skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://thelifeengine.net/

The coolest cellular automaton I've ever seen. I can fiddle with this all day and get absolutely no work done. Beautiful and stimulating 10/10
_sigh_

Yes. It can.

You’re intentionally misrepresenting reality for what I suspect is some ideological fondness of Tesla.

Sure, no _commercial_ plane can take off with autopilot, but such planes exist[1].

But, saying Cat IIIc is required for hands off landing is silly. It’s required for hands off landing in the absolute worst conditions. It’s needed only when conditions are so bad that you can’t safely taxi and you’ll be stuck on the runway. That’s why it’s not used.

[1] https://youtu.be/9TIBeso4abU
Neighborhoods Watched: The Rise of Urban Mass Surveillance (2021)
Although it is only 31" and appears to be back-ordered just about everywhere, the Sony BVM-HX310 is a straight monitor with top-notch rendition. It is about $30k, however.

For about $14k, the 32" Sony PVM-X3200 is perhaps more realistic.
A Big Mac isn’t a big burger. I’m sure many shoe names don’t reflect well on the increased abilities they sound like. Naming is a big part of marketing hype. It always has been, it’s not just software.
Do you know if your coworkers like hanging out and talking to you? Are they there to have fun?

I've worked with people who want to have fun and hang and I found them to be a distraction and resented having them around.
Bioluminescence
Have you tried nslookup?
3D TV and betamax were hard too.
ZOMBO.COM
Energy being cheap within Russia's borders seems like a relatively obvious consequence of antagonizing the countries you normally export to.

It would be interesting to see precise numbers on how much Russia's revenues for those exports have grown by. Particularly w/r/t China, since they've historically been Russia's largest trading partner. A rise in revenue roughly proportional to a rise in Chinese demand would be relatively less impressive than, say, a rise in revenue beyond that demand.
Two+ monitors is the standard?
The problem with Tesla's "self-driving" is people assume they have to provide no oversight or inputs beyond engaging the system. It's a recipe for disaster. Couple it with the rapid acceleration and speeds the Tesla is capable of and you exponentially increase that risk. I have seen people shave / apply makeup, be on laptops, and even sleep while these cars were "driving." Conversely, I have seen people accelerate rapidly and unsafe, taking their previously gas-driven aggressive behaviors to a whole new level.

The cars need governors to keep other motorists safe and I hesitate to say "other motorists," since I think most find their driver's license as the toy in a Happy Meal.
I've heard you can polish out logo's with a sugar cube. Never tried it myself but the idea is it's hard enough to scrub off a printed logo but soft enough as not to scratch the plastic.
Governments pay for roads with fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, and general tax revenue since the first two are not enough. Delaware gets 80% cost recovery through user fees, while Alaska brings up the rear at 20%. How we pay for roads is a political choice.

Some states are adding punitive EV and hybrid registration fees that are equivalent to a fuel tax paid for a 13 MPG truck. They provide the justification that fuel tax needs to be fully replaced, EVs are heavier vehicles causing more road wear, and since EV owners are wealthier on average it's a progressive tax.
Meshnet DWeb Camp (2019)
There's a lot of great responses, but I really like Linear Algebra by Harold Edwards. He's an excellent writer and takes an algorithmic approach in his approach. It's pretty short and designed for one-semester, and you could learn a lot from coding the various algorithms.
Hong Kong NETs – foreign teachers of English – forced to take allegiance oath
As someone with wrist pain, I’ve been doing all manner of pushups on fists instead of hands for years.

It feels a lot better(and arguably looks cooler)
Wise words. As someone working in ML, I feel this holds equally true for AI
German Payment Outage Underscores Danger of Cashless Economy: System Fragility
What we got wrong was if you build something awesome people will find you. It was true but it is not anymore.
it sounds like you are exaggerating, but if you compare street design, a lot can be done. for example, the street outside my home has a sidewalk, a bike lane, and a row of bushes and trees before getting to car traffic. the distance from me to a moving car is more than 5 meters.
A Plea from German Brewers: Bring Back Your Empties
I migrated from infra to FRL, saw the new name, and quit after a conversation with an executive (m team).

You can search post about the culture being execution driven rather than innovation based (assuming it is still up).

I was happy in infra, but FRL taught me about despair.
Not just some people but many people and not just some aspects of the aviation industry but precisely those with are being referenced.
How far away do you sit from a 13" screen?
Thankfully I never heard of Maddox until this moment, and I can now safely forget he ever existed.
I wouldn't screen for code quality, but for attitude. Every codebase is some level of crap. The older, the larger it is, usually the crappier. This is fixable, however, if they let you. The problem usually arises when the focus isn't on maintainability, the team doesn't want to improve their workflows, or the feature pressure is just too high.

Observe your interviewers: is the interview a questions-answers style process, or are you having a conversation? Do they come over as enthusiastic or rather as close to burnout? Those are tell tale signs of how it will be to work with them.
Have you tried Amazon's version?

The portal is decent, but it hasn't gotten much love nor a vibrant ecosystem. If not for messenger, then I'd probably switch that out.
I'm self employed, so keeping different client stuff separate from my general business development stuff separate from coffee break stuff is a no brainer.
Yep, I found this book to be good fun.
A wild assortment of ~400 mostly visual music videos from youtube that I curate is here:

http://www.ruffandtuffrecordings.com/SELECTIONS

I even use it a lot on my own, I really enjoy the music I find.

I post updates to my twitter account usually as well @djwinterman

The list has many different genres and moods to it.

(Refreshing the list will load random videos)

I'm thinking of making it a carousel page of some sort soon.
The first thought that occurred to me was, I wonder if the radioactivity changes as the banana ripens. The starch converts to sugar, but of course that has nothing to do with the amount of potassium in the banana... or does it?

Perhaps geiger counters in the hands of hobbyists could perform experiments confirming or disproving the theory of biological transmutation - the possibility that life can transmute sodium to potassium or potassium to calcium has been totally written off by modern physics, but only declared impossible, not proven to be bunk. The talk page on Corentin Louis Kervran's wiki [0] is more interesting than most psuedoscience, and a book review [1] describes some compelling experiments:

> Everything they ate and drank was measured and everything they excreted was measured, weighed and reported. The balance sheet showed that during great heat the potassium excreted through perspiration greatly increased. The workers were given salt tablets to suck on during the day to increase their sodium. More potassium was excreted than the workers were consuming.

> Hens without calcium in their diets can transmute mica which contains some silicate of potassium to calcium in less than a day going from soft shells to hard, complete shells in 20 hours.

Should be pretty easy to prove with some geiger readings over time, no?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Corentin_Louis_Kervran

[1] https://bionutrient.net/site/library/reviews/biological-tran...
You know in some countries they boil the coffee on the stove with egg shells. The science is simple, when the pH falls below 8.2, calcium flows into solution and buffers the pH.
The downside is that coffee wrecks your breath and your smile, and costs about 10x more than other commonly prescribed stimulants.
They don't get much from me. I watch very little, and less with commercials.

But yes, I get your point.
Look at criu maybe?

https://criu.org/
I'm sorry that you think just because I only chose to show one file type that it only exported one file type

unzip -l 1PasswordExport-ILESALYKVFDNJH3K24FEO3QRHM-20220611-220354.1pux | grep files/ | grep -Eo '\.[^.]+' | sort | uniq -c
3 .2019-10-31
1 .4742E0C72E589FA7
5 .B5CA9C4DAF6FA034
1 .asc
2 .btskey
8 .cer
4 .certSigningRequest
11 .com
5 .gmail
6 .gpg
6 .hopperLicense
1 .io
2 .jpg
7 .json
1 .keybase
1 .onepassword7-license-mac
4 .p12
2 .paperkey
1 .pdf
8 .pem
1 .png
2 .tar
14 .txt
Thanks! Anyway, I'll try to think about ways to help my writing be more approachable for an international audience in my next articles. And regardless, I really enjoyed your comments. Cheers!
This was a thing nearly
10 years ago on windows, not sure if it still works

https://spotiamp-lightweight-spotify-player.en.uptodown.com/...
I recently purchased a Sony A90J after owning a “dumb” TV for over a decade. I was pleased to see that there was a “TV only” option that did not require me to use any of the “Smart” TV features.

In fact, given I can control the TV through my Apple 4k device I never have to experience any of the televisions interface (apart from settings and inputs)
honestly, i've always been of the impression that SAFe and, to a degree, Scrum have just been adapters installed to "increase engineering autonomy" in a way that maximizes compatibility with traditional project management. at hugeco's, someone, somewhere, is translating story points into man-hours and velocity into project burn in dollars, usually in a guarded Excel spreadsheet.

engineers running the show at these places would accelerate companies to the stratosphere (because engineers can do pretty much anything with enough money and autonomy). a man can dream.
The PCjr was a pretty good looking pizza-box case, much nicer than the 5150 IMO.
oh sigh :-/
A few basic laws would drastically reduce the mortality rate: cap gas tanks to 5 gallons, cap max speed to 25 mph, require monthly psych evals at DMV, and weekly checkins with a local sheriff, and a hotline to report suspicious neighbors that look unstable and should rather take a bus. Ideally we would just ban these machines of destruction: when this country was founded, people used horses, so I see no reason why anyone should feel entitled to own a car.
Yes, Linux is better than any certified Unix and that's one of the big reasons macOS is worse for Unix-like things than Linux.
Dr Shaaban was my advisor for my MS, a little over 10 years ago! We probably overlapped there...

Lots of great sites among the RIT profs.
Plenty of scripts will break in mysterious ways if you replace the sed binary with GNU sed.
https://archive.ph/JYKF1
GDP growth comes from machines, not humans.
Fill ‘er up: Examining electrical vehicle charging facilities in US
I forgot to mention, there is no sounds, no jingle, no logo when operating the television — which is refreshing given that my LG and Samsung appliances are constantly jingling for my attention and engagement.
This wouldn't work for me. I need to see my browser at the same time as my code. I could be referencing docs, looking up a snippet for chat, reviewing code and looking something up, all manor of things require both to be visible at the same time for me.
I paid for it and have been using FSD beta for over 6 months, the most recent 10.12 is a big improvement on smoothness and further improves my confidence in the system
Your line of reasoning depends on a strawman: that Tesla could not have achieved this much if Musk had called it Cruise control and lane assist.
I hit the back button to reply to your comment, at first I thought it'd be a few images, but the GIFs and "memes" are pointless and don't add anything from an information or humor standpoint.
agreed, "let's ban kitchen knives and cars"
Sweet baby jesus, that much money changes the game significantly if you can work remote. Where I am, 90k and you're living large with a nice vehicle, 3br+ and some land. 600k and you might as well call up the mayor to tell them what type of wax you prefer on your truck.
I may be fired over AI ethics work
Page is 90MB download. I don't judge, just thought it was curious data point (all resources if you scroll to the bottom).
Not having some proprietary debugger thing for this to work with when you can just set location in about:config seems like the pettiest nitpick
> One single-handedly wrote 85% of <extremely popular and complex app you've used> and another wrote most of the internal libraries at <company you've heard of>.

There is a trap here, though. There is another group of engineers, who jump on any greenfield project before everyone else manages to discuss the plan and then they write some code very quickly, showing you a "finished" solution. Those people often appear 10x to management as well. However, after deploying their code to production, it turns out it has many issues and is a source of never ending frustration for the people who maintain it. Unfortunately at that time the "super hero" has moved to a new greenfield project, and is not willing to fix their bugs or help because they are "busy" or "in a flow".

I don't think those people are really 10x. They are often an annoyance to the rest of the team and if the management doesnt break this pattern early, you end up with a team where one person codes 90% of stuff, gets most of the credit, but 10 other people get frustrated maintaining it, and overall the team pace is not 10x higher, but may be even slower than a similarly sized group of average devs.

So if you are in a management position, don't just look at how much code a person writes in a short time or what percentage of the product they created, but also look at the quality of their work and how good they are at sharing their knowledge with the rest of the team.

Having said that, I have met some true 10xers who created high quality stuff fast and were very helpful to their teammates, but they are quite rare and often don't get all the praise they deserve, particularly in environments valuing the "ship fast and break things" strategy.
Epic guide, definitely going to give it a go, thank you! (Easy on the gifs next time please, it makes it incredibly difficult to read )
Reading that, it's hard not to see the parallels to Darren Aronofsky's movie Pi. Building a supercomputer in an apartment to find patterns in Pi that have some higher meaning, the computer constantly breaking, etc.
The cases made today are 100x better than even stuff from the late 00s. Better cable management, better air flow, better aesthetics. I think being able to ditch 5.25 drive bays has been a major positive change. Also not ripping your hand open on random sharp metal, always nice.
Thanks. I was expecting a less UK familiar audience, I've over simplified the problem semi-deliberately, largely to avoid falling into discussing the general mess that is NHS IT. :) My first job probably 20 years ago now was on a Radiology Information System so while probably out of date (though that RIS is still deployed widely so maybe not) I've got some idea of the types of issues, including around NHS numbers. I guess I'm only aiming for that extra layer of Swiss cheese in whatever initial subset of the plethora of systems it could cover.

I've also tried taking systems through NHS innovation programmes in more recent years. That's been a whole other level beyond what I experienced with the RIS, all the same issues plus fighting for funding from people who told me they wanted off the shelf and not anything new (or, it seemed, innovative). And I don't need funding so I'm loathe to go that route but I can't dismiss it, it's an option.
This is getting off topic but what the heck does the number in parenthesis mean on man pages?
It’s not great for your shoulder long term. As a rule of thumb, when lifting heavy weight if your hands are not in front of your body you are putting unnecessary stress on the joint. A handstand would put your hands right above your head. Overhead pressing is bad for the shoulder, better alternative is Landmine presses at 45 degree, or decline push-ups.
Your house becoming more valuable doesn’t mean you have more money.
Ever get people telling you to RTFA?
I think they do (at least in England). I've just been ineffective at convincing them of that.
The coolest website I'm using is a very practical one.

https://geizhals.de is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly specify all kinds of things.

Searching for a mainboard with minimum 4x SATA ports and 64GB RAM support in mini ITX format? Easy peasy.

For example, take a look at the laptop category and its filters: https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb

I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.
> afaik the banana's is not even detectable

So they might just as well have used salt? AFAIK that is best practice. :)
My house going up or down in value doesn’t make me richer or poorer

I could see the point of your argument if I sell and make a profit - but before I do that my QOL within my house is not affected
> You need to get it right for 1 second to call it a handstand IMO

I don't think many people would call that a handstand. Or at least, if you do then the definition is so wide as to be useless. There's no balance at all involved for 1 sec, just luck.
“Anti-authoritarianism is an elite value”

https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1522341844960436224

Also see Burnham, “The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom” or Hayek, “Rules and Order” section “Principles and Expediency”.

In general it’s the elites who have to care about norms and principles, and hold each other accountable. Voters care about expedient matters such as gas prices.
Ideally I would love if we could stop using "random" entirely when referring to PRNGs. Call them "deterministic bit mixers" or something.
Honestly I don't think these are as often wrong as some people think. While PIN and ATM work well even when articulated (please input the PIN, the ATM is broken), others don't ("the HIV has killed millions"). LCD is more on the fence for me.

Other common examples that don't sound that wrong to me are "the IP/TCP/... protocol".

For a different reason, I also don't think "this API expects a JWT token" is redundant: JWT is the name of a standard, so the phrase should be parsed as "the API expects a token in JSON Web Token format".
a one line description of each of these would be nice
planning can be useful if stories entering the queue are refined in real time and the team knows where they are going. best case, it's a ten minute "here's the backlog; who needs work?; what are we shipping this week?" conversation...but this assumes a high-performance team of go-getters where every story is vetted well enough for anyone to pick up

(that convo can be had on slack, btw, just like standups.)

the problem is "scrum masters" waiting to refine/reject stories during refinement (or not refining at all), or engineers not updating their cards frequently enough, or nobody guarding the backlog and allowing anyone to dump stuff into it. when these things happen, you get three-hour-plus-long sprint planning that wastes everyone's time

the other thing I absolutely hate are capital-r-Retros. retros are supposed to be the meeting that everyone looks forward to, but they often get skipped because it's an hour of people sharing platitudes because the room isn't safe enough to REALLY say what you feel. if i ran retros, they would be at a nearby pub or chill restaurant, over beverages and food, with no real structure other than "at some point we should talk about how this week went."
Gilbert Strang: Linear Algebra for Everyone
If there was any collective bargaining in software development then YES, it’s an easy ask.

If you’re considering a tiny startup desperate for developers then YES, it’s an easy ask.

It will not work in any other environments because of the power imbalance.
> is it fair that your new neighbor pays twice as much as you to support city services, just because they bought their place more recently?

My neighbor paying 2x what I paid has no effect on the cost of city services
Honestly I think these kinds of calculations should also include all the VAT you pay out over the course of a year, which I imagine is also reasonably substantial.

Also, you're not paying 45% income tax on the total amount right (that's the highest bracket in the UK).
Technically, I'm sure the answer is yes. Access to those systems is a difficulty for an outsider like me.
Read it with the OCW lectures! "Combinations of columns"
Gilbert Strang also has a new book, Linear Algebra for Everyone. I am going through it now, and it is very nice.
This is not a good example - JWT is the name of a format, not of the token stored in that format. JWT token just means "token in JWT format".

Saying "a JWT" is in fact more dubious, like saying "an SQL" instead of "an SQL string".
Music to my ears
Nice one! It's a pity about the tab initialisation problem, I almost always open links in new tabs but great work nonetheless.
Federal government decided long time ago that homes are an investment.
> Jon and the authors of uxn commit a common fallacy in that they're chasing a brass ring of in-the-small performance metrics, getting it in the form of particular demonstrations, and then gradually accreting features to it until, most likely, they end up in a similar position to the old tech

If creating full games is an in-the-small performance for a particular demonstration, I can't even imagine what an in-the-big is.

> The actual problem faced by language authors is that they face difficulty in defining quality while also generalizing the problem space

As far as I can tell, jai is exactly that. It's already dropped a few features that looked fine in theory but didn't work for actual development.
I was in a very similar situation myself, didn't realize how much spending ~8yrs doing computer work caused other muscles to atrophy, had difficulty not overly engaging upper traps + arms for everything when trying a fitness plan.

I've slowly gotten to the point where I'm fairly well-rounded as far as being able to use core, pecs, glutes, lats etc. during various exercises, without overly taxing upper traps.

If I were to do things over again I'd probably start with a regular yoga practice just to get better mind-body connection and get full body strength to a decent baseline.

For handstands specifically you might check out this guy's video which imo is well thought out, thorough, designed for people not already in shape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XJ2zR5tE0I

From the same guy, I've been following a full body mobility routine which you may find useful too—seems to hit a lot of spots that get problematic through desk work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2SOrScNbww