skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cats paws and catapults - I saw this first recommended on a different HN thread. Great comparison of natural and man-made mechanical systems that changed my intuitions about why things in the world are built the way they are.

From Strength to Strength, Brooks - it's a self-help book for midlife crises. Has all the normal issues of self-help books but I found the exploration of the acceptance of inevitable age related decline in some abilities interesting and useful.
Exactly! We have led seasonal lives for thousands of years. This is no biggie.
> Then again, I'm not working in a huge corp, so I don't know if this scales.

As a grizzled veteran, I LOVE System Design interviews. I love giving them and I love taking them. At large companies, System Design is definitely part of the process. In the world of FAANG, multiple coding rounds with a System Design is common for more junior developers, where a senior interview would have multiple System Design rounds with a single coding round.

> They require knowledgeable interviewers of course.
In my round of FAANG interviews, the best System Design rounds were at Google. One was a more typical "design service x" scenario, and the other was "improve and upgrade service y w/out any downtime". Both were related to technology there and were things the interviewers played major parts in designing. Awesome conversations all around and I'd probably do them again just for the fun of it.

The most awkward one was at Facebook. The first design interview was good. It was a little uncomfortable because it was related to technical area I knew little about, but I enjoyed boiling it down to goals & principals and working from there and having the conversation with the senior engineer giving the interview.

The second was given by someone far more junior who was both an inexperienced interviewer and who had clearly not ever designed a system. It was obvious that they were going from a script, so there was little to no discussion or feedback about anything not covered. As a result, I "succeeded" more through guessing what was on the script vs. having an actual system design discussion.
I was aware of this but reading this article makes it seem like we're just completely barking up the wrong tree and this entire approach is never going to be practical.
> On Friday night, as many as 10 Cruise driverless cars stopped working near a music festival in San Francisco’s North Beach, causing traffic to back up, according to The San Francisco Chronicle, which reported that the company had blamed “wireless connectivity issues.”

They just stop if they lose service?
>many great ones have been

And my point is that there will be no more great ones, because the field of comparison will be flat.
Since the past decade or so, but especially the past couple of years: https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/how-five-u.s.-cities-buil...

Re. Hyperloop: some have said it was a stunt to attack public support for CA high speed rail (which would reduce CA's dependency on cars): https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1571628269555826688?lan...

EDIT: Re-reading your comment, I realize that you're challenging GP's assertion that we already have bike lanes everywhere, which I agree is obviously false.
This feels much better than the Russian government's approach to censorship and modern tech. The problem is that there are people in Russian government who actually have a clue about how this stuff works.

If the blocking is done client-side, there's plenty of ways to bypass it, like just not updating your browser, duh. Or patching it, or installing extensions that neutralize the blocking mechanism, or fooling it into thinking you're in another country. Even if the blocking done via DNS, it's trivially bypassable by using a DNS provider that offers encryption. Russian approach, though, is to use deep packet inspection equipment (that doesn't implement the TCP spec, lol) to actively mess with people's connections to "forbidden" resources.
…because no one who isn't already a subscriber is going to pay to read one article.
Why is it that the main use case for this would be for criminals to use this Tor & Mullvad based browser + VPN?
The technology already exists based around hashes rather than a list of actual sites.

As with encryption bans, to stop this requires a political effort, not technological sneering and naysaying.
So make the factory, AC, etc... vary the load!
Next step: mandating compiler vendors to modify compilers so that your code doesn't compile :)
I am actually not sure if this is satire, but in case it is not, I don't think Firefox is in the position to boycott France, when Google Chrome exists, and is very likely to comply with the new law.
This is quite hard to answer in any succinct way. It mostly comes down to "you're earning enough to just get around them".

SA is kind of a place of extremes, there is extreme poverty, unemployment etc. But if you're lucky enough to have a good job you get Uber Eats, Netflix, 200mb fibre to your house etc.
We’re going to need a bigger calculator.
Worked for me on iOS/Safari
As someone inexperienced with Dart, but ever curious about it - is there anything more you can share about that, or what might have been? I end up writing almost all my work in browser-based JavaScript so I'm curious how different my work might have been.
> but 17th century seems way too recent to be digging people up

My SO recently visited her family tomb in France. It was gone. Lease lapsed, no more tomb. Last person was buried there some 40 years ago. Church didn’t know who to contact to renew the lease, good bye.
Caveat: I would not recommend Why We Sleep for anyone suffering from insomnia.

When I was dealing with sleep issues I tried reading it, hoping I'd learn something useful. But the book just kept hammering home how badly it screws you if you're not getting enough sleep. As I was trying all the recommended steps (good sleep hygiene, CBT, exercise, did an overnight sleep study, etc.) with only modest results, this basically just fueled my anxiety -- which is itself a known trigger for insomnia.
Good point. Much as I despise Meta, I have to admit I have been pleasantly surprised by their hardline stance in defending WhatsApp's e2e encryption.
Huh, that sounds like the arguments artists make for keeping their work out of training sets. :)
Yeah or use "unofficial apis" e.g. Nitter (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter)
>Efficiency has a huge impact on the cost/economics

Not in the way that you think, no. For all intents and purposes, we have limitless energy. The problem was never that we don't have enough capacity, because we can scale capacity as much as we want. The only thing that is required is that energy generation (i.e. $/kWh) is cheap enough, and this seems feasible with solar and wind and maybe fission and later one fusion or other sources.

>you're comparing apples to oranges

You are the one saying, "just attach a transmission line to it" or "just put a battery in it", without thinking of all the cases where this is just not possible.

Nobody is arguing that you should start powering your toaster with hydrogen. You all are attacking a strawman, it seems.
I was curious about Chlorine Trifluoride as a propellant, and I found this quote of John D Clark on the Wiki page (hypergolic means it will ignite spontaneously):

> It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water—with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals—steel, copper, aluminum, etc.—because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride that protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminum keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes
Dawn of Everything does a fantastic job of demonstrating how what is currently considered enlightened thinking derives largely from American Indians and their debates with Jesuit priests as the Indians pushed back against the Jesuits demanding conversion to Christianity by the Native Americans. If you like philosophy debate, the book is a treasure.
I think there's a different problem with exactly this stereotype and people throwing it around a bit, even if you are not just being negative, but offering criticism including some solutions.
I've been called that at times, but if it's not your job to solve the problem, just to add some input as a reviewer, what can you do if all you see is problems? You may argue that it's easy to criticize and not fix it, but if fixing it takes time you don't have, should you just not say anything?
The article does mention that a Waymo car was also involved in an incident.

> In May, a driverless Waymo car blocked a fire vehicle while it was backing into a station.
I think most in the tech space tacitly believe that if Alice has a cool string of 0s and 1s, but you have to pay $5 to go into her house to see it, and Bob happens to memorize the string of 0s and 1s and decides to display it publicly for all to see on a billboard, that this is an extremely based and good thing to do and prevents Alice from holding back human progress.

People who don't believe this are probably biased because they are Alice.

Don't be Alice.
> even though it's wrong.

Well, empirically, we only observe that countries heavily relying on renewable (Denmark and Germany are the poster children) (i) have a much worse average CO2/kWh ratio, (ii) still need to import energy when, well, the wind does not blow and the Sun does not shine.

But feel free to elaborate on where this is wrong.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, the guy who wrote The Martian, is really great.
Why should it be okay for humans to make a profit off of reading copyrighted content, though?
> Dawn of everything ... one specific (anarchist) viewpoint in his work

Anarchism means without a ruler, and there is scarce if any evidence that migratory hunter-gather bands at the dawn of history had rulers in one class expropriating surplus from another class. We can look for historical, or pre-historical evidence, but we can also observe the few remaining migratory hunter-gather bands remaining in the Amazon and such that have not been killed off by mining companies.

Modern authors don't impose an anarchist viewpoint on such groups, this is how they lived, and still live.
There is no tangible reason for the future to be worse than the present. Until we really try hard to make it so. By all accounts levels of life have been rising worldwide for the past 50 years. Most of the stuff that remains expensive is mostly linked to over regulation which is a pure question of political will. As for energy we can still move to regular fission nuclear power and massively reduce CO2 emissions if we want to.
> - Cheap

You’re ignoring the grinder, which in my opinion is the most important part of home espresso making. Add at least 200USD for a good quality manual burr grinder.
Under what circumstances would the passenger be liable? They have no control over the vehicle so I fail see how an event like this would be their fault.
I recall them being around a bit further back. I had to block them on a forum long ago for the reasons being discussed.

whois anonfiles.com | grep Creation
Creation Date: 2011-03-23T13:07:29Z
The Australian project is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_2.0_Pumped_Storage_Power...

But it seems hardly replicable say in central Europe.
Spiders are cool. If not for them, you will have much more guests at home and the fact that you are calling them "just insects" won't make their numbers smaller.

Looking for something to extinct mosquitoes though.
Ah thanks! And yea, naming things has never been a strength for me. I’ll have to come up with something more memorable once it’s ready for an alpha release :)
It's definitely safer than going on blind. Wet concrete might be the least bad situation.
Aah thank you on both counts yes. One interesting feature he told me about is they wrote a "reverse compiler" that would take Spark code and turn it into the associated formal (Z) spec so they could compare that to the actual Z spec to prove they were the same. Kind of nifty.
From the abstract of the latest meta-analysis the author published:

"In a meta-analysis of 46 case-control studies, compared with never or rarely having used a cellular phone, regular use was not associated with tumor risk in the random-effects meta-analysis. However, in the subgroup meta-analysis by research group, there was a statistically significant positive association (harmful effect) in the Hardell et al. studies (OR, 1.15—95% CI, 1.00 to 1.33— n = 10), a statistically significant negative association (beneficial effect) in the INTERPHONE-related studies (case-control studies from 13 countries coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC); (OR, 0.81—95% CI, 0.75 to 0.89—n = 9), and no statistically significant association in other research groups’ studies. Further, cellular phone use with cumulative call time more than 1000 h statistically significantly increased the risk of tumors."

I'm far from an expert in the statistical interpretation of such statements, but to me, these results look all over the place. Furthermore, it seems that ALL the studies in the meta-analysis that found harmful effects originated from teams led by the same researcher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Hardell), which, to be sure, is an interesting insight, but not one that should necessarily strengthen the belief in the hypothesis.
Good. Nobody likes captchas.
...than what, regular cars, or public transit?

Good public transit is WAY safer and more efficient than cars of any sort. It could be faster, too, if we prioritized it over cars like much of Europe has.
I've replaced the lithium rechargeable in my Gshock once. It was quite easy I have to say but the buttons are fiddly.

I got the battery off eBay for about £16.

Straps are what give out first and I've been through about 4 where it's become unsightly or otherwise degraded.
Are you the Mastodon ambassador? I don't think it's a good idea for social media to work across platforms is to pretty please ask nicely to accommodate them.
Three readings of such a massive book is quite an endorsement!
> was actually more akin to entertainment

Could you elaborate?
Same with Brave and Firefox on desktop
But the humans keep reverse engineering our APIs and making beautiful UX on top of them
> We've all got to learn sometime.

The lesson should be that San Francisco isn't the right place to run a highly disruptive experiment.

Do these experiments where the potential for disruption is a lot lower, like a smaller city with less congestion.
I mean, that's a good failsafe.
AWS, Azure and Cloudflare?
User contributed ratings have, it seems, mostly outlived their usefulness. It isn't that things can't be reviewed, but ratings are like anything else in life, in that they have deaths. You want me to trust ratings more, let me order them by date.

Oddly, Steam does a good job with this. Two ratings, recent and all time. Google, amusingly, only shows the all time on the search page, but the recent reviews are very relevant.

Does this have to apply to all things? Maybe not, but manufacturing changes. needs of the time change. General expectations change. A 4 star rating from a decade is of much less reliability than one today. Even if it is critically a good rating.
Most criminals want to be anonymous, but wanting to be anonymous doesn't make you a criminal.
I 100% support this. It's just like any other infestation of vermin, you need to use any means necessary.
What paper was that?
Cortana is going EoL in the next few months so being able to uninstall it is not surprising
One solution was the universally hated worldcoin. I hate it as well and don't think it could work, but the problem they meant to tackle is very real and we should talk about it.

I think we are going to need some kind of certificates vouching for humans being humans.
Websites should just ask us how we feel about flipped turtles.
Define criminal and then contemplate what you’ve just done and you’ll have an answer to your question
Germany has still on average one of the dirtiest electricity of Western Europe, must import from its neighbors quite frequently, and is currently seeing the premises of an exodus of its industry due to energy cost; I'm not sure that using them as an example is pushing your argument.
Debian 12 is essentially Ubuntu 22.10 LTS. If you use LTS versions of Ubuntu, Debian is about same thing.
Seems like a real missed opportunity to cross pollinate between Mullvad user and Tor users. Like, why not just leave Tor enabled?
Sri Chimnoy Transcendence 3100 Mile Race – 30 August-20 October
Thats a myth. You cannot have baseline power with renewables only throughout the year. Hydro only works in very specific places and the same for wind.
It seems to be about Australia, right? While not really applicable to for example Poland where solar and wind are far less stable.

Which one of reports at linked http://www.energynetworks.com.au/projects/electricity-networ... is one that you refer to here?

For the second one - is "more responsive loads" code for "load shedding" which is code for brownouts and blackouts?
Is this meant to be a parody of inane online listicle content?
I suspect that this:

> It did take setting a couple environment variables, no GUI method

, which is unknown to almost anyone, would scare an absolute majority of non-technical folk away. Even if what mullvad does is relatively small in scope, it can still provide a lot of value to people.
Even better: keep allowing the French people to download Firefox while ignoring this law
That’s a succinct description of what seems to be the current state of most adults I know.

It’s clearly burning, nobody seems to be in charge, there’s little hope that anyone is going to fix it, and individual actions seem like shouting into the wind. Even worse, the problem is undefined and hard to measure - and different groups have different complaints and priorities.

Or, said another way:

“That pretty much sums it up for me” - drunk guy in the bar in the movie Groundhog Day
It’s been like that for years, they probably use a subset for extra annotation.
Fall of the Roman Empire and the end of civilization
Aside from the systems we use directly in maintaining other S-100 boxes? Yes!

There are many Dahlgren engraving systems running with S-100 control crates. The boards are mostly Solid State Music whitelabels, except for the actual tool driving boards. They don't break often, but we do sometimes get requests to fix them.

Other S-100 boxes still exist, mostly being used by small old companies who are, frankly, in the "old owner's kids are't going to take this over" death spiral. Whatever they're doing with S-100 still works for them, so they keep running it.

We've got customers running PDP-8s and PDP-11s controlling old CNC machines, so S-100 isn't the oldest thing we still service. I also know of a pile of 286s helping make some super cutting edge silicon...
Guzey updated changed his mind on this topic: https://guzey.com/2022-lessons/#get-minimum-possible-sustain...

It's unfortunate that he hasn't added a disclaimer to the original post since it is shared so widely.

EDIT: fixing autocorrect
Maybe not now. But prices are reducing at 80% per decade, so it's likely only a few years away from being achievable.
It's corralling in the possible range of the vehicles - anywhere without the enhanced signage will have to be no man's land. If an autonomous car drives to a small town that doesn't have the enhanced cones and gets into an accident at a construction zone whose fault is it?

I'm not sure what "This sort of thing can also benefit regular vehicles." means in this instance. If the cone is machine readable how does that help me?
This is why techies will not be able to defeat WEI. It will be the replacement for CAPTCHA. Every place using a CAPTCHA now will switch to requiring cryptographic attestation that you're running a clean copy of FAANG stack on approved hardware. The only effective non-human bots will be physical robots using the analog hole.
Nope. It doesn't make sense for long range trucks either. Hydrogen trucks do not have more range than BEV trucks, and they are significantly more expensive to fuel. Battery energy density is increasing and cost is decreasing so fast that hydrogen is irrelevant for all ground transport. In 10 years we will laugh that anyone thought hydrogen was the future.
>How do you power the grid with 90% solar when the sun only shines 40% of the day during the winter?

Where?

Maybe we should try a more global approach to energy.
Seems unfair as we converge on AGI. If I memorize the lyrics to a song, is that a copyright violation? The lyrics are encoded in the arrangement of my neurons, after all.
IIRC, Critical Chain, the 3rd installment in that series, details transitioning from making widgets to a widget-as-a-service business mode. Radical at the time, the preferred strategy today. Talk about foresight.

Reading Goldratt, Deming, Drucker, Buckminster Fuller, and a few others, blew my mind. Most of my really good ideas and works were inspired by them.

Alas, being reality-based also impaired my career. Like during the dot-com bubble, the so-called New Economy, I just couldn't figure out wtf everyone was talking about. So I very pointedly did not jump on the crazy train.

My loss.

I wish there someone like Goldratt explaining grifts, cons, and investment banking.