skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Surely, someone would have eventually invented the stirrup, given ridable horses.

This isn't obvious to me. I'm not saying it's wrong, but I'm not convinced that it's right either. Henry Turtledove's short stories The Road Not Taken and Herbig-Haro explore a future where aliens invade Earth with FTL drives, but only basic weaponry. It turns out that FTL drives are a relatively simple technology, but one we missed. Not expanding outward in space forced us to pursue more competitive development of other technologies on Earth, and when the aliens invade we quickly kill them and take their FTL drives, suddenly becoming the dominant species in our part of the universe. It's just fiction, of course, but I think us having missed some basic tech is an interesting possibility. It's only theoretically possible to show that we missed something in the past, not the present, since the discovery of something which should have been obvious in the past makes it no longer valid as evidence of our failure to have discovered obvious things in the present -- it's been discovered now. That being said, can we think of such examples? Things that don't have any obvious barriers, but which we still failed to invent for long stretches of time? The screw as a fastener seems like a potential candidate to me; the Archimedes' screw was used to move water and grain in ~300 BC, and nails have been around since prehistory, but screws as fasteners don't show up until the 1400s AD. You could argue that the widespread adoption of screws in the 1800s AD required certain machine tools for mass manufacture of screws with threading at regular increments, but this doesn't explain the 1700 year gap between invention of the screw and any use of hand-crafted screws as fasteners. There could also be gaps in our understanding of this history, of course, but that would be true to varying degrees for any proposed example.
My Nokia Lumia was too slick, so I put clear skateboard tape on the back.
> Isn't that just something WordPress developers say?

I don't know, I don't ask for their take on the market. However, I've consulted with businesses where "We use Wordpress for X" is incredibly common to hear and they don't have problems with it, even if it wouldn't be my first choice of a platform.

> But not "the majority of business needs".

The majority of businesses are small or medium-sized, where Wordpress with a few standard or custom plugins are enough to suit their needs.

Wordpress certainly isn't a good platform for IT and software, and I'm not aware of any SaaS companies trying to use it for their business.
> I guess it all boils down to how curious one is.

People can be curious about different things. I have little interest in understanding mechanical/electrical stuff, but I love reading about and visiting other cultures, I enjoy learning new games (board and video), and learning new physical/athletic skills.
I think I may inhabit a parallel universe. ;)

We're talking about at work, where I've never seen any hint it matters beyond be clean, be presentable, be personable etc. 30 years ago, usually wear a suit. In other words, fit in. Choose carefully when making first impression - be that interview or date. :)

At work being junior programmer or CTO reveals status. These days both rich and poor alike will buy £10 jeans, or £2 T shirts. I think no less of them or any higher of someone with a label addiction, if I even noticed. I would think a lot less of someone who acted on perceived social status at work. We're not there for a first date.
In practice, anything that can be described as an "airliner" is a large commercial aircraft and flies above 10k regularly. Probably required to have ADS-B.
I'm not sure I buy this. I recently worked on a project where we had one .net core developer, a dev ops guy, and me doing the client SPA. We were all able to focus on our core competencies and turn around the project incredibly quickly. I would argue that you can get away with the same team size split between front and back end and possibly end up with a more efficient allocation of resources.
> Truly, in over a decade of working with all types of recruiters, I have never seen a recruiter add value for any party at any time. It’s pure loss to engage with recruiters.

Strong disagree.

Good recruiters work for employers by maintaining a strong network of candidates across a number of fields, and also by finding candidates for roles that are cheaper/better than others because they come from recruitment pools outside those traditionally used for the role. Example: a company might be looking for a Sales Engineering role - typically pretty difficult positions to recruit because there's a small pool of candidates. But, if you can find someone in consulting or traditional development/engineering that has the right skills, they can be brought on relatively cheaply. Good recruiters know this, and they know how to find and evaluate those candidates so the company doesn't have to.

By the same token, recruiters that I maintain a relationship with have made my last three job searches significantly quicker and easier - I know them, they know me and they know who is looking for what. They've added significant value for me, and for the employers that I work with.
your anecdotal story doesn't highlight deficiencies with SPA. You only talked about the pains associated with rebuilding apps with different technology to achieve feature parity.
Thanks for the interesting read. I think the WSJ should have touch upon “open standards” vs. the standards aka patents. They may have alluded to it, but only slightly. WSJ kinda missed the boat here.
My mother is in her 50's and is in between savvy and unsavvy. A few years ago she called me after falling briefly for one of these "Microsoft Support" scams. She had clicked on it because it looked like an error message, and right after she clicked on it, her gut told her that it wasn't legitimate and called me to see what she needed to do.

Elderly users wouldn't have fared as well.

This goes hand in hand with IRS phone call "you're going to jail if you don't pay your tax debt" scams. I think there needs to be serious legislation to crack down on these scams.
Spokane police spend approximately $320,000 on body camera storage per year
So, Helium is similar to Neon, but optimized for simpler CPUs with fewer gates.
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First, consider that no rational person or business would spend money on any marketing that isn't ROI positive (because then they would just be losing money).

Google and businesses aren't amenable to just sharing all of their confidential marketing data, but here's a birds' eye view:

https://economicimpact.google.com/
> Access to standards also poses challenges. Since the consensus-building process is costly, organizations like ANSI often try to cover expenses by selling or licensing access to standards documents. For example, the book of standards for concrete blocks and masonry structures costs $150. This business model strikes many critics as unjust, since private standards can be built into regulations, yet sometimes only citizens who pay can look at them.

This. Incorporation by reference is a real problem.

Carl Malamud--the lawyer behind law.resource.org and public.resource.org--has spoken a bit on this topic.

Just wanted to highlight this blurb[1] from a PHMSA committee discussing the impact of commercial standards incorporated by reference as it applies to federal regulation:

The only common thread that I see in associations in terms of their business model--and they are businesses despite being not-for-profit, and 501(c)(3)s or (c)(6)s--that you charge somebody to be a member, you use those members and their intellectual property to develop products, and then you sell them back to them. It's a crazy business model in some way. You can't imagine how that would work.

[1] https://youtu.be/Sdm698P2AkA?t=88
> Women don't learn how to sew and men don't learn how to woodwork, and no one knows how to budget. Instead of removing these classes, why provide them to both boys and girls instead, maybe in a modernized form?

I did take both? At a standard public school in Canada.

I think it depends on jurisdiction, and I'd guess if those classes aren't provided, it's more likely because they're more expensive to teach (sewing machines, cook surfaces, woodworking tools are all very expensive).
Thx for your constructive summary. Not sure what you mean with "tools might need" but deck-build only needs some well defined ENVs (https://bit.ly/2TSTImv). Regarding shell scripts used in RUN commands: Why not COPY a conf file that will be sourced by every script?
A few years ago if you downloaded a web page you could repair it with Greasemonkey and user scripts. Now web pages are React or native apps and near impossible to tinker
> As an application developer, you don’t need to write a single line of JavaScript to create these kinds of experiences. You can write and test all your code in a single language: Elixir.

Now you have two problems.
I thought it still had some tax advantages.

The lawyers benefit from it at least.

Otherwise it's a lose / lose situation for everyone.
Unfortunately, there is no good solution for this. Either you rely on the time settings of the sender or on the time needed to transmit the data and on the time the data gets transmitted.
I wonder what level of concern RISCV raises internally at ARM. Are they panicked, or just adjusting strategy in a more routine way?

It seems the moves from Western Digital would be concerning to them.

Though I suppose on the other side, there's not yet any credible/volume RISCV general purpose CPUs yet (just MCUs), so maybe they aren't yet scrambling.
Also, on the majority of SPA frameworks you have the notion of components which makes making the UI a lot simpler than with traditional SSR abstractions (templating and partials are not sufficient).
> But AFAIK they haven’t put an “among a few rational state actors” asterisk on anything up until now.

True. On the PR side though, it'd be incredibly hard to say "we want to make replication moderately difficult, but not too difficult." Everyone would end up arguing exactly how much should be released, how it would prevent X,Y,Z folks from contributing to AI, etc.

> Regardless, I agree with TFA that this is a silly and arbitrary time to yell “fire.” It’s PR.

Alternatively, it does provide good insight into the reactions in the community as a whole, and continues the conversation on exactly how much should be released. Maybe I'm not far enough into the ML community, but the decision not to put the "keys to the kingdom" on github for every script kiddie to weaponize seems reasonable to me, especially as a precedent.
Of course the problem is that at face value those academic classes seem more interesting, seem to have better ROI-for-life, and obviously you are quite right that a lot of people would be better off were they able to do basic upkeep, budgeting, woodwork, plumbing, wiring a socket, or simply knowing how to paint a room, and also you are correct that sometimes these activities lead to insights into problem solving, and some addition to critical thinking skills.

But in reality most of school is about developing interpersonal skills and having time to do whatever really interests you, and teaching applied rationality is hard, and only occasional in every class, be it DIY, physics, debate club, or free form project.
I'd suggest most dog owners would think it's bleeding obvious why.

We might do so today except there's bound to be a regulation against that, and modern society has a very odd relationship with death.
GPS isn't really precise enough for that and targeting civilian aircraft is easy anyway; this isn't much of an additional attack vector, IMO.
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amazon has required me to re-enter card numbers when shipping to an address not associated with that card. I have bought on Amazon in the US, Spain and Mexico with this happening each time.
It's really easy to kill yourself if you go messing around in your house wiring. It's possible to be safe, but it's not on the same plane as messing with an unplugged washing machine or TV.
Thank you, I didn't know and will have a look :)
The thing is, once you own a house, the number of things that need an hour here or there increases quite dramatically.

In the last year I’ve done maintenance work on the dishwasher (twice), ice maker, furnace (fuse), duct work (baffle), two clogged drains (love those air-pump drain cleaners!), sliding door (leveling adjustment), vacuum (broken plastic part), doorbell (new button), several light switches (new dimmers), stopping drafts (new weatherstripping), sump pump (burned out wiring cap), painting and spackling, 2 toilet flappers, dryer thermostat and humidistat, and hanging a new flat screen.

That’s just top of my head. And there was plenty of bigger stuff I outsourced but could have potentially taken on like installing a new front door, and seal coating the driveway.

If I hired an “expert” for all of that it would have been nearly $10,000. And next year it’ll just be another list the same length of all different stuff.
Language generator from OpenAI is too good to be released in complete form
In Germany receiving ADS-B used to be illegal (I don't think it has changed, but I did not verify.)

In Finland receiving as such is not illegal, but forwarding the information is.

In both cases the reasoning is that this information is not directed to the public. Whether anybody has ever been prosecuted I have no idea.
> - I suggest going over some of the samples generated by the model. Many people react quite strongly, e.g., https://twitter.com/justkelly_ok/status/1096111155469180928.

Have you done a plagiarism search on that text to see how similar it is to the input corpus? I'm by no means an ML expert, but I've played around with models for random name generation and one thing I've noticed is that as the models become more accurate, they also become much more likely to just regurgitate existing names verbatim. So if you search the list of names and notice something that seems particularly realistic, it could be because it's literally taken in whole or in part from the training data set!
The article also mention how the economic value of woodworking and mending has sharply dropped since the 1960, but I disagree on that when it comes to cooking. The article does not talk about it since it is focused on mending, but food cost are often second highest portion of a individuals monthly budget after rent. In households economics, cooking your own food can easily become one the single biggest savings a person can do. If the article is right that home economics is deincentivized because of politics then that kind of politics are contributing to increased poverty, worse health and harm to the environment. The ability to feed themselves should be an essential skill all individuals should have from basic education, similar to that of knowing how the government work or what basic physical training look like.
I typically avoid commute time and have a flexible schedule. It's still an hour and driving on 45/the beltway is stressful no matter what time you do it at :S
Revolut. I'm not saying they will forever offer interbank-rate exchange, but currently they do.

And this is a very simply commodified service, so it should be solved by new entrants to the market.
Now add the time tidying up or correcting after the "expert".

As a house owner it is far easier to build a list of trades people you won't use again, than the one to hang on to.
Not so useful for a plane traveling at 800 km/h. And it's transmitted with radio so anyone can pick it up without internet. But if you want to fire something at a plane there are much easier and cheaper things to use from the ground.
Carry that to the extreme and why bother having school at all? I'm all for a lot of classical curriculum components. But I also think that there is a huge amount of value to exposing high schoolers to hands-on activities that are both practical and potentially rather enjoyable. This includes electronics and so forth by the way. But it might also include sewing.
I've noticed that the front pages of many web sites are exclusively focused on selling the product, while useful information about the product or institution is much harder to find.

Having a usable search box on the front page can help people find what they're actually looking for.
I suppose the benefit of knowing where everything is a security plus. Watching 9/11 documentaries, it was surprising how many aircraft the controllers couldn't account for.

(Though this does seem spoofable.)
Etsy claims to be rapidly returning the taken funds and paying any penalties incurred by their customers. If they didn't, it could be taken as a signal that they intended to keep it, satisfying the requirement of criminal intent.

If, through an accident, you acquire the property of another, and don't give it back, that can be theft. This is called "theft by conversion."[1]

[1] https://www.newyorklitigator.com/conversion.html
And to those who are afraid of all legal aspects, don't be, it's very similar to debugging code.

Read a clause, test it with varying inputs, watch the output and so on.

I've actually had fun working with my lawyer debugging/mine-sweeping contracts. We tech people use very similar techniques.

Seriously, go for it, you'll see :)
> A bug in one "page" of the app can cause the whole application server to go down.

Maybe if you're using node or some other single threaded server like that but this isn't true for multithreaded or multiprocess servers. It might be an argument against node but it's not an argument against server side rendering. Also, it's irrelevant how pages are rendered or what you're architecture is if a bug brings down the whole server--either way your app doesn't work.
Edit to my comment above:

My numbers in that comment are a bit off. I looked up my last blood test, and my UUN number was close to 20 g/day. This means that every day my body is producing two hundred times more ammonia than what you'd get eating a big pile of pink slime.

I'm taking pains in this thread to point out that I'm vegetarian, and even aside from that, I'd rather eat out of the trash than make LFTB a regular part of my diet. But that's not because of some imaginary risk from trace ammonia.
Hopefully you won't subject your workers to scrum; it is evil. Refer to https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-an...
Oh whoops, I misread as "airplane"
I didn't mean the internet part...ADS-B in general.
My experience is that many people want to know you will answer any question they ask transparently transparently, but prefer less mettings, and don't need or want you to go into too much detail.

I've always erred on the side of over sharing emphasizing the link the work the team is being asked to do with the business goals/company objectives.

My internal metric was to always ensure that my leaders and direct reports all heard company news from me, before they heard it from the rumor mill.
My favorite contractor went and retired on me :-/ Last major job I had done (major bathroom redo well beyond what I was ready to tackle) took about a year to find someone and then they did an OK job but just horrible communications, etc. In other words, par for the course.
It's impressive in terms of having a coherent flow - there is a clearly stated "opinion" in the beginning and everything that follows is in support of that opinion. However, the dead giveaway is that there is zero reasoning, just related statements linked together.
Many reactions across here / twitter / reddit seem totally out of proportion. And an odd mix of "stop acting so self-important, this research isn't special so you shouldn't have any qualms about releasing it" and "this research is super important, how dare you not release it".

The strongest counterargument I've seen to OpenAI's decision is that the decision won't end up mattering, because someone else will eventually replicate the work and publish a similar model. But it still seems like a reasonable choice on OpenAI's part–they're warning us that some language model will soon be good enough for malicious use (e.g. large-scale astroturfing/spam), but they're deciding it won't be theirs (and giving the public a chance to prepare).
Slow CI and/or Code Review makes concurrent work a bit of a necessity. Context switching certainly has a cost, but it's cheaper for my employer than paying me to wait for tests to run.
How would you make it "even more complicated, and more likely to spaghettifi" to maintain an API than having to maintain a rich UI. Now that's a load of nonsense, or at least very misguided hyperbole.
I had an OKI printer in the late 80s and that thing was bulletproof. I dropped it down a flight of stairs while moving it once and it just needed some minor alignment adjustment to work again. Glad to hear they still make good stuff.
Not really. I have overdraft protection disabled on my Ally account. I get fees all the time when it is overdrafted anyway. I really do want to punch the person in charge of letting accounts go negative. I would rather get denied at the POS than overdraft and suffer fees.
satisfaction that can be derived from spending time mending some of your own clothing

Perhaps for some people. I've tried mending my own clothes, but it always ends up looking kind of crap and so I don't end up wearing it anyway.
Thanks for sharing, that is an interesting setup.
Do you have a Patreon or some other means of supporting you?
> Weird, I don't see any curiosity in your posts,

Curiosity as to what? The cynical content of your mind?

> just emotional reactions to mine.

Respond to my words, not your imaginations of what I'm feeling.

> You're also confusing healthy skepticism with lack of curiosity,

First of all, yours is a knee-jerk rejection of someone's report of recovering their health. It is unhealthy cynicism, and not even remotely healthy. It is just as well I did not have you advising me, all those years ago, when coming across the likes of Peterson and meatheals.com before proceeding with curiosity to heal my own chronic condition of 4 years, eh? Otherwise this conversation would not be happening.

> almost as if you're jumping to the defense of something you made an emotional investment in without consulting rationality.

Look, factual reports are there to establish a prima-facie case worthy of further investigation (sign of curiosity) – rather than capricious dismissal like yours (sign of cynicism) – and thus find out what it is on about. It is called being sensible. Maybe this is how your mind words, but neither emotional investment nor the counteracting rationality (which ironically tends to be emotion-influenced) is required.

You need to have an emotional investment to be cynical.
I actually think for most of us, after some point, switching to engineering manager track is often far easier to continue leveling up in. Most good companies have an equivalent tech track, but unless the stars are aligned and you're blessed with a supportive manager AND the right project that align with your talents, its going to take a much longer time progressing.

Of course in both tracks, it's no longer only about your own contributions and impact to the team, but that your contributions and impact now translate to everyone else you work with so that they're able to improve their own contributions and impact. Or in another way, is what you're doing helping everyone else do better?! So even though that sounds straight forward, showing that at performance review time can actually be really challenging if you're in a tech role vs. a people management role.

I've heard the complaint that some of us shouldn't be EMs, but I'm a firm believer that if it's something you enjoy, you can absolutely learn how to be a great EM. I would only consider sticking with the tech track if you enjoy the tech work more.
Always be suspicious of anything like that. Probably wasn't the case here but nothing prevents one setting up a network of fake profiles to appear legit and get data from others. The Internet is a scary place.