skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Larry Kasdan sat around talking through all the ideas they had for “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. They tape recorded their meetings. This is a transcription of those tape recordings.

I read it a long time ago, and the most interesting thing that stuck in my mind had to do with the headpiece with a crystal in the center that Indiana Jones had to obtain.

A quote from the movie itself to refresh memories: "And what you did was you take the staff to a special room in Tanis... a map room with a miniature of the city all laid out on the floor and if you put the staff in a certain place, at a certain time of day, the sun shone through [the crystal] and made a beam that came down on the floor... and gave you the exact location of the Well of the Souls. [Which is] where the Ark of the Covenant was kept."

Lucas, Spielberg, and Kasdan got into a discussion about why it had to be a physical thing like a crystal. It couldn't be a map, diagram, or document that gave the exact place to dig. Because valuable information like that, even if it were engraved or printed on a gold artifact, would have been photographed and distributed to museums around the world. Then Indiana wouldn't have needed to go to Nepal to retrieve the original. Hence the headpiece with a crystal -- which isn't easily copied.

There was so much attention to the logical flow of the story.
> In school, we harangue kids to be more careful, and spend approximately zero time teaching them to build better systems instead. We ignore checklists and processes because we’ve been taught that they’re beneath us.

Feedback. Signals. Systems theory.
Nice job! How long did you have to wait for the new software version after the bug fix?

A few months ago, one of our young devs got a PR accepted to fix a tiny little Spark bug that had been bothering us for a while. The big boss meeting was happy, plenty of virtual pats on the backs and congratulations.

And then someone had to go and ask when we'd see the fix in our DataBricks cluster.
Having gone both routes I will say that among the "knockoffs" you can find several that use the EBB Driver Board [0] which minimizes some of those compromises and allows you to use the Evil Mad Scientist tools with a little bit of Python or tweaks to config files.

That said the build quality and software products from EMS make it worth supporting them, to me.

[0] https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/188
Also a millennial. Also bought my first house at 24. Sold it 6 years later for a loss of $90k. Timing is important. Not everyone was fortunate to buy at the beginning of a huge bull market and right after a historic crash in real estate prices. (Bought my house in 2006)
Morally speaking, yes. But functionally speaking, the votes are what ultimately matters. Leadership might be a way to achieve votes, but it isn’t literally required.
Wouldn’t it be better to put the effort towards designing a system that doesn’t need precise timekeeping?
(You might consider re-reading my final sentence. The proximal cause isn't particularly interesting or surprising: the ultimate cause is the better mystery.)
Ending the pandemic is different from eradicating the virus. It'll likely end up being something we manage just as we manage viruses like measles or Ebola. Vaccination and surveillance will slow the sporadic smaller outbreaks and make it feasible to contain them.
Congratulations, now you don’t have to go on Facebook anymore.
I await the Mac version of Borderlands 3 on Steam. This remains an Epic Game store exclusive.
It makes no sense.

In theory, you can sell your house to a landlord without leaving it. You can then invest the money you got by selling the house into stocks and use the dividends to pay the rent. By doing that, you didn't change your lifestyle, didn't become richer or poorer, you just moved money from an account to another, but if net worth calculations didn't include the primary residence, you would have created wealth out of nowhere.

Also, what about mortgages? Are they excluded too? If you don't consider the primary residence as an asset, you can't reasonably consider the associated mortgage a debt.
Very much agree. I had a memorable conversation with a PM a short time before the pandemic about this very subject. She was enthused about how it would make her work more closely aligned that of developers.
Which universe did you live in? In the universe I lived in the US was scared of being nuked by Russia or China (Google “Cold War”) and got its ass kicked in Vietnam and Korea, while getting its industry ass kicked by Japan, Germany and China, and destroying its middle class. Believing what you seem to believe is actually a perfect example of what the author is talking about: a mental model that is not matching reality and therefore makes you say things and take actions that are s*.
Not sure you can call covid "mundane", given that 620K have died from it in the US...
> requiring two separate teams of platform developers for every feature we needed to implement

So your margins are more important than your users’ native experiences. Got it.
If I had to guess maybe finally banning that anti-vax/mask sub made someone do a ddos?

(they were "brigading" other subs)

or maybe something more basic

https://www.redditstatus.com/
I learned scraping with python and beautiful soup. My biggest challenge was that on certain sites, the html I would get from requests was different than what would be seen in chrome.

I tried using selenium to get around this but was never successful. The issue has really handicapped my ability to scrape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke

Fool-proofing, in essence (though not the literal translation). For those, like me, who knew they knew the term from somewhere but couldn't place it, or who just don't know it.

Related idea in software is to make invalid states unrepresentable in the system. It's also a central theme in systems safety.
What RCTs are you referring to? I’d like to take a look.

Ones showing don’t work:

DANMASK (sars-2 community self infection)

Macintyre et al (cloth masks vs “standard practice”, showed possible deleterious effect of cloth masking but did not compare to no-mask)
Correct me if I'm wrong in my understanding on vocations, but didn't it also require quite a bit of luck that she got to take on this vocation in the Navy?
Part of the problem is that the browser itself floats on the underlying operating system. I've been reading "The Art of Science and Engineering" by Hamming. He talks at length of how the history of computing is the history of moving up the stack, usually by tooth and nail. I suspect there will be a day soon where HTML and HTTP will be a thing of the past, like how embedded engineering seems to have not caught much interest among my generation. We will have to wait and see.
> I'd recommend a quick re-read of Adam Smith.

on that note, didnt "free markets" originally mean "free of rents", not "free of any intervention", correct?
Port 25 is for unsecured SMTP

VPN's can be on any port
If any society is in a position to afford that policy, it is New Zealand. Remote island, wealthy so they can afford some hit to their economy (even with how important tourism and exports are there). The public seems to have no desire to go through COVID-19, so the political will may be there.
So what if they did. Does not prove anything.

Is Bellingcat an independent investigation organization? Why would this one be any different?
https://www.openvaers.com/openvaers
> 125 Mbps?

10 TB / 1 month.

> 60 MB?

In the post they replied to.
I hate to be the person to quibble about the semantics of words but when one says the word modest one doesn't usually imagine a situation that is more than 70% of all others.

I agree, it's a reasonable expectation that two people working should have a lifestyle that something like 100k/year would support.

That being reasonable doesn't change the fact that it's still more than what 70% of other situations get, regardless of how those situations came about.

If you want to compare that on an individual level then it's still not modest. The median Individual income is only 36k/year. Even on an individual level they're still doing better than 70% of the population on that level.

Yes, it's possible to be comfortable and live a nice life no in NYC or SF. But let's not delude ourselves into thinking that just because it's reasonable to expect that level of income for a household, that it's modest, or even the norm.
Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (Compas)
https://www.redditstatus.com/
I kind of agree with parent poster.

Currently the message could be summarized thus: "Everything bad you see in the news is due to climate change, if you don't stop driving and using straws, we're all gonna die!!"

People don't believe that and if they do, they're like, well, were done. What can I do, I'm only one.

Instead they should be aiming at the number one culprits, industrial processes and population growth... but they don't do pop growth because it's touchy because it would affect some countries more than others, they don't touch industry because... I don't know, but we know the consumer end of this is not the low hanging fruit or the most impactful target, yet this is where they spend their time and money.

They also like attacking big oil from the 70s because they influenced bad policies (granted) but speak nothing of activists who killed Nuclear (I guess few would own up to their own mistakes) --which would have dampened fossil fuel use.
So? Reddit is frequently down.
The distribution issues with media are ridiculously antiquated. It is 2021. There is absolutely zero reason for there to be any kind of region restriction on media. Why do you want to stop people in other countries from giving you money for your content? Because it certainly isn't going to stop anyone in those other countries from watching it, it is only going to stop them from paying for it.
looks nice ! still working on mine at saltymotion.com
Good to see there is widespread interest in that field.
I've been imagining a world where a whole bunch of countries actually do this. What does it really change? Mostly less tourism, I think. That would hit certain tourism-dependent countries pretty hard.

On the other hand there'd probably be a lot less air travel, which is good.

But think about how many people are able to work remotely now. What if the quarantine hotel had great internet access, so you spent your quarantine period working remotely, then went off and did tourist things and had your vacation proper?

I think the trickiest part would be how to handle all the people who do the people- and stuff-moving -- the airplane and ship crews, specifically.
You are not alone. I will be looking into alternatives/competitors to see how good they are, if nothing else.
Do you have a plan for cross-consistency checking? Like, for example, Lean was proven consistent by Coq.
I read your comment elsewhere here defending the curlys and it does make sense, I was judging it prematurely.

> Guess I'll end up adding a bracket-less version

Don't make a decision just by listening to some random strangers like me!
What do you suggest? Bombing the lobby of Exxon Mobil HQ?
What test is used to distinguish between the original virus and the delta variant?
what is dropbox paper?
So as somebody who played LOL, and debated paying a coach but ultimately didn't here's one person's input:

- I wouldn't have paid for what you described for LOL. (One data point)

- I wanted a practice tool better than what LOL offered. I basically had no way to practice specific matchups at a fast pace. For example if I wanted to repeatedly practice level 1 all-ins, that required committing to a 40 minute game and possibly having my team be annoyed at me. Likewise if I wanted to practice 5v5 fights where a particular ult is a game-deciding moment I had no way either.

- I don't know if I would have paid for the above, maybe I would have if I felt like it worked. Ultimately what I would want to know from a coach is -> for every moment in my replay what did I do wrong: could I have won a specific 1v1?, did I use my abilities well?, was I in the right part of the map?, what was our composition's win-condition and was I helping it enough?

So replay-analysis is what a lot of people buy from coaches, is definitely not a violation of TOS or risk of getting banned. May be worth considering that and working your way towards automation gradually.

Regardless, best of luck!
Sadly, not /s.

I’ve been pitched the TwoBobs Productivity Classifier.

My feedback was anyone who needs it has classified themselves as an unproductive dev manager.

I suggested the concept be made available as being by devs, for devs, purposed as a personal coach, with no uplink to the mothership.
Lightrun: Developer-Native Observability Right from Your IDE
Try faking your User-Agent header.
Is there any sign of a real audit or are they just hand-waving it and telling us to trust them?
It doesn't matter who is paying for the product. You could pay for the product and they could still add usage terms about monetizing and sharing your personal data.
And if your system isn't using event sourcing (where this sort of testing is relatively simple to add), you can also do model-based testing.

I like this example as a demonstration from FsCheck using F# (for the test program) and C# (for the program under test): https://fscheck.github.io/FsCheck//StatefulTesting.html
The app store is your Phone's distro's package repo. The big difference is all the dumb extra restrictions app stores put on their "packages", like taking a cut of their money, or not allowing apps to be published for various reasons.

Also, you can already download and run unsigned phone apps that way (on Android anyway). It's just that mostly nobody publishes their apps that way.
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Who knows? the answer only serves to let you judge u/Yuioup. Maybe they know someone with ALS, maybe they are a troll looking to use sympathy points for fake Internet points (now convertible to crypto currency and real world currency!) Maybe they knew the person who died and are trying to commemorate them. Hopefully your prompt will let them answer with grace. If not, why did you ask... and so rudely, too
As I understand it, the provenance of the transcript itself isn't really known. It was eventually acknowledged by one of the participants (Kasdan, I think).

Dunno why whoever has the recording hasn't released it, but I'd personally guess they just haven't bothered trying to get the permission from everyone involved, which may involve studios too, or at least they think it might.
Exactly... this simply isn't easy to pull off, and is certainly nowhere near as easy to pull off as changing your IP address, and is going to have way fewer false positives
(in addition to fewer false negatives) than attempting to whack-a-mole VPNs over time with nothing more than limiting the number of Netflix accounts a person can pay for with a single credit card (such as to "1"). I'm literally mostly known for running a worldwide market with tens of millions of users--Cydia--and I'm telling you: it isn't some trivial restriction to bypass if you require someone's billing instrument to be located in a specific country (and the fact that such restrictions work so well is a big reason why blockchain has been so revolutionary to so many sectors... but isn't really going to affect Netflix's billing any time soon).
> There's no problem here. This is the most common behavior in any place corporate or not.

Its hard to say statements like that universally because it really depends on where you work (and have worked). There are plenty of places which make time to refactor along the way, in small and large ways. Its good engineering, and a healthy code base nets better long term outcomes for the business too. Business people care about the team's velocity (since programmers are expensive). And I'm disheartened you think its the norm but not all companies have MBAs telling software engineers how to do our jobs. (Eg, Google / Facebook / Netflix / Github / etc.)

> Do you have any evidence to back up your claim or is this just your opinion?

Its just my professional opinion, backed up by almost 30 years writing software at all sorts of companies and in all sorts of environments. But no, I wish we had quantitative evidence for this stuff. But there's a weird dearth of quantitative research around software engineering. We as an industry don't really know what we're doing yet. I'd love to read some studies on this stuff if you can find any.

But I'm very confident about what works best for me, from trying lots of things on solo projects. I'm way more productive when I throw something together quickly, iterate like mad on how it works internally, then tidy it up and modularize as I get more confident around the best way to structure the code. Whenever I modularize up front I basically always end up regretting my abstraction boundaries - and either have to rework them (which is expensive) or I leave them alone, and just ship vaguely mediocre code.

But if prematurely modularizing your code is the only way you can modularize anything at your workplace then - well, you do you. But I find that pretty sad.
Agreed, I think it's an already-fantastic tool that is a bit of polish away from being perfect. My number one gripe is the lack of scrollback.
In developing this what were some sites used to test it, what was the desired data and format of the data to be extracted, and what was the most challenging of those sites.
This is a good point, and there are ways to take advantage of this. The c++ frameworks that beat rust advertise in their repos that they are using a forked PostgreSQL DB driver which has been re-written to be asynchronous. There's a js framework named just-js which tops the current (nightly) DB Update benchmark on TechEmpower and I suspect they are doing the same.

Additionally, Java, python, and ruby frameworks tend to gobble RAM (I work in a large corp with many deployed Java web services). This requires instances to autoscale based on mem usage or to use instances with more mem. Rust and c++ frameworks often utilize a fraction of the memory for the same service (yes, we've tested this). So we can use smaller and/or fewer tasks/instances in our autoscaling pools.
> Were politicians of the past paragons of virtue? In large part of course not.

No one is claiming they were. This isn't a binary thing, it is a spectrum. So what's different now? Where they lie on that spectrum.

> My pet theories for suspects are:

You and pretty much everyone else. This is extremely common. But these are also pretty common things in history. Though again, spectrum. We're in one of the most unequal times in America. Rich rarely got persecuted, ever (hell, remember the Pinkertons?). Rumors and misinformation used to spread faster than horses could travel. So let's instead look at what similarities there are to historical examples.
Public transportation in Prague, Czech republic, costs $15/month subsidized or $60/month if you include the taxpayer money. Also, the quality is quite good - underground, tram, bus, waiting times between 2 - 10 minutes and a dense network.

Similar for Berlin - 60 EUR/month, not sure about subsidies on top of that.

The cars in Europe cost the same or more than in US, so financially the public transport within a city is a no-brainer here. Cars are used mostly for convenience or status.
IQ tests measures your ability to think abstractly. It does not measure your ability to think for yourself, or your ability to find practical working solutions to problems.
> If the U.S. could shift from a car centric culture then population density would go up.

That seems like a reversal of cause and effect, though.
Not at all. Beyond ignoring it, one can disable it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-or-re-enable-po...
> But why was there bad debt on the market ?

This is my point, the focus on bad debt is like obsessing over the last snowflake that fell before the avalanche. The bad debt didn't cause the avalanche, the underlying structure of credit default swap contracts between the banks did. They were all writing each other checks that they couldn't cash. If the underlying problem of unaccounted-for credit default swaps didn't exist, the bad debt would've just been another snowflake falling on the ground, essentially.
> Aerosols are composed of droplets

This is backwards. Aerosols are smaller than droplets. You can’t be composed of something bigger than yourself.

Aerosol essentially means it doesn’t fall to the ground like a saliva droplet does.

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The “natural experiment” you linked is a great example of why RCTs are so important (particularly for anything you’re proposing mandating). Saying “after masking was adopted cases went down” isn’t proof because if you look at the non-mask areas, cases also went down during the period.

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I’m on mobile so can’t dig up the quote but I’d really recommend reading Medical Nihilism by Stegenga. You seem to have a backwards view of evidentiary standards. That is to say, most findings are false (Ionnidis has a famous paper on this too). That’s why RCTs and the like are so incredibly important.
you could right click ncr search bar to add it as search engine. All you have to do then is switch the default search engine.
I'm quite happy for cases like that to be brought up. It's an unfortunate incident, but a good example of where an error was made and an explanation with supporting evidence was provided, and full co-operation was given to an independent investigation. Presumably you bring this up as an example of the kind of accountability and co-operation with investigations you think Russia should do more of?
> He could have, but he didn't.

That is exactly what I am saying. He knows quite well that N95s are effective, for instance. But that is not the context in which he frames the argument, intentionally.

I addressed much of this in a sibling comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28144209

TL;DR: Rand knows what he is doing. He’s not dumb, he knows his base, and he’s simply playing politics.
Many IDEs automatically start the produced executable too.

Again, I don't understand why you'd want to wait until you have an unwanted/untrusted executable to begin auditing code.
Consensus is irrelevant and not something I commented on at all.
> US Military: 59 M ... Banks: 1040 M tons

I have no idea where you got these numbers from, but the idea that banks produce 17 times as much CO2 as the entire US military - with all of its fossil fuel-burning vehicles - is obviously ridiculous.
Well that was fast![0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28143563
More money will allow them to develop vastly superior UI and user experience, better graphics, etc., and it will suck so many users from anything else that the other things will become tiny niche environments or die.

Just like what happened with everything else including most of the open web.
Sweet. So I’ll move to New Zealand. All the strategies everyone has come up with so far are all in the “If we could all get together and agree to do” class, which I don’t have much hope for.

Thanks for the fish.
Github.dev is free, only Codespaces is a paid service
> Rand Paul needs to have a permanent muzzle installed until covid is extinct.

Again, they literally said eradication (extinction) was possible. I said it wasn’t. I didn’t misread at all.