skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
:) Nice try, but I'm afraid none of the data elements related to dates are zero-indexed (ie month 0, week 0, year 0, etc)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero

update: technically year 0 in ISO 8601 corresponds to year 1 BC
(2017)

Also, submitted yesterday and flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28849695

[flagged] Chernobyl’s Blown Up Reactor 4 Just Woke Up (historyofyesterday.com)

43 points by illuminated 12 hours ago | 85 comments
How do these benchmark? I’d like to know if the extra cost of the memory lookups is balanced by the smaller table and better cache locality.
Thanks for this feedback. Couple of points of clarification. The infrastructure interpretation happens at build/deploy time, not at execution time, so there isn't any additional tax. The deployment engine isn't open source, but we are evaluating ways to have optional eject paths. In terms of deployment across cloud providers, the abstractions we've built (and are working on) use all those fancy AWS managed services like DynamoDB. Our abstractions focus on use cases, not primitives, so when we eventually deploy to Azure, we'll be able to replicate the service using native services like Cosmos DB.
TL/DR: It's really hard to evaluate if a startup is succeeding or not :) He got a generous equity grant for one of the hottest companies and chose not to exercise them. This happens all the time.
To your point that AirBnB's and other global brands don't extend to most businesses, Facebook's recent outage provided such an experiment and indeed a lot of small businesses saw massive effects https://mashable.com/article/facebook-outage-small-business-...
1988 version, directed by Vladimir Bortko?

(Wikipedia lists it as filmed in 'sepia', which could colloquially be called black & white)
> If you had to compare modern-day at will employment - the social construct through we are all earning our living - with slavery - something quite illegal in the entire world - your argument doesn’t hold much water.

You should note that's a straw man, since I did not make a comparison, rather I used a different example to illustrate a concept. To spell it out in the simplest way I can think of: voluntarily agreement to a contract does not make the terms of that contract right. That's true for all wrongs, including slavery and bad working conditions.
Multitenancy is difficult with containerization and not something I would recommend. It isn't what the technology is intended for. The ultimate example of multitenancy is actual platform and infrastructure providers and they all do it by giving you VMs because type I hypervisors are actually designed to do this kind of thing. Breakouts are always still possible when two processes are on the same physical server, but it's never as trivial as figuring out how to mount the kernel virtual filesystems.

I say this as a Kubernetes consultant. If you want "multitenancy" in the sense of distinct product or application teams all employed by the same parent company or organization, it's fine. But if you're talking truly different organizations with no implied trust between them, don't put them on a shared cluster.

I'm kind of curious how Github does this, because you can still get very minimalistic with VMs. Make the startup script for your application something that also mounts the filesystems it needs and name it /sbin/init and you just made yourself a poor man's unikernel.
> How many pilots would you need to see interviewed to determine there wasn't a sick-out?

1 SW pilot would be fine, not the association, not the union, not the CEO. A SW pilot that was supposed to be working that day.
> Imagine if we had terminals that could handle graphical data.

We have. They are called "browsers". You might be even using one right now!
The battery of my top of the line 2018 Surface Book 2 is failing and it would cost me $599 before tax to replace it. Instead, I'm going to put that money towards a new Framework laptop. I'm super excited to finally own a fully servicable laptop, really rooting for Frame.work to succeed.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-much-does-out-...
I've done that once in a blue moon, but it doesn't really accomplish anything except transferring that money to Google. Since I used to work for Google, thanks, I guess :-)
Cool, email support@intromaker.com from your account email and I'll delete you.
(Which is the same offer I made to everyone else in lieu of an unsubscribe button.)

I did weigh whether to send a notice or not, and for me it came down to emotion more than economics. My thinking:

It'll end up costing a few hundred dollars to send it out. A lot of users have probably forgotten what IntroCave is or don't need it any more, and hopefully they'll request account deletion (hundreds of people did). I expected to generate approximately $0 in sales from the email, but if I can save even a handful of users from typing in the old domain, getting redirected to the new domain, wondering WTF, and bouncing -- that seemed worth it.
Based on the actual quote from the article:

“The big issue is that Florida is roughly 15% of our trips, but on any given day, upwards of 50% of our aircraft lines flow through Florida,” Jordan told TPG. “You’ve got all those lines that just stopped in Florida, so you’ve got a lot of aircraft caught up in that,” he said.

Are you telling me that SW is so unique that it is the only airline with so much flow in Florida? I genuinely don't know. Do you happen to know?
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If the developer is here, I like the website! One question that stands out to me, after visiting your site I don't really see how this is significantly different from a VPS. The features (CPU, ram, bandwidth, public IP address, semi-managed OS, storage) seem to be more or less on par with what I would pay with AWS Lightsail, Linode VPS or a dozen other providers.
> VAT and invoices are part of GDPR?

No they are not. VAT and invoices is just something else that's also easier with EU vendors.

> But if a company invoices you with bad invoices then you can just refuse them and ask the correct and resubmit - even in the USA

That only works well if you hire an individual contractor or a very small company who depends on your payment.

SaaS companies don't give a fuck if you are happy with their invoice. High profile example: Github won't even tell you if the invoice is with VAT or not -- it just says "price includes VAT if applicable" on their invoice. Support won't tell you what it means. How is my accountant supposed to book that? Fortunately my Github bill isn't big, so I probably won't get in trouble over incorrectly declared VAT for the Github invoice.

If there's a EU vendor, it's always going to be my first pick, because I just don't want to waste time accounting for funny US invoices.
how has the the enterprise big data ecosystem (hadoop, spark, perhaps even more recently, cloud based stuff such as snowflake) influenced HPC?
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Are these comments real? They are surprisingly close minded for a hacker news site.

If you can't see the value apple offers, that's fine, but to be blind to what they offer others seems odd.

I've yet to be scammed by apple's app store. Ie, I can cancel my subscriptions easily, bad apps you can even get a refund on if prompt etc.

I have been repeatedly screwed by websites run by developers outside of apple. These websites have been LOADED with trackers, they have impossible to cancel subscriptions, they do all sorts of dirty tricks (I'm tired of the intercom type follow-up emails - sorry I missed you, give me one last chance etc).

I get it, the dog eat dog crapfest is appealing to some, but Apple offers an alternative, and for some people that has value. And yes, I get it, the folks making these eye blinding slow websites have lots to say about apple, but my weather app opens promptly on apple, whereas the ad littered weather pages online bog my machine (with 100x the memory) down.
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Yeah, getting beaten in the head by a violent mob was probably unrelated to the officer's stroke. You're actually THAT gullible...luckily the medical examiner isn't.

Severe head trauma was unrelated to the suicides of the officers that otherwise acted normally before the "peaceful riot?" Bad faith arguments like that show you have no respect for their lives or the suffering their families are experiencing.

> Are you also blaming nationwide BLM riots for officer suicides

There were no officers that suffered severe head trauma in those riots and then committed suicide, so no. If you read the news you can learn more about that!
Does a hypereducated liberal democracy even work in the long run, or will a morally relativist people aloof from reality argue over lifeboats and bilge pumps forever until the ship sinks and they all drown?
A lot of my time as an entry level engineer at a FAANG was doing "extra" work.

It included:

* Migrating our applications from Java 8 -> Java 11.

* Identifying that our fleet was way over provisioned and then downscaling leading to a huge reduction in infra cost.

* Refactor our infrastructure-as-code package to be more maintainable.

Most of those things were useful but not prioritized. I found them interesting or worthwhile, so I took the initiative and drove them to completion. Most of these tasks were on the timescale of months on the side from my assigned work. I didn't overwork myself to do this -- I very rarely worked more than 8 hours a day.
I don't think Belgium is going to build new nuclear plants any time soon. The retirement schedule is pretty tight and we may choose to keep 2 reactors running for 5 or 10 years (unlikely) but the operator (Engie) is sun setting them whatever happens and has set no money for upgrading them.

They already wrote the loss of revenues in their accounting books.
> It's a difficult tradeoff of making it accessible but also digging deep enough for those who have some familiarity. I probably get it wrong more than I get it right.

FWIW, when I came back and read further, I thought you did quite well making it accessible. It’s not your fault I quickly formed a knee-jerk opinion!
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> A SW pilot that was supposed to be working that day.

A single pilot claiming to have gone to work would be sufficient to disprove the sick-out? 1,000 out of about 3,000 flights got canceled on Sunday. I presume the remaining 2,000 were piloted; I don't know that an interview is necessary to demonstrate that.

A single pilot claiming to have done a sick-out doesn't prove anything much, either. I can find a doctor that claims demon sperm causes gynecological issues (https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/report-texas-doctor-who-wen...), but that doesn't really lend it credence.

The sick leave data seems a lot more compelling than digging up one interview, in either direction.
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders,"

https://www.cnet.com/news/dell-apple-should-close-shop/

What I think of when Dell and Apple are mentioned.
The chimp memory test video is really worth seeing: https://youtu.be/aAIGVT3N7B0?t=109.
This article seems to glorify thinking differently at all costs, without considering evidence. For every Galileo, there's 1,000 people who "though differently" and were wrong.

Don't "think differently" just for the sake of being different. Do actively consider your beliefs and the reasons you have for believing them. If you can't think of a reason why you believe something, investigate the subject and adjust from there.
Yes, you have appropriately conveyed all of the political talking points that attempt to tie logic to the illogic behind some of those flippy floppy positions. The changes are only logical when viewed from a political lens. The party behind all that political exploitation of the pandemic I listed never measures it’s success by the outcomes of their policies, only by the virtues behind their intent (Just as you have done here). Perhaps that is how you think to measure success. Me? I measure success by public trust and successful results. The US government and its experts are sorely lacking in both of those areas.
Interesting article. Autonomy (or at least a smattering of it) is definitely key to staying engaged at work.

But I would say that actually those types of research that he mentions are often pretty important aspects of the engineering. And even further, initiatives for new technical approaches or even new features can also be quite important if the project is going to stay up to date and really tackle core technical or business challenges in a robust way.

The degree that autonomy seems "extra" rather than normal in the job may be a bad sign.
Being trained in typography is like a curse. You will suddenly see all the mistakes and amateurish design decisions everywhere, and you will hate them.

On the other hand you can create something that looks good in 5 minutes.
More like a map of where oppressive regimes want total control over your finances.
Wife taught a class mostly functional autistic kids for a year. It was beyond brutal for her. The kids were hard enough but other staff enjoyed setting them off.

She often 1-2 in her regular classes. Desks go flying most days. They run out of the classroom if not the school fairly often. She’s been stabbed quite a few times with pencils and other sharp objects.

These are the high functioning ones.
CPU limits are harmful if they strand resources that could have been applied. I usually skip them for batch deployments, use them for latency-sensitive services. Doesn’t seem like a security topic though.
France, too: https://www.ft.com/content/d06500e2-7fd2-4753-a54b-bc16f1faa.... Looks like cooler heads might actually prevail there.
This graph does not show the failure of renewables to provide sufficient power this year (it ends at 2020).

The renewable power production is down for up to 40% and french nuclear power being in maintenance mode has caused the coal consumption to rise significantly.
I love reading about the steady technical progress the team behind Qubes is making, despite never intending to daily drive the OS myself. It's incredibly fascinating to read up on all the security considerations that I, an average Joe, would never realistically need to concern myself with, but it's great to see an OS that really pushes forward for those that DO require such strict isolation and security.

I wish the Qubes OS the best of luck in future, and let's see how the GPU passthrough team goes.
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Also driven by skyrocketing energy costs.

Maybe if we had a pipeline, to move fuel in a more efficient way....
>Lets look at the picture...

>Tell me what you see in this image?

This is exactly my point. Why are you only looking at a picture? You should also watch the video. Remember CNN is a TV channel. Their primary product is video. They are working to convey information through video and not an out of context screenshot.

Do you think the reporting is misleading after watching that video? The reporter specifically mentions that the scene behind him is "in stark contrast" to the "largely peaceful demonstrations" from earlier in the day. The video is clear and truthful. The chyron tries to summarize that but doesn't do it properly resulting in the bizarre and dystopian screenshot. That screenshot is not an accurate representation of the report it accompanies. That is the failure. There is no reason to assume that failure is malicious rather than accidental.

>To respond to what I think you are saying. Maybe the senior lead thought reporter could do better job on his feet and gave him a shot. Live riot. You will need to take some chances and see how they play out. Poor guy was clearly not ready for prime time.

Also a quick side note, you seem to be suggesting that the reporter wrote his own chyron. It was almost assuredly written by some producer who was probably in some office hundreds or thousands of miles away. The reporter on the scene did a fine job.
Ctrl-f'd "bot" and I didn't see any comments so I'll throw in my 2c.

I play LoL very casually and I'm pretty new at the game, but I know some people in Platinum/Diamond/Challenger and they all hate this decision. To paraphrase one friend who is in and out of Challenger:

"/all chat is not the major source of flaming and BM, it's game design.

The number one problem Riot has is bots. There's already some fairly strict filters in place to ban players who say bad things to each other, but it doesn't really matter when you can go online and buy an account for $10 and be instantly back in the game. I myself have many multiple accounts for a variety of reasons. Many high-level players I know have multiple accounts and some of them have been banned at one point; they're all still playing. Riot knows this but they basically can't stop people botting to 30 and flipping the account, and they can't stop the online marketplaces that sell the accounts, so they don't try. Instead they make less effective decisions that players don't want, such as disabling /all. If they could get rid of botting people would actually be scared of bans because losing access to Ranked and all your stuff (champs, skins, etc.) becomes a real danger.

Add this to the fact that it is so ridiculously easy to throw games and deny early surrenders, and you get a dangerous cocktail where a small amount of players can instantly run the fun of nine other people with very little consequence."

I'm not 100% sure I buy this but these people collectively have >10K hours in the game and I have less than 50, so I defer to them.
> have a "UI thread" for writing stdout... but literally nobody does this.

The Erlang runtime does it for you by default :)
This looks very interesting. I need to kick the tires a bit. It could be just what I was looking for a year ago :(
No we score extremely well and Russia and China are some of the worst. Privacy in finance is a great thing, KYC and reporting requirements are massive violations of privacy and intolerable.
How much batteries and renewables do you need to provide baseline power on the level of a single 1000MW nuclear plant?

And how will you construct all that sooner than constructing those plants?
I can reasonably say it because all of their competitors have less cash, yet many of them respond faster than Apple does.
I'm not sure there are (can be?) enough batteries in the world, to support the grid for any length of time.
The very fact that you have to bid on clicks for your own damn website by paying Google, because Google has prioritized ads to the point of displaying them higher and making them almost indistinguishable from the "organic" search result proves they have intentionally created a tax on the internet.

It will get worse, to the point where to get auto-completed in the omnibox you'll have to pay. TBH I am not even sure if that isn't already the case!
And leave them up there.
Yeah. I know how to rotate my phone and I also like plain text pages.

I don't like that Safari thinks rendering Times New Roman on a recent iPhone in what is effectively 2-point font and waiting for me to switch to Reader Mode is a good experience.

A better experience would be for Safari to render it in Reader Mode by default for sites where it would look better by default.

How could it possibly do this you ask? Render the pages to an offscreen buffer run an image readability heuristic to pick the one with better properties. Convert it to a bitmap and select the less dense one.
No, if they hadn't reduced nuclear production, the relative changes between coal and renewables would have exactly been the same, only coal would have had the same uptick from a lower 2020 value. "The increase in coal usage" would have been exactly the same regardless of whether they shut down some nuclear power plants or not. That should be obvious to you. Since this inter-annual change would have happened regardless of nuclear generation levels (unless you for some reason assume that the number of nuclear power plants operating in Germany affects German inter-annual weather changes), you can't use the nuclear generation levels to make this argument.
This is absolutely valuable on small teams and I repeatedly have seen people on engineering and product do extra (not only on own team, but helping others) and there is this terrific positive environment every time we interacted with cross-domain teams. Overall a win.
These vulnerabilities do not enable ransomware.
It's good to see Netflix hold strong against the woke nonsense[1]. I hope they keep it together. Every time one of these big companies caves, the madness only grows. As Chappelle says in Closer, "I don't care about Twitter because Twitter isn't a real place." The media just loves the clickbait they get out of this drama but they are fickle and will move on shortly.

[1] yes, nonsense. The the vast Netflix library contains some dark stuff, but none of it was an issue last week because it doesn't attract attention the way Dave does
10 minutes to exit a sleep mode that doesn't drain the battery sounds like a deal breaker

It's easier to turn it off at that point

Hopefully it will be fixed with time
"That must be one hell of a planet you men come from!"
Wonder given it is easy to be embedded, will we have an iOS janet app?
From experience, there is no way Southwest is fast enough to implement this check/extra data collection in 2 days.
Yup, one of the things we care about is making the process as painless as possible, so one one groans if someone says "let's do a premortem".

For postmortems, there's always existing risks that people knew about, but I think they're still helpful to identify which of those risks are actually causing the most pain and up their priority.
Is "broiling" a scientific term?
It's a couple lines down. Read the whole thing.

> Jordan said it was particularly the line-flow system that Southwest uses as part of a point-to-point network that made it harder for Southwest to recover than other airlines with heavy exposure in Florida, such as American, which has a hub in Miami as part of its hub-and-spoke network.

Southwest is unusual in having this "line-flow" system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-point_transit
> take everything you have

Everything I have was created by other people. This can’t work if everyone takes more than they give.
Recognizing that employment is a marketplace, and thus the value I can provide might be worth 5x (or more) to Company A vs Company B (even if it's a similar title or role).