skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say we are using a mix of kanban tools and the scrum process to practice agile software development philosophy. We aren’t really using the kanban process since teams shepherd their stories to completion regardless of WIP at any step. And user research is more based on the continuously evolving end goal than what is being pulled in by openings in the kanban board. But yes, we are not trying to define two weeks of work up front, just noting what gets done every two weeks.
Somebody asked "Is there a public code repository and issue tracker where fans and users can discuss and contribute?"

I have a slot in github, https://github.com/amarty66, but I don't work in it and it's an old version of the lambdaway project. Forking it would probably be a waste of time.

- the easiest and immediate way to test lambdatalk is to work in my wiki ( without saving anything ) just writing something like this: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=my_test_page

- you can test and save in the sandbox http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=sandbox

- you can easily tell me something in this page http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=agora , even if it is not a true forum,

- you can mail me at marty.alain _at_ free.fr , sometimes host servers are not friends, most of the time they are and mails work fine.

- You can freely download and easily instal the lastest version of the lambdaway project from this link http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=download ; please respect the FSF licence http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=licence , and it would be nice if you give me a feedback if you like it and do something with it.

Thank you for your interest.
Sneakernet for the 21st century. It's good to keep options open.
Ymmv, but as a lifelong flexitarian, meat substitutes help me adapt recipes I encounter in the wild. Just as there are nonvegetarians that enjoy new tastes and food and nonvegetarians that stick to what's vanilla, so too you can encounter diversity among vegetarians.

Besides, meat substitutes have a long tradition; where I live, mock meat has been in Buddhist cuisine and this has been a tradition prior to the Western trends towards vegetarianism.
I have a similar story of buying a zojirushi rice cooker when spending 1/10th as much would have seemed wiser. That was 13 years ago! It turned out to be a great decision because it’s also still going strong. The clock is still good, but now you’ve got me worried that it’s on its way out.

I can also relate to your envy of the new models we don’t need.
The first two links you've provided about the battery don't prove or even suggest that the battery is essentially intended as a chemical timer to disable the thermostat when it runs out, which is the gist of the claim.
I couldn't find data from a quick search, though I did find a study where researchers groups with a higher diversity of "ethnicity, age, gender, and affiliation" tended to have higher citation counts. [1]

Still, it's not too out there to say that a researcher who grew up in a low-income family can provide a very useful perspective for designing research for addressing poverty (even at least for designing research questions and better recruiting participants). I concede that the evidence may not reach the bar for large, massive investment, but it could at least be promising for at least some funding as a starting point—at least some needs-based scholarships.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6701939/
If you are just looking for a cheaper city, you're going to be disappointed by any small town. "A friendly bar" is kind of a big ask in a small town that might only have a couple bars. There could easily not be one that you like. Same with schools - in a city you have choice, in a small town you are going to end up with whatever the local school is. Maybe it's good. Maybe it isn't. And maybe the town that has a friendly bar doesn't have a good school.

Honestly, it sounds like you belong in a city. A town isn't just a collection of perfect versions of the things you like from your city, and cheaper housing. That isn't going to exist. The bars will be worse. The schools will probably be worse. The stores will be further away, or else the housing "just off main street" will he more expensive. The social opportunities will be fewer. If you want to be happy with small town life, you need to find the advantages that exist only in towns and not cities: Outdoor recreation opportunities, family to be closer to, or non-social things you can do on your own with more space like gardening.
I wonder how much of this is because of the giant time-suck people experienced fulfilling SAGE contracts, and the "cost" to 1950s computing power running those archaic displays and "guns" for Radar processing?

I also think this is partly over sold. The GiGi existed. People loved it. Tektronix vector graphics consoles existed. People loved them.

What had to happen is pixels, and density, and GPU. That happened and graphics moved from niche to mainstream very quickly.
https://archive.ph/F1dEM
It's so common where I live that my doctor gave me prophylactic doxycycline to take whenever I have a tick bite. I took some last week.
ooo thats kinky.

i like to think of the things ill miss out on if i keep continuing on some shitty habits and routines.
Na. At some point you scale to the point that $400/m is peanuts for the benefits you get.

We used it at previous job and realised we were under constant attack and and it reduced our cou usage by 15% in reduced requests for the amount of traffic we were getting. No more random spikes.

Improved our overall security and ultimately reduced costs on the AWS bill.

But if you’re gonna switch it on and walk away then you’re not really using it.
I did! I use Force Quit because it mostly does reopen windows. Sometimes it’s more reliable, and it’s almost always faster, than waiting for an app to quit “normally”. I mostly trust the automated behavior more than I trust individual apps.
The C free() API means memory allocation must save some metadata
>don't believe this will impact AAPL's price though. Shareholders and ad sellers are the only "customers"/"users"

This is completely wrong. Apple makes very little of its revenue from advertising. Their cash cow customers are iPhone users.
This is a bad bad article, the advice is dated and the counter-arguments are well known and oft-discussed by anyone who's actually in the security community.

The author / website does seem to be offering services in the security industry, but they seem compliance-focused rather than security-focused (compliance is a component of security). So likely offering legal & administrative expertise rather than technical.
none while coding. 2pac after coding. lofi hiphop beats to relax and study to when i am researching.
That's true. Here in Scandinavia it's quite common. In fact, it was only yesterday an acquaintance shared with me they are being treated for a current infection. They were in good spirits though, and health.
"I predict that much like Demand Media [DMD], Groupon [GRPN] will be at less than half its IPO price within one year." - gojomo (2011)

You actually underestimated how far it could fall. It was down 89% one year later.
I think the Linux kernel is getting support for something like how this works, but letting userspace emulate the syscalls, for Wine:

https://lwn.net/Articles/824380/

Probably that mechanism could mean this project could work on mainline Linux at some point.
Indeed. His engineer brother is essentially designing a component that can barely function, just like a bridge, because resources are finite.

I have never seen any example of 'planned obsolescence' which was anything more than giving the consumer what the consumer wants. Modern economy is essentially the peak optimization of cost vs utility, i.e. value maximization.
When your Bangladeshi relatives have to go knock on doors in Cherrapunji for a place to live I hope you’re this sanguine with them. We cannot afford to increase domestic production any more than is necessary to stymie Russia.
If only we could practice cha bu duo when paying as well :)
It actually saddens me that the vast majority of people completely write-off gaming, especially when there are modern, compelling games with very solid stories. Things like Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption I and II, Horizon Zero Dawn, etc. Or even character driven stuff like GTA V. These titles deserve to be revered by a broad set of people like any IMDB-topping movie.
I mean there are models in acoustic physical modelling for e.g. throat simulation that break the throat up into a series of cylinders and frustrums that work quite ok. Not sure about real time performance tho.
The World of Egyptian Demons
Those rankings are for 15 yr olds. The US definitely is #1 when it comes to high-end university schooling.

Even among high schools and prep schools the nation-wide US average might be mediocre in public schools but when it comes to the higher-end private schools the US is still easily #1

https://www.prepreview.com/ranking/world/high-school-ranking...
No. GAAP and IFRS have very strict definitions of Revenue. Transaction volume falls under the agency principle. Its not the Co's revenue.
kinda self incrimatory but it was fucking easy to scam people in online forums back then.

i think no matter what the decade is, scammers gonna scam and fools gonna get taken advantage.
No, the early internet was full of people just having fun, trying out new things. You could see things like a coffee pot on a live camera. You could chat with random strangers around the globe. I talked with someone in Novosibirsk, if I recall correctly. The data miners and spammers didn't yet sniff out the commercial value of it all. It was silly, and funny, and not very profitable.
Welcome to modern day housing construction. There is a reason your contract for a new build stipulates the amount of dimensional accuracy they can allow through, before its out of contract.

I don't for a minute dispute this is an issue in low-cost manufacturing. There is a very well written blog piece from 5+ years ago about how to spec building your gizmo in china which points out there is no part of the build, down to the spec of the cardboard they ship it back to you, somebody cannot substitute on for a cheaper outcome and more profit. ROHS is just the beginning.

Any discrete component device from the 70s had substitutes within spec, almost. I think this is why Hi Fi golden ears exist: you could buy a commodity which worked to spec, +/- 2% or you could pay more to get one somebody actually cared about in terms of 0.001% tolerances across the board. It costs money to care.

Been buying china (as in pottery) from a reputable, 2nd rank source for a decade. The same coffee cup comes in two slightly different shades of almost white, and has either thick or thin china at the mouth lip. Why? Because Cha Bu Duo. It has nothing to do with made in china. Its generic.

What the article says is that its culturally endemic in China. Well, that may well be true. I suspect its actually appropriate for their economy, and in times past for ours too.

here's a hint: look up the shift in meaning of the word "sophisticated"
Very detailed and very accurate picture of the state of Indian office politics in the US
>"Crude and fuel prices would likely be higher if (the SPR releases) hadn't happened, but at the same time, it isn't really having the effect that was assumed," said Matt Smith, lead oil analyst at Kpler.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-us-reserves-head...
Unfortunately it is not fixed. The national consumer watchdog, the ACCC, says 'it depends' on things, such as the initial price and brand. For example, if you bought a premium fridge, at 4X the price of an ALDI weekly special buy, you would expect it to last a little longer. Maybe not 4X but more than the minimum.
As opposed to … MSIE?
You don't. Gentrifying a place pretty inherently means removing at least some of the people who live there. Why would the people of a small town go for that? Unless you're planning on subsidising the existing residents' lives forever as rent goes up.

If you have the money and influence to "gentrify" somewhere... just build a new planned community in the middle of nowhere. The US has plenty of nowhere.
Are cover letters still a thing in the tech industry? I’ve not written a single cover letter since my first job in the late 2000s and haven’t seen one when hiring.

Although I’m sure there are industries or cultures where it’s still expected. Maybe it helps in cases where somebody’s performance at a job can’t be easily quantified?
On your side of the argument, you've marshaled Bryce Covert, contributing writer for The New Republic (I read it twice and I still don't know what that Zeitlin article was trying to say).

On my side of the argument, I have the President of the United States of America, and one of his first executive actions:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/management/made-in-america/

This is not a good hill to die on. Everybody thinks made-in-America is a good thing. Republicans like it. Democrats like it. Liberals like it, conservatives like it.
It is a poor choice of word. But what's interesting to me is nobody notices the end and beginning of sprinting requires rest, regrouping, planning, getting ready. You can't just stop sprinting and start sprinting the next day like you're ready for a brand new race. Sprints should require reflection, a re-set, getting prepared. Instead it's just "the next 2 weeks of the same bullshit", without proper preparation, without clearing the schedules to allow for streamlined work.

When sprinting, any bump in the road can make you stumble, losing the race. We need more focus on clearing the bumps out of the road before a sprint.
> Putin becoming the first and primary target himself is the cornerstone of the current deterrence architecture

Do you have any reference for this?

I'm familiar with US Nuclear bunker buster bombs. But I've never seen any writing that makes the claim the US deterrence policy is targeting Putin.

Indeed [1] makes the claim that the US in incapable of successfully attacking Russian command and control bunkers and seems from a reasonably credible writer.

[1] https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2020/12/01/putins_...
> You can find data on states by total tax burden (which, sure, is going to depend on your particular assets and flows being taxed). It's not nearly as big a differentiator as you seem to think it is (especially, again, since it's quite minor compared with your federal liabilities)

Nonsense. The difference can easily be 10% of gross income.

Tax burden estimates are also really bad for tech workers making mid-six figures.

Texas may take an extra $10,000 in property taxes on a million dollar house. But New York State + City will take an extra 10% of your gross income.

Sales tax varies by state and city. But if you’re a tech employee you should be both saving a significant portion of your income and living in home that costs a smaller portion of your income than most people.
One of the recent releases added partial express support, you might want to give it one more shot.
My view is that voting can still have a significant impact, even if you lose an election. A district seen as "safe" for one party that suddenly becomes more contested after one election (which happened many times recently) can inspire more attention to the district and its issues by more parties.

A narrow win or loss, in many contexts, can also lead to different decisions by the winners (especially if they seek re-election later) compared to a massive win or massive loss. In addition, voting is free (except for the time spent), whereas the costs from lottery tickets can add up.

I agree with you, though, that the lottery can actually have societal benefits. A notable example is that in Georgia, USA, a scholarship program for university is funded entirely by the state's lottery system (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_Scholarship).
If your home directory is readable or writable by anyone other than you, you're compromised in a dozen more important ways, even though this is of very high importance. Your home directory's security is an axiom. It's not true, no, in the same way that there were once upon a time remote exploitable worms in major http frameworks but we don't question that a webserver doesn't allow remote-code-execution - it's the wrong layer of abstraction.

Even encrypting the browser's data store at the application level is misguided and probably pointless - Anything that can read the browser's files is going to read the encryption key just as well . Anything that can read the browser's files when running as you is probably going to pop up an identical looking "Enter Password" prompt and will have the right timing and permissions to enter it into the browser once it's been leaked. Gui frameworks are not designed to protect the user from malicious applications.

Android actually handles this much better - Applications (Rather, developers) are given their own user id, and so separation of files between apps is enforced at the OS level. Some level of this is why everyone has moved to Docker on the server, too.
> My understanding is that mypy and friends are not different. All those linters produce not only way to much false positives, no, they also produce false negatives (meaning that they let unsound programs pass; something that can not happen with a formally verified type system).

I'm pretty sure the mypy and typescript devs would disagree here. The typescript and mypy abstract machines aren't any less sound than Java or c++.

All four are abstract machines that make fundamentally similar guarantees. Cpp and Java can still encounter classcast exceptions and segfaults.

And, like, you still need tests in functional languages. Specifically, I don't think I've encountered anything like

> My code produced runtime errors which where actually "impossible"! The TS "type-checker" said things are such and such but at runtime they were different

Without either explicitly subverting the type system, or dealing with some kind of untyped deserialization along an api boundary, which you absolutely need to test in any language.
Thanks for that, I appreciate it. I'll take a look into the ASCM's posts.

I've been a fan of Matt Stoller's work on monopolies for some time. He's a bit aggressive, but I find his analysis interesting. What do you think of the argument that monopolistic concentration makes issues like this worse? E.g. as put forward in this article https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/too-big-to-sail-how-a-leg...

> In other words, mega-ships like the Ever Given are a new phenomenon that are tied not to economic logic but to the consolidation of ocean carrier lines and their ability to offload risk onto counter parties. As Jensen observed, without the consolidation, “ships would likely not have grown above 12,000-14,000 TEUs [twenty-foot equivalent units].” So we’ve moved from a grid with lots of different size ships owned by different lines that could dock in lots of ports, to one dominated by hundreds of mega-ships that can only go to certain ports, all controlled by a de facto small cartel. The game in the business is to acquire market power and then use mega-ships to offload costs onto others and block new entrants.
...in neurons in a petri dish.
The multi column layout actually lends very well to reading on mobile
Funnily enough on YouTube in certain areas "acoustic" became a synonym for "autistic"
The Chennai sanskrit community is actually wonderful, but they can be very religious. And the fact that I'm white obviously made a difference.
Strange that this isn’t higher up in the comments. I just moved to a new area, used my maps for the first few times and now know the local area better than the back of my hand. People just really seem to want to bash map tech for some reason.
Sure the price took off. But has it's share of purchases eclipsed hand written checks yet?
I have, in my spare time, developed a truly marvelous demonstration of AI, or more precisely, "I", that fits within 10TB and appears to demonstrate in full force and effect an active human-like intelligence with an IQ of approximately 160. Unfortunately at the moment I have neither the time to write down nor is this post sufficiently capacious to allow delineation of the significant factors involved in the development of this system. However I do resolve to do so at a later time.
Maybe don't full on bring it on because it will be a disaster, but... if anyone wants to learn how to make this not be quite such a huge problem, they can familiarize themselves with the hydrology concepts covered in the youtube channels of Andrew Millison, Brad Lancaster, John D. Liu, Geoff Lawton. There has been a ton of quality work already done, and it has been well documented.

tldr - megaflood can be prevented by building earthen berms throughout the landscape to catch, spread, and sink rainwater runoff into the ground, thereby recharging aquifers and preventing catastrophic flooding.
Makita makes power tools in Japan... for domestic Japanese customers. Makita power tools in the US (and I suspect elsewhere?) are made in China. Either Japanese customers are more patriotic, or Makita can't compete pricewise with Chinese made power tools in US market.
Corruption is equal opportunity. Police unions are known to keep bad cops around. Teacher unions are known for making it hard to fire bad teachers. I agree there are bad union implementations, but these seem like implementation problems rather than core idea problems.

In the list, just about every bad union behavior corresponds to an equally bad or worse corporate behavior. Bad behavior correlates with unchecked power.

The nature of workers and management is adversarial. Working for a company is trading your stress/time for money. The company tells you it's bad to share your wage because that creates upwards pressure on wages, while they go behind your back to ADP and buy your wage history[1] so they can pay you less than you're worth/what they budgeted to create downward pressure. That sure seems adversarial to me.

I do agree that international non competitiveness is a worry, but that's also an argument in favor of letting big un-regulatable monopolies run wild (the counter argument being that monopolies kill/acquire innovation). I suspect parents who work at sweat shops tend to raise more poorly educated mentally worse off children, which then hurts the next generation of engineers/innovaters and society as a whole.

I think I would be most worried about agents (corporate or nation state) agitating small disagreements into big ones or directly compromising and harming industry via agents emplaced in union leadership.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753
I'm having a hard time understanding this Wikipedia article. Can someone explain like I'm five what this probe actually did/proved? Thanks!
> I was under the assumption that architects typically design the building plans and do all the engineering, and a construction crew (which can consist of people mainly in their 20s) will build those plans under the supervision of the lead engineers/architects.

Draftsmen can also draw up the plans rather than an architect. There are different educational requirements as well as trade requirements before each can begin practicing said trade. (You can't just call yourself an architect just because your last employer gave you that title! both require professional licenses too.)

Plans are approved by a city official and permits are given. A contractor is hired to build based on the plans, and they hire subcontractors. The result often has to change due to unforeseen circumstances, and usually those changes don't result in a redesign. If the contractor sucks balls, the result will be a tire fire unfit for disaster relief housing. If the contractor is good, nearly everything will go as expected, it will be delivered on time and on budget. In between those, a lot of shit gets swept under the rug.