skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CC 0 Universal license, and the assets are in the repo! That's exciting.
It says "Ask a Trivia Question about Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", so my question was "What was this book called in the UK?". Some basic trivia there, but pretty much my speed. The answer it gave was "Quidditch Through the Ages", which I'm fairly sure (again, no expert) is wrong.
First time I'm seeing a recent-ish game fully released as open source (not talking about abandonwares). Not just the engine but everything from music to all the graphics too.
If it is actually applying the brakes for you more than in cases where you are clearly about to rear-end someone, you should consider not tailgating as much

Thanks, Dad. Clearly I have no idea what I'm doing, or what I'm talking about, so my real-world experience is invalid.

For the benefit of everyone else, phantom braking is a thing that by definition occurs when you're not following anyone. Such as when the car slams on the brakes upon approaching a car that's clearly about to turn right from a nearby parking lot, but who is equally clearly waiting for you to pass before entering the road.
1000%. Restaurants in NYC are especially infamous for this (paying under the table) as are the trades
Your ire would be better directed towards fossil fuel companies, who have spent millions designing and then infecting the public sphere with irrelevant rhetoric designed by marketing companies to distract (all the 'points' you made btw parrot these almost word for word). They have known (informed by their own employed scientists) since the 1970's that continued growth of their trade would lead to disaster, but spent vast scads of cash corrupting governments all over the world to push that growth, and hence the breakdown of our climate systems, ever further.

Anyway, this is isn't productive. To be perfectly honest I don't accept your honesty or good will given the foolishness of what you've written, so the conversation's a bit pointless. Last word to you if you want it.
What's the threshold above which a grievance becomes legitimate? Who determines it?
Climate is indeed one of the reasons it's popular. That's not even remotely a counterargument against the premise that most of the state's problems are primarily from popularity rather than policy.

And "batshit policy" shouldn't be taken seriously as a charge without serious specific policy criticisms.
> They turn difficult problems into easy problems and then solve that.

I think this needs to be said more carefully. For instance, problems could become manageable when a well-thought-out mental model is built. On the other hand, they could become easy when the problem itself is simplified. For me, the e-voting problem fits quite well in the picture where thousands of systems are being built with cute mobile UI but, in the end, are really holding on to the assumption: trust us, we will be honest.
I use this method on chans if I want to poke at someone who I believe is an adversary. Call them a horrible name and ask them to call me the same in response - They Can't - Way off Our Baseline!!!
In general yes, but less likely for highly-technical products. Truth is you need several kinds of competence, they are each "legs under the stool."
Researchers identify protein that helps skin cancer spread
Patience. It hasn't been long, and they probably left a test suite running under CI. Ideally it doesn't push to production without the tests passing and noone is left who knows how to disable it.
> They can give a fairly inexperienced programmer, massive power. (x2)

This is a big reason why we use one of the broadest frameworks available in modern tooling today - .NET 6+. It has so many batteries included that pulling in a 3rd party dependency is something rare enough to call a big meeting for.

Additionally, that "dependency" is the same one everyone else uses - not just in our organization - so all that code could be shared with minimal friction.

There are certainly downsides to this - what if Microsoft becomes even more evil? But, we can hypothesize about the end of the world while our competition uses the same trick and steals all of our lunch money...
Same for me, I hate exercise for exercises sake. I always have to make it a side effect of something necessary or fun I'd rather be doing - commuting by bike, mountain biking, standup paddling or windsurfing etc.
US Needs to Quadruple EV Chargers by 2025 to Keep Up with Demand: Report
> That's only true for the first vehicle though, not the rest of the pile up.

I don't think that's right. Because safe following distance can only prevent you from slamming into the car in front of you if it breaks hard. If it hits something and stops way before the breaking distance, there's little you can do.
Lol so talking about (1) what you actually care about (2) deep blockers to performance (3) what your manager most cares about and (4) human connection is "boring". What do you talk about that's more interesting? Compiler warnings?
Reading this just makes me wonder if he ever (and surely he must have) used an Amiga. Why so bullish on the Macintosh with all its specific weirdness when, even as good as Apple was at the start did he not see the other more interesting forks in the ‘80s as worth it?
After 200+ years of capitalism It's now deep rooted in our society that all work is a commodity, with human labour wholly fungible.

This in and of itself pretty dreadful but I have been wondering recentl whether or not abstract thought is quite so. I'm not quite sure.
This is bolshevism.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-remote-work-is-killi...
There are plenty of empty sky scrapers in midtown NYC.
Want to know why they aren't turning them into apartments?
> Building codes
I'm sorry but if we want affordable housing then it's time to accept that some apartments won't have windows.
Could that also be a valid description of what we do?
I value stability in software development. I value self-regulation. I do not need someone on my team to encourage these. I need software engineers who have these values. "Gurus" like this person are an unnecessary cost, if not an outright scam.
Often when showing off something cool I built for fun, people say "you should make those and sell them!"

This company is a great example of why I don't.

Mad respect for the author though. It'd be cool enough to just get one sign working, but to take over the API and domain is pretty awesome.
There's a number of plausible scenarios:

1. It takes more time for the rot to show.

2. Twitter devs were amazing at building really solid software

3. The culture of twitter was really that 1 person did the work and 9 others watched, enough of the productive devs stayed.

4. The effects of rot are overestimated.

I have no insight into how twitter worked as a company before Musk's takeover though, and I still think it is quite likely major problems will occur in the next couple of months.
It's going to be an unpopular opinion, but software development is an awesome field for BSers. Because most of the people you answer to don't know the details of what you do, you can totally make stuff up, explain failures with magic or noise, and pump yourself up by claiming something you did was more difficult than it was, combined with talking like you know everything - the more confident the better. You often get to make your own estimates as well, so moving the button one pixel to the left can be a week.

In the last 15 years I've seen this quite a bit with new hires. Self proclaimed experts who can talk extremely convincingly, who have passable domain knowledge, and very little practical ability. The code they write is usually junk, or worse, actively a problem. Because I do not have a forceful personality and our upper management is mostly clueless, these people prosper in the beginning, but eventually they shit where they eat so much that end up creating an unmaintainable morass and choose to move on. Every last of one them.

I guess they fall into the "just enough knowledge to be dangerous" category.
I really miss the original 360 “blade” dashboard. It was so fast and everything was predictable. So much so you could navigate without looking at the screen. It also had a great sound effect when you switched between blades.
> I don't buy this whole "nobody knows how to update the code" reasoning

As an anecdote, your example demonstrates the truth of the reasoning. Absent extraordinary or unorthodox effort, such as patching the executable manually, programs do suffer from loss of understanding. Yes, you made it work, but can you really claim to understand the program and how it was written?

Of course, given enough time and effort, most code can be reverse engineered to a level of understanding good enough to work on it. In practice, most organizations are going to decide it's better to spend time and money on a replacement.

> I'm sure the source code wasn't lost, it would have been on a tape backup that people were too lazy to try and recover.

That's certainly one, rather uncharitable, way to look at it. But what constitutes sufficient effort, given time and money constraints in the real world? Unless that backup literally contained the only copy of information essential to the continued existence of the company, there's a limit. And what if they did find the backup, but it was on a magnetic medium that had degraded to unreadability?

I've made my career working on legacy code. There are definitely ways to understand systems even when nobody who originally worked on them is around, but business constraints have always determined whether or not the effort proceeds or is abandoned.
This is a non-issue. Millionaire are far more likely to have a accountant/tax professional. Which would of course means they would have all the required documentation at the time of filling.

What would be interesting is the percentage of tax fraud going on in these different brackets.
You can use a colorlight card to control the panels, they can be had for $15 and connect to the nerwork using gigabit ethernet ( must be gigabit ). You then send then data using the windows software or you can use a Pi/computer running FPP software to send whatever you want.

This would reduce cost to:

2x panels

1x colorlight card

1x power supply

Misc cables / case

Edit: The card can handle an 8x8 matrix of panels ( IIRC ) and the cards can be chained together to make larger displays. I dont recall the max size. The biggest I’ve made is 5x5 for a xmas display.
It's not exactly an easy read -- whenever I recommend it to someone I also warn them that it contains the most passive sentence in the history of the English language: "Information obtained by a member of group A about the compiler resulting from the further modification of it after about 10 years made it clear that at that later stage the original powerful structure was still visible, but made entirely ineffective by amorphous additions of many different kinds."

But the content more than makes up for the style!
Respecting the aesthetics of history is not the same thing as having respect for history
Squirrels and raccoons are very good at shredding even the toughest of pumpkin skins and garbage can lids. I'm sure they can handle some overripe fruit that plopped off a tree.
People complain of Californians moving here as well, driving up costs but nobody looks at the 385 vacant AirBNB's in a town of 45k (Cedar City, UT). If you had 385 homes open up for student or family housing the rental crisis would plummet and prices would drop to normal. If they go un-filled that means they need homeowners instead of renters and will be back on the market at lesser prices because demand will drop if airbnb is limited. There should be like a set quota of airbnb's per capita (1 per 1k maybe?, and a yearly license by random lottery to see who gets a license).
That doesn't matter. And if you're not in the left lane usually people merging in front of you are heading for the "fast lane" (which is typically even more congested and slower) or heading for the exit lane. Just let them go on their way, into and just as rapidly out of your life.

And if you don't let yourself feel "aggravation and churn" then people will just merge into and later leave your lane and it just becomes normal driving without any ego involvements.

Source: the past 30 years of driving in Seattle traffic that I've done where I've stopped being a tailgating idiot and opened up more space and stopped caring about people "cutting me off".
https://archive.ph/cc4Be
I would go to cloud providers, which can offer me managed rabbitmq, kafka or mongodb

Certainly, I wouldn't get any vendor-specific services like Lambda or SNS (in this example)
Former staff eng current manager here. When I was programming it was really common for me to steer 1:1s with my manager to personal topics. We talked about the city we lived in, projects we were working on, etc. I felt like it was more important to create a relationship with them than to talk about daily activities. That way, when I had larger initiatives I wanted to accomplish or things I wanted done that needed participation outside our group I would bring them to the 1:1.

Now that I'm a manager I see that everyone brings a unique sensibility to these meetings. The employee's work style, emotional temperament, ambition, project, and team dynamics all come together to form what they want to talk about. In general I try to have the employee run the meeting. It's their time to get information about what's going on in the company or give me feedback on how the team / project is progressing. As other's have stated, your manager shouldn't be leading a lot of the conversation unless they're delivering feedback on how you can improve.
Well at least you’re consistent in violating other people’s privacy.
> "I know for instance you cannot use Amazon SES without also using S3 and Lambda"

You can absolutely use SES without S3 and Lambda. I've used it many times in various projects.
Sure, given a magic oracle avoiding the bounces is good. But what percentage of bad emails can be detected before testing? Especially at the level that a regular expression can detect?
> who themselves have expressed a desire for people to respect their name

Some of whom have expressed that.

At this point, I see a single article with three listed authors. I have no idea what the opinion of those who self-identify as "Apache" is like. It could literally be anything in the range of "100% of Apaches oppose the name being used" to "(100% - 3) actively support the name in its current usage". My intuition is that the vast majority of those people don't have a strong opinion, and those that do are relatively evenly split - but I have no evidence for that, either.

Basically, if I were making the decision I'd listen to the concern and be open to acting on it, but would require a lot more justification than knowing that three people want it to be changed.
My very first commercial program was a Fortran 90 thing that could write its own source code out to the filesystem if asked. Updated itself as part of the build. I still quite like that as a feature.
Talk about where you want to get to career wise. Develop a plan with them to get you there. Say you want to move from eng 3 to senior eng in the next 2 years. Great! What skills do you need to develop to operate independently at a senior level by then? How can you work with your manager to ensure you're getting right-sized projects to develop then demonstrate those skills?

What's coming down the pipeline next quarter that you can try to claim instead of having it go by default to a more senior member on the team? Can you pair with them on that work if you aren't yet ready to do it on your own? Seniors are often looking for mentorship and teaching opportunities as those are skills they need to develop to make it to Manager or Staff if they're interested in continuing to advance their own careers.
Oddly enough, I’ve heard the same thing regarding doctors voting for a cap. Wonder where that’s from?

It’s an awful excuse; I agree with you. If we were to be quite "cold" about this and think of it in a purely beneficial sense to the economy, surely the economic benefits of a healthy population far outweigh the costs, although I imagine it’s quite hard to "quantify" such a measurement?
Twemoji: Maxcdn has shut down, CDN not working anymore
That and there are a TON of small (and not so small) businesses in NYC that are cash only or will not accept cards for transactions under $5 or $10 (and have a majority of transactions that are under that threshold).

I remember being absolutely shocked when I went to a super duper hole in the wall place in Dallas that I was _sure_ was cash-only and discovered that they not only accepted cards, but their POS supported NFC!
The kind of things that crypto actually buys (besides NFTs and stablecoins) necessitate a certain level of discretion.
True, although it is indicative of some level of community sentiment and will certainly have a comment section full of rebuttals as your own. Good advantage of a mostly free speech platform.
Yeah. 1:1s should be a bit more like office hours. This is where you can deal with priory as individuals outside of a project. There’s nothing wrong with making it a bit of a high level status update, especially if your manager isn’t attending certain project meetings, but it should be more about resource management. Explain pain points, and that sort of thing. It can also be a place to drill down on topics that got brought up in the larger team meeting as well.

When I run 1:1s I end up scheduling them for 45 minutes, but target them for ~25-30 minutes. The extra time is there for when we need to go long without forcing a hard stop too quickly.
If the issue is visual tracking and comprehension, consider seeking an audio version of the textbook. These are often prepared as part of accessibility for the blind or visually impaired, but can also be a great help to people with other issues like dyslexia. It’s not ideal, because medical terms and dense topics tend to be harder in that form, but it could really help with ensuring that you can ingest all the content, possibly with access to the physical text for cross referencing.
Also auditing regular employees is trivial if not fully automatable, so you would expect a larger proportion of them to be audited.
Depends on how you see it, medical degree is a supply chain problem, subjected to the same bullwhip effect. We can't predict demand of doctors 5 year down the road. The worst we could do is to treat today's demand as demand for 5 year in the future. If we double the supply today, in 5 years we will have double supply, hopefully without another pandemic. Many things could happen, if funding stays the same, benefits among all doctors will be affected, or we appropriate funding from other endeavours. If the demand doesn't sustain, funding get cut, less students find it attractive as a career, supply reduces. In reality many more factors get into play. So when Cleverly said "we can't flip a switch", there are some merits to it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
Yeah you are right my bad removed that part, just read up on the story about the sequel
I don't find it hard to talk ChatGPT round (using conceptual arguments rather than keywords or prompt injection), but as implemented its 'safety features' come across as obnoxious and adversarial rather than cooperative, which reflects poorly on whoever is training it.

Interested in people's guesses on when/where to look for a Stable Diffusion-type LLM that can be run and tuned locally.
In my vehicle, the 'gentle slow down' part that's associated with the radar-driven auto cruise control usually works OK. I'm referring to false triggering of AEB in completely-inappropriate circumstances when no obstacle is in the car's path.

If someone has built an AEB system with the degree of immunity from false triggers that's needed to make it a net positive for road safety, I haven't seen any evidence yet. Similar complaints across many different car models are widespread.
This isn't surprising, but I haven't thought about it as something to learn before...

Any advise?
I wonder what would happen if US farmers protested like Dutch or French farmer do. Granted, geography makes those protests easier in individual European countries than the US.
I have only limited experience but I think the worst thing you
can do when taking over an startup (with the intention to continue
it) is to start with firing people. I know it's expensive and not
always viable but you should try to "let it operate like normally"
while auditing it before starting firing people.

Like some especially stupid examples:

- firing the main tech lead which had worked month of unpaid overtime (not for month, but the accumulated equivalent of month of work) because he supposedly didn't work enough during the insolvency proceeding/first week after it.

- cutting the cost of renting the storage system with essential data without making backups

- firing most people which where important for the main product

- firing people in such a bad way that most of the rest quit, too

- deciding it's more important to keep marketing people then people from
the development team in a situation where the insolvent company had multiple
bigish contracts they just where missing a few month of work to be able to deliver
to and interests from other customers and the buyer being the main potential customer
buying the company to get the product
Calling Tesla drivers executives seems a bit... out of touch? Maybe the most premium model is an executive car. The vast majority are $50-$65k, with a house hold income of $133k. This means they are top 25% earners, not top 5%.

More important is the fact they are driven by older people (median age 48 years old), that is more important.

Model 3 Demographics: https://hedgescompany.com/blog/2019/03/tesla-model-3-demogra...
With a 1.5 crop factor the f/2 becomes f/3.5 bokeh- and depth of field-wise.

https://youtu.be/f5zN6NVx-hY
That's strange. Can you send me your IP address and I'll take a look?
I see two ways forward, both probably not great advice.

1. Ask for forgiveness and do whatever you think is prudent regardless of org structure.

2. Find a better org structure elsewhere :)
Wrong again bucko. See what the great frozen north did for foreign real estate investors
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/07/1147678857/a-new-two-year-ban....
It is horribly complicated, and I don’t know. I just helped code what general counsel told the product managers to build

It’s super weird. Some states, if you ship through them, will charge a small tax, but only if you’re a big company

So other states that don’t, shipping tables will sometimes adjust to ship over those states instead, if the system decides it’s cheaper. The system is populated by essentially accountants and lawyers

For small businesses it doesn’t usually matter, so since John is just picking it up himself, probably doesn’t apply

But if Dave is selling hundreds of toilets, from California to Illinois, if Daves truck goes through Idaho (just making that up) Dave may have to pay a small tax to Idaho
Corrupt country ran by the rich oppresses the poor. what else is new.
What you describe is price inelasticity of demand (demand does not vary much when price varies).This is not the same as Uber's surge pricing, which occurs when demand surges while supply is restricted (so classic response to such imbalance in supply vs. demand).

They say this is what happened with the economy:

"the economy was hit with a form of surge pricing by corporations owing to a sharp rise in demand as COVID lockdowns took hold, coupled with shortages created by broken supply chains."
You can't vote your way out of an oligarchy. You can destroy and replace it, or you can secede from it.