skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, if a team says they need $100 a year and comes in at $90 then I don’t think next year’s budget should be $110 while some people in this thread think it should be.

IMHO it depends on why the expenses were less than the budget. If it's a matter of probability or essential uncertainty then the savings should be set aside for other occasions where luck isn't as favorable. If the department realized cost savings by improving business practices then most or all of the savings should stay with the department to be invested in future improvements (a one-time carry-over into the next budget period) and/or distributed as reward to those responsible for the improvements, as an incentive to continue making such improvements. If costs were lower because the department didn't accomplish everything they set out to do then that might be a justification for reallocating their budget, and/or implementing more drastic changes to get them back on track.

> Your point about average cost just means that you’re budgeting on the wrong timeframe.

The timeframe for the budget would generally be predetermined (e.g. one fiscal year) and not set by the department itself.

> If you estimate your average dinner is $100 but you’re spending $75 most of the time except for one huge dinner every month then you should be budgeting $75 for dinner and then budget separately for one large dinner a month.

Sure, but I was referring to probabilistic variation due to uncertainty in the forecast, not a predictable mix of large and small expenses. And the "dinners" in this analogy would be once per budget period (i.e. annual for most organizations), not frequent enough to average out.
The interesting past threads seem to be the following. Others?

Ask HN: What would be the fastest way to grep Common Crawl? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22214474 - Feb 2020 (7 comments)

Using Common Crawl to play Family Feud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16543851 - March 2018 (4 comments)

Web image size prediction for efficient focused image crawling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107819 - Aug 2015 (5 comments)

102TB of New Crawl Data Available - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6811754 - Nov 2013 (37 comments)

SwiftKey’s Head Data Scientist on the Value of Common Crawl’s Open Data [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6214874 - Aug 2013 (2 comments)

A Look Inside Our 210TB 2012 Web Corpus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6208603 - Aug 2013 (36 comments)

Blekko donates search data to Common Crawl - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4933149 - Dec 2012 (36 comments)

Common Crawl - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690974 - March 2012 (5 comments)

CommonCrawl: an open repository of web crawl data that is universally accessible - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3346125 - Dec 2011 (8 comments)

Tokenising the english text of 30TB common crawl - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3342543 - Dec 2011 (7 comments)

Free 5 Billion Page Web Index Now Available from Common Crawl Foundation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3209690 - Nov 2011 (39 comments)
I'm a former SWO qualified Naval officer, as stated elsewhere I believe. I vouched your comment just to reply, because it's important to be correct. I'm not going into details about anything else, I've gone into detail elsewhere about this topic already.
It’s clearly not obvious unless you’ve been told, but the point is that people have grown strangely disconnected from food in a “bacon comes from plastic sachets” sort of way.
Factorio isn't a game about shooting things. It is a systems-design game. Your goal is to orchestrate the processing of several different resources (iron, copper, coal, oil, stone) into several different intermediate products (gears, circuit boards, sulfuric acid, radar systems, etc), in service of a final deliverable (a rocket launch, or if you're ambitious, a continuous series of rocket launches).

To that end you must manage a variety of subsystems and how they interact with each other and with the components that you build. You will be rewarded for consistency, for modularity, for automation of frequent tasks, for reproducible designs, for looking ahead and preparing for scalability. You will be punished for failing to plan ahead. You will also be punished for trying to scale too fast, too soon.

The interview is a bad idea, yes. Even if all candidates were experienced with the game, as a showcase of how to build things, you'd still need many more hours than a typical interviewee is willing to provide, to showcase the approach. But it's not a game you get better at by focusing on "gaming".
Consciousness is inherently subjective
> you're good at Factorio, why are you a D tier

Because these actually have very little in relation.
On top of that with many tabs open, you probably have 20+ Electron apps open all competing for RAM on your Macbook.

Complete waste of CPU, Memory and Disk space. A triple negative for all software.

Might as well download more RAM, since Chrome and these Electron apps are having a huge RAM-eating feast on my computer. /s
The original blog post was discussed a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179817
Call centre staff to be monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’
I bet the author of his article will change their tune if someone makes them do an interview with a game they don't have any experience in, like chess, kerbal space program, OpenTTD etc.
The difference is until now nobody could use those extensions, especially all the kernel mode stuff.

Now they can, since the M1 is an open platform (running third-party kernel code is supported).
Suppose a square city has 100000 rental houses, and they all rent for $1000. The city triples in each direction, causing area to increase by a factor of 9. The original houses now rent for $4000, but there are 800000 new houses that rent for $1000.

Is that an increase of 0%, 33%, 300%, or something else?

Suppose the original homes then increase to $5000, while the newer homes drop down to $500. Is that an increase or decrease?
Why does nobody else benton the feature that local rss readers can't duplicate: the full history of the entire feed starting the first time it was indexed. Start up Google reader and for most feeds you've got the full history from day one.
> I understand the "build more" concept, but a city (any city) shouldn't grow too fast. There's a huge risk in growing too quickly.

Well, it's pretty clear from the explosion in housing prices that it's not growing nearly fast enough. I'd love to see some citation as to what "too fast" is and why you think SF is at risk of hitting that number.

> SF's infrastructure doesn't seem that it can handle more people. traffic is bad. Restaurants are full (have you been to a brunch?). Buses are full. More homeless than ever.

More housing = more people = more revenue. That revenue turns into more infrastructure, more restaurants, etc. In fact more density makes infrastructure more economical to operate on a per capita basis. Think Hong Kong.

Part of the reason there's more homeless people is they can't afford houses, which building units would help alleviate.

> Letting the price rise, so people/companies will go elsewhere seems like an okay strategy.

That's not a very free-market attitude!
If you have several hundred, just start and figure out what tooling you need for your specific needs.

Automation comes later. It comes with experience.
I wouldn't call a coordinated policy action "canceling".
This idea is like a plantation or hacienda system or more recently a company town.
Housing cannot both be a good investment and affordable by definition unless new supply outpaces demand. The problem is that for so many Americans, their house constitutes the majority of their net worth which naturally causes them to advocate for policies that increase their property values which among other things, includes zoning limitations that depress new supply.
But if corporations are amoral, why shouldn't they pretend otherwise? It is to their benefit, and they are obliged to make decisions to their benefit regardless of moral considerations.

If a company's job postings said "We are an amoral corporation and we don't pretend otherwise", would that help their hiring?

I agree that we should take a skeptical view to corporations virtue signalling. But I also think even democratic governments have at best a marginally stronger claim to moral virtue. That combined with the challenges of crafting regulations that achieve the desired results (desired by who though?), with acceptable levels of negative expected and unexpected consequences (acceptable by who?). Good regulation is important, but it is fiendishly difficult to do well.
While Safari seems to get better and better, it still lags behind Chrome and Firefox in a number of end-user usability factors that are much more subjective than "how much RAM I'm using."

For example, try going to compass.com and using embedded Street View in Safari. It's nearly unusable.

Sure, you might say Chrome is going to have a monopoly on "making things work nicely with Google Maps/Meet" but then you jump on Firefox and the experience is just fine. Safari's the only one with compatibility issues in my subjective experience.

Microsoft Teams also has missing web functionality specifically in Safari, functionality that works perfectly fine in Firefox and Chrome.

There are many more examples than just these two. Despite being an incredibly popular mobile browser, and being the default browser on macOS, I find that Safari is the only browser that I have to periodically switch away from temporarily in order to get some random website to work properly. If I'm doing critical work like taking an online exam I will always choose Chrome or Firefox because I know I can depend on it working and being properly tested.

At the end of the day, casual users aren't staring at Activity Monitor all day, and for them RAM is "free." I have a Mac with 8 GB of RAM and I've never noticed any slowdown or issue from using Chrome, Firefox, and/or Safari all simultaneously along with many other open apps. I don't have to care about what my OS does to manage memory because it's 2021, not 1995.

I think we all know, of course, that Chrome is Internet Explorer at this point. We are close to another monopoly situation that I'm not confident the US Government will properly address.
Yes, and that was for internal use on the intranet. And yes, it was a huge problem that they insisted on using such old versions of IE, but that was the issue - not ActiveX.

Perhaps the question should have been, why make a special version for the ones with javascript?
Yes everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves, and certainly many Democrats are also to blame. But the hawks are always Republicans, and I'm sure they set the stage for this
It would absolutely work -- assuming everyone has access to healthcare (preferably universal coverage).

Unfortunately this cuts at the moat that big corporations have set up not to mention health insurance industry and big pharma. Which is why it hasn't happened yet here (though it has in many other countries).
Please do not take HN threads into partisan flamewar. That way is hell. We're trying to go a different way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have been daily driving Safari since about 2018 and have never looked back. I do some development in Firefox just because the dev tools are great there and it is nice to have a partition between the two browsers. I also use Safari on iPhone so having the strong sync there is great, too.
Who stands to benefit from this? Is it laying the groundwork for pushing people back into an office environment.

It's also interesting, the level of pure psychopathy in the comments by management level people in that article:

> "“We absolutely trust them to do their jobs in a professional manner. We are taking very seriously the concerns you raised … as they can be no further from the truth.”
Catastrophy bonds in my opinion are the most practical way manage effective crisis response.

I wrote about pandemic bonds last year [0].

[0]: https://as1ndu.xyz/2020/02/fighting-of-disease-pandemics-wit...
~$100 Xiaomi AX6000 does full 1600Mbit if you have fully capable client https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNIKJ4mGigI but firmware setup is in Chinese, and most likely contains some mandatory backdoors.
> San Francisco has seen huge growth but constructed basically no new units

San Francisco publishes its Housing Development Pipeline here https://sfplanning.org/project/pipeline-report#current-dashb...

They may not be adding capacity at a sufficient rate, but they have tens of thousands of units in the pipeline in every quarter.
Sounds like an opportunity for you to write better software to replace those bloated electron apps.
This is one reason some people use some kinds of drugs (particularly uppers of various sorts). They create a temporary manic or hypomanic state, even if that's not the term the users would choose to describe the produced state. Of course, it doesn't always lead to positive or even neutral outcomes especially as many are habit forming and the user can develop a tolerance to it (necessitating more of the drug in order to achieve a comparable effect as before, which exacerbates issues stemming from the side effects and high-dose/long-term use).

Look at college students and knowledge workers using various ADD/ADHD medications, as an example.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The generic tangent thing is particularly important [1]. The hottest few sensational topics are like black holes that suck in every passing spaceship [2]. This turns every discussion the same, when what we actually want are diffs—diffs are what's interesting [3]. Curiosity withers under repetition [4].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
In Spain we have the famous "botijo" that's used for keeping water cold, and also, for drinking.

Thing is, this only works in dry climate. A friend with several Spanish restaurants in Japan brought some botijos with him, and being Tokyo very humid in summer, they didn't work at all and kept "sweating" water.
@chrisseaton, here's what I think :

My first comment mentioned that you misinterpreted my words. Someone else disagreed with your perception. Someone else said to relax. I pointed out multiple times, that my original comment was badly worded.

Have you even considered the possibility that you misinterpreted the original comment, where you based your toxic reactions on?

Perhaps consider that the "proposals" I'm talking about in my original comment, ARE NOT what is currently being done now in the Suez Channel by the experts (eg. Dredging). Those aren't proposals, that's what currently is being done! But what has been suggested here on the different threads of HN.

I was genuinely eager to see alternative implementations of that concept ( raising water) proposed somewhere.

I copied my example of the other thread as a proposal ( = dams), which led me to the path of water based cofferdams and some other interesting google searches, thanks to comments here.

Now... Reread the original comment and the first sentence in particular ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26586467 )
There's an American joke that "Your friend is the one who comes to bail you out of jail. Your best friend is the one next to you in the cell going, "Duuuude, that was AWESOME!!!!"

It's a joke, but the humor exists because it illustrates the idea that the people really like their enablers. Not everybody would find the joke funny, though I have no idea if Americans in general find it funnier than people from other cultures.
Yeah the general theme is depriving microorganisms of something they need to thrive in the food environment. Like dehydration lowers water activity, refrigeration keeps it outside their ideal temperature range etc.

Fermentation doesn't really fit with the rest under that model though. In that case you're creating a good environment for some (halotolerant lactobacillus usually) because _their_ byproducts will make it too acidic for other things to thrive. So that's fundamentally different from just trying to make it universally hostile to microorganisms.

Even within a simple technique like "sealing" here it really depends on the food itself and probably local factors like seasonal humidity and temp swings. A lot of fresh foods if sealed in an airtight container can make botulism. I'm pretty informed on this subject but I don't know why that doesn't happen with the grapes here. Must just not be present on them in large amounts, or the natural yeast competes with it, or something who knows.

We think of these technologies as simple because they are beyond ancient and the actions you take to use them are basic. But there is a lot going on biologically and it seems at least somewhat understudied so far.
What's wrong with watching it on YouTube?
Leaked memo shows Amazon knows delivery drivers resort to urinating in bottles
Good lord, this is an awful idea. I've played a ton of Factorio, and I'm a decent engineer, and while the skillsets are similar conceptually, the actual execution and mechanics of them are very very different. Factorio involves a lot of care with spatial layout, tricks to optimize loading the conveyer belts, ensuring that the right ratios of pre-cursors are sent, etc etc.

You could get a candidate who perfectly understands design patterns for programming, because they've studied programming and know how to program using programming languages and programming tools, but they don't translate that very well into the spatial environment of Factorio. Debugging and optimizing in Factorio again are conceptually similar to doing so in a programming language, but the actual techniques and patterns available to do so are very very different, and you have to learn them. Most of us do not figure these things out from scratch by ourselves.

As others have pointed out, it also is begging for a monoculture. Plenty of people who are good at programming don't give a shit about video games, and will either do poorly in this interview, or will skip it altogether. The result would be hiring one type of person, and not having any other skillsets on your team. Even as someone who would do well in this interview, I would run screaming, as I do not want to work in a monoculture.
> It's been proven that employees don't normally do that?

I have no idea, but I think the psych literature (and common experience) does show that people will take stronger ownership of stuff they defined themselves in the first place (well, duh). If HR think they can get more buy-in for free then why would they not go for it.
Work is not a democracy but some difficult decisions have to be. I think a lot of the time the arrow points the other way. A boss who can’t or won’t make decisions when pushed to do so also creates an environment where deciding is difficult.

Often all it takes is a qualitative comment that one could mistake for leadership, and the guy who won’t be accountable for any decisions is not leading anybody.
I work mostly on internal Rails apps so the need for fine-tuning GC is basically non-existant.

I think the app that needed to be the most performant ended up using JRuby :P

I can't wait for truffleruby to be a thing.
Tech CEOs grilled over role in Capitol attack as protesters mock them
It's a bit of a chicken-or-the-egg problem. If more people move to SF then more brunch places will open and the city will be able to afford to run more busses.

Maybe SF could credibly commit to adding more density in the near future, but not immediately? That way speculators open brunch places before the customers arise, and there isn't a brunch shortage?
But then Uber also has to setup the meta-structure operationally to actually legally and financially operate in all those jurisdictions and that incurs a higher cost overhead than a local coop.
Within minutes of his death breaking the news, someone in the comment posted on HN about this enablement. I had skepticism but it also felt way too specific and out of nowhere for me to think they were lying. It was heartbreaking to eventually realize it was indeed the truth.
Take out the "valuable" because as you point out: there is no value tax. A lot of land owners in the UK sit on large pieces of land.

The idea that land has value even when unused is one of this quirks of reasoning that seems "common sense" until you actually stop to think about it, because it makes no sense at all. And is one of the driving forces behind disenfranchisement of indigenous groups in so many countries.
There's a huge spread between the number of new jobs and new houses. If you zoom out to the last 50 years it's pretty staggering. [1, 2]

[1] https://economics21.org/bay-area-the-land-of-many-jobs-and-t...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage
What a stupid thing to say.
we could escalate tax rates based on the number of housing units/square footage owned, which will curtail (but not completely prevent) hoarding of real estate. this would require spending political capital, and that would require some concerted effort by the public as the existing political capital holders have a strong disincentive to do so on their own.
They're making it easier to search for flights and arrange a trip. It's UX and makes me not hate the airlines/travel process as much. And I end up buying the flight from the airline anyways, and in many cases doing the arranging on the airline site in the end once it's determined, so Google is giving that back. They're not taking stuff from the airlines, I mean what ads and stuff are on the airline sites anyways specifically during the search process. Where they are taking away is from the Expedia's and other aggregation sites that offer a garbage/hodgepodge experience that drives people crazy.
> Google want to make it better for you.

Hehe, sure, nothing nefarious or greedy here... move along, move along, nothing to see...
Digital Ocean App Platform gives 3 free static sites.
Oh wow:

> You may pay less Council Tax for a property you own or rent that’s not your main home.

> Councils can give furnished second homes or holiday homes a discount of up to 50%. Contact your council to find out if you can get a discount - it’s up to them how much you can get.

I'm sympathetic to the messy-move case, but discounting the tax for holiday homes seems quite regressive.
I think they may have meant "(organizations) (which consume their data in a for-profit context)."
DataLoaders are only necessary in GraphQL because GQL doesn't by default traverse relations with a map operation. The N+1 query problem crops up when your traversal from, say, User to [Tweet] then needs to be executed N times for N users. Ideally the transition would be programmed for [User] => [[Tweet]] and you could use a WHERE IN query. Data Loaders do this, but in a hackier way that relies heavily on NodeJS' implicit async handling using the event loop.
I don't have to believe he's a guru or think about his job at MIT to recognize that he's had an experience, and a series of reactions to that experience, that are valuable when related through writing.
Grosse Pointe Woods restaurant gets into the NFT game with 'CryptoShakes'
Algorithms in C, which I strongly recommend, is actually by Knuth's student Sedgewick.