skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the brilliant Ricky Gervais quote:

"So if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg."
this garbage bridge does not serve it's residents above replacement.

ferries already existed, as well as other ways to get to the areas north of the city.

the main issue with this bridge is that it is the enemy of better, and a bridge/tunnel with forward thinking infrastructure and transit can now never be built, now that we have this antiquated garbage bridge built, merely for the myth of car ownership

the civil planning doesn't even extend to the rest of the city, it's merely plopped down onto an arbitrary section of it.

it would have been better to not have been built at all. a more ugly bridge built later on wouldn't have had the nimbys we have today, and could have been torn down and retrofitted without it being sacrilegious
Mortality rate will be always 100% until we manage to escape this universe and move to a newer one. That or learn how to massively decrease the amount of entropy. Something about light, perhaps.
> In reality what is happening is that I've got multiple stakeholders on the business side and a fight between their priorities is being run through my planning process.

Yes, because YOU are the scarce resource that the org needs to allocate. Critical for orgs to figure out smooth ways to identify these conflicts and resolve them with good decisions. Not easy though!
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If you applied the same criteria to Western media, you'd conclude that the vast majority of them is state-driven too.

(Note that this is not whataboutism, but rather a proof that this behaviour is widespread and pretty much normal, which contrasts with article's rethoric)
It's real hard to argue against that kind of energy density.
At a startup I worked at briefly (~4 weeks), engineers were constantly being asked to do ad-hoc pieces of work from people all over the business. A product manager who started around the same time as me tried to introduce a lightweight triage system for his team by which inbound requests would go via him. He was immediately taken to task by the CTO who told him to stop rocking the boat and not to introduce any other changes until the new VP of product joined in a few months.

Arguably he tried to change too much too fast, but anyway, there's a reason I only lasted 4 weeks.
Haha, whoopsie! I love funny little mistakes between governmental leaders and billion dollar corporations like this. Good thing this isn’t regular citizens using an encrypted messaging app, because then we’d have a real problem.
Holy hell, when did they add the Booklet option to Page Setup?

EDIT: Wait, I don't see that in Preview, MacOS Monterey. I wonder if it is a feature of the printer driver (tried both my Brother and HP, no go).
I think it is not just github actions, github in general is experiencing degraded performance [1].

[1] https://www.githubstatus.com/
What's annoying about this is that the PR doesn't even say it's trying to run tests. It says everything is passing and just doesn't list the actions.

For a second I thought someone must have deleted the actions yaml files.

This is a dangerous failure mode.

https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq/pull/82

Screenshot here: https://twitter.com/phil_eaton/status/1542168020516216832
Beanless coffee startup Atomo raises $40M, begins online sales
This reminds me of Candide. I can't find a quote that perfectly lines up with TFA. But this comes close. Read the book if you're piqued.

"You are right," said Pangloss, "for when man was first placed in the Garden of Eden, he was put there "ut operaretur eum", that he might cultivate it; which shows that man was not born to be idle."

"Let us work," said Martin, "without disputing; it is the only way to render life tolerable."

The author of the post here is coming at this idea from one specific angle: it's worse than you think. But this is a specific instance of a larger insight. None of it makes any sense, nor has any meaning. He could go one step further with all of this. yes, it's true that your to do list is a complete f-up. No doubt. But it's not just your to do list, or your imposter syndrome, or etc. It's all of everything. The whole of existence. It's all just one complete cosmic joke of a guy slipping on a banana peel joke.

I think the Hitchhiker Guide Galaxy books by Douglas Adams captured this. When I was a kid I didn't realize the existential dilemmas that kept cropping up. I just thought it was funny. Now in my mid-40s it's still funny, but it feels a lot more true, too.

I'm also getting vibes of this from Jesus.

John 18:36 Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place."

My angle being, this world is not what's important. Sure it's important because you're here now. There is that. But don't get too caught up in it. It's all going away soon. It doesn't really ultimately matter if you're late to your daughter's orthodontist appointment.
So the tax collector also screws over their own employees and not just taxpayers? Welcome to the club, I guess.
Engineers never want to admit that it amounts to politics. No amount of process will shield you from politics. It has to play out; priorities have to be decided. You can try to alienate yourself from it and watch it play out like the weather -- leaving yourself to prepare for the seasons.

Or, you can suck it up, learn that humans are a critical (THE critical) component of the system. You have to learn how they work too.
A calendar designed to convey Earth's seasons doesn't have anything to do with Mars. Moreover, no one lives on Mars.
This looks really cool. Are there ways to orchestrate jobs? Like having one notebooks output trigger another based on some logic? I'm imagining running a bunch of different deep learning models on separate notebooks, or running the same model on different chunks of a piece of data in parallel.
Oh God, are we still discussing 10x programmers?

Please let's not.
Authentication systems are the most common thing to have security related bugs?

I'm shocked.

FWIW, the majority of things on that list aren't what I'd consider covered by any auth library I know of.

It's mostly people just not using their authentication, diy or not.
> if they’re cool with it that’s on them right?

If their nonchalance impacts my security, no, it’s on me as well.
The eastern span has one. Mostly useless without one on the western span though. They seem to have a project up for it, but i'm not sure what the status is:

https://mtc.ca.gov/planning/transportation/bicycle-pedestria...
The fact that India would consider TikTok a threat but not Meta leads me to believe that it wasn't done on a purely espionage basis. The threat of TikTok, today, it still theoretical, while Facebook has done measurable harm to India's neighbors.
> When I decided to move away from self-hosted git ages ago and then from Jenkins to GA two years ago, reliability was a huge factor in my decision because Github, I supposed, would be much better at keeping their infrastructure running than I am at keeping ours.

Oh you sweet summer child
http://www.daretothink.org/numbers-not-adjectives/how-long-w...

Nuclear as it exists is a finite energy source. We could have been in a similar situation if we doubled down on nuclear decades ago.

At some point, we will need to transition to nuclear systems built with different technologies, if they are feasable, which is still questionable, or other renewable energy sources, like solar and wind. No solution is going to be a magic bullet that solves the effect of climate change because it is the outcome stemming from several technological and social limitations.
Yes, I mentioned exactly that.

However, first, many workplace safety rules were promulgated by govt commissions formed in response to specific events. They could be established via a one-time campaign, without a permanent institution like unions... just like many other safety and other standards - we don't have an all-encompassing seatbelt-union or anti-smoking union or low-car-exhaust union, just one-time campaign followed by a pointed intervention. Even such easier-to-violate, more nebulous policies as 40-hour work week generally persisted, and spread around the world, despite decline in unionization.

Additionally, salary and working conditions for many occupations (e.g. software) are great based purely on market forces, without unions. It's not a given that most of the good impact of unions wouldn't have happened without them.

But again, sure, I did grant some credit to unions for that. However, one may also grant nukes some credit in saving many lives by ending WWII early, and yet not be pro-nuke.

Why do you choose to judge unions on that one episode, and not many of their negative impacts?
> just running that on 28nm without any changes is not possible?

From what I understand, "node" in this context doesn't look like a printer resolution, it looks like a lego kit of transistors and such that TSMC has tuned to use the layer heights / counts / materials they plan to deposit. Since these details change between nodes, the 2D shapes aren't portable. You have to swap components.
OK, well, here’s a good summary of the science part: https://science2017.globalchange.gov/

It really doesn’t seem religious to me. I know a few people who work in this area and they are just normal physical scientists.

Most of them do have some disappointment as people resist seeing this problem. I’ve seen more lectures over the last few years where your basic crusty old atmospheric scientist is saying, “people, we have to pay attention to this one.”
I was going to comment exactly this... There is a reason Google X and Microsoft R&D hire so many former DARPA PM's.
When any company designs the electronics for a new car, they don't start on a clean sheet of paper. Existing designs are reused and adapted. Additional complexity is introduced because some of the electronics are from third parties, for example this Gear Selector is interfacing with a Bosch transmission controller which controls a ZF transmission.
If you’re willing to pay for access (it’s cheap for rare / one off access) bmw provides their AOS portal.

https://aos.bmwgroup.com/web/oss/start - you’ll need something like an “icom next” to connect the car but it’ll do e-sys with the ability to install the latest firmwares.

Some stuff (quite limited though) is available through the car data api - i think most f-series and all g-series i think have telematics. I have a 2018 f15 and that works.

https://bmw-cardata.bmwgroup.com/thirdparty/public/repair-an...
In almost all cases, switching processes means a complete redesign. 28nm vs 60nm isn't just "we can draw smaller parts now". Lots of other things (silicon doping levels, choice of metal for the routing layers, operating voltage levels, thickness of the insulating layers, ...) change too, requiring design changes to keep the old design working the same way it used to.

A very small set of processes allow one way reuse e.g. you can build a tsmc28hpm design directly in the tsmc28hpc process (but you can't build a 28hpc design in the 28hpm process) - but, for instance, neither of those is directly compatible with the tsmc28hpc+ (note the 'plus' in the name) process. And all 3 of those have the same feature size and are made by the same foundry.
> In the USA, identification as Christian is decreasing and identification as “nothing in particular”, “agnostic”, and “atheist” is increasing

In general atheist is projected to decrease around the world as a share of the population and that is primarily because of low fertility among atheists.

For example, here: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2015/04/02/religious-pr...

> I think philosophies tend to look ‘inherited’ most often in stable societies, with low geographical mobility and low penetration of outside ideas.

I didn't mean to imply they're inherited, but if anyone adopting a particular philosophy has as a result low fertility, it is a very hard philosophy to grow as it constantly needs new converts. It isn't self regenerating.
Earth Engine for Governments and Businesses
Nice catch, that does line up well
I wonder why they didn't pick up Weasy on the PDF build side? That's my go-to if I have access to a Python environment.

Probably too resource hungry, or some flippery making Jupiter work with it. I've seen Jupiter all over the place but haven't played with it.

https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint

https://weasyprint.org/
Well, I wrote one with rust and actix-web for exact same purpose.

In my opinion, writing basic auth is simple and safe if you keep OWASP guidelines and other best practices in mind but adding features like SSO and MFA etc is complicated. With that said, almost everything else I tried feels so heavy and slow that I'm sticking with mine for now.

If I've to use prebuilt solutions, I'll pick one that is open source and can be self hosted.
It's different only in paper. The US also can put lot of pressure on the companies via TLAs.
Always go back to devise in rails land. It isn't worth the effort to integrate with an external service for the side projects I work on, but maybe I should try it just once
I would say this is firmly in "Modest Proposal" territory, in the sense that the solution proposed would certainly contribute to solving the problem, but has enough negative effects that it doesn't make sense. As a parallel example, it's clear that if we killed off 50% of the earth's population we would substantially reduce the environmental impact of human activity on the climate. Yet nobody would seriously consider this as a solution to the climate problem, and there is no one proposing this and nobody would support it. But how can you be against this, if climate change in an existential threat?

Frankly I find it difficult to believe that there are still nuclear supporters out there. Fukushima was thankfully somewhat small in impact, but let's not lose sight of the fact that there was a full-on containment failure -- an actual honest-to-god meltdown. I have been assured so many times by so many nuclear experts and proponents that this sort of failure mode is simply not possible anymore.

Given that the impact of a major containment failure can be extremely dramatic, with death tolls in the millions, what makes people think that we understand the engineering problem enough?
The population didn't crash to zero, Calhoun merely claimed it was going to. But despite researching it for decades while being well-funded, what wound up happening (in that, as in almost all of the mouse experiments) remains a mystery because Calhoun published bizarrely little.
The relationship employee-employer is adversarial, the "we are a family" or "we take care of you" is a lie that unfortunately for the employee works more than expected.
Just remember that the employer is not asking you what do you think about you being laid off. They just do it. It might reasonable on their part when looking at the "state of the business", but you as a lower-level employee (not C-level) has no say in any of those decision, you get what is thrown at you.

I have also happen to believe that fewer hours, less stress, more flexibility are worth a lot of the money that is given up by not moving to a better-paying but more stress-inducing company. That's also the choice I made. But if I can get 1.5X, 2X etc. at my current company, you bet I am taking it big time.
Yep, it's a very serious issue with no easy answers.
Gotta admit that made me snort :-D
We need to start counting aggregate years of life lost in relative terms vs simply counting deaths. Instead of saying that a given issue will cause N deaths, state that it reduces average life expectancy by X%. If the result is less than some threshold (say 0.00001%) it should not be considered newsworthy.
I have been so happy to be on GitLab again after some time working at a company that used GitHub. The issues and epics in particular are so much better, and CI seems to be more reliable.
Highly recommend https://builds.sr.ht. I've been using for ~2 years, never had an issue.
> I would disagree --at advanced age, multiple systems and organs are near failure, so while one may identify one as being the proximate cause, if not that today, it would have been another tomorrow and that offers a false sense of certainty.

Exactly. Saying someone died of old age also communicates important information about how expected the outcome was.
I didn't know about most of these fermented soy products - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fermented_soy_products

But Tempeh is a pretty common one for vegans. I've used it in curries and stir fries.
Pretty much every treatment for Alzheimer’s has failed in clinic (the rest are ambiguous). Google in the pipeline for Derek lowe’s commentary stream. They had drugs that target amyloid buildup directly to no avail - they need another biological model to attack. Billions have gone down the hole chasing this. Huge market, huge need, no joy.
My Indonesian friend introduced me to tempeh, which has to be one of the most versatile (and healthy) foods. You can toast it for a quick snack, but it disappears into nearly every type of sweet or savory dish, or it can be the main attraction. I've put it into a meat red-sauce for added texture and protein. +1 would eat again.
And France is in trouble, as half its fleet of nuclear reactors are offline due to many issues (ERP delays, corrosion everywhere https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2022/04/24/french-...).

Here are the wholesale electricity prices for next winter in various European countries. Look at the France-Germany spread! https://twitter.com/GoldbergNic/status/1542103521524424704

There's a reason why we had to turn on our old coal plants again.
And Sony started manufacturing earlier than Microsoft. So at launch they had more units available.
Personal story: Someone in the dark past of my company decided rolling their own auth was fine. Our platform is mostly Django so there's a lot of pieces in place OOTB so they thought it would be easy and it probably was. At some point, whatever this auth system was used for just fell off the websites. Some new login features were added back and they used hosted platform for passwords. Enter me, years later, no idea that auth every existed. Eventually we noticed a database table with thousands of users whose passwords were hashed with a now broken algorithm. They were probably sitting there for years and had copies, backups and snapshots wherever.
Remote Development at Slack
This isn’t totally accurate.

J++ was an actual JVM implementation, c# ran on the .net runtime that was being developed at the same time for the next generation of Visual Basic. While the languages looked superficially similar, the runtime and base class library is significantly different.

After the sun lawsuit, Microsoft dropped j++ and released j#, which allowed for a weird hybrid of Java but with the .net class library running on the .net runtime. This was short lived because why use this over c#, and has been mostly forgotten to history.
Word for DOS (and Xenix!) predates Mac Word, and even the Macintosh itself, but Word for Mac predates Word for Windows by several years.

The DOS predecessor to Excel was Multiplan, which again predates the Mac, but Excel 1.0 was indeed a Mac-only product; Excel 2.0 was the first cross-platform version.

Another interesting example is Halo, which was originally planned as a Mac exclusive and introduced as such by none other than Steve Jobs during a Macworld keynote. Then Microsoft acquired Bungie while building up a stable of exclusive launch titles for the original Xbox, and it didn't see a Mac release until after the Windows version shipped a couple years later.
After my experiences with Android I will never ever buy another device with a Qualcomm SoC again.
The problem that I've found is that no other CI/CD provider has feature parity to GitHub Actions & integration with Git. Sure, there's external providers (Travis-CI, Buildkite, etc) but none of them feel like they have the polish of GitHub Actions. GitLab & Azure DevOps also don't compare at all - I've migrated whole organizations off of both because they just don't feel polished / break rather frequently. So I'm personally stuck with GitHub, simply because no other company provides anything better.
I use firebase auth because it’s free at any scale and it takes minutes to set up. It’s backed by google so I’m not kept up at night.
Plus any regulatory, liability, etc. issues that go along with having & regularly using stuff that could also suffocate your employees.
10x engineers don't exist, or if they do, they are less than .1% of engineers. 2x engineers, sure, 2.5-3x even, but 10x? A fantasy, a pure invention with no data to back it up. Factor that into your analysis.
All you people talking about how it's "educational": I'm doubling down here.

Dumbing down history to the level of modern day action figures because "the kids can relate to it" is missing the point of "reading history." It's to realize that the past was not like now.

Yes, it takes an effort to get the kids off their phones and pay attention to something other than each other. No one said teaching was easy.

I'm sure it IS hard to make them realize that they didn't have cell phones, Internet, or flush toilets out there, and when a soldier was wounded, he suffered, screaming and thirsty, often for hours, and they didn't have good medical care for him when he was finally stretchered off. Somehow throughout history, some teachers and parents have managed to do it.
Just wanted to say it gets better. Stick with it. I have now 13-year old triplets.

We've been able to go out for a couple years now, but I remember those early days. Everyone offers to watch the kids, but nobody actually says yes when the time comes. They're always busy.

Be sure to jerryrig at-home dates after the kid goes to bed. Sit on the patio with some wine or whatever, and a baby monitor. Something is better than nothing, so you and your spouse don't feel like roommates more than partners.
Also, which line is June? What day of the week is the 4th of July on this year?
I like that neologism, very fitting.
uh, yeah, sure.
They are the top performing ARM computers you can go to a store and buy. I'd love to have an HPE Ampere or a POWER tower under my desk, but it's not easy to get anything like those, and certainly not for a price competitive with generic x86.
Trump tried to ban it in 2020 out of "national security concerns" similar to Huawei. The ACLU and media painted it as anti free speech and xenophobia and never gave the claims any serious scrutiny.

> On July 7, 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the government was considering banning TikTok.[26] In response, experts[weasel words] suggested that Trump's proposed TikTok ban may threaten free speech and "set a very problematic precedent" for banning apps in the United States.[27] Patrick Jackson, chief technology officer of privacy company Disconnect, said the app sends an abnormal amount of data—mostly information about the phone—to its server, but there is limited evidence that TikTok is sharing these data with the Chinese government. He also noted that the amount of collected data was similar to that collected by American-originated social media platforms and was less than that collected by Facebook.[28]

> After Trump proposed to ban TikTok in the U.S on July 31, 2020, security researchers expressed their concern about limitations of freedom. In one article, PCMag quoted Jennifer Granick of the American Civil Liberties Union Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel who said that "banning an app that millions of Americans use to communicate with each other is a danger to free expression and is technologically impractical."[35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%E2%80%93TikTok_co...