skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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How Your Company can bounce back when a product launch doesn't go as planned
My view is shaped by the observation that libraries in my neck of the woods in fact attach an account balance to your card. You can pay your balance self-serve using a terminal that accepts bank cards.
Exceptions always have a cost. What happened with many C++ runtimes is that they moved the execution cost of exceptions almost entirely into the exception raising mechanism so that the path of execution that does not raise exceptions has no overhead due to exceptions. This was not the case with the Python runtime.

The "zero cost" implementation for C++ exceptions in the case of ELF binaries means storing a bunch of static (compile-time generated) data regarding CPU register state changes for each function in a table indexed by function address offset within the DSO. When a "throw" expression is executed, the execution stack is crawled and that table evaluated for each function encountered until an appropriate "landing pad" (eg. a matching "catch" clause) is found, and then the stack is unwound by interpreting the function table contents to step through the various CPU states in reverse order, executing destructors as required. It's just like sufficiently advanced technology. In the case of no "throw" expression, there is no extra CPU cycles spent. This trades off execution time for extra memory storage in the no-exception case and more CPU cycles in the exception case.

As I understand it, the Python "compiler" just generates a bunch of straight-line code and decision statements so that when a function returns, its result is checked and if the result is that an exception was thrown it jumps to the local handling code otherwise it jumps to the local non-exception code. The price for handling exceptions is always paid all the way up the stack for every function call made.

Because exceptions are a fundamental control-flow mechanism in Python (unlike in C++, where they should only be used for exceptional control flow), I'm not sure if there will be a net benefit to "zero cost" exceptions. I guess they should try it and measure the difference under various scenarios and make an informed decision based on evidence.
Taking CO2 "out of the sky" will naturally be seen as a way of offsetting fossil-fuel consumption. It would reduce the incentives to stop digging-up fossil fuels.

This doesn't just apply to mining/drilling companies; it applies to all of us. We all need energy - individuals, our employers, our suppliers. None of us want to pay a lot of money for that energy; even eco-nutters will blench at the prospect of higher bills or taxes.

So I'm against all excuses for mining and burning fossils. I'm against offsetting and (feeble attempts at) CC&S. And I'm against attempts to reduce emissions by means of taxes and regulation - that's all very well, but many places in the world have quite weak law enforcement, and many large countries seem to be perfectly OK with building new coal-fired power stations.

Instead, we need to just stop digging up and burning fossils. EVs, solar and wind-power, enery storage systems, CHP systems and so on can't (easily) be used as excuses for continued fossil energy generation.

Frankly, I despair. The biggest producers of emissions is rich people. Rich people also have the greatest lobbying clout and the most influence on governments. Their pensions are invested in oil and gas companies. Even if an individual expresses support for climate-change mitigation, the manager of his pension fund may well have other views.

So I'm pretty certain that my grand-daughters are going to be faced with worse problems than we face today. The sooner we act, the easier and cheaper it will be; but evidently we are not willing to act, until we are face-to-face with death and apocalypse. That will be my legacy to my grand-daughters, I fear.
Post was just deleted and the archiver removed the links: https://warosu.org/g/thread/83691438, anyone have mirrors?
> No one who rents a normal apartment for 1 or 2 people will own a rotary hammer they only need for 1 day every 5 years - they'll rent a powerful one at a hardware store.

I got mine because renting it for 1 day was actually more expensive than just buying a cheap one new. Still works fine after 10 years.
Hey I'm not a diplomat but I believe the problem with this specific problem is that in the the case of 'right to clean environment' how to you protect your rights? Do you sue your neighbor for litter or the company down the street for emissions? How do you prove that emissions are out of control? Also how do developing nations who may not have the legal strength who are just as affected by pollution from developed nations exercise their rights?

Now the question of a slippery slope could be that with a right to clean environment developed nations could stifle growth and innovation in developing nations citing clean environment worries (maybe Nigeria and oil). This could go way deeper than oil however as any country trying to harvest any sort of natural resource can face scrutiny and potential action. In an extreme example developed nations could then say 'we will mine these resources because we can do it less intensively' robbing nations of potential nation building revenue. How would you combat this? Maybe a 'right to develop' and boom rights dilution and authoritative in nature. Perhaps am extreme example but extreme isn't too far with people involved.
This fails to raise an error if there is more than one object matching the given filters
In Paris you just have to take the metro or the train (they'd be most visible in train stations)
what's the minimum resource requirements for a minimal 1 micro-sized table, and very low traffic? Is it in the magnitude of 100s of MB and tens of a vcore ? or .. ?
Don't they have helpers like gamers do?
No it's surprising because austerity was the Tory platform until Boris Johnson.
I believe that such modality should be provided by the browser or even the protocol itself.
I'll step into that role then. I am a member of some Facebook groups that have been hugely helpful on a personal level. The community page software may not be perfect, but it is accessible and can bring together a really heterogeneous user base with diverse perspectives, much more so than Reddit. The groups pages are entirely separate from the toxic feed. I would be absolutely bummed if they were to blink out of existence.
Singapore's shiny police state reminds me of a zoo for humans. Animals in zoos don't reproduce as much either.
These are all actually good advice. Even "Avoid fields for communication between methods" although there are enough cases where it's better than the proposed alternative: when you have the method's implementation split into 10 private methods that need to pass 4-5 different pieces of data (for a total of 10-15 pieces) between each other, it's easier to just invent a private Context object, shove the data into its fields, attach those methods to it, and implement the public method as "return = new Context(...).doWork();".
So, anecdotally, the most amoral programmers that I've ever worked with have ended up at Facebook. I'm sure there are decent people there, but I couldn't personally work there in good conscience.
Incorrect. The RDA and TUL amounts for vitamin D are wrong. 10k IU/day is safe. Dr. Fauci takes 6k IU/day.

My levels of 25(OH)D3 are optimal. It takes slightly over what the real average TUL should be because of my mass and apparently poor absorption.

Edit: Cortisol levels are fine. I also had a complete HPA/G/T workup by an endocrinologist. The results were unremarkable. I even had testing for pheochromocytoma, although this does not rule out other types of adenomas.
I don't think so. Again, that's focused very much on semantics. If you dive in and really ask questions, outcomes are seen as the same, even if inputs are seen as different. Pollution is a problem, in their views, even if it isn't causing global warming.

The individuals (who I would note are actually very much in the minority) who steadfastly believe global warming isn't real, still identify that changes in species and/or weather patterns are happening.

It's not a stretch from there to mitigation. While they may not believe global warming exists, they do still understand that we need to make changes to our consumption, travel, and lifestyle patterns in order to ensure their children and grandchildren can have a planet worth living on.

I keep stressing global warming, because, in my experience, these individuals do not talk about climate change. They talk about global warming and how it's not a thing, even thought they identify that the weather is wetter and hotter sooner, then drier for longer periods of the year.
Many commenters on this story believe the main purpose of estimation is to assert when something will be done. Then they say "this is impossible" and call the whole exercise a waste of time, or management abuse.

I gotta tell you that unless you're working with absolute bozos, nobody is looking at estimates and saying "oh duh, I am betting the farm this will complete on that date."

Benefits of estimation that are more important that the date itself:

Enabling trade-off analysis: If you tell me the thing will be done in two months, I bucket the thing in my head as something that takes "a few months" as opposed to "weeks" or "years." Often that is enough to drive a build/pass decision on the feature.

Dependency visualization: If I don't ask you to estimate, you might just start coding. Estimation may force you to think about critical paths and dependencies, then we can plan for them to improve your chances of success.

Troubleshooting: why did we miss an estimate? A task was harder than we thought, that's ok. We missed a dependency, ok that's a prompt to think about those better next time. Developer keeps getting distracted, maybe we need to change something on the team. Estimation is just "calling a shot" which then enables us to (maybe) learn from missing it.

All those things are valuable even if the actual estimated date is missed, even by a lot.
I'm pretty sure that Critical Role isn't the main income for most people.

Also: 4.8M/24 people is still 200k per head. Even if you assume that various costs take 50% of the revenue, they're all still making 6 figures for a thing that's pretty much a side hustle for most of them.
indictment of the structure, more so than the individual.

It seems to me that someone who wants to change the way the country works should at least be able to do a little better with how their campaign works and treats it's people. Yes, the work is short term and I think people know that going in. But mistreatment & broken promises? Not acceptable. Again, for someone trying to change the country, changing those aspects of their campaign, where they have much more control, had better be easy.
Also, I thank you on behalf of your neighbors for reducing Wi-Fi interference. If only everyone would reduce power to the minimum needed to cover their living space, interference would be less and performance would be better.
I’m sure that if your ears are in the median shape/size/sensitivity, they work perfectly well. But not everybody is.

There was a whole discussion in the past about how Dolby Atmos doesn’t work for some people, for the exact same reason.

The purpose of my comment is to say “If ANC is fatiguing your ears, stop using it”. It’s a sign of problems; of ANC not working properly for you.
I am unfortunately still on Facebook - I moved to another continent in the last few years and it's the only way to keep track of people.

At least from my friends, everyone hates it, left, center and right-wing alike.
So what's the Plan 9 filesystem interface for GPUs and/or 3D acceleration?
Seems the above posting is botty. Text generated by one of those Ai influop language models? Anyway, you can decide for yourself if Plan 9 is for you by following along the 9SDF Boot Camp. They are two weeks in and the journey ends 10dec. A lot of quality of life experiences is lost stepping from a modern GNU Emacs/Linux/BSD platform to gain the 9p simplicity concept oriented connectivity. Apple could do worse than transition macOS from its FreeBSD foundation to Plan 9 coupling with a variety of new ISA. Compiling to multiple objtypes on Plan 9 would put a smile on Larry Tesler up there in heaven seated next to Steve Jobs doing a demo.
Gore won the popular vote in 2000 and HR Clinton won it in 2016. The only popular vote victory for a Republican post-Cold War was in 2004. Also, "deregulation" is typically an economic issue.
This seems insane to me. Any cabinet wider than 16" (or in extreme cases 24") is going to overlap with at least one stud. Why not screw into that stud? Any wood cabinet has a perfectly usable cross-piece for that purpose at both the top and bottom. If the cabinet is narrower than 16" I suppose you could chance it but I'd prefer to just move it sideways until it overlapped a stud.
He would do better running as a Libertarian IMO. There's been support for UBI within the LP for a while, the party simply lacks candidates with a compelling story.

In 2016 though, if the people who voted Green Party would have voted LP the LP would have earned 5% (instead it earn 3.5%) of the popular vote granting it full federal funding through the entire next election cycle.

It's the closest any third party has come to being validated in decades. During the 2020 cycle, both candidates were duds unfortunately and it showed in the voting.
IMHO, the Napoleonic Wars were the , given the people involved, inevitable conclusion of the Revolutionary Wars. And those were started by the First Coalition as a reaction to the French Revolution. So just as WW1 it is not all that easy who is responsible for those wars. Just look up the First Coalition for more details.
Since this is HN, I want to point out that they use Common Lisp and are a productive contributor to the CL community with open source. Congratulations!
I'm an American who grew up in the midwest.
I think that testing for drugs, especially cocaine, at C-level would be far more important than testing random employees, given the impact of their decision making. I've had and known friends with cokehead CEOs and it's fucking abysmal.
> What about comedy clubs? If I buy a ticket to see Dave Chappelle, who is clearly wealthy, am I sucker too?

If you would pay money for Dave to shout "Hey sbarre, thanks for the donation" from the stage, then you'd be doing what Twitch fans are doing.
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module has eMMC storage.

[ https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/compute-module-4/?varia... ]
10-slide deck convinced NEA to invest $20M in its first clinops startup
What are you suggesting is better about that way? More readable?
UN can't even provide the very first human right, the freedom of expression. Neither can prevent acts of illegal war. Hence, this is just cheap populism exploiting current hype on "green" agenda.
The way I like to put it is: try to make justifiable decisions, but don't ever second-guess yourself. To me that's essential self-respect.
If you squint a bit, that's not that far off of niche pro athlete money (especially given that the bottom end doesn't have the same discrete threshold that pro sports do). Per [0] the best-paid NHL players are making ~$10M/year, and I would expect the NHL to be more efficiently monetized than internet streamers (we know that making money as "talent" on the internet is a tough proposition).

[0] https://www.spotrac.com/nhl/rankings/
> The issue at hand here is not this resolution in itself. It's the fact that opening up human rights to "new" rights sets a precedent. And that precedent will be used by other countries to shift the language on human rights in a more authoritarian direction - or dilute human rights as such.

It occurs to me that this same argument can be used against anything that ought to be enshrined at the UN as a human right. An obvious example being loving who you want without regard to sex or gender.
How would someone control their cortisol levels? Maslow's hierarchy of needs, medical/pharma interventions, and/or something else?
Have you never needed to debug an issue that was only happening on production?
It gets into access to voting, which is quite controversial these days.
I have to ask, do you have an interest in ONDAT/StorageOS? Because you say they're a leader and yet I've never run into them, your account is two weeks old, and I see they've just started a twitter account, so it all kind of smells like a PR push.
I fully agree with you.

Thanks for this shard of realpolitik in this discussion among people disappointed that their hero turns out to not be the hero they thought. Who would have seen that coming?
Only reason I say it is bad is because the insider really know if this is going to perform well or not - SPACs have not traditionally done well and have left mom and pop // retail investors as the bag holders in many cases. I mean you could say what the pied piper of SPACS (Chamath Palihapitiya) said which is "do your own due diligence" but he was highly conflicted when he said that (hyping SPAC deals that have since shed significant value while make money on the initial transactions).

To be fair we still have to see how the SPACs from the last year perform over the next 5 years. My guess is that they went to the public markets when it was rich and retail investment was high though the future is unwritten.

I just wanted to correct your assertion that it was the wealthy that are paying for this, when in fact it is likely just retail investors who will hold the end result (whether good or bad).
Check out the Compute Module and something like the Piunora: https://www.crowdsupply.com/diodes-delight/piunora (bonus: you can also use NVMe storage).
They flout the GDPR, so why wouldn't they flout this?
Citizens and PRs of Singapore were always able to return to Singapore, even now.

The ones staying outside the country are doing so voluntarily. So I’m ok with how they counted it - if the US citizen population decreased due to people leaving and staying outside the country that seems like a fair measure.
You'll need a timestamp for your source mentioning noise cancelling. ANC damaging hearing sounds like nonsense to me. IEMs commonly result in similar sensations of pressure, even at safe listening levels.
Yeah, and what's wrong with that reaction? I'm supposed to just accept this stuff?

The blue collar workers are right too. They should be getting paid a lot more. Certainly not less than streamers. It's not fair and I refuse to accept it.

Come to think of it, advertisers seem to be a major cause of these distortions. They distort the value of activities that happen to have an audience. Yet another reason to block ads: help restore balance to society by ensuring people are properly rewarded for the actual value of their work instead of how many eyeballs they can summon.
It's not about sending the wrong arguments. In Python a function may support a variety of types in a single argument. But instead of querying the type and switching based on that, you often want to try to call a method and if you get an exception (because that method does not exist), try to call a different method that gets you what you need.

The advantage to this over checking the type is that you are still use duck typing. If you check the type then you can only support a specific set of classes.
Depends on your local legislations, but be careful that by default on torrents you are also sharing those files to others so you are also distributing stolen material, so it may have an impact on your potential "crime".
We could call games released on there Vaporware :)
This is on a different dimension.

Up to this point, in Python, exceptions were always checked, so they were "free" in the sense you were always paying for them anyhow. I remember many C++ programmers migrating to Python back in the ol' comp.lang.python days having this described to them. You don't have to worry about exception-heavy code, because since you're always paying for them anyhow, you might as well use them.

A lot of making CPython code run well works like that. You want to use as much of the stuff you're already always paying for anyhow, rather than reimplementing any of it in your own code.
That works out to $200k/year for each employee, which after you account for benefits is a solid middle class income, assuming they don't live in downtown San Francisco or something.

It's basically a regular job at that point.
Or, in other words -- you show me a calculated optimal span of control, and I can show you an individual at my company that would wreck it (either as too broad or too narrow).

Org design suffers from the same problem as economics and psychology: you're designing based on a fundamental discrete unit (a person) that's incredibly variable.

Except unlike the other two, you're typically not dealing in large enough numbers that you can handwave away differences and substitute averages.

Furthmore, any hierarchical org (which is to say, all, either formally or informally) exacerbates the problem in that you have some (variable!) individuals with even greater ability to influence the sum.

Which isn't to say it's hopeless, but is to say (to your point) that any approach needs flexibility and intuition.

Or as the author puts it: "As a result, you cannot predict how the humans in your organisation will react to your changes — not with perfect accuracy, at least. So the nature of org design demands that you iterate — that you introduce some set of changes, watch how those changes ripple out in organisational behaviour, and then either roll-back the change, or tweak in response to those observations."
How Is RChilli Resume Parser a Game Changer in Salesforce Ecosystem?
> Again something that used to work in Firefox.

Yeeep, I used it for a while: https://archive.is/ovRDX (addon no longer exists, it broke with Firefox Quantum)
If he's planning on endorsing candidates in other parties, that's probably an option.

OTOH, why take on all that baggage when it doesn't come with any votes? Probably makes more sense to recruit former LP and
Green figures to run under the new banner.
I wondered how much good you could do with an SQL linter that didn't have any access to the underlying schema, and the answer seems to be "mostly whitespace and capitalization issues".
>Clinton did practically nothing to advance drug legalization

Clinton tolerated the first medical marijuana program in the US when it was passed in California in 1996 (Prop 215). That was the first significant liberalization of drug laws since 1980; if the Feds had shut it down, the movement may have been significantly slowed.
Offers may have had relatively small equity - think 1%. So at most 10 - 15m. If you have better ideas and ability to build a company and execute not unreasonable to do own thing
Has anyone done any real due diligence on the company within the community? Do they have a really exciting path forward and serious traction at this point to warrant their price in the market?

I never trust the SPAC route - less rigorous detail and typically overhyped prospects. Would like to be corrected though.
I don't understand how it works. Even though it was explained, I don't think it is enough for the people to determine how the system works.
I see a lot of value of using separate users in both dev/test and production environments. That gives you an "easy" way to physically separate your database/schema into multiple databases with minimal changes to your application other than pointing your connection pools/config to the new database endpoint. We do this often - separating the task of breaking up our monolith databases with two phases - logical then physical.
previously on hn:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28755028
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28755257
Hello from Amsterdam!

I'm confused. Are you expecting me to spend hundreds of thousands of Euros to get together a team of lawyers and spend years litigating with Facebook?

It's not even clear if I have standing. And what damages would I get? $3.50?