skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd think that the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in human history would figure out a trash solution other than "pile the bags on the street 24/7." That's what there is to get. And honestly, this attitude is quite typical of NYC – "it's always been this way, what's the problem?" It's one reason why the city never seems to actually get better at things other places like Tokyo or Singapore figured out decades ago.
Reading Harry Braverman suitably explains a lot of what is going in programming.
Unstyled plain HTML is the web version of Brutalism.
This looks interesting, but why is 75% of your landing page your bios? When clicking the link, I definitely didn't have in mind "I wonder who founded this and what their background is". I now know a lot about who organizes this and what their reasons are, but I don't know anything about what it is.
If post-pandemic London wasn't depressing enough already, sure.
If you use uBlock Origin (and you should!), it can be configured to work in a similar way. NoScript does have some extra features though.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m...
Here in KC, Woman Who Code held coding events for school kids. I know one girl that attended them and went on to get a comp sci degree.
Disappointed that the article didn't say which type of body parts. Organs for transplantation?
I'd bet that Java has an order of magnitude more users than Go and Rust combined, and probably several orders of magnitude more code in production.
Brutalism looks terrible in the UK climate, the damp concrete gets stained and watermarked, it looks diseased.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F-fluUQApO8
That’s the thing people don’t realize about NYC. For everyone who complains about the high cost of living and move out, there are people making less than half or a quarter of what they are making moving in. Everyday. This puts a price ceiling on the cost of living.

Compare that with SF and Seattle where every new resident makes more money than the last and, IMO, the resulting cost of living is much higher.
This is cool, but the shorelines are very low detail. A few towns in the UK are off in the sea, meanwhile Greenland and Northern Canada are hogging all the vertices.

It looks as though the Mercator projection is already being accounted for in the detail level, but it would be good to deprioritize unpopulated areas.
This method works because many system bioses apparently just hide many setup options, and therefore if you can find these options, you can flip the switch by editing EFI variables. Doing so isn't that difficult as the blog entry states.

So this method could also work for many other different laptops to reenable undervolting or overclocking, etc.
In my experience quite a lot of programming is thinking, though quite a lot is also communication, if you work in a team

Typing out comments on PRs, reproducing issues, modifying existing code to test hypotheses, discussing engineering options with colleagues, finding edge cases, helping QA other tickets, and so on. I guess this is all "thinking," too, but it often involves a keyboard, typing, and other people

A lower but still significant portion is "overhead." Switching branches, syncing branches, rebasing changes, fixing merge conflicts, setting up feature flags, fixing CI workflows, and so on

Depending on the size of the team, my gut feel for time consumption is:

Communication > Thinking > Writing Code > Overhead
I believe the Taylor Swift photos were generated using Microsoft Designer/ Copilot. (as unbelievable as it sounds)
yes, a shitty foundation leads to shitty feature implementation. I've seen this everywhere from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Nobody cares about code quality, except maybe the one self-annointed gatekeeper who thinks he's making a difference and shitting on everyone's PRs delaying features. Get rid of that guy he serves no purpose
Yes, that is true. Do bare minimum but brag a lot. Maximum visibility! Like you moved mountains.
But that at least allows the consumer to decide the tradeoff.

If this Electron app or container costs me more than it’s worth to me, I don’t run it.
I used to think like that but no more. We're currently working on a new product. One that most the team would like to own and use when/if it gets to market. I'm very much contributing in my area of expertise, and yet... I've had to make some compromises to make target dates. Those dates are not all arbitrary - we need to be at certain events to stir up connections, interest, and get feedback on what we're doing. Half the code is written by another person with vastly different ideas and style, yet we've formed a decent boundary that's stable and we stay on our side. None of it is perfect, but I'm excited about the product. I'd say "hey come work with us" to this guy but I honestly don't think he'd be happy. That frustration is coming from inside.
Programming without moving the the needle on _something_ is, ultimately, ugly. Granted, not all needles are worth money. But for the subset of needles that do, you can bang out all the beautiful code you want, and you will get respect for it, in a functional org, even corporate. Abstractions for abstraction sake are frowned upon for good reason.
I funded myself with the proceeds of earlier games. The game in question took only 23 days to make. I'd say I make one game every couple of months.

The initial short ramp up to the first game sales was funded by COVID-19, some freelance, some savings, some ebaying. But on the whole my game sales fund the next game.
It's actually "stop making holidays for everything to try to get attention for dumb ideas nobody cares about" day.
How I Made "What" in Geometry Dash
I apologize! Did "ctrl+f" on mobile and apparently something was screwed up. Did only have 4 hits for "insect".
That's not how you build big important, expensive things, though. It all depends on the context.
Your AI will interact with the stores api eventually, solving the problem
This is really nice although I'm finding the progressive loading a bit unreliable - sometimes tiles don't display if I zoom and pan quickly at the same time. I'm using FF 125.0 on Android.
The article seems mostly focused on Windows (which is probably appropriate), but the Mac also has built-in anti-virus called Xprotect.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/protecting-against-...
Yes, I was looking at the violent crime rate subtotal from your first link which places it at 42/100 at a rate of around 539 per 100k. The national average is around 381 per 100k. Being significantly above thw national average and close to the middle of the top 100 cities, does not seem like it "has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the country" to me. These are based on rates, so population isn't a direct factor and it will still show as a hotspot on any national or state level map since it's significantly higher than average and surrounding area.
NASA's Juno Gives Aerial Views of Mountain, Lava Lake on Io
Fusion-energy quest makes big advance with EU-Japan reactor
How do you know? I sure couldn't tell if my computer was part of some botnet or whatever.
I think once you are an experienced programmer, beyond being able to break down the target state into chunks of task, you are able to intuit pitfalls/blockers within those chunks better than less experienced programmers.

An experienced programmer is also more cognizant of the importance of architectural decisions, hitting the balance between keeping things simple vs abstractions and the balance between making things flexible vs YAGNI.

Once those important bits are taken care of, rest of it is more or less personal style.
Throughout my "life" in the internet, I've seen this gone from being envied and should be imitated, to something that should be avoided (you're being exploited!!). Maybe it's just a function of communities I gone through as I got older.
So yes, it's free for the dev. The user payes the memory and electricity.
Also social media sites themselves have built many bubbles country wise.
Perplexity.ai:
calculate the terminal velocity of an average sized penguin falling head first
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The terminal velocity of an average-sized penguin falling head-first can be calculated as follows: Assuming an average penguin weight of 5 kg and a cross-sectional area of 0.1 m^2, with a drag coefficient of 0.8 for a streamlined, head-first orientation: Terminal velocity, v_t = √((2 × m × g) / (ρ × A × C_d))
Where:

m = mass of penguin = 5 kg
g = acceleration due to gravity = 9.8 m/s^2
ρ = density of air = 1.225 kg/m^3
A = cross-sectional area = 0.1 m^2
C_d = drag coefficient = 0.8

Plugging in the values:
v_t = √((2 × 5 kg × 9.8 m/s^2) / (1.225 kg/m^3 × 0.1 m^2 × 0.8))
v_t = √(98 / 0.98)
v_t = √100
v_t = 10 m/s Therefore, the terminal velocity of an average-sized penguin falling head-first is approximately 10 m/s or 36 km/h.1345

Wolframalpha:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=Subscript%5Bv%...
That giant spiky thing actually looked quite nice before it fell to bits.
(I think it was 'The B of the Bang').
Maybe he could have done a better job of the new music venue here; 'the coop arena' which the BBC rightly describes as 'a giant black box'. Alas with less aesthetics than a Borg cube.
> Defender will scan the entire file on opening if it's been modified

In that case it would delete the whole mailbox for EICAR. Sound plausible, but I have a WinSvr2022 machine without WinDefender (or any other AV) and Thunderbird there is slow as molasses.

But sure, if adding the path to the exclusions alleviate the problem then it's Defender causing issues.

> because opening files in windows is expensive

Yes, this is the reason I would generally advise against that. Also it mess up NTFS fragmentation bad and while nowadays it's less of an issue for a laptop with oh so fast NVMe drive in it, it's still a problem (especially if you later need to move that folder with a bazillion files in it).
I do agree but I think not enough people become aware of it when they start saving. In a sense it would probably be easier on all if the government just said we'll top up your deposit by 25% upto the value of 5k when you buy your first house.
Hah, yes I definitely fumbled on the math there. Thanks for re-articulating what I was trying to get across much better than I did!
> My assumption is, that they're doing it by exluding Unicode code points for all emojis.

Yes? The code points of emojis are excluded by HN.

Try it yourself with characters of different types! Ones that are neither ASCII (including builtin html entities, sure) nor emoji.
> almost all of us are hacking code out of the code-face merely to enrich other people

Colloquially known as "work". The thing we all do in order to have nice things and a society.

> to enrich other people: the people with the corner offices, and the people above them with the yachts

Good! That would mean the thing I produced had value. I hope everything I create has value. One day I hope that I've practiced enough, learned enough and gained enough experience and savings that I can employ others responsibly.

If I have good ideas and do it right, there's a chance that I could have that yacht. It's what we call economic incentive, or "motivation".
First drone footage of x is becoming a little rarefied, not to say boring and predictable for some values of x.

So I expect this to be the peak of consumers buying little mavics to film their trips to Mont Blanc or the Amalfi Coast. Honestly, their friends are not interested. It was sad and ridiculous while it lasted, and now I hope it's over.
> The entire problem is the vast majority of engineers have an inability to recognise the business function of their output.

Who would have thought this would happens when actual business talks to a business analyst, who talks with a product owner, who talks with the engineer (when a PO proxy didn't manage to squeeze in between them).
Nobody claimed that they did. The argument is that we have no reason to think these are categorical differences so much as differences of degree.

For example, there are clear relationships between a baby’s gesturing and their language development. These appear to be different enactments of the same systems (also people born blind will gesture while they speak).

Even the “at best second order reactions to internal/external stimuli.” Every human thought and action is at best an Nth order reaction to internal/external stimuli. Differences of degree.
They asked a question, and I gave an answer that is in line with the guidance from many senior engineers with a wide variety of language experience, and many governmental and security organization's advice.

The reason to use c++ is for low level performance, but it's not 2005, you can now get the same performance with modern languages that give increased safety, developer velocity, readability, maintainability, and more.
> those high fees subsidise everyone else

Rather, they also elevate tuition costs for everyone and many schools are very lenient on cheating by people paying these high fees.
I'm one of those people who will happily take a pretty big pay cut for my sanity 9 times out of 10. I grew up in a low income household and have lived on very little at several points in my adult life, it comes naturally to me and I almost prefer it in some ways. My mental health is more likely to be threatened by over-stress or a lack of meaning than by having to stretch a shoestring budget.

The only time staying in a job I don't have many positive feelings about (or worse, only negative feelings) makes sense to me is if I have very specific plans for the extra money I'm making and very good odds of seeing the plan through.

Such a way of life isn't for everyone, but I strongly advise those who maybe lean less materialist than the norm and/or aren't afraid of more frugal living to consider it. Especially if you've been asking yourself more than once a week lately how much more of 'this great job you have' you can tolerate without a breakdown.
What is a non-corporate company?
Agreed, there are plenty of small companies out there. Early startups, pre or early product-market-fit, etc. Mostly can't afford to pay large salaries. Need people who are interested and self-motivated. Willing to be flexible in various ways – a lot more is negotiable with small companies.

They aren't going to get in front of your face easily – you'll need to seek them out.
Why use a slower, lossy, error-prone input method rather than tap a screen a few times to make precise choices? This has been solved for over a decade.
Interestingly, this project (Lunatik) started over 30 years ago in 1993.

https://github.com/luainkernel/lunatik/graphs/contributors
Whoa, very cool project, I would be keen to try it out if it worked on Linux.
Reminds me of Bad Apple on Windows Task Manager.

https://youtu.be/sBeI30ccb6g
I'm pretty sure these were only remains. There's an industry for 'body brokers' to buy (or are given) cadavers and then sell them to research institutions, training centers, etc.

There aren't a lot of details, but it sounds like this person essentially just stole from his employer for his own interest. Sure, the currency involved makes it sound more morbid, but the sale of the dead is nothing new in this country.
Anywhere in the world demand is where there is supply for wages. Most places just have not succeed matching that demand with supply on the housing. While supply of wages has still gone on... Very often where there is no well paid jobs or even paid jobs the demand is low, so housing is cheap.

Urbanization has been failed. Supply of housing has not kept up with labour around in most urban areas.
Appstore on Wi-Fi routers: Is this the future?
Because code is read more often than written? And clean code is easier to read?
Jack Conte was very spot on in his SXSW talk this year
https://youtu.be/5zUndMfMInc?si=2SqvZIyYi7QLKqmV
It's like making a wrong turn and ending up in an Amish festival...
Eating other species is the quite natural for omnivores... Remember that if a chicken was big enough to eat you it would ! (most birds ard opportunistic omnivores)

Preaching for veganism is preaching for the genocide of those domesticated species because if they weren't raised for food they would not exist !

I concede that the existence of the animals raised in industrial condition is deplorable but the existenceof the beef and chicken I buy from a local farmer is pretty good: ample space, quality food, grazing in the summer, no predator... and the way it's killed is doesn't leave time for suffering.

Cow raised for milk in place where they don't use hormone also have a great life because when they are not well treated the milk production is suboptimal.

Animal rights activists, should focus on banning growth and milk hormones, ensuring adequate space and socialization, and minimizing transport of living animals. They should be killed on site and transported dead and refrigerated to the meat processing facility, something that is prohibited for no justifiable reasons.
These juveniles are lucky to not be in a place where the ice melts before they have their water-resistant feathers. This possibility is becoming an existential threat to some penguin colonies.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-08-24/record-...
I made the same (offline first, very small, vector based) but with a focus on i18n. So it's available in all languages of the United Nation (except Spanish because I just forgot, shame on me, could be made in a couple of hours).

The name of the countries (and cities) are the official one declared at the UN. So, yeah, the official short version of UK is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

https://map.ache.one/en
> except the ones we tend to use for food or work

Also excepting the humans whom we seek to exploit or attack.
That’s fine. Not everyone needs to “get it”. Some like it. Some don’t. Cool.
gotta get rid of it so we can have free UFO tech
Not sure why you arw being downvoted, the testing center scams are estimated to have cost more than a billion euros [^1]

and from the experiences I had, the people that ran them, and their sheer abundance, this number is probably a very conservative number, and it doesn't include yet all the ones that operated on the brink of scamminess. There wasn't a need to completely and obviously fake the numbers to funnel a lot of public money into your pockets, often without providing any tangible benefit (no qualified personnel, unreliable tests, inadequate execution).

Way into 2021 many streets in the city I live in had one improvised testing center next to the other, mostly ran by people without any medical qualification, using tutorials from the internet and a process almost designed for corruption, where setting up a test center was a state-funded get-rich-quick scheme for quite a while.

[1] https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/landespolitik/betrug-corona-...
> Why China is allowing it's citizens be propagandized by living their formative years in free democracies is crazy.

Honestly, many of the kids studying here look down their nose at the US and its people. They will have fun here, but many are in isolated bubbles with other Chinese students and don't befriend others.
State-owned companies or worker-owned coops come to mind.
> This distance must be fairly short.

Not really a factor in dense urban environments. Everything within 5km is easily reachable within ~15 mins. Especially so once you factor in ebikes.

> You must be relatively young/fit/healthy/able-bodied.

Relatively is doing a lot of work there. This is not true for the most part and again, ebikes.

> The weather must OK (not frequently too cold/hot/wet).

The weather is mostly ok in most places most of the time. Frequency barely matters, you can always leave your bike home and walk/use public transportation instead if the weather that day isn't suitable.

> The terrain must be fairly flat.

Gears exist. Ebikes nullify this regardless.

> The traffic conditions must be not-suicidal.

This is the only real problem - dedicated biking infrastructure, physically separated from cars is required. However, it's usually an excuse more than a real issue. Biking infrastructure is astoundingly cheap compared to anything else.

> There must secure bike storage at both ends.

Depends on the trip type. It's usually not a problem due to extremely low cost - 5 U-shaped pipes attached to the ground gives you 10 bike parking spaces in a tiny area. If popping into a shop for 5 mins it's usually enough to just lock the bike to itself. It's unlikely a thief would carry off a bike in that time. Otherwise, keep the bike is naturally secure at home/workplace.

Plus, if it does get stolen, bikes are cheap and a dime a dozen.

> Ideally, shower/changing facilities at both ends for bad-weather days.

Unnecessary for most people in most conditions, but if it is an issue, usually cycling slower or getting an ebike works fine.
OpenAPI + OpenAI
and now
FastAPI and FastAI

How long until there's a RESTAI company?
> But that at least allows the consumer to decide the tradeoff.

...If they connect the dots.
I mean, people love musicians for making interesting "what if" statements to music, and I'm not shitting on that. The difference is that music makes people happy and makes the time go faster, while most philosophy makes people confused for no good reason, is boring and even when "understood" doesn't provide any tangible benefit to people's lives.

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good "philosophy" out there, but it absolutely doesn't need to be its own academic discipline, it could just be a genre of nonfiction - "fun thought experiments taht will blow your mind"
I’m sorry but I think it’s cultural, I’ve worked in enough early stage startups where the first engineers are working directly with CXOs, and they’re still firmly living in lala engineering land.
'Urgency culture' might lead you to burnout. How can you combat it?
Do you know that the big expensive thing is what your customers actually need? Do you actually know what your customers need?

That’s basically the only important context. If you can’t deliver that, it doesn’t matter how well thought through, extensible, or scalable it is.
I have had the same thoughts. In my opinion, from the developer's perspective, there are two issues in the industry:

1. Conveyorization of development process.
Developers write code, that's it. Most what I have done for the past 6 years was do ticket-based work, constantly moving from project to project. Ironically, at the start of my carreer, I was responsible for an entire internal application (including designing new features, being on-call, and talking to end-users), so I grokked the entire setup and purpose.

2. Self-perpetuating push for constant change for the sake of change.
Producer (e.g: tech corporation) releases an update to their product to improve some internal metric or make more money -> Consumer updates their product (or jumps on the hype for next big thing) -> Producer metrics go up -> Repeat. This keeps both Producer's and Consumer's developers employed while providing very marginal benefits.
While this is a bit of a strawman, think of how many versions (and names!) Of .NET, or React, Angular, Vue or any other framework there has been over the last 10 years and whether each version improved much.

Combine the two, and, as a developer, you don't know how what you're doing matters, nor why you're doing it at all.
> "most people's life won't be better that that we've found the Higgs field."

on one hand, I feel you should append "...yet" into that thought. just because it hasn't been useful technologically now doesn't mean it never will.

on the other hand, I've seen some physicists doubt that quarks even exist out of a controversy about Feynman's allegedly missing diagrams
I wanted the same thing for Browser for a very long time. Since that is where 99% of all my information are consumed. But May be it does seems to fit in the OS in a broader prospective.