skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
9 out of 10 times it's not the developers failing to deliver, but the management failing to provide a good plan and making bad decisions. I suggest that if you're only given the nebulous goals of better quality and less downtime, you're going to fail. You need specific goals, like in terms of specific features, that the business wants, then you figure out a plan to achieve those features based on your tech stack and code base within maybe 4 months, and if there are too many features to do that, you push back.

That 4 months of features will give you 6 months of work. Then, just ensure you're testing things in a staging env and that you have good ci so that you don't get production downtime.

Honestly, though, if they haven't thought of this stuff before and haven't talked to you about this, then it sounds like they're just putting you in s position to fail. You shouldn't have to come to hacker news to get help, and when a department is in dire straights you don't put a developer with no management experience in place, you either pay double to hire an awesome manager right away, or a vp or department head should go down and take over for a while to get it into shape.

You should look for new jobs over the next 6 months maybe, too. Just in case.
Diffraction gratings made optical laser disc media possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_grating#Examples

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cd.htm

http://physics.randolphcollege.edu/lab/106_116lab/Laser/CD.h...
The argument against texting, for me at least, is that it’s more intrusive (constant interruptions for unimportant things) and interactions end up being less and less meaningful.
I went to an optician for a routine eye test, and they detected something severely wrong with the appearance of my retina and called an ambulance thinking I had a brain aneurysm.

Several hours and CT scans later, I was informed my brain was fine and I just have a strange retina, and will need annual follow up.

I've been sent a letter every year since, inviting me back to the hospital, and every year they tell me it's still fine.

So far I've paid £25 for the eye test (which I completed at a later date!) as I do not get my eye-tests subsidied by the NHS. However my employer reimbursed me for that too...
It's just a platform and for now we can put things like this on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3SDNrxe-1M
How far does it go? Invade other countries to spread democracy and rule of law?

And how much privacy do you violate to stop bad actors? You're okay with AML laws, which are a form of warrantless financial mass-surveillance, so how about wiretapping all communications as well?

How about prohibiting end-to-end-encryption, and public access to strong cryptography? As money becomes wholly digital, you will need warrantless mass-surveillance of all communication to maintain warrantless mass-surveillance of all financial transactions.
I have three Raspberry Pi computers. The third, a Pi Zero came in the mail today. So I'm sold on the strong points of the system.

My point wasn't about the laptop having Windows, just that there was a "Windows tax" on the inexpensive laptop and it still offered a better price / performance value. I bought a laptop a couple of years ago for $250. It has a display, two kinds of USB ports, HDMI, Ethernet, a keyboard, trackpad and a battery. I'm sure I could run Linux on it if I needed to. It's not fast, but it's faster than any tricked out Raspberry Pi.

If we envision the Raspberry Pi as a learning tool, it's almost too good. It's really too powerful and too complex. As a general purpose computer it still falls short of what I consider a good use of my free time. Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic that there is such a wide market for add-ons for the Pi, for an aftermarket of small players with neat ideas. I have to pry myself away from the sites where they sell this stuff. But this project is just a little too expensive to make it worthwhile for me. I'd like to see a Pi+M2 kit for $100, which likely there will be in time.
sigh In one ear, out the other.
Do you have a few links to share? Pretty sure you triggered quite a few folk here! Loving the idea of a TV dumbification movement
No, you’re right.

Capitalism makes this a really difficult problem, even if we’re just doing hypothetical scenarios.
Do companies that do dangerous stuff need to pay additional taxes for fire protection?
Most laws are fairly ambiguous. Jurisprudence and intent play a big role in the justice system, it works to protect people from wrongdoing and not as a strict logical set of rules.

Being filmed in public, having your data handed to third-parties, facial recognition and mass surveillance are precisely some of the issues the GDPR has addressed, and it has already had massive impact; especially on tech companies (I’ve seen it firsthand). You talk about burdens but maybe you’re just angry you wasted money on a consultant? I honestly haven’t seen the bad side of it.
>Moving to POS allows ETH to scale transaction processing where BTC cannot.

proof of stake vs proof of work is totally orthogonal to transaction processing volume.
Why not pay someone else to change the battery? The guy in the AAA truck who replaced mine also diagnosed it was bad in the first place, brought the new one, and took the old one away. I wasn't going to do any of that stuff.
A picture’s worth a thousand words
excluding lost keys, there's close to a trillion in personal incentives for the invested to solve bitcoin's problems, Paul Keating used to say 'always back self-interest — at least you know it's trying'.

Even if POS doesn't replace POW, I'm curious whether the combination of POS and game theory does, in that breaking POS becomes incredibly expensive, because breaking the system would destroy the value of the stake.
xterm.js might help too.

Now I want something more. I want to be able to run localhost.run locally and give someone else an internet URL to connect to my local xterm, or to my local X display (vnc?). I want them to see my text editor and type stuff in it.
Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (persisted volume) – finestructure
This is where the cool kids hang out- at this concert in Funland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tk5REKdZso
Given the parallel you draw at the end, perhaps future models will adopt some kind of common phrase to denote thinking, such as ‘Umm’, ‘er’, etc. Maybe there’s even a neurologically concise explanation for why humans do that!
I feel like big government types who like lots of regulation probably don’t see the inability to use binance as a loss.
Thanks, I thought this was about the cross breeding that the American Chestnut Foundation has done for decades, but they are now advocating a mixed approach with GE as well.
> the different window managers can choose to implement it just one way. They don't have to do it N different ways,

Not holding my breath. Just because you have a standard doesn't mean all implementations behave the same. In fact, they usually don't, which is the problem.

> but what you are saying isn't really a problem

Thank you for proving my point about being in a position where you don't have to suffer the consequences of your bad architectural decisions.
Hundreds of Covid cases reported at Tesla plant following Musk’s reopening
No disrespect, but you have probably not implemented or tried to transition a network running on IPv4 to either dual stack or IPv6 native internally. Even the big players like AWS / GCP etc struggled with this.
L.A. Teacher's Union Facebook Group Warns Teachers to Not Post Vacation Pics
You are absolutely correct. Healthcare drives towards monopoly for the very reasons you describe.
I didn't look too closely at the code, but have written a toy browser in just this way.

The problem is that QT on targets rarely gets updated, at least not as fast as Chromium.

I had the misfortune of targeting old RHEL systems, whose QT was missing a lot of what I needed.

So then you get into the game of compiling QT yourself, and in my case having to compile python as well, etc. It turns into a real mess.

I imagine modern desktop systems are a bit better today, but am curious how the author solves that(if at all).

Something like Docker existing at the time probably would have been a huge help.
next gen browser for hackers who can handle a learning curve. The-Compiler is my hero.
On the scale of millennia, I wouldn't be too worried; disasters happen to any storage medium, and even our knowledge of Greek and Roman society today comes from surprisingly few sources. I think the bigger concern is the near-term effect of something like an EMP event, the digital library of papyruses burning down.
The sound on the DS Lite is really good too even compared with the 2DS and 3DS. If you hold it at the right distance you can get a really nice stereo surround effect.
None of this stuff is real unless you can pass an ABX test. I doubt it's real just reading it.

ATRAC is not optimized for anything that other codecs aren't (and technologically it's quite bad, especially compared to Opus but even compared to AAC). And there aren't magically better DACs any more than there are better power cables; they're all good enough as long as they're electrically compliant with your headphones.
Yes, that solves one of the problems, but it doesn't solve the problem where I want to prevent my process from binding to any other port than (say) specifically port 200.
TIL that I’m a social media hipster. And here I was thinking that I never got a Facebook, Instagram, etc. account because I am an old fart.
The reason we have very expensive consumer DACs is that there are a lot of retired people who listen to music all day and have nothing better to spend money on.

48khz vs 44.1khz has the same sound quality in the human-audible range (maybe not if you're a dog); the actual reason DVD is 48khz instead of 44.1 is that it syncs up with 24fps frame rates better.
How qute :) alternative browsers are awesome.
Anyone else laughing at the irony of this being written on Medium.com?
I want to know more about the book than what the page shows. It might help if the page shows in larger fonts what "We will look at", and maybe a teaser example as code.
True, though SQL isn't much of a standard anyway. I literally don't know of a single SQL database that implements the SQL standard to spec with no fiddling. Or more precisely, the vast majority of SQL databases out of the box behave differently, so anything more complex than a basically SELECT + JOIN generally isn't very cross-compatible.
Why stop at 20 tablets? Why not 40 or 100? My point is that you are far overstating the cost by creating an impression that one must take ivermectin repeatedly.

One doesn't need to take ivermectin every day or even every week: a single dose persists in the body for 3-12 months.

Anyone can buy more than 20 doses of ivermectin for less than $20.
There are payment models like this in use already. Look into capitation and accountable care organizations.
Or if the string contains a C, a subsequent character can't be an R?

Doesn't it really just mean a string can't contain a C followed by an R?
You ever hear of SimB2B?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP0B3e49U3g
You are correct fine onion- This is youtube in 2084 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3fOdorpCQ

Great sarcasm by the way- its going to inspire generations of smart asses with the smooth chill it was written with. Snarky and effortless.

Its like they were so confident in their sarcastic wit they had to include the parenthetical phrase- oh wait that was added out of fear of being misunderstood by the faceless crowd- quite the brave figure.

Build a 4k video platform and we'll use yours.
Actually, here's an online ABX blind test set with several modern codecs at high bitrates, as well as the bad old mp3 garbage that ruined the reputation of lossy compression.

I really challenge you to reliably detect the lossy sample in the tests for Apple iTunes AAC ~256 kbps and Spotify high quality. http://abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html
What about the moms of the people who bought drugs from the people that sold them on "his website"?

fandroid is a voice of the irrelevant community of pg's buttlickers until then.
(2017)

There was a large discussion (948 points, 267 comments) at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421608
Indeed. I thought that the future suddenly got more evenly distributed
It's a little different with proof of stake. If there's a minority group that holds a large stake that "attacks" the blockchain against the majority's wishes, the majority group can decide to roll back and blacklist the minority group. It's much more difficult to blacklist hash power in this same way.
I dig around on the site a little, but did not find information about how one becomes a “steward.”

Sounds like a fun project and I’d be happy to share some of this Texas sun.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but extractions can be cheaper and more effective than root canals, fillings, and crowns.

If you have a tooth with only 2 roots and one of them cracks, then it's better to just remove the tooth. Besides chronic infection that can hemorrhage, it will have to be extracted within 5 years anyway.

With 3 roots and only one cracked, sometimes dental surgeons can do something.

Also, the comment about dental x-rays being a profit center are clearly true. In SV, it's like they put you on a calendar for them, and they're usually done before an exam.
Ulbricht was not a drug kingpin himself, but rather he created a marketplace for drug kingpins, right?

Also it may be beneficial to judge a person's technical capabilities separate from that person's ethics--both good and shitty people have cool tech ideas.
> you decide your political beliefs, and reactions to those decisions inform whether or not you continue to hold them

That's a really odd take. Throughout history, many of people have been prosecuted for what in retrospect many would agree are correct beliefs (eg: abolitionists, suffragists, believes in evolution, etc.)

Do you not feel sympathy for these people, who according to you could have just avoided all their troubles by changing their beliefs? Do you not understand how incredibly vulnerable AND critically important a minority belief could be?
I recommend stopping after one or two posts, because he uses the same jokes every time and you should let yourself forget them so you don't notice.
Could use none. Low because if something changes elsewhere and we inadvertently start using RSA by accident, for example. But yeah if it’s not med/high it’s not necessary to fix. Maybe some mitigation where appropriate.
This is why I stay on HN. This is such a niche, interesting subject that I never would have found otherwise.

I’ve been looking for networking resource that go in depth on things like this, rather than just configuring and setting up equipment. Does anyone know anything like this? I’m especially interested in ones for telecommunications networking technology.
That press in literally in a tent on a parking lot. There’s lots of things that are missing, from what would be considered normal operating conditions for equipment like that.

Silicon Valley spirit of move fast and break things is still strong with them.
Vitalik is trying to fork ETH and create a new coin that is POS. The miners are trying to keep it from forking.
Martha Stewart got done for felony tax evasion, I still read her recipes from time to time.

People typically don't consider white collar crimes to be a big deal. (Drug trafficking isn't normally white collar, but in Ulbricht's case it was pretty white collar. Uber, but for drugs?)
On the flipside, does anyone know if there's any caveats to "recycling" a laptop's motherboard? I've got a laptop that has awful thermals but decent hardware. One of the fans is dead, and I've attempted to replace it but I guess the header itself is busted.* The processor and GPU are just wasted in there as they throttle hard on basic workloads. So, I've been meaning to rip the board out and make an HTPC out of it. I'm not too experienced with electronics to know if there's any issues I could run into, so I've been holding off on it. I would love to see if anyone else has done something like that.

* Unfortunately, it possible that my attempt to fix a dead fan is what busted the header. I'm not sure because the previous fan was dead and the new fan I put in didn't spin, but that's part of why I don't feel comfortable just winging it.
But then, in the plus column: 1) In 50 years, the formalists got really good at formalism; 2) 50 years of paychecks.
Those are nitpicks. The capacity (450x) and speed jumps (20% more at just 1X, to 7 MiB/s at 48X) from floppies to CDs was enormous. Vinyl doesn't have ECC, while most kinds of CD tracks do.

CD-R was partially muti-use if not closed and adding another session.

I never had a CD stand-alone player or computer CD writer or player wear-out. Sony Discman and Plextor burners. I was doing daily, multi-disc (9-10) backups to media and never had a problem. You must've been using cheap drives or unbalanced media at too high of a speed.
https://ditchblockfi.com/
Add cost to post the prediction. At high enough cost it can't be gamed.

edit: and it's also your revenue.
Show HN: A Terminal Tetris Game
I wanted to share my attempt at implementing the classic tetris game. It works in the terminal and uses the ncurses-rs bindings for the UI part. For me, the coolest part about it is that the tetrominos and their rotations are encoded as 16-bit unsigned integers. For example, to represent a square, we want 51! Why 51? Because 51 decimal is `0b0000000000110011`. We can make 4x4 Vec from that, and we get:

```
[[0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 0, 0],
[0, 0, 1, 1],
[0, 0, 1, 1]]
```

Notice how the 1s form a square?

As I'm still learning Rust, any suggestions regarding the architecture, overall design of the game, more idiomatic code, etc., are very welcome.

If you want to play or just see how it turned out, check out:

https://github.com/adder46/tetris.rs
Oooh, I was stuck because I was insisting on `.(1)(2)(3)(4)\4\3\2\1.` having the middle eight characters mirror each other, which results in a clear contradiction with a few of the crosses.

Thanks for posting the answers. I think I'm done working on it for now, but that one was really bothering me.
More likely the one person would hire some people to convince the rest that it in their best interests that all money belong to the one person or even more likely to provide to the people some distraction, destroy the notion of the facts, so they wouldn't even know to ask inconvenient questions.
Hollywood bigwigs shower praise on creators of Minn. bowling alley drone video
Once again, the HN community has greyed a plainly stated fact. This community is not curious or interested in facts, it's reflecting the same culture war bullshit that Slashdot descended into.
(Astrophysist here). This is complete BS. (I can't comment on the theoretical aspects of gravitomagnetism, not my area of expertise) but the data part is a joke. They "fitted" the rotation curves of three galaxies with their very obscure model with a bunch of parameters. What does it prove -- nothing. Plus, if I understand their model correctly, their model will not work for systems without any rotation, i.e. dwarf spheroidals galaxies which do not rotate, but still have ~ 1000 more dark matter than visible matter (based on stellar velocity dispersion measurements).
And the evidence for dark matter is there is not only in flat rotation curves, but in cosmic microwave background for example; as to explain the cosmic microwave background you must have a large fraction of DM in early universe.
Jeff Bezos declines Bernie Sanders' invitation to attend Senate hearing
This interestingly made me think, I wonder if there is the opposite of this. Capture those signals to a capture card to avoid HDCP or the likes. I realize there are HDCP splitter/strippers but maybe one day those don't work, who knows.
> The more important takeaway: dozens of technologists at IBM spent more than three years and untold millions of dollars building the program specifically trained for Jeopardy! prowess. Less than 10 years later, a general-purpose open-sourced technology without the massive mainframe or cooling fans can compete on the same level.

This statement from the article confused me. GPT-3 is general-purpose, but not open source, nor does it run without massive hardware, nor was it developed without spending millions of dollars.
Those are not at all contradictory in actual practice. Outsiderness is multi-dimensional. And really, you want a populist leader who has a firm grip on the facts if you can get one. I don't think that's a good basis for criticism.
Yes, this is a part of the problem. This is also why it’s hard to interpret the results of studies like this.

Without knowing more about the methodology, it’s possible that a lot of the apparent variation in cost arises from different ways of paying for the same thing. Take a joint replacement surgery—the surgery itself will generate claims for both the surgeon and the hospital, and maybe also the anesthesiologist. Each of those claims could be counted as a bill. But there’s also the initial clinic visit before the surgery as well as the aftercare and rehab, which also generate their own bills. What’s more, some payment models bundle all of those costs into one bill for the entire episode of care. (See how there’s no range listed for the procedures performed at Kaiser?)

The problem arises when you try try to compare those individual claims to the episode of care bills. You can’t, because they’re basically apples and oranges. But if you’re not aware, that can make it seem like there’s more variation than there really is. Don’t get me wrong, though, there is way too much variation in what we pay for health care, but it’s important we measure it precisely.
Noticed him in the audience a couple of times around 2006 at AI talks. He was really skeptical of the idea of the singularity or self-improving AGI and at the smaller talk he asked really tough questions of the speaker (Eliezer Yudkowsky). I was a community college student at the time and remember wondering how cool it would be to go to a school where one could have someone like that as a professor!
are you saying that private entities don't get to choose what products to cease production of? Once you start producing a product, you are obligated to continue indefinitely?
I worked on the tech-side of healthcare informatics with researchers and healthcare economists. What you say is correct. The cost/benefit ratio of hospital admittance and hospital stays has been quantified to an alarming degree. Not that we shouldn't be looking at such costs, but I feel as though it should involve some level of humanity.
The other, often overlooked angle of healthcare in the U.S. is the dynamic at play between for-profit and non-profit hospitals. Both of which require and actively seek profit of course.
As others have stated - we need a complete overhaul of the healthcare system here. Something that would require a Teddy Roosevelt-esque stature of a man (or woman) to get started.
I'm glad to see the Sierra Club on board with the GMO path forward. A couple of interesting links on this topic below. See the second link for how impressively massive these trees were before the blight killed them off.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/magazine/american-chestnu...

https://www.denverpost.com/2012/12/08/volunteers-work-to-rev...
Do you also feel the same way about ideas from Peter Sunde, Kevin Mitnick, Shawn Fanning and the like?

Dismissing ideas because of the origin rather than the content doesn't seem very open minded.
$50 to the first person who manages to put this on a screen at an airport.
Event 201 Pandemic Exercise: Highlights Reel (Nov 2019)
Yev from Backblaze here -> That's really nice of you, glad we could work together!
It depends, the larger petrochemical plants actually have their own fire departments with specialized equipment and training.