skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People change their beliefs over time and the current environment of toxic social media makes it easy for people to go to the extremes. I am not defending the racism-denial, but could we give him another chance to explain before we “cancel” him?
PRI was similar to a T1. I kinda doubt they had that at the payphone level.
It's fairly simple to find an upper bound for the damage a nuclear incident can cause. Take all the radioactive material in the reactor and put it in the most dangerous location, like the air or an underground aquifer. I don't understand why you think that the worst case scenario somehow got worse after Chernobyl.
I find that Bing's results are on par with Google's, but all of the others are basically useless for me.
As others pointed out - just because you have lots of micro reactors, they all don’t have to be in individual locations.

And there are far more easily obtainable things than uranium if you want to construct a dirty bomb. Another fantastic anti-nuke red herring.
Paul Kingsnorth's Green Götterdämmerung
Yeah I'm not sure why they think the Navy is doing it… I think the Navy is "just" the customer. Of course there's a lot involved in being the customer too.
Decentralized location-aware P2P protocol to make food delivery fair again
I suppose its relative. We can ask around if ____ is a good asset, and we'll get different answers.

Monetary goods / store of value assets are especially open to interpretation. Is a $100m painting worth really worth $100m? Is gold really worth $2k/oz? Shrug.
It's tricky though, because I could make a series of arguments that sound reasonable individually or out of context, but when made together in a specific context, they take on new meanings. Without more context, we end up inferring quite a bit based on the info presented to us.

Beyond that, I think it was foolish to prioritize debating language in the first place rather than focusing on making employees feel valued and included. People in leadership positions hold a lot of power in shaping where the conversation goes, and they could've pivoted to a more constructive conversation about company values at any point. But rather than do that, it was more important to be right.
not disruptions but more like boost in industrial production of things
To be fair, the skepticism wasn't without merits given the lengths TimescaleDB goes to make timeseries work. From their blog entries [0][1], it is evident that they essentially shoe-horn techniques from columnar stores like Apache Druid / Kudu, and file-types like Apache ORC / Parquet into Poatgres' row-based data-model. Reminds me of BigTable / HBase, in a way, too.

TimescaleDB's biggest feat here is of course pulling the engineering magic rabbit out of the hat by chipping away at it for 4+ years, and effectively answering the skepticism by delivering on their promise.

Note though, Amazon Redshift is built on Postgres, and (allegedly) so is Amazon Timestream.

[0] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compressio...

[1] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/time-series-compression-algo...
How similar is it to RPython?
Why is Japan failing so badly on vaccinations?
Seems like a good place for regulatory remediation then.
The whole "microconf"/bootstrap crowd works in a growing space with fewer capital needs. I think they fly below the radar in a lot of ways, but that's probably not a bad thing for them.
He also blatantly defied Alameda County covid shutdown orders to reopen a Tesla factory.

Tesla promised workers that they could stay home if they didn't feel comfortable breaking the law. Workers who stayed home then received termination notices.

Hundreds of people who returned to work at Tesla were then sickened by the disease.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/12/hundred...
I'm all for that approach, but it opens a serious cat and mouse game where any rendering difference between Firefox and Chrome is quickly turned into a major problem for average users. Firefox would no longer be something you can recommend to your parents as they'd be constantly fighting bans. Ad blocker detection is bad enough as is with the current number of users.
I agree in part. I think we have a major weakness in general competence, resourcefulness, tenacity & technical ability that would be needed for a large segment of production– like your welding factory example.

But much of the growth and competitiveness will come from very sophisticated industries requiring highly specialized STEM experience.

Think of a Tesla or Space X company. You need both a large number of competent technically skilled people. But they are powered by an adequate and smaller number of very highly specialized researchers and engineers designing the product.

Both of these segments are lacking investments in the USA
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People don't know that they're sharing personal info when they're sharing the links. It's like spiking someone's drink and then blaming them for getting drunk.
I strongly encourage you to do something about it now, not later. It gets harder to fix the longer you let it go.
I've been sailing on this game for nearly a year. I've done around the world 3 times. It's a fantastic group of people in the game and on IRC. I recommend definitely recommend it.
Is this what enterprise means?
You can describe an attitude without exoticizing it.
> you think different as Steve Jobs might say

That is exactly the problem. They cargo cult Steve Jobs' personality, fashion or some other aspect, but they don't deliver Steve Jobs kind of results. It ends up being cringey at best and disastrous for their company at worst.

I have seen this before with CxOs and owners who decided their company would be "just like Apple" and they would be "just like Steve Jobs". They read how Steve Jobs was an asshole, so they just started acting like assholes towards everyone waiting for the fame and fortune to follow.
I'd guess it used BRI. PRI would probably have been considered too expensive to justify running to a payphone. My guess is the BRI socket on that payphone is only operable when you're not making a call, so the 2x64k BRI line can be assigned to the phone or passed through to that socket.

You're working on a user-mode ISDN stack - this sounds extremely interesting! Care to drop me a line? https://www.devever.net/~hl/contact
Because the complexity these things introduce affect all of us. They make software harder to build and maintain, and they introduce bugs and security vulnerabilities.

We should strive for less people overall in software with a better sense for quality, than getting everybody to pile more junk on this dumbster fire that is computer science.
Yeah but

"Kail set up a corporation to receive bribes from Netflix contractors, the DOJ said."

Super blatant. I don't get how he expected to get away with it? You'd think there's a fair chance his employment contract at Netflix would prohibit having an outside interest like this. Plus you know, maybe learn how brown paper bags work. Or find a relative who has a consulting business to bill. Maybe read what cryptocurrency is. Seems like there are a lot of things you could do that aren't making a separate company which has bank accounts and files returns. Oh yeah and don't buy a house with it, a house can be confiscated.

Anyway he should have read the newspapers more. Clearly the thing to do is like your CTO or how politicians do it, just get them to pay you with a "job" after you leave. Perhaps he just hadn't reached scale yet like you can with political roles. Those £38B we spent on track & trace here in the UK will surely come back to the right pockets somehow.
Gasoline should be at least $25/gallon by now. So putting that aside, large-scale investment in nuclear seems to be the best option.
Yup. Many federal agency's budgets continue to swell every year, yet they get more and more sickly and toothless. What the hell are they fucking doing? Not protecting the people, that's for sure.
>Believing that limited quantities of LSD would improve his pitch, Zhu, who had never before used the drug, decided to try the microdosing plan. He took what he thought was a small amount of LSD shortly before the meeting.

Taking a "small amount" LSD for the first time in your life, right before an important meeting, in the vain hope that it will improve your pitch, when you don't even have any idea how it will feel, or what it will do to you, or how long it will last, or even how to medically define and accurately measure a "small amount" of LSD, is astoundingly idiotic and irresponsible.

Is that how he runs his whole company? Why bother with development and staging servers? Just log in as root and hack away on the production server!
Somebody took the Make A Lisp challenge (https://github.com/kanaka/mal) quite serious :D
Following that train of thought, what changed between Italy/Beijing and Wuhan? Was it sheer luck that made the first major outbreak happen in Wuhan, and not in Milan or Beijing? Or Los Angeles for that matter, I think I heard reports of suspect pneumonia cases from the US as well?

What I was alluding to with "precursor" was that it may have been the same virus, but that some mutation in Wuhan might have made it so much easier to spread. My mind just has trouble imagining a model where a virus can lie pretty much dormant for half a year in different populations, and then surge in one place only and spread from there. That may well be a limitation of my mind, I simply don't see how that would work.
Julia's startup time is not short, but it's getting significantly shorter with every release. Right now, the startup overhead is only 0.13 seconds for me.

Some packages still take a while to load, e.g. for me to load the plotting pacakge and produce the first plot takes about 8 seconds (all subsequent plots in that session are fast). This is down from like 30 seconds last year.

One can also bundle heft packages like Plots.jl into their julia system image so they don't have to recompile all that machinery every time they restart julia.
Perhaps you’re right. I was thinking that if this was part of a network of pay phones that they would want to be able to handle more than just the 2 calls per line an BRI would allow with less infrastructure (though I think lower rate calls are possible through additional multiplexing)
i suspect the academic lab's definition of open source is more "loosey goosey", i.e., "is the technique published in a paper/poster and can it be reimplemented by our grad students/postdocs?" If so...Open Source(tm)!
This story reminds me of the Basecamp saga.

Here, the narrative is that the CEO is ousted because of anti-Asian bias/racism from his investors. Similarly, with Basecamp, employees quit due to a change in workplace policy that they viewed as intolerant.

You can take those suppositions at face value. Or you can look at our supercharged political culture and view these prevailing narratives as convenient scapegoats.

I don't think that 1/3 of Basecamp's employees decided to quit based on one meeting or an isolated policy decision. I presume many were thinking about leaving (due to workplace culture or otherwise), and a 6 month severance package made the decision easy for them.

I have no idea what is going on internally at Iterable or the company's financial situation. But stellar performance gives you a lot of breathing room. Adam Neumann's drug use was tolerated and even encouraged when WeWork was doubling in value every year...right up until WeWork tried to go public and imploded.

Being unconventional is embraced in the business world as long as you're delivering returns to your investors. Once you're not, it is used against you. We've seen this fall from grace play out over and over again (Travis Kalanick, Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey, etc).
It's not about clothes, it's about signalling preparation and respect.

When Bill Gates and Paul Allen were preparing for their life changing meeting with IBM, they knew that IBM has very strict dress code, so they dressed in conservative IBM style suits. At the same time IBM executives wanted to make these young unknown west coast guys comfortable and decided to wear relaxed and informal attire breaking their own dress code.

When the two groups met, they busted into laughing. It was funny but also made it clear that both were serious and wanted the deal succeed.
The vectors are the perceived force (which must be centrifugal) rather than the net force (which must be centripetal as you suggest).
The most damaging legacy of Steve Jobs is convincing millions of people that if you’re a genius you have a right to be a huge asshole; and conversely, if you’re being a huge asshole it must be because you’re a genius.
>How is banning Bitcoin censorship?

Financial transactions/trade is the most honest form of communication. Bitcoin enables unrestricted financial transactions aka free speech.
I think this is over my head ( EU citizen who avoids most mainstream news ).

@Don : first, editting your comment is in no way the proper etiquette to discuss. Second, I looked it up, and apparently you are referring to this re-election campaign. Seriously, I didn't know about it.

Ignorance is bliss.
The subtitle is "America and China must work harder to avoid war over the future of Taiwan". It's simple to avoid war over Taiwan, and I'm not sure what "work" America needs to do. China simply needs to respect the sovereignty of another country.
Hard disagree. US agencies don’t have the resources to pursue many actions, so they are very conservative and really only go after slam-dunks. By the time you get contacted you’re already fucked and need to get with the new program - fast.
Partial checkout already exists:

`git clone --depth 1 <url>`

Of course you mean, only one small repo -- but the more git-like strategy is to specifically use submodules
It's a little unclear in the article, but it sounds like that was a different meeting.
> If you can memory-hole a president of the United States, is there anyone on earth that you cannot completely dominate, in whatever channel or manner you chose to manipulate?

Exactly. The power to make someone invisible to others feels like something out of Black Mirror. Everyone claiming that Presidents (or others) did just fine before the Internet and social media is missing the point. Relevance, visibility, and existence are all concepts that are only meaningful in a relative sense. In a world where the vast majority of information seen by humans comes from large digital platforms, being banned in cyberspace but visible in meatspace effectively means you are blocked from society, since attention is largely given only to information on these giant tech platforms.

This is why large tech platforms are public accommodations, as SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas eloquently described in his recent opinion (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-197_5ie6.pdf). For those short on time, summaries of his arguments can be found at various news sites (Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/06/technolog... or Daily Wire: https://www.dailywire.com/news/clarence-thomas-hints-that-co...).

Glenn Greenwald also had a great write-up on the incredible power these platforms wield, which is far greater than most governments even (https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congressional-testimony-the...). In this article, under subsection #2, Glenn reviews the various world leaders who responded publicly to American social media banning Trump as an unacceptable and ominous event.
Exactly my reaction, except I would have phrased it as, "Wow, that's awesome! So you just acted confident and people believed whatever you said? But ... this story is real, right?"
Software and resources for experiments and data analysis of EEG signals
People have also made megadollar blunders. As programming environments go, Excel carefully maximises the fuckup surface, enabling all users from novice to expert to stumble unawares into hidden calculation bugs. Cell-reference slip-ups (via copypaste or otherwise) are de rigeur, of course, and they're aided and abetted by Excel's cockeyed "type" system (if we can even call it that), half-baked documentation, inconsistent function library, and mediocre/absent testing, integrity, versioning, or debugging tools.

Probably the worst example I've seen first-hand was an entire retail banking loan-approval process running off of a single, shared, gigantic spreadsheet, that hundreds had tinkered with, but no-one understood or took responsibility for, and where the accompanying Word document of "things not to do" was bigger than the workbook.

Even yesterday, a friend of mine discovered they'd underclaimed expenses for a total >$1,000 due to a dodgy spreadsheet. Something as simple as pasting a list of dollar amounts from a webpage into Excel can produce an incorrect SUM() if/when trailing spaces creep in, since the resulting values may be treated as strings and evaluate to zero - and so it had transpired. Not even "text to columns" could fix it; you have to a) know about this lurking monster, b) use formatting to make it casually evident, and c) use Replace to strip the whitespace. What a crock.
Yes. I saw a presentation by the CEO of Western Digital. He was dressed in a polo shirt and blue jeans. But he was in fact very well dressed and if I were in a Brooks Brothers suit, he would have looked more professional. His presentation was effortlessly on point. I don't think he microdosed before the meeting. Moreover, I thought after the presentation, yeah, I want to work for that guy.

I don't think dress has anything to do with this firing.
AFAIK that kid died later from the internal injuries inflicted.
Microdosing is actually one of the best things to help with speaking to large groups or presenting ideas. The increase in creativity and mental clarity helps you make more eloquent points and respond well to questions.
Essentially all measuring tools, especially those targeting the subatomic level like electrons, have some degree of error. It is not 100% ruled out, but if electrons do have varying charges it is at an amount smaller than what we can currently reliably measure. Electron charge is constant at amounts we can reliably measure.

Additionally, it seems to be near universally accepted by particle physicists that fundamental particles (like electrons) are identical, and I trust they have good reasons for that belief, so while it is not something we can definitively prove I am pretty confident about it.
I refuse to buy Tesla cars because of Elon and his background of profiting from the mining of emeralds in apartheid Zambia. Elon has worked hard to erase his origin from the minds of potential customers but I could never forget. Elon is also the reason no company will buy Tesla. Elon would have to be all the way out of the picture.
With AWS luckily I think a lot of this goes away. Back in the first dot com boom, we had a CTO or CIO or whatever but he had a side business where he just sold very expensive hardware to the company. He even brought on weird ass shit like AlphaServers/DigitalServers with a special version Windows NT. I mean that's fine since all our stuff was Java, but it was clearly all purchased to personally enrich this guy.

OMG, I just looked up his name - this all happened after this company, but he has 13 arrest records from 2006 to 2018 and apparently now he lives in Las Vegas.
ISDN was pretty prevalent in Germany, but it always would cost a premium compared to POTS
It depends. If it puts the company at legal risk, they're pretty quick to act in all companies I've been at.

If it puts the company at just PR risk, varies by company whether they will do anything or participate in the cover up.
I don't know, small overlap crashes (which include impact on only about one fifth of the bumper on the driver-side) have only recently been prioritized (circa 2014) and that's when all of the technology seeped into every car model, even on the low end of the new car market.

https://youtu.be/TZC8Ykl1esE

https://www.iihs.org/api/datastoredocument/status-report/pdf... (starting page 4)
good example :) though I think everyone realises that for firemen to be busier, there needs to be more fires, and that's not a good thing!
And this seems like such an easy problem to prevent even without a guard. The moment the ball gets sucked under the treadmill the child's head actually stops the treadmill. But instead of stopping the motor in this obvious fault condition it just keeps applying force until it somehow manages to suck the entire child in. Something as simple as stopping the motor when the treadmill gets blocked (and starts drawing lots of power) could have avoided that whole situation.

With the hindsight they now have they probably also want to stop the treadmill as soon as it starts tilting. That requires a new sensor, but seems like a good case to catch.
Ah thanks for pointing that out as I didn't make myself clear. I definitely didn't mean Java as a whole, as it is indeed a tremedously successful platform and language.

I meant specifically the lack of flexibility in some regards because of the missing of monads and friends.

For example, we have a few newer languages, TypeScript and Kotlin come to mind, implementing the "null operator":

thing?.fieldA?.fieldB

While this is quite handy, and people unfamiliar with the Option monad will think that this new syntax is really cool, it poses two limitations:
1. It doesn't compose with other abstractions
2. I can't use this for my own abstractions

If the language designers had chosen to take one step back and implemented it in a more generic way (in some sense, in the same as my other comment in this thread about implementing "map" without "reduce"), the feature could've still been implemented in the language, but without the limitations.

I'm not sure what you meant with this point:

> people lamenting the lack of monads in Java.

Do you mean that, because you don't see people lamenting, it's not a useful feature?
Yeah, Ignition’s historian isn’t meant to replace or compete with PI, it’s just meant to provide a basic historian that meets the average user’s needs.
I'm very disappointed that Apple is embracing advertisements in it's other iOS apps as well. For instance, I see interstitial LendingTree ads in the news feed on the Stocks app. Integrating ads into your first party applications always seemed like a Google or Microsoft thing to do, not an Apple thing. I suppose I could look for quality, advertisement free, non-subscription, alternatives on the App Store but that's like finding a needle in a haystack.
"Private companies are free to run their business any way they want. If they choose to ban a person based on the 45th president promoting an overthrow of the government, so be it."

Big pharma can charge whatever they want right? They are private companies. If you don't want that insulin injection or epi-pen then just don't buy one.
Kail was indicted in 2018 on 19 counts of wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, and seven counts of money laundering.

Where is the thief charge?
Well, it is amazing to me, after watching the videos of what the Peloton was actually doing, how actually dangerous it looked. The deck is high and the rollers are much larger than normal giving it a lot of torque to suck kids underneath of it. It apparently has no sort of resistance sensors for when the motor is jammed, which kind of blew my mind. In the video where the kid wasn't seriously injured, the treadmill slowly ate the child until the treadmill wedged entirely on top of a large exercise ball, which was enough for the kid to get some space and escape. If that ball had not been there, the treadmill would have climbed on top of them and crushed them. It is ridiculous to me you can't build in a basic safety sensor or fusing mechanism that will blow when the motor hits a certain load at a certain speed or whatever.
There are many solar plants around the world that produce cheap power without subsidies.