skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> blindly hammering away on the wrong problem is a failure mode for many intelligent people. The key is not just sticking to things, but also having enough taste to know when to drop a problem.

Agreed. In my original comment, I was trying to imply that those exceptional people did (ad you say) have enough "taste" to know when to stop, but I don't think I made that aspect clear.

The crystallographer I was talking about definitely failed more often than not, but I was always struck by his ability to keep floating reasonable ideas after the rest of us had reached what we thought was an intellectual cul-de-sac.

If you have ever read the transcript of Richard Feynman's speech "There's plenty of room at the bottom" [1] you get the same feeling--here's an incredibly bright person who can't seem to stop when he's told that "x is impossible."

I love this part of Feynman's speech: "The reason the electron microscope is so poor is that the f- value of the lenses is only 1 part to 1,000; you don't have a big enough numerical aperture. And I know that there are theorems which prove that it is impossible, with axially symmetrical stationary field lenses, to produce an f-value any bigger than so and so; and therefore the resolving power at the present time is at its theoretical maximum. But in every theorem there are assumptions. Why must the field be axially symmetrical? Why must the field be stationary? Can't we have pulsed electron beams in fields moving up along with the electrons? Must the field be symmetrical? I put this out as a challenge: Is there no way to make the electron microscope more powerful?"

[1] https://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
But that problem doesn't require a process redesign. You can just lower your expectations.
I wonder why they didn't include Let's Encrypt integration - it's completely painless using the acme library, and that would prevent the whole "HTTP or HTTPS?" discussion around HTTP/2
Jochen (who's website you linked) is the lead author of the paper. The line under the byline reads:

> This article was presented at VISxAI, it is now under review at distill.pub.

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the VisxAI workshop, and then later expanded into a journal paper published in Distill.

(Disclosure: I'm one of Distill's editors, but was not involved in editing this particular paper.)
The difference between Wolkswagen and Boeing is the latter is an american company and hence is probably not going to face billion of dollars of damage from american authorities and current administration. Probably no jail time either.
You should be able to do something with labels, CSS sibling selectors, and the :checked pseudo-class if it matters to you. I found an example at https://codepen.io/ancaspatariu/pen/WpQYOP which does quite a lot more than you’d need.
It is creating an electric field for every observer not in a reference frame at rest with respect to the electron.
I love awk within certain domains, but the the overlap between where awk is suitable and something big and complex enough to serve as a good example of programmer productivity is essentially nil.

There are some gems in the results section though:

> It is interesting to note that the developer originally reported only 101
lines of code, but fully admitted attempting to pack as many statements into each 80-column row
as possible! The line count of 250 is based on looking at the actual code in [LBK+94] and estimating a line count based on a more “reasonable” notion of program formatting.
I'm not trying to take sides in this but here is a relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
All of that land that is undeveloped is owned by someone or something. Some of it will never be developed unless it is traded for similar land, i.e. Midpeninsula Open Space/National/State/County park land. A huge swath along 280 from Portola Valley to San Mateo is part of the water system for San Francisco - someone is going to have to convince them to give up Hetchy Hetch water before that goes away. Much of the open space near Palo Alto is owned by Stanford, and is why Stanford is one of the largest universities by size in the world. Unincorporated areas in the mountains have to supply their own water from wells and in the drought last year many places on the rainy side of the mountains went dry - building density where there is not enough water or sewage outside of septic tanks is not reasonable.
Assuming someone did get your password and you are the only with access to it possibilities range:

you having logged on a different computer where your password was recorded,

your password being stored in ram and accessed by a malware,

your 1Password account being violated,

LendingClub had a data leak and they do not hash their passwords

You gave your password up in a phishing attack

I’m sure there are more that I haven’t thought of.
It can be useful to introduce a canonical term for a phenomenon, even if there is limited immediate explanatory value.
If your "managed services" are a ton of work, then they're not really managed.

I built a system selling and fulfilling 15k tshirts/day on Google App Engine using (what is now called) the Cloud Datastore. The programming limitations are annoying (it's useless for analytics) but it was rock solid reliable, autoscaled, and completely automated. Nobody wore a pager, and sometimes the entire team would go camping. You simply cannot get that kind of stress-free life out of a traditional RDBMS stack.
Yeah, I think that's fairly put. The MCAS system was pretty straightforwardly trying to kill them, and the only way to disable it also disabled their method of recovering from what it was doing.
so assuming you had no savings, no open line of credit and no family to lean on... how did you get out from that?

Also did you have any dependencies?

What were your leanings from the experience?
The financial incentive that kept office buildings along 237 empty for decades need to go away.
At one point I did try this, but it ends up being a much more complex solution. It turns out it's fairly difficult to ensure the element appears above every other element. I was using 'position: fixed' with the maximum z-index value.
Exploring Randomly Wired Neural Networks for Image Recognition
I've configured my email client (Thunderbird) to display it when viewing an email. I can simply right-click on the message-id value and get a context-menu with a "copy message-id" option.

Other mail clients should have something similar.
It was the end of the 60s, people! My personal experience of that time was that my dad was in his heyday, he worked at IBM as an engineer. I remember seeing equipment like that in the early 70s when I visited him at work. People dressed in flamboyant clothes, had long hair, a lot more counter-cultural acceptance, in certain circles at least.
Russia escalates spy games after years of U.S. neglect (2017)
If it makes you feel any better, not everywhere is like that. I work at a mid sized technology consulting company on the east coast, and I've heard multiple managers say that they hate when they have to manage developers from the west coast. My manager told us about a time she got a nasty email from the lead developer of a team because she started an email with "Hey guys" instead of a gender neutral greeting.
I go on youtube and try out some of the "epic music mixes," which have a lot of soundtrack type music on them. Also, I have to give a tip of my hat to Ambient Worlds, who have made some great long "rainy mood" mixes that are great for backgrounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30b7_S0paCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N-IREy7C9s
I have a book from a minicomputer company I worked for in the late eighties and nineties. A Year in Development. Basically documentation of projects and people in 1984 or 85. Showed it to a friend of mine and her first reaction was Wow, so many women.
Very civilized comment from mr. Caddy himself.
Heartening, not least considering the kind of vendettas some projects - Caddy among them - have to put up with from competing developers.
The switch works to disable MCAS, but at the cost of also disabling the trim motor, which is what you need to use to recover from what MCAS was doing before you disabled it.

It is as ludicrous as it sounds.
Right. Freedom of speech logically cannot be unlimited for everyone at all times. That's why government protections of freedom of speech tend to be limited in scope.
My playlist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_silent_musical_composi...
Indeed. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
ah, a nice and absurd sigbovik presentation. everything I hear from that convention has been simultaneously silly and amazing (especially the stuff that Tom7 did like having a printed program with only printable characters that is a valid and compiling c program)
Sure, but it doesn't mean 96000 are in agreement either. So why wouldn't leadership just trust their own judgment and stay their course? That seems not just spineless, but also irresponsible since it means they are willing to discard all prior careful deliberation and research at the drop of a hat.

> do you yourself actually care other than the fact that a specific group of people complained?

Yes, I want a diverse set of views on such a council, representing multiple areas of the political spectrum - that is, left, moderate, and conservative views rather than just the far-left. There are also a wide range of opinions out there on topics like the use of AI for military purposes or on the modern transgender movement (which is the subject of controversy relating to this council). Only 8% of America are progressives after all (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo...). And all this is still without consideration of the worldviews that exist around the globe, which is important given Google has customers globally.
Fair enough. Let me rephrase that. I'm not some hardcore puritan...
Are you sure you're not just reacting in anger because someone criticised your country?

I love India, but from the couple of months I spent there it's clear that there is a huge amount of apathy and resistance to very much needed social change. This criticism is valid. Just look at the attitude to rubbish and pollution - complete apathy and desensitization. The sacred cows do not eat grass, they eat plastic mixed with food waste. Literally. And as far as I can tell, nobody cares about this, or about the obvious poverty everywhere, the disfigured beggars and starving child workers, because they have become desensitized to it, just as I did after a couple of weeks.
Among other problems rent control has this really nasty side effect of stopping that community action that would help control housing prices, Seattle is a good illustration of this.

When rent started increasing in Seattle all renters were immediately effected and so that segment of the population mobilized and applied pressure to do the one thing that keeps housing prices down in a free market: Increase supply. Lots of people were forced out but after over a decade of non-stop, fevered construction prices are finally starting to get under control.

In San Francisco a large portion of the rental market is insulated from rent prices until it's time to move. At that point if you're priced out, you tend to leave. Some people try to tough it out and fight but that rarely lasts more than a year or two. This staggering of resistance to increased rents into smaller chunks of the renting population makes political change almost impossible as no small chunk has a chance against the more consistently committed land owners.
The elevator analogy doesn't work in Vietnam, pressing the button again sometimes cancels the elevator.
Bad news is pretty much anybody smart, and talented wants to work on new, exciting and bleeding edge stuff.

If you are still running on Tomcat, all the best getting the market standard genius talent to work for you.

You would also like to learn about what happens to workplaces where smart people don't work or even like to work at.
I agree that testing for knowledge of specific tools is probably not what you want, but I find that among people who do have significant experience with git, ability to use it effectively seems to correlate pretty strongly with overall programming ability and productivity.

I mainly have experience with git, but I assume this generalizes to other version control systems. I also think that version control is a pretty fundamental skill for software engineers (comparable to unit testing), so I think substituting that for "use a version control system to do x" would fit in with with other skills.
I am. So I don’t use it.
So you should be excused for not doing research on something your entire infrastructure is based on?

And just “extrapolating”?
This is 2 years old.
Gabber, noise, and grindcore
> After all its the supply constraints that have made existing residents rich, why would they want to fix the area's housing problem all by themselves?

I hear this argument a lot, but I’m not sure I buy the financial angle. If MV became Tokyo, the land alone in which a single-family home sits would be worth vastly more than it is today.

I legitimately think that they want to continue to live in a detached house with a yard, in a low-density neighborhood, like they have for a long time (or recently bought into).

The ones who have been there for decades don’t feel the increased prices (thanks to prop 13) and the ones who recently moved in are clearly wealthy enough.

Is it that hard to believe that people just don’t want their neighborhoods to change?

I think once we acknowledge that, we can work to preserve that neighborhood feel without dismissing that desire as being a disguised financial interest.
No, on Airbus the joystick still only moves the elevator, which has less control authority than the stabilizer, which is what trim controls.
The Internet Archive will host 490k music tracks 'lost' by MySpace
If it used macros I bet that had some effect on the ranking. Macros and CLOS are two things that really take some time to sink in and understand for programmers that don't use lisp much.
Particularly beneficial for console gaming.
You might like this video that shows emergent behaviour that I find fascinating:
https://youtu.be/gaFKqOBTj9w
The big innovation of aurora is they decoupled the compute from the storage [1]. Both compute and storage need to auto scale, but compute is the really important one that is hardest. Aurora serverless scales the compute automatically by keeping warm pools of db capacity around [2]. This is great for spiky traffic without degraded performance.

1. https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/p1041-verbitski.p...
2. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
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My Win10 PC has been pestering me about the latest feature update(s) for months now but they repeatedly fail because of some generic driver error, which I briefly tried troubleshooting in vain. So every now and then I get to watch my PC rollback yet another failed update.
Sorry for the late reply. Building Metastream as a web browser instead of a web extension was a complexity burden created solely by myself.

One of the main requirements I wanted was the ability to use the app with as little centralized dependencies as possible. P2P is the primary way to connect to users with the app, but even that requires a centralized signaling solution which is prone to downtime. To mitigate this, users can also directly connect to an IP address with the appropriate ports forwarded. Listening on a socket is not supported by a web extension at this time.

Additionally, some actions on the web require a "user gesture" to be performed such as fullscreening a video. I created an auto-fullscreen feature by simulating a user gestured mouse click. It also only fullscreens within the frame of the window instead of the entire screen. [1]

Other features not possible with a web extension/app include local file reading (potential future feature) and Discord Rich Presence (currently implemented).

[1] https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/17203
Proponents of the cloud love to ignore that for 'small' places, it's often perfectly fine to have a 'part-time +emergencies' ops/sysadmin person/team to manage infra.

Yes, some places will need a full time team of multiple people, but a lot of places don't, and can get a tailored solution to suit their needs perfectly, rather than just trying to fit into however it seems to work best using the soup of rube-goldberg like interdependent AWS services.
It seems the "yo-yo manoeuvre" required to manually trim when severely mistrimmed with deflected elevator stopped being taught or mentioned in Boeing manuals decades ago.
I experienced homelessness for a while in my 20's (back in the 90's, for reference). And yes, there were a group of people who were homeless and did not want to change. They would complain to everyone who could give them cash or assistance about how horrible their life was, and how they were victims of circumstance, but to other homeless people they were quite honest about their intentions to stay on the streets.

I never experienced people abusing me or stealing my stuff, but they were definitely difficult to be around. "ruiners" is a great name for them.

I moved on, getting some casual construction labouring work that allowed me to get the deposit for a rental property together (90's remember, not sure that would be possible today). And a friend let me housesit her place for a couple of weeks, which really helped.

I'm not saying we shouldn't help the homeless... I got a helping hand up from a construction contractor who didn't have to help me, and I'm grateful for it. But maybe don't be surprised if earnest attempts to help the situation aren't received well.
I was thinking similar things. I'm plenty sure they don't have any legal responsibility to mislead and confuse people which is essentially what they are doing. They might have a legal responsibility to say we are at fault if their internal investigation is still ongoing. But almost certainly knowing they are fault and trying to placate people and distribute blame is all about greed, lack of moral and setting up a false narrative of 'duty to shareholder'.
I am unclear what sort of research went into these categories. They seem effectively anecdotal and subjective - there's no statistics or studies being quoted that I can see.

Sure, something like "informal sociology" is something that I think everyone does and I don't think that's a bad thing by itself. Such "studies" become more problematic if they are presented in the form of science, especially in situations like homelessness where average people's vague impressions of the homeless can go into homeless policy - ie, where shelters should be, etc.

I mean, my also anecdotal impression is that a lot of people move between some or all of the categories that are listed. That movement involves getting or not-getting sleeps or medication, random walks between doing well and not doing well, the rise and fall of relationships, etc.

But altogether, if any actual policy is being made, the best thing is making a study what percentage of people will benefit.
I have a lot of legacy code built on mod_perl that survived over five hardware generations without missing a beat. But mod_perl has become system-cripplingly leaky over the last couple years. I nearly entered a debug rabbit hole before considering a simple workaround. After a quick apache conf edit, mod_perl was swapped out for plain old CGI. Heresy perhaps, but everything is running smoothly again.
Construction is a major contributor to climate change. So, how does tearing down and then replacing with town homes of similar density fit into the city’s climate change plan?

https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/sustain/climate_ch...
The bit on 'ruiners' is overly judgemental, lumping people who are clearly upset and mentally ill in with predators. Yes, there are sociopaths and predators in homeless shelters, but a lot of the behaviors being picked out in group 5 are just signs of mental illness and distress - just a severe point on the continuum of group 4.

Also, a category that's neglected is people who could be served by existing shelter or halfway house infrastructure but choose to avoid it: I know of people who are 'homeless by choice' as a result of facilities being either (a) too scary/chaotic or (b) too moralizing (e.g. 'dry').

There's also a good deal of youth homelessness which falls into many of these categories without cleanly matching any one of them. Sometimes kids leave households because they are 'wild', but frequently because the households are dysfunctional and couch-surfing or sleeping on the streets is perceived to be no more dangerous than being at home (or being shunted into foster care).
so, you might be dealing with some half/truths here.

Netflix does NOT use aws for their meat and potatoes streaming, just the housekeeping. They use OWS for the heavy lifting.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3037428/netflix-is-not-...

But re: maintaining hardware, I only maintain my dev box these days. We are fine with hosted linux services, but backup/monitoring/updating is just too trivial, and the hosting so affordable (and predictable) w/linux it would have to be a hype/marketing/nepotic decision to switch to aws in our case. The internet is still built on a backbone and run by linux, any programmer would be foolhardy to ignore that bit of reality for very long.
Don't get me wrong, I do agree with the 2nd two, though I haven't really thought through the first use case. :)

I'm mainly just replying to the poster that attempted to say that since Firefox already makes network requests, ~anything should be ok.
Wonderful article. Even we were working on the similar issue. One way could be, instead of using Symmetric key (probably stored in the browser - hence not safe) to encrypt passwords before sending to LastPass server, they could have used Asymmetric crypto system. Solution similar to this can be very helpfull in this case : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slhwunm4oT0&feature=youtu.be Notice the private key never leaves the mobile device and hence the client does not has to trust on LastPass browser client.
This is an ethics council. Things like advocating against the right for certain classes of people to exist in public spaces are relevant to deciding if someone should be a member of an ethics council.
It's apartments built before 1995 with at least 3 units.

https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/preservation/rents...
Paywall bypass: https://m.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes...

Edit: press continue reading
Diablo creator live streams coding of indie game
This is so practical.
We don't want pilots to be creative. Air safety is so good because pilots learn memory items and checklists and actually follow them instead of making stuff up.

If the checklist doesn't mention flaps and the plane crashes if you keep the flaps up, that's on Boeing.
If the CEO of a public company owns 10% of that company's shares and 90% of their new worth comes from the value of that stock, I can imagine them caring a great deal about increasing the value of the stock.

This is what people are referring to when they say "shareholder value" -- diving up the value of the stock.
A Japanese executive would accept responsibility honestly and commit seppuku.

I don't expect him to kill himself, but honesty seems the least we should expect in its place. Dishonesty is what caused it, and dishonesty continues dragging it out.

He should be pelted with rotten fruit whenever he show his face in public until he comes clean.