skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concept of a healthy population structure is typically left out of the ongoing over/under population debates. There are some exceptions, e.g. discussion of the gender imbalance that came about in many regions of China as a result of the now-defunct one-child policy, or the stresses facing societies with a high ratio of elderly to young people (Japan, US boomers, etc).

Fundamentally, we want to avoid population boom-bust cycles as those tend towards destructive outcomes (famine, war, disease, migration), and instead have a stable steady-state population structure that's pyramidal and gender-balanced, and neither increasing nor decreasing. Whether this is possible without increased authoritarianism is an open question.

Similarly, we want to ensure that all regions of the planet have access to the basic necessities of life, water and food and shelter, as otherwise the refugee and immigration crises will expand. This is where the climatic instability brought on by fossil fuel combustion will have varying impacts, with some regions being hit much harder than others. The solution is investment in resilient infrastructure (instead of wars).

Personally I like the idea of preserving a half-wild Earth, as a planet packed from one end to the other with nothing but human beings and their crops sounds a lot like a dystopian hellscape.
That’s not relevant to the discussion here, though. To paraphrase, it was:

“lol what bubble? Stocks are much higher than they were in 2000.”

“But they still took 15 years to recover”.

Whether it was smart or not to go all in on NASDAQ is not really material.

To address your point anyway, plenty of investment and pension funds were badly hit. Because even if you diversify, when a whole sector of the industry loses 20% in a couple of months, it hurts even people who did not invest themselves. I lived through these years and the ripple effects went much, much further than just some reckless venture capitalists. And broadening the outlook a bit, not everyone can afford to stay illiquid for 20 years, particularly in the US where the social safety net is not very effective.

Also, what about the not-boomers who were not in a state to invest in the 1980s? Plenty of 20- to 30-somethings were wiped out as well. Knowing that the market will be up 20 years from now (and not the stocks you might hold, mind) is cold comfort.

If you don’t remember it or did not live through it, I can tell you that it hurt quite a lot and no amount of hindsight now about what people should have done is going to change that.
For the hope of retiring at 35.
Their marketing is very much like this. It’s completely misleading. They are definitively not selling “keep it up at all costs, money no object”
Agreed, the overt political censorship didn't start until the mid-2010s, over a decade after today's tech giants solidified their dominant positions.
Original claim:

> Private companies can't violate an individual's First Amendment rights. Only governments can.

Which part of the quoted text supports this claim? Answer: none of it. Interpretation: since it doesn't mention private companies in this context, private companies and the first amendment are not connected, and the former cannot violate someone's rights under the latter. Not an unreasonable interpretation, but not found in the text.
> I half agree with you. Yes, the panel segmentation can be an element of the storytelling, but the truth is that lots of comics out there are not exploiting this ability, sticking to a square grid instead.

It is an element of storytelling. If the artist isn't doing it, its because they're doing a bad job for storytelling, or publishing in a standard format where the beats are always the same (like saturday morning comics in the newspaper, if those still exist).
Study of developmental microRNA dynamics uncovers mechanism of their regulation
Rapier: Fast 2D and 3D physics engines written in Rust
Do you use Cloudflare for DNS? See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38232014
I was surprised to see SQLite listed as a source but not as a destination. Any big reasons for that or is it just something you haven't got around to implementing yet?

I've been getting a huge amount of useful work done over the past few years sucking data from other systems into SQLite files on my own computer - I even have my own small db-to-sqlite tool for this (built on top of SQLAlchemy) - https://github.com/simonw/db-to-sqlite
I suggest reading the article.

It goes into great lengths to show how lift is generated with symmetric airfoils or even flat planes and that the asymmetric airfoil is for efficiency and conditions.

It does not invoke any kind of magic. Even the part you quoted doesn't. Indeed they even animate a flat plane at different angles of attack showing lift.
I'm really not a fan of small qol features like this. I think it really hurts readability for the general audience. The function itself is minimal overhead and is clearer to the reader.
I'm shocked by this. Shocked I tell you.
> What’s a good, simple alternative for a VueJS app?

I'm not sure about VueJS specifically, but I run everything I can off a $6/m digital ocean droplet (static sites, web apps, git repos, RDBMS, some other custom apps I've written) and it hasn't broken a sweat yet[1].

My understanding used to be that requests will be dropped if my virtual server can't handle it, and I'll have to transfer 10,000TB to get to a $100,000 bill.

In practice, my server will not physically handle the load to serve more than maybe $1000 of data a month; it will fall over before that.

In summary, using a VPS is sorta like an instant hard cap.

[1] Until I tried using Jenkins. Which crashed constantly because apparently 512GB of RAM is too little for what it does. I'm now in the process of writing my own little CD tool that isn't going to go over 30MB of RAM just to run my deployment scripts.
Was about to say the exact same thing. Housing constraints are not limited to "near Nvidia HQ". It's the entire Bay Area.

For those not from the area, it's city after city after city in the Bay Area. 60 miles up the peninsula (from San Jose to San Francisco), and 60 miles up the East Bay, the vast majority of which has inventory and affordability challenges.
> at least be up front about it in the beginning

Treat CLA as that: an upfront statement that the author may and probably will change the license in the future.
Author here. The main reason not to share is that if you share at the beginning of the process, they will inevitably ask you how things are going with Company X, Y, and Z. Let's say you get rejected from a few of them. It's going to be increasingly hard to hide that, and now you lost leverage. Better to share when you control the flow of information.

I wrote a bunch about why sharing doesn't make sense and how to avoid it, while still managing your timeline: https://interviewing.io/blog/sabotage-salary-negotiation-bef...
Our intuitive experience with wind on the ground is wrong. Next time it’s windy outside imagine the entire volume of air stretching out for miles and miles moving across with the wind speed, we’re just standing at the bottom of this vast air ocean. It will blow your mind and you’ll think about wind differently from then on. So with that in mind, once the airplane is in the air, it doesn’t “know” if there’s a headwind or a tailwind at all, unless you have a way to reference the ground somehow (for example, with a GPS) - just like a boat doesn’t “know” it’s carried by a current downstream. If you are still on the ground, it is very possible that the tailwind is strong enough for you to not be able to takeoff in the available runway - but then you would go in the opposite direction or more likely sit the storm out :)
It is. But it's also normal. Selfhosted is a big enough sub to still have some issues, but it's also small enough to still be high quality and push many assholes out.
Often daily. I've been full remote since before COVID, and it's been amazingly useful

I used (and loved) screenhero back in the day too
Multi-Factor Authentication Using Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP)
> Performance is good enough, it's not the intellectual masturbation of Scala or Rust.

Rust is the most pragmatic language out there.
The SV ecosystem has long had firms that handle that stuff and make it available to new startups.
But Gemini is offering opinions and analysis (and they're often pretty terrible, to boot). It seems they've wandered pretty far afield from their mission.
Yes. I love many of Google's products, but there is always the fear that if you add them to your workflow, they could be removed tomorrow for no good reason.

Disclaimer: I'm still salty about Google Reader, Domains and Play Music.
Glasskube – Kubernetes Package Manager now supports updates and version pinning
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There are no downvotes for stories.

> Flagging is what people use when they want to silence something or to prevent abuse/junk from staying listed.

"Junk" is a good qualificative.
Jeepers! First I'd ever heard of those. The logic is flawless, but they'd be terrifying to encounter blind.
> The Eurostar takes <2h30 hours from London to Paris.

American railways cannot support those speeds, though. The American rail infrastructure was primarily built for cargo, and supports speeds of 50-70 miles per hour.

> That's fine, but a total strawman related to the argument you quoted.

The St. Paul to Chicago example was referencing the North Coast Hiawatha in your previous post. You mentioned that some people would only take a small segment of the line, not the entire Seattle to Chicago route. You wrote, "Very few people would be taking it all the way - it took ~47 hours." What specific destinations were you referring to here?

> As I've elaborated on at length elsewhere, even the lowest population density states in the US have only exceptionally tiny numbers of people in areas where that is true when compared to existing lines considered viable in Europe.

This is patently false. Take California, for instance. The vast majority of the state's 40 million people live in the San Francisco Bay Area and LA - San Diego metro areas. This would be 5-7 hours by rail, but only an hour long flight. Los Angeles to Seattle would be 10+ hours. These aren't places withs small populations. But the metro areas that do exist are far away from one another. Too far to make trains viable for passenger travel.

This isn't unique to the west coast. Take St. Louis as another example. The other big metros in its vicinity are Nashville, Kansas city, and Indianapolis. These are all 5+ hours by train but just a 1 hour flight. The cities are spaced out too far to compete with airlines. Few would opt for a 5+ hour plane ride instead of a 1 hour flight. And people who would choose the former are instead served by Greyhound buses that don't take much longer than passenger rail.

Again, the only place in America that does have a collection of large cities close together - the Northeast Corridor - has a widely used train line. The rest of America has cities spaced out further than the 100-200 miles where trains outcompete planes.

> The US has areas not considered viable due to US political considerations. That's a choice for the US public to make, but this is not because US geography or demographics is exceptional, but because US politics is.

False, it is absolutely due to geography and distance, not politics. This is one of the most clear-cut examples of geography influencing transportation choices.
It's a tangent, but I think it's interesting that Gitea started trying to self host in Feb 2017 (https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029) and hasn't got there yet (based on how active the github issues/PR page are).

https://about.gitea.com/ offers me a "free cloud trial" and otherwise sounds very like other web front ends to git. So like github, except they don't trust it themselves.

In contract forgejo has "Self-hosted alternative to GitHub" written in big letters on the landing page. https://codeberg.org/forgejo is indeed self hosted.
Yes. Code is read (and debugged) way more than it is written.

I was using RxJava initially because it was being pushed by the platform team and coupled pretty well with the GRPC interfaces we used internally. However, the rest of my team couldn't/didn't want to wrap their minds around the concurrently functional tasking that it brought (which was understandable).

I didn't want the code to have a bus factor of 1 (me).
You're absolutely right - my remark was made with consideration of the specific question at hand. Instead of asking them to regurgitate an acronym, the given question asks the interviewee to provide analysis of an engineering technique. The question gauges an interviewee's reading/verbal comprehension, while also giving the interviewee the opportunity to display analytical thinking skills and an intimate understanding of the topic.
Made me think of Gene Wolfe (an engineer and later editor for Plant Engineering magazine) and Orson Scott Card, who continued to write for Compute! even after Ender's Game became popular (see https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/index/index.php?autho...)

Regarding "McCarthy's vendetta against semicolons" (@metaxy2) there are a number of high profile writers who are very particular about grammar. Example: Stephen King's On Writing shared some opinions about adverbs:

“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they’re like dandelions. If you have one in your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day…fifty the day after that…and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it’s—GASP!!—too late.”
> Is there a programming language that has a "simple" design like Go but which supports some operator overloading?

Think that one through again
I love caddy. Most recently, I used it for a small personal project where I wanted to be able to upload files via Webdav and serve them out over HTTPS. I can't believe how small the configuration for this setup is. Especially if you compare it to something like Apache:

```

{
order webdav before file_server
log {
level DEBUG
}
}

files.example.org {
log {
output stdout
format json
}
@notget {
not method GET
}
root * /srv/ssftp
route @notget {
basicauth {
bob $2y$10$f/asdasd.asdsadasd.asdasdasd
}
webdav
}
file_server browse
}

```

The integrated LetsEncrypt support makes life so much easier than a comparable setup with apache or nginx.
It's not companies but people. I experienced both ends of the spectrum in the same company.
This sounds a lot like Abuse as a Service.

Trying to defend against malicious bots is tedious at best, impossible at the worst. I don't really see how lowering the bar would be a net positive. People will start using methods that will cause more collateral damage and just reduce user freedoms.

My guess is that this only increases the push towards attestation and attestation-like approaches. Login walls and PAT/Privacy Pass are just the start.
The world seems like it's moving to ML. That needs matrices, complex numbers, autodiff, different fixed/floating point types. All four of these need operator overloading.
Some of us simply do not want the hassle of being paid for our efforts. We aren't working as contractors, and the meta-effort is far too high for any benefit.

This is one of the reasons I have never set up sponsorships on any of my GitHub accounts (my taxes are complicated enough).
> Google did exactly what prevailing cultural attitudes demanded it do

Google did exactly what their own perception of cultural attitudes led them to do.

This model clearly isn’t exactly in tune with the actual cultural zeitgeist, otherwise they wouldn’t have this issue.

IMO it doesn’t seem aligned with broad cultural attitudes - it appears in line with a specific cultural attitude (one often called ‘woke’ although I don’t think that’s a particularly useful term).
There are countless
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
Adding matrices with A+B looks nice.

But then you'll soon want to do A*B+C, and you'll find that fused multiply/add is a much faster operation than doing a multiplication and then addition, and soon you'll either be writing mul_add(A, B, C) anyway, or you'll overengineer a complex solution to make A*B return some kind of object that can recognize the subsequent + operation etc.

Update: corrected * representation
There will always be parasites. That should not be the reason we don't help each other, or we'd lose something even more valuable than what the parasites take.
Reminds me of a specific type of flavor of WorkOS. I like it!
> And the model where some patrons receive a reward encourages transactionalism and disappointed patrons when they don't get the reward they expected.

More than that, I don't think Patreons will ever be able to compete in a world where Netflix/Max/Disney exists just by making content.
For example, if you consider the $10 tier of The Command Zone[1], you'd have to weight that in against something like the Disney+ catalog, which I think is even cheaper and definitely has a lot more content?

[1] https://www.patreon.com/commandzone
Also, they did not "try to kill Bombardier", they did kill Bombardier, at least as far as the commercial jet industry is concerned. Bombardier does not sort of make the CSeries/A220 in Alabama in conjunction with Airbus. The CSeries does not exist any more, the A220 is now a 100% Airbus program, as of Feb. 2020, Bombardier has zero involvement in it.
I'd say Learning Culture is also a problem.

Boeing has made numerous missteps in the last 15 years after being the world leader in airliners for around half a century. This only happens when knowledge about how to make a safe product is purposefully discarded and attempts to bring that knowledge back are intentionally ignored. In Boeing's case, it's due to desires for increased profits. They are unwilling to learn these lessons because it costs money that _may_ be there at quarter's end.
Author here. I said this in the post, and I'll say it again here. If I hear from any reliable sources at Meta that I'm wrong, I'll gladly retract and issue a public apology.
> On the other hand, if there wasn't any dirt, the filters would not have clogged, so I guess it does make sense after all.

Things can freeze at cryogenic temperatures. Water ice, dry ice ... or other gases solidifying. There can also be FOD knocked loose by vibrations.
That's exactly my question: is memory or timespan that regulate the speed of time-passing?

Another thought experiment: suppose reincarnation exists and, as soon as I'm born, I remember my past lives, would time go faster or slower?

I don't expect an answer, they are just thoughts that I have...
> why does what content creators may have believed mean fuck-all in terms of what these cases are arguing?

I didn't say it did, I acknowledged that SCOTUS would probably rule against the TX and FL laws. I'm talking about the broader context.

> Nobody would have used Facebook if they thought Facebook would "censor" them?

I think if people knew then what they know now about how these platforms would behave starting around 2015 they would have had a much more difficult time achieving their dominant positions, there would have been far more skepticism.

Of course it's hard to prove a counterfactual but that's my view having been a small part of it.
If only he diverted a little of his rage against the adverb and pointed it toward the exclamation mark.
> Another point they stress: the adventure of wrestling with big ideas and expressing them: “Just enjoy writing,” they say. “Try to write the best version of your paper. . . . You can’t please an anonymous reader, but you should be able to please yourself.”

Miller put two colons into the first sentence. There are four quotation marks wrapping text that isn't actually quoting anyone, in an article about a novelist who doesn't use quotation marks even when characters are speaking. The quoted paraphrase includes an unnecessary ellipsis.

Does Miller believe that McCarthy's rules are good ones?
See also Greek chronos versus kairos:

> It is one of two words that the ancient Greeks had for 'time'; the other being chronos (χρόνος). Whereas the latter refers to chronological or sequential time,[2] kairos signifies a good or proper time for action. In this sense, while chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature.[3]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos

> The ancient Greeks recognized the difference between chronological time (chronos) and subjective time (kairos).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception
> Engineers, saving your program time and money out of the sheer laziness of not wanting to make a new XML format for an instrumentation project. This is how progress is made in the world, I guess.

I've worked in healthcare, fintech, and ads and this is one thing I've done in all three fields. I swear i've written or debugged XML parsers in 20 different languages at this point just so I didn't have to get consensus on a new format.
Search is going downhill at least in part because they're dealing with an entire industry that's adversarial to them. SEO companies are spending billions of dollars and countless man-hours with the explicit goal of making search worse. The fact that they've gotten even better tools in the form of GenAI for manipulating search hasn't helped.
If I understand correctly, a lot of the issues you can run into with regards to blocking come from the fact that you're using a headless browser. Past a certain point, wouldn't it be less work to use a regular browser and drive with Selenium or similar solutions? Or does that not address the kind of problems you're facing?
I switched to 7-Zip and never looked back, but some cool kids did buy a WinRAR license (e.g. LGR on YouTube).
what if we take existing design system and just use those values to style our components?
The V2 are 1.25 ton according to Wikipedia. Which means 150 tons would be 100-120.
There's actually an (admittedly small) data scraping industry.

Let's say you are Wal-Mart, and you'd like to know which of the products you sell are available cheaper at Target. Or which neighbourhoods they deliver to that you don't, or which stores have longer opening hours than yours, or whatever.

You can't legally exchange data with Target directly, that would risk making you an illegal price-fixing cartel. You can legally visit their website, but you don't feel like matching up 10,000+ products.

Instead, you call up a business intelligence firm who has already scraped your site and theirs and matched the products up. They'll send you a CSV, for a price.
Youtube, Maps (mobile, the web version has been getting worse), Gmail are pretty good.

So, their core services are fine; for anything that is not in the 'hot money making' path, good luck, some are great some are bad.