skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Morally/ethically good vs. competent. OP implies that success in the legal system is only possible with unethical means.
Yes transform may rasterize the content in order to transform it say as a GPU operation this is regardless of printing, this will be noticeable as blurry text and vectors on HiDpi displays.
> What does it say about you when you agree with a voice, that harasses and antagonizes, on how to defend oneself against critics?

Not much? 'Attack the argument, not the person' is day one of debate class. So the only important question for me really is whether this particular article is any good.
Or super-capacity could be used on energy intensive operations, such as desalination plants.
Everyone either wastes mental resources gaming performance reviews or ignores them as a sideshow to actually doing a good job. The better the performance review the closer these two approaches are. Unless you have experience of Netflix’s culture and management you are less qualified to opine on whether Netflix is equipped to deal with autistic employees than someone who knows an autistic Netflix employee who is successfully working there.
The smurfs.
In my experience the dataloader approach is simpler once you need even a modest amount of logic to decide what should be loaded. Basically a dynamic vs. static scheduling decision.

E.g. you have IDs for a heterogeneous collection of items, all of them have an owning user, some need additional lookups in type specific tables, some have comments which again have an attached user each. Each lookup should be done towards a cache like Memcached and then a SQL database for any entries not in cache.

If you want to batch those cache calls together as best possible you end up with some fairly ugly code.
But with dataloader you can write nice and sequential code dealing with a single item at a time - try loading the item from cache, if not try the database, if found load related data, if not return not found.
Open-source is just the noise floor. If a problem is so trivial that it's not worth selling as a product, open-source will step in and make it. The idea that companies benefit from open source is laughable. The cost of switching from Linux servers to a closed-source Unix would be very small. Linux is just used because it shaves a few beans off the bean count in the bean-counters spreadsheets. Likewise, recreating Preact or Angular from scratch is a few weeks of a developer's time. So yeah, this whole premise is flawed.
One technique I use is I ask them what are the things they know well. Hopefully, there will also be something that I know. I then start digging in the area they have already advertised they know well and try to judge what it means when they say they know something well.

Also if a candidate can master even one thing very well, it gives hopes they are at least somewhat interested in development and can learn other things, too.

What I found is that people who are not interested in development but rather do this because it pays well almost never learn anything very well. They just don't have drive and curiosity needed to dig one topic long enough after what they have learned was enough to complete the task they were assigned.
I think you missed the part where large numbers of people are forced to use the bad system wasting time but only paid salaried time they're not too concerned about so that they'll spend even more of it complaining about the need for a replacement and extolling the virtues of any other system they'll never actually use, and the bit where you pay for lots of highly skilled experts to get the bad system running and doing the least of things for big organisations who think there's no alternative to spending huge budgets for employing the programmers who ultimately take all of this experience to exhort the open source developers what is really required for a successful and excellent replacement and become independent consultants paid by different big organisations to give advice on how the new open source software is going to solve all their problems and set up the teams and management required for adopting the new open software, whilst the open source developers listen to these voices and target unrealistically difficult features and architecture and never get around to noticing that the only thing that anyone actually wanted done was the few really basic tasks that just happened to be too difficult to implement in the original badly conceived product.
Wow that was fascinating. I admire her dedication.

I hope this brings attention to Murdoch.
Baltimore will no longer prosecute possession, prostitution, low-level crime
There was a truly terrible Keanu Reaves movie released in the mid 90's, Johnny Mnemonic (which I just learned was based on a William Gibson book of the same name).

I haven't watched the movie in 25 years, but from memory the premise is that corporations use human brains as organic/wetware hard drives to transfer information because hardware-only storage has largely maxed out or would be too cumbersome for information smuggling.

In the movie, the base storage capacity of the human brain is said to be 80gb, though the protagonist is able to increase his storage capacity to 320gb by using a cybernetic implant and agreeing to dump a bunch of his childhood memories to make extra room.

This seemed like a ludicrous amount of data to 10 year old me. Our recently purchased top of the line 486 had a 400MB hard drive, so the amount of data stored in Keanu's head was nearly 3 orders of magnitude more.

Exponential growth is a hell of thing.
Notably, quoting Wikipedia, Erdős published more papers, mostly in collaboration with other mathematicians, while Euler published more pages, mostly by himself.
It’s fascinating how divergent beliefs are with respect to where or not Donald Trump attempted to stay president after losing the election.
I host my personal static site on a vps with nginx. It's a gatsby site so deployment is just yarn deploy, which runs gatsby build and rsyncs the build folder to the server.

Granted, it took some setup to get there, but it's pretty easy now and portable too. Can easily be switched to any other service.
Ask HN: Why does “WMAF” redirect to “FNAF” on Pornhub?
My comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26597661 links to a number of overviews of the issue, including MacKay's chapter in which he covers pumped storage in about as much depth as you can possibly hope in a 20-page chapter aimed at a general audience. Go read it!
At university in London, we had a good kitchen with two stoves, two ovens, a lockable part of a huge fridge each, a lockable cupboard each, and a cleaner every day. (She would not clean up dirty dishes, but would do normal cleaning.)

I had a colander and a grater, which people probably borrowed. We bought a couple of utensils throughout the year, like a large roasting tin for Christmas Dinner. I bought scales for baking. The university gave international students a pan and other basic stuff.

There was a fancy supermarket nearby (though they had the cheapest spirits), a normal one about 15 minutes walk away, and a cheaper one 10 minutes beyond that. I usually went to the normal one.

Cooking together was great. Sharing that kitchen were people from England, Wales, Hong Kong, Jamaica, China, Italy. Friends who came by added Japan, Germany, France, Thailand.

The Welsh guy and his boyfriend were most organised, and about once a month got everyone who wanted to to help cook (or at least clean) for ~10-15. Normally, ~4 of us cooked in alternating pairs for the other 2.

Macaroni cheese would have been a bit disappointing for the lack of vegetables.

If I only had a few minutes and was eating myself, I'd prefer to use those 2 minute ramen things.

All of this seems fairly normal to me. The large group meals were only possible in 1st year with the large kitchen, but everything else continued in later years, renting houses or apartments.
It'll be new to some people every time it's posted because new people are entering the industry or signing up with HN or developing new interests every day. That's one reason I personally don't mind reposts or old content.
Hydroelectric storage is geographically dependent. You need the right topography and access to water. Likewise, hydroelectric storage takes a long time to build.
I also use a vps with nginx.

I currently just sftp in to deploy, but it would be pretty easy to set up sshfs so you wouldn't even need to open a terminal if you didn't want to.
Interesting! Do you have any idea why it's so much cheaper?
Sounds interesting, could you point to some readings on that aspect of Valve?
What Is Amazon Doing to Our Country?
I understand your point and to some extent I agree. One thing I didn't mention was I was "upstairs" and not in the field due to health issues. Believe me when I say I wasn't putting any undue burden on anyone by going this route.

The other thing is we were allowed to take as much vacation as we had saved up. The only criteria to take it was you had to schedule it more than 7 days out AND only a certain amount of people could be off at anyone time. Scheduling time off was automated so it would only could get it if you met those 2 criteria.

There were many people who thought it was a horrible place to be (in the field). I was not one of them. It was probably the best 14 years of my life. But I could not wait to get away from being "upstairs".

If this had been a traditional 9-5, office setting then I definitely would not have done it this way. And honestly no one bats an eye at this at this department. It wasn't that long ago if you turned your 2 week notice in and they found out you were going to another department they would usually just tell you not to show up the next shift. That was a different time with different management.
I'm using https://vercel.com/ or https://www.netlify.com/
How did Ars compare this to the Ouya but not the Nvidia Shield Handheld (and many other clones?) Anyway, it's a budding market, and the number of Android games that are (a) Not awful and (b) make full use of joysticks/buttons increases every day.
So I've been watching these Van build outs into full time living vans for travel. Most of them have solor panels on the roof, and 3 two hundred watt batteries. One guy said it would take him 23 days to fully charge these batteries off of solar vs just a few hours to charged them from the alternator when he is driving. It just doesn't seem very practical at this point. They all seem to have 2 or 3 thousand watt panels on the roof. Is he correct? How does the math work here? How long should it take for a 1000 Watt panel to charge a two hundred watt battery?
But solar would effectively level the playing field. Countries would become interdependent upon one another for energy rather than being dependent.
I've still never figured out why people bother making a roux, unless it's because they like that mediocre flavor.

Just using the same Kraft Dinner technique, except using real cheese cubed instead of the orange powder, is the best tasting and easiest method.
If your only constraint is the lowest possible home price, your best bet would be to get a tent from Academy and set up somewhere around 610 and Galleria.
Having just had a site that went to the top of Hacker News and got a very sudden spike of traffic, I'd highly recommend Vercel.

It's super quick to set up, and you can have a mix of static/dynamic content on the same site.
And so will you then become a gradually worse leader as some of those engineering skills start to atrophy? The unfortunate truth is that you won't have the focus time to do large scale engineering tasks any more, unless you neglect your leadership responsibilities.
bureaucracies are beautifully animated things to watch if you look for the incredible ways they'll self heal and react to negate any kind of threat to their preferred definition of their own integrity.
The way my mom did it(and how I cooked it last night) does not even use a real roux: after dumping the pasta water, stir in chopped butter and then shredded cheese directly. The pasta's hot so everything melts in moments. This makes a non-creamy mac, but it's equally edible in my estimate.
Shipping costs from China, who is the source of key materials?
I was a compulsive reader at 11 and read everything she wrote but still wanting more I searched the adult card catalog section and was delighted to find "Wifey!" Well there's a chapter where the protagonist has an affair which is described in both physical and mental details. Let's just say my mind isn't the only thing that was blown!

RIP Beverly you were loved!
I didn't know the F-35 was also designed to be poetic
I'll go one step further: were it not for self-hosting since the early 2000s, I probably wouldn't have a career. My first "server" was a Pentium laptop with no screen. Now I run thousands of servers for a company you've probably heard of.
The devs don't work for the Stockholm region nor the government. They are contractors. Stockholm is notorious for terrible fragmented outsourcing programs
You also have NetBSD. WireGuard is going to be available with release 10.0 and the default MTA is Postfix.
NetBSD is a low profile BSD, but very capable.
This particular narrative keeps getting posted, and I’m not sure why. Why give oxygen to the literal definition of a baseless assertion?
With respect, this does not belong on hackernews.
What's the difference between the US and a despotic regime? We have a gulag system. There is a degree of legal nihilism that borders on lawlessness. For example, the DOJ charged someone with a federal crime for throwing an imported tequila bottle. When the laws mean anything and nothing, you have rule by fiat. There's corruption everywhere...
>By comparison the entire world produces ~300 GWh worth of lithium ion battery annually.

And this will increase a hundredfold to make EV production possible.

That means that if 10% of production goes to stationary storage then within 10 years, we'll have 10 full global hours of storage.

If there's serious demand then the supply will scale up to create it.

Also, old EV batteries will provide plenty of extra stationary storage. Not to mention batteries still in EVs, in a pinch.

Realistically we won't throw insane amounts of storage at the problem. We'll make demand more flexible so it does work when electricity is cheap and eases off when it becomes more expensive.

For instance, something like heating: why store the electricity for heating? Wouldn't it make more sense for a house to have some form of heavily-insulated thermal mass that it can massively heat when electricity is dirt cheap, then tap into at midnight without drawing power? Storing heat is cheap, you just need a giant block of concrete with solid insulation. You don't need fancy nanoscale tech like with lithium-ion.

Even something like a kettle: the hot water taps you see at companies that are pre-heated. Have a home-version. Insulate the shit out of that and do 90% of the boiling with peak electricity.

And that's not even touching industrial power usage.

Trying to ape past systems that were based on flat electricity prices just seems like a failure of imagination. Of course it would be expensive, but why the heck would you even want to?
Where is yammer popular? I worked at a place that signed our corporate accounts to that service. It looked like a knock off corporate Facebook at the time. I had figured it withered and died but I’ve heard of it again multiple times recently. Though I still know of no one that actually uses it or has heard of it.
The Ghosts in the Data
geocities!! ops. sorry, wrong century
Sure, if you engage in strategically idiotic wars in places where there is tacit agreement with the other super power that it is ok, that might happen. But it was not actually relevant.

The reason the US never invaded the North was because of nuclear weapons. And the reason these wars were thought in strategically irrelevant places like Vietnam and Afghanistan is because of this tacit agreement between nuclear powers.

If you are designing an overall grand strategy where you are willing to send 10s of citizens to their death for marginal strategic value, then such a situation might happen.

There are however other strategies you can follow.

> After the nuke has been deployed, land forces would need to be deployed to take the area cleared by the nuke, and air forces would be required to support those land forces.

Great plan to have your infantry walk into the nuclear wasteland.
There's a massive difference between tracking your every web search, page visit, email keyword, location IRL, and tracking when your apps crash in an Operating System.
I've never looked at the "Mac & Cheese" (though I think I've seen in a shop for American expats). I assumed you just poured water over it, or something.

Are you saying you still need butter and milk to make it?

In which case, the real thing only requires having cheese (which keeps a fairly long time), flour and pasta (both keep indefinitely) in addition.
There’s usually a fair few features that can be incorporated into demand prediction: trend, seasonality (daily, weekly, monthly..), special events (e.g. Easter eggs selling faster near Easter), weather, restocking time etc.

I imagine you could get decent improvements in prediction accuracy using a more sophisticated ML model.

That said even the simple sale velocity model you describe has learnable parameters (e.g. historical data window length). This would probably be best done using an ML rather than ad hoc approach. An ML approach might be as simple as a logistic model indicating whether an item will be in stock or out of stock based on time of day + stock levels at the start of the day.
how much weed do u need to smoke to get to this area of wikipedia
> Representation matters, we’re the problem.

Bold claims, not much explanation. If the amount of privileged, white, male, socially awkward people in a project would clearly correlate with its popularity or success I am sure people like the author would have shouted it from the rooftops long ago. I wonder if the author talked to one of the minorities he finds too underrepresented to see what they think of RMS, and what their real reasons and motivations are. Because, as much as he likes to throw all "privileged white males" into the same bucket and all the minorities into another one(both with the usual obvious connotations), opinions differ and reality usually disagrees with this binary good vs. evil thinking.

Meanwhile the obvious explanation, that a decades old complex project written in a language with decreasing popularity might not attract many contributors in general, is ignored.

> This is not a court of law. So many are pointing in the same direction that you cannot ignore the implication.

Yes, the majority is always right! Let's just get rid of the guy who sometimes didn't know when to shut up, and maybe later consider why the court of law's principles were introduced in the first place. Flawless reasoning.
They've drastically increased the momentum of scrolling. Scroll a tiny bit and it will keep moving the entire length of the page.
Government organizations are terrified about open source initiatives. There's something strange about it.

You could volunteer to do all the work and they'll still oppose you at every turn.

My hope is that we'll reach a stage where citizen participatory programming is normal for all. Where my dad could offer a PR to fix a typo on a government page casually as he browses it.

I have a feeling we're not far off but you need it to happen in a place with low entrenched interests but with sufficient enlightenment.

I think big US cities have the latter but not the former, and authoritarian developing nations lack both the former and the latter. So maybe smaller Western nations like Estonia.

Or, my biggest hope, sufficiently advanced townships in America.
I'd feel better if the mob cited his lifetime of shittiness, rather than focusing on exactly one incident. My favorite was when he gloated over Steve Jobs' death the day after he died: http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#06_October_20...
Mathematics is infinite.
Microsoft's past doesn't hurt me, I'm not living in 1999. Google is tracking users today.
> Richard Ortiz was fired after the incident , but because Tesla did not have standing rules against browsing employees' profiles on Workday or screenshotting them , apparently that's not allowed.

The real question is if they'd have been fired for doing that if they weren't a union organizer. And perhaps more importantly, whether you'd be able to convince a judge that looking up co-workers on an internal directory and/or posting about them privately on Facebook is always a firable offense.
Sleeping Tabs in Microsoft Edge for Memory Management
Good reminder to give to https://allfed.info/ again.
As is typical, the blog post correctly identifies issues with iOS and Safari, but in many cases presents misleading, inflammatory, or just plain incorrect information.

Here are some things that are correct:

1. Apple would prefer that you write native apps.

2. WebKit on iOS is missing many features that natives apps have.

3. Allowing third-party rendering engines is not a security vulnerability, contrary to Apple's claims. In many cases it actually improves security for users.

4. Apple's rhetoric around anything to do with the App Store is generally self-contradictory and embarrassing.

Here's what's wrong:

1. Apple underinvests in their browser: they most decidedly do not. They do choose to work on things they want to work on, but WebKit is not lacking on engineering talent.

2. "Native apps" are somehow ambiguous and hard to define: they are not, it's been pretty clear that you are using the blessed OS framework and language to create them. The only confusion has been from people wrapping up various shims in minimal native glue and calling it "native", sowing confusion.

3. Apple's choices in what to implement are done without regards to user experience: it's fairly clear that this is not true. The web platform has shown that poorly thought out features come back to be privacy nightmares, and it is important to consider additions before including them in a browser. There are features that could ostensibly be added in a way that helps resolve these concerns, but it is not fair to discuss them as being trivial to implement or privacy posturing–even if they happen to benefit the native app ecosystem.

The rest of the piece is much of the same with cherry-picked links and thinly-veiled agenda, so I'm not going to spend too much time going over all of it, but I think it's pretty obvious that Alex Russell has a pretty clear position he wants to push (get native APIs into web apps on iOS) because of his current employment (Project Fugu for Chrome). He correctly identifies many failures in the iOS web ecosystem but in the pursuit of pushing his point fails to address multiple major issues, including actual privacy concerns in the APIs he pushes and the internal contradiction of "the web is safe and sandboxed, so let's put a bunch more API surface in it to make it like native apps, which are security nightmares". It's a nuanced issue and this post lacks much.
With respect, you are the one in violation of the guidelines:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
Electric kettles aren't that rare here in the states...
Oddly I was reading David Allen Green today who had this article https://davidallengreen.com/2021/03/you-say-you-want-a-writt... showing that there is a written constitution for the UK.
HP Z400 series got the microcode updates, so it was actually up to your vendor.
I've been thinking about mass famine in modern times.

When covid came we suddenly had a mask problem. We were focused on getting them to the medical professionals. And then in what I consider to be one of humanity's most impressive abilities, we adapted, cranked up production, and solved that problem.

Can we do the same with food?

Say we have some extreme of extremes weather or disease events that wipe out food supplies everywhere. How fast could we muster some solution that doesn't involve waiting a growing season?