skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've dropped the "best" for "better" or "good" for a while now. I also don't have a problem going to a colleague with more experience and who I know puts out good stuff, and asking them what they think the "best" solution is. I gain some knowledge from asking them and looking at how they use it, and I don't feel stupid or like I'm doing something wrong by not understanding it inside-out. There's a middle ground that provides productive results. And at the end of of it all, if you didn't know what a plane or an airfield was and you saw flying metal contraptions delivering cargo, building an airfield isn't such a bad first step to understanding what's going on.
When was the society asked what consequences to impose? No one asked in my country if such policies should be implemented.
My dev career died at 35 and is now alive again at 37. I spent the last two years at a startup as a PM. Jumping over the fence into the world of product management gave me a new appreciation for both sides of the process and I spent a lot of the time wishing I could get back on the tools and build something.

That said, I do see that it's mostly younger devs in the game, and the crazy thing is, even though I'm more "senior" they have more experience in current tech stacks because things move so fast in the digital space. A big chunk of my career was spent developing in tech stacks that are now obsolete or out of fashion.

I don't mind though, another big reason to return to dev was to keep learning and keep being challenged, and I haven't experiences any kind of agism so far. I guess we'll see what it's like if I'm still a dev at 40, 50 or beyond.
At 36 I have much more mental endurance and learning discipline than ten years ago. I can literally do stuff now that I couldn’t then and I think or hope this trajectory continues for decades to come.
A daily stand up is good for some dispersed teams, or close-knit teams that for some reason (forming, norming?) have not developed the ability to communicate effectively, or get a feel in real-time what their colleagues are doing. Any higher-order stuff should be dispersed by a team leader or senior team member - and that can be done 'as, and when, needed'. Does this require a mandatory daily stand-up?

On some occasions, I have reduced the daily stand-up from 30 mins (yes, I know) to 20, then 15...etc and it's common for them to reach 0 without any loss of knowledge transfer because the team members have started to communicate effectively by other means.

Granted, the pandemic has changed the nature of the communications challenge a bit.

I am happy to see teams having a daily stand-up because they need them. I take more notice when teams have a daily stand-up because they have been told they should have one.
We’ve known what to do with nuclear waste for a very long time. In the US at least, its more a question of politics and funding.

Basically, we can:

* Bury all of it (deep geological repository, bore holes)

* Reprocess fuel, take out the remaining U and/or built-up Pu, and then dispose of the small amount of fission products remaining

* Keep storing it in casks at plant sites or regionally consolidated ISFSIs (like [1])

All options are feasible; the first seems to be cheaper. Nobody seems to want a geological repository for nuclear waste in their backyard, even if it’s quite safe.

[1] https://holtecinternational.com/products-and-services/hi-sto...
>> > A higher fidelity social product would automatically nip and tuck our social graphs over time as they observed our interaction patterns.

This is the one that most concerns me. Most people have some tension between versions of themselves; not just the professional/family distinction and the work/play one, but all sorts of things that people are trying to deal with when they're talking about "be the best version of yourself".

Automatic reinforcement machines make that worse. It's like a bartender finding the drunkest people and offering them more drinks; there's a reason a lot of places will cut you off by law or policy rather than feed your addiction.

Social media at its worst is Pavlov A/B testing different bell sounds on his dog.

One of the interesting things about TikTok was precisely that it had "social capital basic income" / anti-reinforcement mechanisms where it will take lesser shown people and show them around to see if they have anything new or different to contribute. But it still has a very strong interest reinforcement loop.
This is what I love about tech. I have 15 years experience as a software developer but I have no clue what any of these words mean. Amazing you can have such specialised knowledge about something.
A lose a few points for the lead pipework though.
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Thanks, I'll give sqwok a try.

Unfortunately SO has some significant network effect, but there is a hUgE demand for a proper alternative, so as long as there is any activity on such a site it might be a starting point.
> it's pretty accurate.

Not remotely.

Xi was selected to fix Deng's unequal growth phase strategy. Hence all the regulations and crack down because Deng's model ran it's course. And Deng's policies only worked due to the base Mao built. Cultural revolution secularized and mobilized human capital, even great leap forward was massively successful in building industrial base - PRC in the 70s was less urbanized but considerably more industrialized than other low income peers. Which facilitated Deng's transition, which wouldn't have worked in India trapped in multiculturalism, historic power structures and rural economy. It only worked because Mao made sure everyone spoke mandarin, society had no strong attachments to history etc.

>He is destroying China, one industry at a time.

He's regulating previously underregulated industries. He's doing what the west talks about doing in policy papers for years but systemically can't. Sino-US ideological competition is battle of political systems, and so far PRC's has demonstrated to be more nimble and focsing on correct priorities. It's why US and others are trying to copy PRC's industrial policy, which PRC once copied from west. Also the fact that Xi managed to build SCS islands and modernize military sufficiently that US now discusses greater power competition in miiltary terms handly justifies his leadership. BoXiLai wasn't up to that task. The amount of comprehensive national power Xi built is insane. He's PRC's 3rd and maybe 4th term FDR in time of remarkable opportunity and crisis. He may sound and look dopey as hell, but his results have been remarkable.
The point is that they will not leave discord for „a FOSS discord“ because they‘d gain nothing. For the average user, discord won because it had a lot of features and properties that where better than what was there before (voice & chat combined, not server management, etc).

You and me might care about software being FOSS all day long, but the masses don’t. For them it’s just not a thing. I‘d guess „selfhosted servers“ actually is a step backward for the majority of discord users.
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You get banks to agree by mandating it. Just like the formats of SEPA Credit Transfers are written into law and required by all EU banks to support.

As for rollout: the NFC payment rollout took like a year to get to the point where I haven't encountered any non-NFC terminals since and that required all new hardware. Now that the hardware is out there, adding support for a new system is just a matter of software. At worst, a technician will have to visit every terminal and update the firmware manually (not sure if those things have OTA). "All the major credit card companies" == two, and it wouldn't really matter for their systems anyways since they're not banks, they are now-obsolete middlemen. People could still choose to use cards and vendors would likely still want to support them, there would simply be one more payment option available.

And yes, I agree that this would probably take forever in the US, but they're still using magstripe and the government is too big of a mess to be able to mandate a technical standard or even pass any legislation regarding banking anyways, so I think they have other things to deal with first.
SEC looks for absence of numeral 4 in earnings reports to detect law violations
http://archive.today/Kt8on gets you past the paywall
CRC's are many times faster when implemented in hardware, e.g. in a network interface card that checks the CRC of Ethernet data packets.

When computing a CRC in software, in a CPU that has instructions for both CRC and for SHA-1/SHA-256, e.g. a modern Intel/AMD CPU or a 64-bit ARM CPU, there remains a speed difference, but in most cases reading the data from the memory or from a SSD/HDD takes so much time that the difference in speed is negligible.

Moreover, until very recently most utilities that compute CRC's over files, e.g. UNIX cksum, did not use the special instructions for polynomial multiplication, but they used generic algorithms with precomputed tables.

The consequence was that for example most versions of cksum are much slower than the corresponding versions of sha1sum.
"Being a developer is not a good long-term career option, unless you really like the job. It demands much, but the pay isn't competitive, except for a small minority."

1. Being X is not a good long-term option, unless you like the job.
2. Not sure where you base you viewpoint, but I have a hard time finding a more competitive and global job market that favours candidates.
3. All high paying jobs demand much. Otherwise they wouldn't be high-paying.
That's because Angela Merkel is a physicist. Unlike other politicians around the world, she actually knows the risks.
This must be very recent - I changed my phone around June and this was not an option. So I moved all my accounts to Authy, and moved that instead, which brought everything to the new phone flawlessly.
Having read it years ago, I knew it was referenced, but I wasn't sure if he coined it.
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If someone else owns the effect you have and doesn’t understand or respect it, then you are going to be assessed by superficial metrics.
It's easy to prove that ancients were unable to produce concrete. You just need to prove that they had no access to stone, fire, and water — the key ingredients required to make concrete.
Earlier this year people were setting false video metadata to bypass TikTok's duration limit and upload very long videos.
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>Peace by a committee in the Norwegian parliament.

Ahh now we know why Obama got it ;)
Hang yourself, dumbass.
Global warming effects are global, non-linear and there are still many unknowns, which makes it more riskier. Nuclear waste is only local and the harm is much better known. Also nuclear energy is anti-fragile (more disasters means saver plants).

The risks of nuclear energy is far more favourable than global warming. Because of potential catastrophic outcomes of climate change I think we need to diversify our bets and include nuclear energy in our portfolio.
>I wonder if, in the grand scheme of things, Americans/Westerners might be feeling threatened by the shift in power

Of course, but in many ways it's the threat of the same shift in power between the allies and the axis in WWII. China is not a nice country. Openly imprisoning and "re-educating" uyghurs there, Tibet, Taiwan, openly hunting down and organ harvesting the falun-gong. The West does plenty of bad stuff too but nothing on the same level, and definitely not as openly as if saying "what're you going to do about it".

Same as Russia assassinating people recently, it's a "what're you going to do about it?" scenario. Now that nuclear weapons exists the world is going to go to shit because nobody can do anything about it anymore.
> The US military, like all other militaries, is a force for its own country's purposes and goals only.

Of course, and for everyone but contrarians, sometimes the US has goals that are a net good. Sometimes the US doesn't, and sometimes the US uses the military inappropriately for commendable but open-ended goals. This isn't open-ended, and not having the tanker is a net good, and you'll notice I emphatically did not suggest using only the US military. I suggested the US military provide security for whatever deal is struck.

Assuming we're living in reality, what non-force-backed solution do you propose that doesn't end with "Thankyou for $ASSET. There has been problem. Send more $ASSET."... Forever?
RPiPlay is itself composed of many great OSS projects (e.g. GStreamer). Maybe we should somehow be able to publish the shole "tree" of contributions to a particular project (including build-time tools) ?
Except during hot summers or cold winters, when they often have to reduce the outputs of the reactors, and import huge amounts of solar and wind power from Germany.
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how come she does'nt know the impact buring coal has on the environmnet?
Google Maps is better[1] but none of them come even remotely close of Open Street Maps[2]

[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.858832,19.3550722,13.71z

[2]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/728419973#map=13/41.8835/...
>I honestly couldn't come up with anything...

How about the entire idea of economic growth?

It made perfect sense to strive for increases in GDP during the 19th and 20th centuries, where economic gains directly correlated with improvements in material wealth and a better quality of life.

Now, I don't think anyone really understands why we're still doing it.
"I wouldn't have questioned waterfall project stand-ups"

Back in 1956, Teams, Slack etc. were still pre-alpha and it was possibly difficult or technically impossible to have a group phone call, so a stand-up for larger teams spread round a building might have been the only way to quickly share info + it got the folks out of the noisy computer rooms (plus ça change there!)
HE-AAC is only useful at low bitrates though (below 64 kb/s), and supposedly never reaches transparency. Above that, you should use AAC-LC (or, of course, Opus if you can).

Vorbis is also notable as a better format than MP3, although that too is made obsolete by Opus.
Geological disposal is about to go into production in Finland: https://www.posiva.fi/en/index/finaldisposal/geologicalfinal...
Looks like a nice departure from the upsetting seafoam green copy/pasted Concord Pacific towers that are built everywhere.
That's not for physicists to know, more for mechanical engineers :D
I'm sorry for your loss.

You make very good points and these are things I've put some thought into (particularly) since becoming a father.

The only stuff I consider really important is the photographs and videos, most of the things before our child(ren).

I think the interesting and most important point I've taken from you here is putting the "what/who/why/where".

We were looking through my childhood photos/videos at my parents recently but had no context for some of them and the people who might have known are no longer with us.

As for code, all of my code is open source when I finish a project (rare) but nothing that the world would miss (so far) so I haven't put any real effort into preserving it.
I agree completely with this article (but it probably depends on which area of development you work in).

I'm an android developer and whenever I hear the term best practice it immediately sets off my BS detector.
The profit from trading securities is definitely already taxed.
Please find a single respectable historian of economy or similar that shares the view that the current era is the era of social democracy rather than neoliberalism and large scale privatizations of formerly social democratic mixed economies?

But since you are HNs most blatant free market fundamentalist (proven by the ridiculous claim above that social spending alone constitutes social democracy, not to even mention the revisionism) I'm not expecting much more than tone policing.
But they have that beautiful clean coal.
> That's really a great thing and more places should provide them.

They'd provide them if they could pass the cost on to the customer (in the case of open markets, for example). They can't because most people aren't willing to pay for that.

You simply want to shift the cost of your convenience onto others which is immoral and wrong. It'd be great for you if you could get what you want without paying a dime for it, that I believe.
Ukraine, the site of the probably the worst nuclear accident in history and a prime food producer, is suffering enormously from desertification due to burning fossil fuels.

If that's her calculation, she needs to redo it.
I wonder what the situation with production capacity is. I suspect TSMC will build a fab here and there that might suffice to make enough to supply the military, but not for anything else. Large sectors of the economy would still be cut off from chip supply, and we've seen how that went with the car industry.

If PRC would conquer TW, they would not have an incentive to stop chip exports I think. Too much mutual dependency with the trade partners, and the party does not like domestic instability - unemployment would be unwelcome. Would TW blow up the factories though? It is said they can do this with a press of a button.

> EU/US/JP all have sticks like tech sanctions of supply chains TSMC relies on

Wouldn't that be self-sabotage? TSMC is in the strong position, everyone wants capacity, they have it. Intel and Samsung can't compete on the latest nodes.
They do have a requirement to offer basic payment account to all legal EU residents. Even to people who have no legal right to reside in EU, but whose expulsion is impossible.

From DIRECTIVE 2014/92/EU CHAPTER IV, Article 16:

2. Member States shall ensure that consumers legally resident in the Union, including consumers with no fixed address and asylum seekers, and consumers who are not granted a residence permit but whose expulsion is impossible for legal or factual reasons, have the right to open and use a payment account with basic features with credit institutions located in their territory. Such a right shall apply irrespective of the consumer’s place of residence.

Member States may, in full respect of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Treaties, require consumers who wish to open a payment account with basic features in their territory to show a genuine interest in doing so.

Member States shall ensure that the exercise of the right is not made too difficult or burdensome for the consumer.

From: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/financial-pr...

If you are legally resident in an EU country you are entitled to open a "basic payment account".

When banks can refuse you a basic payment account

You can be refused an account if you do not comply with EU rules on money laundering and terrorist financing.

In some EU countries, you may be refused a basic bank account if you already have a similar account with another bank in the same country.

If you're applying for a basic payment account outside the country where you live, banks in some EU countries may also want you to prove a genuine interest for doing so – for example if you live in one country but work in another.
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Excellent news, hopefully other European countries will follow that example. Especially Germany should immediately rethink and stop phasing out their remaining operational nuclear power plants.
What does GCD have in common with leap years?
I imagine there was an investment in updating the local inventory. For internal tools, it seems to be fine to have more approximate data. People seem to offer to "check in the back" (whether that exists or not). For public facing tools that's a lot less acceptable.

Home Depot isn't /perfect/ in that regard. It'll often see "a few left" or "call for inventory" and I've had to hunt down people to find moving boxes in a store that didn't seem to carry a lot and moved them around on various end-caps. But it's way better than any other retail store I've seen. Getting that last little bit must have been difficult.
In Germany, nuclear waste from one of the first storage sites that was deemed "safe" in the 60s already needs to be recovered at great cost[1]. Sticking a few million tons of nuclear waste into the ground and hoping it will never come into contact with ground water is not a great plan IMHO. That stuff has the potential to render drinking water reserves unusable for millenia, so no wonder no one wants that in their own backyard. And storing it above ground seems quite difficult too judging by the issues in Fukushima and Chernobyl. Even Tepco couldn't come up with a better solution for some of the waste than "Let's drain it into the ocean where it'll be diluted".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine
Which is why she is pro nuclear. The physicist in her reversed that position when it was a choice of being elected or being kicked out of office.

Physicists like power as much if not more than politicians.
Not as smart as you thought, eh
Nuclear power has some issues which need to be addressed on the political and social level as well as the technological. Waste disposal, proliferation, safety. However, looking forward, it is hard to see any competition as a robust, always available, all weather, conpact, baseline power source. This is especially true if climate change degrades solar and wind farm performance by disrupting weather patterns.
Open source literally means they show you the source code. It doesn’t have to mean anything beyond that.
Maybe some fringe, left-wing types infiltrated government, who consider people outside of the US human beings, worthy of protection from organized hate campaigns spread on an unaccountable US-based platform.

If you need a selfish reason, then consider the blow-back in the from of refugees from destabilized countries, global opinion of the US reaching new depths at a time of high tension, or people switching to a better platform that isn't so 'Merican.
>thinking about everything you do is the ultimate analysis paralysis

One thing I've noticed is that people who try to live according to a particular philosophy or philosophical understanding tend to be less effective than people who either ignore it entirely or only apply it to limited situations. This observation seems to hold even amongst public intellectuals, which one would assume would skew heavily towards philosophers.

I wonder if this is the reason why.
Would you say that a base Wireguard installation is a solution for enterprise?

And that, stuff that tailscale adds is superfluous or not appealing?

The complexity rapidly grows as you scale, mostly pertaining to networking.

Now a better question is, how does OpenVPN compare with tailscale?!
All quantum computing companies, Google, Boeing, big industry players… besides, this list is fan-cooked. We add one when we see a job announce or a word on social media.

BTW, nothing stops me from enjoying Lisp's powers for my small business even if my favorite big company doesn't use it.
LOFAR pioneers new way to study exoplanets
I wonder what the long term hit is to their brand? I have to think that's brought up because it happens all the time to declining brands and I don't see that digging them out of their problems. I tend to avoid those sites mentioned after being burned a few times. In the past, they were the first place I would check. It hurts when I see family members get burned.
Calling Kraków's transit great is a long stretch.
Gosh all your comments are just a roundabout fluff-fest dude. The CCP is committing some of the most tragic modern atrocities. The iron grip of the CCP and their "one china" brain-washing is ruining China for what it could be and the blood will be on your collective paws for generations.
US states are too large themselves. For this to work, it needs to start literally at the very bottom - a local assembly on the block / neighborhood. From there, it can be scaled up indefinitely in a multi-layer federation.