skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also funny that it's "nearly 40"... Had to DDG it, there are 51 countries [1] in Europe, I wonder which countries are in the "nearly 40". Or which aren't even relevant because they're micro-states like Vatican City, Monaco, Andorra or Liechtenstein - presumably in Andorra or Liechtenstein there's only one route to get to places, and that's automatically the most eco-friendly.

And my guess is countries like Azerbaijan, Kazahkstan, Belarus and Russia aren't there because of the political difficulty of getting complete data (also Kazahkstan and Russia are very big).

[1] https://www.countries-ofthe-world.com/countries-of-europe.ht...
Ressentiment is a real friendship killer.

It's one thing to be happy for your friend's success, it's another thing to watch your friend have all the things that you want in life but can't get, on a regular basis.

Of course, one could ask whether or not that friend has the responsibility to share his success with you, or whether or not it is right to feel that they do. Those are tricky questions, and asking them still doesn't stop ugly emotions from appearing. And since friendships are mostly based on good emotions, bad emotions cause issues.

Human interactions are simple in theory, but very complex in practice.
Framing gambling in that matter is quite interesting and does line up with the allure of the quite recent explosion in streamers doing straight up "online casino" gambling. Also shines a light in the other forms of gambling videogame streamers do related to lootboxes and why it attracts so many eyes, you're almost living in this "zone" thru the broadcaster.

It does seem to be kind of similar to the "zone" in programming, it's not uncommon to finish a task you were planning and just to keep in the zone I started doing extra features, many times that would be scrapped later because it was not relevant but just due to the inertia and to not have to switch context.

There's also an interesting question there regarding adhd and gambling, I'd imagine the hyper fixation would definitely make the issue more acute. A quick search got me this[0] meta-study which seems to find some link between adhd symptoms and problem gambling, I'm no medical scholar however so don't take my word for it.

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26832122/
The fact that SQL has literals is not a problem. It’s true that eliminating literals would prevent SQL injection but it’s an absurd solution to the problem. How should we write queries by hand? What about things that actually should be constant (e.g where col is null)?
Exactly, what is mocked as Yak Shaving is the important stuff. But try telling your non technical manager why you need to add that logging system, which requires its own testing and deployment.

In this scenario you are the one focused, the non-technical people that shuffle tasks around playing 'agile' are the handicap. It could take a couple of hours or a couple of days to get that logging done but explaining to the non technical manager (who refuses to learn) why this needs to be done is a task in itself that cannot be underestimated.
What do you mean no Akka in Flink ? https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-rpc/flink-...
> Do doctors have managers?

Yes. If a doctor is working in a hospital, there are most certainly managers. Obviously not "technical" managers in that they're doctors themselves or the doctor's "boss" but in that there are managers who are co-ordinating workforce, priorities, staffing, supplies etc etc. This is very much a thing and is more broad than engineering managers but is an incredibly important task so the daily admin work does not come to a doctor who is probably prioritising saving lives and helping people

> The 'communicate with customers' nonsense is delegated to lower-paid clerical staff, not 'managers.'

This is incredibly demeaning of people in hospitals who actually have to do these jobs. There's a massive amount of work required here and it is by no means "clerical". When "customers" literally have their lives in a doctor's hands, the complexity increases hundredfold. There's legal sensitivities, paperwork, spending, collections and so much more stuff involved and this is not even counting the kinds of things they need to do which involves interfacing with patients and their kin about sensitive matters. This is not simply "admin work". This is critical, life saving stuff
i hadn't realized there were price hikes outside the US as well. With the yen doing so poorly it must be really difficult to afford a ps5 in japan.
Why does every medical mystery article feel the need to dwell on the unnamed patients personal life for about 5 paragraphs before telling you the actual mysterious medical condition. Its such a tedious time wasting format. Here, I can write the relevant part of the article in about one paragraph:

We're used to thinking of perception as reading a live feed of sensory input, but actually there's evidence that the brain holds on to a persistent memory of its best guess about the outside world, and new sensory information merely updates that best guess in a simple bayesian manner. When nerve endings die for some reason, no update can occur, which sometimes causes the brain to persist in an erroneous state for a very long time. Because this theory is not widely publicized among doctors (or laymen), the condition of being stuck in an erroneous brain state is often confused for the misfirings of severed nerve endings or a psychiatric disorder such as OCD. In one particular example, a woman remained stuck with an itchy sensation which did not subside for years on end and which eventually caused her to scratch through her skull thus waking up to brain matter on her pillow. In another case a man feels as if his hand is much larger than it is despite being consciously aware of its actual size. The fact that sometimes this sort of condition can be alleviated by providing the brain with illusory input (for instance, a mirror based trick showing a left part of the body as the right or vice versa) simultaneously lends credence to this theory and serves as an effective therapy.

^There. I just saved you like 15 min on M's irrelevant foray into graduating a prestigious university, getting married, getting divorced, getting hooked on heroin, contracting HIV, and being misdiagnosed in like 5 different ways before getting to the substance of the article. You're welcome.
(Copy-pasting my comment on this from the other thread)

> If I had to wish something from Julia, it would be to provide a way to turn off runtime optimization to (radically) speed up compile times for purposes of debugging.

100% agreed on that. I've tried a Julia alias with `--compile=min --optimize=0` options passed in to try to say "please give me responsiveness over runtime performance", but it's still not quite the smooth flow I'd like it to be.

> Dynamic Binding

Beyond performance, it sounds like dynamic binding would have the same hard-to-debug action-at-a-distance problems that global variables often land you in, so I'm not sure it's worth it. (The specific case the author mentions would also lead to type stability problems, but that's maybe beside the point.)

> Structural editing

It's hard to process things from gifs, especially since I can't tell what the starting point of the gif is. It vaguely gives me the impression of the Emmet plugin for HTML development [1].

> I am aware julia has a --lisp mode, but I have never found any documentation for it. So, I don’t agree that all the things in julia are well-documented either :).

Afaik, the `--lisp` mode is intended to be sort of an easter egg, rather than a real mode for practical coding. I doubt many people use it other than Jeff himself. :)

The author doesn't say everything in Julia is well-documented by the way, or even mention Julia documentation. There's just complaints about the Lisp ecosystem's lack of documentation, and perhaps from that an implication that Julia has better docs, but I doubt the author would say all the things are well-documented - there's still quite a way to go for that to be the case.

Overall, the article left me more curious to explore Lisp, not less. It didn't feel particularly gloomy, and exposed me to many features of the language that make me really want to try it out. I hope there's more articles like this - in the sense of being intended for a general (non-lisp) audience, and talking about specific features rather than just "it expands your mind, it's programming like you've never done before" type statements.

[1] https://emmet.io/
You can stand up a thermoelectric panel exactly at the terminator, and collect energy by transferring heat from its day to its night side. The night side would be radiating to -270 degrees Celsius, warmed only by whatever convective air is around.
Good link there, but assuming I’m looking at the same section as you, it seems like the 1/3 figure is for skipping or delaying tests and treatments recommended by their doctors, which doesn’t really tell us how many people forego seeing a doctor altogether due to cost concerns.
> the truth is that not all REPLs are created equal

Indeed.

Second to Smalltalk (where the entire environment is your REPL), the best REPL is a Common Lisp REPL. Even the most primitive of Common Lisp REPLs is more useful than a Clojure REPL. This is because the Common Lisp is designed with interactive development in mind.

In Common Lisp, an error doesn't print out a stack trace and leave you puzzling to parse its meaning – it drops you into the debugger where you can inspect the entire system (including local variables on the stack where you are), invoke whatever restarts apply, modify code and continue on.
> a true harassment campaign

People protesting a company is not "harassment". (Disclaimer: I'm an investor in Cloudflare)

> a faux appeal to danger

Law enforcement has been involved.

> a completely legal site

Yeah, no, at best it's in the black part of a very grey area until the slow US legal system catches up with the case.

> via illegal DDoS attack

Their various hosts dropped them. One of those hosts happened to also do DDoS protection, but that part is irrelevant if they have nowhere to host their website.

My advice to you: Stop browsing this type of forum. The brain rot via propaganda and misinformation is real. KF is not a victim. A bully is not a "victim" when their targets defend themselves.

If you rob me and I get you arrested after reporting you to the police, you're not the victim of a society ostracizing you, you're the perpetrator of crimes society doesn't tolerate. Quit hanging out with perpetrators.
I don’t think people are blaming the individual, but it is up to the individual to take responsibility of their own lives. Obviously, a person environment has a great deal of impact, but the issue with saying “It’s all the corporation's fault!” Is you just surrendered any control over your life. You’re basically saying I’m a bag in the wind, and I am the way I am because of outside influences.

Also, most companies exist to serve people. The reason most food are super processed and fattening is because that’s what people want. It’s not what they need, but that’s what people want. Most people prioritize cheap, delicious food over health, even if they don't say it.
They can quit. I promise you as a manager I spend at least half my time trying to keep developers happy and engaged because losing even one of them will cost the team way, way more in productivity than indulging somebody who wants to implement a perhaps-overengineered solution.

I don't know how it is everywhere, but in my neck of the woods good developers are hard to recruit and expensive to lose - they have a lot of leverage and they know it.
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Maybe these articles are written by people who have never been managers themselves. I'd also posit that most of the defense of the position comes from managers. Do you not recognize the irony in this?

I'm sure you're aware of what they say: Its difficult to get someone to understand something when their paycheck depends on it. Do you have the self-awareness to recognize that this, alone, is a huge reason why managers immediately come to the defense of their position?

I've been in the industry for 20 years now. I've worked with good EMs; I've worked with bad EMs; I've been an EM (less often). That spectrum isn't even relevant to the underlying assertion that the core definition of the role is invalid. Its extremely rare to work with an EM whose entire scope of responsibilities wouldn't be more productively served by a peer PM. The only advantage to an EM title is in the organizational power structure, which is far too often leveraged to abuse their reports by trading quality output and mentorship for more working hours, burnout, and Jira graphs.
That is technically an idea.
> Zarashaw responded: “We have a somewhat strange engineering culture compared to most where we don’t generate a lot of artifacts during the engineering process. Effectively the code is its own design document often.”
yes, you're absolutely right, I couldn't find the right term for it.
unfortunately it works at the cost of 2x or 3x the raw materials it would normally take.
>I'd need to buy dozens of limes just to squeeze enough juice to get half that small bottle.

i know this is completly off-topic, but commercial lime juice is made by mulching whole limes finer and finer until they essentially liquefy, not squeezing the juice, so they get much higher yields.
It’s Time to Get Off Our Fannie (2014) [pdf]
I've worked for months while they hired a new manager, and we just had less meetings.
Because I suspected this mess, I took a less expedient path to deleting my account. I found a picture of somebody with my same name and made it my picture. I unfriended everybody I actually knew and only kept randos. I liked a bunch of random stuff. I did not actually delete my account until a year later to let the chaotic data propagate into all the subsystems, backups, and partner networks.
I think you're right here, but what tends to get lost from those who stop at "Sounds like a problem for future taxpayers" is that those taxpayers might be them if they're young enough, but will certainly be their children and grandchildren and the other citizens of their country (and the Earth itself).
But also this "extension" doesn't seem like allowing it.

On the contrary (but it is a specific "niche" case) the mentioned vmdk split format allows to mount the vmdk same as monolithic, with full random access.
> the SSPL should be recognized as a copyleft open source license

How do you figure? I don't think it should.
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There are two main in-situ uses of hydrogen that come to mind that don't require problematic long-distance transport and storage: nitrogen fertilizer production, and hydrogen-based direct iron reduction. For example:

(2021) "Green Ammonia and the Electrification of the Haber-Bosch Process Reduce Carbon Emissions"

https://guidehouseinsights.com/news-and-views/green-ammonia-...

(2022) "Hierarchical nature of hydrogen-based direct reduction of iron oxides"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135964622...
Plus ocean pollution and other disruption, directly due to ships or infrastructure for them.
Ayn Rand is a philosopher who talks very directly on how productive action at work (or anywhere) are the morally good.
"It allows us to communicate ideas and emotions in abstract ways bypassing the limitations of language. Computer generated art can’t accomplish that. I don’t see any real threat here to artists."

I strongly disagree here. I think we tend to anthropomorphize AI, atrributing emotions and humor as something only sentient beings can do.

What it does is really spot patterns. It's akin to someone who has read not only thousands of books, but also also surfed Reddit for thousands of years, and read all the smutty fan fiction out there.

OpenAI stuff (DALL-E 2 and recent models of GPT-3) feels rather "smoothed". It's like looking at someone on LinkedIn and then thinking they don't have a personality.

It's capable of subtext. I ask it to describe anger, and it could be anything between a yelling person to someone who is cold and sarcastic.

It's capable of humor. It's capable of flirting. I use GPT-3 for poetry, because it's a hell of a lot better at writing poetry than me. It does poorly at finding rhymes and it doesn't understand syllables, but it can definitely find different ways to express an idea.

Another weakness is that people who don't understand poetry or art are bad at giving instructions to AI. If you hire Shakespeare on Upwork and give him instructions to, "Write a love poem to my wife for her anniversary," the output is going to be uninspired.

People will have to learn to work with AI the way a director works with actors, not the way a scrum master works with engineers. The director sees the big picture and how the scenes flow into each other, while the AI has to be trained to get into character.
> To date, only prototypes of the Lavo domestic system have been built, and the company has not yet decided where to build a factory.
That would not fit their narrative though.

Cherry picking data to fit your point is stats 101 for "journalists"
>Well that's because the question is meaningless
No.

>What does it mean "all your personal data"?
It means all your personal data.

>What does "where" mean?
Where facebook stores it.

This is only a complicated question if you want to start saying, "Well this isnt really their personal data, we just use it for x..." If its data related to my account or me as a user it's my personal data.

Maybe its difficult to track all that down but certainly that is a challenge worth tackling in a world where GDPR exists.
> Important thing here is, you're not a customer.

That’s not the important thing at all. The important thing is the Otter.ai is violating the privacy of its users, potentially even breaking laws in some jurisdictions.

If anything, it raises some more red flags that they’re ignoring consent for free users, since that could be interpreted as an attempt to monetize them by collecting data (again, without consent)

If you don’t want non-paying users, then don’t offer a free tier. You don’t get a free pass to do whatever you want to a user just because they aren’t using your paid plan.
I mean, I just add packages to the list and some configuration options. If you only need it as a user it's fairly simple.
The closest I've seen to this in real life is people pawing through 1/6 photos to identify criminals and report them to the police. I don't hang out on antifa forums tho, care to enlighten us where that's happening?
Why do you assume that anyone notices yours?
The FSF demands copyright assignation for all contributions to its projects. E.g., if you want your code to make it into Emacs, both you and your employer need to sign it over to the FSF.
Agreed. I'm tired of these companies assuming that it's some kind of natural order or divine right to collect this data to begin with.
read the comment below for my quick synopsis
You are right to a point. But one problem is that everyone is trying to cram into the same couple of places. Every country in the world tries to become effectively a city state. The housing shortage is secondary to this trend.

You may turn every block into kwaloon walled city and there will still be housing shortage.

I am not against density - I am fond of European 6 story buildings. But you have a fundamental demand problem. The big cities are bleeding dry the rest of the countries.
Hacker news partially works because of the way the community is built; there are people here at all stages of their careers, which is unusual. (Anywhere from successful startup founders, to teenagers just interested in the topic.)

A corrollary community of writers would be wonderful, though I do think it would likely require the backing of an institution parallel to Ycombinator.

Fortunately, there are many organizations that offer community for writers; most major cities have writing centers such as Richard Hugo House in Seattle, or The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. If you're looking to connect with such a community, these types of places are wonderful resources, though they tend to be offline focused.
> language-specific static backends

I guess it sounded like you meant a general solution that wasn’t language specific. I’m still not sure if there’s an abstraction you could use to make language aspects marked as vulnerable - the semantics between languages are just so varied.

Anyway we need the language specific ones first.
What happens is that an otherwise productive engineer has to step up and perform the role, but without any recognition of the extra responsibilities or any reduction in expectations of their individual contributions.

So then they find a job somewhere else and another otherwise productive engineer has to step up.....

Meanwhile the other engineers continue on blissfully unaware, patting themselves on their backs for how they don't need to be managed.
You both are wrong. From database point of view blockchains are multi-master, AP system with open set of masters (writers). The name of the game is censorship resistance. If some writers censor, I can pay non-censoring writer to include my tx.
So why do we expect Meta to internally track this kind of data usage? Seems like it’s both fair use and covered by the terms of service that FB users have agreed to.
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Does someone know why the counter for this issue is at "70", but the repo only shows "21" issues in total? Maybe there are deleted issues that are not part of the total counter?

https://github.com/preactjs/signals/issues?q=is%3Aissue
> You don't need a more privacy focused app, you just need another app and probably to become a customer so you can get the support you clearly want.

A local transcription, manually triggered service would solve the concern I think.

> You don't need a more privacy focused app, you just need another app and probably to become a customer so you can get the support you clearly want.

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.
That's the lowest percentage out of all the sentences from that paragraph.

The 1/3rd is people avoiding treatment recommended by a doctor. 43% of people reported to have avoided healthcare due to costs.

To me "Not most people, only 43%" isn't what I would consider too much of an exaggeration.
In my 20s I'd agree with the premise.

Now that I've seen high performers deviate from their job and make mistakes in the core role, I understand that even good workers benefit from managers.

I can even say the same thing about program management.

If communication is good, you don't need these as much, but big companies lack the ability to communicate effectively.
Yet another "We're saving Open Source by Ditching Open Source" announcement.
Open Source license does not fit every business model, in fact models around true Open Source were always hard, really hard.

Yet lets be real and call things the way they are - you decided what Open Source is not right business license for your project and choosing to use Proprietary (Source Available) license instead.
This is correct. And the AMA isn't ignorant of this, either.