skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it does depend on the kind of code you are writing. I also think it is a bit of a cop-out to say that "once satisfying the borrow checker becomes second nature"... maybe I just write different code from you, but I periodically run into really thorny situations in Rust where figuring out how to satisfy the borrow checker is difficult. This happens most often in application programming, it's not something that I really run into when I'm writing libraries.

Really core stuff is nice to write in Rust. Parsers, core algorithms, that kind of thing.

However, I write a lot of code in Go that does stuff like glue together libraries, call APIs, etc. That stuff is really nice to use in Go.

I'd also say that when I need to use a library in Rust, it's a coin-flip whether the library has a straightforward interface, or whether it is some monster with tons of template parameters, or maybe even a bunch of macro rules that you are supposed to use. Go libraries tend to be much simpler to use than Rust libraries.
The example you give is so-called primary dialects -- those that stay in place for 1000 years or more, and become very different. These are dialects in Europe, except for areas like Poland, where many people were displaced in WW2.

There are also so-called secondary dialects. They appear where area is colonized, people from different dialects mix together, and differences disappear. But then they start developing. This is what happens in Latin America. In Russia, primary dialects are in the Western part, but east of Nizhni Novgorod they end, because Russia got those territories only after year 1500. In LA, people mostly settled 2-3 centuries ago, and differences are already big. Brasilians already can tell origins of each other by accent and vocabulary (they were puzzled by my accent and asked which state I'm from).

USSR moved a lot of people across the country quite recently, and yet differences between regions appear and are developing.

To test if there's oligarchy, we should probably measure whether European Portuguese is converging with Brasilian because of media and the amount of cultural content Brasilians produce. I don't know for sure, but I'd bet they don't.

I saw a public person speculate that small national languages will disappear soon. But that's just not true. First phase of language dissapearance is when natives switch to another one in some areas -- like court, school or science -- and feel normal discussing school or law matters in the "colonial" language. Then it may lose more areas of use, shrink to home usage, and then be lost, because kids want to use the more socially prestigious language, rather their mother tongue. But this only happens to languages of minorities smaller than 1M speakers in bigger countries.
Yes, a unrealistic hypothetical handicap that assumes no growth PRC still escapes middle income. Realistically it will be significantly higher, i.e. stupid low growth of 2% until 2050 = ~30T with 1.2B people or 25K USD per capita by 2050, which at current PPP is 40K, which is solid. @3%, it's 38T and 47K per capita PPP, 4% and it's 5TB @ 62K per capital PPP.

PRC shedding unproductive people in 100s of millions is a massive, massive win.

BTW PRC current at 12550 per capita (2021), latest world bank high income cut off 12700. If PRC grew @2% last year and it'll be high income right now, but likely next year after covid recovery rebound. All of which is to say, PRC entering high income by per capita GDP is forgone in short term, but that's an exceedingly stupid measure since again, the trap in middle income trap is being stuck in industrial upgrading, which PRC has blown past most developed countries with much higher per capita GDP. Apart from US, no one else has nearly as complete an industrial chain as PRC.
> most of my scratchpad code

How about the code written for commercial purposes? As in "you have to write a service that satisfies business requirements and you have to finish by time T"
This isn’t an appropriate analogy - the plumbers also fit the heat pumps. They just don’t recommend them
They are trying to make something that works reliably in some conditions. That is harder and better than what Tesla does. All this talk about geofences isn't about whether the car can figure out how to drive anywhere but whether the car can drive reliably somewhere, which is the hard problem which Tesla is avoiding.

IMO adding very unreliable features like FSD should not even be legal. The car should be very good at what it tries to do.
There are floor mounted units that can be recessed into a wall. Alternatively, ceiling cassettes (not ducts) can be good. https://www.mitsubishielectric.com.au/wp-content/uploads/202...
A team with "1 yet-more-highly-compensated staff+ engineer" would also have a pipeline of people one step below that for progression. Usually people who are "yet-more-highly-compensated" are not easy to poach and don't tend to change their job. You have to develop them internally. E.g. most DEs and Fellows in tech companies rose through the ranks over decades. It's very hard to hire a DE from the job market.

The unintuitive thing about software engineering is that low-level implementation and high-level architecture are both equally sensitive to quality of talent (and equally impact your product quality and business outcomes) because every line of code is a business decision. That's a big reason why even entry-level SWE talent costs so much. There is no paralegal-level work in software - it's been automated away.
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Yes, although you still had to have a "need to improve living conditions", as measured in square meters currently allotted per family member, to get an apartment that way.

There was also the "build it to live in it" condominium programs that opened more opportunities specifically to those just starting their adult lives, who would otherwise qualify at most for a room in a communal apartment, and couldn't possibly afford a downpayment on that mortgage (15-20 monthly salaries). But those came late - many weren't even completed by 1991 - and they had considerable pushback from many local authorities, partly on the basis that such luxury was "undeserved" and unfair to older people who were in the line for regular apartments, and partly because some of their member-elected governance councils were starting to get political ambitions and push for more local self-administration in the 80s.
I'm going to go out on a limb and disagree with the idea that happiness comes from within.

For two reasons: 1) it contradicts my lived experience and 2) it contradicts research.

Let's start with money. I used to be poor and now I'm not anymore. I used to have all kinds of anxieties about money, surprise surprise, once I put my nose to the grind, earned more of it, and developed a healthy financial cushion, those anxieties disappeared and I became happier.

My anecdote isn't the only data point, there's research out there which indicates that more money correlates with more happiness (though the effect has diminishing returns once you hit the upper middle class).

There are at least three really big external factors I'm aware of which are correlated to happiness in a big way.

1. Money

2. A supportive network of family and peers

3. Health and fitness

Every time we look we find that as people improve their circumstances in these areas, they report greater happiness and fulfillment in their lives.

I'm not saying that striving for inner peace and all that is necessarily a waste of time. It has its benefits. But frankly I think if you want to be happy you can do a lot worse than busting your hump to sort out the three things I just mentioned. If you're broke, sick and alone, inner peace isn't really a priority. Working on those problems is.
And you’re going to amortize what you learned over years. A short learning curve is like a toolbox that’s nearly empty.
But where lies the middle ground? Soviets having one sort of butter vs. 20 sorts of butter (yoghurt, drills, ...) many of which were produced abroad?

Maybe we can correct (economic) future by simply insourcing some goods and therefore work and forget about the knowledge society boloney?
There are some subtle differences, but framing is important.

Debt has connotations of digging yourself into a hole. If you are in a new project, you likely have all sorts of tools that you would like to build. You are not in debt to start - you have no code!

This gives latitude for thinking ahead and it also allows for including things like enablement and platform teams. Debt retirement, in this view, is a subset of technical initiatives. And some of that technical initiative budget should also go to product teams.
These are some awesome tips, thanks again for sharing them!

Do you have any more details anywhere (blog, etc.)? I'd love to read about it.

Just as the OP here frustrated me by not explaining their process, others like you really help and make me happy to read about how they do/did it.

It inspires me to make changes in my own life to live more conservatively financially. I already make an effort to do so but its nice to be reminded that there is more you can do. Solar + Electric car should be next on my list.

Do you have a recommendation for a good used electric car?
I have a cheap Uni-T thermal camera. It’s great fun!
Unfortunately, if you want it done right, you really have to be involved. Frequent checking on the work and hounding the people to fix it. Which also means you need to know enough about construction to ask the right questions to figure out what's right or not. It's very hard to effectively contract that out. If you can date/marry someone in construction/architecture, and let them supervise, it helps.

You can just pay more and get probably more quality materials, but not necessarily get better workmanship. Saving time by taking shortcuts is just going to happen unless you call them on it a lot.

One thing to keep in mind though, it's good to know what you want, but also be flexible, for example, if you can adjust a bit and get a standard size window instead of your specific window, it will reduce the cost now and probably in the future (unless standards change), doorways are similar... if you get a standard sized door, it makes life much easier.
Here are some Windows 3.1 ICO files that I made in the early 1990s. https://github.com/generalram/nicons
Yeah regulations should be representatives of the interests of the population, if the majority is better off negotiating their own salaries then be it, otherwise I guess it's better for people to vote for those who would be represented differently, it's not a sin or an issue. What is concerning for me is that sometimes some voters go to vote not to represent their own interest in a given time but to represent the interests of what they aim to be, that is primarily the issue that keeps them from becoming what they want to be. (i.e. if poor vote for lowering taxes to the wealthier because they aim to get less taxes when they will be rich, then regulation for the redistribution of wealth will prevent them to get rich because of lack of redistribution) but yeah, if you are better off like that, its good for you, if you just vote against collective bargaining because you feel the new generation of jedi that is better off alone because its so special that no one can compete, then its a bit sad. And I sad not for offensiveness, but just because there are always a lot of people that are better off alone because they're special, sometimes it feels like everyone is special, but when everyone is special it feels like no one is special and we just dance and talk to make rich richer
It’s cool be be selfish.

Collective bargaining exists to protect people who have less negotiating power than you claim to have yourself. Don’t need it? Cool, don’t use it. Doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea for others.
is this one of those thing's with OPs parents owning 4 properties or something...

i'm glad you were able to quit. i did see that video recently and found it a bit cliche but well made.
"The end of magical thinking is upon us as cryptocurrencies and valuations are collapsing - and that is good news. Vested interests will resist that trend by continuing to propagate fictions. But rising rates and a return to more routine business cycles will continue to provide the rude awakening that began in 2022."

Arguably those "vested interests" are controlling the channels over which people are communicating and sharing information. Moving past the fictions that these "tech" companies have worked so intently to create could prove difficult. Props to the NYT for publishing this Op-Ed.
Sure, I've temporarily put my linked in URL on my profile. Reach out to me there.
No, Go programmers are get paid to get if err != nil done correctly.
Not all architects know. Source -- Am in month 21 of a construction project. Have caught more than a dozen mistakes made by both the architect and the GC's subcontractors.
Oh sure, but my point is that even then, those $1B projects could go to those very same companies at a smaller markup (say $1.05B: $50M is still a lot of money).
I will say for CoD specifically, since the original Nazi Zombies mode was introduced in the original World at War ("CoD 5") in 2008, the franchise has made the Zombies mode INCREDIBLY complicated. Long gone are the days of holding down a room until you and your friends are overrun. Nowadays you have to solve puzzles, do various "chores" to access things like the Pack a Punch station... It's lost all its charm.

LA Noire and other games like it (e.g. Red Dead Redemption, Destroy All Humans!) seem to have the opposite problem, where I seem to remember the game being more engaging and challenging (in a fun way) than it is now. I guess that's a result of growing up and getting "smarter".

We haven't even touched on the micro-transactions/pay-to-win stuff...

As for the panic attack- I read an interesting book recently called The Body Keeps the Score. It's about PTSD and how, even today under the DSM V, it and similar conditions aren't getting the attention they deserve. While reading this book, I realized that my "fascination" with Dead By Daylight (similar to Left 4 Dead) might be rooted in adrenaline/stress hormones rather than pleasure hormones. Indeed, I had (have) several "hobbies" that my brain seems to be interested in for the stress they cause (like stock trading, holy fuck). The book poses that my subconscious thirst for stressful activity is actually a coping mechanism that is derived from my dysfunctional attachment style to my parents and my subsequent childhood experiences. In other words, stress and worry are all I've ever known. I'm in therapy and taking an SSRI for this now, and I'm significantly better than I was, mentally.
Most definitely. Here in Scotland, 'Home Energy Scotland' offer grants and interest free loans for various energy efficiency and renewable measures, but for the former you must install roof or cavity wall insulation if its recommended on your energy performance certificate for the building - I'd assume purely because it's the most cost effective measures when applicable.
> The original version only supports *.wav audio files with 16kHz sample rate

This particular point is not true (at least not fully). The version publicly announced in 2022 had ffmpeg dependency for supporting any audio-containing format. For Windows I had just to drop the binary in Python script folder and enjoy converting from anything.
The Smithsonian Will Restore Hundreds of the World’s Oldest Sound Recordings
Seeing code like that reminds me a lot of the J# days, when you basically had a Java 1.1 standard library implemented on top of .NET. I played with it a bit a few years back, even ported an AWT to it (imagine using AWT in C#): https://github.com/zdimension/awt2048_csharp/blob/master/Pro...
The builder / GC is in charge of the construction, so when incentives diverge they’re not on the side of the owner. They’re the second party.

That’s why you need a construction supervisor, a third party that’s on your side (if you don’t have the skills, knowledge, or time, to be the supe).
If you want network buffers in Go, you can just use []byte. The Go GC is designed to make this work well, so nobody in Go is asking for a separate buffer type like you have in Java. In Java you have Buffer in the first place because there are good reasons why you might not want to use byte[].

Unboxed C types in Go can be done with cgo (it's not necessarily pleasant, but it works).
Matt's channel seems to focus on innovative technology. For a slightly more traditional approach to a "spec" (speculative) house-building process, see
the "Essential Craftsman" series of 150 videos by Scott and Nate Wadsworth
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRZePj70B4IwyNn1ABhJW...

Scott is the builder, and Nate, his son, the videographer and editor. The subject matter is clearly and honestly explained, and the video, sound, and editing is generally professional quality. From survey and site prep all the through to finish and completion, I would recommend it to anyone in the US considering a bespoke or custom home.
It's slow. I love dark, probably my favorite tv show, still 1899 is slow. That being said, it's still looking like an amazing show, I like slow, but it was way too slow, but not to the point of canceling. They would have improved with the next season. Bah, I'm so disappointed in Netflix.

It seems like only books get endings. Isn't there a way to read books in a shared way, like tv, so that I could do that with my wife?
Carbon solves one problem, ISO doesn't care about what Google thinks regarding ABI break.
Actually, that's a great idea! I might see about a ToS update to cover it. Thank you!
In the 1980s the internet was hardly in every home globally either.
They are illustrations, and clearly label as such. At no point they are called “photos of the event”, so I am not sure why they should be called fake.
It looks very similar to Vimeo (just more italicized). The placement is identical too.
Last year's M1 Pro and M1 Max already give this. The Pro allows two external monitors in addition to the laptop screen. The Max allows four external, five total.
I'm not familiar with the laws of Sweden, but a quick Google search suggests there is a law on the books limiting the workweek to 40 hours. Even if that is only marginally-heeded, it's leaps and bounds ahead of the United States.

If Swedish residents can work fewer than 40 hours at their discretion, why is it you think most in your circle do not take advantage of this?

Qualtrics released the results of a survey recently stating that 92% of Americans are in favor of a 4-day workweek (that's not necessarily 32-hours)[1]

[1]https://www.qualtrics.com/blog/four-day-work-week/
Not all posts are public, not everyone is on one instance.
When is that not true?
10 is the number that a person can reasonably accurately memorize based on photos.
My dad had to drive 65 miles (by public transportation only with multiple stops) to get into one of these stores. You weren't allowed to buy over certain amount of groceries unless you have permission slip ("kartochka"). Permission slip specifies the number of children you have. And even with "kartochka" it wasn't that too much food you could buy anyway.

Also, as a child growing up mostly in outskirts of Moscow region (oblast), I don't remember even visiting one of these stores. I was about 20 y.o. (now 40) when I first saw a supermarket similar to this one in the town 65 miles from Moscow where I grew up.

Also, it doesn't mean everything was that bad, or we haven't had enough food on the table. Most of the food was unprocessed and simple, and the most was from farmers. For example, there was no to little cheese, but there was meat, and milk, and veggies. I have to admit that a large number of meat (especially chicken) was a humanitarian assistance (notorious "nozhki Busha" - Bush's chicken legs).
Show HN: Web Digest – Collection of (daily) big stories on the web
I hate browsing news apps and news websites. It is a time-consuming, energy-draining, and information-overloading experience. There are endless articles to read if one is to read something. The journalism industry, including the UGC aspect of it, produces contents significantly more than what an ordinary human can process (or even decide which to process).

However, I do find the fear of missing out a real problem which should be addressed, or even solved, and solving it with an illusion of not missing out is good enough. One has to be very selective in reading, otherwise one would be drown in the flood of information. I find it necessary to limit the size of readable contents and repel the creators/editors/platforms who tempt me to read more and more endlessly. Being long is not a problem for me, but having an unknown length is.

Hence this project was brought forth onto this world. I have written scripts to automate the production of Web Digest artifacts in PDF/HTML/MD at 00:01 UTC every day. All artifacts are published with CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

Daily updates are available on the website, in the RSS feed (/rss.xml), and via Telegram channel (@webdigestchannel).

I have been testing with the artifacts since 2023-01-07, and it has turned out to be a success, at least for me. I feel relaxed about news more than ever before. Every day, I take a quick glance over the 30-ish pages of lists of news entries and choose a few to read following the links, and call it a well-informed day. Perhaps I spend more time in reading news than I did before, but I feel better. I wish this project may bring help to people who share my difficulties with news.

So far the sources of stories (HN, GitHub, AP, Zaobao, etc) are selected mainly for bilingual people in the Internet / software industry. I will be maintaining more variants (arrays of sources) in short future if I can draw the attention from people with other industrial backgrounds and people preferring monolingual contents.

Discussions are welcomed at the comments section of this HN post, the discussions board of this project on GitHub (https://github.com/neruthes/webdigest/discussions), and the affiliated group of the Telegram channel (@webdigesttalk). Feedbacks are appreciated, especially recommendations for sources.

P.S. There is also an experimental ActivityPub feed at <https://mypubnode.pages.dev/u/webdigest/Person.json>, but for now I have no test tool to figure out whether my implementation can be subscribed properly...
To ensure anonymity, you could always reprocess feedback through something like ChatGPT.

> rewrite the following and remove personally identifying information: "you're not good at your job, you have a bad attitude, especially with Katelyn."

> "Performance in the job is not up to standards and there are concerns about attitude, particularly in interactions with colleagues."
I think it is, the github issue that discusses this proposal frequently argues from the protobuf perspective.
This is, of course, by design. ACA made it a bit more realistic for part-time/self-employed people to get health insurance, however if you have to get your insurance through the ACA marketplace (healthcare.gov), you ARE paying more for it than if you were a FTE drone.
> There are certain things Apple does that are user hostile like pushing people to buy cloud storage by neglecting their local backup and local syncing user experiences, but planned obsolescence is definitely not one of them.

They've had their issues there too with irreplaceable batteries (remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idVmnvcQnLg), slowing people's older devices to encourage them to buy new ones (I'm aware that apple's got another more "helpful" sounding excuse for that, just as they're aware their actions would drive more upgrades regardless), and using pentalobe screws to make repairing older devices more difficult. They've earned their reputation.