skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, this guy really experienced it. It's likely his boss had a cultural introduction to the technique. I actually know a number of folks [formerly] from that subculture (I hang out with some ... interesting ... people).

I'm sure it didn't cost him too much. He used 20K as a nice, fat number, but they probably only needed to shell out a couple hundred bucks out of pocket. It was an easy act to do. Impressed my friend, but he didn't really think about the background.

They are like that. Not exactly The Sopranos. Quite different from TV.
I'm curious: what bugs are keeping mosh from meeting your daily needs?
Apple's repair providers don't perform board repair, you're promoting a false equivalency. It's like telling someone with a flat tire to take their car back to the dealership.
Is it possible that the $7 rate was only for new customers from the point the price change was instated, rather than for existing customers?
Ugh, you are right, I misread. Thanks.
> Well, that's kind of the point.

Being able to yoink the SSD from the original machine, plug it into another compatible one, and decrypt the contents with your password, is not a vulnerability, it's a feature.
>Kind of, but at least it works and is compatible with everybody's Office document which is a big barrier to people migrating to LibreOffice.

I still use .doc rather than .docx and its never once given me a problem. The barrier is just unwillingness to change rather than any real problems with LO.

I had no idea they decided that they should make apps for IE. They don't even seem hard to replace with a random app or a calendar. Why are they so unique or needed?

They could easily just have a server and run Windows as VMs and never have issues. Lots of places still use XP or something on an intranet, and even on the internet a VM version won't pose any dangers.
> Trustworthiness is an interesting one as it seems to be hard to define but some people just have it and some don't

It is interesting, but that is me. I am always brought into inner circles. From work to friend's families. People feel like bringing me into folds; it is odd. Maybe it is because I'm trusting, who knows. But what I also find odd is that I don't have a large friend network, so I'm not gaining friends from this odd ability. Strange. </greybeard_ramble>
It only sounds cool until you have to be sitting in a virtual room for 8 hours while your work engagement is analyzed for various micromanagers to sift through
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No it’s not. There are of course some systems like that, but refit the majority of systems for the majority of companies that’s not the case. If an invoice can’t be paid for 6 hours the world doesn’t collapse. If the CFO can’t get the statistics for his quarterly powerpoint at 3am, it’s not a major problem.
Do you believe that only those who can afford to buy a home should have shelter?
Any dedicated server with a 1 Gbps connection will probably do, but it depends on your tech stack.
The first time in American history there was no peaceful transfer of power, the loser claimed the election stolen, and refused to concede. So, no, it's not "just another candidate". This false both-side-ism is intellectually dishonest.
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You are massively overstating the addictiveness of methamphetamine. You just said it yourself; one in seven Australians have tried it, and yet are not addicts. That's not a crisis, that's good news.

I'm not a fan of meth, but I recognize propaganda when I see it. Meth has gotten (and still gets) the Reefer Madness treatment. From what I've observed, this narrative is so exaggerated as to be more or less false.
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Not the case for the aforementioned Impossible Burger[1] which has about twice as much protein as carbs (and quite a bit of fat). But the question of how 'processed' they should be considered is interesting.

1: https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600189392...
> They said "yeah, we lose a ton of money on every user like you."

Such an interesting statement. It's like they really think they can get away with offering "unlimited" storage without people taking full advantage of it. Like ISPs with their "unlimited" plans, they market that stuff and then they get mad if you actually saturate their link 24/7.

I actually emailed backblaze about this years ago. I asked them if they were really okay with me just dumping 10-20 terabytes of encrypted data that can't be deduplicated on their servers for such a low monthly price. I actually got a reply saying there was no problem.

> Thanks for writing in! Our system is truly unlimited.

> You can backup move than 15TB of data if you have that amount without hitting a cap or any extra fees.

> The business product just adds options for multiple backups and users.

Really surprising... I almost subscribed to their service on the spot. I gave up because transfering 20 TB over the internet is insane: it would take days to restore a backup. Also, they had no Linux software.
Honestly- at least with Motif you knew what is a clickable button and what isn’t. That’s more than what you can say with “modern” flat toolkits
> I cannot think of how anyone thought this was an OK idea.

I guess they assumed flipping houses would have more revenue and profits.
That's a good point. Maybe I'll try Mighty. Looks promising.
Study suggests SARS-CoV-2 spreading widely within wild deer population
You could use nix-env to install the file with `nix-env --install --file default.nix` rather than using nix-build + symlinking the result.

What are the advantages of just nix-build, and adding the result/bin/ to path? Arguably, `nix-env --install` modifies the underlying profiles which manage symlinks. (nix-build + add to PATH is imperative invocation; but `nix-env --install` is and imperative invocation with a stateful effect).

e.g. of "how could that be bad?". I'd managed to get myself into a confusing state with `nix-env --install`. When setting up NixOS, I'd installed firefox as the root user. Months later, in my normal user account, I was confused why such an old firefox was installed (since my profile didn't install firefox). I can't remember exactly, but this also somehow caused problems with fontconfig. -- Probably easily avoidable; but if you don't know what you were doing, you might also try all sorts of install commands and forget.
I've pronounced it "hiff" since I started learning Spanish.
in the absence of actual examples, fiction can and sometimes does function as thought experimentation. It can be valid, although in this case, I would argue is not, because Ready Player One does not actually offer any real critique of the OASIS or of the metaverse concept generally; in the story, the OASIS is the damsel in distress, not the aggressor.
I can definitely relate to this. In addition to just paying the bills in the present, there’s a pressure to be financially secure in the future. This equates to making more now, and the only means I’ve found of making more now have a soul-sucking effect, especially compared to side projects and time in nature.

I’m mindful of how fleeting life is, and I wonder whether the focus on wealth accumulation is worthwhile. Perhaps I’m just lazy though!
I'd say that this is closer to when "the cloud" came about. No one was quite sure what it was, but everyone wanted in.

To quote (some) of Larry Ellisons famous statements about it:

"The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. … The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion."

"Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"
You had bunch a smart ass physics phds pricing sub prime mortgages as aaa debt. It's just history repeating itself.
To summarize:

is the shipping crisis even that big an issue

this might better channeled to ramp up local industries to fill the gaps

don't his solutions come off as a tad naive?
My small experience of non small work groups also taught me a few things:

- nobody wants to come to work (duh but hold on)

- above points creates a constant laziness drag

- the system maintains some socially / somatically critical functions

- hierarchy is function of criticality, the more important, the higher it's gonna propagate

- the rest is fluff that can be delayed, forgotten, half assed

- learn the critical functions by heart, never ever miss them

- to spot them check whenever your superior comes down, and when he talks about his/her superior coming down (remember, people don't care, they don't wanna be here, they never want to come down unless they're forced to)

- then crack jokes with your colleagues

- everybody will ignore you doing nothing, unless critical functions are rolling

ps: your point about hiring/culture-fit is a sad realization to me, they could have told me so after HS.. instead of learning sublinear Fibonacci computations during a master, I'd have spent one year at burning man to be chill. All in all, I kinda agree about the need to fit, humans cannot operate nice if they don't click with their colleagues, it's only gonna lead to walking pressure cookers who cannot make progress. But the lack of honesty around this is staggering
Thought this was about big pharma based on the title
What If someone have their domain from 2016? Always wanted to work on it. Didn't parked for sale. Can they get that as well through lawyers?
Eh, I would be very careful about incentives and side effects. Confiscation of property never quite goes the way you expect, and is usually semi-impossible without a preceding war (see: 1917 Russia).

The Soviet Union didn't have landlords to deal with, but the housing situation was not any better - just instead of apartments being unaffordable, you'd get in a queue for public housing that was like 20 years long...
Not yet, but some other streaming services have added ads to the paid service, and made the ad-free version more expensive (Hulu, HBO, C More)
Other commenters on this and the previous thread pointed out, sometimes with first-hand experience, that Zillow would vastly overpay them for their home. I think this is less to do with the housing market in general and more to do with their tech.

Zillow's iBuyer program hit the scene like a bull in a china shop. The real story is that they rushed into this space, had underdeveloped algorithms, overpaid for homes, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
Why does it matter whether I'm working on something for production, or working on a 20% project? The point is, it shouldn't have been so hard for me to setup and run a simple server cost (billed using my divisions cost center), and then have to pay out of my own pocket to use a competitors product (and go through the hassle of expensing it). That's a bit of a sad pill for someone working at a company that had one of the most advanced data centers in the world. There are lots of times when developing a product internally that we need to host internal prototypes for demos, and GCP/AWS is a lot easier to use than the internal tooling. Even today, using our internal GCP instance vs the external one is more difficult.

A bigger reason AWS was chosen was because AppEngine, IIRC, back in those days could not support WebSockets (among other things), as Google's frontend Load Balancers that the predecessor to GCP used didn't know how to deal with it. The Chrome team was pushing heavily on new Web APIs like WebSockets, but by the time they were ready to ship to market, our own cloud infrastructure didn't support it yet.

I'd go further and say that, using internal infra to host employee 20% projects that are not really for production, is the kind of dogfooding that would have generated the pain points necessary to make a product like AWS, because those hobby workloads are far more similar to the workloads the average GCP customers deploy. Because we didn't really prioritize that, we kind of missed the boat on Cloud and was a late entrant, even though most of the foundational technology (eg Containers) we already had a long time ago.
I say this as someone who has gained significant wealth from personal real estate - Tax it more. It's crazy to incentivize personal real estate as an investment.
> social topics within US

I loved having conversations with Europeans like this when I spent a few years living in Western Europe.

"Sexism and Racism are US-invented concepts. We don't have that here"

Oh, honey. And yet you also tell me in the same conversation "It's not racist to assume a black person i meet is a drug dealer. It's just statistics."

In your case, Just because Ukraine doesn't have black people doesn't mean you don't have your own problems with racism and sexism. You just don't need to worry about itright now when you have to worry about Russia invading your country. Your problems are about fundamental survival - totally different spot on the manslow hierarchy of needs.

So you should hope that in a few years the situation improves enough that you can start worrying about the same issues as The West.
It's unclear to me how much visibility Zillow really had, since, AFAIK, they don't have access to MLSs in the areas where they buy and sell.
Yeah, at a previous job, I had inherited responsibility for maintaining a particular poorly tested (and hard to test—lots of API dependencies), widely-used library. Most changes were contributed by users and I managed by reviewing new code and tests as carefully as I could.

At one point, one particularly hard-pressed user wanted to make really sweeping changes to the library and had limited time. I stalled and stalled to try and review all their changes and convince myself they were going to work, and they got more and more agitated, and my TL (who was himself frustrated by how much of my time this was consuming) told them "you can merge whatever you want if you take over maintaining it". So that's what happened, and everybody left happy.
At that point I am sure it'll be much cheaper and faster to buy another laptop on sale instead of waiting for framework to make the motherboard with the CPU you want (if they do it at all), and pay extra for custom parts that only fit their latop, therefore locking you into their hardware ecosystem, no different from Apple except the parts are all generic x64 and you don't gain anything other than having in fit in the form factor of their device. The case is not so unique or special that someone would be unwilling to have another device, pay extra for some CPU/mobo laptop combo that only fits in one laptop, and never want another laptop casing again keeping as many of the old part as possible includuing to choose to keep the used chemical batteries in the framework laptop rather than have another cheaper computer with all new parts.
Billion dollars accidents will become more and more common because billion dollars ships will become more and more common.

Accidents happen, risk management will never end that.
Sorry I should have been clear. I've already seen all that, I know what the home page says, and I've used Devuan on and off since it was released. That doesn't really do a good job explaining and only seems to confuse the issue because, like I said before, Debian also supports operating without systemd. So it's not obvious what is actually being provided here.

Also, the statement about portability is weak, as someone did manage to port systemd to BSD: https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare

For me, in general it just seems really difficult to justify creating an entirely new Linux distribution because you're waiting for somebody to port a few packages to BSD. That logic doesn't really follow. That's what I meant before, even the Devuan home page has some really hand-wavey and confusing statements.
I recall in one of the previous crashes it turned out a firm had a model that couldn't handle homes going down in value. A linear model is superior to that.
> Do you have some actual examples of this?

It's a good question, and I don't specifically. I've heard this advise from lawyers in various different fields (not specifically Trademark lawyers), but when I go digging for examples, or the specific legislative history, most of my searching ends with "there's no a clear, definitive case on this topic".

So, in a lot of ways, I think you're right to challenge this assertion. It seems more like a recommendation that comes from "an abundance of caution" rather than a clear legal ruling, but I think I was wrong when I definitely stated that "trademark law does require active policing and enforcement". It seems like it might be more accurate to say: "some lawyers believe trademark law may require active policing and enforcement"
I'm ok with low level drug dealers still selling.

Opening up a weed store is far from a sure thing. I know a few guys who smoke and they use dealers because of cost.

Fine the drug dealers civil court. Get then where it hurts. Go after the dealers living in the nice home, driving the Mercedes Station Wagon.

We are always going to find a reason to not legalize drugs.

With the exception of antibiotics; Let's leagalize them all, including all those psychiatric drugs we need to pay $450 a session to get.

Put a sticker on the bottle, "Want to have a few nights of fun, and many nights of misery open this bottle. And I know you the level headed guy who is strong willed and thinks you are the exception. Why take the risk. We have a poor social support system, and most rehabs are a joke."

Make the tax reasonable, and put that money towards our homeless problem.
Funnily I had downloaded and compiled it just last month on Manjaro. It's pretty cool to use something which I remember being new and shiny in AIX 4.x way back in the day.
No, they did increase it for existing users.

- One of those fickle users who bought all the extra credits he could at the original price.
In this case, I'm not interested in (further) gradual accumulation of knowledge; I want authoritative fundamentals of nutrition, probably starting with how the body processes food. In my experience, in many cases the latter more efficient (less time, much more knowledge, much more accurate) if I have time to do it. For something as central as nutrition, I will prioritize it.
We know the fundamental physics and chemistry.

Your largest-scaling options are thermal storage (molten-salt thermal, not to be confused with molten-salt electric batteries), compressed air energy storage (CAES), and pumped-hydro. The last as with hydroelectric dams is limited by available sites and environmental impacts.

Any thermal storage or thermal-process generation (e.g., molten salt thermal storage, synfuel-based generation) will be limited by Carnot efficiencies, with about a 30% energy recovery to thermal input possible. Hydrolysis loses about half of input energy, hence the 15% return on synfuel storage.

Synfuels are another option. Most of these involve creating hydrogen, many (and the ones I tend to favour) will then combine that with carbon and/or oxygen to create hydrocarbon analogues or alcohol. These are very-long-term stable, and have high energy densities. They're valuable for specific uses already (portable power tools, vehicles --- especially off-road or remote, aircraft, and marine shipping). The total net energy recovery is low, on the order of 15--25%, but the storage capacity, the storage durability, the handling characteristics, safety, and extensive extant experience and capital for storage, transport, and utilisation, are all positives.

I've followed the electric battery story reasonably closely for about a decade. It's characterised by big promises and relatively low delivery. LiON is likely the best light-weight battery, for mobile and portable applications, simply based on chemistry. There are only so many light atoms, and the ones lighter than those we're using are exceedingly anti-social. (Notably flourine and chlorine.)

Air-metal, molten-salt, and molten-metal batteries might afford large-scale capabilities, though most research seems to have had limited success. All involve inconvenient behavioural properties of the electorlytes and cells themselves. None are well-suited to mobile applications. Several should be kept some distance from other infrastructure (e.g., residential/commercial zones, etc.).

Energy banking through direct thermal storage (hot water, ground/geothermal heat/cold storage, etc.) are possible, though would require considerable revisions to existing land-use and infrastructure interconnections. Reducing overall energy loads through passive designs minimising heating, cooling, lighting, and other loads, is also probably a factor.

We're headed to a future in which energy economics will be markedly different from those of the past 50, 100, 150 years. It's those economics which have shaped our activities, infrastructure, and land use. I strongly suspect all three to adapt substantially to the new regime. Assuming that the lifestyle we've become accustomed to will continue forward is probably at odds with future realities.
This is basically how human-lead appraisals work in most markets.
You’re almost asking the impossible. Nutrition is an area with a lot of dogma, a lot of pre-existing bias, and plenty of conflicting evidence that supports almost anyone to cherrypick things to suit their agenda. This is why you can buy books which (seek to) prove almost opposite positions.

The best single source I’ve found is nutritionfacts.org - this is their YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/c/NutritionfactsOrgMD

Dr Greger isn’t perfect, and of course has his own plant-based agenda to push… but aside from maybe missing the pleasure of some foods, I can’t see that there’s anything to lose from a health perspective in following his advice… while there may be a large amount to gain.

As others have said, a home-cooked plant-based diet is a very solid base to start from.
I think on average, most group fail to avoid primitive tribal instincts. At least in some cultures.

I gave my best in all dimension to get hired, the only time I did was because I knew a guy who knew a guy.

[0] I heard that anglo-saxon work ethos was skills first, character second (to an extent)
While you should always confirm this, I don't think they're that common any more. We purchased around a year ago and none of the options we looked at had prepayment penalties.
I'm not sure. Wouldn't the webcrawler still have to load it?
Weird. I'm backing up on macOS and it works pretty seamlessly for me. Their website was a little (OK, very!) slow when I had to restore, but I ended up just having them send me a drive. I think I've touched the preferences maybe twice in the 5 or so years I've been using them, so maybe that's why I don't hit this issue? Just looking through the prefs right now, it seems to work fine.

> Carbon Copy Cloner on the other hand is excellent software. Entire backups of 4TB drive in less than <20mins. And excellent support.

That's not the same thing. That's a local backup. Of course a local backup will seem blazingly fast compared to a network backup.
Sometimes companies will try to get you to accept blatantly one-sided “standard terms” and then drop the requirement if queried. One new client wanted us to accept full liability for any damages incurred by their upstream client due to any delays in our delivery. We just said “uh, no?!” and they said “oh okay never mind.”