skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world doesn’t actually change that quickly. A great deal of energy infrastructure designed or even built well before 1962 is still in use. The hover dam for example was constructed between 1931 and 1936 for ~800 million in today’s money. It’s paid that off over time, but time horizons get really long. People had been evaluating that site for ~30 years before construction began and the project was authorized all the way back in 1928.

With nuclear you’re essentially betting that the plant will have an operating surplus long enough to both pay down the initial construction costs plus interest and be able to set money aside for decommissioning. If you predict the nuclear plant will be shut down 30 years after construction finishes that’s a deal killer. Further while people talk about construction timelines but projects start well before construction begins because you need to convince someone to pay for it. So you’re essentially looking out 40 years before the possibility of profit exists.
> In practice, there is a shared understanding what acting in the public interest means in that particular society

No there isn't lol. Half of society thinks promoting one political party is in the public interest, the other half thinks promoting the other one is. Same for religions, same for handling unwanted pregnancies, same for education...
An employer can legally deny WFH no matter how disabled the employee is even if the employee has already been doing the same job from home for years. To me, that means that legal protections are nonexistent in this regard and therefore practically meaningless.

I don’t think anything you said contradicts what I have been told, though maybe I didn’t explain it very well.
Russia. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Khattab
My Facebook account got hacked last year and it was a nightmare. They got access to my ad account and racked up $4k worth of charges.

And, somehow they were able to get into my account over and over again. I’m super technical and careful about these things. Even after changing all my passwords and resetting everything, multiple times, the hacker was able to steal my account.

After being locked out for several days, I finally managed to reclaim access to my account through an old reset email that I found.

I changed my account email address and that finally stopped the hacking.

The worst part is that Facebook support completely denied that my account was hacked and refused to refund the ad spend.

It was so obvious that I had been hacked. You could see the spammy ads and the sketchy email addresses that had been added to my ad manager account.

I tried everything and Facebook told me that there was nothing suspicious.

I finally went through my LinkedIn network and found someone who works there and they helped me get the issue resolved.

Horrible experience.
When crime is not enforced, the burden of reporting crime is not borne. It is a faux pas that SF has slyly adopted
Also, his great one scene appearance as "X" in Oliver Stone's JFK.
long-term notes go into Notion. Short-term notes go into Excalidraw which I treat as a digital whiteboard.
I'm super torn about type erasure in Java.

On the one hand, it is super hacky and requires ugly workarounds (passing Class<T> references around). At the same time, it also made creative abuses of the type system possible (e.g., heterogeneous lists). All while remaining type safe (albeit with runtime type checks).

It is also very noticeable how Java can iterate more quickly on its type system (only partially embedded in its VM) whereas C# generics are more or less set in stone (deeply embedded in its runtime).
> they already know what they're going to use

I'm curious about how they know.

I'm actually in that exact process, and have absolutely no idea if half of the providers I'm looking at have a decent product.

There's no free tier so I can't just create random accounts and see for myself. To your point, I'm also not the last decision point, but will be the poor soul explaining why we should choose X or Y to get someone up the chain to approve the money.

Your point probably stands for companies that will blindly buy the overpriced market leader anyway, and do whatever it takes to make it work whatever the proposition. But that's not even half of the market I think, very few companies actually require the top of the line service, by definition.
Perhaps limit employee income differentials in these non-profits and have stricter rules regarding definition of employment.

Require democratic voting among a broad membership, including customers and/or employees, not a tiny board passed down among a small group of insiders.

Of all of these, I support credit unions having this status. Their members have a democratic vote.
So... To keep thieves from having hands cut or people from having sexist inheritance, you need to North Korea the poorest people in the world to keep them poorer?

This is ridiculous, quite frankly. You don't have to approve of every law a foreign people have to not want to basically terrorize them with a despot
Can also confirm that our entire pipeline is down. We use CircleCI and henceforth all deployments are instantly failing. Luckily no mission critical deployments today...
Java just got unlucky to become popular at the height of "object oriented" era (hey, anyone here remembers EJB?).

But it was interesting to see it evolving. It was one of the first large language ecosystems to adopt language-specific package repositories, with dependency tracking, and project-specific scopes (unlike CPAN or CTAN that installed modules globally).

It also evolved from the XML hell of EJB to the more sane Spring Framework.

Java IDE evolution was also unique. The first IDEs were just text editors, but then Eclipse and JetBrains IDEA revolutionized semantic text editing. The online type checking and linting in modern IDEs was popularized by these two IDEs!
I have a daily routine template in my obsidian daily notes. gets me focused and excited about the day. The first [x] I get to give myself every day is the completion of my daily routine checklist. It's a freebie W to kickstart a productive day. I actually use Windows Voice Typing to take most of my notes so it really ends up being like a daily standup. I also often livestream my entire day so even if I only have an audience of myself (which is every day because they are just private livestreams I do in case I need to go back and remind myself what I was doing/thinking about 20 minutes ago before I got lost down some rabbit hole - windows recall is good, actually) my day really does end up playing out similarly to when I would work with other people (aka meetings) in 2+ person orgs.
It's mentioned in this one.
It may be an old school soundboard run by a human on the other side of the world- scammers have been using those for years
Not true. Here's how to send pixel data: https://wayland-book.com/surfaces/shared-memory.html
I keep wanting to hand out copies of 1984.

In reading your comment, it suddenly dawned on me that 1984 has turned into a how to manual for modern governments, much the way The Prince is misinterpreted today.
I like to work similarly to how I'd work with a small team: Github issues, many of which contain a checklist of items, loosely organized into milestones. I like this because:

- It's close to the code, so I can easily make notes to self with links to line numbers, copy-pasted code blocks, or linked draft PRs to remember where I left off with something that I'm going to punt on for a while.

- It's super easy to access from any device, so I can quickly create an issue for something on the fly on my phone/non-dev machine when I have an idea or get an email about a bug.

- It's straightforward to bring someone else in and have them working on something right away, when the time is right.

- There's a good API and lots of integrations (like creating issues directly from/linked to an error tracking system)
I'm feeling some negative waves.

https://youtu.be/ncbEucjsNFU?t=73
You mean since COVID when people lost their jobs? Kind of a self report to associate it with BLM instead of the obvious and most studied answer: poverty
> people are voting for whoever they think is their best state government

It's even more complicated than that. For instance, "head of state" of Latvia in the Council which nominated current EU Commission president in 2019 was Karinsh, the prime minister of Latvia. Not being directly elected, the prime minister of Latvia gets nominated by president (not directly elected as well, BTW) and approved by coalition in the parliament. The punchline is that he was the leader of a party that got the least number of votes (and hence, number of seats in the parliament — 8/100) in the corresponding election. The party that got the most votes (and most seats) was not included into the coalition at all.
What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?
You mean like introducing evidence of prior bad acts used to prove actions in conformance? This is both 1) not admissible evidence under FRE 404 and 2) not how you get punitive damages.

Punitive damages are (generally) specifically made available by statute, and often have to do with fraud. Because fraud has some men’s rea elements, you’re not entirely wrong to look to prior bad acts, but it’s not as simple as, “they did this many times so this time they must pay punitive damages.”
I liked this quote:

"Speaking to Maureen Dowd for a Vanity Fair article published in April, Musk gave an example of an artificial intelligence that’s given the task of picking strawberries. It seems harmless enough, but as the AI redesigns itself to be more effective, it might decide that the best way to maximize its output would be to destroy civilization and convert the entire surface of the Earth into strawberry fields. Thus, in its pursuit of a seemingly innocuous goal, an AI could bring about the extinction of humanity purely as an unintended side effect.

This scenario sounds absurd to most people, yet there are a surprising number of technologists who think it illustrates a real danger. Why? Perhaps it’s because they’re already accustomed to entities that operate this way: Silicon Valley tech companies.

'Consider: Who pursues their goals with monomaniacal focus, oblivious to the possibility of negative consequences? Who adopts a scorched-earth approach to increasing market share? This hypothetical strawberry-picking AI does what every tech startup wishes it could do — grows at an exponential rate and destroys its competitors until it’s achieved an absolute monopoly.'"

Somehow that quote had way more resonance when read within 24 hours of reading this (warning: 85-pages!) detailed critique of our FAANG overlords and their ability to handle tasks of forum moderation or plain old customer support:
https://danluu.com/diseconomies-scale/
Does anyone know how to skip/bypass the "load metadata for docker.io/" step on a build? I already have the image cached but it fails on that step regardless.
I really liked this part that shows all the numbers up front, and none of them change during the reveal step.

I think it would present better if introduced as "To show that there's no cheating going on behind the scenes, we will..."
> Many churches primary source of income is donations, which they turn around and spend on private jets, lavish clergy salaries, or even for-profit endeavors like giant shopping malls

You're describing maybe a dozen or less mega-churches - not the thousands and thousands of typical churches.
That's why we have the disability / impairment distinction. Many impairments don't have to be disabilities. Some are, inherently.

I'd argue that deafness can be completely mitigated by societal improvements, for most purposes except birdsong etc. and certain genres of music. Blindness is more difficult (e.g. vision is useful for navigation, and we can't choose the surfaces in a forest to make echolocation easier), but in principle computer technology can help with that. (I'd say a decent automated audio description is still a hundred years out, but we'll only get it if we make progress.) Certain mental impairments (e.g. some depression, some sensory issues) have no known mitigations, even in theory, so remain disabilities in all circumstances.
Every party except Centre Party and Sweden Democrats supported the proposal in the Committee on Justice [1], though Green Party and Left Party later said their support was a mistake [2].

[1] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/regeringen-gar-vidare-med...

[2] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/mp-och-v-rostade-fel-om-k...
>> one of the world's most famous virologists, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Duesberg actively denied that HIV caused AIDS and instead thought it was transmitted by drug use.

I'm curious about his claim that retroviruses (retrovirii?) must be harmless to survive and multiply. What is the mainstream consensus on this?

To be clear: I know next to nothing about viruses (virii? I mean I don't even know how to call them) and I have no idea whether it really supports Peter Duesberg's claims about AIDS in general. I'm just wondering whether he's pointed out an interesting peculiarity of HIV that is not further investigated by others for fear of being accused of denialism.

Scientists can get very like that.

>> (...) the current arguments about what scientists can say regarding the origins of COVID.

It reminded me most about John Ioannidi's polemic against the way COVID was dealt with, rather than its origin. Ioannidis is a leading epidemiologist so he had to be taken seriously, although of course his opinion was rejected by most everyone else.
Probably linked to the Cloudflare outage.
Serious crimes like Murder can’t be ignored. They might take their time but they have to report it.
Lots of writing to my future self.

1. Trello with columns for the week, month, and quarter, year.

2. Open notebook next to mouse

2a. Left page: daily todo checklist with pen and paper. (2-3 rows per day)

2b. Right page: scratch, sketches of plots, sticky notes, etc.

3. Typed dev journal to capture research, URLs, papers, thoughts, ideas, progress, and extensions. (every github project has a dev/ folder for these notes, filename yyyymmmdd-n.txt) New file per project per day, as needed.

4. Yellow sticky notes for ad hoc ideas (end up on the bottom of the screen, notebook or whiteboard). Typically maxims to keep me pointed in the right direction for a project (e.g. "no one ever will rtfm")

5. Whiteboard, column per project, printouts + magnets (monthly plots of project progress), sticky notes, ideas for future projects, all kinds of stuff

I try to overcommunicate with my future self. It helps to get my current thoughts straight re expectations, progress, sticking points, etc. I'm the roadblock, not the work. The work is typically paint by numbers after a "hard think" about it.

Working like this solo for 8 years.

Been using a /dev dir and .txt files for live development journal since my PhD days in early '00. Saved my ass countless times (grep).

Oh, and doing the same things every day. Mostly. E.g. customer support, then promote, then writing, then code, then... No thinking required, just do the next thing we do after this...
> nobody is hiring for htmx. It's an ideological technology rather than a practical one.

Nobody is "hiring for" json either, or for git. Yet they are in incredibly wide use.

The thing is, htmx isn't "the front-end solution" React and co are selling. It's a new component that can be added to any classic/boring server-side stack to help it do more. These stacks are very practical, not "ideological" (lol), they made the web the powerhouse it is today.

If anything, the audience of frontend frameworks is Javascript/front-end developers; the audience of htmx includes anyone who can glue together some html and a http server. People who have been using java, or python with django, or C++, or rust, or OCaml on the backend. That's a lot of people even if they're not explicitly hired based on whether they have learned the docs of htmx.
PCRE2 is specified through its implementation, which has so many edge cases and special flags that most people can't reason about what kinds of problems it could cause.

I really wish more people used PEG parsing. I wrote a library for it in Haxe that was surprisingly fast despite being interpreted : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtNQvjyioGQ
Try it in a private browser, without any cookies? May also be an ad blocker
I've started using YouTrack recently since it's free for small teams or single devs, and most importantly to me their knowledgebase is Markdown based and can be exported as Markdown if needed. Too many past lives spent moving KB content in custom formats.
So far it's been a good tool for me, and I can just ignore any of the projects management features I don't need.
Certainly many parts of the world aren't too big on democracy and self-determination, but from my point of view any military operation not sanctioned by the target region's people or government counts as an invasion.

Maybe that's not how all the people involved saw it, but we see, judge, and name events through the lens of our own values.
This seems like a great idea, but in practice I found it lacking.

The big use case I see for this is to drive automatic generation of changelogs and automatically computing the next semantic version of your project. Which is a very cool idea.

The problem is that unless you carefully write every commit message in a way that makes sense for your product's changelog, the changelog ends up being unreadable garbage.

On top of that, if you're working in a monorepo, any given commit may impact multiple projects. How do you write those commit messages to make sense for three different projects? You'll always wind up with irrelevant crap in your changelog.

This problem gets magnified even further if your team is squashing commits with each PR. This means you can't even keep a discipline of isolating all the changes on a single commit to a single project. Another issue is that you can't use linters on your PR commit messages on github, so your squashed commits aren't verified to be correct.

I still love the core idea and I wish it worked better for my use cases.
No it doesn't. I'm Muslim. Like most monotheistic religions, it actually says that most people will become irreligious before the end of time
This thread started from the claim that China will invade with particular purpose: "I can see it bleeding more territory to China".
Microplastics Discovered in Human P*nises for the first time
A week has 168 hours.

I used to commute 1.5 hours each way until I got a car, then it dropped to 1 hour.

10-15 hours per week = 6-9% of my life - including time asleep.

Taking 16 hours of waking time per week, that gives me 112 hours to work with. Now that commute eats 9-13% of my conscious time.

Let's assume a standard 40 hour workweek - 35% of my waking time. Add in those compulsory daily highway joyrides, and conscious time spent on work rises up to 48%. Depressed yet? This includes the weekend. During the workweek you'll spend between (8 + 2) / 16 and (8 + 3) / 16 = 62.5-68.75% of your waking moments on work.

Now consider that car ownership + fuel + insurance could eat up to 30% of an average person's post-tax income.

Fuck all of that, a lot.

Employees can get together at quarterly / monthly off-sites, and juniors should be encouraged to get involved in community activities straight out of college. I'm not sacrificing my life and family time so you can stare at my grumpy face in the next cubicle.
The thing described is far from separation of church. It is straight out oppression.
I must admit, despite programming games for a long time commercially, that code is not very clear to me.

If the code is perfectly legible to you, can you explain how R_DrawPlanes draws the ceiling and the floor, step by step, as a practical illustration? How long did it take? It took me maybe 5 minutes to understand how it works.

I think just about every function I read every day is easier to comprehend. And I review a lot of game engine code. I make no claims I’m a fantastic programmer, of course.
Docker is back up.
insurance always go up . which type of policy? homes are always covered by Citizens insurance if nothing else is available.
I don't see any outage on CF's side besides something will billing and some normal maintenance, where do you see it?
I just like a text file.

Everything that needs to be done goes in, no matter how small.

Every now and then I work through and sort it by most important. I also group tasks that are about the same importance and in the same area of code.

Then just work on the task at the top.

I have a separate text file for life and each project.
Life comes first, pay bills, buy socks.

Then the text files are in Dropbox so available and editable anywhere.
That's exactly it. These corporations are leeches on society.
So like the old Sports Illustrated cover jinx...
> I don't think it's really true that they've outsourced the costs.

Sure they have because only 1 in N (for some very large N) of facebook users who have been wronged by facebook are going to have the time and knowledge to navigate the small claim process. So while that lawyer is more expensive than a customer support agent, if they only have to respond to one millionth (or so) of the complaints, huge win for facebook, at the cost of the taxpayers.
That looks like it specifically calls out the slant that different sources report with for a given topic. It's not quite the same as having a reliable source without the slant (if possible), but it might be the next-best thing, and/or the most realistic solution to the problem right now.

I used to watch a podcast called Unfilter (which has ended now), and what I liked about it was that they took a story and played clips from various stations to compare the coverage side-by-side, like that website does with text.
Religious freedom is fine.

What bothers me is religious groups or people attempting to legislate their morality onto the whole of society by restricting personal freedoms.

If they would just follow their own morals and ethics and leave the rest of society alone, I’m perfectly fine with that.

For example, if you don’t believe in abortion, then don’t get an abortion. Leave people who want to get abortions alone, it’s their choice.
Second the recommendation. Excellent movie, and excellently played by Sutherland opposite Connery.

Interestingly enough, I think The Great Train Robbery may have been one of the first Michael Crichton books adapted to film? https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0079240/ (check: nope, preceded by both Westworld and Andromeda Strain)

I went on a jog through historical heist films, and there's some amazing older stuff, e.g. Rififi (1955).
Non technical project managers love it.
Most probably, sorry I lost track of languages changelog there's so many of them these days.

Just saying, kotlin wasn't just a more aesthetically pleasing java, there were some deeper benefits as far as i can tell.
> Also you should eat the skins.

The skins are easily the tastiest part. It's an absolute tragedy that people think you need to peel them, especially for french fries.

Even with mashed potatoes, I leave the skins on. I just dice them into small pieces before boiling so there aren't huge skin chunks.
maybe they do maybe they don't --- I happen to appreciate it, as I'd missed it otherwise.
Unix Power Tools

The Linux kernel doesn't matter. What matters is understanding the history, philosophy, and purpose of the unix environment.

You needn't become a religious zealot committed to the unix philosophy, but if you don't take the time to understand it, you'll never get the most out of the environment.
I'll choose the one that I can at least vote out.
>You are deluding yourself if you think none of your employees are using their personal phones to talk to each other

Why is that the company's concern? I genuinely don't understand what responsibility the company has for employees actions outside of work.
Cisgender doesn't mean straight. They may be homosexual, just not trans.