skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That doesn't follow at all from your article, which is about the US. You can't just extrapolate from a different country

This is FUD.

You absolutely can if you are discussing orders of magnitude which we were.

Our fundamental disagreement wasnt about whether it was 8x fengnings or 6.5x but rather whether it was of the order of 65 or 6.5.

>It's not like it's impossible - France went all in on a nuclear grid.

Not impossible, just at great expense and it wasnt worth it. In 5 years less of France's electricity will be nuclear than it is now while still spending vast sums on new plants. They're officially hoping renewables will make up the difference.
tsv files, tab separated values. From the usage section:

uplot <command> [options] data.tsv

https://github.com/red-data-tools/YouPlot#usage
This was exactly Apple's reasoning for using refcounting in Swift. Although, as I understand it they worked around problem (2) by building their own silicon.

If you're on the server then just buy more RAM and use a GC, I agree.

But if you're making consumer software then buying more RAM isn't an option. Additionally, RAM costs battery life even when it isn't in use.
Found my new ring-tone!

I remember with the 56k modems I would occasionally hear a "bong" sound a couple of times.
Intel Quietly Resumes Russia Support, Unblocks Software Downloads
If someone cannot reason about types when forced to, I wouldn't want to see their code _without_ typescript.
Do you have any insider knowledge from your time with Grindr on

1) why the app appears to remain a terribly bad buggy mess and never seems to improve? Is there any awareness of this in the company? Is it just a legacy code issue?

2) why the desktop web version was shut down?

3) why unlimited pricing is that outrageous?
BNPL usually breaks purchases up into discrete monthly payments up-front at checkout. Whereas your credit card lumps it together into one balance, which you can pay over time.
You can list a bunch of things, but that's not really measurable and doesn't list the millions of data points that go into a country's well-being. You can look at Jan 6 as a disaster or you can look and say it failed, many of the perpetrators are going to jail and the next election cycle went off without a hitch. You can't stop people from being nuts, but honestly this speaks volumes to the incredible resiliency and durability of our institutions. Similarly, you can look at the economic disasters of the past 20 years as disasters, but you can also look back and say that despite constant doomsaying we never got within a country mile of an actual collapse. Nobody starved, poverty actually decreased during the pandemic despite the deepest economic shock in our history. Again, our institutions did an absolutely phenomenal job of backstopping disaster. Our engagement in Ukraine is hardly our doing. Russia committed massive aggression against a weaker neighbor and America rallied support with impeccable timing to turn the tide without having the fighting spread. You can't prevent bad things from happening, but we've been able to handle the worst of it with aplomb.

And speaking of South America and the Middle East, that's now mostly in the past. To the author's point, the shit we did in the 70s was way worse than now. The shit we did in the 30s was worse than the 70s. You don't have to go back very far to see almost everything being worse than now. So the point isn't so much "Everything is Great" as much "(Almost) Everything is as good or better than it ever was despite not being so great". The assertion is very much that we have a long ways to go, but are absolutely moving in the right direction and pretty consistently so at that.
https://danginteresting.com/

https://www.damninteresting.com/this-is-dang-interesting/
The solution here is pretty simple: make your software free and open source. Transition your business model to paid support tiers, or paid hosted/managed offerings. I have been advocating for the promotion of FOSS software for years, and this model has worked very well for many software businesses. People will always crack and pirate software; not only will be a never-ending cat and mouse for you, but also inhibits the proliferation of truly free-as-in-freedom software.
People hate it when you try to move in on their grift.
The hardest part is remembering that a kg is about twice as heavy as a lb so kgs are about half. This is accurate give or take about 10%.

2.2 lbs per kg. Multiply by 2 and add 10%.

eg. 5 kg x 2 = 10 + 10% (1) = ~11 lbs.

0.45 kgs per lb. Divide by 2 and subtract 10%.

eg. 11 lbs / 2 = 5.5 - 10% (0.55) = ~5 kg.
A Newsroom Team That Sees Data in the Air
Thanks for pointing out the why not.

> Our Smithy->Fern converter is in development so that Smithy users can take advantage of our SDK generators.

This is a good thing although there's definitely not going to be lossless.

Smithy trait seem to be an escape hatch for everything, I believe it could be used to achieve the same but maybe not easier. They already have pagination traits. And their http error is per operation, endpoint is also per operation, so I think the error is bound to operation as well (https://smithy.io/2.0/spec/http-bindings.html#httperror-trai...)
Isn't the case presented here slightly different? In LinkedIn's case the data was publicly available. In this case they were either accessing data that was only available to registered users (but otherwise "public"), or they only used fake accounts to bypass rate limits imposed on unregistered users.

Does the account requirement change whether the data is considered publicly available on sites with open signups?
The problem with consuming AI generated content for the human reader in 2023, is that the content is more likely to be in the uncanny valley and requires the reader to exercise extreme vigilance to triple-check priors, facts and conclusions. There is no human author that can be held accountable for lies or misrepresentations of facts. There is only the language model immune to cancellation on Twitter.

When the content on the other end is written by a sapient human (or, eventually, an AGI), as much vigilance is not needed. Vigilance is always necessary, but the level required for parsing the output of language models is much higher.

This requirement is why publishers like CNET quietly mislead their audience and do not clearly mark each submission as AI generated. If it were not an abomination and an abuse of the reader to the gain of the publisher, then they would proudly claim to be doing it.
Sounds like you hate having a job. You'll just have to do what most people on the planet do – suck it up and bear with it. It would be great if we could solve fun programming puzzles all day, but there are bills to pay.
Funny enough some dating sites such-as jdate measure success based on marriage-kid outcomes. With funding raised based on those stats.
It made a lot more sense skimming the article. Exxon's estimates were +-.
> I think this is a pretty common career progression

You'd think that, but I worked with a guy going on 20 years of experience who seemed to be the embodiment of code first, ask questions later. He coded quickly and abundantly, but man it was crap code. He'd get assigned a story and go off and do what he thought it said but more often than not missed the real point of what the request was.
The shareholders won't care about that, but a private owned company can care about it. Even successors. Startups generally attempt to become publicly owned, so they use bait and switch. And most fail anyway (to become a unicorn). However, even a CEO can care about it, its just that they ultimately fall under authority of the shareholders / board.
anti biotics arent preventative, you have to give them when they actually have the infection, else it doesnt do anything.
The people that are most famous for pledging to give it all away — Gates, Buffet — are far far richer than they were when the hoi polloi started reading public relations articles about their philanthropic pledge.

Amazing PR scam.
It’s going to sound a bit harsh, but what you hate is engineering discipline. Every engineer I know absolutely hates it but it’s like being an adult. There’s a ton of things that suck but it’s important to do in order to survive. Most process suck and some are even bloated. But they’re there usually for a reason (mostly good). No good product is sustainable without engineers with good discipline.
Main takeaway for me: CUE is not just a configuration language (I knew that). CUE has an ecosystem built around it, with verification tools, translators to other config languages, and conveniences like a language server and a formatter.

Also, the language is built to be modular, and many ready-made reusable parts are available, so you don't start from scratch when migrating.

Indeed it's set to win.
If you can't get your monolith right you probably won't get your microservices right. Microservices do come with additional overhead in terms of infrastructure, integrations, and so on. There's a concept of microservices readiness (e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/t...). Many organisations aren't ready to embrace microservices, and if they get into microservices before they're ready, then it's a lot of pain. There's also this misconception that microservices must be nano-services. But that's not a problem with microservices architecture, it's a problem of using microservices anti-patterns. As with everything in technology, there's no universally unique solution to all problems - everything's context-specific.
As someone that has a stove that uses propane as a source, I'm curious to see any information specifically about that. My 30 minutes of Googling seems to find things that are focused on natural gas and make no mention of propane. The only real info I can find is that propane has approximately double the BTU per unit of volume, and is (obviously) not primarily methane.
Did you know Zoho was bootstrapped? ($1B in annual sales)
That point is made in the article.

> By participating in the legibility efforts, they have the opportunities to make the measures work for them. For example, ensuring that impactful work is appropriately visible to the group that can decide promotions is important.
These services are able to offer lower APRs than credit cards by charging higher fees to retailers.
Similar problem to recruitment: recruiters need you to change jobs every couple of years to stay in business.
I don't know it strikes me as reactionary. If this comes down to CO2 there are bigger fish to fry, no?
> translators to other config languages

And from!
> text manipulation is not at all a productivity bottleneck for me

No, but the benefit is in the mindset encouraged by Vim, especially around modal editing.
It really depends on the card issuer, as different card issuers have different credit profiles. American express, for example, infamously have charge cards that you must pay in full every month, and generally have a prime to super-prime profile, so they make much more money in interchange than in interest. Other banks with more sub-prime profiles (Capital One, BoA?, etc) make much more in interest than interchange.
I love that diet, but have never been able to sustain it in the long term.

Are you really able to give up all desserts 100%? Or do you just do beef and eggs like 95% of your calories?
NASA starts designing futuristic space telescope to hunt for alien Earths
If the power is out I can cook my perishables for fun, it does the fire thing when you sauté which is somewhat cathartic.

I’ve only rented one place with a gas stove and it was mind blowing how good it was compared to those god awful glass top electrics (which I own now) despite it being ancient. Hated the oven though, hence gas range / electric oven.
on having to grapple: https://xkcd.com/810/
Our Cloud Spend in 2022
Turning Abandoned Mines into Batteries
No, it means "CUE replaces a bunch of various configs and special-case languages with itself, gradually".
TBP's sophon is one of the most blithely nonsensical sci-fi technologies I have ever read. I found it far, far more egregious than the Expanse's magical alien molecule, to the point it put me off reading other books in the trilogy. IMO it disqualifies TBP from the hard sci-fi category entirely, but I admit I might be a bit too worked up about it.
I just bought cheap mechanical keyboard and left it at work
Additionally, as another commenter mentioned, piracy is not theft. Someone who pirates your software will almost certainly never pay for it; it's not a lost revenue opportunity. Consider it free promotion and popularization of your product: any publicity is good publicity.
Double checking, by ‘EDS’ that wasn’t a typo and you meant Ehlers Danlos Syndrome? I’ve been beating the drum for underdaignosed EDS for a long time. It’s insane how prevent it is in so many statistics and yet doctors still think it’s super rare. I think a huge number of Long Covid people have EDS, way more than the general population, they’re highly disposed to it. It would make sense that a treatment for EDS would help LongCovid and visa versa.
Simon Whistler is a parasitic knob. I own and operate a website where I have been researching and writing original non-fiction content for almost 20 years, and Simon used to do paid voice work for me, narrating my writings for podcasts and audio books. Everything seemed to be on the up-and-up, but one day I discovered that he had quietly started making videos for a site that was systematically borderline plagiarizing my writings. Then he started multiple other YouTube channels where he covered the same topics he had recorded for my site, often with striking similarities.

To date there are well over 100 of his videos that appear to be "inspired" by my content. For example:

Me, 2008: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-third-reichs-diabolical-...
Simon, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mP4RQ783lk

Me, 2005: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-man-who-was-a-dwarf-and-...
Simon, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpdMolMlDzw

The list goes on and on. I've been writing online long enough that I've been poached and plagiarized six ways from Sunday, but no one else has come close to leeching so long and systematically as this unoriginal, abject freeloader. Simon Whistler is downright seaward.
"The Billionaire Who Wasn't" - impressive book about Chuck Feeney - very impressive on how he accomplished giving away his fortune.
"Does code just flow from their brains into their fingers?"

Honestly, it does feel that way sometimes. You move so much faster and with so much more efficiency and power that you can just think at a higher level while you're coding.
Emoji's aren't rendered in a way they're represented in the browser. Not sure which process you are using.

By default, a heart is shown. Red. But when rendered and downloaded, it becomes a white heart. Probably from a different characterset.
Now we know why Microsoft wants it - so they can turn it into the world’s largest hall monitor.
Ikea has theirs priced under $1000. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/saerdrag-induction-cooktop-blac...

I have their portable, which I think cost me $40 at the time, up to $70 now. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tillreda-portable-induction-coo...

It's well worth trying a portable one, especially if you don't have a slow cooker or pressure cooker already.
Anyone else have "new hot javascript framework" fatigue?
firefox is the reason why I use android. I have the benefit of using proper adblock.

on desktop i.e linux - firefox keeps leaking memory on many tabs / sites. whereas chromium browsers do it at a slower pace. which means on desktop linux - I have fewer tabs open on firefox than I would with a chromium based browser.
my other biggest complaint - firefox forcing me to update itself on desktop by refusing to open a new tab.

I still use firefox though but not gonna deny the pain
The solution is simple but not easy. Relying on the goodwill of humans is often a terrible bet.
That's how Russian state firewall came into being around 2013 by mandating filtering of unwanted domain names.
I'd basically do nothing. Just walk around, ride my bike, read books and work on a few software projects for fun.
If they've reduced lanes, then slightly higher speeds almost certainly don't make up for it. It sounds as if they've moved through traffic elsewhere.

There is benefit to drawing a stronger distinction between "streets" (pavement that supports people, such as houses and businesses) and "roads" (pavement that supports cars getting from place to place). Roads are high speed and high volume, and don't have pedestrians. Streets are heavily pedestrianized, and cars move through mostly to get people close enough to walk.

Mixing the two has been called a "stroad", and it's usually bad at both jobs:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/1/whats-a-stroad-...

It sounds as if Des Moines has managed to install a street and moved some of the traffic onto roads elsewhere. That's great. It's a bit surprising that the speeds are higher, but it's entirely believable if they've done things improve light timing and installed turn lanes. Speed on a street is still limited, and you don't people treating it as a road.

Ideally, people only take streets to stop at a point along it, rather than through. You can design the whole city to make streets unattractive to through traffic. But that takes a lot more design than simply altering the characteristics of one bit of pavement.
Look at the “Alzheimer’s disease” section of the Wikipedia article on HSV-1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_virus
Dividends and EPS are real and don't rely on stock movement at all. It's the exact opposite where they drive stock movement.
ITER to replace 23km of cooling pipes on thermal shield panels
I’m really confused. What was the motivation of the hiring company here?
How is “buy what you can pay “ mentality a result of a “sheltered life”？ It is probably the opposite. Although I would add BNPL is largely embedded in US culture and education. Geez, we even apply that to our education..
Yes definitely. It helps you mutate the dom easily and gives you reactivity.

I’ve used it fo years. It never breaks and I don’t need to recompile never
Oh that's nothing. I worked on a project at a fortune 500 footwear company with dozens of developers, FTEs and contract, that worked over a year on just an update to a software package that was used by maybe 5 people at the company. Granted, these 5 people were the folks actually designing and figuring out how to manufacture their shoes, but still. At least 20% of the contractors were just warming their chairs, and more than one were what I call net negative producers: anything they wrote had to be corrected by someone else before it could be called done.
> Nobody is forcing them to operate from western world.

So? That's just where all the investors and founders are based and where most of the staff want to live.
Credit cards are abused in the US as well, yet it is a solid industry worth hundreds of billions.
Credit cards are used in Europe too, but the credit part not so much, most people pay it in full end of month (or whenever their next bill comes)
I've been toying with the idea of designing my own keyboard too. I'm in love with the keeb.io iris & ergodox EZ. They're both pretty awesome, but now I'm thinking I would love to be able to take my split/iris everywhere by using choc low-profile switches & a case that would let me snap the two sides together, face-to-face, such that I could slip it in my backpack along with my laptop (and maybe some extra keys here & there).
I see a lot of non-americans comments got down voted very much just because they say they won't take debt. Why is it so offensive?
Cul-de-sac developments are relatively safe for kids. But those developments are connected by stroads and highways where it's unsafe even for an adult to ride a bike. And the distances are too large. Every suburban parent I am aware of has to juggle the logistics of shuttling children around. They play taxi driver.
Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls - http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...
This is my take too. A $10,000 purchase on 0% interest for a year earns you ~$400 in interesting from a money market fund or whatever. I'm in a high tax bracket so $160 of that goes to the government. So even for a large purchase I net $240 in a year. Hooray.

Decrease the total cost of things purchased in this manner or increase the number of different things to track (or both) and suddenly I'm paying quite a bit more in additional mental energy than I benefit in cash.

The only place where this makes sense (IMO) is when you buy a new car and can get 0% and no payments for more than a year
You can get benefits from small-a agile in the sense of organizing the work in small chunks that can be put into production when ready using CI/CD. If done right, you end up not doing work on things that aren't needed vs. in a waterfall model with large specification docs you end up with feature bloat in a product. Forced two-week cadence and preventing non-feature work indicates poor management.

I don't like SiverBulletCo coming in with tools and trainings and This Is The Only Way™ bullshit either. Maybe lean development is a better wording than agile? Its more about small work chunks and deploying them when ready vs months long projects with Gantt charts. Kanban seems to be the best way to organize work to me. However, letting a team of people align on what process they want to use with what makes sense plucking concepts from agile is fine.
I find that idea quite amusing as well, and as I pointed out, there are areas, including the subject at hand, that we know very little about. Hell, much of medicine probably still falls under this umbrella.

I did not mean to imply that we no longer live in a world where many ideas are wrong, just a world where we’ve gotten a hell of a lot more right than the era in question. My issue was more with the claim that the success of “epistemological anarchism” of the past was a sufficient reason to justify it presently, with no acknowledgement of the major shift in the landscape that has occurred as a result of those breakthroughs and continuing progress.

I say all of this while still finding the ideas presented to be interesting, especially in light of others emerging research.

I just think the anarchism angle didn’t help the content much.

In areas that are sufficiently understood, such deviations should become increasingly rare. That doesn’t mean there is no room for this - there certainly is!

> The way you tell "epistemologically anarchist theories" from quackery is the same way you tell any other theories from quackery: you test them.

The problem here is not one of testing, but convincing someone that an idea is worth the $$$ required to carry out that testing.

It’s impossible to test every form of quackery, which puts the modern “anarchist” in a difficult position.

These are musings about the challenges presented, not conclusions about the state of things.
Totally agree with poor plot and dialogue. But if you had read it on publication in 2008, viewing the aliens as US and Earth as China, you would have been one in a small minority to foresee something like the Oct 2022 Biden order to revoke citizenship from anyone working in the Chinese semiconductor industry.
It's hard to argue something isn't public if the only barrier is making a free account. But whether a court will be sensible about it is a different question, I agree.
Just can't make myself throw out my US Robotics 56k external modem, huge RS-232 cable and all.

How far we've come.
So what you're saying is that he is opinionated about popular languages just like every other developer in the world. You don't think you can trust him to write databases because he doesn't like a language that he would never use to write a database.

Weird. Linus Torvalds also hates one of the most popular languages in the world: C++. He must not know anything about operating systems...
Modafinil is a prescription drug. I'm not sure why you're recommending it as if it were advil.