skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "failed public services"? Are we talking about the systems that were all privatized to make them more "efficient"?

Honestly, I think this failure runs deeper than something like whether it's privatised or nationalised. These services were mostly rubbish when they were nationalised and they're still rubbish now under privatisation. Nobody sane thinks the era of privatisation is any good in my opinion, but it's not like what it replaced was exactly well-managed. We had things like the Beeching Axe in that era which absolutely screwed over many non-metropolitan communities and continues to even today especially in Wales.

The UK for the best part of a century has never been good at public transport on a national scale. Public or private, profit or non-profit, every single attempt to make it less of a skip fire has ended in failure. I think the only way we're going to see improvement is if we start looking at the root causes rather than ideologically-motivated political solutions. This isn't a political issue, it's a geographical and an engineering issue.
> "caused by climate change"

Can be translated to "we know this is a good word to say to get research money, so we say it" in this context.
Pause – Stop Impulse Shopping
Pause is a simple browser extension that makes you less like to buy stuff you don't need.

Last year, a couple of my friends and I had a problem of buying random things on the internet (e.g. books, cloths, random ads). We did a little research and found out America spend $155 (increased to $180 during 2020) per month on impulse purchases. That's about ~$1800/yr.

We came up with an idea of creating a web extension that will block user from using online store for 30 seconds. That way, users have a chance to think twice before clicking "Buy Now". After the time is elapsed the user can keep shopping if they want to.

We also built a small MVP with a predefined list of 200+ websites (US only), where extension works out of the box.

Does anyone else have a similar problem ?
Yeah, there are certain critical functions that to me define a "real computer". Accessing external mass storage, system-wide volume control for individual programs, being able to back up the system without a second computer, not having any sort of settings or features that depend on a second computer (like things you can only do on bootloader-locked android using ADB from a PC). I'm never going to have a household without a real computer in it.
Mindfulness meditation can increase selfishness and reduce generosity
These examples seem overblown, and likely a false equivalence
They don't though.

Bugs have three costs. Immediate corporate costs, corporate restitution costs, and cost-to-fix.

Immediate corporate costs are loss of customers, loss of sales, and loss of goodwill leading to future loss of customers/sales.

Restitution costs are costs to repair reputational damage and make good on customer losses. This element can be zero or it can be billions, depending on the exact nature of the loss.

Cost-to-fix can be trivial, or it can be months of work.

Cost-to-fix is unrelated to corporate costs. There is absolutely no relationship of any kind between the ease with which a bug can be fixed in code/production and the amount of corporate loss it caused.

There is a very rough relationship between age and cost-to-fix, but it's very approximate. If code is documented and maintained and there are no forgotten areas written by people who have left, age effects should be minor.

If the code is an impenetrable ball of mouldy spaghetti written by people who are long gone without leaving docs, you're screwed.
But it is not a crime to smoosh a coin into a souveneir.

I am sure there are legitimate uses for such a sorter, especially for a coin shop.
Up to a point. Producers have to meet a standard for supermarkets (at least in the UK). They get financially penalised if animals are too fat when slaughtered.
A Brief Guide to Finding Your Purpose
> Anyway, I know that the mainframe market is pretty healthy, but who are the clients?

Banks, insurance companies and airlines. The amount of only-documented-in-code corner cases and custom business logic is immense (for the really old, up to 60 years!) which means rewrites are immensely difficult and expensive (and prone to failure), the amount of government regulation and the fines for when things go south (aka people lose money) is equally massive, and the companies are ruled by beancounters by definition which means they will, as long as IBM has mainframes and support for them, go with keeping their mainframe stuff to "never touch a running system".

That is part of why fintech start-ups are eating the old banks and insurance companies alive... they can design proper systems from scratch without having to take care of decades of accumulated cruft that needs to be migrated and especially they don't have to retain horribly outdated and complex business logic, workflows and processes that would take old-school companies billions of dollars to re-train their staff - almost 2 million people in 2019, per https://www.statista.com/statistics/250220/ranking-of-united....
As a practicing engineer this should be readily observable in our day to day lives. Defects escape, and the further they go the more hassle it is. Only people who haven’t experienced this would need it “validated” and I think this type of thought is the same as denying climate change. Oh you have a lived experience well I have this study.

That is not to say that the economics necessarily follow the costs … and that is very likely the route of the problem.
Looks like it supports split transactions which is great.

How would you approach budgeting/tagging transactions?

e.g.
you might have a "materialised" transaction to your bank account, transferring to sales, but if you wanted to also track this against a salesperson, how would this be achieved?

Use case for this, is accounting, when you want to track that a transaction is an expense, but also track it against a budget.

Would you do it with 3 sets of transactions all linked, like 1 materialised, and 2 non-materialised?
Kubernetes docs are pretty good, detailed, and kept up to date - a lot more than just API auto-documentation.
Instagram Ruined Photography for Me
In Windows Security click settings on the bottom left and then you can manage notifications.
I don't know technicalities, but we have this in Wales. There are tunnels on top of which we have railways. The tunnels have power cables and fiberoptic cables. Sometimes they flood in west-mid Wales, last I know and remember was 2012 and we (Aberystwyth, Machynlleth) route internet traffic to North Wales or Ireland instead to Birmingham.
> How do you avoid treating such candidates unfairly?

There’s nothing unfair about preferring to hire someone who’s personal time is spent working in the same field as their job. All things being equal, I’ll pick that candidate over the alternative as it demonstrates genuine interest in the field as a pursuit, not just a career.
508 pixels/inch = 200 pixels/cm, exactly. The resolution unit in PNG is either the meter, or it is unspecified. 1 inch = 25.4 mm, 25.4 * 2 = 50.8. 508 is close enough to 600, and 600 dpi is a resolution commonly found in desktop printers.

If you've worked with PNG files under Photoshop, you may have noticed that a picture saved with exactly 72 dpi has 72.009 dpi when you close it and open it again. Using an integer multiple of 254 for the dpi prevents such a drift.
Agreed. Wondering why social media companies aren’t trying to make the platforms less engaging is like wondering why drug dealers aren’t making a less addictive opiate.
Ultimately it depends on what you need and what you develop for.

If you’re developing for the Linux kernel, I bet you’re missing out on some stuff.

If you’re building web, it doesn’t matter. If you’re building docker images, you can do it on Windows/Mac, but there’s just better performance on Linux if you’re ever debugging speed.

Java? Doesn’t matter either.
This is exactly it. You can find subreddits that match your interests and your desired level of civility. Somebody else can find theirs, and you can live in separate spheres.

People also heavily use alts on Reddit, which I think makes them less self-conscious about conforming to standards of behavior, because if they are feeling a bit pissed off and aggro about something they can switch to a different alt and a different subreddit where they can vent and it's acceptable behavior. It's much more like the real world where different physical spaces allow outlets for different kinds of behavior, where you can be polite and deferential at work and then go home to your living room and tell your brother in law that your boss is a rat bastard and cheerfully cuss up a storm watching sports together.

Twitter seems to have a totalizing effect on people's personalities, I think because people realize there's only one context, and therefore only room for one version of themselves. They talk one way all the time. If someone I follow for software news and insight posts a beef Wellington recipe or talks about the whiskey they got for their birthday, they sound exactly like they do when they're talking about software. Real people don't act that way! You know if you only work with somebody then you only know a fraction of who they are, and you crave a glimpse behind the curtain. I think online communities where identities are intended to correspond to real people and there is no compartmentalization of space will always suffer from this totalizing effect, where a percentage of people, small but enough to poison things, choose the worst part of themselves to stand in for the rest of them.
Not just the binaries. The source code too.

A common practice is to exclude both the whole repo and the compiler from Defender.
The Nastiest Feud in Science: What Caused the Dinosaur Extinction?
This.

As I wrote in another comment, I produce video news.

My M1 MacBook Pro is a beast of a machine, but I work it to the point of full-blast fans every day.
It's things like this that are making me less and less likely to continue using Windows at home.

I've been running Linux KDE dual booting for a year or so, and I've have touched Windows in (uptime...) - 22 days or so.

With Windows 11 coming bundled with Teams, and other "stuff" from Windows 10 including it becoming an 'internet first OS (x)' I'm getting stuff I don't want or need.

(x) although it's documented on the interwebs how to circumvent the dark pattern UI dialogs to turn stuff off.
This sounds so familiar. I have worked in several startups that were commercializing NLP-based solutions for different problems.
The approach of management (although relatively educated in the field, but obviously not knowledgeable in everything) was essentially expecting from their research engineers:

- look into state-of-the-art related to our problem
- think very hard about how to apply the academic state-of-the-art to our problem
- stitch a fully fletched software solution together

The problem obviously emerged reliably in the last step, which was supposed to take negligible time and should be done by more junior team members (because they were not smart enough for step 2).

The result was a bunch of prototypes running in production, and huge costs for keeping the whole thing somehow running.
>>"a mention that I am not waiting on administrative approval or a budget authorization to innovate".

I think what gets lost in a lot of these threads is that different employees, and different employers, look for different things. And that's OK. There's filtering going on all sides and not everybody is a right fit.

For example - depending on how you phrase that sentiment on your resume, you might be an immediate No for our team - we are in a very traditional production mode with a procedure-focused client, and the sentence is telling me you might not follow process, wait for approvals, engage the team and client, and will just do your own thing. That may or may not be what you're saying, as I said it depends on the phrasing... But! That may be in fact excellent and mutually beneficial filtering - you probably don't want to be on my current team, and the ideal company/team for you may see that very same statement as a positive signal :).

My point is - not all filtering is bad. In threads like this we focus on "doing / not doing this on a resume will be a red flag for many employers" - but that's not necessarily a wrong thing. It's like dating - some people will advise "don't be yourself", but I ask - Why? Sure, be a good version of yourself on first date / interview, but be fundamentally honest what both of you are looking for. You don't have to have relationship with everybody, you don't have to get hired by everybody. You need to find that one person/job that works :)
I went to a therapist to work through the things that had come up. The existential crisis also led to a re-evaluation of the nature of reality - I now hold a panpsychist position. But the philosophical stuff, no therapist was going to be on my level and able to help. So that stuff I worked through on my own.

I stopped meditating as a practice immediately. I toyed with it sometimes during everyday life, watching the trees go passed on the train, trying to be indifferent as strong emotions rocked me. I was mostly too preoccupied with redefining who I was to be bothered by further exploration.

Also note that I was not strongly aware of the connection between the experience I had meditating and the psychological disintegration that followed. I considered it a possibility, but not a strong one. For me it was just an evolution that was in progress. A darkness that had to be faced and an existential horror that I had to make peace with.

It's only after the fact that I can clearly see the connection. Perhaps it is coincidence, but I think it is more likely not.
That would prove very handy against vampires. Could they resist an invite to your home?
Algorithmic totalitarianism resonates strongly.

It's not a human rights violation if it isn't a human doing it!
That gives me the interesting idea of a twitter UX where the buttons are volume-greater and volume-less (just like sound control). With or without limits.

It's pretty much what people are trying to accomplish already; this just makes it explicit.

Would be neat to see how people react to hitting "max volume". You could model it in all sorts of ways. Do you silently accumulate, or do you keep hysteresis, such that you need a constant stream of positive engagement to keep it up?
California winds up being in the middle for avg money residents spend on household energy, but mostly because they don’t use AC or heat very much. https://wallethub.com/edu/energy-costs-by-state/4833
My company recently signed a deal with a healthcare company to do some work on their systems. I got a laptop from this company, MBP 16" so not bad. But lord oh lord are there so many things on this laptop.

Two worst offenders are:

- Antivirus: Just hogs memory, the scan runs "throughout the day" and I've had to resort to using scripts to shut the thing down just so my code will compile.

- Other annoying features: Lets make you stare at a dayglow green wallpaper and give you no way to change it to something that doesn't offend your eyes, lets place a bunch of icons on your dock and desktop that you can't get rid of, just bookmarks to common apps. Lets also make a popup show up on your laptop every day to remind you that you need to upgrade to OneDrive but forget to give me the permission to actually upgrade so this message repeats itself and fails every time..

endrant.
Also: we're talking imperial or US customary fluid ounces?
This is very well written. It describes some basic concepts which every programmer might enjoy (not only Rubyists).
The State of Open Source Hardware 2021
>To give such a forceful statement on the nation’s most-watched late-night talk show, it’s fair to assume that Moreno must have understood the “colorism” debate and given her position serious consideration. Why, then, was she so quick to flip-flop, retract her statement, and atone? Occam’s Razor would tell us that her apology, like Miranda’s, was simply a capitulation to avoid the internet’s wrath.

I think this is such bad reasoning. This is nothing to do with Occam's razor, this is just the author making random assumptions about what happened without knowing the facts.

In most of the cases that the author talks about, they're literally just bringing their own assumptions about what happened and then deciding someone shouldn't apologize. PJ Vogt wasn't cancelled by a mob, he was cancelled by his colleagues for legitimate complaints they had, and he was absolutely right to reflect on his own behaviour. This article however, just seeks to minimize what happened to one accusation (anti-unioinization) which clearly was not the only problem, and then go "Oh that's not so bad". And he repeats this over and over, people aren't criticizing Andy Ngo for "documenting the worst excesses of the far left".

It's just so weird for a person to repeatedly look at someone apologize for something and say "No, actually I know better, they shouldn't apologize".

I actually think there are cases where the mob is wrong - "Bean Dad" is a great example. But the examples in these cases just seem like such weird right wing hobby horses.
"It's not a feature, it's just another yacht foot". I like it.
> Great if you are running a business generating millions of revenue.

It's not even great in that situation. Millions in profit, perhaps, but that $200k+ would probably better be spent elsewhere - enhancing functionality, increasing sales, support, etc.
right and i get that however, it's not a viable solution at all. A big reason why the current transmission network is so reliable is because of scale. You cannot recreate scale even if you band together with your neighbours to build a microgrid and you certainly cannot achieve scale on your own.

Outlying customers are difficult to service in regular times because there are many failure points and few redundancies. The solution to this is not for every farm to install solar PV as a substitute to the grid but to shore up transmission and distribution infrastructure.

Anyone who's lived in the high arctic will tell you that the #1 reason they are clamouring for connections to the continental grid is reliability. Solar, wind and even diesel generation are just not as reliable or sustainable.
Rate limits: https://superuser.com/questions/1453258/what-could-cause-429...

Take your pick of lockout horror stories:

https://twitter.com/Demilogic/status/1358661842147692549

https://twitter.com/raveofravendale/status/13895079282693939...

Edit: Also don't forget their Maps API change that sent many developers to the wall https://imgur.com/gallery/ZuWMooq
They didn't. How has Mozart aged?

If you're worried that science had made this book obsolete in any way - don't. It's philosophy, not applied science.
Clever. Do people actually do this? (The pressurized part, not the tampering part.)
It's a nice round metric measurement. 508 dots per inch = 20 dots per mm.
The Kubernetes documentation site is the source of truth, and pretty well written, though obviously no set of docs is perfect.

The concepts and constructs do not usually change in breaking ways once they reach beta status. If you learned Kubernetes in 2016 as an end user, there are certainly more features but the core isn’t that different.
Which is why Helion is going for direct conversion, given their mostly aneutronic design.
Then you learn about escape velocity (to choose an example where no "tricks" are involved).
There are lots of good reasons distribution companies don't like cables in some situations (especially rural). Connecting new customers and network alterations is much more expensive, changing to a higher voltage is not possible, upgrading capacity requires a whole new cable which is more expensive than replacing the conductors, cables only last about 30-50 years. Finding and fixing a cable fault usually takes much longer than overhead (although there are probably less of them per mile). Without wild fires, I seriously doubt cables are more economic in rural areas.
Sort of like this?: https://www.earnin.com/
Westworld used a version bicameral mind for their fictional theory of robot consciousness. It was quite brilliant.

This theory (also freud, IMO) demonstrates that ideas can have value regardless of being true or false. Just considering such ideas opens the mind to others. The interest so many great science and science fiction authors took in this theory is, IMO, proof.

There are some interestingly elements that are interestingly parsimonious with YNH's take on human history in 'Sapiens.' YNH places a lot of emphasis on what he calls "fictions," which overlaps a lot with Jaynes' "metaphor." Also in common, is the notion that cultural memes, rather than biological genes are responsible for our humanity.

The inner monologue, no doubt, deserves all the pondering it gets.
Bengio, Hinton and LeCun explain the current challenges of deep learning
Reddit style up/downvote system is a great “homogenizer” of opinions. Applied correctly, it only leaves the most desirable opinions to survive. It also allows discussions to be steered without commenting.

Together it allows majority vote to simply take control of a comment page, and first rule of online voting is it’s always manipulated.

You know where that goes. You will end up with a self driving system that represents the richest guy there, with little control input necessary, into the walls.
I think what makes Twitter toxic is that everybody is in their little bubble. You are mostly shown content similar to what you liked, and you are encouraged to block outsiders. When you do see content from outside of your bubble, the contrast is harsh. Most of the time you don't even see dissenting tweets themselves, you see a lot of reactions in your bubble and have to fish for the original 'scandalous' tweet.

Also, as somebody else said here, the discussion takes place "on" your identity, as opposed to reddit where you have your identity and then go out to places to discuss.

I have separate accounts because my different interest belong to different bubbles, and I'm afraid they would outrage each other. Also, one is mostly for consumption and the other is mostly write-only.

(My ideal social network would have each user in full control of their identity page - a bit like MySpace or the old Facebook. And then you would be able to go and create pseudonymous subaccounts for discussions. The system would only show what you want to share, e.g. "this handle's main account is female, on the site for >3 years, and has ~5000 rep". This way you'd have anonymity but still some measure of trust.)
I won't click on anything from the BBC anymore. I've sanctioned them. But my daughter of 21 developed an eating disorder (anorexia) under lockdown and is now in therapy. These pricks promoting lockdown to "save lives" are destroying young people's lives.
As with most components of the financial system, change is very slow and painful because even when technology exists that leapfrogs previous bottlenecks (i.e. batching due to delays in information flow) the behavior of people and organizations is tightly adapted to the existing expectations. As it stands, most employers effectively get free 2-4 week payment terms from their largest suppliers (i.e. their employees) which, if removed, would immediately increase their working capital requirements by a substantial margin.
One other difference between Germany and the Netherlands is that the Netherlands also has volunteers at the police. Those people often work 2 days in the week and get a small compensation for it. They are given the option to work fulltime and get paid fulltime when they do that for a few years. Next to that they must follow all the same trainingen en exercises as a normal police officers.