skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're thinking about this in terms of deadlines rather than trade offs.

If you build a million cars, they're going to hit a certain number of pedestrians, statistically. Literally zero is the ideal but not necessarily achievable.

If you spend more computation on pedestrian detection, it will do better. If you have to spend computation on useless antivirus, it can't be spent on pedestrian detection, or some other thing that improves safety. And pedestrian detection is itself a trade off -- one algorithm might be more accurate but slower, and so give the vehicle less time to respond after detection. Using a RTOS doesn't save you -- if the CPU isn't fast enough to run both the algorithm and the antivirus then it could have to starve the antivirus of resources indefinitely, which might not be compliant. So then the presence of the antivirus requires you to use an algorithm which is faster but less accurate.

You could also use a faster processor, but that's still a trade off. It could increase the cost of the vehicle and cause some people to continue to use vehicles that are less expensive and less safe, leading to an overall cost in lives.

Any time you're making a trade off where one of the variables is human lives, any inefficiency that requires you to make the trade off in a worse way is potentially costing lives. And installing antivirus where it doesn't belong is an inefficiency.
EU rules - the solicitors threatened court action, easyJet caved. I think that's the fundamental difference between the first service I used (who went to the ADR) and the second, who say they have handled > 100,000 cases so know when to treaten court action (and clearly had automated most of the process).
So ..it can help in the gamification of Ag with automation. Does that sound right?
I'd have absolutely no preference.

I like the idea of lab grown as it is a promising way to increase our food production. If it costs the same that indicates it's no more efficient than growing animals for food.
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It has been scaled up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction

The first commercial synthetic gas plant opened in 1984 and is the Great Plains Synfuel plant in Beulah, North Dakota.[9] It is still operational and produces 1500 MW worth of SNG using coal as the carbon source. In the years since its opening, other commercial facilities have been opened using other carbon sources such as wood chips.
well they won't have to put too much effort into if Apple doesn't get more developers to write for the new chip; they weren't doing a bang up job even getting software for their Intel based systems. They are going to have to get all areas of applications which means an increased focus on bringing AAA game titles to M1
I’m not aware of any Palantir contracts that let them use, model with, or analyze data outside of designated purposes. It’s pretty hard to audit cloud services that claim to have isolated dbs, but it seems like such a massive breach of contract if they were actually doing this.

It’s the same risk if Microsoft cracked open all the sql dbs to analyze and train AIs. Or if AWS tried to use data stored with them. I’m sure it would be useful but would break every contract they have and since they are trying to make money off cloud services that’s a big risk for minimal return.

So unless there’s more evidence just saying something is possible is a rabbit hole for every cloud provider, right?
I think the question isn't "should you act like a startup", the real question is:

Are you in a market that rewards quality and premium pricing that can support investment, or are your customers just so many that you can get by, booking revenue from people who will tolerate the minimum viable product until something clearly better comes along?

I think for Domino's, pizza was the 2nd situation, until they found it wasn't any more...
Does _anyone_ actually like that weird garlic sauce? I chuck them straight in the bin.

Domino's is the only place that will deliver to me, being on the outskirts of the city. Luckily that Domino's is pretty good and reasonably low on the grease quota, compared to some I've had elsewhere. The one thing I do particularly like about that franchise is the cleanliness; I've been into the shop itself and it's really well kept, compared to some of the other "big" pizza places here.
If you don't know the performance requirements of something you're about to build you should gather that before you build it.
So, Apple views clients as petulant children?.

Also, I don't treat my kid that way.
> My understanding is that apple spent considerable effort on baking into silicon the ability to do some common memory-management related OSX/iOS low-level operations.

I think they profiled these operations easily and made sure that they were cheap to execute on their CPU but I'm not certain there's dedicated silicon for that.
You have a very cynical perspective on white collar corporate work. Mine is the exact opposite. I make several hundreds of thousands of dollars for working about six hours a day indoors in a nice chair with air conditioning. I don’t care about the company’s success nor do I need to care. If my kid is sick or I’m having an off day I just don’t come in. I can afford basically anything I genuinely want. It’s a very good bargain from my side.
>> if I'm being 100% honest, I don't even recall the majority of them.

100% this. A lot of these concepts go over your head if you haven't seen a practical application for them. By the time you've encountered such a use in industry, the knowledge is long forgotten.
I agree with everything you’ve said, but I want to push back on the (non-load-bearing) “few have much energy for fighting the idea that literature should be studied for it’s own sake.”

It seems to me that lots of people have endless energy for this fight, unfortunately.
Only if you're too young to remember IE/DHTML built into Windows Explorer in Windows 9x, when folders were "web pages".
Design by committee is a very slow process. I doubt the advantages outweigh this huge disadvantage.
Well, as strong a type system as Haskell likely prevents enough bugs in the code to let you feel safe without unit tests. That's what I'm talking about; that -feeling- of safety.

Do any of these languages help prevent you from writing code that simply does the wrong thing? No. You multiplied instead of adding; no static type checker is going to catch that, because you semantically told the computer to do the wrong thing.

That's why I wrote extensive tests; I needed to make sure the code did the right thing, reliably. It's also why we chose Erlang; supervisor trees and immutability meant that as long as we tested and felt good about the happy path, the unhappy paths would generally take care of themselves.

As an aside, in Haskell, you actively have to make tradeoffs around laziness, too. Both these data types are Integer -> I either have to create a custom data type to distinguish them (increasing level of effort as a dev), or I risk getting them in the wrong order if they're both passed into the same function. Named parameters might be a better solution here, and that can be done regardless of typing.
You have a good point. Still, many other hyped internet companies couldn’t be profitable even if they wanted to.
Can you elaborate on why this is a point of the FIPS? It sounds as if it's specific and by intention.
Tangential is nice vocabulary addition to orthogonal in this context. Thanks.
You're criticizing the author for not adequately understanding the regulatory concerns but letting the regulators off the hook for not adequately understanding the engineering concerns. Frankly the latter feels more important and more beneficial (to everyone) to improve upon.
I haven't seen such issues with webrtc. It's been very low latency for my use cases.
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There's a natural alternative, with lower maintenance requirements:

http://www.audubon.org/native-plants
That's probably because we have things like a mandatory imprint here in Germany.
Beware of availability bias here.

Bad news is reported far more often than good.

There are signs of the planet greening as a result of higher CO2, for instance.

That doesn't diminish the potential damage, but it's not all bad.
Neo4j has failed queries I have written, with "out of memory" errors. I have never, ever, ever gotten that from SQLite.
Honestly Google would probably issue refunds if that ever happened. At some point, sp games are often not replayed or come down substantially in price. I'm not worried given their history.
I find your post delusional. Your conclusion is nowhere near anything I asserted.

I asserted a generalization that women tend to like men who are more fit and I asserted that generalizations apply to the universe. Something along the lines of: Not all women are shorter than men, but in general they are.

Then I used science to establish that generality. That's it. The conclusion of those papers never claimed women are easily understood and I never claimed it either.

The crazy thing is, you claimed to agree with me as "bisexual" man then proceeded to debate a point with an imaginary claim that was never made.

Perhaps you're not delusional and your arguments are tactics and lies used to manipulate a conversation in a direction of your choosing. If that is the case my conclusion is that you're a liar.

Tldr: You are arguing against claims that were never made.
Having come from the science I think you have a good viewpoint. We didn't learn programming to program. We learned it because it is a useful tool to model and stimulate. A necessity to do science in the modem world. It was only later that I started to dig in more because I found that I actually liked using this tool.
Keybase supports file transfers also. I highly recommend it.
It's probably because of Covid-19. I have been getting domino's delivered for years, but all the stores that normally would do have been "not available for delivery" in 2020.

I'm not really sure I understand this-- surely there's not more risk to the driver in delivering to you than in you coming to get it yourself, which they definitely still support. Maybe it's because their delivery drivers can't share cars anymore or something.
The better way to estimate Covid-19 deaths either directly due to the virus or due to indirect effects like elective procedures being put off is to look at excess deaths. In Aprils excess deaths were running 3x that of normal of which 1x was attributed to Covid and the other 1x was either undetected or indirect causes. FTSE article [1] and a great discussion on Twitter by one of the authors [2].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/67e6a4ee-3d05-43bc-ba03-e239799fa...

[2] https://twitter.com/ChrisGiles_/status/1252841436317315072
I am reminded of the classic article "things I Won't Work With" by chemist Derek Lowe on the subject of Peroxides

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/10/10/th....

they don't sound safe
“Because Zep thought it was more fun that way” is always a good guess at the reason anything in Pico-8 works the way it does, tbh.
As long as we have coal plants powering our electrical grid we should seek alternatives that would replace or reduce reliance on them.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone claim otherwise. Someone with a bachelor's and no experience is only qualified for entry-level jobs, where they will generally be working under close supervision.
For large customers, we usually set up a shared slack channel. It’s strongly authenticated when compared with email (where spoofing or impersonation is easy).
> such as global state, in process locks, interpreter protected consistency guarantees,

If you need to share state or you need consistency/locking/transactions across bounded contexts on one service it's trivial to implement. But this can be incredibly difficult to do correctly across multiple servers. No one has implemented a multi-phase commit over multiple services and said "dang that was easy" afterwards.
How much English do I need for writing?

That would depend on what sort of writer you were and what sort of ideas you are trying to share (and, I guess, your audience). Most famously, Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is written in a such a way that an 12 year old could read it and understand the plot.
Microsoft almost certainly would have preferred if no one had done game streaming through Safari on iOS, because they're a complainant about Apple's App Store policies [1]. That became untenable after Amazon went first.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-18/microsoft...
That's probably how mass-market clients are seen for some companies... are they succesful? The answer points to a trend that should scare us. As a parent I also want my kids to be smarter than this.
So your point is that you don't live close enough to a restaurant to order from them? I hope that one day, you will.
Yes. Toggled reader mode in Safari and stopped loading to avoid it
Assuming this is an honest question and not a lame attempt at a gotcha: as more people switch to a vegan diet we will gradually stop breeding them in the first place, so there are no animals for something to "happen to."
Wow, do you know if this sort of selection criteria is confirmed through genomic testing or reliant on hear-say?
The Apollo app is the only correct way to browse Reddit.
The RISC V position is that compressed instructions with macro ops fusion can solve this issue:

https://erik-engheim.medium.com/the-genius-of-risc-v-microprocessors-b19d735abaa6

We'll see in practice as more powerful RISC V cores are developed and used. For a new architecture like this it's normal to start with deeply embedded (and relatively low power) cores, and then move up the food chain. It takes time to build an ecosystem.

Currently the ISA is minimalist but I assume that at the high end some extensions still in development will eventually become expected, like bit operations or the vector extension.
This is 100% false and hasn't been true for a long time.

A Tesla can easily take a road trip the same as any ICE vehicle. I've personally driven one across the country. Supercharging along the way now takes the same amount of time as any normal stop for gas.

EVs are already better than a 100% solution because electricity is far cheaper than gas and you can fill up at home.
This is a reaction to ad blocking.
Yea I'd agree with that too.
AMD next to Theranos and Nikola? Would you care to elaborate? I might need to sell some shares...
AFAIK there's bit more with input devices (for low latency keyboard and mouse events and a portable interface to access joysticks and gamepads).

I think there's also some other APIs they need to coordinate with the stadia controller, though that may be optional.

Of course Google has been one of the companies that has been pushing for these APIs in the first place. (Which makes me wonder if Zoom would exist without Google meet...)
Can we appreciate, though, the mechanical difficulty of a machine dealing with a stack of microns-thin sheets and precisely plucking 1 of them at a time off of it fairly consistently despite variances in environment humidity and paper thickness? Probably static electricity plays havoc in some cases here.

I've worked with million dollar printing equipment in a factory before and it needed daily coddling as well.

On the other hand, the printer software/protocol/driver developers have no excuses at this point. There's no reason for that to still be as bad as it is in 2020.
To my knowledge, it's only really the U.S and maybe Canada that do the whole rounded education thing. In the U.K, Ireland, and what I've seen on eunicas, the degree is focused on a single subject.
That would not be possible, but one could use bcrypt to generate a salt to use with SHA2 as the last step.
You basically need almost no maths knowledge to learn programming. This is the first thing the person that trained me told us. Especially for fields like web development and stuff. Sure, if you need to send rockets to mars, it's not the same.

With 12 years of experience, I would say this is true. I would even say that my fucked up logic makes me a very good debugger.
My dad had a similar story about a bug report. This was back in the day when terminals still used paper rather than CRTs; actual teletypes. The bug report was something like "if I print a page feed on such and such terminal model, it will catch fire."

The bug report form (which was paper in those days) had a few of the usual checkboxes and fields to fill in, including one for "is the problem reproducible?" That box was checked. Someone had actually gone to the effort of standing by their terminal with a fire extinguisher, running the same command and putting out the fire when it caught fire again.

It turns out the problem was in some software that emulated page feeds by doing repeated line feeds. Some overflow or underflow bug caused an integer to wrap around, so instead of advancing a few lines to the next page, it would try to advance thousands or millions of lines. This particular terminal model was a new, high speed one, so it would try to advance the paper really fast. It was using those perforated strips at the sides, with the pegs that went into the holes. The pegs and holes weren't perfectly aligned, so the pegs would sometimes clip the holes a bit, causing some bits of paper to shred and get kicked up as dust. Along with a spark, I don't recall if it was from the motor or just static buildup caused by the friction of the paper, and the paper dust would ignite, causing the terminal to catch fire.

I just love the image of whoever submitted that bug report, seeing the "is it reproducible" checkbox on the form, and standing by the terminal with a fire extinguisher to put it out while doing the same thing to make sure the problem was reproducible.
Just look at the number of pickup trucks there are, with empty (even pristine) beds. Nobody is hauling stuff most of the time, but they got a vehicle that can.
The project uses a serverless backend to collate data from external services and on the Kindle itself Rust code (cross compiled via docker) fetches and typesets the data into an image

If this is just a daily image, wouldn't it be a lot easier to just email the generated image to a non-modified Kindle on a daily schedule? It would require manually clicking 2 buttons every day to display it (Home > Today's Image), though presumably that side of it could be automated on the Kindle with much less modification.
> that leaves you fundamentally unqualified for many tasks, and you'll have learn (via painful experience, apprenticeship [if that is emotionally possible for Gen Y/Z], or self study) many things

This is not a generational thing. I know at least as many entitled older folks as I do detached younger folks.

Moreover, part of the drive for saving dying industries is because the folks in those industries don't want to pivot because that's hard.

Some people just want life to be easier and give in to that. It is easy to sympathize with that because life is hard and it would be nice.
> "I think my biggest annoyance with powershell in particular is that curl is aliased into this awkward powershell function by default"

Not since August 2016 and the release of PowerShell Core 6. "PowerShell" now refers to the cross-platform branch, currently PowerShell 7.1.

The older one with that alias is now "Windows PowerShell", and is legacy and no longer developed.
My understanding is that AWD has computer controlled power distribution and 4WD has a diff. My 4WD has a (lockable) center diff.
Agreed, this is the unfortunate truth at present.

Though by preventing hideous errors from falling through the cracks, compliance requirements also often prevent the best decisions from being made.
But what are their financing rates? They conceivably could have better long term security due to their position. And thus be fine with a higher debt loading. Utilities, at least those with a monopoly license, are quite close to State-owned-enterprise (SOEs).
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> On the rare occasion that I need to use a data structure or an algorithm to optimize for Time Space complexity, I'll either use a community built package or a language level feature. I'll never invent my own because whatever I come up with will be half baked anyway.

In these cases you recognized you needed to use a specific algorithm or data structure and was aware of it's existence, name and properties. That's most of the work.

Contrast this with code where common data structures are re-implemented (I need a dictionary and all I know is an array, better iterate and compare the keys until I find the right thing). And that's only scratching the surface of bad code, believe me.
New LocalTunnel Extension for VSCode
So I've been searching for a tool to share my local work via web, and I found LocalTunnel (https://localtunnel.github.io/www/), after some digging I figured that they do not have any extension on VSCode, so I made a simple one :) I hope it ends up being useful for any of you.

https://github.com/mauriciosoares/localtunnel-for-vscode
Sounds to me these men are victims of abusive software bugs. They have a finger print... it may not be unique or normal. But pressing their inked finger onto paper will leave a print. I assume the software is looking for common pieces of a fingerprint to work. Said software isn’t considering the edge case of a smooth or mostly smooth finger pad.

The fact that the government workers are letting buggy software determine eligibility for drivers licenses and passports is the real issue here. It’s really sad.

Just reading this makes me so frustrated. I can’t imagine how frustrating it would be to be them. I hope this article helps these men get the exposure they need to end this.
The way to approach infosec is, don't trust anyone and verify everything. This is just part of the IT world.

I'm not an auditor, but my impression is they not only don't trust each other, they also hate each other. Auditing is a job for people who don't like other people, which is ok. Just be aware.
> The author doesn’t really try to identify from the regulator’s perspective

The regulator qua regulator is remote from the narrative, which deals only with the auditors. Who don't even work for the same agency.

The agency issuing the rules is concerned with compliance in a way in which actual security is not a factor which mitigates or alters, which is the conclusion made, and is entirely factually correct.

The whole story is that important decisions are made extremely remotely (in all of time, organizational structure, domain, and concern) from the project.

Now if this was an argument for a specific alternative, or even just generally against the practice without an alternative replacement, it would need to go farther and address whether the approach deals with different, potentially even more serious problems (corruption and/or ineptitude in over-empowered public agency managers, for instance) whether it was a net positive of negative in that context and whether, if it was a net positive, either the specific alternative proposed (if any) or any conceivable alternative would likely be a greater net positive.

But that's not what this piece seems to be trying to do.
I really enjoyed the article, thanks for posting it.

For the ones with the knowlegde I have the following question: how long in days (hours?), does it take for this mRna to degrade and stop functioning and restoring the normal working of the host cells?
Since Taiwan is an island, it makes sense to control who visits it.

A similar approach was tried in the Faroe Islands, but was not very successful.

It is likely that people of Taiwan are more willing to give up their freedom than western countries. But I don't know that for sure.
You’d think that’d be the case, but many of the post-mortems are pretty high level too. Most SEs don’t know HTTP from top to bottom. And they’re mostly fine.
What is the floating point control word?