skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of these can be avoided by making all the steps repeatable. To do that, you should run everything in a Docker container that's built solely from version controlled files, and run it on a remote system that gets blown away regularly. You can use Jenkinsfiles to specify exactly what to do with different branches, and to really simplify things, you can have a different job for every kind of release. Build in a dry-run option so you can run a whole release without actually publishing anything. Each of your software projects can have its own specific release steps in a script run by your release container, while still following the same basic release process for all your projects.
The Psychology of Sharing in Social Media Marketing
People are quite skeptical since the great replication crisis.
On Reddit, I almost always downvote the "broken" link, just to make Twitter marginally less visible.

At this point, the platform is so full of horrible UX and dark patterns that I want it to die.
Didn’t get what Mayumi wrote that was a lie.
Was speaking with someone recently about the city feels increasingly empty. There are less store fronts and such for sure, but huge swaths of apartments in NYC are investments. They may sit vacant for years on end for some Saudi Arabian wealth fund. There are certainly reports of the dropping population, but in other ways things feel tangible. Living in NYC you come to discover how small of a world it is, disparate friend groups may in turn know each other, how big is this city really? Neighborhoods feel emptier, huge parts of the population of the city are from wealthy Chinese and foreign backgrounds (this is not to disparage them). They don't really work jobs or have traditional careers, but fill the city, making it seem more hollow.
>My most important prof was a star student of E. Cinlar

so you're 2 removed from someone whose authority on the matter we would trust?

>I've published peer-reviewed original research, taught graduate courses

lol so does every phd student. not a high bar were' talking about here.
What should they do?
Seattle did this for a stretch of 3rd. I don't have the data to call it a success (or failure) but buses on 3rd seem pretty quick to me.
It was not discontinued because people were making annoying websites with it, it was discontinued because it was a nightmare for security.
I agree, Amazon just seems to be getting worse, with dodgy Chinese brands, counterfeit stuff, and fake reviews.
Costco is a no-brainer and food is top-notch.
I’m probably in the same line of work as you. Specific skill set (embedded RF/Microwave/Antenna) with a small group of customers. It’s not SV FU money, but still pays very well.
> For years, they were terrified of making any changes, especially ones that might break backward compatibility. This lack of ability to change anything meant their brightest never stuck around very long. This only made those who were left even more terrified to make any changes because the institutional knowledge was gone. It's a vicious cycle.

That's an interesting comment. I actually wonder whether this eventually happens for any successful product. At the end this gives competitors a chance to surpass the product. So it's definitely a cycle.
Here's a somewhat redacted version. `m` is my alias for `make`.

- Finalize source
- Legal check `LICENSE-dist.txt`
- Update `CHANGELOG.md`
- Bump version in `Makefile` and `Core.json`
- Commit "Bump version".
- Build (three OS's can be done in parallel)
- `m clean`
- `git pull`
- Make sure you have the latest `Fundamental.zip` package in source root.
- `m dist`
- Manually test installer and fragile features (audio drivers, patch loading) for ~10 minutes.
- `m notarize` (on Mac)
- `m upload`
- `git tag vX.Y.Z`
- `git push --tags`
- Release
- Update version title and URLs in `Rack.pug`
- `m upload`
- At this point, normal users have access to new version.
- Update server version in `config.coffee`
- `m restart`
- At this point, normal users will swarm to download new version. Keep an eye on server bandwidth.
- Publicize
- Twitter https://twitter.com/home
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/vcvrack/
- Share on group
- Forum https://community.vcvrack.com/c/announcements
If one were to introduce a layered approach (eg adding in a battery storage layer), I wonder if this argument is reduced?

EG: When times of peak consumption out-paces the plant, it draws from battery system. When consumption is less than production, the batteries are recharged.
I have been selling books for the last decade and started seeing an influx of counterfeit books on Amazon about two years ago.

I've even gotten cease and desist letters from lawyers representing the top publishers because I resold a few by mistake.

The worst part is that there is no clear way to tell if a book is counterfeit, the publishers wont actually tell you specifics, and the only way to know for sure is to send the book to the publisher.

When you send it to the publisher, you will get an answer in about 6 months (yes/no) and the answer is always yes.

You have no way to get your original money back for the counterfeit and nothing is learned about how to more easily detect counterfeits.

I feel like this is intentionally vague so they can go after anyone for counterfeits and there is really no way to know if you have a counterfeit or not without a lengthy court case.

I finally had to get an attorney involved and I just had to pass along Amazon seller information. They went away and I haven't had any issues since then (about 2 years ago).
left click > options > filters
The problem is nuclear advocates can take the poster child for poor management and say it's perfectly safe:

> Between 1950 and 2000, there were 21 serious incidents or accidents involving off-site radiological releases that warranted a rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale, one at level 5, five at level 4 and fifteen at level 3. Additionally during the 1950s and 1960s there were protracted periods of known, deliberate discharges to the atmosphere of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particulates.[81] These frequent incidents, together with the large 2005 THORP plant leak which was not detected for nine months, have led some to doubt the effectiveness of the managerial processes and safety culture on the site over the years. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Incidents

There's been more than enough problems with nuclear plants that I wouldn't live anywhere near one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accid...
Except search and playlists still work.
“The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice,” Teju Cole wrote in 2012. “It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.”

You see this everywhere, like the wealthy people who sign up to feed the homeless Thanksgiving Dinner at the Salvation Army Kitchen. Then later they drive home to their warm mansions while the homeless go back to their cold makeshift cardboard tents under the overpass.
Nothing, since they are disconnected, so there's a voltage across the gap but not enough to spark. And you don't care precisely what the voltage is, because there's nothing happening with it.

But if you don't disconnect them, now you are maintaining a voltage across whatever your load is, but that voltage depends, for solar panels, on the current being pulled from them, as I understand. And you need to maintain the voltage in some nominal range. Maybe it all works out, but I'd have to do a lot of digging to be sure...
Unrelated, but I like the fact that you support prefers-color-scheme!
Short build times come with less compile time checking.

You can get cpp programs down to seconds for incremental builds with good management while having compile time checking.
I also teach computer science (part-time adjunct, I have a regular industry job too), so the quality of computer literacy in the incoming student body is on my mind pretty regularly. This has been especially troublesome when teaching operating systems, because the OS is the deepest layer in the pile of abstractions students have to peel-back over the course of their CS education. The pile of abstractions is only getting higher - the day is not far off when we have to peel-back the abstraction of "persistent data generally" in terms of files before we can get on to peeling-back the abstraction of files themselves. Or who knows, maybe we'll all abandon the desktop analogy of computing altogether, with it's hierarchies of files and links, to move on to some new purely-graph-theoretical database notion of persistent data. Somebody will still have to talk to the disk controller, however, and I can only imagine how distant that reality will be (and already is) from most students' day-to-day experience with computing.

At the same time, I can see a great equalizing force in all this. Computers have reduced the technical acumen demanded from their users to the point that owning a computer and using a computer and even being a "computer enthusiast" doesn't put you very much ahead of anybody else on-average when it comes to starting out towards becoming a computer scientist. I think this, in combination with that everybody wants to be a software engineer these days, will eventually put us somewhere around the 1970's in relative terms with regards to technical literacy in the cohort of incoming computer science students. This might sound nightmarish to the current establishment, but it has at least a positive side-effect: computer science is getting more accessible because teachers can no longer assume that pupils come from a background of "quasi-technical" computer literacy (again, this is because conventional computer literacy has become decreasingly technical in nature).

I've heard one of the general causes behind the lack of diversity in gender and economic-background in tech workers is, at some point around the mid 1980's, CS instructors started asking of their students tasks like: "Open your editor and type..." and someone in the classroom would raise their hand and ask "Ah, um... what's an `editor'? And by the way, I don't own a computer either" and the instructor's reaction would be to privately advise that student to seek a different major, at best, or open derision at worst.

So I think we're getting away from that, which is at least a way to look at the bright side. It does make the teaching job a bit more challenging.

On a more personal gripe, a minor irritation of late is the number of students who want to do their OS homework in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, instead of even setting up a basic VM.
Are you thinking of the story of Ms Pac Man, which reverse engineered and patched the original Pac Man cabinet? I think it was Atari flying out to meet the developers. Great story either way: https://www.fastcompany.com/3067296/the-mit-dropouts-who-cre...
That’s not what it says.
> price-prohibitive congestion pricing and street-parking pricing [...] That way, for any of those stubborn and wealthy enough who refuse to use public transit, we can direct all funds generated to improving public transit*

That seems to hand the shared public resource to the wealthy. (Regardless of whether you envision the revenue being used to someday provide a comparably attractive option for the non-wealthy.)
The most viewed game at the time I post this comment:

Leisure Suit Larry 6

A huge archive of playable games from a wonderful era, and everyone rushed for the 8 bit tiddies.
Just a large chunk of my coworkers at Apollo. I was never laid off or anything and I've worked in software engineering for 13 years now.
I had similar experiences to you and definitely fit into the yak-shaving variety (or at least I did before work destroyed my soul).

There's no question to me that early exposure and encouragement makes all the difference in educating kids. I can't understand why we're not engineering experiences in all these different fields for kids to build real stuff that can eventually turn into a trade. If you're a kid, even today, and you want to learn an adult trade young, your options are still pretty much just artist or programmer.

If there was a way to start doctors or lawyers young, maybe it'd make a difference. As a kid, I knew one girl that was a hospital volunteer, and she ended up going to Africa as an adult to try and make the world a better place by helping others. People don't realize how activities in formative years really stick with kids.

Instead of giving kids meaningful work, we're raising a generation that's going to be great at self-promotion and fortnite.
They're not saving his hide. This is the old axiom "when you owe somebody $100k, you have a problem. When you owe somebody $100m, they have a problem".

SoftBank is paying off Adam Neumann's creditors because that's how finance works - JP Morgan and SoftBank have made some deal to make sure they both come out okay, without really caring about the end result for Adam. If it's good for him, that's incidental.
but they also allow the advertisers to use the test results in their ads. and that's effective. if i see a test-result in an ad i do pay attention (if i am in the market for that kind of product)
> Was China less authoritarian in the 80s and 90s when mass manufacturing migration between West and East started?

No, but back then many people assumed trade would liberalize China. Turns out they were wrong, at least for the foreseeable future.
But Flash died :(
If you're in the space of being an Entrepreneur, you should understand sales, and ultimately negotiation.

Sales comes down to building desire, different people can desire the same product for different reasons. Understand this fact and you will be head and shoulders above 80% of all Entrepreneurs.

Negotiating come down to two things, the first one is Sales related: you do NOT negotiate with someone who does NOT desire what you have. The second is being willing to walk away. Loathe or Love--Trump he owns this. If you are not willing to walk even when it hurts--you are Not negotiating you are capitulating.

Zig Ziglar explains sales well. And "Never Split The Difference" by Voss is the best negotiating book I've ever read, and not to brag; but my name is on plaques in more than one company as the Top Performer where they hold sales meetings. Side note; Voss does advocate for splitting the difference--at times. And so do I, because it is one tool of many that works.
I've had the opposite experience. Hard drives from Amazon have been in factory-original packaging (involving a lot of foam) whereas hard drives from Newegg have been in plastic clamshells rattling around in the box. In fact, 100% of hard drives I've ordered from Newegg have failed. (The replacements received from the manufacturer were packed like the drives I've gotten from Amazon.)

I think the TL;DR is that resellers are clueless about how the products they sell work. No doubt in my case Newegg got a big box of them designed for OEMs that were putting them in fully-built computers, but instead shipped them out individually. Maybe it's because they don't care, or maybe it's because someone made a mistake. Either way, it's annoying.

I am surprised people aren't selling fake m.2 SSDs yet, like they do with SD cards.
> Radioactive waste sitting in temporary pools

Spent fuel is sitting in cooling pools because it emits enough residual heat to melt if not in water. Spent fuel will typically sit in these pools for around a decade. At which point the residual heat is low enough to process it via vitrification (turning it into chemically inert glass) and then moving it to a permanent storage site. Vitrified spent fuel is radiologically and chemically safe. The only way it can become a danger is if somehow liquefied or aerosolised. The volume needed to store a century worth of all humanity's spent nuclear fuel is less than a single large landfill site, of which we have hundreds of thousands.

> that will be an environmental catastrophe for hundreds of years if they leak

If what leaks? Do you actually know what's in those pools and why? Spent fuel pools are harmless. You can go for a swim in them and receive a lower radiation dose than background. There's nothing to leak. The only failure mode is if water is not supplied to them and eventually evaporates.

> This is no longer true, and will definitely not be true in another 5 years

Cite this. Show that at any point in the foreseeable future the cost of energy storage with regard to total capacity is not superlinear. China would love to hear from you since they're stuck unable to use renewables at large scale because of this issue.

> No, you look up per capita demand. Here: [3]. It’s been dropping for a decade.

Per capita is not a relevant number, The number that is being discussed is total demand. The number that matters, since power sources need to supply a total demand not a per capita demand, whatever that would even mean. The number that's rapidly increasing.[1]

Actually take the time to read up on induced demand, then you will understand that it results in a per-capita decrease in consumption (since higher efficiency) and a paradoxical higher total consumption, since now there are more consumers who were previously priced out.

GP post is bad and your post is bad. Sorry. If you don't understand the very eli5 basics of nuclear power like the purpose of cooling ponds (and the fact that most modern reactor designs don't need them), then be aware that you're perpetuating a bunch of myths every time you talk about it. Energy science is not a topic where all opinions are equal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#Trend...
One of the "ugly" parts is how some things can go viral, and much more serious things don't at all, and it can feel like a bizarre system of faux meritocracy:

> What’s wrong with you also influences whether you score big with medical crowdfunding, according to the University of Washington at Bothell medical anthropologist Nora Kenworthy and the media scholar Lauren Berliner, who have been studying the subject since 2013. Successful campaigns tend to focus on onetime fixes (a new prosthetic, say) rather than chronic, complicated diagnoses like Laila’s. Terminal cases and geriatric care are also tough to fundraise for, as are stigmatized conditions such as HIV and addiction- or obesity-related problems...

> ...As Laila’s GoFundMe sputtered out, Richard grew to resent the people raising tens of thousands for sick pets. At his lowest moments, he wondered whether the campaign would have been more successful if Laila had been a cat.

> Richard’s bitter feelings reminded me of something Berliner had observed when we spoke: “There’s a lot of secrecy and shame around the ones that don’t receive funding. If it’s a way to perform need, how must it feel to put yourself out there and not receive anything in return?”

That society and human nature seems to pay more attention to quick fixes and happy surface story is "ugly", though that's something that has long been a facet of society well before GoFundMe.
Never been touched by a layoff, but I've had one employer go bankrupt and she's had two. We've also both bailed once from an obviously sinking ship.
I consider myself very knowledgeable about computers and computing.

Yet I could not fix my car, my microwave or my refrigerator if my life depended on it.

Does it make me less? Is it wrong that I use my car 2 hours a day and the only thing I know is to press a bunch of buttons?

Not for me. I enjoy CompSci technology. I wouldn't like to spend my time fixing my car.
"Just what I wanted! A 4-pack of grand pianos!"
> Not forcing any organization lowers the barrier to entry.

And raises the barrier to maintenance.
Traditional media should ban compaign ads too. They have been lying for a century.
What? There's no alternative to IPv6. Nobody is making one. If someone did make one, it would be stuck on hundreds of vendors making thousands of new pieces of equipment in just the same way as IPv6. It would be stuck on the immense training costs of a new IP system, just the same as IPv6. It would get stuck on the inertia and change-aversion of network people and purse-holders, just the same as IPv6.

IPv6 was a clean break from IPv4 with a lot of changes because the authors knew that there was a very high 'minimum cost' to any IPv4 replacement. Even if they only added more octets to the addresses, there were still billions of networking devices which would need replacing, millions of people to retrain to some degree, mountains of software to modify or rewrite, and a similar conscious decision to switch. If we had to go through this pain anyway, then the obvious choice was to go all-out designing a greenfield new protocol which solved as many problems as possible and which would last for as long as possible. That's IPv6.

IPv6 is here to stay. It's already 30% of the internet, and has industry-wide buy-in and backing. All OS' support it, Apple even requires apps to work in IPv6 only environments to get on the app store. New IPv6 deployments go online every day.

IPv6 will win. One day. The costs of keeping IPv4 around are high and increasing. ISPs are spending millions on specialized CG-NAT infra to keep their dwindling pool of IPs usable, in return for tremendous capital and maintenance costs, reduced performance, increased support burden from angry customers who had their app broken by CG-NAT. And anyone who wants to buy an IP address has to deal with the price - which just keeps going up.
Since it mentions CS I feel criticism is fair: I have a CS degree from CMU and this material is simply incomprehensible to me. It's not only written from a mathematical perspective but also aimed at mathematicians, and not computer scientists.

Unfortunately, math textbooks that are both immediately useful and instantly accessible to computer scientists are few and far between. Why doesn't anyone strive to cover that gap? I find that the major point of contention with most math textbooks is their tendency to pile one definition after another without showing me how that definition is useful in practice. I have a limit in how many abstract mathematical structures and theorems I can absorb before my brain simply wipes them out since it deems them to be useless.

For that reason, the best math textbooks for me have been grounded in practicality (and are not really math textbooks). I learned calculus from Spivak, abstract algebra from Antoine Joux and analysis from Sussman.
Google can force a lot of things. Android manufacturers can’t realistically sell a phone outside of China without Google Play services. Google just got in trouble with the EU for strong arming Android manufacturers with respect to making Google the default search engine and not allowing them to both sell official Google Android phones and forks.
Unix time stamps are generally considered to be UTC, but fair to ask of them to clarify. Everyone does their own thing with date time.
Low-carbon options for heavy industry are scarce and expensive
i was there when telegram presales were happening in backchannel investors trying to flip tokens on one another.

if you don't know you're the sucker, then you're a fish that got stuck with tokens.

the sec isn't protecting older investors, cause they will never get their money back.

tokens of all sorts remain a method to scam people out of btc, which only even works because btc itself is a rising bubble.

imagine an economy based on trading facebook shares. but imagine if facebook shares didn't rebound from 19 but went to 50 cents.

well, right now the entire cryptocurrency economy is still banking on bitcoin NOT going back to 1000 dollars. good luck on that one.

if bitcoin doesn't go to 100,000 dollars, no one who invested in telegram will ever make a profit if they are still waiting to exit like the sucker that they are.
I didn't say it was a poor choice, rather, it's a great choice.

I'd rather be an idiot in the areas that I don't have an expertise in, I have no interest in plumbing and I would blindly follow the suggestion that the plumber who came to my house made. And I guess this strategy worked well for Apple.