skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with k8s is the lack of stable interfaces within the codebase. The resources themselves are well-versioned but even though the codebase is split up the individual pieces have dependencies on each other down to specific minor releases. The "separate" repos are so tightly coupled you wonder why they don't just smush them all together.

If you've ever tried to develop software that depends on k8s modules you know what I mean - you inevitably get a diamond dependency conflict that go mod can't easily handle because some package needs version 0.45 of apimachinery but something else needs 0.46 (made up versions but you get the point). If they wanted to have many small repos they should have some rigor around versioning and public interfaces between those repos, rather than this magic manifest of specific releases that work together.
Also called „racing the beam“, like the highly recommended book.

If you’re interested in a quick writeup with some pointers to reference material and sample code, check out my post:
https://blog.classycode.com/the-atari-2600-a-personal-journe...

You might enjoy it.
> or do a factory reset if I do

You reset your phone/computer every single time you travel internationally?
Google are well known for the amount of services they deprecate [0], but what gets less attention is functionality they remove from their core search product. It seems like quite a few "advanced features" have been removed, including `link:` which I found extremely useful for finding web pages that link to a given URL, and for which I haven't found a decent alternative.

[0] https://killedbygoogle.com/
I don't get it, why do people use the "google timer" or any kind of online stopwatch, like, any modern desktop environment comes with a timer application, and it even works offline!!! I get using currency conversion (since that's data that changes) and a few other functions. But really, seriously, can someone explain to me what was the use-case for this?
Sidebar: I absolutely adore Scott "I don't give a fuck anymore" Aaronson.

My personal aspirations to this kind of biting wit are futile and vain, but my admiration for it is even greater and some people can bring it off with style to spare, and ever since that uh, thing, Scott is just playing the ten minute guitar solo.

Into to Number Theory with periodicity and modular math might be stretching "nothing more than arithmetic" a bit, but fuck it, this is the best accessible discussion of Shor I've ever read and if there's any justice in the multiverse it will become the go-to link on the topic, which will mean that 10^500 laypeople will roll their eyes at the next 10^500 "quantum computers are the next step after digital computers" Aeon fluff pieces floating by.
Gitea 1.17.0 released with Package/Container Registry
Not in public (not going out of my way to take public credit for it is part of the deal).

However, it's not confidential, and I have no problem sharing it on a one-to-one (also, it isn't too hard to guess).
>> would love to see a version of this that actually engages at a non-superficial level with topics such as database design, theory(ies) of data visualization, methods for storytelling with data, and interactive design.

I love these discussions and taxonomies in data science. So I have a few genuine/honest questions:

1) isn't what you said more "analytics" or "analytics engineering" oriented (which also and itself is a subtopic/subfield of data science) ?

2) I think that more and more people are trying to define what "data science" is, specially for marketing purposes, and then put it in a box, like any other science (i.e. chemistry - take an undergrad chemistry textbook and they will always cover the same topics). But since it isn't well defined yet, many different courses covers different algorithms/aspects of data science, so I think it end up looking superficial and hard to please everyone. Would you agree w/ that? For ex. I'm trying to find a good and in depth course that applies Data Science/Machine Learning in Big Data problems, but I just can't find any serious course covering it.
A website screenshot utility written in Golang
I live in Denmark, have pretty much ideal public transport for my work (one bus, very little walking on either end) and it still takes about twice as long.

Which would be fine, except when you bring this up lots of people start talking about how to make cars take more time, or making public transport free.

Neither of which solves the problem.

I probably would be more willing to take the bus if wasn't also less comfy than my car. Not only does my car have better seats than the bus, but I am guaranteed one.
First: I agree with the overall conclusion of the article. We absolutely should invest to make public transport faster, and thereby attract more riders.

Second: At least for NYC, some of this data is slightly misleading. NYC has (at least) three public transport networks: the bus and subway within the city’s borders, and commuter rail between the city, Long Island, and the rest of NY/NJ/CT. It would probably be most interesting (and correct) to compare car commuters that could take each; my intuition is that the subway generally outperforms driving within the city, the bus slightly underperforms versus driving (since it gets stuck in traffic, and there’s no meaningful enforcement of bus lanes). I don’t have an intuition for the commuter rails.
RIP Google Timer, 2013-2022

To be fair though, the entries on killedbygoogle seem to average ~5 years before death. By that metric 9 years is a respectable run.
This.

I came here to say this. When you bundle NYC (which is one of the largest systems in itself between subway and bus) that represents a skewed average.

As a NYC resident of 20 years I can assure you public transportation much much faster than a car in most cases.

Don't even get me started about the time it takes to find parking in this city... I am guessing that that time consideration is not in this study.
Reminds me some public opinions from Western Europe countries (especially from Germany) during first months of war in Ukraine – "Why they are fighting? Just stop killing, please and give Russians what they want."
This is one of those fellows who, perhaps due to some disappointments in his own life or those of friends, believes that all women are conniving dependents, looking only for a man to latch onto and take advantage of, and has trouble seeing that many of us do quite well on our own, provided that banks are required to treat us like they do men with similar finances, employers are required to treat us like they do men with similar qualifications, and that we are permitted to control our fertility.

And the few unfortunate women I know who do rely on child support to help raise kids... I do not envy those women. Their lives are anywhere from hectic (single-parenting with fulltime jobs) to hard (trouble making ends meet, despite economizing).
Whether tofu is a possible choice depends on where you live.

There are many places where tofu is more expensive than meat, e.g. in Europe, so in such places tofu is not a rational choice.

Even where it is available at a decent price, tofu contains much less proteins than dry legumes or meat, so a proportionally larger quantity of it has to be eaten.

Its only advantage is that it provides little energy, but it is more difficult to combine it with cereals to provide all the needed proteins, because both have a low protein content, so the sum per day of e.g. wheat bread + tofu might need to be more than 1 kilogram.

Achieving an adequate intake with bread + tofu + dry legumes is somewhat easier, because the dry legumes have a higher protein content, but one still has to eat much more tofu than the meat that would have been needed in the same combination.
Perhaps the specific term, but not the "entire concept".
I had the opportunity to compare the posted schedules for a light rail train and a bus, between the same two points. This is the Bay Area.

The points were the Winchester light rail station (in Campbell) and the Lockheed campus, near Moffett. There's a bus that goes the same places with a vastly longer route, and of course many more stops. The times were the same: about an hour. If you were driving, you'd take freeways, and even in rush hour traffic it would be less than an hour.

San Jose light rail is, by nearly all metrics, the worst in the country, so you can see why: it's terrible.
not the one you asked, but probably this same initiative pushed by a more reputable company.

Samsung has been consumer-hostile in the mobile phone space for years, and nearly every 'vault' or 'secure enclave' or 'encrypted partition' that they've released has been broken in some fundamental and huge way since they started with the idea.[0]

[0]: https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/822/Samsung.html
Some people are already using generated images to replace stock art in low budget zines.
Fair enough, I don't really have first-hand experience with government IT positions so I don't have much to add with how the government implements security.
In those cases, it was easy to blame either the horse or the professional rider. Cars were driven by wealthy people who could not face that kind of responsibilities — see _The Great Gatsby_.
Digital Vinyl
FWIW, some of these can be done in your OS search bar. Cmd Space on the Mac, and Win key on the pc. Not sure about the various flavors of Linux though.
Isn't this just showing that people prefer public transit if the travel time is on average twice as long (but not longer)? There's a selection bias in that people who choose to drive probably did so because it's significantly faster.
Yet sidewalks have existed for much longer than cars.
The way you get promoted for maintaining the timer widget is to create some platform which drastically minimizes search features maintenance costs and tooling that largely automigrates legacy features onto it. Easy path to Google fellow if you can do it.
Just be careful with unit conversions and cooking/baking measurements. They are often wildly wrong. Search for "1 cup flour in grams" and you'll find suggested answers ranging from 100g to 300g -- while it _does_ vary by brand and type of flour, it certainly doesn't vary that much!
Also, the average bicycle trip is shorter than the average airplane trip, therefore bikes are faster than airplanes.
> It is unimaginably expensive, it's just getting subsidized to ridiculous extents.

Yep, that's totally true. But we as a society have chosen to subsidize it. We would not continue to subsidize it if society as a whole didn't find that lifestyle worth the immense weight on government finances.

> but saying the majority of Americans do when so few even know what's possible is misplaced in the best possible read of it.

Perhaps you're correct, but we're getting into conjecture at this point. The single family home on a quarter acre plot is ingrained into the physche of Americans at birth. It's the American dream. Cultural memes like that don't die without a herculean amount of effort. And when this dream is so well built into our urban design, uniformity across the country, the likelihood of it really changing is fairly small. Online spaces are really the first time I've seen anything different from the mainstream viewpoint here--never heard anything like this offline. Even San Francisco won’t upzone. If that isn’t a clear indication of preference, I don’t know what is.

> The demand for car-free neighbourhoods is also obvious if you look at what exists, and how exorbitant the prices are due to the high demand and low offer.

Definitely, we need more of these neighborhoods to satisfy demand. Again, I live in one, and I experience the price increases first hand. I just don't agree with the position folks take of changing existing neighborhoods into "urban, walkable" ones when the residents don't want that. There is a lot of space to try building these communities, especially since many people (even not in tech!) don't need to go to downtown offices anymore.

Streetcar suburbs are pretty awesome, because they allow single family home-style living while maintaining walkability. But density advocates want to see those neighborhoods built up into apartments and townhomes. That's tough for residents to swallow, since they have heavily invested in making their neighborhood the exact low-ish density but walkable, manicured living space they want to be in. And it's part of the appeal of unwalkable / HOA subdivisions, because such up zone conversions are difficult to impossible, or make little financial sense.

Vegetation, old architecture, etc. takes a long time to grow and "settle in". Destruction of backyards and old homes for large buildings that don't fit in with anything else in the neighborhood is not a fun time for existing residents. I don't really care about the property value (well, I would care if my neighborhood completely changed by a forced zoning change and I needed to move). It's about keeping the small town neighborhood vibes I chose to move here for.
As others have said, this does not hold for the majority of commuters in New York City, where finding a parking space and navigating rush-hour traffic often makes commuting by car slower.

In London they've chosen a different approach, making driving more painful: congestion charging and strictly-enforced 20-mile-an-hour speed limits on some of the main arteries in the centre of the city.
I wasn't, but then I thought I should. Déformation professionnelle and all.
> why not just pick a random number using some quantum process, classically test whether or not it's a divisor of the number you're trying to factor, and kill yourself if it's not?

All universes affect the probability of something occurring in each universe. That is how each universe contributes a bit of the Fourier offset which gives off the period in pretty much all universes.

Because finding the right divisor is so unlikely, you run a high risk of killing yourself in all universes. As Scott emphasizes, quantum computers don’t run possibilities in parallel!
Is the purpose of public transit to get you there Quicker, or to get you there Cheaper? Transit allows me to avoid owning a car, and the monthly parking charge at home, daily parking by work, etc costs that come with— that’s the principal benefit as a city dweller.

I live in Chicago (city) and the 2-1 time ratio is what I use to decide whether I take a cab or not. I look up the time to my destination -a store, friends house, the beach, whatever- and if it’s twice as long or quicker to take the train/bus then I will. (That’s not totally true, I use shared bikes to get most places these days.) When I was poorer, I used 3-1.

For my office, when I go, it’s about 2-1, and has been for any of the half-dozen different places I’ve lived here. I consider that a sign of Well-Done Transit, not the opposite.

It’s not surprising to me that transit takes longer, because you have to walk to a transit stop and then walk from a transit stop. Why would you expect it to be faster?

If you want it to be faster than driving, you have to eliminate all parking minimums.
lol, past few days I've missed this. Was always the most convenient way for me to set a tea timer.
Heh, then who hosts that proxy? And might you want to self-host that if it gets overloaded? TOR of course makes sense here though.
I’ve figured out a way to get loads of views on Facebook. The trick is to use their Groups feature. Join every group that has no less than 100,000 members then when sharing choose ‘Share to group’ and post to every group you joined. I’ve got silly little cat videos getting 1M views within a week of posting…

Part of going viral is luck too. If you’re lucky some high profile account will share your post, and the popularity soars.
Anything that has me write in templates in HTML like it's PHP is a no go for me. JSX reigns supreme for a reason.
That’s an extremely popular opinion, as evidenced by everybody doing it :-)

Most of the responses here are methodological ones, not claims that we should all selflessly ride public transit.
Unit conversions are far less useful now, too.
lol. I should have said real positive impact. I thought it was implied, though.
The 77 cases that were given a Wikipedia article saw a 17% increase in citations after publication.

One significant outcome of giving a case a Wikipedia article described in the paper but not in the article is that the case receives an infobox visible at the top of search results for most search engines.
True in principle. But I think in this case, it's more interesting to observe which forces managed to change laws and culture in the US so radically that we got from the pedestrian-friendly state to today's situation.

Know your enemy and know what they are capable of, in a sense.
Still there for me but I’m on mobile.
Do you have a link to the videos that are mentioned as being posted on the site in the syllabus. I can't get much out of the introduction slides and the format seems to be more geared towards speaking rather than the content of the slides, which is fine, it would just be better with the speaker.
Chromatlas
Some (hopefully useful) basic advice.

$400-500 won't get you anywhere near a "unique" or "interesting" watch, for that money you will get a "common" watch, that however can be "good quality" and last for many years or decades.

Your first choice should be with the type of mechanism:

1) manual charge

2) automatic

3) battery driven

4) solar

#1 and #2 are mechanical and will need some periodical maintenance/repairs.

#3 will have batteries dying exactly when you least expect it (and in most cases you will need to have them replaced by a service/shop if the watch is waterproof)

#4 is today the only "logical" choice if you want something that "just works".

There are many makes of these, and countless models, with many price ranges.

Check the material it is made of (actually its weight) there are people that like "heavy" watches, and people that like "light" ones (please read as stainless steel vs. titanium or plastic/other light material).

Same goes for the wristband, there are people that want it metal, people that want it leather, people that like it rubber or other material.

You want a 100m waterproof unit (which means you can use it in any normal situation, including swimming or snorkeling).
Just want to push back on the note that my newsletter "basically summarizes and quotes from a different paid newsletter as a primary source".

The last issue had the most number of The Information quotes [1] plus a bunch of original reporting and opinions.

The one two weeks ago had one such quote [2] and a bunch of original reporting.

I hadn't quoted The Information three months before, the last time I mentioned anything from that source was late April [3].

All linked issues are un-paywalled.

Point taken though on quoting from other publications and the perception a few such quotes can create in a paid publication, not to mention when these external quotes are how an issue starts. And especially when burying original or "exclusive" reporting from original sources.

I'm learning the ropes on this one as I go and will iterate on the format and the notion of "reporting on reporting".

[1] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/e0cb6dd3-0527-421...

[2] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/fff15093-0d83-41d...

[3] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/1d8672a5-a2ab-48e...
>> No, since it puts the onus of their safety of the pedestrians.
> This does not mean that it is not for their safety.

Imagine a car entering a shopping mall: it will go at a very slow pace as it’s in a place primarily for pedestrians, and hitting kids running around will be 100% the car’s fault it was going any faster.

Putting the burden on the car gives more safety to pedestrian. The reverse (putting the blame on the people for entering car’s way) doesn’t help in that respect.

PS: for instance entering train tracks is not “jaywalking”, and I think you’re focusing on a similar aspect, but for freeways and car dedicated roads ?
nuclear waste is a non problem, expecially after fast breeding recycling. geologic sequestration is a long term solution, but these wastes are potential fuel due to their "heavy weight", we just need the tecnology to fissile them or break their radioactive isotopes. Today we can recicle over 90% of waste in new fuel and turn the rest in low to medium radioactive waste to store for few centuries on general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
> Next winter will show how missing 2 cold/flu seasons will bode for us, I suspect mortality stats will jump through the roof

The reason we have annual flu shots is because influenza mutates so readily, so it's not like most people have a highly developed immunity to whatever common influenza strain is going around anyway. And fun fact (truly, it's awesome), at least one strain of influenza appears to have gone extinct. It seems possible that your prediction is completely backwards, and that our scattershot headless chicken COVID mitigation policies have managed to permanently improve flu season.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1003020235/certain-strains-of...
Isn't that common sense? Public transit takes you everywhere and where you need to go. Driving just takes you where you need to go.
I'm not surprised. Both Wayland and GNOME are pushed by Red Hat.
It is a shame that calculators are stuck in the past for silly regulatory reasons, but there is a silver lining. These relics are excellent machines for learning low level programming without the complexity of modern hardware. You can write C code with essentially no operating system underneath you, read the keyboard I/O registers directly, flip pixels on the screen by writing to the framebuffer pointer, write your own interrupt handlers, etc. There are no other widely available computers this simple anymore, and because of their ubiquity there is still an active hobbyist community making new software.

If I was going to make a course on programming I would get every student a calculator and have them write some C on it.
>If it does anything to add privacy it’s a good thing, even if it can be sidestepped, it’s a good thing.

I disagree.

a bad lock that the consumer thinks is a good lock will be used to hide All The Secrets.

In other words; when a consumer is lulled into a false sense of security by a manufacturer that calls everything secure and secret, they will guard their secrets with it. Very few people actually technically vet their security rationales, so the consumer that is relying on the company, who is then in-turn providing a subpar and broken security mechanism, is more-or-less screwed and is in actuality in a worse position than they would have been had they known to keep their secrets off of the broken platform.

Your analogy fits the real life metaphor of a lock, it bends and breaks when we carry it into things like cell phones where 'a good lock' requires forethought and engineering time that a company isn't willing to sink into it; and this poor quality engineering is hidden behind a slick glass phone that by all means is beautiful.

It's easy to hide the shoddy software engineering that is inside a beautiful product. It's hard to hide a poorly crafted physical lock -- the key won't work properly, it'll be hard to install, the surface finish will be low quality, etc etc.

It's easier for the company, and ultimately more profitable, to just claim that a mechanism works and then deal with the damage to reputation later-on with the next 'WhizBang Product', especially since the mechanism itself is hard for Joe Everybody to vet in any significant way.
I think it's undeniable that journeys in to, out of, or around central London are faster on public transport if you're going along one of the main routes. But there are lots of journeys outside of the centre, either sideways or diagonal, that are very awkward and slow on public transport.

My problem is that I have very little data or intuitive feel for how the 8 million people in London actually move during the average day
The US umbrella has been selling well. The F-35 is just the medium.
Wouldn't those also be taken into account for the drivers side of the comparison?