skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's your point? Anyone who's played video games is well aware that value of both in different contexts. Which is my point about it not being a panacea...

It's not about the value of mice/keyboards vs controllers in gaming but about designing the best interfaces for the use-case. I doubt when the Navy designs their systems that they're trying to mimic professional gamers who needs 99.9% aiming accuracy and extremely fast response times in a simulated environment. Typically you design it for the average person, with the least amount of complexity.
You're an asshole. Geometric relationships between numbers are doing math.
> and that many were fatigued, with an average of 4.9 hours of sleep between the 14 crew members present.

I suspect this played more of a role than any of the controls or procedures did. I had a friend in the Navy and he once explained the shifts he did to me and how utterly insane they were.

I suspect leadership doesn't want to (or cant) fix the root cause (fatigue) and is happy to spend tax dollars to replace the steering and divert attention from the problem for now. Gotta do something! Anything! Even if it's not the right thing.
Ah interesting, thanks very much for explaining it.
How can people be responsible for knowledge they don't have? Not everyone can know everything about all of the food they eat, which is by design in some cases.
In the past, when I've implemented TOTP on the server, I've allowed for a couple of time periods of drift. But I recorded the time period that last matched, and only allowed subsequent authentication attempts to be strictly greater than the last successful time period, to prevent replay attacks.
you are trivially retarded
How stop eating changed my life
Residential batteries are currently BS. They serve three purposes IMO:

1. A degree of backup. Solar alone is crappy at backup power. Solar plus battery is okay as long as one’s house is wired appropriately to shed load.

2. They can reduce peak loads. This is called “peak shaving”. If the utility can rely on it, it can genuinely reduce equipment costs to the utility. As far as I know, almost no residential rates give any incentive for peak shaving. Commercial rates give an extremely strong incentive.

3. Batteries can arbitrage nonsensical rate schedules. PG&E will buy a limited but large amount of peak energy from me for over 50 cents/kWh, and it doesn’t really matter that I’m just selling them power that I bought from them for about 12 cents/kWh a few hours earlier. This is the magic of NEM2PS + EV-A (now unavailable, but NEM2PS + EV2-A is still available and is not all that different). It is, IMO, crazy.

Home batteries would need to come down considerably in cost (way more than 2x) to make them worthwhile without these crazy incentives.
I guess it really strongly depends on if the person just used an e-bike to replace their ordinary cycling habits.

I can see how it being easier causes people to take the bike out more than the would ordinarily.
No. You aren't always an expert about things you buy. You should not then start to rely on the price as a proof of quality. If something is expensive it is either good quality or you have a greedy seller. To catch the greedy seller you need to understand what you buy. This is not always possible. Therefore: always buy the cheapest you can get if you aren't an expert or just don't buy.
Damage control reasons as well. If a shell hits the bridge or CIC and wipes out half the stations, killing the sailors manning them, it's desirable to be able to move critical functions to other live sailors where they are and not make them clear away rubble or dead bodies before they can assume their functions. The previous station may not even exist anymore.
I did not say anything about the capability of the jury but was talking about the evidence that was brought to court.
I agree, but generally the assumptions being made by authors and known issues with the data are unstated rather than stated. Further, when highlighting such issues, the reactions can often be negative and dismissive. Obviously people don’t like their work being criticized for reasons that they have little control over (it sucks but that’s the best data we have). My point is the topic doesn’t get discussed enough to improve—outside of some corners of academics.
I appreciate the "I've had contact with <technology>" phrasing used here.

It gives just the right characterization of qualification - "I've used it and been paid. I'm not necessarily an expert"
- needed when living in a rapidly churning set of technology ecosystems.
One DevOps please.
My take is it’s more about killing pedestrians than polluting.
This is probably purposeful, to draw parallels. The author also can't quite make up his mind about whether drinking becoming less popular is good or bad.

It's relatable content. When you have a bunch of nostalgia and identity (and money, in this guy's case) invested into something, I guess it would be hard to admit that overall, it's categorically been to society's detriment.
What do you consider "better language support"?

Most emacs users are happy working at the level of "code with some completion", and generally don't want much more.

I write Java in emacs (Ive used netbeans and intellij quite a bit as well) and I cant say I've wanted anything that I dont have.

So... what might I want that you have found to not be available?
Where exactly does it say that custom clients are against the TOS? Those aren't a form of automation. Discord deliberately offers (and this project uses) an API for posting from non-bot accounts, which implies that there are at least some legitimate use cases for using it.
"DevOps" == "sysadmin that can write scripts"
Or if you need to clean/desinfect often. Touchscreens are good in hospitals.
I do not assert superiority and I also don't make baseless assumptions about strangers on the internet.

> Constructive criticism makes the other person better.

I agree.
If you like comics and CS (because often nothing beats a good drawing):

- Excellent ebooks by Julia Evans: https://wizardzines.com/ (Twitter account https://twitter.com/b0rk)
- (just about DNS): https://howdns.works/
- (just about HTTPS): https://howhttps.works/

If you know of any others, I'm interested!...
"DevOps" used to be a methodology where a Dev and an Ops share a same goal of delivering value into production, at least, that's in the book I have read.

A sort of extension of the Lean System where workers from different areas share a common goal of delivering value to the final customer (in production), the same card may require a backend dev, frontend dev, and an ops to share the goal to take this card from idea to production, and then monitoring how it behaves in production.

For people who have not read the same books, "DevOps" mean things like "applying dev method in the operation field" ie. with ansible and the likes, coding the infra. After all, that's what that word seems to mean at first glance.

This reminds me of the term full-stack, some people consider it's just about being good at both frontend and backend, in my opinion a good full-stack is also a good networking engineer as well as good at customer acquisition.

For best ROI:

- integration must be automated and continuous

- delivery must be automated and continuous

- tech debt includes untested code and being late in dependency versions

- the above should be treated as impediments

The purpose of "DevOps" being to deliver faster from idea to production, it does necessarily include a toolchain of CI/CD/IaaS & monitoring tools. From this "DevOps toolchain", taylorists opened positions for developers that can maintain it around a software, they called that position "DevOps", which explains how we got there on having different meanings for the same word.

I highly recommend "Continuous Delivery & DevOps: QuickStart" by Paul Swartout for a first quick read on the matter.
I think that's the same tone of most comments on these threads. I don't think the HN crowd believes Google will do anything positive for internet users as a whole, unless it's also positive for Google's bank accounts. Hard to be a knight in shining armor when you've proven yourself a scoundrel, ya ken?
I am wondering if there is any games on the market where the visibility of the player is modelled on their projection upon the eyes of the enemies.

The more frame-by-frame difference there is of that projection, the more visible you are.

Seems like possibly quite a resource-hungry solution. Or maybe not?
Apple survived into the 90s on the back of the education market, primarily with Apple 2 and 2gs systems, secondarily with Macs. IIRC it was hard to find CBM or Atari systems to play with (you could go into a BusinessLand or ComputerLand and play with Apple 2gs or Macs or IBM PCs or Compaqs, vaguely recall Atari had some sort of distribution deal with Sears).
I'm quite sure that was possible on android from the beginning.
Great explanation. I do see the advantage of universally supported expression equivalence vs case-by-case macros.

The semicolons are fine as there are few, it's all the brace blocks and following colon-prefixed lines that I would prefer worked like Python. Indenting is human readable vs { : } being more machine readable. There could be a 1:1 rule for converting between formats.
It takes very little effort to not say “he” and be more inclusive.
Wait, ok, I genuinely don't understand your proposition here.

We should ignore the people with the most assets, and only pay attention to the people with the most assets?
I would be surprised if that was true for PC games. Keyboard and mouse is vastly superior to any gamepad. Steering wheel and yoke beat keyboard and mouse for simulations, but that's a very specific use case.
Arranging such events must still be legal and people should hear of them and decide for themselves whether they would like to participate. Even “illegal” gatherings are important for a democracy. Perhaps more so than legal ones.

I can’t imagine advertising assemblies without permits is illegal in many democracies?
On the contrary, I’m a lifelong Mass guy whose been in Boston proper for 12 years, and the bars seem better than ever. I’m in Jamaica Plain and Turtle Swamp brewery is packed every weekend and expanded into the neighboring building, which was abandoned and dilapidated before they came. My wife and I met a couple there from the neighborhood and we became good friends, we just went to their wedding. Downtown JP is in a renaissance of success and local business activity. The death of bars in Boston is greatly exaggerated.
I can vouch for deadlifts. Had wrist tendonitis flare-ups first at age 29 while doing lots of coding for a newly launched product. I'm 43 now and haven't had a flare-up in over 6 years (been doing heavy coding since 28yo). I do deadlifts once heavy a week, sometimes will add in an extra light set during the week. If you're starting out with deadlifts, be sure to check out a program like Starting Strength and practice correct form before adding heavy weight.

Things like bench press and working with heavy dumbbells have probably helped too since the weight forces your hand, wrist, and arm muscles to strengthen. I have also used a hand-held grip squeeze device which has helped over the years when I had flare-ups.
Lack of monitoring is scary.

> knowing a triple A (Authorization, Authentication and Access Management) solution

AAA is Authentication, Authorization and Accounting.

edit: formatting
Sure. There's regulatory capture. But this particular problem, the externalization of costs, is a classic one solved by regulation rather than the free market.
In the UK taking a train is often (but not always) more expensive than driving and can take longer too. Depending on the route there might not be a viable service. The service in bad weather isn’t very reliable either.

But for some routes it’s really easy and convenient. It just depends on where you are and where you’re going.
That "zombie startup" that Aaron is describing sounds like a nice, sustainable company that isn't chasing growth but can live for a while, profitably, with the customers you have. Why shut that down? That sounds great!
It depends on the game and your personal preferences. I can't imagine any enjoying a RTS or 4x like Civilization with a gamepad. I prefer a mouse for 1st person shooters, for whatever reason I simply can't aim accurately or quickly with a analog joystick.
Strictly speaking the simulation only has to get better when someone looks. E.g. you only have to simulate full quantum mechanics when a scientist is doing specific experiments. Otherwise, you can get away with approximations. (And this is only a very small subset of experiments, like superconduction and superfluidity. Things like blackbody radiation are easy to simulate without quantum.)
THIS is why I'm sick of people complaining that pro-organic consumers are "anti-science". Many pro-organic people, like myself, are for organic food because of many reasons including IP issues and pesticide use. Individual piece of food made from conventional processes might be fine to eat but it doesn't mean there is not tons of collateral damage to the environment or our society in general.
"The people with the most assets" in aggregate are the upper middle class, lawyers and nurses and chemical engineers, not Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
This article makes me...itchy. For background, I've been running SRE/infrastructure/"devops" teams for the last couple years, hung out my shingle as an independent consultant before that, and worked at a fairly large company as what we'd have called an SRE if the term had been a thing yet. And to me, feels like a lot of missing forests for trees.

Elsewhere in the thread, 'somepig notes that this sounds like what a sysadmin does. I replied there because, just as you shouldn't call yourself a programmer[0], calling yourself a sysadmin is probably similarly mindset- and career-limiting, but I kind of have a bigger beef with calling this "consulting" than I do "devops". Of course this stuff is "devops", but--"properly" applied (and I scare-quote the word because you can call damned near anything "devops", up to and including "the development team hurls a tarball over the wall at some sysadmins in the basement and flees at top speed")--it's not consulting. It's a list of hands-on work. There's only a cursory nod to the most important part of any devops-facilitating role (whether it's called an SRE, an "infrastructure engineer", a "devops engineer", whatever): alignment of technical initiatives with business needs.

I don't mean to be harsh in saying this, but if you're spending most of your time in the code mines grinding at this or that, you may not be a great "devops consultant". You might be a great infrastructure developer or SRE. But in my neck of the woods at least, clients hired me to make sure they were doing the right thing and to make sure that their employees were adequately prepared for the workflows they wanted to implement, not to do last-mile CI/CD computer touchery. (Which I'd do as well, of course, when time allows--but there's more value in being a multiplier than an adder, and at the rates I charged I'd better be the biggest multiplier I could.)

[0] - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
A number of people today seem to be willing to grant that Google is a better arbiter of morality than the real selectorate, and this is not a mistake I think.

Google clearly has an interest in circumventing U.S. cultural norms (for financial and ideological profit), and the best way to do it is to convince some number of Americans that they're suppressing the "bad people" and promoting the "good people".

This time around, the useful dupes are mostly authoritarian progressives. Over time, the authoritarian progressives will make the association in the other direction: they will begin to believe that whoever Google suppresses must be a "bad person".
I'm not sure I can name another language with coherence, dependant types or not. To be fair, even GHC is half-hearted about it.
They quite literally have thousands of servers all around the world, many of which they need to go the extra mile with to keep off Netflix blacklists etc. so the service itself is very different to spinning up a single VPS.

In terms of utilisation; a significant portion of their users use the service for P2P (there's even dedicated P2P servers) and many more users such as myself for streaming (around geo-blocking).

Utilisation is public and many servers are indeed frequently near max utilisation, even when there are hundreds in a region. Decreasing utilisation at that scale will have a significant impact on profitability.
This works great for someone as fearless and confident as you. Not everyone is a champion of themselves. Most people I know in this profession do not know how to toot their own horn or sing praises of their deeds. If you don't do that, it's easy to disappear into the woodwork, because others are quite busy enough themselves.
I own an ebike, and I use it for journeys that I wouldn't even consider taking an ordinary bike on. To be honest, I don't even think I'd ride an ordinary bike to the top of my road. It's a bit of a hill, and riding a bicycle up a hill without electric assistance is extremely unpleasant.

Ordinary cycling is just too tiring for non-cyclists to want to do. An ebike makes it workable.
Interestingly, they have raised it without pesticides for that many years too.
You could get around fine with the first three gears, it's just that it would be a lot less efficient.

You could get around fine with 2, 4, 6, it's just that it would have very slow and less efficient acceleration (accelerating for longer at low RPM and very high torque is overall less efficient than accelerating for a shorter period of time at a higher RPM, given identical start and end speeds).

And that's exactly the point I made. You need many gears for an ICE because being able to reach a given speed in a given gear says very little on how efficient that is, therefore you need different gears for accelerating versus holding a given speed to get acceptable efficiency.
certain car manufacturers should do the same too
>When it comes to computing, as simulated beings improve their own efficiencies, the savings from improved algorithms reduces for the simulators. Eventually, any computing we do, the simulators will also have to do 1:1; because our algorithm and their own will be identical. We get expensive fast.

The simulation doesn't have to correspond 1:1 to what we consider it to be, they can use all sorts of hacks.

They could just implant in our (simulated) minds or instrument printouts, etc. the idea that we saw some increased accuracy in our measurements, without changing anything special about the simulated world.
No nonces, either.
Exploring the Intersections of Web Science and Accessibility
I like electrek, but the editorializing here on their “take” is quite cringeworthy. I recommend skipping it.
If Google decides to both treasonously adhere to Russia’s demands and, simultaneously, hide or fail to index items per Russia’s demands, then Google will no longer be a search engine of the INTERNET — instead, it will be a search engine of the GOOGLENET.
I use a keyboard/mouse for PC games not because I'm trying to be an elite couter-strike player, I just find the analog joystick uncomfortable and difficult to use most of the time.
We should teach Python instead of Racket (at least here)
it's really not that complicated, you just have to understand why condensation is happening in the first place. it's always because the glass is colder than the moist air it is touching. there are two strategies to deal with this: either blow air with very low relative humidity over the glass, or fix the temperature differential itself. if you're using the "blow dry air" strategy, you always want to turn on AC and at least some heat, as this will create low relative humidity.

now in the winter you can sometimes do better than this by fixing the temperature differential itself. you can either lower the windows or cool the entire interior by blowing air with no heat. in reality, most people don't actually want to drive around in the winter with windows down or no heat, so the best tolerable option is usually to do as above: turn on AC and heat.

in the summer you can also get fogging on the outside of the windows. just use your wipers for this.
Their intro video is really well-produced. If I had landed on it without any context, I would've thought it was a new Netflix show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd_2HwAmge8
It takes less effort to not be offended
Upon joining my current company, I renamed the team that I lead "infrastructure" for exactly this reason. That team was not a "devops" team except insofar as things were getting hucked over the wall and they necessitated some dev out of the ops folks.

My role here is arguably a more integrated one where we're working towards a devops-flavored culture, and the infrastructure team here is part of it: "we maintain the roads and set up the water mains and keep the power lines from falling down, but hooking up your house to power and electric and making sure it doesn't catch on fire--that's your responsibility."
sure, but I wrote that in the context of someone jumping in and feeling overwhelmed
Cause the investors are going, "that's not what I'm giving you money for! shut it down! SHUT IT DOWN for the love of god!"
Your logic disallows absolutely everything: I don’t know what the impact is of your existence, so the safe thing to do is to not allow you to exist.

At some point, you take calculated risks, because there is no action in life that comes without risk. Even your preferred solution of eliminating all chemicals and switching to alternative farming practices comes with substantial risk: it’s very likely it won’t scale. Millions would starve.
If you're going to claim that something is common practice, you should be able to do better than a 65-year-old example. There are certainly many more recent examples of American foreign policy screwups - some of which were vastly more destructive than Iran - but I'm not aware of any during my lifetime that involved overthrowing a democratically elected government.
The Tao of Programming (1996)
didn't watch the video but generally the assumption is if you can get to cash flow positive but not hockey stick growth then you're good enough to work at a larger company and you're leaving money on the table (by not drawing a salary).
It's an analogy. I'm not saying they should specifically be using game controllers to navigate ships.
Assuming we're in a simulation, all those are quite big assumptions...

"1. Perhaps the goal of the simulation is to prove it’s a simulation, sort of like Neo meeting the Architect"

Yeah, and perhaps its not, and the simulation is discarded.

"2. If we do prove it’s a simulation, perhaps we can make a plea to the creator for the things we want and need"

And they'd listen to us because? What possible bargaining power would we have?

>Though it is also possible the author is correct. In any case, I would rather know the truth than remain ignorant.

That I can stand behind!
I was employed by Commodore Denmark in 1984 to become their UNIX wizard for the CBM900, and I'm part of datamuseum.dk.

The 900 was very much a US project, Germany wanted the PCs.

The C900 prototypes were manufactured in Germany however, but that was simply because they had the facilities for the large PCB's from the 8xxx series.
Looks like the usual hatchetators are here to play.

Bars and pubs are not the same. Bars just serve alcohol, but pubs are public living rooms and centres of communal life. A pub is where life's milestones are celebrated, the departed are grieved, friendships are cemented, matches are made, and revolutions are plotted.

And some of us prefer the pleasures and pangs of gradual self-destruction to the quasi-religious cult of self-improvement.

Some of us truly our 'best selves' after a few pints of something dark and bitter.

I for one never trust anyone who doesn't drink.

Cheers!
We have an example of how navy shifts work on HN by 'genkimind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19101464