skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One person reaching 2900 when it's not by changing the scale shows their relative position to others is a new record. it's a worthy psychological goal, like breaking a 4 minute mile even though a minute and a mile are made up quantities. Or scoring 300 in bowling, when 10 rounds is arbitrary.

Pretty much every record in every sport is arbitrary, yet people like to set goals for motivation.
Guessing by the mention of Pegasus I guess they might have meant Poland.
You can also shower in the rain. I have seen people doing it in the 90s in Hannover on the occupied "Sprengelgelände".
It seems extremely unfair. Rather than focusing on the content, you're criticizing tone. It comes off as a structured tactic, given that famous image of Mudge with unkempt hair in a suit sitting before Congress, intended to draw attention away from his words and onto his rough edges. It's an ad hominem attack of a particularly cheap variety.

What sounds immature, unprofessional, and out of depth is Agrawal's mass e-mail tarnishing Zatko's reputation, a tactic that your post seems to repeat from a different angle.

I'd rather have the theory of general relativity written in crayon, than the most beautiful calligraphic illustration of nonsense. Wouldn't you?
>Development skills vary and can be improved. I don’t think anyone argues that point. But are people really 10x better at tasks than non-incompetent colleagues? Yes and in fact 10x is too small a number.

10x engineers is inaccurate to be sure.

It's simple formula.

Your productivity / your average team member's productivity.

If your average team member accomplishes nothing or in some cases causes problems and doesnt solve any problems. You are dividing by 0 or a very very small decimal number.

In my experience because of social media and such. Most people dont pay attention while at work. I couldn't tell you how many times I've seen coworkers sleeping in their cube. How many people doomscroll reddit or facebook while at work?Basically everyone.

So who are the 10x engineers? The people who aren't wasting time. The people who are engaged and paying attention. The people who are actually working unlike most.
Supply chain attack is a trust issue. I don't know what these tools do but if it's software then there is one more link you must trust in supply chain.

Solution is to go the other way , you don't bloat your software with too many dependencies. That way you minimize your attack surface.
I would drop Sweden from the list. Not exactly bad place, but they have gone way too far with immigration. Not that they don't show in news, but some of the violence going on is rather worrying. Also the housing market is rather weird. With 100 year loans being possible.
Apologies if this irks anyone but I'm genuinely looking to engage with the tech community. Have been in product now for over a decade and wanted to do something positive with a friend. I've always been curious to understand why some teams felt good while others felt like work irrespective of task complexity. We essentially asked team leads, members what a good team felt like. I wasn't super surprised when the interviews we held ended up clumping around humor, connection, chemistry, feeling like you can rely on each other rather than tasks.

This is our first release that focuses more on the productivity side of things but really want to start exploring the engagement and human capital side in our second phase.

I'd be really happy to answer any questions, take feedback or criticisms on board. Cheers!
> all the stupid rules that feel so far fetched in a European society. And all the security nightmares credit cards come with.

Those rules are written by the EU and then implemented by visa and master. If we cut out visa and mastercard we won't be cutting out the clowns causing problems but handing the whole system over to them.
> spam spam spam of the utterly firehose type

I have > 5 domains on my mailserver, all with wildcard email going to my inbox and two addresses publicly on my website and in numerous git repositories and bug trackers. I do not have any server side spam filter except a manual subject regexp to filter reject the most lazy spam at submission time. Even that only means about 40-50 trashed mails per day (most of which are moved there automatically by Thunderbird's spam filter), which includes legit mail that I don't want to keep like notifications that I have subscribed to. It takes about no time to double check the subjects to look for false positives. Either your definition of firehose is vastly different from mine or you somehow get vastly more spam than me.

Perhaps one factor might be that I don't have notifications for new mails at all since I check often enough and anyone who deserves my immediate attention has my phone number and/or jabber ID.

> spam spam spam of the corporate "unsubscribe in these easy 10 steps"

These are not a problem since they will keep using the same sender address. Reject at submission if you run the server, filter automatically to trash otherwise. Most will eventually get the hint if you never load their tracking pixels. If you want, report them to their host/mail provider. Corporate spam is only annoying if you do nothing at all about it.

> attachment viruses (sometimes without you opening it!)

Meh, the web has the same "problem".

> email addresses obscure the users, chat apps are far better at this

Good. Central identities suck.

> email addresses are a PITA in general

How so? They are globally unique identifies that you can almost completely customize and therefor easily rememberable. They can be as short as 6 characters including the @ and . for the domain (if you have too much money).

> emoticons are still a bit iffy, certainly worse than chat

What more than unicode + embedded images do you need?

> legally it's a paper trail, chat is... not?

Really depends on the server(s) in both cases.

> chat clients can support "undeliver" a bit more easily

Not having that is a feature. You can do delayed delivery and then cancel that if you are prone to make mistakes but once someone has your message why should you be able to pretend that you never sent it. For all you know they made a screenshot anyway. And if you meen the paper trail then you can bet that most chat networks don't actually delete the message from the database.
My understanding is that essentially all of the risk of cosleeping comes from parents who are one or more of morbidly obese, alcoholic or drug abusers. Got sources that say otherwise?

Here's one (small) study that says cosleeping is safer that an separate room:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-1754.2007...
Taste sensitivity declines with age. Strong flavours like smelly cheese are disgusting for kids but enjoyed by older adults.
$320k in hosting a month for ~8m monthly visits
This the reason I use my own domain and a paid email service.
I used Gmail before but got super worried about all the stories of accounts getting blocked with no way of contacting a human.

Sure domain registrars and email providers are not infallible, but it's a huge step up from trusting Googles customer service to do the right thing
Heroku is a dying platform. It's a good time to get started on a migration plan.

I have friends who argue that Salesforce has neglected Heroku for a while so this shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone now.

I haven't used Heroku too much myself.
> I wish municipality offered domains, for example: you move to St Louis you would get name.stlouis.mo.us this would give you the same agency online that a mail address gets you offline.

While a US municipality may or may not operate their locality-based domain (here, the university does), ordinary persons are able to get subdomains under them. The only reason I haven't is because the university here doesn't bother to respond when I follow the process. But you may have better luck where you are.
So basically like any startup in non-blockchain ecosystem?
This has started, ID.3 and 4 has them on rear wheels I think.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/36683/why-the-new-volkswagen-i...

They're also looking at making light weight aluminum brake pads that don't rust from less use.
Are there diffusion models trained on face datasets only?
And tools like the one that spawned this HN discussion are going to help homogenise things and make it easier to go local.
Quarto looks amazing!
I'm sure that some communes might struggle paying for something that's been paid for by someone else in the past but the argument really lacks if it's used to justify keeping tobacco ads around.

Like you said, other advertisers would probably happily replace them and even if that's not the case I think a country as wealthy as Germany should be able to find some way to finance bus stops ;-)
With the number of Shopping Centers/Malls installing solar PV's on their building roofs and car parks,

it is probably only a matter of time till they install EV charges to entice customers to their Centers.
Interesting. So if I want to see some people's accounts and messages, can I just claim to buy the companies that hold their data and request it for DD?

From the article Twitter seems to "only" hand over data of the 9000 accounts they used for their own auditing. Might be interesting accounts among them.

I wonder what would have happened if Musk had not requested data from all accounts, but a more targeted list of valuable targets. Would that have been granted?

[Edit] would it be insider trading if one uses the information gained on another business during DD?

If not there might be space for "Edge fonds". Which gain an edge by making fake acquisition offers and use the information gained about users during DD to make trading decisions.
If you want a really fast cheap websockets server that scales to 250,000 cc on a single node, I wrote xtomp.tp23.org using nginx as a base.

Its a STOMP protocol server written in non-blocking C. +web sockets.

There is no code required in the nginx part because it implements stomp topics and queues. If you want code, it plugs into a rust based stomp server talking reverse STOMP protocol, so you can code all you like in rust and scale out with n x nginx servers.

It is very very low on cpu use. I wrote it because rabbitmq used 5% cpu while idle. Xtomp uses close to 0% cpu when idle because nginx.
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I concur, I am using Zoho for years now.
So what I am learning out of this is: nation states (like the US) probably can already track cell phones from LEO as the tech is there - all you need is enough sats and a very large antenna.

What am I missing here?
Twitter app that makes it harder to lose followers
I built a Twitter app that makes it harder to get cancelled. Join a community that follows you when you start losing followers! Can't wait to see how this community driven immune system works out!
Art is Fundamentally Social (2021)
Agreed on all points. Notebooks really aren't that hard to maintain. They just require some slightly different rules from standard scripts.

Personally, I like to label block-global variables in capital case (like PEP8 constants), so as to make them easy to spot. Being formatted like constants also causes me to think twice about altering it after instantiation.
> Of course it would be swamped with spam, just like the snail mail is. Which is an absolute travesty.

Snail mail is not swamped by spam everywhere BTW - that is just a regulation issue. The difference with E-Mail is that you can cheaply send them internationally (so from outside any regulation you control) but even then I think the spam problem is overblown.
I believe there is certain part of population that chooses to be outside the system. Not much to do with them, but occasionally shelters and mental health support.

On other hand the number of working people living in cars and such is the really worrying thing to me. Indicating that on systematic level something has gone horribly wrong.
The content seems great but there is something about that background that made me dizzy when I started scrolling. Anyone else?
>California votes to take no action for at least 13 years, and then look at the issue again

I know it's very limited what Cali can actually do and they already do a lot and there are good arguments to do nothing. But I just hate these dumb long dated "commitments". They're how we got INTO this mess...
What?! You mean, have an antenna show outside a phone, like in the pre-2010s? In today's world, form is more important than function.

Especially for fashion statements like iphones. (Doubt this? Upthread people are discussing how certain affluent neighbourhoods only have iphones).
We understand it very well and still don't want it. Your explanation doesn't make any sense, let UK politicians stay politicking UK.
Meta: this seems to be a classic case of an insufficiently dated web page, making it age not so well. There's no way this was just created, right? It seems so weird to say "until January" in August the year before ...

Most links seem to be at least ~5-7 years old, or more. That also doesn't feel accurate, I mean a post by jwz (that you can't even visit from here (beware nsfw)) at number 1?
Chipmaking’s Next Big Thing Guzzles as Much Power as Entire Countries
Virtiofs
There's a lot of hyperbole in this article.

> These extra trips through different email servers strip the emails of information about the sending server which is critical to protect against spam and email forgery.

Sure, a forwarder can strip information from a forwarded message; but that's a rogue SMTP server. And this would be your previous email provider; so you'll know whether they're rogue before you start forwarding messages through them.

> Email was designed in the 1960s

s/1960s/1970s/

You get your own domain; then host your email at a provider that offers bring-your-own-domain. Now you have a portable email. Your domain registrar cannot interfere with your messages, unless you choose to host your email with your domain registrar.

I agree that an email address is a poor identity token. As with SQL, an identity should be an opaque object with no embedded meaning. In addition to being an identity, an email address is a communications endpoint, and is parseable, so it's not opaque.
I understand what the halting problem implies, what complexity is, what Turing machine means and why they are an abstraction for algorithms, and the basic common memes of programming such as using a stack and a heap, IEEE 754 floating point numbers, 2s complement binary numbering, and so on and so forth.

Yet I don't know a lick of Go. If I were to open up a Hello World tutorial for Go during the interview, would I honestly still have a shot?
Would this also be a lot easier / safer to recycle?
That's what I'm doing - exporting bookmarks, links from my notes (markdown, etc), HN/Reddit upvoted links, starred github projects, etc - and then having YaCy index them.

In theory, this means I can use this as a search engine of things I found interesting / potentially useful.

In practice, I never search it, but that's more a limitation on my workflows than anything else.
"as a power unit supplier"
My concern is that once I switch off of Google for hosting, their internal systems might not forget about the prior account status and still disallow me from using said services. But yes I agree, everything google has touched in terms of services I use has made them worse. I used to have a reliable set of cameras :/
Fair, it’s maybe more like adding another appliance per household (fridge/freezer).
https://archive.ph/WT67u

TLDR: In 2020 the company (TSMC) accounted for about 6% of Taiwan’s overall energy consumption. It’s expected to use 12.5% of it by 2025
https://archive.ph/HcmWG
DDG's complicity in the censorship around COVID has me avoiding any & all they do forevermore. I also recommend family & friends who ask against using them, and advise my clients the same.
In very rural southern Germany, I know several electronics stores who have 7x4-meter panels, and I know a spot where they are mounted to a mast next to a federal road (with farmland around it). People always think "Times Square", but ultimately, the problem is bigger for the displays are smaller.
Texmaker: https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/
Why not use google workspace, I believe you can have a custom domain.
Thanks for sharing. I signed up and will try it out. I've been using a combination of LastFM recommendations, Top lists from rateyourmusic, and just random findings on the internet for my music discovery.

I've been looking since 2015 and have never found anything that comes close to rdio [ RIP :( ] in terms of music recommendation / discovery.
The real golden-"I told you so" (that triggered the idea to write this very blog post) comes from a tweet of David Woodhouse last July: https://twitter.com/dwmw2/status/1549042968320811008
I think of Jupyter Notebooks as scratch paper on my desk. It's not to archive things, it's for developing ideas. Once ideas are developed, I transfer them to a long-term medium (LaTeX or Markdown document, Python source file, etc).
> Opponents of the research might argue no, because it suggests trans people to be weak and self-pitying.

That's not a reasonable argument, as suicidal ideation is just as likely influenced by external factors. Is your concern more about the editors abusing their own guidelines in an unreasonable way, rather than the guidelines themselves?
Sure, you probably need an existing email address to bootstrap a domain, but you can change it as soon as you have your new email address set up.
They are enjoyed by adults who acquired that taste: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquired_taste

For instance, it would be really hard to find anyone, no matter how old, who enjoys surströmming or hákarl without having become acquitted with them.
You have a really great blog. Kudos. I just read through a bunch of your adventures and it was great fun.
You can read the original conversation from 2018 here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/21/192
> without having to worry about shell access etc

Do you mean you _don't_ want to give the students shell access?

By default you can run shell commands from within a Jupyter notebook be prefixing them with `!`.
But I also wouldn't eat a grain of rice of dog shit.

Yes you would, because you do. We all do. The FDA acceptable amount of fecal matter for wheat is 9 pellets per kilogram. Ginger, fennel, and mace can have up to 3mg of poop per pound. 5mg per pound of sesame seeds, 10mg per pound for chocolate.
For web dev don’t underestimate the impact of low end hardware too. Browsing on a slow CPU is more painful than it has any right to be
...so it's probably huge then?
I'm looking forward to Rust's adoption in popular game development engines. There's https://bevyengine.org/ in the meanwhile
What does "HLL" stand for here? Wikipedia offers "High-level language", but I can't quite get that to fit in this context.
I've seen them, they've seen me. We've argued. We've brawled.
Explain ConvNet Predictions Using Class Activation Maps
Coding Challenge 173: AppleSoft Basic Snake Game
> The team says that this battery design would be best suited to the scale of a few dozen kilowatt-hours, like powering an individual home from renewable sources.

I'm curious to know if this would also be suitable for grid-scale storage, it seems like an odd ommision in the article. The description certainly implies that this would be a good use but I wonder if there is an issue that I'm not seeing that would make them less useful for that?

Not being flamable sounds like a good thing for house and charging station level storage, although heat management might be an issue in smaller houses. I've always been a bit uncomfortable about the idea of a large li-ion battery pack in my house, given the difficulty of extinguishing fires that involve them, I'd be happier with something like this assuming the thermal management could be dealt with.
I mean I guess this has energy-saving potential, but isn’t it just nice to have some darkness for the environment’s sake? It’s pretty awful living in such brightly lit places that have psychological effects on humans and animals alike. For example in humans light pollution alters our melatonin hormonal levels, so sleep is impacted. It can also thwart animal migration.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/light-poll...
I don't think there is any real, verified, universal connection.
SR-71 Blackbird Communication to Tower
Have you got any futher info regarding this? Not a DDG user, but first I'm hearing of it.
That depends the place. I had to use public transport in an European city every morning for some years, and my bus route had a bus every 5 minutes, making a lot of workers using it massively.

There are similar lines that move people from and to further industrial part of the city looking for the same result: Less cars in the road congesting the circulation, less pollution, less need to parking spot to the people, and less people who don't need a car.
Ask HN: How to optimise Windows reinstall/migration?
I would like to know, how you manage Windows re-installation or migration.

Most time consuming part for me is restoring of program settings. Chocolatey (mostly) solved issue with installation, but personal data that are usually in many different places (AppData, ProgramData, Program Files, Documents...) on system disk are really painful to restore.

Also system settings is always checking all settings one by one and tick same options over and over.

I'm not confident with simple "system reinstallation" that keeps your data on disk and repair just OS files. I prefer to do system disk format and fresh installation. With time, OS disk usually store many useless files that I want to get rid of it.
> Nature is simply saying: don't study social constructs, it's not scientific, a phrase with which I think I loosely agree

A lot of the time, when someone in the Humanities use the term "Social Construct" they mean a categorization scheme that have overlapping categories, especially when used by someone in a way they don't like.

Someone with some level of understanding of natural science knows that this problem apply applies to a multitude of category schemes, if not most. In biology, one could argue that our definition of a "species" is a social construct. Even alive today, there are plenty of animals that exist on a continuum between different "species", and over evolutionary time, every living organism exists on this same continuum, and at the start, there were even no clear distinction between living and non-living.

The person in the Humanities like to use the word "essentialism", while still giving Humans special knowledge, when in reality we all live on a continuum that includes monkeys, fish, rocks and oceans. We're all recombinations of atoms and ions.

Still, there ARE clear and real patterns in this madness, and most of science is precisely about understanding these patterns. While we DO exist on a continuum, most of the continuum is empty, and especially if we consider only one snapshot of time.

A biologist can talk about "tigers" without making an effort to consider ligers and tigons, or pre-historic ancestors of modern-day tigers that were similar but not identical to modern tigers.

Biologists will also use the terms male and female tigers, knowing that the intermediaries are vanishingly rare. The continuum between them is there, but mostly empty.

Or a physicist may even speak about a "red" laser, knowing perfectly well that the wavelength used to separate "red" from "orange" is a "human construct".

So, if someone claims that "biological sex" is a human construct, they may be correct in some uninteresting way, but are primarily just obfuscating.
Sounds it. But as the article points out, this is probably more suitable for static installations like houses or charging stations, not in your car or phone.
I’m an ex-Peoplesoft dev and the productivity was pretty mind blowing in that environment. More recently I was involved with a SAP project, and the development estimates for what seemed like trivial things were days and weeks. Your experience and my experience differ. Maybe the developers were just excessively padding?