skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The common discourse around lithium ion batteries doesn't comprehend the idea of input limitations.

I'm not sure I agree with that at all. Even Fox News reported on the IEA's "we need more mineral extraction than fossil fuel extraction" report from a few years ago, because my anti-wind-power father got on the phone to tell me as soon as he heard it, as if it would surprise me at all. Everybody knows we need this stuff, and I have never encountered a person that disagrees in the least.

Cost drops for lithium ion batteries are not coming from lower input costs, and in fact input costs are going up.

Batteries are getting cheaper because of process improvements, using less materials, less labor, etc. The same thing happened in solar, cost drops come from improved tech that use less material and manufacturing improvements, not from cheaper inputs.

The story of industrialization is a story of innovating around materials shortages, finding alternatives, and continually outcompeting the older less innovative companies. I don't know why problem suddenly forget this when it comes to renewables.
Paying Pantone for the work they put into developing a calibrated colour system across printers, inks and sub-straits isn’t “crappy”.

Adobe pulling a product feature from paid customers existing install/subscription because they failed to licence the feature properly from the supplier is crappy.

Pantone is, in my option, being somewhat unduly attacked for this change. This is 100% on Adobes head.

Pantone have been a popular punching bag for the design industry for 30 years. And it may be true they over charge for what they offer. But this is Adobes f*up.

Frankly, a 1:1 mapping of Pantone to Freetone sounds like copyright infringement.

What I would love to see is a new “free”/libra/open colour system, superseding what Pantone offer. Let’s not just copy people because we feel slighted.
Any details/links that explain this? The article seems to suggest that they used to detect the deadlock as it was about to happen, and then abort everything and retry. This doesn't seem too different from "when they happen". What is the optimization?
Germany also has HKS [1], which is irrelevant on a global scale but fairly popular for domestic printed media.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKS_(colour_system)
Weird question, what's the point?
And to silence or deprioritize dissenting voices.

China has a hold over him that they didn't over prior leadership. Literally got the man by the components.
I don't think "move fast, break things" meant the law, did it?
> the fact that you're downloading arbitrary code in a way that's disconnected from the normal integrity/authenticity guarantees of a package manager.

I'm old enough to remember when apt packaging got burned because it used http instead of https even though apt packages get signed.

If you're downloading software from websites protected with HTTPS, and that's good enough for you, then downloading and executing a script from those same websites using HTTPS is also good enough.

Would it be better if those things were signed with a key for which there is a code signing certificate? Eh, maybe, yes, if the PKI for the code signing is sufficiently better than WebPKI, which... is not necessarily obvious. Meanwhile, access to that PKI is probably sufficiently harder to come by than WebPKI TLS server certificates that a lot of people don't bother, and rightly so.

Now suppose you say "I don't trust this, I'm just going to clone their github repo and build from source". Do you get more protection that way? Maybe, maybe not.

Now, if you get packages from Debian and the like, you get them signed, and maybe the person who contributed the package to their repository did a thorough code review and audit of the upstream they are packaging, or maybe not, who knows.

This is why containerizing this stuff helps. But it's not really accessible to people yet.

What might be nice is that any program that a user executes automatically gets some level of isolation corresponding to how it was delivered, authored by whom, etc. So programs from the OS get the least isolation, and programs written by the user less isolation, and programs of unknown provenance get the most isolation.
> it does seem easy to be surrounded by "everybody seems to have everything" imagery

> But if you can't afford something, you can't afford it.

Man this just strikes so hard at the heart of why America is broken. I think it gets seeded in elementary school and is enflamed by high school. Parents leave their kids in front of TVs so that the parents can get some prolonged free time, the TV which corrupts the kid into a tiny consumer, and by high school haven’t-ism is associated with failure. Everybody wants the advertised trappings and distractions of success with none of the education, experience, and journey. The irony is that the real value that the “successful” have is stoicism, optimism, and work ethic. The only time I ever found any of those lessons on TV as a kid was fucking Veggie Tales.
> browser automation
Think about why this argument doesn't work. It has to do with symmetry.
Agreed. Definitely some USA banks do not (with one of my accounts, neither the SMS nor the automated call would come through the GV number), and although a few years since last I tried, craigslist would not accept GV for account verification.
Nothing is different. Everything is the same. You're just blind to what is happening around you.

>Sure hope so. Then I can move even closer to self-actualization than I am now.

Yeah and then you starve to death because you have some measly salary. Who says you're the owner of the robot who took over your job? It may be possible, but thinking this is the only possibility is not intelligent. Every realistic possibility must be considered.

With wealth inequality as it is right now, a Few plutocrats reaping most of the benefits of AI with the majority of people scraping by is not just the more realistic possibility, it is also remarkably similar to the current reality.

>If there had ever been a single inflection point in history where Luddism was the right answer in the long run, I'd be more sympathetic to the pessimistic point of view. As things stand, though, doesn't their argument amount to a special pleading fallacy? "It's different this time!" No... no, it's not.

Oh there are tons of examples. You just view history through a biased lens. You're unable to see the times when technology did harm the population. I utterly guarantee that your conclusion is not data driven. You simply are unconsciously picking and choosing the data to support your optimism.

A big portion of the wealth inequality we see today is the result of a century of technological advancement. But you're partly blind to it because you're on the positive side of the wealth inequality equation.
I used to own a CD collection of his lectures and have very fond memories of listening to him on road trips. Agree that he shares many wonderful ideas in his talks, no need to diminish that by calling ideas “watered down” or “lazy”. He synthesized many religions and philosophies into a cohesive system (even if sometimes pretty esoteric).

For those subscribed to the Waking Up app: they recently (well, around a year ago) added a large Alan Watts lecture collection to the Theory section.
Also see

- Markov Chains (https://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/)

- Image Kernels (https://setosa.io/ev/image-kernels/)

- Bus Bunching (https://setosa.io/bus/)

Wish these guys kept producing more visualizations!
The video linked by parent is light on details. This one has more details if anyone's interested (A debate on the empire but many of the things apply to EIC)
https://youtu.be/f7CW7S0zxv4
That, plus the ability to define intolerance, gives authoritarian control.
The Haunted Past
Translations from the Wokish
Models like this should be used to design efficient response and mitigation efforts. Like "there's a chance of a drought emptying the water reservoir, so let's closely monitor the levels, move the water-intense agriculture to less affected areas, and use controlled burns to minimize the chance of massive wildfires".

Except instead, they get spearheaded by various kinds of attention seekers and corporate PR departments, and end up with policies that inconvenience the consumer while doing little to address the root cause. So no, we are not taxing agricultural water usage to make almond growing in areas with limited water supply unprofitable, we'll instead shame people who want to have a shower every day. We won't do anything about the planned obsolescence of plastic consumer-grade items with no spare parts, but we'll force everyone to buy paper grocery bags (for more corporate profit) and separate garbage bags. The examples are endless - we make the policies based on emotions rather than the repeated cycle of quantifying, prioritizing and verifying, and then we wonder why everyone is depressed and does not believe in the future anymore.
you also have the option to not use Google and use DuckDuckGo or Bing instead
There will be no super-apps in North America because Apple will not allow it.
They want designers to pay for associating some area with a specific pantone code, not with "a hue" or "an rgb or cmyk color". The Adobe pallete is just a stand-in for the actual codes, so it's not about "they took away our colors", it's "they took away the mapping between what I'm working with and the pantone colors that get used when I actually send this off to a manufacturer" because what you pay for is Pantone's guarantee that if your product says it uses Pantone code X, it's going to look the same irrespective of who makes the physical thing, and irrespective of when you get it made. You use pantone when you need that guarantee, and you pay them for that. It's why their color libraries are so expensive: you don't get "neat colors", you get "if we say our product uses code X, on material Y, it's going to come out exactly like this". Not very similar, but exactly.

Freetone can't do that. It's just a palette, and kind of completely misses the point. Using some nice colors is trivial, anyone can make a color palette. Pantone is not that.
Funny enough I haven’t encountered bigger a-holes than the bullies in my childhood.
Also, similar piece of software
https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/
The middle manager brain has "consistency" as a terminal value. Being responsible for more activity than they can hope to substantively understand, they "need" systems that make it all look the same so it can be measured, summarized, compared, etc. Otherwise they get the intuitive sense that it's all chaos and mayhem and can't possibly be working well. It's the same sort of thing as an architect being mad that different services have different internal architectures, tech stacks, code styles.

It's true that such differences make it unreasonably difficult to understand or manage things at the abstraction level of the middle manager or architect's portfolio. But it misses the question of how and whether things should be managed from that level at all. Often you have someone stepping into a working bottoms-up emergent order (like the internet, or a market economy) hamfistedly trying to implement top-down central planning control. SAFe is a tool of choice for these attempts.

The radicalism of "true agile" is not about the duration of the planning cycle, but about the level of autonomy and control vested way down in the leaves of an org chart.
I am all for ones' self-cancelling their own aspects about themselves.

I am not a big fan of stubbing on others' toe, in form of woke cancel culture (some for me, none for thee).
>"lol bsfr, you really think the middle east would be a paradise without us?"

No it will not. It'll be a shit show. Does not mean you have the right to mess with them. Mind your own business. You have your own country to run.
From Musk’s POV, a bunch of solid, well-rounded, and experienced engineers you trust might be enough to tell you “this guy is full of shit” when talking to new people.

Maybe it’s less about code quality and more about eng quality.
Aircraft maintenance? I would expect they work very strictly by the book, check, if broken, fix, check next, rinse and repeat?
Yes, porting https://SageMath.org to the browser is part of the plan, and this is a key foundation for that. I ported some of the components of Sage (e.g., https://libntl.org/) already as part of https://github.com/sagemathinc/jsage, and I don't see any fundamental obstruction to porting all of Sage, except time. It would be great if once CoWasm is more stable, I can get some help porting some components to WASM.
I haven't used Google Search in over four years but it sounds like they have followed the SourceForge path based on your description.
I've worked in a number of large orgs that have used SAFe and it always seems that you end up spending more time on the bureaucracy than actually writing any code.

My team just finished a "Release Train" where we supposably adding in a massive feature from a legacy app that required a full team of developers. The team could have probably been half the size and we could have most likely finished it in half the time, what slowed down our velocity so much was all the bureaucracy that SAFe created around doing the most simple piece of work.

The company says that need SAFe to properly track the work that is happening, but they place such a massive reporting burden on the people doing the actual work that things crawl at a snails pace. I once had to push a bug fix for which I had to create a JIRA story. I spent 20 minutes creating the story and attaching all the correct labels, 5 minutes implementing the fix and opening a PR, and then another 15 minutes fighting the time tracker to log the 5 minutes that I worked on the story.
Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Case for Counting Your Carbon
Startups Have a Sellout Problem. There's a Better Way
I can come over? You can cook while I tell you more about words you use wrong.
I'm pretty skeptical of this kind of thing even for enterprise software. I can imagine scenarios where it's relevant - if you're planning to release Disney+ in 6 months, yeah, you'd better coordinate pretty tightly to make sure you're not missing some key dependency when you flip the switch. But I've seen multiple incredibly successful enterprise products developed through the "throwing things to the wall and see what sticks" approach.
Having the actual url be completely different from the displayed url simply shouldn't be possible. Allowing that invites scams like these. At the very least, they need to be the same domain.
This is a particularly egregious case, I've never seen a fake domain slip through like that before.

However, I have reported dozens of phishing sites for the company I worked for. The phisher would simply buy ads for $BRANDNAME and create a convincingly similar site and phish users. I would report the website to "safebrowsing" and report the ad. Typically it would take 1 to 3 days for the website and/or ad to be removed, which would give them enough time to do countless damage. Then they would simply register a new domain, and repeat.

At some point the only thing you can do is outbid phishing sites for your own brandname?!

It's a shame google can not self-regulate such evil behavior, but it's clear that it should be illegal for google to allow people to buy ads on brandname searches.
not just awesome, you have enough money to hire a life-coach!
Michigan Court Allows Town to Use Drones to Snoop Without Warrants
I think we in the modern era have some tremendous advantages in understanding Eastern spirituality in light of developments in neuroscience, Western philosophy, and a longitudinal overview of several traditions like Advaita, Neo-Advaita, Taoism, Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Mahayana, and the original Zen.

I think they point toward the ability to shift one's way of being in the world using one's whole capacity as a human being. Generally, an interconnectedness or oneness counts as a fundamental insight; however, I think these traditions have doctrines like karma so that such an insight does not become a regressive excuse for lackluster moral behavior. For instance, the human frontal lobes give us distance in the world, the ability not to react, to take a different perspective. This enables the Bodhisattva ideal of Mahayana Buddhism using the highest faculties available to man--necessary distance to be guardians of the world, not merely to, say, become stoically un-reactive, or to distance one's self from moral responsibility.

The "supreme insight" preached by Alan Watts seems ironically potentially harmful if not well-understood and grounded, a flight crashed halfway so that it would've been better not to get on the plane--to let the original error of separation in through the back door, ethereal "insight" not bound together with the rest of relative existence. Spiritual traditions have these proverbial cracked jugs with real insight of a sort, like Chogyam Trungpa.
Dude, I know that screen, I also did the textmode equivalents ;-)

Nevertheless any Debian or derivative feels bizarre to me. Yes, I know apt-pinning, custom repos and whatnot.

I'm writing this on a derivative booted into 'ramdisk' and running from there for 139 days now. (Oh my Gawd! How dare I?!) Because the good folks from AntiX and MX-Linux made it possible, and did the work for me. Making intelligent use of the facilities Linux can offer.

apt-shred dist chainsaw!
Genuinely: get help.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
My theory is that some ideas are so risky that skepticism has become endemic. If optimism is overabundant then people may waste so much effort on impossible fantasies everyone suffers. My guess is there is an optimal balance of both.

Religion in particular feels like a phenomenon built on unchecked optimism. And it has no shortage of waste and grifters, at least IME.
This is pretty standard procedure when a company gets bought. The new owners will conduct a review and decide who to keep and who to get rid of. They have probably been given a target of how many people they want to lay off and are evaluating who is worth keeping.

It’s not worth staying at a company that gets acquired, you’ll either get laid off or be asked to do the same work with less people, and awful morale.
have you tried https://online-go.com/? it looks very featureful
> Discern between Type 1 & Type 2 decisions. High vs low consequence. If high consequence apply scientific method. Everything else delegate to smart people.

What is meant by “everything else” here? All low-consequence decisions? That doesn’t seem to make sense (e.g. what to eat for lunch today).
Promoted.ai (YC W21) is hiring a staff data engineer with Flink experience
I agree. Misguided nuclear phobia has lead EU into increased coal burning and thus releasing more nuclear waste [0] into the air and on ash dumps than we could ever manage to do with nuclear power plants. It is ultimate green paradox - anti-nuclear people were afraid of nuclear electricity because of waste issue and now nuclear waste is everywhere thanks to their fear.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Maybe people should stop preordering then. It's a dumb practice anyway, in any field, not just Teslas.
Not a hardware guy. But I guess you can turn on modules individually before everything is done.
I've had the same experience. It was kinda jarring as I expected devs to not fall into the same trap they complain about with questions/requests from their users.
MLIR is also siloing compiler research and development.

Every one and their mother has their own proprietary MLIR dialect nowadays, and the era of competitive open source compilers is sort of fading.
This inspiring dude is does awesome projects. I am not a regular donor, but every time I see him working in something, I do it.
It also makes me happy to know that he is Swedish, a country that I love very much.
14 months ago a lot of people said it was “laughable” that Tesla thought they’d have a working prototype of a humanoid robot in under a year…

I’ll take Tesla engineer’s over 95% of the industry any day.
They should not allow this. At the very least, the actual and the displayed url need to be on the same domain, and preferably the displayed url needs to be a substring of the actual url. That way they can still pass parameters for all sorts of statistics.
Android is available in North America and Apple has no control over it whatsoever.
Christ. I thought I knew a reasonable amount about this. I've read biographies of Turing and Von Neumann and multiple popular histories of the birth of computing and computer science.

But I've never heard this story before.
Expect Twitter to become a Chinese propaganda platform soon.

Unless, of course, Elon sells off Twitter at a loss next year. It would be hilarious if Parag is hired back after that!
Does Durov really call himself a 'CEO'?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/darr...

Never heard of this so looked it up. Dude had an argument with his ex while in a car, hit her a few times, she managed to escape, he drove into a parade some time later. The motive behind the attack is unknown. What does this have to do with the parent post?
Who is that healthy perfect human we should all be taking life advice from?
Curious how they made that graph and what the y-axis is. Also curious what forms of that word they are using, because, I'd expect it to be pretty common already - which would make the spike illustrated more surprising.
Fewer and fewer. A major goal of engineering is to design systems that can be maintained with the least possible training. For instance, modern auto mechanics don't need to know that much about car systems because they can read out fault codes and replace whole assemblies. Maintaining pre-WWII cars required a lot more experience.

It's only in low-volume applications that there aren't manuals and procedures for everything. Factory robotics is one example I know about. Installing systems and getting them to work reliably is both hands-on and deeply technically challenging.
How much money should they bring to successfully fight this case?
Why do you think it's French? The term has developed a distinct meaning among speakers of English. It has slightly different connotations than alternative phrases, as the sibling comment points out.

It may be derived from French, but it has a distinct meaning in English. You might as well ask why someone is using French when they say they're going to see a ballet. It's a feature of English (and really, most languages) that foreign words and phrases are often imported and given connotations distinct from both the meaning in the language of origin and from other words or phrases in English. Once that adoption is widely recognized, is it really not English?
"Keep in mind that ideally, you want your market to be addicted to you. You don’t want to be addicted to your market."

Brilliant
> Depending on every browser vendor to play along in sync is, quite frankly, a lost cause.

Very true, but that is not mutually exclusive with not understanding why it's a lost cause. There's literally three browser vendors, and of those, really only one of them needs to go "fuck it, sqlite now has an API" and the other two kind of don't have a lot of choice but to follow suit. It's a Chrome world right now.

We could have easily done this, we chose not to. Why? (and you probably don't have the answer to that. I don't know if anyone does)
tl;dr: whinging about Apple’s 30% commission
What then would be a fair commission? Credit card processing starts around 2-3% (though I'm sure Apple has negotiated a rate well below that, but it's not free). Hosting has value, as does marketing/discoverability (though apps like Telegram are big enough that it's diminished)
And if you’re REALLY lucky, your company is STILL USING this approach, 30 years later! It’s slow, but it’s also down half the time!
For BGP and ASNs you can simulate a full route table and play:
http://networkingbodges.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-real-full-int...
That article uses bird but I prefer VyOS in a VM:
https://vyos.io/