skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do, but not in any deliberately very structured way. I use daily notes as a high-level "this is what i worked on" journal, with links to the details of those items. For example:

# Work

Added feature [Foo](https://pivotal/...) to [[Bar Project]]
- Learned about sprockets: <https://wikipedia/Sprocket>

Talked to Jane about the state of [[Qux Project]]

As I'm writing it, it gives me quick access to the resources I'm using today. With backlinks, if I'm looking at the "Bar Project" page, I can see when I was working on it and what resources I was using on those days.

My process optimizes for low friction. I want to take notes, not necessarily spend a lot of time rigorously organizing notes. It also gives me a sort of the timeline view that Zettelkasten fans like, but without the rigorous tree structure that I don't personally seem to benefit from.
It does not seem unreasonable to me to extrapolate that people who caught COVID-19 once are more likely, as a group, to be exposed to it again in the future. That would be a matter of their environment rather than their individual resistance to the virus. I haven't seen any studies on that issue, though.

In any case the vaccine is safe, effective, and way better than actually catching COVID-19. And in the event that you did already recover from COVID-19, getting the vaccine doesn't hurt and will boost your immunity even further. So—unless you have a specific medical condition which dramatically increases your changes of an adverse reaction–you should just get the vaccine.
I am guessing behind the scenes they probably had a target of 110Mhz. They probably hoped to hit that by launch, and sent out review units a bit early. However, whatever fix they were trying probably didn't pan out or they found another failure case in edge case testing (e.g. running it long term in places with high ambient temps), and had to throttle them down for everyone.

So, the critical mistake was probably sending out units too early.

Can totally understand how infuriating it must be because you buy based on the benchmarks, and don't get what you think you're buying.
I'm content to play chicken with the farm conglomerates and their bought-and-paid-for legislators. Go ahead, try and turn off the taps in a residential area because you want to keep growing water-intensive crops.

The result will be one of two things: either the farm industry will back down and adjust, or the corruption of the legislature through lobbying will be exposed in spectacular fashion.
Waymo to stop selling Lidar sensors
Hey that works pretty well for such a simple implementation! Good job!
>Neither of your sources says that the Taliban offered to surrender themselves.

"Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that the United States would not accept a negotiated surrender between Afghanistan's new interim government and besieged Taliban forces in Kandahar that granted amnesty to Taliban leader Mohammad Omar."

>We can’t know if the Taliban would have followed through, but it was the US refusal to seriously negotiate, not the Taliban.

Literally what I said.
Do you have anything I can read about their first strike posturing? I haven't read anything about that.

I have read about this war of super super sonic weapons which is scary to me.
I agree this should be looked into, but one issue is that moving water uses energy, since water naturally flows downhill, and pushing it to where it doesn't naturally flow goes against entropy.

In California, we already spend 4.2% of the state's power on pumping water. This percent will increase if the water has to run uphill and/or cross mountain ranges. http://ww2.kqed.org/climatewatch/2012/06/10/19-percent-calif...
I'm sure some people will just say "Yeah, he's a fatty that's lying to himself." Others will believe me, possibly because I can't think of any reason to lie about it.

And I happen to think my legs are short for my height, and my arms are a bit long. It's worked out quite well for me.

But my point was simply that the number will seem hard to believe for many people if they don't realize that the layman word "obese" means something slightly different than the medical term.
I didn't get in YC, so I made YC
we're hiring for this kind of work if you want to chat :-) boris at getcensus dot com
Hopefully they also waived the $30-50 fee, because they failed to correctly perform the job associated with that cost!
Is anything shocked by this? Chinese has been stealing IP for over 40 years now with government backing. In-fact government of China has encouraged such behavior and in some cases down right funded it.

Just like before they'll get away with it. Who's going to stop this behemoth thug China?
Seems to be going on for decades if the book Poorly Made in China is to be believed. Western corporations deliver their intellectual property to chinese factories on a silver platter.
Sun Tzu. It is better to take an enemy over whole, through subterfuge, than to wage war and conquer a city in flames.

War is of vital importance to the state. If victory is certain, you MUST attack.
This feels like kind of a silly comparison. SQLite can't do most of what makes modern databases difficult/valuable. As an example, if you replace your above example with a CSV file, you'd get the same output, right?
"company know for litigation uses the legal system to try and stop their competitor" isn't as exciting a title.
I mean the Tantalum rings, those are the ones going for about the same price (75-90+%) as gold rings.
This definitely isn't the best way because it's far from painless, but we use GitHub Actions to run some Ansible playbooks. When there's a problem that needs debugging we add a tmate[0] session with mxschmitt's action[1] so we can step through the playbook, etc.

[0]: https://tmate.io/

[1]: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
Link to company confirming payment: https://twitter.com/josephdelong/status/1431314816698916865

Link to researcher writeup: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2021/08/two-rights-might-make-a-wro...
"Children are trapped in that school bus! Literally right behind you! They're going to die if you don't break a glass window or force a door open!"

"Meh, I don't believe everything I hear."
In General it seems that Vienna uses both private and public developments. Public for cooling down the market, private for faster adjustment of demand and luxury property.

In Sweden they may just suffer from NIMBY syndrome or "building is capitalist speculation!" type of stupidity.
Interesting wrinkle for Mihoyo (Genshin Impact dev), I've heard from a big spender friend that he purposely buys primos on iPad even though he plays on PC.

This is because their PC payment flow routes through China and puts flags on his card. They may need to address that first, before they can route more US traffic through a non-apple flow. Still worth their time, but could refute the "single sprint" dev cost in the article.
These are really good points, I'd forgotten about the shinnies and the stats. I was always less concerned with stats because I would usually get one that was good enough. However, I knew people that had to get the latest shiny when it came out. Some of the shinnies would only appear in eggs too, so you would need to hatch a lot to have a good chance of getting one. Thinking about it more, the game definitely does seem to have some hidden gambling aspects in it.
My point was more about what other people perceive than what a person perceives about themselves.

I agree that the perception of "normal weight" has probably changed over the years, but I think "obese" has always meant something more extreme to the layman than it has to a medical professional.
The Nu game engine might interest you. There's also FuncUI for app dev which is F# + MVU running on Avalonia.

https://github.com/bryanedds/Nu

https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI
That is a pretty bad experience in the long run.
The thing I greatly dislike about Ironwolf is that it displays a nonsense value for the smart attribute "Raw_Read_Error_Rate". I have no idea to how to extract the actual error rate, if any.
It's hard without knowing how freely I could pick. Maybe something from a video game I like or a caricature-y version of a movie character I like. Those are fun choices for a one-off thing though. Maybe I would reconsider if I really got into it and wanted something that actually represented me as a person. I don't think I would swap biological gender in any of those cases.
Did you see any Taiwanese at the Olympic games?
Did not watch the video, but it really feels strange to me, basic electronics used to be common to all degrees on the university, only on the second year did it get specialised into each specific degree.

So a lame Portuguese university does better than MIT?
They have to wait.
Now that is a great payout towards this security researcher for finding this cryptocurrency bug. Well done to them.
Have you seen how many countries the US has bombed in just the last 7 years?
> Chicago pretty easily unburied itself out of two major snowstorms and extreme (even by normal standards) cold snaps. At least when it comes to the extreme weather the city faces, that part is handled.

That's not really the question, though. The question is if you'd be surprised if they didn't.

I wouldn't be that surprised to hear that Chicago was unable to clear snow from a 100-year snow event because the funds were mismanaged or something similar. That sounds entirely within character.

I wasn't surprised when I heard about the ongoing problems with the Texas power grid, either. I was horrified by the deaths, of course, but did it surprise me that an for-profit utility market didn't result in a robust infrastructure? No. Infrastructure and utilities don't work well under those sort of economic pressures. I wasn't surprised it was fragile.
> A strike or blockade is designed to prevent the inflow of labor and resources, if workers left and didn't return the protesters would have been pleased

That might be the intent on paper but It's basically impossible to only block a gate going one way.

>There's no evidence of any workers being attacked

Maybe in this exact case. But these type of responses is based on patterns of behavior of a political wing of the left that think political violence is ok.
Are there more examples of this? I want to cite them every time people defend intellectual property.
Yep. Your writing makes me miss the morning coffee. I used to have a lot intereting talks beside the coffee machine. Coffee was better. Now I have to drink cheap instant coffee alone.
Depends on how you communicate "prefer". I would not write that in an ad without context, and it would fell like a very assholey thing to say in a rejection (similar to "you don't have culture fit").
Interesting! I didn't know that. Pretty handy for corporate stuff - keep the 2FA on the work computer.
not only does "arm china" license "arm limited" technology and develop its own technology, but "arm china" also employs many people on behalf of "arm limited" for global (not "arm china") r&d
That seems to assume some very specific "scene" of developers, or at least a team environment where it's impossible to select for developers who know SQL. That may very well be the case in your situation, but I see no reason to expect it would be the case in most situations. SQL isn't exactly a new or niche language.
I was arguing for unique_ptr, not against. Parent was complaining about it.
Pandemic’s labor reshuffle likely just starting
People need to wake up to the fact that China being a potential market of >1B people is an illusion. This is particularly relevant for any tech company.

Let me spell it out: Chinese companies are extensions of the state. They are tools of Chinese foreign and trade policy. What cooperation you think US companies provide the US government, it is nothing in comparison.

The Chinese government will ensure that no Western competitor will "win" in China. Period. I understand why to a point. My main issue is with the West being completely oblivious to it.

If China wants to impose such restrictions on Western companies, they shouldn't get access to Western markets. And that's it.

Here's where I think this will first come to a head: I believe the US government will at some point soon decide that any person born in mainland China is a security risk as far as working on anything national security related. This will probably extend to key industries of national importance too (eg SpaceX).
True, but I'm not quite sure why I'd be running either of those on this.
the British-historical system is to require an address and license from every adult. A version of that land ownership system is what succeeded in colonizing North America USA, against many active, competing systems over time. Is it a shock that the same system that competes well at an earlier stage, becomes toxic and moribund in later stages? Well, the diffuse ownership you mention delays the changes to re-adjust, and here we are.

source: California resident
Pretty sure that the western world does realize this. Just as we are addicted to oil and realize it will be our downfall.
aka The California Effect for the 'mericans
so they get held captive? until when ? how long do I have to be illegally held captive because your morals disagree with my legal work?
there's no need. Public sector agencies could expend their resources on standards-compliant ethical alternatives instead.
Rich in the US are buying farmland, lot of it
So do Ryzens, for much less money per unit of performance.
On the topic of TOTP apps, I like "OTP Auth" for iOS devices. It's fairly simple, and offers an Apple Watch client that works well.
Naw, we shall label them as racist and xenophobic for even bringing it up, and we just can't have people labeled as racists running around spewing "facts," so out the ban hammer comes. And the world will cheer it on as they only read the headline of "Another racist banned from x" and scroll on thinking what good people they are.
Brazil’s Miles-Based Flight Seller MaxMilhas Buys a Hotel Discounter
> Maybe to the EU we are barbarians because our consumer privacy laws are so lacking...

Yup. Well, that, plus your third-world health-care(lessness) system, and your unbridled appetite for guns to kill each other with.

Sorry if this comes as a surprise to you, but: Honestly, you are barbarians.
> how could anyone have known whether or not iraq had or was about to have WMDs if they actively resisted and subverted all of the internationally sanctioned inspections?

Blix said they were clean :

https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/30/world/meast/iraq-weapons-...

Also, as far as I remember, Scott Ritter claimed the same.
If your system can’t win because it’s inherently better, then maybe your system shouldn’t win?

Have a little faith. Our system shouldn’t win just because we are using it. After all, our core beliefs are that it is a better system, not just through our pure force of will.

The OP is right, much of China is is still undeveloped and their policies short-sighted and naive. In fact the whole government is so sensitive to face-saving that it screams insecure teenager. Getting worried they might be winning and that we must start to take alternative measures just legitimizes their tactics.
Digital cash funded roulette is such a predatory practice. I believe it should just be banned altogether, there's no good to come of it.
We need to think big. Our generation doesn't seem to have that sort of vision anymore.

I personally have 0 hope for it. We're an entire generation removed from the Cold War, an era where governments actually did shit. And in the 30 years since, it's done nothing but shatter trust in every way (and in new ways!) imaginable.
At this point, I just automatically assume any website that has a maximum character limit and weird character restrictions is storing the password in plaintext
Get something-out-the-door to compete with Lambda and GCF by hacking together an abstraction over Azure App Services - then improve things by version 2?
> Oh cool, you want to use different definitions. No matter.

It's not "different" terminology. It's the correct terminology. Which you should have down if you want to wisecrack at people.

You really just took a dozen words that were referring to the result of a calculation being wrong (as opposed to the real result) out of context to make them about floating point numbers in a vacuum.

Then after construing some new context, you tried to correct the straw man by giving an explanation in which you used pretty much all the terminology incorrectly.

Don't be surprised people come back at you in the same tone of voice if you leave an opening wide as a barn door.

I assume both of us are capable of constructing sentences using only precise mathematical language. This is not the place or time to flaunt that ability and correct others on things that are still perfectly understandable. We're not writing a paper.
The last time around, Nuclear weapons were not available to complicate the equation. This time, the response will need to be painful enough to punish the aggressor but not too painful that you would risk a strike on major cities. It won't be pretty.
> know that we'd get our shit absolutely rocked in a war with China over Taiwan

Then we should make haste to station more military in Taiwan. A significant, sustained increase of presence on the island itself, instead of only aircraft carriers.

Once that has been accomplished, recognize Taiwan's independence. 2 months later, hold a referendum in Taiwan on becoming a US state with a few special rights. This is done with half the fleet there, plus the very heavy presence on bases on the island.

Taiwan free, China contained. Plus the US have a good base to project power in the future.
> I find that any traditional forum software works better than discourse. For example I cannot properly see when exactly a reply was written, because it abstacts from a simple timestamp and shows only a month and year for example.

Yes, I agree. I like the FluxBB based forum that Arch community uses and find the look & feel a good balance between excessive use of whitespace and overly cramped UIs.

> No JS no joy. You see a completely white page, because none of it works without JS, not even an indication can be seen, that JS is required and it is waaay off of anything having a non JS fallback.

I am not sure if this is configurable but the official kotlin forum [1] uses discourse and I can see the content when js is disabled. A lot of interactivity is disabled but the footer does have a clear message that the site is best viewed with js enabled.

I have often found kotlin forum posts through google search, so there doesn't seem to be any issue on the SEO front.

[1] https://discuss.kotlinlang.org
With the understanding that Mongo _is_ popular I think you're making my point. Though I have no clue if most people who choose Mongo evaluate it against Spanner.
> How are you certain that authoritarian regimes can't both gain and keep dominance over timescale of decades or centuries?

Authoritarianism always comes with a top-down execution structure, which optimises for cost-to-execute but not cost-to-transform.

When the need-to-transform exceeds a certain value, it would either have to re-adjust its internal structure or it will crumble (as the cost skyrockets) [1].

Interestingly, the same applies to compiler design, as well as any software systems when viewed at the right abstraction.

And from a functional programming perspective, it is also the principle that underlines the famous Alan Perlis' epigram "LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing" (which outlines the importance of compiler optimization such as in tail-end recursion.)

[1] We're already seeing this in China's aging population crisis (thanks to the one-child policy introduced in 1980 [3]), and I doubt Xi's banning of private tuitions [2] would help (if we take his policy at face value).

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-24/china-ban...

[3]: fun fact - this policy had affected many people including myself in a deep personal level. By law I am not supposed to exist (I'm a Gen Z born in China illegally as a second child (after my parents bribed the hospital, and afterwards we still had to pay huge fines)).
If a small manufacturer did this, they'd get bankrupted and maybe in jail. I guess we still have a two tier system.
Defend _how_ though? How do you defend against an adversary with ICBMs, fleet, and air force who, on top of that, can draft an army that exceeds the entire population of the US? "Nuclear conflict" only works as a deterrent when the situation is one-sided. That is very much not the case here.
There's a similar video (also from the late eighties, and I suspect from the same series of videos?) wherein Harvard seniors are queried as to why summer is warm and winter is cold. They interviewed a couple dozen people and two gave a correct answer.
They should move all this to the midwest where we grow crops. The Ogallala Aquifer will last forever!!! /s

Oh wait, we are depleting that at the rate of 18 Colorado Rivers per year. We are such a greedy species. We need some major changes to support the same number of people on this planet.
This is my thinking as well.

Maybe it would be cheaper to build water pipelines + green powered desalination + pipe water from the great lakes or wherever it's in abundance. Especially if we can't or won't move crops? It seems like that growing environment artificially watered does improve yield?

Maybe it will happen if we accurately price water, just like we need to with oil, so that the incentives actually align with the bad consequences of the status quo.

I wish the infra bill spent most of the money on green energy and plans like this. Spending it on cars and fortifying against floods and weather seems like a losing battle if we don't fix the underlying driver of this chaos.
Or Jenkins pipelined steps which might include setting up the pipenv to include the setup of Ansible in your git as requirement file. So it starts with Groovy and switches to Ansible etc
Moving water around a grid like we do with electricity is prohibitively expensive. We need to move people instead. Cities in deserts are just not sustainable.
Why Windows 11 has such strict hardware requirements, according to Microsoft
Are you saying that enterprise developers pick MySQL, MongoDB, and Firebase for other reasons?
"Sharding" "Backups" and "Failovers" are NOT "practical" aspects of any database. They're theoretical. Most databases are not big enough to need sharding. Most backups go unused. Most failover happens automatically, totally managed by your hosting provider.

You know what is practical? Schema design. Query language. That's what made MongoDB super popular; no schemas to worry about. A query is just '{ firstName: "John" }'.

I cannot emphasize this enough: I cannot summon even a milliliter of desire to care about whether Mongo's way of doing these things is actually "better" or "worse". But it is what made it popular.
> of the Century

It's only 2021. There's bigger and better to come. Guaranteed.
Great stuff! I've been watching fintech and its really pulling my interest in. Fintech are on the rise

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/europe-fintech-unicorn-star...

I have tons of questions to ask but no sure the best medium. Like, how does one start a remittance startup from scratch as a software developer? My knowledge is limited to stock and trading in financial space. Should I pursue CFA to get a idea of remittance industry and get my share ?

Or, say you are from Panama and want to start a mobile banking startup - a clone of Alipay - transaction via QR codes only, how do you get up to speed with it?
Everything boots off of something. Even netboot needs firmware which is on some kind of flash memory anyway.