skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And an otherwise sane friend of mine thinks Alexa is dope. I guess it's always a matter of where you draw the line, I for my part, want to be in total control of who gets sent what concerning ALL my devices, and I think this should be my right as a citizen and customer.
Rrweb.io – open-source web session replay library
If you want to get technical, this isn't a continuous surface but weave of strings. And something that makes this more complex is the location of the string intersections has a static/dynamic friction component that is difficult to model analytically. But I think we accept your approximation if you are looking for numeric results.
Hydrogen production is only going to go up because there are many uses for it. If you want green steel you need to use hydrogen. It will also make sense to use that hydrogen for transportation.

You're in some strange mindset of it being batteries versus hydrogen. It isn't one or the other. It's both.
Beta program for SQL Server on Windows container is suspended
but it makes some good points.
No pain, no empathy.
A tangentially related development recently has been peroxide generators to put inside buildings to generate enough hydrogen peroxide to sterilize the air/surfaces without being a health hazard. I've recently had a local school district request that we analyze these devices as an option for COVID mitigation: https://synexis.com/science/reports-data/
I am not American, and I think the rest of world has become somewhat immune to the gun violence in the US. A mass shooting here, a mass shooting there, pretty much every few days. I will even give a thumbs up to the right to bear arms, seems reasonable.

But reading the context of that report is quite shocking, mass shootings (as per the definition of CNN), innocent bystanders, children, children with guns shooting other children, 18 people killed within 6 hours. The right to bear arms to fight an oppressive government, seems to be now the right to go out for a picnic with your kids and get shot. What a horrible cancerous situation.
Sure, the beam might be greater than 1km FWHM, but you’ll lose gain if you’re off too much, so they may be able to triangulate better than that just off of angle alone. It’s also possible they may do time of flight measurements (as a backup to GPS… which is relevant especially for the military side).
The Rise and Fall of Apple’s Gil Amelio (2013)
Trivial to an infosec professional, sure, but what about the artists, the wordpress cpanel hosters like me that can rig up a site using html/css but doesn't dare to host anything more dynamic knowing full well there'll be security holes?

There's a huge gap in technical skill from "can get an interactive site online" front-end-ish perspective versus a back end professional.
And let's not let any embarrassing examples of real world fuel cell use get in the way:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/41389/hyundai-clocks-1-million...
The site offers a subscription service for extra features, unrelated to the unlimited, free API. And yes you absolutely can monetize the data for your own apps, we encourage it!
The nature of the future seems obvious to me, but what I envision, I don't often see mentioned in these sorts of discussions.

The engineering people talk about won't get us to self-supporting colonies on other celestial bodies.

What will, someday, is re-engineering ourselves until we become the extraterrestrials we've failed to find in the rest of the solar system.

It's analogous to how life emerged from the water on Earth. Every cell in our bodies (I'm plagiarizing a little, but I don't recall what) carries a bit of primordial ocean with just the right saltiness, because we really are still sea creatures with built in life support. But at the same time, we aren't adapted to the open sea and can't go back.

Some day there will be creatures descended from us, maybe called human and maybe not, who have changes at the cellular level or lower to deal with the harsh environments on other planets. That carry their own atmosphere and ozone layer with them. And they probably will not be able to return to Earth.

The litmus test will be whether a place is survivable with stone-age technology. Otherwise it's only a matter of time until a colony is wiped out due to some unforeseen technology failure.
> Nothing regulates the latter

That's not true. The Stored Communications Act _does_ regulate this. In fact, it was passed in response to concerns that the third-party doctrine would mean that nothing would be protected from the government if it was stored by a third-party service provider.

The law says that the contents of communications may not be divulged unless certain conditions are met, even voluntarily. See 18 U.S. Code § 2702.
Even if you're sure you don't have flaky hardware, you should still have multiple servers with failover. In the same way, even if you're sure that the law is on your side when it comes to arbitrary seizures, you should keep multiple accounts.
It is a phased array, the closest thing that exists to it in the rest of the world is the phased array radar in the nose radome of an air superiority fighter jet.
Is it?

https://o3de.org/docs/user-guide/platforms/linux/

(PS: not being coy, just confused by conflicting documentation)
Hypocrisy is not something our governments are immune from, and the words of commissioner Johansson are not encouraging:

> She wants tech companies to face mandatory detecting and reporting obligations

> “The problem is that many of these communications are now being end-to-end encrypted,” she said, whereby only the users exchanging messages have access to the content.

> While encryption is "really important," she said, "we don't want pedophiles to be able to do whatever they want, to not be seen, we have to protect [children] so this is not an easy challenge to tackle.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/encryption-could-hinder-chil...

As long as politicians pretend that you can have both I'll assume they are either disingenuous or ignorant and I won't be at ease.
As I understand it, paracetamol was discovered as the active metabolite of a much more damaging drug (acetanilide); and that most of paracetamol's effects is due to a metabolite of paracetamol in turn, namely AM404.

Why the pharmaceutical companies haven't done to paracetamol what they did to acetanilide, I don't understand. Providing AM404 directly would avoid the production of NAPQI in the body.
Assertions that resonate with the experience of a large number of people, I imagine.
There's research that suggests that physical pain is closely related to (if not identical to) emotional pain.

If such implants will be able to eradicate physical pain in humans (so far it's only been tested on rats), will it also eradicate emotional pain?

Ethical questions immediately crop up, since it's possible that experience of pain in oneself is necessary to develop empathy for others, and without empathy you could get sociopathy or at least less compunction against hurting or killing others. The military would probably love this.
> But there is any easier way. In Haskell just use a typeclass

I understand your point. In fact, I mostly do what you say, because it is simple and usually sufficient in most cases.

But it is important to understand that there is a difference. A minilanguage or an embedded DSL with free monads allows for custom transformations and it completely separates the interpretation from the description of the domain logic/actions.

With the approach(es) that you mention, that is not the case. You both describe and directly execute/interprete the logic in an intermingled way. That can be an advantage because it makes things easier (less abstraction) and more direct, but it can be a disadvantage if you have the need to interpret in different ways and have full separation between these two phases.
Java is somewhat cheating, because it got its memory model figured out years before other languages like C or C++.

In C++, you'd have to use OS-specific + compiler-specific routines like InterlockedIncrement64 to get guarantees about when or how it was safe to read/write variables.

Not anymore of course: C++11 provides us with atomic-load and atomic-store routines with the proper acquire / release barriers (and seq-cst default access very similar to Java's volatile semantics).

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Anyway, put yourself into the mindset of a 2009-era C++ programmer for a sec. InterlockedIncrement works on Windows but not in Linux. You got atomics on GCC, but they don't work the same as Visual Studio atomics.

Answer: Mutex lock and mutex-unlock. And then condition variables for polling. Yeah, its slower than InterlockedIncrement / seq-cst atomic variables with proper memory barriers, but it works and is reasonably portable. (Well, CriticalSections on Windows because I never found a good pthreads library for Windows)

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Its still relevant because you still see these thread issues come up in old C++ code.
Metadata interesting lets you hone in on what you want to inspect full content on. It's definitely an upgrade
LMAO

Dont you know that equality is a critical aspects of social satisifaction. See everywhere, equality is mentioned as the magic word that described the sacred value of liberal society...

But

It's never applied to personal wealth...

Your thinking is precisely the ludicrous disconnection between the elites' idea of society and the reality... (I am not saying you are elite, just that elitism thinking is so blindly superficial...)

BTW, equality in personal wealth is emphasized nearly 2000 years ago by Confucious 不患寡而患不均.

[1] https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%8D%E6%82%A3%E5%AF%A1%E8%...
When all is said and done, in this era moreso than ever, interpersonal concerns influence software decisions at least as much as technical concerns.
Your assumption that these were scammers trying to pressure Chime to reopen their account contradicts explicit statements in the article:

> Chime confirmed that five of the anecdotes were well-founded; the company acknowledged making mistakes and returned each customers’ funds.

> The company confirmed, in interviews for this article, that it should not have closed Robertson’s account.

The article also addresses your claim that

> A few complaints like this aren't all that weird, bigger banks have way more complaints

by directly comparing the numbers, and Chime had by far the most (per customer):

> Of the 920 complaints filed about Chime, 197 were tagged as involving a “closed account.” The CFPB’s complaints are labeled inconsistently, and many of the other 723 also detail problems involving accounts that were closed against customers’ will. By comparison, Wells Fargo, a bank with six times as many customers and a lengthy recent history of misbehavior in its consumer bank, has 317 CFPB complaints tagged for closed accounts over the same time period. Marcus, the new online bank created by Goldman Sachs, with 4 million customers, has generated seven such complaints.

If I had to guess, it's growing pains combined with a "growth is more important than a few people accidentally getting crushed underneath" approach combined with pressure to do more about the fraud that led to this. If they're doing this and still accepting new customers, they're fully responsible for the pain they're inflicting.

At the very least, they could have tried to _actually_ make things right with the affected people:

> We have made efforts to make things right with these members.” (Robertson said that, beyond unfreezing her funds, Chime has not contacted her.)

This would mean compensating them for the time wasted, the stress and anguish caused, and financial cost (e.g. payday loans) incurred.
Part of the problem is that many engineers need management above them. On the flip side most non technical people have a hard time managing engineers since you're basically managing someone who's work you can't evaluate/see.

At Stream our lead and director level hires have to be technical/ actually contributing code. I still definitely see some of the issues this developer complains about though. It's hard to avoid.
The current banking system has big failure modes and there is a constant threat of regulatory capture. It's still much better than alternatives.

In a regulated financial environment, financial innovation creates bubbles and failures in those regions that are outside regulation and transparency.

The subprime mortgage crisis was able to grow because CDO's and MBSes were outside regulators' sight.

The next financial crisis is probably simmering in shadow margin and shadow banking – not well-regulated areas. When those risks actualize, then there will be more regulation.
What would you consider there a good point?
My 2021 New Mac Setup
For instance, video hosting even 30 second videos becomes prohibitively expensive by basics of storage and bandwidth as soon as more than a few hundred videos are uploaded daily. Setting restrictive data retention policies may negate or standardize some of those costs but you would constantly be smashing into your financial limits with a platform like that.

Further I do not know if enough people would be willing to pay for access to a social media site for it to ever reach millions of users. Even at 1 USD a month per person people wouldn't join in unless millions were already there to make it worthwhile.
We don't need no book larnin!

[Writes an n^3 nested loop]

Maybe I'm just traumatized by 00s coders, but I hear rejection of college as rejection of knowledge and critical thinking. I admit school ain't all that, but you CANNOT reject it all.
Century of the Self is my favorite documentary of all time. Great callout.
Part of what will prevent mass adoption is it ignores distribution, which will still require chemical residual treatment, like chlorination.

If you have to install chlorinating equipment and operate it, then it becomes a matter of if the marginal savings in chlorine is worth it.

However there's also a good chance that chlorine concentration is controlled by downstream factors more than initial treatment- which is basically the case at every well/spring that produces drinkable water out of the ground, yet still needs residual treatment.

So there might not be any reduction in the required amount of chlorine.
I say this as someone who has used Audacity and Musescore for years, and who has been subscribed to Tantacrul's Youtube channel since before he got involved with Musescore because I thought his UI/UX rants were hilariously good.

I've been trying to follow this story as closely as I could manage, but even I don't understand what the fuck is going on anymore.
Weird. Why does 4chan care about this?
At the very least it would show that the team is willing to change. I work with one team that is absolutely convinced that work shouldn't be planned more than 2 weeks in advance. They have had a goal to produce a product for the last 2 years that there is practically zero progress towards.
This sounds a lot more like someone who hates their job/workplace and hasn't yet figured out the real reason. Pretty sure it's not Scrum.
I think these water heaters in question are actually hybrid units. They cool the surrounding room to maintain a temperature set point. In some places, colder room air and thus more condensation is not appreciated.

A less-sophisticated approach is to put your tank heater on a timer. Think carefully before you do this. Does your tank heater have the capacity to keep the water hot for a full shower, until you’re back under the non-peak schedule? If it doesn’t, you’ll be the first to hear about it.
[EU/UK/US] Building platform where hardware startups/integrators can build and scale their supply chains, on-demand, and go from prototyping to mass production in days. Looking for the crazy ones who are hungry and top of their game.
31536000 seconds in a year. Sounds crackable.
Same as always. For the lulz.

Edit: Upon closer inspection, it seems cookiengineer had a vote for fork name. And Sneedacity won. After deleting that option 4chan went on a frenzy.
You don’t. There are about a dozen major tipping points that are slowly coming together that will make the planet unlikely to support more than a billion or two - at best - by 2050. And likely no more than a few hundred million by 2100.

Bringing a child into this world today is to doom them to an early and likely violent death as billions of climate refugees tear the world apart in a desperate struggle for survival.
That might be splitting hairs. It was probably a multiple of factors, but lead poisoining, if it occurred on a mass scale, undoubtedly had a big part to do with it.
Actually, we should wonder why they would have the "audacity" to do this.
> Scrum ceremonies become more inane and waste development cycles

This is plain wrong. "Scrum ceremonies" have not changed since the introduction of scrum. Still the same: three roles (now called accountabilities), five events, three artifacts.

Scrum is about coordination, both within the team and between the team and those who pay it to build stuff. If everything is already well-coordinated, then by all means, stop scrum. Only it usually isn't.
I don't think all of them are scrum's fault. Basically, this sounds like a failed scrum. There is succeeded scrum sample as well. Scrum is never easy. Just like developers get certified, scrum master certification is just a paper. Need years and years of experience to get it right.
For an excellent book on this see "The Dark Side of the Light Chasers".[1]

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Light-Chasers-Reclaiming/dp...
I choose my bank based on low cost, because that's the only really visible variable.

"Excellent customer service" for me means never having to talk to the bank because everything just works, and it's incredibly difficult to judge how good banks are at that.
Because, as they say, Scrum is used to mask the lack of progress, and so the underlying problem is not addressed. If you took away the curtain people would be forced to confront what's behind it.
I make $220k plus benefits as a specialized staff dev at a major tech company. Plus $100-$200k.year in stock. I’m 100% remote.

Likely if all you care about is salary, you find a FAANG job and move up the IC ranks. On http://levels.fyi a Google Principal Eng make > $1m in total per year in stock, salary, bonuses.

In my experience there’s a major stepwise change from major tech company paying Silicon Valley rates everywhere vs other companies not as heavily sought after by recruits.
I'm not a fan of scrum but.. wow this is a horrible argument.

There's so many things that aren't backed up with any facts. It's just a list of random Bad Things™, and somehow scrum gets blamed for it? I have no clue how developer mentorship being nonexistent, for example, has anything to do with scrum.

Hey, it's tough. Engineers need both autonomy and guidance to get things done, and the balance isn't easy to find. But just throwing false accusations like wage suppression doesn't fix the problem... I think the author just needs to find a new job.
What about an AI controlled by contracts on a bockchain?
Yeah ... that was my point. What copilot does underneath the indirection is steal GPL code and derive "new" stuff from it in a way that launders the licenses.

We know what it's doing, it's doing very well understood statistical inference techniques to derive outputs.
Scrum is and has been a buzzword for a long time where its ideological constraints have rarely been realized in full (i.e. No True Scrumsman) but this article doesn't really suggest what to do instead.

Devs can't live in a vacuum, and a world where managers exists means that some itemized process which can estimate and organize planning and development will always be needed in the current heiarchy. Obviously whether that heiarchy is useful is a good question, but a different story altogether.
Perhaps certain types of programming or paradigms could amount to bookkeeping, but in general, programming is the technical art of abstracting information processing.

> but the realization of the stack being infinitely zoomable means the post will never be complete and never published

This construction of the abstraction tower IS programming... not just the development of each level. At the higher abstraction levels we're looking at type theory, and beautiful abstractions that read like poetry. This whole stack was built through programming, so while the lower levels could in essence amount to bookkeeping, the higher levels allow for complex programming that looks like mathematical equations. Is math just bookkeeping? (of course not) Furthermore, I think it can be argued that math arrises from the computational features of the Universe that allows DNA to be computed (described by Quantum Physics) up to the level of our brains that compute on a much higher level and allow for math to exist.
You may be able to weaken it, but you can't eliminate it due to human nature. See, for example, C.S.Lewis's essay on "the inner ring".

https://noorsiddiqui.com/papers/TheInnerRing.pdf
There was the badge of exclusivity at first as well. To be one of the earliest adopters of fb you had to have a Harvard email address.

When they opened the floodgates it was a chance for normal people to associate with fancy harvard people and show how they were too cool for MySpace now.

You would be hard pressed to duplicate that kind of buzz anymore.
Godot's got simplicity in spades, that's for sure. So far I've been nothin' but pleased with my Godot experience. Every time I open it up to learn a new thing about it, it's generally gone pretty much silky smooth. Helps that I've chosen to approach it the way I learned to approach Blender tho. In bite-sized chunks, as I need a new feature, rather than tryin'a learn it all at once. That held me back for the longest time tryin'a learn Blender. Kept overwhelming myself with how crazy powerful it was because I wasn't focusing on just my current need. Kept gettin' sidetracked and lost, and then I'd give up for a while because it felt too complicated. ;)
The current direction in Nim is towards borrowing and borrow checking, move semantics with type annotations, and using refcounting where needed. Similar to Rust really, which also uses refcounting where needed.

Nim had the concept of borrowing from very early on. It's not a bolt-on, it's part of the design philosophy. But it's had consistency issues. The move semantics in newer Nim improve on it.

I would say one of the major things Rust offers over Nim at the moment is the implementation quality of the Rust compiler, standard library and type systems is generally of higher quality and more consistent. Things are thought-through more completely in Rust's design, and tested more against real world problems.

The multi-threading in Rust is also of much higher quality. It's just buggy in Nim.

Nim however has a much cleaner syntax, and the quality issues could change if the community really wanted that (I don't think it does).

They both have slow compile times for large programs.
The market described by the article is basically a textbook example of a bucket shop. The only difference is "but, with cryptocurrency".
Does anyone have a tl;dr as to wtf is going on? How does something like this escalate to this level?
> Basically, this sounds like a failed scrum.

Any time someone points out a process is bad, it's possible to say 'well you're not doing it properly' rather than addressing why people may so often end up not doing it properly.
Home ownership is within a couple percent of where it was in the 70's and 80's [1] and much higher than earlier in the centry [2]. People have selective memories and remember everyone buying into the housing bubble in the 90's but have forgotten about the crash after where they lost those houses.

The reality is that home ownership is the same or better than any time before the Clinton administration, but those who grew up in the boom have a mismatch between expectations and reality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...

[2] https://www.census.gov/housing/census/data/owner/owner_tab.t...