

They are not built in a way that helps them read a large book for example. They don't appreciate attention to details. They don't know how to find joy in something like that, they don't know how to value someone like Dennis Ritchie for example. If you told them a few recommendations, they start to lecture you about the bad side of perfection :) ....I be like ...you and I didn't even smell perfection yet, but they have no idea what you are talking about.

I don't feel that incentives will change how they are built.
Data Parallel C++
> Have illustrators hit their maximum allowable peak for racy imagery, or is there still more to come?

Here's some inspiration from Japan, from a popular comic for teens called Shonen Jump (as in, this isn't even considered porn). The main pic is racy enough, but it duly censors the nipples. However, if you hold it and the following page up to a light, the illustrated "tapioca pearls" shine through in just the right place.

https://soranews24.com/2019/11/06/weekly-shonen-jump-under-f... (NSFW, obviously)
So we should disqualify the C and C++ impls because some libc functions are implemented using ASM, right?
I like Hypothesis just as much as the next guy. It's awesome.

You have some valid points, when you have specialised needs, you might need to write specialised software.

Though even for your example, I would suggest you write your domain-specific hash table as if it was a library, if possible, (instead of embedding it deep in your application code). Trying to make your code testable with hypothesis strongly encourages such an approach anyway.

(To show that my advice ain't trivial, I give a counterexample where you can't do this as easily: C folks sometimes write things like intrusive linked lists, or intrusive data structures in general. Almost no language gives you good tools to write these as a library, so testing properties in isolation is hard to do, too.)
> Nowadays, it is easier than ever to learn programming.

In some ways, I disagree. In the early-mid 80s, you didn't have a chorus of people on social media abusing you for your choice of programming language, as is the norm now for anyone who dares to pick up PHP (for example). You didn't have to battle with absurdly over-complex development environments, deployment options, and every man and his dog shouting at you on social media about why you're wrong from chosing framework x instead of framework y, or telling you that you're a sub-moron for thinking that it would be nice to have a running program rather than spend time battling emacs to be a "real programmer".

The world was much more insular and there were fewer choices and it was actually a lot better for it.

On top of that, the distance from what I could put together with the built-in BASIC on a Spectrum or BBC and a lot of the programs that you could buy wasn't that vast. You didn't need a studio of artists and designers and musicians to come up with a game that approximates what you'd get on a cassette. You could come up with something interesting on your own.
Tragically, they weren’t ever saved to any disk that I’m aware of.
While I’m sure ‘Apple Executives’ can afford to replace their iPhones, if indeed they pay for them at all, when they break, mere mortals like me will keep using nice rugged cases to give our $2,000 phones their best chance of staying in one piece.

I’m not a clumsy person, but in the few instances where my phone has met with a concrete carpark floor or a tiled work surface, my UAG rubber and plastic shell has kept it pristine. That’s something ill pay $40 every few years for, rather than hundreds getting my phone fixed.
For smaller companies, Digital Ocean Managed Kubernetes or or Google Cloud Run or their AWS equivalent are all very good choices.

But yes, "roll your own K8s" is for larger organizations.
Every other country in the world can embrace efficient clean public transport, and then America can be a theocratic car filled wasteland filled with dangerously unstable individuals, and completely decayed social structure.
Does anyone know of a Forth-like language that would be similarly low level, but allowing for nested word definitions for more HOF-centric approach?
And if you've got any old floppy or hard disks - save those suckers now!

I managed to get most of the data off my old Apple IIGS hard drive but there were definitely block errors. So I can still boot up the desktop I had in the 80's and 90's in an emulator. Brings back so many memories. http://www.oldcomputerstuff.com/resurrecting-my-apple-iigs-a...
> I couldn't help but notice that many young people don't want to spend months pulling their hair off to get a deeper understanding of what they do... they want to obtain value very quickly.

I feel like ... that's how humans are in general? Our brains are wired to seek easy paths, which is how habits are formed.

> The existence of a big number of people who can do complicated jobs is crucial for the modern world, and I think this whole thing will fall down if it continued with the current mode.

I think we may have different definitions of "complicated jobs" here, but I believe the number of people who are getting higher education (masters+) have been increasing.

Yes I do believe that people's attention span (mine included) are getting shorter and shorter. I've found myself watching more "summary videos" that are shallow instead of sitting down and deeply engaging with the topic. But I don't think it's to a point where the whole thing will fall down.

I do believe that we are criminally underpaying some crucial professions that require deeper understanding though: I can't believe I get paid more than electrical /mechanical engineers.