skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used Workers, but from the article it seems that they were limited to the standard APIs available across browsers and JS runtimes like Express and Deno, so you could use the fetch API or AJAX for things like HTTP, but there was no standard for raw TCP sockets they could use.
With old houses, air tightness isn't always practical as they need to breathe: https://www.greenspec.co.uk/building-design/importance-of-br...
Replied here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36112597

That is not upsetting. Article you mentioned proves that YouTube is used as weapon of censorship, denying that is Westsplaining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westsplaining
If only there were a single standard of what is considered "clever" and what is considered "simple" to which we all could agree regardless of seniority level, experience, etc.
I use that on my work computer because it doesn't allow changing the lock duration.

Even if I spend too long in the bathroom it will go to sleep with the maximum lock time settings, and my amazing Mac crashes if it has external monitors plugged-in when it goes to sleep.

I'm also not at all surprised that people are tech illiterate to the point that they don't know how to change basic settings. My girlfriend sure as hell wouldn't for example.
> clever code is art to be studied and enjoyed. they are the vehicles of growth, of new and important ideas.

I don't think you quite got the idea this article was trying to convey. Here's a simplification:

Don't make simple things look hard.

Hard problems require convoluted solutions, however those solutions can still be broken down into simpler steps. Don't obfuscate the simplicity, allow all the simple parts to work together to create something complex.
"Merely".

As in: "a completely different node js binary in its own environment, its own networking, its own file system overlay etc."
OCRmyPDF is the typical answer: https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF

It uses Tesseract under the hood. Results tend to just be OK in my experience.
Male and Female Mosquito Attraction to Sound
Although mosquitoes previously were believed to possess a relatively rudimentary auditory system, we now know that they can hear sounds at greater distances and process sounds through an efferent pathway, similar to vertebrates. In mating swarms, mosquitoes use acoustic signals created by conspecific wingbeats to locate and respond to one another through harmonic convergence ... and numerous studies have explored using female flight tones (wing-beat frequencies) to attract and capture male mosquitoes by altering or developing novel acoustic traps.
Could someone explain to a total finance noob how a "leveraged buyout" transaction actually works?

I think I understand how hostile takeovers work for public companies (thanks to Elon's helpful demonstration of the concept) : Basically, a buyer can "acquire" the company against the wishes of the company's management because the company doesn't "own" itself in the first place. The real "owners" are the shareholders and so the two parties of the transaction are really the buyer and the shareholders, not the company that is being bought. Consequently, the buying price goes to the shareholders, not the company.

However, here we're talking about acquisition of private companies - so there are no shareholders. Then who exactly is the "seller" party in the transaction?

It could be that the hospice was owned by itself and the board members just got greedy. However, tge article implies that the bulk of hospices before consolidation were small, local businesses. I have a hard time believing that the owners of all those shops suddenly decided to throw the wellbeing of their employees and patrons in the wind for some personal riches.

On the other hand, if the hospices were not owned by themselves then there already must have been some sort of corporate structure before that the PEFs latched on to. But then, what was that.

In short, the "leveraged buyout" is an acquisition where it seems completely clear even beforehand that the acquired company will be strictly worse off afterwards. So why would a private company agree to that or, if not, who can make them agree? And who is the buy price paid to anyway?
When my partner used a 10+ hour pure white video as a desklight it felt like blaspheme to me. Same as turning to gpt4 to sort a small list of words. It is unholy.
I've seen at least 10 hours of it at this point
Read them all and find out. But for me, it's Bhagvad Gita
> Not surprising when media hyperfocuses on doom, crime, death and conflict.

I used to think the contrary but nowdays I think you're right.

A few years ago I unfollowed almost everybody on facebook and my usage time dropped significantly. That is until facebook started spamming me with doom news articles, on the same exact kind of topics that I'm drawn in.

The bottom line is click based "news" has to draw people in on very low quality content on the lines of the 7 cardinal sins + reality escapism.
You cannot file as single while married.
When my running app broke it was a revelation – on taking care of youreself
Demo of Lean I recorded a few years back:

https://youtu.be/p4IrbnPomXg
hungry OpenAI crawling. getting all the data it can steal!!!
Or even more accurately, arcseconds at typical viewing distance. This would cover TVs and phones with the same measurement.
Wow. Color me shocked.
I just recently started watching this guy "Why doesn't a 75 Ohm cable measure 75 Ohms?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-8CaGOmWDU
> corruption does not require a project to actually deliver the promised benefits, or even to be completed at all.

Yes. Corruption only requires for the project to get started. Which is what very few useful projects experience at all. Most never get off the ground. And project getting started raises the probability that the project will be eventually finished at some point.

> And the result is a fatally flawed project that is decades late

But the alternative is not a project done right. It's a project than never got started because no one saw opportunity for personal gain in it. Think of all the places that don't have high speed rail projects, let alone high speed rail.

I know it's easy to lament inefficiencies of corruption and compare effects with other, more successful projects that possibly required less corruption to get going. But the fact is that inefficiencies are not a problem as long as there is money in the pockets. Every corporation operates with huge inefficiencies at every level except for perhaps core revenue centers. And it's fine. The problem is with starting things as an organization with money.
Seriously. People will criticize dairy for it's fat content and then chug oat milks filled with processed canola oil.
> I'm amazed so many people pay the huge premium to get "instant scalability",

For personal use, the interesting part about cloud isn't the scaling up—it's the ability to scale down rapidly to (near) zero costs. I have a couple of GPU instances on AWS that I only use sporadically at spot-prices; when turned off, I'm only paying for the EBS storage.

If I were to rent servers from Hetzner (which I have done it the past for longer running things), it would cost me €40-80 a month, vs €10 a month.

(There's other minor niceties from cloud as well, for example: I also have a lambda in my account that when any instance starts, it checks for a DnsName tag, and configures a appropriate A records pointing toward that instance's new IP address)
> One particular aspect that stands out to me was the dual-pane interface.

All the file managers I've used recently on my desktop support this (In Caja and the KDE one, press F3 to switch to a dual pane view).
I think the online demos have been fine tunes to work on receipts.
You wouldn't need to host the ASICs (or even GPUs) in AWS, anything there can easily call back to a self hosted compute farm with the challenge.
Because we've had 5nor 6 of these standards and it becomes unclear which one should take precedence. If FORCE_COLOR=1 and NO_COLOR is defined, which one wins?

FORCE_COLOR was the first we had found that was also present in other Unix utilities and thus the one that won.
I've heard this book cited many times, and people saying that the "bad" things we see are just the news cycles and very temporary, and in general we're better off (e.g. "The richest person has the same iPhone as you and uses the same kind of toilet").

Sure, some things are "objectively" better, like lower child mortality and so on. But happiness is so subjective. It's entirely possible that when we were hunter gatherers, the average person was happier, even though child mortality and life expectancy were considerably lower.

It's easy to think that access to high tech like iPhones and a toilet to shit in makes people happy, but I don't think this is the case.
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> Now is it still necessary?

An experiment in Windsor, Ontario (across the border from Detroit, MI):

> Yemmi Calito's children are patients of Dr. Meriano. The two oldest kids were raised on fluoridated water in Windsor and both have healthy teeth. Her two youngest weren't, and they've had to be treated for serious tooth decay. Calito said their oral hygiene habits are the same.

> "The younger two I feel they have more cavities," Calito said. "My little one, my three-year-old, actually had to go have general anesthesia … [about] four weeks ago to get his teeth fixed. They were in pretty bad shape."

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/fluoride-tap-water-1.4990257

Calgary, AB, stopped and has recently decided to restart:

* https://calgary.citynews.ca/2022/11/17/calgary-fluoride-wate...

The public voted in 2021 to stop:

> What’s happened since 2012? A study found that within a couple of years of ending fluoridation, decay in children’s baby teeth had risen by 65 per cent compared to 2005, while the increase was only 14 per cent in Edmonton, which continues to fluoridate its water. “We weren’t looking at little tiny cavities that needed to be fixed. They were large cavities, they were destroyed teeth,” says dental hygienist Denise Kokaram, who led a dental program for vulnerable Calgary youth in the wake of fluoridation’s discontinuation.

> In 2019, the University of Calgary’s public health institute summarized for council’s benefit the body of science on fluoridation—the abundant evidence that it curbs tooth decay in both children and adults, and the lack of conclusive evidence of the myriad harms that anti-fluoride activists allege, from bone deterioration to brain disease. (Authorities have lowered recommended fluoride levels in water to limit the risk of fluorosis, a condition that mainly causes mild tooth discoloration.)

* https://macleans.ca/news/after-a-decade-of-cavities-will-cal...
If you look at golang... It's entire purpose for existing(in my opinion) was google realized it had too many people who couldn't be trusted to write maintainable code with all of the flexibility of most programming languages. And yes, google hires many of the best and brightest, and yep go lang is still flourishing despite being an objectively rough language.

I'm with you though. I don't like reviewing a lot of code because it sucks calling out a simpler approach to someone who is clearly trying to showcase their greatness. Can put mid level engineers who know better in a crappy spot.
Is it possible to redirect audio to multiple connected output devices on Linux? For example, multiple headphones.
> These things need to be investigated

are you assuming they haven't been? that people just bunged in chlorine into swimming pools without a second thought? that nobody has thought to look into heavy metal exposure in babies?

If anything, the issue is the opposite. All of these tests have been repeated so many times, often by honest scientists, but also often by biased companies, that people struggle to find the truth and instead find whatever they want to believe (and its usually something about how all the professionals are stupid and dumb but they personally are special and right)

How do you think those labels about mixing drugs with alcohol/grapefruits/whatever else came about? if it goes into your body, it needs to be tested.
An actual intelligence is just a matter of the architecture and compute power though, right?
Surely that's completely missing the reality that the reason code is hard to understand is virtually never because of whether you're using some particular syntactical feature like ternary expressions* - it's because the features you're working on are complex and there's a bunch of interactions between lots of different parts of the software, and it takes a while to get your head around all of them. On the other hand, poorly named functions and variables, poorly constructed interfaces, tight (but non-obvious) coupling between different units of code and a lack of a straightforward way to walk through various paths of the code (e.g. via unit tests) are the sorts of things that make code especially incomprehensible and hard to work with, and for that reason, the sorts of things I'll flag in a review. If I see syntax I think looks a little ugly or unnecessarily "clever" I'll usually add a comment and a suggestion but it still generally gets a tick.

(*) even the example given in the article of an obviously unnecessary use of "reduce" is pretty rarely representative of the sorts of reasons code is hard to understand, though I have come across similar things in 3rd party open-source libraries and the like - I would say though these days you could almost certainly get ChatGPT to explain particularly obscure uses of map/reduce etc. Whereas it's never going to be able to explain high-level behaviour that requires the entire codebase.
yeah, they need to be tidy. You can shoot an unsuspecting programmer through the soul with some evil ternary abuse.
90% hit rate is pretty easy to accomplish for a standard doctor's visit, a big percentage of the doctor's visit are standard. You can probably train most humans to deal with that quickly. They often use students if the pressure is high here. It's about the other 10% + unforeseen issues.
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It's one of those tongue-in-cheek mis-statements that make it into common usage, lose their scare-quotes or italicisation and become a different definition of the same word. Other examples:

* "Literally" used in a way to refer to something that's clearly figurative

* "Non-trivial" used in a way to refer to something that is clearly extremely complicated

Much as I like to decry abuse of language¹, at some point one has just accept that a headword has gained a new bullet-point in the dictionary and move on.

1: and speaking, or, rather, attempting to speak, the Queen's^W King's English, the modern American-centric world certainly delivers opportunities for that!
I stopped reading after the Haskell example, which looked idiomatic and reasonable to me. Yes it's short; that's a reason to learn Haskell. I'd much rather code in the shower than handcuffed to a keyboard.
> NetBSD/FreeBSD

Bit of a nitpick, but I think you meant NetBSD/OpenBSD? AFAIK both FreeBSD and NetBSD independently continued the abandoned 386BSD project, but there was never any strong relation between the two projects (they did share code later on). OpenBSD did split from NetBSD, after Theo de Raadt was removed.

Other examples: FreeBSD/DragonFlyBSD, Vim/NeoVim, Mplayer/mpv, (Open)Solaris/illumos, MySQL/MariaDB, probably some more.
Koans, proverbs and quotes are a lazy shortcut to sounding authoritative. If you had something of substance to say, you could argue for it directly, instead trying to make it sound like some specious ancient wisdom.

> Edit: In other words, say a developer that criticized wordpress, do you respect what they say more than the success and value of wordpress?

Depends on the content of the criticism. There are many legitimate criticisms to be had about WordPress, and they can't all be dismissed with "it's popular, so it must be good".
Any committee of people usually means the worst of them - just like your HOA - the people who actually like doing this stuff of politicking and backstabbing are usually the worst people to lead.

Thank god we have a benevolent dictator for Linux and supporting actors (long may they live), really can't imagine the mess Linux it would have become if we had a committee.
PC Tools was another popular option back then. I really liked its PC Shell.
I didn't know that that was even an option!
Yikes, that sounds terrible. The current best alternative is a visual captcha. I'm not driving around town to buy coffee for some random person just to be able to use the internet. That's not the sort of internet I want.
I'll let the creator know ... thanks.

Have you tried it with anything else?
Zeal – open-source Offline Documentation Browser
without soft paywall

https://archive.ph/JYLKQ
The most devious Sun Vulcan plot [video]
Hi, thanks for your comment. I analyse competitors SEO (in this case ASO) and using AI I try to create outstanding new one to outrank competitors.
There is no indication that it will be even an effective tactic in the situation described. Even in simple cases, the other side could assume it might intercept some of nukes, some might not work, it might get some with conventional weapons on the ground - it will never be so clearcut (even ignoring any preemptive moves).

Also, assuming that there are only zero or negative sum moves left is a really big assumption.
I like cats, but as a normal animal, wandering around like I do too actually, a silent and mutual respect, I can touch him if he wants, or just let him smell me, but surely not going to harass him, or worse imprison him

The love you're talking about is based on food, stop feeding him and open an exit, and see for how long he'll stay.

That's a bit like saying a wife is loving me, but I have to buy her lots of things continually, this kind of love would suck no?
De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity
This is not really extrapolable enough to claim a trend. I am using a piece of software from the 90s that has an icon for "Load transistor switching activity history" which is frankly even more abstract. Yet most if not all desktop/office software from the 20s sill uses icons that are based on physical objects. They even use a diskette as save.

i.e. Specialized software is going to be specialized. It's not new.
Nearby here in Oslo they're building a (smallish) tower[1][2] for combined office and residential use, with the aim to not use any external electricity for ventilation, cooling or heating. Instead they will rely on natural ventilation combined with a solar-powered heat pump, or so is the goal.

Will be interesting to see how it works out in practice...

[1]: https://www.fremtidensbygg.no/nydalens-mest-spektakulaere-by...

[2]: https://www.avantor.no/?eiendom=vertikal-nydalen
Sorry to hear that. I'd pitch to invest in the teams education a bit. A little time spent establishing some ground rules goes a long way. If it's your boss biting down on you for it, don't waste your time, seek a new environment if it bothers you or stunts your growth. Most code review cultures degrade into absurd rules over time because of human power structures and crappy feedback loops. I'd imagine if some of those things became rules either there's an obscure reason for it, or the environment has rotten out.

I've seen both cases for some of these types of things. The rotten culture being the most common
Thank you! You are right, I should add some ASO definition, not every customer will know what exactly ASO is or is not familiar with this term.
They are definitely taking the wrong jobs. I was at one of the best universities in the country for CS but I didn't really learn how to be a professional C++ programmer until I got an actual job. Universities can give you some solid foundations, nothing more.
You don't have to be an Asian expert (wtf is that anyway?) to know that only people relatively well off participate in a survey. In countries with sufficient inequality those people know and see daily enough people in comparative misery around them.

If survey equally sampled people who eg. live in cage homes in “honk hong” or slave away for food at salt mines in SK who knows if results would differ
Spotify started from the start as a global company and had US VC money. That's however the exception from the rule.
> subthread has reached Godwin's law

Do you mean Poe's law? Although given the general quality of youtube comment sections, I wouldn't be surprised if Godwin's law[2] applies as well.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
For me the benchmark is how much time it takes me to figure out my own code when I come back to it six months later. If I can glance at it and still know what I was thinking, I did an OK job. If you stick around long enough on a software system, you will come across code that you wrote that you struggle to understand. Failing this test can be an educational moment. It's your code after all. So, obviously you messed up. But how? How could you improve things? These are important questions because failing to address the issue just sets you up for more problems later. The worst you can do is walking away and then having to figure it out all over again a few months later.

Cognitive load of understanding code is expensive. I tend to leave notes for myself. Document the not so obvious things with little one liner comments. Rename variables to clarify what they are for. Extracting code to get rid of the distracting clutter. Etc. I sometimes get comments from others that they find this helpful. That's nice. But I do it for myself as well.

Simple code is obvious in what it does. There's a certain elegance to simple code solving big problems. It takes effort to make things simple. Making things as complicated as needed but not more complicated. Being overly clever means you end up with a Rube Goldberg machine of unnecessary complexity and clever mechanics that is hard to understand and maintain. You get a certain satisfaction out of making that kind of stuff work but in the end it's a mistake.
As the article explains, their solution suffers from a lack of symmetry about zero.

The obvious solution to which is to use indices of ..-3/2, -1/2, 1/2, 3/2, ...
3D print -> Silicone mold or salt method -> Bake

You might be better off printing MJF.
Smart code good; clever code bad.

Smart code is maintainable. Clever code is not.

Smart code takes complex problems and simplifies them in a way that makes them easily understandable by the whole team. Clever code, whether the original problem was complex or not, presents a complex solution that's difficult to follow.

Have you ever poured a lot of work into something only to have a coworker say "how simple - I thought that would be a lot harder?" That's smart code, but your coworker was expecting clever.

Those are the meanings people are using in the conversations about clever code.
Your country is the bizarre case.