skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article has introduced me to "Modified Newtonian dynamics", which is a field of study I didn't know existed. The premise is pretty obvious now: Newton was pretty cool and all, but he wasn't right about high acceleration environments. Why then should we presume that he was be right about low acceleration environments, when the observations don't fit the predictions? The fact that nobody has come up with an answer doesn't mean there isn't any, and at least these people are actively trying to come up with one. I understand why the author appears to be very frustrated -- I'd be frothing-at-my-mouth angry in his position.
If you hit `T` to open the file searcher and look for `.ws` it brings up a bunch of "Workspace" XML files. So it's misidentifying a config file.
In my humble opinion, relying on custom ROMs running mandatory non-free drivers is a road to nowhere, long term, due to their unavoidable planned obsolescence. And it always has been. Supporting GNU/Linux phones is the way to improve future privacy and security (despite they may not be as secure as some Android custom ROMs are yet).
Cause it’s fun? And as a byproduct of that, you might even earn some money on the side.

It’s a win-win.
Yeah, I think it's massively under-discussed that product management quality across the industry is generally very poor.

There are multiple manifestations of this but the main factors IMO are: how involved is management in the product? How good is your product definition process and talent?

For big companies the problem tends to be more the former. Product management talent tends to be solid, but upper management is checked out of the process and instead overly focused on non-product areas of the company. Product management functions (PMs + engineers) tend to be flying alone with low external guidance.

For small companies the problem tends to be the latter. Product management is deeply enmeshed with upper management (because what else would upper management be doing at that scale?) but they are bad at it.

Both result in shipping the wrong product. For startups shipping the wrong product is deadly, but for large profitable companies they can keep shipping bad product for years. IMO this is where Google is at - they fundamentally do not have the institutional capacity to ship great product.

My impression (which is a few years old now since I left Goog) is that management understands the problem exists, but seem to believe that they can fix it by iterating on the product management process, but in a way that does not require SVPs and VPs to directly engage with product. I fundamentally disagree with this premise - it is not possible to ship product in a coherent manner with a surface area this large unless the most senior levels of management directly engage with product management.

And ultimately poor product definition and prioritization is an order of magnitude greater source of low labor productivity than any kind of individual-level slackage.
Work is not equally distributed. I'm sure there is plenty of Engineers everywhere that have way too much on their plates. And on other hand there is also plenty of those who do little or have little to do.

And then there is question of how much of the work is actually even needed. Specially in companies with too much money.

Also why should all employees attend to the meetings? Certainly to some, but it clearly is job that can afford certain level of flexibility in most teams.
There are lots of ISPs that don’t suck
:-O what...whyyy....
more about how the author came up with the pricing and if/how they developed projections around it. There also wasnt a custom offering, so was wondering why not and if the author felt it wouldnt be financially effective.
At least it's not the Personal Content Preprocessor, I suppose.
Indeed. Most of the country is pretty purple.

I tracked a discussion on exactly this topic on Tumblr quite recently; here's a fairly representative post: https://fandomsandfeminism.tumblr.com/post/69134673708595609...

It includes two very helpful county-level maps from the 2016 election that drive home how politically non-homogenous our states are.
And then how do we know we have an accurate estimation of a stellar object’s mass if the observations don’t match our predictions? This is a big question for me.
- write out your thoughts as often as possible (I don’t do this nearly enough, but whenever it does, it helps sooo much)

- record yourself talking. Do a mock ‘podcast’ with a friend or whatever. Watch it back. Edit out the embarrassing parts. Rinse, repeat.
I’ve seen him include German tools and building hardware in other videos. I’ve never seen Kärcher in stores before. I see a ton of Bosch stuff around including things I own. Project Farm has done reviews with Bosch and Festool.
It's interesting... his site has plenty of valuable info but only if you're knowledgeable enough of a photographer to identify what is his opinion vs. what's an objective criticism.
I take a "standard" amount of PTO but it still makes sense to have unlimited PTO because:

1. Some people take more and some people take less, and that's fine. Not everyone has the same life circumstances.

2. If you set an allotment, you should track it. Why waste time counting calendar days against a PTO budget if nobody cares? If you start tracking towards a limit that people don't actually care about, then you create opportunities for people to be treated unfairly, or you demonstrate that your organizations rules aren't actually worth following.
Normalize Rest calls so programmers don’t have to rely on webscrapers, selenium and other flaky methods of retrieving data.

Web scraping is fun, but in production it’s an absolute joke.
I use Amazon more than once a week in a major US city, and 95% of the time items are delivered on-time, or frequently earlier (when I choose a slower method like Amazon Day five days out, and it delivers next-day anyways -- or when it says shipping 20 days from now, but it gets shipped four days later).

On the other hand, about 5% of the time an item is several days late, and about half of the time that's due to delay during shipping, and the other half is delay in sending out to ship.

I don't think Amazon is lying. Logistics is just hard. I would guess that in your case, there was only 1 item left in stock and someone else ordered it right before you did and the database wasn't updated in time. Then the "month from now" was the most conservative estimate of when the manufacturer would send more stock, but then the manufacturer sent new stock straight away, and so it's going to take 2 days to arrive to Amazon and process, and another 2 to send to you.

The reliability of Amazon's logistics and shipping, at mega-scale, is essentially state-of-the-art for 2022. But it's not perfect. But that doesn't mean Amazon is "lying" or "gaslighting" -- it's just that no systems are perfect.
I think we should not confuse the process of hypothesis building with hypothesis testing.

>> As one more flashcard, another pillar, additional context, they will to deepen your understanding. It is creating more inter-connections between your neurons.

This is a hypothesis, identifying a mechanism that leads to an effect. But I don't see any tested hypothesis for either the mechanism or the effect. And we have millions of people who have mastered other languages as children and as adults who have no idea what etymology means.

I mean, it sounds reasonable, in theory. Like knowing the evolution of tactical formations in soccer would like one to become a better player. But it is common sense it has no effect whatsoever on soccer abilities.
Inflation is still positive so yeah, you'd expect prices to keep going up.

Negative inflation would mean prices are going down
Fellow robotics engineer here. Actually shipping things on time is hard. But giving the customer realistic expectations seems easier. If items are not shipping on time consistently, then providing some uncertainty in the delivery estimate would be nice. But of course, management probably feels like "2-4 day delivery" sounds bad so instead they project a false confidence in delivery date and then let the customer deal with the implications if delivery slips. This I feel is disrespectful to the customer.
They are advocating MOND by omission. If you say dark matter isn't there you now need a theory that can explain all the observations that do support dark matter. MOND seems to be the only semi reasonable alternative.
In the current open-source product, yes. But you can also simply use Sematic locally without any infrastructure (`$ sematic start`).

In the coming months, we will provide a fully-hosted SaaS offering to save you the hassle of maintaining your own infrastructure.
because a normalized database repeats less things and is much easier to understand than a messy one.

oh, and also, the entire point is that neither is "inherently better"... both have pros and cons
I think `BEGIN CONCURRENT` is on its own branch: https://www.sqlite.org/src/vdiff?branch=begin-concurrent

The `wal2` mode is on its own branch and you have to compile it specifically. It'd be great if they merged it into the main branch though. https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/wal2/doc/wal2.md
Costs of deployment and profit margins have nothing to do with it. The US public has subsidized the cost of broadband internet deployment since the very birth of the internet, and continues to do so like clockwork every few years. Private ISPs continue to caress the books to make it seem like they're barely operating at a profit and still need more, without ever having delivered on the last promise. Taxpayers have paid for fiber to every home a few times over at this point.

http://irregulators.org/bookofbrokenpromises/
You have to keep running that thought experiment. If a computer search or errand text resulted in criminal charges, then there would be an opposing counterforce to that. I don't know how it ultimately would sift out, but I don't think there's any future where a significant % of global transactions isn't occuring on Bitcoin or some direct descendant.
>As part of its defense, the company submitted a historical speed analysis showing that the car had been driven with a daily top speed averaging over 90 miles per hour (145 kilometers per hour) in the months before the crash. This information was quietly captured by the car and uploaded to Tesla’s servers. (A jury later found Tesla just 1 percent negligent in the case.)

If the data is anonymized then they had no data that could be tied to the car in question and this "historical speed analysis" is completely fabricated. Literally the only way it makes sense is if it is not anonymized. It doesn't take an expert to see they regularly produce data for specific cars when they want to.
I was replying to this assertion:

> If Android wants to join the party, then Android phone builders need to implement secure boot with hardware-signed attestation of non-rooted-ness, in the style of Apple T2 + macOS or Microsoft Pluton + Secure Boot.

You didn't mention device IDs.
Putin's speech on February 24th, the day of the invasion

> "To this end, we will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation."

How do you demilitarize a nation by taking only 20% of it? The only way to do this would be to capture the entirety of the country.
I don't think MOND proponents say the theory is complete, just that alternative gravitation theories is the direction that should be taken for research instead of funding futile dark matter detection projects.
>an unlikely solution (even if it so far produces the best model we have).

If it is consistently producing the best model, why is it an unlikely solution?

What would be more likely than the model which produces the best match to what we observe?
For a year and a half, I worked on a project called OSLC: Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration [0] which became an Oasis Open Project. It's an open community building practical specifications for integrating software. For software tools that adopt and provide OSLC enabled APIs, data integration and supported use cases become really easy.

As an example, if your department prefers Tool A for defining requirements (Aha, etc ...), Tool B for change management (bugzilla, etc ...) and Tool C for test management and they aren't already a unified platform, it can be hard to gain semantic context across them. I've seen many situations where dev teams prefer a specific FOSS/vendor change management tracking tool while testers prefer a different thing and are unwilling to change because of historical test automation investment. To illustrate, imagine I run a test and it fails. I want to open a bug and have it linked to this failing test and also associate it with an existing requirement. If all 3 tools are OSLC API enabled consumers/producers, then their data can be integrated together trivially and experiences can be far more seamless and pleasant to all involved (e.g. testers can have popups to query (find/select reqmnts) or delegated creates (open new bug)) without leaving their own familiar test tool's UI. Nice. Anything can have an OSLC enabled API adapter from existing servers to spreadsheets (with an associated proxy server). It has great promise in bringing FOSS/vendor tooling together.

In a nutshell, it's a set of standards around building a digital thread for tools to integrate together. Workstreams are focused per domain (quality management, change management, requirements management, etc ...) [1]. Linked Data and RDF are its core tech underpinning [2]

[0] https://open-services.net/

[1] https://open-services.net/specifications/#active-publication...

[2] https://oslc.github.io/developing-oslc-applications/technica...
I never suggested anything that would contradict that.
Obviously we're talking about something more modern than SMS here.
https://tftcentral.co.uk/ used to be pretty good, but they don't test too many models.
Additionally, I think there are a lot of non-programmers, non-engineers working in data analysis or data "science" and Python syntax is much more approachable for a beginner.

Lots of starter programming courses whether university or online are in Python, etc. Again if you're not actually and engineer or developer of sorts, you're not likely to spend much time and effort moving on from the language you already know that everyone else in your field using, etc.
It’s a utility. Utilities have very stable revenues and very long payback periods. Nine years is pretty short in this context
I bootstrapped my software business to $1k MRR
>The costs for internet in the US still surprises me, how on earth can it be so expensive?!

Monopolies and regulatory capture. I can't get ANY wired ISP where I'm at. Even AT&T ADSL which was like .5Mbps and ~50% packet loss terminated service to our neighborhood, saying the copper is too degraded. Comcast, for some reason, told us that to wire the entire neighborhood would cost them $73000 dollars, but they won't do it. That was 3 years ago. I'd have paid them 4000 dollars since then for business gigabit by now. I have been kicked off of multiple MVNO's (not for my abuse, but because AT&T/Verizon terminated their ability to sell SIMs for modem use).

My only current option is T-Mobile's home internet service (via LTE/5g), which works well most of the time but has some pretty ridiculous outages at least once a week. I gave Elon my 100 bucks years ago when they said we'd have starlink available by EOY 2021. They're now saying Q3 2023.

These ISP's have us over a barrel in the states.
I'll second Toastmasters.
How do the recently discovered rare galaxies that look like they have no dark matter fit in with the idea that instead of clumpy stuff that can end up distributed oddly, we're dealing with a universal physical law? Shouldn't the physical law be the same for all galaxies?
Kalray K200-LP DPU with Coolidge
I run about 100 computers that regularly receive power cuts and have not have databases go corrupt. However we also write to the database every minute or so, all data is packed into compressed chunks that contain a minute of data.
Wasn't the whole point of showing off "Unlimited PTO" was the ability to run errands? Seems like that facade is dropping fast
I’d agree with this. Anecdotally speaking I have never met anyone on my team and I honestly can say that I feel like I’m a mercenary whose job is to just destroy tickets and keep a lookout at our monitoring. It feels so impersonal and is it really my fault or my colleagues that they don’t feel as invested?

Messing with k8s, looking at logs, or occasionally hopping into a zoom to discuss architecture for an upcoming project that I don’t find any interest in beyond ensuring the stock goes up, it feels like I’m a cog and I just do things and somehow we keep going.

Three years ago I would be super engaged and going to conferences to show off our latest work. Maybe it’s the combination of doing boring (to me) infrastructure and dev ops work along with zoom culture. Back in the day I was a mobile application developer so that was quite a different lifestyle compared to this. Idk man, I’m doing my best to do a good job but honestly it is the worst experience of my life so far. I’ve been spending my time outside of work in evenings and weekends hacking away on side projects. They give me far greater joy, which I used to find previously at work.
Did prices actually drop or did they just go up more slowly? 8.5% is still a price increase
I am probably in the minority, but I try to outsource scraping whenever possible. It's too much grunt work: you have to constantly baby sit the crawlers that break because websites keep changing.

Personally, I use Indexed (https://www.indexedinc.com) because they are technical and reliable, although there are many other providers out there..
I was thinking about something similar for a personal meal plan app.

I want the ability to keep a list of recipes, and when I chose meals for a day/week, have the app take the ingredients list and scrape price sources (supermarket websites, etc.) and then give guidance on exactly where I should purchase each ingredient I need. Then simply track the scraped prices over time for the nominal inflation that you've mentioned.
> Creating things that I find interesting

But I don't find the things I create to be interesting, that was my point. To me things aren't interesting just because I create them, but that seems to be the case for you, you think that the things you create are interesting somehow, I don't understand that.

Do you mean you find it interesting to learn how to create things? I can agree with that, but once I've learned to create something then I don't see why it would be interesting anymore. That feeling ends very quickly once you've created a few things and understand how to create most related things. If you have programmed games, web, low level and ML at a professional level there isn't much more fun things to learn in programming, and so on. And you get there very quickly if your goal is to learn those things and not to make the most money you can. And even learning more domains and more things gets boring after a while, as the process isn't that different between learning different things.
You can mute keywords or phrases.
Hopefully with the government funding he can turn it into a real business.
I was shocked when I went to buy my last 3.3lb bag of cat food and found it had gone up $4. My cats eat a 50/50 mix of baked chicken and dry food. At $3/lb chicken breast is way less expensive than the $7/lb dry food. I can only imagine how much people are spending on their medium to large dogs to feed them.
Very similar thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32412170
You have this entirely backward.

Ether was introduced because, previously, all other wave motion was waving something. It was standard issue. Waves in the ocean? Must be waving something. Waves in air? Must be waving something. Positing that there was nothing there "waving" would be the new thing.

Second, introduction of a "thing," only to find out that it is real is quite common. Witness the neutrino -- originally just a placeholder to make the math work.
You're reading an article by a prominent site for gamers, not professionals. Even though hardly anybody will buy a Threadripper Pro for gaming, Tom's is writing what their readers want to see. They themselves say they know it is not intended for gaming, but they "couldn't resist" showing those metrics. I bet that is what most of their readers are wanting to see too.
How a Go issue on ARM is found that crashed the database sever
ISO 8601 is least ambiguous, as there's no question of "endian-ness".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

YYYY-MM-DD

Yes, with year last, most of the world does it one way, but most of the audience are often from a part of the world that (a) thinks it's most of the world, and (b) does it the wrong way by shuffling endian-ness.
Thanks, I should have written "more than 16 colors", forgot that CGA has a 16 color mode without tricks.

Dither patterns/"artifact colors" are exactly what I meant, they achieve color by modulating the luminance signal (which is of course the same as "normal" color, but the trick is to let the software influence only the luminance and getting "unintended" colors instead of directly telling the CGA adapter to modulate the color on, and over a separate circuit probably, like what normal 4/16 color mode does).
>alternative gravitation theories is the direction that should be taken for research instead of

Why instead of? Dark matter is, so far, the best model we have. Seems sensible to continue research in that direction.

>futile dark matter detection projects.

Why are they futile?
There are still many hundreds of millions of people out there who can't afford newer / higher end machines. The ability to run modern browsers shouldn't be taken as a given.
“Do AIs think” == “Do submarines swim”
Which is odd, because by far our best experimentally verified theory is also in conflict with GR. Our measurements for QED are orders of magnitude more accurate, so I'm inclined to believe GR is the incorrect theory.
Apple's 60W chargers fit, and so do USB docks from Dell / Caldigit / etc. We even have a Legion gaming computer, and that thing's charger is literally wider and longer than a brick.
Much obliged! I can see what the original person was referring to, but that segment (and thank you for such a lovely and specific reference) includes enough caveats in limited space that I'm not confident my reading is correct.
Has this observation been tested against frame dragging? What if supermassive black holes rotate much faster than we except?
Isn't that question why they felt the need to add "dark matter" to the equation? "Our mass estimation must be wrong, therefore there's all this mass we're not seeing"
According to Peter L. Bernstein’s The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession (a book I’d highly recommend), fractional banking has its origins in scams perpetrated by goldsmiths, who’d issue promissory notes for more precious metal than they had in stock. Once they saw how they could utilize it for its own purposes, European governments legalized what was previously a widespread criminal practice.

So if governments end up appreciating this particular “scam”, crypto might conceivably (although I personally doubt it) go through a similar process in the future.
Microsoft open-sources over 1,500 of its cute 3D emoji designs for anyone to use
I like carpets and the feel of soft flooring in lounging areas like bedrooms and living rooms. Also good for babies and toddlers to learn to crawl and walk on.