skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed this too, after losing my sense of smell/taste in june 2022 I've been able to easily tolerate spice that I wasn't able to tolerate prior.
Unless I’m mistaken, bound constrains the type to a specific protocol while this constrains the type to specific types.
You also don’t want to drive a car designed by someone who is off their rocker, for safety and reliability reasons.
Interesting. Wonder how kids in China are doing.
What does one learn from hoax, misinformation and false information?
We’re about to embark on the MFE journey and I’m concerned about pulling it off in a way that will have justified the effort. Our motivations are pure, we have many feature teams, we’re driving toward team independence, already breaking up the monolith into Microservices, etc. But on the FE we have the standard requirement to maintain eventual (definition tbd) UI consistency and so intend to continue to maintain a large number of build-time dependencies between MFEs and shared libraries. So I’m not sure exactly how to pull this off.

Are any of these “many success stories” talked about online? Case studies we can get pumped on?
Amazon did buy Kiva, their warehouse-robot manufacturer, many years ago. But a delivery truck is a much more generic product that you don’t benefit from owning and vertically integrating the same way.
I'd guess that's part of why they get thousands of applications per role?
I built recently a demoscene like demo in JavaScript using my coding platform. Here is the program:

https://codeguppy.com/code.html?javascript_is_cool

Just press Play.
China's commerce minister meets with Apple's Tim Cook in Beijing
How can you possibly measure inflammation much less attribute it to a single variable?
I don’t know if you clicked through to the link, but there’s some additional context in the original tweet:

> You don’t need to know the high performance languages to make a killing as a data engineer!

As such, the tweet seems fairly self-explanatory.
Unless the oak tree is far from an electric outlet, even inexpensive plug-in electric chainsaws are much easier to use than gas chainsaws. The high torque means it won't stall out when all but the burliest gas chainsaws give up.
The Banking Concept of Education – Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere [pdf]
Ask HN: Which non-fiction books had the biggest impact on you?
Trying to decide what books to bring with me on my upcoming trip.
What a trip down memory lane (no pun intended)! Rest in peace, my WYSIWYG friend.

It was a rough ride bringing VB to the web. There was VB Active Server Pages, then VB.NET Webforms, which did not always produce the most performant or secure UI code. It was like an ornery bronco in the age of industry.

The concept of Viewstate was interesting and probably looked great in demo applications, but it was ultimately not the best way to avoid writing JavaScript. Sometimes it could be tamed, but for the sly cowboy, ruby on rails was the king of RAD.
Curious what you do for the people on less-than-good internet connections? Or is everybody just onsite with a business-class SLA?
It doesn’t matter how many different accounts are used, google is known to ban related accounts as they see fit .

How they classify accounts being related is anyone’s guess .
Overpriced? Can't say I disagree with you, but Harness was by far the best CD solution I've ever used, and to this day I'm still waiting for an open source solution to replicate the experience, without needing to deploy resource hungry services.
Ironically posted by a guy who walked away from big tech and bigger salaries after he got sick of it.
Malaysia's $15B battle with the lost Sultanate of Sulu
I’ve recently come to the conclusion that “real artists shitpost”. They will play with their craft and make something stupid, all as a form of recreation and expression.
If you use uBlock Origin you can do

www.linkedin.com##:matches-path(feed).scaffold-layout__main
www.linkedin.com##.global-nav__primary-link.global-nav__primary-link--active.app-aware-link

The former will block the main content of the page while on the /feed/ path, while the latter will block the "Home" button in the header nav.
At Google, people can use "Cider" which is a web browser based IDE, and they can use a "Cloudtop" which is a desktop virtual machine provisioned via Google's cloud infrastructure, as alternatives to a dedicate physical workstation.
The end of WWII led to Germany, Japan and Italy becoming (or returning to) democracies. As well as your later examples of South Korea and Taiwan, it's understandable that it seemed like the end of the cold war could also lead to some similar results. Maybe by 97 that optimism had faded, but for a while Russia looked like it was heading towards democracy.
Yep, I certainly have. With just two trackers I’ve got access to pretty much every TV show and movie in existence.
Agreed that the overall quality of life is lower in rural counties which is leading to a mental health crisis, and agreed on the right to suicide.

This amount of suicides from people who I assume are mostly able bodied and otherwise healthy though by gun indicates a few things to me though:

1. Guns are an extremely effective and fast method of suicide.

2. Sudden depression or psychosis could happen to anyone.

3. A mental state can be and usually is transitory or treatable.

I think my belief from the above is that this is a safety issue in terms of the immediacy of the act, rather than the act itself. Taking pills, jumping from a bridge, asphyxiation all take time and planning. All you need is one gun in your house for self-defense bought years ago or inherited/borrowed from a close associate, or even for hunting, and there's nothing our societal safety net or your future self can provide for protection from your present self.

I have a friend who was admitted to the hospital for medically induced psychosis (a known side effect of the medication prescribed by his doctor), it scares me to think that anyone trusts that their brain chemistry and state is this solid and unwavering foundation of sanity, that's simply not always the case.
What are those things in your particular example?
Nearly every landscaping brand has backpack based battery systems that set you up with tons of power. And you just toss in extra charged batteries as needed. Lawn care companies have historically carried gas cans, nothing blocks them from carrying batteries.

https://opereviews.com/ryobi-40v-backpack-battery-system-rev...
I did, yes, my post was in response to the full tweet. I think I'm just way outside of the target audience because I didn't know about this "you have to know high performance languages as a data engineer" conversation.
Before Lithium ion batteries, a ban on ICE blowers probably meant having to rake which is way more manpower.
Looks like 4 cores and 24 GB fit inside the free tier: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
You can search, but that defeats the entire purpose of browsing. I can't know about everything there is out there.

Every once in a while I'll go into search and enter random three letter combinations like "Sta", "Tho", "Mon" etc. When I do, I often find things in the search results that I add to my list and would have done sooner, except I never knew they existed because netflix refused to show them to me. I've also been to other people's houses and seen how different the things netflix shows them are.

It seems like all netflix ever shows you is what they want you to see. My guess is that they intentionally hide certain older content to try and drive viewers to newer content so that they can collect metrics. Newer things end up being pushed over and over again in category after category.

I'm not interested in giving them metrics showing how well people like whatever their newest releases are though. I want to watch whatever I want to watch whenever I want to watch it. That was the promise of streaming that netflix never quite delivered on, but for a little while it was pretty close. Now it seems like netflix wants to turn into cable TV. They don't even always release entire seasons to let you binge anymore (they can control the conversation on social media and keep the ad hype up longer if they don't give users the freedom to watch shows on their own schedule)

It really sucks to see so clearly what cable TV always should have been, to come so close to having that, and then have it slowly killed off in front of you.
You say that like it’s a fact but Facebook has a humongous monolith and it works fine with tens of thousands of engineers working on it at the same time
Maybe I'm just stupid but I want one of these that just prints out (or lights up next to text) something like:

5w
10w
15w
20w
...

and

480mbps
5gbps
10gbps
20gbps
40gbps

and maybe

USB2
USB3.0
USB3.1
USB3.2 gen 1
USB3.2 gen 2
Thunderbolt 3
Thunderbolt 4

Or something like that. At least once I month I go searching for USB cable testers for this exact purpose and within 10min my eyes are crossed and I just close all the tabs giving up.
Actually the data is mostly irrelevant. The tooling and engineering are what's important.

I've worked across Finance, Retail, Insurance, Telco etc and more often than not the data requires deep domain knowledge which would take months of full-time education to understand. Nobody bothers with it.

Analysts and Domain Experts will figure out the calculations and pipelines whilst the Data Engineers are responsible for ensuring everything works.
Life pro tip, when deciding between features to implement, if one of those features is a dashboard. Do the dashboard. Executives love summary information.
Solarmax 2 made the strongest aesthetic impression among the flash games I can recall - abstract, well-eased animations (including map transitions), strong lighting to avoid the Flash sprite look, and a soundtrack of piano and strings. The creator's site is still around and has a video:

http://nicotuason.com/solarmax2.html

The sound design also stood out to me even among proper RTSs: in particular, the appropriately distant explosions that aren't irritating when repeated. Stereo panning was an interesting touch.

That was the tail end of Flash, so it was cross-platform (Adobe Air) and doesn't run in Ruffle.

The mentioned Monument Valley reminds me of Wonderputt. There was a whole genre of those 'elegant orthographic' Flash games.
Leadership in technology seems to have had a real drop in general science/math training. Like, the fundamentals. One manager I had a few years ago could not, for the life of him, understand why cold air falls. I had such a hard time with this we went to the break room for experiments, but he just wouldn't fold. "Aw, it's just blowing air down!"

More recently, I've been running into an awful lot of people who want to get rid of statistics even as a general concept, I suppose in favor of LLMs powered by "universal data". My jaw's getting a little cramped from biting my tongue to keep from asking, "Why do you think statistics was invented?". One of these bumpkins is going to get someone killed replacing a safety system with a rando public model that's been trained mostly on swearing and antisemitism.
Exceptions are exceptional
I'm pretty new at iphone, like 3 weeks.

settings->battery claims that it uses about 10% of my battery in 10 hours, or about as much as less than 20 minutes of firefox use.

I previously had an ulefone armor 9 which had vastly better battery life with a 3+ year old battery after switching off battery saver hacks and making no effort eg running wireguard 24/7, than the iphone 15 pro, which kinda sucks pretty hard. Struggles to get through a day. No idea how much of that is my fault. Settings claims basically none of it is, but can it be believed?

iPhone is super expensive for a device that does so many fundamental things so incredibly badly with fixes that must have been obvious for a decade. One example of many is the sheer idiocy of silent mode. My nokia 20 years(?) ago let you set it to silent for 2 hours so you weren't stuffed if you forgot to do it manually when the thing was over. Not iphone. iPhone pings when you go to bed and put it on charge when it claims to be in "sleep mode" which is just idiotic. Sucks if your partner was asleep and that's why you wanted it silent at that time. No way they haven't got feedback on that after what, 15 years of iphone? I took them a decade to replace the old silent mode switch that changes position to silent accidentally all the time for elderly relatives so I guess that's some kind of improvement but wow.

Oh before people take it personally, android sucks. And those are our only choices other than no longer participating in society.
> The freedom caucus is basically an enemy faction to the mainline GOP. At some point they’re going to need to be disowned if they don’t fall in line. Probably quite soon if the orange loses the presidential run.

They can't be disowned, practically, unless the rump GOP has a strategy for securing a majority without them (not just without those members, but also the people in the electorate and activist base thar share their views and are a significant share of the support for other GOP members.)
The breach affects those related to you and affects you multi-generationally so there’s a lot of time for the impact to materialize. There are strong financial incentives for genetic discrimination on the part of insurers and employers. There are also plenty of fascists are happy as a clam to discriminate against anybody with certain genes.

If there’s any reason not to care, it’s not the lack of impact, it’s the impossibility of securing the data. I could sit here all day and convince you that you should care and then your cousin would get a dna analysis done and that would ultimately make all your caution mostly irrelevant. The only effective way to ensure genetic privacy is a legislative effort to control access to genetic databases, trying to avoid being put in such a database is only going to slow down how fast this happens.
This argument can be generalized against anything police or prosecutors use to convict people. Fingerprints can falsely implicate someone in a crime. Witnesses are notoriously unreliable. If we allow prosecutors to present fingerprints or witness testimony as evidence, innocent people will sometimes get convicted. The most effective way to minimize false convictions is to never convict anyone.
In america, speed limits are about municipal police funding.

For the downvoters, “The speed limit is alternately too low on interstate highways, giving police discretion to make stops at will”

https://slate.com/business/2021/12/speed-limit-americas-most...
Obvioulsy, they also know about data manipulation and analysis.

What coding skills does your MD have? How much do they make?

Specialized and in demand skills bring high salaries...
The Federation (like many protagonists in US SF) has a very “American” approach to diplomacy and problem solving.
TLDR; probably the same as how many people try out for professional football and the few that get in for high pay. They want the best.

There’s a correlation to quantity of applicants and pay. You can lower pay in high demand jobs but you’re lowering your funnel for the best applications buried in the bunch. This doesn’t matter for a cashier job since you aren’t looking for world class cashiers to disrupt your industry.
It comes from the Hadoop era of Data Engineering.

Which is that you were expected to know Scala or Java in order to build pipelines.

That all changed when Spark added Python support.
Main differences from zx:

- YavaScript is waaaay smaller. zx and its dependencies are 16.3MB, and they depend on Node.js, which is 156MB. zx also requires a local node_modules folder which can be inconvenient in some cases. YavaScript is a single ~3MB file with no external dependencies.

- YavaScript isn't based on Node.js; it uses a custom QuickJS-based engine for code execution. This allows it to hook deeper into the engine for additional features (like builtin support for TypeScript), and also means it is wayyy smaller.

- YavaScript's APIs are generally synchronous, whereas zx's APIs are generally asynchronous. I did this because I believe synchronous APIs are more similar to normal shell scripting, and because peppering `await` everywhere feels silly when the script is going to execute things serially 95% of the time. There are still asynchronous APIs available in YavaScript, though, including Web Workers.
If the problem fits into the pandas/numpy/scipy framework, it runs fast, because all the math code is in Fortran/C/C++ and the Python is just the top level control.
I like writing useless software because its use, if any, will exceed initial expectations. Examples:

https://reversedns.space/

https://github.com/ClickHouse/NoiSQL

https://pastila.nl/
I’ve tried this but did not find it worthwhile in practice. Either you end up running multiple versions of the same library, which sucks terribly unless your library doesn’t have side effects, or you end up doing a huge versioning dance at every change for no benefit
Can you not imagine a universal application?

For example, what if you were guaranteed housing, food, and water for working some government job (assigned at random even) a couple of days a week? Most likely people will not want to be janitors and the like so it makes sense to tie social needs to the benefits to offset this, and the food provided does not need to have a lot of choice, as long as it meets nutrition requirements.

Ambitious humans may want more, fine, allow an industry as we do now for people to grow and expand. In fact, competing with the government guaranteeing basic needs puts an easy floor on otherwise exploitative jobs. You have to at least beat the floor to attract any labor.
I have an iPhone 13 mini as my "work phone "and it's indisputably a fantastic, efficient, small phone. However, I am kind of OCD about keeping it between 40-80% charged, which is a lot of manual toil.

Conversely, I also have an Android Galaxy S22+ for my personal phone. The "Battery Protect" feature limits charging to 85%. Life is easy with this device and it causes me a lot less anxiety.

Really now, why can't Apple enable this for older phones? I don't believe there's any good reason to force batteries to excessively damage themselves. I had a previous iPhone 13 mini I was less careful with on the over-charging front, and the battery performance was markedly worse. Hence the OCD. I acknowledge my neuroticism, but try to curb it within the realm of evidence.
This may be the first time I’ve been misled by a headline linking to a tweet. Why did this even get posted
> The problem is that your institutions offer no mechanism for a majority that agrees on a particular course of action to actually make it happen

Yes, it does.

What it also does, sometimes, is create incentives for that consensus on some important issues not to form for electoral tactical reasons that go beyond thr immediate issue, even where there would otherwise be consensus on the immediate issue. (Conversely, it sometimes creates a tactical incentive for majority consensus despite disagreement on the merits of the immediate issue.)

> Perhaps you need to consider secret ballots in your legislature. That would eliminate partisanship in a trice.

It wouldn't eliminate partisanship, but it would eliminate individual accountability of legislators to the electorate, making the system less democratic but equally problematically partisan.
Your complaints are generic. Your ideas have no basis in reality.

There's no conspiracy. Your boss does not get paid more than you do for no reason, while simultaneously adding less value. Sorry but that's not how the world works.
Actually there have been hundreds of cases of trans-identifying males winning in women's sports, taking women's prizes and places on the podium. There's a list of these on https://shewon.org and it's not even a complete list yet.

These males are ruining sports for women athletes, as are the sporting bodies whose policies have enabled this. Some women have even quit the sports they've worked so hard to compete in, because of how unfair this situation is.
Yes but seems like most companies are moving to this remote dev container environment that you ssh into. Obviously the google skills are still important but there are plenty of other, more interesting, problems you can use to practice that.
Pacificon amateur radio 10/20-22 2023
The annual S.F. Bay Area Pacificon amateur radio convention happens this weekend, October 20-22 in San Ramon, near Livermore.

You don't have to have a license to attend, all are welcome. If you think you might be interested in ham radio, there are always technical talks covering various aspects of radio and its intersection with open source, as well as demonstrations of equipment. Someone typically makes a few contacts while parachuting near the venue!

(I expect someone will have an HF Signals sBitx HF (shortwave) transceiver there to show off. It's a mostly open source portable radio designed and built in India around a Raspberry Pi 4 that can communicate via voice, Morse code and various digital modes.)
The viruses are considered to be alive, I don't see why tax forms wouldn't be alive either.
Awesome TikTok about her[0].

[0]: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8hGBwyu/
I met a guy working for SpaceX today. Not much on the software side of things but definitely an expert on SDR. Makes over £365k a year.
Netflix is an interesting example of a substandard product becoming mainstream just because of some kind of a social momentum (it certainly is not the right term; so whatever that is called) it received.

I don't know who is the target audience. I do see younger generations i.e mine - the 30s and 20s considering this as some sort of entertainment utility and they must have a connection err subscription. It has probably the most insipid content and what many even fail to notice and hence do not acknowledge that it has probably one of the shallow most catalogues, yes even after including its really pathetic quality N-formula content.

It is so user hostile and their intentional dark-pattern interface is not the only problem and yet apparently they are doing well. The interface is literally an ad dashboard. Still people spend more and more time on there

Why is that? I don't even think it's like Apple's growth who actually do few things right and offer better hardware and a streamline non-all-over-your-face software. So what is Netflix's secret? Just being the first game in the town? Or good old addiction? Or both, or all of it little by little?
Curious to know how well this supports hybrid designs. No-code “IP block” composition is great for some stuff but there’s going to be customisations that aren’t on the standard “blocks”. That said, cool to see this emerge.
How do you find datacenters which will let you colocate hardware? How much hardware do you have? What was the cost?

I'm really interested in this kind of thing.
The two examples they give are relevant irrespective of micro service granularity:

- User credentials e.g. JWT

- Distributed tracing identifier
Personally it's become my hobby to read out amazon product titles to annoy my partner and/or coworkers.

Even brands I trust more so do this awful keyword stuffing, example: the first result on my amazon for "USB-C":

> Anker USB C Charger Cable (6ft 100W, 2Pack), USB 2.0 Type C Fast Charging Cable for iPhone 15 / 15Pro / 15Plus / 15ProMax MacBook Pro 2020, iPad Pro 2020, iPad Air 4, Samsung Galaxy S23+/S23 Ultra

It's not quite as egregious as some of the titles that use broken english but it's something...
gotta love that blockchain, man. has anyone ever used it at scale for anything legitimate? sheesh.