skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if AirBnB is representative, but I clicked on 5 random airbnb properties from the homepage, and they all had white walls! And most had some exposed wood! Admittedly, one also had some slate walls. And another had red tiled flooring. And one was a log cabin. But if you ignore all of the differences, they are strictly identical in every respect.
Yes. But it creates the problem of naming everything. Which is clearly a problem in itself.
I only use windows for flight simulator, everything else is extremely frustrating for me, it feels like a battle against the OS. May not be the experience of many, but for me Linux stays out of my way or, rather, lets me define what the "way" is. Wouldn't switch for anything :)
While MMM predates these refs, its been studied a bit.

The Net Negative Producing Programmer - G. Gordon Schulmeyer, CDP ( https://web.archive.org/web/20160305234708/http://pyxisinc.c... )

> We've known since the early sixties, but have never come to grips with the implications that there are net negative producing programmers (NNPPs) on almost all projects, who insert enough spoilage to exceed the value of their production. So, it is important to make the bold statement: Taking a poor performer off the team can often be more productive than adding a good one. [6, p. 208] Although important, it is difficult to deal with the NNPP. Most development managers do not handle negative aspects of their programming staff well. This paper discusses how to recognize NNPPs, and remedial actions necessary for project success.

> Researchers have found between a low of 5 to 1 to a high of 100 to 1 ratios in programmer performance. This means that programmers at the same level, with similar backgrounds and comparable salaries, might take 1 to 100 weeks to complete the same tasks. [21, p. 8]

> The ratio of programmer performance that repeatedly appeared in the studies investigated by Bill Curtis in the July/August 1990 issue of American Programmer was 22 to 1. This was both for source lines of code produced and for debugging times - which includes both defect detection rate and defect removal efficiency. [5, pp. 4 - 6] The NNPP also produces a higher instance of defects in the work product. Figure 1 shows the consequences of the NNPPs.

[5] : Curtis, Bill, "Managing the Real Leverage in Software Productivity and Quality", American Programmer July/August 1990

[6] : DeMarco, Tom Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement & Estimation (New York: Yourdon Press, 1982)

[21] : Shneiderman, Ben Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (Cambridge, MA: Winthrop, 1980)
I'm sort of disappointed they didn't just release STL files! Although, I wonder if PLA could hold up to the temperatures of using this as a server with decent workloads (I assume it could but not sure).
Ask HN: Anyone Using “Environments as a Service”?
Been hearing a lot recently about "EaaS" and wondering if anyone is using this method while building? If so: Why? (/Who?)
The New Yorker is great when you have the time. It seems like the Economist has really trimmed the article length over the years though, probably in response to web analytics.
You have to learn to say no to reviewing tasks that you can't do.
If there are 10x people, that means the norm is 1x people, so there is still a lot of interest in making those productive.
Deleting and pinning snapd is the first thing I do on every fresh Ubuntu install. Next, install ff from mozillateam ppa and chromium from flatpak.
Now imagine if all that money went to a vendor that actually cared
I guess but as I stated, I used the SAME text as the parent, "sea weed".
The first link just says "yes the policy does apply to him" without making an actual argument? And the second just says it's a grey area?
A lot of people seem to be hung up on the title and totally missing how useful this tool is. People are right that the tasks that you're having this tool do aren't tasks that a 10x (or 1000x) developer would do. But what they're missing is that this is exactly why you can use this tool to multiply your productivity. If you don't have to spend your time writing silly scripts anymore or converting JSON to yaml or whatever other yak you're shaving, your time is free to spend on other stuff, making big decisions, solving truly hard problems. And that's how you become a 10x developer.

Thanks for this article, I found it very inspiring.
Not sure how you figure that. Containers are completely orthogonal to both of my requirements, which again are 1) a globally canonical package namespace, and 2) tooling to convert some standard recipe file format into distro-specific recipe files (which would require point 1 to work).
I gave Fedora a try some years ago (4-5?) and had a couple of issues with nvidia drivers. Whats the status these days? I also have a long history with debs, so going to rpm is a mystery for me :)
Film is much less creative. But look at television and you see a different story. We have far more creativity and variety than ever before.
Have you tried https://www.blinkist.com/en
I think that rephrasing

> I don't even see gold as having intrinsic value; it only has value because we agreed to consider it valuable.

to something like

> Gold's value in financial backing outstrips its intrinsic value

would improve the message.
Architecture all looks the same because try to address the same requirements with the same technical limits. This is true now as 5000 years ago https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3117455a884d3088101e1...
Looking at your answer, I surmised it was a legal obligation and yes, it's indeed part of the European GDPR. I learnt something new today.
Nice landing page!

> The interactive way to master modern React

I was a bit disappointed, reading this I thought the game UI was interactive, but it's not (e.g. I could move the pawn using my mouse or keyboard).
I mean, you do need to know the "how" too. It isn't unimportant, it's just a more common skill. You need to be a 1x engineer before you can be a 10x engineer (if you believe in them).
It's not a totally outrageous theory. He has major interests (a Tesla factory) in the PRC and so would presumably be susceptible to influence by the state ("Sure would be a shame if Tesla China went the same way as ARM China.")

Of course, my personal zero-hard-evidence theory is that he is a US intelligence asset.
> the growing homogeneity of spaces that starts at AirBnB and cafes and spreads

Like I said, there's options when you look outside AirBnB. There is diversity in design if you look outside the haunts of the bourgeois classes.

And look, some people want to struggle reading metro maps. I am not one of them. I, for one, am glad that Harry Beck designed the tube map that would become so influential all over the world. Praise be to Harry Beck! https://youtu.be/cTLCfl01zuE?t=201
> Flatpak requires you to run programs with "flatpak run" - yuck

To begin with Flatpak makes .desktop files so no one should be needing to use that command manually.

Secondly, Flatpak has an option folder you can add to your path that lets you run applications by running their FQDN. e.g. org.gnome.Gimp myFile.png rather than gimp myFile.png
Amazon opens its low-bandwidth, long-range Sidewalk network to developers
I agree. Also, I dislike it, and the double emphasis provided by "quite" makes it even worse—how can something be especially non-metaphorical, or especially understood in the (already) "strongest admissible sense"?[0] Maybe my criticism should have been better targeted, but it's silly usage and I'm feeling like a SNOOT.[1]

[0] OED Online

[1] David Foster Wallace, Tense Present, available at https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-...
Economic convergence is actually one of the themes in the article. It's possible that much of aesthetic uniqueness stemmed/stems from being in an economically inefficient situation, where you don't know or don't have access to the solution that's "globally optimal" in some sense.

Many things can be crushed by efficiency. If every work and business has to solve some inefficiency (which seems to be true even in a communist-type system), in an optimal world you starve to death.

Still, there are many ways to use reclaimed and used stuff that won't look Instagrammy.
Where are the explanations?
ah the links take you to the summary, not the actual link
CapRover: Easy to use app/database deployment and web server manager
I'm not comparing sandboxing against SELinux/AppArmor. It's a social problem, not a technical one.

I'm comparing "app developers holding themselves accountable" to "package maintainers dish out consequences for misbehavior".

I have absolutely zero trust in the former, and lots of trust in the latter.
It reminds me of the brief fad when some folks really thought VRML or 3D Java or Flash interfaces to websites was going to be The Future not just for games or art project, but general web navigation. Turned out to suck for nearly everything, total dead-end.
"No updates unless you use Windows" and broken hardware don't sound like "commitment to Linux"
It seemed ridiculous on the face of it, but with time people started to find kernels of insight in the idea.

The idea itself has a certain sultry allure. That probably helped keep it wedged in the back of the mind long enough to find those kernels, rather than being immediately forgotten.
I'll bite. Of course hwdesigner/serviceman use this, but what are the uses for millions of household
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Just HN things: the meat industry that serves 75% of the world population and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future is "doomed".
One way I've been managing this is by reading summaries of certain books. While it can be difficult to decide which books deserve a full read, this approach has significantly reduced the stress I feel about my ever-growing "to-read" pile. By focusing on the most important ideas and insights, I can still learn and grow without feeling the pressure to read every single book on my list.
Someone here showed me this extension yesterday:

https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect

I don't know think it will work on mobile chrome, but for others like me that can't take imgurs bloat anymore, its great.
There are many factors. First is trust, I trust an organism even if pumped full of hormones more than a lab cell culture. Then there is the issue of dependency, raising livestock nad hunting is low tech with no supply chains breaking down. Quality is also a factor, i will believe it when I see it that lab grown meat is nothing more than glorified ground meat. There is a lot to the unique properties of meat (fibers, fat, etc) which will likely take a long while to master, this vs thousands of years of tradition meat preparation and husbandry.

I am not for any top down laws banning things, but the idea that lab grown is anywhere an equal swap for real meat is silly. Italy has a genuine concern, they value food, and that comes down to the quality of ingredients.
You could just as well ask why do keyboards all look the same? There is always convergence in user interfaces because consumers don’t want to relearn every time they buy a new device.
You don't want to be a sharecropper; using a format you can't meaningfully influence for something as key as application installation, is an obvious non-starter for any serious distribution.
> is there a way for shell script to maintain context session somehow?

Feed the output of the previous prompt back into itself.

If you look at https://platform.openai.com/playground/p/default-chat?model=... you will see that the prompt for the next line is all of the previous generation conversation.

This can consume tokens at an accelerating rate.
You don't need any fancy packaging to restrict ptrace: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/security/Yama.txt
This comment seems at odds with one you posted yesterday, which said that individual responsibility for climate change doesn't extend beyond the voting booth. But unless I'm misunderstanding this latest comment, it suggests that we individuals are wrong to want private transportation, that we should be happy with taking whatever public transportation is available and walking the rest of the way. Even when public transportation is expanded as you say it should be, that still won't be the same as taking a car all the way from one building to another. Assuming that the point is to put an end to the negative impact of private transportation on the climate, this suggests that we are in fact responsible for changing our lifestyle to address climate change. Am I misunderstanding?
If I had to guess that’s probably a result of the incentives at play here: extending life and lowering suffering.

Like everyone else has said, it’s normally easier to find out « if » something works before the « why » and only one of those questions needs a « yes » to stop someone suffering.
Uh no, ChatGPT is good as being a better (contextual) search engine, a rubber duck that explain code to you (which stil bad but keep improving), and a mid-level code generator junkies that can generate crud operation, unit tests or transpile code between language.

All of it will reduce mental load for senior devs and enable them to tackle more problems or more difficult problems.
"Work"? Or "Work"?

I "work" 9 hours M-R, and 4 on F

I "work" about 1-2h per day
I’ve copied my comment from above:

Tailwind is just a CSS design token and utility class library at its core. It’s the Bootstrap of the 2020’s.

Regarding design tokens, they are taking notes from 1996, and they realized that it is much more computational efficient to describe your component visually with inline styles compared to loading separate style sheets.

Tailwind and CSS design tokens in general make it easier to make smart, efficient choices from curated palettes. Design tokens also create a common language for everyone who uses Tailwind - both across teams and across projects, which can break down communication barriers in large scale projects.
> Being efficient at writing code can barely make someone a 5x engineer.

In a winner-take-all economy, usually the winner is the person with the ability to do something the slowest.

Not always, but usually.
Obfuscating how that process works is a huge problem. It's how they extract lots of value out of the consumer, and why Americans pay more than most socialized medical systems while having on-par or worse outcomes.

Take a look at the list of Fortune 500 companies and notice how many are healthcare related. There is a reason it's never going to get better.
silverblue ;-)
How to get more women on bikes?
TLDR: Better biking infrastructure, designed by women
Total vehicle miles on USA roads for 2019 was 3.26 trillion, or 5,246,461,440,000 km. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/185579/us-vehicle-miles-...) (https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10315)

That's 371 times more than your estimate.

Firstly, there is significantly less green energy available at night, when everything is supposed to be charging. The DoE wants 45% of all energy to be generated from solar. Add to that cloudy days, time of year, etc, and solar will need to be supplanted by lots of other energy sources. We need more capacity even if we don't use it all at once. (And don't count on those other sources being steady: winds vary, geothermal isn't very efficient, hydropower varies with climate) There is talk of rolling out more pumped hydro, but it isn't feasible everywhere, and it's not apparent if enough can be provided to cover extended lulls in green energy.

Second, passenger cars are just one part of the market, another huge part is trucking and fleets (as the road-miles estimate shows). There are several metric shit-tons of money to be made converting trucks to EV. All those trucks are gonna need a lot of power, distributed all over the country.

Third, as more coal/gas/non-renewable energy markets spin down, we need new green energy markets to cover lost capacity. That's not just "energy going over the wires", it's land, new construction, new interconnects, depots, etc.

Fourth, the capacity has to be increased sort of everywhere, to effectively replace gas stations in addition to providing more capacity in dense housing arrangements (40% of Americans live in apartments). This means more power runs to more places - not just gas stations/depots, but also throughout urban and residential areas. Gas and diesel today can be transported, but all that transportation needs to be supplanted with both storage and transmission of energy; imagine every gas station and apartment building having additional power run to it and more chargers.

At peak, to replace ICE with EV for all markets, we will need closer to 10GWh, just for the transportation segment being replaced. I don't think anyone has really explained to the public how big this thing is going to be.
> These formats might be OK for desktops, but are absolutely awful for servers, containers, etc., which, incidentally, are where Linux dominates.

Containers have already won the war on the Linux server, there's no point Flatpak etc trying to compete here. Additionally, desktop software is a complete design paradigm to server software. I wouldn't even say they make sense to be in the same package manager.

Although they do share tech, ostree, namespacing etc.
State of AI in the Enterprise: 2023 Report
https://www.ft.com/content/6ac009d5-dbfd-4a86-839e-28bb44b2b...

Given that this is also current news, I think that might cast this in a slightly different light. Much of the heritage is modern myth-making, rather than centuries-old recipes known only to a handful of families. The feeling of heritage is real, but the history invented.

It seems to be national identity and the politics of nationalism in a food-based disguise, rather than sincere concerns for the authenticity of authentic and historic cuisine.
These organizations just demonstrate utter disdain for their users. It's not just Canonical. It's almost every company that's been around for more than a couple of decades. Microsoft, Google and Mozilla are also like this. They just don't care what their users want and they treat them like children who need to be spanked when they don't like it. I personally end all relationships I have with any organization that does this.
No. Have you? Would you recommend it?

I can’t help but think their time is running out. AIs are going to be able to produce the book summary and maybe even generate the audio version of that too.
Yes, yes! Even more "AI". That's the solution! The old age garbage in, garbage out will finally be defeated!
Getting a 504 gateway timeout.
Not claiming this is relevant to this particular case but Musk can have pressure applied by the CCP in the form of threats to his businesses like Tesla and Starlink.
Seems like a lot of the issues reside in the heavy use of pesticides and I totally agree here, it's bad and scary. I don't like it and is one of the reasons why I'm beginning to grow as much food as possible myself.

This is a problem with agriculture and not rice specifically. I would say it's bad and fake news to say that a crop is bad due to bad practices used when growing it. We could ban it for example and produce less food but don't die of scary diseases that pesticides most likely creates. We could do a lot of things that would make food production a bit harder but healthier for us and the environment.

Altough it's easier to say that "rice sucks" or "red meat sucks" we shouldn't because it's untrue and I think it is misinformation and that is a big part of the reason I dislike modern journalism. It is lazy and focuses on the symptoms instead of the root cause. Modern media has convinced most people that eating soy beans badly produced and processed in china is better than eating cow meat from a local small farm that does everything right.

People always argue like there is no changing how we produce the foods and it annoys the hell out of me.
???

There is so much agriculture in western europe, look at net food exports by country. Germany, france, netherlands, uk...
I had to wonder how pigeons are trained. Turns out there's a nice wikiHow article about it[1]. Some highlights (copied verbatim):

"""
Good food, comfortable lodgings and being treated like royalty is what makes your pigeons want to come back.

Start by taking your pigeons 1 mile from home and releasing them. Do this several times a week.

Expand the training distance by 5 miles per week.

Pigeon clubs all have lost bird reporting processes that you can take advantage of if you lose a bird ... Some pigeons might simply get tired on their return journey and need time to rest. While they may normally come back to the loft in one day, it may take them a few days to return if they've stopped for a break.

Create a second “home” for your pigeons.
"""

[1] https://www.wikihow.com/Train-a-Homing-Pigeon#:~:text=To%20f....
> Why not stuff our stomachs with even more lab stuff?

more? everything is genetically modified in order to support the current (and future) population levels: https://www.fda.gov/food/agricultural-biotechnology/gmo-crop...

and crops themselves have been selectively grown for the past 30 000 years:
https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/crops_evol...

> I say, good for Italy and France's children that those peoples have any conscience at all

it's run of the mill populism, not conscience. there is no conscience in denying science.
I use React for "big" projects, that have to be more robust and customizable.

I use Vue whenever I have to prototype something, their <script setup> syntax is awesome.
This is an excellent summary of the problem. The sad thing is that most users consider this perfectly normal and acceptable, and even users who have used computers for 30+ years seem to think these sluggish, crap "apps" are perfectly acceptable. It's bonkers.
You're not familiar with the issues around this topic.
it's not a technicality at all, it's large-scale theft of massive amounts of data that, depending on how it ends up, may rob its creators of any reward or even credit for creating it.
I mean this is just what abouting and hunting for edge cases where you can feel good for being camp gas-car. And I guess that is fine.

I am just saying that having lived with a reasonable family-EV for a year, there has been nothing that would make me regret the decision.

Someone trying to convince me that I should have regrets is just gaslighting.
That said, all the pets I've had throw up way more than I do. I think we're ignoring the very real possibility that ancient people were constantly living with some level of gastrointestinal problems.
Isn’t this just…Darwinism?

We could say the same thing about biological convergence in animals.

The average vertebrate animal…

Two eyes, two ears, one mouth, one brain, two sexes, five digits, moving around on appendages.

It converges because it works.
So, looking at a GNOME project I know a little about, Rhythmbox...

* Source code is: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/-/tree/master

* Ways to work on it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/-/blob/master/HACKI...

* How to build it locally: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/-/blob/master/INSTA...

What GNOME projects are you looking at?
DNA pulled from half-eaten burrito used to charge man with firebombing
Yeah you can definitely lacto ferment meat, it's a major flavor component of the european dry sausages. Doing it safely isn't hard, but a lot of the nuances of that technique are towards making it actually taste good. It's very easy to lose control of water activity and get out of control rancid elements, or get air ingress and grow aerobic bacterias that clearly taste like rot, or too much oxidation of the fat, or the wrong mold.

Definitely pretty advanced level fermentation stuff, more to control and more serious consequences than making kimchi or something. Naem and other SE asian sour sausages are probably the most approachable entry point if you want to give it a swing though.
It's a Show HN, there should be a way to demo/test the product.

That being said, maybe the landing page is good enough of a demo of what they are offering.
Amazon sellers are using ChatGPT to help write product listings