skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take what you would normally quote and double it. Keep yourself in the customers shoes, make decisions for them from their POV and the extra money is for when they change their minds, no added stress. GL!
> How much benefit would you get from whole blood donation?

The biggest benefit is that you make a contribution to society that helps hospitals to save lives. You may also live longer and healthier in return. Even if the second part doesn't come true, it's still a win.
Ah, Modula-3, one of my perennial favorites. Definitely a different continuation of Modula-2 than Wirth's own Oberon. Agree on the tooling issues. If it would've "sold" better, so many languages of the last two decades could've been avoided.
Is there any heuristic we might use to identify wholly inappropriate stats
> Consequently wood as a heat fuel was scarce and so beginning in the 16th century we see a marked shift over to coal as a heating fuel for things like cooking and home heating

I believe this is a common misconception. The author seems vaguely aware of it because just before this he says that the forests were cleared in antiquity, which is the usual response to point out this as being a wrong theory that doesn't add up.

They cleared most of the forests for agriculture and kept and 'farmed' the ones they coppiced for fuel for a long time after clearing the rest. When they no longer felt they needed wood as fuel, they cut down more rather than managing them as they had for hundreds of years.

This is like saying people started eating beyond burgers because they ran out of cows. No, we'll stop having herds of cows because we have a replacement that makes them less necessary.
I get the not having to part, but I wish it was acceptable to have one in our backyards.

If it’s well built, they’ll be less odourful than a standard toilet/bathroom by drawing air away from where it’s the worst.
Just saw this.

My experience with work friends is that companies that foster social environments will have more people who are closer together. My first SDE job was at a medium size company that didn’t pay very well but it was a lot of fun. Bi-yearly all hands meet ups at a resort, tons of office happy hours, monthly outings within your own city. I made good friends there.

Then, when I moved to Amazon for the higher paying job, they have such a soul draining culture that it’s impossible to be very social. You’re more worried about doing better than your peers than you are working with them to build a better product.

My current job is completely remote so there’s no social aspect.

So, I disagree with your sentiment. I don’t think people want to be less social. Sure, maybe people are becoming less social in general, but I think overall it’s just tech companies are less likely to harbor good social environments.
> you can treat both deployments and infrastructure as cattle.

What does this analogy mean?
And the main reason for doing that is because cryptocurrency related projects have a much much higher rate of fraud - ie. Someone will use a stolen credit card to pay for a bunch of mining compute.

If you could convince the CEO that you were not a fraudster, I'm sure the 'no crypto' policy is flexible.
I don't see why its presumed to be USD specifically. Could be any sort of Dollar, arguably. As far as I know, there are more than ten countries using some sort of "Dollar" which uses the same symbol ("$") for their currency.

But yeah, probably safe to assume USD, just playing devils advocate I guess.

Even so, on US-based platforms, like reddit or HN, USD is usually used as a "convertion unit" rather than a implication of location, I've found.
The Grim Test: A Simple Technique Detects Numerous Anomalies (2016)
> If you're smart enough to rise, you'll get an offer from the private sector you simply cannot refuse

The average graduation time for my comp sci undergrad in the mid 2000’s in Slovenia was 7.5 years. Because most people got jobs and forgot to graduate.

Personally I dropped out when schoolwork started getting in the way of freelancing for US companies. I remember a moment when my professor said “You know if you don’t get these grades up, you’ll have a hard time finding a job” and I thought “But I already have a job … sitting here talking to you is costing me billable hours”

Don’t get me wrong, I loved studying comp sci and learned a lot. Even use that knowledge regularly. Just didn’t get the paper.
Quite different from N++, but perhaps Obsidian with Tabs plugin?
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"Stacking context" creation is one of those concepts that many coders skip while learning as "intuitive enough not to dive deeper", and then stare in disbelief on list of properties that affects this, as pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32600047 .

Who would have thought that `will-change: mask-image` would have similar effect similar to `position: relative`?
I had a basic physics teacher that allowed notes and gave us a chest sheet of his own which literally listed equations, described variables and explained the situation you might want the equation. People still failed. In a basic thermodynamics class the teacher said it was open everything but the person next to you: laptops, internet, the book etc. For fun I took the test without either book or laptop and did just fine. Others found it hard. In both cases the problems required thinking about the situation posed and which basic principles should be used to evaluate the problem.

In my opinion, cheating from internet access or outside resources is not the problem, cheating by gogling exact problems is.
I don't know, PDP11's are pretty heavy. That'd be one flat hand.
I thought it all happened because of coal mining. Lumber was getting scarce and expensive in Britain so people started burning coal even though they didn’t have very good coal stoves at first. Demand for coal opened more coal mines. Mines need ground water to be pumped out of them. The first steam engine was a water pump run on coal because that was the cheapest fuel source. Better pumps => more coal => cheap energy => development of better machinery to use it => better pumps… There’s your virtuous cycle.
Ask HN: How do you manage version numbers for multi-platform application
We have an application that is built for multiple platforms (web, mobile, desktop) from a single code base. We maintain a version number which resembles semantic version, but has specific internal meaning. The version number is user facing to help when submitting feedback or support requests. We keep having conversations about whether the version should always be in sync across platforms. I'm just curious if anyone else has a similar situation and how it is managed.
I am using it for fun, and to create little Windows executables for work. I have SBCL, emacs, and slime, but Corman is such a neat little development environment for Windows. I recommend it to friends wanting to play with Lisp. I especially like tweaking the minesweepers demo, and letting it run while I do other stuff.
For plain Nix the universal work around is to run your editor inside of the nix-shell.

A better option iis a direnv plugin that modifies environmental variables inside of your editor to match your nix shell.
My understanding is that it's a settled question in economics that the answer is simply "risk management". This is what was "invented" at the start of the industrial revolution. Everything else already existed.
Using gas is worse than use geothermal, unless you somehow have gas powered geo thermal pumps (and still worse than solar+geo thermal). So the energy use would be higher.
Excellent. I do bluetooth mobile apps for the refrigeration industry, and currently thinking about leaving my job for something in USD...

I always say the number 50 USD/hour, since I feel like recruiters/platforms expect for a LATAM based dev to charge a bit less..
Not sure. I'm not "best of the best" but I work remote because Americans pay twice as much as Europeans.
Inventing and turning into usable product are not the same skill sets, nor is maintaining. If, today, you survey which websites are the most robust, the most user friendly, the most performant, the most functional, or most economical, you are very unlikely to settle on one produced and maintained by the government, or even a university. I've noticed in recent years that some government websites have actually become fairly usable, but I would not say I've ever been impressed by one.

Also, maybe I'm missing your point, but it seems very strange to say they internet was transferred to private enterprise. Private enterprise built on a government foundation, but almost everything that people use the internet for now was built by private enterprise, and the standards which constitute the most important contribution of the government were not, and are not now, under corporate ownership.
we're currently using early heroku dx as a gold standard while building a python cloud suite at abstracloud.com

(disclaimer: i work at abstra)
Thanks for the info. I was aware of them, but a VM isn't what I meant.

WINE isn't a VM or an emulator: it "just" translates Win32 API calls to Linux ones. Getting that working has required implementing a load of DLLs and things, but it works surprisingly well now.

An environment to let Linux binaries launch on Plan 9 (or insert preferred derivative here: 9front, Harvey, Jehanne OS, whatever), akin to the Linuxulator in FreeBSD or the Linux Zone on Solaris, would make the OS much more usable.
I only moonlight, but my rates are dependent on non-profit status, locality, and size of the company. The rate I charge Fortune 500 companies ($150/hr) is about twice that I charge the local library ($80/hr).
I had not read that. Thank you for linking to it and quoting the part that answers my question.
::face palm::

Thanks for pointing that out.

I will change my downvote to an upvote.

Though I did mention that it’s acceptable for someone like OP but only when they explicitly say they’re OP. However, it would be silly for OP to keep mentioning they’re OP in every comment.

Reddit is nice in the way they give OPs comment a slight treatment to make it clear they are OP.
I suspect they meant the Roman Empire at its organizational peak, ie around the 2nd Century AD.
Microsoft: Iranian hackers still exploiting Log4j bugs against Israel
I agree. I support paying for everything because everything has a cost. But I also think the amount I pay should reflect the cost it takes to run the service and the value I get out of it. We do not get $15/m in value out of the $15/m tier of redis for most of our apps. A multi-tenant solution that costs us something like $1/m per app would be much more reasonable.
Billionaire Moves Forward with Plan to Build Utopian City for 5M in Desert
That's what I'm talking about (though I guess the "thousand years" estimate was slightly high). Why did it take hundreds of years after the introduction of zero to get "the zeroth element of a sequence", which is quite a new usage, and even now is confined to specialized fields?
Wow! That I did not know.

Terry Davies left it out intentionally, AFAICR, due to the complete lack of any security in TempleOS. Putting it back in seems a bit irresponsible, but nonetheless, it's impressive.
I got it too, the sender is mailscarp.com which, ironically has this blurb on their homepage:

"Tired of getting spam emails from newsletters you never even signed up for? Mailscarp has you covered!"

To whoever did this: you're an asshole.
The community library wiki will probably be more useful to people who don't want to watch a bunch of videos: https://github.com/Jai-Community/Jai-Community-Library/wiki
Proof of Stake doesn't increase electricity usage. It is just some software running...
honestly want a non-vscode plugin for copilot.
We have so many handles. Wood, metal, plastic. A variety of heads! Sand-filled (dead-blow), brass, plastic, hardened metal, soft metal.

A subscription to deal with the wear-and-tear is probably only needed for the larger shops.
If it's TCP then there's an uplink implied.
Well, that is how CS is mostly taught in European universities, across their software engineering degrees.

For those that want CS theory only, there is applied mathematics into computation majors.
Any fab is allowed to produce a RISC-V CPU. You will also have far more core designs that can work across different fabrication possess.
Giving up the world championship improves his (very slim) chances of reaching 2900, because he doesn't have to save his preparation for those 12 important games. Magnus often plays offbeat (bad, basically) openings, to take his real prep completely out of the picture.
Ouch. I do agree, though.
Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683334 for example loads fine, but the contractor one just loads nothing for me. Checked network tab and don't see any errors or anything. Hmm, inspector tab shows the full DOM, but none of it is visible in the browser window... https://ibb.co/3vDts8r

EDIT: Ok, must be an extension. Works fine in private window.

EDIT 2: the culprit appears to be the Hacker News Enhancement Suite extension on FF. Once disabled, the poll works. https://github.com/etcet/HNES
Why do you think most of the discarded bottles and cans ornamenting the American landscape are cheap beers? Try finding a trashcan in total darkness.
The vast amounts of labor (including slave labor) might have been more of a hindrance than a help. It takes a labor shortage to create an incentive for innovations that increase productivity.
An Arc to Rust transpiler would do a much better job than a manual rewrite!
I love getting charged $75 for emails that just say “OK”
That is a super common explanation, but doesn’t square with the fact that steam power was a complete side note of the first half of the First Industrial Revolution, which used water power almost exclusively (wind, animal power as well).
> The net result is if you don't start out enforcing cleanliness your community of users will unintentionally devolve into unclean over time.

Well since the package manager will be integrated to the compiler, I think they could enforce the cleanliness for people who want to publish their libraries.
To spare others a search, 'DHH' appears to be the person credited with creating ruby on rails
Shout-out to whoever went to Black Hat and had North Korean malware on their PC
I’m pretty sure I saw this somewhere, but now I can’t find it, so I accept the possibility (though I think it’s low probability) that I’m misremembering.
I am confusion. I upgraded (unthinkingly) and don't see what the fuss is about? In fact they've added something that I've wanted for a long time, which is universal password suggestions (for applications).

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ works on my machine?

EDIT: Ooooooh, just read the support thread and now I understand. Goddammit, I wish I knew all this before I upgraded. Seems like there's a trust issue with people trying to get an answer as to why three months in, it still can't be downloaded from the App Store. They suspect Apple isn't approving it due to some shadiness and/or security issues. I really hope not, but their responses and the way this has happened does look _well_ shady.
> Sure, here's one of the larger ones: https://handworks.co/

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but that event is about hammers just as much as embedded programming is about C.
I think this is sadly true. If you follow Game Devs with Large, Fragile Egos Twitter (I'm not naming names!), you'll hear a lot of "I hate (but secretly also love) C++ (because I know it intimately)" and "Rust isn't the answer" because they can't iterate fast enough.

My guess is that's probably a function of them thinking they can learn Rust in a weekend, because they are 10x-ers, instead of any inherent problem with the language. There is also a machismo aspect to C/C++, especially in game dev ("I eff with raw pointers all the time!").

But, if you read the article, Tim Sweeney seems to be saying "I want a fast functional language" which Rust is. One thing I am less clear on is whether Rust is better re: modularity and extensibility.
For the Europeans feeling US numbers are unattainable: I'm on
£1100/day in London with about 8 years devops/cloud/IaaS experience
Russia claims it would deliver as much gas as we need if we were to open Nordstream-2 though.
Not breaking copyright makes it easier for a eastern block to form around RISC-V fabrication.
Thanks, I scanned the article and searched for the word "recycle" but it wasn't clear.
A bit more context as to why the title is absolutely correct.

https://twitter.com/Hetzner_Online/status/156308356197598413...
>Both of these can be true at the same time.

True but decades of this has shown that people and their elected gov don't give a damn about trying to curb this by law and policing so we both know given the current state we are on our own to protect us about that.
This is a good way to burn your network. A better way might be to estimate your value and play around a little bit at the top end. A previous comment about having a high rate for jobs you don’t really want is clever.
I doubt that countries like Iran, North Korean and now Russia care much about the legality of implementing a ARM processor without a license. Or did you mean more in terms of a chip that can be sold to those countries without risk? In that case you just sacrion the sale of the equipment required to make the chip, or block the manufacturer from your markets.
If the team needs some data on bloated, slow software and bad practices, they can create an account on gitlab.com and look around for a few minutes.
Not trying to be pedantic, but AgileBits is a Canadian company and has servers in Canada, the US, and the EU. I think they also released a gift card solution to address the concern of recurring payments, or maybe for privacy. I never really understood the use case for this (besides using it as an actual gift), but you made me think about it now. Having said all that, I think your points still stand, but for me I haven't found a company that is more trustworthy. FWIW, I use 1Password at work and KeepassXC at home.
Open sourcing our fork of PgBouncer
This is useful, but it is HIGHLY dependent on the services being offered. $300 for some work can be a steal, and $40 can be overpriced.
this "around the corner" argument is getting tiresome. We have a climate emergency NOW. We are actively hurting our future by continuing to emit carbon NOW. We already have a solution to that problem in the shape of nuclear power.

Instead, we wait on renewables and storage to run the grid at some indeterminate point in the future.

The debate on this issue really is toxic and frustrating. We need all solutions working NOW, not tomorrow, and one of those solutions is widespread nuclear power.
Crypto comes with more regulatory risk, and the risk of being a bigger target for cyber attacks - I bet Hetzner doesn't want to take that on.

Also, if someone is storing a billion dollars of cryptocoins in one of Hetzners servers, who should pay for the extra security guards, staff vetting, etc?
Talk about synchronicity, I was just researching this for a gig I got involved with.

Just to be clear, contractor means you get no other benefit but the money they give you per hour worked. And this rate is not inclusive of expenses, taxes, etc...
Well yeah we do have general conferences on programming languages. But the point is we don't have a specific conference on C, like you wouldn't have a specific conference on a simple hammer.
Yes, France's current situation fucking sucks. However my answer was for this message:

> Right now gas plants are running to stabilize the grid in France...

As far as I know, gas plants have always been used to stabilize grid in France.
Meta's big problem: Everything about VR looks supremely uncool
> The notebook format is convenient to have some kind of “interactive” programming though, rather than “literate”

interactive programming is usually handled by the repl, for which you do not need a notebook
>having unrealistic expectations may be considered unhinged by some.

I feel like I wasn't being unrealistic at all.

solid state batteries exist today and can be bought. Obviously early in the commercialization but they do exist. Still unclear how safe they are.

88mp camera is less than what I can go buy from costco right now.

3d scanners totally fit in your pocket. I don't mean photogrammetry neither. The newer iphones have lidar that can scan. Newer androids have depth sensors or TOF sensors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r26OhSxBUXM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3UXeJWmEn8
Wow, she's a Supreme Court Justice of the United States of America, and her husband let her rise to that position? ;) Their religious group must be so bad to allow her acension ;) Or, maybe the article and leaked video doesn't really capture the group that truthfully.
But this is how everything works. I’m sure Ferrari has certain technology before normal cars do.

Sure, you will not get computers with N3 chips for a year or two if you don’t want to use Apple, but I just don’t see why that’s a huge problem.
One interesting thing I've noticed from this thread is that the objections often use phrasing like "science should be ...".

This of course raises the question why ought science be done in a certain way. The justification must ultimately be normative, e.g. "so we can reduce human suffering more effectively". I think some people have this idea that science can be cleanly divorced from values, but that doesn't make sense to me; the science that we choose to do and the way we choose to do it is subtly but definitely tethered to our values. Like Hume said, "reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions". If the carrying out of science is justified normatively - and I accept that for some this is a big "if" - then it makes sense that sometimes those norms will be challenged. Sometimes it will be debatable whether publishing a piece of knowledge is for the human good.

I'm kind of spitballing and playing devil's advocate here as I don't know the answer and haven't been convinced by what anyone has said yet. It's starting to remind me of Yudkowsky banning discussion of Roko's Basilisk. That's someone who clearly values both knowledge and ethics, and was torn over a conflict between the two.
Native windows support is or at least was being worked on.

Wsl/nix should work.
Your first paragraph sounds so unprofessionally dismissive that I doubt anyone reads the second.
Rome was a slave economy. When you are using millions of slaves for no-cost labor, there is little need for develop technology to improve industrial output. Being a slave society has been Rome's undoing. It started in Middle Republic period. It not only prevented industrial progress, but also killed the economy for everyone other than the richest few because those richest few were able to flood the economy with near-zero-cost produce and products, bankrupting anyone else. This caused slow concentration of entire economy, then farmland, then actual land, in the hands of the few elite and started the transition to the feudal economy.
So if you're stuck behind a tractor, do you also expect it to stop by the side of the road and let all traffic pass? I'm sure many farmers would disagree with you there and tell you they've got work to do. I've never seen any tractor do that in fact.

Same goes for bicycles, they've got places to be. It's a means of transportation just like a car. If there is no bike lane, that's though luck for the cyclist (as it's a lot less comfortable) and for the motorists behind them, and a good reason for cyclists and motorists alike to argue for more bike lanes. Why should they alone bear the cost of shitty infrastructure (in time lost stopping by the side of the road every time a car is stuck behind them for +20s)?