skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not entirely sure who pushed for these changes.

If a historical analysis isn't your thing(and I get that), the next best thing anyone can do is look for it in the present. Anywhere we see people pressing for the individualization of responsibility, assuming the inability of groups of people to affect positive change, or the "I'm not responsible for anyone but myself" attitude, we see a person with this mindset realizing a reality where everyone is more distant, alone, and lonely.
Had to double check the logo to understand why I was reading this article in Grady's voice.
Numba is great! Whenever you’re using CPU and have very simple parallelism patterns, it’s your best bet for speeding up numpy.

But if you needed to do this on a GPU or TPU, ideally with native and transparent SIMT, such as the case for the SO question inspiring the post (an unsupervised centroid-based loss for a deep learning setting), would you have to write a custom C++ kernel to do this?

Free SIMT may even make this worthwhile in the few-centroid setting.
I'm claiming the opposite. Wage increases yield rent increases. Evidence: Where is rent high? Whoa! Right there were wages are high.

What happens when you add a high-paying employer to a region (e.g. Amazon HQ2)? Whoa! Rent goes up and prices the people who live there out.

Obviously the reverse is not true. Increasing rent would not make more capital available for wages, it just puts enterprise out of business and individuals out of their homes.
It's not true. I am literally reading "Refactoring" right now. It's very good.
What about those of us who grew up where we live?
Tie any text editor to a hotkey.
> I will always remember the look of sheer panic

I don't know if you're exaggerating or not, but even if true why would anyone show that emotion about losing a job in the worst case?

You certainly had a lot of relevate-to-todays-top-hn-post stories throughout you career. And I'm less and less surprised to continuously find PragmaticPulp as one of the top commenters if not the top that resonates with a good chunk of HN.
for me yt does podcast & music well. just download w/e for a jog. (really i would prefer to read a book but i need the exercise)
as for tutorials sometimes it helps to see what's going on (like with painting or audio design), sometimes if I'm limiting to reading a book I can easily fool myself about what I know. solving pre-made problems help but is still limiting.
"resolve" here means to see, as in, could Hubble take a photo of the JWT.
I have spoken to people who agreed to pay and to be sent an invoice for an existing product which they have seen a demo of live and which they loved, and did not pay when they when the invoice was sent.

I'm not saying it is not a start, but maybe we could validate further? As in, dollars in the bank account? Just a little more.
That was just an example of knowing how to figure out the politics and play the game. It takes some creative literacy standards to consider that "equating" them.
It would be fascinating to see what it took for people to stop and turn back.
Take up Photography, it's cheap, and fun.
Certainly both phenomena you describe are real, but we do try to keep them in check, especially because 'first impression' is heavily influenced by class, sex, race, physical appearance, nationality, etc.
Yup. And although that particular merger hasn't happened, it correctly predicted the trend toward consolidation.
If they could carry a larger payload, we could have a Hubble with a larger primary mirror. Some of the risks/costs of the JWST is all the folding mechanisms to fit the Ariane 5 payload enclosure.
I'm a civil engineer, soil compaction is still critical for any grading fill and will continue to be important. One of the biggest issues though is that it can be really hard to compact native material to the required spec. It has to be perfectly within a narrow window of moisture content +/- just a few perce t to achieve full compaction.
>Imagine if it were easy to set up a secure solution to access your home lab from anywhere

It is. You just need to port forward the ports you want exposed to the "cloud" (aka the internet)
Well, if you're web-based, there's never really been any better alternative. Even before "the cloud", you had to be hosted in a datacenter somewhere if you wanted enough bandwidth to service customers, as well as have somebody who would make sure the power stayed on 24/7. The difference now is that there used to be thousands of ISP's so one outage wouldn't get as much news coverage, but it would also probably last longer because you wouldn't have a team of people who know what to look for like Amazon (probably?) does.
I've always wanted a music recommendation system that worked in some sort of latent vector space. Song2Vec if you will. That way you could search for music similar to how people describe it. Something like: metal + Abba = Ghost.

I know Pandora used to (still?) was doing this, but the features were never exposed to users, and were very music theory. (Apparently I like vamping, but until I looked it up, I couldn't tell you want it was.)
We also use it for fitting charged particle tracks in high energy physics experiments.

Here, we’re iteratively incorporating measurements along the trajectory, finally arriving at basically a least squares fit result, after a backward smoothing pass.
I don’t know that molasses would be cheaper, soda is practically free
A bit off-topic, but maybe some experts could answer a question?

I've recently re-read Clancy's "Red Storm Rising", the sections on submarine (and anti-) warfare are really interesting (I understand some of it may be simplified/fictional). E.g., how the Mark 48 torpedo can be set to and launched in "hunting mode", where it circles at a slow, undetectable speed, and only after acquiring a target it suddenly accelerates for a kill.

Let's consider this excerpt from [1]:

Terminal Homing is the final stage of the torpedo attack. (...) Terminal homing is an active sonar ping that retransmits on reception becoming more rapid as the range to target closes at maximum speed. (...) The target is alerted to the attack, but there is nothing it can do to defeat the weapon at this point. The weapon is too close and moving too fast to allow time for a countermeasure to be effective.

Now, I might have read too much David Weber ([2]), but wouldn't a small, cheap-ish counter-torpedo suffice? Put 10-20 of them in small automated launchers all around the hull, and let them crash head-on with the (now perfectly detectable) approaching boat-killer, still at a safe distance (which is.. I don't know, 100-200 m?)

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33018/modern-submarine...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorverse
As I put it, I really think it is implicit in the right to life. The right to life means you should have the control over your life/death. You don't really have a right to life if you don't control the most basic part of that, life itself.
Which ones are difficult to deploy in multiple regions?
I'm sure the editor is fine for a basic editor that comes with the desktop environment, it looks functional enough, but the language in that article is just weird to me. It reads like some kind of prank.
> 1. They did not hit any submarine facilities, so the US submarines continued to operate normally.

Japanese submarine doctrine (attached to fleet elements in support of seeking battle/harassing the enemy fleet) may have influenced their target selection in going after larger surface combatants in preference to submarines.

And yes, that was a huge strategic mistake. U.S. submarines inflicted grievous damage to Japanese merchant shipping throughout the war.
>Facepalm in the form of $100Ms in service credits.

Part of me wonders how much they're actually going to pay out, given that their own status page has only indicated five services with moderate ("Increased API Error Rates") disruptions in service.
I have worked with a number of people who are really good at interviewing and then continue to focus on impressing important people and climbing ladders, but without being particularly skilled and/or particularly collaborative.

I have also worked with a number of people who are quite bad at interviewing but were excellent colleagues: highly collaborative and technically excellent.

When I create hiring processes, it's the latter people I try to select for. So assorted coworkers aside, the data I have come from those hiring processes. The glibbest and most charming people often do poorly in the pair programming portion; the most awkward often settle down into doing excellent work once you get them in a familiar context.

Some people are great at both, of course, and some people are bad at both. Which should be unsurprising given the number of people recommending a focus on developing interview skills. The whole idea requires that job skill and interview skill are not well correlated.
this is exactly opposite of what you should do, if the study is to be believed:

"They found that the likelihood of a favourable ruling peaked at the beginning of the day, steadily declining over time from a probability of about 65% to nearly zero, before spiking back up to about 65% after a break for a meal or snack."
I thought the experience they had servicing Hubble actually meant that they generally didn’t want to have satellites that they would have to service due to costs involved.

Maybe with the new options it becomes cheaper/ more viable.
> Sorry, but we did all of that 20 years ago, and those approaches remain a lot simpler for basic use cases.

Yeah, we did, and they were complicated then and they're complicated now. The difference is some of us have decades of experience which make them feel simpler.

> And if you think that Kubernetes is always the right approach, then you clearly are NOT aware of the tradeoffs.

I was very explicit that Kubernetes isn't always the right approach. Allow me to quote myself: "If all you're ever doing is hosting a static blog, then yeah, you don't need something like Kubernetes". My point is that things like Kubernetes and Docker Compose are increasingly viable defaults for nontrivial cases. In other words, if you know you're going to have a bunch of services to manage, it's a lot easier for most people (i.e., those lacking decades of experience) to manage them with the aforementioned tools rather than trying to build an equivalent "platform" from scratch.
> if our assumptions are incorrect then so are your conclusions.

What? That is nonsensical.

> Who said you can't get a skin from one game to a similar skin on another game?

How are you going to get an asset from one game to another game from different developers in possibly different engines with all the required licensing to use it as well?

Talk me through your technical solution for this step by step please.
phone spam.
The description of Infosys in the article is exactly the same as what I witnessed at Accenture in the UK 10 years ago.
I think you meant Wireguard; you could make a packet capture for Wireshark a long long time ago already.
$14.5 million raised for a 10 month old app with no product market fit…
Fowler isn't the author so if you're reading this article you aren't reading one of his (Fowler's) articles. Check the byline: Brandon Byars. I have no knowledge of this person so can't comment on his particular relevance, but seriously, took 1 second to see who the author is.
There's far less likely to be an off hand, low effort comment here, because they are frowned upon. At least half of the responses I write here get nuked before I hit the "add comment" button.
Recent and related:

What will enter the public domain in 2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29420667 - Dec 2021 (229 comments)
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There are some recent startups (Glyphic Bio out of MIT, and Jonathan Rothberg's Quantum-Si) that are tackling next-gen protein sequencing. I'm eager to see what they can do once they're widely available.
Whether or not you use SO is almost immaterial; the real red flag is the fact that an organization wouldn't _let_ you use it.
Would be great to have a resource written like this that covers the rest of maths, (or in fact jargon in general).
Notepad had a dark mode (and light mode, and grey mode, and "eye-searing yellow with purple font" mode, if you want) as recently as Windows 7 with the system-wide theme settings, so it's understandable to be sceptical when they bring the dark mode as some sort of a triumph when it's a regression.
> Our hopelessly outdated educational system deserves the blame for this widespread lack of education.

Not so fast. A trial with this large an amount at stake goes to a pretty senior judge. Blaming the public educational system of, say, 1975 for not teaching private key is... a bit misguided. (If they came out of the public school system in 2010, I could see your case. But I'd bet the judge of this case didn't...)
The Guide to Negotiating Your Software Engineering Salary
wait, he actually used CKAN and now the US government is also using it !? How horrifically ironic.
So if a user subscribes to the paywall site, that article is "about paying"?

The article's content is distinct from the method by which the publication chooses to earn revenue. A paywall article is "about paying" as much as an ad-ridden article is "about belly-fat ads." They're both designed to make money, only one shifts the cost to the end user. I'm all for putting a lock icon next to it in Google searches, or doing whatever's necessary to signal that it's paywalled, I guess, but don't blame the search engine for attempting to organize the world's information.
This article seems to be by Brandon, not Martin
The flaw in your reasoning is that the complexity of the problem is even remotely the same. Most AWS outages are control plane related.
Companies are made up of people. There is nothing that only affects companies and not people. A company is just a legal abstraction that represents a group of people.
A) don't build a business that relies solely on existence of another B) switch to another vendor if not happy with current vendor

Really not that complicated.
> It's also not surprising. This is exactly what ecological theory would predict for a monoculture. See what's happening to bananas with tropical race 4 infections.

What comparison are you trying to make...? Are we similar to bananas?
I wouldn't take 1 too seriously anyway. There's some evidence for instance that judges are harsher before lunch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_judge_effect.
The claim appears to be that BTC will fix the problems caused by fractional reserve banking. This is silly if fractional reserve banking can exist just fine even if everything is denominated in BTC.
Wouldn't have been a problem for Charles M. Schultz. One month of copyright would have been enough to keep him well fed. Same for Nassim Taleb.

In the age of the web, the big company's shitty bundled product may have a hard time competing with the creator's website. How many laptop vendors ship a custom fork of Ubuntu? But of course Ubuntu's kernel isn't exactly Linus's mainline, but I don't see him complaining.
Many club sandwiches have folded ingredients (with a big loop in it) [https://www.spendwithpennies.com/club-sandwich/]

(Sorry, can't resist keeping this going, this is some good discussion).

It's true I guess that the aspect ratio for most ingredients is 'flat', but many are thicker than the bread, and the whole sandwich is 'sideways' aspect ratio wise.
How to Handle Hypergrowth in a Remote World
Saudi Arabia Apparently Objects to .Catholic, .Gay, .Bible and More (2012)
AWS outages seem to always happen in the us-east-1 region. If you have the ability to use a different region I strongly recommend it.
Which is kind of weird, right? In theory if there are local issues, maybe you can get involved. You can't directly get involved in most of what you hear about at the national/global level (even though a national stock market means you can invest at the national level and thus you have an interest there, though your investment doesn't move the needle).
Flattening the curve or flattening the global poor?
Cloudflare's test compared the free tier of both services. The post was explicit about this. Workers free tier has limits too, and we would certainly have preferred to use the paid version of Workers in our test, but as the paid version of C@E is only available with an enterprise contract, the only fair test we could run was between free tiers.

Incidentally, this means Fastly's blog post is currently displaying test results that compare the enterprise version of Compute@Edge against the free version of Workers. Granted, our bad for the ToS clause, but still.

Despite the strong language in their post, Fastly has not actually demonstrated that anything was intentionally biased or unfair in Cloudflare's test. They've only laid out their opinions as to what would make a more representative benchmark. That's a debate you can have about any benchmark, but that doesn't somehow make the original benchmark "unethical".
Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history
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Copyright on a movie doesn't start until it's registered. The component parts are copyrighted upon creation but the entire work is a separate copyright. For example the Star Wars re-release is copyright 1997, even thought the bulk of it was created in 1975-76.
I think they're fighting the wrong fight, and too late. The advertising angle here seems moot, especially since news outlets had been self-sabotaging themselves out of relevance in the digital age for years before Google was even a thing.

1) Google found a way to get ads to consumers that is more attractive to advertisers. Whether or not they have a monopoly, advertisers won't suddenly go back to ineffective news media ads if Google is broken up and makes room for other competitors that also get ads to consumers better than legacy media does the job

2) Their ad revenue is much more limited by lack of readership than anything else.

#2 is why I said it's not just the wrong fight, but too late: online news sold out their future to Google years ago in a race to the bottom with each other. No one wanted to stop Google scraping their content because, once a few outlets allowed it, none were willing to cede readership to others that might get more attention from Google. So pretty much everyone allowed Google to scrape news content and present chunks of it in search results, and over time is means fewer people have any reason to click through. At the same time the outlets ramped up syndication and cut budgets on original work so readers had even less reason to click through to any particular site.

That's where they lost the fight.

If Google has an ad monopoly, the news outlets have no special status as victims of it and there every reason to believe their decades-long foot shooting would have placed them exactly where they are anyway.
Thank you for linking to the thread from 3 years ago. Somehow I had missed that one. Good to see the game "The greatest paper airplanes" referenced there. I was the original designer on that game (and others) for KittyHawk Software.

Good memories!
The jury system sounded nice on paper but it runs into two problems

1 the average citizen is not the philosopher king that the Founding Fathers envisioned

2 people can't even be arsed to vote how much do they really care about their civic duty
That is a beautiful write up. Helpful indeed.
I suspect it's not that it's illegal, it's that it's low value.

The answer to everything is: you have [cancer / horrible autoimmune disease / genetic defect / heart failure / diabetes / kidney failure]... even when the real answer is something benign.
Parking: such nonsense. You're reduced to quoting some self-interested tweeter?

Let me tell you how small businesses (like sandwich shops or nail salons or tutoring academies) work in San Jose:

You find an empty storefront in a strip mall on some street corner. You don't put it in the middle of a busy street like this San Francisco place. If you do, it's probably set back a little from the street with parking in front of it.

The strip mall has a large shared parking lot for all the stores, and as long as your shop doesn't have extremely high customer counts, you're good to go. If you're a marijuana dispensary or something high traffic, you may have a problem.

Would you like some pictures of little sandwich shops around here?
Not sure why you are writing this. Fowler isn't the author of the article.

martinfowler.com nowadays is just the Thoughtworks blog. I can't remember the last time reading a article by Fowler on there.
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I think JWST will be an amazing replacement as most space photos are doctored with visible light "interpretations" of other wavelengths already and nobody seems to notice/care as they have their minds blown. The process almost even adds to the beauty of them.
The vast majority of people are willing to pay exactly $0 for news, because they can access it for free through sites that copy articles as they're published.
What's the timeline to being fully operational?
The only thing adding to the "incomplete" escape was previous infection. So points for natural immunity. The previously vaccinated group were very recently doubly dosed. The author claims somehow that a booster will help, equating that to previous infection. In fact previous vaccination doesn't seem to do anything given the response was well below detection.

Curious why they didn't also test serum from:
- unvaccinated and uninfected
- single does vaccinated
- previously infected but not vaccinated

All my confusion evaporated after reading this:
"This study was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates award INV-018944 (AS), National Institutes of Health award R01 AI138546 (AS), and South African Medical Research Council awards (AS, TdO, PLM).
PLM is also supported by the South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Innovation and the NRF (Grant No 9834). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."
SaaS Pass Password manager and authenticator.

The browser extension is available on Firefox and is protected by passwordless MFA as well. It is free for personal use.

There is an enterprise version separately.

disclaimer: I worked on UI and UX stuff
A black box to record events that lead to downfall of civilization
> Oh mate, you are taking your job too seriously. You should go and do 100% of what you can, and if the project still fails, hey it wasn't your fault. Some tasks are FUBAR before they arrive at your desk and there is no point in worrying about that.

Agreed. This is exactly the type of person that shouldn't be working on these types of projects.

Yes, take the job seriously. Yes, feel responsible for your own actions. But don't assign all blame to yourself before you even start. Treat yourself as you treat others.
Formidable site
I always thought biology would be easier to learn if instead of entity names based on old languages they were instead verbose descriptions

i.e. Mitochondria->PowerHouseOfTheCell
It's very illogical that we as a society spent and are still spending so much to stop covid yet we spend little to nothing fighting obesity.

Banning soft-drinks entirely would have less of an economic impact than shelter-in-place and statistically would save more lives over the long term.

Solving or reducing obesity will also greatly decrease the amount of death caused by diseases like covid. It's crazy how okay we are with death/disease when it ramps up slowly instead of acutely.
I’ve hear the way to succeed with SAP is to reorganize your business to match either the default world view or some other cookie cutter variant. Essentially using it no code style.

Otherwise you’re exerting yourself doing “normal” things. That’s not sustainable.