skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest issue for founder-type programmers is not code volume, its code quality.

Most founding code of products I have seen is the most fucked up, horrible, over- or under-engineered, hacky, buggy, usually platform-specific and NIH covered pile of hot shit.

Strong dependencies on half-assed internal data structures, stretch marks everywhere ("we did it like this because we had time pressure, and it was wrong, and now we cant get rid of it"), weird protocols ("we will just use a stringly-typed header for our high performance TCP communications, its easier to debug!"), lack of documentation ("no bro, the code is the documentation!"), and very little if any devops or testing (lol testing).

Thats good that way, too, otherwise products would never be launched. Thats why a lot of engineers will not launch a product, ever - their standards are too high and theyre too hung up on doing it right, that their window of opportunity for their niche fades.

The one thing I haven't seen a single startup or upcoming product struggle with is quickly churning out a lot of code that mostly/fully does the job and sells.

Unless AI can replace engineers like me, half of who's job experience is cleaning up, streamlining and refactoring these "quick launch" codebases, in order to make the code last even if core engineers leave and to make onboarding easier, we are NOT going to see a massive revolution of AI programming tools.
vibration related?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration_white_finger
The BIOS will do it for you automatically.
The Swiss also have lots of guns at home, but due to completely different reasons, so almost no one carries them in public.
I have switched last year from custom configuration to Doom Emacs. I liked the framework, but over time, I think this makes me rely on external people too much and some of the stuff is too overengineered (but the good design makes it easy to tweak). I would prefer to keep things lean and I am pondering using Doom Emacs without any builtin modules as the framework itself is very good.

I have looked at other starter kits to find leaner things, but they don't seem to bring much to seasoned Emacs users like me.
> If you are exports were dominated specifically by the use of energy (over say human capital or laxer pollution standards)

But nobody ever said that. Chinese exports don't have to be driven by the use of energy to actually consume the energy! Labor cost was the main factor (but not really anymore, and the most labor intensive industries like clothing have long transitioned to even lower-wage countries in South-East Asia), followed with the industrial expertise (with a enormous qualified workforce tailored for industrial production), but once the industrial production happens there, the energy is consumed there and not in the Western world.
The demand rises above above what's physically possible to offer. And it's not about population growth, but migration.
MacOS‘s Quartz (original 2D rendering) is based on pdf: https://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/osx-quartz
Better cybersecurity with new quantum material
The original goal of PDF was to have a portable print fidelity copy; WYSIWYG for real. You could take a PDF file and print it on a laser printer, a linotype, or a screen and it would look the same.

If you printed it on a postscript printer it would look exactly the same (or better, if you used type 1 fonts).
So kind of like the multiple worlds interpretation with a collapsed state through observation? Effectively consciousness acts as a deletion mechanism (Maxwell’s demon).
To repeat the comment you are replying to:

Knowing something and experiencing it are two different things.

Everyone moving there knows it gets hot. But if you've never experienced 100F heat - especially not days in a row - you have little to compare it to. Theoretical knowledge compared to applied knowledge. Heck, even if you have experienced it, you probably did it in completely different conditions. For example, the Midwest gets hot sometimes, but that heat is different and lasts shorter times than it tends to in Austin. (Which is also the reason folks moving from Arizona to Indiana get shocked at the heat + humidity combination or why 80F near the arctic feels warmer than it does in some other places)
“dozens” doesn't really change the economics here. A SaaS can serve a thousand of concurrent users on computers that is the price of a 4090, so we're still 2 orders of magnitudes off compared to regular SaaS business models.
God ?
First, the UK is a special case. I’m working right now in Liverpool and it is the most dysfunctional city I’ve been to in Europe. I’ve worked in most of Europe.

Second, the nationality of the perpetrators is often masked in case it is a foreigner.

Third, a random Google search isn’t exactly representative.

Obviously native Europeans have attacked police, medics etc.
But organized mobs attacking firefighters, paramedics etc is a new phenomenon.
And they (the economists) may not be the only ones.
Musk: X filing anti defamation suit against Anti Defamation League
> I’ve never done this circuit, but the way I see it, it should be enough to use two FETs, one per CC pin, both put in parallel.

Yeah, don't do it. CC also carries BMC signalling and pull-up/downs are normally dynamic and can change at runtime after plugin.

CH32X035 looks very interesting for playing with USB-PD. :)
We get it. Don't have 100% of farmland as monocultural industrial ag megafarms. Leave strips of fallow land here and there.

I tried reducing the insect population around my moms home situated in a plot of formerly fallow land adjacent to farmland. The bug zapper killed piles of flying insects every night until she didn't want to keep cleaning it anymore and gave up on an un-enclosed porch. I suggested she ought to do what most Texans do and have an enclosed porch.

Just leaving the land alone does wonders for the food chain of critters. Although, when paper wasps pitch their tents on the eaves of your place, you have to convince them to move along.
I really do hope that the 21st century is finally the one where humanity escapes the clutches of dogmatic christian stupor. There is a lot that religion has to offer, but Christianity has proven over and over that it's much more a tool for coercion than for enlightenment. Bravo to the author for making the personal effort to price together a bigger picture, and for sharing that with the world.
Knee jerk reaction, its actually fine.
You're confusing socialism with Soviet communism and the red scare.

Some of the EU countries I talked about are social democracies, and are ruled by socialist parties and have socialist policies who's consequences are a healthy lower class at the expense of a hot sw engineering market due to high taxes on businesses.

Maybe do some reading before talking fud.
I completely don’t agree about your analysis of what givers of advice might feel like. Some people just want to share what little they know in the hopes that others return the favour.

Let’s say you are installing bike seats for your kid, but you attach it in a way that 3 minutes into the ride your child would fall off. A neighbour sees this and comes over, unasked, to tell you you did the straps wrong. Are you now insulted or glad someone taught you something important?

In general the problem about people who feel insulted about things is that it is their own interpretation. Insult lives with yourself. You can choose not to be. Why would you put so much power into other people’s hands?

Don’t get me wrong, I can get insulted, so it is a constant work in progress.

I feel like in your story instead of robots, people would be more like receiving unsolicited advice. A machine is a machine. If you get offended by advice from machines you have totally different problems.
> The wealth-tracking representation has been decoupled from any substance with intrinsic value, but the economy has not.

If you insist on measuring the economy solely in terms of "substances with intrinsic value," you will find the limit of economic growth at approximately the limit of those substances. However this is begging the question because it's not the only way (and not the currently accepted way) of measuring economies.

Anyway, it's not just the representation, wealth itself is increasingly nonphysical and hypothetical. For example not only is my $1,000 bank account just a database entry, my database entry is most likely offset by about $900 in loans to other people. So my saved cash is actually about 90% claims on future payments by other people. Or look at stocks; at a P/E of around 20 currently, 95% of the value of my SP500 index fund is hypothetical. And of course the whole point of a bond is future payments.

Market-winning behaviors are also becoming less physically correlated. Did Barbie take 5x as much energy as The Flash to make or present? Does a 3 bedroom row house in San Francisco use 5x as much energy as a similar house in Detroit? Does Apple use 3x as much energy as Amazon? Does it take twice as much energy to make a Mercedes C class as a Honda Accord? There are tons of examples like this. Rice and wheat harvests are a pretty small part of modern economies now.

Look, I agree that a certain level of energy usage is required to enable economic activity. If we were to cut our energy use too much, we would limit or perhaps crash the economy. People need food, clothes, shelter, plumbing, communications, etc. I'm just saying: that is not equivalent to proving that future economic growth is bounded by energy usage. One does not logically follow from the other.
> For older societies, who even counted as persons?

Even more importantly, who is writing. Julius Caesar defeating seven bajillion Gauls is not a figure that should be taken at face value if the source of that number is Julius Caesar.
All of this is arguably true, but conveniently forgets Google News and FB’s algorithmic feed, among other products.

There is so very much wrong with the way search works - its opacity, the enormous reach of Google advertising, the way Facebook manipulates sentiment to sell advertising.

This law may be clumsy, but lazy rhetoric is still bullshit.
Both of those include violence, and her situation does not. False equivalence.
I work for an investment bank and we still upgrade COBOL to the new version every couple of years, surprisingly it's still actively maintained and getting updates. Sometimes I like to sit behind one of the mainframe grandpas and watch him work on his 16-colors 24x80 characters IBM Host On-Demand terminal, it's very calming.
Why would it? It doesn't happen today even in countries with cheap housing, like internal migration in Japan. People aren't going to suddenly flock to countries for cheap housing, otherwise we'd see a bunch of Americans moving to Thailand or something.
Every time I see the phrase "free market" I like to point out the term originated from Adam Smith who used it to describe "markets free from rent-seeking behaviour." Which is COMPLETELY different than the way the phrase is used today.

Also, "Capitalism" used to mean "using capital to increase capital." We now use it to mean "using capital to increase private wealth."

I understand what you're trying to say and am not refuting it. I just think it's funny we let "bandits" [1] redefine the vocabulary of the social construction of commerce.

1. Obviously I do not mean to imply bankers are "bandits" in the classical sense. Not a single one of them went to jail in 2008. Were they bandits, they most certainly would have wound up in the hoosegow.
On the other hand models are trained once and later used a lot so you can argue that training cost can be traded for future gains.
> There's nothing natural about modern society, so again: what's your point?

It makes it very clear how society and its technology is being steered by the military. Most people are under the impression that scientists etc are free to decide how best to uncover truth. But no, this is not a free investigation - it is directed.

> You live in a highly curated society brought to you by, for an incredibly long period of time, military advances making its way into civilian life.

I agree. But the military is in service to money and power, just like everything else. They are there for specific jobs, including funding the technology they want.

> Because not being natural is kinda of literally the whole point of society itself: we removed ourselves from "the natural order of things" because that allowed us to kick progress into higher gear.

What "we"? What choices did anyone make? This is all forced behaviour.

> Especially since, and this is something people seem to forget, the US military actually works for the US. Unlike congress or the NSA, it doesn't give a shit about oppressing fellow Americans, it literally funds projects it knows will benefit progress.

Why would the military not be subject to the laws of money and power, as opposed to other agencies? None of these institutions are there for our benefit. They are there to control.

You might like the subjugation, and feel comforted by the fact some powerful force is running things, preserving you from all the fears they tell you are out there. Personally I would like to experience reality without the manipulations and orchestrations of all these governance institutions. This is also known as freedom. But then, people are so trained and invested in this nonsense, as if it was some sort of God, they would be unable to function if this strong guidance were taken away.
The blogpost was delicious. The lekktor was a madcoder technique
That was quite a comprehensive response.

I’m curious why you think the “fragile earth” theory (or the precautionary principle, as it is more commonly known) has been thoroughly debunked?”
we don't even know it for modern countries either. i think it's plausible that the UK government undercounts the population by 5-10%.

https://nitter.net/echetus/status/1682676824420253697
I am at best a home gardener, but have always been interested in the subject.

I did go down the route of "Fragile Earth Theory" stuff, but have now come full circle to understand how powerful modern farming is.

Modern farmers know exactly what is going on with their crops, concerns about top soil are moot from what I've seen.

You can grow plants in air, as long as you give them what they need, they don't need or want a more "natural" biological landscape.

A lack of "black gold" is no problemo, plants love a sandy loam of sorts with nothing in it, everything else can be top fed.
That's interesting, I never made that link. These symptoms did appear relatively shortly after doing a lot of work with a light industrial jackhammer to remove tiles from an old bathroom. There may well be a connection. But that was a one off and since then it appears when doing > 100 km in a day or so on the bike. I thought it was circulation related, never even thought about vibration. Thank you.
I was expecting though a more comprehensive result on the "bad use" of the data, the section "How Economists Use MJ", mentions ~14 papers (out of how many? out of how many checked? any quantitative analysis?) that will be affected (and anyhow in various ways).

This seems to have some educational value to some (economics) authors that rely too much on the fact population is known, but there are many bad assumptions done in many papers, so doubt this (some researchers relying too much on inexact data) is such an outlier.
I am guessing the user is referring to compute heavy nature of these demos to save on disk spwce
Anyone know what sort of platforms these systems run on today?
Isn't something like that what made the original Raspberry Pi 4 not actually USB-C compliant, because they combined two signals that shouldn't have been combined?
Modern farms don't handle water infiltration, and soil degradation very well. It takes more than one plant to hold water in the soil rather than letting the water (and soil) run off immediately once it rains.

Similarly to keep soil in a state where it supports plant life, you need more than one kind of plant that is maximized for extraction.
To me, it doesn't seen like X11 or Wayland was designed for the future spatial displays of computers. Compositors in 10 years are complex three dimentional stenciling things. So ultimately its still unclear to me which will be more flexible in the long run.
What issues you had with your custom configuration?
If you throw the ball for our dog (malamute spaniel cross), he starts randomly searching with his nose down. Then he'll find the scent, and immediately start an increasingly narrow zig-zag pattern until he can figure out the direction, then he bolts straight towards the ball. All done at a gallop.

This is even more clear if you roll the ball and it can leave a trail line down the grass.
We convey meaning using words, but it doesn't have to be that way. They may have sounds that map directly into spacial descriptions in a way that light works for us.
Bail for murder is pretty low, though. Unless the court thinks you're loaded with bling.
if installed from root then /var/log/ttop else ~/.cache/ttop
How migrating birds use quantum effects to navigate
I use counting scales for this purpose. This started when selling Lego bricks in bulk, the weight of the bricks is amazingly constant so I'd just toss 10 bricks on the scales after zeroing it and then it would be pretty accurate up to a 1,000 bricks or so. Add another 2% to account for damage or discoloration and it worked just fine, not a single complaint about quantity or quality.
There are, amazingly, no typos in this headline. I was going to make a joke about Orcas with Facebook pages, but alas, I cannot make it work.
US style tariff barriers might be the only way to prevent the dominance of China NEV in the UK - this is the Toyota / Nissan in the 80's moment or Honda moment in the 90's. The cars are significantly cheaper, easier to maintain and 'good enough' for consumers increasingly sensitive to cost of living (generally don't care about geopolitics, which is an intellectual hobby).

That said, UK does not have a domestic car industry anymore so will have import NEV's from somewhere, or (more likely) do JV's with China car manufacturers, with local marques for local markets (i.e Polestar)
I think, that once you have a guess, it's easy to verify it before posting it online
Less bloat is always good. Can't imagine many using WordPad anyway.
The complaint doesn’t seem to be about GitHub Actions, but YAML. I agree 100% percent, as soon as I saw that Keep is using YAML, I closed the tab.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

It’s like going back to Mongo without schemas and relational checks. We have perfectly good configuration languages with schemas, checks, imports, logic, etc. YAML is unacceptable in this profession.
No crime being committed isn't really the standard. "Due process" is the standard. If you go through the process and the judge decides you're guilty, you're guilty. And you're going to do your time. It doesn't matter whether or not you committed the crime, only that you can prove you were not provided "due process."

Innocent people frequently wind up in prison and even after exculpatory evidence is discovered, it takes A LOT of effort to get them released. Because the state argues "they were provided with due process."
You mean US bombs flying over my head not that long ago to bomb a country 4 hours away with a car, while still acting as if nato is a purely defensive organization? Yeah... thank you, but no. I'd be much happier if US just packed their stuff and went back home, and maybe be able to afford some healthcare for all the people at home... and education... and maybe deal with the homeless problem, instead of wasting all that money for wars.
When they announced the Lightning port with the iPhone 5, they explained that the previous 30-pin connector was 10 years old, and now they're introducing the connector for the next decade. It's now been 10 years since that. Looks like all is according to plan?
Author of this article here.

Thank you to everyone who read my article! Absolutely love some of the discussions going on here. My goal with the article was to peel away one layer of this abstraction and encourage curiosity in engineers who usually don't think about lower level stuff.
Every company is a software company
Most people, even tech savvy people, will think that’s a crazy statement. And rightfully so.
You're right. Employees do tend to have a lot of options. But I think the balance is still in employers' favor for most workers when it comes to making decisions for the employee.
“Piercing the Unknown” (IBM)
That was already and always the function and value of a university... Notice the academics aren't sitting in lectures 6 hours a day or trying to pass exams to obtain degrees. They're the longterm users of universities and educating themselves their entire lives.
There was also a "ewallet" card in France when I was a teenager, but it was mostly targeted at children and senior. Now I'm wondering if it was a true offline card or not.

Edit:

Can't find technical details on Wikipedia[0] but the fact that funds could be added online indicate it wasn't offline? I would love if someone here worked on it then.

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneo
That was a couple of months ago now. I left the site due to that, and just wondered if something else happened after.
Your symptoms are common in motorcycling too. The remedy is to loosen the grip, which is advised anyway for smoother and safer driving. "As if you were steering just with your index finger and thumb's tips".
Why start on labor costs, and then end on land usage?

If healthy farming is limited by labor costs, the result of automation would hopefully be the pickup of healthy farming. The benefits going to quality of produce, long term soil sustainability, reduced usage of fertilizer and water, and other crucial benefits. Taking the advantage and focusing on land usage seems short-sighted to me.
I know what you mean, I hope to play the full version of Secrets of Grindea someday. They are still doing weekly updates on their blog, though.
Edit: Economists are the modern first estate: the statistical clerics preaching the benefits of greed. Now with alternative facts!

Old title about 200 years claim: While the Middle East, Egypt, and Greece contain the longest continuously occupied cities, the nations and people who compromise them changed and lost generational memory over the centuries. And few continuous civilizations survive in any meaningful form for more than 250 years / 10 generations on average.
"Is the code perfect? No, of course not (also don't ever give someone an unsolicited code review on Twitter. It's rude.)"
We're talking about what attracts top talent to move somewhere in terms of geopolitics. The US is vastly more attractive to top tech worker than Spain, even if you choose otherwise.
London is generally nowhere near the top of the list of places with empty housing in the UK. It's "many" only because of the relative density.

As of April 2022, only about 34k properties were classed as long term vacant in London out of around 3.7m housing units, with Southwark, Newham and Barnet at the top of the lists, largely because of redevelopment projects that meant clearing out tenants first, as well as time to get people into new developments afterwards.

<1% empty housing is not unusually high for an area experiencing a lot of renewing and new builds.
in my experience, pro se works more often than owenmarshall implies, but probably less often than it should.
Didn't they just fire a load of people?
I agree with you on that as well. The YAML aspect is somewhat of a 'low-level' concern that you shouldn't have to worry about unless you need something highly customized.

Now, let me reverse the question—what would make you keep the tab open?"
Have you ever hand-coded a poll or survey?
I had a discussion yesterday with a UI designer/frontend developer who said that they regularly develop polls and surveys in his company (as in, code them "by hand"). Given the amount of poll/survey builders out there I'm wondering whether this is still a common thing in tech companies?
Wegovy: Weight-loss drug firm becomes Europe's most valuable