skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many ads at the time still used a strategy of "reasoning with the reader": explaining the technical benefits of the product, and how using it would make your life better in some way.

Sometime around the 90s, most advertising gradually shifted to emotional manipulation, which is empirically more effective at scale. The famous iPod ads, for example, said nothing at all about the iPod's technical merits, or how you'd benefit by using an iPod instead of other MP3 players. They just showed some vaguely cool-looking person listening to an iPod.

The "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads depicted PCs as old, uncool dorks; while the Mac is fun and interesting and young. Not a word about any actual features or benefits of the Mac. Purely associative emotional branding.

This actually does work in terms of "selling more iPods at scale," though it is dissatisfying to that small segment of the population that cares about making informed and rational decisions. Most HN readers fall into this category, though there aren't enough of us in the world to carry mass advertising strategies.
You'll end up teetering between the math, which completely breaks down intuition about electricity, and analogies, which keep your understanding a bit grounded. Veritasium's videos on electricity were an attempt to de-metaphorize electricity, but they just yielded more questions.
we should be real here: The idea of carbon credits/certificats is better than doing nothing as generelly these steps should help (better to put money where it could be worthwhile than where we know it ain't). Where it doesn't help, we have journalists and other organisations that show this (like in this example), so that the bad apples can be separated from the good apples. What really counts is the following: Having the right aim, listening to concerns and changing course where necessary. What doesn't help is unnecessary cynism (and drive-by posting). And of course we can gain the most if our politicians are using adequate incentives.

As for the certificates from Gold standard: They also have recycling projects, reforestation (yeah, i know that the discussion about this is ongoing as well!) and some programs where poor people are helped with appliances that are less environmentally damaging. Everyone can invest in whatever project one wants. We can argue about which of these programs help the most (especially since we don't really differentiate between carbon reduction, carbon sinks and carbon capture), BUT what counts is that we, as people of this planet, are trying and improving.
such payouts can be negotiated. I would have asked for $400k. (then still not signed it!)
Counterpoint, humans are not loving on the right level to discover what is a purr.
This reeks of a common fallacy that I come across: "I need to do something because of X, therefore I'm going to do something painful an inconvenient." When cooler minds look, the thing that's painful and inconvenient isn't needed at all.
>“We consider our camera lensless because it replaces the bulk lenses used in conventional cameras with a thin, lightweight microlens array made of flexible polymer,” said research team leader Weijian Yang from the University of California, Davis.

Opinions are opinions, peronally I would consider it multi-lens or poly-lens.
I'm not convinced, but I don't doubt that there is at least 1 person out of billions who believes that to be so
Touring completeness is about accurately simulating any Turing machine. Not approximately simulating one (what would that even mean?), or simulating just some of them.

When we say something is Turing complete, there’s always an implicit “if it ran on a computer with unlimited memory” assumption that comes with it, because no computer with limited memory can ever simulate all Turing machines. You can always construct a Touring machine that makes a given computer run out of memory.

So technically, no real computer or computer program is Turing complete, or able to accurately simulate any Turing machine. The whole thing is an irrelevant technicality though, as A) we have so much memory available that we might as well treat it as unlimited and B) touring completeness is a theoretical property - if you prove it for something like python type hints, that proof won’t assume any memory limitations, ie. it’ll assume the computer the thing runs on has infinite memory. The proof is valid even though no such infinite computer actually exists.
When you invest a lot in renewables and neglect investment in other plants, then I find it fair to blame some of it on the investment in renewables.

It's like buying a BMW and then not having enough money for groceries...it's not just the groceries being too expensive, the nice shiny car might have something to do with it.
I find it interesting that you don’t like Google Play Music (now called YouTube Music). You didn’t like the rebranding? The Google products I like: YouTube, YouTube Music, and GCP (my favorite hosting platform). For search, I usually use DDG - good enough for me.
The blog post is written by Retool, and it is something that we (early stage startup) is adopting for internal operations. I was hoping to see Retool talk about what they see their market opportunity is, and what they think Retool is doing different, but the post only sketches out a few things on how things have changed.

I don't know about SAP, but one of the main reasons we're adopting Retool internally is because our engineering team keeps deprioritizing writing internal operational tools in favor of adding features for out customers, yet our operations are becoming increasingly more complex. Something like Retool lets our end users (our own staff) be able to work with it.

In a lot of ways, Retool is more like an MS Access, only it is a cloud native SAAS and from the get go, work with integrating existing databases. Writing about SAS, I think it's clear Retool has been thinking about how to grow with the organization, possibly where organizations can stay with Retool instead of trying to implement SAP. I'm also curious about how they are going to work with the increasing shift from "data lakes" to "data mesh".
Banning spambots is an essential part of running social media, it's not a secret team of SJWs. And they're currently in a lawsuit since Elon claims they don't actually do it and just pretend to.
Parent poster is aiming at calculator app as "something people do in react and should be complex" - calculator app is still graduate level thing of limited scope and quite well defined. I assume he have not seen any project that grows for 5+ years has 20 dev working on it (20 because of team rotation maybe 3-5 working at the same time).
The site still reports commodity payments for the last several years - I don't know where you are getting that from: https://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=00000&progcode=total&yr...

And it does seem the government continues to give direct payments to farmers - even though it is under the guise of the insurance program: https://www.fsa.usda.gov/news-room/news-releases/2021/usda-p...

I would also not call the price protection programs an insurance program. Being able to sell at a certain price seems like a pretty strong and direct subsidy.

And the export credit, which is not overseen by the USDA at all, continues.
That's exactly what it is. Each page is more expensive to serve than the last (it is basically joining a bunch of indexes for each term and then skipping the first N). At some number of pages they drew a line and decided that the value of these pages isn't worth the cost (and DoS vulnerability) to serve them.
A slide rule has the advantage in that you can see it working and how it works. A calculator has no such feedback.
Very relatable Let me know where you end up that people appreciate it and I'll come join you!
I'm still seeing 60-40 in a quick Google search? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...

I'm sure it does depend on your community too, e.g. iPhones are more common among members of the upper-middle class. (Which is why iPhone use is well above 60% in my social circle.)
Trial of Former Uber Executive Has Security Officials Worried About Liability
I've used DDG for 5+ years. Its results used to be mixed, but for the last 2-3 years, its results are good. I only fall back to Google for less than 2% (1 in ~50) searches, though I do rely a lot on DDG's !bang searches that redirect to specific sites for different technical topics. But I don't see that as a failing of DDG. When I do fall back to Google, it's for "needle in a haystack" searches.
Definitely not my invention. See also "fermi gas" which is a generalization.
Let's say we find a whole new edge case after this thing has been running for six months. Now we need to update the data structure and the generator code that knows how to interpret the data. So I'm not sure how much is gained.

I think one pitfall that a lot of software designers fall into is assuming they can know the entire problem domain up front. Maybe that works for a super-mature industry like airline reservations or something. But I still tend to doubt it.

In my experience you constantly get stuff that borks your data model after going live. I always assume this will happen continuously throughout the lifecycle of the product, and try design accordingly.
Another data point: The Reitaisai[1], a convention focused solely on Touhou Project, where hundreds if not thousands of circles (groups) sell fan-made content, including music.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_Project#Reitaisai
I have mostly seen juniors/other people who lack self confidence are the ones who most want to push code reviews into “quick chats.” I’m happy to help when they are very new so I can explain a bunch of things, but it really frustrates me when people continue to do this long after joining.

I also think it shows a fundamental misunderstanding in what code review is - half the time I’m basically not invested at all in the outcome of the particular review, I am just giving my time and knowledge to help make sure that we produce good code. When people start these sync chats I have to context switch a lot and people often think I’m super opinionated on the outcome (so ask me lots of open ended questions I’m not prepared to answer), which is not what I intend to convey when I say you need to test something or document some particularly confusing part because it seems pretty likely to break.
Respectfully, I don't feel like there is much value to be found in this discussion (arguing what's a more pressing issue between pollution and climate change), so I'm happy to land on agreeing on this statement and moving on:

> pollution -> climate change, so fixing pollution (not simply CO₂) is a win-win
The Rwandan genocide was spawned by radio propaganda from RTLM. Classifying social media as especially harmful to children when damage can be made from any sort of mass media is disingenuous.
A dam doesn't work when the river runs dry.
As I understand, many of these practices are generally illegal, but this is more of a targeted refinement to address a topical pain point.
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And this mirrors the web today. All the new stuff is over, it is all incremental change, rehashing, repeat.
Most of the world doesn’t even use iMessage, it’s all WhatsApp/messenger/WeChat. This controversy is such a nothing burger in comparison to App Store policies.

There’s plenty of cross platform chat clients out there and new ones sprouting up all the time. I have an iPhone and I only communicate with a handful of people on iMessage, it’s not even that great of a chat app and it’s hardly the moat that people make it out to be.
Fundamentally speaking, while she held no formal power, she was wealthy, popular, charismatic, and quite possibly the single most politically-connected individual in the country. Half of what she's being praised for in this very thread is examples of her using her informal power to strengthen diplomatic relationships and so forth.

If the Queen wanted to go on TV and denounce the evils of UK society, nothing was stopping her. I'm not from the UK, so I've honestly no clue how she used that power - but to say she was powerless is to say that every artist, author, activist, and lobbyist has wasted their life, because not a single one of them had anything like her influence.
It's so much easier to just tax it at the production site, because such production is pretty concentrated in a handful of sites.

Taxing the C also properly accounts for different fuels having different energy per C atom.
The nearly free electron gas model is the standard introduction to explaining conduction in solids. In other words, no he didn’t invent it. Interestingly enough, the first model for explaining conduction was naively assumed to be a simple gas model. After quantum mechanics was introduced into the modeling, it was discovered that while not quite correct, it was not very far off either.
I was thinking this too. Not to claim google is trustworthy, but pagination with large search result sets can be tricky when you go back really far if the queries to fetch them are expensive. The count is probably a different system from the actual results, and the count switching may just be how they handle the 0.000000001% of people who try going to page 400. So the lie may not be how high the number is, but the expectation of being able to see all the results.
What you want is instant interbank settlements that have existed for 20+ years in some places.

The scope of CBDCs is way broader than that. If no commercial bank is impacted by a CBDC then it wouldn't be a central bank digital currency, just a digital currency, and that's already the case for most of the money supply. If you use the term CBDC you're implying that the central bank would oversee a much bigger part of the money creation.
http://archive.today/xGVGj
There's a book for that:

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...
That comment does not mention Rust.
Love this bit: "Software engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession..." (emphasis mine)

I can imagine the hilarity that will ensue when that 70-something-still-employed Cobol maintainer is asked by some newly minted MBA if he or she is actively participating in lifelong learning per the ACM SE code of ethics.
Enough to staff all Starbucks outlets in the country. /s
Direct page link for those interested -- https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-08/page/n49/m...
> IBM’s Power family of processors and their resulting hardware systems has never been particularly focused on price/performance or performance per watt,

Unfortunately that's the only mention of "watt" in the article. One core outperforming another is not so interesting when it takes way more power...
Prior to the establishment of NTSB in the Air Commerce Act of 1926, aviation accidents were common [1]. Congress determined that it was necessary to establish an investigation and regulation framework immediately at the beginning of the era of commercial aviation and this has been enormously successful. Many times Congress does not act fast enough to prevent harms (meat packing, banking, pharmaceuticals), but when they do get around to doing their job safety improves. Individual companies must be compelled to act subordinate to federal or state regulatory frameworks, and to not act as vigilantes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
I'm specifically not talking about the states, and talking about countries with public health care.
Life today is better if you're already established, i.e. have a well paying job, own a home, etc.

Being young in todays world is exponentially harder than it was, say, 40 years ago. Many young people have given up on the idea of home ownership. I'm 26 and I've had friends laugh in my face when I suggested owning instead of renting. It's simply unattainable unless you're in a lucrative field. I'm in Canada for reference (our home price to income ratio is one of the worst in the world).
Most prominently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
Imo Ban images of tweets. It’s what allows the pile on to live forever.
it's easier to tax at the source (and then subsidize specific uses, eg. medicine)
We already tax everything else, including fuel.
This isnt a problem. The tasks your business needs are being completed in exchange for a salary. If your weekly tasks are done you should be able to go home.
Ditto here. C, Pascal and Forth were what I was using in those days. I did some 6502, 6800 and 68000 assembly, but only when needed.
Working for me now again.
Dependency-injector uses it for exactly this purpose

@inject
def main(service: Service = Provide[Container.service]) -> None:
...

FastAPI also does a similar sort of trick, for DI and also request parsing.

https://python-dependency-injector.ets-labs.org/introduction...
I used TSX with Cycle.js for a while and didn't experience too much trouble. Typescript has some simple compiler options to change how it generates JSX or JS and doesn't bundle any types out of the box for TSX: all of the React API types come from React's type library. Sometimes that was more of detriment than if there were base types in TSX because reimplementing mostly the same set of standard HTML elements and HTML-like attributes a third time in a different .d.ts file when switching VirtualDOM implementations was a chore. (It was fine, but it was a chore.)

If you are seeing errors that are React specific, most likely means you just need a subtle tweak in your tsconfig.json.
That's Apple's fault. If they want to fix them, they need to be able to listen to them. So Apple should have tools so a human being can hear them. Relying on some computer to tell you everything is fine, when it's obviously not, is bullshit.

If they don't want to diagnose their hardware, then they should just exchange them with no questions asked. Getting denied on a repair "cuz the computer said so" is crap.
As someone who (after 15+ years of career) has been feeling alienated (or worse, mocked for) when bringing up ethical issues around tech I work or design I wanted to thank you for the integrity. It feels good to not be alone.
I'm definitely stealing charlie-foxtrot
> Some even de-hydrate (coffee, seltzer water etc.)

This is mostly a myth. Water hydrates you regardless of whether it's mixed with CO2 or with coffee beans. The thing about caffeine is that it is also a diuretic, so some of that water will be quickly expelled.
Use the monies to correspondingly reduce the sales tax.
The engineers I know definitely understand the principles they're talking about. Who is this mythical idiot engineer foolishly and blindly over-relying on models the author is so upset about?
It's still here, just no longer profitable.

Frameworks are needed for web apps, especially single page applications (SPAs), if you just want to build traditional page/document based sites the traditional methods work just fine.

However SPAs is where the money's at for developers, so developers tend to abuse it due to resume-driven development (RDD) in order to get themselves into better paying positions/companies.

That's why tutorials and articles are all about frameworks now, just follow the money.
> it does seem to me like we didn't used to operate that way

I think that's nostalgia glasses. The level of corruption in SV seems no different to me to Wall Street in the 90s. People in power grasping community resources as their own is nothing new to humankind.

Its still worth being passionate about and rebelling against. While the general theme of the corruption may be similar its still eventful that it is occurring in new areas and in new ways (i.e. SPACs, ICOs).
DDG and brave have been my default search engines for the past couple years. Despite that, only 2 of my last 10 or so searches weren't followed up with !g.

Take the last search ("bronze patina thickness"), where I wanted to know how thick a typical bronze patina is. The first brave result is a hardware store in Spokane (not even my state!) that sells door latches. The rest of the page is SEO content about watches.

The first result on Google links a paper and the results excerpt tells me 40-50um, up to 70um with prolonged exposure. The performance still isn't close
for me despite the clear decline in Google search quality over the years.
28% of Americans flat out oppose America becoming carbon neutral by 2050 [1], and that's before we even ask them how much they're willing to pay. Only 31% supports phasing out fossil fuels completely.

I don't think "virtue signaling" (or its lack) is the problem.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2022/03/01/americans-lar...
Lytro?
My grandfather used to keep a couple of rabbits in the barn to run off the rats! He swore that rabbits naturally hated rats and would fuck them up if they could get near them.
The only way Phoenix will run out of water is if the government does not allow the price of water to be the free market price.
Waymo to test it’s self-driving car on the wet, wide streets of Bellevue, WA
Mockery is a very powerful tool to speak truth to power.
I use C for embedded devices too, although I didn't end up learning C until '88 or '89. At that point, it was on IBM PCs and VAXen instead of my trusty TRS-80.
I don’t see anyone specifically talking about CSS, but that is something I still generally just write without any libraries or tools. I do use SASS at times because I like the nesting, but I don’t always bother.

In my 20 years working on the web I’ve found that a lot of styling libraries and tools like Bootstrap and Tailwind are great for getting off the ground quickly with a passable UI, and there are benefits for large teams to have a shared syntax and coding style that is well documented which these provide out of the box. But when it comes to overrides and general customization they can lead to people writing exotic selectors and using !important.

People often get frustrated with CSS, especially when the page loads and things start to interact. I’ve always found that less is more with styling and I’ve fixed more problems in my career by removing and simplifying style declarations.

CSS with variables, (and soon native nesting of selectors), animations, pseudo classes, and pseudo elements is quite powerful on its own. As long as there’s internal documentation for code styles and encapsulation of classes to components (even outside of a JS framework/library) its very scalable.
99% of searches are good enough with just a single text phrase. 1% needs more refinement. The current approach is personalization but I think having more dialogue like UX which can better capture the contextual information might be more suitable. But the blocker here is that our so-called AI technology is not there yet and those 1% searches are usually not very valuable in terms of revenue.
60-65ish fat, 30-35ish carbs. Still only 200kcal per 100g and we aren't considering sauces used. There's a lot worse you can get per 100g.
You mean SAP and Oracle. Oracle acquired Peoplesoft and Netsuite long ago. Oracle has its Fusion product where it attempts to fuse their acquisitions into one platform. Some call it Confusion. SAP has built most of its product to work seamlessly together, but they have acquired a few such as Ariba and Concur.
GPM to YTM wasnt wasn't a rebranding, its a completely different (and much worse) product.
Number one should be larger up/down buttons. Not much larger, but just big enough.
Amazon has over 1 million people. Different departments are different. My department (Professional Services) is permanently remote, I’ve never consistently worked over 40 hours a week accept when all hell broke lose because of Covid.

I manage customers expectations so I don’t overwork myself.