skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My back injury is similar; most days I’m ok but there are some (today being one) where it makes life much harder than it needs to be.

The other issues I’ve sustained (I talk about them in other comments elsewhere on here) also present challenges.
How is a ~24x reduction in deaths per mile driven a massive failure?

What would you call a success? No death, total ban on driving?
Reminder of Negative Work
A “wet bulb event” is not just a heatwave. A heatwave is a sustained period of high temperatures. You can protect yourself from a heatwave by staying indoors, using a fan, drinking water, etc.

A wet bulb event is a period of complete local inhabitability due to the temperature/humidity rising above the threshold where the human body can cool itself by sweating. These events are so far almost unheard of.

Anyone who is in the affected area during such an event would only survive if they had air conditioning and uninterrupted power. Anybody without AC would die, unless they found some non-evaporative way to cool themselves.

It’s the most terrifying natural disaster conceivable.
Sorry, why is it an impossibility for people in power to die?

I'm not advocating for violence, to be clear, and in the novel KSM seems to take the stance that at some point violence is really counter-productive. But certainly there have been places and periods in which e.g. targeted kidnappings of rich people, assassination attempts on politicians, and terrorist attacks against high-profile targets have all been around -- why do you think is it impossible for those to be directed at people in power in the future? Especially if there are progressively more climate victims, it seems like we're setting the stage for a generation of people to be ripe for radicalization.
I have no delivery issues - see my updated message above - and I'm providing the service to my small company, my family and running automated services for other companies.
> It's funny, for me this is not at all what the web is about. I see CSS styles as at best a suggestion for how the website would like to be rendered, but the browser is fundamentally a user agent that can render stuff however the user likes.

I know it's been a while, but it's like people don't remember how much iOS Safari just decided "this is how the web works now" when "retina" became a thing.
Waitlists can't be Show HN's - Show HN is for things people can try right now. Take a look at

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Hawaiian Electric points finger at Maui County over wildfires, stock jumps 40%
In a working org you are right.

In many orgs measurement of work takes precedence over actually achieving work.
I would wager Fortran is more reliant on a set of users who aren't as familiar with programming as C/Cpp people are.
I assume it's easier to sell a language like Python to mathematicians, than it is for people in Computer Science.

These are all assumptions on my part, and my own biases may have affected my understanding of the problem.
Markets are good at accounting for things that people want.
This isn't about about repairing batteries (eg replacing individual cells). Almost no one wants to do that, and that isn't the primary problem with reparability when it comes to ebikes. People want to be able to replace the battery, and do other repairs on the system themselves or with non-authorized repair shops, using high quality 3rd-party parts.

Many manufacturers make this difficult or impossible on purpose, and apparently they also have lobbied to change legislation to continue being able to do this, using battery fires as an excuse to cement their parts and repairs monopoly. It's that simple.
We had hundreds of deaths in the span of 2-3 days during the winter storm in 2021. It didn’t catalyze any political change then, so unfortunately I think you’re right about the effect the next time it happens.

I have been surprised by the resilience of the grid this summer. Thank god for solar.
Could have been symbolically empty, or it could have been the box itself had significance. Or it could have been that there was a valuable item but it was taken by whoever sealed it, knowing there would be no risk of getting caught
Two things are affecting their production capacity; sanctions and $$. Even before they invaded Ukraine in 2014, they had limited funds for anything. Their economy is just too small to support their goals. Most of their design bureaus depended on foreign sales to stay alive. The only military branch that receives consistent funding is their nuclear systems.

And then when you combine the impact of sanctions, it becomes much more challenging. Most of their precision machinery is imported from Europe, and as spare parts start to be consumed, this will impact their production rates as well.
Just use awk for what it was designed: text search and substitution. You can run shell scripts along with awk, but that is clearly not what you should be doing if you want to design secure systems. The first rule of security is not to abuse your tools.
No, its free, just some "advanced" features cost money
It still hasn't been determined whether that is or isn't a healthy thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy
matlab is incredible for "I have some data, I want do a bunch of calculations and then spit out nice plots". It's why matplotlib is a thing. But not at all well suited for OO / building larger software applications / CI & testing, which is partially at least why the former is the case
The implication is that it's not a federal felony to fire a weapon at a flying aircraft? I know that there are different laws in different countries, but I can't imagine that would be legal, even in the United States!

Unfortunately it is also exceedingly likely that the folks who shoot at road signs as their particular outrage against government are most likely to think that surveillance drones are there to spy on them, and not inspect infrastructure. I don't think regulations or laws matter to those folks.
Since 70% of the files were xlf files used for translation/localization, couldn't they instead just store all of those in a single SQLite file and solve their problem much more easily? Any of the nuances of the directory structure could be captured in SQLite tables and relationships, and it would be easy to access them for edits by non-coders using a tool like DB Browser.

I feel like often people make problems much harder than they need to be by imposing arbitrary constraints on themselves that could be avoided if they approached the problem differently.
Most folks (certainly not all!) at the Director level and higher by definition spend their entire day talking about work other people are doing rather than doing it themselves. It's the nature of the beast, especially if you operate with a manager only having one or two small (3-6) person teams to manage. You can get a flatter org chart where managers have 15 or 20 direct reports, which makes it impossible for the manager to both be a good manager and GSD, or you can have managers who still GSD but you have so many of them you start to add layers so that the C-level can still do what they need to (get investment, or drive revenue, or strategic partnerships or whatever depending on your scale/stage).

It's depressingly easy to end up in a situation where the line employees are overworked and underpaid, the first level managers are stressed out trying to really manage well their half-dozen direct reports while still producing work themselves, and the Directors and VPs end up passing reports back and forth all day, every day.
> I would love to see KDE Plasma adopt the same strategy of rounding all four corners of windows.

Only if it can be disabled. I would hate this quite a lot.
I'm not sure why people assume art or poetry is an anything-goes, free-for-all, opposed to the supposed rigor or rigidity of engineering.

Look at the art of the great masters. These were not acts of pure spontaneity. Music, even when improvised, leans into an acquired musical language from which the piece of composed.

And in engineering, there's experimentation, doodling, thought experiment, and a fair amount of hackery in many cases. Improvisation, too, can occur.

Poetry is a history of meter. Many poets consider free form lazy and the lowest form of poetry, as it is in keeping within the bounds of meter and maximizing within that structure that introduces a challenge and produces beautiful results.

So, the distinction isn't perhaps one between art and engineering (engineering is, technically, art), but temperaments or habit.

("Spontaneously" vomiting paint on canvas is not art. It's fraud or some act of superstition.)
I do have kids. Which is why your post bugs me.

My whole effort here is throwing your low effort back at you; including your misuse of sighted for cited.

Frankly I think I get you a lot better than you get me. You are your own generalization/analogy/metaphor.

You’re doing nothing substantive while complaining about lack of substantive effort in the part of others.

Functional illiteracy in the raw, dog
Building a system != building a business. Even if OP is just building something to scratch their own itch, slap up a landing page and repo. Even if you offer it as a WYSIWYG and totally ignore issues, it's still a tenable sign of other people finding your stuff useful.
Came here to say basically this. Good job beating me to it.

Seasonality is an excellent constraint already.
Or even 73 seasons of five days each.
Experience has been positive. We had to understand (and in places fix/enhance) the agent used in our system but the benefits of it not being an expensive black box were huge. E.g. you can run the whole stack on a laptop and therefore use the same tooling for perf analysis in dev as production.
Interesting. This is the first I've heard of a Rust codebase too big to parse, but I'm not deeply surprised; Rust tooling hasn't been hammered on for as many decades as the C++ tooling.

I'm medium-level confident there's meat on the bones of optimizing it to a point better than the C++ tools because they made choices in the language that do some amount of compartmentalization, so you don't get that "one #define up in this header you've never seen changes the meaning of symbols in every other file in this compilation unit." Unless that is possible and I simply haven't gotten deep enough into Rust to realize it yet.
Where are you quoting from, because it's not that lwn article. Not least because that article is careful to specify "England and Wales" not the UK.
Yes and no - the guy who created the HomeBrew package installer in OSX was turned down for a job in Google, because allegedly he couldn't invert some binary tree quickly enough for some wet-behind-the-ears junior dev in the hiring process.
One question that seems very odd to me when you meet with anyone who's helping you plan for retirement is: "When do you plan to retire, and how much money will you need, per year?"

Which is a bizarre question. I don't currently "plan" to retire on any specific date or age. Who knows how I'll feel about my career in 30 or 40 years, and who knows what the Social Security age will be then. Who knows what the value of the dollar will be when I'm 68, and who knows how much the cost of housing will be. Even if I can predict all those economic conditions (in which case I would translate that into becoming a multi-billionaire), who knows when I'll die?? Retirement seems like a gamble that has only paid off for one or two generations of middle class Americans, and I have no idea if that will continue into the future.

I understand they just want a ballpark estimate, but there are so many variables that seem impossible to even guess at
We routinely upgrade Node versions (e.g. 12-to-18 or -20) on many-years-old projects with legitimately no code changes required. Node and JS just doesn't really break things like that.
http://www.c8sciencepanel.org/publications.html
This is an incredibly cynical move by the e-bike industry, and I'm really sad to see an industry org claiming to represent REI, Santa Cruz, etc. peddling this crap.

What they're asking consumers to do is send them a battery that they paid anywhere between $300 and $1000 new, which 99% of the time has had one BMS pod (10% of the battery) fail because one cell failed and took the pod with it. So they'll recycle this 90% good battery (95+% if you count the enclosure and BMS) - which means basically ship it hundreds of miles, melt it down, throw away the enclosure, and extract the raw materials. This is devastating for the environment.

Meanwhile the consumer will buy a new one. Quality batteries are produced in Korea and Malaysia, while the hardware for the enclosures and BMSs is produced mostly in Taiwan and China. Preventing the proper reuse of these components is not just environmentally devastating, it's bad for the American economy.

Now, it's true that consumers should not try to fix these batteries without extensive training. They are hazardous to disassemble and require specialized equipment to work on. If you mix cells and don't understand how BMSs work, you can easily start a fire. But it's not rocket science, and all the manufacturers are using pretty much off-the-shelf components. Repair is generally safe as long as you replace all cells in a parallel pod using healthy cells that are otherwise compatible and have matching charge/discharge curves with each other and with other pods in the battery - and use a quality BMS. This is not something that a typical consumer should do, and it does require monitoring equipment to confirm the health of the battery. But this is currently a huge unmet need that should be filled by local shops that train techs and create local jobs, not by melting down batteries en masse.

Conversely, by trying to prevent safe routes to economical and environmentally friendly repair, the industry is encouraging people to dangerously hack their batteries to save hundreds of dollars.
Declining fertility ideals? Young people more often prefer having no children
I kind of agree with you. Clueless managers just asking “open telemetry” on the roadmap without contextualising costs/benefits
Addictingtrivia.com – Quizzes and Trivia Games
This is a trivia game website I've been working on! It would be great to get some feedback from folks here - let me know what you think!
Hah yea. But, we use RAG to ensure that the choices made are really good. LLMs on their own can't be trusted, they are just great communicators. LLMs combined with reputable sources (like documentation and code examples) provide really great results! And these data sources actually can be queried, as they are shipped with each module.
That's progress but I'm not sure how that helps much unless I select "Do Nothing" on Wifi and Mobile, and set to "detect Magic DNS", but that will only do me any good if I use magic DNS which I don't.
I agree social media and materialism are negative impacts on society. Social media in particular is destructive in ways I don't have time to try to type out, being old enough to remember college before social media existed.

But I think "dividing time into semesters" is a way to be more aware of the passage of time. To help us be more aware, not less. I didn't see it as anything but a handy tool.
Interesting, it's quite the opposite to me. I've been in C++ programming since TurboVision times (don't miss them), built many projects in C++, but Golang feels like fresh air to me, at least for server applications.

Probably it's mostly about runtime/libraries than language itself.

Aside of embedded applications and hardcore number crunching (core part of it) I can't find a single use for C++ in 2023.
Can AI Crack Comedy?
Yes, that is the start of the article?
We've seen problems with memory usage on failure too. Python implementation sends data to the collector in a separate thread from the http server operations. But if these start failing, its configured for exponential backoff, so it can hold onto a lot of memory, and start causing issues with container memory limits.
I'd also recommend Lemon Jelly.

The music station Smooth Chill (UK) plays a fair few Lemon Jelly tracks most days, Ramblin' Man being a highlight.
I have no reason to do so, because I don't believe that OpenTelemetry is a project that was created, or is maintained, in good faith to its stated goals.
You are absolutely correct.

Computer graphics, though, is one of the few sane reasons left to learn C++.
Could all this push and attention on UFO/UAP be an attempt to raise the US defense budget in the current economic reality?
Once they dry off after leaving the hiring pool at least
So they increase your lifespan probabilistically, but not in any terms you can measure. That said, the article's points about the costs of screening is valid and interesting. False negatives, false positives, time and money, those are absolutely real costs and worth taking into account.
"Roadside Picnic" is a well-known novel that was the basis for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series of video games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
If each posts might take you two hours, is there any real danger of you publishing more than one or two a day?
Of course, but the OP asked what he can do. This answers their question. It doesn't have to be a business, it was just an example. Build something real. No one wants to see a calculator or weather application (unless it were like weather.com, eh? Now that's impressive).
Spend some time in New York and San Francisco and say with a straight face the problems are correspondingly that much worse in New York (which has a population of 10x vs SF) per capita. There's probably LESS homelessness, visible drug use, and crime in New York on an absolute basis than SF.
>people with literal job-titles like "Scrum Master" who (IMO) feel pressured to create as much process as possible to justify their position

Wait till you hear about Agile Coaches™
This might sound old fashioned, but if you have a whole year I would invest some time in really learning the fundamentals.

Even if no sane person would implement a linked list in C during work, its still important to know how it works. As well as having a basic understanding how a computer works, how assembly roughly looks like and how this correlates to the abstract machine model of C (pointers mostly).

Then get some understanding of object oriented programming in typed languages (e.g. Java, C#). Check out the "gang of 4" design patterns, imo they make a lot of sense (in the rare case you need it). Although in my controversial opinion it is used way to often.

You can go further and think about how this actually works. Like Java classes are actually pointers to heap allocated objects. They python runtime is implemented in C too as far as i know.

You can check out the difference to dynamic languages like python and javascript and think about upsides and downsides.

Try to improve your coding style so it can be easily read by others. E.g. structure your datatypes in a senseful way and use many small functions. Uncle Bobs clean code book can be good for that (although probably controversial).

You could try to make a small project for everything you learn, and in the end select something you like and make a bigger project.
As someone who's only played with Fortran, and never done anything too serious with it, can you explain an optimization that can be done in Fortran that can't be done in a C-like language?

I'm not being argumentative, I'm actually really curious.
>But if I sell you a hand drawn stick figure for $100, and you buy it with the mutual expectation that it will eventually be worth more because of the value of the brand/project, and the effort I put in to grow that value... isn't that a security, by definition?

This seems equivalent to buying a baseball card of a specific player with the expectation that the player will put in effort into the game and thus increase the value of the card. People buy cards of specific players on the assumption that they can buy in cheap and sell when the value of the player's brand increases.
That is Citizens United in action: soft money corruption, and probably hard money corruption these days.

Rooftop solar is a "socialist" solution to power. Noncentralized, empowers the end user, undermines large corporations, bypasses government control of power. Oh wait, that's ACTUALLY almost purely libertarian, but of course it's going to be branded as hippy socialism to undermine it politically.

Republicans should (ideologically) be falling over themselves to get rooftop solar pushed out. As if ideology means anything.
For example:

https://github.com/graphile-contrib/postgraphile-plugin-conn...

and

https://github.com/graphile/pg-aggregates
Check out Voice Dream on iOS and Macs for text to speech. I do all of my 'reading' on it.
My starter pages:
https://www.exratione.com/2012/05/a-mailserver-on-ubuntu-120...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixCompleteVirtualMail...
Cloud costs every programmer should know
I'm not one that laughs at others' auto-correct bloopers. I have made quite a lot of mistakes myself. But your quick reply made me laugh for a good 90-sec or so.
https://archive.is/4BG8W
I love this. I'm really curious to see what the SDK for this looks like.

These kinds of migrations are unbelievably tedious on large codebases, and when lots of teams are involved they can turn very high-friction. Being able to build a module to conduct a one-off migration over a huge codebase would be a massive force-multiplier for a lot of teams.
Cardiac cirrhosis is just a bad example, it’s difficult to estimate prevalence but it’s very rare and even then most cases don’t matter as it reflects a state of severe systemic dysfunction (i.e. patient is on deaths door for several other reasons). Fixing the heart at that point won’t accomplish anything with respects to cirrhosis. Right sided heart failure is also rare outside of advanced LHF or preventable causes of pHTN.

Congestive heart failure as a whole was attributable to preventable causes in something like 95% of cases in the NHANES cohort. The 5% of other cases is variable but sure, some are not preventable.

Point being that prevention is possible and remains the preferred approach for the overwhelming majority of people, as the parent comment was inquiring about:

> Perhaps this is a naive question, but wouldn’t a preventative measure for heart disease (stopping obesity via, say, ozempic) do more for longevity than repairing the heart after dysfunction has taken root?
You are right! As we are in Europe we fill like this will be less of an issue than in the US.

Nevertheless, we will soon test what happened when we shout our flying HyLighters.
I'm not sure a bucket would be enough to cool a person down if they have no other form of heat dissipation available to them - specifically I'm not sure feet alone could dissipate heat fast enough. If the water is too cold (around 70°F IIRC), your body would constrict the blood vessels to your hands and feet, limiting how much heat could be moved to those extremities from your core.

Hence mentioning a bath tub.

Some interesting reading to go along with this topic:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19750007244/downloads/19...

Of particular note is the need to remove about 1k BTU/hour when walking/doing light work, and that's only from metabolic heat generation.

And 1 BTU raises 1 pint of water 1 degree, so 1k BTU/hour would raise 5 gallons of water by an unrealistic 25° every hour.
Are there any tasks you can automate at your current job via custom software? For example: Things people are doing on paper, poorly executed excel spreadsheets, or any tasks that involve a lot of steps done by hand?

That's how I got my start in software. I automated a bunch of stuff at a small company I was working for, and used those examples when looking for full time work.
When “generational wealth” correlates directly with “availble hours to spend with the kids”, then it matters a great deal. It’s great for you that your parents did not have to work every waking hour to afford food and living space, but many are not as lucky.