skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously my point wasn't that strong, but that they don't have any qualms of breaking any promise, as they have done on countless occasions.

So much that it's a habit and nobody should believe anything they say or promise.
Using Awk and R to parse 25tb (2019)
>The majority of gold is used for jewelry or in electronics manufacturing.

I feel this is some kind of trick answer....

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...

Around 53% of mined gold is used in jewelry (46%) and technology (6%). 47% is in investment and markets.

But this doesn't really properly break down how much jewelry is purchased as a type of investment hedge in places where markets are not stable. Unfortunately there is no easy way to separate out jewelry purchases for enjoyment/fashion verses alternate wealth holding.
Why doesn't there need to be a why? Outside of art (and even there I'm not sure), there's always a reason - especially if we are talking about an advanced civilisation. There's also no reason to believe this hasn't happened:

1) Galaxies far away are also far back in time - they could all be Dyson-sphered by now and we would be able to know for millions or billions years.

2) This also might have happened elsewhere - we have no means of detecting what's going on in nearby galaxy clusters, or even within our own Milky Way really.

3) In this line of thinking, alien civilisations are always a walking oxymoron or paradox themselves: so they are super-advanced, yet have to be detectable, and they think like us but also don't, because they know about the consequences but don't care about them. They also act without reason but at the same time with purpose. And they are superlong lived (or their machines are) yet feel the need to breed at insane levels to settle entire galaxies because of... of the resources they actually don't need if they wouldn't expand like crazy? - but wait, you said there is no reason - ah my head's spinning :)
Does this "real" Communism exist anywhere, or should it be more aptly named fantasy Communism?
Exactly. My point is: some people seem to elevate Whole Foods to some pedestal, as if the products they sell are somehow healthier than those of other retailers. In fact they sell products made by third-party manufacturers, just like any supermarket.

I've never been into a Whole Foods; I imagine they have some stuff that I couldn't get in other shops, and I imagine that everything is marked-up, whether it's exclusive or not, and whether it's fresh or canned. Is that about right?
Submitter but not OP. Just to be clear the only answer to this is a daily stipend for being on call PLUS a payout per incident (min. 1hr billing). And of course, it's opt-in.

Anything else is devaluing yourself to the poor decisions of others. "I will work harder!".
Not really, I was working on a little web interface for the some hardware called "eduponics" but my day job has been keeping me pretty busy.

Obviously micropython has a lot of downsides as compared to writing stuff in C, much higher energy requirements for one thing, but there are some nice things as well. A REPL can be really nice when you're a hobbyist using hardware that you aren't familiar with, makes it really easy to try stuff out.

Performance wise you can do hard real time stuff in interrupts, as long as you don't treat it like python at all, no creating objects, if you need to do real stuff try to pass it back to a soft real-time event loop (python asyncio does a reasonable approximation of a co-operative real-time multitasking OS). You can also inline assembly directly into your functions, or some other python-like DSLs that have much better performance.

I don't think anyone is using it seriously in any commercial products yet honestly, but for quickly hacking together something with some SPI peripherals it's a pretty nice environment.
Flymake and flycheck have error list buffers, adding a disable meta comment to the source from it sounds like a really good idea, though. It would be cool if it was checker aware, ie. it would add a "noqa" comment for a flake8 error on a Python project.

I wonder if such a thing already exists...
Which pipes are these, out of interest?

As for electronic control, it shouldn't be too hard - perhaps you already know the following, but I'll write it here in case it's useful. You'll need as many electromagnetic solenoids as you have pipes. First you need to construct a 'wind chest', which is a shallow, air-tight box that can be made of any material. A plastic storage tub should do fine. Then you punch a hole in the top of the wind chest for each pipe, and make some sort of grommet to hold the pipes in place in the holes; this would be a 'toe board' on a real pipe organ. Mount the solenoids directly under the holes, and attach something soft to squish up against the pipe and stop the airflow. You of course need to have a blower that can pressurise the wind chest.

No guarantees about how that's going to sound! :) If you wanted to construct something really high-quality, you could follow Raphi Giangiulio, who has documented every stage of his fully-mechanical tracker organ: http://www.rwgiangiulio.com/index.htm
> Gradually, for one.

I can't believe you think changing the world isn't a big deal.

So say I'm on board and decide sockaddr Must Be Changed. Roughly how long do you think it will be from today before I can ship to my customers a program using the new, secure definition?

And how does the time and effort required compare against the more powerful implementation that's already out there?
Flagged. Fake news.
Healthcare and medication are different things and as long as we continue to conflate the 2 everyone will be talking past each other.
JPL and others use Wagtail. NASA is big.

https://torchbox.com/blog/nasa-jpl-launches-on-wagtail/
> the best engineers I know stick to one thing long enough to know it deeply

The age-old generalist vs specialist discussion is pretty interesting.

As a small anecdote, I'd say that the best engineer I know is very much a specialist. He can correctly set up loads of servers and infrastructure on all kinds of cloud services without much difficulty. But he's almost useless when it comes to building a good product on his own. Ask him to put together a simple contact form? Oh, he can probably eventually figure it out, but he'll cobble together some of the worst HTML/CSS with a crap UI you've ever seen.

Personally, I think that specialists can be incredibly talented and useful, but there's a reason that generalists rule the web. There's a thousand different ways to solve any problem online. Having a really broad base of knowledge of different aspects of technology gives you a lot more insight into the different ways to solve a problem that a specialist might not be able to see.

That said, it's usually a team that builds a product. A good team can have some expert specialists in key domains, and put good generalists in a position to build great products.
I'm sorry to be That Guy, but Blue Danube only plays when you're auto-docking.
Canadians are used to these shakedowns. When it is elevated to the international stage our ministers are shocked that the rest of the world doesn’t bend to their reality distortion fields and blindly acquiesce.
Is it too hard to comprehend what I wrote? Average fee per transaction?

I have heard about this mystery thing that supposedly solves all of Bitcoins problems.

Except that it's been years and it's still not ready, you still have load it up via the expensive transactions and you have to use third party services to get a somewhat useable UX.

Lightning is even more of a joke than Bitcoin is.
I use AdGuard and CanvasBlocker. Zero problems. Even with a VPN, very solvable captcha at worst.
Yes, it's unusual for professionals, just fine for hobbiests.

Because of reliability, etc.

For the same reason you wouldn't order your ingredients for a professional Michelin starred restaurant from Amazon.

I've almost never found Amazon cheaper either. The sellers on Amazon are almost always not the original manufacturer, they're usually FOB folks who are just buying big boxes of things and then selling them individually.

You're almost always better served to swim upstream and get things from the manufacturer, or from reputable electronics distributors like digikey, Farnell, mouser, jameco,etc. A quick search at some of those and I'm finding suitable solenoids at $2-5
Hehe aren’t laws and all ‘institutions’ social constructs, by definition? ;) If economic and legal institutions summarized marriage, then I’d lean toward it being a social construct. But what about religious marriages, marriages for love, secret marriages, pre-law marriages, marriage traditions in all countries globally, some of which don’t have marriage laws, pair-bonding and cohabitation without legal marriage, etc.? I guess I feel like people choose partners and intimacy, regardless of laws, and the book I read convinced me that humans gently tend toward having one partner at a time, but obviously not always, and obviously among a wide distribution of behaviors.
I know by repeatedly by starting anywhere at all and asking "but why is that?", if you will. Furthermore by pondering it and realizing that even if I ever found a perfectly harmonious explanation for all my observations, I would have no clue if reality wasn't even more complex beyond of what I can perceive of it. So, I'm still only really dealing with my own observations and narratives, and even if I got the answer perfectly right, even if God told me yes, this is how it works, all of it to the last detail, and I understood all of it, I couldn't be sure if there isn't more to it.

Maybe gravity makes things fall down, sure, but maybe there are tiny kobolds in the spaces between all particles with little clipboards that calculate the correct motion and cast spells to move them. I'm not trying to be a smartass, but I honestly tried and could not find bedrock. Can you name (or even just think) something that doesn't rest on something else or an assumption? I honestly can't.

> Gödels proof doesn't support your claim since it only applies to formal axiomatic theories.

"only"? I'd say those axioms are a superset of the sloppy stuff we throw around in our day to day, like "this is a chair"; if we drilled down on our informal speech and thoughts, we'd at best arrive at such axioms, which ultimately rest on things we simply posited (because otherwise there would be nothing to think about, and no way to think about it -- I'm not knocking it per se, just the idea that the quest for truth could possibly ever be complete, which makes it no less noble IMO).
What if you need changes at the engine level to differentiate your browser?
http://archive.today/hrC9Z
How can you write such an article and not put a photo of the building there? Yes, I can search one but WTF.
1) "an app" doesn't mean "free"
2) you can use 90% of Drylendar for free, actually 90% of the users who use it daily didn't pay.
I get a sense that people like the author care less about the Rohingya genocide as much as they enjoy the ammunition against Facebook. I'm sure you could cherry pick examples of Rohingya escaping persecution because Facebook offered better communication. Nobody is give Facebook credit for doing good and rightfully so, but why should they get the full blame for escalating hate speech?
Cars bought at auction have a salvage title, and they are not repaired to a level that would be considered acceptable by most people. Those cars are usually mechanics projects using junkyard parts and zip ties.

The other thing is that generally, a person is free to buy their car back from the insurance company instead of taking the cash from the totaling. That is when they will discover they can't just send it to a shop and get it repaired for any reasonable amount, plus the salvage title means no one else wants it.
>To not feel bad others have accomplished more?

No; I think the self-made man is dangerous because it leads people to believe 2 things:

1.) You can and should go it alone

2.) Other people shouldn't need your help.

I don't think Arnold tells his story the way he does in order to diminish his own accomplishments. It's used to highlight all the people that helped him along the way to get him to where he is. It's important to ask for help, to ask for guidance and depend on others. There's no glory in going it alone and you can be propelled immensely by relying on others to support your efforts.

Furthermore, it's important to provide a lending hand to others. Great men are built with the help of others and you have a responsibility to help others excel when you can. I think telling these stories help break the hyper-individualistic ethos of the American self-made man. Once you break this myth that so-and-so is self-made, we can make steps into re-examining how we treat our families, friends and fellow Americans (and/or countrymen). Common adages such as "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" will become more and more asinine once we understand no one is fully self-made; and I think that change in social psyche will have societal benefits.
So what's the monetary value of not having those CVEs? How did any of that actually touch users beyond having to wait a bit for Chrome to autoupdate?
A more mature take on stateless Terraform
No? Every mass disaster results in overwhelming a network as people rush to reach their loved ones and emergency services.

9/11 brought down the landline and mobile networks due to network congestion well before Cloudflare existed. Radio traffic on emergency responder networks was 5x normal, and that is before you consider that a lot of responders were off duty and did not bring their radios.

As it is the modern communications networks can hardly handle a planned large event like a music festival. So expecting the Internet to be peachy in an emergency is wishful thinking.
...and - with apologies to all HN cat owners - I feel we might want to put building lethality into context by recalling that:

"free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals [in the USA] annually"

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
Because google is also a broker for ads on many other sites. So there is an incentive to prefer sites that use google's ads products.
The 7.0.x point releases have also consistently addressed a lot of little quality of life pain points and bugs.

It's really all so enjoyable to observe from the armchair. I'm not embedded into the Kicad community/project, but it certainly feels like the momentum is there.

I love these tentpole moments/projects in the overall fabric of the industry, when an open source project reaches "momentum escape velocity" after sticking around long enough to snowball and eventually eclipse the proprietary alternatives in terms of sheer scale. For example, it's very hard to outcompete the Linux kernel for general applications now simply because everyone's working on it, and no single company can build and retain a team that can outcompete an entire ecosystem, outside of picking very particular battles (e.g. QNX<>Linux).

Cynics will point out that this often describes an area of software simply commodity-fying enough that FOSS can now catch and keep up, and pragmatists will point out that the commercial packages often still retain a key feature for e.g. a leading edge/high-end application you can't get from anything else. But be that as it may, it's still beautiful.

I like to identify and start watching the projects that may be on the verge of becoming this in their particular domain. For example, Blender may get there or is already there. Could Krita? 20 years from now, could this be Bevy for the game engine space? There's usually certain markers, e.g. healthy governance (this is what gives the project the legs to make it long enough), good mission statement, hygienic tech stack, that sort of thing.

For young programmers, this is the type of project to find and join. You end up running an industry when you grow up, and, if that's important to you (there can be other priorities, e.g. shipping important products in general), your hard labor won't die and disappear one day with a company.
It's not that Digikey or mouser is taking those inexpensive overseas solenoids and marking them up.

The products on mouser and digikey are from reputable industrial component manufacturers. They have warranties and datasheets, support from the mfg, traceability and trustability, etc.

They're simply different products. You can't compare a quality made product from a quality supplier and manufacturer to cheap crap you buy on amazon
You can impose a structure process around wordpress - version control, more of an OO approach, etc - but you're then somewhat out of step with the rest of the wordpress ecosystem. It becomes harder to use anything from the 'regular' wordpress world, which is part of the (often a prime) reason for its continued popularity; an extremely large ecosystem.

And... the availability of "wordpress developers" hinges on people being able to do the 'fast and loose' thing as needed. I know there are WP devs/agencies that use version control for all their stuff, but it's the opposite of how most people learn and work in wordpress.
Reeding on coin edges predated Newton by 2 centuries; although he implemented it as Master of the Royal Mint, he did not invent the idea.

https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/dictionarydetail/516601

The 'Real Clear' family of websites (news, politics, science) is mostly low quality clickbait. This is an amusing article but the quality level is low.
Abuse of the sign bit in similar ways was a major clue that a true AI was loose in the wild in the short story Coding Machines.

https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
As GP said, you need the genetics, and to get the sort of body that Arnold or other top bodybuilders have you can't do it naturally.

However none of those things stops you from lifting weights for strength training, which is good for your body, your skeleton, your appearance, and your mental health. If your goal is to get strong, that is attainable naturally by anyone. You just need to do it.
The strongest opinion I hold about programming (or maybe anything) is about type systems:

I don't want to work with you if you don't understand the benefits of statically typed languages.

Great things can be (and have been) built with dynamically typed languages, but there are only a few reasons to use them today:

* Elite teams who are experienced in the language

* Smaller projects, short scripts, etc.
using paperless for some months now and i really like it. Nice to see the project got some new contributors and frequent releases.
I can't tell for everybody, and indeed my app probably doesn't help people with hard alcoholism. But it actually helps people who want to track alcohol to control the consumption, results are here.
I agree in a sense but that negative space is obscured in cases where your beholder has also knows the context of the created works.
> Do you honestly think the issues OP outlines are limited to periods of liberal party rule?

Yes I do. This is a highly federalist party that has a strong history of trying to shape culture through policy and regulation.
I'd add to this that I think that thread is why it's interesting to see/have these discussions on Hacker News. The "appropriate" places for these topics aren't especially interesting because they tend to be ideological echo chambers for one side or the other. That leads to trite and banal "discussion", if it can even be called that. Actually seeing 'real' people all across the spectrum of views, values, backgrounds, and so on is just so much more interesting.
Eh, even now Toyotas have a low threshold for being totaled, the parts are just so expensive. My 2014 Tacoma was essentially sideswiped hard; repair was estimated at $12,000 but was deemed totalled, insu paid me $17,000. It is now rotting in a junk yard for the past 4 years (I check the old VIN time to time)
This is a pretty unimpressive list for 9 years of progress, and is merely a small subset of features Kotlin was already providing.

I left the Java world for the C# world around 2008 and then returned to the Java world last year. C#/.NET changed much more significantly much faster. Almost all of the significant differences in day to day life with respect to the Java language and standard libraries that occurred between 2008 and 2022 are due to changes introduced with Java 8.
It does feel like web forms, complete with the life cycle methods (component instead of page/control in this case). I built an internal application for a client and it felt like a fusion of react and web forms.
My Model S was hit in the unibody and not totaled, not sure how you're making this up.
You may be jesting, but I’d be seriously interested in solutions that let me input code fast while walking, preferably not looking like an idiot and not causing accidents.

Oh, having a minion who would type in dictated code doesn’t count.
Given this particular user's comment history, they are very clearly here to push pro-Russian, anti-American narrative, and only that.
Make sure you turn on the Verbatim option from the Tools menu.
Not unsafe necessarily. The cost of labor is so high in the US that fixing even minor damage might not be cost efficient. Also consider the possible increase in the insurance fees if you continue driving a car after repairs. Other countries have lower cost of labor overall, so it's a profitable (and, hopefully, safe) business for them.
Had a car with major body damage. Repair estimate magically came in $100 less than salvage value. Insurance company went with repair of course.
Your point was:

> We have like endless space to colonise yet we fight for land here on earth

And yet you want so many billions of dollars in compensation in equipment to get you to your new homeland instead of just going there on your own. Why are you going to fight me to get what you consider fair compensation for your land on earth from me when I'm offering you so much on Pluto? There's so much land out there, a fair trade for your land should be near zero dollars right? After all there's nearly infinite supply! Quit being so attached to your home.
Typescript as a language is arguable more flexible than C#, but everything else about the development experience is smoother with C#.
23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online
https://www.askyoutube.ai/share/6521aa6077733b7c0ad24b55
Oh, I remember this. It made my eyes twitch a bit when I read that the manager wanted to put the dev on PIP, after changing the employment terms for fun, even though the dev asked about being on-call very specifically during interviews, according to the manager...
Google behaves differently for different users and trying to replicate a single user's issue is probably never going to be fruitful
Personal experience, it assigns based on where you are connecting from, and it seems they use the lat/long to be precise, as I used it very near the French/Spanish border, and it switched immediately when we crossed. It’s all behind CGNAT anyway, so I use a VPS as a VPN landing point so I can do port forwarding.

There’s also a substantial difference in performance depending on where you are, I assume depending on how saturated the local ground station is - in Portugal, I get near 200Mbps, in Spain, 140, in France, 90.
It didn't. Hence my question, as that's the gold standard for science. How is this validated? How do they design the experiments when they do science on programming related stuff?

I don't get my amount of downvotes for a genuine question based on curiosity. I'm just interested in how science is done in this type of research.