skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enterprise IT: The systems that run the organization, basically everything run by an internal it group.

Legacy systems: Any old software systems, usually enterprise IT, that are running your organization. Often 80's era in big companies, usually on a mainframe and most importantly, even though they are held together by hopes and prayers they usually do the job they are supposed to.

Dev shop : derogatory term for a company who just provides developers, usually with poor oversight and project management controls.

The problem with hiring more people is if I need 20 Devs for six months in a language I am never going to use again, not only do I need to hire 20 Devs, I need to hire the project managers, people managers, pay for their benefits or contracts, and then figure out how to fire or otherwise reallocate people with skills I don't need.
KDE upgrades are the worst. I tried upgrading on Ubuntu 21.04, it failed. Fedora, it failed.
> The article is saying that in large-scale wind farms, vertical turbines are more efficient than horizontal axis wind turbines

Is it? So much for my reading comprehension score today.

ETA: I read the underlying paper this time (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014812...) and I'm fairly certain what it's actually saying is:

Vertical turbines far more efficient when in large-scale wind farms than they are individually, and furthermore their increase in efficiency can be greater than the increase in efficiency readily attainable by HAWTs because VAWTs can be placed close together and gain downstream efficiency, whereas HAWTs can't be placed so close together and even when relatively far apart lose downstream efficiency due to turbulence, but YMMV depending on local conditions and other factors, for example: the steadiness of the wind, because VAWTs often need a boost to start from a stop.

Which is probably not the title they wanted to use, eh? Imma hop in my boxy but safe Volvo and go watch "Crazy People" again now.
Shared access and update-ability

A shared ledger allows anyone to read it and update it - how one accepts those updatres is up for debate but whatever - its waaay more scalable than an Oracle instance somewhere.
The terms are warning sign. Specially the section "Transfer of Your Personal Data" as well as "Disclosure of Your Personal Data", which states that

> If the Company is involved in an asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred.

The Personal Data is the asset. This is like saying: If we want to sell your financial data, we will do so.
Which part's ignorant? If I pay $10,000 for land and $50,000 in materials and pay $90,000 in labor to produce a building that I sell for $200,000, did I create $50,000 in value? $140,000 because for some reason my labor costs count as value creation? $200,000 because all costs count as value creation?

[EDIT] Ah, I think I see, you don't like their assigning zero value to changes in distribution of goods. That makes sense.
Cloudflare pages?
The hype is excessive, but a lot of stuff is good enough for the real world even if it’s far from perfect.

Self driving crashes for example are rare enough to make the news. That might not be good enough, but it is a very high bar. We crossed a threshold where it’s significantly more dangerous for someone do 90+MPH on the open road than set their car to do 5 over the speed limit and take a nap on that same trip.

That’s a long way from level 5, but Honda has approval to operate at level 3 where drivers don’t have to monitor road conditions under specific conditions. https://carbuzz.com/news/honda-reveals-first-level-3-self-dr...
This kind of hyperbole is neither instructive nor accurate. What is the intended purpose of this comment?
Thanks, great analogue there, it really helped it 'click'!

Please excuse my ignorance...
I think you make a valid point here - there are not a lot of companies willing to expose something like this. Even less so second time around.

[meta] I would REALLY love for people down-voting something
to explain why they do this. Maybe as HN feature for the first 200 downvotes, you have to reply to the post or upvote one below that explains it...
> Kaspersky said that while it has not seen any of these samples in the wild, they believe Purple Lambert samples “were likely deployed in 2014 and possibly as late as 2015.”

You don’t do anything because you are not the target. It’s never been seen in the wild.
“Apple has a monopoly on not shitty hardware”

I had a chuckle at that too, I've seen a lot of monopoly arguments devolve into, [x] is too good, [y] can not compete with a similar but lower quality offering, this is anti competitive.
"Privilege" has just become a rhetorical get-out-of-jail-free card for shutting down any argument with no actual substance.
Glad we’ve entered the year of the Linux desktop.
That part is fine and understood when you take a job with a for profit company. I just don't like it when employers think that are doing you some sort of favor.
You Are Listening to Los Angeles
I used the word "accused" intentionally. My pointing out a potential bias here is not a diminishment of anyone else's potential bias.
Can help a lot with the tax bases too. I know my municipal ISP just dumped $17 million into the municipal tax base of a city of just over a 100 thousand. They also pay well. So that's money that is not being taxed.
Privacy Preserving ML on AWS
"The whole point is that no human, not even Jeff Bezos, can generate 200 billion dollars worth of value by working"

This is untrue and unlikely.

Invent a star trek type transporter. I bet you could sell your work for 200 billion in cash or 1 trillion in fedex stocks.

You are never going to create 200 trillion value working for Jeff so he pays you 200 billion. Amazon is setup so the value create goes to Jeff and other shareholders. If you are lucky you get 100th of the value you are part of creating. (Yearly profits + yearly valuation increases) / total employees / 1000 is your pay if you are lucky
Statements on Passing of Michael Collins.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/statements-on-passing-of-...
Boy. I got on full on KDE plasma since 5.12 I think. KDE connect was promptly installed and I never was able to use a USB cable for data transfer but with KDE connect, I can simply send a file.

Its been magical. At least with plasma, the system integration is full and the clipboard feature is a godsend.
More power to KDE guys
Now compare it to how fast US intelligence analysts are. They may conclude who is behind attack in a matter of days. (For example, recent solarwinds attack)
> I can make the same statement you made about stock price about commodities and coins, in that I have to pay at least shares_outstanding * current_price to acquire all of a commodity or a coin.

You don't, though. The price would change if you attempted to do so. You can buy a company because you offer the company a value for all their shares; if enough of their shareholders approve the deal, it's done.

You can't do the same with Bitcoin, or copper. Each requires reaching out to individual owners/producers, and the sales affect the price for the next purchase. If you tried to buy all BTC in existence, the price would go up. If you tried to offload a bunch, it'd crash.

It's highly unlikely you could sell $1T worth of BTC without driving the price massively downwards.
Regarding station costs: can you include opportunity cost into your analyses? Maybe NYC is just far more economically productive than Paris, like if there are 50 story buildings all along that block, vs 5 story buildings in Paris...couldn't the cost even out because NYC is trying to diminish the disruption to local economy? Also hard to measure, but what are the QoL diffs between the two station methods, is one louder and more disruptive?

I'm also wondering about technological differences. Can stations be constructed in a more modular fashion, can innovation occur to allow cheaper builds? And what about using more advanced tech in boring machines, like what TBC is trying in Vegas?

Lastly, do we think a lot of stations is truly optimal? I don't know trains well, but if we get a fleet of SDCs in 20 years, maybe these can reduce station numbers by shuttling passengers their last mile or two, rather than building out billions of extra dollars of stations?
I agree that City > State > Comcast. I think Comcast > Federal, though, in terms of service level and individual voice. (With Comcast, my voice is 20dB under the noise floor. With the feds, it’s 10dB lower than that.)

Plus, if you get something wrong federally, it’s enormously difficult, expensive, time-consuming, and unlikely to get fixed. If one or a few states get something wrong, you have as easier time showing comparables and proving that a better way is possible.
> If the road grew while I was on it, then it would take longer than an hour to get there. If it took an hour to get there anyway, I went faster than 60 mph. If I went 60 mph for an hour and got there, then the road did not grow.

I'll start with this because it's the easy one and I think you've maybe just misread. The road is 10 miles at the outset. Your speed is 60mph. If the road doesn't expand, the journey would take 10 minutes. Instead the journey takes an hour - 60mph for one hour is 60 miles. So in total you've travelled 60 miles. To switch back to our 'light travelling through space' discussion, by analogy - light travels at C; if light travels for 1 billion years, it travels a distance of C * 1 billion == 1 billion light years. When it set out on its journey towards us, the distance between there and here was less. Therefore it has travelled 1 billion light years to reach us only because space was expanding. It hasn't travelled more than that, it can't - the speed of light is a constant in every reference frame. X years at light speed is necessarily X light years.

> You contradict yourself. In that billion years, either the light travelled (1) a distance we call "a billion light years (a measure adjusted to account for expansion of space during transit)", or (2) it travelled "more than a billion light years (a measure that neglects expanding space)". In either case, substantially greater than 9.46e24 meters.

(note that I think you mean 9.46e21 meters, since conventionally, 1 billion is 1e9; I'll run with that figure for consistency).

For the record, option 1) is what I'm saying. However, one billion light years is 9.46e21 meters, so I'm totally stumped as to what you mean when you say "In either case, substantially greater than 9.46e2[1] meters". Those are the same thing. What am I missing? Light travels one billion light years, 9.46e21 metres, in one billion years. That's it. Where am I misunderstanding you or contradicting myself? I'm honestly confused.
[He] Started Linux 30 years ago, and git 15 years ago ... sounds like we're due another big project.

Someone change the license on something Torvalds uses and piss him off!
Are we even allowed to care about "master" and "slave"? I think it's cultural appropriation.
NYC is unusual.

Manhattan is mostly solid bedrock, for one.

Thus the time it takes to create tunnels below all the pipeworks cannot be overlooked, as it’s a very noisy endeavor.

Also, the NYC subway system is (or was, pre-covid) 24 hours, extensive, and was forward thinking.

The grates and vents you see today sidesteps the heat trapping of, say, the Tube (London).

It’s also built robustly because honestly, the riders abuse every feature.
In other words, don't censor through full censorship, censor through rate limiting, so if people complain you can say "Hey, we didn't censor him, we're just containing his harmful ideas because we have the right (and DUTY!) to do that as the True Arbiters of What Is Right." What a load of nonsense.

I suppose if your goal is to silence your opponents while minimizing the sense of martyrdom it creates, this is useful. But if you have any interest in an actually free society instead of one engineered for and by your particular beliefs (because obviously YOUR beliefs are the right ones, after all), this is worthless.

The problem with deplatforming isn't that it needs to be "tweaked" somehow. It's that no one should have the power to make judgements about what is and isn't "acceptable" or "non harmful" speech, outside of edge cases like actual illegal activity. Making that power more insidious doesn't solve anything.
That what this proposal should cover. AFAIK there have never been an intention to limit existential for the sake of making the language more static; rather, it was born out of technical limitations of Swift compiler in the past.

To dissuade people from using existentials by default, the ongoing discussion focuses on requiring 'any' keyword in an existential type declaration.
Schtum?
Capitalism isn't at fault here; spineless municipal governments are. Since the federal government is also spineless, it's refreshing to see some starting to wake up to the hellscape that is our Internet infrastructure.
I haven’t noticed any display lag on my end. But I don’t do latency sensitive things like gaming.

1 monitor (Dell P2715Q) is hooked up using DisplayPort. The other (LG 27” IPS 4K) is using HDMI 2.0. Both are running 4K retina at 60Hz without any issues.

I had so much trouble finding this out before I bought it which is why I am vocal about the fact that it works.
You can try to break it down, but the fact is in NYC the quantity of labor is a union-negotiated (and demanded) problem.

The NYTimes did a detailed article on this a couple years ago, with a focus on the NY subway expansion: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-.... There's no escaping that the overstaffing was a political boon to a union.

_Why_ NY construction unions are so much worse than Scandinavian unions is a whole different question. But it's not really deniable that the public-union interaction in big cities here is incredibly extractive and antagonistic, and that drives up costs.
I believe this. But is there any research demonstrating this? I'd love to bookmark some data.
Covid Art Museum
I'm glad his memoir, "Carrying the Fire", got mentioned. It's one of the best astronaut memoirs.
Who do you think requests more quantity of labor for every job?
We use story points, but everyone knows (without ever admitting it publicly) that 1 point = 1 day
People say this, but this 100% would have been leaked by people unhappy with the decision, and they would have had to address it anyway.

I think you could make the argument that it still is better not to post it publicly because even if it gets leaked it still is better for the company, but I do take the other side on that. Companies should be transparent about their values.
What did they do with double quotes?

(I googled it but couldn’t find it, haha)
Interesting, I'm curious, with which product? Does that also include a db cost with it? Are you getting good latency?
Apollo astronaut Michael Collins dies aged 90
Features get rejected all the time, even some pretty substantial ones. That said I think there's two things to keep in mind:

1. If someone is willing to take the time to develop and submit something to the kernel, it probably has some redeeming factors to it. The original idea or code might not get merged, but something similar to meet those needs likely can be if it's really something the kernel can't do.

2. The modularity of the Linux Kernel build system means that adding new features doesn't have to be that big of a deal, since anybody who doesn't want them can just choose not to compile them in. It's not always that simple, but for a lot of the added features it is.
Not sure if this is true in general: many paid-for software products have free versions; free games might offer in-game purchases, etc.
Huh. I've listened to this song many times without really internalizing the lyrics.
Ah, no, that's also contrary to my taste. I love clear function names and I hate state. Immutable return values are way better than builders, in my experience, even if that means many arguments. And static globals are a whole other level of bad.
This is not accurate in the US. I was called in via the same system as the petit juries- my name was selected from voter rolls and I received a summons in the mail. Law enforcement and criminal law professionals are specifically filtered from the process.
And yet people, especially in tech, still play their stupid games.

Isn't there some famous quip about insanity and repeating dumb behaviors?
will it support Tensorflow.js? WebGL? does it compete?
Investigators (from regular cops all the way on up) do this all the time, and courts have ruled that it's legal. Why people continue to fall for it though is beyond me.
Depends on the firm.

I work for a more technical focused niche consulting firm, and one of our specialties is large IT implementation project recovery. We are extremely successful, but it's dirty work that isn't super advertised.
No but he did use it as padding for CDROM distro of Windows so that the discs had unique ID's

The Secret history of Microsoft BOB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXHu9OmLd8Y
Clear skies and tailwinds. Can't get back to the Moon fast enough, while we still have living continuity to Apollo. Can't believe how low the low in our space program has been.
Google’s On-Device Model Brings Disfluency Detection Down to Size
Hangul is definitely an alphabet.

The only reason one might consider it a syllabary according to these definitions is that the way the letters are arranged into a block form syllabic glyphs, but that’s more similar to writing direction (e.g. English left to right).
These are excellent suggestions, thanks for the thoughtful feedback. For onboarding, I initially tried a version of what you suggested, but in usability tests many felt there was too much on the screen. Perhaps now it is too minimal though -- I'll think about how to find a better middle ground.

You're spot-on about the need for Monte Carlo simulations. A robust Monte Carlo mode with a variety of variables you can control is the next development priority.

And great point on flexible expense plans. I'll consider how to build some (hopefully) intuitive UI widgets to allow for that in the Monte Carlo mode.
Is SF Finished as the Capital of Tech?
Maybe one day more things will have been written in modern languages that treat cross-platform builds as a first-class concern (Rust, Go, etc.), and this kind of "boxing" won't be as necessary. Until then, I think your approach is very sensible for getting something fun into as many people's hands as possible :)
JetBrains launches cloud CI/CD
If I closed my eyes and designed the API first, it would look like the `/pages` convention – just add state "slice" files in `/store` (like `src/store/user.ts`) and then use either React hooks inside the component (like `useStore` or `useMutation`) or use something (like `getServerSideState`) on the server.

Your state "slices" would export initial state, types (optionally), and an object containing getters, setters, and mutations (using Vuex concepts).
Exactly this, I spent 5 years of monthly calls with my mom over the course of 4 Android (admittedly very cheap) phones. Just basic stuff like sending pictures, why so and so didn’t get her text, etc.

Three years ago she got an iPad and it’s zero support calls with way more communication.

So while I suppose it is possible to have a non-horrible text experience on Android, I’ve only succeeded on iOS.
Somehow, hardwired time to sleep is independent of sunsent and location in timezone. No matter where the sun is at, no matter anything.

In winter, there is dark at like 17:00. How do their bodies know difference between 22:00 and 24:00?
Good to know. But he’s in California.
I use serverless-next.js [1], it's super convenient, deploys to AWS lambda@edge, cost scales with your traffic.

1: https://github.com/serverless-nextjs/serverless-next.js
Article 79 gives the data subject legal standing to bring a civil lawsuit against the data processor.

It's been the case before GDPR that you had to at least threaten legal action to make corporations behave.
Freedom of association does typically mean that a human can just ban you from ever being their customer again, but that's IMO an important freedom. The monopoly ISP in your municipality doing the same to you does not seem ok, however. And it might not be reasonable to ban ownership of a Google account that's used exclusively for "Sign in with Google".
They aren't that much different in service quality and I don't like them either.

You actually can get a vote at Concast if you buy stock, which can be more than what a single vote is worth at the federal level. The real difference is in how you can pressure them. Your single vote in the government covers a multitude of topics, in what is essentially a two choice system. You may need to vote contrary to your beliefs on one topic to protect your rights on another topic. In dealing with a single topic related to a company, you can concentrate your efforts through your voting stock, boycotts, etc.

So, when a politician hears a minority complain about an issue, they have zero incentive to listen to you because they lose nothing due to the discrete nature of measuring sucess (minority votes no longer matter once you secure the majority to win). At least companies care about losing revenue because it's measured continuously. Look at how they fight to attract and retain customers through deals, competing with other companies, and even negative stuff like fighting municipal internet.

The better choices are local companies and municipalities. This is because a person's voice is worth more and the concerns amongst the customers/voters tend to be more homogeneous than at higher levels.
Because it's not like you write songs which make people dream and fill a stadium to come and hear you play them

Nor you are acting in movies which again make people dream and embrace you as part of their life.

You are writing freaking code, if you don't get the money, all you are left with is the tepid admiration of nerds around the world...can't imagine anybody desiring that.

If Linus were to create a startup tomorrow it's not like people would waive their salary for the opportunity to work for the great man.

To summarize if you don't get money you are left with absolutely nothing in hand.
In a typing class in middle school. On a typewriter. In the seventies.

I don't know how fast I can type, and I don't care, it's never affected ... anything. (Former sw dev)
The whole concept of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market requires being able to purchase interchangeable goods on the global market.

Yet, you cannot buy a service like broadband or sewage, put it in a box and sell it to someone living in another continent.

Location-bound services usually become quasi-monopolies, where free market does not apply. The quasi-monopolist is able (and happy) to charge the maximum price that people can pay.
And it's all done in a traditional terminal, although I don't use 'vi'. I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar. I got used to it at the University of Helsinki when I was a wee lad, and I've not been able to wean myself from it, although I suspect I will have to soon enough. I hacked up (a very limited) utf-8 support for it a few years ago, but it's really showing its age, and showing all the signs of having been written in the 80's and the version I use was a fork that hasn't been maintained since the mid 90's.

College can really lock you into one editor or another for a lifetime.
> DC, NYC, LA, SF are not representative of how infrastructure projects are pursued in the rest of the country.

If the suburbs are different, this is a decent point. But the major American cities and their suburbs are a majority of the country on every metric that matters. BOS-WASH + SoCal alone is more than 20%.
Just checked this out, looks promising, unlimited bandwidth is nice too.