skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the problems stem from just constantly changing the tech.

I used to work for an organization that has a team of mostly Java developers. They want to move to Python, in part because the big guys (Google, Netflix, and NASA as cited by them) did it too.

They are just building a run of the mill web app, but they are changing the entire stack for a new project that next to nobody on the team knows well.
It's inevitable physics.

Things get heavier with the cube of the dimensions (a 2m cube is 8 times heavier than a 1m cube in the most simplistic example). Lift is a function of wing area, which only goes up with the square of the dimensions (a stupid "cubic wing" that's a 2m cube only has 4 times as much surface area as a 1m cubic "wing.

Bigger planes can fly in spite of this because they're hollow. If you start filling them up with dense stuff, they get heavier way faster than they gain wing area (and hence lift capacity).

That's why big birds are rare (or flightless, like emus), ands huge flying birds don't exist. And why there's a lot of conjecture that pterosaurs didn't fly very well, perhaps more like sugar gliders (which do extended/controlled jumps from high places) rather than taking of and soaring like eagles or albatrosses.
Me too - not least the rushed port job I was forced to do from MySQL to RethinkDB (which resulted in predictably shitty code)

FWIW I actually really quite liked RethinkDB.
I think it has more to do with where you look than gender. If you looked at antivax posts likely you would think otherwise.

> The "vast majority" of people commenting, sharing and liking anti-vaccination information on Facebook are women, a new study finds.

https://www.livescience.com/61305-most-online-anti-vaxxers-a...
In Europe there are a good number of EVs you can buy today for around the €35k mark. Most countries are offering between €5k and €10k of incentives on top of that, so if you compare a similar sized ICE car the prices are not that much different.

VW ID.3 €35,574 300km

Pegeuot e208 €29,682 340km

Hyundai Kona €33,971 305km

(Prices are for base models in Germany, including taxes, excluding incentives)

The Model 3 is around €50k here, so even with the discounted price it's still going to expensive compared to other cars. Now of course it has a greater range, but I am wondering if Tesla are going to bring out a more budget model for Europe to compete.
This is a common pattern where law/regulations meet monopoly power:

There is a Byzantine bureaucracy that no one understands. The monopoly blames the regulator. The regulator (if they speak at all) blame the monopoly.

It's the same way with banks. Any strange and irrational bureaucracy they throw at you is claimed to be legally mandated. This is kind of true, but disengenious.
BigBrotherBird (now OpenZipkin... thanks legal, sigh) used 128b trace_ids when we first built it at Twitter. I don’t recall the reasoning, but that’s the first system I know of which chose that size.

Dapper used 64b IDs for span and trace, but being locked inside the Googleplex probably limited its influence on compatibility issues.

My point is that 128b is the common standard now, and that’s all that I really care about - that the standard exists and APM systems conform to it. To that end, I am very pro-otel.

Thanks for your work.
At first glance, this is actually a refreshing take on "teach math to coders".

There are 1-2 other books constantly recommend here, which are (probably) fantastic but throw you off the deep end with assumptions that you understand algebra, trigonometry, fundamental calculus, and statistics.

Essentially, that you finished school and paid attention. Which is a well-founded assumption. And I don't necessarily expect an author to assume responsibility for covering fundamentals, but it's nice if there are authors willing to do this.
The resolution of that image is difficult to believe. 40 micro arcseconds is like imaging a hydrogen atom from a meter away.
Click tracking, it's very important to companies like Google to do that.
Why? I would advise finding better employees who respond to contributing to a solid business, and in return their own paychecks and bonuses.
All these comments and no one is calling these assholes out for pushing antipsychotic drugs? Are you mad?
What if you live in the city but go camping or mountain biking in the mountains every other weekend? Then you gotta own something that doesn’t look like it fits in the city.
No, of course, I never thought about the perception from the other side. Yes I know that, I believe the things I do though because I either think they're correct, they should be correct, or I hope they'll be right some day, I think I've considered and synthesized information from various sources not just one or a small few. I get that my whole world view is a conglomeration of what I was taught, when I grew up, what I've read etc. but if I didn't think I was at least partially right why would I believe it.

It's not even strictly about the news itself, the underlying philosophy that tilts the news and policy choices seems like it's missing or ignoring a piece of reality. [0] The further from my view the more alien the terrain seems and the less any of the logic makes sense because the priors are so different. Why do we keep swinging back and forth on banking regulations (or business regulation in general) when fundamentally the incentives haven't changed?

[0] Again I get that this is probably what a Conservative feels too but I don't know how to bridge the conceptual gap between the ideological poles here. I went into CS because I can reasonably understand what twiddling a given knob will do and I can control the scope of problems. I have no idea how to even start twiddling societal knobs.
So you could fork this repo and add dependencies on other closed source libraries?
Job requirement for an unpaid internship position:

* 5 years of experience in programming strategic-communication
I didn't know that the author of An Elegant Puzzle also did PL design.
playlist from the same author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LbkfSSR58&list=PLbgaMIhjbm...
Maybe in California. In Plattsburgh, NY, electric rates are 75% less than the state average. Pretty sure the other municipal utilities are similar. (About 30 in NY)

With civil service employees, management overhead costs are usually way lower. Corporate management usually gets overpaid.
It's because typically for most applications the OS isn't very much overhead.

If the kernel was only using 1% of the CPU time before, and you rewrite it in QBASIC for a 5x slowdown, your application only sees a ~4% slowdown...
I don't know, I think it will deliver customer experience while also aligning revenue streams with Marketing and HR, not to mention amplify key performance indicators while aligning stakeholder engagement with PR and Legal
If we started with this approach from the beginning, we wouldn't even have social media or sites like Wikipedia. Enshrining it in law just means only the existing players can play the game.
Forgive me if this is too much of a tangent, but can anyone explain "trust, but verify" to me? I can't tell if it's drily ironic (basically meaning 'don't actually take anything on trust'), or kind of meaningless (like the previous interpretation, but meant to be polite and superficially positive), or has a meaning I'm completely missing.
Modern research in Azhdarchids suggests that they could indeed fly. This is in spite of the fact that they largest of them would dwarf an ostrich.
> 130 Comments, No one mention the suggestion of Dark Mode?

Came here looking for this as well.

I would like this, but I think it's more important that Wikipedia continue to be lightweight enough that it'll load on almost any device, including those without JS.

Not that those are incompatible, just thought it worth pointing out.
Disney's Grimm's based stuff is just about older now than Grimms' Fairy Tales were when Disney made those films.
What are the 1-2 books that are constantly recommended here?
> It is an international human right to be allowed to seek asylum from danger and poverty

Yes, but they can ask other countries, especially closer countries that speak the same language. WE AREN'T REQUIRED TO TAKE EVERYONE.

This also isn't the case for all of them, yet you make it seem like it is.

> - ICE is treating immigrants in ways that flagrantly violate international human rights law, such as separating families, witholding adequate nourishment and healthcare, recent reports of forced sterilizations, sexual assaults, and many more that are just a google search away.

OK, so they should stop trying to come over if its so bad. They should get the message and go to another country. They come to us because they want all the benefits and to freeload. If they didn't, they would go someplace else like a country that speaks their language.
Civility amongst citizens...
Most commercial software is still exclusive to Windows/Mac. Very limited support for Linux. Honorable mention, WSL is a charming tool!
If we're going to be fair, we have to consider the 18,250 lattes too.

Over time you'll build up tolerance and that cup of coffee isn't worth the same for you. Now you're burning cash for energy that would have been there without caffeine. And to think you could have paid for your kids college instead.
I think most people would agree that this is indeed the intention of white board interviews.

Unfortunately this has not been my recent interviewing experiences with any of the big tech companies.

I had 4 "on-site" days with big techs and an order of magnitude more "tech screening"s with big techs and unicorns over the past year. Vast majority of them are questions straight from leetcode. And interviewers pretty much expect you to flawlessly write up the correct answer without much discussion.

There's one particular example at one particular company where they asked me to implement "3 sum closest" (https://leetcode.com/problems/3sum-closest/description/), which I didn't know by heart. So I started with the plain 3 sum question.

Instead of discussing how this can be modified to satisfy a more general requirement and/or give me hints to see how I can take feedback, the interviewer simply said: well that's a different question, isn't it. And failed me right then.

So from my personal experience, these interviews have indeed largely become a memorization exercise + some luck that they ask you a question you have seen/memorized before.
This is true and it's the unstoppable nature of complex systems and the myriad of people responsible for them.

That said, this line from the article is pretty damning, it took them 3 days to lock down that insecure server. For a company that size with all those security employees it looks both lazy and negligent.

> The infosec firm reported the problem to Microsoft on 13 September, and the database was vanished from public view by the Windows giant's security response centre on 16 September.
Digging deeper, I think my reaction was to the idea that this is a real need and necessary civic expenditure.

While sound pollution is a concern to some, and regulated in some cases. IF this were on the ballot in my city, I would vote no, as I don't think it is a productive use of civic funds.

It seems that it is a zero sum initiative that would provide a marginal benefit to a very small minority of citizens.

In this case it would benefit people who are: sensitive to noise,have the luxury to choose between options, know and use the service, and afraid or disinclined to talk to locals.

It would also disadvantage people who are willing to put in more due diligence or have fewer options.

I see this a very different than flood maps, which ensure safety and help mitigate massive costs of rebuilding communities.

That said, perhaps there is a commercial market for such information. How much would you pay for such a map before buying a house?
If you're going to the trouble of having a tunnel solution then you don't need public SSH or whatever else to begin with :)

It's a pity IPSEC is still such a total dumpster fire on Windows as it works great for ad-hoc with everything else, but thankfully Wireguard has been about as light-touch as VPNs get and I've had good luck getting it out of nearly any network.
Lol. I'm an embedded engineer, and this week I'm getting my coworkers excited to upgrade part of our system to use bleeding edge technology from the mid 90's!
I would also recommend Concrete Mathematics by Donald Knuth, Oren Patashnik, and Ronald Graham as another refreshing approach.
> Finding canonical translations for technical terms

Exactly.
On the other hand, the really good healthcare will still end up with you paying out of pocket (potentially not a lot, but enough to exceed the cheapskating; potentially a ton), or gambling that the overloaded social system is fast enough.
Being richer also opens options of taking extra time off and going medical "shopping", and being able to afford necessary travel.
> If you ask all the developers out there to describe parametric and ad-hoc polymorphism I think a vast majority would give the example of a type parameter (e.g., Java generics or C++ templates) for parametric polymorphism and Java interfaces or Haskell's classes for ad-hoc polymorphism. I can even quote directly from Pierce (Types and Programming Languages):

In practice it is often useful to drop our demands for rigour by a bit. But any reasonable definition of parametric polymorphism _has_ to exclude C++ templates.

C++ templates are much closer to the definition of ad-hoc polymorphism.

My practical less-than-rigorous rule-of-thumb for parametric polymorphism amounts to something like: whenever Wadler's Theorems for Free paper applies. https://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dreyer/course/papers/wadler.pdf

Theorems for Free means that eg the type of the identity function (forall a . a -> a) guarantees that even if you supply it a bool, it can't magically turn into an implementation for `not`, or multiply all integers by 2.
DevMar
> I don't understand whats the value added on top of normal
> CDK. There I can also define Aws infrastructure with
> Typescript and I don't have to pay a subscription.

That was my first impression too - I've been using cdktf and love it.

But this tool isn't for you and me - it's for front-end developers that don't want to fuss with devops. Seems like a great idea with that in mind.
Compress Zoom videos to reduce video file size
Because it’s almost impossible to find people who can maintain it or add to code written in it. Job on the other hand has 25 years of being the top language for enterprise development. For something to replace it it Hass to be orders of magnitude better.
Picked yup a 4k lg from costco last year for around $300-350. This is not a gaming monitor, but running KDE on Kubuntu 20.04 scaled at 150% is just fine. Ubuntu 20.04 is unusable due to buggy GPU/x/? though. Looks like that composited desktop is getting like 10fps. Text and video are just fine, games are horrible but just get a cheapo 1080p 144hz TN if secondary monitor if you're gaming.
And people wonder why Adobe pushes an acrobat update every hour
This looks great. I'm looking forward to reading future revisions. I hope you'll post it here when a final draft is available. Keep up the good work. Cheers.
Promoting a specific kind of speech is not equivalent to not acting on speech.

Leaving a piece of speech alone and simply doing nothing to it doesn't count as promoting it. That's exactly what section 230 in the USC means.
Electric cars are more expensive than ICE cars. But you can get a 2020 Chevy Bolt for $25k. And in the right circumstances with all the available incentives you can do even better than that:

https://jalopnik.com/you-can-get-a-bonkers-deal-on-a-chevy-b...
> He received a DMCA takedown

Do you have a source for this? I can't find evidence that this is a DMCA notice. Those are fairly straightforward to appeal on youtube which means the next step is court. I don't think this guy got actual DMCA notices.
>Though even in the latter scenario, it's still prudent to narrow the scope of your bleeding-edge tech as much as possible (e.g. if you're doing a cryptocurrency app, you probably shouldn't be trying to make your own NoSQL database at the same time).

Nonsense, the database is the back up plan so you can pivot to a DB company if your main thing doesn't work out.
This is my first time seeing a Babylon 5 reference in the wild. Well said.
"A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics", by Jeremy Kun is the one you'll see a lot

https://pimbook.org/

The other one is in web format, it's something along the lines of "Visual Linear Algebra". Really unsure of title, but it's centered around visualizations of the math.

On my laptop I would post bookmark but I'm in bed on phone, sorry =/

Edit: Here

https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/

http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html
That’s fair. The above comments were alluding to theoretically banning all ICE cars so I was I guess thinking of that when I wrote my comment.

Yes if it’s just on the sale if new vehicles that could potentially work though I still worry that the manufacturers will normalize $40k cars and use this as an excuse.
If nobody else will, I'll humbly accept the role.
I always took the author money for articles I wrote for them in trade for extending my subscription.
I'm not sure that makes sense, actually. We didn't remove the profit motive from CFC production or refrigerator companies. We just banned CFCs and moved on.

Honestly, we do need a more aggressive approach, but climate won't be the catalyst for totally changing the economy that many on the left hope it will be.
I read a book from the library called how to develop a perfect memory by Dominic o Brian.

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>and that when paragraphs are that wide they become harder to read

Yes, reading Wikipedia on a 27” iMac is comical. Anything larger than 1000px wide is entering eye gymnastics territory. Ideally it should be around 600/700
I recently led taking a CS + ML school from in person to remote for 500 students. Most have gravitated towards Miro as the online whiteboard of choice. When you tried these options why did you feel they did not fulfill your need?
> why not demonstrate it works in a few test states

It's tough to do some things at the state level because there's less money at the state level vs the federal level. It's a lot easier for a business to move from a state to avoid taxes meant to pay for healthcare by rerouting fund from the private market to the public market than it is to leave the US entirely.

The federal government gets it's taxes first from income taxes then payroll taxes, I checked a couple states and most are income then sales/use tax which is a big difference. Not being able to reroute money from employer based systems into the single payer system is a huge hole in any state level attempt at single payer. Also just having more people means a federal level system will have more bargaining power than even the largest states.
Identity, Digital Redactions and International Alliances
> offtopic rant, but on the subject of politics; to me it seems underhanded to pursue experimental federal programs eg for healthcare- why not demonstrate it works in a few test states.. wouldn't california love to pass something like that? if only there were a way to pass the buck to the federal government for the homeless...

Some states have scoped this out, and Vermont passed a law to pursue it. The problem has to do with financing (individual states can't print money) and the freerider problem, which isn't about the homeless, so much as more...libertarian states paying all of their diabetics to move to California to get treated.
Possible, yes, but hard for a patient to tell.

But keep in mind even if they both have the same knowledge, when a dentist is concentrating on the procedure, handling any surprises, bleeding, and other difficulties they might well not notice that your breathing rate or heart rate have gone too low, or too high.
Terrific. And it looks modular enough to fork and make variants for scaled agile, holistic health, VC, and other buzzword pools.
Tiny site to see top posts of a random subreddit
Saves you one or two clicks for every subreddit
it launched straight into an era where hub and spoke had died.

We don't need new jumbo jets, we need efficient and smaller jets that can go point to point directly.
Just getting hardware upgraded from very early 2000s PICs to ARM chips has been a pretty big win for me
The fact that Google/Youtube has zero support infrastructure should be evidence that they are a monopoly and engaging in monopolistic activity.

If Google/Youtube were NOT a monopoly, they would have invested significant amount of money in customer support. However, there is zero. The only reason they get away with this is because they have a monopoly. They are saving hundreds of millions in support costs by not delivering any support. Unlike more overt monopolistic actions like raising prices, etc, what they do instead of increase their profits by taking away functionality that their customers should be receiving.

The fact you can get all your work taken away because of fraud, and have no recourse is unacceptable. Yet there really is no viable alternative. I hope content creators band together and form a class action lawsuit against Google and break up their monopoly. It's disgusting.
> I don't live in fantasy land, somebody has to pay for it.

Well, I hear that the air force has so much extra money sitting around that they are working on yet another fighter jet. Maybe we could dig in the military industrial couch cushions a bit. "Somebody has to pay for it" is not the same as "we can't afford it". We absolutely could afford it.

> Having tens of nuclear graveyards, especially close to population centers is not a good idea when California is covered with active faults.

Given that California currently gets a third of its power from entirely outside of the state, clearly it's possible to build them not directly on top of the fault lines.
My point is that when you get sufficiently advanced, you some times require access to resources that aren't just a pen and paper. So sure, some fields of math may still be ok to do with a pen and pencil. It wouldn't surprise me if some require large super-computer style access. Or distributed algorithms that are written by master's & PhDs at massive cloud/internet providers that rely on those large networks to run an experiment. So even in the CS domain I expect there to be Master's thesis that isn't cheap to reproduce.

Similarly, if you're trying to get a novel battery chemistry to outperform a Tesla car battery or generate a completely novel solar cell, you're not going to be able to accomplish that as an IC researcher. As you point out, there could easily be interim projects along the way to identify various interesting properties that might be useful to your long term goal which aligns with my original statement. When that's out of scope you partner with institutions with access to those resources whether those are big corporations, research institutes, or particle accelerators.
I've given this a shot using Pixelmator (https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2019/12/17/all-about-the-new...)

Expect an email with the upscaled images sent via WeTransfer.
You know what abstracts away all those problems but doesn't require hours a day of mucking with scripts? Google App Engine. Heroku. Elastic Beanstalk.