skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does The Economist has a disaster recovery plan?
IMO, it affirms the "rugged individualism" mythos, and has a sprinkling of the fundamental attribution error.

Salaries are mostly controlled by market forces, opening up to remote work will result in a larger supply of potential employees, to include those who were previously not considered, but are good enough, and are willing to accept less than current Bay Area/coastal salaries.
In which case Apple is welcome to deal with their users being confused about cables. I see this as how the market is supposed to work.

If it's a cable property, then Apple can do whatever it wants with its cables. And everyone else can do what they want with theirs.
Melbournians who left their homes for fear of the roof collapsing were jailed for breaking quarantine. Premier Daniel Andrews stated: "Trying to survive a natural disaster is no reason to spread COVID. You will all be punished." (note: this comment is satire)
What does t/o mean?
The link is broken :(
You don't need a math PhD to play Dwarf Fortress, just to code it
As a German, this is my impression, people have the same talking points like preppers have in the US, even if they do not make sense here. There was a very small prepper movement in the 70s and 80s because of an astonishing survival guy, Rüdiger Nehberg [0], but it focused mostly on survival. With the internet the prepper movement was exported from the US all over the world.

There is a prepper component to the German society though - probably because nearly every war in the last two thousands years in Europe involved Germany, with the 30 years war being especially devastating (my hometown lost 80+% of it's citizens).

Germany is one of the few countries that is keeping a reserve of grain in secret stashes (rumored to be ~150) after the cold war.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCdiger_Nehberg
Disagree with the first part. 'Prepping' has evolved into a subculture that is more and more removed from the actual scenario of imminent societal collapse. Even here in Northern California a lot of people engage in prepping/survivalism as a hobby and social group. Very few are the real tinfoil type.

Of course this supports the point even more that the article's premise is idiotic.

Funny enough you won't find many preppers in countries/regions that actually qualify as unstable, because it is very expensive to stockpile food reserves, water, medicine, generators, fuel, gold, valuables, guns, ammo, communication equipment. It is a very "first world" hobby.
I appologise in advance for probably using poor terminology..

Maybe I am a naive fool but IMHO the benifits of BI are reconciliation of the business model:

- reconciling processes
- reconciling data
- reconciling governance

Its a painful process to impliment and you will hit all of your compliance, governance and change management issues head on.

IMHO if you accept that this is what you are doing then its potentially very valuable for your business, but it must be done humbly with humilty as every single measure and many dimensions are each a project on their own.

The pretty graphs are largely irrelevant apart from making employees feel valued and to re-enforce abstractions via visual metaphors.

I get pissed off when end users are not trained in consuming the database warehouse through tools like excel or access. This project should include general IT education programme for most companies.

Also.. if the end users cannot use a pivot table then you need to teach them that and prototype a bunch of stuff in excel before you go anywhere near BI of any flavour.
Ha, right, thanks for that. It must have been the Monday as that's around the date as best I can remember and the time in the morning seems right too (it's been a while now and the grey cells are loaded with superfluous junk). ;-)

At the time the quake began I was still in bed (being a Monday I should have been up a getting ready for school - perhaps it was school holidays and that's why I thought it was a Saturday, I must check that up later).

I'm almost certain that I was asleep when it started and it woke me up (more evidence for school hollidays?). Initially I was confused and wondered where the almighty noise and rattling-type vibrations were coming from. My first reaction was that it was a jackhammer and the Council was digging up the street (an all too common occurrence as the asbestos cement water pipes broke frequently (yes, you read correctly, they were asbestos) - but all the noise and action seemed too localized to be in the street. I immediately jumped out of bed and tried to run across the bedroom (a very large room that I shared with my brother) and traversing the room was a bit of a task as my feet were slipping from under me. Even though I'd never experienced an earthquake previously it was immediately obvious to me what was going on by the time I was about one half meters from my bed. Being a techie even back then, as soon as I'd figured it out I stopped and watched everything that was happening - 'roof' dirt coming down from the cornice after it had separated from the wall, the clothes cupboard door rattling like crazy and the floor boards bouncing to the extent that it was difficult to walk (but standing still was OK).

I wasn't the slightest bit scared even the moment when I realized what was happening, if anything I had a kid's excitement of a new experience. I didn't try to escape out of the room either (methinks not a good move in hindsight), I simply watched from the center of my room until it was over. It's hard to be accurate about the quake's duration but I'd guess it was about 30 second, perhaps even 40 but that's unlikely as time dilates in circumstances like that. .

From the docs, I reckon I was about 90km from the epicenter. Similarly, the Wiki list of quakes is fascinating, I never realized there were that many.

I've never thought to look up the details previously as it hasn't been in the forefront of my mind until now. It's been an interesting experience down memory lane.
You’d need to sell the motherboard + CPU then.

And eventually new motherboards will come up that are not compatible with your case or accessories.
Oxford defines prudent as "sensible and careful when you make judgements and decisions; avoiding unnecessary risks"

How can it be sensible if one thinks it's 'highly unlikely'?

If one is very rich, then prepping may be financially affordable, but that doesn't make it cognitively rational.
I think a lot of American TV and movies that we see from a young age tend to portray America as some combination of violent, corrupt, venal, frenetic, a struggle. For every thoughtful film or show where no-one brandishes a gun there must be hundreds more the opposite. We get everything you make here as fire hose of content all in the original language in Britain and even though it’s all make believe and most Americans are living normal lives just like most Brits, I think it must have some affect at some level. It’s your brand perception, if you like. I think it probably affects Americans as well but you can’t rationalise it as something that happens somewhere else.
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Now that every first world country has vaccine doses in excess of demand, I think a better alternative to all these restrictions would be to just give the voluntarily unvaccinated a lower priority during triage if they need a hospital bed for a COVID infection.

Of course, efforts should be made to expand capacity (my government was unfortunately too incompetent train more medical staff for this since the start of the pandemic).

Obviously, these people think that the disease is less dangerous than the vaccine. They should bear the consequences of their choice. Let's not endanger other's lives/prolong their suffering (surgeries are already being delayed again in my country).

I realize this could be a slippery slope, e.g. someone could argue that we should give lower priority to smokers, obese, or addicted people.
However, the vaccine does not require any lifestyle changes and at this point it has already been given to billions and has shown a much lower rate of severe side effects than the disease.
I have known some preppers and I think there's a pretty clear line when it crosses into a paranoia, and begins consuming your life. A rich person building a panic room or even a very rich person buying an island is a different from somebody of humble means who eschews working, to live in the boondocks and stockpile ammo and food. But I don't think money itself is the divisor; a modestly wealthy person buying an island to escape Armageddon might also qualify.
I hate Goodreads and want it to die
> are skeptics even making predictions?

I think that this is their point: predictions cannot be made with our current understanding of climate.
> How can it be sensible if one thinks it's 'highly unlikely'?

Hedging a highly unlikely situation can still be sensible. Those two things are definitely not mutually exclusive.

If all your net worth is tied up in your house, it's probably sensible and rational to get fire insurance on your house, even if it's highly unlikely that your house will burn down. This question has been studied extensively in utility theory.
I think your model of how restaurant ratings should work has very little to do with how people decide what or where to eat. I'd rather think about asking someone to choose between two restaurants repeatedly (over time), and see how often they say one or the other. You can give the restaurants Elo ratings if you really want to. That's still not what's happening most of the time, but it's much closer. Or, as I suggested earlier, you could try to work with a satiety model and look at how long someone goes between visits to a particular restaurant.

> [Do you really think t]hat the whole idea of Michelin stars is entirely nonsense?

I think the perspective some other comments have taken, that there's more to food quality than whether you like it, is entirely nonsense. I don't think the concept of rating is nonsense; everyone likes some things more than other things. But I think your attempt to interpret restaurant ratings doesn't look very good.

> That food quality reduces entirely to variety?

No. But I'm happy to state that the union of Tim Horton's menu with McDonalds' is superior to either alone.
I would hate to type my language in English letters. Which English letter do I use for ח? How about ע? What about needing to add a צירי to a letter? How about the occasional RLM mark?

And forget about the technical aspects, the cultural aspects of suggesting to use a foreign alphabet to write in one's native language is insulting. This is a technique often used by conquerors, just ask any southern ex-Soviet state. Even if the Japanese have accepted it due to technical limitations.
I can't remember where I heard about this, but isn't there some kind of "surgeon model" where you have one star player do the majority of work, and everyone else is support staff? It's a pattern that emerges, and not a bad thing to encourage, as long as it's acknowledged. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. But in college, usually everyone has to be graded equally (akin to everyone being paid equally). Administrative and support work is still important, because without it, a surgery or a project won't succeed. Kinda like the 10x dev thing, but for group dynamics in general.
At least for me, The Framework is the laptop I wanted... in 2009 when I was still on PC.

After that, I bought a MacBook Pro and never thought about hardware ever again, except when I bought my second MacBook 7 years later.

Apple s durability and quality go a long way. And it’s « standardization » means it’s actually quite easy to replace batteries for example.
Saxon preppers expecting apocalypse, the title phrases it like a fact.
Ah right. Was thinking of Nano. As alluded to in the sibling comment, Xaviers seem to be officially out of stock.
I get bored of trance wayy faster than lofi. Maybe you just need to check out a different lofi genre? There are huge variations
I have fiber optics internet connection at home, and my 4 year old MacBook Pro does consistently over 500Mbps (peaks close to 700Mbps) over WiFi. Granted, it’s still not 1Gbps, but I can’t think of any regular scenario where it would make a significant difference.

You just need a good wireless router.
This _can_ be true, but GNOME (for example) have drastically changed their UI paradigm in that time window.

It's quite nice as a power user, I use terminals and.. overall terminals and tiling window managers barely change.

But the pace of change can be jarring, and sometimes controversial:

GNOME2->3

init->systemd

alsa->pulse->pipewire

ifconfig->ip

NetworkManager->iwctl

A lot of the ergonomics _do_ change with Linux if you're not paying attention.

And this isn't to mention the default desktop manager changing between major versions of popular distros like ubuntu.
Still, I have to say that I have eaten in restaurants where after I had to conclude: I had better gone to McDonalds :p
The wife is the hero of this story. Take good care of her. She's been patient and supportive, and I'm glad that you're aware of it.
I am equally disappointed.. Would be surprised, but not verrry, if “people” use this for mining.

EDIT: would you be satisfied with a Jetson Nano combined with the hack mentioned by consp in another comment? (I would be)
Maybe the chipset only supports allows up to four USB-C ports? Seems like USB-C hubs are few and far between (I finally snagged one last summer after looking for over a year), so maybe hub chipsets are hard to come by and difficult to design around?
You know, it's reassuring to hear that others' palates aren't a visage of sophistication, as opposed to just pretending to understand all of the nuance in every dish. The alternative feels disingenuous, much like certain bits of the wine culture.

It's amazing that some people do and many of the better chefs out there probably are among these people, but it's also perfectly fine not to be that way. Some people (myself included) are just satisfied by simpler food!

I guess your analogy of well written C code is also very apt, since some people would optimize their programs for every bit of performance and efficient memory utilization that they can, but other times people just want something good enough and thus would use Java/.NET to get 80% of the way there.
I agree, but want to add that I think 'prepping' is in my genes and also in the genes of many of the settlers who left Europe and colonized the new world: They left because they did not trust a king or a church.

They romanticized self sufficient farming. Isn't that 'prepping' taken to the extreme ?
I live 2M above sea level and 100M from the pacific ocean in New Zealand, the last two biggies I was out of my home and 10KM down the road before the aftershocks finished.. Tsunamis can also be pretty dangerous :-)
clang and Visual C++ support borrow checking in their C++ static analysers.

However it is pretty much a proof of concept with plenty of false positives on their current state.
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That's about the Muppets Show, not Sesame Street.
And even knowing the percentage of peepers in a country doesn’t tell you much about the stability of said country; social factors can affect that rate independent of how likely a collapse is.
Karl Friston’s dynamic causal modeling approach in neuroimaging has been doing this Volterra kernel NVAR thing for years now. Interesting that it’s being used more broadly, but surprising to call it reservoir computing.
While it might slow down the site, is it possible for a list of previous threads to added by a bot?
Yeah, but people who use Haimer indicators or Audi cars constantly talk about how great they are, while people who use ABAP (SAP's flagship language) constantly talk about how shitty it is. SAP is not the Audi or even the Volkswagen of software; it's the Yugo.

I'm curious why the grandparent thinks Germany is giving up on high tech. From afar Germany looks like a high-tech powerhouse, including in software.

Ableton, Star Division, Revision (the demo party), and the Chaos Computer Club are much better exemplars of the German software scene than SAP.
Please no. It isn't the state's job to save us from ourselves. More and more of our rights are slipping away because we need to protect the children.

If you're asking how can we dave the most lives, you're asking the wrong question. You shouod be wondering how we preserve the most liberty.
The Swedish government advises its citizens to become preppers[1].

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Germans do the same.

[1] https://www.dinsakerhet.se/siteassets/dinsakerhet.se/broschy...
don't know why you're being downvoted. i agree with you. you want the best possible people wanting to do this job, without having to sacrifice their compensation relative to the private sector. i think this works well for singapore.
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I’ve looked at Speedify. In fact, I signed up for service with them on my iPad and iPhone as soon as I heard about their service years ago. It doesn’t really get you any higher speed (at least, not on download), what it gets you is a more robust network connection with failover if the primary goes down, although I do see a speed improvement for upload.

On the software-only router side of the house, Speedify at least let’s you tie your multiple links together and get you a more reliable connection. But true aggregation (like LACP) requires that all links be of exactly the same speed — e.g., you do link aggregation on multiple Ethernet ports that are connected to the same switch, and while no one connection will have bandwidth greater than a single Ethernet port, you will have be able to have multiple connections that can all achieve that same level of speed. Their style of bonding isn’t the same thing.

I’ve also looked at OpenMPTCPRouter. On paper, it looks like a better solution to me than Speedify, but in practice it’s not designed to handle multiple different upstream connections with varying levels of performance. I’ve chatted with the author, who lives in France and his ISP connection is 1.25 gigabits per second, so this hasn’t been a priority. He did say that this was going to be something he was going to start working on soon, however.

So, I might be forced to go with something like a six port Protectli pfSense or OPNSense router plus Speedify, at least until I can get something better.
There are people who "change" even after marriage. My father had one such experience when he decided to get married again and his new wife asked him to put her in the house contract as an equal owner. He didn't take that well because, she asked barely a week after the marriage.

For what it's worth, that was his second attempt to marry someone after he broke up with my mother. The first was with a woman who hated me in absurd levels to the point that she would attempt to choke me and throw knives at me because (according to my father, I was too young to actually engage her in any form of discussion) I reminded her of his previous relationship. And all that happened after 4 years of him being in a casual relationship with her.

Anyways, I don't know if I would call it changing or rather that there are people who try to hide their true colors until I get what they want.
Qemu has a native changed blocks API like vmware, but I'm not sure of anything that uses it extensively (besides oroxmox backup server pointing at a oroxmox server).

https://lwn.net/Articles/837053/

Also you can always do the fsfreeze yourself (which is what qemu agent can do, and is used by proxmox backup server).
Redefining Firmware Security
Show HN: Checkerboard Programming – write code to match checkerboard patterns
This has happened with phishing emails - we recently had one at my workplace. Chrome's spoofing protection really helped us out with that one as even if you didn't notice it in the mail, the big blaring xn-- was enough for most people to realise it was phishing.
To me that is just an iteration on first you makes it run then you make it right. And to make it run you start by the simplest approach. And building your own model is generally not the simplest however, it can be. There are some areas where you should start with ml. Most importantly Vison and some NLP, whenever a pretrained model for your task exists.
I think the bib gourmand is the hidden star of the Michelin guide. It is just good food at a good price and it is much less known so you don't have to deal with the throngs that stars attract. It is more extensive too so there are always options.
Seems like the link that they shared leads to the site's favicon.

I think this is the correct one: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/09/le-cinq...
It's similar in Norway. There's a government service (IDporten) which aggregates a few commercial offerings (most notably BankID, a two factor auth scheme used by the banks). But it's very restricted who gets to use these services.
I think I might know what the OP means by respect. You see it in Thai dev recruitment ads, they sometimes mandate developers to be 27 years old or younger, the implication seems to be that if you are still a developer by the time you're 28, then there must be something wrong with you. It can be seen as something akin to an admin role, for which more than two years experience would be pointless.

I never experienced that in London, quite the opposite, devs have a mystic status as the person who probably earns more than anyone else, doing something no one understands and still wears a t-shirt to work.

I do see the low respect attitude in Paris a little though (or perhaps it's simply budget constraints). The best development is the cheapest, for instance there are a lot more react native gigs here where they want one person to do both an iOS and an Android app, and the contract is for 3 months. I don't touch those with a barge pole because they'll end up with junk that barely works of course
Aside: I find it very annoying when people talk to children in a patronizing way as if they're stupid. Children can certainly see things different but they're not stupid. When I was a scout leader I generally talked to children as if they were adults – although I did take care to phrase things carefully, although not going as far as Mr. Rogers – and this works quite well.
It isn't. Funding in first half of 2021 was larger than the whole of 2020...and London in 2020 was already many multiples than Paris. Additionally, the UK has a large startup scene outside London. Manchester was roughly equal to Amsterdam in 2020, it grew significantly in 2021 and is likely going to approach top-tier mainland cities soon. Edinburgh and Belfast are growing fast.

It isn't even close (tbh, the UK isn't really competing with the EU anymore...the EU is just so far behind).

Btw, the reason why people have moved out of Silicon Roundabout is the same reason banks moved out of Canary Wharf. Rents too high, office space not growing fast enough (Google moved into Holborn, outgrew that, moved to Victoria, outgrew that, and is now building a huge new office in King's Cross). VC funding is up something like 15x since the Roundabout was created, the growth was just too rapid for such a small area.
How working for a mid-sized company helped me grow in my career
East Germany did not "collapse" in any sense relevant to a discussion about preppers. It peacefully re-unified with West Germany and was never in anything resembling a state of anarchy.
This is highly project specific. Go is not suitable for everything. Rust is designed as a C++ replacement not a language for writing backends. Even though a whole lot of effort was put into this space. Go is very good at writing backends, Rust is very good at replacing C++. Everything else the waters get much muddier.
If you can afford it, I'm sure the US offers the best medical treatment in the world. Eventually it's often mistaken with the health system.
Most things in Japan seem to come with less pretense.