skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That usually means the business model is exposed to disruption.

How is this sector siloed against a newcomer that undercuts every incumbent while remaining profitable?
The WW2 level mobilization idea seems on point to me, but most Canadians I know seem totally oblivious to the fundamental decline of our economic and infrastructural capacities. I think we’ve lived too long in easy mode, benefitted a lot in many ways from our neighbour to the south, and let things slide too much for a generation or two.

I hesitate to say that in a sense because frankly, I don’t fully understand it. I do however understand that we’re languishing in many ways, and we don’t appear prepared to address this in a meaningful way.

It feels a bit like watching someone play a real time strategy game and noticing things are easy for them because external elements are removing difficulty from the game, so they focus their resources on a lot of the wrong stuff. Then when hard times come, they’re brutally unprepared and get wrecked while they try to ramp up to deal with whatever came for them. It feels like Canada is at the stage where the first taste of bad stuff has arrived, and we’re still fumbling with deciding what/if/how to address this bad thing. And we’d really like to continue playing the game as we were up until that point.

Maybe a terrible analogy. I’m the epitome of a layperson. All of this is opinion that should be taken with teaspoons of salt.
Works fine in reader mode.
Hence lighttpd being pronounced "lighty", I suppose.
> Though if the mission depends on those two bodies traveling together

Nevermind together, if the cable snaps they won't be going to the original destination.
That looks awesome... thanks!
Erh, is the scrolling of that website weird to everyone?

I think you don't need all that, but you can start simple with less, like a simple Arduino kit.

Also you can get some Tektronix or similar if you get used. I know I would love some old used HP or Agilent bench multimeters.
Thus, over time, most people working on commercial robots favor increasing the minimum wage :-)
That was probably the calculation... and the reason for not insuring them.
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Yes, very good book.
I've tried creating diagrams of this nature (not realizing this is a thing) but I chose them for documenting the system to others that weren't already familiar with the project so it felt necessary to layer it all together. Those diagrams shown looked more like team meetings hashing out the details. Seemed kind of an unfair comparison.

That being said, the biggest issue I ran into is in the diagram tooling. At the time we had Gliphy. One could not make it interactable, such that double-clicking on a node would explode the container and let someone drill-down. At best they had layers which were awfully crude to work with. And at the end of the day didn't export in SVG so were useless for embedding. Overall, a waste of time. :(
Interestingly, when testing Steam downloads from Syd and Bris servers just now - 4:10am local time - (downloading Control Ultimate Edition this time around), both of them were able to give consistent download rates of ~50MB/s.

That's in line with "line speed" for my current NBN plan through Launtel. Might try bumping that up to the 1000/50 plan at some point and see if the download rates go that high too. :)
I can’t hear the term “ethnic cleansing” now without hearing Carlin’s voice in my head. “Quantitative easing” is getting there.

Which I figure is something he would be proud of.

He will be sorely missed in the coming decades. Not by people who knew his work, but by the empty space he leaves.
Bring the Brodutch Family Home
Good call, I should have thought about this! Let me see if I can edit the title. Thanks!
Might be a good guess, there's precedent of them changing fundamental techology in a similar timeframe...

2013: "Migrating Uber from MySQL to PostgreSQL"[1]

2016: "Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL"[2]

[1] https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/53683323/migrating-ub...

[2] https://www.uber.com/en-GB/blog/postgres-to-mysql-migration/
Impact of Urbanization on Cognitive Disorders
What's really frustrating to me about this article --- someone tell me if I'm wrong and just missed what I'm looking for --- is that there's no simple chart of the dollars allocated to each of these major health care middlemen versus total health care spending. So the article firmly establishes that the market for PBMs is consolidated down to a couple huge firms. Good note! But how much do PBMs matter? Why aren't they showing me that on a graph?
And also consider that most doctors and nurses probably don't like the way the healthcare system currently works. Certainly none of the dozen or so that I know personally do. Using "makes doctors angry" a proxy for whether a proposed reform is a good idea probably isn't one.
I have not seen data that supports this claim. At the least, there is a strong correlation between cuts in state support for public higher ed, and increases in tuition. In the 60's many states paid 100% of the cost, and tuition was free. Room and Board in college towns is also high, as part of the overall housing affordability issues. If unlimited education lending were a factor, we would see these increases in expenditures, but we don't. Costs are higher, but tuition increases are driven by changes in the revenue mix.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-m...
You can do something like that over IRC without much fuss! As in IRC as a backend.
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The market rewards companies that get there first. Market and regulators hand out slaps on the wrist for lapses in security. Actually punished if you are second to market
F5 is enough of a meme that I know it despite being a mac user; what does F9 do in this context?
Why are they coming to SF and not all going to LA then?

Of course all the research (admittedly limited, but there is no research showing this “well known fact”) this well know fact is just false.
* Pacifying -> bomb the crap out of
Thank you, I stand corrected on this point.
> legal documents don't have copyright protection

1. That's an overstatement: For "original works of authorship," copyright happens automatically upon "fixation" in a "tangible medium of expression" (e.g., saving to a file, maybe even just typing). [0] And it doesn't take much "original ... authorship" to qualify for copyright protection.

2. Here's A hypothetical example: Alice drafts a contract from scratch as Version 1 and saves it to a file. It's copyrighted; on these facts, Alice owns the copyright. [0] Then Bob takes Alice's Version 1 and modifies it to create Version 1.1: Bob's "original" contributions to Version 1.1 are themselves protected by copyright, which Bob owns, bu with two caveats:

(a) Bob has no claim to copyright in Alice's Version 1; and

(b) Bob's own contributions to Version 1.1 won't be protected unless one or both of the following is true: (1) Bob had Alice's permission to base his "derivative work" on Alice's Version 1; [1] and/or (2) Bob's use of Version 1 qualified as "fair use" (a complicated question in itself). [2]

NOTES:

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/101; see also, e.g., https://www.adamsdrafting.com/the-contract-drafter-as-copyri...

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/103

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
I believe this is what flagging is for. The guidelines suggest to use it for spam and caution against feeding such discussions.

Now, when to pass along a bit of feedback is a judgement call only you can make, but I think in most cases people will also learn by trying and failing.
Yes.

Please stop suggesting this and anything else in fiat money as the answer to all our problems.

Money and USD are all a scam.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/10/03/elon-...
Yes, we would, we would just have fewer colleges.

And some of the ones we do have might have contractual arrangements with corporations that funnel students into jobs at those corporations (possibly by contractually binding the students into a job at those corporations for a defined period of time). There are both pros and cons to that sort of apprenticeship arrangement. It would be bad, though, if the apprentice also had to monetarily pay part of the cost of attending college.
"The Boys Second book of Electronics"[1] by Alfred Morgan. In it I learned the wonders of the CK722 transistor, and it kicked off my love of electronics, and technology as a whole. It completely shifted the direction of my life.

[1] https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/T...
reminds me of Quaero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero#Criticism
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
> There's also a huge industry around certification and compliance that adds almost no value. I've never known any experienced security professional who places any value in CISSP, CEH, etc. (In fact they're often a negative indicator of competence). They're the security equivalent of a 6-week coding bootcamp. Mostly just a cash grab.

Preach. The number of times I have had to explain basic computer to a cissp is larger than I’d like to admit.
They do food delivery, parcel courriers, regular ubers, plan ahead uber, grocery shopping, and a lot of other stuff. if anything this is simpler than most silo driven architectures you'd usually get with such a massively diversified business.
Nah, currency controls are a significant method of economic power. My point is unchanged.
It’s a slice of doctors and hospitals.

https://www.ama-assn.org/about/research/trends-health-care-s...

Medicaid for all and drs must accept certain level of Medicaid patients.

Everyone should be able to get BASIC treatment. Don’t make employers deal with it.

If you want all sorts of joint and organ replacements because you’re a slob or a lost cause, that’s on you.
Why Die? [video]
It's particularly annoying that normally the OP leaves it to somebody else to fix their bug...
So, so many people have recommended I do the fake contractor thing. Dude, just pay your wife to do “HR stuff” or something. Wait, why buy a personal vehicle? You could buy one for your company to travel to client meetings. You know you could be putting X amount into your “business”? Why lose all this money in taxes?

The thing is, we need people to pay taxes because our public systems are having major issues and people earning or paying less is a real problem for all of us. Would I like to get more from what I earn? Yeah, in a sense. Do I need it? Not as much as the average Canadian. Not even close.
Sure, but perfectly rigid bodies are also not compatible with an atomic model of matter, they are just an abstraction used in the maths.

If you wanted to model an actual physical experiment, you would model any physical object as two or more rigid bodies connected by springs of an arbitrary small length*. So, anyone using classical mechanics for experimental purposes rather than explorations of the maths would model the collision of three balls in a way where simultaneity is impossible.

* This is just like when modeling actual circuits, you model a physical wire as an ideal wire plus a resistor. But we don't say that "classical wire diagrams predict that the current through a wire can be infinite" just because you can draw a circuit with 0 resistance - that circuit modal is simply non-physical.
That’s dumb

It’s eventually just going to give a monopoly to a domestically deployed mixer that the creators walk away from, or that one of the United States states or agencies deploy and walks away from, even the exchanges that are expected to provide scrutiny will be able to say the monopoly mixer is fine

onchain mixers are autonomous
As soon as computers had 4+ cores we should have been going hard on it.
What happened to jtagulator? I would have thought this would have been included as a go-to JTAG tool.
What type of art can exist for someone who's blind, deaf, unable to taste or smell, and quadriplegic?
(Edit: additionally, does this exclude music as a whole?)

Those with more than one disability don't have the right to enjoy art? The right to force you individually to accomodate them in everything you do regardless of if you know them or how few of them there may be?

By your metric there, might I accuse your own post here? You didn't use language that someone sufficiently mentally disabled could understand, so you've just excluded their "right" to appreciate and understand what you've written. Perhaps a limitation of this platform, but it'd sound like you're enabling that same ableism, not to mention that you could attach links to pictograms and videos to try to enable those who cannot understand language.

What is such an accusation of "Ableism"? A denial of differences in ability? A belief that if even one person somewhere can't achieve something, that nobody anywhere should, however mundane?

It's one thing to discuss designing our public streets to accomodate people on wheelchairs, of whom there are many and the benefits can also aid cyclists and even just people wheeling cargo on a dolly. Or to design public buildings to have small accomodations as such where they are trivially inexpensive and will remain for the life of the building while often providing benefits to everyone. Yet should it apply to all aspects of life everywhere? And what defines the limits? Exclusion of 1% of the population? 0.1%? A single individual?
How exactly is the AI supposed to show diversity when your prompts have exactly zero diversity?
And the first reference is from a professor named Dr. Hacker, which makes it more relevant here regardless.
Each generation complains about the new generation's usage of new terms. My younger siblings use the phrases like NPC so often, that irritates many older people in the family.

From my understanding the top down terms enforced by language police at universities, public schools and corporations invariably end up becoming joke over time. The bottom up terms which were created by bullies, incels, sluts, car mechanics, bartenders continue to stick around and improve the language for the better.

Initially it is hard to determine which one is which. LGBTQ for example appears to be a bottoms up term that gained popularity and will be around for a long time. LGBTQIA2S++-- is likely going to end up as a joke. "Preferred Pronounce" another nonsense promoted by the bloat at corporate HRs (diversity departments) too in my opinion would end up as material for stand up comics down the line. There are more modern bottoms up terms like Incel, NPC etc. will stick around for a long time just like YOLO, FOMO etc have become pretty mainstream.

The better care our soldiers get is a result of medical field advancement, better economy and has very little to do with the terminology.
A guide to incident post-mortem documents
I've started subbing to Perplexity.ai recently and it's been great. All the benefits of interacting with an LLM with the grounding truth injected from search results. It's not perfect and sometimes falls on its face, but I use it way more than regular search these days. As a paying customer you can switch the underlying model to GPT4 or Claude2, which is nice.
Important footnotes

> [2] To be clear, I’m making this up, I have no idea how the fraud was discovered and never want to find out, unless the real story is funnier than this one.

> [3] I don’t know if they were? Is JPMorgan entitled to take out the rocks? Is it required to take out the rocks? “Hey JPMorgan you have 10 days to come pick up your rocks; if you don’t we’re gonna throw them through Jamie Dimon’s window”? If someone cracks open one of the rocks and there’s a diamond inside, does JPMorgan get the diamond?
> I usually check the unlikely cases right away and then put the normal case last.

Don't we all?
What did you believe before vs. after, if you don't mind saying? I haven't had a perspective on either situation, so I'm purely curious.
For reference, Russia's Baiknour is at 45.965°N (about a thousands kilometers difference, not counting longitude.)

A high latitude should work fine for Earth observing satellites that are suited for polar orbits, but I can't help but think it would make more sense for Germany to make a deal with France to share the Guiana Space Centre.
Yes. I said they get paid well but I didn’t say that it is bad or makes them bad.

Educational costs and duration means putting their life on hold well past the point your median FAANGer is taking in big bucks. So they expect the pay to start paying down that debt & lost time.

But other countries get by without their doctors accruing a mountain of educational costs and time spent in apprentice like conditions.

AMA is a cartel.

Imagine if SWEs managed to create a certification process essentially locking out H1Bs and constrained the number of new SWEs domestically minted.
On the other hand, "makes doctors happy" would lead you to some bizarre local maxima, and we seem to have quite a lot of those already.
In fairness, concurrent data structures generally don’t represent what gp is talking about. Yes, very, very difficult to write a solid concurrent ring buffer. Writing Java’s concurrent hashmap - hard. Using it to implement a simple in memory kv store: not that hard.

But ensuring some parallelism while maintaining thread safety is straightforward in many contexts - an uncontended mutex is close to zero overhead. Languages like Rust make it harder to struggle with some of the thornier issues (data races which cannot be simulated by stepping threads).

E.g. in Java a typical system looks like a thread per request with some shared underlying data structures like caches or connection pools. Relatively easy to use these safely, or to guard some shared object with a synchronized.

Likewise with parallelism - a lot of problems just boil down to ‘do a few map reduces’ and the parallelism is pretty trivial.

Obviously, concurrent systems are fiendish to reason through - but there are a lot of cases where the complexity can be side stepped.
Doesn’t seem to stop people writing scary code on the daily though.
Most exciting aspect of confidential computing is it’s inevitable marriage with blockchain. Imagine being able to monetize “secrets” accessible only to programs running in TEEs. It’s probably not going to amount to much but iExec in France is trying to make an economy of secrets secured by confidential computing and are giving out boku bucks for devs/bounties/grants
Anchoring is still a thing isn’t it?
1Blocker already mentioned, but it is is absolutely fantastic.

The iOS version also blocks in-app trackers (in other apps, outside of Safari) and YouTube app ads via its firewall feature.
Western Digital and Kioxia to Announce Merge This Month
> bent on pulling money out of your pocket

Speaking of which, I am not sure why doctors are allowed to limit the number of doctors who can become licensed each year.
Considering one of the best-known and well-regarded classicists of the 21st century admits she has enormous difficulty reading Latin texts she hasn't read before, I don't think reading mostly translations sets you any worse off than the average academic, especially if you take the time to acquire at least some rudimentary knowledge about the language in question, and particularly if you can locate an edition with side-by-side texts, like the Loeb editions for ancient Rome and Greece.

> It sounds like you have a beef against academic historians?

Somewhat, in that the average[1] modern academic output in the humanities is not worth writing home about (often absolute garbage) and the expertise relative to a sufficiently dedicated amateur (not a layman) is highly overrated. While many (but not all!) scientific fields have evolved to a level of complexity and depth requiring education and equipment not accessible to random amateurs, history is generally speaking in the same position it was a hundred years ago: anyone can read enough on their own to acquire expertise in some particular niche and possibly even make new connections, if the ground hasn't already been over-tilled.

[1] Average is an important word here. Obviously at the high end this becomes less and less likely to be true.
I can't imagine that google hasn't thought about it. The sheer scale of the processing cost to do it is probably too high with as much video they serve.
Manage Your Capacity, Not Your Time
How is 'collateral damage' newspeak? It's a useful concept even if you want to avoid it at all costs, but beyond that euphemisms have existed forever and are not the same as newspeak (which wanted to make something literally unthinkable, not merely euphemistic).
So does the OP's website.
What is the "the whole "just teach to code" fiasco"? I'm familiar with the idea of widespread coding education, but the fiasco part is news to me. Is it something interesting, or just another face on the same story of struggling/failing public schools?
on chrime mobile: desktop mode is also helping out
There is a difference between not being focused on mobile and deliberately making your website unreadable on mobile.
I don't mean this to offer any political commentary one way or another but as someone who has worked at length with Medicare, HHS, CMS, VA, HRSA, and more or less every alphabet soup federal appendage remotely related to healthcare and medicine. No, I do not think any version of "medicare for all" is a remotely plausible solution to any healthcare problem other than getting healthcare lobbyists much larger yachts.
Some places outright refuse to prosecute or report crimes (looking at you San Francisco), but I assume homicide is still taken seriously, even in the most liberal of places.
Idk how people can use the internet and get influenced by ads, I will stop using whatever it is the moment an ad comes on.

I guess I am a bad person for that

edit: also reminds me when you look at YouTube when not logged in, the home page tiles wow...

it's like podcasts man... like good old ones and now they rattle off like 10 companies for 5 minutes straight before it even starts.

I get it though, takes time to make, need to pay for it somehow
do you understand that software drives the world? i work for a healthcare network administration startup.
When you get up to buying meters, the main advantage of Flukes is that you can accidentally put 500 volts into them, and they survive it. When soldering, it's important to wear Jeans, or other heavy non-plastic full length pants.
Neither can I. I tried the same query and the first few results are exactly about circle.co . There are some news articles near the end of the first page but they're still relevant - about making video calls.
Reduction is a negative word. Could trigger the snowflakes at your office.

I think the correct term is "reassessment of human resources" or "restructuring", it is a bit like guy who steals your car at gunpoint in SF but is kind enough to ask you your preferred pronoun.
This is the functional definition of profit

Turns out maximizing profit is not a panacea for efficient system design
If you’re for enforcement, you should be appalled at this answer. According to non-crazy metrics, up to 13% of Americans held crypto currencies at some point.

Don’t tell me 13% of all Americans don’t deserve enforcement at least of the rules by which crypto currencies should operate. I’m not asking for the moon here.
Indeed, the documentation (diagrams/text with particular layout and formatting) should abstract a lot of what the code does. Otherwise, what's the point since the code is there for you to read.

In my experience, auto-generated documentation in general does a poor job.

That said, such automation is improving by virtue of better AI, that understands and cross translates people's languages and computer languages.