skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> second only to a terminal Lisp system that had no backspace and thus no ability to fix a typing mistake.

To be fair, the 'proper' way to deal with that is probably to write some Lisp code to patch the running editor to add backspace functionality. That's not really reasonable for someone (presumably) still learning Lisp, though. (And chances are it wasn't a true Scotsman^WLisp system and didn't support that anyway.)
Oh. Wow. There's a lot to unpack with this.

> we needed backend to be built for the site and with Squarespaces, Wix and others you cannot have strong backend system.

You don't need those to be coupled to each other. Build them as separate systems?

You have a super easy migration path:

* Your currently using a root url for onclickcheckout.com. Not convention, but not necessarily problematic.

* Setup Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, etc on "www.onclickcheckout.com" (e.g. "www" sub-domain).

* Have the root for "onclickcheckout.com" redirect to "www.onclickcheckout.com". Now, your serving your app and marketing site separately.

* Even better, you're small. Migrate your "app" to "app.onclickcheckout.com"

> we don't even sell via landing pages, our own sales process is manual and we recruit clients manually, doing zoom calls with them and qualifying them

I literally cannot believe this statement. I can't believe you believe this statement either. The only way I could possibly imagine this being true is if you do your sales under a different brand.

Let's say I'm a prospect. I get one of your messages. I'm intrigued, but I'm also busy. Before I schedule a meeting with your team, I want to figure out if it's worth my time. How do I get more information?

It sure as hell isn't by replying to your outbound sales reps. That's only going to encourage them to bother me even more.

I'm going to your marketing website. I'm figuring out what you sell and how it works. The fact that your marketing site _sucks_ means I'm not even getting to the point that I want to follow up with your sales rep.
But since you spent money on the rebuild, and money spent to make something shows up as economy, it looks positively productive.

I think your point and mine together is that the way we measure economy has some horrible problems. Is there any economic measure of destruction?
What was he thinking, exactly? They were going to gumshoe this and walk over to all 3200 mosques and conduct interviews? Was he in a coma for the past 10 years, or missed everything on data sharing and geolocation? Or crowdsouring information? Even if you don't take a picture with a camera phone, he was possibly found because someone recognized the area (maybe the police shared the image online), and all the police had to do was visit that one area and conduct interviews.
No. But scaling from the rudder size to a ship size is very inexact and involves a lot of assumptions.
Regarding to the struct packing:
That's why I love Ada, there are so called representation clauses which can define the size of struct-alike types called records. In C you have to rely on compiler options or features like __attribute__ which are not compliant to the ISO C standard. It looks like there is a ISO-C compliant version for that since C11 but it just doesn't look nice and like a first class citizen of the language.

https://docs.adacore.com/gnat_rm-docs/html/gnat_rm/gnat_rm/r...
I'd be interested in seeing something like this for verifying game designs / new game rules given an existing design
https://archive.ph/5Xpjc
this is exactly what's happening, fear is killing my mind, day by day I am getting worse and doing stupid mistakes. while talking to management my blood pressure going up, because I fear if leadership thinks I am not good, I will be laid off soon
Mainframe software will be the most painful to fix.
While my sympathy goes out to this person, I think this entire long, rambling, post could be condensed to a paragraph, or even a sentence: "It was a mistake for me to use Indeed.com."

If you want the job (of finding leads, and finding jobs) done right, hire a professional -- a recruiter who will charge a fee and is aligned towards you finding a job. Trying to cold-apply to every single job with a spray and pray approach is about as fruitful as cold calling every company you can to sell a product which may or may not apply to them. People hate middlemen until they use non-curated marketplaces with low quality or outright fake inventory. Then they begrudgingly realize why the middleman came into existence in the first place.

Make peace with the middleman. Find the competent ones and build relationships with them. If you do that, you may not always have the best job in the world, but you won't be so woefully out of touch with reality that you write a blog post like this blaming something that's clearly a consequence of your own actions on the rest of the world.
Tesla’s total production reaches 5M cars
Argon transmits sound much worse than air. I believe it's due to the fact that denser gases require more energy to compress and decompress, thus dampening sound vibrations.

Even more fancy windows use Krypton, since it has superior thermal and acoustic properties over Argon, but is about 60 times more expensive.

Xenon would also be a candidate, but it's about 10 times more expensive even than krypton, and also has the extreme downside of being an anesthetic when inhaled.

Edit: Sorry, I guess it has better thermal properties but worse acoustic ones. Helium or Hydrogen would be the ideal gasses for sound reduction.
This tool looks very interesting, and seems to work well, but being utterly unfamiliar with geospatial vector embeddings, their purpose or use, I had no idea what I was looking at, or why.

It seems to show areas of similarity, within a radius of a central query location, with regard to (perhaps) vegetation cover (e.g., forests, grasslands, wetlands), artificial surfaces (e.g., urban areas, roads), agricultural areas, water bodies, etc, overlayed on Google Maps, and allows exporting of the embeddings for lat/lons as cvs. It looks like land features for hexagonal grid areas have been turned into points in a 15 dimensional space, and some sort of nearest-neighbor search is done to return most similar other grid areas within the larger area. It does indeed seem accurate in my area!

I'm not sure what this would be useful for, but I'm assuming urban planning, real estate, agriculture or conservation? I know I'm not the target audience, but more info or ideas would be fascinating.
> Even including knowledge of what is IB and UB, C is still simpler than most languages in common use these days.

That depends what you mean by simple. C is a fairly small language, but it has far more than its share of footguns.

In terms of compiler engineering, sure, C is comparatively simple.
Never used indeed.com once.
But...people should know that these sites, and recruiters, are basically hiring theater. Almost all jobs (perhaps excepting FAANG meat grinder) are filled through personal connections.
> Twelve years after the first Roadster was built the 1 millionth car, a red Model Y, rolled off the Fremont production lines in March 2020. While the first million cars took 12 years, the second million was reached just 15 months later. The third million was even quicker, 10 months, followed just 7 months later for the fourth million, and then a little over 6 months for the five millionth car to be built. Given that timeline, Tesla should build another million cars, and reach six million total cars built in January or February next year.
That famous Gates letter is not inconsistent with the idea of large numbers of hobbyist programmers. He cared a lot about the piracy issue, but he was never trying to gate who was "allowed" to be a programmer.

Microsoft's first product was a BASIC interpreter. It was all about bringing programming to the masses. Saying "to the people" implies some kind of empowerment, and I don't think that was ever quite as much a part of Microsoft's identity (although it was there in some form). "To the masses" is a better way to describe it in my opinion.
This is very funny, but it's also disquieting, because people who text like this absolutely do exist; I know because I'm on the list for the block I live on. Modulo a lack of spelling and grammar errors, this is what normal people sound like. The idea that very normal people behavior is this odd or telling is, itself, pretty telling!
Yeah, US is pretty much the only country where this stuff is unlikely to happen. Most European countries will happily punish you for your speech if it offends the prevailing sensibilities, religious or secular.
Per my experience I end up on the main page first, and on my monitor I can see at least 3-4 posts without even scrolling.
Sure, but there’s no functional difference between being coerced into writing a specific thing in a document, and having the coercing person write it themselves.

You can refuse, but the only person hurt in such a situation is yourself.
They talk about about how hot infusing causes the chili's to suspend in oil, I wonder if you could incorporate using a popcorn cannon somewhere in the infusion process.
I had an Apple IIgs and a PowerMac G5 across the room from each other (still have the GS, but in the G5's spot sits a Mac Studio, now). To get files from the net onto the IIgs, I attached a Keyspan USB to serial adapter to the Mac, with the Mac-style miniDIN RS-422 connectors, and connected the GS to the Mac's serial port via RJ-11 using phoneNet adapters on each end. Worked great for filesharing to the GS. (I've got an ethernet card in the IIgs now, so I just FTP to the Mac (or wherever) to get files I want.)
How To Design Software so Users Experience Flow
Any software – even email – can be designed so users enter a flow state. They key things to optimize for is SPEED and GOALS.

If you create a compelling goal, and optimize your application for speed, the natural outcome is flow.

This podcast episode from Acquired explains how: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hNxHPkfzucjeoJ5DmKp2S
> Now, it’s pretty early to be dropping an Einstein quote, but I’m doing it anyway: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

While the quote is catchy and viral, and fits many situations, Einstein has never said that. Call me biased, but when you work in tech, you need to be precise.
Im my more than 10 years of experience as a software engineer, I’ve never used once indeed.com. It always looked to me as a place where 90% or more of the job ads are either scam or of very little quality.
> 315 calories where 80% of calories are from carbs isn’t good.

Most of what you need in your diet is "empty calories". One must carry on, thermodynamically speaking. Last night at dinner I had ~500 calories of rice, which was barely enough to compensate for an hour of moderate bicycling. If a person's lifestyle is so sedentary that they can't even sink 300 calories of carbs, the problem in that scenario is the inactivity, not the carbs.
> sugar is literally a nutrient?

so is iron, selenium, fats, proteins etc. dosage makes the poison.

consider that in nature, the only way to get anything nearly as sugar dense as sugar was to invade the nests of territorial colonies of venemous wasp like insects. getting a spoon full of sugar took guts and commitment!
I got same, but have 40900 and 32 Gig.

On multiple files.
> If you want to muddy the waters for contrarianism, [..].

No, and I don’t appreciate the accusation.

> This is clearly not what the OP was asking about.

Eh. I thought this was on topic when I wrote. On a second read I’m not sure either way. In any case, my point stands, I think: there are things happening that warm up after multiple loop iterations, as characteristic of JITs and not caches, and one potential source of those things is in fact JITish despite the fact that the translation of C++ into x86-64 has nothing to do with it—even if I’m not sure whether this is the right explanation in this particular case. The general answer to “can JITish things happen to my C++ code” is a definite yes.
The more you are attached to something, the harder it is for you to cope. If visa situation doesn't work out, be positive about the alternative: going back to another country or home country and start your life there. Since people don't want to focus on alternatives, they get depressed.
I occasionally see live frogs for sale in Asian groceries. I don't know if they're farmed, and it may be seasonal. This is in the Bay Area.
Starcraft has the same problem and also uses "soundproof" booths, fwiw. I believe the practice started under SC:BW
What a ridiculously statement. Medicine is never for free. Best case is you have public health insurance, which spreads the cost across the taxpayers, or generic versions that cost less.

The problem you probably mean can be avoided by giving the license to selected companirs only, and gating access to the drug through healthcare providers.
Is it really that apocalyptic? What’s the big deal. Honest question.
I don't see anything remarkable here, for Turkey's norms. He was detained on charges of insulting religious values ("Halkı Kin ve Düşmanlığa Alenen Tahrik Etme", cf. https://av-saimincekas.com/en/tck/turk-ceza-kanunu-madde-216...).

His grandmother went on TV to defend him: https://video.haber7.com/video-galeri/249628-camide-icki-ici...

The original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MineIslam/comments/16hlxyl/allah_il...

edit: Why is this flagged?
If we reorganized our way of living to utilize tool libraries, maybe 1 large garage per x blocks, in it have power tools, cleaning supplies, outdoor tools, recreational vehicles etc.. if you don't use it 3 or more times per week do you really need to own it outright?

I think also using tiny homes and more insulated and cheaper earth bag homes could help but also would help with the housing crisis. There's a lot we could share, and if we did maybe we could also build smaller homes and lots as we wouldn't need as much storage.
So of course, the vast majority of job postings are not for software engineering. Indeed is absolutely king when it comes to job postings. I work at a warehouse and they only posted through indeed.
Seeing this stirs up PalmOS nostalgia. I have real fond memories of playing SpaceTrader on a backlit Palm V when I was a kid.
Sequoia invested a total of around $225 million, and they wrote this article: https://web.archive.org/web/20221110031633/https://www.sequo....
In the age of AI, GPTs, LLMs, etc, CVs are completely over as they are now to be assumed to be generated.

Only real world projects (not toy demos), years of experience, and other particularly interesting (but relevant) hobbies would work although I'm not sure they count here. I've now seen companies raising their ask for Masters - PhDs for SWEs due to this demand.

What works best unfortunately is being hired/acquired by FAANG, working at hedge fund, and or a degree at a prestigious elite universities (top 0.01%) to rise above the pile.

For tech, now that there is a flood of FAANG employees from recent layoffs, the job market is only going to get tougher in tech on a herculean scale.
Twitter as a platform is noticeably less stable; however, I have noticed the same thing using a lot of services (google maps, instagram, youtube) from big tech companies in the last year coincidentally following the mass layoffs in late 2022/early 2023. Twitter has still probably degraded the most compared to others just based on my personal usage of the site.
My suspicion is that these companies that hold such market share are making the calculation that they can get away with degraded performance in their apps because users either can't or refuse to move to alternative sites. It seems to be working too since most of twitter's user base that was reacting hysterically to Elon Musk purchasing the company has still not left.
C'mon. Put some _freaking_ effort into this. Are you actually trying to build a business or are you just looking for people to stroke your sob story?

"Contact Sales" is on the home page, directly next to the login button...
This makes me nostalgic for the mid-2000s when all the geeks had binary watches
> You can gain some scaling efficiencies from scaling services independently

Not necessarily, because if you scale only one of your services all the other services do not benefit at all.

Having microservices would only be better in that instance if they actually consume the resources they are given.
Not a lawyer. My thinking is very likely naive as I have no experience in this matter.

I see two potential issues:

- Picking evidences. "Evaluating" the law might need access to all the possible evidences that could exist, but that would certainly never be true, so you'd need someone to know which evidences to present. You probably cannot rely on some interactive process asking you such and such evidences because it would be presenting evidence that would trigger evaluations of chunks of laws. I would guess a lawyer with good knowledge of the law would probably be needed for this.

- Setting precedents. Wouldn't the "automated" law evaluation run into unprecedented cases all the time? You'd need someone to constantly issue a verdict on unforeseen situations all the time, and I guess you'd need a judge for this.

Maybe it could work on many "trivial" cases though.
Long before entering the operating system business, Microsoft was a company dedicated to making tools for programmers, like compilers and interpreters for many languages, for the CP/M operating system and for most kinds of early personal computers.

The tools for programmers have remained a major part of their products during the MS-DOS era, until the early nineties. The documentation for their compilers and libraries was excellent and many people have learned much about programming from the Microsoft manuals (or from reverse engineering their programs).

Only after the transition to Windows and their success in suppressing the competition for MS Office by their control over the development of the operating system, the programming tools business has progressively become only a small part of the Microsoft products and the programmers only a small part of their customers.
Like, what language is? I'm not sure i get the point.
I'm wondering if this is a propaganda meme, as someone shared a related article with me within the last few weeks: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/zheng-he-china-explore...

> Both Marco Polo and the Moroccan explorer Ibn Batuta wrote of seeing huge seagoing vessels in their visits to the East. Some experts believe the treasure ships Zheng sailed were 400 feet long, or five times the size of Columbus’ ships, with 70,000 square-foot decks, though those numbers remain in debate.

Taking it at face value, it appears some other force of history in their culture annihalated all evidence of an technologically advanced civilization and allowed the region to be exploited by the Portuguese and British without even a land invasion. If this mega ship tech existed in the region, what did the invaders have that prevented them from being repelled?
haha, yeah I'm not sure about software or sites but there is this Morserino[0] kit which is basically a hardware "morse training" device, has various methods of helping you learn copying and sending (has integrated touch paddles).

[0] http://www.morserino.info/
> There are a billion people who can speak but not read and write, and billions who can read and write but not well enough to earn karma on Hacker News.

Karma on hackernews seems like a pretty arbitrary metric for intelligence
> You can't write a BNF for it because its syntax depends on what program you're trying to control.

More importantly it AppleScript operates on sending and receiving messages from those external programs and thus has no insight into their current state/progress unless it's specifically communicated back to AppleScript.

Many programs would just return back to AppleScript immediately after getting a command even if the operation requested took a lot of time. There was no way to register callbacks (at least no obvious way) so you had to put in boilerplate to check for a file at a location to know when a long running process was complete.

The challenge level between writing any two scripts could vary wildly. A program's script dictionary might technically allow you to write a script but actually making it workable or reliable was fantastic amounts of effort.
Social contracts? Personal contracts? God-sworn oaths? Covenants? The legal system is just a small corner of the universe.
I'm not really sure how to get statistics that aren't a bit cherry picked when it comes to any of the social networks.

I still occasionally encounter links here and accidentally click, if I had an account I would be an engaged user? For content on the platform it seems easy enough to boost whatever users remain active.

Facebook had a short period where I thought I might have to join to not miss FB only content, then twitter had a phase where you kind of had to read someone's stream of rant to get a specific piece of info directly. Both of those are completely past and they are just another way people link to primary content that remains on the real web. The only dark web that seems relevant to me, at rare times, is behind a newspaper paywall.
There are only two smartphone platforms, and both of them have app stores and make other efforts to control the overall end user experience. What do you disagree with?
> so is iron, selenium, fats, proteins etc. dosage makes the poison.

Sure, but since when has "nutritious" meant "not poisonous"? It means "full of nutrients".
Best thing I ever did was unfollow everyone in my LI network. I don’t see any of the toxic positivity posts, or the “I’m so proud of myself” posts or the “I accepted X position with Y” posts.
>US is pretty much the only country where this stuff is unlikely to happen

Not really, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law

Edit: reading the replies, some users seem to have lost their reading comprehension skills, the US is not the only country where this would be unlucky to happen.
Well this just isn't true
> But you don't need sugar specifically if you want carbs

That's what carbs are. Carbs are sugars. I don't see many people out here living off formaldehyde. If you eat bread, it's metabolized into sugars. If you eat potatoes, these are metabolized into sugars. I don't get the point.
This is irrelevant. You said

> This [USB-C] is unquestionably the best physical port.

It is not.

USB 3.0 is unquestionably better than the USB 2.0 supported by Lightning devices, and you’ll get no argument from me there. But that is completely independent of the design of the physical port.
In my experience, conspiracy theorists don't have a lot of interest in these. Unprovable conspiracy theories are more interesting because it affirms their sense of paranoia, identity, feeling special, entitlement to the truth.

Conspiracy theorists might go on and on about JFK or 9/11 or Pizzagate, but how often do you hear the conspiracy type obsess about Jan. 6, an actual proven conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States? The "proven" conspiracy theories they do care about, like MKUltra, are generally cast as far more consequential than most people would say they actually are.