skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's something poor students/learners do. You spend all your time looking for minor errors in instruction or text so you can 'win' while missing the actual lesson or overarching idea. I am definitely not innocent of this as a former high school dropout lol. Cheers.
What about the 25 cent piece (the quarter)?
Helicopters and quadcopters provide lift through rotary wings, thereby gliding. Fair point about balloons though.
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Makes sense.

I guess this is one of those things that sound good 'on paper' , but after deeper analysis it's not so straight forward.

Like others said, it's probably easier to trade toilet paper, cans of food or cigarettes than ounces of gold.
john...doe@gmail.com doesn’t seem to work though. I don’t think Gmail takes multiple dots.
Any contract worth its salt is going to limit its liability to the extent feasible.

Unless Google Cloud specifically offers an insurance policy against security breaches (spoiler: they won't), the most you can expect is to be refunded your hosting fees.

That being said, you can always buy your own insurance to protect against that kind of risk, and _the insurance provider_ may mandate using a technology like Confidential VM in order to qualify for insurance coverage.
Nature offers lots of opportunities to build housing.
California's new lockdown could be brutal for the economy
> that there’s a market for home electronics that doesn’t try to sell on looking coolest in a store

These probably don't sell because when you go into a store the first thing you see is the one lit up like a Christmas tree.
> RC gliders can stay in air basically forever flying back and forth in rising air along a hillside. It's called slope-soaring and it's great fun.

This was my thought also. The Andes Mountain Range are rather mountain range right next to the ocean. I would think that is a pretty ideal place for a bird to slope soar for a long distance.
You're confusing LXC with LXD.

LXC is legacy and is mostly left as-is for existing users who are happy [and don't want the LXD paradigm shift]. Think of it as 1.0. You're complaining about stuff that is effectively a maintenance branch. At least your links point to LXC, not LXD.

LXD is the new thing. Think of it as 2.0 and onwards.
Apple sucks for scientific computing. It does not let you even load your own generated shared files, because Apple determines it is too dangerous for the health my own purchased computer. I have never had that problem on Windows or Linux. That said, you can get gfortran by as simple as typing brew install gcc-9, or some similar command (requires brew installation).
OK, I Googled. Making a new book takes 2.71 kg CO2e. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1530-9290....
Am I the only one who prefers the original Airpods to the Airpods Pro? I have both but I haven't used the Pro ones in months. I find the NC to be a little finicky, but more than that, I just don't like the way the ambient environment sounds when I'm wearing them. This is especially true when I'm not listening to something. With the Airpods, I'll often just leave them in my ears for hours whether I'm listening or not. With the Pros, I feel like I have to take them out if I'm not actively listening to something. I also don't like that I have to squeeze them for controls instead of just tapping (but maybe there's an option for that somewhere).

I have good over-the-ear headphones for when I really need noise cancelling, and the rest of the time, the Airpods are perfect for me.
Yea, I know. Mine was just an example of 'reinventing the wooden construction'.
Has an Amazonian come crashing through yet shrieking that “it’s just called Firecracker, not AWS Firecracker!!!” yet?
You raise a very, very important (and debated) point.

(disclosure: I was at AWS 2008-2014, and VMware's cloud business 2014-2016; opinions my own, no disclosure of secrets, etc etc)

Most SLAs only indemnify you for the paltry infrastructure costs in relation to the downtime or accident.

Few SLAs are more extensive, covering for example data loss.

AFAIK, no SLA exists that extensively cover such type of loss. (perhaps with the exception of heavily customized contracts, sometimes part of a military contractor deal, where numbers are out of this world and there's huge margins for clauses and exceptions everywhere).

They don't exist for two reasons, IMHO:

1) it's very complicated to define metrics related to the amount to be indemnified, and

2) it's hard to keep that amount current, based on how the data changes, or the architecture changes.

It would be interesting to see an "insurance" for these kind of things. I once thought of such a product, just after I left AWS, and for a little while I entertained the idea of launching a startup to go after that market.
I don't see how it protects against meltdown, wouldn't the memory still get decrypted by the escalated access?

Edit: If each VM has it's own key, then they couldn't read each other's memory with meltdown. I think that must be the angle.
It is an educational game, if it was something else it wouldn't have been on the list.

Just because it's not classified as an education game does not mean it isn't teaching.

The article clear says

"“Of course, games are already being used in education for teaching maths, chemistry, and developing cognitive abilities, but I don’t think we’ve ever encountered a game being officially included in the educational system on a national level as a school reading,” said Grzegorz Miechowski, CEO of 11 bit studios."

They clearly say there is already games on the list, this is just the first time a game is classified or put into the "reading" category.

Which is cool, but I don't get why this is news beyond being a giant ad.
Verizon's alternative to layoffs: Retraining 20k workers
I've been using black sharpies, they work well enough for most situations.
Unless your family is wealthy, you probably paid more to go to a public school than you would have paid to go to Harvard. Most people don't pay anywhere near the sticker price to go to Harvard. Families making less than 65k USD/year pay nothing.
The idea is to focus on solving the cause not the symptoms.

Should a philanthropic King that still supports and perpetuates absolute monarchy be honored for his gifts (which themselves ultimately are created by his subjects labour)?
That is a big help for the meetings that are necessary.

We could avoid 75% of our meetings if the business knew their processes. If only they could make a business process map...
I use it as a replacement for situations where I used to use KVM for Linux VMs. For example, my tvheadend and Zoneminder servers are both running inside LXD containers so that I don't pollute my host machine's environment. It's also a nice way to try out another distro other than what the host machine runs with close-to-metal performance.
Nice article FZambia. I learned a lot in details about Websockets. It totally makes sense to write any i/o bound servers in golang.
More and more of the internet is now moving behind Cloudflare, one feature at a time. I saved some serious amount of money by just by using free service they offer.
I am astonished every time Cloudflare comes up with a solution for the problems of the internet.
there's definitely some irony to it. I do think a significant motivation for automating stuff is to avoid firsthand confrontation with the reality of capitalism. some people don't necessarily feel uncomfortable with the power dynamic though; they're just embarrassed that another human sees how unclean their living space is. someone might also worry about theft, or they might not like having to be in their house at a certain time each week to let the workers in. it can also just feel like a general loss of privacy in your home.
That's like saying cars are moving by turning (because their wheels do that).
Why? Isn't it safer to just have sudo always handle resetting the environment? Or do you mean if you're using a custom setuid wrapper?
When I read "ex googler", my first thought was that so many people have gone through Google by now that it's no longer a big distinction.
Ok, that’s fair enough
I don't want to trigger another thread about this old image, but I will point out that there are significant differences in monitor gamut and gamma across devices. Some cheap laptop LCDs crush blacks and whites significantly if you aren't looking at perpendicular dead center.

It is for this reason that using light blue or light yellow backgrounds to demarcate ads is sinister -- one can A/B test their marker into literal invisibility for many users.
This is look at the cost, but what about value? Say, the total cost per hour (salary, insurance, benefits) is 50$, but how mych value does he/she create?

I used to do this calculation with 2x assumption. Say, a new IDE plugin saves 100 engineering hours, so it's 50 000 in cost and another 50 000, because they spend time creating features.

Is it a good assumption?
The double entry for purchasing raw materials would be the other way round: Dr Materials; Cr Cash.

Cash is an asset so debiting it would increase your cash balance. Likewise, Materials is an expense code in the P&L and debiting it will show it as a cost. You would only credit to the P&L for income transactions.
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Tech bros driving Tesla stock to soaring heights, making Musk 7th richest person
Does using more developers emit more CO2?

Or is the number of people in fixed supply with close to fixed CO2 output and more optimized source code just means less source code, or more people optimizing source code and less people working in the hardware supply chain, or something else along those lines.

Edit: To be clear, this is a real question. I've been mentally debating for quite awhile whether or not I should allocate workers CO2 output to companies or not.
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I am not that good with networks :)

I have a dedicated 25$ tiny baby router (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FJ4S9JK/) configured for VPN one-time. I just disconnect from my main router and connect to it whenever I need VPN. Its pretty fool-proof and easier than setting each OS/software individually and undoing it each time.
A library pays once and then allows an unlimited number of people to use an item. A torrent uploader buys once and then allows an unlimited number of people to use an item. The only core distinction is the number that can access it at once. I will grant this is something of a significant distinction, but only if we grant that a torrent technology that allows only one user of any given uploaded item at once is the same as a library, and thus has the same moral implications (multiple uploads can allow for multiple users as long as they don't exceed the number of independent uploaders at any one time, much like a library can have more than one copy of a book as long as they buy more than one copy).
I don't think it's that cut and dry. If people are being oppressed, why don't they leave? The innovations and benefits must outweigh the problems. I'm happy to be a US citizen, with excellent buying power.

What product is worst and more expensive that you have in mind?
Except Google has a much much bigger budget for security engineers than you have...
comments like this make me wanna reach 500 karma so that i can downvote :-)

man are you REALLY and seriously arguing that a single party empire system is better than democracy? dude please. It might be better if you like to live in your bee hive and play your assigned role. But what if you are different? what if you want to be something else than society forces you to be? what theb? you are screwed my friend.

and thats why i happily accept.that democracy might be slower and more expensive. because its for EVERYONE. in theory though ;-)
Canadians are nicer?
The rounding takes place at the point of sale, after tax is calculated. Receipts still list the un-rounded price, and tax is also paid on the un-rounded price. So to the government, it's as is if no rounding is taking place.
This seems a move to make people handling sensitive data (E.g. healthcare and insurance) make sure they have peace of mind and can tick the box “security and privacy” off? Even neutralising the potential issue of being linked with the omniscient google? How will MS and AWS respond will be interesting.
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I think it’s a spectrum and you are correct that on the far end of that spectrum is definitely some very bad stuff.

Which is not where I think your comment is at all :).

But because it’s a spectrum I think and hope my sharing how some of the language in your comment struck me is helpful.

Lol the irony is I think that “the logic of ideas, abstracted away from the people that write them”, is in a literal sense, de-humanizing ;).

Worth thinking about imho since the ideas we are talking about are about language and people and societies :).
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It is possible that you are doing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy#Perfect_soluti...
I had a 'rattling' issue, but mine correlated with moving my head. If I held very still, the sound was fine. This didn't happen at first, it developed over time. I wondered if the issue was either loose/dirty silcone tips, even though I was wearing the best fitting size (and they passed the ios ear tip test). Cleaning the tips didn't make a difference.

So I bought some new foam tips from www.complyfoam.com , and to my pleasant surprise, the rattling stopped.

Not sure if this is different from the vast number of other reports, but fyi.
The thing is melting it costs money too. Also most pennies have other metals mixed in for durability. Usually zinc. So to get the copper value you have to get those other metals out. That also costs money. Most places that recycle metals do not take pennies for melt value. They usually just do not want to mess with it. I would estimate it would have to be closer to 4-5 cents per penny before it would be profitable. But that is just a guess.
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Sure, that's why I only use it for temporary situations (e.g. sharing a file with another device/person) and not for long-term data storage solution.
Your comment sound better if you where not implying I did not read the article (because I did multiple times).

"It doesn't make sense to compare the qualities of This War of Mine, educational or otherwise, to those of Math Blaster. The fact that it's on a "reading list" should be the first clue. It really is a pretty interesting decision."

Is much better. People take away different things from articles all the time.
As somebody who's studied some advanced maths, I think that their point is that abstract algebra is effectively a sort of secret maths techniques, sitting in plain sight but somehow sprayed with repellent or maybe equipped with a Somebody Else's Problem field.

I have had more than one afternoon where I learned a concept wholly from this sort of lecture. The ability to ask the professor questions can be useful, but almost all of my questions are actually answered by being more careful about listening to what they are saying the first time.
People also want trivial inter-country mobility.
I guess this compression library should do the trick [1], but I haven't tested it yet.

[1] https://docs.rs/compress/0.1.2/compress/entropy/ari/index.ht...
In Canada, cash is all plastic. Not quite the plastic OP was thinking about. Love me my plastic colorful money.
I meant

> a lot of them distinguish between "friends" and "friends from work", except engineers, developers, and data scientists

as in my experience is the people who don't distinguish between the two seem to be very STEM focused.

I'll get drinks with coworkers after work, but it's still very much "drinks with coworkers".

My friends get to place demands on my time that coworkers don't, and I'm willing to accept a higher level of frustration with coworkers than I am with my friends. For me, they're different relationships, and I always want to know which one I'm in. I never want to fire a friend, ever.
I'm excited about AR and to a lesser extent VR. I expect those to be transformative.
One of the most formative classes I took was in middle school- it was a general "engineering" class- we built balsa wood and wax paper airplanes, balsa-wood bridges, learned VB and made tic-tac-toe and backgammon, our teacher got every student copies of Neverwinter Nights and we used NWScript to make mods and learn simple stuff like for-loops. And he had a lab with Stronghold and Microsoft Flight Sim(with controllers) where we could hang out after school and play games together.

I was coming from a background where I wasn't eating every day, the only sport I could afford to do was track- and that was only because the track coach was gracious enough to take me to a running store and buy me shoes, I was spending my nights cleaning office buildings, spending my early mornings getting to school early to shower and cram in my homework for the day before class. I was at a private school, so there was no reduced or free lunch program, and I had a very hard time staying awake in class, except for his class. Partially due to un-diagnosed ADHD and a really terrible home situation.

That class gave me an attainable goal to work towards, and now I'm a programmer today. I had previously relegated my ambitions to simply surviving.
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Slack. Frustratingly slow and bloated. Company is addicted to it.
I hang out with coworkers outside of work for a little decompression. As coworkers.
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Some people use torrents, others use the library, and some use both. Are you asking why some prefer a library to a torrent? For them, likely ease of access and greater access to content. Effectively torrents are an expansion of the library where sharing is easier than ever.

Are you suggesting a library is only moral because of the difficulty in using it? If so, what if someone were to suggest that current libraries have become easy enough to use that they have already crossed that line?
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"access the RAM" is a big one that people overlook. Yes it might cost a few picojoules to load a line into cache, but the major cost of RAM is just that it exists and there is no low-power mode for refreshing it. RAM is incompressible and statically provisioned so if you can use memory more efficiently you can just buy less and this will save you a lot of power 24x7.
Something that struck me as pretty amazing was that if you can get liquid nitrogen, you're already cold enough to get liquid oxygen (in fact separating the two may be part of the process here, I don't know)

Anyway, liquid oxygen is pretty crazy blue and amazing in its own right.
> I'd really hate my 6% sales tax to be raised to 10% so that we could kill a coin I don't even use (last paid cash probably a year ago).

If you're paying in plastic then there's no rounding.
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We’ve spent the past 2 decades increasing the use of coal globally.

All those CO2 emissions have now cost us much more time than saving 1% in 2030

Many companies like Apple and Google are using green energy for their data centers.

Solving the electricity problem in general, solves a much bigger problem.
That reminds me of a book I read as a kid: "My Trip to Alpha I" by Alfred Slote [0].

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3201020-my-trip-to-alpha...
I recently had a finch(i think) nest underneath my window AC unit and one of the parents caught a cold for about one week. I heard more calls from that specific bird throughout the time, it was much squeakier while making what sounded like normal calls. It made me think that they relay info on frequencies that our ears dont tune into. Just a hypothesis, but was interesting to hear more inbetween sounds that the other birds didn't make. Could also just be a sort of mask for birds, a call that says 'hey Im sick stay away.' Although I think it'd be obvious for them from the change of voice.
Overall it was interesting to listen to them communicate with their young ones. The nest is constantly chirping unless they get warning calls then it gets super quiet until their folks let them know danger has passed.
It was unfortunate when I had to replace the unit, at least I waited for the young ones to start flying. My new unit is half the size and they disliked the new roof I tried building to mimic the size of the old one. I wish them luck. Tough little fellars.
This is the US Police we're talking about here?

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/nypd-social-distancing-a...
> because "FAANG" don't hire mediocre workers

Their propaganda is working well I see. Having a Stanford degree and being able to answer CS questions (two things FAANG companies love) does not guarantee you'll be a good worker.
More than a "bit" sociopathic, unless you are saying that this person had to make a conscious effort to avoid reciprocating, and you know that they naturally formed reciprocal bonds in other contexts.
Diet and exercise.
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If you work on this way and rule you will be succeded soon with a little efforts but it's fruits will be long lasting and for life thanks
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I live in The Netherlands, we round mathematically. So nearest 5-cent.
I'll be honest, I want other people to contribute while I enjoy it for free.
No, actually I'm referring to almost every piece of legislature in each of the us states. In which the first to ratify the sanctions being Tennessee a republican state. http://jewishobservernashville.org/2015/04/22/tennessee-legi...

But I assume all you did was a quick google search to confirm your bias.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/anti-bds-legislation

Hmm, It seems the majority of the states to ratify resolutions have been overwhelmingly republican.

It seems as if. Everyone in the us who does not support the bds movement.
SEV protects against physical attacks. A rogue admin logging in through a management console would have to go through whatever controls and auditing the console's access control functionality provides.
Not the GP, but I think that there are many such titles, that's why schools in Poland have mandatory reading lists :)

You cannot understand culture and tradition without reading some classics,starting with Bible, Homer's Illiad, or Shakespeare. And of course in Poland we mostly focus on Polish writers. You know, before journalism was invented novels served pretty much the same purpose as newspaper reports - there are the goldmine of information about how Poland looked like back in the day.

Unfortunately, contemporary students prefer to just watch movie based on a book than reading the source material.
Recent news from Norway claims that data centres could increase the power consumption of the country by 20%. Part of the interest is due to the clean energy and heavy reliance on hydropower in Norway, plus the cold weather conditions in the North which makes cooling somewhat easier and cheaper.^[1] At the same time parliamentary politician Lars Haltbrekken (SV)^[2] demands that such development assumes good utilization of residual heat.^[3]

As far as my own political sources claim, there is however little interest in cryptocurrency farms. To that end there is indeed rather some aversion to it, especially from the Conservative Right. On the other hand, if the Norwegian power grid is expanded for this interest, like it seems to be, I think also crypto farms would be interested as well.

[1]: Norwegian language source: https://www.digi.no/artikler/star-i-ko-for-a-koble-seg-pa-da...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Left_Party_(Norway)

[3]: Norwegian language source: https://www.nrk.no/vestland/datasentera-kan-auka-landets-kra...