skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Various stakeholders actually participate in standardization efforts and thus also both already know the standard and are able to push it through.

And this is exactly the perverse conflict of interest. In those cases, the authors have no interest in actually attracting independent implementations that adopt the specification. The specification is a formality to bolster the credibility of their product or technology. The authors don't want some outside team to read this and actually build something on their own; they want that team to buy their [chip/component/patent license/product/service] that implements this.

It's not a solo endeavor. The coauthors and stakeholders tend to be complicit in this game, often as peers in the oligopoly.

When a spec author actually wants their specification to be independently implemented, you can tell. They don't make it exclusively for purchase in the dusty basement of the bureaucracy superstore. They put out guides, conformance tests, reference implementations, examples, and tooling.

And those materials often do exist for ISO standards... but as expensive, proprietary kits from one of the spec authors, only available to customers who buy their [chip/component/patent license/product/service]. That's part of the business plan. Why write a clear spec and give it away for free when you could be selling one of the only conformant implementations of your Public Standard™?
Uh the media... I mean he's everywhere being interviewed constantly on what his opinion is on everything. This obviously promotes the idea (right or wrong) that he has some idea of what he's talking about.
As most grocery stores aren't open 24 hours there is plenty of opportunity for people to break into grocery stores with no one in them and steal but that isn't a common enough issue to worry about.
>why can't I easily make a shortcut in ubuntu?

Blame GNOME 3. After a decade it's still lacking polish everywhere. The day Canonical decided to drop the ball on Unity was a sad day.
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It's "obvious" if you take into account the corporate culture I guess. The rule of 'no magic numbers' is generally good, but then one has to remember that some numbers (like 0 and 1) are not magic.
I've been doing vfx for 20+ years. So...

- watch a movie :

2020 Upside Down Magic

2017 The Fate of the Furious (visual effects artist)

2015 San Andreas

2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron

2013 R.I.P.D.

2011 Happy Feet Two

2011 Mars Needs Moms

2009 A Christmas Carol

2008 The Tale of Despereaux

2007 Enchanted

2006 The Shaggy Dog

2005 Constantine

2004 Hellboy

2003 The Matrix Revolutions

2001 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

- or a more recent TV show:

Another Life

Gabby and the Unsittables

Charmed

There's certainly other things I've worked on, but they're lost down the memory hole for good.
This is delightful! What a cool interface.
Hint: ask anyone that lives overseas. Australia, Britain, France... anywhere without a Strong public housing subsidy:

This problem is Global, because our markets are global. The banks flipping houses for profit without so much as touching the keys? Compete with home owners to treat homes as an 'investment' of a 'commodity'.

In the US, there were 7 empty homes for each homeless person before the pandemic.

Less than 3% of the stock market now serves the actual economy of production. Might this be the culprit?
One QOL consideration: consider allowing the last placed piece to be moved in one click. That is, if you click while "at capacity" the last placed piece gets removed and placed where you click.
the cheese counter staff at whole foods are usually pretty knowledgeable (more so than me anyway).

but even at a lower end store, the people that work there aren't idiots. they might not be able to tell you what cheese would go well with a california syrah, but they can probably recommend a good blend for homemade mac and cheese.
I don't want every piece of software I use to be a science project. I will pay for quality, feature-rich software.
> In particular, don't put "close this window" on control-W and "quit this application" on control-Q. I'm looking at you, Firefox.

I feel like on a Mac this is just about every single application. I actually thought this was an OS level shortcut and not something implemented by the applications themselves. Maybe it's offered out of the box but can be overridden? I'm not an Mac app dev so not sure how that all works.

I have accidentally hit the command-Q instead of command-W and it is very frustrating. I appreciate those apps that ask you to confirm quitting.
>I never experienced that "Unexpected item in bagging area" here in Sweden, the UX failures are not universal.

the automated føtex near my house has this, or also put your item in the bag, you need to put an item in the bag etc. crash because you didn't put item in bag fast enough, or you took bag off scale to put new one on.

>the UX failures are not universal.

yes, because they do not have a universal interface which a human checker provides. By using a machine you switch from having one well understood, pretty standardized ui paradigm: put stuff on track, tracks goes to checker, checker checks them through, you pay and bag your stuff - to having as many ux as there are companies implementing automatic checkout machines and however many versions of their workflow are in distribution.

The UX failures for a self-service checkout are unique and unfamiliar to the user, just like the ux failures of a new checkout flow on an online retailer.
> Assuming it will be safe to go on cruises in the future...

Why wouldn’t it be?
> I'm teaching my kids, insurance companies stopped giving any discount for drivers ed.

What's not clear is the difficulty of the test. Class based training, I'm not a fan. Only 6 hours of actual driving seems very minimal. Learning through another: they'll likely pick up bad habits.

> They have friends who took classes and still failed the exam multiple times.

That's good. Here it's a practical exam that often takes various tried to get. Plus theoretical one. It includes loads of things. Not just knowledge, but also e.g. judgement about safety. So in case something is unsafe the answer isn't "yes, it is legal", but more of a "there's a hazard".

From my perspective it's more difficult to unlearn a bad habit than to leach it properly (and immediately address something) right from the start. And it's great that some are good drivers, but I'm more concerned with the amount of bad drivers passing their "skill" to someone else.
I just noticed it for the first time. And you can spin the globe and mouse over the missile tracks to show what activity is going on. Quite neat.
Clear answer. Do you mind sharing why? As an example, is there any difference to you betwen Manhood Ritual and hazing, or do you consider it to be the same?
I'm a distributed systems engineer with 20 years exp currently replacing a ten year old feature with something that looks exactly the same.

Why is a dev earning 200k/year working on CSS and JS something a grad on 60k/year could easily do?

Who knows. This industry is fucked.
Yes. I suppose it’s the same with installable software. But it sells anyway.
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And that way lies large corporate Agile. All work becomes crap, because you can no longer tell the difference between good people encumbered by bureacracy and crap people using the bureaucracy as an excuse.

My experience is to manage people effectively, and apply just enough process for each person and job.
When I first heard that glass blowers called the unwanted top of a blown object the moil [1], I laughed and laughed.

Why:

A mohel ... is a Jew trained in the practice of brit milah, the "covenant of circumcision."[2]

[1] https://www.cmog.org/glass-dictionary/moil

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohel
When formulating the rule, they didn't understand the point of it. They think "naked constants === bad" is equivalent to "no numbers in source".

Which, of course, is wrong. They're not the same. Same bastardization happened to Hungarian Notation, IIRC. It was meant to add some information to variables, like `iterN` for a counter, or `lenX` for a length, but someone somewhere decided that you were meant to prefix with the most primitive of type info, so you get stupid shit like `intN` and `intX`, and aren't much more informed. (Especially with an IDE showing the type info)
Why not embrace the healing power of a project that can be deployed as a service AND a library?
Or that the government could subsidize these jobs if they have positive output not captured by the businesses.
After 50 years of a rising tide failing to float most boats in the US, "putting up with it just fine" wouldn't be my take on the issue.
This one is close to my heart. I have the impression here that the fish farm vector is being grossly understated. The research didn’t really leave much of a mystery at all; the data was alarmingly clear, but the federal leader at the time was quite notorious for muzzling scientists and he did just that. Especially when it came to the environment.

Further, we have evidence now that hatcheries impede salmon genetics severely enough to a) make them more vulnerable to disease and b) make them less adept at navigating their spawning waters, which can vary considerably. Hatcheries are an established institution though, just like salmon farms are, and they aren’t going anywhere soon. It’ll require irrefutable evidence to get anyone at DFO to lift a finger. I’m also unsure of Miller-Saunders is focused on this matter at all, hence it’s not mentioned here.

The final glaring issue is that our rivers are warming dramatically, water levels much lower by summer, and oxygen content is way, way too low. Disease levels increase and spawning tributaries all along the rivers virtually disappear.

One can subscribe to the weekly emails from DFO which outline regulation and conditions around the spawning runs throughout summer, and the historical data right in those emails regarding water quality of our major rivers is very alarming.

We know that widespread deforestation has contributed to more flood and dry patterns throughout our watersheds. With less established forests to retain water and earlier/faster thaws, we get water dumping out of the watershed way too fast in spring, leaving too little by late summer.

The salmon are sometimes saved by a single rainy week in summer, otherwise trapped by low water levels. It’s common to come across areas of the river where the fish were severely bottlenecked and there are absurd numbers of dead fish in single locations. It’s normal to see a LOT of dead fish, but in these cases it’s considerably higher numbers. They simply couldn’t go anywhere.

These factors alone are huge. I’m not sure Miller-Saunders considers it a mystery, but I can’t speak for her. I do know she felt very, very strongly about her research around the farms and she pushed hard to get DFO to pay attention. She knew it was highly relevant.
“The best process” makes it sound more mechanical than you probably intend. I think you mean: “focus on propagating tools and habits which raise the quality of design conversations”

> mandate

The problem with mandatory processes is that people don’t take responsibility for the outcome of a process over which they have no power. Processes should be tools people can pick up to improve clarity.
Your bravery with LaTex inspires me to take my writings and self-publish.

I'm afraid to read your books because your bravery may inspire me to road trip to Africa.
Here's an excerpt from the article:

"Since the 9/11 attacks in the United States in 2001, the tribal areas are a major theatre of militancy and terrorism. Pakistan Army launched 10 operations against the Taliban since 2001, most recently Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan. The operations have displaced about two million people from the tribal areas, as schools, hospitals, and homes have been destroyed in the war.[1]"

[edit]

A quick internet search also suggest a number of other articles in other areas:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22autonomous+region%22+violent+ex...
Hey! Great idea... It's a big pain to label properly but is there something extra from something like labelbox.com?
New (covid) world order
> I wouldn't trust a computer to recommend a cheese to with a certain kind of crackers.

I mean, anyone who likes cheese just a little bit would never ever recommend you crackers with it ;-)
This distinction seems somewhat meaningless in practice. Are you going to audit every line of every extension you install, assuming it's all local code? And are you going to do this again every time it's (automatically) updated?
A big caveat to this study is that, in the reconstructed simulations, once the self-driving car (SDC) deviates from what the human-driven car did, the behavior of all other agents becomes unrealistic. Often in these sims, instead of reacting to the new SDC trajectory, they replay their original behavior.

Ideally, once the SDC deviates, all other agents are simulated as well. A tall order, but necessary if these counterfactuals are to hold weight.
You may take a look at Fluence's ideas on that https://fluence.network

It basically allows you to share your code to others in exchange for a fee. If someone builds an app or service that uses your library, and it is paid within Fluence, you will receive a fee. This works transitively.
I would agree it’s not necessarily obvious, but the solutions to use all food transported are local, and consistent traits that cause produce to degrade over, over time, identified earlier so those pieces can be diverted to byproducts more cheaply. Additionally, there’s that hands-on produce sells better which achieves public health goals and arguably reduces consumption of more environmentally damaging foods. There are multiple layers of misleading intuition to consider.
yeah, i don't love my discretionary/essential breakdown there.
it's more about the combo of essential + non-exchangeability -- you need a car but there are a lot of options, but when you need a hospital there's usually one best place. (and education is non-exchangeable due to competitiveness).

the other big correlate is just goods vs services (even textbooks are service-like due to editions). I am not an economist but I'm really curious whether rapid depreciation caused by planned obsolescence of e.g. consumer electronics is causing a poor measurement of price trends in that area. Today's iPhone will cost much less next year, but the cost of maintaining a cutting-edge smart phone keeps going up.
Update turns Harman Kardon Invoke Cortana speaker into dumb Bluetooth speaker
You're describing me and my ''kind'' of programmers very well.

I try to make myself interested in your problems. However, most of them seem really ''otherworldy'' to me or are in a domain I don't care about about. I became a programmer because I like the art of the trade, and I keep myself interested by writing interesting code.
Why was the website taken down?
> you're required to spend a significant (fixed minimum) amount of time driving with a parent or guardian in the passenger seat.

That seems pretty unsafe from my viewpoint. Just because you can drive doesn't mean you can teach/instruct. I think people here generally do 20 hours of driving with a licensed instructor. There's no minimum I think, it's just that the (practical) exam is expensive so people only do the exam when you think you're good to go. Licensed instructors are also rated on the how often someone successfully passes an exam.
It's worth noting that the implementation of ripgrep has been split up into a whole bunch of modular components. So it wouldn't be out of the question for someone to piece those together into a GNU-compatible grep implementation.
Why would you want to block ads on your desktop browser but allow them on mobile?
Or aquariumlearning.com
Banksy art burned, destroyed and sold as token in 'money-making stunt'
There are plenty of people who are afraid of driving. They might be self driving car audience, if self driving cars would not require driver license.
Great, when does the spaceship launch?
Certainly not, but it's worth thinking about how developers will get paid to create and maintain useful systems.
> A service has constant administration costs which are paid by the service provider. A properly designed library instead moves these costs to the users of the library.

I agree with the articles point, but this introduction, right there, is why it's not happening. SaaS turns your startup into a unicorn and yourself into a rich person. Or at least that's what you are hoping/aiming for. A library is not going to make you a billionaire. Sad but reality.
Am I the only one who finds this article extremely odd and suspicious?

I'd never heard of this concept of "kóryos" before, and even though the article is extensively referenced, there are somehow no references in the first paragraph introducing the subject matter nor a section regarding when this supposed idea was introduced into historical research or how it developed.

Then, what makes this article much more suspicious in my view, is that it was essentially written fully from scratch in one revision by a single user less than a year ago [0]. And following this, a huge red flag is that a significant number of the very few internal links [1] to this page were only added by the very user that first wrote this page [2-5].

I'm sorry, I really hope that (best case scenario) this is a legitimate concept, and the page was created by someone who happens to be doing a PhD on the subject—though in that case it reeks of violating the "no original research rule" of Wikipedia. In the worst case scenario, this is either a personal fantasy of the author or something being spread with some ulterior motive.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K%C3%B3ryos&oldid...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinks...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fianna&type=revis...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maruts&type=revis...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crypteia&type=rev...

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ephebos&type=revi...
machines may not make mistakes, but the people who program them do. I just bought a guitar for $50 under the going rate because the in store pricetag was lower than the company's own online price. the system had lost track of the guitar entirely, so they had no way of knowing they needed to update the local price. by policy, they had to pricematch themselves. the associate told me this happens all the time.
Very good point! Due to the relaxing of rules around outside crowds and sports, I have good hope they will remove or at least extend the curfew past 9PM.
That expectation was there because of a photograph of the employee. The expectation was violated because the employee spent some time in Egypt and acquired a tan in the process. Nothing to do with racism.
They should try human drivers in a simulator. You would have to be careful not to signal when the accident was about to happen, because accidents in real life are very uncommon.

You could estimate how avoidable an accident was by the percentage of human drivers in the simulated "responder" vehicle that avoided it.

Maybe some accidents are easily avoided by humans because the real responder driver was distracted. I'm not impressed if Waymo driver can also avoid these.

But some accidents may be very difficult to avoid for humans. If Waymo driver can perform better in these cases then it's truly remarkable.
That the code was edited more than once on its lifetime, and in one of those times (not the last one), by someone with pretty bad naming habits.
Catching a bunch of bugs at compile time without having to write tests for them is real nice
Indeed but what's the purpose of that. The SMTP server knows the IP address anyway and can DNS lookup if needed. The one chatting with server can say hello followed by any arbitrary string
A decent place to get information is a subreddit r/floxies.
There isn't any treatments yet, however, magnesium seems to be a supplement that helps a lot of people. Check out the subreddit.
Will Volvo directors go to jail if Volvo car would kill someone? I don't think so. That's not a responsibility.
After reading r/talesfromtechsupport for a while, it's apparent that there are quite a few people who are too stupid to understand a file hierarchy.
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> There is growing awareness that this service should not be run by private companies/banks.

I don't agree. I'm a Swede too (as I assume you are), and I have basically never heard anyone complain of BankID being owned by the banks. I am really happy that our government does not own BankID, since they suck badly at developing software.
The point of composite is they the dithering isn't visible on a proper monitor, because compositing creates an antialiasing effect.
They aren't making money with forex trading, they are making money with their pyramid scheme. You sign up for their class, and pay $50 for a membership, and then each person with the membership turns around and sells it to more people. Pretty disgusting. IM academy is at least one version of this.

How does the article not call this out? It even says

Just how much of that is paid for by trading profits is unclear, and influencers usually make their money by selling private courses or learning materials or by offering premium access to trading tips for a fee. Others work on commission and are paid by brokers each time one of their followers opens an account. And in some places, the lure of forex trading is simply that it offers the possibility of a regular income.

Classic pyramid scheme. It works great in poor countries since people aren't as educated, and are more vulnerable to get rich quick schemes. Same reason MLM's in the US target immigrants.
I never did sports with masks, but yesterday I read the other comments and many pointed out that you should wear one or something similar to heat up and moisturize your breath.

Well, I tried it by going for an evening run yesterday at -2°C and it was amazing! No coughs, no stinging in my chest only a running nose.
Last November I had problems to breath after my evening runs because it hurt so much and I quit because of this!
You may want to brush up on the concept of 'service' before you start a business selling to the public
I think you may have read a specific bit of that posters sentence and taken it as a direct attack and not the fact that you are 100% in agreement with them.

They are saying that with the way society is moving forward, if you do not own a smartphone you are not considered "normal". We have the ADA in the USA for this reason, so that all aspects of society are accessible.

There is nothing currently that prevents you being excluded if you do not have a smartphone and are therefore not considered "normal".
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True, but then you have the occasional headscratcher that the command behaves differently in your script than when you run it manually.
You'd be surprised how useful local butchers are at big chains. They really know their stuff and have been able to sort out cuts for me, even are happy to slice up some cheap big beef cuts into stir fry, they can make special orders of sausage, etc.

Same goes for the bakery, I stand by my local ACME bakery being the easiest and very tasty birthday cake around, even above mom and pop shops.
I've been saying this exact thing about the copy and paste shortcuts for years. If I had a dollar for every time I copied the thing I was trying to paste over, I could afford to crusade against this injustice.
Probably already exists on Amazon
> "I was tricked by an internet scammer posing as a hedge fund manager in Manhattan,” Wellington Mafuta recalls, dusting the clogged vent of a Wi-Fi router. “In reality, they were a thief in Mombasa, Kenya."

I've seen lots of Nigerian scams, but I didn't know they went both ways!