skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most politicians are not around long enough to have to deal with the consequences of their policies. So, they tend to be focused on short term wins. The rare good ones combine that with long term vision that actually makes sense. Often that's not even recognized until decades later.

Four years, maybe eight in some cases. Not much more. That's all they have to prove their worth. Most complex projects easily take longer than that to plan and execute. Civil servants on the other are typically there until they retire. In many countries civil servants enjoy special job protections that ensure it is typically hard to fire them. And since they are large organizations, there's a bit of a rat-race to get promoted to the lucrative top positions. That requires pleasing the people holding the purse strings. Politicians in other words. And politicians need to get stuff done and that requires warm relations with the established civil servant leadership because otherwise nothing gets done and they lose the next elections.

This adds to the problem because politicians basically rely on an already compromised bureaucratic machinery that resists changes to make it smaller. So any new policy just translates into more budget, more people, and more bureaucracy. The old ones never go away.

You see the same pattern of behavior in large corporations except those periodically get forced by their shareholders and the market to do something about it. Sometimes that fails and they get acquired, lose market-share, or even just implode and disappear. If you look at the fortune 500 through the years, you'll see there's a lot of churn there. New companies take up spots vacated by older failing corporations. But pretty much all of them employ way more people than the competitors that ultimately displace them.

Banks were mentioned in the article a few times. Most banks have actually been reducing head count for years. It used to be that they had to have offices in every small city, village, and even neighborhoods. Not any more. Those days are long gone. There are now several startups disrupting the space with online only banks. Any bank looking to survive in that space is pretty much copying that organizational model at this point. And as consumer banking is a this point a low margin product, a lot of the older and bloated banks are clearly struggling.
For me I personally have had bread grow mold in the refrigerator (this may depend on the refrigerator settings/locale, my non a/c condo in San Francisco bay area is relatively humid so strawberries/blueberries/bread at room temp gets mold pretty quick) and have not had bread grow mold in the freezer before I eat it and that can take months for me to make it through the double loafs one gets at warehouse stores.
Yes. I just explained that wish when I was hired. I was not the most important engineer on the team, doing frontend (not in JS/HTML sense, just in UI sense) work for a project where most of the work was in the backend, and it was an easy sell.

Ended up divorcing my wife after spending 4 days a week at home with her, so wouldn't recommend it, but no professional problems.
You know we’re all thinking the same thing - where are the mechs?
Pilots do not fight turbulence, hard or lightly. The plane goes where it is pushed, and you go with it.

A very long (thus widespread) updraft might cause the pilot to reduce power, but that is very rare.
What bubble? A large part of the world is working remote, and it seems like every company didn’t fall apart from the paradigm shift. Would this discussion even be entertained otherwise? Proof is in the pudding.

Bubble ad reductio, someone add that to the list of logical fallacies.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11383601
https://web.archive.org/web/20200907092725/https://mywiki.wo...

Since the site is being hugged a little too much.

I also really like https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
Are you an expert in Chinese? What, in your opinion, is a suitable alternative example in Mandarin Chinese, then, that is commonly used by speakers of Mandarin Chinese?
485lb payload.

Regardless of the design, it makes sense why they scrapped it.
Vivaldi Browser 3.3 Brings Break Mode to Pause Internet
Ironically, the whole over-reaction can be seen as a form of culture imperialism. Punishing people for using other language is itself racism, in this case, to the Chinese minorities. Last time I check, there is no official language in US.
I wrote this up since, over the past year, I've encountered more and more weird behavior with s3 bucket policies.

I haven't seen all of this behavior documented in a single place, so here it is.

Some of it has security implications (such as being able to brute force usernames) that is worth knowing about.

A TL;DR of the security stuff:

* Brute-forcing valid principal names is possible, since you can't create a bucket policy with an invalid principal.

* User compromise will break cross-account access, since if AWS becomes aware of a compromise, they will want you to delete the user and recreate it.

* Explicit denies will stop working if the principal is deleted and recreated, since they operate internally on the Principal ID and not the ARN

* Canonical IDs offer no extra security compared to account ARNs, since it's trivial to convert them back and get an account number.
>It only takes time and patience to feed a family of four on one egg.

... and enough feed for a family of four
Here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/furrionexobionics/alpha...
Age of consent in the US varies from state to state, with the lowest being, I believe 14 years old in some states. The "18 or older" mentality probably has more to do with working in porn, hence all the "barely 18" type labels.
That's a vast overstatement. To the point of being ridiculous. This kind of thing happens more than it used to but is still extremely rare. And in this case represents a misunderstanding. McCarthyism was also a government initiative. Private universities can do whatever they want. Someplace like Liberty University actively censors and punishes liberal views, but people are less likely to get upset because it's expected.
Thanks. I find this whole area fascinating. It feels like if there was a way to make molded parts cheaper it would open up a large gulf in between "$300 3d printer" and "$15k for one mold and BTW you need 5 molds for your thing".

I do a lot of 3d printing but have run in to the limits quite a few times where I want something bigger than my print volume allows, or I want something water proof, or food safe, or I want something transparent (which can also be used outside), or I want it smoother...

resin printing or finding someone with a big printer... these things help sometimes.

Another trick I have yet to succeed at is using some existing plastic part, or transparent plastic from a soda bottle... Repurposing for these edge cases.
Croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another
Meditation can make subjective time slow down, both in the negative, being bored way, while struggling to enter absorbtion, but also in the opposite way - and that, to a degree that is otherwise unimaginable. Almost like stepping out of time into timelessness.
Looks like HN has hugged this one to death.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200907174629/https://mywiki.wo...
It's because these firms are controlled by people who wish to wipe out any opposition to their agenda. Calling anything they delete racist or sexist is simply a smear tactic. In this case Heroku didn't even bother with that: as the article states, no reason for the sudden termination was given, which appears to violate their own ToS.

Opening the front page of Ruqqus shows a lot of content actually objecting to racism, for instance, this post:

https://ruqqus.com/post/31lq/their-goal

which highlights and objects to a tweet that says:

"Why should there be a place for white people in our better world? As long as white people are around, they will continue to make our better world impossible. BIPOCS are the ones who are in this together. White people are not welcome or needed."

This kind of racist rhetoric is rampant and easily found on places like Twitter or Reddit. Scrolling through the content on the Ruqqus front page I didn't see any racism. I did see a lot of angry posts about BLM-linked violence and anti-white racism, but that's the sort of thing people are theoretically meant to be angry about, isn't it?
What radios are they?
Similar situation to you I was working then got my undergraduate CS degree. For me the degree was more about me than the jobs I could find or the money I could make. I was curious and what I had learned up till that point wasn’t sufficient. Starting the program I was loving it then I started to hit the main classes and was overwhelmed. I kept going and fought through it, not for lack of intelligence there is much of that but learning how to balance the workload and prioritize. Now work is easy. It has been for over 20 years. Learning how to prioritize is the key and finishing your the degree you start and plodding through it.

Once I graduated (around your age) I went to work doing CRUD and wondered if the money and time and degree was worth it. Finally I understood after some time that the degree is for me. No one can take that away from you. It’s yours no matter the politics of the company. That’s why you get a degree: for your own interests. If that degree benefits you in the future so be it. Great. Enjoy. But the perseverance you need to finish a degree must come from within you and not be of external needs. I had friends studying Chemical Engineering because “my dad told me to”. Wrong reason. I convinced many to graduate early with a CS degree instead of a CE degree and they jumped at the chance.

I the end it’s your decision and good luck with it. If you want to do it money shouldn’t be the limitation, rather it should be your motivation and drive to get it done as with everything in life.
The distinction I make is that roguelites are designed around metagame progression rather than / in addition to the in-game progression used by roguelikes.

For example, Rogue Legacy is almost entirely focused on metagame progression between runs, whereas your character barely develops at all mid-run. Classic rogue-lite.
While not necessarily in a first course, it is an important difference to appreciate which saves a lot of headache later. Eg: Vanilla gradient descent involves naively adding a covariant and a contravariant quantity, which is generically a recipe for disaster, and nicely motivates second order methods that use the Hessian as the "metric" to raise/lower indices. The picture about Hessian eigenvalues determining the step-size is of course complementary and helps gain an intuition for the meaning of a "metric" and its importance.
Haiku e-cards inspired by JSFiddle, Repl, gist
But not Romania, the other example that jcranmer mentioned.
You can also add a lock icon to the touch bar.
is there any difference from a cutiepie or raspad?

$629? As someone else stated, ouch.
I've seen it done on the PC side, but (at least on my budget) implementing a GPU, and an FPGA, and the actual SDR I haven't seen. It's definitely a good idea but whereas I could definitely do a decent spec arm board with enough time and prototypes to get it right, I don't even know where to start when it comes to even getting a GPU to boot.
The new generation of software engineers who can't code
Conflict Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Threatens Europe’s Energy Security
Pretty hard to change the trustee of a UK charity. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/charity-trustee-whats-involved

> Trustees have overall control of a charity and are responsible for making sure it’s doing what it was set up to do. They may be known by other titles, such as:

directors
board members
governors
committee members

> Whatever they are called, trustees are the people who lead the charity and decide how it is run. Being a trustee means making decisions that will impact on people’s lives. Depending on what the charity does, you will be making a difference to your local community or to society as a whole.

> Trustees use their skills and experience to support their charities, helping them achieve their aims. Trustees also often learn new skills during their time on the board.
Fears? One can see hope.
New dark matter simulation shows what it would look like if we could see it
A Brief Introduction to SCSI
Go for it! It really isn't hard, it just requires a small amount of application.
When I actually understood the idea behind functional programming, specially being able to think in the form of recursive functions than loops.
I think this is all a huge overreaction. But I also watched the video and honestly it looked like he was saying it because he knew he could get away with it. That's the most likely explanation for why he picked Chinese as an example of another language's "um" word. Just IMO though, no way to know for sure. It was at least tactless. He knew how it would sound.
I wonder what they could do with modern computers and modern materials science. They would at least save a bunch of weight for the computers carried.
This is pretty massive! If fpga vendors provide this, what a great addition.
The article I linked originally seems to suggest that some within the administration are doing that but the man himself doesn't care.
My favorite all-time aha moment was coming from a CVS world and learning how to use git. Oh, you just hash the entire lot of the files together and use that as a version for the repo? Aha! The change set should be for all the files together!
What a few decades in construction when it's supposed to last for multiple millennia? The society of the Long Now probably even considers it an advantage, in some sort of symbolic way. Most cathedrals are also built for eternity and some take centuries to complete.
Tesla was right about Einstein. He was a fuzzy hair crackpot and his mathematical model for the Universe is riddled with contradictions yet the media continually pushes this guy. Why?

It's funny how science is portrayed as careful and thoughtful but then the main stream media pushes theories like string theory and super symmetry, which fall to pieces as soon as the large particle accelerator machines came online.

When are we going to declare particle physics as fundamentally broken and start over at N. Tesla?
Disposable Mask Under the Microscope
I did some Chinese courses last year and "na ge" is something that will get repeated frequently because of how Chinese make their sentences. There is another one "nei ge". They are an important part of the Chinese language.

Edit: just watched the video. He was not teaching a chinese course. A bit of a suspicious example he picked if you ask me.
> I say it all the time, but I think a lot of power vi/emacs users have not touched a modern IDE in a long time.

Watch as my eyes roll out of my head, onto the floor, and then out the door.

Why is it that you believe the only reason why a vi/emacs user could believe those environments are faster to edit in is because they don't use IDE's?

The worst part is that most vi/emacs users actually DO have experience in both environments, whereas most of the people who want to claim vi/emacs isn't any faster don't. Yet they want to present themselves as an authority.

And I'm one of the people who refuse to use vim emulators in IDE's because they're never quite right (and never integrate well with the IDE).
> The "mouthpiece of democracy" is completely broken.

As... I don't remember where put it: You are not the voice of the people; you just happen to be loud, and wearing a microphone.
"Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and Appleby could be worth as much as eleven-times-seventeen years."

Catch-22

The full quote is worth your while:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/496826-dunbar-loved-shootin...
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I am enrolled in startup school with Smartbate. Smartbate is a site where people can vote on issues and see results and see what their friends voted.

It is now available for signup and voting. I need testers and feedback.

Thanks
Caleb
I'm also very curious as to the mechanism that is holding this post back.

414 points in 2 hours, yet pushed to the bottom of the second page for me at the moment.
What would be the advantage of running an RTOS on Cortex-R82 vs any other ARM processor? Doesn't an RTOS give you the hard realtime capability through software?

I feel I must be missing something critical in my understanding. I thought RTOS in software was sufficient to get realtime processing.
A few days ago I backed this tiny version of Spot: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petoi/bittle/descriptio...
That’s a really good phrasing.

I’ve been working mostly in IT and I’m a bit of a generalist. I’ve thought about doing contracting and specialising ”on-the-go”. It could work... but it could also be a bit stressful. I think my current job will allow me to go quite deep in some areas so I might want to hang on to it for a while in order to allow for better opportunities further down the road.
Is there a clear explanation of how Pony's concurrency (actor) model is different from Erlang/Elixir, and what implications that has in practice?
Kenwood's TH-D72, TH-V71A, and TM-D710G can do it.

An incomplete list of full duplex vhf/uhf cross-band FM radios can be found in this reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/97jhik/gettin...
Sure, but this thing isn't going to space. It probably as durable as a Thinkpad with an 7200RPM HDD.
Yes, that is certainly one option.
BitTorrent v2
Just from watching that lecture - he seems like a genuinely good professor. He provided tons of context before he introduced that example, and it's a real-world example from a language that nearly a billion humans speak. By choosing an example that is from a language that is foreign to most of his students - he's helping his students understand that the actual concept he's teaching is not just an english linguistic feature or a western-centric mannerism - it's a communication pattern that occurs widely.

I feel bad for the future UCS students who will miss out on his class. I also wonder to what degree this decision will have a chilling effect on the content of other lecturers at UCS. Could history professors see this as a reason to exclude primary content that reflects the racist realities of the past? Or maybe music professors will reconsider whether they can teach the work of artists who might be cultural appropriation? It's hard to say.

I hope that another university makes this professor a job offer - or at least speaks out in support of his teaching. This seems so bizarre that I can only reckon with it by imagining it's a west-coast cultural phenomenon. I certainly wouldn't imagine this going down the same way in my home state (North Carolina) - but maybe I'm underestimating how pervasive this extreme sensitivity trend really is. There WAS an incident with a professor who got suspended at NC State recently ( https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article235... ) but in that case - the professor was publicly mocking his students in a way that may or may not have been interpreted as sexist. Even if the suspension for that scenario actually overkill (which I think it was) - it seems crazy pants to put the professor who was thoughtfully teaching a lecture in the same category as one who gets a kick out of insulting students for laughs.
Gsheet is just a link to the online copy. It's useless as a backup.
> It would never be accidental.

As someone with a number of friends from the mainland, I can assure you it does happen by accident. None of them were taught to avoid saying “na ge” because it is the English equivalent of "that" or "that one".

Where are you getting your information from?
Interesting!

I’m curious if this is a silent agreement with your boss or if it’s explicit?
OP seems to be implying that this disclosure is incriminating of some kind overly aggressive search tactic. I'm saying it doesn't seem to imply that at all. This isn't proof of their innocence, it just isn't proof of their guilt. They _might_ be guilty of something, but there's currently no reason to think that.
Your Smartphone Can Tell If You’re Drunk-Walking
Yep I use Odrive daily. The counter example is the Prusa 3D printer, which successfully competes with clones. Perhaps the complexity of assembly and resulting quality differences are more significant for 3D printers versus PCBs. Also Prusa has stated that he is quite proud of the clones. It seems that Odrive did not find success in the fully open source realm, but of course this is new territory.

I’m trying to start an open source hardware project and we’re going to try to form a non profit and seek philanthropic donations to fund engineering. That’s how lots of open source software projects work.
I wonder if there's a way to counteract this with automatic flight controls that work both tactically and strategically.

tactical would keep the plane level, and strategic would set up for turns to take them more slowly than current jets.

I think about this because of the Tex Johnston 1-g barrel rolls during the demonstration flight where the people inside the plane experience "normal" g force.
Ahh my bad, I didn't make the conversion to monopoly money
This is 100% unjustified speculation. Dehumanizing an opponent helps to unleash hate.

John McCain's funeral was a political event.
If curious see also

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11052473
I once said in a senior staff meeting that we shouldn’t be niggardly with employee benefits. A disturbing quiet dropped over the room and I realized a half dozen white men and women were staring at me, while uncomfortably not making eye contact with our African American Business Development director.

The CEO rebuked me saying that was not the type of language I should be using. The Director of Business Development then spoke, he was a Stanford graduate who was always the nicest smartest guy in the room. He gently corrected the CEO, saying exactly what I understood, it was an Old English term meaning cheapness that had no connection (other than its sound) to the racial insult and he wasn’t offended at all.

Thank god for Johns erudite knowledge of historic English words and his omnipresent empathy but think it illustrates an important point. Intent should matter. Even if the word I used had a connection to a racial slur, I would have been unaware and in no way would intentionally use such a slur, not alone in a group of white men let alone in front of a valued colleague.

That word can never leave my mental database of descriptive terms and phrases, but I fight against its use even more so today, afraid it might unconsciously slip out.
Trying to master non-framework CSS and realizing how dead simple styling a website can be when you are using a framework instead of trying to reinvent the wheel all over.
Does Storing Bread in the Fridge Make it Last Longer?

Not with a family of 5 to feed!
In my personal case it would be using the words « master » and « slave » when talking about interfacing databases
As I said, the units of the geometric product of two vectors (which if you like can be broken into the sum of a scalar part + a bivector part, each with the same units) will be the product of the units of each vector.
Shellcheck and IdeaVim are the first plugins i install on Jetbrains IDEs
HBCUs asking students to sign up for vaccine trials under university letterhead
Why is this any more of a problem than units in conventional vector calculus?
editing speed != typing speed, that confusion might explain why you don't understand.
So you agree with censoring foreign words based on your own culture sensitivities.
>I asked if you thought they should be allowed.

...which is a question of governance.