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The rails docs are excellent, actually! I was surprised at how bad the node.js docs were, but the documentation for express.js is good enough that I didn't find myself referencing the node docs a whole lot.

C# and .NET have been pretty easy to develop in, but the documentation was very poor I thought. Maybe I just didn't find it, but it lacked a good example walkthrough like you get with Rails. Next up is a Swift backend using Perfect[0]!

[0] https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/PerfectDocs
In the UK average calorie intake has been dropping, but thats negatively correlated to kids being fat.

I would suggest that the big change is the amount of activity that an average kid does. which seems to be conducive to the calories in/vs out. the cause of this is complex. But a lot of it relates to stranger danger. Parents don't let their kids out after school unattended (for various reasons) which means they are inside not burning off as many calories.

The other thing to remember is that food is now cheap. Its perfectly possible to be in the bottom 20% of the UK income bracket and still have enough cash to eat more calories than you need. (This is a good thing. People starving in the UK is unforgivable.)
https://archive.ph/YjOfv
I think political assassination teens to make little sense most of the time. There is a sort of gentleperson's agreement to not do it, is someone breaks that then no one feels safe and leaders will be assassinating other leaders left and right. At least I think that is the great.
> fails to explain why people eat more calories now than they did before

Wouldn't this also intuitively be related to the fact that a calorie today is much, much "cheaper" (in terms of labor required to acquire the calorie for both the producer and the consumer) than a calorie was even 100 years ago due to advancements in agriculture and distribution?
I get that; but the issue isn't language / runtime specific. You'll hit similar issues in pretty much any programming language / runtime.

Reusing memory used to be pretty standard for C/C++ programmers; and is also standard practice for "real time Java."
Yeah, we are losing/have lost a lot of our engineering skillbase.

It's no surprise when you can make way more money getting people to click on ads at Facebook or working at Goldman Sachs etc. than you can in engineering.
thank you! I just had a simple graph in my head. Now that there is something I can conceptualize, is it :

Power = Capacitance * Voltage ^(2 * frequency)

or

Power = Capacitance * (Voltage ^2) * frequency
Not even the managers want to go back :D
PyTorch strengthens its governance by joining the Linux Foundation
I agree, I wish they would let me monetize my channel now :(
what have we learned from a decade of dating apps?

Basically to not use them. Same thing we learned with a lot of other "social" services.
We have people working remotely and they are supposed to be available and online and I find that many are not available.

We have even had emergencies where we reached out to people only to not get a response.

There are people actually working from home and they are people "working" from home.
Is it just me or can anyone else envision a near future where Amazon puts cameras on these Roombas and comes up with some consumer-friendly reason for doing so?
>>This is not a problem managers who are experts in what their workers are doing have.

You're more or less right, but I don't think this is exactly the case. A good manager shouldn't need to be an expert in what their staff is doing. The manager should be there to help them let them do their jobs and stay out of the way. I always say the same thing around this, "If you have to constantly watch your employees either, why do they still work for you, or why are you the manager?"
> The truth is a significant portion of managers, in my experience, are not particularly well suited to the task or are incompetent on some level.

Competent managers are few and far between, Steve Jobs said/did a lot of stupid crap but one cogent point he made was that the best managers are the ones who never wanted to be a manager, they just went and did it because they were sick of dealing with incompetent managers.
"Service guarantees citizenship"
Not really, wind power often occupies space which is otherwise unusued, and it also doesn't render the space unusable for other activities (e.g. offshore wind turbines are not displacing land used for other purposes, and onshore wind turbines on farmland have only a very small impact on the amount of space available for crops and the efficiency of farming).
True, OS/2 was much cheaper. Coherent was relatively cheap for a Unix clone, which is basically what I was getting at. SCO Xenix / Unix was in the $500+ range. A C compiler wasn't even included, if I recall.
Because the European grid usually has less demand, more supply in summer and more demand, less supply in winter. This leads to EDF scheduling most maintenance and refueling for nuclear power plants in summer. This year was particularly bad because the normal summer maintenances were accompanied by 1. a bunch of delayed maintenances that didn't happen due to COVID-19; 2. a potential issue with welds in a safety cooling system which was found in 12 of the more recent reactors and required some unplanned shutdowns to investigate and (sometimes) repair.
Also, there is the additional point of liability insurance which is often swept under the rug. It's horrifically expensive due to the potential compensation payments...

> "It is important to remember that no matter what solution is adopted, some of the cost of a severe nuclear accident will inevitably fall upon the state," the report notes. "Fukushima's compensation payments to date amount to about EUR75 billion (USD91 billion). On top of this are the costs of site stabilisation and regional clean-up. These numbers are beyond the resources of most private enterprises and are even challenging for the global insurance markets.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Study-examines-n...
The philosopher Colin McGinn has suggested that certain philosophical questions which have gone unanswered despite much attention are evidence for human cognitive limitations. He calls this cognitive closure. The nature of consciousness being one such example.
Sorry, I meant people who committed suicide from the harassment. Ya know, the freedom to swat people you don't like. Normal free liberatarian stuff.
Personally, I found out about the church from the radio not the internet. Though the website is fun.
Show HN: A dense NYT-style crossword constructor using wave function collapse
My thoughts exactly. If Linux could, I don't see why a new browser can't.

If we start slowly, focus not on delivering a working product ASAP but a nice codebase that's accessible for other developers to read, carefully split modules so each part of the browser is a mini project by itself, with clearly defined business logic, outward connections (GUI, APIs, Drivers, etc), it can be done.

Yes, it will be a lot of work. But with a tidy codebase and a welcoming community (at least for a programmer) that "a lot of work" will instead become a playground to hack whatever component they desire.

The problem is that people don't want another Linux-like hobby project, they want another Firefox
So, almost 25c an hour at EU electric prices.
I tend to agree. There's a certain type of hubris humanity must have to think we can improve on our natural design. And even if we can... then all we've accomplished is making ourselves obsolete.
I’ve done nand2tetris a couple times (taking good notes the second time) and coincidentally played through nandgame.com for the first time this weekend. I’ve been trying out what people have done with bare metal Forth on a raspberry pi using a frame buffer and using C libraries to get input from a USB keyboard. I don’t really like having such dependencies so I was just thinking I should get out my Arty FPGA with the same VGA module he uses and just make my own computer instead. It’s hard to find stuff that works how I want and is in stock and is actually understandable.

This is definitely going to be my next project. It even uses Arty and the VGA module for it which I already happen to have (it only has a few bits for R, G, and B color though so it’s not perfect for images and gradients). There was example code[1] to use with it and it generates an image but I wasn’t sure how to make a frame buffer for it which this tutorial has!

I recently reviewed graphics rendering techniques (Computer Graphics from Scratch from No Starch Press) so that fits too. This’ll be fun!

[1] https://digilent.com/reference/learn/programmable-logic/tuto...

(They have a different board with HDMI in and out and a framebuffer example to go with it: https://digilent.com/reference/learn/programmable-logic/tuto...

Also I just ran across someone who did HDMI output directly from the pins of yet another variety of Arty board https://domipheus.com/blog/hdmi-over-pmod-using-the-arty-spa...

On second thought, I’d rather stick with understandable VGA and hooking up a keyboard in a matrix… could use some other microcontroller and interface between the two with fewer pins, just not USB. Or PS/2 keyboard… Ben Eater has a tutorial as always)
who cares about these russian gas problems. I will have to throttle my cpu so it doesn't get too hot in winter
I think that is something to write our congressman about (or equivalent if not in US). Right now not only are patents written for lawyers, but the law encourages you not to look at patents since if you don't know about something relevant and you reinvent it you owe less damages than if you knew and still chose to infringe.

For patents to be useful they need to be writing in the language of experts in the field -not lawyers. And the law needs to make it best for my employer to make me search for and read potentially relevant patents before doing anything. That is infringing after making an effort to avoid a patent (that the courts decide is not enough effort) is better than infringing without knowing.
If you are buying a Cisco router you are buying a closed source product. Why would you expect them to open source anything when you are happy to give them money for closed source firmware?

You are literally paying them for being closed source.

Stop rewarding these corporations for screwing you over and they will cease to screw you over. Either they will change their ways or go out of business if enough people feel the way you do. And, regardless, you would have solved these sorts of problems for yourself long before that happens.

It's been a very long time since Cisco was the only game in town for enterprise networking. Companies like Broadcom have released powerful ASICs that allows practically anybody to build a high performance routers and switches.
Quite a lot of the things you list apply to nuclear electricity too.

But you seem to be implying that those are renewable problems that nuclear doesn't have, and that adding nuclear to the energy mix will improve them.

Can you explain how?

Like, "pink hydrogen" is hydrogen made by electrolysis with nuclear power. You had a little rant about Green Hydrogen, so how does nuclear change that?

What's wrong with EVs charged from nuclear?

Does nuclear mean you don't need grid interconnects? Why do France and Germany trade energy back and forth then?

I like nuclear as a tech. It's you that I have doubt about actually supporting it as it seems to just be a hippy-punching shibboleth for you. Are you really just arguing for fossil fuels?
A stark truth about working from home is that the useless layers of middle management are exposed as not being needed. When everyone is both on and active on Slack/Teams/etc then high level decision makers can interact with low-level leads and front-line managers who are actually getting things done and shape strategic direction more easily -- and the lower lever folks can access leadership more easily and quickly when problems arise. No running it through seven layers of management, no weeks of delays to have meeting to plan meetings to think about having a meeting to discuss the issue: just get straight to the point with the people who matter. If I was a useless middle manager I would want an immediate return to the office as well.
I'm sure a big air cooler like the Noctua NH-D15 would be enough to stop throttling.

Maybe Intel will include a beefier stock cooler in the box?
And some of these metastidies indicate our measure of calorie may be off. Lab rats fed controlled diets with measured activity have gotten fatter over the decades. Somehow those rats are extracting more energy from their food or becoming more efficient at producing the measured amount of activity.
Are fast food portions actually larger? I remember getting super sized combos when I was a kid (maybe even in HS, I forget when they got rid of them) but they're gone now, and on the rare occasion I get fast food the portions seem reasonable.
On Windows git performance isn't the greatest due to the sheer number of tiny little files (NTFS is absolutely awful). If you have a lot of small commits the number of tiny files grows and grows and grows and git can feel really slow compared to something like fossil. Especially if you're regularly copying your repo from one filesystem/machine to the next (without compressing it into something like a .zip first).
> the Java runtime has many of the design hallmarks of a dynamic language, with strong (generic) types somewhat bolted on.

I'd say it's the opposite. Dynamic languages largely use boxing as the indirection mechanism for their highly dynamic type systems, since it works well there. But boxing isnt synonymous with type flexibility, and Java uses it for other reasons (mostly).
Study at Hooker Plant Found '75 Emissions Dangerous to Health (1979)
Asked what the company would do if workers eventually developed cancers because of earlier exposure, Mr. Davis [executive vice president of the chemical division] said, “Well, we'd feel very badly about it.”
> but the gains would be entirely in the homeowners pocket so why should the taxpayer foot the bill?

It's pretty common (though not universal) in the United States for renters to be responsible for utilities, such as heating, water, and electricity. In those cases, the owner neither cares about, nor benefits from, increased energy efficiency, while on the other side of the coin, the tenant has little incentive to make capital improvements on a property he or she may only be planning on occupying for a year or so. In this scenario, anything that doesn't have a payback period shorter than the length of expected tenancy is unlikely to get done.
I used to use Emacs (for 15+ years) with a handcrafted config. It didn't feel slow because of spacemacs, which didn't even exist when I started using it. It felt slow because anything that should have been async (pushing to git, asking the LSP server to do something, you named it: spell checking, etc.) would hang up the whole UI.
Aiming for that speed, in addition to avoiding creating objects per-transaction, you should avoid anything else that could be time consuming.
Richard Feynman's report on the Challenger Disaster[1] was so divergent from the desired political posture they made it a separate appendix. It stands as a showcase of root cause analysis.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20001018100729/http://science.ks...
Just wild all these hn dudes creating new accounts to defend the right of the American Nazi Party to be hosted on resilient infrastructure. That's a weird fight to triumph and yet here we are.
The sound of it from the article reminds me some of https://trac.edgewall.org/
[Mostly NSFW]
If you want to explore knowledge about the human body and what people do with it, I suggest «The tree of reddit sex life» as an exploration start point:

https://observablehq.com/@stared/tree-of-reddit-sex-life
And to add to that the country saving Germany and France from this mess is Sweden with its nuclear + hydro + wind (mostly nuclear+hydro though)

(and Norway too with its massive hydro capacity)
Reminds me of a now-old Doctor Who story (Paradise Towers) where the girl k^Hgangs used "unalive" the same way (although usually they were murder victims)
The average data scientist thinks it is OK to have a manual process to make the monthly report so long as it takes less than 1 month and so does their manager. And so does the VC that funds it.

I mean, you can’t write a command line program which is reliable and straightforward to install in blub, why would anybody need it?
When Benoit Mandelbrot wrote a simple computer program to map z -> z^2 +c and to his amazement discovered something intricate and beautiful that nobody knew was there, where was the "tool"? Why should such an abstract structure, with no apparent practical application, speak so profoundly to the cortex of a primate evolved for hunting animals and gathering fruit?
Exactly, it is not language-specific. The article could phrase its conclusion better.
It's also much easier to eat a very high amount of calories in relatively little volume, compared to any other time in history. It's very easy to eat thousands of calories in what would be a healthy volume of vegetables. Pack more calories and people will eat more calories before they actually feel full.
Most of Europe will be in a state of open rebellion in a few months when there is no more energy to heat their homes and no more food to feed their family. This is due to the failure of European leaders to create policies of energy independence. Protests have already begun all over the continent. Finland’s nuclear reactor is too little to late to save Europe from total war.
Intel still playing the GHz game, not having learned anything from the Pentium 4?
Nice, that will be my next build!
those are base-clock TDPs not the boost TDPs (which AMD calls a PPT) too... it's 170W base/230W boost power, and those chips are allowed to boost for an unlimited duration (which of course has pluses and minuses).
'an appetite suppressant' is really underselling liraglutide. It also corrects insulin resistance,
which accounts for some degree of it's effectiveness as a weight loss aid beyond it's effects on slowing the GI tract.

GLP-1 agonists are truly an amazing class of drugs. It's absolutely absurd that they're generally not covered by insurance for non-diabetics, even when they yield such obvious benefits for obese people.
I LOVE that the superlative quote used in the marketing is from the project author!
They analyze field reports from other scientists. 100% of her work is done at her PC.

When she’s at the office she has to deal with her lower morale in addition to the random coworker stopping by to chat or her manager interrupting her in various ways.

During her WFH time, she alway completed her work by 10am each morning. Now she struggles to complete it by 5pm while being in the office.

The folks that left had many years to go until they were vested. Since she only has a short time remaining, she decided to stick it out.
At times a single large file is easier to handle than many small files.

Ever try and copy the .git part of a git repo? When it gets big, the copy gets bogged down by the sheer number of files.
I'm fairly certain Andreas knows, considering he worked on Safari before starting Serenity.
Detecting big "lower the age of consent" libertarianism going on here again. I mean, I am on a website for weird nerds. But I'm a weird nerd too.
That is actually pretty freaking cool. Not hard to do by any means, just cool.
The many embedded devices in homes are much scarier than home sysadmins not configuring their boxes correctly.
I think rather than misinformed, you just left out a word in your claim. If you added the word "yet", then it would seem more appropriate to me.

If the advertising world believes that targeted ads are the holy grail, then why wouldn't retailers believe targeted pricing to be also be the holy grail?
> no nuclear plant has been built without massive government support

Can you give me an example of a grid-scale solar plant that was built without massive government support? I don't know of any, off-hand.
I wonder, and this is speaking from virtually no experience in the area, if it would be possibly to use machine learning to infer all the myriads of layout rules (etc.), instead of actually writing to spec
it’s ridiculous stupid bullshit, that’s all.

If you aren’t doing anything wrong, officers, why are you worried about being filmed?
And also use the heat from their PC to boil water and then spin a turbine to generate electricity to sell back to the grid.
I suspect that if the developer/landlord is out to capture all the value possible (as he is directly incentivized to do) having multiple floors just isn't going to be nearly enough.
Swedish election: far right makes gains but overall result on knife-edge
This is similar to my approach to serving videos of me reading a few of my poems to my poetry website. It works mainly because nobody wants to watch me read my poems. I do worry about what would happen if one of those poems went viral - I couldn't afford additional costs from my webhost.
I found the reason why it was using CPU only. I was running macOS 12.2. I upgraded to 12.5.1. and it's now using GPU. Activity Monitor shows it. Also, the time for 50 steps dropped to 175 secs. 25 steps is about 80 secs, which is closer to the MacBook Pro time..
Then you should be paying money for people to be "on call" not "available and online". An error in planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
> realistic

They are doing it though; it's "real." Perhaps you are setting goals for them that they are not themselves setting?

> can't compete

You actually can read about their goals on the linked page, though. They are not attempting to "compete" with Chromium.

> iphone

So don't use iPhone, and use a phone that allows you to use the browser engine you want to!
feeling a bit cold, gonna turn on my gaming pc for an hour
Mozilla competes just fine IMO

- a developer who uses firefox 99% of the time
Only tangentially related to your comment but it was recently pointed out to me that the trajectory of thrown objects is really an ellipse, not a parabola, since they're in a (very short!) orbit while airborne. Of course parabolas are a very, very good approximation over short distances and much easier to deal with mathematically than ellipses. Still, wish they'd mentioned this as an aside in physics classes.
Hopefully they will soon arrest the person who wrote the article for butchering the English language.

“Woman arrested after protester holds anti-monarchy sign in Edinburgh.”

Apparently, the “Woman” and the “protester” are the same person.
China discovers unknown mineral on the moon, names it Changesite-(Y)
The performance issues with elisp have been greatly mitigated with native elisp compilation: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/speed-up-emacs-libjan...
Or <$0.04 in the US and in most of the EU under normal circumstances.
Management without domain knowledge is there for other reasons. One of them probably includes speaking to the outside world: customers, people who certainly don't have domain knowledge. It's not strange that this kind of job may require as many FTEs as doing actual work. Maybe what is strange is calling it 'management', and implying a hierarchy.

I've experienced corporate cultures in a few places, and Americans do love their hierarchies! If that bothers you, you could consider a job in a place where this is less so.
Truth is a significant portion of employees, in my experience, advocate for work from home because they want the chance to slack off.

P.S. Someone has to say this.
Scientists Discover a Molecular Switch That Controls Life Expectancy