skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be a devil's advocate here, because I am in a similar position. I am myself stuck with an (admittedly non-open-source) project that nevertheless has a set of daily users. A true tar baby.

And I foisted that on the world, so I shouldn't duck the responsibility for maintenance thereof, unless it really exceeds my capabilities.

That does not mean that I owe everyone everything, but I sort-of owe the general user public some kind of support, or I feel so myself.

There is a line in the Little Prince, where the fox says "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." It resonates with me deeply.
I'd say it's a larger concern for Bridge, since the game is (unfortunately) primarily played only by older folks who are more at-risk.
That was only the initial tracking too, not the mixing, and probably some of the overdubs.
you don't . u just kinda become numb to things after a while
My shop opens when the local clock tower says 9 am

I want a cronjob set up to change the “closed” sigh to say “open”.

How do I set that with UTC?
When Capek created word robot using robotnik as a base, the term was not used for close to 200 years. Czech translation of robotnik in Polish would be delnik.
Sure, but if they bleach it white and sell it as powder under some "Ivory" branding that will just increase poaching.
The distribution escape hatch has existed for a long time: Windows 10 has supported sideloading-by-default and double-click to install for APPX and then MSIX since the Anniversary Update.

The sandboxing requirements and hard opt-out based model made a lot of sense to clean up decades of Windows app development bad habits. I appreciate that you can still opt-in to the sandboxing post-Project Reunion, but as a developer I expect almost no one to bother to opt-in (because it's "optional" and more work) and as a user I mourn that we're looking at just more decades of application security being an untrustworthy mess in Windows because doing the right thing was "too hard".
The impact of generations of de jure racism didn't simply disappear when the laws were overturned. My parents were already in school when the schools were first forced to integrate. Some of their cousins lived under segregation in the South and did not have access to even secondary education, let alone higher ed. On top of that, there are laws that persisted beyond segregation and even to the present day that are highly discriminatory in their impact, even if they are not in their literal content.
It seems to me that if you are a developer that is good with people (and especially if good at coding) that management duties will eventually follow. What I found is that I have to keep pushing my career back to coding daily. The same is true for architectural work.

Also, for me at least, I try to code at home to keep my skills up to date. So if it happens to be the case that I am not coding on a particular assignment, that I make sure to keep the skills sharp by coding on side projects at home.
And of course the survivorship bias that ignores the millions that failed or broke. There really isn't any economic difference between how products were manufactured long ago and how they are now -- they're both built to perform the expected task, and it would be a waste of effort and materials to make it do more. When your processes and materials aren't very well controlled, then making the average product last a reasonable time means that some products will last much longer.
Not exactly the same, but Alastair Reynolds has an idea in some of his books (e.g. Absolution gap) of religions genetically engineering viruses that literally infect people and give them religious experiences that match up to their religion. One of the characters has been infected by one, but remains an atheist despite unwanted visions and occasional religious experiences.
Well, clearly the person and government in charge of getting it started thinks it is massively successful? I don’t have data to contradict or support otherwise, but lots of folks in those positions say things are great when they don’t look good on the ground.

Regarding your other questions - Smaller populations are much easier to work with, and organizations that are working with them are easier to manage to a high quality. Socio-Religo-Ethno consistent groups also tend to be aligned more consistently on cultural values and behaviors among individuals, which allows doing interventions or even understanding patterns of problems is easier and more doable. There is also less ‘us vs them’ and more ‘we’ involved. So fewer diametrically opposed factions, less infighting, less corruption of core social infrastructure, less jockeying for position vs other factions required. The set of stakeholders is fundamentally lower and easier to deal with. For a counter example, see Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, etc.

Low population density is also a huge help with any sort of homelessness issue because there is little to no pressure on housing availability. If someone previously owned a house and lived there, as long as it didn’t burn down, buying out any loan (going to be a smaller amount) is just as effective as anything else probably because 1) it’s not going to be a huge amount of money, 2) there won’t be as much moral hazard as there would be in a less cohesive and higher density location as it’s less money, and the neighbors all know you and there is an incentive to not abuse it, 3) no one is moving in to just take a house and then doing whatever with no connection to the land or the area or the culture before hand.

And also since it’s a smaller population, your overall number of folks being involved is much smaller, and there are fewer really problematic outliers.

Also because of the smaller population, more homogenous groups, and stronger ethnic identity, it’s not as likely someone is going to be able to even start throwing wrenches in the works for whatever disingenuous reason like happens here in the cities very often. Judges would just go ‘what are you doing, get out’ if someone tries.

Here, it would tie the agencies involved or property owners up for years or decades.

Does that answer your question?

It’s also why New Zealand was able to stop Covid coming in (for awhile) and others couldn’t, that and a lot of ocean. There was strong buy-in across the population, and a consistent set of values folks could agree on and feel like they were working together with others on.
There a few interesting documentaries out. The Wrecking Crew about LA studio musicians. There’s one on Brian Wilson. 20 feet feet from stardom about back up singers. Laurel Canyon is interesting - its about the music scene there
Shouldn't be a problem returning Sacoolas then, right ?

Simple, open and shut case ?

Oh, wait, did the US say "She's never going back ?"

Ah. Well.
This is bad information, leetcode matters more than anything, at all levels.
Robinhood drops 10% to below IPO price as investors worry about bleak outlook
Tech workers are no longer afraid to go public – how they found their voices
Wikipedia doesn't need this to finance their operations. They have so much money from donations they don't know what to do with it. If they had used it wisely they could have built a large enough endowment to be self-sustaining by now, but unfortunately they didn't.
https://twitter.com/metesohtaoglu/status/1296445304745734144
Open-Sourcing a Monitoring GUI for Metaflow, Netflix’s ML Platform
I would argue that you shouldn't even need the license to state open source software to come with no commitments. There was no contract and no money changed hands, so I believe the uniform commercial code doesn't apply.
For those who don't want to read a long French article: the conclusion (as I understood it) is that most people imagine teleological, or goal-driven (the authors describe it as "finalist") reasons for this very change in tusks. That is, even when the subjects consider that poaching may be the cause in the change in tusk allele frequency, they say it's because the elephants "want" not to have tusks, or that evolution is "deliberately" evolving away from tusks in order to protect the elephants.

This is in contrast to the actual explanation, which is simply that if you kill the elephants with the tusks alleles and prevent them from breeding, you'll have fewer of those alleles in the subsequent generations.

I'd say this result is not so "deceiving," as someone who has prepared evolution curriculum in the past, the teleological explanation is extremely seductive, even for educated people.
Perhaps I’m wrong, but my understanding is that it has a reputation for being able to build systems with significantly fewer LOC than most languages, without delving into APL-levels of obscurity.

My attempt at deadpan humor doesn’t work if that isn’t true, and I’m not qualified to make the argument since I’ve not used it professionally yet. I can say that picking up Clojure for fun has both reawakened my joy in programming and greatly informed how I write code in other languages. That tends to inspire prose.
Useful to say, write a python script, doing some mandane things, like generate all the argparse lines for you, read the files, etc.

In a way, it does the dirty pipes surprisingly well. But when it comes to implement the core of the algorithm, it is not there yet, but the potential is huge.
Can't press this enough being someone who expected clear customer service than from OSS maintainers than understand it is a community effort. I was 13 then, but still was a pretty wrong thing to expect.
AWS has had their own Nitro SmartNIC for years. If anything, NVIDIA/Intel/Marvell/Pensando/Xilinx/etc are copying AWS.
I wonder if this is the effect of Jony Ive being gone.
it's not at all unusual for you to do less software development the higher up you go on the ladder, especially if you have direct reports. Strategy, architecture, planning, removing blocks for others, these are all valuable parts of software engineering work at a large firm. Big organizations create a kind of work all of their own that has to do just with managing the workings of the organization itself and that work can't be avoided.
That was probably sarcasm, Apple was widely mocked for referring to the removal as "courageous" at the time.
My understanding is that people with resources tend to acquire more resources, which means people who were excluded are as a demographic already set behind with little opportunity to catch up. In order to correct the bias alternate channels need to be made. (That’s the logic anyways. I haven’t seen any evidence the result is as expected…)
The CSS example has barely any capital letters.
If the market was crashing and you wanted to sell quickly you'd be screwed. They can't shutdown crypto like they do the stock market.
Web3 versus Web2
> Chronological feeds are how you end up with news teams spamming posts every three minutes, and you having to hit the hide button every time

Or you just stop following the spammy ones
US has one of the highest medical costs, while being one of the most private ones.

Medical costs being so high is much better explained by Baumoll’s cost disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
Analogue input is pretty much a solved problem. Not only do we have standards for game controllers, but also MIDI control surfaces give you a wide variety of analogue physical controls. MIDI even comes with incredibly rich input automation.

Sadly, the only company I'm aware of producing that sort of hardware for use outside the music industry seems to be Loupedeck.
It's not Quid Pro Quo, it's that if you want extradition to work in one direction, you ought to be open to the idea of it working in the other direction too. If you're not, well, get lost then.

Since the current adjudgment of the US Administration is that "She's never going back", I see no reason to allow extradition to the USA.

Whether she in fact had diplomatic immunity has gone back and forth - to the point where it's still an open question. If she had diplomatic immunity, though, I can't see the case for the UK government asking Interpol to issue a red notice.
Energy Multipler Module
I agree that a "manager" doing the work of one of their "employees" is clearly wrong.

What I am trying (badly) to convey is that we should build software-driven organisations - where the processes and policies, the back-office if you like, is software driven and so if you "the executive" want to chnage the company you do it through explicitly changing the code.
We are already increasing supply of healthcare providers, via price discrimination. You want the most highly qualified? Pay for concierge healthcare. You want mostly MDs? Pay for more expensive health insurance that compensates healthcare providers more. You need to save money? Pay for less expensive health insurance that reimburses healthcare providers less, and you get to see a nurse practitioner/physician assistant.
Lots of governance issues. Is there long term management of the area reforested? or is it done quickly and poorly and the benefits are overstated? There’s also no guarantee the forest stays standing, but the money has already been collected.

Mineralization (Climeworks) is much more expensive per ton but is assured to stay sequestered in inert, stable form.
I agree. Managers (especially higher they go) should get out of production code. That said, they should be technically very skilled to be able to make tough calls, people and technical.

Companies should have two ladders. IC ladder and management ladder. Where companies fail is that they make the IC ladder less about actual work and more about documents, RFCs and 1-pagers and other nonsense.

They start measuring productivity by these docs instead of actually building something, thus setting perverse incentives for a promotion.

Docs, RFCs, designs are all means to an end, not an end unto itself.
Caffeine – a livecoding environment for web browsers, Node.js, and WebAssembly
How is it that these people didn't notice that the semantic Web was supposed to be Web 3.0?
So one argument against code coverage requirements is that poor engineers won't test correctly. Without the code coverage requirements you're in the same situation.
Fred paints this picture:

web1 - come for the content - then usually leave

web2 - come for the tools, stay for the content (Chris Dixon)

web3 - come for the assets, stay for the experience (Fred Wilson)

That in of itself is interesting.

Fred also couples web3 w/ decentralization. Many said the same for web2 and that didn't really happen, as some of the tweets in that thread state.

Perhaps the decentralization toolset of web3 is the most interesting (or at least noticeable) part of web3, but is it a foregone conclusion that the availability of the tools will drive the behavior?
Don't worry, worse interviewing practices definitely exist :) I've been asked to dictate code over the phone "as you would type it out" for a very well respected place. I've grumbled pretty hard about leetcode dependence in interviewing, but it does seem to form a common language for interviewers to gauge problem solving skills against (similar to how people rail against design patterns -- they're going to exist whether or not we have a vocabulary for them).
seems like a lot of work to split up your commits like this. PR means -- trust no one. the truth is out there (in the code).
I believe that's correct.
LinkedIn is run very much as a separate company
SqueakJS – A Squeak VM in JavaScript
But why do we need to make collective decisions about technology? Why can't I decide for myself based on what I see and think? Why is it better if somebody else decides for me?

The beauty of a society that embraces individual choice is that the individual gets to choose. You can let somebody else decide for you, but you can also go against them.

The article loses me on this point as well. Any individual can look at the effects a technology has on those around them and decide not to participate. Does that mean you're left behind? Yeah, but the Amish face the same problem anyway.

The one advantage the Amish have is that their 'eccentric' choices are seen as more valid and respected compared to an individual making those choices. But I think that's more of a failing of our modern culture not respecting individual rights as much.
These anti-black msgs seem like some shit from IKEA viz team in EU misbehaving. VS photoshopping out women which is the kind of request directed from market research, i.e. in architecture visualization, not uncommon to have racist renderings for marketting (brown people in service spaces) while submitting alternate united colors of benetton versions for awards consideration.
I don't see the 13" MBP sticking around much longer. At this point, the differences between the Air and 13" MBP are minimal, so I see them eventually adding a few more cores to the air, possibly giving that some of the aesthetic treatment of these new Pro's, and removing the 13" from the lineup.

It's possible the Apple employee knows something we don't, but it doesn't make sense to keep it around since there is nothing particularly Pro about it when comparing it to the new machines.
That analogy only works if you designed/architected your own house.
Commutative Diagram Editor
I do that in all my Makefiles and it works great.
Same here. Twitter was great for staying up to date on projects that I wanted to follow, but it just got so divisive that I had to give it up. Shame seems to drive a lot of content and engagement on Twitter.
I think an external keyboard with the Touch Bar would have been incredibly expensive. The one that ships on the laptops was wired into the T1/T2 chips and ran a custom version of iOS. Effectively an interface to a second built in computer
Kicad 6: new feature review for open source EDA tool
That is not true. As long as the software is not licensed, we do not have a legal right to use the code as it is an intellectual property of someone else. Using such code opens up the ability for the owner to sue us if he is in the right place with the right preparation.
Microsoft: 1
Open Source: 0
Personalized health can extend your lifespan
I’ve become a true believer that our society is artificially poor through supply constraints, particularly in the areas that are most discussed, housing, education and medicine. The majority of the supply restrictions are due to totally artificial constraints that we could chose to destroy, which would make our society all the wealthier. Things like a $15 min wage will do little to alleviate supply driven privation, but abundance can being a material quality of life to everyone regardless of income level.
Ever heard of things like Bitcoin cash or Bitcoin gold? Everybody owning BTC before the fork then owned an additional bitcoin ersatz, and these “fake bitcoin” are now worth a few billions.
To quote a tweet by RandallKanna:
“I will never understand why tech companies optimize interviews for a college grad to do better than someone with ten years of experience.”
Imagine a bad manager spending 30% of the time coding. Now imagine the same manager giving up coding, investing the 30% in making more bad decisions. And don't expect things going better but expect them getting worse due to total lack of grounding in facts and loosing his technical network to back him up.
DNA is fairly hard data, though. Harder than ancient written sources; on these timescales, it is preserved better than texts, and it isn't written down by winners.
You can go into your YouTube watch history and delete videos that you don't want influencing your recommendations. I do this all the time because if I watch something out of the ordinary, my recommendations will be bombarded with similar stuff that I don't want to see. I just wanted to see that one video with the dog doing funny things, damn it!
I've spent a lot of time trying to make MSIX sideloading work (and it is how I "distribute" my app to myself and friends). Unfortunately it's not nearly good enough for broad distribution of applications.

It's poorly documented and unreliable compared to tried-and-true installation mechanisms like MSI and Inno Setup. I've had MSIX installations fail on nearly-fresh Windows 10 installs with zero useful information presented to the user or logged in the event log.

Don't even get me started on the registry+filesystem virtualization; I've seen it cause bugs in multiple first-party applications when they're installed via the Store.
AI comedy gold
Is there something special about CL as compared to other Lisp dialects? Why not choose something like Clojure, or LFE (Lisp-Flavored Erlang) with better async/library support? Then you skip over the community aspect entirely by piggybacking off the JVM or Erlang communities.

(Another alternative would be Elixir, which is basically Erlang wrapped in a nicely-formatted version of Lisp. I.e. Elixir is to Erlang what Clojure is to Java.)

I'm sure the answer comes down to something like, the author was more familiar with Node.JS so it would be a very quick rewrite. But I feel like there are a lot more Lisp-like language choices for backend APIs before you jump to Javascript.
Car styling being static is because we are likely very close or at some local optima. That is minimising the drag. In past we may have had some idea, but now we can compute the best shape. Plus there is regulatory pressure that makes some solutions illegal.
They do overflow. They weren't using the documented API - the whole collection of icons was rendered as a single block.
You don't need to require more disclosure. Those products that want to deliver the real mccoy can just state it: "10% strawberries, by volume of ingredients before cooking", or something. You can even have a youtube video showing you making it, with a celeb ooing and awing. The people who care enough to pay for it will do so.

This case sounds like people wanting a free upgrade.
Hi, I have been involved with the Wikimedia infrastructure since roughly 2004.

The 50k daily hit on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Live_mirrors is merely to illustrate a web proxy can dramatically reduce the number of hits to the original site. They could have pick 42 or 7 billions, it is just an example.

The text dates from 2009, and in April 2009 this is roughly what we had in term of servers https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia-servers-20... Arguably a little more than a Raspberry pi

We already had a few million pages rather than 50k of them, and they were not static since pages get edited and made live as soon as one save their edit. Obviously, we already had million daily users and definitely requires a ton of caching all across the stack. Also good luck serving flat files that keeps being written too, that does not really work with hard drive and static files storage.

In September 2021 we have served 21 billion pages and 73 billions media files https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects . Almost all of them served primarily served from caches.

That being said, the wiki pages you have mentioned are a decade old. We definitely had trouble with people having the smart idea of scrapping the whole website, often using either uncacheable content or hitting barely served articles or history that were not cached and thus caused a full rendering of the page. Even with the servers we had, a single user could cause major havoc on the infrastructure and keep a good part of them busy just to serve that single person. Hence the recommendation to use the database dump which are still used: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

cheers
> is it not reasonable to assume that the number of security flaws just reflects how insecure most public code is?

It sounds to me like that's not an inference that can easily be drawn. Copilot was trained on predicting code, it doesn't understand the code it produces syntactically. Security issues can be highly context dependent. For example, in most cases it's fine to log a variable, but when it happens to contain a password, it's a security issue. This is a flawed example as the algorithm may be able to learn that variables with names or contexts suggesting that they're secrets should not be logged, but I can imagine much more subtle issues can crop up.