skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it sounds simple in the article, I think in reality the difference between "Distorting the system" and "Improving the system" is often not very clear. Even looking at the example of a WBR metric that evolved over time[1], the final version incentivizes product behavior that may run counter to the idea of Amazon as an "everything store", such as down-ranking items that are a better match for what the customer is looking for because they aren't immediately available or removing a long tail of products altogether. Is that a distortion or an improvement?

[1]:

- number of detail pages, which we refined to

- number of detail page views (you don’t get credit for a new detail page if customers don’t view it), which then became

- the percentage of detail page views where the products were in stock (you don’t get credit if you add items but can’t keep them in stock), which was ultimately finalized as

- the percentage of detail page views where the products were in stock and immediately ready for two-day shipping, which ended up being called Fast Track In Stock.
From an engineering perspective, the entire project is genuinely useful:
It serves as a fantastic example of applied ingenuity. It's inspiring in fun ways, especially for the younger audience. It shows the value of prototyping, craftsmanship, DIY skills, and not taking things too seriously (key for trying new things).

Not to make this sound too grandiose, but I'm confident some children watching this guy will become engineers because they were inspired to build stuff. It is educational, and thinking "I'd love to see him put this much effort into something genuinely useful" seems to be missing the point on how useful this type of content is.
Location: Oregon, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but willing to have a discussion

Technologies: Clojure / Elixir / Javascript / SQL / Fullstack Web Engineering / UX Design + Research / GCP + AWS

Resume/CV: https://lwhorton.github.io/ (there's a link to my resume in here)

Email: lukewhorton@gmail.com

I have been a professional software engineer for >10 years across a variety of domains and technologies. I do my best work in smaller teams with direct access to customers/consumers/users and stakeholders. Given the choice, I would leverage clojure and its ecosystem (datomic, meander, ring, etc.) as often as possible.
Yes and also the idea to use green circles in the first place
Slashdot called and want their comment back, haha! Whitespace blocks significantly reduce redundancy and are quite elegant imnsho.

If you’re having trouble with them, use a programmer's editor with indentation guides like notepad++ or geany. These are considered basic features these days.

Other simple things which reduce Python annoyances are tools like pyflakes and the blue formatter.
Pretty sure if you get pulled over driving home on autopilot drunk, you're still getting a DUI.

It's amazing to me what people will do to save a few bucks on taxi fare.
What's your criteria for "good enough"?

I would like to point out that the criteria of "I don't want to see a single story in the news about self-driving accidents" is equivalent to an infinitely high standard that would immediately disqualify all humans from driving if applied evenly.
Didn't he get caught before he fully downloaded everything? My understanding was that's what he was doing with that laptop stuffed in a supply closet on the MIT campus.
That's an Android restriction, you need root to allow non-play-services to install apps.
Supply chains are a massive part of retailing, and they are are not fungible across countries: All goods sold in Canada have to comply with Canadian laws. That typically means repackaging to comply with product labeling and language laws, but there are other things. Canadian consumers do not have the same expendable income as do U.S. consumers. The net effect is higher operating costs and lower margins at baseline. When the economy gets tougher that margin matters.

Edit: Note that I’m not saying whether this approach is good or bad for Canada as policy, but the idea that there are no policies that shape the retail landscape is simply not true.
Same thing (on the housing situation)... except I'm currently in fear of losing my home to an active landslide that just recently took out my septic.

Currently been using a portable toilet, for weeks, with no end in sight. Perfect metaphor for the mid-life crisis that's fortunately been co-happening during this same shit period =P

Currently seeking land with less of a view, and more solid foundations.
Going on an adventure and finishing back where you started is not a bad result.
If you enjoyed that series you might also enjoy the Otto Prohaska series by John Biggins. It's about a submarine captain in WWI, so doesn't touch on sailing too much (well the 4th book does), but similar maritime themes. Probably the best series of novels I've read.
Definitely. But people believe they won't get pulled over because the car will drive itself fine.
I'm a little surprised that Amazon hasn't made (or commissioned) a small SBC computer to compete directly with the Raspberry Pi but one that is certified for and pre-loaded with software for AWS IoT applications (including Greengrass) and selling for about $99. At that price point you could sell both to AWS customers looking for inexpensive IoT systems for experimentation (or deployment!) as well as the general enthusiast market who could replace the AWS IoT bits (probably based on Fedora?) and put whatever distro they want on it. This would be a win-win for Amazon since the general enthusiast market could enable volume sales to keep the price of entry for AWS IoT experimenters low enough to try out (creating yet another sales funnel for AWS services).

I wonder if Amazon would consider using a RISC-V CPU for such a device?
Part of the confusion comes from partisan thinking. WEF supports 15 minute cities (aka walkable neighborhoods) because it's a better use of resources, there are benefits for 99%ers and 1%ers alike, urbanists and ruralites. The trouble is that our polarized system means if you think the WEF is evil, then it's impossible for any of their goals to be beneficial to you. Compare: Many people today believe that Hitler was evil, but will accept that projects like the autobahn or innovations in rocketry were mostly beneficial.

Dismissing all opposing views as "hateful misinformation" like the WEF and governments do isn't useful either. It convinces those who were suspicious of your motivations that they were right about you. The WEF videos never really explain any of the potential for good, they just exclaim with glee that this is a great opportunity to change the world the way they want. Completely tone deaf, I'd say some of these causes would receive less resistance without WEF "helping".

When it comes to the walkable neighborhood issue, the real conspiracy is that automakers "convinced" governments to create infrastructure that's miserable to nagivate without a car. If you've never been to cities outside of north america then you probably don't even know what you're missing. Those who think freedom and privacy are important (I certainly do) might want to consider that a car results in licensing, insurance, license plate tracking and gives cops an excuse to detain you arbitrarily.

The last but probably most important issue that gets left unsaid is that the current system won't continue to work. North American cities are broke from (re)building roads to subsidize trucking companies and mcmansion developers, they can't afford to continue doing so without raising taxes 300%. Even bigger: we'll run out of oil in 50 years. We won't run out of energy, just the cheap and easily transportable form that we've become accustomed to. The options are build railways, or quit bothering with silly things like "trade", "travel" and "manufacturing".
Very much so.

I work for one of the largest health care companies in the country. About 20 years ago, they started buying up the office buildings they were putting their employees in. Made sense in a lot of ways.

Then COVID hit.

In the post-COVID era, they've sold at least four of their buildings, two are sitting completely empty and still on the market and they've consolidated a majority of the employees (in my state at least) into three or four newer buildings. I've heard rumors over the next few years, more consolidation is in the works as they sell off most of their holdings.
The most obvious example: whistleblowing.
Why are you attributing a ranking to an initialism?
> he can now routinely drive home drunk

> So, relative to the confidence most non-technical people seem to have had, this percentage is still not high enough.

My confidence in self driving cars is boosted by my extremely low confidence in people. I know too many drivers who have no business being on the road sober, and other people who routinely drive drunk. I'm confident self driving isn't there yet, i'm also pretty sure that it won't be too long before it gets better than the average driver.
So individuals with Swyer syndrome who overwhemingly identify as women... are men.

And anyone that falls outside this binary definition... is neither man nor woman?
For what it's worth, the creators of Tor have stated their philosophy around that problem. Effectively that they shouldn't be the arbiter of what people can access
That's the first good coherent argument I've seen _for_ Citizens United. Thank you for that insight.
As a full-time pedestrian without a car, while I'm modestly afraid of autonomous cars, I'm really afraid of distracted drivers on their phones.
So about half of their revenue in 2020, according to that same page.
NASA Prepares to “Take the Plunge” and Explore Venus with DaVinci
5 years later women will be penning blog posts about "retaking Lena" - reclaiming women's place and free expression by re-appropriating an image maligned by a virtual signalling patriarchy (or misguided but mostly well-intentioned women misled by the same), and inferring that Jpeg's original female patron--and her empowering yet threatening-to-male sexuality--were unjustly silenced and written out of the history of the epochal format, in a sad yet common motif aligned with the history of sciences worldwide.

Lena's reappropriative reestablishment will be a clarion call for progress of women in computer science. After they light the fire, clean-looking male CS professors and open-sorcerer's with cute beards (who by then will have traded in the preferred pronouns blazon of woke supremacy with something even 'cooler') will join the call and show their women-saving prowess (because they definitely need their saving)--by replacing their profile pictures with those of Lena, or photoshopping themselves in miniature aside Lena in ancient-Egyptian-worshipper-to-divine-goddess style. And so the perverted cycle, of ethically priapismic virtue signaling, continues. I guess sexual selection in information society is destined to lead to ever more tumescently elaborate yet essentially idempotent/useless displays of...whatever this is.

But, nice pic. I particularly like how he's captured the smile, given it his own twist, and the dash of magnetic charm leaping out of his eyes is set off by his moustache. He he haw. ;p ;) xx;p
This sounds just like the early Simpsons episode where Homer quits the nuclear plant to work a rewarding job at a bowling alley!

https://youtu.be/T4MjXFV3q_I
Update on Redwood's California EV Battery Recycling Program
Build Web Applications with Lua and MS Edge Webview2
> why Iran getting a nuclear weapon would be a positive development for anybody.

Nuclear weapons deter invasions.
The absolute worst incarnation of this is "latinx". Don't worry latin world, the english speaking world is here once again to tell you how backwards your entire language and culture is! The absolute height of "offensive sensitivity" in my opinion.

> But a group of academics should not be able to sit around and decide that a group as a whole needs saving

If this isn't one of the core problems with every aspect of society...
Something to keep in mind when comparing CS with traditional engineering: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/154

Excerpt:
When they had reached the other side, Kaimu asked the first monk: “What have you learned from the bridge-builder?”

The first monk said: “The determination of a true engineer is an enviable thing. But if we were to work in such an inflexible fashion, the Emperor would surely drown us in our own Waterfalls.”

Kaimu asked the second monk: “What have you learned from the bridge-builder?”

The second monk said: “The frugality of a true engineer is an enviable thing. But if we were to cling so hard to yesterday’s technology, the Web would not exist for another thousand years.”

Kaimu asked the third monk: “What have you learned from the bridge-builder?”

The third monk said: “The predictability of a true engineer’s world is an enviable thing. But ours is a world always in flux, where the laws of physics change weekly. If we did not quickly adapt to the unforeseen, the only forseeable event would be our own destruction.”

The first monk asked: “Master... what has the bridge-builder learned from us?”

Said Kaimu: “Nothing yet. But when I touch a lit candle to the oil I sprinkled from my lantern during our crossing, he will learn the reason to plan for the absurd, the virtue of rebuilding in stone, and the wisdom of not insulting your customers.”
Correct (and bonus points for mentioning Raymond, we should hang out). But, and maybe I'm misunderstanding but aren't you just emphasising my point? As you show, Rowling is in many way a good 70's feminist but according to today's feminist, she's bad. In fact, she's considered a monster. Compare to a 70's physicist: They might be considered outdated for not knowing the proposed extensions to the standard model or that the standard model was empirically justified but nothing they believe is now considered wrong. The only conclusion to draw is that the field of feminism/women's-studies is known to peddle... for lack of a better term, anti-knowledge. Rowling would be better off today being ignorant of everything she was taught in the 70's.
I think there are worse outcomes here than getting a fine
I wonder if self-driving cars are going to be the second technology (after nuclear power) de-facto killed or at least stymied by demanding unrealistic/uneconomic safety standards.

Our media overhype fear and the civilizational consequences may be dire.

Edit: haha, a downvote in less than 30 seconds.
I had the same realization...so I took some bits of doomemacs/spacemacs and incorporated it into my personal emacs configuration. I am not great at maintaining my config or writing elisp in general, but feel free to reference my config if you wanted to take a stab at creating a doomemacs-like experience with your own configuration choices:

https://gitlab.com/gshulegaard/my-emacs

Disclaimer: This config is a bit perpetually dusty at this point, so I wouldn't copy it verbatim but instead use it as inspiration for some packages that might be worth looking into. JFYI anything that is from Marmelade might be worth avoiding as I suspect it is unmaintained given it's SSL cert expired in 2018. I just haven't gotten around to removing it from my config.
> Ten years ago the US Navy invented Tor, an anonymous web browser. Now the ‘dark net’ is used to trade guns, drugs and child pornography, do its creators have any regrets?

I hope they don't. I certainly wouldn't. Despite some of its glaring downsides, I firmly belive that Tor is a net positive for humanity.
> the office itself can be incredibly inefficient for someone that moves bits for a living.

It's interesting to note that when the CEO of Amazon published his letter about return to office, productivity was not listed as a benefit of RTO.
when I have a maus - scrollwheel

when I'm dealing with loadshedding and have to use my laptop by itself, two fingers, trackpad, moving in the direction of scrolling, like a regular person, none of the upside-down "grabbing the paper" rubbish that iKids like
There are even nice timelapse videos of that process: https://vimeo.com/464644850 (you’ll need a Vimeo account to see it, because Vimeo is weird like that. This was on YouTube originally, but it was taken down.)
No, and the article links to a StackOverflow question about this.
I wonder what percentage are afraid of non-autonomous cars.
It's probably not a good idea for a long run, but my daughter for a few years now is put into sleep with noise generated from the app. It was a life saver for us, to help her get to sleep. Otherwise we are too loud for her, or neighbors. I put the preset to a triangle starting high on red and low on violet. Also options to a delicate amplitude pulsing.

It is also very helpful to go to sleep if it is too loud also for adults.

It is a perfect app for me.
Because we took the set of internet users, and sorted everyone who wants to be intentionally offensive into 4chan. Which means there's not only a high density of people who like being intentionally offensive there, but that being intentionally offensive is socially rewarded, so over time 4chan users grow to want to be more and more intentionally offensive.
Yes, I considered that to be a good thing, but I also considered that we're standing on shoulders of giant tech debt. All banks, hospitals, governments and dishwashers run on software now and this needs to be maintained and kept alive.
There's some good reforms that decrease government intervention. Legalizing apartments, duplexes, additional dwelling units, by loosening zoning. Ending mandated minimum parking requirements to let the market set the supply of parking instead of having city planning officials go off dogma or old laws. The mortgage interest tax deduction has been reduced thanks to the standard deduction exceeding itemizing in all but the most expensive states.
I am a programmer that cares about quality software. I think we should professionalize the industry with certifications. I am also starting a business where I accept some liability for my Open Source software.

So this is a good step.

The only criticism I have is that the carve out for Open Source needs to be well-defined. I agree that FOSS like mine, where it's the basis of my business, should be required to be certified.

That said, I'm not sure I'll be able to afford the required certification. Will Curl or SQLite?

I think SQLite might, since it's already certified for flight. Curl might since it's been used in NASA flight.

But in both cases, the cost of certification, if it happened, was borne by the "customer." In the case of SQLite, it was Airbus. In the case of Curl, it would've been NASA. In both cases, the original authors did enough testing to make it possible, which would be a major cost for them.

I want my software to reach the same quality, but I couldn't, by myself, get it certified. It would take an outside entity that wanted my software certified for their use in Europe.

Edit: I also only have a Bachelor's degree. If I needed a Master's, that would be untenable.
No, you misunderstand; it was attacked in the setting of the game, several years prior to when it takes place.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/deusex/images/d/dd/Statu...
Who's going to pay to ensure Rust's web stack compliance? Do you really think that companies will magically start using Rust instead of C++ just because it's deemed it "safer"? No Microsoft, IBM or whatever will come with its own version of Rust, pay 100 millions for compliance reviews and this is what other companies will be forced to use, not Rust, of course companies will have to pay millions in license cost to use Microsoft's Rust.

How can anybody here not see where this is going and what is going to happen? We'll be back to the 80's/90's IT era where free software was deemed a legal liability. This isn't scare mongering, this is precisely what is going to happen. Who was in their 20's in the 80's here, working in IT? Not a lot of people it seems...
As someone who has worked for an Amazon supplier (as in, Amazon uses our components for their data centers), they are well known to be extremely cheap and capricious. They are the worst of the big tech companies to work with
> Almost every other engineering profession needs to adhere to a variety of standards and is subject to certifications and review, except for software engineers

Every other engineering profession has actual physical phenomenon that governs them, leading to concrete standards that can be applied.

Software doesnt. Debates on whether OOP or functional being 'the thing', client-side vs server-side delivery, typing or not typing, TDD or not and many more are still ongoing without any objective resolution. No side of any specific debate can objectively demonstrate their argument. Its all based on preference and biases. Even the concept of 'good practices' in any given field changes every 2 years.

In this environment, attempting to bring concrete standards in software like other engineering fields would just end up in whichever group getting the upper hand in the regulatory body or political parties enforcing their own paradigm on everyone else, at the cost of innovation and productivity.

...

This is before the fact that German business interests dominate the Euparl at this moment, and this law seems to have been crafted to cater to their interests - crippling and pushing out Open Source and private small software producers by ambiguous, brutal fines that they can never afford but the big business can. The users of these Open Source and private small software producers will have to go and become the users of the software and SaaS of these big corporations when those Open Source and small private software producers are bankrupt or pushed out.

The biggest and most evil attack on Open Source in decades.
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I prefer having strong governmental institutions with elected officials who answers to their voters compared to large corporations who answer to shareholders

Taking GDPR as an example, it shows that enforcement is done in proportion to the size of the corporation. Big corporations get fined, smaller companies receive warnings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbh1cNA0W2A
An issue and discussion of if now:
https://github.com/LekKit/RVVM/issues/77

This is not commercial and the terms for the logo is:
“(..) The RISC-V trade mark or the RISC-V logo may be freely used for non-commercial research
and academic projects as long as the guidelines below are followed. Individual members
may not use the RISC-V trademark for commercial purposes (..)”

So they will probably not remove it.
I'm afraid of autonomous cars.

However, way less than I'm afraid of any random idiot human who may or may not have passed a driver's test on his 5th attempt in some random state, driving at whatever diminished capacity (tired, distracted, drunk, etc.) in the worst weather conditions, who is angry at the car in front of me for some reason, driving on the highway near me.
Totally unrelated to this video, just related to the subject matter on YouTube. Interesting how some of these style videos are totally bs.

https://youtu.be/Hvk63LADbFc

https://youtu.be/_0-uLF9PtNo

Again just to be clear, I believe this channel is legit. Just the genre on YouTube has some disingenuous stuff.
And we can thank Tesla for that, not even because of the issues of their system there will always be some, but because of the issues with their PR and marketing.

If you promote something as "autopilot" and "full self driving" and "safe" and yes sure the fine line says you need to stay alert and ready to act in under two seconds but the marketing really implies it's just a regulatory thing, and then you have said system kill people because it's not self driving at all it's drive assists, then people lose confidence.

Hell, even people who are fully aware of that are getting worried now, not because they don't understand what it is or isn't, but because they worry the person behind the wheel might be misunderstanding.