skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm missing something here but how does the article you linked support "making most of their money from Bitcoin than selling cars"? It says:

- Revenue of $10.4 billion

- Net income reached $438 million

- sold some of the $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin that it purchased in February, contributing $101 million to the bottom line

- sales of regulatory credits to other auto makers to help them meet emissions mandates, which carry a 100% profit margin, reached $518 million

All this tells us is that they sold some of the bitcoin they bought earlier (a tiny fraction of their total income), they're selling a shedload of cars, and that they're spending a ton of money. Which you'd expect given they're building multiple giant-ass factories at the same time.

I'm no crazy Tesla fan (love some of their tech, hate their 'we own your car' attitude) but you can't argue that they don't usually deliver (let's not talk about FSD :P ).
Well their revenue went from 120 to 470 billion so that'd be a serious multiple crunch.
Colors don't exist outside of your brain.
I don't see how both can't be true.

The diagnosis itself has changed a lot (retiring Aspergers, changing it to "ASD") to account for this though, and I'd generally say that having more awareness of how people deviate from neurotpicallity is a good thing.

If you see it purely as a disorder (and thus a bad thing) maybe you have an interest in continued underdiagnosis, but many people now see autism as different, but not strictly worse or better.
> The better alternative to Go is Rust

Nope, a better alternative is Java/C#/Kotlin/etc. Those offer sum types, async programming, while being more productive than golang, and provide superior tooling and a superior developer experience.
thanks for sharing this.
and for the curious -- cw stands for Continuous Wave, a radio term for signaling that's turned on and off (like Morse code -- as opposed to modulated like AM, FM, etc).
`pactl` is the command line version
Curious...for what purpose?

I'd read the Army used to pack wounds with basically a crushed version of the same thing.
EA is design, SRE is ops/support.
> It's an article on a personal blog targeting a specific readership familiar with the term.

He's the CTO of a "wellness" tech company now and writes broadly on the topic of engineering and engineering management. The folks who will read this likely are familiar enough with these technical terms to glean knowledge, or at least to gloss over them.
Being aware while asleep is something that can happen to advanced meditators. The more aware you are the more you are there is no difference between being awake or asleep. I haven’t heard it brought up in any other contexts except maybe for lucid dream practitioners. I’ve also read accounts from those who have done dark room retreats where perception of being awake and asleep blur and the perception of what you are experiencing has a lot of mind generated in experiences that can seem very real, dream-like, or using Buddhist language, empty.
Path dependence is also a thing.
Yep agree. Good point.
> "on time and on budget" slogan just a few months before it was meant to open.

December 2018 was the opening date [0];

24 July 2018: Department of Transport update [1]: On time and we are so great we managed to barter them down by 2.5bn on the cost. This will enable the completion of the project at a cost lower than planned under the last Labour government.

31 August 2018: It is announced that Crossrail's opening had been delayed by at least nine months to autumn 2019.

April 2022: It still isnt open...

I get shit happens, but how can you be on track 6 months away from opening and 4 years later you are still an unknown time away from opening.

[0] https://assets.londonist.com/uploads/2018/08/i875/20180831_0...
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/annual-update-on-cros...
I cut the earplugs in half and use the tip. It’s a bit annoying to take them out. I’ve once had to resort to tweezers.

Also if you’re a regular earplug user, you can get something like:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00W3DE3BO

I have these and cut off the stalks. They’re easy to take out and don’t get pushed in.

Finally, there are (more expensive) “concert earplugs designed to retain the auditory experience while reducing loudness only. Worth checking out if you like your hearing but are often in loud environments.
But… we do live in the most important time. We’re alive, and everyone else is dead. We can do things; they can’t.

I don’t know what’s more important than that.
The sidesticks aren't linked on an Airbus but there is a "DUAL INPUT" alarm. If you're already panicked enough to ignore a dual input alarm you're likely to ignore stick feedback from someone countering your inputs.
I think you answered your own question with your anecdote. PF class is indeed targeted.
Pretty late in their product roll-out cycle to make this determination. And I wonder who in the org was qualified to decide who could and couldn’t be part of the new talent mix.
Your parent covers that under, (paraphrasing) 'if we are, everyone always is'.
You can actually do that.

https://www.vincentsitzmann.com/siren/
You are wrong.

https://www.vincentsitzmann.com/siren
Upon a cursory inspection of the first 10,000 or so early GitHub users, it takes about 64 followers to be in the top 20% of followed GitHub accounts.[1]

Users with 100 or more followers can often be business owners, well known employees from FAANG companies and the like.

Users with 1000 or more followers tend to be specialists in lesser used technologies who have created open source technologies used widely in that specific domain.

Users with 10000 or more followers tend to be luminaries who have created technologies most people in the industry are familiar with, like say coffeescript.

[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/github-statistics
The big bang was extremely hot; the universe now is quite cold (microwave background). It was a continuous process of cooling, implying that there was an interval where the entire universe was comfortable (there are at least a few papers on this, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613 , but I like it more just as a strange thing to thing about).
The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge (HZMB) is a 55km (34mi) bridge–tunnel system consisting of a series of three cable-stayed bridges, an undersea tunnel, and four artificial islands. It is both the longest sea crossing and the longest open-sea fixed link in the world. Designed to last for 120 years and built from 2009-2018 at a cost of USD$18.8B, it is currently almost completely vacant due to COVID.
official PSU is $15-20, SD card is $5-10, and a case can be 3d printed or bought for $5-$20 depending.

I didn't look at the link so i could be missing that if you add all that up, there's still a $20 markup above and beyond that.
Ask HN: How to deal with burnout close to a major deadline?
How do you deal with burnout, especially when close to a big deadline / release?

I'm a junior dev and have been at a pretty huge company for about a year now. I generally do good work (manager and other team members say as much at least) and I'm often 'visible', having built a good enough reputation among the other teams and leadership in the project to the point where I tend to be one of the main points of contact for my team outside of our technical architect.

However this sprint I've been working on two stories (features?) that I absolutely despise working on (involves working with other team's microservices that have much spaghetti code and parts of the product I've never worked with before), and the deadline for them was cut super short yesterday by leadership as we're close to release. But I am feeling super unmotivated and the mounting pressure isn't helping kick my ass to gear. I know that if I continue work on this I'll just be phoning it in...

Honestly this whole release has felt like a death march and I'm just drained.

In any case, apologies if this sounds like just a rant but how do you get through the slog of sh*t work and shit deadlines while your battery is drained? Not even thinking about salary and insurance is getting me anywhere. I'm wondering if this burnout is a symptom of something deeper.
On the similar note - Nexcare bandaids (by 3M, as all things are) are way better and comfortable than any other bandaids.
> The Talmud concludes that the rape isn't the punishable offense, it's only whether the man injured the woman when he fell on her from the roof. Anyone who uses this excuse will obviously not have "fallen on her", and therefore if she has any injuries it's almost certainly due to the violent rape occurring. The Talmud rules this out as being intentional, and gives an excuse for would have rapists.

Let me be clear here: this is a hypothetical case. It did not actually happen, nor has it ever happened. In fact, it is so obviously implausible that no-one would dare use this situation as an excuse, and if they did, the only possible conclusion is that they were lying. The Talmud does not condone this as an excuse.

So then, why do the scholars include this hypothetical if it’s useless for actual rape cases? It is to illustrate a particular legal point: namely, that in Jewish law, intention matters, but monetary compensation is just as important. They do this by considering this highly contrived case, which would never happen in practice but makes the point as clear as possible. Of course, it is nearly impossible to rape someone accidentally (though see below). But the principle sets a general precedent for other cases, in which a lesser crime might have been committed unintentionally.

(Curiously enough, a few years ago there was a high-profile case of ‘accidental rape’ in Australia. The man claimed he thought the woman had given him consent; the woman claimed she had never given consent. I can’t seem to find a link, but if I recall correctly, the judgement was eventually in favour of the man. Modern laws have edge cases too! And applying Rabba’s dictum here would actually have given a fairer result: the man would still have had to compensate the woman for any injuries.)

> You don't have to renounce your faith to admit the text is flawed, human. That's all I ask that people learn.

Of course! Texts are human, and the Talmud especially so: it’s literally a record of a bunch of people debating with each other and criticising each others’ legal interpretations. But this particular part of it is not problematic.
Colorfle 4 6/6

X X X

X X X

Y X X

G G X

G G X

G G G

My average color accuracy was 91.8%!

---

I didn't enjoy this, though that might be because I've never been strong on the creative side. I think a few things could've made it easier for me, though:

* having the color keyboard place the colors in a way where I can make intuitive guesses as to what changes I need to make to find the right colors. You can see my thought process a bit in the last few guesses for today's edition (#4), e.g going in one direction with one of the colors, seeing the percentage go down, and going in the other direction to compensate: https://i.imgur.com/Db1uVgZ.png (spoiler)

* Since it's not intuitive, some instruction around interpreting the % relative to the color keyboard would be helpful. For instance, if I get a pretty decently close percentage but none of my colors match, while I figured out it meant I should try some much different colors, it might not be super intuitive for the casual player.

That said, it might make for interesting mental training for people who like to paint on canvas. I just didn't enjoy it, and that's totally fine.
> If you start from "we want a language and runtime for writing distributed systems that would otherwise be written in C or Java" then Go is pretty good!

C and Java are far from the same. I'd argue that Java addresses or solves many of the criticisms he listed for golang (sum types, pattern matching, immutability with records, superior error handling with exceptions, nullability tracking with annotations, resource handling with try-with-resources, etc.).
Yeah, do it!

There is a lot of good scholarship on those topics, and a lot of good resources that are accessible to people who have not yet learned scholarships which is also ideal.

Just drop the part where you say "can we teach the bible [etc]", because that makes it sound like you're referring to teaching the practice of a religion which has nothing to do with teaching ethics or philosophy.
I'm pretty sure HN has the common problem of most recommendation systems that earliest interesting comments have a significant advantage, and so if you have two branches that you read a really great comment may be lower down.
Rewriting COQ in Rust?
Impressing ladies at the bar with your 'deep connection'.
You forgot the part where people suspect that we are Boltzmann brains.
PouchDB-Paginators
? I did not say that NNs can't represent periodic functions.
Show me a NN calculator with >99% accuracy if you wanna refute me.
And 'ssh -X' is also a thing.
I always assume it is to avoid pension payouts until otherwise corrected.
> The wuhan lab leak theory, commentary on undue censorship, predatory DIB/HR practices, moving out of costal areas to seek more sane people groups, and so on.

Do you feel that an intelligent, principled person cannot make a valid argument opposing you and your wife for any of these phenomena?
That’s true. But isn’t that tautology?

Either it’s the most important or unimportant.
the last time there was a shortage of pi hardware (before the 4) - target in the US had these "learn hardware!" boxes on clearance for a few bucks, with a Pi Zero (not sure which one, wifi only) and a cardboard case and a daughter board. I still have a couple of unopened boxes in a cabinet.

Unfortunately, i've lost about 2 pis a year to hardware failure since 2018, usually the SD card overheats and practically melts. I'm not sure why, humidity maybe, or bad SD cards.
>For a headless system, it's useless.

DualSense is a game controller. In this context, headless is unlikely.
Autism (and ASD) should really not be seen as this essentialist "yes or no".

There are degrees to which people, considered autistic or not by your favorite arbitrary standard, exhibit autistic traits. And those traits are not strictly inherently better or worse than neurotypical traits.

The standard for consideration as disorder should be the same as with most psychiatric disorders: Not mere presence, but causing issues that need support.

But at the same time, the people that are doing fine with autistic traits are no less autistic.

(Also, Asperger's has ceased existing a while ago)
Take away the born-to connections, in orgs at the upper levels, there’s often a temperament that prevails. That may come from experience, confidence, connection, etc. could come from support (err, favoritism) or the golden contract.
How Companies Lie to You About End-to-End Encryption [video]
I'm surprised that was a winning strategy. Many of the students in my class dumped everything into penny stocks. Sure, most of them lost their virtual shirts, but my safe investments didn't have the slightest chance of winning against that volatility. If twenty people spin the roulette wheel a few times, one of them is
probably going to beat the safe option.

It took a while for me to understand where I went wrong. Ultimately, my conclusion was that a short winner-take-all contest rewards very different strategies than the actual market does.
Any piece of engineering design is a statement. By the designer without the user. - MSM
> The Dearborn automaker is providing a package of benefits to the eligible 350 employees, including severance equal to up to nine months of pay based on service, benefits continuation for up to nine months based on service, and career transition services, the company told the Free Press.

There's probably some propaganda in here given the source, but honestly that's not a bad deal given the crappy situation.
Well, if that coal & oil thing dwindles down, there is a new demand known. WATER!
I’m sure I will be demolished for asking this dumb Q but… I work at a medium/largish company. We have a dozen tools in addition NR. I can’t help but wonder… is all this shit necessary for services that are so small and simple?

All I do when I use NR to figure out issues or get insight is run some queries by some key name and it shows me a nice graph. I feel like we could have just collected this data into a system we build in a few days and run the analysis ourselves. As an end user I don’t feel like it’s doing anything that fancy besides the graph.
Pictoprime: Generate Prime Numbers from Pictures
You're right too. Their former glory is gone, I never knew how much bigger they were before until I looked up more of their history today.
It’s hard to walk if you can’t feel your legs.

The problem is improperly evaluating the neural network as a function of time, instead of evaluating the network as a function of previous state.

When we humans approximate functions (let’s say you’re drawing it on a piece of paper, or waving your arm around) we do not simply look at a clock and feed forward that information directly into our motor neurons. Rather, we have sensory neurons that feed in the current state of the function we are approximating as an input, then approximating the next output of a periodic function becomes trivial.

It’s very easy to train a neural network to look at a piece of a sine wave and predict what the next value should be - the fact that the function is periodic actually helps you.
NoSQL Relational Database Management System
Our use was less interesting — shaving. Sleep was limited while underway so you would try to milk every minute possible. You'd be rushing to change, shave, and get to watch or muster which meant no time to wait for a shaving cut to stop bleeding. We'd just dip the pen in water and rub it on the cut to stop it from bleeding before heading up.
in most places SRE is title-inflation for DevOps, but in a less cynical interpretation it's the idea of 1) having reliable enough base-layer systems that product engineers don't need to care about servers or debug networks or in the most extreme cases log in to production machines themselves 2) putting engineers who have strong systems engineering, software engineering, and debugging skills in the same seats as the most critical product teams to carry the pager and fine tune and optimize those services without reporting to the product teams' leadership whose goals might be in conflict with engineering reliable systems.

This really only happens well at Google AFAICT.

the "new SRE" team Will mentioned was a bunch of ex-Google Infra folks who brought a holy book [https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/] with them and asked us to institute these practices whole-cloth. some of them had already been phased out of google by then but how could we have known
I'm curious, have you heard of any of these: Data Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer (MLE), Staff Software Engineer.

I'm surprised you've never come across the term SRE/Production Engineer before (Assuming you meant to say "have only __just__ heard about what an SRE is"). I live in New Zealand and I'm pretty sure I knew what an SRE was before I even joined a big tech company (Not a SV one btw).
And in that topic, also that getting a tax refund or having to pay doesn't change anything about the amount of taxes you ended up paying that year. And how getting a big refund isn't a windfall, it's just bad planning.
And yet it spends.
This was a lot of fun. I think I'll add it to my rotation of wordle-likes. I suspect my color intuition is better than most HN readers, though, if the other comments are anything to go by. I got both with a guess to spare.

One thing I would request is a dark background mode. I had to turn off my dark mode extension to see the colors accurately, and the glaring white background is a little annoying.
On HN, it appears the downvoting is about those with the power disagreeing with a different or unpopular opinion, so is of little deterrence to trolling. The troll can be typing something that is popular or is popular, but is specifically targeting or bullying other users.

The troll behavior isn't punished, unless a moderator steps in, where arguably it would have reached the point of being quite obvious or outrageous. So on HN, it seems that if a user has an issue with trolling, they would have to e-mail HN about it. And here again, it would likely need to be something more on the continual, obvious, or outrageous side for actions to be taken.
The signal/point cabling at new street in Birmingham is the textbook definition of cable gore.

Just bundles on bundles snaked alongside track, bulging out of channels meant for them... Is it any wonder there's been a half dozen point or signal failures over the last few weeks leading to significant delays for commuters?

To say nothing of how much left over track sections, sleepers, gravel bags and other material are strewn alongside the lines, left for years.
Most rape victims in the United States are men:

https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report.html

Caution: that’s hard, explicit, distressing reading.
I've recently come across "The Eye of Horus", a paper + associated code base [1] analysing attacking transactions on smart contracts using DataLog (a subset of Prolog). Not all of it is written in DataLog, but the vulnerability analysis is - the core component of the framework.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06204
I live in a country with 5 million people. Any software targeting the local market automatically has much less potential for growth than in the US with its 330 mln, so the work of making it has comparably less economic value. I'd say that's at least part of the explanation.
I like that a lot. Hoping OP answers
One of the best "personal finance for kids" books I've come across is The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand. It teaches basic concepts like a balance sheet, income statements, profit, and more. I really recommend it, even for adults that want a more fun approach to a notoriously boring topic.

I hope that the new Georgian curriculum takes this approach and not a dry textbook one.
Tangentially related:

The word mummy originally referred to a medicine, now called mummia, made from Egyptian mummies.

Ground up Egyptian mummies have been used in pigments too (mummy brown). Many paintings from the Pre-Raphaelites used this pigment. The artist Edward Burne-Jones was reported to have ceremonially buried his tube of mummy brown in his garden when he discovered its true origins.

There was even an entire counterfeit scene for Egyptian mummies where fresh corpses were embalmed and sold off for use in medicine and pigments!
This seems like an excellent mechanism you have here, and you can tell from the current batch of conversations that you've already achieved good participation. It feels a bit odd and voyeuristic reading it though, almost like I've walked into a high-class party where I don't belong. This may be entirely intentional, and admittedly the sophistication of the conversations is beyond any forum I've seen before. (This might say more about me than your project.) But I do wonder: is there any place for low-brow talk here? Or even quick back-and-forth banter? I just wonder if it's even possible, or if what I'm seeing is simply a result of early testing from your inner circle (who seem waaay classier than my friends, haha!). Even if it doesn't fill every role it seems like a success regardless. Good job!
Honestly it'd be like explaining what sysadmin means nowadays. It's so common I am surprised there are sectors of the industry that don't use the term yet! But it makes sense that a person who's been blogging about SRE-work for years doesn't feel the need to define SRE. It's been around as a role since the early 2000s.

Edit: It's probably been around longer that SDET!
Indeed. Actually the opposite of a windfall. You've given the government an interest free loan for up to a year. I try to do minimal withholding and pay my taxes as late as possible.