skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most probably because you grew up with it. I’m pretty sure you think the same about your religion, nation, race ... but be sure eveybody else in the world may think the same of their own. And they’d be right too.

What I personally find disturbing is how irrational positions such as yours are commonly accepted in a supposedly advanced society. It leads to a pretty bumpy road, time and time again.
All over? I placed like 2-3 comments that can be considered “trolling”
> the company would already be bankrupted and assets transferred to a duplicate company in the time it takes a prosecutor lick the envelope

I've always been told that judges are in fact humans who can see that for the no-op it is and are unlikely to be amused by such a stunt.
That is an excellent suggestion.

In fact, that would be a great catalyst to weed out 99% of recruiters who aren't willing to make any sort of effort.

I'm not joking. I might just apply this one...
I agree completely, having worked at a few Seattle based cloud providers. Perhaps TK’s personality did not fit with the new direction of Oracle, centered around OCI and its ethos.

Disclosure: I work at OCI.
Another blue collar reporting in. I did an apprenticeship in metal fabrication / welding after high school. I worked in IT briefly more recently but am back in my trade now doing fairly technical job of operating a laser cutter.
>"upping your growth factors, overloading yourself with iron, eating charred meat is proven to be detrimental to health."

All I did is stop eating bread and preparing my own food so there was no sugar in it. So this extreme diet you are talking about seems like a strawman to me.

>"people should eat quality foods aligned with their genetic and epigenetic profile"

No one knows what this would be.

> "Don't eat too much carbs, don't eat too much fats, don't eat too much meat"

Which your body lets you know via a satiated feeling without gaining undesirable weight. "Too much carbs" seems to be over 50-100 g/day for most people. If it wasn't, they wouldn't eat more than was healthy.
If you want a no frills experience that just works, give Lubuntu a try. Of all the Linux distros I've used in my company, it's given us almost no headaches. The fonts are crisp, and icons look fine too. Adding monitors has also been painless. And even my least technical users are able to use it (but might need a bit of help now and again). For us, it has actually been a pleasure to use because of its speed.

If you're prepared to give up whizzy animations etc, do try it when you have a bit of spare time.
Weird argument. Because I have given Linux systems to the elderly before. People with little to no experience with computers. Guess what they were all fine.

My mother was a long time windows user. Kept getting viruses. She was converted to Ubuntu and has used it for over a decade now without issue.

Linux is far easier for people than you think. My mother is a senior citizen now and this is her second computer.

The UI concerns you bring up are just silly, They are about the same as you buying a new hammer and it having an inconsistent wood grain or a metal burr.
Why not? This isn't anything out of the ordinary. Just some Docker containers and VSC. You can even find the Open Source version of VSC in some repositories.
Been using linux for decades and have never had to do any of this. Even 15 years ago I didn't need to.
>> 4.) It only works on GSM, i.e 2G. Hardly anyone uses that these days. (I don't know if a similar passive approach would work on 3G and 4G, it may be that only software is required in order to support more than 2G).

Do you have some data that supports this claim? I haven't gone sniffing recently- but I believe T-mobile is still wed to 2G for the foreseeable future, and internationally, 2G is still in a lot of countries. I believe one northern european telco is going to decommission their UMTS network and support both LTE & GPRS.
Yes.

I've run my own servers for my own hobby domains as long as the internet has existed. No issues there. I think people just like the convenience of something they don't have to maintain. Unless you expect your blogs to be controversial enough for a DDoS, there is no need for a commercial DNS provider.
It is all great till you face an opponent with high end tech capability. The more communications you use the more connected you are the more things to jam, intercept and misdirect. This seems to be the Russian approach.

We will see the preview of the future whenever Israel decides to face their new systems in Syria. No GPS, jamming up the vazoo etc. US is already playing with Russians there to a degree. I think the quote was: "The most hostile EW environment in the world"
Excellent book on this topic.

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Science-Lawrence-Invention-Milita...
I look at it and just think old. But I don't dislike it. I just see it as old. Like fashion, is what was popular in the 90s bad?

Or is it just some perpetual need to evolve for the sake of evolving?
Wow, I see.

I must admit, I do very much wonder what kind of environment Microsoft would be if teams were less segregated. I found http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-w... in the comments, which seems to hint at the same sort of theme somewhat - particularly the bit about contributing to teams other than your own. There's a strong notion of isolation.

This is just thinking out loud, a response is not required. Everywhere has pros and cons. I'm (even with all this moping) actually less hesitant about MS as a whole than the rest of FAANG (except for N, which I also don't see a problem with) - not because of the whole "new MS" thing, or GH, but because everyone else seems to have fewer scruples than I consider to be a viable baseline. So there's that. :)

It's just kind of sad to see these kinds of inefficiencies, and it would be cool to eliminate them. Of course, it'd unleash organizational chaos for a while, but of course it would be totally worth it.
I see you're not liking how many feet are in a mile (and many other silly things).
Yes. Sorry for the angry response. I'm totally open to replies and debate. I just wanted to emphasize that I was merely giving an opinion and that I didn't think it was fair to characterize my comments as hypocritical.

Companies have the right to sunset products if they're not profitable. Of course, they do. I think the problem is that in general people have high expectations from companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. I certainly do, and that's why I think Google should be more committed to a long-term vision in their Cloud business.
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FWIW, the screenshot above was Linux Mint 17, there has been a lot of improvement with Cinnamon since then. Current version is 19.

https://www.linuxmint.com/pictures/screenshots/tara/cinnamon...
Yeah same experience here. Installed gentoo on our home computer for my mom and dad and once i showed them how to open Firefox, they were happy as clams. The only issue was when my dad wanted to install tax software
Nice, I just searched for .env and saw multiple people AWS secret keys
You disagree, but why?

Compute is compute. Both providers offer similar instance classes for the most part. GCP offers sustained-use discounts, in addition to committed use discounts that match up to reserve instances, plus billing by the minute.

Spot instances can be hugely variable, but cheaper than prremptible. Preemptible offers predictable costs with a guarantee that the instance will go away every 24 hours (and come back).

Network IO is way better.

Inter-region networking comes for free.

GCP ssd persistent disk lands between AWS GP2 and IO1 and gives way more predictable performance.

Local disks can be attached to any instance and end up giving similar performance and being way cheaper than I2 and I3 instances.
Look for yourself and see if you can notice any differences.

https://www.linuxmint.com/pictures/screenshots/tara/cinnamon...
Ubuntu even has an option to install these at install time
This article is over two years old. We have more and better information since this was published.
Seems not? https://github.com/GNOME/vala
Book re-seller. Hahaha. May have been true at some point but right now it’s THE CLOUD PROVIDER.
The only other player in the cloud is Azure. Everyone else is struggling to stay relevant.
Passwords, secrets, emails, etc.
No, this is not comparable to a simple tax collection. In the usual case, people leverage a tax on people or property within their own jurisdictions to fund programs. That is to say, they themselves pay for their services.

What is happening here is that New York creates an incentive that is supposed to motivate Amazon to move economic activity out of some other location in the US to New York, at the disadvantage of everyone else, who now can either enter into this competition and erode their own tax base, or take the loss.

If you could simply increase your tax revenue by giving tax money away to companies, you would have invented a magical tax money printing machine.
GSM does not have meaningful tower auth. It does have UE authentication.
The formula for the perfect Linux desktop
Not too familiar with Nix, but can't you run different window managers? I know you can install and use Pantheon (Elementary's WM) on Arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pantheon
Check out https://sharecuts.app
It’s still invite only for uploading your own shortcuts, but there are many tagged examples for you to browse.
Yes, yes. The Google “way”. Because everyone has the same issues google has and wants to solve them in the same manner. /s
Google lost the Cloud Train. They need to focus on things that work and I would not be surprised if GCP was not a thing 5 years from now.
This AI hype is getting really annoying. It's sad how political decisions and allocation of budgets are basically just based on the trend. It's like kids wanting a toy just because some other kids have it. Instead of having long term visions, building solid technologies one by one, Europe just throw cash at the latest cool thing and of course it gives nothing. It's like the Human Brain Project, there was some hype in neuroscience so EU just threw cash at it & nothing came out of it. Now everybody forgot about it, nobody speaks of it & nobody cares because the trend has passed
Misconceptions about air quality sensors
Some aircraft have yoke aft limit switches that disable electrical stab trim I believe.

As has been stated above, stab trim runaway is common knowledge and an emergency procedure (EP) that is trained for. Arresting the descent with yoke while activating the electrical stabilizer trim cutout and having the pilot-not-flying manually rotate the stabilizer wheel in the opposite direction or at least attempting to hold it from adding more trim if cutout is not working.

Many pilots will position a knee or shin on the stabilizer wheel so they are aware when trim is being run. The yoke itself holds a trim adjustment mechanism so the pilots can adjust trim while retaining arrest authority on the yoke as well, though in the case of runaway trim the cutout would be used and manual operation of the wheel would be required.

I believe another commentator mentioned the jack screw, this will very likely have survived the crash and investigators will be able to tell exactly where the nut was positioned (trim setting) when impact occurred.

With stab trim runaway being such well trained for EP [assumed as its common in my circles] I would be surprised if that were the root cause unless pilot error is attributed to suspecting another fault mode.

I am not familiar with commercial aviation as much, is it common place to transition from the critical phase of flight during take off to autopilot (AP) climb at such a low altitude? If they were not on some sort of AP mode I can't see how they wouldn't notice the trim being added as a serious issue.

-Sorry I had meant to post this as a response above and not directly to your post
>"As a scientist, definitely ... trusting your judgment is probably not a great idea."

You should never trust someones judgement when it comes to science. That is practically the idea that started it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullius_in_verba
One can arbitrarily define a second as anything and then say that one UTC day usually has 100000 seconds and some are longer or shorter. It is just a matter of scaling few unit definition constants by 10000/86400.
My team is running a couple thousand cores on GKE and have been in production there for a year. These are multi-tenant clusters with several dozen deployments of my company's application. "production" tenants get automatically configured SLA monitoring via Pingdom which it's a health endpoint every 30 seconds and has something like a 30 second timeout.

Average availability for the year across those environments is 99.99%.

I'd say that's decent enough to use.

Their support is hilariously bad at times, though.
There isn't anything more rational about demanding base 10 systems.
Uhhh, I'm gonna have to strongly disagree with you about Google being a "good guy" here. For example, did you know that people at Google can read your email [1]? ...And so can literally hundreds of app makers...[2] That to me is about as flagrant and messed up as I can imagine. If you really trust Google with your data, I recommend you investigate their (very) checkered history a bit more.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/google-is-not-reading-your-g...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-allows-app-developers...
So, the pilot episode of the Battlestar Galactica reboot?

Given the random hodge-podge of software and firmware that modern military tech runs on, you're not going to see much success in building a magic one-size-fits-all virus that will spread across the entire system.
In most practical applications that I've seen fractions of imperial measurements used, it tends to be in powers of 2, i.e., 3/16 inch, 1/4 mile, etc. Decimals can certainly be used, but for most applications where you'd use something like a "millionth of an inch," it's vastly more common to use metric.
Except not at all - it's more about cooperation between different branches of the military (a problem America has more severely than most other countries) than about combining "civilian" and military tactics a la Russia.
If I had to guess it's the perception that Amazon is out to compete in any and everything, and if they wanted to they could figure out what products and services are the growing the fastest based on the customer usage data from AWS and then come out with their own competitor.

I used to do $100,000 a month in revenue on Amazon with one HP skew. The product grew to #1 in its category within a couple months, another month after which Amazon started selling it to, "shipped from sold by Amazon".

Amazon is happy to help be your growth partner until you prove worth devouring.
I see you are familiar with Berlin nightclubs!
Where do you go for first class IPv6 support?

I find it a bit ironic that the mobile and web side of the house are pushing very heavily for IPv6 adoption and yet they expect their cloud customers not to need it.
I will say that the majority of Rails apps can just use the Rails abstractions and they sit reasonably well on top of whatever database you choose to use. Rails 5 maps just fine to most common database types and patterns.

On the other hand, in the past I’ve used Fog to abstract our cloud provider and that was nothing but pain. SQL is well-specced with some vendor-specific extensions, while there really isn’t any actual common denominator for cloud services.
What’s written on the SIM card is called ICCID.
For some carriers, you can convert from IMSI to ICCID and vice versa, because they chose this convention.
WOW. Such a sad story about what happened with Prasher.
Agreed. I hate the "won't someone think of the children" attitude towards social norms, but they are for the most part utterly defenseless and deserving of some basic protection.
The name of the recruiting agency was experis-veritaaq btw, for those who are curious.
As an example, WalMart has put together a new lab that is meant to compete with Amazon. A talent agent called me up and said, "Hey, the team at WalMart is paying well, base salary of $210,000, cutting edge technology, are you interested?" I asked where is it? They said New Jersey. I was like, no way. I'm not leaving New York and going out there. The commute is terrible.
Your math is off..... 62T / 1g = $62B /mg = $62M/ug.

$100 million dollar rounding error.....
Nausicaa becoming more relevant.
> Housing is a good example as it is a finite resourse.

as opposed to...?
DARPA being DARPA, they came up with a buzzword to sell it to the brass and to Congress. Read into the actual content, and it's the related ideas that a) military communications equipment should interoperate better than it does now, and b) that command and control mechanisms should be better optimized for combined-arms (and cross-branch) warfare.
Decay would be exponentially greater with more weights. Causing a larger decrease over time.
> The greatest developers are not on the market and the companies worth working for don't need recruiters.

Not sure about that part...at this point most companies that are growing at a significant rate use recruiters. They may be internal recruiters (but even then they often use a minimal amount of external recruiters too). All of the companies we all know (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, whatever) use recruiters, most VC startups do, and a portion of small to medium size companies also do.
> The problem with the free market is really language... If we solve this language problem, then we can hope to solve the problems caused by monopolistic behavior.

Do you have evidence for any of this?
Redox has made way more progress than I ever thought it would, so who knows?
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While having a "wider spread" of "today's forecast" numbers is nice, that 32-degree offset is a huge negative ding against it.

I mean, there's a big important point where you start getting solid things falling on your head and slick icy roads and ruined fruit-plants, so it ought to be at more meaningful spot, like 0.
That's a pretty silly scenario. If you want to abduct a child - just go to the park. What use would this device be?
> The freezing and boiling points of water are also not particularly pragmatic points of reference.

I must strongly disagree.

The freezing point of water is an incredibly important and pragmatic point of reference for hundreds of millions of people around the world, who live in places where water can freeze (or thaw) on its own outdoors. Not just for transportation, but also its affect on biology in agriculture.

While the boiling point is (thankfully) not important for weather-reports... Cooking! What would you do if I said to "simmer" something? You aren't supposed to go high enough to reach the obvious boiling point, so how are you supposed to know when you're close enough if you can't remember the magic number?
"...slow drawl of the enterprise."

Not sure that I've ever seen this articulated so brilliantly.
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Well I actually grew up with the metric system. I'm also not the religion I was raised. I do love my nation, which is easy because I'm American and there is a lot to love.

Imperial units are just better for humans to use. I would love if somebody could give me a redeeming quality for metric, but so far nobody has.
>Does the watch vulnerability meaningfully increase the risk here?

Yes. You can turn on remote listening and spy on the wearer (and anyone else nearby).
Thing it is a choice all women have to make. US or Japan. As you go past late 20s the clock is ticking. You basically need 2-3 years per kid to write off your career(so about 6 years for replacement rate). Unless you are making enough to hire full time help or have your parent works as that full time help for free. Since me and wife neither of the two applied(well we could hire help but we both kinda want kids to grow up raised by a parent instead of a nanny)

Japan is at the point where half measures like subsidized daycare are long past. They need to literally pay people to have kids at this point. Give massive tax credits for kids etc.

Workforce itself is not that big deal. Japan unlike US is VERY easy to bring qualified people to work. Trivial really none of the US tech visa nonsense. Hire a guy, he is in the office month later. We have people from Netherland, Uruguay, Canada, Belgium etc. Tokyo is now trivial to live in with zero Japanese language ability or to find work as a qualified person. The pay is low by US standards though.
Not everybody has the same sensitivity to this 'jarring' component of the Linux desktop, I'm well aware. But I think it would really help the desktop forward if the group that is sensitive to it would be catered to more, like Elementary is trying to do.
Oil tanker off Newfoundland coast spills 250,000 L of crude into ocean
Big retailers are dead set on not supporting their competition, valid reasoning or not, you won’t find them on AWS for that reason alone.
Well I also don't particularly care about how many feet are in a kilometer, since they are different units.

A mile is...a mile. A half a mile, a quarter of a mile, an eighth of a mile, etc. Yeah, there are 5280 feet in a mile. There are also 25.8 or something like that mm in a inch, some other arbitrary unit of conversion that we all have to memorize.
Mole was just redefined as exactly 6.02214076e23 — the number of Si-28 atoms in a perfect 1 kg sphere. This was an intentionally check against the kibble balance measurement.

More info from an older Veritasium video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y
The Kilogram Is Dead. Long Live the Kilogram
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Microsoft needed something to do with all the infrastructure they built waiting for bing to take off.
> Stopping electronic transactions in a financial emergency.

That means causing some people to starve. Literally.

I can't imagine how it would improve some situation. At best, if transactions are stopped for a short enough time, you will not make it much worse.
That is how my side projects often go.
Oh, me too...

"Familiar to anyone who's seen C#, but maintains API/ABI compatibility with C"
New platform for getting and receiving feedback from the crowd is in Public Beta
As a proponent of the metric system, I got to say the most disturbing thing is how an honest because openly subjective, intelligible and relatable statement (like the one OP gave) can be turned into something political and offensive. It it is the habit of doing this, that leads to a bumpy road ahead.

But since we‘re talking politics: it were the „progressive“ Bauhaus proponents like Corbusier, that proclaimed that what we build should use human scale as foundation of measurement. What OP said is exactly that.
The DNS is replicated everywhere. A concentrated attack can at most freeze some subdomains.
I don't get the general shock that people have over these mitigations slowing performance.

Yeah we're throwing out the cash more often, of course it's going to be slower.
Not to be confused with the Mosaic browser.
Japanese quality is fantastic. But few know how it happened. Homer Sarasohn's influence is almost impossible to overstate: https://honoringhomer.net/