skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most BIG banks, "Vice President" is almost an entry-level title. Easily have 1000s of them. For example, this article points out that Goldman Sachs had ~12K VPs out of more than 30K employees: https://web.archive.org/web/20150311012855/https://www.wsj.c...
Explains the Tesla robot actually
If your app cannot go down ever, then you cannot use a cloud provider either (because even AWS and Azure do fail sometime, just look up for “Azur down” on HN).

But the truth is everybody can afford some level of outage, simply because nobody has the budget to provision an infra that can never fail.
Claude desktop shell agent using Model Context Protocol
I have written this personal utility to help Claude access my shell execute commands, edit code, run projects, etc.

Sharing in case it helps others as well.

It's built on the code base that enables ChatGpt web/desktop to talk to the shell (using custom gpt), and I've been using that in my daily work flow since past few months.

Note, this is just a hobby project.
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
> It's hard to express how much of a "okay, anyway…" being gay or trans is in liberal spaces. Pride month can become just as boring and ignorable as women's history month if we let it.

...is that not part of the point?
Walmart, the nation's largest private employer, rolls back DEI under pressure
> and that is relevant how?

Because it demonstrates some raw things are fine, and some raw things kill you? Like... duh?

I mean what are you really arguing here? We eat some raw stuff so that means anything raw, including milk, is perfectly safe to drink?

Just on it's surface that's such an absurd argument that I honestly doubt any human beings on Earth believe that. We're all well aware many raw substances are dangerous.
I agree that we need better performance testing but I tend to see it as a top-down or an operations-in problem. Performance work from the bottom up, from low-level code constructs seems like the kind of work I've seen XKCD or even Dilbert cartoons about. That is the path of premature optimization and bike shedding.

I'd love to see the industry do some kind of compositional service-level perf work. I'd love something like a contract testing view or perf, so that I can see how changes in a single part of the system will affect over-all SLAs. The tooling we have now seems to be of the form where if we want system perf, we need the big, expensive, kludgy full systems running for perf tests. And that kind of thing slows down dev velocity.

I hope someone from SmartBear reads this is knows the right tech to acquire to accomplish this (give me Pact/PactFlow but for perf!).
> Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?

Well, the Gaussian distribution gives positive probability to any interval of the real line, including the whole real line (probability 1),
so, strictly speaking, no.

But maybe the issue is a distribution with a bell curve or even with just a unique maximum and falling off monotonically from that maximum.

Well, then, in my college teaching, still no: Instead, commonly, roughly, there were three kinds of students: (1) understood the material at least reasonably well, (2) understood some of the material a little, and (3) should have just dropped the course but from me got by with a gentleman C. So, the distribution had a peak for each of (1) -- (3), three peaks, no Gaussian!

Approximate Gaussian is guaranteed, under meager assumptions, from the central limit theorem (CLT) of averaging random variables, the easiest case, independent, identically distributed (IID), and, more depending on how advanced the CLT proof is. A proof due to Lindeberg-Feller long was, maybe still is, regarded as the most powerful CLT.

Apparently ~100 years ago, especially in education, the CLT was commonly regarded as standard, true, without question, maybe some law of nature. Maybe some of the people measuring IQ, SAT scores, etc. also thought this about the Gaussian.

For me, I, in mathematical and applied probability, care first about finite expectation, conditional independence, independence, several convergence results (e.g., the martingale convergence theorem), then IID, and hardly at all, Gaussian.
Gold and platinum really are corrosion resistant though (but have questionable mechanical properties…)
"under pressure from a conservative activist"

we're seeing the beginnings of the next four years of hell. hold on to yer butts
This was thrown together super quickly — I will improve upon it and add features in the coming days.

Suggestions welcome!
Waymo's custom designed 6th generation vehicles[1] with self-closing doors were expected to enter service this year, but have [probably] been put on indefinite hold due to tariff issues

[1] https://waymo.com/blog/2021/12/expanding-our-waymo-one-fleet...
Muslims say that Islam _was_ the religion of all the prophets you've mentioned. Because of this they also believe that Islam is the _oldest_ religion, since Adam, the first man, followed Islam.
The reason I take B12 as a supplement is unrelated to this - I have MTHFR mutation and as such I need to take methyl folate (methylated B9). Apparently this form of B9 absorbs better if it’s combined with the methylated form of B12 (methylcobalamin)

I guess if it will keep my hair color longer that’s a nice side effect!
They always keep on asserting that 'multi-disciplinarianism' (always in the form of the less practical being pushed on the more practical, never the other way around despite the obvious role in understanding reality in well, understanding reality). They never worry about being detached from reality from their distance to the objective. It reeks of the bad old days of classical philosophy where they considered estrangement from reality an intrinsic virtue as "purity of thought" and looked down upon those who dealt with banal reality.

I have yet to see any actual backing for such claims. Only standard academia's toxic social knife-fighting and Kafka-traps. The specific form of bullshit being mounting social pressure as a weapon. Where where not agreeing with them and their theories means clearly you are more wrong and a worse person for not agreeing with them and thus you must agree with them!

It always rung of a scam to justify mandatory electives to justify the existence of their professorships. There is no intellectual honesty to be found here, only snobbery and blind adherence to cliches.
Isn't that just fuzzing? I thought maybe there was a specific thing called the cat test.
Quantification of record-breaking subsidence in California's San Joaquin Valley
Hat tip to StudyFinds for leading me to this paper. Their summary:

https://studyfinds.org/california-is-sinking/
Show HN: I built our SEO workflow into a simple tool for small dev teams
After using this SEO content generation workflow for 2 months, I spent a week turning it into a simple tool that's now publicly available.

Postie assists small dev teams create SEO-optimized blog content with minimal effort.

Currently free and offering these features:

- Project-based context awareness: It understands your project's background to maintain accuracy
- Built-in keyword research: Data-driven SEO suggestions
- Human-in-the-loop workflow: Not just AI generation, but proper review/edit cycles
- MDX export: Direct integration with your existing tech stack
- Batch generation: Create multiple posts in parallel

Would love to hear any feedback!
Birmingham researchers reveal shape of single photon
They certain made a big bet, in particular the CCP see it as the single opportunity to surpass Japan and German manufacturers.

On the other hand, the adoption of EV is slower than expected, especially in key markets such as the EU. Charging network, green electricity supply are major headaches, which are not easily to solve in 5-10 years. The adoption in developing countries is however a surprise. Driven by much lower fuel cost compared to a combustion engine, people in developing countries could be swayed by cheap EV-models. They can accept the longer charging time and a bit of inconvenience (like the air-con is not so cold) for a cheap, working car. However, once the adoption of EV is sizable, I’ll expect a significant burden on the national grid of those countries and the tension arise from it is not easily to solve, especially when their nascent industry is already power hungry. Inextinguishable Li-Ion battery fire is another major concern as well.

Then there is a third variable: the hydro full cells cars and trucks. When the extraction of hydrogen from newly discovered deposits is efficient enough, full cells technology could experience a big boom and of course, they would displace EV tech.
Here's the GCP doc [1]. Other live migration products are similar.

Generally, you have worse performance while in the preparing to move state, an actual pause, then worse performance as the move finishes up. Depending on the networking setup, some inbound packets may be lost or delayed.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/live-migrati...
It’s one of the reasons that regulation would help a lot here. One simple example is chelation. Your body absorbs magnesium when it’s chelated at a rate many multiple times higher than what you might typically get from an OTC multivitamin.

So a multivitamin might contain some magnesium, but what it doesn’t tell you on the label is that the form of magnesium they give you is not going to be absorbed at all and just pass right through your body. Most people need some other formulation of magnesium to actually be absorbed. I would go so far as to say that a fair amount of what goes into a lot of multivitamins on the label is borderline fraud because of stuff like this
That old joke about Stroustrup inventing C++ to keep developers perpetually employed keeps ringing true.
> should the government mandate that anybody going in the water wear one?

No, but they do regulate who is selling it. You can't find a cruise ship without life preservers on it - even if you really want to, and you're all about raw water or whatever.

The issue with raw milk isn't random people using their own cows to drink raw milk. The issue is people selling it en-masse. They will lie about the dangers, ensuring their consumers are as uneducated as possible, and then certainly sweep the predictable deaths under the rug.

If you truly don't believe me, go ahead and look at raw milk influencers. When I say they speak almost exclusively bullshit, that's not an exaggeration. Typically they engage in all forms of pseudo-science. Crystals, alchemy, anti-vax, you name it.

These people aren't trying to be honest about the dangers. They live in a parallel universe with different rules.

It's not protecting people from themselves - it's protecting consumers from those who would kill them for a quick buck (i.e. pretty much any anybody if they could get away with it)
Can you please elaborate on 'representational art' in this context?
Show HN: Vocera (YC F24) - Testing and Observability for AI Voice Agents
Lookup the RPLidar family of devices. Cheap 1D, easy to work with. By 1D I mean that it measures ranges in 360degrees around the plane that it is spinning in.
I have no graying of head hair. But I do have several white hairs in my facial hair. I wouldn't have expected to read that "graying first occurs in the temples and sideburns".

(I also have one white hair that grows inside my nose...)
Not that it matters. It just changes the volume and timing of "I believe I did bob"
I think they meant to say the maintainers for redis-py, lettuce, and jedis have already relinquished control to Redis Inc. The libraries are still online, but their repositories have been moved to the official Redis organization and are "controlled" and "owned by Redis" according to an email quoted in the linked Github Issue.
> I wonder what factors might cause this reversal.

Very likely: Stress. Also diet and exercise. They are interrelated. But for people that I’ve known have hair go gray and back again, it was stress.
can't they retrofit a door closer to their current cars?
In the context of Islam: art that depicts living things, especially humans.
It's great! I quickly reorganised my custom gpt repo to build a shell agent using MCP.

https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw/blob/main/src/wcgw/client/...

Already getting value out of it.
Log in?

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(I'm a Muslim). I mean... Strictly speaking as far as i am aware the mat/rug is not sacred itself. It is just a place to put your head +knees comfortably.

In fact the Prophet Muhammad SAW did not use a prayer mat and instead he placed his head on the soil (ground/earth).

Also note; Shias place their head on a stone/rock to mimic this practice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbah
My point is made by your very post - getting off GitHub onto alternatives is not seriously discussed as an option - instead it’s “well, why didn’t you prepare better to deal with your vendor’s poor ops story”
Excellent historical perspective. So many attempted and discarded ideas are being rediscovered/tested to see if they make sense in the current environment.

I expect someone to re-attempt a browser with built-in ads like Opera used to have way back.
What do "Freezes" mean? Like, do you stop renewing your certificates? Do you stop taking in security updates for your software?

Sure maybe "unnecessary" changes, but the line gets very gray very fast.
> Apparently this form of B9 absorbs better if it’s combined with the methylated form of B12 (methylcobalamin)

B9 and B12 are interdependent. When the body uptakes cobalamins, the ligands are pulled off and replaced with ligands sourced from other processes. IIRC in the case of methylcobalamin, the methyl group is pulled off and replaced with a methyl group that’s moved over from methylfolate via a riboflavin-dependent reaction. Been a hot minute since I looked into this so I may have some details incorrect.
> [From abstract:] While intercellular competition weeds out nonfunctional cells, it may also select for cells that do not cooperate. Thus, intercellular competition creates an inescapable double bind that makes aging inevitable in multicellular organisms.

My imagination goes to a scene where a spotlight shines up onto the clouds flashing the "Ray Kurzweil" signal. Summoning him predict that some form of human immortality will arrive just in time so that people exactly his current age can confidently assume to live forever.
An Iranian Ballistic Missile Hit Israel. We Got a Peek Inside Its 'Brain'
https://archive.is/YYGli#selection-401.0-401.73
Do you deliberately ignore the fact that China has a mounting problem, not just in economy? And then please point out any other big government economy that works well for the long-run!?
Then you just get devs rushing out changes before the freeze…
I think you can't avoid the fact that these holiday weeks are different from regular weeks. If you "change freeze" then you also freeze out the little fixes and perf tuning that usually happens across these systems, because they're not "critical".

And then inevitably it turns out that there's a special marketing/product push, with special pricing logic that needs new code, and new UI widgets, causing a huge traffic/load surge, and it needs to go out NOW during the freeze, and this is revenue, so it is critical to the business leaders. Most of eng, and all of infra, didn't know about it, because the product team was cramming until the last minute, and it was kinda secret. So it turns out you can freeze the high-quality little fixes, but you can't really freeze the flaky brand-new features ...

It's just a struggle, and I still advise to forget the freeze, and try to be reasonable and not rush things (before, during, or after the freeze).
No unnecessary code deployments.
Idolatry. Graven idols. That sort of thing. Hence geometry instead.
The Biggest EV Maker Has the Industry's Worst Human Rights Appraisal
AI has got people thinking about this again. I'm hopeful that there will be at least some browser features that will genuinely act on the users behalf in a largely adversarial online information environment.
Level has a keypad as an extra, so I thought you were talking about that. They also support NFC, but that has nothing to do with capacitive sensors. Anyways, I never heard anything good about that lock and so never bothered trying it. The Schlage Encode Plus is pretty reliable (I researched a bunch of reviews before buying) for how up I use it, if only it weren’t so ugly.
That part about the Steam overlay is interesting. This stuff is over my head, but this makes it sound like Valve's implementation creates an unnecessary attack surface. Its also pretty lame that disabling the option for it has no effect on the exploit.
> I think what a lot of people fail to understand is that there are certain categories of apps that simply “can never go down”

I refuse to believe that this category still exists, when I need to keep my county's alternate number for 911 in my address book, because CenturyLink had a 6 hour outage in 2014 and a two day outage in 2018. If the phone company can't manage to keep 911 running anymore, I'd be very surprised what does have zero downtime over a ten year period.

Personally, nine nines is too hard, so I shoot for eight eights.
Stop Torturing Your Colleagues with DSLs
From Wikipedia[0]:

"The Quran, the Islamic holy book, does not prohibit the depiction of human figures; it merely condemns idolatry. Interdictions of figurative representation are present in the hadith, among a dozen of the hadith recorded during the latter part of the period when they were being written down."

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam#:~:text=T....
> There is just no way to economically justify bikelanes everywhere

Roads pre-date cars. Cars muscled in and took over, forced humans off the roads onto sidewalks. Now car drivers say it cannot be economically justified for people to move around outside cars? This is "car-brain" thinking. If the cars were banned, people could walk and cycle and wheelchair and skate on the roads their taxes are already paying for. They aren't "car roads", they are just roads - cycles are allowed on them. Car drivers don't want to share, don't want to slow down, keep hitting and killing people, can't control their vehicles safely, so demand cyclists be moved somewhere else - then complain about the cost of doing that! People say cars have taken over, they want somewhere safe from the dangers of cars, car drivers say no it's too expensive to make yourself safe from me commuting through the places you live and work!

It's crazy land. As if the only reason Christchurch exists at all is for cars to drive through.

Can you point to a report that has a cost/beneift analysis of each individual road in Christchurch? Because when Urban3 set out to find out that kind of thing in USA and Canadian cities[2] they found that the dense urban centers ("poor") were the parts of a city with enough tax revenue to cover their infrastructure costs, and the sparse suburbs ("rich") were being subsidised by them. The people in city center apartments, possibly without cars, possibly transit riders, pay for the sprawling suburbs which need long roads and infrastructure serving relatively few houses and businesses, which don't generate enough revenue to pay for those roads, sewers, water pipes, storm drains, electricity supply, etc.

New Zealand $301M is about £139M in UK pounds. Wikipedia has a list of road projects in the UK[1],including:

- Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet. 16 km, £507 million.

- Morpeth and Felton, 12.9Km, £260M. (Morpeth population: 14k)

- M54 to M6 motorway link road, 2.5km, £200M.

- Shrewsbury North West Relief Road, 6km, estimated £120M (population: 77k).

- Arundel bypass, cost £320M (population: 3.5k).

- Newark-upon-Trent bypass, 6.5Km, cost £400-£500M (population: 30k).

Building more roads doesn't reduce traffic. It makes driving easier, quicker, more convenient, which increases the temptation to drive, increases the number of journeys, incentivises and encourages driving, makes traffic worse. Can you point me to a cost/benefit analysis of spending half a billion pounds on one of these road schemes to "reduce traffic" by doing something that doesn't reduce traffic, something that makes traffic worse? Spending 2-10x the cost of rail per km, while moving 1/20th the amount of people compared to rail, polluting more than rail?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_road_projects_in_the_U...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
I’m sure most of it is trademark preservation. Trademarks are enforce it or lose it.
BYD can build cars in Mexico, they already build buses in SoCal, that’s not an issue. The question is if tariffs are going to apply just to final assembly and will they be easy to avoid by assembling elsewhere.
I stored important data in mnesia, so who would I be to talk. :p
I wasn't going to bring up being on an internally hosted gitlab instead of github, but that would be the "not giving them a pass" part.
And when their new factory comes online in China (forget where), it’ll be game over. Tariff or not.
>none of them can compare to ye olde icons of ye olde generations like Star Trek and the people I mentioned before.

Well a lot of that comes with time. None of the people nor ips you describe are more than 30 years old. Star Trek is over 50 years old. We don't know which are gonna last 20-30 more years. Pokemon is going strong, but HP has been dipping for a while, and The Simpsons is well past its prime.

I think it's also simply because we are more globalized. Is Pokemon and Harry potter bigger than Star Trek ever was? Absolutely. But it's also easier than ever to globally broadcast anything anywhere, especially when offering localization for more access. I don't see this as a bad thing.

>Can we? The way I see it, in removing and villifying tradition, religion, and nationalism/patriotism they were simply replaced by inferior substitutes and surrogates.

Sure. The world is larger and brands bigger than ever. But when things globalize, that creates a need for smaller, more local community values. Bringing back third places would help more than trying to make the next Star Trek.

Now, will people be receptive to such activity? I don't know. It's not up to me to figure out what people like or want. But those places being defunct answers the question for us without even trying. And I wager there's more than enough community to create out of those that do.
Prior to pasteurization, people died or became ill on a regular basis: that’s one reason why Louis Pasteur is a household name two centuries after his birth. Even as a relatively niche product it’s still responsible for a significant percentage of the dairy-related deaths and severe illnesses.

The confound is related to what you mentioned: historically few people were shipping milk very far. If you’re getting it shortly after milking your family’s cows, you don’t have the same kind of trust commitment that most modern consumers are making and you don’t have the profit motive conflicting with food safety, either.
All it takes is one administration with the right bribe, er I mean campaign contribution, and the tariffs are gone.
"and from what I've seen from Elon—I think this attitude comes right from the top."

Yep. Tesla infamously doesn't have a Public Relations department ( I assume because he got rejected by a woman who worked there) and

“press@twitter.com now auto responds with [poop emoji],” Musk tweeted.

Ladies and gentlemen, the richest man in the world!
I’m really surprised that there are people who still think China is really communist, and that the private companies that are succeeding are just stealth communist projects in disguise.
That is surreal! Like one step away from “The Sixth Sense” movie
It is contemptuous of all the smart people who HAD to have told Elon it was a terrible design.
My ssh client also supports mouse events, though.