skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha ha .. that is what the conference requires. Turns out that there is research that shows that when you are reading paper printed on paper this 2-column format is good for readability and not wasting paper. Conferences still insist on this format even though most people print papers.

Now the good news is that these days, conferences have an accompanying video associated with the paper, and that may be a good place to start for many. That video will be published on the conference website (https://vldb.org/2022/) in about a week.
Cash works best in a recession.

When the stocks drop in value, you change your cash into stocks, buying more stocks than everyone else. Buy low, sell high.

Its like the old saying goes. A bull wins the fight by striking upwards, putting money down immediately. A bear wins the fight by waiting, and ducking down and grappling, waiting for the key moment to strike... striking the bull from below.

You save up cash before the crash, then you strike/buy up when things are cheap. The bulls can't do this because they already put their money into the market and have no cash remaining.

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Bonds are a bit weird. We all know that interest rates are going up, which means everyone knows that its best to hold onto cash right now, and wait for another +.75% gain by the end of September. Anyone buying bonds today is probably getting a bad deal (either that, or is hedging in case interest rates decline surprisingly).

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EDIT: By "cash", I mean savings accounts, high-yield savings accounts, money markets, and 1 to 2 month treasuries/CDs
That's probably fair. I've found pyenv/venv/poetry/pipenv/pip/conda/etc more frustrating than ESM/CJS/yarn/npm/PNP/etc, but then I just do a lot less Python stuff than JS these days.
It's been an active research topic for big truck and military aircraft operators since the 1980s with a reputation of being a very challenging problem.
I have 5950X in my desktop and it took about a year before the motherboard got a stable BIOS. Before that bluescreens happened to me on a weekly basis and connecting anything to USB had to be prepended with a deep breath and saving all work in case system crashes.
I think it's bad public policy for government to coerce social media companies into censoring information, however it's not clear whether that legally amounts to a First Amendment violation. There are no clear legal precedents in that area. It will be interesting to see how the courts rule on the Missouri v. Biden case.

https://ago.mo.gov/home/news/2022/05/05/missouri-louisiana-a...
> I admire your ambition, but perhaps rein it in a little ?

As much as people may say they hate salesmen, we still want to be sold something. As a consumer, it's your job to be skeptical. It's their job to sell.

Engineers have this self regarding view of every other side of the tech business. That actually -- "Only the tech matters" while being incredulous as to why certain tech succeeds while others fail. It's because vision and sales and business acumen really matter.
> should not mean "a judge's eyes have scanned the warrant for the signature line he needs to sign on".

We need CAPCHA for warrants!
I realize that everyone involved has the best of intentions, and that some of these things will save lives. Still, I don’t actually trust that the technology (like the Gaize test device, AutoPilot, etc.) actually _work_ reliably and without bias. I feel overwhelmingly certain that we need more data privacy guarantees, not more private companies like insurance groups and car manufacturers slurping up ever more data. This all sounds so boringly dystopian.
I've been using VFIO and maintaining a guide for a few years*, then I've realized that VFIO kinda works, but it's not a reliable technology, and I moved (back) to dual boot.

There are very significant pain points, specifically:

1. if one reserves the video card for VFIO, it won't have any power management; this means that it will run hot while doing nothing; in order to work this around:

1a. first has to battle with X, which has an option not-to-take-over-a-card-but-it-takes-it-over-nonetheless

1b. then one can give exclusive access to the graphic card driver, which can be switched out/in when starting/stopping the VM; this unfortunately works, but not reliably

2. the points above apply to nvidia; AMD is worse, as it hasn't supported soft GPU reset until very recently (I think it was added on 5.19 or so)

2a. this means that one starts the VM, then stops it, and most of the times the card will hang

2b. there resize BAR functionality is not supported by VFIO (at least, last year it wasn't), which means, one loses additional performance (I could be ok with it, as the loss is not significant, but performance losses compound)

The problem is that all the points above are not in control of the user; the problems happen at driver level (if, say, there is no reset support, one can't add it out of thin air).

If one uses Nvidia, and they're ok with the card running hot all the time, then definitely, VFIO works wonder. But this lead me to abandon VFIO, as I don't want that (and the alternative of the card having a most-of-the-time-malfunctiong driver was not appealing, either).

Big shame! I loved VFIO :)

* https://github.com/64kramsystem/vga-passthrough
its possible we didnt look at the same flood map or i'm looking at it wrong, but the way i read it it says that >5% of the country is flooded. Thats beyond the scope of dams to handle i believe.
Indeed, an excellent summary.
NSA, CISA, ODNI Release Software Supply Chain Guidance for Developers
I think of it this way. Launching a marketplace today is very difficult, but what if we made the backend of a marketplace open-source and used that as leverage. One that could be your backend for all operations. You can choose to enable the integrated marketplace or not, but the system is yours. It’s about bringing power back to the sellers.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
You can always mail a donation and include a designation/restriction.
UK Global Talent visa. Guide for mere mortal software engineers
Here’s why: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1565726070963408896...

That said, SALT will be 100% open to anyone, regardless of whether they’re using crypto or not
Historically in the US, white people and white neighborhoods have gotten substantially better loan availability and terms (and disproportionately higher appraised home values) than minorities or people living in neighborhoods with large minority populations. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining for a very concrete example.
Such single words with different meanings in different contexts are probably best described as industry-specific jargon than improper nouns. Even so, I'm still greatly upset when people take word and give it a more specific meaning in a technical context.

For example, the term "container" such as in Docker container or LXC container. Container is such a generic term, but has a much more specific meaning in computing. I wish someone had invented a new term for it.

As a good example, I take "blog" which was basically a new term for a new thing. I know that it has it's origins from the term "web log", but now everyone just says "blog". It's nice to have a new a term instead of taking old words and putting them into a new context.
Airlines already do that.
never thought about the latter, lessons to be learned good call out.
For the same reason you don't develop front-end JavaScript without a framework, or write a modern video game without using an engine. Unless you're willing to sign up for added friction and pain, you just don't.
Surrey police accused of using ‘phantom’ traffic units on Waze app
Yeah I had dreams of making video games when I was younger (and still daydream about it sometimes now) and even got to the point of doing some work in modding communities and playing around with my own simple games/clones. Lots of these Gen Zers will likely start TikTok channels or such, but once you find out how difficult it is to make it to the top you tend to at least redirect. Led me to a job in Cybersecurity, and I'm sure most of these kids will turn out fine as well.
> Its all very well having a vision, but executing it is a different question.

This also relates to the clickbait-y "I'm building an open-source Amazon" positioning, which I don't think serves you well.

You're building (I think) an e-commerce platform upon which someone can build online shops ("nano-Amazons"?). Where the "open-source Amazon" pitch is difficult to take seriously, I think there probably is space for new e-commerce platforms.
> no securities updates are circulating for 5+ years

I don't understand this one. My laptop was born with Ubuntu 14.04 (actually it came with Windows 7, I formatted it with Linux out of the box) and software still runs and I'm still getting security updates. I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 now. Would it be different if I was on Windows? I think I would be on Windows 10 now.

The only problems I could think about are: software needs some new graphic card or more memory that could fit into the laptop. Add the lack of spare parts, but this is another kind of failure.
They cannot, no.
Natural Gas is available during a power outage. Also our winters have nightly lows in the 30s but during the day high of 60s plus people and solar radiation and you don't have to heat the house much. This is also after a lot of insulation and spray foam in areas that in the 1970s they never insulated and leaked air.
But then they get exactly what they deserve.

I have a feeling it's not only that though. Apple is rapidly expanding from a hardware to a media content vendor and they have reasons to want to protect their own content as much as possible.
Depends on the people. I promoted someone from my team, and when I came back it was much easier to pick up where I left off. I can imagine that that's going to be more of a challenge when the company hires someone entirely new to do your job. Several ex colleagues who came back, started job hunting after a few weeks in, because their expectations changed and less intensive jobs at larger companies seemed better paced.
> Due to the extremely high risk and toxicity involved with using plutonium, numerous layers and shields were woven into these pacemakers resulting in larger and heavier devices. Despite strong concern of radiation exposure, the actual risk of exposure from these plutonium-powered pacemakers was almost non-existent.

What a strange phrase. I would say it was because of the concern of the risk of radiation, not "despite" it, leading to the precautions built into the device, that the risk was reduced to "almost non-existent".

Or is this a claim that the shielding was unnecessary?
Most of these behavioral differences are in the server. So what happens, is that it behaves as if you were playing the Java edition, even when using a Bedrock client.
Of course, Google is run by two jews!
I instinctively like this idea a lot, and the website does a really good job of explaining the concept.

Good luck with it!
I took 5 weeks off from my startup when I had my first, and I’ll be taking 3 months off for my second who arrives end of the month. I’m at a larger organization now in a leadership role, and my past startup I was one of three.

As others are already writing, you should take some bonding time and adjustment time, regardless of company size. Those first few weeks are a huge adjustment, and you need to focus on your family, partner, and newborn, more than a company.

How long is appropriate then becomes a question of a number of factors. I don’t want to make a value judgment on anyone who feels like 2 weeks is enough vs someone who says 12 weeks is the minimum. Life is complicated and nobody knows your situation better than you. But, you should optimize first for your family, and then once that is finished, figure out what a return to work timeline looks like.

Parenthood is such a wild journey with its own unique set of challenges, struggles, and joys. My best to you and your partner.

Godspeed.
Because that's not how the human brain works.

You learn skewers by practicing them a thousand times. Not by having a GM show you your mistake once over the next hour. Chess, at 1500 Elo, is decided by one mistake like that.

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There's also the chance that the GM performs a checkmate in 7 vs you. This is too far ahead for a 1500 Elo player to see, but something easily within a GM's grasp in the midgame. In this case, you learn nothing (you shouldn't be looking for checkmate in 7 or that depth as a 1500 Elo player)

This is why playing vs Stockfish (superhuman AI) is useless. It doesn't teach you how to think like a human or how to get better at chess as a human... all of Stockfish's moves are so deep that they're AI only.

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Its different if the GM is explicitly performing a "teaching game". (Ex: Hey, you can be pinned with this move, lets go back 2 moves so you can try to avoid it). But if the GM is there to troll you with shitty strategy because they're way stronger than you (ie: most online smurfs who are +200 or so Elo above you), then you learn nothing and simply serve as the opponent's entertainment for the night.

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Same thing with fighting games: go into training mode, and perform your combos another hundred times. You learn nothing from the opponent comboing you though.

Same thing with RTS games: go into training mode, and practice your build orders another hundred times. You learn nothing by the stronger opponent executing their build order perfectly.

Same thing with League of Legends. You learn nothing when the stronger opponent team combos / ganks you out of position. You need to practice your ganks (which are likely a different character, so you'd need a different set of spells used at different timing).

Etc. etc. Training / getting better at a game is very different from actually _playing_ the actual game.
James Webb captures first ever image of an exoplanet
From the garbage Axios article that this garbage article sites as it's primary source [0]:

>"...in response to a post from former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, an account called "TheVictim24" posted last week, ["]It's be nice if you people weren't just okay with the military and police stage a rebellion and framing civilians. Zero people trust the police and if the military comes in, we'll kill them. Someone admit this nation needs to be nuked because it's satanic.["]..."

Don't like it. Not my style for sure. But honestly, that is not a wild incitement to violence, namely because it's a theoretical response to a theoretical institution of martial law. Is that really the damning content that the public must be shielded from?

>"...federal investigation into Trump’s alleged mishandling of high-stakes classified information — a situation that’s already inspired real-world violence — raises the stakes on a social app where the former president is able to openly communicate to his followers in real time."

Fairly high profile lawyers have already made statements to the effect that this was unprecedented and illegal (1), but take notice of the framing of the statement. The intent is to provide the impression Trump is somehow culpable for violence resultant from a DOJ investigation of himself. And, that the situation is expedient, "communicate... in real time". Shocking!

Sorry, but this is a hit-piece . It doesn't acknowledge any information is even available but the contrived support for this ideology.

It is disingenuous to read an article like this and then claim it to be journalism or unbiased or fair reporting. If you refuse to see that, you have a "dog in the fight".

Watch this get banned now for inciting violence...

0. https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/trump-truth-social-google-a...

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-warrant-had-no-legal-...
Pretty disheartening to see the downvotes in a forum like hn which are supposed to be informed about these things. If people that are supposed to be able to critically assess data and have access to as much information they need to verify any claims come to the conclusion that you are full of shit, what hope is there to educate grandpa screaming at the wokes on the street.
They're bypassing warrents and spending your tax dollars to do it.
More like, let's stop "improving".
Few things that would help:

- Find the next best person/team members who could shadow some of what you do, if not all. Work closely with them to pick up your stuff even before you leave

- Document all the complex stuff you do as much as possible. Never underestimate the power of documentation, even if not perfect. We maintain an internal Wiki and I am always pushing everyone to document whatever they can especially repeating processes. No matter how small.

- Start delegating already and do trial runs. For example, you run that monthly meeting ? Let the other person run it while you are still around and on the meetings.

- Set expectations early on that you will not be available and the rest of the team has to work accordingly.

Unfortunately, in lean teams, there is no easy way. But it is also true that nothing stops just because 1 person is not available even though it can be a bit difficult. Human beings are very good at adapting especially when they have no choice.

So do your best and enjoy your time off.
money is fungible
Hope a lot of people can see this, detailed explanation come from Crystal core developers.

because a lot of beginners complain that Crystal's fiber doesn't work on multiple cores/multiple threads and then give up using it, it's probably not as important as people think.

Even many beginners mistakenly believe that the Crystal language does not support the creation of operating system native Thread， this is a huge misunderstanding for Crystal.
Not saying you’d like the current experience, but it’s a lot different from the early days.

I used iOS first and android here and then, keeping a middle tier device officially for testing, and privately to see what goes on on the other side. Up until around the last Nexus phone, I agree it was pretty bad. Not unusable, but with very little upside.

I completely switched with the Pixel 4a, and it’s a very good experience with very little downside. Still waiting to see what comes from Apple next week before buying my next phone, but I’m not seeing myself going back to Safari and iCloud if it’s just incremental improvements.
I suspect the phone lies about it's true battery levels and reserves (1% - 10%) to display to users as 1%. Is this true? Does anyone have a source for what 1% really means?
> As early as only a few years ago I had never heard of any site that blocked clients because of their TLS handshake. Through recent years I have seen it happen and the use of it seems to have increased.

Cloudflare has entered the chat

Although I can appreciate I may be placing too much emphasis on the word "blocked," since strictly speaking they intercept your request and return text/html with a captcha in it, and I guess maybe if I were to then load that html in a browser, complete the captcha, preserve the cookies, and resubmit the request it may go through but from the "can I quickly just curl this URL that uses cloudflare?" it behaves as if it were blocked

I had actually forgotten about curl-impersonate so I'm definitely going to give that a try and see if it helps
USB-C docking stations are prone to running into bandwidth problems. Moving Gigabit ethernet, two HDR 4k screens and and a couple USB connections for external hard drives etc over a single USB-C connector quickly adds up. Screens increase in resolution and have better refresh rates, and now some people start looking beyond Gigabit ethernet for their home network to take advantage of fiber internet. It only makes sense that the USB standard has to keep up.
In the end it only makes sense if you replace trips that are more carbon-heavy - and the evidence that this happened in the 3 months seem pretty weak. If you create additional mobility then everybody loses. People should have an incentive to do fewer car and plane trips - and maybe substitute some of them for train trips since they are the least damaging option.

Which leaves a question of the long-term effect - will people who typically had not considered taking a train for, say, going on vacation will do so next year?
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The most painful Lego brick to step on is the one you have just stepped on.

It seems that the pre-90's Lego sets were easier underfoot as the bucket adapter and flower stalk are the only ones pictured that existed then. Have Lego sets become more troublesome underfoot?
Interesting, so that's where the name comes from. We're using a different client now tho :)
Did you know there is more on the internet than just hn?
Why would you need instructors when you can simply download the skill into your brain and become an expert in a few seconds?
The absolutely arrogance to assume a keyboard switch and a pace maker are anywhere near the same thing…
For 2-300, plus the fun of tinkering on it, it's been well worth it.

The biggest thing I write on it is journal entries, emails, and mostly small microcontroller code or lambda endpoints for my own hobby projects.
Wear the Docs
I’m not worried about them becoming social media influencers. I understand that there’s a limited pool of positions here.

It’s just that the kid who wants to be an astronaut or involved in the space program in the late 60s early 70s grows up to be a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley in the 80’s and 90’s. We got that generation to thank for this website and websites in general.

I don’t know what the profound effect of Gen Z or Gen A will be, but I suspect a future in which they are inspired by a revived Moon and Mars exploration program will be better than one where they mostly aspire to be “influencers.”
My father in law said this about his last pickup truck:

"This is the last new truck I'll ever buy!"

"This truck does everything I don't need anything more!"

"Older trucks are better, I can work on them!"

He just took delivery of his 4th new truck since saying this.

While he does get good value from his truck (150K+ miles each) they don't last forever, they do improve (slightly) and despite his claims that "older trucks are better" he keeps buying new.
I've thought about doing this.
The property we invested in is derelict - it is not fit for habitation!
When we have rebuilt it it will be in great condition and available for a family to live in. Why is this investment a problem - do you prefer seeing many ruins?
I was complaining about the insane bureaucracy we have to go through, before we can even start rebuilding ie rents have risen because of supply problems and is not just a demand problem.
I think I've had 2 or 3 weeks with each of mine.
Is it worth the effort ? ,If yes , I will flash it to my old phone .
More details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261.