skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't feel bad for them.

I lived there for four years (at KAUST), I am deeply familiar with the country and its people. The Saudis are nice and well-intended, but a few bad apples spoil the bunch.

I left after my 4yo daughter was kidnapped(!) when I refused to sign some papers regarding my work situation. I am not making this up. The kidnapping was carried away by an Australian professor and a couple American guys working there, but when I tried to look for help I was horrified that this seemed to be business as usual and no one even batted an eye, no jurisdiction. Fortunately, we are safe now and doing better than ever, but, what a story.

Until they fix many of these things it will be very hard for them to establish a thriving economy.
There are other quirks. If the recorded temperature outside is -18°C, which is -0.4°F, the Weather app will show it as -0°F.

Which is technically more correct than +0°F, but I've seen people call it a bug.
I'd say they give them a discount for developing something a customer will then (have to) run on AWS.
That’s just rehashing what’s in the article. GP is not asking why the dividend is bad for the company.
When the dust settles, I'll be interested to see of Australia does come out ahead of other countries. Personally, it seems worse for a lot of the countries that had delayed waves of Covid, because they got all the infrastructure, or at least political will, to over react to it in place before it came. If this dramatically changes the outcomes, maybe it has some value, but if it just means people get to live under a practiced and better organized violation of their liberties, then I'm happy I was closer to the initial wave.
Because if it’s somewhat true to say that stopping CO2 emissions would rapidly pause climate change, there is no short term « reverse » (in hundreds of years) of the climate.

We are in such a situation that every +0.01°C increase in global warming is gained more or less indefinitely.

The only thing we can do is stopping net emissions and learn to live with the climate as it is when we achieve this.

We really don’t care a lot about concentrations going down in the next centuries because by the time it happens, the harm would be done already for multiple centuries.

We are really facing today, 50°C in summer and devastating events, for our generation and our kids. This precise battle is already lost but we must fight for it to not be even more dramatic.
I am at a point where I don't think there should be finance departments in tech companies. I also believe there shouldn't be siloed data departments for the record either. There should be teams, build around a cohesive product goal that solves customer needs. There should be someone who understands the money side of things embedded in that department doing analyses and making recommendations to the product manager, not direct to a CFO. Maybe half their job is regular market analysis work too if the role isn't that big. Those product managers should then have in their day to day functions a requirement to get that info to a CFO's hands (who is really just the executive teams internal finance person) to make their case for their product.
> This is a product from MSCHF which is a $100M+ startup [1]

Where do you see a $100M+ startup?

On the page linked, I see a $12.5M Series B...

I would call them a small contraversial ultra-modern art company. A caricature more so than a startup.
You kind of left us hanging there...

How did you recover your daughter if the state doesn't care?
Zulip's API is built on roughly this design pattern:

* https://zulip.com/api/real-time-events

* https://zulip.com/api/register-queue

* https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/subsystems/events-sys...

We use this same long-polling based /events API interface for all official clients (web, mobile, terminal), our interactive bots ecosystem (https://zulip.com/api/running-bots), and many integrations (E.g. bridges with IRC/Matrix/etc.).

We also offer webhooks, because some platforms like Heroku or AWS Lambda make it much easier to accept incoming HTTP requests than do longpolling, but the events system has always felt like a nicer programming model.

(Zulip's events system was inspired by separate ~2012 conversations I had with the Meteor and Quora founders about the best way to do live updates in a web application).
Rarely have I heard of sustained 160 BPM heart rate as a post-COVID symptom. Likely something else would be going on there. Mostly it's vague symptoms, maybe you have 90-120 BPM, but then it goes away by the time you see the doctor the next day. Beta blockers have their own problems and you don't want to just start prescribing them for these vague, transient symptoms.
Today I learned that stadiums can have different ads depending on channel
New electronic paper displays brilliant colors
Cultural values that would mean MBS and the House of Saud loses face and honor. (And future access to money)
The Side Effects of Recommendation Systems
Surprised at the focus on a proprietary, binary protocol as I'd always taken RabbitMQ to be "all in" on standards based protocols.
It's not a matter of it being faster for me. It's a matter of it being more stable. I used Firefox for years, but when my extensions started breaking with FF updates I switched. I tried again recently, but now it's the extensions.
I don't think the people at Harvard Divinity School believe in heaven.
Its a positive feedback. More of an "exacerbating effect" than either cause or symptom.
The Clippy one gave me physical shudders. Traumatic memories...
From the linked release notes:

> Note that the new conversion from slice to array pointer is the first case in which a type conversion can panic at run time. Analysis tools that assume type conversions can never panic should be updated to consider this possibility.

I'm not worried about updating tools, I'm worried about updating humans that assume type conversions can never panic at run time. This change feels like adding a substantial foot-gun.
Well they said free in their blog:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/tunnel-for-everyone/

Also in my personal testing I didn't need to pay.
I have no evidence, but my suspicion is that programs like this are designed similiarly to large credit grants given to startups.

If they see a project that seems "interesting" (ie, has a potentially to be successful and have a very high AWS spend in the future), they're willing to subsidize[0] some costs now in order for you to get used to and build around AWS, and likely build more closely to AWS. If it ends up being successful, AWS has a much larger customer.

[0] I say subsidize in quotes because I seriously doubt AWS is taking a loss on any of this, they're just not making quite as much in profit.
Never seems to load in Chrome on MacOS :/
Start making it in Egypt or Tripoli?

People in deserts shit too, I think.
That is absolutely terrifying glad you are both safe and were able to leave.
Britten V-1100 (1992)
Sounds downright fair in comparison to Germany, where you have to pay a TV license fee for having a home, no TV set required.
my guess is he signed the paper
How many outstanding shares? Are all shares entitled to the dividend?
I am curious about that as well since the article mentions

> The most desperate of these was the pledge to guarantee a dividend payment to shareholders in Aramco of US$18.75 billion every single quarter of every single year – a total of US$75 billion every single year.

I've never heard of a contractually binding agreement to drive yourself into bankruptcy via an overly generous dividend. From this FT article[1] it does sound like it's pretty voluntary though

> Mr Nasser told reporters that “our intention is to pay $75bn, subject to board approval and depending on market conditions”. Minority shareholders, who own 1.5 per cent of the company, will be “protected” for the next five years and given priority payments, he said.

1. https://www.ft.com/content/3c2c576c-51c6-4ced-b1c2-586c4b2f4...
Nissan may have been saved, but it came at the cost of their reputation. According to my auto mechanic friends Nissan once ranked up there with Toyota and Honda for reliability, but their quality plummeted after the Renault deal.
That's why you break out the mountain bike in the warmer months.
They used a survey of 276 people and then examined some Facebook surveys about "those who used more profanity were also more likely to use language patterns that have been shown in previous research to be related to honesty, such as using pronouns like "I" and "me"."

I don't disagree with you but that study seems like fucking bullshit.
My main worry is that I won’t save enough for hard times in the future if I’m living organically without much future planning. Have you ever had fears like that?
Safari is the only browser on iOS. Apple doesn't allow other browsers on their app store. It's in their developer agreement.

What you see as browsers on iOS are actually browser skins running around a Safari based webview.
Israel's right to exist isn't the question. Their policy of expansionism is. West and others have described Israel's treatment of Palestinians as apartheid.

It seems worth mentioning that West's critique of the apartheid in South Africa got him in hot water with ~Harvard~[1] many years ago...

[Edit 1] whoops, Yale. Guy's been at so many institutions I can't keep track... quoth Wikipedia,

> As punishment, the university administration canceled his leave for the spring term in 1987, leading him to commute from Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was teaching two classes, across the Atlantic Ocean to the University of Paris.

Edit 2: I'm not here to debate this extremely flame-prone topic, just trying to satisfy a curious-sounding question
Called my embassy (even though they told me not to, LOL).

When things started to blow out, they realized it was not worth the trouble and they sent us back home. I have to say that we were never injured or anything like that, but still, ... wtf.

Moral of the story: ALWAYS call your embassy first.
I used to use Firefox on Android but had to stop because of this issue. Too many times filling out a form, grabbing a password from a password manager, and returning to find the form blanked. When it's resolved I'll go back and try again.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731
Yes, but their business is search advertising. You can get really good targeting with just 1st party data (what the current user has searched for).

That's completely different from display advertising. For most sites on the web there's not enough information about a user's interests on that site alone to get a lot of different bidders for the ad slot. Fewer bidders generally means the a list auction price, so less money for the publisher.
The average Saudi does not live as comfortable a life compared to the 100k or so members of the Al Saud family and their cronies.

You're right about the latter part though. An Aramco failure is going to be a significant dent on MBS' domestic perception.
I am starting to believe "purpose" as related to work is mostly a giant con. Sometimes we run it on ourselves. But we are all dust in the end. Does the project or business that we are working on really matter?
As someone who has taken trazodone typically 75 mg. before retiring to aid in sleep for many years, on and off, I can say there are 2 side effect difficult to deal with:

1) It kills your sex drive.
2) It causes extremely dry mouth for those who are mouth breathers and suffer sleep apnea - - way beyond what CPAP humidifiers can deal with.
>> The tools are slowly catching back up to fill the void left by Flash.

> Uncaught (in promise) Your browser does not support graphics API "WebGL 2.0" which is required for this content.

Firefox 90 on 64-bit Windows 10. Presumably because I insist on using my souped up T400.

Still, looking at the video, I am going to say *VERY* slowly catching up.
Apple won this back in 1999: https://i.imgur.com/V9WQ8Gc.png
are you or your daughter US Citizens? What did the Department of State say about that?
American Dad has 2 episodes dedicated to showing that Saudi Arabia is the worst place in the world. Your story just reinforces that idea.
"Suicide"?
This might be controversial, but MBS sounds like a horrible, horrible person. Yes, he presents a civilized face to the West, and he's "progressive", but just look at the Khashoggi murder for example. But people seem to be blind to this very dark side of the Saudi leadership. He lets women drive. So that means he's an open minded liberal. What about every other country in the world where women have been allowed to drive since forever? I think it's hard to fix an institution that's corrupt at the top.
According to an FT article I found[1] while digging up information about how mandatory the dividend is - it looks like minority shareholders are being given preference in receiving the dividend. Which makes a lot of sense if this was more of a PR stunt and less an effort to pull a bunch of company value into MBS's personal bank account.

1. https://www.ft.com/content/3c2c576c-51c6-4ced-b1c2-586c4b2f4...
Share your nix setup/config? Your workflow looks like it matches my desires exactly
Extreme fatigue for months after is not neatly explainable. Myalgic Encehalomyelitis/CFS is similar, but when other symptoms are included (weird skin rash, heart palpations, smell issues, GI trouble), the simpler explanation is Covid. A deeper reading on long Covid symptoms may prove informational as the cluster of symptoms is fairly unique and unexplainable.
Yes, I agree. It's kind of a pain to work with at the moment, but some more improvements it Silverblue is cool. Getting everyone to agree on FlatPaks may be an issue.
It looks like Rabbitmq stream semantics matches up better with Kafka. Redis’s stream is more lighter weight.
That's false, you should have read the link or just looked it up. And on a sidenote CH4 is converted into CO2 in the atmosphere sooner or later anyway.
I recall when I bought a book from a bookstore, but later it turned out the publisher did not have a license. So they hired private security to break into my home, steal my book, and leave money in its place.

Oh sorry, "on a computer". That makes it okay.
Somehow the writing style was bothering me and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. It was reading like a long-form Reddit rant more so than an actual article.

Bloomberg one seems more based in facts on the ground.

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That being said: the opinionated writing style of "oilprice.com" is still helpful at possibly explaining why these assets are being sold. But facts matter and should come first: the news event (Armaco deciding to sell more assets) should be presented objectively at some point before introducing an opinion about it.
I actually love the advanced volume control one with all the numbers.
Why Are White Women Fake Crying on TikTok?
I use FileZilla anytime I need to access FTP.

It somehow feels wrong to use a web browser for this.
The old adage goes:

"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."

So perhaps somewhat conversely:

"If the Saudis owe you $1 billion and decide not to pay you, that's your problem."
The context here is that in a recent #metoo wave a certain musician had quite a few accusations of sexual misconduct. Following those he was cancelled to host in a big event. This musician then threatened to sue his accusers of slander.

In this tweet Halli (a successful startup founder that recently sold his start up to Twitter) promises to pay legal costs for anyone that needs a legal defense in any upcoming slander case.

Previously Halli has been vocal about disabled rights and accessibility issues in the city of Reykjavík. He also made the local headlines recently when he opted out of filing the taxes for the Twitter acquisition in a tax haven. Opting instead to pay taxes in the country he claimed helped with this success.
Yea, I agree. I'd clarify that "A decent chunk" above is meant to specifically refer to the politically powerful part of Saudi Arabia. Basically, the keys to power - so very few women and none of the poor folk.
Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it
objectively so far, both covid and vaccines have tiny risk of death (<0.1%), though one tiny is an order of magnitude or two larger than the other.

with that said, it’s generally ok for people under uncertainty to reach different conclusions (assuming relative independence) based on the same data. it’s not ok for some people to try to clobber the conclusions of others under uncertainty, which is what vaccinations being mandated effectively does.

when the uncertainty can be bounded objectively to being really tiny with high confidence (which may take many years, even decades), then a mandate might make sense (e.g., mmr vaccines for kids). but absent that high confidence, this one sounds premature.
> I work at Solace

That recontextualizes your previous post quite a bit...
I've helped with two migrations, and warned them; they didn't listen.

Last place also did datadog for log aggregation. So Bezos' hands in their pockets, datadog's paws on their money.
Previously on HN: Prison in Japan (2017) (gaijinass.com)

https://gaijinass.com/2017/03/30/brutal-realities-of-prison-...
I would have titled this: How to win whilst making enemies, losing friends and coming across as a total nut job to any rational observer.
Your view of the world should not come from the propaganda box. Unless you enjoy being manipulated.
Prince changed his stage name because of a dispute with his label. He changed it back after he signed with a new label.
Too bad he contributed to a campaign that wasn't for them then.

And of course, CA did introduce something like "marriage with a different name" afterwards, but it didn't seem like the Prop 8 defenders liked that either, and the courts still found it unconstitutional.
Wasn't if finance that decided that IT should be cost center for every company?
Not trying to handwave away issues with the Japanese system, but scale seems relevant here.

Japan: 40 incarcerated per 100k population [1]
USA: 655 incarcerated per 100k population [2]

[1] https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/japan
[2] https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/united-states-america
Tangentially, here's a fascinating hour-long documentary (in French, but subtitled) on what prison in Japan is like:

https://youtu.be/BJp9nKaO7c4

Bear in mind that this was filmed with the cooperation of the authorities, there are plenty of stories about abuses beyond what is shown.
nope not a bot - hope you have a better day
If you purchased a car without legal title they would absolutely send a repo man to take it back at your home or at your work. This actually happened to a buddy who bought a car from Canada. It was a lease and the title was fake. GM sent repo men to take the truck back and told him tough shit, sue the seller.
For clarity, when you refer to finance, I think you mean Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A). I think you would agree that centralized Tax, Treasury, and Accounting functions are ok and should probably report to the CFO.

With respect to FP&A, I have seen several firms that simply embed them within a product line or business unit. They need to submit forecasts to a central group, but their primary mission is to support the product or business line.
Humans today are consuming fossil fuels at roughly 5 million times their original rate of formation. Present human consumption of net primary productivity (plant growth) is about 14% of Earth's total. The fossil fuels consumed in 1997 (the date analyzed by the paper) comprise the equivalent of another 21% of NPP (and the actual period over which the fossil fuels accumulated is far greater: 400 years of growth, accumulated over ~5 million years, due to inefficiencies in the process of coal, oil, and gas formation and accumulation).

This has interesting implications for those who suggest biofuels as a fossil fuel alternative. These can be considered on an energy per unit area basis. Sparing some maths: for the US, about 3/4 of all present agricultural land would have to be devoted to fuel production to meet present energy needs under the most optimistic fuel-crop estimates. Most scenarios would require multiples of present crop land area, if not of the landmass of the country as a whole.

Electricity generation from photovoltaics is far more viable, though even this would require an immense land area devoted to electricity production. Plus additional provisions for energy storage.

It's helpful to remember that humans switched to nonrenewable fossil fuels in the first place because utilisation was exceeding replacement rates for biomass energy sources such as fuelwood and charcoal, prior to the 20th century with a small fraction of both the present population and per-capita energy usage.
Yes you could, because since you don't train regularly, going out for a 5k run could be very stressful. I've been there, when young 5k was, you could say easy, I could do it any day without warmup or specific training. But now, I can't run 5k without injuring myself. I need to prepare for several weeks before running 5k.
What is the separation between the Saudi government and MbS. Is it essentially the same and is it the case of MbS monetizing Aramco at the expense of the investors?
Humans were down to 10,000 units at some time.

Maybe some leader consolidated power and convinced the tribe to embark in a journey to move somewhere else where water was more plentiful and food too, we can only imagine that ...had his attempt at convincing the tribe been unsuccesful we would not be here today!

Or maybe the opposite, which is also true...somebody level headed convinced the tribe not to embark in such a journey...to stay, because with so few units it was not the time to make experiments or gambles
I worked in telecom and I can confirm that in telcos people sit in the meetings brainstorming about how to milk customers without giving any priority to serve them. Be grateful to have internet messaging services.
I'm curious, can you clarify?

What do you mean by "current" in "only current local files" and "current remote files"?

What does it mean to want a remote copy of only current local files, as opposed to all local files?
but that's not how it works...plants absorb a quarter of total emissions and the oceans about a quarter too. So half the emissions are absorbed, and half are not.
You seem to be assuming that:

- I’m a tech worker

- I work from home

Neither of which are true. As an ‘essential’ worker, I found it deplorable how dismissive people are of our situation and display belligerence towards basic, near zero-cost safety measures, such as wearing a mask. Which, as the data suggest, was likely beneficial in allowing myself and many of my coworkers to avoid covid. Granted, we no longer wear masks, as they are no longer necessary.

I further find your argument regarding some nebulous, broad-scale wealth transfer unmoving. Personal incomes did well in my country for all income brackets during the pandemic. Doubtless, the situation served to funnel money large tech companies, but this seems an inevitable outcome regardless of government action.

In any case, you are clearly quite cemented in your position. Further discussion would be nonproductive.
> Computers first came into many companies via the Finance department way back when because they recognized what computers could do as glorified calculators, spreadsheets and accounting systems.[1] IT departments were often an outgrowth of those early systems

And yet, somehow, IT departments ended up getting classified as cost centers by the finance department.
I just did a mass conversion of gp2 to gp3. gp3 DOES increase disk latency, but we're talking 2ms -> 4ms. So it's doubled, but still pretty low. For normal usage, it's still quite fast.
You already got a win - quit while you're ahead ;-) Note that plain binary search here is probably not a good idea. See "listsort.txt", in the same directory as "listobject.c", for excruciating details.
Karma for Khashoggi. Bitch.
Two Americans and an Australian carried it out? This seems like a wild newsworthy story.