skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://tholman.com/ - Largely JS experiments dating back 10+ years. Sometimes I scroll right back to the start and can appreciate the long journey I've taken from scrappy student to now.
> You need to explain how citations affect accidents.

No, I don't. You're plainly demanding a standard of evidence that you wouldn't in any other domain, especially if you were inclined to prefer the explanation. I'm going to take "citations affect driver behavior" as axiomatic, unless you can disprove it. I'm not going to wait until we have 100 studies to confirm that a commonsense mechanism does indeed function in the most parsimoniously explained way.

We have to act in the world.

We don't have 100 years to figure out if ticketing drivers affects their behavior to some ridiculous standard of evidence you invented just now because you would prefer that explanation weren't true.

People really need to stop allowing themselves to be held hostage to this kind of special pleading.
https://skife.org/

Kind of on pause for last few years, but not dead :-)
Oooh, really putting me on the spotlight for not having updated mine or written anything in a while haha!

https://thecapegreek.com
So +/- a year and there is a chance for one that "just works" without fuckery? Nice, I might pick up one for some home automation.

Specs wise it looks pretty interesting as it could be used as pretty much all in one (2x ethernet for router, PCIe for storage, even work as WiFi AP I'd assume) for what I currently have router and NAS for.
devcontainers (e.g. in VSCode) make local development with Postgres almost as easy as SQLite.
> As if the only value anything has is by how much dollars it makes.

Thanks for highlighting this corrosive attitude right up front.

The current US frenzy in this attitude started in the 1980s (remember Boesky, portrayed by Hollywood as Gordon Gekko: "Greed is Good") and went into overdrive over the last two decades. But it's certainly been popular in other times in US history, as well as elsewhere.
Half of these are just banned Reddit users....
https://paeselhz.github.io/

Every time I try to put myself to write regularly, I fail miserably. But the ones that I get to complete are mostly related to data analysis on public data that I found interesting, or technologies that I've been working on.
Controlling the rate and location of snapshots, mostly. I've broken out some kinds of datasets (video archives) but not others historically (music). It doesn't matter that much, but I want to split some more chunks out.
I can not imagine fucking up worse than stopping GoogleBot. That’s gotta be a massive part of their funnel for new users. Besides a total outage, that’s an issue that will cause all of your numbers to start to decline quickly. This is obvious and foreseeable easily, so either Elon said “fuck google,” or they rolled this out with absolutely no consultation.
> are the culmination of all the work of customers reporting bug

Aren't these supposed to go into Stream?

> So, yes, it effectively conveys many of the certifications and system requirements to receive support from other companies. The clones have been promising "bug-for-bug" compatibility for a reason, and that reason is (in part) to ride the certification coat-tails.

Yet, it is not the same as certifications. Certifications apply only to the original RHEL; clones are in the gray zone: it should work, but if there are problems and you need to use them, you better have it on RHEL.

> If these things were not true, there'd be none of this drama.

The drama is there, because RH/IBM thought, they could squeeze those customers, that use both CentOS and RHEL (usually CentOS for dev or staging and RHEL for production); they wanted it all.

I can understand if those companies file support cases that originated in CentOS and RH things, that they abuse their support contract. That's not OK. But RH has it's own skeletons in closet, too.

The clones themselves are a collateral damage there.
Clmn – Just Columns and Tasks
Clmn is a beautiful native task board app for macOS. It is thoughtfully simple and incredibly efficient; offering just the right amount of functionality without any unnecessary frills. Clmn is specifically designed for professionals who primarily work on laptops.
Yeah, but it's thrown inside my mailbox without my consent instead.
Haven't written in a while, but the blog on dataism deserves it's own thread and I'm extremely proud of it here -> https://www.reubence.com/articles/how-dataism-is-revolutioni...

All Articles -> https://www.reubence.com/articles/
Independent of any judgement of the particular research at hand: everything about this is political. Lots of people, in particular parents but also others, dislike and fear that young people are losing their life on "screens", i.e. mostly smartphones, gaming.

Note the "dislike and fear", which is fully subjective and fundamentally not based on evidence. This is regardless of whether there actually is data to support this position; the fear exists nonetheless, and data can only back it up or contradict their intuition.

Most politicians have children, and most of the voting body has children.

This is very much a politically charged issue.
Terraria has the best patch notes hands down. Everything is fully detailed visually, the devs show it with examples https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/terraria-labor... Nothing comes close to this.
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes, or Hybrid

Willing to relocate: No generally (but would move to California for the perfect job)

Technologies: AWS, Typescript, Node.js, Java

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SmNp9C-6sgWDh2yUQTZmIBKB6ZP...

Email: Reach out to email in CV

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackcgardner/

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I'm a Tech Lead in a London based startup, where I create an AI Coaching tool for gamers, ex-Amazon Prime Video. ~7 years of experience as software engineer. In the startup I'm leading a team of 4 engineers, mix of Senior and Mid-level engineers.

Technical experience primarily is: in backend but can make frontend changes when needed, in system design, technical vision writing, and technical team management. Outside directly technical experience I also have experience with: company strategy, product development, and pitching.

I have a good mix of technical leadership/management experience, as well strong technical delivery and technical design skills. I can co-ordinate work amongst other engineers, as well as directly lead and drive the out implementation myself.

Looking for a company where I can any of the following: 1) Engineering Management, 2) CTO/CTO-like experience, 3) High profile software engineering IC, e.g. Staff/Principal Engineer, that implements but also has strong mentoring impact on other engineers. Not strongly settled on whether I'll be looking at IC or EM as next role, but I do take great satisfaction from growing other engineers and seeing the whole company output great product in turn.

I like to focus primarily on B2C consumer applications (particularly very product-driven companies), but not against any particularly interesting B2B company either.
Ideal company size is 10-50 in size, where engineers/product is a strong driver of the company growth.
I think the existence of Scientific Linux was one of the things keeping RH honest until then.

In 2019 the Scientific Linux developers announced they would stop development and collaborate on CentOS instead.

At that point Red Hat had captured the RHEL-clone world, leaving them in a position to destroy it.
If you put a self driving car in an alien place (like roads with thick glass panels mounted on them) it wouldn't get very far either.

In fact, put a self driving car inside an actual jungle and it would do worse than a fruit-fly inside one of our "concrete" jungles.
> It turns out the reason static typing seemed like a pain at the time is because we didn't have good tools.

Java IDEs were certainly highlighting errors, auto-completing, refactoring etc in 2008. Admittedly IntelliJ (the most impressive one) didn't have a free version then.
I agree with where you're coming from, but half the problem is caused by this needless bundling, putting everything on a single device. A cheap used tablet is like $100. Get one just for work junk. Use it when you need it, otherwise forget about it. Having to spend that money yourself to help corporate check some compliance box is certainly over the line of what should be, but depending on how much you'd otherwise have to argue it's perhaps a better use of your time.

In general I find segmenting things across devices a great way of mitigating overstimulation hell. Like most people I've got some trash toilet game I've become habituated to, but I only do so on a particular device that otherwise stays home. If I'm out and about and have to wait for a few minutes, there's zero temptation to pull it out and check in. Also it's simply unable to surveil my movements, as opposed to say trusting the OS permission system plus having to work around its shortcomings with something like an always-on VPN.
A frontend for it, similar to Apple's Reader View: https://scribe.rip

Setting up a redirect for it greatly enchanced the internet browsing experience for me.

source: https://sr.ht/~edwardloveall/Scribe
The dataism blog is rough around the edges, since it was on of my first few pieces of writing long format online. So go easy on me :)
I read a comment on hacker news that I cannot find now, but it resonated deeply with me. Don't try to answer the question "what do you want to be?", answer the question "what do you want to do?"

I answered the wrong question, I said "I want to be a musician". And what I did was teach music I didn't care for, perform music I didn't care for, work for people and gigs I didn't care for, made a salary I didn't care for. I had high skills and expertise that wasn't being used; I was never paid for playing one of Bach's lute suites, I made a lot of money off of really simple wedding music.

What do I want to do? Play music that I'm passionate about. Make enough money to not be uncomfortable. Work in a field where expertise and knowledge is useful on a regular basis. I'm very happy now to pick up gigs for free because I like the gig. And as a side gig, I'm a full time programmer.
Technically, yes: through the use of Truenas that gives us API access to iscsi on ZFS.
They don't seem to have medical emergencies that can't be solved by one of the surviving kids running out of the mysteriously unattended classroom and fetching an adult to triage.
"“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.” "
I meant more from a standpoint of random USBs from the public being plugged into their computers.
The production and storage of hydrogen is expensive, had the downside of requiring a large tank in the car and is less efficient than just using a battery.
https://xeiaso.net

Near 400 posts, writing about a lot of stuff. Here's some of my favorites over the years:

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue - Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/a-weapon-to-surpass-metal-gear - A weapon to surpass Metal Gear

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/%F0%9F%A5%BA - : the best sudo replacement

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/sleeping-the-technical-interview - Sleeping Through the Technical Interview

- https://xeiaso.net/blog/experimental-rilkef-2018-11-30 - I Put Words on this Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now

https://xeiaso.net/feeds to subscribe. Been considering an email list.
Yeah, there are a lot of misconceptions about how containers work, and partly that’s due (IMO and experience) to the earlier days of containers, before we had things like standard formats and interfaces.

It’s also partly complicated by higher level abstractions like Kubernetes, Mesos, Racher, et al.

So at the minimum, pushing these workloads to containers with existing codebases would likely just replace the “certified on RHEL X” with “certified for use in RHEL X containers on RHEL X hypervisors, managed by container orchestration platform X version Y” and so on.

Epic has been working on an implementation of their client application (Hyperspace) as a web app (Hyperweb), and that’s probably where we’ll see any new abstraction from incumbent players with large install bases for quite a long time.

Edit: typo
https://vijethph.github.io/ruminations/
I do love the ideal of multi-cloud in theory but the practicalities aren’t so simple. It’s hard enough for businesses to pull it off, let alone someone who’s providing a free service.
Update 170 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
How many of your classmates did?

At my primary school, we were encouraged to bring computers to the classroom. The school also had many classes full of computers, and laptops too - all older second-hand models, but that didn't matter. We used them during most "normal" classes - not just the IT class. My last year of school we also utilized smartphones since that became the next big thing around 2010. Today they hand out tablets instead of laptops.

Almost every one of my classmates works in tech now, or at least makes heavy use of computers/programming in their out-of-tech careers. Practically all of them make many times more than the national average wage.

No, this wasn't a school for gifted students - in my country we go to the school we're assigned based on our residence. Incredible luck I got where I was. I'm sure half of the kids would live a very shitty life had they lived few streets away, but luckily thanks to the computerized education they got, they were able to overcome their bad upbringing (alcoholic parents, etc).

It's very sad that someone thinks a global ban is in any way good. Sure, if they can't handle it - let the schools ban it. But a global ban that would prevent innovative schools and teachers from teaching about/with it? That sucks big time.

And I just don't get why the governments aren't rather thinking about how to integrate the tech into the class on national scale. This whole thing seems political to me - there are many conservatives that just hate modern tech pushing for this. The porn argument is stupid - porn is part of modern life, teach children about the dangers of it, or they will overdose on it once the leash is gone; and it's not like the kids don't have a phone after school, who the hell would masturbate in school anyways. Same with social media.
> actual confiscations led to larger concerns (e.g., students who were unable to contact their caretakers after school).

Would it have been possible to grant access to a regular old school phone near the principal office or secretary office for outside calls ?
Check: https://github.com/MakieOrg/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl
>Because you are still more efficiently using that 2nd doctors time. Time is the resource in that case.

Yes, it is a more productive use of human human capital and time.

I think that time is a different resource than the parent poster was talking about when they spoke of resource-depletion-driven collapse, physical limits, and unsustainable growth.

I take that to mean they think physical material consumption must always go up if we want economic growth. This is why I tried to point out that economic growth can include many things that don't need raw materials.
I rarely get to work at all three. I think that is a manifestation of my principles - when getting paid I don’t feel like what I want to do comes into play as much as what my employer needs. When they do, it’s awesome.

Right now it’s two of three (SaaS + embedded) and that’s cool with me.
I don't know, this kinda feels like RMS always complaining that we don't call it GNU/Linux. Like, yeah, I get it, you deserve credit for sure, but...really?
The amount of delay has increased over the last 20 years with a blip when everybody was locked down. Lane miles have not kept up with population growth or increasing sprawl, and investment in alternatives to traffic is quite poor.
I would expect page cache to be one of those platform-dependent things that prevent OpenZFS from doing that. Especially on Linux, and especially because AFAIK the Linux version has the most eyes on it.
Obligatory mention of leading concrete-engineering YouTuber https://youtube.com/@TylerLey . He’s discussed Roman concrete in eg. https://youtu.be/U86tlUiFM1s .
Out of those hundreds of interviews, can you discern some clear patterns, that are common to all candidates that impress positively?
> A modern CPU should be able to decode 1080p in software without breaking a sweat.

Not true for modern codecs such as AV1
https://tynan.com

Been writing for almost 20 years, at least monthly, but for most of that time weekly.
English: https://blog.danieljanus.pl/

Polish: https://plblog.danieljanus.pl/

And a recent foray into Substack and the realm of newsletters, a report from cycling Land’s End to John o’ Groats, completed a week ago (in Polish): https://danieljanus.substack.com/
https://daanmiddendorp.com

All static using Jekyll, no JavaScript, no external libraries, hosted on a CDN.

It helps me to think and straight things out, especially when things become an micro-obsession.
Moreover, blogging contributes to my personal branding.

Topics: Travel, Finance and Engineering.

My recent favorite:

* Exploring Greece's innovative fight against tax evasion: QR codes, snitching apps, and VAT lotteries https://daanmiddendorp.com/financial/2023/04/03/exploring-gr...
Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched in EU
Too big, weird button placement, and I'm not a fan of the overall aesthetic

> That link looks sketchy, btw.

Yeah, it kinda is weird, but that's your typical Chinese website.. lol

GPD is the company that pioneered the handheld gaming PC form factor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbFPXLB7GI4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K9ByWPqYtc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpjrbHFv_dA

And this one, 6 years ago already! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lslcH-T1E0o

Makes you realize Microsoft could have owned the handheld market if they weren't this incompetent

https://twitter.com/SeamusBlackley/status/164838536603307622...
How DOOM Fire Was Done (2018)
I can't use Youtube without Blocktube. Currently at 11,000 blocked channels and still going strong - it's amazing how the same junk keeps cropping up just under different names.
What else would i need to request the certificate?
>but if you manage to create a commercial software that reach even a fraction of libjpeg-turbo's success, you'd get very rich, with lots and lots of zeros on your bank account, and a family free from material problems for decades to come.

This is a non sequitur, given that libjpeg-turbo has reached libjpeg-turbo's success and its author is not several times very rich. It is unfortunately very possible to create a product that's very popular and that takes a lot of effort to work on, but which most people are not willing to spend any money on.
I'm not sure delegating would have saved him either. I think his boredom about marketing shows a missing essential curiosity about things. Boredom kills!
> schools ended up adopting an "out of sight, out of mind" policy around phones

This was how it worked in my schools two decades ago. As long as you didn't use your phone there was no problem, but otherwise it was the teacher's discretion on how to handle it (within limits). Usually that meant confiscation until the end of that class, on rare occasion they'd allow calls/texts as long as it was shared with the class (to embarrass them into not doing it again).
How is air resistance the issue here? We are talking about the powerband of the motor. These are two independent concerns that ought not to be conflated.
There's room to improve the median experience, sure. Maybe not a whole lot, though. And I'm not sure people making it to 110 is positive; I'm interested in actually living, not a couple decades of being warehoused.

> I haven't felt like we've been very close.

I'm not saying you personally felt like that. I'm saying that that the "sci fi things are just around the corner" routine is perennial. AGI and robots and flying cars have been coming soon for longer than most people have been alive.

I also note that "couple therapies that each buy a few years" is a major retreat from the point I was actually adressing which was life made unrecognizable by salamander limbs, etc.
Thank you! I'm waiting to write this post (I follow Patrick Collison's advice methodology -- wait 10 years before you can accurately reflect [0]).

But here's Marc Andreessen thoughts:

> "Seek to be a double/triple/quadruple threat."

He talks about the MBA + Undergrad Engineering combo in this blog post. https://fictivekin.github.io/pmarchive-jekyll/guide_to_caree...

[0] https://patrickcollison.com/advice
https://blog.blockingqueue.com/

Unfortunately i don't write that much
My level came back at 305 so they won’t offer any treatment.
> One can not even pay or use public transport without smartphone!

Children are not allowed to ride the bus inside the classroom either. So I guess we're okay.

> Large number of students in Nederlands do not speak local language. Smartphone is essential for translation and communication with them.

Nobody is doing this on a regular basis, except maybe during an intake session. If something exceptional comes up then the teacher can use their phone to translate.

> It also allows calling 911

Not going to try, but I'm not sure 911 works here. 112 is the emergency number (and that's an actual worldwide standard, works in the USA as well).
More than ten years of consistent, substantive updates. Never had an expansion or DLC or "season pass" or in-game purchases. Best gaming $15 I ever spent.
I searched a bit through the documentation and code and these were my findings.
I thought I'd share them for others that are interested and for future reference.

Currently, there are no domains blocked, they would appear on this API endpoint:
https://firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com/v1/buckets/mai...

This is the json schema for this API endpoint:
https://firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com/v1/buckets/mai...

More information on the remote settings in general:
AMRemoteSettings Overview - quarantinedDomains: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/mozapps/exte...

Remote Settings documentation: https://remote-settings.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Remote Settings Devtools - where you can see all the remote settings, that get set: https://github.com/mozilla-extensions/remote-settings-devtoo...
https://medium.com/p/a410f83b4cc

Energy related
I think so, in part. To be clear I’m not claiming it’s the only driver, nor the largest, but it’s undeniably large nonetheless. Consider that Google’s entire search existence is funded by ads, and there’s loads of competition. Basically all of TV and a lot of online streaming is ad funded. Magazines and radio and print media all get large portions of revenue via ads.

I agree people would still spend money in a world without ads, but we don’t currently have that world, right?