skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a blog post I wrote a few weeks ago that describes how Flyte's structured workflow specification allows for using open-source workflows with no code.

https://medium.com/@flytehub/introducing-flytehub-open-sourc...
Should Vaccines Be Mandatory?
I don't think this is a useful comment. This comment is an example of "whataboutism", which is a logical fallacy [1]. It discredits the article because the article contradicts Buzzfeed's past actions, without actually making any statements about the merits of the article's claims.

I think it's dangerous to commit this sort of logical fallacy, especially when discussing online trolling and disinformation campaigns, because logical fallacies like these are the the lifeblood of disinformation campaigns. For example, whataboutism was and is commonly used in Soviet and Russian propaganda.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
You've just reminded me of the BASIC Stamp, which lead me to find this interesting website comparing that to the Arduino head-to-head. The BASIC Stamp was weirdly expensive for what it was, but that's probably my post-Arduino post-Raspberry Pi bias:

https://todbot.com/blog/2006/09/25/arduino-the-basic-stamp-k...

> Getting to the “Hello World” of microcontroller projects, the blinking LED, on Arduino costs $32 compared to the $119 for a Basic Stamp. This is perhaps a little unfair because the Basic Stamp board contains a full bread-boarding space. A similar setup for Arduino would cost about $60, still a 2x savings (and can made cheaper if you want).

[snip]

> The standard Atmel AVR ATmega8 chip used on the Arduino board can be obtained for less than $4. The Basic Stamp must be obtained from Parallax and costs $50.
There are magnitudes more processors out there than desktop- or server-class.
Your theory is that babies are born with political views, or what?

And it's important to spend money make them feel better about their wrong beliefs, even though it doesn't matter?
Don’t Tilt Scales Against Trump, Facebook Executive Warns
>SHA1 is vulnerable to preimage attacks.

From your linked article:

>All currently known practical or almost-practical attacks on MD5 and SHA-1 are collision attacks. In general, a collision attack is easier to mount than a preimage attack, as it is not restricted by any set value (any two values can be used to collide).
Thunderbolt 4 appears to be mostly a re-branding of Thunderbolt 3
More than that. A full 45% of Americans hold no stock whatsoever, including indirectly through IRAs and 401k [1].

1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...
> but it's not like you don't have options in this industry...

The games industry over the last decade has been experiencing an incredible amount of consolidation so options have been if anything narrowing, as more and more game development jobs rely on working for Big Corp Publishers.

Game development is a unique ecosystem of tech. Sure programmers can pivot to working at Facebook or whatever, but lets be honest that the work and technology used is wildly different, and there's friction to that change.

Also worth noting that there's more to coders in games. What about the artists, producers, qa and other workers?
I'm a fan of this idea. It used to be that there was so such thing as a weekend. Farmers had no choice but to work or their crops and animals would suffer. Even when the industrial revolution came it was normal to work 7 days a week. Looks to me that weekends have only added to the human experience. Let's go for a four day week. Maybe we'll start to produce less useless crap and focus on what society needs.
AFAIK you can't do real-time stuff on a Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pis aren't great when working with analog signals. I don't think they even come with analog->digital converters, and PWM can be janky

SD cards suck, when it comes to reliability. You can mitigate this by making the filesystem read-only, but your SD card will still crap out more quickly than built-in flash memory would.

Supply used to be an issue with the Zero, but I don't know if that's still true.
I thought unions were for low skilled workers that are easily replaceable. If you do this with higher level skill jobs, I think there is a strong risk of stagnating the growth of the industry by forcing companies to hire a certain way. Higher skill jobs are already in a position of good compensation and companies understand those employees are valuable. This includes programmers and such, but perhaps not artists (unfortunately). I can see a union for game artists and non-programming roles, as those would basically be lower skill level that can be easily replaced.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center It has been done once after they found a bug.
This is interesting, it sounds like your wife went to an underground/unlisted type of women's shelter?
We all laughed at Apple, 13 years ago as they entered into the smartphone industry and lo and behold, they created an entire economy out of it. Although Tesla, Toyota, etc are starting to get in on the electric car craze, now Sony is starting to test the waters. It would take some form of interesting tech and magic to get people to dump their cars for electric ones.

Perhaps Samsung will throw their hat in the ring if Apple throws in theirs, who knows. But I certainly won't buy a car designed by Mr Zuckerberg.
> It would be good for software engineering overall to be recognised as a legitimate branch of engineering.

I think the only way this could happen would be if SWE only used waterfall or some similar kind of practice. Agile and the like might be able to be tweaked to work, but even there...

The problem in software is that you can basically "start in the middle" of something and work your way outward; start coding something, get the design details later and refactor.

You can't do that with a bridge or other regular engineering work. You have to plan, design, multiple sign-offs, etc - then build, and you can't build it randomly or a component here and there then fit it all together (well, you can to an extent, depending on the project and design), and if anything changes - well, in a real project it can't change much, not without a lot of money and time being lost.

Several years back there was a series of commercials on TV, I think for an insurance company, which showed (using CGI effects) "impossible building strategies" - one showed a huge scaffolding structure and cranes building something like the Great Pyramid from the top downward (for instance); I think another had some kind of skyscraper being built from the middle outward or something of that nature.

That's essentially SWE applied to regular engineering - or at least, that's how it feels at times. Now tack on Agile and other practices, and it gets 10x worse. Actual engineering is a strict discipline, starting with almost set-in-stone practices along with a lot of hard-won knowledge about materials and mechanics (books filled with tables and diagrams), that are then all used to inform an engineering design, which is then tested and retested in simulation, perhaps coupled with scale models that are also tested, and the plans changed and signed off by multiple other engineers, etc - long before it ever gets to building the thing.

And then that thing is built in a very specific and strict manner; I won't further belabor the point.

Even with all of this, sometimes things fail terribly.

Today in software, we have a ton of tools and practices we are constantly trying - and despite all of them, at least from my perspective - things really haven't gotten much better than they were 20-30 years ago. I would say that widespread use of software versioning tooling and testing frameworks, etc (plus automated build and deployment) have made some of it better - but even after all that, we still seem to be making the same number of bugs and errors that we had before (and rather than a QA department usually, we've farmed this out to the end user for the most part).

So while I'd love to see SWE become more like regular engineering practices (with the selfish request that I and others like me could be "grandfathered" in, as I don't have any kind of compsci or comparable degree, but I have been doing this for 25+ years) - I just don't see it happening for the above rational and reasons.

I could be wrong, though (and if anyone has a counter argument, please post it - I'd love to read it)...
Didn't Apple already have a car group that they dropped?
A lot of these people got into the housing market before the explosion in prices over the last 15 years. Also, that stat also doesn't tell you if people on those incomes can afford their houses or how soon they can retire.

It sounds like you either don't live in the Bay Area or you make about what I make and haven't realized if you don't make $300k and your options aren't very pleasant.
You're not wrong but it becomes a race to the bottom.
But this is such a false dichotomy. The daily choice is not between providing for your children or being a jerk to your fellow man. There is a balance that ought to be struck between not caring about what other people think of you and caring deeply about how we treat other people.
Interesting, thank you!

I suspect then that defining it at x*x is just just because it's easier to type than x.powi(2).
The reality is this board heavily trends towards SV and other tech hubs where salaries are outrageous and everyone is flush with choices for employers. Not everyone working in tech can walk into their local coffee shop and walk out with a job.

For the millions of tech workers who don't live in Seattle or Austin or the Bay Area, salaries are under $100k and your city only has a small handful of companies you can choose from. Good luck if they're not hiring at the exact moment you're looking for a new job.
One key difference for unions is whether a job is project based or more of a permanent placement. The problems you mentioned are often a problem in the latter like with teacher or police unions. Project based workplaces are different in that they have a natural turnover and people need to be continually rehired so seniority or difficult to remove employees are less of a problem. The various unions in the entertainment industry are a good example of this. Video games are closer to the project based end of the spectrum.
He's saying for running the compiler, not for the compilation target I think.
Wikipedia on Shaw's admiration of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin:

"""
Shaw's admiration for Mussolini and Stalin demonstrated his growing belief that dictatorship was the only viable political arrangement. When the Nazi Party came to power in Germany in January 1933, Shaw described Hitler as "a very remarkable man, a very able man",[1] and professed himself proud to be the only writer in England who was "scrupulously polite and just to Hitler".[2] His principal admiration was for Stalin, whose regime he championed uncritically throughout the decade.[3] Shaw saw the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact as a triumph for Stalin who, he said, now had Hitler under his thumb.[4]
"""

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/40682385
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw#CITEREFHol...
[3] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance...
[4] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance...
`-D` doesn't involve the remote at all (unless you are using something like the intentional remote:branch syntax which this example isn't). It is a force delete in that if there were commits locally in that branch and only in that branch it should still delete that branch. It should be unlikely you need that force because the first step was to branch everything as is, so it is safer to just use `-d`, but if the intention is to "blat" it from orbit anyway, `-D` is that.
Thinking of the encoded genetic information developing over time as simply "training" the neural network of the brain doesn't quite capture development; proteins are manufactured and move in space as the brain is growing in space over time.

It sort of feels like training a neural network is like rewiring an adult brain which has already fully grown. Are there neural architectures which grow over time, or "age", emulating the early development of the brain?
I'm a Sr Manager at a FAANG company (and I started here in my 40s). My direct reports include other SDMs, senior product managers, and staff/principal engineers.

You mention "trying" for management. If you haven't previously managed people, then you probably won't be able to get a good SDM role directly. Instead, your best path would be to be hired as an SDE, demonstrate strong managerial bones (mentorship, communication, process orientation), and then transition to SDM after a few years.

If you've mostly been an engineer, then you may want to learn more about what's expected from different levels of engineer so you can determine, realistically, where your experience will be sufficient, and where there will be gap.
Because actually doing so is difficult, can be expensive, and is largely pointless.
I don't think an electric vehicle is substantially easier to engineer and mass produce than an ICE vehicle.
I think your analogs are superficial.

An NBA player have exactly one employer (the NBA) to work for.

I have far greater mobility career wise.

Nothing beats this difference.
I think that languages like JavaScript or Python really shine is when you need to iterate quickly to understand your problem space. And where they suck is when you're trying to maintain some really prickly logic that someone "clever" wrote. But you can also get into the same kind of trouble in C++ or C.

My favorite example of that is the system that a contractor wrote for us using bitwise logic and dual-nested loops that worked perfectly for function but each time we needed to make a change we needed at least 3 days to re-read the code for understanding. It passed all of our system-level and integration-level testing but if you put any one of us on the spot about how it actually worked we would have been screwed.
How to deal with this? Search example:

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Seriously?!
>In 2014, states spent between $5 and $216 per capita... Collectively, these incentives amounted to nearly 40% of state corporate tax revenues for the typical state, but some states' incentive spending exceeded their corporate tax revenues

studies that need a painfully clear understanding of statistics that start off making muddy, unclear statements like this are really hard to take seriously. What is a typical state? are you comparing california and vermont? is typical a median or mean? the tax incentive data involving faang and walmart is going to be preposterously different than single-location small businesses.

This abstract strongly incentivizes me to not read the article.
The majority of development studios are relatively small and, if you follow industry news, bankruptcy is a routine occurrence; even some well known small and indie names are only one or two flops away from bankruptcy. Unions might be able to make headway against EA, Valve, or Activision but for the smaller studios, well, there is no surplus. You can't get blood from a stone no matter how hard you squeeze.
My experience with older programmers is they are generally a bit slower. However they typically bring to the table something much more valuable. Everything that's new, has been done before... and they've seen it done before. They know the pitfalls, they also know the shortcuts. Many of them are hesitant of adopting new technology, but when they do, it's usually bringing something significant to the table.

In my opinion, if you can get one of these old guys on your team, your team is going to be better off. That said, the crotchetiness is almost always on the higher end.

Of course, it's not a rule. I also once worked with an older guy who was one of the nicest guys I've worked with... but I wouldn't let him come within 10 feet of my repo.
The Elixir ecosystem is really healthy. You can find almost any package you want on hex (https://hex.pm/). Moreover, because it is built on top of erlang you can seamlessly use any Erlang code (which a lot of Elixir apps use).

You can usually find high-quality libraries with a google search or looking at the number of stars of a hex package. Mix, the build tool is awesome and the language now has out of the box support for creating deployment releases.

There are a lot of high paying jobs for Elixir.
I think the issue is major cities like NYC also play the game, and they have far more money to spend. Amazon’s HQ2 ends up in the same place they would have without this fight, but the government hands out a huge subsidy.
I don't believe any active Bitcoin developers work for MIT anymore. Bitcoin development is almost entirely done in the public (obviously security issues are handled in private), not really much place for any kind of 'shadow'.

I don't think meetups/conventions have much role in Bitcoin development either. I stopped going to them entirely because every event is reliably taken over by ICO/altcoin pumpers-- groups who stand to gain a lot by expanding their audience and are willing to pay to send representatives to events.
For the most part a technology demonstrator of what they could offer an established car maker. My take away.

sedans with screens like those for rear seat viewers exist already normally in the form of luxury variants driven by others. the other use of course is mini vans and crossovers/suvs where children get access to screens.

yet I am always of the belief most younger people would rather just access their own device. now if we could borrow from some recent scifi shows the ability to those swipe and push your content to internal screens would be very nice.

as to that front panorama screen set up, that might work without a steering wheel implying entertainment options for everyone as everyone is a passenger.

comparing this all to where Telsa is (TM3 owner), the setup in Tesla works because for the most part the driver never really needs to interact with the display. Most setting in modern cars are automatic and simple tasks replicate to steering wheel controls. Throw in a lot of voice commands; Tesla recently introduced dozens; and you can minimize taking focus off driving. This Sony setup appears to not consider that, it wants to be attention grabbing which it should not be in a car that requires a driver.
"Small blocks with lightning to scale won"
Nope, LN is not P2P Electronic Cash.

Bitcoin Core protocol kept the Bitcoin branding and continues censorship.

Bitcoin Cash protocol is being actively developed and has a scaling roadmap https://www.bitcoincash.org/roadmap.html

Bitcoin SV was another centralized attack(from nChain+CSW) on BCH.

While both BTC & BSV are centrally developed and managed, BCH has decentralized development with multiple implementations.
Bitcoin has a long journey ahead, we are still handing out large miner rewards, we can check back in 3 more halvings by 2028 and see how things unfold.
Following your heart is a virtue. Writing about it bluntly, doubly so. Is one not free to leave a spouse for someone else? Regardless of age (assuming everyone is a consenting adult!)?

I give credit to those who live their life intentionally. You only get one. If you’re unhappy, pull the sails and head towards happiness. Valid point to not be a dick about it though (I haven’t read to know if these articles you mention are passive aggressive in tone). You can be direct but still kind.
Only if institutional myopia keeps them focused solely on the next quarter or two.

The companies will learn that treating their employees fairly from the outset is cheaper than having a union force it upon them for the next 10 to 50 years.
Read the Andrew Bosworth Memo
Psychedelic Salon
Note that there aren't a lot of ecosystems where everyone follows semver rules. Even on the npm registry, patch version bumps can still very much break your code because there's no validation during publication. It's still on you to make sure you have tests set up that run when code or dependencies change, even for something as simple as a patch version bump.

Although specifically to your example of 0.8.0 to 0.8.1: that's exactly the kind of version that semver guarantees is not safe: major version 0 is the "unstable" version, and the minor/patch rules do not apply to it (see https://semver.org/#spec-item-4).
The piecemeal attempts to create a rational payments system are getting to the point where the Fed just needs to acknowledge the need for a free/secure/unified infrastructure run and regulated by the government. They are starting to do this (Fed real time payment + settlement system) but not fast enough.

Other countries laugh at us when we talk about the checks we have to write, the scams we endure with mistaken payments / withdrawals without our knowledge, or the fees we accept banks charging us.

We would never choose to have the system we currently do. We need to get over the interests / lazy inertia holding us back.
Hi! I have some questions about the role but it looks like your email isn't in your bio. If you get a chance, do you mind emailing me? phil at denhoff dot ca
Check out hex: https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm
New York state started a program of "Empire Zones" in depressed areas, but pretty soon every legislator wanted one in his district and next thing you know we have an Empire Zone in every county.

The loss of revenue is real, the benefits for the community never seem to materialize.
The hydro power is actually pretty fascinating in what it might mean for usage of unstable renewables like solar and wind. Hydro is a giant, slowly recharging battery. It's perfect to pair with wind and solar because it can deal with their highly variable generation and our society's highly variable needs.

But we don't have enough hydro-battery storage to allow for solar and wind to provide our base load. That's where nuclear shines, and why Ontario uses it so much.

Until we can come up with a way to store something like a week's worth of power, it's going to be very difficult to ever phase out of nuclear. But given how clean nuclear is compared to the alternative base-load energy sources (gas, coal, etc), I think that's just fine.
The title seems to be intentionally misleading, the words "no evidence" are presented as if they are a quote from the paper, while in reality the phrase "no evidence" appears zero times in it.

Ignore the headline, read the abstract and if you have time the paper. It's much more interesting and accurately/fairly describes the data collected.