skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. At least in Europe we have, I believe, what I like to call "European English" accent: it's a mix of American English (because Hollywood + Netflix) plus British English (because that's was is taught in schools) plus your local accent (German, French, Spanish, Italian, etc.). We all understand each other very well (even when we make mistakes, because we usually make the same mistakes). It's funny because whenever a native English speaker joins the conversation, some of us may have trouble understanding him.
What a useful tool for resilience engineering.

https://github.com/dastergon/awesome-chaos-engineering#notab... does list toxiproxy.

Any general pointers for handling network connectivity issues (from any OSI layer) in client and server apps?

Many apps lack 'pending in outbox' functionality that we expect from e.g. email clients.

- [ ] Who could develop a set of reference toxiproxy 'test case mutators' (?) for simulating typical #DisasterRelief connectivity issues?

(In Python, Pytest + Hypothesis + Toxiproxy-python would be useful.)
Well, to be fair, they decided to go with the Virginia class as a replacement after only three.

US military considering the performance during the Afghanistan withdrawal - that's pure DC leadership and not a reflection on the actual troops.
I don't get what Zillow's business model is or how they make any money. In the market where I live houses are going for crazy prices and under contract almost as soon as they hit the market.
Not quite ... there's (ironically) a language gap here. Those words are what I get when I lend my capacity for words to my thoughts, like I'm doing now. But thats a translation. The thoughts don't seem to start in language.

Maybe another way to describe it is - I understand my thoughts before I know the right words to use to describe my thoughts out loud. In conversation I sometimes find I'll start explaining something; only to notice that the words aren't the right translation for the concept in my head. "Sorry, thats not quite right - its more like ... this".

The other day I had a feeling which was a mix between boredom and anger. Like, a sort of judgemental boredom. I don't think english has a word for that feeling; but neither "boredom" nor "anger" would be a sufficient translation of what I felt. Its like that.

Or another example - I was practicing drawing yesterday. I drew a character's nose, but my line looked wrong and I had to rub it out and redraw it. I don't have any words for the shape my wonky line made. I couldn't tell you in words how it made the face look, or how it needed to be fixed. I could try, but any words I use would be an awkward approximation. I know exactly what was wrong with the shape. But words to describe it would be a sketch compared to my mind's photograph. (Except its not like a photograph either! Aah its happening now too.)

Lots of thoughts work the same way. At least for me. Is it really not the same for everyone?
Sold my house at the peek few months back to Zillow, they then sold it about 8% loss last month. The $/sqft price Zillow paid us is THE highest for our city EVER under <1mil price, and the record still stands after 5 months.

Didn't make any sense to us at the time on why Zillow (and also Opendoor) was making such a high offer, the process was very smooth AND fast. Too bad they won't be around.
A container is 8ft 6” high. (It will be floating on the surface or sunk)

The submarine would have to be skimming the bottom at a height of less than 8ft 6”. Perhaps if it was standing on it's end, not sure of the probability of that.

It doesn't seem likely the submarine would put itself in a position like that. They won't have records of things far worse like immovable rocky outcrops.

Steel icebergs are probably more about mythology.
The report does discuss SSDs, and it looks like they'll have SSDs as part of reports going forward. There's also a link in their to their earlier HDD Vs SSD post, But afaik there's no existing long term reports on SSD failure rates in this kind of setting.
Yep, and Amazon are not good guys.
> You’re almost asking the impossible. Nutrition is an area with a lot of dogma, a lot of pre-existing bias, and plenty of conflicting evidence that supports almost anyone to cherrypick things to suit their agenda. This is why you can buy books which (seek to) prove almost opposite positions.

That's one reason I'm looking for a textbook or academic course. I am not interested in the political battles; I don't want this month's new book (and I certainly don't agree with the proposition (which the parent didn't say) that everything is politicized).
> isn’t it kind of a maritime rule or law that a smaller vessel always gives way to a larger one?

The more maneuverable vessel needs to give way.
Anime characters become masters by being highly specialised in one area. They would only learn one framework.
The question is what percentage of the material that enters their recycling program actually cycles back into new things, and how much carbon is burnt doing that.

I'm glad apple is exerting engineering resources to make their products recyclable and out of recycled materials - but I also can't ignore that linking the lifespan of the entire computer to the lifespan of the SSD is going to result in many unnecessarily discarded computers.

If 75% of the materials are recycled (generous, I couldn't find recent numbers but in 2010 they were recycling 28%) that means one landfilled mac for every 4 recycled. If a machine is killed by it's SSD, that's at LEAST a quarter of a mac in the landfill.
> Meanwhile school funding remains directly tied to standardized test scores, creating virtuous/vicious cycles of classism in virtually every city across the country.

Unequal school funding is a common talking point, but, on average, the spending per White/Black/Hispanic/Asian pupil is nearly identical. Black pupils receive 105% as much funding as White, or 101% if adjusted to cost of living in the school district [1].

For those wondering how this is possible, when school funding is tied to property taxes in the district: It's because roughly half of school funding comes from state budgets, and is allocated based on necessity, so school that receive less district funding, get more state funding.

[1] https://www.heritage.org/education/report/the-myth-racial-di...
Keeping people from messing with the odometers is really important already. I doubt the tax cheating will be the motivators.
There's no other way than sonar to detect things like mountains underwater?

That's interesting. Seems by now we might have something else that does that. A way to use sonar that obfuscates the source of a ping, underwater lidar, submarine drones, something?
One of the more interesting points from The Atlantic's recent article on meth [0] that was new to me was the economics of producers moving from marijuana to meth and how marijuana legalization may have encouraged the shift towards meth:

Pot was part of this story too. As some American states legalized marijuana, Mexican pot revenue faltered. Many producers switched to making meth and found it liberating. Marijuana took months to grow, was bulky, and could rot. “But with crystal meth,” the member of the Sinaloan drug world told me, “in 10 days you’ve made it. It’s not as bulky as pot, so in two weeks you’re crossing the border with it. Within two or three months, you’re big.”

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
Good to know that when I get a Mac I should remember to never store user data on it as primary. Must have active sync as primary. The local storage should really be seen as only a cache.

This article caused a bit more research summarised as: When that SSD dies the system is dead along with its contents. No particular recovery feasibly possible.

So, yeah, that SSD is a cache of the user data for editing local and a disposable boot device. The whole machine is a disposable client device with a built-in obsolescence time line.

Good to know.

(Add it to the list of other machines with the same design goals)
Dropbox is already here - it's rsync.
This. The biggest example I can think of to prove your point is Microsoft.

To provide a personal anecdote; I don't like using Microsoft products and always look for an open-source, unixy replacement when at home. I complain about Microsoft (products, economy, & policy) at almost every opportunity. And in the same breath I will wholeheartedly recommend the same Microsoft product that I personally wouldn't use to a client in need. The ubiquity and quality of Microsoft products is too significant to ignore. If I were to recommend one of my neckbeard alternatives I would certainly get support calls about it all the time.

But if you only ever went by my social media posts you would think I absolutely hate Microsoft and vehemently refuse to use their products. That's not the case. I just don't get excited enough about Microsoft as a business to go parroting their marketing and waving their flag. The good balances the bad enough that I stay with the brand, but human negativity bias still exists and I've got to complain. The product is too ubiquitous to ignore.
I read all my books on my iPhone. Who needs a kindle? I used to have a massive library of books. But now in NZ, ebooks are a dream, as print edition prices are a nightmare
I mean for acoustic waves. Alternatively/similarly, could an aerial sonar waveform be matched to the ocean surface waves to cause constructive interference below the surface, and destructive above it? Would it be possible to recover the reflections afterward?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-reflective_coating

> Layer thicknesses are chosen to produce destructive interference in the beams reflected from the interfaces, and constructive interference in the corresponding transmitted beams. This makes the structure's performance change with wavelength and incident angle, so that color effects often appear at oblique angles.
> For even moderately complex projects, you need to work with a team, and being "nice" - which just means not being a jerk - is pretty essential for working even with an all technical team.

Would you call Google a moderately complex project? Because Google is very much focused on individuals rather than teams. Sometimes individuals works together, but it isn't required and you can spend your entire career just working on your own separate problems.

Of course Google also has lots of people who are competent at organizing and talking to people, but having a ton of engineers you can give a well defined problem and they will build a great solution without any extra input is still great to have and you can use that to compose reliable solutions to huge problems. There is no reason work groups needs to be teams rather than individuals.
Submarines are notoriously bad places to be. The navy actually sets very long enlistment terms for its submarine crews, because the re-enlistment rate is extremely low. Even with nuclear reactors submarines are cramped, noisy, and unpleasant. Removing the weaponry might make it suck less, but it’s not gonna be “luxury”.
Experience Machine
No, they auto-approve after 3 workdays and in my experience this is what usually happens with "questionable" peer bonuses.
This is not so much "industrial design". It was simply a company which was used to design stereo systems and VCR's trying to design computers.

In Brazil something very similar happened. Take a look in google images for "gradiente MSX".
> Windows is basically freemium now,

"Windows is a service" as all the naggy "if you could update, say now, that would be terrific" banners say. And as we on Hackernews say, if you're not paying for a service you are not the customer.
I had several iterations of this in S. Fla.--first "MediaOne" 1-way cable (downlink via a General Electric Sufboard SB-1000 ISA card with uplink via modem), then an external SB-1200 which was a combination cable modem downlink and modem uplink and an ethernet gateway. Finally, they threw all that away and gave us a DOCSIS modem.

I still remember what a pain it was to get that 1-way modem working on linux. I had to print the documentation out from Windows, and then reboot. On the other hand, learning how to get that driver[1] to compile and loaded as a kernel module was very educational.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/sb...
It's already that. It's already unimaginably bad thanks to it being shunned into the shadows where most users are hidden, left behind to be eaten alive by their worst impulses.

https://www.econtalk.org/sam-quinones-on-meth-fentanyl-and-t...
According to Forbes, Zillow has been buying homes since 2018:

> In April 2018, the company entered the fledgling on-demand home buying market (often referred to as ibuying) with a service called Zillow Offers. Prospective sellers in 11 markets (and growing) can go to the Zillow listing for their own home and ask for an offer. Within two days they’ll be sent a price derived from the Zestimate and other algorithms. Two local experts also provide input on each house, and if the seller likes the initial offer, a Zillow employee comes to inspect the property. (If a home is in poor condition the offer may be withdrawn or lowered.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2019/07/01/rich-b...
I'll definitely be moving on from Edge if/when it fails to support uBlock Origin.
Dumb question: Is 'metaverse' (as Meta wants to use it) in some sense born generic in Trademark/IP terms?
Oh, not fun ! :)
I’m not sure how anybody considers things like CDE or the the old Windows 9x aesthetically pleasing. Say what you want about MacOS/Gnome/Windows at least they are easy on the eyes
A friend of mine had a really bizarre experience with Zillow’s ibuy. First, he sold right his condo through them right before the pandemic (Jan. 2020), but then, literally a week before his 90 day closing period was up, they pulled out, blaming public health orders [1] even though they would never be in his house and it was literally a matter of paperwork. They did this as a way to get out of their contracts and hedge their bets.

Flash forward eight or nine months, the housing market explodes and they triple down on their iBuys. My friend sells his home again, again with Zillow (I couldn’t believe he chose them either), and they offer him more than they did in Jan. 2020 (he sold sometime in 2021). Even with the extra mortgage payments he had to make, he still ended up making some money on the deal. Clearly, these companies were in over their heads, making bad decisions on algorithms and not doing real due diligence. The fact that they had an out 18 months ago and stopped doing this, only to triple down and lose $550m in a quarter is just staggering.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brendarichardson/2020/03/28/zil...
I think Zillow saw the numbers going up in the housing market and got FOMO.

It's crazy to think an institution like this would get FOMO, but I think what happened is in 2020 they saw housing prices go through the roof, thought to themselves "hey we have all of this data, we can make a quick buck here" and piled in only to now get burned.
My point wasn't that I had contradicting data. My point was that the data Tesla publishes isn't valuable. It's a different statement. The premise could be right or wrong.
IIRC, the impetus for Jon Orwant creating the video was him wanting to make 5TB of data publicly available (the US patent dataset? it was before my time) and all the hassles that were involved.
Can Supersonic Air Travel Fly Again?
Yes, they did, but they could’ve still come out ahead if monetary policy wasn’t about to significantly shift and the carrying costs were reasonable.

Rising interest rates is absolutely going to have an impact on home values and mortgage rates. What it does to home transaction velocity is yet to be seen.
I have never heard that tenured professors can use the name of their institution without permission. I don't think that's either permitted by any rules (to the extent that rules that apply to tenured professors vary and are only partially codified), or tacitly permitted by the universities and their press departments.

Obviously a subject matter expert in a trial is allowed to describe their credentials (education and employement) but that's not a right solely for tenured professors.

If you could point to written policies or analysis supporting this claim I would be very interested to see it.
great story. I'm excited for this!
Yeah but I don't need a 4TB SSD right now. I barely need a 2TB.
The domain for CSS Guidelines is a real shame. It wins points for vanity but it's on Spain's tld. ccTlds tend to be localised such that you don't see them unless you're in the country.
I think the catch is that if you installed chrome and use it, you won't see those prompts, and if Microsoft changed teh default away from chrome against your wishes, you probably do want to be notified of the change.

I can opt out of googles nags by just not installing chrome, I can't say the same for edge on windows.
Does anyone know where most of these homes were purchased? This kind of practice where companies buy large quantities of houses should be banned. It isn't fair for first time or second time home buyers, non-corporate buyers essentially.
> Why does anyone (besides China) care? Nobody in that region recognizes those claims.

China has power, military and economic, and thus can't be ignored. If Fiji claimed a region of the Pacific, it wouldn't matter (in this respect).
I once signed a contract to write a textbook. The publishers were so busy swallowing up each other I had a clause added: if the house sold, I would be able to move to another publisher and keep my advance, and one year later, I did
Interesting. I always "perform" the rotation in my mind's eye, so I guess I figured that's how most others did, too. Typical mind fallacy strikes again.
I posted something like this recently.

People don't have long-term willpower. If someone sticks to a diet and exercise routine which makes losing weight easy-ish and natural, there's a good chance they'll lose weight; if their routine makes them constantly hungry, tired, and stressed, there's a good chance they'll gain weight. Ignoring the effects on metabolism, unprocessed food generally causes the former, insulin spikes cause the latter.

Even if "CICO" is absolute and 500 calories of broccoli = 500 calories of chocolate, that's not really important. Because 500 calories of broccoli is an insane amount that you probably can't eat even if you tried, while 500 calories of chocolate you can eat and still be hungry afterwards.

But there's one caveat: a lot of people find that occasional "cheat meals" make sticking to a diet the other 90% of the time easier. Even some pro athletes and bodybuilders have cheat meals. I really doubt smaller amounts of processed food cause the metabolic changes the article describes or any significant changes, so while the quality of food matters, that doesn't mean people need to avoid junk food entirely.
I don't know how many people remember the Lean Startup movement and Steve Blank's book "Four Steps to the Epiphany" which is about how to take one's product hypotheses and rigorously validate them before scaling up. But somewhere there's a side note that basically said, "If we end up in another bubble, ignore all of this, because in a bubble being careful and capital-efficient isn't a great strategy."

I think about that a lot these days given the absolute oceans of capital sloshing around. I'm glad you got a piece of it! But this is a really weird way to redistribute excess wealth.
For the vast majority of home users, disaster recovery does supersede physical security in importance.
Never had any SSD fail in my life ever. This is a worry for some, but its not a realistic fear. You can write TB daily to most SSDs and it'll still not wear out. What's your current SSD's usage written in S.M.A.R.T.?
> all shares of Class B common stock will automatically convert into shares of Class A common stock on the earlier of (i) the seven-year anniversary of the closing date of this offering...

This is an interesting olive branch to class A shareholders, but is there a reasonable way for them to prevent class B holders from just extending the deadline by amending the articles?
I wrote Hacking Healthcare for O'Reilly Media, created ClearHealth/HealthCloud, WebVista, yada yada...

There are several factors that collide to make everything in software associated with health exponentially more difficult than in other areas. First, people's lives are actually on the line, the stakes are very high. Second, government regulation plays a significant role in how things can and cannot be done, this is a double edged sword in preventing some abuses but also making iteration and innovation more difficult.

The other most signifcant point is that there are often very large gaps in vision between different layers of a very large and complex human system. The needs of keeping the lights on and billing are often in direct tension to the needs of optimal care, this often manifests in software as a chimera that pleases no one.

One other tidbit I will add is well covered in my book's chapter "The incredible bandwidth of paper". When you actually sit in a room and see how fast and how complex the information recorded by a group of medical professionals with nothing but pen and paper form is, it is daunting to actually deliver that level of performance and reliability with any technology that exists today.
Y'know I love the idea of using a serif font as your system font—I use Noto Serif as my own system font—but good lord, if you're going to use a serif font you need to enable hinting. The unhinted fonts in that title bar look anything but "modern" to me.
I do not see anything while dreaming. It is a constant source of slight anxiety as I can be quite conscious and the blindness is puzzling. In daily life I can project myself in some mental space (ie my kitchen) and perceive where the boundaries of things would be, but none of this process has anything to do with vision of sight. It's more like extend proprioception.

If you place your hand on a wall, then close your eyes, then remove your hand, I suspect you'll still feel where the wall is. Even if you picture something completely different in your head, the wall is still there I suppose? My guess is that my extend proprioception (or whatever the right name for this would be) is more fine tuned and apt than someone with a mind eye, but I can't really know. :|

I also do not hear sounds while dreaming, but then again I don't really have an inner monologue anymore, that went away at the same time I learned programming and I don't think it's a coincidence. I do verbalize in my head when reading conversation-like stuff (HN, slack, etc.), but you won't catch me with any internal monologue while reading ingredients, jira tickets, etc.

While dreaming, I can have conversations but there's no gradual arrival of content, it's instantaneous, it was not yet "said" or it was.
The less successful you are, the longer you can get away with calling yourself young.
All interviewing comes down to answering three questions:

1. Can they do the job?
2. Will they like the job?
3. Will I like working with them?

1 and 2 are the easiest to determine, yet we overemphasize it in interview time. We usually save 3 for the last five minutes of any session.
If you cook, fry, bake, brine or ferment it, it's "processed".

Think of the damage doable by unprocessed food: all the pathogens and parasites that can enter your body.

The fact you can eat something that is six months old is possible thanks to processing, such as leaving it in the same air-tight container in which it was cooked, a.k.a canning.
This script is ridiculous in python with classes. It would be much cleaner as a sequence of prints and inputs.
No one is suggesting a requirement. Are you making a tangential point or did you interpret me as suggesting we should require victims to participate in helping the prosecution?