skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You misunderstand me, perhaps. It is not the manager's responsibility to "just tell [you] what to do as part of that."

The job of the line manager is to take a giant amount of information and develop a mental map in which he can present the context to the team. It isn't that an IC cannot do this (though I see this as more rare than I would like!) but rather if an IC did this, they would be in 20 hours of meetings.

"The right thing," in this case, is not breaking down the tasks into mindless coffee to code, but rather "Four of our customers are really frustrated by the lack of this feature, so our PM has prioritized it. It's in an area we've identified as having some technical debt. Design has a proposed idea of how we could solve it. Talking with support, two of these customers are enterprise and want more ability to customize to their processes, and two are mid-market and would rather it was easy to use. This is going to touch an area you all have identified as having technical debt, so it'd be great if we could use some of that time to make progress in cleaning it up. We'd ideally like to constrain this to three months of work. Now, team, how much is possible given those constraints? What scope do we need to cut if it all won't fit?"

That cliffs notes can be as a result of 20 hours of meetings and research. Now, it's the team's job to take that brief and work toward the art of the possible and help the team if they also need to talk with the stakeholders to gather more information. However, somebody needs to do that work. That person needs to have a technical background at the senior level, a high tolerance for meetings, the ability to work across the organization and maintain relationships, an understanding of business as a craft, and an understanding of the domain.

Can a senior engineer do all that? Sure! However, it is hard to do all of that and have as much time to actually code. And most individual contributors start losing joy in the job if that becomes a significant portion of the job. (That, or they end up as managers.)

In truth, we could completely divorce this role from people management. The authority is the least interesting part of the job, and is a relatively small portion of it. But even if you completely went to a communist, non-hierarchical system, you would still need someone to work in this role.
Sounds like a good plan. Technology and social media make us stick to the screens. Self-discipline can help to improve the quality of our life :)
If you're lacking motivation or inspiration, the best thing is to do something new everyday. That will in turn make you more motivated and inspired.
Certainly so. Just to say that the fact that the US did something similar does not make it a justifiable cause for war.
Wonderful!

I have no excuse for not looking it up prior... Ive had it a few years - and I love the anti-counterfeit techniques built into money design, specifically the intricate Guilloche patterns.

Someone said they were a card carrying conspiracy theorist once, and I was learning a new piece of software for making bar codes, badges, labels for packaged goods...

So I thought "What would a 'Conspiracy Card' look like?"

SO I made these:

https://imgur.com/a/65wbd6a
Well, provide jobs outside of misery centrals (downtowns). This is coincidentally the ONLY way that will actually help housing affordability.
Most people I know who have the connected "white" appliances are mostly interested in the reported resource usage. I have a connected LG dishwasher, and it's possible to have it report water usage, electricity usage, and other stats to home automation hubs (like home assistant) for aggregation.

I'm not so into that, but I know people who buy connected domestic things for that very reason.
When I read the books I got a strong sense that Dune (the planet) was like a living entity.

This planet was the focal point for all political and economic machinations of the universe, yet it was a vast, mysterious and dangerous place. Humans were intruders.

Lynch's Dune had many wide shots that attempted to convey this, and when Paul was with the Fremen it felt as if he was truly removed from the rest of the human universe, and within the mysterious universe of the planet.

Villeneuve's Dune had amazing visuals yet too many scenes were tightly shot. To me this Dune felt claustrophobic, not vast. and when Paul was with the Fremen it didn't feel so removed from reach of the Empire.
Interestingly, most (all?) UK providers block RT, so it's pretty symmetrical.
Laboring Under Correct Knowledge
Society would be better served, but the whole system is stacked against it. Zoning, banking, and buyers. When a developer builds a luxury single-family suburban development, they make good money for less complexity, less risk. Marketing is easy, contractors in all the trades are easy, customers are easy, mortgages are easy (party due to federal gov't), etc. Everyone from masons to marketers to moms are comfortable. Change requires the gov't at all levels to put a metaphoric thumb on the scale.

In the interests of full disclosure, I despise doing resi new construction, but many guys do it exclusively.
You seem to be ignoring reality. In most of America, a car is the only form of reliable transportation, and there is little to no bike infrastructure. Even if there was good bike infrastructure, everything is too damn far apart.

A 50 year plan for infrastructure to change that doesn't do anything for homeless today. But a car might.
It wasn't too far fetched. A lot of generations defined their social circles by tastes in music. In my youth at least it was very common.

I think that it just doesn't scale beyond angsty teenagers.
They should also condemn China for building more coal plants than the rest of the world. (But I can't see that happening....)
I suppose I might consider Assange a true independent journalist.
Just on DNS level, or?
I was thinking about this last night, what with people currently obsessing over "walkable cities." First, we need to understand why some people don't really like dense housing. Let me try a rough list without a great deal of order. Noise, smells, having to not make noise, crime, vermin infestation, inability to re-shape the property, the lack of permanence (you can be kicked out) ... that's a good starter. Some of those are inherent to the housing like the inability to re-shape the interior much. And I think vermin infestation will move up the rankings with bedbugs. But most of the rest seem fixable.

In fact, most of the rest have been fixable for a very long time. We could totally do a lot better with the ventilation and the HVAC in these larger buildings. We absolutely could have a lot of soundproofing so your upstairs neighbor who juggles bowling balls at three a.m. (but he's not good at it) can do his thing, or maybe you wouldn't have to tiptoe for the guy under you who works third shift. Fixable.

But the fact that they are fixable and that we haven't fixed them is a very, very strong signal that We're Not Going To. In short, we could build some nice multifamily housing where you wouldn't have to deal with cooking smells, or cigars, or the catbox, or whatever, but collectively we just refuse to do so. I think that will continue. And so some people will go on to not like that kind of living situation.

Perfectly possible. We're just not gonna.
Inclined to agree. This one is a little vague & non-descript to stand out as unusual
BS. New housing in dense centers only increase the overall amount of human misery. It sucks jobs away, and it drives up the housing cost.
Roommates? This discussion is perplexing. Don't you have apartment buildings where you're from? An apartment in a multi-story house is more space efficient than a single-tenant house is what the observation was, unless I'm missing something.
The data and the means to collect and deliver it, EXISTS AT ALL.

Cameras are just the lurid example. Audio is just as bad or even worse. Anything that can hear at all, knows everything that's going on in the whole property and even surrounding area.

And, practically any sensor of any type regardless of nominal intended purpose, can hear. In fact circuit boards with no actual sensors of any kind, can hear.

A light switch with no mobility and no apparent sensors like a camera or mic, not even a light sensor for automatic adjusting, can hear and report if someone is having a fight or having sex 4 rooms and 2 floors away.

600 items of "evidence" that Roomba doesn't misbehave means absolutely nothing.
Chuck Norris does not use an assembler. He live codes machine language directly into DRAM.

He deal with security threats at the source, by tracking down the hacker and kicking them in the head.
I think it’s fair to say you’re not the type to ever run a business, successful or not, with that attitude.
It does not seem to be using a material we would normally consider appropriate for photograpic film. The article mentions: "multiple thin layers of an oil paint pigment called rose madder"

If i understand the principle correctly, the captured light would simply slowly fade exposed portions of the "film" over centures, eventually resulting in a faint negative of the sum total of the scenes witnessed.

Exposing the film to light at that point, one kiloyear from now, would probably do nothing, unless you left it exposed for a couple decades to direct sunlight.
"Even easier if it's in XML or JSON rather than a CSV."

Yes indeed, but compression algorithms are not that new.
Imagine adding accessibility features to these older games through this kind of stuff. :)
Indian Railways halve cattle hits with new fencing
A single family home is a detached building that isn't broken up into multiple isolated units like a duplex or apartment complex. They're not complaining about small dwellings, only a tremendously inefficient mode of housing people in small dwellings.
Apache NuttX RTOS in a Web Browser? Adventures with TinyEMU and VirtIO
This argument never worked, but it continues to becoming less popular with more cases of more patchwork-y images getting generated and distributed.

Humans after all can't after all generate accurate logos even when intended, GenAIs trivially do. They're not the same even by that.
> but don't see the ghost it unleashes

> people usually assume there are no costs to regulation, and only benefit

This is an under-emphasized point. So often, well-meaning laws and regulations achieve some kind of visible social benefit paired with some invisible social costs.

Similarly to how some claim that certain companies have learned to "privatize the profits, socialize the losses", you could say that politicians have learned to privatize the visible benefits and socialize the invisible detriments to any policy.
World scientists' warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot
> Are you worried that a medical device manufacturer will intentionally replace certified software with known uncertified software?

Only that certified source code and software binaries can be continuously evaluated after production shipment, as original developers and certifiers move onto other projects. See the "Right to Repair" movement.

Over timeframes of multiple years, we learn more about stacks of hardware, software and threats, as can be observed in the constant stream of CVEs for CPU microcode, firmware, operating systems and application code.
My first (and only) programming course (1976) in college used APL. It was populated by normal undergraduates, most of them in humanities fields. It was fine. You don’t have to be a super genius, but a lack of exposure to boring languages may be an advantage. I still love APL.
Pretty sure I'm over-regulated.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240113224328/https://www.theat...
You do not receive a full chemical makeup, structure, and formulation of the medicine you are ingesting. You do not receive the entire production process of the medicine you are ingesting. You do not receive the full quality control process needed to verify the structure of the medicine you are ingesting.

For that matter, even if you received those only a vanishingly small number of individuals would even be qualified to evaluate that information.

No, what we as a society do is rely on a certification, verification, and validation process done by third party experts that guarantees the medicine fits a specification and is fit for purpose. This does not always get it right, but it is pretty good and works in literally every other industry.

Competent unbiased third party verification is sufficient for safety-critical deployments. Openness is neither sufficient, nor necessary. A closed device with no safety defects is usable, a open device with safety defects is unacceptable.

Openness may constitute other goods, such as freedom, agency, and such, but it does not provide safety, efficacy, and fitness for purpose which are the most important elements of medical devices (i.e it is orthogonal to effective operation).
Also noted "Heimdall said that advanced weather information, power-line data, and machine learning are part of the solution its experts bring to the grid."
To each their own. <3
Peter Drucker proposes this (that as more is automated, more people end up as effective managers) in "The Effective Executive" over fifty years ago.

But I have a blog I'm half in the middle of that dives deeper here. The manager is less "superman" and more a collection of part time jobs, one of which is to be contextual hubs for the organization. Within most IT organizations, it is their job to gather information from across and outside the organization. That isn't as much a "superhuman" job as much as a role that takes a job.

The real problem is that we tied "people management" to this job. I don't think that's a necessary feature but rather a historical coincidence.
For me the part that resonated was this:

> The third trend he noticed was the changing nature of debate. More and more often, someone would claim that an argument was harming a particular demographic, often without specifying how. As he recalls it, “It was at this ‘harm’ stage that people became afraid to speak their minds.”

I've experienced this with people I know, on and offline, and I'm not talking about just ultra-hot-button topics. I recently had a friend tell me that when it came to Israel, "silence was violence" and I just had to break it to him that I support Israel. He then launched into a rant and left... haven't run into him since.

There's an element of fury and intolerance which has been absolutely weaponized, and it's the stuff of nightmares.
Agree. These tiny homes are probably not a very efficient use of scarce land resources.
Sound like a dumb journo wrote this.

Is the battery a primary cell? Or it is a secondary cell?

One is a producer of energy and usually can't be recharged.

The other is merely a storage for energy and needs to be charged and recharged to be useful.
Why keep using 5th edition rather than 2nd edition?
You can fix this by setting fixed IPs. But yes Unifi is not great at this.
it's probably for Americans
I did the same thing, but I went the easy way and used OpenAI's API. Half way through, I got fed up with all the boilerplate, so I wrote a really simple (but very Pythonic) wrapper around function calling with Python functions:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/ez-openai

Then my assistant is just a bunch of Python functions and a prompt. Very very simple.

I used an ESP32-Box with the excellent Willow project for the local speech recognition and generation:

https://github.com/toverainc/willow
Having been a long time user of public transit in medium to low density areas, the issues are:

>there’s no fiscal case for stuff like heavy rail or light rail in the burbs, so you’re using buses until you travel somewhere more dense.

>the buses have limited geographical availability and it may be a long trip to or from a bus stop

>the buses have limited frequency and may run way every half hour or hour.

>Buses are generally going to be fine at getting you from suburbia to whatever downtown core efficiently maybe adding 25%-100% extra travel times mostly because the buses need to frequently stop and let on new people. Moving from suburb to suburb on the other hand often doubles to quadruples trip times. There isn’t enough demand for such trips to make improving this fiscally viable, but this is something you will likely want to do a fair bit in practice.

>It’s not rare for a 30 minute bus trip to take longer than if you used a bike while also being more expensive. So transit often isn’t doing anything besides long trips downtown faster and providing transport to those who can’t use a bike for whatever reason. So they’re a bit of a non-solution for many problems caused by low density.

>you are generally constrained in how much cargo you can keep on your person, so these have limited utility in terms of allowing you to bring goods back to your home. If you drop the car and rely on transit, you need to work out some solution for moving cargo in an affordable manner.

I have many strategies to compensate for this, but really, what you want to do is ensure as many services are possible are in walking, biking, or e-bike distance to reduce the need to lean on the public transit system and reduce how frequently one needs to use it. If things are in bike distance, people can load more cargo on a cargo bike and get it back to their homes than they can using a bus. At the same time, such densification will also mean more robust public transit systems as increased ridership means more money for improvements to the system. Increased densification also makes things like package delivery, ride sharing, car sharing, and so on cheaper/more available/faster which you will want to lean on if you don’t have a car.

Low density and public transit really do not mix.
Yes, we have apartments, but this conversation is about townhomes and the different definitions of townhomes people use. Apartment buildings are absolutely the most efficient use of space, but the original poster on this thread was arguing for townhomes, and what is called a townhome in my area is just a single family home with shared walls with the neighbors to the left and right.

Hence roommates—townhomes (by the definition in my area) are not an efficient solution for homelessness unless you have many roommates.

I have a suspicion that what OP calls a townhome is something I would just call a small apartment building.
Θεία in at least modern Greek means "aunt". Pretty fitting I must admit.
Oh yeah, let's tie what might be an actual ongoing crime scene to political ideology. No. That's a Ninja Smoke Bomb trick.

Maybe chunks of BDS, later, after people are actually for-real prosecuted, you know, instead of yet another tax[1] on the shareholders who have absolutely zero power in the organization. Yet. Another. But talking about this right now? No.

I have a Wierd Al style parody of Bowie's "Starman" in my head, except it's called Straw . .MAAAAAAAN . .

[1] That's all the big fines are, incidentally. Moves the risk of bad behavior to the lowest tier of stockholder. Very often lower-tier Boeing employees.
power harvest and large/super caps? neat
Can you download the app from their parking lot, on their WiFi, do your thing, and uninstall it?

Leaving a food app installed seems unnecessary in the first place.
Completely detached from the debugging experience but that actually looks like a cute little custom GUI framework ...and it's all in C!
From what I understand the cell is about 13 km².
True, but it's a tricky time to point that out. Right now we'd have to boycott a large proportion of open source projects by Israeli and Arab/Iranian/etc authors if we wanted to avoid using any open source software written by people who support obscene and inhumane military actions.
The dude created the internet!
That's what people do on codegolf.stackexchange.com with the dedicated golfing languages. What's interesting about APL is that it started out as linear algebra and became array programming, and the primitives are more "things which are useful transforms to do on arrays" rather than "thing people wanted to do in one problem turned into a symbol", and that's enough to be useful in many tasks.

> "That would be insanely nice if you’re doing something which just requires thinking about sorting and reversing arrays but all together, very poor thing to build a standard language on."

Prolog has linked lists as its main data structure, which means prepend is more performant than append. In the SWI Prolog documentation for foldl[1] it says "No implementation for a corresponding foldr is given. A foldr implementation would consist in first calling reverse/2 on each of the m input lists, then applying the appropriate foldl. This is actually more efficient than using a properly programmed-out recursive algorithm that cannot be tail-call optimized". i.e. you don't have to have a problem which involves reversing arrays, for reverse to be a useful part of a solution.

In APL reverse is one character ⌽. In C# to find the first comma in a string you use IndexOf(',') and to get the last one you use LastIndexOf(','). In APL you would use the equivalent of indexOf(Reverse(string)) and then you wouldn't need the specialised LastIndexOf - and wouldn't every other function which works from the left of a string or array to have an equivalent which works from the right. https://aplcart.info/ is a database of idioms and samples of useful APL and it has 168 pieces of code using ⌽.

[1] https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?predicate=foldl/4
Perhaps on the server, deep in their ops orgs, or for some internal tooling, but I don’t think any of the software they ship to devices is rust (yet?)

If someone found a rust binary somewhere on a macOS install I’d be super interested.
> The movie is pretty much incomprehensible

um, isnt that kinda his thing?

or can you explain Lost Highway to me?
Isn't this transfer learning?
It seems odd to cherry pick 2019 as a start point, it lacks context whether this is part of a longer and bigger decline which blipped back up in 2020 due to covid or whether this is a newer problem after a long period of growth.

The more simplistic answer is: ChatGPT.
> You started off this thread by saying Israel's stated war aim is to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

I started off this thread by disputing the claim you made that Gaza is not being carped bombed. To circle back to that point here is an interesting article by the Washington Post Israel has waged one of this century’s most destructive wars in Gaza[1]. Of particular interest is the comparison to the bombing campaign of Aleppo and Raqqa.

ISIS is without a doubt one of the worse terrorist organizations we have ever seen. What makes ISIS particularly bad is that—unlike Hamas, IRA, Mau Mau or the Viet Cong—they are not resisting oppression of an occupying state but for their fight—like the Nazis—are for their own fascistic ideology and dominance. Their strength and brutality was also far worse then Hamas has ever been. And yet, they were defeated in Syria with far less damage and destruction then what the IDF has already imposed (without success) in Gaza.

I want to be absolutely clear though that the people suffering both the ISIS rule and then later the bombing campaigns which successfully deposed them, were indeed horrendous.

Another point of argument here is that there was no peaceful solution to ISIS. There is one for Hamas. ISIS wasn’t resisting oppression, Hamas is—just like IRA, FLN, etc. before them.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...
you can spawn multiple llama.cpp servers and query them simultaneously. It’s actually better this way because you get to run different models for different purposes or do sanity checks via a second model.
Wrong. She's exactly who I'd want in sales.

Salespeople need to face overwhelming failure and keep going. They need to ignore social cues that would cause most people to back off. They need to be aggressive and challenging.

Getting rid of this salesperson seems like a big loss for Cloudflare.