skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you managed by project manager?
I've noticed a trend in tech where the Project Manager's role keeps expanding. It feels like its reached a tipping point where they are actually calling shots technical. They are making decisions an Engineering manager should otherwise make. Have you noticed this trend? How do you manage your project manager? What does this role do at your company? Should we get rid of this role?
But even now, many social networks, chat apps, and especially banking apps don't work without google play services. Yes, you can circumvent some of the requirements using different workarounds and hacks (micro G, app patching, etc.), but in some cases, even the basics (such as notifications on new messages) don't work without some google-based blob somewhere.
My second link is pretty much the same as the numbers you're giving.

What's the difference between my first and my second? I don't know. If you force me to guess, post-retirement and/or terminal care, possibly?

> like most developed countries, close to a majority of people are net recipients (around 40%)

Yes, and? Isn't much the same also true for private insurance?

You've got the potential for arguing about what "fair" looks like; I'm fine with it being funded like a progressive tax, based on income rather than risk factors, but that's not hugely important.

> I think if the OP does the math based on their actual numbers, they'd be more likely to find themselves in the ~1000€/month ballpark than the 150€/month they seem to think they are paying.

I would assume that zer0tonin pays whatever they say they pay. They're likely to have better insight into their own finances than random internet strangers like thee and me.

> The Netherlands (11% of GDP) is not quite as extreme as the US (17%), but it's certainly nothing to write home about, especially as I don't get the impression that either health care expenditure as percentage of GDP or demographics are moving in a favorable direction.

The direction of movement may or may not be favourable (given the pandemic I assume "not"), but the USA is kinda the outlier in developed nations for spending a lot without delivering particularly good outcomes:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_vs_h...

(Sourced from: https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low)
Xylitol gum is the best
thank you for the correction!

I'm not sure where to find clear "membership" of the PBLLC but I assume they have to file paperwork showing something where they are registered. I haven't been paying too close attention but I'm sure some people are interested.
If I search the intro to robotics course online, I see there is a playlist from Stanford but the videos are 14 years old. Does anyone know if there are more recent videos? Or are there other courses that are good for robotics?
> The interesting question is if there is a bot net spreading in Germany since the 17th of June.

A minor addendum: Looking at the csv file, it looks to me like traffic began drifting above the mean about June 6. From there I see a ramp-up, growing at an increasing rate.
The HN article Twitter Is DDOSing Itself (sfba.social) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36553236 links to https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639435788921057

The instance of mastodon that I have an account on is https://techhub.social

I can't interact with the sfba.social toot directly. Clicking 'boost' (retweet) gives me instructions:

> With an account on Mastodon, you can boost this post to share it with your own followers. Since Mastodon is decentralized, you can use your existing account hosted by another Mastodon server or compatible platform if you don't have an account on this one.

> On a different server

> Copy and paste this URL into the search field of your favourite Mastodon app or the web interface of your Mastodon server.

---

Similarly with 'reply'.

So, I can only interact with that toot on my home instance which is a bit of friction. Not necessarily a bad thing, but there's friction there.

Mastadon isn't too bad however. Interacting with it on my home instance only brings that toot over. One and done.

Subscribing to a community or trying to interact with a post in Lemmy, however, puts a larger and ongoing operational cost on the server as new comments appear and votes are cast.
For me, stevia is disgusting. Aspartame is OK.
> climate doesn't even appear in their list of issues at all:

Did you look at the link name? Here, we can use the wayback machine to check it around the same date as the New Yorker article[0]. I feel like I have to say you need to specifically also check the about page where you'll confirm it is the same organization.

> why are you claiming this is the best example?

I claimed this was a 30 second googling example where I could find more than a $10k donation from a small charity.

> the Koch Brothers aren't an oil company anyway.

That's weird, because the head image of one of their companies is an oil refinery and that company provides gasoline among other things[1]. Not even the only company they have that works with fossil fuels.

> All these replies are reinforcing my point

Are your points movable? Because I'm assuming not. It does not seem like you're willing to allow for alternative viewpoints. I saw in another reply that you just didn't accept someone's source. It does not seem like you're engaging in good faith and willing to look at what people are presenting to you with more than a glance. That doesn't allow for your beliefs to be changed as you're not even actually considering alternative viewpoints. If you want to engage and actually discuss things, we can. But clearly people are giving you a shovel and pointing to a place to dig and you're coming back and complaining about how you found nothing digging with a spoon.

Complain about the Gates Foundation all you want. Fine. I'm not talking about them. They aren't relevant. Propaganda can happen from more than one side too. But you have to actually look at the facts and get some expertise knowledge. You have to challenge your own beliefs, not just find evidence that supports them. There's always evidence to support yours, or any belief. Even of flying spaghetti monsters. But "evidence" is a loose term and not a binary thing.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130530051112/http://www.noclim...

[1] https://www.kochind.com/companies/flint-hills-resources
Isn’t the A-10 basically a 30mm auto cannon with wings attached to it? The last two times this came up there was nothing with that kind of power.

The F-15 has <checks> a 20mm gun with 15% less ammo.
This is, actually, the erlang/elixir concurrency model, (with a lot of tooling behind for doing it well).
You owe me a paycheck. That's it.
There are probably much less risky targets to rob/kidnap than someone who's inside a metal box of cameras that's monitored by remote operators able to dispatch police.
what happens if the program crashes? with no init there is no way to restart it?
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What topics are good for a Project Management Primer?
I'm creating a Project Management Primer as an e-book to help students learn about how to work on projects, programs, portfolios, and the like.

I have 100 topics or so thus far. What topics do you suggest that project managers and teammates should learn a bit about in a primer?

https://github.com/sixarm/project-management-primer
I'm surprised you did a double take, considering the article is about aspartame, a replacement for sugar.

What would the other choices be when you're talking about substitutes? Why would you expect the inclusion of items that are not substitutes?
Compilers (for C and C++) typically provide mechanisms to control padding and other layout requirements as necessary to make this work.

It's not that unusual in C and C++ code to define a struct that has a specific and well-defined memory layout. It's kosher, as long as you accept that you're working with a specific set of real compilers and use the appropriate #pragmas or other controls as needed to avoid undefined behaviour.
Tackling Americans' weirdly short life expectancy should be a priority.

But America's weirdly short life expectancy should be an equal priority.
You can't be landed gentry if the "land" you moderate is leased to you by Reddit itself.
One of the nice features of Google reader was that you would see discussions of urls by people in your contacts.

A similar filter could be really useful for this sort of discussion plugin.
No, MSG is fine.
You would be mad to buy a LHD vehicle in the UK. In fact I am surprised it's even allowed.
The incentives against speaking up to people up the chain are very strong, and sometimes management does illogical things for logical reasons.

I worked on a POC of a vendor product that, frankly, sucked. No one wanted to buy the thing but few would speak up to say so. No one could understand where we would use it or why. UI was 20 years out of date, it used an esoteric OOP scripting language instead of SQL, it was slower than our existing system, and no one had ever heard of the thing before. Basically it repeated all the existing complaints about our current stack, worse.

CTO was IN LOVE and it was clearly not a POC but a matter of finding an excuse to buy it & tech lead to own it.

My teammate and I were two of the few tech guys DGAF enough to clearly communicated it was a bad product, to which the response was that it was getting bought and they really wanted us to run the project, lol. No thanks. We both left within a year.

So why? After I left I found out.
The CTO was rather on the outs with our major business side stakeholder, and that guy had told him his buddy had this product we should really check out. So CTO saw it as - let me score some quick points by doing what the stakeholder says, and just minimize the blast radius of wherever we integrate it.
But that is basically adding liquid fructose, sugar.

The dose is what makes the difference here.
You’re right that governance structure matters. However, people speculating about ownership instead of researching it doesn’t help much. Each organization is different and analogies aren’t facts.

Looks like Dorsey had a seat on the board as of 2022. I don’t know if there’s a good way to find out if that changed? The closest thing there is to an official web page is the FAQ and blog articles that it links to.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/2-7-2022-overview
It's a harder EE problem than you think. For example the Samsung Galaxy S8 was attacked by analyzing video footage of the power LED of Logitech Z120 USB speakers. Those were most certainly on a different power supply and the two were connected by a long wire.

There are circuit level solutions but the solution is not a $0.01 MLCC.

And once you solve the LED problem remember: The S8 was attacked by plugging in a peripheral to it’s 5V USB supply. Imagine if the peripheral was instead a high speed ADC that just measured 5V USB directly…
See "When acrylic aquariums fail", in Plastics World.[1] That article lists the major acrylic aquarium failures up to 2018. Since then, the AquaDom, listed in the article, failed.[2] Not the same problem, but does involve thick acrylic sections under water pressure.

Acrylic does not come without drawbacks. The engineer needs to have full knowledge and understanding of these drawbacks to successfully design, manufacture and assemble an aquarium that will stand and support aquatic life for years. To ensure longevity, the typical large aquarium is designed with a factor of safety of 11 to 12. This may seem high, but when one considers the implications if one of these large aquariums were to fail, and the sudden, catastrophic event that occurs when they do fail, it becomes more understandable and acceptable. Unfortunately, aquariums have failed for various reasons, leading to tremendous damage, huge monetary losses and, at times, complete loss of the aquatic life. There have been high-profile public aquarium failures, which typically involve huge aquariums, as well as private aquarium failures that range from several hundred to thousands of gallons of water loss. Some common reasons why acrylic aquariums can fail include:

- Poor bonding of acrylic panels creating a weak seam

- improper installation

- poor manufacturing of the acrylic panels, resulting in inferior strength and stiffness

- residual stress molded or formed into the panel during manufacturing

- introduction of large gouges or notches that can significantly increase stress in the panel

Unfortunately, these issues commonly do not reveal themselves during inspection, assembly or the initial setup stages. Further, when the actual failure event does occur, which is typically months to years after installation, it is quick and catastrophic. The seam or crack opens nearly instantaneously without warning. The phenomenon behind this is called creep rupture—the disentanglement of the molecules of plastic over time, at a stress level significantly below the yield strength—yes, below the yield strength—of the plastic.

[1] https://www.plasticstoday.com/materials/when-acrylic-aquariu...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/aquarium-explosion-hotel-aquadom-fi...
Yes, that's the point. Because it is extremely difficult to prove something is safe, and it takes a long time for the effects to show up, we should be extremely cautious, and stick to things which proved themselves through the passage of time.
This article is like a summary of the book, I guess? The book itself is very, very good and worth a read.
Niall Ferguson gave his opinion on the "AI as a threat" problem.

The position is immediately pessimistic, not projectively in terms of future AGI:

> As my Hoover Institution colleague Manny Rincon-Cruz says: LLMs don’t manipulate atoms or bits; they manipulate us. [...] // We are already well on our way to Raskolnikov's nightmare at the end of Crime and Punishment, in which humanity goes collectively mad and descends into internecine slaughter. If you still cannot foresee how GPT-4 will be used in 2024 to “flood the zone” with deepfake content, then I suggest you email Eliezer Yudkowsky

Also contains some nice new label

> The more I read about GPT-4, the more I think we are talking here not about artificial intelligence (i.e., synthetic humanlike intelligence) but inhuman intelligence, which we have designed and trained to sound convincingly like us

- though it is faulty, as it paradoxically risks antropomorphizing the actual process stretching the term "intelligence" in a dubious area.
"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes." [1]

I actually highly recommend the rest of computerphile YT channel - basically, it would seem that most of these guys actually teach computer stuff for a living.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It would be easier to make a street car free. As driverless cabs dont need parking and can use daily updated maps. There would be very little resistance if a street gets converted to a small park. People would have to walk 5 min further to pick up a cab.
As long as it's kept away from dogs. Xylitol is deadly poison to them, and one of mine seems to like the smell.
Under this logic, twins would share the same drivers license. :)
"Visual inspiration" is generous. The models are a direct 1:1 copy of the in-game sprites, which sounds like a "derivative work" to me. IANAL.
It makes generating from templates in certain (many!) instances needlessly difficult. I say needlessly, because the rule is seemingly arbitrary. I can't see what purpose it serves.
"Note that this study was funded by Ajinomoto via some kind of blind-trust arrangement"

Tells you everything about that all important often cited paper
On the contrary in every library I have been to you just walk in and browse the books. Last time I went to a university library a librarian was more than willing to help me find the books I needed and didn't ask any questions at all regarding my identity. I dare say that she would have refused to let me walk out with the books but that's understandable and anyway I wanted to refer to them not take them away.
Every sugar has its own flavor, just abouts, with different peaks and durations. All sorts of odd concoctions are out there.
How the BPE tokenization algorithm used by large language models works
Shelly is pretty good for this. Their Android app really sucks badly but the good thing is you only need it for the initial setup.

Whatever you do, don't buy TP-Link. Those had local control but they removed it due to "security concerns" in an automatic update. And of course promoting their data mining cloud had nothing to do with it.
How so?

There is a difference between long-form writing and long-winded writing.
The logic mostly works, stuff that is very harmful, with early onset of disease has been filtered out that way. Stuff where harm is (statistically) less likely or appears very late can get past the filter. It could very well be that aspartame is in this latter group or may even be entirely harmless.. being extra cautious with new stuff is still rational.
For all Linus' hate of C++, it just keeps creeping into the kernel.
I would assume that there has to be an element of getting used to and your brain starting to expect the version that you tend to consume. I, for instance, have never drank the non-diet versions of sodas on purpose, even as a child, so when I occasionally buy the sugary versions on accident and try drinking them, they taste quite foul, and I could not imagine drinking them for enjoyment, only for thirst if they were the only thing available.
With the SAT, there is nothing that intentionally restricts other people from performing equally well. It is an objective measure in that we know how it is calculated for every single student. We can audit the scores

With the "personality score" we have proof that the score was intentionally created to lower the chances of Asians getting through. Moreover there is no way to audit the scores of a particular student. They do not explain how a score is calculated. Moreover, Harvard alumni scored Asians on par with their other peers, meaning that the metric was created almost certainly to discriminate
The stereoscopic animation is really something. That's pretty cool.
They are an acquired taste. That isn't a joke by the way. As you decrease the amount of sugared soft drinks you consume and switch entirely to diet, it won't be long before the ones with real sugar start to taste gross and the fake sugar tastes good. That's what happened with me anyway.
Actually, let me correct myself - if you look at alpha in Fig 3 (the intercept at 0 poverty, or the very wealthiest) the death rate continues to drop in absolute terms for everyone - the death rate is only increasing in absolute terms among white Americans in the higher poverty index range (so the slope or beta is increasing with poverty as time goes on.) So poverty.
I’m not sure how we’ve gotten from the state of water being a scale of temperature to specifically why 0 on that specific scale being variable… The choice to choose the state of water, regardless of its variability, wasn’t an arbitrary choice. That’s what’s being discussed. Arbitrary would mean it was chosen on a whim, which objectively it was not.
This is the 101 debt trap propaganda narrative. Few years ago McKinsey field reports of 1000+ PRC firms across africa and 90% of employees were locals. There's studies back in mid 10s that show 70-80% localization figures across PRC infra export projects. Reality is PRC/BRI localization depends on project timelines - quick ones use more experienced PRC labour, long ones integrate more locals, because at the end of the day there's deadlines to meet and govs/people of underdeveloped countries want better infra fast. PRC supply, local demand, and even corruption mostly align in these deals. And what is even "extremely predatory", of course if they use PRC tech they would become more dependant to PRC supply chains just like they would be dependant on west when using western vendors. The western cope is thinking there's something wrong being dependent on PRC who has established industrial base to deliver and sustain these capital projects cheaper than west. Underdeveloped countries with limited indigenous capabilities have to choose who to be dependant on regardless, and without conflicting geopolitics like in ASEAN, PRC is the easy partner of choice.
Who moderates wikipedia?
I just keep remembering the original Half Life 'can your computer handle this test' and thinking "This is the absolute height of tech, footage from within a game displayed in-game, live."

And now... I mean my god. This video made me feel both incredibly excited, and terribly old.
macOS has no exclusive apps that I use, while most of the games I‘m interested in and lots of exotic inhouse tools only work on Windows.
It's typically about ten percent sugars by weight. Adding a little fruit juice to your water results in one tenth of a little sugar.
I've become convinced that there are very few, if any, reasons to MMAP a file on disk. It seems to simplify things in the common case, but in the end it adds a massive amount of unnecessary complexity.
Also in Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutines-basics.html#structure...

Java proposal: https://openjdk.org/jeps/428
Some (hopefully) constructive feedback. UI looks great. FWIW I don't dislike the "cartoon people" as per the other comment - much more original than the usual stock illustrations you see.

But... I wouldn't get as far as downloading this without having a much clearer idea of whether this is a standalone app - fully offline - or some sort of cloud/SaaS service ala Notion, with a desktop client.

The integrations and the "dedicated project workspace" terminology makes me think it might be the latter?

Either way, this should be made clearer I think.

But the concept looks very nice!
I've never gone more than 12 business days after an abrupt exit in the three times I've convinced myself to do it. That being said one should _always_ keep their employment options open (and available).
I just don't get how people are content to consume this stuff

This may be pedantic or overly literal but: do some folks not understand that the same food substance may taste wildly different to different people?

I'm with you, by the way. Alternative sweeteners taste like absolute poison to me. Like I've accidentally sipped some industrial cleaning chemicals or something.

But I'm also one of those people that likes cilantro. To some people, it is incredibly nasty and it "tastes like soap." My impression is that some people think us cilantro-enjoyers actually enjoy the soapy taste as opposed to simply not experiencing the soapy taste at all.

The difference in experience is not because I enjoy the taste of soap. Cilantro just simply does not taste like soap to me! Based on all available anecdotal evidence that is why some people enjoy the taste of artificial sweeteners: it actually does taste like sugar (or close enough) to them and not like they are chugging cleaning fluids.

(edit: softened wording, clarified)
First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
If you really don't feel like fuzzy searching is a thing, then I have to say that I'm delighted to meet an omniscient being. I wish I was at your level where I could know about abstract mathematical concepts that have not been mentioned in many of the vast books I have read or finding out if specific concepts outside my fiend of study have specific names associated with them as well. I'm trying to learn a lot and to get to your level, but I don't know a better way that sifting through the fuzziness. Sometimes I google and google and just noting turns up because terms are overloaded and the other thing comes up far more since they are far more popular. Maybe you can help? Teach me these google-fu.