skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an interesting Radiolab recently where they talked about how the Chinese IMEs are shaping what people say and can say. It’s a genuine fear that such control could happen.
Same.

At AWS, I once took an entire AZ down of a public-facing production service (with a mis-typed command), but that was nothing compared to when I accidentally deleted an entire region via internal console (too many browser tabs). Thank goodness turned out to be unused / unlaunched, non-production stack. I felt horrible for hours despite zero impact (in both the cases).
The problem is when you sell the truth and your competitors sell "all of our graduates earn 500k within two months of graduating", which one is going to get the customers?

Part of the problem is the students themselves who see six figures and think "I want a piece of that" without necessarily being interested. The code bootcamps take full advantage of this.
57 minutes for full Gmail restoration according to https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en-GB&v=issue&sid=1&iid...
It’s worthless. I’m not hiring someone from some bootcamp
Possible dup.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25401625

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415237

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397679
I don't mind them if they're not too long. And if you can use more recent version of Java, the new `var` keyword is a nice verbosity reduction.
That's what it was 15 years back. I was slightly concerned when Google Mail and Chat were integrated. Look where we are now.

Right from "The battle of the red cliffs", we will never learn the disadvantage of lashing too many boats together.
I would point out, that there are also many positive reviews of the same book on the exact same amazon. As in, this guy gave it two stars, but the books overall rating is much much higher.

So it seems that you picked outlier review here.
Ummm.. no.
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I think the big thing is acceleration, if you've ever tried a motorcycle you'll understand.
Wait. I thought Rust is the new kid on the block
Don't forget Ada!
Many thanks for the response. I look forward to seeing the outcome of your deliberations in the new year.
yes personal phone number.

Had to do what it takes...

To save the company I work for and all of our customers data. Which all is in Google Cloud!
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I assure you it doesn't line up with my porn search habits. It came up one day when searching and now it doesn't seem to come up (unless I click on image search), who knows how googles algorithm works?
"poison" is a particularly apt description for all of the above
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Are there constrains wrt a given acre of land only receives a fixed average sunlight?
To sell them to people who want to go fast or want to have the possibility to go fast, but it also used to be for technical reasons.

Most cars have a gaz engine and the efficiency of a gaz engine is not linear. To simplify, an engine often has its best efficiency around 2000rpm and can rotate as fast as 6500rpm but it will then waste a lot of energy, mostly in heat. You want the engine to operate at its best efficiency when you drive normally. So you design the gearbox accordingly, to get 2000rpm at 130km/h for example. But the engine can rotate faster, and therefore you can drive faster than the speed limit.

You can limit how fast the engines rotates, most engines do have a limit around 6500rpm, but if you limit the rotation speed, the cars will lack a lot of power. The power is the torque of the engine (how strong it can rotate) multiplied by the rotation speed. So limiting the rotation speed is quite a problem. Many people prefer to buy powerful cars. They don't even know about the torque.

You could limit how fast the engine rotates once you reach the speed limit, but for a long time this kind of technology was quite complex and expensive. Nowadays, since maybe 25 years, it's totally fine and cheap to do so. Some German brands put an electronic at 250km/h on their fast cars for example.

With electric cars it's another story and while most don't go very fast, mine goes up to 150km/h for example, some are fast only to sell them to people who want fast cars.

Today we could definitely put a limit at the legal speed limit, based on GPS and map data and for example, but many people would complain and some would buy a car without the limit. I think the only solution is to force all the constructors to do implement a speed limit at the same time.
I believe the SolarWinds build system was compromised, sneaking in the malicious code into a legitimately signed build.
I have s few cents left in my account.

Is there a charity I can send it to, without giving most of it to PayPal?
I can use them in the sense that I'm allowed to, but the compiler that I use can't compile FLIBS nor most of the libraries in your link; and the ones it could compile, I had to adapt, requiring understanding of what a 'hash table' is beyond just 'it's a key to value mapping'. I didn't want to make my post all about my Fortran problems, but I still think knowing the basics of fundamental data structures is foundational knowledge.
"The Cloud" is vague, and if you don't specify what it means then the answer to your question can only be "it depends".

If the question is "anybody still feel like arguing that 'a single provider' is a viable back-up" then it's yes for most cases. A better strategy is of course to use multiple providers. The chances that it never comes back again is much lower.
Good point.

Fossil cars are also more efficient at lower RPMs. Designing the gears such that they can cruise at highway speeds with low RPMs incidentally allows the cars to go way past speed limits as well, if they have enough extra power.
Definitely started before the hour.
Observe the actions, not the words. If you are confused, most probably it is a scam, trust your instinct. It takes time for everything to unravel.

quoted from: richajak, the not-so-wise man
This is directional advice. Some read too diverse, scattered stuff, and some read just the same thing and lock themselves into confirmation bias and echo chambers.

The first need to focus more, the second need to focus less.

I could write a wide paragraph on how one needs to consume more than one kind of thing, how it's healthy to to challenge oneself, like the unknowable forces in the wild nature, etc etc. Something majestic and grandiose like that.

Point is, wise advice is directional, and you cannot know from it which side you are on. It doesn't give you a target, it gives you a direction. Which may not apply to you.
Any source for that? Last information I have is that it's written in Arc Lisp and uses files rather than a database for storage.

There is a public API on Firebase, but AFAIR it's just a mirror rather than the main storage.
Still down for me. Must not be a "vast majority of users" bit of a premature "green" on that.
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Let's say you have two programs to select from. One program has a 60% placement rate, but has horrible quality. The other has a 30% placement rate, but high quality. Let's say that an independent 3rd party does the quality assessment from invites to participate and from student feedback. This same body also finds that the employers and starting salaries for each program is roughly equal. Would you care about quality? I would select the first option. The higher placement rate has the greater value due to the greater probability of landing a job. It's like playing a pocket pair of Aces vs a pocket pair of Jacks in Texas Hold'em. I would consider the possibility of placing myself with a job as coming in with a pocket pair of 7's.

What else matters? I guarantee that you'll learn something through an intensive effort of pacing along with the curriculum. I'm also sure that it's not going to be enough to feel comfortable that first day of the job.

What's the placement rate? If that rate has plummeted or has always been horrible, then that's all I need to hear.

Maybe what they are really teaching is the process of getting yourself into a self-learning mode of work. I have to learn new things every day. I would bet my day looks similar to those in Lambda. Maybe it's a "wax on, wax off" sort of thing which looks like BS but actually works if you don't get hung up on things outside of the end-goal. As long as the employer placement numbers are good (and maybe they aren't,) then I'm a believer.
It isn't illegal everywhere.

Acceleration is a big part of the enjoyment of fast cars. That's not usually illegal.

Also, having better acceleration can help reduce the 'time exposed to danger' when overtaking, which may still be below the local speed limit. Faster cars can be safer, see...
There was a time where people could passionately debate politics, or even more personal issues such as abortion, and then still enjoy a game, party, or have a beer at the pub with someone you just passionately disagreed with on another topic. It seems today if persons / groups have an ideological opposition in anything, they must treat their opposition as if they are immoral and completely banish them from their lives

When was this mythical time? It wasn't too long ago when abortion clinics were being bombed and abortion doctors were gunned down at their homes and places of work. In living memory are periods when anti-war and civil rights protestors were set upon by dogs and firehoses. Gun companies were boycott for cooperating with gun-control measures. There was the whole South Africa divestment movement. PMRC was doing it's best to "cancel" rock & rap, Terry Rakolta was doing her level best to get Married with Children kicked off the network. And let's not forget Robert Bork.

Americans have always been passionate about issues, only the platforms and terminology are new.
Yes, I know what's the point. But how do you avoid putting all your eggs in one basket? You can't host your email on more than one "provider" (including self host), and the vast majority of important services that you link your email to (bank, digital identity, taxes and other government services) does not allow you to have more than one linked to it; which means, that one goes down, you don't have one. Sure, I can give my accountant and my lawyer a second email address, hosted on a different provider, but that poses two problems: 1. how are they gonna know when one is working and one isn't? It's not like you get a notification if your email didn't reach most of the time, it just drops; 2. if you always send all emails to both addresses, now two providers have my data instead of one (of course excluding if one is self hosted). And you also need to always keep in mind that for all things important: one is none, two is one; so you should really have 3 addresses on 3 different providers according to that, which brings us back to the problems above. (and I'm not even mentioning the confusion that it would generate if you don't manage to get the same name with every provider "Wait, was it beshrkayali@gmail.com, or was it alibeshrkay@gmail.com? Or was that fastmail?")

As I said (literally in the second sentence), I don't rely on Google for everything, as you mention. I don't actually rely on Google for anything other than gmail, and of that I am also unhappy. The point I was trying to make is that there aren't really alternatives, and I was hoping someone might come out with a suggestion about how to overcome that problem.
Guys, Orkut also seems to be down!
That reminds me of the time when I plugged a network cable back into an Active Directory domain controller. At the exact same time as the RJ-45 plug would have made the little "click", a door slammed shut and a polished steel tanker truck drove by the window, shining a bright light into my eyes.

I had just plugged into a cable into the most important server in the organisation and I saw a bright flash and hear a bang.

All was well, it was just a coincidence, and a good reminder that sometimes shit happens and it's not us, it's just timing.

Relax.
The very least public APIs are exposed via firebase.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API
100%. Engineers and creatives rarely contribute directly to revenue the way marketing and sales does.
I generally really like DuckDuckGo's widgets. Just typing in currency conversions from and to crypto e.g. has always worked much better for me with them. Happy to have them as my default.
It used to come up, now doesn't seem to unless I look in image search?

It's basically a highly impractical piece of women's (and maybe men?) underwear that's supposed to be "sexy" but is more WTF

https://www.bustle.com/articles/34628-i-wore-the-c-string-so...
I suspect they set out with noble intentions and then realised it is a conversion-funnel game where they absorb the cost up front with the hope of recouping cost and profit later on. If 100% students passing through landed a job then the unit economics would work provided hard costs are low enough. Business might even be successful at 30% post Lambda School employment. However, as they scale that number will fall because the type of student they recruit might change and the pandemic also having a short term effect. As % post employment falls revenues fall and more students are needed to increase absolute revs. This could also go hand in hand with cost-cutting, of which there is evidence. All in all, an experiment in business model is taking place.
So basically rules created to stop money laundering forced honest citizens to engage in money laundering??
Your answer is wrong and insulting, Since you probably know most new cars have optional speed limit and GPS then it is very logical to ask why not make them opt-out then opt-in.

Now you could attempt to give a fair answer why you think this is hard to implement correctly or why is a bad idea.

Also we could theoretically install something that can detect if the driver is tired,drunk or not paying attention. There is no requirement that police or government must be involved , maybe in some countries you can implement and solve this with free market , insurance and all that good capitalistic/freedom stuff.
> why the hell on earth would you bother exposing your personal phone number on the internet

Why not? It's not like you're gonna receive death threats exactly. I've had my personal phone number on my public website and in the footer of every outgoing email for 15+ years, never had any problems, spam or otherwise.
Is it? I can legally drive at any speed on most highways around me, and yes I do drive 260 km/h daily (fifth year without any accident btw).
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Paying "30k for a code bootcamp"? Is that in US dollars? That's insane, regardless of the quality of the instruction...
1) There are different speed limits on different roads. If you put an artificial limit on how fast your car could go, it would still go illegally fast on slower roads.

2) Speed limits change. It would be a hassle (understatement of the week) to update every single car.

3) As others have said, you can always drive legally on private tracks.
Though for a diesel engine, at least, it's also not healthy always to run at 50% - there's been a significant problem in recent years with boat-owners on UK waterways over-specifying the engine they need for low-speed cruising, and suffering glazed bores as a result. http://coxeng.co.uk/engine/bore-glazing-and-polishing-in-die...
This is largely solved by infrastructure as well, although it might perhaps be a bit tricky to visualize it if you haven't been in that situation before. As a cyclist, I have no interest in getting on a sidewalk because bike roads are much better. Sidewalks are often bumpy, can have high curbs, and as you mentioned are crowded by people randomly walking around. Bike roads have none of that, so it's objectively better to ride there. To a lesser extent the same holds for car roads. On bike roads, your light goes green first, the ride is smoother, etc. All of the above means that as a cyclist, there's very good incentives for me to stay on the bike road.

Police does sometimes pick off cyclists who are on their phone and whatnot, but outside of that, it is a very self-regulating system. It's also fuelled by the society, teaching your kids how to behave as a cyclist is a very visible part of upbringing.
Maps could be the scariest one! All those drivers wondering how to get where they're going.
The point is the tension. It’s very easy to acknowledge (1) and (4), or (2) and (3). It’s very rare to acknowledge all four.

That said, there’s a misunderstanding here:

(3) says much, not all, of the power is increasingly centralized, and that that’s concerning in light of (2).

(4) isn’t saying the companies lack power. It’s saying that their platforms are being abused. It’s understood (from (3)) that they can (indeed sometimes do) use their power to attempt to control that abuse.
...and the status page says everything is still down :)
Doesn't any ad network profit when a user is ripped off by scam ads? This isn't Facebook specific.
> I wonder if it relies on some cloud service

/s, right? right?!
I think relevancy can be improved for e.g. https://books-search.typesense.org/?b%5Bquery%5D=linus%20tor...
There is zero risk for a nonprofit to publish their EIN widely. It's already on Guidestar and Charity Navigator and usually discoverable with a simple Google search.

There is also a ton of value. It makes people who donate more confident that their donations made through corporate gift matching or donor advised funds are going to the right place.
Underrated comment. If the government freezes your bank account, at least you can take them to court. If Google mistakenly disables your account, there does not seem to be any legal recourse. Considering the extent to which people depend on their services, perhaps there should be a more elaborate appeal process.
Funny this post is already #7. Are we seeing many reports again?

Stats right now: 1985 points | 1 hour ago | 597 comments
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Part of what the natural world imparts is a sense of wonder, things that you couldn't have dreamt up, nor anyone you know. As I've gotten older, I've developed this hazy awareness of some world that was lost to me — things that I've read about that coincide with my experiences when I was very young that I haven't encountered since then.

It's like realizing this childhood world wasn't that way just because you have changed from a child to an adult, but because the world has changed.

I'm starting to become worried over what my daughter might experience in that regard. Things that were normal for me or that she might encounter that will be gone instead. Like, will fireflies still be around for her as an adult? What about walking around with piles of snow higher than you everywhere? Will she ever see a natural unlit clear night sky? It's difficult to convey what that many stars looks like, or seeing the milky way stretched across it.

More to the point of the article, I remember freshwater bivalves walking upstream across stream beds. They aren't mussels, but still — I haven't seen any in the last several years where I used to.
> a project's economic viability doesn't depend on the relative merits of other projects.

I'm not sure this is true - certainly the opposite of this statement is the central thesis of most investment activity.
Who automates the automators? :)
So what happens if I decide to close my account, have some money left and I don't want to give them my banking & SSN information?
Are we in the matrix yet ?
It’s not a “social democracy” It’s a democratic country, with a market economy, and a social democratic approach to labor relations.
Well, it's something that can happen to anyone, take it easy. When I made the transition from developer to manager and become responsible for this situations, at first every problem made me feel as you describe. Eventually what helped me to be free is the understanding that how we feel about a fact does not change anything about that fact.
Also, everyone has something to hide.
The Spanish dollar is a silver coin that became the original basis for the US dollar. The US dollar is no longer based on any precious metal and has no connection to other currency (except insofar as other countries peg their currencies to the dollar).
A sad death.
The Year of the Great Humbling
I believe Adam Neumann was ambitious, with a "unique leadership style".
I agree, but I think that in order for that to work, we would have to accept much lower salaries for junior/apprentice engineers (until they've proven they can add value). And maybe also a higher tolerance for firing engineers who are not working out early.

As it is, I'm not surprised companies are reluctant to bet on the potential of untrained engineers, _and_ the chance that they'll stick around long enough to make the investment worthwhile.

I'm sure there are a lot of inexperienced, uncredentialed engineers out there who would take a low-paying job with a significant chance of getting fired in 3 months. I was one of them. The alternative is to not get hired at all.
The theory that free markets are highly effective isn't based on a belief in magic. It's based on the fundamental nature of information and capital allocation. The theory is logically sound in the same way the theory of evolution is.

It's accepted economic theory validated by centuries of emperical evidence. Rejecting it based on misunderstanding the science behind it, and believing in conspiracy theories about a capitalist oligarchy coopting the Economics field, is similar to anti-vaxxerism.
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Yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baJNxbmtYdY
As someone who went to the US Army’s interrogation school over a decade ago. This checks out. I’d also add that a liar will also suck at creating a realistic and coherent timeline.
The HN community gets around this by defaulting to thinking that everything in the space is a scam. Just saying "scam" 100% of the time will make you mostly right.
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It might be easier to compare them, I'm not persuaded it is any easier to evaluate them.
Does it turn on the OBD Malfunction Indicator Light (the MIL or yellow "check engine" light) or another service indicator? My wife's Honda tall Civic (CR-V) has a "service required" light, which is different from the check engine light. This can be reset by the owner, following the process in the owner's manual (presumably after doing the oil change and other service items).

My wife's car can also get a genuine malfunction from a too low oil level, which does light the MIL. This cannot be durably reset by user action (other than remedying the underlying condition).
Rules on paper aren’t rules in reality. Enforcement of law, and the way it’s experienced (or not) is far more important than what’s written in the law books, and the enforcement part is much less transparent, and impossible to know at the time the rule is passed.
right after I shamed them on twitter. I take responsibility despite it unlikely having any impact.
When I tried to login it said: 'this account does not exist'. So my first thought was some algorithm made a mistake and my account got deleted for no reason.

I already imagined the only solution now was to write a medium post and hope it gets some traction on hackernews and google support steps in.
Thinking to myself I was an idiot for knowing all this and still thinking it wouldn't happen to me.

And even though it turns out to be an outage, it gave me a bad enough feeling to start using a domain name I own for my email.
a well timed one, OP has been waiting for ages for such a large outage
As David Heinemeier Hansson of Basecamp said, paraphrasing: "every time you take someone's [VC] money, you get a new boss."
Ooof. Micro-transactions in F1 2021, then.