skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YT, for example, contains many resources on brain anatomy and more. Plus, for example, the lessons from Robert Sapolsky at Stanford.

Plus, there exist the primer books from Rita Carter (first of all, Mapping the Mind).

There are loads of good material around. Note though, that CS is "forward" engineering, while Brain Science is backward engineering. So, if you do not find material that build from the ground up... it is easily because we are not at that level.
> Every time I've seen a project rewritten (regardless of technologies) -- it became better.

I've seen the opposite happen, a lot. In the late 00s, the trend in the industry was to rewrite all the things. Everyone was trying to move away from PHP-based solutions to something "modern."

Old code is battle-tested. That's valuable. Sometimes people reach for rewriting something that really just needs the plumbing updated.
This article is written in an alien universe. "Best Practice" is the well-trodden path. It's typically easy to find, many people know about it, it avoids most of the pitfalls you don't know about, you can get help if you find yourself slightly lost, it's easy terrain to navigate, you can probably walk it or ride it, it gets you there without you putting in much more effort.

It is probably not the shortest nor fastest path, nor most efficient path for 4-horse carriage.

Here's a best practice: Don't build Splunk infrastructure on Windows. Is it bad? No, it's fine, but fine-grained control, observability, permission and logging framework, tooling, they're all minus compared to being on +nix. Don't build Splunk infrastructure on BSD, or Solaris, even if they're +nix. Not enough people use it that when you run into trouble, there's no help. Does one have to "defend" and "explain" that every time? Does the author hate that principle? There is such a thing as best practice (no capitalization) whether one admits it or not. It's not for the old seadogs, it's for the newly initiated, you don't need to know the whys at the very beginning. At the beginning, the best advice is not to fall into the ditch.
That sounds like a non-trivial energy expenditure. Hopefully it's part of their office heating plan.
Citation needed. As the friendly article explains in detail, Japanese emperors do not "speak out" about anything at all, and are in fact constitutionally forbidden from doing so.
It seems a little easier to go from embedded to app dev than vice versa, harder still to think up a personal project involving embedded to get you excited enough to invest the time into learning by hands-on trial and error.

I’d be interested in some started points, books, etc. to embedded, even beginner ELI5 fun projects. I am familiar to RPis, ESPs and similar microcontrollers for fun, but curious about what career and industry practices are common and different compared to app dev.
Kind of, but then there’s this:

> I admit, the evidence is convincing to the onlooker.

That’s what I’m confused about. Why is the evidence so convincing? Why wouldn’t a simple rejection suffice?

“I didn’t write those things and was appalled when I read it for the first time not long ago.”

I feel like there are some key missing details to the story.
Same for me in Costa Rica.
And then wait twenty years after the blackout while we construct nuclear power plants at high cost...
Intro to Burglary
Same. It goes without saying perhaps, but one consideration is what type of social contact you want.

I work in a technical role and I miss my colleagues immensely. I feel best when I am around people I know, and when my job entails keeping a small group of people happy.

Working in sales, consulting, or relationship management is about working with strangers.... of balancing the joint demands of both your employer and the client. I get very self-critical and anxious in these roles.
AWS Console Is Down
yes me too
Via annotations on my ingresses, and, of course, with this : https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
Heh, sure, but are you going to teach your dog how to use the InReach Mini? I had a previous Garmin, worked reasonably ... if there was a cell signal. The battery died, Garmin wouldn't sell me a new one, and the replacement unit increased the monthly cost by 3x.

With APRS I can find my dog, no monthly, and in large outdoor areas APRS has MUCH better coverage than cell.
Apple is just better at pretending being all in.

They were part of PRISM.

They recently added a systematic scan, compare and report routine to all your pictures.

They forces you to tie your phone to an Apple account just to use it. My android phone doesn't have an account, or even an email linked to it.

Apple now has an entire mesh network of BT devices constantly looking up each others, even if some of them are not connected to internet.

The microphone on the Apple device is always on, to answer to hey siri.

Finally, you can't install a real alternative browser on iOS, so no real privacy addons.

They make big claims about privacy nobody can check because everything is closed source. So you have to just trust them.

"But apple doesn't have an ad business"

Oh but they do. And they don't have to play by their own rules in the app store, and have the right to track users, gather device informations, location, etc. Fun thing is, they start the list of information they collect (https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin...) by stating "Apple-delivered advertising helps people discover apps, products, and services while respecting user privacy".

I don't think they are any better, just different. And better at PR.
Seeing Tibetan and Mongolian scripts in videos of Tibetan and Mongolian locations is "drinking koolaid" now? Are you saying those videos are completely doctored and the signs put up only for the purpose of making those videos? Are you saying they don't actually teach Tibetan and Mongolian language in schools in China? Are you saying that woman in the video is an actor? What exact facts are you disputing?

In the mean time, a large part of the Tibetan separatist diaspora in India have lost the ability to read, write and speak Tibetan; and outer Mongolia has only recently begun their efforts to restore traditional Mongolian script, after decades of using Cyrillic.
Haven't mandatory vaccinations been law for at least a decade now? Except it was for kids if they want to go to public school/day care[1]. I find it funny that most people did not bat an eye at this until it became mandatory for adults and now I see hyperbolic language about a creeping police state.

Oh yeah, and there's also this[2]:

> In an effort to boost vaccination rates in Australia, the Australian government has decided that starting on 1 January 2016, certain benefits (such as the universal "Family Allowance" welfare payments for parents of children) will no longer be available for conscientious objectors of vaccination; those with medical grounds for not vaccinating will continue to receive such benefits.

Again, it seems like it was fine to deny welfare benefits for those without vaccination. But when it becomes mandatory for the more privileged classes there's a sudden moral panic.

[1] https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Pages/childcare_q...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_policy#Australia
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28840769
Exactly right. And you don't have to be a system app to access this information. Any app with sufficient permissions granted explicitly by a user can access these data (no root needed), and it may have legitimate reasons for doing it.
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Like this person's guess, only speculation of what this actually is currently on the message board.

If you were going to put a signal (that was also a puzzle to be unlocked), seems like the center of the galaxy would be a good place to make it emit from. Kind of obvious place to look.

But yeah, would almost certainly fall into the black hole in the center in a couple million years or whatever.
Can you ellaborate? .NET runs on Linux very well just a couple of years MS officially supported it, and if you have a decade worth of .NET code in your company, porting it to .NET 5 might be orders of magnitude easier than to rewrite into something else.
Feeling quite smug about switching to CalyxOS earlier this week.
dont work the console, arg, so bad
cloudwatch and web console not working,here in Peru
I just want to appreciate the article. Starting with non-clickbait title, upfront summary, detailed numbers, code for reruns, great graphs, no dreamy story and no advertisement of any kind.

It is hosted on Medium but the author has done a banging great job, so gets a pass. If he is reading, excellent work!
None of these are protocols. Zip is an archive format for files (including binaries), not a 'compression protocol'. It doesn't even have to use compression.

As far as 'standards' go, literally nothing uses Gzip/DEFLATE outside of Linux machines and HTTP clients/servers. Gzip isn't even an archive format.
Until Heroku has a huge downtime (like recently) and you are f*ked. If you have your own VMs, you can quickly move them to a different provider, but it's hard to start figuring out servers when Heroku is down and your business stopped.

That said, I would also recommend Heroku to many.
That's sort of pet peeve of mine: Migration are done separate from code deploys. Version 1 of your code runs on schema version 1. Schema version 2 does not make chances that will break code version 1. Code version 2 can utilize the chances made in schema version 2, but you're still able to rollback the code.

Each schema migration should also come with its own rollback script.

The downside is that you might need three migrations for some operation, but at least you won't break stuff.

The assumption that you can do a schema migration while deploying new code is only valid when you have very limited database sizes. I've seen Flyway migrations break so many times, because developers assumed it was fine to just do complicated migrations on a 200GB database. Or a Django database migration just lock up everything for hours because no one cared to think about the difference between migrating 100MB and 100GB. And I've never seen anyone seriously considering rolling back a Flyway migration.
They've been monitoring our data for over 50 years and they give us this shit? Congratulations to everyone who has accepted cookies, you contributed to this, a little delayed but oh well.
While true, I was mostly speaking of zoning. I consider things like gender norms as being cultural and not necessarily overlapping with their city zoning. From a pure urban design perspective, its basically perfect in my opinion. (That said, it's not entirely correct that culture and urban design are separate. I'm not sure Japanese cities can be recreated in America, if for no other reason than there is a huge gulf between how individuals view and interact with society in Japan vs. America)

It's also worth noting that while stressors from gender norms exist in Japan, the idea that their suicide rate is extremely high is somewhat outdated. Its been decreasing over the last few decades, while countries like the US and many European countries have increased, to the point where there isn't that much of a difference between the regions.
I did this years ago and it’s great. The only thing worth noting is that only the people I still follow ever engage with the rare post I do make. It’s presumably a feature of their algorithm.
In fact, the syntax of LaTeX (not TeX)—the idea of environments etc—is heavily based on Scribe: Leslie Lamport, who was a Scribe user, basically reimplemented parts of Scribe in TeX macros; the result was LaTeX. You can see the resemblance between Scribe's syntax:

@Heading(The Beginning)
@Begin(Quotation)
Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start
@End(Quotation)

and LaTeX's. Lamport mentions Scribe a few times in this interview: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb22-1-2/tb70lamp.pdf

> I don’t think TeX and LaTeX would have become popular had they not been free. Indeed, I think most users would have been happier with Scribe. Had Scribe been free and had it continued to be supported, I suspect it would have won out over TeX. On the other hand, I think it would have been supplanted more quickly by Word than TeX has been.

(I'm not sure he's right; I think TeX/LaTeX benefited from both Knuth's concern for typographical excellence and Lamport's concern for authors' convenience, and the "book-quality printing" of TeX would have always had a place, but hard to say what would have happened.)

[Edit: Changed "superficial syntax"; I just meant syntax as opposed to implementation details.]
I replicated Anthony Simon's architecture [0] in a few days and it has worked beautifully so far with a toy project [1]. Probably overkill for OP, but the combination of GH Actions & Flux [2] means that starting (and killing) namespaced projects – with all the cluster benefits of automatic TLS certification, DNS record management, rate limiting, pod restarts, logging, autoscaling, CD, etc. – is a single push to a git repository. Really nice if you're taking a shotgun approach and trying different ideas quickly.

[0] https://anthonynsimon.com/blog/one-man-saas-architecture/

[1] https://www.wyzetickets.com/

[2] https://fluxcd.io/
Please also consider:

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) was first identified in April 2020 by doctors at children’s hospitals in the United States and the United Kingdom. The condition has also been called pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS). MIS-C is an illness that can occur after COVID-19 infection and affects mostly school-age children. While the syndrome is rare, it can be dangerous.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
Google Maps does have an offline download option it offers occasionally if you know how to trigger it. Have never seen Apple Maps offer that.
I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, however it provides only limited and temporary protection against infection and transmission.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
Similarly, for iOS you can use the new "Record App Activity" functionality.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804174

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838394
from montreal, it doesnt work either 504 as well
Lots of sunlight, but limited amounts of manufacturing and rare earth metals for solar and limited amounts of energy storage for times when solar and wind aren't available. Solar and Wind are terrific, but they're not a free lunch. What drives down the price of energy, drives up the cost of wind/solar/batteries.
> It's almost like someone had the brilliant idea of unifying an internal and external tool that both did the same thing, and devoting more resources to making the result work better than either ever did.

This is super powerful when applied to tools, but also docs, pricing and decisions. At my current job, whenever we make a rule around licensing or pricing, we publish it to our external facing FAQ. This means that the sales people consult the same info as the customer can.

Many customers choose to cut out the sales folks and read the FAQs, which is fine. Some choose not to. Some choose to read the FAQ and chat with the sales folks for further details.

But having one place where everyone can go lets people consume that info as they wish, as well as acting as a forcing function for keeping it up to date.
How many of the thousands of other ways the workplace is regulated for safety amounting to totalitarianism? Nearly all those regulations pertain to low probability events, which you can tell by the relative scarcity of severed limbs and poisonings etc. Why is this different?
> There have been a few incidents in other states but they don't define the whole country.

These incidents are in the population centers (melbourne, sydney). They represent the country to about half of it's inhabitants!
AWS Console is down. API seems fine
The AWS console seems to be down with a 504. The API and other services seem fine.

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
I was just last week in an interview for a role at Amazon and was told that -- while they would entertain a permanent remote arrangement for the right candidate -- it was the interviewer's honest opinion that being fully remote would hurt my chances to advance in the organization.

I figured, well, at least he was honest with me.
Because the business pays them to do a specific job which doesn’t include them training for their next job?

Is it really that common that people expect their current employer to subsidize their “skill growth” when they know they are just going to hop to another company in the near term?

Not judging —- just asking as an outsider looking in.

—edit—

Huh, just downvotes so I assume it is expected to be able to train yourself on company time…
Same, trying to login to us-east-1 from the USA.
PowerPoint versus chalk talk: an academic cage match
>you can get away with spooky arcane oldhat sysadmin deploy techniques (scp release to prod hosts, run deploy script, service or cron to keep running)

You would be surprised at how many old enterprises still do this. Sure, it's ugly, but it can be simpler than k8s, and anyone with scripting chops can understand it.
Even if the title is shown in uppercase in the article it is handled with `text-transform: uppercase;` so I'm not sure how it became uppercased here unless the poster did it manually.
There's this on the bottom

>© 2021 SUSE. Rancher Desktop is an open source project of the SUSE Rancher Engineering group.
If iOS were an open-source project, we wouldn't need to spend so long speculating what code is running on the devices that we own.
天皇 is literally "heavenly king", and the full Japanese WW2 war cry was 天皇陛下万歳 Tennou heika banzai, "May the Emperor live ten thousand years". So yes, the implications are pretty martial, although the Emperors themselves don't sully themselves with actual fighting.
"Everyone is doing it" has always been - and will always be - a terrible reason to do anything.

"anti-vaxxer" is too broad of a term. That's like saying anyone who doesn't want to buy a Ford is "anti-car." They're not anti-car, they just don't want a Ford.

Almost all the people you call "anti-vaxxers", in fact very much believe vaccines are modern miracles that have reduced or eradicated serious illnesses. Many of them get a flu shot every single year. That's not the behavior of an "anti-vaxxer." "anti-vaxxer" is inaccurate at best, and intentionally derogatory at worst.
My first thought as well. Hope we can visit those spiders one day.
No, it isn’t, and the “moving past X toward a democratic future” is an Enlightenment idea rooted in Western culture, largely enforced upon other states via violence, economic sanctions, and colonialism. As the West continues to decline, so will the appeal of its political structures.

This is fairly obvious if you pay attention to Russia, China, India, and other powerful countries. It isn’t 1990 or 1950. The world isn’t trying to reinvent itself in the mold of the West anymore.
This is cool! I appreciate the effort here to make the roads safer for bicyclists and pedestrians, as I'd love to see more people prioritize this.

The homepage confused me because the presentation of the two examples made me think that they were before/after at first. It took me ~30s to realize they were just two separate articles.

I'd like to see a bad article juxtaposed with an improved version that someone created using your tool.

I'm maybe used to tools like Grammarly, but when I clicked / hovered over the highlighted text, I was surprised to see nothing happen. I found it a little difficult to scroll back and forth between the highlighted text and the context where it appeared in the article. Having an explanation appear next to the cursor on mouse click/hover might resolve this.

It would also be cool if the tool allowed me to import by URL (with some suggested real articles to show this is a problem in mainstream news sources) rather than require the user to copy/paste manually.
I dont think that a hosted k8s with a hosted db on, say DO, would require a full time job? I can imagine it seems that way if one is coming from a large 1k+ employee company though. I always wonder how those companies can utilize so many people.
Leather can make sense to me

It doesn't to me. The alternatives are all plastics. So sure you're saving animal lives, but you're also just contributing to our oil addiction. It's like Christians picking and choosing which things to believe from the Bible, but with ethics instead.
On the atmega we usually use just the builtin AES coprocessor. Much faster and smaller than the SW crc.
As someone who had shingles in their late 20s, it's not fun, but not awful either. Admittedly, apparently it's worse for the elderly.

On a 0 (feel fine) - 5 (2nd degree sunburn over a wide body area) - 10 (fractured rib) scale, I'd put it at a 6. And ran about 4 days before symptoms abated.

It felt a lot like really bad sunburn, to the extent that clothing (jeans) against my skin was exhausting and movement avoided. Was on the road at the time with a client, so would work all day, then get back to the hotel and immediately go to sleep.
Well, you know, it sounds kind of nice to have your codebase auto-formatted so it looks nice without the programmer having to do this by hand. Problem is, current formatters never seem to exceed the borderline-passable level of formatting and I actually really like nicely formatted code. E.g., when the parameter list of a function no longer fits on the same line as the function name one can either split it over two lines or give every parameter a line by itself. I tend to make this depend on how complex the parameters are. If they are very simple, like just a short variable name I put them on one line and if they are some complicated expression I will put each of these expressions on a line by themselves. I think this really makes a difference in readability. Auto formatters generally have some fixed one-size-fits-all policy for this. And this is just one example. There are many more cases where a tasteful approach yields more readable code than a very uniform approach.

Besides this, I have also seen situation where the formatting guide lines become a way for one developer to force his preferences on another developer. This is really not nice. I have been in a situation where I really had difficulty reading the code just because it was formatted in a strange way. 'We just have to pick something and picked this'. 'No we cannot have exceptions because we don't want to waste time on discussing trivial matters like code formatting'. 'Yes, my personal exceptions to the standard that we use were applied but yours cannot'.
That site's beautiful.