skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dense urban centers where it makes sense to have stations at walking distance intervals, or cases where the city is so hard to drive/park in that it makes sense to drive to the rail station and then catch a train

Yes! This is exactly what cities should be aiming for.
I appreciate your comment and learned something new that is fun to think about.
Can you give some
more detail - I am trying to work out what is deployed to thousands of clusters - is this like a base image containing a new rollout of say Postgres? Or internal tools ?

I am genuinely interested - it sounds like you really know your onions and I am trying to work out what scale you do onions on :-)
I think so. It's also different in 8-bit and 10-bit.
agreed. Just look at the words.. DEATH BODIES, FIRE images
The information being blocked down the memory hole is just for the people that need to see that information. Concentration in the tech world to so few platforms is helping build that memory hole capability.

At least people outside can see that information, not ideal though. If we had more platforms and less concentration it would be harder to build these walls.
I have my own damn idea about this "evil language" obsession, but I'm just curios to see your perspectives..
Yep, a result of legislation prohibiting food items containing inedible parts iirc! I always found it amusing.
It's probably sarcasm
You don’t really need to do web services on it. I have lots of batch/cron-like stuff on my deployments...
FYI for c# you have resharper allowing to add parameters to method and it would automatically propagate passing it through several levels up based on references. Guess sometimes all you need to know are the right tools.
Thanks! I tried to keep it concise and straightforward...
If someone is looking for when it starts diving into the situation... https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4?t=625
> MiniDiscs had "copy protection"[0] and this format was supported by major record labels[1].

From what I can tell, pre-recorded MiniDiscs were never popular. People bought blank ones and recorded their own pirated mp3s on there.

But, yes, that makes me technically wrong with my first comment because it is a physical audio format that has the technical capability for DRM.

> By starting with DVD, you're skipping the DRM-free formats of Betamax, VHS, and LaserDisc then?

They're all analog and so you can't make an exact copy. At least not without obscenely expensive studio-grade equipment. Yes, that didn't stop people from making copies of VHS tapes, and yes, you could tell how many times it was copied by the picture quality.
I use mostly UML.

Component diagrams and deployment diagrams for the general overview, architecture and operations-wise.

Communication diagrams for some workflows.

Sequence diagrams to show how operations are executed.

For onboarding, sometimes a class diagram or two.
Low-code/no-code is simply the CASE tools of the late 80s, or the UML->production system fully automated pipeline of the late 90s/early 2000s, given new life and a shiny coat of paint. The same problems apply and the same people keep buying the same damn snake oil.

Once you can specify your procedures, requirements, and constraints in a way that is specific enough for a computer to read and act meaningfully on, the elements of your specification method become isomorphic to constructs in some programming language. So you've replaced typed-in keywords with clickable symbols or buttons or controls -- but you've in no wise reduced the headwork of programming or made the programming go away.
Are you under the impression that there isn't a conspiracy related to the virus?

Did Klaus Schwab say "The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world"? Did the WEF say "To build back better, we must reinvent capitalism"? Did Justin Trudeau say "this pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset"? Did he repeat the words "build back better" and express support for such an effort? Did Biden and Harris say anything about that? Did Greta Thunberg? Did Cuomo? Did Pelosi? Did both Clintons? Elizabeth Warren? What about Johnson in the UK, did he ever express support for "building back better"? Jacinda Ardern?

The answer, of course, is that they all did, and far more rich influential bigwigs besides those. Do you suppose that they all simultaneously arrived at that wording independently?

Maybe you'd prefer it if we called it a "complex" theory? As in, the government wants more powers, the media wants endless crises to report on, the pharmaceutical companies want guaranteed income and protection from liability, leftists want to make sweeping changes to society and the economy according to their ideas about how the world really "ought" to work, etc.
It isn’t an “anti-GC crowd”, it is based in pretty solid theoretical computer science with large amounts of empirical evidence behind it. GC-based environments are incompatible with schedule-based safety, optimization, etc which are major optimizations and design elements in modern systems.

No one has ever demonstrated a systems architecture that can outperform a state-of-the-art schedule-optimized design. This result is expected in theory. There are several optimality theorems, treated as a soft limit, that only hold true if you don’t control the schedule. The requirements of GCs guarantee you don’t control the schedule. State-of-the-art system designs, in non-GC environments, aren’t limited by those theorems and frankly run circles around GC-based systems. I work with a lot of companies that run nothing but managed languages and even they don’t believe that produces an optimal system, just an adequate one for non-intensive use cases. And that is a legitimate position.

You clearly are deeply invested in the superiority of GCs for all use cases. That’s fine. I make a lot of money replacing them with empirically much higher performance systems. There isn’t a lot of computer science to support the pro-GC position if performance is the objective. And to be clear, the loss of performance is integer factor, not something that can be trivially dismissed.
Sure. But replace "franchise owner" with "shift manager" or whatever other job title you want.

The question remains - what's the barrier to entry to becoming "certified" as an ice cream machine cleaner?

Is it legitimately a difficult cleaning process that requires an extremely specialized skill-set that only the High Priests of Ice Cream Machinery are able to perform?

Or, as seems likely to me, cleaning the machine is relatively simple, but the ability to reset the "time since last cleaning" setting may be artificially restricted?

If I were the manufacturer of these Taylor ice cream machines, setting them up with a "one of our certified technicians needs to touch them at least once every 14 days, or they stop working" seems like an excellent way to seek rent / generate passive income.
Wasn't Project Dragonfly shut down by internal Google "activists" rather than by outside forces?
Exactly the point I am making. You can do the analysis and determine the scale but you can't change the official COVID numbers.

In fact, that is even the link you shared shows. It compared the overall death rate with the official COVID numbers and proved the numbers are conservative, in US. Of course.
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I know Cuba strictly controls which antennas can be imported into the country. I think it would be pretty hard to sneak a Starlink device in undetected, even if Starlink supported it.
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My best coworkers is about as good of a metric as things that “stretched your mind to its limits.”

The point is neither is demonstrated to bear any relationship to jack shit

Interviewing is and has been broken, even with the changes we’ve made over the years.

If you’re holding onto leetcode challenges that make you think hard as representative of engineering prowess we’re never going to have a reasonable conversation.
I was wondering, how much different the simulation would be from stock models from Turbosquid: https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/formula-1-season-2020-3...
The article mentions there were some problematic areas in the extracted model. So I am quite skeptical that the model is indeed more accurate than what you can easily get from legal sources.
From personal experience I remember that majority of kids had these here in Poland in the end of 90s and early 2000s but the quality of tama egg as we called these (not knowing it was a tautology), varied. Some richer kids had the original tamagotchi while most of us got bootleg devices sold on the market by merchants from Ukraine (who also were selling bootleg copies of SNES along with cartridges - majority of these were "9999 in One" games, sometimes even taking shape of original Playstation) or in newspaper, toy stores. Bootleg copies weren't lasting long - the common issue was with ZEBRA connectors on LCD that were prone to failing if device was dropped and that happen a lot. I had luck to find some Bandai branded tamagotchi but now I doubt it was original - I did tried to look for any info about it but no luck.

Despite if it was original or not, we had fun - two classmates were really happy about their 28 in 1 type of devices, where they both pick gray aliens. Later on I had some bootleg 8 in 1 device that I really liked. We also were wearing these on ribbons around neck instead of pockets, since devices had a clock feature.

Edit: forgot to mention that there were also dating-sim tamagotchi-like device [1], not sure but probably aiming at teenagers/adults and one that had a more "natural" looking pictures of baby/kid [2]

[1] - https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W8DZLytNPQw/Ujv5_PYCoUI/AAAAAAAAC...

[2] - https://orig10.deviantart.net/e9bc/f/2017/221/7/f/babybye2_e...
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Unlike AR-15's that kill a great deal more children.
The centralized network stops itself from implementing it. That's what it used to be like on for example Twitter, where people used blacklists. But Twitter didn't want that and they wanted to be the arbiter of what you should or should not see instead.

And if you want to do that as a centralized network, you'll be cancelled by one of services you have to rely on anyways.
Stand up a server or two on Digital Ocean or a provider of your choice. Experiment with all the new toys. Build a website or two.
Something that's always useful is an online personal resume that you can reinvent every so often.
Or a family or personal interests page about anything but work.
Most of the cases are asymptotic. Mild symptons are similar to seasonal fever. Obviously this would make them think its a conspiracy to make money for hospitals.

The situation on ground would vary from cities. Not every city is like Delhi. My small city(compared to other bigwigs in India) as of now has no issues. Health worker said Govt bed are 50% filled. I don't see people outside Govt or Pvt hospitals. But in Bangalore any huge spike(this is huge compared at last Oct peak) would be a very big concern.
You can only empower people against their government's desire to a certain limit.

The more powerful is the government, the quicker it is at slapping your hand, and the more efficient it is at it.

If you operate in a country, you normally can't avoid the limitations of the country's laws, no matter how nonsensical you might find these laws. Technology does not change this equation materially, given strong enough law enforcement.
TIL Kytch[0] is a packaged up Raspiberry Pi "Built with Raspberry Pi inside.". And I was waiting to hear the words right-to-repair in the video [1].

[0]https://kytch.com

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl34nW9c4wo
Decriminalized = not illegal and not regulated

Social media platforms operate in that range, which is another similarity to drugs aside from calling their users “users”
My favorite was Final Fantasy 6.

I did not notice how dark some themes in the game were until later in life when I replayed the game. Seeing an entire city being poisoned, magical robots built with energy drained from enslaved magical creatures, murder, suicide, poisoining, mind control, abandoned babies, feral kids, cults, fires, cataclysms, possessed artwork, trains to the afterlife, tyranny, etc.

But that's part of what makes it a great game.

The SNES had many good JRPGs in addition to Final Fantasy, like Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Seiken Dendetsu 3 (aka Trials of Mana), Super Mario RPG and others. They are worth playing even today.
Okay. So arbitrary preparation - when nearly any other professional interview requires little preparation beyond updating your resume - has merit because... rules of the game?

Stop supporting baseless metrics for assessment just because some old person used them before you showed up. We can and should do better.
It sounds like https://astro.build might be a good fit if you're looking to generate mostly HTML and only use JS for a few interactive components on the page. It's still very new and I haven't worked with it yet.
In the article, cost is cpu time, and benefit is file size reduction multiplied by number of times watched.
US had its own problems? The authoritarians won in the US, and are now taking steps to ensure that they'll never be out of power again.
Regulations always change and what was legal today might be banned tomorrow and be legal again (like Williams active suspensions from the Mansell era)

It doesn't make sense to make all data public when there might be something the FIA or other teams didn't know about and might be useful in the future.

F1 is all about living on the edge of what's allowed by the rules, and more often than not crossing that line and hoping not to get caught by the FIA. There's a fantastic interview with Ecclestone, Withing and Piquet (1) where they reminisce the olden days and have a laugh admitting their Brabham car was so illegal they would have been disqualified by the FIA had they knew that. 2019 Ferrari had an amazing engine and then they got caught doing tricks with the fuel sensors.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMsaUgXf3v4
My little cousin was like this. His tamagotchi was fully happy, well fed, etc. But he seemed too attached to it.

One day I told him "I am going to set you free, bro" and reset it. He was pretty upset about it at first but then thanked me.

Few years later I saw him playing an MMO. I think it was Ultima Online. I asked him what he was doing and apparently he was ambushing and mugging newer players. I hope both things were unrelated.
The pics of pyres shared in the tweet were common in India before the Covid started. Just go to any crematorium in India and you will see similar situation, dead bodies keeps on coming and their relatives burn them and do the last rites. Its not new to India, but the way its portrayed that pyres are only due to Corona pandemic is totally wrong !!!
Ah, I keep forgetting that. "Kinder" sounds very German to me.
You can give Simple Rockets 2 a try in the meantime. It uses fully customizable procedural parts (wings, fuel tanks, even engines) instead of premade parts like KSP, it looks a bit nicer and it includes a visual programming environment for your spacecraft (e.g. you can build a SpaceX-like autoland routine).
> some fundamental values of the company

they do you just misinterpreted what the fundamental values were
Free market enthusiasts like to move the goalpost wherever they see fit. A true free market solution would be that private operators would build and maintain the infrastructure and then lease the usage. I.e. the roads, parking and other ride share accommodations would be owned by a third party company which the ride share company would pay to be allowed to use.

This is obviously a terrible idea, and everybody can see why there is no city that operates roads this way. But it demonstrates that there exists problems which the free market is ill equipped to solve. Road congestion is one of them. A better solution has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread: Congestion taxes + public transportation.
> People have to accept that in real life there is a thing called code-reviews and senior engineers are supposed to prevent such badly written code.

Ah, yes, the "you're holding it wrong" argument, just like the article predicted. The problem with this is that your version of "real life" is significantly different from the real "real life", in which often no code-review is held, or the reviewer misses bugs.
Was it at McDonald's? The article specifically says that it's McDonald's machines that require (edit:excessive) maintenance and not the ones used by other companies.
Personal transportation isn't like the things you mentioned. It has -by itself- value to the individual, but not to society. Having no fire fighters quickly becomes an obvious problem. Not having people drive their personal cars all over the city does not.
Being able to refresh one’s memory / reference previously learned approaches is not akin to learning them from scratch. Your opener is preposterous.
Twitter India is on payroll of Indian govt. It's not a hidden secret.
Also a more surveilled place. By definition, this system would require everyone’s activities to be tracked and stored.
The best. Sufficient, easy to use, ubiquitously available.
The limit is in FLOPS but CFD is memory bound. To get round the limit, AMD made custom CPUs with restricted floating point performance to allow quadrupling the number of cores.

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/g4sboe/custom_cpu...
Sadly, any side, not just India and Goebbels, employs this tactic (admittedly to varying degrees). It is apparently to effective to ignore, even if its message is factually correct.
I could find out but let me just say it’s all moot because at this point almost every public institution is sleeping with the government. Any semblance of independent or counterbalancing institution disappeared long ago. CBI (FBI equivalent), news, courts, election commission, police etc all take direct orders from the central government and don’t operate independently. They are tools to be used whichever way the government pleases.

Some of them were on the path of losing independence. The present government just accelerated the process since they were democratically elected twice in succession by stupendous majority.

So what’s left now for people to raise their voice are these private social media platforms. Ironically Twitter is perhaps the most independent channel in India now.
> Although the US government is bound by the first amendment, we have effectively outsourced that right to private monopolies that aggressively censor views that don’t fit progressive perspectives.

Private companies being able to do this is a form of speech. I think it's problematic, but ultimately they should be able to moderate their users/choose who they allow on their platform (outside of a few protected characteristics). I think it'd be a worse speech violation if the government forced them to do otherwise.

I think we should be using tools that make this irrelevant by making decentralized communication tools actually work. I agree with Moxie that in the current system this is basically impossible. That's why urbit gives me hope.

> The West (as nations, corporations, citizens, etc) is not in a position to proselytize on this front any longer.

I don't mean to proselytize - I mean to say we have a responsibility to do better since we live in a freer society. Nobody at Twitter is going to be killed for doing the right thing here, and while liberal (little L) values are under threat in the west, there is still a massive gulf between the west and countries like China.
Are you talking about just element or did you try more of the clients?
I feel that you've kind of missed GP's point, which is that we tend to take for granted the functions of the state, when in fact those functions have shifted over time. For example, it was not until relatively recently (i.e., the 20th century) that providing a social safety net came to be considered a core competency of governments. To take another example: the Roman Empire provided free rations of grain and olive oil (the annona) to all citizens of Rome and Constantinople for several hundred years. This was an incredibly big deal because it a) set a high base level of demand for bulk goods that enabled the huge economies of scale upon which Roman long distance trade operated; and b) enabled the populations of Rome and Constantinople to reach levels that no European city would again equal until the Early Modern period. Romans probably viewed the annona like modern Americans view social security. Romans would (probably) have thought social security ridiculous, whereas most Americans would view the annona as a large scale encroachment by the state on market pricing of commodities.
Thank god someone's tax returns didn't get elected president either lol.
I don't know what the f your problem is, but you're wrong. France is today, even past the worst of the current wave, still at more than 100% original capacity of ICU beds. (118% for France, 152% for the Ile de France region with Paris)

Official sources and raw data:
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210310-paris-hospitals-...
https://bonjour.tousanticovid.gouv.fr/app.html#chiffres

Are you going to shift the goalposts again and redefine to "Anglosphere first world countries"? Or are you going to admit you don't know what the hell you're talking about?

"Covid zealots" is a peculiar term, i'll give that. Makes little sense of course, but nothing you say does.
Perhaps I'm being overdramatic, but there's a distinct experience I'm picturing.

Joining the armed services is basically an all-inclusive package-- you enroll, and then everything is handled by them: they evaluate and grade you and figure out what training and job path to throw you on, and ship you out to where the job will be done.

In contrast, even for the civil service jobs which are "we'll hire anyone" desperate, there's no centralized onboarding process analogous to an Army recruiter. It's much more self-directed: you have to browse through a bunch of open listings, pick a job that's a reasonable fit to your background and skills, engage in a relatively complex and lengthy application process. There's also typically not going to be relocation or on-site housing, so the available jobs are limited to those in your backyard or ability to relocate.

This is inherently a lot less accessible, especially if we're trying to replace the sort of quick-and-rough hiring processes you see for low-skill positions: "walk over to the burger joint across the street from where you live and fill out the standardized form on the counter" or "visit the call centre which is constantly advertising same-day interview "job fairs"."
I wonder if more civilized jurisdictions allow these machine to ferment for two full weeks without cleaning ?

Does anybody know the situation in any EU countries ?
Oracles bring the possibility to interface with the real world. For example to track underlying assets like equities, oil, gold... You can these use DeFi services like borrowing with that asset portfolio.
In too many countries citizens are not free to criticize their government. Foreigners can get into trouble too if they criticize while in the country. Thailand, for example, has strict laws about criticizing the monarchy. Some of us take our right to freely criticize our government without penalty for granted and imagine it applies everywhere, but that isn’t the case.
This seems to be saying they measured Dark Energy acceleration in galaxies only a billion years old and light years away, not 13 billion light years old and correspondingly distant.