skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None. My choices where all terrible and held me back. Stuff like naively believing the company promises, working with obscure tech, switching stacks multiple times, stuck with the same company, etc.

I guess I'm a good example of what not to do.
That's true. And the weather in this case only affected Southwest flights. Weird.
I implemented something like this in bash. I called this status bar sort of implementation as "message bar" to show the ongoing status of the script on a reserved lines on bottom of the screen - I had to implement progress bar one for each task inline (and not on the bottom bar) - and constantly had to switch "states" to save/restore the cursor positions on screen.

This message bar would also become a prompt and take in user inputs on certain events apart from being a static status bar - super useful for the use case.

Cursor positions, scrolling screens, events, progress bar updates, managing child sessions, handling screen resolution changes, taking user inputs...everything had to be catered for in this.

I thoroughly enjoyed developing this and still think it was a bit over the board for what I was developing at the time but I was sent on this path of constant learning so couldn't look back - was worth it.

Here's the project: https://github.com/PrajwalSD/runSAS
Well, clearly you apply the word "scam" very generously. You apply it to anything involving hype, so in that sense you might consider fashion a scam too. Or pretty much anything involving marketing.

The famous art work consisting of a banana duck-taped to a wall, is that a scam? I consider the value of that work zero, somebody else might consider it worth a million USD. Yet I see no scam, just a subjective valuation.

A subjective valuation isn't equal to a scam. We could go back and forth on the definition of a scam, but in a context of regulation it does matter.
Oh this is hilarious[0]:

> White people do have culture. Our culture is that of colonization. Of genocide. Of taking. Of envy and of fear. The majority of white people can name no more than two generations back in their families. The majority of white people barely know where their grandparents were from, much less who their ancestors were. The majority of white people have no traditions, and the ones we have, are rooted in consumption and the superficial application of organized religion, both of which are steeped in histories of violence.

I have hard time believing it was really on the reading list of internal training at Google.

[0] https://www.terraincognitamedia.com/features/white-people-ha...
Can you give a quick review of a sustainable product swap you've made?
This might be some sort of fallacy, but when FoxNews quickly and swiftly points out that this is a vaccine mandate related case, that's a good barometer for me that it isn't.
Thanks, I like to think so! I didn't see other people doing much audio programming in F#, so I figured someone would be interested in seeing what it can look like.
Current wholesale electricity prices in Germany are $194/MWh:

https://www.energylive.cloud/

How much does Germany spend on the military? Cancel it, and spend the money on nuclear power. Otherwise Germany has a significant strategic weakness (gas imports) to Russia, its only realistic enemy.
> So is there a guarantee

A guarantee doesn't mean that the thing being guaranteed won't happen. A guarantee is a promise to pay someone back - when, not if - the thing you promised doesn't work. Anyone who gives you a guarantee has already saved up enough money to pay you off when the thing fails.

> that it is safe

Safe compared to what?

People go insane about airline safety whenever one plane crashes, even though commercial passenger airplanes are 1000x safer than any other form of transportation. You could have a plane bombed, hijacked, whatever, every single day, for 10 years, and would still be 1000x safer than any other form of transport. People wouldn't think it was safe, though, because when it does fail, it fails spectacularly.

And that's the mentality of an anti-nuclear person. Who cares that the outcomes are almost always better? The one time it's not better is really scary, so I don't want it in my back yard.
Southwest is notable for being different; they use a single aircraft type, point-to-point routing over hubs, and started the low-cost airline trend.

The same argument applies to the vaccine hypothesis, incidentally. If it was the mandates, the other airlines who instituted mandates should've been similarly affected.
I guess deaths per energy unit produced ?

According to this [1], for every death caused by nuclear power, 350 people die because of coal power.

Note that most of these people died as a consequence of Chernobyl accident (~4000 vs ~500), so by current standards Nuclear Power is probably even safer.

The issue with nuclear is that deaths are concentrated in a few "big" accidents, that have much more visibility and leave a lasting impressions, thus scaring the population much more. (This is not unique to nuclear power though, something similar happens with plane vs car travel: the latter causes generally more deaths, but plan accidents are more newsworthy).

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
So, your thesis is that if it's cold today, the weather channels shouldn't report it, because telling people it's cold today will lead to people coming to wrong conclusions about global warming?

The measure exists. Hiding it does not make the measure stop existing. The fact that it's cold today "because of a polar vortex" does not make my house any warmer.

This is really basic stuff. You must be able to keep these things separate if you want to be able to think rationally. You must be able to accept that there is data that does not seem to agree with the final conclusion. You are all asserting that it is good and proper to let the conclusions mix back into the source data, and advocating that it is good to do so. This is not rational, and it is not good and proper. Any conclusion you've drawn via such a methodology ought to be re-examined.

Seeing such vigorous, spirited, and numerous defenses of systematically muddied thinking on HN is a bit odd.
It even looks like Flash Gordon's rocket!
Being impossible to insure is related more to a high degree of synchronization of risk pools than overall danger of death. Death rates are averages - it is possible that one person dying per time period is rate-equivalent to the whole town dying at once in a once-in-a-tens-of-millenia event. But the risk exposure in that event is quite different.

You can get life insurance/death benefits as a mercenary or even as a centarian. It will be expensive because of the high risk of payout but you can get it. Because while it is probable that you will cack it from being so damn old/being a combatant in unstable regions with lesser support it is extremely unlikely every mercenary or centarian they have insured will die at once.
Most hams use commercially made equipment, this is just renting instead of buying.

What is protected is the actual radio spectrum. If a ham rented out his rig to a commercial entity for the purpose of transmitting business information over ham frequencies, that would be wrong and illegal. But here, the actual transmissions are ham radio transmissions with no commercial value (they contain no economically useful information), so it's (most likely) fine.
This source does not seem like a credible one. If someone who has some real stake to lose by reporting unsubstantiated claims makes this kind of a report, I would have an easier time believing it. But this is just some website that I didn't know existed before today.

It could just as easily be some bogus report on Blind or any other anonymous site and I would have just as much trouble believing it.

Think of a million other news reports you have heard where a union or CEO makes claim X/Y/Z and a news agency refers to a specific individual (or airs an interview with a disguised voice/appearance individual) who contradicts those claims.
At least two of those points don't hold when you're talking about existing plants though. Germany already hosts nuclear weapons courtesy of the US, so where's the proliferation risk from nuclear power? And there's nothing worse for ROI than shutting down the plant.

For the other points I'd say that I'd rather build solar to replace coal plants first before replacing nuclear plants.
Thanks, that's a pretty good note.

It let me think of how it works in my current team, where I enjoy being. Basically, we are all Magpies here, and the implicit agreement here is that every project is combination of code and experience (in form of utilized best practices, like writing README-s, leaving scripts for everything etc).

Everyone wanting to dive into another project is expected to be somewhat experienced in software engineering to know the best practices without asking (e.g. read the README, read the scripts), and everyone is expected to just read the code, it's all there.

After those two actions, there are little left for communicating, really. But I understand that probably doesn't work for most teams, as we accept only senior devs to our team.

PS: Also, I just noticed we never re-written a project here so far, mostly because older Magpies can explain why it's ideal for how it is, without resorting to "it works, so don't touch it" and "for historical reasons". It's written well enough so that even if I started rewriting, I would end up with the same thing.
This sounds like they should consider having pre-prepared backup plans that allows bypassing various parts of the country.
Not sure which ideology you say I'm critiquing in this context. Frankfurt school of economics? I confess I don't know much about it beyond that the Q set thinks it's the new Illuminati.

In any case I think it's a pretty good filter - 'capitalism' is used as a deliberately vague title that lets the reader fill in their own meaning. If there were genuinely interesting writings based on hostility towards a deliberately vaguely-defined concept I'd be interested to see them, but I know enough about the concept of a Volksfeind to feel justified in my skepticism.

Vitalik Buterin can talk about public goods without ever mentioning capitalism because he's got actual solutions in mind. He doesn't need a malleable boogeyman to lend them gravitas. I'm sure anyone else with genuinely interesting insights would have precise enough solutions that they need more precise problem statements than 'capitalism'.
Flight scheduling is not very different from a complex manufacturing supply chain. Low-cost carriers like Southwest heavily optimize their routes to have as little leeway in the system as possible, and thus a simple disruption can have massive consequences. On one hand you can undercut all your competitors by $10, on the other 50% of your operation is reliant on Florida.
"did not cause any harm" - for a very loose defintion of harm. Sure it could have been much worse. But enough ground and water was contaminated, and much more will be in the future when they run out of storage.
I had a K6 233 MHz I couldn't get to run reliably in windows without underclocking to 200. But it was rock solid on Linux. Always wondered why....
The Union denies it was an official or unofficial action. Both the pilots union and SWA management also confirm there was not an unusually high number of sick calls. Again, what incentive would they have to lie? Further why would a generally conservative-leaning private company and public union go to such great lengths to defend a mandate they have nothing to do with? It sounds like a conspiracy theory.
Fortnite has a decent anticheat, which also runs in Kernel. The skills to evade a solely usermode monitor isn't that hard, since you can literally just watch api calls and defend against some memory forensics. This is made harder for the cheat dev due to things like Discord running dynamic code, which looks EXACTLY like shellcode/cheat payload. Especially in a world with limited customer support, and even more limited on anyone who can help, false bans are a big concern.

DKOM(reading/modifying kernel structures directly) is alot harder to detect, and also alot more undocumented. To the point it takes someone in the field to make a cheat and bypass, vs someone with a decent level of application dev experience. And there's not many Kernel developers, and there's also such a limited amount of forensic/malware analysts that can code anything beyond powershell.
"A year or two" is not a "transient uptick". It's real inflation at that point.
Solar + 4 hours of storage clocking in at $40/MWh in ideal conditions. Substitute for windpower and some worse conditions and nuclear energy still look awful from a cost perspective.

https://www.energy-storage.news/developer-8minute-says-more-...
Thanks for the tips. And anti-malware solutions like malware bytes or other third-party programs aren't something you recommend? Some circumstances make downloading files without worry tricky.
FWIW, you might like this: https://github.com/brianberns/FYampaSynth
If the hackers are no longer rampantly ruining the game and rendering it effectively unplayable as someone instantly headshots everyone on sight; if the hackers or botters have become indistinguishable from other competent players, then... Well, excellent! Mission Accomplished. All you have remaining is a matchmaking problem, which they're already, separately trying to solve.

(As an aside, we already have games using built in assistance/cheats as an accessibility feature to level the playing field for people using certain hardware or controllers e.g. games with PC and console crossplay, so perhaps there's some approaches and lessons from that which we can apply here as well.)

The only thing at stake then is the integrity of leaderboards or tournament brackets, which is a problem that already had some different, separate approaches to solve. But IMO that a problem is absolutely subservient to the integrity and playability of the base game.
Yeah that was pretty jarring. Even Bezos's responses were weirdly hollow. It's sad to see that Bezos's own talking-points-filled spiel after going to space (others have compared his statements before and after to show he kinda already had an angle planned for how he'd "react" to the overview effect) really reflects how pragmatic and matter-of-fact he feels about space. He couldn't even manage to sympathize with one of his childhood heroes speaking so poetically about how the trip affected him, despite being a man who dedicated most of his life to achieving the spacefaring future he saw on TV. Giving him a bit more credit, there could be some benign reason like maybe he's antsy/jealous about wanting to go to space again, or was nervous or relieved the flight didn't go wrong or something. I'm not even trying to make an "OMG Bezos is so evil" post or anything, it's just really sad to see him seem so uninspired, like he's become disillusioned after all the success he's had.
Building a Multi-Select Component
Southwest management doesn't have a legal incentive, but they have a business interest: they wouldn't want to scare away potential customers worried their flights will get canceled.

If there is a sick-out but management and the union both deny it, how do they actually negotiate an agreement?
Shouldn't some kind of anti-trust agency forbid such mergers, or break them up after the fact? At least in an alternate world where anti-trust law was still enforced.
did u stay with a company for long periods of time (4+ years) or did u frequently move from company to company ( switch every 1-2 years)
Yep I've always had read only root filesystems down as a good control and one that's often not too tough to implement.

Another favourite of mine would be using multi-stage builds and minimal base images in production (FROM Scratch, where possible). having limited or no tooling in the running container makes an attackers life trickier for sure.
That is also addressed in the article.

> 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.

> “We’re not hub and spoke, and we do very little out-and-back,” Jordan said. “So when you stop a line, you’re stopping a line where the aircraft is attempting to flow across the country.”
No offense, but you are either being purposefully obtuse/ closed minded, or your are ignorant of how the underlying technology works. Look, like many, I thought it was silly at first too. But I think part of the problem is the way it’s been sold to us hasn’t been the best. But I think it’s important to think about why you are so aggressively opposed to this?

> ”NFT's doesn't add any value to being able to trade pictures between profile process”

I think this is incorrect. And I think ‘profile pictures’ & avatars and such will be the first ‘real’ application of NFT art.

In a few years, most likely all the major social media platforms will integrate whatever the few most popular NFT chains are. Then your avatar badge can be whatever cool NFT art you own, and it will be able to be verified on the blockchain.

So to your point that you linked to, there are 25 copies. That’s not 25 people owning the same NFT, that’s 25 different NFTs owned by different people. So if you aren’t one of those 25 people, you won’t be able use it as a ‘verified’ avatar on “some_social_media_platform”.

Sure, anyone can copy and paste a picture and ‘steal’ it, but if you don’t control a token with that picture in it, then you don’t own it, not really sure why that concept is so hard?

Yeah I can put up a print of the Mona Lisa is my living room, but I obviously don’t own the actual Mona Lisa. The same way I could copy and paste a picture of some very popular NFT art, like a CryptoPunk or something. But my copy can’t be verified on chain, and hence I would just be displaying a ‘fake’ on my profile. And everyone would know it. Who knows how this will be implemented, but some have suggested something similar to the ‘verified’ check mark for famous people.

If you control a token, then Twitter or whoever can show some indication that is indeed verified, and not a copy.
> If the head of the union said an unofficial sickout was happening, he'd go to jail.

No, saying that other people are breaking the law is not a crime. He’d have some internal problems with membership to deal with, though...

If he said that the union and he as its president endorsed the sickout and encouraged members to participate in it...that might be a different story.
The denial by Southwest isn’t based on the same legal issues facing the union. The CEO has an incentive to deny it because he doesn’t want to risk losing the massive amounts of federal money Southwest receives.
It mostly revolves around storing waste (in other people's back yards), and the mess the government and companies made of it - storing it improperly in mines, and the barrels rusting after some years / leaking waste.

Unfortunately from talking to some of my (really smart) colleagues, this issue is so deeply ingrained that they don't even want to look at other options, or don't really think about that this is a long term problem vs the urgency of climate collapse...

One article that goes a bit about this - https://www.dw.com/en/germany-may-not-see-proper-nuclear-was...
Look what happened when a network and IT issue took out some essential planning software: https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/southwests-comp...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/cox/2019/04/...

google "computer network outage flight disruption" for many, many historical previous examples of similar.
Nextzen has freely available DEM tile data to zoom level 15, so about 5 meters/pixel. You need a free API key [1]

Mapbox has paid DEM data to zoom level 20, but I think it's just zoom level 15 scaled up (but the data is cleaner and more recent) [2]

Nextzen also open-sourced their elevation tile generator, but I haven't tried to generate my own tiles [3]

[1] https://www.nextzen.org/#terrain-tiles

[2] https://docs.mapbox.com/help/troubleshooting/access-elevatio...

[3] https://github.com/tilezen/joerd
If they can get hit really hard for it, it's better to play along and not admit anything.
That's fair...

I would argue that a significant % of people are arguing for this though, or at least open to the idea.

I mean, would you say a significant % of people believe that Q nonsense?
Wholesale energy is priced by the marginal cost, gas peaker plants come in at $150 - $200/MWh so not a surprising price to level out on.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
CEO says "buy more of the thing I sell, not things that compete with me" has an information content of zero.
Come on, if he were just acting you'd expect a more coherent speech.
Frankly, non-nuclear is austerity in disguise. "Too cheap to meter" electricity is like full employment, objectively better but a huge target politically. It's not a coincidence that US gave up on both at the same time.

https://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf does justice to the full employment situation, and the same arguments apply. In the econ case it's kind of incredible we filled our minds with nonsense to convince ourselves the thing we had been doing is no longer possible. I suppose the nuclear hysteria served the same roll.

To be clear, I am not trying to argue some sort of conspiracy here. I think it all happened organically, which is frankly even more fascinating. Shows that "truth is endogenous" and the post-modernists had a point long before people whined about Trump.
The Management lies because admitting their policy led to a cancellation of 30%+ of flights in one day would be devastating.

Union lies because an organized walk-out is illegal.

Seriously... no other airline is impacted by the weather and ATC issues? The FAA even released a statement contradicting SWA's official excuse.
Germany is shutting down nuclear and replacing it with coal and gas. The comparison to fossil fuel is incredibly apt.
the downside of rich terminal output is that media formats become the system's responsibility. applications can't output media in formats that aren't provided by the system, because then the terminal wouldn't know how to display it and interop with other applications (e.g. piping) wouldn't work either.
“Slice and dice” method intercepts asteroids or comets as they approach Earth
So commercial debt is mostly variable not fixed rate?
Russia also wants to build a lot of nuclear plants around Germany so it won't profit from scaring the one who will eventually foot the bill.
It's the logical conclusion. The clients machine is inherently untrusted. So how do ensure integrity? Best you can do is try to get to try to get as few layers between you and the machine as possible.

It's essentially the same problem as DRM, which generelly can only hope to prevent piracy for a few weeks. The solution of the movie industry there was to add there garbage directly to the hardware.
The features you describe belong to the app ecosystem, not to the OS - IMHO the OS is about hardware and drivers, and what kind of graphics is supported by your terminal and source file editor is orthogonal to the OS and could be done in any of the current OS'es; but that would require a rewrite/redesign/reimagining of the whole standard application package which seems a much larger project than "merely" an OS.
Longer half-life = less radioactive. By definition.

A half-life of infinity would mean that the isotope is not radioactive at all.
It would not because comments are not what prevents people from writing good code.
The CEO literally says he’s not in favor of vaccine mandates, but has to with the Biden administrations orders

https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1447926165834960908

I think it’s fair to say, the pilots might just be using up vacation time before they’re fired. Essentially, an uncoordinated sit in where pilots just don’t want to deal with it any more. I can’t blame them.