skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, Norway's PPP is as high as it is only because of North-Sea oil revenue.
Awesome, thanks. I jumped into the first one that grabbed my attention: CDD - cognitive driven development (link below, 15min video).

I love the premise but find the recommended results silly. TL;DW: cognitive research shows humans have working memory limited to 7 +/- 2 things. This means that classes should be limited in what they do. So far, I agree. And I think this can be extended, in practice.

However, they back up this idea with a single case study and use a decorator to help count complexity to keep the classes small and state that methods not extending beyond 24 lines of code are ways to do this. This will just lead to cargo culture like "don't comment code."

The decorator is not needed because code should (authoring or in review) be obvious if handling more than 5 to 9 things. The number of lines might be correlated to the number of things a function does, but that doesn't mean cognitive overhead. Like, a 100 line function that maps state abbreviations to state names is fine.

Based on the presented data and mental performative drop off, it is not 7 +/- 2, it is really five + 0 to 2. I hereby dub this the Rule of Five.

A practical example better than what they present in the talk: early returns. Every nested block adds to cognitive load, early returns allow you to discard that load as you continue reading through the function. The cyclomatic complexity reaching over 5 levels means many people will start to fail to keep all the blocks in working human memory. Therefore, early returns are a good implementation of Cognitive Driven Development.

The case study they used seems meh. With a couple decades of experience with high growth start ups becoming "real" companies, I just don't buy their results on decorators and function line length. But they are on to something with limiting code to keep minimal cognitive overload down.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g_ht_LDm5Hw&feature=youtu.be
Isn't this a security clearance issue? I don't know how it's in the US, but when I've been involved in things like that, financial hardship is a big factor, as it can mean someone would be easier to sway if another actor proposed to fix their problems.
The OpenReach model doesn’t make much sense for wireless, where the market can support three competing providers (plus a ton of MVNOs) and overbuilding is necessary to provide sufficient capacity anyway. (E.g. AT&T couldn’t serve everyone with just its own cell towers.)

I think the more salient issue is the market simply doesn’t care about this stuff. As long as you can get on Facebook and instagram they are not mo rd by what’s going on behind the scenes.
That only works if you get lucky.

It's all nature, no nurture. If the dice spit out a kid who hates football, that plan is a massive, painful waste of time.
Backpropagation from the Ground Up [video]
That's not what's happening guy. The people setting the pay scale are bought out by corporations who want that money spent on themselves.

This isn't some avocado toast incident, not matter how much such a simple budget you understand
I remember being a young teenager (25 years ago now, yikes) playing counter strike and StarCraft all the time and being pretty good at both. I started playing with others who were in really good leagues (back then it was called cal-i for cs, not sure what exists now), and I realized the level of dedication and time necessary to compete at that level and I basically gave it up. Once you start thinking, “becoming better at this is going to take 6-10 hours of my life everyday” I checked out. In hindsight, I wish I had known it sooner.
We also have the CIA and NSA
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The GS schedule has location adjustments. They don't always keep up with the actual cost of living in a location. The NYC area means there's a 37% boost to pay, but NYC is not just 37% more expensive to live in than baseline.
When I worked a lot with government this used to be a big problem. Some minor tangential point in a finding would be slighty off or not adequately supported and people would jump on that, ignore the rest and pretend it invalidated the whole argument. It's mainly something that comes up talking to insecure bureaucrats that don't want to change.
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you're saying people look at gross income to determine if someone can rent a place rather than net ?
Those are not law enforcement bodies. This is on purpose. We do not want them to be law enforcement bodies.
The lengths of the sides do not correspond to 3 : 4 : 5 proportions. 2 : 3 : 4 is not a Pythagorean triangle.
As an internal implementation detail for sharing code across browsers, that sounds compelling enough. Web developers would never need to no about it though, as its just part of a browser's rendering flow that happens to be shared by browser vendors.

In reality though, I don't see browser vendors playing well to that level. Sharing specs is slow, sharing rendering code would be a nightmare.

Beyond that, I've usually seen Houdini demoed with developers focused features, effectively adding small bits of your own logic into CSS rendering. That pulls it out of the shared library and into userland.
Inflation has been a killer. Someone I know wants to move out, but her old apartment went from $750/mo to $1250/mo in just a few years. That’s almost double. It might sound like an outlier, but I’m not sure there’s even anything sub-$1k anymore, and this is Missouri we’re talking about.

As for the rest of the country, $200k is the new $100k. It’s kind of shocking because I remember a coworker telling me how sweet it felt to earn $100k as a 23yo. That was back in 2008, and he was talking about five years prior to that, so 2003ish.

Grocery prices have also gone up substantially. $300 per trip isn’t unusual, and I remember it being around $200 max just over a year ago. I don’t think our spending habits changed much.

Employees should probably band together and force the market upwards. I’ve done a lot of thinking about whether to embrace the invisible hand of capitalism, and I’ve wondered whether unionization does work. It doesn’t seem to have massive downsides. And what other choice is there when your salary doesn’t match inflation? Go somewhere else? Well, that works for programmers, but the vast majority of the country aren’t.

Things will only get worse when AI does start mowing down jobs. I don’t think we’re close to that yet, but it’s one of those inevitabilities that we should try to plan for.
> If there are others I’d love to understand them.

In the past year or two we’ve had an eight day power outage, five day power outage, multiple 1-2 day power outages, and who knows how many hour-ish interruptions and gasoline or propane for the generator get expensive and inconvenient running it for long periods of time.

Our main limit to how long we can comfortably survive without power is that we’re on well and septic. Without power the pumps for both aren’t running so we have no running water and no sewer. We have bottled water on hand to at least cover drinking, but if we were to just shit in a hole outside we would basically just be dumping raw sewage into our water.

Local power generation and storage is very interesting to me.
That’s true for all government employees and elected officials.

For Congress specifically, I’m in favor of raising salaries to $1M/year while simultaneously taking a zero tolerance policy on all lobbyist funded excursions. That’ll attract plenty of honest folks as the base salary would be more than enough.
Writing an entire complex game in GDScript sounds like an absolute nightmare.

It's a fine scripting language for hobby games or glue code. I would never do serious software development with it.
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You know what I mean, the TLS middleware is part of your IDS suite. Anyway.

Personal use was not the norm. Locking machines down was. VPNs, corporate network perimeters, blocking copy paste (my god), TLS middleware boxes. It all sucks. And inspecting internet traffic is a breach of human rights among adults.

Then we grew out of it. Now we have identity perimeters. Strong identity and yubi keys, webauthn, SSO. Honest.security reflects how people operate today. Modern IT stacks operated by ethical teams don’t do traffic inspection.

We agree, TLS inspection is about control, not security. And that’s why it’s unethical.

“No personal use” also just doesn't work, ideologically. Gotta access your bank for payroll, financial stuff for 401k, RSUs. HR portal has to be accessible on the personal side too for taxes healthcare and emergencies. Been there done that move on.

I will concede that there are isolated highly security sensitive situations where full device control is needed like maybe for the employees or machines with access to a CA or production deployment keys or classified information with human loss of life at stake. But the no personal use mantra is not a blanket philosophy that’s healthy or good for modern society and isn’t relevant in 99.99% of use cases.

You can even look at MDMs which have shifted from full device control to hybrid support.
Not really. The problem is that pay is just capped. There's just a shortage of highly competent people across the entire planet and the only carrot you can offer is money. The federal government is banned from paying them market rate but not banned from subcontracting out the entire task.

NIST is trying to start up an AI wing with "accelerated" pay scales to attract talent. But even if they come in at the maximum allowable salary (~$317k), it's still about 600k short of being able to woo employees from OpenAI.
USDS gives you an enormous network into tech/govtech though. As an intangible benefit it can be worth a stint if that is the direction you want to take your career.
Yes?

Our laws work by enabling censorship. I recognized that, and said that they should not work that way.

Saying wrong things should just hurt your reputation. As in, you become known for being wrong. It should not lead to the fucking government knocking on your door.
I think the most common reason is, that people just want to avoid uncomfortable conversations. Back in the days I was a startup founder, my beliefs were always pretty different from the other stakeholders, and in the end everyone takes their own risks. Having this kind of conversation can be easily interpreted as a recommendation or discouragement, and I wanted to do neither. And while you can also explain the technicalities etc, in the end many people just want the answer "what should I do" from someone.
Houses are also not fungible. If people have a reason to live in a particular area (e.g., work, jurisdictional issues), and housing isn't regulated, you get places like Kowloon: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/a/a7/...
It's almost as if unions are just another power structure with their own goals. I've seen more stories of union corruption than I can count, and we can add this example to the pile.

>>> Although Dugan, Shaffer, and other members say their union stewards on site helped press their concerns to management, they say that local and international IBEW officers who visited the facility scoffed at their concerns. Dugan says a local officer refused to file a grievance on his behalf about the mold in January. One worker requested to stay anonymous out of concern that union officials might withhold his future job placements if he spoke out. Officers with the IBEW local and district did not return requests for comment.
Bluesky lifted its ban on heads of state signups
Amazing writing. Reminds me of my grandfather.

I’ve thought about it this way, you have four options in life:
- not rich, not famous
- not rich, famous
- rich, famous
- rich, not famous

The last one is the best, IMO. And by rich, I mean to not need for anything. And that means having your ego in check. The worst thing I’ve ever witnessed is a literal 100+ millionaire with no peace, still trying to impress people of their wealth and self importance.
AI spam has only been around a year or two--but the decline in search engine quality has been going on for much longer.
I've never done marine navigation so how I expect it to work just comes from movies and the occasional reality TV show so how I'm imagining it works may be way off, but the impression I've gotten is that the navigator (by which I mean the person planning the route) and the driver (the person or people who execute the navigator's plan) are logically separate. They might be the same person on a smaller boat, but the processes is still separate.

The navigator uses the maps to produce instructions for the driver which will be things like sail in this particular direction until we pass that specific island then turn some specific amount and so on.

The navigator doesn't even have to look outside while doing this, and all the directions are specified by compass points, so of course a north on top map makes sense.

For a car nav system the nav system is both doing that high level planning that a ship navigator does and is doing very low level navigation for the driver, and the driver is executing the plan by looking out the window and matching what they see to what the plan calls for. Also events are happening much faster in a car, because (a) cars are typical traveling faster than boats, and (b) cars are typically in environments with a lot more obstacles, and (c) those obstacles are more closely spaced than typical ocean obstacles. For telling someone how to turn right now most people will do better with "turn 90 degrees right" or "turn left at the upcoming intersection" than instructions to change their heading to a specific compass direction.

So far a car nav system it does make more sense to make the nav device's view match more closely what the driver sees.

Ideally I'd like something that switches views depending on the situation. Say I'm driving from the Seattle to Los Angeles. When I'm cruising down I-5 a north up map view zoomed out so I can see the big picture would be great. If I decide to stop in Sacramento for gas and a snack, then switching to a smaller, current direction up, view just big enough to show my current position and the gas station when I exit I-5 would be more useful.
> Less people to employ, for the same or greater output equals more profits.

Companies are under no obligation to employ people just because they exist, so they can already employ less people if they choose to. I don't see why anyone has to die.
The issue I see with comparing median salary to median rent for a one bedroom is that tons of people (especially young folks just starting out) want to live in desirable places and are willing to share living costs in order to do so. So even if you could magically reset a desirable locality to have comparable median rent and salary, very quickly rent would exceed salary as people that really can’t afford it move anyway.

And if you instead pin salary and say that the median salary at every company must be $X, rents will increase for the same reason.

I suppose you could ban living with roommates, and require median salary at every company to equal some state mandated number. I don’t think that will go well for anyone but you could.
A Quiet Life, by TEHO TEARDO & BLIXA BARGELD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPVgAhRE6E
Those were venture capitalists who invested in the acquiring SPAC, not workers at Truth Social.
Both of those entities are forbidden from doing operations on US soil.
What is it then, that is so super expensive today, that wasn't too expensive in the 60s?

also it is a strawman to mention the poor people has it. the hierarchy of what you spend money on is not settled in a hiatorical occurance of said product. you don't buy a watch before a phone because it was invented first.

also, it is completely irrelevant. my proposition is that if you fix your comforts at the 60s level then you have greater spending power than equivalent people of the 60s
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"sustainable" is a big word in 2014, and even more today, but the idea of having some fission (and fossil) minority energy source as bootstrap and reserve is not total wrong (imho)... but:

Australia and Canada have big uranium reserves, (some bias here?), others big reserves are in geopolitically problematic places.

Australia has a lot of sun, and want to push the development of nuclear? strange choice.
Solar wind and storage can develop way faster if enough funding are provided.
Not even to mention co2 capture and storage in synthetic-chemical fuels, but probably battery tech will catch the chem energy density in the next decade.
And so on..

Not clear how uranium reserves are calculated, estimation based on geological data are different from real economical extraction cost, rising in time as reserves shrink and exploration and extraction costs rise, same as ll fossil fuels, always rising, and geopolitically uber-sensitive.
I think no one can really estimate the economic evolution of this resources, apart the obvious rising of costs.
And when Uranium is all burns? what next?

No account on a -real- -safe- waste disposal at global planetary level. No account on real construction and decommissioning costs and economuc plans.

Consideration on the nuclead safety seems a statistical piece of magician (imho), coal, petroleum and gas mortality rates are -so- high and nuclear is so low, deduction: nuclear is safer, but this is just a perspective distorsion, in overall sense -none- is safe. Build enough nuclear plants (as MW) as Coal/Petroleum, and see..

And so on...
Nobody is saying that social media hasn't had any effect on the world, just that the human desire for more worldly things wasn't caused by it. The expression "keeping up with the Joneses" far, far predates social media.
Is there anything in specific you can point to in terms of layout? IME Most of the time you can just `display: flex` or `display: grid` (and then tweak the necessary properties on the children) and it generally works well.
After I finished debugging the prototype, it required literally zero maintenance throughout the winter. Actually we were not living at the house at all, contractors doing remodelling work were living there instead. I installed a LCD screen with basic temperature controls and they had no problem with it whatsoever.

Doing this project from start to finish took me 2 or 3 months on and off, mostly during the weekends.

Doing it right yourself is the exact solution I arrived at myself :) I was shocked to discover how low the average technical level of local contractors is. I was super lucky to find a highly professional guy to overhaul the pipework, but anything more complicated I had to study on my own. Luckily, there is a ton of youtube videos, so the only thing you actually need is time.
Homelab Server with Futro S920 and Proxmox
tried in one famous doc site: Python
search "for key value"

We get a more generally worded result only at position #12 (vs. #1-2 in a search engine)

And then see the excessive verbiage (though admittedly not the exagerrated 20,000)

> The for statement in Python differs a bit from what you may be used to in C or Pascal. Rather than always iterating over an arithmetic progression of numbers (like in Pascal), or giving the user the ability to define both the iteration step and halting condition (as C), Python’s for statement iterates over the items of any sequence (a list or a string), in the order that they appear in the sequence. For example (no pun intended):

Indeed, the difference to Pascal is what people are looking for as well as pun clarifications obscuring a single short sequence of substance
In comp packages you also want to look for the exercise window clause. Some companies say you have to exercise your options within 90 days from leaving but I’ve worked at a startup where it was 5 years which is more employee friendly.
No, engineers are full of hubris, and arent rewarded fro bringing value to the company. They are rewarded for "solving problems" as in figuring out puzzles. Buying software isnt a puzzle to solve its just busy work.

They look at a saas product and think "i could build that" and they might be right. But the current engineering culture doesnt look at that situation and go "why the frick would you want to?!?!"
Let's ask the reverse question also, why would the union do anything to help the workers? Do they get paid more in that case? Incentives are the answer to all these questions.

There is no incentive for a union to care about safety concerns. they have a monopoly.
Yes, not enough doctors. Allow more doctors seems like a good partial solution to the elite overproduction problem.
I’m not opposed to this. but a more reliable solution might be extending terms to 6-8 years and then making second terms illegal.

People would still love to hire someone with experience in the highest rungs of government and it would decrease the negative influence of lobbyists on currently serving members.
There's always going to be an excuse, if you want there to be.

You can learn htmx in a day, and it's just another tool in your toolbelt.

Or don't, doesn't really matter.
You could hash the city names using something like a djb2a algorithm?
So you didn't really prepare, forgot your non-existent "preparation", and then the take-away is that preparation doesn't work..?
It seems fairly obvious to me that the most cost effective method would be to stop digging up old sequestered CO2 from the ground and burning it.

Is this not obvious to others?

A simple, yet very effective old proverb is that when you find yourself in a hole, first stop digging.
The big money is not going to be the type of chat services the article talks about; the big money is going to be romance scams.
I'm curious what are the underlying reasons that make you hold this position?
Yes, but the FBI contains part of the US government's attempts to counter spies and infiltrators, and my understanding is that it's seen as especially important that those people aren't easily bribable.
Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO [video]
Not alligators, but FSD handling family of deer in the road here: https://youtu.be/fpoXr_z_6a4?t=636