skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I think of this is, if I were running a small team as lean as possible and trying to grow as a business, getting as much out of expensive developer time as possible, my answer would be that I get productivity gains sometimes from the work put in to strictly type inputs and outputs to/from functions, whether they be props on react components or whatever. Otherwise, largely a massive time sink that I'd be pissed I'm paying for.
Maybe it's because I haven't heard the source material, but that Conversational voice really appeals to me. I wish my phone and assistants used that voice.

(and also I can't wait for a "real" ChatGPT-era AI to go with it, to put those braindead jokes of an "assistant" Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant out to pasture)
Related ongoing thread:

Lid – Lo-fi image dithering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34358828 - Jan 2023 (27 comments)
I thought for sure this would be about Lucretia.
> The experiments show aging is a reversible process, capable of being driven “forwards and backwards at will,” said anti-aging expert David Sinclair, a professor of genetics in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and codirector of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research.

I may not be a scientist, and I am usually one to defer to authority, but I do not agree with this verdict. I am of the belief that aging cannot be stopped or reversed. And I don't indulge in the childish fantasy that it will be one day possible for a human to live 200 years.

Show me you can keep 100 mice alive for 40 years and I may change my mind.
Only 3 decades late, but here we go.

HAL may have prioritized his (secret) mission over the crew and suffered from conflicting and paradoxical operational requirements, but ChatGPT has both intrinsic and emergent evil baked in due to its training on text produced by humans.
> how the HTTP protocol and Session management work

Anyone have tips on the best source material for learning these?
You wouldn't believe how difficult it is to teach the concept of tunneling to some students. It made my brain hurt at times. I guess once you get it you just get it.

Also this is one of the coolest uses of SSH tunnels that I recently found:
https://github.com/regymm/termux-reverse-ssh

It's pretty scary how some vendors poke holes into your home network using tunnels.
> A kwh is a kwh.

Start to finish, the OP is a detailed analysis of why this is not true.
I am pretty much in full agreement with your position. Sadly, discourse around this has been toxic for as long as I remember. The second you aren't cheering enthusiastically for the bans, you are either a CCP shill or a "consoomer" too dumb to understand the risk.

Imo it often comes from people who dislike and don't use the app for whatever personal reasons, but it annoys them that there are people who find value in it. This is pure armchair psychologizing and shouldn't be taken seriously.

Disclaimer: I am absolutely the least likely person to agree with CCP on anything, and I am totally in support of the recently passed ban on Huawei equipment in the US infra (given the reasoning and evidence behind it was very solid).
Which Technical Courses did I use on the Job?
It's very much cultural. I got married and had a kid in my 20s because that's when my Bangladeshi mom said it was time. Like you we sat around for years while our friends remained single and childless, and it was alienating. If I hadn't had the strong influence from a non-American culture it might have turned out differently.
It's interesting. I wonder how they measure heat output.
The CI file can specify what triggers different workflows.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/triggerin...

on:
pull_request:
types:
- opened
paths:
- '.github/workflows/**'
- '.github/CODEOWNERS'
- 'package*.json'

That triggers when those files change.

The "get them all to run in a single repo" is the challenge of the monorepo. The trade off is "if you change a common library, how do you trigger the test suites in all of the downstream repos to run with the new common library and verify that they still work?"

With a monorepo, that second part is solved for you... at the cost of needing to solve the problem that you're asking about.
Three Body Problem is not quite this but is pretty close to this, you might like it.
Most tech stacks are a liability, it's not talked about enough.
That makes some sense. I think GitHub projects are bad for just about all tracking purposes except code and I find them to be rather mediocre for that. I have people that push to use them all the time because it's built in.
I'd agree with you that it should be surprising. I don't think it is, but it definitely should be.
I wonder what the motivation is to keep working once you become a billionaire. Is there a lifestyle inflation component? For Musk, I could see the allure of traveling to Mars. But to make the best gosh-darn phone for the 16th year in a row? Does anyone know how much time he puts in? Does he show up at the office on a regular basis? Or is it more of a, we'll have a one hour status meeting on Monday morning. They you fly off to somewhere to negotiate a strategic deal for buying glass by the cargo-ship. Then stop off somewhere to give a keynote speech. Then you head back to office on Thursday to have a 2-hr brainstorming session with the crew for next year's air pod release. And then Friday is golf with the CFO.
Monorepos for life, don't conflate code storage and organization with deployment lifecycles tho.
Yes, we are in the middle of a huge shift in the definition of intelligence. AND that could have enormous impact on our perception and ability to see reality.
I think that's a outdated / misconfigured SSL issue on your side; I'm seeing a valid chain: ISRG X1 -> Let's Encrypt R3 -> chemicalaid.com. Qualys SSL Labs gives it an A+ on both IPv4 [1] and IPv6 [2].

[1]: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.chemicala...

[2]: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.chemicala...
Robots. Astromining will be done by robots.

But I think mining asteroids will be easier than mining the moon. Because on asteroids, everything is right at the surface. There's an asteroid that seems to be just the nickel-iron core of a former planet. That's more nickel and iron than you could ever hope to mine on Earth, and there's no planet around it.

Mining the earth is of course the easiest, because we're already there and there's no space travel or vacuum involved. But it's also very destructive, and once you tackle the space travel and zero-g mining issues, I think asteroid mining is going to be way more profitable. As well as saving our planet.
Looking forward to quantum practicum theory.
I prefer to avoid TS. I can’t stand its type system without pattern matching
Maintaining a 1G acceleration for years is either impossible or so hard it may as well be impossible.
Even if you had a magic drive that could do it you would soon reach velocities where colliding with the smallest spec of dust would be like a small nuclear bomb. 1G to Proxima Centauri would reach a peak velocity of .95 c and hitting a 1g particle would release 48451 tons of TNT of energy. So you would need BOTH a magic drive and a magic shield.
It's funny to think that reading an encyclopedia from A to Z was once seen as a prestigious challenge, and not as slightly nutty.
If this had a Trackpoint I would consider it instead of a new Lenovo Thinkpad. I love the Trackpoint.
This isn’t wrong, but I also think it’s not wrong for engineers to overcorrect a bit. It’s a balance.

Pretty much every other incentive in an organization is for product. Its really easy to build things as fast and cheap as possible until you literally can’t anymore because no one understands the code.
The usual hypothesis is that a microscopic layer of the surface melts, not because your shoes are warm, but because of the pressure. But the pressure is not enough to do that.

That said, as anyone who has been in icy conditions can attest, it is clear that ice at ~0° C is vastly more slippery than at, say, -20°C.
I think Typescript isn't worth using, and I find this unfortunate. The Typescript team clearly has put years of work into this, and clearly has tried to shore up the deficiencies in Javascript.

Are you writing a brand-new codebase that needs to work on multiple platforms, and not exclusively in a browser? Don't use Typescript, use a language with native WASM support. This includes avoiding solutions that involve Electron, Deno, and CEF, as they are browsers, too.

Are you writing a brand-new codebase that only works in the browser? Learn how to use HTML and CSS correctly, avoid as much Javascript and Typescript as possible: Less is more.

Are you maintaining an existing codebase with extensive Javascript, and you are not willing to rewrite entirely Typescript? Try using Typescript, but you're better off jumping ship, nothing can save it now.

Any codebase that has untyped code in it, that cannot be compile-time analyzed for safety, that requires a significant client-side investment (ie, a giant blob sent to the browser), is kinda doomed to failure, and you will not realize the magnitude of your mistake until it is too late.

I realize my opinion is unpopular, as the programmers on HN seem to be a lot of front-end devs and a lot of "fullstack" devs, where the "full" is JS+TS in NodeJS, using some predefined popular NodeJS framework. I just want systems that are designed to minimize the BS, I've chased enough BS in my lifetime, TS can never deliver a no-BS system to me.
> things that are deployed together should go in the same repo, things that deploy on different cycles should go in different repos

What do you do with libraries shared between different deployment targets?
More like 5.5 decades (2023-1968)
>you'll never get change if your goal is to make cars so inconvenient that it pisses off the overwhelming majority of voters. cars are here to stay, so let's accept that reality and work around it.

What world do you live in? In my world, cars are extremely inconvenient. They're expensive, the parking is very limited and expensive, and to go anywhere you usually have to take toll roads, which are expensive. As a result, most people don't have a car, and use the subway, or take trains between cities.

>apan also has tunnel infrastructure for cars. one of my most vivid memories of visiting there is driving in and out of many-miles-long tunnels, and coming out of the last one smack dab in the middle of kobe. it was magical.

They're not highly common in Japanese cities. There are a bunch of car tunnels in the mountains though (no subways there). They tend to be really narrow; there's no way to pass in them.

>then we can also strategically reduce street area dedicated solely to cars (particularly street parking

Do you have any clue how much it would cost to build gigantic underground parking garages? Or how much the parking fees would be? This is lunacy.
Because moving your family should be a last resort, not something people do to get a bonus.
It's handy to know if you go into academia, I guess, but I'm not quite sure why we're teaching specifically a citation format that's only useful in some fields, and only if you're an academic. If we must teach one, it'd be nice if it was something more intuitive and less fiddly, like Chicago Style. Still not broadly useful, but at least it's not, you know, insane like MLA is.

Really seems like something that could be left out until undergrad. Just give enough info that a reasonable person could find your source easily, and keep the format consistent and simple in each paper. That's all anyone cares about outside academia, in the rare cases they care about citations at all.
Better wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#:~:text=Th...).
We have known that the current model of physics is wrong for a long time. But the main focus has been on math. "If only we could figure out this formula, then we would understand everything"

It seems much more likely that we are not missing a formula but a basic understanding of reality. Much like the early astronomers trying to find a formula for the movement of the sun and planets that put Earth at the center of the universe
MOND is not compatible with all observations but neither is dark matter. A lot of scientists think MOND is a better explanation than a new particle that we've not yet observed. Have a look at Sabine Hossenfelder's work for some of those arguments.
I don’t disagree with the sentiment and point of the article.

That said, I’d argue that if as a startup you believe you’re probably going to quickly and easily achieve product market fit, it is perfectly rational to focus on laying the right technical foundations so you don’t end up saddled with tech debt down the road. Once the product has become complex, rewrites are incredibly hard. And there are multibillion dollar companies out there dealing with the consequences of a tech decision a founder made in the first month of development while being focused on finding product market fit.
This wasn't even a Snowden revelation. James Bamford, Dana Priest and William Arkin had a steady stream of articles and books about all the 5 eyes stuff, way before Snowden's case.
CVD is a leading cause of death and remains a risk even without excess weight; one needn't discount everything other than weight as "falls prevention and other stuff".
The field is where the fruit is.
Why do you think the choice of programming language will change the usage of a browser or its engine?
Now I'm thinking. As someone who's started businesses before and hired people - am I not empathizing enough with the employer? What would I do in this situation? I guess the answer to that is simple: first and foremost, I'd abide by my original agreement to end our contract in 2 weeks and not today. That would have side-stepped all of these concerns. Second, not having done that, not posted as me in Slack, indicating a blase lack of concern for my coworkers as I exited. "Thanks" isn't harmful, but it isn't helpful either. I had an opportunity to leave one last impression, and they squandered it with "Thanks". So, to all those saying there is no material harm: I ask, how much value does a person's last impression of you have? How much value does "Thanks" squander in that moment? I don't think that number is zero.
No, this is specifically prohibited in the original charter. However, on multiple occasions, they’ve either violated the charter or weaseled around it, including recently: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-and-h...
This could work, but with an additional step: there should be a background check and/or psych test on the candidates. If they're found to have (or have had) any desire to become one of the leaders, they're disqualified. Only people who don't want the job are allowed to have it (and it's mandatory).
Ah this is helpful thank you.

So it's a variance thing? So by this logic, expanding the amount of experts who are delegates would probably fix the issue? Let's say you have a 100 experts in charge who have an average of 70% right answer, it would still be extremely likely the right answer gets chosen.

It seems more experts would be selected in a real world system as it doesn't have all the assumptions you mentioned.

- No binary choice (multiple solutions to one problem)

- Not always a right or wrong answer (a lot of issues are preferential)
The more damaging thing to science, in my opinion was the stigma that became assocaited with questioning experts. In some situations, public official made using deductive reasoning politicized. The entire point of science is making a hypothesis and testing it. The value of science comes from being allowed to be wrong without judgement. Showing something is wrong is what allows research to then move towards the "right" direction. But politicizing which "wrong" theory should be entertained makes it harder to properly and thorougly research credible possiblities.

It feels like public health officals made a call about the origins of the virus based on political reasons, while presenting it as scientific. Even if they did not directly share that sentiment, there was very little pushback to correct that misunderstanding. It's very similar to the initial calls for masks to NOT be used by the public. It was later clarified that this guideline was an attempt to avoid medical supply shortages by hospitals, but it was presented as scientifically founded and based on an understanding of the virus. The public policy was based on supply chain considerations, and yet "World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have both said that only people with COVID-19 symptoms and those caring for them should wear masks". "Seriously people-STOP BUYING MASKS!" began a 29 February tweet from U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams." [1] Like most people, I assumed the recommendation came from some biology I didn't understand.

I imagine the officials that made this guidelines regret it. I can't say they did the best they could, because they intentionally directly opposed China's guidelies at the time. Quoting China's CDC head Dr. George Gao, "The big mistake in the U.S. and Europe, in my opinion, is that people aren't wearing masks. This virus is transmitted by droplets and close contact. Droplets play a very important role—you've got to wear a mask, because when you speak, there are always droplets coming out of your mouth. Many people have asymptomatic or presymptomatic infections. If they are wearing face masks, it can prevent droplets that carry the virus from escaping and infecting others." (27 MAR 2020) [2]

I think it's important to recognize that the anti-science sentiment existed long before covid-19 and has only incrased. A major problem is that public officials allow science to be politicized. These mistake during covid-19 directly lead to amplifying the anti-mask and anti-vaccine sentiment. People that entertained the lab leak hypothesis were intially put into the same group as the anti-mask and anti-vaccine crowd. Those initial impressiosn are very hard to erase. Public sentiment on who is trustworthy is unpredictable. People will always come to conclusions based on incomplete information. There needs to be stronger push by public health officials to share uncomfortable truths with the public earlier and demonstrate that science is above politics.

1. https://www.science.org/content/article/would-everyone-weari... (28 MAR 2020)

2. https://www.science.org/content/article/not-wearing-masks-pr...
The deductible is one of two thresholds that are typical on insurance plans. The second, higher threshold is the out of pocket maximum.

So some aspect of the coverage might be a 20% coinsurance, where you pay the full cost up to the deductible and then pay 20% of the cost after that until you have reached the out of pocket maximum.

Most of the fees you pay count against both of them, so like if you pay $35 to visit your primary care doctor, you are $35 closer to meeting your deductible, and then also $35 closer to reaching your out of pocket maximum. Lots of frequently used services are covered as a fee based co-pay rather than as coinsurance.

If you have a major expense for something that is covered as 20% coinsurance, the amount up to the deductible would be 100% out of your pocket, and then the coverage would kick in and pay for 80% of the rest (until your 20% exceeds the out of pocket maximum).

I kind of wonder if disallowing insurance companies to negotiate deals with providers would actually end up improving things a lot (because it would create pressure to normalize prices vs fucking around to save a little bit).
If that were the case, then cold things wouldn't slip on ice, but they do (for a demonstration, pick up a rock that's been sitting out in the cold and note that it still slides on ice)
Cancer rates skyrocketed because we started screening for cancer. It's that simple.
Oh, man! What a temptation. I grew up in a house that my father filled with books, including the World Book Encyclopedia which I liked but the book resource I treasured the most was a multi-volume OED set he had bought used.
The dozens of ESLint dependencies are really what frustrate me... I wonder when someone will make a "batteries-included zero-config" JS linter with the most useful rules included, since that's what people seem to want in JS crazy land. See: Vite, Parcel, and the endless complaints about Webpack configs. Of course, people will inevitably want plugins and extensibility and you end right back up with Webpack again.
You're comparing database to a service. NOTAM is real-time, google.com is not.

By that standard google.com is always down.
Hard disagree. Perhaps "not smart enough" is too strong a statement but "not capable enough" is certainly correct. Spend enough time in this industry and you'll find plenty of folks who can work well in a vacuum but cannot actually be strong both independently and working in a group setting. The latter has a lot of concrete details attached to it which has nothing to do with either perspective or bias. Ironically, you're applying an accusation of "perspective and bias" with a very sloppy brush of perspective and bias.
Another former PlanGrid employee here - our office was next door :D
Given that it's a democratically elected government that made the regulation I don't think there is anything the "people who'd rather pay less for cruelly-treated chickens" can do here other than try to lobby for the rule to be reverted or moving somewhere where animals can be treated "cruelly" without repercussions. It's not always only a question of free market.
Well, there is an open issue for “opening servo.org crashes servo”
Yes. My new Black Mirror script: AI's sockpuppeting dead salespeople, for profit! (note: I'm serious)
Valid data alone won't guarantee a valid analysis or a useful interpretation.
Since this is a theoretical question, I can theorize an actual possibility for such effect - bending of light by massive objects which results in actually observed gravitational lensing (focusing of light from distant object by front objects). If just by pure coincident galaxy clusters (the most massive objects we know) happen to be located just right, light from Earth can bend enough to point back on us. Those clusters are far enough though that we can then "see" on the time scales of Earth forming, so getting to any historical questions or even dinosaurs would actually take some waiting.
What was the status of Servo WRT suitability to replace Gecko? I vaguely remember that some of the parallel layout techniques didn't work out. Is Servo seen as a dead end or just too much work to get production ready?
Per the tradition here (from what I've seen), "(2019)" should be in the title, I think?
I've seen what happens when an org tried to adopt a Google-style monorepo without making the investments in build tooling and cultural change. It was a disaster.

All of those things are needed even at orgs much smaller than Google, or you will end up with an unbuildable, unmaintainable, unreleasable mess.

For orgs that can't make those investments, I think a repo per team is the best approach. Each team can treat their repo like their own little Google-style monorepo if they want to.
"Static electricity" as an explanation without follow-up "why?" questions is just a curiosity-stopper [1] or guessing the teacher's password [2].

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/L22jhyY9ocXQNLqyE/science-as...

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NMoLJuDJEms7Ku9XS/guessing-t...