skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oof, this hits close to home. during my tenure as a principal engineer at a certain startup, well known and loved in these parts. Anyway I was new to engineering leadership and this big initiative came down from above to migrate to k8s. team was excited to be done with the myriad adhoc scripts and duct tape infra. But it turned out the team was very junior, and I was green as a leader and manager. every day brought a quagmire of smaller, seemingly inconsequential tasks. i'd be midway through configuring a helm chart and someone would drop by, asking for a pairing session or help with something or another or my input on something unrelated or to sign off on some administrative document.

To make matters much worse, one week, an elm / functional programming purist in the team started making a lot of noise. they believed in sticking strictly to the core principles of elm and basically avoiding 3p dependencies like the plague. while they were generally respectful and i respected their dedication, it became another thing to juggle. trying to mediate between that guy and those more pragmatic about our deadlines was taxing.

I realized that amidst all this, my primary role of mentoring others and solving higher level engineering challenges was getting overshadowed by these micro-decisions and tasks. it was like being in the middle of a sea, trying to stay afloat, while holding onto a bundle of papers. EFT, as described here, is a term that captures this perfectly. it's so essential to be aware of it, especially in the tech world where the lines often blur between roles and responsibilities, and especially in engineering leadership. Love having a word for this now that I'm in a position to mentor people who are new to engineering leadership
How was their youth employment before the Arab spring? Hadn’t that been a problem in that region for decades?
> There were a couple of peaks in 1980s/1990s, but nothing that big recently.

I get a slope of 61,783 ± 31,227 for that data via linear regression. That means 2,471,320 HA more per year burning now compared to 40 years ago.

It wasn't exceeding 1.8M HA per year in the 80s+90s other than the peaks in 89, 94/95, and 99. It exceeded that amount 13 times since 2002.

The average fit yearly burn has increased from 1.2M HA in 1980 to 3.6M HA in 2023.
Why would someone pay for this over using ChatGPT or Copilot Chat? Yeah you might have to copy and paste instead of it writing directly in you editor but both of them offer way more than this especially ChatGPT.

On top of that Google is releasing a similar application (VSCode + AI) for free.

I don't see why they didn't just make this a plugin for VSCode editors. Probably would be a better product.
I'm reading the raw report - https://www.mmt.gov.hk/files/Evergrande_Report.pdf

It looks like Left's concerns were largely legitimate, but he wasn't familiar enough with the standard accounting and industry practices that the authorities were able to nitpick details he got wrong, and he probably used a bit of hyperbolic tone to describe the real concerns about the Chinese property market.

The problems with the Chinese property market isn't "accounting fraud" as alleged because everybody is doing it in the open, I guess.

I think Left's main "fault" was that he shorted the stock, triggered a small panic, and profited from the deal. I mean, that's market manipulation unless the allegations are true, and it really is unfortunate that when it comes to truth, it's more like "what I said might be technically wrong, but I'm telling the truth!"
> because people don't report crimes like that anymore

This video does nothing to support that crimes are no longer being reported at any rate differently than prior years.
I painted the Mona Lisa with 88.1% accuracy!
https://vole.wtf/clone-a-lisa/ https://imgur.com/a/87HFCSB

Hmm, the scoring seems off
https://imgur.com/a/b9NHotr
I would say the best example of this is the "modern" privacy policy.
This hits home as I sit here submitting FSA receipts tonight.
It greatly depends. That said, I would say a large amount of the high power DC charging points (i.e., the ones you need to use when road tripping, and have to stop at for ~20-30 mins at a time) tend to be placed in inconvenient places. For example, at the VERY back of a parking lot, 200+ ft away from the nearest storefront.

Generally, it seems that they pick the furthest away locations because they aren't desirable spots, EV chargers usually need some large infrastructure that takes up additional space, and EV owners don't really have a choice...

Additionally, depending on where you have to stop, you may have a charger located in some mall or group of stores that closes at a relatively early hour (~9PM). Usually these are far enough from a convenience store (you know, the ones attached to a gas station) that it makes more sense to just wait at the charger then make a separate stop at a gas station if you need snacks/bathroom/etc.

Some stores do a good job of integrating the chargers nearby to their business, but your mileage may vary wildly. There's a bakery that has a supercharger I stop at frequently on a road trip that I take; when the bakery is open, it's fantastic little stop with food, snacks, restroom, etc. When it's closed... tough luck.
Yes, but I guess it works for either.
I understood there isn't consensus around that. If that were the case HIV would be far more widespread in Europe than the states.

This is a much better resource: https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/02/the-troubled-history...
This boat don't float (2009)
Come on. Nothing regulates what we can reach on the Internet more than Turnstile/Great Firewall of Cloudflare abusing wrongful association of IPs.
> Comics are discovering they don't need an impresario or producer as they did in the more rarefied entertainment environment of the past.

Are they? I highly doubt it. I disagreed with a ton of stuff in this article, but I think the points it made about the comedy business are pretty spot on: hardly anyone can make an actual living in comedy, and getting your big break on SNL is still one of surest ways to be able to make a living (and then some) in comedy.

It's not the only way (and the article concedes as much), but the legions of people posting comedy web series or doing stand-up in local clubs definitely have day jobs, and tons (most?) of these people still dream about getting on SNL someday.
Managing Through Layoffs
Accounts Payable implements as much friction as they can to avoid paying money. They think this is their job.

I see many companies treating their customers like criminals or slaves; many more than used to pull that stuff. It's only going to get worse.
Anyone here been to an onsen? Does it really match the marketing or is this more of people falling over themselves with Japan fascination?
I thought I understood how iteration over arrays work in go but apparently not
Yeah from what I've seen Teams is deliberately hostile to simple solutions.

I think it would be fun to reverse engineer the presenter+ protocol and implement the mute toggle on a wimos D1 mini or similar.

wimos D1 are around 5 bucks on aliexpress, so would be great to just make a simple big button that lights up red for mute.
> if ML is so powerful why does Spotify exclusively serve up the steamiest of dog sh$t?"

Has popular sentiment turned against Spotify’s algorithms? I thought their recommendation system was their most-respected feature – in my own experience at least, Discover Weekly continues to be Spotify’s moat.
I think you are both on the wrong track.

The claim is that, instead of you mowing your lawn, you get someone else to do it. What you gain is time, and reduced cognitive load.

It's kind of a childish thing to say about your manager since that is just how the cookie crumbles, but still a real exchange. Managers delegate certain tasks so they have time to focus on other tasks. Some managers delegate almost everything and leave you wondering if they do anything at all.

The person in the article feels their partner is also delegating to them and so they feel as though they have no executive function by the end of the day.

In regards to work though, that is just how some jobs are structured. You get paid to take certain load off of your 2IC or Manager or whoever.
https://youtu.be/mOb8qxay748?feature=shared
The shift in valhalla's direction reminds me of the initial challenges i faced when experimenting with its early prototypes. i distinctly remember grappling with the introduction of q-types and v-bytecodes and trying to align it with my existing understanding of the jvm. it's interesting to see how the design is evolving towards expressing struct-like values as normal java classes. from my own tinkering with valhalla, the convergence towards a more streamlined approach without losing out on performance seems promising. curious to see how these changes will play out in real world applications, especially considering the nuances of java's memory model and optimization techniques.
Re: lock horn

My last sedan would beep when you hit the lock button twice, which was great because I could lock it without being annoying but I could also use a beacon to find it in a parking lot. Now, my new RAV4 makes the tiniest little blip no matter how you lock it, it's only audible from a few feet away, so I can never find it in a parking lot.
You CAN try get rid of call backs if you have nice language like Julia that can inline the call back
"prohibiting future uploads while redirecting the audience towards comparable programming that was more economical for Spotify" — this sounds like Spotify generating the white noise on device or partnering with an app that does so, which seems like a much better use of resources then letting users upload thousands of GB of machine generated audio per week streamed to hundreds of thousands of viewers. I don't think there's much indication at all that the goal is stopping people from listening to white noise and forcing them to listen to other podcasts. And i don't necessarily think they'd be wrong in assessing that this is a very poor use of bandwidth costs, or wrong in thinking that it's one that significantly changed the marginal economics of the platform (auto generated white noise can be uploaded in bulk by computers with no human involvement compared to the time it takes to create even the most bare bones podcast episode, and one "episode" of white noise is indistinguishable from a another for most users, leaving Spotify holding the bag for thousands of hours of back catalog that may never get listened to)
Have you seen Avengers? As the Hulk says, "That's the secret... I'm always angry." Learning to control your anger is a life skill, one that different people have different aptitude for, but one that nobody should give up on.
Why are you so intent on hijacking the term open source to refer to software that does not preserve the user's freedom to use the software as they wish?

The goal of open source software is to preserve the user's freedoms, not to preserve the developer's ability to profit from the software. Other people have already invented a term for source-available software that is not open source due to restrictions on commercial use. It's called "fair-code", which is a term that encapsulates the ideals you're looking for:

https://faircode.io

There's no reason to weaken the definition of the term open source when there are already other terms to describe source-available software that is not open source.
I like that. I think the term being used in literature is Decision Fatigue, if anyone wants to google it.
I love websites that violate the Colorado Privacy Act.
I've always heard that Lorne is famously against improvisation while shooting. There have been numerous examples over the years of people getting in trouble for doing it. Here's one article [1]. There are very minor changes that don't seem to cause problems. Bill Hader talked about Fred Armisen's delivery of "What are you doing here?" in the first Californians sketch being different when shooting causing him to have trouble keeping from laughing.

This article [2] says, “Oh, ’cause we Black?” was added ahead of the run-through, but camera direction changed and not everyone was informed who the camera would be showing as it was delivered.

[1] https://www.slashfilm.com/1225418/why-lorne-michaels-doesnt-...

[2] https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/snl-lisa-from-t...
A previous article about management styles kinda goes in the direction you're describing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37159338

Reception wasn't great to say the least.
Check out QLogo, under active development.

I was teaching my daughter to program with it. Quiet fun.

https://qlogo.org
What SaaS CTOs Need to Know About the Terraform Licence Change
which works as long as the pump site isn't actually in the fire, or the diesel supplies aren't removed to reduce fuel sources in the evacuation zone.
It’s a subjective interpretation that strikes me as fairly strained. It’s clear that Cal Newport would not advocate that, and I highly doubt would support what the author has written. There’s a difference between work that someone else has to do and work that nobody has to do, and I believe Cal was advocating for dropping BS work that nobody needs to do. This may even include entire committees, etc.
It’s funny how such an unfunny show works to promote and train a steady flow of talent. I wonder what will become the next mainstream comedy breeding ground after Lorne calls it quits. Given the show’s ratings (and relevance) decline since the 90s, I imagine we’ll see SNL wrap it up within the decade. I’m not sure it will be missed.
Not really, they were simply stating the truth - its patronizing as fuck when billionaires pretend to feel compassion for poor people
And if you use Linux and don't need CUDA, it's really no contest. The AMD experience on Linux is vastly better than the Nvidia one.
Pornhub’s parent company is changing its name to total nonsense
Labeling this as EFT, comparing it to illegal action, implies that this act is hostile. That implies that Newport is inciting violence.
> i call it "choice-gas"

OK, but it's already called decision fatigue. And it doesn't seem as if the essay is identifying a novel pathology either.
Man, both these people come off as weirdly assholish to me.

I mean, look at the title of the article you posted: "The Comedy Club Owner With a Background Questioning Vaccine Safety- Come with me down a disturbing rabbit hole."

Why would I give a fuck that a comedy club owner is questioning vaccine safety? Last I checked comedy club owners aren't setting medical policy, and it's not like they have the broad reach to influence social policy. People are still allowed to believe whatever the hell they want, even if it's dumb. The "Come with me down a disturbing rabbit hole" subtitle sounds like something from a junior BuzzFeed intern.
"precedence rules, and complete assistance from the browser dev tools"

Huh? I am not sure what you mean here. Tailwind generates css that is completely explorable in any browser dev tooling. Its precedence is the order of the css classes just like any other css class.

You can solve class overload by just making components. Create a Button component one time, have it contain the tailwind classes you want, and then all through your app, just call your Button component and never think about it again.

You can also just define custom tailwind classes in the config you want to do something really specific or crazy.

If that is too much work you can use Daisy UI which is just a tailwind plugin and it creates a ton of classes that essentially compress tailwind classes down to manageable chunks if you are fine with Daisy's style.
TLDR: some people and organizations make us to tedious work.

Personal opinion, when that person is your boss, just do your job.

When that organization is supposed to serve you but makes you do work, look for an alternative.
What? I think it's pretty clear theft is a metaphor and that no one is suggesting this is illegal.

Even if it were, theft is a far cry from inciting violence. Eg if I advocated shoplifting (don't shoplift) I wouldn't be inciting violence, I'd be inciting shoplifting. (Theft by violent means is called robbery.)
Fantastic, thank-you. Every day continues to be a school day!
If you like guis and Julia, this one is outstanding

https://github.com/Gnimuc/CImGui.jl
He’s an extremely prolific producer. I happened to watch The Other Two and Detroiters the other day, both produced by him. Tim Robinson from Detroiters went on to make I Think You Should Leave
And yet I bet that study would fail to reproduce so it to is pseudoscience!
I think a major part of it is a lack of knowledge of history among many people in computer science and software engineering, even researchers. Alan Kay, the creator of the Smalltalk programming language and one of my personal heroes, has lamented many times over the years that a "pop culture" has developed in the software engineering and computer science world. This culture is focused on the present and often disregards the past. It's more than the overloading of terminology like "Web 3.0" and "fourth-generation programming languages." It's an overall attitude that focuses solely on the fad du jour and lacks a deeper understanding of computing.

I've noticed a lack of knowledge of computing history among many people who work in computing professions. Personally I think all undergraduate students of computer science and related disciplines would benefit immensely from a one-semester history of computing course. They'd start by learning about early analog computing devices before learning about two very crucial developments in the 1930's and 1940's: (1) the invention of early digital computers such as the ENIAC, and (2) meta-mathematics and how that led to Godel's incompleteness theorem, the lambda calculus, Turing machines, and other fundamental concepts that underpin theoretical computer science. Then they'd learn about the rise of the computer industry, the history of software, the history of high-level programming languages, the history of AI, advances in computer architecture, the birth of the Internet, the GUI, the World Wide Web, social networking, and modern topics such as deep neural networks and large language models. It would be a lot of ground to cover and it would be impossible to cover everything in just a single course, but the goal of such a course is for practitioners in computer science and software engineering to have a basic understanding of the history of their profession and why things are the way that they are today.

I also believe that those fortunate enough to work in or visit Silicon Valley should make a visit to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View to get a taste of how far computing has come in just a relatively short amount of time compared to all of human history.
Umami: A History of Monosodium Glutamate [video]
"I can only presume there is a limit on song length for albums,"

Definitely not, I have plenty of real songs in my Spotify library that are an hour long or longer. My guess is that it has more to do with how Spotify calculates artist payouts and that white noise "creators" found that they could get 20x the number of views if they split all of their tracks up into 3 minute chunks.
Actually my concern was running into finite recursion limits, sys.maxsize for arrays, etc.

The language does specify that the highest possible limit is platform-dependent and there are functions that must return a number so the limit must exist, be enforced, and be a finite number. But that’s a really pedantic class of issues and the spec has few specific limitations so you could probably avoid any of them but it’s a more complicated problem than what you posted.
But surely you are aware that Paris has many visitors.

And that a good portion of them may be paranoid about this type of thing due to their very real experiences elsewhere.
Here's an alternate interpretation: they're watching television now rather than movies. Because the kind of character development and depth of storytelling that can happen in 20 or 50 or 80 hours goes far beyond what you can do in 2 or 3.

And the idea that young people can't watch long things due to a lack of attention goes directly against the evidence of the increasing habit of binge watching.

Forget about watching a mere movie for just 2 hours at a time. Try 4 or 5 hours instead, where you can cover almost half a season of a drama. You immerse yourself in the world for an entire evening, the way people used to do with novels.
Respectfully, aside from whether or note the tone of the piece is or is not justifiable, I think your comment misses the point, which is that there is injustice in people (or a system) who unfairly shunt work off to you that they should rightly own. The US health industrial complex is indeed a prime example.
Dawood Bohras (a particular Shia sect in Islam) practices this, it is called Khatna or Khafd. Most of Dawoodi Bohras come from Mumbai, India, where this is common[4]. A female doctor from this particular community was prosecuted in Detroit for practicing this[1], her case was dismissed, as the US district judge found that "Congress overstepped its bounds by legislating to prohibit (female genital mutilation)". After this, the state of Michigan banned this practice. Another person got busted in Texas for transporting a minor from UK to Texas for female Genital mutilation[2]. More cases from the states [3].

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/detroit-emergency-room-doctor...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-woman-indicted-transpor...

[3] https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-detroit-femal...

[4] https://www.hindustantimes.com/static/fgm-indias-dark-secret...
You know, this whole thing is baffling, really. And let's strip away some layers of social justice and get to a root issue, a root question here: who has rights to a child?

Who has rights to a child and for what purposes? The UK and USA have long been setting precedent that parents do not have sovereign, inalienable rights for their children in terms of such things as medical decisions and education, and I don't know how it is outside these USA, but Child Protection agencies are like a Twilight Zone of fear for many parents, whose children could be ripped away from them on the flimsiest of evidence.

So who has rights to a child? Do the parents have rights to know what goes on in the classroom? To know what the child's up to, in terms of discipline, behavior, secrets confided to a teacher? Do the parents have a right to intervene in such matters? What about medical issues? Do parents have rights to know a minor child's conditions, procedures, and do they have a right to choose what HCPs do to that child? In many cases, the legal answer is already "no", and personally, I find that chilling.
But thats the neat part, you can move somewhere prop 13 doesn't exist.
Seems like ceramics have hit ~7,000F: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high_temperature_ceramic

But yeah. No filaments at that temperature, though 10,000F is rather easy to hit if you're not trying to keep whatever you're heating.

Though this does make me wonder how hot a star can get. Stable states are likely not all that hot, but what about supernova?
I, for one, appreciate your deliberate and expository introspection but if you need this explained to you, there's a chance you will never—and I mean never—get it, but here goes:

Some people believe that we owe it to one another to be considerate to one another, ie to take responsibility for one another's emotional well-being.

Yes, that "underlying idea" is actually quite common in polite society if not outright ubiquitous. In fact, I'm fairly certain that its absence is considered a psychological pathology.
The windows are there for safety, not just passenger comfort. Pilots need to know what is going on outside on the aircraft.
not necessarily to the ground, a power line going down could short with any number of structures, or other power lines.

i've seen a grass fire start when a bird touched its wingtips to two lines on the same pole, and the smoking carcass hitting the ground was enough to ignite it.