skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the fact that they need to be treated as separate roles, although a lot of organizations just don't understand this well enough and you end up having data engineers doing data science, or data scientists doing data engineering, or both, maybe without the teams ever really talking to each other.

However I think that's a somewhat different issue from the one under discussion here. The problem here is that data scientists can end up wasting time trying to apply fancy techniques, when the real impact would come from basic data analysis using old-school statistics.

Interestingly, I have never encountered this in my personal experience. I don't personally know any data scientist who would rather use in neural network win something simpler would suffice.

Also, I disagree with the idea that data scientists don't need long periods of concentration. If anything, data science is more of a "creative" enterprise, whereas coding tends to be somewhat methodical and mechanical. For me at least, that means long periods of time spent trying different things and contemplating, which requires just as much deep focus as writing a complicated piece of software.
Software quality is a function of the effort put into it. A generic “is it good yet?” question is not especially useful. It depends on a lot of things.

Don’t take it personally, I probably read the same question at slashdot in ‘97.
Any change in language could be a tool in constructing a group identity or brainwashing. Learning Spanish, avoiding swearing, using old-timey accents, etc. What on earth makes you think this particular one is?
It basically happened in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_bonds
This should be the new standard for ebike charging, or all personal EVs like scooters and EUCs.
I doubt it was the US government that told him to do it. It was the movie studio.

China is a huge market for movies and it would jeopardize their profits if they pissed them off.
I think this is too fatalistic. There are tons of things which can be done to reduce CO2 and the sooner we do the more time we gain for bigger transformations.

The big thing would be sending a strong public message that gas will only get more expensive every year: that discourages sales of inefficient vehicles which will be polluting for a couple of decades, pushes businesses to invest in major capital investments now, etc. Every time that’s happened, the cost to industry has been far less than the naysayers predicted.
The API documentation for one of our partners is a SPA that never should have been. There is no way to share a URL to a specific piece of the documentation because all navigation is handled in JS.
Maybe you're being too hard on yourself? I mean your expectations may be too high? It has good reviews there, and seems pretty creditable. I liked the first chapter, which I've just read. I think I'd be happy with it.
Lots of famous authors have written many more books than the books they are known for. And those are the famous ones! The attrition rate is high.
In your situation, I would seek to find out what 'normal' is and then I'd measure myself against that.
TikTok debuts new voice – after Canadian actor sues over the old one
You aren't guaranteed to die from being shot in the head either. However there are things which the medical community recognizes have no safe level of exposure.

From the original article: "The toxicity of benzene in humans has been well established for over 120 years. The hematotoxicity of benzene has been described as early as 1897. A study from 1939 on benzene stated that “exposure over a long period of time to any concentration of benzene greater than zero is not safe,” which is a comment reiterated in a 2010 review of benzene research specifically stating “There is probably no safe level of exposure to benzene, and all exposures constitute some risk in a linear, if not supralinear, and additive fashion.”
<sinister tone> It could also be a genius way to prune out the radical, agitator segment of the userbase in one fell swoop
>Also strongly recommend binging the first season in particular; they did a very good job of conveying the feeling of humans blundering about not really knowing what they are doing in the big new universe, and it really comes across when watched relatively quickly on top of each other.

One thing I've never enjoyed about Star Trek is how the Enterprise/DS9/Voyager and its crew are the ones that always save the day/week/universe.

I've never watched Stargate, but I do know that occasionally the show shows other exploration teams enter/exit the gate. Does the franchise go further than that, and implicitly/explicitly state that the Stargate team that the show focuses on is just one of many doing comparably cool things?
You mean the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?

Yup, sounds about right.
Hee hee.

I can imagine an alternate universe failed version of The Expanse where they spent all their money up front on CGI to create stretched-out skinny extras.
The problem isn't whether reputable manufacturers will do it, it's whether the bottom of the barrel cheap cables from eBay/Amazon will do it.

The advantage of USB2 is that it's very hard to screw up. The design is so simple that even the cheapest cable is usualy "okay" because making an "okay" USB2 cable is so simple.

In contrast, making a USB-C cable is much more difficult, which means unscrupulous manufacturers flood the market with bad cables that fail with disastrous side-effects.
Hijacked journals keep fooling one of the world’s leading databases
I still do not understand how the FLAC compression algorithm with LFE content can be effective at compression level 2. The technique that "mid-side encoding" poses is interesting because it does not affect the processing blocks, it should be the primary option in streaming services.

Implementing real-time audio delivery sounds promising without the need for post-processing from disk.
The Replication Crisis Could Be Worse Than We Thought
Love this.

I have never failed to convince anyone in my midwest sphere of influence (midwest, know far right and far left folks) that ‘pollution’ needs to be dealt with.

You can replace ‘climate change’ in an essay with pollution and dramatically simplify changing peoples mind.
This is how every state backed/endorsed (or state operated, but those are less common) professional licensure board or trade association that gate-keeps licensing works. They all aggressively defend and try to expand their turf, even when it's stupid and harmful to society.

The only reason we don't hear about the plumbing cartel going after the home repair business that isn't licensed for plumbing in every state it operates in but wrote "plumbing" on its vans in all states is because HN doesn't really concern itself with those sort of matters.
Because objective studies have repeatedly shown it's harder to read white text on a black screen, compared to the dark-on-light text that 99.9% of everything else on the planet uses.

It's a way of sending the message, "It's my site, not yours. I don't care if you don't find it legible. Everybody else is wrong, and I'm right."
I have blocked the card the moment I noticed it. I informed my credit card company and appsumo same day. Yet appsumo is preventing chatgeback which I think very unethical for a reputed company. It is evident that these putchases are transferred to another account and appsumo is not willing to look into it
I genuinely don’t understand how I’ve managed to be so lucky. That is, I absolutely do not disbelieve the many tales of woe I hear on HN (like the many in this thread) - but I’ve literally never put any thought into what cable I plug in to what device, and had no trouble that I can recall. It really had lived up to its hype for me so far.

My USB-C devices are: a wireless charger, two MacBooks (one intel, one m1), a Pixelbook, Nintendo Switch, Oculus Quest and Quest 2, iPad Pro, and the charging case of some earphones… I think that’s everything. Oh, and my partner’s phone and headphones too.

Anyway - I’ve cables and chargers dotted around the house, plus some A-C ones for use with power bricks - and never had any grief powering/charging any device from any of them. What am I doing right? I’m definitely not only plugging Apple devices into Apple cables and so on.
Tools Transforming JavaScript Development
OK now do doctors.
To your first point, this is exactly why Max was created, by Miller Puckette at IRCAM - so the artists didn't have to necessarily chase down coders to change their programs. In that respect, it's been a tremendous success.
In perhaps colourful terms - Crap in a river and it's polluted for those downstream. This, for me, captures the essence of the issue - It's not pollution until you are the one downstream.
I like the cover, it makes me think of an Andy McNab novel, and based on the blurb looks like you're in a pretty close genre.
> Voltage can't go up arbitrarily, but voltage can safely be increased to ~48V or so in most applications. After 48V, humans start to get shocked / hurt, so that's probably the reasonable limit.

Car batteries in ICE cars are nominally 12v. Grab both terminals and tell me it doesn't hurt.
Imagine a pirate vessel drifting through space, compromising ships' OSes with a LADAR- or comms-based zero-day.
>So what we're seeing is a repeat of the film industry from 1930's-1950's. You want to see a Paramount movie, you must go to a Paramount theater.

Or the TV business throughout all of TV history. You know, if you want to see an HBO show, you can only watch it on HBO. If you want to watch _new+ episodes of Seinfeld, you have to watch it on NBC.
It's on its way there, true :)
I don’t have anything bad to say about musk except the fact that he has cost me more than $2 million over the last week and a half. Stop texting about crypto dude!
i have 3 machines each running 2 clients and seeding OSS ISO's ubuntu being among them, im waiting for a DMCA notice, and a very amusing phone conversation afterward, i suspect however that wont happen as im not on comcast
And another take on why clients being able to manually craft URLs is bad design: [0]. But prohibitting clients from manually constructing URLs really is not that hard: [1].

[1] https://blog.ploeh.dk/2013/05/01/rest-lesson-learned-avoid-h...

[2] https://blog.ploeh.dk/2020/10/26/fit-urls/
I suppose but json is the least important part of the “spec.”
Genesis doesn't say people's lives are limited to 120 years. What it says is that the flood would occur in 120 years time.

That said the numbers in Genesis were incorrectly translated from cuneiform into Hebrew. If you translate them back into cuneiform and then forward again correctly, you get smaller numbers that match up with the ages people have children or die today.

Source: Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian Origins of the Flood Myth by Robert M. Best
Even though I didn't expect much I'm still disappointed after using it a little. It's very rough around the edges.

When I run 'winget list' It says I have Firefox 88.0 installed and there's an update for 88.0.1. But then I run 'winget upgrade Mozilla.Firefox' and it says 'No applicable update found'. Very similar stuff happens even for very popular Microsoft apps like VS2019 and VSCode, there it runs the installer but either doesn't update at all (VS2019) or winget thinks it's perpetually out of date (VSCode). For most other packages it cannot even link the listed application-id to the corresponding winget package, even if it definitely exists.

I understand it's all very variable and nonstandard in the Windows ecosystem, but I think it should be possible to get the versioning mostly right and build a much better database of application-ids and corresponding package names.
The Half-Renovated Houses of a Former Mining Region in Germany
Vcpkg – Cross platform C/C++ dependency manager
If only it existed for the content too, when I had the unpleasant experience of being interviewed by them they changed the article many many times.

In fact, in my whole career the NYT journalist was the most unprofessional, unethical one. They knowingly took things I said out of context and portrayed them to mean the opposite things.

Startup founders, I advise you to decline NYT interviews, they are extremely unscrupulous.
Not entirely related but we've used the GPT-3 to augment our resume software and the results have been useful to a huge amount of job seekers. Perhaps we'll take a stab at this
As other comments have pointed out, talcum powder in its pure form is talc, which is a mineral and safe. The issue is that some cosmetics were contaminated with asbestos, which is not safe.
Well, a bicycle plus rider is about 100kg, which is a tenth of an old-fashioned car or closer to a twentieth of a SUV, so that should correspond roughly to getting hit by a car at about 1MPH.

I'm not awfully worried about cars moving at 1MPH, and correspondingly unworried about bicycles. You may disagree. Do you happen to drive a car? At 1MPH, or faster?
> With data centers around the world accounting for 1% of global electricity demand, and projections to consume 3-8% in the next decade, it’s imperative we address this as an industry.

> To help in that endeavor, we’re excited to announce the formation of The Green Software Foundation – a nonprofit founded by Accenture, GitHub, Microsoft and ThoughtWorks established with the Linux Foundation and the Joint Development Foundation Projects LLC to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and leading practices for building green software. The Green Software Foundation was born out of a mutual desire and need to collaborate across the software industry. Organizations with a shared commitment to sustainability and an interest in green software development principles are encouraged to join the foundation to help grow the field of green software engineering, contribute to standards for the industry, and work together to reduce the carbon emissions of software. The foundation aims to help the software industry contribute to the information and communications technology sector’s broader targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030, in line with the Paris Climate Agreement.

Here's to now hand-optimized efficient EC, SHA-256, SHA-3, and Scrypt routines due to incentives. See also The Crypto Climate Accord, which is also inspired by the Paris Agreement: https://cryptoclimate.org/

... "Thermodynamics of Computation Wiki" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18146854

Is 100% offset by PPAs always 200% Green?

From "Ask HN: What jobs can a software engineer take to tackle climate change?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20015801 :

> [ ] We should create some sort of a badge and structured data (JSONLD, RDFa, Microdata) for site headers and/or footers that lets consumers know that we're working toward '200% green' so that we can vote with our money.
Pollution is not just about the what, but also about how much. One cup of water is good for you, but if you drink 10 liters of water on the spot you might die. and that's not even close to doubling the amount of water in your body.
While that's true, we didn't have as many major centers with permanent buildings set up. I'm looking for data, but I imagine that places like New York would be underwater, would they not?
> [...]I expect Terran governments to forcefully insist on non-Monopolistic behaviour very quickly

All of the Terran governments? I think it would be trivial to play different governments with launch capability against each other, especially if you can mine asteroids (or have technology that's almost there and can promise to supply cooperative governments raw materials in exchange of access to a launch complex and their domestic food market). The promises of riches in the colonies drove competition among colonizing countries, I don't see how it would be any different, it would be trivial to set up subsidiaries in the US/Russia/China/France and see who bites first.
Another way would be to simply raise capital gains taxes on land. Making money off of land (as opposed to renting) just doesn't make sense. It's basically Bitcoin with real life consequences.
Secret police then - I bet they are in no hurry to admit their role in the commie shit show but there sure was an awful lot of them. You couldn't say one joke without an informant reporting it to the powers that be. Every group of friends had at least one and every family too.

And I wouldn't be so sure about the fascists hating socialists - weren't they even allies at some point? They seemed quite chummy to me. And they certainly had the same obsession with killing the ones they perceived as "guilty" for the whatever "societal injustices" their sick minds imagined.

"The poor" seemed quite happy to take off into the exploitative West to make some money after '89 though. ;-)
Gaming laptops I assume.

M1 GPU beats most other integrated GPUs, but that doesn't magically make the demand for more performance go away, and that demand is likely to increase as there become more and more non-gaming applications for GPUs (machine learning, video editing, etc).
I really hope at some point in the future we will have the tech to arbitrarily convert a pile of one element into a pile of another element. Without that, colonizing other planets is going to be hard.
I thought M1 had the best price/performance numbers, too bad Apple does not sell CPUs.
A natural consequence of the peter principle. You get one mediocre manager with questionable methods of evaluating employees, they promote more people who succeed according to those criteria, and in turn evaluate people on the same criteria, while the people who care about productivity and other more meaningful metrics move on to greener pastures.
Yeah, I noticed that too. The green wireframe looking stuff is actually text in spans/divs next to, or overlayed on pictures. The little "nodes" are this character, for example: ⎕. The effect is pretty unique.
>"A licensee shall avoid any act which may diminish public confidence in the profession…."

putting critique into this category does seem to be such an act on its own. On the other side aggressively squashing any heresy - even if it is just a minor deviation from the Party line - has been working great for the Church for 2000 years already.
I find that I never want "map" functionality, so I do the opposite, always use "noremap".
I see. Bhutan, Scandinavia, and possibly some other countries too small to have much of an effect on humanity one way or the other.
This is my reality today; My personal set up at home is completely centred around a Caldigit TS3+, to which I have connected ethernet to my local network switch, a keyboard, mouse, headphone amplifier + two monitors.

Feeding the Caldigit dock I have a thunderbolt cable going to my laptop (a 2019 Macbook Pro) and i have a second thunderbolt cable run from my desktop (A HP Z4 with a thunderbolt card) which i can swap in at a moment's notice if I need more horsepower or want to play games etc.

Thunderbolt for both computers enables a single cable setup. It really is super convenient
The Dragon in My Garage

http://people.whitman.edu/~herbrawt/classes/110/Sagan.pdf
Author here, thanks for sharing. I was confused about why JRuby was slow in the Jekyll CI and also in my own Jekyll blog when compared to just standard Ruby. This post is my investigation and I've gotten a couple pointers since on reddit as well.
It's not about the survival of Humanity, but rather about global trade disruptions, mass-migrations, and massive property damage on a scale we've never seen. Humanity will be fine, but if it goes really bad then it will cause a lot of suffering and it may take centuries to recover.
I'd say greed falls somewhere much closer to malice than stupidity.
I don't think it was ever true that the connectors on the two devices determine whether they're compatible.

You can find all sorts of different connectors on a cable to connect two devices together, but you still only knew that devices are/are not compatible by trying to plug them in

At least with the current setup, you are unlikely to burn out the devices by trying a cable.
Them having the cash doesn't necessarily mean they spent it; plus, they could have spent it on deleveraging their debts (and not on consumption).

I tend to agree that all the inflation we are seeing right now is supply chain related (with the one exception of graphics cards - the liquidity injected into the system probably made price of crypto go up which accelerated the demand for GPUs, so the GPU issue is both a supply problem & demand problem)
Looks fantastic, and the hardware specs appeal to me greatly - but I'm not sure there is an actual market outside the "cult of personality" bubble. A few SV wannabes will buy into this to trade off a Twitter relationship with the Oxide founders - but does anyone really see the IT teams at Daimler, Proctor & Gamble, Morgan Stanley... et al - actually going for this over HPE/Dell and AWS/Azure? We are a long way away from "Nobody ever got fired for buying from Oxide".
Asbestos -> Cancer.

Safe amount = 0.
Toward next-generation learned robot manipulation
https://www.sudowrite.com/ is one of my favorite new tools and it's also powered by GPT-3 I think. Super interesting what they are doing.
Sorry your comment doesn't really make sense to me.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc, are all examples of massive successful commercial applications running on Linux.

The original question was 'How can you make money on linux?'

The answer is these companies and more make billions, and the employees make hundreds of thousands, all writing applications on Linux. Most developers I know make money writing applications on Linux.
not to mention marketing all over subreddits and moderators with agendas. it's just so corrupt and greasy
Yeah re the binary base64 encoding - we found that when using text based queries (the default for pg gem on ruby and most other client libraries AFAIK), base64 in a text column outperformed byte columns as it avoids extra conversions to and from base64.

We did switch to using binary queries though (by passing result_format as 1), and at that point we did see a speedup from using bytea columns - but it’s quite a bit of work to get the type mapping correct then so probably not worth it in most cases
Don't forget super speed, super speed+ and super speed+ 2x2
A ‘Bubble Expert’ Decoded the Physics of Making Mezcal
Of course they figured it out, unfortunately aint nobody got time to rewrite all the software
And guess what? Aftermarket brake pads are still made with asbestos! New vehicles sold in North America no longer have asbestos pads, but if you have had a vehicle long enough to have new pads put on then your car almost certainly has asbestos pads now!

https://www.theasbestosinstitute.com/2020/05/27/asbestos-in-...
https://www.autoserviceworld.com/jobbernews/growing-threat-a...

So, if you happen to still do your own brake work, remember to spray down the parts with a water mister before you handle them to keep the dust from getting into the air. Vacuuming up any brake dust left behind is probably a bad idea too, wetting it down and handling as a liquid is safer.
The Dragon in My Garage [pdf]
People frequently cause harm by using language. Being cautious about something that could potentially generate orders of magnitude more targeted harmful language seems reasonable.

In general, when people working full-time on a technology think it's dangerous and you don't see why, it's best to assume that they've spent a lot more time thinking of ways it could go wrong than you.
I just came to see how many search hits for "emacs" I will see in the comments, excluding mine, it's 65 :).
I have a different definition of “rape” seeing it thrown around so often. If a man can talk a woman into sex without blackmail, that’s fair game and to be honest I respect him for it. It’s the main thing I want o do in life, sleep with as many women as possible.
Op is so ridiculous. At start I thought it was burning acid so yeah that would be pretty bad. But your comment made me understand it was about lsd and lol no way this is true.