skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how many emails I actually never sent, and also never filed into the drafts folder. The mondane version being fending of rage. But other times, you just develop the answer to your question while writing the question down. On a similar thought, this is why coding is an inherent part of my way of dealing with problems. The rigour required to get a piece of code to work helps me understand concepts. So when learning things, I sometimes end up writing a piece of code to model the domain, just to help me understand it.
According to Wikipedia, dormice are still considered a delicacy in Slovenia and Croatia.
Pick one concept and talk about that concept.

I see at least three perspectives here:

* business / marketing

* level design

* technical implementation

Do only one of those concisely and completely. And if you want to do all three, make it three articles.
if you check sites that track HN's rankings, it was ranked #1 for a while, then it suddenly dropped to #27 and continued declining
https://hnrankings.info/40481808/
Having to break the law to keep up with the flow of traffic has been weirdly normalized in the US. I don't disagree that speed limits are artificially low in many cases, but the expectation that everyone should respond to this by exceeding the limit (instead of maybe lobbying to get the limit changed) seems goofy.

And it moves from goofy to dangerous when the response of many drivers to people who don't respond that way is to behave super aggressively towards anyone going the speed limit, even if they're in the right-hand lane.
I recently found a milk vending machine on a farm a bit away from the city here (Germany.) You just have to bring your own bottle, 1 euro/liter and it's local. I'd rather give the farmer the full price, rather than dealing with the grocery store margins.

But I'm always a bit skeptical due to infections. Didnt some famous natural scientist die from it in the 60s or so?

There is a sign on the machine telling you to bring the milk to a boil before consumption, mainly just because it is mandated by law. Most people do not seem to boil it off.
Weirdly enough we have that in English too - "gut feeling", etc. Languages are weird.
Can sell it soon in West Virginia.

https://getrawmilk.com/content/raw-milk-legalized-in-west-vi...

Looks like in 2016 it was only available through a herdshare thing. Not really sure what that is. I guess that's how the delegate in the original article got it.
I disagree. Not only for myself but for the vast majority of human kind.

LLMs are just a statistical model. It can claim that it’s normal for pigs to have wings and fly to the moon if it’s in the training data. No human, free of a mental/cognitive disorder, will be that wrong.
I’ve honestly never worked on software in an environment where the advice in the article wasn’t important to keep in mind. Personal projects, single digit employee count startups, growth stage, ancient and slow moving Perl monolith shops … they all needed to keep the principles of simplicity, boringness (boring.tech is a great reiteration of this) and continually self-auditing to reduce inherited complexity in mind.

Whether or not Google interprets this advice in a sane way or whether they actually follow it are separate issues, but I think the advice is timely and (at least in my experience) important for many people to hear, regardless of where it’s author works.
Whatever you have that's calling the Powershell script just has to tell the Powershell system that it's ok to run the unsigned script. The default is just to keep people from double-clicking rando Powershell script files and all hell breaking loose.
Between the slowness of the editor, the "glue" work that needs to be done to even try out the GPT-generated code, the overall experience seems quite poor.

To me, it seems there are low-code platforms with better UX where doing this exercise, even without any AI assistance, would be as easy and likely smoother.
The other movie to watch besides "her" is https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/152795-the-congress The Congress (2013) Based on Stanisław Lem's novel "The Futurological Congress." Robin Wright, who plays a fictionalized version of herself, facing dwindling career prospects, agrees to sell the rights to her digital likeness to a film studio, allowing them to use a computer-generated version of her in perpetuity.

But the big reveal here: actors don't even need to sell this. AI will just take it and claim well it's different enough. In fact, if you are a B or C celebrity you might have your agent get you a million dollars or so for these rights during this grey period. Go ahead and take the million because a few years from now the price will be zero.
If it works for positives, then you can add all the positives in one bin, add all the negatives in one bin, and finish off with a single subtraction.
"With a fear in his eyes that I only later discovered came from the fact that his own sense of safety depended on being the smartest person in the room, he said, "You're only 3. I don't think you're supposed to know how to do that yet.""

I feel like that episode describes most of common education. In theory outstanding excellence is wanted, in reality often not so much, as this causes problems. Better teach them how to stay in line.
Seems to be favorite choice for software from german speaking countries.

The first two that came in my mind are

Enaio, a DMS and Serviceware Processes, a Helpdesk solution.
The Formal Definition of the T3X Programming Language
> just informs ... Not good. It needs to physically restrict

Would you trust the system to be reliable? (Among the many issues in topic.)

I have met many that call car systems trying to keep people inside lanes "plain dangerous after experience".
My custom instructions are a slimmed down version of those used by my AutoExpert (Chat) custom GPT.

https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert
Getting Started in Computer Graphics
> what the internet was supposed to do

Oh no, I'm whining about an even earlier period when the info online was done without commercial gain (small company or Google) in mind and way more trustable :)
The "trend" was started in 1920. In the HN typical bourgeois stance, people here are of course immune to cheap tricks like .99 price ; and will reject it as "non-science", a very unscientific way to reject something on the basis of who makes the science.
> It doesn’t matter that you can’t feed power back to the grid (well, maybe you can.. you can convert the light given off the heated block with photovoltaics.. but that won’t be a huge factor).

FWIW there are a few other comments in this page discussing TPV (albeit briefly) and there are at least a few companies seriously pursuing it with federal support. It is a pretty interesting alternative to other forms ESS, particularly for long duration (ie more relevant for critical resiliency applications than supply/demand arbitrage). Like you said probably will not end up super relevant in the grand scheme of the grid’s total ESS capacity, but it will most likely have a niche I think.

> I expect most rental car companies will provide some grid balancing services, and in the near future you’ll have to pay extra to check out a car with 100% SoC.

Rental car companies are an interesting example I hadn’t thought of before - thanks for highlighting that. Another more common challenge/opportunitu will be campuses - eg universities, large corporations, etc which have their own microgrid (often a CHP/district system in the northeast at least) - which may have a large number of commuters arriving in the morning and potentially wanting to charge their EVs all day. In 15 years, this might represent a pretty significant increase in demand, and represents giving a pretty substantial amount of free electricity to commuters (if things stayed as they are today). At the same time, charging up all of those vehicles during midday and then sending them home to immediately discharge when they plug in at 5-7pm could substantially abate the duck curve, and being an even larger further savings for the commuter. Seems obvious that some sort of new agreements/contracts etc will come in to play for these sorts of campuses.
Other programmers tend to be bad at reliably cleaning up resources such as file handles, locks etc, so I need to inspect the whole invocation tree anyways to have an understanding of what runtime implications I've summoned by invoking other people's code.

As for myself, I've lived through the hell that are checked exceptions in Java. You learn that compositionality and checked exceptions are at odds when you try to insert a remoting layer into an application that has grown without IOExceptions. Then you learn that it's actually not necessary to know the set of possible errors, just make sure that you're not a bad programmer as in my first paragraph, and everyone will be fine. This is also something that you can learn from Exceptional C++.
That's it true at all. A PhD is someone capable of doing research. Research requiring training doesn't mean results must be inscrutable.
IIRC, MS has not updated VBA since 2007, but they can't get rid of it because of the millions or billions of spreadsheets out there that still require it.

They are trying to push excelscript aka typescript aka office scripts but uptake has been very slow.
> submitted by walterbell ... bitcoin promoters

Thanks to your left field comment, I've learned from Algolia that my HN submissions and comments include the terms "bitcoin" ~0.3% and "cash" ~1.3%.

> nearly all criticisms responded to by a (the?) toomim brother

Co-author of the technical proposal? It's usually good to see the author of a technical article providing substantive responses to HN comments. It's also good to have more feedback on the substance of the article. Any comments on the technical proposal?

> Why is this proposal to significantly extend the scope and basic functionality of http so popular with bitcoin promoters?

This draft proposal could benefit from contribtors from more than one organization (Invisble College), but at least there appear to be multple implementations of the proposed protocol, as is typical of IETF drafts.
Sure, HN is less bad, but that doesn't make it not social media.
It has a very idiosyncratic syntax. The internals are great, but it's so unlike either sh or C that I, for example, just can't be bothered to remember it.
Totally agree.

For walk around photography, I usually use an Olympus E-M5 with a 12-40 Pro lens. It's tiny compared to most of the Nikon and Canon offerings. That's enough zoom for most subjects, from landscape to portrait. In practice, I just haven't found the need for more zoom during regular "walk around" photography. I do have a 100-300 zoom when needed, but the added bulk of carrying around a super-zoom all the time? No thanks.
Related:

Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208 - Jun 2012 (213 comments)

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12675527 - Oct 2016 (154 comments)

Falsehoods programmers believe about time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32548085 - Aug 2022 (204 comments)

Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515125 - Apr 2016 (80 comments)
I think it matters for the audience who's looking at that first number - so if $20 isn't a lot to you, you wouldn't care that it's $19. Comparable to a $1599 macbook pro. I think if there wasn't a positive effect on sales, large corps would've dropped it long ago.
> I think the similarity between human languages and computer code is frequently overstated

It wouldn't even occur to me to think of them as belonging to the same category.
Flow control involving recursion is already well into the weeds. Recursion and exceptions is probably a nightmare for someone not fond of ML or Lisp.
> It's very easy to look at $18.99 and mentally think "$20 once taxes hit," which ought to dispel the illusion.

What illusion?

One possible explanation is that .99 prices are so well established that prices that don't end in 99 stand out, prompting a more conscious analysis by the customer. If round prices were the norm, it would work the other way. Similarly, if prices always ended in .01, those that didn't would stand out.
All 3 of you are correct. The first two generations are 200mm, and the following two are 600mm

https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/features/sony-rx10-vs-son...
Abstract math is a human hobby. Machines doing it on their own is an interesting idea, but not satisfying to the humans. May as well conjecture whatever you want, and not worry about proof at all.
Programming languages live in a separate namespace involved by passing the 'lang' attribute to your search engine of choice.
Different, but not entirely different, both use the same kind of reasoning about program behavior. And the article is not about writing code, other than to the extent that it should be comprehensible by others.
A lack of necessary prior knowledge is often a major reason for struggling with a problem. As a relatable example, suppose you're taking an exam. There's a problem near the end that you don't know how to solve—and the reason is that you haven't studied that topic enough. No matter how smart (as in, fast at learning) you are, you need to practice with similar or related problems to solve that issue.

But suppose you're outside of an exam environment and have time to look up the relevant material. I've known a PhD candidate in a non-mathematics field who had to find a mathematical solution to a certain research problem. That person is smart but still needed a few months to learn the mathematical fundamentals to understand and solve the problem. In contrast, someone with a math background could have solved this far more quickly. But that person would have taken at least some months to get up to speed on the research literature for the non-mathematics part of the research problem, in order to properly understand its constraints and bigger-picture significance.

Lara Alcock's book "How to Study as a Mathematics Major" touches upon this topic more directly. She encourages readers not to be too intimidated if other students in a course seem really smart: much of the time, the reason is not due to an innate difference in smartness, but rather prior exposure by other students to concepts in the course. Students who seem to find the material effortless often have already studied many of the topics in another course or could even be retaking the course after a previous attempt.
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I'm working in a library that was written by someone who no longer works at the company who thought this way.

It's an absolute nightmare to understand. He may have been in the "coding zone," but he chose variable names that make no sense, abstractions that don't map on to any actual entities, and left no coherent documentation.

I think the organization and communication layers are absolutely critical, and any apparent velocity tradeoff is just accumulating technical debt, because there's probably an entire team who is perpetually on the hook for supporting what you wrote, and actual long-term velocity over time depends on their ability to understand it.
I find a "pure" html approach interesting. What's the problem with these little projects? They are closer to the hacker spirit that many posts that reach the first page from companies injected with vc money that also are doing their own marketing
Is this through tmux’s mouse mode? Can you select three lines of only the left side of the session? Does this also work in vim and other places that draw soft boundaries on the screen?

I just tried this in kitty and it didn’t work
I haven't considered the execution policy such a blocker since you may change it on the powershell.exe command line (for example, run "powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -File script.ps1" from a bat file). Also, the default execution policies changed between PowerShell 5.x, shipped with Windows, and modern PowerShell 7.x, which you need to install separately. In 7.x RemoteSigned is the default in the server environment.
Love this tool; please include the pricing on the front page before one has to sign up. Thanks!
Reminds me of people who tried selling sturdy repairable phones with longer battery life. Even when people complained about battery issues etc. They kept buying the thinnest flagship. Mass markets are mass market.
Social coaching is just another venue through which scammers do their thing. Eg the Andrew Tate-esque "schools" making men even more dysfunctional in the name of teaching them to be "attractive".

It's very easy to talk about some sort of coaching for these issues, but imo it isn't really that straightforward. The people being suggested to take coaching are often very easily manipulated, and there's also the issue of everyone having a different standard for a healthy level of socialization, and everyone also loves to force their standard onto everyone. Result is that "social coaching" is going to be more like brainwashing/indoctrination in practice.
US ships and aircraft stay in international waters and airspace near China, or in the territorial waters and airspace of allies who give it permission. That includes the Taiwan strait.

Allowing China to prevent US or other aircraft to operate in such international waters or airspace would amount to giving them control over it, which is why it’s important to have regular freedom of navigation sailings and flights.

Chinese ships and aircraft are violating the territorial waters and airspace of other countries in the region, especially in the South China Sea. It’s annexing territory that belongs to other countries. It’s not at all the same thing.
While thinking is somewhat of a background process, our brains don't just solve the mysteries of the universe while we eat a ham sandwich. We tell our brains which problems are of high importance and it focuses on them. If you've ever laid down to go to sleep and told yourself to wake up at 6:30 and it worked, you've witnessed an obvious application of this.

The problem comes when we fail to point out the importance of a problem, or when we do so reflexively which means that we tell our brain that everything is important and it simply cannot process all of the requests.

Setting your thinking requests before doing a non-thinking activity is a good way to start. Think about the problem consciously and then specifically ask for an answer to a question. Then go do something physical or mechanical: take a walk, sleep, mow the lawn, watch a non-challenging movie, etc. Be prepared to accept whatever result you get. A common response is: non enough information, but it should point you toward what that additional info looks like.
Well, it is both of course. Why assume a binary process? Several solutions are probably grown, considered, and evaluated and one begins to gain precedence. That one then finally becomes apparent and is revealed.
> I don't remember them blaming Google for their screw up.

You're putting words into my mouth.
I figured out far too early that I was thinking on abstraction levels different from my teachers. I say "far too early" because it was before I had the social maturity to know better than to point it out. I didn't mean to be a pain in the ass. I genuinely wanted to know if they had thought about the things I was wondering. I didn't mean to make them look stupid. I didn't even know enough to realize it was how I asked questions, not their own stupidity, that was making them look stupid.

School was rough, though not as rough as having a parent who felt threatened by me.
My dairy (https://www.pittsfordfarmsdairy.com/dairy) does 145°F vat pasteurization for 30 minutes.

I'd imagine flash pasteurization is better than the ultra-high temperature technique the average grocery store milk uses (280°F for two seconds), but having made lots of things like custards I'm willing to bet the difference between 145 and 165, even if for a much shorter time, is pretty huge.

I can't drink the grocery store stuff any more.
this seems to work with static assets, so no need for a old php server.

But also you don't need much more than those lines of JS:

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
const t = document.querySelector('template[data-hmpl]');
t && fetch(t.dataset.src, { method: t.dataset.method })
.then(res => res.text())
.then(html => t.outerHTML = \`<div>\${html}</div>\`)});
IMO, the problem isn't that you can't use it in a terse way, it's that even though it gives you lots of options for terseness (type, cat, and gc are all aliases for get-content, for example) people naturally try to code in the canonical way and they assume that's the long-form cmdlet names. In Unix, "ls" is what you get so it has to be canonical. In PowerShell you can use ls or dir or get-childitem but there's nothing to hint which is correct to use in a proper script, so when you see example code it looks like "get-childitem | foreach-object {...}" instead of "dir | %{...}"
The article doesn't contain explanations, so I dug into a few especially surprising ones:

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> 7. Months have either 28, 29, 30, or 31 days.

Great Britain skipped from Sept 2, 1752 straight to Sept 14 when they switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. Google "English calendar riots".

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> 15. Unix time is the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970.

When flipping over to the next second, Unix time "rewinds" back a second (i.e. repeats the last one) for leap seconds. [1]

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> 73. Time passes at the same speed on top of a mountain and at the bottom of a valley.

This is from "time dilation", related to Einstein's General Relativity. In short, gravity warps spacetime.

Say you use a stopwatch to measure 1 Earth rotation (a "day"). For each extra km of altitude, the stopwatch will tell you it took ~10 extra nanoseconds to complete the trip around the Earth. [2]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Leap_seconds

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation#Time_dilation_ca...
> I disagree with the OP that OOP is entirely flawed. The core ideas of encapsulation and messaging are a really useful organizing principle. And polymorphism beats maintaining giant case-statements.

Does OOP actually do encapsulation, messaging or polymorphism better than other languages though?
Whew. I'm sorry you had that situation to grow up in, caught up from an early age in maneuvering relative to a parent's insecurities and emotional blindness. I can relate in some ways. I hope the clarity with which you wrote about it now is an expression of having come to some healing and peace!
> In the end the CCTV doesn't actually prevent anything from happening ...

The question of whether it prevents things from happening is a question of statistics.

I suspect the data doesn't support your claim, and that certain categories of crime have indeed been deterred. But neither of us can know without that statistical analysis.
I came here to say exactly this! I got thrown by the second image right at the top before the article has even started: "K(AW)MPL(E)KS". All well and good, if you want to write in an American accent.

On a related note, writing accents is usually a bad idea. I remember reading Asimov's "Foundation" when I was a teenager in Australia. One of the characters is a lord and speaks like this: "Ah, Hahdin. You ah looking foah us, no doubt?" Because of course everyone in the future is American and everyone who's not American speaks with a comical (and completely unreadable) accent. Trying to read that dialogue makes me feel like I'm having a stroke.
What if I'm reading very well commented code?
Of course Bezos would take credit for "inventing" the advice that's been around since the first edition of Strunk & White was published in 1959, being White's revision and expansion of Strunk's original 1918 The Elements of Style