skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it was a genuine question. I'm a Brit, and clearly the culture around driving is different in many ways on our side of the Atlantic.

Some of the earlier discussion here has apparently been mostly people talking at cross-purposes and didn't turn out to be very enlightening. However, it does seem that at least some people here really are trying to defend something that I think most people would consider unconscionable where I come from. The arguments have essentially been that people there have no realistic choice but to rely on theirs cars, even if driving them is obviously dangerous, or they literally can't live a normal life and support their families properly.

This raised a lot of questions for me that single-car or car-free households face all the time over here, like how you get the kids to school or anyone who isn't the driver to important appointments like medical ones. I was surprised that your response was more-or-less "you don't", but then in the context of medical appointments there is again a very different culture here to yours. It would be similarly unconscionable for most of us in the UK to bring a child into the world and not then make sure they get all of their check-ups and vaccinations at the right times, and you'd have to try very hard to find a situation where a parent without access to a car couldn't still make those provisions for their child in some realistic way. From comments by yourself and others here, I conclude that this is not necessarily the case in the US, or at least in significant parts of it.
Docker for Linux. The proper one. Do not use systemctl, just:

sudo service docker start

.. voila
Because for similar reasons to those discussed in a recently posted article, https://defmacro.substack.com/p/parallel-tracks, management tries to suppress engineer wages.

If you're incredibly good, you might be able to negotiate 20-40% higher offer than the initial offer, but beyond that they'll just reject you and go with another candidate who might literally be worth millions of dollars less and be a ridiculously worse deal.

Engineering management is simply not operating according to standard economics textbook definitions of rationality. It feels more like cartel economics.
There is some truth to Tesla issues getting covered more often, but when was the last time Ford or Toyota recalled a vehicle because a major part of the body could blow off? A component being faulty isn’t really on the same order of magnitude as the entire roof of the car detaching. I’m also reminded of a story a few months ago where the steering wheel of a Tesla simply detached in the driver’s hands. This is just an deeply flawed manufacturing and QA process that frankly deserves more critical coverage than other car companies because the problems are more fundamental, like potentially ending up like the police car at the end of The Blues Brothers.
> and if it takes 5 minutes to discuss with a non-chess-playing candidate how a knight moves

If it takes 5 minutes to explain how a knight moves I think that person might not be Google material...
It doesn’t look (in the clip posted above) that the Braille is on the buttons themselves, but rather a label applied by the character, e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=braille+label+maker&ia=images&iax=...
And my point is that I'd rather hire someone who didn't forget these things. When you learn something well you don't forget, it is like riding a bike. If you learned how to ride a bike 10 yards and then stopped and never did it again then you would forget how to do it, saying "I passed the bike riding test when I was 10, I don't need to do it again" isn't a good defense.

I mean, why did you even go to college if you intended to just forget everything afterwards instead of learning the things properly for life? I'd rather not hire people who just do the work necessary to pass and get the degree and don't want to learn more.
and if you entered it means you already decided to purchase something there unlike e.g. being approached by a sales person on a sidewalk or getting a sales email.

Until you start getting incessantly upsold to a 'vente' or upsold to add a bagel.

I thought a friendly "no, that's okay, thank you" and a smile was enough but there was once a national brand franchise coffee shop that badgered me enough during the checkout experience, and on frequent enough visits when I'd get off the train and walk in for a cup of joe along the way to the office that I stopped going.

"I'm just trying to help you get a deal on your coffee".

Friendly, polite, chipper...probably pressured by a GM to upsell but I feel once a customer has politely turned down an upsell, maybe one more "are you sure?" and then after that just give a person some grace and let them buy what they've asked for.
> will have absolutely no correlation to on-the-job performance

How do you know? Maybe the interview was for a position on the AplhaZero team.
Every-day-bullshit vs. the enormity of life or the enormity of the universe; Maybe even vs. the enormity of the day.

Whatever it takes to get there, as long as you can get there.
Those are not worth visiting then.
Assume good faith. There's no derision here.
I also don't want an email.

Not because of the 1 confirmation/onboarding email you (the SaaS) just sent me, but because you simply can't help yourself. You and I both know more shiit is coming very soon.

But I get it. If I provide an email address and don't get a confirmation email within 8 seconds I assume that either (1) I made a typo or (2) your platform is running on some bargain-barrel servers (and frankly I'm questioning my decision to sign up - i mean what kind of operation...).

Anyway, I found an easy solution to this annoyance (I think we all have): Create an email account dedicated to SaaS sign-ups.
Have you tried browsing through mitmproxy? I have. It works, mostly, but is quite unpleasant.
I'm working for large affiliate sites and they have seen unprecedented traffic across all categories since March. Most people aren't going directly to Amazon, people are still using Google, where they see ads that they click on and then buy stuff.
My day job is providing internet connectivity to trains/busses/boats in remote areas over cellular modems. I couldn’t agree more that TCP over mobile networks is a non-starter, I just wish they’d done more than implement TCP over UDP. In terms of mobile performance, QUIC isn’t much better than TCP over a Wireguard VPN.
Wow. Is This is the child of Gina Trapani's old notes.sh? I feel like I've watched this grow incredibly over the last 15 years...
I was impressed by the toy-looking screwdriver he used to removed that screw — the design and placement of which looks like is meant to be turned with a coin such as an American quarter.

Turns out there's a tool for that!

https://toolguyd.com/pb-swiss-tools-coin-driver-theres-a-scr...
I would hit up a local tech school if they have any programs remotely like Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, etc.
The Un-Importance of Your First Job Title
Feds got warrant to identify users who googled Residence close to the arson
No, you're forgetting about Certificate Transparency, which protects against this attack.
As much as I loved Sun workstations and Solaris, I'm pretty sure Sun went under all by itself.
Bruce Momjian doesn't mention it in the OP blog post, but the PostgreSQL core team consists of just 5 people including himself: https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/

Keep that in mind when you note that he says:

> the acquisition causes edb's representation in the core team to be 60%

This works out to 3 out of 5 people including Bruce himself.
>might as well use the good one

While I do believe Google has the superior search engine, there may also be an argument for denying them the "vertical integration of identity". That is, if you use Gmail and Google Search, Google can figure out more about you (in theory) than if you use just Gmail. Same reason I never -ever- use Facebook SSO for logging into non-Facebook sites.
Because it is common for managers to be very engaged in the hiring process.
OP here, there is a doc from Microsoft that talks about the changes from WSL1->WSL2, and WSL2 IS a VM. The reason it's "better" than VirtualBox or VMWare is that it's "optimized" for Windows. Which seems like a vague way of saying it uses their proprietary Hyper-V VM. I think what you're saying is true though. If you want to have fine-tuned controls, I feel like VirtualBox is nicer. I don't actually know whether or not you can go into the Hyper-V settings and manipulate memory or vCPU at all... maybe worth investigating.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-version...
One of the things I love about working with FOSS is getting to know the humans behind it. And some of the technologies and services I care most about are those where I understand the people behind them and share their values.

Lines like the first one of those two don't work with me at all; they're targeting an audience that isn't me, and they do very much provoke the "uh-huh, what are you selling" reaction.

But I do want to see the humans and the humanity in a business. I do want to see a face and a personality and a set of values, rather than just noreply@example.com. If I share those values, I'm going to be much more enthusiastic about the business, and if I don't, I may be less so.

It's possible to create a cookie-cutter talking-about-the-weather-and-the-pandemic pseudo-personality that's kinda uncanny-valley human-ish, but doesn't take any chances. But that's not going to create that same resonance.

So the question then becomes, do you want to be faceless or pseudo-faceless and try to appeal to everyone, or do you want to be yourself, stop hiding the fact that your business has humans in it, and appeal very strongly to people who care about what you care about?
A mirror does flip up and down if you rotate 180 degrees around the x axis and end up standing on your head behind the mirror. It's just that we typically associate rotation with the y axis.
The major benefits over a fully managed VM from my exp. with it have been

- easy integration with the Windows filesystem (it's automounted into the WSL env)

- Using VS Code to work with files in the WSL2 env. works out of the box (just type `code .` in a WSL windows)

- It's very quick to spin up new WSL2 instances. you can just use `--import` and it'll bring in a tarball to create your new instance. You can even export a Docker image and use that as a WSL instance base filesystem which is handy.

- Docker for Windows works pretty well for most usecases and you get one shared Docker instance across all your WSL setups.

Sure I could do all that with discrete managed VMs but this is easier
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One thing I’ve never seen mentioned online but a Model 3 owner I know complained about is that the speedometer is blocked if you have your right hand between 3 and 6 o clock on the steering wheel. He had to change the way he’s used to gripping the wheel to accommodate the car which seemed like a high burden for a luxury product.
The Current Way We Hire Is Insanity
>don't buy user-hostile devices

Such as the Chromebooks many on this site like to rave about.
"The Internet Engineering Task Force is an open standards organization, which develops and promotes voluntary (my emphasis) Internet standards, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite." No one is twisting the arms of Google or browser/tooling implementers. Did I miss a flag where this can be disabled on the browser? If so, that's my fault! But if not, that's my point.
Okay, but how much of that translates into partnership revenue? Again, we're all just making a bunch of assumptions in an effort to cast Mozilla's press release as false.
The more I think about it, the more I think the reason is that the policy network simply doesn't have training data for incomes that low so the shape is basically random.
https://www.federalregister.gov/uploads/2011/01/the_rulemaki...
Musk has admitted to how hard production is. Those little nuances in manufacturing like where to hold glass come from years of production/quality/root-cause analysis to arrive at best practices to avoid exactly these kinds of issues. Don't discount how hard it is just because it seems simple to the uninitiated.

Ever talked to somebody with little to no software experience who will tell you how easy it should be to just slap some code together to build a the next Google? It's like that.
Would podman be a better match for with WSL2 perhaps?
Not entirely related, but I always hated the red dash lighting on my car. I thought it looked ugly and wondered why they didn't just go with a cleaner white colour.

Then I read about red light is specifically used in car dashboard lighting and airplane cockpits because it helps with night vision. What I thought at first was just an ugly colour choice was actually a very subtle design decision to help while driving at night.

It always reminds me how complicated and multifaceted good design is. There are always trade offs to consider, but minimalism as a design trend often seems a little too willing to ignore those trade offs and will sacrifice traits like safety, efficiency and flexibility for the sake of cost and simplicity.
To hunt hackers, FBI works more closely with spy agencies
I would like to buy a Tesla. How many years do you think I should wait?
Your code is impossible to analyze. Console.log is a side effect.

For loops can be easily mapped into functional constructs, but not your snipped does not compute anything. It's not a function.
Because it is easier to reason about data transformations. Here when I see loops and conditionals it is confusing because anything could be happening. company.staff.filter(notCats).forEach(printMessage) has more information of what is going on for example imho. But there is a lot more to it.
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great question - I'm in that position myself. Prior to covid, one of my hobbies really took over and became all I wanted to do. I scaled back my ambitions at work and basically have taken steps to put myself in 'auto-pilot' roles where I can meet/barely exceed expectations while focusing on my hobby. Now I have a ton of flexibility to pursue my passion (at least for now) while still getting great feedback from my leads.

A key part of achieving that was
1) Being honest with myself about what I wanted and the sacrifices it entailed, such as slower promotion or salary growth

2) Showing my employer that I am committed to doing well and performing - but with an expectation that they respect my priorities and accommodate them.

3) Demonstrating that allowing me to prioritize my passions actually makes me better at my job - I am happy, relaxed and focused when I come to work - and that 35 hours a week of happy me is better than 45 hours of cranky, unsatisfied me.
I think a lot of it is that in-demand, well paid workers don't have patience for the BS work rules that unions are notorious for. It might be unfair characterization, but "you can't change/test that code, that's role X", and other such bureaucracy can be really draining.
I've heard people say that rather than focus on goals, focus on systems. Like, one time I set a goal to dead lift 400lbs. I actually did it a couple years later. The stupid thing is I stopped lifting maybe 3 months after that. Lifting 400lbs really meant nothing. Focusing on that goal was pointless. Focusing on the system of getting stronger and healthier would have been far more sensible, because there is no end to it, and there's endless progress to be made. Well, within one's own means - you could lift, swim, climb, whatever. Just enjoy it and push yourself, and you'll probably find more ways to get better at it than you could manage in your lifetime.

I've been realizing recently, maybe late in life - I don't know if this is obvious to other people much earlier - that discreet goals don't make much sense in such changeable, open-ended lives. Why aim to save $10,000 when you could aim to maintain the practice of saving 10% of your income - forever? Every month or quarter or year you can look and say hell yes, I hit that goal! Maybe you want to increase it one year. $10k will run out in no time, but a good habit doesn't. Also, maybe saving sums of money isn't really what we need to focus on... Kind of like lifting some arbitrary weight. Maybe what we really want is health and strength, or financial security and independence to allow us to buy the things we want or need. Maybe rather than travelling to a specific location, we want to live in such a way that we can have the opportunity and means to explore and see interesting places. The discreet goals could be a sub-goal of the system perhaps, but probably shouldn't be the focus.

I've always had these silly discreet goals and terrible habits to support them. I think, moving forward into my later 30s and beyond, I'll try more to focus on systems over discreet, limited results.
He doesn't say it's a new universe, e.g. in an interview with Lex Fridman[1] he calls that out and says it explicitly isn't a separate parallel universe. It's more an argument that if you don't have mass because all the mass has decayed, through Einstein's relation of mass and energy and Planck's relation of energy and frequency, and frequency involving distance and time, with no mass, you lose notions of distance and time. Then the infinitly large distant future universe and the infinitely small distant past big bang become indistinguishable with the loss of "large" and "small" to distinguish them. They are both "at infinity", they both "contain" all the energy in the universe, and what we see as a tiny big bang, aliens on the other side saw as a huge expanded universe.

From what I (layperson) can tell, it's like the expand/crunch cyclic universe theory, but without the need to crunch back down again.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orMtwOz6Db0
A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited 1000s of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans
It would bother me if I had to debug an issue with QUIC for a website that never needed it in the first place.
I can't wait to how badly it'll botch anything but a generic American accent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8
You don't need to read before programming Scratch Jr
Wow, that is such a small core team.
There's for example Aiven, which is offering managed Postgres in cloud [1]. They also have similar managed offerings for various other open source tools. They raised $40M earlier this year.

[1] https://aiven.io/postgresql
But you haven't said why it matters.
Don't forget to add the nuances of automation, machine wear, etc.
I believe there is a way to connect to WSL2 using RDP instead of an X server. I think I tried this before, but for some reason my setup was laggier than just using the X server.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/gyk8...
Here is a which was updated in March, not sure if that is the final update or not - arxiv

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01740
wat

If you don't like it, don't use it. No one is forcing you.
Does anyone remember Metaplace,[1] circa 2009? It was an isometric 2.5D-ish "virtual world" that, if it shipped today, would probably be pitched as a sort of Roblox competitor for building games and interactive installations within a virtual space. (At the time it compared itself to Second Life, which either baffled people who didn't know what it was or turned off people who did.)

I used it briefly in 2009 and one of the things we tried to do with it was exactly this — spatial voicechat in a virtual environment with contrived "physical" modeling of spaces to
adjust how sound travels. (This also reminds me of TeamSpeak's spatial integrations from around the same era.)

I know it's the pandemic that's inspired a ton of these projects, but they've been around in some form since live voice-over-IP came about and haven't really taken off in non-game applications.

What keeps blocking them from mainstreaming? I suspect maybe it's adding contrived physical interactions to the already high relative overhead of meeting virtually, but I'm not sure if that's just a problem for me. I could see myself enjoying something like this but not many others on my team seeing enough value to take the efficiency hit of having either zero or multiple open voice channels that do away with the abstraction.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2008-10-22-massively-interviews-rap...
1 and 2. Governments maintain vital records. It would not be a leap for them to report changes to the IRS.

3. Mortgage companies already report mortgage interest to the IRS on form 1098. Not much of a leap for mortgage companies to keep track of whether a mortgage is on someone's primary residence and report that.

4. The IRS has this information from form 1098-E.
For anyone else curious, OP's average pace for his last three runs were 6:53 (8.4 mi), 7:08 (5.4 mi), and 7:22 (6.4 mi). He's clearly living the post and doing well at competing against himself.
How is semantic Search different from keyword search?
That is true - apple is locking everyone out - including the person who paid for it. But that does make the iphone relatively better from a security standpoint.

The overseas android market is a wasteland security side - no one even pretends, they don't even keep the phones updated.
Seems similar to https://gather.town but self-hostable.
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get 'em!
In my experience, WSL2 is noticeably better than WSL1. Note that that I have an SSD w/ 32 gigs of ram so ymmv.
The "boots" analogy comes from a time when boots were a daily-wear item. You're right -- for infrequently used items, daily cost of ownership isn't as relevant of a metric. For for something you actually use daily or almost-daily (laptop, headphones, shoes, cars, etc) it makes sense.
We have SNI. Now sure your therapist may run their own VM on it's own IP address, but that's not very likely.
Probably we should add the name of the company up there too, or people will complain that the title is baity by not mentioning it.
100x increase? Is that based on calculation based on the energy density of fuel vs batteries alone? Because there's a lot of efficiencies to be gained if you make a battery electric plane from scratch. And are you considering only a fully fuelled plane? Because many routes will only use a small fraction of the potential fuel capacity.

Look at the Maxwell X-57 for instance. If you don't have fuel in the wings, and you can use small electric take-off propellers on the wings, you can make the wing much thinner, which reduces drag.

You can potentially fly higher with electric planes, since you no longer have to think about air densitys impact on engine efficiency.

The main challenge with electric airplanes is not really the batteries. You could probably make viable short-haul planes with todays technology. The problem is you're basically starting from scratch, as a plane optimised for electric engines is most likely vastly different from a 737 airframe. It'll take decades to design and optimize radically new airframes.

We might never see planes crossing the pacific ocean with batteries only, but that doesn't mean electric planes aren't viable. By some calculations you can do 500-1000km routes with todays battery tech already, and there's a shitload of those. Maybe you'll have to fly 2-3 smaller planes rather than one huge one to cover the same route, but that can be a good thing. You could use smaller and more local airports. Electric planes are much more quiet after all. Operating costs with electric planes are way lower, so it might not be more expensive either.

With a 3x+ capacity you can start talking about covering most of the routes within a continent. So what if you can't do transcontinental? I think we can make enough biofuel to cover that if most other flights are electric (and/or hydrogen)
Why would a web company let a notable developer (who has contributed so much to the grow of the web itself) walk away is beyond me.
Super frustrating to see this situation, but in reality I think this happens a lot. Some things are just hard to monetize other than slapping ads everywhere, and if you do that it destroys your product.