skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitch partners were forbidden from doing it by their contract, yes.
Looks like the Plan Explorer extension for Azure Data Studio.
I actually heavily disagree with this. Most AI has one specific depiction of a thing and really struggles to get away from that specificity, which honestly is something I consider to be a fundamental failing of ML modeling currently.

For example: trying to get chatgpt to write about psychotic post-partum symptoms, getting stable diffusion to produce a realistic looking woman above the age of 50, or writing an immigration narrative that isn't "home country bad, new country better".
I agree 100%. Too many software developers feel entitled and think they do all the hard work and everyone else should just try to understand their domain or get lost. This attitude will get you nowhere.
Yes, the case is being tried on 4th amendment, but surely there are more to the regulations than that. If they were that simple, I could fly my registered drone outside my neighbors window 24x7.
Heck, the titles in software are so broad you may as well have the pilot, the tech, and the aerospace engineer all sharing the same title along with the flight attendant.
I call for the paper to be retracted! Peanut cultivation requires water with the corresponding extraction of groundwater. Extraction of large amounts of groundwater can cause land subsidence and change the local topography. If done on an extremely large scale...There could be a tiny effect on Earth's rotation.
>> Some students today apparently don't even know what files and folders are?

This isnt just coders. I work with people every day who do not understand directory structures. I blame "cloud" apps like o365. They dont understand that the human can dictate where a file is saved and stored. They just expect that the machine will save it somewhere according to the type of file, or that all files for a project will be in one big space defined by the UI interface for that project. But then i ask for them to send me a copy of a file for whatever reason. All they can do is attempt to send the file to me from withing the UI, only to another user within whatever app they are logged in to. They dont know how to move discreet files between discs or directories on thier own, or even that such things are possible.
I think the fact that you have to ask this proves that it is objectively a bad paper.

The whole point of academic papers is to contribute to the larger global knowledgebase. You acknowledge the work that was done before, you submit your contribution and then you suggest how people can build or expand upon your work. This paper in question is just trying to be a mic-drop, like a middle-finger to academia.

Generally research papers cover background context as their 1st and 2nd sections (at least IEEE format papers do). So normally a paper like this would start with an introduction section which explains what the paper is accomplishing and then the background section number two would explain context for where the author is coming from or what inspired research or background to justify its value. These sections would provide the context you are looking for and at the very least give references for you to go back and learn about it on your own. Even a few sentences would have been powerful here.

This paper does fail to really provide value in my opinion and is objectively a bad paper. With some additional context from the introduction and background this could be much more valuable. Less critical, but also important is to acknowledge limitations and suggest future research.

Now with all that being said, I'm not saying research papers are perfect. It is easy to find examples that go too far the other way, with far too much verbosity and pomp and circumstance. So I do at least acknowledge the statement being made with this paper that maybe all you need is two words. The reality is we should be somewhere in the middle. I read 3-10 academic papers per week, and the average page length is usually around 10 pages and really should be closer to 3-4. So i acknowledge the statement being made here, but this paper is clearly a protest, and not actually a productive example.
"But there will be a point in time when we will go on retirement and there will be only precious few people who had perseverance to really understand all those things by diving into obscure, historical manuals."

I just hope when that time comes I'm well compensated for studying erudite texts on low level computer science while chilling on my phone instead of browsing social media or playing games. But honestly, I enjoy reading and learning about ABIs, C programming, network protocols, etc... more than mindless scrolling anyway.
Yes, very cool. I like the dual piston actuators, but that caliper structure seems like a limiting factor or point of failure. Also, it has to mount somewhere. It would seem natural to integrate it with the fork, so I looked up what they did with TT forks and came up with this single-piston dual-cantilever design as a separate component the P5 [1]. I was thinking of an internal fork mount for the hydraulics, a much larger pad, and a rim specially made with a wider braking surface. Somebody must have tried that in a concept design.

1. https://www.bikeradar.com/news/magura-rt8-tt-first-look/
This. Strategic missteps happen all the time.

Two things are corrosive from the executive ranks:

"Everyone knows this isn't working, but the director who authorized it is now an SVP"

"Not my idea, so let's do something different just so I can say it was my idea"

The middle way is healthier.
It's still quoted that way by some major news organizations[1], though now the stories have "Gaza Officials Claim..." they didn't earlier. Though they seem to now be trying a new "it's not clear" angle[2]. Note there's also plenty of misinformation on other news items that's in Israel's favor.

Personally, it's hard for me to cast too much judgement on this particular kind of reporting, given there's quite a lot of indiscriminate bombing in densely populated areas. And a huge incentive to use anything you can to help promote a cease fire.

[1] One example: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/10/17/photos-an-israe...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/20/what-have-open-sou...
To be fair, its hard for anyone to know anything about hardware these days unless its a company with a large on-prem footprint and it doesn't make financial or regulatory sense to put in the cloud or co-locate, which is a vanishingly small number. Hell I haven't been in a physical datacenter in 5 years and that's where I started my career many moons ago.
"Just don't play videogames or consoom non-educational media, also don't use your phone at night", seems to cover 99% of mental fatigue/procrastination issues.
FWIW, some version of your rant occurs in almost every industry. Even doctors have hospital administrators complaining about how arrogant and non-business minded they are, how they are opportunistically defending their turf and so on. What you're talking about is not specific to devs but a general symptom of politics and friction between the different layers of an organization.

Devs always lean more cynical than the rest of the org, but the "prima donna devs refusing to acknowledge the need to deliver" schema only emerges in poorly managed organizations and teams. There is always some push and pull, but usually it's within a healthy balance.
I tend to agree with this analysis--that a part of the TM business model is extracting additional money for venues, artists and themselves, and taking on 100% of the reputational hit for fees. It's fascinating but have a hard time thinking of similar examples of a similar model, if anyone has some.
That’s not really true, when many cities and towns love HOAs—all the property tax income, none of the responsibilities (plowing, paving, trash, fixing broken water mains), but still all of the regulatory oversight (permitting and inspection fees).
This is a non-problem. If there's a shortage of people working at X level of abstraction (where X is possibly very low) then salaries for those with that knowledge will go up and more people will seek it out.

Free markets don't solve every problem but they solve this one.
Oh wow, that's a great book indeed. It covers exactly the topics I was referring to (high school math), but also touches on some more advanced stuff (e.g. permutations).
If more welfare spending creates more wealth, then wouldn’t you expect the median Western European to be wealthier than the median American? Yet the opposite is true. How do you reconcile this?
> As regulations are written, drones are aircraft navigating through federal airspace in the same way as fixed-wing, helicopters, ultralights, hot air balloons, etc. That airspace extends from your shoelaces to the heavens.

I'm not entirely sure that's correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_rights

> Specifically, the Federal Aviation Act provides that: "The United States Government has exclusive sovereignty of airspace of the United States" and "A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace."[3] The "navigable airspace" in which the public has a right of transit has been defined as "the airspace at or above the minimum altitudes of flight that includes the airspace needed to ensure safety in the takeoff and landing of aircraft."[4]

> The exact altitude(s) at which the airspace over private land can become subject to "substantial impairment" is often debated. Case law in the past has used the height of 500 ft (150 m) in urban or suburban areas,[5] and 360 ft (110 m) above the surface or tallest structure in rural areas[6] as the demarcation of where impairment of property rights can occur.
What are you talking about?
I've never seen that. Many years and many machines.
You've got something weird misconfigured somewhere like a plugin trying to do a failing dns lookup or something.

However I have seen mystery hangs in general, which can happen to almost anything.

I had a machine one time where a self-built version of midnight commander would always hang for several seconds on startup. Never saw that before or since. You can not say "mc takes something like 5-10 seconds to start up" even though it did on that machine that time.

I don't remember the details, but it turned out to be some combination of environment/context ie a particular terminal on a particular client sshing to a particular server where mc itself was, env variables, and/or setting in a mc config file. Might have been something to do with locale or TERM, or.. . I really have no idea anymore.
But the hang was fixed by hunting down the config problem, and I've never seen it before that, nor since.
No and no, but I was just providing a counter argument so we can get past our bias and get to the heart of the issue. Can we trust Okta going forward? Do they understand the scope? The risks? Or are they full of Id and Ego that they think they are untouchable?

Having red teams, having audits, having scans, etc is simply not enough for some folks but in Okta’s eyes, it’s enough for C-suite talks of taking Authentication/authorization off the plate of their IT department.

I firmly believe for every individual who thinks they are untouchable, there’s a hacker who knows more and is willing to throw it all away to prove a point.
After construction one typically needs to get a certificate of occupancy, a last round of inspections to ensure things were actually built to code before people move in. The article mentions this certificate.
Yes. Anyone operating a news service is volunteering to do exactly that. Dont want the responsibility? Dont open a news website or other service. Stick to cat videos.
Honestly, I think you are an unwilling prime example of a disconnected developer. Why don't you instead try to found common ground and work from there? Who says "business people" aren't capable of dealing with uncertainty? You are making a caricature of a very simple, reasonable request. We're all just people with the same goals. Stop trying to enlarge differences.
I actually think talking to 5 independent artists to draw an Indian man would still produce wildly different depictions than a model, and that's because... well I don't think of turban == indian personally. I think of a brown guy with thick black beard and hair in a t-shirt and jeans... because I work in tech and that's like 90% of the Indian guys I work with. I can imagine 5 different artists would themselves have 5 different ideas of what a generic Indian guy would look like.
I have never had the misfortune to work in a place even remotely that dysfunctional, and I feel that there must be a considerable history behind it becoming that way.
> If the BRICS overthrow the U.S. dollar, there will be a come-to-Beevis moment in the U.S.

Yeah:

> Pretty straightforward really. You combine Brazil's history of monetary stability, with Russia's respect for property rights, India's domestic tranquility, China's financial transparency, and South Africa's investment opportunities - and hey presto, you've got a new global money

* https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1665053372402081792

How anyone lump China and India, not exactly the best of friends, together is beyond me.
Well, SQL Server (seemingly the author's area of expertise) doesn't have a lateral join. You can simulate this to some extent using CROSS APPLY, but that wouldn't really be any better than EXISTS in the case like the example, where you don't actually need any data from the secondary table.
I'd say it's the opposite, actually. If Amazon embraced WFH, the Seattle commercial real estate market (and the city itself) would suffer major damage. So the mayor and many CRE groups are lobbying the C suite to go back to the office.
Relative Cost / Benefit of an Investment
Refactoring has a price, not refactoring has a cost
No.

But fears of Hacker News with nothing but paywalled links definitely is!
Hydrogen boiler push to continue despite verdict of UK watchdog
" because the photos were taken from public property " ==> By that logic - someone in a tree, on "public property" (aka outside your courtyard) can take photos of your family in the pool (in your courtyard).
Using scrum to extract commitments on a sprint is also just waterfall by another name.
Most likely, your framework Is productive for you not because it’s the best framework available, but because you wrote it and know the ins and outs of it and it matches up to how you think. This isn’t too day it’s not likely better than other frameworks in at least some ways, but familiarity begets expertise which begets productivity.

Many experts in drywall installation before drywall screws were popularized swear that screws are slower and worse. However, an expert nailer and an expert screwer both complete jobs just as quickly (if not faster for the screw-adherent), and just as well.
yes too much abstraction is bad

In the example at the end, people don’t necessarily need to know what files and folders are so its not bad that they dont know, it’s better for a new developer that they have a blank slate to learn about trees of storage paths, as the skeumorph is outdated. just like the save icon being a floppy disk was so outdated that instead of replacing it, people realized we dont actually need save icons anymore and everything should just always save
> I don't know how to create a class file, or a template (if that is a LaTeX thing). And since I've never seen anyone else do this, I guess that most academics don't either.

Exactly, academics usually don't do that - they write the text with appropriate markup, and then put it in the publisher's template and the formatting according to the appropriate standards is done. You can write your own template, but usually you use someone else's, with the big benefit that you can generally move your content to a very different template of a different publisher with minimal or no changes to your actual writing.

Now how would I do that in quarto - what (and how much) would I need to write to ensure that, for example, the captions for all the images and all the references to the images are all formatted in a specific manner? Because for quarto I would need to make my own template specifying the exact formatting and layout, and a quick browse of its documentation didn't lead me to any examples on how I would control that.

In sane environments there is a split between text and formatting, however, the formatting part has to be sufficiently powerful to meet the various requirements, so there is a certain quite high minimum bar to meet there. Latex works because I can rely that I will be able to easily get my markup laid out exactly as required by arbitrary standards, for any markdown-type standards I need some assurance that this will be possible and easy, that I won't need to (for example) go over all my references and do something to them.
Don't ask for 30 minutes tasks unless you have to (it's breaking the prod or something), it's inefficient for everyone involved.

I'm in a team with a lot of leeway. No one is counting my hours, no one external look at our productivity, but when we're needed, we don't have time to polish our code. When i have a '30 minute' task identified, I put it in our morning review, and ask if something adjacent should be done while I'm on the subject. If there is nothing, I'll still take the full day (except if it's a project I know really well, in that case I take half), and take half a day to skim the code, and another half to update it (small comment, version upgrade, code improvement, renaming variables).

Push your IC to do the same. Imo it's more time efficient, the new-ish IC use that time to learn the older code, and in the end you will have less legacy issues (unless you make a big change).
Not dying of hunger is a good motivator.
You are correct. They may act like they have the right to do so, but you can always say, get a warrant.
This so so much.

Some tasks take me 10 minutes but it takes me half a day to jump through all the hoops that our colleagues have thrown up. Excel approval sheets, annoying proxies with SSL inspection (try configuring all that in multiple docker containers), having no access to actually configure what I need to do so I constantly have to put in tickets to other teams..

The worst thing is when they then outsource the work and ask us why they can do it so much faster.... :X
I don't think consciousness is well defined, nor that it's required for producing true statements nor for distinguishing them from false statements.

I can write a program that will print out infinite number of no repeating true statements.
Greenwich Council: Drivers succeed in every penalty charge notice appeal
Interestingly, the smooth bokeh has become a bit popular and is available with Canon "defocus smoothing" lenses (among other older examples). Rather than varying the aperture size over time, these just have a ND filter with the aperture window function coated on (and also a normal iris - the effect works best at the largest aperture setting).
Whoa, I hadn’t heard of DA before this. Amazing! What great reads… rich trip down memory lane.

Loved the Defender of the Crown article too.

Thanks for the recommendation.
> Vernor Vinge was right, though-- software (and hardware) archaeologist will be a real job.

Spend some time in the coin op game community... This is all we spend our time on. Well that and cabinet repair.

But seriously though, keeping these old games alive requires serious reverse engineering of both hardware and software. Especially if they have custom chips, ASICs, undocumented features, etc. But the work has to be done or these games will be lost to time... It may be a passion project/ hobby, but it's still real work.

I like your point about digital archaeology. If it's important enough to some people to keep old arcade games running, how much more important is it to understand and keep some old mission critical computer running.

It's a lot like the tech people you see in these dystopian future movies, the ones who are like "oh yeah you have an old z80 with the qxp interface, haven't seen one of these things in years". Like Scotty from Star Trek. They're an increasingly important part of the tech ecosystem.
> If they were that simple, I could fly my registered drone outside my neighbors window 24x7.

There is nothing in Title 14 of the CFR preventing you from doing that. It would fall under the same laws (harassment, peeping tom laws, etc.) as you standing on the street 24x7 with a massive telephoto lens pointed towards your neighbors bedroom windows.
The problem is, if you asked me how did you bake that cake, and I said: I went to my kitchen and used up my ingredients and my methods, then I would not have answered your question.

>There might be/come a longer form technical write-up with more detail of how those products helped

There won't be, they just used their blog to pressure Okta to improve certain things, which is their right I suppose but it makes for very boring reading.
How is Denmark so special in that regards?

What are examples of these places where people are not given the time to do their job right?
You could. But `SELECT 1` is a very common pattern in SQL Server, intended exactly to declare intent to the reader that "this subquery doesn't return any real data" - in the event the `EXISTS` that surrounds it isn't enough of a clue. You could use `SELECT NULL` or `SELECT 0` or `SELECT *` or `SELECT 12/0` and the behavior would be identical, but most of those would likely raise even more questions to an inexperienced reader than `SELECT 1`.
Of course, your browser isn't receiving and retrieving messages in the background every time someone sends it to you.
This article is a reminder and reinstates what we already know. Sleep & diet is important.
How to rewrite classes using closures in JavaScript
Lots of great answers here, the other thing I'd say is consumers are not Ticketmaster's customer the promoters are. 75% of the time that prompter is livenation which is now merged with them, who they themselves went on a promoter acquisition spree. The rest of the time people pay Ticketmaster to be the bad guy.
Or in Pierce Brosnan's "The World is not Enough". They must have liked the whimsy of a pipeline vehicle.
Having been a selectboard member in a small town in MA, I can put forth that rigorous enforcement of contracts, bylaws and laws is the best way to avoid issues spiraling out of control to becoming bigger costlier time-sucks affecting more and more people and wasting more of everybody's time.

With many people who push the boundaries, one thing often leads to another, which leads to more costly measures of getting violators back into compliance.

Yes, often the first violation doesn't seem too big, but those violations are often indications of more to come.
The beauty of the two-party system is that we have one party (the Democrats) who are trying to make society better, and we have a second party (the Republicans) who are trying to prevent society from becoming better. This is an ideal balance.
Waterfall is not the same as having a plan and commiting to delivering part of it