skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not figured in to your analysis is the fact that the battery pack assembly has become a structural element of the car design in many cases now. It’s providing stiffness and strength, and making it removable would take away the benefits of that, which would be a high price to pay because some replacement structure would be required, adding more weight and bulk to the car design.
>um... please tell me devs don't have access to production data in a healthcare environment (of all places!).

Have seen it quite a few times, but there needed to be a good reason and other options had to be exhausted. A few examples were due to zero-width characters which were sanitized by whatever tool that anonymized data, but broke something in the program.

There are brittle systems in healthcare.
Uhm, but these are different companies that start with this proposition for workers from the beginning. That's not what's happening: the old and new models of employment are offered by different companies that compete on the same labour market. And new companies that work with the gig model did not create this labour market.
It's a tool of control, nothing more. Being guilty of wrong-think is enough to get you blackballed in the tech world. Never mind the goal posts are continually moving.
No, because not all ethical view points are equivalent or interchangeable. And we're not talking about any old ethics board, we're talking about an ethics board at Google, which goes out of its way to be trans inclusive.
> that's unacceptable for this role

Do we really need to play facts <-> opinion?

In a discussion about ethics you include as many viewpoints possible or it become dishonest immediately.

You are not a priest or something like that. It has taken too long to accept premised authority.
Next fun fact: Bayer and Monsanto together are now worth less than Monsanto alone at the time of the acquisition.
It's naive to pretend it's not a battlefield.
Foiled again!

http://www.trevormarshall.com/byte_articles/byte19.htm
The article is hard to read on mobile because of the nav bar overlaying the content.
Has anyone read the book "The Most Important Thing", which is mentioned in the blog? If so, can you give a review of it?
Oh dear. Little tear streaming down my face.
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A lot of people in those places live in absolutely tiny places.

Lots of people don't have kitchens you can cook in for instance.
Money Quote:

> I once read a tongue-in-cheek description of San Francisco as “an assisted-living community for tech workers in their thirties”. This snide jab pokes fun at the wave of Silicon Valley startups creating services and products for a stereotypical technology worker in the city. Nowhere to park your car? Uber and Lyft can get you around. Too busy working to cook and do grocery shopping? Postmates can deliver your lunch and dinner. Living in an apartment too small for a laundry room? Rinse can do your washing.
Neat! Your work brought hours of enjoyment back in college. Very fitting username :)
> why are you biting your lip over a freakin' backup tape system, woman?

Backup tape systems are sexy, man. That woman is a real geek!
What is a "Python blob"?
W3C is creating a subset of SVG called "SVG Native". It is intended for icons and simple graphics, so it won't have support for text, scripts, links or XSL processing. Also, use of CSS or animations isn't recommended. It will be similar to SVG in OpenType fonts: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/sv...
I’m making up numbers just to make the math easier.

If for production we need 5x of our baseline capacity to handle peak load are you saying that we could get our server from a basic server provider for 4 * 0.20 ( 1/5 of the time we need to scale our read replicas up) + 1?

Are you saying that we could get non production servers at 25% of the cost if they had to run all of the time compared to Aurora Serverless where we aren’t being charged at all for CPU/Memory until a request is made and the servers are brought up. Yes there is latency for the first request - but these are our non production/non staging environments.

Can we get point in time recovery?

And this is just databases.

We also have an autoscaling group of VMs based on messages in a queue. We have one relatively small instance that handles the trickle of messages that come during the day in production that can scale up to 10 at night when we do bulk processing. This just in production. We have no instances running when the queue is empty in non production environments. Should we also have enough servers to having 30-40 VMs running with only 20% utilization?

Should we also set up our own servers for object storage across multiple data centers?

What about our data center overseas close to our offshore developers?

If you have more servers on AWS you’re doing it wrong.

We don’t even manage build servers. When we push our code to git, CodeBuild spins up either prebuilt or custom Docker containers (on servers that we don’t manage) to build and run unit tests on our code based on a yaml file with a list of Shell commands.

It deploys code as lambda to servers we don’t manage. AWS gives you such a ridiculously high amount of lambda usage in the always free tier it’s ridiculous. No, our lambdas don’t “lock us in”. I deploy standard NodeJS/Express, C#/WebAPI, and Python/Django code that can be deployed to either lsmbda or a VM just by changing a single step in our deployment pipeline.
If you don't want to fly in a aircraft which requires a computer to fly then avoid anything Airbus and almost all other modern passenger jets. The 737 is literally as close to that ideal as you'll find in service today. If an EMP goes off your are still in trouble though, the engines have FADEC, so they'll probably shut down.
Tesla stock down more than 8% after reporting biggest sales drop in its history
One thing that mailing lists (and newsgroups) have over platforms like Github is threaded discussions. It's similar to comparing reddit and HN to facebook and github.

But email lists (and newsgroups) have one thing that even HN and reddit do not. That is, the ability to quickly see new posts. In HN, I have to search through the entire thread to find new posts when I refresh the page. It's the same issue with reddit unless you're a subreddit moderator or have a reddit gold subscription.
Carousels in particular are bloody stupid and lazy design and I wish they'd fall off the face of the earth already.
Fuck taxi drivers and their entire industry. Fuck their lying about someone being there in 15 minutes for four hours. Fuck their “broken” credit card machine. Fuck hailing a taxi while black. Fuck a regulator that does their best to make filing a complaint impossible. Fuck trying to get s taxi to travel to an area that they are legally required to serve but they just refuse to go to.

It is an enormous pity that the taxi industry has not been disrupted more. If better service in every possible way is what disruption looks like count me in. Bring it on.
Not anymore no. It used to be when I did it in the 80s and 90s. It grew up and it is hell now (if I may believe my friends in the industry).

Edit; come to think about it: I made games a few years ago; educational games for government, utilities, zoos and education for money, so a job and that was still fun and really quite a dream job imho. But not big open world fps ofcourse :) Nice 2d games which is like the most anyway.

Edit 2; what I liked about game dev in the 80s and 90s was the limitations of the machines: you could lock yourself up in the basement for weeks, eat and drink and dream optimizations while writing the most rancid (but in my eyes genious) code and in the end ship it and never think about it again. I would say it was far more of an intellectual challenge than (for most devs) now as all was always from scratch; engines did not fit in memory or were just too slow if they they did. Also; there was a clear end to deathmarches: after a while nothing fits anymore and you cannot optimize it further so you ship or just scrap it. Now you can continue forever marching, which must be hell.
SomaFM groove salad is great! I feel like since I only listen to it while doing work it snaps me into work mode. It's easy to zero in and forget that the music is playing.
> I would absolutely fly on one once the problem is corrected.

The problem is Boeing, not the MCAS system.

I don't think Boeing can be fixed.
"Should" is the key word there. When Last Pass was breached in 2015, they were using only 5k iterations of PBKDF-2 to create the encryption key (but it was changed to ~100k in Feb 2018) [1].

[1] https://palant.de/2018/07/09/is-your-lastpass-data-really-sa...
Legally exploiting others and making a fortune is a dream job.

EDIT: not my belief btw, this is how things mostly work in the business world but most people who do that aren't self conscious enough to recognize that
Cancel your AWS account and create a new one.
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I'm not sure what parts of FP python has you're referring to but it seems pretty lacking. It has a few combinators, that's about it.

The influence of "FP" on rust is really more like the influence of Haskell's type system. Rust is pretty far from a functional language but it does share a lot of type system features with Haskell: type classes, sum and product types, HM type inference
Yes, and to get back to GP's point about not being able to avoid these interfaces in important situations, "choosing not to use the product" is underselling the problem again. It's worse than that, and the problem is getting worse.
You're right - it would require a bit of work, however, it wouldn't be that bad for a shared UI framework. I also think this kind of thing will be more common as WebAssembly allows other languages to move to the browser.
This already exists. The problem is how to find it, since on the surface it looks the same as all the junk lists
Thank you for your candid answer.

Can we then sum up your stance in two statements:

1: not all ethics viewpoints are equal, and yours are superior

2: in this instance, you believe that the above opposed viewpoint does not deserve any representation at an ethics board, even if it is represents a significant population of the US and the world?

Is that correct? This is your stance?
Yeah, that's why most PCIe M2 top out at around 3500 MB/s, I doubt it will take long to saturate 7 GB/s (or double that in RAID0). Either way, it's a heck of a lot of bandwidth!
No, it still is a dream job, just a dream deferred so that capitalism can make a profit. Imagine if you didn't have to work for healthcare, food, shelter; making games in this environment would be a dream.
great photos. I kinda envy those who could live at that time. See tech evolve in such a fast pace. It must been very exciting.
> Note: Don't use "display: none" to hide the accessible HTML tree, because then screen readers will ignore it.

That sounds like a use case for @media queries
This is a page layout and report designer, I doubt that the blind users are the target audience.
I first thought this is something like Buku [1] to manage browser bookmarks. Maybe you should make it somehow prominent that this is about folder bookmarks.

I'm using the git bash and bash aliases to achieve the same result, but I think it's quite convenient being able to just call a script to bookmark it :)

[1] https://github.com/jarun/Buku
Well, you can't screenshot a BSOD, so I assume you mean they would take a photo of it (which would be awkward as hell just getting a high enough res copy from them that I could read it) or more likely they would just tell me the error message verbally and leave out all the advanced details. So I'm not sure this is really that good of a justification to make the BSOD screen more detailed.
sometimes it feels like there are only brittle systems in healthcare.
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Learn Ruby regexp step by step with plenty of examples and exercises
my opinion on this topic is irrelevant. But Google's opinion on who is on Google's AI ethics board matters very much, and it appears some things are settled questions for Google. Such as the humanity and dignity of trans individuals.
GWT has its strengths (it's been doing the equivalent of tree-shaking and dead code elimination since 2006).

I use it daily at work. It's an impressive feat of engineering with a lackluster ecosystem and inconsistent documentation. Although it's not dead yet (at least technically) as it still has (slow) active development happening.
Sorry, graphene–borophene is the new wonder material that’s got everyone excited
I'm eagerly following the project for several years now, very well done Petr and Fabian!
I only knew about "Things X-COM Operatives are not allowed to do": https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BqoEJUWKVRFSKXOA2Ks3Ce7K...
> conservative thinkers may have important contributions to make to ethical debates around technology and AI.

"Conservative" is a word that has become overloaded. Same with "liberal". In fact progressive/conservative and liberal/illiberal are orthogonal axes. I don't have a problem with conservatism, per se—I have a problem with illiberalism, and that's what's on display here.

On an abstract level I think "diversity of thought" (can't believe I'm using those words) is necessary in talking about the ethics of applying new technologies. E.g. human cloning: what are the benefits? What are the pitfalls? If everybody in the discussion is on the same side, the result won't be useful, and I totally agree that someone with intellectual integrity, who identifies with traditional conservative principles, could have a lot of value to bring to the table in that situation.

On the other end of the spectrum we have the "homosexuality is a slippery slope to bestiality" and "men have penises, women have vaginas, GET OVER IT!!! LOL <insert laugh-cry emoji>" crowd. Frankly, no, I don't think those people have anything of value to add, and I don't think we should allow those who indulge them to influence the public discourse. Of course, that horse has left the barn.

There is a middle ground, and I think this woman falls there. I think the highlighted tweets show that she has opinions on social issues that have been shaped by toxic identity politics and demagoguery. I personally judge her poorly for that but I'm not ready to make an overall judgment because those three tweets are all I know about her. I don't think there is anybody who has never said something they regret (of course, I doubt she regrets saying these things, but you get the point).

FWIW I think "the left" goes too far in their reaction to things like this. My comment was more meant to address the general oppression complex "conservatives" have over the "diversity of thought" issue.
If you have a really low, spread out load, you could use Aurora Serverless (Mysql/Postgres) and spend even less if latency for the first request isn’t a big deal.

And storage for AWS/RDS is .10/gb per month and that includes redundant online storage and backup.

I’m sure I can tell my CTO we should ditch our AWS infrastructure that hosts our clients who each give us six figures each year to host on shared PHP provider and Linode....

And now we have to still manage local servers at a colo for backups....

We also wouldn’t have any trouble with any compliance using a shared PHP host.
A little bit of background that might be helpful--

Shareholders that meet pretty minimal criteria are eligible to include a proposal on the proxy statement and to be voted on at a company's annual meeting. As part of this, the shareholder or a representative must be present at the annual meeting and gets a few minutes to stand up and present their proposal.

In order to avoid this becoming a platform for every special interest group to gain an audience for their pet cause, the SEC has a list of criteria that proposals must meet. If the company believes that the proposal does not meet these criteria, they can petition the SEC for an exclusion, which if granted, lets the company ignore the proposal: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/240.14a-8

Most shareholder proposals have no hope of passing and are a tool to raise awareness and get publicity for an issue. My guess is that this proposal has zero chance of passing, but that Amazon both wanted to exclude the proposal 1) because they want to exclude all shareholder proposals as a matter of course and 2) that they do not want to give this issue publicity.
> Is a 'X' the Best Way to Understand Everything?

No. Next question.
Most of my friends (~30s-40s) openly talk about how negative their experience was with social media (interrupting family time, seeking approval / likes, losing an hour or more to endless scrolling, having to have an opinion on everything, stirring conflict between friends and family, etc.) and how they've deleted their accounts.

It was useful and novel 10+ years ago, but for traditional uses like sharing photos and messaging, SMS or Google Photos is easy enough these days.

It's been widely discussed that people who consume less news are generally happier and I'm sure that's the same with social media too.
I think this kind of thing will be much more common now that WebAssembly is allowing other languages to compile to the browser. The nice thing about Java, is that there is already support for a dozen platforms, with full native support. The browser is just natural - Oracle should have done this years ago (provide a standard solution to compile to JS and now WASM).
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the list of tools is at least as useful as the most useful tool on the list.

Simple disproof: a list of everything is not more useful than the most useful thing, because navigating the list has a cost.

Also, an analogy: would you eat a bowl of candy that had the best piece of candy in the world and also the most poisonous substance (malware)?
Rationalizations of morality may be more or less flawed, but the golden rule is a pretty good basis for practical ethics, regardless of its philosophical status.
I think you're confusing my personal viewpoint with my observation on what Google appears to have done in this specific context.

But for what it's worth, in the specific question of trans individuals, my personal view point is that majorities have been wrong before, and there's no reason to believe they wouldn't be wrong again. This is one of those times. Trans exclusionism doesn't pass the "Do not ban that which is not harmful to others" sniff test for freedom-oriented society.

But again, my personal viewpoint doesn't rule the Google corporation's decisions. However, we shouldn't be surprised when a company that has positioned itself to be clearly trans-inclusive doesn't find somebody who denies the dignity of trans people acceptable on their ethics board.
It has to be intelligent persistence, though. Only persist if you firmly believe that the potential reward outweighs the cost of continued effort.

Quitting a hopeless avenue of exploration frees you up to pursue greater chances of success elsewhere. It all depends on context.
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> In many of these cases, laid-off employees had no idea what was coming. One developer at a major studio told me in February that he and his colleagues had been crunching — putting in long hours, including nights and weekends — for a video game release, only to be suddenly told that security was waiting to escort them off the premises.

Man, that really sucks, if you think about it. I'm sure many people here on HN have worked very hard on something in their life. I know I have, and in a couple of cases I ended up being acutely unhappy with the outcomes. But, DAMN, at least none of my moments of extreme toil were punctuated like this.
There's no discussion of implementation, we have no idea how "reasonable" an implementation would or wouldn't be. My assumption from reading this is it would require a ton of non trivial additions to the type system
I thought it was interesting how quickly the lisp result was dismissed. I'm not particlularly partisan one way or the other, and it's to the authors' credit to have included it at all. However, this is a paper with "foregone conclusion" written all over it.
I think the equivalent of the Voodoo in the soundcards-space would've been the Gravis Ultrasound. In both the evolutionary and soon-to-be-forgotten sense.

PC Speaker vs. Soundblaster is more EGA vs VGA, something much more profound. And beneficiary to the gaming space, as opposed to early 3D, which basically ruined all the things for quite a while...
This reminds me a bit of an application I wanted to build many years ago: A platform for collections of arguments. For example, the question "are humans contributing to global warming?" Allow crowd-submitted answers. Collect information about facts cited (similar to how this works).

Mostly-rational people can be swayed by evidence and arguments, yet often disagree with each other because they doubt the truth of the other side's statements (fact checking), they believe the other side has missed important context in their argument, the other side has implicit assumptions that they disagree with (this is something that should be explored as a sub issue, then).

I'm very happy to see this. I'd love to see more of this kind of thing in the future.
Musk, in particular, appears to me to be refreshingly naive when confronted with a problem. His suggestions sometimes sound like something a kid would say, and that's not a bad thing.
And muuch of the time, men would work in more phisical jobs like factories, and construction, that where booming in this days, and where well paid jobs.
Free markets mostly work because people vote with their dollars. Democracies mostly work because people vote with their votes. Web democracies fail because votes are trivial to manipulate and gamed by SEO.
I'm using one of those covers, probably a different vendor but the same product. It's almost invisible on my black laptop. I used to hang a piece of folded black cardboard but this cover is much more convenient.
Game developers let themselves be exploited with low pay and unpaid overtime. They should grow a spine and say no to ridiculous work conditions. I am tired of hearing about it. They don’t need to unionize, they need to realize that they have a unique and valuable skill set. If we are talking specifically about programmers, we have the fortunate leverage to tell our employers to go piss up a rope with the weekly job offers we get.

Edit: grammar
Seriously. I tried putting the 16Gb of ram into the 2010 15" mbp, and it would boot into linux, but not macos.

Running memtest it was clear that there were issues with accessing ram in various segments, but I didn't have the knowledge to muck around with the acpi tables to see if that would fix it.

I'd love to give it another shot if possible.
The main annoyance I've had is that for some sites it tries to save 2FA one-time passwords as the new password. Accidentally click "ok" and you have to go through password recovery.
Thanks for that! Really appreciate it.

It explains why most of the forestry is on land not suited to a lot else.
Unlesa you can imagine mice writing symphonies given enough time, how is that an argument?
Imagine if in 1993 someone proposed that the majority of web usage, i.e. the hours spent, would occur on one website.

Imagine no need for email; all communications could be published on and retrieved from a single website.

All eyeballs on the same website, not simply as a starting point or "portal", but as a destination. Even more, the website produces no content. It is all contributed by users.
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I don't know about "under 4096 bytes" but I have heard of not compressing data that is under ~1500 bytes. Part of the thinking is this - if your result data (plus HTTP overhead) is already smaller than the data payload of an IP packet (MTU settings come into play here), then you are spending CPU time that will not save you any network I/O time.
Queuing works most of the time, does it not?