skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
theres a state ntl guard building where i used to live, on a busy thoroughfare, sandwiched in between a busy shopping plaza and a bowling alley/sports center. id pass it every day. the building is painted a muddy green, and is only accented with a muddy maroon - corners, lettering, awning etc.

i remarked earlier living there on how ugly those colors were. few army vehicles, hummers strewn about. did not look like a happening or exciting place. ugly colors.

it wouldnt be until much later passing through i thought about the color scheme.

and it clicked - i never paid real attention to the place. at all. plaza, sports center. it was invisible! the ugly green and maroon combo - like freddie kreugers sweater - made you not want to look at it, or hurt your eyes trying to process information - on purpose.

now i look for people who paint their houses in those colors, and i understand.

about the part of matching the color of the sky - i find across the country the blue color of the sky varies. im sure the lighter blue sky of florida differs from the darker, almost greyer blue above nevada (the blue on their license plates)
> In fact, until quite recently they bought cadavers for medical schools (for anatomy and such) quite freely.

And often quite illegally, despite the practice being common.
Why are you turning it off? It's probably a superstition and not a real reason.
Yes, the biggest drawback of Tailwind is React. Or specifically, relying on components as the mechanism for style composition.
Always the same handful of scientists:

https://www.desmog.com/john-christy/

> when all of the team members were asked if isotope data supported the conclusion that about 75% of the increase in atmospheric CO2 since the Industrial Revolution was due to the burning of fossil fuels, and Christy was the only member who disagreed.

> “Of course, those isotopic measurements have been made by labs around the world. You know, it’s very, very well established science. But John Christie did not agree. And when Professor Koonin asked him, well, why don’t you agree? John Christie said, because I did not make the measurements myself
The risk of foregone upside in expected value (or, alternately, expected utility) to the extent that you are mis-valuing one of your genuine choices.

If Netflix is going to pay you $200K/yr and Facebook $180K plus $400K in FB shares vesting over 4 years, IMO, it's an error (IMO) to conclude that Netflix's offer is $20K/yr more than Facebook.
Critique the work of others as well. A lot of impostor syndrome goes away when you realize that 80% of the people who you thing are better than you are cutting corners you won’t, and that takes up time. Someone else is cleaning up after them.
Because you can offer more money than expected future value.

Say a farmer with free water can make $1m a year from his farm, working hard on it.

So offer him more than $1m a year. Buy it outright for $100m and they'll start to jump on it. Index funds on that would return more than $1m a year with no digging.
This is a world-wide tragedy of the commons. I think a world dictator would be necessary. But perhaps if the largest economies imposed a carbon tax - including on traded goods, then mitigation could be accomplished.
That and mandatory updates to systems.
what you're proposing seems like a good idea - except certain retailers have more money than others and will offer free hassle free returns along with a price match. This will result in there always being competition that's as cheap and having returns, resulting in the entire sale going to them.

there's a reason retail is often described as a race to the bottom
i think timely treatment with haldol can in fact significantly reduce or even entirely prevent the excitotoxic brain damage from alcohol withdrawal, but i'm not certain of that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens#Treatment
Missing cases, the "Oh, it does fail if the size of the input is divisible by 256" feeling.

Or the O(n*this-exponent-is-way-too-large) algorithms that seem fine with a ten item input but not so nice with 10,000 items.

Or the incomprehensible build script that you (meaning me, of course) just kept adding things to with no systematic naming or sections.

Just three that have bitten me in recent memory.

Even the simplest and most routine tasks can get messed up sometimes.
Even if a doctor believes a patient, what are they supposed to do against a disease with no tests and no treatment?
>How much does that matter? (And that proliferation of concrete/asphalt is an obviously man-made issue.)

My understanding is that globally this matters little, but locally, this can matter a lot.

You do need to account for this to some extent when comparing long term temperature measurements at the same location.
If your phone was "really off" the system clock would say 1969 when you turned it back on. Who would that benefit?
Unfortunate news but i'm glad i was there for the ride.
You probably won't regret it, Spring is a solid framework. But the issue with Spring in my experience is that it has constant breaking upgrades with various dependencies But this is more of an enterprise issue. Upgrade breaks a dependency, fixing that dependency will break another dependency, etc. While some people say Spring Boot is convention over configuration, I don't really buy that, the configuration is done via annotations which is still configuration. My other gripe with Spring is that despite it all being annotations, when it breaks it can be opaque about why it broke, or why it didn't bind something.
You just need to start using it. Raku is here and ready for many practical tasks. Again you don’t have to keep up with all Raku features, you may want to just start using it for something … )
> Waiters are paid very little (below the minimum wage, which is itself unlivable)

Is there a legal anchor to this? I was under the impression that "minimum wage" is a salary they must be paid or otherwise it is illegal to employ someone (at least this is how the minimum wage works in France)
"AI" is going through this process at record pace. So far every money-making application I've seen for it has just made existing products worse by reducing the number of humans involved in production. Shittier artwork, shittier blog posts, even shittier recipes.

At least with social media we had a few good years where everything was awesome and it felt like our lives were being enriched, not cheapened.
BotW and TotK are both incredible games in my opinion. I would love to travel into the future to play the next installment
A lot of stores had "Apple Sections". Cambridge MA Microcenter still has an apple room. Or compUSAs (a sort of big box computer store, now defunct) had an Apple "Store within a store".

https://www.cultofmac.com/452599/today-apple-history-apple-b...
That's a good point, Math is just as much a communicable language as English, French, Japanese, etc... maybe even more so according to some formal definitions.
I do think that would be an interesting metric, but it sounds pretty difficult to calculate and I haven't found any related research. I disagree that distributed generation is the wrong direction, I think it's extremely valuable and worth extra labor if it's more resistant to supply chain issues and less carbon intensive than whatever it's replacing.
cool, they can have them. the canadian white collar middle class is absolutely destroyed.

edit: color -> collar
> Any solution to climate change will take decades to implement. There is no turning this around quickly.

Certainly.

But your assertion was it's "Better to work on solutions, like fusion power and battery technology for electric transport" than follow the alternatives of "legal action and eco terrorism".

Are you really arguing we should do nothing until technology solves things for us?

If so, that sounds like the "Parable of the drowning man" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_drowning_man - your faith in unproven future technology seems indistinguishable from prayers.
I'd strongly suggest using something like ArrowJS instead of jQuery for that.
And even better: can we disable the mitigations while still keeping up to date with patches and BIOS updates?
"Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces." -Andrew Back

https://twitter.com/9600/status/90729345307521024
So in sum, the Big Tech job recession (might be) over, but the Startup tech recession stays on. There have been a lot of AI startup failures over the same period as the credited GenAI boom. GenAI is favoring large, entrenched companies, and startups (and the hype-following VCs and investors) might want to look elsewhere for big opportunities.
Also, water evaporating off a plant in California is not guaranteed to make it back into the Californian water system.
Is that true for RTSCs? In the last month of this saga, every time I saw someone comment on some amazing new technology that RTSC would enable, another expert would chime in and explain why that’s not actually possible or feasible for various reasons. The only convincing gain I’ve seen is a ~10% drop in power transmission costs. But obviously this can’t be right because of how excited everyone gets about it.
Are there any resources where I can learn more on how the overall pharmacy/prescription drugs/insurance/patient value chain works in the US?
My biggest issue with "feature rich" is that unless you have strict control over your developers' usage (which won't happen in most large companies), you'll inevitably have all sorts of bloat used by various teams in your organization, which just adds to the cognitive overhead for anyone who needs to work on those services. You know the old adage: once you provide something in the API, you'll have to support it forever.
Try Tailwind. I was a complete hater before I sat down and committed to one week project with it and I am frankly ashamed at how off my assessment was prior to using it.
Just pick some conservative discount like 50% of the current value. Your average large publicly traded company is unlikely to dip that far and not bounce back.
Doctor isn't writing a prescription for exercise, they're suggesting you work towards performing more of it because the best (limited) clinical evidence we have suggests it helps.
People have been training ML to play Minecraft via text commands for a while. Having access to the guts of a clone makes perfect sense given their past and present projects.
It's ridiculous to me that the most popular languages from the last 20 years or more are the ones that handicapped. They have `and` types but not `or`.

It sounds like a very basic logic tool that's needed for types.
> I have to question any article that claims task manager items are "randomly moving around."

"Randomly" is colloquially used to mean "chaotically" in a lot of contexts, and the chaotic they mean is "unpredictable enough as to seem or feel random".
Or just do what I do -- only buy robot vacuums that don't need a cloud connection to begin with.
Developers gain if they know CSS. Just like JavaScript - for either, if you understand the underlying base technology, it doesn't matter what framework you are presented with, you can learn the specifics of that framework fairly quickly, in my experience.
I think their new return policy is:

Please do return it, k thanks.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193726286/smash-and-grab-mob...
macOS definitely but Windows has actually had equally an equally good per display fractional scaling API for much longer and apps like Firefox have been supporting it for many years now.

I'm a huge Wayland (swaywm) fanboy myself and I'm excited about these changes but there is still more in the Wayland pipeline I'm eagerly waiting for so Linux catches up and surpasses macOS/Windows e.g. HDR (which is something Firefox has also been slower on). I think the fractional stuff is all in "about as good as one could ask the display server to do" state for Windows and Linux at this point, the rest is apps adopting it like we see here.
> Most online mattress sellers offer free returns, in some cases for up to a year; used mattresses can’t be resold, so the loss, usually some eight or nine per cent of sales, is folded into prices.

So we all subsidise high returners, which is annoying
Because in this scenario selling the water rights to someone else would bring more money than not selling and using those water rights themselves for e.g. farming rice on that land.
“Climate change is not real because a specific model I chose to run from spotty 1950s data over cooks the atmosphere.”

Misapplying models, in this case through the intentional omission of proper data for said model cause it didn’t exist at the time, is a commonly reoccurring theme from climate change deniers.

What this person did is tantamount to when PHDs carbon date an object known to be millions of years old, land on 6,000 years, then say “see earth is actually young.” Carbon dating doesn’t work on extremely old objects, so this is a misapplication of carbon dating with the intent to deceive and mislead.

In other words, it’s shit tier science created specifically to mislead.
Ok but how does that benefit me though? By not interviewing I don't keep my skills sharp, so that if and when I lose my current job I'll need more time to ramp back up those leetcode skills. I also might be missing out on a good job market or pay raise if I haven't checked my market value in a while.
We have wildly diverging views of the average HNer. I'm thinking the median is much closer to "Russian catgirl home-cook on X" than "studious reader of The Atlantic".
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/deeply-held-beliefs/
> There are tons of working class liberals

You are correct, but with the rise of nationalism as an appealing ideology, there are fewer white working class liberals (AKA blue collar) than there were in the past. These people were decisive in the 2016 election, and were a big reason that swing states had close elections in 2020.

Many of them have abandoned universalist progressive economic ideas because of the loss of economic security they experienced with globalization.

Also, unlike the capitalist and professional classes, the nationalists are often OK with strong safety nets, as long as these benefits are limited to their tribe. They are really neither conservative or liberal. There are other political dimensions involved.
white collar? I hope that's what you mean.
FDA warns against pregnancy, other tests from secret Chinese-owned lab in Fresno
“the more we move away from burning things for energy, the better” is not self evident. We’ve been burning things for energy since the invention of fire 1 or 2 million years ago. It is a major major factor for how we have built this global civilization that we all benefit from. That said, we moved away from burning fire, not because we ran out of wood, but because we found something more efficient. Currently, hydrocarbons are the single best method of generating and delivering cheap, reliable energy. Only nuclear comes close, but for some stupid reason it is demonized. Solar and wind serve a purpose, but they’re nowhere near ready to replace hydrocarbons. We should only transition away from hydrocarbons at the point that by doing so, humans flourish more, and not less. This means either we develop a newer, better technology (nuclear nuclear nuclear), or we begin to run out of fossil fuels, which won’t be for a very long time.
I once heard a parable during a lecture about famed process expert W.E. Deming.

A bank's management was concerned that its tellers' cash drawer balances were often slightly off the expected counts. During spot checks, one drawer might be 25 cents over; another might be a few dollars short, and so on. Management thought this was symptomatic of sloppiness. To address the problem, they instituted a rule that all cash drawers had to be reconciled at the end of each day, and if there were a discrepancy, the teller would be disciplined.

After a few weeks, management asked for a report. Congratulations were given all around. Discrepancies had vanished entirely. Problem solved.

Eventually the real story surfaced. The tellers responded to the rule by creating a secret piggy-bank fund. If a drawer was over at the end of the day, the excess went into the fund. Deficits, likewise, drew from the fund. Thus, the books balanced perfectly at the end of each day. No other process changes occurred.

The lesson is that when you're trying to manage a process, you'll almost always see improvements in what you're measuring, but that does not mean that the root problem is solved. The number of tickets issued by these cameras will certainly go down, and police will use that number to justify more installations. In reality, drivers will start holding phones above their heads, wearing seatbelt-colored shirts, driving with the sunshade down, avoiding the routes with cameras, waving their arms around the cabin, and so on. The metric is number of tickets issued. Drivers and law enforcement will collaborate, conspire, and independently innovate for the exclusive goal of bringing that number down.
I heard about this from this Odd Lots podcast: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-11/paul-krug...
Misleading title. 48hrs isn't any sort of rate. The 10K is pent-up demand.

> Canada’s immigration ministry has been asked by Canadian tech employers to extend a program launched last month that has seen 10,000 foreign tech workers in the U.S apply for permanent residence in Canada.
Those Twitter comments…goddamn.

Why does climate change attract all these loonies? Even if you ignore the data completely, these people surely can’t look at an open pit mine, a plastic-filled landfill, and a smoke-spewing industrial plant and think that’s somehow good for the environment?
> That said, maybe over time there will be new generations of battery tech that will make it viable to replace and even upgrade old electric vehicle batteries.

That exists in limited capacity today. There are shops that have replaced older Leaf model batteries with upgraded batteries. That's a big deal for some of the earliest Leaf models because they had tiny batteries by today's standards (or Tesla's) and get double or triple range compared to when they were new. There aren't going to be as many models today that will benefit in quite the same way as those early Leafs, but it will probably still be a niche thing once we figure out what the average lifecycle of a car battery is. (As you mention, it is certainly greater than ten years we're seeing from Tesla batteries and others. Based on current data, it seems like it may be close to 20 years or possibly more that batteries last in their "first use" in cars.)

Also, there's a bunch of companies working on electrifying old ICE cars today, which uses similar skills. I think it's fun to watch decades old cars with very new life as EVs. Some of those cars drive better than they ever did before.
this is a very interesting article; thank you
> Upgrade breaks a dependency, fixing that dependency will break another dependency, etc.

If you just upgrade all your spring-related dependencies to latest-of-same-major-version every time you upgrade, on average how much does your own code end up breaking?
Since you evaluate based on pay alone, next time you judge two or more offers with public equity, let me unconditionally buy all your equity for $5K. That should tip the scales if the base is the same.
Nothing's wrong with asking to try things out. If you're shopping online, though, the answer is no. You're in a different city, maybe a different continent, treating items that you bought online like dressing room try-ons is disingenuous.

'Buying online' = sending a purchase order

= entering a contract to buy the item

= if you receive the item and it is as advertised then the contract is complete.

It's not a 'tHe cUsToMeR iS aLwAsY riGHt" free for all.
Sorta random, but I really appreciate this kind of post on HN. People have tons of domain expertise and hard-earned lessons that get shared like this, and it broadens my awareness without requiring any time investment on my part.

Thank you, thank you (and others like you) for taking the time to type this up!
All Wikipedia editors are pseudonymous, and I thought that this article was referring to IP editors not logged into an account, which are conventionally referred to as "anonymous" by the community, but these were indeed editors with accounts, and those are more easily trackable with more accountability. Even if a person opens/uses more than one account, they can be linked and correlated. Except this may also have been a case of "meat puppetry" which is a difficult abuse to identify, especially if they're using a private means of coordination, such as emails.

Wikipedia is constantly confronting the huge problem of UPE (undisclosed paid editing) and there are very strict rules around it, but not as strict as you may think: it is not prohibited for a paid editor to make changes to articles. It is, however, forbidden to edit without disclosing one's paid status, so this kind of "stealth airbrushing" is a bad look for anyone, powerful or not.
To be fair, JDK8 represents a stable version of Java features and API that is most of what is needed for enterprise Java development. It is basically the stable inflection point of Java's evolution in terms of why Java took over enterprise development.

There was a core development intelligence level that JDK8 represented a sweet spot for (ahem, offshoring development). Which is really the core of the hate for Java these days although ... isn't Go the same trap?

Most of the post-JDK8 features are moving the language to what Groovy is, but closures, magic string templates, etc, but the IQ level of the programmers for that is a different market availability. Combined with the inherent deployment churn needed for modern JVM version turnover, which most enterprises simply don't have the organizational ability to do, means that JDK8 is going to stick around a LONG time.
Oh man I used to just shop at JC Penny almost exclusively. I remember when they stopped the sales. I stood in the store and just knew they were screwed. There was just no way the existing customer base was going to suddenly change behavior.
> There's this bizarre reaction I see from many where they see the excitement and curiosity and hopefulness as a form of error and source of embarrassment.

What the general public does not see it the regular flood of papers that pretend to change the world and that turn out to be bogus. So, from an insider point of view, the issue is that what we are supposed to avoid (crack pot theories becoming mainstream or getting too much traction) happened in a spectacular fashion. So a lot of people get excited about nothing and then end up distrusting the scientific process itself (“they don’t know what they’re doing”, “they make everything up”, “they write a lot of nonsense”, etc).

In this case, I think it turned out to be a good thing. People got excited, some of them thought about possible implication, others managed to pick up some notions of material science. The enthusiasm and activity from people trying to replicate and investigate the material was heart-warming. But yeah, it was bound to finish like that.

> Why would I ever be inclined to feel that there's pie on my face now that we've got fairly strong evidence refuting the claims?

You really, really don’t want to be seen as a crack pot when your funding and career depend on how external people evaluate your work. You also really, really don’t want to have to retract a paper because you’ve missed something obvious. Retraction is a traumatic process even if you are in good faith. This is sidestepped by releasing preprints (so no peer review and no risk of retraction). But at the same time this is a reason why outlandish preprints tend not to be taken too seriously. There is less incentives to get it right.
.NET would like a chat, and frankly, someone to finally notice and say something kind. It's been a long 20 years out in the cold.