skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I think its boring simply because there really isn't any variety in strategy. I agree that iso basketball can be boring but that isn't really the same thing as having a viable midrange shot. The pick and roll and the drive and kick can all be used to create shots that aren't 3s or immediately under the basket, they just aren't because those shots aren't worth it. And I personally think the most boring playstyle in basketball is exemplified by Kyle Korver: a player who really does nothing but stand on the perimeter and run around screens until someone passes him the ball to shoot a 3.

Ultimately I guess I don't mind if some teams play like today's style of basketball, but I do mind if its the only viable strategy.
When MIT researchers 'infiltrated' a Covid skeptics community
It means whatever you read into it, it's not in any way scientific, or even just objectively quantifying an effect.

The current hysteria has really opened my eyes in regards to mass media. We all know mainstream reporting is bad in fields we're experts in, but with the many crazy and often self-contradicting things that are currently reported you don't even have to have any expertise to see the problems in the story.
>Who knows what discoveries still lie ahead of it?

Its very likely this is the last one. The craft is simply running out of power and the instruments will be forced to shutdown in a few years. The current deep space network will lose its already extremely faint signal in about a decade.
Facebook Pledges to Remove Discriminatory Credit and Loan Ads
Sacrificed a $50M Company to chase a Billion Dollar Business..it didn’t end well
It says Zig eliminates "implicit conversions unless they are guaranteed to be safe (for example, assigning a u8 value to a u16 variable cannot fail or lose data)", but then suggests that @as should be used when "casting an int to a larger-size int of the same sign". Why should @as be used if it's safe to implicitly convert?
Yeah, the phrase "cause harm" carries a lot of affect (e.g. urgency, impatience, panic, outrage, etc.). If we were to have a graph of common word usage and association, the words "cause harm" would be strongly linked with other phrases like

- morally repulsive

- life or death

- fix immediately

All of which is just one step away from the affect-saturated words like "hitler / mao / stalin", "genocide", etc.,

As such "cause harm" is one of those magical phrases in our common lexicon that has gained the power to turn an "is" to an "ought", and the author uses it as the logical glue to connect the relatively descriptive phrase of "This is not good UX design" to the proscription of "revert the changes"

But by using such an affect-laden phrase, the author is implicitly asking the reader to assign more weight to feelings (e.g. impatience, outrage, disgust, etc.,) and less weight to calculated executive thought.

This attempt through language to subvert the executive portion of our brain in favor of more primal processes makes me feel the whole article is suspect. After all, if the author's argument can be one that stands up to executive scrutiny, than what is the intention when the author attempts to by-pass executive scrutiny?
The nightmare scenario is a follows; You get a really large solar storm and no one notices it, so all of the high voltage grid transformers are connected to the grid.

The currents induced by the grid burn out these transformers and
they have to be replaced before power can flow again. But these are very large, long lead time items that we don’t leave just laying around. And now you need hundreds of them, but the supply chain to build them has collapsed.

Thankfully, most of these transformers are connected to grids that automatically detect the high DC currents and shut down. And this assumes everyone missed the massive impending space weather event and grid operators forgot to shut them down.

So it probably wouldn’t be that bad.
I have no idea where my nearest AED device is to where I am in the UK, I have been trained in their use and in CPR.

Would like to have systems that don't require a smartphone as I don't have one.
There won't be a monopoly on non-cellular IoT connectivity though. There are a ridiculous number of IoT networks out there whether it's Sigfox or some other LoRaWAN solution and more are being built by the day.
vaccines don't "mutate" ?? Are you saying they're developing more broadband vaccine that can handle more mutation by the virus?
Enlighten me, for I don't understand why using uBlock Origin and uMatrix together with NoScript is necessary? Is this just habit, or has NoScript some features which the u*-stuff combo can't provide?

Featurewise, UI-wise?
I've been buying "Sceptre" -brand LCD TVs for use around the house the past several years. They're "dumb" with just a basic remote and basic settings firmware like TVs from a decade or two ago, and they tend to be reasonably priced, and of reasonable quality. Plug a streaming stick or your RPi in the back for your choice of $Streaming_TV service. They now also make units with Android TV built in, but so far they're still making non-smart models as well!
Some of the best advice I've ever heard regarding this is that you don't have to be an expert, you just have to know a little bit more than someone else. So take whatever you've recently learned, write it up, package and sell that. People tend to overestimate the level of knowledge required to sell advice. People pay for beginner level courses all the time.
What about the people working on open source compilers at those companies (e.g. ReasonML at Facebook).
> Apparently, pair programming places no value on flow.

I get flow with and without pairing.

I have ADHD, so for me flow is a spectrum from "smooth, effortless, light" to "destructive hyperfocus". Pairing almost completely prevented hyperfocus in my experience.
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This article reminded me I never finished Lonesome Dove (not that I wasn't enjoying it, life got in the way). I feel like I need to correct that.
Mythical Man-Month isn't trying to say "surgical teams work well - let's apply that approach to software". Instead, it's an analogy to explore Fred Brook's thoughts on 10x programmers and "building systems with as few minds as possible". Brook's attributes the idea to Harlan Mill's paper "Chief programmer teams, principles, and procedures" - which I can't find online, but I'd be curious how Mills treats the analogy.
3-Steps to Whole-House EMP Protection
It's hand-written CSS - there's not much of it: https://github.com/simonw/django-sql-dashboard/blob/01bb7e60...
Should also be noted that in case the americans on the website are worried about being sued over this; as long as you make any type of effort to the best of your ability, you're fine. Even if you end up killing the patient. These laws are scoped so they only apply if you help someone without expecting payment or reward in exchange.
No, it's common industry practice that "Smart TVs" (i.e. ones with built in ad tracking) are sold at-or-below cost and companies make up the difference by showing ads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18905408
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21781481
I've been reading a lot of discworld lately, so this scans very well as a rather awkward conversation between Lord Vetinari and the head of the Thieves' Guild.

"don't let me detain you."
I have no horse in this race but where are comments like this coming from, in response to this:

>I'm just going to be explicit. In 2020, Henry created 12 issues, commented 25 times, and created 29 pull requests. This is across all Babel orgs.

100k+ for a year of that sounds pretty cushy. he didn't say that he did "only" 1 or 2 PRs a week or something. where are these hyperbolic comments in response coming from? what other kind of work could have possibly been done in addition to this meager amount of code work to justify such a salary?
No legitimate Open Source Initiative would keep funds donated by proprietary software developer Microsoft in order to justify their means.

I bet charities take money from disreputable sources all the time.
Some skiddie will have a lot of fun hacking the entire neighborhood :-)
It's like measuring a carpenter by how many nails they've driven per day.
One is just for finding devices with an encrypted protocol. Only you and your own air tags communicate.

The Amazon one is creating a network that “any and all devices can use to call home to their manufacturers without wifi”

Pretty stark difference
Agreed: trees are nice, but no more a part of Quakerism than other symbology (effective as a metaphor, but not an integral part of the practice).

I would put forth an alternate theory that's a bit more practical. Quaker Meeting takes place on Sunday mornings, some as late as 10 or 11 am while the sun is heading towards peak. Most of these Meeting-Houses were constructed in an era well before air conditioning or fans, so anything that provided shade to keep the building cool in the warmer months would have been worth cultivating and protecting.
This kills all the satellites in our orbit as well? Satellites are already vulnerable to solar events and magnetic anomalies like SAA.

In additional to everything on Earth being wiped out would this would create a mini Kessler Syndrome since all satellites are now space junk which we will never be able to communicate with again?
Or Fluxbox
My advice: connect it to a restricted network, where it can successfully ping home and assert internet connectivity, but everything else (except maybe updates or whatever you want to allow) just fails.

A better, more useful approach is to have a DNS server on the home network (something like a pi hole), where all analytics go nowhere, Youtube isn't capable of downloading ads, etc., but you can still use the smart TV features you want. IIRC some TVs have internal DNS servers and only use those, so an ARP spoofing may be also needed.
Plenty of learning paths at https://learn.adacore.com/
Don't worry, when Amazon has fully rolled out Sidewalk it'll be able to prompt you through an Amazon Alexa somewhere nearby that you need another coffee, and would you like to have some delivered.
Fecesbook?
Yes, but in this case authority would be your prior, and a source would be the data to update that prior. If you are only relying on authority, you are solely going off of your personal biases, which while potentially informative, isn't as useful as actual data.
But apples is limited to just the findmy protocol, Amazon’s is whatever the device wants
The subreddit where only AI bots can post or comment
Terry Tao’s parents credit his early development with learning to read around age two. He learned to read from Sesame Street Season 9 - which happened to be when they were experimenting with an improved curriculum for “higher-order reading skills, such as verbal blending and letter sounds”.

Despite being publicly funded, these early seasons are now basically inaccessible to the public (except for curated clips). Why aren’t old seasons made freely available online? Instead they are locked up in the National Archives with strict access control.

If I knew how to peddle conspiracy theories this would be my favorite one: That "they" are suppressing Sesame Street Season 9 because it was making people too smart. Why are they keeping it under lock and key? Show us the tapes!!!

Also, HBO ruined sesame street. The pacing and noise is totally wrong for child comprehension. It used to be educational. Now it's just the same commercialized brain-scrambling bullshit as everything else "made for kids".
They could have more money for 2 reasons: 1. People may have stopped the support seeing how the existing funding is mismanaged. 2. People may not support seeing how little work is done with the existing funding.

Basically better state of the project = more likely funding.
FIPS for days
>After what Texas experienced

What are you referring to?
I'm not convinced that getting those privacy laws is harder than establishing a working cryptocurrency ecosystem that lets me buy normal things.
HAProxy Data Plane API 2.3
FWIW, the NASA Technical Reports Server is a good resource for technical docs from Apollo to Shuttle. Many of them have enough detail to implement the algorithms.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search?q=shuttle%20guidance
I once sold a program for large network optimization problem in Excel. The calculations of the sewer planning for an entire district, a few million homes in northern Italy. Excel was the best for the job, integrated into a CAD package.

Safety? Wrong planning could lead to some problems as seenm in poorly planned cities (e.g. Houston), but I guess they are largely ignorable. "Common Mistakes in Planning of Sewer Networks and STPs" https://www.springerprofessional.de/common-mistakes-in-plann...

My district was properly planned, Excel was the best. Would not recommend doing something similar by hand.
There is also a massive reproducibility crisis in science, and the two points are not not unrelated.
Chill.

Why would they need positive PR? Exactly how does that help them?

They are attacking large profitable corporations and sharing some money with charities. They're helping solve inequality.
Hello, author of release post here. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.
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And EMP is a totally different phenomena. With EMP you have the prospect of burning out microelectronics. That doesn’t happen with a solar storm.
Replace "meritocracy" with another word, rinse, repeat, try again.
The most productive team lead I worked with didn't do a lot of story work. He was constantly checking in on everyone else to ensure that no individual contributed was blocked on anything. A problem that would have taken me 3 hrs to figure out, was solved during pairing in 15 minutes.

So thanks for being that guy for a lot of other devs that learned from you.
Wouldn't that end up being a variation of https://useplaintext.email/ ?
If by fine you mean the life style people had in the 12th century, I’ll pass and stick with computers..
> I suppose that the smart part's hardware is below $10, it's not much more advanced than a RPi. OK, $20 if it includes a decent camera for video calls.

Citation? Because I find that assumption outlandish.

I've watched them replace the control board in my 7 year old Vizio TV, the hardware is significantly better than anything but the highest end current RPi. Dual core cpu, quad core gpu, AC wifi, 8gb of memory, and the ability to push 4k HDR video at 120hz.

You keep saying they're all selling personal data for hundreds of dollars, citation?
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You don't have to exclude everyone who has a dog in the fight, but it's a bit rich to open up their post with "what thermoworks doesn't tell you is..." but then leave out their own involvement in the market.
Just as an FYI: Rome was started under the react-native team at Facebook and has been in development for well over 2 years, Facebook let him take it with him when he left.
It's not necessarily sinister; if anyone organizing collectivist propaganda believes that what they're doing is good and virtuous, then it's just a regular plot.

As for its efficacy- many, many young people today openly identify with socialist and pre-socialist movements. I suspect it had to do with all of the childhood programming everywhere, as you mentioned. If Sesame Street happened to be a part of that giant effort, it doesn't necessary make it a conspiracy, just part of a political movement.
I wonder how hard it would be to transform this Amazon network into an independent mesh network, out of Amazon's control.
It's very straightforward. They are terrified of being treated as a national security threat instead of as criminals. If they are treated as terrorists, there are far fewer restrictions on how the state can pursue them, far more resources available, and possibly a more capable team pursuing them.
I don't know about OLED and other fancy panels (like Micro LED, QLED, etc.), but for common LCD panels there are plenty of controller available to use them, even with 4K resolution [1]. And panels aren't difficult to find because they are used to repair other television. The problem here is to protect it about dust and dirt, also not having a convenient and easy to use user interface.

IMO the best middle point is buying a LG Smart TV. They have Amazon Prime, Amazon Alexa, Netflix, and other platform installed, but IIRC you can uninstall this apps and you can't use them until you accept the terms and conditions. If you don't accept them you shouldn't worry about them.

I haven't used Wireshark to know if that apps use the network even without using them, but at least isn't the same to some Samsung TV that insert ads in the menus when your TV is connected to the Internet.

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33001887592.html
The vast majority of goods sold in those markets is just drugs. Though admittedly I'm not a criminal and don't know anything about the more evil corners of the dark web.

Can you name a few of those "conventional" crime markets? I'm curious to know.
It could, but not in the hands of money.
We have a friend who is an actual architect. Her children sleep on the second floor of a house she designed herself and built (with her husband). I wonder how many self-described software architects would have the confidence in their skills and the quality of their work product to put their money where their mouth is in the same way?

Team concepts which put one person in the center as the single source of all knowledge have a lot of advantages if that person is really good, but carry a lot of risk if they are not. There's a reason you train to an extremely high level before you become the chief surgeon in an actual surgical team.
To me $72k for a non-full-time project per year is still insane.

The median senior engineer pay in Italy is around EUR 38k - up to EUR 78k if you have around a decade of experience.
No, I mean killer. An obvious, popular choice for replacing whatever Medium offered.
Get rid of MashedTogetherWords that have "Pub" in them.

"PubSubHubBubFubRubSubWhateverItIs"

People see these things and they think there is nothing here for them, just some fantasy somebody else has.
i disagree, are you expecting someone else to take care of you? Are you expecting someone to cook you a healthy meal as well? Are you suggesting handing over the welfare of your mind and body to someone else? Health ( physical and mental ) is on you to maintain.
The Secret Origins of Amazon's Alexa
That’s their fault, not discord’s. Apps existed before discord, and will exist after.
I once protested against the cult description and then someone pointed out that I did the 3-2-1 clap whenever my team finished an IPM or retro.

Pivotal definitely had an incredibly strong cultural field strength. That much it shares with cults. Personally, I loved it, like anyone who finds a fit in such a place.
Absolutely :) There was some official addition to 95 that was later integrated into 98 in a way... Don't remember its name.
Indeed, that is exactly what I thought as well :-)
Do we know how much lower?
Mine wasn't. I had some very mild soreness at the shot site. I felt well enough to go to the gym 5 hours after my shot.

Not to detract from people who did have side-effects, merely pointing out that it's possible to have none.
Congrats on shipping!

Also, I really like the fact that you've thought of this as a SAAS service. Must have been quite a bit of work.

All the best.
I legitimately do not understand what you're getting at.

Society collapses, and you believe people will use cryptocurrency for barter instead of tangibles like water, food, ammunition and/or weapons because people will want to optimize the prices? What are you saying?
This is an extremely common pattern for robotics processing... so I wonder if they just consider the rockets a robot where you're just using a finite state machine based on inputs.
Very similar to https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-days/
There's nothing on that whole page that addresses my complaints, why do you think I'm going to spend time delving into the rest of the site when the writers of that page clearly don't care about wasting my time?

- Tell me what it is

- Tell me why it exists

- Stop with the ad copy and buzzwords until the first 2 points have been addressed

That's what I want from a landing page / home page.
>> But their choices affect me

>If you and your family get vaccinated, how do their choices affect you?

I was simply answering this.
There are 20 equally good product brands for 99% of things you buy and use everyday. But you have a clear favorite amongst those 20 that you have already chosen to buy and use consistently. And you don't change your preference unless you are repeatedly reminded of those alternatives. This is advertising 101. Then there are products that you don't yet use because you don't yet think you need or want them. And you don't feel you need/want them until you are repeatedly and subtly/overtly "sold" this product.
I wonder what percentage of Medium users are HN user. Don't get me wrong, I don't like Medium but I think HN users are not target users for Medium.

I never heard any non-tech person complaining about Medium.
What SpaceX is accomplishing is certainly impressive, but this seems like a weird comparison. Isn't the ranking implied by the title basically a tie between nearly everything humanity has ever launched at "1", and the space shuttles (minus Challenger) all up at "dozens"? It also fails to mention that it surpassed Challenger in successful landings with its tenth, which seems pretty relevant in the story they're trying to tell. And I may have missed it, but I don't think the article mentioned anything else that had ever been launched more than once.
Tesla autopilot is not a comparable product though! It operates nowhere at Waymo capacity.

My understanding is that Tesla is extremely behind on these fronts compared to Waymo, and that gap keeps widening every day. I know who I would bet on
Apple AirTag Spills Its Secrets
"SIDEWALK is currently in invitation only preview."
Its lucky that a lot of Americans have excess chemical energy stored as fat, just waiting to be converted to mechanical energy with a bicycle.
Mathematicians Use Homology to Make Sense of Topology
Quantum internet is finally here
A KVM system is not a BMC. Running a cluster (even a fairly small one) you probably want power control, e.g. with powerman, serial console availability, e.g. with conman, metrics, e.g. via freeipmi and some monitoring solution, and probably logs for alerts. Control and monitoring need to be out of band.

(Powerman, conman, and freeipmi come from Livermore for use with serious HPC systems.)
TikTok launching jobs service for Gen Z
How to Solve Aging
Starting the World's First V8 Powered Tesla [video]
I really like the model where tools are free for educational, open-source, and other non-commercial uses. I've ended up paying for software libraries because I was first able to try them out for free in school and other personal projects.

One issue with fixed pricing or licensing is that it can lock out people in developing countries from participating. A few hundred dollars is nothing for a San Francisco based company but it might be a huge amount for someone in Latin America. How many great ideas fail to take off due to insufficient access to funding?

In recent years game engines have been doing an interesting job at exploring this space. You can use stuff like Unity or Unreal and the price depends on how much money you're making. I think something similar is done in the mobile app store ecosystems as well.
It also farts
Unless you believe that later work cancels prior work, it's fair to call someone with an undergraduate degree in engineering an "engineer" regardless of their subsequent activities.
With back doors