skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is perhaps surprising is that we're so stuck to the idea that profit making is the most important thing to optimize for, instead of individual health.

What makes this surprising to you?

We've forsaken all pretense of moral fiber, we worship entertainment and self-fulfillment at the expense of everything else. And I say "we" in the "What does the general culture edify and promote"—obviously not everyone lives this way. But enough do that it's really unsurprising to me that we worship profits. After all, if I can get mine and live an easy life—why should I care that your life is hard? (I think the answer is that there has to be a higher calling than simply living for yourself, but in our individualistic society good luck pitching that to the masses.)
There's a lot of theorizing that early sapiens intentionally set fires to clear thick, impassable forests and kill game in the process. The cleared areas would make post-fire hunting easier as well.
> However, looking back, I don’t think we needed agile or sprints. The project is not big enough (in scope and size) to justify a system like that. But most of all, agile doesn’t fit in the context of this particular project, because the client changes priorities very frequently. As in, weekly, and sometimes daily. So sprint planning goes out the window every week when new requirements and priorities are discussed

Sounds like you needed to be very agile! But maybe not Agile(tm).

Honestly Kanban (what they were doing before) is a great fit for this sort of environment. But for a small team maybe you don’t even need that much structure.
If you define emissions as basically equivalent to money you are bound to see a correlation.

Original article: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...
2017?
SpaceX is investing a ton of money into Starship/RnD.

Those investments will basically be a money printer by lowering the cost to orbit drastically below any possible competitor.

It’s a long term play and it’s very smart.
I can’t get it to, got prompts?
I came to the article thinking I might have found something interesting to learn, and then I came across this:

Starr and his colleagues analyzed income data across U.S. households from 1990 to 2019 and linked it to emissions generated directly and indirectly from that income. They included income tied to emissions related to the operation of a business, such as from a coal-fired power plant. But they also included income, such as from investments, that supported services or products from those industries.

“As you move up the income ladder, an increasing share of emissions is associated with investments,” said Starr

So this reads almost like an implicit tautology, if I can phrase it like that. Basically, investments are tied to climate emissions -> wealthier people have more of these (because wealth is defined this way, hence tautology) -> wealthy are tied to carbon emissions.

Not useful. I was hoping to read about air travel or large homes or such.
No thanks. As someone who prefers aisle seats I don't want to get stuck boarding last to find that the overhead bins are already full.
emancipated route is how millionaire's kids get in and get financial aid
Ask HN: Is arrow code sometimes unavoidable?
So a while back I changed my awful coding habits to "if (!true) { return } ..." after reading a post about "flattening arrow code."

But it got me wondering about conditions with multiple instances such as:
"if (true) {
if (!true) { return }
...
}"

Is arrow code sometimes unavoidable? Or should I be setting flags for everything?
I mean, not necessarily. A 300k job at a tech company may be less stressful than e.g. a 150k job at a non tech company with a toxic culture.

To be clear, it can be true, there are lots of stressful high paying jobs, my point is that it's not necessarily true.

I know low paid people with stressful jobs and highly paid people with less stress.
Ahh I thought there might be some auxiliary services you need to run — do you run anything like prometheus instances or analytics or anything like that?
Yup. I deliberately half-ass it. Seems to work even better and faster than trying to get it perfectly correct.
Did you found a startup with 4 kids, or were you an early hire, or just one of several worker bees?

Serious question, not rhetorical, in case it doesn't come across.
Correct :(, but smallest plants can only have 5-10g harvestable, having a big plant through lots of energy input which can have 100+g definitely is out of the scope of a Solo person consuming legally weed

Having 3 plants would make the weed buds stale/old until u get to consume it (for the average consumer that is) the laws are dumb, but good first step
Because he forgot the name Solitaire
Yes, three times (including my current position). It worked out fine -- no better and no worse than going through the standard process.

If a company is courting you directly, they very likely already know more about you than an interview will reveal to them anyway.

For me, the big difference is that I don't know them as well and without an interview, I am missing a large opportunity to gauge how well I would fit into the company. So it means I have to do a bit more research than usual.
> may start to turn into a mess very quickly

These "stacks" ONLY work if you are building hobbyist apps, or if you want to sell services. A fast-moving product company has many better alternatives that are probably far more tailored to their business objectives and team composition.

Maintaining these things in production for many years is often painful and cumbersome. Moreover, they usually are introduced by a single person who has a lot of enthusiasm to maintain it, but when that person leaves all hell breaks loose. Even more fun is when the underlying infrastructure provider decides to deprecate an API that requires a ton of bespoke fixes (e.g. Netlify's Next.js edge plugin which recently had a behind-the-scenes change to how Lambdas are spun up causing bugs with state leaking between requests).

With that said, it's good to explore new technologies. I just wish these sorts of posts (which are thinly veiled product marketing/tutorials) would expand to actual direction/feedback about how to use new tools in production effectively.
It's from the fact that the demand is falling and they need to slash prices to continue to sell. They benefited greatly from Covid price surges, but this is about to end. In a 'normal' year, they can't sell that many cars at the prices they did last year - let alone in a 'recession' year.

I don't think their did any investor guidance about profits - I may be wrong though.

Re factories - I don't think they are building any new factories now - are they ? The only one announced is Mexico, but they still don't even have the official permits yet.
> That's different from if you had a service called, say, pirate-share with a search function that has options like "artist" and "director". These difference matter.

Perversely, though.

Grokster and BitTorrent are largely used for the same things and they both have infringing and non-infringing uses. Grokster lost because they promoted the infringing uses. But why do we actually care about this?

It's not as if copyright infringement never existed before Grokster and nobody has been able to figure out how to use BitTorrent for it because Bram Cohen never mentioned it.

So all the rule does is impose censorship. Because otherwise the creators of these technologies would be outspoken proponents of copyright reform. But then their lawyers tell them to STFU, because if they say that existing copyright terms are morally unjustifiable and the RIAA is a pack of vultures who deserve to go bankrupt and things to that effect, plaintiffs will argue that they're promoting infringement and sue them for their political opinions. Especially if they fail to be perfectly articulate and precise while expressing that sentiment.

Is it not a de facto prohibition on developers and businesses expressing public support for the Pirate Party?
Ya, there is some wisdom in "don't use Confluence". It's far too heavy for a wiki. Maybe it's fixed by now why should a plain text page show a loading spinner??

I'm personally a fan of one massive README with a table of contents for technical docs. YMMV.

Also, definitely link the docs in the description and not the comments. I've found that you should never rely on anyone reading the comments (or re-reading them, at least). Any important info that is surfaced in comments should be moved to the description.

Of course, if you're team isn't going to read tickets then that's just a plain problem.
There should be a term for social science clickbait, which is a lot of what these social science 'studies' seem to turn into.
Surprised not to see https://twitter.com/nealbrennan/status/956253921827176448 on this post. Roy Orbison, in particular, looks older than I would think a 52yo would look.
Thanks for the constructive criticism.
Addressed one concern in a reply above this.

What is the Fediverse?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/fediverse-explainer-1.69058...
In addition to what other people have said, it's important to note that Elon Musk hasn't realized any gains from SpaceX.

There's a huge difference between unrealized value and actual profit.

It's like living in a house worth 1 million. That doesn't mean that you have a million dollars to spend on toys. The value might go down or the house might get trashed.
> > This has always been the case

Musk is 50, already past his intellectual prime. Has been an entrepreneur (or at least he claims) ever since he was 20.

If he hasn't delivered any profit in 30 years, it's clear that his business model is based on politics, subsidies and aggressive promotion to sell the stock and enrich himself as opposed to building something that improves the quality of life of the avg. citizen.
Hardened FreeBSD 3.0 Released: FreeBSD
I think part of it is that most people probably think that the cost of the useable energy in a battery is a significant amount of the cost of the battery. And so they expect that the cost to recharge a rechargeable battery is going to be about the same cost as buying a new disposable battery (or more...the disposable battery maker will be getting their electricity at industrial rates which are usually quite a bit lower than residential rates).

And so they think that what you are paying for when you spend 6x as much to buy a rechargeable battery is mostly the convenience of not having to go the store to buy new batteries.

But since batteries are sold at the grocery store and at convenience stores and have something like a 10 year shelf life it isn't actually inconvenient to just keep a small stock on hand and replenish them as needed when buying groceries, except maybe for the exceptionally forgetful or disorganized.

In fact batteries are a very expensive way to buy energy.

Take a 2800 mAh AA alkaline battery. At a nominal 1.5 V that's 4200 mWh of energy, or 0.0042 kWh. If you live in someplace with very high residential electricity rates such as Denmark or Germany that's about $0.0023 worth of electricity.

In the US, where electricity is a bit cheaper, for the average consumer it would be about $0.0007. It would take 1400 of those batteries to get the same amount of electricity that would cost you $1 when taken from a wall socket.

The result is that for most people they will save money with rechargeable batteries. The exceptions will mostly be people who have very few devices that use AA or AAA batteries. They might go through batteries at a low enough rate that the savings each time they need to change batteries isn't enough to overcome the upfront cost of the rechargeable batteries and a charger.
"clearly" is doing so much heavy lifting for you it puts both starship and sls to shame...

If you have evidence to support that takeaway I'd love to see it. I don't have evidence one way or the other, though I have seen unconfirmed scuttlebutt that SpaceX is successful _despite_ Musk, in no small part due to actively distracting and babysitting him to prevent him from meddling
Yes, those temps are absolutely sane for hot air. You didn't specify that.
Southwest offers free checked bags so there is somewhat less demand for overhead bin space.
> I'm not clear on how you actually do that with OPA
The sharding is managed from the OPAL control plane, when you configure the data sources you also configure the way the sharding works.

> ensure consistency in your application since hydrating the cache is asynchronous.
OPAL use eventual consistency for cache reliability, you can know that data has changed, even before you know what changed.
Mojo!
"There is nothing wrong with it. There are dozens of us. Dozens!"

As a tab lover, my jimmies get rustled most when I see those references to developers who use spaces earning more.
"Most React components offered by products aren’t usable" says company selling React components.
I do it all the time. There's no "rule book" on it.

Just my PoV:

Everyone is different, and we need to start by doing our best to understand them.

Sometimes, we understand that they are selfish, cowardly pricks, and that we just have to accept that.

That's seldom the case.

One of the lessons I learned, a long time ago, is that hurt people tend to be incredibly self-absorbed. This is people in mental or physical pain. Mother Theresa might have kicked her cat, when she was having a particularly nasty headache. We'll never know.

Understanding people is different from advocating for them, or "taking their side." If you want to understand rats, talk to an exterminator. I know a couple, and they really understand the little buggers.

But also keeping control of my side of the relationship is incredibly important. It should not depend on them. If they are unreliable or dangerous, then it is incumbent upon me, to limit the scope of our relationship.

Easy enough, if we are not in a situation that demands we work together, but I have also done a lot of work, with some very difficult people.

It can be done, but, in my case, it requires that I be quite self-aware, and take responsibility for my part of the relationship; which includes not expecting stuff from people that can't give it.

WFM. YMMV.
can confirm. We once lost a several pricy boxes of RAM on the street. They were returned to police and then to us.
This happens constantly during deplaning? I think this is a little quirk of how the animation is rendering. There are "little people" standing in the rows behind whoever is currently gathering belongings.
They do use a sensor. E.g. the bestselling dehumidifier on Amazon (HomeLabs) does exactly that. Same as Frigidaire, etc. Mine seems to cycle on/off about 8-10 times per hour -- it turns off when humidity reaches 5 percentage points above its set point, and turns off once it reaches 5 percentage points below.

I've had humidifiers/dehumidifiers in the past that have been off by 20 to 30 percentage points of humidity, but honestly that was never really a problem, because I just set the target off by the same amount. Also it really helps if you have fans circulating the air -- especially with ultrasonic humidifiers, it can easily humidify the nearby air by 20-30 percentage points and turn off, because local humidity really has gone up, but it hasn't spread throughout the room.
* A RockPro64 NAS at home running DokuWiki, Jellyfin, files, backup. NixOS. Accessible via Wireguard.

* My external sites are all static or CGI (typically Golang), managed by my email/web provider.
Two different issues here. One, is the undisclosed income. Second is that the spouse is entitled to her own career, whether they have sufficient income for her to stay home or not.
How do lawyers, doctors and actual engineers communicate? Do they use emojis?
I've been alive for many such moral panics: LSD, heroin, angel dust, crack, meth, krokodil, fentanyl, at least.

Color me sceptical
https://archive.ph/snsSo
I really like this PSA from the British THINK!, juxtaposing celebration and darkness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CERT0xNFGo4
The fiber factor probably plays a big role too. Sometimes juicers take that out. Fiber can make you feel full and it may also play a role in rate of sugar absorption.
if you know the info I might be able to get it
Leetcode questions have their own set of issues. Just wanted to say, not sure a portfolio of personal projects is all that better either.

A candidate that has a good portfolio and can pass an algorithm and design interview, and described prior work experience on projects that seemed involved is your best bet of course.
Software running on the same CPU as the kernel is not necessarily at the same trust level.
Should read “The richest 10 percent”
Disney is not toxic. Ordinary people don’t care for the culture war bullshit they’re being targeted with.
Would be great if people could share their provisioning and bootstrap code repos (assuming they keep the private data separated).
It is interesting you mention interruption, because the original NVC book endorses certain kinds of interruptions. "Would you rather have someone pretend to listen, or to interrupt?"
Yeah, all this plus more men working physical labor jobs and working outside.

Sunlight ages your skin pretty hard, especially at lower melanin levels.
> Due to the model’s randomness, even when impersonating a Democrat, sometimes ChatGPT answers would lean towards the right of the political spectrum.

Seems fair.
Not if the Space Development Agency and SDI have anything to say about it, though I actually doubt they will get funding.
In the medium-long term I want to do this for Rust as "Pattern types" because the thing I actually want (custom types with niches) is gated on Pattern types, as the way to explain to the type system where the niche goes is a Pattern. I was persuaded that we can't/ shouldn't just say we'll half ass it, we must do it properly if we're doing it.

e.g. I don't necessarily have a use for an integer from 0 to 11, but I do see a use for BalancedI8, a one byte type with values -127 to +127 via 0, thus omitting -128. I reckon lots of people don't need -128, whereas a niche is very useful. Rust provides NonZeroI8, which has -128 through +127 but no zero, but I find that's less often what you want, and it's not today possible to make your own in stable Rust (and in nightly Rust you need a not-for-mortals perma-unstable attribute today).
"Starve the beast" really means to reduce income while not reducing spending. The goal is to pile up so much debt that future generations will have no other choice than to reduce government. Evidence is that every republican president since Reagan has implemented big tax cuts while at the same increasing spending (mostly defense) and deficits. They never bothered to reduce spending or increasing government efficiency in any meaningful way.
That plan was rejected for the reasons I stated in a sibling comment.
Advertising on children's videos ensures that children are probably the ones clicking those ads- thus YouTube ads lead to tracking children.
Alternatively, make a filter that applies a label and skips inbox. Occasionally, open the label, select all, and Report Spam.
Lower-end service work in large, expensive cities.

You aren't treated with dignity by the customers, by your boss, or by the size of your paychecks.
Effective prompting has more to do with theater than engineering.
Well, if investing in coal plants is more profitable than investing in other investments, then we would expect people who invest in coal over solar to make more money and be richer.
Yes, if the US Air Force was far behind and playing catch up. But they're clearly not.
The trick to get rid of that is to go to search filters and select "videos."
https://archive.ph/AfDVK
I have IKEA Trådfri lights and they’re great. They’re regular bulbs except you can control them from your phone/home assistant. They use the zigbee protocol (iirc).

It’s nice when you forget a light in bed, but the real killer feature is the dimming and change of color.
In the US it's really important to separate rhetoric from what politicians really do. Unfortunately not many people do this and media mostly is about "he said/she said" without looking at substance.
> They could cut old versions off, but they would be cutting off a lot of users.

Modern Twitter doesn't seem to particularly care about this factor.
Packet-switched. :P
Try again with ebikes. Save energy, super quiet, faster, carry heavier weapons gotta like all that for a sneak attack.
> And he has never delivered tangible quality of life improvement for the avarage American

Neither has Ferrari or Rolex but that doesn't make them failures. Most of Musk's companies deliver good value to customer, just not cash flow profits from revenue to the companies themselves. They do somehow still deliver profit to shareholders via stock price movements though. It's not clear if Tesla will ever achieve long-term cash flow solvency but for now most customers are happy, and most shareholders are happy.

SpaceX seems like it won't be super difficult to achieve long-term positive cash flow. They're dumping tons of cash into Starship R&D but the expected returns are great. There really isn't any competition knocking on their door so they'll have at least a decade of uncontested pricing/margin dominance.
I always try to use guard code to quick return, but I also find no rule is absolute. If a guard makes your code easier to write and understand then use it. If you feel like you are doing gyrations to place a guard then it might not make sense.
In a current hiring loop my company is doing for a senior, we have a take home divided into a series of steps, with explicit instructions that say that completion of the entire exercise is not necessary to advance (and we mean it).

The take home serves two purposes: (1) should the candidate progress to the in person interviews? (2) if the candidate stumbles in the in person coding, can I deduce from the take home that they do actually know what they're doing, and the stumbling was a side effect of interview anxiety?

I can tell a lot even from an incomplete take home, about whether someone is likely to do well on the in person interviews, but I mostly find it extremely valuable for (2), as a tiebreaker.

It hasn't happened yet in this cycle, but I can imagine a situation where someone turned in a fantastic take home and then brain farted during the in person coding, and, thanks to the take home, got hired.
Given the replication crisis, it's safe to assume pretty much everything from the social sciences at this point in time is outright false, if not deliberate propaganda -- because if you're funded by the Muppets Are Better At Everything Foundation, you sure aren't going to publish a paper titled "Actually, Muppets Are Just Puppets With Extra Proctology".
The data I've seen suggests the opposite?
punch cards per bald eagle
I wonder about photography.

Current photography benefits enormously from lots of automatic and manual technology that make photos look bright, modern, smooth and generally very attractive.

compare this to film photography, which did not have the dynamic range, light sensitivity, color balance and other benefits, and could generally be improved only by sustained manual effort.

(and older photography was black and white, and which added years and psychological distance to any photo)

Just think of the benefits from a modern phone camera taking a candid photograph of yourself, at night, at arms length.
When my Father was my age, he had four children and I do not.

I look younger.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Oh, Baba Is You is a good example, I'd say that counts.