skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, that's the sort of front line perspective I'm seeking!

Car no, clean clothes yes. (The laundromat's much less convenient and enjoyable.)

I do know a lot of the SF housing stock isn't that great, just from looking--bad kitchens and old furnishings, because "they" know they can get away with it. (And you can bet they'd never live like that themselves: it's upgrades all the way.)
Gun Funded – Visualization of the gun lobby’s $40M+ funding of the U.S. Congress
The point is that, despite it being possible theoretically, the OpenBSD project does not want to take on the maintenance burden and additional clutter of having 40 (!) separate versions of the compiler toolchain in the ports tree with a new one landing every 6 weeks.
Some more context...

"He [Snowden] said that the Rubik’s cube was put in for the film and he wouldn’t be divulging how he smuggled out information. However, he added, everyone in the office did have a Rubik’s cube. “So they were floating around and coming in and out all the time,” he said."

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2016/09/snowden-rubiks-cube-...

To me he's at least suggesting a similar glaring shortfall in CIA processes that let him smuggle it out.
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Mitigation for Intel GPU Vulnerability Obliterates Gen7 iGPU Performance
All I get is "You do not have permission to access this content. (#418)"
Exactly, people with that much money can lobby against any noise restrictions.
Part of the problem is voting rights, founders want to control 51% for as long as possible and VCs take 20%+ per round
What do you consider a company fighting climate change? Not sure how space x or waymo ends up on this list. Or Betterment and Wealthfront.
Oh. It's the newsletter his wife sent out, as he was dying, and she was taking care of him.

You can watch some videos she put up for the Thanksgiving event they held 9 months after the funeral.
https://vimeo.com/user97457269
Aside from it being difficult to implement, I like this idea, especially if it’s less to check. I have noticed that some airlines, Alaska for example, will give free gate checks to folks.
I think you're right; I misinterpreted the term 'graphite-moderated reactor' to mean something it doesn't. Graphite will slow the neutrons so they react more. Also, the Chernobyl reactor design has graphite tips on its control rods, which I misremembered as the primary substance of the rod.

The primary substance of the control rods is (usually) a neutron absorber, and most reactors with control rods have a passive safety system, so gravity and springs will force the control rods in to significantly slow the reaction unless actively opposed by the control system.

The Chernobyl rods had graphite ends so that when fully retracted, the reactor output was higher than if there was simply no neutron absorber present; unfortunately, this also meant that going from fully retracted to fully inserted would increase the reactivity in the bottom of the reactor before it reduced it, and in the disaster, this process overheated the bottom of the reactor, damaging the structure and the control rods got stuck, and then really bad things happened.

Long story short, most control rods don't have graphite. ;)
I've found that building the Lego Technic Porsche 911 set from a couple years ago really helps a lot with understanding dual-clutch transmission systems. https://brickset.com/sets/42056-1/Porsche-911-GT3-RS
Terminal Snake Game with Music Implemented Using C++
Gumroad Open Board Meeting #2
I happened to study the process few days ago. Officer pulled out an elaborate form, asked the guy if he wants his copy, wants rights to the item if owner didn’t show up, to which he said no and no, and then he was asked to sign the blank and was told him they take care of the rest. Took 5-10 mins max.

Technically no one should ever sign a blank sheet, ever, but that could be done, I guess.
"If you’re a barista at the coffee shop, figure out how to make connections with the customers. Figure out how to innovate the service you offer and delight the customer. Managers, founders and owners will take notice."

I stopped reading here, because... no, no they won't, and even if they do - they won't/can't reward you appropriately for it.
You can pry C from my cold, dead hands.
> what other industry or domain does this? none that i know of.

Aviation, some surgeries.

You know, low-stakes stuff.
Indeed, and if you count the value of in-kind support for Chrome, such as constant "switch to Chrome" advertising on the most important Web real estate in the world, we're talking billions, not millions.

I would love someone to estimate an actual figure for total Chrome marketing spend including in-kind. I'm guessing it would be well over $10B.
Yes. Besides blinding amounts of luck, billions also need a heavy admixture of coercion. Microsoft didn't just luck into its monopoly, it also maintained it through decades of strong-arm anti-competitive abuses. Amazon has driven tens of thousands of small, local businesses into the ground, and continues abusing its employees. It would be very easy for Amazon to treat its employees well, but it chooses not to. It would be somewhat less easy to root out counterfeit merchandise, but it instead participates in deceiving its customers. Is that luck? Hard work?
I’ve personally found that it depends on the aircraft. It’s especially true in a widebody where economy doesn’t walk through the same cabin, and not so true on a narrowbody with few seats.
What are you considering small or a few years? Smallsats like Starlink is using can take 100+ years to deorbit from drag in LEO (at the 1100km orbits they haven't started deploying to yet— for the orbits they're currently using the deorbit time is on the order of a few years). Even if you're talking about 1U cubesats (~1kg and 10cmx10cmx10cm), those can take decades. The first cubesats ever built are still on orbit.

Going even smaller, there are still small droplets of coolant in LEO from nuclear reactors that the USSR launched 50 years ago. The droplets are more or less spheres with diameters in the 5mm-5cm range.
I still write .NET 1.1 software for deployment on (sometimes new!) XP machines. (Industrial) It can be a challenge keeping an older Microsoft dev environment active... it’s the most valuable VM image I have.
What about pairing strikes you as not considering programmers to be professionals?

I've done a lot of pairing and never felt that I was somehow being slighted or considered incapable. I've felt slighted in cases when I wasn't pairing, though.
Datadog seems like a fantastic product but it is very expensive.

I work at a consulting company and we had a company needing some monitoring setup. Ended up going with Grafana and some AWS resources over Datadog.
The cost difference was huge. Datadog would have been around $20k/mo. The grafana and AWS solution was about a tenth of the cost.

What are you using Datadog in a custom dev shop for, and how do you justify the cost?

My impression was Datadog is for very large and very profitable companies.
A much simpler solution is for aisle folks to help people in their row with bags while waiting. I'm obligated to do so with family, but it works other times too. Try it some time.
If Microsoft had also gone with Gecko? Yeah, I'm quite confident Gecko would still be around (and maintained by many people other than Microsoft) in a decade.

I think it will be around anyway btw, although I'm perhaps less sure.
Quindar Tones: the beeps heard in recordings of astronauts in space
Isn't it more expensive to launch a geostationary satellite? If their big thing is communication how are they going to compete with Starlink (which isn't geostationary btw)? How is it profitable for anyone to dream of competing with Starlink at this point. I am a layperson but it seems like game over unless Rocket Lab finds a way to compete.

The article only mentioned communications satelites and I don't think anyone is going able to beat Starlink in that area in the next 5-10 years.
> How many times has Brown taken these actions in response to other work by their staff? Surely quite a few Brown papers must have had shoddy methodology.

I'm not sure it's appropriate to limit such a question to Brown. It would be great to know how often shoddy studies are published, the types of errors / malpractice, in which fields, in which journals, how often they're caught, and how that's handled by journals, authors and the institutions that employ them. Perhaps you could do a meta-study and report back.
Mark Wahlberg-Backed F45 Training Files for IPO
It's a copypasta. OP didn't make up the number 2 but I'm guessing it comes down to 2 being a tolerable number to most people.
To help climate change we want inefficient boarding since there's less people flying
downerending@ events would affect just about every human in a very large way. Climate change will only affect a subset of the human population in a noticeable way as a mild inconvenience [0].

[0]: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
“ Na says IBM has built prototype pouch battery cells in the lab which give her group confidence that they could develop a commercial product for limited applications (e.g. portable power tools) within one to two years. Developing the technology to compete with industry-standard lithium ions for electric vehicle powertrains will take, she says, a “longer time.””
> If you reduce other real forms of pollution, by consuming less, you incidentally reduce CO2.

> You focus on CO2 and the world is still going to rip itself apart as we replace CO2 for other pollution.

If we try to reduce CO2 solely via reduced consumption we'll have a massive and painful collapse in standard of living, which would likely result in widespread conflict and turmoil, undermining efforts to control pollution altogether. That is an approach that will rip up the world. And it's totally unnecessary, given the scale of potential renewable resources available and the huge opportunities for greater efficiency that maintain and in many cases improve our standard of living.

Increasing solar, wind, and tightly managed nuclear doesn't replace CO2 with other pollution.

Decarbonizing electricity generation and electrifying transportation are strictly less polluting than any previous approach we've taken to energy and transportation since the industrial age.

Also, we can walk and chew gum at the same time. China is already pivoting to take its local pollution problem more seriously for the sake of its own population's health, much as Europe and the US started to do a few decades ago (therefore catalytic converters). CO2 reduction in the energy supply also reduces local particulate pollution.
depends on your personal needs but if you're reasonable and want a 1 bedroom, a $2500-$3000 is fair game and live near downtown. You can go much cheaper (roughly half that price) if you're willing to live outside of downtown
AWS, Losant (iot platform), Gsuite, Pipedrive, resharper, Sublime Text, AdWords, Adobe Premiere Essentials, password management, Xcode, stock photography/video, monitoring services
Then I guess when you say “zero trust” you actually mean “some trust, but not enough for that”.
Thanks, for me $3k's a barrier not worth crossing (excepting FAANG-level remuneration?), and that seems workable considering the salary difference I see there.
I've seen a few patterns at Pivotal. In Pivotal Labs and some R&D projects the team is fully colocated, so Slack isn't necessary for the day-to-day.

To maintain accessibility by remote teams and individuals, most teams will assign an "interrupt pair", who are designated to deal with Slack, walk-by questions and the like.

I have mixed feelings about Slack. It's too addictive. I've enjoyed jousting and joking and forth, but I don't always come out the other side with concrete outcomes.
I've been seeing K mentioned a lot around here recently. Fostering interest in any array language is a good thing imo, but I'm curious about what draws people to K over J in particular. They're both ASCII based with APL heritage, but afaik J is free software and K isn't.
The video of this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv4tI6939q0
I just thought it seemed a bit odd to me to have the project tied to large organizations in China so much. I’m not saying to “buy American” but I do think it’s reasonable to be perplexed.
That looks preeeetty cool. Keepin an eye on it.
To the 70: Thank you for contributing to such incredible software for all these years. Your contribution to my life is not insignificant. Good luck on your next chapter.

To Mozilla: Let's figure out this monetization thing. Heck, I'd pay for Firefox to keep it as great as it is and independent.
I've noticed the term "low code" being mentioned more often lately, but never in relation to array programming languages. In my opinion languages like k, q, apl and j are the most flexible and expressive low code programming platforms on the market.
Literally anyone who lives in the bay area has a choice to live somewhere else or work remote.
The geostationary satellites are usually moved to a Graveyard Orbit when they are not longer used. The spots in the geostationary are very few and very regulated. More info in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_orbit
Many CEOs derive a significant portion - often even the majority - of their compensation from performance-based bonuses. Compensation not only reflects performance, it is directly tied to it.
This countermeasure story came up in 2018 but I'd only heard about it recently: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59jm8d/trick-face-scan-ha...
Except those rooftops are very expensive real estate, that often already have other stuff on them. So to rent one, you need to pay a bunch of money, which increases price per ride and decreases total rides... that combo means this isn’t that realistic for wide spread adoption.
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Pair programming is a nightmare for introverted people. Part of the appeal of coding is the relative solitude of the work. I think any company that mandates it is just a place I won't work.
I think Hunter (https://hunter.io/) is what you're looking for.
Jitsi looks interesting: https://jitsi.org
I've never tried it out, but I am very tempted. Looks pretty clean and modern, with a pure JavaScript WebRTC client, in addition to the usual native apps.
The book:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YRL1GK6/
> K stands for “keys to the kingdom”.

Lol. It's actually just the letter after J, since K was supposed to be the next in the APL-ish family.
Is it per week or per month?
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Keeping XUL extensions would have meant continuing to sacrifice performance, security and stability. That could never have worked long-term.
You might like ngn/k, an AGPLv3 variant. https://bitbucket.org/ngn/k/
To be fair, I've seen up to an entire plane cooperate for much less serious reasons than the one you mentioned. On budget airlines. In America.

IMO _how_ you treat the "cattle" (as a commenter in this thread referred) is the deciding factor. Some flight crews have a solid leader or two who can really command the respect/fear of the passengers' collective psyche. Like that strict but good teacher you may have had in middle school who ran a tight ship.

Some flight crews are meek and/or too drained give a flying f*.
Some don't have a choice. Some find meaning elsewhere, for example some see a job as simply a means to provide for their family. If a job is just a job, switching jobs for greener pastures becomes easier. Perhaps putting their family's interests before their own also becomes easier (how many stories of founders having family issues have you heard?). It's a question of priorities.

Being personally invested in a company has risks and advantages. I've seen people tolerate a lot of nastiness from their employer because the victim "believes in the mission".

I for one have to watch my tendency to get attached to "missions," lest I lose too much self-determination capacity.
> Some of that amazing stuff is still out there, but it's drowned out by the firehose of corporatism and "normal" people.

The good stuff is much harder to discover than it used to be.

Even before Google, if you were persistent enough you would eventually find what you were looking for deep in the Lycos / Alta Vista search results. I have tried doing that a few times recently with both Duck Duck Go (Bing?) and Google, and past page 2 the results seem to devolve into an unstructured morass (no matching terms - but it might be relevant... somehow?) in ways that were much more depressing than searches of old.
It was worse than Gecko. Gecko is excellent.

Edge still has (had?) so many rendering issues on sites we make. One thing I find really impressive about Firefox, despite the completely different engine I _very_ rarely find FF-specific bugs.
Google controls web standards and Mozilla, so Firefox won't save the web. Mozilla didn't make anything to fight against DRM.
> Vulkan and DX12 are far less likely to break existing apps i the future due to far fewer core features.

This is questionable. Vulkan by definition has basically no error checking in the driver, and while developers are supposed to use the validation layer, they may not do so, and even if they do, there are certain plenty of incorrect things an application can do that won't be caught by validation.

Incorrect programs may still happen to run correctly on existing drivers, but then fail with a driver update that happens to change the undefined behavior.
The improvement doesn't need to come only just in form of time to luggage but also in the experience for offloading and pickup it up. Also reliability is quite an issue (if you ever flew through CDG you know what I'm talking about).

I would like to see some more innovation around luggage handling.
They aim to be much cheaper to run. Helicopters are mechanically complex so require a lot of maintenance, and have multiple single points of failure so you can’t skip the maintenance, and are demanding to learn to fly. The hourly rate of a helicopter is high.

Electric motors are simple and reliable and all these companies use multiples so have some redundancy. Multi-rotors require computer control for stability. With that done the piloting is easy.
Sure but you can live plenty comfortably on 100k. I don’t think we would be having this conversation if she was making that.
My experience of pair programming, which spanned about 4.5-5 years of working for Pivotal Labs and in Pivotal R&D, was pretty much universally positive.

But it's a complex skillset in its own right, hard to learn from a book. And in turn it requires a degree of corporate sanity and cultural safety that is quite rare. It's also a very humbling experience.

Lots of people have had bad experiences, or believe that they would have a bad experience. I just like to place on the record that my experience of pair programming has been amazing and I look forward to the day when I can return to it.
What happens if you go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive, tap on your Apple ID and sign out of the iMessage account for your Apple ID?
If you've got a week or two for vacation, spending six days getting there and back just so you can not fly with your own kid seems... suboptimal.
I noticed this the last time I was in Tokyo. This is a place where if a stranger saw me drop cash on the sidewalk, they would hunt me down to return it. So what's the deal with all the umbrella locks? TFA explains it.
Using Nightly on Linux (Bunsen Helium), 360 tabs, using 1.5 GB, but that will grow if I fire up dormant tabs. Starts going out to swap if I run it too long, then I kill it and update Nightly.
Safari lags behind Chrome because Apple's business model doesn't depend on it.
There must be sometype of framework she can use to detach from work. Have you tried or suggested meditation, maybe that's a way to calm the brain at least dealing with the nightmares.
Performance, KDB+, simplicity.

I've heard it said that J is for people with brains too big for K. J can be difficult with its hooks, forks, trains, and other complex function application constructs.

Job prospects too. K is heavily used in the financial sector (even YC has postings for K jobs in its monthly listings) and pays extremely well for what is basically a database developer.
They’re not babies. They just don’t get it. The totality of the commitment is lost on them.

What’s new is that they also just don’t care.
I've honestly always been fascinated with the ideas behind Speaker for the Dead.
When I was living in Japan, i once lost my wallet on a bicycle ride. It must have fallen out of my pocket somewhere on the route i was taking.

I didn't notice it was missing until I got home, got my keys out to open the door and realised the wallet was missing. I went back out on the bike and retraced my route but couldnt see the wallet annoyed that I would have to cancel cards, get a new ID card.

After I got home again, i was procrastinating about cancelling the cards for about 30mins and then decided to crack on. After I picked up the phone to start, the front door bell rang, I opened the door and there were 2 ladies with my wallet, they handed me my wallet, asked me to check everything was there and then apologized for taking so long to return my wallet.

Apparently they found my wallet, went to an address I had left in there, but I had recently moved apartments, so they went to the Koban, Police officer told them my address based off my ID card and then they came to my address.
This so far looks like its an azure advertisement. All docs seem to be Azure related.
It could be a genuine leak, but it sounds an awful lot like Firefox using 28 GiB of virtual memory.

Firefox often appears to use large amounts of memory in top / htop, but I believe that's just reported address space allocations. The RES column gives a more accurate depiction of memory usage.
>act as greedily as possible so it takes longer than it needs to

These two things aren't connected (greed and time blocking alsie). the greedy answer is to get comfortable and settled in your bubble, fast.

I am a SW FF, most of the other people on my planes are, and we get it...we move and seat quickly to allow others in. I'm guessing far better average plane etiquette than most other US airline's FFs (though all FFs are likely above average).
Arthur wrote the article :)
A beat-up genic mamachari bicycle sometimes fits this pattern.

Left unsecured near a station, it might get "borrowed" by a drunken salaryman and discarded somewhere near his home a kilometre away.
How would a 9°C warming cause human extinction? There is plenty of currently cold land that would benefit from warming temperatures for farming and humans are massively adaptable in that we live in large populations in pretty much every climate. Even if things continue the way they are, it'll happen over such a long time that time that the rate of change won't be a real issue either.

I'm all for zero carbon emissions but the ridiculous "everyone is going to die due to climate change" is pure FUD.
> But nowadays I feel just like a worthless pawn, developing crappy programs, who is starting to suffer from age discrimination...

You can join open source. For example, at dlang.org we don't care how old you are, and we won't pull crappy code.
But we are not talking about quicksort or mergesort, either way it helps prove my point. Typically faster is an interesting way of describing something. What is typical? 80% of the time?