skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had exactly the opposite experience! I drove an automatic Mazda3 for ten years, it was the car I bought straight out of college, and I never viewed it as anything other than a tool which got me from point A to point B. A couple years ago, I traded in the 3 and got a 2020 Miata with a stick shift, for the simple reason that my wife has two cars of her own (a 2020 BRZ and a 2008 Lotus Elise) and they're both manual transmission, and it felt stupid to have cars in the family that only one person could drive. Any time we took the Elise out somewhere, she had to be the dedicated driver, which did in fact mean that at one point she had to drive herself to urgent care while I sat in the passenger seat and felt like an absolutely useless asshole.

I figured there were two options - either she could get rid of her manual transmission cars and replace them with automatics that I could drive (which wasn't a great solution because she really likes her manual transmissions and it seems dumb to ask her to get rid of something she loves) or I could learn how to drive a stick shift, and I knew the only way that I was _really_ going to learn how to drive a stick was if I was doing it every day, with no other options. Otherwise, I'd learn the theory of driving stick (clutch in, shift, clutch out slowly while you give it gas) but never actually be able to put it into practice at a time that it mattered.

Hence, the miata. My wife had to drive it home from the dealership when we got it, because I couldn't drive it myself, and I spent about a week trapped at home because I couldn't reliably get my car to start moving at traffic lights, but once I figured out how to reliably get from point A to point B again I realized that actually, it was kinda fun to get from point A to point B, and that there was no reason I couldn't just make a trip where point A and point B were the same place, driving just for the hell of it. Now I autocross once a month, go on drives with the local miata club, and put new car parts on my car to change what it does or how it sounds or how it feels, things that I never would have imagined I'd do back when I was driving an automatic just because I felt so much less connected to the use of the car.
A recent article devoted to the macho side of programming
made the bald and unvarnished statement:

Real Programmers write in FORTRAN.

- the first lines of The Story Of Mel
I've only used GraphQL at my last two gigs, and didn't work with it full time. So there's a massive grain of salt. I think GraphQL is _mostly_ fine as a technology, but it seems incredibly easy to misuse and abuse. Particularly the fact that you can write arbitrary resolvers for specific fields and include any amount of business logic you like. It blurs the line between GQL being an interface to your API and actually being the API, and invariably it seems that too much logic gets put into resolvers because it's so easy.

As far as I can tell, one of the best ways to use GraphQL is as a sort of RPC framework. At which point, my question becomes why not just use an actual RPC framework? Personally I find the field filtering and reduced network I/O to be overblown. Anecdotally, most of the GQL queries I've seen request HUGE amounts of data up front to reduce the number of overall requests that need to be made. Obviously not saying that's everyone's usage, but in my experience GQL has never really been much of a value add.
The Makers of Costco's Kirkland Signature and Trader Joe's O's
Half the cars I've owned have been manual - Junker 1977 Corvette and 1999 Miata. I agree with all the points made about connection to car, ease of maintenance, etc. The big decider for me was traffic and general road planning. Living in Houston and dealing with jams, stop-start traffic and endless traffic lights was no fun in a manual.
"low interest debt is a solid hedge against inflation"

? It literally is just that. As inflation increases the value of a loan decreases. EG. The value of your money today is worth more than the value of your money tomorrow. So you pay your loan at a fixed rate over time with money that is worth less and less. Inflation eats loans. The dumbest thing you can do is pay off a loan with todays dollars during high inflation. People that win in inflation hold massive cheap debt on real assets. [their loan devalues to nothing AND their assets increase in value]
Amazon Launches Udemy Competitor – Class Central
> Is there a way for an Android phone to connect to Wifi, but not the internet?

If you can manually set the IP address on it instead of letting the WiFi AP give it one, then you can just leave out the default gateway entry - The device will then have no idea how to route network data outside of your local LAN.

Alternatively, set up a different WiFi SSID that gives out IP addresses, but again without a default gateway address, and have your device(s) connect to that instead.

Or finally, if your router supports it, set a rule to block your device(s) (via it's MAC address) from accessing the internet.
What would be the legal consequences of forking the project and create a new project with the code?

And speaking of code - North Korea has their own os which is essentially a reskinned version of Linux. Does that mean that the US government could go after people who contributed to the Linux project?
As long as your new definition of 'asshole' also comes with a new definition of 'bad thing' that doesn't include 'will piss off your users and cause you/your client to lose money'...
Depends on your location, I guess. I have not had any issues, and seeing as I don't use my car for commuting, but still have managed to do 25k kilometers this year I would say my data supports that idea.
Definitely Flutter. https://flutter.dev
>Also, "banning" things in America is close to impossible due to the populace intense distrust of the government. You can't even ban AR-15s, imagine thinking its possible to ban a piece of software running on a raspberry-pi.

Things are banned all the time in the US, including pieces of software. See Tornado Cash for an extremely recent example.
Good luck with banning an open technology.
I remember a geography teacher talking about this decades ago at school. He said to compare Europe's mild climate to Canada's at the same latitude, and that Europe might be a lot colder in winter with the Gulf Stream halted.
Presumably because many other religions focus much more on non-human life. I don't remember the bible super well but it was pretty human oriented as I recall. The Bhagavad Gita, again based on a weak recollection, was more about the universe and life (although plenty of human stuff).
Disagreed. They are de-facto mandatory to use. A former university I was at, for instance, published some required information on facebook. Saying "well, they should not do that" is as correct as it is useless and futile in practice.

I believe the information was visible to either all logged-in users or just all visitors, but that still requires facebook to serve the page to me.
Mexican near the border here, same.
I almost joined fivetran as a staff engineer, I had a terrible experience in the hiring pipeline - the manager i spoke with was convinced he was sounding clever by asking someone with 10 years of experience the difference between a java hash table and hashmap. Also the scope of work offered was at the level of a early senior engineer, i felt the vibe this company stagnated 3 years ago.
I don't know if that's realistic for most people. Sports is a good one and meeting people during intramural leagues is a good idea, but its not like these leagues conflict with work hours anyway. And its harder since working bleeds into after hours. So it's harder to step away at 5 to play a softball game when you're wfh, or at least I feel like it would be tougher since you're basically always on call.

Overall the people who do these extra-curricular activities will probably continue to do so, but other people may not be any more inclined.
It seems like they just forgot to massage the examples they pulled this from to include 'total' in the prop destructuring.
FWIW I get about the same battery life on Linux with an AMD laptop. It's not as power efficient under load but not having to run a VM for docker helps a lot.
Thank you for sharing! great idea.
> Can someone ELI5 the motivation to worry about "runaway A.I."?

No and anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong.

A proper understanding of AI risk is a very thick book.

There are a ton of normally useful intuitions, heuristics and habits of thought that are implicitly applied when understanding the world that DON'T apply in the AGI case.

It cannot be explained to a five year old.
https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-polici...

I think this is probably an AUP question. The sanctions are a big enough "hey these users broke the law" signal.
I went from a manual to an electric car. I miss the five speed, but the EV is so much more convenient and better in every other way that it doesn't bother me as much as I though.
What is a Platform? An excuse for an executive to adopt a trend and pass the buck to the next exec after he gets promoted for accomplishing his initiative (but before it's apparent that it was all a sham).

How we got here? Business doesn't want to pay for a well designed enterprise and the organization is shitty, so hire people who aren't very good at tech to build an unnecessarily complicated engineering organization that [after they waste millions poorly building cloud tech without prior experience, realize is] still a cost center and tell them to chase fads.

Factor One: Non-Negotiable Standards. Tell everyone they have to do the same thing, even if it makes no sense for what they're building or supporting.

Factor Two: Engineer Capability. Make sure you put unrealistic deadlines in the hands of amateur engineers and then turn up the scope creep.

Factor Three: Management Capability. Make sure your management can always blame somebody else for why your ridiculous initiative and poorly managed company didn't achieve its goals by its stated deadline. Market timing and "I didn't have enough resources" are good stand-bys.

Factor Four: Platform Team Capability. Pay a million in salaries to some middling full-time engineers, put them in a silo, make them build really basic tech from scratch that 50 different managed service companies sell for pennies. Don't Scrum with the teams that will be forced to use it. Make sure everyone is required to use the platform, even when it's not actually ready to go live, so that building any kind of product at all is mostly infeasible, incredibly slow, and painful.

Factor Five: Time to Market. Do everything you can to avoid value chain analysis, training employees on standard practices, unified communications, or getting stakeholders to work with you on initiatives. When your competitor lands a feature a year earlier than you planned, blame the consultants/contractors you never listened to.

Who should write the terraform? An overworked systems engineer in a siloed team. Definitely not someone working on the product. This way they can write 5 layers of unnecessary module abstractions, be unaware of how non-functional the module is from not actually running it on the product [and watching it fail 6 ways from sunday], and still not provide what the business needs.
Is that one of its right predictions? Or one of the wrong?

A bias toward wrong predictions can be adaptive. If a wild animal comes across something that is 99% safe and 1% fatal, it could well be better off predicting doom and fleeing just in case.
Iran uses USD as well. We can't ban everything that a country we don't like uses. There would be nothing left.
I have a laptop with the AMD 6900HS.

The CPU is great. It’s power envelope and performance feel amazing.

My biggest complaint is the there is a very limited selection of Laptops with AMD’s chips, especially the top tier. The one I bought required me to replace the Wifi/Bluetooth card (it came with a barely “supported” MediaTek one) for Linux.
History’s Greatest Obstacle to Climate Progress Has Finally Fallen
What a long winded article to say "it depends", I liked the history though.

It got me thinking, here at amazon, we deliver "infrastructure as code" using the Cloud Development Kit: https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

We expect engineers (not devops) to define their infrastructure in typescript and configure it through code. That code gets turned into cloudformation scripts and stands up the how cloud system for the api you're building.

I think this is a great hybrid approach. Knowing what you want is different than knowing all the intricate details of defining, say an API gateway. But the CDK lets me stand up an API Gateway and configure it with a swagger and security policy and be done. This lowers the barrier for devs to do devops work, and lets teams own and move fast when making changes.
But wasn't he President when he took the documents to MAL, or at the very least, when he packed them to go to MAL?

Or did he somehow take them after leaving the White House?

I don't know what charges the FBI will bring in this case, but for the sake of the nation, I hope they are something more serious than just failing to write a note saying "I authorize myself to take these documents."
Smiles per dollar is highest with a manual transmission "slow" car. A manual Mazda Miata is just so engaging and fun (and light!) in a way you can't electronically replicate. IMO, even the vaunted Porsche 911 manual box doesn't feel as nice (I think because cable vs direct mechanical linkage?).
Good article, I enjoyed it. I agree with the premise that every company is different and they need to adopt what works for them. Ownership alone is a huge issue I've run into in the past.
I personally think an honest look at human ability to estimate risk shows that as a species we're bad enough at it that utilitarianism is intractable.

I may, of course, suffer from the very problem you're describing.
One major safety benefit of a manual is that some conscious or at least coordinated action is needed to get the car going.

Compare to an automatic or especially electric car, which will creep forward by itself and can accelerate strongly with an absent-minded prod of the accelerator.

These have much greater risk of unintended acceleration from a stop, which is the cause of a lot of accidents (mixing up the pedals, basically). Ironically in this way the manual car is more 'idiot-proof'.
So far I haven't noticed any issues with the 16GB in my air, but then I haven't really been looking for them either. I run a couple of containers in docker desktop, my IDE (IntelliJ) and its builds/test-runs etc, a browser with a doze or so tabs, but little else of any particular 'weight'.

I have heard anecdotal reports of those on 8GB machines facing the spinning beachball from time to time. It's never happened to me.
You don’t have to work literally from home. Public libraries can be great places to work from. You have people around which don’t bother you, and eventually you start to socialise with the other regulars. To start, consider inviting a remote working friend (doesn’t have to work for the same company) to go with you.
> I use GIFs to make jokes in Slack.

Old farts use to joke in good old text. What about pause it is about poorly designed ubiquitous touch interface, good old buttons never lets you down.
When I first left college I was living with my grandfather and commuting 30 miles to my job. I had to leave early in the morning, and had to borrow his automatic car to make the trip until I could save the money for one of my own. I almost fell asleep on a few occasions, which convinced me that getting a manual for the trip would be safer.

When I could finally afford my own car, I purchased, as planned, a car with a manual transmission. It was engaging enough on the drive that falling asleep wasn't a risk.
‘CSS crimes’ turn social media posts into games
My wife and I have a tentative agreement where we'll try to cover for each other in work "crunch times". But it doesn't work. About 5-10% of care is stuff only dad can do (basically calm him down; I'll hold him to my chest, I don't get agitated easily); 90%+ is mommy-exclusive no matter how hard I try. (His first actual word was "mama mama mama mama").

I don't know what the freck we're going to do. He's a terrible undersleeper too. We wanted to start taking him to childcare (like pre-pre-pre-school) by age 2, but it might happen sooner.
Upsolve is Hiring a Software Engineer (remote)
Plenty of people know how to do failure mode analysis. In most webcentric scenarios, though, nobody cares because it's all about the average case. If 99 of your users have a great experience and 1 has a bad-but-not-bad-enough-to-make-the-front-page experience, that's a huge win over 100 users having an okay experience. I hate it too, but that's the market.
Craigslist in other countries. Pretty much any niche part of Craigslist as it’s own product does pretty well. Lauch that in another country and you’ll be making bank.
Open Circuits the Inner Beauty of Electronic Components
lol the crypto currency used was not specified so my question is what miners would you target mr smartie pants
Hydroponics: Growing an appreciation for plants
Can strongly recommend 'Astound' app for this.
I've been driving manual for the last 12 years. I enjoy and prefer it simply because it's more fun (to me).

That said, I don't think we should be making a virtue out of necessity. There's nothing objectively better about this set of mechanical constraints compared to another set of mechanical constraints.

I remember EV sceptics using similar arguments half a decade ago. No gears, no engine noise, no rumble - what is there to get excited about? Well, guess what, EVs are some of the most exciting cars to drive these days, and having no gears to shift definitely doesn't take away from engagement.

It's just a different experience - not necessarily better or worse.

Update: the safety/attention argument might only apply if you have to think about shifting gears, like in a first year or two. I live in Europe where many cars still have manual transmissions. Trust me, there are plenty of terrible and distracted drivers over here too :)
I agree, I feel this is a bad line of argumentation. If we take it a little further it's clear that the human brain can be used for extortion, money laundering and cybercrime - and therefore it should also be placed in the same sanctionable category as all the nasty people use it.
Nuclear power is one we actually know the harm for and what we can do about it.
There is absolutely no reason to downvote OP for stating an opinion. He didn't say it was the law.

I will equally say that being busted for smoking weed is a fake crime, and that doesn't mean you don't get arrested for it. It means that you _shouldn't_ get arrested for it.
Have you looked at C3 (the language OP is making)? I think it hits a lot of your boxes.
Beats M1?
That may be true but as a society we have to end that reality. There is no future for a society where shelter appreciates to such an extent that you can retire on it. Your retirement should be secured by having done something productive, not by merely squatting.
I think there are only one or two models of consumer pickup trucks left in the US that still offer manual transmission.

There's basically nothing left but automatic anywhere on the market here :(
I built a visual scripting platform to make JavaScript without code
Hey guys!

So I built a visual scripting platform to make JS programming accessible... without code!
I also made a series of puzzles for those who are not used to visual scripting: https://luna-park.app/challenge

For now, you can only build small scripts, but I plan to make it build entire webapps.
Until then, here's a short video on how to create a userscript for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx89yxrcsIw
legit question, does Dell offer a drop-in generational upgrade for your machine? I think the main appeals are:

1) its simple to repair or upgrade. If Dell's design is also simple to work on then that's great!

2) A culture of providing replacement and upgrade parts affordably to the end user. In addition to the I/O modules and replacement parts, so far framework has the upgradeable mainboard, an upgraded top cover with more rigidity, and an improved hinge kit.
I think the double caching is still an issue - on both Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux - but I don’t see how that’s related. The reason for using makefs for this is to 1. Make it possible to create images without root, and 2. To make them reproducible.
I’m quite annoyed at the sanctions regime conducted in my name with no democratic mandate or oversight whatsoever.
> therefore Rust cannot be a systems language since it has panics

Or, the obvious alternative that I was trying to point out: your analysis is wrong, and therefore, assuming the language is not useless, there must be a proper alternative to "panics everywhere" * that you are not accounting for !

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1099

* This is just to explicitly write the phrase again before it is (again) twisted as calling for a strict prohibition of all non-terminating conditions or some other childish nonsense.

Even unwinding panics (which are exceptions in all but name) can be an alternative, and Rust does support them.
Of course. Low barrier to entry, and you can have a working application with minimal tooling. Setups and dependencies are flat and don't require a lot of knowledge on how they work (like the Maven ecosystem) or remembering a bunch of commands (like with golang) and adding dependency paths is easy (environment variables are very 12FA). The popular libraries and frameworks out there are very well written and always have been (quite unlike PHP and NodeJS) and aren't replaced every 6 months with Some New Big Thing (like with NodeJS). Then there's the syntax: it's just easy to pick up and flows naturally, and (as long as you follow PEP8) is aesthetically pleasing. It's a language you can ask a SE1 or sysadmin to write in and get decent results quickly.
> their mode of life and won't even vote for parties that actually care and want to do something about the issue.

The other issue is that boomer-style green parties in the EU are completely counterproductive as far as limiting CO2 emissions. Both EELV in France and the greens in Germany are responsible for raising our electrical carbon emissions from closing nuclear plants, when we have no practical solutions for using solar/wind with storage today (it’s fairly obvious to me now that I live in California, where the sun shines almost all the time). I really hope some of them are secretly paid by the oil industry because that’s basically what they have caused us to do, burn more oil and gas.
...and don't reproduce, and don't pass on their genes to future generations. Natural selection.
Yes, this is a good point I didn't mention. The low number of embryos is a limiting factor on what we can do with this technology. I saw an estimate from Gwern (I think) that said we could expect maybe 1-2 IQ points gained per generation with current technology. But there are technologies on the horizon that would let us produce many more embryos, and when that's possible is when things start to get weird
Hate to say it but, this is one of the biggest tragedies of modern CS. Best bet is to use gtk, or qt, and hope the language bindings for your lang of choice aren't horrible (depending on the language you might be in tears)
Miata Is Always The Answer.

More seriously - I recently cross-shopped the major low/mid-tier brands (Toyota, Subaru, etc.) and the quality of these touch screens vs physical controls is shockingly bad for the sticker price. I, perhaps naively, expected the responsiveness to be at least as good as a recent iPhone... it was not.
Because we really don't want the home building industry to stop building homes. The lack of new construction post 2008 is one of the reasons home prices are as high as they are.