skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're describing is irony.

Regulatory capture is when a company gains control of their regulator through bribery or promise of jobs.

For example, if you look at Wall Street's regulators, the most powerful are former financiers. Which is why any effort to impose fiduciary rules on brokers (ie. salesmen) is doomed. aka "Where are the Customers' Yachts?"
I also looked there first and was surprised that they apparently do not publish their financial reports themselves.

It's not a major issue, since the data is disclosed on the government side, but it's just bad service and leaves an impression of in-transparency.
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Given their tenuous financial positions, Uber and Lyft seem to be poised for disruption.
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I haven't lost any data on BTRFS, but on a couple drives set to do frequent snapshots they ended up getting slower and slower until hanging for up to many seconds at a time. And this was with only 30-40 snapshots existing at a time.

And then in another instance it got all confused and impossible to mount read-write. It kept trying to resume some kind of transaction that wouldn't complete even with dozens of hours of CPU time.

But on the plus side it deduplicates properly, without extreme overhead.
> Not because it was a superior product

Pardon? For years it was the best option out there. Its dev tools are still the best imo.
I took it as: in an unsupported case this is what happens and these are the errors you get. It's useful information and makes the description easier to Google when you run across it.
More like taxpayer-busting plan, like that train to nowhere.
Bcachefs is a good idea, will be interesting when it is stable.
My cold storage NAS with 12 old HDDs (400GB to 1TB) acts as my btrfs test-env. It's all old hardware: Disks are salvaged from the company [after being shredded], the system is an Athlon Dual Core 5000+ on some MoBo with 4 SATA ports; no ECC, recently replaced the LSI 8 disk SAS controller with a 3ware 9560 12 disk variant (both as JBOD).

No problems in the past few years, though it's only seeing a few hours uptime per week. It just acts as backup for data stored elsewhere, so a crash would be annoying, but not fatal - but I'm contemplating getting some new 4TB disks (now that I have a suitable controller) and putting a Plex on the thing.
Great to see Julia gaining more exposure. I worry that it will languish as an obscure research language without strong corporate champions.
> rot13 isn't defined outside of a certain set

Ah, so, when you said "øbol comes through as øoby" you were saying that this is the correct behaviour?
To use some example numbers. VA7, which goes from the Dulles area where many DC-area data centers are located, through Reston where many tech companies' offices are located, to near DC, carries 50,000-100,000 vehicles per day, and is congested pretty much all day. The Metro Silver line, which follows roughly the same route, theoretically destroys that. An 8-car Metro train carries 1,400 people. With 8-minute headways, that's 7.5 trains per hour, 90 trains over a 12-hour commuting day, or 126,000 people.

Except the actual ridership of the Silver Line is just about 17,000 people per day, and declining. Why? Because it's useless for most people. It takes you to DC at one end, and the airport at the other, and a few places that happen to be on the way. But most people who live in that area don't commute to DC. People take VA7 to go from say Sterling (where there is no metro station) to Tyson's Corner. They have to get in a car to use Metro anyway, and by the time they do that, it's faster to just drive to Tysons instead of getting on the Metro for the segment of the trip Metro covers.

On the other side of DC, the Maryland suburbs are served by no fewer than 37.5 trains per hour (15 on the Green/Yellow, 15 on the Blue/Silver, and 7.5 on the Orange). That's 50,000 people per hour! But the cars are pretty much empty in Maryland, because few people commute into DC. In the height of irony, Metro is moving one of its main employment centers to Lanham Maryland, located on the terminus of the orange line. That means it's not actually commutable by Metro for most part. Folks who work for WMATA aren't living in DC and doing a reverse commute. They're living in Bowie or Largo or College Park or Hyattsville (the surrounding towns). Taking Metro would involve going all the way to DC, switching from the Green/Yellow or Blue/Silver to the Orange, then going back all the way.
I looked around but I can't figure out if this affects extensions like Tampermonkey. If not, writing an adblock script for that seems like an alternative.
I always had it in my head that the way to do this with a random noise source was to do what is done with radiation. Because radiation is emitted randomly, but time dependent, you can measure the time differences between three (four?) events. If the time between A-B is greater than the time between B-C, the random bit is a one otherwise, it’s a zero. I think it works with just three events, but I’m not sure.

You could do the same with audio noise by looking for peaks above a certain value and using a similar time function.

I don’t know if that is really how it is done, so I might be misremembering.
Remember doing bits and bobs with Alias studio (more than 15 years ago) when I was a kid. I think it used to cost about $100K, which to me,at the time, was something out of this world. The principles behind these packages are almost always the same so they are relatively transferable.Of course, understanding new interface and software itself is a step one would need to take when transitioning.
Safety limits are very conservative on nuclear power for fairly well established reasons though. If your worst case scenario makes the two largest metropolitan areas in a country uninhabitable for a while, for the current power equivalent of around 6 months new build in offshore wind (Hunterston is 1 GW and we are currently building out around 2 GW a year in offshore wind), then perhaps the caution is worth it.
Cool product. Did you find deepnamer.com using deepnamer?
> When did rating systems become essential?

Some time around the point when our society grew large and mobile enough that relying on personal experience and word of mouth wasn't enough, because a sufficient number of people ate in areas to which they wouldn't return any time soon.
More likely the idea is that there are any number of scummy people involved in the business leaving negative reviews on each other's restaurants.
Regarding nuclear, I would love to see one of the new technologies catch on, but there is no way to know at present if and when that might happen.

Regarding global climate change, I am quite persuaded it is happening and will have quite destructive consequences. I asked what you believe there because I think those who doubt it are ill-informed and biased, and so I doubt their arguments on renewables.

Let me add that among those who disagree that it is urgent we reduce carbon emissions, there is a whole range of positions. These include: the climate is not getting warmer, it might be getting warmer but we don't know, it is getting warmer but we don't know why, it is getting warmer but it has some other cause than carbon emissions, it is getting warmer due to carbon emissions but this is beneficial, not harmful, or it is neither harmful nor beneficial, or it is only mildly harmful. So let me ask what is your particular position, and why do you think the people who hold the other positions I have listed go wrong, like are they ill-informed, or irrational, or motivated by special interests, or what?

I agree with you that in considering the price of renewable energy electricity, you have to add in more than just the production it self, including the need for over-building. But those costs are continuing to fall.

On the idea of renewables losing steam, are you saying that all the nations that are pushing it due to concern over global climate change plus the other motives I mention, are going to at some point, say in a decade or so, completely reverse course and go back to fossil fuels? Like they will decide that no, the climate is not getting warmer, or it is not due to fossil fuels, or it is not as bad as everyone thought? I am not asking if they should, I am asking if you predict they will.
I'm a full time remote consultant. I've noticed anecdotally that over the last year 80% of my contacts have started muting their camera all the time. Some cite "bandwidth" or other silly excuses; most just say nothing.

I'm as insecure about my appearance as anyone else- what's the deal? I keep my camera on until it's obvious that nobody else is going to show their face. Then I have to be the awkward one to turn off.
I'm just gonna vent for a sec out of envy: As someone who did the software route, there are days I deeply wish I had done this sort of thing instead. My neighbor is a welder, lives in a house the same as mine, doesn't work crazy hours without getting paid overtime, doesn't spend weekends keeping up with the latest welding technology or practicing esoteric welding techniques just to pass an interview (as I sit here learning Rust because my team is starting to use it and practicing interview problems because I'm trying to transfer internally at the company). His boss probably doesn't pressure him to go give talks at welding conferences off hours as publicity to the company. Or come in on Saturday's to listen to presentations on what other parts of the welding org are working on. I'm tired of a career that consumes _my life_. I so truly just want to clock in, clock out, work about 40hrs/week and have time for my family. But I'm scared to do that in my industry, it just moves too fast and it's too easy to feel left behind, especially where I'm at in it--a weird limbo between programmer and manager where I'm expected to know how do to things without being allowed time to learn them. I loved programming when I was younger, and I still do, but my god I hate this industry. I daydream about taking a pay cut just to be able to go live in like... Cheyenne, WY or something and not be a part of the tech rush. Once I pay down my house a bit and can afford to start over with my family somewhere else, I just might. /rant

If any software folks who understand where I'm coming from wanna chime in on that, I'd love to hear about what you did about it... Or maybe I'm just a negative nancy, that's plausible too.
> When I see pictures or video of anything nuclear, I tend to now focus upon the noise as radiation will cause more noise, hence the better the picture quality, the happier I feel.

It doesn't seem to me that that many prospective nuclear safety concerns involve a radiation leak ahead of time. Your heuristic seems better calibrated to detecting leaks that exist now, rather than flaws or limitations in systems that are meant to prevent future leaks.
I suppose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause - the city is treating people very unequally if it allows one company, and forbids others.
God no. We subsidized the shit out of college last century. On average it's not any better (the tech it uses is, but the university systems themselves are stagnant), yet it's much much more costly. Making it free would only continue this trend.
If you're writing a standard library (or similar) then you do want tests to check that runtime errors are reported correctly with a nice error message, because you that is what the customers of your library see.

Within a single app of reasonable size, this isn't so important.
They also have an api
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If what you’re saying was right, these companies wouldn’t have any customers. Clearly society values these companies above zero.
Not if you’re in China. But it probably has a lot to do with “these people are part of my tribe/ingroup”.
I worked somewhere that did this. Every month there was much more money left than bagels sold. We gossiped about this for a while. Eventually an anonymous note was left (paraphrased as best as I could remember):

"Some people are forgetful or hungry or in a rush. I don't want these times to sour this workplace because people grow to think someone is stealing."
The WHO will tell you that air pollution from fossil fuels kills millions of people each year (multiple times more than even the most outrageous estimates of the combined death tolls of all nuclear accidents in history - even if you add Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the list). You also don’t have to look very hard to find information about how air pollution could lead to large portions of the planet being uninhabitable.
I like your idea about following China's lead.
I think honestly the answer is luck.
> Would love to know what types of analysis people would like to see about organizations and their relationships?

Related public records, e.g. court filings, municipal or other co-investments alongside the nonprofits, adjacent (time or geo) legislation/policy changes, rotating doors of nonprofit, gov, commercial.
because your microphone can't hear what's happening in your headphones, and your computer doesn't know if you're using headphones.
The funny part is the release date for the game is in the same year as the original tabletop RPG was supposed to take place.

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We need to compare Apples with apples here. VFX is like programming languages,while the software(Maya, SOLIDWORKS, Blender) are like IDEs ( Eclipse, Intellij). The principles behind VFX software are universal, however one should be able to get going by simply reading a decent book about the package.
Could you elaborate on how Germany did kill of the photovoltaics industry? Since this seems different than I remember.

Solar panel production in Germany mostly died because it couldn't be price competitive with those from China.

Installations went down due to reduced subsidies, apparently as an reaction to more than expected solar being installed [0]. I have a hard time calling that "killing of an industry".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Source...
The art of the tax deal then. Make it seem like a tax cut and take more in taxes. Someone has to pay for golf trips.
I tried, but it's protected by DRM (opera will refuse to start if the file doesn't have a valid digital signature).

Not too long ago, that situation would just cause someone to crack it and share how, or at least a patch.

Then again, that was also a time when there was an actual choice between browsers, and not just "Firefox or WebKit/Chrome(/ium) shell."
Yes exactly, it was one of the points we said YES we have a product we can rely on. TBH it was not easy to choose since the product suggesting name and our name need to be really good or special but when we narrow down the results for us, we went with this that was generated by our AI.

here is the few more that came to our short list all generated by our AI:

- neunamer.com
- Newnamer.com
- Genamist.com
- DeepoName.com
- Deepucer.com
- Deeperator.com
This story an be copied on to the onion. And no one would know.
How much do engineers specializing in these systems get paid? I interviewed at a couple of places that do industrial-style systems and in one case, I got an offer that clocked in far below the requested rate (not a negotiation tactic, they declined to revise it), and at another, the recruiter couldn't hang up fast enough when she heard salary requirements.

It's something like the Idiocracy Effect. In Idiocracy, the present-day world's best minds devote all their energy to eliminating hair loss and prolonging erections, eventually leading to a collapsed society. The real world is not too far off. Our best minds are dedicated to improving ad targeting and keeping users in vanity-gratifying loops on social media, while our industrial control systems that literally run the modern world wallow in the 70s.

Everyone has some culpability in that. How many of us yearn to work for the local power utility (or one of their upstream vendors) rather than Facebook, Google, or the latest VC pump-and-dump scheme -- err, I mean, hot SV unicorn? Even if they did compensate competitively, are there enough hackers with a sense of [realism/duty/patriotism/INSERT_OTHER_SOCIAL_VALUE_HERE] to heed the call?

There's definitely a role for some type of regulation or standards here. Industrial controls should be considered vital infrastructure that require serious and immediate investment. A brief visit to Shodan will show thousands of exposed industrial resources, and that should scare your pants off.
For the years I ran btrfs it was a great way to testing my backup and restore processes; it also gave me a nostalgia trip back to the mid-late nineties Linux experience, where you had to carefully select kernels based on which combination of features and regressions you can live with.
"Anonymous internet commenter" serves as exemplar for all those who say that "we just have to play the game".
> If a system misbehaves you will catch in higher level tests in the test pyramid eventually.

You might catch it eventually, or you might not. That's the problem with hoping you write enough tests.

> he can and should add a dedicated unittest to reproduce the issue when he fixes the bug

His argument is that dynamic language don't 'really' require writing more exhaustive tests than in an expressive static language. In this scenario, not only would he need to write an extra test but he also needs to spend time after the fact tracking down an error thrown in a higher-level function.

> In a software solution you can't prove 100% correctness

This isn't about proving 100% correctness, it's about what happens when you pass a non-list into a list processing function. More expressive type systems allow you to reduce the number of nonsensical questions you have to answer.
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>Not because it was a superior product, not because of technology but because everyone was anti IE.

>>>I think that's rather revisionist.

I agree with the sibling comments that remembered the past differently: Back in 2008, Chrome was actually the superior product -- for both users and developers.

- Chrome had a better partitioned process for each tab. IE and Firefox 3.x didn't so they often crashed on buggy web pages or bad Javascript. In Firefox, that would also take down all the other tabs one had open which obviously frustrated users.

- Chrome with V8 had the fastest Javascript engine at the time. This translated to faster UI on Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, etc.

- Chrome had a built in PDF viewer which was convenient. In IE, clicking on a pdf link triggered a disruptive "Save file as" prompt or if one had Adobe installed, it would launch Adobe Reader which was a jarring UI experience. (Also add that Chrome included ability to print to PDF. To duplicate that functionality in IE required buying the full Adobe Acrobat Professional for $300 or installing a similar PDF printer driver such as Bullzip.)

- Chrome had very good dev tools included. With Firefox, you had to install the Firebug plugin which was slower and buggier

It's fascinating how Google's recent controversy has caused widespread amnesia of Chrome browser's real technical advantages in 2008.
It isn’t a criteria for the promotion ladder at Google. True, it may be a hard requirement for VP, I can neither confirm nor deny, and I don’t care either. But this is moving the goal posts; I don’t know by what definition my job would not be considered high paying. Certainly pays good enough for me.
Firefox has had this for years.
Not so amazing for those who, tired of the 40-column limit of their Commodore-64 or similar machine, took to such tricks to get up to 80 columns of text on screen (e.g. SpeedScript did this [1] as did TASword [2]). Was it easy to read? No, it wasn't. It was hardly readable to be honest but it did make it possible to get a full line of text on the screen.

[1] https://archive.org/stream/1987-12-computegazette/Compute_Ga...

[2] https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g2rIQtaJyKE/V2VO_lF88vI/AAAAAAAAB...
It should be, but usually they’re trying to accomplish the opposite (to have exploits everywhere)
In London, i used to rely on Harden's guide, because it uses reviews from diners, but a diner had to fill in an actual paper form to review a place, and the reviews were filtered and curated by editors who knew their stuff, and visited as many of the restaurants as possible themselves (what terribly hard work that must have been).

Then the internet came along, and it was so much easier to google than to look in a little book. They have a website, but it never seems to work properly (completely broken in Firefox right now). The data is presumably still good, though.
They're only $2 in summer. In winter they're $100 a pop.
The second example in the first section is a bit misleading. They say that to create a column matrix, ie. an (n, 1) matrix, the syntax is

[1 2 3]'

but that will give you the (lazy) hermitian adjoint of the column vector, not a column matrix.

julia> [1 2 3]' isa Matrix
false

Instead, if you really need a true (n, 1) matrix you should 1) not use adjoint because that will also take complex conjugates (unless that's what you wanted) and 2) use collect to turn the lazy transpose (or adjoint) into a true matrix

julia> collect(transpose([1 2 3]))
3×1 Array{Int64,2}:
1
2
3

However, you almost never need to do this sort of thing and you should be fine using either transpose on a row vector or just using a real column vector.

Also, near the end they talk about closures but don't actually show any closures unless one is to assume the code snippets they're showing are actually inside a function body themselves.
This is a funny one. Just imagine if you do go back in time, tell your younger self to "not marry her" and you actually don't marry her, then you may end up in a different position like being alone or wasting your life chasing other feel good things. Then that new you may grow up with even more regrets and dream of being able to go back in time to tell themselves to DO marry her.
I highly recommend reading this tweet thread from Shriram Krishnamurthi on this subject: https://twitter.com/ShriramKMurthi/status/113641175359047270...
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Ha! That reminds me of the "Yelling at the Fileserver" video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
What about Microsoft Edge Chromium ?
Although we actually have quite a bit. Federal land is about 28% of the area of the US. Some of that is military but a lot is National Forest etc. and that also doesn't include state and local parks and conservation lands. (And private land owned by logging companies, etc. that allow various recreational use.)

Don't disagree with the general point that having wilderness areas is good (especially areas that are particularly useful for wildlife and/or recreation) but there's a lot that is not particularly constrained by people living in less populated areas.