skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time
Apple design chief role hard to fill; three options, all of them problematic
Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget
Odroid Go Ultra Review: All Power, No Fun
> Some places a dollar goes far, that cannot be construed as 'shit economy'

You're implying a strange causality.

The places with the highest PPP conversion factor are places like Colombia, Iran, Cambodia, Indonesia. The reason a dollar goes so far is because these places have no money. When controlling for PPP, 10% of the population of Cambodia lives on less than $2 per day.

So yeah, a dollar will go pretty far. And its because their economies are shit.
Python is a pretty terrible language for large scale development.

The main reason is that it's effectively impossible to isolate code without physical separation. The upshot is that you end up heavily reliant on testing and byzantine development processes to keep your head above the water.

That's partly the reason why ideas like micro services have caught on. They offer the physical separation and they can have advantages that aren't easy to get elsewhere e.g. redundancy. But they also add a lot of overhead and complexity, which is fine if you're using them for their advantages, less so if you're using them for deficiencies in your language.

So, I too would argue that Java is a better language than Python for large scale system development. I wouldn't necessarily say it's the best, as other languages are often better in specific circumstances, but Python is pretty poor for big software.

Source: a lifetime designing, building and maintaining large and very large systems in Java, Python, C++, C#, Smalltalk, APL, and various niche languages that have disappeared into obscurity.
That's right, the most blatant of all brainwashes has always been directed at children. But it's totally under parents' radar, because they were treated well in their due time too. The human spiral of doom.
Java Dev here.

I dislike its type system.

I don't know what all its wonderful tooling is.

Vendor support? The vendor (Oracle) will sue you.

JIT compilation produces fast code, so fast in fact, that it's only beaten by its one alternative - AOT compilation.

The JVM and its libraries are great, but I prefer the M.

Talent pool? People who are locked into it, like me.
Are you equating blowing through a stop sign at full speed with coming almost but not completely to a stop?
I'm a Notepad++ user and I'm not a fan of some of these quotes. I wonder if someone has already made a cleaned up version of Notepad++. I would certainly be interested in that.
Yes, transforming the data before it hits the destination may be necessary in some cases, even in the ELT approach (hence the "t" / "tweak") - discussed here: https://airbyte.com/blog/etlt-gdpr-compliance
No saying it’s good. Just saying that many places are perfectly comfortable making pedestrians contend with much more deadly conditions, but seemed to get a little hysterical when a bike is involved.

Something to consider, in the UK, a pedestrian is killed once every year or two by bikes, and it’s front page news with public outrage. a pedestrian is killed once everyday, on average, by cars (it’s actual a little higher, but close enough), but it’s never news, and there’s never outrage.

Pedestrian injuries and deaths by bikes are so low, government basically doesn’t really consider it worth the effort to collect the data. It’s far easier to derive bike caused pedestrian fatalities from counting news articles, than it is to use official stats, because the stats basically don’t exist.
We had retirement in the US back when there were defined benefit pensions. Once you got defined benefit plans people like Peter Thiel could make $100 million + tax free when most people got nothing.
Apple’s Brain Drain Hinders Efforts to Pick Its Next Jony Ive
This is hilarious. I wonder if every language can be as playful as this. Or I am simply oblivious to it in English.
> PA contract work < referred to very very low-quality work with professional gear, because that's what clients assume must be better! I was refferring to a high qualiy preamp vs my 1.50$ crapbox as used when connected to a (I think telefunken) microphone. Self professed audiophiles were listening on headphones
Ego wars. Sam made a joke about CZ getting arrested on US soil.
Compare it to C and Assembly language at the time C++ was first written...
> the black hole later captured the star? Hopefully the star had no life bearing planets before that

That sounds like a decent sci fi novel idea: a civilisation racing to develop interstellar travel before a black hole grabs hold of its star and swallows its planet. How many months/years would it be from the star being captured to the planet being ripped away, I wonder? What would the experience be like for anything conscious on the planet?
Author here. Containers always seemed a little magical to me. So I dug into how they work and then built a “container runtime” that only uses the change root sys call (Which has been in UNIX since the 70s).

This was not only fun, but took a way a bit of the magic, so I could better understand what’s going on when I use real containers.

Let me know what you think!
TIL about Dexpan. Clever idea.

Also, as sibling says, good luck hammer-drilling under fire.
Even if FTX has stopped withdrawals, it does not necessarily mean they are insolvent. But remember, no smoke without fire.

Like all other financial institutions, they can process only certain amount of withdrawals in a time frame, limited by their banking partners and so on. Currently their are under enormous pressure, as their competitor Binance has decided to dump very large amount of $2B FTT token they received as part of the exit from FTX equity round where they were a seed investor. This will put FTT price under pressure and people correlate this price with the integrity of FTX. Also, FTX associated entities have loans collateralised by FTT tokens, so if the collateral value falls too much the loans are liquidated. Based on the FTX user agreement, this should not have effect on user deposits, but might have negative effects on other FTX associated entities like Alameda the quant trading desk.

The fear is causing everyone to withdraw from FTX and this has then clogged their withdrawal capacity.

Generally, if Binance would not have been hostile, they could have dumped their FTT tokens with less effect on the markets. They chose not to do so and telegraphed their dump very openly. This does not reflect well on the crypto industry as general. We will find out very soon.

Note that this kind of issues do not happen on decentralised exchanges (DEXes) where any reserves are transparent and smart contract controlled.
You realize that Patton's quote about fixed fortifications does not apply to dragon's teeth which are not actually fixed. He was more addressing the Maginot line and other such fixed defensive permanent positions.

Edited cause voice to text can be dumb
> but any genuinely useful advice/suggestions should be given without regard for emotion. You're at work, not a social club.

Aside from just being bad manners, this is a recipe for a hard cap on your career. Work is made up of people, not robots. Being friendly and considerate takes relatively little effort (not none!), and may mean you will be the one who gets the call next time an ex-coworker is looking for an acquaintance to recruit up the ladder at their new workplace.
> because it serves the teachers

I don't think this is the case. I think it's because the teachers themselves don't have a good grasp on "the story of maths and how it benefitted society".

There is a silly meme about asking high school maths teachers "how will we use this in life", and imo it's not because there isn't a good response, but rather that it requires a good understanding of the ways math is actually used. Few high school teachers have actually themselves used the math they teach for anything other than academic exercise. Someone trained in control theory or using physics equations can make things that appear almost magical using maths, and if they are talented, they can find a way to explain it to laypeople. However, people with that combination of talents are desired by just about everybody, from universities to companies, and high schools simply have no way to compete (not least because teaching high schoolers is a soul-crushing job for bureaucratic reasons)
Yes, I am biased but that's why I asked this question - really interested in learning what has worked for other people on large projects.
Just gave the developer $50 so he doesn't need to reduce monthly costs. I like the service running well.
they're a joint founder (besides funder) : Acorn + Apple + VLSI --> ARM
> Not that you should go out of your way to be hurtful, but any genuinely useful advice/suggestions should be given without regard for emotion. You're at work, not a social club.

I agree that this could be useful advice and that you should _not_ hesitate to give it if you think it will be useful. However, I think it's rather extreme and short-sighted to say that such advice should be given entirely "without regard for emotion."

Here's the thing. Your co-workers are human. Humans have lizard brains, and sometimes get defensive. In order to maximize productivity and harmony in the workplace, you want to avoid that.

There's this thing called tact. Use it.
What about the complaint bothers you? Is it annoying the person never attempts to improve? Is it making you feel bad you can't help? Is it bringing your own mood down?

If you don't know the person, it is not your responsibility to help them with a chronic problem you don't understand. So just let that go. Feeling guilt because someone else hurts is not a good motivation for assisting them. You're going to cause more damage because helping them is about you, not them.

You also aren't obligated to be someone else's therapist or support. It is always appropriate so set boundaries and decide how much attention you're willing to give them. Doing something out of obligation means you're just tolerating a problem. Try to avoid "tolerating" things, try weighing consequences and choose your level of involvement instead. (Easier said than done.)

Basically, you have to think beyond "ugh" and figure out why you're bothered and decide how to act. In some circumstances (like work), you're just stuck with it and you'll have to carefully set boundaries.
I would have voted this article up except for the meme images.
Thanks for posting this. I was getting up on the early side anyway (before 6 am EST), and so set the alarm a little earlier. At 5:30 I had a good view, 15 minutes latter haze or cloud interfered a litte.
> Difficult to see where infantry can still be useful.

Infantry can disperse to defeat the weapon systems you're thinking about. That's where tanks currently really struggle.

Tanks have been overmatched for some time both in the open, and in the close, in both conventional and unconventional conflicts, and we don't really seem to have major ideas to solve that (with the exception of active protection, which only works against an unsophisticated enemy as you're broadcasting your position.)

Also - I said 'where they go forward from today' - I didn't say they were useless.
> currently completely overmatched by anti-tank weapons

The Chieftan disagrees with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7T650RTT8

I suspect he has more practical and theoretical knowledge on the topic than the sum total of all posters on this thread.
There are way too many oversexed nerd jokes to my liking, but it is all nostalgic if you've been visiting IRC during the 00s
This is precisely why I have cut back to only staple ingredients. I refuse to give them the premiums they've artificially put on top of actual inflation because there are is so little competition in the market. I've learned to cook a lot better as well. I just don't participate any more in name brands/movies/etc I wait on the cheap version of stuff now and find that I'm not really missing out on anything.
The fun part is that a bank run would still lead to a collapse of their system, so both would lead to the same outcome.
Show HN: Clawn – A learning friendly statically typed programming language
I am developing a new statically-typed compiled programming language, Clawn, with the goal of making it easy to write high-quality programs.
Currently, Clawn has the following features
・Simple syntax
・Higher rank polymorphism
・Safe "any"
・Automatic memory management (WIP)
I value a gentle learning curve, and Clawn is designed to be easy to learn. For example, Clawn's function definitions have no type annotations and are defined as polymorphic functions, with the goal of reducing the amount of knowledge you have to be aware of from the beginning in introductory programs such as defining and calling simple functions, omitting type definitions and entry points (int main(), etc.).
It also has a “requirement" feature (like composable C++’s “concept”), C FFI, etc.

Clawn is still a work in progress, but will be actively developed after 2023 (after my college entrance exam).
Depends who you're fighting, where you're fighting, and how fast you need to win.
Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing at a live concert
> It’s that Popper has produced the best description of science’s epistemic underpinnings thus far, allowing science to progress without imploding under the demands of positivism

I am not sure what that claim means precisely. Popper saved science from… a certain group of philosophers?

> when we “do” science, the epistemic model we use is less than a century old

The epistemic model is whatever the scientist in question uses. One can be a Popperian, another can claim they are guided by God, and someone else would just say “shut up and calculate.”

Popper didn’t like Bohr and his Copenhagen interpretation from the philosophical standpoint yet he didn’t deny that Bohr was a good physicist.

> The claim that propositional calculus is in the domain of philosophy and mathematics is not controversial in either domain. Nor is it unusual: the history of philosophy is the history of discharging subjects once they develop a field of their own.

The context of this discussion is that philosophy progresses over time. You cannot say that it progresses just because we put a label “philosophy” on every new thing that isn’t formalized yet. In that trivial sense, of course, philosophy had great progress; especially in its subfield of natural philosophy also known nowadays as science. But did Frege really stand on the shoulders of Hegel, Spinoza and Kant and improved on their ideas?
Oh wow, you just managed to describe me completely. I'm inattentive-type ADHD (diagnosed as an adult), and all of my thought processes are super visual; constructing visual mental models in space is how I problem solve and a lifetime ago in school I was top of the math class when I could construct visual models of the problem but struggled when I couldn't.

My diagnostic ADD testing was inconclusive because I was able to excel at working memory and shape tests because I am able to hold onto a ton of information if I can write it on my mental blackboard etc.

When I'm listening to a conversation, what I'm hearing often produces a stream of involuntary visuals representing related information and subjects, like I have a mental background process showing me flash-cards of possibly useful information.

I also have the issue where someone will talk to me and there's this delay where I often appear to be non-responsive for a moment or two until my brain spools-up and then I mentally lock into the conversation.

Anyway, if you have any references or additional learnings you've found related to this topic, please share.
At least in Ontario, this is yet another example of cyclists not knowing the rules of the road. Driver turning right is not obligated to yield to cyclists unless there is a bike lane _and_ it is physically separated and/or painted green and can legitimately stop flush to the right edge of the road before the turn, blocking everyone behind. Most drivers will let cyclists through anyway because as a driver you cannot rely on unlicensed people knowing the rules.
Here's Patton in a foxhole: https://www.bridgemanimages.com/it/american-photographer/gen...
What is a good algorithm-to-purpose map for ML beginners? Looking for something like "Algo X is good for making predictions when your data looks like Y," etc.
Well obviously it's a matter for reasoned opinion, rather than a mathematical fact, and you'll find opinions both ways. I'm saying I'm currently struggling to see it the positive for the situations we think we're likely to face next.

Other weapon systems do go completely obsolete over time - it's not a truism that all claims of obsolesce are wrong.

Also - I said 'where they go forward from today' - I didn't say they were obsolete.
That is a take I see often on Twitter and HN but actual military experts tend to disagree [0].

The truth is the tank was never meant to be invulnerable piece of military hardware but one that can withstand small and medium calibre arms and shrapnel/fragmentation while also delivering direct fire to a front line location. In that regard there is nothing that can replace it yet and will continue to be used.

[0] https://warontherocks.com/2022/09/the-tank-is-not-obsolete-a...
> 6. On the stackoverflow survey Java is less wanted than APL

Because some of us actually enjoy coding in APL, you know.
Kind of niche and specific to X11, but one my favorite quotes is from jwz [1]:

"X is slow because of the separation of servers and clients, i.e., the client-server model, i.e., its network capacity. It doesn't matter that it uses shared segments in the degenerate case -- it still takes a dozen context-switches amongst three different processes before an X client can even pick its nose."

[1] https://slashdot.org/story/99/08/04/2242224/ask-slashdot-com...
Signalling how? If they’re coming to a stop at stop sign, and intending to continue ahead, how do you suggest they signal?
Parsing semi-structured dataset in a relational database seems scary. Read on for how PostgreSQL® JSON functions allow your SQL queries to work with json and jsonb data.
You can make good money pretty easily with a tech career, but the stupid rich money is still in doctors and lawyers and business executives or business owners, as far as I can tell anecdotally comparing myself to some of my peers.

I'm not driving around in one of multiple sports cars like my previous dentist was, for example. Also a cousin of my wife is just a few years out of law school working for a top firm and already building a $750k vacation home (in addition to their luxury condo they're living in downtown right now).

You could make the same argument that for the longest time lawyers and real estate and MBA programs are starving other industries from talent as well.

I grew up pretty smart, and I probably could have entered academia and made some decent research contributions, and might have if I hadn't heard so many horror stories. Instead I stayed out and designed a few games people liked (nothing to do with mobile ads there, in fact my most popular game was a free Flash game I made no money off of) and had a more tame software engineer career besides that.

Sometimes I kind of wonder how life would be different if I had gone the more academic route, or stayed within the video game industry despite the toxic bullshit that's common in it as well.

Kind of hoping I somehow get lucky with a couple of investments and I can afford to take a nice long break, at least a year, to focus on getting my games out there again instead of a few hours a week.
Mmmm, well, I'm all about being accommodating and gracious to people under stress, but as this is all generally in the context of a professional interaction, there are some expectations of those who are being asked questions. If you don't want to be pestered with my every guess about what you may have already done, likely hitting several things you have, you really ought to be able to answer the question "what have you tried" with something a bit more specific.

I'm not asking for total accuracy. I've certainly experienced on both sides accidentally giving the impression something was tried that in fact wasn't and all sorts of such verbal errors and mistakes. But you do need to give something in response to that question.
The link goes to a contact us page on my phone.

I assume that it's a combination of the war in Ukraine and other factors contributing to inflation.

And that people will respond saying the war has nothing to do with it. But I think they are in denial.
It looks like stuff that has higher margins go up less. With higher margins, sellers can still profit the same price per unit (even if that profit has less purchasing power) than items with smaller margins.
the biggest productivity milestone we've ever hit while doing freelance programming work was to just don't. there certainly already is a solutions for what we were trying to solve, because clients come and go, but the problems are generally the same
Ballistic - notes and code snippets app for developers
Pre Launch page for a note and code snippets application I'm currently building!
The Hard Tradeoffs of Edge AI Hardware
Yes. I like this idea of putting different status for items, and iterating. My intention is to find learning paths, or stepping stones, while avoiding just basic introductory content on the internet. Also to find out what to learn, what not to learn, and how.
> Try explaining to the influencer celeb why they should self-host.

Why would you do that in the first place? They can self-host if they want.
Hi, I am the author. English is not my first language, but questions or comments are welcome!
It depends on where you are and your habits. I never looked down on city roads until I placed my foot on a grate and realized it wasn't nearly as grippy as I thought =)

I haven't been riding in a long time but when on trails (i.e. "in the woods") I wouldn't look down. You saw that ground as you approached it and it's all the same for the most part. Differences in elevation are easy to see with peripheral vision.

In the city there's potholes and puddles of unknown depth with who-knows-what buried in their depths, haha.

BTW: I'm legally blind in my right eye so all I have on my right is peripheral vision so I may not be the best example. I've probably developed a near-instinctual glance.
No dude, Sam Bankman-Fried is going to totally autist-genius his way out of this one.
Well you don’t know the difference between momentum and acceleration so I figured I’d walk you through a little thought experiment. Sorry you didn’t find it helpful!
The article title is "Spyware systematically used by some EU governments, MEPs find", and I don't think the submission title matches the original meaning.
Prompt builder for AI art Generators
Indeed the docker revolution was the Dockerfile and container images: the latter a convenient way to store and share container binaries and the former a convenient way to define recipes for the latter.

This is also what they are trying to do with wasm and what (in part) GitHub did with git: creating a developer ecosystem.
Well it has been 4 hours now, and the media has been reporting it for an hour, everyone on Twitter and Reddit is talking about it.

Yet, no communication from FTX or SBF.
I like to think images can break things up a bit, keep people engaged and summarize the main points in a fun way.

Here's an article that is very heavy on 'voice' using images that I thought was a lot of fun:

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/raft-is-so-fetch/
Inflation is prices rising and people willing to pay them. It isn't gouging for if Mars wants to raise the price of a snickers 50 cents when their costs only rise 25 cents. That is them adjusting to the market. If money wasn't sloshing around people would go. I don't need a 50 cent more snickers bar or I will by a cheaper substitute good (pork instead of steak) and prices wouldn't rise as much. But the consumer is willing to pay more hence the price goes up.