skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is once you enter the real world of: costs (e.g. has to take N people X amount of time), resources available (may run only in a specific environment), performance requirements (has to solve the problem in a certain time), tools availables (you may have to solve it using a specific set of technologies), conventions (from coding style to required coverage to documentation), security and many other less measurable constraints (readability and maintainability) the pool of solutions to a certain problem is small, extremely small.

Coding is mostly optimizing and compromising between all those factors, rather than staring at the wall waiting for inspiration expecting the solution is an act of poetry.

This is not to say that engineering is void of creativity, some sort of beauty, cleverness, etc, it obviously is, but it's not the same kind of creativity involved when painting or writing music.

Art has the goal of touching, moving and expressing the author's self.

That's just not the goal of writing a form, a serializer, a validator, a logger, a queue, a shader or a git hook.
>The maximum thermodynamic efficiency of this cycle is 50% (and likely will be lower). This is not much better than making electricity with the reactor and driving electrolysers.

The numbers I've found elsewhere dispute this. The World Nuclear Association puts the thermal -> electric conversion efficiency of nuclear plants at around 35% (current) to 40% (best) [1]. A similar but far less corrosive copper-chlorine process is being developed in Canada with preliminary analyses claiming as much as double the efficiency of electrolysis [2]. The maximum thermodynamic efficiency may also be exceeded if waste heat can be converted to electricity simultaneously.

With that said, tests of the sulfur-iodine process continue to find that corrosion and damage to the (chemical) reactor components remains limiting, with 20% efficiency lost in H2SO4 splitting over just four days [3]. H2SO4 at 900 C is much more corrosive than HCl at 500 C.

1: https://world-nuclear.org/our-association/publications/techn...

2: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036031992...

3: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211...
Can’t work remotely at twitter.
London still leads as the best city
Yeah, regardless of the two it is, I'm saving that for later.
With a free apple developer account, you're also limited to only three "active" sideloaded apps. It's a huge hindrance. If you want more, you've got to shell out those 100 bucks per year.
There are an alarming amount of “me too” in this hn comment section (non fatal obv)
I had this problem with a phone case that I ordered from the Google Store. It shipped, allegedly, but the tracking never updated. After ten days I asked to cancel my order but was told that this could not be done as I had a tracking number. If I wished to return the item after it was received, I could do so for a full refund.

I spent a week going back and forth with them and explaining that nothing had actually shipped and, again, asked for a refund. 90% of the time they sent me something telling me what the tracking number was and that I could return the item once it was received for a full refund. The other 10% of the time they assured me that I was being handed off to another service tier and that this group would surely be able to help me.

The higher tier just sent me the same tracking number and seemingly ignored my pleas and my question of what happens if I do not receive the item before the return window had closed.

It wasn't even worth that much, but I was being petty and tried to respond within minutes of them emailing me. My thought was that someone over there was desperately trying to keep their work queue empty, and I was going to do my best to prevent that from happening.

They finally refunded my order 18 days after it had been placed. The tracking information still says that they're waiting for the package from Google. I'm half expecting a phone case to randomly arrive within the next few months.
You own shares of the company and you want them to be worth a lot? You like your job and work long hours already anyway? You’re excited for the new vision and want to help make it happen?

It’s funny how many people here equate voluntarily sitting at a desk in a climate controlled room doing what you love and being paid for it with being oppressed.

There was a great article on here about someone who worked long hours at stripe and missed the deep sense of purpose and fulfillment it gave them. Life isn’t all about punching the clock in a job you hate and whining.
Sure, I’m hiring.
it just means they deal with some obvious and non-obvious problems having to do with being A Big Deal. (there's only a little bragging involved.) the most usual example is scaling up. say you have a website which you run on a server, and it's humming along serving users. everything's great. but then you get popular, and your one lil server can no longer keep up. So you swap that in for a bigger server and everything's great again. but then you get even more popular. and suddenly there don't exist bigger computers. so then you split up the programs on that one computer so that you can use two big ones and serve more people than you could before with one. and then three servers. and so on.

Someone who's dealt with websites at scale before is going to be able to skip the first 20 of that process, so if you're a startup dreaming to get big, you find someone that's worked "at scale" eg Amazon or Google to design and build your systems and avoid some pain points like the website going down because the system can't keep up.
Middle East.
This is more like a guild than a union. There is no discussion of leveling pay or anything similar.

The doctors, lawyers, actors, musicians, and other professions have guilds like this. What makes them work is that there is a limited supply of available experts in the field, and a desire to raise their bargaining power.
The Winklevosses' claim to fame is that they were even less ethical than Zuckerberg when Facebook was first starting out.
What's your platform? Issues with compilation are far more common on Windows, for example.

The other thing about Conda is that it doesn't cover just Python and Python packages, but all kinds of software that may be directly or indirectly relevant. For example, on Windows, there are Conda packages for the Windows SDK, and for various C++ compilers.
Solution: make a small change to the report screen. Right now it just says report or block. Write a sentence in a subdued font weight/size and color that says “this report button will do Xyz.” Then resubmit. See what happens. It’s kind of like all those times when you were learning how to code that you would make a small change, run the program and hope for the correct output. Rinse, repeat and eventually you’ll look into the right solution.
This makes me think of the Stockfish analysis on Lichess
Nobody works from home at twitter.
Prius are one of the most reliable vehicles you can buy - that’s why so many Uber drivers use one.

Even the article you linked says “Yeah. Yeah, so it turns out hybrids are actually very, very reliable. Talking about plug-in hybrids, think the Priuses of the world, things like that. [snip] With the hybrid, yeah. It's actually a smooth car, really good fit and finish. And lastly, the Toyota Corolla. You can't go wrong here, not surprising from Toyota.”
I mean.. it's impractical, but I prefer the parents' tactic of defense rather than guaranteed legal indemity.

Yes, I won the court case .. but my <insert grievous bodily wound> won't grow back.
Is Mastodon Private and Secure? Let’s Take a Look
I agree with the other comments about it often being a hint to break apart a method, but there's still valid reasons to reassign.

I'd rather focus my energy on adding unit testing, and refactoring to be testable. If you have easy-to-read unit tests that cover all possible edge cases, I stop caring (as much) about how the actual method is written. Be as optimized/clever/concise as you want. I don't care if you reassign your local variables.
It's funny. Google will flood us with captchas if it thinks we're not human but they subject people to inhuman treatment whenever we need to contact them. Bots for me but not for thee.
tldr; mute everything, also, you can just get another job

I only use slack on my work laptop (no work-related anything on my phone, or any other device), and mute absolutely every channel that is not with my immediate team, and I set times during the day when I check muted channels (once or twice a day), depending on your job title, that might not be viable, but if it is, I highly recommend it

if you are at a position that doesn't allow that, that's kind of the reason you get paid what you get paid, you might've heard that "engineering's all about tradeoffs", but it's really life that's about tradeoffs, you either choose to make a lot of money, or spend time with kids, you either choose to work 80h/w or to have hobbies... my point is that you have control over your life, maybe not complete control, but you can get another job, or accept that the way your life is because of the choices you've both made, and continue to make
They don’t tip over and instantly dig into the ground.
There needs to be some sort of back pressure. A list of things the government can't take from us. Maybe a Bill of Rights? After this is created, let's hope the Supreme Court doesn't legislate from the bench and invent "qualified immunity" where people in government can't trounce on these Rights with zero fear of retribution.
In general, I feel comments should explain why the code is the way it is, not what it does.
All excellent points, but I think there's something like 2-5x as much tire surface area in contact with the road, and something like a x10 difference in weight, but I'm quite pointedly not googling either of these hand-wavey claims.

Suffice to say, you're quite right, and I don't have all the answers. And I suspect very strongly that regulators are similarly answer-tare.

Which is why, for now, it's a great idea to purchase e-bike-specific training if you're going to be spending a lot of time with an e-bike between your thighs, and, in a pinch, you can learn a lot from a motorcycle course.

Anecdotally, I use the controlled-skid technique at least once a week, when decelerating suddenly (to avoid a pothole, say.)[1] My middle-aged miniscuses would thank me, if they had the power of speech. ;)

[1] Sadly, I still have some of the bad cycling habits I picked up in my twenties in Chicago, blithely ploughing through six-way intersections and so forth, but none of the associated physical characteristics that made this activity if not safe then at least stochastically survivable.

Specifically, reaction time, strength, and flexibility are all reduced, but all the bad habits I acquired are still there. This is the other reason I took the motorbike course: pruning leftover bad habits that I can no longer afford to offset.
Check out the Twilio API, it wouldn’t work via your iPhone but you could probably get it to dial out and then call you to connect the two sides based on whatever conditions you’d like.
Yes as is slowly happening in many urban areas throughout the world. Unfortunately, unlike Europe, the US has spent the last 100 years remaking the American urban fabric for the car. It'll take time and lots of capital to change cultural attitudes in the US to make car driving more acceptable. People continue driving in slowly increasing amounts even in well-planned countries like the Netherlands. In the meantime, pushing existing car uses into lower-emitting forms is key. This isn't an either/or.
They do, this was likely in a private repo which isn’t scanned.
Reading the comments in this thread reminded me of "Silent Running" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running). Droids (albeit 70s-style), agro-tech, and post-apocalyptic sci-fi. It's dated but enjoyable.
"Gemini" is not FDIC insured. GUSD is does not, and Gemini was sanctioned for lying about it.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/19/fdic-orders-ftx-u...
> Police are obligated to act out on all reports.

The police are not obligated to act out on all reports and they exercise this executive discretion all the time. In this case the police choose to arrest and the DA choose to file charges. Nothing obligates the law enforcement professionals to behave this way — not even a sense of PR as this only stains their image. This train could've been stopped by professionals at every step of the way but instead they choose to power through. The mother pled guilty.

This is not swatting. In the eyes of law enforcement, the neighbor did not engage in false reporting.
> Electronic skateboards have bigger wheels then skateboard-cruiser which has bugger wheels then skateboard.

i've powered a regular street deck with hard poly wheels, what you said is by no means any kind of guarantee. Lots of hacked together monstrosities out there.
Normally nonprofits accept donations from oil monarchies, shady characters like Epstein, etc. in the exchange for providing good PR and increased connections with other influential people. In comparison, SBF and FTX must have seemed rather good, despite being in the crypto space.
Is it obvious that they can charge low enough prices the rest of the time to make this dynamic pricing an attractive offer?

Are people somehow forced to buy Tesla insurance when they buy a Tesla?
Something with two wheels and a handlebar (bike/scooter).
And think he has a chance in hell of pulling it off, and have confidence he won’t randomly fire you for walking by him in the hall (at Tesla managers advise employees to not walk past his desk because of the risk of random firing)
H2 energy density is better than Li-Ion batteries, particularly by weight, but:

* Hydrogen is very light but takes up quite a lot of volume so it needs to be either liquified or compressed to very high pressures (and even then it's considerably bulkier than, say, natural gas).
* The resulting storage tanks are heavy and add bulk.
* The fuel cell to convert the hydrogen to electricity adds weight that a battery system doesn't have (the storage is the converter).
* The energy density of lithium-ion batteries doesn't have to match hydrogen or gasoline, it just has to be good enough. For most light vehicle applications, we're getting pretty close to that point (though possibly not if you're planning to use a truck to tow things).

For heavy transport, the balance changes because big tanks are more mass-efficient than smaller ones, and the sheer mass of batteries currently required for long-haul trucking seriously cuts into the cargo that can be legally carried with road mass limits. That's why there's interest in hydrogen-fuelled trucks.

For hydrogen-fuelled planes, a similar argument applies with current and reasonably foreseeable battery technology you can't build an airliner with a useful carrying capacity and range. However, the bulk of hydrogen tanks required for a plane with intercontinental range is still a big problem. That's why you see all these unconventional body design concepts for hydrogen-fuelled planes - you need lots of room to store the hydrogen and still give a useful passenger load.
No surprises. This has been the fate of every other pilot project involving anything blockchain-related.
> Rationalists brought us Roko’s Basilisk after all.

This reminds me of the Zen story about two monks and a woman (one helped her cross a river, and the other couldn't stop thinking about her for the whole day).

The "Roko's Basilisk" was an edgy comment that was written on a rationalist web forum, and then deleted by the admin. A decade later, some people outside the rationalist community still keep discussing it, which is the only reason why anyone cares.

> A lot of the leaders don’t seem to have basic sanity checks in their brains that stop their ideas from getting wildly out of control

Only in this story, the admin was the one who deleted that comment, not the one who wrote it. Still gets blamed for it.
My ADHD founder toolbox
Is opting-in to the Notion AI beta not "express permission"?
Designing things like this was part of my embedded engineering project coursework 20 years ago. Obviously we didnt have CV and had to rely on heueristics like 'weeds have a different spectogram in near IR' but the idea has been a long time coming.
You mean aside from when you see every free android app cost $6.99 on iOS?
I absolutely hate Slack. I imagine every organization is like this.

- theres no way everyone can follow everything going on in multiple channels. This makes it almost bs. Theres way too much noise and is overwhelming

- Theres too much lost information in channels and conversation threads etc. At least in email things are somewhat more permanent. As the channels go and more and more people are typing, so much context is lost, and unless you're following the thread you don't know whats going on and people just skip it most of the time.

- On top of that slack threads are lost forever in time unless pinned. The conversation rarely gets translated in to wiki or email or whatever so decisions are sometimes made and forgotten.

Overall I think these are solvable problems but requires a very opinionated way to work or creative solution ( a la google wave, yes it was an awesome tool ).
Is "their data" my data?
In practice this doesn't really happen in the context of a function call.

Like calling
do_something(object) might call something inside it that changed the object, but not likely unknown..

Now if you're talking about threading. Honestly, I worked as a c++, java, rails and now elixir dev for > 20 years. I can't tell you how many times I built something that threaded, but not all that often. It's just doesn't come up all that often.
As a psychiatrist, I'm just going to tip my toe into this conversation:

I have not read the entire list. I read a good chunk of it. Almost everything on it is -not- stuff I see among my colleagues, and appears to be how psych stuff is presented /in popular media/ rather than in the profession. Which is fine if one targets this for the science media/science communication types, but it seems very odd to apparently have a target audience of psych professionals. So of course there's a list of 'inaccurate and misleading' terms - you can't simplify something without losing /something/ of its complexity, but it still needs to be communicated.

The other thing to point out is that some of their criticisms are just ... well, outsiders commenting on things they don't know about. It's a team of academic psychologists. Psych PhDs generally don't do frontline stuff - they do targeted 1-on-1 therapy, or group therapy, but they tend to parachute in and out, they're not doing the days-long care-and-feeding of these patients where some of the terminology they're criticizing comes from. For instance, they take issue with the use of splitting, but ... clearly don't work on the unit. Splitting isn't just about wanting to avoid the thoughts of your loved ones being flawed beings; it's about the emotional hyper-sensitivity of a BPD patient resulting in them condemning as awful anyone that is less than entirely positively oriented towards them, because they can't take any negative interaction (see paragraph 1 about "I'm oversimplifying shit to communicate to people outside my profession", so don't come at me to pick nits. I know it's simplified-into-wrongness.) The result is that when they a unit staffer enforces boundaries, they're instantly terrible; as opposed to that "other" staffer that didn't have to enforce boundaries with them, who is wonderful, can I talk to them now please instead of you, you awful monster? And so the psychodynamic 'splitting' leads very quickly into 'pitting staff against each other'. It's not a mis-use of the term, it's a specific manifestation of the term that you deal with on the unit. Which the authors would know, if they were frontline workers rather than consulting therapists.

And the section on pleonasms is just nit picking for the sake of nitpicking.

This article doesn't do anything in the way of making psychology nor psychiatry more precise. This article is a lot of nit picking, in ways that look valid externally but would have anyone familiar with these things wondering why this was worth writing.
Yes, the poverty stricken parents have all the time in the world to walk their kids around all day. /s

They'd be lucky to even have two live parents and in the picture.
I love how the crypto community has decided that SBF is "not a crypto guy" now that he's done crimes.

And he's somehow "establishment" because he gave to political parties, and Democrat because we're ignoring the GOP contributions.

SBF was more of a crypto guy than 99% of crypto. And he was way more crypto than he was establishment.

And the problems in crypto that his actions highlighted (centralization, fraud, lack of consumer protections) cannot be waved away with "no true scotsman" arguments.

He's your boy. Own it or the industry will not correct its own deep, ongoing mistakes, currently being made by entities like Binance.
> Please note that contacting the Policy Support team is the best and only way to resolve the rejection issue.

“The best and only way”.
venv is not deprecated - it's still the standard way to create new environments in Python.

pyvenv, which was removed in Python 3.8, was a wrapper script around venv. The same functionality today is invoked via `python3 -m venv`.
I worked with a client last year who had a firm requirement of IE6 being 100% compatible. No fancy CSS just plain old hand coded HTML. Lightning fast performance mind!

It was an e-commerce site which sold _very_ grey area products (most were banned from Amazon/eBay/FB Marketplace/etc.) and the ancient IE spec gives you an idea of the demographic they ~exploited~ sold products to ...

The market for selling questionable medicinal pills is much much larger than I could have ever imagined. Absolutely mind blowing!
The other day I came across a website where the signup button didn't work on Firefox alone. So yeah, that's reason enough to keep on testing on all major browsers.
No need to “well actually…” someone just for discussing something interesting
This article feels like a honeypot for HN
No matter how much money you have the facts don't change; we aren't even close to significantly improving lifespan is healthy humans. At most there are a few tricks like engaging in sauna 5+ times a week or taking metformin that might give you a boost if you're not already in top physical shape. There's a lot of money to be made heavily suggesting we may be able to 'soon'.
It's not possible to do that in pure C, either, though. You need at least some assembly to speak to the hardware, which you then make C bindings for to do the rest in C. But any language with an FFI can pull the same stunt for the most part, to varying degrees of difficulty. But there's no shortage of toy kernels written in dozens of different languages - C is very much not required or unique here.
Usually you can check the commit history for the unexpected line to figure out what's up, though, to let you figure out if the bug is in the code or the comment.

Comments that have the same content as the code but written in English will have code drift problems. But most comments aren't like this; they can provide context or explain what's happening at a higher level, ideally.
You seem to have missed a detail in their replies "We confirm that your app has options to report and block abusive users but your app does not contain functionality to report objectionable content." You complain that they haven't answered the specifics of your emails yet you've actually failed to address theirs.

Unpopular opinion but it seems like their response was reasonable tbf.
Related, there is an excellent short (5-episode) series following Vancouver's North Shore Rescue. https://www.knowledge.ca/program/search-and-rescue-north-sho...

It certainly puts their efforts into perspective, including how easily people can run into trouble unprepared.