skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree at a gut level with this. Do you have a source that this is more widely believed? I would like to bring this to my tech lead.

This was learned from hard experience.

During my tenure, we've migrated corporate wikis/"collaboration systems" four times, and we've used at least as many ticket systems. We also migrated from webex to Teams a few years ago. Each migration resulted in at best a severe partial loss, and in some cases a total loss. The most stable resource is the codebase.

Basically, whenever anyone does a migration for you, they will lose things, and they might even think losing them is a "clever" shortcut that will make them more efficient. Our recent documentation system migration only covered documents modified in the last year as a corporate cost-saving measure, and we were on our own for everything else. Weak/understaffed teams did a bad job. They retroactively implemented a retention policy on Webex that wiped out a lot of valuable recordings, and then the coup-de-grace was the migration to MS Teams, which wiped almost everything else (basically everything that the original recorder didn't conscientiously download and save). We recently migrated to MS ADO as our work tracking system, and that was the only time I've seen old stories/bugs migrated at all, and even then we still lost all embedded images.

Here's a list of things in order of least to most likely to be lost:

1. Head/tip of your project in source control

2. Source history

3. Documentation stored in a central location as files you can easily copy

4. Documentation stored in some system (like a wiki)

5. Tickets/stories in your work tracking system
TLDR:

> Results A total of 15 105 individuals were recruited and 4330 were excluded, leaving 10 775 participants whose data were analyzed. The mean (SD) age at the baseline was 51.6 (8.9) years, 5880 participants (54.6%) were women, 5723 (53.1%) were White, and 6106 (56.6%) had at least a college degree. During a median (range) follow-up of 8 (6-10) years, individuals with ultraprocessed food consumption above the first quartile showed a 28% faster rate of global cognitive decline (β = −0.004; 95% CI, −0.006 to −0.001; P = .003) and a 25% faster rate of executive function decline (β = −0.003, 95% CI, −0.005 to 0.000; P = .01) compared with those in the first quartile.
oh like similar to how [flagged] works. that'd be cool
The US has an excellent record of recovering stolen money from most places you would want to live (and reciprocally of helping other countries)
US to Add More Than 30 Chinese Companies to Trade Blacklist
There was huge amounts of money to be made. They got too greedy, made a play for it, then the market dropped. If things kept going, it would have made them all a lot of money.
There's also the issue that the first $8 billion of any money SBF and his parents might use to post bail ... possibly belong to FTX depositors.
A crypto-exchange founder makes his case for decentralised finance
> Raccoons do, by scooping (they do not like to stand in the water

That’s funny, because out here (California) the raccoons will take other food to the water and stand in it while eating. They stand on the steps of pools and dunk their food - presumably to wash it off - between nibbles.

Quite funny to see, and leaves some hilarious paw prints if your pool isn’t clean.
‘Every single house on our street’ is becoming an Airbnb, says host
So every dev needs to also be an expert lawyer and financier??? OK.
https://archive.ph/UfqXn
Well, for one thing achieving it is the purpose for which the "National Ignition Facility" was created. It's right there in the name. They're justified in having a bit of a party about it.
Balloon framing requires:
chop tree -> haul log to sawmill -> cut logs extensively -> haul dimensional timber to warehouse -> haul to customer. That's great if you have a train and good roads, but if you are in the middle of the forest,

chop tree -> hew it on-site -> haul to building area is very cost effective.

If you have infinite wood (remember, clearing land requires removing the trees anyway, and people would often burn them just for the potash), it is both cheaper and better to use post and beam.
Google taro water garden, and you will see many results, including instructional videos for this plant. We purchased the taro plant from a garden supply store that sold us the plastic liner. This was more than 10 years ago. This species of taro can live in partially submerged pots, and we still have it planted in the original pot. The plant tries to self propagate in the late summer sending out little runners with leaves attached but it can’t root anywhere because there is no shallow muddy spots by our pond. It’s just the plastic liner which drops off to about 2 feet at the edge of the plastic. On the other side of the hard plastic liner is ordinary soil, which is not wet enough for the taro, but other plants, including ferns and ground cover take root there and grow over the edge of the plastic liner as shown in the video below.

https://youtu.be/8ExfrhjpMp4
> and the final amount is never really due.

Yeah??
DPR == Dread Pirate Roberts == Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road operator)
Monetization Toolkit for Creators, Media and Apps and Wallet with Bitcoin
Unfortunately that seems less likely given their recent turn toward Islamic fundamentalism. IMHO, anyway.
For someone with luks2 in the username you sure have a lack of understanding about encryption.

Why would it be so hard to believe that your recovery key is hashed and salted like every other password? You can't view your key after creation, you have to regenerate it. Do I really need to pull out Wireshark to verify this for you?

Advanced data protection is explicitly removing Apple as a holder of your keys, it's not re encrypting anything, it's not new encryption. The entire process is just deleting the key that was already stored on their servers anyway. How would it be in Apple's interest to keep your recovery key after press releases and multiple warnings saying you're on your own for recovery.
Ask HN: Startup ideas with positive labor market effects?
Lately I've been thinking about how Industrial Revolution tech pulled a lot of people out of poverty. Because railroads and factories were tech that, once it worked, found product-market fit, investment, and rolled out at society-wide scale, employed large numbers of low-skill workers.

Today's tech seems to be the opposite. Lots of modern tech startup ideas seem to be about finding low-skill jobs and automating them away.

Are there any startup ideas that, if successful, would result in lots of jobs for low-skill workers?

Over the years I've met lots of people who'd be good screwing bolts on cars, but regardless of training, I don't think would ever be very good at all at the kind of abstract logical thinking required to be successful software engineers.

50 years ago you could get a job right out of high school screwing bolts on cars that paid well enough for a house with a yard, two kids, a non-working spouse and a car or two.

Nowadays all the bolts are screwed by robots or overseas, and good luck renting an apartment in an area where you won't get robbed or worse walking home at night, and feeding yourselves without food stamps if you and your spouse both work at Walmart or McDonald's. Kids? Homeownership? Proper medical care? Today such luxuries are for the rich and the software engineers. As the latter, life's not so bad for me personally, but I hate how the lack of opportunity is tearing our society apart.

What kinds of Industrial Revolution 2.0 could reverse this trend? What startup idea, if it works, finds product-market fit, investment, and rolls out at society-wide scale, would result in a semi-permanent labor shortage of low-skill workers that enables ordinary people to make a good middle-class living again?

(I think PG may have discussed this problem in one of his essays but I don't think he asked exactly the same question I'm asking.)
There’s a body of work studying metrics and performance in software development/engineering.

The push for Lean (by way of Agile) has been more pronounced within IT/tech than any other non-manufacturing industry that I know. We’ve been collecting metrics for as long as I can remember, and reported them.

What is interesting here is that studies out there on knowledge work indicate that most of it is wasteful.

What you need to have for a team to perform is clarity, relevant competency and freedom to do the work - all of which are managements real job to put in place.
This can be hard to grasp coming from sales; the value of flow, the detrimental effect deadlines and hard estimates have on team performance.

The individual team need to identify what they can do to become better and they should measure this. But not in any way should we put this relative to other teams metrics.

For example: one team might frequently end up in wait state due to a stakeholder or customer, when touching specific parts of the code/system. This usually leads to the team picking up new work while waiting, increasing WIP and context switching.

Another team have to deal with a lot of legacy code within their domain, that doesn’t build or test well. This have to be prioritized if this is important software or else this team will be a hog for eternity.

Measuring these things is important, and most definitely possible - you just have to understand the profession.
To give some more detail: hydrogen to helium fusion (even with intermediate steps) is extremely unlikely to happen. That's part of why the sun will last for billions of years. And that's also why first human attempts at fusion are not trying to use straight up hydrogen as the fuel.

Good old Wikipedia has this gem:

> The large power output of the Sun is mainly due to the huge size and density of its core (compared to Earth and objects on Earth), with only a fairly small amount of power being generated per cubic metre. Theoretical models of the Sun's interior indicate a maximum power density, or energy production, of approximately 276.5 watts per cubic metre at the center of the core,[63] which is about the same power density inside a compost pile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Core

Another fun fact: there's a decades old design for a gadget that fits at the top of your desk and does nuclear fusion. You could build one yourself, if you are sufficiently dedicated. Unfortunately, no one has ever worked out how to run one of them as a power plant. Ie how to get more useful energy out than you have to put in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
> App developers have a lot more influence on mobile devices than they do on desktop OSes

Interesting. Hadn't thought about this before. Why?

Is it the app store that makes their influence possible?
Mostly industrial and military use, exploration per se wasn't something done - not like today, and not popularised to general population like today.

Cousteau also was big on conservation of the environment, something that apparently came out from his earlier ventures that were funded by oil industry.
I can't help but think of two webcomics when I read your comments:

"they want to flip the economic system..."
https://www.butajape.com/comic/conspiracies/

And "of course the climate changes--it always has"
https://m.xkcd.com/1732/

What you fail to recognize, or refuse to recognize, is that global conspiracies to take over the world are completely unnecessary to explain everything you mention. Just pretend for a moment that human behavior really is warming the planet and, if continued, will have devastating effect. Some people would freak out. Some would not care because they'll be dead before they feel the impact. And some people would tell others what to do but hypocritically continue to act in their own self-interest.

The harsh truth is that conspiracies rarely pass Occam's Razor.
That's a little optimistic.

Or do you mean in the arctic or something?
If it has servers in a country, it can be seized, or ordered to monitor. Almost every country requires logs to comply with data laws, and receipts for taxes. Not all require handing over, however corps will willingly comply to avoid being regulated. Read the transparency reports for VPN's, they all actively assist law enforcement. That is the great detente that so far has fended off legislation.
But the thousands of years of civilization prior to capitalism were quite unequal with a wealthy ruling class and slavery.
Yeah, but it’s their first party exclusives that might lock people in if they’re trying to play Warzone or the latest Assassin’s Creed or any of the ‘crafts. No one really wants to have to deal with another store in addition to Valve and on occasion GoG for older titles, but they’re forced to for those AAA franchises.
I would urge you to specifically read the complaint and identify which provisions would be applicable to Apple's ecosystem.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/complaint-us-v-microsoft-corp

Has Apple compelled asked companies that are using Android to dump Android and switch to iOS (for some money)? (P.17)

How about having 3rd party iPhone manufacturers be restricted to using iOS as a condition for licensing and distributing iOS? (P.18 - note, if you're making Android and requiring all of the 3rd party manufactures that use it to also have Google Play... that's ok)

Has Apple entered into exclusive contracts with all the top ISPs to brand their web pages to work with Safari but not Chrome? (P.28 - note, if you are making Chrome and make a site not work with... say Firefox, that's ok)

So yes, Microsoft and the DOJ went to court. But the thing was about Microsoft forcing its terms on other companies that excluded it's competitors. Is Apple going to other companies and enforcing terms that are excluding Android?
Firefox is such an incredible browser for developers, with all those CSS tools and the multi-account containers so you can be logged into the system under development with multiple accounts at the same time.
This may sound weird yet, in my country,Yerba mate has different connotations during the sectarian strife, it was a indication of particular sects.
'Yerba mate becomes a major import commodity in Syria'

On 8 December 2019, the Central Bank of Syria included mate in the list of basic commodities supported for import. This underlines its significance in Syria as Syria is considered the world’s largest mate importer.

Syria received 34.5 thousand tons of mate from Argentina in 2018, according to the National Institution of Argentine Yerba Mate (INYM), from which Syria imports 99.7 percent of its mate annually.

Those figures were “historical” in Argentina, according to the Buenos Aires Times, Argentina’s only English-language newspaper.
https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2020/01/interesting-...
XID wraparound is one of the things that makes me wish Postgres would go 64bit on some of their internal data structures.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Records the First Sounds of a Dust Devil on Mars
Meadow Creek Trail boardwalk closed for repair in Greenbrier
Another interesting project would be to monitor how much wildlife the cat will kill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_predation_on_wildlife
I saw a tip a whilr back about not needing to keep adding "| grep -v stuff" but instead "grep -e -v stuff -v stuff2" i remember getting it to work on Linux but last i tried that on macos I didn't have much luck
Games and Applications aren't that far apart, most titles will be developed on existing engines that are predisposed to certain genres/constraints and will need to work within that the same way that UI frameworks limit what possible things an application can do(which is quite a lot).

I've spent a decent amount of time in both spaces in my career, it is totally possible to build performant, fluid applications but it requires a degree of care and investment. Usually "good enough" suffices and that's where things land but there are also developers who prioritize that and short of very restrictive environments you can build responsive applications.

Besides, at the end of the day all UI is doing is rendering, with a direct path to the GPU just like games do :).
Your average house in an European city is going to stand for 100 years or more.
Why using Alpine Docker images and Python is probably bad for your project
I can't imagine there's been much new stratigraphy since 1950.

(besides which, we already have the Holocene, which proxies well for anthropogenic bioturbation?)
Does anyone care about this at all? I’d rather Twitter just go away.
You say this as if it’s a universal thing, like IATA codes, but I assume it’s a quirk of some particular country? My region code definitely does not have this.

Sounds pretty nuts to me btw, how does that work when you turn it into standard E.164 format like “+123456789”?
You dont have to trust the unknown dev. Tree Style Tabs is a Mozilla-recommended addon. The "recommended" badge means that Mozilla reviews the addons code and vouches for its security and performance. Similar to ( or even better than) the Debian repository

Mozilla's approach is in my opinion correct and fitting the open-source spirit. Mozilla shouldn't unnecessarily bloat their core codebase with features not everyone will use. ( For example i personally dont use vertical tabs). However, I do wish that Mozilla would review more addons like they used to in the old days when they had more resources. Of course it is still better than the wild-west that is Chrome's addon marketplace.
Not entirely true as 15 years ago two people made World of Goo which was a big success.
Massive taboo, huh? I am all for weird science, but c’mon. Slicing up dead snakes to check out their genitals isn’t a major feminist triumph.

Discoveries like these can just be very interesting (two clitorises certainly seems pretty unusual!), but making it political is absurd.
There is some weird thing about it in my country, pre-war,'Yerba mate becomes a major import commodity

On 8 December 2019, the Central Bank of Syria included mate in the list of basic commodities supported for import. This underlines its significance in Syria as Syria is considered the world’s largest mate importer.

Syria received 34.5 thousand tons of mate from Argentina in 2018, according to the National Institution of Argentine Yerba Mate (INYM), from which Syria imports 99.7 percent of its mate annually.

Those figures were “historical” in Argentina, according to the Buenos Aires Times, Argentina’s only English-language newspaper.
Uh because building fission reactors, despite being fairly safe, is still a risk compared to fusion? We don’t want to put fission reactors in every town, but we could one day with commercial fusion. And the sheer amount of energy we could harness would allow us to do insane things.
Hey Silicon Valley, Maybe It’s Time to Dress Up, Not Down
This always makes me laugh.

What other power source is accessible to the home owner?

If we are going nuclear and it’s so efficient and cost effective, why is it always subsidised so heavily? Its full cost has never been paid anywhere, as storage etc stretch off way into the future.

It seems eternally close to being cheap and reliable, but we keep screwing it up.
hey that's me in 7th. that language you're looking at is a short lived project i made when i was 12 lol. it's actually the source of my username, i didn't name it after myself but the other way around. anyway yeah it's crap and barely turing complete and definitely NOT what i use for aoc by any stretch.

> Is making your own programming language more common than I realized?

yep it's just that
If you happen to have a bunch of high-quality logs on-site, you can get a portable sawmill to come to you. My estimate was that about $1500 worth of rental and labor yielded $5000 worth of rough-sawn custom timber, and the economics got slightly better if you had the mill there for multiple days.

This allows you to produce post and beam beams for personal use quite cost effectively -- they don't take that much time to saw, and the transportation cost is basically nil because you are going to use them on-site, and you don't pay the monster weight penalty to put them on a truck. You can't kiln dry everything, but you can air dry it, and it tends to be extremely good for construction. The waste can be burned in a wood boiler.
I don’t have anything against RSS, I think it’s a useful protocol that fills a niche. I do however think that it’s just that: a niche. If you read through the other comments on this and other historical posts it’s presented as a panacea to the “algorithm of a faceless corporation”, where the ills of social media could all be resolved if RSS was just more widely adopted. There’s a lot of trends you can bet on in tech and in tastes, but any action that requires active effort (including all forms of curation) will be outcompeted by something that automatically does it for you. For every German programmer reveling in fine grained control there’s a thousand people in India opening YouTube for the first time and just watching recommended.
The fake Kid Rock account on Gettr always gets a lot of attention, despite clearly not being Kid Rock. The thought of it being a Russian agent of disinformation makes me laugh though.
Relative to the infinite recursion of metric paper, it is abject chaos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI
Yeah, this part is very clever and quite well-done IMHO. I suspect the trick is to only store the state for any levels you've actually seen.

As you go higher, they can just arbitrarily select a location in the simulation a few levels up from where you are that is consistent with the metapixels you've seen; once you go up a few levels, there's no chance of you having seen beyond a very small window of the simulation, so it's a matter of just finding a matching pattern.

As you go lower, the time step cannot be set be zero, so they can simply initialize the simulation a few levels down to an arbitrary state since the lower levels will tick exponentially faster.

The only problem is that you do have to store state for levels between the highest level you've seen and the current level as you zoom in. I suppose this means that if you zoom out a lot (just spam the scroll) and then zoom in a lot, there might be substantial memory usage. I've tested it and they do seem to consistently remember the exact state of the simulation at least a few levels up - it's easy to check by looking at the length of the clock train on the left of the metapixel in each level.
Scientists finally found the clitoris.
In 99% of these cases it's a badly implemented cookie modal that just doesn't appear for some reason.

Dunno why they make it a modal anyway.
I think Jevon's paradox is also hitting to some extent, coupled with the ecosystem getting bigger, so a typical project may have more transitive dependencies behind it. The functionality is going up, and the speed of compilation is going up, but the total latency is staying similar or increasing, in my experience.
Some armchair philosophy here. I think languages are fundamentally related to how we think about, process, and express ideas. When you spend a lot of time doing something, you naturally come up with the words to express complex and abstract ideas, which lets you process information faster. These competitive programmers have the experience to realize certain syntax, patterns, common functions better helps them solve the problems they usually encounter, so they build these DSLs to serve that purpose.
It’s possible the pond is too deep (shallowest area is about 8 inches). We have a security camera, which sometimes catches them at night frantically pawing in the water from the edge of the pond to try to catch the fish. But they never go in.
Well, given their WWDC 2022 announcement regarding Objective-C, and that Swift has surpassed C++ on iOS 16, things are starting to change.
Trove: test-anything concept tool in Raku language