skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised you would say this, because creating internal "free markets" to encourage competition across teams is not an uncommon pattern within Amazon. I could name numerous examples of multiple teams competing either implicitly or explicitly with each other, seeing who's designs or systems would win, seeing which teams would be more successful at attracting talent.

I do agree about this being mostly a punting of the responsibility for deciding from L10 to L8. But I think competition is not a bug, it's a feature.
Somewhat tangential, but I am super-impressed with Home Depot's e-commerce experience on the web side, and completely the opposite with WalMart.

As I'm standing in a Home Depot store struggling to find an item, I can pull up the site, verify they have something in stock, and get a map of the store showing me where that thing is. This is an incredible consumer experience. Even when the thing I want isn't where it's supposed to be, showing that to a staffer usually gets an "Oh, yeah, we moved those to aisle Foo last week" response.

On the flipside, when I go to WalMart's site the default search behavior is showing me numerous items from 3rd-party sellers that are not and will never be available in-store. They do have inventory information but you have to specifically filter for it and I find it much less reliable and difficult to navigate than Home Depot's.

Hopefully they take pages from each others' playbooks.
Most people that don't watch TV don't believe those numbers. The reason is that the overall yearly death rate is within regular variability.
Literally same experience. So sorry, it sucks.
Agreed - it's personal.

I'll add that I enjoy moving people from 'sitting next to me' to 'known', and given that there are not that many people sitting next to me, and I have a fixed office plan (always the same people next to me), it works for me.
I would not enjoy going to the office if I wasn't around the same people/there wasn't at least a bit of stability. We didn't mention this : if your company has a flexible floor plan, indeed, then you won't know your co-workers!

It probably depends on the kind of job you do as well : a significant portion of my job is spent talking to people anyway, and I'd rather make it as pleasant as possible. If it means getting to know people, then I'm quite happy to do so.
Fragile components make a bad developer.
Interesting, makes sense. Thanks for the response! ill have to take a closer look at the code.
An Overview of the Singularity Project – Microsoft's Experimental OS [pdf]
Another guide to save and never complete!
People seem to be completely ignorant of the theory of the firm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

It's a bit of a straw man I'm making, but a lot of people seem to say "I do fantastic work, my company doesn't need to control me, just recognise the fantastic work I do! Let me just work from home and keep up my fantastic work!"

It's already well discussed in the "theory of the firm" in economics. Why do firms hire employees, rather than just contractors? Why do workers not want to all be freelancers?

A lot of the arguments about "presenteeism" seem to veer into acting like their company wants to essentially have all the overhead of managing freelancers, and to have employees jump through all the hoops freelancing involves, which is obviously not what (most) people want in the first place.
Something about printed recovery codes makes me think of passwords on postit notes
After reading the article and the responses here; i feel i ought to share some "Worldly Truths" for the edification of the Young'uns (in the Tech. fields) so that they can work towards securing their future :-)

* In your first few jobs (i.e. before you have gained some professional work experience) you will be taken advantage of by almost all companies in terms of low pay, overwork and rather menial jobs. This is the Norm; suck it up but make sure that you get something far greater in return, eg;

-- Exposure to the hottest Tech Stack(s) in demand in the Industry.

-- Sponsored/Paid Education and Training to raise your Educational Profile.

-- Work your ass off in learning as much as you can in as wide a variety of domains as possible i.e. be like a sponge soaking up everything. Be sincere and diligent with your work however "boring" it might seem; there is always something to learn. Youth, Energy and Enthusiasm are on your side and you need to utilize all of them to "make your mark" and "catch the eye" of Upper Management. Hard-work will get you much further than any other Trait.

-- Network with Managers, Senior Engineers and Recruiters to "raise your profile" for better opportunities.

-- Depending on the company, try to decide on whether you want a "Career" or just a "Job".

* Don't work for Free or Lower Pay than absolutely Necessary. Always put yourself First. The Flip side to this is that you are not "special" (there are always exceptions of course) and therefore need to have a realistic view of what the "Market" says your value is.

* Always bring a positive and can-do attitude to work for as long as you can. Time and Experience will eventually wear you down but you can consciously work at it to make your "Work" enjoyable as it is.

* Always keep looking for "Greener Pastures" either within the Company itself or elsewhere. Try to keep your "Hunger" Alive for whatever you are looking for in Life i.e. don't "settle" early.

Finally, keep the following quotes in mind;

* It is better to lose the Battle but win the War. - make opportunistic sacrifices(eg. lower pay, bad company) in pursuit of something larger/greater (eg. better career, hot tech. stack, work experience).

* The Old know too much to not take any risks, the Young don't know enough to not take any risks and it surprises me how they achieve it time and time again (attributed to Mark Twain) - Apply Yourself, Work Hard and Take Calculated Risks but don't go YOLO i.e. read Taleb's ideas of "Extremistan vs Mediocristan" and plan accordingly.
Already had one teacher narc on a kiddo, who is now feeling like he has no one he can trust with problems that he doesn't want to necessarily air in front of his parents. Gg on that front is all I have to say. Great way to get kids willing to trust others in the long run! I usually try to wait until late teens for the "Big Brother is watching" lecture.

Ya know; next time you exploit your place of trust as an operator. Think twice. The kids don't get it. They get it enough to get hurt, but not enough to get themselves mentally out of it. Keep it between you and the kid for a first infraction. If it continues, then hook in parents.

This is why no matter how hard I'm begged to set up spyware, I don't, and where I can't avoid it, I do not turn over keys to anything like that to users. Once they know it's there, it's like moths to a flame. Kid or not, they are a human being, and I refuse to deny them the benefit of an initial nudge.

Yes. I was the kid getting up to network mischief. No, the ones that even noticed took the time to ensure I understood the ramifications of my understanding of the system and not only left it at that, but encouraged me to continue to explore, and mentored me in doing so.

I remember as a kid, being forwarded by a telephone operator to "Santa", and the joy I got as an adult realizing that some general somewhere took time out of his day to answer those calls. That kind of an "interaction at a distance", I still credit with being one of the earliest instances in my life drawing me toward telecom and tech in general. Now?

We're teaching kids to fear tech; that they are never safe on it. That they are being watched all the time. That they can never let their guard down. Hell, putting myself in their shoes, I don't think I'd want anything to do with it.
Google Search Wants to Curate Big News. It Could Be a Minefield
> This material is based upon work supported by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contracts No.R00112030005, HR001120C0123, HR001120C0124 and FA8750-20-2-1004 and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under Contract No. FA8750-20-2-1004.

This is why AI is just a marketing term with no real future.

There isn't room for corporations to profit from it out of the gate + into the future indefinitely. No one is going to pay an AWS tax to use their models on every single API hit forever. No one is going to pay nVidia a license fee to use their image recognition tools forever. If the creators of HTML, CSS, and Javascript wanted license fees we wouldn't be using them right now either.

There are two groups of people, off the top of my head, who care about all of this:

1) The US Military, because the budget for their murder robots is theoretically infinite.

2) Google and Facebook because the budget for their spyware is theoretically infinite.

To everyone else, it's much ado about nothing.
It seems to be a kubernetes replacement that comes with Docker Desktop. But what are the steps to just build and run a simple Dockerfile? An example would have been good.
AI interpretability tools fail to predict inner misalignment
Trade war benefits nobody, but if you can gain slight advantages by manipulating currency, stealing IP, etc, you can get ahead while 'saying the right thing.'
Use Raspberry Pi as Airplay server to screen mirror on TVs, monitors, projectors
Let's look at numbers. NYC->LDN great-circle distance is 5576 km. At altitude, that is (3959+547)/3959 * 5576 = 6346 km. Idealized path is thus 547 * 2 + 6346 = 7420 km. (Actually a bit less because the path is part of a polygon, not an arc.) Non-ideal path, for satellites not directly overhead, is more like 7900 km, worst case more. Still, transit time, light through vacuum, is <28 ms.

Compare to fiber. Best ping time is 76 ms, or 38 ms one way. So, our budget margin is 10 ms. Suppose, instead of a direct downlink, packets are dumped to a nearby hub and carried via 1000 km of fiber to the destination, with various routing delays, adding 5 ms, leaving a 5 ms lead, 5000 microseconds.

In finance, we say a microsecond is an eon, a millisecond an eternity. That is because in a microsecond we can do >1k multiplications. 5 ms is time for >5M multiplications, many more than needed to evaluate a position and choose a response.

The only routing choices are which satellite to uplink to, and whether to forward or downlink each packet. Whatever choices are made don't need to be re-evaluated more than per second. Packet queuing delay can be negligible; modern switching equipment will start forwarding a packet while the rest is still arriving; this would happen when forwarding via laser link.

The latency advantage for New York/London/Frankfurt <-> Singapore/Tokyo/Hong Kong would be even more compelling.
There are a lot more poor straight people than there are rich gay people. So tiktok may have been better for most people.
Interesting, what are some of those headwinds?
Needed: A New System of Intellectual Property Rights (1997)
Show HN: Botschaft – flexible self-hosted notifications
Show HN: A price comparison site for event tickets
You can also do this with Container Tabs in Firefox.
> Moves like this just make no sense to me

It's political theatre. Federal rules mandating vaccines among employers with more than 100 employees are going into effect [1]. And the Constitutionality of vaccine mandates was settled when Kaiser Wilhelm was King of Prussia [2]. That federal law supersedes this ban.

The Governor knows that. The Texas elite know that. Texan employers know that. A vocal minority of voters for whom this has become their single issue do not know that. If this keeps them happy, it's a win-win.

[1] https://www.foley.com/en/insights/publications/2021/09/prepa...

[2] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/
I was amazed by the news at first, but seeing it again, it doesn't seem to be a direct replacement of Docker Desktop. It makes use of K3s under the hood, which is lighter than a full-blown Kubernetes, but still quite heavy. My nearly empty K3s cluster is consistently consuming ~10% CPU time on my local machine. This is not acceptable to me, so a proper replacement of Docker Desktop should be more lightweight.
Really is a work of art, as are many maps.
Become a Top Earners (and Live Your Dream Life)
Is there something I'm missing on the Docker story? Seems like they built something that everyone uses as an integral part of their workflow, and they're looking to get paid for it, which, I may be out of date here, was the entire ethos of this entire site for quite some time. Did the founder of Docker kick a bunch of puppies or something? Is there some reason I'm missing why we should be angry about being asked to pay for something that everyone uses for everything and derives a lot of value from?

(This isn't to take away from Rancher, by the way - good on 'em, I'm all for competition in developer tools)
> I would expect that "the reader" with "usual expectations" would be familiar with floating point operations

Why? Why should every single programmer be expected to be an expert in this particular obscure datatype, to the point that it's ok for it to break all the normal rules that normal datatypes follow?

> How operators work is an attribute of the types the operators work on. str defines the + operator to mean concatenation, which is entirely different from the meaning of the + operator when applied to integers

It's not "entirely different". It conforms to the normal mathematical definition of + and has the properties that a reader would expect + to have (e.g. associativity). Defining to e.g. search strings would be bad and confusing.
Links to articles
https://distill.pub/2020/understanding-rl-vision/
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.14111.pdf
Google's social graph decayed a little more quickly than they'd hoped...
Restricted airspace, and airspace where GPS is disrupted, are different things. GPS disruptions can be vast. Unless you're flying around the Mojave, restricted airspace tends to be small and with ceilings that make it no factor for transport category aircraft. ATC should not direct planes into restricted airspace.
You may be interested in this analysis: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
That sound legit gives my body shivers.
>That is a huge win for them and makes the Chinese mainland threat to assimilate Taiwan less? More fab capacity is a win.

No the opposite, TW is giving up their silicon shield due to pressure from various blocs. The chief global interest in defending TW evaporates and PRC calculus for reunification increases when enough critical semi productions moves off island. DPP / TW has been balancing a tight rope of placating demands for TSMC fabs outside of east asia and trying to trade it for some geopolitical wins. But really TSMC and TW has no choice, EU/US/JP all have sticks like tech sanctions of supply chains TSMC relies on, the carrots of subsidies and temporary positive geopolitical messaging around TW recently are consolation prizes.

I think TW hopes naively if they spread TSMC supply chain in enough countries, it would increase mutual dependancy and security. Instead, in scenario of PRC reunifying forcefully, host countries will just nationalize TSMC fabs on their soil. The entire point of TW's silicon shield is to concentrate fabs on TW to sustain uneasy detente. The more production moves off island the more opportunities for global demand to factor out TW fabs... which unlike Japan, Korea, NATO countries where new fabs are being proposed, explicitly does not have US security guarantee, i.e. TW fabs will become the most vunerable suppliers. This point is key. For PRC, having critical fabs concentrated on TW is a geopolitical gift, even if US can leverage them in peace time via sanctions, PRC can leverage them more during war time via disruption. Everyone knows this, no one will want to depend on TW fabs once suppliers on secure soil are established. TSMC / TW writing their suicide letter. I anticipate TSMC will do everything it can to delay these projects to buy more time.
Can you expand on what's fragile or what database you do trust? Do you trust your database or filesystem WAL, journaling, and/or vacuum/compaction?
Sgt. Pepper might have inspired Ron Gilbert to use it in Maniac Mansion, but we took it from Maniac Mansion for the 20th anniversary :)

I googled the phrase to make sure we quoted Maniac Mansion correctly and that’s when I realized it was probably a Beatles reference originally.
Yes. You can think of it as automated stealing. Much of the inequity could be eliminated by imposing a per-transaction tax.
Python Bytearray()
>It's unlikely the Romans fully understood the chemistry behind the concrete they created and instead relied upon centuries of trial and error to perfect their mixes.

Some of the greatest achievements were perfected by trial and error. It is a valid way to build things.
New major release of the open-source low-code platform Corteza is out
Hi! I have a Samsung and I looked around online and couldn't find any real info on this topic. I don't doubt it's quite possible, but where is your source from? It's been hard for me to confirm. A good point, though, I'll look at the open source options....
Botschaft is a unified messaging & notifications appliance. Maybe you have a long running job and you want to get a slack notification when it's done. Maybe you have dozens of these jobs. Maybe you want to send a slack notification _AND_ a discord message? Instead of proliferating your slack and discord configuration across many jobs and servers, run botschaft in your cluster and configure a "topic" to dispatch messages to multiple destinations.

It relies on a simple text-based configuration system for easy administration. JSON, Yaml, or TOML! See the examples[0].

Let me know what providers or features would make this more useful to you!

[0]https://github.com/ttymck/botschaft/tree/master/example
Thanks! Would you have an (english) book recommendation on Taiwanese economic history?
on windows, if you change the USERPROFILE variable before running the software, you can operate it from different locations. Instead of using the preset folder in your user's appdata, it can be run from any other folder with entirely different saved data.
As application running checks are from the path, you can essentially run multiple instances of the same application simultaneously (at the cost of having a complete second copy of the entire program).
It's a pain to setup and maintain though, the software is clearly not designed with this in mind. The other issue is that when calls to open child programs (like clicking links in chat), this program maintains the changed variable, so apps like firefox run in a completely different directory
"After all, docker images are about saving the resources/memory for a full VM and using Linux kernel-level compartments instead."

That's not what container images are for.

Container images give you a self-contained deployment artifact. The rest is marketing BS.
How the judge ruled that Apple is not a monopoly is beyond me.
When I worked in innovation consulting, we used to look for "workarounds" that people would do to find their unmet needs and desires. Seems like a similar concept. I'm glad he mentioned it and that you mentioned him mentioning it :-)
Perhaps it was a metric many years ago which countries thought could be kept relatively unknown before everyone had cameras, instant communication, etc?

The US seems to be happy showing off the turret rotation speed of the M1 Abrams at public demos as shown in [1], [2], [3] and [4]. There is no rotation speed listed on the Wikipedia page for this tank but elsewhere on the Internet appears to state 9 seconds for full rotation, which appears to match up with what the videos show.

I find it hard to believe there is much benefit if any in classifying turret rotation speeds, or for that matter, most other parts of a tank in 2021. The underlying technology is ancient and readily described in all manner of books and videos. The overwhelmingly important factor in tank warfare today would be whether another platform with better visibility of surrounds (UAV, satellite, etc) has communicated enemy positions to the tank crew.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKHcKEc_2Nc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLWb2AHLzw

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5XUQ2beGfM

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1mH-_h3_1Q
It would warp the mould. It doesn't lose much detail, the coating is about a half a millimetre thick.

It just won't show up with like a linen texture or something.

Body safe silicone is very thick, you'll have a very hard time getting an even coating.
Food can be stored longer by refrigeration, which requires power. Similarly water can be desalinated, which again requires power. Solar & batteries can help with both of these.
> A vocal minority of voters for whom this has become their single issue do not know that

I'm sure this won't foster distrust in the system, as people try to argue why they can't be fired for not being vaccinated as they are actively walked out.

Less sarcastically, undermining people's faith in the system and their ability to keep up with what's legal, what's not, and who's actually making the rules seems likely to dig America deeper into the divide that's been happening for many years now.
Zip bombed Youtube. Nice.
I have shipped many app updates and undergone review thousands of times. Will skip Apple's store gladly.
I had seen China and talked to Chinese. The range of policy opinions my counterparts could express, and topics they could engage in, seemed to be extremely limited due to what I could only assume was the state of being misinformed (including by omission) by—and fearing retribution from—their own government. The very same factors would, obviously, be limiting their political agency.

Do you have a real choice in how to personally treat CCP and Taiwan? As in, do you feel like you can talk about, say, respecting the preference of Taiwan citizens about them being/not being part of China, or about that mysterious May 35th incident, with, say, a taxi driver?

Could it be that the population overwhelmingly supports invading Taiwan because this is literally the only appropriate course of action instilled in them by a government in full control of both traditional and social media?
What I don't understand is how this is supposed to work when the point of using the more precise GPS-based ADS-B positional reporting is for controllers to be able to pack airplanes closer together. If they do this, there will literally not be space in the sky to spread out existing air traffic to radar-based separation requirements.
The leading image in that article is somewhat terrifying... My eyes did not enjoy seeing that first thing in the morning!
My god, you're right. Unless he's wearing a women's shirt.
We've lost wisdom from ~200 years ago, never mind 2,000 years ago.

If you look around architectural preservation forums and publications you'll find lots of examples of people trying to preserve historic buildings and doing more harm than good by using modern materials. We forget why things rot, we forget why certain paint formulations are better than others, we forget why certain mortars are for certain bricks (that's a big one, lots of old buildings are rendered worthless by a tuck pointing job with modern concrete that breaks all of the bricks in the first couple of years), the list goes on and on.
Perhaps it's something related to aging. After a certain point in life you make peace with the idea that sooner or later everybody dies. To put covid in perspective, we can calculate the relative risk of covid death compared to risk of death from all other causes, by age group. The relative risk is under 15% for adults and under 3% for children. While this is nothing to sneeze at, it is not as apocalyptic as the click-hungry (social) media makes it to be. Yet another looming health risk, among high blood pressure, cholesterol, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer, etc.

raw data: https://data.cdc.gov/resource/3apk-4u4f.csv