skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s interesting that you laud “limited moderation” while celebrating Hacker News.

I think of HN as standing out for having more comprehensive guidelines than most communities, a user base that respects and voluntarily enforces those guidelines, and formal moderation that allows few exceptions to slip through.

We’re lucky that they’re good guidelines and that we have a community that broadly appreciates them, but “limited” is not a term I’d use for the moderation here.
In the comments, they reply with a link to a longer form writeup on why. I think it's very valid a claim here, that WASI is reinvention & redefiniton, a parallel universe, to the amazing work that's happened in web standards (ex: new WinterCG).

https://www.assemblyscript.org/standards-objections.html

It would be excellent to see WASI folks refocus on working more with the web, as opposed to building their own parallel system that uses none of the existing common genetic material that comprises the web. (That said, efforts like FileSystemAccess have been a pretty lurching slow progress, & certainly really good material like capability systems are fairly absent in this smaller spec).

I have to agree, I think their is a real danger. That said, there's also a lot of drama, and I remember other incidents like UTF16 that similarly got blown out of proportion, werent kept at a reasonable level.
Letting a tree grow to complete maturity is a gamble.

Many of the US's classic native tree species are under incredible stress (or nearly wiped out) due to the rapid spread of parasites and disease, e.g., oak wilt, emerald ash borer, Dutch elm disease, American chestnut blight, Beech bark disease, et al. Many large stands will never reach maturity/old-age. Most American hardwoods only have a maximum lifespan of 250 - 300 years.

In a stand of mature trees, only the healthiest tree specimens should remain, as they will be the most resistant to disease and parasites.

Public forests managers are using something called "pre-emptive salvage", i.e., if a parasite has breached an area extensively, they're going to log off those stands while the wood can be salvaged into products (other than firewood).

> The new sapling will grow very slowly (kg carbon per year) for the first 15 years.

The rate of growth is really a function of access to light and water (and nutrients) [mostly light]. Some trees (like sugar maple) will grow slowly, nearly dormant, in the understory of a mature forest, and explode with growth when a column of light opens up due to the death of a mature neighboring tree.

Some trees (Redwood) grow incredibly quickly, reaching 6+ feet diameter in 100 years. Other trees only regenerate when clear cut, and have short lifespans (Aspen at 70ish years).
Really great points and perspective, and a good read.
But pretending they can only afford "a handful of people" to work on the problem is a little silly, too. They don't have the answers because they choose not to devote the resources to get the answers; not because they are unable to devote the resources.
Microsoft isn't getting a check from me using FAT32.
Sure, and what does “is” mean exactly? And what really is “data”? Their answers seem like passive-aggressive BS. If their lives or careers depended on it, they’d come up with a lot of answers PDQ.
Of course, but sometimes you need to call a store, bank, or barber over the only channel available. Some services still rely on SMS authentication.
Initially I felt similar to you, but then I considered the potential impact on accumulating student loan debt both from the perspective of paying for classes that don’t contribute to a major and rising tuition costs in the name of giving every student a reasonable chance to explore all available classes (not saying either is true for UCB).

Also I feel like it creates a new opportunity for some other entities to help students “test their major” without incurring the same costs.
I've never personally felt that race-to-the-bottom capitalism would generally allow for such parasitic drains on productivity, but then again, if you're hiring on past contributions only, how would you as a non-expert in sales/marketing/etc know what makes efficiency?

I don't think your view is anywhere near as common as you think it is, but maybe in your immediate peer group there's some self-selecting cause for believing so.
Meta Data Centers
--lisp mode just lands you in the REPL of femtolisp, which is used for the parser and lowererer. It's kind of an easter egg for sure.
Would a screenshot really prove anything, though? It would be trivial to modify
Any backend developers looking to become fullstack developers?
Low code tools are helping bridge the gap between backend and frontend development, making it easier for backend developers to become full stack developers. So, If you’re a backend developer, with low code app development tools you no longer have to worry about all frontend libraries or even see HTML or CSS anymore.
Thank you for the correction, as little as it does to change things.
first: we don't know

second: if it's true they have to notify it; and explain how researchers can access to this material.
Graeber's Bullshit Jobs is a good background context for this discussion. I feel most are replying about individually good and bad managers and taking a lot about our hierarchies for granted as the most productive formations for society. Maybe the hierarchy is only necessary when the workers have to be kept motivated without any financial upside to business outcomes they generate
That's very, very incorrect.

At the population density of Kowloon in 1987, 1,255,000 per square kilometer, and today's population of 8 billion people, it would only take 6375 square km to house everyone.

That's less than five cities the size of Phoenix, Arizona.

Reasonable urban population density -- the kind where there is still green space and buildings are mostly just a few stories high -- would be about 7500 per square km, about 1.1 million square km for the world population. That sounds like a lot, but it's only about one tenth the metro area of Paris.

There is a clean water problem. There is a good sewage treatment problem. There are energy delivery problems. But people will happily live in much denser arrangements than they do on average, and cities make all of the other problems more efficient to deal with. These are policy problems.
> If managers and PMs stopped working they'd be replaced by engineers who are by and large more capable at adaptation anyway.

It's funny how these ultracapable genius engineers don't just start their own company free of these bullshit manager and PM roles and just steamroll the competition, isn't it?
> A car is overkill for carrying most things day-to-day if you don’t live in an area built solely around cars.

> you’ll see people driving away in massive pickup trucks and SUVs having only picked up a gallon of milk

It's not about need. Most of those people didn't choose the massive truck or SUV because that was the most sensible vehicle for them. They bought it because they like it.

Even if they don't strictly need to drive their truck to the store, they still will because they like driving it. It's not a wildly different mindset from people who buy the latest and greatest phone every year or spend thousands on a wristwatch that keeps time worse than a $20 digital watch you buy in a drug store.

I've lived in cities and depended on public transportation when I was younger and now I'm out in the 'burbs. Right now, the suburbs is where I want to be. My quality of life is higher. If I had a self-driving car, I'd move even further out of the city.
Most writing spaces are full of incompetent people who are terrible at what they do, give bad advice, blame everyone else for their problems, and have wildly incorrect opinions on topics that they aren't qualified for.

In other words, most writing spaces are just like HN. Take your pick.
Who should be held responsible for engineering projects or initiatives that require more than one engineer? Who should be tasked with originating and prioritizing and staffing such projects?
> Sure it's a spectrum but half of that spectrum (from average to god awful) have power over your career/work, to your detrement.

It is always your responsibility to advocate for yourself, your career, and your work.

If you are an engineer you should view your manager as a marginal value add only. Some managers add more value to your career than others, for sure, but it's still marginal relative to the effect that YOU have on your career. If you find yourself on a team with a truly bad manager who is having a negative affect on your career, get out...but this is truly a rare occurrence in my experience.
There’s a lot here to digest - thank you for your response. Regarding solar, I’ve been looking into it and you’ve given me a bit to consider. I now have a better appreciation for your fantasy vs. reality statement.

I checked your site, I didn’t see anything on this topic (only briefly glanced). This comment by itself would make a great blog post.
I'm having a great time with it. SQLite's documentation is so good that it's difficult to usefully add to it, but you've managed that.

Some else said this, but I'd also love to see a deeper dive into the query plan, if you get to it.
“Rejecting your inner high school” used to simply be called “growing up”. Extended neoteny seems to be the fashion of the day.
Right, and furthermore Calories In Calories Out is a problematic system anyway.

You stop by a restaurant and order a burger. Maybe the restaurant has calories posted. Those calories are probably based on the "corporate standard" for that item, or might be based on buying samples of the product from several locations and averaging. But your burger won't have exactly that number of calories. Perhaps this person puts more or less of certain toppings on than is average. Perhaps your patty was slightly larger or smaller than average.

All of that means it is hard to know the real calorie count. The same sort of thing will apply but is possibly even worse for food you prepare yourself from scratch. It is not trivial to even calculate the calories in meals you prepare, especially if fresh produce is involved. (For packaged ingredients you can try to go by the info on the nutrition label, but be warned that the rounding rules can make those misleading at times. But for fruits and vegetables, the best you can do is look up the average Caloric density for this variery, and hope that the items you have are not from some local strain with meaningful differences from the normal for that variety). In the end, it is actually easiest to accurately count calories when only eating prepackaged foods, which are generally viewed poorly.

And this is not counting the fact that the systems we use to determine the calories in food are not completely accurate. Using a calorimeter to measure the heat energy output by completely combusting the food is objective, but flawed because the body does not perfectly combust everything we ingest! The Atwater system we currently use can at least in theory account for this, but the numbers used are not especially accurate and have known weaknesses. Plus they depend on accurately determining the number of grams of protein, fat, carbohydrates, non-digestible carbohydrates (like dietary fiber), etc. I suspect that even on extremely tightly controlled packaged food we could be out by over 10%. The limited precision of the Atwater numbers could easily bring the food to a 5% margin of error on its own, before considering accuracy issues with those numbers, or accuracy/precision limitations on determining the protien, fat, carb contents.

And so far I've only tackled the calories in side, and not issues with calories out, like accounting for the basal metabolic rate varying in response to changes to the diet, or that not 100% of all nutritional value will get extracted from the food, and many others. There is a LOT that can be said about that side.

But bigger picture, compliance with any given diet is an issue, and any diet that approach that requires counting calories means more effort must be expended to comply, making it much more likely that the person will either "cheat" on the diet, or just stop even trying after getting worn down enough. That is why even if CICO is thermodynamically sound and sufficent, it is not in and of itself a viable dieting strategy.
Conversely, I had to attend more meetings when I didn't have a manager, because they were no longer there to act as a filter/shield for the chaff around the corn of what I needed to know.
those two have no demonstrated correlation with business performance, unlike DORA measures
1. BTRFS is a lot more complex.

2. Switching to BTRFS would be a breaking change. BigFAT wouldn't be. You can still use the card in devices that do not support it, without needing to reformat. Those devices would just lose access to some files.
Tuff sheds (no affiliation) are inexpensive. My 12'x16' cost ~$6k a few years ago. Hire a contractor to finish the interior.
Yep, 100% agree. The language is not that great.
Dude, if it was the same deal, there's a few major sleaze-bags who just got VP positions in the parent company, the worst sort of tech-bros you can imagine.
> the other plausible explanation

It's not really plausible in the context of those lyrics.
I use resilio sync to sync my keepass file and it's working out pretty well. https://www.resilio.com/individuals/
Eningeers get tons of actually effective training and schooling. Alot of people probably spent at least 4 years in school learning a science where there are right and wrong answers. It's easy to evaluate engineers. Most managers seemed to get to that role by accident, or because they knew the right person. I think there's way more underperforming managers. Managers aren't going to school for years, even when they do the degree they come out with feels useless.
Right, but in another comment you talk about serializing querysets, and I'd be surprised if you can guarantee that no other developer will ever put dangerous data in any of the rows in your queryset. That approach would be building a pretty dangerous foot gun.

Just the whole approach gets dangerously close to a big security issue, even if you do it "right".
From my dad’s CRT monitor back in the day, to the OLED distraction machine on my wrist.

How things have changed over 25 years or so.
I manage a team at work and I don't expect my team members to do more than paid to do. But I'm probably strange in that I will instruct my team members to not work weekends.

There's no point in managing people if you hate the person and love the worker.
Most Ted talks are about the future. Sting’s was about the past.(2014)
Seems like all of this is just another way to make people work harder for less.

Now using a term that describes someone just doing there job as 'quiting' surely in a lot of jobs, in the capitalist system, the real goal should be as little as you need to do to satisfy the requirement of the role.

This does not mean being lazy, this does not mean not doing work, it means doing your job, doing what you are paid for, but why do anything else unless there is some benefit to you? Either you enjoy it, you learn from it, or you get paid for it, else don't do it.
I've seen this happen in smaller teams; it can work well! Productive teams and skilled engineers can manage their own workload. Not all of them want to do that, so that needs to be taken into account, but it can work spectacularly.

I've also seen it work poorly. We've already established that there are good and bad EMs; there's good and bad in everything. That doesn't justify the role of the EM!

I've also seen PMs do this. This is the far more common situation, and it works! Workload planning ends up being a collaborative effort on the team, with the senior engineers holding domain knowledge over operations, maintenance, architecture, implementation, while PMs/Designers/etc hold domain knowledge over the business, customers, etc. Work once in an environment like this; well, at least a good one; and it will make anyone and everyone question why EMs exist at all. There's no room for them. They wouldn't contribute anything even if they were added to the mix.
There doesn't need to be a hidden agenda—they simply want eye-catching headlines to drive clicks to their site.
Some part of the equation depends on the size and structure of the market.

If you can scale to a large business with little competition, say $100m+ in revenue per year, it's strongly worth considering. You might be able to exit with generational wealth. However, if the market is very competitive and/or mature, it's much harder to reach that scale. If it's not capital intensive, has few potential entrants, and is growing organically, you might be able to grow without investment and be fine.

The question to ask yourself is what's your long term objective (10+ years) and is meeting that objective worth the risk?

ps. I'd add that failure for a VC is not like failure to me and you. If you are the 3rd place in a market and exit for tens of millions (to you) that might still be a poor return for the investor, but life changing for you.
The existing methods of building houses are terrible though. It's stupidly expensive to edit a house, they're designed and built as if it's still 1800.

Why does adding a socket into a wall cost more than $50? Should be able to just open the wall panel, plug in an extra cable, close panel, done.
One of the best things I ever did was run a business on my own very early on.

I was terrible at it. Forced to actually contact customers I had no clue what to do. I had no idea how to price things. I communicated terribly and drove away initial customers.

I learned a healthy respect of other positions in a company, because when I tried them I had to accept they were actually hard.
It would be interesting to see a Reframe-like company in the space of gambling addictions.
Or “democratizing” finance with coin base or “democratizing” housing via REITs
The fact that it's satire doesn't make it untrue.
> I think there's a difference between free users with a "hey, my app is broken" complaint and "hey, you just did something incredibly wrong" complaint. It would be like if free Dropbox started uploading random files that it wasn't allowed to in the settings.

The thing is, you would need to review each of the complaints to know which is which. If you're providing no support and because you're not taking money for the service there is no real liability (depending on the contract) being a non-customer would mean, if they do something incredibly wrong you need to get a new provider.

If you're not a customer, you can't expect support. If you want support, pay $10 and then fill the ticket. It just annoys me when people complain about not getting support when they've not paid for anything.
Well, it certainly depends. I'm not expecting McDonald's to send me a thank-you note. I was talking in generalities, not specifics.

I frequent a local store that sells boutique art supplies. Natural paints and that sort of thing. They are very customer-focused, and while hand-written thank-yous aren't something they do, if they started doing them I wouldn't be surprised. They know and appreciate their customers, and were particularly good during COVID, as the owners had health issues that made them concerned. They survived, partially due to their customer service, which included direct messaging as required to make sure people were able to shop and get their purchases easily and safely.
It's like being in a union job but without the union benefits to the worker. But you do with the minimum you can get away with because although the prospects for a bad job market are high, there are currently few takers for open positions, so your employer will stick with you because your preplacement will likely be as unmotivated.

I think this bodes ill for Basic Income --it looks like it totally demotivates people and people are more than willing to "just get by" and then not pursue "their true intellectual pursuits".
Time have changed and it is well possible there is a need and room for source available licenses.

Open Source is established term which offers specific freedoms which brings specific benefits (and challenges) to businesses.

While many Venture funded companies might want you to believe they are being unfairly taken advantage by the clouds it is not the full story.

Elastic for example relies on A LOT of code contributed by community, which were contributing because they could use end result under Open Source License.

Elastic changing the license changed relations here to you contribute to create the product BUT you do not get all the rights to use it any more.

In Elastic case in particular large number of cloud solutions were build which embed their solution (arguably same as Elastic embedds Lucene) who could not use Elastic after license change.
Check out the "values_list" method for flattening a queryset.
Thankfully most of the managers I've worked for were still doing or able to do the job of a senior/lead person of the team who they managed.

The few I have had who were not capable of that were really ineffective. They didnt know how to handle top performers. They didnt know how to help low performers. They become managers of micro bits of information that they collected and passed up to their manager so despite the results of their team they can say they were doing xyz.

It was hell. I always found they gave useless advice too. Have a work problem that isnt some type of personal problem? Well they cant help because they dont know/understand what you do or how to help.
That's a good point. My claim is probably too specific to software developers. Maybe I should have said "technical users" instead.

I was paraphrasing from the Donald Chamberlin quote in the last section of the linked PDF[1]:

"When Ray and I were designing Sequel in 1974, we thought that the predominant use of the language would be for ad-hoc queries by planners and other professionals whose domain of expertise was not primarily database management... Over the years, I have been surprised to see that SQL is more frequently used by trained database specialists to implement repetitive transactions such as bank deposits, credit card purchases, and online auctions. I am pleased to see the language used in a variety of environments, even though it has not proved to be as accessible to untrained users as Ray and I originally hoped."

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6359709
I think MUI has the best ready to use components in front end ecosystem
Cellulose-Based Flexible Functional Materials for Electronics
Why exactly is that "discrimination" and not, you know, simple evaluation? Is every company that doesn't hire based on a random number generator discriminating?
Scientists cannot accurately predict the behavior of millions and billions at long timescales.