skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't google meet not have a native app? We use Google Meet at work and using a browser to screen share a browser or IDE window seems to absolutely peg my CPU no matter which browser I use.

I have no love for Zoom but at least they have a desktop app so I can screen share without bogging down my whole machine
Whether or not that is true, the code snippet in the article shows this comment:

#0 and 1 are not primes
It's entirely possible for a neuro-atypical person to be ableist, just as it's entirely possible for a black person to be racist or a woman to be misogynist. It happens.
You can have "good democratic" country on a block and "bad authoritarian". If the good one commits murder it is still a fucking murder and hiding under "we are the good guys" umbrella is not going to help the cause. You either behave accordingly to standard or forget calling yourself "good guys". The fact that country X treats its own citizens better then country Y is irrelevant here.
https://pockit.ai/ - main website
Global study calls for tightening of current air pollution limit to boost health
FWIW, Julia does segment its method tables into multiple layers depending upon size and type. Multiple dispatch is a strict superset of single-dispatch, and indeed the first layer is just a dictionary/hash table lookup on the first argument. If there's only one result there, you're done (and have the same ~cost for the same ~complexity).
Is there anything about the boat being stuck that doesn't look like a cyber operation from Iran? The erratic steering, the drawing a dick on GPS, and plugging the most strategic international waterway during a rapidly heating conflict with the countries whose economies are most impacted by it?

This is a demonstration and a negotiation tactic, imo. That's not a conspiracy. Or maybe things just get stuck, in the precise place at the precise time, affecting the precise people.
Definitely time to cancel Debian.
Oh dear.

You do realize the Scots mostly don't live alone in little cabins in the mountains like in the movies, don't you? Most of the population lives in the (densely populated) Central Belt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Scotland
Unconscionable is a strong word. Ground source heat pumps powered by renewablely generated electricity is pretty close to an ideal scenario. Resistance heating from electricity generated by gas is pretty bad though.
I see that it's 40m long, that's incredible.
In addition to the manager-to-managee “contract”, there are two other reasons to have goal setting exercises:

- Setting goals rather than tasks can allow for less micromanagement, if used properly. You have a problem to solve, with some freedom to choose how
- Measuring individual (or even team) software engineer productivity is super hard. Unexpected problems, necessary research, tech debt, changing requirements, support interrupts, life problems, etc make consistent progress hard to measure, and no one wants to be measured by lines of code or “points closed”. Setting pre-negotiated goals and then achieving them is a more humane alternative
Your own private VPS isn't too bad. I use that with a firefox with privacy settings turned up to eleven and don't have problems with google (yandex on the other hand always serves me captchas)

But on any anonymous VPN shared with other people google captcha bans IPs pretty quickly
With regard to the specific topic of communicating through a crisis, I've found Masters of Disaster: The Ten Commandments of Damage Control by Christopher Lehane, Mark Fabiani and Bill Guttentag to be pretty interesting.

The authors worked with multiple organizations and celebrities during time of crises and helped them with the public relation side of it. For instance they managed Bill Clinton's PR during the Monica Lewinsky events.

The book is not perfect (I think it could be shortened a bit and retain the same information) but it is still very interesting and I think about it every time I witness someone getting themselves into a big, public crisis and making things worse by not managing their PR properly.
On the other hand, if your boss thinks he can do your job (and do it even better than you), while in fact he can't – you will get the worst nightmare.
Pretty crazy for what seems to be a one person project.

How do you even get your hands on/produce such a weirdly sized trackpad?!
People are paying for a service to go from A to B, whether that's a driver bringing them or a robocar, it doesn't really matter. As long as the service is good.

Money being made on the service should go back in making the service better. These cooperatives often miss that point. They are not product centric.
I’m hoping at some point QAnon theories all lead back to the island on Lost. We’re almost there, we have a giant boat at this point literally. If that thing is from an alternate timeline that is trying to head back to the island (stuck in a time loop, so it only appears stuck), then we could maybe go back and save everyone we left behind on the island.
I don't know if there's enough lithium in the world to stabilize a global renewable grid and make 100 million electric cars per year forever and make 1.5 billion phones a year and all the other things we use batteries for.
It's definitely a tech thing if you "need" the resource scalability. All it takes in certain types of work. If a customer can click a button and that ends up allocating a gig of memory or using 5 minutes of CPU, then scaling out is the only reasonable option.
I think so far the best setup Ive seen of this for browser restriction for a session is with running the browser in firejail. https://github.com/netblue30/firejail
Facts and figures don't have a great track record of convincing people of things that they don't want to believe.
If you can dig a whole lane why not dig the current one out?
It was a long and meandering article that seemed to be fishing around for every possibly related controversy it could find (and it worked, look at all the people talking about the article).

But Google's blog post weren't just about the vulnerabilities so much as the hacking operation, which had exploited multiple different vulnerabilities. As for publicizing the operation itself, which was the real controversial decision, they went halfway on it, by holding back key details.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/introducing-i...
Then let's declassify all nuclear weapon designs and allow everyone to build a lot of them.

Furthermore, let's create economic programs to build a baseline nuclear arsenal in every country. That'll prevent a lot of wars.

Some countries will object to that. Why?

Isn't everlasting peace much better?

Edit: Do I need to point out that I'm not writing these comments in support of war, but with a desire to spark a thoughtful conversation?
It might work, but it's not necessarily going to be very profitable. The equipment that sits around waiting for low or negative electricity prices represents locked up capital, and ongoing maintenance and depreciation costs.

For the same reason, it's not a good idea to have bitcoin mining equipment sitting around waiting for cheap electricity. The hardware becomes obsolete very quickly, so there's only limited time to earn back the investment.
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To be fair, he said "This is one of the aspects of the Islamic world that I do not like." That does not imply that the practice is limited to Islamic countries, but it does imply that it is common in all Islamic countries. That said, I don't see any reason to believe the practice is a direct result of those countries being Islamic.
For a lot of countries in the world, "the baddies" are the USA Gov. Here is a big list of countries that suffered under USA intervention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

A lot of them were democracies.
Don't know why I'm getting down voted, but thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19886216
The official status of things, and the actual influence of monarchy/CoE in England are quite different.

e.g; "Ofsted stopped inspecting collective worship in 2004, after 76 per cent of schools were found to be non-compliant."

-- https://schoolsweek.co.uk/worship-in-school-assemblies-is-in...
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Another reason I’ve seen is “this project will be around for a while and we should skip past the growing pains to go into microservices.” If it’s a rewrite of an existing system, then it’s more justifiable because it’s about eliminating technical debt and is not a greenfield project. But for new efforts where an organization has never seen customer demand in X, Y, Z services being created it’s pure conjecture and premature optimization to essential refactor across service boundaries before a monolith with some usage metrics even exists
Better batteries may not be the answer. Possible other options

- electrolysis of seawater https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258929912...

- scrubbing carbon from the atmosphere directly https://cen.acs.org/synthesis/catalysis/Electrochemical-meth...

Neither of these is energy-efficient, but if the energy is negatively priced they don't need to be
There's no reason why we can't have a coop based version of a WeChat like super app with all of these services on a single shared platform.

Most people don't get on planes that often so the value of global scale is not something that would prevent them from getting disrupted in a place like NYC. I'd be willing to pay a large premium for gig work if I knew that 95% of it went to the worker and they weren't being exploited by a bunch of clowns in SV.
It's a ship not a boat.
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Lots of yesterday discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26577349
What is it if not a boat?
This was a great exchange:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894742
Always seemed odd to me that there's no way to compel a local authority to take ownership and responsibiltiy for an unadopted road.
That's a plus for sure, but I'm betting 99% of rides are local.
A duopoly today would largely fix the current situation of no transportation of cargo.

Even if it was only 50%, that’s better
For those curious about how someone else might acquire that paperwork without provable fraud, one way is for someone who doesn’t actually hold title to will it to that someone else. Obviously the dead person can’t be convicted of fraud and the beneficiary can easily claim good faith. In some states adverse possession under color of title[1] like this has a significantly shorter period (7 years instead of 20 for some) before legal ownership can be claimed, presumably because it’s assumed the squatter acted in good faith. I wouldn’t be surprised if UK law is similar.

[1] https://wealthhow.com/difference-between-color-of-title-clai...
This article explicitly goes down the "micro" in microservices route, which does have the problems you identify. There's an alternative school of thought that regrets, or at least downplays the obsession with "micro". Much of the drive to microservices was a reaction against things like the Enterprise Service Bus in the SOA world becoming the big ball of mud no-one can easily change - SOA and microservices don't have to look a world apart.

I'm a big fan of Mark Richards and Neal Ford's emphasis of architecture being about trade-offs. No one thing is a silver bullet.
It’s hard to see this happening with the rate structures that most firms use. Clients don’t want to pay partner level rates for junior associate work.
How are keys removed so that the table doesn't overflow? Are you really going to recommend growing the table by duplicating it?

> Beware: this is a teaching tool and not a library, so it’s not very well tested.

Dear OP: This really bugs me. If you're not going to put the effort in, and instead crank out some content that might be buggy, then please don't pollute the web with more half-assed "look what I can do" pages.
Ha. That still sounds sketchy. It would be like going to a DMV in the states to get your license and slipping a $20 to person who gives your driving test to get out of parallel parking or something....

It’s not bribing your way out of a crime or something but it is still dodgy and corrupt.
You could at least program the cars to adjust their charging based upon cost - e.g. if you leave it overnight and between 2-5am electricity prices go negative it could try to charge most of the battery during this period.

Additionally you could program cars to feed into the grid when the price goes high enough to justify the cost of cycling the battery. This would help deal with unexpected events.
Mining cryptocurrency seems like a win-win
You don't need them. But they help. If I know that a report really wants to grow into a more senior position and an opportunity comes up that feels like it will give them a great stretch project, I'll let them know about it and see if they jump on it. Promotions are rarely about "doing more" but instead are about doing a different class of thing.
Well, he did say "simple hash table". In my experience, many applications have no need for single-element deletion.
You can get a better price if you can guarantee availability, but there is also a market for variable supply.
On a wholesale level, electricity prices are highly dynamic already, and highly demand based.
Total Loss[0] has 45 stories of yachting disasters; the lesson I took away is to carry a knife when you're on a boat.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Total-Loss-Collection-First-hand-Acco...
Power lines are built from hydro power plants in the mountains to the cities. Obviously you know that so I don’t understand what you were trying to say.
A boat can be portaged, a ship cannot.
Juno[1] tried something like this in NYC back in the mid-2010's. They ended up getting acquired by Gett and discontinued their equity share ethos.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(company)

Edit: Typo
Their moat thus far has been in their enormous runway to burn VC cash and sell rides at a loss while they waste energy on useless side projects paid for by their drivers who are given absolutely no cushion.
I have run into issues where it would incorrectly render svg tags.
My point was simply to illustrate that batteries are not a viable energy storage method for the scale of energy required on even a small power grid. South Australia's power grid is relatively small compared to many similar regions.
Can someone elaborate more how you take a whole bunch of urls then identify the variables through unsupervised learning?
> under democratic oversight within a lawfully elected representative government

The writer assumes that western / US-affiliated elections are universally, lawfully elected, and never the product of illegalities... while writing about likely-illegal operations by some of the very same people within those very same governments.
It's wedged at the stern because the bow impelled the ground. The stern isn't impelled, once the front of the ship is free, the back be easily ungrounded by tugs.
Not only can a monolithic code base be scaleable but you can make it into microservices by adjusting it's startup parameters:

monolith --start-batch-jobs
monolith --start-claim-processor
monolith --start-graphql

And they would be interconnected probably via some clustering protocol with libraries that hide the complexity and runs a bus available in a litany of languages.

Need scale?

k8s replica count on the above pods.
My numbers were talking app expenses, obviously a company of Uber's scale would need 100+ employees.
I broke down below that if they worked at their current scale and charged just a penny, they could pay their employees an average of $100K per year and still make millions in profit after spending millions on Infrastructure. Uber bills on average more than 100-200 times that and spends insane numbers on unprofitable projects like self driving cars. I've read the whole book, a set of co-ops could easily spend as little as a million dollars, retain devs for work on it, bill a tiny service fee of a penny per ride (plus card processing) and then have local co-ops operate the other half of everything above at a reasonable scale whereas drivers get paid the rest other than management costs. Uber is intentionally using automation to overswamp driver markets to keep prices low and driver pay low to boost ride numbers and eliminate competition.
mani's role for the future
The challenge with this kind of stuff is that capital costs are a big part of the cost for large industrial plants. A plant which is only using 25% of its capacity is going to be unprofitable.
Most of the time. I'm using Chrome via Puppeteer to generate PDF reports, and I've seen certain CSS rules make it render pages (or parts of them) as images. One of them was `transform` I think.
You need this in case you don't already have it: Michel De Montaigne The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters hardcover edition published by Everymans Library Classics. :-)
It kinda feels like it was written with GPT3, but I thought it was funny. I genuinely laughed towards the end.
I get your point. So the premise is that employee's personal desires and company's objectives don't usually tend to align themselves naturally, right? If there were no goals in place, would that be bad? How bad?
It's in the early days but this is exactly what Architecture the Hard Parts[0] is working on: finding for each system the right balance between pulling things apart and putting them back together again.

[0]: http://architecturethehardparts.com/ - book on the way, the training course is excellent
Unfortunately Svelte Material UI is vastly less developed than Vuetify. It’s a huge deficit in components and functionality.
Then that boss is failing to scale his/her team properly. It's not really a point of pride if one person can singlehandedly replace all their reports, imo.
> Yes, the point with selling electricity is that you need to guarantee that you will deliver some fixed amount of electricity. If you depend on wind power plants how this guarantee can be given? What if wind stops.

Real-time bidding for prices already works at some places, but we need to modernize the whole electric system of the world. Smart grid was always part of the renewable solution.

> Maybe it would make sense to build huge bitcoin mining data centers and mine bitcoins in case of surplus. Hardly useful, but given current coins rush could be profitable. Better than paying producers for not producing energy.

It's already happening, but with all the negative conotations of Bitcoin mining, it's generally easier to listen to interviews with people working at energy companies than to discuss it on internet forums.
Ah you can... What you can't do is buy a phone and accessories in the same order...
Why not both?

When I shop for groceries at home I can use the hippy dippy organic bodega.

When I’m in an unfamiliar city, I can go to Kroger’s or Aldi.

Space on my phone is free!
There is a German company suggesting to cut a large piece of rock (think: hundreds of meters in diameter and depth) lose and lift that by pumping water beneath it. A moving mountain, it would be. Totally crazy stuff, I should check if that ever made any progress.

Here is a German article about it. As far as I remember, the real issue is that pumps/generators with the required powers are very expensive.
https://www.ingenieur.de/technik/fachbereiche/energie/lageen...
You're not solving the problem. There are lots of applications for "free" electricity, but there aren't many applications for unpredictable and unstable bursts of free electricity.
> This is one of the aspects of the Islamic world that I do not like. Bartering/bribing/coercing is super common, and I fail to see how it could have any positive benefit at all.

Sorry but that just sounds massively Islamophobic. I'm half Croatian, we have had a history of more-or-less open corruption in all levels of government, from policemen to heads of state, and the same applies for wide swaths of Eastern Europe. Not to mention the entire narcorruption situation in Southern America.

Corruption is a symptom of weak government structures (and, to some extent, poverty) which force people to fend for themselves on all levels to survive, not something that is inherently tied to any religion or ethnicity.
That is like saying we can create 25 million jobs by starting a land war in Asia. I mean they directly compared it to WWII mobilization in the article.
It is interesting that Fossil’s pages on shun and scrub are notably absent of all the negative language that the rebase page contains.
> But it's not necessarily going to be very profitable.

Not paying for electricity is profitable by default.. Having a reserve for the long term that's environmentally friendly, its a benefit.. Investing in infrastructure that doesn't depend on finite fossil fuels is profitable.. So I have no idea what you're talking about.

> For the same reason, it's not a good idea to have bitcoin mining equipment sitting around waiting for cheap electricity. The hardware becomes obsolete very quickly, so there's only limited time to earn back the investment.

Its really nothing like that at all..
Completely off-topic, but that's an amusingly unfortunate name to English-speakers—"bilk" means "to cheat someone".
The nuclear question work entirely against your argument, and illustrates the naivte of the 'everyone or nobody' concept as totally unworkable.

'Nukes bring peace' mostly only if they are in the hands of a few major, stable powers, otherwise, nuclear proliferation probably is very bad.

These kinds of moral absolutions, i.e. projecting 'rights' into nations etc. (either we all have the right or nobody does) are pragmatically irrational.

Every nation is different, in a different set of circumstances, there's always some degree of moral relativism, but there's some degree of objectivity as well.

We have to balance the forces to figure out what to do in a complex world, and the rules may not always be so cut and dry.
This split brain problem goes back as far as IRC existed. I am surprised a more modern chat application has not fixed this. They reference ChanServ. Does Matrix use the same method of services as IRC? Anope/Epona style services? If I had to solve this today, I would move services to an active-active DB or messaging bus that can cache the last state, then sync when communication resumes. Or maybe OpenLDAP.
Yes, correct
Instead of paying wind producers to stop, take the excess electricity and use it for bitcoin mining, then use the bitcoin to buy electricity when there's not enough.

(I'm joking, I think, but maybe this would actually work)
I respectfully disagree. To me it is a good example of the style of the article reflecting its meaning. To me, the author says that this topic is a welcome relief in a world where every topic is conflictual and complicated. It is the only thing that currently makes the frontpage that is appeasing to the mind, because the mind can fully comprehend it. It is great because it is simple, and it is explained simply.

Your example is extremely convoluted and doesn't mean anything.
> My take: if your boss can do your job, you're not needed.

If your boss can do your work, has the time to do your work (eg there isn't enough work), the work doesn't need to be done in parallel, and can do similar quality work, and is willing to do that work, you're not needed.

That's the takeaway, without oversimplification, which makes sense.
I thought Scotland DID have a large oil sector.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Scotland%27s_oil

You can argue whether it is Scotland's or the UK's but I live in the US and it is up to Scotland and the UK to sort out independence and their place in the EU.