skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm too far away from planes to know, but it's interesting that you can break it down into steps with different requirements & significance. Cruise requires energy density while takeoff requires power density. Additionally, takeoff, being close to the ground, doesn't have that multiplier effect that high-altitude emissions do.

So, what I'm really intrigued by is the thought that you could takeoff with chemical fuel and cruise with electric or fuel cells.

Or, as you mention, there's always syngas. That might be the holy grail that saves us from ourselves.
Perhaps ruining specific parts of Europe, but I think it’s unfair to say tourists have ever ruined an entire country or even city. Usually there’s just small easily avoidable areas if you don’t want to deal with crowds and overpriced food. That said I will never travel to Rome, the Bahamas, or Paris unless forced.
Pre-checked cookie boxes don't count as valid consent, says adviser to EU court
I find your comment dehumanizing and disgusting. Homeless people are just that, people. You should give them even a modicum of respect. Kindly get out of here with this kind of language. You have no proof of what you speak.
In your first paragraph you’re asking for more respect:

> Software Engineering Middle Management is a toxin or a cancer.

In your second it seems that you don’t respect those lower on the ladder:

> Programmers are like cats and their opinions are more important and refined than anyone else's.

As a leader it’s important to distill good ideas from bad and be able to bring those lower on the ladder along. Give them the respect they deserve and you’ll get it in return.
There is a major difference between killing a sentient being (including oneself) and not creating more beings.
Intel Circuit Squashes Side-Channel Sniffing
Wow, if Facebook does the same about tiananmen tank men and a sleuth of other stuff, they didn't have to get blocked in China!
It's not necessary to know /how/ to know that it /does/, but it's probably related to the sanitation of drinkable liquids.
Car2Go, DriveNow, Sunfleet, countless others have existed for years with more-or-less literally that model.
Isn't an explosion just a very loud soundwave? This doesn't pass the physics sniff test, but maybe I am just being pedantic.
Oh god you’re one of them. I’m sorry for you and your family.
Most people will categorize crashing, overheating, and graphical artifacts as a more severe problem than "what's that small noise I hear once in a while".
It comes down to who is doing the coin creation and redemption. In the case of USDC, Coinbase is handling it. In the case of JPMC, JPMorgan would handle it.

The general public's trust in JPMorgan is probably higher than their trust in any crypto company that has yet to exist for an entire decade.

JPMorgan - and other banks - have a huge incentive to run their own "stablecoin" creation/redemption business, because it can in some ways allow them to skirt their reserve requirements, while also possibly netting them a tiny operating profit if they sell newly-minted JPMC above the price they redeem them for (leading to profit on the spread).
A single-source approach requires a lengthy justification as to why they are the single option. Manipulation of the specifications so that you believe there is only one option does not require this justification because it's not explicit. In fact, it's possible that you are mistaken and another vendor could win the open (not single-source) contract.
I absolutely agree with you, which is why I would never alter my life creation activities for environmental concerns. If humans wanted to fix our energy issues we could make a serious push (perhaps 5% GDP) towards nuclear technologies.
What if I want to broaden my horizons by visiting the ancient ruins of Rome, Persia, etc? Or going to observe Mountain Gorilla in Biwindi?

> It’d be helpful if people thought a bit more about what other people are saying and were more charitable about interpretations instead of finding the first reason to get mad.

I'm not mad - I just think it was a stupid, self-back-patting point.
Starting this with a few disclaimers:

1) I unequivocally believe all anti-vaxxers are wrong, 2) I absolutely support efforts to fight their misinformation, 3) I don't even necessarily think it was a bad decision by gofundme to do this;

Now, what I'd like to question is the effectiveness of taking down those campaigns. My points:

1) I doubt that an average user scrolling through gofundme would see and decide to support such a campaign, I'd imagine most of the funding comes from the links being directly shared

2) The above makes me think such campaigns will simply move to a GoFundMe competitor and be equally (un?)successful, effectively nullifying any changes

3) Gives more attention + victim points to anti vaxxers

4) If their discourse is further pushed out of mainstream platforms, does it actually reduce the spread of their ideas or just limit their exposure to counter-arguments and public condemnation?

Edit: formatting
Bash function to delete all local Git branches except for those you want to keep
> Not giving your kid vaccinations is stupid. But on the scale of "ways you can mess up your kid," it's pretty mild.

Measles and other dangerous diseases returning to the US after being iradicated is not a small issue. This effects other children's lives. It's selfish and harmful and we have a safe reliable solution.

People have become complacent to the horrible effects of diseases because of the protections vaccines have provided them over the last 50+ years.
So you're saying that instead of improving conditions for all of our fellow humans, that some of them should shit in a bag for their entire lives and we call that progress? I don't think I'm misunderstanding what you wrote, but I doubt that is the point you intended to make. Either that, or you fail to have any empathy for the homeless, which is much worse.
Writing an API at the Edge with Workers and Cloud Firestore
I'd add to that, as to some it's not always obvious… in order to get customers, you need to be able to SELL.

I'd argue sales is more important than the rest of what you need to do to get a successful consulting practice going.

It's common to focus on the technical skills above all else. That's a fatal mistake.

I speak from painful experience on this one.
Private companies draw those lines, as they always have done. This is GoFundMe. They also have a ToS that specifies what you're allowed to have on their service, so they've done this for as long as that ToS has existed. Anti-vax people can use some other service or create their own.
It's an apples and oranges comparison in the first place. There are security expenses related to prison populations. You need staff, facilities, equipment, etc. to manage prisoners behavior (prevent fights, etc.) and keep them from escaping. The two things have a different mission, so of course they're going to have different costs.

It's like saying a refrigerator is more expensive than a microwave. It doesn't mean anything because they do different things.
People aren't generally fond of sharing their intimate encounters with a sex toy [1]. Some types might even need cameras, and that's definitely not flying.. How are you going to develop and improve the product if you can't collect the training data?

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/341529556/We-Vibe-Settlement
Yes, around $220k this year. I got lucky through a personal referral to a staffing agency, found out how much another team member was making, and asked for that amount. I'm working with a local recruiter who sources talent for some of the bigger companies operating here. My email address is in my profile if you want to connect.
> a "private cryptocurrency" will seem like an oxymoron

There is one sense in which a private cryptocurrency could be tremendously useful: a currency with a ledger maintained by a TTP but where transactions were authorized with proper digital signatures would be both more efficient and much more resistant to fraud than any other current (no pun intended) method of transferring money.
Because every idiot with access to the internet can instantly spread any nonsense they want to millions of people. In the past, this type of nonsense was filtered by editors and such at media companies.
> MMT says that the only constraint on spending is inflation, but also turns around and says that you can always print more money. That’s a contradiction.

No, it's not. And that's backwards: MMT says that because you can always print more money, the only constraint on spending is inflation, not revenue, and that taxation serves the purposes of creating incentives by specific targeting and limiting inflation by it's overall level, but doesn't actually “pay for” spending in the balanced sense this applies to participants in an economy who are not the sovereign money issuer of the primary currency.

The key upshot of this is that:

(1) the idea that an excess of spending over revenue must be financed by debt owed to some particular party is an artifact of structures which obscure the fundamental nature of fiat currency and try to mimic commodity-based currency; and

(2) the idea of long-term budget balance as a goal is bunk Ina fist money system; in fact, as base money supply is tokens created by government issuing and spending them and destroyed by government recovering them, having a money supply in such a system is synonymous with long-term surplus of spending over revenue.

> Printing more money does not change the real wealth in the economy

Correct.

> You can’t create additional purchasing power with an increase in the money supply

You can't create additional aggregate purchasing power that way, but you can create new purchasing power for the entity holding the newly-printed money (at the expense of purchasing power of those holding existing money of th same currency, and with three side effect of also tranferring purchasing power from all holders of assets denominated in the currency to all holders of liability denominated in th currency.
I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time
Nazis don't exist. They used to, before most of us were born, but they don't exist any more.

Of course those who want to censor will call their targets Nazis, and try to scare people like you by saying that the world will end if we don't censor them.

As far as I know, Facebook doesn't censor revolutionary Maoists or Khmir Rouge sympathizers, and their ideas are easily as dangerous, if any ideas are dangerous. No, we can work through this as a society.

Censoring everything is letting them win.
Calling someone "one of them" is exactly how censorship on a social level works.

Why not discuss the merits of the science instead of ad hominem attacks?
It’s as if the entire Midwest doesn’t exist.
Chlorine can cause blindness, burn skin off, or just kill you instantly, and sodium is an explosive that can cause blindness and severe burns, yet you casually shake these two disastrous chemicals on your salad at the dinner table daily.
RoboCup@Home [0] is addressing such home tasks, eg. cleaning a toilet, in a competition setting for universities. This is an attempt by last year's winners: [1].
Taking out trash is a new assignment this year.

Note that in RoboCup@Home, the robot have to do a LOT of things well and its easy to be spread too thin over all those capabilities, whereas the Amazon Picking Challenge has a very narrow focus and you can still modify your environment a bit.

[0] https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx3QdaPD8bw
> skirt their fractional reserve requirements.

...wait you can just do that? Just declare a "thing" to equivalent but not identical by reference to a dollar and go around laws using dollars because you technically aren't using the dollar?

Yeah that's terrifying.
I'm not suggesting we remove agency (yours or otherwise), but there are people out there that will accept cash to not have children. Efforts like that should be pursued as long as its entirely voluntary, as not having a child is one of the most impactful actions someone can perform to reduce damage to the planet (we're pushing limits at 7.53 billion people already). Economics is a powerful incentive.

Regarding nuclear, I'm not going to beat a dead horse in this thread.
Instead of adding overhead, could you instead rate limit random activity, to smooth out the noise floor, but keep a constant noise floor?

I do this on VPN links, using a bi-directional rate limited rsync and QoS. SSH takes priority over the rsync, so there is no added latency. Rsync just fills in the silence on the VPN. Some people call this padding.
everything you make an input of the recognition process become an output of the office politics hack. obviously it corelates. at my company, were its not part of recognition, higher ups have zero posts on the information sharing systems.
Part of the distinguished engineer's role in the company should allow them the time to do such things- attend conferences and meetups, participate in research, meet with vendors, etc. If a company needs someone focused internally on product for 8-10 hours a day, then that company cannot afford a distinguished engineer.
Data please. Are you claiming vaccines does not contain large amount of aluminum and mercury. Large enough to cause autoimmune diseases and even death.

Let us talk data instead of trying to shoot down the voice, which seems to have become the trend in the west lately
The title should really be "Owning a Car For City Dwellers Will Soon Be as Quaint as Owning a Horse". I live in a suburb in the Midwest, and taking an Uber or Lyft to work every day is simply not fiscally wise, even taking into account insurance, maintenance, and gas.
* for well-off individuals in a major metropolitan area.
It seems to break in a different way every time I reload the page.
> But I am pretty good at this guessing game. In 1998, as one of the first Internet-focused reporters for The Wall Street Journal, I wrote a piece titled “I Cut the Cord” about giving up my land line and going all mobile.

Cringeworthy, I'm afraid. A platform doesn't make you an oracle.
So will this be available to purchase?
Somebody is having an IPO and hired a PR firm...
In the realtime graphics world,

Ray tracing = initiate rays from light sources, bounce them around, accumulate them on camera. This is accurate but incredibly inefficient. This is how pre-baked light mapping and GI works.

Path tracing = initiate rays from camera, induce bounce rays toward light sources. Not quite as accurate but orders of magnitude mode efficient in terms of producing an acceptable image.
I don't know what drugs the author took to write this headline, but I want the same!
I mean I'm all for it, in principle, but this is about as out of touch as it gets.
Yeah, but they're still in the code.

Tracing is nice when it is a feature built into the language implementation (i.e. the compiler or the interpreter).
I have a baby. Are these cars I don't own going to have car seats?
This will inevitably lead to 1984 style censorship. The next 5 things censored en mass will all be "objectionable", but then finally something good, normal or simply against the orthodoxy of the day will be censored that no average person would object to.

But then it will be too late, because everyone supported censoring ideas they simply didn't like being spread.

Then it will be against the law to object to anything that is official censored.
The anti-vaxx delusion is a contagious viral illness of the brain that enables the spread of biological viruses that do physical harm. This is not a free speech issue, it's a public health issue.
Clearly staff augmentation has different tasks than expert consulting. How do you signal which you want/do?
What bothers me about the ban is that anti-vaxxers - at least the ones I've read - are not Luddites.

I've never heard an anti-vaxxer say things such as "It's God's (or Gaia's) Will that Johnny died of measles."

They believe, wrongly in my opinion, that vaccines cause other medical problems serious enough to justify not using vaccines. To me, that's legitimate dissent.

Given the stakes, maybe GoFundMe did the right thing.

But what's an acceptable threshold of risk?

Because, for various reasons, anti-vaxxing has become a political problem as well as a health problem. Maybe more so.

The political aspect - i.e. GoFundMe being vulnerable to political charges of endangering the public - is probably what drove GoFundMe to institute the ban.

Which leaves other politically charged uses of GoFundMe vulnerable.
how does that work for USD cash ?
I'm curious as to why you are so wrapped up in law enforcement, and not in common decency. Isn't the issue that these cities don't house their homeless? If removed from the sidewalk, where would these people go? Fixing this problem starts with humanizing the homeless and proposing coherent solutions, not complaining about the lack of law enforcement.
that’s after hair transplants dude. Find a pic of him in the late 90s.
Because the science is so solid that it's beating a dead horse at this point.

But with anti-vaxxers, It's like telling someone the red apple you're holding is red, yet they insist that it's green. You can't argue "the merits" with people like this.
> a quaint hobby, an interesting rarity

Owning a home is a "rarity?" 67.4% (2009) of people own their own home. That's almost a super majority.
On our full-remote team the #1 onboarding (and ongoing) practice for engineers is near-full-time pair programming.

For engineers who haven't logged many pairing hours before, it requires a few weeks of stamina-building: it's initially exhausting to hold a model in your head while engaging your vocal cords.

One non-obvious but critical tip for continuous pairing: ensure everyone has an excellent audio environment. Buy the right headset, have a door or acoustic foam installed in the home office, etc.
Source: No other wireless headphones match the features for the price. You're welcome to present a challenger.
Yet people still find use in horses in rural parts of the country.

There are parts of the America, vast regions in fact, where owning a car for individual use will remain an important part of life for years to come. Electric or combustion, owning a vehicle with complete agency over it will remain a strong part of the lifestyle.

I say that as someone who is trying to ditch the car and replace it with a bike and who thinks cars should be removed from city centres so I am not at all pro-car. It is just a requirement of modern rural life to be able get yourself around long distances.
That is an amazing idea! I might do that :)
Or if there's a military that will use this to trigger earthquakes.
I feel like the author's prose right underneath that heading explains it really well:

If you silo yourself to only learning within your company, you are missing out on a world of experiences and expertise different than yours from the external community. Technical leaders realize this and place importance on learning from the larger world of computing than just their solo.

New ideas get introduced to orgs in many ways. In my experience, it's primarily through hiring new people, but making it an expectation of distinguished eng is clever, because you can also expect them to practice and apply discernment.
I spend $2.7k a month and I don't even live in SF!
They do. They have a deprecation path, and descriptions on what to change when versions change.
> For a general purpose website I doubt any more than 10% of people will ever get anything like a Yubikey

I bought a bunch of Yubikeys and tried giving them away like candy to friends and family. I couldn't even give them away; people still weren't interested, including several developers (!).

We'll never be able to save everyone, so my only wish now is that for the people who do care, everybody implements 2FA/WebAuthn properly and uniformly. Even that we're so far away from. Maybe eventually we'll get to some level of herd immunity, where >90% of accounts are 2FA protected, so trying to exploit them is a massive waste of time, and can be detected early.
Yes direct from the results of the Surveys done :-)
SDE Manager == Distinguished Engineer

I always felt whole point of a Distinguished Engineer is to not have to deal with the overhead of managing a team and instead focus on technical direction. Recognizing however that requires a certain organizational scale to be able to pull apart those roles
Skirting fractional reserve requirements is unnecessary, and obviously not the real motivation for this move. The fractional reserve requirements are already so low as to present virtually no constraint on lending. In reality lending is limited mostly by lack of credit worthy borrowers.
Spoken like someone who lives in an area where owning a horse is a luxury and doesn't serve an actual purpose.

I want to believe in things like this, but it just doesn't make sense unless you expect complete urbanization and everyone vacating rural areas.
To be honest, it can be both.

That said, yes, public safety is a real concern.
Depends on what game you're playing. Are you trying to win the argument? Or are you trying to win your listeners? You can go against bad actors, with charity, and still point out where they refuse to commit to a position, where they change positions, and where they otherwise argue in bad faith. I wouldn't do so the first time it happens in a conversation, but if it keeps happening, sure, use the record of the conversation to point out what they're doing.

Note well, however, that if I'm reading this, and I see that you have judged the other side as arguing in bad faith, and you try to document that, and I don't agree, then I think you have a hair trigger at least, and perhaps that you are arguing in bad faith. That is, you have to extend more charity than a normal reader, rather than less.
Let's take an easy one: basketball.

There are more white high school basketball players but more black college basketball players. Are you claiming that's 100% environmental?
Why I was Father of the Chapel for one on the biggest union branches in the company.
What are the problems with using inheritance to handle this?

class urlencoded extends String;

class xsssanitized extends String;

then secure functions can be explicit about what type they need.

void embedInPage(xssssanitized xssString);
Did you know that vaccine protection doesn't last a lifetime?

And that all the adults that got vaccinated as a child in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and maybe even the 90s are no longer immune? But none of those people have been required to get immunized again to maintain herd immunity.

This means we've been at 50% coverage or less for decades. Maybe there is some missing information that needs to be discussed?
Of course we're claiming that, because it's the truth.

If you don't know the difference between an ethyl compound and a methyl compound, learn those first, then come back.
I briefly lived next to a 'housing-first' building, and it became very clear why there was a 24/7 staff. At least once I week I encountered someone who needed to be helped home because they were disabled, lost, drunk or some combination thereof.

The staff basically filled in for the social support network that the residents didn't have. Residents may have been able to mostly get by on their own, but when they needed help, they really needed help. Living alone did not seem like a realistic option for the people I encountered.

Reading through my comment and the thread context again, it's hard to come to a single conclusion. It's complicated. There's many different situations that ultimately end up as homelessness, and the different situations require different interventions to fix.
With dynamic trace points and scripting there is no freezing.
One problem with becoming bald is that you now have to worry: what do I do with my sideburns (a sign of masculinity)? Do I trim them at the top and the bottoms?
Your point? Is Sodium chloride same as sodium and chlorine separately.

Extending your logic makes drinking liquid hydrogen perfectly safe because we drink water everyday.