skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a new article showing up just today at HN detailing more issues securing supply lines (for libraries and much more) re software; it's a deep problem, not a non-existant problem. But it doesn't have to be malicious actors at work. SpaceX lost a rocket because a supplier's product wasn't built to spec. SpaceX makes that part themselves now, and highly favors vertical integration, which just means making your own sh*t. Just maintaining documentation is a bear. There's another article on HN today detailing an Air Astana near crash because of "improvement" maintenance changes (with poor documentaion) that went very badly wrong.
Any enzyme bonded concrete in that one? ;) or how does it compare to Pandora’s Star?
They were pretty simple, but to be fair INT 21h did a lot of heavy lifting on DOS, since it would handle the screen, files, etc.
I work for a 100-year-old company with 30k employees. Last year we moved from self-hosted Exchange to GSuite, because it's just easier to spend money on that than to spend money on an increasingly complex and hard-to-staff-properly internal service.
We already have the solution. LiDAR.
It sounds like you were using some pretty non-standard sockets then. Maybe that was your issue.
Yes - they can clamp down on channels that are used to incite violence.
I specifically wrote "but letting international departures".
Uhh highest accuracy and bandwidth for what? You can have a camera that can see piece of steak at 100K resolution at 1000 FPS but doesn’t mean you can use a camera to replace a thermometer. Blows my mind how people eat up that cameras can replace every sensor in existence without even entertaining basic physics. ML is not omnipotent.
The Operations Room has an excellent, very detailed breakdown of the events of Desert Storm: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLErys4h2oiuyKCuzZhpHh...
I am referring to definition 1b: the smaller quantity or share. Which one are you referring to?

Definition of minority

1a: the smaller in number of two groups constituting a whole

b: the smaller quantity or share

2: the group or political party having the smaller number of votes

3a: a part of a population thought of as differing from the rest of the population in some characteristics and often subjected to differential treatment

b: a member of a minority group

4a: the period before a person reaches the age of majority

b: the state of being a legal minor

(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minority)
I'm fully on board with you with Wright's law, but that's what we have some idea of demand for, but not what we can supply. Battery supply has a lot of constraints, and they will eventually lift, but not necessarily quickly.

Also, Tesla has a very spotty track record on predicting its own innovations (yes, even on battery design), so I wouldn't take that prediction too seriously.
I thought about exactly this today. If my family or a gf need something, I just do it. Call it, buy it, work it, solve it. No procrastination, no psychological problems. But when I’m finally alone, nothing drives me at all. It’s sad to think that I must go and find/make someone to live for, just to able to live.

Makes me think that people who talk about kids are just those whom it hit much earlier.
Tons of echoes of things that happened later in the various series. This was a fun read. Thanks!
One of the big benefits to drywall, that often gets missed in the typical libel it gets, is its fire resistance. It's basically a water-containing gypsum powder.

Some areas where plywood would be preferrable for durability, like a garage, are often prohibited from using something other than sheetrock due to the fire risk. Probably not a big deal unless you have entire walls of it.
I guess Earthsea is escapism in the sense that all fantasy offers an escape from mundane reality, but it's certainly not a wish fulfillment fantasy in the way Harry Potter is. As a kid I liked the books but I remember almost rewriting them in my head to be more "fun" and heroic. The world and the characters were strong enough to overcome the lack of fireball duels.
Regardless. Keeping CID financial data is like handling nuclear toxic waste with a plastic bucket. It's not going to end well for you or the customer. Find a better way.
I was surprised by what the headline was suggesting at first, but a deeper look offered a good explanation.

I think this is the tasting they speak of https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/english-fizz-trumps-...

They're comparing the very lowest end of Champagne with similarly priced English sparkling wines. These aren't bottles people would generally consider good champagne. I'd be curious what'd happen if they repeated this tasting with midrange and high-end bottles, although those don't really exist when it comes to English sparkling wines.

I suspect that the Champagne would win if you blind tasted the very highest end of English sparkling wines with midrange Champagne from Selosse, Collin and Krug. This isn't a fair comparison though, because the fanciest English sparkling wines retail at a fraction of what midrange Champagne goes for.
hey y'all, I'm Kenneth, founder of Diode. Cool to see this pop up here! We have lots planned for Diode and we'd love to hear what folks think about the product so far / what they could see it being used for in the future.

We started building Diode seriously at the beginning of September after I put a weekend project teaser out on twitter and got a decent amount of attention[1].

We want to build tools that make it 10x easier for anyone to get started hacking and building hardware. We're planning on adding microcontroller / single-board computer simulation pretty soon, which should make it a bit more interesting to play with!

Can't wait to hear what y'all have to say!

[1] - https://twitter.com/KennethCassel/status/1564613912670216197...
This is not a joke nor a parody. We launched something quickly to solve a problem we deemed important to solve. I agree that our setup is crude, but we are rapidly iterating and have the best intentions in mind.
The Tesla AI day videos [1] go into some detail about this. They use multiple networks that are dedicated to specific tasks.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0z4FweCy4M (2021), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSJsviD_SU (2022)
That's not feature flags. You're referring to user options that individuals or companies can enable or disable.

Feature flags are controlled entirely by the product team and designed to be removed after the product team has formally released the feature everywhere. Good feature flag systems like Unleash even track stale flags so you don't forget to remove them.
It’s amazing how far ahead this was, compared to everything else on TV at the time. And that last scenario kinda reminds me of…
Sometimes its good to stop and think a second longer. This "600W" connector is already melting, and you want to pump 1000W thru it?
It's just a sort of survivor bias. e.g. This happened to me or it's how I think so only people who have the same experience/mentality as I do should be the people I want on my team. You actually end up with a less diverse candidate pool because of it.
Yup, around 15c/kwh, spot prices are common over EU in some countries more than others.
The thing is that even severe workplace harassment is not illegal, but sexual harassment is. So they try to make something stick.
I first heard about Ent on HN about 2 years ago. At the time I was evaluating every ORM in Go to find something that would fit the bill and Ent happened to be exactly what we needed. We've now been using it for 2 years and it's been one of the best bets we made on a technology choice.

Things that have worked really well:

* Auto DB migrations using Ent+Atlas. Ent implements a lot of great low level defaults that I just don't want to need to think about (foreign key constraints, indexes, naming of join tables etc)

* Generating our GraphQL API from Ent Schema

* Generating Protobuf definitions for internal tools to talk to (now using Buf for the actual tooling, but having the protos generated saved a huge lot of time).

* Being able to quickly craft really complex multi-edge joins without really thinking through the SQL allows for quick implementation of new features.

* Query optimizations such as using WINDOW clauses for pagination in GraphQL queries (I wouldn't have even thought this was possible).

* The generated code is quite a lot of lines, but it's really nicely structured and idiomatic, making it easy to extend.

There's been heaps of other neat finds along the way, but that's a summary.

Shout out to Ariel and Rotem for being excellent stewards of the Ent community and helping us solve some complex problems along the way.
Solving Fizzbuzz and Leetcode questions quickly does not make you a “better programmer”.
Just read my first PKD work today (Paycheck), loved it.
https://archive.org/details/paycheck0000dick
He spent a lot of money to fix Twitter..he should have probably had a game plan going in.

At least the bots help steer the conversation and provide useful PR services for the advertisers.
Yes, there was no pipeline. :)
> While it is true that humans do fine with only eyes

We do not. Humans are terrible at driving. Traffic accidents are one of the leading causes of death in the developed world. Billions of dollars of property damage occur every year because humans are not up to the task. A self driving system that is as safe as an average human driver would be an absolute failure.
stupid question but I guess having a central ID would go against the whole idea of Mastodon? I like the idea of "self hosted discord servers" but it seems weird to have a different identity for each "server" at that point. Is there any difference between Mastodon and forums at that point? Consistent UX?
appreciate the feedback! agree that it should be more realtime :)
Yes! Using that as a heuristic. Althought its not ideal, it will probably give far better "signal to noise" ratio of "qualified" candidates vs. normal applications. The intention was originally not this, it just grew from the frustration from applying to Big Tech, getting far, then getting rejected, and feeling of having wasted my time and starting from zero again. Now maybe people in my situation can use past semi-successful interview processes to get new opportunities. That's the original intention.
First law is great. Love his usage of little sayings that each character repeats. “A body floating by the docks”
Ubik is hard, I'm rather surprised this writer recommended it as she did. I always suggest people just start out with short story collections to get used to his weirdness and the various sci-fi tropes he reuses a lot (eg 'homeopapes' that printed newspapers on demand). Pick a collection that includes Second Variety.

Flow my Tears is probably his most accessible novel. Do Androids Dream is very disorienting if you were expecting a novelization of Blade Runner and that probably puts a lot of people off him.
That makes sense. In a certain way, it's doing something similar to react-query
Tesla cameras are not RGB, they're WWWR (white-white-white-red). Essentially they have a Bayer array, but only for 1 red pixel out of four, the other three are black & white. I believe that the W pixels aren't homogenous either, there is some design aspect that enables them to cover a wider range of intensities so that they can handle both darkness and full sunlight.
> No, this is not possible neither in theory nor in practice.

Then go tell that to Peter Gutmann: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...

The saving grace here is that newer drives are a lot denser than the ones in common use back then, so data recovery in this fashion is prohibitively expensive for anything manufactured in the last decade or so. You basically need to be more precise in your reads than hard drives themselves - and that's a pretty tall order.

Still, technology does march on; there remains a risk that recovery techniques could catch up, and there are indeed folks who need absolute guarantees of erasure - and there ain't much more absolute than physical destruction.

> What 0 and 1 look like isn't even constant. There is variability in what the current value is set to and their is variability in what the previous value was set to.

It's exactly that variability that makes data recovery possible.

> simply wastes people's time and contributes to ewaste from people destroying harddrives.

It doesn't really do either. Again: this is really only relevant if you're being targeted by the sorts of nation-state-level intelligence agencies that have the time, resources, and expertise for this sort of thing - and when you're such a target, guaranteed data destruction matters a lot more than the amount of e-waste you generate.

> If you plan on using the disk for FDE you should overwrite the drive with random bytes so that you don't leak the size of the used disk space.

This doesn't always work - for example, if you want to use TRIM on SSDs, since unused blocks are zero'd out instead of left as-is. The usual recommendation there for maximum security is "just don't use TRIM", with the SSD performance and longevity implications that entails.
>After having de-facebooked myself, the contact list as authoratative friends list works ok, but it is a downgrade.

Yeah, that doesn't work for me at all, because I don't actually have anyone's phone number, outside of a couple of family members. Who uses phones (voice calling) any more? Almost everyone I know now uses LINE.
Whose money should “we” be spending on this grail quest?

This mindset is something I see a lot, that “best” means the technically optimal (or sometimes just personally most convenient) solution to the specific problem that they personally are working on. If they take a step back and look at the bigger picture, the technical merits are usually only a tiny part of the whole decision.
Well, at least I learnt that pipelining is for good, it speed-ups execution quite a lot. :)
This tool would look the same if you were moving from a centralized platform to another centralized platform.
Hindsight is 20/20. There’s a reason why insurance policies exist. You can (and should) save money skipping comprehensive insurance on a beater. Unless you are going to get into a car accident found to be your fault in the first year of the policy, in which case it would have made more financial sense to get that comprehensive coverage. But that logic doesn’t hold.
Usually unprovable hypothesis are discarded.
When you evaluate cost effectiveness you have to look beyond unit cost to what capabilities and effects the taxpayers actually get for their money. The F/A-18E/F is pretty good at short range strike missions, but it has less range and requires more tanker support for longer range missions. It's also generally inferior for the fleet air defense mission, especially compared to a notional "Super Tomcat 21" equipped with a modern AESA radar. Fortunately the US Navy hasn't had to actually defend a fleet from air attack since the Vietnam War, so the Super Hornet deficiencies haven't really bitten them (yet).
Taking his point to the extreme why use 8 cameras? just use 4? 1? One photo-diode?

Cameras can also fail at run-time there can (and is) be variability in how they're mounted, in the lenses, in the sensors. They can get blinded or not get enough light. Their cabling can fail random components can fail.

Tesla has claimed that vision outperforms vision+radar but anecdotal reports don't seem to support that conclusion. IMHO these technologies are not directly replaceable, but are complementary. It's like you can't replace your ears with your eyes (yeah, you can read lips, if they're visible).

But sure, there is a sweet spot. Is Tesla really optimizing for best performance at any cost or are they optimizing making more money and selling that to us as an improvement? That's really the question and I don't think we got a frank answer there.
> Perhaps the greatest achievement for the F14 was selling it to Iran, which had a real hard time keeping them in the air due to flight costs. Kinda sold them a lemon then cut off diplomatic ties. No one else wanted the plane!

They did a number on the Iraqi air force, you could argue that they got their money’s worth. They got more actual combat use out of them than the US ever did.
This is as interesting as the first idea. We just went ahead with the "rejected" instead of the "offer" route because I had experienced getting far with interviews at Big Tech and then getting rejected. Felt it would be nice to use this "token" of having advanded to get other opportunities. Might tinker with the offer idea as well, but betting on this for now, esp. now that many Big Tech Cos have hiring freezes.
Any negative traits not filtered out in the first round, but routinely filtered out in the second will be disproportionately represented in this pool of people.
user-scalable=no must be criminal!
"Debunking Fake Videos & WHO'S behind 5-min crafts?" by Ann Reardon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqa8dsBtno researched this weird corner of YT two years ago.
Making a site "nazi friendly" doesn't mean you call people nazis. It just means you tolerate their existence to the detriment of other people wanting to stay. Free speech absolutism - even misguided - can and has caused this. Been to any chan's /pol/ board recently?

What's cheap and dishonest about this?
I genuinely think you’re misusing the smiley face or sarcasm tag if you think it’s possible for that first line to include both.
Since nobody mentioned it, this is very well illustrated in the newest 2022 adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front which is on Netflix.
So you don’t know if it works, then. Maybe there’s more than one bug?
Terms of use? Do you think you can just import content en-masse from any site to your platform and they won't care?
There are two things you're saying that simply don't align here:

> we strictly follow good SAFe practices.

and

> PI planning for us is 2 weeks of planning for a 12 week PI

This is a hellhole that in no way reflects good SAFe practices. PI Planning is 2 days. 2.5 if you're partially time shifted to accommodate teams in disparate time zones.

There's so much more about this that I want to respond to but I'm going to shorten it to this: SAFe calls for planning a maximum of 2/3 of your estimated capacity (based on historic velocity) and then leaving the last 2 weeks of the PI entirely unplanned. All of this is built in buffer time specifically to ensure time built in to deal with unexpected things that will inevitably come up. Defects in production should be addressed immediately in any environment.

Any label put on the process your describing is probably not fair, whether somebody called it SAFe or Scrum or Kanban or Lean or Extreme Programming or whatever else.

This is simply a terrible and broken environment facilitated by people who apparently had no idea what they were doing. This is an environment where managers have exerted strict control rather than allowing people close to the problem to take the action that they know needs to be taken. Which is again...not SAFe.
I’ll be honest and say it depends. But for many things I am on team bear the costs collectively. I do want people in wheelchairs to be able to participate fully in the life of the nation.

I think the apathy you see is, in part, because companies are being forced to bear the cost. If every time you used a garage, the company got a check I think you’d see a different attitude.
A black bar on HN when you die.
Was just inspired by PG's take on building, so went really mvp, although typeform is not the most ideal but it works, and we can focus more on actually helping out those that sumbit. PG excerpt from "Six principles for making new things": "I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly"
Mapping every QMS ad billboard in Sydney with OpenStreetMap
Show HN: Would love your feedback on my tech news side project built in Rails
The perfect enterprise use case for lambda! And since it all scales down to zero, it’ll certainly cost less than the equivalent EC2 instance when tracing a paltry 100k images per month.
There is also a 33mm/f1.4 from Viltrox that has autofocus. I haven't used it (my Fuji 35/1.4 has to do) but I own their 56mm/f1.4 and I'm very happy with that particular lens.
Is that the whole life insurance thing?

I think it’s a bit of a “trick”. I had a friend who was really into it and I just spent a little time reading about it from the proponents and tried to work it out in my head and it didn’t compute for me and my friend couldn’t answer my questions satisfactorily. I think if you read some skeptics you’ll find that it’s not a terrible idea at best and generally a meh strategy if you are realistic about numbers and a lot of the rhetoric is in fact too good to be true.
PKD has a much stronger claim on that than Harlan Ellison ever did. A writer of great talent who inexplicably chose to drown it in a barrel of pomposity.
Be careful with focus peaking. On many cameras, when using focus peaking in live view, the lens is set to a different aperture during the display (e.g. in very bright light it will stop down) and only when you take the shot does it go to your desired aperture.

When you stop down, more of the frame is in focus - and focus peaking will tell you something is in focus, when it will not be in focus at your desired aperture.

One way to check if your camera behaves this way is to make the aperture smaller and smaller - does the live display darken significantly? If not, then your camera is not adjusting the aperture until you take the shot.

Of course, if using a fully manual lens, this is not an issue.
This whole comment chain has been an interesting discussion for me, I just checked out of curiosity: Blogspot vs Twitter popularity on google trends 2004-today

https://trends.google.de/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=bl...
Not really. Definitely not when it comes to voting. Before Trump the idea of voting machine fraud and the impossible task to be certain of integrity of the elections was fairly non conspiratorial idea.

I've never seen voting machines but I remember reading constantly about US southern states using them and the suspicions. As I said many democratic nations have banned them.
>I've also compiled a list of many of the alternatives that have been mentioned on HN in the past: -TinyGem -Buku (FOSS) -GGather -Diigo -historio.us -espial (FOSS) -BrainTool -Larder -Are.na -ArchiveBox (FOSS)

The biggest alternative is raindrop.io?

raindrop.io Global Rank #21,503 Total Visits 2.5M (according to SimilarWeb)

diigo.com Global Rank #61,731 Total Visits 968.5K

pinboard.in Global Rank #130,249 Total Visits 499.7K

historio.us Global Rank #2,700,314 Total Visits 9.2K

Bookmark OS (bookmarkos.com) is another one I tried:

bookmarkos.com Global Rank #323,703 Total Visits 113.7K

Also Instapaper/Pocket should be mentioned as alternatives I think.
Seriously you can Google it. This is well trodden ground.
Are you asking what is meritorious about GPA, standardized test scores, or an essay they wrote? Or something else?
This is a side project I've worked on the last few months - surveying and taking photos of advertising panels popping up in the Sydney CBD. I've surveyed them on OpenStreetMap and linked Mapillary imagery.

The map is open source on Github: https://github.com/jakecoppinger/sydney-advertising-map

There's a fair bit of backlash in the community, here's some reporting by the Sydney Morning Herald: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/balance-isn-t-right-clov...
I work in product now and all my peers have masters degrees (minus me) but the patent (while not necessarily useful) seems to have put me on equal footing.