skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically I would love to have an exam where I sit down with a professor for 30 minutes to an hour and talk about the content and answer questions they ask.

That would have been fun! The only time I did something like this was when I tested out of one of the intro to programming classes. I was one of the last students to talk to the professor that ran it before he left.
Hmm, we did actually start using a CI product that we hadn't heard of before, because two people we interviewed mentioned it (after checking it out obviously)
I agree on note taking.

On putting your foot down - some bosses react really badly to that. I choose not to work for bosses like that anymore, but I'm in a position where I can do that. Not everyone is, though.
So ultimately we gained nothing other than now having worse worker protections than before [1] and better regular taxis. We could have reached the same result by just overhauling how taxies worked without exploiting the ones that already have barely anything and making a few rich.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQzw8MVlQlo
In the USA the US Army Corp of Engineers is heavily involved in public/civilian infrastructure. For example, see this article on their involvement and attendant controversy in Hurricane Katrina (2000s New Orleans): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers...
Checksums: I'd want to verify the data integrity, especially if it's to be stored for a long time and retrieved in the distant future. So I'd compute at least some sort of SHA sum (I personally use SHA512 but I'm doing it on files in an archive that I rarely retrieve). Possibly a short fast CRC would suffice.

I'd store the CRC/hash plus whatever metadata you need to track (account uploading, IP address, filename, etc,) in the database plus whatever pointer you need to locate it in your cloud storage service(s).

I wouldn't store the files in the database unless you're going to be using something from the database service on the files (are you indexing them for search, for example?).

I'd also sketch out the realistic use to find the potential breaking points. When we did the image storage system for the 1996 Olympic web site we thought we were so, so smart for how we sliced up the filenames and directory structure, only to learn that the underlying DFS we were using was doing its own very sophisticated file slicing and dicing resulting in suboptimal performance. We would have been much better off dumping all of the files into date/time directories and leaving it at that.

|Or do what neximo64 suggests in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27778952
Dropbox Paper is down for most users
There are a significant number of scenes in Airplane that are directly lifted from Zero Hour. I haven't checked recently, but I think it's almost a scene-for-scene remake in many respects.
This is not a new issue for them. I recall dealing with it when I was working on a WW2 combat game 15 years ago.
Or maybe they are just historically a terrible company to work with who makes mostly shitty software and everyone knows it.

There's no moral outrage over here either, just "I dont want to do business with assholes who keep fucking everyone over."
I think it's very interesting how some people are repulsed by the use of mathematical symbols in the sample code. While others love it.

The vast majority of the code I write is not mathy. But I do write a fair bit of mathy code because of the field I operate in. Because of this, I'd side with the ones that hate it for some of these algos: the various sorts, for example. But for others, the use of mathematical symbols brings clarity, IMO. Assuming you already know the algo.

I've had to translate mathematical notation from a set of papers into code before. When I first picked up Julia, I re-did something I had previously done in Python/pandas/numpy. I used mathy notation... and julia code, ended up both MUCH clearer and quite a bit faster. I call that a win in my book.
Josh Bloch refactored libraries in Java that handles a bunch of data structures. It was widely considered a success and he teaches API design at CMU (was also an engineer at Google):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heh4OeB9A-c&ab_channel=Googl...

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~charlie/courses/15-214/2014-fall/sli...

These use Java as the language, but a bit of this applies to web APIs as well.
The logos of the Red Cross, among a few others, are specifically mentioned in international law, including the Geneva Conventions. Firing on vehicles or personnel displaying the logos is, unless they do some very specific bad things, a war crime.

There are a number of incidents mentioned in the post and in this thread where Red Cross workers were injured or killed by combatants. Do I have any reason to believe any of them involve "appropriation of their trademark contributed to the deaths"? No, although I would believe that the defense in most cases would be "a mistake was made". But the Red Cross (and a lot of other people) have good reason to defend those logos.

International Humanitarian Law (https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/home):

"Rule 25. Medical personnel exclusively assigned to medical duties must be respected and protected in all circumstances. They lose their protection if they commit, outside their humanitarian function, acts harmful to the enemy."

"Rule 28. Medical units exclusively assigned to medical purposes must be respected and protected in all circumstances. They lose their protection if they are being used, outside their humanitarian function, to commit acts harmful to the enemy."

"Rule 29. Medical transports assigned exclusively to medical transportation must be respected and protected in all circumstances. They lose their protection if they are being used, outside their humanitarian function, to commit acts harmful to the enemy."

"Rule 59. The improper use of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions is prohibited."

(The Red Cross logos are such distinctive emblems.)
100% this.

Replace a ~$20 part with a ~$150 part, and you can avoid spending up to $1000 sending a repair crew, paying for the vehicle, gas, employee pay, time spent by them, etc. to a single unit.

You'd be lying through your teeth if you think a fleet of off the shelf raspis will last more than 5 years without most failing.

Anyone well versed in cost management within technology will know this.
I used to live just south of Death Valley. One summer, it was up around 115F every day for two weeks straight in July.

An occasional spike in temps to that level was not a big deal. The houses were built to some degree for that environment and had , for example, narrow windows with some kind of architectural detail I've never seen elsewhere that helped shade the windows.

But after days and days of such temperatures, the AC blowing cold air felt like a joke. The walls were hot. The floor was hot. The couch was hot.

You learn to eat different and live different in an environment like that. You make sure you get enough to drink. You teach the kids to stay hydrated. You teach everyone the importance of electrolytes.

I went for walks for exercise after dark when the temp dropped to 99F. There was precious little shade and I sunburned easily which is another serious health threat on top of the risk of heat prostration.

Desert cities of old were built to keep things tolerable at street level. City location was chosen for ability to mitigate the heat, typically a plateau a little above the surrounding terrain. Streets were oriented to maximize the cooling effect of prevailing winds. Buildings were designed to reflect heat rather than soak it up, among other things.

Humans used to work out in the weather much more consistently than we do these days and tended to primarily get around on foot. Now, we go from home to car to office to car to store to car, etc. We don't have the same relationship to the weather and we seem to have forgotten how to live with weather.

At least in the US. Maybe other places are a bit better about such things.
They are always there, the next generation.

They exist, but it's not the same. Not in the same numbers. You're right that a bunch of it is economy-driven, but every generation goes through hard times. Millennials (I assume you reference Millennials) like to moan a lot, but they had it easier than a lot of people before them. Millennials have never known food rationing, mass migrations because of natural disasters, gas shortages, a real war, or many other things that older Americans have.

They will have lived through a Great Recession and a pandemic

They weren't the first. They won't be the last.

they know that climate change is real

I'll give you that one.

it's only older people that are holding them back.

That's simple ageism. The "older" people created all the things you take for granted: computers, space travel, cell phones, satellites, jet travel. You're standing on the shoulders of giants.
Feather is only for rental furniture (you can rent individual items) but doesn't offer interior design. Here's an excerpt from a previous comment:

> ...Feather (YC S17) which is ecommerce + rental furniture. For us, the interior design aspect is a large part of our offering because you don't have to imagine what your apartment will look like with all of these items. Plus, we can offer better prices and spend more on acquisition since we have a large ticket (an apartment or at least a room worth of furniture rather than renting a single chair).
Swedish crypto scammer sentenced to 15 years in prison
> Especially now that labour laws are starting to catch up to Uber and Lyft

So perhaps it's not just competition, and we should give some credit to the regulation too.
And yet even with these 15 minutes you have to immediately mentally reconstruct the context of this meeting and then actively listen to what the other person says, figure out if they actually mean what they ask (quite commonly the issue is different), and then immediately jump into another meeting, and you can't just forget what happened during that 15 minutes. You have to carry this mental model of conversation and context (typically multiple ones) all the day with you. Then you have to actively prioritize across the various contexts and deliver value for all of them, while being in the meetings for the better part of the day.

It's a different side of the same coin.
That's no different than just having a single region serving your application with users that are different distances and latencies away. The one farther away can issue an UPDATE/DELETE at the same time as the closer user, and the closer one would win.

It's all a game of latencies and eventual consistency, so what Fly.io is just treating writes as an HTTP request that has to travel all the way to the primary original, triggered by error an the regional location rather than your application actively doing it.
Nah, you don't understand. Even saying "get lost, I'm thinking" requires focus of Feynman, so by that time many already suffered. Keeping notes - good luck with that, if you thinking about something sufficiently vague, as in like 90+% cases happens to many - programmers. So stopping being passive aggressive is tantamount to cleverly preventing those distractions from happening in the first place - see e.g. Graham's piece with different time of work advice. And in those rare cases when you do need to drop everything - well, that'd better happen at most once a year, or you'll lose more than a few hours each time.
> Typically we dump it outside (waste) but we should be heating our hot water tanks, swimming pools, or anything else that needs concentrated heat at the same time that we're removing it from the indoor air.

My house actually does that!

I had never heard of the idea before moving here, but we have a geothermal system and in addition to the ground loop, it also dumps heat into the hot water heater when cooling the house. (Until the water reaches some maximum temperature.)
For action, adventure, racing games, I agree that 3D is almost always better than 2D. Running around in first-person or third-person is way more immersive and gives much more freedom and depth than anything else.

But for strategy games, 2D can still be good. e.g. for card and board games games, even a "3D" game is just 3D graphics over a 2D playing field. Tower defense, factory-building (Factorio). These games have 3D versions but they aren't particularly better than the 2D ones.
The cost of replacement isn't 0, you need to hire a replacement crew which is insanely expensive in comparison.
Sure. Here's Home Depot:
https://i.imgur.com/bqoV3LI.png

Here's Cabela's:
https://i.imgur.com/SLsba42.png

BTW, I should note that this is showing weekly visits (and the same is true for the AMC chart). Again, this is Jan 2017 through July 4, 2021.
The market can remain irrational while large cohorts suffer due to disinterest in solving the problem more rapidly. There is a reason we regulate financial services in the US.
I think if used for intended meaning in a shooting game, any player wearing or showing the Red Cross would be a third team who's role is to heal everyone.

Which would actually be an interesting game idea...
Join a FAANG or high growth (at least Series A) startup, work hard, get promoted once or twice, get enough stock or RSU cash and save up for the next 4-5y.

Now you have a nice cushion to take risks and a wide open field to do so.
> I think a lot of math could be taught with a lot less overhead and in more understandable fashion. It's just that the natural incentives seem to drive people to unnecessary overhead and barriers for those who actually want to learn.

Ok. Have at it, I guess.

> Lot of the language and symbols involved could be streamlined. But like QWERTY keyboard and C++, you would first have to turn this huge hulking ship of legacy cruft into that direction.

This screams a fundamental misunderstanding of mathematics. The symbols need context to make any sense whatsoever. To a reader with intimate knowledge of the context, the symbols convey lots of information very efficiently. That doesn't mean that the symbols are understandable without context, or even that they could be made understandable without context.
The combo now of some cities such as Barcelona making an Uber-style taxi app is working great, where the city declined to allow Uber but built their own. Some of them combine bike and motorcycle sharing in the apps. For me, this has been a huge gain for which I'm thankful for the tech revolution started by Uber. Also, in some dangerous cities it's now safer given the ride is fully tracked.
The need to manually install proton seems to mostly be out of the way these days. Their release schedule (within steam) has gotten a bit better. Though, I can imagine for bleeding-edge games you'd still need to do this for a month or two before steam includes that new version of proton.
Yes, but is it a bad thing if your Schufa record is non-existent? My impression was that no, that counts as a "clean record". In the US, you need to have "positive history", i.e. lots of credit usage without problems.
Absolutely. This is less of a threat to a corp, and more of an extended takeover that avoids the challenges/risks with other forms of takeovers.
This is true. But not following the rules of war, particularly if you are the weaker side, is not a good idea.
I can't say for certain, but I would trust an iPad to run longer than a stock raspi + touch screen used in the same way.
Given that we still don't have a Mars base, haven't solved the climate problem, and aren't living sustainably on the planet, I would say no.
Makes sense though, a lot of ice melting, water becoming cooler so the next winter you get more ice area with lower ice volume. Rinse and repeat until the whole ice sheet disappears.
God this is such an engineer response. Yes every body is the same and everyone should always do the most optimal thing regardless of the actual outcome or goal.

Some people have poor blood circulation. Pointing a small fast fan at their arms will not cool their core.

Some people get dry eyes easily. Pointing a fan at their face will make them extremely uncomfortable.

Some people are extremely sensitive to temperature changes. They don’t want to be hot but pointing a 40 degree F stream of air at their chest will give them physical pain.

No, this isn’t a one size fits all problem/solution. The correct solution is actually to cool the whole car while allowing the user control over how to cool themselves by adjusting the fans/doors. It would be much better however if car manufacturers included better PID controllers as well as moisture sensors inside and outside the cabin to create better climate control. In a car that really shouldn’t be difficult, at least with the windows closed. It’s not like a house with multiple rooms that have different exposure to heating and cooling as well as sunlight.
This is probably true, but socially Apple seems like it gets a better reception/superior people. Folks at Amazon are pretty normal.

Disclaimer - I’m very average and work at Amazon
is eMMC mechanical?
+1 for paying for value. At the scale that companies like Facebook operate, 40% improvement on compute efficiency represents millions. I’m not really an Oracle fanboy, but definitely feel that value should be captured where it’s created, especially for enterprise use cases.
ahh, the glorious "welfare queen" myth emerges again, this time as a lazy alcoholic millennial.
Carly Fiorina? Wasn't she (mis)managing HP?

Edit: my mistake, yes Compaq was bought my HP and therefore it fell under the control of Fiorina, in the end.
Yes. I've had two failed after 2 years of 24/7 uptime.

What SD card do you use for yours?
Non-Medium link: https://mimix.io/en/blog/scams
Tidyverse
> We could have reached the same result by just overhauling how taxies worked without exploiting the ones that already have barely anything and making a few rich.

"overhauling how taxis worked" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I have a hard time seeing how that would've ever happened in the absence of something like a Lyft or Uber. That's an extraordinarily difficult task.
I’m eagerly waiting for the Linux M1 port.
It’s so hot that Canada’s sea creatures are cooking to death in their shells
That would depend on the level of expertise you need. To pass a highschool calc exam, probably less than 100$. To have someone sit the LSAT for you in person, probably in the low five figures. I've never been involved with people actually being paid for such things but they do happen.
Huffman allegedly paid $15,000 to get her daughter unlimited time on the SAT. Paying to have someone actually stand in would have certainly cost more.
My understanding is that bars in Vegas do this with “atmosphere models” who are payed to fill out bars and encourage people to order more drinks in general. I heard about it in this podcast:
nodumbquestions.fm/listen/2021/5/20/109-what-happens-in-vegas

starting at 37:00 with context and about 39:50 when he gets into atmosphere modeling. This guy started working in the back of a bar for a few days a week and part of the deal was he would spend some nights sitting in a related bar. He also goes into a lot of other interesting stuff that happens in Vegas which I don’t remember off the top of my head.
Thx for your thoughts!
My point was that just keeping negative records, instead of forcing people to open credit lines to build history, seems to work out very well in other parts of the world. And so there may be a point to the assertion that this system of having to build "history" is to incentivize credit usage.

I don't see what electronic payment usage has to do with it. There is electronic payment usage in Germany, but it's almost entirely debit cards. The reluctance to use electronic payment at all has nothing to do with whether it's one or the other.
>A company - let's call them "Fronk" - asked me to come in for a consultation about a Developer Advocacy programme

So if I follow the logic, the OP must have signed an NDA for a consultation, then they talk about something quite different and fishy, and he feels bound by the NDA not to say anything.

Wondering 2 things: is that a valid NDA? Should he have signed such an NDA?
Good and important point about educating developers.

Maybe it goes even further and similarly to planned EU regulations, products based on black-box AI models need to have documented behaviour.

So the documentation needs to include explicit hints about generated code being unsuitable for clean room engineering and has to be considered "tainted" one way or the other.

I don't worry about verbatim reproductions at all, because results of that nature can easily be filtered out if need be (or be annotated with the proper reference). I'd expect a company that also runs the 2nd biggest web search engine to be able to pull that off with ease.
They use the old stories and then add walls of serious text and sadness and darkness that weren't there in the original comics.
VPN – A Very Precarious Narrative
You might be right, I can never tell the serious people from the trolls when it comes to crypto. And often times the serious ones are even otherwise intelligent. Crypto is like religion in that sense: sometimes the most intelligent people believe the most egregious things! My apologies if I failed to spot what should've been an obvious troll..
Note taking is underrated especially because when you're junior you don't get interrupted and you can keep everything in your head. People think "If I could just not get interrupted" I wouldn't need to take notes.

It has the added benefit of day to day it can help you remember what you're doing. Also if you save your notes if you come back to the project in a few months you have a refresher.

Besides basic note taking I suggest two additions to it.

1. Keep it in reverse chronological order. For multiday or multiweek projects this makes it easier

2. Add the links to sites you were using instead of trusting browsing history
Firefox in various forms has been around for nearly 20 years.

Rust was Graydon Hoare's personal project. But I don't think Mozilla funded it for no reason.
That’s because you have good blood circulation. Blood acts as your body’s coolant and transfers heat to your hands. Lots of people don’t have this so what they would get is the sensation of being very hot except their hands which will get very cold. Not a pleasant combo.
Incredible amount of pissing and moaning over nothing except doing their required diligence to protect their trademark. Not news. Sage
Those lame questions happen because no one can think of a better way.
if appearances are important, consider ordering a club soda with lime. bartenders will usually understand that it ought to look like a gin and tonic.
> Why all the drama in movies these days? We just wanna see two girls kiss and walk away in the twilight, hand-in-hand.

I don’t see how that’s enough to support a film? No challenge to overcome or issue to resolve? That’s a basic of storytelling. What’s left without it?
Are you suggesting we can't move on unless the CDC says so?
PrizeShips, transfer larger files without monthly subscrptions. Fast
Their logo is just the flag of Evil Switzerland, anyway
While you are clearly concerned, it’s very unlikely. If the bureaucracy there was really that good at catching stuff like this, they wouldn’t be so incompetent at allowing this whole situation in the first place. also I doubt anyone really cares enough. It’s not like intel is a family business or even a closely held company with someone taking anything personally.
Mmm. A shame I've been downvoted, not many people will see it.
Quit drinking a year ago. I still drink one beer max if social setting requires it and I limit it to like once a week tops, ideally once a month.

Best decision I made in my life. If I want to get tipsy to enjoy some movie or music, I just take an edible. Weed is orders of magnitudes more practical than alcohol. Alcohol hangover is the worst. Edibles (especially sugar/calory free edibles they make now) are a lot healthier than alcohol and my mental health doesn't take a toll.
I'd imagine your friend(s) would care if you called them with questions frequently enough!