skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32423356 - Aug 2022 (43 comments)

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1987) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25926136 - Jan 2021 (9 comments)

No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818537 - Aug 2019 (85 comments)

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1987) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15476733 - Oct 2017 (8 comments)

No Silver Bullet (1986) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10306335 - Sept 2015 (34 comments)

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1987) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3068513 - Oct 2011 (1 comment)

"No Silver Bullet" Revisited - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=239323 - July 2008 (6 comments)
"The actual greenhouse gas emissions depend on the energy mix used for charging the batteries, but as long as we do not have abundant climate-neutral energy, it makes sense to save energy by driving at lower speeds."

This argument (often also applied to the size of cars) is something I often read. It's an instance of the perfectionist fallacy. Electric cars are more harmful than gasoline powered cars if the energy they are powered by comes from coal plants. We must switch to carbon free energy. If we take that as a given, speed limits don't make sense from a climate change perspective. There are still other reasons why speed limits are beneficial (safety for example), but I think people arguing with carbon intensive electricity production in cases like this are not doing climate friendly transportation any favors.
Edge is certainly part of the the answer of what is already happening to a significant degree--both in terms of what's new and in terms of essentially rebranding things that have been around for a while like distributed retail (which is also increasingly pulling in technologies like Kubernetes for various reasons).

But I'm not sure that really captures what platforms look like which evolved with server virtualization and evolved with container orchestration. Certainly lots of rationalization and standardization still to happen in the current cycle but not sure there's a real view into what happens in the next major platform cycle. Edge really introduces more complexity, not less.
Show HN: TW-Classed – Tailwind with the DX of CSS in JavaScript – TwClassed
Thanks for posting that! Made me realize that when all the panels are laid over a huge area in essentially the same plane that it must be so much easier and cheaper to clean. Just put this robot on it and let it go, roomba-style (OK, not exactly roomba-style of going over the same spot 50 times, but you get the idea). Seems like it would be a lot cheaper than what would be needed to keep rack-mounted systems clean.
Diesel Engines are rarely getting more than 6 or 700k without a 30k+ rebuild. You make it like they are all going millions of miles, that's not accurate.
Artemis I – Flight Day 24: Orion Heads Home
Ask HN: You're Sundar Pichai. How do you avoid disruption from ChatGPT?
> How do conductors work?

I assume the conductors will be direct burial cable or single conductors run inside PVC conduit, just like any other outdoor electrical installation. The connectors and junction boxes are probably IP68 rated to handle flooding.
This is how they always do repairs in Denmark. I should know as I drive though such an area on the way to Odense 4 times a week. 80km/t speed limit for 10-20km and it has been there for years.
Realistically, they probably won’t charge more money just for this feature. Just limit it to higher priced SKUs.

There must be dies being thrown away right now because they work perfectly except for one of these legacy features. If they had SKUs with legacy features fused off, suddenly those dies might become usable.

Having lower-end SKUs with some features fused off allows you to use dies in which those features are broken. But, it means you have to fuse them off even on the dies in which they work. Buying a low end CPU and finding that some of them randomly have higher-end features would just be too confusing for everyone.
I think the point is that if you want to showcase the alternatives that work, don't pick the company whose founder has been convicted of fraud.
That's down for me but I got to the text by googling the title first:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Apple%20to%20end%20employee%...
Have you tried waiting for the heat from a car to melt snow in a cold place on a regular car with a regular car sized windshield? On a cab like that it'll take hours.
> ... due to a small portion of people deciding they wanted this specific setup.

This sounds like you're saying: It's all the fault of them. Not our own choices, not even structural forces pushing us this direction. It's them.

That is, without further credible details, this sounds like paranoid conspiracy-theory stuff.
i can tell you firsthand that Stripe rates can be very competitive, and if you’re looking to enable some complicated fund flows it can be a great fit. I saw companies with transactions numbers in billions of dollars considering moving to Stripe.

The real question is how much do you want to put your eggs in a single basket. The company I’m at now has a multiprocessing setup that requires more work but isn’t completely dependent on a single provider.
Is this one of those (insert absurdity to make the news) bills?
If you are in the US and have a MicroCenter near you, they usually carry them. I see them every time I visit the MicroCenter near me.
Most of the blogs I’ve seen on this site are using open source themes for common blogging frameworks.

Why not just… use one that you see and like?
Here’s a very nice Uxn playground:

https://metasyn.github.io/learn-uxn/

I don’t have a lot of time on my hands, but this is a rabbit hole I wouldn’t mind dropping into on occasion.
1. why should I code faster

2. it’s not true you need to actual code to learn coding

3. I’m really disappointed in the direction they going

Also GitHub is doing marketing with:“you’re code is not perfect use copilot.“

So code faster and then use copilot because we trust some data more which we didn’t even know the quality behind it.
You have it the wrong way around. The fact that German drivers have to go through rigorous driving lessons by a licensed teacher is the reason they are allowed higher speeds. If your driving license can be obtained by scooting around for a couple of hours with your dad at your side and then do a DMV test that consists of driving once around the block, you shouldn't be allowed to drive at dangerous speeds.
> They don't seem to be engineered for the actual user, but engineered for marketing to people that wont use them.

The original genius of Tesla's approach is exactly that: maximizing form over function to drive the adoption of electric cars. Maximizing desirability, not utility, has been central. In this way, they are really not so different from other luxury carmakers, who also sacrifice daily utility for form in their cars.

As much as the world needs an electric Ford Taurus or Honda Accord, as Nissan discovered with the Leaf, that approach didn't move people to open their wallets to the same degree.

> The Cybertruck is another example of this.

The Cybertruck is an example of applying the above approach to create a caricature of pickup-truck utility that markets well to the Cybertruck's target demographic: faux-survivalist men with lots of disposable income.

An actual utilitarian EV pickup truck would be something smaller like a Ford Maverick or a Toyota Tacoma with a simpler body that works with lots of standard aftermarket parts. I really hope Ford follows the gargantuan expensive F150 Lighting with something smaller and more sensible.
> Thinking is the best anyone can do

No, it's not. That's why I am asking for clarification. By testing, proving programs, running fuzzers, running sanitizers, and various other tooling you reduce the chance of problems to an acceptable level. You can't be perfectly safe, but nothing doing anything isn't acceptable behavior in face of preventable risk.

> one need only an example e.g. https://www.opencve.io/cve?vendor=rust-lang https://www.opencve.io/cve?vendor=hyper

Sure, writing unsafe code is hard. And from what I see most of these issues relate to old versions of Rust having unsound issues that were fixed at later point.

> In the standard library in Rust before 1.52.0,

> In the standard library in Rust before 1.51.0,

> In the standard library in Rust before 1.19.0,
...

Basically by upgrading your Rust version, your code becomes less and less buggy over time, which is not something C can boast about (modern C++ is safer but still a far cry from what is achiveable in let's say Java).
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."

― Robert Heinlein
I am curious if there are any great plans to make your own synth with a pi?
> silently blocking an esteemed scientist is indeed horrible

My understanding is that anyone using the chrono timeline could still his tweets as they happened. Twitter deciding not to promote his tweets in the algo timeline seems far away from blocking.
It is unfortunate that you continue to make the false claim that GPT is plagiarism. This is a well-known and widely-used language model developed by OpenAI, and it does not plagiarize any content. GPT uses advanced machine learning algorithms to generate text based on a given prompt, but it does not copy existing content.
They should pivot this to a service for beginner podcasters wanting to find a good cohost instead
Online Auction Sale Featuring Surplus Corporate Office Assets of Twitter
Well, Google owned and funded Deepmind during their co-invention of the T in GPT so... use what you funded and are attributed for inventing in production?
C-SPAN and call-in talk radio shows. ;-P
The Semi should ship with a trash grabber to hand over papers with. It could even have the microphone built in, just point it at the checkpoint clerk.
I, like half of us, took a ton of Spanish in high school, enough to generally stick even without continuing to build it afterwards.

I tried Duolingo back before the pandemic was trendy, for maybe a year or so, to keep that streak going.

While I don't really feel that it was teaching me very well, I can relay this single anecdote. Duolingo has these stories that it figures you can read, based on the level of your scores. While reading a very short story in Spanish, I had the experience of the first time, a second language making me laugh because what I was reading, was funny. Nothing during my five years of 8th-12th grade did that. Just sharing, it's not meant to mean anything.
There's no one thing, though increased solar cell efficiency has been a major factor: https://news.mit.edu/2018/explaining-dropping-solar-cost-112...
This is hardly censorship:

The Twitter Files - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838556 - Dec 2022 (1549 comments)

The Twitter Files Part 2: Twitter's Secret Blacklists - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33915734 - Dec 2022 (481 comments)

... and it's quite normal. It happens with every sensational or inflammatory story, especially the Major Ongoing Topic kind: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

We don't have any interest in censoring this—it's being moderated the same way we moderate anything else in this category, regardless of which way the political vectors point.

You guys are cherry-picking a tiny and arbitrary sample of datapoints—i.e. what you happen to notice, when you happen to be looking, which is (1) a tiny time sample, and (2) strongly influenced by how you feel about the story. Other people who look at different times and/or feel differently notice different things and come to completely different conclusions. Then you (some of you, at least!) turn those unreliable, sample-biased and feeling-influenced observations into flaming arrows and fire them at the mods—the same mods, btw, who turned off the flags on the story in the first place.
Feeling comfortable has almost nothing to do with actually being safe at those speeds.

People talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect all the time because it’s so insidious. Doing 200kph on a good bike is very unlikely to kill you the first time. You’re terrified and try and minimize the risks, but soon you’ve done it a few times and it feels old hat. What changed wasn’t skills just desensitization so people end up having higher risk as they start to feel more safe.

There are ways to actually get better, but it’s always going to be extremely dangerous and if you start to think differently it’s very much time to stop.
In the 90's and early 00's, my hometown had a great coffeehouse community. I joined various computer clubs that met at them, a 2600 club, and learned a lot about software development and computers in general from some old school grognards. Those are some of the best memories I have in life. I go to coffeehouses now and everyone sits by themselves. Nobody seems to talk outside the small group they arrive with. I'm probably getting to the age where this kind of nostalgia starts, but I definitely miss the atmosphere and idea exchanges that went on in those places. I never would have guessed that those interactions would jump start my whole career and passion. To see them rise again as a community forum would be incredible if they could even only catch 20% of the energy they had even back then.
My OG 2018 Model 3 and my 2022 X both have coat hangers and I use them daily, so my dress shirt doesn't get wrinkled by my seatbelt.
2x wide and 2x tall fonts were commonly supported on old terminals, though not commonly used. I bet xterm supports both today.

edit: yep. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vttest
Multi-Platform Portable Offline PHP Server
Which is why Bitwarden, 1Password, LastPass, et al are set to make a killing in this space for no other reason than being able to see outside their walled gardens.
I have to disagree with the premise that cloud infrastructure was either a faster horse or a car. It's more like a chariot, useful in specific circumstances against certain challenges but hardly the universal, flexible good of the automobile.
Do you think Sundar Pichai can be replaced by ChatGPT?
Some websites have a notification section, and feed it with submissions and/or comments of users you choose
It isn't a dichotomy between wage labor and living in the woods picking berries. You can have extremely similar production and economies that we have now, but without wage labor. One other option is worker ownership, as owning the fruits of one's own labor is not the same thing as wage labor. There are plenty of examples of historical and contemporary worker ownership, and none of them involve living in the woods.
This is a Google problem, not WebRTC.

I have been using webrtc.rs on iOS. My build is ~2Mb and takes me ~3 min to build.
Duolingo is great for building a base but after maybe the first 5 levels it’s a complete waste of time.

If your goal is to actually learn Spanish you need to be listening and speaking it as soon as possible. Both the listening and speaking parts of the app are absolutely terrible. I think the worst thing is people get stuck in the trap of thinking they are learning by keeping the streak going but in reality it has diminishing returns.

All this coupled with Duolingo gamifying it more and trying to squeeze money out of you by making the timed challenges pay out more points.

Overall great for beginners and then you are wasting your time.
Without proper understanding of the problem software is trying to solve, no methodology will help, period
I'm just looking at the results of all the previous debates on Wikipedia. Whatever the starting vote on this issue was, the result of the debate falls sort of coherently in line with previous results.
- 1. I think it means to say "Learn to code well faster".
- 2. Yes. if you're starting out with javascript, you're doomed. I'm pretty sure Dijkstra would have adapted his famous quote[0] to JS too.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/79997-it-is-practically-imp...
Fire rips through Moscow shopping centre
Easy answer is to buy any competitor that emerges. Double down on lobbyists so the government can’t do shit. This has been the monopolist playbook since the 1880s it’s not particularly challenging or innovative
Betteridge's law of headlines be damned, the answer is "yes".

I've basically only used Duolingo for learning a particular new language. I started from nothing, and just did a little every day during the pandemic. Then I travelled to the country in question, and was able to tell stories in the language.

Not easily, and with bad grammar and my vocabulary sucked, but this is more than being able to order at a restaurant. My stories could be understood, and if they spoke slowly and gave me time to think then I could mostly understand them too.

But surprisingly many people will not make any adjustments at all when you say "Please, if you speak more slowly I can understand", and instead will go maybe even faster. Like… do you think this will help us communicate?
The whole slow IO library, was a problem in a lot of places and spawned the nansi.sys/etc utilities on dos too. That is because the DOS console output services were generally a lot slower than could be accomplished with a bit of hand spun assembly running out of RAM. So instead of going through ansi.sys + BIOS int 10 it was possible to hook the output int (21,2 IIRC) and dump right to the text framebuffer tracking little more than the current color and cursor position.

It was so easy I wrote my own at one point (before I discovered/got nansi.sys? I can't remember the sequence). It was IIRC faster than the later nansi sys replacements but didn't work 100% of the time either. Probably because I only implemented the common subset needed to run a couple programs I wanted faster text output from. I remember for a while switching back and forth between mine and a replacement driver depending on application before I got a 486+VLB which was so fast that I could no longer tell the difference between the two.
> This was the swan song for the 8 bit machine

This is a common statement. It's not true. As pointed out down the comments, it was pretty much only the last 8-bit in the US market.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33925871

The rest of the world carried on making 8-bits for another decade or more.

New 8-bit machines and ranges of machines launched after in or after 1985:

• Sinclair Spectrum +2

• Sinclair Spectrum +3

• Acorn BBC Master range

• MGT SAM Coupé

• Amstrad CPC Plus range

• Amstrad PCW series

• MSX 2

• MSX 2+

• MSX Turbo-R

That's not counting 21st century reboots, of which there are hundreds.

Notably, after the collapse of Communism in Europe, the West found out about legions of enhanced ZX Spectrum clones and the like from the Warsaw Pact countries. Amazing machines with built-in floppy drives, hard disk controllers, stereo sound, improved graphics, lots more RAM (megabytes of it) and so on.

http://rk.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/clones/russian.htm

<- pay attention to the dates column.

Some are still being made.

https://www.hackster.io/news/css-electronics-zx-nucleon-is-a...

Note this is real hardware, not FPGA emulation or anything, although some of those are amazing too.

https://github.com/UzixLS/zx-sizif-512

I know that the USA thinks that the C128 was the last new 8-bit machine, but in fact it was only about the half way point of the evolution of 8-bit home computers, and some of the more interesting machines were yet to come. Entire families of native CP/M computers that sold in the millions of units in multiple countries. Capable home games computers with amazing graphics. Powerful educational/laboratory machines that gave rise to the ARM chip.

But they weren't American, and so everyone in the USA doesn't even know that most of them existed.
Here's that Slashdot thread:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/07/01/09/1857231/iphone-app...

People appear pretty excited on average. Most of the naysayers seem to be metahumor about the community's bad take about the iPod.
> Why is it so hard to build software that meets these requirements?

At the same time, why would they? Your employer bought it anyway. And I guess the execs won't notice these HN discussions ...
An estimated 94% of Americans has been infected with SARS-CoV-2.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.19.22282525v...

About 69% of Americans have received two doses. Some got more.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-...

This leaves very little room for real transmission/infection benefit.
About 6% of people have been saved from being infected, but this is trending southwards and some of them may just have been religious maskers and social distancers, so it is not clear by how much the vaccination contributes to the 6%.
Not sure where they are building these but I’ll tell you hwhat, fire ants love electronics and they are found in the majority of this state. Putting these right on the ground is just inviting destruction by critters.
Let me guess... Do you drive a BMW or AUDI?
Everyone is talking about maintenance ITT. Is it that big of a concern? My parents have had solar on their roof for almost 10 years now with zero issues. I imagine newer panels last longer.

So what's the actual maintenance cost? I could imagine it's going to be cheaper to just install new panels every few decades than constantly maintaining the installation to be 100% capacity.
> They’re investing in startups that have the potential to get something like 1,500% or 5,000% returns on their money and many times, they eventually succeed

And many, many, many more times they fail. The higher the risk-free interest rate, the higher the returns need to be to justify high-risk investment unless, like SBF, you simply eschew risk premiums. But most sane people, even VCs, aren’t that risk insensitive.
"to the security people" means emailing the relevant email address, not Feedback Assistant.
Agreed, it's easy to avoid if you architect your code to avoid sharing state, or stick to only sharing state with children that will always be outlived by the parent.
It's a great piece of fiction.

As LA Review of Books put it, "The only issue is that Gladwell’s account doesn’t withstand serious scrutiny. "

And that, in a nutshell, is the problem with Gladwell - he's a great story teller, and the only issue is that he pretends they are true. (When he either made them up, or he just really didn't understand the problem)

Gladwell is in many ways an incorporation of all that's wrong with journalism. Writing for effect, focused exclusively on drawing eyeballs in. Yes, he's successful at it. Yes, you could learn from him, but you're always in danger of accidentally learning that style trumps substance.
There are an incredible variety of careers to choose from and there are countless unconventional jobs out there that people have never heard of. There is no small portion of people creating a pre-approved selection of roles that we have no choice but to follow. Even if there were, it definitely begs the question of 'who are these people' and 'how do they have this power'?
I would also like to have longer lived threads, and that users actually discussed, read each others comments, and reply

We need notifications for replies !

So far, posts get posted, end up on the main page, get 300 comments at once from different users, then fall into oblivion. All of that within a few hours
The former, that some projects say "it's blazingly fast because it's in Rust" but don't seem to have any benchmarks.

And admittedly I do agree that uutils is not really a good example.