skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that everyone is looking at this as "by the numbers" and there is truth to be had there, I offer a different take though.

Apple's culture is not all that amendable to high growth of headcount[0]. Its not in their DNA. Steve Jobs in his return back to Apple setup a cultural legacy around hiring smart, hiring smart, and being intentional. That its better to invest in hiring the best you can and people who fit. When I was there, it was another huge boom time for most of the industry, and Apple still wasn't hiring fast like Meta (then Facebook) or Google was. Some departments in Apple do scale quickly, but typically there is a targeted plan behind that scaling.

In essence, they don't like to take shots on scaling the people aspect of the business, because they value culture fit extremely high and intentionally put it ahead of many other metrics internally.

That was and I believe still is the case

[0]: one can argue no company can take rapid headcount rises, but setting that aside, clearly a lot of companies thought it could work
> I'm still using an old iPhone 10. Apple has obsoleted it too. I can't install any apps from the "App Store" but it still does what I want most.

I still use an iPhone 10 also. But I have no problem installing new apps, so I'm confused by this. Have you updated the iOs and made sure the time is syncing properly? Those are two common problems that block App Store access.
Interestingly that Yahtzee version was rigged in the player's favor since they're more likely to get X-of-a-kind if the same numbers appear more often. Average scores probably dropped a decent bit after that fix.
My impression was that it was about $1500 per person to cross the Atlantic about ten years ago (including food and lodging). But I don't remember very clearly...

Wikivoyage says

> There are some agents arranging trips, who charge around US$75–100 (€100–120) a day.

I assume this means that the customer has to pay that much (rather than that this is describing a commission or surcharge). On the other hand, I looked at the edit history briefly and this particular information seems to come from about 15 years ago.
On Academic Freedom
This seems to be an Appeal to Ethos. I don't think that would be justified. Additionally, making unsupported claims is just that. Anyone could anonymously claim anything, but we don't give the same credence to every claim. There's many different ways to support a claim, telling who exactly told you isn't the only path towards supporting a claim.
Unfortunately nuclear doesn't appear to be a viable supplement.

Suppose a grid with just nuclear and solar. Nuclear may be overall very stable, but solar is still not, and so you still need storage. The only difference is how much of it you need.

But nuclear has a terrible problem: it's not really economical. Solar is much, much cheaper and therefore any economically minded person would build solar if they had a choice, and would just not enter the business space at all if they couldn't.

The business model of nuclear is just broken in modern times. The idea was that nuclear is cheap but unwieldy, and can be supplemented with small amounts of more flexible but more expensive sources for when it can't adjust fast enough. But that just hasn't panned out.
I miss the days when computing was focused on trying to protect the user from developers. These days it's more and more protecting the developer from the users.
Baserow uses Django as a superweapon. They use django db libs to generate the underlying database tables via a web UI. They take full advantage of dynamically generated models to query them too.

And of course I have my own idea for a web spreadsheet. The tables can be generated via UI and we can add small scripts to validate, filter, scheduled tasks etc. When stuff gets too complex for a low-code platform, we can drop down a layer of abstraction or migrate to traditional Django. It can reuse other Django apps like those CMS apps. Making a prototype of this.

https://baserow.io/blog/how-baserow-lets-users-generate-djan...
I like how he says there is no radiation leaking out of those dry casks.

That sounds like obvious nonsense to me. There’s radiation, it’s just not significant.

It’s like saying an x-ray has no radiation when you compare it to a CT scan.
Musk met with several Twitter engineers on Tuesday to discuss his view count on Twitter, which had been on a downward spiral in recent months, Platformer reported. The billionaire had previously assigned workers to look into whether his reach on the platform had been restricted due to a potential issue with Twitter's algorithm, according to the report.

Speaking only for myself, I blocked him on Twitter because I don't care to see his tweets. Most of them just make me angry and contribute no value to my life, so why would I want to read them?

I dunno, I'm no expert on being wildly popular, but I suspect that being very popular might include at least an element of "don't act like a raging douchebag". shrug
The game is anti-Semitic because it uses the word "cabal" (of Hebrew origin) to designate a cabal?
A New Therapy for Alcohol Abuse?
I think it'd be extremely reasonable to incentivize preferable forms of personal transportation by simply levying additional gasoline taxes or introducing an annual ICE ownership tax. Those would both have the potential to provide a similar level of comparative incentive to move away from ICEs without excluding lower earners.
That's because AC started development before even Ultima Online launched. It was started by a bunch of college students that loved MUDs and had no idea what they were actually doing.

It was such a special thing before it was hit with a lot of road grading over the 15+ years of monthly patching that smoothed a lot of the rough edges that made it really unique.
the fearmongering and all around nuclear is deeply ingrained in the public consciousness. It will be hard to kill it. Sadly. There are all sorts of designs that are awesome but havent been put to wide use because its insanely expensive to even get permits for a nuclear plant (if it is even possible) not to mention the insane costs to actual build one. Economies of scale never took hold due to a couple of incidents (of OLD designs and OLD installations for the most part) being flung everywhere. And then you'd have prominent scientists, even, getting vocal about being against nuclear. For whatever fucking reason.

Irks the hell out of me.
CFPs.dev
I used crypto so a centralized wall street entity even less trustworthy than the bank has my money instead.
If you were following the pattern in the title, you'd say "Most operating system developers aren't working on Windows, Linux, or macOS". That might very well be true.
You stopped playing because they listened to you and fixed the bug for everyone?
Yeah because thinking its ridiculous people who don't know how to open email decide the future of software cases is railing against specialization :/
The liability is that it’s tax fraud. https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/770-contract-vs-employees-...
Apple making their own CPUs would also not have taken down the company. They took small incremental steps; at any point, a failure of their own CPU program would at worst have meant using a commercially available SOC (with probably great terms), or alternatively skipping the SOC refresh for a year.

In fact, by your criteria, I doubt that Apple has made a single risky bet this millennium. Even the iPhone failing would not have taken down the company at that stage.
Most of the noise I hear from my apartment in a medium-density neighborhood, like 95% of it, is just car traffic. Big noisy trucks and people on Harleys, people honking at each other as they try to leave a parking lot, all that. Building spread out unwalkable areas creates way more noise than the opposite. What is true, however, is that this design was mostly created for the benefit of suburbanites who live in isolated communities with no readily accessible amenities besides a road into the city. Their peace and quiet comes at the expense of mine, and especially at the expense of lower income communities which often exist in the noisiest, most car-heavy parts of the city.
He's located in NB, so I assumed it was Celsius. To check I just compared them to the Environment Canada data it seems to match pretty close for NB in Celsius.
Anyone tried using the Go driver? It has a few open bugs:

https://github.com/marcboeker/go-duckdb/issues

And a third-party effort, only:

https://duckdb.org/docs/api/overview
Honestly, given the trajectory of nuclear costs compare to battery costs - it's going to make far more sense to build power lines to places that don't have renewable potential.
this is fascinating and unexpected. Do you have more literature on this ?
> > by international definition, not refugees.

> Which international law do you think does that?

I used the term 'international definition' intentionally. I'm speaking about the common definition of the word not including people in the situation of crossing multiple large friendly countries to go to another as refugees at that point. The immediate threat to life and limb is over and now others are in more dire need.

And yet, it's not as simple as entry to the first country either, because we can both acknowledge that if someone escaping from Syria crosses the border into Iraq or Lebanon that they should keep on walking until they find an actually safe place.

But the point is that you're talking to people, using emotional terms, but trying to use legalistic reasoning to make them do something they feel is not only needed but benefits the wrong people. They're using their eyes and judging the conditions of the refugee claimants and finding them wanting.

> > emotional appeals won't make go away.

> caused by their demonisation in the public eye and as such will be fixed by emotional appeal.

I have a feeling that this has already been tried and that there's probably some misalignment preventing that from working - maybe making it backfire. Maybe that you may feel that this isn't a valid political opinion on the values of the refugee system but a comment on the race of the claimants or something...?

Thankfully in my country many of the questionable refugee claimants are the same racial group as many current legal immigrants and this is defusing that would otherwise be a nasty race-baiting angle to the debate.

Otherwise, I would ask what more demonization you think is needed other than for them to be shown to be jumping a queue meant to save lives?

> their status legal status means they are by default actively prevented from working and covering their own costs

If they really are fleeing for their life we can cover the costs and would be glad to.
Google should drop Reddit indexing, since it full is disinformation and agenda
Good news if you haven't heard it, due to tech from the fracking industry the nuclear waste problem is solved: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_borehole_disposal
Not answering your question really but I will say the "[...]defensive, it's very easy to look down at therapists with a bit of disdain and contept, rendering them ineffective." part is not on the therapist necessarily. Therapy is not some magic thing that is going to "fix" problems. Coming at therapy with a defensive and disdainful approach is only going to take away from your therapy and will require work for you to get over that in therapy. In fact it might be a great starting point to go into to re-frame your thinking to assist in the rest of therapy.
That's a hit piece. Notice how the game is "mid", so clearly a rating of 1/10.

Also not single word about the game in the article itself, the whole article is just about the controversy. The only thing about the game is in the "wired/tired" box, and it's a few words, and in direct contradiction to every other review I've seen.

(I don't have the game and won't buy it)
They didn’t say “thank you”, which for many humans is demoralizing.
What I love about Rust is what I love about Python… “explicit is better than implicit”

When I open something up to read it, to try and understand it, to dig in and fix something broken… having everything be exposed in the explicitly written code… is vastly more useful to me than trying to mentally interpret a language as I read it and remember the rules, the meta-programming rules… and all the implicit stuff that can affect how the program will behave.

Lot of programming languages aren’t good at this explicitness, and I’ll be honest, it’s a genuine struggle for me picking up the languages like this, only made worse when the documentation is very prose like and fails to convey how anything actually works, eschewing that in favour of, at length, demonstrating the feel of a programming language through countless demonstration example that lack mechanical “what is this doing under the hood” explanation.
Cool. Let me know when the undo feature lands, that'll be worth the $1300
I agree about strict determinism being false. It was more of a tangent off my point.

There is a subjective experience of being. We think we have a mind, that acts on the world. Both dualists and monists, of all kinds, experience reality with this feeling, I think. The questions I have are: is this an illusion? Is there a mapping between the subjective being that experiences, the mind on the inside, and the apparent order of events in reality? Would our experienced slice of time and space be different, if we had chosen differently? Could we have?

That's how I understand the problem of free will. It seems to be something no one has really figured out. There's all sorts of conjectures. Christians say something like that, through some divine process the soul which is related to our mind, is linked to our body and we are given the choice to act. Monadic materialists say the mind is part of reality through some physical or metaphysical process, and thus we, as in our minds, do at least effect changes on the world. About as convincing as the Christians, in my mind. We can say the mind itself is sort of an illusion, but that's even more irritating, isn't it? Because it doesn't feel like one, at least to me.

Maybe I misunderstand the problem and the questions are not properly formed.
Most blockchains aren't highly used. I agree it's good we're moving off of that, but until Bitcoin fixes its act, it's still a shockingly awful waste of resources.
FUD. I used ChatGPT yesterday for some bash scripting. I find ChatGPT useful in situations where "I know what I don't know" e.g., I can never quite remember the array syntax in bash, I forget what flags I want for grep or curl to do the task at hand. Sure, I can read the man page (and I am a big fan of reading the man page), but the AI assistant gets me to my destination much faster after I interactively iterate to arrive at what I want. Yes, I have learned the hard way that you should not trust ChatGPT too much and you should view its output with a lot of skepticism. But overall it is a huge advancement in developer productivity, and can serve as a learning tool as well.
Scientists boost quantum signals while reducing noise
The study linked in another comment finds that it doesn't reduce hospitalization or mortality: https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o3055

And while I understand the "see what sticks" mentality, drastically increasing the mutation rate of the virus responsible for a global pandemic... seems to me like it's on the order of "maybe we start dropping nukes, that'll slow the spread".
# We always worked in a way where the master branch is running a regular release train into our internal / beta / preview release (depending on company and audience size).

Care to elaborate how you decide if it is an internal / beta / preview release? Some kind of tagging strategy or are all generated at the same time?
It did not fail. Medium blogs still generate a lot of traffic. I think rather it got superseded by Substack. Substack has a few benefits over medium, such as being less inclined to censor and writers having more control over payouts and subscribers.
The subsidy doesn't have to cover the full cost, it only has to make the conversion economically feasible. A 2014 Chevy Equinox with an EV conversion might make sense at 16k but not at 18k for example.
While these are reasons to be suspicious, they do not counter a single point she made in her article. Her logic and her facts were solid.

If they're not, I'd love to see a take down of that. But I see no problem with anything she wrote, I remain convinced nuclear is the only rational energy source left, and all this fear mongering about nuclear is causing us to slowly kill ourselves.
Depends on where you are. California LLCs are at least $800/yr and AFAIK don't give you much of a veil.
This kind of law exists because companies coerce people into becoming "freelancers", so the company doesn't have to pay benefits and can fire them at will, but then ask the "freelancer" to come to the office everyday, clock in and out in time, wear a badge, work 40h week, etc.

So lawmakers crack down on that, but law is a blunt instrument, and other valid situations can get more complicated.

But believe me, those laws are created 100% because companies abuse the concept of contractor.
At what price difference does this become a non-issue? I.e. if wind and solar are 10x cheaper than nuclear, can we have a stable grid by overprovisioning like crazy and building distributed networks, coupled with limited storage in the form of pumped hydro and batteries?
>Is nuclear demonization just political attempts to destabilize the west and prevent us from prosperity that comes from cheap clean energy?

The anti-nuclear movement in Western Europe was funded and trained by the Soviet Union.

However I doubt that is the reason the US failed to embrace nuclear energy. The problem in the US is that the fossil fuel industry is employing more people and paying more to lobbyists than the nuclear energy industry.
This is the correct answer. Wi was a prolific blogger and fun personality.
These aren't even real analyst. They are propagandist.
Something like this could be good for malware authors as a new obfuscation tool. Would be awesome if it still delivered working code and could recurse so the level of nasty was tunable.
They talk only about Tcl.

A more lasting contribution:

Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (1995) [pdf] (gatech.edu)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17297325
Just as a data point... I work with an independent contractor in Europe (one-person business) who is directly hired by the U.S. software company (large, but much smaller than FAANG) that I work for. The contractor is paid directly via wire transfers from the company's accounting department.

I also have a friend in the U.S. who has been running a one-person consulting business for decades.

Both of these people operate as their own businesses and negotiate their own contracts. So freelancing does still exist out there.
When the search performance is worse - may be no sense. Regarding Manticore, we conducted relevance tests and found it to be on par with Elasticsearch. In fact, the objective tests [1] showed that Manticore can even provide better relevance results than Elasticsearch, when using almost default settings. You can view the relevant pull request in the BEIR information retrieval benchmark [2].

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_ZyYkPJ_K0st9FJBrjbZ...

[2] https://github.com/beir-cellar/beir/pull/92
So this is what they were talking about when they said "shitty team culture"
For the short time that I knew about it and it was not fixed yet, I integrated it into my strategy. 1 and 6 are rare, so if for example I still needed them for something, I was inclined to make good use of 1 and 6 when they came up, instead of rerolling them for something else.
Answered here:

https://www.quora.com/Does-water-become-radioactive-after-be...
While it's good the author has gained a better understanding of nuclear waste, I feel that they're almost repeating their mistakes in their discussion of renewable waste. I'm fairly sure that everything they listed - solar panels, turbines, batteries - can be recycled; the question generally is whether its cost-effective to do so. (Another important question is probably on whether we want to spend the money on developing recycling methods for these types of things in the first place).

I'm increasingly of the opinion that if we want effective recycling solutions for stuff like this, one of the biggest steps we could take is strong right-to-repair laws. There should be a push for designing things in such a way that they are easy to disassemble, part out, and replace pieces of. Not only does this make things easier to fix and extend their lifespan, but it also would make them easier to disassemble for recycling/waste purposes.

Requiring manufacturers to release documentation (design, components, most common failure modes, common repairs) on their products at some point after they no longer manufacture them is probably a harder sell but would be pretty nice - trawling old forums to figure out how to repair my 12-year-old subwoofer is a pain and unreliable, and having manufacturers responsible for hosting that information would make it more consistently available.
I wish I had never opened this thread... I hate Prolog with a burning passion now, I just thought it was weird earlier. It makes brainfuck look like a walk in the park.

?- write(10-2).
10-2
true.

Why do I care? I figured out how to count to 5

?- foreach(between(0,5,N),writeln(N)).
0
1
2
3
4
5
true.

Then since there's no way to count down, I figured I'd just do a bit of math

?- foreach(between(0,5,N),writeln(5-N)).
5-0
5-1
5-2
5-3
5-4
5-5
true.

I can not find a single way to force the evaluation before printing, it's nuts!
Great work!

I live in West Seattle and tbh the maps for West Seattle look pretty solid, especially when you factor in the significant reduction in housing costs. I remain more people don't live here!
Panelbear is shutting down
What do you mean by MPC?

Sure different people have different threat models. Perhaps some classes of users don’t have good solutions, but we are building apps for the mainstream.
https://emulator.ac/ =)
Have you ever watched an elderly person open an internet browser? This isn't rocket science homie
Do you have any good source of reading on this? Most of my layman googling seems to suggest otherwise.
After the recent Project Veritas videos on Directed Evolution, it seems like that’s the actual goal
Consider that your emotional desire to feel smug and contrarian are being quite effectively manipulated by the wealthy industries funding the people whose ideas you’re repeating.

Environmentalism has a long history of scientists sounding alarms which turned out to be accurate, and your uninformed assertion otherwise is doing your credibility no service here.
If they are talking about the intersection I think, a roundabout would not work because some inputs are major road offramps, others are side streets, and the intersection is basically super narrow as all of them merge together. There just would not be enough space!
Here https://www.fcc.gov/engineering-technology/laboratory-divisi...
A huge amount of the cost increases are there to make it actually safe.

Windscale could have been cheaper, but some jerk called Cockfort insisted on additional filters just in case -- oh wait, that "Cockfort's folly" turned what could have been a horrifying accident into a merely bad one.

Chernobyl was cheap, but it didn't have a containment building. Modern nuclear is safer, but that cost more money. Nuclear needs emergency cooling to be safe, which costs more money. It needs redundancy, which costs more. And so on.

So what is it exactly what you think needs cutting?
All of life is a scam. The net amount of entropy in the universe continually increases. Existence itself is a negative sum game. In a cosmic blink of an eye, the sun will swallow the earth and humanity will go extinct. Any meaning people find in life is just a lot of smoke and mirrors over this very basic and fundamental fact.