skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to know what the burden was too. I hear comments like that in code reviews and commonly when you push for specifics about the burden, there is very little
Good teaching largely consists of setting the learner up in situations where they can practice effectively. To pick just one example many people are taught to improve the quality of their writing. This largely consists of giving guidance on what writing to attempt and (more importantly) guidance how to reflect on the quality of the writing you've just done so you can improve.
Freedom of speech does not include the right:

To permit students to print articles in a school newspaper over the objections of the school administration.
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988).
No, what qualifies it as niche is not my personal like or dislike of the controls.

It’s my understanding that a -lot- of people were historically intimidated by the controls of the AC franchise, not just myself.
Reality check: 'average' people do not get inheritances of such significance.
Do many consumer TVs even have an RJ45 connector anymore? Despite what a few of us here might like to do, average homeowners hate cables and love Wifi.
That forum was a godsend and really supportive when I converted my prerunner to 4wd!
Wanted to try it, but for some reason it requires a google account. I don't have one.
From my (very brief) foray looking into the "high-end penmanship" hobby, Japanese notebooks seem to be some of the most highly regarded, so it makes sense to me.
Pardon my ignorance being on mobile, maybe I’m misunderstanding what this does exactly, but does this support multi-OS builds? Like having a Windows, Mac, and Linux runner for native builds using Rust?
Philosophy of Software Design is a much better book discussing these ideas than clean code. Part of the problem is uncle Bob's book is now tied up with the idea of clean code, but his book sucks.
The real question --- Do the benefits really justify the cost?

We don't know the answer to this yet.
Reminds me of the Carmageddon[1] post-mortem where they noted that having management in London and all developers in Sydney was perfect as everyone was at work at the same time...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmageddon
Freight doesn’t have priority, passenger trains have priority according to the law but the law is functionally unenforceable so freight steals priority from passengers.
I really want to agree because it seems to make so much sense in theory. It gets rid of the need to parse by standardizing on syntax. But it doesn't solve everything, so we still don't get to live the dream. Namely, it does not solve the issue of schemas, versioning, and migration.

And this is a really big issue that threatens to derail the whole project. If my script runs a pipeline `a | b | c` and utility b gets updated with a breaking change to the schema, it breaks the entire script. Now I've got to go deep into the weeds to figure out what happened, and the breakage might not be visible in the human-readable output. So to debug I'll have to pass the flag to each tool to get it to print all the json to stdout, and then sit there eyeballing the json to figure out how the schema changed and what I need to do to fix my script.

Seems like a big mess to me. Unless there's something I'm missing?
Whale carcass washed up at Tramore pier in Waterford currently unmoveable
Exactly. Thinking wealth is a zero-sum game is short sighted.

Yes, there are many rich people who are rich directly or indirectly thanks to wealth redistribution: the state is very powerful in taking wealth using force (violence) from the poor and giving it to some wealth people.

But the natural course of how people become wealth is by generating wealth in a way that is positive for everyone!

There's nothing wrong with being wealthy. Poverty is a real problem, and the states are partly responsible for driving people to misery through wars, and the evils of forcing their own fiat currency with inflation and taxation.
> Wealth isn't zero-sum.

Source ? Wealth can and is in many case a zero sum game.

> Most of the American super-wealthy got that way by providing value to others.

Source ? Making money and providing value are not the same thing.

> I'd argue that the bigger problem to societal stability is jealousy and envy

Sure let's not address the problem but instead focusing on the emotion of the people affected.
Jealousy and envy are human emotions. They are only a problem for society who fail to adequately provide for their citizen.

> the idea that rich people got that way by taking from the poor.

Every time a someone doesn't pay the adequate amount of taxe, or a company loobies for certain privilege. Where do you think that money come from ?
Can't we use an AI model to decipher different animal noises and correlate to what it could mean?
There is still a large benefit to this. Because Tesla is seen as a leader in the EV space it prods others to follow them. In some cases like this it gives people in the supply chain or internally at other automakers justification to make changes they've been prevented from making in the past.

All sorts of people have all sorts of random ideas that never go anywhere until an industry "golden child" says it's the way forward. Without that effect the change can take much longer to happen.
I agree, one of Spotify's big early successes was embracing a Freemium model before other apps did. Really helped establish a userbase.
What I anticipate is that it will require a transfer in Diridon, which is suboptimal but it's also unrealistic to think of HSR going directly to SF (seriously, what route would be conceivable that could support actual high speed rail?). However, Caltrain just issued this press release today, which indicates that one of the results of electrification is going to be an ability to run more trains and increase the speed of SF<-->SJ bullets to accommodate 30min end-to-end travel time. If it's a 2hr30min HSR ride from LA to Diridon, then a transfer to 30min Caltrain to SF, that sounds more than acceptable, and still far faster and more convenient than flying LAX<->SFO.

https://www.caltrain.com/news/caltrain-announces-exciting-ne...
This knowledge was likely lost during the Eugenics wars, so the time continuum is safe for now.
> ”You're just walking into a supermarket carrying bags from other stores?”

Yes. This is 100% not a problem in any place I’ve ever lived. What else are you going to do with your bags? It’s not like you can check them at the door!

Some UK supermarkets now let you just walk around and self-scan your purchases using an app, skipping the check out. So I just pack the things straight into my bag or backpack as I go (no basket or cart), pay, and walk out.

Very occasionally it gets flagged up for a random security check when you go to pay, which just means an employee scans 3 random items from your bag to make sure they match what you scanned. But usually I just walk out straight past the security station and they don’t raise an eyebrow.

(Besides, if security are suspicious about you, they can just keep an eye on you from the back office CCTV anyhow. No need to follow you around the store!)
> It's not that hard to get into a >99% income bracket for a year or two.

The 99th percentile threshold for household income in 2023 was "only" $591,550.

A two-earner couple who sells a house beyond the exclusion amount (or is not eligible for the exclusion) would pretty readily brush into the 99th percentile for that year. (Many zero-earner couples would get there just from a house sale.)

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the "one year" 99th percentile folks were there just from a house sale and then someone else takes that spot in subsequent years.
Agreed. I think their bottom line probably is built off of how it would affect their user base. My hunch is given the immensity of the user base, it wouldn't cause enough of a significant exodus for Meta to care either way. But that's speculation, not sure if that can be backed up with evidence from past events.
You can run networking through phone lines similar to coax.
I feel like free company cars won't impact the super wealthy at all...
> But now how do you collect the tax? Do you make him sell 95% of his shares of Amazon? That would certainly tank the stock, and then you would owe him a big refund for overtaxing him.

Apropos of anything else, the IRS bases things on the calendar year, and then gives you to April to "settle up". It wouldn't owe him a refund in this situation, then, but his next year tax bill might be lower.
So, I love these kinds of puzzles as well. One intersection that I've never much seen that feels natural to me personally. I also love lyrically complex/interesting hip-hop e.g. MF Doom - and the wordplay is very similar. Haven't really seen much noting this?
So if I have some wood, and I create a chair out of it, would you would say that nothing of value was created?

Previously we had some lumber worth $10 and now we have a chair worth $250 dollars.

Where did the $240 dollars come from? Was it stolen from somebody else?
What would you consider wealth that is inherited, then? The wealthy people who did not, in fact, get their wealth by providing value to others?
Here is the recipe (linked from the article), it appears they opensourced it?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1744h_8sozZJ2wMR9X-j1GbsXXON...
Just because it's widely accepted doesn't mean it's correct.

Paywall link
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Makes a slight case but mostly just assumes inequality is bad.
A bike lane moved, and this San Francisco neighborhood erupted
If they put slot machines in the cars, or dedicated casino car(s), they could pay for themselves!
Value is subjective. It's not from nothing. It's from human action.

In an oversimplification, when Peter decides to do business with Paul and Paul is interested in taking his business it's because both believe they'll be better off after that.

Now you could [prematurely] argue that there might be externalities and so on, but you must recognize that that action of trading in itself can be seen as something that is going to increase the overall wealth of both as they'll be more satisfied after the fact (assuming everything goes well).
You forgot the dogma of only one entry point per function, back from the day when you could do both.

(One exit point is a pet peeve of mine since it often makes the code a lot harder to read and think about vs exit asap)
Round it up to 100, comrade
So is auto, decltype and templates. In C++ we properly call it type deduction to distinguish it from actual H-M style inference which C++ lacks. The details of how it is called doesn't detract from parent's argument.
A recent wiring overhaul at my house saw the electrican bundling about 6 cables with my cat6a runs. Never been happier that I went with shielded; no apparent issues despite zero clearance, but imagine non-shielded buried in a wall somewhere, undiagnosable
> not rich by merit

There are lots of stats that disagree. The overwhelming majority of fortunes are made and squandered within three generations. Raising capable people in an environment of extreme wealth is very hard.

Most famous fortunes are self-made, in the sense that turning a few 100k into billions is something that clearly takes a lot of merit to accomplish. I would also argue that morally, your good fortune in domestic environment (which is the main predictor of economic outcomes) is entirely your own. I don't see a moral claim by a third party over my upbringing as any more valid than a claim over my organs.
> This seems to be a great stop-gap with parsers for a LOT of different commands, but it relies on parsing text output that's not necessarily designed to be parsed

True, and yet it's extremely common to parse output in bash scripts and other automations, so in a sense it's just centralizing that effort. That being said at least when you do it yourself you can fix problems directly.
S&P 500 YTD is at 20%

Vanguard growth fund (VIGAX) 42%

AMZN 71%

APPL 56%

MSFT 55%

GOOG 52%

TSLA 124%

Anyone with an aggressive but not insane portfolio could be at 47% growth in 2023.
I understand that they're trying to preserve their service network, but that's not a valid reason to prevent people from repairing their purchased machines.

Happy to see this going through.
> We live on a planet with finite resources; everything here is zero-sum.

This isn't even true at a cosmic scale, let alone in human scales. Planet Earth receives exogenous energy from the sun.

You want an example of creating value from nothing? Say your choice this evening was to sit on the couch and do nothing versus charge your neighbor $20 to clean up his yard of fallen leaves. By choosing the latter, you have created $20 of value for your neighbor where none existed before.

> Some people are just better at socializing their harmful byproducts.

This is trivially true, but you make the great leap of equating all wealth creation to an arbitrage in externalities.
Sketchbook–a development environment for HTML canvas artwork and prototypes
What we really need are architects that add chases throughout the house so that you can add any matter of cable you want, be that electrical, plumbing, cable, fiber or cat.

I have a chase in the middle of my house which used to be a chimney for a now decommissioned oil burner. I have all matter of cables going through there now, including, but not limited to two cat cables that provide ethernet to my attic and second floor. Not sure I would have been able to DIY it without that chase.

If each house had a couple of these chases that would provide a ton of flexibility in terms of remodeling.
> I wouldn't be surprised if wages in the parts of the global population that's currently industrializing (parts of China and India) went up by way more than 43% though

What an insanely out-of-touch take. HN-ers really are something else.
The problem with all these programming languages is that they aren't novel enough. I have an idea for a programming language that would change fundamental aspects. If I wanted to make the programming language I would keep it simple. Just an auto generated parser and interpreter to demonstrate a novel concept. For industrial use, I just want Java with less boilerplate (i.e. Kotlin or Groovy).

The space for niche programming languages is quite large, but nobody is picking the fruit, because a programming language that isn't general purpose isn't as exciting.
They don't just leave cables hanging freely behind the walls.
Has this document actually been posted anywhere?
What's the type of the binary + operator in C?
There is a difference between spoofing a record for a specific DNS server and spoofing a global DNS request.
I was actually thought how to build quality software (which is not limited to "having no bugs") in college, but I do not have the time or resources to apply this knowledge consistently in a corporate setting because of the pressure to deliver.
There is plenty of academics on it, as real engineers, those that studied Software Engineering or Informatics Engineering, instead of fake engineering titles from bootcamps, should be aware.

Usually available as optional lectures during the degree, or later as Msc and PhD subjects.
I'm missing something.

If you don't have any unpaid rides (according to Über), what seems to be the problem?
Feels like 2008.

I still regret and resent I got taken for a ride with Occupy Wall Street. A naive, young mind I was...
The author's example sketchbook is available here: https://www.longitude.studio/
Things are moving so fast it's hard to keep track. Is nerf still a worthy avenue or is GS + meshing the way to go.
> Is there any human activity where quality is an attribute successfully taught?

Every industrial practice.

On the other hand, the title just means that programming is not an industrial practice. What should be obvious to anybody that looked, but some people insist on not seeing it.
Why is this surprising? Higher rates mean businesses need to provide a higher return to stay competitive. You increase the cost of capital, businesses and people will adjust prices to adjust.
As I said, nature is analog, it will never go away. Interesting areas of analog research are in things such as switched capacitor architectures where you can filter as close to the antenna as possible, reducing the impact of an interferer on the rest of your signal chain. Also similar is continuous time signal processing where you can perform your signal processing on an analog signal without discretizing it in time, effectively giving you the ability to make sense out of your analog data as close to the sensor (or antenna) as possible.

The problem is you can't tweak these things with a software update. Their relative inflexibility makes them unpopular outside of a defense or research setting but analog solutions are typically higher in performance than digital solutions but that can depend on definition as well.
POTS is obsolete, I'd guess most new houses aren't wired for it. Cable TV coax is obsolete except as a connection for a cable modem, will soon be replaced by fiber or wireless in most places where it hasn't already. Took a while but technological progress is on an accelerating curve.

Mains electrical and plumbing are about the only things that will remain as-is for a good while.
Can you explain how this works to a person that knows relatively little about video encoding and streaming/adtech?
Sometimes I feel bad for kids today who experience computers that are so powerful that they are many layers divorced from the hardware. Long gone are the days when there was only the thinnest layer of BASIC between you and the CPU when you boot the machine.

But then something like this comes along and reminds me that there is no reason you can't just fire up a 16 bit machine with a paper thin OS if you wanted. Not everything has to be a smartphone or modern system. My hat is off to the author for going a step further and building a minicomputer from scratch.
> 'If we don't do it now, development efforts (and therefore also costs) will be up 15% in 4 months.'

Yeah you won't get to a point where you'll have a valid-enough metric to make this point.

I was at a startup once. The two founders said "don't write unit tests". I wasn't going to argue with them. I understood what they really meant. We've been too slow, we need to ship as fast as possible. I shipped fast and I shipped quality (ie low defects and outages). I wrote unit tests. They didn't need to know. They just needed the outcome.

The elephant in the room in all of these conversations is that you walk into any software development shop and they just don't how to ship both fast and at quality. No matter how much an organization or team tries to revisit/refactor their dev process year-to-year, they're still shipping too slow and mediocre quality.

The truth is there isn't a magic formula. It's an individual craft that gets you there. It's a team sport. And the context is different enough everywhere you go, yeah, sure, some lightweight processes might abstract across the universe but very little bang for those bucks. Far beyond any other facet of things, you really just have to have a good team with experience and the right value-system/value-delivery-focused wisdom.
One of the reasons we didn't go with buildjet was their concurrency limits (https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions/docs/about/pricing#c...) and the pricing on extending those limits.

We are a small company but our autoscaling cluster for GitHub actions on aws will scale up to >500vcpus during the work day when there are a lot of prs going in.

I don't see it documented anywhere, what are your concurrency limits on accounts?
Yes, there are guys who specializes on security, CCTV, smart home, etc.
They should charge properly. Nobody will call them for lying few meters of RJ45.
Introduction to the Viridis Color Maps
https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/997915455681...

There's a good outline of fairphone-related options here.
Concurrency and Parallelism in under 10 Minutes
Looks nice, but wouldn't hurt to know the price. At least a ballpark.

Given all the pompousness and dripping exclusivity I'm guessing a bit under $100 ... ?
There's absolutely no reason at all for anyone to be able to tell another person what property and how much he should be able to own.
I think something like 45% of house sales in the US went to corporate investors last year. Land speculators are a plague.

They also cause problems like this because their goal is the appreciation of the assets, not necessarily to live in houses.
Anyone able to compare with buildjet? Happy to see more competition in the space. :)
This is strange. The Pi5 seems to want a cooling fan pretty badly, and any HAT is going to completely block the airflow if it even leaves room for the fan. Are people using HATs finding problems with cooling?
It's called the AI boom/hype. I have doubts about the equity gains in the companies that have moved on AI speculation alone.
Miranda-NG.
There would be no problem if you told the client that you were faking the back end behavior and if the client's motivation is that they wanted to see the workflow to make sure that there wasn't a misunderstanding on what you were supposed to be implementing, then a mocked backend would be perfectly fine for their purposes.
I would go so far as to say it's evidence there isn't - GPT-4 doesn't need hype beyond word of mouth, Q* is clearly not in that situation.
I wish more ppl felt this way. What a compliment it is to oneself when I hear ppl saying "write clean code" as if they know its address and had dinner with clean code just last night.

I was thinking there should be some metric around d(code)/dt . That is, as the software is used, 'bad' code will tend to change a lot but add no functionality. 'Good' code will change little even when it's used mode.
My state runs a virtual school online that offers a lot of math classes. That's what my son did all through the middle grades since he was above what was normally offered at the school. This allowed him to do the AP classes for calc and such in high school early and then do college levels of math later in high school. You can definitely do more home school or khan academy stuff as an alternative or in conjunction, but the nice thing about the virtual school is it's state run and certified just like any other public school, so the classes have no problem being added to the transcripts with his normal classes.
Why didn't the IT folks step in and provide the labor for the conversion? This helps them accomplish their goals. Tading desks love free labor. This shows a novel way in which cost centers can attribute their costs to lines of business. Finally, this demonstrates leadership and initiative by the IT department and heads--especially if they have to fight an uphill battle about IP, and they succeed in convincing the desk.
> painting them as an evil dinosaur seems frankly ridiculous.

Hard to understand this point of view with:

- vscode being "open source", conveniently leaving out flagship features like live share and Python extension

- Increase of "in your face, fuck you" dark patterns like forcing an account for Windows setup, forcing ms authenticator, etc
Did you try out using I3's scripting capabilities before setting out to reinvent that wheel? That's the route I'm current on right now, but we seem to be kindred spirits. Discovering IPC has mostly quelled my urge to reinvent wheels. Emacs can easily be communicated with and controlled from Ruby, and I'm still figuring out the right approach to interop with Firefox. I think eventually I'll just use a terminal from inside of Emacs.
I think it's interesting to speculate on how an alien civilization might develop technology, and in what order, if they were to originate on a planet with different ratios of elements than Earth, including access to these super heavy elements.