skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like an unsympathetic reading. The point seems to be that standards usually aren't simply invented out of nothing; they take existing practice as input.

Sure, there was a standards process, but the people involved looked into what browsers did and how popular particular HTML constructs were in the millions of websites that already existed when the HTML5 standard was being written, and tried not to break them. The input to their design process came from many sources.

Before HTML5 formally existed, there were many web pages that more-or-less did what the standard said they should do, and browsers that more-or-less worked with those web pages.
The sub prime crisis is almost a perfect example of this actually. Why stuff bonds with shit? Because there are buyers who will spend 1bn dollars on a bond tranch without doing 10k in analysis of the underlying. Not just some buyers, a huge market of them. If people had done a little due diligence 5 years earlier, the crisis would have been 20 times smaller. It would have been a minor story on page 27 of the finance section.

Social media algos are the same. They recommend conspiracy bs because there are 1million morons glugging it down for every developer pushing it. They fund his bonus cheque. That's none of my business until they go out and vote or refuse to wear a mask...
No problem, glad you sorted it out.
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How about that robo taxi network that operates without anyone in the driver seat in all human-drivable conditions and all human-drivable locations that is supposed to release in the next 4 days. They said they just needed winter 2019 to make sure it was trained up for ice and snow.
(microelectronics graduate in 2001, turned software engineer, I have worked for ARM and Imagination Technologies on simulations of CPUs, GPUs, networking products and other bits of SoCs)

Yield wouldn't be that bad - ARM CPUs are small in comparison to their x86 cousins. I would expect that you would get to 32 CPUs the same way everyone else does - build a 32 core design and blow enable fuses on bad CPUs, then badge as appropriate.

To get a desktop class GPU they will need to address memory bandwidth. I am assuming they are using a tile based rendering process so memory bandwidth is less of an issue in comparison to scan line rendering (do desktop GPUs still do that?) I would assume that they are enjoying the benefits of the system level cache with the CPU and GPU sharing. I would expect there to be some careful benchmarking of increasing GPU cores, memory speed, memory size and system cache size going on at Apple.

There isn't anything stopping Apple from supporting external GPUs, but it would require a new SoC with more PCIe lanes. External buses are much more power hungry and take up space on the die. I don't have a mental model of how much space plonking a PCIe x16 interconnect would cost in terms of area or power (taking into account you need to get that data across the chip too), but my gut reaction is that it isn't likely unless there is a customer use case they can't solve on chip.
On every retrospective session we do, every other week, there is an additional column called “stars” or “heros” and we add a note each there giving praises to someone else for something they did those two weeks. We then read them all out followed by a round of applause for each one of them. It brings great positivity to the team.
Some Mongo pro please answer something to this, as without enough experience this is the biggest issue for me in my head.
Also it’s directly comparing the same topic on different sites.

A whataboutism would be if you said “Facebook doesn’t do enough to stop mean but otherwise legal thoughts I disagree with” and someone replied “Ok, but Twitter is full of propaganda bots so that is worse!”

People use “whataboutism” to deflect from perfectly valid similarities they just wish not to discuss. It’s not the argument silver bullet it is used as.
If you have a lot of meetings with external parties (it's not about scheduling between the 3 internal) a good calendar scheduling tool is worth it in my opinion. When I was a sales engineer at a software startup we probably spent 10-15 minutes per lead sorting calendar times out. Considering only 1 in 10 leads turn into sales this was 2.5-3 hours per converted lead.

By having a self service scheduling tool we already filter for the non serious people "I'm not wasting my time finding time in your calendar" and improve our lead quality while reducing the back and forth nonsense that no one enjoys.
Financiers in London are paid similar to financiers in NYC, it's not about solidarity, it's about supply and demand. And forces of supply and demand are not working in developers' favour in European countries. I myself switched from being a quant dev to a trader within a large bank (and now a fund) and the work is a lot more interesting/rewarding and better paid.
This describes me and most of the people I know. Why does the press treat "techies" like weirdos?

“You never saw anyone come and go,” Schmoldt said of Warner’s home. “Never saw him go anywhere. As far as we knew, he was kind of a computer geek that worked at home.”

Warner had placed lights and security cameras outside his house.

Warner would do a lot of work in his yard, a tall antenna is placed prominently on the side of the house, Schmoldt said. Warner built the fence around his yard himself, the neighbor recalled.

The neighbors never talked about politics or religion. Warner never gave any indication of any closely held ideology.
There's a really compelling theory that most of what's buried at Pompeii (and presented as being from the ancient eruption) is actually from the 1700s eruption.
Treating wild speculation as fact just kills credibility.

The headline is simply inaccurate. We don’t know whether Reddit banned the users because they were blind and using an accessibility app (extremely unlikely) or because they were using an accessibility app with extra-API features that may have inadvertently violated some policy or that may have taken actions that resembled those of a banned app or a spam app.
Really useful! Is there a way to set multiple HTTP codes as safe?
i've been working on and off (mostly off) on https://robigalia.org/ for five years now, and interned with the sel4 verification team. feel free to swing by freenode#robigalia if you you want to chat sel4 or trustworthy software, there's a small group collected over the years that would love to answer your questions :)
Established lines also need to be maintained and rebuilt after a while.
“I have travelled the world, and you can cherry-pick areas where the US is resoundingly better than NZ”

The entirety of NZ has a population comparable to the size of a large metro area in the US. It seems like the cherry picking is being done by you.

It’s completely meaningless to compare it to the US as if it were similar.

If you compare the US to Europe as a whole, you’ll find just as many problems, and the comparison with individual smaller states would be equally meaningless.

You’ll find this is even true with things like Covid.
I’ve been quite frustrated that both of the houses I’ve lived in in the past decade have used “communicating” systems, meaning that the products exploring this space are out of reach. HVAC professionals describe these systems “Ferraris” of thermostat control, but their remote features, API, etc are awful - I’m stuck with what I can only describe as a touch thermostat made by the lowest bidder.
I've been using updown.io for my side-projects the last 18 months and I'm very happy with the service. One comment pointed out that status monitoring is expensive - I think I've payed a grand total of $5 for these 18 months, so I don't agree at all.
I'm inclined to think the first two groups will be split more evenly (with <= 10% WFH being counted in the second group). There are plenty of people who will drift back towards "it's just easier when everyone's in the office..."
A Docker container is a lot simpler to maintain than a VM, for just about any task you care to mention.

A static binary is much better than a Docker container, I agree. Unfortunately a lot of useful apps can't or won't ship as a static binary (Java, Python, PHP apps), and Docker makes them behave much more like a static binary.
I mean, I genuinely don't care which came first. That's why I posted it. I'm not terribly interested in arguing about first causes when I've made it very clear that in my opinion first causes don't matter in this case.
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You're Wrong About episode [0] about Disco Demolition Night [1]

0: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/4815227-disco-demolition-...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night
> Beyond that, just look at the dumpsters-ful of hate speech (anti-trans memes, etc.) out of the American right wing, passing without criticism

One side is wrong and the other (your) side is right... sounds like game to me. You sure you are being genuine with this argument?

You aren’t seriously suggesting Facebook is a right wing platform are you?
Ah, yes. I stand corrected. I've mixed up the concept of preallocating an uninitialized file and a true sparse file.
To be fair, 1500 a month for the companies that would be purchasing that level of the service isn't much. They would be spending more than that on resources to maintain an internal one via servers and people hours.
Beyond customization: build tools that grow with us
I come from a country that also has a complicated relationship with its own culture, although certainly not in a context as poignant and tragic as the Irish.

My conclusion over the years is that playing defense (artificially protecting a culture through regulations) is useless in such cases. When it comes to culture, playing offense (giving people a reason to be naturally interested) is the only method to ensure that your culture or language survives and thrives. Culture is a consequence of living life rather than the reverse and languages are communication methods. If your culture or language is not actually lived, it rots or becomes a novelty or meaningless perversion of the original, like a caged bird.

The ideal solution would obviously have been for the Brits to avoid genociding the Irish and their culture in the first place, but keeping a language on life support is counter-productive in my opinion. Obviously this is a sensitive topic and this is only my personal reflection on the matter from my own experiences.
Aren't pretty much all warm blooded large land predators known to eat humans on occasion? Bears, tigers, wolves, etc. Perhaps that happens because the opportunity arises more often.
Agreed, but that’s a separate issue from whether headlines should be accurate to the facts available.
From the introduction:

We examine three major parameters:

1) the likelihood rate of abiogenesis ({\lambda}A);

2) evolutionary timescales (Tevo); and

3) probability of self-annihilation of complex life (Pann)

To my understanding:

1) Unknown.

2) Unknown outside earth.

3) Unknown.

Given the title and the problems above, I didn't read beyond the introduction as time is limited.

It sounds like an updating of the Drake equation without addressing the fundamental problems with that as an estimation tool rather than a more modest method for informing interesting speculation.
BlackRock’s list of climate commitments just got longer
I’m not mad, but I stopped using it when it became clear that Medium was just another content farm play.

Perhaps I could have more directly asked for a summary, but some very patient soul knew what I was after and replied. Thanks, internet stranger!
> Also, I've said a bunch of very non-PC things here and they don't always get downvotes.

Again, these comments end up with a large number of upvotes. HN as a whole is pretty good about that.

It's the initial downvoting that is confusing to me. Why is the voting in the first ~5 minutes so different from later voting on these types of comments?

jlokier came up with a possible explanation, but I'm not fully convinced:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543147
This is great, thanks for sharing!

Similarly, you might appreciate The Satyricon by Petronius. Civility of yore my ass! (Staying in theme)
My only complaint about the ecobee is the Alexa integration will listen when I tell my Echo Dot to play music then I’ll end up with the Dot playing Apple Music and the Ecobee playing I Heart Radio or whatever because it doesn’t support Apple Music. So two songs playing and one on a garbage thermostat speaker. I wish it could just have Alexa support but only for thermostat stuff then ignore anything else.
Because your tech solution is not NOT YOUR business - its one aspect of it, and customized solution may instead of cloud one give you higher efficiency as it is tailored specifically to your needs, plus durability as you totally control it. Cost is totally not important in that regard.

Cost of cloud solution is not comparable to cost of employee - employees build what you want, while on cloud you adapt to the solutions offered and also have to do additional cloud-related duties not relevant to your problem scope (so you payed also for the stuff you don't need).
Rates in question are the rates set by central banks, not commercial lending rates.
Once a startup starts making money, it gets judged by its conversion rates, revenue/cost per customer, and so on. As long as it isn't making money yet, wide eyed/naive/FOMOcondriac investors will imagine whatever numbers will make them feel good about the investment in the place of real sales. Colour got over $40 million series A on nothing but a pitchdeck and that was almost a decade ago. $200 million isn't that surprising ten years on.
RC Plane leveraging Magnus effect

https://youtu.be/GAqLyyg2AHk
Crazier things have happened with $0 in revenue (see: Magic Leap)
I hate old Reddit (and HN links to old Reddit) precisely for accessibility reasons.

Not sure why people are complaining about the new one so much, but it's definitely better accessibility-wise.
Well I ended up working there for 8 and a half years believe it or not. But it wasn't like that when I started. That happened around a year ago(management was entirely replaced). I'm not known for being tolerant when it comes to bs so the moment those policies started getting pushed onto my team, me along with several others decided to bail(basically the oldest dogs, and as I understand a few others are one foot out already). Frankly I don't see anything but the company going bankrupt within the next year or two. Ever since the management swap took place, the company has been in the dark red zone in terms of revenue.
From some photos I saw, they install them very close to the edges on the sides of the ship.
I loved this interview Lex Fridman had with George Hotz. He's very opinionated original thinker with the credentials to back it up. He runs comma.ai, sellers of a device that can plug into many cars and drive for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcYp-XT7UI&list=PLrAXtmErZg...
Thanks, I should have searched myself; I was pretty sure there must have been previous community pushback against Wikipedia links. I usually read New without logging in; if others commonly do the same, they may be developing the impression that ‘pedia links to popular common topics is a-ok.

Thanks for your moderation work!
This is great! Sure even github might have downtime. But keeping track of the status for small side projects this is perfect
There is even speculation that he referred to some distilled spirit in which case the color was indeed blue.
WFH while your kids are in forced-remote schooling is quite different from WFH when they're in school for 6+ hours of the workday.
> In 2018, 66% of democrats believed it was “probably true” or “definitely true” that Russia “tampered with vote tallies” to help Trump win the election.

It's worth noting that (at least with the phrasing you're giving) that does not necessarily imply a belief that Trump did not in fact win in 2016.

Also, given the amount of legitimate criticism that electronic touchscreen voting machines have gotten in the tech community for decades, I wouldn't be surprised if you'd have gotten a similar result in a poll of technology professionals & enthusiasts.
Advertising on facebook is a waste of money.
Typically happens when a child is born in the US to non-US citizens who return to their home country. Often they do not realize that simply being born in the US creates citizenship (many countries do not have birth citizenship). There have been court cases in the US when a family comes to the US on vacation and one of the parents gets arrested for failure to file tax returns - the birth happened in the US and the hospital filed the paperwork and the computers remember.

As others have mentioned, it isn't just a case of filing IRS paperwork. I know many non-US banks will refuse to do business with someone if they discover the person is a US citizen because the bank paperwork is not worth it.
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I realize that the situation is different because they were not a true startup, but Waymo was comfortably into the billions of total spending before getting even a single dollar in outside revenue (and they still have almost zero revenue). You only need to convince one or two people of an idea if they have enough cash.
China is the Modern day Nazi Germany. It's sad that so many people ignore this, especially in the tech community
Naval Ravikant on Joe Rogan. From 2019, but without doubt the best podcast I listened this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44
You sound like you missed the part where Trump/GOP waited until before the election to be ok with literally buying votes
No not in this version. When would that occur?
Windows CE as an OS has lot of peculiarities. For essentially single-tasking game console most of them are probably irrelevant, but on the other hand these peculiarities would probably make straight port of typical DirectX game from desktop windows an interesting endeavor.
Actually I think the only large warm blooded predator that hunts humans actively is a polar bear. Maybe also leopards? Could be wrong. I think other large mammals typically do it when they're old, infirm, stressed, or otherwise unable to hunt normally.
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It's been covered by western media
I have a variety of hobbies. Maybe to many. I like to rotate hobbies to keep things interesting. My hobbies usually interest and complement each other in various ways.

- Film photography. Photography is probably the first hobby I picked up. I have a variety of older film cameras in 35mm and medium format. Planning to convert an extra room in my basement into a darkroom in the near future.

- Blogging. I have been running my blog for a few years now. Most of my post are long form on technical subjects that interest me. I don't post often though. Maybe once a month or less.

- Game dev. I picked up Godot about two years ago. I've been working on and off on a simulated life game since October. I spent this week redoing the UI and adding more features to the game.

- Arduino. I tinker with Arduino dev boards. Lately I picked up Forth and have been teaching myself how to program the ATMega328 with FlashForth.

- Weightlifting. I suppose you could call this a hobby too. Working from home has allowed me to replace my commute time with lifting and I'm very thankful for it.

- Mushroom identification. For anyone interested I recommend the books "All that the Rain Brings and More" as well as "Mushrooms Demystified" by David Arora.

- Journaling. I like to organize my thoughts in a notebook on a regular basis. This hobby is probably the genesis of my other hobbies as I usually develop what I want to do with pen and paper first.
Agreed, I think it's perfectly normal as long as you don't think you're actually talking to someone (or hearing someone).

I'll pace around talking to myself when prepping for a meeting - it's basically practice for the topics I know we'll be discussing. I even practice responses to what I anticipate their likely responses will be.

It really helps because verbalizing something makes you think more deeply about how to communicate the idea or concept and will sometimes reveal gaps in your understanding or will reveal that you understand it but need to find a good way to concisely convey it to someone else who may not have the same level of expertise.
If you go to that Linear one’s site on an iPhone and zoom in really fast on their image of the todo list client, it immediately restarts your phone.
Because a 30 minute transfer time, or $1 fee means you can’t do small and fast transactions (which are the vast majority of transactions for a traditional currency).

This means Bitcoin is simply not a good currency for most transactions.
The market positioning is different; remember that the first McDonalds to open in the USSR had queues round the block. Those staff probably weren't born when the USSR existed. But the value of American coolness still remains. As does the value of "keeping up appearances" in public.
Which is a manual process and because it is one it leaves many systems unprotected.
Thanks for the summary. I deleted my Medium account because I kept getting sucked into Medium.
> The jobs I enjoyed the most were in trendy parts of towns.

Same here. In a way, location can be thought of to be one of the most concrete parts of office culture. In NYC, where I've spent a lot of my work life, it's amazing how much of a proxy office location was for founder style. For some founders, a chic location wasn't prioritized or seen as ROI positive. For others, it was the exact opposite.

All I can say is that for the former category, the value-add generally far outweighed the outlay for a very crucial and formative period of its life. At a certain size, logistical concerns like price per square foot and available commercial inventory become a lot more pressing concerns.
He was a loner tech type and had the exact kind of RV that exploded.

Do we know it was actually him? Or are the police just trying to get the case solved through some obvious/easy leads.
I would pay good money to get access to the API my communicating thermostat uses - the Trane device is terrible in many ways that basic software updates could fix
Heart Attack Survival Strongly Linked to Socioeconomic Background
Ah good, it's not just me haha
Even if you don't accidentally ruin relationships, you might ruin the good behavior alongside the bad. I'm a big fan of a feedback system I've heard called "stop start continue." Stopping these bad behaviors, and starting these good behaviors are in the same vein of fixing bad things.

But continuing these existing good behaviors is really important too. If you tell people what not to change, then they won't accidentally change the good stuff in their efforts to fix orthogonal things.
Why not turn off Alexa all together on the stat and have the regular Alexa control it through the integration?
Because it’s incredibly slow, buggy and loaded with trackers and pop ups.
This is about the Sega Saturn, not the Dreamcast.
Putting aside whether there’s a correlation, forums develop their own unique cultures—a product of the moderation system, unspoken norms, and the specific individuals who comment there. A different forum might be discussing the exact same articles in a very different way.
Workarounds are usually just a symptoms of an institutional issue - broken tooling, missing functionality, bad UI...I'd be surprised if people wouldn't use a proper solution if it were available, especially considering the hoops they are willing to jump to do it wrong