skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are some of those "obvious good policy decisions"? Every policy decision is a decision to allocate the scarce resources of the public in one the pursuit of one goal or another.

Is "training more doctors and nurses" an obviously good policy decision? The same resources that go into training medical professionals can be used to accomplish other things that might be more beneficial for society. Building more hospitals? The same. None of those things come for free, so I don't share your certainty that anything is obviously good.

And considering how stupid some of the decisions we made were (with the benefit of hindsight, to be fair), "do nothing" is actually one of the better policy decisions that we could take with us for the next pandemic. I would sincerely hope that we don't normalize some of the behavior we experienced from the part of the policymakers.

Looking at excess deaths per capita: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-..., I don't know that there is a clear conclusion to be drawn that some countries really did better than others in Covid-related policy-making. Sweden of the famous "do nothing" approach to Covid had roughly the same excess deaths per capita as did France or Israel, both with much greater restrictions in life.

Same with the differences between US states: I see no discernible differences, and the degree to which I do see differences, it seems random. Why does Vermont have a slightly higher rate than Massachusetts? They share a border and are culturally similar. Why are the rates comparable between California and Florida? They have had radically different policy responses.

But I fear that all this nitpicking is bogging me down from making the real point, which is that reducing excess deaths or increasing the average life expectancy is not the purpose of government. Otherwise, just plug us all into cocoons a la The Matrix and keep us safe and alive for a long, long time.
That's a real weird way of putting it.
My first real programming was NQC (Not Quite C, probably related to NXC?). I owe it my programming abilities.

Lego Mindstorms was one of the best creative learning tools you can give a child; my life started the day I stopped using the building manual and started building my own stuff by trial and error.

The world would be a better place if everyone grew up with the opportunities that I did. I wish schools would just let children do whatever with Lego instead of filling your day with restrictive lessons in loud classrooms.
I could see it being profitable. I wonder what the ratio of false positives to murders would be? Do we have any statistics on how many people with an iPhone are kidnapped each year?
>"Not when refusing to compromise is your parties main platform."

This seems like a scathing indictment, but the point of a political party is to advance an ideological agenda. "Compromise" on bureaucratic issues is essential and acceptable, but you rarely hear about that. There are all sorts of issues that Republicans and Democrats refuse to compromise on - isn't that why people have divided themselves along these lines in the first place?
If you research history you'll find that not all societies share the same values and ethics. There isn't a perfect society, mind you, but some respect human life and diginity more than others.
Before Windows Embedded was a viable thing we built a product around Phar Lap ETS, which was their embedded RTOS with a Win32-compatbile API.

It was great. A productive, civilized development experience compared to many embedded environments back in those days.
I wonder this every day.

I’ve settled on:

-CockroachDB for relational
-FoundationDB for key value

I’m currently looking for a full search text engine that supports pluggable storage so I can have FDB be the backing store.
They aren’t discontinuing it because its hard to sell in that space. They are retiring it in favor of their newer offering in the space (LEGO Education Spike Prime). They also have, for programmable robotics, the younger-kid focussed LEGO Boost. Plus they have at least one DUPLO set aimed at what I think of as the “tactile coding toy” space (where instructions are represented as physical configurations of objects), DUPLO Coding Express.
This is just the Nvidia Shield which is the best streaming device even without hardware updates for years.
The Spike system seems like an odd side-step to me. There are some minor improvements, but not really enough to justify breaking compatibility and making people repurchase everything from scratch.

In contrast, Mindstorms replaced the old LEGO/Logo system (which I was fortunate to use in high school), and was a big step forward in a number of ways most noticeably that you didn't have to be tethered to the computer.
I'd attach Cox engines to them <g>.

It was a pleasure to meet you!

P.S. My mom told me that I couldn't handle the tiny screws used to put the Erector sets together. She was wrong :-) I spent endless hours building things with it.
This likely boils down to how each party feels about the second amendment.
Garmin released a product that does the radio comms, navigation, and landing in an emergency. https://discover.garmin.com/en-US/autonomi/
Even if you forbid parties there will be some form of alliances of people running for office. Especially if media focusses on the "big names" in many electoral districts the local candidate is less relevant than who they team up with. Having parties makes that aspect documented and allows for laws and other regulation on finances and procedures around that.
+1 to this.

We picked Python Asyncio based Tornado async for our services. As soon as we hit scale we were getting CPU bound.

Deep diving into profiling came up with JSON parsing being the culprit.

It's a painful problem to crack once you hit those limits. In some cases you could genuinely skip parsing the JSON (by returning a raw JSON containing string to client) such as when you are simply getting data from cache or db.

In other cases you simply can't skip it. For eg when you are interfacing with a 3rd party library that will only speak JSON. At that stage you are stuck.

You could try and use a wrapper around faster native JSON parser (say uJson) but it will be a trade-off between the parsing time and the time taken to copy the string to the FFI parser and copy back the results. And deal with all the complexity that that entails.

Or you could hand it off as a job to an async queue (this might be the canonical architectural approach to prevent blocking the event loop) but then you have just shifted the problem to a different place where you'll still need to throw more instances at the problem. And this adds extra latency.

I too was in the "don't optimize prematurely" camp but picking Python today for new services IMO would be taking that principle a bit too far.

Especially considering the ergonomics that modern languages like Golang or Rust offer.
"Streamlining the actual process of the legislature so that more can get done"

"For the important stuff, insist on two votes, but for everything else, make it easy to get stuff done fast"

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/streamlining-the-actual-pro...
I think I'd take the opposite lesson from these examples: if an individual gets sufficiently powerful, they will change the constitution irrespective of how much you formally considered it an 'unchangeable bedrock'.
This is Stuxnet-like stuff which really reminds how out-of-world creations humans can come up with.
Right, limited value as I wrote. Most modern database engines support read-only databases, it’s more a configuration than a different kind of database.
What if Tesla are safer than a regular driver?

And what if a frog had wings? Why, it wouldn't bump its ass when it hops!

I wonder why?

Probably not what you're thinking, but I'd guess a lot of "what if..." with a single, carefully-selected video to back the hypotheticals.
https://archive.ph/RPXbD
> Tesla does not value safety

This is a weird framing. Are Teslas unsafe? Either they are or they aren't, right? Are other cultures that "value" safety producing safer cars? If they're not, does that say anything about the value of "values"? What's the goal here, values or safety?
Why? Assuming it doesn't become overwhelming I don't see the issue with that, same as any other stress relief.
They also wanted to clear a whole forest for that mine. After lots of protest it looks like at least parts of it may be preserved. That forest will most likely do more good for the climate than five wind mills. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_Forest
> Sometimes you have to go by experience

Are you a current or former Apple employee?

Anyway, "Eddy Cue re-takes App Store from Phil Schiller" is not even a rumor. That's coming from nowhere.
George Washington intended that. But realistically, it's the nature of the beast.

Call it whatever you want, you're going to get people with roughly aligned goals exercising their Constitutional right to peaceably assemble to pool their resources to enact legislation they want.

"Ban political parties" is about as much of a thought out solution as "fix problems".
> This entire discussion about nuclear is just a propaganda trick by the fossil fuel industry, which knows that nuclear can't be build in time

All you have to do is not turn them off, man. Or recommission the ones that were turned off a year ago. This isn't a conspiracy.
> It would be a real shame if we lose any chance of full self driving over a misunderstanding about the system being "not perfected yet"

It would be. But there's no misunderstanding here. Tesla continues to misrepresent their self driving capabilities in marketing materials, after years of feedback that tech hasn't caught up to the promises. If Tesla's profit-seeking dishonesty were to undermine the entire industry, that would be a shame.

"It would be a real shame if this snake oil were banned before we had a chance to figure out what it can cure" might be a better framing.
Anything reflective should work but it has to reflect short wavelength. Anything polymer could have a transparent layer on top which could (partially) filters the UV an other short wavelength and heats up the dish instead.

You can also remove the paint and mirror polish the dish itself but that requires tools and it likely will not stay shiny for long.
Worth mentioning this was first published in 2017

EDIT ...and now the title has been updated, so I look like an idiot!
Yet Germany is still implementing pro-coal policies. Not saying it's right, just that it is.
Tough country killing 500m birds/year not to mention all the natural bird deaths
Carrot then stick.
As someone living in germany, that’s just wrong.
My apartment building recently switched to an access control system called Brivo. It replaced a keyfob + garage door opener system with an app. Overall not the greatest as it's now difficult to get into the building if you leave your phone at home.

My "integration" with Siri is to set up an iOS shortcut and use Siri to trigger it.
You are factually wrong about Russia. The new constitution removes the loophole used by Putin which restricted presidency of a single person by two consecutive terms. Thus in past he has used Medvedev as a seat warmer for one term, while holding most of the real power. Because it's a new constitution, his old terms got "reset" (it's quite debatable whether such reset is legitimate or not). In theory, after the new two terms he will not be able to get a third one and any future Russian president will be limited by two terms similarly to the US (well, unless of course the constitutions does not get changed again...).

Also, you call the US constitution unchangeable? It's quite laughable. Not only there is a bunch of amendments, but real power structures have changed as well. Starting from the increased size and power of the federal government as opposed to what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers, following by the two terms restriction on presidents, and ending with the creation of the central banking system, which arguably goes against the spirit of the Constitution.
From personal experience I do agree that video games can be used as a form of distraction and escapism. but I think teaching mental awareness and moderation could change it from distraction to relaxation.
You could elaborate on your point?

It may be effective shorthand for your approach, but without more specifics it reads like fortune cookie wisdom to others (i.e. could be very wise, or very unwise, depending on specifics that you have not given).
> Either they are or they aren't, right?

No, that's not a binary, and never was.
At least writing Python extensions is relatively easy (I understand, not done it) unlike PHP. PHP leans heavily on poorly documented C macros and the internals is tricky to grasp. At least it now has a minimal FFI module.
I’m voting for a 3rd party candidate likely to be a spoiler for exactly this reason, to try to give the dominant party in my state the kick in the ass they need to implement some version of RCV. Even though I support the dominant party, I don’t support the lack of RCV in their wins and the outcomes that causes, so this is my protest vote to put it on their agenda.
But it is not about power per kg of materials but power per $ spent. You may be able to fabricate the wing elements out of cheaper and heavier materials using simpler methods.
Plain files will work for those collections at the kind of scale implied. Don’t overthink it.
I think you may be projecting a bit. Nobody was categorizing all passions as hobbies and please go get a real job, etc. etc. Apologies if I misread that, but that’s how I understand your reply.

Regardless a lot of hobbies bring us joy as they’re free from the often brutal realities of our financial system and incentives. Once you cross that line it changes the perception of that interest for a lot of folks.
iPhones have emergency calling by holding down either of the volume buttons and the side button. The same is also available in most Androids, though the procedure might be different between models, e.g. pressing the power button 5 times or more. How long or how many presses are needed can be different between which country the user is in. Depending on the country and implementations available, emergency operators get instant location on the phone. Similar features are available in smart watches, like holding the side button on an Apple Watch.
From Beat The Devil (1953):

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook.
Only in the north. In the south, Bavaria, you need to keep so much space between a wind farm and the nearest house that it’s impossible to build one (and that’s not really an exaggeration).
There’s websites to calculate it based upon satellite photos of your roof alone (what the installer and system designers did for me along with permitting that would have taken me far too much time / effort). Your panel type, inverter, etc. all matter as well. A meter to determine your electricity usage throughout the year is good to have as well although I didn’t do that before I installed my system and expected to try to size a battery backup system only once I had sufficient data. But basically so far my house is pretty much a dud in terms of ROI for any more modernization efforts without tearing it down basically and this is what I’ve been thinking about a lot more than the usual trend of renewables and such. Old homes in the US are really, really, really hard to retrofit remotely economically and are burdens upon the energy grid and infrastructure throughout the lifetime of the structures. The costs fall disproportionately upon our population that can least afford it as well and subsidies are laughably minuscule and mostly taken by more affluent homeowners in practice.
Who would come fast enough?

I think a device that you can use to take a picture of an approaching suspect's and it uploads it to an online database - available to the police and friends - with your location would be more of a deterrent - if it's usage was known to perpetrators.
I don't know about Mecano, but the Erector sets online are in pretty sad condition, unsurprising since they're >50 years old now.

Sometimes I'll get from ebay one of the battered metal boxes they came in. They make nice nostalgic decorations.
Are these non-released steam games killing people?
That would be this paragraph in an archive from today https://archive.ph/mC1Yr#selection-3685.0-3685.1091
And in the past they used telephones and newspaper classifieds.
Neil Postman is the sort of public intellectual that no longer exists. Classically educated and proud of it, conservative in spirit, tolerant in disposition. The closest we have now is obnoxious dark web trolls whose attachment to liberality is mere affectation.
As somebody not from the US, the mainstream "left" seems very right wing. When compared to the rest of the world, there is no left wing political party in the United States.
CRIU is a really impressive tool, which can do some really cool things. It's pretty difficult to use, given the nature of what it's doing and all the moving parts to orchestrate. I added experimental support to Docker for migrating containers, but for lots of reasons it never made it as a full fledged feature.
Yep, the practical difference between a hidden higher privldihe level and another random coprocessor on the system bus which can send memory writes to your core's internal MMIO region (common on ARM based SoCs, anyways) is quite literally zero. If you can write arbitrary physical memory, the entire system is cooked (well, mostly, but RIP SGX). IME is no worse than random DSP, ISP, ML, etc. cores on your average SoC in terms of its privilege in the system. Don't miss the forest for the trees.
Ok. Maybe I should have qualified the example a little more.

My point is - I don't buy that "language aesthetics are entirely subjective".
2000, CSCO was $69. Still hasn’t reached those levels since. Good enough argument?
I believe Apple AirTag relies on passing iPhones and other devices to forward the location of the AirTag to Apple's servers.

I believe what you envisioning requires more reliable communication to Apple's servers. Perhaps an Apple Watch with a LTE/5G connection. The Apple Watch already has a feature to alert emergency services in case you "fall" or involved in a car crash. The hard part is teaching non technical folks how to use the Apple Watch. I know several seniors who would benefit from this technology but I hesitate to recommend it to them because they can't even figure out their iPhone despite owning one for 10+ years!

https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/contact-emergency-serv...
> It's a statement about each party's (dis)satisfaction with the current success of their party.

This requires clarification. If our government was elected based on a "one person one vote" principle, Republicans would be nearly guaranteed to lose the presidency and Congress. Since 1992 there have been 8 presidential elections. Republicans only won the popular vote once (2004) but also won the presidency in 2000 and 2016. Similarly, if you look at Congress, especially the Senate, Republicans have outsized power due to the additional votes that those in less populated/rural areas get.

The fact is that our Constitution reduces voting rights for those that live in populous urban areas and gives outsized voting rights to those that live in rural/sparsely populated areas. California has nearly 70 times the number of people as Wyoming, but they both get 2 senators. Even looking at the Electoral College, California only has 18 times as many electors as Wyoming, despite having 70x the people.

This rationale/compromise may have made sense in the late 1800s, but it's difficult for me to see how this is a good thing now. I wonder how many presidential elections we can go where the "winner" receives fewer votes than the "loser" before people seriously question what the purpose of our democracy is.

One other note, the equal-number-of-senators-per-state is the one thing that the Constitution explicitly forbids changing by amendment, the last clause of Article V.
I heard there was also an internal rewrite of Uniscribe in Rust a few years ago. Never got released as far as I know, but I've been told it laid the foundation for other oxidation projects within the company. Interesting to see this rewrite of DWriteCore, maybe it was inspired by the earlier Uniscribe work.
Steppen is a Gen Z fitness app utilising behavioural science and habit formation research to help young people build a healthy habit around fitness. Fitness is intimidating, confusing, expensive and generic and there are no viable solutions in the market which account for Gen Z behavioural trends, despite Gen Z being the largest generation on earth. Young people are completely lost, unsure what path to take to reach their fitness goal, struggling with motivation, consistency and guidance - Steppen solves this for them.
How do you define "political party?" There's always going to be some equivalent to organize votes across 535 delegates.

I would say go the other direction. A lot of European countries seem to have a lot of success with systems where political parties are officially part of the electoral system.
Can we even get Unreal Engine 1 anymore? I looked for it out of curiosity and I could only find UE4 and 5. Even Archive.org didn't have it
> Even if VR and AR pan out I doubt apple would lose

Apple won't lose but equally they won't dominate.

There will be a space for an open, collaborative market leader exactly what Meta is positioning for with their recent partnerships e.g. Microsoft.

And if you ignore the metaverse nonsense and extrapolate hardware advances over the next few decades AR/VR could be compelling. It could replace laptops. It could change what travel, concerts, arts events looks like. It could democratise education.

I understand Meta is trying to generate hype and attract talent but I also hope that we do get far more serious at what AR/VR could mean.
Most do not use it "directly", but instead use features implemented by it.

E.g. I've used Intel Platform Trust Technology (PTT) to implement system security features, and AFAIK that runs on ME.
>> “This is very serious,” I thought.

That's typical of military pilots — their ethos is to present a calm, unruffled mien to the world. Phrases such as, "I was a bit concerned" would translate as "I was this close to sh*tting my pants from terror" in normal human-speak.

(Source: Dad and sister were military pilots, plus my own service aboard an aircraft carrier.)

There's a great and probably-apocryphal story in Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff where a rookie Navy fighter pilot is part of a dog fight with North Korean (probably Russian-piloted) MIGs; the rookie is shouting excitedly into the radio, "He's on my six! He's on my six!" Another American Navy pilot responds, "Shut up and die like an aviator" — as in, naval aviator.
Of course. Most video games force you to make decisions at a fairly rapid pace with ever changing information. It's like chess on steroids.
Thanks for taking a look. Both are great platforms indeed. To my knowledge StrongDM is only connectivity, no passwordless authentication to downstream resources. We offer similar functionality to that of Teleport, but try to abstract complexity such as managing yaml files and manual configurations.

Infrastructure is only part of the story for us, as we offer SAML SSO, Password Vault, Radius, our own MFA.
Unfortunately, this tendency away from collaboration agreement has been trending this direction for the last hundred or so years.

"But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here...For men will be...not open to any agreement"

Wouldn't hold my breath on this improving. To the contrary
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It's going to continue to get worse.
And now for the grand reveal of someone pronouncing it! https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM
Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse
Just from seeing what people watch while on the train these days I'd say it is, I get that it's not the best indicator