skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think those are very real concerns. If you have roaming gangs kidnapping car owners you have other problems to deal with. But either way, it seems like the naysayers here for some reason just don't want self-driving cars to happen, and are finding any and all excuses for why they will never work. I'm saying that if there's a will there's a way. We've made way larger sacrifices for other modes of transportation in the past. I'm guessing these are the same people that would have claimed that cars are impossible because nobody would want to build tens of thousands of gas stations to accommodate cars etc. Compared to the changes we've made for cars, even designing our entire cities around them, the changes needed for self driving are minuscule. The benefits are maybe not the same but it's certainly the biggest revolution in transport since the airplane.
I was at Lambda when they announced the switch from 9 to 6 months and the elimination of paid team leaders. The feedback was universally negative. In a channel for open student discussion, Austen Allred deleted a poll from Slack because of how lopsided the reaction was. He explained the deletion by saying the poll was "misleading."

Students then got a survey "explaining" why the change was actually a good thing by asking questions such as "Do you understand why companies value mentoring experience?" Not just failing to reveal the truth (these were cost-cutting measures), but not even taking the effort to come up with a convincing lie.

It was destabilizing: Austen's twitter account would read ambitious, hyperoptimistic; meanwhile, drastic changes would be made within the program with vague rationales ("after speaking with hiring managers, we've made these changes..."), and probing further simply got deflections or gaslighting surveys.

There were a ton of good people in the program, and I learned a lot there. But fundamentally there needs to be trust between institution and student when you're asking people to make this level of time and financial commitment. And at no point did I feel like Lambda at its top level prioritized student wellbeing over PR, costs, or metrics to be sold to investors.
Sorry, brain fart on Tolstoy/Dostoevsky. Though yes War and Peace I really enjoyed as well. I don't fully agree with him on his absolute takedown of the 'great man theory' in W&P, but it's an incredible story.
It's a company. They are going to do what they feel they need to do to make money. The idea that Microsoft could be some kind of open source oasis is an obvious fiction. Developers who hitch their wagon want to believe that type of thing. But it's just not realistic.
I absolutely hate maintenance, so I love people like you. That is why its great to have a small but diverse team.
I’m not concerned about the keys being compromised, I’m concerned about loosing them, since the idea is they’re unneeded for many years and then suddenly become essential.
For short, quick-turnaround documents that get exchanged and redlined by multiple non-technical types (e.g., contracts): Microsoft Word, because it's the global standard and the network effect is in full force.

For books and similar long docs: Definitely LaTeX (preferably with Emacs org-mode), because Word has a way of f[oul]ing up automatic cross-references even in short documents; pandoc can then turn the LaTeX into whatever other format you want.
This is such an abstract, storybook way of talking about fear. There's just no point to talking about processing fear without talking about causes and relations between things. The article attempted to legitimate itself by excluding "trauma" from the definition but it's still more porous than that.

Things like White Flight don't happen because people failed to let fear "pass over and through them", they're social praxis.

The celebration of FOMO in amorous relationships (at least in milieus I've been party to) is bordering on celebrated to disastrous societal effects, again, social praxis.

Many of the fears people deal with aren't of the class of fears that "fear of skydiving" or "fear of bees" belongs to.

This pseudo-existentialist take hand waives the complexity of the problem. Fear is often cultivated in our social milieus in ways which can avoid critical introspection. And saying the "hard stuff" is "trauma" makes the solution easier to describe when in reality everything classed as "trauma" is a gradient that overlaps with whatever it is this litany deems to address.

Better than telling me how little risk-averse you are, how fearless you are (since our society has overcorrected and its popular to stamp yourself as 'fearless' in some way), I'd be more convinced if someone told me what the substance of their commitment to some value or goal was that carries them over and against fearful outcomes. These are the people that historically have truly been fearless. But abstract fearlessness as it abounds in society today is opaque and uncritical in its value. We have enough examples of subcultures that revolve around this abstract brand of fearlessness and yet you find these milieus bound by all sorts of unwritten social rules they dare not break.
I think because Americans believe they have to drive, that they have accepted the high risks present. Clearly automated driving would lead to less risk and lower deaths, but in this case it's the human error that is forgiven over one done by a computer.
> The only pending legal charges and accusations are, at worst, the illegal parading.

That's false. For one example (Zachary Jordan Alam), the charges are:

Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon; Civil Disorder and Aiding and Abetting; Destruction of Government Property Exceeding $1,000; Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and Aiding and Abetting; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Building; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in Capitol

There are lots more like that: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases
Hackernews is an interesting example, as it is HEAVILY moderated, and some would say that this leads to a much higher level of commenting quality.
Ah, I actually hadn't heard that update. My bad.

Although technically Rosanne Boyland died of non-natural causes too.
Joseph Nacchio, the CEO of Qwest, was jailed for not complying with the illegal requests of the surveillance state:

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-...

https://www.denverpost.com/2014/03/27/former-qwest-ceo-nacch...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

And let's not forget the number of people put the jail without the government disclosing the use of stingrays to the defense attorneys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_use_in_United_States_...

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/31/protests-surveillance-st...
That's seriously a lie. There are a number of people charged (and some convicted after guilty pleas) of felonies such as assaulting police officers.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26484080 (March 2021)

See also https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/
TSLA Crosses $1k/Share (again)
IPS vs TN?

There are many, many differences between display techs. Higher / lower contrast, brightness,
‘Refresh rate’ - where these can be controlled at higher granularity than the whole display at once these days. Colour response, blue light and it’s presence / absence.

There is also simply screen size. Large screens (‘external’ monitors) are much more commonplace. Having more screen real-estate in field of view could be a factor.

How close we sit to screens. That many people also look at phone screens for the time they aren’t looking at a ‘computer’ screen. Maybe just total screen viewing time is important.

Perhaps it’s possible to eliminate many of these factors? Go back to 2013 screen size, amount of phone screen use, TV screen size, etc.

It might be easier to just go cold turkey and stop using anything but one small 2013 era monitor with a TN screen (no mobile, no TV, no tablet etc.) and see if all is well, then start re-introducing.
That's a false choice and a misframing. The problem is we are boosting production of dirty fuels to meet energy demand recovery.
Correction: there was an officer-involved explosion when security forces investigated a suspected terrorist's kitchen / chemistry lab.
I like the formulation with Gibbard’s 1978 theorem about “straightforward” games.

It gives necessary (but not sufficient) conditions for the best play in a mechanism to only depend on each player’s own preferences over the potential outcomes, where knowing how others will likely make moves is of no benefit.
>strong language to call something whose worst legal offense is illegal parading

There's a searchable table of charges as of October 19th, here: https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-ar...

It includes a few felonies, as well as misdemeanor assault charges, misdemeanor theft, etc. Use the search box and search for "felony", "weapon", "theft", "assault", "injury" and so on.

The worst offense charged thus far is not illegal parading. It may the worst already fully pleaded out, because, well, people tend to plead out early for charges that sound like that.

They hold on longer for more serious charges. I think there's also some effort from the various prosecutors to plead charges down either for expediency, or PR purposes , etc.
Further, according to a DC metropolitan police report, the killing was unnecessary and unjustified:

https://securitystudies.org/report-shows-babbitt-not-a-deadl...
yeah but thats going to be the case when the accomplice is a close fried... my experience here is about the contractors from contracting companies... they put people in position and move on to next contractor. they don't have time to help the one they placed... it may take a while for the incompetent contractor to get fired and then contracting company to replace them.. Which they will do ...
It’s a small Laravel app my friend wrote for himself and shared with me.

Tom Lawrence (YouTuber who makes networking related videos) uses the open source one called InvoiceNinja. Apparently it’s pretty good!
I think this sums up the issue with bootcamps:

"That said, two of our best junior devs (at Arist YC S20) are Lambda School and Ironclad grads respectively, and neither of them had any background in programming and went right from bootcamp into their current positions. So it definitely works for some people."

Some folks thrive in this environment either by natural ability or their learning style and others do not. For whatever the reason the coding bootcamp gets the flack for underperforming folks and it seems to me unfair: Why are they held to this super high standard to teach a difficult subject (computer programming at a high level) to all kinds of learners at all levels?
Yet everybody seems to have the time and inclination to manage list numbering in Word, that doesn't work at all, does not allow direct manipulation, and has all the relevant information hidden. It's just that people don't mind losing months of productivity in a couple of years if it means saving a couple of full days of learning. (A few times this even is the correct choice...)

Anyway, I'll keep pushing for Libre Office. Word is a complete bullshit of a tool. If people's work involves numbering every odd paragraph into a list, they are probably better with LaTeX, but they won't learn it anyway. Yet, Writer simply works.
Have you considered giving them a hint, that you primarily are looking for the algorithm that will generate the data?
Bad managers are making the labor crisis worse
In which case, I stand corrected. I’ve not used React for a while and wasn’t aware that was possible.
Ah yes. I'll just pull out my 1st gen iPod from my pocket for reference then!
Not only is there a ton of inductive evidence, but its been said by survivors themselves. Of course the less "reaching" conclusion is it was to coverup activities they had spied on, but many things don't make sense with that proposal. We will probably never know for sure due to the degree of coverup. To be fair as the remaining survivors have gotten more traction they do usually avoid saying that directly, but they hint at it heavily.

It was deliberate, all the deductive evidence points to it, so I find the framing of "even those who believe it was deliberate" to be slightly misleading.
The post is about much more than just the customisation options. He also highlights the reduced information density and the negatively impacted effort to effect ratio of the new controls and their layout.
How free college became a perk for American workers
I tried to clarify in my top comment that I wasn't saying we should avoid having experienced people on a team, but based on your response, maybe a little more clarification is needed.

When I think about a "hero" in terms of team dynamics, it's a person who is consistently relied upon to save everybody else's butt, often by doing things that are flashy but not particularly healthy, such as working long into the night to meet an unrealistic deadline. When you have this sort of Superman figure who's willing to swoop in and save the day, the problem isn't so much their level of experience but the unhealthy level of dependency that's placed on their shoulders.

I'm all for having highly skilled, highly experienced engineers who are productive themselves and can further increase productivity by helping unblock others on their team. And I agree with you that replacing them with some number of juniors without the same institutional knowledge can be disastrous. But if your team becomes so dependent on heroics that they can't stay afloat otherwise, then when that hero gets hit by a bus or just quits to take a position elsewhere, you're screwed.
One of the lessons of facebook comment sections is that people are totally willing to say absolutely vile things to one another under their own names and photos.
How come folks don’t make an open source SAS interpreter? Or maybe a translator to Python?
The NVME drive you found is 2400MB/s. MacBook Pro peaks at 7400Mb/s. So your pick is 1/3 speed.

The $143 SSD you found is 540Mb/s. So < 1/10th the speed.
I should’ve been more specific! I meant Raspbian Lite :) That one certainly doesn’t boot in seconds off an SD card.
I would create a lookup table with 336 entries for every (year%28+month)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle_(calendar)

336 bytes. Even 168 bytes because half byte is 16 values and we need only 7, so pack two answers in one byte. Even 126 bytes if we pack blocks of 3 bits. Seem reasonable even for embedded.
Students graded students papers.
Racism.
Unending trolling on Slack.
Peers panicking as they realize the program was not "finished". (ie: We were paying beta testers)
Being roped in to the web dev program when I didn't want to be a dev (This happened after the UX program was shut down).

I could write a book
This is a really interesting point. While some "social media" hubs are much more toxic (think 8 chan), their reach is largely neutered because the upside just isn't there for the average citizen.
> things have been going badly across the board for more than 50% of students

How does this compare to traditional colleges? We hear a lot about students saddled with massive debt and useless degrees, but I don't have a good sense of what percentage that is.

And my understanding of Lambda is that you don't end up with debt if the school fails you?
I think you misunderstand Amish philosophy. Contrary to popular belief, the Amish did not decide one day in the 18th century that technology had gone “far enough” and that they were going to freeze in time, their way of life at that moment, forever.

Instead, they saw the way changing technology began to accelerate the pace of life in society around them. In response, they adopted a philosophy to preserve what they believed were the most important things in life.

Accordingly, their philosophy is based on one simple rule: they will not adopt any technology they deem a threat to the time they spend with family and with God. Look at any “modern” family, with teenagers staring at their phones instead of talking to each other at the dinner table, and it’s easy to see that the Amish may be on to something. It’s not the phones that are the problem, really. In the past it was people looking at the newspaper or anything else like that. The two most important things in an Amish person’s life is their relationship with God and their relationship with family.

I live in an area (southern Ontario) with lots of old order Mennonites who are related to the Amish. They practice a very similar way of life. They do not shun technology arbitrarily. Almost every time I’ve been to the hospital, for example, I’ve seen them there getting care for a family member. They do not reject modern medicine because it does not conflict with their beliefs. They know that doctors can treat their family members and provide a better outcome than what they can provide at home, so they have no problem seeking out medical care.

They also have no problem using the Internet to advertise their businesses. Many of them produce traditional goods such as preserves, maple syrup, dairy products, sausages, blankets, hand made furniture, and even metalwork which is all very high quality and in demand among non-Mennonite people in the area. They are perfectly happy to build websites (or to contract that out) so that people can find their stuff and order it.

If you want to see how appealing the Amish lifestyle is, look no further than the popularity of Stardew Valley. That game perfectly captures the spirit of Amish philosophy: pervasive technology can leave us all slaves, chained to our desks. A simple, agrarian way of life, focused on relationships, is the key to setting us free.
I like messing with "the small stuff."

I love "getting my hands dirty," and crafting a direct user experience.

I really don't give a damn whether or not anyone thinks that it's "beneath" them.
Why? Identity does not make an argument. Numbers of posts don't prove me wrong. A preponderance of quacks doesn't inform me of my baking skills when I toss bread to ducks.

The impulse to identity, by law or platform-specific reputation system, is useful for other ends, but the end of judging books by covers should not be one to strive toward.
While not having majored in medicine myself, I see no reason why CS couldn't have a 99% placement rate too.
A week to count the votes.

No signature requirements.

Mass mailing empty ballots.

A year of riots

A year of lock downs due to a foreign bio-weapon

Two impeachments from corrupt federal police

If Dick Cheney did all of that, how would it make you feel?
Send me your bank's routing number and your checking account number and I'll be happy to explain.
DuckB4Boom
You can set the touch bar to always show the "control strip" instead of keeping it minimized on the right side of the touch bar.
It certainly adds a layer of protection that makes issues like the classic C errors with buffer overruns and derefing invalid pointers a LOT less likely.
I have read and heard a variety of reasons why BO is not able to execute, some from the press, some from people I know who either worked there or were close to someone who did.

Culture is a defining characteristic of an organizations ability to execute against a plan or vision. So I agree it is a large part of the problem, or more simply a great place to start on the solution.
the number of software engineers is far below any meaningful voting number.
Saudi Green Initiative (English)[YouTube]
I agree that colleges suffer from the same perverse incentives. That is why transparency in outcomes reporting is so important, and why fraudulent reporting is so dangerous.

edit: oh, you're geoff greer. I emailed you a couple times about floobits when I was still running coderpad
What? Do I have any signed agreement with you?
Not exclusively true, there are matts and solutions just like people have for cats.
What you are looking for is a Laptop Review, how M1 Pro / Max under the MacBook Pro 14 / 16 cooling works with maximum possible TDP and cooling.

But this isn't a Laptop Review, it is an SoC review. My guess Dave2D will look into these sort of thing since he cares about it before anyone on the internet actually test these sort of things for Laptop. ( Possibly due to various PR restrictions )
The USA committed to landing on the moon without having "field[ed] a single manned orbital vehicle".
Those who are interested in the esoteric computers of the USSR might be interested in the Setun 70. [0][1]

[0](pdf) https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01568401/document

[1] http://ternary.3neko.ru/setun70.html
Really? USB-C adoption went fine? I have never seen a usb thing that I found superior to what it replaced. I see a lot of dongles though.
Sounds interesting. TBH I haven't heard a developer advocate is a separate role these days, I guess I had my head stuck in code too much.
Backus–Naur Form
Maybe the correct response to unconstitutional, secret warrants is to refuse to comply, maybe even refuse to respond?

It's not clear to me what would happen next but I can't imagine Pichai would be arrested. Maybe a datacenter would be raided (could FBI even guess where this data might be physically located?) but at least then some public action would have to happen and break the secrecy.
Are there any reputable bootcamps? Serious question as someone who wants to transition from IT Management to programming.
Boeing did most of the construction of ISS and is the prime contractor supporting its operation. Certainly their Starliner performance casts doubt on their current ability to deliver but they at least have relevant know-how on space stations.
Well, you would first have to show that what they did was illegal. I have no idea under what legal theory you could do that.
Does any country do a decent job of retraining 70 year old men for developer positions? This does not need to be a high priority for a society if the 70 year old can afford a roof of their head and a meal.
When it comes to retention periods, AT&T (who I imagine most iPhone users here have, by default) is REALLY bad: https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1634930279896-r...*

They also have the longest and deepest history of working with the government on surveillance.
Fine, they overlap with the UTC day. They are less than 100% compared to the UTC day, even if they can be 100% off with each other.
Seeing Bezos in it makes me suspect the objective is getting ahead of the competition by skipping the intermediate steps.

Maybe they want SpaceX to establish space travel, and use their technology to jump directly for Earth Orbit Domination™ or Space Amazon Headquarters™.
been long since 2013, and had my dad buy some at $470 (pre split) in 2020 before Covid hit, up 10x on that one. Investors are looking to a future in which Tesla is not just a auto company, but is a major player in global infrastructure , whether it's energy or transportation. It also goes to show how wrong the media was in 2020. Tesla is turning billions of dollars in profit now from sales, after losing money in 2018-2019. Anecdotally, I see Tesla everywhere now, it's no longer a niche brand. I think self-driving is also a major growth area too.