skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He posted the article so he could post his comment.
I admitted I have posted this before, and won't be doing so again - my bad
The biggest issue for me with keeping cars a long time is really safety. I kept my last car for 17 years, and by the time I got rid of it, it was really light-years behind modern vehicles in terms of safety features (no side air bags, no rearview cam, no anti-lock breaks, no collision avoidance systems, etc.)

It was still going pretty strong but vehicle tech advances rather quickly these days that after about a decade there is really a sizable improvement in safety.
> Wouldn't interim patch-ups cause stability issues in the long term?

No matter what people tell you or put on their marketing blog, it feels like this is the state of play for 99% of software teams. The only time it doesn't end up like this is when you leave time up front to pay down technical debt (like Intel's tick-tock model), and almost no one does that.
Spot mini was just the first. When 3D printers came out, their price for a decent one was high for both FDM and resin. Now most of them are sub-$1000.
So I can get a cutting-edge PyTorch/TF multi-dimensional array with Nx but Elixir itself still has no basic built-in vector? I don't get it.
It's also the video they had previously fumbled, and spooks are well known to fraudulently "leak" information to get it selectively picked up
> Looks like it’s a format string bug, which is rarely seen nowadays.

Wow, indeed.

Serious question: how would this not be caught in code review?

I mean, kind of the whole point of string formatting functions is that all of the input is given as parameters, not... concatenated to the format string.

I'm not surprised someone with little experience would write such a thing. But I am surprised someone wrote it and then someone else approved it. I mean there is nothing subtle or hard to see about this bug.

Yikes.
Not saying it's not true. Just saying taking a Japanese TV Show as a proof has 0 credibility.
Here: https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Abstract/9000/...
They aren’t somehow entitled to make “the same overall profit”. You seem to think they are.

It’s additional revenue. The phone itself is already hugely profitable. In fact, the original business model didn’t include App Store revenue at all, and Apple were perfectly happy with that.
I don't understand what you are saying.

What is the significance of either of those?
The author is a professor of philosophy at Colorado University, no he doesn't work in tech.

The people he is calling liars and incompetents are journalists and news media, not pilots.
> Financial nihilism

Financialism is economic nihilism.
We also wouldn't keep getting hired to keep rewriting web sites, etc. using the latest frameworks
I am a farmer. I do not rent anything.
There seems to be a sizeable number of people who don't want to vaccinate, plus children under 12 won't be, and also the pandemic will survive in developing countries and travelers coming from them for a while.

So I think the risk of getting infected in fall may well be significant enough to make taking the vaccine a good decision.

Plus of course by vaccinating you no longer need to worry about minimizing infection risk, you don't need to get fake certificates to access things that are restricted to vaccinated people, you are free to travel to developing countries without risk.

Also if you don't vaccinate now and the pandemic somehow has a resurgence you will have to rush to vaccinate then and stay at least month in full isolation while others who are vaccinated are freely going to events instead of doing the isolation now that events haven't fully resumed yet.
The social media bans were over people making completely unjustified pronouncements about it's value. Same as the guys claiming HCQ was extremely effective when the data was completely inconclusive. Anyone saying we should widely deploy Ivermectin is spreading dangerous disinformation. Actually relevant and accurate information is being shared and published freely.
And the article is even dumber than that. Education isn't about increasing one's intelligence, it's about learning things. Some of us may have more capacity to learn things than others, but all of us can learn. Knowledge (the result of learning things) is the goal of education, and it enables economic and personal success. What's so controversial about that?
I was the same then I had kids and now I probably get 6-7 hours per night, and they're fragmented. Your body adjusts. You use caffeine more effectively. One big learning for me is that i blamed a lot of being tired on lack of sleep, when in reality there are other causes (ie a big or greasy mid-day meal, sugar/caffeine crashes, etc).

That said, i'm sure it has long term health consequences though.
My rule of thumb at the moment is that for anything up to 10GB of data SQLite basically Just Works. For 10-100GB it will work if you design your indexes carefully. Above 100GB gets harder - my hunch is that there are various tricks and optimizations I've not yet discovered to help make that work OK, but switching to PostgreSQL is probably easier for that kind of scale.
That's an incredible video! How one person did this is beyond me, but my hat's off to the creator of this project.

I have to say though... the streaming comments overlaid on the video player in BiliBili is beyond annoying.
This would be really useful in a Zombie apocalypse
Real sticking point for many who use public transport is that most pricing geared towards a 7 day, monthly, quarterly or yearly ticket. Which see's a small saving/break even by getting a 7 day travel pass over 4 single day's and no saving in costs/outlay as the 5th day was already covered still.

That does seem to be changing, but is certainly a cost factor many endure, which ironically shifts people into using their own transport and another car on the road factor plays in.

Now for a company, were before you had 4 staff to cover 20 days of work, you now have 5. That has pro's and con's, and certainly numbers of employee's will entail scaling costs. Making you hit certain numbers more easily and that can see more requirements as an employer. So suddenly you need an extra toilet, or larger kitchen, extra facilities and all becomes the number of people registered working in that location tips you into complying with such requirements. On the other hand, you have more resilience and less dependence upon individuals and the impact of loosing one member of staff is less impacting. That with fresher more focused staff due to working less hours, then it becomes a complicated equation to balance out on both sides of the employer/employee relationship.

I certainly do feel the 4 day week is a good thing, one you appreciate more in later life and does help prevent things like burn out. Also working from home has it's upsides, but also like everything, in moderation.

So if you had a choice of working in an office for 4 days a week
or working from home for 3 days and 2 days in the office. I'm not sure the choice would be an easy one for many. Personally the later has much going for it, even if working 5 days over 4.

But one of the best balances I've known somebody to use was that they would do IT contracting in the Winter and would do water ski instructing in the summer. Equally known somebody who would contract in the summer and Ski Instructor in the winter.
Which gets down to one of the key aspects in any job/work - variation, if done right can be as good as a break. Just need to look at all the options and get the balance that works for you.

I just hope more public transportation systems adjust pricing to not punish those working shorter weeks as is the case with the model used in many places today (trains, buses).
I find it a bit strange that you seem to be assigning moral equivalence to animals, plants, viruses and bacteria. Animals should be of top priority because they are the most likely to feel the highest amount of pain by our actions, and we can feasibly take measures to prevent it
There are two types of durians. One which is supposed to be eaten as a fruit when ripe, other which is supposed to be cooked into a dish when raw. When used for the wrong purpose, they taste horrible. Otherwise, the ripe fruit of right variety is sweet, and the dish of the right variety tastes acceptable.
I used to blog on https://steve-adams.me, but stopped due to time and energy constraints. You can find me by emailing steve @ that domain, though.
Hard to tell in advance, without the information. Was this a flippant dismissal or a genuine question?
This is not something where there is a market gap that needs to be addressed. If you make the risk of posting for employment higher, expect fewer people to post.
Somewhat related trying to find software that can record whatever source I am sending to my speakers, like virtual audio driver. Any ideas ?
I would choose 4 days. You said it yourself, actual hours are less but more days mean more extra hours you need to commit, not to mention commute and lunch and other hassles
When I was at Amazon the org structure at my org changed about six times in half as many years. I’d say your chances of having the same manager for a while are not great.
I thought the picture was CGI. It looks like some weird Skyrim mod or something straight out of Google Deep Dream.
Did getting vaccinated change anything ? I've heard that vaccinations helped people with long COVID.

Hope you recover fully.

Edit: since someone asked for citations, here is a CNN link

https://us.cnn.com/2021/04/03/health/long-haulers-vaccine-we...

I follow the "This week in virology" podcast and they have discussed this extensively as well. Dr Daniel Griffin, cited in the CNN article is a weekly contributor on this podcast, and has mentioned the effect in question multiple times.
Would be interesting to know. If you're alarmist about COVID affecting brain tissue long term and we have protections against other diseases that also have long term effects on brain tissues, it reasons to me that you should also be as adamant if not more for protecting against those diseases.

There's a lot of funding studying COVID, for good reasons. Why not use those findings to further other areas as well? We now have some interesting comparisons to look at. Might be even more good reasons to promote getting your annual flu shot.
My guess is this is the UK government trying to somehow mess with the seafood markets to benefit the UK seafood industry. Their quibbles with neighbouring countries over fishing territories is well known. Maybe they are trying to introduce some legislation that makes it much harder for neighbouring countries to sell fish to the UK.
Yes, that's the reason I was asking :( A number of projects implement it, but I'm not an AES member and didn't feel like spending the 50USD for the official specs. I was hoping someone had made a writeup of the overall protocol.
What is LSE?
Pigs are rather intelligent. Cows are fairly... dull though.
What year was the vehicle that did not have anti-lock brakes?

I think it was not mandated into US law until about a decade ago, but some OEMs have offered it since 1987, like Mercedes Benz
When robot dogs become legit intelligent it means it’s time for us to pass the torch to our successors
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>I always had a feeling that "engineer shortage" articles are only made to push people into studying CS so employers can drive wages (even) lower.

And it's working. In the last 10 years, CS has gone from an obscure group of nerds to the number 1 major on many campuses. I literally can't imagine having to compete with the sheer volume of new grads today for a junior position as a self taught developer.
Pipewire has got virtual sinks ootb now.
> we have real data showing that there are long term effects from getting full blown COVID.

As in, 90% (probably more because asymptomatic people are never tested) of people actually have no symptoms at all and seem to go along fine with it? Or are you talking about something else?
We could coordinate our responses to recruiters, even (especially, perhaps) when we're not actively looking for new roles.

I was thinking about this while working on a compilation of companies that have a four day week[0]. I even added a section with suggested replies to recruiters, along the lines of "While I'm not actively looking I'd be much more willing to talk if you had a four day work week like the companies on this list."

If instead of limited to no responses to cold messages there was a consistent thrum of "we want X", firms might get the message.

[0] https://thelistofcompanies.com
You're right! It's on the east side of the Golden Horn, but still west of the Bosphorus.
How ridiculous the ET assumption is depends on the amount of plausible alternatives. And for the Nimitz encounter to be something mundane, several very different things must have glitched or been missinterpreted and one has to put how ridiculous THAT would be into perspective.
Makes sense, people with 10+ years at one place are looking for a new job less often ;-)
With the amount of security illiterate people out there, one platform providing a sanitized version of applications is a plus 0in my view. The amount of security issues and malware that sneaks in on sideloaded apps and stores is terrifying. I'm sure there's a faction inside Apple that sees the App Store as a bulwark against that.

There's always ways to hack around the limitations with enterprise certs and a whole other platform that does allow whatever you want. Family member just needs a phone that's almost impossible to break the OS? Apple. You want to play Dolphin on your phone? Android.
The scale of these "block permit" killings and the amount of suffering this would cause is incomparable to industrial farming. This is not worth worrying about
> Do software engineers really have leverage?

Implicit in the question was a jump from having value to having leverage. It’s possible to have high value and low leverage. Software does produce high value, but there are also many many capable software engineers.

On a side note, I think software engineers have huge amounts of leverage within a given company, in the sense that they often have considerable control over what gets made, how things get made, how long they take, etc. I’ve watched engineers hold up projects they didn’t want to do by sandbagging estimates and building narratives of why it won’t work, and conversely working on the fun problems that interest them and express confidence and optimism that it’ll be great and get done fast. This happens in groups sometimes too.

> How could we increase our leverage?

Most important question to answer is not how to increase leverage, but to clarify what you want. To what end is an increase in leverage? More pay? More time off? Better working conditions? What exactly do you wish to negotiate, and who do you wish to negotiate with?

Speaking about engineering value and leverage is also myopic and seemingly forgets about the value and leverage of other people involved in selling software. Marketing, design, management, sales, QA, and all the other types of jobs that are required to produce and sell high profile software. All of them have value, and software companies can’t do without them.

To increase leverage as a group, software engineers would need to organize as a group. In order to have the leverage to make requests or demands, the entire group needs to be willing to hold out their value until the requests are satisfied.

> Why don’t we choose to use our rare skills for our own profit

Some of us do, by starting a business. Others of us do by taking high paid jobs. You’re in the right place; Hacker News is a forum attached to a well known and competitive seed fund, and much of the News is historically about how startup companies succeed and fail.
>people enjoy the company of other living, breathing things

Can we say the same thing in the future? If a child is given a pet robot will they get bored of it like a toy or will they come to see it as a life long companion?
And cytotoxicity - with the second shot, the body will have cytotoxic T cells which could target some of the transfected cells.

But, why not to be worried:

- It's a normal process and most cells will be replaced.

- The effects would be tiny, especially compared to an infection with the real thing. If this was causing widespread issues, we would know by now.

- All studies done so far indicate that only a very small amount will enter systemic circulation.

It's a classic risk tradeoff, and the risks of taking the vaccine are much smaller than the risk of getting the real infection (billions of viruses replicating vs. one-time dose, real spike protein vs. stabilized spike protein).
Yes, AES67 (like Dante) is geared towards low latency over reliable links. Tipically wired ethernet.
> So yes run your own OS, but if you bought a product and expect its software to do things its creators are clear it doesn’t do, then that’s on you.

That's the point being argued here. They doing all they can to not let this happen. You are saying as if there's still an option to do this.

It gets even worse, because inside the OS, you are their lap dog. They are enforcing options to curb any form of competition. Technology is being forcefully crippled so they can resort monopolistic forms of control.

And with the other hand they teach you to like it in a paternalistic way.
Small farmers face a lot of hazards.

At that time (early/mid 90s),the western farms were the boogeyman post-nafta. It’s sad because IMO companies will be less efficient and have lower overheads than smaller operations in the long run. As more and more consolidation happens and competitive forces make way for cartels, the overheads of $2M/year CEOs and other corporate bs will start to impact prices and supply - but of course it will be too late.
> Does this matter?

Who knows? Maybe there's a ton of viral infections out there that cause some form of brain damage and get no attention at all. Attention bias at play.
So it takes a lot of R&D to find the general shape of a solution, but once that's been discovered, someone else can replicate similar results easily with cheaper components?

Iterative improvement marches down the price...
I think the answer is the Law of Large Numbers. Think about the total number of air missions that the US military conducts on a daily basis. If only 1% of those are anomalous in a way that's difficult to explain, that's a lot of odd occurrences every year. No matter how high tech the equipment or how skilled the operators, there will always be events that sync up in a way that defies explanation. Even if it's only 1% of 1% that fall into this category, that's still several instances every few years.

I don't question the pilots or radar operators who report seeing things they believe to be extraterrestrial in origin. But with enough missions, sooner or later the radar data will synch up with human eyes in a way that seems to indicate almost anything.
I agree with you. An AI also seems much more likely because it doesn't suffer from the weaknesses of organic(as we know it) life. It takes 100k years to go to that star system? No problem just powerdown with a simple watchdog. Radiation? No problem just replace sensitive parts every x years. I mean if you accept that aliens with this level of advancement exist then it's almost certain they must also have created true AI.

Anyway I don't think intelligent aliens have visited us. I think the physics just makes it an improbability even if there is intelligent life in the universe.
https://archive.is/3zL8e
Yeah if you want real security use AES256 instead ...
I think the OP is right about the economic effect. Companies selling their most powerful machine with limiters you must pay to remove dropped the overall benefits of computers to society, but society paid those companies more money for less total benefit as a result of users with higher need for it having to pay more than users with barely a need.

Similarly in software, you can't buy an OS on a per system basis for anywhere near the portion of its cost to produce and keep competitive. The large number of jobs customizing free software exist but they would also exist in a world where there were many competitive profitable stacks bellow them, and they would be buying or creating more expensive middleware instead of expecting anything not specific to their niche to come for free in the next OS release.
> e.g., loving science, wanting to become a real expert in an area

This is good advice, and sort of what I meant as a test to see if you want to do a PhD. Sadly, a lot of grad students did not use the time effectively and ended up anxiously trying to appease their advisor as somehow a proxy for getting accolades from their parents. Although I didn't know it, I, too, fell into this camp to a moderate degree.

In other words, going to grad school to /prove/ something to the world (e.g. "See, Dad, I am smart I AM A DOCTOR!") is a recipe for misery.

Despite not getting into a phd for the right reasons, it was a good lesson in learning how to salvage things. Research not working out? Well, try a different thing (thankfully my advisor was exceptionally great as a manager and adjucator of adequate progress). It was a great way to learn to persevere against a sea of disappointing results and learn to make progress on your own knowledge while being able to ignore the disparities from your own knowledge and the eminent researchers in the field (to whom its unlikely one will ever be comparable to on a research level).

Basically it was a kick in the ass to actually get it together mentally that I don't think I ever would have been able to do without those external forces foisting it upon me; I probably would've been miserable in silicon valley trying to buy things to grasp at happiness. Moving to a foreign country, having to learn the language and customs, being an 18 hour flight from my parents, etc, was the final set of straws that kinda forced me to either address my anxiety / depression, but it could have broke me. I consider myself lucky because I saw many other grad students who just couldn't take it anymore (due to absolute asshats of advisors mostly) and quit.

Still it's nice to now have the ability to live and work in a place that is nowhere near teetering towards being a failed state than where I grew up, and I certainly wouldn't have been able to get a visa to live and work here had it not been for this phd program.
It's not hard to get an organization into the state where devs "with little experience" are reviewing and approving each other's code.
If person is suffering from ischemia/hypoxia due to covid, that could be the way to lose gray matter.
This is absolutely fantastic work.

I’ve been tinkering with Unity’s hex grid trying to automate some top down level building under this alternate grid system. It has some interesting challenges surrounding height/cliffs and water. Quite a useful tool here, even in a traditional square grid space.
High correlation between sleep deprivation and altzimers