skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this. I've been using cvs as my source control system of choice as a solo developer on my own projects for years and haven't switched to anything newer. I use git at work, but it's not worth the hassle for me at home. The workflow with cvs for me is basically "cvs update" (in case I need to know what changed) and "cvs commit". I rarely use branches. I religiously make one small-ish fix per commit and at least compile it, though I always run smaller things.

If I switched to working with a team I'd definitely use git. But for just me, cvs is all I really need. The most complicated thing I do is probably tag a release or revert to a previous revision of something, which is pretty rare.
Why would this spoil the milk? Why is it called "sponging"? The middle class safety net (something I grew up without) is one of the greatest sources of freedom and investment generally available. Multi generational homes and properties are historically pretty normal and a net family positive for holding onto wealth.

For example:
https://www.middleclasspaas.com/
Everyone is not perfectly OK with training language models on copyrighted text. It's just that evilCorps do it anyways, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. I can't do anything. At best, I could get a Twitter account and complain to the ether. The copyright holders can't do anything against the might evilCorps, but that doesn't make them okay with it. The fact you believe this is just sad, and exactly what evilCorps want from you.

This goes beyond fair use or satirical/comedic effect. They are training their models to output text in the style of the authors being absorbed. The style of is exactly the artistic effect that is being copyrighted.
The true (accurate/correct) multi-dimensional causality is unknown.
> Harvard is racist against non-asians

Ironically, by the classical definition, the reverse is true.
Generally people would not call that screenshot "adult".
I'm afraid to use this for work emails because my normal emails already too often get caught in customers' shitty corporate antispam filters :(
I hope they're just something new and not actually a replacement, because there's nothing like that chest-filling "whump" of a mortar going off to make you feel alive.
The allegations against Jackson surfaced while he was still very famous so you could argue it’s already been “priced in”, for want of a better phrase.
Facebook could be right ;)

Just because some info appears on a the CDC page doesn't mean it can't be erroneous.

It is not as though health authorities have always been correct on every thing, have they?
Slate – A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors
Claiming 'virtue signaling' always feels like a presumption of bad faith by the claimant.
Glad it's not just me -- I felt like the larger eink screen + physical keyboard hit a really nice sweet spot for an ereader tablet and nothing else I've tried has quite dialed it in the same.
As long as the time you spend thinking about it or doing it does not subtract from time spent talking to potential customers and solving the problems they will pay to get solved, yeah, do it..
You're being a bit obtuse or maybe you just wanted to show off your knowledge a bit. I said basically the same, "it's a process... with namespaces and cgroups." If they can answer that and know what that means, I'm good and I go to my other interview questions. I'm not hiring a Docker developer or someone who needs to know the internals of Linux. I'm hiring SREs who manage and oversee Docker and Kubernetes production environments.
> nothing could convince you of the link between extreme weather becoming common and global warming?

I don't doubt it. But extreme weather is hardly a new phenomenon.
Not huge, if these numbers hold up. On paper this for sure looks like a really competitive technology, especially for grid storage and solar backup kind of applications. But we'll see.
The modern equivalent is much less violent but it's still very aggressively union busting by disrupting organization.
> what would cheating even mean?

This is such a rudimentary question in game development that I don’t know how you can’t answer it. Mainstream server authoritative design has been a thing since 1999, and probably even longer when you look beyond Quakeworld.

All it takes is a few malformed packets from a script kiddie and then you realize you have to do distance checking and other anti-cheat functionality.

“Cheating” in gamedev doesn’t specifically mean there is a win scenario and you need to make sure people don’t shortcut that and play unfairly.

It means in this case that someone can’t connect to your server and transport their plane to another nearby player and wave it around in their flight path to annoy others while they spam chat to grief people for fun and to produce a YouTube video.

And those checks are pretty simple.
China’s Sputnik Moment?
>It's like your real estate agent knocking down a few walls of your home before selling it for half price.

Not really, because there's an extenuating circumstance that forced them to do it (ie. DTCC raising deposit requirements).
Hm? This is a computer that doesn't have a lower-power mode when you're not using it.
Comedies usually reward cynicism. Then came ‘Ted Lasso.’
To be fair, it's not quite as clear cut as that, either. There are people in the upper incomes with a $500,000 mortgage and suddenly no jobs to pay it.
Interesting I wasn't aware of the borg discount pricing, that may change my default position. I now know of three pricing schemes, basic, ZFS, and borg, the last two of which don't seem to be listed anywhere on the site. Got any other products hiding behind my ignorance? :)

If OpenZFS supported some kind of "virtual zpool" feature (I guess it doesn't exist yet) that you could provision out of your main ZFS infrastructure and hand off to the customer, would that be useful to reduce the resource overhead related to offering ZFS directly?
Attitude?! Why I never …

It’s all about the orientation, #headduck
We are seeing a bunch of folks moving away from Postgres over to MySQL + Vitess for this reason. Including a major website that we will be able to talk about soon.
Two rather old autobiographies might be interesting to you:

"Slide Rule" by Nevil Shute [0]

A large part of this recounts the development of the R100 airship in Britain.

"Jet: The Story of a Pioneer" by Frank Whittle [1]

A substantial part of this is about the invention of the Jet engine.

Obviously they're both focused on the individual but hopefully that's ok.

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[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107298.Slide_Rule

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29565586-jet
There are different compressive strength levels available in expanded polystyrene. The stuff under our foundation for example has a compressive strength of 150 kPa. That's over 15 t/m² (>3000 pounds/sqft in medieval units).
I was curious, and just in case anyone else was as well, the vote was 1,798 against unionizing, 738 in favor.
The majority of chefs from countries bordering the Mediterranean would laugh at your claim that extra virgin olive oil is not suitable for frying. Obviously you shouldn't go using your fancy $100 bottle for deep frying, but mostly because it would be a waste of money, and because frying dulls the flavor. You want to save the really flavorful and expensive oils for salads and as a finishing touch.

I've been pan frying eggs, onions, pork chops, chicken, potatoes, fish, basically anything interchangeably in extra virgin olive oil and butter/ghee for decades. There is certainly a flavor difference, but that's because the olive oil is much milder in flavor than butter, and the process of frying dulls the flavor of the olive oil, as mentioned.

I - along with millions of people in countries bordering the Mediterranean - enjoy the flavor of food cooked in olive oil.

Adam Ragusea did a great video on the topic, with cited sources. I highly recommend watching it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_aFHrzSBrM

Sources:

https://actascientific.com/ASNH/pdf/ASNH-02-0083.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02786...

https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/24/8/1555/htm

Including this famous chef using it for deep frying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZSPDYAUn7E

Additional sources:

https://www.nutritionadvance.com/cooking-with-olive-oil-good...

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/can-you-fry-with-olive-oil

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24360472/

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/healthiest-oil-for-deep...

The bottom line is that extra virgin olive oil is more heat stable than other cooking oils with higher smoke points. Just don't use it to sear steaks or something.

So much of the conventional wisdom around cooking is not based on scientific fact, but rather on unsubstantiated observations and gut feelings. The viability of extra virgin olive oil for cooking is one of those pieces of faulty conventional wisdom, the need to sear steaks to "seal in the juices" used to be another big one, until we finally got the record set straight.
Part of the issue is that it is difficult to come up with problems worth solving.

I think Joel and Fogcreek is a great example. He started out with the premis that you don't need an idea for a successful software company, you just need to find great devs and create the best working conditions and then success would come. This was a novel idea at the time since Apple was the only FAANG that even existed and this was their "beleaguered" period. As should come as no surprise to anybody, they ended up creating...bug tracking tools and a kanban board, albeit quite good ones.

Another thing that helps, since the problem is not your own but somebody elses, you don't get bogged down trying to figure out the best way to solve it for yourself, you just solve it for somebody else without all the emotional attachment to the problem. This lets you instead be emotionally attached to the process.

Point being, I think you're selling yourself short.
Better comparison would be R. Kelly who, like Cosby, was actually convicted of what he was accused of, and did end up having a lot of radio stations (and other media contexts) stop using his music. Not all, but a good number.
Look through the years, even if recently right wing took over your major domestic terrorists are left wing. Like everywhere.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-u...

Islamic terrorists who want to push a caliphate want Arabic socialism like other African countries already enjoy nowadays with not much economical success or individual freedom. The same could you see in Spanish ETA who identified themselves as left wing “liberation” army that cost thousand of deaths and hundreds of thousands exiled. And I could continue for hours: even if exceptionally you may find right wing organizations, which do exist, these are not the majority.

And I could continue with the rest of things you said but I think refuting your main points is enough and I don’t want to speak more about politics. I made
Some observations which some people seem to not share. I don’t care about the negative vote mafia organized to promote topics and ideas on HN, it happens with everything, to promote blogs, programming languages, services, functional programming…

Some people like to think by themselves and make their own analysis of the situation rather than buy the influencer opinion du jour.

This report is the typical lobby crap we see every single day in Europe, and that happens on almost any topic, then it will be later used to make a headline on a news paper connected to a political party related to the ones who financed them. That’s how politics works on Brussels recently and how some ideas are pushed to the mass, and to be honest some people is just too tired of such constant manipulation, independently of the contents or it’s accuracy which is a topic I don’t want to discuss much (in spite of our initial encounter).

I hope I made my point clear.
Technically, it could be implemented if the subreaper process were getting notified somehow of new processes being reparented to it. Alas, subreapers don't get such notifications.

Also, you need some protection against children who do "kill(-getpid(), SIGKILL)" before the exit.
Sounds like some sort of reverse psychology trick by Halliburton.

"Oh, I certainly hope no terrorists come, and pump oil directly under our facilities!"

"Yes, that would truly be a devastating blow!"

"We can only hope that no hostile actors from oil-rich nations learn about our critical vulnerability to this clever, effective tactic!"
The thing that gets me about “virtue signalling” is this built-in assumption that no one does anything earnestly, and that every action is performed according to how it’ll be received.

I just don’t believe that’s how the vast majority of people live their lives. OP did what they did because the status quo made them uncomfortable. People don’t have to be soldiers in a mythical cultural war, sometimes they’re just people. Whenever anyone invokes “virtual signalling” I think they’re inadvertently explaining a lot more of their own world view than they are anyone else’s.
I remember using sccs in the '80s.
Emergency powers have no such tendency. There is a risk of that happening, but in reality the tendency is that emergency powers exercised in the USA are routinely reined in, often voluntarily by the agency wielding those powers. That is because the use of emergency powers is almost always at the local level, during a short-term local emergency.

We literally watched state and local government scale back their own application of emergency powers (in response to COVID) over the past few weeks.

I lived through 9/11 -- in fact I was in Lower Manhattan that very morning. I know all about the abuses of power that followed, but the fact is that many of those abuses were voted on by Congress and some have been renewed with one vote after another. It is a complete red herring.

The level of distrust in the government these days goes well beyond what the founders had in mind -- as evidenced by the fact that they created a government with an Executive, and gave the Executive powers that can clearly be executed without first consulting Congress or the Courts.
> "over half of all COVID hospitalizations appeared to be catching COVID in the hospital itself"

That isn't factual.

Half of COVID hospitalizations were diagnosed with COVID after admission.

The shitty newspaper article then spread the impression that people were going into the hospital for a broken leg and contracting COVID and counted as COVID hospitalizations with exactly zero proof.

The alternative explanation is that people show up at the hospital with strokes and heart attacks and are tested and show COVID positive and probably really are COVID hospital admissions due to COVID-caused thrombosis Particularly since thrombosis affects more younger people who are now making up the majority of unvaccinated hospital admissions. 40 year olds who get the sniffles and think its just a cold, then throw a clot and get admitted or just die has been happening from the very start of this.

Not even going to waste my time on your WhatAboutTheSwissHospitalDataism, I have work to do and don't have hours to spend today to figure out why you're wrong.
audio dithering?
The fact that so many of the bandwagoners didn't understand what a margin call is proves that Robinhood was right to save them from themselves.
I can lend some color to that. Blizzard created a modestly successful MOBA to compete with League of Legends and it just couldn’t make a dent in LoL’s Asia numbers, so they slowly put the game into maintenance mode (effectively given up on it).

Diablo Immortal is them outsourcing development of a flagship franchise to a Chinese company Netease to develop a mobile version. Netease mobile games are really big overseas. That to me is similar to Facebook outsourcing to Bytedance to make a social network with China in mind first. There’s a world of difference between having an office China and literally handing over your IP to a Chinese company. It’s a big deal.

It’s not they don’t want American’s money, everything adds to the bottom line, but China is showing itself to be bigger markets for video games (just as Hollywood is seeing that they are becoming a bigger market for movies).

It’s a very real thing, and forward decisions are being heavily influenced with that market in mind first and foremost.

Edit:

To put a final stamp on my main point, if the Chinese people were to be offended by these allegations, I can promise you Blizzard would turn the world over and rectify it over night. The same way they got John Cena to apologize in Mandarin to not fuck with the Fast and Furious release in China.

We matter very little at this point to these industries.
This seems like just another "America bad" post. When's the last time you walked the streets of Berlin at night? People sleeping on the streets all over.

Berlin models homelessness efforts on US program: https://www.german-times.com/with-the-us-as-a-role-model-ber...

Berlin opens hostel for homeless (NOT "me" space): https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/berlin-hostel-help...
Cars are also active devices with comparatively rapid cycle times that can spend a little energy to heat the batteries. EV batteries don't need to stay cold for very long, basically.

Note that, contra the way it's often explained, cold batteries lose capacity, not energy. If you take a full battery and put it in the freezer, you'll be unable to drain the full charge but it'll come back when it warms up. Think about it: the back of an envelope will show you that if that energy were actually being "lost" from a cold battery, then the battery must actually be very, very hot, because the energy would have had to go somewhere.
Data mesh case studies: https://medium.com/intuit-engineering/intuits-data-mesh-stra... & https://towardsdatascience.com/from-0-to-data-mesh-kolibri-g...
Pretty interesting, especially when he shows the buoys on the east cost that registered the quake & the plate overlay to show why they felt the quake (because they were on the the other edge of the plate).

Kind of amazing he he managed to put up a 1hr+ video so soon after the quake, ~1.5 hours or so.

Also a bit confusing why the comment posting this video is (as of my comment) getting downvoted? Is this youtuber not considered credible on the topic?
I don't think the downvoting is linked to opinions, it's linked to facts. Why should "specific industry advice" be preferred over working code? That sounds dogmatic to me.

> My relevant background here is in building multiplayer server software where a minimum of 1000 concurrent players is a required goal metric.

They are handling 10k concurrent players with low resources usage.
Rent seeking is something totally different than collecting rent on a leased house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
Everyone has different use cases, but moving to a marketplace with a variety of cell types & corresponding tradeoffs (high range/moderate charge rate vs moderate range/high charge rate, etc) would be great.

Less temperature sensitivity to the range & charge rate would be a huge win.

Otherwise, personally charge rate hasn't been much of a problem because I'm not a big road tripper & have a charger at home.

300mi+ battery means I can drive 2 hours to see my parents & back 2 hours without charging, or drive down 4 hours to see my sister.. which means I'm going to be stopping along the way anyway, and charge 100mi+ while in the rest stop using the restroom, or more if I get a coffee or lunch.

In everyday driving, charge at home off-peak starting 11pm, then its basically irrelevant whether I can unplug at 11:30pm vs 3am.

Charging an EV takes longer, but generally its either at home or at a place you are already doing something else - shopping at Target, getting a coffee at Starbucks, making a pit stop on the highway, etc. Few regular EV drivers just sit in their car for 20min staring into space while they charge.
I think that article is accurate. Those are 2014 numbers, which is when Germany took 1 million of refugees, which are counted as "homeless" since they have no "home".

Refugees were initially moved into refugee camps, so you didn't see them in cities, and then they were and still are being slowly integrated.

Refugee camps are no place to for people to live, but if you are escaping from a war zone, they are better than staying in the war zone.

Germany does provide (1) housing and (2) a living way to unemployed inhabitants without unemployment benefits, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept#Hartz_IV

Requesting it isn't hard. I know many highly educated people that suddenly had no income or were evicted, e.g., due to loosing all "student benefits" right the same day they finished university, including housing, being evicted a couple of days later. They got Hartz IV benefits in a matter of hours, which paid for an apartment and gave them 400 EUR or so per month for food and basic stuff (you can live an ok-ish life with that if housing is covered).

But most homeless I saw in the streets in Germany, which you can actually just go and talk to, didn't want to receive any help from the state, had psychological problems, didn't want to receive medical attention, etc.

Due to how the German system for this works, it is actually super hard to help these people. Still, in a sense, the people that are homeless in Germany, is because at least in some way, they want to. Since not being homeless - with the exception of refugees - is as easy as going by an office, signing a sheet of paper, and the government pays for your rent, heating, water, electricity, internet, clothes, work training, healthcare and on top gives you 400 EUR that you can spend however you want (food, or just booze, etc.).

For the refugees... Germany is tight on housing, and new developments are slow, so being 1 million houses short (for 1% of the population), and then taking 1 million refugees on top, their access to housing is improving very slowly. I'd say they are free to apply for asylum somewhere else, but pretty much everywhere else the conditions are much worse for them.

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For context, relative to Germany's population, the 1 million of refugees Germany took per capita would be similar to the US taking 4-5 million refugees, in a very short period of time. IIRC, the US took less than 20k refugees from a war-zone they are very responsible for. At least they are consistent: they don't care about their homeless, and they don't care about the homeless they create everywhere else in the world. Then they are surprised when the homeless that end up growing up in ISIS camps end up flying planes into their skyscrapers.
Nothing was said about cycle performance beyond an improvement relative to other sodium batteries. Which suggests it’s at best similar to lithium ion, and possibly still falling behind.
> Blizzrd hasn't had a significant original release in 10+ years

A quick search tells me that Overwatch has 6M players, which seems significant.
you also cannot work for a company without working for said company (and their management)

Are they also a monopoly?
The house has probably appreciated in the past year so at least there’s that hedge.

I thought there was federal relief coming for landlords.
Strongly Agree
I have an Oasis and was confused about this cause I knew mine was not current.

Turns out I'm fine, there are 3 generations of Oasis:
The original 6" with the weird battery in the cover, then the 7", and now the 7" w/color temp adjustment

I've wanted a good excuse to get the latest one for a while but I guess this isn't it.

The 3G has never been critical for me but it's always nice enough to have that I've paid for it on various models over the last 11 years. It can save a lot of hassle when traveling, even if there's a strange Wifi network you could use. A lot of the time the security support on the Kindle has been a bit behind the times and it'd be tricky to get on some networks.