skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, SMBs don't hire expensive software engineers.

Medium businesses use Excel and packaged software and consultants. Small businesses use Excel, cheap packages, open source and SaaS solutions. Basically their focus is on their business. To them computers and programs are an expense to be minimised.

Most small business owners I've met would rather buy a new car for themselves than update the office computer or software.
Public CAs are not that type of people; I would be disapointed if that were not running two seperate systems checking each other for consistancy; having top of the range ECC running well inside its specification must be table stakes.
NYC has outrageous coop and HOA fees - way beyond what it cost to maintain SFH in most of US. With average HOA fee for 3bdrm condo probably north of $2k/month now (and often $3k+/month), you can presumably do a lot of very expensive maintenance. It’s working fine because there are a lot of money in NYC not because it’s economical or sustainable on average american income.
From the "defining functions" example (https://typeclasses.com/phrasebook/defining-functions):

greetNext x = (next x, greet (show (next x)))

Is this actually valid, unambiguous code? What determines which `next x` gets evaluated first?

(edit: oh, nvm, x isn't a state, so both `next x` evaluate to the same value)
Learn Vector Calculus, Thoroughly
Lessons learned from becoming CTO of a small startup (2018)
That is why I would like to see more in depth reporting on the topic of extremes. We are being told to expect them to occur more often and for new records to be established, but little (if any) reporting sets this out quantitatively.

I think this is important. Temperature trends confirm that global warming is happening, so a lot of the argument we see is over extreme weather events. A freakishly cold winter will be used by one side to claim that global warming is not happening. It will be used by the other side to claim it is a sign of climate change.

If there is a match between expectations of extreme weather events and temperature change, the deniers have less of a leg to stand on. If there is a mismatch between the expectation of extreme weather events and temperature change, climate models can be adapted and improved upon. Either way, it is a net win.
Also in that article you'd find statements from the director of the retail crime division at CVS Health, the head of the investigations bureau at the San Francisco Police Department, a member of the board of supervisors, and the author himself.

Then you could read the dozens of major news sources that ran this story, a similar story right here about Target, the numerous anecdotes about crime in SF, and the DA's publicly announced policy.

It's quite well established that crime in SF is costing Walgreen's and other retailers a lot of money. Is that the only reason those stores closed? Perhaps not, but I see no cause to doubt that it was a factor.
Nexperia is an offshoot of NXP, previously Philips Semiconductors, and is a Dutch company even if it is indeed "Chinese-owned" (shock, horror).
I don't know about nuclear missiles, but on the Space Shuttle I think they had four duplicate flight computers, and the outputs of all of them would be compared to look for errors. (They also had a fifth computer running entirely different software, as a failover option.)
Sounds like on of Neal Stephenson's books: https://www.nealstephenson.com/zodiac.html
One of the issues with putting servers in orbit is cooling; you can't just use fans in space. On the other hand, real estate is pretty cheap. Servicing is hard, though, and micrometeorites are another risk. Plus launch costs being high, and radiation an issue, I don't see it happening any time soon outside of very specific areas.
Not mentioned is that they’ve been doing this forever. Private insurers exist to deny reimbursement, the so-called “administration” could be handled by a SAAS billing package.
> The V. panoptes burrows start with a short sub-horizontal section, then have a long curving, descending section, at the end of which is a descending vertical helix that can have as many as eight convolutions. Some of the helices are clockwise, others are anti-clockwise, and some switch from one direction to the other (Doody et al. 2015).

ok, that’s what i wanted to know. Monitor lizards are racemic.
"If it is ‘debt’ you actually plan to pay it."

Exactly that, and it should be a decision to accrue it.
It’s interesting that you touch on energy — temperature is a measure of the energy of a system, but most people don’t think of it in those terms.

If you consider how much energy it takes to raise the temperature of your living room by 4C (about 840J per m3), and then extrapolate that to the entire planet, it’s a phenomenal amount of energy, incomprehensibly vast. Then, consider that the oceans, with a heat capacity of 4.2MJ per m3 and a vast volume are also warming by entire degrees, and it’s just staggering.
Smarter might be harder than ‘less stupid’, but the hardest problems are agency problems.

Look at that condo that collapsed in Florida. The residents would have had to tax themselves $15 million to fix it, but who wants to do that? It might be more prudent to have started saving it 10 or 20 years ago, but a pot of money is just asking to get stolen, wasted, diverted or otherwise cause mischief. People are right to be afraid of carbon credits or anything that concentrates a lot of money in a few hands. Now the only people left to sue (who have assets) are the survivors.

Realistically we are going to have mass casualty events from climate change in the next decade and people’s attitudes will change pretty rapidly; somebody is going to panic and start seeding sulfate aerosols, and that is going to take the conflict to another level. (I was thinking of doing a Kickstarter to rent a boat and seed iron in the ocean and got talked out of it by one of the experts — nobody can stop you from doing it out of the US thanks to Don Rumsfeld keeping us out of the Law of the Sea treaty)

Some reading on the political science front:

Legitimation crisis by j Habermas

Logic of collective action by m Olson

End of liberalism by T Lowi.
Every new generation is said to be wasting their time on frivolous things on their own device.

We’ve also reached a point where there’s legitimately better “educational” content on youtube than on any other media. I don’t have any idea on what’s actually on Tik Tok, but I wouldn’t look down on it just because it looks shallow from where we’re looking from.
If you press them hard enough they'll start spouting stuff like:

- "We engineer for maintainability/extensibility/scalability!"

Except that unlike with performance, they generally don't have any numbers to back their assertions. I know it is much more difficult to measure, but their confidence would have you believe that what they are saying is a well established fact. When I point this out, the responses turn to "I read it in some book. It looks cleaner!". Very hard to turn those discussions into anything productive due to the lack of metrics.
Something worth reading would not have a title like this.
Yep. This is pretty standard terminology in the graphics space. In reality all it really means is that the AET (average execution time) for a single loop is some fraction of a millisecond even for decently heavy loads.

I'm honestly more interested in the actual WCET (worst case execution time) would be however I imagine it's at least decent all things considered.

In the end as long as the WCET is only a few milliseconds (sufficient for up to 240Hz monitors) or at least the AET for most loads is beneath that then anything extra just means more power to throw at anything else.
Didn't President Biden say he would veto Medicare for All if it came across his desk to sign?
I agree with this advice in spirit, but I prefer rebasing regularly onto master, rather than merging. Especially in a long lived branch this keeps the list of changes small. Imagine that someone performed a huge refactor in master, which conflicts with some small thing you did in your branch. If doesn't help to have another commit of the huge refactor in your history: the merge commit. I very much prefer to see only the logical changes I did in my branch.
Flint in particular was incompetence at the state level, not local. Michigan passed a law saying that any bankrupt township can be run by an "emergency manager" who gets all local executive power. The mayor or city council no longer have any effective authority, nor do any other locally elected officials. It was the emergency manager for Flint who decided to switch water suppliers to reduce cost, and who decided not to use the chemical processing necessary for the new water supply to be compatible with the existing pipes. This was effectively a decision made at the state level that caused the Flint water crisis.
While beside the main thread, I wanted to single out the amazing photography in this article. What absolutely stunning pictures these are!
Throttling should show up as a pseudo-process, "consuming" peak performance.
The Space Shuttle also had a HP-41C calculator with special software to help with manual flying in case of a general computer failure: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/calculator-han...

I wonder how viable that was for different stages in the flight.
I'm reposting this because it's important that people who want to sign up, do so soon. It sucks to get a late start or try to hack it going into the second part of these courses.
I agree this is the primary context, but I've seen unmaintained (or very old) software being reffered to as "bit rotting" by extension. As in, forward compatibility might break due to obsolete dependencies, etc.
> Creating POPs is not as trivial as creating a Heroku or Render like service on top of public clouds.

I didn't claim that it was.

> Unless the CDN has a good edge-close-to-cities presence and a high number of those, users will generally not see value in the CDN.

A home truth is that most CDN users don't give a monkeys about per-city POPs. If you just had one POP per continent that would probably be sufficient to cut latency by ~75% for cache hits. Many real world CDNs have <50 POPs (eg CDN77, which has 33) and some have <25 (eg BunnyCDN sells a package with just 8 POPs). These businesses have already existed for some years and have a real customer bases.
So you would prefer YouTube be the arbiter of truth in the case of scientific debate, and have the power to overrule the speech of a Nobel winning scientist?
How does that results in a good situation for science in the long run?

Even if ivermectin works or doesn’t, is YouTube’s community standards team the right people to decide on controversial scientific issues?
The way US healthcare is structured these days, I think increased costs mean more profits for the insurers - it's their customers as a whole that get screwed.
That's actually a great approach, just rename the process to "thermal_throttle" and it all becomes clear.
I have seen it argued that heavily-curved suburban streets are safer because drivers have to slow down to see around the bends, etc. Highly-curved suburban streets also tend to avoid 4-way intersections and prefer T intersections. In theory both of these should make the streets safer, but in practice the streets tend to be built to highway-like standards, making many people drive over 30 miles an hour anyway. I encounter that on a daily basis. I would instead prefer for designers to make the streets narrower and to provide prominent sidewalks and bike paths, since that sends a much clearer signal that drivers should slow down.

Moreover, there is a second problem with these suburban street layouts. They tend to follow a hierarchical design. Each area is a separate "pod" that is disconnected from adjacent areas. To get to another area, you have to go through a limited number of "choke points" that feed you into a larger road or an even larger road or highway (traverse up the tree and then back down). This design choice inevitably leads to traffic at the choke points, since many drivers cannot possibly avoid these paths. A street grid avoids that since it operates in parallel; there are many equivalent routes. This is literally the same as running a program in serial versus parallel. So even drivers have good reasons to dislike typical suburban streets, since they do inevitably lead to traffic by design.
Bit flip is the bane of satellite communication, especially if you tried to use FTP over it.

Also, for critical eon-duration record keeping, run-length encoding or variable record size are harder to maintain and recover from large file on ROM-type storages than fixed-length record or text-type (i.e. ASCII log, or JSON) … against multiple cosmic-type alterations.

Sure that you could do max. Shannon approach for multi-bit ECC, but text-based will be recovered a lot quicker (given then-unknown formatting).
You read the article poorly. The gain of function language is perfectly within context.

Also, how can you even write sentences like

>This makes a natural crossover event more likely compared to the lab-leak hypothesis. This point seems to escape the author entirely.

And in the very next paragraph quote all of the points the author was making. Specifically that a crossover event is entirely possible because the scientists were working in sub-standard conditions.

The point you missed is that you don't need centrifuges and lab equipment for this to happen, just a place where lots of source material is stored and people not using proper safety precautions.

I'd recommend giving the article a second read, it's the best article I've read on the subject to-date.
'but a pot of money is just asking to get stolen, wasted, diverted or otherwise cause mischief'

This sounds to me like short sightedness is the ultimate problem at hand.
And often that's because MS decided not to replicate some capabilities of the old WinNT-vintage configuration GUI in the pretty new touch-friendly interface. Probably the classic example is the trek you have to make, through two or three dialogs of nice-looking but most often useless new GUI, to a cryptic "Change adapter options" button and on to where Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections survives, still the vital dialog and still largely in its original late-'90s form. Oh, and then there's the decision that having separate default devices and default communication devices for audio is too nerdy, so hip young Windows 7 kids don't need to see anything about any default communication device in the shiny new sound GUI. Hilarity then ensues when the VR headset somehow automatically becomes the default-comms-device microphone and you mysteriously become barely audible on voice calls. Of course other big, important sections of the GUI (file permissions?!) seem to have been junked completely without any replacement.
> That's Sweden, its highly illegal to do trades while disconnected from the Nanny [State].

This sort of implies that cash registers must be connected online to the tax authority or some governmental function in order to operate. That is simply not true.
Oakland, CA - - classic example, bankrupt more than once.
It's the right solution IMO. It doesn't artificially inflate the % of running processes but total % stays high, indicating no reserve capacity.
huh, for some reason i did not know about this utility but it really looks like a better approach. i feel a bit unsure if running in a new user namespace could break things in subtle ways somehow though. however, it works without user namespace separation too. the cgroup namespace separation is required on my machine to make it work without root for some reason yet unknown to me.
Instead of preserving the existing endangered species, we try to bring back the ones we've already destroyed.

Instead of trying to save this planet, we fetishise escaping towards a dead, uninhabitable rock.
Why the Creator Economy Won’t Replace the Attention Economy
Way simpler from our perspective. I bet there are many intricacies that we haven't identified / cannot be identified through the human experience. Or maybe I am wrong, but I remain skeptical because we often don't give enough credit to other species.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/10/facebook-p...
It's wild we have any images of the surface of Venus at all given how hostile Venus is. Given how hostile it is, it seems unlikely we'll go back anytime soon. These images were really a product of the Cold War where the US focused on Mars.

It's worth noting that Venus is still probably a better terraforming target than Mars [1]. This romantic notion of Mars has rooted itself deeply at this point (eg with Elon Musk) but Mars is basically a more distant and inconvenient Moon. Almost no atmosphere (in fact, just enough because dust storms will occasionally just coat all your equipment), the Sun is weaker and gravity is still very low.

Venus's atmosphere is about 3% nitrogen and 97% CO2. It has about 100x the atmosphere of Earth, which means there's actually more atmospheric nitrogen than on Earth. And abundant CO2 means oxygen is abundant.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-old7YI4I
Kotlin is lesser known? It's shoved in your face every time you open Android Studio and the only reason it seems to exist is to do an end run around that Oracle lawsuit.
> No additional certs can be logged to the Yeti 2022 shart.

Heh heh, 'shart'.
Yeah I had a similar experience with a secondary infection 11 days after a lion fish sting. I went to my primary care DR as a “sick visit”. After evaluation he said to go to the ER. Since I needed treatment sooner than a schedule procedure could be scheduled, the only option was ER even though I could have waited a day or two. It seems like something between the two would be valuable.

At least I had an uncommon condition so nearly every dr and resident on duty came by to check it out. I didn’t get forgotten in the crowd and had some nice chats while waiting for a slot in the imaging schedule.
Technology developed fast. Sputnik was in 1957. 20 years later we had:

The United States landed probes on Mars in 1976.

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

The Voyager program:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1

The Space Shuttle was developed in the 1970’s

Supersonic commercial flight… bullet trains in Japan and France…

As a kid in the 1970’s, I imagined 2021 would be much more futuristic.
You can’t just put an SSD or whatever in orbit and expect reasonable read latencies at all times. It’s in orbit. It moves. Half the time it’s on the wrong side of the planet.
I never quite understood how that works when they want to sack people.
sudo xcodebuild -license accept

Google actually autocompleted “in the terminal” when I started typing out the question and this was answered by the first link.

I have tons of development environment software installed and I’ve never opened the Xcode GUI.
Billionare Space Race
Tell that to British Columbia. BC is famed for stable temperatures. Thats why it is the most desireable place to live in Canada. Vancouver rarely gets below -5 or above 30, and then only ever for a day at a time. Then last week Lytton BC became hotter than a Saudi summer, shattering Canada's all-time hottest temperature by several degrees. Over a period of _days_ everything dried out. Lightning started fires. Now Lytton doesnt exist anymore. 90% burned to the ground and many dead. Climate change means change: the stable is becomes unstable and the moderate becomes extreem.

Roads in western canda are literally failing under this heat.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-infrastructu...
Malingers in homeless emcampments have insurance through United Healthcare?
Says it's a Mac/iOS build platform. Since it's a commercial service they're probably complying with the license and thus using actual Mac hardware, and in turn the only ECC option is the really awful value, outdated Mac Pro. Seems more likely they're using Minis instead, or at least mostly Minis. An unfortunate thing about Apple hardware (says someone still nursing along a final 5,1 Mac Pro for a last few weeks).
Tesla top-of-range car caught fire while owner was driving
The Friendship Paradox
The peace prize has almost always been very bad. The ones you should take seriously are the ones in various sciences.
I recently got my new ASUS GA503QM (AMD Ryzen 5800HS) able to consume less power than Windows, but adjusting the CPU’s limits¹ and changing the scaling governor² did much more for obtaining protracted battery life than PowerTOP did.

I even discovered that if limit the CPU to an small enough value (e.g. 0.1W, not that it’s actually capable of going that low), it reduces the clock speeds to 400MHz (compared to its usual baseline of 1.2GHz, which is still the baseline even when limited to 5W). The system certainly feels much slower with all cores at 400MHz than it does with all cores at 4GHz! But still quite usable in general.

¹ e.g. `ryzenadj -a 5000 -b 5000 -c 5000` for roughly a 5W TDP.

² From schedutil to powersave: `echo powersave | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy*/scaling_governor >/dev/null`
> but it has to throttle so as not to burn the user because a fair chunk of that heat is being conducted up through the keyboard and down into the lap.

I've never used a mobile device that seemed to have such considerations. They all seem perfectly happy to make their surface scalding hot. Do manufacturers actually care about this?
Well done, Watson. This calls for a bit of snuff. Seriously, this is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night, and it's nice to hear a happy ending =D
This example is dumb. The problem you’re identifying isn’t with the bond issuance, it’s with the obvious municipal corruption you’re describing.

Corruption in government is indeed quite a hard problem, which exists in various corrosive amounts in different countries and societies. But it’s orthagonal to the basic concept of issuing bonds, except insofar as any pot of money anywhere in the private or public sector is at risk of being captured via principal/agent effects.

If you want to talk about corruption then talk about corruption directly. The solution to the above problem would be transparency of government actions, an independent press, and free and fair elections.
Interesting follow on article here: http://cryto.net/%7Ejoepie91/blog/2016/06/19/stop-using-jwt-...
It's worth to mention that there were Soviet attempts to build such systems, see OGAS [1] which was led by mathematician Victor Glushkov [2]. The remarkable fact is that those attempts have failed due to bureaucrats fighting for their own power. It looks like the human nature and socialism are incompatible things – individuals in charge are just consumed by their ego.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Glushkov
The US has urgent care for situations that need attention, but are not hospital worthy.

Edit: Infections can be really serious, but “I found a tick in a spot where I couldn’t safely remove it by myself.” and sprained ankles etc don’t need to go to the ER.
Zen3 has parity on L1I and ECC on L1D and beyond.
Even ECC on consumer hardware (it's just a few extra traces on the motherboard).
So it's piping code from the network directly into our shells. What the fuck! This thing has a literal backdoor into our machines!
Yes, this is a joke. Not sure it's a good one to earn trust ;). C.
If you're a fan of Burke, you'll probably appreciate Ronald Wright's 2004 Massey Lectures on "The History of Progress":

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2004-cbc-massey-lectures-...

Based on a book of the same title:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/short-history-of-progress/ocl...