skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The incongruity of there consistently being anti-plastic and also pro-record articles and comments on HN has me scratching my head. Do people not care that records are made of PVC and that the pressing process results in loads of toxic chemicals or does their weird obsession with a clunky format and bad audio justify all the negatives? I am truly perplexed by this one.

Edit: grammar.
https://archive.md/vTWHM
The interview sort of answers this:

> Because we operate a lot in Latin America, I trained non-lisper engineers who speak Spanish on how to program Lisp

So they grew their lisp heads from raw human. That's not an overhead most companies would readily accept.
Apparently the containers are not fungible; maybe they should be.
As usual, the news is not about what happened but how it may have been covered up.

In the end, you need research on viruses to understand how they work and how to stop them. And the fact that the public should be treated like children and that transparency would lead to misunderstanding is shortsighted.

They also should spend some time explaining what gain-of-function means. It means adding "functionality" to a virus to increase their transmissibility to new species for example. If you research a virus to understand it and, in the course of your experiment, increase the transmissibility, it is not gain-of-function because the gain was not the objective. It's all a matter of intentions.

Are we going to stop trying to understand viruses? No but we definitely be transparent about it and make sure that we do it securely. Which is probably not what happened in Wuhan.
You have to trust someone at some point. I think that was part of the point of the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" lecture.
It is two way, but the clock is always provided by the keyboard.

PS/2 devices all have pull-up resistors as the only thing driving the lines high are those resistors.

The mcu on either side only ever pull it low and never high.

http://www.lucadavidian.com/2017/11/15/interfacing-ps2-keybo...
Things to consider when managing your data storage strategy
Not sure yet. ProtonMail doesn't work offline either and is apparently not straightforward to use with other clients. I wish it were sensible to host your own email, but I've heard that's a horrible misadventure.
If you are managing a data storage strategy, keep in mind that the ability to derive meaningful insights from the data is critical to a successful company.
Instead of working with high-level instructions, you could copy your binary floating-point number to a 64-bit word and use your knowledge of the IEEE binary64 standard to extract the mantissa and the exponent

The results aren't too surprising. The ARM, which is a RISC, doesn't show much difference because it doesn't have much in the way of good complex instructions suited to the task, and in this case you can actually beat the compiler by optimising at the source level. x86 is still fundamentally CISC in nature and making use of the complex instructions is better especially when they are optimised in hardware. I don't have those machines nor environment to compare, but if you look at the code size, you might find the compiler has generated very similar code for the long and short version on ARM, whereas it certainly won't be smart enough to "recompress" your long version back into CISC instructions.
This site already ranked #1 in Google for “Hacker News”.
> who by and large do not talk to people or understand the cross functional relationships and strategies

The idea that (good) engineers are somehow not able to understand cross-functional relationships, business strategies, or don’t know what PMs do, is absurd. You’re digging your own grave there.
> If it helps, there was a time around the first decade of this century when you find really, really cool stuff for, like $2/album. It used to be hella cheap to be a record collector.

You still can, especially if you keep an open mind and are cool with spending $2 for a record just because it looks interesting but you have no idea what's on it and/or who the artist is. I've found so many fantastic records in the dollar/discount bins in recent years.
Well, while the idea is nice, don’t expect piracy to stay on the front page for long.
Cappuccino MCT is a coffee with slimming properties
Cube.js – Open-Source Analytics API for Building Data Apps
If your workforce is improving, you might have a kind of natural growth where they either deliver better products or more efficient services and you can acquire more customers (or charge more) without expanding your operations.

Besides, if you are paying a good wage, have a good work/life balance, a good environment and so on, people will be content and just work there. It's like farming or factory work - you're doing what you expect to be doing for the rest of your life, or at least the next 10-20 years.
> Move fast and break things doesn't work so well with things like the supply chain.

What about when it’s already almost completely broken and getting worse? That’s precisely when you need creative out of the container thinking.
we have free speech in america, and i’d like facebook to respect that by not curbing anyone’s speech without a court order
> And scale is simply because greed.

This seems over simplified. A large company is a complex system that is shaped by all kinds of forces. I'm not sure we can attribute Google's scale to a single heinous factor
It's probally Ultimate Frisbie, but dear old dad who putters on the green has money, and connections.

And helps out wayward Chad after they figure out what excites them in life.

A sympathetic wealthy dad is the key to success too much of the time.

Of course Chadwick tells everyone his Horatio Algers bootstrap Ramen journey to success story if the company ever pans out. (Purposely didn't use commas. Why--too disenfranchised to care anymore.)
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The worst thing about it is that now left-pad is in the standard (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...), but that's it. is-odd has more than 400k weekly downloads https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd.
What comes to mind to me is a sandworm coming out of the ground, and pulling something back down underneath with it.
This could be Cloud Org characteristic. Enterprise applications cannot be engineering led as tech does not matter but 'checkboxes' do (features).

For checkboxes one needs to be constantly in touch with customers, sales, pre-sales, need to be full time demo giver, etc. These are not the job of engineers and even if it is made so, it is setting them and the team/org/company up for failure on both fronts - frontend and backend.
fuck that it’s salesmanship, and salesmen make poor leaders.
No. It was entirely for esthetics.
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Leather Collection ist spezialisiert auf Motorrad Rennanzug, Motorradjacke Leder und alle Arten von Lederbekleidung.
Looking through the source where the tests are conducted,

for (double x = 1; x < 1000000000; x += 0.5) {

counter++;
int64_t tmp;
if (to_int64_simple(x, &tmp)) {
sum += tmp;
}

}

The fractional part is always mostly 0.5, or 0.10000... While that shouldn't really affect things, I think a proper test would sample randomly, though this runs into the problem of the random number generator itself influencing the time spent, so I can see the appeal for this method. Perhaps generating a random float array with N elements and calculating the results for x + arr[x%N] would accomplish this.
> threatening your employers and instigating a mutinous conduct with fellow employees doesn't go down too well.

That sounds to me like what strikes do. Sometimes they do go down well, sometimes they don't.
Many drugs are free or almost free where I live. Well, not really free, they're paid by our taxes. And npm is paid by Microsoft not paying theirs. So the difference isn't so big.
Oh yeah, the short story was not good in that regard at all. The game was such an upgrade to the story.
Stringy Templates
> Make sure you always use a password on your devices though. Biometrics are not protected by the 5th Amendment in the USA as the police can legally force your finger onto a touchpad or hold your face in front of a camera.

This seems kind of crazy to me. If passwords being private are okay, why should the powers that be allowed to treat biometrics any differently, at least in the context of unlocking devices? Otherwise, what's to prevent them from intimidating, threatening or torturing you until you give up your passwords as well?

To me, that's just a blatant abuse of power either way and it feels like there should be another amendment to your constitution concerning data privacy.
> I don't see anything cringe worthy about that - it's not unusual for women to, uh, prefer bigger organs.

Sorry to break it to you, it is unusual
I appreciate this comment, sorry I don’t have time to write a more complete reply yet.
You don't want stereo. Only as an error correction maybe.
Apple Maps: Why Is “Look Around” Rolling Out So Slowly?
To a certain extent. I think machinery, tech and anything that is highly skilled work needs to happen in country. I’m definitely a globalist otherwise.
Timnit is unethical as hell. She's also the worst kind of being unethical: being unethical in the name of doing good. She second guessed the motives of her coworkers. She attributed every difference to her paper or claim to racism or white supremacy or oppression or any combination out of the three. For all I know, only a true racist would view everything through a racial lens.

She's a disgrace to the research community.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28964559
Sure, but then there’s no point to a peer-to-peer decentralized cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency is a peer-to-peer decentralized network. The government can’t stop me from sending or receiving cryptocurrency.
For typical software, there is no point. A satellite can travel for decades and provide invaluable data with the software side focus being mainly maintenance and keeping it going (+ maintaining a piece of electronics millions of miles away moving at thousands of miles per hours is pretty much a unique challenge). Typical CRUD applications get continuous changes/modifications, bugs are not catastrophic and the applications themselves routinely get replaced as part of the evolving architecture. Putting the kind of testing and effort done for Aerospace for such applications would be a waste of effort. Of course like everything else, there is software and there is software. Software used in nuclear plants don't see such velocity of change + the impact of things going wrong would be catastrophic - that can definitely do with such rigour.
I haven't read the article, but logical truth is always "just" axiomatic. You can relate it to empirical reality using e.g. correspondence theory, induction, authoritative texts and other relating methods (ontologies).

An ontology, on the other hand, is the study of what is or in sum what reality is, when understood from the viewpoint of the author. That's its raison d'être.

Perhaps this is relevant? I stopped reading these articles because I'm too rusty.
BSD definitely makes sense in certain use cases (routers, web, mail, DB servers,...) , but moving everything indicates at some kind of rebellious act or just pure experimentalism. I have no issue with both, since I've personally done the same multiple times....
Hah, same, I think I had built up all this stuff around Linux and assuming that I'd have to tinker and in the past 5 years or so when things "just work" it took the fun out of it in a way, haha. That being said I get more sleep and am probably healthier overall due to it but I kind of feel like I'm glad to have gone through Linux bootcamp while I was younger to learn the basics :)
I'd encourage everyone to try the npm fund command (https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-fund) on their repos to see how many projects need funding. All of these projects are an opportunity for a malicious actor to offer a lump sum of money to get the package.
From the hacker news guidelines: “ Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.”

I don’t come to hacker news to read Eastern Europeans espousing about which American political party, in their view, is the One True Corrupt Party. This type of post does not belong here. Please keep political opinion posts to Reddit.

>” I am Ukrainian. It is clear to me that parts of the US Government (and a specific political party) are openly corrupt, at the highest level.”
> If we call increasing efficiency "power seeking" then the term has lost any and all meaning and only serves to confuse and make the most mundane actions sinister by interpreting them in the most conspiratorial light.

Sure, but simply calling an acquisition like the one discussed in the article "increasing efficiency" interprets it the best possible light, which seems equally in need justification.
Scryer Prolog: A modern Prolog implementation written mostly in Rust
Right, the one-person strikes tend to be less effective.
For some background and discussion the In Our Time podcast did an episode on her

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c2ljg
Don't forget Windows itself (the NT Kernel), which amounts to most of the desktop share.
Happening so soon is actually a mark against it being related
This is the right answer. Everyone else replying is patently wrong.
PS/2 may not be hotpluggable, but USB certainly is. Not clear what would have prevented unplugging/replugging the USB side of your PS/2 to USB converter.
The funny thing (to me) is that 4000 people already seems unwieldy to me - I run a company of 5 and can imagine managing maybe 20-30 people, 100 at a stretch but I have no idea how to run a company with anywhere close to 4000 employees (nor what would so many people work on).
Well we don’t have the autographs for any holy text past a certain point, so I’m not sure that’s true. But with faith it doesn’t matter.
And given that something like half of the words in your post descend from latin, we might even regard english as a kind of daughter language. Of course I'm painting in overly broad strokes for the sake of conversation.
Is there any standard for this, and a website (or websites) that publishes the data on the web?

There are obvious problems with blindly republishing arbitrary data from a public blockchain, of course.

Depending on how long you're willing to wait, you might be able to publish with as little as $0.00061 per byte: https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/

For reference, the text of the HN homepage (excluding HTML tags) is about 4KB so ~$2 if you're willing to wait, or up to ~$200 if you're in a hurry. I'm not sure if op_return transactions are typically priced the same as standard transactions though.
That adapter certainly looks like it is.
People assume that if you just switch to Linux, you'll get world-class security no matter what you do. But, real-world use diminishes that significantly (non-technical users, IT teams who aren't command-line gurus, vendors who ship outdated patches, budgeting departments that won't approve expenses to move off out discontinued software, etc. Not to mention, Linux as a platform is battle-tested for server purposes only. Local exploits abound.

"Just use Linux" is easy to say, but I wonder, would it really improve things?
Gadgetbridge 0.61.0: Initial support for true wireless earbuds Nothing Ear(1)
It seems inconsistent to believe this _and_ still want him to run the country.
I assume people use tags and such no? That gives you versions and you can just fetch it at a specific tag. Either way, this is very much a solvable problem.

A few docs and tests doesn't strike me as much of an issue.
Then perhaps IBM's keyboards somehow push the clock closer to the limit (16.7kHz, I believe) than motherboards' controllers can handle? Unfortunately I wasn't able to find any measurements of different keyboards' clock frequencies.
>They were fixed-wing gliders with fanciful bat-like shapes for stylistic reasons.

My understanding is they were commissioned by playboy Milanese nobleman intent on bringing down the Borgia crime family, whose parents had been knifed down in an alley in front of him when still a child after exiting a wonderful setting of the Magnificat composed by Gaffurius.
Then you too can be the rent seeker!
Is there any reason to think Michael Church earned more than Dr. Gebru? Michael Church only worked at Google for 6 months, so I would guess none of his stock vested.
Out of curiosity I tried to do this using Quiet Modem, and the clocking was so much worse than I could have anticipated. I got a used deck from ebay that was in reasonably good condition. Listening to a tape on it, it didn't sound too bad, but when I did some analysis on a waveform on a tape, the playback speed was very uneven. Clock recovery is an absolute must with these, and in general I think it's worse than you'd imagine. Maybe if you had completely bulletproof internals could you actually make full use of the bandwidth.
I wasn’t able to view the content with this link. I tried using the captcha but it kept unchecking itself. I’m on mobile so I couldn’t debug.
That’s the whole deal with yarn 2 isn’t it? With their plug’n’play it becomes feasible to actually vendor your npm deps, since instead of thousands upon thousands (upon thousands) of files you only check in a hundred or so zip files, which git handles much more gracefully.

I was skeptical at first as it all seemed like way too much hoops to jump through, but the more I think about it the more it feels that it’s worth it.
Checks out, this is CA after all. NIMBYs are all about their sight lines. Couldn't possibly let a stack of containers diminish their view.
You’re spot on with the harmonic drive motors. They do have good backdriving and low backlash, which is great. I certainly don’t mean to say that there is no place for electric servo motors in robots, they are fantastic for many applications, especially if you need precision and accuracy in movement. And the Spot (along with many copycat robots) make great use of them.

But the problem remains that there is still a severe trade off between speed, force and backdriving. The Spot really doesn’t have that high of a max force it can generate, and no where near that of a similarly sized dog. Additionally, the motion produced by the kinematics system it uses it relatively simple with far fewer degrees of freedom than a real dog.

The general consensus in the field is that if you want to have a robot which can do everything a human can do, you need to at least match the degrees of freedom a human has in motion. It would be very difficult to fit 100+ harmonic drive servos into a robot. Of course controlling all of this effectively is extremely difficult and that’s often why robots like spot use vastly simplified kinematic models, because it makes the equations go from near impossible to solve to just hard.

series elastic actuators are promising and I have high hopes for their use in the future. I have some colleagues who work with them. The limitations there are more to do with complexity and finding ways to dynamically tune the force impedance of the springs.
Or they have asking for it for many years and it was ignored until the president put a spotlight on LB harbor and the mayor scrambled to look like he was doing something. Time may tell if it has any impact. At worst, the mayor end up being able to say they tried something. At best it helps resolve the problem, or the problem resolves itself over time and they can still claim a credit
You say that like a lot of records weren't cheap and shitty too. Outliers are always more memorable.

In the end I think portability had more to do with both the reputation and the success of cassettes. Doesn't matter how good the tape is, a walkman in the 80s was never going to sound as good as a hifi, but that's what people wanted.
National Emergency Supply Agency in Finland did have real granaries not a long ago - they still have emergency supplies of grain, nowadays it is just done by owning grain and paying private companies to store it in their normal logistical network.

In the beginning of the pandemic the agency was heavily in local news when they started deliveries of protective gear from their stockpiles - but to be honest, some rubber bands of the stored masks did need replacing.
Short term capital returns are!
Given the history of Facebook's acquisitions, I think this is a little optimistic. The sheer disgusting amount of money that FAANGs have allows them to buy or undercut any competitor that looks to gain steam.
> No, Cory, those are not "operating costs," those are called "capital costs." They're treated real differently in Accounting.

I'm guessing he's aware that's how things work currently; it sounded to me like he was arguing that it shouldn't work that way, although I don't know if he literally believes that accounting practices should change or if that was more just for rhetorical effect.
Complexity explains a lot of it. Complexity is feedback-based dealing with its consequences (i.e., understanding complex things and working with complex rather than simple things) gradually consumes more and more resources until the business becomes untenable. Pushing back against complexity is what an architect does.
I think the claim that they would add up to a ship was made in the 1500s, while the cataloging was done in the late 1800s.

In between was the Protestant Reformation and centuries of incredibly bloody religious wars in which many of the belligerents were opposed to the idea of relics and vigorously sought to destroy them. The English Civil War is believed to have resulted in the destruction of 97% of religious art in the country[1], and England got off relatively lightly compared to much of Europe. The Thirty Years War killed a third of Germany's population.

Those wars between different Christian denominations would have destroyed many relics. Ottoman conquests and subsequent conversions to Islam would have taken care of more.

[1] https://hyperallergic.com/256802/how-a-rare-judas-painting-s...
Erlang is such an interesting language.

It's pretty great to feel somewhat familiar with the code examples as a new Elixirist. They don't feel that alien, especially the GenServers!
I interpreted "with fellow employees" as in cooperation with fellow employees, so that wouldn't be a one-person strike. Although I guess it could be interpreted as against fellow employees.
It's ridiculous how they don't position the Alt and Win keys properly. That's the only thing holding me from buying one.
Do cancelled projects at that level of expertise also contribute to institutional knowledge? I presume you generate information from near misses, and the resulting intuitions get applied and shared when you work on the next project with the next team.
Don’t matter. He should have verified its condition immediately upon accepting it from anyone else. Sure, other people f’d up in the chain, but ultimately he was responsible.

No one out ranks safety.
I was one of those kids, school was boring and slow, finished the school library within year, got into arguments with teachers. Was not allowed to skip years, it was a drag, I skipped school and did other stuff. They did tried to forbid me to do high school exams because my school grades were low (missed a lot of tests and would drag down their stats). Did the exam anyways and had the second highest score of the country.

Not every kid is the same, there needs to be a place for kids that are (far) ahead.
Dock Workers don't have the ability
To change city regulations. For all we know, the organizations have been pushing for this change for decades.
I think it's just that CDs were the preferred format for mass consumption over tapes, previously before tapes 4-tracks and back to vinyl when vinyl was the only option. Now streaming serves the purposes of most people for casual listening while vinyl represents what it always has to the niche.