skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rate of state ownership of capital is fairly high in the Nordics, though. In that sense, they're relatively socialist countries.

Maybe they're not "really socialist", but then by that standard, is there a "really capitalist" country? Even the US, which is probably the most capitalist "developed" country, has some state ownership of production.
Zombies at Large? Corporate Debt Overhang and the Macroeconomy
The main issue is providing enough lighting/energy rather than growth medium.

Everything is possible to grow with hydroponics although it is a little tricky.
Has google.com ever suffered such outages in recent past?
Perhaps it's more about power and influence than money.

Twitter has political power, therefore it gets included.

How big is the newspaper industry relative to its influence?
They are problems though, we haven't used all of the globes arable land but that doesn't mean we are able to or even should. Consider that much of the remaining arable land is forests we really need to keep. Not all of that is suitable to the types of crops we want to grow, and not all of it is available to the countries currently requiring more food.

Arable land is a resource not available to everyone as well, and we shouldn't assume we can just take it from those who have it. The global economy is more complicated than that.

And lastly, climate change is set to shake things up significantly. Record droughts already cause huge economic damage nearly every year, and it is only just beginning. We are going to need more control and stability over our food sources.

Absolutely there is room for development of more traditional farming but I think it would be naive to imagine that it would all just work out fine in a global market utopia. It is worth developing this technology.
Google Services Hit by Worldwide Outage
> In the general sense, no, not yet, of course, but in one sense, Zig is probably more production ready than Rust, for example on embedded systems with obscure architectures where OOM-safety is essential.

I mean, FWIW, Rust is fairly ready for embedded systems, even when OOM-safety is essential. There are crates dedicated to providing fallible memory allocation primitives for exactly those use-cases.

With that said: I do believe Zig would work a lot better than Rust in severely resource-constrained environments. Rust has a few pitfalls that can easily cause a code size explosion (anything using core::fmt, for instance). And zig's constexpr appear more powerful than Rust's current stable const fn, which can be critical to writing maintainable, small code.

I've worked on a Rust reimplementation of a bootloader that had to fit in 8KiB of RAM, and I often went over accidentally by having a panic handler pull core::fmt. I haven't tried Zig for the same use-case (yet), but from a cursory glance, it appears to be less prone to this kind of code-size explosions.
That's the thing: one's bias and one's bigotry are competitive disadvantages. A competitor without those biases and bigotry would have a financial and strategic advantage.

As Friedman points out, the market punishes the bigot when the market is permitted to do so. Only the government can prevent the bigoted businessman from paying the price for his bigotry.

The underlying problem with letting the market handle things, as far as I can tell, is that the activists can't claim credit for punishment administered by the market.
Twitter has a lot of journalists on it which in turn influences the news. Twitter can be used to influence how the people that make the news view reality
React Pluggable: Thinking Features over Components
It reflects the reality for them.

The small print says: The problem with Gmail should be resolved for the vast majority of affected users. We will continue to work towards restoring service for the remaining affected users...

At Google scale, "remaining affected users" probably number in tens of millions. Sucks to be one of them, tho.

But hey, it happens. As a SaaS maintainer, I can sympathise with any SREs involved in handling this, and know that no service can be up 100% of the time.
Mt. Gox was handling 70% of Bitcoin trade volume at the time. Of course the price crashed, when everyone on Mt. Gox tried to sell their mostly-stolen Bitcoins while they could.

I don't know how a Tether crash would play out but it's an entirely different situation.
Show HN: Google's Got a Secret
To the extent that it’s not an industry that’s because it by became part of the larger computer industry as everyone started needing it. If cryptocurrency proponents are lucky, the same will be true subsuming into the financial industry; if not, nobody will remember it except as an odd curiosity a few decades ago.
How do you imagine this working for someone who drives across Europe frequently, including sections of unrestricted Autobahn? Or someone who takes their street legal car onto (private) tracks from time to time?
You're correct. The vessel & primary heat exchanger of a MSR which are in contact with liquid-fuel is equivalent to fuel assemblies of many solid-fuel reactors. In solid-fuel reactors the clad which is designed to contain fuel doesn't last long. Similarly, in MSRs the materials in contact with fuel doesn't last long.

So, we need to dispose the vessel and primary heat exchangers similar to Zr-clad million dollar fuel assemblies.(PWR/BWR reload costs $60-100 million per 12-18 months.)
Material wise Zr clad is way more expensive than stainless 3XX & graphite combined. Even if Ni-alloy is used in disposable MSRs Ni-alloy+graphite will be slightly cheaper. (Base metal costs: Zr metal: ~$22,700/ton Ni metal: ~$13,100/ton)
Not really relevant but I'm basically the only person I know that thinks it's the coolest thing in the world that I can open up my computer and watch a lecture from MIT/Stanford/Harvard etc. in almost any thing I want. Such a great time to be alive for self-motivated people that like learning stuff!
When I request a full takeout it usually takes 2-4 weeks to generate.

This time around it was missing a .tgz which had error'd. A subsequent full takeout request took a couple of days.

The .tgz files I find can only be reliably extracted on a Linux... the Gmail export for me is 20GB which in the last few exports has been a single file in the last .tgz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

A billion is a number with two distinct definitions:

- 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 10^9, as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both British and American English.

- 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 10^12, as defined on the long scale. This is one thousand times larger than the short scale billion, and equivalent to the short scale trillion. This is the historical meaning in English and the current use in many non-English-speaking countries where billion and trillion 10^18 maintain their long scale definitions.

Nevertheless almost everyone uses 1B = 10^9 for technical discussions
The Night Manager was a great series, and I’m glad I’m not the only one who found Hugh Laurie absolutely terrifying in that.
How many people do you hire from other places? I'm never hiring anyone again if I can help it, so I'm not the target either, and this sort of post seems to imply this is a huge loss for Lambda but I'm not sure it is.
If you are still down try restarting app... this worked for me
Top Articles I‘ve Read in 2020
I had a few of these this year, e.g. thinking I have local connectivity issues when it turned out the entire backbone is in a bad shape[0].

Or that time when 80% of the apps on my iPhone crashed on launch[1] — must be an issue with the device, right?

[0] Level 3 Global Outage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24322861

[1] Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097459
Hunting the Hunters: How We Identified Navalny's FSB Stalkers
I was unable to watch the Mogwai - Autorock music video. :-(
>>These are just facts

It's no such thing. It's quackery rejected by experts.
Sweden's hospitals were never saturated despite no lockdown. Italy's hospitals are saturated every flu season.

Hospitals are saturated, because we want to keep these people alive for few more months. Younger people don't need hospitalization.

You are in car crash, too bad hospitals are only admitting people with covid. This is current situation in Poland.
Thanks for posting. In the early 2000's me, my brothers, and my dad spent several months taking pictures and submitting each sequential minute between 8-9. Looking back probably 20 years later now it is quite amusing to still see the pictures there! It has been a long time since I heard about the human clock.
Found this relatively recently, seems to do a good job.

Do love how more consumer services (ISPs &c) always have some report of being down somewhere but its means nothing unless there's a big spike.
As others said you also get some grants that you don't have to repay. This was also 6 years ago and the numbers have changed a little since then.

But otherwise yes. And I didn't live a very frugal life and I didn't have a lot of funds when I started out, just enough for furniture and similar.
>drive not working

Something something someone else's computer.
Every time you turn left it costs you one corporate coin.

To get an engine you have to get the right loot box.
As someone living near a luxury car rental place (but in a country with a national speed limit), I want to point out that the main target audience for renting Lamborghinis and Ferraris isn't passionate drivers.

It's 28 year old males with money and no sense of self-worth. There are regularly reports of people doing nothing but driving up and down a nice street downtown. Flooring it from red light to red light, dropping the clutch on every gear change. All. Day.

The completely unrelated question I would like to ask is "Why is it allowed to show your middle finger to random people on the street, but as soon as they're in a car, it's a crime?"
All I'm saying is that the example is contrived, it streches credulity. You're making a marginalist argument where the cost of being slow is increased enormously. I could as well make up a scenario where each additional kph increase costs some absurd number of lives, and then it balances wherever you pick the numbers to balance.

> And if not, I'm sure parliament could pass a law to clear the streets for the day.

My scenario is that we run out of parts due to a foreseen supply chain issue, and parliament can then indeed pass a law to let the delivery guy drive faster, assuming the issue is not fixed.

And for your case, there is already a judicial system that will give you a break if these things happen. In the end, and this is what we really mean to be discussing, rules vs discretion ends up with discretion somewhere in the system.
Well I don't see real practical reason for keeping it secret.

If you look at operation model of threat actors, even with current hack, they have their targets and no one is going to say "hey they have solar winds let's hack them". Threat actors have their budget, limited time and goals. They could also find this information by other osint means. Even if they have it on that page, they still need to make their research.

Even if SolarWinds would not have a list on their page they are so big that you can count them as interesting target anyway. It is the same with Google and MSFT you can safely assume if you hack them, some of your targets will use some tools from those companies.

I mean security by obscurity is fine, but I don't see what kind of value it would bring in this scenario.
I guess it was 18 months before being reduced to 12 months during the guys course.
So. Farewell

Then

Codemasters

-

Inventor of

Colin McRae

Rally

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For a time

You kept Colin's

Spirit alive.

-

Alas under EA

No studio

Shall survive.

- please don't hurt me, EJ Thribb
Rust and Jupyter Notebooks
Waiting for the post-mortem to see it was all because someone forgot to renew an SSL cert that nobody knew was a single point of failure for literally everything.

:D
Correction; ISBNs are issued to publishers, by an issueing agency or firm (R. R. Bowker LLC in the US, now owned by ProQuest).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Nu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._R._Bowker

http://www.bowker.com/products/ISBN-US.html
Well, here in America, we don't believe that Capitalism and "society" should coexist together. The people help sustain Capitalism - not the other way around. Also, we don't believe in providing such communist things as healthcare for everyone, because we strongly believe Capitalism does NOT benefit from a strong and healthy workforce.
We should add that traffic flow on normal days will prevent you from going _real fast_ for longer durations. People who try that will regularly provoke dangerous situations.

A general speed limit on the Autobahn is long overdue. Lots of our neighbours (see Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy) are doing fine that way.
The bottom line, as given an article in today's FT [1]:

Using a database across 17 economies going back to the 19th century, Oscar Jordà, Martin Kornejew, Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor investigated whether big corporate debt build-ups led to deeper and longer recessions, as is historically the case after booms and busts in household or finance industry debts.

Their conclusion is counterintuitive. “There is no evidence that corporate debt booms result in deeper declines in investment or output, nor that the economy takes longer to recover than at other times,” the paper says. Nor did the economists find any evidence that big corporate debt overhangs made economies more fragile, and prone to less frequent but bigger downturns.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/168e908a-03a5-4a0c-b993-355e88afe...
GPS :)
There is IRC as backup
I find it weird how often the criticisms don't cite anything real.

https://lambdaschool.com/isa is there data, and I am sure there is more. Can you reference your post to what they state they charge for?
Covid vaccines: Will drug companies make bumper profits?
No one is trying to force people to abandon their locally sourced food. The problem is with people in developed nations who live in cities. Also the point is you wouldn't need to expand the farmlands, quite the opposite.
how's the converted offshore oil platform treating you?
People were reporting not being able to turn their lights on: https://twitter.com/joemfbrown/status/1338452107419148290
But our tech right now is far more advanced than 15 years ago.

We have IPFS, Blockchain, dat protocol today. I think it's possible to kill the giants.

Even, Tim Berners-Lee want to decentralized the web: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/09/tim-berners-lee-is-on-a-mi...
H-1B Denial Rate Leveling Off as 2021 Approaches
I remember how one of our engineers had his docker daemon connected to production instead of his local one and casually did a docker rm -f $(docker ps -aq) .

Same thing happened to me but with CI, which felt bad enough already.
I completely agree. My bet would be the bosses usually don't. So in a lot of places you need another "excuse" (or as another poster mentioned, spend the time saved to invest more into maintainability but cover it up).
Perhaps they rebooted their clusters and it flushed the memory ???.
Whenever somebody argues having nothing to hide I ask:

1) Where were you last night?

2) How much money is in your bank account? Do you have any debt?

3) What is your Debit Card PIN/account password/...

4) What is your address? Your families address?

5) Can I see your key?

And so on. Everybody needs to proctect themselves and potentially others attached to them. There is a good reason for these questions being awkward and inappropriate.
Your comment about the political climate made me remember this. I cannot find the specific reference but in one of his lectures (on Youtube), Sapolsky talks about how some gay people felt offended in the 70's by research about the relation between brain structure and sexual orientation, since they felt it treated their sexual orientation as a pathology. Sapolsky contrasts it with the more recent enthusiasm about similar research, because people felt it would prove being gay was not a matter of choice or bad nurture. In political contexts, people blindly replace connotation for implication. Whereas implication is a concern of Logic (and hence, Science), connotation is a concern of intuition (or should I say, instinct) about constantly changing cultural ideals.
Don't be too hard on yourself, no dev works in a silo, there is usually user acceptance testing and product owner sign offs involved so they also have to wear some of this too.
The Story and Games of Codemasters, 1986-1999: Road to Respect | Kim Justice

https://youtu.be/TsCQ2KMBheM

I haven't watched yet but, despite a wild style, Kim usually has great historical videos.
This could be useful with something like wake word detection described here https://youtu.be/re-dSV_a0tM
YouTube very recently (last 2 weeks?) updated their policy to where ads will be shown in front of videos that don't even qualify for monetization. So, the uploader is ineligible to collect money for "their" content but Google can...
Artist imagines the perfect Tesla Model S design refresh (Model S 2.0)
70% of the Autobahn is unrestricted, that is not a small section.
Or Ravioli Code - bajillions of little parcels
Is this going to be true then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZ4DnVfWYQ
doron gordon
If you alone were able to do it, then the system was designed badly. The bigger the impact, the more robust it has to be to prevent accidents.
Jesus. One would think you'd have some safeguards for that. Even Dropbox will give you an alert if you try to nuke over 1,000 files. More reasons to COLOR CODE your work environments, if possible.
You could nowadays easily imagine a GPS-based governor according to the speed limit of the road you're on...
Yes, you need to double the speed and construct an artificial trafic burst to notice a marginal increase in capacity that is strictly due to the increased delay (and storage capacity) of the slower road. That was my point. In practice trafic ramps up slow enough so that we can ignore the lost capacity due to empty roads in the early hours. After that, it is steady state for both scenarios.

> there's plenty of other factors and practical road usage is nowhere near this perfect maximum of safe usage

Precisely, but this even further argues against high speed limits. If the road tends to be congested, windy, has trafic lights and is poorly maintained, the areas where you can increase the speeds are very limited and the total impact in trip time is low. So high speeds not only not deliver higher throughputs but they fail to even deliver speed.
Considering the debt load of GM and Ford the valuation of Tesla is no where near the risk as both those two are both past the hundred billion mark. While both are far more established than Tesla they are also more at risk because of how much debt they carry.
Google search was slow for me during the outage (5-10s per request)

I imagine google search only has optional dependencies on login and correctly falls-back if these fail
you hit the nail on the head.
Only so long as you CAN import it. Which means you need to ask from where - which gets into a large number of political issues. You may be forced to overlook something evil (slave labor), or even contribute to evil (pay bribes to someone who is turning around and using those bribes to fund an army that is planning to attack you).

Just because the world is currently politically stable for those reading this does not mean that will continue.
Awh man, this is a bummer.

I attended Lambda School from April-November 2019. I was in the Web Dev unit for 4 months and a Team Lead for the remainder. I got a job early so didn't get to do Labs or Computer Science, though I've heard they weren't great experiences. I'm not 100% looped in what's happening with Lambda anymore (they removed the Alumni from the student Slack channels), but I hope they're able to turn things around.

For what it's worth, I did enjoy my time there. It helped me get over anxiety around tackling projects, and it gave me a taste of what fast-paced learning looks like. Was also able to use what I learned for Pioneer and YC. That said, it does feel weird to be on the hook for €27,500 - for what was effectively 4 months of instruction in my case.
Neither is employable off the bat, and it takes time for someone with zero experience to be valuable.

That makes question who is more employable: a student with 48 months of University, or someone with 6 months of Lambda and 2.5 years of real world experience? Note, I assumed the Lambda grad had a year unemployed.
While your premise is probably right, note that the 2% efficiency of photosynthesis is for sun light. Growth lamps such used here will certainly emit at wave length optimized to the absorption spectra of the crop.
Why Voice UIs Have Not Seen Their iPhone Moment?
I wonder if they just killed the affected service so it's loading faster-than-usual now
The appstatus page from Google is a good indicator for me of which products are currently live from Google. Uhm, more of a sidenote :)
We want a society that respects free will and freedom from coercion. Privacy is necessary to achieve that end. Let's focus on achieving that end.

Security experts spent 2 decades arguing for privacy. Very little has changed. For most people, privacy is not an end in itself.
When I was interviewing at Morgan Stanley, I asked "how do you do this job if a mistake can cost people money?".

The answer was "well, if you don't do anything, you make NO money".
RIP to sublime Linux support.
I don't think we need to look at apprenticeships through a lens that is quite out of date. For example you can look at the apprenticeship schemes in the UK:

https://www.apprenticeships.gov.uk/
I think that it is hard to beat r/ChangeMyView (https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/), as the arguments are usually much more detailed than "left vs right".

However, there is one crucial prerequisite - someone needs to have an open mind, and courage to at least doubt one's own point of view. Compare and contrast with Change my View by Steven Crowder, which is full of fake openness + trolling, not genuine curiosity.
The good thing about gold is if/when people decide its no longer a good store of value, you can still use it, for jewellery or connectors etc. BTC is just goes poof.
I would guess autoscaling kicked in (RPC error rate caused higher CPU usage?) and now things will scale back down again.
Children are born with phones? What next?
Or, perhaps: "YOU don’t get to decide that you have nothing to hide when you give up your privacy."
While it would be awesome to have hardware that did the heavy lifting, I don't like the incentives for commercial products anywhere near the ad-space. It would only be a matter of time before a firmware update allows "permitted" ads through because the advertiser paid the proper sum. It may be time to finally set up my pi-hole.
Organized crime can make money in other ways, but fundamentally it profits from regulatory and legal arbitrage: the difference between what is in demand and what is legal to supply. Decriminalization directly attacks the fundamentals of that arbitrage, whether it's drugs or prostitution, or more prosaic like fuel taxes or tobacco duty (smuggling both has been a source of funding for IRA in Northern Ireland, historically).

Kidnapping is more of a capital arbitrage situation. I don't think it scales like drugs. For it to be really worthwhile, it relies on people with a lot of capital coming into the area. If you scale up kidnapping, people simply don't come, or invest a lot more in security.
Afaik it's the only company with sim-ish racing games on Mac and Linux (thanks to Feral, though the engine probably matters a lot).

A sad day indeed.

I wonder if a few years from now we might see a company of former devs from Codemasters, continuing the legacy.