skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to suffer from the lack of "why" too until one day it dawned on me that there really isn't a why, or maybe, the why is always the same: for engineers doing classical physics solving problems by hand, it's convenient to define it that way. No more, no less.

When I was a math tutor in school, everyone would complain about lack of why. This was my approach to address the issue. I would describe a problem relevant to the class, say something like find the angle between two vectors, and ask them to think of a general way to do it. Usually this require some help from me but the solution was always "theirs". Then we would play with their solution: find corner cases, figure out which operations broke, develop a couple of theorems with it. Then I would show them the dot product, and a couple of its tricks (a.k.a. theorems), and they would get a good appreciation for why the dot product works the ways it does. And that's the why and the reason it stuck. It's useful way to solve a common problem. There is no magic or deep philosophical truth.

The problem is this teaching style works with a dialog to a few number of students. I am not sure how well it would work in a lecture setting. It was also not so easy on me as I would be the person who had to spot the problems in their definition, basically on the spot, and lead them to it on their own without revealing the answer. With basic things like a dot product it's pretty easy to know where to look (i.e. is their definition commutative, pretty much never) and finding issues and nudging them too it wasn't too hard. But it's likely hard to scale things like this on many metrics.
Can someone elaborate on what the percentages mean? I know I'm reading it wrong, and I can't figure out what the magnitudes are.
People have been leaving Illinois and New York for several years now, so it's probably less surprising than California's more recent stagnation and potential decline.
KDE does a better job of naturalizing GTK apps than the other way around.
Do you think hotels don't have cameras? I'm confused.
Calm down Veruca Salt
I know his name and who he is. I vaguely recall some of his poems being recited at school.

I like to think I'm a man of the world. I watch a lot of Scottish TV (Burnistoun etc.), have done the NC500 and have plenty of Scottish friends. Of course there is dialect there, but I didn't realise this was a "thing".
Some Minecraft mods like TerraFirmaCraft and new games such as Vintage Story opt for a more realistic portrayal, and include the use of realistic ore and flux in smelting.
There's a stipulation just above that portion of the bill where the Secretary of Transportation can determine that it is not possible to 'passively' determine if a driver is impaired and decline that rule so long as they issue a report to congress as to why.
O'Reilly published some free whitepaper-style overviews a few years ago. Some of them are a little behind current trends but still good enough. Check if one of them suits your target audience.

https://gist.github.com/MilosSimic/1559a763e4648fc3ce0c8f258...

Some examples:

- https://www.oreilly.com/data/free/files/artificial-intellige...

- https://www.oreilly.com/data/free/files/practical-artificial...

- https://www.oreilly.com/data/free/files/future-of-machine-in...
Does flatpack have solved the theming problems they had 2 years ago ? And the perf issues ?
Astronomical Engineering: A Strategy for Modifying Planetary Orbits (2001)
Modern Apps Strategy and Assessment
Nowadays we are digital serfs living off the properties owned by megacorporations. They have made it increasingly difficult to live outside their ecosystem and run your own email server (your messages will end up in spam) or host your own website (NAT/Cloudflare DDoS etc).
To your first question. Yes, if you move to a more expensive location based on the bands Google provides, you will automatically see an increase in compensation.
Can't wait to give this version a whirl!
As I've said before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661615), we use Elementary OS as our point-of-sale terminals in a small chain of resale stores, and it's been super solid. It's been a good choice for us.
It is extremely rare to get a management position as an external candidate with no management experience. I recommend making your intentions clear to your manager / skip level manager and come up with a plan for moving into that role with them.
I always toyed with the idea of getting a System76 laptop, but at the time I was shopping, the price was close to a MacBook Pro at similar specs, with worse display and uglier.

On the upside, the memory/CPU specs were really nice.
What happens to Scots Wikipedia now?
A virtual machine.

Running Linux natively on Apple Silicon is not ready for daily driving.
Wallet/Banking apps in India incl. Google Pay requires the mobile number on the phone to match the bank records due to central bank regulations, I assume IMEI verification happens behind the scenes with direct telecom API.

Wallet apps sends outgoing SMS randomly to verify this. Suddenly my wallet apps stopped functioning as SMS couldn't be sent and I presumed I had messed up with telephony services with some security settings and was searching radio logs to find the culprit where I found that SMS validity was nil.

Searching further I found that our telecom oligopoly (soon to be duopoly) decided to remove outgoing SMS from low-tier plans. I don't do real-time communication, telephony services are only useful to me for receiving the 2FA OTP and so I had low tier plans. Goodbye wallet apps.
Q is conventionally folowed by U.
[spoilers]

The main character is spacially and temporally separated from his love interest/comrade during the war. At the end, he receives a letter saying she's been in cryo sleep aboard a ship experiencing time dilation to wait for his return.
The Practical Path to America’s Electric Vehicle Transition
Who are quite an awesome (German) hosting company, IMO
Police Upset Idiot Colleague Played Taylor Swift to Trigger YouTube Filter
The status SAYS it's all resolved, but PRs are still missing commits pushed during the outage (but before the status page was updated).

I guess I'll have to manually push fake commits to get it to update, or wait for whatever internal cache to drop off grumble grumble
But they do impose it. The 40-hour workweek was a hard fought-for standard. I would call anything above that standard as imposing. It's not a rare concept. It's why billing for overtime at an increased rate is common practice—because the extra time spent is an imposition.
In practice the only 'extra work time' created benefit is food, and that mostly started because the google campus was in a suburban restaurant desert on the other side of a highway, the minimum time it took to get to downtown mountain view was 20 minutes, and that is very time consuming, along with all the traffic that it would generate and so on.

If you knew how little many google workers work, you wouldn't say this lol. Barely anyone is doing all the extras. Google shuttle and google food is the most of it. Some might gym too.
I tried eOS 5. The screenshots made it look the most user friendly of Linux distros (read: Apple knock off), and at first it feels that way. But it quickly starts to show how shallow that knock off is… and it’s a huge undertaking so I don’t blame them. First is what happens once you run anything that isn’t made by them — all of the sudden totally different UIs. Linux has this problem in spades because there is no standard (gnome, kde, whatever ppl want, etc), and there’s no one setting the bar (which Apple does on its own platform). Thus there’s no consistency to anything.

Their own apps similarly look ok at first, and then you go to use them and you realize it’s all very bare bones.

My system also froze/locked up a lot at random, and I don’t know why. Installing Ubuntu fixed that issue. Not sure what happened there.

Again I don’t blame them; not sure how many people are working for them, but creating a modern desktop and all the apps you’d expect from scratch is a huge undertaking. I hope they do well and provide Linux a real alternative experience. I’d love to see some way that they can extend into apps to make their look and feel more consistent somehow (gnome/kde skins? Something much more? Their own forks of popular apps?), and that the community ends up focusing around them so we get a distributed effort.
Thanks for the correction. I guess that validates the OP's point after all.
While this is true a word of warning: if you ever end up in a due diligence situation or a source code audit AGPL can really freak people out and hang up/derail the process until you get them to understand this point. If you can at all.
There's a threshold of savings under which things start getting very risky, that encroaches on my happyness, but on the flipside there's no amount of money I can think of that would make me work endlessly, because it doesn't make me happy beyond that
I don't know when this was written, but MinIO does not have a great story (or really any story) around horizontal scalability. Yes, you can set it up in "distributed mode", but that is completely fixed at setup time and requires a certain number of nodes right from the beginning.

For anyone who wants HA and horizontal elastic scalability, checkout SeaweedFS instead, it is based on the Facebook "Haystack" paper: https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs
One party has physically more people than the other. A Republican migration can never change major and swing Democrat areas by voter numbers alone, whereas a Democrat migration can change a Republican area by voter numbers alone.

Only a local partisan reality or influencing others can alter that, a Democrat migration can turn the entire country* Democrat if anyone coordinated, as only a few counties have to be swung just a little bit. I don't feel like this is a partisan observation, mathematically the opposite is not true like if you imagined a different nation that you didn't care with the same reality it is easy to notice that the opposition party does not have the numbers.

*Not all local representatives, just electoral college for Presidency, the entire Senate, most of the House of Representatives.
I love the look and feel of elementary, but I'm always skeptical of trying new Linux DEs. I want them to work well, and they often do, but 4K and scaling support is very hit or miss with the ones I've used. I'm currently using Gnome and not impressed at all, just settling on it. Does anyone have experience with other DEs recently with this? Either KDE or Pantheon, or something else? I just want good 4K support and scaling that doesn't causes awful tearing or window bugs.
Thanks for replying, it's really fascinating.

I think part of the difference is density - my city is only about 3km x 3km. If I cycled 5 miles I'd end up in the next town along. I just looked on TripAdvisor to see how many restaurants were within that range but it maxxed out at 1,000+.

We do have big supermarkets too, at the edge of the city - about 75,000 sqft eyeballing it on Google Earth, apparently only a bit smaller than the average Walmart. I've never really seen why I would go there, except perhaps for ease of parking if I was going to buy a huge amount of food with a car. And this is France so even the tiny supermarkets make room for a bakery : )

So the maths here is mostly that cars are just negative. I'm very optimistic that electric bikes will begin to dominate transport in European cities - we just need to build the infrastructure to make sure that they're safe to ride.
Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Summary
Do G-Sync/Freesync still work in a setup like this?
Imagine rediscovering the Pareto distribution a million times, over and over again, in all kinds of places and structures. How long can you keep the crowd entertained? 100 years? 1000 years? It's been going on for well over a century already
Is it though? Maybe my office uses an electricity supplier who charges a bit more, but uses as much renewable as possible, but at home my supplier doesn’t use any renewable, but is cheaper

There are just too many factors involved to make a fair comparison - especially across countries
I usually don't correct spelling but sake* (ends in an eh noise) gets me every time.

Totally agree though. Conbini snacks and some canned alcohol were how I traveled on the shinkansen. A very enjoyable ritual :)
One thing that was included here is that Google is now also reducing your equity compensation as a part of relocation. Changing the salary I understand and there are a lot of valid points and counterpoints on why it should or should not change based on your cost of living in the city/supply vs.demand in the city for the job.

I really dislike equity compensation being reduced because equity is supposed to be a direct reward for the value you generate for the company. Why does someone who lives in Zurich/SFO/NYC have any more impact vs. someone who lives in Kansas. Both are contributing the same and their equity should reflect that...
The federal government should quit using private companies to get around the limitations placed on it by the powers enumerated in the constitution.
Amazon to pay shoppers hurt by others' products, does not admit liability
Predicting Marketing Performance from Early Attribution Indicators
The ancient Greeks understood division and reciprocals from the perspective of inverting multiplication.

I have to imagine that the multiplicative identity (1) and additive identity (0) were also known at that time. They really figured out everything else there is to integer-based math.

They failed at irrational numbers (like sqrt(2)). But their mastery of integers was outstanding. Perhaps 0 wasn't used on the number-representation yet, but the concept had to have been known.
There is a hypothesis in the room why the Chinese consumer tech crackdown is happening - for exactly that reason.

Big consumer tech with negative net value is not only bombarding users with ads, making them addictive to kill time with useless swiping, liking and forwarding and is also binding the most talented resources to make this happen instead of building semiconductors, rocket engines and biotech stuff.

If Chinese is not doing the crackdown (only) for interal power struggle reasons but is playing that 6D chess, then kudos.

Big consumer tech might become less attractive, people will stopp swiping in weibo, tiktok and weixin; bright talent might start to design stuff that actually benefits the society.
I disagree. Now to ensure I can install software I need not just one package manager, but at least 2 or 3 (atp, flatpak, snap). Of course that doesn't cover all the bases either, I'm still occasionally going to have to compile something from source because the developer didn't even bother making a binary because they don't want to build it for 5+ different packaging formats, several of which will need constant maintenance.

When it comes to platforms[0], you need to be able to depend on certain things being there and working a certain way. Fragmentation of a platform is bad, and Linux Desktop is so fragmented the various distros style themselves as entirely different OSs!

[0] As opposed to applications. Part of the problem is that historically there has never been a clear delineation in Linux Desktop.
OpenAI is releasing a new ML tool that translates the English language into code
Police have little reason to investigate crimes that, as a result of a social engineering experiment, will not be prosecuted. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/george-soros-criminal...

The only solution I have found for preventing thefts from my construction sites in St. Louis is to pay a stipend to local economically disadvantaged people to live at the site, and provide firearms for the purpose of discouraging thieves. At the request of the St. Louis city police, we stopped reporting incidents of attempted theft.

The DA in my area recently stopped attending murder trials. This is what the powers that be want. When the prosecutor does not show up in court, the case cannot proceed.
I'm not sure, but imagine once you learned it you parse the sentence like a word. Like some of the Asian alphabets?
There are plenty of big companies operating at scale in those markets. You just haven't heard of them. From everything I've heard about FAANG interviews, it's more of an exercise in theory rather than hands-on experience anyway.
It's great that this exist (and it's good that you're pointing it out!).

But it's pretty basic, unfortunately. If Apple would just spend a bit more effort, running iPhone backups to your mac via Wifi regularly would be totally viable. It still is, but not's not very convenient.

For example, I cannot exclude certain categories from these backups. I'd like to exclude photos, since they are already on my computer and I don't want needless duplicates of them. Same with e.g. downloaded podcast episodes. Similarly, it seems like I can't backup my contacts, since those are already in iCloud.

https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/i936ov/how_to_ex...
Don't you think though that trusting a company based on what they say is less reliable than trusting a company based on what they do. Apple is a closed ecosystem, therefore you have only been able to trust what they say and not what they do.
PSXFunkin – Friday Night Funkin' on the Original Playstation
Heads up: your site is broken on Brave with shields up. Your frontend code probably depends on some tracking stuff that isn't being loaded with adblockers.
The idea that zero was "invented" at a certain time by recent humans and not in use until then has always seemed absolutely absurd to me. I will admit I haven't read deeply into it, but there's just no way people didn't have a concept for "none of a thing" until a couple millennia ago.

One of the justifications used for this reasoning is "You don't go to the market and buy 0 fish". But all that tells us is: There's no reason to record buying 0 fish or owning 0 acres of land. Another justification given is the difficulty children experience with 0 - but we don't teach children to start counting with 0, so it makes sense that they would get tripped up there.

I guess the argument sometimes seems to be that we didn't have a symbol for 0, and that this was somehow more confusing to adopt than other symbols? But if that's the case, then isn't claiming any culture "invented" zero the same as claiming a culture "invented" any concept they came up with a word for?

I'd love to hear all the reasons I am wrong and stupid.
Enforced class hierarchies are not very adaptable. A simple approach would expect records, a mapping function and the findOne, findList, findSet plumbing. There should not be a need to enforce a class hierarchy framework upon the integrating code.

Somewhat counter intuitively, type hierarchies cause leaky abstraction layers.
Sounds like return of the JEDI.
When you read COULD in a headline, replace it with PROBABLY WON'T and see if you still want to click it.
- Can't publish closed-source apps on their AppCenter. "To ensure reproducible builds, transparency, and auditability, binaries cannot be uploaded or included alongside the source code to be installed on users' devices." So that precludes my apps, and probably most other devs I know. I'd guess because of this restriction, their app store is going nowhere as a business.

- Their 70/30 split is higher than what Apple currently offers (85/15) for revenue less than 1m (which is going to be everyone on eOS)

- While I like macOS, I think it's a shame they chose to (more or less) copy it, rather than try a new direction. But perhaps that would be too risky.
On GitHub: https://github.com/cuckydev/PSXFunkin/releases/
> And you will not feel ripped off for eating them. You will derive more or less equal satisfaction from them as you would any historical top-shelf item.

This is where the author loses me. Just because I dont have BBQ ribs and pizza in the immediate vicinity doesn't mean I cant compare what I have to what I want...

Yes, it does alter behavior through convenience (having an item on hand vs having to go get it). But that doesn't make me more satisfied with cauliflower... It just makes me be less satisfied through laziness.
In general this transition is easier within the same company. Management is a different path/career. It mostly requires different skills than your IC skills. This makes it difficult for you to convince another company that doesn't know you that you have what it takes to become a good manager. It's not impossible. It's just more difficult.

In an ideal world, accumulating more leadership responsibilities in your current company is a smoother way to get to management. This usually means something like IC -> team lead -> eng. manager.

Bear in mind that different companies may have different set of expectations from their eng. manager when it comes to technical knowledge or being hands on. This is also influenced by the size of the company and where it's at in its growth. It's no surprise that at startups an eng. manager may end up being (much) more hands-on.

I believe it's extremely difficult to be a great IC and great eng. manager at the same time. As they require different sets of skills, it must be extremely difficult to develop both sides equally. Where I work we want our eng. managers to be people managers. Their teams have Tech Leads that Eng. Managers can rely on for technical parts.
A good balance of what?
Maybe they were ordered to clean up. This is a popular hazardous substances disposal scheme in EU:

You rent a warehouse/piece of land in Poland claiming to be a transportation/construction/recycling company usually using forged documents or homeless person fronting whole thing.

You get paid to remove hazardous waste from UK/Scandinavia/Germany, you stockpile until the place is full.

Finally you either set the place on fire to cover your tracks, or the owner stops receiving payments, discovers whats stored on his property and decides to take insurance hit instead of having his assets blocked for several years while courts try to figure out if/what/who is going to pay for lawful disposal.

Just 2 days ago https://wielun.naszemiasto.pl/kolejny-pozar-skladowiska-w-na... already mentions one from one week earlier. https://portalkomunalny.pl/gospodarka-odpadami/pozary-sklado... Usually couple a month up to one a week, year after year for the last >10 year. Seemingly no political will to fight this scheme.
Is this sarcasm? The US has free vaccine shots and free masks (most chain stores hand them out for free), and people still won’t use them.
https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1217043229427761152?ref_sr...
Apologies, I went fast on my post. My point was to tighten your numbers to strengthen your point.

As it is, I feel lied to when folks say that it takes kids 4 or more years to get language.
I understood it as a joke referencing Aamazon's tendency to take just any open source product that happens to gain enough popularity, rename it and offer it as a shiny new feature of AWS.
But there were no mentions of cameras indoors. Instead they sounded like they were all outdoor cameras. I think that's fair game.

I think like a hotel - these cameras were at the lobby, the hallway, the elevators, and the outdoors. Nothing was viewing the personal space.
That is an interesting insight about the banking apps. The hypothetical mugger could make you login on the web versions although, so you will also need to not have your 2 factor banking items on the personal phone too.
block it in uBO so you don't have to see it again.
What an amazingly thoughtful take. Thanks for this. I have always felt there was a difference between managing (which I dislike) and leading (which I do like) but was never quite able to put it in words.
You could say something similar about the news. Complaint can be extremely useful, if someone hears it and finds a solution.

Of course complaint can also be a really dumb waste of time, or even harmful. But few things beat the utility of the right complaint to the right audience.
Leisure itself is a marker of status.