skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if Reddit would be what it is today without imgur.

It would probably be different, but not worse or better. I was there when Imgur launched, and at the time we thanked Imgur for dealing with the crap of hosting images (checking for child porn, dealing with DMCA notices and other copyright and privacy issues, etc). Had they not existed, reddit would have just done that ourselves.

Eventually reddit did do that themselves, but by then Imgur had their own community. I suspect some of those people would still be on reddit.
>I'm reading a biography of Eisenhower

Which one, out of curiosity?

I like reading/listening to biographies, so I'm always interested in good recommendations.
I'm in the process of building a programming language for UI designers, and realized that diffing the AST (or some other kind of object notation) would be far more useful and understandable. I'll probably be digging into this exact problem within the next year or so.
There is a shitload of porn on Imgur. Is Medialab going to do the Silicon Valley Puritan investor purge on it?
Germany has the 2nd largest military in Europe, just slight smaller than France.[1]

However comparing it to a superpower is nonsensical. The US has the 3rd largest military in the world, beaten only by India and China who have populations in the billions.

But just below the US is Russia with the 4h largest military in the world, and the largest (by a huge margin) on the European continent.

Now the era of colonialism was only possible due to vast technological differences between the two parties, and the good luck of the Europeans finding empires in turmoil (Songhai, Benin, Aztecs, China, etc.). It’s extremely difficult to subjugate much less rule a far off colony. The US couldn’t even manage it with Afghanistan so I doubt they’d have much luck with Germany.

On the other hand, it’s much easier to conquer your neighbor, push them back and simply put your own people in place. Russia did that for about 50 years and ruled half of Europe. I would wager Germans have more to fear from a revived Russia run by an KGB agent who grew up during the time of Empire, than a US who was most recently run by a television reality show host.

1. https://rlist.io/l/largest-militaries-in-europe
The US is a set of entrenched interests that are now working in concert with the government. The government doesn't have to do things directly. They just have the companies do it.

Stop focusing on the government and look at how the whole system works. Post something critical of a government official and it gets censored. It happens on Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Hacker News, Nextdoor, YouTube, etc... We aren't talking Trump or antivaxxers either.
What you need is https://www.visidata.org/
The scattering matrix predicts the distribution of output particle momenta given input particle moments and output particles.

The scattering matrix is calculated by including all the possible interactions you expect. So a matrix including some intermediate C will be different from one that does not.

Then you can line up what you actually observe and select the matrix that most accurately describes it.
Tyrants deserve bullet holes.
> to the person you are trying to get to sign up

I am not trying to get you to sign uuuuuup!

> Anyway, you can write your site however you want, but so can anyone share their thoughts.

This is very fair.
It seems likely this was a suicide by someone with a good idea of what happens when you very rapidly yank the single control rod from a reactor.

That said, no more single control rods...
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What if they think that their current platform does do that? Scary thought.
Update: I don't say that any more.
Why would anyone willfully give their bio-metrics to China?
TBH, I would avoid this service on the grounds it seems to be run by one person (to what extent its just clever self promotion hinges on charitable interpretation) -- this blurb whilst humorous is on line with the Discord cutesy error messages. It really hammers home this is not in the big leagues (or the minor leagues rather) and if you are using this service, you should be fine with that. However charging customers for it is interesting since that's a sure source of customer pressure via expectation.
The second invasion was on a false pretense of WMDs. The government in concert with the media manipulated and deceived the public.

You are a pawn. Pawns have NO value in of themselves. They are used solely to advance the cause of a side. They will be sacrificed to do
so.

You can take solace in identifying with an entity that cares for you not
one iota.

Waitbutwhy writes extensively about this phenomenon. It is called tribalism and delusion.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html

us vs them, good vs evil

It has all the hallmarks.

"A superglue story also jacks up the Us > Them values. The story needs to be all about good guys and bad guys, with a crisp, clear distinction between the two. The good guys must be good in every way—in knowledge, talent, motivation, and virtue. They’re good now, they were always good in the past, and they’ll continue to be good in the future. The bad guys are the opposite—they are and always have been stupid, ignorant, malicious, and morally backwards. Strife between the good guys and bad guys is always the fault of the bad guys"
Ferrari Hires Jony Ive
I guess if this helps them mass produce one chip design and sell upgrades according to what various customers want, then that is great.
> Are children less likely to spread the disease than adults?

Yes, because you have to be infected in the first place, which kids are less likely to be, and if you are infected, your contagiousness is proportional to how sick you are, and since kids are often less sick and often asymptomatic, they also spread it less.
Not only that, but imagine you realize there is a bug in the parsing tool. Now you have to go back and re-parse the code, or otherwise just deal with a bad history forever. Suddenly you’re storing text again.
Back in the early 2000's Visual Age for Java allowed you to version individual methods. Since Visual Age for Java was derived from Visual Age for Smalltalk (and was actually written in Smalltalk) I suppose it inherited the capability from there.
I love your marketing patter! Cracking up reading some of this.

If I end up stealing your style for something, I owe you a beer.
For the last several decades it have been pretty much established that the cheapest way to operate a energy grid is to use renewables as a way to produce absolute cheapest energy when weather conditions is around optimal, and then to use cheap fossil fuels when the weather turns non-optimal and output goes below demand. A grid that only operated on fossil fuels would just be more expensive.

People arguing against this setup usually lift nuclear as the contender, as it is not effected by changing weather nor release poisonous emissions into the air. In EU there is also the usual argument of being less dependent on Russia and the middle east for energy. It thus sounds odd that someone would argue in favor of a grid with only fossil fuels, as that would just be more expensive compared to one that combines fossil fuel with renewable with no gained benefits.
But how much of the "value" of the chain "as a platform for speculation" is simply the hype around crypto? (Which is, in large part, driven by speculation-driven rising prices of cryptocurrencies.)

For example, anyone could have sold the equivalent of NFTs decades ago using a centralized ledger (perhaps using multiple trusted third parties for security). That didn't happen.

Likewise, it's pretty clear that if you have a startup idea that could be implemented with or without crypto, you get a valuation boost if you take the crypto route. (Hello Long Blockchain Corp.)

So: speculation-driven cryptocurrency prices rise -> entire crypto sector hyped to the moon -> startups move in to collect hype-driven investment -> smart contract activity observed -> this "proof" of utility drives more hype.

And of course there are other intersecting loops.
By making this post on a US based platform you have proved his point.
Exactly where did I suggest using a single mysql instance or bandaiding a fleet of them together?

Clickhouse vastly outperforms and outscales Scylla with a fraction of the hardware and cost.
20% of my income goes on fuel and I'm a low-fuel user, I live on a budget of walking and getting the bus is a treat.

For me gas prices in the UK, what really messed me up was the standing charges (daily charge for infrastructure) circa 2006 they doubled that but lowered the unit price which for the average family of 4 usage, worked out as a saving of £100 a year. Though as a single person, that change cost me near on £100 a year in extra standing charge and a saving of unit cost of £20 a year. I just find it annoying how most fuel usage pricing can and does actually penalise responsible low-usage users. Sure the more you buy the cheaper things get but when you get to climate, wear and tear upon the infrastructure - those users who don't have to worry about the money or have any care are reward by a fixed impact cost upon infrastructure - even if they use 10x more than somebody else - they both pay the same. Then the more they use - then costs become cheaper for them.

Pro-tip - slow baking a baked potatoes in the oven is a good meal that also warms the home so double usage of that fuel.

What would I change - well I'd quota people - additional quota's for medical conditions and other variable but the gist would be - fuel you use up to that quota then you pay X price per unit and the standing charge is dropped and worked into the price. Now, after you use your quota - you pay extra per unit of fuel. That way those who do the most impact are more fairly paying for it. Sadly it won't happen, but then - some serious action is needed upon climate change.

FWIW when I was more fiscally able (energy usage less than 1% of income)- my fuel usage was the same heating wise - always been a jumper if needed and going for a brisk walk does wonders for feeling warm.
They do. A lot of people do. Scary reality.
I see enterprises commonly mess up the planning stage.

They take the waterfall approach, what do we need to get done by X to achieve goal Y. Then apply tasks/actions to get it done to people who are at a meeting. Following this step they shift over to scrum sprints, routines and measures to give management comfort on whether its track or not.

The alternate might be, what is the highest value items that we can achieve with this group of people.

Generally speaking, if the thing that is meant to help you get to value becomes more of a focus then you're in a spot of bother
>I'm still a sarcastic asshole.

Beats being a boring asshole like me! :P

(And thank you for the kind plug)
You’ll be pleased to know, then, that JMS is showrunner and actively writing the pilot:

> “You cannot step in the same river twice, for the river has changed, and you have changed.” In the years since B5, I’ve done a ton of other TV shows and movies, adding an equal number of tools to my toolbox, all of which I can bring to bear on one singular question: if I were creating Babylon 5 today, for the first time, knowing what I now know as a writer, what would it look like? How would it use all the storytelling tools and technological resources available in 2021 that were not on hand then?

https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1442621159221043202?s...

If you haven’t seen his recent work Sense8, I highly recommend it (though practically all content warnings apply in spades). It’s a show about many things, but most relevant to potential success on the CW, it’s a show about young adults from different walks of life coming together to do heroic things and understand themselves through empathy with others. If anyone can find the balance that Babylon 5 deserves, and find a way to make it maximally relevant in a time we need to hear stories of heroic empathy, it’s JMS with everything he’s learned. I’m incredibly stoked.
> China made a pretty simple deal with foreign companies: you get to access our massive pool of cheap labor, and in return, you transfer some amount of technology to a local partner.

China vigorously denies that there was ever such a deal. If you recognize this as the status quo, it speaks against your first point: this is not an official policy, and it never was. Any such requirement was always entirely unofficial, and an example of what you call theoretical pressure.
If you steal my style, I'm coming for you.
No matter what IBM does, it smells like FORTRAN.

Jokes aside. Anyone knows what software did they use back in the days to write such beautiful manuals with keycaps and other icons ? Was it TeX, troff or anything alike ? I have old Atari manuals printed on thick glossy paper, they look quite similar and are pretty cool to read and keep in hands.
Same with MacArthur's obsession with using nuclear weapons in North Korea. If he had been given a free hand in 1951, it's very possible that the country would be in better shape today, with less net suffering.

(Well, OK, maybe don't let him create a DMZ at the Chinese border and poison it permanently with radioactive cobalt, as some accounts say he wanted to do.)
It's never whataboutism to replace US with China. People often love the whataboutism argument, but logically it only applies when it's a digression of the original issue. A citizen applies for FOIA request shouldn't be answered 'see what China is doing'. In terms of global politics, comparing the major players is definitely valid.
> ashamed of what Imgur has become?

Can anyone explain what's the problem with Imgur?
Chuck it behind Cloudflare and take advantage of the Bandwidth Alliance

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/

If you become popular replace the orange cloud with a Worker. Different TOS and the CEO said it's cool to use workers in this way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660
Sorry to be overly negative/confrontational/whatever, but an annoyingly frequent (for me...once a quarter or so) part of my own "what does this engineering boss do all day" is push back on people who have no idea what my team does every day or how they do it, or what makes them as productive as they are or even what the output eventually is, drop by to tell me what they think I should be doing (usually accompanied by a rep from the PMO and shilling a new tool to enable said 'way I should be doing it').

If all you have is a hammer...

On the other hand, I get a lot of managers who ask my opinion about how they are running things, which for me starts with "why did you make the decisions you made up to now and tell me what is or is not working", not "let me give you my dissertation on the One True Way...".

IMHO he should devote less meeting time to each of them or merge some of the meetings.

Fair enough, "less time in meetings" is always something to pursue. Perhaps aggressively, even ruthlessly. Lawyers schedule meetings in 6m increments and I've considered it. Unless the OP can't, for any number of reasons. Which we don't know.

N.B. - I get lots of time back teaching people that if you think you only need 15m, then it's pretty easy to only schedule 15m and not 30m just because it's the default (in Outlook).

would you schedule a separate daily standup for each of the task/project small-t team you're supervising

Since 'standup' implies things that do not apply to how my team organizes work, I'm pretty sure 'no'. You'd need to know that to advise. Kinda my point.

and organize separate social events for each of your "groups of teammates" as OP is doing

I see:

4:30 PM — Going-away get together for team #2 member

Which in no way implies separate social events.

If you mean:

9:00 AM — Holidays peak preparation meeting for team #1
1:00 PM — Holidays peak preparation meeting for team #2

I guess it could be social. But since it explicitly says "peak", I'm slightly skeptical that in the real world it means anything other than organizing operational coverage when lots of people are taking time off for whatever they're working on.

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
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Yeah, it was a bit strange unit to me as well. You're correct about the interpretation.

This model resolution isn't fine enough (~28km) to account for urban heat island effect - all the changes are coming from large-scale climate change.

Thanks for the suggestion about adding deg F. Will do.
Basically the issue I had with it is that they seem to make the site less and less usable as an image host. They used to have (or at least allow) a way to upload images from the command line, but mine stopped working at some point, I couldn't find the page with all my images, they started putting comments on stuff I posted, things like that.

It had turned into a social network when I just wanted a place to send a screenshot to a friend, which I was very dissatisfied about.
Twitch leak suggests major response to streaming site’s “hate mob” issues
The book https://www.realtimerendering.com/ is a great introduction. And, that site links several other great books that are available as free and legal downloads.
It's useful for FB to let an outside agency to getting backdoor data because it keeps them distanced from whatever outcome that group comes up with, with plausible deniability that FB "didn't allow" that group to mine their data.

That's worth a lot if FB have a shared agenda.
This sort of whataboutism isn't an argument, but a concession to the person you're replying to. Instead of meeting an example with a counter, all you've done in this conversation is show that there are now TWO examples.
Have you been able to use a drawing app different from the stock one? I own the nova3 and nothing else refreshes the screen properly.
I see humor in the entire project, and am okay with this. Given Stavros' clear intent to be funny and make it abundantly clear what _isn't_ being promised, it's pretty great.

I mean c'mon - have a little fun.

At any rate it's classic absurdist marketing, and I approve.

Besides, I don't read the TOS of most other services. Why would I start now?
If you're a Tier 1, then bandwidth is free by definition.
It's worse because I'm an American and China is a superpower competing rival to the US, not an ally. My interests accordingly are aligned with China not being able to hoover up all US data and intellectual property.

The US and China are closer to being at war than they are to being allies in the sense that the US and Britain or Germany are allies.

The US and Germany, for example, have a more tense relationship at present than, say, 30 or 40 years ago. And yet we'd still send a million soldiers over there to help defend them if Russia decided to march west again with their eyes on Berlin. That's because they're an ally. The same is true of many other nations, like Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Poland, and so on.

I don't believe for a second anyone in this thread is actually confused in the way in which they're pretending to be confused, when it comes to whether one would prefer the US or China to be the top dog of espionage globally. It almost entirely depends on whether you're in the US or in a liberal democracy allied with the US or in China (or one of its few allies).
I mean, that’s all very well, but it’s literally one of only two formats with native support in the browser. So there’s plenty of times you don’t really have any choice other than to hammer that screw in.
OutSystems: The Journey to a $9.5B Valuation
In practise, doesn't increasing the coverage highly correlate with increasing the test suite size, therefore proving the effectiveness?

Conversely, I struggle to think how coverage could be increased significantly without increasing the test suite size in reality.
All the money gained from scraping Whatsapp users' metadata, I'm sure. Or is it the lying about video metrics for 2 years? Hard to tell.
As with the ongoing global energy and CPU manufacturing crises, we can clearly see that a significant proportion of what we call productivity improvement has actually come from identifying and cutting corners, in manufacturing, logistics, and commerce. We can buy goods more cheaply because customers don't care about an in-store experience. A car costs less if the buyer is willing to wait several months for it, instead of the car sitting in the dealership lot. But a lot of the corners we have cut are actually things we didn't think we'd have to face, or things we thought we'd muddle through somehow, or just costs we handed off to people who weren't in a good position to complain. A lot of people seem to think that chaos and suffering are great catalysts of innovation, and not just chaos and suffering. We are now enjoying the fruits of having terminated our health insurance policy because we weren't sick at the time and our car insurance policy because we hadn't crashed the car yet.
Perhaps you store the invalid syntax portion as an in-tree comment until it's valid syntax.
I read in the news that there is plenty of fuel available but no truck drivers to transport it. UK is offering 3000+ emergency visa for truck drivers. The labor supply for truck drivers suddenly dissapeared but we have no idea why.
I don't think anyone is saying it's easy - the complaint seems to more be that it creates no value (unlike those hard working technologists).
I agree that it should be left as it was, it told everything that wanted to tell.

As for being the counterpoint to ST, the elevator scene between G'Kar and Londo is the last nail in the coffin. Not only that, it showed great dissent and conflict inside the human race (mars went though a secession, the telepaths are creepy like X-men's Magneto).

As for Delen, you right. But every sci-fi will have space elfs, plus I liked the Minbari being Zen buddhists from space.
Great! Now I don't have to worry about how I'm getting that beer to you.
> They already enforce other practices top down like hiring etc, so if they had data saying that mandating Scrum would make the company X% more efficient they would absolutely do it.

lol, as if their top-down hiring practices are at all driven by concerns for company efficiency.
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Make sure to actively invest in the relationships that are important to you. It's easy to take them for granted without realizing you are doing so. That might be your spouse, your parents, your siblings, your close friends, your kids. Make time for them whenever possible -- you don't want to wake up one day and realize you missed out on having a relationship with the people that matter.
> I would mention that you can find an equal amount of controversies, if not vast amounts more, about the US government,

Whataboutism isn't an argument but a concession to the person you're replying to.
meanwhile, the usability of the site gets worse by the day...very clunky these days...this article sounds like wall st vaporware hype...all these big companies get worse on the core competencies the bigger they get