skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, they seem to have bounced back from the conspicuous lack of a blood-tide of rural vengeance sweeping the nation on the heels of Trump's "true" election and revelation of the Democratic Satanic Marxist Pedophile Conspiracy on the 4th alright.

That's good, I know they were really emotionally invested in finally getting their revolution after botching the insurrection. QAnons on HN were like excited kids waiting for Christmas eve, making veiled threats here and there, so excited about finally getting their revenge against leftists and Democrats and BLM and effete city-dwellers. They probably stayed up all night polishing the poles of their racist flags and marching back and forth in their basements like little soldiers, visions of AOC dancing in their heads (from a gallows.) I was actually a little worried for them when reality crushed their febrile delusions yet again.

Good to see those crazy kids haven't lost their spunk.
Even though I've been skeptical about Google's "Project Zero" thing ever since they used it to attack a competitor[1], this seems like more of a fuck up by the intelligence agency than by Google.

Even if Google is legally obligated to ignore cyber attacks by allied nations, who's to say that they are even capable of accurately attribution?

1: https://www.zdnet.com/article/fortnite-epic-games-ceo-rails-...
It could be that the original poster was literal, but more likely it is that the person has 50 people total under them. So there are 8 teams of 5 people, each with their own manager, and while the managers are direct reports, likely all of them are considered to be managed by the original poster. A good higher-level manager likes to maintain contact and stay involved with everyone underneath them, probably weighted by the seniority of the individuals.
It shouldn't be a distraction.

You should understand what you are working on, how it is progressing and what is the goal of certain things. You need to know how to align yourself with goals of your company and the impact of the products you are developing.

Honestly, I don't appreciate anyone not taking any stake in what they are working on. This transient attitude makes it hard to trust people to understand fully or even want to understand problems that need to be solved. I can understand if someone is new and doesn't know what to do for a product. Of course, in this case, your first goal is: learn and ask (good) questions. After that, I would not be happy to give you constantly basic advice on your own tasks.

So, this is not just a managerial problem. You get paid to work on problems, to develop an insight on those problems and to think independently on those problems.

With that out of the way, when the company itself is unsure what to do next, then it can become a distraction, because it could mean that even top management doesn't know what exactly to do. I've had this happen and that's frustrating. I can talk all day what I could do, but nothing can stick if you don't get a clear idea what top management wants to do.
Actual pirate here! Good idea, we'll get right on it.
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the "kit" business model as a side-gig is really attractive to me. hardware designers who create some neat cartridge or modchip, order a few thousand blank pcbs, and sell the blanks along with a link to order all the components from digikey. the overhead for this business model is very low; pcbs don't take much room to store and managing orders at that scale is relatively simple. best of all: due to economies of scale, you can open source your hardware design without making much of a dent in your sales. since you bulk-ordered the pcbs, you can sell them cheaper than it would cost someone to make their own from your schematics (and you still turn a profit).

now if only i knew more about hardware design...
UWO’s are new and Abramovich has said he’s bailing on the UK

I don’t think his purchase would work today
Wkhtmltopdf is slow, inconsistent between platforms and can lead to leakage of sensitive informations on the server (an iframe pointing to file:///etc/passwd).

Cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17566887
The only mainstream media I consume is occasionally CBC. The sentiment I hear is from high school friends in Northwestern Ontario and folks I know out in Alberta and BC. In my personal opinion, we already have lots of crown corps in Canada, using them to put solar farms in Nunavut and offshore wind generation on the East and West coasts are just fine by me, faster we transition that way the better as far as I'm concerned.
It was in a very hot market (hot specialty at the time in Eastern Europe, where there's a ton of hiring pretty much no firing yet - we're the destination where a lot of the outsourced work from Western Europe and the US ends up in). So, they didn't retain me with counteroffer only because I had specific project knowledge, but also because realistically hiring a replacement would be a pain.
I'd agree on the architecture astronauts, but it would still be useful to see some good open source code bases using Svelte beyond the "todo list" level. For example:

- has a test suite

- integration with some backend framework (including secure auth)

- complex global state management requirements

- routing
>Nowhere in that link, nor the article on PubMed describes PMC as a part of PubMed

Yes, this is why I'm confused why you'd dispute the PubMed annual budget by posting PMC budget.

PubMed is much bigger and more widely used (NIH data shows it), and it gives free access to lots of papers, gene databanks, and other public sources.
From a random article I found:

>The baseless theory was given further credence — in the minds of QAnon followers at least — when it emerged that the ship’s call sign was “H3RC” which is close enough to Clinton’s own initials (HRC) for QAnon followers to make the link.

What's with conspiracy types thinking that an all-powerful organization is behind these conspiracies, yet they're incompetent enough to drop these clues so people would find out?
I don't know why this post has so many downvotes. Kingdom building has come to developer teams. You no longer see large dev teams that collaborate really well, instead you see silos and pizza teams. No one talks, everything becomes a political turf war, and the end result is everyone taking their ball and going home. Higher ups don't understand the complexity of the stack, they just hear we're constantly shipping new things--that has to be good? New is better than maintenance right?

Microservices are just managers codifying the boundaries of their kingdom.
Physicist 3D-printed a Lamborghini because his son liked one (2019)
In my experience, these are top-down directed management fads. For personal goals to work, the company must allocate some of your time to achieve them. When push comes to shove and it is work on your goals or your manager's/team's goals, the team's goals win.
Yes, there are established churches in several countries, England being one example.

There's a list here for your reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_state
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That's so true about playing with language...

We had a resident with Downs who needed assistance every day ...

But he got tired always asking "You help me?"...
and started saying "I help you!" (and laughed)...

We knew what he meant & came over ... he got a kick out of swapping his pronouns :)
I think the article was advocating more for not disclosing the vulnerabilities and silently patching them. So the vuln goes away but no fingers are pointed.

Which is also a silly argument; enough security researchers will watch the updates/patches and immediately spot the vulnerabilities, then accuse Google of brushing it under the carpet and being in bed with govt.

Not patching is not doable.

Patching silently is not doable.

Vendors should do what google did. All of them.
I guess my assumption is that if you're constantly trying to find the injustice in the world, that must get you mad, because the world and history are so full of injustice.
Because it is: it's either enforced by the police, or by some other group that will fall back to calling the police if you don't go along with their enforcement.
Hot take: If simply arguing about definitions of terms could break the hype cycle, technology hype cycles would have died out in the 1990s.
Grid storage is such an interesting topic to me. We are all used to energy storage at a small scale (phone batteries, even electric cars) but the challenges of needing to store such vast amounts of energy seems like an almost impossible task, even the large Tesla battery in AU only seems to be used to help smooth the grid supply. It seems that the Scottish landscape might lend itself to more Hydro but that'll be an uphill fight with locales/environmentalists.

Sometimes I wonder if it would make more sense for individual properties to have their own powerwall type devices to soak up the oversupply during those windy days but in reality the cost of getting one installed is so high that I can't imagine enough people ever doing it, let alone the organization and co-ordination that would be needed from the energy companies.
A fundamental question I haven't seen addressed: if Google' security/threat analysis/whatever team can find evidence of "counterterrorism" 0days in the wild, what's to stop "terrorists" to find those 0days used in the wild as well and reuse them ? Or simply non-allied states that would use them against allied targets ?
Also known as the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
It's a post about emojis, but I feel like I understand Unicode better now?
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Thank you for adding value to my comment by adding details that would help a reader judge for themselves the validity of the summary. I will have to take a closer look, and encourage other readers to do so as well.
It's a tool to get more ROI per employee. Employees compete for promotion or bonus with their peers to appear better performer within given framework. And produce extra value for the shareholders. And this framework turns into a game which experienced people can play to get more benefits.
The single benefit of Uber having a global presence likely already outweighs the value of these local coops.

You can get off an airplane just about anywhere in the world and get an Uber. That’s huge value.
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I don’t think you can equate the two. ActiveX was barely sandboxed... in fact I’d like to say they were not sandboxed at all. They were native code running basically as root on your machine.

It was something that came back when Microsoft was still convinced the internet would be a fad. Those activeX things could do all sorts of fun exciting things on your computer.
> A company cannot fire you just like that.

In most of the US, they absolutely can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
Best thing is to not use Twitter in the first place.
> The Uber business model is: Undercut competition. Use borrowed money to sell rides under cost. Wait for all competitors to die. Jack up prices.

The interesting thing is that there is more than one startup using this model. The competition isn't the other startup; it's the other startup's investors.

I wonder how long those investors will keep on pumping money into the scheme, hoping their guy will be the last standing. Or will they ride the sunk cost fallacy all the way down?
>> Once this comes online, wind generation will often be over 100% of demand UK wide

Which is exactly what I would expect from island nations. The UK has lots of coast, which means lots of wind. That is a resource to export. The cornerstone of free trade is that some things are worth more in some places and less in others. UK has lots of wind. Maybe they can trade that for imports of luxury goods from elsewhere. If only there was a ready trading partner nearby. Maybe Canada needs power.
@tremon, not only that but the definition of "democracy" is being increasingly stretched by modern politicians. For example many will have something to say about the Trump definition of "democracy" that we saw only just recently in the US. Others might have something to say about the Johnson definition of "democracy" in the UK. Others might not exactly consider Israel a democracy given the way they treat the Palestinians on their doorstep.

People are often all to quick to jump on "democratic country" as if its a simple definition of a country that is beyond reproach. The trouble is that modern politicians spoil that rose-tinted view.
They glow in the dark.
JP Morgan? They’re infamous for bad internal IT
For more on the Apollo 13 crisis response, check out 'Apollo: Race to the Moon' by Murray and Cox. I haven't met a more detailed popular examination of the engineering and management effort behind the Apollo program, and they spend some time on the 'back room' of engineers depicted in the film.

I'm reminded of 'The Medical Detectives', Roueche, but only by reputation (I own a copy I haven't read.) "In each true story, local health authorities and epidemiologists race against time to find the clue to an unknown and possibly fatal disease."

If you interpret 'The enemy might get the bomb before we do' as a crisis, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', Rhodes, is a detailed (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) examination of how we got from discovering the atom's nucleus to the consequences of deploying city-destroying weapons in a generation or so.

You might find general systems theory interesting, maybe 'Thinking In Systems', Meadows, and/or 'An Introduction to General Systems Thinking', Weinberg.
If that's all that's keeping you back, you should check if the city/state you wish to live in has what's usually called a homestead exemption. Many places will reduce property tax if you meet a few criteria. The criteria varies, but it usually revolves around being on a fixed income and living on the property.

Florida has property tax, but they don't have an estate tax, which probably influences people to retire there...
They seem to be the product of a very dysfunctional home, so don't judge them too harshly.
I think you should read up on the differences between civil law and criminal law.
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Was this article written with GPT3? It sure reads like it....

This is what Shortlyai spat out for me:

I like it that the boat in the Suez canal is stuck,
I really do. I can't help but feel good about this,
Not for myself or because I know someone aboard,
But just because it's so nice to see orders being reversed.
Such a long process for me to travel back and forth,
Sometimes with a visa and sometimes not. It would be great if they could shake things up back home.
I like it that the boat is stuck.

I like how the people onboard are still sending their messages,
And I'm sure many of them are thinking that if they wanted to,
They could get off the boat and walk around in Ismailia or Port Said, looking for a job. It'd be great to be able to find work in Egypt, but not everyone would think it's worth all that effort. Plus if they did go ashore there might be an investigation so even if they did a little work for someone on board they might still get into trouble. I know that things will eventually calm down back home but first we'll have a few good years where people can travel freely and without much hassle.
I would personally give up half of my income to work at a cooperative. Weirdly enough, I don't see many cooperatives hiring software engineers specifically.
Hash tables are deceptively complicated, like sorting algorithms.
Agreed. Their technological moat is practically nonexistent. I honestly think things like this are the future of ridehailing, and uber and lyft will be left in the dustbin after this economic cycle of free debt ends.
And worse - not all properties are even registered: there's no complete cadastral survey. It's now compulsory to register land on sale, but there are lots of pieces that haven't been sold in decades or centuries.

This can result in some quite odd outcomes. The road outside my house, for example, isn't owned by the local council like most roads, but is 'unadopted'. It's probably owned by the descendents of the builder who laid out the road and built the houses in the 1840s, but as it would be a liability rather than an asset (and was probably forgotten about shortly after the last house was sold in any case) nobody knows who that is.

There are ways around this. We have specialised title insurance to cover the risk that the road isn't actually a right of way, and there are provisions in English & Welsh law that give responsibility for road maintenance to the frontagers (like me) if the road owner isn't known. But it's added a surprising amount of friction. If there were a 'register or lose it' provision then it's likely something sane could be worked out once the land reverted to the crown. But as it is, we're in this weird semi-purgatory forever. No way of claiming adverse possession over a road, sadly...
I know exactly what you mean, my personal tolerance is higher so I don't care as much but I think everything being customizable also makes it less solid feeling.
"They took matters into their own hands . . . ".

Dissension in the ranks ? Treason ?
Okay, fine, they have no legal obligation to engage with a violent suspect.

I guess I thought that's the context you were using the word in, here where we are discussing how the law applies to police.
Yeah, nice. I just assumed Amazon is representative of what most people would end up paying for them.

For my region, the actual distributors start at 44 EUR for 2GB and 64 EUR for 4GB.
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A local coop doesn't have to go worldwide to be meaningful.

Not all businesses shall grow indefinitely. If they can get a core customer base and hold it steady, it'd be much more valuable and impressive over time.

They try to make a living, not to dominate the world for money.
Parent post explicitly referenced "a high-tech complexity business". Agreed that "high-tech complexity" is not essential to providing a service, indeed it's often antithetical to that goal. Does help with market capture though.
I KNOW what the answer is :-P
> The global shipping industry exists to facilitate exploitation of the developing areas of the world with manufacturing capacity.

That's a such a depressing way to frame it. Look at the billion plus people global trade has lifted out of poverty.

I'm aware the intention of outsourcing manufacturing was to save money, not be altruistic, but overall it's been amazing for the people of Earth.
Electric cars are perfect for this. Connect them to the grid and the internet, and they’ll charge but also feed back as needed.
If the UK commits to their plan to convert everyone to heat pumps and electric cars, that'll take care of any excess renewable capacity. In fact, they'll be in an impossibly large energy deficit...
I seriously doubt someone NOT in an at will state CAN'T quit a job as they please, otherwise it would be indentured servitude. I think the whole 'two way street' thing is corporate spin for a system that exclusively benefits them.
Why do none of these articles about the appropriate way to organize RPCs in your service talk about technological reasons for doing an RPC? If I have a computation that has a very CPU-intensive part and a very memory intensive part, maybe I want more than one SKU/instance type involved. That’s a technical reason to do an RPC. I have a computation that doesn’t fit on any of my SKUs, gonna need some RPCs. If I have unsafe/unmanaged code for the performance sensitive part but managed code for the watchdog part, that could go either way, maybe I do IPC or maybe I use an FFI.

RPC boundaries have costs and benefits. They are a tool, not an ideal to aspire to.
One thing to also keep in mind is that it is forecast that the UK's electricity production needs to increase by 70% by 2050 just to meet demand from electric vehicles. It is said to be equivalent to 6 extra nuclear plants. [1]

As the government announced that sales of new ICE vehicles will be banned in only 9 years and most car manufacturers start unveiling their EV range in earnest I think we're going to see the shift to EV happen this decade. If so extra electricity production needs to happen now.

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-how-much-power-will-uk...
Why does “unhoused” connote a temporary state and “homeless” an intrinsic one? Why is it any more people-first? Both are combinations of two roots that are respectively synonyms - “house” and “home” have essentially the same meaning in this context, as do “un-” and “-less”.

I think the far more likely explanation is the typical euphemism treadmill: “homeless”, a neutral description, is perceived as a slur precisely because the people it describes are social outcasts, and so people wanted to stop saying it. Then stretched justifications for why “unhoused” is inherently less offensive were come up with after the fact.
I completely agree with everything you're saying, and I also agree it's not easy to switch the components of the economy out willy nilly (oil for solar or wind farms, for example) - but I do believe if we don't make a concerted effort to finish a shift of phasing out our reliance on oil and its use as our international leverage, we're going to be in a world of trouble in 40 or so years.
Amazingly the HM Land Registry [0] doesn't actually identify the ownership of all land in the UK. Specifically, land only needs to be registered when it is sold or transferred in certain ways - which puts it on the system, as it were. But there is no legal compulsion to register land that doesn't meet these transfer criteria, and such land won't be returned in a public search of the Land registry, especially for land that was last transferred before 1990 [1] when the current registration triggers were defined.

[Edit] Actually establishing who does own England is a somewhat challenging topic; see [2] for an example of one such attempt, and the list of sources that needed to be consulted.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Land_Registry

[1] https://www.gov.uk/registering-land-or-property-with-land-re...

[2] https://map.whoownsengland.org/
Most hobbies are fake accomplishments, some things are just about joy. It's always about moderation
Website owners can decide: don’t use a cert.

Users can decide: find a browser which doesn’t put importance on cert usage. You’ll find this hard to find because every browser manufacturer realizes that 99.9% of users cannot make sound security decisions, so they shouldn’t have to. Things should default to secure.

There’s a trade off between protecting users and having a 100% free and open internet. An insecure internet is untrustworthy and therefore not useful, IMO.
Modularity in imperative programming is ad hoc. It's not part of the paradigm itself like in modern functional programming, or object-based programming with interfaces and composition.
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> but the fact that almost two out of every five flags are reversible feels pretty high to me.

I think some letter-frequency analysis can probably explain it. Given the fact that certain letters are less likely both as the first slot and second (e.g., there are only 4 country codes that start with J, and 3 that end with J), the letters that can be used as both first and second characters are over-represented.

It's the same as how far more English language words can be reversed to make other valid words than you would expect if the letters were equally-frequent and arbitrarily arranged.