skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>(If it becomes medium-term unprofitable, then it seems to me obvious that it won't.)

I'll add that while I think it's unlikely ANY incorporated publicly traded business would stick it out to deal with the consequences... TESLA seems to have treated medium-term unprofitablity as a consequence of failing to meet quality and production goals without heavy divergence from long-term profitability plans.
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As the Texas power outage demonstrated, the US grid is not monolithic. Having more interconnected regional grids actually makes it easier to get individual regions to high renewable percentages while allowing the market to continue to mature lower cost storage. Storage is slightly behind the solar manufacturing S-curve in terms of dropping costs, but once a number of EV supply plants start ramping up, I think that cost optimization will strongly drop storage costs.
For anyone not already familiar with this, do yourself a favor and at least search up some visuals on the “Survivaball”. I love love the Yes Men!!!
Well, the info says digital tilting hydraulics was tested 2013-2015 without faults and VR decided to install it on all trains. Couldn't find newer info.
This is the right way to think about it. That said, a 1% infection rate that isn't at all a threat to the species given normal biological processes* will cause us to completely flip our shit. While we wouldn't be wiped out, everybody would be real upset for a long while. Look at COVID.

*Technology has given us things like nukes, so...could be harder to predict these days.
> nor can you ask users to be okay with randomly destroying things

what do you think will happen to your EC2 instances if your payment method on file with Amazon fails repeatedly and for more than 30 days? Do you think they will just keep those instances intact indefinitely without payment because they promised not to 'randomly destroy things'?
That's what a meme is, as originally defined.

A singular cultural trait or idea that replicates.
Somewhat tangentially related, if some item with a lid claims to be waterproof or airtight, are there standards for it? Specifically can we count on it to be bug/pest proof? I would expect something like this survival bunker to be bug proof obviously, but are there grades to being waterproof and airtight and is it possible that the products on the lower end of the spectrum might let bugs in?
That isn't what is happening. The USDA is prohibiting suplemental testing. The allegation is that this is because that might reveal cases of infection that would show the USDA testing policies are not sufficient.

Thus the USDA is placing their reputation over the health of US citizens.
It absolutely is not lazy parents and this victim blaming is ridiculous. I have no idea where the concept that parents have to be 100% attentive to everything their child does at all times, but it is completely unrealistic.

And for the record, the death happened while the treadmill was in proper use, so while it's true some of these accidents may have been prevented by removing the safety key, not all of them would have.
I have lost count of how many projects called Orbit I have seen so far.
A network of these would have been a better design than giant arks depicted in 2012.
I’m just saying, that’s a very human behavior and you’re going to have to find ways to combat that tendency in any organizational structure. If anything having everything out in the open will help.
No, it's used for AR/VR, playable ads, 3D configurators, automotive, arch viz and more. See:

https://github.com/playcanvas/awesome-playcanvas#awesome-pla...
The US left pushed a narrative to assassinate the character and deplatform a sitting President in a federal election, while suppressing information about a candidate's family being involved in graft with a rival state, and the candidate being senile and hiding in his basement.
>you respond by quoting free speech case law.

No, I didn't. You are making this up to win an argument. There is no reference to case law or SCOTUS whatsoever in my comment. What a bizarre fabrication. I see there is clearly no point in continuing this if you're going to argue in such bad faith.

Moreover, a response you deem "inappropriate" is subjective. Either your free speech is being denied or it isn't. My boss can fire me for saying a lot of things they don't like; that doesn't infringe on my right to free speech. This is the way it has always been.
I'm not dogmatic about it and obviously my position is a lost cause, but I don't think inserting race into everything is better.

Race is socially constructed, lines between 'races' dissolve and change over time. Reinforcing our differences in software and communication unnecessarily over arbitrary categorizations and physical characteristics is worse for society (imo).

I think people should generally have the freedom to do what they want, but defaults and incentives matter - it's better to choose ones that lead to a better outcome when possible. That's all I'm getting at.
Unless you qualified for each and every benefit, replacing them all with money might end up being a gain instead of a cut. Anyone who doesn’t have a gym membership or isn’t currently paying tuition would come out ahead this year at least on their new plan.

Fair enough that it might not work so well in subsequent years due to taxes.
Really must have missed the inclusive terminology memo
Because "racist" is almost meaningless now, as people who are part of the machinery of white supremacy view "racists" as cartoon villains that do not resemble them.

People are often complicit in white supremacy without realizing or indeed without even feeling personal hatred towards non-whites.
“Good enough for government work” is one of the right’s greatest memes.
There are many variations of standards of life. Some are objectively better than others. Compare a wealthy person to someone whose standard of life was so bad they froze to death on the streets in winter, due to homelessness.

There are many factors that affect standards of life, including e.g. having a shelter or not, etc. Other factors make less of a difference to the standard, e.g. access to education. This is all obvious and should go without saying. What you're trying to say is that 'having sex or not' is not a factor that affects the standards of life, but I think it quite obviously is one as well.
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Thanks for engaging here, and congrats on the round!

I've reviewed all these resources multiple times in the past, which is what prompted me to do my own benchmarks (in which mongo outperforms both multinode and single node configurations).

Some issues I noticed:

- youre using gopkg.in/mgo.v2 which is a mongo driver that hasn't had a release in 6 years. Not sure of the general performance impact here, but my tests use mongo 4.2 with a modern node.js driver. So thats one difference.

- your indexing strategy for mongo is easily changed to be able to get much better performance than the naive compound approach you took in the code (measurement > tags.hostname > timestamp).

- you didnt test the horizontal scaling path at all, this is where mongo arguably shines

I'm glad you all open source this stuff because it helps engineering leaders make better decisions, so thank you for that. But your data does not align with my own: either our production metrics or through structured load testing.
> It seems like there are quite a lot of relatives/family members of doctors on HN.

Lots of actual doctors on HN. It's true, pharmaceutical companies do market directly to doctors. The most positive form of marketing for patients is when they provide doctors with free samples of drugs they were going to prescribe anyway.

In my country generic drugs are not always the most reliable option and having more trustworthy alternatives really helps. This isn't drug marketing speaking either, there have been actual newsworthy scandals involving "mismanagement" of taxpayer money meant to pay for the production of basic hypertension drugs.
That is actually incredibly good advice. Sounds obvious on its face, but isn't necessarily obvious in the moment.
True, you are correct, democracy specifies no specific outcome.

However, my comment should have read "bad for the outcomes of a democracy."
I think being honest will not affect your career in a negative way. In this particular instance, it could potentially harm this job now, however if telling the truth gets you fired, that is not a place where you want to work.

Hearing your baby is ugly is painful but a necessary part of business, if we can't be ruthlessly honest with each other, then no one wins.
Thanks a lot for the straightforward response!

As for 4 - yes, I meant 2.0 and also removal of adaptive chunking in the earlier versions.
> free speech absolutism

In what way do you mean this? The classically conservative/libertarian/1a absolutist "people should be able to say whatever they want and the government cannot meddle", or the current republican "the government should regulate companies do to prevent them from criticizing the president" free speech absolutism?
Rediculous. I doubt anyone returns them. The only safety concern is Pelaton being stalked by tyrannical government regulation.
Google Search has been dying for a decade. Try image search today - it’s awful. And regular search isn’t any better.

It used to be simple to find drivers with Google. Now it’s easier to go to the vendor’s page and try to navigate their mystery meat hellmaze. That’s terrible.
That's not more effective, and much much more risky, and this method leaves evidence, while powered off or zeroed and rebooted dram contents don't.
Google search is technically the best it has ever been with its use of Bert and Passage Ranking. Ironically, this has had the unintended effect of forcing content-farms to produce more realistic content that resembles the babbling of GPT2, where you can’t just skim the content to immediately recognize it is babble. This means that while there may actually be fewer content-farm results in our searches, it costs the user substantially more energy and time to filter those results out manually.

Google search may be dead in the sense that Google has gone as far as it can go in ranking the relevance and quality of content. What we need is a value ranking of content — contextual to a specific person’s needs rather than as an answer to a one-line query.

The reason so many of us append “Reddit” to our queries is because humans are the only things on this planet capable of making evaluations about value. At least, for now.
It's important to remember that this is an international forum with millions of readers all over the world. It's not a majority-U.S. community.

I mention this because it's another dimension of context which gets badly overlooked when people discuss divisive issues that are dependent on specific places and histories.
That they rely on a lot of optimisations to be really efficient (= have any chance of approaching a regular for loop).

Without that, every adapter adds a function call to the yielding of an element.
Thoughts in my head:

* They should be aware from the onset that this requires investigation first of all. You would provide them with an update to see if you can actually timebox it midway into the process (be that the EOD or on another day)

* After having recognized that this problem was just a configuration issue, one should write down why that bug was so difficult to find and what is the work to be done to make that issue more visible?

* Speak to your personal manager and talk through the problem. Maybe they can share the insights with the management team.
I'm not suggesting that startups be given free capital; I'm suggesting that we find a way to make capital less necessary, i.e. lower the stakes.

At the extreme, if starting a company only requires pocket change, then nobody (society, investors, or anyone else) has much to lose in letting an unproven founder do their thing.
I appreciate all the work it takes to do them and document them. Doesn't go unnoticed I promise you.
offshore wind...
Can you point me to a paper from the 70s that explains how to flatten such calls? The best that I know is "stream fusion, to completeness" which was published in something like 2019!
> What BS and a waste of time this "board" is when they refuse to do their job.

Arguing over what the job's board should and shouldn't be means it's too late and FB snuck this travesty past us. Private companies shouldn't be instating boards to oversee themselves to begin with.
> Sites that literally just copy a random version of the docs are ranked higher...

Recently I put something together in Common Lisp, a language I’m a novice at, so I often had to search. The first result returned in all my Google searches was a copycat website. Someone had clearly taken some previous high-quality Lisp reference and extensively rewritten it to avoid copyright violation, then loaded it with SEO. However, their English was rather poor and so this rewrite was a pain to read.

I would love a search engine that would allow me to zap certain domains and hide them permanently from results, but at the same time without retaining information about me for advertising purposes.
However, "ice IX" is real and distinct from "Ice-nine", so clarity is worthwhile.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_IX

Also I only know of Ice-nine because of fun facts like this, didn't even know the name of the story let alone have read it.
That's not true.

Why do people think this? Because Elon Musk can tweets dumb memes? The size and scope of regulatory agencies has vastly increased over the years. And fines paid out are gigantic. Take banks for instance:

> Financial institutions have been hit with $10.4 billion in global fines and penalties related to anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC), data privacy, and MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) regulations in 2020, bringing the total to $46.4 billion for those types of breaches since 2008.

https://www.complianceweek.com/surveys-and-benchmarking/repo...
(Unless you're using an adblocker worth its salt, like uBO on Firefox, in which case it works perfectly.)
So if it is this risky, perhaps he shouldn't have done it for the first time immediately before an important investor meeting.
Not so fun fact. ROS1 does this to compute hashes for their message format, but they do it wrong, so that every ROS1 system has potentially catastrophic deserialisations going on.

It's a wontfix because they'd have to recompile their packages to fix it. Yeah, talk about quality...
Sigh. Yes, tell us more about why the style you've written 3-4 orders of magnitude more code in is inherently simpler/clearer.
Storing nuclear waste safely underground requires having a rock formation that is geologically stable over 100,000+ years. Not easy to find. Otherwise the waste will eventually enter ground water and from there inevitably the food chain.
If you want to treat climate change as an existential threat, then you do whatever it takes to keep all existing nuclear running until fossil fuel plants are gone from the entire continent. And you put a little money to subsidize/stimulate new nuclear on the off chance some of the advanced nuclear concepts work out (or as a backup in case renewables improve slower than we think).

You don’t have to stop or even slow renewables deployment to do this. They are fairly different industries with different workforce’s, so there are resources to do both simultaneously without significant interference. And you’re not going to get “too much” electricity as cheap abundant electricity will help accelerate decarbonization of other things like building heat and transport and industrial processes.

Existing nuclear ESPECIALLY must be protected. And existing hydro. Number 1 and number 2 (tied with wind) clean energy sources.

Nuclear power produces as much energy in our country as coal. We can phase out coal twice as fast if we at very least keep nuclear around a few years longer.
I got very lucky about then when my father got his work to pay for bonded ISDN to our house in the middle of nowhere. Being able to connect to BBSes at 128kbit was insane.

But the big thing with ISDN and the internet was the latency. A bunch of mudding friends brought over their computers all the time since they could suddenly play with a latency almost as good as the older kids who played from their university dorms.
Not unscathed they won't, as there is no/insufficient padding in this design. It smells of reinventing a square wheel, or in this case, replacing a bigger rectilinear cellar with a small sphere.
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To follow up Ajay's point, we really do take compatibility and stability seriously.

I believe that our "major version" upgrade from 1.x to 2.0 was the first time we changed/broke any APIs, but that involved a long beta/RC process, much documented about the changes [1], and upgrades that also meant to seamlessly migrate.

For example, upgrading from 1.x to 2.0 was still just running `ALTER EXTENSION timescaledb UPGRADE`. The main difference was if you were, for example, using some of our informational views in your applications, those had a change a bit. Or if you were querying internal catalogs in your app (although that is never recommended =)

Even after 2.0 was launched, we did backport bug fixes to some follow-on 1.x releases, and continued to support users running 1.x on our cloud platform.

[1] https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/overview/relea...
>And it pays off to fight with them. Look at Elon Musk and his companies.

What benefit has Musk or Tesla received from fighting with regulators? Whether it is spats over securities, unions, or safety it doesn't appear that any punishments handed to Musk or Tesla are lenient when compared with what others have received in similar circumstances. Meanwhile these fights have been a consistent drag on his and Tesla's public reputations. Like with most things Tesla, odds are the company would have been better off if Musk knew when to keep his mouth shut.
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This story inspires me to write notes for my Grand kids :)
Insanely cool, thanks. I have been looking for something to use on my profile, blog etc, this is perfect.
Very good Mustard video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDN7PPW4AE8
I'm sorry, but no. The holocaust absolutely happened because the German people turned a blind eye to what was going on. Because whatever their private feelings might have been, they kept them private because they weren't appropriate to express in public. The German people, in aggregate, were clearly able to stop the holocaust. And it happened anyway.

Also let me just note that your casual attempt to accuse me of antisemitism in a thread LITERALLY ABOUT people being casually and unjustly accused of white supremacy is just "chef's kiss" level hypocrisy. Well done.
This is a social media site. The fact that it seems to be an indispensable service that deprivation of such causes irreparable harm is more of a cause for concern than their ability to discriminate.
Look at the US Navy operational record for nuclear power. That might convince you that humans can do it.
Nuclear is expensive because of regulatory interference. The NRC literally has a mandate to increase cost.

If nuclear had to compete with coal on actual safety, nuclear would already be cheaper than coal.
Board-CEO relationships come in three flavors:

- We love our CEO! We'll do anything to keep this boss happy

- We're stuck with a loser, and we need to make a change

- We're in the middle. This CEO has real strengths, which we appreciate, and real weaknesses, which concern us. We're regularly taking stock of the situation, and we'd probably like an orderly transition down the road. But we're probably okay for now.

The third situation is quite common. And in those cases, you don't really need a "pretext" or a "power struggle." You just need the board to say: "We've tolerated a lot, but maybe we've tolerated too much. This new incident is not what we'd be seeing if we had the right CEO."
We have a number of very good modern science fiction authors that easily rival them. While none of them may be as iconic, I think that has more to do with competition in the genre and breadth of the market.
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Not if you do rapid deceleration at a serious level. The sphere might still look perfect, but whoever is inside will be very much dead. The ironic part is that they would survive better if the sphere wasn't as rigid and would deform, taking part of the forces.

Of course someone already researched what happens if you put humans in a full body harness and stop them quickly: https://www.hse.gov.uk/research/hsl_pdf/2003/hsl03-09.pdf
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Step 2 is key. You need to understand why the pressure exists. Is the CEO demoing the software and does not want a big error screen to pop up? Is your biggest customer complaining? Does you CTO need his Etch-a-Sketch reset?

You also need to understand what constitutes success. Can you disable feature X?, Can you catch the error and log it but not display or stop execution? Can you do a quick hack workaround while you take longer to fix it.
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Still you have to put that half Wembley stadium somewhere. It's not like you can just put it in landfill with the toxicity levels you get from some of the stuff is in the micrograms.
> As a manager, sometimes you need to say things like, "This bug needs to be fixed by EOD tomorrow" so that your team understands the urgency and your expectations.

I'm sorry but you can do that without sounding both clueless and unreasonable. You can put everything else on hold, stop the line, explain why it's important for this to be fixed, etc.. to get the point across.

"This bug needs to be fixed by EOD tomorrow" would chip away at the trust I have with management and depending on other factors would lead me to brush up my resume...
What happens if it comes to rest hatch down. You can't always count on help in a mass disaster.
> I’m not saying one leadership style is better than the other, I just hope we recognize good consensus based leadership should be valued as well, and it’s rather undervalued in tech culture in favor of people that sometime make a lot of noise, but end up being completely full of it.

It seems likely that some leadership styles are better than others and plausible that techbrocracy is better than a more circumspect style for companies like this.

Variety of styles at various similar firms might have benefits, but I don't think it's fair to assume that variety is worth while without an actual argument or evidence.
It makes at least some sense from the perspective of someone living where tornadoes are a common occurrence.

But only “some”. It could be made significantly cheaper than traditional shelters because it’s made of aluminum, but there should be a way to anchor it to the ground - I have no desire to go bouncing around through a tornado, thank you very much.

The 4-person model is $17,500? I can get a larger traditional underground shelter for ~$8k installed. If I were in an area without the ability to dig down into the ground or where flooding was a major concern, this would be more attractive I suppose. As it is, it’s just spending 2-4x the money on an inferior solution.