skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One should keep in mind that explosion of blogs came because of the adsense, nowadays getting into adsense is extremely difficult and other monetization options do not make sense. Bloggers need motivation.
Nit: Neither the OA, nor the link I provided contain the string '18'. Would you please be so kind and post the link where you get the data from?
After studying the history a bit it seems to me the reasons were organizational more than technical. Jobs brought his team back with him and they built on what they were familiar with. With better management the existing nanokernel-based MacOS could probably have been evolved similar to what MS did with NT.
As a reminder, 6 questions about technology outlined by Neil Postman:

What is the problem to which this technology is a solution for?

Whose problem is it?

What new problems might be created by solving the original problem?

Which people and what institutions will be most seriously harmed by this new technology?

What sort of people and institutions gain special economic and political power from this new technology?

What changes in language are being forced by these new technologies?
> Exactly no one needs to rent houses if mulit-fam exists and actual houses aren't speculative instruments or places where foreign nationals hide their money.

okay, but what if I have (an opportunity for) positive cashflow, minimal savings, and want to move away from my parents' house? does it just suck to be me or what?
Non-walled link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fbi-says-fortune-seized...
I think they mean from the standpoint of it being a major financial investment with a non-negligible risk of project-failure subject to political whims and a high likelihood of significant cost overruns. I'd love to see some subsidies to address those issues though.
There is? Either way you're still dead.
yah, i'd heard gatorade got 'watered-down' early on for taste, but i believe there are still a few other ingredients in there other than sugar and flavoring? not saying it's enough to live up to the marketing, but i think it's not exactly zero.
Here's an example https://gist.github.com/Arkham/31297c1d75fc59f723a50063bc0f5...

I used this tool to find the specific nixpkgs version https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/?channel=nixpkgs-unstable...
Many companies unintentionally incentivize that behavior because the more angry you sound the more likely you are to get bumped to a higher tier support agent.
I have not read the PDF report, but I agree with the title that the residency matching system in the US needs to be fixed.

My wife is a current resident in the US and she graduated from a medical school in SE Asia. She spent tens of thousands of dollars on exams, observerships (yeah, one has to pay to observe at the hospitals and there are only a handful of them that accept observers; there are a few clinics that take money for observerships), unpaid volunteering, unpaid research, and travels. All of that to make her resume stronger so that she can have a better chance at *residency lottery*. Worse, the residency spots are sometimes decided by internal contacts/introductions--just like a regular job. If one's year of graduation is higher than 5, it becomes much harder to get a residency match. Every year, we are leaving behind some perfectly qualified medical doctor candidates in the convoluted, costly and unnecessarily-restrictive system.

No wonder doctors in the US expect to make way above what doctors in other developed countries make because of the artificially tough road they have to traverse to become professional doctors in the US. This, in turn, affects (increases) the health care cost that we have to pay when we go see doctors.

In summary, it should not be that difficult to become a general (internal medicine) doctor in the US. Actually, I'd go as far as to say that it should not be that difficult to become a doctor of any specialty except a handful like (neuro/orthopedic/opthalmic/cardiac/general) surgeons. A lot of other developed countries (or countries like India, which produces very capable medical doctors) do away with residency bullshit. There must be something that the US can do to make hopeful residents' lives easier.
Well, I don’t see why it shouldn’t happen. It’s not like the UK is currently building nuclear power plants like China or Russia do.
When we talk about possible new nuclear plans, we are not talking about the next months but years. Short term not much can rectify the situation other than trying to buy more gas. Ironically, the much criticized north stream 2 pipeline has just become ready to put into operation.
Here is an example if you absolutely want to pin Ruby to 2.6.7 while pulling all other packages from a more recent set of packages https://gist.github.com/Arkham/31297c1d75fc59f723a50063bc0f5...

I found the nixpkgs version using this tool: https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/?channel=nixpkgs-unstable...
Institute for Justice is attempting to fight this "unlawful [...] seizure" : https://ij.org/case/u-s-private-vaults-seizure/ .
The problem is how many of the things the web does that I don't want it to, like spying on me and consuming ludicrous amounts of compute resources. And the fact that it's controlled by people whose desires and interests are contrary to that of the user.
TFA says that heat flux out of the supervolcano is the main mitigating factor in build-up of explosive potential inside the caldera.

Therefore, increasing heat flux by 35% would (we think) prevent Yellowstone (e.g.,) from ever erupting again, based on current heat influx and the perceived rate of eruptions (n=3).

So, inject more water to cool it more quickly, and, bonus, use the hot water to create power at $0.1/kWh, up to 20 GW.

What's terrifying is how quickly we're drying up the water elsewhere in the country, and the existing water in Yellowstone is the primary method of cooling the magma [tfa]. If we dry it out, it's boom time a lot sooner.

They have a whole section on this, but I'm fairly certain this is the next environmental movie disaster plot: Increasing water use dries out the only heat sink preventing a volcano that destroys life on the Western Hemisphere, and causes a near-extinction in humans everywhere else.
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You mean a mycophile diet? Mushrooms will save humanity. High protein, doesn't need the sun for energy, lives off of refuse, can remediate waste, some have medical properties, etc...
All this just to avoid writing JS in nodejs for simple scripts? why add more complexity to simple things? just to write JS with parenthesis? clojurescript is overkill and definitely tedious to use for this because is not suited for scripts just doing lots of imperative, side-effecting stuff and dealing constantly with mutable APIs.

I love lisp but... https://github.com/borkdude/nbb/blob/main/examples/puppeteer...

"Look how cool I'm, I downloaded this thing just to add parenthesis to my JS script!"
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This is a profound concept. I've known this in computers for some time, but was only able to parse the concept by understanding the philosophical difference between utility (closely resonant with "purpose") and metaphysical reality (simply what "is").

It's interesting as well because the only time I've grokked efficiency is when it refers to algorithmic efficiency, where the data efficiency often gets overlooked because it's abstracted onto the hardware encoding level and completely misses the OS.

Though, that lends me some more thinking to do on this, since my new life's purpose is to create improved information[1]. I'm getting the feeling that better data could make better processes, though I'm not sure how that would implement beyond the broad concept of "data cleaning" (which is nothing more than uniformity in a set).

[1]https://stucky.tech/purpose/
"If it's a large enough amount, surely lawyers would work on contingency? Obviously that'd still miss a lot (the majority) of cases, but still."

Let's not create more cases where little guys get bullied around by the legal system because they can't afford to defend themselves. It's already the case that they can (and do) coerce people into pleading guilty for a BS indictment because they can't afford lawyers.
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I led a team of about 65 engineers at my previous job. One of things that became apparent at around the 20 mark was that rumors spread so quickly and a comment I didn't think twice about crystallized into "marching orders" very quickly.

Make jokes, it helps build rapport with people you spend so much time with! But be careful about the message you convey, people will run wild with it overnight.
At first I was assuming that the critique of $45/mo for the enterprise license was that it was too cheap, something I agree with! It's definitely not too much.

For large companies making dozens-to-hundreds of millions in revenue, $45/mo is a completely irrelevant rounding error. And the power of tightening the feedback loops that the article alludes to is worth far, far more than that.
If you can keep a bead on the welfare of the department you're working in if its a large corporation. Smaller startups, its usually pretty obvious.

My two examples:

Worked at a telecom company during the CLEC, deregulation days. Group of private investors devised a scheme whereas they would grow this small existing telecom company and then sell it off to a larger company and make millions. They had about $3M altogether invested. CEO burned through $2M in 6 months for stupid stuff like sky boxes at the local sports teams arena's and other frivolous stuff. Sales were slumping, we were getting a lot of calls from unhappy customers during installs. There were multiple closed door meetings with the investors. The funny part was the conference room had really thin walls and there were a lot of yelling during those meetings. You didn't have to be a genius to know whatever they had planned, wasn't happening. The final coffin was when one of the network guys told me he overheard one of the closed door meetings. He said the group was split on whether to continue the company, or fold up shop. Threats of lawsuits essentially ended the meeting and they all marched out of the office in a hurry. To me, I already felt like this wasn't going to last. Now I had confirmation and started planning to find another job.

I also worked at a huge corporation in their development department. We were a new team working on some big initiatives the company wanted to get going. Everything was going pretty smoothly. Then the recession hit in 2008. Then over the course of several lunches with various people in other departments, I found out several departments were having layoffs, reducing budgets, and putting projects on hold. Pretty soon, a lot of the teams we were working with which had dozens of people working on them, suddenly only had two or three developers. It really felt like the walls were closing in so I started looking. Literally the day I put in my two week notice, my manager said they were planning on putting our two projects on hold and laying everybody off within the next two weeks.

I think it just comes down to paying attention to what's going on around you. There's always signs things are not going well, you just have to recognize them when they present themselves. At both places, there were people who held on until it was too late. One of the techs at the telecom company said he came in one morning and the office was dark, and a security guard told him they had shut down the company and because of legal reasons, nobody could go in the office.
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The org I mentioned in my previous post was not a reseller but an energy producer; they were the largest producers of energy both in our country and the neighboring countries.

The calculations for plant scheduling took a gazillion of parameters into account (CO2 emission rights, pricings of different kinds of fuel, weather predictions, ...)

These markets not only trade energy, but also fuel, logistics, CO2 emissions, ... (using direct quantities, options, leveraged products, things like insurance, ... If you could imagine it, there was probably someone trading it.)

If you are into this stuff: I built the prototype that validated their portfolio position with the other suppliers; it was a protocol called EPM (Electronic position matching), developed by the EFET (European Federation of Energy Traders). I am not sure how it evolved, as this was the first iteration of the protocol...
Only if you think within the structures of a particular ideology based on the notions that people are rational actors and that the market produces the most effective solutions for any given use case.
Not your keys, not your property.
Yep Excel is great, actually working on a Minix like Kernel in it.
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Seizures shouldn't be a thing at all unless a conviction has been nailed down, and even then, proof must be made for every cent seized having been made through illicit means. No proof? No forfeiture.

I understand why it was implemented, but it has been abused so widely and for so long that it must stop. It has stopped being a tool for law enforcement to being a tool to coerce defendants and the innocent alike.
The racialists of the late 19th Century and early 20th co-opted the term, but there was a real peoples that really called themselves 'Aryans'.
They weren't blue eyed blonde-haired, that's for sure, and the weren't at the root of Europe either. Like I said, they were a central Asian daughter culture. They probably spoke Indo-Iranian and their beliefs were later written down in the Riga Veda as well as being a component of Iranian Zoroastrianism.

('Aryan' is cognate with the proto-Indo-European 'h₂éyos')
This is a great question. The key is to focus on user retention and avoid bloat. Make your product interesting and hook users through unique services.
So it's kinda like doing VFIO, but with less things handled by the NIC, but externally from the switch point of view it looks like the same (several MACs going out of a single port), right ?
I offer mail and skype support, the bad thing about skype messages and skype voice is that after the call is ended I don't have a mail with the user's requests.
because of this, i have forgotten many requests and they have to call back to ask me again.
On the other side when somebody sends me an email I put a task flag on it and I work through these flags during my working hours.
why? what is the "benefit of elsevier"? beyond holding copyright to the work of others which they give away for free, what value addition does elsevier bring to the table that cant be done otherwise? if the argument is that they provide classification and other stuff, why cant you just dump everything on schihub and let people do the organization themselves?

remember a few hundred years ago, horse drawn carts were a big business but cars drew them to extinction. should we bring back horse drawn carts monopoly of the old just because they were something once?

on a sidenote, why arent authors and researchers publishing on scihub directly?
I have had some experience with projects where automated end to end testing was something very difficult to set up. I am not even mentioning communication between QA and developers. I think the solution proposed in the article makes sense and I just wanted to thank elisabethd for this article and work.

I am really sorry if my comment is seen differently.
Civil forfeiture is an outgrowth of the war on drugs (which was itself an outgrowth of anti-black racism). Just like NSA spying is an outgrowth of the war on terror. I doubt we will be able be able to end civil forfeiture until we end the war on drugs.
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Like homeless people can't jump the turnstiles.

In most cities I've lived homeless people don't pay fares regardless. Considering fare enforcement is very expensive, I imagine making it completely free would be be cheaper. The Utopian in me imagines a struggling working class person saving a significant amount of money. To us, 200 or 400$ a month for public transportation isn't a big deal, but if your only making 2k a month that's a ton of money.

I already pay sky high taxes, I figure the city can pay for public transportation out of that.
And that interest should be something draconian, like what payday lenders charge. If your money gets tied up for years, it ought to come back doubled.
I've never seen a company try this, but I wonder if an SMS/text support number could work. This would help with the 'flakiness', i.e., you don't have to respond immediately and you can help multiple people at once. No more waiting on hold at least.
As a thought experiment, how long would it take for NYPD to respond if young, middle-class, college-aged joggers were being attacked with the same frequency at some dark Central Park corner.
Can we add "Defund the FBI" to the national narrative?
In The Netherlands we don't need this. A sufficient amount of cash is enough to get you arrested. You will get a trial though.
I can not take anyone serious on green energy if they oppose nuclear energy.
In quite a few US states anti-miscegenation laws are still on the books. You would hardly find a lawyer or judge to take the case but most haven't been removed, yet. If you told a interracial couple that what they are doing is "illegal" you'd rightly be laughed at.
They don't have the courage to do so because billionaires and big corporations have way bigger budgets than the FBI or other agencies. They can overpower smaller guys though.
Not to defend the use of drug dogs, but i doubt the trace amounts on cash are enough for drug dogs to detect from a distance.
To save someone else some time: this articles deals absolutely nothing with its own title, and instead jumps around between famous examples of betting big and losing / winning big.
> Now it says there are 40,000 but you only get 10 or 20 pages of results you can get to, all basically corporate and lame.

This is a very serious issue with search engines today. Search engines falsely claim millions of matches, and not only does it do nothing to help us narrow down the millions by grouping or suggest additional keywords, but we can't actually get to the results. Do these results even exist? Are search engines basically precomputing results for keywords and it can't go outside of them anymore?
Just a quarter?
I was thinking that as well; it's not going to get you more than a few breaths of air, and it's not going to be easy to submerge with one. Even bogged down with weapons and armor, I suspect it would be impossible to submerge while holding something that large filled with air.
For 3 and a half decades.
If it takes 2 years to exhaustively search the entire keyspace, you'd expect to be 50% lucky a year in, assuming the keys are evenly distributed (which is a huge assumption). If you have a lot of keys to crack and it's a feasibly short time, mean time to brute-force key recovery becomes far more interesting to you than the worst case scenario.
Thank you, it makes sense now! I had missed that bit of lingo.
“ an average single family house in the United States cost more than 7 times the U.S. median annual household income. ”

Why average numerator divided by median denominator?
We usually pay 15-20p
You won't find a lawyer willing to take on a case of this nature.

LEO use this as a tactic to deprive defendant's ability to fund their own defense.
No, the percentage reasoning is wrong completely. There is a well known novel that ties “acceptable” percentage of suffering “when living in a society”, geometric progression of “good” expected to result from killing someone, and an actual pawn broker whose percent is considered too high to be “fair”. A century and a half later, people still don't get it.

We can make that calculating approach universal. What percent of your neighbors is not good enough in general? What percent of all people on Earth? If we start close inspections, we will find that not a lot of people pass the test… and the rest can inevitably be discarded and excluded. Let's not forget about yourself, what's your percentage? Are you good enough to join other Freenet users? That's the opposite side of original question.

Moral choice can not be calculated, it turns into something else when one does it.
I'm not worried about getting "caught" for piracy, I'm worried about some asshole in the middle hijacking my connection.

Story time: back when I was in college a few years ago, the university network had some weird configuration where everybody in my dorm was on a single large local network. Somebody thought it would be funny if they ARP poisoned the network and redirected all HTTP traffic to shock websites. This would last 2-3 weeks until either they decided to stop or University IT finally caught them.

Regardless, I'm glad we moved the goalposts to "you don't need privacy" and conceded that my original comment pointing out how insecure this was is correct.
Here is an example of doing what you want https://gist.github.com/Arkham/31297c1d75fc59f723a50063bc0f5...

I found the nixpkgs versions using this tool: https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/?channel=nixpkgs-unstable...
I forgot about that. I think they wanted proportional representation / single transferable vote and alternative vote was already a compromise.

They also promised tuition fees would be abolished. As a junior partner they were unlikely to achieve that, but the government they were part of ended up tripling them. So they didn't even 'prevent things from getting worse'.
Might make more sense to link to the blog post, instead of its underlying markdown in GitHub?

https://clickhouse.com/blog/en/2021/clickhouse-inc/
> Not forgetting to mention the prices are currently through the roof, and TBH unaffordable for me.

Cryptocurrencies are divisible into tiny fractional units, so you don't have to buy a whole unit of a cryptocurrency to use it. While it is a small hassle to convert your currency to cryptocurrency before sending it, if you use an exchange like Coinbase, it's not much harder than transferring money to a different bank/investment account.
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>There’s no reason that I’m aware of not to cover the grounds of nuclear power plants in PV.

I'd be hesitant to impede access to various parts of the facility for safety reasons. Also, until a permanent storage solution is developed, reserving space for onsite storage is a very sensible thing to do.
Civil Asset Forfeiture is the law of the land, currently. It isn't Constitutionally valid.
US pharma spends an outsized amount on sales and marketing, expenses that could be eliminated if public funding was spent directly on R&D.

Europeans aren’t free riding; they’re paying a reasonable rate for these goods while Americans are shouldered with extraction of revenue for pharma profits and those inefficient (and arguably unnecessary) sales and marketing expenses.

Only two countries in the world permit marketing directly to consumers to promote pharmaceuticals: the United States and New Zealand.