skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were the first to pump out and up that Clinton paid for Steele Dossier / the dumb trump Pee pee tape thing. YEt they even noted it was not verified yet all left outlets picked it up and acted like it was nonfiction.

Anyone who believes that stuff (Hilary clinton pizza parlor pedo ring .. lmao to Hunter Biden narrative the right pushed lol) needs a life outside of for profit reality TV oops i mean for profit manipulated, biased media. There's zero objectivity with that garbage!

Think CNN might be trying to change it's course possibly with the firing of Coumo whose brother was probably forced out due to politics (Trump had it out for him). Not that I'd ever watch or read CNN or any of them again.
I have a similar hypothesis; I speculate that the reason automated testing isn’t a big thing in the gaming industry is because there are legions of humans who are willing to manually test the software.

I’m glad to see that you have identified areas of game software that wouldn’t be useful to test, and other areas where it would be. Excellent to see because it does highlight that there ARE places where automated tests can provide huge value.
> Cross-platform sandboxing for Graphite, Hunspell, and Ogg is shipping in Firefox 95, while Expat and Woff2 will ship in Firefox 96.

I wonder what the other "good candidates" that he referred to are.
In a way, your comment is an example of itself.
You’re attacking a straw man. Conservatives aren’t and don’t purport to be anarcho-libertarians. To a first order approximation, conservatives believe in cabining government to functions it has historically performed in the American tradition. That includes defense and internal security. It includes the protection of human life. At the state level—remember, state governments are not ones of enumerated powers—it includes a pretty broad intrusion into “the public welfare and morals.”
Wait a minute, you're a proponent of iterative approaches? In modern parlance most people put <non-iterative approaches> under the heading "waterfall".

Can you specify which book/process/document(s) you are using in your day-to-day? This could be very interesting in future discussions with clients, to say the least!
Yeah the consolidation vs de-consolidation a.k.a. bundling vs unbundling pendulum appears to be a cycle in the economy. At the height of each cycle there's a sense that it's permanent. I remember in the late 1990s to early 2000s everyone was saying large conglomerates were dead.
I would use always start with Postgres, because of its vast flexibility and extremely solid feature set, not to forget the excellent docomentation. I'v used Postgres in numerous projects and never had the need for pg_bouncer. Although I am sure there are some situation where it might be beneficial to use it. E.g. on the JVM it is best practice since 20 years to always use a connection pool in front of all JDBC drivers. IMHO transactional DDL is the killer feature for a fast moving project with customers.
The color guides seem similar to the IQAir AirVisual Pro and Apple’s weather app. Like the article mentions this is likely to be inside and most useful for alerting when cooking has caused significant particle emissions, that’s what I use my AirVisual for.
by reiterating it? Amazon occupied a space that Walmart was long absent in.

Who is competing against Amazon or Walmart now?
New type of earthquake discovered
First read this in the early 2000s in college and honestly didn’t quite grasp it. Revisited it later, and still didn’t quite grasp it. Was only a few years back, when I looked at social media through the lens of the book that I finally got the “ah ha” moment. I can’t say how much it holds up overall, but it’s definitely mind-expanding.
Re: the first paragraph's reference to nuking the Deepwater horizon's oil leak, Soviet engineers demonstrated that this was a viable technique back in the 60's. Plenty of wild non-war applications have been proposed for nuclear bombs over the years, but this is the only one I can think of that is actually somewhat of a good idea. Any fallout is minor and contained under 1km+ of bedrock, and the harm prevented is worth the cost. I am surprised that the author dismisses it so rapidly.

https://interestingengineering.com/soviet-engineers-detonate...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S57Xq03njsc
Say I'm convinced enough to order an AirGradient kit. Is this accurate? Does it take up to 5 weeks for most destinations?

> We currently ship approximately 1-2 weeks after receipt of payments. Delivery takes 2-3 weeks to most destinations (North America, Europe, Australia).
I like to simplify things and re-purpose an old Twister mat for a game I like to call, "Jump to Conclusions."

"Five Whys," is a variant of this game where you simply roll the dice five times.

If you want to put on a show and dance to let your management and colleagues know you care about quality and are doing something about it, then it's great. If you like false assurances and feeling like you've contributed to a system you cannot fathom or understand it will definitely give you warm tickles. And it makes you sound smart when you put on such an impressive display of initiative and critical thinking.
I think I'd call it a better and safer C - stricter overflow/undefined behavior than C (sometimes similar to rust unsafe) - and some help with eg pointers:

https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/#optional-type-instead-of...

Not as safe as rust, perhaps - but not "violently unsafe" either?
That gets it slightly backwards. The decline of slavery has to do with the fact it kind of sucks as an economic system from a productivity and incentive standpoint. (The moral is a no, duh.) And that is before the economic effects of slaves as inferior to even free paupers, and overall efficiency.

It literally incentivizes only working hard enough to not be punished and effort and investment of owners is into more slaves instead of improving productivity. Slavery is an economic trap of local maxima to the slaveholder. It is no coincidence that late abolishers are worse off than their neighbors who abolished earlier.

Not bothering with slavery is what helped acquire technology to massively beat out the short term. In spite of the emphasis on lower per unit cost slavery also is terrible in an industrial context, especially in a war one. The gulags weren't closed from kindness but because they looked at the infastructure produced and saw how awful it was. Using it for war materiale you may as well not bother with any locks or posted guards and outright invite in any foreign spies and saboteurs you find because you have them all literally incentivized to work just good enough to make it appear initially good to inspection and then fail in practice.

In all fairness to slavery it was the alternative to genocide historically. Yes, that previous sentence is horrifying on many levels. Genocide was the prior status quo and fights were over food supplies in the first place meaning displacement to a hostile undesirable wilderness or outright genocide were the common outcome for losers and being taken as a mate was "being lucky".

Food was too expensive to keep non-working captives for anything less than a suitably huge ransom. Human sacrifice had a habit of appearing and then falling out of favor once slavery was instituted (seen well in early Chinese tombs). The implications of human tendencies towards rationalization to justify what they want are clear and disturbing.
Facebook's New VR Headset: Sneak Peak Inside the Optics
We do, where it makes sense, like Iceland:

https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/iceland#energy-mix

But, as it being listed as 'other renewable' hints, it doesn't make as much sense elsewhere, where generally you can just install more solar and wind and save more carbon/money that way, and leave worrying about windless nights till you've picked the low hanging fruit.

For example, the current US plan is that after getting to 95% carbon free energy, to switch the focus to electrifying more things that currently burn fuel directly, rather than worry about that awkward last 5% before they need to.
> Many (most?) of the early Agile promoters were owners or partners in a consultancy doing work for clients.

This is a huge point that people who weren't in the industry back then completely miss: The people behind the Agile manifesto weren't trying to figure out how to improve software development as a whole...they were looking for ways to improve their consulting business. What works for them as consultants selling consulting services doesn't make any sense for a company dev team trying to develop software.
Does he talk about that in one of his videos? I'm curious to hear more. It looks like there is still a bitchute page up with his brand and videos.
You aren't the only one. A lot of people and smaller shops have abandoned Adobe for this reason. A single, upfront cost is just a more justifiable expense than an upfront cost with a monthly subscription, not to mention, losing access to your work if you miss a payment.
Deploy All the Things Even If They Aren't YAML
Correct, because nothing lasts forever in this fallen world. That said: the amount of time spent in a state of wage-driven inflation -- setting up the situation where temporary moments of price stickiness result in increases of effective demand that in turn hot up the economy as a whole -- is the thing we want to maximize.
Or if the Easter egg was obfuscated and looked potentially malicious[1].

1: https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/4091
I also ran into this recently when looking at SingleStore! I was surprised when they told me I couldn't use foreign keys, and was even more surprised that they were surprised that I do use foreign keys. They acted like I was the only one. And to be fair, given their clientele, I might be the only one!
I'd read that book for the first time only about a year ago. It has some warts, but in general has aged spectacularly well.

It is weakest on predictions of the significance of specific technologies, many by those directly involved in their development or promotion. Some of those have panned out (most notably, of course, information technology), but most haven't, proving impractical or nonviable, occasionally socially unacceptable.

The cautions about psychological overload are strongly on-point.

Where the book is likely underappreciated is in its predictions of social change. These have largely been so successful, especially about youth culture, gender, and race, that the prior state seems utterly foreign to anyone born afterwards. The predictions to a large extent are our present reality, and seem trite simply on that basis.

(This is a general challenge in forecasting: unsuccessful forecasts are glaringly obvious, successful general ones are too ubiquitous to be apparent.)

Toffler cites a great deal of research (though in following up on his footnotes, some citations seem inaccurate), and both the original sources and subsequent works citing them are of interest. He leans particularly heavily on Herbert Simon, a polymath (psychology, sociology, economics, mathematics, AI) with many powerful insights (and a few blunders).
Which states? Oregon, and Colorado are no where near that, and quality $125/oz can be found.
Rich annotations on boards would be nice. More than what you can normally squeeze onto non-printing layers. I don't mean as a feature to add to the site, I mean the entire site IS partly this and I like the idea.

A way to discuss and explain things about a pcb that aren't easily written right on the pcb, like what happens in classrooms.

I often see myself drawing something a certain way on a board going up on github/pcbway/oshpark, and thinking someone else is going to "fix" this some day because it's not obvious why this bit here is drawn exactly this way, and I'm not cluttering up dwg.user with a paragraph of text for every other square cm...

And surely I am guilty of committing that same crime myself come to think of it.

This could help with that.
The difference is impact - Market for old cars or shoes is not indexed and securitised with a potential to cause a global financial meltdown.
Not a fan of laissez-faire economics but saving the banking industry was the complete opposite.

I agree that the financial industry and some questionable trading policy and financial products don't serve any benefit and might need regulation.
I’m saying we should pay them more and tax the daylights out of landowners so they don’t capture upside they had literally nothing to do with.
There are detailed performance numbers here on a variety of real-world codebases:

https://kripken.github.io/blog/wasm/2020/07/27/wasmboxc.html

tl;dr Something like ~14% when using the best bounds checking strategy, or ~42% when using the most portable one. (There are options in the middle as well.)
WebAssembly is kind of a hack here (although a clever hack that saves a lot of effort) - the essence of what the Mozilla folks have done isn't WebAssembly, it's a trusted compiler - by which I mean a compiler that emits trustable code, regardless of how untrusted the source is. It's a really neat idea that I hope to see more adoption of, because our current security models for software suck.

Security based on process isolation is extremely inefficient and coarse-grained - having a trusted compiler could (eventually) massively increase performance by removing processes entirely (no more virtual memory! no more TLB flushes and misses! less task switch overhead!) and eliminating the kernel/user mode separation, with an increase in security.

"Could" because it's not clear to me if the reduction in expressiveness from our languages now to future languages with a theoretical trusted compiler (all jump targets have to be known at compile-time?) will be accepted by the majority of the populace. Look at how hard it is to get people to accept borrow-checkers...
i dont see anywhere in that link that Ian Kelling said anything about the technical merits (or lack thereof) for this project
That would be a farrier, which is a sort of specialized blacksmith. That said, sure, farmers can (and do!) do that themselves.
Tesla started selling a literal whistle in recent days, presumably as an SEO thing to bury this news with something more banal. Pretty slimy stuff.
I’m not selling anything and unless the writer is outright lying about the number ranges, I agree with them. The “green” range is way too lenient and the sensor will only help you keep away from really terrible air quality, most people would have it green always while doing nothing at all.
>Either way, this was literally Gödel's first paper (published in 1944: "Russell’s Mathematical Logic") and he never mentioned Principia Mathematica again.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. That paper was nowhere near Godel's first, nor was it the only time he mentioned Principia.

The title of the first of his works on the incompleteness theorem was "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems" in 1931.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Formally_Undecidable_Propos...
There is a natural process that every issue goes through: Analysis, Specifications, Requirement, Design .. then the Developer takes in the materials of each of these steps, does an Implementation and Testing phase .. then the issue has to be validated/verified with a Qualification step, and then it gets released to the end user/product owner, who sign off on it.

Doing that per issue is still basically agile. The problem is when you do it per project, and try to get everything right the first time, and then it's months or years between analysis and qualification.

Agile really boils down to starting small and keeping your stake holders involved. It is an explicit acknowledgement that programmers are bad at estimating time, and that users don't know how to ask for what they want.

All the stuff people complain about is just companies buying snakeoil, and overzealous organizers justifying their own jobs.
Time to migrate your life off of youtube now, friend. Don't let them fool you twice
Did you read the article before posting this? It is fun reading articles by people who have created great software.
Read between the lines; I said "dealers with criminal records"
I don't think those are comparable as they were clearly less powerful than the kingdoms they served. If amazon moved their HQ outside the US it would be a major problem
I see you're also an Ansible user.
W. Edwards Demming is strongly recommended as an antidote to the local optimisation / global Schlimbesserung phenomenon.
When the company releases that work under an Apache license, they do give explicit permission to everyone to do that.
I fear you are correct. Hopefully the Millenials stay motivated until then!
In Colorado small time dealers will take payment apps, but anything wholesale is cash or crypto.
> This effort is incomparable with litestream: Verneuil is meant for asynchronous read replication, with streaming backups as a nice side effect. The replication approach is thus completely different. In particular, while litestream only works with sqlite databases in WAL mode, Verneuil only supports rollback journaling. See doc/DESIGN.md for details.

Can someone explain to me (as if I were a 5 year old) when to use Litestream versus Verneuil?
Fundamentally, the reason for why everything is changing too fast is that people have more capacity to create change than to absorb it.

Specifically, some people have that capacity and also do not care about whether other people can keep up absorbing it.

Another fundamental reason is that creating change is profitable. Corporations are penalised for making stable environments by competition that creates new things, faster.

Next level from that is corporations focusing on rate of change (that's what Agile is for, folks). Now corporations are less competing on their product and more just on how fast they can react to whatever competition is doing.

You see where all this leads. We users are all just a collateral in the struggle.

I would prefer more stable operating system than couple of refreshments on Windows or MacOS UI. But that's not how Microsoft or Apple think.
I'm really glad that this article got posted, I've been experiencing the same symptoms intermittently with my MX ergo but they haven't been quite enough of a pain for me to remember to look into fixing it. I will be taking a look at this solution (and the WD-40 temp fix mentioned by jh37) here now!
Websites don't run multiple versions of Wikipedia do they? Everyone would be on the same version, they'll just see different things.
Consider the two dimensional curve, parameterised by t

x = a * sqrt(t) + r * cos(t^2)
y = b * sqrt(t) + r * sin(t^2)

If you are monitoring long term progress towards (100a, 100b) you are disappointed to see that progress is slowing. And yet the short term whirl is whirling ever faster.

I suspect that a weak version of Sapir-Whorf is in play. It is difficult to describe the equation in prose. The limitations of natural language handicap us in our efforts to defend against the pathology it exemplifies.
I don't get the point of Figure 4 in the .pdf, I see htat and I hear process process process, don't skip process even when it makes no sense.

You can actually tell that the methodology was developed for a different time period, when you would have to schedule time in order to run your program on the mainframe, instead of just hitting build on your machine.
>This just indicates a failure to perform a proper Analysis/Specification/Requirements phase, with relevant qualifications steps. It doesn't matter if you're a Manager or a lowly Developer - if you can't adequately qualify the requirements and specifications, the analysis is simply not complete.

Not really. It indicates a general inability to predict the future.

That's really the core of the issue. Requirements analysis can be done badly but even when done well it doesnt make you good at predicting the future.

The longer the feedback loop the more the ground changes under your feet.

>Pushing the problem to or away- from Managers is just one way of saying "I'm too lazy/incompetent to adequately complete the Analysis phase

I used to believe precisely this in my early 20s.

My "aha" moment came when I built software solely for myself and even then I realized that this didnt stop the requirements from changing because of surprises that kept being thrown my way and problems that I uncovered only in retrospect from actually using the software.

For sure not all problem spaces are this chaotic but most software problem spaces are.
There's also:

1.) The discovery associated with YouTube and

2.) In addition to being convenient, you don't need to pay to host on YouTube. It would be pretty trivial for people to host their own content--much of which is never going to pay anything to speak of in ads. But then they'd have to pay for the hosting.
This article is completely disconnected from what is happening in the machine learning community.

Granted, datasets have grown larger and larger over time. This concentration is actually a healthy sign of a community maturing and converging towards common benchmarks.

These datasets are open to all for research and have fueled considerable progress both in academia and industry.

The authors would be well-advised to look at what is happening in the community. Excerpts from the program of NeurIPS happening literally this week:

Panels:
- The Consequences of Massive Scaling in Machine Learning
- The Role of Benchmarks in the Scientific Progress of Machine Learning
- How Copyright Shapes Your Datasets and What To Do About It
- How Should a Machine Learning Researcher Think About AI Ethics?

All run by top-notch people coming from both academia and industry, and from a variety of places in the world.

I am not saying that everything is perfect, but this article paints a much darker picture than needed.
The title is pointlessly click-baity. What precisely is Amazon striking back at?

After reading the article 3 times, it seems like a large business is solving a business and logistics problem with vertical integration. What is Amazon striking at? The nebulous concept of logistics?
> You're appear to be seeking conflict with a lame, baseless, personal attack because you are also a part of that cult and can't handle criticism.

Um, ok. I guess you got me there.

> 30 years is nothing. I have 200 year old solid wood furniture. I seriously doubt anything made from sawdust will ever last that long.

Ok, good for you then? I don't need anything to last 200 years, but I wouldn't be surprised if my sawdust furniture lasts longer than me, since I take pretty good care of my furniture.

> I hope you and your family enjoy your IKEA decor.

Yep.
This is completely false, I work in banking and I remember being super excited by the FinCEN files, but it was utterly ridiculous! They pumped it up just to tell you our own compliance department was reporting a lot of things... like dudes really, yes you got a leak of the official documents we send to the frigging regulator... this is the opposite of hiding things, I could not believe it.

And of course it had no effect because all it did was hamper investigations !! Absolute trash honestly :(

The poor girl who did the "podcast" to try to explain it sounded so ignorant, I was like "this person has no idea what a financial crime is or what a bank would do to hide it". "Look HSBC reported a drug cartel used it to do that and look look they told the regulator"... huuuuh... where's the problem here ? How is HSBC robbing anyone ? Is HSBC really complicit of selling drugs here ? :D (I do accept their critic HSBC's compliance dpt was slow in implementing the regulation)
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