skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not downsizing the capacity of their industrial and engineering prowess. I'm questioned the incentives. During the 50s the US and USSR promoted national exhibitions about each countries products and technology. The USSR exhibition happened in America and likewise the US exhibition happened in Moscow.

Guess which side was more stunned by the achievements of the other country? The USSR version was all about satellites and factory projects while the US version was a showcase of modern housing utensils. This triggered the famous "Kitchen Debate" between Nixon and Krushev.

In fact Nikita who had tasted Pepsi for the first time during the exhibition liked it so much he ordered tons of syrup. They paid in vodka and then in military ships. This is an interesting story about how Pepsi became one of the largest military forces of the planet for a very brief time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrwMrPIHOIw

So my entire point is yes Soviet tech might have been impressive but the incentives were never to deliver this technology into the hands of common people. All those nice computers were used to stuff like calculate artillery precision.

As for the propaganda part, the USSR suffered from a severe form of NIN illness. If the west can do it then we need to do it too! See Tupolev 144.
> What would be the benefit of that?

well, aside from principle simplicity, you wouldn't need to have a USB stack to have bluetooth connectivity - a protocol plagued with "mysterious" connectivity issues - any reduction in that complexity is a benefit. it might even result in a modest increase in energy efficiency.

> There's zero drivers needed since both the USB controller and the Bluetooth USB device is standarized.

the bluetooth stack is standardized, true, but as far as i understand, this has as much to do with USB as a mouse or a keyboard (indeed, as mentioned in the post, the only required stitch-up work was to between the bluetooth HCI interface and a pcie transport)

> If you now decide to remove the USB controller, all you're doing is suddenly making an incompatible interface that now requires drivers for questionable benefits.

i don't think that'd be the case.
cool that you found it!

Only added it yesterday.
An oversimplified take on the distinction between art vs. design:

Design seems to be about getting users/ consumers to behave in a certain way, or utilize what you made for a specific end.

Art seems to be about the artist expressing something aesthetically via whatever medium, in order to get an audience (could even be 1 person, but usually hoping to appeal to a certain crowd) to consider said audiences internal responses to whatever the artwork may evoke or provoke.

There can be overlap, but the intended goals seem to be about "outward" behavior for design, versus inward responses and reactions in genuine and earnest attempts at art (be it high or low).

The money factor can sully all of it, of course, but removing money also doesn't guarantee a "purity" to either, per se. But the more incentive to monetize in massive ways, the more the art will feel less genuine in its core, even if it is able to garner attention and evoke reactions.

Again, very oversimplified. But as such, I think product design is far more about getting its users to behave and find use of the product in specific outward ways.
Does this book also explain NTSC and PAL formats? Or is that a different world?
Amazing work. I should check their website if it supports dual boot. I can't wait to try it out once a nice new Mac Mini is getting released :)
Yeah, you make a particularly good point about acknowledging what data we don’t have more directly. Thanks for being constructive about it, I do really appreciate it.
> Their investigations reveal that the last certain evidence that Sheila was alive was in August 2019, when she paid her rent by debit card to Peabody for the last time.

How in the world did this individual remain deceased in their flat for two years when rent had gone unpaid for the entire duration? Baffling!
I agree with both the article and the commenters who are vehemently disagreeing. We need to understand how planning is used by different people for different goals:

1. Vision: setting long-term goals and speculating on the path that will best meet those goals.

2. Incentives and accountability: trying to make sure a team delivers X in Y time.

Setting a long-term vision is of course extremely valuable - find me a great founder or leader who doesn't have a long-term vision! It's the trying to force X to happen in Y time that increasingly breaks down over longer timelines.
The market is not narrowly focused on next quarters performance. That is a total myth in my experience. Investors want growth and they think long term. They are willing to invest in companies that do not have profitability because of where they think that company will be far in the future.
"Assault Rifle" had a perfectly acceptable and clearly defined meaning in the 80s. It was a rifle used by someone's military as a primary infantry weapon: M-16, AK-47 (and AKM, AK-74, etc.), HK G3, FN FAL, etc. Then we randomly decided the term meant any rifle that "looked dangerous." You people are all crazy. Get off my lawn.

Though I will say I've heard the media sometimes use the phrase "Assault Style Rifles" to refer to things like AR-15s, MAK-90s and HK 91's and though it rubbed me the wrong way, it was technically correct: it was a rifle styled to look like an assault rifle.
This is why I switched to DevOps / Internal tooling. Yes, it has its own headaches, but usually you aren't on the critical path for the company and can get away with working normal hours (most of the time). The scope of the work tends to be smaller too, so projects feel more like side projects.

Downsides are:
- More manual/operations tasks (though this is a chance for automation).
- It can be a dumping ground for random jobs other teams don't want.
- Your customers know exactly how to get in touch with you.
- You probably won't be working at "web scale" or with the latest machine learning tech.

When I started down this path I thought it might be hard to find jobs, but that hasn't been my experience... yet.
Yeah, as a parent of a young child, all those things are still extremely common (at least at all the playgrounds I've see constructed in the past 5 years). Many even have 10ft+ rope structures and 15ft tall slides.

Sure there are more "thought games" and the merry-go-rounds won't pin and drag a child across the ground.

I mostly take my child to metroparks in my area. I wouldn't be surprised if school playgrounds have been made safer due to less individual supervision and liability for the school.
If they are smart they will use newer designs that let them burn everyone else's "waste"
Second this. I currently do some work for real-estate agents, who are a more interesting lot than I would have expected going in.
we have to agree that big govt is better than big tech - especially foreign owned big tech.
I feel like the whole "X is going away, here's why it's good" thing is just some kind of template journalists use for articles where they know there's going to be large amounts of outrage or "why?!" felt by their readers. Definitely not being used to comfort the reader.

More cynical viewpoints I've seen is that articles are being written like this to "brainwash" people into agreeing with taking their rights away or to convince people something horrible isn't happening behind the scenes and to 'stay calm'.

I don't know - every time I read a headline like that I feel like clicking on it to see how horrible a justification a journalist has to say that inflation/supply chain problems/removing physical SIMs/etc. is good and we should like it.

Maybe that's all they need to get the pittance of ad-revenue.
I think you've hit the nail on the head with the comment about funding infrastructure teams, where I work there's a mandate to use Bazel everywhere, but the project I'm working on basically doesn't use it because our use case doesn't fit nicely with the existing bazel infrastructure (it's currently not hermetic). The infra team who say we should all be using bazel also say that we can't use the the CI infra they maintain unless we're bazel. So we're basically out in the cold, but despite insisting we must do it their way, they don't offer to support our use case.
I'm watching my kids play with all the other kids. tic-tac-toe is an indoor game and you rarely see kids finish a game before running off to do something else. Once in a while a kid will move something, but I've only once seen a complete game.

Parks need more swings, slides, merry-go-rounds, and lots more interesting obstacles to run over/under/around. (run is key: if you can't navigate it without getting caught in a game of tag it is too slow and won't be used much) The other stuff isn't what kids go to a playground for.
Can you clarify? I don't think you can say "we know statistically" about economic history. I'd call that epistemological arrogance.
Iceland is a very nice place. I don't really remember seeing any trees while there. Good for them.
Also interesting (especially that it lasted until 1994), but the system from this article was just for clocks - I don't think power tools could use power which was only delivered for 20 seconds and then off for 40 seconds. If you translate that to computing, one system supplied the Vcc, the other supplied the (very slow) clock. No data lines unfortunately :)
Masochism
> company wide status meetings can seem pointless.

Not just seem, they are. But if you can turn off your mic and video, you can play videogames or bake a cake in the background. Everyone wins: Some feckless manager feels important and you do something you actually enjoy.
Even in the worst case of zero recycling none of those are hard on the environment.
If there was one clock for everyone we'd all trust the time and agree on it. When everyone carries around their own watch, we all have somewhat different times, and trust it and agree on it less. Now we each have access to thousands of clocks at the click of a button. They report wildly inconsistent times.

Poll: Do you trust the time tellers? Response: A lot less than I used to.

According to special relativity, the time for you is path dependent, and different than for everyone else depending on the vectors that brought you to this point. If two times are inconsistent it doesn't necessarily mean that either one is wrong.
Highly recommend Thinking About Things (https://www.thinking-about-things.com), which sends me articles from blogs I've never heard of a few times a week. They also have a pull-version at https://readsomethinginteresting.com.
If we're talking realpolitik though, an electorate that lacks the power to overturn law that is only popular with 39% of the public certainly lacks the power to compel software megacorps to do anything, especially anything that benefits the existing power structure.
Britain on course for hottest day on record
That is assuming you would need to attack GitHub instead of just sending them a letter from a government office.
Amazon did ramp down Prime Now and Fresh in a lot of German cities. I don't kniw, but if Amazon tried two different approaches for eCommerce fulfillmebt and wasn't utterly convinced with either one it is telling you something.

On an other note, depsite my start-up having failed Amazon is now rolling out a similar product: opening up FBA for third party marketplaces. They are not moving as fast as they used to, but still faster than anyone else. And they are moving a juggernaught. No idea how thatbstill works after all those years...
I suppose that most of the time the culprits are not excessively heavyweight assets.

Number one culprit is client-side rendering. Don't deploy an SPA where a statically rendered page suffices. Don't delay rendering until your whatever other JS loads. Use fewest trackers of lightest weight.

Somewhere distant second places would be asset download times (CDNs help), TLS handshake times (don't overload your server), complicated CSS that prevents fast rendering, etc.
To do this you would have to have multiple VPNs as well as multiple credit cards/banks with different addresses.
AIRBNB has had every scammer in the world assault their site, so they are well aware of all types and frauds on the basis you outline.
They can ID VPN's and might smell a rat. In addition, marshalling all these address, VPS's, credit cards is a daunting and costly task = one you can easily screw up. In addition each card/bank you have another thicket of AI to try to get through.
I like this, but - in what contexts will typograms be accepted and rendered?

For example, email clients (e.g. Thunderbird) have not even bothered to let us use markdown for email. flowed-format text is about the most you can get out of them for now.
There’s a major difference between expected betrayal being part of the rules of a game, and gaslighting groups of children into competing under false pretenses. Does playing by the rules of BSG or Saboteur guarantee a loss for the team that by the rules should be winning?

The analogy would be appropriate if BSG was a competitive space fleet management game and some players decide in advance to make it a meta-game to join and sabotage each fleet without telling anyone of their intentions, leaving everyone else playing the ”fake” game while they at the end reveal the ”real” game and that whoever lost the real game actually won and vice versa.
What would the logical thing to do be then? Do nothing, or remove the few?
> A few overheated transistors may not greatly affect reliability, but the heat generated from a few billion transistors does. This is particularly true for AI/ML/DL designs, where high utilization increases thermal dissipation, but thermal density affects every advanced node chip and package, which are used in smart phones, server chips, AR/VR, and a number of other high-performance devices. For all of them, DRAM placement and performance is now a top design consideration.

I know this may not be a cheap solution, but why not start selling pre-built computers with active cooling systems? Refrigerant liquids like those used in refrigerators or water cooling could be an option. The article addresses this:

> Although it sounds like a near-perfect solution in theory, and has been shown to work in labs, John Parry, industry lead, electronics and semiconductor at Siemens Digital Industries Software, noted that it’s unlikely to work in commercial production. “You’ve got everything from erosion by the fluid to issues with, of course, leaks because you’re dealing with extremely small, very fine physical geometry. And they are pumped. One of the features that we typically find has the lowest reliability associated with it are electromechanical devices like fans and pumps, so you end up with complexity in a number of different directions.”

So instead of integrating fluids within the computer, build powerful mini-freezers for computers and store the computer inside. Or split the warm transistors from the rest of the build and store only those inside the mini freezer, with cables to connect to the rest of the computer outside.
That’s just wrong.

My favorite park in Sacramento, McKinley Park [0], has a merry-go-round with spinning cages, swings, and multiple places to climb.

Jean Sweeney [1], in Alameda, has one of the coolest slides, and a zip line!

Emeryville [2] I’ll has a vertical playground!

I’m jealous of the fun my kid has at these parks, and try to join in on the fun as often as I can.

[0] http://www.raebear.net/2016/07/mckinley-park-in-east-sacrame...

[1] https://www.alamedaca.gov/Departments/Recreation-Parks/Jean-...

[2] https://www.510families.com/eccls-vertical-playground/
I tried GnuCash a long time ago but was not happy how convoluted the UI was, maybe have to give it another try.

After that I switched to MoneyMoney [1] which is just awesome to work with.
It is mostly focused on the german market and directly supports import from most major german banks, sadly MacOS only.

[1] https://moneymoney-app.com/
They address it here: https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle/blob/main/docs/DESIGN....
Yes, absolutely!

I write an investment blog and find that it's great to force me to think through my investments to see if they are actually a good idea or not.

I also often refer back to it later on when judging my performance and to see if I did the right thing or not.

In terms of opportunities, it's certainly opened the door for other side gigs that do help give some substantial side income. Though taxes there are a pain!
Not really. I used to have a blog. I have a bit of an online presence. It just isnt work the amount of time it takes to build/maintain. Eventually I shut down my blog.
This could just as easily be related to increased infections among young people at this time. You have no reason to pin this specifically on vaccination.
Yes, we can imagine the Nuclear Fairy waving her magic wand to give us NPPs.

Here in the real world, we operate under constraints that we can't just wish away because that would be convenient for the point we're trying to defend. Among those constraints is the lack of organizational and industrial experience and infrastructure for effectively making new NPPs.
Texan resident here. Experienced more blackouts/brownouts when I lived in CA than I have in TX.
Who's going to pay for these mythical natural gas and coal plants that are idle until needed?

Also with coal in particular it can take days to ramp them up - coal is for base load, not demand.

If it were only as simple as you are postulating - which is why these 2nd level effects of blindly pushing renewables without taking the whole system into account are causing issues like we are seeing in Texas, California and many other places too.
Perhaps, but its the show itself that has declined, not driven by the merchandising. "The Simpsons" as a show used to be razor-sharp satire and commentary, and rather counter-cultural. Now it's everything it used to mock, and worst of all, dull as dirt.

The effect of merchandizing at this point is pretty irrelevant.
What are you trying to achieve? What’s is the skill level of people who will add content? Will some content be gated? Do you need flexibility to change layouts depending on content?
no, they do not
Omission by Design
I run a small boutique outsource software development company, 11 developers, 2 managers. We have a 4-day work week, async communications, etc., etc. Pay is not great, but we compensate with sanity a lot.

It is possible, just keep looking! :)
https://manager.io is also nice, although perhaps targeted more towards small businesses
Midjourney, the Generative Art AI That Rivals DALL-E
> I think the interesting thing about these start ups is how ambitious they are.

They have to, to satisfy investors.

Investors have declared rapid delivery to be a winner-takes-all market, where the winner captures the customers through an app (customers can only have so many apps on their phone, and prefer to use a single app for their rapid delivery needs). So rapid growth is the only option. Grow or die. That's why we see so many of these startups going down.
Ending it with a screengrab of one of his tweets about this that contains a ludicrously overpriced monkey jpg as his icon is a nice touch.
I'm guessing you're well under the age of 40?
As I work mostly on MSSQL Server, the sweet spot for me is SSMS with RedGate SQL Prompt.

For non-MSSQL things, it's usually DBeaver.

No need for a new IDE for me.
It’s really not. SWATting has nothing to do with spoofing numbers. You can call from google voice or skype and the cops will take it just as seriously.
"I'll feel the need to do some work at 10pm on a Sunday night every other week, just to keep things afloat." sounds like a workplace from hell. GTFO ! I've never, in over 25 yrs now as a software developer, had to do that. BTW, public sector may be the way to go. Interesting work, less performance management / competitive cr*p, easier to make real friends at work, mission can be more valuable than some rich person trying to get even richer..etc. Public sector tends to pay less headline salary, right now, but can give career longevity due to less stress and more time to learn stuff properly.
In that case, you might just be getting confused by regression to the mean. Over a long enough timescale, it's inevitable that outlier societies will regress back to being average. That would look like especially prosperous societies and especially poor societies becoming average, which you could mistakenly interpret as "they became average because they were weak from decadence/strong from adversity".
But there is a strong benefit to adding quotation: higher-order programming becomes explicit, and you can restrict it to prevent the need for garbage collectors.

"Linear-style" programming becomes obvious to implement in a point-free style, but obtuse when you have variables, adding arbitrary usage restrictions.
> Given Europe and the UK have had Open Banking for years now, and a universe of apps automatically pulling, categorising and reporting transactions (including many incumbent banking apps) - I'm curios if this is a US-only phenomenon - why would people use decade-old software instead of the latest in banking technology? Any users from Europe or UK?

Maybe the situation is better on the continent, but from living in Ireland and the UK I don't believe this is a solved problem here. Open Banking allows third parties to connect with your bank accounts with your consent but I'm not aware of any (reputable) service that simply gives you an API into your own bank accounts. Would be happy to be corrected on that.

That said, I wouldn't call the entry process entirely manual. GnuCash supports importing transactions in a broad range of formats, including OFX, QIF and CSV with user-defined rules. Yes, you still need to log into your bank/credit card/etc and download statements for import, but personally I don't mind doing that. My workflow is that I spend about half an hour every week logging my transactions in GnuCash. Sometimes I skip a week or two. Yesterday I had to enter a full month of transactions and it took me about an hour (complicated by the fact that I had lots of business expenses).