skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An important series of skills would be:

1. Identify every project dimension with risks. The big one: project -> use -> user -> reward -> costumer fit? (Where user and customer may, or may not be the same.)

Price cost economics? Technical complexity? Technical experience shortfalls? Project resource availability? Solution resource efficiency? Safety? Third party dependencies?

2. Identify each significant risk in each risk dimension.

3. Identify the simplest question (or two) whose answer will reduce or eliminate each risk.

4. If a risk can’t be mitigated by answering a single question (or two), maybe it is really a combination of risks, or risk dimensions. If so break them out, repeat.

4. Craft the simplest research task to resolve each risk question.

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This sequence is a special case of focusing energy on upstream tasks, before investing in downstream tasks.

Or as I like to say: move slow to move fast.

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A meta risk is loops in risk/work dependencies.

Classic example: Stakeholder wants to see something working before you resolve risks of getting something working.

Identify the simplest, sparsest form of a loop is one way forward.

Alternatively, break the loop. Identify alternate ways to satisfy the stakeholder. Find a way to remove dependency on the stake holder (constructively).
> Even if there was a conspiracy to kill JFK

He's dead, so...what?
The defiance of purposeful and decades-old UI standards isn't just annoying and counter-productive; it can be life-threatening: https://jalopnik.com/did-jeeps-recalled-gear-shifter-contrib...
> So if you pay for 1GB of storage, they probably actually store 5GB of data or more for you

The actual factor is most likely around 1.4-1.5x and for sure can’t be any more than 2.2x in this day and age. Dumbest possible implementation will be “only” 3x so no it’s nowhere close to 5gb

Edit: looks like it’s public so i can actually tell you that google uses RS 3,2 which gives 1.5 replication factor. When i was there a few years ago storage folks told me they never lost a single stripe of data
Don’t stop learning at the end of your use-case for a piece of tech. If your team uses a tool, understand approaches you didn’t take, trade offs and ultimately why you chose the path you chose. Understand even other pieces of tech and their approaches. Also, deeply understand failure scenarios and how to mitigate them.

Basically just dig in beyond “it works”. You’d be surprised how many devs never read a tool’s docs if they don’t absolutely have to.
You're almost there.

How do trees get the energy to sequester carbon?

From the sun.

So you use solar and other renewables to power carbon sequestration.

Startups like Terraform are taking things further by converting that into fuels we already know how to use, which will displace fossil fuels: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/01/09/terraform-indu...
Or Shenzhen.

But I think he means western examples. San Diego maybe?
I am sure I have memories of how hard it was to support a range of hardware when I had to write specifically for each piece. When I had to write separately for a Soundblaster card and an Adlib and a Disney SoundSource and a Roland and a Gravis.

And that was just the sound cards. Writing for different hardware became so much easier when OpenGl and DirectX came into being. Suddenly I just had to write to these APIs.

I think I'm disagreeing with you. Supporting multiple hardware configuration way back when was so much harder than doing it today.
It applies to anyone in a leadership position. Staff/principle engineers fit that role.

Though you're right, the parent comment suggests they're not in leadership.
> I didn't mean anything I am alleged to have said.

Yeah only a fool would take anything anyone writes on the internet as a sincere expression of belief. The internet, especially text heavy fora such as HN, Reddit, 4Chan, etc. are best used as a sounding board for thoughts and ideas you may have, but do not believe or have not yet determined the validity of. I love to take a hyperbolic stance of something i kind of think, or just an iconoclastic/heterodox stance and see how the discussion develops. This is immensely useful for clarifying my own thoughts and seeing how others think about a topic.
https://archive.ph/LjlCp
They're blaming lawyers for the deportation fiascos, which are technically due to the European Court of Human Rights and not the EU. That bit will have to be left separately. However, what they're dealing with is ultimately all the same culture of managerialism:

https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-china-convergence

Civil servants went into meltdowns over Brexit because for the first time they might actually have to follow orders instead of telling ministers they can't do what they were elected to do because of the EU. We've seen how many of them claim to be neutral and then go straight into the Labor Party/Amnesty International/etc. The head of the Border Force even stated he'd never believed in borders at all.

So the idea that they're merely blaming "people who don't agree with them" is right in some ultra-pedantic technical sense. The problem is, those people aren't supposed to have political opinions to begin with.
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
I don't understand how these people got their degree or keep up with the times while being so... arrogant ? sure of themselves ?

What other important things do they not get ? Or is it just computer stuff ?
A UI convention for "long-press-able" might be a start.
> Lisp ... can give you a dramatic productivity boost

... if you are smart enough. If it were that easy to get more productivity, everyone would be using Lisp. But you need to hire very smart developers to get that prodictivity, and most developers are by definition average. Your average developer will be frustrated, not more productive, with Lisp.
He's just damaged by that lot. I had an ex girlfriend who was one of them.

I annoyed her by playing black metal all the time instead.
Maybe I haven't understood the whataboutism definition. I just checked again (EN Wikipedia). To quote, “Common accusations include double standards, and hypocrisy...”. For me, anything that goes like “but XYZ was/is worse” is whataboutism. Whataboutism can still be valid but in this case, the examples given were highly unlikely or in the past.
Even if valid, why do people feel the need to derail a topic? Can't you care about climate change and a comet hitting the Earth?

> If you don't like a tangent, you don't have to engage with it.

I will engage with anybody trying to downplay climate change. Thanks. The Whataboutism part wasn't part of the discussion until the second topic was brought up.
I'm not sure why the parent was downvoted, this sounds exactly like the Haskell conduit library (or indeed plain laziness if you don't need IO).
The anti-conspiratorial explanation would be that the government flagrantly broke tons of laws over the years, both in the US and abroad, and that they don't want to publish details about that (even though none of those details actually involve trying to kill Kennedy).
On one hand I agree we as a species have passed a threshold where we are playing with fire in many regards.

On the other hand, I tend disagree with the claims of fragility. My (somewhat shallow) readings of the data both past and present suggest these systems are much more anti-fragile and multi-dimensional then we give them credit for.

There is no doubt we are manipulating them at a scale which will almost certainly come with consequences. That said, the consequences appears to me as more of a mixed bag than existential in nature.

There are some studies that suggest our contribution may have staved of the next glacial period by as much as 50,000 years. Tbf, I don't give much cadence to such predictions from both sides, these systems are way too complex for us to make claims beyond the fact they ware messing with them..

Side note on Oil Barons:

The evil Mr Burns trope is a tree hugging hippie fantasy. Most of these companies are public corporations majority held by institutions (index funds) which are mostly made up of pension funds, 401Ks, sovereign funds, college endowments etc.

There are outliers but they at the exception to the rule. Oil and commodities in general are a very hard line of business. You have a short period of supply/demand mismatch where you get to pretty much print money but supply catches up real quick and then its a decade of survival until the cycle repeats. A lot of companies die during this time, usually the small/independent ones..

And even when he had Oil Barons like Rockefeller, should they be really considered as evil? Arguably they played a critical role in not only the rise of the American Empire but even modern civilisation as we know it.

If haven't noticed it yet, I really think we are underestimating the role fossil fuels played in creating the world we see around us by an order of magnitude. Beyond that, I believe people are equally underestimating how bad things used be in the past. We as species were under the tyranny of nature in a manner not so dissimilar to a chimpanzee or a wolf.
If you are competing against folks who always tell the truth, a willingness to lie will get you some short-term wins. He said it is “commonly suggested by lean practitioners” whatever that means.

Personally it makes me want to figure out what a “lean practitioner” is so I can avoid them like the plague.
There's a massive difference from saying "yeah, this thing has keyword search already, we just didn't turn it on yet" during a software from giving a diabetic saline while claiming it's insulin. Holmes did the latter. People actually expended additional bloodwork and treatment due to the false testing.
I had the opposite feeling. Looking from the window, to your left, a winding road. To your right, the freeway entrance. With a bolt action rifle, Oswald had to shoot, eject the casing, reload, acquire the target of an accelerating vehicle, shoot, eject the casing, reload, acquire the target of an accelerating vehicle and fire again. One of the Marine Corps' top snipers said, "I can't do it." If he can't, how could Oswald?
Blogspam.

Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-021-00138-z

>Based on retrospective case–control pharmacoepidemiologic analyses of insurance claims data for 7.23 million individuals, we found that sildenafil usage was significantly associated with a 69% reduced risk of AD (hazard ratio 0.31, 95% confidence interval 0.25–0.39, P < 1.0 × 10^–8).

Retrospective study, so no causation proved, of course. That will require an actual randomized clinical trial, which hasn't been done.
> If she started on DOS, there was no concept of "shutting down." At the end of the day you just flipped the big red paddle switch on the side or front of the PC case.

But... but... I diligently parked the disk every time !
Like, in addition to weekends?
That's a good question without an easy answer, but there are two leading theories. One is that languages are infrastructure and it's really hard to replace infrastructure once it gets established (look at how much time it's taking for electric cars to replace gas-powered ones). The other is that Lisp's productivity boost allows individuals to get things done by themselves and so it tends to attract people who aren't good at collaborating (the famous "Lisp curse"). So on an individual level it's a win, but at an organizational level it might not be unless you manage it very carefully.
They can only be updated to reference things that exist. But there's no point creating a new thing now, because it'd be automatically illegal.

Escape hatch: the rest of the world isn't as stupid as the EU bureaucracy is, so there will still be innovation in power chargers (hopefully). But the principle is busted. Fixing tech in place via law is anti-progress.
The comments are something else; the discussions actually reached even global warming.
As with most SDL usage, it merely provides a rendering context and an input abstraction.

That's almost nothing, its boilerplate you don't want to write. Which particular lib you grab that boilerplate from, SDL, GLFW, fucking GLEW, whatever, it doesn't matter. SDL is a widely accepted library for doing so and it's fine. If you want more complete input handling you'll be using the platform APIs directly.
> sending messages to an actor is equivalent to running the actor function under a mutex

Where does it say that? In my understanding actor model means message-passing with asynchronous execution. So quite the contrary, actor model allows N threads executing in parallel given N actors.
>I'm pretty sure this is the same kind of fraud that Holmes got nailed to the wall for

Yes but she got nailed for violating FDA laws. Saying your software can do something before it's even on the roadmap is what I've experienced in every org I've worked in... overpromise and if the oompa-loompas can't deliver it's their fault not mine
> You have to have the right kind of profound beliefs

We need not to be enormously blind to the existence of an entire transactional structure around us.

One that antedated our arrival and will likely still be there to offer a sentiments card and flowers upon our departure.
Yeah, is there a web page that tells you how to disable this focus-stealing-on-launch in most OSs ? That would be a public service.
If you see something that you believe only makes sense to developers odds are it actually DOES make sense in terms of the underling model that the application is working with. For instance the way save works is that you save your file as foo.txt subsequent saves automatically write further changes to the chosen file in the chosen format. If you "save as" again you change what the active file and format is. So for instance you "save as" foo.docx. Subsequent saves go to foo.docx and foo.txt stays as it is before the "save as" and you could open either one an continue where you left off.

Now take PDF a piece of shit format able to submit remote forms, execute JavaScript, and render and manipulate 3D models. Its a garbage application formation masquerading as a bad document format.

It makes sense to produce a pdf as a snapshot of the document but it makes zero sense to treat it as txt or docx one doesn't simply "save as" pdf and then continue editing in that format. If you use save for this feature how do you express the fact that you don't want to make foo.pdf the new default save target especially if you can't subsequently open it? Do you just silently not do that? This violates good design where observable functionality reflects as much as possible the comprehensible part of the user model you are presenting to the user. Having save as silently work differently when targeting an output only format is a bad solution.

Save vs Export expresses the underlying reality. You see the same conceptual reality where you are creating multimedia and the output format is lossy.
I understand the parallel to peer-based code reviews, but not static code analysis. Can someone elaborate?
A common problem would be throughput though. Storage capacity scales much faster than access speed. If you are storing an item only 3 times and lets say each storage location gives you 50,000 IOPS max then you can only ever service 150,000 IOPS of this item which might not be enough.
I admit I interpreted more in your short post than was there. People definitely should not feel shame for not feeling an urge to share!

I still encourage people to share though, because I think a lot of people would like to read personal stuff about topics that interest them. Doesn't even have to be with your name and all next to it, anonymous/pseudonymous homepages are usually possible.

Therefor I offer free websites (on a subdomain though) for people that would like to write or post photos about their hobbies. And know that there are way more possibilities to go online, just look at the OP of this thread with a nice SSG.
He is citing Harvard University Extension School on his LinkedIn.

He says he regretted implying that he dropped out of Harvard College.
Using comm was exactly what I did use in my little experiment of a barebones SSG.

I did save a list of generated files and compared them. This one liner is the meat of the whole solution:

comm -23 <(awk 'NR>1' "$DSTDIR/build-info") <(find "$SRCDIR" -name "*$EXT" -type f -printf "%P\n" | tee >(gen_index) | xargs -n1 "$0" "$SRCDIR" "$DSTDIR" | sort | tee -a "$DSTDIR/build-info.new") | (cd "$DSTDIR" && xargs rm)

Full source here:
https://gist.github.com/hadrianw/060944011acfcadd889d937b960...
And even if you do launch Explorer and start looking for your files, you'll find... what, THREE copies of your home-directory structure, two of which are "forbidden?"

WTF is all that shit, Microsoft?

Oh and another Explorer regression: It used to show little "+" signs next to directories that actually contained things. Microsoft GOT RID OF THOSE.

Oh... unless you happen to roll your cursor through the left pane. Then they inexplicably appear. Or did MS regress even further, from the universally-understood "+" symbol to idiotic triangles?

You can't even keep up with all of the regressions at this point.
Only because you (should) expect (through experience/onboarding etc.) that that will happen. IMO it's a bit more like leaving a pile on your desk that looks like scrap, then being annoyed that someone cleared it without telling you or when you asked them to help with something else, and it actually wasn't scrap, or at least you hadn't yet determined that it certainly was.

And browser history doesn't even look like scrap, it's just a useful thing that exists and many people never clear it. Myself included, no reason to.
Introduction to Generative AI by Google [video]
Great stuff! Thanks for the Playwright link and detailed Lambda blog posts, I had a similar project I was working on trying to convert text into animated (typed) code videos (on visual studio code) - trying to get anything non trivial in lambda to run is indeed an interesting endeavour to say the least!
>That was hyperbole.

>But also not entirely unrealistic

Well which is it? Hyperbole or not, the intent behind it is the same, which seems to focus the climate change problem on some of the weakest sources of fuel consumption who also happen to be some of the poorest, most vulnerable people.

I think it's a kind of subconscious projection, that the example you've brought to the fore is those poor people driving to buy their groceries, not the industrial behemoths doing the real dirty work.
Surely anything with vi would also have pico or nano?
That is completely false. Try investing a few billion dollars into building renewable power and grids in India, with no strings attached (that is, without retaining ownership or asking for dividends etc), and see if that doesn't stop them from building more coal plants.
Suburban middle class guy switching from driving an F150 to the Safeway to using an e-bike to get his groceries will not cause anyone to starve, but it will make a measurable dent in CO2 emissions. Do not frame this as an irreconcilable tension between starvation and plenty. The question is whether the average American consumer-bot can be coerced into not squandering the atmosphere at a rate 100x faster than the average human.
I think we're talking about putting Lego bricks in the dishwasher (to clean them), not building a dishwasher out of Lego? Or did I misunderstand your comment?
What's more likely, vast cabal conspiring against competing product, or competing product just doesn't work as well as claimed? There aren't nearly as many grand conspiracies out there as there should be.
funny you should mention that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
> Microsoft in particular seems hellbent on putting touchscreens in everything. They REALLY want to make it happen but seemingly no one is having it. There's ONE person I know who owns a touchscreen laptop and genuinely touches its screen on purpose.

When I was doing a lot Android development, it was nice to be able to test touch without loading on a phone. It was equally nice to be able to markup screenshots with the pan. I switched to Linux from Windows a couple years ago and the new laptop doesn't have touch (it does have a giant 17" panel and all day battery), so I keep a tablet that has a stylus in the bag for doing UI markup and bug reports. I may switch to the 16" Gram because it does have touch and stylus... and I won't have to carry the tablet.
I see the rationale behind your point but I tend to differ. I have faith in humanity.

If anything, we are not creating enough people. There are both implicit and explicit growth obligations underlying the functioning of society, a population collapse would almost certainly result in extreme destabilisation.
Do you expect to get any tangible benefits to your codebase?
> Company did not survive.

He's now "Founding Partner, Fifty Years [Seed fund], 2015 - 2023"

> Appears he is still citing Harvard

Yes, because he did study at Harvard's "Extension School", which is properly cited on the page.
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and seeeeeeee
The Carcano M91/38 is a magazine fed rifle, it isn't manually reloaded. You can work the bolt while remaining on target. That's not a particularly hard thing to do, either- I was able to learn that skill the first afternoon I shot a magzine fed bolt action.

EDIT: Here's a video of someone replicating the shots with that rifle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghmY6HmR4fs The comments also point out other factors that could have made the shot easier.
Methane tipping points are already met, especially from tropical wetlands and the polar regions. Add to that the conversion of past carbon sinks to carbon emitters, such as the boreal forests and the Amazon and we are looking at a continued rise of both emissions and temps for a long time.
I'm not sure why you're reframing my statement. I still consider the bottle cap redesign as the weirdest recent directive, based on no evidence. Just because there's bottle caps on beaches, where are the bottles? Now we won't see bottle caps (if the design works) but where will the bottles with these caps be?

I am aware that bottle cap redesign was part of a bigger directive. I am aware of that directive because we are already in the polluting paper straw world.

Fishing gear proposal shows the same half-assed attempt at waste collection as is separating plastic, paper and rest. But that is less weird to me.
Trees also "capture" heat. Whether urban or suburban, we'd be wise to plant more anywhere we can.
"IF your ability to remember why you opened the fridge lasts more than 4 hours, call a doctor."
Who was the marine Corp top sniper who said they couldn't do it?
Thanks for the demo accounts.

Is there a documented API or reference client library in Go?
It says Harvard university extension school on his profile. That’s what he said he would start calling it in the blog.
From the TOS[1]:

§1Contract, test and evaluation period
The test period of the product begins on 01.06.2023 and applies to the non-guaranteed maximum duration of one year. We reserve the right to refuse service to any person at any time for any reason. All files will be deleted after expiration of the testperiod. The service can have software bugs which can result in losing data.

1: https://scramble.cloud/#termsOfService
The latest "confirmed" Doomsday date on that page references a quote that doesn't contain a Doomsday date, so the site owner has wilfully misread the quote to create one.
> No one actually does it.

To the contrary -- at least in NYC it's extremely common. The vast majority of "tenement" apartment buildings have silver roofs, for this reason.

Just fire up Google Maps in satellite view over Manhattan and see for yourself. White-looking roofs everywhere (but silver in reality).

New construction with roof decks tends to use things like white-ish floor squares as well. They're obviously much cooler to walk on in the summer.

(While, sadly, contrary to your assertion, virtually nobody is installing solar panels in NYC. Landlords don't seem very interested so far.)