skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This take lacks nuance, better to ask why software estimation is hard. To name a few reasons:

1. Business pressures to 'accelerate' timelines without understanding the tradeoffs

2. Frequent developer turnover / ramp-up time

3. Developer + engineering manager level of competence, mostly due to people going where the money is and it being difficult to assess skill level

4. 4-year degrees teaching very few applicable real-world skills and bootcamps teaching even less
Yes, but even your "per hour" metric is massively distorted by being adjusted for PPP (i.e. local cost of living, etc. which is somewhat subjective and why you'll find drastically different indexes for PPP from different sources. Even if it could be reliably measured it's still different then a measure of raw production). The average American only works ~7% more hours per week than the average Frenchman, but the GDP output per capita (without adjusting for PPP) is about 50% greater, which means American GDP per hour worked is way higher than French GDP per hour worked.
Clocks synced over record 70mi using lasers
If you're looking for jokes to be factually accurate, comedy must be rather unsatisfying for you.
Chess.com does do tournaments, but it’s not like it governs the game like FIDE. That’s an extremely flimsy argument.
Indeed, and you can also use cookies without requesting permission.
Some of the humans, the subset who's testimony was selected to appear on that show.
> The number can only go down, never up, so you ask for all that you can.

I've heard the same logic applied to Patent claims, though I also understand that there is also a countervailing force, where it's against your interest to make too many claims.
It's going to be interesting to watch someone with a documented history of cheating try to claim they were damaged by being called a cheater.
Looks like chess has a new meta.
I don’t disagree with the on-land severing being sabotage - repair to the fibres in France was delayed while police gathered evidence, implying sabotage.

The subsea cuts - I’m less sure about those. It’s fairly clear from the cable maps only Shetland would be affected. The Faroes have two other routes out, and mainland UK has a multitude.

(I edited my comment a couple of times, so you may have replied to an earlier edit. I did originally start speculating about sabotage, then decided against it, aiming instead to simply clarify the article’s title. Also, apt username, let’s hope you are!)
Missouri apparently has a regrettably-narrow anti-SLAPP statue.
there's a big difference between "we can make a reasonable estimate based on X assumptions with Y dependencies, but there is a risk we are wrong" and "it will take an undefined amount of time, estimation is useless"
It does, even for reading (cat /dev/nvme0n1 > /dev/null). As per changelog:

1.5.2 - 10 February 2014
allow --watchfd to look at block devices

You can see the position in /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<num>
UK biobank has allowed GWAS of intelligence and academic achievement.
What part of varchar is a “critical optimisation” exactly?

If it’s ensuring that the data is never larger than X, then you can use a CHECK constraint. It has no impact on storage in sqlite, or in postgres for that matter.
Even self flushing toilets are often broken. A certain building I worked at I had to jump off quickly and out of the way so it didn't spray up with a trigger happy mega flush.
AFAIAC "nodes" are a feature of Resolve, not a bug.
> I’m glad he’s standing up for himself but I’m sad to see a lawsuit.

This confuses me. How else could he stand up for himself, words alone? If he truly is innocent, he should fight back with the means he's legally entitled to, not with his hands tied behind his back.
Supercharging Brain Stimulation by Repurposing an Antibiotic
Whenever I've advised VCs on cloud gaming tech, I always point out that you can have the beefiest most expensive hardware at the edge, but you'll never be faster than a one meter HDMI/VGA/RCA cable. It's just physics.

Cloud gaming will work great when we have FTL transmission of data or possibly a datacenter in every 7-11/Walmart.
Meaning can be also inferred from context. Even in your example, the conversation context and follow-up statements could home in on the context.

Sure, maybe it would be better if everyone just wrote in a non-ambiguous way, but you're on an international forum where many people don't have a native understanding of the language (me included).

I understood what he meant immediately. I also don't agree with the comment, but that's another subject.
Isn't the president the FBI's boss, not senators?
>Efficacy of Adjunctive D-Cycloserine to Intermittent Theta-Burst Stimulation for Major Depressive Disorder

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst...
You're saying that only New Jersey is doing this for New Jersey-specific reasons. No other state's legislature thinks it's entirely bullshit. Yeah, that's definitely a smart, informed understanding of how each state's legislature works and is motivated and not at all a stupid took-Econ-101-before-I-developed-common-sense take. Totally agree. Chilling effects.
Thank you for the link! Though I would say it highlights a different problem (investigators' bias) than stated. The Spanish police have rejected findings apparently.
> Then we just need term limits

The best argument I know against this is that it shifts power toward lobbyists and all those awful "deep state" people (you know, career civil servants) everyone suddenly started being worried about a few years ago, and away from elected officials.
The amount of energy from a 1 tonne mass dropping 1 meter is about 10,000J (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%281+tonne+*+9.82m%2Fs%...)

The amount of energy stored in a Tesla is about 100kWh or about 3.6e8J.

You would need 36,660 tonnes suspended by a meter to store an equivalent amount of energy (or 1 tonne suspended 36.7km). https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=100kWh+%2F+%281+tonne+*...
In my definition, bureaucracy is unintentional, whereas grift is intentional. I subscribe to the view that in general these things are more likely to be due to cock-up than conspiracy. Not everyone is Robert Moses.
Historic WWII Destroyer Survives Sinking Threat
Agree with this one. I did the Blender Guru course and was blown away by the quality and the depth
You mean it how it barley existed and all we did was talk and text?

Yes. And it was marvelous.
When I started playing with C/C++ the first thing I complained about was how difficult package management was. Conan is not as simple as cargo or pip. It's often simpler to find a header only library and plop it into your repo, but you still have to modify build configurations to include it.

This is the first time I thought to myself "Maybe that's actually a good thing."
I'm not all that concerned with what Twitter's rules supposedly are. If the only complaint here is that Twitter should be more clear about their rules and/or more consistent in enforcing them, then sure, I can agree with that (although there are obvious reasons why you shouldn't be completely clear about what your exact thresholds are for spam detection).

I'm just talking about what I think looks clearly like spam, and what I think reasonable spam policies would look like. That whole Twitter thread of accusations has now been deleted, so I'm not necessarily addressing the exact text of it. I'm just saying that one of those posting patterns looks very clearly like spam and the other very clearly does not appear to be spam.
At least some of the benefit being an expiring 'novelty effect' seems plausible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_effect

Maybe randomization of vehicle lighting schemes, across vehicles and time-periods, would provide the most-enduring improvements.
honestly its such a grind with leetcode and system design these days. Just dedicate a certain amount of time everyday towards interview prepping.

btw if you need help grinding leetcode, ive created spacedleets.com which helps practice leetcode with spaced reptition. (its free)
Uh... If you have more pricing options, you get more price discrimination. It's not entirely orthogonal.
In their place for sure, but I'm not sure how a node-based NLE would work.
won't pass if GOP controls house and/or senate post-Nov
I haven't seen one, and I suspect it wouldn't be a focus for startups. Job search tools targeted at job applicants are really difficult to make profitable, as opposed to hiring tools targeted at companies which have large budgets to spend.

That said, I suspect you're overcomplicating this. You shouldn't need to construct a database and elaborate systems for tracking every opportunity in detail. You may be spreading yourself too thin across so many different applications that you're unable to focus properly on the important ones, which is self-defeating.

For scheduling: Use your primary calendar tool, whatever it is. You don't want to add another calendar system to juggle.

For e-mails: Again, primary e-mail tool. If you're losing e-mails or forgetting to respond, you have bigger problems with your e-mail workflow. If you must, create a second inbox to manage nothing but applications and leave that window open all of the time so you can ignore whatever distractions are occurring in your primary inbox.

Discovery shouldn't be so complex that you need special tools to document it. Create a simple system like a Notion page for notes or a Google Doc for each company inside of a folder. You need this to be so simple that you can open it, write some notes down, and move on. The more complex you try to make it, the more you're going to struggle to get the basics done. Simple is key.

Finally: Learn to focus on the best opportunities. If you're getting too many opportunities to keep track of, start declining the least interesting or lowest-paying ones. Narrow your focus.
For 402$?
> Yes I wonder why that is

Because they lied to us.
Inside trading is illegal to begin with. The problem is with prosecutions. That’s why I don’t think more bans will do anything.
> The CueCat read normal barcodes. It read them better than it read the weird slanted ones that were associated with it.

My recollection (and I may still have one of those things in the basement somewhere) was that you plugged it in inline with your PS2 keyboard and when you scanned a normal barcode it just spit it out as if you had typed the number on your keyboard. Like if you were typing a term paper in MSWord and your annoying roommate snuck in and started scanning things, you'd have a whole lot of random pieces of barcodes in between words. A cuecat was a second keyboard, as far as your computer was concerned.

No software needed, no firmware updates, nothing. No need to do anything at all with the provided CD. And that was the problem, as people who wanted a barcode scanner could just go grab a free one from Radio Shack. Some people were visiting every single Radio Shack within driving distance grabbing as many as the hapless employees were willing to give them.
Many things do have a basis in science. The main problem (with almost all of them) is that the results are interpreted in incorrect ways. For example, you can compare hair and fibers just fine. You cannot say it's a match. You can only tell if it excludes or does not exclude someone. Yet many experts would say it's a "match" and the juries believe it's unique to the suspect.
When people take boardgames a bit too seriously.

:-P
I use strict tables. I’m now realising it did help when I migrated tables from one data type to an other, because I’d missed updating some of the code.

I didn’t realise because it was just what I’d expected, but without strict tables I’d have had to debug strange errors on retrieval rather than the type error on insertion I got.
Great, talk is cheap. Let both sides show their proof, if there's any.
This depends on the country.

In mine (slovenia, a lot of drunk people here), you can not-sign the agreement with the breathalizer result, and the police will take you to a clinic to do a blood test. Usually breathalizers show a bit less (larger tolerances/errors that the police have to subtract from the measured result), but if you're big/heavy enough, and the nearest clinic is far enough, it might be worth it, since you'll process some of the alcohol in the time to get the blood taken... depending of course if you're on the upper limit to a higher fine or near the lower limit.
LinkedIn is such an objective failure. I’m independent and even I deleted mine.

You can rest assured they’re still handing out our information.
lol I thought we were discussing programming paradigms-- but at the same time I think considering the NVIC and different peripheral/vs high speed busses may be relevant.
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That sort of thinking helped bankrupt the Soviet Union into oblivion
Yeah... In that example though it's a basketball player caught with vape pens in her luggage, not olympic doping. The big difference is that she's not harmed her reputation with her behavior, like Hans has (or she would have were it Olympic doping). For better or worse, we care about how people represent themselves, and at least in the US vape pens don't impact your reputation like allegations of cheating do.
Can someone explain something -

Assume for a moment Hans did not cheat (aside from the times he admitted to cheating).

In the scenario where he did not cheat - how amazing is his performance? I.e. beating Magnus, Elo rating, etc. I know chess.com did an analysis, which I've read, but I'm hoping someone more impartial could explain it.

In the scenario where he did not cheat, is he really on a Bobby Fischer-like ascendance?

This is what I'm trying to understand - both scenarios seem so wild to me. Either (a) this guy is cheating a pro-level chess (totally wild) OR (b) he's on a crazy ramp-up of skill (totally wild).

(a) is pretty self-explanatory.

(b) is what I want someone to explain - if this is the scenario, just how crazy is the rate of his skill increase?
The damage and trust lost was caused more by opportunistic politicans and mentally ill people than anything done by "institutions" assuming you mean Pfizer.
Careful you two, your extremism is showing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870
Not really? COLRv1 only officially landed in OpenType 1.9 with some changes slated for 1.9.1 - OpenType is a consortium consisting of many players, none of them implementing things until the spec is actually official.

Except, of course, when it's some company's own suggestion: MS will early-implement support for new features they themselves propose, Adobe will early-implement support for new features they themselves propose, and in this case Google's engineers had it implemented before it was officially accepted because they proposed it.

Mozilla (and everyone else) waited until the draft become part of the spec, then had to spend the time implement a (non-trivially complex) new rendering pipeline, and make sure that works properly. COLRv1 fonts should work perfectly fine as of Firefox 107.
Combine it with immediately firing anyone caught attaching an empty harness to a cherry picker and the cherry picker can be reasonably sure that the harness is worn by someone.
That's a much harder case to make.
The baseline from Alex Jones' cases is significantly higher: Jones built a multibillion dollar company off of slanderous lies about grieving parents and dead children. I don't think anybody in this context is worth close to that much, has had nearly that much public influence, etc.
Generally Intelligent
Now apply this argument to ads on smart TVs. Oh wait...

Recurring revenue business models are really appealing and companies are happy to take a short term hit in sales in order to increase their recurring revenue. Add to that the fact that people choose cars for all kinds of irrational reasons and I cynically expect car subscriptions, including mandatory subscriptions, to become the norm within a decade.
Addiction Drug Shows Promise Lifting Long Covid Brain Fog, Fatigue
We are targeting the industrial heat market first.

Our proprietary electric heat engine (=a heat pump) can generate heat up to 1000℉, and we will use it to replace industrial gas boilers and dryers with a CO2 free solution. We are in discussions with multiple potential customers for this product.

The development of the ammonia burner is done in parallel as it will be useful in a few years, when we will be ready to deploy the seasonal energy storage system.

A few companies like Form Energy are starting to deploy their first pilots at scale, let's hope they succeed!
> Foreign Key Enforcement Is Off By Default

That is by far my biggest annoyance with sqlite.

Not only that, but the FK enforcement must be enabled on a per-connection basis. Unlike the WAL, you can’t just set it once and know that your FKs will be checked, every client must set the pragma on every connection. Such a pain in the ass.

The error reporting on FK constraint errors is also not great (at least when using implicit constraints via REFERENCES sqlite just reports that an FK constraint failed, no mention of which or why, good luck, have fun).

More generally, I find sqlite to have worse error messages than postgres when feeding it invalid SQL.
There is a ton of underground infrastructure this idea would run afoul of.
The legality may depend on whether he cheated or not. Truth is an absolute defense to libel.
We implemented a rich text editor that syncs with Figma
Cherry’s new mechanical switch is based off an 11-year-old forum post
Code May Be Elegant
Older people are less likely to have to face the long term consequences of their corruption and depravity.
Your post didn’t offend me, if anything it reminded me how hard the problems are to truly solve. I appreciate your ideas, but we are in a democracy and you need buy-in.

> the city is empty

Maybe so, but you have to convince the residents that doubling the density won’t affect them. I’d be happy to double the height of my residence and house another family or two here, but right now I’m already near the max zoned height.

> A toilet could be a simple as a hole over the sewer: squat and go.

We have storm drains. The problem is any time we offer privacy, they get used for shooting up drugs and people pass out inside the bathrooms. This greatly raises the cost. We could solve this by being super tough on crime but for better or worse we’ve decided not to mass incarcerate.

I agree that SF does homeless sweeps now and then, but it’s generally a last resort, not a first one. And notice is required… other cities will give you much rougher treatment than SF. Or they have severe weather which acts as a more effective deterrent to homelessness than any level of policing.

I’m also seeing a lot more old RVs where I used to see tents, I think that’s an improvement even if I’d still consider them homeless. RVs are also illegal but are much less of an eyesore than tents and probably safer too. There’s probably even roaming services going around and “emptying” the RVs because I’m seeing a lot less urination on the street lately.
Yes but we often overestimated what they had (especially due to politics, see the whole missle gap thing) and then other people would criticize the mainstream overestimates as underestimates and say we need a ton more military spending
Griner is accused of some drug offenses, but AFAIK not doping. She's not accused of cheating in her sport.

In either case, she may well be too old to continue playing competitively when she comes back. But both she and Hans might still find careers in the sport as coaches. By all accounts Hans is an excellent player, even if he's cheated, and a former cheat could still find modest work as a coach.
The US at the federal level has other mandatory retirement ages, where the most similar role affected is the Foreign Service, but also pilots, air traffic control, and law enforcement. Many states have mandatory retirement ages for judges. One can easily argue that the risks if a senator undergoes cognitive decline are potentially just as serious as if a diplomat or judge has the same problem.
Encrypted Client Hello? Or are you referring to other metadata?
I'm a rider myself, I rarely have close calls and I chop it up to basically the same anecdotal data. But at least for the US where I live and the standards for getting a license seem to be much worse than many other parts of the world I've visited/heard of, I'd wager a decent part of it is simply rider skill.

I know way too many riders who never practice, can barely pull a U-turn from a stop, don't know how to use their front brake effectively, and vastly overestimate their abilities. And then if a car even dares to accidentally not see them because they sat in their blind spot they flip a shit. I know riders who are very good, but unfortunately in the place I live I know many many more who are just not very good and ride very unaware of everything around them. And unlike driving a car, there is a different skill floor/ceiling to be considered competent.
Thanks for introducing me to DynamicLand and Screenless!

DynamicLand reminds me of early Logo where there was a physical "turtle" robot that kids programmed to draw on paper!
His rate of improvement, assuming no cheating since his ban in 2020, is a faster ascendance than any other player in history, including Bobby Fischer. So yes, assuming he suddenly quit cheating cold turkey, his performance would indicate he is a once in a generation talent and could easily become the best in the world, according to the Chess.com report.
I mean we know he cheated before, he's said as much. Now, I don't know if he actually cheated in the match with Carlsen, but Carlsen had every reason to believe the man would and did.

Which would make libel and slander pretty untenable by my limited understanding.
I had a weird viral infection when I was 24. At least, that's what the doctor thought -- strep, flu, etc. all came back negative. It only lasted three days, and I was up and running again. However, it hit me during a horribly stressful time in my life -- both occupational and personal.

Well about week or so after, I seemingly woke up with a rather unusual rash-like condition. Went to a doctor, they had no idea what it was, got sent to a derm, and even they were puzzled. I shit you not, they were literally on WebMD with me in the room debating amongst themselves what it could be.

Turns out it was a rather rare subtype of an autoimmune disorder that was triggered. Of course, I have absolutely no family history of the disease (that I know of). Since I was "lucky" enough to win that lottery, I was also "lucky" enough that it never went away (it ebbs and flows, but we're two peas in a pod till I die). I'm just thankful it's not worse (yet) nor some other worse condition.

I am not as 'immortal' nor resilient as I arrogantly thought. It happened to me, and it can happen to anyone too.

Oh yea, stress is the #1 thing that makes it worse.
I'm more in favor of a mandatory retirement age than term limits.

Asset forfeiture has definitely got to go.
How about 95% lies!