skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open Skies was a net loser for the US. The Russians were abusing the system and everyone who "counts" either has recce satellites of their own or access to reporting from friendly nations.

Aegis GMD has zero effectiveness against a missile field filled with SS-19s, or mobile SS-27s, or anything else that poses an existential threat to the United States. Russia knows this. "Destabilizing" would be an order of magnitude increase in the GMD interceptors at Greely and Vandenberg and the proliferation of battle management radars, and we aren't doing that.

And if you weren't paying attention, there's no "restart" of the arms race. While the US was involved in the -stans, Russia was moving forward with a variety of delivery systems. The race never stopped.
> An urbanized population does not care about nature. At all.

My experience has been the exact opposite. Growing up in rural areas, most people seemed to treat nature as an endless resource to be exploited for personal enrichment. Any discussion of ecological regulation was met with harsh rebuke about "jobs" and "freedom" (i.e. the freedom to extract value by exploiting nature).

As I moved to more urban areas, people were more and more ecologically focused on the long-term impacts of natural exploitation. Today I live in a dense metro area (Seattle) where I've never been around a greater concentration of nature-focused people.
> Maybe Twitter is too big to moderate effectively and something more decentralized with human moderators you can actually know as people (like you can with Mastodon) is better.

FWIW, I think this is the answer, or at least this pinpoints the problem: scale.

I feel like if social moderation were a purely technical problem that we as software engineers would immediately recognize it as, y'know, NP-hard, and not even try to solve it (above a small scale). Would you actually try to compute the Ackermann function with large inputs? No, what's the point?
A citation for what? And even if it wasn't most of the world, can you show me anything that indicates a lower mortality rate in the US for kids/teachers due to schools being open? It should be easy to prove since it is a pretty specific subpopulation.

In any case, Western Europe and Canada did not close schools for more than a year and also didn't monitor everyone's movements like china did. And I assume it wasn't because of careless disregard for students and teachers. So that kind of invalidates your original point; closing schools for years is not a normal, necessary consequence of a pandemic. It was a policy decision that has not yielded any results, even if political rhetoric makes it hard to admit (in the US)
michael bay and top gun, sure, but rambo? I don't remember that having a particularly pro-war attitude.
You can cover a much larger area with midcourse defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-Based_Midcourse_Defense
The US Dept of Education has a College Scorecard website/dataset that has a lot of good information (though 3 years out, not 10 years). For example, here is a page with median earnings for different majors at USC: $109,271/yr for Computer Science, $28,604/yr for English Lit.

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/fields/?123961-Univer...
Yes because they are low. The reason it is relevant is because a plastic alternative may create more emissions. Carbon isn't the issue with plastic but it is an issue with possible solutions.
> TL;DR - Boomers ruin everything.

None of this here, please. If anything ruins everything, it's flamebait, and generational flamebait is particularly avoidable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, I tend to agree with you.

I think that sentiment is a lot more productive in the long run.
Man you really haven't visited much of the internet, it's communitarianism land. We all agree on fluffy cats and rick rolls but that's no culture, once you start digging it's the wild west, if not the crusades

And if anything most of it is extremely US centric. I think you're in a bubble inside of a bubble and are completely oblivious to most of what's outside of these bubbles, and that's a feature of internet as we built it, a personalised content distributor that mostly show you what you want to be shown

The collapse of old systems isn't creating a new more global and encompassing system, it's creating very highly individualistic groups/tribes mentality, as, if not more, fragmented than before

> I work remotely and spend most of my waking time online. I have no friends outside family

If this is the future you're trying to sell us... how bleak
Hey jabo,

I migrated in April 2021 (latest version of typesense & meilisearch at that time).

I don't have a public dataset has it was a fairly large ecommerce catalog with close to ~500k entries. And again, it was just my own perception which is hard to define. I just found that Typesense was a bit off compared to Meilisearch on search accuracy, and of course could totally be different today with a more recent release.
>Apparently ... becoming wealthy though hard work ... is something to be despised?

>While studying at Stanford, he met his future wife Akshata Murty, the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy, the Indian billionaire businessman

Finding a billionaire's daughter to marry is hard work. I've been looking for one for years!
Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better Than Bloom (2014) [pdf]
The only thing you can know for sure is that it would have driven up prices and reduced supply.
'Tis a field riddled with yachts... but where are all the customers' yachts?
* Ruby has static types (Sorbet)

* Most of the alternatives still don't come close to Rails for web app productivity--that's more than a gee it feels fun

* The pendulum of JS apps is swinging away from pointless SPA's and more toward hotwire and live-updating apps

* Ruby is as fast or faster than Python on most points
My first year as Engineering Manager
My hypothesis is that this knowledge loss is both widespread and underestimated, but that it is most of the time compensated by innovation.

New blood does not need to learn everything the grey beards knew because they are learning new skills along the way.

What is lost is unfortunately very often valuable and not obsolete, but simply not absolutely necessary to keep going forward.

I also think this is why companies and societies have to constantly expand/innovate to survive, to compensate internal decline/loss.

But there is a critical point, if we stop outpacing the knowledge loss, societies can very quickly regress, in a few generations.

A lot of human knowledge is stored in readable form, but the most sophisticated parts, with all the extremely valuable details tend to live inside human minds, in a form that is not easily translated or stored.
The key is transparency make sure you front load your presentation with a lot of this is still in development, its early days but we think this has a lot of potential. Make the presentation about your key value add don't get side tracked with what you want it to do when its 100%.

Make sure you are the one demoing it as soon as the client touches it they will brake it and you will panic. If it brakes the worst thing you can do is panic it looks like its a big fuckup just laugh it off and cary on with what you can show the client will realise you know its early days and understand you are still working on it.

Then focus on business explain you have a solid start that needs a good bit of polish and are starting to build out the business explain your business value and how you intend to work with them around any issues. Explain that getting in at the ground level will allow them to take part in the development and shaping the final product to meet their business needs exactly.

Finally talk about your business plan / critical path where you are now, known issues and where you want the project to be in the future, don't lead with this.
As the recent dive in the British economy proves, increasing spending is not necessarily good for a market ;)
I agree. What I mean is there needs to be something to prevent collusion and kickbacks. Maybe a group that follows up on former government officials to see if they influenced legislation that would then benefit them or their buddies. There must be something like this already, some type of anti-corruption group, assuming it has not been corrupted.

So to use your example, if your Navy friend passed laws or voted on laws or were part of a government org that removed obstacles for a private nuclear company and then joined that company receiving a nice hiring bonus that should be investigated as corruption.
Though looking at that GDP plot I am more curious about "what the hell happened to Germany?"
> sqrt(-1) occurs in "real" voltages / currents all the time today in Electrical Engineering

I'd say sqrt(-1) describes "real" voltages / currents; but we can find other models which don't involve sqrt(-1). Those models may be more complicated, and have fewer rich connections to pre-existing work, but they're just as valid. This is usually where appeals to Occam's Razor come in, and physicists start appealing to "elegance", "beauty", etc.
Cartel busting is about the only way to fix the enormity of government payments for Medicaid and Medicare. If not, then the federal spending will collapse something.
There are different installable options for automating web browsers with Excel, but if you are truly locked down there's https://github.com/PerditionC/VBAChromeDevProtocol.
YC Founder Firesides: Mutiny on AI and the next era of company growth
This is concerning because if it's affecting worms too, then it's not just airborne bugs landing on crops with insecticide. It means it's already soaked into the soil.
Presumably by removing it (fake eyes just pop out).
If a nuclear warhead is intercepted, it generally doesn't detonate. It requires a very carefully-timed and managed sequence of events to make a warhead detonate, deliberately so.
> the majority of reviews are written by people who have published more than hundreds of reviews.

Amazon pays users who publish hundreds of reviews. It gives Amazon credibility to other users.
At YouTube the content moderation team (site quality) had mandatory group therapy. The therapist recommended not bottling up seeing traumatic things so the moderators would sometimes share between each other. One moderator mentioned that he would never open a link sent by a particular other moderator. I asked why and he said “he’s brown listed”. People suck and the internet brings out the worst in us.

They were also on one month contracts. If you made it through your initial period you could choose to convert to full time. Most didn’t.

I shudder to think what the next generation of moderators is facing.
I completely agree, drag and drop is a hard habit to break for a lot of people who have never coded before. I will say Pandas is pretty easy to learn (obviously mileage may vary but I found it far more syntactically consistent then it's cousin Numpy), but not being able to see what you're doing makes it hard to just jump in and work, you probably will start on small toy datasets and work up to working blind on larger datasets.
Redis (and Other Database) Questions Job-Seekers Should Be Ready to Answer
acoup blog is great for this kind of thing, I've spent hours reading about all the inaccuracies in historical stuff.
Microsoft actually does offer a diff tool in some versions of Office, "Spreadsheet Compare", you can filter to look at e.g. formula changes (or any other area of differences between two Excel files).

Annoying it's not offered in most versions.
It also encourages slavery. Who sows your clothes? Who assembles your phone? Who picks the vegetables you eat? Really it's all the same person: The cheapest option.
Just to clarify, last week was dbt’s first _in person_ conference. Third overall.
Search me :-) My experience is adjacent to an end-user, not as a doctor or engineer.
Traffic is already measured in bit/s so “traffic per second” would be something like data acceleration. Of course this is wrong but journalists have no idea.
You don't have to pay for expensive private lessons. You can homeschool, especially if your job has been put on furlough due to said deadly pandemic. (Of course paper-pushing kinds of jobs could easily be done 100% remotely, but many jobs aren't like that.)
It looks like Docker support is still a paid feature? That's disappointing. I had written a blog post outlining how important docker support was and explaining how little work it was to get working, and at the time the maintainers agreed it should be a free feature, but it seems they've changed their minds.
Not only can you not say no, sometimes the computer will wake itself from suspend in the night and update - or fail trying. And you can't stop it (except for pulling the power cord) because Windows won't provide an option to shutdown without update. It's so incredibly disrespectful towards users.
Texas wants tech to replace some of its dependence on agriculture and oil. Comparing the two scenes seems wrong. Early on Silicon Valley siphoned talent out of Silicon Hill and adjacent businesses. It's going to take them a while to siphon that talent back to levels acceptable enough to create a growth tech economy. That means VCs, programmers, entrepreneurs, marketers, etc all have to make their way to the same-ish place in Texas. To say that businesses only go there for lax tax structure I think ignores why they left CA in the first place, which is they can't pay people enough to live there.

I feel like at some point we'll have to force the spread of tech businesses across the United States. You can already see the effect of not doing so; SF is utterly unaffordable even for techies. The standard and cost of living are obtusely different from the rest of the country. I wager there's a lot of baggage that will come with this given that economics have a tendency of not observing state borders.
Docker and especially docker compose finally made it easy for me to start hosting many service on my local synology. I want to write some yaml, run command and get result.
The last thing I want is to fight different versions of python, js or OS differences.
One of the things that has kept me out of the cryptocurrency space is that when their advocates discuss value, they speak in pure nonsense.

A big part of that problem is that value is very difficult to discuss. On the one hand you have the classic goldbug that insists that gold has "intrinsic value", which is some sort of platonic ideal thing that gold simply ambiently has and defies any attempt to nail down what it grounds out in. On the other hand you have cryptocurrency advocates claiming that all value is arbitrary and/or based entirely on scarcity. In that context, observing that my kid's doodles are scarce but not valuable is not a cute tweet; it is a complete and utter demolishing of the argument.

(I think one of the things education can accidentally (mis)teach is that short arguments are always worthless and arguments must always be long. This is false. A good grounding in mathematics can help with internalizing this. It is completely possible to demolish entire massive argument edifices in 10-20 of the correct words, and the fact that the "other side" has deployed literally hundreds of thousands of words does not make them right if the foundation is rotten.)

Value is intrinsically a dynamic process. It grounds out in human desires, which are intrinsically temporal, variable, and fickle, and this makes a lot of people uncomfortable as they seek either a more solid or a more completely ethereal/arbitrary base. However, there is no other sensible way to think about value, however complex and ever-shifting this may be, and it is neither mathematically solid, nor an amorphous vapor of no consequence subject to one strong person's Nietzschian will.
Exploring the Dynamics of the Sleeping Brain
> only to students with genuine academic talent

All the other people that you would describe as not having "genuine academic talent" need to put food on the table too.
One of the nice features of IHP is that, thanks to Haskell’s strict type checking, it does not just eliminate bugs, it also speeds up development. E.g. if you want to change or build a new feature, you don’t need to write tests for it since the compiler basically does that for you. Since you don’t need to write tests, your work is perhaps half of what it would be normally – and neither do you have to know how to write good tests, which is an entire skill in itself.
Tidyverse is awesome, RStudio too
Google Sheets managed to find an interesting niche by offering a) good spreadsheets in the browser and b) live multiplayer. But even that hasn't completely replaced Excel.

It has kind of surprised me that Excel doesn't seem to have copied the multiplayer aspects of Google Sheets (or if it has, it doesn't seem to have taken off). I've worked for several companies that use Google Workspace for most things, but they still have Office subscriptions for most users so they can use Excel in addition to Sheets.
I highly recommend DietPi. Along with Armbian is one of the best non vendor specific Linux distros for single board computers out there; the list of supported boards is great, and steadily growing. I would always suggest them in place of the specific distros from the boards manufacturers pages, the reason being that when boards are declared obsolete, especially cheap ones, they usually also stop any further development and/or updates for their distros, which doesn't happen that soon with those two, so I always choose boards supported either by Armbian or DietPi.
Also, they can be installed both on VMs for testing, and native on non ARM systems too, that is, PCs, which makes them good candidates for old systems, laptops etc.
Ya, that's a really good example of exaggeration comedy. Also Airplane! was directly made as a reaction to the overly serious action/drama films of the time (literally a shot for shot remake of Zero Hour!) And those films definitely were a product of the 70s, but honestly that analytical line is just overwhelming.

But still, direct parody movies are a mostly dead genre on mainstream delivery channels, for reasons described in the article.
Explain how "government by the overwhelming majority" is consistent with "self-sovereignty"? Some people didn't want the merge to happen. It happened anyway. What about their "self-sovereignty"?

Again, you're just saying that you thought this fork was a good fork. And for the record: I agree, it was a good fork. But it was still a fork, and thus still a successful attack on the network. Someday, one of those attacks might be on your interests.

And your answer will be that you TRUST that it won't. But that is still an act of TRUST and not "sovereignty". If they want to steal your coins, they can. They've proved it multiple times.

So, getting back to the point this topic is about: does it really seem so odd that people trust Gmail? You have to trust people in this world to not mess up your stuff.
I don't think the burnout epidemic can be in anyway blamed on boomers retiring. I would rather point fingers at poor management practices, hustle culture and generally increased life stressed for younger generations due to lower real salaries, a constant influx of bad news and lifelong student/housing debts.
I mean honestly you sound like a pretty difficult person to work with. I wonder if this, rather than job hopping, is what’s limiting your upward mobility. It’s important to be able to learn how to work with things that aren’t perfect, and how to go about making them better or more tolerable. Without learning a tool, you’re criticizing it from a place of ignorance, which makes your criticisms hold less weight.

It’s impossible for everything to be 100% perfect even if you run everything, because you’ll have to deal with your own mistakes from when you lacked context or experience. “Dealing with bullshit” is part of the job, no matter how you slice it.
There's some unofficial ways to build docker images, check https://zacwood.me/posts/building-ihp-apps-github-actions/ :)

We've not changed our minds on docker becoming a free feature eventually. We just didn't update the pricing yet, but this is planned for the near future.
In truth, effective ABM systems encourage a bolt-from-the-blue strike from the country without ABMs, because they fear the same from their adversary who might be able to ride out a second wave, so theory says hit first. The destabilizing effect is precisely the opposite of what most state.

As others have noted, ABMs usually are easy to count, and the countermeasure is N+1. This is why the UK strategic deterrent is the size that it is: no matter what, Moscow eats a big one.
When I had to integrate a system at a customer site there was one service which was so slow and crappy that we joked it had been written in Excel.

Later we found out this was actually the case. At first somebody manually tracked stuff in a sheet. Then somebody added scripts for business logic. Another layer of scripts for policy enforcement. Then some other department requested automation, so it got a SOAP API hacked on top of this (COM underneath? I think that's how you access Excel from other apps?).

I wonder how many other Excel sheets are secretly workhorses for big services.
> The trend has been to shift as much work possible to the current generation of Data Warehouses, that abstract the programming model that Spark on columnar storage provided with only a SQL interface, reducing the space where you'd use Spark.

I feel like there there are some data professionals that only want to use SQL. Other data professionals only want to use Python. I feel like the trend is to provide users with interfaces that let them be productive. I could be misreading the trend of course.
If you did any of that for one company only, yes.
> Protecting your children from external risks is one of the most essential qualities of a parent, yes. I'm not sure what you're trying to convey here.

I perceived the parent as bragging that their expensive private school was better than the public schools that other people send their kids to, by claiming that the option available to regular people was "a joke". There was no mention of anything like "I wish this was an option for everyone".

> Yes, precisely. This is an important issue that the parent commenter was raising: "Remote learning was a complete joke." The well-off are able to shield their children from this, but the average person isn't. Are you suggesting that it should be taboo to discuss how this will widen the class divide?

Not at all, class divides are important to investigate! But you should have proper evidence and data. I am suggesting that the "evidence" here (a 2% decrease in standardized test scores that are not well-controlled) is not particularly significant compared to the evidence that Covid was a deadly public disease which necessitated school closures and remote learning.

> In what sense was the parent commenter "trivializing" the pandemic?

By saying that "remote learning was a joke". To me, this is like saying "earthquake-related evacuations were a joke, because normal kids' scores dropped 2% during the earthquake. Oh, and mine didn't, because I had a private plane!".

> ...their children will be at a marketplace disadvantage compared to two decades of graduates preceding them?

My comment is simply saying that you don't have data to suggest anything of the sort; so you should stop simply insisting that they are true and calling reasonable public health procedures "a joke" as a result.
That's a better role model indeed.

But the author doesn't say that medieval-looking pigs are uncommon around the world right now.

They say that pigs in medieval themed games are represented by pigs as seen in intensive pig farming: confined, fast growing, furless and pink.
Beyond Meat's vegan 'steak tips'
wait, doesn't APL have forks? Avg doesn't get more readable than (+/)÷≢ (sum over divided by tally) as long as you know what the signs do.
I ran into bloatware with Dell on their business line (to a small business) so there was no in house IT to create a custom image - the machines were unusable.
It's ridiculous.