skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fundamentally our approach will always have a large overhead compared to other Web technologies

Which begs the question, why even bring Flutter to the web in the first place or make it a priority over desktop?
Completely agree with you.
The recommended safety advice is to stop every two hours or so and rest for fifteen minutes each time. Otherwise you increase your chances of having an accident due to fatigue.

The EU rules for driving HGV allow you to drive 2 hours, have a 15 minute break, drive a further 2.5 hours and have a 30 minute break. Those are enforced by law and tachographs
Depends, i thought it's market share was dropping. But I can't see proof of it from latest months.

Statistics seem to agree till q3 2019. But don't know exactly why it wasn't after that.
In a reply to your sibling I explain how in my view, the fact that lay people have no mental model of what kind of information can be incidentally collected and how dangerous it is, whereas lay people are much more capable of understanding the dangers of a personally identifiable username, profile pic, and personal details revealed in posts, makes the former far more dangerous than the latter.
Microsoft Math Solver – Step-by-Step Math Problem Solver
Technically, a lot of content is cached/archived by online RSS services, like Inoreader or Newsblur, where users added full-text RSS feeds for HN.
I really think this is the way to do it and it's also how I've always approached this. So much so that now the other members of the team I'm on joke about how I'm the guy that likes jumping down rabbit holes - which they're perfectly fine with!

Something very important to this approach IMHO is
paying your learning forward. Mentor other devs, write guides for your team/organization, etc. Make the benefit of your learning visible to everyone else.

That means that yes, your learning has to have value to the business and to the team. If that aligns, I can't imagine many problems arising. Your learning becomes an act of giving and taking, rather than just taking, which is a win-win for everyone involved.
Some things about internet archives which isnt as obvious unless one has been there in person
- Housed in a church its not what a typical software development shop might look like, its mix of open office and workshop floor.
- A big workforce actually does a lot of manual work of scanning books and transferring from different media types
- Its a interesting experience to tour the data center which is in the office itself. I cannot remember but there was something special about those machines to control the heating
Wikipedia describes a bit of this saga [1], and the conclusion was that they were ordered to settle with the FTC and issue rebates and then:

Syncronys eventually filed for bankruptcy in July 1998 after releasing other poorly received tools. A large number of its creditors were customers who had not received their rebates for SoftRAM.

I wonder what the story was from the company perspective? Sounds like it just was a total fraud, but I can imagine a scenario where some programmer was ordered to build something that they didn't know how to implement and some manager told them to ship it anyway? I found this article about the bankruptcy [2] which has a priceless quote indicating total denial to the end:

Interestingly enough, two days before the company sought bankruptcy protection, Syncronys CEO Rainer Poertner was busy touting a new product called UpgradeAID 98 and claiming that the company's problems were history.

"It's been a really long time since SoftRAM 95. In the meantime the company has released 12 new products," he said on July 13. "We released a product in a rush with the release of Windows 95."

So far, UpgradeAID 98 has met with skepticism. The product is designed to allow consumer who upgrade their PCs to Windows 98 to revert back to Windows 95.

And this is hilarious:

Poertner, who was at lunch, could not be reached for comment.

Also, he exists! [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM

[2] https://www.cnet.com/news/softram-95-maker-in-chapter-11/

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rainer-poertner-37bb9511/
Well, speaking as a client developer, the API is far, far easier for me to understand and write logic against if its authors agree to send back HTTP statuses with their standardized meanings instead of making up their own scheme.
Why should we get all excited about giving the government more money to spend? They are terrible at spending it effectively.
Honestly, though. Did you download this app?
You've never met an entrepreneur with a solo lifestyle business?
"Learn You a Haskell" by Miran Lipovača: http://learnyouahaskell.com/

"Learn You Some Erlang for great good" by Fred Hebert: https://learnyousomeerlang.com/

"If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript" by Angus Croll: https://nostarch.com/hemingway

"Clojure for the Brave and True" by Daniel Higginbotham: https://www.braveclojure.com/clojure-for-the-brave-and-true/
Hey everw, you should join the Slack! I would love to build this/make it work for you. I really just want to pull in everyone that is enthusiastic/interested in the space, if we get that energy all in one place I think we can make magic happen :)

I would love to see WebRTC take off on the backend. I think when building services it could go a long way to creating resiliency/reduce complexity. When you start designing things with the WebRTC state of mind (vs starting a Websocket and just assume everything is ok) you really end up with better stuff.

I think today your best bet is doing the port ranges. The single port mode is possible, but you add some extra logic. Like if you have two remote peers behind the same NAT, you really don't have a way to distinguish them from each other. My plan was took look at the SSRCes of the packets, and hopefully you don't have any duplicates between PeerConnections. I don't think the existing C++ code base is flexible enough to do this currently.
I find this style of writing to be lazy and insulting.

“There are fewer than four billion so-called “Internet Protocol version 4” or IPv4 addresses...”

They aren’t “so called”. That’s literally the terminology.
It was a while ago, and we were very cost sensitive.

FWIW, I think the last Android phones with these client issues have probably died by now (it got mostly sorted out in 4.3 or so IIRC); this isn't a current concern.
>While this seems an easy relationship to satisfy, more-complex models based on real-world performance parameters and access patterns indicate that it is, in reality, very difficult to obtain a performance boost with this method.

Now that improvements in CPU speed have outpaced improvements in storage speed, it's easier to benefit from compressed swap in ram. Linux includes "zswap"[0], which in my experience works well for postponing the severe performance degradation you otherwise get with heavy memory pressure on general desktop use. If you think you want to set "vm.swappiness=0" (which I ran for several years), you probably want to enable zswap instead. If you're running Debian, you can set it up by installing "zram-tools" (which can be configured with /etc/default/zramswap if you're not happy with the default).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zswap
While technically accurate the general public associates UFOs with aliens
Soon enough one or more of the Taiwanese motherboard vendors will create an AMD motherboard that even allows the excessive 1.5 TB of RAM, but can accomodate TWO of the AMD 3970X CPU's, which is still cheaper than the single Intel version and absolutely SMOKES Apples MacPro offerings, in fact, they are probably working on it as we speak.

As we know, the Apple furnished Radeon GPU is rather embarrassingly "middle of the road" in performance . . . I believe that will come to haunt Apple . . .

Software programmers are not even close to the market the MacPro is seeking / obtaining, it's designers and "show offs".
Bullshit.

He is clearly equating the market demand for current-day private backbones to society's prior demand for human slavery. That's a ludicrous comparison.

If you think these two things are anywhere nearly the same, you are a mega dumbshit.
OP doesn't mention any problems with their work life until they decided to play.
If you see someone doing something which you believe to be wrong, but the law suggests is right, asking them to stop absolutely is an inappropriate channel.

But Companies are not People. So this is a dumb metaphor.
This is the best bit, from the comments:

> Actually, in many of his talks he [Arkani-Hamed] explains clearly the motivation for the hype: it’s to motivate himself.
I like the focus on user intent. After all, the purpose of search is to provide users with information, not present them with a list of search results.

Recently I switched from Chrome + Google Search to Firefox + DuckDuckGo and I'm pleased, surprised even, by how well this setup works. The user experience is great and the search results of both setups usually correspond.
Sounds like it's the sort of thing being discussed in this video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iigjodCiK0g

Early, setting the thesis of the video, "...these [loss of control] accidents always follow a pattern. The pattern is: an event occurs, the event causes distraction, distraction causes loss of control."

While not exactly loss of control, it certainly sounds similar and seems to follow that central thesis.
Lately, I've been building a system in which I want to expose SQL to third party developers. In order to ensure the queries don't abuse the backend, I wrote a SQL grammar using Antlr4 and produce Go code. There's a bit more to what I'm doing aside from restricting what types of queries a user can write, e.g., no joins, no literals (only bind parameters), and a restriction on number of rows returned (Limited to 50).

This query language also abstracts how data is stored on the backend. So when a user does a CREATE TABLE (...), it doesn't actually create a physical table.

I think every developer should play around with creating their own grammar at some point. It's a powerful skill to have.
I mean really, it's elementary
It was a great scam, and I have no doubt it was totally intentional. They still made money. It was a placebo, and yet people would call in to the QVC show and talk about how much faster their computer is after installing it.
US retirement accounts are usually invested in stocks and bonds, not savings accounts.
Beyond eleven nines: Lessons from Amazon S3 culture of durability [video]
I wish someone would do a study like this on e.g. cosmetics which claim to do miraculous things, but in reality rarely do anything at all. In fact I strongly suspect it all comes from the same giant vat of petroleum byproducts and the only difference is the fragrance, color, and emulsifiers.
Why Amazon's Allegations of Wrongdoing Are Wrong
Fantastic book. I learned everything it covers in college, but the way it masterfully connects them all together is incredible and made connections in my brain that I didn't have before.

There's also something satisfying about seeing incremental abstractions develop in an intuitive way.
IA and WBM are great and essential, like a Library of Congress/Smithsonian. What's frustrating about some old websites like Microsoft or Borland's FTP download area is that dynamic links weren't followed and can't be followed and websites that used user-agent filtering. CDN links also weren't captured well.

There's so many retro patches that just don't exist publicly. For example, a number of files on SciTech's IA's WBM have zero captures. Most FTP sites weren't captured in WBM adequately either. There are spots of FTP archives hosted here and there on IA and elsewhere, but they're not like WBM for static content sites, and a single snapshot archive lacks the history and the changes, before and after. It is what it is, unless folks donate their vintage personal/work local mirrors to add to the collective.
You say that, but my friend's google drive account is basically locked because of "spam/take over detection" and there's no response from google's customer support. Does google really care about end user here?
Well, you know that, and I know that, and OP knows that. But it’s likely that OP’s boss not only doesn’t know that, but is mentally incapable of comprehending it. And even if he does (my boss is actually a sharp developer who does understand what’s going on), remember that we all have 8 bosses at any time.
What It's Like to Write Software on a Team
A simpler, more universal word might be grunt.
> Had my 1-on-1 with her and she asked “Any feedback?”

Tangentially, there was a time when I believed if you had a great idea your boss would be delighted to hear about it. Sadly, that was a long time ago.

My current bosses are all the smartest people that they have ever met. Here I am not bragging, I only mention this to give credence to my argument: I have performance reviews that would knock you down they are so good; 400 points out of a possible 400 points on 3 out of 6 sections, with 347 ponts being my lowest score for an overall average of 370. That puts me in the uppermost category. Clearly I'm appreciated... Any idea I have is not. These folks only want yes men.

Recently I saw my direct supervisor watching the department director doing something that I know my supervisor knew was wrong--yet he never said a word. I did though. Incidentally my Supervisor was recently promoted by the Deptarment Director.

Personally, I can't Not say anything when I see people doing the wrong thing. For sure I try to be tactful, but there it is.

I'm glad things went your way!
'she makes it seem like the researchers committed fraud and fabricated the whole detection'

She ended the video saying the opposite [0]. She said she personally does not doubt that the signals are caused by gravitational waves but points out that "in science evidence counts'. They, according to her, haven't conclusively eliminated other terrestrial sources that could cause the signals. [0] https://youtu.be/WWTvNlfkvoI?t=595
As a comedy aficionado, I’m appalled at ‘jokes’ creeping back into the industry
Do you get the radiologist's read for $160? Do they put an ablative ultrasound probe in you and hold it for an hour for $160?
I went half in on "RAM Doubler" with a friend. He had their other products that were an uninstalled and some other goofy utilities. It didn't do jack.

At the time (1996?) RAM was cheap enough to just buy another 8MB instead of some software
I’m not sure what the percentage is, but at least some aircraft will have to have ADS-B Out in 2020, per https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/faq/#g2

I like the idea of requiring ADS-B Out on drones. For those aircraft with ADS-B In, it introduces the possibility of seeing drones sending ADS-B Out. And others with ADS-B receivers will be able to see and identify them.

As an additional step, drones could be required to use ADS-B in for aircraft avoidance.
Funnily, with over a decade of hindsight and experience, the author comes off as a much more accomplished and sincere writer than Graham. Sure, he's shitposting before 2008, but I'm going to credit that, and say that he's ahead of the trend.
There are still dairy companies that will deliver fresh milk directly to a consumer's door! Although I expect most such "milkman" services to be subsumed into more general grocery delivery services.
at least with regards to identity management, twitter seems to favor a blockchain idea, which could actually simplify user management and make obsolete the need for home-server identifiers, 3rd party ids etc
I'm at a new place; the managers there did it by picking particular topics and instituting a group learning time (blocked off everyone's calendar for the time, let people select one of two topics, are soliciting new topics for future versions). It's working reasonably well.
Oh okay, that's starting to make more sense. Thanks.
While the title may have it right, later in the article they state that this is the first electric aircraft... well they've been flying in WA for some time now

https://particle.scitech.org.au/tech/aussie-first-electric-p...
Avoid reading the mainstream news then.
This is a joke article submission to The Independent newspaper by the Twitter persona Titania Mcgrath:

https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/120480109989247795...

In the event that The Independent wises up and takes down this article it can also be found here:

http://archive.is/G3MXp

If you take the 4th letter of each sentence in the article it spells out “Titania McGrath wrote this you gullible hacks”
> look over your shoulder

I suspect that one of the drivers behind open offices is to make it easy to “catch” people who are “wasting time” learning on the job.
Do you have a blog?
I would love to read more about what you are doing and gain some knowledge as well.
As far as PPLs on Python go, I have found that Pyro's documentation and tutorials are quite stellar. Built on a Pytorch backend (now NumPyro has support for JAX), it's by far my favorite PPL to use.

For your bread and butter PPL starter, I'd go for Variational Autoencoders (VAE). Fun to visualize and tweak: http://pyro.ai/examples/vae.html

If that's too much going on, try this basic tutorial on inference: http://pyro.ai/examples/intro_part_ii.html

The full set of examples is here: http://pyro.ai/examples/
>Why go through all the trouble to give the Shuttle large wings if it has no jet engines and the glide characteristics of a brick?

I believe the delta wings were mostly to assist with stability when the shuttle was hypersonic.

>Why build such complex, adjustable main engines and then rely on the equivalent of two giant firecrackers to provide most of the takeoff thrust

Anyone who has played Kerbal Space Program has come up with a similar solution in their attempts to escape the tyranny of the rocket equation— use your big brutish solid boosters to get off the ground, in conjunction with your less powerful but more efficient liquid ones. Since they burned for ~4x as long as the solids, I think the RS-25 engines actually did about the same amount of work while needing a lot less fuel

>What kind of missions would require people to assist in deploying a large payload

I would think it's less "deploying a payload" and more like retrieving one (which is actually alluded to later in this article). When the shuttle was being designed, the US was still taking satellite reconnaissance photos on film, which was then returned to Earth and scooped up by a plane. Being able to put more film in your satellite would save a lot of money, as would being able to develop film without having to send one of your half dozen retrieval pods back to Earth.

>the Air Force demanded that the Shuttle be capable of gliding over a thousand miles cross-range during re-entry

Was this requirement only from the Air Force? How far would they have need to go cross-range to support the shuttle's various abort modes? It's not like you have a lot of other options in the area if you can't make it to the runway on Ascension Island.
Watch Mr Robot and see this in action
If the shit sandwich doesn't work on you, that's on you. In fact the goal for personal growth is to be able to take the shit with or without the sandwich. Feedback delivered roughly is still feedback, in fact the roughest feedback is often the most valuable. It's the stuff that should have been said a long time ago.
What practical problems do you think this could cause in specifying or measuring time?
I'm trying to compare hosting costs across hosting providers, not at the creating VM's stage. I expected to be able to work out determine costs from their pricing page, which wasn't clear. But I've since been referred to GCP's pricing calculator which does make it easy, where 1x e2-standard-2 always running instance with a 12 month commitment will cost $30.82 /month ($369.84 total) [1].

[1] https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=905f5722-5f...
Where does the article say their velocities, and how does a flare get up to 1,100 feet?
You mean "8MB". :D I was a poor high school kid so that would have killed my lunch budget for at least a month.
Jesus Christ you couldn't pay me enough (or maybe you wouldn't want to) to live by point systems.
By definition a physics law is inescapable. If that law can be circumvented, then there are deeper physical laws at work. Don't be conceited, nothing can be absolutely relative. If everything is relative and it's an illusion, at least the existence of illusions is objective.
The first rule of software methodology: no matter what the methodology proposes, professional “managers” will turn it into a micromanaged waterfall process.
I guess the W is to differentiate it from Systems Engineer?

We use SE here in Japan for both software engineers and system engineers. How are they difference? The latter is older and seems to have originated from people doing architectural, consulting type of work.

Fun fact, consulting/contracting businesses here and also known as SES, System Engineer (as a) Service.
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Tower data is public record. Here’s a search aggregator: http://www.antennasearch.com

The issue is that the baseband should be handshaking cryptographically with your provider’s towers to prevent MITM attempts, and no downgrade should be possible. Between eSIM and 5G, honestly surprised it’s not a standard yet.
I assume it is a link to your page on Facebook.

If you use a logo hosted by Facebook it will give them considerable insight into the use and users of your website and their engagement with you and Facebook.

If you're ok with that, sure, why not.
If only the skin was damaged, what effect would that have on the ability to land a typical passenger jet?

Also, did that simulation mostly damage just the skin, or did it also get the machinery inside the wing?
Everybody in non-tech companies should realize they are viewed as stupid ants doing all the work while another class rules them with different governance they have no chance to penetrate.

The main issue of our industry is that it is now transforming from tech-friendly into the "same old" approach of other industries, including all FAANGs. There is no space for apolitical geniuses any longer.
How do we know the helicopter didn't run into the drone?
Well that was 2 and 3/4 years ago and ezboard is still gone. I hope they didn't erase but rather excluded but legality and all that.
This is the best comment. The only mistake this guy made was giving too much of a fuck about garbage for too long. I was burned by a bad manager early on in my career and in retrospect I'm grateful that I learned the lesson early. In this situation I would be looking at one thing only: how to get out in a way that maximizes my future career success elsewhere.
A good chunk of the costs of the space shuttle was because it didn't launch as often as it was originally supposed to, which made it harder to amortize R&D costs.

The rockets themselves were expensive, and refurbishing the "reusable" parts wasn't cheap. I think SpaceX is in a good position to dramatically lower the costs, as long as they can keep refurbishment costs down and share as much architecture as possible between their manned and unmanned launches. Being able to use a rocket from a manned F9 launch another 20 times (even if they're only certified to use it on unmanned launches) would do wonders for reducing costs.
I don't think this is true. I lived in the UK, and there were same costs for cash and card. EU laws have this statement:

>Today’s ban means that it will be unlawful for retailers to charge additional fees when someone uses a particular credit or debit card, or other payment systems like PayPal, to make a purchase. This will ensure consumers can be confident that there won’t be any nasty surprises, and they won’t be penalised for wanting to pay in a particular way.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/card-surcharge-ban-means-...