skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Every one of those "well-known low-quality content farms" is a better result for someone searching "python endswith" than the official documentation.

You don't have to parse through a veritable novel of irrelevant results to find what you're looking for.

They provide example code to show you how to use the method.

They break down the usage more thoroughly than the official docs.

They _show_ you the different parameters you could pass to the method.

Some of them provide interactive REPLs where you can play with and test the method.

The docs break it down _technically_ but they leave questions. Are start/end inclusive? What does it mean to "stop comparing at that position"? Why would you use the start parameter if you're trying to find the end of the string? If you use start does the end parameter count from 0 or from start? What happens if you pass a start or end that are outside the bounds of the string?

Look, I think the Python docs are great and use them all the time. But for the average person looking for info on `endswith` - whether that's someone new trying to understand how it works, or someone experienced looking to understand the parameter types - those pages are more approachable.
Hm, your ad hominem isn't really called for.

Obviously not all in government are stupid, I was not implying this. I was rather suggesting that some are, and that something might be done to avoid problems with that.

Also, microservices can be great, but when used in the wrong context, obviously are not. We are not discussing that either.

Edit: perhaps you may have misunderstood my comment, and that may be due to my clumsy way of stating it. I was actually suggesting that companies learn from governments.
Arxiv is open access prepublication, and doesn't remove the need for peer review to get into actual journals. If you apply for a grant and you say "I was published on Arxiv" you are not getting that grant.

Additionally, Arxiv won't kick you off their platform if you post a preprint there, and then you get published in Nature.

In other words, the reason it does not change the point is that Arxiv does not weaken the publication process for the actual journals the preprint will be submitted to. You still need peer review to get published and you are still incentivised to do just that.

You could argue 'preprints ARE publishing' but I'd need to be convinced of that point because I don't agree for the reasons stated above.
For heads or tails, that leaves a very large margin. In approx. 1 in 20 trials, you'll end up with a 10-20 split.
The ongoing enshittification of Unity is great news for Godot.
True. This software isn't voting software though, but if I recall correctly, the tabulating software used to report and collate the reported voting totals (which are hand counted). In the Netherlands voting is done on paper with a red pencil, after a flop with voting computers a decade or so ago, and this process too is backed by a paper trail.
I just downloaded it and was surprised at how simple the whole process was. With technobabble like "Tor", "IPFS", "OrbitDB", "P2P", etc I was expecting to have to read through a manual and set up some complex stuff, but no. I just downloaded the app, picked a name for my community, and picked a username for myself. That's faster, easier, and more private than Discord, Slack, etc which require you to enter an email address and phone number.

There has to be a catch to this, right?
It is not just ambient electrical noise that contains usable energy. Others have demonstrated practical sensor energy harvesting from ambient WiFi and ambient broadcast TV signals. I'd expect that the Sony device can probably use those too, so if you've got WiFi in your building you should be fine.

If there is ambient radio, you can also use that for extremely low power data transmission from your sensors. The trick there is to not actually transmit any of your own energy. You instead either absorb or reflect the ambient radio. This is called backscatter communications.

Here is a video showing a demonstration of both energy harvesting from ambient radio and backscatter data transmission [1].

If you use WiFi signals as your ambient radio for backscatter, the research group in that video has also demonstrated that you can make your backscatter data stream match standard WiFi protocols so that you can use ordinary WiFi equipment for the receiver.

The above was fairly short range, but even so there are a lot of interesting applications. For instance you might want to have moisture sensors inside a wall to detect water leaks early. If your sensors are powered by ambient EM energy (noise or radio), you don't have to limit the sensors to places where you can easily reach them later to change batteries. They are fine if they are behind brick or drywall with no openings.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9cbxLSOkE
.....the what now? Have you watched any drag strip racing, like, ever? Cars regularly go up in flames. The suggestion that normal ICE cars would be allowed over EVs for "safety" is actively hilarious.
Blueprints Blueprints Blueprints

The name of the game is iteration speed. (I always think of Paul Grahams story about beating out the competition using Lisp.)

I've been working with UE since 2014, originally started in UE4 C++ and avoided blueprints and kept everything in C++. Was great 'for performance' and code diffs but now 10 years later I'm 99% blueprint and only go down to C++ if the performance requires it for the 1% of hot paths. My iteration time in UE using blueprints makes me shutter to think of all the time I spent waiting for C++ to compile.
Why do vote counts take so long these last few cycles? We used to get results the same evening, maybe into the wee hours, but except for Florida one year where they had recounts, it didn't take long to tally the votes. Now, with electronic voting the results sometimes take more time, what gives?
Interestingly, this highlights that despite popular belief, the scientific process is not about being right or wrong but rather what's powerful.

A theory is promoted because it is powerful in explaining observations and providing tools for humanity until it is improved by the next one. You can build a gun with gravitation but you need relativity for a rocket.
It takes a lot of chutzpah to claim that all economic badness arose from the Nixon Shock (US going off the gold standard in 1971) when several of your graphs show clear inflection points happening at very different times (e.g., 1981).
The link between Scurvy and Vitamin C was not established until the early 1900s. Before that, pretty much only experimental evidence was able to establish what helped with scurvy, with various things found to be useful, including certain animal meats for arctic expeditions and sauerkraut, and lots of things that definitely didn't cause scurvy were blamed for it, like bad hygiene, tinned meats, alcoholism, etc.

For the British, things were especially bad. Numerous captains and sailors had personally demonstrated and convinced themselves that scurvy could be prevented with fresh citrus, but were unable to convince the "classically trained" physicians who made Naval policy, who were still pushing things like "you need more air in your tissue". One of captain Cook's expeditions had good results with malt and wort preventing scurvy, so that was official practice even as navy admirals demanded lemons.

The connection between citrus and Scurvy was finally proven in an animal model in the early 1920s, before we even understood what "Vitamins" where.
I've been wanting a device that would notify me when it detects that I am getting emotional. Particularly if my heart starts pounding and my voice is raised. I was hopeful that Amazon's Halo would be that device, but it's voice analysis was not always on and you had to go look at it after the fact.
I like how in English one can make it appear if one is skilfully and logically dismissing an argument without actually even trying to. I don't presume that this was your intent, but the phenomenon is quite interesting and I quite confidently believe dangerous (in that it contributes to some degree to inaccurate models in the minds of those who ingest such text, and those models are what drive action, much of which is harmful...which is easy to see in {choose your outgroup}, but far less easy to see in one's ingroup).
Pencil and paper! Voting with a pen invalidates your ballot.
Nice graphs. But there's no answer provided in the page. So, now that I'm wondering, w exactly tf happened in 1971?
Yes. Hand marked paper ballots counted by open hardware simple scanning machines not connected to the internet. Fully auditable, transparent, anonymous.
> Just trying to find some logic

My suggestion as somebody working in an adjacent industry, to protect your own sanity, is to not attempt that.
It’s called Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Btw, if you didn’t know, Apple Arcade’s subscriber count dwarfs everyone else’s. Go walk around outside and evaluate what device your average kid is using. I promise, most of the kids are using some hand me down iPhone and playing mobile games, if not from Apple Arcade. It doesn’t matter if apple doesn’t have Zelda, only adults know what that is - what apple is doing is controlling the mind share of kids
Easy to say to mobile games studios that have ben using Unity for the last 10 years (or where in the process of releasing a game after multiple years of development) and didn't have to pay that tax before.

Also this will apply to every games made on Unity, so if you have a hugely popular game just above the threshold but make less than 0.20$ per user you effectively need to shutdown it down.

It isn't "bad business model" either, there is definitely a market for games where the revenue per user is less than 0.20$ (or whatever number).

Going with % of revenue is the sensible decision, just like Unreal does...
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A lot of those complaints, historically, are a direct result of Google's culture of being an engineering meritocracy: let everyone experiment, let employees easily transfer to new teams, and let the best product win. That does wonders for innovation if bureaucracy isn't an issue, but what you've seen in the past ten years is that bureaucracy has gotten in the way of innovation at the same time as Google has refused to adjust it's organization & culture to become more top-down and market driven. Since TK took over Cloud, you've started seeing this wholesale, and now this new "culture" (leadership focus & style) affects the Hardware & Platforms PAs, as well as the new Deepmind.

Google isn't an engineering meritocracy anymore, but it's still a great place for engineers overall: wealthy, excellent perks, and some of the best talent anywhere. But, adjusting the culture to be truly market driven and in alignment with a clear purpose has (and is still) taken years, and has created lots of interim pain & suffering [of all kinds, both internally and for customers & consumers]. Google is becoming more like Apple & Microsoft, and if the alternative is "pretend to be like the old Google", this cannot be anything but positive.
This is a good write up of why you shouldn’t give away the house when you open source things. The issue was really this: Earthly being open-source, Earthy Satellite users were already seeing the benefit from 95% of Earthly CI.

I’m a huge fan of open source, however, if your business model includes an open source model - you need a differentiator. Beyond blazingly fast(tm). You need a reason for people to offer up their credit cards, or better, their accounting PO process. You need a feature you withhold or a service you provide from the open source offering to make it appealing.

GitLab restricts CI/CD to paying customers. Travis/CircleCI limit on build time/credits unless also open source. Azure DevOps is the devil. ArgoCD is complicated. GitHub actions are nice if you have hardware to run the runners. Swarm’s of Jenkins is what most are used to in the enterprise.

As a former Director of DevOps, my immediate question will be what features make me want to buy vs host myself. I’m technically capable. Why should I buy with you when I can run my cloud and my DevOps pipelines for my workforce the way that makes the most sense for my business? Help me make the most sense.

*EDIT* I'm not suggesting withholding features that are critical for the software to operate, but withholding business features that provide support or enterprise-level integration. Even making it tiered so the power users pay less because they support it more themselves?
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Governments everywhere: The response Maarten received from the CISO should be a model for security response. Everything else with the Dutch government may be a tyrannical horror (I don't know) but this published response was correct.
Privacy is Medieval. Do you agree?
There are a lot of ways to look at it.

The "You're not the customer"-perspective: You as a user of google search is not the customer. The customer is the people placing ads on Google search, and secondary the people placing ads on the pages google search leads users to.

The "its an algorithm"-perspective: Google is a search engine, not a collection of curated links. In the past, Google has been very much against having human rate results, but I think they actual have focus groups that come in a lab and do some searches and rates what they see (under the guise of being a different search engine, most likely). Google is very conservative about adjusting their algorithm (or at least have been) and small changes can lead to huge changes in income.
Hello kitty island adventure
> Write once, run anywhere

Except virtual machines of course. Does everyone only build web apps?

What tools do systems developers use? You can’t reliably test system integration in a container.
Drag racers used to use hydrazine which would slowly convert into a contact explosive when mixed with gasoline. The exhaust flames were green. If the carburetor and fuel tank was not purged fast enough after a race the engine, carb, and/or fuel tank would explode and sometimes kill people. I doubt drag racers or venues are scared of lithium.
The title should mention 100kmh, not mph
>Harvested raw berries in general don’t travel well,

Yes, that's why the majority of berries in the US are grown in Mexico. The largest selection of blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries in my local groceries are all from Mexico. There's one specific store that has a really great produce department, and from time to time, they will have local blueberries from a farm in state, but that's only while they are in season.
This may be a dumb question, but how do grocery stores store the dry ice they intend to sell? This stuff has to be kept very cold to prevent it from sublimating. Do they just keep it in an insulated box with a vent and just accept that they will loose some of it?
I really hope your last sentence is true. I've been running a Macbook Air M1 for awhile now and it feels just as snappy as the day I got it. In 15 years and numerous machines (intel macbooks, lenovos, dells, HPs, etc) , I've never been able to say that about any of them. However, the unfortunate part is, while I believe the hardware will be able to last awhile, it all comes down to the what the business heads at Apple see as the EOL day for supporting newer versions of macOS on it.
> Google has no real algorithmic idea who is copying who.

This is an irrelevant distraction, because Google's literal army of nearly 200,000 full time employees, a large number of whom are Python developers, do know. Geeksforgeeks, w3schools, programiz, tutorialspoint, and python-reference.readthedocs, which all rank higher than the official documentation, are not flash-in-the-pan sites. They've been polluting the search results for literally years. Trivial manual processes at Google scale would be 1000% fine and effective.

Google could, if it gave half a shit, give every employee a Chrome browser extension that lets them manually vote on the reasonability of site rankings within known problem genres for their own searches.
The Tyranny of the Parking Lot
Intracerebral hemorrhage among blood donors and their transfusion recipients
Microservices = job security for years to come

So please stop making these posts lol
Maybe your huge concern should be investing in all those rocket companies that, you know, don't actually launch rockets.
It's really surprising how awful the official Python docs are, considering how much the language has grown of late. If I need to reference core Python docs these days, I almost always go to this version on devdocs.io[1].

Thankfully most of the reference documentation I have to look up are the popular data science libraries like pandas. Their documentation[2] is so much cleaner than core Python.

1: https://devdocs.io/python~3.11/
2: https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/index.html#api
There's simpler options if all your equipment is in the same building, but yes, GPS-disciplined oscillators are a really great way to sync up clocks anywhere in the world to within a few nanoseconds. That said, it doesn't really help here because a) nanoseconds not picoseconds and b) the RTL-SDR doesn't have anywhere to plug it in.
_Many_ complaints. People have to realize that people working in tech that can tolerate 2FA jumps are a small minority of people in the general population. Not to mention, the scenario of "person losing their 2fa device" will happen thousands of times more frequently across 300+ million people than the one person a month in a corporate environment.
Could we maybe change the title here and change it to 100mph?

I realize this is the original article title but EV + 0 to 100 led me to believe the article was talking about battery charging speed.
> A professional Python programmer probably has their IDE/editor set up so it can shows a brief document for `str.endswith` already. Someone who is new to Python (probably not even a programmer yet) might actually prefer the hand-holding from those content farm pages.

Someone who has been exposed to the most basic Python features and knows they want info on str.endswith can just type help(str.endswith) in the Python interactive environment.
This:

http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/future_of_humanity.html

is a transcript of a 1974 talk/lecture that shows how fun and modest he was, while still delivering a lot of interesting points to ponder.
Ribena has been ruined with artificial sweeteners. If this tinkering actually worked I wouldn't mind but Britons continue to get fatter.
That's the services model that Facebook uses and parts of Amazon use. A single data store surrounded by a bunch of small services with a prescribed data access layer.

That's really more of a monolith though. One of the key tenants of microservices is data separation -- each service has its own data store.
It’s 100kph
Custom made, it is called YOShInOn. I will be blogging about it soon.

It's very solid for a demo, it's not inconceivable that it could be open sourced but it has some social media posting features that might be a little dangerous (e.g. it could really spam Hacker News, in fact the autoposter really pissed off somebody on the night shift when it was not coupled to YOShInOn and what it was posting wasn't so good)

It's also conceivable that it gets firmed up into a product for people who do "search" for a living such as salespeople, recruiters, patent search professionals, etc.
about 0.11 football fields were required to reach 100km/h
Read some of the post and some of the comments here and a thought crossed my mind. Technical people like order, systems, rules, processes. As managers, they try and apply those things to managing people. The problem is people aren't computers. They are highly unpredictable, emotional beings. Put a bunch of them together and, well, chaos ensues. Not in a bad way, and sometimes in great ways, but certainly not in a "oh I read about this in a book" kind of way.
I would highly recommend getting the $25 bundle. It has a great set of titles:

- Building Event-Driven Microservices

- Building Evolutionary Architectures

- Building Micro-Frontends

- Continuous API Management

- Flow Architectures

- Foundations of Scalable Systems

- Fundamentals of Software Architecture

- Learning Domain-Driven Design

- Mastering API Architecture

- Microservices Up and Running

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- Software Architecture Metrics

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I'm having a very similar issue getting https://brisktest.com/ out there. People complain about things like the speed of their build system, but convincing people that your CI system is faster just seems like an uphill battle. Maybe the era of launching new indie dev tools to developers is over and you just need a massive marketing budget to bombard devs with advertising and lots of sponsored content.
Going from discussing the curvature of the Earth to the finite speed of light wasn't to dunk on the student, it was to demonstrate the increasing relative correctness of our universal theories.