skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not OP, but I believe the red herring they are pointing out is that maintenance of legacy systems by someone other than legacy maintainers led to disasters. Call it privatization, change, etc., the sentiment remains. As far as scapegoats relative to global climate change go, it is a relatively minor point that only focuses on reported issues (sharpshooter fallacy) and ignores the other evidence for climate change in favor of a minimal gish gallop of alternative hypotheses and tangents.
SARs are no additional help in this situation as they would only report the fraudulently given information, and there is no aspect to this crime that would particularly interest the Treasury department.
> The cost of letting Stripe do all the work than moving over to another provider is extremely costly and can damage sales.

Yes, that's exactly my point: At some point you are completely locked in with a single supplier that holds your entire income stream and perhaps even more than that.

Ideally (easier said that done, I know) you want to have at least 2 suppliers for any key piece of infrastructure as early as possible and to avoid letting a supplier 'expand' the number of tasks they do for you too much.

The latter seems to be Stripe's strategy: They start with payments then expand step by step in everything related et even in things like company incorporation.
Americans might be more familiar with Kuwait compared to other countries for the nefarious reason of having fought a war to defend its oil.
That assumes there are no other benefits to California of growing alfalfa and hay. Many downstream industries depend on access to hay and growing it may be necessary for soil management.
> Prafulfillment gloats in a way that draws attention to their identity, without clarifying what actually happened, leaving Biggar's version as the only account of events. Additional tidbits of information are coming out...

Tidbits which, AFAICS, slowly tilt the balance back over in favour of Biggar having been more right than wrong: https://twitter.com/SarahBelleLin/status/1370071520953835520
This book is very well written, and interesting (at least to me). I didn’t know that JS didn’t have exceptions at first.
Almost. The tool randomizes its output by country, state, city, tennis courts, football fields and various animals. This ensures that you never can compare anything.
Zooming out a bit, I do agree that bitcoin is set up as a fiat money transfer system and that in order for the miners to keep making bitcoin they do need to sell it to people to make a profit, so I can't just narrow in on the production of bitcoin and ignore where profits come from. When the miners sell the bitcoin they make for dollars as a business, that is money transmission. Gold dealers are money transmitters because they sell gold (considered a currency equivalent) for dollars as a business. Gold mining companies invest to find gold as a company, when they sell the commodity for dollars for a profit I'm not sure if this is money transmission because gold is a real commodity that as consuming demand, bitcoin isn't a real commodity because it isn't 'used' so I don't think the bitcoin miners have the same benefit of selling bitcoin for dollars without being money transmitters. Bitcoin miners should be thought of as gold dealers, but also as a common enterprise issuing securities.
A conspiracy theory.
Within a decade or so nuclear energy will finally be back.

Unfortunately, we will have squandered 3 decades of not using it more extensively.

What’s that Churchill quote about Americans?

[Updates]

- I mean the start of building because we will realize we need it.

- Solar won’t provide a base load, no matter how cheap it gets. Yes, i know about the billions and billions of batteries

- We didnt need next generation nuclear. it was important to reduce emissions over the past 3 decades
Yeah but to me the fuck up is when priorities went from this:

1. Innovate and make nice things
2. Get paid tons of money

to this:

1. Get paid tons of money
2. Innovate and make nice things

In my opinion, you will grow wealthy faster if you focus on product over money.
Lack of vision prevented the decision to go through with

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power...

Now you are crying about the rains stopping, where you failed to prepare.

And when you think your prayers were heard

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARkStorm

comes, and wipes away the remaining earth.

Bust Vegas!
Not subscribed so can't look at the report, but kinda wanted to look at the report. I was curious if they broke down the source/manufacturer of the panels.
Seems like an area that needs innovation to improve efficiency. Perhaps all transactions could be made electronic and reversible within 30 days? Maybe instead of mailing a check or doing a wire transfer something with two factor authentication is needed based on a physical token? Doesn't seem difficult to give your trusted partners and associates a USB key to make sure funds can not go to anyone else. Why is banking mostly not using 2FA already? Any place that can mail me a debit card can mail me a USB key. The card could BE the USB key.
According to the wikipedia page linked above
republic of ireland:
total english speakers 98.37%
as first languge 93.22%

For the UK the figures are: total speakers 98.3% as first language 92.3%
But then the calculation on a yearly basis doesn't make sense, it'd have to be doubled.
This is how taxes work, so it makes total sense, perhaps with the exception that the baseline might be different for different "use cases" (ie. residential vs commercial).
It's an eight figure product, so regardless of how you or anyone else on a forum feels about it (I mean, everyone likes to window shop, including me), I suspect their sales pipelines aren't going to be hamstrung by it.
Same thing with forest fires. In the last 10 years we stopped any sort of fire mitigation, and we have seen the fires get far worse.
> They might use components that share a common heritage with their COTS cousins (in that they're not being developed specifically for a single supercomputer)

That's what I'm talking about. This system isn't just new arrangement of off-the-shelf x86/x64-based CPUs or commodity GPU cores with exotic interconnects.

> Packaging and cooling has been solved, btw. and the company indeed sells a "plug-and-play" system

I'm aware that they have a product. My interest would be in hearing about how they solved their packaging, power, and cooling challenges. That's actually more interesting to me than the capabilities of the system to deliver neural network processing. There had to be a ton of fun engineering in figuring out how to make a system out of the raw technology.
Very interesting... Does it support full text search? I scanned a little bit but didn’t find any info either way.
It seems like in a democratic society, people are wont to underprice resources like this. How does someone get elected to ban lawns or golf courses if the majority likes those things? The same issue occurs with trying to get people to do things that are good for them like drinking less, eating less red meat, and exercising more.
I had >30 acres (12 ha) in a famously restrictive county in CA in 1999. Zoned for timber production, one house per parcel.

Before the building permit was issued I had spent $120k on a fourteen-inch stack of documents and fees, for a house of 2200 ft^2 (~200 m^2).

It has got much more restrictive in the intervening time. New construction in the timber production zones has just about halted.
Maybe but there's also just lists like this. It's the most basic fact to find I should hope any journalist wouldn't need a special tool to get that kind of fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
I'm not optimistic. People (it seems especially in the US) seem to think once they have something it is morally unconscionable for anyone to take any action that might affect that (even in the light of new facts.)

You see this with water rights (residential and agricultural), low property taxes, home values (NIMBYism in a nutshell), business models (environmental regulations would harm the extant oil industry!) and on and on.

This is a phenomenon I've observed anecdotally for a while, but I'd love to hear if there's a name for it, or if it has been formally studied.
This is somewhat off topic. I have read through other people's comments about good and bad experiences with push notifications on Apple and Android. People use them as Todo lists and for a number of things.

For something so critical, why has Apple or Google not created a push notification log on your device? Some of us live by our notifications and the fact that I accidentally swiped an important notification away or I thought I saw a slack notification come through but couldn't find it gives me anxiety.

As important as push is to our daily lives, you would think there would be more innovation in managing these notifications.
What galls me the most I think is that minimum wage in 20 states within the U.S. is still at $7.25/Hour. Driving does not require a huge amount of skill, and it's something many us already know. Why not hire a person to do this? Well, perhaps an argument can be made for safety, reliability. Then again, perhaps the same argument can be made that a good human hire is safer than the machine, which can be hacked (any machine can be hacked, given enough time and resources thrown at it).

Volkswagen and Tesla are at the forefront of a 'Great Reset' in cars: turning car owners into car renters. Sure the base car is owned, but all the extra services needed to get the most out of your car become rented, it might as well be rented.
Thanks for the feedback. We’re working toward an end goal of making tax compliance as simple as clicking a button. In talking with users they called out three big pain points: knowing what the obligations are, knowing what rate/rules to apply and how to calculate tax (e.g. SaaS is taxable at 80% of the base rate of the price in Texas), and then how to file and remit the money once collected. Stripe Tax solves the first two out of the box today, and with TaxJar we’ll be able to bring filing and remittance as a native part of our offering.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Invests in Bitcoin-Friendly Digital Bank
Stripe acquired TaxJar ~45 days ago – that's awesome
I thought it was a tool for me to use openai to generate play scripts.
Well, that's not great, but not a disaster either given the magnitude of the numbers. What is interesting is the "lemon" problem that is similar to ones seen all over tech:

> found different BOMs used within the same product code for one manufacturer identified a near-5% difference in potential-induced degradation (PID) between the two BOM combinations.

Different batches within "the same product" can be made very differently, making it hard to buy for reliability since you can only determine this in retrospect. There's probably going to be an "IBM deathstar" or "capacitor plague" issue in the medium term. But it won't be very apparent outside the industry.
Residential/urban water use is a tiny fraction of actual water use in the region and the persistent attention on it is a misleading distraction as to the actual cause of the water crises in the region.

At best, the perpetual attention on this is misguided. At worst, it's attempting to gaslight the public about the actual causes.

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From the article:

> ...water management mostly concerns agricultural businesses, which consume up to 80% of California's water....

From: https://climas.arizona.edu/research/agriculture-water-use

> Agriculture accounts for roughly 80 percent of water consumption in Arizona and an even higher percentage in New Mexico.

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A great deal more attention ought to be focused on why we're destroying ecosystems, aquifers, and putting water supplies for large populations at risk to grow water-hungry crops slightly more cheaply in a desert/near-desert.

Growing Almonds in CA consumes more water than Los Angeles and San Francisco combined....and most of them get exported. So in addition to not exactly being necessary for anyone, most of them are not even "feeding Americans" or the typical claims about agriculture.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...
"Why would they even bother producing valuable goods?"

Like opium by the East India company or drugs by mexican cartels?

Getting people to buy something is a lot easier than chasing them with a gun, just look at how bad we are at colecting taxes.

"We have companies to help efficiently distribute wealth"

There is no economic theory, from marxist to neoliberal, that claims conpanies are there to distribute wealth. They organise capital and labour, and maybe they fullfill needs, unless they are doing HFT or something similarly murky.
Type alias impl trait [0]. Async fns return an existential type `impl Future`. You cannot return that type in traits yet (on stable), so getting a concrete return type requires dynamic dispatch and a heap allocation. On top of that, async fns capture from any references they take as arguments. To do that in traits would require GATs (generic associated types) [1]:

impl Foo for Bar {
// GAT ↓ TiiT ↓
type Output<'a> = impl Future<Output = Foo> + 'a;

fn foo<'a>(&'a self) -> Self::Output<'a> { ... }
}

The above is possible on nightly, whereas on stable you would have to box the future, and because you can't capture from self, you would have to use a ref counted pointer or clone the parts of self you need. Eventually, this entire transformation would allow for async fns directly in traits, but that is probably a long way off [2].

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/63063

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44265

[2]: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2019/10/26/asyn...
Churchill's quote could be applied to the English as well, in this case.
Relevant: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/28760/neon-genesis-evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion made heavy (and iconic) use of Helvetica and Century in the English episode title cards.
World Bank:

> High inflation tends to lower the share of the bottom quintile and the real minimum wage -and tends to increase povertyL

Just look at what its like to be poor in a high inflation country.

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/1...
Or like, I don't know, realize that there's something in-between "just dirt" and a deep green lawn. Someone else brought up the term for it in this thread: Xeriscaping – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping

I thought plain lawns were falling out of fashion anyway? Everyone I know who has a yard seeks to have a minimal amount of just lawn, aiming instead for shrubbery, flowers, bushes, small trees and other plants.
I was going to thank you for pointing out the rebuttal except it was utterly devoid of substance. As for the title, your comment is good enough to note this is a comment rather than SEC statement. Hacker News is a little weak with domains that serve multiple purposes and I don't think it is misleading or even matters as this submission won't make the front page or anything.
Just reply, "this is covered in the documentation." If they say, "I can't find where," find the broad section it's in and send them that. Then, the subsection. Then the page. Gradually get more and more specific instead of agreeing to a meeting, but try and drag that back-and-forth out as long as possible. Don't explain the docs at any point, only send them the location of the thing you want them to read. If they say they don't understand, don't explain or agree to meet. Just get more specific. Reply slowly.

If they still push for a meeting after that, schedule it so far into the future that it becomes more painful for them to wait than to put effort into understanding the docs. Make this a pattern.

If that doesn't work, get Machiavellian. Schedule the meetings, but occasionally cancel those meetings (and only those meetings) on short-notice. Don't let meetings give them confidence that they will get an easy explanation by X date - make them price in a lack of reliability. Use the same strategy businesses use - make processes you want people to avoid using, unpleasant to deal with. Maybe make it clear that you see those meetings as uniquely low-priority, so the flakiness is bounded.

They're doing it because it's easy to offload the responsibility onto you. It's easier to have you spoon-feed them than to pull their pants up. So you have to make it difficult, so it becomes easier for them to pull their pants up.

Obviously, only use this strategy with co-workers, never with people above you. And if the docs don't answer the question, be extremely reliable and make it explicit in your response: "this isn't covered in the docs, so answering this is high-priority. The foo works by barring the snee..."
Wow. So much of this article resonates with me. Strong parallels with the recent re-debate of "bullshit" jobs.

I have the privilege of working in a pretty low management shop, but sometimes it rears its ugly head and I chafe at it.

Of recent I've observed that not everyone is like me in this regard. Even though humans don't like being managed, they also don't like taking risks. And for some people, the ability to offload risk, accountability, and liability to a scapegoat figure that is inconvenient to deal with at times (e.g. a bullshit manager) is actually a purchase they're willing to make.

It's ironic to me, that years ago, the world had lots of clerks (people who kept the wheels of process logistics rolling) and less managers. Today, there are fewer (almost no) clerks, but lots of managers. Look at what most of your manager does, and see if (s)he isn't mostly just a clerk that collectively figured "manager" pays better.
rqlite author here. Yes, it's coming in a future release and is much easier to do now.

One key principle of rqlite has always been quality, clean design, and simplicity of operation. So I've been reluctant to add a feature -- in this case Request Forwarding -- until I was sure it would be a clear win and not make rqlite less robust. After years of experience with the system now, I'm happy it can be added in a high-quality manner.
“Chronically underperforming” seems a bit overly dramatic when degradation is 0.5% worse than expected.
While tracking field performance is important, that doesn’t really change the equation of solar being cheap energy.
Ah thanks, that makes more sense now.
Out of curiosity, how fast are your inferences with this setup?
This is complete bullshit, it started as a normal feature. My 2009 328i has heated seats I've never once had to pay to activate.

No one in a fleet vehicle pays for their own 'upgrades', man.

DLC on cars and people are here defending it, I lost my shit over games doing it. We went from pay once for the game, maybe another expansion thay doubled your vanilla game. Now every company nickles and dimes us to death. Does no one remember banks being shit on for that in the 80s-90s?
It can go either way as we've discovered a few times by importing animals to Australia. There may be no natural predators attaching to that kind of organism, allowing it to thrive.
A basic house of some standard? A car?

Well, 60 years ago those were attainable relatively quickly for someone without a high school degree. Now they aren't (unless you want to live in the middle of nowhere) for someone even with a college degree. So something went awry in the meantime.
Whatever SQLite exposes is available in rqlite.
Thanks. I was thinking the same thing. The language is hard to read.

http://paulgraham.com/simply.html
Sure, I'm saying it's a mistake for governments to have planned to support such districts in the first place (by building wide roads with on-street parking, the highways to connect the district to the productive parts of the city, presumably lots of car-oriented policy in other parts of the city to keep density low for the sake of traffic, keep parking high for the sake of those in low-density districts, etc).
> Turning yourself into a silo like this is practically blackmailing your employer into keeping you. They might keep you employed because they need to keep their systems online, but they will also not think twice about replacing you as soon as an opportunity is presented.

All employer / employee relationships have this dynamic. I get paid _n_ because my employer cannot figure out an effective way to do it cheaper, but as soon as they can I will no longer be paid _n_. While I think blackmail isn't an accurate description of this, what you're describing exists in all employment situations. Making yourself more disposable is only going to give the employer more power, which might work out better or worse depending on the employer.
Budget would be far under that in most cases unless there was tax evasion or physical violence involved.

Most of the time the criminal is in another country and the money is no longer in the US which is just a general nightmare to solve.
> I have a theory on why we're seeing so much "bad management" for software engineers: most leaders at workplaces have not been engineers themselves at a company with a great engineering culture (I wrote about what I think this means [1]: it's all the high-growth small and large tech companies we know)

I think that's part of it, but the bigger reason is that the management talent pool is too small to meet the industry need. The same is true of engineers as well.

There's little apprenticeship, little mentorship, and little experience is gained seeing things done well. Capable people are being shoved aggressively and prematurely into decision-making roles (whether in management or engineering) before they've developed the skills and perspective necessary to do the job well. No question, talent scarcity makes for lucrative pay and easy mobility for the average tech professional. But quality suffers, nonetheless.
"It's important to remember that inflation hurts the poor most"

Actual inflation hurts those who own debt assets and nobody else. Everything else isn't inflation.

If prices go up but don't feed through to income rises then two things happen - one you don't have an inflation, you have a redistribution, and two those price rises are unsustainable because you won't be able to sell your output as there is insufficient overall income to purchase it.

In a true inflation income rises along with prices so wage earners, and firms and indexed pension holders are protected. As are those living off investment earnings (since they just go up as firms earn more). Debts are rotted and debt holders (ie bankers) lose out.

The neoliberal trick has been to blow up a scare about bottleneck inflation as the supply side bat signal goes up but before the increased supply/constrained demand response kicks in and forces prices back down again. All in the hope of getting a policy change that will stop the income changes that would help increase the wage share and start the debt rotting process.

Wealthy people are the debt holders. Don't be their bag carrier.
For someone who has started coding when 128kilobytes were considered luxury, that is just, well, incommensurate :-)
The issue with this argument is that a significant part of the "bigger picture" is artificial bloat which emerges from the fact of having layers of management. Managers spend much time actually managing themselves. It's of course not all black or white.
A solar panel’s performance warranty will typically guarantee 90% production at 10 years and 80% at 25 years. It looks like some panels are going to come up a bit short, but at current solar PV module improvement and manufacturing rates, it’s not a show stopper to have current panels exhibit a bit less longevity than anticipated. Very similar to LEDs with longevity promises that aren’t entirely being kept but are still good enough.

Panels have gotten so much better, I know folks who replaced 10-15 year old panels with brand new panels, even though they were still producing and within warranty. Panels are also entirely recyclable and infra to do so is being spun up.