skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reminds me of the show Billions when Axe talks about trying to own a NFL franchise. He's rich enough that it makes no difference, but it's the closest thing to knighthood in the US. When Mike Prince tries to get the Olympics to New York, he's not going to make more money. He's just raising public profile to run for President, and even becoming President won't make him any richer.

Why did Bezos buy the Washington Post? A lot of this just feels like a prestige play. It's new money trying to get taken seriously by old money. Even though new money actually has more money, they're still outsiders. Apple won a Best Picture Oscar within three years of launching their service, something Netflix has spent the last decade throwing billions at big-name director vanity projects to aim for. It's a dick measuring contest.
Sigh. What is old is new again. It was a terrible idea back then too...

https://jakarta.apache.org/ecs/
That bank

and your relationship with that bank

you shouldn’t have to be limited to a payment/custody system where you think about it but that’s how it is

always fix your banking rails before you need them
> I'm pretty sure Europe does as well

Does it? A cursory search seems to put an (used) EV at around 10k$ at best. Poor people definitely do not drive 10k$ cars here. Hell, even my tech-adjacent friends in their twenties rarely own anything more expensive than 3k$-ish.
This is a lazy line of thinking that argues we should always maintain the status quo, no matter how lousy, if the transition costs money: won't somebody think of the poor!

"If we outlaw child labor, isn't it kind of troubling that families who particularly rely on their 8-year old's wages will be the ones losing the most..."

The fact of the matter is that EVs have gotten cheaper, they are getting cheaper, and there are government subsidies to help people buy them. Maybe those subsidies could be even larger, or better targeted, or means-tested? Or, yes, in fact we could improve public transit!

Anyway, I'd give this argument more credence if the same partisans for sticking with fossil fuels had demonstrated any kind of consistent care for the world's poor in any other context, but I haven't seen that.
I understand that, one of my coworkers who is a good friend who I mentored during his onboarding process is in a constant state of fear and put up with a lot more shit on the project that started the whole thing for me. Others on the project either left AWS, nope’d out of the project or also got fired.

I kept him abreast of the entire process I went through and the warning signs so he could be ready.

Yes it sucks because no matter how much money he saves and how financially prepared he was, he would have to find another full time job quickly.

I knew worst case I could put my virtual shingle out and do independent AWS consulting. I had a dormant LLC already that I could reactivate, I had a network and other consulting companies fall all over themselves to hire former ProServe consultants.

He was just as good in his specialty as I was in mine.

Another guy got sick of the project and got a job at Netflix in the data department.
I'm always a bit surprised by just how much prime downtown real estate sizable bank branches take up. I can't imagine I'm that atypical in rarely using an ATM much less other local banking services. Presumably small businesses deal with banks much more frequently but banks still seem to take up a big physical footprint for the amount that most people use them.
The carbon pipeline companies did this to themselves.

They turned the landowners against them with the survey methods they used. They ripped up crops and had law enforcement come in to prevent landowners from interfering.

Some of those owners are right wing nut jobs so the situation escalated quickly.

In the end public pressure killed these deals.

The money comes from federal tax credits, it’s not profitable to pump carbon that far on its own.

It would be better overall if we just shut down ethanol but that’s how you buy the votes of every Midwest congress person.
Maybe the lesson is. Let green boots go. You need to get to the top.
I hate ATM only branches. Can’t get new bills for the Xmas or Chinese new years.
It’s fantasy, but if each battle was distilled in to a test and added to the test suite then it would be possible to touch production code without breaking business functionality.
> "* I didn't know anything at all about modern software development because there was absolutely no time to learn that stuff as well.*"

Yeah, but modern software development is trivial to learn, particularly in comparison to a computer engineering degree. You see "developers" here on HN gloating all the time about how they didn't need any post-secondary education at all to get their jobs; these frameworks are literally designed to be usable even by minimally skilled coders. You were in a much better position having to learn modern software development after a computer engineering education rather than having to learn the rudiments of computer engineering on the job after getting an education in modern web development.
Show HN: Arkiv – Google Apps Script email organizer
Then wouldn't the steamer be the second party? Still not third party!
Like Lumberyard before it, O3DE is an absolute abortion of a game engine.

Heard nothing but the worst things from teams who had been forced to work with Lumberyard
Lost the will to live wading through it before finding the bit mentioned in the post title.
Maybe it has hw acceleration support for HTTP operations :)
Right, but the argument goes there is no amount of carbon capture that will make this process make sense:

(subsidized) fossil fuels --> chemical fertilizers --> (subsidized) monocropped corn --> (subsidized) ethanol production --> (subsidized) carbon capture, of only a portion of emissions at the ethanol and fertilizer production stages

It is greenwashing in the sense that ethanol biofuel is an inefficient and dirty process that was never a viable alternative at any reasonable scale, and this program is pumping tax dollars earmarked for climate crisis mitigation into industries that have never been motivated to do anything meaningful for climate or ecology disasters.
Fishy click bait title. The reason electric is so popular is that ICE vehicles get taxed 100% and electrics are not. Remove the incentives and I suspect the market would be different.
Bring back the form factor of the iPhone 5C. Not so wide but still a good size.
You mean forcing Google to pay Rupert Murdoch who pushed for the legislation in Australia?
I wonder if electric cars were to approach the maximum range that most people would ever want to drive in a day, about double the stated range of the current longer-ranged cars, if that might trigger a rather profound and sudden tipping point.

Who cares how quickly they charge if you’re stopping to sleep for the night anyway?
I don’t really think about it, to be honest.
I'm sorry, I can't imagine any business anywhere that would allow all software project estimates to have a precision of "about a year".

We might prefer that our projects be given unlimited leeway, but we still have to fit within businesses and their ability to forecast what they can sell, when the next round of bugs will be patched, and even how many developers should be hired.

Estimated is hard, leadership often fails to understand how hard it is, and it should always be accepted with a bunch of caveats, but it _is_ a very useful tool.
> I don’t even know the difference between a form submitted through JS vs a browser.

I think you do. GP just phrased it oddly.

The distinction is between a traditional HTML form and browser page load, vs XMLHttpRequest.

Ultimately it's all HTTP though and on that level, there is no difference whatsoever.
Used Geany during most of my bachelors (and at least one internship) until I fell down the vim rabbit hole. Still have a soft spot for it even if I have not used it "in anger" in years.
Stanley Kubrick: Playboy Interview (1968) – By Eric Norden
My favorite of all time. He also released a book, Heat 2, if you want more. I am 30 pages in and it’s good so far.
The starship model viewer is the game.
It’s been out for years
Not really, they are still quite heavy and very thick.
One of my favorite movies. Mann recently wrote a novelized sequel, "Heat 2", and has said it's his next film project. I read the book and am, let's say, not optimistic about the prospects for the film version.

I hope he proves me wrong.
Burglary is famously underreported in some of those cities.
Why do you bother writing this up without even testing it?
There are 4 types of Pneumonia
"Just and peaceful labor relations": Why US govt supported collective bargaining
The Science of Foam [video]
Very nice intro. I like how you introduce networking layers. It seems you are starting to go down the path of explaining how computers and servers work - and that is certainly daunting. Maybe just stick with networking and introduce more of that and how real world systems (T1 and Ethernet) are just changing voltages at some point - and can be swapped in or out because of network layers. Then build up packet switched messages TCP, Telnet, HTTP
ICE are to EV as HDs are to SSDs. My intuition is that because there’s a floor to the cost of HDs (I think at some point it was around $35) and no practical floor to SSDs, there might be a similar story with cars. I know it’s really a bad analogy.

Cars still need brakes (for now) and tires and lots of other stuff, but there’s a huge amount of infrastructure built in a car to help it blow up million year old leaves. EVs are simpler so should be able to be made cheaper (eventually).

Maybe that means that what we expect from a car changes. If it costs you $10,000 to do all the stuff for a gasoline engine then a $1,000 AC isn’t a huge addition and there are maybe a bunch of other thousand dollar decisions that get added to make the cars cost what they cost.

Makes me think of stuff that used to be luxury items that came in expensive packaging and came with expensive accessories and now the actual item is so cheap the old packaging costs more than the actual item.
Obviously totally arbitrary and meaningless, but I'd say (C).

With a wealth of 10M, drawing 4% = 400k/year, a person or family would be able to not work ever again, and live a very comfortable upper-middle class life anywhere they wanted, equivalent to a high-end doctor/lawyer/FANG income & lifestyle but without the actual job, etc.

Below that, (B) is still very wealthy, a very nice cushion and enough to take a few years off or even retire, but with some compromises on location/lifestyle, and more risk of needing to work again or cut back if investment returns aren't as expected.
I have found that some providers that say they don't support it just mean in their web interface. It may be worth testing if you can set up a hidden primary server and have your provider just be a secondary to it. That is how I managed to get around that restriction with Linode.
Solvable statistical physics models for large neuronal populations
The risk isn’t worth it to most unless you are really desperate for a stay in the fed. At least you get fed and don’t sleep unsheltered.
Chinese firm sold satellites for intelligence to Russia's Wagner
Dolphin has the former bar PDF pagonation.
At this point, I think the running shtick / inside joke of "Every Developer Should Know ..." headlines is that of course every developer doesn't need to know the contents of the article that follows.
It's ranking on how free you are to speak, not on how you are taught about free speech (if at all).

It's looking at things like what percent of students say it is OK to shout down speakers to prevent them from speaking, what percent of students say they have to self-censor at least monthly, what percent say they are worried about reputation damage from someone misunderstanding something they say or do, how tolerant the school is to speakers based on political leaning, and some others.
RubberDucking
My state university (UMass) education's CS degree had us working directly with CPUs and logic gates on breadboards (made an ALU!) We even designed our own x86-like CPU ISA to be run via simulation with our own progams. We built and programed robots from discrete components and microcontrollers written in assembly. Made our own rudimentary OS, including threading with mutexes and semaphores. Built our own pine-like terminal email client from scratch. Created design docs for our own games and executed on them in sprint teams throughout the semesters.

I cannot stress how important my education was to my current understanding and success as a software engineer in the field. A poor education is a huge detriment. When I joined the workforce I found many colleagues without one ill prepared for some of the basics, like debugging kills, using tools outside their domain expertise, etc.

That said I don't think a formal education is REQUIRED, but without one you need a certain kind of perseverance and thirst for knowledge not everyone has. I've had the pleasure of working with several folks in that category, so a formal degree isn't for everyone.

Today, it appears specialization is happening much earlier in the education process without a general foundation. Specialists will always be needed, and larger orgs can get by just fine with exclusively specialists, as long as their communication skills exist to prevent silos. Larger companies can afford this. However a good generalist can replace a team of specialists when the latter budget is out of the question; a huge win for smaller orgs, start-ups etc.

The old joke that a good generalist is the "jack of all trades, master of none" has some truth to it, but as with all things, it's a tradeoff. A team of qualified specialists will definitely produce better work within their domain expertise, but at a cost that can be prohibitive when "good enough" is within reach.
This is very true. And this is exactly my manager and the skip - pushing arbitrary deadlines, not because some customer is waiting for it, but because they want to look good to their own bosses. When the estimate inevitably fails, they all raise their hands and start pipping people for their own poor estimation.

As an engineer, imagine living under this constant stress, missing time with your family and friends, and for what? Just to make your own manager's incompetent estimation look good?
How a Steam Locomotive Works [video]
This smells like "Industry best practices"
Best bank heist scene in any movie.

Other favorites include The Dark Knight’s opening, and as far as escaping a bank robbery goes, Baby Driver’s opening chase was 10/10 (even though a Subaru couldn’t do what he was doing but I’m willing to let that go).

The Town and the original Point Break have great ones as well.
“Everything in the tech industry is driven with a very hardcore eye for profit and very little interest in anything else”

What is up with the discourse lately - of course it’s all about the profits - we’re talking about companies right not non-profits? How else are they going to pay you?

The whole “expecting companies to care about so many things” apart from profit seeking mindset is just bizarre to me
It makes the news because of the state’s (or any public institution’s) obsession with undermining and reinterpreting our rights for their benefit

The obsession with reminding us how flawed and comedic our checks and balances are, how little accountability there is. how “but at least you can talk about it” will be used to invalidate the issue by people indoctrinated by our compromisestitution
Maybe a difference between then and now is that "back in my day" CS still wasn't considered to be a "hot" college major. And there was believed to be more flexibility in choice of a major relative to whether you could get a decent job.

Today, there are probably a vast number of entrants who heard that CS is the ticket to a high paying job, and they are also told that an internship is a vital bullet point on their resume, if not a guarantee of a job at the internship site.

Then, as now, students studied under the constant drone of "you will never use this stuff once you finish college." They still have to decide if they're actually interested in the subject matter or not.

A good bellwether of career interest is the students in the youth symphony. They've all aced every subject in high school, plus rocket club, gentleman sports, and orchestra. The program for the end-of-season concert will have a little bio for each graduating senior, including their college interests. Half of these kids want to major in CS.
No, you claimed the opposite. You suggest that disabling the GIL should be opt-out (or conversely enabling the GIL should be opt-in). This means that many legacy packages will break by default. You said it should be this way. Why?

Don't downvote me, answer the question.
It seems like many important innovations we use today were derived from first principle.

Rust uses algebraic datatypes with ML-style type condtructors and Hindley-Milner type inference to achieve, for example, types like Option<Box<T>> or Option<&T> or Option<&mut T>, so that you're forced to check for the case of a null pointer (None), and if it's not in an Option, then it's guaranteed not to be null. This was originally conceived of mathematically in the 1980s and then implemented in ML.

The Hindley Milner type system was devised in 1969 from the typed lambda calculus.

Golang was influenced a lot by Communicating Sequential Processes, a formal system for describing concurrent behavior in systems, first described in 1978 by Tony Hoare.

Graph theory is a field of math that comes up a lot in computer science, in marketing, networking, compilers (register allocation and functional programming language interpretation).

The only innovation I can think of that came purely from tinkering is Rust's borrow checking system, and they're still trying to formalize that while improving it.

Derivations from first principle are always important.
A VW Golf starts at 35800€, and a VW ID.3 starts at 32800€, taxes included. Overall, electric cars are a bit cheaper than their counterparts, but not a lot. However, today, petrol is 2.15€/l and electricity is 0.013€/kWh. That's 11.20€/100km versus 0.185€/100km for the ID.3, literally two orders of magnitude cheaper. Everyone charges at home, and there's also a 40% discount in toll roads, which saves me about 8€ per day I'm commuting.

With the 3k€ lower price, a range of 430km, and fast charging stations every 30km along the major highways, there's just no reason to pick the Golf.

We still have a PHEV in addition to our electric car, but there's no reason to. If we're going on a 500km road trip, we'll take the electric BMW i4, no question.
I use a SE 2020. I thought about getting a 14 when they introduced the “satellite phone” feature. Also thought about getting a 15 because it supports recording LOG video files.

My point is I’m not so sure it’s plateaued- I don’t buy them as often because I don’t like replacing things that still work, but they do keep adding more features that I’d be interested in. (And removing some, like headphone jacks and buttons)
Democrats (and Republicans) need to understand that the majority of immigrants lean conservative but the Dems have successfully captured them. If Repubs would position themselves differently they would be a natural option for those fist gen families.
How many employees in Texas are illegal? States that want to complain about illegal immigration should mandate E-Verify for all employers. This would force them to be honest about how much businesses profit from illegal labor. But it is easier to keep gullible voters distracted talking about walls.
Not a fantasy, a historical reality. And with a direct relation to 2A.

Japan is formidable but they are effectively a vassal state, always remember that.
I would love to see the Journeyman Project series given this treatment. Not sure who owns the IP at this point though.
I think the OP demonstrates the compounding effects of wealth, just not in a direct money-creates-money way.
In addition to the mandatory heat-pump, and starting a trip with a warm car and a warm battery, the better EVs also extract heat from the battery to heat-up the cabin. Long trips with one or two short fast charging stop aren't so much worse than summer. In both cases the car cools down the battery after a charging stop (the battery heats up a lot when fast charging). In winter it moves the heat inside the car, and outside the car during summer (in addition to running AC).
ValiDrive
Godot is optimized for easy of use and common game dev problems.

It should be able to handle several 10s of 1000s of actors without a hiccup, but once you get into the millions, you may need to write some of your own modules.

Luckily godot’s codebase is just about as pleasant as c++ can be for a project as complex as a multi platform game engine with multiple rendering backends.

In this interview the devs of cassette beasts touch on it a bit https://godotengine.org/article/godot-showcase-cassette-beas...
Yasheng Huang’s broader thesis is that keju broke Chinese society in the sense that all intellectual energy was focused on the single hierarchy established by the test, instead of being focused on multiple endeavors and new ideas. He explains it better in his Tyler Cowen interview than in this article: https://youtu.be/KcbwBqIyusc?si=6aiG8-qPyPPxa0Fv
> "30% of your pre-tax income or less"

That makes sense in a world where taxes are 15%. But in a world where taxes are close to 50%, you probably want to be thinking about 30% of POST-tax income, not pre-tax.

If you rented at 30% of pre-tax, take away 45% for taxes, you have only 25% left. There's no way you'll live on 25% AND have room for savings for purchasing housing.

> House price affordability guidelines are "3-5x pre-tax annual income"

Uh, no, I'd say 3-5X post-tax post-food post-rent post-everything-else. That would mean you could afford a house in 3-5 years.

Seriously, I live here and almost nobody with a total household income of less than 600-800K actually owns a home here.
On the topic of streaming SQL, I found this new startup because one of their team was making a ton of contributions to "sqlparser-rs" and Arrow Datafusion.

I thought it looked interesting (even though I personally don't have a use for it) and the technology it's built on is solid:

https://www.synnada.ai/
How long does it take to fix a Linux kernel bug? Anywhere from a day to 20 years to never. It's either done as soon as possible, or it's done when it's done and that works for the best software projects.

Estimating is not hard, it's snake oil. That's how you end up paying $100M for burndown charts and a government website that doesn't work.
Would you be willing to share what the car has cost in total (maint, elec, insur, ect) over the years? Genuinely curious.
Spoken like a positivist. Here you go: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/
Just do what electric buses in cold climates do: have a diesel/kerosene auxiliary heater.

Nice part is that you (usually) don’t have to pay road tax on it.
Same. “The sky is ruddy, your fate is bloody” will forever be burned in my mind.
> Most programmers have an intimate understanding of CPUs and sequential programming because they grow up writing code for the CPU

Maybe it’s just where I work, but I feel like even this isn’t true. A lot of the newer/young employees don’t even seem to have a lot of OS/system understanding. A lot of the higher-level languages abstract the immediate need of having any “intimate understanding” of CPUs.