skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dream of a world where, given the data set, such a presentation would be straightforward to create with standard office software, or from a few interoperable ubiquitous software components, and easy to safely share online and offline, in a format that could be assumed to still work without issues 20 years later.
Mostly everyone is. How else would you explain nazis taking over the country? It was a huge majority of the country that fell for this.

Unless you're trying to say only Germans are this way but that would be racist and highly against your own biases.

Additionally the link you provided associates this with only right wing behavior which is, again, biased. Why would liberals or even centrists be spared from this? Makes no sense. Remember: Formalizing a term with structured definitions and formal sounding writing doesn't make that term scientifically legitimate. I can easily create a wikipedia entry for "Left-wing Gender Neurocognitive Disorder."

here's one I made up with chatgpt:

Symptoms and Diagnosis:

Individuals diagnosed with LWGND exhibit a range of symptoms that include:

- Cognitive dissonance when attempting to reconcile left-wing political ideology with personal gender identity.

- Psychological distress or confusion due to perceived inconsistencies between societal gender expectations and personal beliefs.

- Difficulty engaging with political activities or discussions related to gender, resulting in social or occupational impairment.

Diagnosis of LWGND requires a nuanced understanding of the individual’s sociopolitical context and personal history, often involving comprehensive assessments by multidisciplinary teams of political theorists, psychologists, and neuroscientists.
1986: Tomorrow's World: Paper Programs
In Spain, most of those socialized residential housing projects were not designed with quality of life in mind. Instead, they are more in line with France's post-war operational urban planning approach mainly designed to maximize how many lower-class people could be stored in small areas. They might place a roof over your head, but apartments are extremely small with extremely small rooms, quality of life is very poor, and zoning didn't even allowed any type of non-residential use. Some neighborhoods are outright designed after prison blocks. In contrast, the middle/upper middle class residential areas often come in the form of locked up apartment blocks manned by one or more "conserges" (like a mix between a janitor and private security guard) with the ground and first floor completely locked up.
They run house ads, and it's the same ad on every page. It's not engagement driven, and it's not deceptive like Google's ads that look like search results. Whether or not they need the money is a different question.
> How do you deal with the fact that there are people willing to work for less?

The answer in the Netherlands is that for most industries that have one the collective agreement has been declared universally binding. It applies to everyone in that industry, whether they're a member of one of the bargaining organizations or not, and if a company ignores it they're breaking the law.
Bad PR response.. I don't expect a macbook to be analogous to a PC, I expect macbooks to be superior to PCs..

While I believe 8gb is plenty, 16gb should be the minimum for a workstation

We should also keep shaming bad developers for wasting memory..

Example: Jetbrains just released Fleet, watch the memory usage of their background toolbox ;)
The brutalist design in the Talos Principle 2 is superb, highly recommend if you're a fan of this style!
This seems to apply to gamedev programmers as well, though I'm not too sure.
Should Astronauts Be Allowed to Eat Each Other If They're Starving?
They could also be greatly padding their estimates. When I estimate things, I take the amount of time I think it will require and double it. In my businesses, my partner would take my padded estimate and quadruple it. By doing that, we never blew past a deadline promised to a customer. That doesn't mean the estimates were accurate -- if they were, no padding would be necessary.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SFTBY/softbank-gro...
I haven't seen that, do you have a link?
Stoicism is the only Western philosophy with classical roots that is popularily promoted as a philosophy-for-living. The rest are steeped in How Many Angels Can Fit on the Pin Of A Needle chin-stroking.[1]

I tried to idly bring up philosophy for living questions a few years back. But I was asking academics (on Reddit) and I mostly got queer eyes about what I was asking such weird questions for.

It has a praxis, not just a set of ideas.

It also doesn’t have the “stain” of being associated with any religion. Which means that secular people can adopt it without some defensive stance on how they are only adhering to the “practical” or the “scientifically backed” parts without the “bullshit” (c.f. Buddhism).

[1] Popularily. I’m sure someone could be applying things like Cynicism and other classical philosophies.
I suppose that's true. I just find it jarring that they've made their decisions for that based on reactivity whereas the entire visual style/physics etc are all "realistic".

Once we figure out how to render games in true photorealism, it's gonna be so interesting to see how often studios make these sorts of stylistic/practical choices with animation.
I basically ran my Galaxy S9 into the ground before replacing it last January. I replaced it with a Xperia 1 III because I didn't see the point of paying a extra $500 to get the IV. The new phone runs noticeably smoother than the old phone, but not by a game changing amount, nor by the amount one would have come to expect from about a 5 year leap forward in technology.
Someone out there loved Clippy so much, they wrote erotic fiction about it. Warning: Mindly NSFW. I'll see myself out...

https://www.amazon.com/Conquered-Clippy-Erotic-Digital-Desir...
Dumbest take I've seen yet
I will be shocked if this subject is allowed and doesn't end up flagged, including my comment.

I posit to answer the question may dwell on https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20...

Massimo is who turned me Stoic. I expect he predates Ryan Holliday, both of which are the contemporary stoic masters. The article being focused on Ryan.

Why does stoicism work? Well psychology has extensively researched this for decades and without question has confirmed the value in mindfulness in so many ways.

Fundamentally it's about emotional regulation. Sensory management is often part of it as well. Afterall, you don't do mindful meditation with noise and light around.
>every house I've lived in (USA, a few different states) during my entire life has had an exterior-quality door with exterior-quality lock, including deadbolt, between the house and garage.

Sure, but I've probably locked it barely more than twice.
So when the sources contain inaccurate information then Wikipedia does so as well. I don't see how that is a good thing people view Wikipedia as the online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica which was curated by experts. Wikipedia should strive for the truth since finding truthful and factual information is becoming increasingly more difficult online.
Not disagreeing with you.

Just want to add that even if he just took the job to troll with us, it still shows that his principles were never far from theirs anyway, even if he was genuine at first.
Details on AMD's Ryzen 8000 APUs leaked, eight core 8700G leading with 12 CUs
Outside of SEO, marketing, and other sales-adjacent purposes, software developers are some of the only people with indie blogs anymore, which I think explains this. The practical difference between posting on my blog about ugly code and posting on a subreddit/forum about ugly code is primarily who owns the data and where it is stored. The restaurant workers are still doing a similar type of venting.
The main benefit of fasting generally is autophagy (forcing your body to eat dead/old/mutated cells) and increased HGH secretion.

Given that cancers are literally mutated cells, forcing your body to do an occasional cell cleanup seems potentially like a good idea.
It's being done for police, but I don't think there's any legal bar to selling this data to the public instead.

https://www.404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-took-over-town-amer...
I tend to not like stoicism and similar ideologies that have a component of "suffering is noble."

There are certain things in life that you must be able to abide, but suffering is suffering. Reducing suffering for ourselves and for others is a good thing.

These systems can lead to the perverted notion that suffering is good, and that we should just allow it to happen. We should not. We should reduce suffering for ourselves and for others when we can.
It's like a comment I originally made about mindfulness meditation.

It helps you be more effective at doing what you want to do. This might not be a good thing if what you want to do is be an asshole.

The corollary, of course, is that the potential criticism doesn't stop it from being a useful thing for you to learn. Even if you don't like how other people use it.
Part of estimating is accounting for those contingencies. Given above, depending on my audience the above estimate will be either 30 minutes, or 15 minutes but could be as long as 30 depending on these factors. Part of estimating is accounting for the setbacks one can (reasonably) expect to see, to give the other party a timeframe within which they can be (reasonably) certain it will be done.

Of course there could be a fire on-route causing a jam that turns your 15 minute trip into 2 hours, but that's sufficiently unlikely it's probably not worth building into your estimate (but could be depending on the stakes involved! If someone is going to die you should probably factor this in so we can plan for that contingency). In that instance instead you need to communicate when it happens so that everyone involved can recalibrate.
Yeah it’s really egregious, but hard to notice for people who aren’t involved in the topic more deeply.
Castilles are not a dessert. Even heard of Picos de Europa? Mountains from Soria? Sierra Nevada?
What are the notable unanswered questions about knowledge and the structure of knowledge?

Are any of them potentially answerable in a definitive fashion?

One question I keep asking is:

>What does an algorithm look like?

in the context of whether visual programming systems make sense and are workable.
I’m not sure if it’s a happy or sad thing how unaware most people, even the technically-savvy crowd, are about the extent of human trafficking and slavery in 2023. Is it proof that civilization is working how so many don’t need to concern themselves with hunting and gathering, fighting wars, fighting crime, or fighting in general to survive, and are free to spend their time on recreation and the pursuit of happiness instead of survival?
Just to chime in on apartment living in Dublin. There was a period during the late 80s and 90s when awful apartments were built in dublin (private buildings as well as social housing). Really bad sound insulation, build quality and design. They had mold problems, were poorly ventilated always too hot or too cold and were extremely grim. Even thinking about them now grims me out.

This really poisoned the well in Ireland towards apartment living.
I wonder if you could take them to small claims court. That's a potentially useful remedy, although pretty much everywhere, if they lose in small claims they can appeal it to regular civil court and make it prohibitively expensive to fight them.
> Name five good things that Hillary has done.

You got me absolutely confused here. There are 5 good things she had done? I think this proves that a bad alternative can get anybody elected.
Wow, you aren't kidding? Wouldn't they be afraid the training material would leak out, plus that's actually wrong.

At the big G they told us we weren't allowed to pay bribes. And then there was a long section about not giving people noncash gifts to influence them, but what about bringing them to the free lunch, I think that was okay.
Ideology is just a system of ideas. Of course I don’t like religious fundamentalism and fascism, but feel free to s/ideology/neutral equivalent/g
RISC-V Pioneer SiFive Takes Stock, Realigns, Moves Forward
Worst investment ever, considering it's literally the first setting for safari on my phone. They hid it right there at the top, so sneaky.
That's not basic macroeconomics, it's wrong. Disinflation is not the same thing as deflation.

PSA: whenever someone calls a concept "basic economics", don't just take their word for it.
It's in C++. I don't really mind interfacing with C, but C++ is kind of a non-starter.

And back when I last used it, the docs were pretty rough. I understand that's changed a lot and they look much better now.
In my experience writing out assumptions together with estimates tends to improve estimate accuracy a lot, by challenging the assumptions (and estimates) more at estimation time, and making it more visible when changes occur at implementation time that impact estimates.

As for negotiating estimates down, it is up to technical leadership to refuse to do that. Not easy, but doable.
> If an economic system works so poorly for people they have to be imported (I.e. locals who want to form families can’t) it should be dismantled.

Most of developed countries have bad fertility rate, some developing and/or poor countries have good fertility rate. People in rich countries don't have children not because they can't afford to, but because they don't want to.
Yep, agree. I only lock the garage interior door when I'll be gone for an extended period of time (more than a few days).
That's fair. And it certainly won't be an enormous sacrifice.

It's just that I've been postponing making any effort towards that, with some unusual amount of resistance that I couldn't explain until I saw the GP.
And let's not forget that some people mean "The RISC-V Foundation" when they say "RISC-V". I think my point is human language is often ambiguous and it's entirely possible that when a congressional staffer says "RISC-V", they're not using it in the same sense as most of the rest of the tech community.
Which is why it's good that's it's GPL. Compare to, e.g. Chrome.
Are you saying that every crime punishment should automatically include loss of privacy? Cause that's what your statement sounds like.
(disclaimer: also a co-founder of Ferrous Systems)

The ISO 26262 is certainly an effective standard. The boxes to tick are of the kind "do you have your requirements written down?" ("will someone later know what this thing does?").

So, we do have to tick boxes, but we're free to pick on how to tick boxes :). What TÜV now certified is that our box-ticking process is fine.

I have absolutely no problem with framing this as box-ticking in some way, but that box-ticking has _meaning_. However, on an existing tool, that means you write the spec (spec.ferrocene.dev) and check if everything has a test implemented. Yep, that's an amount of pretty dumb and repetitive work. And pretty often, on widely-used software, for the happy path, you'll find that it's rather bug-free. So, yes, you tick the box, but you now know that this is in order.

In other cases and on less popular platforms, we frequently find issues like e.g. changes in code size between versions (which could hint to a bug). And it's not just super-niche targets, the last version had a size regression on certain arm targets.

Details on some of the fixes over the last years can be found here: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/how-ferrocene-improves-rust.... We find a lot of things in corners and better ways to improve the Rust compiler.

As we're a downstream to Rust, we're actually incentivised to push changes upstream with preference, so yes, we contribute to the general quality of the Rust compiler (also of older versions) and with that to bug-free-ness of the resulting software.

So, we're over here, ticking boxes, informing parties when one box doesn't tick.
I think my blog is also a pretty good place, albeit probably uninteresting to most if not all people. But it's my place, and nobody else influences me.
I've seen twitter comments with more intellectual value.

We should prioritize basic economics and basic mathematics in education, even for people who will go on to get humanities degrees and write for Vox (about business & economics, no less).

Someone who doesn't understand how multiplication and inflation works should not be allowed anywhere near a big news publication.

"Emily Stewart covers business and economics for Vox. She has written about a wide range of topics, including Elizabeth Warren’s political roots, the motivations driving the crypto space, and what’s going on these days with the Beanie Baby market. Stewart is the author of a monthly newsletter, The Big Squeeze, that examines the ways ordinary people are being squeezed under capitalism and the scams — legal and illegal — that are constantly trying to sucker us."
Does Airbyte have a Reverse ETL offering currently? Or just blog posts? :-)
I find it much easier to change lanes in traffic and make left turns in traffic because a narrower window is required when the acceleration is higher and easier to control. Short on-ramps are easier to deal with. Braking is much smoother also. I suspect you have not actually driven one?
Wololooooooo
Anyone know of something like the ratgdo, but for motorized swing gates (like DoorKing)? I'd love to check the status as well as actuate open/close, but some of the "upgrade" quotes I've seen are $5k USD. It seems like I should be able to get this thing integrated with either WiFi or Z-wave...
In my case, I was just asking it for a cheeky name for a talk I want to give in a few months. The suggestions it gave were of comparable quality to what I think ChatGPT would have given me.
you're acting as though an immigrant from any of the dense population centers has the same impact as a native-born child on the culture and economy. that is false. sometimes it's for the better (in America, we have many well-educated immigrants from India and China). sometimes it's for the worse (see Europe's struggles with uneducated muslim immigrants from north Africa and the Middle East).

importing large groups of people sometimes works; we did it pretty well in America because we had so much room to grow. transportation and communication were also much harder, so it was less easy for people to maintain ties to their former country and family there; they adapted a little more, though ethnic ghettos were still a problem.

it's not an intractable problem but saying "just get immigrants bro" isn't really a good solution. we are sometimes biased in the US because we are selective (too much so, I think). we bring in the best from high-population areas like Africa and India and we see benefits for that. on the other hand, while migrant working and a moderate level of illegal immigration are fine and even economically beneficial, it would be silly to deny that the current levels are causing severe problems. when you lose that selectivity and control, things don't turn out so well. and to import enough people to make up for falling birthrates we would have to broaden our horizons beyond skilled workers.
This question implies that you might think that SoftBank is something like a bank with branch locations where people can go deposit money and have a checking account. Not so! SoftBank is basically just a Japanese investment fund and probably doesn’t need 800 points of presence.
Flattered that I apparently come across as still in the full flush of youthful naïveté.

I’m 25 years in to my software development career and still finding joy.
> On an iPhone, it takes 4 taps and some scrolling, once you know where to look

And that's only to choose one from their preset list. I had to install Hyperweb[0] which intercepts Safari requests and redirects them to my search engine of choice.

[0] https://hyperweb.app/
Many people already have a keypad mounted outside that will open the garage door. You can set up a guest code there and give to Amazon, or anyone you want. There is zero need for internet-enabled smartness in the garage door opener here.
How would etags help you avoid multiple inflight requests from users double submitting a form?
I thought it was an interesting hypothesis for why I see women actively avoid the sort of debate spaces online that I seek out. They are all absolutely dominated by men and it doesn't matter what part of the political spectrum the particular echo chamber embodies, this happens in both leftist and right-wing spaces.

Is it sexist to say that women seek out conflict less than men? Mens' brains are literally doused in a hormone that makes them aggressive for many years of their development. Isn't it sexist, or just weird, to suggest that testosterone has no effect on mens' behavior?
Claustrophobia feels like the right word to me; suburban life feels like being trapped in whichever tiny little patch of land is yours, hemmed in on all sides by not-yours, not-welcome, keep-out places belonging to other people. Such places feel especially confining to those who cannot drive.
I agree with this, but the article feels like it's talking about a world that no longer exists (or is rapidly ceasing to exist). Questions like "should salaried engineers focus on code quality at the expense of business goals" are a ZIRP phenomenon, i.e. relevant at a time when companies were hiring engineers just to prevent competitors from hiring them and when graduating from a boot camp was all it took to land a junior SWE role. Now that the engineering job market is, alas, looking a lot like other job markets, this feels like it's from a different reality.
We agree, essentially. At the risk of really labouring the point though;

It'd be most efficient for time/cost reasons if we only ship to production code which is actually used in that build.

However, intermediate steps, or additional debug/test/migration/whatever code is required to get to the final state. You probably don't want to ship debug stuff into production.

Therefore, of the total quantity of code written, somewhat less than 100% is useful in production.

Therefore, you don't want to ship 100% of all code written to production.

> "how can we make it so that 100.0% of the code I type is shipped in the final product?"

This isn't necessarily desirable; but phrased slightly differently perhaps reflects more about production efficiency:

"how can we make it so that 100% of the production code is the only code I typed?"
You're suggesting using the same integer type everywhere. If so you can use `uint64_t`.

To put it another way:

> If they're both int32_t, there's no possible problem.
> Inflation is literally defined as prices rises in response to increase in currency....

No it's not. When Friedman said that "inflation is always a monetary phenomenon" he was saying that inflation is caused by a mismatch of money supply and economic capacity. You fix inflation by tweaking the money supply, but the cause may have been either the supply or capacity side.

And since when did an economic theory become part of the definition? Inflation is an old word that far predates Friedman or the central currency system.
But some of the companies they own might benefit from it.