skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it is exactly like a slot machine, well akin to an evolved version actually.

It is designed to be addictive with compulsion loops and reinforcement, exploiting brain mechanisms you are not aware of such as disproportionate feedback coming directly from slot machines. Candy crush is a sort of glorified skinner box.

Same as gambling machines, candy crush makes use of "illusion of control" by congratulating the player for being skilled for things that actually happened by chance (or were made to happen by the game itself).

The comparison does not stop here, similar to gambling machines candy crush makes money not on the vast majority of people but on a limited few that will spend lots of money the "whales".
The fun thing with candy crush is that as long as you never pay the game plays fair but once you've become a paying customer the game starts to play tricks on you to nudge you into paying more, it will become harder or impossible to win without the use of bonus you have to pay to get. The game actually adapts to you to maximize profit it can squeeze out of you.

There was a detailed article about all this mechanism a few years back when I did not shaarlize[0] all my interesting findings so I can't link it here, but everything I just written comes from memory of what was described in this article.

[0] : https://shaarli.readthedocs.io/en/master/
Also we have already built and running mass-oppression infrastructure which could be used for incredibly evil things as soon as someone high up in the executive branch (or congress if they passed a law) said so. Makes us incredibly insecure in the event of a dictatorship-type overthrow
All of that sounds fine, but to the extent it's fixable at all, the solution to problems like that is organized labor and not specific whines about "Google is bad".
There almost is! https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94523/simulate-a-sca... or https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29402/how-do-i-make-...
They'll learn. Things like cheap branching didn't become useful to me until I had a bunch of stuff going on at once, which didn't happen until I graduated to more senior roles.
I speak is Saudi Araby prince people. You understand is errorly.
If they do that, they should definitely send some of the packages via Hermes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gcc9ZUz69c
It took Microsoft a top-level executive change (Satya) to fix itself. Facebook shows no signs of an executive change until Mark retires and devotes himself to full time philanthropy so the world doesn’t remember him as evil (who else does that remind you of...)
Show HN: I wrote a scheme interpreter in C
No, the first class airplane seats costs $250k each.

https://gizmodo.com/heres-why-a-single-first-class-seat-can-...

Also it looks like a row of non-first class seats can also cost about the same:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/inside-the-dreamli...
NHS to sell DNA tests to healthy people in push to find new treatments
It’s puzzling how 50 years later, with much better technology, we can’t build plants on the scale of what was built in the 60s.

The US navy uses nuclear reactors for their aircraft carriers and they don’t seem to have the same problems getting them built and installed that commercial power operators do now. I wonder what makes the difference, I tried googling but couldn’t find a good comparison. Perhaps it is just not commercially viable but works on a military scale budget?
We must consume different media; I'd honestly have placed it the other way, that media in general preaches that fulfilment should be found in work and that those who haven't found it there, and aren't rich and successful in a job they love, are themselves the problem.

That said you can enjoy your work but still be being used as a peon for a greedy capitalist; they're pretty orthogonal.
I hold this opinion too but I struggle with the high cost of accidental and unwanted deletion.

To delete your account's content I think here should be email verification or 2FA.
Well, I would say that it highly depends on your workload. .NET's biggest performance win is lower-level memory management, like structs and Spans. If you can use those to avoid allocations and improve memory locality in your critical path, you'll end up beating the JVM.

For allocation-heavy workloads that can't use .NET's lower-level memory tools, I think the JVM is still a bit ahead with its better GC and profiling HotSpot JIT compiler.
Perhaps this data does not indicate the obvious for some stuff. We have two 2001 Tacoma trucks, one is 4WD, and one is 2WD. My truck is ugly as sin, but is reliable and easy to repair. The new Tacoma is essentially a full-size truck, too much plastic, much more complex, too much is not accessible for maintenance, and per my three neighbors, much less reliable. This is why we have not bought new machines.
> alsmot entirely landlocked so there's no possibility of offshor or tidal energy, no geothermal, terrible solar efficiency, almost non-existent wind

Electricity production share of those in Germany: 35%. Consumption share: 38%.

https://www.bayerische-staatszeitung.de/staatszeitung/wirtsc...
It always boils down to greed, power and image. "What's that, we need to do a major upgrade? Cuts I to profits, no can do!"

Ask those in charge how close to a plant they are willing to live. I bet most won't live anywhere near. The thought of waking up in a radiated area in the middle of the night as a meltdown occurs is not exactly comforting to anyone. Private entities will always run a risk assessment to calculate whether it's more profitable to turn a blind eye. Most of the time the punishment is a fee that amounts to a slap on the wrist and its back to business as usual. Time heals indeed. Narrative changes. The public is distracted with some flashy personality. People forget and stop caring until it repeats all over again.
BMW should certainly be on that list considering European owners. Countless numbers of E46 and E39 models remain on the road here.
Well I certainly object to the destruction of America’s culture too, but the construction of geofft’s argument is that categorically he could only think of one possible objection to immigration.

And it’s not an irrational fear. It’s a very obvious fact that America with wide open borders would be a worse place for existing Americans to live, just look at the average country and ask if Americans would like to live there, and why not.
They probably can already do everything you say, eg: cross reference and internally "trade" (meta)data between facebook, instagram and whatsapp backends and deliver that to law enforcement. I'm pretty sure their ability to do analytics is advanced enough (though even technical people sometimes really overestimate how "good" those big companies are at it).

At least at that point they will not have the contents of your messages. Which now they do (with the exception of whatsapp).
For the primary source of general heating yes. As a secondary to heat the living room oven, I highly doubt that, too many relatives that I just bought lignite with last autumn. Could be more prominent in eastern Germany though.
even lots of modern motherboards still have serial and parallel port headers.
ok, that's pretty intense.
Does postgres count ?
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Debugging_the_PostgreSQL_gr...
Writing comes to mind first, satisfying “without needing to constantly be active”. However I don’t know how globally transferable it is.
E.g. иван.сергеев@пример.рф

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_email#Email_addr... - linked in OP
I'm sure I heard a much higher figure recently but 2000 UK employees surveyed gives 40% looking to change job this year - https://www.thehrdirector.com/business-news/jobseekers/chang.... That doesn't necessarily mean they don't love their work, most dissatisfaction is with bosses usually in these surveys, but it's certainly an indicator. Loving your work and not loving your job also leaves you more likely unhappy too, or at least malcontent.
This is great news and I am glad to see it.

Internet access is a big deal for Tonga and they went to pains to establish good internet access to begin with, which articles about the crisis seem to not really make very clear:

Here's how a tiny Pacific island got better Internet than the US

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-08-01/heres-how-tiny-pacifi...
I am german myself and I am frustrated about this countries hate for nuclear power. In the wake of Fukushima, they shut down 12 perfectly modern nuclear power plants to rely on coal until green power can take over. We are quite behind on that too. 2038 to end coal also seems to be a quite conservative goal, but until now the government was great at missing even the most conservative goals on basically anything.
The energy storage problem isn’t solved for current generation renewables as far as I know.

Laying out a ton of solar panels everywhere is great but if we have rolling blackouts when it’s too cloudy for a while people will be very upset.
You're now the dictator of the industry. Which 50% needs to go and how do you identify them? How do you prevent your metrics from being gamed?
> Not necessarily. I know people who kept older German cars forever. It’s not very possible anymore. They fall apart and parts aren’t available.

In what sense? Japanese automakers are notorious for discontinuing model-specific parts after a few years (e.g. look at the Jalopnik blurb about the guy restoring a CRX).

Meanwhile you can get nearly any part from nearly any model Mercedes has ever manufactured. More esoteric stuff will cost you, but you can still do it. The other German manufacturers are somewhere in between. I currently have a few twenty year old BMWs and haven't run into any availability issues yet.
Are you willing to live next door to a nuclear plant? People don't experience coal related problems unless they live in areas that are heavily polluted. Sure it impacts them and everyone else but it's perceived less harmful.
Yup.. Geek heroes come from every ethnicity, but only the Greek ones get credit. It's a known issue.
> I'm sure if the US lost economically due to allegations it would be a different story altogether.

Are you joking? China has many more restrictions on foreign competition in far less sensitive areas than their communications networks.

Setting that aside, it seems reasonable for any country to decide for any reason what they allow to be used in such core infrastructure. Any country that can afford not to depend on someone they might not completely trust now or decades in the future is foolish to do so.
Bruno Buchberger’s algorithm: Gröbner bases and applications (1998) [pdf]
In Michigan at least a Merc was always short hand for Mercury. Now I realize they no longer make them but this is the first time I've ever heard a Mercedes referred to as a Merc. They will forever be a Mercury to me - and there were some sweet Mercury's as well ;<).

I owned a brown LN7 with a moonroof and got more requests for rides from pretty girls than any car I've ever owned.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/52345709@N02/10682156066
Yeah, I mean that seems completely tangential to what the OP was referring to.

It's one thing for people who regret stopping to work, because they put too much of their life's meaning into work. Or maybe because their work was truly meaningful (although that seems to be pretty rare).

Sounds like their real regret is that they didn't learn how to find enough meaning outside of work during retirement, rather than the fact they stopped working.
Hard coal plants do a lot of load following in Germany, especially when it's windy.

For example the black in these charts is hard coal and the green is wind.

https://www.energy-charts.de/power_de.htm?source=all-sources...
the “expression of idea” is precisely “how something is done” or am i missing something...

idea: superhuman who flys around saving people

expression: superman,
alternative expression: ultraman

both protected respectively by copyright (imagery, stories, movies etc)... do they also need patents?

i think the answer here is “no” and it’s the same for software... but again, please correct if i’m missing something

edit: spelling/formatting
I don't believe it's a very obvious fact at all, considering America has had very lax borders in the past and I would not describe it as being a far worse place to live. If you're going to describe something as an obvious fact, how about you back up your obvious fact with citations or data? Otherwise then yes, it would be an irrational fear.

And I would imagine the converse is true: If you asked anyone in another first world country if they would like to live in America, I would bet you'd see the results end up rather negative. Especially after the past few years of nonsense we've exhibited to the rest of the world.
How do Machine Learning engineers stack up? Or Data Scientists who work in ML, same outcome?
In practice people will riot in the streets like the “yellow vests” in France over even mild measures such as fuel taxes.

Extreme measures like you are talking about could not be implemented in any democracy.
The big issue I have with this is that facebook can already do this, IF a warrant comes from the government.

The issue about being careful about using those metadata for friends/"you could know" (which was always terrible for me) and related functionality is legit though. They should give the user the option of opting out (ex: I don't want you to show my FB profile to people I only have in whatsapp/instagram). Even better, they should allow for opting in and opt out everyone by default.
Isn’t that what the tesla semi electric truck and airbus e-fan x electric plane projects aim to help mitigate though: the reliance on gas for shipping/transportation?

Just because some use cases are not practical for renewables now doesn’t mean they won’t be in the near future.
"C# has suboptimal tooling" is a new one. Maybe if you use vim. Visual Studio is far and away the most comprehensive IDE available.
You sir win the internet today!

Thanks for posting
If you're a company with multiple locations and you send items between those locations then it shouldn't be too expensive to put some tracking technology inside to collect travel information.
>Electricity production share of those in Germany: 35%. Consumption share: 38%.

In certain areas during peak generation times, sure. But overall, renewables like wind and solar are simply not viable as a complete replacement to fossil fuels (in Germany at least) until storage of excess capacity has been solved. Until then, Germans will be burning coal or Russian gas all winter long.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601514/germany-runs-up-ag...
Db-per-service provides many benefits, albeit with some drawbacks. If you are going to adopt microservices, you've already had to accept most of the drawbacks. Trying to mitigate those drawbacks by consolidating will end up losing much of the benefits of going to a microservice topology. Sagas or compensating transactions are a way to answer this concern without the complexity of a transaction manager.

If each service owns it's datastore, each service can choose the type of datastore that best fits it's use-case.

Each service can be owned and operated independently. Patches, upgrades, schema migrations, etc.

Each services' datastore can be scaled, backed up, restored, encrypted, etc independently all depending on the requirements, scale needs, compliance concerns, etc of a given service.

A badly behaving service can (mostly) not impact other services, where if they all shared a single database a single service could theoretically starve other services.

Yes, the distributed transaction problem is a drawback, but that can be partially mitigated through better definition of each service's bounded context.
I think what we're seeing is the culmination of a breakdown in the decades old neoliberal political consensus that Chinese nationalism could be gradually dispelled through a policy of opening up Western economies to integration with China's. In practice, at the highest level, the Chinese government has kept the market subservient to nationalist goals, and remains stubbornly autocratic, repressive and hegemonistic.

The populist leanings of the Trump administration perhaps may make them more receptive to this argument, because they understand these kind of nationalist and hegemonistic instincts better than neoliberal technocrats, but I think this has been a dawning realisation throughout Western policymakers over the past decade. Even the Obama administration, which was strongly neoliberal, worked hard to isolate China economically through the TPP. Trump's disdain for trade deals killed that, but his confrontation of China is really just a noisier continuation of a pre-existing US foreign policy.

Big business might have put a restraint on Western policymakers' wishes to oppose China if they'd had more success in penetrating the Chinese market. But here the Chinese government has been too defensive, and Western business leaders have realised that they simply won't be allowed to be dominate in China in any meaningful way. Meanwhile, they have watched their infrastructure get attacked and their IP stolen, and have decided enough is enough.
...to 1970...
C# and typescript if you wanna stay in nodejs. Microsoft knows how to develop a platform.
Apple could try, sure, and you wouldn't have something like the Apache 2 license to point to in order to attempt to resolve things quicker.

Any number of people could try to sue you for any number of things. Thats unfortunately how lawsuits work.

You could also attempt to get another license from Apple for your work. They might not be willing to do this unless you somehow could guarantee all patent licensees for your version of Swift would be unmotivated (by some legal clause or agreement) to sue them as well.

I doubt Apple would go through the work of getting a patent for something that they already openly give out licenses for people to use (via Apache 2) unless it was meant purely for defensive purposes. So I'd be shocked if they went after a from-scratch Swift implementation except for trademark purposes (aka, you can't call name it Swift if it is a partial implementation)
Requirements "Knows how a computer actually works"

So you want someone who

- Understands modern computer architecture and operating systems: Hyperthreading, power management, cache coherency, memory bottlenecks, filesystems,
graphics hardware tradeoffs and related debugging tools, Intel/AMD/ARM.

- Understands the computer software stack including webservers & frameworks, high performance software libraries, GPGPU programming, clang & LLVM, JIT compiler, CPU and GPU virtualization stacks including VMware, Azure, AWS.

- Understands hardware tradeoffs, DRAM memory, multicore, ECC, PCIe bus tradeoffs, display techonolgy, Freesync, Gsync, server storage technologies both nearline and long term, WiFi and ethernet. Backups. Servers and server management.

- Database servers both commercial and opensource and their setup for for reliability, backups,
production and testing servers.

- Computer administration, linux, windows, bash and perl/python scripting for sys admins. Machine testing and validation for production use.

- Computer security, firewalls, Meltdown & Spectre vulnerability fixes, VPN setup and admin.

So did you finally hire your senior systems engineer? the one who knows computers ?
I'm pretty sure he was joking...
The second you are fired, you no longer have an H1B to transfer (usually USCIS allows transferring even if there is a short lapse, but this isn't guaranteed, and during that lapse, the visa holder is actually the US illegally)
It blows my mind how, at the same time, the same people can argue in favor of "equality", and in favor of importing unlimited amounts of cheap labor to depress the wages of people who need money the most. It just doesn't compute, at all. And I'm perfectly fine with high cost of living areas getting all the H1Bs. Those areas also happen to have some of the highest tax rates in the country, so the US benefits.
aka "threading without thread handles". no thanks.
high quality, expensive bikes are usually designed to withstand a good amount of physical abuse and dynamic loads under a 90kg rider. i wonder what kind of damage they sustained. bent spokes? brake/shift levers?
Meet the man behind a third of what's on Wikipedia
There isn't much coal used - you will have a hard time finding a coal supply in many cities. Some regions in eastern Germany and in the Rhine/Ruhr region...

Since coal mines are being closed, the miners will not get any more coal (as part of their salary) and thus they are looking for alternatives:

https://www.gelsenwasser.de/unternehmen/presse/pressearchiv/...
Do you think parents should limit their children's access to porn? In my household we limit social media access no differently. What parent (with Facebook and integrated credit card data) doesn't know what social media is at this point?
The king snake called, it wants its strategy back.

This is a clever trick, but like the king snake's mimicry of the venomous coral snake, the long term result will surely be reduced efficacy of the markings on the bonafide item.
everyone on social media needs a license.
Once this trick becomes widely know then TV manufacturers will see a spike in damaged goods after they've benefited for so long.
Closed the very last __hard coal__ mine.

Unfortunately lignite (brown coal) mining continues.
Can blend the PHP and .NET Core ecosystems if you want: https://www.peachpie.io/
I am surprised no one mentioned manager roles. People don't change that much I guess. We know more about our behaviors, that's right, but experience with working with people is something that will be always relevant in my opinion.
I'd say the same about sales(?) and any kind of job that is related to interacting with people.

Just my opinion, not sure how true it is.
> Yacc is a very important part of UNIX because it allows one to create a parser for a language with limited knowledge of parsing.

This isn't true. You basically need to know the entire algorithm Yacc uses to use it. What does someone with limited knowledge of parsing do when Yacc tells them this?

5: reduce/reduce conflict (reduce 3, reduce 4) on c
state 5
B : x y . (3)
E : x y . (4)
Yet Commodore's "overpriced garbage" was sold at retail prices consistently lower than Apple's, and had graphics and sound capabilities that far-exceeded the comparable Apple machines.
Google helped me grow as an engineer. I learned how to:

- design software that can be incrementally rolled out

- design software interfaces before building

- build secure, internationalized, and accessible web frontends

- write pull requests that are easy to understand

- work across multiple teams and codebases

It's a really good opportunity, congratulations on your offer!
US diplomat convicted over Iran-Contra appointed special envoy for Venezuela
That’s why you become a data engineer and get the best of both worlds. If you can market yourself to a company as a “full stack data developer” you will make more money than either category
I loosely followed the work of the "Kohlekommission" (i.e. the panel that was responsible for negotiating the exit plan) through various German news outlets.

The strategy agreed upon today was a revision of an earlier plan that would have cost a "mere" 5bn euro. This deal was however opposed by the individual federal states of Germany, which demanded 60bn – just to put the final 40bn in perspective.

40bn is still a huge sum of money (about 1/3 Jeff Bezos, for scale), but as a German voter and tax payer I have to say that I am entirely fine with this. Germany is a very prosperous country, and we have to get away from coal, the sooner the better. True, it probably could have been done with less money, but to me 40bn is still a favorable deal over no deal at all.