skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife is an "RSE" (research software engineer), she's an MD by training, but doing some programming for research. She's been in this role for about two years now, and she did maybe another two years of Python programming prior to that in a similar role.

She still doesn't feel comfortable with Python (or any language) and often needs guidance / help. Mostly because in this role, the amount of programming is really minuscule, and the expectation isn't that the programmer develops a useful application or library well-integrated into the larger ecosystem of applications or libraries. Rather it's that some research can sift through the data they've generated and publish on that.

The instances of "re-education" I was talking about were quite different: those were "programmer-first" people. In this capacity, they might write in a month more code than what what my wife wrote over the last four years, they are also expected to build a lot more complex (in terms of organization and integration) software.

I don't consider RSEs or similar roles to be professional programmers. These people typically have terminatory degrees in fields other than CS, but often no formal training in CS. They also rarely see their own goals in becoming as good of a programmer as they can, their evaluation is typically based on results that programming might help to bring about, but, in principle, isn't really necessary for. Sort of how you wouldn't call every programmer a "professional mathematician", even though writing programs is a kind of math, as is eg. checking out customers at the supermarket.

So, while someone like that might need years to adjust to a new language, OP seemed to have in mind professional good programmers. I think they even had another bullet point for hybrid scientist-programmers.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-if-vaccinated-wont-g...

He said that AND ALSO at the same public appearance: "vaccinated people are less likely to catch the virus than unvaccinated people and, if they do catch it, are less likely to get sick"

Why somebody take first statement as absolute and not the second one?

Why after that statement ignore all other statements made by properly medically and scientifically prepared experts?
Guardrails are essential. A properly-designed declarative schema change tool provides guardrails to detect and prevent unwanted deletion / drops / lossy conversions. I develop widely-used software in this space (Skeema) and my tool has always offered drop-prevention functionality ever since its first beta release in 2016.

I also argue that guardrails are equally important for imperative migration tools as well, but more often they're lacking or half-baked, which gives a false sense of safety. For example, down/reverse migrations are a very common landmine for human error. Order-of-operations problems also happen frequently when imperative tools are used by large dev teams, resulting in subtle schema drift between environments when there's disagreement between lexicographic migration file order, git history order, and the actual migration application order on each DB.
As an ex-Oregonian, this is particularly interesting. To most this must just sound like craziness, and the intentional release part may be, but for sure there's a primate research facility right in Hillsboro, OR.

Apparently my grandfather helped design something with the cages, which is just weird for me.
I agree that DIY battery repair is quite dangerous. But my point is that we should regulate and control the danger directly, instead of indirectly and very imperfectly by just grant ebikes an exemption in right to repair laws, especially as there are plenty of none battery components that (motors, controller boards, actual control inputs, etc) do not carry nearly the same safety concern.

Finally, the degree of access required by the NY law is broadly summarized as "same level that an OEM would/does provide to dealers or authorized repairers". E-bike manufacturers could easily (and quite reasonably, based on safety concerns) limit that to whole battery packs (because for exactly the safety reasons you noted, basically no repair shop is going to want to do cell level tinkering).
>An open-source MySQL alternative for running database on Kubernetes

Very confusing title. It made me think it's some kind of open-source database compatible with MySQL (and kind of implies that MySQL isn't open-source).

It seems it's a tool for managing databases in Kubernetes.
And the industry will simultaneously complain that it would be too burdensome to make tools and documentation available so someone with the right skills can do it properly.
Aggregate VM: Why Reduce/Evict Resources When You Can Borrow from Other Nodes?
Putting aside many of the substantial problems with analyzing data in this field, along with not covering key issues in the overall risk-management decision such as weighing the known/unknown short/long term risks from the vaccines themselves balanced against Covid, I'd like to say that this section from the summary caught my eye.

> The immunity conferred by past infection should be weighed alongside protection from vaccination when assessing future disease burden from COVID-19, providing guidance on when individuals should be vaccinated, and designing policies that mandate vaccination for workers or restrict access, on the basis of immune status, to settings where the risk of transmission is high, such as travel and high-occupancy indoor settings.

Note that the summary posits "when individuals should be vaccinated" not "if", as a base assumption and leaves no room for individual choice and risk-management decisions. Ditto on "designing policies that mandate vaccination".

To me, the way some of these things are worded displays a starting bias and lack of credibility.
This response style is deeply unsettling to me. It fails to convey thoughtfulness or sincerity, at least in the cultures that I was raised in.

I have major concerns about the scope of what is fed to ChatGPT vs. GPT-4 API. I am also concerned by knee-jerk reactions here which take minimum action that seems to continue to focus around formal PII without an introspective review of customers real concerns, which is the totality of personal info likely to be shared with your service and how that’s handled and treated.

This isn’t written for you — I worry if you respond at all you’ll send a generic imitation of corpo-speak “We respect your views and we’re working on it!”. This is written to others, to provide a jumping off point to discuss what makes this style of communication stand out so much, and what signals it provides customers vs. what signals it provides investors.
The dash visualization clearly shows the blue line that indicates the intended driving course heading straight into the center of the intersection.

External intervention was required to stop the car from entering the center of the intersection.
Show HN: Reach4Pitch – simplifying game pitching for developers
As passionate game developers, my brother and I have been creating unique games and prototypes. Through this journey, we've faced a common challenge - effectively reaching and connecting with video game publishers.

We noticed that each publisher had their own isolated method for pitch submissions, often through platforms like Gmail or Google Forms or their own forms. These methods lacked transparency, leaving developers uncertain about their pitch status.

Enter Reach4Peach - bridging the gap between developers and publishers. Our platform streamlines pitch submissions and offers valuable feedback. We're making communication a two-way street, with transparency and acknowledgment.

Watch our explanatory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC65VfeC5u8

Though we're 1.5 developers with strong backend and test automation skills, our server-side rendered Django might not be the prettiest. It's live at https://www.reach4pitch.com/ (note: signups are closed, atm).

We reached out to 50+ game publishers with cold emails via their public contacts. First wave: 4 positive, 1 negative, 1 neutral response. The second wave, after MVP launch, lacked feedback completely - possibly due to summer vacations or lost interest.

Key question: Is pitching games without feedback a widespread concern? Or everyone okay with current one-way methods of communications? Our experience proofs It's still a problem, but we need publisher interest and collaboration - only something around 5-10+ publishers (which we cannot reach) can attract developers and indie studios to our platform

With the current state, of things, we're considering moving on from the idea, selling the domain, and deactivating the VPS.

Any advice or feedback is welcome, as we are a little bit lost and demotivated ourselves.
A genuine apology is for something you have done, not something that happened centuries before you were born. Judging from the article the fake apology is just stoking more grievance.
I think the first time I ever heard of the nerdcore hip hop group Dual Core was their performance at this fest ~15 years ago.
Oh threading— yeah that's true. I still think of forums in the old school model.
For people with any disability, habits, routine and familiarity are enormously helpful in maintaining the ability to operate independently. Survey her current life and figure out what routines she currently has which can be maintained as is and which ones can be maintained with a small tweak.

Be prepared for even small changes to start taking more time and repetition to successfully incorporate. Plan for this and encourage her to develop a process now for accommodating this new reality.

Giving up too quickly and not having a comfortable process for this can make a disability much more impairing than it really needs to be. Expect to need to introduce an idea or technology and give her time to get around to it. Expect to remind her "You could do just the first step on that." or "You could do just the next step on that."

People who have been able-bodied are somewhat inclined to not persist when things start taking more time and effort to incorporate. This expectation that it comes easily and quickly or you don't bother can rapidly curtail life far more than necessary as your abilities degrade.

As for reading, audio books are a thing and are used a lot by visually impaired people.
Sorry that you're suffering this way. It's infuriating to me that people downplay Covid infections when the risk of suffering from long Covid effects is very real.
Interestingly Lego just announced they're releasing a block set to help kids learn Braille. From what I can tell it comes with 5 full sets of alphabets and numbers so you should be able to form most words. But I could be misreading the product description haha

I figure it's worth throwing out there in case anyone was curious to learn it and finds having the tactile option of putting the blocks together as potentially helpful

https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/play-with-braille-english...
Lately it's been overran with ChatGPT-generated answers.
> Why is this comment downvoted?

Probably because the first sentence tries to say that 'full self driving' does not mean 'full self driving.'
Behavioral issues should be handled separately from academic issues. Doing the work and taking tests both are academic activities.

Being disruptive, bullying, etc - not academic. Teachers and schools have a variety of tools to deal with these problems, from assigning extra work, through detention, up to expulsion.
"potentially broken software" = "all software", therefore you said self driving software should never exist and you are happy to support 40,000+ people dying in the US every year who could be saved with autonomous vehicle technology. Your lack of ethics is worrying.
When people learned "recurring revenue" gets valued at, say, 10x revenue and "non-recurring revenue" gets valued at, say, 1x revenue, everyone decided to make their business look like it's recurring

If they don't, some PE will buy it and do it for them
Oh no spam video instead of image

https://nypost.com/2018/01/25/good-morning-messages-in-india...
I wouldn't. For me, covid was just a couple of days of fever with no other symptoms. Strange feeling to get fever isolated like that. But I'd take
it multiple times over the typical knocked out for a week flu with multiple flavours of suffering. That said, I did have covid vaccine up front.
We see this today in movies. Whatever his faults, Joss Whedon is a damn good writer. But today we have a surfeit of inferior writers who make their characters sound "quippy" in imitation of Whedon and these characters become fatiguing to watch.
FSD makes basic errors, the kind that can easily be identified in simulation rather than requiring 450k cars on the road. They don't have to go straight from simulation to production either. That's why all the serious players have closed course testing and safety driver supervised testing.
> The big concern with covid is long covid which affects around 5% of people who got covid.

Where did you get 5%?

Last I saw you have a 20% chance of long covid, but it seems that was with older variants.

The thing that scares me is:

> up to two years after infection, at an elevated risk for many long COVID-related conditions including diabetes, lung problems, fatigue, blood clots and disorders affecting the gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal systems.

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/long-covid-still-worrisome-2...
To speak a little more to this - there's a lot of jokes in the aviation community about mental health.. such as "Do you know how many pilots the FAA claims have mental health issues? None. Do you know how many pilots lie about their mental health issues? All of them."

When I have students go in for a medical, even if they're just gonna be run of the mill private pilots, I tell them "Answer every question with as few words as possible. If the AME (medical examiner) asks you if you've ever been sad, say "No". 'What about when your dad died?' Say no. When you got that diagnosis for cancer five years ago? Wasn't sad. Puppy died as a child? Wasn't sad. Never sad. Never anxious. Never depressed. Never anything. Just cool like Steve McQueen.
If it's not in your medical records then it never happened.

then I get asked who the hell is Steve McQueen.
Ampere Computing Publishes Guide for Steam Play Games on AArch64 Server CPUs
I also never really went to great lengths to avoid it. I was late 20's when it started (early 30's now), and live a very healthy lifestyle and have never had respiratory problems. I wore a mask wherever required or when others would feel more comfortable, but I did not go out of my way to always wear one when not required, and I got the vaccine and two boosters.

I unlike you though have caught covid-19 nearly every year since 2020 at least once a year. For me it seems like it provides protection for about a year but it doesn't last, and is individual. I kinda just expect to catch it every once in a while at this point.
They aren't that rare. Last UK ATC crash was in 2014 I think:

https://www.ft.com/content/65544730-8216-11e4-b9d0-00144feab...

And that's just the UK. Airport systems crashing is a regular occurrence. Paris crashed due to still relying on a Windows 3.1 system:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-23-year-old-windows-3-1-syst...

The IT is just poor. Tech firms routinely change much more massive and complex systems at a far faster pace compared to the stagnation found in airline IT, and yet total failures are not more frequent.
Perhaps also an exception, but most of the best devs I met in my teens and early 20's were self-taught.

Most were working for large companies before college age

Some eventually went on to complete CS degrees after many years in industry, but seemingly only as a formality, out of curiosity, or for a break from the grind
I had not thought about AirPlay or Chromecast.
An isolated guest wifi configured on the router would fix that problem.
What the heck would it matter? They'd just start asking for 30.1 MHz allocations from the FCC.
I don't think these two scenarios are the same.
I think it actually has - AIDS is the worst but life expectancy has improved a lot
Yep. They opened live on YouTube. Nothing but some dirt inside it.

https://www.youtube.com/live/VNJRWKCtKqo?si=_Tlp6lgPozaqDN4x
I've had covid 3 times. Would rather get it 3 more times than get the flu a single time. Other than paranoia about having it, the actual symptoms have been a mild to bad cold for all my family/friends.
1) Good design can - to a certain degree - allow most people to replace parts. E.g. headlight bulbs or modules, which are held in place by 0-3 screws and a simple electrical connection. Similar things with door seals or floor mats. Many parts can be made repairable by low-skill users if they are just accessible and not glued in. Unfortunately many designs work against that, perhaps on purpose. This is also a massive accessibility issue for disabled and elderly people. Think lower grip strength.

2) Anti-repair design stops people from developing skills in the first place, similar to how kids who grow up on fixed-software devices often cannot hack the devices to develop technical understanding.
As a business owner, I don't need a whole data center worth of electricity and internet.
Lfortran: Modern interactive LLVM-based Fortran compiler
This sadly reminds me of Germanwings Flight 9525. Detecting mental illness can be very, very difficult. Pilots will not seek therapy or medical care for mental health issues if they think they could lose their job because of it. Authorities should know when there is a pilot with serious mental concerns. Short of breaking a wall of privacy I don't see how we can bridge this divide.

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-madness-in-our-metho...
The Brain Connections Between Our Hands and Tongues
That could be the vaccine doing some heavy lifting for you
Going for practical advice:

Did you try to find those in person resources for your mother?

If so, how did you locate them?

Obviously those details are going to vary by area.
The problem is that by making them repairable they open themselves up to legal liability.

A phone battery goes bad... it's a few ounces of solvent to burn. An ebike battery goes bad, and it's going to be near impossible for it not to take the structure with it. That's a massive liability.

You can buy replacement batteries on amazon for phones and powertools. You don't know where they come from, and I avoid them for this reason. I've seen batteries from reputable companies combust just sitting on a shelf. The idea that any company would sanction anyone to buy shady grey market and use them with their product puts them in the path of unavoidable financial ruin.
Not abnormal. The J&J asbestos thing has been grinding on for, at least, a decade, say.
Because you respond to things in a monotone style with robotic/chat-bot-like cheeriness.

Your comments lack empathy and you aren't "reading the room" at all.

This is totally off-brand and sleazy if you're selling mental health advice. Particularly the fact that your responses don't demonstrate natural emotional variation, when you are literally selling a tool to help with emotion modulation.
I know berating C is trendy, but it feels a bit gratuitous and uncalled for in your comment...

> Ada is better than C

> lack of dumb C stuff

Back to your comment, strong types and generics look super nice for embedded. Not sure I would like fat pointers, exceptions and threads in my embedded code though.
> they purposely did not bother releasing/continuing research to match openai, because it would kill their business.

They certainly haven't matched openai - but is there any evidence that's the reason?

There's loads of other reasons Google could have dropped the ball:

* Maybe they looked at the chatbots that existed in the past, and things like Siri and Cortana, and concluded that chat interfaces weren't a priority for them, and instead focused on things like image processing (which will surely be useful for self-driving cars)

* Maybe they did initial, small-scale work and produced unexciting results, discouraging further investment. I don't imagine the researchers behind Microsoft's "Tay" chatbot were being lauded by their superiors.

* Maybe they were hamstrung by an excess of ethics, such as deciding not to train their model on questionably licensed data scraped from the web. Or feeling it was wrong to release a model that would sometimes confidently make false claims, which might create dangerous situations, slander people, or suchlike.

* Maybe they misallocated their resources, like putting too much of their budget into making five generations of their custom 'TPU' chips when everyone else just buys nvidia's cards.

* Maybe they hired people who loved producing papers but weren't eager to deal with the hassle of supporting a production system. A common enough mindset in academia, where papers are productivity. And if the big paychecks keep rolling in whether you release something or not - why risk releasing something half-baked?

* Maybe the people who were inclined to get their ML research into production all ended up working on gmail spam detection, adwords, youtube automatic subtitling, google translate, click fraud detection, and suchlike.
A service.
> best software technicians.

This here is the fundamental issue right here. There is a difference between technicians and engineers. There's a heavy emphasis on technicians, not as much on engineers. The big way to spot the difference is a technician defines themselves by their tools.
Not really knowledgeable, but I do follow the UAP subject. I'm open minded about what could be going on.

In my opinion the root of the problem is that the people who have the best equipment to detect incursions in the skies are military forces, particularly the US, and their policy for decades has been to classify, dismiss and ridicule. Are they sometimes doing that to hide secret tech? Seems very likely. Are they sometimes doing it to hide something else? We don't really have a way to know.

So what makes highly-cleared people in the Intelligence Community and the DoD to make these outrageous claims? I'm talking about people like David Grusch, Karl Nell, Chris Mellon or Luis Elizondo. I don't really know, it is hard to find a parsimonious explanation.

What I don't want to do is jump to conclusions one way or another. If you look at their resumes, the people making these claims either are or have recently been in positions where it's very plausible that they would have access to this sort of information. So, let's investigate and figure out what makes them say these things. Some of them have testified in secure facilities, providing data such as the location of these alleged craft, so it would make sense to follow up and see what's in there. If there's nothing, all the better.
Russian attack, similar to the one in Poland last week? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66630260.amp
> giving many of those same distracted drivers a great reason to ignore

the attentiveness monitoring and strike system? If they ignore it, they will quickly exhaust their strikes and get locked out for bad behavior until they learn to take it seriously.
50% heavier is kind of a problem for E-Bike applications, although maybe not on the low end.
I don't know where you're living or maybe my reading of the weather is just bad, but here in Central Europe according to your definition winter usually starts around Christmas, spring either starts in March or May, summer lasts from June through October, and fall is between "to cold for a t-shirt" and "it's snowing". Very useful indeed.