skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have terabytes of movies and series. I've spent like 1 hour in the past 12 months adding some stuff to my collection. HDD space is extremely cheap and keeping a local copy is such low effort that I don't see why I should get rid of my collection. Some of it is also so rare as to be impossible to find unless you're a member of some private sharing sites (try finding a complete archive of Jon Stewart on The Daily Show).

I've also lost terabytes of shows/movies before and wasn't affected by it at all. Shit happens. But I prefer having high quality copies immediately available. I've had a complete rip of the animated show "Hey, Arnold!" for like 3 years and only just started watching the whole thing now, and I'm thankful to my past self for giving me such convenient access to something I enjoyed so much as a kid.
Would it even be possible to get the userspace drivers for these cards working with a kernel this new? Wouldn't you need to compile a really old version of mesa? In that case I'd imagine you'd need all your libraries and programs to be from 20 years ago as well.
I may be too harsh on guard but I like small languages. When I first encountered guard I wondered if it was truly necessary to the language and it wasn't.
Ok, let's break it down because if you're working for FAANG (and this is why you're defensive) then I think you're making your own case here, by not understanding what people are saying.

1) I said that hiring has less to do about intelligence than compliance (which is what the parent was saying).

Do intelligent people work there? absolutely.

Does working for FAANG mean you are intelligent? No.

This is the distinction in which you seem to be confused. The interview process does not mean that everyone working in Google is smarter than anyone else, it just means (and in no uncertain terms) that you were willing to jump through hoops.

2) I stated that there are skills you learn inside google which are not relevant outside.

Google themselves know this, it's part of why their literature is littered with "in a google context" or "a problem exclusive to google's way of working".

For example: Piper, a centralised source code storage system is not available outside Google. Everyone uses Git, or, in the games industry they use Perforce (and you will quickly learn if you work in this context that the lush SCM tools that you're used to don't exist, there might be 1 person looking after perforce for an entire studio of 1,500 people -- if you are extremely lucky).

Blaze, the build tool which was open sourced as Bazel: Does not make sense to most engineering orgs and has very low penetration in the real world.

Monarch (and its query language) are exclusive to google.

Borg, has no corollary, Kubernetes is both completely different (borrowing a few ideas) and less mature at running most kinds of workloads. You would have to re-learn this.

The statement: "knowledge of these tools is not helpful outside" is absolutely correct.

Maybe there are some ideas that if you had 5 years to redesign you could build something. Similarly though, if you took a person from today and sent them 100 years into the past and they described a smart-phone.... well, you're no closer to actually having a smart phone.

I'm simply saying that most ex-Google employees will have to learn the tools used on the outside. In some cases they're going to be annoyed at not having certain conveniences.
I already told you in my first post. Payroll deductions are a psychological manipulation used against the public to separate payment from the perception of value. People don't "feel" paying their taxes every two weeks, and therefore are less able to consider the return on that value. Seeing money come into your account and then leaving is a very different emotional experience than less money coming in to begin with.
Original comment:
users get a HUGE amount of value from JS

You are correct here:
the goal is to get you to read another article, click an ad, sign up for a newsletter, or buy a subscription

But I think that contradicts the idea users get a lot of value from JS.

You are correct, and
Microsoft themselves are yet to fully move away from .NET Framework.
And a radioisotope thermal generator.
Unit tests need to: A. Be taken seriously by the dev team. B. Taken at least moderately seriously by management. Getting the unit tests passing isn't always the most important thing this very second, but they do need to be something we get back to. C. Run automatically, and preferably as a gateway to the commit process. Some sort of automatic continuous integration thing is critical. I have a lot of smaller projects rather than one big project so my CI is often just a git pre-commit hook. This works fine at a small scale; if "CI" is less than ten seconds I think it's advantageous to keep it as local to the dev as possible rather than shoving it off to some external server to complain later.

Without these things, they're mostly theatre. With them, they're an incredibly valuable aspect of development that I don't intend to ever develop with ever again, by which I mean, if I do end up taking a job where this wasn't already in place, and I'm not allowed to put it into place, I will shortly be at a new job. Life is too short for the kinds of stupid debugging you have to put in to an untested, uncovered code base. (I don't mind debugging in general. It's a fact of the job. But that pull your hair out every single time, that's an uncovered code base.)
> Plus, we have a lot of processing power on the client side, which should be utilised.

Preferrably in useful work. The fact that end user interfaces are sometimes slower than what they were in the late 90s suggests this is often not the case.
How the Chess Set Got Its Look and Feel (2013)
> HRT prescribed by a doctor is most likely healthy.

This is a really interesting topic. I've heard Joe Rogan talking about it. I might have to visit private clinic to get my testosterone measured, it's not something that the public healthcare in Europe would be keen on doing without underlying medical condition.

This is something I'll have to do much more research and definitely visit a doctor before taking any hormone supplements. If you remember which resources convinced you about the procedure being useful and relatively safe, please link them :)
We already have it. Yucca mountain was built and could receive waste, but Congress blocked it legislatively.
> "Scrum masters" and their managers the "Agile delivery lead". Pretty sure there was somebody in charge of the AGLs under each director too.

Honestly, what bothers me the most about this is the idea that "agile delivery lead" is abbreviated "AGL". It doesn't even make it any more pronounceable compared to "ADL".
It is! So many people (both potential large customers and that long tail of small customers) will not click "contact a sales associate" and just leave when you won't say how much a thing costs.

Even just a ballpark is helpful. As an industrial engineer, I deal with this all the time - I don't have time to go to lunch with you and talk about one of 300 components on my machine, but is your fancy gizmo worth it? When the tech specs are public PDFs, that's great, when they're locked behind an account creation email flow to spam me later, that sucks (and you'll get a company disposable email), when the account doesn't get created until your sales rep looks at my company website to estimate how much money you can take us for, it's too late; I've already designed in something else. And what's the price difference between the standard and deluxe models? Is it 20%, or a factor of 3? If your product is moderately compelling but has public pricing, you're in the running, if I have to wait for a quote you'd better be really compelling.

I might be one of those long tail customers for SkyFi, my Dad's birthday is coming up and I think he'd love a print of a satellite photo of his cottage on the lake up north...it needs to be better than Google Maps, but I'd never make it through a manual sales pipeline.
Probably not, although I did used to be a chemist...
Diesel heating for 1,000 people isn't going to make a dent.
Yes and no. There’s 1000 people down there and plenty of them have relatively normal lives back home for ~7 months or the year. Some do travel the world and then come back to McMurdo every year.
The main character in Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy is a black face, but do people honestly say any face painted in black is racist? Noel is clearly using a black face in his show for artistic reasons and isn't racist in the slightest... IMO.
> story points (some vague relationship to days of work)

Watching people insist that story points are totally not representative of predicted time spent working on a thing is the funniest shit. The mental gymnastics are incredible.
And has anyone actually built an electrical thermal storage system - not district heating - with 75% round trip efficiency? Or is this just more marketing hype?
The laws didn't change, but what happened is almost everybody threw out their VCRs. Or never had them.
Stating the obvious here: it's a publicity stunt.
You can already develop Swift code on non-Apple equipment

You can’t develop for iOS as their frameworks are as of now (this is changing, they’re rewriting Foundation) tied to macOS, so this doesn’t change much
You should never consume a powerful mind-altering psychedelic without exactly knowing the dose you are taking.

You should never take a large dose without first studying the effects that lower doses have on your mind and body.

The only way this happens is through carelessness and ignorance. Don't blame the guy above you for fucking up when you're fucking up equally bad by not measuring yourself and following established protocol.

> Other ways of fucking up is believing you got 2CB when actually you got 2CP

You should not purchase from sources you don't trust, and with a new dealer / batch you should always test the substance using a full kit, then take a small amount and wait, prior to consuming your intended dose.

This is all drug safety 101. You can explore your mind but you must first care about your body. If someone thinks, "but I don't have time, I want to get high now, then they should not be taking drugs, as they lack the proper maturity to do it safely.

> it is possible to fuck up

Only through carelessness and ignorance. The lack of drug safety in the scene today is absolutely appalling, given the availability of drug testing kits, crowdsourced information hubs, and cheap milligram scales.
If you have f-droid privilege escalation patch the updates are automatic and seamless; MicroG version of LineageOS comes with it and so there's no need to root.
Is this even useful on earth yet?
It would be really cool to build these into clothes. Too late to patent this?
> 2016 and 2019 won't be eligible for connecting to Microsoft 365 services after October 2023

I wonder how that will affect the Business Basic subscriptions. Everyone uses those for Exchange, but they don’t include Outlook. Business Standard is a bad deal for small businesses vs buying a perpetual version of Office.

Im still upset about the change from device based to user based licensing too. I use several (user) profiles to silo my own work and I’m not buying 4 Office subscriptions.

I really hope the whole cloud subscription thing opens a door for competition and comes back to haunt them. For example, I’d love to host my own instance of Only Office so I can send people files and have them edit online with authentication happening via magic links. It’s not quite there yet because the installation is too cumbersome.

I honestly believe the biggest barrier to entry in the Office space was that everyone used to need MS Office to edit files out of band. Once it’s 100% cloud, I think competition becomes more viable. At least I hope so.
I often wondered why it was a different URL and that it wasn't enabled by default. This is explains it really clearly why it always felt disingenuous. Thanks.
Implementing OSSF Scorecards Across a GitHub Organisation
People who are scrum masters as part of being a senior/lead engineer aren't really the problem.

And it's possible some dedicated scrum masters could simply drop into the somewhat similar role of technical program manager.
While 28.9% sounds like a shocking number, it was only a few dozen additional deaths.

A few additional concerns with the paper:

-The authors made no effort to try and determine if any of the people who died had seen the show, or even had heard of it.

-Suicides were up the month before the show was released as well.

-In fact, suicides in that age group had been trending up for years according to their data, which is not mentioned in the discussion of results at all.
I understand the reason for using Javascript as the scripting language here, because of its mass appeal, but to me personally it's super disappointing and a missed opportunity.

Python to me has always been the ultimate glue and scripting language and it's sad to see it is not leveraged more often.
Yea I feel that. I honestly think that the only reason my goals aren't to just buy a piece of land in rural Canada and live life in peace is because it's not the lifestyle my girlfriend wants. That being said, we still want rural living, just not as extreme as I sometimes dream about
What I'd like is to have this image then be uploaded in Google Maps' satelite layer for everyone's benefit. Or OpenStreetMap for that matter.
you people have completely lost it

i am shocked to see this level of PHBS (pointed head boss syndrome) in this space. Aren't you people supposed to be technical and whatnot?

It's a Stochastic Parrot (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922) and as such , it can't be trusted with software (nor with anything else bug I digress).
It's buried on the site but they also have a fantastic photogallery:
https://photolibrary.usap.gov/#1-1expanded

To add: a while back I discovered who this guy did a slice-of-life video journal of his time in the south pole station. Super interesting!
https://www.youtube.com/@GoneVenturing/playlists
It's so funny to be watching the recent HN obsession with extreme environments. It seems to be more focused on Antarctica, which is kind of the "charismatic megafauna" of polar research. Having lived in Greenland and on icebreakers, I can assure you that the world of polar research is weirder than you might ever imagine.

In particular with respect to the size of these communities. McMurdo is effectively a remote city. But life at south pole, summit station, east grip, dye2, svalbard and onresearch ice breakers would be what you should look into if you are curious about these sorts of things. I'll link to a (small) selection of my photos from Russian icebreakers below that I've shared before.

Also also. Check out the Russian drifting stations for truly insane stories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drifting_ice_station

https://photos.app.goo.gl/CL6Rc4TE7ddZd4Xo7
That logic is not sound. If there's some selection criteria to select engineers from the general populace S, and a subset engineers who make it past S are average, that doesn't mea the end distribution of IQs (you're the one who brought up IQs) of FAANG engineers vs the distribution of IQs of the general SWE population would match in statistics. That is, large statistics don't just match because some subset of the populations match at some level. It's a clear misunderstanding of statistics and sloppy logic.

It's pretty absurd that you continue to think you're somehow making a logical argument and somehow think your IQ is above 120.
At this point, D community should be happy if D2 still matters in about 10 years time.

Java, C# and C++ have improved in the domains where D might have had the upper hand back when Andrei Alexandrescu's book came out.

D3 would be worse than Tango vs Phobos on D1.
I think I'm going to vomit :(
Has anyone been able to select their highest resolution option to buy? Looks like its not available for unregistered users at least.
Also discussed 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34435338 (560 comments)
I'm not sure of prices in your region, but I see 20TB drives priced competitively to 8TB drives in terms of price/terabyte. I've been thinking of building a new media array to replace my existing 8TB drives and similar storage capacity would cost me less now than 3 years ago, for arguably better drives too. I've been thinking of using the Seagate Exos X18 (18TB drives) but haven't made the purchase yet to form an opinion.
It actually is making my mouse cursor disappear entirely (Chrome on MacOS). It's like they built it only for touchscreens?

I expect I'll never go back and use it now. Jeez, who signed off on this?
I wonder if this would make sense for smartphones. There are already some gaming-oriented phones with fan attachments. This seems better than that (unless your goal is to look conspicuously gamer-y).
IPFS is crypto-adjacent but not a crypto thing itself though, right?

The core idea - a content-addressable globally distributed cache - seems sound to me. And I don't believe the core IPFS protocol has any blockchains baked into it.

Filecoin is a token thing which builds on top of IPFS, but my understanding is that IPFS can exist and work entirely independently of Filecoin.

Or am I misunderstanding IPFS here?
Yes, EXR has an FTP test built into it and it will calibrate the workouts you do around that.

https://exrgame.com/support/ftp

There’s generally more information out there regarding FTP and cycling/triathlon than rowing and running as it’s only relatively recently started to crossover from the cycling world into the other two. The two main authorities in that world are Joe Friel and then Hunter Allan/David Coggan who have books on Amazon. This should give you a nice overview though:

https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/fitness-and-training/what-i...

And then this is a guy who has done it for rowing but if you’re using EXR then you won’t have to do any of this faffing around because it does it for you:

https://analytics.rowsandall.com/2017/01/26/rowing-with-a-po...

Oh and if you’re going to buy a rower, just buy a Concept2. They are built like tanks and they hold their value if you ever want to sell it on. If you do any rowing events, they will all be using concept2. There’s only one other brand that comes close which I can’t remember the name of off the top of my head (would probably be able to find it if you asked on r/rowing), but it’s also two or three times more expensive and is only really used by actual outdoor rowing teams.

If you find your arse starts to go numb on the seat, Citius Remex make ergonomic pads:

https://citius-remex.com/

I also find these pads pretty handy if you’re doing yoga and you have to do a seated forward fold because they put you in more comfortable and ergonomic position.
He may as well say "join a cult, it feels great!".

Religion is like the OG social network - designed to hook its members and extract value from them.

"But I get value from my Instafeed" its users decry.

Yeah, but it's also a lot of non productive doom scrolling, causes social issues and can be used as a political tool to manipulate the masses. The people running the platforms can buy themselves a nice boat though, so there's always that.
Good luck recognizing that level of detail! This isn't that type of imagery. You can tell just barely tell a truck from a car and can definitely tell the color of the vehicle, but that's about it. You're describing 1cm imagery from drones, not satellite imagery.

Regardless, insurance companies are big customers for similar reasons. Recognizing swimming pools in imagery is tougher than you'd think, but a classic thing (and real) that gets brought up is your insurance company raising your rates because you put in a pool and didn't tell them. Insurance companies would love to (and sometimes do) detect that from satellite imagery instead of boots on the ground.

Either way, those are big companies / big contracts, rather than individuals buying imagery directly.
Related:

Excavations at Coleshill for HS2 reveal gatehouse may have come under fire during the Civil War: https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/excavations-coleshill-hs2-...

Coleshill Virtual Reality Experience: https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/our-work/coleshill-virtual-real...
Agile and scrum is not a solution to anything. Participating in agile voodoo has no measurable impact. In fact, I think in many cases agile makes you immediately slower. Developers than realize they have to pad everything with bullshit estimates they pulled out of thin air so they're not getting punished for missing work or bad guesses.

I just assume if the company is doing agile they have lost faith in their developers when it comes to organizing or producing value.
Government investigation finds Tesla FSD engaged during the Bay Bridge pileup
To expand a little here, betaflight is by far the most widely used for anything that isn’t a navigational drone. Mainly freestyle and racing.

Ardupilot is the most popular for navigational or ‘serious’ drones. It’s way more complicated to setup but offers many advanced features for different craft types and navigation. I used this system for the first time last year for a VTOL aircraft and the setup was daunting - and I’ve been using Betaflight/iNav since their inception many years ago.

INav is kind of a middle ground between the two. It’s a fork of Betaflight with added navigation features and a heavier focus on fixed wing aircraft- way easier to configure than Ardupilot but not nearly as many advanced features. Mainly used for long range or wing pilots who want navigation features but don’t need the kinds of advanced stuff Ardu offers.

I don’t really hear anything about px4 anymore.
I mean, you probably need automated CI before this becomes likely as otherwise people just forget to run the tests...
Comparing size without considering population will only lead to bad conclusions. Could you imagine someone claiming cancer deaths in Germany aren’t a problem because it doesn’t have near as many deaths as the US, it’s not even close? Sounds silly, right?

The US is reportedly 62nd in the world in libraries per capita. [1] Given the US has more wealth per capita than most of the world as well, I think claiming we underfund our public library system is fairly obvious.

[1] https://onlinegrad.syracuse.edu/blog/best-countries-book-lov...
This is sort of why I wrote the article. Professionally, I’ve seen tests just cause tons of noise and offer little benefit. So I tried applying it to a personal project on a whim and found some unexpected benefits
The real question is why can't we get much denser housing (e.g. condos) and a smaller commute.

At least for Seattle, it seems like the liability for the builder and the costs don't really justify building for less than some un-sellable amount (e.g. $1k / sqft) [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/wnkwvp/comment/i...
Surely the laws are more general than VCRs? Or should I add a tape drive to my computer to make it legally a VCR?
Think of Java 8 => 9 and .NET Framework => Core as two other examples of what happens when breaking backwards compatibility.