skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is tragic news. In the future they will point to this as the pivotal moment that lead to the downfall of my career, relationships, financial security, etc.

Is there a 12 step program for infrastructure maintenance survival horror games?
Learning to use the tool absolutely does help, because it alters your workflow to fix your glaring developer experience issues.

Your team is suffering badly from a lack of even a baseline understanding of how to develop software as a group, and learning even the most basic usage of git would substantially alleviate that issue.
> What diplomatic off ramp does Russia need?

One that saves face, to at least some degree.

> There is a simple first step towards redemption and that is get out of Ukraine right now. Better yesterday.

Simple for you, because you're not the one losing face For example, here's another "simple first step" for Europe "towards redemption" (in the eyes of the Russians): withdraw all military and financial support for Ukraine, and refuse to allow transit for weapons sent to it. How does that one make you feel? Do you think Europe will take it? It's probably only a little less likely than Russia taking your option.
If you get twice as much work done by 10 people as 5, you need to think about what the new people brought to the table, or the old ones don’t.

If the team didn’t have a facilitator, for instance, some team members may not be coordinating, causing issues with finishing tasks.

Because despite having a factorial increase in communication paths, you still got twice as much done? Are you sure?

You have to ask these questions because at worst something bad is happening. At best someone new brought in new techniques that work better than your old ones. You need the answer in either case.
What we saw was no serious increase in mortality for the immunized

https://nitter.ca/AlexBerenson/status/1569648795373166593#m

We are seeing high levels of excess mortality that we shouldn’t be seeing, if the “safe and effective” propaganda was remotely true.

If by “immunized” you mean those who had one or many mRNA injections, then we are seeing high correlation between excess deaths and that population.

And there are many papers detailing likely causal mechanisms between those deaths and those injections.

Sorry people, we were lied to. Was it malice, incompetence, both? Don’t know…

But I see no reason to go on Stockholm syndroming ourselves.
It's more of the implied singularity of it that's problematic. There's no monolithic "narrative", there's a ton of "narratives", many of which are contradictory
Anyone who is either insecure about their own skills, or so proud of their skills in their area that they can't face being a beginner in another area, will struggle and come up with reasons not to learn it. And they'll tell their nontechnical colleagues or managers that the idea is overengineered, or they'd add more value elsewhere, until it happens or they leave.
I said most, not all.

If 95% of people died from covid, and 5% died with covid, then basically for all intents and purposes and how we use this data, the distinction is irrelevant.
The unvaccinated have been receiving lower quality of care. The symptomatic have Been diagnosed without PCR accuracy. The data being collected is bad. Let's not treat it as good data, and see assumptions such as this for what they are, which falls in the "not good data" category.
“Addictive” only applies to substances which cause physical withdrawal symptoms - coffee, cigarettes, xanax, heroin, alcohol. But drugs such as methamphetamine and cannabis technically aren’t addictive because they don’t cause any physical withdrawal symptoms.
Both? :sweat:
NIST and Google to Create New Supply of Chips for Researchers and Tech Startups
How does X-Plane compare to the latest Microsoft Flight Simulator?
Neither "experts" nor anybody else have any obligation to convince every skeptic of their position, even if it is preferable for them to explain the data they get from reproducable studies.
According to https://icanw.org, Germany and Turkey currently host U.S. nuclear weapons.
A year? That's a very long time for anyone who isn't a novice to learn a new language.
I wanted one when it came out. I now have an incomplete one I got at a yard sale sitting on a shelf.
There is nothing generic in the sentence "last man standing". It's referring to one person, who is, in this case, a man.

The argument, which at least makes sense, is that a "Chairman", even if he's male, should be a "Chairperson" because the office is not male, and therefore the title shouldn't be gendered.

That just doesn't apply here. "A Chairperson" makes sense, "a last man standing" doesn't.

"Last person standing" is also something you could say, but the title didn't, and there is no cause to 'correct' it, because it isn't wrong.
That doesn't play, for me. I tried to find it on YT, no luck.
It goes in waves back and forth from Europe to Usa and back again:

40s: Italian Neo-realism

50s: Hollywood Golden Era

60s: French new wave

70s: New Hollywood

Somehow every wave greatly inspired the next one.
About equal to it. China and India each have about 1.4 billion people, the world about 8 billion, and 2.8/8 = 0.35
I don’t understand why it’s seen as a given that component names can’t be changed. All the given examples are public project names, where there’s a point to be made. For internal components though, where are your refactoring tools?
This is my dream, something like https://www.humblebundle.com but an ongoing effort. Instead of one winner/influencer with a long tail of paupers, the money would be split evenly or through a formal process involving tenure/credentials/experience and/or a minimum payout on individual successes of maybe 10-20% like a royalty.

The main goal of this would be to provide runway outside of the venture capital status quo. Basically a scalable UBI model that doesn't require a huge buy-in by the general public.

As far as who's pulling their weight or not, I believe that framing is a fallacy. Success is stochastic now, meaning that it gets increasingly difficult to predict who will win. That's why VCs invest in 10s or 100s or startups to find a winner that supports the rest, and why all that matters is capital, at least to a first order approximation. This would give us some leverage to start removing the artificial barriers to entry (like how banks generally only loan on assets, not potential) and transition to something more like the Star Trek economy where everything is automated and only machine labor and unearned income is taxed, and the economy is large enough to provide an ever-growing stipend for everyone.
That's what we did where I work. Thanks to GKE + HPA + cluster-autoscaler, our cluster grows at the same time as our req/s.
You might be interested in this floppy disk upgrade using sd cards.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8IZcP0oP0OU
Not true for floppies, either. To reformat the boot sector, include the /S switch.

FORMAT /S
Pythonic generation of Stable Diffusion images
For python developers with appropriate hardware, this should be the easiest way to get started generating images.
I have no problem with calling a waitress a server or whatever, but when I clicked on this title I did spend some time thinking about the lost euphoniousness and wondering whether there is a special masculine quality to "last man standing". It sounds like it might come from some knockdown game that women would not play. Google says boxing.
From the developer's notes, it looks like they took some time to design the UX to better support controllers with this port.

From what I read elsewhere, steam deck support was much more limited - meaning the experience should be very different on Switch vs. steam deck.
What was also funny was "floppy grammar" (at least in my time and locale)

Whenever you gave someone x amount of floppies to copy something for you (prob a game)... the usual grammar/conversation was "you can just copy over it" yet no such thing exists, you can't in 999/1000 cases "copy-over something" you first have to delete/format it then copy.

Always thought it was 'funny/weird' :)
Modern computers are so silent that you have no idea whether they're working hard or it's just someone doing things on the UI thread that don't belong there.
In 2050 we will be making fun of renewables being claimed to be "too cheap to meter" the way we used to make fun of nuclear being claimed to be "too cheap to meter". This kind of "eat your cake and have it too" is just going to turn people off.

Kinda reminds of those compact fluorescent bulbs that were supposed to save huge amounts of money but really were a way for China to export mercury to the environment in the US, flickered terribly, frequently failed quickly. If you actually did replace all the bulbs in your house any energy savings would be so small that they wouldn't be noticeable against month-to-month fluctuations in your energy bill.

There were all kinds of programs to get people to adopt those awful bulbs that failed.

When LED bulbs came out they were obviously superior to both awful CFLs and incandescents and people adopted them without "nudging" or subsidies.
Are they still in business? I heard they fired lots of developers, bless them.
There’s definitely a “Seeing Like A State” point on legibility here. NCLB tries to make the performance of disparate state/county education systems more legible to the federal government, so that it can apply carrots and sticks to “improve” (for some definition of the word) performance.

By simplifying the problem to performance at this curriculum, you gain the ability to measure, but also corrupt the thing you are trying to measure, by forcing schools to teach to the test instead of teaching better (where there are direct tradeoffs between the two).

I think NCLB fails to recognize that education is something which benefits from local expertise, which means you need to fund teachers/schools and get out of the way, rather than try to standardize it. I recognize this is very hard politically.
Stashed away somewhere, I still have a couple of 8" floppy disks. The only time I ever used them was for a CS class that, for whatever reason, used IBM 9000s [0] running Xenix for coursework, and they were difficult to find even in 1986-87. The one and only place that had any was, naturally, Radio Shack, and they were Tandy-branded, no doubt intended for the TRS-80 Model II. Assuming bitrot hasn't set in, they likely still have Xenix filesystems on them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_9000
Tell HN: Un-Cherrypicked Stable Diffusion Outputs Are Horribly Wrong
Despite what the hype says, I never bought SD and DALL-E2's claims. We're not closer to generating art, unless art means creating images made up of shapes that don't make sense at all (women with 3 hands, pregnant woman with weirdly inflated belly, etc.).

See this for some examples (and possibly nightmares):

https://lexica.art/?q=women
tl;dr Some of the notable FP people in the Scala ecosystem associate with known white supremacists and support them. [1] When confronted, this small subset of Scala folk decided to side with supporting the white supremacists because they aren't personally negatively affected by racism as they're white themselves. This small group of prominent Scala folk bifurcated the Scala community. They then went on to gaslight others by claiming this is "free speech" (it's not) and causing conflict. The Scala community responded by adding codes of conduct to various conferences and OSS projects, which compel members to act morally.

[1] http://meta.plasm.us/posts/2020/07/25/response-to-john-de-go...
if you flip the script you'd never ask an exec you don't know for a meeting without giving context. This is common courtesy if you do it without seeming demanding.

"Looking forward to our discussion. Can you give me a bit more context for the meeting and an agenda? This way I can be sure to have enough time to properly prepare. Thanks..."

would you say no to that?
The Young People Working for the Most Evil Companies
In our stock trading algorithm, a parent order could have multiple child orders. If the parent order quantity was amended down, it might be necessary to cancel some of the child orders. The function name for this was called getSophiesChoice()
This skill comes from experience. If you're talking about experience in a particular subdomain, then yes for sure.
That’s pretty frustrating, for sure. But I don’t think it’s reasonable to call a hammer worthless just because there are people who think swapping all screwdrivers for hammers is a good idea.
You incorrectly said 3 posts ago that the new boosters were only tested in mouse models.

You are actively attempting to erode trust in public health and then lamenting that people are losing trust in public health. Give me a break.
Where the boss-worker power struggle goes next
I've got a couple boxes of 80-column punch cards ...
I'd expect every self-respecting intelligence service in the world to have at least one operative among those... what, seven thousand people?
It's not some hidden rule, it's just a story that gets flagged by a lot of people. And I can understand that. This discussion is boring and predictable. We've been talking in circles for almost two years.
A deep learning-augmented smart mirror to enhance fitness training
You think only Americans behave that way? Seems like a very binary way of thinking..
The Factorio developer spent the last seven or eight years optimizing their game. The Civilization VI developers did not.
There is a very common elitist sentiment here that HN good; reddit bad. Certain subreddits like /r/Science have VERY strict moderation that lead to a high quality discussion and community. /r/Science is a much better place to have this discussion than somewhere else where "I saw the vaccine is bad on Substack" comments get voted to the top.
Why tf are we being shadow banned on TikTok & co?
Does anyone understand why the fuck TikTok & Instagram & co are shadow banning ads or posts link to an app improving women's wellbeing with sounds? (www.moonai.es)???

I tried posting and promoting both on my personal and company accounts.
For Tiktok, The company had 10x less visibility (or nearly none) whereas the private went very well.
For the promotion part, it was refused on the company one but accepted on the private (violation of guidelines, which??? I don't know??)
On Instagram, I got banned more than twice without any way of talking to someone or disagreeing with the decisions about violation guidelines (again which??? I don't know??)

Same problem of visibility on Linkedin with private or company account to post information, to the point I even post important announcement on my private account. But then being constantly blocked every week for 24h or 48h. Like wtf?

I won't even mention Facebook, where we just maintain an info page but there's no further engagement.

I know Hilary Clinton touch based on this last year: https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/143309374785678950...

But anyone as tips, suggestion or want to exteriorized as well on this topic?
Basically everything added to TB over its various revisions are things EC can't do because EC was discontinued. 12.5x the bandwidth? Sharing a port with USB? USB-PD out of the same connector?
Beloyarsk BN-800 fast reactor running on MOX
To update your Mattermost status when locking the screen
Nothing, I carried one from age 10.

Victorinox split their pocket knives into three categories: small, medium, and large. Only the large are comparable in size to multitools, and they all seem to have locking blades.

I'm actually pondering getting a basic medium-size pocket knife though, to complement what I'm carrying at the moment. Thank you for reminding me :).
For many Mattermost (or Slack) users, it's a painful exercise to update the profile status, especially when you are leaving your computer. What if screen lock/unlock automatically updates your status?

I've created a simple tool to automate this process. (Works only on focal)
I wish my wifi had those. So I could know instantly if the connection is going to work or if I need to change spot.
The clock is ticking on the next big threat to the US economy
If we're doing honest self-reflection as an industry, another reason I see programmers job-hop is because they don't want to sleep in the bed they made.
I have a 10 year old i5 and it struggles with my 10,000 SPM mega base. So I don’t think a switch is a device for building mega bases (Factorio points this out themselves).
Since 2020 there was a new good book on C from Robert Seacord from the C Standards committee: https://nostarch.com/Effective_C
Frankly, HN is not a good place for any discussions outside of the technical elements of software engineering.
Agreed. I'd love a modern (ie. pcie card or usb) floppy controller so you could have a humble old 5,25" in your workstation just for fun...
Part of being a software engineer is constantly feeling stupid. Until you realize this is normal, you're going to feel bad and have imposter syndrome.

If it were easy, everyone would do it and it wouldn't pay as much. It's supposed to be uncomfortable in the same way that exercising at the gym feels uncomfortable. Thinking is effort.
Does an RPi 4b even have virtualization extensions? I'm wondering even if it can even run KVM.
Right, but I’m asking if exposure to the virus has a similar effect on the immune response to other infections
Could you try to simplify his flawed reasoning?

I'm not much of a math person.
You’re making this statement with way more confidence than the data supports. Both are significant.
COVID's risk is not even remotely even across age. The overwhelming majority of the people who would potentially die from an infection are the elderly. His plan called for intense lockdown for elderly people and those with significant comorbidities. The overwhelming majority who are not at risk - vaccine or not - do not need to isolate.
And, likewise, you cannot NOT attribute them to the vaccine.
Inconclusive data is not to be either used as a calibrated measure nor to be simply ignored.
public health is about trade offs.

a fast spreading pandemic vs. this or that public health measure.

the damage to the public health community is done not because of things like operation warpspeed, but because of the realpolitik of WHO, China, Trump, etc.

responsible participants have to take the time and effort to communicate with the correct framing: as new data comes in the best course of action can change, the current best is X, based on data D1, D2, ...

of course what ended up happening was random factoids sprinkled all over various media channels linked to local/state/federal/global decisions/recommendations.

government agencies are absolutely not up to the task of doing responsible communication to the public in this day and age.
That is certainly true, but how many of us tie our self worth to things that we create? If you have a project that you have spent years pouring your heart and soul into, how can you not personally be affected if it succeeds or fails?
I can’t really tell if that is a very high number or not without knowing the population of birds.
It is non trivial to identify parked domains, so I wouldn't trust that number. Especially since their linked source itself states something else.

Is there a DNS entry at all? Is the server returning 200/400/500? Could it just be a temporary error? Maybe there's an auth wall? Or the site is used behind some corporate firewall or VPN? What if it's 200 with a "buy this page" response? Or some spam site entirely?
I don't really understand why the tech-focused crowd has taken this up as some kind of proxy fight when by-and-large we gave up having root access to the machines we do our day-to-day work on decades ago.
You seem confused here. I never told you what to do. Not once. I've said it explicitly several times and you appear not to be reading.

Nor have I given you any false information. I said single digit percentages for psychotic disorders. About 4% of the population has bipolar (bipolar I can involve psychosis) and about 1% has schizophrenia.
I was never a fan of this genre as a kid, but recently attended a launch event for a choose your own adventure book about change management, of all things - https://www.change-ninja.com/

Maybe part of the charm came from the novelty of the approach to the material, but I really got into it and 'cheating' felt more like learning. It got me wondering if the genre has legs outside of pure entertainment/fiction.
You'd probably only need a third of that if you opt to not install any of the .net/UWP stuff though.
This is me!

It's kind of wild to see my story on the GitHub domain like that. I'm so grateful that they took the time to write this up, it's definitely a "show the kids one day" kind of deal for me.

Happy to answer any questions, if there are any!
Mudge won't blow it up. Regulators may go for $X00 million of fines, but that's it. The company will release a statement saying, "all of this is incorrect about our business, and we are inviting some congresspeople to come meet with us on a fact-finding trip." Rules might get a little stricter, but the lobbyists from Facebook and Google won't let them get strict enough to hurt them - and any rule that hurts Twitter materially will hurt FB a lot more. This kind of thing is a once-in-3-months occurrence now, and no meaningful changes ever come of it.

The only reason this one is different is because of the specter of Elon Musk's acquisition falling through.
If so, then you singling out W seems... a bit slanted.

But if those three did, then did earlier presidents, and they just weren't documented? Or weren't made a big deal of when they did?
- Are you still struggle?!

- Y-yes...

- You are fire!

Note: Sorry for the cheap joke, I also make frequent grammatical errors in English.
Probably brazilian by the Portuguese comments.
Surely you could have made your point without the unprovoked attack on Christianity?

I agree with you on the monarchy, and I'm an atheist as well, and I still can't help but read your comment as divisive and distracting from your earlier argument for a sarcastic barb at the bible.

You haven't even argued against the metaphor at all, you've only stated you think the bible is illogical. For what it's worth there are secular equivalents of this sort of risk analysis metaphor; the bird in the hand, a stitch in time, one today is worth two tomorrows, etc.
It's a tractor, those things used to not have any computing hardware.

What we really need is a open sourced tractor protocol so if it breaks you can just slap a new chip there.
There definitely are systems where BDUF is a valid approach. But at the same time there are systems where making mistakes is the best way to learn. Emergent design is a thing.

This strikes me as a false dichotomy. The choices aren't limited to "BDUF" OR "NDUF" (No Design Up Front). There's a continuum along which the amount of up-front design that is required can range. I prefer the term SDUF (Sufficient Design Up Front). And of course we all have to keep in mind that design and architecture aren't things that only happen "up front". Design and architecture work-streams should continue throughout the lifecycle of the project, IMO. The relative weighting of the different work-streams can vary, but the key is that it doesn't just end after the first (iteration|sprint|phase|whatever-you-call-it).
I got captured by UFO 54-40 in the 80s. I don't think I will ever know wether I escaped or not.
The World Is Getting Better
Dear Diary,

I sold my Switch today. I had to do it. I'm devastated, but it was my only choice - I had to protect myself, my career, and my marriage. It was the right call, but I can't believe I didn't even get to say goodbye to all my Animal Crossing villagers. I feel like I betrayed them, but if I kept it, I would have been betraying myself...

I'll never forget you, Lord Bootycheeks.
Please forgive me.
Yup, that's what we need: more plutonium manufactured in Russia :-/