skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
solar panels arent born in nature and dont degrade biologically. also consider output by scale. most of heavy production occur in xinjiang where there isnt a safety culture, installations are anothoer issue. btw the data on solar is understimated for sure due to chinese data quality

https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
I know what the vanilla-js website is. I'm wondering what the virtual dom library actually does for you.
> Either you scroll on (negative signal) or you watch it until the end (positive), or you let it repeat (very positive).

Sounds like this would heavily incentivize items that are immediately catchy. Slow buildup stuff would die in this environment.
I love “the tyranny of the Wagon Equation,” what a great way to put it. I’d never thought through this before, but it provides a lot of context on the way wars unfolded throughout history.
Top comment and reply in that thread:

> Yet again I am reminded that my google is not necessarily the same as 'your' google. Just like how "define: something" doesn't show a dictionary definiton for me anymore, a functionality i used all the time. And now can't be sure whether was actually removed, or just removed for me!

> Google software engineer here. These gripes are legitimate. We want our users be able to depend on our features and services, and if you can't do that, we're letting you down.

Still a legitimate gripe nine years later, it seems...
I had the privilege of buying two expensive calculators. First, a TI-85 (1993) and then a new math teacher hired was more familiar with the HP-48G (1995) and had us get one. While fun to use to goof off in class, I felt they were like learning to use a slide rule: obsolete before you bought them. Did the small screen and the over-precise numeric answers give us a better idea of what we were doing than pencil and graph paper? Did it make any students appreciate math subjects more?

Having built an RPN evaluator at summer camp, I appreciated that my friends were learning it, too, on the HP-48.

In college, I literally never used it. A simple scientific calculator was almost always more useful.
I quite like it that some simple unit conversions (Celsius <-> Farenheit is the one I use most often), rough currency conversions and the likes are displayed right on the search results page.
> This isn't a fucking gotcha, it's a show of faith and compassion.

It certainly comes across that way, from the tone of your comments.

> Not just zoning laws in your suburbia, zoning laws in the city itself.

Yeah, I live in one of those single family walkable city neighborhoods. It’s a nice low density neighborhood. We don’t want it changed, but density advocates that don’t live here have “selected” us for an up-zone campaign. This isn’t a bad faith argument at all… This seems to be the serious lapse in understanding between pro density and pro single family zoning folks.

I’m super glad you were able to help someone move to a walkable area as well! I’m very happy someone discovered they wanted such a lifestyle over sprawl. That said, the vast majority in NA still prefer SF zoning and sprawl. I’m not convinced that will ever change unless sprawl becomes unimaginably expensive.
Only Americans would consider South Florida "walkable".
I've used https://e.ggtimer.com/6m30s for years
20 years ago our live/test/dev solaris + linux environments had different coloured prompts (green/yellow/red)

Hasn't really been best practice in many workflows to connect to servers at all for a decade
If one of the best in the US means you have to walk across highways that sucks
I think you hit on a good point here.

- The job should pay enough

- The work environment should be healthy and supportive
Why I decided to stop using Supabase
You have to be able to explain what you're working on to your partner's parents and friends. If they haven't heard about it in the newspaper or on TV they won't be impressed and might not want you to be their in-law.

Edit: interviewers are also unimpressed by personal projects they've never heard of. It's the publicity that gives you clout, not the quality of your project.

Edit 2: Just to clarify, I wholeheartedly agree with the author and also try to build according to their ethos, but I've felt the insecurity they describe at various point in my life.
From that thread, a viable replacement that managed to survive the Google onslaught:

https://www.online-stopwatch.com/timer/1hour/

Also from that thread, a Google engineer saying (out of context:) "We want our users be able to depend on our features and services, and if you can't do that, we're letting you down."

How long before Google realizes that these casual shut-downs of side projects are harming their image tremendously?
Wow, would you be willing to say which infrastructure system you had worked on?
Finish carpentry is woodworking, and there are pretty good opportunities there.

Furniture making is a tough way to make a living; factories are very good at furniture so you need to find customers with a lot of willingness to spend. Even at $25/hr for labor, a table and set of 4 chairs will end up around $5-10k easily. There just aren’t that many people who spend that much.

(I am a finish carpenter and sometimes furniture maker)
You're using google less, that's good afaik
Doesn’t US visa state in some way that your intended visit is only temporary? For example, if you take that visa and then decide to stay it can be used against you by immigration?
Public transit could be faster if we adopted Japanese style bullet trains and gave the buses their own dedicated lane. Running more frequent transit service and offering trains that skip some less popular stops also reduces travel time.
There are still some kind of dance marathons today but the word 'marathon' is applied differently.
I dance tango (not 'the tango' btw.). The kind from the Río de la Plata area (Argentina & Uruguay).

We have 'tango marathons' that usually last a weekend.

The idea is to dance as much as possible with every attendee that has the matching role (leader/follower) during this weekend.

Marathons are strictly role-balanced. I.e. for every follower there is a leader. In tango you change partners every block of 3–4 songs (called 'a tanda'). So with an song lasting between 2.5–3.5mins and an average marathon having 100 attendees there are ample tandas, over a weekend, to dance once with every of the 50 people that match your role (unless you dance both roles, that is).

Meals/nibbles/fruits/water during the dance time are usually included, sometimes even wine, especially in the Mediterranean.

A typical schedule looks like this:

Friday

6pm–8pm dinner

9pm–6am dance

Saturday

10am–12pm breakfast

12pm–6pm dance

6pm–8pm dinner

9pm–6am dance

Sunday

10am–12pm breakfast

12pm–6pm dance

6pm–8pm dinner

9pm–6am after party dance (open for non-attendees. Often local dancers that didn't make it into or couldn't afford the marathon)

Prices usually range between 80–120EUR for the above. Accommodation packages are frequently just double that (e.g. if the event is inside a hotel). With flights a weekend of bliss is commonly less than 400 EUR.

Often there are pre- and after dance events on Thursdays & Mondays for people that come for a long weekend. These don't include food and have to be paid separately (around 10EUR, in average).
I’m general, most Deep Learning processes these days are non-deterministic because 1) they only care about statistical correctness 2) there are some speed advantages in ignoring the existence of race condition bugs if you don’t care about being deterministic
1 - traffic jams slow down public transit too if the road space is shared (buses, trams) or they increase the time needed to reach a train/subway station if you don't happen to live at walking distance from one.

2 - driving time is only half of the time you spend in a car. in Milan I could drive to work in 15-20 minutes, compared to 25-30 using the subway.
good luck finding a parking spot though. they're either forbidden, very expensive or non existent. Not counting that many areas, like where my office is, are restricted traffic zones, getting a permit is really hard for non residents and fines are very high (very common in many medium to large cities in Italy). I gladly use the subway and read the news while commuting, so I don't even need to drive myself.

I'm really sorry for those that drive to work everyday, it must be hell, I don't understand how they can withstand it.
This depends on the base you are comparing to. In the home country people did not talk in the theater, literally they would sit silent during the whole show. Nor did they eat. So people talking, and loudly chewing, and sipping in the US was a shock to me.
That's weird.

Given how many other useful similar tools remain, it would seem extremely odd this was removed intentionally.

But on the other hand, given all of Google's infra/tests/quality/etc., it would also be extremely odd for this to be removed by accident.

Maybe some component being deprecated internally meant this was easier to shut down than upgrade, but for a feature this simple that wouldn't make a lot of sense either.

This is... kinda baffling, to be honest.
Curtailing freedoms due to disease is a very old thing and it works with COVID being no exception.

Mary Mallon was forcibly quarantined, let go resulting in 2 additional deaths, and then permanently quarantined in the US because she was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever in the early 1900’s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon The most common versions historically was locking people in their homes or isolating a community from the outside.

As to your complaint, walking outside does carry the risk of infecting others as people demonstrably have gotten COVID from walking past each other. It’s a low risk which why it was generally acceptable, but officials where balancing even this vs more people dying.
My mom got her degree in botany. Couldn't find a job. Switched to software design.
Any chance you've open-sourced any of this? I've been looking for a way to run Node.js packages in-browser!
It's not morally wrong per se. Consider something like trespassing, where one could easily imagine a cooperative society allocating parcels of land for certain activities rather than certain people, but the way our system is set up trespass is widely viewed as inherently wrong. This is a similar kind of thing where it's wrong just because everyone believes it's wrong:

The problem is that you generally expect some amount of privacy and control with respect to your belongings. The fact that you've granted access for one thing (a repair) doesn't imply that you've additionally ceded other rights (copying a ROM) not reasonably necessary to the repair.

Similarly, you wouldn't expect your mechanic to keep your car an extra day to lend to their family, your plumber probably shouldn't be snooping through your closet, and your phone technician shouldn't read your emails. Those activities _might_ not cause harm, but they're activities you ostensibly control, so other people should acquire some sort of permission before doing them.

And yes, maybe physically stopping people is easier (locks on your closet, be home during repairs, camera and a gps lock in your car, password on your phone), but the physical capability of having your rights violated doesn't act as permission to violate them.
My friend posted a video of his wife stroking a cat on his brand new TikTok account and within two days got >5 million views and offers of sponsorship from cat food suppliers :D
Hahaha glorious, the dice roller is still there! That MUST mean that Teraflop is right: removing the timer drives people to "x minute timer" youtube video's
@ianberdin, there's a link to "Sign up." But it doesn't give a good indication of what signing up does. Does it give me access to additional features? Does it sign me up for marketing emails? Normally at the sign-up stage, users are presented with a Terms of Service link or something else that gives further details, but it looks like you only present this information after the user has entered their info. Would you consider adding something like this up-front so I know what I'm actually signing up for BEFORE I enter my info?
> Net metering was exploitative model that stole from others.

That's just complete nonsense.
hope that last bit was very much in jest otherwise "someone on the Usenet is wrong."

visual stuff (vs. text) is about massive parallelism and compression. see Rudy Arnheim for example. or Tufte. or video games. or excel. or a good "foreign" film. or VR once it doesn't suck.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242265/visual-thinking
Good work! I don't understand the innards of this at all, but I love the design.

Iirc when I first read through the book designing data centric applications, the author talked about a lot of trade-offs for data storage and replication and network connectivity issues.

the impression I left with was for my particular application that foundation DB was the best option I had for my wild dreams of web scale popularity.

the current data persistence layer I use is sqlite, which means if I use mvsqlite, that only makes it easier for me to try to use foundation DB for my someday no doubt irresistible web application.
Carbon being "absolutely bathed in the utter fictions of C++" is a feature not a bug.

The goal of Carbon is explicitly _not_ to be a new general purpose programming language. In the docs, the authors even advise people to use Rust instead for greenfield projects. The goal of Carbon is to support migrating existing C++ codebases to some new safer language.
Yes, I do not think women had complete agency in deciding to have 5+ kids each. Or even 4. And it is probably still the same case for many around the world. Kind of like this scene:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUafzOXHPE
Thanks - I keep evolving the publication; The Scoop is barely a few months old and was (still is) a bonus addition to the long-form weekly articles.

To quote or not to quote from other publications is an good question. Re-reading the last two Scoop issues, they both, indeed started with The Information quotes as you rightfully noted. I didn’t mark the information that was unreported outside my newsletter clearly either. The ones that were all based on directly talking with sources at companies - like the internal controversy on Slack access at Stripe, compensation rises and the Board's role at Adyen, the Meta PSC process as it’s playing out right now, the details on Google’s hiring freeze as confirmed with managers at the company, the Graphcore hiring freeze, reporting on the upcoming Apple hiring slowdown - and then sharing when Bloomberg shared information on the same two weeks later.

Here is an un-paywalled The Scoop issue from two weeks ago [1] where the first article was, indeed referring to The Information as a source, the second news referencing Bloomberg - confirming earlier reporting - and the next six scoops mostly from my own sources.

I don’t like the idea of calling out “exclusive” details, but I can also see how quoting from other sources can de-value this publication. Also, the reality as a on-person publication is there will be relevant news I won’t get to, but might still be relevant to share as a summary.

[1] (removed paywall) https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/fff15093-0d83-41d...
I usually say that walking is the most simple/easy form of transportation. Why is walking to another room of your house simple, but walking anyway in the outside world hard? Driving is basically a second level of complexity that means your focusing on driving rather than sleeping, working or playing. You walk in a mall and a park for example.

I grew up and prefer a lifestyle where the car exists but you have multiple options of public transport. It's easier to be able to take a metro train under traffic jams and buildings to where you need to go, or a bus after a night out drinking. Driving is just a lot of stress and work.
Not Just Bikes made an interesting video on the thankfully-avoided plan to build a US-style highway system in Amsterdam: https://youtu.be/vI5pbDFDZyI
This is exactly the issue, but the solution will not be easy. Over the past 25 years some careers have become exponentially more lucrative, with much less risk, than other careers, even though they require and use the same skill set. A data scientist working for a big tech company is making gobs more than a botany post-doc, even though their skills and required education are similar.

Back 25-30 years ago, the chasm in pay wasn't as wide, and that was because pre-Internet (or pre-widely utilized Internet I should say), software just wasn't as lucrative. Now, though, I think you're seeing lots of challenges hiring in many professions because tech has become so monstrously dominant. You can say "just pay these folks more", but the money has to come from somewhere, and when big tech can easily afford 300k plus salaries for a position where other industries can't afford half that, it's difficult to see how this will improve.
> It certainly comes across that way, from the tone of your comments.

There's no ill intent in my comments, you might be choosing to read them as hostile. I'm just giving you some perspective and examples of real life experience. Also you wanted to understand the downvotes, which is also why I chose to reply.
i advise to look up at hiroshima and nagasaki today, or even look at wildlife in chernobyl no-go zone. obviously some dangers are bigger (and leave permanent scars) but technologies have progressed by far and wide. deaths/damages by fossil fuels are more sneaky. the "world" 40 years ago made a bad decision letting go of nuclear energy, wich will haunt the world for generations to come
Just giving author a hard time: when you start with "This is not meant to be an ad for Workers" but then go into listing advantages, detailed comparative pricing, and close with a "try now" CTA, what you've got is an ad for Workers.
Search based things come and go and quite randomly, I've found. "£1 in $" is a search I've used perhaps 1000+ times over the years and while it's been consistent for the past year or so, it often used to not return the currency conversion (but alternatives like "1 GBP in USD" did, etc.)
I use this quote as inspiration (don't remember where I adapted it from):

>Doing is often better than thinking of doing
Peter Norvig wrote a good article on this:

"Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"
http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
I'd be shocked that it was purposefully removed. There are so many search features that no one can count them (people were proud about that and also the fact there was no list of all of them).

Most likely a ranking change is stopping the feature from being triggered. Someone will read this and it'll be silently fixed in a week or 2.
Ask HN: What's the best free general purpose security software?
I used to just use AVG and Malwarebytes, but AVG is a nightmare of pop ups and scare tactics to get you to upgrade now. Is there anything else I should consider?
> How many PSY or Rebecca Black follow up records do people know?

Rebecca Black had a viral video that people liked because of how bad the song was, and how badly it was performed. She not only didn't disappear, but parlayed being known for something terrible into a entire career.
Exactly. I support private enterprise but I recognize it has limits. The market is going to do things that are profitable, which may or may not be things society considers good. When that difference becomes unacceptably large, government should step in.

For example, it may not be profitable to provide mail service to rural homes, but it is good the US Post Office does so, because people who live in the boonies deserve to fully participate in society.
By that line of thought, is life alive? It's just a collection of interdependent cells and molecules with emergent behavior. Seems like an ecosystem is alive collectively, in the same way that an individual is alive, just on a different scale of organization.
As the other poster pointed out, it's the pretense that Wikipedia is in any way shape or form neutral that shows the bias.
Not bad! What do you think about the experience so far?
Yeah it is signal to potential customer, employees and also it always help if you have some money at bank.
It seems China and Russia are actively building SMRs. [0] I'd be a pity if the west do not get serious at least about exploring the opportunity to test some of the designs being made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor#List_of_...
you are the product, not the user. The real user is buying add space.
Just out of curiosity, do the elderly there pine for the more automobile-centric days of the 1970s?
For the record, that's not an official Google blog.
DuckDuckGo has a very nice timer:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=timer+&t=newext&atb=v265-1&ia=answ...
Would be interested to see a similar visualization for major European cities. As someone living in London I would be very surprised if public transport isn't quicker on average.
> Most people suffer from what is commonly known as “plant blindness”, a term coined by US botanists Elisabeth Schussler and James Wandersee. They described it as “the inability to see or notice the plants in one’s own environment”. Unless taught, people don’t tend to see plants – despite the fact that at any given moment, there is likely to be a plant – or something made by plants – nearby.

But there are also proteins nearby -- isn't it worrying how people don't notice those too? With COVID and monkeypox raging around the world, isn't "protein blindness" an even more dire issue? I think the author might be suffering from "protein-blindness blindness," a term coined by US biochemists Elisabeth Simoneer and James Widdershins. In our recent study...
Clockchain
>a viable replacement that managed to survive the Google onslaught

One I like better, no ads, no stopwatch function though: https://e.ggtimer.com/
The Political Economy of the Decline in Antitrust Enforcement in the U.S.
This will be really unpopular here haha.

But the average person is always going to do what is best for them. You can let this inform almost any decision of your life when trying to decide what herd behavior and your users will do.
I’d like to see less permanent scaffolding, and a better trash management system so that it doesn’t take room from pedestrians (not to mention the hygienic benefits). And the city could crack down more on the drivers who blow through red lights or stop across crosswalks.

But it’s hard for me to think of a city I’d rather walk between to random points in.
I’ve used Midjourney for months now. Artists love it. It will lead to fewer people creating art the same way the cars led to less people traveling. It’s like having a pre-concept artist for for concept artist. Instant style boards to run by your client.
I'm on the list, I'd be surprised if anyone recognised my username who didn't know me from elsewhere.

I do recognise a good chunk of the top 30 or so names though
I have an alternative for B2B that worked not too bad for me as a typical introvert sales-averse SE: working a few years in customer support, pre-sales and solution engineer, ideally all three at the same time (in B2B obv.). Then you’ll hopefully have a good grasp of the sales process, how to make a good demo, how is organized the typical medium big company, which will help both close deal and build relevant features by talking to the relevant persons.

Then by knowing both how to build software, how works a typical company and how to sell, I was ready when an opportunity showed up.
I think this problem is bigger in many US cities compared to Europe, because of the urban sprawl. There is almost no way to make it efficient to go from most people's houses to the city using public transport, since the area to cover is so great.

To me, the solution is to re-think why everyone needs to go somewhere by car to get anything done. Why not have a grocery store closer? Some restaurants? Everyone having to travel from their house to the city centre to do basically anything is so wasteful. Most of this is because of zoning laws.