skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My company(UK) recently tried to force on-call on all engineers.

The initial wording was very restrictive, like 5 minute acknowledgement time and 15 minutes at-laptop. 24/7 for 7 days. They tried to have this implemented without any extra remuneration or perks for the on-call engineer.

On top of it possibly being very illegal, it seems very immoral to spring something like that on people that did on agree to it when they took the job.

I fought for it and I got them to change their policy in 2 mostly meaningful ways:

- It's an opt-in method

- On-call engineers get paid extra for just being on-call and get extra time off whenever they need to actually do something.

This makes sure that you only get people actually willing to do it and there is an incentive. I think it's been quite a successful program!

Luckily I didn't need to get them involved, but in the UK there are unions starting to form for tech workers, I suggest you join one like https://prospect.org.uk/tech-workers
Only if you use a code formatter (which you should) because otherwise there will be some 'fn foobar'(two spaces or more) just to annoy you..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGAS The book "How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet" linked to in that article discusses many of these topics.
Originally, Low Energy. Bluetooth LE removes all the different communication modes and introduces a single, packet network based approach for everything.

You may remember the switch from bluetooth connections being something you had to manually enable every time you wanted it, to devices just being connected all the time (without causing your battery to drop). That’s what LE enabled.

The switch to the single packet network approach obviously also simplified everything else you might want to transmit.

The audio specs are still from the pre-LE era with different modes for everything you might do (modem, fax, headset, headphones, HID, etc), and LE Audio introduces a new and clean way for that.
If you run a script, such as "pip", sys.path[0] is the script's directory, not cwd:

https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html

> If the script name refers directly to a Python file, the directory containing that file is added to the start of sys.path
I am not a javascript-specialized person and I think it is relatively easy to grab once you understand 'this', variable scope and a couple unintuitive for loop code patterns.
Due to safety and security concerns (terrorism), most countries will never allow nuclear powered merchant vessels into their ports. You might claim they're being irrational and overly cautious but that's just the political reality and it won't change in our lifetimes. Plus the expense of hiring nuclear qualified engineering crew is ridiculous. Look how much the US Navy has to spend training those people in order to achieve a good safety record.

A more realistic approach is to build more nuclear reactors on land, then use the generated power and heat to manufacture carbon-neutral synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuels for merchant vessels.
This thing is not really cool.

It's much more! Kudos!
I don't think so. It's a BMW so it has at least an additional microcontroller for this function.
Royal Mail to change name, could separate underperforming UK business
These may be of the main reasons for the (now routine) shootings in US and their absence in Europe, even in countries where practically everyone owns a gun. If the culture is holding people up to an impossible standard, there's bound to be A LOT of frustration.
The GDPR says data should be deleted "without undue delay", it doesn't give a hard deadline.
I originally read this title as “Cooking related failure”. It reminded me of when I worked for a US research university in the late 90s and one if the data center operators accidentally heated up a hot dog wrapped in aluminum foil in a microwave. A microwave that was stupidly plugged into a circuit share by some of the network equipment and servers. The microwave allegedly blew up or something, causing a multi-hour outage of the campus network.
A classic, classic move in the UK when you want to get govt money to do something of marginal or negative social value is to find some way of 'helping the NHS'.

Take a look at Greensill Capital. They were running a politically exposed shadow bank with terrible risk controls. They hired a former Prime Minister to sell a project which would 'lend NHS staff their salaries mid month'.
You misunderstand the paragraph you quote from.
> import antigravity now only links to the comic

"now"? Hasn't it always?
Boats/ships also have shipping channels: any somewhat busy waterway will have defined lanes. Ships of any size have to broadcast where they are, current speed and heading. Small boats generally move slowly. Visibility on water is typically much better than on roads. But yes, accidents are possible.
In Glyphosate Review, WHO Cancer Agency edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings : https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/who-iarc...

IARC Monograph on Glyphosate : https://www.iarc.who.int/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-new...
How are the sociopaths deluded?
Nonetheless quite often a suboptimal tutorial is much better than no tutorial at all.

Anyway, IMHO taking a tutorial for a copy-paste solution is really a larger problem than low quality tutorial contents.
I barely know anyone using the butterfly keyboard in a work environment who doesn’t have problems with it after a few years. Mine is now out of the repair program period and it would cost more to fix it than its worth. It’s basically EOL and I wonder how many MacBooks face the same fate. What a big waste of resources.
What are you going to do about that? Introduce a land value tax?
When looking for eleguant solutions: look at D, it's full of pearls: they use !() for generics.
UK government refuses public review before launch of NHS data platform
just tell us where is the alien and who they are
As with everything on your resume, tailor it to the employer.

In non-political tech, in America, I’m guessing most will ignore union management as generic leadership experience. In cases where it would be overlooked by most and vilified by some of a libertarian bent, skip it. If you get the sense it will be embraced by some of a progressive bent, leave it in.

If you’re obsessing over it, flip a coin. My strongest intuition: this is of marginal benefit or injury at best.
git does privilege the first parent[1] in a merge in a bunch of contexts

[1] i.e. the branch you did the merge from
It's common to a lot of treatments that we can't heal the body, we can only help it heal itself. Quite amazing in that sense.
> Even in a socialist economy, building systems with an excessively high tolerances would be seen as a poor allocation of resources.

Huh? GDR and Soviet made machinery, vehicles, even glassware for pubs [1] was made with sometimes ridiculous margins and tolerances to ensure longevity and easy repairability and was famous for it. Even pre-reunification Western made products such as Bosch, AEG, Hilti or Siemens were famous for building stuff that sometimes outlasted the owners (such as my 80s Hilti drill, which served three generations of my family and likely will still work when I have children of my own).

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfest
Loss of benefit is not a tax.
How the Fuck Did Feynman Get Here?
> The people who find MOND interesting are dubious.

This sentence tripped me up. I’m basically only familiar with ‘dubious’ meaning ‘unreliable’ however it can also mean doubtful (as in describing someone with doubts) and I think that is the meaning here.
Be careful what you wish for.

Read this, from someone who's thought about it a bit more deeply than Mr Yudkowsky.

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
As a generality, towing a substantial ship - even in light seas - is a far more problematic and labor-intensive task than having it run under its own power. Also slower and less energy-efficient.
Man, your own list is filled with a) third world countries, and b) actual terrorist attacks.

You're being disingenuous if you're trying to claim that, say, the Beslan School Siege is the same as the Columbine school shooting. One was committed by a terrorist organization with a political goal. The other was just a couple of fellow students.
It’s really quite simple, you didn’t have to spell out your confusion so elaborately:

Statistics deals in degrees; violence against children is something that is sufficiently cognized in absolutes.
> That would have to be the null hypothesis, surely...

No, it wouldn't be. The null hypothesis for me would be that the UK would under-perform the average, because they a huge economy relative to the rest of the EU and have less room to grow what with the various energy problems Europe is having.

I mean, maybe the graph in that report is weighted by GDP or something and the UK was holding growth in the EU back pre-Brexit. The match between the lines is really suspicious. The odds that the economies in the EU are that synchronised is low.

> (Your [0] shows UK 1.26 between France 1.49 and Germany 0.59, which is not what you said?)

Oh, whoops. I was looking at a couple of different webpages with different years data, maybe it was one of them. I default to wikipedia for linking. My bad. Anyway.
I remember the first time I assembled a PC (nineties), listening to motherboard beeps and comparing against the (printed) manual to work out what was wrong.

https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/beep-codes
Been using Wezterm for about a year now and I'm a very satisfied user. Beats any others I've ever used - iTerm2 comes close but it's Mac only. Every other terminal emulator in my experience has been problematic. Wezterm has not been. Just works.
On X86/AMD64 there is also ACPI and SMM (System Management Mode), which overlap in parts. ACPI calls into code provided by whichever bootloader, running post-boot above to operating system, or behind its back, so to speak. It's complicated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Pow...

Mostly for dynamic powermanagement and voltage regulation, monitoring temperatures, hotplugging, etc. That's just the way it is (now).

I remember when this first made the rounds over a decade ago with some mainboards from CENSORED Apple supplier which were pretty usable, except when running under something else than Microsoft Windows. IIRC it wasn't malice, only
implemented in a way which made this hard to interface with from Linux, or the likes. Of course undocumented. Later, but about the same timeframe the first so called open source/security 'zealots' damning ACPI in general for those reasons.

It may be called differently on other platforms, but similar/equivalent mechanisms exist on almost everthing which is not in a museeum or landfill.
>Build your own filesystem

Found a few links:

* https://blog.carlosgaldino.com/writing-a-file-system-from-sc...

* https://www3.nd.edu/~pbui/teaching/cse.30341.fa17/project06....

* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4714056/how-to-implement...
> For their part, the (large majority) who think the Dark Matter is out there and we just have to measure harder are serenely confident.

For the folks who have spent their entire careers searching for dark matter, what would it take to convince them that dark matter may not exist? The search for ether ended with Michelson-Morley experiment. Is there no way of falsifying dark matter claims?
Haha ok let me expand, I didn't actually mean only styling but layouting as well. Consider this example from htmx.org:

<html>
<body>
<div>Account number: 12345</div>
<div>Balance: $100.00 USD</div>
<div>Links:
<a href="/accounts/12345/deposits">deposits</a>
<a href="/accounts/12345/withdrawals">withdrawals</a>
<a href="/accounts/12345/transfers">transfers</a>
<a href="/accounts/12345/close-requests">close-requests</a>
</div>
<body>
</html>

What I don't get is who says I want to have all of that html displayed in this exact form anywhere I make a request for account info? Say I want to only display the Account balance - are you telling me client has to cut and parse the html response for that? How much html parsing is that gonna be all over a web page?

Also the example I gave below about setting the css classes and ids inside the returned html elements...
De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
Indeed, thanks for sharing! We will take a look at it, sounds interesting.
Money says bye.
He distinguished between workers and "incomers".
Ok, so since 2009 everyone except Apple was on USB.
There’s at least one company trying to do that: https://www.towt.eu/en/towt-home/
> given that gun violence, even mass shootings/spree killings, happen in countries with quite strict gun control

They absolutely do not, not even remotely close to the scale and frequency in the United States. At least not in countries with equivalent socio-economic metrics as the US (El Salvador does not count).
Yea I figure but I meant actually like layouting and overall decision-making when it comes to how much data should be shown in this or that place, why should the API make those decisions for the client rather than just sending data?
Or just pay citizens more? That seems easier.
It's a shame that the imagining is so expensive, because I'd love to see a true control arm with placebos and follow up scans.

i.e. if you are on a placebo and are told you will get better how many do?
How does Germany plan to power the grid when there is no wind at night?
That's not redundancy, that's multiplexing!
> The least efficient part of any ship is turning mechanical energy into electrical

Electrical generators can reach 90+% efficiency at turning mechanical energy into electricity. Did you mean to claim turning chemical energy into electrical?
Think of the percentages in terms of time instead. So, for example, a 20% tax means you work one day a week for the government and the remaining 4 days of the workweek for yourself. It doesn't matter how much you make during that time - it's a "best effort"-based system.
If you're not familiar with Uxn, it's more like the JVM than VMWare. It's meant for portability, not high performance.
It's non exhaustive for sure, technologies evolve and if you cut at the american part of the evolution you can always say that. But see for instance if you say "without a Dutch company, no modern processor can be made today" does it mean there's a crushing commercial success of European tech that no American company could reach until we landed on it ? Are the americans so far behind us that they need Europe to built their CPUs ? Does it matter to say it like that ?

I had a minitel like all French people, it was a crushing commercial success as far as I could see and then the internet was just better. And one day a Chinese will make something else and that's fine :D
QODA: The Platform for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing
Not always possible in a legal way. For example, GDPR compliance.
Oh, this makes sense, I didn't really think of the transition as potentially being distracting or a cue to stop working.

I personally use a "relaxing music playlist/radio", the songs are pretty similar (meditation music), and I don't often notice the song changing, but I do often notice that suddenly I am listening to a completely different melody.
I've read a bit on stealth design and the effects of body shape are not easily intuitive. It could be that the chosen external weapons have a small radar signature.
Well, as the article clearly states, Hennessy, the largest and one of the oldest manufacturers, put considerable marketing effort into that, so, yes, they're probably fairly satisfied with it. I'm not sure what your point is, here.
> * Retains the C/C++ definition of overflow of signed integers cannot overflow, unsigned can. That's o_O-worthy; the two should be aligned, and if they can't overflow, provide some form of wrapping integers as well.

Agreed, they should provide three kinds of integers: signed as usual, unsigned like in C++ but for compatibility only, usage discouraged (unless your programming a clock) and "natural integers" which traps on over/under-flow in debug builds.
And going from one kind to another kind should always be done with explicit cast (there is a proposal to allow some implicit conversions and it allows implicit conversion from unsigned to bigger signed :-( :-( )
A company I used to work for asked me to do on-call, it wasn't in my contract, I declined, that was that.

I don't understand what "force" means in this context - the conversation went something like "I have commitments outside of work" and that was that. I mean, there was a back and forth, but yeah, at the end of the day I took the job knowing I'd be available for the hours they wanted when I took the job.
Convert any jargon into plain English
"Musk pretended that TSLA valuation is reasonable."

Excuse me what ? He alwways said it was overvalued. I dont think anyone would have bat an eye if he had sold for no reason
I think there's actually an engineering reason for this shift to "soft" tech: the workflow for software development is way better (at least IMO).

There is just so much more information available and so many nicer tools available for the fledgeling developer. You have a huge library of languages, frameworks, tutorials and open source projects that need another pair of hands. This makes a difference when community and quick learning is desirable.
I don't think you looked all that hard, as this is central in the book "Introducing Bluetooth LE Audio" available for free here https://www.bluetooth.com/bluetooth-resources/le-audio-book/...

LE Audio is built around a channel concept, where a channel is unidirectional and a connection can have multiple, e.g. listening on 2 stereo channels and when a call arrives enabling 2 mic channels in the other direction for stereo microphones

Don't go around throwing shade at the spec authority if you haven't read the spec
Centralized power is also a crucial reason for corruption and oppression. History is full of examples.
Microsoft launches Project AirSim, a platform to accelerate autonomous flight
>Not only are poor people not contributing (by definition of being poor), they're also convinced their tax contribution is too high.

By this logic sending a job overseas to lower paid workers makes the exact same job contribute less to society. It also means all unpaid work contributes nothing to society. This is particularly absurd with opensource software that generates millions or billions for big corporations.
Belgium says Chinese cyber gangs attacked its government and military
You've got to be kidding. Low paid commercial crews are subject to bribery, and often don't even keep a close watch for security threats. Plus no nation state will allow a nuclear powered merchant vessel into port if there's a risk of a damaged reactor getting dumped into their waters.

It's just totally unrealistic, the kind of thing that only a programmer with zero time on the water would propose.
Is being 'Hangry' a real thing? – Here's what the evidence says
It's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...
To expand on that, there is a pretty accessible free book covering LE Audio available here https://www.bluetooth.com/bluetooth-resources/le-audio-book/...
> I'd doubt you'd find a 30m2 in a nice neighborhood

meh. I make less than 3200 net/month and iI live inside a 33m2 2 pieces in a completely normal part of the 20eme, if I'd go to other still nice but cheaper parts of Paris/banlieue prochaine on the metro I could probably do even better.

About buying, I've lived in places with an higher buying cost/rent price. But still, the market is mental and buying an house in the 2nd most expensive city in the world is completely different to live a decent life off a salary like 60k/year (which is medium-high compared to the average one in Paris, which is 48k/y).

Of course more aristocratic arrondissements are much more expensive and the Paris house market is completely mental, but that's another issue.

> You'll probably be making less than 60k in that case, if you can even find a job…

Mah! Other sibling comment already addressed that

> It depends. If you break your leg or something else critical, sure. If you need any other kind of care (hospital stay, glasses, or even some dental work) you better have a "mutuelle", which seems similar to the US model of employer provided health insurance, in that not everyone has it. Also, this comes out of your 60K, and part of it is included in the tax base, so it isn't completely "free".

It's mandatory and for the bigger part payed by the employer. Anyway, that's the concept of "taxes" in Europe. One could argue that the US model of health insurance is better, but that's easily proven false.
Better connection through research would also be expected, since wireless headphones without connection can't sound great /s
Those gas heaters are usually overdimensioned by a few factors. Nobody needs to fill instantly fill a bathtubs with 60 degrees. My house came with an 14kW gas unit, but a 5kW heatpump is enough for cold winters. Naturally the unit will be running for longer, but that's an efficiency in itself (lower delta T). Assuming a conservative COP of 4, that comes down to 1.25kW primary electricity consumption. It's a no brainer.
I highly recommend the book "plant medicines and the imaginal realm".

I've worked extensively with indigenous curanderos (healers) many of who view depression as a sickness undigested emotions and past trauma. This sickness negatively affects perception of their present moment.

In plant medicine ceremony, when past trauma is processed it's frequently accompanied with throwing up which is called "purging" or "getting well".

Outside of ceremony plants are often prescribed as a purgative which are often drunk accompanied by copious water. Purging may happen in both directions.

There is so much to experience in that field, so many lines of beautiful inquiry and in ceremony often a feeling of eternal present moment.

The book puts forward how depression and other sickness come from an altered perception that can be restored by plant medicines.
> The problem with how accessible "computing" is these days, which really means tablet and mobile

Tablets and smartphones don't count as computing. They are tools for viewing, curation and maybe some lightweight creation, but they are appliances. They do make whatever they do more "accessible", but whatever they do is no longer computing.
The twitter thread is the observation that "nobody wants to work anymore" isn't a recent phenomenon; it's entirely likely that the reasons change with the years.

I imagine that a large part of the issue is that productivity increases seem to benefit the top and not the bottom. I haven't thoroughly reviewed all the snippets, but my casual view is that people are complaining that younger people aren't willing to do the work that the complainer used to do without complaining, ignoring the fact that the nature of work has changed significantly over the decades, with significant mechanisation/automation. IIRC one of the examples is that youngsters don't want to break rocks any more (I exagerate perhaps a little there).
The problem with oncall teams that are different to the usual SRE/DevOps teams are the lack of understanding of the system. This can obviously be fixed with good documentation, but in reality, no one has good enough docs. The second problem is actually building that team with the skill needed. Someone with the skill to fix complex systems is not going to want to stick around as 1st line on call support.
My carplay experience when I plug my phone in via USB is great

When I try to use bluetooth, forget it, works about half the time, massive pain having to pair with each new car, etc
For river shipping it might work, there tugs are commonly used and rivers have power close the entire distance. You need the ability to swap tugs, more often, but that isn't hard to build.

I wonder if you could skip the batteries and just put in overhead catenary like trains have. Tugs mostly have to follow the same paths anyway.