skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find the opposite to be true, but it depends entirely on what problems you work with on a daily basis.

I suppose that's true, my perspective is as a client engineer where for the most part, someone's built the data structures for you. Yes you need to know their performance characteristics and when to use them, but otherwise if you're building them yourself you're doing something wrong. I'm sure that's not true in all roles.

> If you work in an area that doesn't benefit much from this specific set of tools, then yes, you only it during interviews; interviews done by people who don't have the faintest clue about what they're hiring you for (which is a big problem itself).

I'm actually really passionate about recruiting and improving the recruiting process anywhere I work, I'd love you to elaborate on this.
> The purpose of an agile process is ultimately to "de-risk your investment" as much as possible.

This idea really rings true to me. Tight iteration/feedback loops are key. Each cycle should introduce value -- either in the form solving user pain points, or providing product learnings on the way to solving user pain points.

Yes, in the end it might amount to more overhead each cycle, than if the team had put their head down and focused purely on producing. But: you end up where you actually want to be! And despite however confident you were at the outset, where you want to be is probably different than where you thought you wanted to be. With Agile you get to learn that part along the way.
> rent is the quintessential example of inelastic supply. A tiny shortage of housing can cause a huge jump in price.

You'd need inelastic demand for this, not inelastic supply.
This is quite the update - very sleek. My favorite new feature is the "show on hover". Just put your mouse where the icons should be and the appear like magic!

It really cleans up an already improved menu bar in macOS Big Sur.
Funnily enough Zune wasn't even PlaysForSure. Microsoft actually killed their own music player ecosystem to try and create another one that they owned completely. Then the music industry said "fuck it, we're going DRM-free" if only so that they could sell songs outside of iTunes and have them work on iPods.

It helps that Jobs himself hated DRM on music so much that he was willing to give up a legitimate competitive advantage to improve the customer experience.
Zero Trust for Everyone
Most POST spam is repetitive. It's very rare human POSTs are. If you filter out any POSTs that happen identically more than 3 times you remove most spam. It's not perfect but it makes it manageable. Of course this is a lot easier to implement if you batch process.
If you have problem with my website font, feel free to do whatever in your power or put it on screen reader mode and get it done with, why should I change my font to impress you? That's what I dont like when people stress their personal preference here.
> Also with the c64 you do not really want to go back to that keyboard, do you?

I bought TheC64 because I wanted the keyboard. Why else use a C64 lookalike instead of an emulator on a regular computer?
I personally removed the app together with Hazel as I want minimal software to run on my system and my menu bar is already hidden at all times.

Wasting CPU cycles hiding some menu bar items seems rather wasteful. Although the menu bar search thing does seem useful.
Understanding the Auroc Metric
Was making me dizzy looking at it!

Yes non web devs, or web devs in a rush because of a poorly managed project + deadline I reckon.
Facing Adversity, Integrity, Finding Zero, Bad Decisions, Worm at the Core
Although perhaps not part of Plasma does anyone know why certain regressions in Kmail are not addressed? Things like reply to all by default were removed as a prefernce and there seems to be no discussion on that possible. What gives? Kmail is very powerful and deserves much wider use, but somehow a group has managed to take charge of the project and is keeping defaults suited for 90ies style clients and is actively removing preferences that fit with more modern (outlookish/gmailish) UX.
To be fair, this is a standard feature of most news apps. Like Apple's.
This is the mindset I really don’t understand though. Sure your company can say “we’re all remote” today, but they can just as easily say “everyone has to come back” in six months. Or “everyone doesn’t have to, but those who don’t are the first laid off next time”. I’ve been fully remote since March, so I’ve been weighing this for awhile”
Unless of course single people are not a family of 4 and should not have to pay extra because of that.
Or making the slow cars faster. It's the interaction between the traffic of varying speeds that causes the problems (this goes for all sorts of queuing, not just vehicle traffic)
Pascal Implementation: A Book and Sources
Google Podcasts Manager
Cloud Run is excellent if I wrote my own application. My biggest issue is that most off the shelf open source software that has a docker container often use a complicated docker compose file so if they can be deployed, they might be waiting on each other's cold starts (which can be very long and expensive) and/or need more databasesish things than I want. So obvious mistakes and unrealistic expectations aside, I have several nodejs and crystal apps on cloud run which is running well and just the concept "lambda for docker containers" is pretty awesome. Cold starts are pretty harsh ATM, hopefully they improve.
I know it’s such a cliche to want to leave tech for the ranch haha. No I just plan to pursue some of my own adventures that still involve technology, just outside of the Silicon Valley tech startup world.
But you can have easy examples like does the decimal reprensentation of pi contain four zeros in a row. I think we dont know if it is true, so you wouldnt know if your algo stops if you dont run it (and it stops). No need for self referential programs.
They wouldn’t if building housing was legal.
From a previous article: the game’s lack of overall originality and its lackluster characters, combat, and art style made it largely forgettable. It also suffered from a bit of an identity crisis by trying to be a bit of everything at once: a hero shooter, a battle royale, and a MOBA.

Well, props on figuring out not to throw good money after bad.
> My current policy is to wait until the evidence is older than a week. That is one open label study on patients that were already in hospital - strong evidence, but not a final word. Maybe they missed something, maybe they made a mistake. Science is hard.

Indeed: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...

I'd say it's not conclusively settled yet.
I meant "the KDE Desktop Package", but your point stands, thanks
That looks a tad more basic than what I'd like, but I'll give it a try. Thanks for the links!
I'm finding that the Daily Mixes, found near the Discover Weekly playlist in the "Made for <user>" part of the app, do a good job of this, and will also include similar music not in your library for discovery

In fact, my personal experience is that Daily Mixes do a better job showing me new music than Discover Weekly does
Also he exactly said
Please stop using external fonts in 2020. I dont know how that wasn't aggressive.
Neither the paper nor the guild can be trusted at all.
The market norm for streaming new release HD rentals is more like $20, though.
The best practices of private networks, updated software and being conservative when exposing ports to a public network everyone knows already.

Also no need to be that scared about servers.
> The definition of words changes in response to increasing knowledge

The usual process in mathematics and science is that you have a phenomenon that everyone agree exists but nobody can quite put their finger on it, so someone proposes a formal definition and if that definition turns out to be adequate, people work on the formal definition, and that's much easier because you now can use math, statistics, formal methods, etc; a prime example of this is the notion of "computability".

I don't believe that we are seeing the same thing with the concept of "intelligence", this is probably in part because it's much harder to capture the concept in a formal definition. Computers do computable stuff. Overlapping that notion with "intelligence" serves no purpose in my opinion: it explains nothing, it doesn't clarify anything, and it's certainly not obvious that the two are related.

> which are not "just" machine code either

I'm using "machine code" as proxy for "instructions/lambdas/whatever for a computational model of your choice", which they certainly are.

> The more you stress the simplicity of these models, the more intriguing their achievements seem.

It's not my intention to downplay any of the achievements of "AI". They are certainly not less intriguing when viewed from my perspective, the same way a compiler is not less intriguing if you think it's "just code".

My point is that any association of a formal concept (math, models, etc.) with philosophical concepts (intelligence, "truths about the world", consciousness, etc.) is always on thin ice, because natural language and formal concepts are hard to mix. Especially so when the concepts at play are so ephemeral.
No. Only as if the user experience was seriously flawed.
It gets worse:

https://archive.is/mlK3D

Dean Baquet, the executive editor:

>That criticism I firmly reject. The project fell fully within our standards as a news organization. In fact, 1619 - and especially the work of Nikole - fill me with pride.

Any dissent got quashed from high above.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that this is not a reflection of low prices in TX but of insane prices in CA. Tons of states have costs on the order of TX.
Relying on X-Forward-For for... pretty much anything is not a security best practice. The user can easily manipulate this header.
While we are on the topic of XPath improvements, I would love to see a built-in XPath syntax to pierce the shadow DOM of Web components.

It's an important need for the automation and testing use cases. Without it, targeting an element within a web component simply cannot be done solely with a single selector.
Yeah, but package managers are exactly what I want to avoid here :)
probably a result of Firefox's Facebook sandboxing
Peering can be free or perhaps even profitable. Transit costs money.

Anyway, the above is just a rant about net neutrality rather than any sort of technically rigorous description.
I've been running this under various brands for 25 years — Back then I was the #1 referrer for Reddit and Digg so to this day, i still take some credit for their success ;)
Folks from Conde to Forbes call me to get on the site — no one ever asked to be removed. It's great not to be Google.
I also think some programs can suffer from the halting problem. I mentioned above properties of the decimal reprensentation of pi (like is 123456 in pi)
Don't take this quote outtake as indicative of what the article is talking about, the articl talks about actual usable hydrocarbon production instead of this:

"However, efficiency is still low and, as a gas, hydrogen is difficult to store."

There's a lot of FCEV/"Hydrogen economy" stories floating through the channel in the last few months it seems, which to me speaks of some PR push to offset battery day.

Hydrogen stories drive me a bit nuts because they handwave away the fundamental problems with hydrogen production, delivery, refueling, and storage as something that research will solve.

Here we have a research project deep into solar fuel production and it drops that comment in. Strikes me as an unbiased / uninflated indictment of the other stories.

Synthetic fuels are only carbon neutral even at the thinnest depth of analysis, but they'll probably be the only way to get aviation to at least carbon neutrality in a decade.
Arche – HTML as JavaScript
Why does it matter if there is stuff you don't like, as long as there is enough stuff you do?
I hear what you are saying and this story is more tongue-in-cheek than trying to put down computer science or professors.

But, fyi, this tagger was not just a professor's demonstration, it was kind of ground-breaking and served as a foundation for other taggers. The professor went on to have a pretty awesome career at a few different big tech companies, far surpassing my own success. And yes, I agree, I am sure he could have made it faster himself had he dedicated the time to it.
How Flutter Is Helping Businesses to Get Feature-Packed App at Affordable Prices
The pinnacle of science fiction technology is not light sabers in my opinion, it’s teleportation.

Beam me up!
That's a good speedup but why are they not using locality-sensitive hashing? Or doing some basic math to convert X and Y to binned indices for a lookup table -- you can easily precompute values for a few million cells and hold them in memory. If the lookup table is small enough it would even fit in a single CPU cache, and lookup would be nearly instant. Both of these approaches provide O(1) lookup for grid cells rather than O(log n).

I used a similar optimization when I was younger to enable interactively plotting very large (at the time) 2D point datasets. We stripped out points that were so close together that the difference would not be visible. The X,Y coordinates were each binned to an integer pixel location and both were packed into a single long integer. Then we stored a hashset of longs so we knew what pixels had points occupied. When adding a point to render, we did O(1) hashtable lookups to see if the location already had a point in it. The result was an extreme speedup because we could avoid rendering all points which were not visible, and it scaled linearly with the number of points.
Amazon's first custom electric delivery vehicle
Is there a file size difference with the Universal Hex that impacts how much code can be delivered?
No, it provides a basis to ease your migration from Oracle. There is a lot it doesn't do. Basically, if you have a homegrown app on Oracle it removes a lot of the low hanging fruit to migrate but you aren't running peoplesoft or something on it.
> Note: News is only available on the Facebook apps for Android and iPhone in the U.S. You won't be able to access News on your browser.
What's New in Rotor v0.09
Software is not about writing code or optimizing algorithms.

It's about requirements, corner cases, knowing and using the right tech, and the zillion or so things that can go weird or wrong and how to elegantly handle them.
> That's something I ask myself every time I'm cleaning my monitor. How is there a fingerprint anywhere on it much less inexplicably in the corners?

The bottom left corner of a monitor is the first place I touch it in order to adjust its position.

The critical difference is that a monitor doesn't have a computer body attached to it perpendicularly at the bottom. The ergonomics are completely different.
I too have worked with such agencies that actually care, and of course they exist. I guess I wanted my hot take HN comment and didn’t take the time to explicitly state that not every software consulting agency produces low quality work. If you don’t mind me asking, did you work on marketing landing pages like this one or something else? These marketing pages in particular are what I am calling out.
Realistically, the vast majority of companies aren't going to issue an edict like that. They're going to find a way to work with their employees.

If you have employees who have been working productively remotely for a year, it's probably better to find a way to keep them happy and working than to have to find a new employee.
This is neat.

I really want to make some sort of sre/distsys/ops training ground to go through a mixture of systems design and operational skills (troubleshooting, observability, firedrills) but the interfaces and integrations of the moocs I've tried are so ill-fitting for the task and the good options (which I can't think of right now, there's one that'll integrate into aws/gcp and give you "playgrounds") are too expensive for a lone dev- they're full on corporate training grounds (are they any good? never used one).

There are "k8s/cluster playgrounds" and what not but they're so not operationally-forward in most cases, just extremely basic and not really relative to a day in the life of a cluster/systems operator at all.

I like how you've set this up, I actually want to go through the lessons, great work.
Not to mention the possibility that much of that code was written by an volunteer underclassman.
Hmmm, I spy an opportunity for Amazon to use their home drones to offer discounted prices if there's ever only one person watching.
This could have been written by me. And for who ever doesn't have time to maintain roles, there is Ansible Galaxy or tons of roles in GitHub, including mine: https://github.com/liv-io
In the US, business auto deduction is around 52 cents per mile.

An oldish paid-off relatively inexpensive car will absolutely do better than that on average. But it's actually not unreasonable that the business deduction bases costs on something like a late model leased midrange sedan like a sales rep might use to drive clients around.
They regulate rent increases in Oakland at least. Of course our landlord took the maximum allowed rent increase each time, as if it were the required increase rather than the maximum.

I don't live in the bay area and pay half the rent for three times the space in Boston... not exactly a small town... the Bay Area was already unattractive for me financially and I have an advanced degree in an engineering field.
Not Just Flyover Country: Why the Midwest Is Home to the Next Big Tech Scene
The positives have to out weight the negatives of high crime, a large homeless population, high rents, small apartments, etc. Having nice parks is not unique to SF.
I got the fence part, but why is it connected to a furnace??? We agree that a furnace is a thing that makes heat right?
Whatever the Question Was, the Correlation Coefficient Is Not the Answer
Sorry to correct your math here, but going from 6 hours (6*60=360 minutes) to 4 minutes is a 90x improvement, not 900x.
It's a very versatile device. I paired mine with a LoraWAN Hat and it sits outside in my garden, in a waterproof (unventilated) case measuring temperature and light. It's worked reliably through heatwaves and cold, wet weather and only stops working when the batteries die. It's very tough.
A better example is brand name prescription drugs. State substitution laws end up meaning that when generics come on market, a lot of consumers become proce sensitive by law since the pharmacy must fill the prescription with the lower priced generic. However, anyone who is still buying the brand name at that point is highly inelastic - they really want the brand name only for whatever reason. Thats why the brand name version of a drug usually spikes up in price when a generic enters the market - theres no way to compete with the generic folks on price so at least get as much out of your smaller remaining market segment that you can by using their price inelasticity
Yes, and that for movies that were released in the theaters.

For a movie that were supposed to be in thousands of theaters having to release directly in streaming, 50% more than regular price seems ok.
I live in downtown SF: streets are filthy, homeless situation is worse than ever before, everything that I would want to do outside is closed, there’s no reason to live “close to work” anymore, I only go outside for groceries and laundry. I’m moving to LA in 3 weeks.
Commission Code Reviews
Thank you!

> Are there ways that others can support this work?

There's one important thing I'd very much like to add: accessibility. I've yet to find a good way to make this work in more environments (e.g., with screen readers).

Other than that, any help would be very much appreciated: translations, code fixes, sponsorship, and, of course, your feedback. :)
Closed it as soon as I saw "Open the Facebook App".

The only way I use Facebook is within a container in Firefox. I'll never install a Facebook developed application onto a phone ever again.

If what you're doing is making a competitor to google news, it should just be a webpage.
Make sure to only do it after you've deployed it - part of the WebMention process is that the mentioned page actually checks the page that sends the mention for the given link.

(Also annoying if the link is added client-side.)
Ants, Sharks and Flies: how most Data Products harm us even if they are bullshit
Even as a single person, $30 sounds cheap for the movies with the expense of travel to the theater, ticket prices, snacks, etc.
Many companies have publicly stated they will allow permanent work from home [1]. Many others have said so privately to their workers. As more companies adopt this, this provides more options to those who relocate and whose employer tries to pull them back.

Keep a long runway in an emergency fund, keep your professional network warm, always be ready to bounce if your employer tries to change your quality of life for the worse (mandatory return to an office somewhere, for example). (Disclosure: This is how I operate, and have worked from home for over 7 years.)

[1] https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/companies-switching-remot... ("27 Companies That Have Switched to Long-Term Remote Work")
> I live in a small village so to hire a car I'd have to get on a bus to the nearest town, then walk to the car hire place to get the car.

My province in Canada shuttered the government-owned bus service a few years ago, so that isn’t even an option anymore. There haven’t really been any significant private offerings that have popped up in its place. If you’re in a small town with no car, you’re pretty much screwed!
Your response made me smile. Glad to see there are still reasonable folks out there.
Working for a startup without a "resume-driven-development" CTO gave me the freedom to go "servermore" architecture with max flexibility.
San Diego is more conservative, generally speaking. Lot more military folks, too.
I am not sure if you are asking about strange IOT devices to be put under the floor?

Or are you asking for ideas for the floor?

If this latter, what I would want (should I have to re-make the floor with boards) would be this stuff here:

https://www.bole.eu/

https://www.bole.eu/product/bolefloor/

or:

https://www.bole.eu/product/curv8/

"Life is not a straight line"
Article mentions Altaic theory without mentioning that Altaic theory is utter horseshit. Still an interesting article though.
The idea of teleportation stirs up something like existential dread in me every time I think about it. The idea that your matter is disassembled, and then somewhere else it is reassembled from local atoms is at once fascinating and horrifying. You die ever time you are transported, and the copy of you has no memory of that event. It really hints at a lot of interesting philosophical questions.
We had a microservice craze a few years ago. What about that, did they all crash?
It's so amazing how those languages are completely different from western languages. You can see the people in this video inferring multiple, sometimes totally unrelated meanings from the same set of symbols. That is not possible at all in western languages. You either understand a sequence of characters or you don't. One can debate the contextual and abstract meaning of a sentence, but not it's absolute meaning.
>> Yes non web devs, or web devs in a rush because of a poorly managed project + deadline I reckon

Why? You and the parent comment seem to imply that there are no crappy web devs, or at least none at FB. There are crappy people in every profession, as well as mostly good people who are crappy at just some aspects of their job.
This is completely circumstantial - Did you have Amazon Alexa nearby? Or Google Assistant? More likely they "overheard" your conversation than ATT doing this.
Maybe so, but they aren't TX, so you got to discount them for that. ;-)
Can Security Teams Benefit from SRE? Hot Take
> There's no normal setting or config file to turn it off...

There is now (and the default is a smaller popup as well).