skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often stuff has to be repaired for training and its not equipment that would ever be used in combat. It would not be an issue if it fails again in fact it would be useful for training if it does. You dont have to simulate failure and people learn if their repair is actually lasting.

I did train soldier on technical equipment (not in the US) and we would have broken or known unreliable parts given out so they learn how to find it. Also we had no authorization to repair most stuff and sometimes it was hard to keep broken parts to use the for training because these parts where scheduled for maintenance witch would mean the manufacturer of the part would replace it and turning the perfectly "good" part for training into e-waste.
It's the classic problem in hierarchical structure. The top just never gets what the people at The bottom really want and need. They cant warp their head around why a broken part could be of more value than having 100% of the replacement parts functional all the time.
Partially related question.

I live in the DC metro area and work for the federal government. As such, I read the Washington post online on a pretty much daily basis. It's the best local news source in the region.

Is it just me, or do they have a lot of coverage about news from Maine? I keep seeing articles related to Maine topics on what feels like a weekly basis. I can't figure out if it's my own bias (I have a lot of connections to the State of Maine) where stories from Maine are more likely to stand out, or if there really is an editor or contributor who pulls from Maine news topics on a regular basis.

Another option could be I see different stories based on ad tracking preference...

There are multiple versions of the wapo online, depending on where/how you access the website.

Anyone have any insight into this?
On the other hand I find the switch pretty light.
There's so many more things that can go wrong trying to land from orbit that it's not worth the risk trying to land anywhere near people regardless of how much time you have to engineer it.
FTA: CWJob's research found that 14% of tech workers would look for a new role at a different company, with others planning to establish their own business (11%), go part-time (11%), change locations (11%) or become a contractor (10%). Eight percent are contemplating leaving tech altogether.
No don't shoulder all risk yourself, find investors, if it ever works out there will be more than enough to go around.
I'm not sure that someone who published their work under the GPL hasn't thereby given consumers the right to put the repo on github. If the rights Github asks for in their ToS can be construed as a subset of the rights granted by the GPL, Github is just another GPL licensee. Unless they violate the conditions of the license, they're just utilizing their GPL rights.
California is at the caost, so why not just add what amounts to reservoir dams of the coast? Why batteries?
And we wonder why people seem more uninformed than ever...
> Unlike anti-abortion laws which force women to take pregnancies to term against their will, I am aware of zero proposed legislation that aims to force people into vaccination against their will.

Just this week, Biden was talking about having people go door-to-door to push the unvaccinated to get the shot. Arizona publicly told him to get bent - they weren't going to do that in their state.

So, that's not "forcing" people, but it's too close for my taste. I'm going to presume that you wouldn't be fine with the state sending people door to door to push those who were pregnant to carry to term.
Electricity, building houses is based on hard science, code quality is base on opinion
This is welfare, not UBI as it is only going to pregnant women and those transitioning out of foster-care.

IMO this will taint the ubi experiment overall. Universal means Bill gates and Bezos also receive their $1000/mo…
First seems reasonable. I've not heard of anything on the later coming even close credibly - though is an obvious holy grail.
Hmm, man section 4: "devices and device drivers?" I guess that is part of the joke. But I suggest move this to section 7 so maybe it can survive there for a few years.
If its vital enough that everyone must have access, then it should be considered a public utility like water, or something the government should subsidize like food stamps. I'd be happy for my tax dollars to go towards a well-moderated social media platform that everyone can access and by design doesn't do shit like optimize "engagement" or whatever monetizing nonsense current platforms do to try and make a buck.
No, this isn't right - because FB can no longer tell you as much information about the ad they're about to display, they're going to collect less money for it.

They can't correlate that ad to an action, which means they can't make you a happy chart that says the ROI is there. So you're going to pay less for it.

This isn't going to harm small businesses no matter what FB says.
Inside The FBI, Russia, and Ukraine’s failed cybercrime investigation
Your post inspires me to look at it from a real-world analogy. If I imagine that online ads are the same as offline ads, I start to think about what offline ad tracking would look like. I imagine cameras being on the streets to watch me walk down the street, following me to different stores to see what I buy, with whom I meet, and other activities to inform which billboards/street advertisements should exist. I think about ads being not just on billboards and bus stands, but on the sidewalk, on every skyscraper, or even more functionally annoying, having to physically remove an ad to open a door to a building, or going halfway up the stairs to be hit with a physical ad that drops from the sky and stops me from entering unless I swipe my ID card.

I could go on and yet I think some points start to emerge. I'm OK with ads, I don't like the pervasive tracking. I'm OK with ads, I don't like them interrupting the functionality. I actually even like ads when I have some control over them, not them controlling me. Give me more options to choose which types of ads I want to see (not only don't want to see), don't track me to try to guess/manipulate which ones I want to see.

Lastly, I think in physical real estate, there are laws about who can advertise, where, and when, and I think in digital real estate, there don't seem to be those regulations and advertisements and ad-tracking creep more and more. While advertisements seem to be one of the best ways to grow income (i.e., more people viewing/more accurate audience = higher ad price), I think an ad does have a ceiling price and then once it hits it, companies start to make more ads, more intrusive ones, and more tracking ones.

I think more than anything, I want more agency over the process, and right now, my options for agency are often do nothing, avoid the site completely, constantly click on ads to say "I don't want to see ads like this" and end up seeing more ads tangentially like it, install an ad-blocker, or one of many other almost guerrilla-like tactics to gain some semblance of agency.
how would you sell bras for women over 50?
> but the reality is that it's impractical--if not impossible--to have the server dictate what's visible.

Gamestreaming (Stadia etc) shows that this absolutely is possible. It might not be feasible due to players on bad connections and hardware cost (in fact, the reason that games do so few checks serverside is hardware cost), but it's not something impossible anymore.

> I can't even think of a way that things like aimbots could be prevented server-side; it's hard enough just to detect them.

Pattern detection can, things like following enemy movements through walls or extreme precision. I agree that it's easier to check for running software on the client, but this is error prone as well and can also be defeated by a sophisticated enough hacker.
How about a model like Wikipedia?

It’s free. If you find it useful and can afford it please donate. If not it’s still free.

Seems to work out excellent for them.
This was Arch without any special kernel, so a fairly recent one. It was a few months ago. Don’t recall the specific version.
Like everything, it depends. Some business logic like "this field should never be negative" is probably fine.

More complex logic is a lot harder to maintain. You don't want to stress your DB's CPU if you can avoid it. You still need some kind of connection pooler anyway. There's a lot of reasons it doesn't make sense to put all your business logic in the DB. SQL is not the easiest language to maintain (not enough abstraction).

IMO the line to draw is just enough to keep data sanity.
Building a developer tools business on a developer-focused cloud
This has so much more potential because its a desktop OS. You could e.g. play WoW using this. Not to mention the huge selection from emulators. I've tried gaming with Android before and the game selection is awful. Realistically, the only good gaming options are from e.g. snes emulators. On top of that, most phone GPU drivers are horrendously broken when doing advanced 3d stuff so even if a good game was released for android, you wouldn't be able to play it on 80% of phones.
Yeah, I admit news might be the exception here.
I missed an important detail: """an academic team has developed its own protein-prediction tool inspired by AlphaFold 2, which is already gaining popularity with scientists. That system, called RoseTTaFold, performs nearly as well as AlphaFold 2, and is described in a paper in Science paper also published on 15 July"""

One of the things I say about CASP has to be updated. It used to be "2 years after Baker wins CASP, the other advanced teams have duplicated his methods and accuracy, and 4 years after, everything Baker did is now open source and trivially reproducible"

now, it's baker catching up to DeepMind and it took about a year

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj8754
In what way, if I may ask? I am not aware of any controversy surrounding the steam store with that regard.

Now that the store had that facelift the only issue I am aware of is the honestly pretty lacklustre curation... Which is an extremely hard issue so pretty forgiveable
Most programming tasks don't involve the life safety issues you are using as examples.

It is certainly true that overdesign up front can be fatal to the finances of a project. There is even a term for people who engage in this, "architecture astronauts"

The point is to know what you are working on, and what the customer needs. If they need one or two simple data stores and a couple of web pages, you don't need to spend weeks talking about it.
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Fair enough! We do have quite a few users also running medium and longer-term focused strategies such as accumulations on dips
If it's publically available, there's no guaranty that Microsoft won't gobble up your code.
If one wishes to "cut out the middle tier" they might be better served by a investigating a project like PostgREST [0]

[0] https://postgrest.org/en/stable/
IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)
> Why is any company having more USB-2 slots than USB-3 these days?

I think it's not a case of "having more USB-2 slots than USB-3 slots", I think it's instead a case of "having precisely two USB-2 slots", no matter how many USB-3 slots there are. The reason for exactly two USB-2 slots is obvious: one of them is for the keyboard, the other one is for the mouse. Neither the keyboard nor the mouse need more than USB-2, so there's no reason to have the more complex USB-3 hardware for these two ports.

Other than those two ports, it makes sense to have the rest of the USB ports be USB 3, which seems to be the case here, even though there's only one (the USB-C port seems to be meant to be always plugged into a charger, so it might also be USB-2 only).
A Revolution in Motion – Finance 3.0 – Cryptocurrency is the new finance
Thanks! :) Why did you guys stop?
Went the opposite way, kept the house (not even making directors guarantee) and bootstrapped the startup between freelance contracts

It’s slower, but the contracts keep you in constant contact with real customers, and it’s lots of small dice rolls until one comes up good, rather than a big one that can’t go bad. Plus the house goes up in the mean time

We’re now scaling up the team and looking at capital so it’s worked well
I disagree. You need to know what an interest rate is and what wealth generation from owning part of companies (stocks) is and what inflation is and then decided to do or not to do anything. Not teaching is surely incorrect.

What's the logic I can't follow it at all. Since people are going to smoke anyway let's not tell them smoking is bad since they will still smoke? That's outright dangerous thinking.
What makes it "not even comparable"?

The Q2 is good, and certainly a better value, but I'm not sure I'd say "not even comparable".
Most of the architectural wankery that happens in the real world does nothing to improve security or reliability of a project, though. People love to spend time discussing how to organize the code for potential future maintenance that then becomes irrelevant when requirements change, and didn't prevent someone from missing security vulnerabilities in an outdated version of a third party library anyway. So it's hard to compare that to pilots following a checklist or workers wearing helmets.

Imagine if pilots spent an hour debating which sequence to push a particular set of buttons that would be needed after takeoff - where either of several ways would work - to the point that the plane took off hours too late.
Someday, the average programmer won't have less than five years of experience.

Maybe.

Probably not, since the ever-expanding demand for software shows no evidence of slowing, and the churn of people getting out doesn't seem liable to stop either.
> I guess, back then, more stuff was just bits of metal that could be made by anybody.

There's a reason the good old AK-47 - a design from 1946! - is still used on battlefields and insurgencies worldwide: it is easy to manufacture (so easy that there have been a number of both legal and illegal clones), easy to repair and to find spare parts for, it can take a lot of abuse before it jams up or breaks so hard you need to do an extensive rework and your average rookie doesn't need much training other than "this is target, pull trigger until target dead".

Modern weapons may be more accurate (e.g. G36) or have more firepower... a result of more strict tolerances and way more components, at the cost of reliability.

Large weaponry, from your average car over tanks to capital ships, is even worse.
Valve's new Steam Deck 7" @ 215ppi has essentially the same pixels per inch as the new Nintendo Switch OLED 7" @ 221ppi, so from a gaming perspective their target aligns with their direct competitor's hardware. You're right that an iPad has a higher PPI, but Apple typically runs a lot higher on PPI compared on all platforms (handheld and otherwise), and in this case, now that I've run all the numbers, I think the Switch would have been a better first point of comparison for a successful gaming deck handheld than the iPad. (I just happen to know Apple's macOS retina PPI by heart, is all!)

I do recommend measuring the distance from your eyes to a gaming handheld that you're playing while it rests in your lap, and then measure the distance from your eyes to your work monitor; for me, these are only a couple inches different, so it makes sense to me that Nintendo is willing to let the PPI drop down to Apple macOS Retina levels with this year's OLED update, since they have some PPI room to work with.

Detailed breakdown for the curious:

Apple's macOS retina displays are all 220ppi +/- an insignificant amount:

MacBook M1 Air 13": 227ppi

MacBook Pro 13": 227ppi

MacBook Pro 15": 220ppi

MacBook Pro 16": 226ppi

iMac 4K Retina 21.5": 219ppi

iMac M1 24": 218ppi

iMac 5K Retina 27": 217ppi

Apple's iPadOS retina displays are all 264ppi, except the 8" Mini which is halfway to an iPhone (probably to maintain fidelity at the much lower screen size?):

iPad 7.9" Mini: 326ppi

iPad 10.2" Retina: 264ppi

iPad Pro 11": 264ppi

iPad Pro 12.9": 264ppi

Apple's iOS retina displays are all 460ppi, with negligible variation, with the Mini offering more support for the "maintain fidelity at small sizes" thought above:

iPhone 12 Mini 5.4": 476ppi

iPhone 12 6.1": 460ppi

iPhone 12 Pro 6.1": 460ppi

iPhone 12 Pro Max 6.7": 458ppi

However, the nearest competitor to this Steam device is actually the Switch, so let's look at that. These numbers might be off by a few points, but essentially Nintendo seems to maintain the exact same resolution and just sizes the pixels based on that:

Nintendo Wii U 6.2": 158ppi

Nintendo Switch 5.5" (Lite): 267ppi

Nintendo Switch 6.2": 237ppi

Nintendo Switch 7" (OLED): 221ppi

And finally, Valve's entry here is nearly an exact match for the 2021 OLED Switch:

Valve Steam Deck 7": 215ppi
The US had Trump, we have Bolsonaro. Is not that "Brazil" doesn't do it, Bolsonaro doesn't. Should the US have supported him, he wouldn't be in charge, so hopefully he will not get re-endorsed by the US administration.
I don't think Jim Cramer is creating his own crypto. Where did you hear that? I don't watch his show but a quick google search produced no results. He has said he has invested in Bitcoin and Ethereum, but also seemed to have gotten out as soon as they started to go down.

However, I don't disagree that retail investors may end up with issues with crypto, but I don't think traditional markets are necessarily safe for retail investors either. Big money controls both crypto and traditional markets. Governments can bail out traditional markets, but in the end big money gets most of the bailout, too. Traditional markets, at least right now, are less volatile than crypto, but things like March 2020 show that they aren't for certain, either. It sounds like we don't really disagree though since you referred to watching various bull and bear cycles.
Seems great as a niche enthusiast device. Based on my past experience with Steam Link though I'm not sure how well it'll do as a mainstream gaming console.

Too much of Steam's game library just wasn't designed to be used without a keyboard/mouse, and touchpads + mappable controller buttons aren't a great substitute, particularly when the game you're playing still thinks you're using a keyboard.

There's a certain level of polish expected from console gaming. People expect to be able to launch a game and have it just work; they don't want to be futzing with controller mappings and adjusting graphics settings for 15 minutes before they can start playing.

To be clear, I think these are surmountable problems. From what I've read though I'm not sure if Valve has done anything to address them. There's a lot of talk on the website about having access to "your entire Steam library", and a mention of how the touchpad lets you play games designed with a mouse in mind. But again, based on my experience with Steam Link, it's not really that simple.
I have no doubt of the skill and efficacy. Military mechanics or technicians with enough time on their hands could effect equal or better repairs.

But they probably wouldn't be to spec.

Does that matter when it's a Bradley AC unit? Probably notsomuch. Does that matter when it's a capacitor matched to the expected interval between service overhauls? Or when it's a component downstream of that capacitor on the next repair?

It doesn't take much for equipment to drift out of spec, and then you've got a collection of custom one-offs.

So, balance -- somewhere in the middle.
To understand the argument that 'facebook is evil' requires more context than what is explicitly stated in this article. It's more of a followup or continuation of a long running thread.

Basically there is a long thread about Facebook being a haven for the worst qualities of human discussion: insular, xenophobic, and reactionary. This started to get really big during the Cambridge analytica scandel but has continued from there.

In short the argument is that Facebook knowingly allows the aforementioned culture to manifest. In many parts of the world, this has resulted in real world consequences and deaths. That they refuse to divulge the most popular articles is, in this authors mind, a sort of coverup.

Personally I don't fully agree with this assessment. As facebook has become more and more of 'the web', replacing the distributed forums and chatrooms that once dominated, it's also become a reflection of us. Facebook is in a bind no matter what it does--it's either guilty of censorship or misinformation.
The baby bust: How a declining birth rate will reshape the world
You can't have a super majority of children being born to single mothers who are also often teenagers, or only a year or two removed, with limited education and money and expect them to prepare their children for school.
I have been using https://www.openwebrx.de/
Do you have a non-biased source that provides actual facts not hyperbolic rhetoric?

Are these tax payer funded libraries, and could it be the fund reduction is simply a result of the fact that many, including myself, believe that libraries should not be funded by forcible taxation of the population.

This position is often turned by left sources as "raaaaccciiism"
I referred to megawatts and megawatt hours in my first two sentences. "Gigawatts and gigawatt hours" was indicating counterparts to MW and MWh. Though apparently that grammatical construction was not as clear as I initially believed.
no, it wouldn't make sense to do that. Folding@Home is for ab initio where you don't have any prior info for the structure, this is for homology modelling. F@H probes the dynamics of protein folding, this just makes a static prediction.