skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend showed me this once while we were taking about how radiation sort of makes mars colonization unviable

How to terraform Venus quickly:

https://youtu.be/G-WO-z-QuWI
Meta makes $30 billion a year. It is not a shit performing business. In fact it is one of the best businesses in history. Their stock bounceback isn't because of the layoffs, it's not because investors were actually worried that meta's business was bad. It was because they worried Mark had gone rogue and since he's the controlling shareholder investors have no way to stop him. The layoffs were just the way for him to signal that he still has investors interest at heart.
A really good adjacent piece on this is a now deleted blog post about the low social status of software engineers: https://archive.is/Qkr0i
Yes. There is a train in Florida called briteline I like to take and it has seat upgrades and I take it all the time. It's very clean and the service is very good. I do not take subways or busses.
What are the ideas that they don't like, that we don't hear?

Is there a list of these dangerous ideas somewhere?

Because I'm searching for new, dangerous ideas that I haven't heard before, and they're not so easy to find.
which doesn’t apply here unless you are accusing the author of having illegally earned crypto and donating to himself to launder money.

this guy doesn’t have trouble earning 100k it’s a ridiculous accusation
So I think the interesting question is whether the rest of us can learn anything from what happened there.

I believe Mark Zuckerberg simply used the technology he knew and took it from there. That's fine. I probably would have done the same thing.

But many people are making an ideology out of this, arguing that not giving a shit about performance is always the right choice initially because that's how you grow fast enough to be able to retool later.

I think this is based assumptions that are no longer true.

In the early 2000s, mainstream programming languages and runtimes were either fast and low productivity or slow and high productivity (Exceptions such as Pascal/Delphi did exist but they were not mainstream). And the cost of scaling up was prohibitive compared to scaling out.

Today, you can choose any fast high productivity language/runtime and go very far mostly scaling up.
In the US, you probably wouldn’t collect enough from the first class passengers to pay for their trips let alone subsidize the trips of others. BART and the DC Metro famously serve lots of wealthy people, with a pretty mediocre standard of service, and aren’t close to breaking even. Do we really want to subsidize rich people traveling?
> The modeling determined that having a spacecraft’s shell built out of a relatively thick material could help protect astronauts from radiation, but that if the shielding is too thick, it could actually increase the amount of secondary radiation to which they are exposed.

There is also no space suit that provides full protection against radiation in space.
I had the all-tools subscription for years (working mainly on Spring Boot and Angular projects) and IntelliJ and Webstorm were fantastic. Then I started Vue projects and later on Svelte and the Webstorm support for both (and Tailwind btw.) has been a disaster. Esp. how they handled the countless issues created by me and many others. Many other small annoyances like no support for international keyboards with dead keys on Linux and esp. how support handled it.

So, I had to move to VS Code for Vue and Svelte and as I didn't want to use 2 different IDEs I canceled my JB subscription. So far VS Code is pretty good for Goland and Rust as well, but as you said, I struggle to find something as good as DataGrip for SQL. Maybe I should just get a DataGrip license (single tool).

Edit: I forgot another issue ... DataGrip didn't support the latest SQLite version for a very long time, as the maintainer for the open source Java client wasn't working on it. When I dared to ask the JB support a second time for the status after a while, I got a stroppy reply from the responsible Jetbrains engineer, as how I dare asking twice and there's nothing Jebrains could do when the single person maintainer of an open source lib is doing other stuff with his life. Crazy.
Read.

“I suppose, that’s probably what you need to have a middle-class lifestyle up there too”

The point I’m making is that the median middle class income, $70k/year, doesn’t work - which is in agreement with him - pay attention.
It's not worth pointing out because those only exist on the shinkansen and routes where you could theoretically be commuting for hours. Business class exist for people that travel for work already, you can use a plane or Amtrak.

I'm sure there are workers in Japan who are using it daily, but having to be on the train for six hours in a green card everyday is not a hell worth recreating anywhere else.
I wrote an OpenAI plugin that tells me when to leave for the next tram
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil".
Private Internet Access, through a semi-documented API. I have a NixOS module here: https://github.com/tadfisher/flake/blob/main/nixos/modules/p...
What kind of software do you work on? At what company?

I have seen low level parts that are managed well, because employees have skin in the game

But I’ve also seen a lot of what this post is talking about
Looks great, there goes my Sunday afternoon.

On the topic of trustworthy review sites, especially for headphones, I thought rtings.com is the standard. Detailed data-driven reviews and supposedly crowd-funded. What do people think about rtings?
Apparently it is about 22t of food per astronaut on a one-way trip to Mars.

See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8747021/
for a review article.

Summary: there are many risks, from menu fatigue, energy consumption vs expenditure (e.g. exercising), adverse effects of space travel from microgravity, long-term radiation exposure, metabolic stress, and so on.
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This is good advice if you live in a Hollywood movie fantasy, or are insanely rich. Otherwise this is bad advice.

A parents job is to steer their kids not into superficial happiness found through whatever interested them at 16, but to actual long term happiness achieved through fulfillment, accomplishment, stability, and belonging.

If I ignored CS pushed by my father to focus on whatever interested me at 16 (pot, girls, metal music, wow), I’m not sure where id be, but I imagine it would be worse off.
Those mandatory water break laws confuse me. Is it because businesses are refusing to let their workers take water breaks? Or because workers don’t realize when they need a water break? I find it hard to believe either of those things are generally true*.

*: Perhaps there are some outliers - businesses that genuinely slavedrive their workers, or workers that genuinely can’t tell when they’re about to die. But are those businesses or workers likely to pay much attention to these laws anyway?
I'm not sure there was really a best tool for the job in 2003-2004 that would have been high-level enough to be productive, and scalable enough to stay mostly as-is. Java, maybe.
Also known as Adverse Possession:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession
I do lament for those needlessly hoarding movies and series when streaming with a debrid service and trakt would suffice

why reinvent a netflix back-end when the front-end is all you really need?
There are regional trains in Germany where this exists. Even if second class is completely full, first class remains mostly empty. It feels like a waste of space, as the downside for the general public is much greater than any potential gains for first-class travelers and train operators.
i doubt if it will come to a DMCA takedown but that is a creative an interesting idea!

maybe someone else could post an issue to their repo. but as the author of the spec i really shouldn't have to do anything to get an esteemed organization like the W3C to respect a CC license and copyright.
Why should having enough money to pay for a 1st class ticket be the only way to avoid being harrassed by "aggressive drugged-out people"?? Surely at a minimum PT should guarantee that for all passengers.
I did for a long time as well and agree it's really the only way to get ahead.
Not every space needs to be regulated. Presently, ultra lights aren't crowded and adhere to rules. Once people want to use these to simplify their commutes it will become a regulated space.
Is this specific regulation really an issue? I understand heat related deaths do occur but is it because they are not allowed water breaks every 4!! hours?

If you're working out there in 115+ heat index like June, July, August, September bring you're going to need a water break every 20-40 minutes, especially decked out in full PPE. I don't see overseers out there driving these Hispanic laborers to work 8 hours straight. They can take a break whenever they want, after all who is going to stop them. They need the job done right?

This seems like the type of regulation pushed by those who never have worked out in the heat before. Who in their right mind would even waste time passing a mandatory once every 4 hour water break? That's useless.
There absolutely is. Especially in patients with orthostatic hypotension. Especially elderly patients with fall risk. Geriatric care is often a balancing act, managing the risk of complications from side effects of medications and the risk of the complications from the diseases they treat.

No treatment is risk free. Treatment is warranted when the risk/benefit analysis is favorable.
There's some great book I forgot the name of that goes into detail about how all of the world is run by extroverts due to human nature.

Also, I never look at engineers as a cost center. They are a profit center. Fight me.
> Not every decision has to be done with maximum research.

I’ve been at a couple companies that wouldn’t take any proposal seriously unless you showed up with a list of citations to blog posts, books, or even podcasts.

The root cause was a management structure that wanted to do everything with a maximum of evidence.

It opened the door to a lot of terrible decisions winning for no reason other than someone found a blog post that Google does it this way, or Uber wrote a blog post about this, or Martin Fowler wrote a post about that.

The most egregious abuse was when a team that had to deal with maybe 100 logins per day spent over 6 months researching how to build their auth system to match Big Tech. They could have picked any off the shelf solution and been done in a week, but instead it became an endless boondoggle of research, presentations, proposals, and committees. Several people were even planning conference talks around it, so it started to evolve into whatever would sound best for their talks.

That was my cue that I was at the wrong type of company.
Correct. It's a byproduct of a so-called Death Star law: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-death-star-house...

This is meant to disempower local jurisdictions which pass laws contrary to Republican aims. Everything from Harris County's motor voter law that let people drive through vote to DAs saying they won't enforce state laws.

See also a law that targets elections in counties over a certain size, of which there is only one and leans Democrat.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/us/texas-voting-laws-harr...
I'm hardly liberal myself, but what sort of policy is it that you imagine could change this at this late date?

Cops could be directed to arresting such people aggressively, as their primary duty. Prosecution could be greased such that they aren't getting back out pre-trial... at least temporarily. Laws might even be modified such that they are convicted.

But at the end of the day, you need to warehouse them somewhere if you're going to keep them off the train and from stealing hats off people's heads. And in the places where this is the biggest problem (California), they're constantly running into prison capacity issues that see people released early.

All this remains true even if your jackbooted enough to be willing to go through with this crap. There are some other fundamental issues that would need to be solved first, and I'm not even certain those have been identified.
As someone who could never afford to get a degree at university, I love this kind of stuff!

I have gaps in my own knowledge, so I keep going through stuff, to find what I'm missing and fill it in. Eg I'm not great on O(x) calculations.
The authors are a bit disingenuous here. They insinuate that GPT3's performance shows unpredictable behaviour change at certain scales using their weirdly constructed metrics (which may or may not be true - see below), while the original GPT3 paper already showed how these amazing "emergent" capabilities scale with parameters in a very predictable way: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf

Also note that the plots in the appendix contain some obvious errors, so you definitely want to wait for a peer reviewed version of this paper (if it ever survives review).
The PineTime is a great smartwatch if your main use cases are checking the time and displaying new notifications from your phone. The build quality is great and the hardware is very similar to the original Fitbit Versa. Battery life varies with use and I get about 5-7 days on a charge.

The most well-maintained OS for the PineTime is InfiniTime:

https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime
I'd assume it's more about redundancy - 1/18 failed motors vs 1/4 would be much safer to land. Also means the replacement motors would be cheaper (individually). Like the starship booster.
Off-Path Network Traffic Manipulation via Revitalized ICMP Redirect (2022) [pdf]
Meta's CPC/CPM are actually down around 20% YOY according to the last 2 quarters earnings. They're just showing way more ads and growing user base a bit to make up for it.
15k is rather high for those specs. A single competent dev can build that in a month.
It seems like the article is going out if it’s way to elide this point, but I think the next paragraph explains what happened.

> Shortly afterward, Carl received an email informing him that he was not allowed to be an Airbnb user because of information that had surfaced on a background check. The report, which Motherboard reviewed, showed that Carl had been convicted of two non-violent offenses in 2015 and 2016—theft and drug possession, which Turner said she had been unaware of. Hoping to help, Turner decided to book a place to stay with her mom, saying she would stay with her and help her out until they found a permanent solution.

It reads to me like Turner signed up to rent a place and wrote on the form that she and her mom would be the tenants, and Airbnb decided (apparently correctly?) that Turner was going to let banned Carl stay in her stead.

The articles really not clear on when this happened or how close in time it was to Turner’s ban, so I don’t think he have enough information to know how airbnb figured out Turner and Carl were closely related, but it doesn’t seem like they were wrong either.

Btw, I’m not defending airbnb here, I hate these kafkaesque determinations and private sector policing of associations. But if you’re going to sign up to be both a host and a user of airbnb (which I personally would not), it doesn’t really sound like the system led to an egregious, indefensible outcome here.
And now we've arrived at you misrepresenting my claims about you misrepresenting my claims. It's clear this is going nowhere and I will stop wasting my time now. In the future, please try to engage with what people write, or don't engage (at least with me). If you read back on our conversation, you'll see that you did not lose a single word about "contributions", which was my whole point the whole time.
Got interested in amd29k for about a week before finding something else to mess with. Quick attempt at ghidra support, but never really RE'd with it, so no clue how does on larger projects.

https://github.com/mumbel/ghidra_a29k
I had the same problem until I landed on the Aftershokz (now just Shokz). The design works better for fatter heads like mine. After about 10 hours they start to irritate and I'll take a break from the headset, but that's a lot better than others.
Another multi-hop would be the open source tinc-vpn [1] software. It performs dynamic mesh routing in user space. The trade-off is that you and/or your friends would need to run each hop. Some hacker groups did this in the past but they would grow their circle of trust too big and didn't last. It worked great for me for decades and routed around numerous internet outages. It's not as performant as Wireguard but I see no reason the lead developer could not integrate it into wg for the tun device.

[1] - https://www.tinc-vpn.org/
The devil is always in the details and it's too easy to present a high level intelligent sounding argument that ignores all the important complexity.
In communism, all of the people collectively own all the means of production. What I am suggesting is very different from that. Companies are owned only by their employees and the capital investors. There is still competition, there is no central planning as in the USSR, people are free to work in whatever field and company they want to (unlike the USSR), etc. This is barely different from modern capitalism.
“A steady, tunable, isolated turbulent blob!”
Burying Indiana Jones
How to avoid N+1 query ? You don't join SQL.
We have beef with AI hallucinating - get 5 people to work on a problem and measure how much stuff they will make up from thin air.
5% of passengers sounds rather high to me. That would mean at least one per full bus or rail carriage on average.

5% of trips being disturbed also sounds high albeit not outlandish. (It's still significantly higher than what I'd expect in commuter traffic here. On weekend night buses quite possibly yes but I use those so rarely that I wouldn't be able to say.)

Either way, the point was that such things obviously carry weight for individual preferences, but that they may apply on top of some kind of a baseline weighing hierarchy from a broader point of view.
That seems like that would open up an entirely new can of worms, at least in the US.
Yes, this is the biggest problem with GraphQL that I haven't addressed anywhere.

The architectural beauty of GraphQL is that you can write isolated, functional nodes that only have to know about their object type. For example, the User node only has to know how to get the user's last_login, active status, and return a reference to another node type like a profile Image.

Inside the User node, you are free to write code (e.g. Java or Python) that can compute which Image node is the right one to return. i.e. you can write:

class UserNode:
def get_user_profile_image() -> ImageNode:
return some_arbitrary_function()

There is no way I've seen to square this kind of arbitrary node computation with the desire to write an optimized SQL query that selects all needed information in one big-ass statement.
In the article:

> What they are seeing goes well beyond previous research on so-called mirror neurons, which represent both the self and another. (When I watch you throw a ball, it activates a set of mirror neurons in my brain that would also be activated if I were doing the same thing myself.) In contrast, the self and other cells Hong and Kingsbury discovered encode only the behavior of one individual or the other. All three kinds of cells—mirror, self and other—were present and aligning in the mouse brains.
There are exceptions to all the above, but only after the worst case burns from failure to do those things. If you are losing customers to competition that doesn't crash, then suddenly you can be the hero by making yours more stable. Of course only if you can do this before the company dies.
>If that’s your personal ideology then fuck old people benefits

No idea what you are getting at here.

>Saying think of the children

The health and wellbeing of children is important. It is not wrong or irrational to think about it. On the contrary, it is irrational to make supposed 'savings' by neglecting the very people who will be the engine of the future economy.

>UK’s debt to GDP ratio was under 30 in 2000, and hit ~70 in 2010. The growth slowed and stopped after conservatives took over.

We're both looking at the same graph. The debt to GDP ratio has been consistently higher under the Conservatives than it ever was under the preceding Labour government. You are picking an economic statistic at random, misrepresenting it, and still failing to point to any tangible benefits of the Conservatives' cuts in public spending. We are supposed to just accept that cuts are good because 'spending less is good'.

More on the Conservatives vs. Labour and debt here: https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2021/06/24/the-tories-ha...
Yeah... Beto does tend to give the impression that he just likes to lose.

Beto was Mayor of El Paso, where there was that horrible shooting a few years back. Beto really latched on to gun control.

And I agree, like we need the most purple Democrat in Texas, or they won't stand a chance.

It's hard to get the left motivated by a candidate that has any shot of winning. And the right just has to sort of default into a win... it's a tough spot.

I really do appreciate that Beto keeps standing up to be a punching bag. But I do wish there was a way to make him a bit more moderate.

Guns, abortion, immigration... they're all just issues that make Republicans show up to vote against a Democrat. Since there are more Republicans than Democrats, it'd be be better to not talk so much about those things I think... But meh, what do I know? It's not like the Democrats would let in a candidate who was silent or moderate on those issues... and if they won't make any concessions, it's pretty hard for Republicans to cross party lines for someone based on personality alone.

Beto lost by 11%... that's not terrible terrible... but even if it was a 1% point loss he still wouldn't get a say in running the state. I don't know what the answer is, but I suspect if we wait 20 years things will be better. Do we have 20 years to wait?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/...
We've been using Hotchocolate for over a year now I n a project. And the experience has mostly been pretty good.

And pair this with their Blazor client called StrawberryShake. And your production levels are pretty nuts.

So to answer your question, yes people do use other alternatives