skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why not talk about actual Computer Science and what she did?

She was a prime mover in doubling the number of people who were allowed into the field. Personally, I think that's bigger than the LSP.
> The Flynn effect has not been genetic

No, it was developmental, but AFAIK IQ is rather stable once you reach adulthood.

> and it didn't translate into differences in actual, real-world performance in a way that IQ difference within cohort do

Because it was gradual enough that it would be hard to measure, and because the composition of the Western workforce also evolved over the same period of time, making any comparison between generational cohorts virtually impossible.
Noether's Theorem in a Nutshell (2020)
Any time I visit areas with palm trees there seems to be a small army of gardeners that maintain all but the “wild” palm trees. Also pretty sure there is a cottage industry of people who harvest the coconuts.
I feel like we need movies/media that helps things feel more real, personal, negative, close to home.

Not movies that _focus_ and sensationalize climate disasters like The Day After Tomorrow. But movies that exist in the near future where really visceral elements of how climate change played out 10-20 years exist as a backdrop to whatever story is being told (but feel grounded in reality).

e.g. water rationing, abandoned towns/cities, authoritarian responses to increased immigration/migration, food shortages, etc...
How is your land going to hold up as the neighbors' is eaten away?
Show HN: Gsummarize – A CLI to summarize Google cloud storage buckets
Hello HN, I wanted to share a Python command line tool I developed to summarize Google cloud storage buckets.

I’m a data engineer, and have been spending a lot of time using Google’s Python cloud client libraries like gcloud and gsutil. I started a project that required summarizing files in a large cloud bucket (hundreds of terabytes), trying to answer questions like: what kinds of files are there? Which sub-directories are largest? Are there any duplicate files? I quickly became frustrated with the options from Google to complete this task on the command line, especially given tools like aws s3 ls that includes a --summarize option.

I started using the most obvious command, gsutil ls, to capture information about this massive cloud bucket like storage size, sub-directory size, file extensions, duplicate files, etc. While this command provides nearly all of this information for each individual blob, capturing it for summarization required a lot of grep and sed and xargs commands piped together. Not to mention the fact that for large cloud buckets, gsutil ls can take a few hours.

I quickly turned to Python and used the existing google-cloud-storage library to return this information in a better framework. But, I still wanted the option of a cloud bucket summary on the command line. So, I built the gsummarize CLI to handle this very case.

The tool has two main functions: summarize all of files and sub-directories in a provided Google Cloud Storage bucket by their storage size (and optionally their file extension), and compare CRC32C hash values of all files in a bucket to determine duplicate files. I also added features for authenticated users to output summary CSVs to Google Cloud Storage URIs, and to summarize/deduplicate sub-directories of buckets as well.

Now, myself and my team use gsummarize for a quick command line summary of Google Cloud Storage buckets. The source code is available on GitHub here: https://github.com/nashbio/gsummarize. Of course this tool is a work in progress and an open source project, so all suggestions and feedback are welcome. I hope you find it useful!
I assume you would feel differently if the market had crashed and your purchase price was $100k less though… avoiding PMI while also having a lower principal. Hindsight.
> There was even a recent program on NPR how different is the life of super-wealthy.

Link?
Car manufacturers are not without blame in this situation. Their products are designed to be difficult and expensive; bordering on impossible to service.

I have a mid 2000s sedan from the Ford motor company, recently the air conditioning stopped working; initially I engaged with a few different freelance mechanics, one billed me for a pressure system check / recharge, another said they didn't know what was wrong but could do "diagnostics" until I cried uncle on the costs. The car is worth maybe $3,000 so I can't justify a lot of repair costs on it, but at the same time the powertrain is still in great shape. The Ford dealership was able to pinpoint the actual problem, which was a $25 ambient temp sensor-- but it's buried in the center of the dash requiring $1000 worth of labor to replace.

Ultimately I was able to find the ambient temp sensor pins on the glove box wiring harness and bridge them with a 47 cent resistor, tricking the computer into turning my AC back on.

Cars could be so much better. We'd generate less waste if perfectly good vehicles weren't getting thrown away because Ford and GM designed them to fail in opaque and unserviceable ways, unfortunately things have been trending the opposite direction with BEVs and Tesla in particular.
It's just a CTF focusing on forensics and reverse engineering. Here are the writeups from the 2021 challenge: https://github.com/luker983/nsa-codebreaker-2021
The CDK seemed to be an attempt to supplant the Serverless framework and Pulumi even. Are those options barred for use internally or just under promoted?
imho yes. I work in the industry and it has more depth and more solid. Blueprints are awesome, it's a node based scripting editor which allows visual programming. Unity is nowhere near that https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/blueprints-visual-sc... It's completely possible to build a whole game using nothing but Blueprints.

The whole Unreal engine with the editor and such is powerful toolset and you can tell it's an engine geared toward professional game designers and artists, basically whole studios, rather than programmers. Unity is really fun to play with if you are a single indie dev. Also it's much better for mobile development. You can do all with Unreal engine too but it's "meant to be" for FPS/TPS games and anything other than that is not harder just you need to "fight" the engine sometimes.

And the Unreal engine is open source. Well it's like open access because there are some very strict rules and limitations around it. But at least it's good for personal use https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ue-on-github
In my electrical and computer engineering university, I volunteered at the department's library. Retiring professors were our biggest source of books (there was no allocated budget, so we could not buy new stock and relied on donations).

When we did the weeding to accept only the useful stuff, we separated the "rejects" into a request-only section in the basement and the rest we left outside in the hallway for free giveaway.

All was gone incredibly fast and we didn't have to handle anything else. Curious minds and free books pair together very well.
How would understanding systems have been significantly adaptive for humans before a few thousand years ago? I agree with you that humans generally lack this capability. We also lack the ability to understand exponential growth, which I think is partially a cause of our lack of ability to comprehend systems.

My personal theory on this is that it comes from the fact that our sensory systems operate on a logarithmic response curve [0]. Note, for instance, how the decibel scale for measuring sound intensity is a logarithmic scale. Because our sensory systems respond logarithmically, that means an exponential increase in stimulus feels linear, at least until the point where the stimulus is damaging or so intense as to be uncomfortable. The end result is that we think "it's not so bad" until it's really bad.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law
there's also subconscious lying, such as hiding our blind spots where the optic nerve is attached to the retina and turning off our vision when we move our eyes, and toying with our perception of time passage to make it seem like there was no gap in vision.
Pretty sure companies have to do recalls and people need to know about the recalls. So it getting picked up by the media, or as you call "shaming" is actually things working correctly?
It may well be counterproductive to normalize drawing conclusions from singular events.

We don't know whether this particular drought is due to the human induced climate change. It's great if it will finally convince those who are in denial about climate change, but in some sense they are being convinced by what is likely to be a random event.

In other words: the fundamental issue is that there's a very large mass of people who are resistant to rational argument.

So the climate change proponents get "lucky" this time as they get a single but painful event in their life and they can go to deniers and say "do you see now how bad climate change is?" but this is a single event. For all we know, there may have been many similar ones 500 (or 1000) years ago before detailed meteorological records were kept.

What if this drought is followed by 5 subsequent years of completely normal weather? Would we want the deniers to start claiming everything is fine based on a handful of events?
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3594107-the-mar-a-lago...

This article shows a barrage of Democrats not raided on similar warrants and a whole slew of Republicans raided on similarly-flimsy ground.

It's simple: the FBI is the enforcement arm of the democratic party, and it operates transparently as such. It is in no way a legitimate law enforcement agency.l, and performs no legitimate function.
If you look at die shots of any new chip, x86 or ARM, the actual CPU cores are taking up a smaller and smaller percentage of the die.
And how are you supposed to replicate the thrill of an inclined start when at a red light and the guy behind you inches closer to your bumper! Or the excitement of transforming stop-and-go traffic from mindless time waster to mentally taxing gear shifting exam!

I kid somewhat. I drove stick for years and it was a neat experience that is definitely more engaging, and I'm glad I have the skill now, but I really despised it sometimes.

(EDIT: or the game of "how good are you _actually_ at shifting" when trying to turn onto a busy road between two passing cars!)
It’s so weird to me when people use the phrase “fight the good fight (of faith),” without knowing the latter half of the expression or where it comes from.

It makes web debugging sound like a religious struggle.
There's a simpler explanation for time flying by as we get older: the older you are, the smaller a fraction of your total lifespan is represented by a single year. One year is half of a two-year-old's life, but only one eightieth of an eighty-year-old's.
I assert that customers do care. Customers were quite annoyed that they couldn't buy vehicles, regardless of the price. Or do you just not remember the complaints?

On the business side, Toyota - the progenator of JIT manufacturing who still warehoused chips to deal with a shortage exactly like what happened - flourished at a time where others floundered. As an added bonus, they were still able to remain profitable prior to the shortage, despite having warehoused chips.

I think the "buy cheap not good" is more of a proactive excuse from companies who want to sell cheap goods to maximize their profit. Kind of an extension of the "never ask customers what they want, they'd just want better horses" or "they can have it in any color so long as it's black" tropes.
It's still the case, but nowadays they're branded as an "Office 365 license".
I would label it "different". Unity can target a wider swath of devices from a perf point of view, and in general is much more lightweight. It's also easier to customize and strip of components you aren't interested in.

The downside of course is that it's not a master of anything, and Unreal has great showcases to demonstrate that.

Unity isn't going away, devs aren't going to magically switch to Unreal for the above reasons. Additionally the transition is massively disruptive for a business built around Unity. You don't just magically become Unreal experts as a team by reading a few tutorials and building a couple of prototypes. Actually shipping a game cross-platform requires a huge amount of technical experience to optimize and work around issues that each brings.
I don’t think the issue is with “good-ol’-boyism”

The root issue is that human beings are racist or otherwise prejudiced and that’s causing way more problems in many more areas

And prejudice is natural human behavior. Anyone can become prejudiced if they grow up in the right environment

But if all your friends are from all walks of life, you will naturally not be prejudiced. So all we need to do is make sure that we have even the right outreach programs so forces are diverse. When people in places of power are going to cookouts and all theirs buddies are all sorts of different people, all these stupid problems will literally disappear in a generation
I think this would easier to adopt if it could be plopped into an existing agnostic CI system. We built something like this in-house on top of Gitlab CI and it works really well for us. Locking isn't as much of an issue as you make it seem in the pitch, we just have our infra contaiers wait to acquire and renew a distributed lease while they're running. Some kinds of failures just release the lock and others panic and stop the world for human intervention.

Presumably your core competency isn't building CI systems or job runners so why bother? I'm sure at the core of your own infra it's job agnostic The value-add is the management plane on top of it.
Given the situation in Ukraine right now, this might be a bad time to ask…

But I bet if you were to post the address of a local library here (with their permission) you might get quite a few folks willing to pay shipping to send some gifts over.
That, or maybe they're just publishing junk? Who can tell? I know PNAS mostly from Andrew Gelman's blog often making fun of them for publishing jargon laden pseudo-science
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2017/10/04/breaking-p...
F.F 91.12.0 ESR, No-Script & U-Block as plugins. JS white-listed for all domains on your page (except Google Tag-Manager). HTH.
Wow, epic!

The most depressing thing is being presented with an issue and finding my name attached to a closed ticket from years before with no explanation of how I fixed it.

Guess what, current me, you're going to learn this again from scratch because past me was in a hurry and couldn't be bothered to type out what he did.

BSG - this has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
i would very much like a modern take on the FJ40, 45 and 60

the 70 series looks reasonable, maybe someday it will finally come to the US
Well, you see some people on this very thread. But I agree. Most reasonable people recognize that a 2019 office dynamic may be dead forever at many places. I expect that most accept that reality if they otherwise like the company. (I know a fair number of people in that category.) Or they seek out companies that are much more committed to people coming into an office.
Not wasted. Stocked by automakers, for their own use.

Car manufacturers have the nasty habit of keeping no stock —at all— even of inexpensive stuff like microchips, smd components, nuts, bolts... and ordering everything "just in time", while at the same time maintaining a steel-fisted strangle-hold on suppliers which are obliged to provide them what's needed when, or die.
Yes, the Fed printing money. Memes from the younger, paragraphs from the older. More rarely mentioned by the credentialed, but so ubiquitously brought up by the commentariat that I just can't buy this as "few people are talking about."
I'm not saying I agree with this but I think the point might be that what's happening now isn't completely out of the ordinary but we're being made to believe that it is.
Have your noticed how there is hardly any agreement in this thread? Your opinion is one of many. You find daily stand-ups necessary and valuable. I don't. find them harmful.

Everyone's opinion is informed by their own experience. In my experience, a standup is about as valuable as having a conversation with a brick wall.
Yeah he's not really using the term "survivor bias" in the way that statisticians do.
People still use social media to talk about one of the most important stories of the last century, and we're supposed to be surprised?
Great article and rest of the blog.
To me, any syllogism which tells me I am not qualified to say that lynching is not immoral is probably broken.

Rational argumentation is fine but it requires that we start with some reasonable premises.

Like any math problem, if you get strange answers it indicates that you're doing the problem wrong. If you divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter and you get something like 31.4 you might wanna check your math.

In this case, if you've "refuted" the idea that racially-based lynchings are universally morally impermissible, you might really wanna look at your math.
Blueprints may be awesome for prototyping, but I have interviewed numerous lead and principal level engineers who worked on big Unreal games and the first thing they mention about Blueprints is that they aim to convert them to native code the moment they can.
An alternative is to use LaTeX with the flashcards [1] package if you want physical cards. The results are quite nice and the process is very scriptable.

[1] https://ctan.org/pkg/flashcards
Not necessarily. PMI removes risk for the lender so often that means a better rate. Also the bigger the loan the easier it is for them to make their fixed costs back. A lower down payment usually makes sense if you have the discipline to invest the difference and can tolerate some risk.
Most likely an extended warranty they added on when you purchased the car - no car manufacturer includes those wear items in their limited warranty.
Writing a note every day is just pedestalizing your partner unless it’s bidirectional.

Also, “absence makes the heart grow fonder” is a real thing.

So very bad advice if it’s just one way. That’s actually si*p behavior.

Very good advice if it’s symmetrical.
"It's interesting to discuss until I actually have to do it", the lament of incompetent dilettantes throughout history.
A mixmash:

https://www.youtube.com/c/svdelos - amazing sailing channel

https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingLaVagabonde - Another sailing couple from Australia

https://www.youtube.com/c/FinnegansGarage - Car guys - Mike Finnegan from Roadkill

https://www.youtube.com/c/StuccoPlastering - learn how to do stucco work!

https://www.youtube.com/c/MattRisinger - Fantastic Home construction and renovation tips

https://www.youtube.com/c/mightycarmods - Australian car guys

https://www.youtube.com/user/StarrTile - learn how to tile and renovate a bathroom

https://www.youtube.com/c/ViceGripGarage - Car guys - hilarious car restoration

https://www.youtube.com/c/Welddotcom - learn to weld

https://www.youtube.com/user/FStoppers - Photography learning

https://www.youtube.com/c/mitocw - Learn anything from MIT -Mass Institute of Technology

https://www.youtube.com/c/MortskeRepair - Car guys - Mortske!
Refs to actual peer reviewed many articles please
There being next to nothing positive so far from cryptocurrencies for the past decade doesn't make it hard for the media to "reprogram" the minds of the masses. It's easy to convince somebody that something is bad when it's been overwhelmingly useless to negative on every single front except for speculative investment.
Two things I see here, a copyright declaration doesn’t protect you from law enforcement actions and publishing source code is a clear example of free speech.

So you have to figure out for yourself if exercising your right to free speech is worth having the government blowup your life for the time it takes to “prove your innocence“. Because, I can assure you, they don’t care even a little bit about violating your constitutional rights if it gets in the way of whatever witch-hunt they are currently on. It’s the court’s job to sort those details out.
About 12 years ago I had several (big ISP) routers that were punting all ESP packets to the routing engine for forwarding, instead of the normal path of using ASIC's on the line cards. This was noticed because I had some customers with a lot of IPSEC traffic and there is very little capacity to forward packets using the CPU on the routing engine, so packets were being dropped.

When I opened a case with the hardware vendor and described the problem they immediately and tersely asked for a shipping address and how many cards I wanted to replace. They didn't even check for support contracts, which was unheard of especially for an expensive part like this.

These routers were purchased on the grey market so I always assumed there was some kind of (botched?) tampering with the hardware and the vendor was at least aware of it.
Absolutely. At this point, I'd consider use of force on this matter to be self defence.
Absolutely, it's more of an 'eventually consistent' system.
I sometimes wonder if we released civilisation game where climate change is a harsh unforgiving price for using coal and oil, would it change anything? Is it too late for such a product?
As another Windows application developer targeting enterprise users, thanks for the warning. Electron it is, I guess. Either that, or using the IE engine for web views, or no web views at all.

Edit: I'm already using Electron, though I've been wishing I could move away from it.
According to Wikipedia, the peak temperature I'm England in 1976 was 35.9C. In 2022 it was 40.3C. Maybe it was as dry in 1976, but 2022 has been hotter.
The "different situation" you point out simply does not justify back doors. Having a purportedly valid use does nothing to cicumvent their undesirable nature and our need to eshew them entirely. This "difference" has no relevance over whether or not back doors should be tolerated in society because the reasons to have precisely none are so profound.
"They" invaded, you say? All the Russian iPhone users, was it? Is it true that zero Russian owners of iPhones were supportive of Ukraine and using their iPhones to organize and communicate anti-Putin protests? And Apple is the enforcer to whom the (US) public should appeal?
Yeah, that's a hard "nope".
> they also set energy politics onto a trajectory which would have meant to mostly run on renewables by now

The idea that we can run not just our current demand on “renewables”, but peak demand after electrifying everything from cars to stovetops, was and remains an absolute fantasy.
> There is no behavior in our universe that exists outside the laws of physics.

Can physicists explain in extreme detail how the mind physically implements omniscience?
I'm a Python fan, or was. Here's my $0.02:

Python is a very complex dynamic system that pretends to be a very simple dynamic system.

Before Python 3 it was (on the surface) very simple and easy to learn. It was often called "runnable pseudocode".

However, as you and I and many others have seen, once a Python script grows beyond a certain size/complexity the dynamic simplicity begins to become a liability rather than an advantage.

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After Python 3 the language has become much more complex on the surface level. Also, features like type hints etc. that make it more tractable to large team projects have been added.

These developments move Python away from it's sweet spot or niche of optimal applicability. The closer Python becomes to being a slow interpreted version of Haskel or OCaml (or Julia, etc.) the more irrelevant it becomes, eh?

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I raise you DeCSS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS