skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a really good scrum master. (Plenty of bad ones too). The really good one I could say something like

"I started work on this item and realized that I'm actually missing a lot of context and information in the requirements. I need your help clarifying them"

The scrum Master knew who to contact to get that information would set up a meeting, have the meeting without me if they thought they could do it or schedule it and include me so I could ask the questions I needed, Mark the ticket for me as blocked, fill out the info after the meeting and communicate the risk and reason for delay to stakeholders.

Basically I could say "There's a problem!" and the scrum Master would get it taken care of or find someone who could. Probably the most valuable person on that team.
> Does that count as driving?

In this comment, you are saying the verbatim words "where to drive" to mean the navigation that Google Maps does, but then you used the verbatim words "where to drive" to mean resolving questions about obstacles. So I guess, yes, resolving questions about obstacles is indeed remote driving, and navigation questions from Google Maps is not remote driving. But everyone already knows that.

The sort of obvious definition of self driving means no human intervention whatsoever, which Waymos also fail. So I don't know. Why doesn't Waymo use Google Maps instead of people to tell the car, "where to drive"?
A year or two I got a KeyPort, which is a modular key organizer. It's an aluminum frame with screws at either end that the heads of typical keys can go through, creating something like a swiss army knife of keys. The frame has modular mounts for accessories like a belt/pocket clip and a knife.

I'm fairly meh about it, largely because I don't think it's good value. It was pretty hard for me to spend $60 on a keyring, and the knife is also fairly meh (I prefer locking+spring assisted opening knives for EDC). Also their "Key return service" is fairly meh; not really looking forward to another $4.99 service charge every year that I have to manage, when paying $60 for this thing.

Another company, KeySmart, has a similar device and it's more compact but doesn't do the "attachments" thing, so you'd carry a knife if you wanted that. They have one that has Tile finding device built in, as long as you remember to charge it. I had one for ~4 years with a Tile device attached to it, that had a dead battery for 90% of the time I had it.

I'd be tempted to get one of the smaller key organizers with an AirTag holder and set up a little magsafe charging setup that I could just drop my keys into.

I mostly don't lose my keys very often, but once in the last decade I dropped them while taking the kids around the neighborhood trick-or-treating and I don't want to repeat that experience, mostly because I keep a couple office keys on my ring.
> are comparatively under-served

Korean soaps have this covered. And the plots are great too.
Well, I suppose evidence for the trickier (B) would be if the inexplicable EMF signal also had information telling the widow exactly where to dig in order to retrieve her late husband's buried treasure, or it clearly predicted future events, etc.

That would be in contrast to weird measurements that can't be explained with current science... Buuuut it's a sine-wave that only occur when the neighbors are running their microwave oven. A physicist might get an interesting paper out of it, but it wouldn't upend our understanding of life and death.
I think £300 is an important part of the title.
> all your endpoints went through some function

Are you refering to CGI?

> I’d be afraid a young dev would have no idea

/s But then, I want to reinvent the wheel, it will be square and better.

> treating data as data in the abstract

Now you are really sounding like Sussman from SICP :-)

> “controller” is the balance-of-system

In Django, they call this as a View!
I have considered this route, especially with NFC keys becoming more widespread (ie, unlock door with Apple Watch). But ultimately my number keypad lock works just fine.

If I do upgrade, possibly use the system from Ubiquiti since I already have most of their equipment
The weak science behind psychedelics
Sounds like bad management at the top, too. If leaders can't determine if middle management is showing them success in a metric that doesn't actually help the business, they're doing the same thing (paycheck till the parachute arrives).
https://archive.ph/ptIQy
"In the remote era"? You're both talking about people being in-office, i.e. not remote.

This is a typical mode of failure in management and it far predates remote work.
You don't have to live in China for Chinese surveillance to be undesirable or even harmful. The Chinese government has made great strides, but they are still a corrupt governing body completely outside our control. I already don't want the US government to spy on me, and I actually have ways of being compensated for damages they do, let alone a government with diametrically opposed ideology and active campaigns to harm Western interests.
Ask HN: How can tech help with mental health?
I ask this because I'm very skeptical of mental health apps and most of the mental health startups around the scene. Feels like technology is not specially useful to tackle this, more human-centric, issue.

Prove me wrong, what are some examples you have seen of technology being useful to help in the mental health space?
Witnessing the variety and chaos of the human mind is breathtaking.
In the US, I don't think there was any commercial LW broadcasting (but I could easily be wrong). US-market radios rarely had SW bands and almost never had LW unless they were general coverage receivers. For the most part, the few times I looked through the band it was largely navigation beacons.

I was rather surprised to see an LW band on a regular clock-radio when I visited the UK, though that was 25 years ago.
That's far more true of the remote parts of the continental interior than it is about CA.

The gold rush, farming, ww2 industry, tech, CA is a catch basin for people who want to get rich quick.
The “privacy” aspect is why I like a closed loop system. Power comes from wall with UPS.

It’s why I like the system from Ubiquiti, but it lacks certain features (Apple nfc keys) that make it not worth the cost for me.
I remember Opera as being decent in the very early 2000's before Firefox took off. I also occasionally used it in the early 2010's but switched it for Vivaldi when Opera was sold to chinese ownership.

Opera mini was also great for pre-touchscreen Nokia sybian phones in the mid 2000's as it made browsing the internet somewhat bearable.
This sounds like the story of Schottky solar cells
Just because they figured out an efficient way for the cars to be driven remotely doesn't mean that the cars are not being driven remotely. This ventures a bit into a subjective sense of what is self driving, and clearly, Waymos overstate their self driving ability through a variety of very clever, very powerful sleights of hand.
I won't sell any area near me unfortunately.
I've played both, I absolutely love both, but they don't have that much to do with each other.

Against the Storm is all about setting up complex production chains, not necessarily linking them explicitly like in Factorio, but more about balancing resource availability and assigning workers. It's a lot like other resource-focused city builders like Anno, but it is very well designed to impose a constant pressure on the player, always on a rush to meet goals before the whole thing crumbles, constantly putting out fires in the system (sometimes literal fires).

The name is perfect, in that you build this complex machine, and it is constantly stress-tested by periodic hazards. It's an awesome rush to "hold-fast", scramble to desperately fix things, constantly on the edge, hoping that the storm will end soon because the whole thing is about to crumble, while rushing to fulfil the objectives so you can get out of there before it gets too bad.

Frospunk evokes this feeling really well too. I suppose Factorio is kinda similar with the alien attacks. Come to think of it, the pressure to feed the family and the final scramble for points in Agricola are not so dissimilar either.
James Webb Telescope discovers some quasars that seem to exist in isolation
I smoke a pack a day and I haven't heard of lung cancer.

I play the lottery every day and I haven't won a dollar.

Etc etc
Don't forget EUV lithography
The Yale x Nest was my entry but after a few years a few complaints.

It auto locks after each use but no confirmation the door was closed and secured correctly.

The Yale mentioned above will gladly auto-lock with the door still open and it will report as locked in the app. Not to bad if you know you closed the door but by just looking in the app someone might have left it open and it "locked" itself.

It will say it wouldn't lock, if say the door was partially closed and the bolt couldn't move.

I'm assuming another component needs to be in the door well to detect the bolt.

Anyone know any consumer level smart devices that do this?
I respect the effort here, but it's a bit like a school paper trying very hard to support a tenuous thesis.

I don't really buy the notion that California's modern web of seemingly endless hypocrisy can be traced back to centuries-old ideologies.

Then again... what does account for it? In the USA, California's "liberalism" does appear to be unique in its scope and pervasiveness. After two and a half decades in California, I can call it out for its FAKE liberalism. There's a lot of grandstanding, pontificating, and self-congratulation... but in the end it's a bunch of corrupt politicians and anti-citizen handouts to special interests, just like anywhere else.

Even worse, these handouts are couched in an annual parade of "ballot initiatives" that CA voters are dumb enough to fall for over and over. BILLIONS of dollars to "combat homelessness," with essentially zero results. And that's just one egregious example. Everyday life is hampered by other idiotic, do-nothing laws.

One example: One of the cleanest-burning fuels you can buy anywhere is denatured alcohol. Welp, that's illegal in CA. So you have to burn dirtier isopropanol.

Online shopping for Californians is a pain in the ass, because after researching and comparing and then finally selecting an item, you see: "Can't be shipped to your area." I saw this recently with plastic gardening tubs. WTF.

Meanwhile, CA mandates the inclusion of cancer-causing MTBA in all of its gasoline. Which the oil companies use as an excuse to jack CA's gas prices yet higher than CA's obscene taxes already do.

The hypocrisy is crushing.
I've been aware of gravitational lensing before but this is the first time I've heard of it being used to resolve exoplanets.

This is super exciting and needs to be made a higher priority than it is considering our only other way around this is to build gigantic telescopes far beyond our current capabilities.
First scientific study of the Paris catacombs
A lot better than the alternatives in terms of security?

Even if we only consider alternatives in wide use like ChromeOS or macOS, I wouldn't in any serious way consider Windows to be more secure. More compatible yes, but not more secure.
I like how you started out with a reasonable comment and then ended in a Hacker News word soup of random security memes. It’s like going, “the problem is Python is interpreted, and the design of its interpreter makes it difficult to optimize” and then following up with “this is why we need everyone to write their code in Rust and assembly. There’s this thing called Mojo that looks like Python and has the performance of Rust that we could use”. Like, ok, thanks for your insight? None of it is actually useful or relevant in answering the question.
I mean it literally could. Do you think that sanctions are only applied to countries that start wars? China is also under sanctions in some form or another from the US.

I guess the point could've been more precise; that anyone anywhere that isn't aligned with US foreign policy could be hit with a similar ban. I agree that it rules out most of the western hemisphere, but there's a world outside of that
Speaking as someone who has seen (partially) behind the hyperscale curtain, I wholeheartedly agree.

Competing with an Azure, AWS, or GCP data center would absolutely be a _really_ expensive proposition, but it’s not something most Fortune 500s need (or want) to do. Hyperscaler data centers are intentionally designed to effectively be both available to (almost) every possible customer while also adhering to (almost) every GRC framework, redundancy metric, and security requirement that most of those potential customers may ask for.

If you’re running your own data center, you don’t need to worry about most of that. You only have to worry about your own needs or that of your customers.

The misconception that it’s either-or, or that the cloud is the prime solution for all use cases, is simply the result of really effective evangelism and marketing. That so many people working in software don’t have deep hardware expertise or are not familiar with data centers plays to that hand. Not a criticism, just an observation from my experiences.

Not that the cloud isn’t a very powerful option indeed.
> eventually far too much was built on it

Incumbents dilemma right?

Shouldnt it be possible to "Rip off the band-aid" when releasing, say Django-6.0 and rename things the way most people not already familiar with Django name things.

> names are rarely changed later

So refactoring APIs is really hard, especially when those are being consumed outside the organization...
Shouldnt be an impossible task. After all, API versioning happen all the time internally...
You gotta read between the lines with the commenter above. Their name is a reference to "Smug Lisp Weeny", and they're part of the religion (cult) that thinks everything in Lisp (usually Common Lisp) is perfect. He couldn't care less about Pike, except as an excuse to be smug about Lisp.
For sure, denying unexpected UAC popups is a rather satisfying reflex at this point.
I live in an apartment in London.

In daily/weekly use:

2 x Outer front door keys (shared with apartment above) - one Yale type, one deadbolt type
2 x Apartment front door keys- one Yale type, one deadbolt
1 x Bicycle storage key
2 x Bicycle lock keys

Monthly use is another 5 keys (2 more keys for other bicycle storage plus 2 more bicycle locks, shed door lock)

Even less frequently (but more than yearly) there are another 5 more keys that I’ll need to use.

Keyless would be great but it is pretty impossible right now.

Looking at my key ring I have keys oriented in the same direction and the similar looking keys have plastic “hats” that match the colour of the doors/locks they open.
That’s what they’re talking about?
To the 1st q: comments > upvotes indicated that it was generating drama, pending judicial review (it’s a reasonably nonGoodhartian measure, impervious even to meta from the likes of we)

Fwiw i really like the top comment (also related to the differentiable (for Rao observers: hypernormal) beast at the heart of Goodhart’s law)

And the second comment hints at a possible interesting non-Varian framing of solutions to “common antiresource pool” (nonexcludable but rivalrous antigoods) problems
Trying Arroost
If you think it's ergonomic to move your entire hand away from the letters to press a frequently used key, well... I guess now I understand why Odin's creator disagrees with you about keyboard layouts! ^_^
Well you have been. The consent was always being manufactured. A certain controversial fellow by the name of Chomsky pointed out decades ago that media would inevitably reflect biases of their owners and staff, and the needs to be a for profit business.

It would seem you didn't care or notice because there previously wasn't an opinion conflict with the owners.
I don’t know if this helps anyone at all but

https://github.com/tg12/harmonyblocks
I’m not sure if it exists, but it definitely seems doable (a regular debugger has to map instructions to lines of code).

If the browser starts treating JS as assembly, then there would probably be a greater onus for features like this.
Britain is currently getting asked to pay £18Trillion in reparations for slavery, when it is struggling to find £20billion in the upcoming budget to fund the black hole in the public finances, so you might be correct.
Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity over Quality [video]
Yeah, it’s surprising how there’s so few judgements against European companies right?

Kinda wonder if there’s some fundamental difference.
> third standard example

Probably because people don't think of Africa as having much extended elevation. And by-and-large, the continent is pretty flat (only Australia and Europe-ignoring-the-Alps are flatter).

It's very difficult to find (or even define) a list of non-mountain high points in the world, but "average elevation of country" (which is only unreasonable for a handful of the largest countries) is easier to find, and Ethiopia is only around 19th place in such lists (17th if we exclude Greenland and Antarctica which are not actually countries), not even the highest in Africa.
Debugging my wife's alarm clock
Milogranite and similar are exactly that. Burned up human waste fertilizer.
> The notion of a "controller" is also quite flexible.

Are you refering to the "view" or the "controller"; "django view" or "rails controller" :-)

If we were to coin a new name, say "Zeitgeist" to refer to the notion of a thing that does 'controller things' and more, are we compounding the problem further, or are we simplifying the problem?

https://xkcd.com/927/
Related to this, pin tumbler locks on doors should be installed so that the bitting (i.e., the teeth on the key) face up when inserting the key. If you follow a standard orientation, you don't have to think about which way to orient the key when inserting it, especially in the dark.

There's a technical reason why "bitting up" (teeth up) should be the standard way to install pin tumbler locks. If the bitting faces up, the pins in the lock are directly above the bitting, and the springs are above the pins and not being compressed by the weight of the pins. If the lock is installed upside down such that the key goes in with bitting facing down, then the pins are sitting on top of the springs and may compress down over a period of years. A fatigued spring might not raise the pins to the shear line (the level needed for the lock cylinder to turn) and you'll be locked out.

It seems that most door installers and handymen don't follow any convention about up or down when installing locks.
https://archive.ph/KYqIu
How early humans evolved to eat starch
That's not an explanation. You could say that about a thousand things in McDonald's business. They are all a relatively small part, but in fact McDonald's has an army of people optimizing them all, and they are overall very successful.

Why do you think they would be able to abuse any of the operators? There are dozens and dozens of fast food franchises in the US, all in cut-throat competition. You may have heard of McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Subway, KFC, Chick-fil-A, Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Dunkin’, Sonic Drive-In, Popeyes, Little Caesars, Arby’s, Chipotle, Dairy Queen, Jack in the Box, Hardee’s, Panda Express, Jimmy John’s, Five Guys, Wingstop, Culver’s, Zaxby’s, Raising Cane’s, Whataburger, Bojangles, Shake Shack, El Pollo Loco, Firehouse Subs, Jersey Mike’s, Del Taco, Checkers, Rally’s, Church’s Chicken, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Qdoba, Captain D’s, Freddy’s, Tim Hortons, Smoothie King, Blaze Pizza, Baskin-Robbins, White Castle, Portillo’s, Noodles & Company, Schlotzsky’s, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Auntie Anne’s, Marco’s Pizza, Boston Market, Smashburger, Fuddruckers, WingStreet, Krystal, Papa Murphy’s, Hungry Howie’s, The Habit Burger Grill, Jamba, Nathan’s Famous, Steak ’n Shake, Waffle House, Big Boy, Pizza Ranch, Cook Out.
Imagine Google not having the resources to maintain their V8 engine after the hiring downturn, and telling us they want to change JavaScript because their V8 engine has become challenging to maintain.

A proposal rooted in attempts to improve the language would be one thing. This appears to be about Google struggling with technical competencies and not having the budget to do the right thing.

“A Google engineer presented … JavaScript VMs (virtual machines), they say, are “already very complex because of pressure to be fast,” which compromises security, and “feels especially bad” when new features do not get adoption.“

“The foundational technology of JavaScript should be simple, according to the proposal, because security flaws and the “complexity cost” of the runtimes affects billions of uses, whereas the benefits are restricted to developers and applications that actually use that complexity to advantage.”

Maybe try something besides c++ for V8 if you are having security issues?

The apathy towards proper tail calls in V8 leads me to distrust Google’s language proposals. But now that abdication appears to possibly have been a canary? Perhaps even prior to the pandemic they couldn’t keep up with maintaining the V8 C++ codebase, and that’s why PTCs got skipped?

By the way, what happened to Golang and Dart?
There is a difference between shitting on someone because of hard facts and shitting on someone because of vague rumors and popular opinion. The article is obviously in the latter category.
This seems like a much better reason to be suspicious of Opera.
yeah technically embassies, bases, and even individual rooms in international airports are sovereign in the legal sense afaik, ie that host country laws need not apply. By this logic I guess the sun never sets on quite a few empires. At the same time if we were talking about “native” then maybe the sun has always set on every empire, since protectorates, territories, or fully conquered subsidiaries will never seem native unless they were originally next door, in which case.. you’re unlikely to get that many extra time zones as part of the deal.
I agree with the sentiment of the article. We need better science in general.

It came to my mind if we have equally solid research for the effectivity of drugs like antidepressants. They have fame of sometimes working and sometimes don't depending on the patient, and I guess the same could be said of many psychedelics.
Most of the money spent in US political ads is to raise more money. It's hardly corporations buying elections.
It wasn't what he was aiming for but the bits about Massachusetts are fairly spot on, he was a little too charitable in his characterization of the Puritans.
Rational well managed sports betters are quite successful.

Paddy Power (as one example) has grown in 36 years to now have > £11 billion revenue per annum with a net income of some £1.2 billion.
That screenshot of Foundem absolutely screams spam. Was it really something you'd want in your search results?
No, no, game show is probably right. It's a game show where the contestants are poor and the prize is basic necessities. Staged for the entertainment (and ad revinue) of the less-poor because it makes a number go up slightly in one of the wealthiest companies in history.
And it opens you up to potential exposure due to mistakes at the cloud provider.

About two years ago we got an email from AWS associated with a PHD notice. It “apologized” for an issue whereby the EC2 Security Groups in a single AZ were in place but not operative. All traffic was permitted for several hours, irrespective of the SG config.

We deploy and align host-based firewalls alongside whatever the cloud provider gives us, for exactly this reason.

Somewhere along the line “the cloud” seems to have gotten a reputation for some level of infallibility of which I’m not convinced.

See also the recent problem where Entra logs weren’t captured for some tenants, and are just gone.