jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Alas, this is just a virtual machine, when the name would make me think this is the Linux kernel itself translated to JS for some exotic experiments.
It's similar to the systems administrator dilemma.

Do your job well, it looks you are not doing very much, why are we paying you?

Everything is on fire, it looks you are not doing your job properly, why are we paying you?

I've worked with a few engineers over my career like the person you described and frankly they are worth their weight in gold, been able to bank on their output working reliably and consistently over time is hugely valuable, doubly so when what they do is the bedrock of many other things.

Of course the unhurried, thoughtful person looks like they are slacking and the hurried, frantically working person looks like they are a hard worker.

Fundamentally it's because impact is harder to measure than perception.
Coming from a country that refers to ‘gas’ as ‘petrol’, ‘gas vehicle’ sounds far more awkward than ‘ICE vehicle’ - makes me think of a car running on LPG
Maybe you're thinking of the Facebook dating app?
Could also be that the package manager doesn't use spaces and most people use package managers?

Ie maven will create a folder structure like "/home/user/.m2/repository/com/example/example.jar" which will never have spaces unless the username has spaces (Can linux usernames have spaces?).
You pretty much need a $300 TB dock.
I heard it was being negotiated by Joseph Manderley of the United Nations Anti-Terrorism Coalition (UNATCO). I'm sure it's all above board and the outcome will be majestic.
I'd love to see the off-road version!
Ahhh I heard that Pidion were working on one, nice to see they released it.

If you're interested then I recommend getting in touch with them as the Koreans can offer some seriously competitive pricing/discounts on their devices. They're also typically very helpful and supportive if you're having issues.
There is usually a slight language barrier but they make up for that in being as helpful as possible.

Here's to the South Koreans destroying the market share of the incompetant Symbol/Motorola and Intermec! :)
Very nice. Except the ugly Windows-like font rendering without subpixel anti-aliasing in the "webpage" image.
Things like this usually start out helpful and useful, but over time it gets harder and harder to keep them from turning into something sinister. Most people aren't worried about the first use of a law like this. They're worried about the 100th, the 1000th, etc.
And no matter how heavy are the ships that are crossing the bridge, the weight of the bridge always stays the same as when no ships are crossing it (provided that water level stays the same). See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel
Those are the prices for becoming a black cab driver (allowed to respond to street hails and use taxi ranks) - to drive for Uber only requires a "private hire driver" license.

The private hire license avoids the need for "the knowledge" and to have the traditional London black cab. There are still fees involved, of course - but becoming an Uber driver is much less demanding than becoming a black cab driver.
What about something like:

"Angus man who tried to fly drone into Perth Prison claimed Romanian circus stole his chihuahua"

Without using Google - truth or parody?
the problem with extracting information is not just limited to getting OCR results. the bigger problem while building something like this is extracting the fields and understanding the structure of the document automatically. using some python OCR libraries, you'd probably get text results for a drivers license or a passport separately and process these results on separate rules written for each. with deep learning a non-template solution seems possible which will figure out which ID it is, where the name, address, relevant numbers are and put them in a structure.
Not to mention massive optimisations may be possible. Does all the inner surface of the sun need to be simulated or just the external visible area?
It took me longer than I'd like to admit before I realised why I couldn't access any ".dev" sites.

Luckily I had to edit my hosts file for a new client and eventually realised the problem was because of a project many years ago.
I think some JS engines may treat arrays as dense as an optimization in certain cases
Does anybody have some hints where I can use Z3 to prove rules in multiple nested firewall layers?
I found the article about Azure using Z3 to manage the combination of firewall rules fascinating, and I wonder if there is similar stuff out there.

Idea is that a product team can self service their firewall rules after they successfully validated them against the “firewall oracle” implemented in Z3.

Somehow a mix of Z3 and OpenPolicyAgent.

Link to Azure/Z3 https://medium.com/@ahelwer/checking-firewall-equivalence-wi...
This comment is a part of why TV sucks so hard - ridiculous users.

Everyone's idea of 'simple' is rather asinine, unimaginative.

The latest Pis come practically preinstalled with everything, just have to load Kodi.

But someone who has found 'their' solution i.e. some crap by Apple e.g. assumes this is how everything should be... And we all get stuck with crappy 'smart' TVs (or don't own one - I have survived 10+ years without a TV - absolutely nothing about TVs today makes me want one. So much hot garbage)
Hi systemvoltage!

We heard you like remotes, so how about a remote with dedicated, non-reprogrammable buttons to open apps you never use that don't even exist anymore?

Sincerely,
Roku
Same question. Netlify CMS and Eleventy seem like un-necessary complexity here. Apache or Nginx web servers can be setup with a one click install on most web hosts.
Not raced cars but raced motorcycles and the very real difference is the vast sensory overload when you’re approaching corners, while in traffic, late braking trying to overtake, trying to stay in the power, being in the right gear, while protecting. By the way all of this is on the edge of your ability, you walk a line crossing back and forth between triumph and catastrophe. The heat is a very real thing and really wears you down physically and mentally. While physically able there were times I approached corners in traffic at very high speeds when my brain felt overloaded like I couldn’t process quickly enough everything that’s happening. My speed was more limited by my brain getting used to the speed than it was to ability to lean, apex, etc... In the real world there is physical danger and real significant consequences to making a mistake. A mistake can end your life. In a game you just lose.
The main reason is that designers are not even aware of the techniques. You can get CS degree that includes compiler work, and have a head full of LALR(1), without knowing anything about the Lisp approach.

In my Alma Mater, at the time, there was a third year course in programming languages that had Scheme exposure. The follow-up fourth year course in compiler construction was all C hacking with Lex and Yacc, and that was that.

I was able to wriggle out of taking the prerequisite, too.
They kind of already exist in small-scale communities. Universities like UC Irvine, University of Houston, and the University of Texas at Dallas have these to deliver food to students on campus.

But beyond that, we just don't have the infrastructure to support large-scale delivery robots.
The definition of epidemic that I quoted above uses the word “rapid” and the phrase “short period of time”. The definition of pandemic requires there to be an epidemic. Those are not my invention, they are from Wikipedia!
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Not everyone has a sense of humor.
Why is a billionaire (with a fortune built on shady business practices and a monopoly) talking publicly and influencing public policy?

Who exactly elected him?
Japan has started writing Japanese names as “FAMILY Given” in English, e.g. ABE Shinzo, MIYAZAKI Hayao, OSAKA Naomi, MIYAMOTO Shigeru, IWATA Satoru.
Words can be loaded with political affiliation. The way you choose to say "we want everyone to feel welcome" might (unintentionally) make some people feel that they're not actually welcome.
Coding is part of working but not the full story. Problem solving (especially analysing and designing) is the most important part of the work. To do good work you think hard, solve the problem, and then code the minimum necessary to make it work outside your brain.
The cholesterol theory doesn't hold water.

The claim is that cholesterol is so sticky that is clogs up the largest arteries of the body, is almost laughable.

If cholesterol is as truly sticky as claimed then it should be clogging up the tiny capillary vessels in the lungs, but it doesn't do that.

Linus Pauling discovered the basis for heart disease, but his theory has been 'discredited' by scientists who have bought and paid for by big pharma.
A format like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Binary_Meta_Languag...
I keep waiting and hoping to see one of these unions be a trade union (Ala plumbers, ironworkers, etc) where there is significant training and an essentially guaranteed employee quality. This seems like a solid trade for accepting a middleman between labor and mgmt.
Disappointingly, It seems this is just yet another “workers do the same. Employer pay more” situation.
It's their website, they can ultimately do what they please. You have this power too, if you wrote your own website. So does dang here.
It should be sold with ear plug. Loud so loud
Should have compared it to a Dacia Spring then: 17.500 euro with >200km range.
It's not necessarily better than salary.

It's more like, IF you're in the situation where you have equity and don't want to wait for / be dependent on an exit (and whether the exit is big enough), this offers a solution.

Fees aren't as high as what gus_massa is figuring, because we don't finance early stage startups.

Plus in a lot of cases we enable long-term capital gains tax rates. (If you exercise your stock options early and end up owning the shares for 12+ months, the money you make is taxed at a lower rate – long term cap gains.)
It's not so much incompetence as (maybe misguided) confidence.

Google and other big IT corpos seem to be operating under the assumption that government action is harmless. At most they get a moderate fine, which they can delay in courts for years, and then keep operating with minor alterations.

This won't change until there is actual legislation or they are threatened with being broken.
Sure, gold can be used as a token to represent work, but it has utility beyond just that. The only way to inflate gold is by actual labor. Fiat is inflated by whim and has no value except as a store of work/time. Any hyper-inflationary story from the last 100 years makes it reasonably obvious how fiat can go to zero value while gold held from the same period has approximately the same value in trade (100oz of gold could buy you a car in 1950; 25oz of gold could do the same today, 400oz for a house vs 200 today, etc.).

The US literally stole gold from the population in 1933. A $20 bill was literally a certificate for an ounce of gold.

I’m not advocating a gold standard or any other monetary peg, just saying that removing a peg and moving to fiat is never in the benefit of those holding the fiat and always in the benefit of those printing.

I’m not sure I follow the last sentence. Inflation requires time, so sure, aging and holding fiat results in lost value. Borrowers are on the positive side of inflation, so except for the literal tax that may be incurred by debt forgiveness the repossession of property by the lender is approximately neutral. That’s really the point of fiat currency, the printer is the borrower of real property and the note is a promise of repayment, ultimately in real property, securities, or labor.
I figure in the next ten about any job requiring a driver may be automated out of existence, excepting last mile delivery. Freight,buses, and the like.

While a lot of jobs won't vanish the numbers needed should be drastically reduced.
Only if you don't include housing costs and increased costs for stuff like food and materials. Yuppies (like myself) drive up rent prices anywhere near public transit.

Ghettos are cheaper than suburbia but the trade off is less security and selling your kids future down the toilet.
The reason Log Drivers don't exist anymore isn't because of logging trucks, it's because the quality wood adjacent to rivers is mostly gone. Water transportation and sorting of logs is still very much a thing; come up to coastal BC Canada and you'll see it frequently.
> but the second was when V8 committed an incremental collector

Did the chrome developers have to fix v8 for that one?
I'm specifically thinking of the wooden spoon used to mix the dough.
What jobs do remain relevant, though, assuming hard AI? Is there anything a human person can do better than a software person if the latter can duplicate itself, requisition a larger brain to work on a hard problem, and communicate hundreds of times faster?
The USD Wallet List is the list of states in which they claim to have licenses. The list at https://www.coinbase.com/legal/licenses seems to be the list of where they actually do. I checked NY and CA yesterday, and Coinbase isn't a listed money transmitter in either state.

Such pseudo-compliance is troubling. It suggests other problems. Remember, over half of Bitcoin exchanges have failed, usually taking user deposits with them.
The problem, as detailed quite extensively in the other articles in the series, is that this isn't simply vandalism.

It's calculated and organized action, explicitly aimed at manipulating Wiki's hopelessly bureaucratic and clueless system. This isn't just some dork defacing a page, it's a whole virtual platoon of really hateful people playing at false good faith just long enough to keep their libels active almost perpetually, while tarring anyone who actually questions them as obstructionist.

The worst thing is, I'm ultimately not at all surprised. I stopped even attempting to edit anything on Wiki almost a decade ago, because the system was as hopelessly broken then as it is now. The site is, ultimately, run by a lot of amateur bureaucrats who're more interested in the fantasy than the reality of the system they've concocted. Yes, it mostly works, but it's more or less constructed to make actual good faith efforts to correct the site an uphill battle for anything but trivialities, while making it easy for local tribalism and policy to be used as a tool for nutjobs and fantasists to keep their version of 'wikiality' on the front page of Google for another day.
Not mentioned was the A2FS1 Flight Simulator Game, I still remember hacking it to make a tape copy.

1st stage loader was easy, but when I started the game from the tape copy it just printed:

"Stolen aircraft!"
"Stolen aircraft!"
etc.

Much later and after some Jolt Colas I got it running on the copy :-)
Yet another story from american airport. It kind of reminds me soviet countries, where people would get prosecuted for speaking English.

On other side author was detained for 5 hours. That is practically rounding error in __ANY__ country. I would argue there are other causes, more worthy money and effort.
I agree that Wikipedia is dead - because instead of encouraging contribution, it's become a place dead-set on enforcing endless rules specifically to prevent people contributing.

I run my own public wiki about a niche topic, and one of the hardest parts is convincing potential new contributors that their contributions will be welcomed and they won't be lynched for doing the "wrong" thing. Everyone says: "I know how wikis work - they're a bureaucratic nightmare". I have to continually tell people our wiki is nothing like wikipedia, other than the "wiki" part.

I originally thought that building my wiki on the same software as wikipedia would add credibility, when in hindsight it's done the exact opposite.
Don't forget the buckets of money "from the EU" (i.e. The UK). And the British jobs lured there by the artificially low taxes. Like Scotland, Ireland plays the victim card very well to extort money from the English.
I haven’t been a PNC customer in years but as I recall, their “Virtual Wallet” account allowed for similar functionality (not using an envelope concept, but by allocating/reserving money to various recurring expenses so you’d see an adjusted balance after factoring in those upcoming payments). I’m sure the service has changed in the past 5+ years since I used it, but it may be worth checking out. The only reason I left PNC was because I moved to a region where they didn’t have any physical branches.
"Space" isn't a place, it's a velocity. Even if you throw something really fast in space, it will eventually come back to you unless it hits something else.
Hm I think we're coming at this from different angles... the whole "SOP" terminology confuses me, though I guess you mean "standard operating procedure".

I'm a programmer so when I hear "document on how to update something" I hear "untested set of manual steps". I don't understand why it isn't a shell script instead ...

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I actually don't want to preserve an authoring experience forever. I expect that my authoring experience will change [1].

What I want to preserve is the data. Both the source data and the generated data. I have one git repository for each. And everything else is basically Unix tools that I can compile myself.

Ask me in 4 years about this stuff, or 10 years: http://www.oilshell.org/site.html

I bet it's all going to work, basically due to the "Lindy Effect". I can build everything from source even if people don't maintain it.

I actually wouldn't rely on Docker itself, I meant more a "spec for a container", but Dockerfiles now have multiple implementations like OCI.

The point of the shell layer is to NOT rely directly on Github Actions APIs, even while using the service. It's indeed a problem that all these cloud services have weird SDKs and command line tools.

However when you look UNDERNEATH these cloud services, you get a KERNEL and a SHELL. That is the "timeless API" I'm writing to. I already did that with continuous builds, and it would be similarly easy to port my blog toolchain to the MULTIPLE clouds this way, so I don't rely on one. (It wouldn't be easy for all problems, but it's easy for building static content.)

I realize this is all outside the norm and 99% of writers aren't going to use this toolchain. But it goes very well with the Oil shell project. Unix and document authoring are very closely related. Historically the first use of Unix was to create patent documents at Bell Labs.

I don't quite understand what you are getting at so I think you must have a much different use case. If you have an example then that would help. It seems like you might be talking more about a blog that lots of people are editing?

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[1] Actually it JUST did after 4 years and at least a hundred posts. I used vim for 4 years, and now I switched to the online editor StackEdit because it has realtime preview. I wrote the last 2 blog posts in StackEdit and it worked great.

However the data remained exactly the same. Unix is data-centric, not app-centric. Apps are the things that rot.
Just look at how any of the 2020 BLM protests were handled, if you want to see what urban police forces in the USA are capable of on short notice.
> As far as solar goes, clearly coal is cheaper than solar in Nigeria because that's what they're mostly building now.

If we want to find out what's cheaper in order to decide what it is more reasonable to build, we can't rely on the fact that something is actually being built as an argument. It's the other way around - first we decide what's better, then do it, otherwise whatever we do would be right since we're doing that.

Or - in this case - if you assume that those calculations were made and it was found that the coal is cheaper - and that's why they're building coal plants - then there is a question of discrepancy (coal is more expensive lately than solar according to <sources>), which needs to be addressed, otherwise it might be assumed that a mistake was made.

> Regulations and subsidies are what make solar cheaper than coal in the US.

Doesn't coal industry also receive subsidies, and aren't those subsides comparable or bigger than subsidies for solar? I'm not sure; are you?
I'm not sure about the details of the plan, but iridium offers unlimited data for something like ~$100/month. I'm sure bandwidth is terrible, but again, these costs are small, even for individuals.
Why on earth would you use an untyped generic hashmap for employee record data? What kind of language do you think forces you into that kind of architectural decision?

Certainly no language I have or would develop an MIS in, regardless of paradigm.
At 16, it's not necessarily optimal to aim for the low-hanging fruit. It's very easy to read a few tutorials then squander several years with a poor understanding of the basics. Once you learn the basics, be sure to continue learning them deeply.
It wasn't so much that, sure, a consumer electronics shop wouldn't have professional equipment, it was the disconnect between reality and what was being presented as the best.

I've been a bit of an audio enthusiast for about 30 years and back then the expensive stuff was definitely better (mostly). Now its the opposite, the more expensive the stuff is, the worse it is and the dialog surrounding it has become cargo cult mumbo jumbo. I find it disturbing.

In general for laptops performance/cost is still vaguely linear, even in consumer shops, with audio its just a lot of noise even from supposedly professional shops.
I have several very elderly relatives and many of them never use a computer or internet. So I'm not too surprised by this.

However, my grandpa is 93 and uses his iPad, goes on Facebook, and watches YouTube all day. So it's definitely not all of them.
A principled head of the FSF is bad for corporate profit margins but good for anybody else who participates in the free software ecosystem.

There are quite a lot of powerful people who would like to see it water down its principles. Thats a lot easier without Stallman.

I don't for a second believe that this is actually about what RMS said. This scandal has corporate PR fingerprints all over it.
Mars is colder than Antarctica, drier than the Sahara desert, and has lower air pressure than the top of Mt Everest, and the air is notably lacking in both oxygen (for us) and nitrogen (for plants). Making an independent colony on Mars in one generation basically needs us to invent von Neumann machines — not impossible, but a larger economic change than the entire industrial revolution, and even then we might need to use that economic power to crash-land some comets on the red planet to give it useful quantities of nitrogen and water (that said, TIL
Curiosity found 1100 ppm nitrates in the soil: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/mars-nitrogen/).
Of course the studios could draw inspiration from this, and in a couple Christmases release their own 3 or 4 hour single cut!
In my experience with most acquihires, your “upside” is basically a new hire package at the mid-high end (sometimes I see low) of external offers + a potentially expedited interview process.