skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup this pretty much hits the nail on the head.

Learning to listen is very important, and really understanding what people are saying. Lots of times they aren’t really complaining, they’re just talking about something and if you’re listening closely you can identify potential opportunities in their systems and processes. Often people don’t know what’s possible, so they don’t come at you directly with a problem.

At an old job it was someone’s job to run a “install history report”, it was all the installs that were done the previous week (thousands) and read through it copying and pasting installs from specific cities into an excel sheet. It took about 12 hours a week. He explained this process whole asking a completely different question. I ended up writing a little script that completed this same task in a few seconds. He didn’t even know that was possible, so he didn’t know to ask.
I tried to use Firefox on a new install of elementary OS with nvidia drivers installed. Full screen video was super choppy. I installed Chrome, and it was perfect.

I don’t want to have to debug this.. I just want it to work, so yet again Firefox gets put on the back burner for me. Maybe one day...
But you assume that the brain of any child is unlimited.
Really, a great teacher can make anything interesting and fun.

Which is powerful and valuable. Indeed I think this next decade we'll see many great teachers become very well known and wealthy as a result of the reach and impact they'll be able to achieve online.
Ask HN: What are your Hopes for the next decade?
Mine:

* Self driving vehicles in the mainstream worldwide

* AI evolving as a platform

* E2E encryption as a norm in all messaging services

* Small research facility in another planet or the moon

* At least one big win for federated services vs their centralized counterparts
Oh god. Imagine the thousands of bland consensus talking points they had to regurgitate to build those accounts. Never trust somebody with no gray comments.
Check out https://www.realpython.com. Lots of great tutorials.
Show HN: Git-exfiltrate; extract small increments from large changes
We don’t need the causal variants for embryo selection, just the predictive variants. We have this for height now. The only reason we don’t have this for IQ now is everyone doing GWAS studies are too chicken to put an IQ test in with their other measures. As the cost of a sequence declines, this will not last.

Obviously, this is not an issue if there is state involvement.
Florence King once wrote that the word "Kinderfeindlichkeit" (dislike of children) could not have an English equivalent, and was one reason she'd like to live in Germany.
Fluid Dynamics of Wildfires
While knights move similarly, involving other rules about their movement, in Shogi and Xiangqi, I also played a chess version, which I think was Korean, (now looked it up: Ah, it is called "Janggi") with a program once. There the knights moved differently.

As a chess and chess variants player, who thinks about geometrical features of the game and pieces, especially the knight, one will have thought about most of the things described in that post, or they will seem immediately clear: "Yes ofc, that is because ...". However, if one is not a mathematician or looks at these things in detail, one might not have used the mathematical terminology or have known how to describe some criteria for a generalized knight reaching squares.

I find it also interesting, for how many chess players chess and software development in ones spare time go together. Chess can serve as a source for many interesting projects.
Nope all self taught. Nothing I’ve done is very complex.
Boeing was looking to do a clean sheet design, the airlines wanted to keep the same type rating. The presentation micharacterizes that bit of history, but that's what was going on. This follows what made the A320neo popular, Airbus took a older venerable design and re-engined it for higher efficiency.

The 777 got a similar upgrade that did include a new wing design.

Ultimately Boeing is looking to introduce an all-composites design that fills the 737 and 757 roles, but airlines desires for crew commonality might push that back.
Intriguing. On the other hand Facebook cracks down on new users and requires them to jump through many hoops to access the service.

My wife finally gave in and signed up to Facebook in order to be able to take part in a webinar she already payed for that was staged on the platform just to get her new account blocked for using a different device from the one she signed up.

They wanted her mobile phone number, photo and her ID (think passport).

She didn't want Facebook SPAM on her phone, she already gets bombarded by WhatsApp notifications and sending her photo again didn't help. She got banned for good. Also her IP was blocked so she couldn't sign up again.
What company is it?
This has been going on for quite some time. But the mod(s) do a more than credible job at keeping up with the trash and identifying such behavior.

The bigger problem - in my opinion - is people submitting (unwittingly) content cloned from elsewhere.

There is quite a bit of blogspam that makes it to the front page. Usually even that is taken care of sooner rather than later but for every time it works there is proof that it can work which will drive more people to try to get away with it. We can all help with this issue: ensure that we submit content from original sources and in case content from a cloned source is submitted flag the article and point to the original.
I use Github gists. Comes along with markdown and revisions and feels good enough for tasks and notes.
Interview with Gene Kim
Don't help them :) They can just throw in a few posts disparaging Rust to look credible.
The writers likely have a tech-consultant that checks these things. Can't have another NCIS moment.
> This may rub some folks raw and be pessimistic, but a half a century on this planet has taught me that any solution which relies on "doing the right thing" (ethics) but does not have any rules, laws or other repercussion for abusing it, then (some entity - person or company) will use your altruistic belief to their own gain, ethics be damned.

100%.

I live in a big city and while there are bylaws, without enforcement people will break them all the time. An example of this is people bringing their dogs where they are not allowed to (e.g. school yards) or have them off-leash when they're not supposed to (e.g. on-leash parks). But because there are so few bylaw officers, few dog owners follow those rules.
You are ignoring the incentives. If doing the right thing cost $5 instead of being free, there would be a lot more litter
there's no 'bankruptcy' per se. There's no actual trust fund even.

The 'fund' is the equivalent of an government IOU to itself. Nothing more.
Alright, I'm feeling bad about have a misleading title and I'd like to fix it. I can't change the title now without removing this post and reposting it. Do you have a suggestion for what I should do?
The one video game my kids played all year long
I would say its more suprising that ProtonMail shows up in a movie like Knives Out (which has no technical content), than it is for it to appear in Mr. Robot (a purposefully technical series, and being underwritten by Michael Bazzel, who is an advocate of ProtonMail).
I refused to "do a Hubble" and recorded the results I got and got marked down for poor experimental accuracy.

Aside, I hate the practice of calling demonstrations "experiments".
Me too. I recently realized that you can have user level projects instead of repo level. This was a sticking point for me because sometimes a project goes across repos.

https://github.com/USER?tab=projects
Very unfortunately, it's the de-facto tool most businesses use. It's free, but you have the option of support, and everyone has used it. There are better free tools, but they're more complicated for the layperson, and usually don't have support, much less the huge ecosystem of plugins.

As a person who earns probably half his living propping up horrible Jenkins installs, I highly recommend that nobody ever use it. But if you're going to work in corporate-world, you probably will have to use it, so you might as well get comfortable with it.
Shortages expected of medical isotope used to treat prostate cancer
I love these people who insist they are only in it for the “principle of free speech”, then somehow make a completely unconnected point about NGOs rescuing refugees from drowning being criminal in the next paragraph.

Accusing 36C3 of being “an organized crime syndicate founded to support left-wing terrorism” is also the telling, both in terms of ideological drift as well as capacity to reason.

...guess he’s just upset he got beaten up by girls.
+1 for org-mode. I also used Trello. Once I found beorg for iOS, I decided to switch everything to org-mode.
Great feedback on the README, thank you
Yeah, create the problem and then provide the solution is one of the best business models.

Climate change is also making people rich now due to this logic.
You know, when you had to support ie6 and php was cutting edge, the good old days!

I jest of course, but while frontend tooling has gotten quite complex, there's a good reason. Transpiling, minifying, and tree shaking are non trivial, and pretty much a requirement if you want to build a rich client (though not everyone needs one).
Yeah. Especially since they're consistently weird. Pawns have limited movements. And castling happens once.
I do. If I need to type a full word, all uppercase (e.g. the name of a constant) or simply more than one uppercase letter I'll use caps lock, because it allows me to keep touch typing without having to change the hand that keeps shift pressed. I never understood why people seem to be against caps lock, to be fair.
Of course we wouldn't try on humans first. Animal trials precede human trials.
I think the easiest way to conceptualize the knight's movement is that the knight moves to the nearest squares that no other piece could move to. In a sense the knight's moves are the complement of the other pieces' moves.
Does anyone else have a problem that this file just keeps growing?
An editor might notice your comment and fix it. That said, your comments weren't here when I first saw this. Now they are, so there's lots more context. It's probably not an issue now.
Celebrating 1k Employees at Confluent and Looking Towards the Path Ahead
Valuation is the end product. You need to figure out what resources you need to reach the next major startup milestone, how much that will cost, negotiate with investors, and get a deal done.

After that, valuation is a simple calculation.
I don’t the modularity is necessarily lost with a mega structure like this- interior remodeling of office, residential, and space happens all the time. As for the updating- East St. Louis had extremely out dated housing stuck in the 1980s when this was proposed and it hasn’t gotten better AFAIK.

I think the real problem (outside the aforementioned capital outlay) lies in the issues with the interface with the rest of the world/community. The Arcology is just to self contained and reality isn’t. It’s often hard enough to find locations within a current large office building or complex, it would be even harder inside this concept. That’s really going to limit the retail and service industry inside a mega structure like this. The circle shape is also a problem- circles don’t pack well, so there is a natural stand off are between the Arcology and the rest of the community. Integrating the internal and external transport networks and infrastructure would be darn near impossible.
What I hated was having to memorize orbitals in freshman chemistry, then after taking modern physics as a junior, the orbitals were deduced easily.

Anyway, I hated chemistry, as it seemed all rote memorization. Physics was so much better. It’s also more applicable to RF.
I don't. For me the death of RSS was a gift in disguise. I think it encouraged me to spend too much time obliging myself to read articles and keep up with sources, too much time trying to "curate" my media sources, and so on. I'm very sour on that way of using time now.

Instead I use Twitter, I don't use lists or curate, and I try to liberally follow enough people so that I always see some people that are way outside my bubble, people with very different views from my own. I learn from them, interact with them, try to sympathize with them and get a feel for them. I make friends this way, too. I never made friends reading "the news" however you define it.

I definitely don't want to go back to a "media diet" of stuff that I don't (or can't) interact with. I think this is a poor way of being. We lived in dialogue for thousands of years, all information we got was two-way communication, and then between the printing press and radio we switched to one-way communication, and I'm really happy that Twitter allows us to, at least a little bit, bring back the old way. Use it!
Instead of Trello you can use Github's Projects. It has kanban boards like Trello and it can create progress bars based off of each of your tasks. They also support various automation features based off actions with your branches to move cards around.
I don't have my offer letter (and in any case it is a decade old), but the tuition part was definitely higher than $16k. It is possible that the sticker price isn't very useful, and they're taking whatever they can from outside sources and waiving the rest.

There are other costs too: here's an interesting study that tries to estimate non-tuition, non-stipend costs https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4353078/#B6 These, since they're mostly faculty time, are also partially paid for by funders.

In any case, my point is that grad student labor is both important surprisingly expensive and it's not at all clear to me that we have the "right" amount of it. Specifically, I think it might be better, from a research productivity and a "system health" persepective, to have somewhat fewer grad student slots and a few more staff scientist positions: Maybe 70/10 instead of 100/~0.
How perplexing that it works at all! I want to know how that works.
Climate change could render assets ‘worthless’, Bank of England governor warns
Did Johann Lambert put this together in 1761 with the expectation that it would be used for interplanetary travel? I can't imagine many other uses for this.
> I think the right 'process' for each person is more important than the 'tools' etc.

This can't be overstated. We often get stuck into looking for "the perfect tool" for things, when the tool is rarely the most important thing. The process is king, and any tools should be chosen to support the desired process.
I do the same thing. I subscribed to one private Twitter list in Feedbin and add/remove the relatively few people I want to read reliably.
If you know you're bad at self-promotion, ask a friend or family member who is good at it to write the letter for you. If you either don't know you're bad at self-promotion or don't know anyone who is and would be willing to help you, you're probably not as much of a "talented great person" as you think you are. To me, this is the system working as intended.
Association Between Auto Assembly Plant Closures and Opioid OD Deaths in the US
TODO comments at the top of the file.
When tasks is completed, chnage it to DONE and move it to the bottom/
https://graebor.itch.io/field-of-fate This chess game prototype has some interesting variant pieces and a couple of other creative features: traits and relationships. It’s not particularly well balanced, but interesting to play with.

For example it has acrobats which jump to a square in a 3x3 square a certain distance away. It has a variant of a Bishop that rather than moving in a diagonal moves in an extended knights move style bumpy diagonal.

One of the things that comes out of this is that part of the power of these pieces is how many squares they can reach (as a proportion of those available on the board), and a generalisation of pieces’ moves to being slightly closer to arbitrary functions mapping squares to each other on the board.
Never used rust so I didn't know cargo was part of rust. Thought it was some other big install tool like brew.

Got it now but there's an error. Anyway, I've always wanted a tool like this, so I'm looking forward to its development. Thank you!
I have done construction work. There is a lot of standing around especially with manual labor positions. Even when there are hours of pure manual labor to do that’s relative. Nobody can work full out for 8hours so you either pace yourself or swap out and take breaks.

At the extreme edge you get long haul truckers who continuously work for as long as physically possible. But, on a second by second basis it’s not particularly demanding.
When it's just me, I use Remember The Milk.
> kHz, not MHz

Ha, I overestimated the capabilities of scaleout :D I figured if you added enough racks you could go that high... but yeah, that's asking for the equivalent of total coherency on a piece of software running simultaneously across thousands(?) of nodes.

(Ha, I wonder if the current systems use 50Gbit networking. Or 100Gbit? Wow...)

> A lot more simulation happens at the subsystem-level. You can isolate some subsystem, such as a cache controller, and then manufacture traces of the communication it does with the rest of the chip. Then you can just simulate that part at much lower cost, do tweaks, see how the operation changes under the simulation, and repeat.

Right, that makes sense. And interestingly, that sounds similar to how retro/hobbyist emulation systems do things too. Emulate the exact behavior necessary for a specific set of things to work the way you want.
Fogus’ Year-End Review
In fact I think we entered a new counter-enlightenment. That is, over the last decade the zeitgeist has increasingly shown religious-like behavior and increased support for authoritarianism, rather than the Kant/Descartes style philosophy of thought.
Could you give me examples of the best scanline filters you have found? across the different emulators you use if possible =)

I'm always looking for some subtle scanline filters, but most emulators seem to have way overdone scanlines for my liking.
Check out altro’s other submissions, quite a few PDFs.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=altro
I keep a TODO list in Google Keep, and I am forever shuffling entries around as priorities change.

For some projects, the issues on github also suffice to keep track of things to do.
because the emails were deleted and there were no proof anymore of how sensitive it was. the deletion is a bigger crime
10% is not much vs. the pain of travel. I would take the new position and enjoy staying in one place.
Perl Obfuscator
I'm old school, so I just constantly email myself replies to my past email with a reply to a past email with a past email with a todo list that I freshly created after finally crossing off the old ones.

It helps me sleep to add stuff to my todo list so I can offload anxiety about remembering said thing. It's great, I stole it a bit from a Buddhist meditation practice, but found I didn't trust promises I made to myself that if something is important I'll remember it later. Too much important stuff is planning and I don't like needing to burden others with reminding me to do things.
I think your argument is valid, especially when considering an ideal scenario for these platforms.

Unfortunately, I haven't considered likes or even "star ratings" to be "real sentiment" in decades. Even without paid clicks, they rarely reflect quality and are often the result of many other factors. There are plenty of other dishonest methods to boost up your like value without paying for clicks.
आशक्ति
It is interesting that you made the decision to commit to all replicas of a journal before acknowledging a write and rely on etcd for explicit failure monitoring and re-configuration. FoundationDB also does this, relying on an internal metadata store called the "coordinators", which store some small configuration state.

Have you ever found the 20s failure detection window to be too long? FoundationDB's failure monitor pings hosts approximately once a second, so failures are detected very quickly. If you were willing to dedicate a process in the cluster to failure monitoring, you might be able to shrink that window.
You can use email as a TODO stack. You take the top item of your inbox and react to it. You react by replying to it, archiving it, or by doing the task(s) described in it. To add a new item simply email it to yourself. Archived items are done. Inbox is the list of items you working trough. Send items is the things you are waiting for.
Ternary Numeral System
I use Trello, then it gets messy, switch to Keep to start over, that gets confusing or messy, I have a txt file with my todos, that gets messy, I try a project management tool like Basecamp, doesn't do the trick, start over fresh on Trello, that gets messy.... I think you see where I'm going with this.
'Do Not Sell My Info': U.S. Retailers Rush to Comply with California Privacy Law
If I don't write down everything I will forget what I am working on. Personal projects often get delayed by random things because they don't have a fixed schedule. After a while I forget what I am supposed to work on. What I do instead is I just write an issue with nothing more than a single sentence (often just a title with no body). If a new contributor wants to work on the project then they can use that issue as a starting point to join the project and ask for clarification how I want to it to be implemented.

I personally wanted to contribute to a few projects but it was difficult to track what is currently being worked on or what needs to be done. When an opensource developer only works 8 hours a week on a project you don't want to waste their limited time by having a dozen people ask them what needs to be done and then not doing anything (because a feature might not be relevant to you but you couldn't have known that because it wasn't written down).
That's funny, because my perspective is the opposite on both points. I actually appreciate that they've been able to move forward with new ideas without worrying too much about backward compatibility. (though usually both new and deprecated features are moved into modules that can be imported separately) As far as documentation goes, well, I think it leaves something to be desired. If you like dozens of broken links, the Ember guides are for you. hahaha

Your criticism is totally fair, though. Part of the reason why I asked is because I'm going to be giving a talk at an Ember meetup I'll be hosting in a few weeks and part of it might be about why people are choosing not to use Ember and how we can make it better. So thanks for providing your perspective.
No, "they" shouldn't.

When stuff like this happens, it's a process issue, not an issue with a particular engineer. It's human nature to try to assign blame to people and that's why it's so important to avoid that. Whatever process created the flawed product is where the blame lies.

Somewhere in the group that produced MCAS, there's a process to permit changes to be submitted, reviewed, accepted or rejected, implemented and tested along with the documentation produced at each stage.

Maybe that process is broken, maybe it isn't. From the outside we can't tell. However, as responsible professional software developers what we should do is understand that these are system problems and not just look around for someone to pin the blame on.
I use the principles outlined in Shape Up (https://basecamp.com/shapeup) and organize my project in Minimal (https://minimal.app).

The key is combining simplicity and focus.
But why should I use a non-default setting when I have a key right there on the keyboard for that very purpose?