skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd say that's because developers tend to have different values from other people, often valuing stability a bit less and "the right solution" a bit more.

You're hinting at what the original DevOps idea was trying to solve. The traditional view is that Developers value shipping features while Ops engineers value stability/uptime. It should be easy to see why these differing values cause friction between these two groups.

The way DevOps was trying to solve this was getting _management_ to assign incentives/values/goals that would apply to _ both_ groups. An example might be increasing user engagement.

Aligning these two groups should be the main takeaway. The reason why The Phoenix Project book was so successful was it perfectly described this adversarial relationship. I'd certainly seen the same thing playing out at several companies I'd worked for.
This reminds me of the cooling systems used by termites:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/science/termite-nest-vent...
Interesting.

On really hot days I’ve discovered that the most annoying thing is that the stuff I’m in contact with gets too hot. Sleeping ON a wet towel made all the difference.
> there is quite literally nothing you can accomplish with dynamic typing that you cannot accomplish with such a static type system.

Exactly, and all you need is Any

> a lot of people out there are writing code this way: just hack away until it works, and fix it if it ever crashes.

I'm willing to agree that Non-TDD hackers should go for static typing.
Of all the gibberish conspiracy theories about the downfall of society, this is the one thing that's definitely happening and needs to be addressed urgently.
It wasn't a theocracy but it also wasn't anywhere close to the scientific powerhouse it was historically.
Caveat - timestamp servers are a thing... Having your certificate cross-signed by a timestamp server ensures that even if the root certificate expires your application can continue to run provided that a timestamp server was in fact used at the moment of signing, and thusly vetted the certificate authority at that time. This allows for windows applications signed long before their cert expired can continue to run until a new signed version is deployed. This doesn't take into account certificate revocation.

Regardless, moving the date up is a good way to test.
Fool me once...or whatever Bush said.
The average real return of equities is 5.3%.

https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us-news/en/articles/medi...
I fear the same. I think doing what needs to be done to get people vaccinated is good, but whether or not it's still a net positive after alienating people like that remains to be seen.
> lower your quality of life significantly

I'm quite happy not owning a huge house, a Tesla and the latest iPhone.
A 32 inch LCD TV was $15,000 when I was in high school; today it is $79. Encyclopedia Britannica was $8000; today Wikipedia has more content and is more accurate and is instantly and universally accessible to everyone everywhere through a pocket-sized device obtainable for $100 and $20/month.
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> Since leaving Australia (and started living in Europe) I have come to the conclusion that Australia is not a "real" country - it is just a continent owned by corporate interests that happens to also have people living on it.

The irony of this is hilarious!
Seconded, we moved to RTP area in February and have fallen in love with the state already. The weather is much different than CA and we’re still adjusting (107 heat index today!) but it’s great actually getting rain and thunderstorms. Anecdotally but I’ve noticed a lot more California, Arizona and New York plates even since we’ve gotten here so it seems like the secret is getting out.
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Convertible desk so you can spend some time standing and give your butt a rest.
Moving a project to C++ named Modules
>and little immigration.

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
On my phone I use a browser, Firefox Focus, that wipes all saved state every time it's used. That means no cookies and the banners are always there fresh.

I didn't pick it specifically out of concern for tracking. I just tried it and found it nice to use, and it gives a little more peace of mind, so I made it the default

So like you, I browse with the banners because they are always there anyway and there's no point clicking them.

If a big one is in the way, I'm reluctant to take the easy route and pseudo-"agree" even knowing that all local state is wiped when I finish reading that page. Just because the insidious trackers might take it as pseudo-"consent" to use other tracking techniques that go beyond browser state.

But who am I kidding. Such trackers are unlikely to respect the law or the stated intentions of people browsing anyway.
Why does Facebook need a precision time server?
It's disappointing that the lack of self awareness translates so faithfully from the trail to HN.
There are at least three domains for solving distortion: Lenses, sensors, and software. This could be a significant breakthrough IF the economics of making curved sensors is better than the economics of making better lenses or using a higher resolution sensor to compensate for throwing away part of an image in correcting distortion in software.

There is a significant chance this will end up like the Foveon sensor: Better on paper but not better enough to overcome "let's throw more pixels and software at it."
Yeah I pay 700€ for a nice 2 person flat in Berlin, and groceries + all fixed costs come out to around 500€. SE salaries here are largely relatively low (entry between 40-50k), but you can still have a very relaxed life here in the sector.
> The ePD says consent is the only legal basis permitted for placing non essential cookies. Essential has a very narrow meaning that effectively covers a shopping basket or login cookie for features you elect to use. It doesn't cover analytics etc. No presumed consent, no opt-out, etc.

I think this area has always been a bit murky, actually. There's currently a review of the ePD taking place to unify it with the GDPR and clarify on points such as these. This is in the working group's memo from March 2021

> Audience measurement shall be limited to non-intrusive practices that are not likely to create a privacy risk for users

> The Council’s position creates a new exception for audience measurement as suggested by the Article 29 Working Party6. However, the derogation for audience measurement as proposed by the Council is worded too broadly and could lead to an overly broad interpretation of what could fall under the scope of the derogation and consequently lower the level of protection of end users’ terminals.

> Therefore, the EDPB stresses that the derogation for audience measurement should be limited to low level analytics necessary for the analysis of the performance of the service requested by the user and should be solely limited to providing statistics to the service operator, and must be put in place by the operator or their processors. Therefore, this processing operation cannot give rise, by itself or in combination with other tracking solutions, to any singling-out or any profiling of users by the provider or other data controllers. Moreover, the audience measurement service should not allow to collect navigation information related to users across distinct websites/applications and should include a user-friendly mechanism to opt-out from any data collection.

Source: https://edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2021-03/edpb_statement_0...

This seems a reasoned approach.
The cost of burning electricity in PoW mining is very visible. The opportunity cost of locking up coins in stake is hidden. However, the economic cost is still there. If a process truly provides a particular good or service for unconditionally lower costs then it will dominate the market. We shall see if that happens in crypto.
Not sure that applies to the entire state. Our municipal water keeps an eye on it and tries to source from places that don’t have high levels. None is better than some but that is a silly reason to not consider a place, especially with filtration being capable of removing it in the worse cases.
Sorry for my limited knowledge of GPT, but isn't it limited by the training data set, like all other models?
No one says you have to save 50-80% of your income. The savings rate in the US is 5-10% historically (ignore the 33% spike in 2020). If you're saving 10-20% you're well ahead

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
Hard in the "lots of elbow grease" sense of the word. Maybe also in the "unlikely for you, personally, to have the perseverance for" sense, for a given person.

Not hard as in conceptually difficult to implement.
In Ypres, Belgium there is still a measurable increase of copper in the soil. This was investigated by a Belgian university in 2008 [0].

More anecdotal evidence is that you'll often see old ammunition next to freshly plowed fields.

[0] https://www.ugent.be/bw/environment/en/research/orbit/ww1/ov...
I'm still unclear why they need the MAC on top of the GNSS reception. I can understand if it's just to provide holdover in event of GNSS signal loss, but they seem to be saying that it provides better precision when you've got both.
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> I think this is because of the short and fast phased nature of the TikTok content.

> they put together a short video that shows the gist of the subject

not to sound dismissive, but what I read here is "Tik Tok algorithm is better at exploiting people's attention span issues"
The baghdad battery is ~2000 years old, so it might be important to point this out.
I wonder if I'm the only one that hears "x is the new Silicon valley" and thinks "high housing prices and naive SEs everywhere, so somewhere to avoid."
I get a ‘We’re sorry but we do not support smaller screens’
From the article: "More accurate time keeping enables more advanced infrastructure management across our data centers, as well as faster performance of distributed databases."
Platform teams have become my bread and butter. They come with an interesting set of challenges.

One of the biggest of those, and the reason it can be a challenging position to be in, is that the person managing the team, coming up with the vision and roadmap, and even the architecture direction are often the same person. Few people around you are experts in building a good vision, strategy, or roadmap for a platform organization. It’s a skill set heavily overlapping with product strategy but also completely divergent. If you’re in this position, you’ll be doing several of these things poorly at any given point in time. (My current employer sits on the opposite side and has made sure we have a fully engaged product partner to do this well, which is a breath of fresh air. It's a much different working relationship than with a product partner in user-facing teams)

It’s a high leverage position and can provide a center of excellence for the rest of the organization to emulate. You tend to be very visible among developers in the org if you’re doing it well, and you drive a lot of cross-cutting architectural goals.

On the team building side, hiring people that thrive doing platform work can also be tough! It’s lower visibility, but provides a unique set of technical challenges and an opportunity for building technical breadth you find in few other roles.

Early on in your career can be a great time to explore this sort of work. Repetition is low, and you build a lot of tech chops through the work. Try to be somewhere where it seems like a first class citizen in the organization ecosystem with engagement from product, too.

And for what it's worth, I don't think your general goal should be to attempt to build over buy. Helping teams adopt and successfully use paid-for tools is a big part of the gig.
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This article pretends that there no longer undervalued assets to be found and that these guys just got lucky to be there when apparently everything was cheap. The article doesn’t consider leverage was really difficult then due to interest rates. In addition there are always undervalued assets to be bought.

But patience and discipline are required. The first million is the hardest and takes the longest to make.
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> taxis are basically a shit business

In efficient market ANY business must be a shit business. If you have high profits -- competitors should squeeze into your profits.

Same logic works for other low-margin businesses, e.g. restaurants, they just saturated their supply.
That's not what the parent said.

The parent did not see problem in reporting, only in selective reporting. He did not say Russia did not do it, just that we blame Russia for all of it.

The "war on terrorism" has its roots in US trying to get hold of the oil that happened to be present in those otherwise unremarkable countries.

For whatever reason US interest in "helping out" a country is correlated a lot with whether the country has oil or not.

Now the fallout of all this shady stuff that happened is a bunch of unhappy people that turned to terrorism with... drumrolls... help of people that were directly paid by US government.

Looking as a bystander it is really difficult to sympathize with US for doing all this and now crying foul when it turns on themselves or when other countries like Russia try to do similar.
I got my information from local lore in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz4ZMLsPzqM&ab_channel=Disco...

From ~ 8:43 in the video:
"The scariest thing about being on the road is that people whose cars break down have a risk of dying if they cannot fix it within 30 minutes. Otherwise, engine oil under the hood freezes in minutes. If people get stranded in these rural areas with no phone signal, they have no choice but to freeze to death within a couple of hours. That's why every driver carries a toolbox in his or her car."

He mentioned engine oil freezing a few times throughout that video.

Perhaps their information & strategies are outdated, or perhaps there's some specifics to Yakutsk that is different from your circumstances. The people there seem to recognize changes in temperature based on the visibility & other heuristics, where it's recognized that a 10 degree Fahrenheit difference in temperature is something to consider.

Perhaps you have some innovations that could help these people. The PLB seems like a good idea, though 30 minutes does not seem like enough time for a search/rescue effort. Either way, it's interesting to see how people adapt to their circumstances.

I've watched documentaries on Mt. Everest ascents where the climbers faced brutal cold, wind, & avalanches. Perhaps gear adapted to the conditions of the tundra could be an effective "survival pack" enabling people to survive for a few more hours should a car be stranded.
Imagine a future where looters drive through wastelands where heat waves killed off the entire human population, dead bodies rotting in the street, and the looters rummaging through whatever valuables they find, exchanging occasional gunfire with a survivor or rival clans.

That’s the climate changed world.
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I am currently working on a website where there will be a monthly competition and the winners will need to be paid. I am open to considering both cash payments as well as cryptocurrency. My customers may be based all over the world. A simple Google search did not turn up much useful information in the first 5 pages of search results.

Can the community recommend any service I can use to do this? Ideally the service would also take care of any tax implications if required by law.
Yes that and the more immediate absence in the particular interactions: a lot of people wouldn't be as hostile and disrespectful in person for fear of losing teeth.
Of course. This is reasonable advice that anyone apart from LA Times journalists knows and would teach their children.
lol, an arms length. That's like when people used to measure feet by using an actual foot.
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And that has been reported on a million times in Western media. Why would any of this be a reason not to report on Russian war crimes? There is no reason. It just distracts.
Ask yourself, why do you need a MySQL DB in the first place? If the service can get away with sqlite, use that. Alternatively, there is also rqlite (and I think another similar project) that allows for sqlite to be HA.
The article estimates the value of the house as 652k USD. That is about 470k GBP.

A working-class couple earning the average UK salary (31.5k GBP) could conceivably afford that with a 4.5x salary mortgage if they save 5-10 years for the deposit. It would be enough for a 5-bedroom house in most places in the UK outside London. It is not a guarantee and they could be facing other costs that prevent them from saving up, but it is also not necessarily out of reach.
Do you think that many readers patient and interested enough to reach this point in the article lack knowledge that there was no electricity in the ancient times?
The thing is, I have absolutely no idea how you can read my comment and think I'm defending the group or even that their goals were noble. It's bending the intepretation of what I said so much it hurts.

Maybe let me try again - terrorist group says their goal is X. Terrorist group fails to achieve goal X. Therefore, terrorists didn't "win", by their own definition of winning.

Is that less.....offensive?
It depends on where you are. Germany shut their attempts at ignoring all laws down quite quickly, their Uber Black service is just like any other cab, just with an app instead of a phone call.

They managed to drag our cab companies into the 21st century without even being active almost anywhere, so thanks for that ;)

But in South Africa? Taxis are extremely expensive cars that often look as if they’d fall apart any moment. Uber was/is cheaper, but I’d have taken them even otherwise. Most certainly a premium service.
As I understand, there's currently an update to the ePD working its way through which aims to clarify some of these points and unify it with the GDPR.

Here's what they say about analytics for example:

> Audience measurement shall be limited to non-intrusive practices that are not likely to create a privacy risk for users

> The Council’s position creates a new exception for audience measurement as suggested by the Article 29 Working Party6. However, the derogation for audience measurement as proposed by the Council is worded too broadly and could lead to an overly broad interpretation of what could fall under the scope of the derogation and consequently lower the level of protection of end users’ terminals.

> Therefore, the EDPB stresses that the derogation for audience measurement should be limited to low level analytics necessary for the analysis of the performance of the service requested by the user and should be solely limited to providing statistics to the service operator, and must be put in place by the operator or their processors. Therefore, this processing operation cannot give rise, by itself or in combination with other tracking solutions, to any singling-out or any profiling of users by the provider or other data controllers. Moreover, the audience measurement service should not allow to collect navigation information related to users across distinct websites/applications and should include a user-friendly mechanism to opt-out from any data collection.

https://edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2021-03/edpb_statement_0...
I work on a Platform team, but I'm wondering whether we should rename it. We do provide CI/CD to the rest of the company, and we provide an internal development platform.

Our biggest focus, though, is providing the platform upon which our customers build their apps. We are a Multi-Tenant SaaS development platform. So we offer the APIs and run "The Platform" in production, which includes a database, a task system, a programming language, etc...
There are probably a few reasons. One that I can imagine is that they use a distributed database somewhere that benefits from reliably tight wall clocks (in the style of Cloud Spanner or Cockroach).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wealth_distribution_...

About 1 in 10 families are worth more than a million in the US, 1 in 20 for 2 millions.

So essentially, in the US, millionaires are the 5%, the upper middle class rather than the "rich". Most millionaires don't fly in private jets, they can afford business class, but there is a good chance for you to seat next to one in economy class. Millionaires have budgets too, and in fact, that they are flying coach may be the reason why they are millionaires, they don't spend all their money on luxury.
It's strongly disputed that this device was built to produce electricity.
Consider this scenario (i back it up at the end with direct evidence)

You don't have any education due to whatever circumstance, bad family, abuse, shitty neighbourhood that dragged you down. Doesn't matter.

You have a kid(s) that you need to provide for, or you will fuck with their future.

Your minimum wage job is barely enough (minimum wage is just a label that doesn't provide the minimum to live off), you need to have a second one just to buy stuff for you kid.

Due to this saving are never going beyond $100 - no safety net for you.

If you loose a one of your jobs your family is at risk of getting kicked out of house, no water or electricity etc.

You have no options, but to get by day after day hopping the money you make will let your kids will do better then you.

There is no need for kidnap, torture, rape, and murder. All you need to do is to cut all the 'out options' for a man so that he is forced to work for you and not complain.

Sure this is not slavery with capital S, but one with a bit of imagination can see how hopeless situation can get for people with no other options. No fallbacks.

Evidence for this is current situation with workers shortage in US. People finally got a fallback option - The stimulus cheque. And guess fucking what? They did improved their lives, got better jobs and now they don't need minimum wage labour.

Why did all of those people not do it before the stimulus cheque? Why didn't they just find a better job before?
Chess is an abstract game in a tightly bounded universe. Economics (which includes monetary economics) is concerned with open systems in the real world. The two are not even remotely comparable.

You might benefit--expand your mind--by reading some classical economists' thoughts on such things.
plausible deniability is usually the biggest reason.

"The group was first identified in 2014 when it was backing pro-Russian separatists in the conflict in eastern Ukraine."

Same reason Russia didn't send their uniformed troops into Ukraine.
No, it is not reason to not report on Russian crimes.

I believe all crimes should be reported.

Just don't try to pin all blame on the other side when you share in it.
It's odd that so many are brainwashed to the point that if anyone who points out obvious collusion and conspiracy gets shouted down by the mob.
I’ve come to the conclusion that, while ideals about democracy and freedom sound nice, people are busy with their work and families and are not inclined to do or sacrifice much to secure those ideals unless there is a problem with their access to food, followed by other basic necessities. As long as the state provides those things, the public seems to be amenable to pretty much anything.

The pervasive corruption in every major institution of our society, which grows by the day, is a testament to this.
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