skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The New Testament, or any book that explains the key themes. Even if you are not religious, Western societies are built around this. If you live in the West or do business with the West, it explains many explicit or implicit cultural norms.

If you want to go deeper in understanding the West, it's recommendable to also get a rough idea of it's philosophers, especially the Greeks and the important ones up to Kant, including Descartes' idea of the social contract.

If you still want to know more, you should read about the most important economic ideas, e.g. Smith, Keynes, Marx.
It's just more touch and go.

At a TEDx I attended, wind powered beach robots dazzled, a consultant gave a powerful spoken-word poem suggesting that consultants’ reports should be written as poetry to actually drive real change... [I actually have done bug reports as poems, which was great.] Both truly wonderful and stuck in my memory.

But another sticks in my head for just being a weird thing in that forum: a woman upset after her uterus crapped out after three kids, when she wanted like 6+... Normally such a talk would be about dealing with grief around broken dreams and moving on with life, or about her adventures with adoption... but rather this was how she stuck with those dreams for a biological child even though hospitals were like “you have three healthy kids why are you trying to do IVF with a surrogate?” and eventually they got the IVF done abroad but it didn't implant but they have new schemes and plans. I'm not even opposed to her goal, just it didn't seem very TED-y.
My HN Submission on Censorship Gets Flagged/Censored
I’m confused, are you bringing up that he’s vaccinated to discredit him as being hypocritical or otherwise dishonest?

If so that’s a very weird position. It can be entirely rational for someone to believe the vaccine is the best choice for them personally, while also being skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry, public health institutions, and the media.
I agree. It doesn't help that these platforms themselves want to be all things for all people and have partially succeeded. That's why most people just don't see the parallel with publishing and its rules. For them Twitter and Facebook are the internet
Oh, absolutely. I don't doubt that. Though there was a subtle change to the meaning of the switches.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...

In their eagerness to match the procedure, they actually lost a level of granularity in system isolation. The infamous "electrical short" misunderstanding, I think, may have risen from system description that supported the change. The idea being a short in the yoke switches could cause a runaway, which is what the left switch in the NG is for isolating, and the right switch was for isolating the Autopilot.

In MAX, this distinction was lost. Either switch completely isolated both Autopilot and yoke switches.

Assumedly, if one was very studious and aware of the switches purpose in the NG, one could get taken by surprise flying the MAX if they expected them to work the same way.

This is why I tend to beat into my devs the importance of "if you change the interface, you explain the change, or you offer the ability to fall back to older behavior.

I realize that's not practical in aerospace's regulatory environment, but it is nevertheless a helpful guide.
I doubt this is what the author is alluding to, but a few years ago[^1] I read a proposal about CPU cooling using small-scale fluid tubes, much like a car engine is cooled. This would allow cores to be stacked vertically, much like HBM memory is stacked today. Perhaps this new development could allow better implementations?

[^1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/researchers-demonstr...
> But ultimately the people outside the company who said it was a poor move from a user POV turned out to be right.

Survivor bias? I'm sure there were people outside the company who said removing the headphone jack was a poor move, removing the CD drive was a poor move, moving to Intel was a poor move, removing the HDMI was a poor move, removing the F-keys was a poor move etc.

Eventually, some of those moves were reverted, some were not. Steve Jobs was exactly right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE

- you can please some of the people, some of the time.

- some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good, because at least some decisions are being made - when we find the mistakes, we'll fix them.
I also noticed the language. I have been thoroughly downvoted as a consequence. I am however glad to see that there are multiple other in this thread also commenting on the same.
> It's very impressive to see these decades-longs projects pay off,

Just read recently that Moscow is now in the process of building a couple of dozens metro stations outside of its ~60-miles long ring-road, to add to the existing ~230 stations. I wish someone would also write a more in-depth write-up of that and how do the Russians manage to do it (including how do they manage to keep the whole network running at what I assume to be reasonable costs), out in the West the knowledge of how to maintain such a system at low-ish costs and how to extend it seems to have been lost.
I've started subscribing Wired in 2011 and I pretty much liked it for couple of years. For me it seems once Conde Nast purchased the magazine the quality has dropped.
I second the commenters that counter-argue that just because a book is hard, it does not make it a bad book.

While it's hard to understand for the following reasons

- It's not "a book" but a canon of dozens of books bound together, written by different people;

- cultural distance: Middle East versus West;

- temporal distance: authored approx. 2000 years ago;

almost every book written afterwards refers to it explicitly or implicitly or depends on it in some way, and you will never understand the later works fully without having read some of the Bible.

To read the Bible, a layperson needs guidance. Having said this parts of the New Testament are more easy to follow.
For those who prefer to watch, this movie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058715/ (created by an atheist to better understand it all) uses the original words of the Gospel of St. Matthew, and the result got praise from the Vatican, ironically.
>As a manager, everything is your fault

This is a low quality solution for ownership and only works for some types, leads to burnout in others. It also contradicts one of the good points in the article: "Burnout comes from a felt loss of control and/or impact". You cannot expect from yourself to be able to correct processes for everything.

In my experience, better solution is (when it is possible) to have shared ownership. This is possibly an even bigger topic than burnout though and deserves its own discussion.
What I hate the most about modern laptops is not the keyboard layout but the key travel depth. Lenovo was doing alright there but is also slowly eating away at it. The ThinkPad T490s has 1.8mm, the T14s gen2 has 1.5. the T470 had even more than 1.8 as I recall.

Apple has set an annoying trend with their MacBook butterfly keyboard and even though they reverted back the old design still has much less travel than the 2015 models.
Definitely The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. If only so they would understand The Answer and the latent absurdity of our civilization.

Although the bit about the plague from a dirty phone might be a little too close for comfort these days (but that just goes to show how fascinatingly “complete” the book is).
The Overstory by Richard Powers

A book that encourages your imagination
My joy when the gong sounds from the announcer in akihabera sound like supermario power up stars...
That’ll do their share price alot of good!
sure, obnoxious coworkers suck, but the 'oh noes, my concentration/flow' argument has been done to death imo.

thanks to hybrid work, ppl can hide at home all they want.

ps: pls also consider parents that get interrupted far more frequently when working from home.
I played so ridiculously much Worms when it first came out and almost as much Worms 2. When Worms Armageddon came out I thought I'd had my fill and it didn't seem that different from Worms 2.

But with a few neat additions and the huge range of crazy challenges it actually felt really fresh and I just kept playing it. Now I haven't touched it for twenty years. I wonder if I'd feel like you that it has lost its magic or not.
At this point calling someone anti-vaxxer is the new ad-hominem fallacy as an intellectually lazy way to attempt to discredit someone without actually examining the merits of their arguments. Anti-vaxxer is also an incredibly vague term, to some people might just mean they're against mandates or forcing someone to take test or vaccine under pain of quarantine to engage in interstate travel (see Hawaii).
It’s lawful.

Should it be acceptable? Yeah, I’ve had BigCos send PIs to my home to harass me because they didn’t like what my really quite small multi-million-dollar enterprise was doing.
Because what linked is just a promo for the book by Spencer Jakab "The Revolution That Wasn't"
Isn't it just another poignant example of how ideas are worthless and execution is everything?

When will we remove protections on ideas and let the best execution no longer be prevented by mediocre one made by the person who got the protection for the idea?
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/newly...

There it is! Knew it was in SeattleTimes somewhere!

And lookout for the part about disabling cutoff switches, I think Dominic might have written that better, because I think he's talking about a safety function that was removed specifically for the MAX where hauling back hard on the yoke would stop trim commands in progress on NG airframes? MCAS required that that functionality not be ported forward to the MAX.

This isn't disabling those cutouts though. Those are literally, like you said, a hard switch.

>According to a second FAA source, it was the AEG pilot, representing a typical U.S. airline captain, who failed to recover the jet.

There's the bit about the civilian test pilot.
yes. where I live, only when you have done something really bad - you can get fired. If you are fired it might be very difficult to find a new job.

If you get offboarded, or let-go, then it is different. You haven't done anything bad that could potentially block your future; there is a better narrative for you to use when looking for new employment.
This is a pretty moot point because A. All political donations are already public [1]

B. Most Trump supporters voluntarily make their preference known

[1]: https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/
> Now, I know that I badly need some amount of in-person time with my coworkers on a weekly basis, or I go crazy.

That's the problem with people that doesn't want WFH: they also want their coworkers to work at the office so they don't "go crazy".
I never read it cover to cover, but paged through some random parts and it certainly contained guidance away from authenticity and towards identifying and saying/doing the right things to achieve your goals.

It's not a bad thing to read though, but more in terms of understanding what your competition is reading and tools they're potentially weaponizing (lots of copies have been sold). Just like I recommended my sister at least skim The Game when she was frustrated by her post-divorce dating experiences, which based on her description were at least partially being influenced by assholes having read it.
“I cannot forgive,” Hong Kong policeman knifed during unrest returns to work
Tom Scott flies a plane blindfolded
Thanks for all the thoughtful feedback. Some great food for thought and some quick fixes needed immediately. Grateful.
I don't believe that it's feasible for all other exchanges globally to agree to coordinate to block coins that have ever touched exchange X in their ownership history. It's too much of a global coordination problem.
Over the great paywall: https://archive.is/vv8j9
If you ever have/get anxiety/panic attacks you will KNOW where it all starts.. in the stomach. This is not something people imagine. I 100% do not wish this stuff on our worst enemies.
> It's impossible that the people involved didn't understand the potential repercussions of no redundancy

I'd like to know the answer to that question, too. "Impossible" is a strong word, however. Some speculation here:

https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/b...

Personally, I've found very, very few engineers outside of the aviation industry that understand the principles of dual-path design.
> 65nm? 90nm? 180nm? I'd argue that the processes can be improved and cost can probably come down compared to the older machines.

This is really dubious for two reasons. First, you can do a die shrink and fit many, many more equivalent chips onto a single wafer at a modern node. This is somewhat mitigated by the high cost of mask sets at modern nodes -- but there's just no way it would ever make economic sense to build capacity at 180nm.

Second, the equipment for old nodes is not made anymore. It's cheap, but that's only because there's ample supply on the secondary market. If fabs began to get restarted in earnest at old nodes, that supply would quickly evaporate. Then you would have to buy modern (expensive!) equipment -- at which point why not take advantage of its full potential? Wafer throughput is the same regardless of whether you're making 100 chips per wafer at 180nm or 10,000 at 22nm.
will fix this asap.
I'm the same.
Did they though? They don't offer some services there but analytics, search (google.cn) and ads are still available AFAIK. Those are the big money makers for them.
I assumed this would be something related to polystyrene and mold making.
'The road' is compelling, but pretty grim reading.
It does when those books were purposely excluded because the author was female. It also matters a lot when one of the books excluded was written by the person who was actually closest to Jesus too. Thus her accounts should surely matter at least as much as the mens (probably more so in reality).

The New Testament was collated in an era when organised religion was used as a tool for man to retain control. To that end, much of content of the “modern” Bible is about man and why one should follow man because he speaks on “behalf of God”.

This isn’t some new morality interpretation in the new age of political correctness either. This is an observation that’s gone back as long as I’ve been alive (40+ years) because, as I’ve said above, the testaments of those closest to Jesus were even excluded.
> Do Haskell programmers have good intuition about performance? It seems like laziness would make it hard?

The solution is to just not use laziness when you don't need it, then reasoning about Haskell performance is the same as in any other language.

http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/make-invalid-laziness-unrepr...
You are right. I read the first part and added the article to my reading list to finish later. But the conclusions of the first part mirror how I personally feel about TED.
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I hate spending long hours indoors, but not because I’m there—because I’m constantly in calls and meetings that force me to be in front of a computer that long.

It would be fine if it wasn’t wall-to-wall calls and discussion and if we had time to focus, let alone go out and exercise (which is why when I clock out, I really shut everything down and leave my home office).
> Censorship is inherently dangerous because it can be weaponized to silence dissenting minorities.

It's its main purpose. The word "can" in your sentence is a bit too generous.
This is really true. I spent my day in Shirakawa-go in the snow and when I got to the hotel it was freezing. I put my legs under the table and... WOW!!
I may agree with you here but reality doesn't always match our expectations.
Those videos were out there in plain view when he signed with Spotify. millions of people had seen them. so it's pretty hard for me to belive that just now this became an issue.
> you will never understand the later works fully without having read some of the Bible

Generations of kids have grown up understanding stories just fine without having read the Bible.
We don't know Spotify's internal reasoning. What we do know is what episodes got removed and what public statements have been made by Spotify and Joe Rogan.
One particularly prominent special case of this is when one engineer makes a snap judgment about another engineer's work that it's "overcomplicated". Oftentimes this means that the person making the judgment hasn't thought deeply enough about the problem to be able to see all the complexities in the problem that justify all the complexities in the solution.

I feel like, at this point in my career, and in the specific context where I work, this has now become the bottleneck to my career progress.

The problem is: It works as a self-fulfilling prophecy based on the fallacies of social proof and fundamental attribution error. People reach for the snap judgment "this is overcomplicated" because they expect me to just be the kind of person who just overcomplicates things. And they feel easily justified in that judgment given that other people also tend to make that judgment about me. This means they budget even less time for trying to understand the complexities in the problems I solve before reaching for the easy judgment of "this is overcomplicated".

So: The guy who always overcomplicates things, thus draining the company's cognitive resource needlessly and just generally being a nuisance, ends up looking much the same from the outside as the guy who could just be a company's strongest engineering asset. He could be the guy to put the company ahead of the competition, always understanding the engineering problems more deeply and solving them more thoroughly than others, including the competition, in a way that the competition can't easily replicate. -- ...if only the people tasked with passing judgment could overcome biased and lazy decision-making.
The labor movement predates Marxism, even if you exclude pre-industrial incarnations. I believe workers pooling their power is just a result of the dynamic between capital and workers, and Marx started out by describing, rather than prescribing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement#History
That has almost nothing to do with the point this article is making. COVID is a mere side topic with probably 5 sentences about it in the entire article. I would suggest you actually read it, as it provides a quite fascinating breakdown of the history, development, and downfall of TED.
“Too loud a solitude” for yourself.
“Daemon” for the world.
“Godel Escher Bach” for everything else.
The article also does not mention the LA flight that survived the MCAS malfunction. Hence it always fall to me to mention it.
WhatsApp is not GDPR compliant because it sends your entire address book to Meta.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/02/whatsapp-faces-267m-fine-f...
Minos is a framework which helps you create reactive microservices in Python. Internally, it leverages Event Sourcing, CQRS and a message driven architecture to fulfil the commitments of an asynchronous environment.
Not sure if it's the only book I'd recommend if I have to stick to the rules, I think others have already done that for me here but:

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

is very funny but also the back story to how it got published is both sad and interesting.

...and if I can pick a second book:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance by Robert M. Pirsig.

...and a third:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
And off they go and will not be missed!
I've keep a record of my books read (and unfinished, and written up etc) over the last few years here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WSI8g_9BnNmfUM0ZupN1...

If they're 'Written Up', they're generally pretty good.
Do you really think so?

Start at the money end. FB wants to use the harvested data for selling more and/or more expensive advertising, right? That advertising is sold to companies that market something in the EU. It more or less has to be — a company that sells something to EU customers can't really escape having a presence in the EU.

So, given that, if Facebook were able to keep the EU data separate from the rest of the world, what speaks against spinning up another few servers running the same software that Facebook already has, running the analyses on a separate EU shard, and then selling the same advertising to the same companies, except with EU invoices made out from Facebook's Irish subsidiary?

That means that advertising customers such as P&G would receive at least eight monthly invoices for a four-month advertising campaign, and it means deploying software on more servers. Neither of those sound like showstoppers from where I sit (and I sit in an Expert Armchair).

So there must be something wrong with an assumptions, and to my mind, the big candidate is that the harvested data can't be cleanly sharded, because much of it comes from user pairs, and that the law doesn't allow unclean sharding and/or perhaps a little bit of export.
Should Redis be used as a primary database?
A place with its priorities straight :-)
Sometimes by breaking prod. You learn what you didn't understand very quickly then.
Ask HN: Software you love and wouldn't want to replace?
I'll start. KeepassXC is everything I'd want from a password manager.
agreed! client-side scripting should not mean "unreadable w/o", nevertheless it often does.
I actually think jumping straight in and refactoring is one of the best ways to learn a new codebase. If it's set up consensually and as a learning tool, the combo of refactoring + review from older team members is a great way to learn, even if your changes ultimately don't make it to prod.
I think that's entirely the right approach seeing as heavy PR rife with overpromising is what put them in that situation to begin with.

I finally got the game two years ago to play in VR and with the state it is in now I can say it lives up to what I had expected. But it seems there was a really long road from launch to that point.
Especially considering that nowadays 180nm is accessible (if necessary, via double-patterning/immersion 405nm to please the DLP's aluminium mirrors) from maskless steppers, which can improve turn-around times by eliminating shared-mask aggregation delays and allows for cheap experimentation (no more minimum order quantity). This is even more significant when one remembers that maskless steppers already have to do stitching for everything significantly more complex than an opamp, and the per-area price scales up to full monolithic wafers without the tiling constrainst Cerebras has to adhere to.
Yes lets play dumb that we don't understand the acute crisis Rogan's Spotify account is having is from the COVID controversy.
DuckDuckGo android browser I'm currently using doesn't prevent me from getting consistently fingerprinted.
Principles for Designing and Deploying Scalable Applications on Kubernetes
Most discussion around $GME takes place on r/Superstonk these days anyways. Can't remember why it was banned from WSB. Something to do with the new mods I believe.