skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very good point.

Even for that, though, if you define your criteria for success, it's mostly possible to measure the outcomes and learn whether your approach was successful or not. One key there is remembering that subjective metrics are valid - user happiness and developer happiness are two of the most useful ones I know of for measuring the system's overall health and effectiveness, and while they're not objective, they can still be measured reasonably quickly and regularly.

For fields like public policy, though, there are just so many confounding factors and the timeframes are so long that it becomes nightmarish, maybe even impossible, to genuinely learn anything. The subjective metrics of citizen happiness and functionary happiness that are analogous to my software ones above are worthless because of rollout times measured in years or decades and the infinite array of factors, confounding and otherwise, that go into people's satisfaction with society.

Even relatively straightforward things like farming have learning cycles measured in years for things like crop rotations.

The universe is just not a friendly learning environment.

Programming is an aberration in almost every respect, as a product of the human mind that can actually have useful impacts in the world (most friendly environments are human constructs that are not "useful" per se, like board games or musical performance or sports).
That particular phrasing comes across a mite hypocritical - if you admit that having a well-kept garden makes one a good neighbor, then you are admitting that your unkempt garden makes you a bad neighbor.
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If you assume that almost all the mass of a galaxy is in its nucleus, then the only "orbits" allowed are conical sections (ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas): there is no such thing as a spiral trajectory. You would need a very unusual mass distribution to have spiral trajectories ... and it would imply that galaxies are not stable which would contradict what we see.
GoG is amazing, my preference is GoG, Steam, and piracy is a distant third to the point where I haven't pirated a game in a decade.
> Or at least if it's a bug, it's a bug in the HTML spec.

Then again the HTML5 spec is based on what browsers already did, bugs included. Whether or not it's desirable behaviour or a bug is a moot point now. HTML is the way it is because of its history.
For many systems, the lack of you working on it might hurt someone.

For example, imagine you work in a bank on their mobile apps. You decide that implementing automatic bill payments for a certain type of account is too much technical effort and not worth it.

Hundreds of thousands of people with that account now have a subpar experience. They have to manually pay bills, and many will forget, leading to arrears, bankruptcy, payday loans, and prison.

Your decision not to implement that feature to make the lives of your customers better indirectly led to ruining the lives of tens or hundreds of people, who otherwise would have led a good life.

From an ethical point of view, unknowingly ruining a life due to an action or due to inaction, is pretty similar.
By skimping out on support, clearly.
Nat Friedman just replied to this tweet:

> Sincere apologies Jason. We will investigate what happened here and learn from it.

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1136216389054881792
Well haha still seems like a lot of brain was put into it.

Also, there's a simpler pattern to the sequence that is easily observable without even opening OEIS.
<Big corporation> removes <large body of work> without notice or consultation.

How often do we have these articles? Averaging once a month? Maybe more?

How often does it need to happen before people realise that your $10/mo means jack shit to a multi-million dollar company, and "accidents" like this are just a cost of business to them. Solving the problem properly would cost a lot more than just letting people fall through the cracks of automation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb pe Twitter: „Time spent on revenge is never wasted.”
Because the models these games use is not sustainable for all games. Sports games have several things going for them that normal games don't. Like being simulations of the real world, so as players move, etc then the game gets updated. Secondly there is an inherint monopoly on sports games. There is only one official NFL game.
Do you think it would be better if it was called try_or_return?
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Tend to agree. The window for nuclear is closing now. We should be doing a fuckton of R+D into energy storage solutions, and overprovisioning offshore wind.
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Really really enjoyed reading a blog where the content of the article was the focus. I was not bombarded by popups asking to sign in with Google, sticky banners asking me to accept cookies, etc. Above the fold, there are absolutely zero links, and even the links that are in the article are presented in a very subtle way - they're there, but they don't draw attention to themselves. It would be great if more blog posts were like this.
You think the decision to make a fail game like Artifact with the main goal of getting as much money as possible was a software engineer decision?
Rare Earths Battle Looms as U.S. Aims to Counter China Export Threat
Because the main reason Taiwan is not part of communist China is it has military protection from US?
> That’s a really fair and reasonable response. Not sure what else people really expect here.

The root cause of suspension is incomprehensible to me. They were suspended because they launched a set of instances and these were using 100% CPU. How is that unreasonable and cause for suspension?

I'm not a Digital Ocean customer, but if I were, I'd expect to be able to use the resources I bought without risk of being suspended. This is the root cause. It was compounded by incompetent customer support, but I really do not understand the suspension cause.

The response tackles all secondary factors, but does not talk about the root cause. I'd expect it to.
The lawyers think differently than engineers. Get yourself a lawyer and try to sort things out. Your further contribution does more damage to the open source project than good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...
The author of this post is also the author of the fantastic "Visualizing Concurrency in Go" [1] article.

[1]: https://divan.dev/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/
India-Based Job Seekers Lose Interest in U.S. Tech Jobs
Don't ask, Don't tell.
well the beauty of git is that the entire repository is more than likely cloned in a few different places and is easily reproduced. Also makes it nice and easy to move elsewhere.
Why not simply using a "?" the way kotlin and rust do?
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Google Keep. Free. Desktop + mobile. But they’ll probably discontinue it one day.
There are/were several new nuclear power stations planned.

The issue is that government policy is that they should be funded by the private sector (and that the UK is no longer able to build a nuclear power station by itself).

No-one in the private sector can do that, as we've seen.

For Hinkley C, EDF could not (and the French government did not want to finance). For another power station Toshiba recently gave up and took a serious financial hit because it was just too much [0].

The only ones willing to throw money at this to build those nuclear plants are the Chinese, which EDF already called in to partly finance Hinkley C, but then everyone goes ballistic about "handing over our electricity supply to the Chinese Communist Party".

Considering that the UK developed and built the first civilian nuclear plant this is (yet another) monumental lack of strategic vision and huge waste.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/08/toshiba-...
Yeah, and similarly we don't need hot sauces when we eat out at noun, because there's already something hot available: the sun.
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You're still using the company laptop. Typing on it, using its CPU (even if just to sustain the VNC connection and process user input).
Spending crypto is now as easy as swiping a debit card, all across Europe (EEA)
If we die out here on our home (as far as we know) planet, then we didn’t “deserve” to colonize other planets anyway.

Isn’t that the point of natural selection after all?
> What I find surprising is that nobody ever comments on the fact that the UK literally operates US nuclear missiles with warhead designs heavily influenced by US designs.

Huh? That's absolutely a common talking point whenever a conversation about "renewing Trident" or similar comes up.
I'd like to note here that while the vim versions of OS distros get updated every now and then, Bram does a fantastic job of releasing multiple times per week and vim is easy to compile.

I compile it every week (I use it as my IDE -- term buffers and all).

Just in case someone here is a heavy user and is worried about this.

https://github.com/vim/vim
IMO these novel scissors don't really represent the achievements of Japanese scissor-making. The market for high-quality hairdressing and barbering scissors and tailoring shears is now almost completely dominated by Japanese manufacturers.

There are two makers left in Sheffield (William Whitely and Ernest Wright), a handful remain in Solingen, but Japan has dozens of high-end scissor manufacturers. It's a remarkable niche success story, built on a careful combination of design innovation and traditional craftsmanship.
I'm running podman(docker replacement) on fedora for many things. It can run as a user without root permissions, does not need a daemon and containers get their own SELinux policy by the fedora devs. Far from perfect, definitely better than nothing.
this story checks the "solve your own problem/scratch your own itch" advice for entrepreneurs/makers, you can tell it must be very satisfactory, it is motivating to read such stories.
I'm not a sysadmin, but it seems even safer and easier to 1) keep Windows behind NAT, 2) ssh port forward through UFW on a cheap Linux box.
You are absolutely right, a current example of that is the Yellow Vest Movement in France:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement

When I first heard about it, I thought it was a movement which is not caring about the environment. That 1 million French are vocally opposed to the environment. It's more complex than that but taxing carbon would lead to protests of the masses.
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Having your instances run at 100% CPU pretty much raises a red flag at any cloud provider. Depending on your plan it either gets shut off (like in this case) or you get a notice about "suspicious" behavior and a bit of time to fix the "issue".
In Defense of Negative Emotions
Germany: Killing of Kassel district president leaves locals aghast
I must confess that the main reason I'm replying is to correct the darkly amusing dead->deaf typo that I'm hoping you made.

However, I wonder if you could comment on whether you think a) that you and your colleagues' approach is reflective of the broader medical community, b) you think earplugs could be feasibly issued in shared wards (from a financial/hygiene/other perspective)?
Manager, yes.

Legal, no way. Never talk to legal or HR about these sort of stuff.
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We aren't necessarily right-wing. We are highly conservative. For instance, as a nation believe in reproductive rights, we are proud of our free health care system, we severely curtail the right to even own a gun and we voted for gay marriage only recently.

Even though I personally can't stand the current government, they aren't as right-wing as you make out.

Of course, what is happening here is absolutely awful.
The Olde Country
maybe it's like the existence of Ikea, it is difficult for him to walk into a stationary store and buy what he likes because those other objects have crowded his favored scissors out of the market, in the same way I can't find a furniture store in my city that sells good looking furniture I don't have to build.
People reading you're comment might assume that the words "white people" can never be racist. The words "white people" is not racist by itself just like the words "black people" isn't racist either. Context matters.
I have a micromanager
I don't care if he's a creationist or not. It's telling that this is your response. You can't actually say anything substantial about how feathers evolved, because you don't know, and neither does anyone else.

FWIW, reading the other responses in this thread does not give me the impression that he's a creationist. If someone asks you why your view is more rational than theism, you should be able to respond to that question without shouting -- and the person asking won't necessarily be a theist. Unfortunately, as EGreg says, it's impossible to say anything at all critical of current evolutionary biology without someone screaming at you that you're a creationist and refusing to engage with any of your points.
> I haven't looked at countries besides Canada; but I would strongly recommend Canada over the U.S. for anyone seeking to migrate on the basis of skills.

I would also suggest to consider the Netherlands. The procedure for highly skilled migrants is super simple. Pretty much the only condition is that your employer pays you a sufficient wage.

https://ind.nl/en/work/Pages/Highly-skilled-migrant.aspx
Thank you for the reply! I think I've landed on implementing a local login strategy as well.
Not a lawyer but if you have signed a contract that clearly binds any development you do in your work laptop to your company you work for.

It is not a breach of contract but you have given intelectual property of any software you coded in your laptop.

I suppose you can speak with your manager and the legal team and ask them to release the code you coded with a license compatible with the project you collaborated. If the focus of that project is different from the focus/market of the company you can talk them into this and make them accept a once-in-a-lifetime exception.

Good luck!
They still do, or did in 2015 and 2018. We were lucky enough to not need the doctor-led hospital unit - using the midwife-led maternity unit instead (where private rooms are standard). However, we were moments away from foreceps being used - a doctor-administered intervention - for the first birth, which would have necessitated a move downstairs to the hospital wing, and thus a ward or payment for a private room.
"(I don’t want to build it, but someone else should"

Me too! I'd pay for a weekly newsletter!
Sounds like you could appreciate https://www.3claveles.com/3claveles_tienda/es/1003-tijeras

3 Claveles - Spanish scissor company. Very simple, very elegant, very sharp.

We use them industrially for horrible things (sending and cutting wire, rope, etc) and they keep an edge like nothing else.
> Mainland China is by far Taiwan's biggest trading partner.

That's true for most neighboring Asian countries. But I'm also guessing that most fabless customers are American. Sure, there are Chinese fabless chipmakers such as HiSilicon (Huawei), Tsinghua Unigroup, but nowhere as big as Apple, Qualcomm, or AMD.
That's a pretty solid review of Gentium. Nice resource.
Absolutely spot on w.r.t. "Self-Help" movement. It has become a scam similar to all the Leadership/Marketing/Sales BS. Store bookshelves are full of these sort of books with claims that beggars belief. A little thought will show that there are so many interacting factors in any endeavour that there can be no quick, easy, ready-made and always-true solutions. And yet everybody is sold this juvenile crap and it is further propagated without appeal to skepticism. Any real progress due to actual research is further obscured by turning everything into "sound-bites" because the average person is considered "dumb" and cannot grasp nuanced ideas with assumptions and limitations. This toxic mindset has pervaded our entire society and does not forebode well for our future.
That's not really what this is, though. This is about industrial policy and maintaining local industrial and technological capabilities that are, in turn, useful or necessary for defence.

There are plenty of examples of this being done all over the world, because many defence industry capabilities are pretty fungible into areas like aerospace, chip design & manufacturing, optical engineering, and so on. So an industrial policy that results in development in those areas has dual benefit.

Half the reason Silicon Valley exists is because of this sort of cross investment. It's likely Airbus wouldn't exist in its current form either without it. If it's all humming along nicely, you get good cross-feed in between too, with a lot more stable and long-term low-TRL investment on the defence side feeding into the civilian sector, and high-TRL investment producing better completed systems for the defence side.

What will be important to prove in this case is whether the UK investment in civilian nuclear power is done solely to benefit the military nuclear energy industry, or whether there is a valid and viable argument for that investment on its own. I'd be interested in seeing the research.
As an aside, Hinkley Point C is so expensive because they really botched the financing. Nuclear cost is all about minimizing the cost of capital. What they did pretty much guaranteed the opposite.

Here's an alternative model being proposed for future UK nuclear energy projects: http://www.dieterhelm.co.uk/energy/energy/the-nuclear-rab-mo...
There's a huge political problem with protections that are on by default, and that's that opponents (advertisers) can easily argue that they are not the explicit will of the user and hence feel justified in doing whatever they can to bypass them. So this action increases the justification for browser fingerprinting and other dark tracking patterns.

The same sort of thing undermined do-not-track headers. The instant they passed from being user-enabled to on-by-default, advertisers were presented with a strong excuse to ignore them.
CCGT - Combined Cycle Gas Turbine

FYI
So it's sort of the opposite of Field of Dreams, which often results in vaporware. Just because people come, doesn't mean they know what they want or know how to express a problem or need that could be solved and result in a viable product. It's a big risk to gather people using a human interest story in order to sell them that you haven't made, or really formulated yet. Is your story compelling enough to keep interest long enough for you to build and launch a product? How will you find the time to keep them engaged while building the product? You may well luck out, and if you do that's great for you. But it doesn't make it a good idea.
UK literally operates US nuclear missiles with warhead designs heavily influenced by US designs.

The thing being this was a negotiated outcome to prevent the destabilization of a system by the introduction of an independent nuclear source. France was bad enough: the Americans and Russians didn't want Britain making ICBM. (Obviously I doubt the Russians were consulted)

This is why black arrow was cancelled: the US promised Polaris if the UK ceased rocket tests in Australia.
Today I learned a new word - quine. I will stick with 'self replicating program' for light, down the pub conversation.

Being able to make scripts and other elements visible by putting 'display: block' on them is the more useful thing that I learned.
Dutch teenager, who was raped as a child, is euthanized at her request
Negative and neutral reviews are gamed as well.
Spider-man is the best change my mind
No superhero is better than spider-man
I would argue that 99% of sites sending cookies and personal information to social media do so for tracking purposes.

You may be the exception. But its a privacy tradeoff that benefits the majority.

And let me say: if webmasters had shown any respect for privacy in the first place, maybe this would not have occured.
>The Last of Us was a masterpiece. It deserves a place in gaming history up there with Doom and Half Life 2.

Maybe. They never bothered to release it for the PC, so I'll never know.
Who else is old enough to remember WordPerfect's "Reveal Codes" mode? Same thing.
If you have the luxury to do that, but if you run a VM, or a single box in colocation, or rent a physical server, that may not be an option. My point is introducing an IP whitelist inside the server doesn't require to change the physical set up, nor any current process relying on the server being directly accessible. It's a low cost quick win.
> Exclusively gay people are the non-breeding worker ants of humanity, they don't pass their genetics along but the do their bit for the survival of the colony

And that's a just so story. There is zero evidence that this actual reason for the continued existence of non-heterosexual humans in the population.

It's not clear to me that same gender attraction requires any more of an explanation than opposite gender attraction. It's only a particular, narrow evolutionary lens that makes homosexuality look like a puzzle to be solved, rather than a fairly obvious consequence of the fact that people of the same gender can get each other off and have feelings for each other.

Honestly, we gays seem to have the worst luck in this respect. A couple hundred years ago people didn't think we fit into "God's plan". Now they agonize over how exactly to fit us into evolutionary theory. (I think there are about as many theories of the evolutionary origins of homosexuality as there are evolutionary biologists.) Hamlet got it right: "There are more things in heaven and earth...Than are dreamt of in your philosophy".
Can this be described as:

"Get some gas, microwave it to make it really really hot, hold it in with magnets as long as possible, then when it escapes out the back it's going really fast, pushing the spacecraft forwards".
Taken to the extreme, he might do that in a hotel room, which is paid for by his employer.

In the case SHTF event, the lawyers can go as deep as they need, and how deep then need to go is directly related to the importance of the issue.

Don't even suggest that anything non-work related could be made on anything even remotely paid by the company. Always with your property, on your dime.
While I am sure there are local variances, a high school teacher in my neck of the woods will easily out earn the typical web developer by a sizeable margin. I cannot begrudge someone for doing well in their career, but there is a sentiment found in this thread, and I am under the impression that you are alluding to the same, that higher paid teachers will produce better outcomes for the students. I am not sure there is in any indication of that being the case.
Even with checked exceptions, you have to be careful. You may not want exceptions from every function you call to fly up to the caller.

function X() throws Oops {
okToFail(); // fine if this failure goes up
unexpectedFailure(); // not fine to go up
}

Unfortunately, once you tell the compiler its ok for exeptions to go up, that rule applies to the whole function.
for me it was similar but with the game Tibia