skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, here's the thing: politicians will use whatever crisis is available to them to cynically further their own agendas.

I'm sure plenty of them are tweeting away about how this heatwave is a clear sign of climate change (because that's what their constituents want to hear), and yet any meteorologist worth their salt would be hesitant to make that connection - weather is not climate. Climate is a meta-phenomenon.

When they use climate as cover for whatever policy agenda they intended to pursue anyway, it cheapens the discourse - political opposition that agrees on the facts likely disagrees about the solution set, particularly if it is ideologically-driven, and lumping people into childish categories like "climate deniers" only serves to harden positions.

And yet - a lot of these so-called "climate deniers" will happily buy an electric F-150 because Ford has made an attractive product that makes good choices easier. No need for a rancher in rural Montana to downgrade to a Prius to signal that he cares about the climate.

In the end, politicians are not even the right vehicles for this type of change - there's no good evidence that nation-states can achieve a game-theoretically stable set of climate policies given the harsh economic consequences of taxing the crap out of your country's industrial output. Far better results can be obtained through good old-fashioned free market capitalism.

When good choices are easy to make, those choices will be made. The market will abide.
An hour is way too much time. If you need that long the pr is too big and needs to be broken up into smaller parts
Sure, but they have to come up for air sooner or later.
See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/06/defensive-patent-licen...

I did some work on this years before the article, while in law school. Seems to be defunct now.
I feel like you're making an orthogonal statement related to cpu usage and the wait/spin settings for "cloud hardware".

CPU usage has no baring on transactions per second. So why are you bringing it up.

Spin/wait settings: how is "cloud hardware" different than "legacy hardware"? Both are servers located in a data center. Furthermore, the blog post goes to say that if you aren't running any other non-erlang services (you box is dedicated to Erlang) that you should KEEP the default setting of spin/wait since it won't cannobalize other services running on that box ... which is exactly how these benchmarks were tested.

The fact of the matter is, Erlang had lower transactions per second than most of the languages benchmarked. My insight from this HN discussion is that where Erlang shines is having consistently low latency/response time. It's not the fastest, but it's the most consistent even under load.
no some of us actually care about the truth and actively despise being lied to, being gaslit, and being encouraged to do that to others to fit in with the social consensus.
Nobody, including in this article, thinks breaking these records is a good thing.
Is there a reason you need systemd? You can build a pretty minimal image with just the go binary in it (assuming you have statically linked it using musl).
China: My Short Stay in the Far East
“With a look of slight disappointment in their eyes, we warmly embraced as I tried my best to hold back the tears. I was home.”
My main problem with devs doing QA is that QA is huge, knowing the entire product is hard.

In my case, devs were just testing what they changed and never noticed something horribly broken somewhere else.

I think all devs should test that what they built works in production (you don't need QA for that), you need QA to keep everything else tested and working.
Dev Diaries: Speeding up Bottlebeagle by breaking it into happy little chunks
I think it could be done better by marking requests as either queries or mutations like GraphQL does, then you can just check which it is and forward accordingly.

Although even with REST you should be able to do the same thing, assume GETS can go to the read replicas, should work if you aren’t doing anything weird.
Starship Troopers ended up being a very Verhoeven production that was a straight-faced satire on militarism with many audiences not getting the joke.

Dune was a very Lynchian production with his memorable trappings.

Those adaptations were at least uplifted by auteur directors who made them their own. Remains to be seen if this one will do the same.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s web source code NFT sells for $5.4M
Anything interesting that happens at a school board makes the news now because everyone there has a phone and internet. What exciting scoops do you think we're missing?
That seems like a lot of cost and complexity for a rural installation in a 3rd world country. How does the water output compare with, say, spending $1000 a simple evaporation design? The size of the evaporation pool would be larger than 1400W worth of solar, but it's much simpler and easy to repair.
This is just the first article in the series. I'd recommend reading all 4 articles before rebuking this one.

https://jacobian.org/series/estimation/

For example, here's an except from the SWAG article:

> The tradeoff is time: estimation techniques, including mine, require some time to produce any level of accuracy.

> Sometimes, though, it’s less important that an estimate be accurate than that it be quick.
Stale replicas are a "stop serving requests from a particular region" problem. We pretty aggressively monitor these and consider things broken if replication is lagged more than about 10s.

One thing about running thousands of DB clusters (which we did at Compose.com before this) is, these problems exist even without geo replication. And they exist at such a scale that you have to be good at handling them. Geo replicas are _more_ prone to these kinds of issues but we already had to be good at handling them.
Thank you for the recommendation. I didn’t really understand why I should care about the game from videos/screenshots/marketing text, but after reading this description it was an instant purchase.
Can you explain in more detail? I agree that local reasoning is the end goal, but as soon as you change things (i.e. mutate) then it doesn't work anymore. Or in other words: if modifying a value has no effect on anything else, then why would you modify it? I don't get it - maybe a code example would help.
With a sufficiently-large N, N+1 is barely noticeable.
We can apparently agree that he should not be banned from YouTube. I personally am not very interested in Ivermectin or Brett Weinstein. I am most interested in reasonable views being suppressed by big tech companies who think they know best. I believe that is deeply pernicious, will continue to get worse, and given the extent to which these companies are entrenched in our lives - will be increasingly difficult to remove.

Maybe Ivermectin is useful, maybe not. We should be allowed to discuss the evidence without Google silencing us. That is the issue I'm most concerned with.

My focus on Weinstein and the supporting evidence for Ivermectin is to argue that these are not mad delusions getting censored. It's not a person selling snake oil. I wouldn't care if definite scams were suppressed. I think Weinstein is using real evidence and making a good faith argument and that kind of thing shouldn't be censored.

I don't understand what you mean by "this isn't a hill worth dying on". I'm not proposing that anyone kill themselves over this. There is no dying involved. I do think it is a bad practice on Google's part which is worth complaining about. I also think people should explore alternatives - I have been impressed by https://odysee.com/ for example. I also think it is important to acknowledge Google is suppressing free speech in a meaningful way. Censoring covid discussion is one example, Google's suppression of the Uyghur genocide is another.
Does this affect the part of IBM that used to be Red Hat? When I was at RH as recently as 2017, email was an absolutely essential part of most workflows. It was all pretty crappy and last-century - don't even get me started on bugzilla being similarly essential - but it did work.
Depending on the type of startup, moving fast means different things.

For the tech parts I recommend the word "deliberate" with the motto "make haste slowly"
The bill does appear to allow using facial recognition to identify someone in a picture if they committed a crime in another state where the crime could be punished by at least one year in jail. That could be pretty much anything, including something strange like searching through surveillance camera footage to find someone who borrowed medical weed in another state.

Edit: Wait, I'm not sure I'm reading this right. How do semicolons work in Maine laws?
This is the "it never rains" strategy of weather reporting. On most days, it's not raining, so you'll be right most of the time.

Some may claim they have personally experienced rain, so your model must have some faults, but just ignore those plebeians.
Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman [video, 46m]
I think asking PMs to become QAs with no-code is a hard sell.

They made a nice looking product, they can just sell their product by saying they're making existing QAs more efficient / write less code / cheaper.
I use aws-vault and the best feature (apart from storing in your keychain, etc), is the fact that you can execute commands with the tokens in a shell environment it launches (aws-vault exec my-profile -- some-command-which-gets-the-aws-env-vars.sh) . That way we never even have to store the temporary credentials on the filesystem unencrypted.
EcoMatcher’s TreeChain Leverages Eosio for Environmental Sustainability
Counterpoint: I worked as a developer before I had my masters, and a lot of what I learned in University, often things I would not really have thought to go deeply into them myself, opened up new worlds to this day.

I considered myself "technically competent" before and thought I could learn everything where it comes up, but past a certain level there are aspects to development that just are just really hard to absorb if you don't have the (hard, gritty) theoretical and mathematical foundation.
> The rest of the paragraph doesn't really describe a memory allocator, it's describing runtime reconfiguration of a circuit, which you can do (and often do do) using a statically allocated configuration block or even a hard-wired dedicated memory.

IMO you are being much too generous in your interpretation of this trolling.

The claim is that pcDuino is infringing because it has a Cortex A9 with addressable memory. This chip does not have any of the fancy reconfiguration you have in mind, but the trolls believe it implements their patent, so I don't see how they can mean what you think they do.
2017? What happened? Did it pass?
I'm confused, are you talking about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_(video_game)
First 3D-printed office building completed in Dubai
Fly.io and the Postgres service look great. Do you have a roadmap for future regions? (I'd personally love to see Korea.) If I may ask, do you use major cloud services or run your own machines, and how easy or hard is it for Fly.io to add new regions?
No, I completely agree with you.

I'm nitpicking about a nitpick, and I feel kind of bad for derailing the conversation, because the patent assertion is completely ridiculous.

I just think that Nathan shouldn't have made the jab about malloc, because making that kind of mistake detracts from his otherwise very valid criticism.
When their property taxes go up a large amount too.

Prop 13 in California is a key thing cited as why NIMBYism is stronger than usual, because current entrenched residents don't feel the pain of their behavior.

Gov'ts also do not willingly pass something like prop 13 themselves, because they don't like to limit their ability to tax.
Exactly. This comes up with personal data protection as well. There's no problem in me jotting down my acquaintances' names, phone numbers, and addresses and storing it in my computer. But a computer system that stores thousands of names, phone numbers, and addresses must get consent to do so.
How about we do something about what we can control rather than drag each other down like crabs in a bucket?
I agree in principle! To be a bit clearer, I was thinking more in terms of locality so for example, "Users don't even have access to their laptops right in front of them" let alone visibility into their own department or even wider organisation due to access policy restrictions. Being able to write or edit everywhere would be ridiculous but sometimes there are (admittedly intangible) upsides to transparency (read only access in a technical sense) to most aspects of the wider business
You are not incorrect about that hardware.

Splice off fibre optics, copy packets, localised hardware processes like you say, directs to data center for future processing or active surveillance or active legal interception, etc.
Charles Schwab is nice except for their reliability... TD Ameritrade and Fidelity's sites have much better uptimes.
Snow Leopard, for anyone who doesn't remember, was famously introduced on stage as having "0 New Features":

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6/

If only Apple had the confidence to do that again. Imagine an entire update of MacOS dedicated solely to stability, and not iOS parity.
How is that metric relevant? If any, market cap is the one that would show what the market thinks each company is capable of.
Sorry I misunderstood. ok. so TWO of you have a cunning plan, and one of you works for a 25,000 company which wants to do a JV.

I don't think I'd change my inputs: lawyer up. this doesn't have to be oppositional. but the legal structure should defend your interests and your partners interests.
Ask HN: Has software changed much in the last 5 yrs?
I hear the saying “5 yrs and your knowledge becomes stale”.

6 yrs into my eng career, that really doesn’t seem to be the case.

Maybe this means we’re due for some new thing??? Or not…
We need to accept that link rot and content drift are part of the web.

And realize that the best place to preserve history is the Internet Archive' Wayback Machine.

Kind of the same way newspapers were never responsible for maintaining their archives, but librarians did on microfiche (remember that?).

But I'd take it farther.

First, the Internet Archive ought to have an official partnership with the Library of Congress and other national libraries across the world, that help provide funding. It shouldn't have to rely on private donations.

And second, it's time browsers integrated with it -- if content no longer exists there should be a built-in option to easily check Wayback Machine with a single click, and use a heuristic to show the most recent "good" version.

In other words, let the Wayback Machine be not just a, but the place for the Internet's history. Let's make it official.
> > Corporate death penalty

> Corporations are legal fictions.

Then they shouldn't have the same rights as real people. If they're just fictions, then it stands to reason that at least when they behave so egregiously that their fictional life has to be ended, their worth and value also turns out to be fictional.

> If you're wiping out shareholders and creditors, who do the assets go to? If you aren't wiping them out, what are you doing? Corporate death penalties are ultimately meaningless without an expropriation component.

Exactly. And since the whole point of a limited-liability stock company is that a single entrepreneur shan't be liable with all he owns, but each shareholder only with the value of his investment, then it is precisely that investment that will turn out to have no value: After creditors are paid off, any remaining value goes to the state, which is the entity that hitherto, through the contract and other laws it maintains, has upheld the fiction that this kitty of money is a separate thing capable of exerting a legal will and intent; for this particular kitty, that fiction has now come to an end.

As for "wiping out" shareholders (not creditors, as per the above)... Yes and no, and above all: So what? As mentioned, their investment is exactly what they are willing to risk; that's the whole idea. Three points on this:

1) They could just as well lose it all if the company goes bankrupt some other way, so pretending that this is some new and unique possible outcome is disingenuous.

2) If they're "wiped out" because they've put all their life savings into any one company, the poor bastards should have looked up "diversifying". Again, not unique to this.

3) Wow, great -- finally some incentive for shareholder activism, to try and rein in old / appoint better new boards and CXOs and curb some of the evil shit corporations do, eh?

> Better: massive fines and/or pulling critical licenses. Arthur Andersen and Enron were felled through these mechanisms. They are legal. They are proven. They are precedented and they work.

Bullpucky. Two corporations, out of the myriad that had deserved it, that's ridiculously ineffective.

> If you wantonly break the law, you should not be a going concern.

Exactly. Then the fiction should end.

> But "nationalization" and "corporate death penalty" are political hot potatoes. (I'm entirely sidestepping the argument as to whether that's reasonable.)

Maybe they're such hot potatoes precisely because people, like you here now, keep sidestepping the argument.

> If you want these companies shut down, or fearful of being shut down, credibly threatening to break them up, fine them into bankruptcy or suspend their licenses (e.g. for Intuit, their tax preparation license) is more effective.

Sure, that too... But it seems imbalanced to limit yourself to only that, as long as you still have the death penalty for real people.

(And, hey, if you're fine with "fin[ing] them into bankruptcy" -- what happened, all of a sudden, to those poor shareholders and creditors; is wiping them out suddenly OK now?)
A service mesh isn't a layer on top of K8s, but rather fills gaps in K8s feature set. Service meshes are great for managing traffic between services: authentication, authorization, encryption, traffic shaping, etc.
It's not just a technical issue, but also the tax law itself has changed. For example, you used to be able to fill out a 1090-EZ for your taxes if all you had was W-2 income and bank interest. Anyone who meets that criteria could complete it in an hour. But that "EZ" form has been completely removed and replaced with a vastly more complicated one. If your tax situation is just ever so slightly unusual, things get real complicated, real fast.
Straw man more?
It was easy to lose work because state restoration and autosave weren't added until the next one.
>But <lock up> is only a “valid operation” when executed with “the broker’s own funds”. Why?

regulations, presumably to protect the retail trader. It was part of dodd-frank. https://twitter.com/kralctrebor/status/1354952686165225478

>Is it a matter of the financial system not being able to trust client-originating money?

Yeah pretty much. If every trader had their funds sitting in one place (with the clearinghouse or the fed), then the clearinghouse wouldn't need a deposit system since they can easily validate whether everyone has the funds.
packet metadata, intercept location and timestamp, will form the index.
All of them release numbers on this:

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/

https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/law...

https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-requests
Towns where the newspaper has shut down have provably higher levels of excess spending and governmental waste & corruption:

> Cities where newspapers closed up shop saw increases in government costs as a result of the lack of scrutiny over local deals, say researchers who tracked the decline of local news outlets between 1996 and 2015.

> Disruptions in local news coverage are soon followed by higher long-term borrowing costs for cities. Costs for bonds can rise as much as 11 basis points after the closure of a local newspaper—a finding that can’t be attributed to other underlying economic conditions, the authors say. Those civic watchdogs make a difference to the bottom line.

> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-30/when-loca...

That seems like a pretty big downside.
They generate co2 in mostly to produce goods that are consumed in western countries... pollution was just outsourced
I work in big tech, and management capabilities and oversight doesn't feel any less. Actually a bit more in a way.
This heat is ridiculous.

My friend’s mousepad fused to his desk and he had to scrape it off with a butter knife.

I’ve had to build makeshift doors to isolate a tiny cooled room in my house. I haven’t worn pants in days. My partner and I went through a 1.5L spray bottle misting ourselves in the couple hours leading up to midnight (!)

Now we’ve just gotta hope that nobody lights a match in this giant, extremely windy basket of bone-dry fuel. The fact that there is a fireworks stand open on the main road in my town right now is, to put it mildly, very unsettling.
Yes, we should pour money into nuclear power, not so much because it's efficient or necessary, but because unless we give the denialists this sop they won't play ball. It's the price of cooperation.

I'm serious. If wasting money on nuclear is the price we have to pay, we should pay that price. The key word there is "if". In reality if the people treating the issue seriously get behind nuclear the goalposts will move again. Al Gore's shoe size or entrees or thermostat will prove it's all a liberal hoax and we'll roll on just as before but considerably warmer and with a few energy companies a bit richer.
The technology I'm most excited about is advances in radiative cooling. Basically with materials science we can create perfectly reflective surfaces which emit Infrared energy out to space through the atmospheric window. It's both a local mitigation in that it could keep us cool as shit gets out of hand, while also getting the excess energy out of Earth's system. I feel like with industrial scale it could be feasible and get us off of energy-heavy AC and replace some of the lost albedo from the ice caps. 10C below ambient is super impressive IMO.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...
Almost certainly yes.

The half-life of antibody levels has been estimated at 73 days. Good, commonly available antibody tests are quite sensitive, and they're accurate besides (99%), and time has not been enough of a factor yet to produce false negatives for this reason. In a year or two it might be.

As far as I'm aware, there's currently no evidence of people having "weak" antibody responses such that tests don't pick it up in a way that they fall below 99% accuracy.

The only time concern is that you need to wait 2-3 weeks until after you recover from COVID to ensure you test positive, as they take time to build up.
When I worked at Google I never met anyone without a degree. They don't have it as a hard requirement but they are still very rare, since those without degrees rarely pass Googles interview process.

I did meet many with math/physics etc degrees, so not everone has a computer science degree.
Not all vulnerabilities are due to memory safety!
I have ordered 2 service manuals on eBay, and both times I got some shitty photocopies of the official manual, yet paid full price for the official manuals. You email the vendors and ask why you got this shitty copy, and they claim it's official, and that they're licensed by the company to reproduce them. So eBay won't do shit.
Are there any issues with the performance of the compiled code compared to hand-coded assembly? I heard that 6502 and Z80 architectures are hard to target when compiling high-level language and even the best C compilers for them generate slower code than skilled assembly programmers.