skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Here's how I'd napkin math it.

Facebook has purchased 6GW of renewable energy to power its datacenters [1]. Its datacenters have a PUE of about 1.06 last they published (they unfortunately seem to have taken their dashboards down) so that's about 5.6GW of electricity actually powering real load. Some of that will power the networking fabric so we could conservatively estimate 5GW of compute load. The OCP Yosemite v3 platform power budget is a max of 1.5kW [2]. Also conservatively, let's assume a real average 1kW load. I'll leave the division as an exercise for the reader to estimate the number of servers they operate.

1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.euronews.com/green/amp/2021...

2 https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-yosemite-v3-platfo...
You don't seem to consider the possibility that they genuinely agree with these "far" right wing views, nor that those people's support of those ideas is indeed genuine evidence that the ideas aren't racist. Instead you work backwards from your ideological certainty that the "far right" is all about racism, therefore any evidence that it's not must be some kind of subtle deception.
Was it? I thought that meme began from his post. To be totally blunt if you get asked to invert a binary tree in a FAANG interview, that’s very easy compared to most questions.
I think this situation/comments have been blown out of proportion a bit.

To me, the situation reads more like: Muse Group have held back on litigating over copyright infringement (whether that is a valid claim or not) because they are aware of the alleged infringer's precarious political situation, however they've turned a blind eye for too long and are now in a difficult position where they either lose money where they are paying for licences for content that this developer has allegedly stolen, or they litigate to protect their interest and risk having the guy deported.

It seems like they're just trying to be frank and level with the guy.

Maybe it's just that text isn't the best way to get this message across, or the CPO's communication style doesn't work for some folks.

But I don't think it's like an "offer you can't refuse" mobster tactic as some would like to claim.
With power comes responsibility, the latter can be lacking in some users who then like to blame their tools.
'000s of rows of data in a spreadsheet - sigh. But say 'database' to some people and they hear 'The Devil'.

Excel is a glorious tool which welcomes all, the savvy and the unskilled but imaginative newbies alike. There is something about all those little cells that presents an itch everyone wants to scratch, and you just know that for some that scratching is going to produce something akin to a spreadsheet version of gangrenous melanoma.

On the other hand, some people are happy to say that the complexity of sophisticated Excel models means they would have been better off built in a code interface. Ha ha ha!

Even with the right mix of functional and object-oriented code and suitable documentation and version control applied to code, I respectfully disagree.

Data handling capabilities could benefit from skill in all of these tools: error checking (including analytical review); pen & paper; calculators; databases; spreadsheets; math & stat techniques; Word processors (& clear logical explanations).

Together, they form a rich menagerie of tools which will probably all be around until we have an AI that follows us around and we just tell it what we want. Actually, even then, it would be good to know them so that we can grasp the underlying logic and frame the concepts leading to the actions that we ask the AI to assist with...
Thanks, I realize I was lucky, it is a wildly unpredictable virus and I am not trying to minimize the possible outcomes.
Cockatoo removing bird spikes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7UFoEuzYvc
press NumLock.
Show HW: A robot toys website
I hope bin chickens are given the right to compete at the Brisbane Olympics
Thank you, this is a very interesting distro.. Wondering how open source it can really be if it's running Windows drivers under the hood?
I'll never understand why business owners want to fail so badly. The principal advantage of small business is that you can happily ignore bureaucracy when it makes sense to.

Some of our best employees are the ones who came in with the fewest credentials and the most to prove. There is no candidate I would refuse purely on the grounds of credentials.

We are much more interested in side projects and work ethic than formal certifications or other pieces of expensive paper.
Jokes on them for using bottom taskbar on 32:9. It looks absurd.. I really wonder what is the reasoning behind this. They had pretty good taskbar structure and now it's scrapped..
> assuming this took place on US soil

IIRC, Europe was mentioned. That doesn't necessarily exclude other countries, including the U.S., but this organization had relationships with and members retired from high-ranking government offices, including CIA directors, defense secretaries, Pentagon leadership, etc. IOW, not the kind of place that would consort (at least knowingly and in the office) with people who directly participated in intelligence operations against the U.S. At least until the Trump Administration current and former officials were still rather hostile to the threat of intelligence operations against them.
CV scanning is old news.

Nowadays even language skills are assessed automatically:

https://www.shl.com/en/assessments/cognitive-ability/skills-...

https://blog.mettl.com/english-proficiency-test-software/

The products have problems, though:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/07/1027916/we-teste...
What is the typical disposable income?
Presumably part of Caravaggio's madness was due to toxic pigments (and he may have died from lead poisoning) but he is a fascinating character and an astonishing (and occasionally terrifying) artist!
Wow the cockatoos in Lorne really have a reputation. I drove up to Lorne from Melbourne when I was in Australia and one of my most vivid memories is a cockatoo eating bits of pizza out of a bin with pizza sauce smeared up its face.
Someone whose brain exploded five years ago and who still hasn't recovered. There's a mental health crisis among the managerial elite in the U.S., that's obvious to any outside observer.
In my use cases, the siloing is an advantage: the project I'm working on is contained in a couple of files in a folder somewhere that can be archived and opened/rerun with confidence years from now. Most other systems don't allow this level of encapsulation / archiving ability.
Some TVs would show you which page was currently being sent in addition to the page number you were currently viewing. It went up sequentially, starting at 100 (which was the "home page"). That way you could time typing in the number (I remember on Ceefax 601 was the TV listings for BBC1) - say when it was at around 540 - and then you wouldn't have to wait so long for the page to "load".

Most pages had multiple "sub-pages" - so the BBC TV listing would start in the morning, as 1/5 - then on each refresh, it would show 2/5, 3/5 etc. If you really wanted to study a particular page before it would reload, there was often a "Hold" button that paused the refreshes. Then, when you "un-held" it would jump to whichever page was sent on the next update.

Watching the scores on a Saturday afternoon, updating across the various leagues, was a ritual for every football fan. (Maybe page 302 for football scores?)

Bamboozle was page 451 on Channel 4 - everyone loved that.
> Teaching is one the greatest ways to learn and develop your relation and vocabulary for what you are currently learning

Oh sure it is.

I studied theoretical math and I found teaching other students math was great way to get it organized in my head. But we also had professor and I wasn't teaching anybody original ideas, just the material that was already written and defined.

Now I have decades of development experience I still find explaining things to other people a very useful and efficient way to get my thoughts organized.

I kinda exclude blogs with posts of the form "see, I have found something interesting today!" or "I just spent 5 hours solving this problem, writing down solution here so you don't have to waste time". This is fine.

But if you have 3 years of experience in development and start writing blog posts criticizing OOP, that is definitely not going to help your case.

I mean, it is highly unlikely you got enough experience and thinking done to even understand OOP, let alone start criticizing it.
The mine in question had 44 employees. The sample size is thus a bit small, the mine is probably not well-ventilated, and the working conditions are not good for health in general. Of course, it's bound to happen that eventually a COVID variant emerges against which a booster shot becomes required,so this might or might not hint at something greater.
Not sure if this is technically possible. However I would like to see in the future, version with AMD APU but replaceable so you can upgrade as well. Amd seems not selling ryzen mobile that is swappable but maybe possible to design motherboard that will fit ryzen desktop, undervolting it a little when not connected to power to conserve battery - even at the expense of slighty thicker laptop
Having the taskbar at bottom of wide screen is waste of the valuable height! Where can I give Microsoft feedback without the Feedback Hub app?
I'm looking forward to the day when we can collectively disentangle GMO from all of the other negative practices of big ag. I don't see a reason why responsible genetic modification can't be a part of a sustainable and equitable future agricultural system.
A nice shortcut is Ctrl-Shift-U to toggle single- or multi-line view.
Your analogies are things that you use a large % of the time, almost any second. Whereas I've been programming for years, and never wrote a binary search (I think?), but perhaps I don't qualify as literate?

I think writing an if-statement would be closer to your analogies.
Sounds a bit off as I personally installed f-droid on my mom's new Samsung last month and all I did was allow f-droid to the trusted sources when the security prompt came up.

Maybe check out this tutorial: https://youtu.be/_0fhLF8a1nU
Probably worth pointing at Dave Sieg's own YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHjkMThH0aE
Contracting has its own caveats like no pension, and no sick pay.
I think the "4" should be changed to a "1" yielding p = 0.0333. 4 is the total number of unvaccinated miners without prior infection.
That’s the usual blind rhetoric against Oracle. Any factual info on how are they worse than the “good” companies that literally track every single step you take, that attack the very democracy of countries, that help the spread of dangerous anti-intellectual rhetorics, or the “usual” anti-union, shitty working condition giants?

They dared sue the small mom&pop shop called Google for going against the Sun license of Java?
Just choose the DIY option
> In what universe is that normal?

In a universe where you want high-performance energy efficient RAM. Premium ultracompact laptops have long moved to LPDDR which is both faster and consumes significantly less energy than regular modular DDR. And LPDDR does not come in DIMMs. And then you have Apple who are using custom package technology with custom RAM chips to cut down RAM power consumption to under one watt active, delivering close to 20 hours battery. You simply can’t have this with socketed RAM. Modularity is not a free lunch, as much as some people like to pretend.
That one is more on MySQL, isn’t it? They were the ones that sort of stopped innovating for a time.
>Spreadsheets give not-super-technical users a way to program data transformations in what I would argue is the most generally intuitive way that exists

I don't think spreadsheets are a good way to program data transformations at all. Data transformations are inherently a pipeline/function abstraction, and even non-technical users understand that. Spreadsheets don't offer a good way to decompose a data transformation process and inspect each step for correctness. This alone makes them prone to calculation errors. Also, tables are an afterthought to spreadsheets, therefore even trivial joins are always a pain in Excel.

I have a good practical experience with building visual pipeline-based data transformation tools [1] for non-technical users and they have been a success.

[1] https://easymorph.com
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33964222/
If they'd only come out and said one or two sentences, people would still be up in arms about them holding back information and not being forthcoming.

I appreciate the fact they've spent some time actually thinking about this and working on revising their policy and making a thought out statement.
How would authenticating videos work practically?

The politician that was covertly recorded receiving bribes or ordering a murder surely will not say: "Yep, that's me on the video.".
> People investing $millions of their own money are generally able to afford, also, to hire competent people to evaluate the wisdom of their choices.

I'd say, they don't. I haven't seen as many "technical analysts" failing at phys101, and eng101 level matters employed anywhere outside of the so called "VC fund community"
Since when do I have to login to search GitHub code?
For most adults, casual gaming has become a way to blow off steam or pass unproductive intervals we're forced to endure.

You can't exactly work on your side project or hobby while sat at a bus stop or train station for just 10 minutes, so it's a guilt free pleasure.

That 1-2 hours of precious free time you get at home, between work, chores and bed, however, is riddled with guilt. Sadly, most of us lack the willpower and energy to make the most of it. Personally, I feel guilty not spending my evenings with my partner if I attempt to man-cave myself away to work on a side project, even though I know they have potential to be transformative to our lives.
Yes, they had started their own brewery :)
Looking forward to testing this on all the searches I do that gives me heaps of spam results. Seems that Google's focus on search spam has more or less disappeared.

What I've seen a alot of the last few years is sites with simply copied content republished on new domains. And I don't mean just some text, I mean the whole website.

Take this search for example: https://www.google.no/search?q=nrk+site%3A.it

It show's a bunch of Italian domains with mostly spam based on Norwegian content. This content regularly ranks high when searching for Norwegian cotent.
I wonder if Second Life/OpenSim would join this soon
This has indeed been predicted by various experts but almost completely ignored. As seen in the comment below the strategy now is to blame those who are critical of our single minded vaccination strategy.
For the things that are 1:1 comparable, the Borg abstraction leaks in pretty much the same places as the Kubernetes abstraction. In slightly different ways. The "kubernetes abstraction" spans a larger space than the Borg abstraction does (note, I count "Chubby" and "GSLB" as "not Borg"), so there are more abstraction leaks as a whole in Kubernetes.

Source, I was a Google SRE for 5 years (Ads, Traffic). I ran the in-house kubernetes clusters at a company for 3 years (so, no, no hosted kubernetes, we stood them up either on pretty naked VMs or bare metal).
A vast majority of users are non-technical. Manually checking for updates for software can seem like a trivial thing to someone who knows how to use a computer, but many folks don't know how to do these things, and would miss out on fixes and features if they aren't made aware of updates.

Also, it's an optional feature. You can just turn it off if it's not a benefit to you.
Because they're an authoritarian piece of shit.
Learn more – and get more – from Search
What value are you providing? Seems like something I could just do myself.
It’s still amazing to me that we use spreadsheets to handle big systems like the contact tracing system. I know the reasons – it’s probably the most effective, low-price, available at any time, but it is just so amazing that the same exact program I use to do simple calculation can also handle nation-scale contact tracing.
I wonder about the software though.

- What kind of BIOS does it have?
- Does it support coreboot?
- Can Intel Management Engine be disabled?

I was looking for something similar recently and have found StarBook MK V - https://starlabs.systems/pages/starbook.

It supports coreboot and has most of Intel Management Engine voided.

It's repairability looks good too:

> Open warranty. Laptops designed for open-source software need open warranties. Our 1-year limited warranty allows you to take your laptop apart, replace parts, install an upgrade, use any operating system and even your own firmware, all without voiding the warranty.
Realistically 99% of the corporate and consumer laptops I have been party to are built to order with the right amount of RAM in and never upgraded. Those of us who actually upgrade are an insignificant minority at this point or pulling them out of the ex corp recycling lifecycle.

Another point is stuff that is soldered in is a lot more reliable as a whole. Amazing how many old machines can be resurrected by reseating the RAM.

Really I'm on the fence. I'm sitting here on a 16Gb M1 MBA also.

Now what I really want to see is replaceable USB-C ports. Those have a massive repair and replacement risk over the normal lifetime of a laptop. Lenovo / Dell etc solder them directly to the motherboard. One bad knock and the whole thing goes in the trash. At least Apple stick them on a daughterboard.
Java has a poor type system, but not as poor as that of C++.
Should the database turn out to be accurate it will turn the world of medicine upside down in 5 years. Although I have to admit that perhaps for the first time in my life I'm legitimately afraid of a terrorist attack.
Isn't usb 4.0 pretty much thunderbolt specs wise?
And then further developed…
Bringing supply chain security features to the Go community
Same reason I want to wear a seatbelt even though I’m still restricted by the speed limit: demonstrably lower chances of not merely death but also sub-fatal harm.
“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)
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For the very thinnest of laptops it's probably difficult without soldering the chips on board, but many users would prefer a slightly thicker laptop where you can replace the RAM, SSD etc. I have never had a laptop where the thickness has been an issue and I have done a fair share of traveling while working in sales.

It's like a thoughtless race to make the thinnest laptop as if that is something that is useful. I bit like the megapixel race a few years ago. "We do it because it's difficult, but we can" kind of thing.

And then we have the aluminum body used on higher end laptops. Is that really better than high-end well designed plastic? When using my wife's Macbook Air M1 I suffer from the razor sharp edges while typing. (Maybe not related to it's thinness or aluminum body, but a big design issue). Has anyone noticed on the Macbook Air M1 the small vibrations it causes in the hands/palms when you slide them over the palmrest ever so slightly? Extremely annoying.
Has Google Completely Killed Health Related Blogs? (2019)
Observe a Service Not a Server
Ctrl+f for the first two questions
Google's Blogpost: https://blog.google/products/search/learn-more-and-get-more-...

Hacker News Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27928454
Too much scolding, too little substance. As soon as people relegate to taste, I tune out. Taste is a first world problem and highly subjective.
The trend is going that way again. 16:10/3:2 is becoming very common again and that's great! The extra screen real estate is very useful and the body can accomodate a bigger touchpad. 16:9 limts vertical space a little too much imo.
No idea about SDR, but you can receive them using standard DVB tuner cards/sticks. It is transmitted on its own PID in the MPEG transport stream (ETSI EN 300 472).
Feel good hearts and minds propaganda from the Chinese government.
It seems you didn't bother to read the article completely, because the author also goes into the reasoning of this problem:

> You might think this is nonsense but you have to remember, pkzip comes from the era of floppy disks. Reading an entire zip file's contents and writing out a brand new zip file could be an extremely slow process. In both cases, the ability to delete a file just by updating the central directory, or to add a file by reading the existing central directory, appending the new data, then writing a new central directory, is a desirable feature. This would be especially true if you had a zip file that spanned multiple floppy disks; something that was common in 1989. You'd like to be able to update a README.TXT in your zip file without having to re-write multiple floppies.
guideline: description of what should happen in a certain case and which may or may not be in any way related to actually happens.
Flu is still with us (2020)
"For your favourite people"

For some of my favourite people. There are many, maybe niche, personalities I can't see listed. I was hoping that I could put anyone's name in there, not just predefined ones.
> That being said, IMO there seems to be a growing public opinion that unvaccinated individuals are to blame for the increasing dominance of variants of concern (delta, gamma, etc).

This is no coincidence. The media has been directed to _not_ blame vaccines for ANYTHING, as doing so would negatively impact their narrative. It's well known that people vaccinated with leaky vaccines are the breeding ground for super-bugs, especially between they get their 1st and 2nd dose.

The problem? Since their immune system has been trained for only the spike protein, they will be at an immune disadvantage once the variant learns how to completely circumvent the vaccine-induced immune response (and trust me, that's where we're going with all these variants, it's no coincidence Pfizer is prepping the 3rd shot).

Once SARS-COV-2 has mutated enough to evade the current vaccine, we're going to have a resurgence of hospitalization and severe covid cases all around the world, but this time in VACCINATED people. Since their immune system has been primed by an incomplete vaccine, it will not generate multi-epitope antibodies any longer as it'll think "it got this handled" due to previous (incomplete) antibodies.

Of course, the media will blame the "unvaxxed", just as they started doing right now. More lockdowns will commence, more vaccines every few months (with compounding risks). Oh, did I mention that subsequent vaccines will be less effective the more you get vaccinated, because your body is already primed and it'll produce the antibodies from the 1st vaccines? Look into "Original Antigenic Sin" or OAS.
It does show that it’s not specific to China, contrary to what the previous person alleged.
Do not think only in terms of technical skills. Large companies operate via easily scaled algorithms for everything including promotions and hiring. The simplicity of these algorithms often means that they can be circumvented.
You want to get hired at Google. What do you do ? Spend 3 years doing side projects or spend 3 months befriending and impressing some engineers so you get a referral.

There maybe god level engineers who are stuck at junior levels because they simply don’t know how to fit into the gears of the hierarchy. If you want to get promoted your relationships and trust with the management chain is as important as the quality of your work.

Don’t buy into the official stories about systems and processes work. Learn how they actually do.
How to Create a Custom Popup with OptiMonk?
Hillwalkers should love the Comte de Buffon (2020)