skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They seen to have highly optimized manufacturing over repair. Since tesla sells auto insurance for their cars, I wonder how that compares and handles repairability. I've had a few problems with my tesla that were fortunately not hard to repair. Someone clipped the front of mine in a parking lot and partly ripped off the right edge. I had to wait a month before the repair place got the parts but it was driveable. I had a few other minor things that were just typical drop offs.

On the glass repair someone complains about $1200, glass is just expensive for front windshield. I have a non-tesla that got hit by multiple rocks and cost $2400. $2400! It was an electric pickup truck. Insurance paid for almost all. Then on my tesla, last year a huge rock hit the windshield, that cost about $1200 too.
I think that's the point being made. Those that put in effort will get something out of Tinder etc., but the bar of entry is so low that the high effort user base gets diluted and makes using the service less rewarding for other high effort users.
The old adage "you can schedule for maintenance or your equipment will schedule it for you" is true.
Why’s that ironic? There didn’t used to be frontend / backend / full stack devs either. As software engineering has matured and grown in scale, more subdivision of responsibilities is a natural outcome of that. We’re not all just directly writing code on mainframes and our customers aren’t just < 1k of users who directly call us on the phone if something goes wrong anymore, it’s millions of people using services 24x7
now. MS wasn’t making real-time collaboration systems and cloud sync in the 80s and 90s. They were making a stand-alone offline machine that barely could install device drivers and didn’t know what the internet was. Completely different products, and much simpler.
I wonder if these oceans were made of water or some other liquid.
A lot of traditional engineering (civil, mechanical, etc) are non-competitive endeavors. For example, if you are supposed to make a bridge, you just design what you think a good bridge to be.

In the modern consumer application, you have to understand business concepts like differentiation. If your product is very good, but it’s strictly worse than another product in every dimension, you don’t get any credit for second place. You actually get close to zero sales because no consumer chooses your product over the alternative, in contrast to a “bad” product that does at least something very well in a niche.
Unfortunately, Graeber is not well-versed in economic theory so him “questioning established economic assumptions” often resembles fighting windmills or not even that.

If you know any actual contributions to economics or the history of economics that were consequences of his stimulation, I would be glad to hear about them.
Heh, the answer is sort of. Your receiver likely already has a filter network to "ground out" any coupled electro magnetic interference (EMI) coming from those wires. All conductors "receive" to a greater or lesser degree and so people building things that connect to wires have to account for that and plan for it. So using your speaker wires directly would probably not work very well because of filter networks in the receiver.

For folks just playing around receiving HF I find the YouLoop[1] is a low cost and very effective magnetic loop antenna that you can set up on a wall in a dorm room (or living room :-) or pretty much anywhere. The Airspy HF+ discovery[2] is probably the best valued HF SDR you could use with that, but it works well with RTL-SDR V4 dongles[3] as well and the RT832 ones from NoElec[4] although NoElec and the V3 or earlier dongles don't go below about 55 MHz and need an upconverter like the HamItUp! [5] to move the bottom part of the HF spectrum up into a region the RTL832T receiver can tune them. (the V4 RTL-SDR dongle has an internal up converter for this purpose).

[1] Youloop magnetic loop antenna -- https://airspy.com/youloop/

[2] AirSpy HF Discovery + -- https://airspy.com/airspy-hf-discovery/

[3] RTL-SDR "dongle" V4 (low end ~1 Mhz) -- https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-blog-v4-dongle-initial-relea...

[4] NoElec NESDR SMArT (low end 55 MHz) -- https://www.nooelec.com/store/sdr/sdr-receivers/nesdr-smart-...

[5] HamItUp! -- https://www.nooelec.com/store/sdr/sdr-addons/upconverters-do...
> Flakes will hopefully be that soon but I wouldn't recommend starting with flakes when learning Nix in 2023. They're experimental and you still need to learn most of flake-less Nix (except channels and NIX_PATH) anyways.

I've used Nix for a decade and wouldn't recommend the confusing and horrible user experience of Nix without flakes.

Additionally, if you are using github for code examples, you'll have far more success using flakes.

Many experienced people a new user would get help from, including myself, have long since washed their hands of prw-flakes issues and arcana like channels issues.
Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
At first I was interested in the premise but this article gets borderline Nietzschean about its obsession with dividing people up into categories of Great Men and Mediocre people and whatnot. It's kinda gross.
The basis of capitalism is the organization of the economy around capital. I don't know what the basis of progress is, but 'the proliferation of knowledge' sounds like it might be a passable start.
The blog was removed after OkCupid was acquired by Match.com, which is another problem in online dating apps that isn't often mentioned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group#Dating_services_...

This chokes out competition, and users end up with several apps with some gimmick, but at their core they're designed to keep most users locked into actively dating, either to make the app seem popular, or to squeeze money out of them.
Just leaving this here since people will wonder the relevance of jQuery today.

> jQuery is used by 94.5% of all the websites whose JavaScript library we know. This is 77.4% of all websites.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery
I couldn’t agree more. I absolutely do not want to be without a functional product org.

I suspect a lot of teams have gotten burned from dysfunctional product orgs that seem disconnected (or disinterested) on the more customer/industry/organization side and instead burn through tons of meetings iterating on mock-ups, micromanaging designers (causing good ones to quit) and tying up engineers in product meetings they do not need to be in.
Eh, in my current role (engineer) we have a PM but they’re not all that useful. In theory, they do what you describe, but because they don’t have a technical background they struggle to identify blockers & engineers drive most prioritisation sessions.

They may jump in occasionally to tell us another team needs X or the business wants to see more Y so we should re-think what we work on next, but I struggle to see why that couldn’t be handled by our technical team lead.
A more political piece of media isn't necessarily less honest or more manipulative. Similarly, a very supposedly "neutral, both-sides" opinion can be very manipulative. The best thing you might be able to do is filter out specific hand-picked subjects (like other commenters said QAnon or specific conspiracies), but I doubt you need more than basic keyword matching for that. Anything further feels to me like you're just tightening an echo-chamber.
A product manager is expected to view things from a business point of view. To identify features for the product and help it succeed in the market.

A project manager is in charge of planing, execution and governance of a project. They don’t define any of the goals or vision.

Saying product is a large project is a big over simplification. If we go that route anything could be called a “large project”.
Women are also harder to hit targets - and women can operate most guns quite easily.
> Wait, what? This reads like the classic boomer complaint that is hard to get to know women when you can't slap their ass in the office any more. "No one can take a joke any more, etc etc"

No, it's the extremism that's a problem. Men went towards TheRedPill and similar idiots. And especially the younger millennial women and younger have seen this garbage for what it is.

However the pendulum swings to compensate. I've heard recently from quite a few places the old radical quote from 2nd wave "sex is always rape because of patriarchal power imbalance".

I've also slapped precisely 0 butts in the workplace. Nor have I said the usual shitty "women do _" things. But the problem is so many younger generations's women are overly on guard.

Hell, I've had them (at work) ask "don't I look good?", seeking attention. I flatly said that I don't make comments on appearance of men or women.

If I wasn't already with someone, I'd likely be with nobody. It's too toxic out there as a man or someone who presents as a man.
Many PMs are lame ducks at companies because they have to "lead without influence" which is extremely challenging in many large companies where incentives do not align and takes time to build if you're good.

Clayton Christensen knew this all too well and calls this sustained innovation. In other words, to just make incremental improvements to a product to maintain a position in a market.

What this article is pointing out is a classic innovator's dilemma, in which the product manager role is unable to live up to the necessity to innovate and follow these great ideas of great PMs.

Overall a great article because it calls out the 10 dysfunctions of product management as told in books like "Build what matters". Especially this thought:

> Anyone with even a speckle of greatness eventually leaves. They either get pushed out by the mediocre dictator, or they leave on their own terms, as the environment has become intolerable to them.

The irony from my experience is that there are great people who want to do great things. They want a great PM and they want to follow a compelling vision. The modern day challenge is what companies are starting to identify... Vogons. "not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous". Also known as middle management.
The energy requirements to generate a large enough magnetic field to shield an entire planet from radiation is many orders of magnitude higher than any reactor we already have on this planet can produce, let alone from solar power, and let alone the energy requirements from cooling, etc. In other words, this is science fiction. It isn’t something we even know we could do.
this guy sums it up pretty well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By_rSYI0Ovs
I don’t use ImageMagik. I don’t care if they shutdown the whole project. But if you told me Madden was going to shutdown due to $600/year I could raise that amongst my small group of friends so that we could just play the game.
Graeber's background in economic anthropology offers a fresh lens through which to view economic history, highlighting the social and cultural dimensions that traditional economic theories sometimes overlook. His work has encouraged interdisciplinary dialogue, prompting economists and historians alike to incorporate broader socio-cultural understandings into their analyses. While his approach differs from conventional economic theorizing, it complements it by adding depth to our understanding of economic phenomena.
The usecase is: user wants an easy way to know, from the GUI of some running software, exactly what build/version/git commit/branch/date they're running - perhaps to file a bug report for example.

The actual build date doesn't matter if the software is reproducible - but its a proxy for 'how out of date is this software'.
I really would not have though such a route existed lol
I don't mean the "dating relationship" stage, but much earlier, the first impression. It's quite intimidating if one of the few things somebody knows about you is that you are looking for a relationship/romance with them.
Lichee Console 4A, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38011728
Not so. The local PBS stations do fund raising / pledge drives. It's definitely in PBS' interest to push people to local PBS stations.

Or did I misinterpret your point?
The Infinite Game
The program does also dispose of comment lines.

One could argue that this is just a kind of trick so they can say the next "binary" is actually a "source" file because it happens to be written by a human in ASCII.

Still the phase distinction between what is a source and what is a binary becomes blurry at this low level. I believe the next stage of compiling is to, writing in ASCII represented machine code with comments, to allow for the existence of labels and then compute offsets for jumps to labels. And then more and more features are added until you have a minimal assembler letting you write somewhat machine independent code, and then continuing to work you way up the toolchain.

So at which point does the translation from "source" to "binary" become a real thing and not just a trick of semantics? Is it when we have a machine independent assembly code? Is it when we computed offsets for labelled jumps? It is when we started stripping comments out of the source code?
> Especially if it's served from a CDN, and thus likely already cached.

Browsers no longer do cross-site resource caching. https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/say-goodbye-to-resource-ca...
Spoken like a true inyalowda. Maybe we skip the nukes and just send some rocks, sasa ke?
So then we can let all these disputed borders handle themselves, in 2028?

lol that’s funny, can’t wait

remember world, our aircraft carriers are only there so that half a world away, China is deterred from invading China, until we finish a semiconductor fab stateside!
IANAL.

If all they hired you to do is make a random database, and you do so in a really efficient manner, then you still own the right to use your skills to make a really efficient database for others. If they hire you to make a specific database, and you make it really efficient, then they probably own the rights to such a specific database, but you still retain the rights to make other kinds of databases in a really efficient manner. If they hire you to develop database to a certain degree of efficiency, then they might own the techniques you used to make it efficient, but this should be blatantly spelled out in your employment contract, and you should have been appropriately compensated for the inability to use this particular skillset in the future.
You need to spend time with someone to build a relationship, but that takes a lot of effort, patience, and vulnerability, especially when you're starting from zero. But actively participating in various interest groups and other social circles is not a bad way to start.
It sounds like this person has worked with some truly mediocre product managers. I’m a PM, from a self-taught engineering background, and I’ve worked with many mediocre folks too across all disciplines.

I view my job primarily as risk management. A great team of engineers and designers will face a huge number of risks to shipping great products, like not having the right skill set to articulate their vision to get others on board, or having lawyers impose requirements or restrictions on what can and cannot be done. My job is to manage that, to help bring out the best in the team so they can get on with the actually important work of building and shipping great products.

I judge success by how redundant I am. My goal is to not be needed, for the team to have the right context, confidence and support to make good decisions without me.

I love working with engineers to level-up their skills so they can do just this; I work with my EM partners to understand the strengths, weaknesses and goals of each engineer, and try and find ways I can help them progress.

In an ideal, utopian world maybe I’m not needed. I can understand that argument. But in most cases, doing truly great things will run up against challenges and risks, and a good PM works in partnership with their team to overcome them and is a net value add.
In part elections have not been held because Israeli efforts to strengthen Hamas at the expense of the PA.
Incredible effort.

These types of projects have the potential to influence a nation.
The difference in binaries must be caused by some runtime difference of a compiler.
That’s a popular excuse among guys because it’s so easy to say there is nothing you can do if you aren’t above a certain height… but a quick walk in public proves it to be totally false. Count how many short guys are with attractive women- it’s just as many as tall guys.

If women even remember to look at your height on a dating profile you’re already so boring you’ve reduced yourself to a statistic and already failed. If you are weird and interesting enough she will forget to even look at that and just be excited.

It is the size of your personality, not your body that matters.
This one isn't exactly the opposite though, in the same way that "could care less" is literally the opposite of what is meant. Bring the only one who would give a shot implies nobody else there meets even that incredibly low bar.
>which here seems to mean a distributed computer system.

No, it can also be a design between multiple services on the same machine. Or it can be a design between multiple subsystems of a single application.
the absolute problem for me personally is the lack of social scene, i don't actually remember the last time i talked to anyone single, even at the few parties i forced myself to go to.
How many of them are WordPress installations or sites running Bootstrap?
Could be an option I suppose.
What’s more scary is you dont even need the tech of the future to do this.

Just combine together the tech of now with some clever optimisations to keep resource usage low enough to do it at scale.

When you think how they are slowly ripping apart schools systems, corrupting the integrity of our institutions both technical and philosophical.

It really makes you think, if its all in the works
> According to NASA Planetary Science Division director Jim Green, a powerful magnetic dipole positioned at the Mars L1 Lagrange Point could potentially deflect the solar wind like a natural magnetic field.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/245369-nasa-proposes-bui...
My take is that the author is focusing too much on "all factors", and the reason for the distribution is that the people who 1) realize they are "good" and 2) want to improve, end up putting in more training time to get even better, which leads to a natural gap in measured ability.

Consistency may be the largest factor in peak performance, whether physical or mental. Sure, consistency alone won't get you to the Olympics sprints if you're 4'11" or your neurons don't fire as fast as the next person's or you are prone to injury, but you certainly won't be setting the 100m world record (in the modern era) if you didn't already put in years of training, day after day, whether you were feeling 100% or not.

At the professional level, you get paired up with coaches, you get compensated (maybe), you are definitely obsessed enough to be training so hard. Of course there's a gap, and it makes me wonder just how linear the distribution would be if every able-bodied person trained maximally and effectively.
OpenAI just wiped GPT-wrapper companies
Which one is fancier?
I had it done twice, both times without sedation by choice. I did have analgesics, and a cannula in my wrist in case I changed my mind mid-way.

It was quite tolerable, just a few moments of short lived cramping pains (similar to diarrhea pains) as the endoscope turned the corners of my insides. My recovery was about half an hour of sitting up and having tea and toast, while those that were sedated slept off the drugs.

I'd do the same again if ever I get another one, and recommend it to anyone who can't have or doesn't want sedation.
Fermilab has had a herd on the grounds since the beginning. Used to be that visitors could get pretty close (but still behind the fence), but I haven't visited in many years.

https://www.fnal.gov/pub/about/bisoncam/
That’s a shocking number. I wonder how much of that is just duplicated instances of some standard template, Wordpress, whatnot.
I have. You're talking about the demands of non-hams now. These bands aren't for them.
A project has a planned end date, a product typically doesn't.
Tesla-sized and shaped glass is not available from general glass shops. I had a large crack appear in mine. My insurance and multiple glass shops in the bay area told me it had to be fixed by Tesla. No one else would be able to.

Tesla did fix it for free though, because they weren't sure it wasn't an installation issue (no impact point, just a hairline crack running down the glass).
If inflation is low and controlled it means the supply of money matches the demand for money which is usually associated with value creation in the economy. The fact that EU was doing well inflationwise despite having looser monetary policy than US means that Eurozone economy was doing better in that period than US and global economy. Of course in relative terms.
> Intel is half-assing some proprietary frameworks and pushing it into demos for a good look.

My understanding is the likes of oneAPI is supposed to be enable non nvidia gpus to work on CUDA workloads? Is oneAPI one of your these proprietary frameworks?
Consider Analysis 1 by Terry Tao. It walks you from the very beginning and also uses a conversational style. It's one of the most pedagogically smooth or gentle books I've ever read.
jQuery for frontend, backend in SpringBoot or Quarkus
Do you have a hard requirement to separate loginapp from react app? If not, you can check many of the react tutorials about how to make a smooth login page
Lysenko was elevated in an totalitarian environment. It was also related to science, or something like it.

This text does not appear much related to a lot of science, more like "someone said something about me and Id like to refute it" but its 40 000 words or something instead of just a small text.
Thanks for the link -- I hadn't seen that. My issue is that water lost faster than delivered by comets is bad for tectonics, which is bad for atmospheric CO2. They'd have to show no net loss of water, or else the system is not stable over Gyr timescales.
I think that developers do care about API stability (who wants to rewrite working code for no good reason?), but the effects of this time wasting are only felt indirectly by normal people.

Since consumers have very little choice in their mobile OS, developers just have to put up with the thrash.

It is possible to build new OS capabilities whilst maintaining a good deal of stability for existing APIs.
Then a substantial portion of them become bitter and offer bad advice to younger women encouraging them follow in the same path, because misery loves company. Or because the sour grapes mentality has them conclude that they never actually wanted kids and their lonely spinster alcoholic lifestyle is actually what they wanted; they tell people they're happy and are models to be emulated. They set up a new generation for failure to validate themselves.