skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I burned through 3 SD cards (even "endurance" SD cards) before I finally switched to an NVMe over USB for my HA RaspPi. I highly recommend the switch even if you aren't having card failures. The performance improvement alone makes it worthwhile.
Also thought this. Let's hope the author has a SQL in the works as I am keen to hear more.
> Why does train control need to be 100% cycle accurate?

It's not uncommon for IO interfaces to be cycle-sensitive. I can only speculate, but perhaps they do not use a timer and it is cycle-exact code for certain timing operations. They could be bit-banging a serial protocol, as that was done then as now. Or they could be controlling very sensitive things where even a few microseconds of jitter is unacceptable. Tying it so closely to the CPU like that was a dirty but common practice in the 70s and 80s. And sometimes simply obligatory! There is no high precision timer on the low-end PDP-11s by default, I believe.
The Pfizer vaccine has cold chain requirements that mean it can't be used for half the world. It's also not clear if we're better off knocking down cases massively in some countries to prevent mutations or doing a slow (2+ year?) rollout across the world targeting the most at-risk, but at the risk of vaccine-resistant strains. That said, the US is looking like a pretty fertile breeding ground for a vaccine resistant strain.
I personally wholeheartedly agree with this article. It is True Doctrine. For me at least.

BUT... these last few years, I have come to some uncomfortable realizations. Not all software developers/engineers are indeed like what this article describes. It took me a while to understand it, but I came to realize that really investing yourself into what you're developing means taking on additional risk. To have successful insights that transcend those basic market driven requirements, you're also going to hit some foul balls. To push yourself to learn new things, to ask questions, creates risk for ego. The personalities that do not conform to what the article describes, are the first to advocate "leadership, direction, single point of contact", etc. I've realized they are sometimes codeword for "offload risk." An interesting symbiosis occurs between developers and non-developers: the doers and the deciders. Because the risk is now floating somewhere between a sort of dissociated yen and yang, both groups can comfortably offload blame/risk on the other group. Everyone wins. Except for the customers and the product. Even if it threatens the long term longevity/viability of the product, the short term optimization of comfort wins out.
I understand it's not designed for exploration, but my thinking is given the other alternative is burn it up in the atmosphere isn't it better to get a bit longer (few years?) use as it drifts off vs burnt up.

With the you need to aim it, could they sent it to a slow spin/wobble and time image capture as focus would occasionally pass by things of interest? Not sure if it needs to be relatively stable for that long timed exposure.

There is probably good reason for not doing this and trying to understand why.
This very much disagrees with you:
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/AAUP-2021-SurveyApp...

A sampling of average overall salaries for professors:

- UC Berkeley (ie bay area): $214,300

- UCLA: $234,200

- UT San Antonio: $130,900

- UT Dallas: $169,500

So an average Berkeley professor makes more than half again as much as an average UT San Antonio professor. And 25% more than UT Dallas.
US’s culture has a lot of focus on one’s self and the steps one should take to get themselves better. Little focus on how awful systems or companies coughlike Googlecough are the one’s with the issues, not us.
$X00k/yr, free food, lots of pampering, don't have to work hard... might as well stay and make comics.
Wow this is borderline slander.
Per the article, it appears to be contagious and spreading, and an increasing number of species are being infected. It's more likely a contagious disease or infection.
I do this too. What are the downsides to this solution?
Kmart In-Store Music Tapes [audio]
This is the narrative. But I haven't seen much censorship that wasn't well deserved.

Perhaps there are a lot of left wing hate speech personalities out there that are not getting taken down, but I have seen little empirical evidence that google really is targeting non-progressive views.
All the mapping worked fine for me as well in vim, and I found gB to be super useful, earlier I had to go first in tree view and then select the file and then use the blame view.
I am guessing whoever wrote this never worked in IT or IT-related group in a large company? Because those are obviously false:

> The reason is simple… most companies just run what everybody else runs, forget about IT and focus on the business.

A lot of IT procedures scale with the number of machine types. If you are running bind with OpenBSD, who is going to notice that this machine has remotely exploitable vulnerability and needs updates ASAP? And who is going to fix its performance if the person who set it up left, and there are no other OpenBSD experts?

It is the same with users. If you are allowing chromebooks, how long is IT going to spend debugging VPN and printer driver issues?

I am not saying that there should ever be a single machine type, but each new type has a non trivial cost that needs to be carefully considered before allowing it. Otherwise you just open yourself to more cyberattacks - remote tool compromises are rare, while “I installed new OS and accidentally exported vulnerable service to internet” scenarios are so frequent they no longer hit the news.
FYI: the author of that comic has just left Google: https://twitter.com/bysarahkrouse/status/1412771753466732545...
Most of the world has no trouble with the cold chain requirements for their urban populations at least. Liquid nitrogen / oxygen is a common industrial good across the world.

And vaccine resistant strains aren’t a big deal, as demonstrated in the new article - the vaccines are still 95% effective at preventing severe illness.
> - sortBy is just lst.sort(key=fn)

You mean sorted(). list.sort only works on list and in-place.
They were too busy dealing with the Weimar Republic raising freicorps, to sit. Anyway, Grosz would have drawn them disgustingly.
I wish ground source heat pumps were more affordable, I asked my HVAC installer, he said I was looking at $30K+ including returning the yard to the state it was in before they trenched in the pipes. That's 3X the cost of the air source heat pump I ended up going with.
I found the rule about absolutely positioned elements interesting given that I often thought their containing block was the closest relatively positioned parent. As outlined in that documentation, though, it's just the closest element that is not statically positioned.
> But this is exactly how market dynamics work in a union of states

Which would be great if any other state had the weather and beauty of California. And California is fucking huge to boot. Not initially splitting it up into multiple states was one of the biggest mistakes in this nation’s history.
just because this tool is written in rust does not mean facebook gets a pass for all the atrocities their software and algorithms have caused upon humanity.
10 years is very optimistic: flatten has little use without a functional pipeline (something like clojure’s threading macro) as in other contexts it’s a trivial comprehension.
A 5x, which ended badly when they mostly died due to a hardware design issue.
How May Edwards became the forgotten whistleblower
Not really. An "exodus" implies a -- large -- net decrease in population. Decreased growth is not an exodus, even if it's driven more by people leaving than fewer people arriving.
I don't think it's speculation at this point. It used to be about who could control the family room TV experience. Now it's about who can control not only the family TV, but also the whole ecosystem of smart devices in the home that you will interact constantly with such as voice assistants and those tablet/hub things. It's all for ads, they're already doing it.
I tend to think that every programming project has its own charm. For some projects one has to look a bit longer to find it.
That's great if you have enough land and don't care about restoring the yard, I was quoted $30K to install on less than an acre, including restoring the landscaping.
my code's in there? im so sorry everyone
Is Ajax Bad for SEO? Not Necessarily. Here’s Why
Imagine having to hit the “refresh” button in your browser to update your Twitter feed rather than just hitting the button on the page itself and having it instantly update? These are the types of problems that AJAX solves, although it does come with its pitfalls. Google might claim it’s able to crawl and parse AJAX websites, yet it’s risky to just take its word for it and leave your website’s organic traffic up to chance. Even though Google can usually index dynamic AJAX content, it’s not always that simple.
I'm looking at different ways to compress a list of integers, came across [0] and this seems to work best [1] for small ints that I'm working with.

[0] https://github.com/invertedtomato/integer-compression

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/invertedtomato/integer-com...
Snappy narratives aren't data, but they are a good cover for not having a better argument.
This is anecdotal but I remember the same right around and up until the 2008 crisis. Emigrant Direct was offering 5.25% savings accounts.
I’ve been thinking along the same lines, but regarding the games industry:

https://mobile.twitter.com/larsiusprime/status/1412881397375...

I think the challenges in my industry are greater, but I think what you’re doing is part of a growing trend I call the “digital crowbar” model. Supercast is an example of one in your space that has already had some major success stories, though their latest poster child (Breaking Points) piggybacks still off YouTube. And of course Substack and Ghost are doing well with newsletters and blogs.

Curious what you think of my framing and how much it applies to your space or not.
? It depends on the size of the population. I don't believe surveying 9 people will tell you anything about public opinion among the ~325 million Americans.

And again, it must be representative. Should I ask 9 friends of mine?
Solar water heating is quite popular in the state of Hawaii -- energy is very expensive there since fuel is brought in by boat and of course there's a lot of sun, so it's very cost effective.
That doesn’t say you can be unlicensed. It’s emergency use of an “amateur station” without restriction of method (eg using voice in the digital bands or operating outside of licensed level). The “amateur station” is defined as “apparatus of amateur service” which is defined in 97.3 as “carried out by amateurs, that is, duly authorized persons interested in radio technique…”. The “duly authorized” part would be the licensed component.
From the readme:

Why?
Some joke about "Git is a blockchain" went too far, now we have this.
not sure how accurate it is these days either
Officially yes, practically no.

It's defined, but it's still a total mess as not everything is updated completely to support UI configuration.
This is a losing argument and discounts the brilliant work and engineering happening here.

You can be happy about this project and accomplishment and still dislike the company, its practices, and its leadership.

I strongly dislike Facebook, but this is really cool. I'm fortunate we get nice things like this.

Same with Google.
Ask HN: iPhone cannot edit a .txt file?
Using any macOS device, create a .txt file using the TextEdit app. Save it to iCloud files. It will sync to your iPhone immediately. You can view but not edit the file.

This, in a closed/controlled ecosytem, in 2021.
How does ethics play into this at all? Pfizer is delivering vaccines as fast as they can, and at this point the bottleneck is logistics. It’s not exactly easy to set up the infrastructure to administer 14 billion shots.

The fact that Pfizer is ready with a booster has little to do with the actual administration of the vaccine.
It's a legal right because some kind of law (in this case the constitution) gives it to you.
Yeah there is no need of this tech in Michigan copper mines, most of it comes out of the ground in solid metal form. Just digging through random rocks on the ground or through beach rocks of the area will quickly result in finding pieces of copper in rocks or solid nuggets. I believe the ground content of copper is suppose to be about 1% in that area.
Or if you’re very Apple. They didn’t start out as that organization per se, but there’s lots of things to be said about how they’re committing to being at least carbon neutral to the planet over the whole lifecycle of their products. They set 2030 as that goal, but I believe they’ll get there much earlier than that. Google just went from one extreme to the other, and it’s seen by many as driven by a focus on Ads.
Edit: the FOSS Community with Linus at its helm could be seen as an organization that’s focused on making the software world a better place.
Not to pile on, but people give small monthly sums to all kinds of individuals and organizations for any number of reasons. It’s a huge factor for small and large publishers and creators alike. In many cases it’s outpacing ad revenue entirely. It’s great because it allows more freedom and incentivize quality.
We are lucky to have a vibrant Right to Repair (1) movement progressing, and lots of DIY tinkerers like myself that fix anything and everything and build 3D printers, and people like Louis Rossmann (2) who repairs laptops and is looking to get a Right to Repair initiative on the ballot in NY. So things are looking up more from how I see it.

1) https://www.repair.org/

2) https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup/videos
What we are seeing is new variants coming from large populations around the globe.

Delta is here. Lambda has just arrived. The Vietam variant which is delta+the British no one is talking about.. it will soon have a name.

Better to lockdown, vaccinate those populations before giving a third or fourth or weekly dose.

Saving Pfizer doses means other brands can go to hotter climates.
This made me think of Gödel Numbering¹, which was used in the plot of "The Gold at the Starbow's End" by Frederick Pohl²

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold_at_the_Starbow's_End
Google doesn’t have the best (publicly) available reverse image search AI. That would be Yandex.

Google is actually pretty crappy at reverse image searches.

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/12/26/guid...
Why on earth would the tenant spend $1500 to break their lease, just so they can go find a new place for $10000/month?
A non-destructive first intervention is using electronics contact cleaner.

I learned from this Fix Old Cameras video https://youtu.be/P57xV0mz8mI

I used it on a Mamiya 80mm f2.8 lens set for C-series TLR’s two years ago. Still working.

Only caveat is to also clean the aperture blades if they are part of the shutter. I didn’t the first time so it two tries to get everything smooth.
>You must be one of those who think ideas are worthless because everybody has them

Yes, one of those so-called realists.

If everybody has them but only 1 of everybody succeeds with the same idea, ideas [1] are obviously worthless.

[1] At the level under discussion, that is: "let's do a business doing X", because otherwise e.g. Relativity Theory is also an idea, and it's certainly not worthless.
They make wooden ACs?
At least the last time I tested on Java, resident memory << virtual memory as idle thread count increased.
Political "news" spewing out of radio and TV for the last forty years has produced generations of people who literally think the other party is actively trying to destroy them, their families and America in general. Living next to these people can be stressful if they think you're on the wrong team.
Well then, in the interest of amity let me suggest that it would be to your good fortune to work on your self-awareness. But, should you prefer not to, then by all means, you do you.
That is a ridiculous amount of work to make a joke.

Edited: effort -> work, to fit the theme
Regarding the bricklayer - if you have not seen it there is a great series showing how industrial chimneys made of brick were climbed for inspection and repair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04dGK1_wYA
Is tracking job entry/leave that popular nowadays? I get it that there were punchcards for factory workers previously, but city workers?

Is this US-only thing or popular around the world also?
You certainly can't post anti-Semitic crap to HN. We've banned this account. The whole idea of "criticizing Jews" is bizarre—as if "Jews", or any large group, were a thing.
A Well-Woven Tale: The fabric of the modern world
As it happens, the author left the company two days ago.
I find that German law idiotic. Of course it costs the landlord something to hire a broker, even if the renter is supposed to pay the fee. It still eats into the overall budget of the renter, that could otherwise have gone to the landlord.
I love how saying something like "people apply politics to everything" immediately makes conservatives feel like they need to convince everyone that they aren't racist.
> > So there's some popularity point where after people use a platform to talk enough times, the platform is no longer allowed to moderate the speech on it? Why?

> Yes, see monopoly.

It's not clear that a large platform is automatically a monopoly. For example, Twitter, Facebook, WeChat, and TikTok coexist.
If you are good, the best thing you can do is go leave and go work for a company doing things a better way. If you are not good the best thing you can do is stay and incrementally dilute their talent pool.

If you actually want to have more impact than that as an IC you could try your hand at internal activism, but I'd say you have a dramatically higher chance of damaging your career than creating any real change at a company that scale.
It seems out of scope for the FBI to be working to catch criminals abroad, especially at this scale. I don't like it. It reminds me of the J. Edgar Hoover days.
That 500 other people with the same idea would have just as well failed (and in fact, tons of people with the same idea did and do fail in most business attemps).

Prerequisites matter (having the money, VC connections), time matter (dot com golden era), place matters (USA vs say Kazakhstan), the overall economic trajectory matters, execution matters - heck, even luck at various different points on setting up the business matters more than the idea.
Probably none. But Synology software updates could brick anything at any time.
I think when people talk about "exodus" form California, they mean domestic migration mostly. Imagine the most extreme scenario (completely ridiculous in reality, but let's consider it for a moment) - all current California population has moved out, and then has been replaced with fresh immigrants. Would you consider this situation as "population exodus happened in California", in the same meaning as it is discussed now, or it would be more appropriate to say "nothing special happened"? I think it would be the former rather than the latter.
Counterpoint: At a top company like Google, full of some of the most talented people in the world, there simply won't be enough promotions to go around.

And yet, an "average" performer who is happy to build, scale, maintain, and not re-launch a new chat product every 5 years should be rewarded and encouraged to stay and not leave to a competitor.

How do you do it? You have to create intrinsic motivation. Twist: You can't give someone intrinsic motivation. They have to choose it themselves. But you have to give them the space and the options to find it.

"Don't focus too much on promotion" is still bad advice - like "Don't be angry" to someone who is angry. But the sentiment is correct. If you're focusing too much on promotion it means you don't have intrinsic motivation and are focusing on the extrinsic.

If you are well paid, well respected, well supplemented with additional benefits, and well challenged with hard problems (and at Google all of these should all have been YES by all accounts), then it's true - you SHOULDN'T focus too much on promotion.

I welcome counter-counterpoints.
in the mid 90s i taught my then 75 year old grandmother on her first computer how to write LaTeX documents in emacs. i created boilerplate templates for her various document types (letters, reports, etc) and she knew how to start emacs from the commandline, load those templates and save them into new documents. and of course preview and print too, but i don't remember if she did that from emacs or from the terminal
> the world is becoming manufactured, and it doesn't need us, but if we could be here, if our souls were given some self-determinism, I think the world & our souls would both be much richer places.

The philosopher Jean Baudrillard speaks on this topic a bit in his last work, "The Agony of Power." Highly recommended reading for all those in tech
Lockdown Effectiveness: much more than you wanted to know
The Gull Next Door
"Controversial farm reforms" - nothing controversial about it, it is in the manifesto of every major party.

The problem is always with a small but powerful, adamant and ruthless minority that is ready to burn down the country to serve their interests.

Ultimately the elected government is the only true representative of the people.

Protests can be made to communicate your dissatisfaction and perhaps let the government know there is an alternate viewpoint.

However, the farmer protest was an orchestrated and violent bullying not only by those politically connected middlemen who want to maintain the status quo, but also a grand coalition of the corrupt, the compromised and enemies of India, including foreign actors.
Wow Lars you're on Hacker News, that's awesome.

As an Indie who started way way back in the flash portal era, I think the current situation with Steam and consoles is a vast improvement over what I experienced back then. Sure I had direct contact with players in theory, and no barriers to publishing my game. Except players had zero interest in me and my poorly made games.

Every indie looks at their conversion rate and goes "I would do so much better if my game got more attention" missing on the reality that attention is the gold of the modern age. Given enough attention anything can succeed, hey you can even sell attention to others by putting up ads.

Thus any platform which is both open, and gives attention (discoverability) is creating an unsolveable market issue. The attention is valuable, so giving it to anyone will just push the market into a market for cheapest converter of attention into dollars: porn. We see this already with Steam where the top lists always contain some sort of porn-lite games.

Thus my own take is: I don't want an open market. I want a market which heavily selects for quality. Then I want to develop and polish my game to meet that quality bar: since in such a situation I know my little train game will not need to compete with fake japanese hentai.
I find this resource is evidence of balance. While it was possible to go to school for camera repair, access was extremely limited…lots of hurdles and gatekeepers.

But here it is on HN and you don’t have to know anyone or anything more than the phrase “camera repair” can go in the Google.

Today interest is enough to get started along the learning curve. Sure it would be great to have access to an experienced expert on the workbench by the door. But that was always an extremely limited resource.
New Zealand is a long flight but IIRC it’s about a 21 hour time change to California (give or take DST) which only feels like about 3 hours. (Not defending the subject of the article, just an interesting time quirk).