skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you on "born with": Karen Carpenter, Barbara Streisand and Whitney... we will never have another of any of these ever again. But Louis Armstrong?-- a great great singer and incredible, towering musician by any measure-- doesn't have a naturally "beautiful" voice like them-- he basically plays a kind of voice trumpet using his vocal chords-- which is his personal, developed style- and it is SO compelling and multi-textured. That is practice, baby! That is being comfortable with your instrument and your own stylistic ideas and making stuff up within a style and context. Robert Plant? That is all about the gut of it- the raw impulse. The rock n roll. It's his commitment to the story and the song, but I won't at all agree that he was born with a gorgeous or even naturally interesting voice-- but he has developed a very clear artistic one-- developed-- practiced and imagined. Bob Dylan? He compels a lot of people to buy records and tickets. Tom Waits? Great singing is stylistic and conceptual artistry like Picasso or Sophie Calle. Most important thing about the singing: being comfortable with yourself and accepting who you actually are and loving the imperfections. That is so difficult, I know - it is what we all practice all the time. Once you feel comfortable- it is all about being vulnerable (being totally cool with making mistakes and being imperfect and unbeautiful) in front of many people and making them feel like you trust them with your mistakes and your imperfections and your story. That's the whole thing and the hardest part.

Incidentally, no matter how beautiful the "born with" part, some of those who are most "born with" that impossibly gorgeous tone quality have a much harder time than the rest of us with the accepting of themselves and their imperfections (few, if any in the vocal department) and being vulnerable and ok with who they are. In fact, in the case of Carpenter and Whitney- it killed them —they were unable to sustain this vulnerability.

To your question: "So you have taught someone to change the tone/quality of the voice they were given to the point where ppl pay to hear them sing?" Well, not to change it fundamentally, but to embody it and learn to enhance it and present it with skill and generosity so that others (collaborators, audience members) will be compelled/motivated/helped by its vulnerability, truth, intention and whatever it's about-- this is essentially my job as a teacher of music. Just an FYI--- music is not about who pays to hear it- that is not the mark of its power or greatness. Does it change your life? That's it! (People pay for some crazy bad stuff.)
I wonder how much better Android would be as a platform if Google interviewer for good taste in API design and communication skills rather than whiteboard logic problems and advanced CS skills.

Did you think to check whether the new hire who can write a regex parser in his head can also design a library that other people want to use without screaming?
I love the minimalistic style.

How long did it take you to build the first version? How many people? Which tech are you using for it?
I've always wondered: reused- by whom? Assuming these things would be droppped during a nuclear war (otherwise, dropping one would start the nuclear war) there wouldn't be many people left to reuse the buildings. Or any other living things for that matter.
Except in their industry they are still competitors even if they've chosen to be co-workers to save on costs like office space and marketing.
Gibbon1 is correct, the CA numbers have been overly pessimistic for months, evident in that the Santa Clara dashboard has been flat for months and at no point in crisis.

At some point the responsible thing to do is to use a more accurate model, but that's not what's happening.

Newsom plans to run for President, so it's hard to believe anything he says, doubly so with the incorrect stats available.
Oh yeah, I started at 12, now I'm 62, still working happily, I think the trick is to reinvent yourself every decade or so, find something completely different to do, it's a big field
But mixed-criticality systems are quite normal in many deployments nowadays, especially with the advent of virtualization and hypervisors you should be able to run safety critical and non-safety critical functions at the same time on the same SoC.
Docker won't run on my local machine as non root. And all the stuff I have seen so far has been run as root.
Certificates issued with this CA will have been cross-signed by the newer root certificate, but our CA (Sectigo) was sending the old chain in issuing emails as late as April this year, despite the cross-signed root being available for a long time.
The industry has been very biased; from 1940 there weren't many programmers, very quickly the number of programmers doubled, most had little experience. Through the 1970s there weren't many programmers with more than 5 years experience. As the number grew so fast, through the 1980s most programmers still had less than 5 years experience. Same through the 1990s. Probably still the same through the 2000s and 2010s and with how many people are learning to code, probably still the same now, most programmers have <5 years experience.

That means most employers have only ever seen developers with <5 years experience, working in teams of same, using languages and tools designed by and for same. How could such employers properly value 30 or 50 years of experience?
A 'failed' nuclear detonation known as a 'fizzle' can yield relatively small blast but still be very deadly due to radiation emitted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizzle_(nuclear_explosion)
Thanks for your comment do you have some statistics about that ? Or is it just your opinion ? As a matter of fact I used a well known dataset from a serious institution - Wisconsin Hospital of Madison University - meaning the fine needle aspiration is something that helps in breast cancer diagnosis. Besides, the fine needle aspiration is cheaper than biopsy.
The Convair NB 36H wasn't actually powered by the reactor, though; its sole job was to validate that it was possible to shield the crew from the reactor's radiation (which it did).

However, there were certainly successful tests of actual nuclear-powered jet engines, like General Electric's X39 (a modified J47, and slated to be slapped onto that NB 36H to make a Convair X-6) and J87 (a different design for a different nuclear-powered bomber project, the WS-125).

A key issue is the shielding necessary to keep such an aircraft from irradiating everything around it (you think neighborhoods bitching about nearby airports are ornery now...); that shielding is heavy. Accidents also make such craft much riskier, which is indeed a cited reason (other than costs) why the USA and USSR both cancelled their nuclear-powered bomber programs.
Once you put an employee in a position where the only way to get a salary hike is to change employers, there is no way back - you change employers. It worked out well for me, and AFAIK the role is not filled yet in the previous company.
I don't understand how this is relevant. We're talking about a deterministic timeout, based on the diff between cert exp date and current date.

If Chrome added e.g. a 20 second slowdown to connect to the page for every user in the world one day after the cert expired, surely there would be some users who would ping the company that the site is unbearably slow (on social media, by email, whatever). Or someone in the company would notice. Or analytics would drop like hell.

Myriads of ways how a non-abandoned website would learn about it directly or indirectly.

Of course that seems like a giant hack, but a grace period of 1-7 days with browsers doing something less scary than a giant error screen would be more than welcome.
Timsort is great in Python and Java; the objects sorted are pointer-sized (cheap swaps) and there is always indirection (expensive comparisons).
You can't just call everyone who notices something a "circle jerk" without any further elaboration or substance.
Why do I not see more drones in the protest videos? You'd think that would be a safe way to film things, plus it's a little harder to confiscate than your phone.
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Always share the video on social media. Don’t trust the cops or any part of the justice system to do the right thing.
There is the gamedev subreddit that contains plenty of helpful information and people.

Using a game engine like Unity you can create something pretty advances in a short time. There are tons of tutorials on YT.
If you prefer a free game engine, check out Godot.

If you're looking at doing it "from scratch", you should really consider starting out small with something like Pong or Tetris. The best resource I know is Handmade Hero for that, tons of YT videos and huge community.
> rebuilding all the game logic in the server-side

Start with the server side. This doesn't actually have to be a server application with no gui, but start with the simulation of an entire world. Then 'rebuild' the logic on the client side. This lets you be a little bit sloppy—though not too sloppy, obviously—because it's ok if the server 'cheats', since it has no ulterior motives (except for yours) and there's only one of it.
> It introduces a huge amount of complexity, overhead, and instability

I've never used it but might find myself using it in the future.. can you elaborate on these a bit? I'm curious what the pitfalls might be
I assume consumer drones are not particularly difficult to shoot down, with rubber bullets or otherwise
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Sadly I expect their legal counsel was involved. It reads like something that, while acknowledging they took “some” inspiration from Keivan’s work, avoids stating any detail about what that was. Note also how they carefully avoid mentioning anything related to the job interview, the most “sue-able” of subjects.

I’m not mad anymore, it’s just bittersweet: Keivan finally gets some kudos, but yet again the giant corporation cannot stop itself from looking utterly soulless.
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I've heard "actually counts cases differently from other countries" for at least 3 other European countries.

I don't think that phrase means very much.
Wasn't that the same in operating systems like MS-DOS and its predecessors, and on Apple computers as well?
Yeah, bring on the downvotes :-), it started already ...

Ok - considering the audience, obviously the best database is JS based KV Store with AI optimisation, controlled by K8s!

You know, "schema on write", "schema as a code", APIs etc.
The tax free/subsidized fuel era is likely to end fairly soon (unless we're going to fail badly at climate change mitigation measures).
Flying over groups of people is not allowed.
Yes it’ll reduce latency, but doesn’t it also increase parallelism? A single-threaded program ought to improve overall, unless the extra overhead you mentioned dominates. A parallel program might improve or not.

I think if you wanted to do deferred destruction right, ideally you’d mod an allocator to have functions like (alloc_local, alloc_global, free_now, free_deferred) to avoid exhausting memory. Traits could make this ergonomic.

Also I admit I don’t understand why “you won’t have any backpressure on your allocations,” shouldn’t deferred destruction give you more backpressure if anything? I am probably confused.
Am I the only one thinking that "remote" would mean "anywhere in the world", but most of the times mean "anywhere in the country" (in Stripe's case, the US)? Is it even possible, due to legal/logistics, to have really "internationally remote" workforce?
Which means you now need two airplanes to do what one did previously.

Realistically a skydiving flight would be more, as your climbing at full power much more than a short hop commuter flight normally would.
I like the idea, but the execution seems rather bad. If I try to connect to my Postgres server, it can't find a single table in any database, even though I know there are tables and I know that other clients can fetch them. It also seems to say "undefined rows affected" on all SELECTs.
But this was more a 1:1 representation of the source with generic markers for any arguments and local variables (in functions), as far as I remember. However, there was also an optimization option in the compiler. (But, of course, type hinting instructed the byte code emitted by the compiler.)
This is what it takes to learn to fly a plane; if you want to learn to fly 2 planes in the flight school, you cannot do it in the regular 45 hours, it will take you over 60 hours if you are good, over 80 hours for most people.
It is, because they have almost a monopoly on maps. Apple maps can be an alternative, but only to iOS users, which is far from the majority of people on earth.
So they don't actually need to prioritize customer support. Why would they, there is no real alternative ?
Is there hardware that we cannot model in software given enough knowledge of the domain?
I suppose the issue is no matter how small and cheap the repeaters get, they will still need power, backups, replacements and all the complexity that implies.

I also have a feeling I've read the power needed for the repeaters generates magnetic fields that attract sharks. Shark bites are a not entirely trivial source of fiber cuts, which require very expensive fleets of cable repair ships to be maintained on standby and simply driving down the number of fiber cuts could be a fairly significant source of cost savings.
I was wondering the same thing myself today. It'd be interesting to come up with a drone that's ideal for this purpose… that can quickly fly and relocate somewhere, but can land on any flat surface and record remotely. You could perch it on nearby buildings or even things like traffic lights
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If you flight drone over protest and something hit the drone or you crash the drone, the drone will fall on people under it.
I still do not understand the drama? As far as I can tell the story is as follows. AppGet is Open Source using Apache 2.0 license.

Microsoft wanted to work together with the creator of AppGet - It did not work out.
Microsoft releases WinGet as Open Source (MIT), AppGet creator ends his project.

Of course it would have been cooler if they would have just forked the project, or became maintainers of AppGet - but that did not work out - so they created their own. People did not get together and voila now we have two different linux variants.

Isn't this the normal lifecycle of OpenSource? Many variants of the same thing competing with eachother?

If I create my own linux variant and somebody else releases a similar linux with the same features, (but has more funding and capacity to continue maintenance) there is no point in me continuing support for my personal linux variant?

Isn't this just a variant of the core problem of open source how projects get their funding /compensation?
It's always ethical to film police misconduct, in fact what's unethical is that they're not already filming themselves.

Safety is important, protesters (and even journalists...) have been livestreaming themselves innocently doing nothing (in contrast to other media's hyper-focusing on "looting") then getting shot with rubber bullets. One of them reportedly has permanent blindness in the left eye as a result.

Police brutality in response to a protest against police brutality is truly disturbing.
Recently I've been thinking there must be a better way.

I want rich insights from a session angle, but I mostly want to know performance timings and what my end users experience. How can I improve my web apps to increase engagement, and where are the issues on my website as it's seen from a user's perspective.

My current thought (not yet implemented) is to take several existing things and to glue them together.

1. Boomerang https://github.com/akamai/boomerang is a Real User Monitoring JS include that is open source and comes from the Yahoo and Akamai performance teams

2. Grafana Cloud https://grafana.com/products/cloud/ has Loki and Prometheus for log consumption and metrics respectively and now has a self serve plan of $50 per month (but I think this is reasonable as the data storage is managed for you and you could run many instances of RUM monitoring via this to spread the cost reasonably)

3. Write a simple server to receive the Boomerang requests, log each request received in full detail and structured. At the same time increment Prometheus metrics. Let Loki and Prometheus then put that into Grafana Cloud.

Then it's just a case of using Grafana to configure a dashboard to offer whatever views, alerts, analysis that you want.

The thing I like about this is that no matter what the website the inputs are the same (whatever Boomerang provides), and so the dashboards are inherently shareable so that others can use them.
Mastering Vim Quickly: From WTF to OMG in no time

https://jovicailic.org/mastering-vim-quickly/

109 pages.
Electric planes with swappable batteries exist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipistrel_Alpha_Trainer#Alpha_...

I guess the use case is that a flight school could have 2 planes & 5 batteries, and get more student flights into a day by not waiting for charging. Operating from one fixed base, one owner, so no issue with getting someone else's pack. 126 kg, so not trivial to remove.
Git is art.
All programming is a solution to a problem. Some of the problems are very pedestrian and the solution is very boring.
There have been many version control systems before Git. I remember using SCCS, RCS, CVS, ClearCase and finally Git came along, and just redefined the whole concept.
Sure, the CLI may be clunky at times, but the fundamental problem of version control is solved.
I suspect, that historically, Git may be considered as a bigger accomplishment for Linus Torvalds than Linux. After all, Linux is a clean room implementation of Unix, whereas Git is completely original.
Our notion of exploration is very much tied to ancient history and in particular exploring places that we could not otherwise learn anything about other than by going there. The problem with space exploration is that we already have explored it to a huge degree just by using telescopes and remote probes. It's not entirely clear what humans could learn by going to somewhere like Mars, that couldn't otherwise be learned using satellites, robots and telescopes.
Thanks, I was looking for the most cynical possible position that I could adopt on this news
It'd be even nicer if git could figure it out.

From those two examples only, looks like fewer hunks are better, but so are smaller hunks, at least when the number of hunks are equal.
> Every Nvidia and Intel competitor (AMD) is probably already reverse engineering their binary drivers and binary libraries trying to steal their IP, so Intel and Nvidia’s fears are imo justified.
If NVIDIA or Intel could easily protect their open source code from being stolen from AMD, the story would be different.

Intel's GPU drivers are free software, they even contribute them themselves, same goes for AMD.

I think NVIDIA's different because they have the Apple mentality of them being the real innovators, (regardless of fact) and building their internal culture on secrecy, closeness even to other teams within the company etc. I think they consider it as part of their 'coolness factor', together with the CEO being on stage dressed like a rock star from the 80s.

The fact that they benefit from Linux massively and that having an open driver would win them massive goodwill is not directly measurable in terms of their balance sheet, at least in the short term, plus it would remove some of the secrecy.
NEKOTAKO is another new SNES game released in 2019 that uses original sound driver.

http://pagam.es/
Bob Smith who codes the NARS2000 APL interpreter was programming from at least 1969:

http://www.nars2000.org

http://www.sudleyplace.com/APL/projects.html
Awesome resource! The companion course on egghead is also great and quirky: https://egghead.io/courses/professor-frisby-introduces-compo...
Nobody knows their own life expectancy and geriatrics are perhaps not most suitable to survive in a harsh environment, running around an alien planet all day.
Sure, but I think it's fair to compare the capabilities and costs across the whole system.
Racing drones are much sturdier and harder to hit, lots of videos of people on YouTube with paintball guns trying to shoot drones.
Heh Heh Heh. After the article talks up all of benefits of remote working, and how they can hire in any of 50 countries, there's a link to "these are our remote positions".

Every one of which has leading text stating:

Remote in North America only

Something seems off. Pass.
Every kind of exposure you get, promote it. You forgot to mention your product with this post.
Then the law is a failure; if it is written in such a way that regular people cannot understand it (because it does not mean what it says?) and it needs to be "interpreted", then the law failed because it is not what it was written, but what the people want to interpret it based on their own interests: this leads to corruption.

In the same logic, Pythagoras' theorem should be interpreted because it is very old, it had a different meaning when it was written and we need to adapt it to current realities. For example, it should be restricted to triangles with less than 100 inches on the longest side; anyone that disagrees must show a legitimate need for having bigger triangles and even then, the theorem needs to respect criminal laws or the country. Or, as an Australian Prime minister said, "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia." /s
Interesting that it’s three identical processors running he same software. I remember just the automated Vienna central train station used a pair of machines, x86 and SPARC, one running the logic in a procedural language (Chill) and the other running in a logic language (Prolog). They didn’t want both processors to share any code, and therefore potentially the same bug.
Dying it gray to land an architect job?
Those technical problems can be overcome. It is no fun, a waste of time and frustrating. The real shitshow starts when your app is in the play store and you try to find users. Or when Google makes some changes that completely invalidate your app idea or force you to change your complete app.
UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature
I’m sure you’ve looked at it but I have a lot of success with
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They said in the press conference after launch that docking will be automatic. The purpose of this mission is to demo dragon and testing automatic docking is part of that.
But there'll still be humans. Just not necessarily physically at the mine or factory. All you really need is a robotic chassis that has sufficiently good AI to use hands and follow basic instructions, perhaps helped by a guy in a VR suit back on earth or in a nearby spaceship. Perhaps aided by simulations to ensure low latency - things in space should be easier to simulate without the outside world interfering much.
The OSDev Wiki has a lot of information:

https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page

https://wiki.osdev.org/Introduction

It's about Operating System development, but these bootable games are really simple, limited OSes: They don't have much functionality, but they do have to access hardware in all the same ways, so a lot of the same rules apply.