skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Socially, who makes it to the top hundred matters a lot. We can know only so many people by name: Nobel awardees, composers like Bach and Dvořák.

Our own brain capacity for knowledge makes us concentrate on the top 100s. While the 100k top scientists do matter scientifically, they do not matter culturally.
It’s not that conflicts magically disappear if you use MVCC. In some cases, PostgreSQL has to rollback transactions whereas a 2PL-based system would schedule the same transactions just fine. Often, those failures are reported ad “serialization errors”, but the practical result is the same as if a deadlock had occurred. And Postgres deadlocks as well.
You're wrong, and I'll try to explain why you are wrong.

> you don't need to worry about storage capacity until you already have the vast majority of your energy met by renewables

This, on the other hand is true.

There are places where incentives (planned or accidental) make batteries a useful, profitable thing to do right now, but only in very small numbers.

For example, some gas peaker plants installed batteries because it let them respond faster to market changes and so earn more money. Does this mean batteries are required for gas peakers? No obviously not.

We need some kind of storage, at a fairly large scale to meet the final 20% or so of going 100% renewable. My bet is green hydrogen is going to be the winner here. We'll also have a bunch of lithium batteries connected to the grid (EVs etc.) because they're useful for other things and will help out in getting to 100% if they have some grid intelligence.

But, nowhere in the world are we at a place where installing solar and/or wind is anywhere near maxed out. And when we are, the fix will not be batteries but things like grid interconnects, demand response, targeted efficiency improvements and a hundred other boring technologies that we already understand.

It's generally cheaper to build more renewables and just find a use for the excess than it is to build batteries.

This is why people who don't like renewables have consistently, for years now, pretended to think that you need to install exactly enough renewables to get 100% of your needs and then use as much lithium batteries as you need to shift that power from the time it was produced to the time it is needed.

This is stupid, and at least some of them know it is stupid and are just saying it for effect.

It is not true, and the numbers they come up with using this model are meaningless.
Core classes should be cut in Half at least. University has become grossly over priced, because the government is picking up the tab, which has incentivized universities to add as many costs and classes as possible.
Like others have said, I've accepted that email will never be secure, so I swapped from PM to Migadu just to get away from having to use that annoying bridge, as well as the fact they have no restrictions on the amount of domains and users you can have - just the amount of emails you send/receive.
olimex has boxes for them:
https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/BOXES/
You don’t because I’ve never said anything about my teaching. Your conclusions are not supported by the available evidence.

You’ve obviously not taught much in the classroom. Why is it so obvious? Consider the possibility that your thinking on this issue is clouded by your past.
> are the Nordics or most of Europe socialist?

Absolutely not. They are primarily market based with a relatively large welfare state. How is that even a question?
Some downsides of trades I have not seen mentioned yet are that many of them are hard on the body and/or somewhat risky. So you don't have as long a useful career as in most professions. My dad was a carpenter and I worked with him a few summers when I was young. He asked me how many 50-year-old roofers I had seen during those summers. A friend of his told me there is a reason you never see old welders and painters.
Samsung is a $500B dollar company, Google is a trillion dollar company. I think they can manage.

Everybody else can ride (Android) Google's coat tails.
Haha, atlassian will not go away. Since it’s not being sold to most people actually using it.

They just sell their feature list to CEO’s and Product Manager/Scrum Lords, and suddenly Atlassian is an absolute requirement.
It seems the warrant went through Interpol; I'm not sure local authorities need to sign this off.

EDIT: They actually clarify this in their statement[0], the crime must be valid under Swiss law.

[0] https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/
"This makes sense, so of course nothing else does it this way." :)
At the time (back in february or so) it was to use, before a change was made to use a built version of the library. Pip did not have prebuilt wheels at first. It is just to build as you said _now_.

There were several threads started about the situation at the time and I was also affected by it.

Ultimately the problem is really the shitshow that is Python packaging, but I'm not winning that battle at work anytime soon. There aren't really great replacements for Ansible out there.

That's not the only issue, however, as switching to Rust removed support for a number of niche platforms. pyca/cryptography is also a dependency for OpenWrt which runs on a number of these now-deprecated platforms.
US-built databases a potential tool of Taliban repression
Every phenomenon has both sides. While many people grew obese, there are still significant outliers among us who chug beer, consume current obesogenic diet and stay slim.

Is it genetics? Is it gut microbiota? (E.g. genetics of other species?)
> ...I know it is popular to say that we can just cut the military.

The US dollar is whatever the US military says it is.

This system is not right, moral, proper, ethical, just, or in any other way virtuous.

It just is.

Philip & Alexander, Genghis Khan, Augustus, Pax-Brittanica, ad nauseam. They all worked the same.

Empires consume humans to feed growth. Grow or die. Money is a shared hallucination.

While the USA's military industrial complex is an unqualified evil, the alternative is worse. No empire means chaos, world war, all against all.

Just a guess.
Most people don't have the time freedom to be able to do this. The opportunity cost would be too high, as they need to work to eat, and sitting in a class isn't work.
It isn't necessarily just the educational system that's leaving this impression, it is a culture at large, for example on social media, and in various fields including the arts. Parents can influence all they want but the outside world needs to support these influences to an extent or they fall flat.
PM was a hoax from the start. Just talk to the Lavabit guy Ladar Levison or look up Crypto AG.
Wanting to live forever is the essence of narcissism. It's to say: "the world never has enough of meeeee".

I'm actually a quite malicious person ...but commenting on HN doesn't rank high in my list of Antisocial behaviors :P
I find this is why the trades work best under a competent contractor who, while not an expert in all fields, brings together the necessary skills and experience to avoid gap defects.
Couldn't that result in much slower reads when the head is far away from the swap when it needs to read (multiple times)?
They clearly changed it because of the amount of backlash they got and because so many people called that statement deceptive. Just because it's true doesn't mean it's smart to say it and them removing the statement is absolutely reasonable.
This is basically the problem of organizing knowledge and setting up rules to easily interface with it through computational systems. There was an interesting article that discussed the topic some time ago, but can't find it right now.

Neither hierarchical organization nor tags nor databases work. You need a mix of everything, and you need to make it nice enough for the user to be able to select the best option at the right time. Think about how you think and access memories. There are a ton of ways you do it, not only hierarchically or "table-based".

This could also be likened to the problem of categorization that meta-rationalists like to talk about so much. Basically, that (at least in human terms) no categorization works under all possible contexts.

We are not gods, so it should be obvious that there's no possible organization of knowledge that makes it all perfectly available. It can't be frictionless, instantaneous and complete at the same time. Then, it should be obvious that if we want to make access to information as effective as possible, multiple methods need to be combined.

In fact, a lot of the technology that has been most "revolutionary", has been technology that improved the way we access certain types of information. Graphical interfaces, databases, spreadsheets, hyperlinks, google search, etc. We have also used calendars, lists, schedules, diagrams, button panels, etc., long before computers were a reality.

There are still a few steps left. As we attempt to tackle even more and more complex systems, we are pushed to look for new ways to manage all that.
Is StackOverflow a traditional enterprise for you? I don't think they have huge travel expenses...
License costs are usually per-core, not per-server. It's the same whether you have a single large server or multiple small ones.
I think it's more the same repressive culture we've always been in, but new centers of power have emerged in it. Different people, as a result, are now feeling what was always there.

You could always be fired for doing something embarrassing to your boss (witness the example of the BLM protester who worked at a library and shared a book-burning video). But the "woke" now have enough social / economic clout to cause a big enough stir to shift the window on what's embarrassing to a boss. Whereas in the past, for example, inappropriate activity with a subordinate was swept under the rug "for the good of the corporation" (but having the wrong hairstyle could get you fired), now enough people agree such rug-sweeping shall no longer be tolerated (while hairstyle standards were probably racist) and corporations have reacted to new incentives.
> Social Security lends the government a trillion dollars.

This is a nonsense step. There is no meaning to the social security lending the government any money, as social security is the government

> Bob lends the government a trillion dollars. Bob sells this loan on the public market. Social Security happens to be the organization that buys that loan from Bob.

This scenario is just "The government buys back some of its debt, reducing its outstanding debt." The "Social Security" part is just a random detail that doesn't add anything.

(BTW, Social Security doesn't actually do this. They hold special bonds that are not the same ones available to the public.)
This is so true. It also occurs across accounts with regular submissions. I've posted items that got 1-3 points. Then someone else posts the same item a few days later and it gets 100+. (This has also happened in reverse, where my post got 100+ points, a few days after someone else submitted it.)

I don't think all HN popularity is due to luck, but maybe 30-60%?
>that they're looking for identically qualified people that aren't black?

You see this here on HN all the time, articles about "how we do hiring" that start out with "I would only hire someone who I'd want to get coffee with." Which, to me at least, makes it sound like the person is looking to hire friends/drinking buddies that also have technical skills, not employees. It's a signal that the person is looking for "their type of people."

It's so acceptable to hire this way that people feel comfortable opening publishing that, under their own name, as something they are proud of.

I'm not even black (but I am a woman, I grew up poor, and I'm on the older side) and constantly reading about hiring procedures like that makes me feel like I'm very much not welcome.
> I want to live a good live and leave my environment in a better shape than I entered it in

This seems like a pretty good guiding principle in life.
More than two decades. At the time, SysV init was the bloated and bsdinit the lean, "do one thing" one.
No, ProtonVPN isn't subject to the same problem (according to the CEO).
Rave.dj – Creating music mashups with AI
Isn't what you just described Fuschia?
Haha,
Indeed its a very good utility :D
Atlaskit (their UI framework) is open source.

It is very enlightening. Try using their editor component to display the text of one of your Jira comments and making it display attachments.
Rekowl – Notes with Repetition
The ProtonMail guys always said that unless they were 20 miles from the littoral, in the sea side, they had to abide by national laws. So it was bound to happen.

What makes me sad is how flimsy their entire premise (not necessarily "promise") turned out to be: all it took was some minor rascal in France to hug the wrong tree (so to speak), and ProtonMail is in the open saying they can't even protect the IP address of their customers. From there, all it takes is for somebody to change a law in Switzerland and end-to-end encryption of the messages themselves will only be "by default."

I think there is a market for datacenters in open seas.
Even more interesting idea: pages are oportunistically mirrored between swap partitions and the kernel smartly chooses the closest one whenever needed!
IQ is misunderstood by most people and the common misconceptions are extremely harmful.

In reality IQ matters much less than people think. The top 5 rated chess player of all time (Hikaru Nakamura) has a ~105 IQ. People with an average IQ are capable of performing at the 0.1% level with the proper structured training and time.

In my experience IQ mostly impacts the rate at which you learn things. So it took you 2 years instead of 1.5 to master a certain skill -- so what? As a society we should put more emphasis on hard work and results, and less on inherant traits.
Oh,no worries! I was just curious - and somewhere looking forward to a Terry Tao book on Algebra :)
Yeah, I suppose that's true, you do need some resilience to peer/societal pressure. I could be a struggle.
The homepage has always been misleading, since their TOS does mention that they can keep your IP address, for law-related purposes or spam prevention. Additionally, once they receive a request from Swiss police, they _have_ to comply and log those addresses. You can fight tooth and nail and pretend that your entire service is built to never see any IP, but in the end, you will still be made to log it.

Welcome to reality.
I'm a white guy and I bootstrapped my career with no degree and little college (dropped out of community college) by simply padded my resume doing some basic contracting gigs for friends and their professional networks and parlayed that into full-time work. I'm now an engineering manager at a unicorn.

I will also say that for all this talk about how easy Blacks and women have it, I don't buy it, and I think people spinning tales about how "My company only hires Blacks and women" aren't involved in technical hiring. We are desperate for experienced talent and are under tremendous pressure to build an effective team. We don't have the luxury to be picky about demographics. And my team isn't unique: It's the same story from my peers both inside and outside my company. Likewise, the pipeline itself doesn't have very many women or Black candidates from what I can see, so even these people got automatic interviews I doubt it would change team demographics significantly. And finally: if this is indeed "segregation in reverse" (which it's not: it would just be segregation with the roles reversed), where are these tech companies where the majority of their engineers aren't White or Asian men?
It matures, e.g. 10 year treasury note has to be paid off in 10 years
> If that is the case, why did they remove this statement?

As far as I understand according to several comments I read here in HN "99%" of the people don't understand what "by default" means, making the sentence misleading for most.
This might also be worth reading, if you want to learn a bit more about the project: https://medium.com/get-higher/talent-ranking-evolved-introdu...
A Mere $400k
If people are unhappy about Protonmail I suggest they try find an email provider that is impervious to any judicial requests. Of any country.

It is naive to imagine companies that have an address and take payments can ignore judicial decisions.

Yes there's a point about fighting decisions, but as people say "we live in a society".
Yes, it's a typical large software/SaaS company.

It's not about the travel specifically, it's that servers and licenses are the cheapest cost of any company when compared to salaries, especially for engineering and sales.
"htmlq: like jq, but for HTML"

"jq is like sed for JSON data"

sed: "While in some ways similar to an editor which permits scripted edits (_such as ed_), sed works by making only one pass over the input(s)"

ed: "ed is a line-oriented text editor".

Software definition through a reference to another software is somewhat confusing. Potential users come from different backgrounds (I had no idea what is jq), and it is not clear what are the defining features of each project. Is jq line oriented? Is htmlq operating in a single pass?
No that's not true, there is a vast difference between regulation on business practices like this and nationalization.
You've got a fundamental difference of opinion around the basic purpose of the exercise and can't be trusted to have a rational opinion about what's really going on.

What is 'merit' for?

If your answer is 'distinguishing between things of worth and things that are valueless' then there's a problem, and you are prematurely contextualizing. Briefly, you cannot be trusted to dictate the contexts of value for the whole world around you. You're missing far too much. And it matters. Not just morally, but practically.
That is of course not likely. If you get a police order you must comply, no matter what you have in your marketing.
Love the flashing sidebar advert. It's like the 1980s never happened.
Why outsource your auth system and how to sell the decision to your company
There is not much to illustrate regarding the operation itself: pick two points on the curve P and Q, draw the line through them, find the third point of intersection with the curve (which may be the point at infinity, in which case P+Q=0) and reflect it through the x-axis; that is your sum. I think Wikipedia has this visual description in the Group Law subsection of elliptic curves. Now visualizing properties of the group law convincingly, such as commutativity and associativity, that is a challenge!

I am not sure what you are looking for in a subtraction. Like in all groups P-Q is perfectly well defined as P+(-Q), so as before: first reflect the point Q through the x axis to get -Q, and then connect that point to P to get -(P+(-Q)), and do one final reflection to get P+(-Q) which is the only consistent interpretation of P-Q.
They are probably able to do it with little because they understand what they are doing.

There are too many developers and teams that don't understand the underlying principles and limitations of the technology they use. In a good case those developers get schooled by experienced engineers, but frequently they end up in an important position in some big enterprise software company and makes life miserable for many people.
From the blog posting I read yesterday, the individual was not arrested for his political convictions. He was not only a climate activist, but also a squatter. Apparently there were several police officers hurt during a legally mandated eviction of the building that he squatted.

Saying "omg they arrested a climate activist" is like saying "omg, they arrested filesystem developer Hans Reiser!"
So they "don't log your IP", until the first time someone challenged that statement. Talk is cheap.
> I think there is a market for datacenters in open seas.

Sealand's HavenCo tried it back in the 2000s. As it turned out, it didn't work well.

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

See: Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world’s smallest nation https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/sealand-and-have...
> they should notify you first.

Worst-case they are not allowed to do this while the investigation is ongoing. As such, it will not happen this way.
OK, fine, the CCP is as legitimate as any warlord who came to power by armed conquest and performs some governmental functions.

It stays in power by a combination of active repression, murder of potential opposition (great leap, but not forward), and bread & circuses (we provide economic progress, you keep quiet), and disinformation via controlled media.

To me and many others, legitimacy requires some mechanism for the people to consent to the rule.
For the record: "The killed process is, itself, responsible for cleaning up and freeing its resources, a task that is carried out in kernel context. If, however, the killed process finds itself blocked in an uninterruptible sleep, that cleanup work could be delayed indefinitely. There are other factors that can slow down the freeing of memory, including how busy the relevant CPU is and whether that CPU is running in a slow, low-power state."
I'm always public about my convictions, sometime too public according to the moderators of HN.
> but by then it's too late as your IP address has already been logged?

If someone is so sensitive about leaking their IP address and they access some service with their real IP and relying on a service's promise to not log it they already are not very careful to begin with.
> HR typically wants their diversity numbers up badly

This kind of implies that they don't actually hire diversely or the issue wouldn't be so dire ...
The system uses swap to put less frequently used pages; the freed RAM can be used for caching, or more in general, pages that are used more frequently. So adding swap indirectly increases the memory available for caching.

I don't know the details of (Linux) caching, though. On my (32 GB) system, there are a few completely unused GB, it seems.
A $20k Consensus Challenge
Errr... yes and no. The Equinixes, Digital Realty’s of the world still operate DCs that have a lot of Low hanging fruit in terms of efficiency. Running your DC at 21C in a tropical or sub tropical climate is not efficient but it’s part of the SLA. Owner operators like FB and Goog run their DCs warmer. The equipment can handle higher operating temps (to a point) and the savings in IT load make up for the uptick in failure.

It’s also important to distinguish CAPEX vs OPEX.
He posted a reply to his own comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443113
No one needs k8s. Bringing up their infrastructure in a k8s troubleshooting how-to was a weird thing to do in the first place. It's comparing apples and chandelier - makes no sense.

They have a typical vertically scaled infrastructure, most services have just two nodes, one active. The biggest ones are databases which in many companies are handled in "the classic way" anyway. Clearly it's not designed as microservices and doesn't need dynamic automation at all. Why on earth would they even bring k8s up in their plans?
It's an international request from Europol. Switzerland is somewhat forced to comply with these (and this one in particular) for two reasons. One political and one to serve its own interests.

The political one is that if Switzerland in the future will create an international request countries could rebuff that in lieu of this very event. And to be honest I am not sure if they can refuse such requests after the recent referendum about abiding the EU constitution.

The self-interest one is that those activists are/were prone to vandalizing banks which are a cornerstone of Swiss economy to this day (in smaller measure compared to the past since they now can pass information of account holders to other countries). Anyway, banks are still a big deal in the Swiss mentality and giving a literal "out of jail card" to someone that targets banks would set a bad precedent in Swiss public opinion.