skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My code traded the ability to change requirements for reduced duplication, and it was not a good trade.

This is the the one that really clinches it for me.

I think it's important to be aware that "clean code" standards came out of the early-mid 2000s contract development community. "Maintainability" means something different in that context, for two killer reasons. First, you're very likely to walk away from the project after a fairly short time period. Maybe a couple months, maybe a couple years. In 5 years, though? It's almost certainly someone else's problem. Second, you probably bill by the hour, or something like it. So decisions that make the code resistant to future change aren't really a bad thing, because, while they do make that hypothetical future maintenance work more expensive, you also get to charge more money to cover those costs.

I'm not trying to cast shade on contract development shops here. Business is business. But I do think that those of us who are developing software for ourselves might be operating under a somewhat different incentive structure.
Sounds like a good statatement to print on t-shirts.
Dynamic DNS for example through cloudflare … is a middleman. Great effort has been taken to make obtaining a small block of IPv6 addresses difficult for the end user.

It’s true a few isps will provide you a static up but most will not.

https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/

In most implementations the end user sees no benefit from IPv6 or simply an isp using carrier grade NAT. When IPv6 first rolled out it was promoted as a way for everyone to easily obtain addresses .. reality is not so much. End user functionality crippled
Or gatekeeped

Hypothetically should be to host a simple file share of let’s say photos on a desktop and share using SMB or another protocol via IPv6. No need for cloud provider / iCloud Photos, Google or whatever. Just a direct connection with a desktop that stays on 24/7.
This is not the case and effort has been made to make IPv6 really more of a useful protocol to mobile isps managing large numbers of new devices.

IMO #lame
Google fucks up Firefox experience so often. For a company that large, both intentionally doing it and ignorance (eg. not testing on Firefox) is actually malice. Pretty much only company that has this problem.

Go check out GCP web UI on Firefox and tell me it's not intentional.
Right now, we are on a public cloud. We will be moving things onto our own infra with overflow on public clouds eventually.

Try out the jobs once again - you should be okay (I think :) )
Programming is not unlike writing on an human language. Sometimes you use a proper noun, sometimes a pronoun sometimes you omit subject or object completely, even in rigorous technical writing. There is no hard rule, learning to communicate unambiguously and efficiently it is an art.
Are you having any slowdown right now? I have been waiting for a 32x to pick up a job for some time now:

Requested labels: warp-ubuntu-latest-x64-32x
Job defined at: .../workflows/ci.yml@refs/pull/294/merge
Waiting for a runner to pick up this job...
I don't see the value of, say, dot_product(vector1=x, vector2=y) compared to dot_product(x, y).
Not every time. In my current place the cable is stapled directly to the studs so it would require gutting basically everything to replace all of it. Luckily most of the runs go to places that make sense but I’ll never be able to upgrade from CAT5e.
With porpoise!
Opening the "new" Notepad on Windows 11 for a while triggered my computer (GPU?) into thinking I was launching a game (it doesn't anymore). Does the new Notepad use my GPU or rather what would cause this?
I think the GP's point is that Apple's marketing may make it seem (to many people) like Apple's security is set up in such a way that the law isn't relevant, and that users' data is encrypted and handled in such a way that even if Apple is ordered by a court to divulge something, they are simply unable to do so.

And that's true, to some limited extent, but (some) people believe it's true to an absolute extent.

Apple doesn't need to tell people they will break the law in order to maintain their privacy; they just need to insinuate that user data is handled in a way such that it's out of the law's reach.
Because the market is irrational and fears change. The stock dropped when he got divorced and some of the shares transferred to his ex-wife, even though he still had a controlling share.

Stocks always drop when the biggest holder sells for any reason. People don’t understand the nuance they just see the headline.
That sounds like it’s not very useful for fiction, then?
I have a .world tld, and it's not unusual for email inputs to wrongly mis-validate my perfectly valid email.
The poorest people are likely living on the streets. It's a different problem problem, as they may well not be engaging in the economy at all. So it's a bit of a silly comparison.
> The `x := 10` example is actually somewhat ambiguous. If the language fixes the type of `10` then `x := 10` is legal. If it's an unspecified type (as is typically the case), you'd have to write the type down.

For that case I like a type signifier as part of the number literal expression, like this: `x := 10f32` or `x := 10i32`.
Actually the current rule is not taxable up to $12M but that changes with the whims of politicians and has changed quite frequently.
Wealth begets wealth. Capital compounds with no effort. A reminder for myself to revisit Capital by Thomas Piketty from 2013(!)

"When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility."

-Thomas Piketty
Which country are you living in? The US does not have rampant inflation.
Wood and drywall is essentially transparent for 2.4 GHz at least.

https://www.nist.gov/publications/electromagnetic-signal-att...
Now they only need to do the same thing for input and let the operating system or the shell handle the argument parsing so that it is consistent accross the entire operating system.
In the case where "you" is the government, the moral basis for the claim on wealth created is that

1) government was instrumental in the creation of this wealth: you needed the legal system to enforce contracts, the common language taught in schools to communicate with employees, suppliers and consumers, regulators to make sure your suppliers were giving you legit stuff, roads for transport, postal service, etc

2) governement is instrumental in helping you keep this wealth: police forces, general property law enforcement.

edit: if you're very cynical, you can argue that high income tax + welfare is still cheaper than suppressing a violent revolution by poor people.
There is nothing remotely like "union busting" alleged in that article (which is quite good, and largely supports my belief that this is an unreasonable escalation by Swedish labor; so much so that I maybe question if you actually read it?).
Came out last year. Was good, but having no control over jumps and level design was meh.
Smurf tubes are great, but plugs like on Cat5 or HDMI cables get easily hung up while pulling cables. The ones you link above look smoother than the ones I've had the (dis)pleasure of working with, which were ribbed, making snags frequent & annoying, especially at any sort of 90 degree bend. It's still significantly easier (and safer) than blind runs through walls.
Many people made a lot of money during the pandemic whether by stock or government handouts. American savings rates soared during the pandemic. Many view this as a success of the child tax credit. That's one view. The alternate view is that COVID shutdowns depressed the availability and desirability of goods and services. Why keep up with the Joneses if you never see them? Entire industries were deemed dangerous and demand dropped...

Once things reopened, people started spending their savings. It's not that the tax credits and bailouts reduced poverty. It's that not having anything worth buying made people save their money instead.

But once things became available again, there was suddenly a lot more money chasing smaller numbers of goods (it takes time for production to ramp up). This leads to higher prices, and inflation.

As this goes on, people start demanding higher wages to keep up with price growth. Once that happens, price growth is fixed. No one's going to accept to a pay cut.
>Even if they use a shitty cable you can pull your own cable through after the fact, no?

Often you can't use the old (unwanted) cable to act as a "fish tape" or "mouse" to pull a new cable because the old cable is routed through many small holes in 2x4 studs, ceiling plates, or joists. The path usually has several tight 90 degree turns, with staples, and some of the holes are even spray foamed. There would be too much friction inside the walls to pull a cable for non-trivial distances.

If the old cable was inside of conduit, pulling a new cable could work but that type of install is very rare. Conduit for networking cable is typically only used underground to bury the cable between buildings rather than inside the walls of a single home.
You may still not buy into it, but note that single exit was established for languages like C where an early exit can make it difficult to ensure that all resources are freed. It isn't meant for every language – and, indeed, languages that are not bound by such constraints usually promote multiple exit because of the reasons you bring up.
"Most of the American super-wealthy got that way by providing value to others."

The super-wealthy don't get that way by providing value, they get that way by keeping as much profit from business for themselves and leveraging that money to amass more ways to make money, rinse and repeat. When you look at some of the super-wealthy what you'll find is a pattern of consolidation, wage suppression, bending public policy to benefit themselves, and consumption of public resources.

Consider Walmart. Walmart stores drove small businesses out of towns across the country. The wages paid by Walmart are typically lower than the small businesses they killed. Walmart seeks tax benefits for plopping a store in an area, so doesn't return the same kind of money to the public coffers that the collective small businesses did and the jobs offered are worse and they're harder on suppliers than the small business because of the predatory way Walmart works with suppliers.

Walmart workers are some of the largest consumers of Medicare and SNAP benefits -- because they don't pay enough for people to live on. So the public foots the bill for the difference.

What the American super-wealthy have provided, more often than not, is convenience and temporary lower prices -- not quite the same thing as value. It's easier to do all your shopping at Walmart. It's easier to shop with Amazon. They're cheaper until they've sufficiently snuffed out competition.
Is it inequality which gives rise to populism and extremism or is it the press, politicians and other agitators?
So a simple and therefore wrong hypothesis: does anyone know if doctors test glycogen generating capacity when diagnosing this? Impaired liver function, in some of its many duties, would show at least some of the symptoms listed in the wikipedia article for CFS.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen#Functions

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome#Signs...
yeah, Im pretty isolationist on the topic. There is no good guy so the best we can do is advocate for an unlikely peace and not get dragged down in the mud. I dont think Israel needs more money and weapons - they already have overwhelming superiority.
Weird piece of pedantry. Most commonly cryptic clues are used as clues to crosswords, right?
Indeed:

"I want to start programming, what language should I learn?"

"One of these two most popular languages, where you will not even know about basic errors until you run the code!"
A free market solution was never feasible as there are just too many parties and externalities involved. This was always going to be a situation where some type of monopoly would happen at various levels which would likely require some type of regulatory intervention to achieve a Pareto-optimal situation.

There are likely solution to the issue that are not top-down, but this isn’t a situation where free market forces will provide the socially optimal outcome.
https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/gabe-newell/....
It's plausible to me that they weren't provided with what they needed precisely because pervasive cheating allowed their predecessor classmates to complete the assignments.
I would be curious to find out about others because all the flat screen TVs I had there was an RJ45 connector. I don't do any streaming on the TV anyways so I do not even have wifi configured. For me the ethernet would be for Apple TV.
I thought this was going to be about the double standard of how they treat business vs non-business end users, but they are releasing two new standards

A new hat and the new hat specification it follows
I don't have benchmarks but here's another comment from the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571518
> unless I join a unicorn startup

Not a unicorn. Just be an early member of a company that gets to IPO. You do have to risk more to attempt that, and maybe do it more than once, but it's a question of appetite for risk and a slightly lower work-life balance. It's definitely not unattainable.
That sounds like a potentially explosive social situation.
AMA: Big Pharma in the US Pimps the Mothers of Bleeding Disorder Patients
If it sounds like a bold statement, it's because the punch is in its most pure form of context, this is how a community and business interact in the US. I know bleeding disorders well because I have one that is incurable. Due to the rarity, the medications are prohibitively expensive if not Skhreli level outrageous - I can list some of them if you'd like. So, after a few decades inside and outside the community, why am I refusing to rejoin it and make a positive impact?

The community does not want preventive messages, information about becoming stronger to avoid injury, or changing the "helpless little wounded bird" perspective I've come across time and again.

To the claim: Unlike most with my condition, I had excellent access to the absolutely terrible US insurance and healthcare system. Over the years I learned 95% of my community came from middle or near poverty income levels. The sophistication of the parents to understand the condition? Really, I feel for them because it's both scary and expensive and on and on...

So what happens is the community support starts in and the only thing that truly helps is access to that special expensive medication. Oh how lovely, Bayer and the like have programs to get some meds for your child - then we can help you get to a treatment center...and after that, eventually you will get a job in the community, more than likely, to ensure access to medication. This is what a Mother will do for their hurting child. This is also compounded by a statistically significant number of Men or Husbands unable to cope and abandoning their commitment to marriage and their child so the pressure is even harder on these Mothers. Getting up on stage or selling their bodies isn't even an option for them - so yes, they join in.

So, while you may contend with the language of my assertion, I started this thread to back it up. I may get specific about the disorder, but I have an instinctual feeling this is a playbook by US Big Pharma and will appear in other similar conditions. It's a business model. The only reason I'm finally taking this on?

I've met enough people from Nepal to be 90% certain with appropriate research, contacts, and funding, I can set up a facility to provide myself and others with usable medication and tell Bayer to kiss my ass $30,000 a month is now THREE YEARS. I read Game of Shadows. I know street chemistry. I know these companies are using these Women in ways that I find abhorrent and I'm going to point it out. Sometimes it takes a bigger Pimp to deliver a backhand.
Maybe this is controversial but I'm not even worried about the people making $2 million per year. At the end of the day that's the salary equivalent to about 27 average employees, a small office worth.

I'm more worried about the people making (net worth increasing) $100 million per year, 1351 times the average income, or as much as an entire town. Or $2 billion per year, which would take twenty seven thousand years for someone to earn at a median wage.

If you're earning as much every year as the average person earns in 27000 years of working, perhaps we should raise taxes on that a bit and not allow reduced-rate capital gains and tax-free loans.
My stack: LineageOS (or variant) + F-Droid (open source Email, Calendar, Notes, File-Sync, Cameras, E-Reader, VPN, adblocking software) + Firefox Mobile (Extensions, ad-blocking)
If downloading a file makes your WiFi calls bad, look into bufferbloat and CAKE.
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220mph == high speed in this case
Can't imagine. Occasionally run networks over power cables but I've never seen gadgets to do something useful with old phone cables.
People used to have intercoms on them cables, but everyone has a phone in their pocket these days
Of course they do - lots of roles in a business will get pre-IPO share option packages.
No, it is not income (nor taxable) to the recipient regardless of amount.

There is a tax on the estate of the decedent if the estate is larger than the exclusion amount.
There seem to be a decent number of people who regularly use Threads, especially among people who are Instagram-first for their social media.

It seems to be far less dead than Mastodon and Blue Sky, anyway.
> (1) We need 240V outlets for EV charging (costs cents at construction time, costs $3000 - $8000 later)

6/2 (plus ground) cable is not that cheap. And current code actually requires EV-readiness in many places.

> Wny not 48V POE for most of home wiring? Most everything can be smart by default.

I would take regular #12/#14 wiring, so long as the neutral is wired up correctly (which it almost always is with NM-B or any similar factory-made cable) over some 48V let’s-hope-it’s-still-useful-in-10-years setup.
I was just thinking that while browsing the language docs. Something like "This is my programming language. There are many like it, but this one is mine".
How does one become an train repair company if there are no trains that you are allowed to repair?
Income tax has no impact on already accumulated wealth. Increasing income tax to target wealth accumulation only makes it harder for high earners who aren't currently wealthy to become wealthy, it has little impact on the already wealthy. A person earning $1 million a year passively from accumulated wealth is much better off than a person earning $1 million a year in income, with no accumulated wealth. The former doesn't have to work at all and can continue earning that income indefinitely, while if the latter stops working there income drops back to zero. Breaking up dynastic wealth with an actual robust inheritance tax and taxing very high earnings derived from wealth (e.g. capital gains) will be much more effective than higher income tax.
Now comes the hard question, how will the US payer system afford it?

"An August report from the nonprofit Institute for Clinical and Economic Review found that the treatment and similar gene-editing therapies for sickle cell disease would be cost-effective if priced between $1.35 million and $2.05 million. In the U.S., patients with the condition and their insurers pay on average between $1.6 million and $1.7 million for disease management over the course of a lifetime."
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/08/fda-gene-editing-th...
My wealth soared by an even greater %, and I’m not even rich. All of Nasdaq went up 40%. What a dumb title.
Ironically that imgur link on mobile is essentially a page of visual noise
I didn‘t try it yet. Came out when we were on vacation. And afterwards I had no time until the next games came out.

I‘ve read it‘s mainly about the right load out to defeat the bosses. Not in the mood for that kind of game right now.
We do only 2x, 4x, 16x right now. We can add 32x but generally haven't seen much demand for it.
> Technically, that's a copyright violation.

Outside of things within the scope of fair use would be within Disney’s rights to restrict, but given the actual public policies and guidance on photography at Disney parks, I think there is a very strong case that noncommercial photography (for people are present as paid guests) is permitted by implied license.

> Similarly, you technically can't take and post pictures of statues, paintings, some buildings, etc., and some rightsholders do enforce their copyright when people do those things.

Well, not buildings if they are in or visible from a public place in the US, at least under copyright law. (Photography of some, particularly government, buildings may run afoul of other law.) This may be different in other countries.
Yeah and you can see other disciplines like Aviation where there are so many incredible processes to ensure learning and constant improvement.
Seems pretty simple: tax the users of the infrastructure (roads, electricity, etc.) to pay for it, tax the recipients of education (parents, students) to pay for that. Tax everyone to pay for the rule of law (courts, police) because as you say, we all benefit. This would leave the vast majority of the budget to give back to taxpayers. Mostly various mandatory insurance schemes - healthcare, unemployment, labour law, old age security - which are the ones I'm objecting to.

Before widespread public education, large companies would sponsor the education of the engineers they needed (think locomotives), with contractual obligations to work for the organization for a certain time or repay the cost of education. This is how military college works today, and seems pretty high-functioning.

> exactly where you draw the line

Pretty easy, once you've paid for all the stuff you directly use, the rest is yours free and clear.
Can’t afford? The US is insanely wealthy, it can easily afford this if it wanted to. The issue is around the politics of taxing and spending, not about the affordability of it.
The arts. The further and further you go in instruction, the more it becomes about the little differences and quality. Practice always helps, but quality definitely taught and learned by many as well.