jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When I'm looking for pricing, I'm looking for order of magnitude, and enterprise sales guys want me to invest hours of meetings just to get that because it's an investment/sunk cost to them, but as an architect, it's really just a question of "does this scale in single digit multiples of $10, $100, $1,000 $10,000, or $100,000?" and I don't want to sit through what some of us have come to call their stupid time-share presentation.

But the reason they do those dumb meetings is it seems related to their performance measurement, which is ultimately by revenue, but it is a function of deals and their stage through their sales pipeline. How do you measure the quarterly performance of a sales person when the average enterprise sales cycle can be 6-18 months? Number of deals in the pipeline per stage and probability of that revenue landing.

By forcing stupid meetings to get the most minor bit of information, they can move my "deal," into a pipeline stage that improves the perception of their performance numbers, independently of whether revenue is ultimately realized. If you are a startup they need those numbers for projections that go into investor and analyst presentations that get you the funding to stay alive, and it's why you don't want engineers to say something or add information that will collapse the superposition of everyone's ability to believe long enough to survive to a more stable state.

My experience has been that enterprise sales are bizarre political intrigues that are divorced from features and product qualities, where concreteness itself becomes the enemy. So, tl;dr: "contact us for pricing," isn't so much a dark pattern as it is the outer edge of an infinite existential void.

I'm sure there is a more optimistic explanation though.
Easy, don't try to contribute things too far above your skill set. If a codebase is too complicated, avoid code modifications. Instead of offering a fix, provide easy to follow step by step records of how to trigger a bug. Help an organization with documentation. Help out with trying to manage a bug tracker. When making changes keep them simple. As another comment points out there are often labels which indicate what tasks could be easy. That includes "Good First Issue" as well as "First-timers-only" labels.

Quite a while back I wrote https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/contribute.html which walks through various levels of complexities and how to get started. Other open source projects may have similar getting started guides.
Totally agree - in the short-term, it's highly likely that emissions will continue as they have.

In the medium- to long-term, we're aiming to develop geologic sequestration pathways that will begin to draw-down atmospheric CO2 levels. This version of our process is like our "Tesla Roadster" - the product that is meant to fund the future development of harder, but more impactful, products. In our case, CO2 re-sale will fund the development of permanent sequestration pathways, and it will actually enable us to get to a point where we are able to scale projects that are permanently removing carbon from the atmosphere.
Interesting explanation.

I'm out of my depth when it comes to materials science, but it seems to me that the answer might lie in how the crystals form when cooling. I.e. tensegrity like structures are known to be the strongest/lightest. So, if we're able to simulate the formation of these 3D crystal bonds and understand the assoc. tension/compression forces in the bonds we could predict the best materials.
The author, confusingly, is using the term AGI to refer to human intelligence.

Main points from the article:

"Artificial general intelligence is something we have plenty of here on Earth, most of it goes to waste, so I'm not sure designing AGI based on a human model would help us much."

"Superhuman artificial general intelligence is not something that we can define, since nobody has come up with a comprehensive definition of intelligence that is self-sufficient, rather than requiring real world trial and error."

"Superhuman artificial general intelligence is not something we can test, since we can't gather statistically valid training datasets for complex problem and we can't afford to test via trial and error in the real world."

"Even if superhuman artificial intelligence was somehow created, there's no way of knowing that they'd be of much use to us. It may be that intelligence is not the biggest bottleneck to our current problems, but rather time and resources."
Are you using Nomad to schedule containers on those nodes? I'd also be really interested in a blog post or write-up about your setup!
Unfortunately I'm running a very minimal arch + i3 setup now, I wonder if I can install Neochat without pulling in a whole lot of KDE dependencies?

Neochat looks great by the way!
quantitative easing -> Needed to ward off a recession as seen fit by most of the economists ...
Not saying it's efficient / needed, can't say anything for sure since I am a lowly dev and not a world class economist
This whole concept of bitcoin having value just because it's finite is asinine ... The whole world used gold standard and there was a reason the US and other nations got rid of it after WWI.
Comparing bitcoin's energy usage to traditional financial systems makes zero sense, mainly because traditional financial systems have a much bigger purpose.
I'll never buy any goods or services with my bitcoin because of the upside potential and I'll never accept payments in bitcoin because of the downside risk.
I am not the GP, but when someone says, "The science is settled, I also ignore them, and this is why.

"The Earth is flat. The science is settled." "No, it's actually round." "Okay, it's round. The science is settled." "Actually, it's an oblate spheroid."

And that last one matters for GPS.

Beyond that, there is always a new question. Sure, the COVID vaccine works with small enough side effects. Cool. What about medium-term side effects? What about long-term side effects?

Also, "science" is the process, not the body of Knowledge or the consensus. See https://gavinhoward.com/2019/11/what-science-is/ .
Titanium bikes are very rare because for the price you can get very high quality carbon composites, which most people prefer
The best workaround on recent android versions (although I agree on the limitations being quite annoying) is to (ab)use the private DNS feature for this - it lets you set a custom DNS server that is used for both WiFi and cellular data.

Same is now available on iOS 14.4(?), via a mobileconfig plist/XML file.

Either use an existing public ad/tracker blocking DNS over (HTTPS, TLS) server, or host your own and enter the hostname there.

If you go down the hosting your own route, you can have a rather neat setup for managing and blocking things via a web browser - it is quite nice to be able to log in and control what's blocked.

Note - if you run an open resolver DNS server on the public internet, usual caveats apply about knowing what you are doing. You don't need to expose port 53 (UDP DNS) if you're using DoT or DoH, which should help.
The starting price on these laptops appears to be around $1000 USD

Current mining profitability is surprisingly high due to recent price run-ups, giving a payback time around 5-6 months, not including electricity costs.

It's strange that the price of cryptocurrencies in the past few years always manages to float at values just high enough to keep mining profitable.

If we see a crypto price crash, the market will be flooded with cheap, heavily-used GPUs as it was in previous crashes.
For me, when someone designs a system from first principles it feels like software engineering, and when someone implements business logic in a preexisting framework, it feels more like software assembly. We can both agree that there is a wide range of definitions for "software engineer."
Wow. You’ve really been hitting the doomer echo chambers hard, huh? Literally nothing in your post is accurate.
I am not a lawyer, but I doubt refunding your fraud victim after the fact gets you off the hook for fraud. If the victim or the police wanted to pursue that.
Why not volunteer? One dose is apparently quite protective already. Most likely, there will be little difference which arm of the trial you end up on.
As a purely theoretical question - if they are _usual_ tricks then wouldn't they also exhibit low entropy on some level?
I think you've got it backwards, at least when it comes to good talks. It's always seemed to me that at least 80% of the important content is usually discernible from the slides (especially since you can probably infer the other things that the speaker was talking about, minus stuff like stories and jokes which are usually fluff anyways).
Viewing Google cache, I noticed ub.com about us page:

All financial transactions are processed by Hoop & Javelin Holdings Ltd., Vincenti Buildings, Suite 522, 14/19 Strait Street, VLT1432 Valletta, Malta, owner of this website.

Can the FBI seize the domain because it's a .com TLD? Or, because transactions were occurring in the States?
WHOA, that's really big news for the poker industry. These are all very large, very big businesses (talking billions of dollars) in the US. Can anyone confirm if their poker clients are still functioning properly?
I guess you could say that, but replication alone would mean only having 1 copy and that copy would contain the same data that your original set of data contained depending on when the replication occurred. So if you happened to delete a file 3 days ago and just realized it today then you're SOL if replication had already occurred.
Reagan is the one who signed "asset forfeiture" into law. I remember at the time reading newspaper articles claiming this was "just going to be used to keep drugs off the streets" and how "law enforcement are outgunned and now can defend themselves against drug dealers".

It was obvious to me then that this was a violation of due process. Also, it is not authorized by the constitution, and thus every act of seizure under it is criminal act. (There is a federal law that makes it a felony to violate constitutional rights under color of law. Fourth amendment prohibits this.)

Notably, Bush the First, Clinton, Bush the Second and Obama have not made any moves to undo this legislation.

Meanwhile, this has been used to take money from bikers on their way to buy a motorcycle, and random motorists in Florida and Texas who get pulled over for speeding. "It could be drug money" says the "law enforcement officers" who take life savings and then spend it on themselves.

Just because they haven't seized your assets yet, doesn't mean you aren't at risk.

When the government can take whatever it wants, without any legal restraint, and in violation of the ultimate law of the land, that government is not a legitimate government.

We should be outraged. We should be throwing the bums out-- from Obama down to the local state congresspeople or local sheriffs and judges who fail to take actions overturning this, or who themselves participate in this. It does not matter what party they are from, they are all culpable, and they are all criminals.

Edited: I removed the reference to my property that was stolen by the FBI because it prompted many people to attack me below. I really would rather the discussion be about how to resolve this issue for domain names, or maybe some discussion about how to overturn these seizure laws.

Edited: I've made the legal case in defense of those wrongfully convicted. I cannot keep up with the tide of people who have no citations of the law, but are quick to disparage me personally, for my crime of defending victims here.

Frankly, I think that the ease with which people assume that "naturally" these people were "bad guys" and therefore what they did was "illegal" despite the law and the constitution, is the very proof of my central point that the government is out of control, and they are getting away with it because people can't be bothered to challenge the belief-- taught by government in government schools-- that the "rule of law" holds sway.
Can you explain what exactly "donating my cursor" does?
Java for most startups won't be Java EE. My best experience with Java recently has been with Jetty as an application server. It's fast and it's lightweight.

I usually run Jetty behind nginx and don't generally need to configure Jetty to do anything.

The whole Tomcat and connectors for apache configuration from a few years ago is well and truly behind me.
Please help me out here guys! Thanks :-)

Btw: you can donate your finger as well on iOS4.2
That's why you only wear your dosimetry when you're at work.
So I would like to get into realtime web analytics. What other tools are there? Which provdide mouse events / heatmaps?
Ruby can use both "{...}" and "do ... end", with a slight difference between the two (precedence):

def some_method { ... }
def some_method do ... end
Well, we'll accept anything in the name of security.
4) Hiring is a slog as most Java people you come across will only know the "Enterprise" way of doing something and seem oblivious to any of the web frameworks out there or any pragmatic and quick solution to something that they already know an "Enterprise" solution for.
so the secret to cooking pizza like an engineer is to find a recipe you like and spend 6 years trying to reverse-engineer it? you must work for [your employer here] hrrhrr.. a hacker would have slipped one of the chefs, preps, or servers an andrew jackson and walked out with the recipe the same day.

also, what's up with people calling a flat piece of bread with half a diced tomato, 5 slices of cheese, and a sprig of basil to make it look "pretty", pizza? that's not "pizza", that's a dressed up keema naan at best.

where's the meat? whole wheat crust? olives? bacon? onions? ham? sausage? shrimp? artichoke hearts? red/black beans? bell peppers?
Personally I have a flask app deployed on heroku that posts a message to a Discord webhook just by visiting an url. So in my case when I use ssh to run long tasks I have at the end "curl https:// <server> .herokuapp.com/?Finished" and as soon as that commands is executed I receive a message either at my phone or computer (through a channel in a personal discord server).

Probably is a bit of a 'hacky' way, and using different proprietary services (heroku and discord) but it works, does it fine, and it's free! (And it was also funny and quick to develop by myself).

The source code is on Github too! https://github.com/TrianguloY/ping
IIUC, the 20% cut does not apply to web stores, it's for SaaS vendors who want to offer a plugin to Shopify web store owners, via Shopify's App Store.
Is it just me or is the whole documentation from microsoft products so deeply flawed that it is not even near usable?

There is soo much noise I cannot believe this. Man how people ship aspnet core things IN TIME!?

There are Factories and Generics and thousands of boilerplate code everywhere in each of my tests but i cannot even access a dbcontext.

This is consultantware at its best.
A likelier hypothesis is that for every One Punch Man, there's a dozen mediocre series that flop and need to be carried by the profits of the series that succeed, analogous to the games industry and Hollywood movies, which are also hit-driven entertainment.
I'd be curious to see whether apple has the balls to remove fb from the app store
That's the reason margin requirements exist. If the trade moves against you, there's an amount of money in your account that will be used to settle the transaction. If the trade moves too far against you, your broker will close the position for you at a loss.
The article already mentions this:

The problem with these languages embedded into YAML is they are all one-off implementations. TravisCI conditionals have a TravisCI specific syntax, usage, and features. You can't use Travis's concat function or conditional regex in the YAML configuration for your ansible playbooks.
Animators are more rare and much more in demand then programmers relative to the size of the industry IMO. The skill is also harder overall. Drawing and animating the human form in three dimensions is harder then programming.

I don’t think it’s a supply side problem. Another phenomenon is happening here. Animators do have the option of unionizing which mitigates these sorts of issues.
The BEAM VM is fantastic but the scope of Kubernetes + docker is completely different.

For example you still need a way to get BEAM onto hosts, still need to manage the OS on the host, still need to setup networking, RBAC etc.
I am just saying a T3 server is much more attainable than a Knights Landing workstation. Friend of mine is trying to get an Itanium workstation, expensive and difficult.

I think simulators are probably way more appropriate now even though hard-hardware somehow makes things feel real.

Every computation is a simulation, why not run the simulator on a simulation engine?

https://fires.im/
Not after January 20th.
This has been around a while, actually. I remember posting about it a year ago.
The domain whores don't like reason :/ I don't know, I can't think of any other situation where you can 'register' something for a nominal fee, and then sell it for what it's actually worth.
Thanks for the suggestions. My hope with the front page was to be minimalist and just a login. New visitors would hopefully land on the concept page, not the home. As for auto clipping I felt it would be confusing for a first time users. You can always hit enter after clicking the clipper if you want a speedier experience!
It wouldn't be gauche to accuse him of reaching the viewpoints because of his reasoning rather than the other way around, as tempting as it is to pin some predicate related to Apple on him. :)
I started feeling the same way a few months ago. It is hard to define exactly what changed. Some of the time I question whether it might have been me that changed rather than Gruber. It's validating that other's are starting to feel the same way though.
I find it interesting that both LLNL and Sun employees are involved in the port. Does Sun being directly involved help the case for it being used in Linux?
Feedback welcomed! If anyone finds a data set that breaks this I would love to see it!
Is it an infinite plane, or a sphere?
The only time I use Bing is for Cashback. I guess I should have done some Googling with Bing while I was there, too. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.
Risk of mis-prescription:
"one in 12 visits to the doctor in the US results in the patient receiving dangerous medications"

http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/Drug-Delivery/No-improv...

Risk of prescription being mis-filled: "An estimated 51.5 million errors occur during the filling of 3 billion prescriptions each year."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12688437?dopt=Abstract

Risk of manufacturing error in prescription drugs: "Dr. Collazo recently worked with a drug manufacturer that had a baseline rate of 4.7 errors per thousand units manufactured."

http://www.fdanews.com/humanerrordrugdevice

Risk of ??????:
"Three batches of Nurofen Plus in pharmacies in south London have been found to contain another drug, Seroquel XL 50mg, which is manufactured by AstraZeneca – a completely separate drug company."

http://metro.co.uk/2011/08/25/nurofen-plus-containing-antips...
Perhaps they assume that the desktop computers are deader than they actually are.
So it's not a negotiation.
That's a shame. Would it be possible to encode with specific settings (ffmpeg) and not have it re-encoded? Re-encoding butchers my videos terribly.
> (Rust guys, please don't screw up. We need a win there.)

While it's true that Rust would help here, it is very unlikely that a Rust kernel project would get as far as e.g. Linux and let alone replace it.

Of course, rewriting and existing kernel stepwise would be interesting, if possible.
It loads fine without logging in.
You are absolutely right.
I was intentionally polarizing. But thinking about it more, one thing still stands out: Even long running mmos are planned "for the next 10 years". There is an end in sight. Facebook, Google, Uber, Bitcoins, Most Startups - it's open ended! I don't think it's easy to say one approach is better - but it is useful to understand that they are fundamentally different.

Personally as an engineer I like the coding approach of game dev a lot more.
I'm curious about this advice. It makes sense in a kill-or-be-killed scenario, but it seems like the people who habitually start fights want to hurt and humiliate somebody, establish their superiority, and feel like a badass, not kill or maim somebody. They have some (however strange) idea of what's acceptable violence and what's dirty. If you seriously gouge a guy's eyes but don't win the fight, his objective might change from beating you down to seriously hurting you in retaliation for your transgression. In a "social" fight where a guy thinks he is restoring his slighted masculinity or enforcing his idea of the proper order of the universe, I would think the better odds offered by fighting dirty would be outweighed by the possibly much worse outcome if you lose. Granted, you can get killed or seriously injured in any kind of fight, but why make it more likely?

Does that make sense?
Wow it would be incredibly to see employers adopt that.
Previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4435547
I couldn’t stop crying-laughing at what you described.

Unfortunately at many firms, Product is supposed to be the interface to customers and engineers are supposed to interface with product. This model only works if the product person is smart and humble enough to understand when to involve engineers. Often their incentives are against it as they want the credit for “landing” a big account without the helps of others, especially engineers who often report to a different org.
So you're saying the registrar's CEO isn't likely to wake up on the wrong side of the bed and shut it down? Good information, thanks.
I’ve seen these in the wild in off grid setups on the internet that consider the lifespan of Lithium batteries too short.
Do names based on wordplay really cause you cognitive overhead? How are they any worse than totally arbitrary names? How is a pun a more distracting etymology than any other kind? Does it bother you that New York is named for King James II, as he was the Duke of York at the time?
"Why FastMail also of ProtonMail?"

?! :-D
<rant> Having worked in warehouses back in the day, I (and probably anyone) can tell you that it is not a glamorous job, most of the time you are working in a tough environment and often treated like crap, and if you are gonna work warehouses it’s not even close to what Amazon provides. They should always improve, but they deserve a lot of credit.

Most warehouse operations are not well organized, with little continuous investment. It can be back-breaking work (sometimes literally), you are not provided the safety equipment you need, there is definitely no AC, a lot of employee turnover, and a lot of sketchy employees and managers - all for cheapest possible pay. This is the default almost everywhere; there are exceptions of great operations, but they are just that - exceptions.

I would venture to say that the vast majority of warehouse operations in the country (and the world) do not provide even a fraction of the benefits of Amazon. Does the job still suck? Probably. Should they keep improving? Definitely. But they pay a decent wage (warehouse jobs are often minimum wage) and it’s a well run operation that actually cares about the workers (whether it’s for corporate interests or whatever reason).

How many warehouse jobs pay $15+? How often do you think an average warehouse worker got tested for Covid at their job? In fact, how often was their paycheck late or not correct or delivered (because that happens everywhere)?

Working warehouses isn’t great, but before blaming Amazon for inventing warehouse jobs, we should compare apples to apples. My 2c. </rant>

Ps - Not affiliated with anything Amazon related (but people probably won’t believe that ).