skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they are large enough to be useful, simple to create, and ever–present.

No organism “knows” or “plans” the evolution of its species; it is random. Of course, if we were created then that’s another matter. In that case, our Creator knew that sound waves are large enough to be useful and that we would have a convenient atmosphere around at all times to create them in.

Magnetic fields, on the other hand, are tiny and difficult to manipulate. The same goes for gravity too, except more so. Gravity is 40 orders of magnitude weaker than the electroweak force. A small magnet can lift some paperclips, but to do the same with gravity you would have to dangle Venus above your desk. The strong force is even more useless.

There are no other forces. That’s all there is; electromagnetism, the weak force (which is really part of the electromagnetic force), the strong force, and gravity. Well, those four plus atoms bumping into each other, but atoms bump into each other using the electromagnetic force.
>>I do know that a single person or a small team can often outperform hundreds of people at a big company. I wonder if he's tapped into that somehow in this case

I think that is because he doesn't outsource management to other people, and just coast around on the ownership of stocks he already has.

To a large extent Steve Jobs was like that as well. May be Henry Ford too. They might not be great at making things themselves. But they are so deeply involved in managing that whole enterprise, they know very deeply how to control and make those processes more effective. While people like Steve Ballmer and Sundar Pichai are themselves great general managers of all time, they are what they are. They are career managers, not mission managers.

Intentions do make hell lot of difference in outcomes.
The municipality of Baarle-Hertog is much fun. Turtles all the way down…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog
That is patently untrue. Electronic locks use the same latches and manual ones, just activated by a solenoid, easily defeated with... a magnet. The attack surface of a mechanical lock exists, bit at least has some mitications. Electronic locks seldom have any.
Mostly against the trite argument that net worth != liquidity, it's just reiterated everywhere here so I figured I could comment on any thread. Everyone is just skimping on the fact net worth still grants billionaires more power than entire countries have. That is what people are angry for.
If your employer is trying to fire you "with cause" then they will be producing a paper trail of their own, to justify their decision. Their paper trail will be very one-sided, of course.

You will need your own paper trail to demonstrate your side of things, either as part of the severance meeting - if you even get the opportunity - or after you get fired if you choose to make a claim against it.
Unclear to me why this is being downvoted. I always read code on paper, it’s easier to annotate.

If jumping around a codebase is hard on paper, it’s a good indication that the code does not consist of cohesive modules.

Sadly these days most people no longer adhere to 80 column limits, so it has to be printed in landscape. In the worst cases, landscape on legal paper…
True but as with all tech companies at the moment Twitter is also going to feel the pinch and they don't have the business size to wear it as well as the others.
You put these people into sales.
Oh yeah, even a micro hydroelectric generator can easily do 500 watts continuously, so add a bank of batteries—maybe one made of recycled li-ions—and you could easily store enough energy to run an induction top for all your daily meals.
> Rust is a bit too awkward to use in many cases where C++ is used (particularly with unsafe Rust), and inherits some of the hyper-modern complexities/insanities of C++.

Rust has a sensible model for language evolution, so its overly complex warts can be fixed over time. I do agree that unsafe Rust is not yet on par with the usability of C++ (given the huge pitfalls inherent in interfacing Safe and Unsafe Rust) but this is improving quickly.
AFAIK the top-end for modern Ryzen chips is in the 1.5-1.6V range, usual operating levels are lower. My 3xxx Threadripper is at 1.3V right now. In comparison, my 3xxx-series RTX card is at 1.06V (but only operating at 40% of max power). The EVGA software only allows me to set a +100mV voltage offset, but the default voltage curve looks like it peaks at 1.100V for ~1950mhz.
We can actually test this!

Mackenzie Scott got $36B of Amazon stock and has sold $8B.

Large shareholders aren't very large. They dilute their shares over time. The Google guys have a tiny amount of financial shares of Google, while retaining voting shares.
One of the things I've mostly been looking at is the additions to the standard library. Especially the new <stacktrace> header looks like something that should have been in the language already.
The efficiency goes down significantly with those temperatures, given that most sources of waste heat are low-temperature (such as datacenter heating water, waste water, etc - places where it makes economically and ecologically sane to extract heat).

That's the problem even in district heating where temps are ~115C (like in Helsinki). Sadly, reducing the temperature is not an easy task, since many buildings have heating systems designed for higher temps.

Even lowering those temps to 80C would improve efficiency of the heat pumps a lot. But it's a big project to get it done and will most likely take a decade or more.
Same thing that makes you better at everything else: practice.
Sir, I'll make you my guru, lol
Sounds a lot like "Democracy, our most sacred institution". Defend it blindly, with your "good faith" "critical thinking".
After living in a small town for a considerable amount of time, it is possible to run out of strangers.
I don't think compliments are a good way to interact with strangers. Better is asking for the way to ..., most important thing is to follow your intuition.
historic certainty isn't the same as math certainty… they did find documents about this, but you need some amount of trust… unlike for theorems.

Anyway I've recently read this: "Caravaggio segreto. I misteri nascosti nei suoi capolavori." Costantino D'Orazio. Which I bought at the Musei Capitolini in Roma.
We ran out of easily extractable copper a long time ago. OTOH copper is available in hard to extract, highly diluted quantities pretty much every where. It's just a matter of price.
"Just" always does a lot of work, but "just" is doing a hell of a lot of work in this case. Who's doing the work to create the patch? Who's paying for the work? Who's doing QA, and who's paying for that? What makes you think the source code and assets even exist for all exploitable games, let alone that all can be rebuilt, let alone that all can be meaningfully retested?
LOL I had one of these. They made them with both red and green LED for the eyes. I only got a Big Trak when I was 40 and they re-released it.
The busyness of downtown life has a lot to do with that rushing to work and home, and then when you actually go out, you have a few friends with you.
Fine, how about calling the practice as "web-only menus on customer's device"? Even if the restaurant didn't use QR Codes, if the table said "Visit restaurant.com/menu", then you would still be forced to pull out your phone. The QR Code is just a way to convey a URL, and there are definitely alternatives like manually typing one.
Analog potentiometers is what we all want. The worst are the rotary encoders (infinity knobs) that glitch when you turn them fast, like trying to turn down the radio your kid left on full blast, only to have it do nothing or actually turn it up instead.
The author lists the "F-14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, and F-16 Fighting Falcon" as peers. I'm not really sure I agree with this. The F-15 and F-16 are land based fighters. The F-14 is a carrier launched aircraft. The requirements are different & the constraints are different. To consider the F-15 as a peer isn't even a valid starting point. It's a different plane for a different mission.

Also worth mentioning there are effectively two generations of F-14, the second one having an improved engine design. These did not debut until 1987.
Of course, it always has been, obviously, and as Russia have been saying.

But it's a matter of degree. Are you 'supporting' a proxy war, or are you actually directing it. This seems like evidence of the latter.

Will Russia respond? I mean this whole thing is basically a Russian response to the US waving NATO expansion in their face for years, contrary to what they promised.
I’m not entirely sure what is the moral case for Russia to complain that NATO is supporting Ukraine. They seem to think that justifies aggression, but I’m not sure that’s as convincing as they make it.
It is referenced. It’s at the very top of their GitHub repo under “About”.
What if there are middle grounds between small towns and large metro areas?

Running out of strangers isn't that bad for everyone. For some it's nice to be a regular somewhere and grow roots and feel part of the community.
Real talk, the whole modern javascript ES7,8,whatever is to blame for the whole confusion imo. But all these modern javascript frameworks (angular, etc.) is designed to change browser state without triggering calls to the server (outside of async). That's extremely popular right now because the more your site lags, and lags behind the competition, the more market share you lose. So that's the whole economic reason behind why these frameworks are popular in a nutshell. look at everything from a business perspective.
If this is what you did all quarter (and don't have any other artifacts to show, like an ML model or system design or whatever), yes it's a red flag.

It's not because the ratio is bad - if you wrote 300 and removed 19500 that might be fine. It's just that 30 is, in an absolute sense, too low.
I would go even further and say we need a massive conversion program of existing ICE cars into electrics instead of scrapping a billion perfectly usable cars.

The body, the steering system, suspension, wheels, passenger area, brakes and electronic stability systems etc. they can be used for another 20 years.

A 15kWh conversion kit will turn all these clunkers into perfectly usable daily drivers.
> if you’re willing to live with a console disconnected from PSN. Enjoy running that N64 emulator on your now mostly useless PS5

I wait for prices to go down to sane levels before buying consoles and games, so I don't have a PS4 yet. However, offline is how I run all my consoles.

Just double checked, and physical media is still a thing on the PS4. What do you mean "useless"? As in the games need patching before being playable, or is it just the online features you deem essential?
Just don't ask about the weather https://xkcd.com/1324/
Its the law in some european countries, Somewhat rare in the usa.
Actually the funny thing is, unexpectedly, I found developing a Chrome extension much harder than building a generic web app. The closest thing to hot reloading my React app could get to was to use npm watch and rebuild on very change, which was much slower. As even the slightest FE change would take ages to visually check (so much so I had to build parts of the FE styling in another project).

The main thing is I couldn't ever use the Chrome API on the default React npm start page, I would get an error unless I actually ran npm run build and unpacked the extension to use manually. (I heard from a friend this is because that Chrome API is only usable by an actual built extension)
They are peers in the sense that they had their first flight and operational introduction within 4 years of each other. Contemporaries would probably have been a better choice of wording.
Driving a classic car for 37 years produces less emissions than producing 1 EV
This argument applies to maybe HVAC, it doesn't apply at all to what we're talking about: A glove-box.

A traditional, mechanical, glove-box contains all the same components as this one (a latch, hinges, door, etc) but this adds a new wire harness, new connection points, new software, and an electro-magnetic servo to unlock it.

I can think of no argument at all for how this decreases cost. It only increases them and increases failure points, all for what? Nobody knows exactly for what.
In Madrid, an obviously big city, you can easily convert small talks with long talks with strangers, so I think it is more linked to the city culture.
I agree. I don’t want to be a 100% “idea person”. But I think I could be pretty good at the initial phase of “deep tech” startups: building a prototype, recruiting a team and raising pre-seed money. Perhaps there’s an established model where I could do that again and again? And if not, perhaps creating such a model is my calling. :)
Comment removed by author, I wasn't happy with the way I phrased this.
Russia temporarily blocked Telegram yesterday
I am curious. Does your organization not use TDD ? How would the code be allowed to marge without running your test suite ?

In my experience, I have found it is more productive to coach and mentor developers to adapt TDD and DevOps practices than to vet their code. Instead of vetting their code, I would incorporate statistical code analysis and vulnerability analysis into the build system.
>Pick people, not projects.

This is really important. Addendum: pick the right spouse if you can, easier said than done. It's better to be single than have a dysfunctional spouse.
For there to be an exodus of talent there must be first be talent.

From what I can make out Twitter's workforce are predominantly average at best and I suspect we'll see at least 2,000 or so people cut in the next 6 months.
if I ever get into developing apple watch apps I'll lyk I gotchu
Or code reviews are working fine but there are no long-term consequence for people whose code consistently takes 10x more revision after reviewing. (This is also a kind of organizational failure, but one where reprimanding the IC in question can still be the right response. But I also doubt a drive-by ad hoc external review of every person in the company is going to be the best approach to find this!)
Will majority of US Intel support Covid lab leak hypothesis over natural origin?
There's a massive difference. You buy lithium once, and from then on it's cheaper to recycle it. If Arabia cuts off our supply, our current EVs are still useful.

OTOH you have to buy gasoline regularly. If supply gets cut off, current vehicles are scrap metal.
So what makes him not a great author then?
> … but without a Soviet boogeyman to keep Uncle Sam’s pocketbook upturned and shaking, it became an incredibly expensive and sometimes problematic solution to a problem nobody had anymore.

This says a lot about our world. Just look outside.
I am aware of the Compose key, but have yet to find a good key to map to it (I use AltGr for third and fourth level characters already). I’ll keep it in mind in case my setup breaks down in the future.
You would need longer. Ireland is still suffering from the British mismanagement of the “potato famine”.
It's a cost cutting move. One touch screen is cheaper than 30 individual buttons, and ultimately many people have died because of it. But I'm sure GM would never do anything sketchy or illegal to lower cost or increase revenue
The difference is that, in the US, the Constitution specifically calls out the separation of Church and State. Every single one of these churches should lose their tax exempt status.
But it probably works better there? I mean you can be a decent hustler in an established company/industry without much creativity or imagination.
"Everybody thinks I'm an asshole" -> I think I'm an asshole. (Is something that I've realized about myself)
If you learn them as "double quote brackets" just like "round brackets", "square brackets", "angle brackets", and "curly brackets" then the key name is not disorienting.
I used this "method" a few times to solve math problems.

Just make a few case, probably 10, and then look deeply at the numbers and guess the formula.

Sometimes looking at the formula gives an insight of how a formal proof can be made, and sometimes you can prove the formula using induction.
Learning to Finish Things
Even if we do, there's no reason to think they would reach us. Shooting a bullet at random possibly habitable world is likely, at Earth or even Sol in particular, no.

Barring some sort of teleportation technology or whatever FTL is, the amount of energy required to travel there in reasonable time is huge.
That works for, say, trademark infringement lawsuits, where even the businesspeople doing the suing say it makes them feel dirty.

It does not work so well for someone who bought a company that made an open sourced language, and then sued another company that wrote its own version of that language, arguing that even the APIs were under copyright.
Are we 'supporting' Ukraine, or directing them? It's a crucial difference IMHO.
Iran used F-14As to great effect during the Iraq-Iran conflict. The Tomcat flown by Iranian pilots did exceptionally well against its Soviet and French peers in the Iraqi Air Force.
It's worth noting that despite all the valid points about the costs of the F-14, the F-14 was the cheaper alternate platform for the AIM-54 and AN/AWG-9 radar; they were originally developed (as the AIM-47 and AN/ASG 18) for the Lockheed YF-12A, a Mach 3 bomber-interceptor variant of the A-12, single-seat predecessor to the SR-71:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12

(The YF-12A program got as far as a 96 plane order for the USAF before it was cancelled in favour of the cheaper F-106X project, which also failed.)

Anyway, before condemning the F-14 for being expensive to operate, I invite you to consider the likely costs of fielding a fleet of hundreds of nearly-hypersonic interceptors based on the same hardware as the SR-71 ...
Mazdas higher end cars are pretty nice. And like anothother commenter mentioned about subaru, they are a smaller company who still makes most of their cars domestically (japan) and seems to care about quality. I will warn their pait always seems a bit thin, so get a clear cover if you do a lot of highway or dirt roads. They still use buttons for nearly everything even when they have screens.
> “Anyone here have any anecdotes where you had that same experience?”

By coincidence, last night I went to a Halloween party - sort of crashed actually. There's really no better a venue for talking to strangers than at a fancy party where everyone is wearing cool costumes. I find it easier to come out of my shell when, for example, I have a kilt and a sword.

I recently bought - after seeing it mentioned on HN - Nick Gray's "The 2-hour Cocktail Party". It's a good resource on hosting parties where people interact.
Everything from a business perspective always sounds non-sense to me.

I cant even find a library or language to code front-end, like I am burning my time since six days to find something that is dev-friendly. Everything is just, is it secure or fast? yeah ship it, we dont care about how developers feel about it.

really sad.
One other thing I learned from Techmoan is that one of the few remaining companies making cassette playback mechanisms today is a company called "Tanashin" - and I only bring that up because that name is on a sticker in one of the photos inside this 2-XL in jgrahamc's post.
The sole existence of billionaires bothers me a lot, yet I don’t see the issue in rectifying the truth about their fortune being 1 or 2 orders of magnitude smaller than what people believe. But don’t get me wrong, I think they are still way too rich even after accounting for this discount.
To focus on the book itself, the very first "hello world" example doesn't seem to work with any compiler. Literally

import std;

int main()
{
std::cout << "Hello, World!\n";
}

I even tried futzing with the latest compilers - VS 2022 Preview and clang++ 16.0.0 and it wouldn't work. Perhaps it works in some specific earlier released versions? As somebody noted, perhaps this book is for reading and not for actually trying out the code. Very strange for a programming language book in 2022.
It’s not a proxy war. Russia is actually fighting Ukraine. Also countries are allowed to buy weapons from other countries to defend themselves and such actions don’t make your country a proxy for another.
Could you point to the articles of Minsk agreements that allow for military invasion as a penalty for any party failing to meet its obligations?

You discuss the identities of the Nordstream pipeline saboteurs with some certainty. Are you privy to some exclusive information unavailable to the rest of us, or is this another belch of semi-digested RT-pap?
That subsolar point moves as the earth rotates (of course) but also as the earth revolves around the sun - in January the southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun; in July it’s the northern hemisphere (this is why seasons happen and why they’re opposed in the northern and southern hemispheres).

The point itself is not marked on maps because it’s constantly moving, but the northernmost and southernmost limits are - that’s what the tropics are.
> (Sorry to ramble, I'm doing what I started sarcastically referring to as my "executive time" during the Trump administration -- if the signal is sometimes useful you can't complain it's also sometimes weird as hell.)

"Executive time", a/k/a fuck off time, is perhaps one of the few great things Trump gave us. I'm legitimately not kidding. More people need to engage in fuck off time on a regular basis. It is refreshing for the mind.
For such an important guarantee of no Nato expansion it sure is weird that they never had a binding contract on paper somewhere.
Even if you use OBS nvenc is way better than AMD's offering. You'd just use nvenc through OBS, unless you want to dedicate half of your CPU to recording. Even if you do that you'll still take a performance impact in anything else you're doing.
Why would they be tampering with code and git histories?
> First it was confirmation about Margulis’ endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts. Then the discovery and classification of archaea.

Sounds neat. Can you elaborate on these two topics or provide links digestible for a layperson?
Overall I personally agree with most all of those decisions. However, my decisions are made based on the product or business practices not my perception of the personality or political beliefs of their founders or significant contributors based on social media or news accounts.

Just because someone has an abrasive personality or differing political views doesn’t mean they are a worse person than someone who has a nice personality or similar political beliefs.
I’d say having boots on the ground fighting as “contractors” and openly supplying weapons and money is pressing the button.
yeah that makes sense, the original thought was just that it would be easier to adopt a chrome extension into my workflow, instead of having to manually go to a download page and natively install an app I have to personally open everyday.

I did consider a web app, but then I found it unlikely someone would want to have to go to a specific link everyday just to track their habits. Just felt that since a chrome extension icon would always be there everyday, and because we all need to use the browser at some point, it would be more likely we would use that naturally.

Would love anyone's views on that though. Not saying that initial train of thought was right or wrong, just putting it out there
This is very culture dependent. In Spain almost no one eats alone in a restaurant or bar.
You are not engaging with my point and are trying to work around it. You know that you are doing that and I know that you are doing that.
How to Sell (2020)