skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats a very weak list-- most of the books are cold war related.

Nothing about the last 10-20 years?

I groan when I see yet another book on World War 2/Enigma/Early cold war-- hasnt this topic been done to the death? Or have I read too many books?

For me, See no Evil by Robert Baer, though it came out in 2003, is a good book about how politics interferes with intelligence work.

I Spy by Tom Marcus, though it was about counter intelligence, is also a great book.
How Google Started
What do you mean with old and uncool and wisdom encapsulated?

NixOS predates puppet by 2 and chef by 7 years.
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> The other problem in the UK is there is no formal registry for a "builder" as opposed to plumbers, electricians and even window fitters that have to be registered.

In the UK, electricians do not have to be registered.
Nothing wrong with having $1mil in a bank account, $1mil house, $1mil mortgage (yes naive / general example - but I am sure you can get the idea).
Clearly they were referring to the creators of the NFT'd content vs NFT promoters.
> It certainly won't stop prostitution.

Why «certainly»? Why goal to «stop», not to «reduce by 99%»?
> Even just running correlation analysis on these various assets over the last 20 years showed that crypto was super underpriced

care to elaborate?
But that means moving all the time. Yes you will trade yourself to the best house in the end and perhaps to a much better neighborhood, but moving can be a bit traumatizing...
Weird, the algorithm usually gives me crap, and I rarely click the recommendations. Perhaps because I didn't 'train' it.
Interesting, we will look into that for sure
Sure, but wasn't ipfs released long before filecoins were added to the mix?

Edit: they're both from summer 2014, so I was mistaken.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8069836

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8054571
The difference is that regular doctors understand in relatively detailed ways how the human body works, something most commenters on social networks have no clue about. Moreover, they meet patients who cherry-pick studies and medical information with extreme bias daily in their practice (thanks to "Dr. Google"), which together with knowledge of statistics and the ability to actually understand the studies gives them an exceptionally reasonable perspective on new studies in shifting medical domains and how to deal with them.

I very much hope that my doctor repeats the advice of state medical authorities. In my country, the Covid pandemic has been handled excellently, despite having a comparatively underfunded and not too well-outfitted health system.
Well, that's how you sell yourself to customers.

Typically you'd have a team of actual hotshots who start the project, sell the consulting company as competent, they draw up initial plans for whatever they are consulting on, and then you replace them with your usual kind of developers/BAs/whatever.

For example if your initial team had an architect with 15 years of experience, including 10 years in your specific domain, they get replaced someone with 5 years of experience, with 2 years in the domain.
So he probably has some blue-chip cryptocurrency (BTC, ETH, etc.) hidden away. 24 years + 7 years prison = He will be 31 years old when he is out, and likely a millionaire with that hidden cryptocurrency, at today's prices, and likely a billionaire if cryptocurrency price rises keep similar returns to previous years.

He wins.
> It seems to me that being harder to put off but occurring less frequently, and most importantly not exploding (leaving significant amount of time for occupants to get out, if they are able) is a pretty good trade off.

It's very rare to get a gas tank to explode (as others have pointed out). You need to have very little fuel (or better, none at all) in the tank before a spark will cause explosions.

Take a 2l plastic soda bottle, fill it 90% full with petrol and (with tongs from a distance) drop in a lit cigarette. I've tried to get the bottle to go bang multiple times and it never happens - the ciggarette is extinguished every single time.

Then empty that bottle until there is less than 5ml of petrol in it, close the bottle and shake it up to get a rich mixture, and then repeat the experiment (I've gotten fairly big bangs every single time, this way).

The TLDR of it all is that there is danger of explosion when the tank is emptied, not when it is full, because the fumes cause explosions, not the liquid state of the fuel (which just catches fire).
I feel bad for the people renting in London. Most people I know there simply can't afford buying as it is prohibitively expensive (>300k pounds I think?)
UK, US AND Australia launch new security partnership against China
Someone I know who had their house built took pictures of the construction site every day.

That way, if an issue turned up later, he could prove by showing the pics that they forgot to do something or did it in the wrong way.
This article raises some great points but is still trying to close the stable door after the horse has bolted.

If your business is agile, it begins with the style of engagement between you and the customer. Really agile businesses don't deal with absolutes (such as fixed price contracts), instead they accept change at the core.

Accounting hate that, so most businesses aren't agile.
It really seems to me the poster is writing about post natural infection reinfection: the parent poster wrote, «If you've previously recovered from Covid».
many times I've noticed archive.is is unable to see linkedin profiles.
Interesting - so essentially you are saying to push all authorization logic into the DB? What if your app also needs to access other services (e.g. a message queue, S3 etc)?
I don't know about needing to be the "best", or an "expert", but I do believe a consultant should have a certain skill level, or set of skills, that provides some value to a team.

That's to say some consultants are very strong engineers, in the general sense; very capable in various roles. While others might possess a sufficient narrow skill set. E.g. maybe a front-end React dev, or data engineer assisting with integrating parts of a data pipeline, or a SQL consultant helping trouble shoot database performance issues. Other times, a team covers both bases (high degree of skill breadth, and depth), but lacks time to devote to all pressing issues.

So consultant relationships are formed for any number of reasons; they need not be an expert, necessarily.
you can partition what it considers, such as per-tenant where you index on org id and only consider same-org interactions for most things. likewise, we picked it because it can reuse your existing sql db, so you can get around problems like auth-dependent view all queries by doing your own sql.

if others have scaling+perf tricks, am curious :)
Check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgAaB7fsSbo

Safety can and will be improved quite a bit even of current batteries.

And newer chemistries will do better anyway.
> The US no longer has anybody who makes telephone central office equipment.

You don't need that kind of equipment any more since the advent of VoIP and software-defined radio/networking.

> The US can no longer make smartphones.

Apple is US-based as is the world's leading provider of mobile communication chips Qualcomm (and for what it's worth I seriously believe Apple is going to go vertical on that part too!), and with Google you have a second US-based vendor of operating systems.

Or are you referring to the capability of produce all components of a smartphone on US soils?
When there's the "America is the cause of all evil" guilt (slight exaggeration), you can. A belief that what you do is moral can get people to align against their own interests.
When a major company "brings in consultants" they generally mean exactly calling up one of the major consulting firms and bringing in a bunch of outsourced short-term people (those "hired hands") and not e.g. freelance experts; and while these "hired hands" contractors are quite different in practice from "proper consultants" as the article describes, they usually are advertised as the same thing.
The title of the article does not say “against China”
But does will-change do that? I would think what you describe would be a pessimisation in many (perhaps most) cases.

(I haven’t the foggiest idea and my guess is wild rather than educated. I would like to be informed.)
True. It may be worth postponing a unified API when the semantics solidify. I really like the pledge/unveil semantics, but it's not a consensus.
Conversely, half-assed is ok if you only need half an ass.
Perhaps that was an advice for a different time and for a specific audience (MIT graduates can expect favouritism). Cannot see how spending a few years developing a tiny slice of some UI at Apple 2021 would make your experience "three-dimensional".
Been a consultant, not a contractor, for many years. You cannot be a consultant without reading Weinberg:

"The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully"

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Suc...

"More Secrets of Consulting: The Consultant's Tool Kit"

"https://www.amazon.com/More-Secrets-Consulting-Consultants-T..."

These books kept my sanity and showed me the Universe twisted
sense, twisted...But nonetheless a sense.
That’s what BMW did with their i3 REX models: a scooter engine and a tiny tank, hooked up to the electrical system. Turns out though that the extra weight impacted the performance without adding much in the way of range to the point that it wasn’t really worth it.
Tesla's approach is safer for everyone. Now, if you want to discuss ethics, that's a totally different thing.
> This has been a deliberate destruction of a once great nation since the moment Kissinger sold the US out to Chairman Mao.

Nope. What has been going on over the last decades is simply the consequence of unregulated capitalism - by design, capitalism seeks to eliminate or reduce cost to increase profit, and China (as well as India and Vietnam) were/are the most cost-efficient locations to produce goods and provide services.
Thousands of eyeballs glazing over, snark semi intended.
In general, I do agree with you.

In Europe it is very difficult (and expensive and convoluted) to let go of an employee, so a company must find a way to validate the hire, regardless of the Probezeit (probation).

I'm not advocating that companies should suddendly stop running interviews, and I would be very wary of a company who would hire me permanently without conducting a technical interview, especially for system-design level positions.

In my particular situation, I found that coming forward very clearly about my intentions as paid off so far, but I also realize that it may not work in the majority of cases.

> Getting and verifying references is actually legal and possible.

Is it not legal to verify references for a permanent position, in Germany?
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It's not about the Roth IRA. It's about him using politics and influencing the public for personal gains. And those gains are based on arming evil agencies with evil weapons. And he's not even trying to hide it, calling it Palantir.
I will not be donating, not now, or ever. They do not respect robots.txt and force companies to use the DCMA to remove their sites from the archive. They are self-righteous pests.
Librem 5 is getting another big price hike
Dan Kaminsky would have loved this.
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You forgot the most important one: the risk of running out of money.
Bolt doesn't have Super Cruise unless I'm totally misinformed.
> to solve a small-scale problem that can be solved via a for loop?

Why do you need to ask them specifically to code fizzbuzz? There's nothing magical about it and it's a condescending coding exercise.

Ask stuff about their everyday coding and their favourite language. What's the difference between an Array and a Set (in your language of choice). How do you add an element to those? (if it's your day to day language you should remember, right?)

Tell me about an issue you had to debug. Tell me how (something) works in general. Something basic, no need to go into much detail, but just to see if they get the basic idea and have used it.

Again, who cares about fizzbuzz when you can ask them about http headers, network delays, etc (it will be more job relevant as well). People who can't code fizzbuzz will usually fall flat on those questions as well.
This just tells me that the person "pushing for a better operating system" didn't have the technical chops to compile, link and cleanly package software for AIX she or he needed, so it's a matter of throwing money at the problem and buying an inferior product (GNU/Linux) because of incompetence. Happens very often and predominantly in IT.

SEE ALSO

"A Brief History of Sadness" chapter

http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/04/10/libsunw_ssl-or-h...
I enjoyed the video but I'm mostly upvoting this because this is such a great website to share with the kids. Thanks.
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> Fires destroying electric bike shops are a thing, with one fire expanding to all the batteries around. All we need now is for a cascade auto battery fire in a parking lot. Or, worst case, a garage under a building.

As a firefighter let me add some context: Electric car fires are no big deal anymore.

Yes, they're not "out" when there's no more flames or smoke for the moment as the damaged cells might be reacting further and further.

Easy solution: Put them in a tub full of water for at least 24 hours, better monitor the temperatures of the water and only lift them out once it has not changed for a few hours.

Most fire departments nowadays have some kind of container that can be filled where you can lift the car into. If not, they'll call somebody who has such a container, like landfills and alike.

Yes, the car is done after that, but it wouldn't be different with a gas-powered car either.

This might have been new five years ago, but so were solar panels 20 years ago and everybody was worried that nobody could ever extinguish a fire under solar panels.

Real life has shown, that you just rip the panels of the roof (if they're not already burned when we arrive) and work as if nothing has happened (simplified, but not too far away). With eletric cars you sink them. Easy as that. "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome." it is.

Also: garage fires are special in itself due to the lack of head room and "place to go" for heat, smoke and fire. It's not really a big difference after that. Basic rules of engagement are to be followed: Get the fire out and then the cars out of the garage. WIth electric cars you'll have to sink them once they are out of the garage, obviously.

Please stop fearmongering with "electric car fires".
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A slightly more direct and IMO better name for this is "body leasing".
That's an interesting idea, and I agree it would make a great addition to HA. From an outside standpoint it doesn't even seem to be that hard to implement, all the pieces are already there, "just" needs some glue.
can't read the article because of some useless Dell ad
I didnt have my own computer in 1990 yet :-). Finally got second hand C64 in 1992, then build myself a 386/4mb/40mb for under $200 from used parts in 1993. No VGA monitor, I had to use RGB cable connected to a TV and a software reprogramming CRTC timings to 15KHz.

You specifically wrote

>40MB hard drives were becoming available

which is not accurate. In 1990 Dell 425TE was shipping with a selection of "High-performance IDE (40MB. 80 MB. 100 MB, 190 MB) and ESDI (330 MB, 650 MB) hard disk drives.". Top configuration 650MB/color monitor/8MB ram $9600.
It reminds me of something odd I heard recently. There seems to be a growing consensus that the Turing test is not an adequate measure of intelligence, and many argue Turing was misunderstood; that too much significance was given to the test.

Now the Amazon folks came along with the "Alexa prize". Whoever creates a bot, that people want to spend the longest duration of time with, wins. So maximal user engagement is seen as measure of intelligence.

I find it really weird that our tools seem to seek to waste the largest amount of time for us. I would've thought, that the ideal assistant would minimize engagement time, while maximizing utility; and it also seemed to me like a product like that would easily blow the time-wasting competition out of the water.

But it doesn't seem so. Maybe too early in the development...
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I know a person who built his aerated concrete house working a day job over 3 years, he did 98% of the tasks himself and probably 95% of those alone whilst maintaining a full-time day job. He has a non-english blog with many pictures and process documentation and was a huge inspiration to me whilst I DIY'd my new 2 bdr apartment from this https://imgur.com/a/UXfmx0Y to this https://imgur.com/a/vGntuhJ in the span of 6 months and a day job doing everything myself (all the furniture, electricity, kitchen installation, etc etc). I have many pictures but never bothered to post them up. When you do things yourself you can take your time and do things like this https://imgur.com/a/8cd1iHO with the tiles, everyone said it's impossible to do this connection with a laminated floor but I figured it out and it's holding great (took me 4 evenings to make the cuts, pour out epoxy basin to "catch" the heights etc).

I guess my point is, if you're interested in DIY it's ... doable, YouTube can be a great help depending on your region. I'm an ISTP in the Myer-Briggs scale and don't get bored digging into little details as I assume many people on this site. 3 years in no failures in anything I've did, people who hired regularly posted cracked corners, even ceilings in the local facebook group.
Maybe that's actually resulting more work for the software sector, as problems can't be solved by just throwing more hardware at them!
Ok, but does that help me find out the speed of an object if I know its acceleration? Does it help me compute the length of the hypothenuse if I know the lengths of the other sides of a triangle?
Overall I don't find YT too addicting. - I think several different websites can substitute for "I'm bored, what's in the fridge?".

Though, I did have to manually ignore a bunch of clips-from-tv
-shows type channels.
> It exists to provide complete nutrition all by itself.

To those in weaning stage. It's baby food, not super food. (for what ever super means here).

I know many cultures have "survived" on high animal product diets for many years: but did they thrive?

The Blue Zones book goes into diets that communities thrive on. Inuit are not mentioned. We do --after the weaning stage-- better on plants.
For me, there is something magical about having retail work experience. That special blend of sales and customer service combined with consumers of minimal patience...

Understanding that good customer service necessitates sacrifice and compromise is at the core of it for me.

Happy customers are the most important thing for a business. Nothing else matters as long as you have strong advocates in your market.

In pursuit of happy customers, you have to be willing to discard or compromise on all of your technical principles. Certainly, dont let the customer cut themselves on a sharp edge without warning them first. But, if they absolutely insist on a certain path, just give it to them. They are paying you money, correct? Clear exceptions to this would be ethical violations (i.e. plaintext pw storage for a public-facing app), but that should really be the only line you wont consider crossing.
> I’m not talking about becoming one of those contractors who are billed out by their companies as “consultants” but are really just serial hired hands.

Even doing that is incredibly educational!

I spent about six years of my career at consulting firms like this. Both were a bit more than body shops, though - they sold themselves on their ability to actually deliver projects, and teach clients to do the same. I spent those years being parachuted into complex, dysfunctional, ill-equipped organisations, and trying to work out what in that environment worked, and how to Macgyver it together into a project which worked.

I don't want to do it ever again, though.
Because building a social network is hard. Not technologically, any half decent coding school grad can put out a basic Twitter clone in a week worth of coding... but you have to spend lots of money to get users (either via advertising or via developing features no one else has), and the larger you get the more you have to spend on moderation.

Apple markets itself as family friendly, which directly collides with the tendency of people to post copyright-protected content, abuse of all kinds, pornography and similarly disgusting content, and not to mention consumers of CSAM who will invade any new platform that crops up to avoid getting booted off in seconds.
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I've no idea about legal standing here but if someone, in this case a police officer, is doing this to cover up criminal behaviour wouldn't that count as attempting to pervert the course of justice or is that just a UK thing?
Blockchain is not the same as a blockchain. Blockchain is a hashed data structure from bitcoin. While "blockchain technology" is used in completely different context. The two and not related technically
There's arguably a strategic need to keep at least some expertise and a minimal operational capacity even for things that are cheaper to import[0]. COVID-19 demonstrated how fragile supply chains are, and that was just a global emergency, and not purposeful economic warfare.

America is good at things at the edge of the value chain. High-end goods. Services. Demand manufacturing[1]. Things that have value during good times, where the earlier links in the chain are healthy, and consumers have plenty of money to spend. In times of crisis, all this can evaporate quickly.

Also, I feel it might be that the kind of jobs America is good at are different from the lower-level jobs in ways that are not conductive to having a healthy middle class. I've read some convincingly-sounding arguments going in this direction, but I can't recall any right now, and I haven't thought about this topic hard enough to come up with one myself.

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[0] - This is not an unprecedented idea. See Boeing as a point of comparison. From what I read, the company would've been dead long ago if not for government spending. This spending looks wasteful if you look at what gets produced, but not when you realize it's really a way to ensure that manufacturing plants and people knowing how to use them are available in case they're needed for war production.

[1] - Without being too bitter about it in this thread, I feel quite a lot of ways US brings in money are fads and artificial scarcities, created using marketing and intellectual property laws.
Grammatical nitpick: don't call your information a set of factoids.

"1. An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.

2. (originally Canada, US) An interesting item of trivia; a minor fact."
So why are the majority of entrepreneurs in their 20s? Why doesn't the rate of entrepreneurship increase with age?
Yes, I added some simple automation scripts to calculate bandwidth being used on my router from snmp data and it eats up 100% CPU. The calculations are super simple and shouldn't take almost any CPU.
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