skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long would it take to test 100k writes to the monitor? If you changed it once a second, that'd be like, a day?

Seems like the kind of thing you could easily test if so inclined and properly insured?
The pilots I know describe these calls informally as,

"Mr. Braithwaite, would you step into my office? Bring your license, and a match."
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Still, there is no reason I can think of that the game described couldn’t be created right now besides it not being a very fun/Marketable game.
What is illegal in surveilling employees during work hour on workplace or on work device? It's not like amazon is bugging the house of workers. In all the companies I worked, I am pretty sure I signed contract allowing that. It's a different story that I have technical ability to turn off all the remote disable/access software they install on my work device.
>>> corpitized unions (anything union organisation bigger then 1 location of 1 employer) are goons.

> Each location should have its own union

You might as well go all the way, and condemn any union with more than one member.

The whole point of a union is to have an organization representing the workers that has enough power to negotiate with the employer as a relative equal. Your "single site" unions would be pointless in many cases. They'd have no power, because the employer's power to close and transfer work between sites would completely undermine the union with little disruption to the employer. Just look at how Walmart handled it's only successful unionization effort:

https://apnews.com/3d709955866a71cc82d641b848714fd0

> The United Food and Commercial Workers is seeking an injunction against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to prevent the giant retailer from eliminating meat cutting departments at 180 stores with prepackaged meat....

> The decision to eliminate the meat cutters came just weeks after the butchers at the Jacksonville, Texas, Wal-Mart voted 7-3 to join the UFCW, the first successful union vote in the country at a Wal-Mart, a company well known for its opposition to organized labor.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/union-walmart-shut-5-stores-ove...:

> The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has filed a claim with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that Walmart's (WMT) recent closing of five stores was done in retaliation for a history of labor activism at one of the locations, rather than because of the plumbing problems the retailer cited, The New York Times reports. The union is asking the government agency for an injunction that would require Walmart to rehire the 2,200 workers who were temporarily laid off or affected by the closings.

Your "single site" unions would be anything less than a sham to neuter unions was that if businesses were also forbidden from expanding beyond a single site, so each location would have to be a totally independent business. So instead of the Walmart corporation, you'd have 11,496 independent retail businesses with no common ownership or management structure.
Why would being illegal / an act of war necessarily stop it from happening?
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> The system isn't perfect by any mean but to give you an example of how infrequent Police murders are, our local BLM movement had to find a 4 year old case as their "George Floyd".

Thats not same comparison though, people dont' own firearms in france like they do in USA.
Agreed, I have never understood this type of logic that seems to justify their desire for more money.

If I can survive in LA alone on $19k, you and your family can do fine with $66k. You just want health insurance...
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what's not to like about this era
I'm guessing they mean it's free for Github Actions that run in a Docker container: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/creating...
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I hate to disappoint but Walmart.com has the same 3rd party seller problem.
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The alternative is also to stake out on their own and create their own platforms. OnlyFans is not quite the only game in town putting videos and posts behind a paywall.
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I was always so confused by people saying the latest games were realistic. They looked so horrible. Maybe it's because my point of comparison was Nintendo games where they focused more on art direction than polygon count. I read an interview with someone who worked with Shigeru Miyamoto and they talked about how he would come back with changes to specific leaves and rocks after spending time exploring a cave or forest. The attention to detail, no matter how low-poly and simply-textured, made all the difference.

This hasn't changed. New "realistic" games still range from horrible to boring-looking. I don't know if it's collective delusion or if I'm missing something.
Walmart forces manufacturers to sell them items at fixed priced points. To the point they extort manufacturers to hand over bill of materials and demand certain prices or face repercussions, they are in very much worse than Amazon and literally run like a mafia.
The end result is manufacturers make separate SKUs of the same product especially corner-cut just for Walmart.
as someone who put failing green IGPs on notebook pcbs into the oven in 2013 for a reball reanimation I feel some irony when the chef himself is at the old trick.
Most operating systems and software throw tons of junk into the critical path. I don't believe they're anywhere near soft real time, and I bet soft real time would work pretty well. You can miss a couple deadlines by a couple million cycles each and still have instant response.

(And a real-time scheduler isn't enough by itself, the many layers of architecture around handling input events can still be bad even if you're meeting every deadline there.)
My CRT could do 1600x1200, not bad at all compared with modern 1080P.

My point is: CRT did show a lot more colours, had much lower latency, and did not have a grid where you could see individual pixels.

No colour banding, no lag and no screen door effect. That really enhanced the content you saw when you had a CRT.
Is that an artifact of the graphics capability? Or the art style? I think the two often get confused and many games are specifically designed for a sterile/clean look.
It's so nice to know they group "organized labor" in with "terrorism" and "geopolitical issues."

I will never purchase anything from an Amazon-related company.
This breaks the rules at the top of the thread. Please don't do that.
For France, I think that Apple is defrauding app publishers.

This tax is supposed to be applicable to "digital services" sold by the following companies:

<< when the group they belong to receives revenue in consideration of such taxable digital services during the previous calendar year in excess of the following two thresholds:
€ 750 million for taxable digital services supplied worldwide
€ 25 million for taxable digital services supplied in France
>>

https://home.kpmg/us/en/home/insights/2019/07/tnf-france-dig...

So, normally, this tax should only have been taken on the 30% cut (revenue) that Apple is keeping for itself.

On another point, here you have a very good example of why the occidental countries are going haywire for the average person:
- You are developer, you do all the long and hard work to develop and maintain an app.
- Apple uses its extorsion power to take a 30% cut for almost nothing provided.
(Apple revenues can prove that they are not just covering their fees incurred by bandwidth/storage/... of operating the service)
- Governments are taking their 19/23% cut.
- So, as the one doing all the hard work, you get at most 47% of what an user is paying.

And in addition to that, the developer will probably have to pay a lot of its own corporate taxes and salaries taxes.

The worse is that when we speak about Apple cut, it is not even an amount in absolute value, but in percents. So, the higher the price of your application, the higher their income on your back without any effort needed on their side...
From my use of the registry on GitHub.com over the past half year or so, that seemed to be the case.
Or if you're even too lazy for that, just match `.+@.+` and handle errors properly if sending an email fails (which you'll obviously have to handle anyways as a valid email address might not be in service)
The G9 and G7 seem to suffer from the same problem that previous VA adaptive sync monitors had, i.e. brightness depends on frame rate, so the screen flickers with changing framerate.

In addition to that they seem to have some issues with their firmware trampling over its own memory, causing glitch artifacts and such. I suspect they'll fix that through a firmware update.
I know of a friend who spends a lot of money on this platform. I was baffled by the amounts he ends up spending, ~5% of his monthly income. He doesn't have that high a disposable income, so it made no sense to me, considering I can't even imagine me spending a single dollar on such stuff.

When I asked him about it, he said "the messages are personalised and it doesn't feel artificial. They kind of lead you on to pay more as the interaction goes on".

I would be really surprised if it is not bots interacting at this point. The kind of messages he was talking about being "personalised", felt very generic, at least the initial ones and they could reuse the same content over and over again with others.
C# dev here with CNC machining experience. Is this position only for US based devs or would you consider applications from say, Switzerland?
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The Transit Costs Project
> The Minitaur space vehicle was launched on reused peacekeeper ICBM's, which were removed from service in the early 2000's - and there have been launches since.

There was actually a launch a month ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1__7QidQhFI
Yet another step towards NeoFeudalism, with The Corporations as the new Lords.
If you can emulate a brain, you can probably emulate a body.
It would be difficult to disable a significant fraction of the proposed 60,000 Starlink satellites.
Am I missing something? None of the replies after that reddit comment can be remotely called evidence that the conversation is fake.
this wouldnt suprise me, i remember back when i was working with adult content, we couldnt sell subscriptions over a certain price, even if they were for years. i think this rule is still in place.
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All of life is prolonging the inevitable. This would seem to be an argument for suicide.
> although it seems unlikely that there would be an emergency so urgent that ICMBs would need to be converted into satellite launch vehicles, but not so urgent that the ICMBs wouldn't be used for the intended purpose

Maybe an extreme solar storm or super nova.
About as good as the Amiga.
The protocol of communication used in this network is most probably highly proprietary. Though I wonder which of the reference routing protocols they have used as a base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ad_hoc_routing_protoco...
Blackberry BB10 was based on QNX. The UI "feel" was fantastic.
Yea that's a good question: a pocket wouldn't work, but I wonder why they couldn't just stand next to the store with a bag full of phones.
I think the parent comment is referring to why that as an option would be beneficial to a commercial entity outside of a military application.
From the press release [0]:

> In-store prices as fast as same-day on more than 160,000 items from tech and toys to household essentials and groceries.

For people who live in dense urban areas without Walmarts (e.g. SF, Chicago, Seattle, NYC, etc.), there's a genuine value prop there. Walmart sells pantry items for less than basically everyone.

[0]: https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2020/09/01/walmart-in...
It would only be an issue if I wanted to use crates that weren’t in my local cache already. And that’s gonna be true of any build system. It would also be true of any distro package manager.
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It's amazing how much leverage an employer has when they have the legal right to simply fire everyone, and there is no recourse for the employees because the employer is the federal government itself.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/05/reagan-fires-11-00...
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Right, so if you can't go through the crust then going up would be another option. Over long enough of a distance, say NYC to London (or even farther), the overhead of going up first and then a "straight" line horizontally (it's not completely straight because it has relay between the satellites via LOS laser but each arc would be fairly long) and back down would be shorter than a line following the curvature. (Edited: This is wrong. I had conflated the lower latency with shorter distance as others have pointed out.)

BTW, I want to give full credit to my source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giQ8xEWjnBs

It also does a much better job of explaining it than I have but it is a convincing argument for how Starlink can be useful and why traders would be willing to pay a lot for it.
It seems to me, not to be combative, that if Fargate can't afford the "noschedule: node is old" overhead and customers of Fargate can't handle their containers restarting on a regular basis, there's something wrong with your management engine or with their design and implementation. Much of the point of containerization is that you can roll containers often and run enough of them that you never have a single point of failure. What part of that assumption is broken that destroying machines regularly doesn't work?
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Walmart online store includes third parties. It's not going to be any better.... They will absolutely move to copy Amazon's zero liability selling strategies.
There was a Czech one that didn't have Chinese of similar vintage and this kind of sentiment and the saying to go with it must have been pretty common around WW2+, when 'Chinese' would have made as little sense as Kalashnikov. But like I said, fundamentally it's not really a 'quote'.
Ahh yeah, I don't know about Linux, but MacOS' desktop is notorious for the way it scales things up.
>they are in very much worse than Amazon and literally run like a mafia

...except that you can refuse to do business with them and they're not going to kneecap you or burn down your business
To support the workers that produce it, so they'll produce more.
As an SF resident for at least as long as the author I can sympathize with a lot of the sentiment but I'm skeptical about the some kind of renaissance when the city's budget is deteriorating badly.

Rather, when you add it all up: the loss of many of the things that made SF fun; increasingly distributed labour, capital & opportunities for start-ups/VC; SF's seemingly unsolvable problems (cost of living, homelessness, spotty public education, irregular transit, weather...) - just what is the bull case for SF anymore?

I honestly wish I had a good answer.
The more I do stats in the workplace setting (esp. PCA on the one hand, and time series models on the other) the more I think that statistics are just a way for you to zoom in on areas of interest in your data.

The closer I could get category theory in the workplace, the happier I would be. Or have been. My 2 cents on the matter is that when you work with data, rather than with sets that are placeholders for containing data, the more your questions or answers would be concrete and eventually have very straightforward solutions, or at least straightforward deliverables. In terms of the programming view I would say that this means that any abstract solution would have a counterpart concrete version or versions. The reason for abstraction should be to decrease the time involved with solving something.

Abstractions are meant to reason about things that you want to be broad enough to include suppositions. The whole of mathematics is studying which statements follow from which axiom statements. Once you settle on the data, it becomes less of a mathematics exercise and instead is a coding exercise to find the peculiarities of the concrete example, and then the need for abstraction becomes less.

Abstraction gives me a lot of joy; but, you could instead do mathematics by enumerating all combinations of symbols and checking whether some are valid proofs of theorems. Programming will always have some context, often the context means peculiar data and hence you can solve the problem without any abstractions at all. However, the larger the data, the more difficult, and eventually concrete approaches become unfeasible. Again, one can think about this as enumerating solutions. If you had all the time in the world, you could just enumerate all programs, especially more concrete ones, and just pick the one with the right output for the input domain.

If you build a wooden table, you can get by with a small, ordinary toolbox. If you want to build a skyscraper, I think you could get by with a small toolbox, but it may take you an interminable amount of time. And moreover, without the abstraction of a large crane-like device of sorts, the design of building a skyscraper with a ordinary workman's toolbox becomes much more difficult, if not impossible. The design of a crane to me is an example of the right depth of abstraction.

I am not sure whether my analogy is clear, but my point is simply that abstraction is increasing the plausible data space and concretisation is selecting from possibilities. Another way to think about it: {{car, bike, plane},{spoon, knife, fork}, ...} abstract to, but specialise from {{vehicles}, {cutlery}, ...}.

You want some kind of balance in this thought process that fits the code base you are building or maintaining, or the problems or questions that you are solving.
There is a big difference between having a changestream of writes to the database, and observing results of multiple queries.