skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the other side from my experience at a previous engineering job is that it can also breed deep defensive layers around bad engineering work.

the same 3 core people stayed on the project for 11 years from the begging and hired and fired around weither you're a threat to their position. managers would come and go, they were helpless and held no real power in the project, until they settled for a puppet manager who would defer every decision up to them and act as a secretary.

the result was a huge pile of tech debt that only they could touch and they kept getting raises because the project couldn't afford to lose them, until the project died of it own weight.
this broke our chrome devtool plugin. They should have notified people before hand.
That simply isn't true - the machines of the past were pretty much blind but safety interlocks are able to detect an approach. The reason for the constraints are efficency in manufacturing is preferrably reducing the process to simple repetitive actions for improved throughput and reliability.
> FWIW this seems to be the current interpretation of copyright laws when it comes to machine learning, at least in the US.

I think this is a sensible take. An AI should be able to learn to program from any source code it can see, just like a human.

> But few are arguing that training the model itself on any available source is violating fair use.

People argue this all the time on HN.

But these same people seem to believe it is just pasting bits of code it has seen before together, so I suspect they don't have the technical or legal understanding to comment sensibly.
https://github.com/phase1geo/Minder

(Not the easiest thing to search for - "minder" doesn't bring up an app, "minder app" doesn't bring up a Linux app.)
New Zealand news seems to be echoing the incel playbook here.
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> there is no "method" to discover

Exactly, that's what makes it so great, but also so hard.
Maybe it'd be easier if I didn't have a load of notes I want to keep already.

If I were to take a guess about why its so hard to know where to start (truth be told I dont really know myself), it would be where those notes go and where new notes go. But I guess the point of this "system" or lack thereof is that it doesn't matter, and if it does my brain will remind me of it until its done.

I've got some nice notebooks arriving tomorrow, maybe using them instead will help me transition (the extra friction to take notes will perhaps make me take less)
Why is a simple, factual report downvoted? Should I add a screenshot?
Lit doesn't have HTML imports.

This is why lit-element is nothing compared to Polymer with HTML imports: https://lit-element.polymer-project.org/guide/templates

DOM in JS is an anti-pattern from a DX perspective.
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A software dev changes between a wide range of tasks pretty frequently, if "stock shelves, cashier, repeat" is your basis of comparison.
Why would DOA beamforming need a dense array anyway, if you are looking at the phase front? VLBI arrays are extremely sparse, which is fine with strong signals as a large aperture is not needed. Dense arrays are needed to suppress grating lobes, and I’d think that would be more of an issue when amplitude discrimination is needed.
They never left the B2B and corporate world.
You're trying very hard to dismiss experience specific to a company and industry, but I'm not buying it. Someone who has intimate experience with an established code-base and the company will be vastly more proficient than a new employee of similar intellectual capability. It's why companies often try to hire people within similar industries and tech stacks to help reduce this gap.

It's like trying to argue that a mechanic who has only worked on Ford vehicles for 20 years should be able to quickly have the same proficiency as a mechanic who has 20 years of experience on only Porches. Nonsense.

Remember, a company can typically expect to hold onto a developer for maybe 3-5 years, so even half a year of training is a significant portion of their tenure.
I'm speaking about this at a conference next week. Here is the MONEY QUOTE from Paul Weiss investigative report:

>>>
...further, the various Risk Committees only had access to data that were four to six weeks old.

As a consequence, Risk was unaware of, and unable to fully appreciate in real time, the magnitude and pace of the exponential growth in Archegos’s positions...
<<<

Ref: https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/a...

I'd like to also point out that unlike the 2008 crisis with margin calls which were highly subjective based on difficult projections of housing prices and defaults and correlations (think AIG-FP), here, these were pretty simple equity swaps. Valuing these assets is not difficult
You can do the same with IRC and a ksh/Perl script implementing a loop and PING, Gopher, FTP, MUDs, Finger and NNTP servers.

With Plan9/9front everything involving TLS could me made a script and an Acme frontend, except for video.
> has the right not to date me or anyone else, for any reason

Exactly, that's sortof the overarching point isn't it? Dating is inherently discriminatory, that's basically the point is to determine who you feel an appropriate partner is. And that right naturally trumps any party's concerns about being discriminated against. Anything else is unconscionable.
Tesla Teases Dojo Supercomputer
I think some Moodle plugins use it.
how to check if any of these packages are installed on a system? It seems like python (mac version, various homebrew versions) writes packages all over the place, from user-local dirs, to /usr/local etc.
Amazon employees attempt to rotate to Google every 2 years.
Make it read only
When implementing Python's yield in scheme, I found it straightforward to add the equivalent of send!

https://billsix.github.io/bug#_make_generator
Shows me $5/month: https://www.taskade.com/pricing

Maybe it knows I'm stingy so it shows a low price. The free version is a real free version, in the sense that it provides a lot of value. I like using it as an outliner.
It isn't the cost of one human vs one machine - that is a harder point to get to. Instead it is about the number of humans and their cost vs the machine adjusted equivalent. Scale is where industry takes its crown.
> . The product owners at Chrome are smart, but they're careless and constantly break the web because they don't seem to have enough of a sense of gravitas or caution about what they're doing.

Now imagine when Chrome has no competition whatsoever anymore, which will eventually happen. Google will control the web, at the very least on PC and Android, which is like 90% of the audience or something. They will take terrible, unilateral decisions because of their monopoly and "standards" will be as good as dead.
This is actually interesting.

I think tech era has redefined the way people value a company? It is not based on the P/e ratio anymore, people keep buying stocks from companies that are not even making money yet. Basically most people are betting their money based on trust that these tech companies are going viral one day.

Either way, i'm not an economist so maybe that's just a high level or me being dumb
I started thinking about how you might automate game development, and I think it's a pretty good thought excercise on the topic.

I feel like the end result is just what we already have, game engines with visual programming and drag and drop editors. You don't add much value by automating the programming since you still have to define the input and outcome.

The real win was building the complex logic and state editor into a good UX.
Home schooling your children too? School districts requiring vaccination records for all sorts of things. What invasion of privacy. It’s like they do it to protect other children.
People demonstrate more and more indifference and sometimes outright hostility to ads that offer what they think they don't need.

The genuinely useful part of the ad industry is connecting those who need stuff to suppliers of such stuff, that is, discovery.
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Ha! This is good! XD
Strongly agree, I've experienced this myself from both sides of the table.

The concept of "the market" for engineering talent is far more nuanced and multifaceted than the nice x/y plots used to correlate compensation and experience (not meant as a criticism to the author at all).
In our app we use this as a simple way to notifiy the user of rare, exceptional errors. E.g. Network errors, being out of sync with the backend.
One word: observability. Normally programmers don't care or consider observability, so they write services that just fire off HTTP requests and use the result. No effort is made to log these calls, or the result. IT teams can help here, by capturing HTTP traffic and exposing it through tools like Splunk. But if you can get your programmers to use a message queue, then you can much more easily inspect API calls in flight, making it easier to find the source of an error that could exist somewhere across multiple services.
I think you might have missed the point of this criticism. It is not science that is the problem, it is the way it is practiced, which in this case tends to be too conservative and operates by consensus. Bill McGuire explains the problem:

> "They’re conservative, because insufficient attention has been given to the importance of tipping points, feedback loops and outlier predictions; consensus, because more extreme scenarios have tended to be marginalized."

A good summary of the overall problem is found here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/19/you-shoul...
Are they using react for just this one thing on this page!? Honestly it wasn't very clear to me, but they seemed to indicate that. I wonder if that's just because it's the pattern at MDN, but I feel like shipping react along with the JSON has got to be huge.
The entire web does this, not just Google.

Alert is pure garbage and should not have made it past the 90s. Also, basic auth popups need to go too. Not sure why browsers would ever make those focus stealing in the first place. There should not be one single way for a web application to steal focus. The current workaround is to download a buggy ad blocker (last time I used chrome, just like firefox it has no way to turn popups off).

Edit: I just remembered alert no longer steals focus on modern browsers (IIRC). But basic auth still does (at least on my 50 year old fork of firefox).
I own a HP MFP and for several years HPLIP generally worked for several to many months at a time, until it didn't. Me and the wiff both run Arch on our laptops (she doesn't know or care).

After a particularly rubbish time trying to get HPLIP working again after a pacman -Syu I did a literature search: Mr CUPS had deprecated everything apart from IPP Everywhere. So, I tried it out.

Me and the missus send docs to print and they get printed. I cannot remember the last failure (apart from running out of paper.) I also have toner levels monitored via Home Assistant.

I also have an office with several MFPs and inkjets, accessed via Windows (Server 2019) print queues. They are not so reliable. I often have to restart the Print Spooler service on our print server. To be fair, it is generally one queue that is at fault.
Also, you really ought to not allow egress from your servers except to your load balancer.

Just attempting should create alarms.
This was GS indeed. I personally liked that a lot. I've learn a lot there.
You can phrase it more nicely. But it boils down to things like: "How hard can it be?" "Humans suck at it (though they really don't)" "We do great at 90% of the problem" and so forth.

Computers can do really well in controlled, specced situations. Not so well in a complicated environment where humans live and operate.
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In varnish, if you have some requirements flexibility you can enable grace mode in order to serve stale responses but update from the origin, and avoid long requests every [5] seconds.

Not quite the same layer, but in node.js I’m a fan of the memoize(fn)->promise pattern where you wrap a promise-returning function to return the _same_ promise for any callers passing the same arguments. It’s a fairly simple caching mechanism that coalesces requests and the promise resolves/rejects for all callers at once.
Not a suitable answer for website owners. Even if they literally asked all their customers to switch, end users won't.
No, you’re not dumb, it’s a bubble.

If I write you an iou for a million dollars, and you write me an iou for a million dollars, we can both be millionaires, and if everyone does that for everyone else, then we can all be millionaires, but only until too many people try to trade those IOU’s for something real at the same time.
Congress Is Slashing a $30B Plan to Fight the Next Pandemic
Isn't the Chinese solution just to convert these for-profit education companies to non-profit education companies? That only hurts these companies and their shareholders. Parents who want their children to be competitive will continue to enroll their children in these after-school classes; now that they are non-profit perhaps they will be cheaper and parents can afford more classes!
In other words, a meaningless statement. In original context, my remark was about fish with air bladders.
> The problem is actually one of internal incentives, from my reading.

It looks a lot more like a feature of those incentives. Functionally the risk persons job is to tell gambling addicts "I dunno guys, looks too juicy. High rollers only."

To paraphrase Sinclair: It's difficult to get someone to employ second-order thinking when his salary increases dramatically and there's no real downside if he doesn't.
New York Times editorial in support of drunk driving (1984)
> learning on encrypted data

In reading through the readme, its data the user encrypts (which is a goal of homomorphic encryption), not learning on data of someone else that is encrypted.

Assuming data us properly encrypted, it is indistinguishable from noise, so I don't see how someone can learn on someone else's encrypted data.
> its super rare for it to be used legitly outside of debugging

Simply false. This change broke several of my companies apps, and it broke Salesforce, and God knows what else. And it's not just a layout problem; it's material behavior which changed.
I like to think we're one of the better ones https://ayvri.com

This is mostly just a side project now, after 6 years of work. We have our own 3D renderer, but are using our custom Cesium here.
ICE cars are inherently more complex than EV cars, much like a Swiss army knife is inherently more complex than a kitchen knife.

If EVs quality will degrade to the quality of current ICE cars, that would mean that production if EV cars will use less resources, not more. It will not have to repeat the ICEs' complexity.

But frankly popular EV cars like Tesla are often considered sub-par compared to modern ICE cars with regard of build quality. They are used despite these shortcomings, and will actually need to rise tp the quality level of e.g. ICE Toyota cars.
Yes. I even tried restoring some settings to default. It survived reboots too.
Props for such a clear articulation of the use case, requirements, and application in such a short space.
Anyway, balloons or no, there is a great deal of hot air.
I got the vaccine, and recommend others to do so. The reason I have this debate is because the people who are so offended by anti-vaxxers constantly straw-man them instead of being sympathetic and trying to understand them. Like you are straw-manning me, implying that some obvious poison that immediately makes people sick is what I am talking about. Telling people they are stupid is not going to win them over, and forcing them to vaccinate will entrench their opinions and convert more to their point of view.

Try to understand, they don't trust the government, they don't trust the CDC, they don't trust Pfizer and they don't trust you. Yes you have an official list of ingredients that someone with an appropriate degree can understand. But what's the stuff in the actual needle that you are so intent on making sure gets injected into them? Seems perfectly reasonable to them that some PhDs in some pharma companies are really worried about global warming and a coming Idiocracy. Why not put something in the vaccine that reduces fertility for the unwashed masses?

Maybe it sounds crazy to you and me, but a lot of people hear experts saying seemingly ridiculous things (like needing a vaccine for a disease you already got and recovered from), see how everyone falls in line with the narratives as they come and go, watch mainstream news and social media restrict all alternative points of view. And they don't trust the system. And its clear to them that this system they don't trust, also doesn't like them. From that perspective, of course they don't want the people who lie to them and hate them to have the authority to stick some chemicals and DNA (I know, mRNA) in their arm.
> I've seen him say quite negative things about Tesla, and quite positive things about Tesla's competitors.

What I've seen from him, he always shows a clear bias towards Tesla.

> Can you give me an example of something Sandy Munro has said which IS NOT something good about a Tesla product, where he has clearly sacrificed engineering concerns?

When I say he's a Tesla shill, it's specifically because of the positive things he says about Tesla.

For example, here [1] he claims that the FSD Beta is currently at level 4 and "full self-driving" is just around the corner. Do you agree with that?

[1] https://twitter.com/alex_avoigt/status/1388838246705152001
Why 3D print a house? You can buy a trailer aka mobile home. They’ve been around for decades maybe a century by now. They come preassembled, on wheels, and are utility hook up ready.

The only problem is they seem to attract tornados.
No. The “analysis” above is anti-muslim nonsense.

The main roles in the government of Lebanon are split among Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims and Christians. The president is Christian. The prime minister and speaker of parliament are muslim (one Shia and the other Sunni).

I am not saying this was a good system - quite obviously it has not worked well. But to blame all of this on Muslims is nonsense.

Also important: some features of Lebanese government are invariant to demographic changes bc the government has declined to conduct a new census.

For reference:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Lebanon
The issue isn't the cross origin alert change. It's the TOS required and opt-out process.
As an old timer myself I remember Matt's work, and even exchanged emails on the topic with him way back in 2003! (I have most of my emails dating back to about '99)

I agree and can't help but hope this RSS thing and blogs will make a come back!
This seems like such a bad idea, the equivalent of catapulting ever greater rocks on the moon to test Newton's laws.
That’s not the case in my area. Lots of homes are wood framed and 3 sided brick with vinyl in the rear.
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