skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, the truly 'smart' programmer isn't someone who does or doesn't use a bunch of techniques or best practices, it's the one who can look at the situation and do what's right for that particular project/job.

Most of the things in this post could be the right answer if the project is a weekend side project that's going to get a few hundred views a month, or a website for a small business. Bob's Restaurant doesn't need a Google scale website built with microservices, Docker and SPAs hosted on AWS and S3.

But something like Google or Amazon or Netflix would. Use the right tool for the right job.

Plus, even a 'stupid' or '0.05x' programmer can be a rockstar at a small company or organisation where a lot of complexity isn't required.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_computing
It's not too late to go back! Rails and Laravel are still insanely popular and productive for getting work done.

I'm also disappointed that real frontend expertise is not valued as highly as a traditional backend engineer. Think about someone like an Architect. You could say that they are glorified artists (yes, I know they do more than that) and they are highly valued for their artistic input as well as their professional advice; but it's also not unheard of to have an architect solely provide artistic direction and a structural engineer provide support.
Megaupload was much easier to search than Mega. Its loss is a terrible shame; it served as an archive site for loads of material that existed nowhere else. Webcomics, music, videos from dead sites. Putting copyrighted stuff on the IA wasn't as common back then.
Lazarus with Free Pascal is the only one I know of. The designer component works just like VB/WinForms but works cross platform.
From their own website, a case study in their partnership with Ocado [0]. In summary "For a whole year, Ocado own all ad inventory in Feast [the Grauniads online food magazine] – both print and online"

[0] https://advertising.theguardian.com/advertising/case-studies...
write full blown extensions (with the help of ChatGPT) instead of using tampermonkey.

the two that I have are inline hacker news commenting, and Amazon item descriptions in my gmail instead of just the order id
Correct, timber is expensive here - particularly over the last 3 years - but I believe a timber frame construction is still a little lower than a brick contraction in cost. SIPs (structurally insulated panels) are more expensive than brick, but I suspect that more to do with available expertise and the need for expensive cranes. (As an aside its fascinating visiting France where every house building site has a crane, none do here)

But many timber frame houses here are still build on massive concrete slabs, and that is still pouring money into the ground. We need to adopt innovations like screw piles that are completely concrete free.
There’s always someone smarter and more successful out there. Someone that can do everything you can without even breaking a sweat, and then do more. They have no reason to consider your existence.

Calling yourself stupid is stupid because the graph of those you->betterperson relations has no leaves, and is a totally closed loop. You’re the smarter, better benevolent version of someone else.
Maybe as related as "this product was produced in Germany" would be related to a product's quality? In that there's a loose correlation there but if that's one of the main points in a product review it means the reviewer isn't doing their job.
Dmitry Medvedev (Russia) threatens to cut off the West’s internet
The “88 Hats” Puzzle
The early Festinger (1959) studies are basically this exact point. Getting paid or paying transforms an internally driven experience into an externally driven one (get paid or deal with fines). Later studies generalized, but the idea that "external reward or punishment is involved" changes perception of the task from internally reward driven to external, due to the dissonance of "why I'm doing it."

The economists have their own name for many phenomena that come down to the same thing that the psychologists would predict. Hence the rise of "behavioral economics" to converge the fields.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/0n5H7
"Smart" is certainly subjective. And one can, given enough time and practice, "figure out" all the things the author listed.

The problem is time. A lone dev just can't take the time to setup the full stack every time for every project at every client. What to do?

Templates, scripts, pre-made configs ... soon you have a stack that will deploy itself and all you have to think about is structures and algorithms. And now you look like a 10x dev. Not because you "know everything in the universe," but because you leveraged technology ... much like our customers want to leverage technology.
It is for unit vectors.
If an addict test their drugs and the results come back fail are they going to shrug and throw them away? I don't see an addict throwing away any drug they have in hand no matter what the test says.
I swear I'll finish more of them when I get some free time.

Though it certainly is nicer on my wallet to normally grab games on sale.
Do you guys have any reference material on how to get this started?
The Moral Crisis of America’s Doctors
Docker images run native on Linux. The virtual part is just to get Docker working on MacOs/Windows
Lemmy and Kbin seem to have the momentum at the moment, have you looked at those projects?
No. For the same reason, you can prosecute a separate federal crime based on the same conduct even if a particular State has prosecuted that conduct under its own statutes. This is called the "separate sovereigns" doctrine. Keep in mind that at the time the Constitution was written--and for a long time thereafter--there were almost no federal crimes (counterfeiting, piracy and customs offenses come to mind) so that crime was a State matter.
They do have example Matter projects for the ESP32-C3/S3. I assume it's over WiFi and not thread.

https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip/tree/master/...
For regions that don't have to worry about a frost line helical screw piles and mass timber are game-changing building capabilities to construct concrete free. It's even possible to build carbon negative thanks to the timber locked in the building. And it's way faster since you don't spend months preparing a site and building forms.

Even frost line regions could dramatically cut their concrete usage if they just focused on protecting the water lines. You would lose a basement, but those are expensive per sq ft anyway. Just go up another floor for less total costs.

Local building codes will get in the way since building inspectors tend to reject things they haven't seen before (like mass timber frame) and way too many places have incredibly strict height restrictions.

It is incredible to watch helical screw piles go in. A friend needed 60+ posts installed for a big fence. Would have been days of digging or augering post holes down 4 ft for the frost line and then mixing hundreds of bags of cement and filling the holes with concrete. Instead a contractor with a small tracked machine that fit through a standard gate drove every pile in under an hour.
The new "leader" model which CEOs are cottoning on to is doubling down on belligerence no matter how bad the idea.

As goes politics, go corporations.
If the ‘tacit’ knowledge can be discovered in code, docs, email, slack, recorded conversations, etc then LLMs can find it and integrate it in its responses. This makes you easier to replace
This is way too complicated. Even reviews by people who made a real purchase are suspect. Amazon is full of such reviews where customers are offered a discount or a gift if they submit a positive review.

I guess in a scenario similar to mine, you'd look for patterns. The same guy saying the same specific thing makes me think of a grudge too. However if it is multiple sources complaining about similar things, then it's a pattern. You'd also get to decide whether what matters to them matters to you. I think a sister comment was saying something similar. For example, it is routine where I live for people to complain about pizza joints that "do not even send ketchup" with delivery orders. This I am not too hung up on. :)
Good. Hopefully those who prefer 3rd party apps for other reasons move their communities to other sites to foster competition
One theory I have is that you're getting different rating for different experience. Some "Asian" food keeps well, so it could stand out from the competition. They don't have to deal with you being in the restaurant, complaining about the smell, the service, they hit on the waitress and she wasn't very friendly responding, ect.

You're correct. This is a problem with ratings. You really have to read into them to see what they're complaining about or praising. This is true even for individual reviews, written solo. Many are unhelpful, or stuff that doesn't concern you.

One of the best examples I can remember is a venue that had 2-3 stars. However, all the negative reviews were like: "They have massive parties going hard late into the night... but my kids go to bed at 9:30, so 1 star".
So what number did you get for nuclear when you did these calculations? With no storage you've got to be talking something like 20x for nuclear, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

> The most important use for pumped storage has traditionally been to balance baseload powerplants, but may also be used to abate the fluctuating output of intermittent energy sources.
It’s probably more useful for raves and parties where people can see if they are getting ripped off or ingesting something nasty
Honestly, this could, if designed and implemented correctly, be exactly what we need to break the stranglehold the current social media giants have on the industry.

Having public APIs for every major social media platform means that, at least in theory, a single third-party app could give you access to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit (plus more!). It could even give you access to your social media contacts aggregated across all those platforms.

This would mean that if one of your friends wanted to move from platform A to platform B, as long as you had at least some account with both of them, you wouldn't have to change much about how you communicate with them.

It could also mean that social media services would have the ability to tap into each other's APIs—thus making it possible to simply import your entire contact list and history (or as much of it as the destination service supported) from one service to another.

If we could get an effort like this to fully succeed, it could very well bring us to something much closer to the decentralized social media future that some people were talking about several years ago.
Most projects don't need Docker. I have built multiple billion-dollar-a-year company websites from scratch (no, I don't make a lot of money, just a dev) that get tens of thousands of users a day and we barely ever need more than one or two instances of anything, all of which the major cloud providers can scale out of the box with Azure App Service / Elastic Beanstalk / etc. Docker/K8S is pure hype and never fills the "oh it simplifies development on various OS" argument.

Sure, you can orchestrate in K8S to spin up the front end, back end, and database instance, but one day someone has to troubleshoot that. That someone being a dev who doesn't work with K8S all the time - good luck.
So buying fossil fuels is morally wrong then?
That's a completely different topic. I'm tired of hearing people spout about a legal obligation to grow.

If you mean "it will hurt somebody's feelings" don't say "it's illegal". Those words do not mean the same thing.

If a company earned a $1 dividend for the last five years and the stock price is $10, what is wrong with paying out $1 dividend again next year and having the stock price stay at $10?

If a stockholder wants a bigger payout they can sell their share and invest the $10 in some other stock and take their chances.

Personally, I think a $10 share that pays out $1 and is still worth $10 is incredible. It doesn't bother me at all that neither the price nor the dividend has grown. It doesn't bother me that the square meters of manufacturing floor space hasn't grown. I don't mind that the number of employees hasn't grown. It's ok that the number of SKUs has stayed the same.
My brother used to be a newspaper reporter and then editor in the US.

His take was that the early pain came from Craigslist eating their classified ad sales.
I didn’t expect this thread to blow up while I was away for lunch, hence no replies until now.

I built 4 projects so far with it. Out of these 3, 1 is clone of an app that has been charging 65usd per year. Other one was rehash/improvement on an existing app that has been selling for 25usd.

It took me under a day to build the prototype, a week to deploy/build installer.

The only thing left is to actually put them out in the market really.

This was just too easy.
Yea i also dont see the point of having everything “managed”.

RDS is crazy expensive compared to self hosting and if i have the DB on prem its much faster as well. And the admin overhead is not so big to be honest if you are using just one DB.

If you are Google scale of course things will change, but I think 80% of loads dont need any managed AWS stuff, replications, multiple nodes, kubernetes, etc… just periodic backups and it runs fine.

But people nowadays just like throwing money around I guess, instead of trying to set it up for themselves.
Why aren’t they already doing that? If what you’re saying is true they would since the implication is that it’s cheaper.
> Needlessly allocates a `Vec` if `self.payload` is `Some`.

Vec is documented not to allocate if empty (unless created with a set capacity). So all the code does is store 3 u64 on the stack.
It disgusts me how capitalist society would wish to introduce scarcity where there is none. In a just world, one would be able to create their own furniture themselves, without needing to involve the platform owner.
Immediately put off by an egregious error in the Aggregate Types section in the very first chapter:

> Unlike the bool version, if a library user were to accidentally flip the order of the arguments, the compiler would immediately complain:

error[E0423]: expected function, found macro `print`
--> use-types/src/main.rs:89:9
|
89 | print(Output::BlackAndWhite, Sides::Single);
| ^^^^^ not a function
|
help: use `!` to invoke the macro
|
89 | print!(Output::BlackAndWhite, Sides::Single);
| +

which is a compiler error for calling the wrong function, not swapping the arguments.

Was this book not proof read at all? Is it AI generated? I'm not sure I can trust anything in it any more if something this basic was allowed through.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36264175
Enough to hand their advertising partners GPS-enhanced ad targeting?

I'll just take a cab.
Just for anecdata, I had the J&J vaccine early on, then the bivalent booster when it became available. In January, I got COVID, and I was "sickest I've ever felt" for about three days, "bad cold" for a week, "fatigue and brain fog" for another week, and "smoker's cough in the morning" for several months afterward.
I know you shouldn't throw people in jail even in part because of bad opinions... but Jesus Christ, listen to him talk about Putin, Russia and NATO, and try to be the impartial hand of justice.
One of these is Jay Rayner [0]. His reviews are not always positive for the restaurant concerned [e.g. 1], so I don't count them as pure advertising.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jayrayner

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/apr/23/jay-rayner-rest...
Frequently yes, because the people consuming illegal drugs are actual human beings rather than stereotyped zombies, and in many cases aren't even addicts.
a while ago I saw a short documentary about German drug dealers spraying their weed with artificial cannabinoids to increase potency. the pseudo-codename they used for it was "haze". in the UK it's very common for dealers to sell two strains of weed, a generic "haze" and one other strain, often "stardog". whether this "haze" is the same thing or not, I do not know, but it's a health concern. it's a hard one to test for as well, because the testing kits I've come across cannot distinguish between artificial and natural cannabinoids
Damn! That’s good to know, we’ll be tackling that on our board soon. Wonder what’s causing it? Driver bugs is my guess

Edit: hah if I read the GitHub link, my guess was right. Seems they have a patch there for you to try? Fingers crossed they fix it
Regardless of your opinion, defining Rust in terms of C++ is unhelpful to people who don’t know C++, or don’t know much of it.

And having to learn C++ in order to learn Rust is not sane.
> But in these scenarios, reviewing existing work is usually much faster than starting from scratch.

This is true, but it’s also a different skill than writing is. There are people who write well enough but are terrible editors. I fear for them in the generative AI workplace.
I guess you're right. I checked out the substack domain on HN and only found one obvious Show HN thread for it, and the overall list of threads was surprisingly short. I feel like I've seen enough Substack threads come up here that, if Medium were linked to for a lot of Show HNs, that Substack should be on that list somewhere even if it's dead last. My impression that Substack links were competing with Medium links on HN was definitely not correct.
I hope one day we will abandon PEM files and everyone agrees on PKCS12.
Not a fucking one of which do anything substantial or impact anything even resembling a root cause.

Putting another couple pieces of paper in front of highschoolers detailing the total financial cost - while literally everyone in their lives encourages them to pursue college as the next step in their lives - and even mentioning that plan in the same breath as 'tackle student loan debt' is assinine.

Hell, even if you were going to try and fix the problem with a fucking disclosure, you'd do it by presenting and making a case for attractive alternative options.

Because realistically loads of people go to college after highschool because it has been the expectation of everyone they have known their entire lives AND symbolizes their opportunity to escape whatever the local body breaking labor is.

But if you wanted to convince me that you were serious then you'd go after the money. Probably lots of great ways to stop treating 18 year olds like great long term debt instruments but I think treating student loans as a normal form of debt that is dischargeable by bankruptcy would be a fine place to start.

Beyond the obvious effects of supporting effectively arbitrary price increases for that market - I don't think its possible to construct a sound moral argument that excuses removing a crucial safety valve on a debt that is also very large and targeted towards people that have only recently stopped being children.
EU decides to end firmly bonded rechargeable batteries by 2027
The business model was selling bandwidth subscriptions and revenue was shared with file uploaders according to download bandwidth.
How to get the top million sites list today? Alexa has shifted focus recently.
I find it hilarious because I find it extremely dysfunctional .. for everyone involved and yet… it’s true. I can tell you from personal experience… my partner somehow signed up for a stupid accounting online tool that we never used .. and we just find out 2 years later because we received a letter from a debt collection agency asking for the 2 years we “owed” for a service we never actually used .. but they kept “providing” us. And somehow even tho we never paid .. they never stopped. We very likely had to pay a lot more than what we would have to if they had stopped providing the service at some point in the first place. So yeah.. it just baffles me to think this is how things are supposed to work in this country and neither the provider nor we could do anything about it.
We are yeah! I’ve contributed to it a bit :)
I was in Cancun, MX recently and bought a box of Oreos at the resort shop. There were stickers on it with multiple warnings. I was quite surprised, but pleased to see the government making an effort to reduce consumption.

Oreos: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/tijuana-mexico-sept...

Lucky Charms: https://i.redd.it/8l2z1fa5q3w71.jpg
you were watching nonsense thats why youtube recommending similar feed
You're right that consciousness is notoriously hard to define, and the various experts working on the subject (neuroscientists, evolutionists, philosophers, and computer scientists) haven't yet reached a consensus on the matter.

Molly addresses one definition of consciousness, that of Attention Schema Theory [1]. In that definition, awareness is a cognitive function of the brain, and relates to an inner monologue. In that definition, too, a machine that shows such awareness is indiscernable from a true conscious being.

That's a fascinating but endless subject - see Wikipedia's long article on consciousness [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_schema_theory
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness
this may have been true before the rise of artificial cannabinoids, but it's not anymore
Only in Germany could they find a way to create rules for illegal activities. Their love for Fußball doesn't come close to their love for rules and regulation
Re Daszak knowing what was going on, he was a main funder of the lab and a drinking buddy with Shi the head researcher there. He also wrote a proposal on inserting a cleavage site into a coronavirus in pretty much the way you would have to to make covid (defuse grant proposal which was leaked, not revealed voluntarily). Asked what was going on at WIV he's said stuff more like sorry I can't say as we have a confidentiality agreement rather than no idea.
> Climate change I give you the market would ignore. For the same reason it is ignored politically - nearly nobody thinks it is worth spending real money on to try and fix it.

Some of us feel that you can literally wipe the US off the map and it wouldn’t make a single degree’s worth of difference to climate. Some of us also feel that the climate movement is not about climate but about resource redistribution and thus suspect in its real intent.
This is actually pretty great both for recreational users of things like cocaine and heroin, but also for people looking to use cheaper illegal drugs to manage a mental health condition - I'm thinking specifically of ecstasy and ketamine (for depression) and amphetamine (for adhd). To have a trusted test of quality would take away a lot of the terror from people already dealing with hard-to-manage emotions.
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