skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The classics are classics for a reason. Huxley and Flaubert are both wonderful authors, but all the joy was sucked out reading their works when I was forced to do it. I don't know why. Personal failing, maybe.

I thought Herbert's non-_Dune_ works were very good while also being very disturbing. I read _The White Plague_ in my teens and am reminded of it whenever I read about modern gene drive technology. The ConSentiency stories and books have stayed with me to this day, and I periodically re-read them. Both _Hellstrom's Hive_ and _The Santaroga Barrier_ are fantastic utopias crossed over with deep horror; I love them but can't bring myself to re-read them!

Everybody's different. I can't stand Asimov or Clarke or Drake or Heinlein, despite reading nearly all of their respective science fiction oeuvres, but that Ursula Le Guin isn't in your top five is a damn shame. _The Left Hand of Darkness_ is one of my favorite books, and _The Dispossessed_ primed a political conversion completed by Iain Banks' Culture novels years later. Le Guin and Banks are probably my two favorite authors now, and in that order, with Bradbury and Adams a very close third and fourth.

I'm so tired of trilogies and tetralogies and so on and so forth. I wish authors would just finish the damn story. I think that's why I like Le Guin and Banks so much. You can read out of order and it's no big deal. In fact, I read _The Tombs of Atuan_ before _A Wizard of Earthsea_, and all of Le Guin's Hanish stories are stand-alone. The same goes for Banks' Culture novels, where I started with _Excession_ and back-tracked to _Consider Phelebas_ and read in release order (mostly).

Anyway, I heartily recommend giving the literary fiction another chance some day. There's some really amazing stuff out there that doesn't happen in space.
what you said is true. i may start taking contracts again. i work alone, only thing i promise is it works as agreed on, and near zero quality issues. i have systems in place for decaded that have produced one or two bugs. how?

i actually print out the sourCe code and go line by line while on the toilet. though i now use an ipad to do that.
While that is a frustrating bug/design flaw, it doesn't negate the fact that you can charge the laptop from any port.
It depends on what kind of error it produces.

If the error rate is only 0.5% but the death rate of those errors is 100% I am not sure it will be justifiable.
It might not be a popular opinion but I just assume that anything having to do with crypto is a scam. Browsers included
My advice: Yes. Get a good book and a interactive SQL editor. Learn the concepts and try them out. Play, ask questions and try to answer them. Skim over stuff that doesn't interest you at the moment. Write stuff down.

Then after a while you'll encounter new concepts (a new book, an online comment, an interesting tech talk etc.), have new ideas or forget/get rusty on old ones, then you repeat the above.

Continuous learning is part of the job IMO. I did the above several times and will do them several times again in some fashion or another.

For me it has had real value - repeatedly - that I didn't even know existed before I accidentally came across a situation where I could apply some concept I learned this way.

Sure, the first time you apply something "in anger", you will get to the nitty gritty details, which is work but you cannot even recognize an opportunity if you haven't prepared your mind for it and played around with ideas and concepts before - except you have a significant time budget for this kind of thing on the project, or a colleague who can introduce it, but my recommendation is to not rely on that.
I think that's not as simple as you describe.

The glib answer is, "They publish corrections." Which many do.

But I don't think that addresses the (valid) criticism about the Iraq invasion: while there were some errors of fact, there were primarily errors of omission, where the media were too willing to act as uncritical stenographers for politicians' claims.

We see, in a way, the same phenomenon in the Trump era: whatever lunatic allegation Trump or his acolytes would make, the media felt the need to cover it; after all, whatever the President says is inherently news, no matter how crazy.

Yet in both of these examples, the problem isn't that the media represent some sort of powerful cabal, which I think was what the OP implied: it's that the media are too spineless to truly hold to account those in power (in both cases, the President of the US). Viewed that way, the premise of the original question is incongruous: it's deeply strange to criticize only the "Princeton and Columbia"-educated "media elites" who too-uncritically reported on the claims of the President, and not the Yale- and Harvard-educated President (and son of a President)--or the billionaire heir to a fortune President who came later--who uttered those false claims.

The media absolutely deserve to be criticized for their uncritical reporting before the invasion of Iraq, as I said before, but the original criticism sounded like we want a weaker media who will be less able to question false narratives espoused by powerful players. And I think if you look at these stories more closely, you'll realize we want the opposite.
> Doesn't McKinsey frequently work for different clients in the same industry even?

They do. It's a well-known way for companies to get inside info on their competitors. You can't legally/ethically hire an employee away from a competitor and then say, "tell us everything you know about company X". But, you can hire a McKinsey team that worked extensively for your competitor and say "give us a list of 'best practices' in our industry".
Throughout reading this I had a creeping thought: "this person has no idea what they are talking about".
Oh wow, I completely missed this in the release notes, probably due to not carefully reading them since earlier versions. This is amazing!
Is this anecdotal or is it well known?
> Much more fun to just reimplement the thing and then say “You were saying?”

The thing is NO ONE likes to lose face. He could have still done what he did (and enjoy his "victory lap") but in a spirit of collaboration.

To be fair, MS folks set themselves up for this but the smart-alec could have handled it with more class and generosity.
It seems hypocritical to me to value truth and transparency, aka journalism and dislike how the internet made everyone journalist.
Launching Founders Bookmarks
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I've just created a new Firefox profile here, let's record my experience:

1. Oh great, [x] sponsored shortcuts

2. How helpful, Mozilla ticked the following boxes for me:
[x] Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla
[x] Allow Firefox to make personalized extension recommendations
[x] Allow Firefox to install and run studies

3. Wait, what is this pocket icon thing on my interface?

Right click / customize toolbar / drag it out of the way

4. Oh nice, customization menu! It allows me to change the UI density that, honestly, is too big for my 720p screen.
Ouch, there's no way to make things smaller, only increase, I guess.

5. Let's continue to dig deeper into the settings:
[x] Recommend extensions as you browse
[x] Recommend features as you browse

It's an uphill battle against the only player worth(?) supporting.

Let's do the same with Brave:

1. Hide Widgets {FTX,crypto,binance,Brave Rewards}

2. Customize [ ] Show sponsored images

3. [ ] Automatically send daily usage ping to Brave

4. Settings [x] Hide Brave Rewards button

To be fair, Brave doesn't have telemetry enabled by default on my system, but that's about it.

I'm more and more alienated by the web and web browsers. Which is a good thing as it annoys me out of these infinite pool’s portals.
Fair. Therapeutically, it's a pain killer, plain and simple. When people look for more in ANY medication, then they usually start to abuse it and dependency develops. Abuse can be as simple as overuse. I'd consider taking any psychoactive drug daily to be overuse.

Patients have dependency issues with opioids, anti-anxiety drugs like benzodiazepines, or with ADD drugs like amphetamines, modafinil, or phenidates. Even antidepressants like SSRIs have extreme dependency and withdrawal which patients are often not informed of. That's why I'm focusing on dependency, not psychological addiction. Mental fortitude can usually defend against psychological addiction - but dependency on the other hand, is purely physical and a function of the dosing regimen and properties of the drug.

Many patients use the aforementioned drugs responsibly for decades. It's not too far from the case of drinking problems. If one fills a void in their life with alcohol, they'll end up addicted. If a businessman imbibes alcohol occasionally before speeches as a relaxant, without becoming overly reliant on it, they won't develop dependency or addiction.

Being an addict has probably scorned you regarding the therapeutic nature of neuroactive chemicals. And that may be for your best.

I agree, most people are too weak to take even a mildly addictive narcotic like morphine or xanax. But kratom is not in the same league. And it is a joke to taper off of. I've done it multiple times before.

Any street drugs are going to be of dubious physical effect, and cause confusing withdrawal symptoms as they are often inaccurate, impure, or adulterated. Do you think a large majority of /r/quittingkratom knows what's in their kratom - did they buy lab tested product? Most are buying from local shops without any understanding that everything we put in our bodies should be of stringent quality and purity.

Half of the subreddit could be withdrawing from Fentanyl without even knowing, while putting all their blame for their horrible withdrawal symptoms on kratom. The unregulated market severely distorts public knowledge of the plant's real properties.

May I ask, did you ever take prescription morphine? Did you get your kratom from a cGMP lab-testing vendor that publicly releases labs? If not, your experiences with these chemicals may in actuality be experiences with other chemicals.

Anyhow, you seem extremely in opposition to the notion of responsible medicating so it's doubtful you will have a discussion with me. But in the case you do, I appreciate it.
It does not need to impact revenue, just share price.
Screw the site guidelines - drive-by downvoting this comment is highly suspicious, and cowardly.
The last release of IMAPSize e.g. dates from 2009 and can no longer connect to some IMAP servers that presumably don't support older SSL/TLS-versions, but by replacing the OpenSSL-DLLs with a recentish versions, everything works fine again.
> Pull Requests aren’t the best tool for everything

A lot of teams I've worked with have had trouble with the listed problems. They're a sign that your team doesn't understand or hasn't defined the purpose of a code-review and how to conduct them. It's also indicative, if you have comments on architectural decisions in PRs, that you have broader communication issues within your organization.

Another drawback of PRs: don't make it personal. A lot of folks have a hard time with this. A shared code-base doesn't belong to any one individual. So don't say things like, "You should do this," or ask, "Why did you choose to do it that way?" A constructive suggestion is about the code and is given in the direct, imperative tense: "If this function used a higher-order function parameter here it would map over the results and remove these two intermediate bound variables and make this function more general."

You're not talking about the person or asking them to justify themselves. You're collaborating on the code. Offer constructive suggestions on improving the code. Keep in mind the style guide and the other suggestions by the OP.
Because it might be the only place this is posted. Instagram is one of the most popular social media websites in the world, and even if they have a bad interface or block people without accounts, they have interesting and widely-viewed content.
Instagram is definitely one of the worst offenders of this. You can obviously see it happening with reddit/twitter/etc wanting you to log in but those at least allow you to look at content. Instagram is just a black hole if you aren't logged in.
The problem is not, people making mistakes.

The problem is, people making mistakes and saying they weren't mistakes. Or they give non-apologies.
I am sure people said the same for lobotomy back when Moniz won the prize. I am personally all for the mRNA vaccines and am vaccinated with Pfizer myself but I understand why they are cautious when handing out prizes. What harm is there in waiting a few years?
> Microsoft is a faceless entity composed of people who mostly don't care about what they do during the day and are just getting by so they can get paid.

Regardless of what you think about Microsoft the company, please remember that the individual workers and managers are people who can be hurt by our tendency to form self-righteous mobs. And according to another commenter [1], one of the people working on Windows Terminal was hurt to the point that they quit.

Full disclosure: I'm inclined to defend the Microsoft team here because I was at Microsoft (on the Windows accessibility team) for a while. I don't think that I or my former teammates fit the stereotype you described. And while I never met any of the developers on the Windows Terminal team (at least not knowingly), I could very easily have crossed paths with one of them; I believe my team used to be in the same building as theirs. So I'm inclined to be charitable.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28746624
I wonder how many people say this whose personal driving habits make them much higher risk than the baseline.
I highly doubt Kuzmuk ever read that book to begin with :)
He certainly never wrote it :). To argue an empire is not a threat to the country that gained independence from it in very recent time is very toll order and Kravchuk always aknowleged Russia as a threat to Ukrainian independence as did Kuchma.
Definitely not.

The next frontier is vr metaverse.
9/11 is an extreme edge case, I would say.
I believe the reference here is to the same loan guarantee that became famous when Solyndra went bankrupt. It secured Tesla's early days, without it the company most certainly wouldn't exist.
This marks the Post-IntelX86-64 era. Arm chips will be used on laptops like Apple's M1 chips in their new Macintoshes.
Could you please tell a bit more about the volume-side of story? Somehow I feel that E-ink is at this weird point on the cost/volume curve because it is a fundamentally flawed display technology: monochrome or a couple of dull colors at best, very slow refresh rate (with ghosting/leftover on partial refresh).

LCD/OLED displays were also very expensive initially, but because they're so much appealing universally, loads of money got poured into the industry to make them better and cheaper (mostly due to volume demand).

There's no such amount of money/interest in making E-ink better and cheaper :(
Feedback on how I am doing as your manager.

This isn't a dictatorship, it's a partnership. What can I do to change/help you?

Most of my team is quiet on this sort of thing. Perhaps it's cultural? (Is this common for individuals who grew up in eastern Europe?)
pv == photovoltaics - rooftop solar panels, in this case.
The only part that is random is if it gets you this time. People follow too close almost constantly, if that would cause an crash every time only in the most rural areas would people be able to drive even one mile without a crash. Note that the cause is pervasive: following too close.

Others are bring up tired, drunk, texting... All real problems, but following too close is universal to nearly all drivers.
By the time people are allowed to let their cars drive unsupervised, the crash rate of AI versus human will probably be 1:10 or so.

So even when those cars ram into fire trucks from time to time, it would be better to let them do their thing. Otherwise people will grab the steering wheel, drive drunk, sleepy, angry etc and ram into all kinds of things again.

Currently, there are 6 million car accidents per year in the USA. Almost 100 people die in car accidents every day. So there is a ton of data to make the decision.
I bet McKinsey also never told the Department of Transportation that it was working for both the DoT and major car manufacturers.

Executives senior enough to approve hiring McKinsey to study something, whether they're F500 CEOs or government agency heads, know full well that the top consulting firms are all advising their competitors, counterparties, and regulators/regulatees. The facts reported in this article would indeed be scandalous if they included evidence that the FDA team at McK was tipping the pharma teams on private FDA plans or discussions, but that is not the case. If anything, this case is merely illustrative of why major consulting firms have borderline-paranoid cultural norms around never discussing client work outside of the respective client team, even (and especially) to one's own colleagues at the firm who are not staffed on said team.
Tz database community up in arms over time zone merges
A bunch of Sci-fi / fantasy books coming out in October to read
Indeed, it uses pricing of the providers such as DigitalOcean, that charge $5 for 250GB storage and 1TB transfer.
Oh, yeah that's a good point. If you _really_ need legit sound isolation (e.g. your hearing is at stake) or have tricky ears you'll have to venture into the pro audio realm--or just straight up get quality ear plugs. I'm lucky enough to have an OK fit with the stock tips, but even so I look at the custom ear tip companies from time to time.

Something else to really pay attention to is listening to music all day. 85 dB might not "sound" (hehe) like much, but more than a couple hours of that and you'll damage your hearing [1]. Do that for a year, say, and it adds up. And 85 dB doesn't sound that loud, especially if you work up to it.

This is where I'm jealous of Apple's Airpods ecosystem, where they know the SPL of the drivers and what volume you're driving them at, so they can avoid damaging your hearing. I really wish more laptop/phone/etc. manufacturers would post more detailed headphone jack stats so you could just plug in your SPL and set the volume accordingly. I had a hell of a time figuring it out for my 2018 MBP; I can only imagine what it's like for less ubiquitous hardware.

[1]: https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/noise-induced-hearing-loss
Exactly, just like there was no conflict between the consulting and accounting arms of Arthur Andersen.
> If I see McKinsey on someone's resume, it's a huge red flag

I can’t wait for the day when engineers from Facebook or Google are treated the same way after all the harm those companies have caused is revealed.
Yeah, I think we can agree that it should not be used the way that it was historically.
Anecdotal, based on personal experience with these folks
One can have their own opinion on whether brexit should have happened, but it’s extremely hard to argue that the tories haven’t been handling this poorly.
>>> If "usually" PRs result in code style or architecture discussions, I'd suggest you have a team problem, not a process one. Start with the humans.

True, Why is code being written without the architecture and initial design hashed out?

Do an initial high level design, discuss with your team, hash out any issues, then start with the implementation.

The PR code review should be a review of the implementation and not the design.
She's no whistleblower. She wants Facebook to engage in more spying, censorship and control.
If I'm getting a lot of recruiter emails, I know demand is high. If I get emails from former coworkers looking for news of job openings, I know supply is high. I think I'm not too unusual in that regard.
And yet his communication skills are—not so much good.
> Munro is very critical of many aspects of car design; I cannot understand why he's such a fan of FSD.

Because he doesn’t understand it and thinks it’s magic. He has not much clue about modern tech and is just buying into the hype.
Less partying, focus on improving yourself (money, fitness, friendships), don't get married before 35.
In the early days of the Internet, we had more privacy. Before the data collection and AI programs.
True, and probably cheaper buying in that kind of bulk. Still an impressive amount of fish.
I see a bunch of confusion about Mercury in this thread so let me correct the record.

First, as to why colonize Mercury, there are some really good reasons:

1. Cheap, abundant energy (ie solar);

2. Access to tons of raw materials, particularly metals;

3. Relatively low gravity means getting into orbit is relatively low cost.

A few people have stated we'd hide in a crater as a negative. We'd live underground probably in submerged habitats that spin to produce Earth-like gravity, just as we would have to on Mars and the Moon.

For Mars in particular, people have this romantic notion of living on the surface. We wouldn't. There's essentially no atmosphere. Worse than no atmosphere actually there's just enough to cover all your gear in dust and do little else for you. You still have to worry about radiation. Terraforming is a monstrously massive project that would take millenia.

The biggest negative to Mercury is how hard it is to reach from Earth. Fun fact: the delta-V required to reach Mercury from Earth is more than that to escape the Solar System (eg like New Horizons). There's a reason this probe is taking 7 years to get there and doing multiple gravity brakes along the way (watch the ESA animation [1]).

If you're going to bootstrap a Dyson Swarm, Mercury is almost the perfect place to do it from.

[1]: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2017/07/Animation_...
Management often already got a deal or has worked their tech choice into a financial projection.

Sometimes, they are even right. And "I told you so" rolls downhill.
PostgreSQL vs. Python for data evaluation: what, why, and how
Ironically, your comment has one or two "bugs".
> That combined with the logged out hostility means I don’t have an easy way to view anything on the platform. Maddening.

Consider yourself lucky. Getting off from drugs is never easy, but in this case, you have support from your drug dealer that refuses to give you drugs any more.
> some compilers issue different warnings based on compile settings

Also based on which platform they're run on.

> new compiler versions regularly introduce new warnings,

Much worse, IMO is older compiler versions which emit incorrect warnings. At least when a new version emits a new, correct, warning it's at least something you want to fix (or disabling a new unhelpful warning). The failure to compile may still be a practical problem but at least the direction it creates is a right one.

For older compiler versions, there may be no fix-- breaking the code or turning off the warning may be the only options if Werror is used.

Outside of heavily controlled environments, I think Werror is just plain toxic. Want to run it on your CI builds where you don't need to worry about the compiler being upgraded or downgraded without warning? Great! Everyone should do that. Being warning clean on your primary target toolchains(s) is an important move.

For code distributed to users the use of Werror use creates a pressure against introducing new and helpful warnings for compiler authors. Fortunately, it's such a nuisance for code distributed to others that no one survives enabling it for long and the worse damage it likely does is that the few projects that use it for publicly distributed code refrain from enabling many otherwise useful non-default warnings.
Are you attacking the presenter or CCC? On first read it might seem as you are mixing them together and it can be quite unfair to the presenter if you are only mad at CCC.