skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That suggests the best way for efficiency is to build it to high standards and ideally to last in the first place - not only for disaster resistance but energy efficiency.
At this point I'd say the goal should be to isolate China and make them suffer economically.. We can see what they've done to the people of Tibet, Hong Kong, Xijiang, those practicing Falun Gong and so many more. They're also stepping up their efforts of conquering Taiwan and the South China Sea.. the world can't keep turning a blind eye as their influence continue to grow.
More than one external monitor is overkill. Might be useful just for gaming (racing sims, perhaps).

I use two setups:

Work setup: 13" laptop and 24" monitor in portrait. External monitor displays only tmux in full screen.

Home setup: 15" laptop and 29" monitor in landscape. The monitor is the de facto main screen, I only use the laptop one for recording or browsing while gaming.

I'm intrigued by super wide monitors. My desk currently doesn't fit one though.
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> an arms race between the placenta and the womb, and rather than a safe place to protect the fetus, the womb is more of a safe place to isolate the fetus and manage its access to the mother's resources while keeping the mother safe.

I don't see anything human-specific here, this would have been true for all placental animals no?
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> This concept simply cannot scale to an entire economy.

Why does it need to?
Reminds Me of Flappy Bird
C) is easy to fix within visual studio - manage nuget for solution, choose the consolidate option.
Do Forex EA'S and Robots Work
DO FOREX EA’S AND ROBOTS REALLY WORK?

Do you really think there is a touch of programming out there which you can buy for two or three hundred dollars that will beat the market for a significant long time to come?

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These robots/EA are similarly what's known as revelation system. We don't have the foggiest thought how they're collected or why they work. All that we can do is associate it to our frameworks and cross our fingers.

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Prisoners have minimum pay 4.7 or 5 EUR and prisons can't take money for nessesities. 5
EUR/hour without rent, travel costs or food etc. Seems descent low wage.
This tool looks awesome!
Was talking about mine, but probably they match :)

E.g. I did large roadtrips (e.g. Route 66 style) in 2000-2005 (before I got a GPS) and I do roadtrips now every year (well, never stopped). I far more prefer the experience before I could just take out my iPhone and check everything on the map.
maybe his face makes the algo to do division by zero somewhere, very likely something along those lines
I hope they're not asked to label if specific actions are morally correct or not :)
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I wish everyone thought that way but they don't. In today's rapid paced world if you don't know Rails (not even Ruby) but Rails, for example, and we're using it - then you ain't in... and here write this 8 hour code test so we can subjectively judge it because grading code tests to see if you don't put logic in your controllers make our egos hum.
Flow of control is what is critical in every application, and goto's allow you to break flow of control easily. That said, a lot of very stable systems used goto's for very specific instances. For example, they would use it to short circuit the if/else/if/else for error handling, cleanup etc. But it was a goto within a single scope, e.g. within a single function. Of course, with that power comes the ability to cut off an important appendage, and in reality the "need" for a goto is really not a need, it is a lazy implementation detail.

Usually what I found is people feeling the need to use goto often just didn't understand how to design or layout the system they were working on, or try to put to many unrelated code segments into a function. As other comments mention, the flow of control changing scope etc cause lead to all kinds of difficult debugging, memory leaks, crashes etc. So not generally a good idea. Smarter to use proper function scoping, return behavior and error codes.

One of my early tasks as a C programmer, back in the early 90's, was taking a C program that had like only 4-5 functions (with thousands of lines of code) in it, and tons of goto's and cleaning it up to be a maintainable system. Engineers all hated that system because it ran fairly stable (somehow), but touching a single line of code could mean days of debugging. Starting over was easiest but took forever to get the functionality correct because of all the jumps to weird places that were not obvious behaviors. That was an unforgettable lesson for me.
Noice! You're putting the p... on the chain wax! How disruptively on-demand!
I saw the Robo-Cop movie.
The story goes that the studio executives wanted it changed to energy because they thought that viewers wouldn't understand using brains for computing power. Hard references to this fact are hard to find, though https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv... seems to collect a couple of secondary sources.
All valid points. Of course though, you can't rail against metrics as a whole. We all use them every day and always will.

We don't personally verify a financial advisor is a genius, we look at their annual rate of return.

We trust that if unit tests fail, code isn't good.

We trust the SATs, which are a better and more scalable and fair measure of aptitude than any group of humans I could imagine.

The piece rails against metrics, which often backfire, but doesn't even mention the alternative (trust those in power make any choice they desire with no justification) which also is often abused.
Ex-Barclays Euribor Traders Jailed for as Long as Five Years
What are the messy bits? I know they are there but how is it a mess in your opinion?

There seems to be a lot of "PHP is a mess/garabage/whatever else" hyperbole in this thread with no actual explanations why.
Would you find that with a low dose CT scan?
Everything he wrote about that was wrong.

I was never accepted into the original Proposition. I did not get any money or advice. But my elevator pitch was good enough to convince me to go through with it anyway. And I'm hardly "floating in the software graveyard."

But I am glad you enjoy my site ^_^
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This isn't about whether you go full peacock fedora pickup artist. The thing I would like to emphasise is that each side knows the deal. Women are provably better at festooning the deal in the presence of other men, but the deal remains. This includes "normal" dates.

I can't know what sort of girls you are generally around, but I was with a group of girls the other night, who were comparing their recent Tinder matches and fucks with each other. They were not talking any differently about the guys they'd met to how men are generally portrayed to talk about women, including size appraisals of varied body parts.

On the polite society comment, each gender is just as calculating as the other. From my experience, this fact does not change particularly based on education level, though the festooning around it might well.

A girl who really has no prospects of a quick fuck might indeed be more inclined to settle for what you would be implying with a normal date. The same goes for for guys in a similar bracket as well.
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> I'm not sure why we need to see an entirely new standard, sftp as implemented by openssh is well conceived, simple, and covers its use case very well.

The key to my point here is "as implemented by openssh".

A relevant anecdote: I had to connect from my program to a third party (version 3) SFTP service, IIRC backed by some Oracle software (but don't quote me on that). I had a version 3 client library. The OpenSSH client worked just fine with the remote, and the client library worked just fine with an OpenSSH server. When connecting to the third party, the client gave up.

After some debugging I learned that the third party server didn't include the language tag in its response statuses (as SFTP version 3 software should). OpenSSH was just fine with this and ignored the problem, and the third party software was probably only ever tested with OpenSSH based clients.

It was definitely a bug in the third party service as far as I was concerned, but I think that this is the natural result of relying on behavior "as implemented by ssh" rather than a stable, well defined (and non-expired) standard.
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That's what I was thinking — imagine if you started now with things like the ES6 array & NodeList methods, etc. as the model to follow and built the same convenience methods without needing to deal with horrors like the IE6 DOM. $(foo).css("color") would still be useful but you might end up with $(".foo").forEach(…), $(foo).classList.add("foobar") or $.fetch(…) to reduce the number of new nouns and verbs a developer needs to remember.
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While that's an interesting approach for compensation which might mitigate knowingly bad/irresponsible decisions, it doesn't look like it would address the core issue here of having to choose a metric to base compensation on.

Maybe the gaming effect would be lessened by that compensation approach, but at a very large scale org, I doubt that it would. Although, it would be interesting to see real life studies of this, in case such practices have already been tried out.
In this taxonomy, what is Uber's model? Its drivers provide both capital and labor.

Further, Richard D Wolff's makes the distinction between private capitalism (eg USA) and state capitalism (eg USSR) by who keeps the surplus (profit).

"Gig economy" companies like Uber keep the surplus. What's that called?
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Historically, competition over limited resources has often led to reduction in population from warfare and disease.

A significant population reduction from the same, today, would reduce carbon emissions.

This is an observation, not a proposal, suggestion, or endorsement.
It happens pretty frequently, esp. for service I barely use. I consider this is a UX issue but your tool seems nice and all :)

improvement idea: integrate with 1P and use its storage instead of localstorare?
hello,

before quiting you should have a idea of what you are going to do; if you are starting a company, what is it you would be selling?

i understand what you mean by the daily grind, it might be that the work you are doing is not challenging enough, or you aren't learning anything new and this daily wear is getting to you.

depending on the company, you could ask for a shift to part time work, working only 4 days a week would give you a weekday to focus on your side work?

either way, i wish you the best.
Makes me feel less bad about rm -rf 'ing a product database and losing 1 hour of client data, the other week. Maybe I should show them this...
It surely doesn't requires 10GB, although it does require a significant amount of space in Multiple GB due to the way it works in Docker.

May be something could be done to the base image.

Or just try running ./launcher cleanup
I disagree with the notion that Germany's Weimar Republic only went because of the Reichstag Fire (you used it as an example of a more sudden demise). The Republic was actively sabotaged and dismantled beginning the very day it was formed. It was doomed the day the treaty of Versailles put all the blame of WWI on Germany. And it was people like Stresemann who prevented an earlier "official" demise and it took Hindenburg to position Hitler in a state where he just had to deliver the final blow.

The span here is over a decade - short still, but far from sudden.
I once failed/bailed from a C course because I refused to remove a `goto` and the instructor refused to allow my code to be submitted. Even though it was demonstrably the right thing to do, he was adamant that it was better to have a cascade of `if` blocks with guard variables that made it way more complex and difficult to follow.
Some small counterpoints on idiomatic code:

1. I've worked with people with years of experience in a language who can't (well, really, "won't") write idiomatic code in that language. This has—in my experience—typically come down to overconfidence/arrogance built on top of their experience whereby they've spent enough time with the language to develop their own "better" style.

2. Learning quickly on-the-job typically involved picking up idiomatic style first, before you really gain a deep understanding of the underlying workings. Ideally a good engineer should gain both, but at least initially, I haven't found the former to be a problem for "good" engineers starting out on something new.

3. For some language ecosystems, what's idiomatic changes over time. Flexibility and adaptibility is key to being a good engineer, but if someone has a lot of experience but isn't so adaptible (and/or hasn't brushed up on modern techniques in their ecosystem), this can also lead to non-idiomatic style.

I get that some of the things above should be red flags "in an of themselves" when hiring, but I'm just pointing out that a focus on past familiarity with tech can cloud things somewhat, and shouldn't be implicitly prioritised.
I checked VoTT and RectLabel and they seem to be desktop apps. Can they be used by a tagging team (more than one person), especially if some of the taggers work from home?
Payment for labor is important on pragmatic grounds alone given incentives. If given only negative enforcement then it is do enough to avoid it and more paid overseers. If there is some positive enforcement then incentives align enough to not just "pretend to work whenever they can get away with it" as optimal.

Not to mention the rehabilitative effects - you want convicts looking for delayed gratification and honest work instead of big scores.
It’s just smart business.

When word gets out that the guy got a raise or he shows up in a new car, you’ll have a line of people with hat in hand.

Comfort is valuable to people. About 30% of my people are making significantly less than their market value. Myself included. But, non-cash benefits are powerful as well.
Microsoft was writing BASIC interpreters for early 8 but computers. The original AppleSoft Basic built into Apple II’s in the early 80s was written by MS.
That's funny. I'm not familiar with the US, but are costs not disclosed at all until after they're incurred?
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Wait... so if I write a WP plugin, I'm entitled to disable other plugins I don't like when people install mine? Of course not. That endurance cache is not the only one, there's a list of "plugins we disagree with" which are disabled:

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/peculiar-php-present-...

As for hosting providers: GoDaddy, BlueHost, etc - yes, they're all bad. But that doesn't justify moves like these.

Serious question though, on the technical part: WP needs an advanced-cache.php file, which needs to be in wp-content in order for the cache to work; this will list as dropin.
Are you sure the endurance cache is MU and not dropin? (Genuine question).
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> ...any metric oriented organisation might want to have an explicit alignment process that ensures...

Yes, I think many folks would agree that metrics aren't an easy thing to use properly.

One huge problem, however, is that organizations that are apt to rely on metrics usually aren't sensitive enough to realize that there's more to their use than coming up with a wish-list and then dreaming up bullshit KPI's which are somehow intended "move the needle" towards correct outcomes. And when it doesn't someone just bullshits their way around the failure instead of doing the hard work needed to honestly address mistakes and problems.

That's, I think, what happens a lot in dysfunctional school districts, though many of us might see this comedy of errors show up in orgs with a matrix management structure.
"but don't say why Hanna-Barbera couldn't/didn't compete."

The answer is more a business answer than a creative one. When a business is highly, highly successful pursuing a certain strategy, that strategy becomes part of their internal cultural identity. The entire business is macroscopically and microscopically arranged around exploiting this particular opportunity. When the strategy stops working, such a culture will virtually inevitably double down on the strategy, which in a way makes things even worse, because that usually works for a little while. By the time it becomes undeniable the strategy is no longer functional, they've usually fallen too far behind to compete. And since usually the only way to see "the strategy is unsuccessful" is precisely that there is competition pursuing other strategies eating your lunch, the competition is always already there by the time the message finally gets through.

From the outside it's so easy to see. Early in the process it's easy to say "Jeez, guys, you've got literally 10 times the resources of anyone else in this industry, why not 'just' pivot your strategy?" But it's not a matter of just pivoting; it's a matter of rewriting the entire company's culture and way of doing business. That's why even when a company tries to co-opt the new strategy, they almost always undercut themselves somehow, either by being unable to really commit, or if they are in the rare case where they succeed, they undercut themselves by trying to use this success to pivot back to the original strategies they know and love. It can literally be easier to found a brand new company and start from scratch than to reform an existing company. There's a lot of examples of a couple of creatives disgruntled about the cultural limitations of their employers going and forming a business that follows a strategy that does very well, exploiting a niche their original employer never could have. (I'm more familiar with the video game industry, where Activision is an example of that, but this sort of things happens a lot over there. Or at least it did, before video games required so many people.)

Companies that develop cultures that can navigate this mess are rare. It doesn't seem that way, because of survivorship bias. For instance, you might say "But jerf, Disney seems to manage it OK", and, yeah, they do, and that's a non-trivial part of the reason why they are a decade-spanning behemoth of multiple industries, rather than a 1940s also-ran. And there's a lot of other companies you can name that can too. But those are precisely the rare survivors.
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I did. It's factually inaccurate.

> There was function in an older version of the plugin which could be used to reset a site back to the default settings. This function had no risk of of malicious or unintentional use.

> The portrayal of this feature is not based on reality. There is a function in the plugin which can be used to clear database tables, much like a backup or standard reset plugin. To confirm, we do not have the ability to “kill” a site, nor would we ever, ever want to do that! The function is in place to reset a site back to defaults, however it is only activated after being in touch with the site owner.

It dropped all wordpress tables. This is not a reset. There's also no reason to only have PipDig able to do this via their server, vs. an option in the configuration.

They also don't address the password reset functionality.

At best, these people are incompetent and don't realize the power their code wields. At worst, they're just backpedaling and trying to mitigate damage. (I especially like their attempt to humanize themselves by saying they're just four people who like cat memes.)
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From Brex :
"Companies that are generally approved tend to have over $100,000 in US based banks, a US EIN, and professional investors", "At this time, this is requirement in order to extend an account limit to our users".
We don't trust for-profit private prisons. They're universally reviled.
I think there are mistakes to be made with the use of either type. On the Python side using "timestamp with time zone" means we're going to get back timezone-aware datetime objects, which are perfectly fine but they need to be handled correctly on the application side. I would blame the implicit decisions made by PostgreSQL of operators like "AT TIME ZONE", choosing to make the same operator do two different things based on the flavor of timestamp as well as returning the opposite type of type from that given that makes the whole area more difficult than it has to be. On MySQL, the convert_tz() function is clear and unambiguous, you pass it the timestamp, and the "from" and "to" timezones. The difference is that PostgreSQL is trying to be an "Object relational database" with a lot of SQL language complexity whereas MySQL is just trying to be a persistence engine.
[ Probably bad calcs below: ]

From the article 2018 saw an increase of 300 million tonnes of oil equivalent of primary global energy demand.

Which is[1] equal to 3489 TWh.

Taking the worst case from one of the most inaccurate reports about bitcoin's estimated power consumption (which is also the highest estimate I've found) is 61.4 TWh annually.

So the total power consumption of bitcoin seems to be the ~1.7% of 2018's total increase on the global power demand.

Take it with a grain of salt, I most probably I have something wrong.

[1]: https://www.unitjuggler.com/convert-energy-from-toe-to-MWh.h...
True.

In the simple/pure examples of "selling software" directly via liscencing... The scale in the article makes sense. A simple "hack" is to combine software and services. They mightn't pay 100k for accounting software, but they might pay if it comes with an accountant.

But... I do think that imagining exceptions to these is a great exercise. It helps to draw the box you're trying to think outside.

There are even "pure SAAS" examples that make elephants out of rabbits. The ad-management software imentioned above is one. They charge 5% of budget. A small agency might be managing anywhere from $1m to $100m budget.