skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Getting into prestigious schools" high? If you're doing that effortlessly then you should bottle your local water and sell it, because there's something in it. :)

Yeah, I think it's pretty standard for certain Bay Area public high schools. If I remember correctly the school average was around 1470/1600 (though after prep). For reference Google says the average at Harvard is 1510. Probably has to do more with the parents than the water though.
The initial cluster was found at Wuhan, because there's a lab there. We have no idea how many sub-pandemic clusters arose and fell before this particular mutation got into a population sufficiently dense and mobile to spread it.

Did you know that 1918 flu arose in Haskell County, Kansas, killed many, and then just .. died out?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/
> How do updates/security updates look on C7/C8 until then? Assuming you don’t have any C8? Otherwise, stable updates are going to be problematic converting those to Stream, no? Also, I wouldn’t myself count on Red Hat not welching on that C7 2024 EOL date. I can’t see them not pushing that up honestly.

Given that C8 was supposed to be supported into 2029[0] and then they cut it to 2021, that does seem plausible enough...

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20201101131417/https://wiki.cent...
Not saying I want that to have happened but the USA don't have colonies, in the traditional way that the French and the Japanese do
I just made a comment elsewhere in this thread regarding the absolutely awful behavior iOS had for 3rd party bluetooth headphone volume until a recent (~18 months or so) update. Every time I connected my Sony headset over bluetooth the system volume would reset to max, sometimes seemingly only after I had hit the play button in spotify. I am fairly certain this actually damaged my hearing after several occurrences of getting up, throwing my headphones on as I walked out the door, and blasting myself with max volume playback by accident. Even now that the issue has been fixed, I habitually check the device volume anytime I connect something on bluetooth. To this day I'm astounded Apple shipped such problematic behavior over the course of repeated iOS updates. I think it was fixed around the time they started to provide feedback about listening volumes in Apple Health.
It feels like the fiction novel The Circle (by Dave Eggers) was used as a handbook to create a company.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18302455-the-circle
This is the ci jobs that run ci suites, but the GitHub workflow you linked has a ton of stuff commented and also yeah you can run a test suite in CI but if it contains no tests what use is it?
This analysis completely skips over the "elastic" aspect of cloud infrastructure, which was a key motivator for using these providers since the very beginning and is as relevant today regardless of company size.

My company (which is in fact part of the charts in the article) had every single metric across the board spike 15-20x basically overnight when the pandemic started last year in March. Our entire infrastructure burden was clicking a few buttons on the AWS console and making sure everything was provisioning and scaling as needed. If we had to send out people to buy hard drives and server racks at that time, there is no chance we would have been able to meet the extra demand.

Plus, if you give me a few dozen capable engineers today I'm not going to waste their efforts on rebuilding AWS to get a best-case few percentage point return on our cloud spend. I'll launch a new product for our customers instead.
Yes, European regulators demanded that Tesla support CCS2. I think Tesla still prevents non-Tesla cars from charging at their superchargers, but they can at least use standardized chargers.

Tesla is still 100% proprietary in the US.
+1. 'Eric Carle, writer and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died' is shorter than the current title so it should work.
This seems like a well known trap that people would know how to avoid with a little planning, but I guess they have no one thinking that far ahead
From a Moore's Law perspective I'd like to see a true cost of ownership over time, as most infra goes obsolete in 18-24 months.

Public clouds, like AWS, have cut their storage costs by more than 50% since Dropbox built their own infra in 2015.
You want to find the price that fits the market. It's not shady, it's best practice!
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27307121
“They were the first mainstream company to release a screen reader”

I don’t think that’s correct. Microsoft Narrator is from 2000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Narrator), voice-over from 2005 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger)

The Mac had a screen reader in 1989, but that was third party software (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OutSpoken)

IIRC, Narrator was designed for use during OS installation. If so, “the first to make installing the OS accessible” isn’t correct, either.
We don't talk about birth control much because:

(1) the majority of CO2 emission is happening in North America, China, Europe, and industrial part of Asia, none of which exhibits high birth rate.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...

(2) Birth control is already being tackled with in developing countries. It's just not being talked much in the context of global warming, because (1).

(3) Talking about population when the majority of CO2 is emitted by a small number of wealthy countries (with low birthrate) seems like focusing on the wrong thing. Especially since almost all arguing about it online are living in one of those wealthy countries. Yes, it would be really convenient for me if climate problem could be solved by telling Africans to get their shit together, but it's not happening that way.
The background starfield appears, in fact, to be a projection of the entire celestial sphere, all 360°×180° of it, so only a half of it at most can be seen at a time from any point on Earth.
I highly recommend “A half-hour to learn Rust” if you’re interested in Rust but haven’t tried it yet. The article is very engaging with many small snippets that make sense to a person with a good programming background but no specific Rust knowledge.

It partially inspired me to start keeping a list of similar learning content over at https://github.com/b0o/awesome-by-example
Bring it up with the publicist. They're all third party and they all share the same tactics with each other for engagement. I have been willing to concede that there are a lot of people inspired by people that look like them and otherwise wouldn't even notice if it weren't for categorized headlines and lists. It is icing on the cake that different people are triggered by that, and even greater icing on the cake that all platforms have convergent evolution to promoting this kind of engagement and anxiety.
Your assertions are at odds with the data and an entire field of professionals who dedicate their lives to analyzing it. What makes you think you know more than them?
Oh my god, that's hilarious. I was wondering why my lap was warm all of a sudden. Htop said firefox was the culprit so I closed out all my tabs except this one. Then I read your comment, opened the page, and scrolled all the way to the bottom—my cpu temp just steadily rose till it throttled. All the animations are smooth, though.

Note: I'm typing this from a 9 year old thin-and-light, so that's probably part of the problem.
They were pretending to be dense in order to not have to face the truth about their product, or at least to not have to admit to it.
Or they went about developing their own systems. Bosch made their own system that didn't involve slamming a brake into the blade, but SawStop decided to throw some money around and get an injunction against it.

All the evidence I've found is super cloudy, but early reports indicated Bosch's variant predated SawStop's release.

Luckily SawStop's patents expire in a few years so hopefully we'll see other safety mechanisms similar to SawStop without the downsides and greed.
Manifest – The Local Knowledge Network, Now on iPhone and Android
I wanted to share that an app I’ve been working on, Manifest (https://onmanifest.com), is now approved and available on the App Store & Google Play!

What is it?

The Manifest app enables effective local communications to keep people up to date about what's happening locally. It is a new messaging app for sharing ideas, receiving instant feedback, and creating connections in the local area anywhere in the world!

Here is the link to download:

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=manifest.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/manifesting/id1568543824

There are so many steps to joining a club, promoting events, and emailing groups—Manifest was created to unify these activities on a local platform.

Please let me know your thoughts/suggestions/any critical feedback to improve the app, and feel free to let me know if you want to schedule a demo to learn more about how the app works.
I'm a historian and I recently cited Herodotus in one of my forthcoming papers. Is he reliable? We certainly can't assume so. But the same goes for Thucydides and every other source from the ancient world. It's all about triangulating between different sources rather than relying on any one account.

In my case, Herodotus was describing a Scythian practice (the use of cannabis) that we've been able to corroborate, in its broad outlines, using archaeological finds, which to my mind makes it reliable enough to use.

If anyone's interested, this is a quote from the paper, which is a work in progress and not published yet: When Herodotus described the purification practices of Scythians following elite burials, he wrote of a ritual involving the construction of a tent-like enclosure of “wool mats.” At the center of this enclosure, the Scythians threw cannabis onto “red-hot stones, where it smoulders and sends forth such fumes that no Greek vapor-bath could surpass it.” According to Herodotus, “the Scythians howl in their joy at the vapor-bath.” The term Herodotus used here – κάνναβις, or kánnabis – was a loan-word from Old Persian (kanab). From Greek, it made its way largely unchanged into Latin (cannabis) and from thence into the Romance languages and English." [Citing A. D. Godley, trans. The Histories of Herodotus (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1920), 4.74-6.]
Just got the order in for the Seeed Studio board. I'm sure I have a good wait time with shipping but looking forward to replacing some Ubiquiti gear after their drama.

Thanks for the reply as it totally inspired me to build my own router like it's 2003 =)
This view that we have these massive resource limitations is wrong.

We do not have 'resource limitations' for the most part on this planet.

For some things, there's an issue - but by and large, it's not.

Western Nations already have a considerably lower than 'replacement rate' in terms of birth, and the suicidal disappearance of some cultures is not going to move the ball forward.

We do have population issues, but they are squarely in Nigeria, India etc..

We have plenty of resources.

We'll sort out climate change over the coming decades.
Yes, Sweden deserves quite some credit. It doesn't have a clear track record on human rights though, as it is trying to suggest on the geopolitical platform.

The conflict is imo not over, it is still going on. If it wasn't then Sweden couldn't produce 90% of all iron in Europe because the mine happens to be on Sami land.
You are completely ignoring philosophy. It was the ideas of freedom, of the possibility of liberty for all, of equality of men, that made the whole enterprise possible. China had the tools, sure. But not the incentives. Their emperor could not let lose a zoo of creativity, for fear of destruction of the empire.
You know, maybe sass isn't appreciated on this site, but it's pretty pathetic to imagine someone could unironically imply any part of UI was a solved problem in the 90's and not face a challenge here. UI engineering is a discipline which most software engineers grossly underestimate the complexity of
Which is in turn an adaptation of the parable of the stone soup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
I showed my boomer parents the actual data and they straight up rejected it. The "society is collapsing into lawlessness" narrative has become very strong.
Also, Hanno the Navigator's journey is slightly better attested and includes traversing the cape north and south. Here is a commented translation of the account, from a Phoenician temple by way of Greek translators: https://www.livius.org/articles/person/hanno-1-the-navigator...
Frankly, since my company is pushing hard for a move away from the data center, we're really not talking about moving from CentOS 7 to e.g. Rocky any more anyway; we're talking about moving from CentOS 7 to Amazon Linux 2.
Except you miss out on all the opportunity cost of cloud-native solutions that get you moving fast for the sake of a complex convoluted mess that you need to hire subject matter experts for to wrangle, instead of focusing on your business logic.

Kubernetes only makes sense from Google's perspective to sell you the managed version "from the creators of Kubernetes!" once you get tired of trying to wrestle it into submission.
I thought they banned man-made claims not lab-leak claims.
> In addition, we are focused on reducing the reach of notifications about violent incidents, and increasing the reach of notifications about incidents such as missing people or pets being reunited with their families—we could all use some more good news.

"We would rather provide engaging info than useful info." At least they're honest.
Hey, no mean tweets. That's a plus.
True; a really interesting way to do these comparisons would be by narrow year, vehicle category, and purchaser (e.g. don't conflate fleet sales to private) as it normalizes a bunch of factors all at once. Sample size can be a problem, I expect.
I would imagine a series of blog posts that you then turn into a book? I love your question about “...what would you do?” It reads like a writing prompt.

A podcast I listen to (maybe CodingBlocks.Net or ATP?) talked about a dev who uses a camera to track a shiny bit of tape over the bridge of their glasses as a mouse and speech (with their own phonetic alphabet variation) for typing and is able to create software at the same pace as an able bodied person - I’d love to hear all of those stories.
Lets be real - the reason Facebook and other networks were banning these opinions wasn't because they were scientifically unviable, it was because they were right-wing talking points.
you are under-informed - in research, policy, and budget, the State of California is a recognized world-class.. (long lists of references left as an exercise to the reader)
> declarative languages have almost no bugs"

Is this even a declaritave language? Doesn't look like it to me at a glance.
For years I've been saying my next car will be a Tesla, because I wanted an electric car with autopilot.

A few weeks ago I got a Comma2, which runs OpenPilot, and installed it on my Honda Odyssey minivan. I've driven a Model X with autopilot, and I have to say, my minivan is just as good, if not in some cases better, than the Tesla.

I'm now much less excited about getting a Tesla. Knowing that I can upgrade basically any recent car to have autopilot, now I'm just waiting for an electric minivan that I can install OpenPilot on. And if I end up needing a sedan again, I'll most likely look first for an electric sedan from another automaker that I can add Openpilot to.

Edit: This is strange. This is my third comment that I mentioned OpenPilot, and in all three cases, my comment got a downvote within 30 seconds of posting it. I wonder, is there some bot that goes around downvoting posts/comments about OpenPilot? I don't think what I said was in any way controversial?
I used to work for an ISP and had to deal with copyright notices (99% DMCA) a lot. This caused me so much anxiety and rage because DMCA is an American law not British, but the management decided to "just take the website down, it's easier than having to go back and forth arguing with the copyright trolls". The amount of legitimate websites we had to take offline was incredibly huge, because the decision was to never question a copyright notice - just do it. So if someone wanted to take someone out they would just send us a DMCA notice and we would do it no questions asked. From all those years and hundreds of cases I would say maybe one or two website owners had the means to fight back.

If this is indeed a case of someone trolling the copyright trolls and not a mistake then good for them, I hope they win!
Didn't recognize the author until near the end:

> My position on China is we need “One Billion Americans” in order to stay number one forever, and I’m not going to change that view.

Current Affairs has an interesting article on the author's peculiar form of liberal nationalism[0].

[0]: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/11/why-nationalism-is-a-...
Probably(!) because they are the worst of the large as f*k companies in America. (Hypothesising)
I agree with most of your post, but I'd like to point out that as more and more traditional cars are replaced with robots the possibility opens up for creating communication protocols between highway infrastructure controllers and vehicles. Vehicles communicating with each other and their surrounding infrastructure. Imagine coordinated intersections that don't need traffic lights.

The capability of the system would increase as more nodes are added. Kind of like the Geth from the Mass Effect series.
My twitter is full of animations
(https://twitter.com/LeapJosh) Not many other cool uses of pids specifically.

Each tentacle is rigged to a chain of bones, somewhat ironically. The bones are physics objects I apply torques to. Every node has the same error function, which is "where is the tip relative to the goal?" so, theoretically, they should all be getting torques to help the tip get to the goal.

Turns out this kind of works!

https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1321219814828945411 Each particle there has a pid controller that adjusts the particles angular velocity so it'll fly towards a goal point in the form of a glowing man.

https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1395762486339645443 here's a more traditional procedural animation I did recently that people seem to like.
And who pays and directs said publicist? You were in cahoots reflecting on the intelligence of your marks fifteen minutes ago, remember?

Go ahead, walk back the psychopathy because you couldn’t stick to it. We all totally buy the assignment of liability to a third party and respect your commitment to the troll. The only thing more amusing than a troll is a troll that collapses like a limp noodle under sustained fire from more experienced trolls.
I just came across this via its Rust reimplementation on GitHub[1], and was horrified when I saw in the Try it live[2] REPL that it uses tables for layout. I knew email rendering was awful from experience but I didn't realize it was still that awful.

[1]: https://github.com/jdrouet/mrml
[2]: https://mjml.io/try-it-live
With all these advantages, why did the mobile revolution happen with Apple instead of Microsoft?
> We did actually have a configuration (never released) that had Ignition, FCG, _and_ TurboFan, and boy was it a mess...

Do you mean it had technical debt that was never resolved, or do you mean 3 tiers is always too many?

I believe WebKit's JavaScript engine currently has 4 tiers, [0] although that includes an interpreter as the first tier.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/apple...
I guess this can be implemented as an admin layer on your own application, and also handle sensitive data that may not be copied to a third party for various reasons including regulatory.

I’ve used a lot of pluggable admin interfaces for opening up tables to interrogation and manipulation by non tech people, and this seems better than those, and airtable was usually never on the table.
Fair enough, having it as open source and work with existing databases opens up entirely new usecase & opportunities.
If they're going to start collecting/producing high level tech articles/content, they should just start a magazine like Stripe's Increment Magazine, put effort into the look of it etc and ride the subscription method off that.
This may be a naive question, but...

Given that interactions to the cloud are through a relatively small set of known APIs, I'm surprised that there isn't there a service which replicates the APIs but with the endpoints being on "repatriated" hardware.
A... parody? Of what?

I thought it was a fairly straightforward story about the military industrial complex abusing civil rights and losing in the end "because human brains are special", but I was a kid when it came out so I surely missed what source material it was a parody of.

I took it for a movie intended to be serious that was making not-especially-original commentary on policing and both government and corporate malfeasance, but not that it was parodying anything in particular, I thought the story was as original as most.
If you mean me, I've been lost since 2014 to this stuff: Check my CV on my blog: https://timdaub.github.io
You're assuming that GDP and papers per CO2 emitted are good measures of efficiency, and therefore of what are good uses of CO2.

This is a false assumption. The reason African countries don't produce as many papers is not that they're less "efficient" than anyone else, it's the geopolitical history of the region. Likewise for GDP.

I wanted to comment on what you said about a global carbon tax for countries, individuals and businesses though. I really don't think that's a good way to go. I'm assuming you mean a significant carbon tax, because a small tax wouldn't do much in the time we need it to.

A carbon tax for corporations banks everything on the hope that it will be profitable to move away from fossil fuels in the near future. The cost of failure is a catastrophic global crisis. How do you financially factor that in? How much profit does an activity need to generate for it to be worth causing a global catastrophe? The cost is immeasurable, so you can't put a price on it. Not to mention you might create perverse incentives. An oil company might decide it's financially worth it to emit tons of CO2, pay a fine, cause sea levels to rise, and then corner the market on building inland. There is literally no monetary value that justifies the trajectory we're on.

For individuals, a significant carbon tax means rich people get to emit CO2, and poor people don't. Rich people get to sail on their yachts, and poor people starve because they have to pay more for food.

At a national scale, it's even worse. Rich countries that got rich off of fossil fuels get to keep emitting CO2 as they see fit. Poor countries that were exploited by the rich countries for slaves or resources have to beg for help.

Legislative solutions don't have any of these problem. Ban yachts. Subsidize food. Ban cars. Stop oil extraction. Build public transit. Decrease meat production. Embargo countries that keep emitting CO2. Yeah, these are hard things to do, but they're the only thing we can reliably do. Taking the awful system that got us to where we're at today, adding incentives around it to fix it, and hoping that it works well enough within 10 years so that we don't drive ourselves to extinction is not a good plan. I personally think the economic system we have today is inherently unfixable, but even if you think there is a way of using it for good, are you willing to bet the Earth that we'll find the right configuration for it in time to stop global catastrophe? I wouldn't take that bet