skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have mocked the anti-maskers and especially anti-vaxxers, but this crosses a line on the other end of the spectrum.

I would only support an actual ban on mobility if it were to quarantine the virus in one place, like if the Chinese had locked down Wuhan before it managed to get out.

That ship has sailed of course. It’s all over the damn place, so there is not much to be gained by travel bans.
> No man, this is what's wrong with Americans who believe in Trump.

Don't want to do a back and forth here, but do want to make it clear I don't "believe" in any president. I certainly didn't vote for Trump in either election. He can be right about some things even if he's almost universally wrong on policies according to my own views.

> "They" are not "trying to make" you "think" something. It's just the fucking news. Turn on France24 or Al Jazeera or BBC - you're not their audience. They're covering the fall of a new city in Afghanistan every day.

But they're covering it with an opinion "America should do something", "this is bad", etc. Which is fine to have I guess, but that's the same spirit that got us in Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place. Which is the point of my comment.
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Just based on the game, suckers are not really the problem. If you turn down interactions for example even the copycat (or weak copycat) looses against the all cheat. So it's not that the always coorporate creates the bad situation.
That's not really what you said, but sure.

>I would be more positively disposed to believing they're doing this for the greater good had they not circulated an internal memo calling the opposition to this the "screeching voices of minority". I will admit, I am extremely cynical when it comes to the topic of privacy and tech but I lean towards the belief that a company's internal communication is more honest about what their attitude is to these topics and features than the words of their PR department.

Your comment is worded in such a way that it represents the internal memo to be Apple's position, which is misleading to read.
This does not always work. In this case, it did not help.
>> McDonalds makes money leasing real estate, not serving burgers. The costs of labor are borne by the franchisees who aren't really in a position to pay for the significant development costs.

Therein lies the opportunity for McDonalds - license the automated kitchen to the franchisees on a subscription basis thus making it affordable (easier to substitute against labor) and creating a new revenue stream.

>> If we do ever see automated restaurants, I would bet good money they are designed from the ground up to be automated,

Something like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat except behind the 'vending machine' the rest of the production chain is fully automated.
Silicon Valley is the old Shenzhen? (Words from the future).

There's something about how they get things done there that is truly novel and not yet at full scale.
Wow, the comments on this article are strangely dismissive of Russian warcrimes for some reason.
>But guess which platform allows me to connect with that demographic the most. Yup, that's still TikTok. And what I learned on that platform changed my life for the better like a magic wand.

Can you elaborate further? This seems quite intense praise. What do you mean by "changed my life like a magic wand"? It's just hyperactive short videos, isn't it?
Sounds like a weird slacker version of the resource curse.
I see that KVM switches are for showing multiple PCs in same screen with hotkeys.

But the concept here is to still have multiple screens and multiple PCs, but control them with same mouse and keyboard.
Fortunately, it's pretty likely that many of those toxins won't be particularly harmful in low doses; but the stress isn't good, that's for sure.

A similar (worldwide) problem are all the maritime shipwrecks stemming from that period: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727761-600-why-wart... https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ticking-time-bomb-of-wwii-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP0U62oiBlM
> I'm wondering if there's any low-energy or green solutions to this.

The answer is "it depends". How your flat is designed will have an impact on what you can do. But if you are able and willing to do some house work, there is a lot you can have control over.

At the end of the day, it's all about how you can control humidity, the flow of hot and cold air and humidity. At your disposal, tools such as conductive materials, insulating materials, etc. Google "passive house" to see the concept and what these things use.

With that said. Heat pumps are incredibly efficient, and replacing your heater with a reversible air conditioner which you can then run in both summer and winter will do far more for your overall energy efficiency than anything else you can do.

Most of your energy consumption comes from winter-time heating. Start here for a good introduction to heat pumps and how they are so efficient: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto
> that can be thousands of kilometers long

"Most qanats in Iran run less than 5 km (3.1 mi), while some have been measured at ≈70 km (43 mi) in length near Kerman" --https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
On a side not, it's super annoying when you want to log in into your router, and google chrome auto completes / suggests it with 192.168.l.l, or ends up doing a google search for 192.168.0.1.
This hasn't been true for quite a long time. Signal works perfectly fine on a google-free phone.

Edit to clarify: Signal sets up a background connection instead, which still results in real-time notifications (the same way that Wire works on a phone without Google Play services)
> So it's a huge mess, where they've been in control more or less, but they've failed to make the transition into a local civilian state into a stable one.

I think Afghanistan has failed itself. U.S. put a trillion dollars and 20 years into it and it collapsed within a month (at best). At some point you admit failure and move on.

I think the rest of your messaging is confusing. Washington can't be trusted, but we shouldn't be the guarantor of world peace? Should I stay or should I go?

What do you want us to do? Stay in Afghanistan forever? Where and when does it end?
If you're interested in low tech, passive and energy efficient technologies, I recommend the

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Which part do you think is nonsense? As for dark room coordination, how should I know?

It wouldn't surprise me though given the CIA coup'd Australia back in the 70s over Pine Gap (their spy facility in Australia).
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This still exists officially btw, migrants need to be at a certain level in IELTS and have no criminal records to get a migrant visa. And if you get any criminal conviction during the visa, you can get deported or be blacklisted from getting citizenship down the line.
'So you have sun, good food, plenty of money and little immigration.'

Australia has one of the highest rates of inbound immigration in the world. Number 2 in the OECD actually, right after Luxembourg.

And I, like the overwhelming majority of Australians, consider high immigration intakes to be a good thing.

Check your sources.

[1] https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/migratio...

[2] https://data.oecd.org/migration/foreign-born-population.htm

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1133441/australia-attitu...
Concretely, we're able to offer a well-ranked website, and a community (forum & co.) of a few thousand active users.

The betting aspect is the affiliate commissions we have with 50 different bookmakers, which is the main source of our income, and traffic is mainly driven by tips, racecards and other content on our website.

Technically speaking, the system that powers it all is pretty flexible, constantly importing and aggregating data from multiple feeds, and if I had more time, could easily be expanded to build predictive models on top of it, but I don't know how marketable a potential feature is.

I know that it's a pretty competitive sector, so it's very possible there's someone interested in our market position, or just interested in entering the field by buying out an established player.
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> Is that actually desirable?

Looking at the rents I think their prospective clientele will be able to handle it no problem.

High time or monetary cost of travel which causes one to do more business (buy food, get a job, etc) more locally is a classic poverty trap though.
That's not at all what this article is saying. It is about Russian warcrimes, something that is clearly worth reporting on. Whether or not removing Qaddafi was a mistake has very little to do with whether BBC should be reporting about the Wagner group killing civilians and prisoners.
You not liking something (Afterpay, Klarna) has no bearing on whether or not it will be remembered in 5 years.
Very well put. Only a self-hating American could slap the label of nobility or idealism on a group that's founded on murdering women and children. In the name of drawing comparisons to how horrible and lacking in idealism America is, of course. Well we all commit violence. Well we're all tribal. No, we're not. You located the exact difference between us and them: The liberal culture was degraded by their expansion and our failure. Nothing more needs to be said to "liberals" who want to defend the ruthless barbarians of the Taliban.
That's not the point. The point is that it means a government must resort to violence and it may be unwilling to do so. Whereas if people don't have guns, then the government can be incredibly overpowering without having to step over the threshold of violence, which makes it more likely.
As an American I have heard many people romanticize Europe and compared it favorably to the USA in terms of politics, social progression, etc. Rose colored glasses, grass is always greener and all that.
Any chain can exist with a single miner on it, and anyone can be that miner. Users do not need the consent of miners to execute a hardfork and migrate to a new chain. Miners do not control or determine hard forks.

This has been demonstrated empirically numerous times in crypto history, most notably the moment that >80% of the hashrate openly supported a hardfork that subsequently failed because it did not have user support.

Your node software decides what fork you run on. If someone can push an update to your software without your consent, they can choose to put you on a fork and you may not even realize it happened. This is why most full node software (including bitcoin and Ethereum) does not support automatic updates.
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Those specific quotes (or rather direct translations of quotes) were said in regards to bad integration policy (by Stefan Löfven in 2015 and 2019).

There has probably been said things with similar sentiment in regards to the pandemic. But not those two specific ones.

Even though I agree OP is pushing a narrative a bit too much, your correction is also wrong. Since these were not said during the pandemic.
"It's 6,570 sq. feet and has 5 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. Fences and security cameras guard the property."
The world is complex. Climate change, pollution, water shortage, demographic fluctuation, power grabbing, economical crisis, etc. So many things can happen and change the rules of the game entirely. Not to mention all what we don't know.

The book anti-fragile have a very good bit on that.

The point is everything moves, nothing stays the same, good and bad runs go hand in hand.

But imagine if a dictator of the last century had access to Facebook social graph...

You gotta be careful when it's good, to not have it too bad when it's getting bad later
How do you double your income yearly?
Strangely enough, there seems to be a correlation between governments and people ignoring the effects of their actions on the climate, and the doom and gloom posts.

I wonder why.
With respects to climate, these wind passages are a terrific example of vernacular architecture [1]. We have a lot to learn from desert communities for contemporary building purposes ( -- not talking about Arcosanti and that idiocy). Another easy example is M'zab [2] located in the Algerian Sahara. Historically, their buildings were made with thermal envelopes created by thick walls (up to 2m in some places) and using local quarry stone. That's important because it keeps the interior temperature regulated throughout the day and season.

All that changed when concrete was imported to reduce thermal efficiency and the CO2 emissions related to producing concrete and the non-stop air conditioning / heating as a result. In stark contrast to the original designs going back millenia, it's always been laughable to me that countries like Saudi (King Abdullah Economic City), Egypt, or UAE think they can build way out into the desert and not suffer the repercussions of the sun's relentlessness in shiny glass and metal buildings.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernacular_architecture#Climat...
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%27zab
I understand completely. If I were to move to SV it would feel like a temporary move to make more money for a period of time and then get out.

The equation moving to Sweden obviously isn’t the same. If you don’t intend to use the benefits (like childcare) taxes are very high compared to if they are offset by benfits. As a parent tech worker I feel like I’m having more money out than I’m paying at the moment.

It’s pretty easy (as far as I’m aware) to get permanent residency in Sweden as a professional.
> As much as everyone likes to discredit traditional values, such savings and thrift, they win out in the long run.

Are those 'traditional values' still relevant in today's economy ?

For example:

> taking advantage of compounding interest.

In my savings account, interest is set at 0.01% for accounts with less than €100k in them, and for accounts with more than €100k the interest is -0.5%. Yes, that's negative interest.

So if you're saving up each year, you start losing money, not making it.
FIRE (financial independence retire early) is the new thing. If the millionaire next door isn't possible, what are all these FIRE people doing? Oh right, I know one that's planning to retire soon - in his 40s. Don't worry, that means one more good paying job will be available for someone else ;-)
Dublin is a small city - I was surprised myself for the first time when I was there I expected it to big european capital. In fact population of Dublin is ~500k and they even market it as "Dublin Town". From the city center most of places are available within 5km radius.
Windows awnings: very good at keeping the sun out of a flat. You might have to ask your building manager for permission to install them though.
I am not dismissive about any crime but if we should address any crime maybe we should start with our own crimes first.

Clean in front of your house first before you start complaining about neighbor's front yard.

Edit: I got -2 point for saying "lets not be hypocrites". I love it. :))) Surely this says something about state of some people sense of justice.
Sorry, fixed that!
Yep, exactly like this.
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Whether it's 2050, 2060, or 2070 for going carbon neutral does not actually matter that much. It's one of the main points people are haggling about right now (e.g. in Glasgow at the climate change conference in a few months). Which will feature a lot of #1 enabled by #2. How good or bad our models are right now is going to be of interest to historians only (i.e. #3). We'll dodge extinction but will likely deal with the aftermath of our past actions for centuries regardless. But getting to carbon neutral seems to get us to a stage where we might manage.

The point is that we can call a date for this at all at this point because things are happening that are going to make that a reality. That's because of technical breakthroughs (i.e. scenario #2) that mostly already happened. And more is on the way. So any conservative date policicans call, might end up moving to an earlier date when that happens.

Whether you consider nuclear/fusion part of this progress is a bit of a political topic. My point is that we'll be fine with or without that happening. The "we're doomed unless we bet everything on technology X" scenario is basically just a variant of #4.

Actually, we're just dealing with the logistical aftermath of the results of these technical breakthroughs not being ubiquitous yet. But technically there's no other reason to keep burning stuff (coal, wood, gas, peat, etc.) other than that we are dependent on burning lots of it with our existing and increasingly more expensive to operate infrastructure. It's cheaper to not do that already but it just takes time to get ourselves there. 30-40 years sounds about right for getting that done.

Fixing our infrastructure is much less dependent on new technical breakthroughs (e.g. fusion or nuclear) than it is on simply doing more of the (already profitable) things that are being done anyway. Whether it is building gigafactories for batteries, building off shore wind farms, or deploying solar; it all seems to have decent ROI and popular with investors. Unlocking more capital for this is actually becoming easy and uncontroversial. If you separate the moralism and rhetoric from the economics, even the most conservative climate change deniers would not mind some cheap solar on their roof, lower electricity bills, or a ridiculous electrical ford truck with low cost and operational expenses. Paying less for more is a great way to drive progress and incentivize the masses. That's not to say that further breakthroughs aren't needed. They are, and they will happen as well. And IMHO speed up the agenda here.
Yes exactly. Actually you just need one 64-bit hash to generate all the hashes needed by the Bloom filter. And the somewhat slow modulo operation can be replaced with multiply+shift (fastRange). See e.g. https://github.com/FastFilter/fastfilter_cpp/blob/master/src...

for (int i = 0; i < k; i++) {
data[fastRange(a, data.length)] |= getBit(a);
a += b;
}
It's true that people can live below their means and save enough to get rich but it's also true that forces conspires to make it difficult.

Housing market and the lack of public transportation almost assuredly made living more expensive than it has to be.
Modern day slavery is a system of economic bondage: one cannot change their job, improve their car (if they have one at all), live somewhere better, or other essential items in their lives because they can't afford the economic risk: one misstep and they have no backup, cascading poverty.
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EF is slow, IMX. But I think it mainly has to do with the fact that it's an ORM, and since the application un-marshals to objects and marshals back to the data store more or less one object at a time, you lose set-based operations. If you're interacting with a lot of discrete, unrelated objects, that gets really inefficient. You can easily end up with the dreaded "row by agonizing row" pattern:

UPDATE Student SET Grade = '04' WHERE StudentId = '12345'
UPDATE Student SET Grade = '04' WHERE StudentId = '12346'
UPDATE Student SET Grade = '04' WHERE StudentId = '12347'
UPDATE Student SET Grade = '04' WHERE StudentId = '12348'
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UPDATE Student SET Grade = '04' WHERE StudentId = '12349'

Instead of:

UPDATE Student SET Grade = '04' WHERE StudentId IN ('12345','12346','12347','12348', ...., '12349')
They appear to all be cynical takes. :)

I think one way of reading the comment above is that it's the effect of business incentives / Conway's law on various approaches to staffing the non-developer parts of your organization:

- DevOps is incentivized to be an extension of the dev team and get stuff into production, i.e., in the average company hiring "DevOps," the engineers operating production report up into existing dev management. Therefore you get "scripts and hacks" because you're never given the mandate to do anything better, and you're evaluated on how much you can manage to ship things to prod without building separate specialties, not how well you ship it to prod.

- SRE is incentivized to demonstrate good SRE practices and their value to the business. Incident response is a lot more visible than incident prevention. Picking an observabiity vendor who can get you nice graphs is a lot more visible than spending months making the right graphs. You're evaluated on how much you improve "reliability," which means you need to figure out how to measure it (and display it) in the first place, but it's not clear your measurement is what the broader business would measure.

- Platform engineering is incentivized to build up a well-defined platform and have their own products/services that are used internally. They are a development team of their own. So their value is most visible when those products exist and are widely used, and a little more cynically, when those products aren't unmodified vendor or OSS products. You're evaluated on the number of people using your product and how infrequently the rest of the company says "I'm just going to run this myself, give me an AWS account."

Any of these disciplines can be done well with strong management support, by which I mean when management actually cares about the long-term problem of running production well and can make informed decisions about how to staff that problem. (For myself, for what it's worth, I'm in a platform engineering organization but my current role is 80% to make it easier for people to use OSS and to reduce our deltas and 20% incident prevention.) But when incentives get disconnected from the business and the inertia is to keep delivering what people thought you should have delivered in the past, the disciplines break down in different ways.
Thank god the new bombs are envirinmental friendly. I wonder why no one talks about them (state secrets ?). /s
What's cynical about it? If the platform team is on the way it becomes a problem. And going to be on-call is way to go if you want to have actual ownership, or it becomes to same dev and ops people split.

There is not an exact line. Platform team can easily abstract (i.e) Kubernetes deployment infrastructure, but not everything else that you might be needing.
Did you miss the reference to John Boggle? Did he recommended to put the majority of your assets in a savings account?
Australian tech workers, get out get out get out get out…

I can’t stress this enough. The Australian tech industry is a failing joke. You are being grossly underpaid. The country _is_ an authoritarian surveillance state and has been for years and years. The frog boiled and died years ago. Peace out, and find somewhere that will treat you well.
That is literally being dismissive of warcrimes anyone else commits.
Well, it's not that linear.

While renaissance started to steamroll west into the scientific future while the world of Islam stagnated, the story of Iran is far more complex than that of a continuous medieval theocracy which the brief statement above suggests (intended or not).

Before 1979 coup Iran was a more or less secular modern state and not a theocracy.

But it was destablized before that by the 1959 coup backed by UK and US interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran