skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woks are very versatile, but even woks aren't the best tool for every job. You could probably bake a pie in a wok, but I think a pie tin would work better.

No tool being the best tool for every job is one of my core truths (and is perhaps its own sole exception.) I think it's true for any class of tool you can think of; kitchen tools, construction or manufacturing tools, software, even ideologies (which are tools for making sense of the world.) Some tools are more versatile than others, and some are basically worthless even for their intended use. But even a tool that could be used for virtually anything (in that tool's natural domain) will never be the best tool for all of those things. I could bake a pie in a wok or make mashed potatoes with a knife; those are very versatile tools. But there are better tools for both, like pie tins and potato mashers.
I don’t really agree. An important part of school is learning to overcome obstacles. Forcing the children to be together for 6 hours everyday inevitably leads to conflict that needs to be resolved. Just doing extracurriculars doesn’t give children the multi year time horizon they need to truly bond with their peers, and they can convince their parents to let them do something else if they don’t like the kids. Dealing with people you don’t get along with is an extremely important skill.
> As your kids get older, it is harder and harder to give them a proper education. By the time your kids are in middle-school, subjects get harder for a parent (or pairs of parents) to cover in a way that does each subject justice.

I agree. My cousin's daughter was not home-schooled, but she was having trouble with high school math so I tutored her. At the time I was going to college for computer science. We did algebra for a year and that went fine. I still remembered it from high school. Then we got to trigonometry. The year I was supposed to learn trigonometry in high school was disruptive so I never learned it properly. So I studied the lesson and learn it myself before I would go see her. I'm supposed to be the math/CS guy too. It worked out and she passed trigonometry too - I did have to spend much more time preparing to teach trigonometry than algebra as I had never learned trigonometry. I can imagine one parent having to teach trigonometry, biology, physics, chemistry, the themes of the Scarlet Letter, French, Medieval history etc.
Zero-tolerance policies could be one example.
Snobs have always existed. What I said it was hard to find those snobs because you had to actually meet them in real life. There was no Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit to tell people what they're doing wrong. You had to go find a book, join a club, read a newspaper, or something similar. It was exponentially more difficult to find a snob.
Ask HN: Good Project Post-Mortems?
Hi folks, I have project that we just killed. It's a pretty terrible feeling, honestly. Lot of money down the drain. I'm planning to write up a post-mortem for the rest of our group. Any pointers to great projet post-mortems you've seen?
> . . . going against her husband.

or father - https://youtu.be/_6qQ7l8pRGo
No worries. It takes all kinds. Who knows, maybe you re-examine the culture and find some things you'd like to take home to your community.
Every method currently has different answers for every single one of those questions, directly leading to Google and Mozilla's complaints here that there's already a "registry" of 50+ methods, no actual standardization among them, and it's all punted to "ask the method".
I think the bigger issue is unsupervised minors. Not all high schoolers are mature enough to be left alone and go to school. I suppose this could be solved by pre-care, but that make this bill completely moot.
A limitation on what 'go install' can install (as of Go 1.18)
>>The former employee's role was to triage vulnerability disclosures for numerous customer programs.

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So this former empd access was specifically to assess and triage threats???

This isnt a simple "person"

This is a pot that has already reached out far.

Only an idiot would say " yep this little security breach is plugged"

--
NUMErOUS

So where are his reachings?

That one sentence alon should cost careers of 'cyber consultants'

WHO

WHAT

WHY

WHERE

WHEN

lets go back to basics here folks...

JEASUS

Where is the list of "numerous" customers...
When we follow this up with year-round "Day Light Savings Time" will we move school a second hour forward?
disclaimer: I think school is mostly inefficient and a waste of time in terms of education.

Yet, I wouldn't take my kids away from school, basically because I remember when I was a kid and meeting kids that had been homeschooled (either later in school, or in activity centers) and they were always weird. I'm wondering how they grew up, and if it was much more difficult for them to acclimate after that, or if it was actually fine. But I feel like the world is a hard place, and the more you delay the reality the harder it'll be for kids. I'd be interested in stats like, for example, rate of suicide amongst homeschooled kids vs non-homeschooled kids.
I was thinking the Indian stuff in the big jars. Deep is the brand I usually get. https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Paste-Garlic-10oz

The stuff in the refrigerated tubes is good too. They just run out a lot faster.
This makes sense, thanks for clarifying. So the refrigerants in use are effectively obsolete, and after they're reclaimed and destroyed, should pose no further risk, as there are better options available.
Longform Articles Is Back
Looks like someone is back to curating articles across the internet. Pretty excited about and pretty consistent posts so far. (longformarticles.net)
Public school (at least as I experienced it) is the worst possible place to learn social skills, unless you're hoping to pick up social skills for living in prison.

It's age-segregated, usually monitored by adults, extremely regimented, and often very hostile.

There are a million different contexts where kids can learn better, more useful social skills, like at church events, youth athletics, with kids in the neighborhood, etc.
> Generally, people who get PIP'd don't get severance, even if fired.

Not quite true at Amazon, the most infamous PIP user. You get put on "Focus". If you fail that, you are offered severance or to go on a PIP. True, once you're on the PIP, you're not going to get a severance offer. (This is all according to https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/amazon, which is excerpted by the author here https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1537810787473006593.)
My favorite ancient multiplication method is the Egyptian multiplication (also called Russian peasant method and other names).

Column a is halved in each step.
Column b is doubled in each step.
Column r is the remainder of a after dividing by 2.
b.r is product of b and r.
Product is the sum of column b.r

a b r (=a%2) b.r

19 73 1 73

9 146 1 146

4 292 0 0

2 584 0 0

1 1168 1 1168

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Sum 1168 + 146 + 73 = 1387

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Interesting observation: Reading the digits in column r from bottom to top gives (10011) in base 2 which is 19 (the multiplier)! That is why the method works.
I got one of these, almost convincing enough except she said she lived in SF. I asked where in SF and she said Alcatraz. I almost wanted to keep the conversation going just to hear more about her life on the island
I'm not sure what you're referring to. I said that in any political situation, people tend to posit the evidence to support their own beliefs. It sounds like you're referring to false balance [0]. But that's not what I'm doing at all - I'm not posing any political beliefs as equally valid, I'm stating that everyone will change the parameters of an argument in order to solidify their beliefs.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
Nothing will change. Kids will just take advantage of the late start by staying up even later.
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Not a double entendre, but a reference to a well-known idiom of 'yak-shaving' to refer to recursive chores with deep dependency trees.
I'm 6'5" and Nissan made cars with much more headroom than Honda or Toyota.
I never understand the schedule for schools:

1. elementary school starts at 7:30AM, middle school at 8:20, high school at 9:10 here. So, the youngest kid gets up at 6:50AM, older ones at 7:50AM, oldest at 8:40(assuming you're not too far from school that is). why the youngest ended up getting up the earliest puzzles me.

2. School is off in hot summer and cold winter, I would prefer they study on campus then, so they can enjoy longer break in spring and fall, where outdoor weather is much better to get around.
But if all schools have to start later, employers will need to work around that
I understand that, but he regrets that his decision could not be more influential.

Which is severely undermined by the claim that Nissan makes great cars

Especially when considering the person making the claim has an implied incentive to hate the cars. He's making a genuine claim that "I want to hate their cars but I cant"

which is fantastic advertising for Nissan.
> Current price increases are not a result of too much money, or bad policies

This seems naive. Was the sudden onset of printed USD not a factor in the Feds rate surging?
That is indeed the joke I am making.
If you really think the war on fossil fuels in the West is in the citizen's best interests, you are delusional.

In the West everything is a scam. Our health system is a scam, the military industrial complex is a scam, our education system is a scam, our currency is a scam, our media is a scam, the president is a scam. What makes you think that ANYTHING going on in the West ISN'T a scam?
yah I'm not creating an account to use a browser, hard pass
I'm as atheist as they come, and I value liberalism and secularism extremely.

But I also acknowledge that not all humans are like me and that not everyone has a liberal mindset. They did a study once and when conservatives were asked to think like liberals they were able to do so quite effectively. Unfortunately, liberals were not able to think like conservatives at all. This makes me cautious before recommending liberalism and secularism to all.

May I recommend Haidt's The Righteous Mind? It snapped me out of my "only liberalism/secularism is right" mindset.
Don't working parents already have a nightmare with school day ending around 2pm? This would just shift some of that nightmare from afternoon to morning.
Exactly. I'm 6'5" and Nissan made cars with much more headroom than Honda or Toyota.
> I doubt people using the term global south generally believe that the west must be the solution to global power imbalances.

Then why do they use a term that centers the west in describing the majority of the world?

> At most they might believe their countries should stop meddling in the affairs of post-colonial countries and let them develop on their own without further wealth being extracted.

Is the west continuing to meddle in the affairs of India or Pakistan? If not, then what's the point of this term that encompasses them? If you want to talk about African countries dominated by European mining companies, just talk about them.

> Reparations would also presumably be on the table

That's what I'm talking about. Reparations is an incredibly toxic idea as applied to former colonies. As you observe, they will never happen. But they give political cover to bad leadership in developing countries, enabling them to avoid fixing their own problems.
big red flag
As many messaging concepts as Google owns and has owned over time, I'd imagine this is not the only messaging exec on the payroll. Could anybody from G comment one way or the other?
The ADS-B data collection approach is brilliant. This thread is pretty old; you should consider writing a little summary and posting it as an article. Your visualizations on Twitter are also excellent.
Heat pumps work fine for home heat, but I specifically mentioned hot water and dryer. Heat pump do not work well for those applications - I considered buying them and checked into it.

Your oven also uses resistive heat. Induction can work well, but is underpowered if you are cooking more than 3 or 4 things at once (especially if you also use the oven). You need around double the electric service most homes run to the range (there is no standardized plug for it).

Induction is only a replacement for causal cooks, people who make full course large meals will not be happy with it.
> I've occasionally wondered, is that not reality for all of us? Even
us living in democratic nations? Is democracy at its core not a
"might" (through a greater cardinality) makes right of sorts?

The tyranny of the majority? Absolutely. The trajectory along which
many ethical arguments about power roll is to start with the
'Redbeard' straw-man and then offer up increasingly diluted forms,
social contracts and so on, until an acceptable proxy is found for
universalisable systematic violence [1] in kind.

[1] This may not be a literal violence at all. The point at which it
passes under an acceptable threshold, as sublimated power, says a lot
about each culture. For example, acceptance of brutal inequality may
be taken as such a sublime violence - the measure of a civilisation is
how it treats its weakest members.
It feels like something that might better be decided at the local school district level.
If they do enough physical and mental labor during the day and turn off their smart phones at night, they’ll have no issue going to sleep early enough.

On the other hand if you do nothing mentally stimulating or physically tiring all day long, then of course you won’t be able to sleep till late.
As I suspected, I was correct.
In the first article you link to, it specially states that when a car encounters something it doesn’t recognize, it reroutes. Why would a car have to reroute if it can just update the map?

What you’re referring to is that the car will send a notice and update the fleet to avoid that area.

Actual changes to the maps including crosswalk changes and other permanent structures require review and update. It is not done automatically.

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From the article:

If a change in the roadway is detected, our vehicle can identify it, reroute itself, and automatically share this information with our operations center and the rest of the fleet in real time.

We can also identify more permanent changes to the driving environment, such as a new crosswalk, an extra vehicle lane squeezed into a wide road, or a new travel restriction, and quickly and efficiently update our maps so that our fleet has the most accurate information about the world around it at all times.
I was never laid off, but I once quit three weeks before a company went out of business. When I heard that someone's paycheck had bounced, I was out of there.
I'm not aware of a program that awards "job creators" for saying they have an opening. For example, most tax credits for creating jobs require increased headcount and or increases in pay on payroll tax returns.

The system used to get demand numbers is a survey, and has been done the same way for decades, so it's pretty reliable compared to counting job ads on job boards. Job ads often will contain lots of duplicates (search spam) and fake jobs.
> providing an environment where children can learn to co-exist with others

Do most schools do this effectively? Kids are pretty terrible to each other and abuse is pretty much the norm from my experience. Of course its not crippling for most kids, but I remember getting made fun of, and making fun of other kids and everything in between. School is also one of the only places in life where you're likely to experience violence. It's basically a daycare.

I don't know if there's an alternative. Maybe play dates in small groups?
I'd rather have the median homeschool parent influencing students than the median K-8 schoolteacher.

I also don't buy your notion that neuroses are directly transferable by contact. If anything, your kid will probably be so annoyed by them that they'll be exactly the opposite.
I'm not sure how you arrive at the conclusion that it is intrinsically better when both of the things you mention are tradeoffs you make, one of which isn't really true and the other which is an engineering issue.

> Wired sound infinitely nicer sounding

There are good sounding wireless headphones and terrible sounding wired headphones. The drawbacks is that with wireless headphones you can't control the sound stack and are dependent on the manufacturer to provide high quality drivers, amplification,
and digital to analog conversion all built into the device.

> much lower latency

...is an engineering problem.

> Will we ever have a day when wireless will be sufficiently low latency?

A company already markets their wireless headphones directly to musicians, which is basically the threshold of low latency you need to meet; realtime monitoring [1]. Does it accomplish what it set out to do? Not sure, but seems like it's good enough for some people.

Ultimately it comes down to exactly what I said, which is that there are tradeoffs to using wired vs. wireless headphones and one is not intrinsically better than the other. You thinking that something sounds "infinitely better" doesn't make the rest of those tradeoffs not meaningful to other people.

[1] https://aiaiai.audio/headphones/tma-2-studio-wireless-plus
I hope this becomes the norm all over
I have definitely broken a couple by stepping on them a bit aggressively in my youth, but that's all part of the rock and roll process.
I guess some of us are old enough that wrong numbers were a thing and it was just polite to let them know. Especially when it sounds legit
What is behaviorally/biologically beneficial varies by individual. Societal life should be a factor as that does factor into the holistic well-being of the student. Not just some myopic rule about start times that negatively impacts everything else (after school activities, jobs, parent schedules, etc).

"Schools shouldn't be forcing developing humans into a schedule that impairs their ability to learn and function, no matter what they want to decide"

If you actually believe that, then you have to be against this law. Any schedule will negatively affect someone. A later schedule would have been terrible for me.
As far as I can tell, what the smartest people do on weekends now is pure analog/nontech, or toy/throwaway/education stuff, learning new programming languages, or very small personal use software(I know someone who made their own VCS!).

Most engineers thing "Unnecessary privacy risk" or "Boring bloatware" when they see the stuff that would have been big in 2003.

In 10 years, I doubt I'll be using anything that the smartest people are playing with now, the smartest people seem to be more interested in ideas and logic than products and projects.

If there's no real novel idea in it(Or at least new to them), they'll get bored. A lot of stuff is possible and users would love it, but... engineers have no interest, because their idea of tech progress is less software not more.

Human centered stuff is basically impossible to change on a DIY scale, so the transition from toy to practical is a lot harder. A city is inherently almost unchangeable except via million dollar contracts, and any kind of commune/ecovillage/etc has the overhead of trying to do its mission, while also existing within the current economy, so everyone seems to do a lot of work and make a lot of sacrifices as far as I can see from the outside.

There's still smart people playing with stuff that will be everywhere(Like IoT), but not as many.

Or, perhaps it still works that way, and in 10 years the world will find a deep respect for Kackzynski, and my next computer purchase will be a black market laptop when everyone votes to ban them and be done with it!
The question that I always keep in my mind: "Will I be a better developer after working on this?"

If you get a chance to to rework that horrible code and make something better of it, then maybe.

If you get incorporated until you too start outputting horrible things, then maybe time to move.
[HackerOne CTO here]

There are certainly some important lessons for us to learn here but, just for clarity, this wasn't one of them. The data access in question here was central to the individual's daily job responsibilities and done through systems explicitly built for this purpose.
To be quite honest, I expect more intellectual honesty from an HN post. This reads, at best, like an opinion piece and most if not all of the controversial “facts” presented are not sourced in any way — not for lack of trying though as the piece does the classic sleight of hand of actually linking plenty of other sources and factual images, hoping that the reader will gloss over the fact that these do nothing to prove the claims made which are mostly pure conjecture.
If the goal of public schools is now to create non-racists at the cost of academics then I would rather homeschool. I can teach my kids to not be [race/sex/able]ists, and I do, because I treat people with respect.

The schools should have a moral obligation to teach everyone academics first and say everyone deserves to be treated with respect. There doesn’t need to be a big agenda about racism/sexism/ableism. Trump? Treat with respect. Hilary? Treat with respect. Homeless? Treat with respect. Former criminals? Treat with respect. Anybody who’s different than you? Treat with respect. Now let’s get back to math.

I don’t want to hear any individual teachers opinion on anything other than academics. If they want to give their opinion it should be leveled and end with treating all people with respect. If they did this maybe less people would homeschool and go to private school and then schools could continue to have their much needed funding.
> The only possible explanation I see is heavy lobbying from big pharma groups or wine interests.

More likely law enforcement.

The criminalization of drugs provides an endless supply of criminals of various levels (from the drug production/distribution itself to weapons and violence used to defend the illegal operation) and thus generates endless amounts of work for all kinds of people involved in law enforcement, from police to prisons to various subcontractors providing goods/services used by the aforementioned entities.

Most of those are not criminals because they want to hurt people or break the law on purpose and thus will no longer be criminals when drugs are legalized (instead of switching to another crime to remain a criminal). Thus, the second it's legalized, the "demand" for law enforcement services drops dramatically, and the crimes that do remain will require more effort to solve than your typical drug case.
Author also believes in the “peak oil” thesis.

There is so much oil, so insanely much, and we constantly find new sources. The biggest risk to oil is governments outlawing / taxing it to be uncompetitive.