skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the ultimate solution assumes that all the turntables are long enough to deal with at least two-car consists? Seems strange that the company would cheap out on a little bit of porcelain in each car and then overprovision its turntables in such an extravagant way.
After seeing people forgetting to do basic optimization step on images at our respective jobs, a friend and I build https://www.shrink.sh. The goal this tool is to create a catch all system. It also prevent you from installing some tools that will slow even more build or deploys and that you would need to maintain forever.
Engineering a Hook That Could Make Drone Deliveries Real
The most relevant part:

> According to Kinnar, multiple factors contribute to the continuing relevance of typewriters. One of them, he said, was the experience of the typists who use typewriters. “Majority of the people who come to us are those with documents in illegible handwriting that are to be presented in court. We, the experienced typists, analyse them and compose it in a manner that is acceptable to the court. New-age inexperienced computer operators cannot do that.” Another factor, he said, was that typewriters do not run on electricity and do not incur a high cost of maintenance, since they only require an initial investment and can function for around 25 years thereafter. “The computer ink is costly while a typewriter ribbon costs only Rs 60–70,” Kinnar said. He added that a computer occupied more space while a typewriter could rest on a small table.
Certainly they’re getting 2x - 3x more per dollar they spend both because of intrinsic lower costs but also IP theft.
Hacker News UX Review
And yet a number of recent privacy breaches where apps were collecting and transmitting data they had no business in were discovered by sniffing the traffic.

> Every time somebody tries to get fancy and _think_ about the bits inside the packets their network is supposed to be moving they screw up.

How do you propose we do security otherwise? (Apart from delegating it to other parties so they think about the bits)
Sadly, the great GDS team that is bringing about the great design/technical change in the UK gov is falling prey to politics from the same people that brought you #brexit.
GDS used to be an initiative directly from the Cabinet Office, it has now been moved to the ministry of Culture and Sport.

You might think what does sport have to do with gov website UX? But it's all politics - GDS delivered and it is making the other politicians and gov officials look bad so they are being undermined.
That's my reading of that anyway - no good deed goes unpunished.
There is still risk of hyper-inflation though.
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I guess it also depends on the nature of tech stack and business domain. For e.g., if you develop a standard CRUD application without much complexity, and use a static lang like Java, you probably need less unit tests. If you use framework features, annotations, validation expressions, then most of the simple data validations (like numbers, dates, future date check, etc) are automatically handled at framework level. In those scenarios, you would generally need a very little unit test case coverage.

On the other side, if you use dynamic lang (Ruby, Javascript, etc), or if you are developing a library or framework, then a good coverage for unit tests is a must. I guess the developer's context (whether he/she is developing a framework, library or a simple CRUD app) plays a bigger role.
Wow. This article is killing me with its Gell-Mann Amnesia effects. It's like reading a history from an alternate timeline.

And why doesn't the included Twitter bot link work?

https://twitter.com/youtubeartifacts?

And of, course, the linked youtube video is some obvious corporate pop famous-for-being-famous drivel, almost immediately after stating the following:

Two years later, the artist Takeshi Murata
created “Monster Movie,” which blended footage
from a 1981 B-movie and a heavy soundtrack and
which is now in the permanent collection at the
Smithsonian as perhaps the most influential
piece in the datamosh canon.

And yet a better Youtube link is avoided:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1f3St51S9I

But why?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact "green lighted" the invasion of Poland and invasion of Baltic states.

It's all was described in secret addendum to that pact - two biggest socialist countries decided to split Eastern Europe and agreed on which countries to gobble.
Did the people with the anti-virals take them immediately and upon getting infected? Or did they just have to take them at some point post-infection? Couldn't really tell from the article/not sure how the biology works.
Good luck reading a scientific paper on your phone period. Many journals are now making available the full text of papers in straight HTML (possibly only for users of participant libraries, I don't know) but that still sucks.

I mean, it's a small screen.
We don't have the details on what's going on at Tesla.

- Musk rushed the lines design (mistake)
- Car were still too wire friendly (mistake)

Now IF musk and his partners start to get a hold of line design and programming, and if they're able to redesign internals to meet the previous point. They might be able to get stable.
You’re saying that if you have a problem with code correctness, the solution is to just try harder to write correct code.

The tests are there specifically to help find the errors that “trying harder” didn’t catch. You don’t get a higher quality result by cutting QA.
>> https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-climate-activists-failed-....

Off the topic!

But here is the Author's bio on the article

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Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org, an international environmental organization. His is the author of more than a dozen books about the environment, most recently Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist.

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"His is the author of.." WTF Yale!

edit: Also as the author's profile reflect he is not a credible neutral authority! Visit the site 350.org, and see for yourself.
I agree on the most. When my kids grow older, I’ll teach them.

And the trick with local CA is awesome!
Based on my understanding of some european cars not being allowed to be sold in the USA because of failing frontal crash tests, I was under the impression all cars had to pass local tests before being available for purchase
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26444467/ns/business-autos/t/perfe...
Perhaps the biggest computer science cluster-fuck in Python is that there is no syntactic distinction between instantiating/binding a variable and assigning to it.

Python 3 makes it worse by adding some declarative stupidies nonlocal and global:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_shadowing#Python
I've read that China spends more on internal security rather than normal Military spending.
I'm lucky enough that the code base I work on was a "big rewrite" not long enough with the goal of having everything tested. Also we are an embedded system where we know exactly which version of each library to support and upgrading any library is in itself a big deal done as a separate exercise.
I feel you. I wanted to downsize to a 13", but 32gb being only available on the 15" I had to stay 15". :-(
Go ahead and return it. Apple's pretty good about returns/exchanges after new product releases. I think you have 14 days from purchase to make an exchange, so hop on it if you really like the new systems.
Heart disease might be partly viral as well! Evidence going back to the 80's shows this.
I have not yet seen a SAP software that could not be replaced with a homemade Django/Rails web app (90% CRUD) and some external API integrations to other services that may exist in the company such HR, invoicing etc.

Of course, at the fraction of the the cost of the SAP solution.
Splitting the state wouldn't give rural areas more representatives in the House, would it? It's proportional to population and splitting wouldn't increase the population.
DNS over HTTPS performance in India using RIPE probes
It's sustainable because they keep the money printing press running, which implies they force citizens to sustain (pay for) it.

Even in the US, "lowering the printing speed, which is high", is considered a ""tightening""
http://pandoc.org/

"If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Pandoc can convert documents in (several dialects of) Markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, TikiWiki markup, Creole 1.0, Vimwiki markup, OPML, Emacs Org-Mode, Emacs Muse, txt2tags, Microsoft Word docx, LibreOffice ODT, EPUB, or Haddock markup to

HTML formats
XHTML, HTML5, and HTML slide shows using Slidy, reveal.js, Slideous, S5, or DZSlides

Word processor formats
Microsoft Word docx, OpenOffice/LibreOffice ODT, OpenDocument XML, Microsoft PowerPoint.

Ebooks
EPUB version 2 or 3, FictionBook2

Documentation formats
DocBook version 4 or 5, TEI Simple, GNU TexInfo, Groff man, Groff ms, Haddock markup

Archival formats
JATS

Page layout formats
InDesign ICML

Outline formats
OPML

TeX formats
LaTeX, ConTeXt, LaTeX Beamer slides

PDF
via pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex, pdfroff, wkhtml2pdf, prince, or weasyprint.

Lightweight markup formats
Markdown (including CommonMark and GitHub-flavored Markdown), reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, Emacs Org-Mode, Emacs Muse, Textile, txt2tags, MediaWiki markup, DokuWiki markup, TikiWiki markup, TWiki markup, Vimwiki markup, and ZimWiki markup.

Custom formats
custom writers can be written in lua."
plenty of what you say is just not right (or plain wrong).
btc = monetary/value transactions. i read the paper as early and 2008 and didn't miss out on it, i just didn't care then same as i don't care now.
eth = dapps. just because dapps didn't take off immediately doesn't mean they aren't beginning to get used, increasingly so, and that there isn't a lot of valuable, useful, interesting and innovative applications being built and experimented with.
btc and eth are two different things. if how much something can possibly enrich you is all you care about, that doesn't mean that everybody else is necessarily on that page.
that being said, it's true - ethereum is basically useless for a lot of otherwise really interesting possible use cases and applications (which is why we got things like IOTA, something that i'm sure everybody here has nothing but hate towards, for whatever reasons).
then ethereum classic, too, is something just as different.
and i couldn't help but notice how most innovation is being done by people of russian or eastern european origin, or israelis, while the vast majority of silicon valley only chase the dollar bill and base their entire business models on how they can possibly screw the user.
much as i sometimes find valuable threads here on hackernews, i don't really take much of what you people say seriously.
When your CEO goes full pizzagate it might be time to consider other options. Seriously.
What is to stop me from not hiring someone based on his criminal background and just come up with a bogus excuse?

Because frankly I wouldn't ever want to work with somebody who had raped a child.
Lenia – Mathematical Life Forms
So, your manager says “the data scientists demoed this. Put it into production”. Do you

a) pick an appropriate tool and rewrite their code.

b) pick an appropriate tool (python type annotations, this verifier), use it to make the python code robust, and deploy the python code in production?

Even if doing a) is as easy as doing b) and produces faster, more efficient code, doing a) again will be more expensive than doing b) again when the data scientists update their python code (even if the typed python and the untyped python are in separate repositories, but ideally, the data scientists would continue working with the ‘solidified’ code, adding duct-typed code at will)
As the other commenters have noted, none of the offerings in the large-scale ERP space are "good" for most measures of good, but they tend to be good enough to keep things operational. SAP is reputedly the least bad vendor in this space (we use a competing system and it is much worse).

ERPs are tedious, uninspiring, production-level software that have to deal with all manners of ill-defined business rules and variations. It's almost impossible to come up with an elegant product because the problem space itself is inelegant and in many cases irreducibly so. I imagine it's hard to attract talented developers (except those solely attracted to money) to this space because the feedback loop and intellectual payoff is so unrewarding. Most of the time the implementation problems have to do with human problems, not technical ones. Most ERP customization is outsourced to pools of fungible labor.

But when you run a large enterprise, ERPs are absolutely necessary, so someone's gotta do it.
Did China agree it is theft?

The US doesn’t respect trademarks like Kobe Beef, Parmesan Cheese etc.

http://www.internationaltrade.law/blog/why-youve-probably-ne...
Setup metrics that you'd like to hit for your pages.
When I was a kid putting up a fan site for games, (back on Geocities), I was mostly stuck on a 28.8k modem, and aimed to have it finish loading in 30s.

Now, I was quite brutal in the compression and probably should have backed off a bit to avoid artifacts.

It might be nice to have an automated test that the system under test limits the bandwidth and try to load your pages, and set some times that you'd like to hit.
I didn't realize that the esc key was gone before I ordered my new 15". I haven't had a "touch bar" model yet. Why didn't the touch bar take off with developers? I read Apple said you can develop functionality into apps to utilize the touch bar. Why didn't this happen?
Read until the end again. The solution they came up with still only put toilets in 50% of the cars.
I don't see how these services can compare with a private car without totally saturating the neighborhood with lots of idle vehicles sitting around

Are there not giant parking lots and over-capacity street parking in your city? I live in the US suburbs, own a car, and it sits idle the vast majority of the time. Individual car ownership literally leads to the problem you claim MaaS creates.
There are TONS of unfinished moai still in the quarry. I've seen plenty of unfinished, half-carved statues there. Many of the broken and restored moai were pulled down and broke at the neck, which would imply that they were not set down gently.

I thought the rise of the birdman cult had something to do with giving up on creating new moai. That would have been a fun contest: annual swim out to a sharp rock where you have to steal a bird egg and bring it back to shore. But the water was shark infested and your fellow competitors would try to stab you to get the sharks riled up.

In any case, Rapa Nui/Easter Island is an amazing place with a fascinating history.
What SAP and Oracle have in common is that they have a very capable sales force, that is able to convince companies that their business case will fit nicely into their model.

Then, once the implementation is ongoing and it turns out that there are some corner cases which were overlooked and that don't fit into the SAP model at all, SAP has another option available: hire their expensive consultants. Depending on how locked-in they are and how big their projects, this can completely destroy some companies.
Because you are building a web site? I mean, I think there's some things that are evident about those, and one of them is that they're not PDF's.

All the issues you stated stem from the fact that people don't want to change. Just because it's not the easiest way doesn't mean it's not a good one.

Everyone that can design a PDF can learn to design a nice HTML document.
The inside pictures are quite stunning from my perspective. The cabin is almost fully in tact with no compression inside and what looks like a totally functional main control screen. The only real crash indicators are the airbags and the cracked windshield. I’m no expert, but it seems like it did an excellent job at keeping the occupant alive by virtue of simply keeping the entire cabin healthy.

https://m.imgur.com/a/33RUwEN
Opening PDFs on an iOS device doesn’t work transparently - you have to open them with iBooks which is a super awkward workflow.
A New Flavor of Agile
I'd love to have a format that is just HTML + whatever zipped up that browsers and operating systems happily just open in a browser.

I like making HTML reports (rmarkdown), but sharing them requires telling people to download then open them in a browser. Google drive, for example, happily just shows you a preview but then if you click on the file you get raw html. Customers just don't understand.

PDF however, is absolutely fine to move around as a single chunk, but has problems in almost every other way.
Can you point me to any of these writeups? We're a local government site undertaking a design refresh, and they sound very helpful.
The point was that even based on GDP per capita, China still has a long way to go.
On a related note, I have to fill out a PDF form to make a GDPR complaint to the Data Commissioner (in Ireland). This is a plain-text form, the information could just as easily be sent in the body of an email.

Using PDF means having to deal with crappy PDF software, hurting accessibility and scriptability and adding needless overhead on the other end.

I wish these systems were designed by sane and benevolent programmers, rather than Pointy Haired Bureaucrats.

( https://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/raise-a-concern-Form/m/17... )
I know for one, Tesla has made it so you can't use tesla for rideshare, because you have to use their (forthcoming) service, IIRC, I remember reading that somewhere, I also believe some of the manufacturers of self-driving tech have partnered with lyft or uber to possibly be the software behind their own rideshare.

The future of cars, makes sense not to own... A car just dropped johnny (a kid I have no relation to) off at school a mile from my house 5 minutes before I need to be to work, this car then becomes mine till I get to work, from there it takes someone else to a brunch meeting... and so forth.

Using logistics it can free up roads by sending the closest available car to pick people up, and possibly re-arranging traffic patterns via networking to make roads clearer...etc.

Edit: one more attractive thing for car companies: Subscriptions. Someone paying 800 for life, is MUCH better than someone paying 20k once. They can know with better certainty their monthly recurring revenue when charting growth/etc..
No.... APOE is a lipoprotein that transports cholesterol, and viruses jump onto it to get into cells. Amyloid-Beta is what seems to be wrapping around the virus particles to block their transit.
The cards reference is to the game of RISK. Owning every territory in the “Australian Content” gets the player a small bonus.
Great links, thank you.
I thought that originally as well. However I'm not sure that the cars both need to be on the turn table to remain paired. If cars #45 and #44 are paired, can we repeat the turntable operation to keep them oriented in the same way without needing to generically solve the problem of car orientation?
The problem with HTML is that it's not a stable format. Will a browser in 2028 be able to render those pages correctly ? What about 2038 ? If the content needs to be available for a longer time PDF/A would be a much better choice than HTML.
I used a 2013 Air with maxed specs as a dev machine for a while and still use it for web browsing and while traveling rather than lug around my more expensive MBP. With an i7, it's a very capable machine with great battery life.

Doing front end development, it was more than powerful enough for anything I had to throw at it.
Not OP, but I worked in finance as an trader for more than half a decade. I make more per hour once I switched to software development in NYC.

I think people have a strange view of finance. Most people aren't paid obscene amounts of money in finance, just like most software developers don't make the salary of a senior developer at Big Tech. They also work an obscene amount of hours. During earnings season, I would be at my desk by 5am and work 80+ hours per week. Nowadays, It's a rarity to go more than 50. My brother currently works at Big Bank, and makes more than I do on an absolute basis, but I definitely make more than he does hourly. I get to work at 9:30-10, he gets to work at 7:30-8. I get home at 6:30-7:00, he gets home 8:30-9. He works at least a half day every Sunday, I enjoy my hobbies. I'm also commenting on HN at 11:00...

Most of my college friends still work in finance. I make more money than a few of them based on overly honest drunken conversations, and we're all more than 10 years into our careers. There is a glass ceiling in tech that is a lot more all-encompassing, but it's not like it doesn't exist in other industries. There are only so many higher-up positions, and most people burn out (or aren't capable of competing) before they even get in position for that promotion. The running joke when someone was getting poor performance reviews was "That's it, I'm moving to Vermont to open an antique store".

For some more comparison, I grew up in a 1%er town in the suburbs of NY. The average lawyer family lived in nicer houses than the average finance family, who in turn lived in nicer houses than the average medicine family. However, the most expensive house was owned by the CFO of Big Bank. Income is very right-skewed in finance.
BTW, you've been shadowbanned for 5 months or so. All of your comments start out invisible except to accounts with showdead=true. Those accounts can sometimes "vouch" one of your comments, like I just did here, making them visible to all users.

It probably happened to you because of something to do with this thread, since the dead comments start just after that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16236350
Reading this makes me realize I had a bias against making lower level integration tests in this situation, definitely something I'll have to look for in the future.
Building a (Very) Custom Mechanical Keyboard
Good point. I forget about Wifi running and debugging.
I just realized, they cut out all the actual user videos in the video posted to YouTube... So that's unfortunate, but it's still a good talk.
I'm very excited about this stuff ... but as a relatively healthy person, I'm gonna wait for v1.1 :)
All the marketing calling it "Census night" and encouraging people to do it on the same evening instead of over the week probably didn't help spreading the load out.
Never mind that shifting one of them produces a cascade of changes that leads to some office worker spending a fruitful hour lining them all up again for version two...
This used to be true, it was definitely true 10 years ago. I doubt that is still true today, though. China doesn’t make these numbers public anyways so we can only guess.
Airbnb told to be clearer on total cost of bookings
Please don't use spaces to quote blocks of text.

Please do anything but that. Most people put a single > at the start of each paragraph of quoted text.
JumboSmash: a technical retrospective
Bad schools, DMV, poor road maintenance, failing dams, poor water supply, one party rule, over regulated housing market, HSR, and unfunded pensions are some examples of dysfunctional California.
I'm perpetually saddened because I work in aerospace where the IT policies are quite restrictive due to security clearances and whatnot, so I'm stuck on windows and can't install emacs :(

Every few months I toy with the idea of implementing a poor man's org-mode in VBA.
What HTML + CSS from 1998 doesn't render usefully anymore?
This might be part of it: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/design
Because the company that is responsible for crash tests hasn't bought the car yet?

They have to buy cars in the market to prevent manufacturers from adding reinforcement