skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't you rather websites just stop invading your privacy? The EU is not to blame for the shitty business practices of these websites.
I have idea for drastic increase in efficiency of low temperature differential (50*C) stirling engines, which would make liquid air storage a viable alternative to grid scale batteries, super cheap solar-thermal panels could outcompete PV panels and it would alleviate problems with cooling large power plants while generating more energy from the same amount of fuel.

The only problem - I didn't yet made a prototype to validate this idea, because I have to work overtime just to support myself and family. I'm slowly making progress on this and I will be able to finish that prototype until end of year.
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These old school Commander type file managers don’t integrate too well. Windows 11 side by side pane is fantastic anyway.

I guess it’s ideal if you really have to sit down and do busy work, but I don’t see anything wrong with File Explorer……..except that obnoxiously excessive side panel that forever thinks I want to use OneAnything or weird quick access virtual folders that points to something called Documents completely separate from my local Documents sigh. They could make file explorer a lot simpler.
> saying no (to anything, ever) will come back to bite you when performance reviews (and raises and bonuses and stock grants) come around

Any employer that does this is toxic. You should find a new place to work. One of the hardest and most important professional soft skills is knowing when to say no and setting proper boundaries.
Would you rather have organized crime run the lotteries and reap the profits? That was the de facto situation before state lotteries.
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> we just might be left with more breathing room for smaller, more authentic, more human online engagements.

HAHAHAHAHA no. What we'll end up with is a different behemoth or small set of behemoths indistinguishable in their behavior from predecessors. Meet the old boss, same as the old boss. (The longer I live, the more prescient that verse seems.) And in this case, the behemoth will be in a country that is even more willing than the US to exert control over such companies. Not really a great deal for anyone except TikTok's owners.
Interesting stuff right here!
Omg, I just got that line. I never really heard it correctly, I thought he was referencing family.

"Be kind to your niece", what?
> Alternatively, are there any laptops which have such keyboards with extra modifier keys?

3 days old thread but in case you read this... Simply buy a japanese laptop and remap it as you fancy. The advantage is you'll get a tiny (narrow) spacebar (make sure to pick a laptop with a very narrow spacebar). Then you'll have several modifiers which can easily be reached with the thumbs.

Source: I'm rocking a HHKB Pro JP japanese keyboard since years and years and years for my desktop (even though I don't speak japanese).
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Makes me wonder if paying taxes should be a lottery too. One out of every million will get 1000x their payed taxes back.
Same with my car, which I just got a few months before covid started. The dealership is basically offering to buy it back for the price I paid for it.
Having a hard time finding anything on the site that explains how it's different from Total Commander though, other than price. If it's just "Total Commander, but free", including TC plugin support, I'd be rather surprised if that's even legal? Because if it looks and acts effectively the same as a paid application, except yours is free, then there is very concrete and intentional monetary damage being done.
Sure. These are the top level sites but each one has a variety of different newsletter (these are free);

https://www.techonline.com/

https://www.electronicdesign.com/

https://www.edn.com/

https://www.eetimes.com/

Pay newsletters:

https://www.techinsights.com/

https://ojoyoshidareport.com/
> Moreover, every bit of information that we communicate to the users will be heavily backed by scientific evidence which we disclose in the delivered reports.

Will it be possible to contact people with similar profiles to create new scientific evidence? E.g. if some marker is too low, it would be nice to work with others with the same problem to figure out how to increase the value.
That's up to you, not me.
What good is Bitcoin without the ability to trade it then?

Your assertions are the ones that are extraordinary, so yours is the side that requires proof. You're effectively claiming that a distributed peer database with a somewhat secure history has some kind of intrinsic value. I'm calling that BS.

Where is the money? Where is the _value_?

The fact that a few people were trading Bitcoins doesn't mean it can ever go mainstream. Something that's a niche hobby isn't going to change the world. If you want to use Bitcoin as a hobby barter medium, then have fun, but that doesn't imply value outside of a tiny community.

Prove me wrong. A "proof of concept" is in the technology domain. For crypto to work outside of a community of crypto-libertarians, it needs to be usable by regular people. Libertarians are famous for not actually being able to design social systems that work in the real world; last time they tried they were chased away by bears. [1]

And as the article pointed out (did you read it?), most apps that support crypto rely on a centralized server since the chain can't be downloaded to mobile devices. How useful is a medium of exchange that requires you to bring a laptop with you everywhere?

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-...
I’m not sure what this is about, but “the writer is dumber, I am Intelligent” is the lowest form of criticism.
No, your point is that unless I completely agree with you about some specific voting demographics that happens to be a pet theory of yours, then I'm wrong about something completely unrelated. Seems like you're knee deep in this shit and projecting your views in an entire country.
+1, Daniel Shiffman is an absolute treasure. His studio setup is fantastic and him and his team (?) produce incredible videos.
If someone can make it so it doesn't feel like I can no longer think or move any muscles or start sweating if I go more than about 3 hours without eating, then I'm on board! Also hunger pangs. Please no.
I've been a big fan of xPlorer 2 [1] for many years now.

[1] https://www.zabkat.com/
I never put it on, but it's in my library and I never skip it if it starts playing.
I also still hear it every now and then on the radio.
Then the market is acting rationally and allocating limited goods to the highest bidder. Prices would go down if the population stopped purchasing at the given prices. But all it takes is one person to buy at a price just above yours to keep you out of the market.
No doubt the bloody eastern front had a big role, but it's hard to argue that it wouldn't have ended soon anyway with the atomic bomb. Would anything less have convinced Japan to surrender?
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Even internally at Google, a large number of employees are stuck in this situation and have pushed for it to be fixed for years, but AFAIK they are no closer to actually getting anything fixed.
You mean you haven’t been in an accident that wasn’t your fault?
EU may be stricter about enforcing, but I've also experienced it's very person-dependent.

People who need to answer unknown callers for business reasons (small business owners, sales, etc.) get put on lists of "known active numbers" and may get multiple spam calls a day. Folks like me who can just ignore any unknown number & respond only if they leave a real voicemail, get FAR fewer (maybe 1 a month on avg). We tend to complain less about the issue (even if it is annoying & I still treat all unknown calls as spam by default).

Also, if you own a google device, they're very good at IDing spam callers. I recently switched from Google to Samsung and get far more.
This would then leave room open for competitors to move in and price lower to move more units. Ultimately things are set to MR = MC in the long run.
Every piece of information reported to the users will be presented in a digestible way. This will include both, hard scientific evidence but also a lay version of what it means. If you want to, you will be able to look up and verify everything yourself. We will also make sure to draw the line between definitive statements ("this measurement means you are sick") and suggestive statements ("this might mean something, go see a doctor") in order to not oversell anything.
Very interesting - how do y'all ensure visualizations are pertinent to data request?
No, it is not. Apple built something; it wasn't handed something.

Your attitude is that if you succeed, what you built should be taken away. In regard to Apple, this refrain is long past tiresome. Apple is not the gatekeeper to the entire Internet the way Google and (to a lesser extent) Meta is to a huge portion of the public. Lumping Apple in with Google, Meta, and Amazon betrays profound ignorance of the tech landscape.

There are plenty of things to hammer Apple for. Lying to developers, consumers, and the government about app-store search results for one thing. But your "logic" here is devoid of merit.

Refer us to your demands that oil companies be reigned in for making record profits while harming the economy of the nation. Refer us to your screed demanding that the meat-processing oligopoly be brought to heel for making record profits while bilking the public AND complaining about a labor shortage.

Please provide a link to your essay condemning the regional monopolies that led to the baby-formula shortage. And at the very least, a copy of your letter to congressional representatives demanding that the TicketMaster monopoly be abolished after decades of consumer- and artist-harming behavior.
The pictures they offer look like someone who's feeling well, and someone who's feeling bad. Would this model classify people with chronic illnesses as mentally ill, because they're feeling bad? What about people who had just dropped their phone and cracked the screen?
It's how the NFT market works though. It's a different financing model - you might get it way cheaper but every time it passes hands it makes money for the owner.

The main issue with this is that what is unique about a record is not the book content, that can still be copied out.

If a blockchain future exists to replace IP it will be a different financing model for sure and it wont be this analogous to buying digital books like today .It will be more like super hardcore fans will pay thousands of dollars, and people that don't care much about it will get a free copy.
Intel was making its own ARM chips called Xscale 20 years ago, no?
This is really "in addition to total commander" as far as I'm concerned. Far is great on the CLI, but when you're not working with terminals you generally want a normal looking application. Both Far and TC are basically "two sides of the same coin", you can use either one, but using both in their respective environments makes life even better.
No one asked for a "block device"? Um, that's table stakes because every single OS in the world needs to be able to boot their system, and that requires a block device. Every single cloud system provides a block device because if it wasn't there, customers wouldn't be able to use their VM, and you can sure they would be asking for it. Every single cloud system has also provided from day one something like AWS S3 or GCE's GCS so users can store files. So I'm pretty sure you don't know what you are talking about.

As far as "proper stack refactoring" is concerned, again, the key is to make a business case for why that work is necessary. Tech debt can be a good reason, but doing massive refactoring just because it _could_ help other teams requires much more justification than "it could be beneficial". Google has plenty of storage solutions which work across multiple datacenters / GCE zones, including Google Cloud Storage, Cloud Spanner and Cloud Bigtable. These solutions or their equivalent were available and used internally by teams long befoe they were available as public offerings for Cloud customers. So "we could have done it a different way because it mgiht benefit other teams" is an extraordinary claim which requires extraordinary evidence. Speaking as someone who has worked in storage infrastructure for over a decade, I don't see the calcification you refer to, and there are good reasons why things are done the way that are which go far beyond the current org chart. There have been a huge amount of innovative work done in the storage infrastructure teams.

I will say that the posix/nfs/smb way of doing things is not necessarily the best way to provide lowest possible storage TCO. It may be the most convenient way if you need to lift and shift enterprise workloads into the cloud, sure. But if you are writing software from scratch, or if you are internal Google product team which is using internal storage solutions such as Colossus, BigTable, Spanner, etc., it is much cheaper, especially if you are writing software that must be highly scalable, to use these technologies as opposed to posix/nfs/smb. All cloud providers, Google Cloud included, will provide multiple storage solutions to meet the customer where they are at. But would I recommend that a greenfield application start by relying on NFS or SMB today? Hell, no! There are much better 21st century technologies that are available today. Why start a new project by tying yourself to such legacy systems with all of their attendant limitations and costs?
Deadlifts and squats.
Tracking, thank you.
Yep. To be clear, I thought it was a great article with lots of great advice, just too focused on the technical aspects of cloud benefits, whereas I think the real value is organizational.
This is a good question IMHO, I'd love to know the answer myself.

There's the Modern Frontend Dev for Rails book. It's been rewritten to cover Hotwire but still includes a lot of stuff on traditional WPA style frontends. That's useful but I was definitely more interested in a progressive enhancement Hotwire approach based around Stimulus and Rails View Components.

I'm sure you must be aware of the Stimulus Handbook but I'll mention it anyway[2]. Also [3].

Depending on your level you could also try https://www.hotrails.dev/

1. https://pragprog.com/titles/nrclient2/modern-front-end-devel...

2. https://stimulus.hotwired.dev/handbook/introduction

3. https://www.stimulus-components.com/
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My current mentor is 67 and pretty much knows everything. His coding style is shit, and he's slow as molasses, but he has an insane memory that can recall obsolete architecture ISAs, compiler quirks (for dozens of compilers), and tribal knowledge for just about every kind of trick and technique. That's probably why he is so slow: if I had to navigate 5 decades of lossless knowledge I probably wouldn't be able to walk.
I was curious so I looked into it a bit.

According to BLS data [1], the median computer scientist salary in 1997 was $82k, adjusted for inflation [2]. The same data has software developers median salary today at $121k. It seems SWE are getting paid much, much better today.

Granted, the occupation titles don't align perfectly. There was no "software developer" role in the 1997 dataset, but most of the computer science positions have a median salary in the low $80k-range in todays dollars. Also note that the timeframe you chose was at the peak of a tech bubble. Probably not the best for comparison, just like you wouldn't want to use 2006 or 2021 for a gauge on housing costs.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm

[2] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
You must really love software patents!
I currently am both a full-time employee and a full-time PhD student at a US university. Recently I finished my coursework and passed a qualifying exam so now I"m a "PhD Candidate" which means I can focus more on research.

It's been very difficult to do both school and work simultaneously. It helps that I enjoy learning the material and have had some truly outstanding professors. The biggest challenges for me have been (in no particular order):

- Group assignments with unmotivated or unethical students. In 3 separate instances, I caught a student in my group attempting to submit blatantly plagiarized work (simple GitHub search to find the duplicate code). Other times I would be the only person to write any code that actually worked.

- Seemingly pointless bureaucracy, like a form certifying that I completed all my coursework which needs approval by 5 people and a minimum of 4 weeks processing time. As far as I can tell, this form only asserts that I passed >90 hours of coursework, which is already in my transcript.

- Not enough one-on-one time with my advisor.

- Not enough guidance on the publishing process. I have collected anecdotes from some professors and snippets from my advisor, but I would have appreciated some formal training. I would have gladly swapped some independent study credit hours for a course about academic publishing.

On the plus side:

- COVID restrictions forcing classes to be online really helped with logistics.

- I used to have imposter syndrome pretty bad. But comparing my work to that of other PhD students across a broad range of topics has proven to me that I'm at least better than average for this university. Maybe I am a big fish in a small pond, but some of those peers have FAANG jobs now. So maybe I'm actually getting pretty good at this stuff.
> a burden on overworked, under-funded website teams

It's only a burden on these people if they choose to be user-hostile.

There are really easy ways to deal with GDPR but these dumb companies insist on avoiding those solutions at all cost.

If companies insist on being dicks, then the only possible government-level solution might be to just ban this kind of tracking outright.
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A third group of instructors are adjuncts who teach at three or four local institutions and are reliant on the lecture slides the publisher puts out to accompany the course textbook.

That's the reason the textbook racket works at all. You want to improve things, you have to improve working conditions at second-tier colleges.
3. Daily (correspondence) tournaments and a larger correspondence community. That's mostly what I play, since it allows me to play whenever and for as long as I want. 10-20 simultaneous games means there's always something for me to play. I can blitz out moves for all games in 15 minutes, or spend an hour thinking about one game.

I prefer lichess, but just can't have that experience so I pay for chess.com.
One way to solve that issue is to agree on the design pattern ahead of time before writing the code. Learning to think about the abstraction ahead of time is a powerful skill, but can be very uncomfortable to some people. There's a thing where we just allow people to say "I need to get my hands dirty, I can't effectively plan it ahead of time because I'll just end up changing my mind anyway," and nobody questions that reasoning or pushes back. The concept of "learning styles" has mostly been disproven. It's just a muscle you have to work, thinking about abstractions ahead of time without writing code. Writing helps a lot here.

Anyway, if you're able to iterate on the design pattern before writing code, it can often only take a day or two, and then you don't have to spend another sprint re-writing the whole thing or whatever. Code reviews become a lot quicker/easier now as well, because you don't have to think about other design patterns while reviewing code, just the pattern already agreed on.
Correction: they claim that it is. The 451 code is specifically made for that, referencing Fahrenheit 451, so using this specific code implies censorship.

However, it would be totally legal for them to provide the content. They just don't want to take responsibility for their privacy invading practices. So it's not censorship at all.

/me shrugs. Personally, I have yet to find the website I can't just close if it behaves like this.
This is where people management comes into play. It's really difficult to identify why someone isn't participating, until you get to know their work and personality. I have regular meetings with all the engineers to discuss their work, progress, what is holding them back, expectations for career, growth, stuff like that. It's impossible to completely separate tech leadership from people leadership.

In my experience, usually, lack of participation comes from a lack of self confidence in one's understanding of software development, and usually, finding something small and delegating ownership to a junior engineer, with some oversight, gets them to participate more. You have to let go of the notion of having something done perfectly and allow them to make their own mistakes, but don't let them make huge ones. This is the most common case. There are also people who don't care (can't do much here), or aren't very good technically.
I really wish their was more definitive studies on protein needs, based on exercise/lifestyle. All of the studies I've read tend to contradict with each other. During a phase of bodybuilding training I befriended a guy at the gym and he went on to train me.

He convinced me that I needed more protein than ever before. This guys was massive, and had success locally at competitions. So I took his advice and started to consume on average 350 grams of protein, he wanted 400 but I just couldn't do it.

I'm honestly not sure if it made a difference but I was at my most biggest, and strongest when I trained with him.
It's interesting how little this is talked about. In the case of something like Vuele, they don't need to have an external database (the blockchain) for their concept to work. They could allow Vuele accounts to trade ownership of download rights and set up a marketplace for people to buy and sell.

But given the option to buy the right to download Zero Contact from some Vuele user or buy the download from the Apple store, why would anyone choose Vuele?

I think the bet on NFTs is that enough people will buy into the concept that it will legitimize itself. No one would want to go out of their way to buy movies from Vuele but if NFTs were to become popular enough people may be willing to buy movies from popular NFT marketplaces like Opensea, which they may already be buying other things from.

The initial impetus is dependent on people having an innate desire for scarcity. It's not solely about speculation. If you tell people they can be one of twenty people to own the original Vuele copy of Zero Contact there are going to be some buyers.
I read a lot of creative accounting case studies and am repeatedly surprised when others fall for the same simple tricks over and over again. At some point I have to assume willful ignorance.

I’m sure there are plenty of case studies in text books that management could read. Either they don’t read them or they take away the wrong message. Don’t forget the execs at these companies probably cashed in some big bonuses.
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answer the question please. why does this require blockchain?
You assume that one of these devices produces enough water for one person.
When I read that article in the New Yorker, I did find it odd that a long piece all about video platforms didn't mention YouTube. I can see that the writer wants to make a more specific argument about "social graph" vs. "public" approaches to social media platforms. But YouTube is such a successful version of the latter.