skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this. I have been trying to learn and use swift in a personal project. I have no experience with app development or Swift. Googling everything would have taken way more time in comparison with chatGPT. Most helpful thing was I can paste some code and ask for explanation. Googling is harder when I don’t know what the name of something is.
Do you ever feel a burning desire to just solve the hell out of a particular problem? Usually this happens in the context of performance optimization, but it can be anything. Maybe you're supposed to be working on something else, but all you can think about is your pet problem. You throw a bunch of stuff at it, and mostly it doesn't work, but the failures don't discourage you at all; making any sort of progress is addicting. You look at other people's code. You read blog posts and research papers. You fill up notepads. None of this feels remotely like work. It's fun, and you simply cannot stop until you finally grind the problem into the dust.

My guess is that the author of this code was possessed by a spirit like this. Maybe I'm wrong; maybe he was just assigned by his manager to write a cosine function that met a certain performance threshold, and he immediately had a general idea of how to do it, and banged it out in an afternoon. But I doubt it.

My point is that, if you have felt this way about programming, you are doing "real" programming. It's not about whether you're writing a web framework or a cosine function. It's about the thrill of the chase.
Ok, we've changed the URL from https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1641089770796249088 to https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/lyft-in-trouble/. Thanks!
It's possible that the Chinese word for rabies is translated from the West. This appears to be the case for other illnesses such as 糖尿病 sweet-urine-disease (diabetes mellitus).†

I don't really know how to find the answer to that question, though.

† I guess if it were a really literal translation of the Western term, it'd be 蜜尿病.
Just the statute of limitation should have made any judge laugh.

It's the justice system of New York state that's on trial, not Trump.
Anecdote #2: As a kid/preteen I never cared much about the iPhone or iPod Touch because I couldn't play Age of War and other games on either AddictingGames or Kongregate. Fruit Ninja etc. was cool but didn't feel complete enough of a game for me. I still had dial-up for a few years after the first iPhone released, so I would often save the webpage for a flash game, and then I could play it whenever (but not wherever).
Pandas DataFrames are an image format
The problem is perception. It has the word "nuclear" which, along with the mechanism, associates it with nuclear bombs. Not to mention, we react to large incidents with lots of fatality much more strongly than the same fatality spread out over time.
The most interesting aspect to this indictment is that, until now, there’s been a clear reluctance to go all the way on nailing Trump for the sort of extremely common crimes that many of our wonderful politicians/wealthy engage in on a regular basis.

It’s why they didn’t stick him on emoluments, nepotism, tax dodging - even “improperly storing classified documents” somehow turned out to be a brush too broad.

So now Alvin Bragg is (supposedly) indicting him for campaign finance violations. Okay. He’s probably guilty. But both Obama and Hillary paid fines for the exact same crime. So did John Edwards, for a VERY similar situation to the Stormy Daniels thing iirc.

This isn’t whataboutism - my point is that, if this indictment goes forward with the rumored rationale, every single politician will now have to watch their ass on campaign funds for the foreseeable future lest the opposing party find out.

That’s a good thing for America and a very obnoxious thing for the entire political class. I suspect Alvin Bragg is getting many angry phone calls tonight from folks who would otherwise like to fire Trump into the sun.
>Sure, a whole house system doesn't typically make sense, but I don't think that's what people are really talking about. I think people are interested in hybrid systems; e.g. DC power supply for each room.

I completely disagree. Where exactly are you going to put a power supply in a room? Make a special electrical box for it? Won't it be unsightly in many rooms, or need some huge special panel that looks like a breaker panel? The comments I see seem to be advocating a whole-house solution, where a power supply is mounted in the breaker panel to supply LVDC to the whole unit. But this makes no sense for several reasons, especially the voltage drop.

>I don't know if you meant it, but the sentence about "any sophomore level electrical engineering student can solve this" can easily come across as dismissive. I also think it gives too much credit to sophomore students. :)

It's supposed to be dismissive, because this whole discussion is a bunch of software people trying to make up solutions for a perceived problem when they obviously don't know one of the most basic things about electrical theory, which makes all of their solutions unworkable. It's like a bunch of people trying to make a new kind of personal vehicle to replace cars when they don't even understand Newton's Laws. It's really annoying, because I see this kind of discussion pop up every so often, over many many years.

I have another comment here I don't feel like copy-and-pasting, but basically this whole discussion is silly because people are trying to make a solution using a very expensive power supply to fix a problem they see because they're buying cheap $2 light bulbs that burn out quickly, instead of just buying light fixtures that were properly engineered in the first place. With modern SMPSs, you're not going to get any kind of benefit by centralizing the power supply to drive individual LEDs, you're only going to get problems. LEDs need a driver circuit to provide constant current, and that means the power supply needs to be matched to the emitters and kept very close to it.
The Mandelbrot Set (M-Set)
Users are stupid, they just hit spam because they can't be bothered to unsubscribe or are too dumb to realise it's from someone they have an existing relationship with - people love giving end users the benefit of the doubt but they really don't deserve it.
>... and Facebook's customer service.

Is that better or worse than Google's customer service?
While I agree that humans are generally way too critical of nuclear power, when they seem fine with radioactive coal ash being blown into the atmosphere, measuring nuclear safety on the order of directly attributable deaths is really stupid.

And as someone already mentioned. Nuclear needs to be very reliable, because malfunctions, while they may not cause armageddon, can kill entire blocks and make the cleanup even more costly than a normal decomissioning. You absolutely want to build these things to last and be reliable. Just look at Greifswald Unit 5 partially melting down less than a month into operation. In fact, Greifswald and their numerous close calls are a great example for where "less safe nuclear" would lead us.
>which is almost grammatically correct, but non- sensical

maybe they are testing us
You’re just rationalizing because you don’t want to accept that he’s right. People keep doing this to me. One person I know keeps coming up to me, initiating the conversation about ai just to assert over and over again how it’s not a problem. And I’m just sitting there. And it’s like, dude, you’re in complete denial. Most people are having an emotional block right now. They spew bad faith arguments and make tons of noise about how much this isn’t a problem. Just accept it. We are in trouble right now.
it's not the irradiation that people are worried about. It's the pollution, in the litteral sense. In the case of a fire (to take an all but too common example), all the radioactive material is distributed as tiny particles that get into the air we breathe and the water we drink.

So no, they do not take turns. The live 1000 km away, and just buy a fish that swam 100 km away from the fire.
It would be great to have a free, IRS-provided alternative to the various for-profit softwares out there. One that’s not hidden behind dark patterns desperately funneling you towards the paid product.

But the proposed solutions always seem to be geared towards the simplest returns (admittedly fine for 90% of taxpayers). Please don’t leave taxpayers like me out in the cold! My federal return was over 15 pages this year, and gets more complex every year. We hate Intuit, too…trust me!
Democracy. Sounds banal, but it's all we got.

Nuclear triggers some primal fear. The safety regulations have become table stakes, unfortunately.
The entire internet has been flooded with AI / autogenerated SEO spam for years now.
A comment from the author I found interesting (with some minor edits, mainly for spelling):

> "All the evacuations at Fukushima were unnecessary, and in the case of the frail [or] elderly murderously so. If there had been no evacuations, few members of the public would have received more than 1 mSv/day peak and some 1600 lives would have been saved, and some 100,000 less lives sadly disrupted. Even the EPA now counsels shelter-in-place rather than evacuation.

> At Chernobyl, it probably made sense to evacuate the 45,000 non-workers from Pripyat for a month or so. (Most of the plant workers never left. ) All the other evacuations were tragically unnecessary. The 1990 evacuations were completely senseless as is making the Exclusion Zone off-limits when the dose rates almost everywhere in the zone are below average planet wide and have been for a very long time."
In my experience 'clusterfuck' is not a fair description of the packaging and import system. 'Fractally intertwined half-broken huge ball of macaroni with spaghetti nested inside' is more accurate.
I don't agree. If it was invented today, you'd have the same fear-mongering, the same lobbying from the coal industry.

In addition, you'd also be lacking the decades of safety data that we can use to turn the tide.
I am really struggling to make chat gpt write anything near functioning for the projects i am working on. Then i read the code people share and claim is made by ai and understand why. It’s really basic code that instead of copy pasting from stackoverflow is copied from a text generator. Perhaps it may evolve as a tech but right now it’s at the stage of pareidolia but instead of seeing faces people see intelligence where there is none.
Yeah for now. You know people will try storing all tweets in it or whatever :)
Yeah, I figured it out too. It sounds too formal in its structure, like a high school paper.
How is it relevant what someone else has done to this indictment?
Investment banking area.

We had a bunch of DECpc XL dual Pentiums a few years before that too.

I'm pretty sure it was on nt3.51 at that stage with exceed for remote X windows apps and a bunch of bespoke win32 stuff.
It's not just about life-years. It's about the risk of making significant stretches of land uninhabitable for a serious amount of time. 26 Chernobyl-like releases would have punched some serious holes in the map of the Western world. Furthermore, the 30-year argument sounds disingenuous ("LNT-Worshipping"? Really?) and the CO2 waste issue is mentioned where the nuclear waste issue is not.

Honestly, the whole thing feels like cheap propaganda.
Telephones don’t work that way. I used to work at a telco and if you think BGP is a joke wait till you lean about SS7.

Anyone on the network can impersonate anything they want, there is no such thing as “attestation”. Maybe things have changed in recent times but in years past we could port an arbitrary phone number with a few button clicks in a phone switch. The only security is that it’s all highly proprietary and a limited number of people have access to it
"What they want to do"? The idea that someone like Pete Buttigieg for example actually cares about the railroad or airplanes or something as the Transport Secretary does sound completely absurd to me, that thought never even crossed my mind.

In this case fixing it would mean this industry would cease to exist, so obviously this is never actually going to be fixed. Don't the people know that politicians have a fiduciary responsibility towards the shareholders of TurboTax?
Here is a naive question. A lot of effort goes into dealing with floating point imprecision and instabilities, right. So why aren’t these algorithms implemented with integers? A 64 bit integer could represent the region from 0 to 1 with 2*64 evenly spaced slices, for example.

Would that make things more accurate across operations? Is this something that is done?
That's the problem with the particular proprietary implementation of flash player. There's nothing inherently bad about the swf format itself.
This is why I've decided that I'm siding with the FTC on this product being a problem and that testing products on large swathes of the populace is a bad idea.

To some up my experience with basically all these products...YMMV.
Yes. To give a concrete example, California schools on the whole spend about $14,913 per student [1], while Palo Alto spends $23,038 [2].

[1]: https://www.ppic.org/publication/financing-californias-publi...

[2]: https://papie.org/about/f-a-q/
The guy’s article is full of feels how Fedora is better, while if you read his own facts he had to work hard to make Fedora experience close to what Ubuntu provides out of the box. His own words about benefits of switch results in having a more fresh Gnome version and a ‘feeling that Fedora is more solid’ (no actual confirmation of that).

As to my own feelings, it’s just a result of actively participating in /r/Ubuntu and helping people with their problems for years. For quite some months I observe users coming with the same old arguments about how Amazon deal was awful, how snaps are abomination and has to be replaced with flatpaks, how everyone should switch to Fedora or Arch or PopOs, whatever. And I also regularly observe how such users are getting wiped out from reddit, because they’re bots I suppose. The last such case happened just yesterday, when the strange user with strange arguments got deleted by reddit. So, obviously, not everyone who says something negative about Ubuntu is a paid shill, but it definitely looks like a campaign of trashing Canonical and their products in media. And no, obviously, I have no proves of this, it’s just anomalies that I observe.
@Simon, I love this. And one day, in the not too distant future, a few old wizened graybeards, like you and I and the other folks on this site who have been writing code from scratch for 20 years, will be the magicians who walk the earth among mere mortals who only learned to code with the assistance of ChatGPT.

We will be the ones with the preattentive syntax parsing in our brains that let us simply see basic syntax errors; we will be the ones who can point out simple but subtle errors immediately—because we’ve made them 10000 times; we will be the ones who can take a ChatGPT response and immediately identify how it’s lacking not just in outcome but in edge case handling. We came of age before stack overflow, and have matured to the point where we treat stack overflow answers as mere suggestions for a possible approach, not as code to be copied and adapted.

And then, when we are no more, there will be no one left who can wrangle the turtles that reach the bottommost depths of the full stack.
Somehow we collectively forget/ignore that coal power releases many times the radioactivity of nuclear power, and that is just dumped directly into the air. The numbers are not directly apples to apples but absolutely lead to more life/health loss from fossil nuclear radiation contamination than fission nuclear radiation contamination.

E.g:

https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/...

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/do-coal-fired-power-sta...
An intersection of nationalists + anti-globalists looking to shirk the rest of the world might brag about being hated by the UN as a way to imply, "We're so important/powerful/rich/cultured/etc, no other country [or their opinions of us] even matters."

As the kids once said, "They hate us 'cause they ain't us."
Putting Trump in prison for his crimes is not about helping anyone from any class. It’s about enforcing basic laws governing the conduct of powerful people. In Trump’s case he very likely engaged in some kind of fraud, which is illegal for rich and poor alike.
H264 is not a streaming format. HLS is, and it is pretty much "Apple's format". It's pretty backwards, and everyone was forced to support it because it was the one streaming format you could use in iStuff.
Can companies like SaaS companies like snowflake competele with cloud vendor?
SaaS companies like Snowflake, Databricks, Confluent, and Elastic offer high-quality solutions that work well. However, these services are hosted on different cloud vendors, which can be problematic. Cloud vendors have their own alternative solutions, such as Redshift, BigQuery, PubSub, Kinesis, and OpenSearch, which can make it difficult for SaaS companies to compete.

Typically, SaaS companies keep an 80% margin, while cloud vendors keep another 60-70% margin (approximately 65%). So, if you spend $100, $80 goes to the SaaS company, and $13 goes to the cloud vendor, which means only $7 is spent on actual hardware.

My hypothesis is that if a cloud vendor were to develop a similar service, such as AWS OpenSearch (an Elastic fork), and offer it at an 80% margin, the cloud vendor solution would cost only $7/.2 = $35, which is one-third the cost of the SaaS service. Additionally, the cloud vendor solution would be better integrated with other vendor services, reducing infrastructure management toil.

This creates a challenging situation for SaaS companies. To compete with cloud vendors, SaaS solutions would need to be at least 2x better, which is a daunting task given that both SaaS and cloud vendors often use different flavors of open source.

My questions for the community members are:

1. Do you agree with my hypothesis?
2. If my hypothesis is correct, do you think SaaS companies will be able to survive the tough competition from cloud vendors?
> Regulations keep piling on, adding costs and construction time, with no measurable benefit other than political expediency.

Read the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" and you'll understand why the red tape just grows. Big Energy Co's don't want their profits to decrease, and the people with the oil rights wouldn't own those nuclear plants and there is nothing stopping more companies from making competing systems as tech were to progress. Oil can be owned and protected by force. Thats the key difference.
On a whim I scheduled a last minute video doctor appointment today to get some antibiotics to try and knock out this infection. The doctor asked if I was able to take time off work, and I told her that I had an incredibly supportive workplace, but stretches of time off weren't my issue. My lack of sleep is due to my inability to go more than 5 minutes without having a violent coughing fit, a sick 5 month old baby, a 4 year old daughter that likes to test limits, and an exhausted wife with a broken leg and vertigo.

I don't think this is actually a good anecdote in support of your stereotype? Let me tell you more about my recent personal work experiences. After taking 3 months of paid paternity leave, I eased back in by working a few 10-20 hour weeks, then my wife broke her leg while we were out of town helping her mother who herself had broken her shoulder. The CTO of my company immediately called just to say not to worry at all about the company, and to focus 100% on taking care of my wife and daughters. I worked a few 5 hour weeks, mainly just asynchronously answering people's technical questions to keep the cogs of progress turning. There was a re-org while I was on paternity leave, and my new manager who was also a new hire was getting worried that maybe I should take some sort of formal leave. To be honest it sounded pretty good at the time, since I was stressed out to the point of having abdominal pain; 3 month old, post-partum wife bedridden in extreme agony, unable to breastfeed, young daughter bouncing off the walls. I called the CTO just to mull over with, then called my former manager who himself had just gotten back from a several month leave that he spent doing yoga on an island off Portugal. He had me fully convinced to just take the next 4 months off, abandon my family and zip off to Portugal; just kidding. The CTO called me back to say that he talked to the head of engineering and the HR rep, and they all agreed that it seemed silly to take leave. They all agreed that I should continue not worrying at all about the company and focus 100% on my family, at least for another month or two. "You've always gone the extra mile for the company, so let the company do the same for you." He suggested that I should only consider taking leave once my wife's leg is better, if I felt burnt out and I thought it would make be happier. He also offered to go check in with my new manager, just to make sure he himself wasn't stressing out about the situation. Then the HR rep called, and clarified that there's no company policy or legal reason why I would need to take leave. She preferred the zero paperwork option of just calling it paid-time-off (the company has an unlimited vacation policy.) I've been gradually ramping up my hours since then, and I would describe my current situation as a positive feedback loop between productivity and sleep deprived euphoria. My work is a lot of fun and very rewarding, and it's easy for me to get sucked into it. https://youtu.be/DOWDNBu9DkU
I didn't know there were any pure nurturists left. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker is worth reading.
Can someone spoon feed me here? I read the article but didn't notice the part where the author explains why nuclear power is too safe.
Seriously. At this point we don't know whether Trump is being indicted on a minor campaign violation or for running a child sex ring and hiding bodies under the 17th green of Trump National.

Logic and the rumor mill suggest it's far closer to the former but until the indictment is unsealed we are all going to have to wait and see.

The 24 hour news cycle can't handle that vacuum but that's their problem.
No, he uses numbers from an old regime of rules. Argues those were incredibly safe, and hence the newer stricter rules are unnecessary.
From my experience, rolling distros tend to be better in practice because regular small incremental changes are often safer and more stable than major OS upgrades that touch everything at once on a bi-yearly basis.

The internet is full of horror stories of users seeing Ubuntu/Fedora upgrades not going they way they're supposed to and braking their system.
IMO to fix these issues the first thing to do is to write an alternative to Python's `import`, more like a function call that works more similar to NodeJS' `require()`. That should start life in userland and only later become part of the language.

How to transition a bazillion packages though I do not know.