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by hliyan 8mo ago
I'm not sure whether this is an artefact of translation, but things like this don't inspire confidence: > The "Modern Data Stack" (MDS) is a hot concept in data engineering in recent years, referring to a cloud-native
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by hliyan 8mo ago
I think you have misunderstood the term "tragedy of the commons", which is a phenomenon distinct from a market failure. Also, "markets allocate resources based on supply and demand" is, I believe an oversimplification on
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by hliyan 8mo ago
I felt this was telling: > The typical golf course covers about a square kilometer. We have 40,000 of them around the world being meticulously maintained. If the same could be said for solar farms we would be almost 10% of the way there.
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by hliyan 9mo ago
When I used to work with C many years ago, it was basically: download the headers and the binary file for your platform from the official website, place them in the header/lib paths, update the linker step in the Makefile, #include whe
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by hliyan 9mo ago
That was the end of the US dollar convertibility to gold. This, unless I'm mistaken is actual French property held in US vaults.
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by hliyan 9mo ago
Isn't design thinking just... thinking ? There may be different design methodologies you apply in different domains (e.g. civil, aeronautics, automotive, electronics, software), but once you abstract that away, what you get is thinkin
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by hliyan 9mo ago
I've been doing this forever, but just a few days ago I tried connecting VS Code to Github Copilot. The experience wasn't entirely unpleasant. I'm still on a familiar IDE and fall back to traditional development patterns when
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by hliyan 9mo ago
I have ridden in a BYD and it was the opposite experience: excellent suspension, unusually smooth ride, great seats. A few things on the dashboard did look a bit tacky. But overall, massive difference from where Chinese cars were even 5 yea
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by hliyan 9mo ago
The worst part is, when computer screens were monochrome or had only 16 colors, (and perhaps 16 pixels a side) to work with, designers managed to create more distinct icons or pictograms. Perhaps they may not have looked as elegant as a set
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by hliyan 9mo ago
I may have written about this before on HN, but once I wrote a simple Perl script that could run the daily trade reconciliation for an entire US primary exchange. It could run on my laptop and complete the process in under 20 minutes. Ten y
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by hliyan 9mo ago
On Twitter/X "for you" feed, I'm frequently served posts by handles that are openly hostile toward Wikipedia. The most often cited reason is excessive fundraising / bloat (previously it was bias). But in my opinion,
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by hliyan 9mo ago
Sadly related: > In a reversal, the [EPA] plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01&
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by hliyan 9mo ago
I'm fond of saying that most problems in the software world are due to one thing trying to do two things, or two things trying to do the same thing. In this case, it feels like the former: getting the same implementation to cater to bo
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by hliyan 9mo ago
Only if it's not reciprocal. There was another comment here about how someone who helped KK emailed him much later for some help, and he immediately remembered and invited him over to talk. Gratitude leads to reciprocation.
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by hliyan 9mo ago
I'm from Sri Lanka. One incident I always remember is how the front wheels of my car went into a ditch and got completely stuck while trying to pull out of a shopfront parking lot. I was fairly new to driving and was at a complete loss
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by hliyan 9mo ago
HTMX seems mature enough for prime time, but for some reason, not yet popular enough that a subset of HN users seem to discover it anew 1-2 times each year: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=htmx
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by hliyan 9mo ago
This is an excellent counterargument. I was stumped for a bit until I noticed that your argument introduces a new variable that changes the equation: number of conflict deaths. Theoretically, it is possible to have a system of perfect ensla
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by hliyan 9mo ago
Yes, there's an entire body of work, starting with Ayn Rand, that vehemently argues that government interference in the economy is what leads to monopolies.
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by hliyan 9mo ago
Because I believe that causes of events are other events , and not objects. To blame an event (or a series of events) on a person (or a group of people) is a premature causality sink (e.g. "Why did X do evil thing? Because X is an evi
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by hliyan 9mo ago
I wonder whether this is a side effect of the self esteem movement, and the whole "don't care about what others think of you" ethos.
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by hliyan 9mo ago
The events of the past 12 months, culminating in Venezuela and now Greenland, has made me reevaluate a lot of my beliefs about unimpeded competition between free agents (i.e. a free market) leading to the best and most peaceful outcomes. Cl
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by hliyan 9mo ago
Just tried this out for the first time and found their implementation of the "Outline Panel" (Ctrl+Shift+B) to be very useful, at least for the C++ code base I tried it with.
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by hliyan 9mo ago
To be clear, I'm not in any way endorsing alcohol use. It's a carcinogen with no safe consumption level. I'm merely suggested that both seem to have at least one thing in common: quieting down the workings of the prefrontal c
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by hliyan 9mo ago
Is this an abuse of the ServerHold status? Was this the same mechanism used to delist a Gaza video archive recently? > This status code is set by your domain's Registry Operator. Your domain is not activated in the DNS. > If you
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by hliyan 9mo ago
This reminds me: I experience a similar "welcome escape" sensation when I'm hospitalized. My work responsibilities are manifold and tend to intrude into my thoughts even when I'm at leisure. But when I'm in the hosp
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by hliyan 9mo ago
There's an argument to be made that what alcohol achieves, and what meditation aims to achieve (and often fails) is the same thing: disengaging the prefrontal cortex. Once our basic needs are met, our higher brain functions can become
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by hliyan 10mo ago
Unless this is satire, one of the most frightening comments I have read here in a while. Not because of any intended malice, but precisely because of its very absence in advocating something that is the psychological version of eugenics. Mu
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Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode(old.reddit.com)
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by hliyan 11mo ago
I think neither analogy is correct. We're using macro metaphors (real world things at human time and spatial scales) to explain microscopic phenomena that may not correspond to anything that we find familiar.
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by hliyan 11mo ago
This is where a lot of people are. In my case, every time I open a PDF in Google Drive, it forces an AI summary of the doc with no way for me to switch it off. I try to close it mid-generation, but I suspect not fast enough to keep it from

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