skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has responded correctly to "never play that song again" for me in the past. Same with "hey google, fuck this song". I don't know if it explicitly "downvoted" the song or not, but the song was immediately skipped and I hadn't heard it any time soon after.

That said, I've refrained from using my google puck in recent months and it had been regressing pretty heavily when I did, so I can't guarantee that still works.
The band and the stage. I think it’s a very underrated thing tbh. If covid was to stay for a number of years then I think people would warm to VR. It would take that length of time. If the music industry got behind it and promoted it, it could be a big thing. Be maybe it’s the magic bullet they seems too obvious to be taken seriously.
Workers don’t have an incentive to negotiate a maximum. In practice, it’s minimums that get negotiated.

It’s also not like wages come from a fixed budget. They can be increased by lowering profits. This is after all all about class struggle.
Earth will die eventually. It might be in ~5 billion years when the Sun itself dies, but the planet will not last forever. To have any hope of lasting on a cosmic time-scale as a species, you need to spread across the stars.

There is a very slim chance that somewhere in that vast time-scale horseshoe crabs might evolve intelligence and the ability to manipulate their environment such that they eventually build some kind of means of interstellar travel, but given we're using up resources like coal that will never be replenished, mining all the easy accessible metals, etc. I don't believe it will be possible for another civilisation to rise equivalent to humans in technology, let alone a star faring civilisation.

Being smart is what made us the dominant species on this planet, and being smart is the only thing that will get us out of the solar system - really, it's all we have going for us. The crabs might have better immune systems and so on, but I believe that eventually (if we don't destroy ourselves) we'll reach a point where our ability to edit the human body would allow us to patch in a better immune system.
A recommendation for the book. It was excellent.
> The UK's full name is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Indeed. I suppose if Ireland's full name were "The Republic of Little Britain" there wouldn't be a controversy about the term "British Isles".

> there's no political entity of Great Britain (and never has been).

Unless you include the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain
Researchers are making do in the time of Covid
Is there a Winamp lookalike/workalike that can use these skins on OS X?
Tolkien articulated his anxieties about the cultural changes sweeping across Britain in terms of ‘American sanitation, morale-pep, feminism, and mass-production’, calling ‘this Americo-cosmopolitanism very terrifying’ and suggesting in a 1943 letter to his son Christopher that, if this was to be the outcome of an Allied Second World War win, he wasn’t sure that victory would be better for the ‘mind and spirit’ – and for England – than a loss to Nazi forces.

Wow - already didn't like Tolkien but this makes him seem even worse.
It really whips the llama's ass. Ah the nostalgia. I'd cycle through so many and get frustrated and go back to the classic winamp skin.
> The Japanese companies that have endured the longest have often been defined by an aversion to risk — shaped in part by past crises — and an accumulation of large cash reserves.

> It is a common trait among Japanese enterprises and part of the reason that the country has so far avoided the high bankruptcy rates of the United States during the pandemic.

I live in Japan (I'm not Japanese).

From experience, the first paragraph above rings true for many, especially smaller/family-run, businesses.

But jumping to the conclusion in the second paragraph is a stretch. By making such a facile and generalized statement and leaving it at that, the article ignores that the Japanese government's measures since the pandemic started have in many ways prioritized economic health over individual health, and that is one reason why business in general has not been as hard hit here.

For instance, Japan actually instituted "Go To Travel" and "Go To Eat" campaigns to stimulate the economy during the pandemic. Criminally irresponsible in my view.

Japanese pandemic response has also largely been ignoring the reality of aerosol transmission, evidenced by issuing compliance certifications (basically a sticker businesses can put on their door) even to businesses that promote indoor eating and other activities where safety from aerosol transmission cannot be maintained.

In fact, even if the Japanese government wanted to take stronger measures, my understanding is that legally they can't - so there has never been a mandatory lockdown here. All we had was a voluntary lockdown around April.

To put it bluntly, Japanese businesses are largely doing well because all cessation of economic activity so far has been completely voluntary, while the government has taken steps that do more to play down the pandemic threat.

Conversely, the main reason that the Japanese people are so far doing relatively better than say the US (in spite of the government's best attempts to fail at pandemic policy), seems to be that nearly everybody wears a mask whenever possible. Coupled with a few other social factors such as less talking in public spaces and less physical contact especially between strangers.
Should start from physics building up and up until you have subatomic particles, rising through many layers of abstraction until you are doping P and N type semiconductors .... starting with such a high level concept as “nand gates” is far too easy. /sarcasm.parody
Does Vector replace some uses of Kafka?
I think the far more substantial damage is from Google customers wondering what else the employee or some malicious insider could have done. You can bet that this came up in internal audits and customers' security assessments.
Funnily, my math teacher always said that if she would play the lottery, she would just play the number 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. as nobody plays them and they have equal chances of being picked. I guess she was wrong.
I first learned about this during the last lecture of my multivatiable calculus class. The professor, this goofy Swedish guy Richard Ehrenborg, liked to give novelty lectures in the period following a big exam. He talked about how he started getting into juggling in grad school and eventually discovered some new juggling patterns via work with this notation and some abstract algebra. Honestly most of the math stuff went over my head, but he stood on the desk and juggled so it's stuck in my memory.

Looks like one of the sources in that article was written by him and his wife (another math professor who I have also happened to have taken a course from): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012365X96...
Not that I'm aware of. It is now treated - country wide - like alcohol.

Plenty of jobs mean you can't show up to work intoxicated, but it's perfectly fine to have consumed days prior then be fit and healthy for work on Monday morning. Same for weed and alcohol.
If you turn internal tools into external tools without thoroughly reviewing them, that's a far bigger problem.
fyi on swoole, this book [1] just came out (I cannot comment on the quality, haven't read yet) which hopefully will help bridge the English documentation gap. I've been using swoole for a couple of years and google-translating my way through the Chinese wiki and git issues/comments/etc.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0881B227S
This analysis is spot-on under the assumption of 1000 lotteries per day, although your asterisks are getting trashed by the markdown.

To the other folks ending up with some wild results, there is a basic checksum on probability: If you compute the probability of an event happening at greater than 100% you've borked something up.

Bug: They drew 5 balls from one pool of 50 with an independent draw from another smaller pool of 20, so you need ~~50 ncr 6~~ (50 ncr 5) * 20, not 50 ncr 5.

Nit: I would rephrase your answer that there is a 0.85% chance that it happens one or more times in any given year. There remains a (vanishingly small) chance that it happened on every single random draw during the year.
They could still buy all the top talent.
When you account for all dimensions, it tends to 42.
Given how the fight for unionization happened in the early twentieth century, the two concepts might not be separate.
This is precisely the situation.
Is this an actual thing that happens / can you point to an example of a tech community getting taken over by someone who lacks expertise in the subject?

The projects I think of as overly subject to corporate control (the Linux kernel, for instance) had the existing technical leadership voluntarily submit themselves to that corporate control, because it suited their desires.

If what you're really trying to say is "It keeps out the SJWs," you have no guarantee that being an SJW is anticorrelated with technical expertise, and there are several highly technically competent SJWs. So you leave yourself vulnerable to a small number of folks who are willing to learn the terminology and develop genuine expertise and then take over consensus in the project, because you've arranged things so that there are so few people deeply involved in the project in the first place.
Talk: A Comprehensive Strategic Plan for Copyleft Freedom on Linux
Good old 'lo-tech' paper and pencil are the implements to use in voting. Put that with hand-counting with party-scrutineers watching and verifying, and you have the best available method for elections.

NO machine voting, and that includes totally mechanical machines as well as electronic machines, is fraud-proof.
It's like smoking in that second-hand smoke is a consideration.

I can walk down the public sidewalk in the middle of town openly hitting a 6 ft bong. I can't drink even one can of beer like that.
It'll all answer to "heyyy goo goo" - I like pretending I'm yogi bear
> contributed nothing to its creation.

no, they contributed capital. This capital came from somewhere - e.g., they took a risk and borrowed it. Or they took their own saved capital from their own past working life (or inherited, which is just the past working life of their parents).

When speaking of labour and value creation, the concept of capital is often seen as "nothing", and is certainly wrong. Without capital, labour is useless. Without labour, capital is useless.
The alternative is having no democratic power over the workplace at all. Being in the 49% that disagreed with something is still better than your boss mandating the choice instead.

In practice, it’s also quite rare for workers to strongly disagree among themselves. Disagreements tend to happen between groups with different material incentives, so largely between workers and owners/management.
I'd be good if all money made through the state sponsored lottery would go back into funding for education on gambling
Exactly. Making it invalid for brewing coffee. The error is specifically for rejecting a BREW request sent to a teapot.
Seriously, though, having a few (optional) levels covering from chemistry up to nand gates would really add depth to the game.
That is because renewables are cheap to make now and in the future. In the past they were not, and as a result we do not have the capacity to make them at the moment (and might not before it collapses).

I agree that currently nuclear makes sense as if there is political will it could be scaled up quickly and at the very least provide base power.
Google is the expert at scaling, and that probably applies to hiring as well. If someone takes too long to get through onboarding, kicking them out is preferable to allowing it to disrupt onboarding other engineers. Would you waste time trying to debug an oddly broken kubernetes node, or just drop it and bring up a new one?
That volatility can be dealt with by distributing the renewables geographically. It’ll be sunny or windy somewhere. This requires overbuilding, which is currently cheaper that storage, and the average generation is highly predictable for day-ahead or hour-ahead trading. My rule of thumb is you can supply 70% of demand economically today without long distance transmission.

Search for “overbuilding renewables,” e.g. https://energycentral.com/c/em/overbuilding-curtailing-renew...

This still leaves room for hydro and nuclear.

The negative costs are borne by the owners of generating units that generate excess power when net demand falls. Solar can ramp down in milliseconds, windmills in minutes, CCGT can take hours, and nuclear takes days.

But what if we did add long distance transmission? Look at the US west of the Mississippi. I once estimated the capital cost of powering today’s demand using 100% renewables without storage.

That’s approximately $200bn in generation + $100bn for overcapacity.

The transmission system was mainly built to serve the legacy coal generators, but that’s often not where the best renewable resources are located. I estimated $40-80 billion for transmission.

That sounds like a lot, but 25% of the generation has already been spent. The cost of fuel for the gas generators, which is part of the LCOE, is on par with those numbers.

My biggest criticism of the Lazard study you mention is that it understates the cost of hedging fuel volatility costs.
That's not how salaries work. Microsoft would just say no. Are microsoft employees really willing to strike? Seems unimaginable to me at their salaries.
You know that you will have to sign a contract. And even if you don't, they're in an "at will" state so they can fire you whenever they want (eg. on your first day) without giving a reason. You know all that going in and can choose to work in a state or country with stronger labor laws if you don't like it.
Employment contracts are fairly uniform, and just not that complicated. A simple contract review is not expensive. One or two hours, a few hundred dollars per -- if you're feeling fancy.

Special cases are special. But most cases are not special.
The probability of that happening is much much negligible though (the probability of it happening once is 1/N, the probability of it happening twice is 1/N^2)
Do you accept work calls on your personal number? - if so that’s sounds more like training issue.
Using the homeless to guard empty houses
True but... these people actually won the lottery, what have you won?
Who’s Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Bugs in Debug Information
If you buy a share of a publicly-traded company you are not "investing" in the company, "contributing capital", whatever. The company does not use your money to build out its infrastructure; generally they don't see a dime of it. There are a few exceptions like with Tesla who issue new shares to cash in on their inflated stock price, but this is generally rare. Most companies are doing the opposite: buying more of their stock, not selling it.
Hmm. Elsewhere in this thread, centimeter was talking about "extreme arcanity" to keep out "entryist parasites". I'm not sure I can reconcile your two viewpoints. ("Welcoming after you prove that you're not an entryist parasite" is the best I can come up with, but I'm not sure it's very believable...)
maybe if bananas cost six figures people would negotiate over them.
Working at Google while complaining about "labor exploitation" is like being a rich white kid in a Che shirt
Cool, sorry to put words in your mouth.

I guess the simple answer to the GP is "Availability is likely sacrificed", and the clue's in the submission title being all about consistency. I haven't looked too deep into it and am sure there are also still Consistency sacrifices too.

I'm still a little niggled though... "almost certainly not fully partition tolerant at the node level and requires some sort of quorum" - what does this actually mean? I'm confused why you raise the tolerance of a single node to partitions, when the partitions by definition require >1 node?
PyTCP – TCP/IP Stack written in Python
California has high rates, like the Northeast[1], primarily because it pulls some externalities onto the bill. Red-state residents not paying for the cost of pollution doesn't eliminate the cost! But California has moderate bills due to decades of work on efficiency. (Climate helps somewhat, but there is a huge AC load in 30m-inhabitant SoCal.)

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/
It is an error as error 418 is returned if you attempt to communicate with a teapot over the "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol", which, as the name implies, is only to be used to talk to coffee pots[0]. The protocol was extended in 2014 for teapot compatibility[1].

0: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324

1: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7168
Is it even going against the grain?

The trope of the UN and their strongly worded letters has existed and been popularized for at least as long as I can remember. Is it really "against the grain" to simply make a call to their ineffectual, flaccid and outright farcical nature?

And if one really wants to debate their farcical nature, one need only look at their most recent candidates for election to the Human Rights Council.

Or their recent Universal Periodic Review where some of the worst modern assailants on human rights lined up for the 2 minutes hate in the name of virtue toward the USA.

If someone is willing to defend the UN and prove they're anything but a farce, I'm all ears.
Practice. Build it up gradually. But you don’t have to be or talk like anyone else. Take pride in your own ability to listen, digest, and contribute well thought out points when it suits you. Even if you build up to a few extra contributions here and there.
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I face that Google search risk for my business but all businesses have risks. If not from Google, from regulation changes, Covid-19 lockdowns, competitors, disruption of the market like Uber/AirBnB, etc. If you don't want risk, don't be a businessman. Get a normal job like everyone else.
It’s always better to force us to make that plan sooner than later. The later we get, the worse the consequences are. Nobody’s going to prepare for any of this.
I think a lot of people remember the Reader shutdown, and the recent weird migration from Play Music to Youtube Music.
Google has a fun version of this: https://google.com/teapot
Opstrace: Open-Source Secure Observability Deployed in Your Network
> To me, social controls on who can marry and who can breed with who are much less humane than offering experiential gene editing to sick and willing people.

The alternative wouldn't need to be social controls. A program of free genetic testing simultaneous with typical childhood vaccines might suffice, with only the family given the results. Armed with such knowledge well before they begin developing relationships, many if not most people might voluntarily employ a disassortative mating strategy independent of any sort of state coercion.

And that doesn't even need to be the alternative. It could just be the primary approach, with gene editing for handling the remaining and, hopefully, dramatically reduced case numbers.
I really thought the belief in tech company meritocracy died more than ten years ago.
What are the object-level facts here? This article is very abstract and is mostly concerned with what various parties are saying.

"They are rushing!"

"No we are not rushing, we are going a good job"

"No! Too fast! We are being more thorough than you because we are waiting for more data."

"We are being rigorous"

The closest we get to any kinds of concrete statements about the review process is:

"The EMA started a rolling review of preliminary data from Pfizer trials on Oct. 6, an emergency procedure aimed at speeding up possible approval, which usually takes at least seven months from reception of full data. The UK regulator launched its own rolling review on Oct. 30, and analysed less data than made available to the EMA."

It's still not clear what "the data" is, what a "rolling review" is and what any of this means from a practical decision-making standpoint. Should UK citizens take the vaccine? What issues could be missed given the UK regulator "analysed less data"?
Branding. Winamp was in a unique era where companies were just happy to have their software be used, and everything wasn’t about growing/expanding a brand for eventual sale to a megacorp.
Cool! I found the skin I made way back when, https://archive.org/details/winampskin_SpyAMP_Professional_E...
That’s a surprisingly short term article about the future. The question isn’t really about what happens in 15 years but rather the next 50. The inertia of existing infrastructure is going to have a massive impact in the short term, but change is only accelerating.
Also from that era was a design studio called 2Advanced - their homepage felt like it was a window into the future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8
I would highly recommend Martin Rees' Just Six Numbers. I've not read the actual book, but the author-narrated audio is a perennial mind-expanding yet strangely soporific bed time favourite of mine.
Campuskonekt – Find Campus Students Online
CampusKonekt "CK" is a platform where you search and discover students from any university.
Provides the feature to filter students either by their country, university, course of study, level, gender, relationship status and more.
Think of CK as your search engine for finding students.

Aside the search, there are other side features to make your life on campus full of interesting memories :

- Private messaging with peers;
- You can create/join groups, see news & events updates on your campus
feed or join your campus Group conversations.
- Looking for study materials?
- Or maybe somewhere to request for a specific help like assignments or
projects?
- Have questions pertaining any field of study?

There are answers for all these on CampusKonekt.

CK basically gives you a space to sell your skills, talents, achievements and be discovered by other students, recruiters and so on.
> same tech companies will abuse their platforms to literally broadcast their political beliefs.

if the owners of the company feels the desire to, they can instruct their employees to perform work to broadcast/promote their (owner's) political beliefs. This is just a case of a company using its resources for a purpose designated by the owner.

An employee co-opting company resources without owner approval to broadcast their (employee's) political message is not allowed, unless explicitly given permission by the owners.

Why people cannot tell the difference between the two situations above is beyond me - it's not like they are similar or confusing.
90% of the time when I want to turn lights off, I'm either on the couch or in bed. In neither case do I want to get up to turn off a light.
is there a single comprehensive list of restrictions on what can and can't be materialized? for example, if SQL Server can't efficiently maintain your materialized view then it doesn't let you create it - the whole list of restrictions is here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/vi...

I'd love to be able to directly compare this with that Materialize is capable of - does a similar document exist?