skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think the greater point is that we all watched nearly all of US government and all of US media take the opposite side to the Trump administration on this purely on a political basis."

That's what you wrote. I'm not distorting anything. You seem to want to limit Trump's responsibility to his communication skills. He owned COVID, it was his administration, his Cabinet, the GOP controlled Senate, his CDC where he installed a leader that had huge question marks even before the pandemic. It was assigning his son in-law to the COVID task force. It was his touting quack solutions because he lacked the critical thinking to actually listen to medical professionals.

"Prior administrations" had issued warnings about the potential for this type of pandemic. Warnings that were ignored. (Echoes of 9/11).

You can claim I'm distorting your message, but your message is incoherent and ignoring the facts.
"surviving a winter"

Yeah many are just growing a layer of fat and hybernating. Hence the obecity rates
To OO or not OO seems like more of a religious preference about functional containment: either at the module level or at the type level. This is why neither seems to satisfy everyone and why there are flame wars about it.

On one side there is loose coupling between types and functions, and the other side has strong coupling. On one side, types can be composed simply and the other involves inheritance, overloading, and polymorphic rules.

Go, Haskell, and Idris are arguable examples of good type systems whereas languages like Python and Erlang have weak type systems. I wouldn't wish C++ on my worst enemy, but that's a religious preference not shared by all. Pascal without OO had a nice type system.
Property disputes cause huge amounts of distress and financial cost in England, partly because ownership of boundaries is unclear. Some people spend years and tens of thousands of pounds arguing over that 1 foot strip of land.

For the other stuff we have "party wall" laws which help a bit.

> Want to build a shed in your backyard? Your local zoning rules probably say it has to be 10-15 feet away from the property boundary.

In England you can build a shed right up to the boundary. Potentially you can have bits (like guttering) that overhang the boundary. I think this site is a nice explanation of how complex it can get: https://www.lyonsdavidson.co.uk/can-homeowners-overhanging-e...
Surely then there is a watercraft that leans neither? What do we call that!?
For the comparison, average nuclear power plant produces 1000MW around the clock.

The goal of Australia batteries was to normalize short production/consumption fluctuations, not as general universal battery storage to deal with renewable uneven production.
>There is an increasing crisis in the UK of negative electricity prices

It seems like an opportunity more than a crisis to me.

There are tons of potential applications for "free" electricity.

* Storage heating/cooling that's basically free

* Manufacturing carbon neutral jet fuel

* Cheaper aluminium production

It could also lead to onshoring of certain industries which previously moved to locales with access to cheap electricity. This would make supply chains more robust.

Some people are gonna get rich off this - partly because more people view it as a threat than an opportunity.
None beyond the ama/username link That spare_account provided. It’s been 4-5 years at least, most of the stuff i read was about his work on the shuttle, people arguing with him about various engineering topics.
There's a table at the bottom of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... that shows some reasons why.
It sounded like they were intended to drop them on land, where one would hope no ships would be hitting them. 'Lost' would be referring to the likely chance that once put on the desert they wouldn't be retrieved.
To be fair, those 4 may well be all the people who actually read the article.
"If Your Boss Could Do Your Job"

Anecdote: in one of the law firms whole departments were sent to LWOP due COVID-19 and department heads had to do all the work themselves. They found out that they are perfectly capable of singlehandedly doing the job of the whole department.

My take: if your boss can do your job, you're not needed.
I think you are overestimating the inconvenience of paying at or near the destination. Most passengers will have smart phones with them, most of which support NFC payments. Double tap the side button on your iPhone (or whatever is equivalent on non-Apple phones), hold it near the reader for two seconds, and you are done.

Heck, a large fraction of the passengers won't even have to reach into their pocket to get their phone because they'll have been doing stuff on it during the ride.

Even for those who have to use an actual physical credit card I don't think it would be enough of a barrier to make a noticeable difference because they are also using that card for nearly everything else. It's so routine that they don't think about it or notice it. I don't think I've ever heard anyone complain about the complexity of paying by credit card at a non-waited restaurant, a grocery store, a hardware store, or any other retail place.

Also, note that with this approach the co-op would not have to make riders create accounts and associate payment information with them. That removes some complexity for the user, and is one less thing to deal with when the user gets a new credit card.
There is no free trade. Trade sanctions are used left and right for political goals.
To which I say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Blue_Marlin#/media/File:MV_...

Clearly, Arleigh Burkes are boats.
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In summary the two useful measures of unicode length are:

* Number of native (preferably UTF-8) code units

* Number of extended grapheme clusters

The first is useful for basic string operations. The second is good for telling you what a user would consider a "character".
Yep, can't argue with that.

Still, for the cloud I started preferring going for Rust (where applicable!) and optimizing the hell out of the performance hot-spots. So far the results have only been crushing successes. Horizontal scaling has been employed only as a means of backup instances with a load balancer in front of them. And for blue/green deployments.

Horizontal scaling hasn't been at all necessary otherwise. A $25 instance never got north of 15% CPU for one of the services I rewrote. I/O utilization never got beyond 60% and is usually 3-5%.

But I can agree that the cloud has unquestionable benefits. It's just that I feel that their number is gradually dwindling.
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Because Scotland isn't its own grid, it's on the UK national grid, it was to differentiate that from HVDC export.
You make a good point: He’s discussing how pleasant it is to have fact-based facts. All the other facts are politicized, and require reverse-minding, and it’s tiring.

But the cognitive dissonance is entirely created by having people denying a fact. Some people say “Let’s take revenge on X because of ideology Y”, a person P says “I’m going to take revenge on X”, P commits planned murder, someone says “He did it because X” and the AFP (or AP) issues a fact-check saying it is not true (generally because the link between X, Y and P is not established, and sometimes using other arguments like statistical insignificance or because he’s himself a victim of Y, therefore Y made him do it involuntarily).

Other examples such as “Women are the primary victims of wars because men die a lot.” It takes a mental toll to accept both the idea that men are primary victims and not primary victims. Our world is full of this.

These sorts of shenanigans create side-effect that annoy you such as Facebook, Reddit and 4chan.

But you all agree around the same problem: The politicization of facts makes that they get twisted into their opposite, and cognitive dissonance is very tiring.
I guess we'll never know.
But can’t they just ride the coattails of the big players? Once they’ve lobbied their way in, shouldn’t it be pretty easy for the coop to just say they should be treated the same?

For that matter, I always wonder why Airbnb still exists. Now that they’ve bulldozed all sorts of local regulations with their VC money, why wouldn’t a coop model work better for the actual landlords? Something akin to the MLS for real estate, for local operators of short term rentals.
Would it though? The cluster has more cores (each PI4 has a quad core), so for certain workloads it seems like it could realistically beat a single 8-core with higher clocks.

As always, a benchmark is the only thing that will prove it.
If there wasn't a conspiracy theory that says the bot isn't actually stuck and its all being faked by (them), then after enough people read this, there sure will be one. There goes your wishful thinking that we all agree on one thing for once.

BTW the first time I read that "it was made on purpose and not an accident"-theory, was literally minutes after I head about the whole thing.
There is and never will be anything we humans all agree on. And quite frankly I dont see why anyone would strive to find something with universal agreement, if its so meaningless like this one. Its not like we could build common ground on this.
Very reasonable approach, I like it.
Of course the article is trying to induce shame; that’s the whole point, to be persuasive that rebase is “harmful”. I believe @SQLite disagrees with you.

“Throwing the word "lying" into an argument like this counts as name-calling and flamebait in the sense that the site guidelines use these terms. It leads to distracting, shallow, and therefore more boring conversation. Would you mind reviewing the rules and please not do that? Let's stay focused on exchanging what we're curious about.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19886216

Name calling only reflects rather poorly on you, and suggests you aren’t able to articulate a response. I’m not the first or the last person to advocate being more honest on this topic.
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> 1) It's not intended to be a Real Solution(tm). It's intended to buy the admin some time to solve the Real Issue.

It doesn't do that though. If you don't have monitoring/alerting that can either a) give you sufficient notice that you're trending out of disk space, b) take action on its own (e.g. defensively shutting down the machine), or c) both of the above, then having your server disks fill up is bad whether you have a ballast file or not.

If your database server goes to 100%, you can't trust your database anymore whether you could ssh in and delete an 8GB file or not.

That's it.
I'm working on https://Contact.do - contact form in a link

Whenever I wanted to share my email on forums, I was reluctant. That's when I came up with the idea for Contact.do . It can also be used on personal sites

What do you think?
Yeah, it works both ways. Otherwise we wouldn't have competing alternatives to discuss (Uber, cooperatives, taxi companies, solo cabbies... I hear that in Russia it's customary to hail any car on the street and pay for a ride, with obvious safety drawbacks of course)

What you're describing can happen anywhere there is a PoS terminal. I guess a sketchy cabbie has the benefit of being able to drive away before you realize what happened (and it could be harder to see the card machine when sitting in a car as opposed to e.g. paying at a desk in a shop?)

Nevertheless, "we let users order and pay for rides with an app" is a part of the business model which is totally distinct from "we'll make sure users never get screwed by fucking with the workers". Which does have an obvious advantage in terms of customer retention though - especially if your customers are petty bourgeois knowledge workers who want to benefit from an "on-demand" lifestyle and to distance themselves from the people doing the actual gig.

Not to mention, Uber probably has more data on your ass than what a single fraudulent transaction entails (for which you can at least issue request chargeback). It's up to them to handle it responsibly, and they have failed to do so at least once (the 2017 hack). Just like every SV company that keeps screwing up but people still love them because all those beautiful apps make their expensive smartphones a little less pointless.
Sure, and at this same time Europe still hadn’t, Nancy Pelosi was telling everyone to come party with her in SF Chinatown, Biden was still running campaign events, and the CDC was saying masks are ineffective.

Most people didn’t realize how bad covid was going to get, even the experts.
Been looking for an excuse to use it, this might just be the one. :)
Of course, but the government has commited prices (>£100/MWh) for wind. You have to pay them at least that to compensate, otherwise they won't stop producing. Which is going to get extremely expensive quickly.
That's different - you're paying the government to choose between different service levels; not the individual official.
> It adds so much more to think about for what I now consider to be no benefit

That's my problem with OO too. It encourages people to add unnecessary mutable state to programs and then they have to think about it interacting with everything else and with itself.

When you realize most systems are actually pretty simple once you look at the fundamental data and how it changes and ignore all the architecture built around it - it's a very freeing experience.

> This is not to say there aren't good use-cases for OO (video games come to mind)

Gamedev is currently moving away from traditional OO towards Entity Component System - which is basically a in-memory relational database for your data + imperative code put into classes that are basically modules :)
I don't mind if my boss can't do my job. I mind if my boss can't do my job AND tells me how I should do it.

The major difference there is one is support and tracking, the other is just incompetent in all areas if management.
The Google keyboard on Android (and, I think iOS) already lets you do this[1]. Go to the emoji picker on the keyboard and select an emoji or two. You get 4-5 suggestions of randomly added modifiers for the selected emoji.

https://9to5google.com/2020/12/03/gboard-emoji-kitchen-expan...
Don't want to talk about what police are (actually) legally obligated to do then?
This shouldn't be a mystery to someone who's had a datastructures course. It's a fundamental data structure. Yes, optimization always goes down a rabbit-hole, but Knuth's "Algorithms in C" was mandatory in most engineering schools' CS degrees in the early 90's, and it essentially what this website describes, but with more rigor.
There's reasons beyond just legality. If you are in a company which has a culture of firing people at any moment for no (obvious)reason, you're going to see high turnover and low morale as nobody wants to work with an axe over their heads, particularly in an industry where it's hard to replace people.
The difference in price, and negative prices, can make things like generating hydrogen or other energy storage more economic.
Seems like the risk assessment wasn't good if hitting the bank results in this kind of outcome.
I'm the UK. I pay 14.97p/kWh (which includes tax).

The average UK household uses about 3,800 kWh per year.
I still remember how suprised I was when I saw Jim's familiar face in "8088 Domination" credits. He's a co-founder of MobyGames, to which I dedicated several years of my youth and still remember fondly. If you read this, thank you.
There’s probably some happy medium between super-generic and super-specific in many cases.
I've noticed credit unions in the US are like this. They are generally locally operated, but they have formed networks so that you can e.g. go into a branch in Maryland and perform transactions on your account held in Georgia. They have also banded together to develop credit union apps, since banking apps are essentially universal in function. Reaching critical mass for these ride hailing apps would be a challenge, but it is possible.
For that matter, the S.S. Minnow had a crew and is referred to as a ship, but wouldn't meet the lifeboat definition proposed elsewhere.
The ship is accelerating as it's lifted though, right?
The fascinating thing about the UK is that there is no land value tax. Some people say that council tax is the UK equivalent - but it only applies to furnished dwellings. This means that a lot of land owners in the UK sit on large valuable pieces of land at almost no cost to themselves.
His bio is not mentioned in the opinion piece. Maybe that’s no biggie, but we’re in an era where the last relevant Secretary of State received a medal from Russia.

Press on the meeting also describe Blinken as harsh. But USA foreign policy is coming out of an explicitly transactional design and into “rules”. Fuller dances around that and devotes some energy to describe the last 20 years as if the last four were normal.
> BTW how do GPUs solve the concurrent bus access you mention, with many cores are writing pixels?

Batching and buffering with spatial locality so that you can stream out relatively large bursts of pixels.
Yes, if the user grans the site permission.

https://web.dev/async-clipboard/
20 years ago, when I shared some code with the world, because it worked for me and i hoped others might benefit from it; that was all i was doing. Today, it seems, there's implied responsibilities to your users in that situation.

Not only must the code be well organized, run perfectly, and handle all users needs; I myself must be of proper moral character, never have publicly uttered words that could be considered objectionable, and fully willing to endorse the fashionable fascism of the day.

... I don't buy it. I think that "hey this solves my problem" is viable and code doesn't carry the stain of its creators. We don't need to know or care who wrote our favorite text editor, they might be wonderful people or they might be gnarly gnomes dripping ichor; "here's the tool, it works" is sufficient knowledge to judge the tool.
> Yes, the point with selling electricity is that you need to guarantee that you will deliver some fixed amount of electricity

Surely this can change, no? You'd just have to sell it at a cheaper rate to make up for the fact that the other side has to ramp up/down other sources to accomodate your changes in volume.
“As long as the reason is not illegal (e.g. firing because of the employee's race, religion or sexuality.)”

While the odds of someone sueing a company for that are very high, the costs are also extremely high. Companies do extensive performance evaluations, performance improvement plans etc, to minimize the potential for wrongful dismissal lawsuits.
To tack on to this, I have seen and I like seeing set a 5/10 year career plan and from that, back out a six month and one year plan.

Why? Because I want to make sure that I know what that person's career aspirations are and I want to help them! Some folks want to stay a line engineer and do bench work, some want to grow into manager positions, some want to go back to school to get a Masters/PhD. Sitting down with someone to show the steps they need to take and what to do to reach that goal helps them.

Additionally, sometimes opportunities pop up short notice (like a scholarship in my company pops up to go back to school, but is a short notice turn around time), I already know if this is something an individual is interested in or not.
Sadly these 'negative' prices aren't available to regular people. Only a select few who can trade on the spot market can use them.

If regular people could get paid to switch on space heaters, the negative prices would soon go away.
I dream of the day when a modern nation-state's expenses can be paid by land value tax and land value tax alone.
The comment wasn't about China when I first wrote it. It expanded a lot in 1-2 edits. In all honesty, I didn't plant any implicit meaning into my comment.

I'm not suggesting abandoning the intention of being the good guy. Instead, I suggest to stop using it as a shield or plausibility cover for misdeeds. Instead I suggest the viewpoint of "Hey, we're trying to be good, but we fail sometimes. Let's accept it and collectively try to construct a better good, which is fair and equal to everyone, as much as possible." I think this is workable and can be iterated upon to make a better world (I know it's very hard, but it's not impossible).

Morality and ethics is universal. They're hugely important values to build upon, but interpreting them according to one's desires or in a subjective light, without empathy, makes them hollow. Again, a lot of misdeeds can be conducted by abusing these very important values.

I deliberately don't give any examples, because the examples may derail the conversation and take the spotlight to the examples themselves. All possible examples and evaluation of them is left to the reader, as a multi-faceted mental exercise.

Hope this clears my intentions a bit.
Yeah, great point. I like this report showing that rapidly decarbonizing will create 25 million jobs, save the average American household $2000 per year, and improve the quality of life of everyone:

"How to create 25 million jobs by decarbonizing the economy" - https://www.fastcompany.com/90533448/how-to-create-25-millio...
I was referring to Silicon valley salaries, obviously you would need ~ 50-100 people or such. At current scale of Uber, if they charged just a penny (instead of the 20-30% they currently do) They would make 16 million dollars which could pay 100 people an average of 100K per year, they could spend $4M on infrastructure and still make $2M in profit despite being not much more than a payment processor and app provider (like square or shopify)
They bill more than 200X that on average.
> that says the bot isn't actually stuck

Nailed it right there
This is what I like about engineering... The problem is there, right in front of you. It can be a very difficult problem, but at least it's right there, you can see it and measure it and talk about it without debating the underlying facts of the problem.

Edit: I'll rephrase... I like that the problem is tangible. It may not always be obvious. :)
If you're competing in a winner-take-all market, it is very difficult to compete without shooting for domination. I don't know if digital ride hailing is a winner-take-all market, but there's pretty compelling evidence it could be.

But I also don't think that commenter is disagreeing with you - when they say huge value, they're probably gesturing towards the fact that consumers will generally use whatever the most convenient and recognizable brand is. It will be hard for the coop to achieve a core customer base which allows them to survive if everyone gets off the plane and uses Uber instead of looking for the local coop.
I've traveled backpacker-style and off the track etc in quite a few countries, many of them really poor.

Egypt has by far been the worst place to visit when it comes to the locals. >50% of all money transactions (eg booking a tour, or buying water in a small shop, ...) the seller tried to scam me, whether it was ridiculous overcharge, bait and switch, not the right change, ....

Worst was the idiots around tourist attractions, like camel riders close to the pyramids in Cairo, but a security guard with AK-47 at the airport wasn't pleasant either. He said plainly he wanted baksheesh or our baggage would be overweight.

We got the tip to buy an arabic newspaper and carry it with me visible but not in a pointing-it-out manner. The idea is that people see it and think I know the ways. Worked, a bit.
https://www.cybersecq.com writing practice questions for various infosec certifications and posting them to the website. It aims to help visitors practice for their certifications.
They never specified Chinese dissidents, but they did intend for it to get used by dissidents. And journalists.