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...and in particular it says that one of the reasons is that developers are refusing to participate in the non-AI branch, and when they do, changing what tasks they select to those…

This kind of systematic distillation by a competitor can allow them to fast-follow you and pick up capabilities. If you've invested in expensive capabilities training, of course yo…

Here's data based on absolute poverty lines Distribution: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-populatio... Share: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-in-poverty…

Hetzner is great if you’re in Europe, is there an equivalent in the US or East Asia?

Isn’t that just assuming that people, rather than industry, is the main consumer? Perhaps there are energy hungry industrial applications that could move.

I had a good use case at Our World In Data for the public data pipeline, where one repo had the pipeline and one git-lfs repo had the build output of the pipeline. A git note added…

And here I thought it would be the antagonistic undecagonstring...

At Our World In Data we ended up using Buildkite to run custom CI jobs, integrated with GitHub, but on cheap, massive Hetzner machines. I can really recommend the experience!

When living in Stockholm, I came to appreciate the various levels of twilight and darkness, rather than thinking of day and night so strictly. The sun being low on the horizon also…

This looks nice! It could be a replacement for me for duckdb-parquet, a plugin for Datasette that lets you run it on top of DuckDB instead of SQLite.

You can check out a range of important development statistics on India here: https://lars.yencken.org/projects/country-explorer/india The one we're talking about today is "extreme …

To throw yet another option in, you could consider an LXC container per project, if they’re small and you don’t find you need Docker. LXC containers are basically multiprocess cont…

Ah, minidiscs, they still have a kind of futuristic cool to them even now! When I was younger only the kids from Hong Kong had minidiscs and minidisc players.

I've been enjoying `files-to-prompt` by Simon Willison: https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt

There's often a lot of small fixes that not time efficient to do, but a solution is not much code and is quick to verify. If the cost is small to setting a coding agent (e.g. aider…

Unfortunately, MacOS ships an earlier version of bash that does not include associative arrays, so they’re not as portable as you might like.

Hi HN! You may be interested in some related work: "Millions of children learn only very little. How can the world provide a better education to the next generation?" https://ourwo…

Reading between the lines of the post, performance reviews require a lot of trust between a person and their manager. I totally understand that in many workplaces that trust is not…

Will it finally become possible to unsubscribe from the New York Times?

The easiest way to move anywhere is to apply for a job there, and if successful, let them guide you through the visa process. That gives you a visa linked to your job. But keep unb…

Related question: when you're using databases with great offline sync protocols like this, how do you do schema evolution of your DB, especially in the face of different client ver…

Thanks for the encouragement!