skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really good question...its unusual but I didn't process it as such because it read as a smart & effective split. Last CEO was from Detroit, co-CEOs are effectively technical lead and ops lead. Makes sense for what is a one of kind tech lab hitched to a ride hailing business.

You also made me think deeper about the unusual situations where I've seen co-leads at a FAANG. Honestly? I think it helped.

There's a very strong "bullshit" culture that can set in. It is a mere step beyond your average upper class Americans cultural mileu, so its underrated how degenerate it turns with that one more step: suddenly, leadership is never leading, and being extremely territorial about general subject matter while never doing anything ambituous enough to fail can leads to cylical ineffectiveness.

With two leads, there's two people to appeal to, and two people who need to argue and agree eventually. They can't sidestep that conflict is a crucial part of polishing.
Consumers (and infotainment) regard any price increases as "inflation".

Agree that we should cease carve out and resume chartering corporations to serve the public interest.
There are usually going to be too many other factors at play to use this to your advantage at the start, but occasionally you’ll see someone start a race on a completely different tack than the rest of the field and go on to finish far ahead of everyone else.

Edit - to be clear, almost everyone figures out and starts on the favored tack - you don’t really need a sailing watch to do this. In races with heats or starting groups, you have to do this 10-15 minutes before your start, because once the starting sequences begin you don’t get near the start line until it’s your groups turn. So the advantage comes from recognizing and adjusting to any wind shifts that may have happened in the few minutes before your race.
Reading that intro it really reminded me of the old Apple Knowledge Navigator video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_ul1WK6bg
Sure,

In 2020 there was a SCOTUS decision allowing employers to refuse insurance coverage for contraception for their employees for "religious or moral" reasons, aka "we don't like it". https://www.npr.org/2020/07/08/889112788/the-supreme-court-a...

At least twelve states have laws allowing institutions and healthcare professionals to simply refuse to provide contraception if they want. https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/refusing-pro...

Meanwhile, the push to classify some methods (morning-after pill & IUDs), which may prevent fertilized eggs from implanting, as "abortifacients" and therefore subject to the abortion bans now active in many states, has been going on for years but is picking up steam. Missouri's abortion ban in particular, now active, defines pregnancy as a fertilized egg, implanted or not.
I vividly recall what feels like decade ago, when I first heard the idea of the brexit referendum was announced.

As an Austrian living in Germany, I really thought the whole thing was just one of those clever UK tactics to get concessions out of the EU — my image of the UK was that they always managed to get more out of the EU than their size and economic power would have warranted.

And most of that was based on the fact that they were not too convinced of the whole thing from the start, but a lot of that was just very good negotiation in the time the UK joined.

These very favourable terms were why I thought they would not part — it was just too self evidently a stupid idea from my perspective.

And then the time towards the brexit disaster was like watching a car crash in slow motion, and behind the wheel there were clowns and people who insisted clowns had to be taken very seriously for a reason they can cannot describe.

The UK will never get those favourable terms again. The vocal EI sceptics both in Austria and Germany suddenly fell very silent. They all had imagined this much simpler. In fact I'd say they never truly thought the whole thing through to begin with. The EU was something they could blame everything on, so they did. Then they got high on their own supply and started to believe that shit. When they saw what leaving actually meant they got clapped back into reality.

I am afraid many people in England are too proud or stubborn to admit this was a shit idea on a grand scale. I wish it could have gone different, nobody won here, not the UK, not the EU, certainly not the Scotts. Northern Ireland admittedly could have gone way worse than it did, but aho knows how long they will stay part of the UK..
Correct. It matters less how healthy/nutritious the food actually is, full bellies tend to keep revolutions at bay.
good to read along https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33257204 "81% of IT teams directed to reduce or halt cloud spending by C-suite"
Eisenhower was notoriously prudent when it came to spending. The majority of his tenure from 53'-61' congress was controlled by the Democrats. His only power to constrain spending was the veto. Of the 181 bills he vetoed, only two were overridden by congress.

Many people believe that because he vetoed so many bills, it allowed his administration to run a surplus in three of his eight years in office.
Would it be possible for them to algorithmically remove the lens artifacts? I suppose just "anything with hexagonal symmetry gets deleted". They're kinda pretty but it's sad to think that this isn't what it would actually look like if you had really good infrared eyes.
You forgot the part where even though you carefully do NOT use Sharepoint at all, it turns out Teams uses Sharepoint as the backend store for "files" and now you have a mass of files in Sharepoint you didn't even expect.
Shotgun on the porch isn't exactly made up, it has happened before.

The Joe Horn shooting controversy occurred on November 14, 2007, in Pasadena, Texas, United States, when local resident Joe Horn shot and killed two burglars outside his neighbor's home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Horn_shooting_controversy
The whole of the Django community has not converged on the same deps. Same with JavaScript. With Python/Django there's uWSGI vs. Gunicorn vs. etc, etc, etc. Then there's ASGI with Uvicorn vs. Daphne vs. Hypercorn. That's just running your code. Nothing is one-size fits all.
What part of making the world a shittier place will actually make people try to save it?
One year of wildfires undid decades of California’s emissions policy
Tell HN: How to contribute to open source as a junior engineer
Hi all, just wanted to write a brief guide on how to contribute to open source.

Saw a thread from a new engineer who wanted to know how to prove that they can work fully remote in order to get a fully remote job. Getting these type of jobs are harder as a junior employee because you don't have a track record.

Contributing to open source demonstrates you go out of your way to improve code, can make changes to a new code base on your own, and can ask for help to get unstuck. Not only can it help you get a remote job, it'll improve your chances at getting prestigious jobs.

I made a few small open source contributions and made some mistakes so want to share what I learned.

1. Find a good project

What is a good project? One looking for help, in a language you know, and where you can get the project running on your own.

If you look around github, you'll see some projects have issues with a Needs Help or a Good First Issue tag. Someone on the project thought that these issues are small and self contained enough to get your feet wet.

Another good sign to look for is that the project has recent commits and is active.

2. Find a mentor

Before contributing a change, you should ask someone whether your plan makes sense. Just like in algorithmic leetcode style interviews, you should never hop in and write code right away. You should explain your plan in plain English, and get the interviewer on the same page.

Likewise, if you see an issue you think you can help and have an idea for how to fix it, write out your plan and ask an existing contributor if you can take on this issue and if your plan makes sense.

You'll save yourself so much time discussing before writing code, and you get to network with contributors of projects. I would have saved so much time if I had discussed first instead of trying to implement my own ideas.

protip: if the project is owned by a company, the employees typically have to help you and contributing to their project will give you first dibs on jobs.

Projects typically have discords or community pages where you can find discussions and find mentors. You can try DMing relevant people (see who contributed via git blame) and straight up ask if they can help you implement your change.

tldr: find a good project with good first issues, find a mentor before writing code, ..., become a legend.

Hope this was helpful!
For Saas products, this plus use structured logging so you don't have to grep-parse log messages when searching your log collectors.

Ie all the meta/log context in a hashmap alongside the error message.
As far as I know, the dude has not been arrested. Thanks to the video though, the probability of the burglar eventually being arrested is at least slightly higher than zero.
Time spent the way someone freely chooses to spend it is not squandered. Each of us is the authority on the best use of our time.
> but the only real solution

how about $1000 (10kwh @ EV prices) battery or so at every household?
Interesting choice, also makes it much less of a target than a military sub reactor running on highly enriched uranium.

Considering these icebreakers are probably not very well guarded this is a very good decision for nonproliferation purposes.
Open source is democratizing video game development
In my limited experience having a laugh requires a good bit of intelligence and knowledge with the addition of some humbleness and a thick skin. "Normal" people spend too much time talking about how much their house cost.

> Other kids beg to come play

Jesus
That basically describes my pandemic year.
Thanks. Added to my reading list.
That is apparently the reason the USSR made the Buran space shuttle. They couldn't figure out what the US needed that capability for. Turns out, we didn't either, at least for military applications.
and while I don't see it in the guidelines, if your level of interest in this topic is "Nun", you can just move to another discussion that interests you
There was like 1-2 flights with Russians per year, SpaceX flies much more.
Seems this comment was a bit subtle for some people.

Moving to a different set of quirks is not a step forward than continuing to use the ones you know. Regexes aren't de-facto standard; grep is different to egrep to perl to python to C++ to your text editor to whatever. It's a massive pain and annoying as fudge. You're a programmer you know this. A "superior" set of quirks may be better for new regex users but it is worse for everyone else who now has to know both grep (and all the other regex quirks) and ripgrep if they're going to use it. To get this done like I always have I now need to know something new. A new user doesn't care about the obsolete.

Faster? Well I have not yet experienced an issue with the speed of grep, that's my experience. I can imagine this could be compelling for uses I don't know about.

ripgrep may well be a better grep for some users. And that is Great, really! We should all try and make things better! Hurrah!

Refusing to describe how it is different and why you might like to install something non-standard (for which there could be compelling reasons) is just silly. Hyping anything at all in that context like that looks pretty bad.

The ratio of content-free hype (omg ripgrep is fantistic!) to an actual description on this thread or in the link or seemingly anywhere I clicked is pretty bad and constitutes a signal.
And you're missing the part where majority of scientists and engineers in GULAG system had their camps be closed R&D and industrial facilities, with various levels of actual internment - considerable portion of it was simply part & parcel of relocation of industry to Siberia.

In fact major names that westerners might know went exactly through that system (Mikoyan and Guryevich actually had a period that was euphemistically referred as "fell out of favour for bad results on MiG-1 fighter"), and slowly relocated back to various locations in the timeframe between end of WW2 and Stalin's death.

And do you know what Mikoyan & Guryevich design bureau did while in GULAG? Spent years building high performance planes that were pushing what was possible for propeller planes, which ultimately got them ready to get back in the high-end fighter design as jet era started.
1959 edition of the Boy Scout Manual "Time for North"

https://mediafiles.scoutshop.org/m2pdf/BePrepared_Vol_3_No_9...
Don’t tempt me, I have real work to do.
I believe you'll find that the difference between a machine and a human driving the same car can be dramatic. A lot of humans just drive like complete dicks. Switching the throttle map on my car to "eco" and driving in a sensible way gets me +50% MPG compared to setting the throttle map to "sport" and driving like a teenager.
It'll depend on your needs, you have to compute your precision against recall to then decide what is a good cutoff for your application
SEC uses 5%.

It would probably work fine for the stated purpose (not missing many important owners, not listing overly many).
The article called that out.

Plus all of the comments here are discussing the impact of the merger, and not the highway robbery that it identifies as a core problem. Frustrating.
All Brussels car parks must install electric vehicle charging points by 2025
Well considering this article is 12 years old it shouldn’t be used as a definitive description or narrative on SharePoint for intranets today. The whole platform was rebuilt a few years ago and runs on React now. That doesn’t mean I think SharePoint is a best of breed internet, far from it, but if you have licenses for m365 already then not using it is a waste really.
How college in prison is leading professors to rethink how they teach
Ask HN: Why does Zig make Docker irrelevant
Maybe a dumb question, but I am curious about zig’s dockerfile readme that says it makes docker irrelevant (see: https://github.com/ziglang/docker-zig). Can some explain what that means?
An anecdote: I started running earlier this year and soon got knee pain. I bought a knee brace that did wonder for that and I used it for about 2 months. Then, I decided to try again without the brace and, lo and behold, no pain at all.

I have been running about 5k almost every day since (no brace) and I have no pain whatsoever.

Im my case it definitely seems that the pain was caused by weak joints/tendons and that it went away when my knees strengthened.
this is the most important TIL article I've read in years. Thanks!

Basically, it's like a playing around virtual machine on a physical PC.
I downloaded the automatic transcript from the YouTube video and wrote some code to reformat it in this way to make referencing the position in the video easier. I should probably have linked each time code to open the video at that point, but I'm a bit time constrained this week.
That's sad but understandable. The night sky where I grew up is but a fraction of what was visible as a child.

Take a trip outside of well-lit areas if possible. See https://www.darksky.org/ to find a truly "dark" location.
> Really? You're going to cherry pick classical performers who largely never directly record anything? The only exception in all of music?

I’m sorry but this sounds like you just dismissed classical performers as insignificant musicians just because they don’t fit your categorization that “all musicians also do audio engineering”.

The world is wide, blanket claims like this is bound to have exception, by principle.
I agree and disagree. As I see it, the solution is to use privacy preserving techniques. Federated learning would be a nice start but isn't good enough. Homomorphic learning would be the acceptable solution here as we could then preserve privacy and get the benefits (corporations would still profit from the data too). I'm honestly surprised that there's no big push for this by companies like Meta, Google, or Apple. You want to say you actually care about privacy? Put your money where your mouth is.

I do honestly expect the first ad style company that is fully homomorphic will upset the balance that we have now.
The most important process is team-building, broadly construed. Process gates are a smell that indicate the team composition is, or at least was at the time the gate was put up, unsuitable for the task at hand.
A bit nitpicky but given the topic, GP mentioned Whole Foods. Amazon owns Whole Foods, so "Amazon Fresh delivery" isn't another competitor .
Interesting- If you look closely at the super bright objects, there are both hexagonally symmetric artifacts and cardinal up/down/left/right artifacts. I’d love to hear from someone with knowledge of how these arise and what optical tradeoffs prevent designs from eliminating them.
> Does Kill Bill support taxes?

> Kill Bill does not support taxes. Instead, we partner with Avalara to outsource tax compliance. Our AvaTax connector provides real-time and on-demand calculationsto prevent overcharging or undercharging tax.

I expected as much. Handling taxes internationally is a major PITA and it changes all the time as politicians get new ideas how to make things even more complicated. I'm pretty sure that many SaaS companies are unknowingly not compliant with all the rules.
Women have always worked at home. It used to be farming though. Work has always been part of the woman's role. It was only a short period where it wasn't.
A Geometrically Natural Uncomputable Function (2008)
Now I am intrigued, the infrared image from Hubble seems to be able to see through even more clouds than JWST! What gives?
That's totally normal. An individual study is unlikely to have enough statistical power to make a definite conclusion, and an individual line of evidence is insufficient to confirm a theory. No conclusion can be stated with any certainty until it is verified repeatedly, and no theory is fit for use until several consistent lines of evidence conform to its predictions. In fact, even calling these findings "false"is often inaccurate, as most researchers don't make strong claims.
Of course it's possible to conduct interviews without giving out sensitive info, but the fact that it's possible doesn't really answer the question of why it's so bad to conduct interviews the other way.

Personally, I'd much rather my interviewers be able to speak plainly about what they're building. As an interviewer it is less stressful and as an interviewee I've found it more interesting. Since I don't particularly crave going out and telling the world about proprietary information I might learn from an interview anyway, an NDA is no skin off my back. Rjecting a company outright just by nature of them wanting an NDA doesn't seem like a "smarter" default option at all.
The difference is that Waymo works and FSD does not work, so it's going to be a short video. FSD cannot take a trip without a man behind the wheel, full stop. It is not any more "self driving" than any other car.
A New Breakthrough in Tape Storage Could Squeeze 580 TB onto a Single Cartridge
I am on Chromium and using the manifest V3 version of Ublock right now and I have noticed no difference between it and Firefox with regular Ublock.

The very interesting thing is that none of Google's ads have ever made it through this new version of Ublock for me.
I'm curious, if an arbitrary GitHub repo suddenly started attracting hundreds of terabytes of egress, violating GitHub's ToS, would GitHub manage traffic in coordination with the repo's owner, or would they disable the repo and suspend the account?

I suspect the latter. I don't know how to make a repo public but limit web traffic to it. Do you?
The kernel still has threads and thread switching. Pretty much anything is possible since it's open source.
Noogler's first code review is a meme for a reason, but even a decade ago the expectation was that you'd have something shipped in the first month or so after the onboarding sessions, even if it wasn't terribly important. Has the eng culture really atrophied that much?
How would this be meaningfully different than house arrest? Not that it's a terrible idea but we already have exactly this except that the reason you would use Amazon is simply becsuse you had to as there's no other services with similar reliability. House arrest would probably be better for the government too since the 'prisoner' is paying personal rates rather than whatever Amazon might charge the government for the "service". The only advantage to prison is that it gurantees lodging during the forced homestead which is significant because, contrary to the rosy image painted by portrayals of these people as victims of the system, most of these people are screwups who arent going to have the rent money to keep living where they reside if you bar them from leaving home. The practical implementation would be likely be to just issue section 8 style rent vouchers and contract with gig services and ghost kitchens to ensure you're not liable for starving people to death. After all, Amazon already does the things you've described for the most part anyway. It would probably be much cheaper than real jail. The main other expense that comes to mind is the utility bills and an insurance plan for when the 'prisoners' inevitably vandalize the home you've obligated into keeping them.
I paid $350 for a refurbished 9th gen with 64GB storage and cellular connectivity and still felt a bit queasy about spending so much on a glorified e-reader/Trello client. Spending $599 for what is essentially the same thing today is ludicrous for my uses... even if I weren't a weirdo that uses a terminal on a daily basis I'm willing to bet I'd be frustrated by i[Pad?]OS's lack of robust multitasking.
There are such things e.g., Pythonista 3rd party keyboard on iOS (android is even more likely to support custom keyboards).
Ralph’s is full of Kroger branded products. I don’t even get why they are called Ralph’s. Just be Kroger.
Popups were an evil of the Dark Times (the 1990s). Web developers stopped using them more than twenty years ago because they are garbage. It is straight up embarrassing that the new generation of web developers have embraced popups again. Not just the preferences popups, but the nigh-ubiquitous popups begging people to subscribe/register. Have some self-respect!

Fundamental system design rules include: Don't add garbage which prevents users doing what they want to do. Popups prevent users doing what they want to do. Don't use popups.
Google Play Integrity API: Genuine Binaries, Installs, and Devices (2021)
The degree of nuance in the parent comment is why I find informational asymmetry a useful way of understanding my frequent uneasy intuitions in discussions of security.

What I mean is informational asymmetry frames security within engineering practice, though perhaps at a price of winning the internet.

YMMV.
Meat departments are obviously missing from lots of grocery stores these days when they used to be effectively full-service butchers. A lot of that is because they are the some of the most interested in unionization (My dad had been suspended several times over the years for having a meat department even look into unionization). Bakeries/Deli counters too. To some extent, you can’t blame them - you don’t see much of that at Walmart and never at target, and for a long time the trend seems to be moving towards pre-packaged (Trader Joes, defunct Fresh and Easy, even gas stations). The general trend since at least 2008 has been to open stores under 100k sq ft, even to 80k (or half that in urban areas)