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Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to?
Recently I asked a question on Stack Overflow and it was closed due to it being opinion based. This isn't entirely wrong, I wanted to know how people were approaching a problem and the answer may depend on subjective factors. However it struck me that at this stage of my knowledge most things are opinion and not a matter of fact (more art than science), so Stack Overflow just doesn't serve my needs anymore.

In the wake of this, I wondered what forums/places people use to ask other people about development/architecture/coding questions and to solicit advice from other developers.

The obvious answers to this seem to have some headwinds: Twitter seems good only if you have a minimum viable amount of followers, and HN always seemed more geared towards news than advice.
Since my original reply got [flagged] let me rephrase:

>So absolutely nothing of any value and just a bunch of made up bullshit designed to target people based on their race, religion, sexuality and gender because you’re an ignorant and insecure dipshit who is too scared to attach their own name to it?

Translation: "So uncomfortable narrative shattering facts designed to tell the unadulterated truth are heretical so I'd rather pretend like they don't have any value, use ad hominem, and Gestapo-level tactics to quell social opponents and heretics."

Just because certain truths and facts are uncomfortable doesn't mean the aforementioned quotes are "made up bullshit" nor "hate speech." They are facts. Uncomfortable, narrative shattering heretical facts, but facts nonetheless.

>I think T-Mobile not allowing you to spam this nonsense to people is something everyone is ok with.

You may be too young to remember, but this is the exact line of reasoning conservatives used in the 90s to pressure companies to not support LGBTQ, atheism, foul language in music, etc.

>Really it’s a very specific kind of moron who will absolutely insist that the real secrets in life are all predicated around people who have a different skin color or religion are the real problem and will then quote evidence to you that doesn’t hold up to even the most gentle scrutiny all while they insist that they are the smartest person in the room.

You legitimately could be talking about SJW/the woke and everything you said applies.
I think that confuses:

A: What behaviors or environments lead to adult immune systems calibrated to minimize autoimmune dysfunctions.

B: Comparing populations that already/ haven't developed inherited countermeasures against certain diseases.

C: (In some cases) Specific pathogens where it is less-damaging to encounter them at different phases of life.

In particular, I'd point out that sometimes a population strong against a particular disease does not necessarily have "better" immune systems... Sometimes it's literally survivorship bias, where all of the vulnerable individuals they used to have already died in tragic ways.
A custom code generator. It generates 90+% of the code I would otherwise have to write by hand at work.
That reminds me of the old story of the boy who hated his name.

For years, all though his childhood, Michael Stinkelbum pleaded with his parents to let him change his name. They refused, time after time.

Eventually, Michael Stinkelbum reached adulthood. And he could make his own mind up, and he didn't have to get his parents' permission to change that hated name of his.

So along he went to the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages and told the man behind the desk he wanted to change his name from Michael Stinkelbum. And the man behind the desk asked him what he would like his new name to be. And the relieved Michael Stinkelbum answered happily 'Geoffrey Stinkelbum'.
One thing that always bothers me. If I open the same file twice in Vim, how can I make Vim take over the other session?
> They’re just trying to muddy the waters.

Who are They? I am one person, not a group or cabal. There are others who notice the same pattern, also individuals. Realise that the they is just a applicable to those pushing the current thing.

> News publications started widely publishing articles on gas stoves when research papers came out a couple of years ago

Yes, a couple of years ago. Not decades ago, not even 10 years ago. Recently.

As to the gas industry it is worth knowing that cooking stands for only a tiny fraction of gas use so even if people stopped cooking on gas they would see much of a dip in profits. What is really at play here is that people really like cooking on gas stoves and are not about to give it up without being forced to do so. Rising gas prices will not do that because cooking only uses small amounts of gas. What was needed was some other means to get those pesky gas cookers off the market. Once the gas cooker is gone it will be easier to wean people of gas-fired central heating and gas-fired clothes driers given that most people have less of a preference for those but are likely to keep on using them as long as they need to have a gas hookup for their cookers anyway.

The gas companies know this as well of course so it is not surprising to see them react. While cooking may be only a small part of their income heating does represent a sizeable fraction.

With propaganda from "both" sides it is imperative to use your head when dealing with the issue of air quality inside the home. If you have an air quality meter/monitor you can use that as well but even without one the solution is clear: use ventilation when cooking. Use it no matter which heat source is involved. Problem, solved? From what I gather the answer to that question is mostly, "yes".
Is there any evidence that office space isn't valuable if it's empty or that companies have massively overhired due to low interest rates...?

I appreciate skepticism but it seems needlessly dismissive to say none of them pass a sniff test.
>I fail to see a purpose for guns apart from killing,

You can use guns for target shooting, you can use guns as a detterent [sic] when your life is in danger, you can use guns for hunting.

Of these three things you listed, two of them are killing. A gun wouldn't be useful as a deterrent if the threat of its application wasn't present—you can't brandish a feather and get the same effect because a feather offers no threat and does not have a reputation of lethal harm. And hunting is literally killing, although it may have a legit purpose, such as sustenance.
Essentially everything Amazon does today costs too much and doesn’t deliver the quality it once did. In my area, Prime delivery usually takes about a week. I live in a large US city. Their book recommendations system has become garbage. Prices are escalating across the board. That is the cost of a monopoly.
I used to think so until the shadow restriction/moderation stuff. I must agree with the quality part though, just not the methods. But like reddit and other platform, the majority of users don't give a shit about this stuff until it's their turn. Oh well, shit is.
Good Morning Britain is getting around $6.36-10.18 CPM by your numbers (£5-8 per thousand viewers) which seems reasonable. If Amazon stuffed ads the way most American broadcast channels do, they could get around 720 ads in there which would be $4.58-7.33/mo at the ad rates of Good Morning Britain (American broadcast TV has an egregious number of ads). Assuming fewer ads (Hulu and Netflix show about 5 minutes per hour) that would be 200 ad slots worth $1.27-2.04/mo.

So, it's likely that Amazon is making a little more from those who pay to skip ads, but it's in the ballpark. Plus, the people advertisers want to reach are the people with the disposable income to pay to skip the ads. They don't want the cheap people who are willing to waste nearly two hours of their life a month to save $3.

I think you might have miscalculated the CPM since you've said "that’s a CPM also in the order of a penny." It's on the order of a penny per viewer, but not per thousand viewers. That's probably why you think it's more of a bluff that could be called. It is likely more revenue if you pay to skip ads, but Amazon would probably end up making $2 from you watching ads.
>We should have it down to basically zero by now.

How can you claim to know a priori how many resources need to be thrown at a problem to solve it?

Cancer is one of the most complex diseases in existence. Eliminating it requires sci-fi levels of technology in areas like molecular biology, gene editing, immunology, and pharmacology. I would say we have made a remarkable amount of progress given that we didn't know what DNA was 70 years ago.

We already know how to eliminate malaria, which we have successfully done in many developed countries. The underlying problem is poverty and lack of infrastructure in developing countries, which isn't trivial to solve either.

Perfectionism is the wrong attitude to take here. All progress happens through incremental improvement.
Note that the paper you linked is still doing a two-step conversion - they essentially just removed the capacitors between the two steps. It doesn't do 48V -> 1.5V, it does 48V -> 8V -> 1.5V. They even specifically point out the downsides of single-stage conversion topologies.
Attacks around the world: “Presumably a wolf ate a small boy, never to be seen from again”

Attacks in the US: “A wolf approached a hunter who shot it to death, no injuries.”

In all seriousness. I lived in Colorado for a long time as well. Up in the bowls of Silverthorne and Loveland. Boulder and the Estes Park region. Wolves will have the same safety precautions as bears, moose, and mountain lions. I’m more afraid of mountain lionesses than I am a wolf. At least with a wolf you’ll hear it coming.
> Many rich famlies don't believe in supporting their kids

What does that mean? No prep school, health care, high school, parenting, nannying, family trips to Europe? Are the kids just left on the street?

People I know who have done that stopped supporting kids after college, at least for awhile, or older generations left it to their kid to work their way through college - not a viable option these days. But the first 18 years have all the benefits of wealth.

And anyway, how many families are we talking about? Go to the local rich neighborhood and ask - my guess is you won't find more than maybe 1% or less.
How did the moose damage the beaver habitat? Do they forage the same plants and outcompete the beavers at them?
Yes, ports where each platform is treated as a checkbox to be ticked are practically always poor, with little to no testing. The dev dumps a cross-compiled binary they may not even be capable of running themselves and that’s the end of it. Sometimes they happen to work passably but that’s not a given.
So by this logic if the supermarket increased the price of bananas beyond a certain arbitrary threshold you set it becomes okay to steal them? As opposed to, shopping elsewhere, or not eating bananas.
I personally believe that Swift's strings where graphemes are the smallest indexable unit are the gold standard for writing logic that might truncate multilingual text. It's still not perfect though, they add overhead and updates to Unicode might change behaviour so there's that but it should handle most cases gracefully.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38776591
The Office document file format is public and understandable. Many other products have implemented the standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML?wprov=sfla1
For passive, air-cooled copper, it would take a cross-section of 22 sq. inches (142 sq. cm) to carry that at 75°C. Must be impressive cooling.
How would it change anything? You still need to challenge the false DMCA in court, and prove it is false. Bad actors will continue targeting people too poor to fight back.
Wow this is amazing. Clicking on zones is also more informative than I expected. Massive kudos. Also, it's nice touch to let me turn on SimCity music. Fantastic all around.
I'm not sure I buy that. I think the reputation of soldiers varies greatly with the public perception of the wars they fought. Soldiers are highly regarded when they're seen to be fighting some great evil, but at other times soldiers are considered to be fools or even among the lowest strata of society (particularly before the modern era.)

WW2 veterans receive near universal praise, but in the Vietnam era there were widespread (probably heavily exaggerated if not fabricated) reports of soldiers being spat on because a whole lot of people didn't think America's military adventurism was really in defense of America. Of course those who felt that the war was necessary in the fight against communism to defend the American way of life had a more positive view of the same soldiers. In more recent wars with all volunteer soldiers I think the reputation of soldiers is just as polarized although usually the negative side doesn't go further than cool sniffs and sneers; the spitting was probably all apocryphal in the first place. Certainly you won't see me going around thanking Iraq vets for their service; they signed up for a stupid war and I'm not going to thank them for making that mistake. I won't look down on a soldier who got drafted, but those soldiers who signed up for the travel, job experience, college education, etc are essentially mercenaries anyway.
> Apple has a tight grip on mobile gaming though, that’s a money maker for them.

It's not gaming if it has IAPs. I've given up on even reading about mobile "games" when they all went IAP. I'm too poor to afford that.
Nobody really cares what one company allows in their store if there is a competitive market for alternate stores with low barriers to entry.

Allowing competing stores is a major component of opening up the OS. The competing stores would be able to install and run code on the device, with the permission of the owner rather than the OEM. And suffocating alternatives to paying them the vig is a major reason they close the device to begin with, so without that they'd be less likely to stand in your way anymore.
It's a conspiracy theory because every time RTO comes up in discussion, these assertions of, well, a conspiracy, to artificially inflate the value of CRE by forcing workers to go to the office get trotted out with absolutely no evidence to back them up.
> That's cute and straightforward as long as you know what a hotdog is, which is common sense for the question writer.

Even if you don’t know what a hotdog is, it’s indicated you use sausages and buns to make them. The most straightforward method of doing that would lead to the correct answer.

There may be kids that figure that’s too simple and assume they need two or three sausages per bun, but those will be the minority.
Ask HN: What are your predictions for the world in 2024?
Are there any touch screen/sensitive e-inks - such that you could have one as usb WACOM tablet with a pen?
What if the large circle rotates at the same rate that the small circle 'orbits' it?
You convert it to a lower voltage by switching it on and off very rapidly and smoothing out the result. That's going to behave a lot more like AC than DC.
On the other hand, files edited through a flow like `sudoedit(1)` get copied into /var/tmp with mode 0600 and edited under the user's editor. This is in some ways much better than something like `sudo vim`, since that's a lot of privilege to be granting to a large attack surface. But it does create files like ~/.undodir/%var%tmp%shadow.XXcFqVH3: also with mode 0600, but they stick around even after sudoedit(1) terminates. So I think that it's fair to say that it is a nonzero security risk because it creates persistent copies of potentially sensitive files.

Aside from just a strict Unix permissions model, I think it's also easy to imagine cases where you create a sensitive file, edit it, delete it, and expect it to be really deleted. Or even just use Vim as a scratch buffer with no name! Yet undodir persists data in these cases, too.
I have a reminder for 3pm (ET) Fridays to check acoup.blog.
> PS3 was from the era of consoles where backwards compatibility wasn’t as heavily demanded

I don't think so for PlayStaion. PS3 and PS2 had compatibility to older PS by implement old chip. I think why there's no PS3 compatibility is because PS3 unique Cell architecture was dead end.
I'd like a version of Firefox's Reader Mode where it instead sends the text to an e-ink display. Remotely to a Kindle could work, or locally to an attached e-ink monitor.
It’s been tested for decades. The issue is protein-based platforms deliver the protein outside the cell. This means most do not get processed and presented by MHC-1 and 2 the way a genetically encoded therapeutic does. The issue with DNA is it separates the innate immune activation signal (eg cGAS and TLRs) from the presentation so you don’t get co-signaling. This may be the ticket why mRNA could work…
Perfect is also the enemy of good. We can't let the fear of knowing even better in the future keep us from making progress against the mistakes of the past, or nothing will ever change.

In a lot of cases, knowing better in the future only happens if we take the step today and learn that we don't yet know everything. If we never take the step now, we'll never have the future knowledge to do even better.
I mean that "one day", that kind of thing could happen to you in particular. I know they've already been doing it to others.
Doesn't using bf16 alleviate the problem? At least I've had success training a Bert like model from scratch
My old team did some work in this area a few years ago. We got the Talos II BMC code to be binary reproducible, and had a go at automating David A. Wheeler's compiler diversification to stop compiler subversion. We checked the boxes we intended to, though never got enough funding to polish it up. It's probably broken now, but we did post a portion of our work on gitlab: https://gitlab.com/deepthirst.
val.town has a hnfollow thingy that i use now, but tbh i dont know when it doesnt work
Ask HN: How can I create an HN survey post?
Nuclear energy gets a enormous subsidy by the government taking about 90-99% of the risk insurance.

This is for the US but equivalent laws exist in all countries. For example in Sweden it is capped to about $1.5B which is laughable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nucle...
It is weird but not unique to C++. For example, python used the % operator for string formatting. It's a simple but hacky way to feed arbitrary number of arguments in a type-safe way if you don't have variadics.
But these are all either objectively true statements or reasonable political viewpoints. Why should there be serious adverse consequences for stating any of this?
Maybe they could just add an archive link alongside the regular link for all posts.
With a tight labor market, those folks are going to find other jobs very quickly. They’ll also collect unemployment in the interim. US unemployment rate is around 3.7%, California around 4.9% (Nov 2023).

https://edd.ca.gov/en/about_edd/news_releases_and_announceme...
Yeah, I get what you’re saying but you’re incorrect. Kids 12 and young only make up 5% of their market. Most Switch users are 25 to 34.
Here’s the GitHub repo [1] for those who are code-curious.

https://github.com/datamade/second-city-zoning
CBD = Central Business District too. Worth a try!
Really cool can definitely use something like this, thanks! Even more activities would be great.

Suggestions:

- Perhaps a way to view all activities? or activities within the specified selections rather than having to use the suprise

- I noticed repeating activities before hitting the 70 limit, perhaps some memory?
That’s where I do most of my printing. I guess I’m usually okay with using the free prints of “generic goblin” rather than trying to get the absolutely best one I can. :)
FCC commissioners are political appointments. If they're reasonable they can be convinced, if they're unreasonable they can be replaced.
After reading the article, I really enjoyed it and the believer + skeptic perspective. However, I only touched it because I thought "meh, what is there going to be about web scaling".
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/srichard/files/richardson_...
Another discussion: Its hardware is almost a PC, so there's less reason to force it open, because we can just buy a PC.
This is a very nice-sounding fantasy. Too many people profit from the status quo to do such a thing. Lawyers and judges would not dare issue a ruling or enact any law harming their and their friends' profession.
"Make actively blocks you from Getting Things Done."
--Quote from someone suggesting CMake.
Agreed; the question is whether Apple encouraged retailers to take on large inventories on a preemptive basis. It's in the retailers' interests to load up so that they're not left dry for an extended period. The only possible bad outcome for them is if they load up but then Apple settles, and they're not able to move it fast enough. But Apple could offer to buy back excess in order to alleviate this concern. It would seem like Apple and the retailers would want to work together 'against' Masimo here, since they both make money by stuffing the channel. I don't know if there are any ITC rules against this type of behavior during the pendency of an injunction.
Which is exactly the same for Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo…
No one is forcing you to buy an iPhone, just like nothing is stopping Epic/tencent from developing a phone of there own. It’s just cheaper to leach off other R&D efforts.
Oh boy, NASA, a scientific organization using metric. Lemme know when you’ve converted every recipe, ruler and wrench to metric. So ridiculously out of touch.
My personal desperate hope/wish is some insurance that iSCSI will continue to work and be somewhat performant, either via an API to deal with the kexts or better yet Apple buying Xtend SAN or developing their own and offering first party support. I'm worried though it's not going to make the cut :(
IIRC... Slashdot was acquired by andover.net which was acquired by VA Linux which later changed its name to SourceForge.net, then was sold off to Dice.com then was sold off to the current owners.
At a basic level astronomy requires you to wait until twilight or dusk, and then tilt your head up :-), which costs nothing. You can also enhance it with an night sky app which are usually free too. If you have binoculars hanging around grab them.
Truly excellent book; and one of the best technique books I’ve read in my 30-plus years as a working programmer. Highly recommended.
Thanks for checking my math and for doing a second run at it. I’ve edited to point out my mistake. It feels like there’s a mismatch but my numbers are pretty hand wavey so I can imagine it could be a lot closer than that.
You're referencing profit instead of revenue, which the thread was referring to. Again, you can't hide revenue as easily. Splitting it up 600 ways doesn't solve the problem that game XYZ sold 10 million copies from the 600 subsidiary distributors. Nintendo could hide the profit that way, saying the subsidiaries took 100% of the revenue as costs, but the total revenue can't be hidden. It's either a reported sale or not, there's not really a way to fudge that.
Any hidden feature to get past shadow moderation? I know I am not entitled to anything and no one cares unless they are affected directly but it would be nice if "you're posting too fast" restrictions (could mean 3 or 4 times in one day) showed up before I spend like half an hour composing a reply to someone, not after. But alas, not owed anything, hn is a social engagement site for a VC at the end of the day. But the non-transparent moderation stuff speaks volumes about the culture and all.

Will try to post non-FUD, high quality comments and posts (read between the lines lol).
Having watched the video, yours is the only intuitive explaination that talks to me.