skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes they are real, it's in the low hundreds of bucks range. They must be approved by the recipients manager. Its also limited how many a employee can send (but the limit is fairly high). There is also "kudos" which comes with no money, but has no limits or approvals required.

They are intended to be used for going above and beyond, not for stuff that falls within the scope of ones job. Using them as bargaining chip is explicitly against policy.
I like Observable https://observablehq.com notebooks for this kind of thing - quickly building automated scripts that simply accept user input and use it to dynamically construct a copy-and-paste output.

You can run and edit them entirely in the browser, they can do anything you can do with JavaScript and they're easy to share with other people and create forks.
Yup. It's natural human tendency to reduce mundane work. But it can be illuminating how much you can improve results by stepping in and getting your hands dirty first.
Vidangel: Automatically skip unacceptable scenes on Netflix and Prime
That is a fairly write-heavy use case. But SSD endurance is measured in drive writes per day (over a typically 5-year warranty period). Rewriting the entire contents of your drive every workday for 2.5 years is only enough to put a typical consumer SSD out of warranty; actual failure due to write endurance will come much later.
The parts are niche, they don’t work anywhere else. Nobody will touch making niche parts for repairing one with a niche marketshare. You don't expect anyone to take up custom parts to a WilyFox phone even though its a much larger marketshare device do you? So why do you think they will for this laptop nobody has? Yes, it’s a general computer, nothing unique in computing to choose it over the other.

Dell and HP have plenty of aftermarket parts and don’t limit my OS either.

They start at $999 and the base is 8GB, 256GB SSD, with an i5 and you need to wait with a deposit and it only has 1 year of warranty with no strong aftermarket products. None of these are incentivizing for performance, for repairable, or for cost.
$144/year sounds about right to me. A little higher than SquareSpace and being the new cat in town I'd suggest undercutting them to get traction, but overall I don't think it's far out.
We keep on hearing about folks needing to swap out disks out that are broken who ALSO don't have apple care AND are out of warranty? I mean, how many people is this vs the millions / billions of idevices out there? Apple simplifies / integrates like crazy - that is a focus for them. No separate bios flash - my guess is others start copying them personally.

Because apple products hold value so well, I just sell me 2 year old stuff and it can really knock down cost of the new stuff.
"Process Automation" would be a good, encompassing term I think.

Even if there's no code being run, having all the steps down and easy to follow is a way to make the process "automatic". The term is extendible to completely automated computer code, while including non-computer-code (human) automation.
Deploying new Azure Container Apps with familiar languages
It's hard to overstate how poor this take is.

> [1.] researchers must learn to identify authors of research, and their relationships with industry and with non-profit groups that have specialized agendas.

So research is not allowed to be respected by scientists if done with underlying business interests?

> [2.] scientists should consider what kinds of argument the data and conclusions serve.

So you should intentionally bias your results if they don't fit the narrative you wanted?

> [3.] scientists can consistently highlight correct information and avoid serving as inadvertent amplifiers of flawed information

This gets to the core of the problem. It assumes scientists know the truth and the 'correct' studies.

In my experience, my friends with unwise and problematic takes on Covid are almost 100% in the camp that scientists are trying to do the very things this article says they should do!

What we need is scientists who have backbone, who have an unwaivering unaltering desire to get to the truth at all costs. Anything less is both not scientific and not someone you should trust. You won't get the clear answers you want from this individual though.
>forced seller

This takes a bit more patience though. They can drag on for a while as the bank & "owner" possibly reconcile or the owner fights things tooth & nail. These deals tend to fall through a bit more than traditional sales. Given patience though, you can get a good deal: Banks don't want to be in the business of actually owning houses & their carrying costs, so they generally sell at a market-clearing rate instead of waiting for the best possible offer.
you get some money ($150/bonus, IIRC) for helping someone out, assuming manager approval

akin to the usual corporate "thank you" gift card, but more money and generally easier to distribute
Tesla recalls 11,706 vehicles over Full Self-Driving Beta software bug
as an engineer I want both in my fellow engineers and bosses. lower skilled coworkers are fine if theyre fundamentally intelligent and curious and willing to learn more. core intelligence of your coworkers will prob not change, however, over the course of your fellow employment. and a raging jerk or narcissist will never get better, as a general rule.
Sometimes two wrongs DOES make a right.
The underlying problem is that everyone is familiar with the primitives of ordinary, day-to-day doubt: honesty, conflicting interests, status. We all practice it every day as part of our evolutionary programming, and some of us even like to watch the odd soap opera to keep scratching that itch.

Almost nobody really spends much time with that other kind of doubt, epistemological skepticism. Theories, hypotheses, observations. Dense articles, years of reading.

So what happens when someone brings up climate change, or covid, or anything else? You can be sure they look at the former. They want to know who said what, and they want to know the interests behind it. Is this or that person a liar? What motivations might they have?
How about "scripted playbook"?
Well, if you want an open source DAW, there's Ardour. I don't use it, but it is fairly complete.
But how do you define character?
I'm a mid 30s renter also flush with cash, living in a high COL area.

I have found a happy (to me) medium - I invest all of it diversified across low to high risk assets (muni bonds, i bonds, tips, mREITs, dividend stocks, stablecoins, growth stocks), and at this point just the interest/dividends (NOT counting unrealized gains!) almost cover even my crazy rent (3500/month, for the house we are renting which is valued at about 1.5m). I just don't have the time or the energy for a house. Also a house doesn't MAKE anything other than provide shelter. Psychologically it doesn't make much sense to me to "invest" in a single house, tied to one area, such a large % of my networth. My friends bought houses recently, and even the "flips" turned out to be fixer/uppers. The supply is so bad right now you can really get burned.

Once the supply improves - and really this means most of the government distortions disappear, I would reconsider. By government distortions i mean specifically 0) stimulus checks 1) extra unemployment (bonus monthly $, extra time, and expanding benefits to people that would not have otherwise been covered) 2) mortgage forbearance programs 3) student loan forbearance 4) super low rates. i agree at one point these distortions were necessary when we were all hunkered down and hospitals were being overrun, but we are far from that these days.
My comparison list was based on things I care about / have noticed so far, not based on a full feature comparison. Multiaccounts Containers addon isn’t something I care much about. I do kind of like the Facebook container addon but would be fine without it.

Funny you mention uBlock Origin being more effective on Firefox. As I mentioned, it seems to block things I don’t want it to block when I’m using Firefox.
Really shows you what an excellent job the Apple Silicon team have been doing. Latest A series SoCs are ahead of the Android competition by miles in most metrics. I was hoping custom Google Silicon might get closer to competing, but maybe I had my expectations set far too high.
It's really easy to get your cash into a real estate ETF, giving you exposure to that market without any of the fuss or commitment of tying everything up with one property.

> Those are the only mandates that make sense to me, and I would hope that by Jove, even our most brainwashed vaccine-loving brethren could get onboard with.

I'm afraid that on a planet with 8ish billion meat-based life forms of extremely similar cellular makeup, vaccine mandates are going to be the norm going forward. Covid won't be the last pandemic, and vaccines are the best defense we have against them. It's not brainwashing to accept vaccination as a countermeasure, it's very clear-eyed realism.
Yet he got unambiguously declared wrong...
There is a ruby gem for rails projects: https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails

It's hard to say how difficult it could be but some companies already migrated from activeadmin to motor admin gem for their rails projects and they claim that it was worth it :)
Microsoft is planning “3D metaverse apps” for Xbox and PC
Mythical Games Announces Partners Blockchain
It's a bit of a shallow perspective to say that Google shut down Wave. Sure, they shut down the branding and distinct feature that was called wave, but it was essentially just the experimentation environment for synchronous editing that was then deeply integrated into the rest of the GSuite. It didn't die, it just went through metamorphosis.
> Most of the changes to C++ have been fixing old problems.

It will not fix all the pre-existing legacy code that people deal with on a daily basis. Languages are like infrastructure. People need to get it right on day one since it's exceedingly expensive to fix later on after people have already started to build on top of it.
A TL I worked with once had a simple but effective strategy for that:

"Remove it and see who complains."

I did that (with the impenetrably named "PrefetchExperiment", last touched by a branch that lost previous file history in 2007). Turned out it was the source data for Google's DNS to figure out how to route queries to the lowest-latency datacenter, based on their geographic location. In about a month, it would've taken down all Google services. Oops.

It was a very effective way of figuring out who owned the variable and writing a big long comment explaining what it's there for and which team to contact before changing it, though.
Just off the shelf, in the US, you tend to have access to 10, 15, 20, and 30 year fixed rate mortgage. Variable rate mortgages used to be pretty common, but they're nearly non-existent anymore.

When we shopped to refinance, there were no adjustable rate mortgages to be found, only fixed rate.

Anyway, what we saw was that, depending on who you finance through, you can get a term anywhere from 5-50 years.
Egypt's might is tumbled down

Down a-down the deeps of thought;

Greece is fallen and Troy town,

Glorious Rome hath lost her crown,

Venice' pride is nought.

But the dreams their children dreamed

Fleeting, unsubstantial, vain

Shadowy as the shadows seemed

Airy nothing, as they deemed,

These remain.

(Mary E. Coleridge, 1908)
... Try to get a mortgage or other large loan if your personal data regarding $$ is corrupted. Try getting some positions or clearances if your association data is corrupted.
You seem to have found a significant weak spot: apart from the dubious approach of rejecting MIDI, ignoring OSC and reinventing the wheel, the assumption of octaves is very gratuitous and a net complication.

MIDI supports 127 different notes and it is the synthesizer's job to decide their pitch; likewise, a piano roll has a predefined set of notes, each with its own pitch.

It's therefore very unfortunate that they decide to be much less flexible than MIDI and represent notes as

> The octave of the note, stored as an i8. For example, in 12-TET, a value of 0 means the octave with root note C4, 1 is the octave with root note C5, -1 is the octave with root note C3, etc.

> The index of the note in the scale stored as a u16. For example, in 12-TET, a value of 0 means C, a value of 1 means C#, a value of 2 means D, etc.

clearly closing the door to flat identifier spaces like the MIDI note number and to more general representations of tuning with non-octave repeating intervals or with the pitch of every note.
this is making me miss memegen

google had its downs, but wasting hours on memegen was not one of them
tar over ssh also does well with file metadata.
A Seawolf-class submarine cost about $3BN to build back in 1990, equivalent to about $5BN today, or more than a third the cost of the Gerald Ford supercarrier. My thinking is the Navy doesn't like losing such a sub. Most likely the Navy does care about seamounts, and does provide the most accurate charts possible to their men in the front line.

There's a possibility that these seamounts are not completely static. This area is home to part of the "Pacific Ring of Fire", where there are plenty of active and dormant volcanoes, many of them underwater. Take a look at the chart in [1] for example.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/volcanoes-and-earthquakes-the-pacific-...
This kind of immense effort that’s put into making concepts easy to understand is greatly appreciated.
Terraform. My god, just use terraform.

Stop scripting random stuff to create multiple untracked resources in different places by hand.

Slap this[1] on top of this[2] and add whatever other services you want, and boom. Done.

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49743220/how-do-i-create...

2. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/1Password/onepasswor...
Which is a clone of Confluence, which is a clone of any wiki software.
If you don't promote yourself, who is going to promote you? The "marketplace of ideas"? LOL.
In normal countries with central ID systems, nobody can delete your official existence. Worst case scenario is you're wrongly declared dead, but I don't see how "chaos and anarchy and just use random pieces of paper to prove who you are" avoids this problem.
The "approval paralysis" thing happens at a lot of companies, large and small, not just GiantTech. It creeps up on you slowly: 1. A big problem happens that gains the attention of leadership. 2. The problem is root-caused to some risky thing an employee did trying to accomplish XYZ. 3. To correct this, a process is put in place that must be followed when one wants to do XYZ, and (critically) gatekeepers are anointed who must approve the activity. 4. These gatekeepers are inevitably senior already-busy people who become bottlenecks. Now we can't do this critical thing without hounding approvers. 5. Some other big problem happens and the above cycle starts all over again.

Before you know it, every even slightly risky task you need to do through the course of your job requires the blessing of approvers who are well-intentioned, but all so overloaded they don't even answer their E-mail or chats. They sometimes need to be physically grabbed in the hallway in order to unblock your project. Progress grinds to a halt and it still has not stopped production problems--just those particular classes of problems that the approval processes caught.

EDIT: Not sure what the right solution is, but it must be one that doesn't rely on a particular overloaded human doing something. Maybe an automated approval system that produces a paper trail (to help with postmortem and corrective action later) and ensuring all changes can be rolled back effortlessly. Easier said than done, obviously.
My memories are fuzzy and I admit I don't remember how faithful they were.
A lot of the engineering math associated with splines (NURBs) and surface approximations came from Citroen, Peugeot and Renault, the car makers, in the mid-20th century. I read a great book on this back in the 80's and can't remember the name. It was about the early days of CAD and its origins.

Like, the control points on splines were called "ducks", which were weights attached to spring steel suspended from the ceiling of the studio, which caused the steel to bend into particular shapes computed mathematically beforehand by the design engineers. These curves were used to guide model making. It was a fascinating book.
Certipy: Ad Certificate Services (AD CS) misconfig enumeration and abuse
https://archive.md/gND5q
And both are a shameless clone of Microsoft Sharepoint - it all comes full circle
Cuomo and Riverkeeper entered into a deal with Entergy to shut down Indian Point Energy Center.

I am personally disappointed because it provided good jobs in my community and 1/3 of my school district's revenue.
It's weird that Devs find this so surprising, other than that we are mostly a bunch of introverted misanthropes.

I mean - you spend more time with your teammates than you do with your spouse, it's not hard to understand why friendliness is ranked as high importance.

If you've ever REALLY worked with a team full of assholes, you'd get it too. If not, maybe you were one of the assholes.

That said, this isn't a question of whats best for the firm, it's what people prefer in their work environment. Goes along with higher pay, less hours, better benefits.
> I don't know any good use case where Graphql API server as a proxy between the data and the admin UI

If you want a view that consists of multiple entities. Example: a view that displays a customer with his last 5 orders and current inventory count for the items in those orders. That's probably 3 entities (customer, orders, inventory). Sure, you can do this with REST but typically it will require calls to 3 different endpoints to gather that data. A graphQL server can serve the same data with 1 endpoint using a custom graphQL query. I'm not saying one is better than the other; just trying to give you an example.
Using Wireguard is also an good option to prevent the connection from being dropped when switching networks
I remember Michael Wood's TV series about the Iliad and he mentioned the repetition in it. He then showed a modern day Armenian troubadour (for lack of a better word) singing a story with instrumental accompaniment to a rapt audience [1].

Is the repetition a clue that maybe these poems were meant to be sung, and not read?

[1] https://youtu.be/64QPz2t5T3A?t=1027
But a notary isn't involved in renting, so there was noone to check.
I was a bit hesitant to keep the "recalls" without quotation marks in the title since practically this isn't a recall as we know it, the issue is fixed already through another software push
> when they should be able to kick the app over the wall and let infra ensure that the app is deployed in two separate PCR zones with the failover plan etc, which should itself be mostly automated

Not entirely - the developers should actively participate in designing the actual failover scenario and making sure the application can handle that (anything from being okay with some downtime due to the failover happening to designing an actual multi-region multi-master application). Making assumptions like 'infra will handle it' is a great way to not only get unexpected outages (because the developers assumed there would be no downtime because failover is magic, or that writes will never be lost) but to also introduce tensions between teams (because you now have an outside team having to wrangle an application into reliability when the original authors don't give a crap about it).

I get and agree with your point, the tooling and processes should definitely be simplified/automated when possible, and developers deserve a working platform that just works. The whole point of a platform team is to abstract away the mundane to let people do their job. But reliability is everyone's job, not just the infra's team, and developers must understand the tradeoffs and technology involved in order to not design broken systems.
The most obvious change that came from this video is that Google abandoned the Borgmon readability requirement. At Google, every change needs approval from someone who has passed a detailed style-guide review process in the given language.

Now over multiple changes, it used to require one fairly big one. It's still a pain in the languages that require it--which is all the main ones, but very few of the niche ones.

Many other things changed as well. Much of what the video complains about got automated and better documented. But the company has grown so much, and the product lines have diversified so dramatically, that there are still plenty of places to complain about the overhead.
I think it works now. I did it last week and haven’t seen the sponsored shortcuts reappear.
The books at least advanced at a constant pace. Foundation seems stuck since three episodes ago. I'm surprised how an hour-long show can consist of mostly stalling. It will need a few seasons per book at that pace.
Jiu Jitsu.

It keeps the body loose. I like to go right after work so all of my bad desk posture gets stretched out of me.

It's a lot of fun, and a great way to socialize while working from home.
In a world in which most "literature" was memorized and then performed orally, repetition had a few key functions: 1) making it easier to tell a part of the story (an audience probably wouldn't listen to the whole thing in one go); 2) making it easier to memorize (while also allowing the performer/bard some time to "autopilot" and remember what comes next); 3) making the meter fit (this is why you'll see the same epithets over and over).
fb just had to pay $650m to people in Illinois for blatantly violating their biometrics law.

I suspect that between Illinois and the EU, there's flatly no way to reliably legally do this.
It is disgusting to see this in a major scientific journal. If science is subordinate to policy advocacy, it isn't science.

> Although many scientific champions did provide appropriate context, I watched several respected colleagues step into debates on when, or if, society would reach herd immunity without realizing that the discussion was not simply a scientific debate. Their too-narrow focus unintentionally helped to promote controversy and doubt, and that ultimately impeded an effective public-health response.

So we shouldn't talk about facts because they might interfere with your preferred agenda. Fantastic. "The Science", in bold, bright letters.

The author isn't talking about misinformation here -- she's saying that discussion of a fact is somehow dangerous.

> The same happened around mask use, vaccination and school policies. This helped to shift public opinion on which public-health measures were ‘acceptable’: the fewer the better.

The latter does not follow from the former. And "the same happened" is a huge leap from the previous paragraph, which is about herd immunity...a scientific fact if there ever was one.
> That's just reads like BS.

Because it partly is. It's just a lame defence / justification of soldering SSD, RAM and other parts, the major advantage of which is to make modern electronics more complex, hard to repair and prevent upgrades (i.e. "planned obsolescence"). If SSDs were reliable beyond 5+ years, manufacturers would be highlighting that and even offering guarantees for such a period. (Hell, most RAM today come with "lifetime" guarantees, even though RAM modules too fail occasionally).

The modular design for computer hardware was chosen for a practical reason - that hardware can, and do fail. While electronic manufacturing has advanced a lot, minimizing failure rates to a great extent, the pros of replaceable modules absolutely still outweigh any of the alternative hardware designs so far.