skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When does IC (individual contributor) go from "how efficient/effective can you make the other ICs on the team?"

I've seen ICs who say "my purpose isn't to code, it's to increase the efficiency of the other ICs on the team who do code, which makes me a 10x engineer, despite not coding, because I increase each team member's individual productivity which is collectively more than I could output individually myself"
I semi gave up a year back, but I did a lot of self reflection on my eating after trying IF. I skip breakfast and run 6 km a few times a week, but I eat for a timetable without feeling hunger pangs for weeks at a time. Now I eat less calories and allow myself to be hungry.
I loan money to people and never expect to be repaid. If someone asks for $2k I give them $5k. $400 give them $1k.

Sometimes I get paid back. Usually not. It’s because people are aware I have money so various people ask.

The goal isn’t to get paid back. Often these acquaintances cut off all contact. The goal is to never be asked for money again and slowly bled out by frequent sob stories. If they know they are already into me for more than they thought they would get, they won’t come back, and I don’t look like a jerk.
Bison were removed but their role was taken by cattle on the great plains. There are perhaps 3x the number of cattle there today than there were ever bison. Whether these cattle are allowed to graze in the historic bison range is probably a question for the current property owners of these grasslands.
In general, humans don't like working with assholes. Once the asshole limit is reached, we shun people who are assholes.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/212/873/d5f...
Cool, but I don't need everything versioned and I like it simple.

~/usr/src/p/dotfiles git worktree list
/home/matt/usr/src/p/dotfiles 160721b5e3 [master]
/home/matt/.config e195a59c7b [config]
/home/matt/.gnupg b50725b47c [gnupg]
/home/matt/.mozilla b5d0d07b74 [mozilla]
/home/matt/.mutt f3d4a14d99 [mutt]
/home/matt/.tmux a93aa509af [tmux]
/home/matt/.vim 68fd61921c [vim]
/home/matt/.weechat ef3d4c761f [weechat]
/home/matt/.zsh 228ee42367 [zsh]
/home/matt/bin b05de7d9d7 [bin]
/home/matt/usr/venvs/shell 6a3b7e4c6a [shell/venv]
/home/matt/usr/venvs/npm d2065c68bf [shell/npm]

And only two symlinks I manually manage

/home/matt/.vimrc -> .vim/.vimrc
/home/matt/.zshrc -> .zsh/zshrc

Everything else isn't versioned. I rely on btrfs snapshots and back ups.
I think everyone who wants to design anything, software, hardware, woodworking, ceramics... medium doesn't matter... should read the Design of Everyday Things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things

Then I would recommend 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, 2nd Edition by Susan M. Weinschenk

Why do I recommend this? Because so many engineers and developers don't realise that the rest of the world (i.e. your Users) don't think like you do.

Before you even sit down to code take a pen and paper, and ask your self what is the purpose of this program, what problem am I trying to solve for my user?
What would they like to see first, then what would the next view look like and why?

Then sketch it out on paper, doesn't need to look good, it just needs to give you an idea of what the application does for the user. Try to keep it as simple and intuitive as possible. Then take it to a mock up tool there are several, and make an interactive version of it, and try it out on people. Your family and friends are going to be nice and not say what they really feel so tell them to be brutal, go for the emotional damage if you will. You need to know if it's shit before coding.

Then once you have the UI/UX designed, you can approach data model, and the rest. But first understand the problem or question you try to solve for, and the users of the app, design around that, and the rest will fall in place.
What is "OAR"?
Meanwhile, I go through life wondering if I borrowed $20 from someone and forgot to pay them back for months and kinda hope they would just say something if I did.
This is a really poorly written article. It goes on and on about poor security and how much the credit agencies should not be trusted, but it never says why this disclosure is harmful or why anyone should care.

To say "identify thieves do this" implies "this is harmful" is a post-hoc fallacy.
I don't know if that pattern has a name, but I really love that on my team if there is a script it should be runnable through the Makefile. I know some people are very good a remembering commands, but I'm not and being able to do `make docker`, `make init`, `make eval`, etc... really simplifies my workflow.
Thanks for this anecdote! This is hilarious but seems very true to me.
I think it's okay for a language to help guide its users toward "better code" (of course Rust is the big one for this).

But I'm also a firm believer of providing escape hatches. So it should be just a toggle in the project/file/directory to enable whatever behavior. And a very good language would require a human readable explanation for these, so when the developer says

allowEmojisInCode = true "we decided to allow emojis to make our happy DSL, see emoji reference at https://..../...."

downstream users/readers of the code are in a much better position than with just 30000 lines of emojis :)
> I can't exclude the possibility. But kind of in the same sense that I can't exclude the possibility that it's actually true. Sure, might be that I'm simply not aware of the poem, etc. I find this extremely unlikely.

What you're describing is a hunch.
Actually, dark mode can save the planet
> Right, but you cherry-picked the most uninformative statistic possible out of the whole thing

in your opinion.

> In a study performed in the United States

I specifically wrote Worldwide, USA is only 4% of the World's population.

Who's actually cherry picking?

USA population is in particular quite shielded from all the other very numerous factors that can lead to lung cancer.

Smocking is only the most obvious and self inflicted

For example: China has the heaviest lung cancer burden, representing 36.98% of cases and 39.21% of deaths globally [1]

By choosing the USA as a reference, you're highly skewing the stats.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7797233/

> that was a hypothetical scenario with made up numbers to illustrate how the 50% statistic on its own is uninformative

so, basically, a strawman to sell opinions as facts.
Because Fuchsia is exactly a capabilities-based OS as the OP describes.
It does. The difference is what they're both contaminating air with. You can improve air quality from cooking food using common PM2.5 filtering (e.g. "fake vent hoods", air purifier, furnace filter, etc).

Natural gas, when burned, releases gas/VOC byproducts that PM2.5 filters cannot remove and while Activated Carbon can remove some of it, it doesn't scale well enough to be a solution (just in terms of cost alone, but also in terms of Activated Carbon's lifecycle).

I'm all for outdoor vents to be clear, even for electric/induction. I'm just pointing out that natural gas cooking has all the same downsides as any other food cooking does but with a whole host of additional ones that are far harder to mitigate.
Cue all previous debts being paid back to John Carmack so that their latest business venture gets some free marketing.
Well, for boring technical reasons, I guess they will remain blocked.
See this video from Practical Engineering, aptly titled ‘The Drowning Machine’: https://practical.engineering/blog/2019/3/16/drowning-machin...
> Without the proxy it would just be millions of users hammering their servers.

Doing shallow clones, which are significantly cheaper.

Google is DDoSing them, by their service design. Why a full git clone, why not shallow? Why do they need to do a full git clone of a repository up to a hundred times an hour. It doesn't need that frequency of a refresh.

The likely answer is that the shared state to handle this isn't a trivial addition, it's a lot simpler to just build nodes that only maintain their own state. Instead of doing it on one node and sharing that state across the service, just have every node or small cluster of nodes do its own thing. You don't need to build shared state to run the service, so why bother? That's just needless complexity after all, and all you're costing is bandwidth, right?

That's barely okay laziness when you're interacting with your own stuff and have your own responsibility for scaling and consequences. Google notoriously doesn't let engineers know the cost of what they run, because engineers will over-optimise on the wrong things, but that also teaches them not to pay attention to things like the costs they inflict on other people.

It's unacceptable to act in this kind of fashion when you're accessing third parties. You have a responsibility as a consumer to consume in a sensible and considered fashion. Avoiding this means you're just not costing yourself money through your laziness, you're costing other people who don't have stupid deep pockets like Google.

This is just another way in which operating at big-tech-money scales blinds you to basic good practice (I say this as someone who has spent over a decade now working for big tech companies...)
I'm really happy with Mila and their most expensive filter (charcoal filled). Get or make your own sock for the filter to extend the life of the filter. Make sure to clean the sock/filter regularly, I just use a shop vac on it.
I always felt uncomfortable with Indy's relationship with Marion Ravenwood. According to the dialogue he was 25 and she was 14 or 15 when they had their relationship. That just strikes me as wrong and creepy and unsure how Spielberg/Lucas thought that was appropriate.
For context, a modern defibrillator is about 3,000 volts and 15 amps.
> Are humans able to produce truely novel content, ever ?

Yes.

This is the essence of human creativity.

> It’s a bit too much to ask to an AI don’t you think ?

I'm actually standing that AI isn't able to do this, so I'd definitely agree with this statement.
which leads you to the equally amazing Floppotron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCXRerqaJI
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Thank you for putting the effort into this response (and everyone else too). I think that some people may be under the impression that I’m trolling by trying to court the delineation that I’ve mentioned.

I’m not here for that.
Same.

"Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed." – Proverbs 19:17
would they really have taken it to that island though, if it wasn't for Jones? I think without him they might have taken it straight to the Fuhrer?

Also without Jones they wouldn't have found the actual Ark, because they were digging in the wrong place.

I don't know who this Amy person is, but I am unimpressed. :(
PBS SpaceTime team is making a movie
or Alias PowerAnimator then Maya (1998)
or Softimage 3D
Vansh Shah, a 17 year old entrepreneur from India won the National Pride Award
Vansh Shah is a high school senior from India, and at such a young age when children are busy playing video games and get stuck in the tiny world of academics, he became an entrepreneur and found his own company. Vansh and his startup-Mirage are set to revolutionize the world using Augmented Reality. Vansh aspires to add a virtual layer of vision to the human eye using AR to partially virtualize objects, opening the doors to endless possibilities. His this idea has led him to win the National Pride Award by Sociallypoint organization and Niti Aayog of the Indian Government. We salute such inspiring personalities that keep the potential to change the world by their ideas and execution. And Vansh shows these true abilities. The entire nation congrats Vansh today.
I don't know about this case, but a lot of the time this class of vulnerability comes down to lack of Authorisation rather than lack of Authentication.

So much effort is put into checking that people are who they say they are (is Person X really Person X) , they forget to check that they're authorised (is Person X actually supposed to be accessing resource Y).

Given the URLs don't have the actual resource Identifier, it means the resource ID will have been gathered from somewhere else, typically one of three places:

1. Cookies / Localstorage - Easily manipulated and should never be treated as a secure place, it's easy to put simple values here and forget that they still need to be validated / checked server side, and that just because you have access to /foo/Y you might not also have access to /bar/Y.

2. Session - An ASP favourite, sticking something in a key like Session["FolderID"] you might assume you've validated and checked authorisation when you set the key, then later re-use (deliberately or accidentally) the same key elsewhere leaving it open for manipulation. And then you might assume you don't need to re-check authorisation when you read the key.
"allow"
In my experience, some people operate on PDL because they never learned about risk in general, or are incapable of operating differently.

If you get hurt as a kid in a lower stakes fashion, you start to learn that breaking the rules hurts. That opportunity for lower stakes learning might be shrinking as we legislate away some "risky" stuff.

Some people simply can't handle the "constraints" of being responsible... like my wife. Her favorite quote is "I just want to live life". No thoughts to "what if?" or being prepared. If some stranger held the same beliefs and died, I still wouldn't feel bad - that's the way they chose to live thier life.
Does it please you to believe I am of a certain age) or( if I am not...) I've almost certainly experienced a knock-off of your's?
That's likely just a keyhole view into your data though.

Eg take web forums (not this one since there's weird lisp stuff down there and I don't know how it works, but the average web forum).

On the app (server) side they have access to everything, all of your posts in nice beautiful structured SQL.

On the user side you have access to none of that, just HTML soup and maybe some cached stuff in the "Storage" tab, or maybe not.

> Albeit the convention is clearly to not presume your browser app user will be interacting with their data at _all_ through the devtools, which I find regrettable but unavoidable with the current state of "computer literacy" and the state of "devtools-as-an-interface" (obviously the ergonomics aren't great for the average user today).

I really like your use of "convention" and "presume" here, because I think that's the essential lens to view these things through. It's absolutely possible for an app to provide all of a user's data in a nice structured form in IndexedDB, that will just be rare because it's not the convention.
At my company we rent a couple of dedicated Ryzen 9 5950X boxes from Hetzner to host our Gitlab CI runners, for a bit over $100/month each.

These rip through our pipelines so much faster (and cheaper) than any managed CI offering we've tried, that we didn't even bother doing proper benchmarking.

I would assume 7900X or 7950X would be even better :D
Paying off your mortgage won't "tank" your score.

I paid off my mortgage almost 15 years ago. I have zero debt, no car loans or anything, and pay off my credit cards in full every month. My credit lines are barely utilized (single digit percentage.) My score seems to vary from 790 to 810.
Is this not standard practice for sites/apps like these? Seems a little overboard, user agent fingerprinting is hardly a secret, and (unfortunately) not considered a dark pattern.
Before you get bombarded with advice on how to make applications pretty, here goes my recommendation for how to get better at designing them:

Read the classics:

- "The Inmates are running the Asylum" (A. Cooper)
- "The Design of Everyday Things" (D. Norman)
- "Don't Make Me Think" (D. Krug)

Learn how to uncover problems and validate ideas (more books incoming!):

- "Build Better Products" (L. Klein)
- "Validating Product Ideas" (T. Sharon)

But above everything else: Build, test (with real users), improve, repeat ... nothing is more educating than watching your users fail to utilize the awesome design that you spent days on perfecting.
Also without Jones the ark wouldn't have ended up in a big government warehouse at the end.

boo, Amy.
I am not sure that I understand your question. There are different models of computation [1] like Turing machines, finite state machines, lambda calculus or rewriting systems. A priori it could be possible that they all have different powers, that each of them is capable of solving different problems or requiring different amounts of resources like time and space to solve the same problem. But, as it turned out, this is not the case, within some polynomial factor they can all solve the same problems with the same amount of resources.

Only if you add some magical feature like an oracle that provides you in constant time the answer to an NP-complete problem, you get something more powerful than a Turing machine, at least as far as we know. There you get the difference between problems in P, that can be solved in polynomial time on a Turing machine, and problems in NP, that can be solved in polynomial time with the magic device but require exponential time on a Turing machine.

Quantum computers occupy a middle ground, as far as we know, they are more powerful than Turing machines but they are not magic. Using massively parallel computers is a trade-off between space and time - you need more silicon but less time, but in overall resources you are not any better off. In practice it might still matter, being able to predict the weather for tomorrow is much more useful if you can finish the calculation before tomorrow, so using more silicon and less time is a trade-off that gains you something. Also some technicalities apply, like Turing machines having an infinite amount of memory, but this does not really affect the larger picture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_of_computation
No, the issue isn’t religious irrationality — it’s understanding the inherent dangers of a mandatory government identification system and not wanting one.

Unfortunately, we have several anyway, but that’s no reason to accept a universal inescapable federal ID that we would never be able to roll back.

> I wish the US Gov would sue all Companies and Orgs that used the SSN for ID purposes for trillions and return that amount to people with Social Security Numbers.

At least on that we agree. The SSN bas become a poor, backdoor replacement for federal identification documents — which is exactly what people were worried would happen, and why they received the sop of “not for identification”. That didn’t last long:

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/26/weekinreview/the-nation-n...
Really cool, would be interesting to see a comparison between different models and CPU arch’s to see us a simpler arch makes it easier for an AI to help
That's especially silly because 429 is a retriable error
No it doesn’t. That consent is gated around violating their legitimate purpose (see the other words in that second paragraph). So in general just posting stuff/uploading to TikTok/facebook/etc does not require consent and you don’t have a right to have it taken down without specific cause.
> I’m glad people spoke up.

You could reasonably agree or disagree with Filippo take, and after quite a bit of discussion it was decided to not deprecate the opengpg[1]. I'm pretty sure that Drew's comment contributed exactly 0% to that decision.

[1]: It was deprecated a two years later as no one stepped up to maintain it, so it bitrotted even further, and there are other (better) 3rd party implementations anyway. Speaking up is nice, actually doing the work is better.
This website is dubious, the article looks like it was written by a bot, so I looked at the original paper.

The actual science studied TRF (time restricted fasting), not intermittent fasting. Which is eating over a 8-10 hour period per day, and that is just... normal eating? Skipping breakfast is all you need to do.
Maya only came out in the last 2 years of the nineties. So before then you would have used PowerAnimator.
Agreed. Recently started reading Radical Candor by Kim Scott and truly - it could be written as (maybe a longish) a blog post than fluff that's been added to the book.
Good idea! Though aborting a Ctrl-C could close a dialog window :/
"Intermittent fasting is so over-hyped...I've managed to get quite overweight. Not IF's fault, just pointing out that it's neither worse nor better for your diet."

This is a strange take. For one thing, intermittent fasting is not a diet.

IF is also not about eating less than you did before. You can, and many people do, eat the same number of calories as they did before. Eating more or less calories should be a separate decision made in the context of what you are trying to achieve.
Well it took me borrowing one video game to learn that lesson. "No, you must've borrowed it to someone else" when I asked.

First game I bought for my own pocket money, which at time, in Poland, was a lot for a kid as it was full price title, Baldur's Gate 1 in nice box with manual and a map, and dubbed gloriously with then-radio/TV stars, hell, the narrator voice was better than original. Needless to say I was pretty salty.
“Working remotely from” means long term you’ll be paying taxes there. Which should be proof, and if not should be fixed. Having to wait a year or three is probably fine for a mortgage, no?
That doesn't account for physical disk characteristics at all. You could have disks from different generations all be part of a pool, CMR vs SMR(!) (needs zone resets and large chunk writes), disks could degrade etc. Plus, when you update a file, you literally create new links and update the file out of place (true for any COW FS). So the read won't be sequential if you want to access two versions at the same time.

In that case you want to know if you optimize for hardware failure as opposed to for performance.

This could be fixed for specific usecases but not all block patterns in general. Just why I posted this.
I don't mind HDR. I'm talking about the, usually amateur photographers, who pull all the slides to the right, creating clown vomit.

Do a Google image search for "overdone HDR".
I watched Avatar 2 in theaters without watching or reading anything but the title.

Sorely disappointed in the movie. I guess if I expected a Rambo shoot-em-up I would have been satisifed, but a plot based on revenge, with 75-100 on-screen deaths by shooting, drowning, burning, impaling or dismemberment (loss of arm). Torturing of kids, threatening of pregnant women, targeting mothers of new-born animals, burning of innocent villages, scantily clad children, killing animals to make a point (instead of killing the pregnant lady).

There were almost no positive relationships. Parents yelled at eachother, Parents yelled at kids, kids yelled at eachother, people on the same team yelled at eachother. No one showed empathy, love or respectful communication. Out of the 50-75 characters in the movie, I think 4 (including a whale in that number) showed a positive relationship, everyone else was selfish and yelling when others didn't meet their expectations.

I guess I went into it expecting a happy adventure and found a hate-based blood-bath instead.

1/10 happiness/empathy/love
9/10 visuals/graphics.
Yeah this winter has been particularly warm except for November. I expect larger snow storms in late Jan and Feb though as from experience they will bite back after the warm periods.
What's America's Russian Nuclear War Plan?
That scene was incredible! And Robert Patrick as the T1000, he was scary! There was somewhat less terror so, that it was part two didn't help, as a viewer you already knew what a Terminator was.