jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is useful to think of software change as being a mix of Value, Filler & Chaos. Value being something your customers need & use, Filler being something crafted, but customers say "meh" to, and Chaos being bugs, poor performance, etc.

If you accept that Chaos destroys Value (and it surely does), then it is a no brainer to do workflows that find and kill Chaos.

One value add pattern that is really helpful for finding Chaos is using software health metrics to find the echoes of Chaos. Much like how we find black holes by looking for gravitational lensing, Chaos can be found by looking at metrics like software response times under Representative Load, inconsistent response times are an indication of unhealthy contention in the solution (things waiting on other things that are waiting on other things, but some thing is pausing intermittently). Obviously becoming slower over time is also an indication of poor health as well.

Some other useful insights from the Value, Filler & Chaos model are:

• Teams run at 20% value or less. This really has to do with the nature of discovering new, valuable software embodiments. Discovery of new things requires many value attempts, most of which fail, but result in new learning

• Removing unused features is a win because you reduce Filler and sources of Chaos

• Mobile apps taken as a whole run about 1% value (positive revenue), the rest is all Chaos and Filler

• To know if something is Value vs Filler there has to be Traction. Chaos also destroys Traction. The article is a classic case of the team recognizing that Chaos was destroying Traction
>How about people who saw the potential in a place before other people did, and contributed to its success?

Contributed to its success by following a tax policy that encourages commercial real estate at the expense of residential real estate? Are you sure those people aren't just taking the jobs that the commercial real estate is providing hostage and are now extorting people for the privilege of living near the job?

>The market signal is that people should go and invest in those places.

No, the market literally screams into your face that you should build more housing and fix the commercial vs residential mismatch.
I’ve been looking for a Wi-Fi 6 router with 10GBe ethernet ports too.

Its kind of silly to have wireless that is faster than the wired options. One use case is that I want to store larger files on a NAS but I don't want throughput to randomly drop such as during large image backups and restorations to a cloud server.
(not related to parent) Excellent feedback! Thanks

Would there be a way to contact you to ask for feedback on another potential ecommerce product? (doesn't exist yet, so that's why there's no link). My email is in profile.
From what I can tell so far 97 million shares have traded hands today - an average of $140, that's $14 billion spent on shares today alone.

Even if 10 million redditors were buying, that would be $1400 each. That's ridiculous
KiCAD is not the calibre of an EDA you would use to make PC motherboard.
Nothing stopping just installing linux on the preassembled one when you get I though, I assume. Although I guess you may have to pay for a Windows license in that case...
Agree. First it was for military, then academia, then commerce (dot com), then more commerce/social/mobile.

Bitcoin and other P2P apps starting with Napster were the subversive and populist tech that was built on a military industrial network.

I would say the culture and ethos of programming was subversive, the home computer market somewhat so as well. But the internet solidly originated within the establishment and was part of the cold war.
You are talking about a barrier to entry (in the sense that it used to be easier) for a person who is new to general purpose computing to get on boarded while the person you are replying to is talking about the opportunity increase in the number of systems you can with work with presently.
That's standard surely? They will be issuing new stock which they will receive sales?
The batteries come with long warranties. Even early Honda Civic Hybrid models from 2005 had 8 year warranties and a lawsuit extended that to 9-10 years. Prius batteries are, anecdotally at least, lasting even longer. I would imagine there's a very good warranty on the Tesla batteries, given their track record of standing behind their product.
Many of the giants of rock, like Led Zeppelin, did their classics (like Stairway to Heaven, the loud part) with low-wattage (like 1W or 5W) tube amps. You don't need a big amp to sound loud when recording; what you need is that the power amp is turned up to get that sweet distortion. You don't get it with pre-amps or stomp boxes alone.

Personally, I have an old 25-watt Mesa/Boogie and it is infinitely nicer than the 100-watt transistor monster or 60-watt Fender tube amp that I had earlier. It is still a bit loud for training room, but just okay for live gigs with PA where it's miked.
most of that specific optimisation advice is very far out of date.

the principles remain good though, basically

* know your shit

* measure your work and make sure you really do know your shit

i do constantly cry and bleed inside over the tremendous waste of bountiful computing resources we have today. someone once tried to tell me an xbox 360 was a memory constrained environment... jesus wept.
That's it. Both consciously and subconsciously - lots of image filtering going on unaware.
Google has an Inactive Account Manager: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en

Inactive Account Manager is a way for users to share parts of their account data or notify someone if they’ve been inactive for a certain period of time. To set up Inactive Account Manager, go to www.google.com/settings/account/inactive and click Setup.

I've done this so my family can access my Google account. I also intend to write a letter to my wife with my password manager password, which holds the keys to the kingdom.
Very similar to Clive Wearing, who, without memory, fills his notebooks with variations on the phrase "Now I am really, truely awake, for the first time"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing

also, he can still play the piano at an expert level
TAI would be better than UTC for the next Lunar eclipse in case you want to be exact to the second ;)

But yes, if you schedule the meeting in UTC, use UTC. The point is not to convert from non-UTC to UTC.
Cool! Reminds me of "Shazam Decoys" where barely audible or inaudible energy can be added to a signal to fool Shazam into identifying it as the wrong track.

I've often thought there would be an awesome opportunity in there to make a hilarious app that catches cheaters during the music round of Pub Quiz.
I'm sorry, probably my fault, but I don't follow?

Public domain does exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_dom...

Or do you mean something else?
Letting your kid browse algorithmically generated content is not wise :P If I'm vulnerable to stupid clickbait, can't imagine how badly children can be manipulated.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn lays all this out pretty clearly. The work of "normal science" is to make predictions based on established models and test them until you find something that breaks, then you have a "paradigm shift" that creates a new model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
Without a social network, Google Games doesn't make sense to me. It would mean that Google is turning into a portal.

If such a product is being planned, I'm sure it's part of a larger 'social strategy'.
I think that TETRA are very similar to GSM phones, in both the technology and the frequencies. So it would probably be hard to avoid any jammers interfering with them.
another bbc article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23764382
From that I think this is a one off discovery of 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water leaking, and in general 300 tonnes of 'not as radioactive' per day leak from the radioactive buildings.

Odd that the numbers given are so similar.
I think, for the most part, general news sites shouldn't have comment sections.
The NSA does not require a warrant to spy on you in the UK and has pretty much been doing it since their inception.
Confirming draggable for me too. Chrome version 28.0.1500.95 on Fedora Linux 17. It probably means nothing at all but it only works if my cursor stays on the "label" bit. If I move the cursor up or down off the label while dragging it snaps to whichever option is closest

* Missed the bit where I can drag it halfway one way and then back to the original position
I visited brazillian nuclear plants.

They on purpose built them near the ocean, so they can just pump water inside it, and then throw back the hot water in the ocean, yet the heat is so big that it still heats up by half a degree one square kilometer of ocean or something like that.

I doubt it is feasible with a man-made pool of water.

But at least, they don't repeat fukushima stupidity of leaving the fuel rods on the ceiling (here the fuel rods are moved to a special building in a hill nearby).
Yes you are right. But my switch was based more on a general "getting tired of google's bullshit" feeling that has been building over the last 2-3 years, especially my experience with google support, adwords, youtube integration, and all the crap that they know about me. At one time I was doing almost 90% of my work in google ecosystem.

Now its spread between yahoo, ddg, dropbox, etc. I feel even more strongly about Facebook. If and when a viable alternative is available, I'll be switching. Similarly with email. For the first time I'm starting to become open to paid email that is secure. I guess it has to be a non-US company.
But its not too far from being true, wages have increased very slowly vs. GDP. What _has_ risen at the same rate as the GDP is the amount spent on employee compensation, but that includes wages, benefits, and the costs of administering the first two. A lot of this is rising health-care costs that have been increasingly been met by employer provided health insurance, but part of it is just companies preferring to give compensation in ways that won't be taxed.
Indeed, he follows your advice, "then don't [purchase the music]." Instead of that unavailable option, he takes the most convenient one available to him. There is a lesson in this.
It makes sense if building a service in that language means that you need to hire far fewer engineers to maintain because it is much better suited to handle the particular demands of that application, as erlang seems to be in this case
>"default" doesn't really do anything.

This is an unbelievably absurd statement. What do you mean it doesn't """do""" anything? I can boot up my openBSD desktop machine and write computer software, edit graphics, play media files, etc. Basically anything that you would want a computer to do.

Before that computer starts interacting with other computers over the network however, I generally have to ask it to. That's GOOD.
thanks, didn't know about that
The TempleOS of cars
What about the fair share of on-street parking?

A normal home will have 1 to 3 cars, but most likely they go in a garage or driveway. The street is mostly left for visitors. There is room for a friend, a grandma, a kitchen renovator, a pool cleaning service, and so on. Spill-over happens when somebody has a big party or when the SWAT team shows up, but those are rare occurrences.

Add the apartment complex though, and spill-over becomes a daily occurrence. Every single day, the apartment dwellers claim most of the street parking. They didn't pay the other people in the neighborhood for grabbing an abnormal share of the community asset.
But I just don't see how you can meaningfully study the ethics of predictive policing without building potential predictive policing models and studying them for flaws. How can we talk in generalities about the ethics of predictive policing if we don't know how it works or what its effects are? I've seen articles that try to, and they just get dragged into the larger political debate about whether police are good in general.
I was an early customer of Simple, and transitioned to Capital One after the sale to BBVA. The killer for me was that Simple would no longer send out checks through the mail, which was how I had become accustomed to paying my rent.

They also pushed for customers to not use personal checks for anything (at one time they didn't even offer them), which I now find kind of foolish. So after they ended the check-by-mail service, there was no way for me to get a check to my landlord. And it was just kind of a big middle finger to someone who had been a loyal customer.

I guess in the days after the Great Recession we were all hoping for some kind of financial revolution that never came. Simple closing today seems to certify that those hopes are gone.
Read on FIR panels; they are pretty new, and, after testing one, highly pleasant to use.

EDIT FIR = far infrared, eg. https://www.herschel-infrared.co.uk/
They are not going to become Apple customers. Not everyone is an US teen who has to have green bubbles.

And when you need or want communicate with them, being able to in first place is more important than insisting on specific device vendor.
To answer obliquely: I observe some men to rage for vengeance at being cuckolded. Subsequently, in an episode of repeat impotence, the bullets rebound on the shooters.

Example: the father may take drugs to relieve the pain. Said father may invite the child to join him, setting up the child for life.
> all claims and evidence are evaluated on their own merits

That is demonstrably not true.

There is a legal definition of what an expert witness is, and their testimony has more weight.

> election/voter fraud as a claim is hardly extraordinary.

On the scale being claimed, enough to overturn multiple States' General Elections, yes it, is an extraordinary claim.

> People are charged and convicted of such crimes every election cycle

No, people are not "charged and convicted" of ELECTION FRAUD every election cycle. Some small number of people have been convicted of VOTER FRAUD. Please do not conflate the two, as the scope of their impact is completely different.

> You can't shut people up.

I literally ASKED why people are still raising one specific objection.

No one has attempted an actual defense of that specific objection. They have moved the goalposts to other objections.

It is unreasonable to bring up objections to Dominion voting machines in Georgia in the 2020 election. Anyone who does so should shut the hell up, or offer new evidence.
I actually tried writing a version of this for windows just an hour before this was written. Usually when I do this I find there is one already just as I finish it, but if not then I’ll put it on GitHub within a week. Will post another msg here if I do.
How many people actually buy cars for the UX? I think reliability and build quality are going to be far more valuable for most consumers, and the big automakers still have Tesla beat in spades there.
It's a part of defense in depth. It's not the sole marker of good vs. bad, but it's a way to minimize friendly fire incidents.

Notably, the US Secret Service uses a method of "color of the day" lapel pins and spends millions acquiring them from a specialized manufacturer. The newer models have RFID tags and IR embedded.

Could someone dress up in a suit and pretend to be an agent? Sure. Could he grab one from a dead agent? Possibly. But now you're making the objective harder for an attacker and tilting the odds in your favor.
Your first sentence implies I am speaking with a time traveler who doesn't realize they just fell out of their time machine 50 years in the future :) It is definitely not legal to bar people from your business based upon race.
> Lines painted last 2 months at most, then are gone.

This is due to federal environmental standards; the old oil paints that actually worked are banned.
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html

> Is Wayland network transparent / does it support remote rendering?

> No, that is outside the scope of Wayland. To support remote rendering you need to define a rendering API, which is something I've been very careful to avoid doing. The reason Wayland is so simple and feasible at all is that I'm sidestepping this big task and pushing it to the clients. It's an interesting challenge, a very big task and it's hard to get right, but essentially orthogonal to what Wayland tries to achieve.

Note that the next two paragraphs do discuss how network transparency could be built, by clients, on top of Wayland.

So it depends on how you define "does wayland break X-forwarding":

If defined as Wayland, the new server, yes. Because network transparency is not built in to Wayland the new server.

If defined as Wayland, the ecosystem, well, there appear to be ways to do it by adding it back in.
I know the relevant laws (possibly because I've been a retail business owner,) I'll actually cite them. It's called Truth in Advertising and Marketing, and is governed by the FTC at the federal level and also enforced at the state level where more appropriate. To violate it would give you a charge of False and Misleading Advertising. It is a secondary derivative of the Lanham Act, which also prohibits false advertising.

Airlines got especially busted for price advertisements, and are now required to abide by Federal laws written JUST FOR THEM regarding their pricing advertising practices - 14 CFR § 399.84
Prettier only enforces formatting standards. Coding standards are a different matter.
i don't see any signs of funding or enthusiasm letting up though, these types of posts are more reactionary and goal post moving "well its not really "strong" ai because x" never-mind that lots of people are finding real applications for ML. Processing power to support it is increasing and funding is still flowing.
Again, not always.

You may only have to upload a _diff_ of the changes. And as global changes tend to be similar on every page, that diff may be extremely small for quite a lot of difference.
Well, that could drive up the cost of land, sure. But how can it drive up construction costs too much? Competition must fill that gap quickly.
To clarify, it does support nvidia through the open source nouveau drivers. It's only the proprietary drivers that aren't supported.
Seems like this might be pretty effective. There are plenty of emotional robots out there that won't mind the stress levels and just want to constantly be useful.
> It's not an inherently expensive business to run.

Except for lobbying in almost every theater of operation they enter.
Computer. Tv. Phone. Camera. Radio.
Internet. Car. Bike.

Wheel and computer and camera are wholly new ones. Among many others.
Ah, an article on tracing.

I am very impressed by lttng myself:

http://lttng.org/
This is a psychological effect caused by some deficiencies in human thinking. People feel obliged to use OOP in full once it is available and shit all over the place with classes, interfaces and inheritance. In a more limited language it is harder to multiply entities, so they just do not do it. So it may make sense to add some artificially crafted pain into a language to force people to write less code.
There's a difference between having a sign at street level for passers-by and having a neon sign that fills half your building though.

No-one is saying you can't have a nice sports car, nor that you can't be proud of it - here they're saying that you can't put spotlights on it and erect a hoarding saying "I'm awesome, look this is my car", just park it on the street like everyone else.

How will you locate a building. Numbers, street names - map or GPS : those are the usual way.
This was actually the plot of Ran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_%28film%29). The lord retires and divides his territory amongst his sons, but retains his title. His sons resent that he carries himself as lord even after they have inherited the land and conflict ensues. It's an absolutely enthralling and gorgeous film.
Author of the article here. It's definitely not about ads. On principle, we don't host ads on Damn Interesting, and we never have.

We aim for narrative non-fiction, to tell a true story that keeps the reader intrigued throughout. We've found over the years that stories with a good "hook" or "teaser" seem to be best received by readers. We've also found that people want some background on the people/places they are reading about, and this often requires us to jump back in time after the teaser to fill in the relevant information.

If your goal is just to extract the basic bones of the story rather than to be entertained for a while, you probably won't like this article, nor the others in our catalog. Our approach to storytelling is not for everybody. And that's okay with us--trying to please everyone is the short road to clickbait town.
I think you might be missing the subtlety in argument I was relaying.

The security staff know how to deal with extremist groups. But they were not dealing with an extremist group in the traditional sense - where the overwhelming majority of the population are in agreement that their actions are wrong e.g. 9/11, Boston Marathon, Orlando nightclub. They were dealing with a group claiming to act on behalf of the leader of one party in a two party system - in other words, a very significant percentage of the population.

It wasn't failing to act, but confusion about choosing whether or not to act and to what extent. They were not prepared for a scenario where taking action could genuinely be a trigger for wide scale insurrection, violence and even civil war affecting millions - the trolley problem on steroids.

> Or if they were intending to destroy/damage the building beyond windows and doors.

They were - pipebombs and molotov cocktails were recovered. But as uncomfortable as it feels, it might not have been as simple as shooting the bad guys.
> which is responsible of downing MH17 and many more crimes

{{Citation Needed}}

I googled it and all I see is that the Ukrainian government pointed the finger in their direction. However the Germans are blaming the Russian government's military forces in the region.

Seems like an organisation of Ukrainians and Russians, likely financed by Russia, fighting in the occupied/contested region of Ukraine.

Have to say if they did or did not down MH17, nobody can be too sure either way. However realistically it is hard to believe a rag tag group of "terrorists" could operate a modern anti-aircraft system such as the Buk missile system.
Not that long ago my initial response to this comment would be to be annoyed about being judged on grammar. However, maybe because I'm a bit more mature, or I've just been working so much on writing documentation the past couple years, I see your point 100%. It also helps that you've stated so eloquently. I'll be sure to make edits later this weekend, I wrote that article quickly on my lunch break.

The point I may didn't expound on enough was when I spoke of reinventing the wheel. What I mean is the reluctance within the Python community to use existing tools, and instead turning to rewrite them in Python. The libcurl reference is a perfect example. Curl provides a wealth of functionality, but some would prefer calling it's use not pythonic.

As for interviewing, there's more to a developer than just the programs they write.
It's also silly because if employees were in fact paid on average more than they produce (more than they're worth), the company doing this would go broke rather quickly.
From the article:

"Clearly intelligence is already an infinite-dimensional beast"

Pure fluff. This author seems to have no more than a layman's appreciation of AI. He's also either prone to hyperbole or unaware of the illogic/fluffiness of such statements, or both.