skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a plan to pay down technical debt - because it carries interest. In this case the interest is payed by slowing down the development of new features. Also, paying the interest, i.e. incurring slower and slower new feature development costs, doesn't touch the debt principle.

This is why we adopted the concept of technical debt, the term encompasses much, more more than just "bad code."
I use sqlean for the same reason that I use any pre-built library: it makes my life easier.

sqlean's existence provides the kernel around which other things in the ecosystem can coalesce. For example, karlb's sqlite-sqlean pip module [1], which makes it easy to get these extensions in any Python project in a cross-platform manner.

I've used the math library myself recently: the SQLite in my distro is 3.31. I could install the tooling necessary to build a new SQLite, or I could use this project.

I also use the crypto library in my datasette-ui-extras library, which can run on a variety of end-user platforms. It's nice not to have think about the packaging myself.

To each their own, of course! But for me, calling this "mostly noise" is a disservice to its maintainers.

[1]: https://pypi.org/project/sqlite-sqlean/
https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/311...
Is this true? I'm in the market for an AMD card just to switch over to linux. I'm on an old 1080.

Most discussions centered around the various linux communities seem to parrot that AMD is the way to go now because of open source drivers etc. I always wonder how much of it is an echo chamber.
I'm no expert, but you might be interested in: https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/

There's also a Haskell version if you'd prefer: https://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/

Idk how to do this in python as I'm not really good with it, but in C, to make your compiler a JIT, you would `mmap` a region as writeable, write the machine code to it that you already know how to generate, `mprotect` it as PROT_EXEC instead of PROC_WRITE, cast the pointer to the region to a function pointer, and then call it. These functions may be available in the python sys package but I don't really know.

I've implemented a "JIT" that takes machine code as hex and does this. Warning: it's complete garbage with no error checking but is a good proof of concept. https://gist.github.com/martinjacobd/3ee56f3c7b7ce621034ec3e...
It depends on the college. I have two friends who are professors in the same subject (a humanities-ish subject that is reading/writing heavy).

One is a professor at a low end CSU. The way she describes her students is roughly high school level; they struggle with tasks like writing a 2-3 page, 3-point, sandwich-style essay. They struggle with reading primary source material. Her senior students typically seem to have the kind of skills I would expect of a college freshman. Many students have severe life disrupting issues (rehab and court are common). Deadlines seem to mostly be a suggestion.

The other is a professor, again in the same subject, at a relatively well ranked and famous north eastern liberal arts college. The way he describes his students is that they engage, handle very dense primary source readings, and that many of them are on track for grad school or law school. I am not sure what he assigns them as final assignments, but I would assume 10-20 page final papers are not uncommon. He's never mentioned anything about behavioural issues, though like every other professor he notes that accommodations/mental health stuff is worse than it used to be.

I also thought "boy, ChatGPT seems to be closer to what was expected of me in 10th grade English than it does to any university course I ever took", and frankly I went to a mediocre Canadian university and didn't really go to a competitive world class university until my PhD.

So it's possible that the push towards everyone has going to colleges has created greater stratification from college to college. The CSU system's mandate is to serve the underserved, so it's probably not a stretch to say many of the people in my colleague's classes wouldn't have gotten into college without an explicit effort to make a college for them.
We are slowly making some progress, new streetlights are generally shrouded better than they were in the past. But then LED lights tend to be harsh, towards the blue end of the spectrum. I'd like to see shorter lights with warmer color temperature, at least.

There is a section of I-5 between Portland and Seattle, perhaps a couple miles long, that has blue streetlights. Like, really blue, not just blue-ish white. It's like driving under a blacklight. The Internet tells me this is the result of a manufacturing defect and the effect is not intentional. I hope they replace them soon, they're kinda distracting when you're driving.
Whether or not 100% enforcement is ever possible, I think speeding is penalized only because it's an easy thing to objectively measure, even if you can't get 100% of it. This is sort of the McNamara Fallacy in action.

But the really dangerous people on the highway aren't typical speeders who might go say 85-90mph when the speed limit is 55-65 mph. In traffic that isn't dense and clustered, high speeds in and of themselves are not a big problem.

The really dangerous people on the highway are those who aggressively change lanes in dense traffic, weaving in and out of traffic trying to find the narrowest possible gap to slip through where no safe passing gap exists. This is much harder to objectively track and measure unless a cop happens to sneak up on the dangerous driver and sees them firsthand.

Counterintuitively, I believe that the highways are made far less safe from speed limits because this tends to cluster up all traffic together so impatient people (who are going to exist no matter what) are compelled to dangerously weave in and out of dense clusters of cars which is the most likely thing to cause an accident.

If you made one or two lanes available with no speed limit so the aggressive drivers could be free to have their way and don't have to interact through slow drivers, I'd bet that most problems on the road would be solved. You want to create a situation where impatient people don't have to interact with the slower drivers.
> I feel like Google is quite down to earth

Google likes to present itself as hypercompetent and full of the best engineers that exist on the planet. In that sense, Google is the exact opposite of "down to earth". Being down to earth involves humility, with is not the image Google projects.

Many others do overestimate Google's abilities and expect Google to accomplish the impossible. But it seems to me that they're encouraged in this line of thinking by Google's own PR.
Agree. I would add that "Shit-talking" is necessary in any healthy organization. Employees needs a space in which they can talk openly with other peers (usually, their equals) about what they don't like at the organization. If you cannot have private DMs for that, well, employees will use other channels (e.g., Telegram).
I'm a bit like you, I do like my time being alone and I almost never feel lonely.

But I also know people who do silly things when facing the fear of being alone. For them, perhaps being alone equals to loneliness. For sure, it makes them suffer.
It does...

It states that yes; ironically, it also uses them interchangeably multiple times throughout the article.
For that, I believe you need to use cargo-geiger[0] and audit the results.

[0] - https://github.com/rust-secure-code/cargo-geiger
And skiing in winter.
That shouldn't stop you from contacting Google Ireland. They are part of the same company and are their local legal presence after all. If you send them a certified letter and they sign for it, that's it.
Completely agreed - setting up Sandstorm itself is a bit of a hassle. Once it's installed, additional apps on the platform are extremely easy though.

Thanks for pointing out nextcloud! Hadn't seen that one before.

What's your project btw?
> those instances _should_ be easy to trace and prosecute

I suspect that the employees aren't merely doing a sim swap attack with their work login credentials. Like you say, they'd clearly get fired/prosecuted for that.

Instead, I suspect criminal X buys a nice thing delivered to employee Y's house. Then, criminal X phones the helpdesk repeatedly till they get connected to employee Y during working hours. Then, they claim to own the phone number of victim Z, but have lost the phone, their id and everything else. But they manage to tell employee Y the answer to two of the secret questions "What is your gender", and "Did you use the internet in the last month?". The employee uses this, together with their judgement to proceed, according to company policy, and issue a new eSIM.

Later, when anyone finds out, the call is listened to, and the employee can legitimately say they were just following policy.
git log is no changelog...
Not that long ago (2016) they had:

Servers:

SQL Servers (Stack Overflow Cluster)
2 Dell R720xd Servers
SQL Servers (Stack Exchange “…and everything else” Cluster)
2 Dell R730xd Servers, each with:
Web Servers
11 Dell R630 Servers
Service Servers (Workers)
2 Dell R630 Servers
1 Dell R620 Server
Elasticsearch Servers (Search)
3 Dell R620 Servers
HAProxy Servers (Load Balancers)
2 Dell R620 Servers
Redis Servers (Cache)
2 Dell R630 Servers
VM Servers (VMWare, Currently)
2 Dell FX2s Blade Chassis, each with 2 of 4 blades populated
4 Dell FC630 Blade Servers (2 per chassis)
2 Equalogic SAN PS6000-series
Machine Learning Servers (Providence)
2 Dell R620 Servers
Machine Learning Redis Servers (Still Providence)
3 Dell R720xd Servers
LogStash Servers
6 Dell R720xd Servers
HTTP Logging SQL Server
1 Dell R730xd
Development SQL Server
1 Dell R620

Network:

2x Cisco Nexus 5596UP core switches (96 SFP+ ports each)
10x Cisco Nexus 2232TM Fabric Extenders (2 per rack)
2x Fortinet 800C Firewalls
2x Cisco ASR-1001 Routers
2x Cisco ASR-1001-x Routers
6x Cisco 2960S-48TS-L Management network switches (1 Per Rack)

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...
https://archive.ph/40TMK
I Made ChatGPT Cry [video]
Extending Containers with Kubernetes Device Plugin
That includes many people who are on TV or in movies a lot! Most of them are not Tom Cruise and are more or less expendable.
Why not just use preshared keys in all VPNs like IPSEC?

Because key exchange and key rotation is a huge problem.
Living reshapes the brain.
I hate to break the bad news, but people break laws all the time, including in the UK. People will just manage the risk exactly like any other law they choose to ignore.

Criminals still carry blades as weapons in the UK, despite it being a strict liability crime and at risk of stop and search.
Thank you for this link! I, like a moron, kept looking on the play store for something and only saw garbage. Never thought to sideload.

The nagging in the android launcher has got more and more obnoxious recently. Half the time I open an app it asks if I want to "add it to my discover" with the only options being "yes" or "later". Infuriating.
I think what people are missing in my complaint is that the classic problem being faced right now is airline companies trying to force people to accept vouchers in lieu of refunds. In the US this is illegal as I understand it but they're doing it anyway.

But that's not what happened here. Rather, this person requested vouchers and changed her mind long after realizing they'd take longer to redeem than expected. Sure, BA ought to offer a refund even now -- but they didn't force the person to take vouchers it seems. She knew what the risks of vouchers were and asked for them anyway.

To me, this seems to be evil, but a rather lesser evil.
Most of the costs of manufacture are fixed or at most scale linear with mass, so the range of costs to mfgr the smallest commuter car vs the hugest truck are, at most, perhaps 3 to 1 but more realistically 2 to 1.

"The market will bear" a consumer paying 5 to 10 times as much for the largest fanciest SUV or pickup truck vs the smallest cheapest commuter car. Therefore the profit is VASTLY higher on larger cars and there's an immense motivation to get as many customers as possible into the biggest cars. If you can get a customer to pay 6 times as much for a SUV that costs 3 times as much to make, that's a huge profit lost if the customer is permitted to buy the commuter car.

Another way to phrase it is if almost all your profit comes from selling giant cars, then the customer experience of buying a small car is always going to be awful.

The people buying the largest vehicles are not concerned by cost, so increasing the cost of large vehicles via taxes or fees or regulation only makes the situation worse. You'd like to think that a 20% surcharge on large cars would result in fewer large cars sold, but the guy buying them is a general contractor and he needs the pickup truck to make money so he's just going to pass the cost on to real estate inflation and the extra 20% is going to motivate the dealership even harder to only sell expensive cars.
Seen from my window, Whatsapp gained traction as free international messages and voice - which are only attractive for usage across international boundaries, which is uncommon in the USA... Maybe that partly explains why SMS lasted longer in the USA.
Funny, most people I know, regardless of age, prefer working in office.
I do too and I think its mostly so that I can actually talk face to face with my colleagues. I think socializing is definetly an important part of work

Maybe this I'd a divide in work culture? Everything I've ever heard of American work culture is negative.
They had the foresight to make a lot of the wages variable comp so this is less of a problem.
I wanted to know a bit more about the car and in particular I was curious about the brakes. The A34 Super Track package the car has added discs in front[1]. As someone who once owned a '68 Camaro with drums up front, phew.

1. Per https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/1970-71-dodge-chall...

The car is up for auction later this year:

https://monthly.mecum.com/2023/01/06/historic-street-racing-...
No freezing or notable stuttering for me. I switched to wired internet for better consistently higher bandwidth videos as my wifi is super swampy. Some applications like Netflix would normally be able to lower you to a smaller sample rate to compensate for bad conditions, but most applications will just be inferior in studders, skips, etc
I'm surprised, it actually did pretty well with a prompt I've been trying on all the generative AIs: "princess volcano kitty cat"

https://imgur.com/hVfCIwU

I use that prompt because it's something my preschooler draws on a daily basis with no qualms at all, but can often be hard for generative AI to imagine.
So it's getting close to the imaginative abilities of a 3 year old! Halfway there.
A lot of colleges now have what amount to transition classes for high school kids who can't hack it in college. The upside of these is that they seem to actually help students who went to shitty high schools or who needed a change of environment. The downside is that typically they don't count for credit but they still cost money.
Stands to reason. Most of the working population is borderline illiterate in English anyway, why would anyone want to major in it?

One thing some of the STEM-is-the-only-way-to-keep-the-wolves-from-the-door advocates might not realize is that generally at top schools humanities majors have to write a lot, which is good preparation for, well, anything that involves writing, ranging from writing for the hell of it to law and business consulting. Not a bad life if you can wrangle it.
There is, the extension listed there is specifically for case-insensitive comparison of unicode strings.
For those wondering... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/ubiquiti-sues-jo...
I trust Krebs even more. He messed up, he knows it, and he's motivated to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Linux-factory is a powerful and innovative open-source project that is making it easier than ever before for developers and Linux enthusiasts to create custom Debian-based operating systems. Whether you're a seasoned developer or a newcomer to the Linux world, Linux-factory is definitely worth checking out!Great work @clayrisser sir...!! Hope you will reach many more milestones in future sir..!!
hehe I wish~
To be fair, that kind of verbosity is an obvious belt onion: it was the style at the time.

That said, after struggling through it a couple of times, taking time to reread portions, it really painted a vivid picture, casting a Gothic pall over the scene in ways a more to-the-point passage might not.
I played a bit with little stories based on video game lores (Morrowind).

I think I enjoyed the back and forth, the ability of me giving the rough sketches of the story and scene and then the bot filling in and adding some details. Then I could use those details to further the story.

It's still not there, but mostly because ChatGPT is too terse and biased towards everything being OK. Nonetheless, it is a lot of fun to have a story-telling copilot.
With narrow AI, the truck will drive to the Austin-Bergstrom airport and launch a generative country music career. (There are venues at AUS where country music legends play.)
"Begs the question" is an idiomatic phrase in English that works in that context.
“We want to help one another. Human beings are like that.”
The conveyer pizza ovens I've seen had configurable speeds and temps on them, though nobody ever touched them. I always assumed it was for different altitudes. So the tracker program likely already expects configurable times.
I just tried to draw exactly the same thing. I'm no artist, so I thought a house, a tree, the sun and some clouds were my best bet (like I drew when I was 5; now 55). :-)
It's not even the dose here, it's the reactivity of the chemical bonds. Sodium fluoride (alkali-halogen) bonds are a lot more stable than halogen-halogen bonds. And a Chlorine Trifluoride bond? Woah.
There's enough purported primary source data here that I am inclined to believe this reporting entirely.
And that means Microsoft is the problem, not the third party chat service!
There was a time where almost everyone majoring in liberal Arts could make a decent living. They were viewed as educated and had an open door to almost any career. I knew many liberal Art majors who ended up programming and as tech writers in the early days, never mind sales/marketing. And I am sure quite a few ended up in Business due to their learned communication skills.

Also, I had Uncles (non college) who worked selling carpets, worked in grocery stores who were able to afford a very nice life. They were able to put their children through college.

But since the early 80s, those jobs are now a race to the bottom. Now it seems you are hired only if you are pigeon holed into a specific career, and if that career path becomes obsolete, you are SOL.
> steam of consciousness

I've got bad news about the 20th century- James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, the hits don't stop coming
Dumb question as a non expert, but if I'm trying to prevent bad thing from happening on my employees phones, why am I blacklisting "bad" apps instead of whitelisting "good" apps?
Keep in mind this downturn is largely created by Fed policy receiving support from the same tech companies it’s causing to lose money. Say what you will about the previous inflationary environment but it certainly wasn't hurting the financials of big tech.
As a current Ford Mustang Mach E owner I laugh about stories like this. The Mach E had so many TSBs, recalls, software updates, attempted software updates, updates that _bricked_ the update ECU (the APIM module) that I have no worry what so ever that this will ever work reliably in this decade.
And all the silicon valley layoffs, likely filled to the brim with people that conscienciously documented their replaceability for their employer, will look at that "high school clique" and remark "that's how you deal with sociopathic management".

Yeah, eventually management will nuke the whole division, but at least it provides those with jobs a bit more runway.

How much of the bemoaning of such adversarial tactics by engineers themselves is simply annoyance at what it causes them at their jobs, or the fact they have internalized pro-management propaganda?
The answer is to do a double major in Computer Science and English.
Why not use a distro that has the literally built in?
They don’t really have to all get together and agree given their similar interests. Read “Political Aspects of Full Employment” for a longer exploration of this idea.
Legacy admissions?
haha! At this rate, in the future, fooling an AI will be considered a form of hacking and met with computer fraud and abuse or inauthentic behavior charges.
How a tiny theater makes $2.5M in 5 months
What protects children is communication with their parents, not that third parties can read their messages
There is no way for a human to operate a car safely over a mid to long period of time. The human brain does not have bandwidth to process all the information taken in while driving a car. Eventual the driver will get into an accident with a high probability of injury and possibly death. Cars are designed to filter information from the environment. A driver can't sense what is around them. Cars are too big and too heavy. Infrastructure demands are too great. The fuel costs are too high no matter what fuel you use. A cars fails on practically every meaningful metric.

Walking, biking, and public transit in a livable community is the only rational way forward.
Speeding was just a convenient example. Shoplifting would work just as well. So would jaywalking, or loitering or disturbing the peace.

Penalties are set high because in the US they're enforced only irregularly. If the US moves to some kind of near universal enforcement, problems will occur because of that.
A Survey of Perspectives on AI
No: your beer died, you cried into your dog, and your wife wouldn't start.

Yes: your truck still ran away with your fishing boat and eloped on BLM land.
I'm sorry, but you are not being "berate[d]". Your take was bad and it is being constructively criticized.

A senior engineer should be making an impact outside of their own team and to do that you need to be an effecitve communicator.
Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks
On the other hand, when I see "track record","taste","potential" I immediately get the feeling that there's plenty of room for elitism.

Taste is highly objective, and in the professional setting that's a huge pitfall for people being in the in- or outgroup.

Track record could go either way, but I have yet to see companies that for example value steep positive progress after a downturn. Whenever track record has been mentioned at other companies, they've expected it to be monotonically increasing aka "steady performers".

Potential is notoriously difficult to judge. Aspirations are easy to BS.
HRV sales have consistently blown away even the all-time peak year of US Fit sales.
> The society we live in shoves loneliness down your throat and goes on to celebrate that.

I primarily blame the Internet (or more generally, online interaction). Aside from little bits of oasis like HN (which, of course, still has no shortage of its own problems), the Internet is a big toxic brew of hate. Sometimes old school hate (racism, etc), but hate over everything else. Hate for people who like Teslas, or iPhones, or pickup trucks, or cars in general, or single family houses, etc. It feels like everyone believes the rest of the world wants to hear them bitch. (yes, here I am, bitching)

No wonder everyone feels lonely, it is hard to get any connection in such an environment.

Sometimes I think it endangers my own sanity, the more I am exposed to it, and I kinda want to /dev/null everything but wikipedia. LOL.