skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is amazing that the beam was "dumped" just milliseconds before the magnet quenched! If that hadn't happened then the beam could have crashed into the magnet and caused a lot more damage.

Dumping the beam means diverting it out of the main LHC ring and crashing it into a specially designed buffer (I think it is a lump of steel or something). So cool to see this all happening automatically.
But wouldn't it be fair to say "these results of microwaving plastic containers and using soft plastic bottles show concerning results, so we'll say this other thing that is in the same ballpark needs to be researched and until then carry a warning"? I mean, it seems like guilty until proven innocent is the safe way for items used in producing or containing food, etc, no? Or would that cause too many problems?
I think Microsoft made it mandatory to allow disabling secureboot because they wanted their older OSs to work, didn't want devices getting bricked when a vendor poorly implemented it, and didn't want to get hit with another anti-trust suit. not necessarily in that order.
There are many DBMSes that combine columns into a singular primary key. Performance tradeoffs vary, especially when it comes to indexing.
This is hardly a surprise isn't it?

In CS courses you teach students to be CS scholars so it's normal that you teach the fundamentals to make them achieve that goal. When teaching stuff to a people of different background you need to first ask why, why do you need this and then adapt the curriculum to that.
Marlon Brando touched on this attitude when he asked if he’s the greatest actor of all time.

https://youtu.be/fgvMPUcw_2Q
Your opinion is not the same as everyone else's.
Maybe it won't come as consolation but a lot of very beautiful people suffer from the same. Like how people who are already skinny can very well be hit by anorexia.

Used to being beautiful all their lives, one day there's a chink in the armor: a wrinkle, a white hair, a stretchmark, that same feeling you have starts to sink in. The emotional impact might be worse than for people who had a lifetime to be at peace with how they look like.

This seems to be the author of the article [0]. Your first reaction is probably that the real picture doesn't match at all the picture you built in your mind while reading the article. I hope that helps you realize you are not alone in feeling that everyone else must be thinking of you what you think of yourself. They're probably not.

[0] https://muckrack.com/grazie-sophia-christie
Even Einstein is overrated (or, at least, his reputation was inflated because he was the archetypal quirky scientist that journalists love to write about):

-most of the groupwork was laid by Poincaré

-Einstein's wife helped him a lot (and wasn't properly credited)

-Despite being a supposed genius, Einstein didn't "get" quantum mechanics.
To be fair they did leave out highest per capita consumption and CO2 emissions, freedumb cars for everyone at the expense of public transport, efficiency and equitable urban planning, using guns as can openers and childrens toys, etc.
1. Using Google Flights to find flights based on my preferences.
2. Use VPN and incognito mode to check prices directly on airline websites.
3. Pick the cheapest option.
As the article says, quenches sometimes happen.

Effects on the local population? You mean those who work there underground? Their voice may change pitch a little, but its only a temporary effect.

Helium is present in our atmosphere. And presumably on your birthday party when a balloon was popped.

Effects on the wider population?

A couple of delays and reorganizations at the surrounding hotels and restaurants.

Basically: the telephone will ring.
Here's a list of disconnect policies by state, with emphasis on what conditions prevent the disconnect of power.

https://liheapch.acf.hhs.gov/Disconnect/disconnect.htm
1,000,000,000ng = 1g
How we see ourselves and how we see others (2008) [pdf]
He literally voiced a concern and you just completed ignored it by linking a BS corporate speak page.

You are available on Github which doesn't = open-source

Also why only most and not all?
You are reacting to the title, not the actual article.

1. The author is a CS professor who wanted to make a "CS for non-majors" course that non-majors would find actually useful/interesting. So he asked a historian colleague what she wanted her students to know about computers.

2. She replied that she wanted her students to know that (a) databases exist, and if properly designed/indexed can make complex queries very fast, and (b) websites can be automatically populated from the results of DB queries, which makes these search results human-comprehensible.

3. In his CS department, databases and HCI/web design are courses which come late in the sequence, after stuff like algorithms, data structures, and networking.

4. To make (2) accessible without a bunch of pre-reqs, he designed an extension to Scratch/Snap (block-based visual programming languages) which let novices more easily write SQL queries and generate database-backed HTML documents.

5. As a result, he can now teach history majors CS concepts in a way which makes their relevance to historical work directly clear.
I think there is value in running Linux on an Arduino. Clinux.

https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded/artic...
Nothing you said is untrue, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the point of the post. Doing the same over and over again is very hard on the body.
Don't even need the "same millisecond" part to save a few cycles, use case depending. An overflowing increment with a counter of any sort plus a few random bits is usually enough.

If you're clever enough, neither needs a branch.
If anyone is wondering why Free Software is important, that's a big reason right there.

If you have a corporation in complete control of the computers in your home, they are not yours by definition. Arguably, your home is no longer yours if these computers are central to the functioning of your home.

I'm always careful with going all-in on modern "ecosystems", like buying "everything Apple", "everything Google", having "all my data in XYZ Cloud" without some way to cut them out of the loop.
Fun fact: a ping from the center to the extreme of the milky way would overflow for 64 bit millisecond timestamps.
We're talking about private companies running forum software instead of providing support. We're not talking about the power of IRC or mailing list communities for open source projects and the like.

If I pay for something I want the person I pay money to help me fix problems I get.
Or Arduino making a new board with an MMU which will run Linux
What? There's generally an adjustment to the funding for schools in Sweden depending on socio-economic factors, so if anything schools where more residents are poor get more money.
Thanks!
Will check out these services, MLOps is definitely where the biggest pain points are right now.
Obsidian as I recall, is closed source, and they give some weird non reasons for that, so it’s not radical to assume they’re doing something ‘not in the open’, so not a good contender when talking about owning your data and data independence!

Moreover, the statements just meant you don’t have to take our ‘words’ for it, here’s the proof. And in a different context, developers explained their motivations and what they’re inspired by, to work on this kind of software. There’s absolutely no over the top ‘marketing’ to any type as well, as they explained in different post, they don’t want to market, buy built in customer base with VC money and so on.
Depends on where you tap into the digital payments chain. At the highest level (with highest fees) are the payfacs (Payment facilitators). Above them are the payment acquirers with comparatively low fees, higher joining fees, more rigorous certification process and the PCI compliance is a chore you need to repeat every year. Above that is not that easy to tap into such as direct link to credit card networks and banks. At your volume, PayFac like Stripe is the best option IMO.
Bottle fed babies are often fed using plastic bottles that are steam sterilised in the microwave.
I work at one of these funds in the UK. The majority of our quants -- and, indeed, our front office engineers working on the trading stack -- are Oxbridge grads.

If you want to be a quant, getting a post-graduate education at a top-tier university is pretty much a requirement. If you want to be a software engineer/SRE/etc. in the front office, you might be able to find your way in by going to the tech industry proper and then pivoting.
> Is a bombastic Wagner opera more or less beautiful than a simple, haunting, short song by The Cranberries?

It's amusing that you try to make this point by comparing extremely talented musicans. For every cranberries there are millions of rightfully forgotten medicore bands just as for every beauty there are many, many more medicore or unattractive people.
It's nice to hear from the other John after all this time.
Ask HN: What are your views on San Fransisco's drug culture of the 60s?
I was listening to Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane and was reminded of reading about the hippie and geeky culture of the city in Steve Jobs's biography by Walter Isaacson. I was wondering what modern tech nerds and geeks think about that time and maybe compare it to the recent culture due to various legal movements for weed and such drugs.
Clean as You Go
I did some poking around to find the teaching materials resulting from this collaboration, but unfortunately it seems like they aren't available in full.

E.g. chapter 1 of the "Computing for Expression" ebook https://runestone.academy/ns/books/published/comp-expression... starts with "We saw the Riley Quilt program in class." and dumps a huge pile of Snap spaghetti on the unsuspecting reader, which makes it rather unsuitable as a standalone textbook.

A pity, because curating subsets of CS skills useful to non-CS folks seems quite promising to me.
I don't think being so romantic helps much. To take these articles seriously is to believe that there is such a thing as good code. but I don't think there is a good code that will make everyone happy. I understand the effort it takes to make the code something permanent, but I think the code has to be something that has changeable and the processes have to adapt.
You could also keep a global incremental index for that, assuming there's some authoritative server that has to be polled sequentially to get them.

Probably too much overhead when conflicting UUIDs are a few orders of magnitude less likely than the clients crashing from some random bug though.
Yes, but since Rust ecosystem went all in on async http, you'll have to use some niche http framework, and dumb CRUD code is not going to suffer too bad from async's limitations.

I really wish there was a popular and community embraced blocking http framework in Rust, to tip the scales here a bit.
> It may well be that some people actually have some form of aphantasia, but all the self reporting of amazing visual powers or the lack thereof seems more indicative of peoples' egos than the actual differences in what they are capable of.

I have it, and I struggle to understand your skepticism. What’s the ego here? I’m proud of not being able to do something?

My assumption is that the visual processing layer is still used, I just don’t get to experience that part, so I’m interacting at the lower layer. Kind of the like the “code” in the matrix. You see the woman in the red dress, I see the code. We can still work with the substrate effectively, just in different ways.

One thing that does suck is that it seems to be associated with lack of episodic memory. I lack all episodic memory, other than facts about things that have happened. I also don’t have the ability to imagine myself in the future (this is different to not having an imagination, I imagine plenty, just not visually). It makes me a little sad sometimes to think that when I’m old, I won’t have memories like others do, and I do think the lack of episodic style imagination has made it harder to make intentional changes to my life for the better.

On the other hand, I think it’s been a great benefit for abstract reasoning. As all my reasoning is necessarily non-visual, problems that don’t naturally have a visual representation are no harder for me. I think it’s useful as a programmer, although I have learned how to draw representations as it’s of benefit for communication. Swings and roundabouts!
Gone are the days of plain text emails
What a mindless take
Stonecutters
> Meaning: kids are exposed to kidney damaging microplastics through this mechanism

This is still the problem, then. The damage is based on the amount.

You could demonstrate that kidney cells die when exposed to cyanide, and apple pips have cyanide in them, and you might say "kids are exposed to kidney damaging cyanide through this mechanism. The extent of the damage remains to be seen".

If someone challenged that by saying that kids who eat apples aren't all dying of cyanide-induced kidney failure, you could also say we're just not seeing easily detectable ones.

But you'd be absorbing (and re-emitting) entirely the wrong impression without the supporting contextual info that genuinely links the two together. We don't create more and more unusual hypotheticals to explain a belief in things or effects that we don't know exist. We demonstrate why we think they should exist and go from there.
For devices clocked above 1Ghz it's perfectly possible for the clock to increment every ns, although that doesn't make it accurate to that level, and multi core systems may have clocks that are not synchronised to that level.

ARMv8 guarantees that it's clock increments at at least 1Ghz, for intel and earlier ARM it's more complicated
If you're hashing for security reasons, I think you should still maintain a salt.
is it only available in the US?
> must be at least as cheap

It really doesn't need to be just as cheaper for a lot of applications if reuse is an option. What we need is reusable containers that are standard sizes. It used to be a thing several generations ago where glass milk and beer bottles would be returned, the consumer would be paid a small amount for each bottle and then they got washed and reused.
The thing is we still have glass bottles for beer today but the marketing people have made it so they're all different shapes so it wouldn't be possible to reuse a bottle for a different brand. What we need is a shipping/docker container model for packaging.
The marketing people keep ruining it. Every packet is made like a tiktok clip with shiny bright colors and weird shapes. With cigarettes at least where I live the govt had no problem taxing cigarettes and banning shiny packaging in favour of plain text labels. We can also get rid of the recycling meme, you know the American Indian with the single-tear, who was actually an Italian hired by the companies making all the waste.
So much of the plastic shit is created by marketing people.

Some areas it would be difficult to replace plastic for instance powertools which need to be light and strong. But it would still help if they all used a standard battery interface.
Pipelining is a pretty effective optimization.
It's true that the product should take priority over the code, but there's a limit to by how much. If the code is bad enough, its low performance, bugginess, and slow feature development will eventually be reflected in the product.
As an on-prem sysadmin, I'm not sure I will ever in my life work on an environment that has the minimum specifications of an Oxide system. Every entire datacenter I've worked in has less total capacity than a single "sled" here.

Are there intentions to go smaller than this?
If only there was some model, something like a human, preferably smaller, that maybe doesn't live quite as long. Perhaps it would be ideal if we could even hold it in our hands, and have a small space to contain many of these models.

Pfft who am I kidding, what an insane idea. People would just complain that the model has some unknowable flaw, and is therefore entirely useless.
I understand the spirit of your comment here, but in my area of experience, security, there are certainly objective “best practices”.

There is almost always pushback on security considerations, and partly because those methods quite often change and improve with time.

The term then becomes a blanket phrase that captures the constantly evolving landscape and necessity of accepting those new changes.

You’re right that it is becoming over used. Like most abridged language, once your favorite becomes popular a new way to express the same underlying idea usually comes along.
Spring (and all its reflections under the hood), of course.
Brain damage for the schedule programmer.
Being a scientific administrator (which was Oppenheimer's primary job in the Manhattan Project) is a different job than primarily being a researcher, and Oppenheimer was quite good at it which is all the more impressive given that this was his first administrative role.
Now that it's almost complete, I feel happy in releasing the solve and renderer code that many might consider a cheat.

https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/HumanShader
Here are my 2 cents, after 25 years of development in several companies.
If you want to do the next developer a favor, your codebase should be simple to understand. Period, that's it.
Simple to understand means:

1. Don't use fancy design patterns, FP constructs, performance optimizations etc. Unless the use case specifically requires it.

2. Code should do whatever it needs to do to fulfill its business requirements. Nothing less and preferably also nothing more.

3. Readable code beats documentation: only document the 'why', and only when it is non obvious. If you find you're documenting the 'how', have a second look if you can write your code in such a way that it explains itself.

4. Explain how to build the project, run tests and whatever else is non obvious in a Readme file in your project.
Documentation anywhere else, such as on Confluence, will not be maintained or read.
In my country, they offer some of the best rewards rates and customer care services. Their no-frills chargeback protections and airport lounge network are somewhat better than what I have with my Visa card. However, Amex lacks offline acceptance and can be quite challenging to meet the "milestones" for annual fee waiver.
Some workloads are surely latency sensitive but some of those transactional CRUD systems don't need that much closer to the edge is my possibly flawed opinion.

I mean chat or e-commerce yes, the edge and all.

But for a ticketing system, invoicing solution or such, a few hundred millisecons are not that much of a big deal but compliance, regulations matter more.
We talk a lot about Blender as being the big success story of Open Source (and it is amazing indeed), but we shouldn't forget smaller projects like Musescore. It's really good software and I've used it a lot; it's as good if not better than many of the commercial alternatives.

Now if we only had a Musescore-quality Photoshop or After Effects alternative...
I sense that you want to imply that a successful programmer is a better judge of what aspiring programmers need to know about science and engineering, but I disagree: I would immediately go for the dual-Ph.D. physicist/electrical engineer (and yes, I would especially do that if I were the aspiring programmers, in this sense I put my money where my mouth is). Because of his qualifications, he has a much better general view about science and engineering that the successful programmer very likely lacks, and is thus in all likelihood the much better judge on this topic.
It's how they pay for their best-in-class rewards and offerings. This means card holders are more likely to make big purchases on an Amex than other cards, and why many small ma n' pa shops don't accept them.
I read some (Danish?) research about soft squeezable drinking bottles, like those used by cyclists for example, and the result was pretty bad. Do you know if they use the same process / chemicals in silicone products?
@Omin, @mda, just a side note: I recommend using the (centuries old, I guess) established typography rule and putting a space between the number and the unit symbol. See [1] for additional info.

[1] SI Unit rules and style conventions, https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html
Einstein is no Newton btw :)
Their perks for cardholders are substantially better than VISA/MC in most cases
What else you would call it? The brain is just electrical pathways firing too. There's nothing fundamentally special about the brain.
Exactly, and it works well. Unfortunately as a customer you don't have the level of protection with these services a CC or a specialised top up "virtual" debit card has. Charge backs etc. It's one of the reasons why these alternative payment methods are a lot less risky to process and therefore cheaper for the merchants.

So it makes me wonder why global companies like Google are so "credit card" centric. For example. You can attach a debit card as a payment mechanism for Google cloud services, but it can't be a top up one... Why? It is very annoying I have to open an extra account with overdraft block just to maintain some control on the spending if they suddenly decide to charge a wrong amount.
We had a customer once that our automatic billing system tried to reach for 3 months about failing credit card charges (<$5k/mo). Our system stopped the service.. I'm pretty sure their subsequent outage cost their customers millions. Lessons about what it means to have (and be) enterprise customers were learned. Unfortunately the lady who was ignoring our e-mails in her inbox got fired.
Not my baby.
Will services like ACH will be unnecessary eventually then?
Yes .. got the polite rejection email about 4 hours back.
Gimli Glider incident: https://simpleflying.com/gimli-glider/
Hey Bryan, I enjoyed reading the cash compensation article, but I'm curious about how it meshes with your equity compensation? Is it awarded purely on when people joined? Does everyone who wasn't a founder get the same amount? It feels like you could run into much of the same problems the article points out about transparency and so on if the equity component isn't as straight-forward?
Hi there. I'm working on my first Haskell app in production; Just wondering..

Do you guys use parsec in production? What is the motivation for having Haskell to be half of the codebase? (Are there some open-source domain-specific libraries that are used intensively? Or do you guys prefer to implement things in-house (on top of libs that are more abstract)?)

And if parsec is used in production, any tips on how to best design/debug parsec parsers? (Thanks!)

Lastly, in your experience, what are some of the best monads / design patterns to improve team productivity? :{

Really curious about it
Some day in some lab someone will find tiny origami in a blood sample.
there are hard paths, and there are easy paths of course.

there are people holding 5, sometimes 10, directorships at different companies, collecting a nice little 30-50k paycheck at each firm for nodding heads and opining hand-wavily, or sometimes offering up their rolodex at annual meetings. no change to the economic circumstance? sign off on last year's agenda and let's head to the golf course. is it harder that what this guy is doing? is it harder than what you are doing?
> I don't think it is described as non-sentient in the book, but only as lacking consciousness.

Apologies, I have a bad habit of mixing up those words, despite supposedly knowing better... at a conscious level.

Huh.

I wonder if I write some things subconsciously?
Awesome work, thanks for maintaining it! What's the recommended strategy to do unit testing? I tried a couple of months ago to use jest but it gets messy really quick due to poor support for shadow DOM. Thank you!
Domain Sins of My Youth
Sleep 8 hours a night, manage your stress, exercise regularly, avoid alcohol, and eat healthy.

Won't make you smarter, but will bring out the smarts you were born with.
It is still in draft and I've watched the spec changed at least once.