skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a field of low tech, low impact robo-electro-wildlife caretaking ? if that make sense.

Instead of having large flattened areas that can be used with tractors, having more eco friendly natural spaces, with tiny roombas/rovers that can attends, surveil, monitor the state of things 24/7.
Many long distance truckers operate in teams and stagger their driving hours, so i think this will not be such a factor.

It's not true that brake services are eliminated, these trucks will still need conventional brakes. Yes there are some servicing savings, but these trucks have already been refined to be very reliable and have long periods of time between maintenance activities. The time savings due to less maintenance will be in the noise, maybe a few percent. The cost savings will be more, less fluids, etc.

The big factor here is the labor savings, all other efficiencies are there, but insignificant in comparison and will not be the driving factors for adoption - the labor savings will.
> We know that the single best predictor of job success and performance is IQ

Who knows this? I sure as hell don’t and would be extremely surprised if that were the case.
Where are the orcs?
My guess is it's just the habit of jamming everything into the rigid left-right dichotomy demanded by the american two party system. Very very many trends and inclinations in the US don't line up well with a purely left/right alignment. Or a progressive/conservative one, which is often used interchangeably, but doing that is throwing away layers that could help with understanding rightward hippies, black hebrew israelites, other groups that just don't fit cleanly into a "left" or a "right" of anything.
I just discovered this yesterday and I'm absolutely gutted. It's just so terrible.

I've been trying to drum up some awareness/support on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nightgolfer/status/1509116982611759107

The full scrape you did — is it something you can share? I'm wondering if there's some way to use it to... idunno, do something. Worst case, maybe it could be used to create a search engine that could find the metadata for a given URL of an image that was on the account.

If we can't get Flickr to undo this, I'm trying to think of other places that might be able to host the data (would need the images, too, though), and already have the necessary software for an image collection that big. Thoughts?

At least from my perspective, this thoughtless act has decimated the usefulness of the Archive book collection, because all my interaction with it was through the images inside the books.

Mind-blowing and utterly devastating =,(
"Or work-at-home ADHD."

That is not what ADHD is... ADHD is not lack of focus, it's lack of control over focus. It's issues with regulating emotion. Issues with impulsiveness. etc.
The current university system (I can only speak to US here) was made post-WW2 to produce employees for office work in large corporate bureaucracies. The degree insured that you could show up on a regular basis, go where you're told, learn how to perform arbitrary tasks whether you thought they were necessary or not, and communicate effectively about this. They also provided, at the larger universities especially, a lot of training in how to deal with a bureaucracy.

All of this was absolutely relevant in 1950 for working at a large corporation, in a white-collar job.

The more recent job market doesn't look much like this, but then good training for the current job market would probably not call for an institution that looks much like a university. It would probably call for something more like trade schools and apprenticeships, with guilds to protect the apprentices from poor treatment (something that, for example, Ph.D. students are sorely lacking). It seems unlikely that universities can adapt to a situation that primarily requires that they go away or at least become much smaller, to be replaced by a different system.
Without competition SpaceX would be the one setting the price of the acquisition, which could be lower than even the 20 million seed funding!
I live in New York and the majority of my transactions are done in cash, and happen in person, not online.
Here's a quick and dirty example: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/3WK7eYM4z

I observe (-Ofast -march=native -std=c++20 ; CPU is intel 6900k with performance governor on Arch... blasting at 4GHz) :

- clang 13: 8.93 ms per iteration

- gcc 11: 9.46 ms per iteration

so roughly around 9ms.

Replacing

return mat[r * matrix_size + c];

by

return mat.at(r * matrix_size + c);

I observe

- clang 13: 20.95 ms per iteration

- gcc 11: 18.11 ms per iteration

so literally more than twice as slow. I also tried with libc++ instead of libstdc++ for clang and the results did not meaningfully change (around 9ms without bound-checking and 21 ms with).
How do you back that up?

Do you exclude all the fiat currency backed resources sent to help Ukraine?

Do you also exclude the crypto workarounds to sanctions on Russia that can keep the war prolonged?
Open-source drivers according to Habana
Does anyone have some thoughts on where all the funding and market is coming from in this new private space industry? I've seen a ton of these companies popping up, and I'm not sure I quite understand where all the demand and money is coming from outside of government contracts.

While space is always cool and "sexy", I've been wondering if there's some analog model that could work for ocean tech, particularly tech that allows us to better protect and explore the ocean.

On a personal and technical level, I view the ocean as far more important to human understanding and survival than space.
Brain is delicious, umami panna cotta.
From the twitter thread:

> And the world's farmers already started planting more wheat 4 months ago, when wheat futures rose due to possibility of Black Sea conflict.

> India went all-out planting more wheat, looks set to continue a 3yr streak of rapidly increasing wheat exports. The US planted four MILLION more tons more wheat seed last fall than usual. Aus, Canada, Argentina, South Africa, even Brazil getting in on it.

The author's credentials: "I'm Sarah Taber, a crop scientist with 23 years in agriculture. I started out in field work at 14, put myself through crop school, and got a front-seat view of the dirty underbelly of the farm trade." https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5610560
Partially. People forget that science is also REALLY hard. I have personally had to retract results I presented at a conference after not being able to replicate my own findings -- and I was following best-practices and being scientifically rigorous during the original experiments. I have never been able to figure out what went wrong, but it was extremely embarrassing.
How is climate change preventing Egypt to import wheat from India instead of Russia?
It's one of the most financially *exclusionary* concepts ever created.

There's a territory. There was digital land-grab on this territory. A tiny number of people bought all the available digital-land. Now everybody else needs to buy the land from them. At extortionate prices.

The good news? It's easy to create another territory. It's easy to create an infinite number of territories.

Aside 1: as big of a joke the original dotcom boom was, it looks serious compared to web3's $200,0000 floor price jpeg apes.

Aside 2: I read this week about a couple of people losing their jpeg apes because they connected their wallet to some scam site. I thought web3 was supposed to be smarter than "connecting one's wallet to a non-scam site in a way that allows the non-scam site to scam you if they wanted." Is this the best they can do? I was told we'd be connecting our wallets to everything in the future.
Maybe it is just to make the defendants uneasy for some time with a lawsuit hanging over their heads
I love Overcast and the redesign is okay but I wish Marco had added Podcasting 2.0 features like Cloud Chapters or even -- dare I hope? -- support for streaming Sats. Maybe in an update later this year?
Aside from one's subjective take on pair programming -- and there are obviously many valid reasons why it doesn't work for some folks -- I'd have to guess that doing it 100% of the time is quite inefficient. Software development presents a wide variety of tasks of varying cognitive difficulty. I tend to believe that pair programming's sweet spot is for tasks of medium to medium-high levels of difficulty.

For the most challenging tasks, say, coming up with an original solution to an unsolved problem, I think it's better to alternate deep focused thinking alone with group brainstorming. But you really need that meditative alone time to gnaw at difficult problems -- for me it tends to be in the shower, or during a walk. That's where you have those awesome "Aha!" moments.

On the other end of the scale, certain mundane/repetitive/trivial tasks really don't warrant pair programming IMHO. You're spending two brains on something that really takes 1/4 of a brain.

The ideal case for pair programming, IMHO, are those tasks where you can visualize the general path forward, but where there are significant challenges wrt implementation such that another pair of eyes can really provide insight. For example, say you have to implement a module, and you have a general idea of what it needs to do, but the overall decomposition and abstractions involved may be inchoate. While I think a fair amount of "implement this new feature" type of stories fall into that category, in my experience that comprises only ~40-60% of the total workload.

The above mostly applies to pair programming with two fairly equivalent/experienced developers. I agree with others who have noted that it's a fantastic training mechanism for new/junior devs. And then, there are various special case scenarios that justify it, as in, you have a problem with X and need to pair with an expert in X to resolve it. IMHO, these are best done ad hoc rather than via a formal process.
Sounds like they work for colds then. But frankly we’ve probably all had COVID whether masked, vaxed on not.
Thank you for saying what nobody else on HN will say. Instead it’s just constant outrage on HN against companies. Why didn’t Krebs issue a public apology or retraction? I love Ubiquiti and have over $2k worth of UniFi equipment in my home.

This entire fiasco has hurt Ubiquiti’s brand and reputation, and in no small part Krebs is responsible for that.
IQ tests are stupid and have large language components to them. The large language components of the tests mean they essentially boil down to culture tests. If your parents were in the in group, you speak scientistese.

Your in group membership is what propels you forward in your career, not your intelligence. Race and Gender are predictors of career success as well.

Any proponent of IQ, I'd challenge to take an IQ test in Chinese, Irish, or AAVE.
Adderall isn't particularly addictive.
US sent $500 million worth of actual hardware, the value of that is more than the crypto donations received so far.
This is the Ossia Score lead dev FYI, he's no stranger to either language
They do however use SoCs for HMI/head-units/carputers now however.

The bigger reason is just the nature of automotive development. Every part is developed by a specced or sourced by different teams and outsourced to a different Tier 1/2/3. Things are designed to be modular, so if you pick Option A for something, it might use ECU A, and if you pick Option B, they might pack a whole different ECU B. Also, every ECU is costed down to only support the intended application, so ECU A likely doesn't have the extra bandwidth to add on extra features for Option B.

Also, none of this is decided or developed at the same time, so you have all the different features and ECUs developed throughout. Some things are changed mid program. Some things carry over from previous programs, so it's usually just easier to go your own way and not work with other teams on combining features.

Every automotive OEM has a person who comes up with the brilliant and cost saving idea of combining ECUs. I know 4 such people from different OEMs but they have all failed for some of the reasons mentioned above.
That's hardly very likely with whistleblower stories, all you can do is be careful with wording like "<name> claims" "<name> alleges" to qualify the reporting. I read Krebs I find it hard that he wouldn't retract something if Ubiquiti (or someone else) came to him with evidence showing the "whistleblower" was a fake that he wouldn't retract the article based on new information. He seems like a good journo to me and has nothing to lose by doing such. He reports on a lot of stuff and now one is going to be constantly fact checking every story they ever put out there. It's impossible. I suspect Ubiquiti filed this before they ever contacted him about the whistleblower being a fake.
That was wonderfully silly. But some comparators are vague, like "a can" or "a teabag" (used vs unused is a lot of weight difference). But making things more specific could detract from the silliness.
At the same time, I'm sure there are mechanics that love Ferrari, know everything about every Ferrari ever made and don't want a job where they don't get to work on Ferrari's. I wouldn't see that as sign of lack of professionalism.
Onboarding is really a PITA.

Until you found a way to pay for everything in crypto, you have to deal with centralized exchanges to get fiat to pay your stuff.

Playing in fiat requires you to convert from a crypto token and that is a taxable event.

It's a bit like shooting stuff into space. Getting out of earth's gravity is the hardest part, even if it's just a small fraction of the way.
Here is a trivia question for you. What language was the first optimizing compiler written in?
Stupid game is my favourite kind of game. Great job!
The social sciences are the only ones actually engaging in replication to detect the problems. The replication crisis in, say, software engineering research is not published but instead is implicitly understood by members of the community.

In grad school I was told to generally assume that the tool with the second highest line in the key graph was the best tool. The top line was invariably the author's tool and its results rarely translated to other experiments. But the tool with the second line was usable by somebody other than its original author on a different problem space.
Drupal allow you to set private file mode, which has clean URL.
For those that are curious (yes, I realize this takes no effort to find):

https://weighoff.net/data.js
Every paragraph I read suggested wide variance in each contributing factor, "up to" isn't unusual. Also wide variance in the contributing factors.

Note two things, however: ① 5g/week isn't the sum of the very worst cases observed in the studies they added up. ② It's a sum of varying nonnegative terms, which means that the only way to get a really low sum (say 0.1g/week) is for every term to be in the smaller end of its range. If even one term is in the larger end of its range, then the sum is large, too.
Presumably they already bought wheat futures for a significant fraction of demand, and so it is up to the sellers to organize the actual wheat, possibly at a loss.
It's an unofficial upload in 2020 of a 2007 documentary - 10k views doesn't seem that surprising. Here's an upload from 2016 with 166k views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc-P8Kyvnz4
DEVONThink is criminally underrated. The mobile apps are fantastic. It's almost a super power being able to pull up any document/receipt I've dropped in my scanner over the last decade on my phone from anywhere.
Apple TV+ at 'Breaking Point' Amid Staffing Problems, Frustrated Partners
No, but it can make ADHD / ADHD tendencies a lot harder to deal with.
You can use an online service to get these these days. I think if we roll back COVID online prescription allowances it’ll be an interesting lock-in mechanism for current users.

Big fan of easing access to pharma without standard gatekeeping.
'Publish or perish' is a real problem, I agree - we should publish less.
Arguably true, also irrelevant.

I hope someone is paying you handsomely to post pro-corporate cappie nonsense here, because if you're doing it for free, that's just sad.

For a serious response to what you said about modern medicine and the role of corporations in it... technological growth is possible under socialist as well as capitalist systems. It wasn't clear until the 1980s who was ahead and, on that, the reason the US "won" the Cold War (although we really didn't; we just lost less) is not that capitalism is superior--to be clear, the USSR was also deeply flawed, and Stalin was a paranoid butcher for whose actions there is no excuse--but that capitalism was a sea empire and the USSR was a land empire, and modern conflict is unfavorable to land empires. That's it.

Land empires have to integrate people. Sea empires can point their cannons and say, "Give me money or die." The USSR had to integrate hundreds of different ethnicities. Capitalism just had to overthrow a few democratically-elected socialists and install dictators (see: Salvador and Allende). Capitalism was playing on easy mode; the USSR was playing on hard mode, and eventually fell after a severe mistake (Afghanistan) led to extreme internal dissent and resurgent nationalism.

Had it been the other way around--a capitalist land empire against a socialist sea empire--it would have been the socialists who were wealthy enough to build modern medicine.
My field is signal processing (and i've published quite a few papers), but my take on what papers are is a little different. Their purpose was originally, and i think still, a way for researchers to communicate problems they have solved to other researchers. The fact that some subset of papers turns out to be wrong, or that the public doesnt understand them is immaterial. The repositories of knowledge about which papers are good, and which are bad are the research labs. Ask a professor at a research lab which papers have results that can't be reproduced, and which are high quality, and they'll know immediately.

When there are statements in the article "Such results erode confidence in academic work", the confidence is only eroded in the papers that are bad, which is how it has always worked. Confidence isn't lost in every paper, or the scientific process, but laypeople and administrators see some stat about "30%" of papers have some error, then all of must science is wrong.
> It feels like validation that you are actually an expert in something.

You're an expert in knowing how to use a hammer. I think it's the wrong focus. Instead we should be focusing on whether you're a framer, a carpenter, a roofer, etc. It's your expertise in solving particular kinds of problems that makes you valuable, not in knowing how to use a particular tool.

As an aside, some people have noted this is not true for IT contractors - as they are oftentimes brought in explicitly for their expertise in a tool. I would argue that's a reason why a lot of people don't want to be a contractor forever.
As someone who is more of a domain expert who knows a fair bit of programming, rather than an expert programmer, I would certainly be reluctant of taking a job where I wasn't allowed to use the tools I prefer for solving problems within that domain.
This is largely a myth.
IANAL and I haven't read the filing. I'd assume, based on what I've read thus far (and the fact that it's a pretty standard initial response), that he'll file a motion to dismiss and go from there.

It seems plausible that he could have a decent chance of having such a motion granted -- the bar is generally "in the light most favorable to the plaintiff [Ubiquiti]". Based solely on the commentary I've read, it sounds like the complaint could be deficient.
My 2 cents:

A lot depends on the size and nature of the work. if your project is big enough it needs multiple PMs then there's a lot of time needed for coordination and cross communication.

I do find that asking if a task is 50% done is kind of random and that task should be broken down into something that's more concrete and binary(is it done or not). so it's ok to report 8 of 10 tasks are complete but asking an individual 80% of X is complete is probably not helpful.

daily standups help because it uncovers blockers and helps people admit when their stuck. and can help with redistributing the work.

as for documentation, I feel if you can't commit to documenting what it is you want then it's probably not a priority.

document discovery is a big problem in a large project/org.

you wouldn't write a book without an editor so it's probably good to have a qa person be another set of eyes on what needs to be done.

having a BA/product owner on the business side helps the business own the product and takes alot of the prioritization off of the development side. Having a BA that's done the job using the software helps.
This can go both ways.

Strictly speaking, Dutch can be taken to refer only to the people and language, with Netherlands referring to the country. Hence 'Royal Netherlands Air Force' (Koninklijke Luchtmacht) and 'Netherlands embassy in London' (Nederlandse ambassade in Londen).

In popular speech, however, Dutch is also frequently used to refer to the country, i.e. 'Dutch embassy in London'.

In the Dutch language, the two words are the same: Nederlands (referring to the people, language and country).
I just googled it and every source I saw indicates otherwise.
"We need to keep track of our customers’ account balances. We need them to trust that their Wave balance is correct and Wave won’t lose the money."

"At Wave, though, we prefer to use boring technology, and a simple relational database like Postgres does an equally good job at this."

How does Wave ensure multi-region durability for Postgres, high availability, and strict serializability during failover, without risk of split-brain in the presence of network partitions?

I'm also interested in Wave's storage fault model with regards to Postgres? How are misdirected reads/writes, lost reads/writes, corruption in the middle of the WAL, and corruption at the end of the WAL handled? To ensure that account balances and transactions are never lost? As far as I understand, Postgres does not provide too many guarantees when it comes to interesting disk failures?

I don't mean to advocate for cryptocurrency in any way.

I'm genuinely curious, because I would have thought that a more modern distributed database that guarantees strict serializability in the face of network partitions would be the more obvious choice for tracking account balances safely?
To add to that, some of these features are extremely specialized, and for each feature, 1-2 of the big players might have a huge technical advantage and economies of scale in production and in supplying. This leads to higher barrier to entry and not enough margin for other players to replicate the feature.
I could not agree more, ArangoDB has proven to be helpful to me as well.
Police have an additional power to asking politely. They can arrest people. It is the appropriate response if someone continues to break a law but is non-violent.
The Do's and Don'ts When Handling Data
They had good products for a long time, but it's gone very downhill in the past few years (lots of internet stories about why this is happening).

I've had enough bad experiences that i recently moved my routing/IDS to a dedicated box and am slowly moving away from their switches.

No reasonable replacements i've found for their APs yet though (Meraki is too expensive).
The author frames the problem less as a wheat production problem and more as a shipping problem.

> Again, specific places are facing EXTREMELY REAL wheat supply problems. MENA usually sources from Ukraine. Switching supply chains to India & other sources takes extra time, & if they're further away from India and Ukraine, it takes longer for supplies to get there.

FYI, MENA = Middle East / North Africa

> What these places are facing is a SHIPPING shortage. Not a lack of enough wheat in the world. Their food supply chain problems are still dangerous. A local, shipping-induced shortage that lasts a week can still kill you.