skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Capitalism and the free market would be so great, if people could actually participate.

Agree. Public healthcare and education would go a long way into enabling everyone to participate more freely. Instead we footgun ourselves into projecting the "pick yourself up by the bootstraps" mindset onto others, which just doesn't work unless everyone has boots.
This is no different from tampering with your utility meter before they were smart, though?
London’s Tube, world’s oldest subway system, will finally get cell connectivity
> and helped sort things out

How?

Being overloaded for a long time is also sometimes a sign that the business is failing.

Which is horrible: It is when a founder is the most tired that he has to deal with the most unknown part of the work. For a simple project manager, it is often when you miss a deadline that you have to write reports and deal with stakeholder dissatisfaction, which cascades into missing other deadlines and having to implement more and more damage control to perform.

Sometimes the only way is to walk away and let it all crumble.
Eve solved it perfectly. The Eve universe is dangerous. By undocking you consent to PvP, don't fly what you can't afford to lose.

The game treats you like an adult that can accept risk and thus the rewards from playing the game are higher for me.

I wish more games took a similar mature approach.
Not exactly related, but some time ago I realized it's not ok to make fun of people with physical disabilities but somehow it's totally acceptable to make fun of people with lower IQ.
Been reading about CI/CD and testing best practices.

I'm an SRE and my company has had these as pain points for years... Might need to learn how to advocate for adoption next XD.

Also looking into ML for time series data (metrics). Greykite and Kats seem to be interesting candidates.
Immaterial. You're telling a person what to think about their home country.
I agree. And who came up with 30%? It seems to be industry wide extraction fees. Why stop at 30, why not 50?
Being trans is a personal philosophy. You may argue that the 'feeling' is innate, but must make major changes to your outside appearance/ biology / defy culture norms.

With that being said, defying cultural norms is a good thing but you can't force me to accept your reality. I have to option to have a difference in opinion than you. If i accidentally say sir, instead of mrs you can't cancel me because of it.

I don't claim to be a moral precept but what i do offer you A peace treaty. You can live your life in a way that is pleasing to you but you cannot force other people to accept your beliefs no matter how much scientific or cultural backing it may have. if the local womens book club doesn't want a dude who 'Claims' to be a women in their book club but can obviously still see he's a man, that's okay. It's not discrimination, it's difference in opinion and that is okay.

edit: Deleted a paragraph discussing sports. I think it mainly took away from my argument rather than helped it.
Rather than being a suppressed topic, in my experience, this is a case of people talking past each other. It's like correlation versus causation (versus plain old connected definitions). It can be true that A and B are correlated, while A doesn't cause B (or neither causes the other), and while their definitions have nothing to do with each other. Like nurse and gender. They're correlated in the US, but making someone a nurse doesn't change their gender, and the definitions have nothing to do with each other. Maybe in some countries the correlation is even flipped!

Recall all the times in stats where an estimator can be an unbiased estimator of a correlation while being a biased estimator of a causal effect.

So you get some people saying it (the correlation) is correct and other people saying it (the causal effect) is incorrect. Both are right! To stop talking past each other, they need to talk about bias with respect to the correlation or bias with respect to the causal effect in this particular direction.

But what frustrates me is when the correlation side uses the (true) correlation to argue against a system being biased with regards to something else (w.r.t. a definition or w.r.t. a causal effect or w.r.t. a literal translation or w.r.t. some more complicated aspect of the system), and that harms are okay because the bias is a correct bias.

We need to work on our terminology so that we can stop talking past each other. It doesn't help that our models have weird biases in absurdly complex function spaces, but we have to progress beyond a first-stats-course one-size-fits-all definition of bias.
> running a happy hour secretly in his insured bar

Can you explain what this means and why it is a problem? --Confused
>"Consider this Scheme expression, taken from the Rosetta Code example for the Mandelbrot set:

(boolean->integer

(inside?

(make-rectangular (+ x-offset (\* pixel-size i))

(- y-offset (\* pixel-size j))))

[...]

Stack languages are a mirror image of Lisps, written in postfix rather than prefix notation.

So a Forth-like version of this expression would be the same words in reverse, without the parentheses:

j pixel-size * y-offset -

i pixel-size * x-offset +

make-rectangular inside? boolean->integer"

PDS: I know about both LISP and Forth -- but until I read this article, I never made this simple, intuitive, elegant, and utterly brilliant -- connection!

Yes, it's absolutely true!

And it's utterly, utterly brilliant!!!

To the Author: Thank you for writing this article!!!
> US Smart Meters use RF to shout out their values everywhere like an RF beacon. A power company vehicle drives around the neighbourhood, collecting the values, storing them and moves on.

> Source: I did smart metering software for L+G.

How long ago? I believe that was how the earliest meters that did not require someone to actually look at the dials worked, but many or most have moved on.

For example the meters that Puget Sound Energy is in the middle of upgrading too (they did mine a couple months ago) (Landis+Gyr meter using their Gridstream RF system) form a mesh network to communicate with the mothership, which they describe thusly [1]:

> At the center of the Gridstream RF Mesh solution is a true mesh, peer-to-peer network where each endpoint, device and router communicate in a peer-to-peer fashion, extending the coverage and reliability of the network. The asynchronous, multi-channel communication structure allows for increased data throughput and opens more paths to the data collector.

> The self-healing network features dynamic routing messages that automatically adjust for changes to endpoints and the introduction of obstructions, such as foliage or new construction. System routers utilize one Watt of power to increase transmit distance and throughput, while data collectors support up to 25,000 meters, further minimizing infrastructure and maintenance costs.

The documents tab on that page has PDFs with product sheets for the various components (endpoints, collectors, routers).

The previous meters PSE used looked like traditional analog meters, but my account page at PSE showed my daily usage, updated daily, so they definitely had some kind of remote reading capability. I'm sure it was not someone driving around the neighborhood daily because it continued updating even whenever weather made it so it was very difficult to get a vehicle into my area for several days. I don't know if those were a mesh network--they were installed sometime in the very early 2000s I believe which seems a little early for that. Could have been cellular or power line networking. I know that both of those techniques have been used fairly widely--I just don't know what my particular meter was using.

[1] https://www.landisgyr.com/product/gridstream-rf-2/
Does that help with an exec of an arbitrary string from an input? Or a database open to the internet? Or OS level security issues?
Article is not about "being mean". It's about professional and other discrimination against an unprotected class of underprivileged people.
I know he himself has pushed the "no cash" narrative (perhaps to seem more like an underdog or a true believer in the various things he's pumping?) but it's ridiculous.

He could get a loan of $10M, a tiny fraction of his wealth, in minutes. He could collateralize it easily with any of his assets, even if some aren't liquid (although we should consider Tesla stock to be very liquid at this point).
I wonder if this will be used in a more positive way than what most people would assume initially.

There are tons of legal situations where confidentiality is absolutely necessary, for example when dealing with medical or legal records. I imagine Amazon's GovCloud might incorporate this as a potential cloud hosted chatting solution.

With telemedicine and remote legal proceedings becoming more and more common, secure chatting while complying with HIPAA and confidentiality rules is going to be an important market.
Don’t you think that now that you’re not struggling to make ends meet you have more time and have the freedom to think about these things?

I went from working 16hs and never being home paid 10/hr to a cushy 8hr job where I am mostly working on my personal projects and I can’t wait to get out. But I’m not going to go out there and say “burnout is real” because I remember that back then I didn’t have a choice and I was way worse than I am now.
I mean, the Python2 vs Python3 split was primarily caused by language changes, not tooling. And Go’s 1.x comparability promise is rock solid. It seems difficult to compare the two.
CodeDeploy fails in horrible ways and the maintainers are somewhat unresponsive. I don't use it anymore but am still subscribed to some issues which apparently weren't fixed for years...
> The loss of vacation days — which is equivalent to a fine

No they are not equivalent. There is a reason workers fights so hard to get vacation days, they are important and money is not a substitute.
Do you feel this way because the behavior's largely imitative, or because it's happening on a computer? Is designing and building a replica of a Boeing 747 with LEGO also not creative? Or making some kind of Rube Goldberg machine with LEGO Technic parts and junk from around your house? I would expect not, under this framework for what is and is not creative. Where's the line, though?
Congratulations. Getting fired for doing the right thing might hurt in the short term, but it's the right thing to do and eventually (perhaps already) becomes a great story to tell.
Totally agree. I'm working on a mixed reality app and have started learning Blender as well to set up asset pipelines and toolchains, so being sucked into the 3D modeling world also. I've been surprised to find a ton of overlap between 3D modeling and ML-based tools to assist in the process. Would love to trade notes if you're available to chat sometime.
Who's based in Russia? Fastmail seems to be Aussie/American and Protonmail is Swiss.
Going to add Egberto Gismonti to the list as well, my favorite Brazilian musician to listen to, even if not necessarily the most well known.
Trump’s stance on a particular fact should have zero correlation on the reporting of that fact- that it does, is an indictment of a whole industry.
One of the CCDH's criticisms of Facebook's internal analysis is that apparently they counted shares as discrete "pieces of information", never mind paraphrases.

The "dirty dozen" highlighted producing 65% of the content CCDH class as antivax have a combined 59 million social followers and are extremely prolific. So if nothing else, we can be sure that [by Facebook's metrics] there's a lot more than 18m obvious "pieces of misinformation" by any reasonable standard posted to Facebook over that timeline.

Of course it's not totally impossible Facebook's review process is so bad that they focused all their efforts on suppressing mainstream news stories about blood clots and people wondering whether they should still take it if they'd had adverse reactions to vaccines in the past. Certainly nobody would argue Facebook is perfect, but with the quantity of actual ludicrous antivax content out there clearly being greater than what they removed, it would have to be extraordinarily bad to have primarily targeted standard concerns. And that in itself would be worthy of discussion (and again CCDH specifically question whether Facebook's algorithms are adequate to distinguish between individual and organized vaccine hesitancy..)
https://private.sh/ is something I've been working on lately. It is powered by my search engine of 20 years, https://gigablast.com/ . private.sh can't be evil because it uses javascript encryption to encrypt your query so that only gigablast can read it, and then it routes your encrypted query through a proxy so that gigablast does not know your IP. This level of privacy is a notch above what everyone else is offering as it is guaranteed by cryptography. Basically we can only offer this because Gigablast is the back-end search engine, not Google or Bing. You need a backend search engine that supports the encrypted query protocol. All the other "search engines" in the U.S. are just serving Bing or Google, but mostly just Bing.
Take it seriously. I don't know if there's a ton of studies around this, but IMHO there's a lot of anecdata that suggests that this sort of burnout can be a lot like other bodily trauma... a little bit of it isn't permanent, but if you ignore it and keep re-traumatizing yourself, it can become permanent.

I've never personally experienced true burnout, but I also have a policy of taking it seriously and making sure that I do something about it long before it becomes a permanent trauma, and I have had to call a couple of multi-week vacations with relatively short notice, or perhaps announce a vacation a month before the end of some important project. Sometimes it's even as simple as waking up on Friday and just realizing that today is a "Nope!" and taking it off. I think if you nip it in the bud you often may not even need to do it that often. But take it seriously.

And if your job won't let you do that, take seriously the possibility of finding a new one. Yeah, finding a new job sucks, but permanently burning out sucks way more.
I think most of the modern gear uses ZigBee’s publicly document smart energy protocols. It’s encrypted.
* Russia did not invade Crimea, it joined Russia via popular referendum. Virtually no one died and there is no internal movement to rejoin Ukraine (who clearly cares about Crimean "citizens" because it cut off their water supply). That is not an "invasion". These are all easily verifiable facts.

* Hong Kong is part of China since it was decolonized. This is indisputable.

I'm curious, have you actually studied the historical context of Crimea and Hong Kong? Beyond just taking headlines from NATO-aligned tabloids as absolute fact?
> If you gave a mammogram to every 20 year old woman, you would end up doing a large number of unnecessary biopsies and you’d find almost no real cancer

If you gave a mammogram to every 20-year old, you wouldn't do a biopsy when you got a positive. You'd increase monitoring and maybe suggest lifestyle changes. The same way we don't immediately catherize everyone who comes back with high cholesterol.
Just to be clear, because I don't think you're making this mistake, but it seems like people replying to you are, this research data is referring to all blackouts nationwide over some study period, not the Texas ten-year storm from a few months ago.

When that storm hit, ability to pay meant absolutely nothing. Poor and rich alike all lost power. When the generating stations and lines all freeze, it becomes impossible to get energy out, whether anyone can pay or not. Money doesn't magically make capacity appear when the delivery network itself fails. That was really the downfall of the Texas approach. Naive economics assumes you can deal with shortages by just rationing using price, and higher prices will incentivize producers to produce more. But if the delivery infrastructure stops working, it makes no difference what the producers' incentives are. They can't deliver anything whether they want to or not, no matter what you're willing to pay them.
You are getting close to criticizing posters for "wrongthink"

dressing it up under the term "boilerplate ideological rhetoric" doesn't change anything.
I'm starting to think that everyone would be less outraged if they rebranded python3 to <insert_different_snake_here>
The on-demand grocery battle is getting bloody – here’s the state of play
Instead of a game, they release a roadmap. The development of this...I can't even call it a game...are just ridiculous at this point.
Not reading a twitter threat. Seriously? Twitter? As a long-form blog platform? No.
This is a port, the original is here: https://github.com/pmndrs/racing-game It uses cannon-es (physics).
xmmp, period.
I have. Their offerings are even less impressive than many of the popular SaaS CI servers, which themselves are usually (and incredibly!) inferior to Jenkins - except they maintain themselves due to all the cloud whatnot
In the interest of fairness, shouldn't this finish with:

> In proper Go team fashion, they have declared that because sometimes replace directives are difficult,... they've asked for proposals that can be publicly vetted and discussed?

The line has been "submit a proposal, let's review it" as long as I can remember.
Weird. I’ve seen it at almost every job I’ve had. Layoffs - not just firings.
It is phrased as 'it is your own fault' ( Y'all have to thank ). How is that not bitter.
In other words, Chime is to Amazon as Sametime is to IBM.
It is? Maybe it was forty and fifty years ago.
Adults don't go to school.

It's not that much further to vaccinate kids though, we are almost there.

In the UK schools have been open, and the new variant is rampaging through, if we hit vaccine escape it will be because of actions like this.
How to start a business and Rails (the experience has been a surprising breath of fresh air after fighting Xcode for 10 years)
It might be that work worth the equivalent of $769 is required to get a point?
Newsletter popup that asks for email address and if you click Cancel or X doesn't save it: annoying but not a dark pattern

Popup that asks for email address that doesn't have an 'x' (or the 'x' doesn't appear for a while) and the email address field secretly records what the user types and even though they clicked cancel their information was secretly shared: dark pattern
They probably get paid out for unused PTO (common in US) and I would guess a very small number ever use up their vacation time, an exceedingly difficult thing to do in any American job outside of tech (and maybe even for a lot of tech workers).

So taking away vacation days from those people would be literally equivalent to fining them the payout of their days wage.
Do you mean vendoring, not censoring?

Either way, this is a terrible way to do it. I've lived it. It results in libraries that don't work unless you freeze to exact git hashes of dependencies and never evolve because it's too painful.
What's really bad about the new taskbar is that grouping and icon-only buttons seem to be forced, with no options to choose from. I like being able to read the full window titles and being able to reach any window of any application in a single click, if not space constrained.

KDE, even considering it implies Linux (with all the good and the bad of it), has never looked so attractive, as Windows' desktop environment degrades due to chasing fads.
When I was in school, one of our midterms for wildlife biology was to take a tooth or some bone fragments and describe as much as we could about the animal's habitat, food sources, overall health before death, roughly how old the animal was and a bunch of other things.

It's actually surprising how much information a single tooth or piece of bone can actually give you.
Someone used the version of this available online last year to create a 3D video version of the output, super interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXFmZsv0Ddw
Save up money, 100%.

Be very careful about saving up vacation days to bank against burnout. That's a recipe for having a solution which caused the problem it's a solution to.

Something I've been dealing with is that for the last ~15 months, the concept of a vacation didn't even make sense. I took some weeks off, once because I just couldn't work and once on purpose, but as a remote worker for four years, that's really not a vacation in any meaningful sense.

That and pandemic stress are going to push a lot of people to burnout. My suggestion is that everyone take a real vacation as soon as life circumstances make that possible, if you haven't already.
For me it's something about the inputs and the outputs being more strongly connected. I put in 30 min of sanding, I get X done--I put in 60 min, I get 2X done. Same with cleaning/mowing. Put programming? Often bang my head for 4 hours and then figure it out in 4 minutes the next day.
I sleep less deep when on my back.

Believe there's studies on amyloid plaque clearance differing b/n different positions. And I believe back sleeping has less of such than side.
The article said they lost the days and nothing else happened. Are you saying the article is wrong or heavily misleading?

> In some 89% of the cases made public, reduced vacation time was one of the penalties levied, and in more than 60% of the cases it was the only punishment.
> the costs and risks weren't weighed carefully

It's just getting harder and harder, as more and more is revealed, to believe that the costs and risks weren't weighed based on what harm or benefit would come to specific individuals instead of how specific policies would help or hurt specific politicians and political interests. Schools were closed even though children were at the least risk, but nursing homes were forced to accept COVID-positive transfers even though the elderly were at the greatest risk.
Almost up to 365 days on Duolingo: French, German, Italian.
I don’t know if the west is overpaid or if it’s just that the people outside the west are underpaid. I think it’s more likely the latter.

Both can be underpaid, ya know?
But it's still just a tool that functions to your input. An IDE which insert a lot of boilerplate and autocompletions, does it get the copyright to your codebase? Nope.
I often wind up sleeping in contorted positions, and I've had a similar issue with my rhomboid muscles.

About 6 months ago, I switched to a split keyboard and it's made a big difference for me. Sitting with my arms shoulder width apart has taken a lot of the strain out of my neck and back.
I'm taking an online cohort class about Rene Girard's philosophy.
I am highly in favor of this type of self contained technology. The last thing we need is for the grid to become inadvertently dependent on the cell network, which is, in turn, dependent on the grid. If there’s a multi-day outage that takes out the cell battery backups, the grid needs to be able to start up independently. This is hard enough without accidental networking dependencies.

(I believe that at least some of the blatant inequity in the Texas blackouts was necessary for this type of reason. There were various critical facilities (gas pumping stations, for example) that, if shut down due to rolling blackouts, would have further reduced grid capacity.)
And the higher you go the more ghosting you get and the contrast level drops sharply.

They increase the refresh rate by both boosting the voltage and limiting the dynamic range of the screen.
It is a using custom renderer indeed: https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber it doesn't wrap Threejs, just expresses it via JSX similar to how react-dom expresses the dom.
The $769 is referring to the estimated money saved by fixing bugs, rather than the trade in value of the points.

> For information on how points are awarded, see the Official Rules. Actual savings may vary.

Section 5 of the official rules document states approximate retail value of the prizes as; reInvent:$4000, Resin Trophy:$60, Hooded Sweatshirt:$27, tshirt:$12

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