skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the spirit this is written in. Having fought the good fight, here’s what I’ve learned:

Leadership in most organizations have ideas about product but no idea what the actual product is that runs things.

Anything that a client or stakeholder wants is an automatic “P1.”

The senior dev team inevitably concludes that tech debt, which has been accumulated for years, has to be address due to near catastrophic levels of issues in security, compliance, performance, or maintenance.

Business analysts & PMs, almost always bright, well-intentioned people that don’t realize they are in Kafka-topia, believe that all that is missing is a clear business justification for prioritization & with calculated value to the end user. Those that go hunting for answers are soon shocked to discover their core users have no idea why they do what they do or what relevance it has to the org. All of the above drives additional, well-research product enhancements that get greenlit by leadership to be done “alongside the client P1s.”

If your pipeline is clogged, shipping value can’t happen. However little time it takes, it still takes time to change the way you work - which is what agile is about at its best: continual learning and improvement.

I learned a valuable lesson in game design - your constraints are your rules engine.

As much as the concepts and beliefs at the core of agile are an amazing “dev outward” approach to value creation, agile does not and cannot stand alone in the global dysfunction of human organizations.

Without clear leadership on priorities, without clear budgeting of investment in infrastructure, and most importantly without an actual feedback loop across all the players in a system, agile is not agile.

Agile is a way to get there, yes, but if you are in an organization that can’t answer basic questions about itself then you are probably in an organization that won’t be able to implement anything authentically. You will just have new shapes and sizes on the same lack of alignment, decision making, and insight.
For what it’s worth, I hold no ill will toward the new hires. I quite like some of them. But it’s obvious what is going, and I know I’m not alone in considering a career change.
> Putin is not some crazy drugged up megalomaniac. Morality aside, his moves are clearly rational and shows a high level of sophistication.

Nothing rational or sophisticated about trying to build a 19th century style land empire in the 21st century. The mindless quest for a sphere of influence is madness in our modern word, something that can only come from the mind of a crazy megalomaniac who thinks of sovereignty not in regards to modern borders, but in regards to a historic empire of his dreams. He believes Ukraine (and Belorussia, and Georgia, ...) are part of Russia, so anytime one of those stops playing the part (stop being a puppet/satellite) he invades (Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014 and 2022).
The Apple '1984' Ad Changed the Super Bowl Forever
a player that plays a chosen playlist as a morning alarm.
working on some vision stuff now.
My guess is this is actually an accelerated capital loss. From a profit-loss perspective the net loss is the same whether they release or not.

But the accounting net loss is smaller initially because the movie is on the books as having capital value. It might take decades to reduce that to zero.

Destroying the film does so instantly so you get to book the full loss immediately.

Never really understood why we use depreciation in the first place to be honest, rather than just making all expenses immediately deductible. Presumably there’s some explanation
World marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum dies after car crash in Kenya
I loved using my CNC when I had one. Having one is the perfect encapsulation of a programmer: too lazy to doing anything tedious, automate everything.
Why does someone have to demarcate exactly where "the line" is to make a judgement on this situation?

You can simply ask yourself "do I want to live in a world where this happens" - and any decent person would say "no".

The presence of a "slippery slope" is not enough to prevent going down a path, even somewhat.

A film takes hundreds of people to create - how does it feel for them to just have years of their lives fall into the void?
I have some olds Macs lying around and can't install Tailscale on older OSes. I got a Pi02W working as Tailscale subnet[0], so I can access all my devices on LAN remotely.

[0] https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets?q=Subnet%20routers
But OsmAnd already uses their own vector tiles.
I had a chance to teach wood shop at a high school while the usual teacher was on sabbatical. I declined because I decided I couldn’t deal with the possibility of some kid losing a finger on the table saw while in my class.
Perhaps I didn't explain myself. What you describe re: sedentary and stressed etc, would definitely be expected to lead to an increase in deaths, however those deaths would not occur _at the time_. Many (most?) of the deaths from those types of causes would typically follow some time (possibly years) later. The cohort who would already been prone to cardiac type diseases would (I expect) mostly be sedentary or tending that way anyway, so the increase as a result of lockdowns would have been a smaller delta for them, than say for a very fit cohort (where any cardiac effects would be seen later; my guess). So while not denying this cause of excess deaths, I can't see it being the driver for a 'fast follow' surge of deaths following lockdowns. It would be (to my mind), more akin to exposure to carcinogens or radiation, where there would be a gentle rise and long-tail of excess deaths rather than most of them being in a spike/surge.

If anything, what this would imply is that we haven't seen yet the completion of excess deaths related to this era. But proving it will become increasingly more difficult as the long-tail blends into the noise.
yep. He sounds so positive about it. Delusional even. But good for him for finding someone to give him money. Hope they don't pay in DOGE...
> it would essentially pit the world against Russia.

Maybe not if Trump is president.
Neither my brother nor my sister has kids.
That's an interesting way to say "the West largely stopped breeding a while ago".
Boils down to: if they want to make an example out of you, they will find some way to do so.
KDE Marble and GNOME Maps both use OSM, but I don't think the latter uses vector maps. The former does navigation.

As an aside, you can likely run OsmAnd in a container without having to use Virtualbox at all.
I got a ~$19k airdrop of tokens for a new chain called Dymension for holding these NFTs. I cashed out $9300
There's levels of abstraction. "lines of Python" to me roughly means the standard library.
The bigger issue is still the age depopulation bomb, which is when retired non-working seniors begin to outnumber working adults. This is made worse by both liberals and conservatives being against immigration.

https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/beware-depopulation-bom...

Yes, the cost of living affects this but even when the economy was great, Canada was already below the 2.1 birthrate in 1972. One explanation is declining male fertility (and yes, they accounted for socioeconomic factors.)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/health/sperm-counts-decline-d...
Where did DNA come from?
Then they would have to license John Cage's 4'33". Not sure that would be any better.
I was trying to understand it from both sides and not getting much. Some of your color helps too (like the euro amounts). It all was bizarre and sadly the whole thing blocked some progress.

I had come back to temper my response because for sure this is great work by the tech team.
If endangered piping plovers of the Great Lakes are similar to the enangered Snowy Plovers in California, the sand build up is pretty important for their nesting. Dredging sand in general is usually pretty bad unless it's part of a project to remove recent mining runoff (these days strictly controlled by the EPA...unless defunded)

https://www.greatlakespipingplover.org/

Disclaimer: I'm just an amateur birder.
For anyone not using rss and wondering whether to get into it and how, this is what worked for me over the past year.

I used to have 4-6 sites I would check regularly. A couple occasionally had a news update article I liked reading. A couple were “firehose” sites for a hobby which produced 4-20 articles per day. Hard to keep up with on web without feeling overwhelmed.

I got NetNewsWire which has a good sync system across machines. Then I put the occasional news articles in one folder and the firehose feeds in another.

(If a site has no obvious rss, paste in the homepage. NetNewsWire seems to figure it out)

It now takes 2-3 min per day to look over the firehouses. Can scan, read the ones I want, mark the rest as done.

For the news/essay sites, no longer any need to check a site periodically to see “is there an update?” It all just comes in when published.

In a world where habit transformation is hard, this one stuck. Consistently has led me to read more of the stuff I wanted to keep up with, while spending less time and energy around actually finding it.
How did your daughter only end up with 1 cousin from your 11 siblings? That's a catastrophically low TFR.
> A computer driven car cannot do these things (

This is not true - a computer driven car can do many of these things, moreover - a regular car already does many of these things, such as detecting low traction in rain, ice, etc. Moreover, you are describing Batman - the peak of human condition. Regular human is capable of noticing those things, but more often than not won't notice them because he's distracted by a quarrel with his boss/wife, is thinking about Roman empire and sometimes even browsing his phone. For most people, driving is an automatic lizard-brain activity, and they don't meticulously calculate the wetness of the pavement, the translucency of the air and other conditions to figure out the best speed and trajectory. They just drive by the seat of their pants and hope it'll be ok.

> they're pretty slow compared to a human driver.

They're "pretty slow" what? Do you mean they have slower than human reaction times? I would rather disbelieve this without a documental proof. Or you mean they are moving slower? Then I would totally believe it, and it's easy to explain - if they move faster and something happens, they'd be sued much more readily in this situation. It's better to slow down than to risk the blowback, even if the car won't be at fault, the speed will always be taken as a measure of guilt.

> The context matters to the reaction, because if you see a something that you know it is not going to hurt your car in any way, you have no reason to slam on the brakes

No human can't make such kind of decisions in the 0.2s they need to be made. If you notice something jumping at you unexpectedly, you either slam the brakes (and then it turns out it was just a plastic bag blown by the wind, and nothing happens) or you fail to slam the brakes and pray to the Almighty that it would be the plastic bag and not something worse. Context doesn't work in humans in those kinds of timeframes, it's just not enough time. If I ever happen to be in the place of the plastic bag, I'd rather take faster slamming than slower "context", and more potentially unnecessary caution than more accidents.
Many people believe that banning disliked things is not what laws are for. If it was you’d see the powerful banning everything they didn’t like, making the law tyranny, and the powerless banning everything they didn’t like, and you get the French Revolution.
Jory Brigham Workshop

https://www.jorybrighamworkshop.com/
Few scenarios, could be that they are the oldest and the rest of their siblings aren’t ready to have a family.
That doesn’t seem to be what the OP was asking for. They’re an experienced programmer wanting to use a new language and, presumably, a UI framework.
I love RSS. I take a bit of an unconventional approach and use Discord as my RSS reader. I run a self hosted instance of MonitoRSS (https://github.com/synzen/MonitoRSS). I have a server with just me and my bot instance and I tend to group my feeds into categories and channels (effectively creating a tab system per subscription or group of subscriptions). I have Discord installed on my laptop, phone, and desktop so this means that I can easily look at all my subscribed feeds wherever it's convenient for me. When I'm not set to "do not disturb", I even get push notifications on my devices when content is posted to feeds that go to channels I haven't muted. I think the only real downside of the setup is some days I am very busy and don't check the server that often, so I'll come back to a large backlog of things to read and I'll end up missing or under-appreciating some gems.
Well, the constraint layout system that Apple introduced (sorry, I am drawing a blank on the name) is sufficiently different that I'd say that although technically you could call it a layout tree, that is really missing the point.

Also, the render tree concept doesn't exist in the internals of GTK (at least; I could speculate about Qt but will not). Rendering is done by invalidating rectangles and then finding intersections with widgets; since there is no z-axis stacking, there's only ever 1 widget to be drawn at a given pixel coordinate.
> there might be a large quantity of (useless) traffic

RSS has update hints in the form of skipHours, skipDays and TTL to let clients know if you expect to be publishing regularly or not. Also most RSS feeds are just links with a tiny amount of text. A large youtube channel produces a feed file in the 30KB range for example. Unlikely you'll ever exhaust your transfer quota at any provider with that size of data.

Quite easy to CDN that file as well.
Most of the development for pmtiles has happened in the last 2 years, including a maturing server implementation (http://github.com/protomaps/go-pmtiles) but some key parts are still missing like the ability to decode an archive in native mobile applications. sqlite (mbtiles) already has ~10+ years of integration into the mapping ecosystem so that still works better if you want to move tilesets around to desktop applications and mobile devices.

The situation Paul is addressing is one unique to OpenStreetMap itself, which is minute-level updates of a global scale tileset. This is a use case pmtiles is designed explicitly not to address, where using a database is a better fit.
It’s not a whine about progressive taxation. It is just stating that the tax benefits are not meaningful incentives to have more kids, especially for middle class and above. It’s like, “thanks, but this doesn’t really move any needles in significant directions.”

So techies are even less likely to reproduce, because as you say, no one is interested in encouraging them and the HCOL areas they live in have wicked child care costs. So maybe we should just be happy with our below replacement birth rate, and figure out other ways to live in a world worth increasingly fewer people?
Since this respawns really fast and there's no life limit, I wanted to see how far I could get through the mere persistence strategy of holding the up key. I automated this with an ethernet crimping tool whose weight and shape is ideal for pressing it down. After about 40 minutes it's at level 38
“Right to disconnect” suggests employees get to choose whether or not they may not be contacted outside “work hours” (whatever that means in the information economy or creative economy or finance or medicine or…)

Those who exclaim they may not be contacted outside of “work hours” will soon find others who are willing to work longer and harder and will be the ones who get the raises and promotions. The result of competition and ambition.

You cannot stop ambition. You cannot tell people they cannot complete.
Late stage capitalism driven extinction
I wish, but it’s a little late for that. This decision is mostly about which humans get to enjoy which aspect of the river.
Apple mostly keeps their sanitizers up-to-date? Not that it’s really a profiler, to be honest.
Bummer...

I mean...
This made my 5560U ramp it's sysfan up 100%. :-)
Show HN: A Drop-In Replacement to Apple Hearing – Background Sounds
This is amazing! I have been using Emacs for development for well over a year and things like this remind me of the incredible power Emacs has to offer.
> Really cool project. This will definitely help me read more papers. Can you share more on how the backend is parsing and converting text to speech?

Thank you kindly! I'm really glad to hear this - this was exactly what I hoped for when developing this.
Happy to share more details : right now we use an ensemble of methods to parse uploaded PDFs. A chunk of this involves using GROBID (https://grobid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), a machine learning library aimed at parsing academic papers. Funnily enough, GROBID is itself a cascade of sequence labeling models trained on document parsing.
The text to speech portion is driven by OpenAI's text-to-speech models, which in my experience seem to deliver the market leading audio quality.
The summarization is driven by GPT-3.5-turbo
As such, the platform does focus quite a bit on making good sounding audiobooks from academic PDFs.
Some of the updates on the roadmap will include improved handling around tabular, graph, and figure content along with mathematical and scientific equations.
Its likely that a multi-modal LLM could do a reasonable job at describing this content in spoken form.

> UI issue: Login by google icon covers the password box when trying to create a new account on my phone.

My apologies about this! I'll get this fixed asap

> Do you have any formal channel for feature request? I'll pay for this app.

Very much appreciate this - could you reach out support [at] trurecord.com?
I would love to touch base about feature requests you have in mind - I'm really keen to deliver a great experience for users like yourself and am eager to learn about what you'd find helpful.

Thank you again for your message and look forward to getting in touch
They're turning $10 into $3 except at the scale of millions of dollars.

What hack or gaming did they perform?
The second point the grandparent made was that they were using dbplyr, which allows you to avoid having the data take a round trip between the R process and the database.
The face he makes at 0:56 does look like the face of someone who's trying to come up with a lie.
Bullshit. USSR did the same thing about the same time.
Security flaw in a popular smart helmet allowed silent location tracking
I’d say half my friends have had trouble conceiving, many probably will not ever have kids, and a decent chunk of my cousins as well had trouble or weren’t able to. It’s not just that people don’t have cousins
You know, once you implement the braking system, it seems like you could make it walk across your desk, corner over corner. Might be hell on the wood surface though.
Open source is the very worst thing currently going on because it is so incredibly exploitative, it's far more exploitative than any actual company is of the workers who work at the company.

Even the people who are getting paid in open source are getting massively underpaid to do it compared to how much the people who are using their code are making, it's nothing compared to the power that is accreted by the people who have co-opted that work thanks to the open source model. And then mark zuckerberg gets to define how the internet works despite having paid for almost none of the software that his company actually needed to make that work.

It's like feudalism or serfdom, these people did the work and got nothing for it. It's like you took the worst aspects of capitalism for workers and the worst aspects of socialism for workers and put them together, that's open source. You get no power and you get no money.

It's exploitative whether the people chose to be exploited, just because someone chooses to let you exploit them does not meant that you didn't exploit them. And for the record that's how most exploitation works; convincing people to do something that turns out to be very bad for them and very good for you, and that's exactly what the open source movement has turned out to be.

I really don't see the "we post stuff on github under a gpl2 or lgpl or apache or mit license", all that is to me now is just exploitation. You can say that there's solutions but until someone demonstrates that those solutions work, it's the standard "real communism has never been tried" argument. AGPL is the only thing that I've seen so far that's an attempt to fix these fundamentally unfair compensation practices.
Relevance and actual value, I'd assume.
Betteridge’s Law says no, it is not reshaping the experience of childhood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
With a 6 year old around you can play so much Minecraft your eyes will bleed.
The culture around FAANGs has always been a bit strange. People associate making a lot of money with being good at building tech at both a personal and a company level and unfortunately that isn't necessarily valid in either case.

New hires who have been living inside the Big Tech bubble for a while can come with issues that others here have already described. Consequently startups should probably downlevel many people coming from FAANG roles for exactly the same reason that FAANGs downlevel many people who haven't been worshipping at the altar of scalability in their previous roles. The skills and methods are different and some of them aren't very transferrable.

Of course that's not to say good people who have been working at large scales can't or won't adapt. But on day one nobody cares that you've been a Staff/Principal leading projects with 25 developers and a mature development environment if you're joining a startup that needs to raise a Series A before the end of its runway this summer. The abilities you need in that environment are things like identifying the most essential supporting work that can't wait while still spending most of your time on getting the main job done and hitting the deadline. If you can't roll up your sleeves and get the job done then you don't need to worry about a PIP. There are only 10 of you anyway and you're all out of a job in six months if any of you doesn't pull their weight.
I love this quote in the tweet linked to (through another tweet) in the article:

If Tucker was a real journalist he would have pushed back on this literal debunked Nazi propaganda, but Tucker isn't a journalist, and this wasn't an interview, but one big KGB brainwashing circus.

https://twitter.com/Dispropoganda/status/1755904802368700535

The actual Putin quote (that it displays in turn) is extremely telling, and finally explains what he really means when he says -- and he does seem to really believe what he says -- that he was "forced" to start the special operation against Ukraine, due to their reluctance to accept their natural place in the greater political order in Europe.

Much like, in Putin's view, Poland in 1939.
Not just 'the West'.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-21/chinas-population-is-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/26/japan-populati...
There are two implicit claims in TFA:

1. a larger percentage of software folk also enjoy woodworking than in the general population.

2. there is something specific and interesting about the reasons why the software folk who enjoy woodworking enjoy both

Unfortunately, we would need to do some significant social science research to determine if either of these are true, and I suspect neither of us have done so (I know I have not).
I've looked at it yes!! but there's heaps of ggplot-based libraries that I also like to use; things like cowplot, ggsignif, ggtree etc.
It would be a cat-and-mouse game for plotnine to keep up with the ggplot-based ecosystem!
I loved these books growing up, also Osborne puzzle adventures. I'm so sad that the entire genre seems to be gone :-/