skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you're thinking of GNU parallel :) That one always prints a citation notice https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/cita...
I don't understand. Is your claim that ATMs are running Windows XP because Microsoft did get buried under a pile of ash in the early '00s and released no further OS upgrades, and therefore it would have been better for the ATM manufacturer to use an open-source OS because they, unlike Windows, survived to 2021?

Nobody in this thread is arguing that everything in the world is perfect. There are a lot of bad things in the world. (The fact that we haven't figured out a reliable, scalable way to develop major F/OSS projects without the backing of companies that either sell proprietary software or do far worse things is certainly one of them!)

The specific argument in this subthread is about whether it's okay to build your business on proprietary software or whether there's too much of a risk that the vendor will stop producing updates. If they aren't interested in updates when they actually happened, then clearly this wasn't a concern for them.

(Also, have you never seen people running extremely out-of-date versions of F/OSS operating systems?)
It says 72% efficiency, so over 400W of heat at full load.
Inverter to a normal PSU would be about the same, if not worse. It could be that it raises the voltage then drops it back down to 12V, but i'd sooner think it's just cheaper mosfets.

Anyway, these kinds of converters can usually regulate themselves.
Any specific reason to use FF dev edition? You can use your own addon with regular FF by signing it with web-ext CLI tool.
Governor offers health workers $12,500 to relocate to Montana
Though very neat diagram (and the figures are correct), it is confusing - the title says 'Biomass of Life' but it highlights the animal biomass at the top, which is a tiny fraction of overall.

One has to see the bottom portion to realize the bigger contributing components of 'Biomass of Life'.. Plants, Bacterias etc.

The original research paper:

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/25/6506.full.pdf
Please cite the papers for the tools you're using. Impact is main thing scientists are judged for in job and grant applications, and that is usually measured using the number of citations.

If you'd stop citing papers for tools you'd stop academic software development.
Does yt-dlp fix the speed limitation problems?
"never" is not really ever a good choice for a property/member type, because it is assignable to all types. A function that literally never returns could/should have a return type of never, for example, but if the function actually returns a value, you have a "value of type never" which is supposed be impossible, and never acts like any (because a contradiction implies anything).
Directly, with a tactful, yet honest approach. Assuming your reasons for rejection are valid, articulate them in a compassionate way. Lying to a candidate to spare their feelings doesn't help them at all.
agree Amazon might be worst of the top bunch, although I have only 2nd hand info about them
Yes, that's it. One of those "back of the cupboard" utilities I always need to re-read the manual for whenever I need it.
It's encouraging seeing all the work going into making tagged unions a natural part of TS. I've tried to introduce them multiple times, and have been shot down by my team on every attempt. I think they still come across as "hacky," and more JS-minded people who are totally cool validating with if-else everywhere still can't appreciate the benefits of annotating data in this manner. I hope TS eventually arrives at a standard, low impact way to create and manipulate such structures; maybe more people will be on board then. It looks like we're moving in the right direction.
Note that to save memory, instead of using every character in the word, you may want to cap the depth of your trie to the first N chars. The words with shared prefixes are kept in an array at the leafs. During lookups, you’d scan the leaf array to find matches. You’d be trading space (lots of nested objects) vs speed (negligible for scanning small arrays).
Facebook does stock refreshers every year, so there is _some_ benefit on sticking around, as you’ll have more stock vesting every year (until the 4y cliff at least)
I don't think the language designers would consider this, because there is a difference in TypeScript between a property existing with type undefined and not existing, regardless of the fact that it might sometimes be convenient if a non-existent property acted like a property that existed and had type undefined.
While a blind trial is preferable, we can and should still gather data based on unblinded trials. Using the voluntarily unvaccinated in trials as a control group will yield meaningful data at scale, just not as good as it could be. For example, are they being diagnosed with heart problems less often? That is not likely to be placebo.
I mean sure, I had that thought like 20 years ago, when EVGA first became a major player in the GPU market.
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There are some portions which are theatrical, but for the most part it is beneficial. I'd say that my company already had a large majority of the important things in place before getting SOC2, the process helped us close some gaps and organize the ongoing maintenance.

Certainly if the organization is not interested in security, they could fake their way through the certification with meaningless compliance and not actually achieve security.

But if your company does take security seriously, the certifications do help you get organized.

Sometimes it is just helpful when enforcing a good procedure across an organization to be able to tell a sales manager that they can't just email passwords around because we are SOC2, instead of trying to convince them from principle. It can elevate it above the level of company policy from which some people feel exempt. Now you can just threaten them that if they cause an exception on next year's SOC2 report it might scare away the big sale.
What's fascinating in China is the extradjudicial repossession of residential land.

Normally one gets a 99-year land lease to build a house, but the CCP has been repossessing the land after 30-40 years as it increases in value.

The CCP sends a goon squad with no uniform or id and a backhoe to tear down the house. Sometimes they wait for the "owner" to go to work, sometimes they just pull the house down with the occupants inside.

But here's the wrinkle. Since it's extrajudicial, the owner can kill the goons and no arrest or prosecution follows.

This actually happened in 2020. An owner threw a brick at the backhoe operator, IIRC, killing him, without being arrested. Although the court system is fixed in China, the CCP doesn't want the publicity, since it would reveal a war on citizens' property.

So if you can keep killing the goons, you keep your house until the next round.
Thanks for explaining extra info.
Is this the norm in Amazon to equalize total compensation with cash bonuses?
I think this is great.

My young granddaughter has been working with an Apple //e 8 bit computer. For her, it is about right. Command line, but simpler in her case, running programs...

She loves numbers and will use calculators and apps. Reading will take a bit more, but she is getting there.

Showing the young people basics like this is high value. They will have context and perspective similar to what we have.
We Are Testing Software Incorrectly and It's Costly
Ok but to the point of our discussion, most of the jobs currently available aren't jobs that require training. There are 5 million people that just stopped working.
> Instead of advocating for R&D and cheaper alternatives that improve people's quality of life, they can't help themselves but bring out the club of eco-masochism paired with tax-sadism.

Increasing R&D and cheaper mean of producing green is the main goal of carbon tax. That’s probably the most effective way to do it and is market neutral. I fail to see what any of it has to do with the progressive movements.

With a carbon tax, researching greener way of producing goods has a direct impact on the final price of said goods. That’s make this research a competitive advantage. Without a carbon tax, the sole reason to do R&D focusing on emission is if you are going to get fined by crossing a line. That means that as soon as you are under the threshold doing research is a waste of money.
Just be prepared to apply and never hear back from them, even with twenty years of internet company and vfx experience. Absolutely nothing, not even a “no thanks,” for all the time wasted on their job site.
I would also like nominal types in TypeScript, but one issue is that it might open a can of worms that is antithetical to one of TypeScript’s main design goals: that a change in the typing of a program should not be able to modify behavior.

If you add nominal types, some people might expect them to be boxed, and thus be able to reflect on types at runtime. So I assume that TypeScript maintainers have made a design decision that users should have to “self-box” nominal types.
How’s it possible to tell iCloud aliases? Does “hide my email” work differently?
does anybody know how could someone be able to tell iCloud aliases??

for example: it is impossible to register a new PM account using an iCloud alias! I’ve always wondered, how?

Especially now with the ability to hide my email on ios, what would be the use of that if there is no distinction?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Both things you observe happen, but that doesn’t absolve proton of its suspiciously misleading advertising

They act like a honeypot. They redirect onion users to an exit node undermining the point of having an onion service, they require a phone number for onion users instead of actually offering privacy.

They rely in their fans to shield them from criticism while doing these privacy counterintuitive things.

The same thing happened at a swiss encryption company for 50 years. Employees kept finding flaws in the encryption and kept getting told to work on anything else and it turned out to be a CIA front intentionally selling backdoored encrypted communication devices worldwide [1]. When proton is doing the same thing and has an even more obvious ownership structure incentivized to keep a charade up, there is no reason to use proton for any of the reasons they advertise.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51487856 (BBC, find a source you happen to respect that corroborates the same thing)
Sure, you just no longer matter. That's the problem.
If that were true humans would die much sooner after becoming infertile.

The fact we stick around for so long is because having healthy grandparents is still beneficial to grandchildrens' survival.
Perhaps I'm a huge outlier, but i don't remember almost anything before the age of 5 or 6...

I guest this practice may leave some subtle trauma, but it's for sure something that is adjusted later, leaving no or little trace.

I have been to Tajikistan, working in education (university): the kids are doing fine.
Yeah I mean historically I've done the same. Most of my jobs have been at most 2 year stints. This is my first experience under this kind of scrutiny. It does make sense, since most of the people (at least on this team) are all 4+ years tenured but it was a surprise.
Well, tagged unions, like many TS features, are designed to enable type-checking on vaguely idiomatic JS code, aren't they? That checks properties of objects in if-else statements? It sucks that people aren't open to defining their structures in a way that aids type-checking, if that's what you mean!
Service may be based in a jurisdiction where compliance with terms and licenses is optional.
The Dem and republican establishment both are head over heels for neoliberalism. There’s stuff that separates them. Still makes both of them conservative. Perhaps with such Overton window movement you can say it isn’t so.
The design and support for cross-platform use was there from the start, and most obviously manifested itself via Rotor. If I recall correctly it targeted FreeBSD rather than Linux though.
> pre-owned crypto-abused graphics cards flooding the market.

This is the only part I disagree with.

Most miners undervolt their cards to minimize heat and lower cooling costs... I'm cool with the rest of your post.

Mining cards are probably fine to use for years and will probably destroy the markets if crypto explodes.
Sounds really cool! Got pics?
Dealing with AWS annoyances, like CloudFormation not supporting that one attribute you need to modify, or child resources not inheriting tags from the parent resource.
You’re not factoring in stock appreciation there. It’s somewhat common these days to see people sitting on huge unvested grants, so in your example, your yearly comp won’t be the $300k/y you had at year one. Then it’s pretty hard to get a match on your “inflated” TC anywhere else. You don’t get that in an all-cash package, even if you buy stock from the company with your cash comp
Ohms law plays a big part in all this. Resistive losses are governed by the square of current multiplied by the resistance of the wire. As such running higher voltages minimises these losses. We use this all the time with our power transmission lines which generally run at 500kV AC if I recall correctly.

1. Safety is relative. 10-20mA is enough to kill a person. In AC voltage we measure it as root mean square, the actual peak to peak voltage is greater than Double that.

2. There are such things as solid state switching. Solid state relays and field effect transistors come to mind. This is also how we down convert DC power to lower voltages, very fast switching giving an average voltage that is the target (see buck converters).

3. DC power is everywhere and it is easy to do DC to DC conversion. Single chip solutions exist. Hell your car is entirely 12V (if ice powered, EV's are a different matter)

Hope that helps :)

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Your description above is very similar to how I would describe things, yet I have no problem with small talk.
I've sold two GPUs (as I've upgraded -- no mining unless Dward Fortress and RimWorld counts) in the past few months on eBay.

One shipped to an eBay freight forwarder and ultimately to a buyer in Qatar.

One shipped to an eBay freight forwarder and ultimately to a buyer in Kazakhstan.

Gamers aren't the ones paying huge markups on eBay. These aren't going to be warranty registered.
> And on HN especially, where we all dive into systems engineering to build reliable pipelines and fix bugs to ensure they don't happen ever again... it's so weird to see the same ppl just say quit. Because that literally solves nothing for anyone.

That's a good way of selling the idea of unionisation to the HN crowd, as a solution to an engineering problem. We have unpatched vulnerabilities in the system which are being exploited.
For my purposes 250mbs is more than enough as it's just a testing )no prod) VPS
It’s quite a safe assumption that no one wants to get into a crash if they can possibly avoid it, so perhaps all that’s necessary to calculate when a car can “safely” be cut off is whether they will have time to stop, even if it’s an abrupt and unpleasant stop? It’s not pretty, but it’s the same calculation human drivers make all the time in these situations.
That's why I phrased it as "genetic predisposition". As I understand, environment is of a major factor in gene expression, but the underlying genetics also vary between individuals, eg. Native Americans and other ethnic groups have a genetic predisposition towards alchoholism, or others that are bad with lactose, etc.
> It is a criminal and civil offense to “buy or receive” property that has been stolen. Cal. Penal Code section 496(a).

I would really hope there is a "knowingly" qualifier on that.
True. My point was that it shouldn't take very much torque to match the cutting speed with the movement speed. Even if you increase cutting speed you can keep the same torque (for movement) by increasing movement speed. It should be a balancing act with torque (for movement) being fairly constant in the range to provide continuous engagement, with the cutting and movement speeds changing.
For computing efficiency comparison purposes a very old Thinkpad x40 laptop with a single core CPU, 1.5GB RAM and the screen off idles at about 12.5W, at a unix load of 0.02
I feel a bit sad that the authors needed 'machine learning' to identify those three patterns...
Oh lord, the computerized solution still results in dozens of men having to cut out the computer print-outs with an xacto and glue them onto the pages by hand. WTF. All the technology they had in those roomfuls of computers and no-one had yet written the software to lay out the page too.
My comment was about democrats on the whole (and republicans) making it an us vs. them thing, not you personally.
title is missing: "for restaurants, theaters, Warriors games"
>I had similar experiences with people with "acceptable" skillset and over the top "persuasion" skills who did not bring quality to the company at all. They go along and create "comfort" for others in the name of their own survival and career advancements.

True quality speaks for itself. The fast talkers can be tricky, but as long as you are not overextended that you can't close the loop and eval work product, you can negate that relatively quickly... I learned that the hard way. Also, once you build a solid amount of real, genuine trust with your people; the kind you can't buy with just money, it gets easier.

>Luckily I am aware of this "phenomenon" and never will accept "friendliness" or other subjective criteria in my company.

So you evaluate every hire of yes/no criteria, hmmm? I'm sure HR loves that. Makes their job easy. Good luck with that. I've not had good luck with it. People aren't nuts and bolts. If there is anything I've learned, it's that real force multiplication happens when you start treating people like people, not cogs, one, and two sometimes, the sub-optimal hires can be a net positive in the long run by at least being a shining example of what to look out and forcing you to do things in ways resilient to burning out high performers. Truly resilient and working business processes should be tolerant of candidates of all stripes. If you find yourself needing the cream of the crop all the time, you're running a department as a hot house flower, which means you're on borrowed time.

>All of this is mitigated trough clear company culture and requirements. Removing subjectivism and personal preferences is vital for production processes and requires management skills.

Man is the measure of all things, and woe into they that in hubris or denial forgets it. I applaud the dedication to process, but in my world examples of those others say have "management skills" are either someone willing to have someone else suffer for their decisions, someone with a strong Reality Distortion Field, or those who are just in too deep to be able to back out now. I'll take a candidate with leadership skills over a self-styled manager anyday.
If you're really into experimental, check my profile

(It uses http-auth to keep out crawler bots which can overload the site.)
I would encourage anyone interested in this to go plug example size of small pv systems into this calculator for your location:

https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/

You can use a round number like 1000W, which would be the same as four fairly cheap 250W 60 cell polycrystalline cell pv panels. You will get the cumulative kWh production expected per month.
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I found a technical paper about it,

[.pdf] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9523746 ("Design, Manufacture, and Test of a 30 m
10 kV/2.5 kA Concentric HTS Cable Prototype for Urban Grid")

>High temperature superconducting (HTS) cable, with significant low dissipation and massive current carrying capability, is a promising solution for the shortage of transmission capacity in mega-cities. China Southern Grid launched a HTS cable project in 2017 to develop a medium voltage concentric HTS cable system for installation in the distribution grid at urban area in Shenzhen City. It is the first time that concentric HTS cable system is developed and will be the first HTS cable installed in urban grid in China. The cable core mainly consists of three concentric phases winded by YBCO tapes and cold dielectric insulations in between phase-to-phase, phase-to-former, and phase-to-screen. The cable has a rated voltage of 10 kV and a rated current of 2.5 kArms. The critical current (Ic) is at least 6 kA per phase. The outline diameter of the cable core is 76 mm and the cryogenic pipe is 175 mm. As a middle step, we designed and manufactured a 30 m long prototype cable system and it was tested generally according to IEC 63075. For improvement of the manufacture processes, several short cable core samples were made, tested, and dismantled. The ultimate goal of the 30 m prototype is to verify the design and accumulate experience for the installation of the 400 m fully functional cable system in the grid. The test results of the 30 m cable prototype are presented and discussed. The 400 m class HTS concentric cable demonstration project has already started and it is expected to energize in grid in late September, 2021.
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I just don't think this is a great example because lots of people do come to a complete stop at stop signs, as they should.
Thanks. I think framing the question that way distracts us from the facts, at least for my purposes (but I want to say, it's a pleasure and very interesting to talk to someone who has similar level of interest in and has a fundamental understanding of international relations):

The US (and UK) could play significant or necessary roles, without playing the leading or primary roles. And of course defining primary role is complicated: Is it influence? Power? If person A bribes a head of state to enact a certain policy, who has the primary role? The head of state does most of the work and has most of the power, but the briber was most necessary to it. And it would never happen if other parties and circumstances didn't allow it. Back to Iran: Of course there were forces opposing Mosaddeq that the US/UK backed: There are always other forces, though of varying influence, and how else would the US/UK do it? They weren't going to invade with their own troops. Only a complete moron (or George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Don Rumsfeld, with help from Tony Blair) would topple a national power structure without another power structure to replace it.

Also, having read a lot of foreign policy, I would say that few Americans know the narrative of overthrowing Mosaddeq, and fewer believe it. I'd guess almost the entire right wing of the political spectrum disbelieves it, as do most centrists.

Which isn't to say I know the real story. I imagine there is a lot of nuance, and framing it around the amount of influence the US/UK had compared to the clerical parties seems misguided - it's not a competition, and it gets us into matters of definition (as discussed above). Perhaps my feelings would be different if I was Iranian. I do get that Western foreign policy tended to objectify everyone else.

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I read those Foreign Affairs articles at the time (there were several, about Iran, Chile, Congo/Zaire, and I think elsewhere). My memory: While they were valuable for their perspective and arguments, some were quite improbable. IIRC Zaire and Chile claimed ignorance of what was happening and naivete about the intentions of the dictators. I don't recall what I thought of the Iran article.
Sometimes different (but related) species can reproduce... sometimes the offspring aren't sterile. Your comment makes me wonder what two most-different species have done this.
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