skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. It'll get you thinking. Keep in mind there is more depth to the topics the book touches on.
> There is a theoretical possibility that two of the same thing from different sellers could end up in the same bin. At that point the picker wouldn’t know which is which.

Amazon's seller-side stickerless inventory documentation specifically says that identical items from different sellers are never put into same physical bin so that the original source can be traced.
> I think it's more important to ask: how much have you _learned_ from reading technical books?

I think that you learn at least something by just reading, another perspective on things is valuable. I think an open mind is the most important when reading.

> [0] This is why I run a weekly book club as part of my Discord community (https://ted.dev/discord), so I know I'll deeply read at least a few books every year.

I love that you have an open book club! Maybe I'll join, We have one at work that I organize and it is great fun and one of the weeks highlights. I have also tried to collect my tips for starting a book club here (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/articles/book_circle/)
this happens all the time. your boss should give you the credit you deserve. if not, consider walking.
"run away"?
Isn't it more like 2 cars with the same VIN? The plate in this analogy would be the seal.
The characters are just obviously incompetent and/or malicious. I know it's supposed to be a story about the power of DevOps transformation or whatever but like... you could also just not suck at your job maybe?
Living near a highway I feel like the opposite reason would probably a more common cause of some sort of mental health crisis
Tell HN: My Experience in Tech with Autism
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and why should we continue to accept and reward this behaviour?
Not so: the change happened across all these thousands of brands that had the exact style; but it didn't happen to the minority of posts that were from "real" independent Chinese marketplace-of-ideas sellers, who had copied the style with errors, or independently reinvented it. Those other listings still use the dictionary-headword brackets. So no Amazon-side canonicalization was performed.
I don't have any advice, just found this interesting because one of the kittens I had years ago would always stick his paws into the water dish when drinking. It's not like the bowl was too high or he needed leverage- the food dish had the same dimensions and he never did it for the food dish. He just seemed to enjoy having his front paws in the water when drinking shrugs.
I think the difference is that an autistic person will see reality like this:

| O O |
| ----- ( inner landscape (fact) ) ----- |
| | | |
| / \ / \ |

While the non-autistic person will see it like this:

| O O |
| ----- ( inner landscape (fact) ) ( inner landscape (fact) ) ----- |
| | | |
| / \ / \ |

The non-autistic person will always assume that there are two inner landscapes at play, in any given social situation, two versions of reality, if you will, and two sets of facts. And they will assume that the other person sees it in the same way: They will assume that the other person also allows for two versions of reality, and two sets of facts.

The autistic person will, instead, view it as if there is one big unified shared reality between him and the other person, and one true fact, in any given situation. He will also assume that the other person sees it in the same way as himself.

The "double empathy problem" is that neither of them can see how the other person views the world. The non-autistic person cannot comprehend that the autistic person sees a single shared reality, and a single fact. Likewise, the autistic person cannot comprehend that the non-autistic person sees two different realities and two sets of facts.
Yes, from Making Money onwards I think. I haven’t actually read the most recent few because of that. It’s a shame to hear that but still, what a body of work to leave.
A Cloud Never Dies – Thich Nhat Hanh Documentary
_The Splendid and The Vile._ My sister recommended it, and it was great on audiobook. I found the stories about Beaverbrook especially interesting. I found the insight fascinating into what Churchill was thinking during the war, how much he leaned on his closest advisors, and how badly some of Hitler's advisors fucked up. I wound up reading (or listening) to it through the lens of how important relationships are in whatever kind of work that we do. Also, in 2021 I read _The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are_ and it was the best book I've read in years.
I think co-writing and co-teaching a math course at a deep learning company he co-founded, pinning that to the github repo and moving it close to the top of the home page makes it pretty clear he does see value in math in deep learning. I mean, if you need other evidence beyond than the fact that he teaches math needed to understand and build things from scratch in the deep learning course...

In the courses he has always been clear you don't need a ton of math to begin. He's also always been clear that as you progress you will encounter math that you need to learn to continue. He's always clear that that is ok if you don't know it before you start and it's ok to learn it when you need it.
I believe you are describing exploits that could be used in targeted surveillance rather than mass surveillance and manipulation which are the main concerns in social media. Targeted surveillance requires identifying targets and how to reach them. If a bunch of anonymous users are using somebody's social media server via TOR or VPN, I am not sure how those individuals could be identified and targeted, but please enlighten me.
It makes a lot more sense to transport the energy to the water than vice versa.

I don't agree with their plan to make synthetic hydrocarbons, but they are right about solar. In 50 years solar will be so ubiquitous and cheap that people will be horrified that we kept burning fossil fuels and building nuclear plants for so long.
This is a really wonderful explanation that removes the woo from QM. As a non-scientist, I've spent a lot of time reading about QM and trying to understand stuff, and eventually get lost in hand-waviness about dimensions and vague references to Schrodinger and his boxes of semi-cats. Thanks!!
People often say that if you make your boss shine, then your boss will in turn make you shine (ie, get promoted, etc). This may work for small development companies, but what I've found is that at most big companies, they'll use your work to get themselves a higher promotion or that bigger bonus, and then jump ship to another team or to another company. The project they stole credit from you was just a stepping stone to them to get into a better place.

Absolutely fight back and claim credit. If your director or senior manager (ie, your boss's boss) knows you built it in its entirety, it's easier to get promoted this way rather than through your direct boss. That's because at cross calibrations, when the managers all get together to rate their reports for that enticing bonus/promo, the senior managers have to be convinced as to who should get what. So if your senior manager or director knows your name, then it's much easier to get that promo, and your boss can't hide it from them for his own gain since your name is already so well known.

That's just office politics, and everyone has to play whether you like it or not, unfortunately. Claim your title, don't depend on others if you did the work. Make yourself known, it's the only way to win.
I would be more concerned about being surveilled by the adversary with routine physical access to you.

"Write it down physically" is great in typical threat models where you have mostly network adversaries, but this particular situations is a bit
Colorado's where the river's headwaters are: this is probably an even bigger deal for those in Utah, Arizona, Las Vegas, and Southeastern California.
Just to add to this conversation a bit, did you know Singapore is running power wires to gather solar from Australia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link
Density is almost irrelevant, all that matters here is cost.

And one order of magnitude is more than enough. But yeah, besides planes and rockets, hydrocarbons are important in several industrial processes. Besides, we don't want to replace all of the cars, trucks and ships in a single decade.
I see no reason why this would address OP's concern.
Pumped reservoir storage is horrifically inefficient, environmentally terrible for the local ecosystem, and not scalable. You can't just go and build a reservoir anywhere you like.

Chemical energy storage is simple, scalable, and allows for the easy movement of vast amounts of energy over great distances to be used anywhere with minimal changes to existing infrastructure.
I remember colour of magic being pretty hard work and not super fun. I was glad I made it to the later stuff that was far better crafted
What a pessimistic view from the person managing the River District.

How many people would the river basin have supported without damming and irrigation? Far fewer than 40M. In other words, the engineers clearly engineered nature and made it much more hospitable to human life in the arid West.

Sounds like they might have overshot and can't meet tomorrow's demand, but even so, the status quo is certainly far superior to an un-engineered Colorado River Basin.
Ah yeah, you're right, I do agree; I misread which comment your original comment was a reply too.
Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero arrested and awaiting extradition to US
I remember 47th Street Photo was a big one.
There are children who can't be vaccinated because of medical complications.
This is why we need herd immunity.
Your trust in someone also doesn't need to apply equally on all topics. I'm much likelier to trust a virologist over myself about virology than about the best way to cook pasta.
> mathematical model that can predict the future

Read the Robots series and then Foundations Edge and sequels.
Something 'generic' anyway, or is it something 'branded' as it were but sold unbadged/not through the intended channels?

Just curious because I've never had any luck finding something specific, just slightly different knock-offs. Which can be fine of course, it's just less obvious to me that should exist than under-the-table selling of extra output, or rogue employees/company or whatever. Higher effort and more enterprising.
> Why is Amazon trying to become AliExpress?

Because all the profit is in being a platform. Otherwise, their retail operations would be looking at the sub 5% profit margins of every other retail business in the US.
These questions remind me of an "unethical life pro tip" that I read some time ago in reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnethicalLifeProTips/comments/9b9t5...

Basically, create an "opposite sex" profile in some relationship site, connect with a bunch of people that share interesting stuff in common with you, and live nearby. Then tell them to meet the fake person at some restaurant/bar at the same time. Go in there at the defined time and act as if you were also lured by the person... once the dust settle, propose everyone to go for a drink with their free time.
Speaking of Great Plains, I found that, being Swiss, I tend to feel unsettled in regions where no mountains whatsoever are visible on the horizon. I'm not even much of a mountaineer, but it seems I need them around to get my bearings.
You should check out Prometheus Fuels: https://prometheusfuels.com/
And what do they do when the vulnerability is in software X?
Not sure why this is being downvoted, it’s technically correct.

First World: US + NATO + Friends (loosely termed “The West)

Second World: Soviet Union + Warsaw Pact + Friends

Third World: Rest of the world.
A project related to the Navy project was "Project Foghorn" at GoogleX: https://x.company/projects/foghorn/

A better technology is currently being scaled up at Prometheus Fuels: https://www.science.org/content/article/former-playwright-ai...
I tried their Python Runtime Beta semi-recently out of similar curiosity.

I expected the base Python use case to support common Python function deploy setups, say Flask, FastAPI / Starlette, etc.

It didn't seem like that's actually possible (if it is, the docs should mention it!)... and instead this is "Advanced Usage".

I really don't consider Hello World running in Flask to be "Advanced Usage".

But the alternative with the verbosity of using BaseHTTPRequestHandler with no framework is just nuts. Of course, no one is doing that on other platforms.

Python is still a second-class citizen on Vercel.

Heroku made this smooth... a decade ago... I really don't understand why Vercel doesn't make a serious investment in Python. It would unlock so much more potential for their platform. [Vercel, my email is in bio if you're listening ;).]
You can't really CBT special interests out of autistic people, to attempt it would be cruel at the very least.

A timer for play would be a definite step up, the sudden removal of interesting stimulus feels like a punishment for the autistic person.
I'm curious about countries that rebounded from declining population. Are there any in the last century?
Biodiesel is just hydrocarbon fuels produced via solar energy with extra steps
Solar is already extremely cheap, when costed out over it's minimal lifetime. At grid scale, it has dipped down to crazy levels.

As you said, this trend will keep on going.
London Tube cooling system trial for deepest lines begins
> You have to actively look for ways to disprove your own narratives

Socratic Method is one way, I can recommend "The Socratic Method - A Practitioners Handbook" by Ward Farnsworth.
There’s a time domain to it also. My old T540P Lenovo gave me a giant permanent burn on my thigh because it “sous vide”d me over a 2-3 hour period.

Never felt it, because it wasn’t hot enough to register as harmful.
Is there a reason you don't read them cover to cover?

I can understand that some books are more reference than narrative. Yet, I find that most books are usually a coherent whole that is more than the sum of its parts.
Sounds like it, but I’m still interested in finding out how big a deal it is. A quick search shows that there have been cars found with duplicate VINs and making a container with the same serial number seems like pretty pedestrian crime in comparison. That is not to say that this is a crime, could just be plain old manufacturing mistakes and it’s also obvious that not all container management systems check for it (even if it did, unless both end up in the same registry it won’t matter anyway).
Ask HN: How would you learn C++ in 2022?
you don't need an extension to manually change video quality. if it kicks you down, turn it right back up. it will obey your preference for that video.

after doing this on a few videos, it seems to stop dropping the quality automatically for me.
Some of it still exists. B&H photo is a very large jewish owned electronics business out of New York. They have some of the best high end electronics selection available online and last time I checked they are closed on the sabbath.
“The End of the World is Just the Beginning” by Peter Zeihan. Probably needs to be read with a grain (or two or three) of salt, but it’s pretty thought-provoking.
Okay. Let me know when literacy rates stop rising, access to information starts becoming less prevalent, the number of technical degrees granted every year begins to fall, or the number of libraries begins to decrease.
I'm using Feedly. Checking it once a couple of weeks and happy about my flow.
Here are the blogs that I follow:
- https://jvns.ca/atom.xml
- http://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml
- https://blog.kowalczyk.info/atom.xml
- https://ashfurrow.com/feed.xml
- https://sneak.berlin/feed.xml
- https://sookocheff.com/index.xml
- https://www.hanselman.com/blog/feed/rss
- https://zachholman.com/atom.xml
- https://www.wezm.net/v2/rss.xml
- https://alexdanco.com/feed/
- https://tyler.io/feed/
- https://tylertringas.com/feed/
This is such an odd way to address an argument. From the article:

"Substituting solar power into our electrical grid and atmospheric CO2-derived hydrocarbons into our fuel supply chain is just the beginning. We want to support a future of abundance and wealth, while avoiding starvation even as legacy climate damage shifts rainfall patterns and causes extreme weather."

Seems pretty one-track to me.

Also, there are no manufacturing processes with infinite scalability. And the article fails to make clear their large scale intentions. They go back and forth between some Sarahan style plant, and the total amount of PV available and the current planned excess power due to this and never offer a solid plan as far as I can tell.

Aside from that.. it's a back of the envelope analysis that just projects trend lines on charts and makes no thoughts for emergent phenomenon due to the massive market swings it projects.
Jay Carney Joins Airbnb as Global Head of Policy and Communications
Well, to be perfectly honest, well-engineered projects manage rivers in the US as well - e.g. the system of locks and dams all along the Mississippi courtesy of the US Army Corps of Engineers.

The two big problems with the management of the Colorado River water are big disincentives not to lose legal water rights, resulting in farmers growing water-hungry crops in the desert just to preserve those rights; and water allocations that were larger than even optimistic Colorado River flow rates during a very wet season in the 1930s. In order to preserve the river basin and reservoirs, both of those issues have to be addressed, concurrently, and there are a lot of stakeholders that are going to be very angry about whatever solution is proposed to them (or imposed on them very soon, out of necessity, to keep the lights on.)
Making hydrocarbons for airplanes and maybe for cargo ships makes sense unless the power density of batteries increases dramatically. Creating hydrocarbons to put into commuter cars and trucks that traverse developed regions sounds like a bad idea.
grugq recommended The Blacktongue Thief a few months ago, and it was fantastic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29670545

Since then, I've read several of the author's other books — and recently I've been re-listening to The First Law trilogy. (Steven Pacey is the best Audible narrator in the game.)
Yup[1]. Also home to the famous "I don't like sand" scene from Episode II – Attack of the Clones[2].

[1] https://www.quora.com/During-the-James-Bond-movie-Casino-Roy...

[2] https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Villa_del_Balbianello
For me it's more about the certainty than the rush. I hardly ever need anything next day, but "next day" is a concrete day, while for example "in 3-5 days" isn't. As someone who is often not at home, I'd rather not have to be at home or arrange for someone to be there several consecutive days in case a package arrives.
This is the method that works for me. If I go heavy on water between alcoholic drinks I can avoid having a hangover entirely, or at least reduce it to a very mild headache that Ibuprofen can deal with.

The only downside is you will have to use the bathroom a lot.
I've been wondering why I do like Twitter for long form content. At first, I hated it. But then I got caught up in several long threads, and invariably at the end someone would link the threadreader collection of the whole thing. I kept thinking, I'm just going to start going to the bottom and looking for that link, but I never did.

Instead, I learned to love it. It's almost a way of being reminded again and again about who is speaking, and it gives you a little feedback of how interesting other Twitter users found that particular section.

I don't really like that I learned to love it. I think it might be unhealthy. But that's a different issue.
> Paracetamol poisoning is the foremost cause of acute liver failure in the Western world, and accounts for most drug overdoses in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol

> Analysis of national mortality files shows about 450 deaths occur each year from acetaminophen-associated overdoses; 100 of these are unintentional.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/09/11/tylenol-far-most-danger...

edit: https://www.propublica.org/article/tylenol-mcneil-fda-use-on...
Basically! this was the take-away

SET THE SCENE: "What you may think of sleepy hassidic brooklyn as a religious enclave -check out these guys with curls making a killing on amazon knock-offs.!"
> No efficient and free healthcare or education like the other first world countries have. And other issues which you just stated.

what is the cause of these issues? i've heard education used to be almost free in the us at some point... what happened?
> but the algorithm didn't get faster

Could it be branch predictor at play? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processi...
"This story has been edited to clarify that panels containing toxic materials are routed for disposal to landfills with extra safeguards against leakage, and to note that panels that contain cadmium and selenium are primarily used in utility-grade applications."
Note that thermal pads, although being a lot better than nothing, perform worse than thermal paste or thermal glue. If space allows it, gluing a piece of copper or aluminium on each chip would increase the chip's thermal mass significantly, slowing down the speed at which the chips changes its temperature.
Then one could add a thinner thermal pad to achieve even better thermal transfer with the laptop plate.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/203942669848

https://www.ebay.com/itm/195034139133

(no relation with the sellers, just search for "copper heatsink" and "thermal glue")

Before using the glue, a test with normal paste is advised so that one can find the right heatsink/pad thickness.
> but even so, the status quo is certainly far superior to an un-engineered Colorado River Basin.

Making an uninhabitable area, habitable, at the cost of a total destruction of natural resources does not seem like its "far superior".
I would love to know the quote's original context.

I think that the manager was speaking specifically about the Central Arizona Project, in the context that the negative impact of the project was already predicted.
> It makes a lot more sense to transport the energy to the water than vice versa.

That’s my gut feeling as well. Perhaps the location of the consumer of the hydrocarbons would change that in some cases.
It depends on location and how often people in your area order from China. I used to get ePacket orders from Shenzhen to San Jose within 10 days every time. Now that ePacket is dead, AliExpress standard shipping takes 14 days.
I'm almost finished with The Art of Agile Development(https://www.programmingbooks.dev/#the-art-of-agile-developme...). I started reading 3 weeks ago and it's a chunky books. It's a great book and covers a lot of good agile ideas and practices.
Completely agree on this point. The first two Discworld novels, while still hilarious, take being a high fantasy story much more seriously than the later stories do. I'd go as far as to argue Pratchett still hadn't found the "discworld voice" in those first two books.
The actual problem with hoping for every summer to be like this one is that it's deliriously optimistic.
I've never made a comment on HN commenting on someone else's tone, but I've seen this exact response, word for word, a lot recently on many posts. I don't like this trend. I find it to be adversarial and in bad faith. Suppose they did read the article. Are they likely to reply to you defending themselves? Next time, please address the actual content of their comment instead.
That is somewhat true, but also in Colorado there's a plethora of westslope vs front range issues.