skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my first thought. But perhaps there is less utility in placing this datacenter in Egypt, where it would be relatively close to datacenters already in Europe? I think South Africa probably gets them more bang for their buck, since it's much further from others.
There are no longer QA people - the team is cross-functional and testing is done as part of the scrum. At least, that's the expected 'way'.

shift-left (aka put all of the work on the developer)
Apple has always had that option, and will always have the option to leave regardless of TSMC asks for. Apple frequently drops suppliers & partners whenever they feel like it is needed (IBM, Intel, Imagination, Samsung Foundry), so if I were a supplier I would prioritize money now versus Apple's feelings.
It's the preliminary step before making people to adopt new values: which values, exactly, are we going to make people adopt? Obviously, that's where "should" comes in.
Incident with Actions and Codespaces
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I came here to say exactly the same. They've survived, they're dependable, increasingly portable and likely to still be here in another 20 years.
I love this problem; it's a level deeper than the classic "Monty Hall" but equally infuriating. And the answer isn't quite as resolved...
They are not "core" technologies of the web, by almost any definition of core.
Can you configure to the ssh server to start automatically, or do you have to launch Termux and start it manually after a reboot?
Sprints are waypoints on your product delivery journey. They ensure you're not wandering too far off course.
> In what sense?

In the sense that they're 'doing' the 'industry standard' practice. "There's gonna be problems with anything".

If you missed estimates without agile/sprints, and now miss estimates with agile/sprints, you may think "well, at least we're doing industry standard practices now - estimates are always gonna be missed anyway, but now we're more agile".

But now you have the attendant overhead of planning/meetings which is using up time that could be better spent somewhere else.

Something not necessarily mentioned too much that I see, is that if you actually have all those people (PM, PO, tech/dev lead, etc), is that they all have to be good/skilled and generally on the same page. If two are good and one is bad, it's all bad. The system is only as good as the weakest participant.
Yes. According to Andrew Huberman, we all subvocalize when reading too.

The vocal cords vibrate when reading. So the advice may be to read more. Interesting!
And then the tests are slowly scrapped to get the CI/CD build time down to 'seconds'. Who needs tests anyway, right ?
The people who couldn’t afford their expenses due to rising costs likely would have lost their job in the recession that was averted due to inflation.
Looks like this is expected to serve as a rich file format for astronomy data. The creators of the format pick HDF5 as their best choice among other formats. So you may want to consider that.

The closest discussion on the format's raison d'être is here -- "Introduction: why another data format?" - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221313371... ... which in turn points people to other papers on this, such as https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221313371... .

The authors say "There are a few worth considering. We will briefly review the landscape and comment on them. In short, we find significant problems with all of them. If one were to choose the best of them, it would likely be HDF5." .. and go on to list these "significant" problems as --

1. It is an entirely binary format.

2. It is not "self documenting".

3. There is only one implementation due to the complexity.

4. HDF5 does not lend itself to supporting simpler, smaller text-based data files.

5. The HDF5 Abstract Data Model is not flexible enough to represent the structures we need to represent, notably for generalized WCS.

The last seems the most significant to me. Let's see what WCS is about -- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221313371...

"WCS objects consist of a sequence of coordinate frames, with a transform definition from one to the next."

.. and they go on to give a "complex" example - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221313371...

I'm tempted to reference https://xkcd.com/927/ , but there is nothing wrong about having a specific rich file format for astronomy data. It is just that I think folks coming to the format ought to be told that up front.
Intel A770, A750 review: We are this close to recommending these GPUs
I am the same way, except I just cream. Every time I have come across a discussion on this topic of having cream in your coffee while trying IF, the anecdata consensus is that any calories at all break your fast, so you are no longer fasting if you consume a small amount of cream/sugar.

Having said that, I still do 18/6 IF with cream in my coffee and in my personal experience I still feel great and have had many positive benefits from continuing IF.
Pretty cool and lightweight!
I use KDE connect that allows me to have communication both ways.
> I developed a preference for scrum style sprints as both an engineer and as a manager, because I prefer to work collaboratively where everyone knows what everyone else is working on and everyone gets a chance to have a say

Are sprints necessary for knowing what other people are working on, and for having a say? I thought sprints are only tangential there.
The idea isn't from economics. It's from the liberalism school of IR.

It's not wrong, either. It's just imperfect. Like any IR theory, it's only a partial explanation, and things beyond the theory's scope happen.

In fact, it's a fairly good theory. Autocrats want to survive. Which means they don't want to get sanctioned and cause a recession, because they fear protests.

Other factors can often overwhelm that -- again, the theory isn't perfect.
1200 rapid if that makes a difference? Also, I suppose it's.. certainly not orthogonal, but it's not dead parallel either - can have a good/bad memory and play well/not well.
FWIW, I use mostly Kindles, but keep the WiFi off, and load books on it from the laptop via USB (with Calibre as the library management software). That makes you independent of any specific e-book vendor.

I also look for a better recommendation, but have rather different requirements:

- Support for ePub or Mobi via USB

- Decently large screen

- Physical buttons for next/previous page

- No touchscreen!

- Light is nice to have, but not a requirement

I haven't found a reader that displays pdfs satisfactorily.
Well, people on blind have admitted to cheating during algo interviews. Not sure how prevalent it is, but a lot of people openly admitted to it. Guess it shouldn’t be surprising given the nature of these interviews and the money at stake.

I also know from my time at school, cheating is fairly prevalent there - even at top rated universities. Lots of universities have developed fairly sophisticated statistical tools for catching cheaters, similar to what chess.com has.
You can imagine a worst-case scenario for the electricity used to charge the cars, or you can imagine a best-case scenario.

The car itself is zero-emission by the definition posted. You are hypothesizing that the electricity used to charge the car comes from a dirty source, but that has nothing to do with the car itself, and in Texas for example, it's easily to choose a "100% renewable" energy provider. I just checked PowerToChoose[0] and found 26 "100% Renewable" plans available from companies like CleanSky[1].

0. https://powertochoose.org/en-us

1. https://cleanskyenergy.com
I am surprised at the fact that there's so many PMs on Hacker News
Pretty happy with resilio sync...

Wait... all commits were 2 hours ago?
What do academics say?
Funny how, even having left particle physics a decade ago, I keep returning to CERN ROOT [0] when a dataset hits a certain size.

[0] https://root.cern/primer/#file-io-and-data-analysis
The reason why big steps produce worse results, when using current architectures and loss functions, is precisely because the least squares prediction error and simple "predict the mean" approach used to train the inverse model does not permit sufficient representational capacity to capture the almost always multimodal conditional distribution p(clean image | noisy image at step t) that the inverse model attempts to approximate.

Essentially, current approaches rely strongly on an assumption that the conditional we want to estimate in each step of the reverse diffusion process is approximately an isotropic Gaussian distribution. This assumption breaks down as you increase the size of the steps, and models which rely on the assumption also break down.

This is not directly related to overfitting. It is a fundamental aspect of how these models are designed and trained. If the architecture and loss function for training the inverse model were changed it would be possible to make an inverse model that inverts more steps of the forward diffusion process in a single go, but then the inverse model would need to become a full generative model on its own.
Both of the currently supported platforms, C64 & BBC Micro, also had Z80 add-ons available which allowed running CP/M. I don't think the project is necessarily about it serving people better.
Do States Need Income Taxes?
Actually another similar post on the front page at the same time: https://bigthink.com/progress/pessimism-is-a-barrier-to-prog... It has a great opening line:

> PESSIMISM SOUNDS SMART. Optimism sounds dumb. It’s no wonder, then, that pessimistic messages hit the headlines, and optimistic ones hardly get a middle-page snippet.
If you look at the actual agile manifesto, I don’t think your view is in conflict with it: https://agilemanifesto.org/
"Sprints" are a very bad name, giving the impression that the team is always running, which is a bad for morale and quality. In reality, they are just "cycles".

I see them like CPU cycles, but for a team. They are a heartbeat keeping team members in sync. It's all about answering what's my next task when I'm done with the current one. If you I work alone, or in a very small team, with no external stakeholder, then I can answer that "just in time" and don't need cycles.

But if I work in a larger team and/or with external stakeholders, then it's not practical to do this "just in time", gathering everyone to decide what should be the next task, every time a team member completes a task. In that case, we need to batch the planning work. That's what cycles are for.

I agree with the author that too often the process feels unnecessarily bureaucratic, and I really dislike the "sprint" terminology, but I wouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Cycles still have a purpose.
Splitting the video stream to a second computer to run real-time video analysis and then send back commands through an emulated mouse may be doable, but it's certainly harder for anyone to do than copying chess moves on your phone.
I didn't say they can't. But they are not a respectable university any longer nor are they considered elite. You have to assume that affirmative action has thinned the talent at the university to the point the student body can no longer get through the rigor that separated the smart kids from the elite kids. Because the university is graded on the quality of student and the quality of student continues to decline, these once elite universities are fading.
Deflation forces real interest rates up which kills investment and immediately lowers gdp. It is unequivocally an awful thing that leads to massive unemployment.
ifnotifywait doesn't exist on macOS, so in addition to that not being an option on macos, this would be something you could write tools that a team who used multiple platforms, or a person with setups on multiple os's, could use. I suspect this might even be usable on windows.

[edit: fswatch looks very promising, and may be a better choice than either ifnotifywait or watchman]
I liked Kinsta, but the speed of your host shouldn't matter at all. Put a CDN in front of the site with Cloudflare, which makes the site static after the first render.
Yes, it comes from elsewhere in your body.

A continuous glucose monitor checks the level of glucose in your blood. Glucose can be stored in your body as glycogen (e.g. in the liver, or muscle tissue).

Your pancreas produces glucagon, which influences the process of converting it back into glucose, released into your blood.

That's generally accepted basic science, but from my own anecdotal friends/family experience, the pancreas also seems like a pretty buggy organ generally, prone to glitches both temporary (like perhaps in this coffee drinker) and chronic (type 1 diabetes), leading to undefined behavior, crashes, and even fatally bricking the system permanently.

So this anecdote isn't particularly surprising to me.

(Also, for those reasons, I would definitely wear a continuous glucose monitor myself if it wasn't so expensive and difficult to arrange when you don't actually have anything known to be wrong with your blood sugar levels. I predict that within a decade or two, they will be a fairly ubiquitous piece of human body instrumentation, like the sleep-tracking wristwatches and rings we have today.)
Drivers kill over 40,000 people a year in the US, and over a million people a year around the globe. Drivers are the leading cause of dead kids in many places, and places built for driving are extremely unpleasant for walking, biking, chatting, etc. They also are very expensive to provide services to and maintain.
I've worked with Clojure for years using the REPL driven approach and found I needed restarts quite often, for example when adding updating dependencies or other changes to the project file.

REPL driven development is great, but sometime you want to make sure that you are not using some function that was only defined in the REPL session but not in the source code.
Also the REPL session sometime gets in a bad state when printing big outputs, blocking forever with some concurrency stuff or other mistakes.
> side note: there are no crappy teams, only crappy managers

I disagree. There are, in fact, crappy teams. You might argue that it's a crappy manager that either allows that team to continue in its current form, or simply doesn't recognize that the team is crappy, and does nothing, but... there are crappy teams. There are combinations of personalities and skills that are simply not suited to solving the problem at hand, and nothing short of removing actual people and replacing them with different people will 'fix' anything. Again, you can say that's down to management, but it feels like a word game. The team itself is 'crappy' for the goals at hand - management/owners (crappy or not) need to recognize and fix that.
Yaml has comments and the sensible subset of yaml is in my opinion a good format compared with all alternatives
I’m excited to look at this but the comparisons are misleading! E.g., NPY has existed since 2007 (I believe it was the first NumPy RFC) and is exceedingly popular; JSON can, of course, represent multi-dimensional arrays (you can’t get much simpler or readable than [[1, 2], [3, 4]]); I also don’t understand “Pythonic experience” for JSON since dictionaries are so ubiquitous; I could go on …
> abdicating your responsibility for a discovery phase during an acquisition is tantamount to fraud in the United States,

Skipping due diligence is the buyer's option. It may be irresponsible if you're using other people's money (especially money from public capital markets), but there's nothing that obligates me to closely look at an asset that I'm buying with my money or even my money and my buddies' money that they pledged.
trains much more and bikes (not a lot in comparison with a car), but still, too.
I agree with this 100%. The insight into Calculus that we get in high school is pretty fleeting, but you do at least get to see the ingredients that go into things like weather reports. Otherwise it just becomes a magic black box. Maybe it doesn't work for a lot of people, but it just has to stick for enough people that we can continue to tell magic apart from science at the society level.
Some parts of SA are pretty high crime. Id imagine they have high security in place. Many of my friends there have electric fences and walls around their homes and have still been robbed at gun point.
The Dev One has an AMD chip, FWIW.
But a car is only fast, safe, and convenient if a relative minority of people use them. Once they become the default, cars are terrible.
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"Putin would have always been able to attack Ukraine. He's not bound to some sort of world government contract. He can do anything in his power as the President of Russia, and that includes attacking Ukraine, even if for stupid or inconsistent reasons."

i was answering this. he is not - unlike the western press tends to say - stupid or incosistent. he is literaly the most consistent leader of his era. we know what he wants and what he protects. he never changed his mind on the key areas of his geopolitic view of the world. not like europe or us presidents do every new election or new mandate to get more voices. Putin always said that ukraine was to remain neutral. and if you play around words then by your logic even biden would be able to press the red button and extinct mankind for stupid or inconsistent reasons.
I don't see how he could (or why he would) have, in the same room, eyes often closed, yelling at people to shut up so he could concentrate; occasionally checking the board state with me (always bang on) - but as I replied to sibling, it's not necessary to have a great memory like that is it? Of course, picturing/tracking the current state of the board has a lot of overlap with thinking x moves ahead though I suppose.
Exactly, the dependency on Russia was wanted by large parts of the EU political leadership in order to remain competitive economically.

It’s interesting to see that most people consider Europe was tricked by Russia, when in fact this relationship was both wanted and good for both parties.

Based on who the EU’s energy suppliers are, I can’t seriously consider that the EU cares about democracy or international law so much that it would perform economical self-sabotage. My theory was that the US gave the EU an ultimatum on Russia and it caved.
At a past job for a while we did Kanban with the sprint as a time box and it worked really well for the constraints we were working in. When we had work with deadlines, we'd flag that work as needing to be done in the sprint time box and put it on the top of the pile. Otherwise the team just kept picking up the next item, and we'd do a single review meeting at the end of the sprint to check in and see how everyone felt and what was accomplished. It was less of a retro and more of a temperature check.

It worked really well for a team that served a lot of different stakeholders and also had to field requests from customers since the priority of the work was always changing even if the deadlines for the work didn't.
Parquet looks good but HDF5 is good just because it's hierarchical and can group together multiple related datasets. Maybe data taken in the same session on completely different axes/coordinates this is what I've missed with parquet.
Still going on. We were without power from 12h00 to 14h00 this afternoon and will be again from 20h00 to 22h00 tonight, and that pattern will persist for at least the next few days (along with another outage in the wee hours so most of us don't care much.)

I have a solar contractor coming tomorrow to do the planning for an off-grid installation...
> But so far there has been no meaningful improvement in the last… 20 years or so

Do you really think there have been no meaningful improvements in charging connectors in the last 20 years?
A very interesting point shown here is the extremely large amount of overall energy storage/saving capacity that will be in the EVs themselves and the questions of how to “leverage” that, by bi-directional charging, for example.
What else could be possible here?
Huge grids powered by “undriven” EVs, whilst their owners receive cashback?
Sarcastic IT Book Covers from O’Rly (2016)
I love these sorts works the blend nature and tech in slightly uncomfortable ways. So without getting all caught up in overstating the role of the plant, the extended distributed intelligence of the entire system is kind of interesting, and the first impression of the piece is pretty awesome.

I've used plants with this sort of electrical pickup in the production of music, and the output of the plants does seem to react to input sound being amplified back at the plant, creating a control feedback loop. In this particular setup, I'm not sure the plant it able to react to the movement of the machete. It may be able to react to the vibrations and moving EM fields around the robot motors. But that's not the point, I think that first impression is more the point. To be near it would be extremely discomforting as you are facing a dangerous unknown otherness.
I'm 1500 Lichess but 900 on Chess.com, so no, not within 300 points at that level.
macOS is background scanning and following downloaded QR codes?
If you break into my house and hurt my family, and then I start kicking your ass to the front door successfully, I'm not going to be interested in negotiations either.

If you've not noticed, Russia's negotiations are about as worthless as used toilet paper.
Would you consider graphene based next generation power storage a battery or something different? I'm pretty keen on the RC hobby realm and the up and downstream innovations for batteries is still on the uptick I believe. I believe there are some Experimental (by FAA standards) battery based planes flying today, which again, simply is proof of concept to counter the doom and gloom potential outcome. For what it's worth, I felt the same way for years - batteries will never work - but now I'm not so sure.
> and because it is statically typed with a decent type system, you can refactor quite safely in general.

I wish that would be true. Would make my current job a lot easier.
I hope they're rather hoarding solar panels...

That said, I'll bet solid Swiss money that Google is aware of the electricity supply situation here and has planned/is planning around it.
2022: I still can't have the 'é' in my last name on most on my accounts (bank, taxes).
The brain seems to make most of the resolution up, it seems the eyes really can see only a small area. The rest is made up by object permanence.
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM
I'm sure there are quite a few Dudes Named Ben who frequent HN.
A Changing Monsoon Is Putting a Quarter of Humanity in Peril
Why it’s worth waiting on some emerging tech
The money quote for me was:

"Metaverse is a concept for the future; it does not exist today,” he said. “It’s a future aspiration, something you need to be aware of and keep your eye on, but it’s not a technology, not today."

Thoughts?