skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use Cercube if you are on iOS (works just like Vanced, just need to sideload via altstore)
I gave up a whole ago. I came to accept to be bullied into being ~10$ short for YouTube and Spotify. I use ad block and everything, but just for the sake of occasionally using it over the phone or TV. I'd rather this than being screamed at by ads.
>In my Tesla the brake pedal only controls the brakes

Are you sure about that? I have a hybrid that has paddles to adjust the deceleration resulting from letting off the gas, but using that or the brake pedal I'm pretty certain uses the regen the same way. The only difference I think is when exactly the brake lights go on.

I'm surprised if EVs are different, because it kind of applies an arbitrary semantic distinction between gas and brake pedals.

If the brake pedal only applies the friction brakes, then does that mean that moderate to heavy regen braking doesn't make your brake lights go on? That seems like a questionable design.
I think the big divide here is between tech companies and non tech companies.

Tech companies can look at the agile manifesto and use it as a heuristic guide, because engineers are already kind of on the same page about it. You don't need heavyweight process etc.

Non tech-companies need the window dressing of tech companies to retain their best engineers, but ultimately agile is kinda telling them to turn everything upside down and also threatening to make them superfluous. Nobody is really up for that.

So agile in non-tech companies is Kabuki theater and engenders cynicism, and agile in tech companies is basically superfluous "water is wet" advice no one even bothers to comment about.

You'll notice a lot of these blogs about how agile has failed are coming from consultants, who are basically brought into traditional companies that are struggling with some part of this process, not tech companies.
This article is from 2018.

Many of the points made in this post have since been addressed by macOS, and continue to be addressed.

In fact, some of the issues the author complains about were addressed by the macOS in 2018.
You can disable directly from Settings.
Same for Amazon- hours of it. That was the last time I went to an interview without first asking about the interview format. Had I known what I was walking into, I would have laughed at them and turned the interview down.

In fact, I did exactly that to a company somewhat recently (small fish pretending to be FAANG rockstars) though without the laughing bit.
Yeah, can’t escape things with global namespaces.
I pay as well and dont get adverts on my mobile devices... are you sure youre signed into the app with the right account?
Making it an OS more hated by the day.
Why not both?

The long name could be the official one that will get good SEO, the short name(s) can redirect to the longer one.
how about

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

https://langui.sh/2019/07/23/apple-memory-safety/

these companies apply things like sandboxing and fuzzing to reduce the incidence of memory unsafety bugs, and yet they're finding a majority of their security bugs being memory unsafety. if you can't find memory unsafety in your c++ code, it's because your code isn't worth attacking.
Agile and Scrum isn't the same thing. Even if Scrum in someways are agile. The "original" agile process, or the first videspread variant XP didn't mention any dailies. Scrum as such is much a way to adopt XP into a large cooperate environment.
You can sideload Twitch++ if you are on iOS (removes all ads)
Agile is (maybe a bit oversimplified) about releasing as often often as possible.

Delivering sooner, not faster.

To do this, decision makers must be close to the team, and ideally a part of the team. Either managers are part of the team, or the team a given the authority to make product decisions.

Full time managers lose power and influence either way, and I think this is the real reason Big Corp never really bought into it except on paper.
“Free” software is never free. It’s extraction of payment by other and often endless means.
Maybe you weren't logged in or there was some caching bug requiring you to quit and/or sign in again after subscribing?

I'm fairly confident YouTube premium wouldn't exist if it still showed ads as it's easy to verify (as in you did in your case)...
Yeah, I don't think it's good to grab onto anything in particular.

That being said, the risks with certain drugs are very low. Hydroxychloroquine has some serious side effects and appear to marginally improve results, hence they revoked the EUA.

If you want to dive into the data, I recommend: https://c19early.com/

A lot of the papers are sub-par (so are the COVID-19 spread, symptomology, PCR tests, etc). Even the CDC PCR testing protocol (shown to be erring in Nov 2020) is having its EUA revoked: https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert...
> I'm probably doing something wrong.

Yes, it turns out. :-)

The "busy-*" programs just run the loops without doing any SQLite operations, in order to test loop overhead.

On my M1 Air, this is the fastest time I get from Rust:

> ./bench-threaded-rust.sh
Sun Jul 25 07:52:46 CEST 2021 [RUST] threaded_batched.rs (100_000_000) inserts

real 0m20.765s
user 0m25.916s
sys 0m2.303s
> But unless you want to live like a recluse in a bunker, what are your options?

You mean like social distancing, wear respiratory masks in closed spaces, revise public spaces to improve air filtering and forced congregations, improve public transportation to avoid high concentration of passengers, and don't force returns to office in industries that do not require them?

You're talking about bunkers and recluses as if you are totally unaware that a) working from home means neither and b) people overwhelmingly prefer it.
MIT Engineers program a robot to help people with disabilities put on clothes
It feels like a stretch to call this an ad. Does the strip of recommended movies across my homepage on desktop, which appears despite being a premium member and having adblock turned on, also count as an ad? Arguably it might be more of an ad since it's actually trying to get me to buy something, not just entice me to watch videos. Not to mention all the times I've the phrase "Get YouTube TV". I guess it comes down to personal preference and it ought to be more customizable but my point is YouTube "advertising" their own stuff to premium members has long been part of the experience.
I wonder if OP is also against all sort of farmer's food. After all, how can you know if the farmer didn't inject the apples he sold you with cyanide (or mini cameras) ? Or maybe the tree grew on a radioactive rock and the apples will give you cancer ten years after ? The only way would be to entirely control food production from the very start in an industrialised and verified way, no ?
What growing avocados in Sicily tells us about climate change
With respect, $200 might be much more than an entire years worth of income for many people in those countries.

Just because it’s the cost of dinner at a nice restaurant for you doesn’t mean that it’s a whole crap ton of money for someone else.
Nice explanation. Amusingly, it explains why NO kind of informed change can happen in a hierarchical organisation.
Vaclav Smil, man who quietly shaped how the world thinks about energy(2018)
> And that's why things like "Agile", "DevOps", etc will fail.

I completely disagree. Most team leads and technical managers where I've worked get promoted up from within a highly technical position. I wouldn't have any respect for my team lead or my PM if they didn't know what they were talking about.

If my PM is going to try to tell me that I should work on this feature over this other feature or I should implement it in this way over this other way do you really think I'm going to listen to them if it's clear they have no idea what the implementation details are let alone the tools? Of course not.

I'm making DevOps happen and I do that by knowing the tools and practices. I'm being given the power I need to make it happen. I earn the respect every day I come in and write the code or identify the weaknesses we need to shore up to move faster.
Cloudflare CEO assailing rival AWS for its prices
It used to give me this option, but no longer does. The uninstall option is just greyed out on my OPPO phone.
Agile is not about "mean efficiency", this is a serious and widespread misunderstanding.

Agile is a risk management method.

You won't build things faster with agile in general. It's aim is to decrease the chances of spending 80 manyears on a project and then realising at the end that you've built the wrong thing.
Ancient Rome had no shortage of outrageous decadence and constantly struggled with class warfare, slave uprisings and the political necessity of winning the hearts of the "people"
These days, that turns out not to be the case. The resulting DB file for the 100M rows Objective-S/SQLite benchmark is around 2GB.

The built-in SSD can write that in under a second, if written optimally.
Easy, when security stops being optional.

Until then, don't complain if random app gets to encrypt and send $HOME to other side of the planet.
Haha, the water thing is fun. Cold water is torture in Chinese and Korean culture. As in the cultural understanding of drinking cold water is that it hurts, is displeasant, and will cause ingestion. Thus of course no store is going to allow water to get too cold for consumption.

Similar to how the German strongly prefer to keep stomachs warm.
cuz they're garbage people
To all the people suggesting ad blockers, read the post and look at the image. There is no adblocker in the world that would block this. It’s a suggested video, a feature built specifically by youtube to push ”premium” content. The full page ad is also a new type of thing for youtube to market its own events.

Clearly youtube doesn’t see this as ads (though it is) and no adblocker would see them as ads either.
Not for a while.
90% of the revenue is games. Mobile Chrome would only need to support idiosyncratic Unity and Unreal web targets for a significant chunk of that revenue.
Funny enough, I switched from protonmail to migadu. As I've learned more about cryptography and modern email, the promises they make about email don't hold up well.

If you really need to talk to someone over email securely, PGP over email is the way to go.
This is a good one line summary.

And it’s something that good devs will already be trying to accomplish anyway. There’s also the part about breaking stuff down into small parts so that small cycles of meaningful dev can be accomplished. But that’s mainly to be able to release small and often - another thing you should already be doing to incrementally update your app avoiding big releases. It also stands in the face of waterfall development, though I see lots of teams doing test at the end still, making it waterfally.

I also see too many agile teams that have iterations that never finish, get feedback in prod, create half complete features that are weird or don’t gel - all in the name of agile.

I think the kids that get it were already doing it as it’s common sense. The rest end up sticking an agile badge on their practices when it’s all but.
The article is basically a link to:

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stuff-the-brit...
Often by the time the violation is noticed, the damage is done. And when you're cleaning up a million dollars worth of ransomware damage, you rethink whoever thought anyone should ever be operating with admin rights to their machine.
That’s not a bad starting point. There’s more than one kind of feedback though! No matter how regularly you reflect on the process, if you’re ploughing through an unchanging backlog it’s still going to be a mediocre experience. Worse if the strategy keeps changing and you have no influence over it. Those unfortunately describe the experience of many - sometimes well-meant but an imbalanced and process-centric Agile with ironically little regard for the people doing the work.
> Ensure you're in WAL mode.

That was what I thought as well, but in this case non-WAL turned out to be faster. Not yet sure why that is.
If syntax was irrelevant, ALGOL like systems programming languages would still dominate.
I remember reading a book about ancient civilization using horns to make sounds to lift heavy building blocks which I thought was ridiculous but they were onto something
This battery can be used continuously over a multi-day period and will enable a reliable, secure, and fully renewable electric grid year-round,” said Form Energy.

Or as Greg Lydkovsky, global head of R&D at steel giant ArcelorMittal — Form Energy’s latest investor — put it, the technology “holds exciting potential to overcome the intermittent supply of renewable energy”.

Form Energy president and chief operating officer Ted Wiley said: “We’ve completed the science, what’s left to do is scale up from lab-scale prototypes to grid-scale power plants.

“[At full production], the modules will produce electricity for one-tenth the cost of any technology available today for grid storage.”

The battery is said to work through “reversible oxidation of iron”. In discharge mode, thousands of tiny iron pellets are exposed to the air, which makes them rust (ie, the iron turning to iron oxide). When the system is charged with an electric current, the oxygen in the rust is removed, and it reverts back to iron.

Wiley said that a 300MW “pilot” project for Minnesota-based Great River Energy will be commissioned in 2023.
This is a worthless nitpick but redstone in Minecraft was added explicitly so people could do crazy things like build calculators etc. It's still cool, but not exactly unexpected
> I earn the respect every day I come in

How much of each dollar you make for the company with your hard work do you take home?
Well, a fluidity thing. But yes that’s related to risk. Being able to change direction at the drop of a hat. Also working with poor requirements which is a fairly common working condition in a lot of shops.
>Axios reported that as much as half of all unemployment insurance paid out has been stolen.

Oh hell for NJ you can just send in fake unemployment claims to any business and the burden is on the business to dispute every claim. If they fail to respond or it's lost in the mail then it effectively defaults and the state pays out the scammer. I have a folder of fake claims to my company over the years.

A few years back the state decided to pay one of those false claims out for a women I've never met that doesn't even live in my state, I filed the fraud report, tried to dispute it in the mail, met with my state representatives about it, called the courts, and ultimately never got a resolution.

Being stuck with having to pay a higher (we'll call it tax) rate for my own salary, I instead paid distributions for the rest of the year and converted the business from S-corp to single member LLC out of spite.

When COVID rolled around and I was eligible to collect unemployment for a month or so last year, I filed a claim that's been stuck in 'pending' since April 2020. Yay shitty COBOL code, I guess.

>They have to figure something out.

Or acknowledge that it's fucked beyond repair and replace it with something else like basic income. It'd likely be cheaper and more efficient.
The Europeans on this forum downvote anything with a hint of criticism of the US center-left. It's like the $.50 army except they don't get paid.
If nobody does something there is a chance it doesn't work. The most problematic point to me seems to be point 3 'customer collaboration'. Does anybody know how to do that in real life? What does the sales team sell then? And more important how do you prevent feature creep from the customers side wanting more and more things during the process? To me I only see this working if you sell working time instead of a product.
Not from Lincoln, you won’t. They don’t make cars anymore.
Ask HN: How does California 90-day Probationary starting period work?
In short, I'm in my probationary period, which I don't think I've ever been before -- and I'm old as rocks, so....that seems strange to me.

Nonetheless, I'm curious what, if any, implications there are for either side.

I'm pretty used to California law being 'at will' -- meaning, 'everybody do whatever you want whenever you want for any reason or no reason at all good, good luck, stay chill'.

in my case i'm looking to bounce, but...why would a company even have a probationary period?
> Delivery sooner, not faster

Well delivering sooner with less in it.
> Things like easy install on the homescreen, storing a lot of data locally, notifications, nfc, bluetooth, location and camera

> The main problem is mobile safari.

Ah yes. "The problem". And not the fact that a lot of what you want is badly specified, poorly implemented and considered harmful by both Safari and Firefox: https://webapicontroversy.com/
Loongson 3A5000 Benchmarks for These New Chinese CPUs Built on the LoongArch ISA
I like the straight csv
For the past few years, we at Damn Interesting have been hearing from scores of long-time fans who were under the mistaken impression that we had ceased all operations years ago. These fans are typically delighted to hear that a) we are still writing and podcasting; and b) there is a wealth of new content since they last visited. When we ask them what caused the assumption of our demise, they invariably cite the fact that our posts disappeared from their Facebook news feeds.

This trend roughly coincides with Facebook’s introduction of “boosting” for pages; in this new model, according to the stats we can see, Facebook stopped showing our posts to approximately 94% of our followers, demanding a fee to “boost” each post into an ad, which would make it visible to more of our audience. We lost contact with tens of thousands of fans practically overnight. We don’t mind paying for a service if it is valuable, but we absolutely don’t want to reach our audience by buying ad space on Facebook. Yuck. But no other option is given to reach the many people who previously followed our posts, and who presumably want to continue to do so.

We established our Facebook page in 2008 as the fledgling social media site was gaining in currency, and we continued to maintain our page on the side, mostly as an afterthought. In the intervening years Facebook evolved from a dubious curiosity into a megacorporation that is firmly in the service of bad ideas. In a move that feels long overdue, we at Damn Interesting are abandoning all interactions and connections with Facebook.

We really should have done this back when it was revealed that Facebook used the ubiquitous embedded “Like on Facebook” buttons to follow people’s movements around the web without their knowledge or consent. We should have done this when Facebook literally toyed with people’s emotions by showing some people more positive stories in their newsfeeds, and others more negative stories, to see how it would affect their emotional states. We should have done this when it was revealed that Facebook allowed advertisers to target ads to people who expressed interest in topics such as “Jew hater.” We should have done this so many times before.

To the tens of thousands of fans who follow us on Facebook: our sincere apologies. You’re probably not seeing most of our posts there, anyway. For the few who do still see them, we no longer wish to share content on Facebook which might cause people to spend time there. We hope you’ll stay in touch via one of our multiple non-Facebook options
> but we absolutely must be careful about using a vague characterization

I should point out that there is nothing vague about sactions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_North_Korea

If a country like the US imposes sanctions on a country which includes, quite prominently, restrictions on investment and financial activities, and afterwards you go out of your way to provide assistance on how to circumvent those restrictions on investment and financial activities... Where's the surprise that your assistance gets you in jail?
That’s not how it works. Sometimes you wake up one day and decide you want to go to the natural history museum but your SO wants to go to the MOMA to show you a new piece.

Someone doesn’t get what they want in that scenario and a compromise has to be made.
My bad. By argument I meant “ a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.”, as in you have a point, and offers a number of arguments to support the point
There are some great comments here, incredibly enlightening.

Yet somehow, I still find myself on Wolfram's side, suspecting that the entire QM/GR formulation is going to turn out to be the wrong way to understand the universe and that something quite different (e.g. cellular automata) will eventually be seen as much better.

The situation seems quite analogous to the one with fluid mechanics: we can use the continuously valued models that involve concepts like rate, turbulence, friction, etc. and be happy that we can reason about the system even though we fundamentally do not know what these properties are and can reasonably doubt that they are real. Or we can use cellular automata models, which use discrete math and have no "properties" that we can reason about. The outcomes are broadly similar in terms of prediction, but the approaches are totally different.

I will not be alive in 300 years, but if I were to be, I'd be willing to wager right now that most of the QM/GR formalisms will have been replaced by something entirely different.
Just when I finally achieved an excellent credit score... unfortunately due to a pay wall, I don't have any information about the next metric to chase.
You’re going to need that if you want to go over 100 watts for the power supply of your gaming Intel-based laptop.
Maxwell's equations and general relativity—what are these all about?

Maxwell's equations are the key linear partial differential equations that describe classical electromagnetism. The equations relate the electromagnetic field to currents and charges. On the other hand, in general relativity, the Einstein field equation is a set of nonlinear partial differential equations describing how the metric of spacetime evolves, given some conditions, such as mass density in the spacetime. Both equations are ultimately of second order, if seen properly.

Therefore, we thought that perhaps we are talking about the same governing equation, which could describe both electromagnetism and gravitation. Indeed, it becomes clear that Maxwell's equations hide inside the Einstein field equations of general relativity. The metric tensor of spacetime tells us how lengths determine in spacetime. The metric tensor also thus determines the curvature properties of spacetime. Curvature is what we feel as "force." In addition, energy and curvature relate to each other through the Einstein field equations. Test particles follow what are called geodesics—the shortest paths in the spacetime.
Cities should be built for people, not cars. If people lived in cities that are as dense as pre-automobile cities were, most people could get by without their own personal automobile. Trains are relatively efficient and clean.

I think of asphalt as a waste product of petroleum refining. What are roads supposed to be paved with, when there is not any asphalt to cover them?

"'Non-exhaust particulate matter (PM) emissions by source and car size.' Electric vehicles will solve nothing of these problems." - https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1386491243413135362
Interestingly, one of the point in the manifesto says "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools", yet there are all sorts of processes and tools that now exists for Agile. What an irony.
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