skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some synchronization effects in metronomes and in industrial equipment. If you have several things that can oscillate, perhaps not at precisely the same rate but close, and the motions reinforce each other when they do achieve the same rate, you can get surprising synchronization.

For an intuitive example, see this Veritasium video, starting at around 4:50: https://youtu.be/t-_VPRCtiUg?t=292.

This happens in crowds of people, for an example, the London Millenium pedestrian bridge wobble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London#Reso....

I was initially curious how this could happen with a heart rate; I could imagine some shared feedback mechanism for walking, or breathing, but a shared feedback for heart rate was surprising. Perhaps if they were touching, and there was some electrical or pressure-sensitive pulse? Disappointing that it's merely the delta between exciting and dull parts of the stories.
> How would you know that they don't apply?

Because implementing low level algorithms like that is almost never an issue for application programming in modern languages, for which robust libraries for such operations exist and are data agnostic.

Unless you are using Go, pretty much the only modern popular language that both features static typing and lacks generics, so that kind of algorithm re-implementation task might make some sense for screening application programmers using Go.
| "Don't trust anyone in your hobby who is making money off their social media account."

That is a remarkably accurate, but sad observation. There’s always been folks trying to hustle in various hobbies and interest groups, but these days they seem to take up all the oxygen in a space.

The glossy image/clip video nature of things seem unavoidable and make many people with humbler aspirations more reluctant to share their works, thoughts, and perspectives if they aren’t able to be turned into the visual equivalent of a sound bite.
Perl vs Python on the script side has always seemed to me to be a bit up to taste, through I have noticed on the sysadmin side that in general things has moved away from Perl towards Python. I also notice that in terms of job listing, there seems to be a lack of new perl programmers in order to support older systems.

In terms of build systems, what I have most experience with would be with Debian and their build system, which pulls in the required dependencies. Compatibility in this space is less about zsh vs bash and more in line with architecture difference like RISC vs AMD64.
> Nuclear's long term prospects are poor, for one big reason: it has never shown good experience effects.

Good point, I hadn't considered this. I would suggest that a possible cause for this is lack of investment though. We had the 1st generation. Most current reactors are gen-2 or gen-3. Gen 4 hasn't really started use, still in R&D I think. There are ideas for Gen 5 but no progress. Each generation seems to bring moderate energy improvements, and significant cost, safety, and waste management improvements, but the interest just isn't there.
Bash arrays are the only thing I really wish dash had. Some other things are "nice to have" but can be implemented on top of sh. Arrays really can't.
Respectfully, this is basically the equivalent of "here's how to build a house"

* Buy some land

* Buy some wood

* Pour some concrete

* Hammer the wood together on top of the concrete

* Put on a roof

There ya go, you know how to build a house!

And to that end, SEO is simple on the surface - Make sure your site is super easy to crawl and loads super fast. Write search keyword-optimized content. Build (or as the modern SEOs like to say "earn") links from high authority sites.

But none of those things are really that easy, in that they all take time, expertise, and honestly some times a chunk of luck (go and try to get a backlink from a site like Business Insider in the next 3 months, it takes a lot of stars aligning).
Neither is counting on your fingers in binary, but would you time someone on that with a stopwatch if they would never use such a party trick during the course of a job in your company? Or perhaps we should just test their Spanish pronunciation since that would be about as relevant as inverting binary trees for any position I’ve held in 2 decades of software jobs (I’ve almost done consulting in Latin America which means my Spanish skills would be even more relevant for solving technology problems than inverting binary trees—at least for me).
I like what Luxembourg is doing, which is all public transport free for everyone, across the whole country. No phased approach, they just did it.
Yes! It looks different when you're scaled as a company than in the early days.

Product managers drive a lot of it, I expect that group to be spending at least 50% of their time talking with customers. They'll then bring in engineers when you have a higher priority or more technical issue as it's appropriate with customers. For particular features we have what we call "Customer Development Partners" who are the alpha/beta users for a feature as we develop the feature before we get to general availability and they'll interface with engineers. Shadi, our SVP of engineering, is also working on more ways to make this happen!
No Difference in Viral Load Between Un/Vaxed/A/Symptomatic Covid Delta Infected
> Data itself (usage tracking) is highly misleading.

This is so true. Why is a feature unused? It could be:

* It is not needed

* Nobody can find it

* Nobody understands what it does or how it works

* The name is misleading people into thinking it's not what they want

* You left the feature flag off, the feature isn't even live

* It doesn't actually work

* It works sometimes, but frustrates users when it breaks
so they don't come back

* Your data is wrong, and they do use it

* etc.

Lots of folks stop thinking at the first one.
Where did i mentioned IoT? I wrote especially Server/Desktop/Mobile...NOT IoT.
Would this be feasible with wifi rather than a cellular connection?
I’m curious what UX design experience this team has.

The battery indicator (non-interactive) looks almost identical to the controls for display brightness and volume (interactive).
They are talking about changing mining. They are not changing mining. They talk about how they are using their purchasing power to change things, but they have no purchasing power. The person at Qualcomm who makes those decisions probably has no idea that some company called fairphone is a Qualcomm customer. This is the same but even moreso for lithium.

"We are working with our battery supplier to integrate lithium from IRMA-assessed mines into our battery supply chain" this line could mean anything from actually doing something to "we sent one email". Before you believe that someone is making a difference, be sure they are. Fp is not.
> Even during the lockdowns there were times of no checkpoints on the borders again. It was such a relief to finally see them gone.

Unstaffed, or actually gone? :)

Last time I drove into Austria from Germany there were no border guards there to actually check anything, but all the traffic calming measures, warning signs and speed restrictions were still there ("cars use left-hand lane, larger/freight vehicles right hand lane").

As one might expect from Homo sapiens behind the wheel, the frantic changing of lanes by vehicles approaching the (unmanned) checkpoint caused an enormous queue and resulting delay almost as bad as if there had been border guards actually checking every single vehicle.
Non-pharmaceutical interventions work extremely well for rabies - stay away from wildlife, bat-proof your house, that's about it. Can't do that with varicella.
I've never heard of a fast food worker signing a noncompete agreement, and the only evidence that the author provides is that 12% of workers earning under 20k annually are under some form of noncompete without any context or breakdown by industry sector.

Noncompete clauses are awful imo, but the framing seems disingenuous.
We do have many regional tickets and only the most expensive ones (over 26yrs and not senoir) even cost 365€ per year. You also have to take cost of living / pay grade and quality of service into account.
Thanks for the info. It seems that Ohio is an outlier in being the largest U.S. state without a publicly funded rail system [1], which is unfortunate.

I concede that the rail system in Ohio suffers from a lack of funding that the road system enjoys. I blame the politicians.

[1] http://allaboardohio.org/
I remember studies that showed brainwaves also synchronize between people who are interacting, especially intimately, and close romantic partners who have been together for many years often maintain a synchronization even when apart.

Maybe related to that? In any case the human body and mind are wonderfully mysterious

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hyperscans-show-h...
> Could some vaccines drive the evolution of more virulent pathogens? Conventional wisdom is that natural selection will remove highly lethal pathogens if host death greatly reduces transmission. Vaccines that keep hosts alive but still allow transmission could thus allow very virulent strains to circulate in a population. [1]

The covid vaccine is just that - limits symptoms but still allows transmission.

> In an unvaccinated population, mutations occur at random producing a wide genetic spread with very few progeny resulting in long lasting lineages (Muller's ratchet), with a selection pressure that favors those variants that can (a) win the competition of replication among its cousins within a host, and (b) not kill the host so that it can thrive in new hosts.

> In a highly vaccinated population, mutations occur at random, but the genetic spread among versions of the virus is narrowed to those that can evade immunity, which has now been made more uniform among the vaccinated population. This further encourages such lineages even when they would not have won out within individual hosts in competition among its cousins. Such evasion increases chances of reinfection. [2]

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/info:doi/10.13...

[2] https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/variant-roulette-evo...
One thing that I would love to hear about is suggestions of how to make my files/output more awk-friendly.
Your old friend, the brass lantern, is at your feet.

> SAY, "HELLO AP"

Nothing happens here.
The Discipline and 2000’s era KC are probably my least favorite. My preference is for the 70’s Wetton-fronted version and 95’s Thrak.

Part of me feels like 80’s Crimson was riding changes in music, rather than driving them. Another part applauds them for discarding the familiar and continuing to evolve.

Some of my standout favorites from the Discipline era are “Frame by Frame”, “Three of a Perfect Pair”. And everything Tony Levin does is incredible.
When you subscribe to managed services instead of running the software yourself, these are the kinds of trade-offs that get made
As someone who uses OPNsense a lot now, the community WG plugin is both a fairly minimal MVP and also for whatever reason WG on OPNsense has been a bit wonky. DNS for example sometimes just mysteriously stops working for a while, then with absolutely no changes starts working again even while IPs function normally. Haven't had time to try to dig into that yet but as well as speed I'm looking forward very much to WG in the FreeBSD kernel (and OPNsense's move to vanilla FreeBSD foundation as well) in the hopes it'll help eliminate a few extra moving parts.

I'm looking forward though to seeing more tooling developed on top of WG as was always intended, making it easier to plug into other user auth systems and to deploy it to non-technical end users. The QR code thing helps for example but I'd also like to see widespread support for options like autogenerating mobileconfigs [0] for Macs/iDevices and equivalents elsewhere, tying into MDM etc. To get maximum use it needs to get to the point of "install this profile, that's it" or just happen automagically for managed devices. More graphical visualization of what's going on and troubleshooting could help novices too. Such a great foundational tool but projects like this are exciting to see appear as well since they are important next steps.

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0: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-apple/blob/master/MOB...
The marginal cost is basically zero per additional public transit user, no? If a city bus runs every 15 minutes, the ridership volume changes nothing up until some critical point is reached where another bus gets added to that route, or a new route is added.
The quantum supremacy milestone was still extremely important, even if it doesn't in any way mean that we are close to a working QC.

Before this milestone, there were still reasons to believe that quantum computers could not, in principle, beat classical computers, that there is some fundamental limitation of the universe that would actually prevent quantum effects from making a QC work.

After this milestone, the only "hope" for such a fundamental limitation lies in the area of quantum error correction - the possibility that, somehow, you would lose the theoretical speed-up from QC by having to re-run the algorithm enough times to get an accurate enough response. As Scott Aaronson explains, while disappointing in terms of QC, this would also be extremely exciting for quantum mechanics itself and for our understanding of the universe.

So, the Google and Chinese quantum supremacy demonstrations, while useless as actual computations, serve a very important role in showing that actual quantum computers have properties that can't be replicated by classical computers, which was not proven before these experiments were run.

Equivalently, you can say that these experiments have proven that the physical systems being called "quantum computers" have at least some properties of the theoretical mathematical concept of a quantum computer - something that no previous systems had proven conclusively. In this way, this can also be seen as a new test of Quantum Mechanics' predictions, since it proves once again that real physical systems do exhibit some of the complex behaviors predicted by the maths.
I think the point is not to give him any attention/notoriety, which is what fuels him. It's not about fear
I don’t think claims 1 or 4 are justified (where claim 4 is interpreted in the relevant sense), and I’m not sure quite what you mean by claim 2.
No one here talks about IoT, i talk about a real OS...you as a Windows person should know the difference ;)

Edit: Linux is not a OS but a Kernel...got it? Your should know the difference as a Windows/UNIX person ;)
Well, now you know. It's a meme that has become its own meta-meme.
Fork() is not part of the API, that is one of their issues.

Regular users don't have any idea what adb is, and it requires developer mode to be enabled.
Deals ranged between $12-120k/year. We were very much the "deer" range vs rabbits or elephant hunting. The customers ranged from small to mid sized companies, we only had 2-3 true enterprises at the time.
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My company just finished integrating our technology into MySQL and we're doing a PostgreSQL integration next. We're trying to attack the cloud TCO onslaught head on with our technology. I'm assuming you guys are running a PostgreSQL (RDS) ElasticSearch backend stack? Or MySQL ElasticSearch? If you guys are using MySQL I'd love to see how low we can get your bill before Bezos runs out of rocket fuel. LMK

chris (at) lognovations (dot) com
Agreed on android: materialistic?
Yeah, the comment I was responding to addressed two different kinds of migration—schema migration and version upgrades—and my comment really applies more to schema migration than version upgrades; more support for smoothing the latter in the engine makes sense.
> Formal proof is a convenient way to check that your detailed, precise assertions are consistent with your initial axioms. This doesn't prove at all hat there are no errors in your code, only that there are no contradictions in what you are saying. Your specification could still be wrong, and then you could still be saying the wrong thing in terms of what you intend to say or achieve; and the formalism won't help.

Software assurance is still a somewhat nebulous process and I'm partly involved in some research around it and proving that a program is logically sound is indeed only a small piece of the pie and hardly gets you anywhere valuable.

FizzBuzz is provably logical, but that doesn't mean you can load FizzBuzz onto a space shuttle and expect it to fly correctly.
WebRTC Components (TURN) doesn't discriminate being media tracks or data channels, and will relay data channels as well :-)

We also have WebSockets via Cloudflare Workers for layering more complex logic on top: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-web...
Jakko first came into my ear canal orbit with his strange but very listenable jazz-inflected Dizrythmia project (which also was around the same time I had heard Gavin Harrison on albums by Incognito, so the two of them together was novel), then his work with members of Japan...from there I just kept following.
Great service poor business model.
I genuinely want to know more. What specific model Optane drive was used? A lot of the newer stuff is greatly hampered by the QLC backend.
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you know the book itself is highly overpriced. It'd be much more worthwhile at the $5 to $10 price point.

someone who just bought a copy to skim through.
This sounds like something straight out of Futurama
So when Linux runs on IoT devices it stops being a real OS? Got it.

By the way I am a Windows/UNIX person, note the UNIX part.
Not yet. The way this kind of stuff usually works is that, as we get closer we'll see some high-profile researchers suddenly quit their jobs to go work on "something else".
Going to second this, however I will warn, at least in my experience it is a little bit different from most DB IDEs. I didn't like it at all first time I used it, then a friend told me to give it another try. I've never looked back, fantastic tool.
> Enough for what?

We're talking about SEO, so: "enough to increase your rank".

I agree in the larger picture there's more to consider for a small biz. But purely from a standpoint of increasing rank, content creation alone is not enough.
"The zoning here is such that a homeowner can do any repair work they please on their own without having to get a permit or licensed contractor."

Wow, that's pretty strict for a "small town". Most places allow you to make repairs without a permit or contractor as long as you're not making changes.

For example, I needed a permit to put in an interlock and receptacle for a generator. If something breaks the receptacle, I can replace it with the same model/type/size without a permit. If I replaced it with a different type/size then I would need a permit. On a side note, the inspections are mostly a joke and just a way for the municipality to make money (permit costs more than the materials in many of my cases). The inspector had no idea about electrical stuff and didn't ask any questions about wire gauge/run, receptacle sizing, receptacle height, or how the breaker box was balanced. You know, the stuff that's important to do right to avoid fires, etc.
If there's a speed difference at all, it would be negligible, and would only apply for the first few requests, as after that, Cloudflare will have a cached copy.
The author is trying to use Amazon’s workforce size to support his argument that

“given their organization's internal objectives, they are forced to build huge workforces to accomplish what seems like "simple" tasks.”

“internal objectives” is not why Amazon needs 1.4 million people to complete the “simple” task described. And if you redefine internal objectives to include everything else that Amazon does to make money then it’s really saying nothing at all.
The one called the "Rolls Royce" of mustard, Pommery Meaux, costs $12.49 on amazon.com while amazon.ca has the same item for $58.64. Beyond the exchange rate, this must have something to do with duties or just plain greed.
>Is there something inside that we will regret?

Unambiguously yes. 10TB is a lot of space. That's large enough for a program that does nothing but show 8 hours of HD footage of your kids being tortured and eaten.

It's also more than enough to define a program that would reliably precipitate a global thermonuclear war if connected to the Internet.
Are your servers in the EU? I'm currently using Postmark but looking for alternatives to avoid US data transfer.
Sure, and civil engineering is really different from chemical engineering. But those are minor compared with the differences between physical engineering disciplines and software engineering.

Software engineers:

- cost of components is $0 (use one class or split into 2, there is no cost metric to decide)

- physics don't apply to components (we can't use this doping agent because X or Y. We need to move the factory to an area of low seismic activity to improve yields etc.. etc..)

Basically, physical engineers have so many constraints, solving the problem is the hard part. Software engineers have so few constraints, usually solving the problem is the easy part, and we have time left over to argue about abstract cleanliness concepts like composition vs. inheritance and such.

(Again, this is the rule, the exception is problems like "We need this service to do 2 million requests per second", and there we don't argue about functional vs. OOP, you do anything you can to hit the number)
Holy cow, we're still going 16 hours later! I'm on a flight back to SF today but I'll keep answering questions as I have time. The questions here are so thoughtful (even more than some of the ones I get from public market investors) so I'll keep going!
I don't know why you're downvoted - it's absolute nonsense to think that your CTO should be 80% your best developer. Your CTO should not be writing code at a company with >100 employees - why would they maintain 80% of the skillset of someone who's entire job is writing code? Is the assertion that what a CTO does is only 20% different than what a software engineer does?
"Do a non-terrible job boxing it up and it won't get out in any form other than as a gas."

It sounds like you're assuming dry ice is only dangerous in terms of cold burns.

The gas, carbon dioxide, is dangerous as well. People have died transporting dry ice in a vehicle. CO2 isn't the most dangerous gas, but in an enclosed space like a delivery vehicle it can cause problems. A delivery service needs to consider the cumulative effects of all packages. Your dry ice package may not be the only one in a vehicle.

Individuals without experience are generally not capable of doing a thorough risk assessment, which is why regulations are so important.
Mobile phones are basically IoT on steroids.
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I am glad you made a difference in your kids life and sorry to hear that it has affected your career negatively.
If it's true, they're probably doing it out of desperation. Or perhaps just the knowledge that no judge anywhere in the western world would actually uphold a non-compete clause in a fast-food worker's employment contact.
My understanding is that the shots in the arm only work if you’ve also had the vaccine ahead of time. My knowledge may be out of date though.
Currently everything is UK based- but we have been asked for an EU version quite a few times now. It’s in the pipeline.
The calculator side is a circular slide rule. The wind correction side with the sliding plate is a nomogram.

https://www.gleimaviation.com/e6b-flight-computer-instructio...
Related: In 1971 a prison inmate filed a lawsuit against "Satan and his staff"; the judge threw out the case on several procedural grounds, among which was that the plaintiff had not provided instructions to the U.S. Marshals Service on how to effect service of process on the defendant.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/United_States_ex_rel._Gerald_May...