skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a big fan of agile, especially the more formal it gets. The problem that engineers have with it is that it does make things slower. Moving fast is absolutely not the goal of agile. The goal of agile is to make the development cycle predictable, so that all the moving parts of the bureaucracy can be at the right place at the right time. All of this stuff around estimation is really intended to make sure that unknowns are minimized, so that the list of work in JIRA or whatever is somewhat reflective of the actual work required. That lets the rest of the organization react to whatever the engineers are doing in a somewhat intelligent way. You can look at the progress bar on an epic, look at the date, and reasonably answer that question from a customer in the form "XXX bug is ruining my life, I hate you guys" "that will be in our Q2 release" "oh wow, I actually love you guys". That sort of interaction is what is paying your salary, so spending time to make it easy is what keeps the sales and support teams alive.

I don't have any evidence, but I think it's an undeniable fact that coordination effort is very expensive. We are all familiar with how fast our 1 person weekend projects go; you spend 12 hours on Saturday evenings on something, and it feels like it progresses faster than what your team of 30 people is doing at work 5 days a week. My opinion is that projects scale exponentially with complexity. A 1 person project takes 1 person. A 2 person project takes 2 people. But then, a 3 person project takes 4 people. A 4 person project takes 8 people. A 5 person project takes 16 people. By the time you are at big company sizes, you might have 30,000 people vaguely working on the same thing; by my rule above, that's a project that's 15x more complex than a 1 person project. That's why it feels like "my friends and I could make Twitter over the weekend, why do they need 30,000 employees!?" You're thinking that results scale linearly over the number of people, but it really scales logarithmically over the number of people. So now you're 1/30,000th of a 15 person project, and you don't feel as productive. You are 0.003% of the equation. If you work 10x as hard, you're 0.03% of the equation. It just doesn't fit with your mental model of productivity that you extrapolate from personal projects (where it's 100%, or 110% if you had a really good cup of coffee). That's why it feels bad, but it's also why management is not super concerned that you are spending 20 hours a week in meetings. Oh no, now you're only 0.0015% of the equation.

The final question is, why does society put up with this? The answer is, there is money in these projects that are just a bit more complicated than a software engineer's personal project. You will be remembered more for the 0.003% contribution you had to the moon landing than you will for making the absolute best ever music file organizer. It sucks, but that's how the Universe works. You can embrace it, or you can fight it. But if you want to stave off the heat death of the Universe, you might need a team and a plan and maybe a few meetings to share the plan with your team ;)
If this exact same thing had happened 20 years ago, we would all agree that the people to blame are the ones behind. The person who rear-ends another is almost always at fault.

So even if FSD made the very poor decision to slow down or stop right there (and I will point out we have good reason to think this was not FSD, but rather autopilot or human driving), the blame still goes to the rear-ender.
He just has to continue his efforts to drive away all the remaining advertisers.
what do you use it for in real life?
If the execs and managers can't get out of the mentality of planning X deliverables for Q3, Y deliverables for Q4 and Z feature by December 10th to satisfy a $10m customer then it becomes hollow and fake no matter how genuine and well meaning the consultants are.

I dont really blame them. They've gotta eat, and occasionally they probably do get a client who is genuinely willing to enact a real transformation. Dysfunctional upper management is the real problem.
When your programmer is also a thief.

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I was in a similar situation as yours for the past year or two.

I'm not in the states, so I cannot provide any insight on that aspect.

As Hermitian909 suggests, investing in hiring someone to assist with tasks such as cleaning, cooking, and laundry can be immensely helpful.

As you have said, your employer is supportive, don't change jobs. There is no way to predict if a new employer will be as understanding and accommodating of your situation. Having a life-threatening disease means that you may have unexpected emergencies at random times and need to leave work to attend to them.

Ask your employer to let you work remotely. It will allow you to provide better care for your partner. And, most importantly, spend more quality time with them. You never know when the time will change.

This advice may be difficult to hear, but record videos with them. Pictures are nice but videos have something magical in them(Speaking from experience.. I lost my partner a couple of weeks ago).

It is not possible for you to be with your partner constantly. If possible, consider relocating your home to be closer to either your or her family. Or you can move in with them semi-permanently for support.
>great classic Planetfall

There's an extremely inside joke about me in Planetfall relating to the author's rather odd sense of humor. And, no, I'm not going to reveal it :-)

Planetfall is probably one of the more accessible Infocom games even if less-known or less name recognition.
on-premises*
I have first seen this tech demonstrated in 2012, but apparently the idea dates at least as far back as the early 2000s or even the 80s (EDIT: the 80s ones I had in mind were probably different). I was pretty hyped for it back then, but there have been barely any mentions of it since. Let's see if it actually makes it out of the lab this time, and if it actually delivers.

2012 GE video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm5fXj-hUpk

Reddit comment mentioning some of the 2000s attempts: https://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/z9vn21/better_than...

Top comments mention some innovative cooling solutions from 2000s and earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn6qVv9HzHc
Is it possible that by linking to smile, your amount is reduced by the smile amount, or that it operates differently when the affiliate link happens first and the smile insertion happens second?
> I will point out we have good reason to think this was not FSD, but rather autopilot or human driving

No, the actual research says otherwise

> If this exact same thing had happened 20 years ago, we would all agree that the people to blame are the ones behind.

No, not if someone comes to a sudden stop in a busy lane.
The eighteenth page of the PDF.
It’s still data. I’m not saying it’s great data, I’m just saying it’s some data. And I get downvoted?
I lent almost none of my DVDs and VHS tapes(!) back in the day because the fact of the matter is /people never gave them back/. Not even good friends.

It's one of those lessons I learned early in life. If you're going to lend something to someone, do so with the expectation you're never getting it back.
You're right, and honestly I was just trying to think of something to try to shift the narrative. There are other advantages to Python, personally I really value its expressiveness, the plethora of good tools (Jupyter, PyCharm, Spyder), and the massive amount of libraries in different domains (beyond all the scientific stuff there's Panda3D, pygame, Django), but I don't think these things are selling points to those in the MATLAB world. Having used MATLAB to a medium degree, I know that if you're just trying to get something done you can do it, so a more expressive language is not really a selling point. The extra tools and libraries might be a better talking point, but yea I was just trying to find some angle that I could leverage to make the guy curious about Python.
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I have a Tesla with FSD from 2018 and it is indeed really nice in stop and go traffic. There are definitely situations where I don't trust the car, but keeping a lane on the interstate and creeping forward it does really well.

It seems like something that other manufactures could also easily obtain with fairly little innovation.
Ford’s BlueCruise and Cadillac’s SuperCruise don’t require hands on the wheel.

The difference, as I understood it, was in this system the driver’s full attention isn’t needed, unlike the systems above.
These devs are, quite plainly, gaming the system (I'm talking about F-Droid specifically). They have found that being on top of 'last updated' list leads to more installs, and are churning out versions.
Just posted and already people who don't really understand AVs are comparing Apples to Oranges (this to Waymo/Cruise) and Oranges to plastic Oranges meant for a doll house (Tesla)

Waymo, Cruise and co are working with sensor stacks worth more than these vehicles with the idea that their vehicles will first be used for ridesharing. That already precludes most comparisons: it's a completely different model with completely different challenges.

Meanwhile Tesla does not have a single product that allows you to do other things without liability. Their product is downright primitive compared to what Mercedes is shipping with this.

When a Tesla murdered a man by slamming him into a highway barrier, the fact his phone had run Candy Crush at some point during the drive was dragged out against him.

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Maybe people are misunderstanding because Mercedes says you need to be awake and able to take over? They don't mean Tesla's joke steering jiggle to indicate you're watching the road: they literally mean you only need to be awake and able to take over in 10 seconds. Other than that you can be checking your email, playing Candy Crush, even whip out your laptop and code.

This is the first time you can legally use your time in traffic for something other than driving. If 30 minutes of your 60 minute commute are in rush hour traffic, you can now spend 30 minutes doing something else.

(Also for those who won't read the article, Mercedes has a separate lane keeping product that activates above 40 mph, the distinction is that below 40 mph, Mercedes is taking full responsibility of the vehicle's actions and letting you take your eyes off the road)
you can install `rustup` from a system package manager?
Hello, author here!

https://safecyclingmap.com is currently using Mapbox GL JS because I wanted to tinker with the Mapbox Directions API and geocoding. It also works great with Maplibre GL JS, I've got a branch ready to go: https://github.com/jakecoppinger/safe-cycling-map/tree/mapli...

The replies are also correct - I'm using the CyclOSM tiles (https://www.cyclosm.org), and the lane shapes are generated by osm2streets, which Dustin Carlino (https://github.com/dabreegster) wrote in Rust! (https://github.com/a-b-street/osm2streets).
> decidedly fake story

You type that, which is easy. Can you address the story on its merits?
The biological clock is ticking. She won't be able to have children [safely] when she gets out of prison. It's pretty understandable that she tries now, IMHO. Prison is not supposed to take away all of your humanity even before it began. She stole some money. Let's not be that harsh.
If they don't release it, then it's vapor. Not data. Just a PR story.
i see graph lines with names mostly hidden at the edges. firefox on android

Chrome in android just shows a static photo.

Not sure where this works, moving on.
There is a saying that coding is debugging a blank piece of paper. ("Piece of paper" tells you how old this saying is.)

"New code" just means "I want a program to do a thing, and it doesn't do it yet. That's a bug." The difference between "bug" and "new feature" is more a matter of perspective than actual development effort.
I loved playing Aardwolf years and years ago. I was a big fan of godwars type mostly. What a flashback!
A pair of 7x50s is small enough for most people to hold relatively stable with just your hands. You can also prop your arms up with pillows, etc.
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I genuinely don’t see any link between a bomb going off and a privacy protocol used to move financial assets.

The government is not allowed to put a camera in my house and watch me 24/7. Sure, I might be committing crimes inside my house. But unless the government can convince a judge that they suspect me of committing crimes that justify such a camera, they cannot install said camera.

Similarly, merely using a technique to obfuscate the origin of my own money is not enough to claim I am a criminal. I can do similar with gold coins and paper cash, and in high dollar amounts.

Eventually I’ll want to use my financial assets to purchase something, and at that point the receiver should ask me where I got my money (if legally required to) and with Tornado Cash I can fully explain the origin of my legal funds.

Acting like Tornado itself is enabling crime is absurd.
It's also really easy to criticize from an armchair.

Nothing to do with mechanical sense or athleticism, all to do with attention and surprise. Self-driving encourages people to reduce their vigilance - after all, that's what they bought it for, so they could do less driving - while at the same time it introduces a whole new category of surprises.

People are trained for normal driving. They are not trained to deal with this kind of emergency.

A self-driving system that can't be relied on and needs constant vigilance has turned the "driver" into a driving instructor who needs to do nothing except for occasionally correct the mistakes of the computer. This is a harder job than regular driving.
Apple started processing refunds for Twitterrific
Same type. It's urgggg feeling to re-watch a movie. I can say that I never, but I don't remember exactly so almost never is accurate.
Solid state originates in solid state physics, as opposed to physics involving liquids or gases. The MEMS on the device are moving due to solid state physics.
I wonder if compiling the game with ASAN would have helped here, saving a lot of manual digging for out of bounds accesses.
Hmm, there is some ambiguity in the author's writing style. I interpreted what you quoted above as "if you are in Safari.app or Preview.app and activate VLU explicitly, it displays the image in a QuickLook window." The author does say in https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/18/is-apple-checking-images... that:

> Although the original description given was ‘Finder browsing’, for some that might include the display of images as QuickLook Previews, by selecting the image and pressing the Spacebar... [The process triggered from this] is consistent with the briefer task used in Live Text, and quite different from VLU. There is thus no evidence of the generation of neural hashes or any search query by PegasusKit typical of the later stages of VLU...

> Local images that are viewed in QuickLook Preview undergo normal analysis for Live Text, and text recognition where possible, but that doesn’t generate identifiers that could be uploaded to Apple’s servers.
>It’s relatively easy to take over the controls which instantly disengages FSD or Autopilot.

What a naive assertion. Have you read takeover studies? Driver assistance systems put drivers in a state of inattention (universally, not just ones named “Autopilot” or “Full Self-Driving”, which undoubtedly makes it worse). Regaining attention and building a model of actors and hazards around you takes time — too much time to make the necessary split second maneuver to avoid an accident at highway speeds.

So, if you constantly have to maintain full attention even with FSD engaged, what are you really buying for $15k? You don’t get to sleep. You don’t get to watch a movie. You don’t even get to relax your awareness at all. If you do, the company that you paid $15k to for “Full Self-Driving” will say YOU were the one being irresponsible.

Basically, I see Tesla’s FSD as the following proposition: “Would you like to pay $15k to allow an overly-cautious and sometimes-erratic beginner driver to drive you around everywhere? Most of the time, this driver will drive so cautiously that it will frustrate you and confuse other drivers on the road. This driver may also get confused by shadows and abnormal visual phenomena, and this may lead to inexplicable emergency braking or incorrect path selection at any time. To help this driver, we’ll install a second steering wheel and pedals at your passenger seat so that you can take over driving at any time (which you WILL be required to do regularly and immediately). If you guys get in an accident, YOU will be at fault, no matter what.” Sooner or later, people will stop buying this garbage and just opt to drive themselves.
> compile errors don't get properly cleared on builds, so if there are multiple errors, it might just be that one of them is a real error, but the others are stale.

Oh wow, I opened it about once to compile something, had this issue and had to clear a bunch of caches. I thought I was holding it wrong. Signing to get an ios-on-mac app to run was also a hellish experience; I think I ended up using the iPad emulator to preview the thing.

It felt a lot like they don't want you to develop things and I guess that fits with their general perceived disdain for general purpose computing (download the big-corp SaaS app from the App Store and shut up).
>However, it's worth noting that the Mercedes Drive Pilot technology is only functional at speeds of up to 40 mph (64 km/h)

This seams backwards. In my experience the faster you are able to drive the easier it is to drive. Places with a small speed limit in the middle of town are much more complex to drive through compared to country roads where you just go straight.
Tesla requires the driver’s full attention. Mercedes do not.
Number of CS degrees on the verge of suprassing all humanities degrees
Someone find the memo from sbf demanding a switch to 128 bit longs
Lots of cars can do that, but the driver is still in charge.

This system doesn’t require that, the driver can pay attention to other things.
This is also true of DRM-free files on thumbdrives. More of my friends have devices with USB ports that can run VLC than optical drives these days (not to mention the whole zone thing, which is quickly a pain when you're a movie nerd)... thankfully generating a DRM-free file from a DVD is trivial.

- signed, someone who also owns lots of CDs and DVDs, mostly old non US-produced things that are close to unfindable on streaming services :)
Lesson: if the gov is after you, and you want to flee, buy a two-way ticket just for the reasonable doubt.
> Essentially, Tesla's EAP

Tesla has no Level 3.
Hello if you use a Wayland session. You might be interested in my video.
I think if you rephrase it that they "dragged the whole company out of the particular IT hell that is associated with banks owning, running and procuring infrastructure" it probably makes more sense.
> If they don't release it, then it's vapor.

Plenty of analysis is based on data that isn't released. And do you have data that says otherwise? Why should we believe you?
At that point just take it offline entirely. For security of course.
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This one is short, fun and illustrated with emojis.

https://memalign.github.io/p/dungeon-memalign.html
The cost factor of international complications along with the impossibility of meeting every country's speech restrictions simultaneously may be why Elon is reducing Twitter's offshore presence dramatically. It could easily become a US-only platform. Which may be the only way for it to survive financially while meeting free speech goals.
Now largely forgotten, UK company Magnetic Scrolls produced some of the best examples in the genre - but it might take some work to get them running, as they had (non-interactive) graphics and a simple menu/windowing system which were state of the art at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_Scrolls

The Pawn and Corruption received especially high praise.

Hard mode: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Bureaucracy, both by Douglas Adams. Bureaucracy is outright sadistic. I solved it with a friend over a couple months after us both failing solo for much longer, and we celebrated our win with alcohol. I still remember the crushing hangover, Adamsesque in its dimensions and intensity. Worth it.
There is nothing impressive about that guys. Traditional manufacturers are really lagging behind.
In particular the one that frustrates me frequently is Mitchell and Webb. Why in **s name did they have to lean on blackface?
Pointing in general is not very helpful in my experience.

The engineering manager should know the product area and code well enough to gauge the LOE for tasks and plan, without the unnecessary step of estimation meetings (which likely aren’t going to produce accurate numbers anyway).

Could also be a tech lead that does this, but prefer that they’re one in the same.

Of course there are many aspects of “pure scrum” I don’t agree with, such as a single sprint goal shared among the team
A hack at ODIN Intelligence exposes a trove of police raid files
I too was wondering about the resolution. Found it in the FAQ:

> Our current spatial resolutions range from 50cm to 3m for our optical sensors and 5m for our hyperspectral sensor. SkyFi will be frequently updating and adding higher resolutions.

https://www.skyfi.com/faqs
I just asked chatGPT if it could act as game master for a text-based rpg and it says "sure" and proceeded to start the story telling. Amazing.
FDA finds high levels of PFAS in certain foods, including chocolate cake (2019)
Ripped all my DVDs in 2010, donated them, and haven't looked back. Nowadays with Plex, I see no reason to ever use physical media again
This is the best explanation:

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Well, there's some more brand damage for Tesla.

That's the problem with encouraging a cult of personality as your primary method of advertising. The weak point is always going to be the personality.
The types created in compile-time code are just as "real" as the types you declare in source code.

All types become values at compile time. When you write a compiler, the parser creates ordinary values, perhaps instances of a Type type. The type-checking code operates on these values to find errors according to the rules of type theory. Compile-time functions are a way of calling user-defined code in the compiler, much like a macro but saner, and they can create types that can be used in declarations, verified by the type checker, and used as input to the code generator.

(Reflective use of runtime types in languages like C#, Java, or Go is different.)
> Pradyun's point about unnecessary competition rings especially true to me, and points to (IMO) a hard reality about where the ecosystem needs to go: at some point, there need to be some prescriptions about the one good tool to use for 99.9% of use cases, and with that will probably come some hurt feelings and disregarded technical opinions (including possibly mine!). But that's what needs to happen in order to produce a uniform tooling environment and UX.

Not to mention that all efforts would be focused on improving a single package manager. Even if the one that was standardized wasn't the "best" at first (by whichever metric you prefer), giving everyone an incentive to improve that one will likely make it the best within a few years.