skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Or I could just accept that neither numeric, nor string ordering works for semantic versioning, and write a trivially easy piece of code that does the ordering in a contect where I expect such a scheme.

Hence the whole "3.10 and 3.9 are perfectly mechanically comparable (meaning one can write a program to deterministically compare them and return their relative order)" part in my comment you perhaps missed.

>Yes, and then we would be back to the day when the version number gave me zero information about what changed, and how that affects compatibility with existing code.

Not that it's any better now with semver though: in practice the semver works 95% of the time, and give just a false sense of comfort at the other 5%. You update, and things still break, despite the semver promise.
Besides second order stuff like that it might help some Steam Deck sales (mostly by demonstrating their commitment to the platform and attract other companies to develop for it, moreso than anybody rushing out to buy a Steam Deck specifically to play Half-Life), the fact that Valve does stuff like this that's not directly "make all the money right this second"-driven is in no small part why Valve has such goodwill with the PC gaming community.

In theory, it's not that hard to compete with Steam. Valve's cut of game sales is massive, and a competitor could easily slash into that to undercut them. Which is what Epic Games is trying to do. Yet, Valve maintains an extremely dominant market condition largely predicated on that goodwill.

And, of course, exactly because of that dominant market condition, they've got all the money they could possibly want to burn on random vanity projects.
Aren't these ads personalized / remarketed for the viewer, not contextually placed next to posts?

Maybe IBM is just the Nazis' preferred brand? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust?wprov=sf...
Saying "apprehension towards containers is a red flag" is as subjective as the apprehension itself. I like to work with professionals that have a justified opinion, rather than knee jerk reactions.

I am old, I've seen it all, sometimes I use containers. Are they useful? Sure! Are they "the final form"? No!

Tools are just tools, don't get obsessed about them... They only matter when used properly to solve the right problem. Obsession about tooling generates so much waste... and burnout!
I don’t recall anything like that in FF6 either. They even removed part of a scene in a rerelease where Celes is chained up and gets punched by a guard.

There are still plenty of other horrifying things in FF6 though.
From elsewhere in this thread:

"A key reason for the sympathy strikes is that Tesla brought in scabs which is a big no-no in Scandinavian labor markets."

Sounds like an attempt to prevent other people from being hired.

Re: setting a minimum salary -- suppose we set the minimum price of burgers at $100/burger. Do you think that would cause people to buy fewer burgers? I don't think "minimum salary kills jobs" is speculative; I think it should be the default hypothesis. Force the price of something to be high and people will purchase it less. Force the price of labor to be high and unemployment will increase. Especially for low-skilled immigrants whose main way to compete is willingness to work for low wages.
Oh I would definitely prefer it. I think a lot of people would. So many Americans haven't lived that life though that it can be hard to imagine.
On the other hand, given the marginal utility of the apostrophe (relative to, say, the comma or the parenthesis) as well as the fact that so many people seem to have a hard time keeping it straight, Im tempted to conclude thats evidence that we should just get rid of it outright.
I guess they could be. They existed before we started extracting fossil fuels.
>>> millions of Americans are forced to sleep in tents on sidewalks.

Do you have a source for this?
Would've loved to have tried it, but sadly am stuck at "connecting to stranger". I guess the problem could be that I'm in Europe, so if all 3-9 strangers (that's the range of people staring during my waiting period) are in USA the ping is high so the system won't connect us.

Sounds interesting!
I’m waiting for an update that lets me play it without VR. I’m probably never going to have a VR rig that’ll play it. My wife has a couple for work (not capable of playing that game, though) and we’re both free to use them for whatever we like, but never bother. Certainly not gonna pay for a headset just for one game. I have enough barely-used electronic crap around as it is.
I have lived in three countries as well, and Toronto is neither the safest or cleanest city where I have been. So much for personal anecdotes, then.

You yourself admit that once you bought a car in Toronto "Life became 10x easier", so which way is it?

As for living there without a car, that's all I've ever done, so I'm quite familiar with the pros and cons. As I said earlier, I have no doubt that it would be convenient to live in Toronto with a car, it's just that I refuse to become part of the problem.

Also, just because it is not as bad as the worst places we can think of doesn't mean it is any good. Just look at the number of children and women riding their bikes for daily errands, as it is a good rule of thumb for how cycling friendly a place really is.

As for their economic consequences, car-centric suburbs are objectively a net drain to a city's coffers regardless of our personal opinion [0].

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growt...
We're enjoying a very labor-friendly market, but there are many examples in certain periods where unions locked up good, well-paying jobs behind exclusionary, nepotistic, and racist membership practices.

So I would be happy to distinguish between a scab who is looking to make a quick buck and a strikebreaker who was never eligible for a union job in the first place. Depends on the context.
Ouch. I guess there's no use for those employees elsewhere, just deadweight?
The name actually makes some sense from the low level system programmer's perspective on the original Ethernet where you flung packets blindly into a single coax cable that snaked around to each workstation.
Man, don't take it that seriously. First, it's The Reg that broke the story, which is a tell that this actually happened, but probably nothing will really get out of it, Elon is safe, don't worry.

Second I think that people re-tweeting elon sightly antisemitic tweet to have it show regularly (and thus close to advertising content) is funny and fair trolling. I would do it too if I bother connecting to my account sometimes (Nitter is better for me rn)
They own the copyright. The project is a thing that happens in concert with users and contributors, just like art requires an audience to be art.
Absolutely, but note what your very quote says "describes ... the language" rather than "prescribes ... the language".

A standards document or specification's purpose is to "prescribe" how a system shall work in order to be compliant as opposed to a reference which documents how systems currently happen to work.
There isn't one, I migrated to axum and won't go back.
If they bankrupt the employer then they would be out of a job. Or the union contract gets renegotiated.
Entirely marketing for steam. It coincides with the Oled Steam Decks, for example.
"Failing to integrate them" could be because they struggled to find jobs, due to unions acting as a cartel and shutting competitors out of the labor market.

If Norway accepted fewer immigrants, that means that fewer jobs for immigrants are needed. If you accept a lot of immigrants, you'd like to have employment opportunities for _all_ of them. Unionization could cause this problem by lowering demand for unskilled workers, who are no longer profitable to hire due to union bargaining.

If jobs for immigrants were plentiful, maybe government support wouldn't be necessary.
You mean the guy who sold card sorting machines to the nazis? Idoubt that he would be all that disturbed.
[dupe]

More yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38297685
The other two things that are happening.

* LFPs are really starting to take off which pull a lot of pressure off higher capacity NMC batteries.

* Sodium ion batteries are just starting to hit the market which further reduce demands on Lithium.

The ramp up on alternative chemistries is playing a fairly good role here and sodium ion will likely push prices down even more aggressively.

Further, I expect that battery recycling will really start to be a major contributor to lower costs in the next 10 years or so. So I'd expect even lower prices as the battery market starts approaching saturation.
Very often old==tested==proven==goog
It's rich that the left is calling Musk an anti-semite while chanting "From the river to the sea!" at rallies.
The situation is backwards because instead of taxing the sh*t out of everyone (including non solar homeowners) and give incentives to select few, people can simply afford solar (or whatever solution they want) if the government hasn't robbed them.
They just happened to have the foresight to develop the most lucrative business model in gaming (owning the distribution platform) and Half Life 3 was the opportunity cost. They could have made a ton of money with that cliff hanger if they remained like every other game developer on the planet, instead of a metric buttload of money.
By your criterion, no programming language has a language specification at all. I don't think that's a useful way to look at things.

I would like to see some indication from the people who say that the Python Language Reference I gave a link to does not qualify as "language specification", of what would qualify. Specific examples would be nice.
> where you would be more than 2m away of nearest (including toilet)

When I visit you and poop, do you have a way for me to connect my phone to your wired network?

I'm going to be honest with you: Modern WIFI is really awesome. I don't have problems with reception now that I bought a powerful router. (And "just run a wire" isn't a solution; the devices that had reception problems don't support wired ethernet.)
I got Proxmox running in an on-prem cluster fairly easily. I was never able to figure out k8s. If MicroCloud is comparably easy to set up and manage as Proxmox, I'll definitely check it out.
> Solar for example is only ever planned for to achieve about 30% of its "capacity" (due to the whole sun going down at night thing). And even that varies with seasons.

1. 30% is avaerage number which is a useless because at 10 in the morning when I was writing my text solar was even below that.

2. You're literally confirming what I was saying.

> So if you're claiming the German grid planners were expecting the solar to magically 4x overdeliver

I was claiming no such thing. I said, and it is backed by reality, that at 10 o'clock in the morning on a cloudy quiet day 135GW worth of renewables were producing only 20GW.

Which is a fact. I know it's an unpleasant fact, but reality has the unfortunate tendency to be unpleasant.

> Onshore wind has a similar number (again, varies by season).

So, again. What exactly was I misrepresenting? The fact that renewables are overprovisioned in Germany? Or the fact that they were producing significantly less than both their capacity and the needs of the country? Or the fact that Germany had to burn 20GW worth of coal to keep up with the demand?

Or the fact that even if you provision 400% capacity (4x times the demand), and it still produces 15%, you will still need to burn coal through the night.

So it's 18:44 when I'm writing this. Wind is at 12.69% and solar is at 3% capacity. In total 16% of Germany's eletricity demand. It's lower than when I was writing these numbers in the comment when someone called me a liar. 40% of electricity (26 GW) is coming from coal.

Reality has the unfortunate tendency to be unpleasant.

Funnily, but when I keep asking "how much more do we need to overprovision renewables" to meet the demands, I'm met with silence or wishful thinking.
No, it's good for workers to unite, even if it's for stupid reasons. The argument is against the reasons, not the uniting.
> * It also doesn't disclaim the author from writing you a check out of the good will of their heart.*

Nobody expects that. But people do reasonably expect a project to recieve updates, security fixes, and new releases.
So you are not driving a $60k vehicle, living a life of luxury?

I regularly bring things with me on my ebike because it has plenty of room to strap stuff on, and baskets that are handy for throwing stuff into it. I have a cheap bike trailer for moving bigger things that would require, say, a trunk.

You were not the type of person who I am complaining about, but bikes are a great money saving device for most people, and should not be viewed as luxury items.
Until you got to deploy it on a new, supported linux OS, and realize that CPAN modules that load are different that the old server, and the developers own workstation, and now things go to hell, but they worked great on the developers machine.

(not just perl, python and others can be fun too).

As an admin, not a dev, I appreciate the additional complexity and security concerns, but I much more appreciate the portability and reproducability.
There's a world of difference between having to use a car every day of the week to do literally anything (as the case with multiple suburban areas) and using it for it's intended purpose of hauling things.

Having a lunatic on the bus is hardly an excuse to force everyone to use cars and the systematic destruction of walkable human scale neighborhoods.

But sure. Let's abolish all public transit just because sometimes there are lunatics. US had a raving lunatic as a president, we definitely should abolish US.
It does depend on the agent. I trusted mine and saw no red flags during, or after the transaction. He was referred to me by a colleague who is a serial house ownership addict, and I referred him on to several others, and all were pleased. My own house was listed at $X, so I simply asked him "what's it really worth?" He said $Y, where, at the time, Y<X and houses took time to sell, and we went through a few rounds of the haggling thing with the seller until they counteroffered $Y, and then accepted, easy peasy. And the house I now live in is one he added to a tour of several I had picked, and THAT was the one I instinctively liked and still do. That's really how it's supposed to go, right?
> only problem that self-driving cars will ever solve is where to put VC money in a zero interest rate world. We've had freight trains and mass transit for centuries.

Wouldn’t write these off so quickly. I know two people who ditched their cars in Phoenix, one of whom went car free, because of Waymo. (By analogy: without cabs and Ubers, many more New Yorkers would have a car parked in an outer borough.)
It gets stuck forever on "connecting to stranger..." even though the "# strangers watching" text keeps updating. Is it down?

Looks really cool btw.
I became very disillusioned with my “eco conscious” friends when they all went so hard against the bird scooters. These seemed like such an obvious and amazing solution to having too many gas powered cars in the road.

The cost was very low, the distance you could travel was high, and they were everywhere. This seemed like such a massive ray of hope.

When people started throwing them in the water, or damaging them intentionally it really made me question what their actual motivations were.
I don’t see any conceivable path for Twitter to turn around and actually be successful.

The only tech turnaround of this magnitude that has happened in recent memory is Apple. Jobs was a founder and had the RDF going for him and while he might have pissed off a few people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/s/49BWg0N9Xr

But at least the employees believed in him and he had the Mac faithful as a base.

What does Twitter have?
> For example, if I pay all my employees the same wage I make and pay for the same insurance and retirement plan I have, would it be beneficial to my employees to join a union?

Two questions:

How would you know that everyone has the same ? Only the boss knows without a union.

Also, if everyone has the same retirement and insurance plan but they are not good plans or the pay isn't good, are they not getting ripped off ?
Because there aren't 280 million EVs on the planet yet.
Nice! The README mentions `LayerNorm` is implemented here, but while it's in the equivalence tests with PyTorch, I don't see it in the implementation.
None of those problems you name are inherent in a bus though. Those are common problems with buses, but they don't have to be. A bus should not "chugs along circuitously to a point that is not quite at your destination" - design a better network. A bus should stop so close to where you shop that it is easier than carting that stuff to your car. A bus stop should not be so far away that bad weather is a problem. You should never miss your next leg because the next leg bus is never long in coming. The bus should always come.

The only part of your list that your transit agency shouldn't solve are the raving lunatic. This is easy to solve though as there are not many raving lunatics in the world and so the number of not lunatics riding great transit means they are rare (and there are plenty of others to help deal with them when they get on).

Running great transit costs a lot more $$$ than most transit agencies get though, so they make the best of what money they have. (not really - most waste a lot of money on things that do not make for great transit, but even if they spent everything perfect they don't have anywhere near enough money to run great transit)
> The hard part of accounting systems is doing the requirements analysis (including interviewing humans who give inaccurate or incomplete answers) and writing detailed functional specifications which account for every possible edge case.

So lots of tedious repetitive manipulation of language to extract facts and transform them into a systematic format? My prediction: LLMs are going to eat that for breakfast.

(Honestly it is a great business idea for someone with the right contacts. Lots of big customers with deep pockets and large private datasets to train against that might now have a solution to a problem which was previously intractable in scale.)
You are probably underestimating how good self-love can be
That's so frustrating and I'm sorry.

The USA is the richest country in the world, but our biking infrastructure is worse than third-world countries. Not only is the bike infrastrcute inadequate and with many gaps, but what does exist is frequently designed to mix with a mode of transportation that is actively hostile to biking.

I hope you find a way to bike again. Biking alongside cars is so stressful and dangerous, but biking along a safe route is so enjoyable.
Part of Murphy's Laws of Combat: No combat ready unit ever passed inspection. No inspection ready unit ever passed combat.

Managers need to be careful of Goodhart's law. (in this case "passing inspection" may not be the best target)
I also hit some mid-career "challenges" at almost exactly the same time, mid-30s, 15-ish years of experience on what felt like a good track at some household name companies... but in hindsight was relatively low-value work a lot of the time.

It sounds like you (now) have a pretty good picture of the landscape, and where you fit into it. I think it mostly depends on what you want to do long term... if you goal is just to get a day job and pay the bills, then you're probably on the right track, just grind leetcode and market yourself well and you'll get something.

If your goal is to have a satisfying career, it's less clear that you'll be able to find that, and maybe it's worth considering some other options. I'm also in NYC actually and still trying to figure this stuff out myself!
Disappointing they never made HL3
Talk to a psychiatrist who specializes in ADHD. They have a standard set of questions they ask and score your response, and that's pretty much the whole of diagnosis.

If you want to know for sure, your response to stimulant meds is really the best way of finding out, and typically an office would prescribe a week or two worth of meds after initial diagnosis, if you choose to go that route. If you do not have ADHD, the meds will make you high and hyperactive. If you do have ADHD, the stimulants will paradoxically make you calm, focused, and rational. This is called the 'paradoxical response' and is really the only medical differentiator between ADHD and non-ADHD folks. The explanation is that ADHD people have an understimulated prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for decision making and awareness. A stimulant medication boosts the prefrontal cortex, making you more present, aware of your surroundings, and in control of your thoughts and actions, but without putting you in hyperdrive as in the classic stimulant response. (If you don't respond well to meds, you might have bipolar or other issues which often present as executive disfunction and are misdiagnosed.)

I was diagnosed in my late 30's, and my only regret is not recognizing and getting help earlier. In retrospect it's caused me a huge amount of difficulty all throughout my life, and I used to blame myself for something I now know to be out of my control, yet fixed by medication.
Print is being shrunk but magazines seem still very active. Still to be seen whether they will succeed in the e-reader transition.
I'm not that familiar with the subject, but I did read[1] that Wikidata's adoption has been slowed by the fact that triples can only be used on one page (per localisation). There is some support for using it with infoboxes though[2].

[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Array#Wikidata

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikidata#In_infoboxes
There are so many registered agents to choose from. Are there any commonly recommended registered agents?

Relatedly, can anyone say if it's better to file with clerky instead of a registered agent?
Somewhat related, I have found The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences[1] to be an amazing resource when I come across interesting numeric sequences.

[1] https://oeis.org/
The average cost of a new gas powered car is about $48k in the United States and the average cost of a new electric car is about $53k. Neither is affordable but used Nissan Leafs are available in the sub $10k range. Anything else you forgot to mention?
New industries require a monopoly to create the infrastructure and standardisation to scale. Absent an Amazon or Apple-like private sector actor in EV's, it was the state which had to do it. Same goes with Small Reactor Nuclear, Solar / Wind / Wave, space exploration and the rest. Free market comes after
Actually, BlackRock is incentivized to have the whole system be healthy.
> we rather explicitly agree that Python has nothing called a “language specification”

No, we don't. I have already said explicitly that I think the Python Language Reference is such a thing. (I am ignoring quibbles about it being called a "reference" instead of a "specification".) If you think it isn't, why? What does count as a "language specification" in your view? Do you have any specific examples that you can contrast with Python?
My granddad just told me a story from the early 1960s where he did that in the USA because his return flight was cancelled.
Got on train, had a great time, went to sleep, got off train, went to work.
> like you said about warehouse storage space(?).

I think that's about much more than space, and more the operational drag of managing all that stuff.

Here's the Army Undersecretary and also the Chief of Staff talking about it and plans to reduce inventory:

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2023/10/army-doesnt-know-w...

From the article:

“I'm working really hard with Army Materiel Command to find ways to more rapidly and in the digital fashion to catalog what we currently have, not relying on the clipboard and supply soldier who's sitting there taking notes and putting it on a piece of paper,”

Yikes.