skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Jewish monotheism god is beyond time and space, probably because the concept of God tries to encompass the infinity of the universe in time and space and the lack of understanding of those things, us being humans.

Therefore when we ascribe some will to god, specifically the will for humans to follow all those rules, we believe that this god "exists" in every time and every space, past present or future.

That's why also the "spirit" of the rules doesn't matter, we don't try to understand god, all we can is to try to understand things which are in the realm of science. Spirit of the rules is something that might exist in a human moral system, not something we believe that came from a transcended entity beyond our understanding.
I am put in mind of the policy during the years when HP were a successful, growing company, that managers sat in open areas, while engineers sat in offices; the managers' work is being available to their staff; staff needed to be able to focus on their work.

This is just capitalism-is-feudalism bullshit.
Urs is an engineer who imagines that he can run business and manage people, neither of which is actually true.
I mean, I guess if nobody on your team understands regexes.

But generally, once you decide to use a regex in the first place, you might as well put as much regular everyday logic as you can in it. Otherwise you might as well look for "Tarzan" with a dumb string search.

Lookbehinds and lookaheads aren't rocket science. And you can always leave a comment about what they're doing if you're worried other team members won't grok the syntax.
Somebody’s not impressed. Thanks for your contribution to the conversation.
These are good points for original meaning of 'landlords', i.e. ones who lease land (fixed-amount natural resource), but does not make sense for landlords that lease houses or apartments (capital product).
Lead from the back.
Do what I say, not what I do.

Just terrible leadership.
I don't hate the idea about personalized treatments, however this will be the excuse by physicians why they can't be replaced by AI and we need to continue the myth of medicine being Art and Science.
you're right, none of my friends have moved out of CA ;)
I think maybe the downvotes come because people on the left and in the middle of the spectrum are just very tired of hearing right-wingers characterize left-center rejection of right-wing thought as "censorship." Whether that's a bottom-up community rejecting conservative thought via downvoting, or a top-down progressive CEO rejecting that thought via edict, we're just tired of hearing about it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but nobody's been getting kicked off Facebook or Twitter for discussing Edmund Burke or the ideal capital gains tax rate. I think it's usually more like swastikas or outright calls for violence against sitting politicians or "ignore your doctor and drink this fishtank cleaner!" type stuff.

And those folks still have PLENTY of sites where they can go share their swastikas and plan their violence and whatnot.
Do you have data to back that up? Do we know that the number of Californians leaving is higher than before, and if so, by how much?
Many components are disabled from reuse with software.
> It seems like microsoft should have just said that fixing this isn’t a priority right now, instead of saying it couldn’t be done.

The problem is that if performance isn't a priority, and then you finish all of your features and ship your 1.0, it begs the question: when exactly are you going to make it fast?

Never. That's when. Once you've shipped something, people get assigned to other projects, or new features.

Worse, you're now locked in to bad architectures that too much code depends on for changes to be easily made. Casey makes the point that the Windows Console IO API is inherently bad, and using it guarantees an unfixable bottleneck.

I've seen this attitude in Microsoft's software everywhere I look. They simply flat out ignore performance as a feature, and almost never come back to fix it. Easily less than 1% of the time, no matter how important it is. Even when people make a lot of public noise about some performance issue (like in this case), it quickly turns out that it is now unfixable because of the endemic apathy towards optimisation throughout that organisation.

E.g.: Windows Updates. I have gigabit internet and a high-end SSD, yet it takes something like an hour to apply patches! https://borncity.com/win/2018/06/01/windows-server-2016-slow... That to me is simply unfathomably bad programming. How hard is it to download a file and copy it to a folder?

The simpler code here would be orders of magnitude faster than whatever craziness they're doing. Like Casey points out, I could sit down right now and write a Windows Update that runs a thousand times faster. It wouldn't take much more than a weekend. (I'm not kidding: Prior to Windows Server 2019, all versions of Windows Update had O(n^3) algorithms operating on hundreds of megabytes of XML data that could take nearly a day to process.)

Remember the Grand Theft Auto game loading performance issue that was posted here where some guy cut minutes out of the game loading time by binary-patching it? People here were estimating that Rockstar may have missed out on a billion dollars of revenue because huge numbers of players gave up in frustration and moved on to other games: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339

Microsoft had their own version of this. When they released Flight Simulator 2020 a lot of people called it "download simulator" because it would take a solid day to download and install. Many people made excuses for it, but they shouldn't have. Just by inspecting the progress bar I found at least five critical performance mistakes. Again: I have gigabit internet and an SSD, yet that install took 8 hours!
California has much lower housing costs outside of major cities. It’s exodus is seen as unusual simply because it’s a a populous state, but rate wise it’s hardly unusual. IMO, people leaving California in large numbers is also a function of how many people move into the state because people who moved long distances once are more likely to move again.

As 2020 was a serious outlier I am sticking with U.S. states by net domestic migration (From July 1, 2018 to July 1, 2019):

Net domestic migration rate per 1,000 inhabitants: Alaska −12.96, Hawaii −9.76, New York −9.29, Illinois −8.28, Connecticut −6.19, Louisiana −5.60, New Jersey −5.51, California −5.15, skipping several places Delaware 7.15, South Carolina 10.30, Arizona 12.50, Nevada 14.03, Idaho 15.31. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

It’s the territories that are seeing the fastest changes.
American Samoa –26.1, Guam –11.0, Northern Mariana Islands –15.4, Puerto Rico –14.1, U.S. Virgin Islands –7.5
> compliment

I’ll take that as a complement.
haha, sure, because google needs more of your data, and whatever this nordigen thing is... laughable

from this nordigen's information handling section in TOS

> 2.3. As the Services also allow User to upload Information and/or obtain Account Information and personal data therein, User further acknowledges and agrees that by uploading or entering any Information for the Services and by using the Services, User grants Nordigen permission to make anonymized data based on personal and non-personal data collected from User or through User's use of the Services, and combine such anonymized data with that of other Users in order to make anonymized aggregate data. Nordigen may use the anonymized data and anonymized aggregate data for various business purposes and legitimate interests of Nordigen, including but not limited to improving the Services, developing and improving other Nordigen products and services, and distributing or licensing such data to third parties with whom Nordigen has a business relationship.

Every time the word "anonymized" is mentioned here you have to understand that everything in software is at risk of bugs or mistakes. But even if, they'll definitely sell your data.
No, they doesn't care, but "middleclass lifestyle" is only available for a fifth of the world, and the remaining four fifth want to partake to. And they slowly do.

The total installed renewable electricity capacity was greater than the totla installed fossil capacity for the first time in 2020. It was not replacing old fossil capacity, it was just added to the mix. And capacity != production, so i guess it's even worse than that.
There's a lot of privilege involved in being able to navigate these kinds of social overrides, so the idea that it's good that you can get around stupid rules like this by talking to a person is.. only really true for some people.

What's wrong here isn't the idea that "the rules" could be applied evenly to everyone (that's actually a good thing). It's this kind of incredibly narrow requirement on housing where landlords get to dig deep into your financials to the point of knowing when/how you paid for things.

That's gross, and should not be allowed. It's almost certainly a part of many people's vicious cycles into poverty. It's also, as far as I know, a really recent development and part of the general trend towards more and more invasive surveillance in daily life.
A bunch of high-profile resources have temporary soft-deletes - resource groups, managed SQL DBs, KeyVaults, Storage Accounts, and even subscriptions themselves. For some of these the undelete option is given to the user, for others you have to call support.
Yeah, and neither seems to work for me on iOS for some reason.

Like right now, with a connection, it works as expected (loads page, shows security warning in address bar)

But if I don't have a connection, it seems like either the browser or lower level OS security features (ATS?) force the device to try https first, which of course hangs/fails.

A huge pain in general.
> "People really don’t need to suffer to make a difference"…

You are 110% correct about that, and yet the most common arguments I hear from folks who argue against every proposed solution to climate change that they hear all make it sound like they actually think they're gonna have to live like cavemen if we try to do anything to fix the problem. :(
Self-help books are meant to help the author.
That confused me, too. It seems to refer to this from the paper:

On 2018 March 2.49 (UT dates are used throughout), we dis-covered AT 2018zd13 at an unfiltered optical magnitude of 17.8 in the outskirts of NGC 2146... Combined with our pre-discovery detection at 18.1 mag on 2018 March 1.54, we estimate an explosion epoch of 2018 March 1.4 ± 0.1 (~3 h before the first detection;

I'm not entirely sure I understand the date/time format, but the last part suggests that TFA meant "We pointed our telescope at it when the explosion was already in progress. We think it had been going for about three hours at that point."

I think "March 2.49" means ".49 of the way through March 2", so 11:46 AM, but that's just a guess. I've never seen that before. If so, that "first detection" was at 12:58PM on March 1, and they figure it actually started at 9:36AM... about three hours earlier.
I'm not aware of my expensive and i'm becoming rich, so i guess it isn't true if you work in tech.
Excellent. I think rasps could do a lot more if knowledge of them and basic programming was more common. Plus a ton of my *nix learning was rasp based since wiping an SD card is easier than having hardware & understanding for VMs.

I do wonder at use of SD card in any sort of production environment. I've got half a dozen rasps and a dozen+ sd cards...and well it's been patchy. Sometimes it lasts sometimes not with no obvious pattern.

I don't mind that SD card are slow AF, but really feel the rasp could have been taken to the next level with a better (reliability) storage solution.
Deep holes are expensive. Oil drilling, the cheapest kind of drilling since it's very common and in soft rock, costs $100-$200 per vertical foot.* A 2 km hole would cost $650,000 - $1.3M. It would not be economical to do this for one house. Then there are operating costs: operating a power plant on the surface is very likely to be cheaper than operating one underground, and temperature difference is bigger. All in all, a traditional geothermal plant (utility scale, at the surface) looks like that for good reasons.

*https://www.oilgasequity.com/resources/drilling-completion-f...
Haha, I’ll tell that to all the Stavroses I meet from now on.

Cheers!
Encrypt it and lose the key is generally effective.
It had this weird system where all your projects were supposed to be located in one directory structure that mapped to their git namespaces, it made no sense at all and was a pain to work around.
Tables in Azure Storage are an example of this -- the delete is performed asynchronously by a background thread some time later (just garbage collection). The table is not immediately deleted. I don't think you can force Azure to immediately delete it, but you could possibly raise a support ticket to ask them to delete it immediately. Have not tried this though.

Part of the reason is performance, I would assume, since a large delete could be hard on the overall system, and could slow Azure down for you + other customers. Also because some customers accidentally delete critical resources sometimes. (Or forgot to copy down any important config options from the resource before deleting it. I have some experience with that mistake.)
FAA Activates System to Track Space Launch, Reentry Vehicles
Related: Two Audacity Forks called "Tenacity" and "Sneedacity" are crusading among themselves to be the true heir/successor of Audacity https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/og0csv/two_aud...
Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming has, in its first volume, a lengthy section on simulating an elevator. It is a single regular elevator (nothing "special" going on as in the post here), but even so, as he tries to make things precise, you realize how much detail is involved, and get some appreciation for the task of programming.

It occupies about 15 pages (plus several pages of exercises and solutions). Knuth started working on TAOCP when he was a PhD student at Caltech:

> The program developed below simulates the elevator system in the Mathematics building of the California Institute of Technology. The results of such a simulation will perhaps be of use only to people who make reasonably frequent visits to Caltech; and even for them, it may be simpler just to try using the elevator several times instead of writing a computer program. […]

> The algorithm we will now study may not reflect the elevator’s true principles of operation, but it is believed to be the simplest set of rules that explain all the phenomena observed during several hours of experimentation by the author during the writing of this section. […]

> The elevator system described above is quite complicated by comparison with other algorithms we have seen in this book, but the choice of a real-life system is more typical of a simulation problem than any cooked-up “textbook example” would ever be.

It ends with:

> It is hoped that some reader will learn as much about simulation from the example above as the author learned about elevators while the example was being prepared.

And one of the exercises adds:

> It is perhaps significant to note that although the author had used the elevator system for years and thought he knew it well, it wasn’t until he attempted to write this section that he realized there were quite a few facts about the elevator’s system of choosing directions that he did not know. He went back to experiment with the elevator six separate times, each time believing he had finally achieved a complete understanding of its modus operandi. (Now he is reluctant to ride it for fear that some new facet of its operation will appear, contradicting the algorithms given.) We often fail to realize how little we know about a thing until we attempt to simulate it on a computer.
More than that - policy is designed to be interpreted by humans, to be bent or overriden when needed. There are processes in place for that - from a simple handshake deal, through a written contract amendment, to the court system. When software is tasked with enforcing policies, there is no bending, no overriding, no special cases. In this way, software breaks the policies.
HN downvoting replies is a problem
Imagine you make comment, someone replies, and you reply to the reply. Because your position is unpopular, the original comment gets down-voted to -4, which is the minimum. But Now your reply will also get down-voted after your original comment hits the -4 cap. This means you cannot respond to anyone without risking more down-votes. This seems totally unfair. How are you supposed to defend your position and reply without losing dozens of karma? Do you just ignore it? Delete the original comment?
Electrosails aren’t as good for this as magnetosails; I just included electrosails for completeness.
It's time to erect Phalicity in its place
It’s not a bug, it’s people using it to mean something it doesn’t mean.
An update:

Had the meeting. I didn't say anything about mental health which was probably good as I got the PiP. I figure I have at least 2 weeks as long as I don't do something egregious. Of course what appeared to prompt this was taking a day off at the last minute as I wasn't in a condition to work.

Made an appointment Monday with a doctor who I think can diagnose/treat. I figure it's a decent first step at least.

I live in the upper midwest of the US.

We have a bit more saved up than I thought so a 2 week gap shouldn't be too much of an issue, however I'd be worried about a job search taking longer.
Thanks for your answer. It sounds like most things involving religion, complicated.
This was originally reported by CNET (with additional context), so let me encourage folks to give them your clicks instead: https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-hypocritical-remote-work-p...
Yeah, that outcome is still pretty bad. I don’t think there’s any value gained from multiple frontends here. It’s unlike the PyPy situation in that a Rust GCC frontend is not going to have better performance, at least at runtime, from rustc with a GCC backend. Any compile performance differences could be resolved.
Well no, because only GitHub has access to the training set. But more importantly this misunderstands how Copilot even works -- even if Windows was in the training set, you couldn't get Copilot to reproduce it. It only generates a few lines of code at a time, and even then it's almost certainly entirely novel code.

Now, if you knew the code you wanted Copilot to generate you could certainly type it character by character and you might save yourself a few keystrokes with the TAB key, but it's going to be much MUCH easier to simply copy the whole codebase as files, and now you're right back where you started.
I've seen success using RAMDisk instead of running entirely on SD card
A bit off topic, but
the commented version was much clearer, than the version with separate function.
(full sentences are very good at explaining things)
And these people will be replaced by less experienced or less talented workers.

I recently heard a low performer get hired at a FAANG company and wondered how this person managed to trick that company into hiring him.
Yes, Azure has a similar thing for resources where you can set a "CanNotDelete" lock on one. You have to delete the lock before you can delete the resource.
It seems like a reasonable assumption that, as of 2021, the majority of people who read Mein Kampf or watch Triumph des Willens are not Nazis, but rather people who are curious about the history of Nazi Germany for normal, good-faith reasons.

If your personal attitude towards the Nazis is "never again", as it should be, you ought to be interested in how it happened the first time. Part of how it happened the first time is that a lot of Germans actually voted for them and many of the others just sort of went along with the program. Why would they do such a thing? How do I make sure I'm not fooled the same way they were? These are some haunting questions.

I, myself, have watched this sort of primary source material on YouTube, e.g. subtitled videos of some of Hitler's speeches. You might assume that Hitler spent most of his speeches ranting and raving, but he spent a lot of time hiding behind the mask of a responsible politician promising to reduce unemployment. I think watching that stuff helps to answer those questions. And, as I recall, I don't think I actually went out of my way to search for it, either.
I was on a project for which I built a kind of git hosting (as a side-effect of, or to support, other features of the product—we weren't a git-host-as-a-service, exactly) and ran into two things:

1) Locking. It's a pain in the ass. You're probably going to need to take it over or otherwise work around it, some how. I never did[0], but likely should have. At scale and with unreliable HTTP operations and all kinds of crazy stuff triggering writes to repos, you're going to end up with locking problems at some point.

2) Caching. Cache the hell out of metadata. Cache entire repo-wide metadata read operation output. Cache commits. Cache archives. Cache, cache, cache. Cache early, cache often.

[0] in my defense, I built the whole thing solo and there are only so many hours in a day, and that was not the only thing I was working on.

[EDIT] this was, like, 2011 or 2012 or something, so there was a lot less info floating around about how to do this, too.
Good leadership is sacrificial.
(prefers-color-scheme: no-preference) got killed off because it simply wasn’t useful in practice.
Here is another article with a chart: https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/california-populatio...

It shows a population decrease of around 0.5% in 2020.

Probably won't put much of a dent in traffic or housing costs, even if it continues for 10 years. But I still have fond memories of the 1990s, when things were more sane.
Small consolation, but I believe GINA should prevent that behavior. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/g...
You'll enjoy this then (when Richard Feynman encountered something similar):

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/ev3gy/excerpt_from...
Reminds me of the key line from Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food" book. "Eat food. Mostly Plants. Not too much." The key bit being "eat food"--real food from nature not food products invented in a lab or made in a factory. In other words does it pass the grandmother test--if you're grandmother would not recognize the food item then it's not food. While I've had Impossible and Beyond Meat and they are tasty, I always worry about the non-food aspect.
Suburban and housing costs in California are very high by national standards. Is your argument that the people who are moving out of California overwhelmingly non-native Californians?
This is the third time this fork has shown up on HackerNews in as many days, and all I've seen from this new group is bikeshedding and drama.

They are more focused on picking a name, logo and who is in charge than they are on pushing releases. By comparison, Sneedcity is already making changes and pushing releases out.

IMO this is a group that is more interested in "owning" a popular open-source project than they are maintaining an open-source project. Someone saw the Audacity drama as an opportunity to pad their resume by "running" an open-source project.

As ESR pointed out forks live and die by the legitimacy of the broader community, and so far I haven't seen anything from these team that suggests they are legitimate.
I actually agree with this down-vote. I should have written a far better reply why I think that monitoring all citizens continuously is not a good idea.
I did not get an electrical engineering degree, but I work in that field. I'm not sure what this project does.