skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987) had a 'boss coming' key. It showed a spreadsheet bar graph thing, that looked like 'work' although if you looked at the labels it had columns for different condom types like "plain", "ribbed" and a couple of others.
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> “You can’t even defend yourself if you don’t eat meat. Kazakhs are born to be warriors; that’s why they eat a lot of meat!” she says and promptly challenges me to an arm-wrestling match, which I accept but quickly admit defeat.
That is a reality:

https://cesium.com/platform/cesium-for-unreal/
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28827357
Would love a swagger api importer!
>However I’ve noticed over the past decade or so that that cyclists are becoming increasingly aggressive - disregarding the rules they must follow: cutting through traffic, ignoring lights and not yielding to pedestrians at pedestrian crossings.

You might just be seeing more of them. The research says cyclists tend to obey the rules of the road more than car drivers:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists...

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/03/study-cyclists-dont-b...

>More than once has a cyclist confronted me, one even smacked my vehicle with his backpack, because I blew the horn when they jumped off the curb and directly into traffic.

Yeah, I had someone give me some grief because I didn't put my hand out when stopping last week. He told me that next time he will run me over and it will be my fault.
Another benefit of just keeping cameras off is that it reduces the impact of lookism, which is exacerbated by camera distortion and unfavorable lighting.

Of course, this puts stronger emphasis on audible cues. You may not realize it, but people can hear you smile. This is a bit anecdotal: People on the ASD spectrum may perform better on just auditory stimuli versus audio-visual integration.

There's certainly a trade-off here, some people may strongly prefer having cameras on or off, but I feel that keeping cameras on is mostly just a default that is followed. Turning cameras off should at least be attempted.
Couldn't find my original source, but here's another:

> The second shot has powerful beneficial effects that far exceed those of the first shot,” Pulendran said. “It stimulated [...], a terrific T-cell response that was absent after the first shot alone, and a strikingly enhanced innate immune response.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/07/immune-system...
I asked this question during the recent Linux kernel plumbers conference: "How often in practice do the kernel A{B,P}Is fro device drivers change ?". I got a very mixed response.

My take away was that while 'new' driver classes/subsystems do involve more churn in the core kernel support subsystems, there is a clear trend towards convergence in terms of significant change.

If the change truly was significant and continuous then that would impede productisation with the Rust kernel. I'm not saying that the A{B,P}Is are in any way stable but I personally don't think that keeping up will be an intractable problem.

In the spirit of Kerla's authors prime motive - which appears to be hacking for knowledge - this might be something to try, perhaps with a driver class that is known to be more stable.
My previous job just had the sports playing on the displays around the office. If you couldn’t see one from your desk, IT would wheel over a portable meeting TV with sport on it for you. If it was a notable event, and you didn’t even want to pretend you were working, there’d be a stream in one of the auditoriums with audio.

They had to pay a pretty hefty license for the whole headcount of the office, and they whole thing started because one team leader wanted to watch EPL. It was a pretty great place to work tbh.
It's a bit like how everyone refers to the "Panama Papers" or the "Pandora Papers" - the laptop contained a trove of information on damning activities, any one of which would have been newsworthy in its own right and relevant to the public's judgement of a presidential candidate.
It's a nice toy, but the problems of personal aerial vehicles were not about electric motors vs ICE:

- Massive amount of sound pollution, current crop won't be allowed near cities in significant numbers; that's why the presentation videos are always silent.

- Exceptionally energy inefficient and limited speed, due to the way lift is achieved; it makes zero sense to spend 10 times the energy to travel at speeds comparable with what can achieved on the ground with the right infrastructure.

- Very limited safety guarantees, can't be safely used by an untrained pilot, typically can't be flow at all over populated areas etc.

Maybe they could reach for a market that can tolerate these drawbacks, ex. air ambulances, and build on that.
Ah, if it's that kind of 1-1, screen sharing definitely helps.

My 1-1's are almost always to discuss or troubleshooting something, so not much "downtime" at all. When troubleshooting, screen sharing is almost always used, otherwise I probably don't need the other person at all.
Much more complicated in fact. Your car measures constantly the air flow, the temperature of this air, the altitude over the sea level, the velocity of the car, the position in real time of the accelerator and clutch pedals, etc... and then the computer takes all and sends an order to inject in the motor exactly the amount of combustible required for this parameters. Then manages the opening or closing of the valves to allow the gasses go out and those are reintroduced in the motor to be burnt twice. The remain is send then to the anti particles filter and the good parts are allowed to go out, while the problematic ones are sealed in a box.
I immediately got a GPT3 vibe.
There has actually been a few crashes in the core TCP/IP stack of both Linux and Windows in the last 5 years, though I'm not sure any of them were due to memory safety (most were logic bugs as far as I can tell). That said, rust's approach to error handling could help avoid crashes here as well.

However, we have seen *many* memory-safety crashes in the drivers to talk to network interfaces. Those really are full of security vulnerabilities. The most prominent recent one was broadcom's wifi driver having heap buffer overflows allowing remote code execution by anyone within wifi range in 2019[0].

[0]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/broadcom-wifi...
An interesting takeaway:

> All this could have a big impact on garages’ revenues. McKinsey, a consultancy, thinks evs may reduce spending on spare parts at American dealerships by as much as 40%. With no oil to change or spark plugs to replace, income from routine servicing will also be lower. Porsche’s Taycan, for one, is reckoned to need 30% less maintenance than if it was an ice vehicle.
Project SPHINX – When the USSR tried to change the computer (2019)
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/stdlib . The matrix factorizations for example are pretty nice reads if you know the subject https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/stdlib/Linear...
This can go the other way as well, thinking visual cues imply X when they actually imply Y. On the other hand, one can resolve most of these scenarios by asking the other party to elaborate and to keep emotionally charged arguments / personalities off the table, rather than assuming their emotional state and trying to play off of it or feeling attacked.
> meetings definitely feel more productive when at least the key participants have cameras on.

I agree with the corollary at least. If someone hasn't spoken for the last 5 minutes, they are not a key participant and can turn off their camera.

The optimal middle path is probably that people sometimes have their cameras on, and sometimes don't. This option seems to get the least amount of consideration.
I'm pretty interested in what you consider practical.
Lookism?
‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’
why can't you just build your REST API on the Express backend

Pretty sure he means to set up the REST api in Express with a few simple routes.

JS is not complex, and pretty vanilla choice. It’s what people add on top of it that gives it a bad name. I’ll link to this guy so you can understand:

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/how-i-built-a-modern-website-in-...

^ This is the problem, not JavaScript.
There was a joke, or maybe anecdote, going around the Israeli high tech industry when Google purchased Waze

When it came time to get an overview of the codebase being purchased. The Google Maps car navigation iOS team had over 200 engineers. The Waze iOS team had 2
This makes me feel better about 0 side projects earning $0 in 20 years: I've come out ahead of people who are "underwater".
We're (extremely early days into) looking to use NodeRed to provide customised configurations for a fleet of telegraf agents.

Telegraf has the ability to phone home and ask for its telegraf.conf as it starts up, but the server-side of that equation is frustratingly left as an exercise for the reader.

There's not many ways to skin that particular cat, which is odd and unsettling in its own way.
You only need one successful exploding cigar to succeed at overthrowing Castro. The burden of success in thwarting a coup attempt is always on the recipient.
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It's a cultural choice. In my team, standup takes 30 minutes because we spend the first 20 chit-chatting. It may seem like a waste of time but honestly it's a great mental kick-off for the day.
Racetrack – a pencil and paper game that teaches the basics of inertia [pdf]
It hasn't. But the attitude towards using Rust for device driver development has now gotten very positive, especially post the recent kernel summit.
I mean honestly who cares? its their time. I use rust over c/c++ these days for practical reasons.

1. the toolchain is better. (cargo ala)

2. maintenance of the software is better. (static linked binaries, easier deploys)

3. memory safety.

4. resource consumption (cpu/ram)

when I don't need 4 I use golang (most cases) because of 1, 2, and 3.

and I choose tools (all other things being equal) written in rust for the same reasons.
My favourite integer run-time error is -128/-1 (eg for int8_t) because even code that is careful to avoid division by zero will often miss this case.
Did you see that google meet now live transcribes meetings? It’s insane!
What does the president speaking to a boy named Brandon have to do with some lowbrow political chant? You're claiming all boys named Brandon are off limits now?

I'm very aware this was the same argument used to normalize white supremacist hand signals.
It's more the opposite: equal temperment is a compromise that fudges but mostly preserves the important harmonies (thirds and fifths) in all keys.
You are absolutely correct. Or for NFTs. The value is what someone is willing to pay for it. And that always changes with time. Scarcity always helps in raising prices. The supply/demand angle.
> than I did getting paid to knife fight for their scraps.

Seriously, cut the drama. Amazon fulfillment workers can say they are "getting paid to knife fight for their scraps.". There is no way that statement needs to apply to tech workers.

It sounds as if you are forgetting there is a world outside silicon valley, startups and fortune 500 companies. In most countries SMB's account for almost 50% of the economy.

> I feel so much better aligned getting paid by big tech to build cool tools for engineers

Well thats actually an honest statement; You want money, cool toys and these outweigh any moral concerns with big tech.
You don't have to claim the code if nobody knows it exists in the first place. It was not anything I ever meant to show anybody. Just small utilities for myself, meant to actually improve my productivity.
Bro, It is amazing but I would suggest you to look for another job. In my office in Bangalore, we watch on TV and screen in cafeteria leaving the work aside although some meetings have to be attended.
When it comes to the time management app, he did exactly the right thing: created a mailing list, found out there is no market, left it alone.

Generally 'just making an app' does not produce a business, and has not for the past 10 years at least.

Games are a very special business, and there is no science as to what makes a game compelling: flappy bird was created in a weekend and made millions, some million dollar projects make nothing. I think that you have to be very passionate about games and have deep understanding of gameplay to even compete.
Yes, if you don't write a native app for every platform the result will be rubbish. That's not a "good architecture decision", that is common sense. If they don't do it that way it's to save money, because as we all know Facebook is strapped for cash. (Talking about Facebook and Instagram here, because as far as I know WhatsApp is completely native on every platform)
> Post it when it's production ready.

This is Hacker News, not Enterprise IT News.
In Tulamben on the East coast of Bali you can find the opposite: the submerged wreck of a ship that's never been sunk: the USAT Liberty.

She's been torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during WWII but stayed afloat. As she was getting towed towards the nearest shipyard, she was taking on too much water and she's been beached to save her cargo and fittings as she was not deemed repairable.

21 years later, an eruption of Mount Agung produced tremors that made the ship slip off the beach, down to the ocean, where she lies now on a sand slope, turning the location into an amazing diving spot!

Nowadays, each time the volcano shakes the island a bit, the water around turns red for a couple days
The Present and Future of Engineers
Waiting for apt locks without hacky Bash scripts
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27283466/
We had cameras on maybe for the first two weeks. Now nobody turns them on for meetings and I'd say it makes meetings so much more bearable, even better than in real life meetings.
I have a condition where I can't sit still for an extended period of time. I have to move. So meetings where I couldn't just stand up and take a walk around the room or do some stretching were really really exhausting.
Now we have a new manager who said he is planning to mandate that everyone has cameras switched on, so that there is "human connection" and to help people feel more integrated.
Interestingly nobody said loud it is a stupid idea, but it's been two months since he announced that and still nobody is using cameras.
I'll hand in a notice if it eventually goes through.
Like this http://www.codereddit.com/index.html
Looking Ahead to Fedora Linux 35 – Fedora Magazine
>> For some reason, the commune context especially terrifies people.

> My guess is it's the lack of personal freedom and and lack of accountability for those who can control your life

Usually, building a free commune is precisely a practical attempt at tackling these issues and not having someone "who can control your life" but collective decision making to empower everyone to the extent possible.

Practical example: some people live a noisy lifestyle, others can't bear noise. You seem to suggest that in a free commune one individual's freedom to make noise would outweigh others' expectations of calm, or the opposite. In practice, a commune would gather feedback from its members and propose to rearrange the disposition of housing so that everyone is happy and comfortable.

Liberal society rests upon the idea that one's individual freedom competes (and stops) with another one's. Anarchist society considers that freedom is not a scarce resource, and one's freedom is complemented by another's. If we take time to study issues as a collective, we can find better solutions for everyone involved.

Collective intelligence is a thing. For example the french government started a "citizens council on ecology" (or whatever would be the translation) where ordinary people spent time with researchers to come up with solutions. And they've come up with a platform for ecology more advanced than even the Green party would dream of. Of course, the government then flushed all those good ideas down the toilet because they're just puppets of the industrial capitalists.
I think you'll find that most people lock their bikes but the locks are fairly discreet and built into the frame. Something like this:

https://bikeshed.johnhoogstrate.nl/bicycle/security/axa_defe...
Reasons Not to Provide Parity Pricing (By Yourself)
Our society is troubled. Beware those who blame it all on big tech
The new UI editor is a better experience than yaml, but still has limitations that make node-red valuable for more complex automations. In particular juggling timers, state, and Boolean conditions with HA automations can be kind of awkward as they require you to coordinate across multiple automations, but very easy in node-red.

All in all I use both. I use the native ones for simpler automations (exterior lights on at dusk, blinds up at sunrise, etc.j and node red for the complex stuff (bathroom fan on for 5 minutes unless if the door is closed or the humidity is above 65%, turn off two minutes after the door is opened and the humidity is below 60%j.
No, it exists because people depend on different use cases.

There’s no such thing as a one size fits all. To suggest there is only demonstrates how little exposure you’ve have to the wider field of computing.
There's an (apocryphal?) Nabokov quotation: I write for love, but I publish for money.
Schedule a job in Python Flask App with 3 lines of code
I too find it tiring, but I too like having my camera on sometimes.

I had meetings were I wished we had camera on because nobody was paying attention and I know that things would have been different with cameras or IRL.

For the most part I don’t enable my camera, unless I’m going to speak in which case i turn it on once for the duration of my speech
Am I the only one who thinks the input data is feeding the generative art engine of someone's generator for an upcoming NFT collection?
Absolutely. A relatively small, highly efficient team that invests in their knowledge, skill and processes is the cause of correct technology choices and not the other way around.
Thanks for your excellent contribution to this discussion. As the post author I wholly agree with your approach: if a solution hits the sweet spot for you in the context of your requirements that's the one you choose. Thank you for considering TimescaleDB alongside ClickHouse in what was obviously a well thought through assessment of these two excellent technologies.
Atmospheric river storms can drive costly flooding
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EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Give this a whirl:

int Div(int a, int b) { return a / b; }
int (*pDiv)(int, int) = Div;
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
printf("%d\n", pDiv(INT_MIN, -1));
return 0;
}
Do you feel the same way in front of a camera pointing to your face as you do on a normal day-to-day interaction with non-verbal cues, room to use body language to express yourself, etc.?

It's not about the visibility, it's the psychological impact it has, having a camera pointed directly at my face 100% of the time is very different than sitting in a room, reading others' faces, attention (where are they focusing their gaze? When are they drifting off? When are they tapping their fingers on the table?).

I don't know why I hear this argument so many times, a camera on my face is a very different experience than sharing a room with others, I don't see the parallel.
> If anything, the laws need to go further and keep the consent, but ban/enforce against dark patterns.

Many of the dark patterns used today are already illegal.
Noyb actively reaches out to the owners of those sites and threatens (and probably will) sue them if they don't fix it.
The only way to equalize the playing field between someone with access to capital and someone without access to capital is to redistribute it from those with the capital to those without.

Any other solution will just result in inflation or some other problem. If the root cause is not addresses, then the problem will persist (as reality shows).
Sounds like a bad idea. While stealthier in your case, writing code with a light color theme is heresy. :)
"Personally I want to build systems. I don't want to spend my day debugging all kinds of weird problems."

Don't we all, I guess we all crave that snap, click, build -feeling Lego gave us. But in my experience building a system means debugging all kinds of weird problems. At least, when I start something, I usually for a long time feel like I'm just hopping from weird problem to weird problem. But, TBH, those problems don't seem weird anymore as experience grows.
If there was really “free money” in installing solar panels everyone would be doing it already.
We only use it for introductions and when someone has something to show, e.g. their pet.

Unfortunately a new manager insists that everyone should have cameras switched on for "human connection" and so that people feel more integrated.
Don't Fall for the Mirage of Local Startup Success
I assume you mean (0.5m)³, which is 0.125m³.
The pollution from horses, mules and goats is pretty gross though.
Erlang was picked for a particular reason. WhatsApp uses a prebuilt open-source chat solution, an XMPP server written in Erlang, ejabberd. This thing was first released in 2003 (old). Already a smart move to get started.

I’m pretty sure they hired Erlang developers to dig into ejabberd internals and optimize certain things. They didn’t just decide to become an Erlang shop out of the blue.

It wasn’t Erlang that was the initial right choice, it was using xmpp and ejabberd that was the root reason. Erlang just happened to be a consequence of that.

https://www.ejabberd.im/

I will contest your attribution of ‘smart’ with Erlang. These types of correlations are generally bias fitting. It justifies ‘smart’ being correlated with any and all niche languages, eg ‘so and so likes Haskell, so they must be smart’. No good.

It’s better to attribute ‘smart’ with the pragmatic decision they made to simply use a pre-existing chat server solution that already has the capability to scale. Harder to assess this as smart since there’s no ‘signaling’ here, you have to objectively assess if it was the right tech (which it seems like it was). Way less vanity in this assessment as opposed to what I already pointed out, how your Haskell or Rust devs must be particularly smarter, as opposed to say PHP or JavaScript devs who are considered dumber. I don’t buy it, I need to see more than just your affiliations.

So, I reject your initial post contending ‘The technology stack isn't even that relevant.’ It was precisely the tech decisions that mattered, and the right people to make such decisions. Chicken and egg scenario, I’ll concede that.

In any case, one does not simply pick a old chat server written in Erlang out of the blue - this decision was critical. How many over-funded tech teams would try to do this from scratch in Go? Plenty, and that whole team would easily be full of ‘smart’ people.
That’s called generative recognition, and it’s the best way to do it (probably can be formally proved under some noise model assumptions) if you have a good model of the data and enough computational resources.
Right. Most of our troubles can be laid at the feet of long established media giants. They've been fucking up the world for decades or centuries, as oppesed to the "come lately" big tech wannabes.
Growing a Gilded Rose
Actually I'm really happy to know that if my neighbors really start to mess with my night rest or air quality, they can be punished via the justice system. We live pretty close together here.
Indeed, I used to work on a trading floor where they'd show cricket on the wide screens. The game is so slow it kinda lends itself to that. You can concentrate, then turn your head when there's a wicket.