skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they were to ever fall into the hands of US prosecutors after their prison sentences are concluded, does double jeopardy apply?
Attractive to who? I don't think most people I know find the body builder look attractive.
>Then they have taken too much debt. And deserve to fail.

Many companies can not exist without taking on debt. Manufacturing can be extremely capital intensive and if every company had to wait for the profits of its previous product to finance its next product almost nothing would be made.

>A well run company only takes debt when return on investing it is larger than the interest and paying it back.

This is an unknown quantity. And it also growth as debt is taking on for the sake of increasing revenue. Taking on debt without expecting an increase in revenue from investing that money is insane for a company.
Dan Luu has a blog post about this: https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/

Conclusion: "Unlike claims by either keyboard or mouse advocates, when I do experiments myself, the results are mixed. Some tasks are substantially faster if I use the keyboard and some are substantially faster if I use the mouse. Moreover, most of the results are easily predictable (when the results are similar, the prediction is that it would be hard to predict). [...] This result is so boring that it would barely be worth mentioning if not for the large groups of people who believe that either the keyboard is always faster than the mouse or vice versa."
this is for a stupid programmer that doesn't want or need to work for a corporation.

by the way, I'd say:

I'm too stupid to keep my configuration in order, so I use Docker.
You could flatten it using namespaced keys. Eg.

{
parent1: { child1: value }
}

Becomes one of the following:

parent1/child1=value
parent1_child1=value
parent1.child1=value

..you get the idea.
> Meanwhile, I absolutely can't do without my Instant Pot.

Gutted to say the least. I used my slow cooker for years and now I need to hoard replacements (mainly the silicone ring) because of this. Fantastic product.
Yes they will, a more capable chatgpt will do more than give you code to copy/paste, it will directly interact with your infrastructure, git repositories, etc.

Even if it didn't, the capacity for a developer to learn all the frameworks just got much much greater, which is a bad thing for developer salaries.
> it hasn't been popular to be far right in decades.

I think we are living in very different realities then. I had never seen in my life vocal and open support for white supremacism as it's been since around 2015, I'm not in or from the USA, mind you. I also had never seen popular figures with the youth to be spouting Nazi-adjacent rhetoric as I've seen in the same time frame.

I believe you should look better into your biases... Everything has become more polarised, and support for fascism and/or protofascists has grown in a way I had never expected it could happen again after WW2.
Word now flags double spaces as errors, ending the great space debate (2020)
GDP growth comes from productivity, non-competes are very bad for productivity, they add friction across the economy. People say its one of the reasons CA has done so well economically.
You can legally buy drug test kits here, and I believe some community organizations give them out.
That's a bit misleading. The US via EcoHealth was funding virus research for disease prevention. The Wuhan lab may have been doing weapons research but that's a bit unproven.
Most of those have been banned, or heavily regulated, by a combination of the UK FCA and ASA. https://www.asa.org.uk/advice-online/financial-products-and-...
Last I checked switching to pure renewables would triple electricity costs due to storage needs.

You'd be way better off spending that money on nuclear (including accident cleanup) and healthcare.
Anyone using Python, Ruby, Java and .NET frameworks is using AOP, how much of it depends on the framework.
If they actually said “not for everyone” then sure, but it was a useful rebuttal to: “not an attainable career for almost anyone.”

Many people can obtain financial independence fairly quickly, think FIRE, at which point less lucrative careers are quite reasonable options.
> I’m not smart enough to figure out docker confiuration, so instead I compile my web application into a self contained statically linked binary executable file.

Good luck getting that to run in different environments because static or not, nearly every executable has dependencies.

> I’m not smart enough to figure out cloud services and auto scaling groups, so I just upload my static binary file using scp to a linux server I rent from a VPS provider.

Which of course you'll need to setup, patch, figure out how to restart apps when they go down and on and on. There's no easy out.

> I’m not smart enough to figure out how to setup all the databases and firewalls and load balancers, so I just embed the http server and data storage engine as libraries in my static binary.

And how do you back that up?

I get the gist of the article, but some things are not always replaceable with an easy alternative. Most alternatives also have disadvantages as well as their own learning curves.

Postgres, Docker, Infra as Code and Kubernetes are pretty much best practices on any development.

Don't kid yourself that the learning curve is not worth it.
Hat tip to both the amazing native JSON support from Postgres, and the SQLite module with JSON functions: https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html
I’m stupid too. It’s hard to make sense of complexity when it’s senseless and doesn’t directly address a problem, instead being an inner abstraction. Every day there’s more things to learn in web development, and the scope of most engineering jobs is too large for most people to perform at a peak without burning out. I guess much more stupid is someone who doesn’t realize this and try to do everything and end up doing it badly. Of course you can spin up whatever layer in your stack, but maintaining and debugging it at large is a whole other problem. Usually people who prefer simplicity are the ones wise enough to see the big picture, software in its entire lifecycle. Being stupid has allowed me to deliver fast and secure software that I can explain to the next maintainer in a very short time, not to mention figuring out a problem just by its context in my head. There’s a whole set of principles that makes being a stupid programmer viable, such as Pareto and YAGNI, so much so that often people confuse you with a bright, productive programmer. It came to the point that I like being stupid, because by focusing on the bare minimum, software can be shipped really fast and with great quality overall.
Judging by the radiation maps? Over 90% is cost ineffective.
That's a story from 2008. The case for nuclear had not so completely fallen apart at that point. But since then PV has become an order of magnitude less expensive, and the "nuclear renaissance" has so spectacularly flamed out in the US.

Moore's claim that replacement of fossil fuels would require nuclear is at this point objectively wrong. I mean, it was unproven then and disproven now.
It's crazy that cannabis users can't have their drugs tested to ensure purity, safety and to confirm they aren't laced with other drugs. But mainly to ensure people aren't smoking dried plant matter with mold or other common problems.
I'd be happy with enforcement resources allocated proportional to the number of victims, instead of mean wealth of victims.
I love the grug brain article, but this original post is taking it too far.
Governments do things to help regular people?
An interesting read into some of the insights that Carmack had which lead to the revolution that was Quake can be found in the "Ramblings in Realtime" articles[1] by Michael Abrash[2], who helped John develop Quake's 3D engine. Abrash wrote the rather famous "Graphics Programming Black Book", now available for free[3].

[1]: https://valvedev.info/archives/abrash/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash

[3]: https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book
I’ve been pondering the possibility of an app that could archive magazines over the eras, make them searchable, etc. something like this could be very neat to browse all magazines in public domain.
Yeah, I really can't tell if it's satire. Especially things like this:

> I’m not smart enough to figure out how to transform data between different layers of the system, so I just don’t. I use the same represetnation in the UI layer and the storage layer.

OK, well then you might need to gather a little more work experience and meet the repercussions of decisions like this one.

Or maybe the OP is a contractor and never has to deal with the repercussions of their actions.
Globally, anyone who has leisure time to read this website is probably at least two standard deviations above the mean income.

In the future, anyone with a working computer instead of a 25 dollar surveillance appliance from the cell provider is going to be considered rich.
It's a much needed coping mechanism, because the tech buzzword churn prescribed with an imperative tone is the equivalent of media setting unrealistic expectations for teenage girls.

You may be experienced, but a large part of people in our industry are just out of school and don't have the experience to sort through it.
The Manchester Guardian has always been lefty. That's not a new thing.
You have things like rocksdb, SQLite etc that are simple have serialization-deserialization built-in, so no external app dependencies
Naa, it's too far away. It'll be a cool light show though.
Open season on people _who commit crimes_ with X amount of money, FTFY.

If you have a problem with this, try committing fewer crimes. If you don't commit wage theft, you should have no problem with increased enforcement of it, for example.
This looks like a nice addition --- however, communication does not live by Android alone. Lack of iOS support severely limits Briar's connectivity.
For someone who's "too stupid" to understand these techs, they certainly can explain them and their drawbacks and alternatives well.

This reminds me of a bit of advice from Austin Kleon that I've used frequently -- "Make bad art, too"[^1]:

> “Good” can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and throw stuff in the trash. What’s important is to get your hands moving and let the images come. Whether it’s good or bad is beside the point. Just make something.

This is a perspective I have to come back to, as an engineer building enterprise-scale things, when I'm working on small-scale projects. I don't need to use the same tools I use at work, I can pick "bad"[^2] architecture, I just need to build _something_.

[^1] https://austinkleon.com/2020/04/15/make-bad-art-too/
[^2] "Bad" in that I know precisely how and when and what would bite me in the ass when I try to scale it.
This project looks great. I'm going to try it out. Kudos to you and PostHog for publishing it.
I don't think you even need to make a class war argument here..

Just consider prosecuting Google drive engineers in this manner and you see how ridiculously political this is.
I'm actually suprised YouTube hasn't nailed and Ads insertion & adblock. Could just slipstream HLS streams with Ads HLS chunks
> It is a tool, and a good one

Not even a good one imo, I ask it to cite its sources and it makes up the URLs 95% of the time.
"4 million requests per month"

There are 2,592,000 seconds in a month. So, 1.5 requests per second?
Why do we need more cement?

In my country there are 2 houses for each family, and we in a housing crisis.

Maybe the solution can be less speculation, a social solution instead of a technological one.
Yup. This thing is done.
> [...] you needed illegal steroids to become strong, masculine, and sexually attractive [...]

That's not what I said.
Why did Marketing Science at Meta develop marsci, an internal R library?
The rhetoric of the far-right definitely became more commonplace, it's not necessarily that the majority Trump's voters are far-right but he has definitely opened a floodgate to empower the far-right not only in the USA but in other countries as well.

If you hang out with Nazis, if you brush up with Nazis, you are very likely to become a Nazi yourself because no one that rejects Nazis would put themselves into that position... And I think it's pretty clear that Trump brushed shoulders with Nazis.
This is one of the negative legacies of the Blair era, the expansion of gambling. On behalf of party donors.

(They nearly got away with taking a bribe from Ecclestone to liberalize cigarette advertising, but people spotted that)
That...doesn't say what you are claiming it says.

Clause 2 requires the API to allow access to a user's data by that user or someone they authorize. Sure, there's a reasonable concern about coerced authorization by third parties, but that's a separate problem, and not worse than what we have now.

Clause 3 isn't quite as explicitly narrow, but it still specifies being able to access the listed data on behalf of a current user.

Neither of these are saying "anyone can access all the data." They're saying "anyone can access their own data".

> this would also require the social media company to update their database at the request of the API user.

And this is pretty obviously required in order for the API to allow third party apps that are more than read-only. "Updating their database" is necessary to make posts, react to posts, or change your profile information.
Employees at a given company?
I stand ... uncorrected.

It is defaulted to on so you must disable Amazon Sidewall to ensure privacy.

Otherwise, your neighbors can do network probe (or Houdini) on your homeLAN over Bluetooth LE or LoRa transmission layer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Sidewalk

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ots=1&s...

https://go.catonetworks.com/Q221-SASE-Threat-Research-Report...
> As a junior engineer, you don't trust your own judgement and use a library. As a senior engineer, you don't trust the library writer's judgement, so you write it yourself.

What? No. As a senior engineer you realize that loading data from a database is a solved problem, has nothing to do with the core use cases you're addressing, and would be a massive waste of time to build yourself.
I am unaware of any nuclear electricity storage needs. Wasting extra electricity is trivial, while last I calculated you'd triple electricity costs due to storage if you switched the UK to wind power.
I have no problem with this personally. But I fear that nuclear fearmongers would capitalize on this as a possible "worst-case scenario" if we tried to deploy such a plan. Is this thought misguided?
Revolutionizing User Interfaces: The Impact of AI
I think that's what should happen, but what do you do in a situation where you have 2 market segments paying differently?

Most HFT firms pay deferred comp. There's almost no industry alternative offering to pay pay-as-you-go compensation to a trader.

Even if all private practices decided to go with deferred comp, hospitals would just seem all the more attractive with pay-as-you go comp. Hospitals will never be scared of an individual doctor leaving them to compete. Its actually already illegal - existing regulation requires existing hospitals to *approve* of new hospitals being built - yes, this is wild.
> who commit crimes

Like speeding?
Great idea, I was going to add basic retries but didn’t think to include the error.

Any other features you’d expect in a prompt builder like this? I’m tempted to add lots of other utility methods like classify(), summarize(), language(), etc
> Needlessly allocates a `Vec` if `self.payload` is `Some`.

Empty vecs don’t require a heap allocation, so your original code is actually fine. In release mode it should compile to exactly the same instructions as your last example.
Adults presumably are adults.
Not everyone taking roids is going for the Mr. Olympia look; probably not most.
All UK newspapers are partisan, mostly to the right wing.
> After glancing through this, I can confidently say

Yeah ok.
Quake Live was just Quake 3.

Champions was something different.

The community was on life support, and the attempt (Quake Live) wasn't enough to bring people back to good eSports, as the market had moved on from pure skill based games.
And street drugs don't have side effects?
Unironically have no problem with any of this at at small and maybe even medium scale which is like 99% or more of applications.

As long as the disk written data is being backed up rock and roll!!

When they say 'compiled binary' are they using Java or are they writing web apps in C?
This is just more political gymnastics that only serves to ensure the continued dominance of black markets and all of the violence and death those black markets bring.

Any substances widely consumed by people should be regulated and tested before they are sold to the public. Even the substances some people don't like other people consuming.
Laced weed is so rare that the entire concept may as well be categorized as a myth.
Beyoncé blamed for inflation surprise in Sweden
I found that odd too, my first instinct would be to call the police. They did report it to the police before the press though, in January.
If you take 'figuring out Docker' as an open-ended problem then it makes sense. Getting an app running in a container is relatively easy, but that isn't really 'figuring out Docker'. That's just scratching the surface. Learning how to optimize that container, make it secure, put it in a registry so you can reuse it, etc means there's a lot to get through before you can say "I've got Docker figured out." There's no 'Done' when it comes to learning Docker. That makes it a harder problem in many people's opinions.
Just to avoid confusion, when you say ‘zigbee/matter’ you're referring to Matter over Thread, as Matter can also run over WiFi for ‘big’ (wall-powered) devices.
Why not?

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...

> Finland, Home of the $103,000 Speeding Ticket

> Most of Scandinavia determines fines based on income. Could such a system work in the U.S.?
I've lost about 65 lbs, then gained about half of that back. If I overeat in a single day, I can put on a pound or 2. If I don't compensate the next day for that excess, some of that weight will stay on. If I don't compensate within a couple days, all of that weight will stay.

I've had this struggle for a few years, gaining about 30 lbs over the course of a few years.

What the GP said might not apply to everyone, but it does apply to those who have eaten to excess in the past and are now struggling to keep that excess weight off again.
That's interesting, thanks!

> "Seeking the Magic Mushroom" is a 1957 photo essay by amateur mycologist Robert Gordon Wasson describing his experience taking psilocybin mushrooms in 1955 during a Mazatec ritual in Oaxaca, Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeking_the_Magic_Mushroom

I found this issue of Life in the Internet Archive, here's the Magic Mushroom photo essay: https://archive.org/details/sim_life_1957-05-13_42_19/page/1....

The KKK baseball team story is a report, not an advertisement (although there's an insane amount of ads in that magazine): https://archive.org/details/sim_life_1957-05-13_42_19/page/4....
Did you buy it through Google Domains? I think you can migrate it to some other service without affecting the gdrive account.
>I don't really separate Megaupload and Mega

As far as I understood Megaupload's business plan was selling "fast" download access to pirated material. I don't care much about piracy, but intentionally making money on it seems somewhat disgusting to me.

I consider Mega a legitimate cloud storage service. Nevermind what I think about the fiunder, I find it to be one of the most privacy minded services, so I support it and wish it well.
But it kind of is.

Merchant payment services exist that can automatically obtain the updated card-on-file credential when they are about to expire.

Both Visa and Mastercard offer this directly, or you can get the same service from a PSP.
Just looked. Seems to be the on the light side of relevant to me.
It gives people a reason to watch soccer. Watching 90 minutes of a zero zero game is pretty boring unless you bet on that outcome.
>... or people who don't need that experience to now compete against you.

I am convinced that ChatGPT works multiplicatively. You need to ask the right questions and be able to quickly understand the output.
Those skills come from experienced developers.

ChatGPT, if anything, will greatly reduce the amount of banalities as those are obviously easier to automate. The people writing banalities now are the ones which the least experience and skills.

The more senior you are the more broader you control the code, deciding on abstractions, interfaces and features. This is obviously something ChatGPT is horrible at and giving someone with 6 months of experience and ChatGPT the ability to decide on that will lead to disaster.
Well... They only know metric, would be a recipe for disaster!
Unpopular opinion, but I’m fine with this. Uber is incredibly useful to me and struggles with profitability. If they need to serve ads (that I’ll invariably ignore) to keep the lights on, so be it.
I imagine this will be about as successful as Arianespace vs SpaceX
As someone who’s career started doing ‘stupid programmer’ things, it’s 100% worth investing time in learning how to do a lot of the things which are “too smart”, purely because a lot of these smart things were built to solve problems which will cause a lot of headache down the line.
>I’ve been using Hotwire, stimulus and bootstrap... on top of rails

This is what I use as well. As a backend guy, it makes front end development a breeze.
IMO (and this is certainly not shared by everyone), Rust is best understood as being a better C++. That’s it. It’s the best language for when you want to use a mainstream language to write large systems in native code and can’t tolerate a garbage collector.

Trying to shoehorn Rust into every niche is making the language lose focus.
I’ll take a static binary any day over some virtual image, thanks.
I lack Rust experience to comment on your suggestion but it does make me wonder if the author has provided a means for feedback in order to make this "More Effective Rust" (No pun intended if you're familiar with Meyers' followup book.)
They do but I'm not the one trying to justify any of these policies hinting at a conspiracy.
Apple’s p-cores have 192kB L1 (data, another 128k i$) and 4MB L2 per core. The L2 number is at least “close” to what GP said, I guess.
>> Now I work in a 3-men company where the CEO is mostly absent and it's me and another developer, that's it. We manage 5 different products. A single team in big corp would've not been able to handle even one of those I'm 100 % sure of it.

Are You me? Jokes aside, my company used to be a lot bigger, but most left, and others were moved to big bang rewrite project into modern js (which seems to be going nowhere). And now me and other developer, one admin and one product/sales guy keeps 20-modules app (modules as modules in ERP line env - meaning CRM, Accounts Recivable, Correspondence etc.) written in old forsaken tech working smoothly with new features added daily for 10 quite big customers.

Its really amazing what can be achieved with small team who can focus their whole attention on helping customers directly, ignore unecessary meatings, work from home at whatever hours they want, and not re-doing the same stuff over and over with new shiny technology.
NDC { Sydney } – Keynote: Why web tech is like this – Steve Sanderson
I’m sure some enterprising DA will find a way to put dealers away for longer by convicting them of violating product safety and fraud i.e. you can’t sell something as heroin if it’s less than 75% pure