skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't redownload it every time. If your browser cache gets removed then so does the game. Is your browser cache getting removed every time? This just strikes me as a really strange thing to say.
While nuclear power has its problems (particularly for waste disposal), they should slow down the phasing out of nuclear and speed up the phasing out of coal: coal burning is much more of an environmental threat than nuclear power is.
I think that says a lot more about you than anything else, considering we've seen a large surge in white nationalist activity over the past year. We should be very concerned, especially when they're becoming violent and lashing out at people like the Proud Boys.
>> A lot of people don't know how typing "www.google.com" into their browser works but DNS "just works" for them.

On the other hand, noone was ever run over by a mistyped URL.
Flat, as far as WMAP can tell!

https://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html

Of course the curvature could maybe be arbitrarily small, but... it's definitely very close to flat.
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> "how well they did their last job"

Right.... so if you have a mismatched role, that's it, you're done for, huh? Please.
I found Accelerate[0] by Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim has a lot of good analysis on metrics one might use.

I think it's important to keep in mind that ultimately a dev is part of team that delivers value for a company, so the metrics one uses needs to take that into account. It can definitely be harder if others in the group (company, team, whatever level you want to consider) are viewing things on a more isolated, individual level, but I think it's in part those isolated, individual level metrics that keep one from viewing the bigger picture and one's role in it. You have to figure out what metrics you can put into place that are meaningful and practical for your given situation. I think Accelerate can provide a good starting point for what those metrics can be. Along with OKRs[1] for goal setting, I think you can find something that works for you.

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR
> The new China travel advisory is a level two advisory which urges increased caution.

> Other countries or regions with a level two advisory include Algeria, Burma, Antarctica, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.

Sounds not particularly serious. Also lol at Antarctica
But VOA think that's not normal, and it's a political signal. Do you believe?
https://www.voachinese.com/a/news-us-china-travel-20180703/4...
i develop typically 3 types of things, backend rest services, web apps, and mobile apps. for me to truly rid myself of my macbook pro, i would need the following, or equivalents:

1. the ability to start vm’s, preferably locally, i use these to run persistent services like redis, rabbitmq, databases, etc. i have this philosophy where my dev env needs to get as close as possible to the production env (at least from a software stack perspective) which means linux, yet it cant cost me as much as a production env. homebrew is great, but i try to stay away as much as possible because it’s a little different from my production env. accessing an ec2 instance or rds instance to access my postgres database is a bit overkill, i want things fast during development, ie local. sometimes i’m in places with no wifi or 4g coverage is spotty, this would be a nightmare.

2. i use visual code for all development, sometimes vi if i dont have a gui env, visual code is lightweight and pretty solid. i’m not 100% stuck on visual code, so if there’s some browser based derivative of it or wsywig for coding then i’m good. visual code is written in electron so nodejs, so i dont think it’s impossible. web development, html, js, css, this can all be done on an ipad relatively well, all the browsers i need to support are available. there’s typically no compilation that needs to happen, unless you’re using nodejs modules on your frontend. i seem to remember some company providing a cloud service that allows you to develop remotely, i think they were bought by github/msft or someone. kind of an interesting area.

3. backend dev, typically i use golang, this becomes a bigger problem, surely i could ssh somewhere and compile, or use some x11/vnc-like tool since i prefer a graphical ide, but that defeats the purpose of my 1000 usd ipad. it’s not really a dumb terminal or thin client per se, i have enough compute power, i want to leverage it. plus i’d need to be spending all this money on ec2 like instances.

4. xcode, this is another major issue, i’m stuck on xcode, sure i could use xamarin, but i dont think that runs on ios yet either. if this were resolved, i could strongly consider scraping my macbook pro.

sounds kind of interesting if there could be a monthly service that could be purchased that provides you with remote dev envs without all the fuss of installing, managing any of it. e.g. i write code in a browser ide, it gets compiled in the cloud somewhere, deployed, and i can access it. i can connect different services to it, and testing is fully automated. i think i’d consider paying for something like this, but it’d have to be relatively cheap because otherwise i might as well do everything myself locally. i’m thinking 5 usd a month max.

i havent used chromebook, but i think it’s closer to a dev env than ipad pro at the moment, i think you can even start containers and such on it.
It does seem unsettling to have a high tech cleaning robot that is simply an extension of a person. Privacy aside, I think it might be because it seems like kind of a waste of all that technology. I would feel less uneasy if it weren't a 1:1 relationship and the robot could do some of the work without a human controlling it.

For example, maybe the human trains the robot so the robot can do some of the work itself and the human just fills in the more difficult work or the work that is never the same. For example, it would probably be hard to train a robot to put away clothes and toys in my kid's rooms, we'll get there eventually of course, but a human could do that part of it and then they could trigger the vacuum to run when they're done with the hard stuff. The human would also need to be "on call" to sort out a problem when the robot gets stuck or can't perform a task.
No worries. Seemed like that's what you meant, but just wanted to clarify.
That's a strangely specific list of questions, but here is an attempt to address them:

> Did Obama work with the GOP to privatize entitlement programs?

No, but he often supported or considered cuts to Social Security and Medicare (including in the context of working with the GOP). For example, Obama's executive order 13531 established the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform ("Simpson-Bowles"), which recommended cuts to Social Security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Fiscal_...
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/us/social-programs-face-c...

> Did he pass a major tax cut?

Yes, of course!? The largest component of the stimulus bill was tax relief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Relief,_Unemployment_Insur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Taxpayer_Relief_Act_o...
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/politics/19taxes.html

> Did he appoint pro-life judges?

Obama nominated a judge who failed to be confirmed in part because of Democratic opposition to his (purported) "votes in the legislature to retain Confederate insignia in the state flag of Georgia, restrict abortion, and ban same-sex marriage".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Boggs

It's a little unclear what Sonya Sotomayor's position on abortion is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/us/politics/28abortion.ht...

> Did he move towards transforming the Department of Education to state block grants?

No, but the Obama Administration supported funding for the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund in the stimulus bill, a relatively significant block grant from the Department of Education.

https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/factsheet/stabil...
> You need to work on your argument a bit I think. I get what you are saying, but your points are a little weak.

Okay, sure. I asked you why you don’t care about privacy, and you haven’t bothered to answer. I don’t really mind if my argument is weak, but yes I could certainly work on it and improve it if I had a reason to. I can’t read your mind, though. Do you want to provide any reasoning for your case or counter-argument at all?

Two things to think about. 1- I wasn’t attacking you, in case you felt like I was criticizing, and were just trying to criticize me back. 2- None of the examples I gave are made up, they are all real things that have happened.
Not exactly. Hard Real-Time = Missing a deadline is a major system fault. Hard read-time would be anti-lock breaks on your car: Did the cylinder not actuate within a given deadline? If so, disable the ABS feature system since its no longer deterministic, set an error code on the car's computer, and make some error light on the dashboard go on.

Soft real time is video decoding: We need to render 1 frame every 1/30th-ish per second. If we miss our deadline, we either need to skip that frame and move onto the next, or pause to fill a buffer.

You can have a hard real time system where the latency required is measured in seconds and a soft realtime system where the deadline is in nanoseconds.
It may scale really, really well
"The state a given node in a MimbleWimble blockchain needs to maintain is very small (on the order of a few gigabytes for a bitcoin-sized blockchain, and potentially optimizable to a few hundreds of megabytes)."

https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.m...

Also, anonymous transactions.

Downside: you cannot "send coins to an address" as in bitcoin, you must have interaction with the other party to create a transaction.
Way to get cultural insights into China from a Hollywood movie bro
Isn't the entire argument about the current (or maybe "immediately foreseeable") state of tooling? We don't really care one way or the other, in a philosophical sense. What works?
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> the article's suggestion doesn't allow me to see something smaller like a motorcycle with the mirrors

In other words, you now have some amount of "blind spot" for motorcycles--but only motorcycles. Whereas, with the mirrors adjusted further in, you still have some blind spot for motorcycles--though perhaps less than with them adjusted further out--but you also now have a blind spot for cars, which you don't have with the mirrors adjusted further out. And cars are much more common than motorcycles, so adjusting the mirrors further out is a net gain in how many vehicles you can see with the mirrors.

An even better solution is cameras like the ones that some higher end vehicles now have for changing lanes. In the ones I've seen, when you turn on your turn signal, your vehicle's screen (the one that shows the backup camera image when you're in reverse) shows a view of everything on that side of your vehicle. No blind spot for anything. Eventually I'm hoping this will become mainstream (the way backup cameras are getting to be).
Its cod profundity which the author shouldn't have attempted to popularize. People haven't even demonstrated quantum error correction in a single qubit in an actual quantum computer, and suddenly it's the source of space and time. Chyeah, dude; whaddevah.

The model universes they're talking about, FWIIW, are all just models, with very little relationship to the world of matter we all live in.
Good advice. Also, if OP’s statement “my gut tells me she can't really execute and can only delegate” is accurate, it’s not about compensation. Given that, don’t bring up compensation at all.
A definition that includes Playstation, which is a 24 year old brand created by Sony, a 72 year old public multinational corporation. It seems like your broad definition is any company that hires web or mobile developers and isn't Facebook, Google, Amazon or Apple (can't say FAANG because Netflix is on there)
To me, a monorepo exists of a set of related or semi related services or runtimes that can operate autonomously, but have a dependency on their siblings to operate correctly.

In some cases, this could be two separate backend projects where you want to re-use the same deployment pipeline.

Often, I find that API wrappers are something that I share across frontends and backends in the JS world, so it often makes sense to separate my projects into:

- backend

- frontend

- common

In Typescript I really like this pattern and can namespace shared types so that it’s very clear to the future reader that this type is probably used outside of the current context.

So, to reply to your comment — I think the term “monorepo” can encompass a lot of different project types.

I think Dan Luu covers the bases quite well here:

https://danluu.com/monorepo/
I don't disagree but you've already lost the voter. I think the best possible chance of success here wraps harm reduction and treatment strategies into an emotional story of paternalism/punishment.

That framework is really powerful in America and I've yet to see a narrative around harm reduction that resonates with most people, it just simply isn't attractive to spend tax money on needles and rent for drug addicts.
The world science festival has a good video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnETCBOlzJs - The "correction" could very well be reconciliation, the output of what plays out in the program + the program is procedurally generated based on the outputs. Another good talk is this one by John Preskill from 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW2rlQVfnK0
Piper, google's source control system has roots in Perforce. In perforce, depot roots are starting with //

The ":" is a bit different, e.g. just "//lib" means "//lib:lib" - e.g. points to the "lib" target in /lib/BUILD file, while "//lib:hello-time" points to "hello-time" target in /lib/BUILD file. So not having the ":name" in "//dir:name" means name="dir" - e.g. "//dir:dir" - at first this is strange, but then you get used to it. Your default target is named after the folder it's sitting in.
The scale of the effort is mind-boggling.

For a straight population-based comparison, China (~1.4B) building a database of every American (~300M), is like the USA building a database of everyone in the UK or France (~64M).

I also imagine there will be a lot of badly correlated records, leading to Brazil-like Tuttle/Buttle errors.
Yet Saudia Arabia is considered fine.
We should beware white nationalism. It's real, and it's a problem. We should also beware playing six-degrees-of-white-nationalism. You could probably tar everyone with that brush, including Obama, me, and fzeroracer.
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wtf, 100% cpu scrolling at 1fps, no thanks.
I've done a USB device, so yeah I have some stake in this. I suspect there will be CAs and certificates just as with TLS, the question is how costly and time consuming it'll all be.
Completely valid concern not to want to keep memorizing mini-languages.

In this case, the double slashes are absolute "paths" relative to the top of the workspace, and the part after the colon is a relative "path" to another Bazel target.

I put "paths" in quotes because these are meaningfully different from the true filesystem equivalents; avoiding confusion with real absolute and relative filesystem paths is probably why they made their own syntactic mini-language.

[The sibling reply to mine, referencing Piper and Perforce, goes into a bit more detail on the specifics and the origin of the // prefix.]

What would the better way have been for them to do this?
I think it's very easy to take a narrow view of "professional" here. iOS may never be a viable macOS replacement for programmers (although I don't think I'd place money on that), but there are professionals out there right now editing podcasts with Ferrite, editing videos with LumaFusion, doing multitrack music sequencing with Beat Maker, editing photos with Lightroom (and a host of other apps), writing Hollywood screenplays with Slugline or novels with Scrivener -- and doing a lot of more "mundane" work that is nonetheless absolutely professional level with Microsoft Office, Keynote, OmniGraffle, and others.

What an iPad will absolutely never do is mimic an existing workflow. People who try to do that are going to hit brick walls fast. I wouldn't be surprised to see full-fledged programming environments on iOS in the next few years (and to see iOS itself open up in possibly surprising ways), but I suspect they aren't going to look much like the programming environments we're used to.

I'm glad people love their Surfaces. They look like great devices. And, yeah, I wish I could do web development more easily on my iPad. But I'm a technical writer and a fiction writer, do both professionally, and have used the iPad to do (gasp) real work in both fields.
Test protos. Evaluated configs. Golden data. JAR archives, etc.
" To realize this goal in Kenya, Loon has already begun constructing ground stations in Nairobi and Nakuru."

Well of all of the "Loon coming to <country> first!" announcements of the last 5 years I think this is the first time they've actually started to work on really doing it.
I saw an early version of this at a meetup they did in a Barcade in Brooklyn... it blew my mind. Back then it was called "Voxie Box"
It's not about them being novel. ux4's point is that businesses don't get their worth for doing things nobody thought of before. They get their worth for properly executing ideas nobody properly executed before.

> Most startups, including those asking you to sign a NDA, are ideas I've had before.

Ideas you've had before, but haven't taken the steps those startups have in implementing them.

> Usually, I'll think of a problem, imagine the solution, and only then find out if it exists and how it's called.

That's just the global market being big. It's probably very common. There's a lot of cool stuff out there most people have no clue about.
This really comes back to the very old saying; "Use the right tool for the job".

That's not to say it cannot be done, or won't work in a pinch. It's just not the right tool to use in practice.
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Hey, it may seem weird, but here's one way it might work. Again, I know jack-shit about the specifics.

If some portion of the phone is imported, and that portion has duties, under normal circumstances Apple's subcontractor would import that thing, pay the duty on it, then export the phone and file for the duties to be refunded.

If the phone stays in China, the duty applies. So there may be duties involved if there are materials imported to China for assembly.
I like the idea. Would be interesting to see
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> It makes it less atomic if you need simultaneous changes in multiple repositories.

No, each individual set of changes is more atomic (smaller in scope, mutating a system from one state of functionality to a new state of functionality).

The problem is that it’s a linguistic fallacy to act like in the monorepo case “the system” is the sum of a bunch of separate systems (it isn’t, because they are not logically required to depend on simultaneously transitioning). So in that monorepo case, to move subcomponent A from some state of functionality to a new state of functionality, you unfortunately have to also make sure you include totally unrelated (from subcomponent A’s point of view) changes that also correctly transition subcomponent B to a new state of functionality, and subcomponent C, etc., which is exactly less atomic (to transition states, you are required to have simultaneous other transitions that are not logically required for any reason other than the superficial sake of the monorepo).
*main electrical energy source. Like other developed nations, electricity is < 15% of Germany's primary energy consumption.
Afaik, fb employs less than 20 people to take care of the monorepo.
The single photon registers in a single spot on the screen, as a particle should, and so there's no problem with assuming that it went through one hole or the other.

The fun starts when you start sending single photons through the holes one by one - again, every photon registers in a specific spot; but when taken in aggregate, those spots form the same interference pattern as with multiple photons.
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Yes exactly.

It reminds me of the difference between Machine Learning in the earlier days, which was based on hard-coded features, compared to things like vector embeddings that derive semantics and semantic connections in a bottom-up manner.
This description suggests that it's not safe to change lanes in such traffic.
Pretty much everyone with knowledge of mainstream (non-Austrian) economics came up with the idea of non-deflationary cryptocurrency (keynescoins) around 10 years ago. That's how you can tell that everyone who says "it's about payments/adoption/etc not speculation" is lying because why would they make it deflationary.

Also, fixed linear emission is pretty much the second worst possible monetary policy and I think it's basically a way to have plausibly deniable deflation. If Grin adoption follows an S-curve then 50%/year emission won't be noticeably different from 0%. (And if it doesn't follow an S-curve then it has failed anyway.)
Loved salsa as a service. How about pancakes as a service. Might get ihop on board
This complaint belongs one level higher in the thread.
Good point. The answer is probably that nobody really cares about safety, they just want to have their cool toys right now. If people really cared about safety, they 'd be advocating for the only certain way to reduce car accidents: fewer cars (or in other words, more public transport, more trains, etc). Except that wouldn't make sense because the whole point is to sell more cars. Self driving "safety" is just the latest marketing gimmick.