skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That chart is… not right. Torque for a vehicle is measured at the crankshaft, before the transmission. For an electric motor it is a flat horizontal line. For an ICE it is almost flat in its power band but rises from much lower before it reaches it. The rest of what you are saying isn’t wrong but that’s a bad chart.
"You can't lose value you never had" isn't a coherent argument. People are routinely awarded damages far greater than their net worths for all sorts of torts. By the logic you're using, if I go to Starbucks and steal the eyeballs out of the barista, I'm only asymptotically on the hook for a lifetime's worth of barista earnings.
In addition to what novok said, I would say keeping score is a detriment. Most of the people I "raised" provided absolutely nothing tangible in return and I don't feel any negative emotion about that. I'm glad they are better off in some capacity because I was in their life and that is its own reward. Keeping score is the path to bitterness and negative attitude which people will see through.

Can you speak more specifically about what you experienced that you found so terrible? That might help me offer a more useful response.
Don't forget to multiply by 12 for yearly revenue.
Caffeine without medication evens me out until I have had enough that the side effects take over. It's a bit like medication alone, but with worse side effects.

Caffeine with medication (Methylphenidate) works just like caffeine does for most (neurotypical) people.
textra is pretty good, at least when I was using Android.
But I also debunked those reasons in-thread: the URL is fundamentally global state, so there’s no virtue in avoiding a global event handler—in fact, there is virtue in using a global event handler, because the alternative encourages inconsistency, with regular page-load routing accidentally not working in parts of the system (and I’ve definitely seen this happen in real life).
'Musk and Putin'
> Companies who try to build any type of codebase end up with a mess. Always. No exception.

I love how demonstratively wrong this is
If I were at Apple and my job was to make non iMessage messages bad I would also make them a little bit off center. Maybe even randomly off center. I vuess people like me with OCD would never again message someone without an iPhone LOL
Why is there such a bullshit troll-level cliche that software engineers are not real engineers?

I can look at most mechanical design, and find multiple flaws. I can look at a car and see fatal flaws. Do the mechanical engineers at Tesla have different individual legal liability from software engineers for design flaws? All Engineers make safety compromises all the time.

Sure, some software is shit, but plenty of software is also solidly engineered. Plenty of other engineers do shit work too - we generally only hear about the most egregious failures.

From what I see, other engineers now depend on the software models they use. CAD, structural, circuit design, everything. Get over it.

I think the definition of engineering is making good compromises. It isn’t about safety. Plenty of other disciplines work without liability producing shonky outputs. Safety is just another compromise.

A federal court disagree with you:

“Courts have long recognized that the term ‘engineer’ has a generic meaning separate from ‘professional engineer,’” the court reasoned, and the word engineer “cannot become inherently misleading simply because a state deems it so.”

“In a free society, government agencies do not have the authority to rewrite the dictionary. Oregon cannot declare the word ‘engineer’ off-limits to the thousands of Oregonians who, like Mats, are engineers.”

Etymology:

mid-14c., enginour, "constructor of military engines," from Old French engigneor "engineer, architect, maker of war-engines; schemer" (12c.), from Late Latin ingeniare (see engine); general sense of "inventor, designer" is recorded from early 15c.; civil sense, in reference to public works, is recorded from c. 1600 but not the common meaning of the word until 19c (hence lingering distinction as civil engineer). Meaning "locomotive driver" is first attested 1832, American English.

https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...

Disclaimer: I have an Electrical & Electronic Engineering Degree.

Edit: oh, and the certification of engineers becomes somewhat irrelevant when they are from outside your jurisdiction. Most imported goods and services contain engineering decisions where liability is dealt with through other legal means than certification. Certification matters in only a few engineering disciplines. In Christchurch where I live, a building collapsed in the 2010 Earthquake, and the civil engineer hasn’t had any formal penalties. He also designed some fibreglass roofs for sewage treatment plant, and the roofs caught fire a few years back and that has caused a heap of trouble! https://www.engineeringnz.org/news-insights/ctv-alan-reay-co... As a generalisation NZ is not a very litigious society, and less punishment focused than say the US which has 4x the incarceration rate (people in prison).
So fine those people or arrest them if you can prove something. Would they be better engineers if they did the same thing but paid a mandatory yearly membership fee to some board?
If you're a low-wage worker with workman's comp and decent insurance, it could very well increase your lifetime earnings.

https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-148-errol-morris-9-25-202...

> Early in his career, Errol Morris read about a shocking series of alleged insurance crimes in a small town in Florida, which some referred to as “Nub City.” There were allegations that men and women were mutilating themselves — removing hands and feet — in order to exploit accidental dismemberment clauses in insurance policies, and collect money.
A company of Apple’s size routinely adds and removes employee benefits. It’s not like they offered nothing before a single union consisting of a handful of employees showed up. To make this claim you need to look at a time span way longer than a couple of months to see if there’s an actual correlation.
> I hate how much this is made into 'rich' versus 'poor' countries.

> Coca-Cola, Nestle, Pepsico, Unilever, P&G, Mars, Kraft-Heinz

US, Swiss, US, UK, US, US, US company, respectively.
I do in fact oppose the idea of settling controversies with violence.
Many don’t survive. You mentioned Symfony, Zend used to be equally popular. Not many people use it now.
People thought similar things about reading stuff on mobile phones too.
I think this is an instance of choosing religion over pragmatism and it will cost Signal a lot of users, possibly all of them.
Seamless runtime checks are fully supported via zod.

https://github.com/colinhacks/zod

You’re welcome.

(I use this library every day. It has changed my life.)
> traditionally philosophy has focused on questions that are beyond or "prior to" scientific questions

Yes. As soon as a branch of enquiry has some sort of empirical methods and evidence, it ceases to be philosophy and becomes science. Philosophy is left with the 'hard' questions.
I'm always curious to see stats on changes in employment. Here are the types of questions I'd like to answer:

- How many of those jobs are below the poverty line, especially considering recent inflation?

- How many of them come with decent medical/dental benefits?

- How many of them offer a 401k retirement fund?

- How does the median income compare to previous times unemployment was at 3.5%, over the last 30 years?

- How as the distribution of wealth changed in the last 10-20 years?

- Changes in credit card debt

- Changes in debt-to-income ratios

- Are the masses getting richer or poorer?

- Is the US getting richer or poorer?

etc...
So how would that have worked in 1939 when they capped the number of representatives?
Texas state politics/law is completely f'd in so many ways, but one thing they do that I think is fantastic, and I wish all states did, was have a "Sunset Review Commission", https://www.sunset.texas.gov/how-sunset-works.

Basically, all agencies that are authorized by the legislature are set to automatically be abolished in (usually) 12 years. Once the expiration date is near, the Sunset Commission reviews the agency and recommends whether to reauthorize it, in which case the legislature must pass a law to reauthorize, but the "default" is that the agency expires.

This really helps fight the natural tendency of lots of these professional agencies to grow to protect their own power, regardless of their original purpose. And even if agencies are normally always renewed, the review process itself is really useful to, when necessary, smack these agencies upside the head to get them back to their original goal. One example I'm familiar with, a couple years ago the Sunset Commission basically tore the Texas Veterinary Board a new one after they decided to go after animal shelter vets for trying to save animals with extremely limited resources, https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/One-third-of... - actual report at https://www.sunset.texas.gov/public/uploads/files/reports/St...
If you want to actually learn stuff, side projects will probably serve you better. If you want to get a job at a trendy valley tech startup, stick with leetcode.
I heard a winemaker once explain it that _at one time in the past_ there was a larger difference between expensive and cheap wine, but in the years since then the large-scale mass-producers have gotten much better at making better quality wine in bulk and the difference today is much less than it was decades ago.

I think a similar story can be applied to many other luxury goods as well.
All frameworks are collections of libraries and that usually means you can import and use parts of the framework. Django is exactly what the author is saying is hard to maintain. And mostly all things Django start via wsgi, asgi or manage.py.

As the lead developer on three Django based commercial saas products, there is a trade off. Spend your time reinventing the same basic things or spend your time building your product. Even the maintenance argument is really a trade off. When you are small, frameworks help by outsourcing a huge amount of labor. When you can afford more developers, you gain control and maintainability by ditching the framework.
Is the coal industry dead? In 2008 the US was producing more coal than it had ever before. Even in 2016 it was still above the peak production levels of the 1970s.
They are usually very expensive.
financially unpersoning anyone capable of wrongthink might be a bit bad for national currencies, especially billionaires, and especially during a recession.
before someone comes asking for sources (are we actually in a recession?) find a grocery receipt from a year ago, then go buy that shit today.

Push a billionaire with a lot of reach to cryptocurrency when there's a trade war and possibly a world war brewing, brilliant move!

this sort of pre-emptive PR crap by financial institutions and payment processors is going to backfire.

Kanye is having an episode, so it might not be this go around but this sort of thing is going to wind up getting regulated hard.
It matters for SFF builds where people often want the highest performance possible but are severely limited by cooking. Efficiency becomes extremely important.
The only other similar stories I've heard like this are people using meth.
In 2008, spending was in the toilet after the housing crash. That’s not the case now.
It doesn't support passkeys though. They are software-only WebAuthn, while Firefox only supports USB device WebAuthn.
Six Indian Institutes Boycott Times Higher Education World University Rankings
A disclaimer is completely unnecessary on the plans, as official maps by surveyors or engineers have their stamps on them. The absence of those stamps proves it’s not trying to pass as a surveyor’s map.
> Rather than doing the hard work of examining how public schools fail poor and minority students, leaving them disproportionately ill-equipped to gain admission to selective high schools, education officials in San Francisco discard merit and disguise the much larger issue of the failure of government schools.

This implies that if public schools were working "correctly", every student would qualify for "selective high schools".

First, that's impossible. People are different, they always will be, and nothing the government or anyone else does is going to make people exactly equal. There will always be smarter kids, average kids, and not-so-bright kids.

Second, why is it automatically the public school system's fault? What if something like the number of kids born to unwed mothers is a factor, like this:

https://www.childtrends.org/publications/dramatic-increase-i...

According to the above article, Black and Hispanic women are more likely to have a kid while unmarried. IMO this will have a huge impact on a child's development. And the more education a woman has, the less likely they will have a child while unmarried. Parents with more education are going to be able to help their child more with schoolwork, and it has nothing to do with how well the public school is performing.
Software developers dislike unions.

A decade or two into their career, they get replaced by a kid out of school or have to train their H1B replacement.

Wouldn't happen in a union shop.
BuiltWith has gotten quite good. I tested it on my site and it even correctly detected I use Shutterstock for stock images. We don't credit Shutterstock anywhere (already pay them like $300/mo) so it must actually analyze the images themselves to make this determination
and in the opposite direction...

A Slower Speed of Light

http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/
Traditionally nobody, but the massive power consumption of the RTX 4090 combined with a power-hungry CPU might make people take notice. When your desktop needs a dedicated circuit you have a problem.
This is fun! Reminds me of the first time I read Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott as a kid, and spent much time thinking about what it would be like to move around in a 2d world!
That gibberish about primary sources is one of the fundamental ways in which Wikipedia stays at least partially accurate. Wikipedia is not a blog, it's just meant to be a gathering of information from other sources. So adding facts which are not anywhere else online is not the sign of a broken system, it's the sign of a system that cares about citations and about being a reliable source of information. It's unfortunate when people try to add factual things, but if anyone was able to edit Wikipedia to add whatever, it would have become a cesspool long ago.
I helped one of the worst programmers I've ever known become an average programmer and he was so thankful that a few years later when a crazy opportunity came along to make a few million bucks he called me up because there was no one else he trusted with what would become his life's work. Now we hire abuse victims and other people who had a rough time but are amazing and get them set up on an accelerated path to six figure income careers as PMs, sysadmins, and developers. And we make great money in the process. I'm an above average programmer it would be a disservice to deny it, but you don't have to be the best programmer in the room to help the worst programmer in the room.

I worked with another guy and a few years after we had been working together he called me up and asked me if I would mind if he named me in his will. He had started a solo company and made good money and if he died he wanted me to help make sure his wife didn't get taken in by vultures. Of course I offered to do it without hesitation.

Fuck performance culture. Make your own culture. Be the kind of person that others want to trust their life's work and fortunes with.
Are we all talking past each other? IME there is a time for using an off-the-shelf framework and a time to hand roll from scratch. (For varying definitions of scratch.)

Generally when a company's tech needs aren't very unique, and they seek to compete on time to market, then a shelf framework makes sense. Companies whose needs stretch the boundaries of shelf frameworks too much may be better served by building on a lower level platform like from a standard library--entirely or in part.

Yet building from scratch is costly. Depending on the stack / language chosen it may cost an "innovation token" or three. Small companies can't afford a lot of these tokens. And lots of eager engineers want to believe their problems are unique, dragons never before defeated. IME most problems aren't like that. They're boring, such as a codebase that's lost its fit as the market or company has grown, pivoted, or contracted.
You are looking at it wrong. Everyone you mentioned there are merely following the law. It is the LAW ITSELF that fails to hold corporations accountable.

If you are still having trouble getting it, imagine corporations were called by some other name, say Mafia, and see if you'd want your law to prosecute then.
Everyone who sees them that is expecting certified engineering plans or a surveyor’s plat will know this isn’t that as it won’t have the correct stamp on it. Adding a disclaimer is like writing “this is not a car” on a bicycle.
For those of you who want something like this with Firefox on Linux, the virtual-fido project might provide a decent alternative, it uses Linux's USB-over-IP support to provide a fake FIDO device, and Firefox supports FIDO devices for WebAuthn:

https://github.com/bulwarkid/virtual-fido/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32881956
Should probably have just used Catboost
Are we using different Djangos?

Let’s take it for granted you’re using it with HTTP since it’s a web framework (this would all apply with WS).

You routes call your views. Your views load your models. These feed into your templates, which go into a response. You can tweak what’s going on at each step (DRF) but there’s definitely a way it’s all supposed to work together. It’s classic IOC.
If you don't use Signal do you really have any skin in the game anyway? People obviously care that it has SMS capabilities and it is widely used for that, so naturally people will be upset.
Unions outside of the US are also full of corruption, at least the 3 that I have information from my family members. One of them was the union representative in their branch, and after a few years left the union altogether after seeing what goes on and that none of the organizers actually care about doing something. In general members extracted extra vacation days that were given to do union work and that's it.

Unions are just like political parties after a while, the people that get involved in them have a particular personality, and pretty much none of them think you should take pride in the quality of your work, it's generally people who are very sour and see only enemies in their work life. Otherwise they'd be doing the work and getting rewarded for it.
How is this new? I was always able to put in a custom DNS?
Not only Amazon, but the rise of ebooks in general. While there are still a lot of holdouts, I think every voracious reader in my family has switched at least some of their reading to ebooks. The ease of acquiring ebooks from the library through Overdrive/Libby means I treat the trip to the bookstore as an exploratory treat rather than an errand to buy the next book in the series
If you're letting the ocean move it, it's generally known as tidal or wave power. It's appealing because it's very predictable and the variability is not correlated* with wind or solar. Afaik cost and placement of suitable sites is a dealbreaker.

One potential technogy https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-31/wave-power-generator-...

New thing I just learned. The tidal stream industry seem confident they can beat nuclear at shockingly low investment. https://interregtiger.com/understanding-tidal-stream-energy/

If they're not lying, that's your high return investment for the future (if you're a policy maker...if you are a private investor then what happened to the solar industry when panels got cheap could happen again).

* uncorrellated variable sources need less storage when combined There are already regions that can work on wind, solar, and a small percentage of existing hydro with no storage for this reason. Tidal isn't completely uncorrelated -- roughly once a month your peaks will line up with solar peak production, and the trough will line up with peak demand for a few days -- but attaching two systems at distance will help with this and it reduces the load on hydro.
I wish WebAuthn would have a standardised HTTP header or TLS extension so it would be usable without JavaScript, currently every website has to implement their own login protocol in JavaScript.

https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1255
https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1616
Freeing people from wage slavery is good. Creating opportunities for people to live fulfilling lives free of endless drudgery is good. Working towards a world where no one is forced to justify their existence through labor is good.

In the world as it currently exists, though, taking away people's financial support and forcing them to scrabble for another or face destitution and homelessness accomplishes none of those things. I'm actually kind of insulted that you think I'd think otherwise.
Here is the technical side of how passkeys work:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2022/09/22/passkeys.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32946750
They actually mix quite well and I had used Signal for years to do it. It's not rocket science.
I didn't stop drinking until it felt like a hot knife was stuck in my liver. My peers didn't understand. So I ended up on /r/cripplingalcoholism, the happiest place on earth.

Between the pain and the um... high turnover on the subreddit, it just kind of ruined it for me. I stopped going to the liquor store. If I didn't buy it, I didn't have a problem.

I guess the only tip I have is you'd be surprised the amount of extra time you'll have by squeezing out an extra day or two of sobriety.
I, and most of us on here, are likely power users of computers, and beyond my job, they are a big portion of my hobby as well.

I acknowledge I'm in a unique situation where I run a home lab and so I have a local cloud, but because of that, I can effectively do 100% of my job off an iPad Pro (I don't want to for quite a few reasons, but I could). If I didn't have my home lab, I could get close by deploying my OS on AWS/Digital Ocean/etc. and have the same effect (though latency would drive me nuts eventually + internet connectivity issues - though this would break my job anyway).

If I weren't coding, I'd probably entirely switch to the iPad. I do all my document editing on it. I do my code reviews on it, architecture planning, etc.

I could realistically see the average consumer never needing anything more powerful than something like an iPad Air. I complpetely believe we will head to the era where the only hardware the average consumer needs includes:

* Great resolution screen
* Great internet connection
* Great input controls
* Minimal CPU/RAM to run a robust, hardened portal to cloud services

iPads are basically beefier versions of even that.
PostgresML v2.0
Rewrite of PostgresML in Rust, with optimized XGBoost, LightGBM, Linfa, and vector operations. Fully backwards compatible to v1.0 and continues to support Python ML libraries, incl. scikit-learn.
You say it's precedented, can you cite the precedence? The guy is/was a conspiracy blogger, that's it. You would think he destroyed the housing market or droned thousands of innocent children with that sort of fine. Which is what makes it so absurd.
Back when I used gsuite at work they broke the old chat program. A few years later they obfuscated the hell out of the "accept/comment on calendar invite" flow.

Also, they are in the process of discontining the free tier.

Most damningly for me, they screwed up and eventually killed grand central (voip, call forwarding, voicemail) post acquisition.
IQ is important for tech that are complex