skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could very well be a calculated decision. It's well known in financial management how product lines develop in general and how you manage their lifecycle profitably; most product lines aren't forever, some of your products will be at a investment stage (expenses with a calculation of future profit extraction), for many there's a growth stage where you reinvest profits to gain revenue, there's a stable running stage where you get some sustainable margins, and there's often an extraction/"milking" stage with intentional unsustainably high margins - one well-known way to shut down a product is to milk it until death while starving it of any resources. In quite a few (though not nearly all) cases that is the most profitable way of closing down a product line for which you don't think a long-term future is profitable; you cut expenses so that you extract at least some profits out of the inertia as opposed to running at near-zero profits until it eventually dies anyway.

It would certainly be incompetent to just keep investing in all declining product lines; it's a valid business strategy to buy (or build) a product with no long-term future and extract as much as you can before it collapses - the point of the business is not to sustain/operate products as long as possible, but to extract as much profit as possible from those products. Extra investment in a declining product might make the product last, say, two years longer - but will those last two years be profitable enough (as opposed to just self-sustaining) to repay that investment? Business always has to take care to not fall for the sunk cost fallacy.
I will never ever create a LinkedIn account, the hard sell techniques, spam to my inbox and aggressiveness is so off-putting that I would rather eat my own barf. This whole company and its power users reeks to me from outside like a scene from Glengarry Glen Ross: a bunch of hustlers trying to fake-it-till-they-make-it, appear super-important and trump up their bogus businessperson profiles and pretend connections.
Where in N. Dakota? I can see that being so for east of Missouri River to the border with Minnesota, but towards the border with Montana the state is decidedly Western in culture and climate.
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The GP asked for movies about winning the WWII, not winning in the WWII. Enemy at the Gates was just a sniper duel movie (a good one, though).
Not a nuke tech but knowing output/efficiency of the powerplant could tell you max speed of these subs which is probably highly classified
Do you feel that way about the wiki, too?
Did programming language projects utilize IRC channels in the past?
This looks super cool!

What are the expected ink savings for black and white text documents?

Is the quality loss for photo prints significant?

What are your plans? :)
It's on my list of things to do, but I'm about 3 hobby projects behind documenting at the moment. :-)

The most interesting bit is probably the gearbox, since it's an 8:1 stage then a 10:1 planetary stage. It's all printed PLA, stainless steel bolts, and bearings from amazon. There's two motors (to make it look cool, since one motor with the 80:1 reduction is probably already excessive), and a 1024 count encoder on the sun gear, giving 40960 counts per wheel revolution. It's all designed around the mounting holes of the steering wheel I used, too, so it's very pretty.

The electronics are "boring" in that I used an Arduino Leonardo, a quadrature decoder IC, and a 13A rated H-bridge. The trickiest bit was adding a "braking resistor" to keep the power supply voltage from shooting up when applying deceleration torque.

Here's my fork of the Arduino library:
https://github.com/sgtnoodle/ArduinoJoystickWithFFBLibrary

Here's my Arduino sketch containing my project specific code, including the motor control and stuff:
http://sgtnoodle.com/files/steering_wheel.ino
Because they are in a hospital with other issues?

Testing patients is reasonable. If they are counted in the statistic, it can easily be misleading. Not sure if that's the case.
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It is indeed raping the whole free world. It indulges inflicting this humiliation, and seeing the whole world seeing the West being so powerless about it.
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Print books are suffering from a shortage and this will continue into 2022
Worker co-ops don't eliminate executive roles, though. They just make it so that executives serve at the pleasure of the members (and are usually elected in some form). Mondragon has a President, who was formerly a Vice President and Managing Director. REI, a US-based co-op, has a more complicated story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_Equipment,_Inc.#G...

They still have hierarchy and pay still scales with position in that hierarchy. The ratio of CEO pay to worker pay is generally more equitable, but it is still a ratio. I have no idea what the work-life balance is like, but running a co-op (or a nonprofit, for that matter) still sounds like a stressful job to me.
I still have my UV EPROM eraser from those days. My friend used an old chip of mine with the brass frame around the quartz window as a base for jewelry design. They do look cool on their own!
Norm was pretty big into literature, especially the Russians. I wouldn't be surprised if he had aspirations to be a writer and the style of this piece is for aesthetic and not humorous purposes.
Pump up the charge: Getting -5V from a 5V power supply
In BC, secretly engaging in tracking would be both illegal and contrary to public policy. The system was reviewed by https://www.oipc.bc.ca/ as part of the rollout, and it's privacy-preserving properties were an essential part of the system being deemed acceptable.

There are multiple independent open source implementations of the SMART Health Card QR standard. It's really just some JSON + compression/encoding/digital signature.

The approach I have described is being used across Canada, and based on what has been indicated so far, this is in fact the intended direction of the federal government.

Vaccine passport checks are not conducted by government officials. They are conducted by the private businesses where the checks take place.

iOS 15 includes "app privacy report" functionality, and if the government were secretly submitting a different version to the app store than they claim they are (with secret reporting of scan data back to the mothership included in the app store builds), they would be trivially caught by anybody using this feature. It would show up in the network traffic logs that are available for anybody to inspect.

Mobile applications are also not that difficult to decompile to identify hidden functionality.

We can both be pretty sure that no tracking is taking place, and that it would be unrealistic for this system to be used for tracking purposes without that becoming a matter of public knowledge rather quickly.
I thought the funny bit was that we’ve all done something like that before…
Yes, some were shown to be incorrect and some he missed

It's a small sample but it's worse than you make it sound, I think. He came up with four new numbers, given what was known at the time. Half were wrong and he missed three. Whatever method he'd come up with, it was pretty badly mistaken. It's curious, historically, but almost certainly mathematically uninteresting.
Uhm wasn't this code part of a script to gather training data for AI? If so it would be run offline and not as part of the actual site. I think it's perfectly reasonable for a one-off script to be a bit hacky.
I've spent an inordinate amount of my life chasing that high, not by leaking information but by trying to be the guy who finally remade the game everyone liked.
What a mental gymnastics indeed. I could've never figured out such a contrived line of thought.
There should not be a difference here. If person who earned 10+ digits produced 10+ digits worth wealth, how can you justify taking it from him? Lets take Elon Musk - did he not earn his 10+ digits? Would you rather live in the world without electric cars and affordable space travel? And now that he already delivered something that greatly benefits everybody you want to steal what he rightfully earned. Why is it that you think you even deserve equality - I know what Musk did for humanity, what was your contribution again?
The way it's managed in JS, digging the function out of the prototype to apply it, can be done in Python as well. But unlike JS you won't normally have to, thanks to the method not being defined only on one specific type of iterable.

JS:

Array.prototype.join.call(["one", "two", "three"], "|")

Python:

str.join("|", ["one", "two", "three"])
And administrators have taken over universities
> Why does no one ask, "can someone explain what's important about working for a FAANG company, what do they produce that's of any importance.

No, no, we ask that all the time. :P
In my experience using beeswax in contact with platinum cure silicons will cause the silicone not to set properly. For the record the molds were for a different purpose.
No OP, but I used C and asm. Hi-Tech c compiler. I had no issues with it. Very simple and straightforward to code the PIC chips. I forget how much I paid for it.
I am a coder so my weapon of choice is comments.

There must be some area where you could have done it this way or could have done it that way or something you are not sure about.

Make the specific request in the pull request that they review a comment (about a subject where an opinion is wanted)
"back in the day you would be tainted if you had read any of this material"

For most jobs, if you've worked in the industry for 20 years, you have seen 'secret sause' of several companies. They often look remarcably similar. Indeed thats kind of the value of an experienced hire?
Why do that for general customer support instead of hiring in different time zones?
It begs the inclusion of "How much time do you spend online? And how much do you value the opinions of online communities?" as security clearance questions. Are they, now?

Historically, they'd be very interested in what you'd say to your friends, family, etc. But the allure of internet fame would seem to have a more pursuasive effect.
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Great way to get PM's from girls :)
Unless it is an outdoor concert? Or a sports game? Or are we ok with those nowadays?
Reminds me of the Google SRE who got literally frog-marched out of the Kirkland office for reading the messages of a female acquaintance. He got busted, because creep that he was, he tried to impress her by revealing that he did. And the Internet never forgets[1]. Persons, especially young persons, really need to be cautioned about the stupidity and consequences of this kind of behavior.

[1] https://www.ecampusnews.com/2010/09/15/google-engineer-fired...
From your second link:

> requested that the names and exact locations of active AT&T network facilities not be published.

Three minutes on Google Maps is all the effort it takes...
I think that technically Firefox does, but it’s not easy to run your own account and sync server.
Flask: A mini-flex/lex in Tcl
Perhaps they don't know how to take care of them. I have a mower that's 30 years old and another that's over 10. They are not high-end models (neither exist today to check prices). It's a shame people throw our perfectly good equipment because they can't keep it running, lawnmowers or otherwise.

If your argument is that a decent mower can go 20 years, then that excludes battery powered ones. You'll need to replace the batteries.
Found a recruiting video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K1F6r6iDEw
Good old C. I am moderately sure it was the MPLAB software, I remember we had several of their ICD JTAG units (the round ones). But it might have been Hitech.
I don’t think he could go up to one of her banks that holds a checking account of hers and demand they give him money out of her checking account, even if she previously paid him from that checking account. (Absent a court order.)

IANAL, but it seems like, assuming she’s a CA resident, that he has to get a judgment against her (a civil judgment would be enough) that she is in arrears. If SD then tells him and the CA court to pound sand, it’s then a federal matter.

I think whether SD law prevents direct child support claims is almost a red herring here. She is on the hook (as an individual) to make the payments. She is (presumably) able to draw funds from the trust to cover her obligations. The trust (being not her) is not on the hook as a standalone entity, but it seems like in the worst case the money could be attached the moment it becomes hers (when it moves out of the trust into any account that belongs to her).

I’m guessing (and hoping) that he’s getting competent legal advice and, this probably doesn’t become a story if it was easy, but this seems like “though the wheels of justice turn slowly, they grind exceedingly fine” and the right thing will eventually happen (the kids’ dad gets the money).
I guess what triggers me is the stressors they describe as responsible for those emotions. To me they are meaningless compared to things that really should cause anxiety in a CEO: am I making payroll this month if deal X falls through? Can I land in jail if thing Y turns out to be illegal instead of a harmless hustle? If I fizzle is my professional life over?

The Hard Thing About Hard Things made the same points as the author in much more poignant ways to me, when I read it. No current or future CEO should stress about volume of email or thoughts of another career as a bartender in a tropical island - stress about real problems instead.
That happened with Andy Kaufman, too — long after he had passed, many people maintained that the cancer was a long-con put-on and he was in fact still alive.
Seems like a better idea would be to make a separate flag "--remove-assertions" for people who desire that.
Doesn't tadalafil affect your sleep? Also, it doesn't feel nice if you take it and seat in front of the computer for four hours doing focus stuff.
GNOME is even documented in the manuals nowadays (https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#chap-gnome). Unfortunately, Google does not really like single-page documentation.
Beautifully crafted production code exists but the necessary conditions are almost never consistently available -- it requires a lot of time and energy to fight code entropy. Even most people that write software don't care that much; like the business, anything that meets the acceptance criteria is usually considered "good enough". And most professional, production code is the accumulated cruft of that reality.

In the rare cases where you do see elegant, clean, high-quality production code, it is usually because 1) only a very small number of people are writing that code, 2) there is a strong cultural norm of rigorous code hygiene among those people, 3) they do not have prohibitive time pressure to ship, and 4) the requirement to maintain backward compatibility across versions of the code is weak. In practice, these conditions are very rare. I've mostly seen it in what is essentially hobby code, where the craft was a large part of the objective (and hobby code that becomes production code tends to quickly take on the characteristics of other production code).

There simply aren't enough people that care about code quality for its own sake, and the economics of maintaining very high-quality code rarely makes sense in practice.
> Sure, but I never seen that myself.

Right, your post is mostly "I like the thing that I've used, and I do not like the thing I haven't used". They're apples and different apples.

> Again, all places I worked had enterprise support and even rep assigned

So, again, you've worked at places that were deeply invested in CF workflows.

> but since they introduced YAML it is actually better than HCL. One great thing about YAML is that it can be easily generated programmatically without using templates.

Respectfully, this is the first-ever "yaml is good" post I think I've ever seen.

> Over nearly 10 years of my experience, I never seen that to be a case. I'm currently in a place that has an interesting approach: you're responsible for deployment of your app, so you can use whatever you want, but you're responsible for it.

I'd love to hear more about this.

> And IMO I see a lot of resources that are not being cleaned up (because there's no page like CF has, people often forget to deprovision stuff), also seeing bugs like for example TF needs to be run twice (I think last time I've seen it fail was that it was trying to set tags on a resource that wasn't fully created yet).

I guess we're just ignoring CF's rollback failures/delete failures/undeletable resources that require support tickets then?

> There is also situation that CF is just plain better. I mentioned in another comment how I managed to get datadog integration through a single CF file deployed through stackset (this basically ensured that any new account is properly configured). If I would end up using TF for this, I would likely have to write some kind of service that would listen for events from the control tower, whenever a new account was added to OU, then run terraform to configure resources on our side and make API call to DD to configure it to use them.

Again respectfully, yes, the person that both doesn't like and hasn't invested time into using Terraform at scale probably isn't going to find good solutions for complicated problems with it.
>To call this a "US invasion" is absurd

A US invasion to prop up the Rhee government that massacred leftists is the only reason there isn't a unified Korea under North Korean rule. You can argue that's a good thing, but trying to claim the US did not invade is absurd.

And on the fascist bogeyman parts, any improvement in those areas happened in South Korea and Taiwan rather recently, in the past thirty years or so.
My company is looking for someone to build a linux system for a specialized tablet PC, with, among other things, a custom kernel and OTA updates.

If you built a linux system from scratch, this will put you in a very good position to get the job.
Nothing special. They sell a kit that includes a bluetooth keyboard and a case and stuff, but there's nothing particular about it, besides branding.
> It was under martial law for 40 years. The nicest thing I hear people say about Taiwan is that it's

The nicest thing I can say about Taiwan an White Terror is that it gave us this horror game called Detention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_(video_game)

Now it's even made it into a movie https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/detention-movie-review-20...
Something I heard was that there is no point trying to avoid mentioning the dead person out of year of reminding them - because they are thinking about them all the time anyway. So by mentioning them at least you are making that a shared experience which is much less lonely.
The OP is right, if half the army has it in a manual, then this info is not a secret for anyone relevant.

For all intents and purposes the AK is the opensource weapon. Hard to see how open source weapons would benegit rich countries, they already have the designs.
I’ve known a few people like this and I always got the feeling that it was a defense mechanism and they were deeply afraid of people finding out who they really are as a person.
> his moth joke [0] and the professor of logic joke [1]

You may already know this, but those are his versions of old street jokes. Comedians often fill time with short street jokes that have been told for decades (often to connect between longer bits), but Norm is one of the few who decided he would stretch one to fill an entire interview.

He also filled an entire Comedy Central Roast appearance with mundane jokes that he took from one of those silly "101 Jokes" books. Many of the jokes were so out of date they made puns on tech that is no longer used (like some joke that depended on the audience understanding that "Underwood" was a popular typewriter company back in the day.)

Somewhat related-- there's a video somewhere of Andy Kaufman essentially throwing an entire Saturday Night Live audition. He does a nervous recitation of a long, shitty monologue based on lyrics from a crappy 70s pop song, repeats it twice (making exactly the same mistakes each time), then recites the opening to the old Superman tv show in a purposely bad southern accent. Norm obviously did his pranks in an attempt to entertain an audience, but I cannot figure out what Kaufman's motive was in his audition. In any case, I found it hilarious and Norm was obviously greatly influenced by a lot of Kaufman's stuff.
I've definitely been in that position before (though the stakes were much lower) and spilled the beans to my personal audience. It was so very exciting! Then I regretted it. Not because I was caught or suffered any consequences, but because I felt childish and attention seeking. The allure is gone for me now. I wonder if others come to the same conclusion?
BBC version of the story says $100,000. Not sure which is right but $100k sounds more plausible.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58863678
I've also found very similar issues with extremely "data driven" organizations that live and die by A/B test performance. It's not that there is anything fundamentally wrong with the science behind A/B testing, it's just that individuals are incentivized to run tests on things that are easily measured. Things where results will take a long time to show, or things that may be initially disruptive but then beneficial, are discounted.

I see this theme in many, many areas: business, sports, politics, academia, etc. When we have tons of data and a desire to make things as "objective" as possible, it's easy to get stuck in homogeneous "local maxima" because we just grade by the things that are easiest to measure.
Thank you!

Yeah, I also feel like it's important. Too much time is wasted on X-lang wrappers for Y-lang libraries.
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They missed an opportunity to equip them with radar guns to enforce speed limits. Now that will cause a lot of unease.
It's not a silly point to make when you realize that Hollywood is not a government agency. It is a reasonable question to ask how this coordination is possible when there are no legal restraints on failing to coordinate.
> Map,reduce,filter,etc. could simply be added to the iterable base class

Surprisingly, Python doesn't have an iterable base class! `list.__bases__` is just `object`.
About Windows/Linux I believe you. Nevertheless, there are only a few people on the IRC/Matrix and they have not written anything there (although I have written).

About NNTP, there is the RFC documents relating to it, and some NNTP servers. Some are Usenet, although the NNTP server for my project is specific to that project. You can use any NNTP client software to access it (or just operate the protocol directly); some email software can also use NNTP.
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usb-c to lightning adapters are against the spec. I've still tried cheapest one off fleabay and it didn't work at all.
I've heard this explained as:

chronos: what time is it?

kairos: what is this time for?
End state-mandated public schooling. Let kids compete with adults for jobs.