skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Peek into a thread about web frameworks and you’d think that software architecture never existed, and that very few are actually capable of working without them.

Tech’s skill requirements create a bimodal distribution of jobs, seemingly. Some places manage to break away sufficiently to spend less time dealing with poor code.
I don't understand WebAssembly much other than superficially, but if wasm is going to be a new, harder level obfuscation for websites, making them harder to customize locally, then I hope ML/AI can counteract that and preserve the Web as a user-customizable space.
They add a new large door.

Aircraft doors are very expensive because they are pressure doors. When you cut a hole for a door, you need to replace the lost strength in the body of the plane with lots of new beams and stuff I'd assume.
In Finland there's a delightful volunteer-driven computing culture and programming magazine called Skrolli and it's the only magazine I've subscribed to since the 1990's when paper computer magazines still held a meaningful place in the lives of people who were into computers.

The regular issues are in Finnish, of course, but they did a couple of international editions some years ago to get an idea of what's some typical content in the magazine:

https://skrolli.fi/2016.1e.illuminatus.pdf
https://skrolli.fi/2017.1e.platforms.pdf
Because democracies aren’t guaranteed to survive if they don’t remain democratic, and this has played out many times in history. E.g. Germany was a parliamentary democracy before it fell to the Third Reich.

There is zero guarantee that just because we have a democracy today means that it will be there forever.
He gave a nuanced answer acknowledging the complexity of history and human behavior. Your response made it black and white.

At what point in history did any leader of Israel have any chance to change the course of history? I have learned more about this subject than I have wanted to, and since the event that ended in 1945, they have done the best they can with what they had
While Angular is simplifying things now
Premise: not referring directly to Hashicorp employees, as I'm sure they're leagues above my average colleagues.

As a SWE who's been in a couple of companies of small-to-medium size, and now in a relatively successful fintech scale-up that's running a (very long) hiring freeze, I can say that I've seen this layoffs season coming from a thousand kilometers.

Now matter how successful your company is, you can't start hiring bonobos with no clue about how a computer works just because your investors asked for an X% increase in head count and then be like "sorry, we didn't plan to fire you as soon as things got serious" with clueless employees. And people have been gifted tech jobs for years now.
It's not people's fault if they're not good at their job yet they get hired for senior positions, just to realize something's not working as soon as the job market needs qualified professionals in tough times.
Now we're all in a bad predicament: we have to waste countless hours interviewing "senior" engs with basically no skills to speak of, and they are getting depressed because nobody's gifting titles anymore, but have no clue on how the whole process actually works.

Now somebody has to tell Jessica that posting screenshots of code on Twitter is not devrel, and Guillermo that not knowing React 18 is not totally ok for a tech lead of a React shop. And I totally don't want to be that guy.
In a way, but not the way that counts. If you spend all day helping people with their work will you be lauded when you make 0 progress on yours?
It’s been around for a while. The City of Ithaca had a GIS department before 2000 and sent out students to identify every street tree in the city and put it on a map. Massachusetts is well-represented in Open Street Maps since they donated the official maps to OSM.
As a long time user, and moderator, I do everything via old.reddit (and the only additional thing is mod toolbox, which I could live without) on a proper computer. I just can't fathom any meaningful use of Reddit via a phone app. To me that's as insane as trying to read a novel on your phone or watch a movie.

Simply does not compute to me.
Am I crazy or shouldn’t “districts” actually be composed of groups of people who are affected by legislation? An orthogonal approach could offer some solutions — such as degree of connectedness, approximated by number of roads. So, if we just cluster the most interconnected areas together, would that be unfair? Or is it just more gerrymandering?
> We're heading for a future where energy is going to be dirt cheap, clean, and plentiful.

You're confusing an s-curve with a hockey stick curve here. It's understandable as long as you're in the first half of the curve, but there is always an inflection at some point.
China is simultaneously the world's largest user of coal, solar and wind power, all at the same time.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-track-hit-new-...

Clean energy share continues to climb though, and they've also made huge strides in air quality.

India, on the other hand, seems to be going from bad to worse on both fronts.
You can do the same with regular air filters for your HVAC. Buy 4 that are square, the size of the box fan. Put the 4 filters on end into a box. Put it on the floor or cardboard bottom. Place the fan on top blowing into the box. Obviously, duct tape the filters where they meet to keep the box from collapsing.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/how-to-make-a-box-fan-air...
Lightning is sky to ground, so weaponization is definitely in the cards. Lasers themselves are line of sight, so a ground based laser can only be used against ab aerial target, and an airborne laser will always be far weaker than a lightning bolt.
Free Blobby VR Game on App Lab and SideQuest
We created a free game based on Blobby Volley that takes gummybear volleyball to the next level. Check it out in the SideQuest Store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldG57oeyae4
It makes sense. Young people are willing to put up with the inconveniences of the city because they want all the things there are to do and want to be near all their friends/potential romantic partners and want all the job opportunities. Old people don't need the job opportunities (hopefully), most their friends and lovers are already dead, and they're too old and tired to run around doing all the things like they used to so moving away a bit seems more appealing.

Old people don't seem to mind community though, I think it's just that people who are often sick or hurting tend to be less social. Going blind and deaf doesn't help either. I imagine it's plain harder for old folks no matter what their preference for solitude.
Or just use LFP batteries, like Tesla does in the majority of their delivered cars.
Switchgrass is a natural solar panel that converts sunlight into chemical energy. It has many benefits, like improving soil quality, storing carbon, and reducing emissions. It can also be burned with coal in existing plants, which is convenient. Switchgrass is a promising biofuel that can help us transition away from fossil fuels. It has a lot of potential to grow in various conditions and produce high yields with low inputs. It also has a positive environmental impact by sequestering carbon and reducing greenhouse gases. Switchgrass is not without its challenges, but they are not insurmountable. It needs more research and development to make it more efficient and cost-effective. It also needs more support from farmers, scientists, and policymakers who are working to make it a viable option. I think switchgrass is a great idea, and I’m excited to see how it evolves in the future.
One reason is a lot of food grown is used as animal feed. It's a lot more efficient to take soy beans and process them into tofu and other foods, like they do in Japan, than to use it as cattle feed (which is where most soy goes)

It's also an issue of distribution and local production, eg countries making food for export rather than to feed their own population. Like in Honduras the people grow strawberries and cattle for export rather than beans and corn for local use.
> and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values

> Militarism has been a significant element of the imperialist or expansionist ideologies of many nations throughout history

> predominance of the armed forces in the administration or policy of the state (see also: stratocracy and military junta)

What parts of that can you not understand are clearly in contrast to the society of the Federation?
The people cheering on Go here surprise me a bit. I don't hate Go, but I have spent way more time reading stack overflow posts trying to get a go project to be glued together, fiddling with environment variables, copy pasting code around then I ever have in rust.

Again not claiming superiority of one tool over another... But the user experience for rust has been a lot better for project organization for me then most languages. My biggest gripe is, the rust docs somehow make this incredibly difficult language easy to learn, but the sections around code organization are really really hard for beginners or anyone who hasn't sunk time into it and completely omit the 10 meter view of how to organize rust code.
You conveniently left out the part where they address that:

> Unfortunately, the more structured, proactive alternatives cost a lot more of my time and effort, so it's all around less effective.
Honest question: how do we know they are grouchy and instead we aren't just annoying. I have a kid but kids can get on my nerves, when I'm 90 I could imagine 40 year olds annoying me in a similar way.
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BIZi04mCLyMlxI1TrU-a...
Well you can. You can ask "boomers" to build stuff in a real programming language. Which they wont.

Also you act as if there werent any programming horror stories. Very often programmers want to rewrite the code they got from othera.

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I am not sure which one is M and which one is DAX. Those are the PowerBI ones. In my opinion they are horrible. The idea of "steps" makes sense, but the gui that breaks steps is horrible. Also the syntax is horrible.

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MS at some point had pivot tables, pivot tables with data model, power pivot, powerBI stand-alone app, "old" sql query editor.
Now they try to add powerBI standalone back to Excel.. partially (on a side note I hate that poweBI exports from stand alone app to Excel are so horrible), and they got rid of the old SQL editor. If you want to write SQL in Excel you might as well use notepad..

PowerBI was supposed to be a step forward. OK it allows to build things, but is in my opinion horrible. M/DAX are horrible to use for typical operarions such as;

Changing source

Combining two sources

Joins

Joins on joins on joins

Joins

Syntax is supposed to be explicit, but it is horrible to write and horrible to read
There are a couple of good reasons to invest as a homeowner:

- increase the value of your house - this is often overlooked and e.g. banks don't necessarily value this enough. But the effect is very real when you sell a house in a tight market.

- Lowering your bills and benefit from tax incentives or even profit from selling energy back to the grid. This is pretty obvious. Not a lot not to like here. Of course you need financing and some rough idea of how long it takes to earn back your money.

- Energy independence is nice to have; especially if you are in a place where local energy suppliers are not that reliable. And even if that isn't the case, the additional safety can be nice.

- Reduce the impact you have on climate. For some people this is the primary motivation and some early adopters paid a steep price for this even.

Depending on your goals, you'd start with different things.
Why care about anything if you're just going to die? Are you suggesting we should all go full on hedonism and give up civilization-building? What if people enjoy civilization-building and caring about things that "don't matter"?
Yes, because they feel more premium, that's their "advantage". A headset which hurts your neck more in the long run could offset this premium feeling.
Their "premium membership" is a complete dud. It has literally no tangible benefits, so I'd argue that most people view this subscription as entirely optional goodwill gesture. It only makes sense to scrap it and replace with a general "platform access fee" and then wave it for official clients in exchange for ads. This is an inherently fair arrangement.

If the fee is modest for medium and heavy users, say something like $5/mo, that'd be exactly the push needed to covert all existing goodwill into $. Moreover, if it's tiny, like $2/mo, this may also convert even light users.

It's not as hard of a sell as you paint it to be. What's jarring is that they aren't even trying to discuss this option.

> redditors feel intensely that they already contribute

I don't think this is true. This is a flippant and selfish attitude, which may be vocalized often, but it doesn't mean that it's prevalent. Vast majority of users understand perfectly well that the company needs funding to go on and if it collapses, their online communities will go down with it.

This all hinges on the assumption that users like Reddit, as a company. And what Reddit's been doing recently all but ensures that it's not the case. Another very puzzling move on their part. Almost as if there's a bunch of suits at the top fidgeting with spreadsheets and nobody else.
The Nintendo Wii balance board is the only good scale you can get and it isn't expensive. A balance board, Wii, and small TV is probably around $500.
My $10 +decade old one CR2032 powered one does that just fine.

Accurate enough for weight control (doesn't drift from day to day), no "stuck weight" problem mentioned either. Just need to wait 2 seconds for self calibration to finish
You're right that they're probably harmless if they're not connected to the internet and can't interact with a cell phone.
Biden spearheaded the destruction of Yugoslavia, was a big part of the austerity measures in the 90s and 2000s and was vice president during the vast increase in drone bombing.

Trump assassinated a foreign dignitary, but not much else. His rhetoric is worse and aesthetically he’s somewhat worse, sure.

I don’t see much practical difference.
Well I don’t know about you, but if I want a free app to change my wallpaper and there isn’t one I’ll just write one. It’s totally a choice to pay.
New built renewables cost the same as the operations and maintenance of existing fossil and nuclear power generation. The world will become an interesting place when renewables start being paid off since their marginal cost is pretty much zero.
So why not fix the scale so it isn't rubbish?
Yes, but at that time Tauri did not have support for WebGPU on MacOS. Also, the Electron community is substantially larger and since this is mostly a personal project speed of development and easy access to community forums were more important to me than things like install size.
> The reason the US doesn’t use math to solve gerrymandering

The US uses math to maximise partisan outcomes, when US Republicans have the chance to set boundaries they use software and consultants to crack Democrat districts and maximise chances for Republican county wins (and, of course, vice versa).

Countries such as Australia also use math to lay out districts, however they don't put the fozes in charge of the henhouse and instead have independant groups proposing new maps on the basis of party neutral constraints, take submissions and challenges onboard and operate in a transparent manner.

No system is perfect and naturally Australia at various times and in various locales has had "gerymandering" complaints and scandals - but nothing on the order of the US skews .. even after normalising for population scales.
Can you buy only the PCB of the AirGradient Pro (and not the entire kit)?
Young ones today won't know the joy of the ridiculous size of Computer Shopper 2kg (~4 pounds) of paper.
> If "surface area used per megajoule" is 100x lower for nuclear than for, say, solar, I would be comfortable calling this 'almost zero'

The problem is these kinds of numbers are usually comparing apples to oranges. Like comparing the size of the nuclear building, or just the site (maybe also the exclusion zone in rare cases), with the planning area for the wind/solar power plant.

If you count like this, the area counted for a wind turbine put next to a farm field would imply that the areas used by the farm is lost. Which it's clearly not.

Wind power area usage doesn't exclude all other uses of the land. Solar power doesn't either. Sometimes the use of the area can be improved with solar, by providing shade. There's a growing sector called agrovoltaics exploring the benefits of combining solar power with farming.

With off-shore wind power we're also starting to see that there could be benefits to having the wind turbines there, by acting as artificial reefs. The area used by off-shore wind will generally exclude fishing. This could be seen as a good or a bad thing, but from nature's side, the artificial reefs and protected area for fish is clearly a huge positive.

So you need to add some kind of factor on the wind/solar side of the equation to account for the fact that the area is only partially consumed by the power plant, or that they even improve the value of the land. Nuclear proponents NEVER do this, which is pretty much just lying.
Yep, and that's what we are currently seeing unfold. However, there must be use cases for nuclear as base load or some kind of supplementary power with mini reactors. I only hope these options get considered as viable alternative, rather than being dismissed ideologically.
But that wouldn't change needing to support an older gcc, nor change the "no breaking userspace" rule. CI won't run on every platform (nor all the different hardware that's out there). Random PRs will be just as ignored as random patches (probably more so if the idea is to increase the volume of contributions). A "build it and they will come" attitude only works if you're ready for the volume, if not (and based on the original discussion, the problem is lack of maintainer time), then it just adds more work.
I think it will be locked down and they will have a very beneficial offer for developers in order to lock them down too. VR/AR doesn't have killer apps yet, developer's ideas will decide who wins the race.
You mean like Paypal etc and how they can just ban you and take your money? + Many countries can't access to "centralised version" by default. Imagine internet being country restricted and centralized so they can just choose which country/people can access it. That would be horrible
Could you use a cake slicing algorithm? I.e. you get one party to choose a fraction, and the other party chooses whether it's theirs or not, until the number of fractions is gone? Does this scale to n parties of different shares and allegiances splitting a 2d plane?

Or maybe just generate the borders with a heat map after elections with PR?
Mac Pro (2023) PCI-Express topology
However, a 60W incandescent bulb puts out about 800 lumens, which is about 64 candela. So one bulb-hour is indeed about 60 candle-hours. This is omnidirectional output, useful output may be less.

The original paper reports a 21 pounds of firewood was measured to produce 2.1 foot-candles (22 lux) for 3.4 hours. Overall useful fireplace output was estimated at about 1.7 lumen-hours per pound of wood, which is 10 lumens (just under 1 candela) on average for that 21 pound fire.

By focusing on light output, and not the heat output, I still think it's an incomplete comparison, as an LED bulb may be very bright and cheap to run, but it won't keep you very warm in a cave in prehistoric Zhoukoudian.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Optimal (2012)
I'm just curious, how does it work in practice?

Is there like a huge number of FAA government employees that sit around waiting to be called up and then they are all flown out to some location where they frantically flip through binders of rules to validated everything is up to spec?
it also means that politicians get to pick their voters instead of the other way around
Wouldn't just correction factor be enough ? If device takes constant power it should also heat the sensor by constant amount
I chuckled on 90s aircraft being described as surprisingly old; heck, some people are apparently still operating 70s 737s commercially: https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/25767-boeing-737-200s-old...
This is a bloody brilliant and comprehensive meta-analysis that sheds some light on the patterns of personality change across the life course. It is remarkable how much variation and plasticity there is in human personality, and how different traits show different trajectories of change. I wonder what are the underlying mechanisms and influences that drive these changes, and what are the implications for well-being and social relationships.
Well, fish rots from the head, so FB's choice has never been a shocker. On the other hand Reddit is in a _superb_ position to not go that route and try something different. One can hope, you know.
Utility providers aside (e.g., `null_resource` which for many use cases you can replace with `terraform_data` in versions >= 1.4), I think you’ve missed the point I was making. Which is:

- HashiCorp employees directly maintain an astonishingly small number of those providers.

- For the most significant ones (e.g., AWS, Azure) they are working in some form of collaboration with the relevant vendors.

- The primary determination on what is broken out into a separate resource or not is based on the API said vendor exposes.

- For those major strategic providers I mentioned, they’ve been working to have the providers programmatically generated so it has little to no human intervention and increases the likelihood of day 1 support for any new service or features.

Incentives aside, there isn’t opportunity to affect things in the way you’re fearful of. The people with the biggest influence on the design of these things, and whether resources are consolidated or decomposed, work at AWS, Microsoft, Google, etc.
In a title-band compensation controlled org, oldest in band being highest paid is extremely common outcome, think about it. Once you hit the terminal IC level, a developer may be in that title band for a decade or more.

At a typical bank it's like..

Analyst->Associate->AVP->VP.
However from VP on up, the pyramid narrows sharply.
The ratio of Analyst:Associate may be close to 1:1.
The ratio of Associate:AVP may be 1.5:1
The ratio of AVP:VP also around 1.5:1 or 2:1.
However from there the ratio of VP->ED and ED->MD are like 5:1 or worse.

ED&MD are far more executive management type roles. Zero coding, you may run an org of 100 people.

So the earliest you hit VP might be like 28ish.
But you'll find VPs that are 45 to 50 easily.

It's an up or out level. Slowly accumulating raises as you age without seeking a management role means out eventually.
Can't you see there is no special problem? Even after a military conflict, you've to either actually go into that country and start an intensive political reconstruction (e.g., Germany & WWII – which is not an option here, because of the nuclear scenario) or you have to deal with the problem of resurgent conflicts (in the past 70 years or so, they always did pop again).

You were contesting the need for a political solution. So, where is your special, proven way? On the other hand, if there's need for a political resolution, why have the military interlude, at all?

If you are ignoring the conflict, assuming, there's just a bad actor and everyone else is just in the right, you're actually part of the problem and the resurgence will be nearly guaranteed. As can be observed in all those amazingly long-lived zones of conflict, where only instability is stable, we've established after WWII and we're constantly adding to. It simply doesn't work.
Sucralose.
Yea, prairie is burned converting some fraction of accumulated bio to char which stays in the soil more or less permanently.
What do you think HN is written in?