skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking about it, it seems questions generally allow for some flexibility of interpretation reducing potential cause for offense, where statements allow far less latitude. The problem is that some questions require foundational understandings that may be offensive, or can really only be understood with malintent. "When did you stop beating your wife?" comes to mind. The question doesn't even allow for the possibility that you don't beat your wife.

Similarly, "Can I sleep with your wife" implies that the asker thinks it's a possibility worth inquiring about. So I basically agree with you on a practical level -- most people would not respond well to the underlying assumption. The question is a veiled statement ("I think you might be open to letting me sleep with your wife, so here I am asking"). In that sense, the question and the statement aren't very different, as you noted.
Hire smart people. Use common sense. Get rid of bull shitters who regurgitate the latest fad on medium.com without any thought of its appropriateness for your environment.
Off topic: this comment subthread is collapsed by default on page load. I haven't seen this before, is it a new type of mod action?
You are right, apologies.

This was the article I was referring to:

https://ourworldindata.org/how-has-income-inequality-within-...
Excerpt from the book that summarizes itself pretty well:
"There are nine universal principles that underlie the ultralearning projects described so far. Each embodies a particular aspect of successful learning, and I describe how ultralearners maximize the effectiveness of the principle through the choices they make in their projects. They are:

Metalearning: First Draw a Map. Start by learning how to learn the subject or skill you want to tackle. Discover how to do good research and how to draw on your past competencies to learn new skills more easily.

Focus: Sharpen Your Knife. Cultivate the ability to concentrate. Carve out chunks of time when you can focus on learning, and make it easy to just do it.

Directness: Go Straight Ahead. Learn by doing the thing you want to become good at. Don’t trade it off for other tasks, just because those are more convenient or comfortable.

Drill: Attack Your Weakest Point. Be ruthless in improving your weakest points. Break down complex skills into small parts; then master those parts and build them back together again.

Retrieval: Test to Learn. Testing isn’t simply a way of assessing knowledge but a way of creating it. Test yourself before you feel confident, and push yourself to actively recall information rather than passively review it.

Feedback: Don’t Dodge the Punches. Feedback is harsh and uncomfortable. Know how to use it without letting your ego get in the way. Extract the signal from the noise, so you know what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Retention: Don’t Fill a Leaky Bucket. Understand what you forget and why. Learn to remember things not just for now but forever.

Intuition: Dig Deep Before Building Up. Develop your intuition through play and exploration of concepts and skills. Understand how understanding works, and don’t recourse to cheap tricks of memorization to avoid deeply knowing things.

Experimentation: Explore Outside Your Comfort Zone. All of these principles are only starting points. True mastery comes not just from following the path trodden by others but from exploring possibilities they haven’t yet imagined.”
So cars from today are not meaningfully bigger than 1980 and prior. I think people have forgotten how big cars were back then. There may be more SUVs and crossovers but these have fulfilled the role of station wagons and full sized vans.

The reason cars have gotten heavier is mandatory safety features. You can simply compare subcompact cars from the different eras and see the change. A subcompact of today is roughly 600lbs heavier than a pinto. Also cars today have more aluminum parts and composite materials. So if they were made the same they would be much much heavier. Safety is good but it's not free in dollars or weight.
Chrome doesn't have one anymore, that's a WebKit thing.
That was COVID for me. My front porch was and still is my office, and I got to know most of my neighbors and all of the gossip.
A little late now that Ampere and Nvidia have their entries in the game. Pushing for Apple hardware in the server rack would probably end the same way it did the first time. It would take a cultural shift for Apple to align themselves with the server market.
> It's mostly alpha radiation left which is dangerous only if radioactive particles are inhaled.

As someone who's dug a few ditches in my day, I'll testify that dry dirt is pretty easy to inhale.
You could(/can?) also travel the exclusion zone as a tourist. Including to one of the excavator claws where the adventurous couch warriors are able to test their meter and make selfies.

The even dumber are getting smuggled in for illegal tours. Meaning you get somebody who knows the area and run past the patrols and sleep in the ruins. Quite stupid but there is youtube. They are also coming after the people who stole all the scrap metal.

Chernobyl is also not the only place, people also visit abandoned cold war bunkers which can look quite amazing. But are also often heavily contaminated and off limits to the public.

Some examples are at @ExploringtheUnbeatenPath (NATO command bunker) and @shiey (Chernobyl) on youtube. Legal options are already quite nice and dont give you too much cancer. In Russia you will also go to Prison for a very long time when caught climbing a derelict antenna, let alone visiting bunkers. If i recall they got very annoyed when Russian teens climbed all the Stalin towers.
I wouldn’t tell a user this, but developers of the desktop environments and distributions are leaving a lot of the design space unexplored.
I also got into programming like this. I even remember working with whitefang, the creator of whitescape, to try and build a 377 server when everyone was on 317. I don't remember if that attempt ever got anywhere though.

I think what you're describing with all the code bases is why I lost interest. It felt like everyone was just doing their own thing without any collaboration. Unlike say World of Warcraft servers where everyone used MaNGOS. I hope it's better now
If you want to build more of a production web backend, I also recommend the book Zero To Production In Rust by Luca Palmieri [0], it's awesome.

[0] https://www.zero2prod.com
> Secondly, there are annual limits on the amount you can deduct

There are annual “limits”. No sensible mathematician, programmer, economist, or other non-politician would look at the actual formula and think it was a limit.
I'm being that guy, but with a system like Google Contributor you could pay for Web sites without revealing personal information. The overall point stands that many people want something that's too good to be true and they refuse to admit it.
The people behind the esp32 are writing a rust compiler.... I have played with it only a little, but it worked

Edit:spelling
What? It’s very easy to be in the 50% range all in. Live in Manhattan and make a million in W2 wages, boom there you go.

Despite all the heeing and hawing, rich people do pay a ton of taxes. It’s mainly the one percent of the one percent you hear about that can structure both their income and lifestyle in a way where they pay less than say someone making 50k in taxes as a percentage.
Right. This is why I said "mostly" in my post. If you want guaranteed detection of all forms of UB you'll need even higher overheads. Like, I really don't know how you'd design a system that is guaranteed to detect all data races.
The federal government's powers are enumerated while everything else is left to the states. You may not like that the OP presented the federal government as corrupt but that doesn't negate the point. There is no accountability at the federal level. The federal government has turned into a mess of alphabet agencies whose sole purpose is to grow. They are not elected but write the laws. Congress has abducted their responsibility. There is recourse at the state level.
"A bit" could be the better part of a decade, which is an eternity in IT time. And some wont even be possible anymore, or way more difficult, and indeed, be stopped.
https://techblogz.onrender.com/

Its is a collection of engineering related blogs articles from technology companies. Its meant for technology professional to discover tech content. It also has a built-in instant search service of searching for a keyword (like 'gpt' or 'kubernetes') across multiple technology company website's blogs with a single search and filtering the results.
I look forward to the day when AKS is assumed to be Apple and not Azure.
> a measly 2% on actual hosting costs

That's a good sign, isn't it? It means they are efficient and don't waste their budget on overpriced cloud services.

I'd be more pissed if a significant junk of the donations went straight to AWS.
> Look up words in a paper dictionary so you can be accidentally exposed to nearby words;

I've had this debate many times at work - someone is chastised for spending time troubleshooting an issue vs just restarting everything, but the same people chastising later complain that issues which cant be fixed by a restart take too long to resolve, not understanding that troubleshooting previous issues speeds debugging of future issues.
How much of that is stock based compensation that is artificially inflated by the Fed pumping trillions of dollars into the economy?

These comparisons are so disingenuous when they implicitly equate a stock grant to cash.
What a great walk-through, good for both Rust and unixyness!
We live in a mid sized city in the midwest, typical city block with single family homes. Folks keep to themselves a bit - not everyone, but enough that you have to make an effort to connect with neighbors.

My son and I had the idea that we should just organize a block party. I think this was in early 2021 after covid was letting up a bit. He was 7 years old and said we should get a food truck to come.

So that's what we did. Made homemade invitations and handed them out to a couple blocks around us and sent out emails to friends.

I think we had like 75 people show up to the first one! It was great. Had a taco truck come, and the local fire station rolled the engine by for the kids.

Blocked off the street so everyone could sit together and the kids could run around without worrying about traffic.

We've been trying to do this every 6 months or so since then. Great way to meet tons of folks in the immediate vicinity and strike up some new friendships - highly recommend it.
I uninstalled the app, browse youtube anonymously, and periodically clear cookies. My browser has all the history I need.
Asbestos in brakes is bad but it's a not really a concern even from. Chinese pads anymore, but there are still lots of harmful things they give off even still. Asbestos is just well known.
Most of the working class whites I know from the south in the military, or more middle class southerners for that matter seem highly mannered and polite, not really “ask” culture.
Why do hurricanes hit the East Coast of the US but never the West Coast? (1999)
I do, and that's why I moved to Google Maps as soon as it came out. The performance and UX of MapQuest was terrible.
I've not been to Japan, but heard what seems to be an exception to this rule from a colleague.

When out having drinks, it is considered (1) rude to let your friend's drink go empty, and (2) rude to refuse your friends offer for a drink.

Is this accurate? If so... one can imagine how this can get pretty messy!
Joel Spolsky makes a very good point about never throwing away code. To him, it is something you should never do.[0]

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Ask HN: How to harness the wind that buffets my Bangalore apartment?
As stated, my Bangalore apartment gets a lot of wind. I want to use it to reduce my and my family's carbon footprint.

I already air dry (dryers are a rarity in India). We don't really need air conditioning and fans at high speed here for about half the year.

What else can I do? Feels like a waste to let all this wind go unharnessed.

NB - while all suggestions are welcome, tips you have seen used/available in India would be more useful.

NB2 - I'm reasonably handy so if something needs a bit of DIY/tinkering to set up, I'm happy to do that.
Ask and Guess are each presented as extremes, which isn't that helpful. People don't belong 100% to one side or the other.

If someone really behaved according to all the "Ask culture expectations," they would be selfish, and if someone really behaved according to all the "Guess culture expectations," they would be insufferable. Yes, various people are a little more to one side or the other, but most of the time something in between is best, along these lines:

• Yes means yes, no means no (to both the asker and answerer).

• Ask for what you need, but with an awareness of what you're asking the other person to give up.

• Take responsibility for what you say (e.g. don't actively lie about your expectations, don't offer when you aren't ready to follow through).

• Show appreciation.

Being aware of other people's needs matters. Communicating your own needs matters. Both are important skills, and if you completely lack one of them (and blame the other person for it!) you're going to be in for a hard time.
Not in my experience. They have a sample size of only 7, btw. While in my experience it doesn't look like piss, it doesn't feel like piss(very different viscosity), it doesn't smell like piss, it doesn't taste like piss, nor does it come only from the urethra. Which actually is blocked during sexual arousal, similar to the way mens bladder is blocked. One maybe can train that sort of release by applying strong pressure against the bladder, but why?

So there seem to be different sorts of squirts or female ejaculation, which all have in common that it feels for the woman that they have to piss, which at least in my experience is wrong. It's more of a flush from everywhere, even from deep inside around the cervix, the vaginal canal, the outer vagina. One can even see little pores opening and oozing that stuff, while licking, fingering or fisting.

When having inexperienced women, which feel anxious or even ashamed about that, convincing them that this is not true, that they should not block it and let it happen even if it feels like having to piss, they don't piss but gush and flush that other stuff. Which gives them (multiple possible) whole-body, skull-bursting orgasms. And all the other joys that come with these, but also exhaustion.

I don't know what to make of that article. It doesn't reflect what I experienced, maybe methodology inspired by stupid pornos which stage, fake, and overdo anything, or something like that.

It amounts to the same shit which is(was?) 'common sense' about the clitoris and G-Spot which only slowly changes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoris , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulb_of_vestibule , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_cavernosum_of_clitoris , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-spot , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_fornix for more.

Maybe I had another approach to this, by reading about the Kundalini Chakra at about 10 to 11 years old, plus parts of tantric massage (superficially only, kept only what worked for me later), and been lucky to be able to really, really research all of that with one beautiful and experienced jogger in the forest. On my thirteenth birthday, no less! :-)

Now I'm 54 and think, if you don't make them flush and gush the ooze(and not the piss!), you're doing it wrong. While still not having cought any STD, or Herpes, or Hepatitis, or HPV, not even Toxoplasma gondii.

shrug
Yeah, I'd say there was more trust, and reputation meant something. Careers were made and broken on Usenet and over email, and bad behavior could be effectively frowned on and nipped in the bud, usually.

I used to write essays about how much I admired RMS, and his idealistic vision of libre software, free like the air we breathe. Of course, I wanted free software because I was not rich, and software was expensive, so of course I preferred it!

There was a famous mailing list in those days, "com-priv" where all the thought leaders discussed the ramifications, and the process for implementing, a transition from R&E, government-subsidized, to commercial and privatized Internet. I was dropped smack-dab into the middle of that revolution, and I truly felt both sides of it.

The Internet, as conceived as an audacious techno-mage DARPA project, and then rolled out to academia, was absolutely fascinating and 100% culturally distinct from the Internet we have today. But the Internet today needs funding, it needs support, and it needs to be under regulation, and so we got the one we really deserve, I suppose.
I run a bootstrapped software company, not at the $100M scale.

My interest piqued I clicked, had a look at Aha! (having never heard of it before) and immediately thought - hey I could use this. You got me, ka pai, haha.

Any insight on how to navigate inflexion points that seemingly require more capital that cashflow allows? Stay true and spend less? Number 8 wire might not be the same solution today as it once was, that's my worry.
Hah - every time I've been in japan its always talk shows where people are eating food with ridiculously over done expressions of how amazing and tasty it is.
I think you're taking things without knowing the details of his context. You speak to business in the language business understands. Sometimes business is not interested in your logical explanations. They're seen as excuses. Business dumps the responsibilities on your lap, gives you a budget, and starts pressuring you to deliver. The only conversations you then have are about time and money. Give me some time, give me some money, I'll save you more, etc. So those are the bottom lines of any arguments. Maybe in his specific case this (second) argument, of putting his job on the line to buy himself 10 weeks of work, combined with the first (staying aware of how the angular project is evolving and picking whichever comes first) was something that business felt comfortable risking. You would go in with all your React technobabble and be surprised when they roll their eyes and say "how long, how much".
Yeah, this was somewhat peculiar to the individual friend. I was just offering it as an anecdote for those who say things like this are unique to "people from the NE" or "Asians" or "people from the South"
I miss the early 90s techno-utopianism. Wired magazine, ISDN at home, Pentium, 10base-T, the glorious soon-to-be Information Superhighway.
If you’re 18 and can’t take without shouting the N word or telling gay people to kill themselves… whether or not their strikes expire is not the most important issue.

MS is trying to sell systems to 6+ year olds.

For some reason parents, as a whole, tend to dislike their kids learning the latest slurs and how to properly suggest people consider suicide. Or hearing any of that directed at little Tommy.
He doesn't fear going against them - he's one of them.
For me, the Star Trek movie with the giant, desert, canyon in the middle of Iowa was a real “WTF?” I can’t believe that only Iowans were bothered by that. If you have ever driven across Iowa, I am certain your view of corn fields was wholly uninterrupted by canyons.
If you’re posting here, you probably have some degree of bias.

Of course the millennial crowd interested in engineering is going to know about Chernobyl. But if you ask the average Gen Z not associated with tech or engineering, I bet they’d have no idea.
Wow, great article!

> TSMC pumps out close to 60 per cent of the semiconductor chips used around the world and makes 90 per cent of the most advanced technology used in phones and laptops all the way to missile systems.

I knew TSMC was dominant but not that dominant. Couple that with ASML in the Netherlands which makes the chip making machines, and I'm wondering if there has been any time in history when so much of our critical technology in our world has been concentrated in so few producers.
Oh I believe they can. Isn't it called a supoena?
> Congress has abducted their responsibility

Because it's happy with that state of affairs, and you keep voting them in.

> There is recourse at the state level.

No, there isn't. Not at the state level, nor at a more local level. We're at a point where even municipalities aren't able to rein in their police departments!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ahtp0sjA5U

Still makes me laugh.
I believe HN does it automatically, although it probably shouldn't
As a kid, I had extreme social anxiety. I had a hard time talking to people and making friends. I never felt like I “belonged.”

As an adult, I still have crippling social anxiety.

I can’t speak for everywhere, I’m pretty much only in the U.S., but I’ve noticed that most fellow adults I come across are chronically deprived of social interaction.

My social anxiety doesn’t actually matter. Me being awkward, and weird, and a little bit out there doesn’t actually matter. If you talk to people, ask them questions about themselves, laugh with them when they want to laugh, listen to them when they want to vent, rant with them when they want to rant, and feel pain with them when they’re vulnerable, a sweeping majority of the people I’ve met in the U.S. engage.

And the more you do it, the more you realize the world is actually full of amazing people. They’re all living their lives, making mistakes, getting things wrong, and making bad calls. But overwhelmingly they’re trying to figure life out and get through the best they can; and they want people with them on that journey.

I still have crippling social anxiety but my friend group is steadily growing and it feels good. I still play the fun game in my head of “haha did we all have a good time today or did I actually say something terrible and now everyone hates me or thinks I’m a fool?” on pretty much a daily basis. But I wouldn’t go back to being lonely. Not just for me, but for these amazing people who want more folks with them on their journey.
Expanding on your point, rewrites can work if they can be accomplished in finite time.

It's one thing to rewrite a website, where the project timeline is measured in weeks.

It's another to rewrite large project where the -estimate- time is years.

We have mature desktop systems that have been in continuous development for 25 years. That might blow your mind, but its the same timescale as say Excel of Word. The question of rewriting, regardless of the tech stack, is moot. It would take years of effort (optimists think 5, more likely 10) and would cost a fortune. With negligible benefits beyond "now written in a language with a bigger developer pool".

I'm the first to admit that there are disadvantages to the stack. On the other hand we are where we are (doing well) thanks to that stack, so it's not all bad. We're still using code laid down in 1996, while being a modern desktop app. We're still the leaders in our field.

The time (aka cost) to rewrite is the major hindrance, and far outweighs any issues using an uncommon stack.
if this was just to improve SEO, why not just slap in pre-rendering middleware and forgo SSR? like prerender.io or some headless chrome variant w/ cache? honest question, I’m not as experienced with the nuances of frontend dev
So no one else should be able to choose anything different?
In the movie San Andreas, the character parachutes into AT&T Park in San Francisco, then casually strolls a few blocks and is suddenly in Chinatown without breaking a sweat. Chinatown is miles away and up a pretty steep hill.
Their loss should just be thought as the cost they paid for a lesson in economics - and their lawsuit be dismissed!
You have the right to remain silent during questioning outside court. By the way have you seen how far this has degraded? You can't remain silent until you say you are remaining silent explicitly by claiming this right.

But, I'm not sure you have the right to not speak in court when called to testify.
You could build it on the moon.