skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is pretty scummy that Cloudflare won't allow benchmarks.
I've been seeing some weird things people saying "reset capitalism" like what are you saying?
Is bob332 also you? How many alt accounts do you have?
I'm 51 today and I have no idea what an "identity condiment" is either.

I suspect "scriptum wankery". That's where you splurge any old cobblers on a page and dress it up as journalism. I have just made that up and probably got the Latin bit wrong. However it does have a ring to it 8)
It seems weird to want to claim authority (eg. that you are the tech lead) but not be willing to also be accountable for your statements.
I think inflation works the other way, i.e. 64 million$ from decade ago would be like 80 million $ now.
Been there this year. It's still a nightmare. But the job market is so biased towards developers that you can fail several interviews and still be their best option.
An article that came in at the right time.

I have been feeling really down lately about how my life has turned out, which sounds a little ridiculous and self-indulgent given how much I earn in my day job. I'm really grateful for it, and grateful to remain employed, but I live in San Francisco and am a stone's throw from friends and former coworkers who are swimming in the ocean while I'm playing in the kiddie pool. In fact, just yesterday I found out that a former classmate of mine is the co-founder of a startup that recently raised between $10 and $20 million.

I know intellectually that I'm also in a fortunate position at a fairly sizable company; I know intellectually that he has a long road ahead of him and success isn't guaranteed (so my sizable company earnings might look better in the long run); I know intellectually all of these things and more, but I also have to admit that I still feel awful about it--jealous, for sure, and maybe even a little resentful.

Lately I've been thinking of a small idea to build, but then I think to myself that there's no point to doing so--scrounging together customers (if I can even manage to) only to build something for a handful of people, etc.--why bother?

I don't have an answer, but this article helps.
I'm not a lawyer but could someone explain to me could you be legally persecuted for this? It's "Terms of Service" - I broke the terms by performing the benchmarks and Cloudflare no longer provides service to me. Lets say I'm a scientist and I'm fine with never using cloudflare services but this benchmark is important for my field - would cloudflare have a case here? I'd imagine that would be quite absurd but corporate law very much already is.
The whole point of edge workers is to be able to provide very low latency all around the world... once you have that, it opens up whole new classes of workloads. Yes, 25ms doesn't matter for most current use cases.... but that is partly because the use cases that required lower latency weren't possible before.
This happens most often on calls, since battery life is much worse (60%?) when speaker and mic are being used. That’s why I’m left scrambling to get the other earbud in — someone is talking whether I can hear them or not.
Nope, just coincidence.
The number I heard reported recently was 150 percent a year, but I don’t have a source handy for that claim.
Agreed - I decided to try learning Emacs Lisp to solve this years problems and I have been struggling on problems I know I could have solved in minutes with a more familiar language - but it makes finally succeeding that much sweeter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29466313
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies House Judiciary Committee
Sundar Pichai Avoids answering the questions.

I can search google for "fda 2021 Vaccine Approval Documents release" I get the impression they are not available but was able to find them after a few clicks on the first page on duck duck go

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=fda+2021+Vaccine+Approval+Doc...

https://yournews.com/2021/12/05/2261844/first-batch-of-foia-...
> decentralized apps that run on the blockchain

How do you install these apps?
Hamburger menu broken on Firefox 94.0.2 (64-bit) on M1 Macbook Air
What kind of guy cries for a whole hour just because he had some trouble at work? I wouldn't want such an unstable guy in my company and Amazon probably sensed that something is wrong with him
Cute sentiment but wrong. These are skills, it's not Uber where you can simply choose to be a driver tomorrow without prior training. Lots of people simply cannot do these jobs, further, lots who might be able to are put off by the months/years of necessary training.
Perhaps this will help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23959679.
Same. They do it as a security measure.
A union could choose to not seek promotions-based-on-seniority as part of its negotiated contracts, if its membership actually wanted that.
While they usually seem to have started off fairly sincere, /r/antiwork like many of the subreddits dedicated to telling stories about ridiculous behavior in others seems to have quickly changed into more of a place where people practice creative writing. /r/TalesFromTechSupport, /JUSTNOMIL, /r/AmITheAsshole, /r/MaliciousCompliance, and many others.

The stories can be fun but under no circumstances should anyone take what is written at face value.
Use Cases Before Features
Unless there is a typo, in which case it’s the easiest way to lose large amounts of money in existence.
In LA County the correlation between the amount of covid in the sewage was very clear in 2020 but seems to have diverged in 2021 - https://www.lacsd.org/home/showdocument?id=4318
Is your loan delimited in dollars or non-stable crypto?
> But when writing a book, pretty soon you run into things that Markdown doesn’t natively know how to do, and so you have to either look for extra tooling to fill in the gaps, or build support for those things yourself. There are open source projects that address some of this, but I didn’t see anything that would do everything I needed.

I'm surprised there's no mention of Pandoc, which does pretty much what the author wanted (at least at a high level) and works with markdown:

https://pandoc.org/epub.html
Yes, it's fun. Mostly because it didn't start as an ad campaign, and it still doesn't feel like an ad campaign. During the first couple the only way to share your songs/artists/results was to take a screenshot.

Imagine, they made something cool aimed at their users and the users wanted to talk about it! That's the lesson that should be learned here, not "how do we fool our users into talking about our product for free".
> That's one way of running a tech company

at least as far as TFA is concerned, it's not really about "a tech company", but a shipping/receiving/warehouse facility.
I think you’re looking at the ‘last six weeks’ charts? The ‘since tracking started in Oct / Nov 2020’ charts show current levels being way, way below last year, or even the July peaks.

Although, to be fair, last October didn’t look bad, and then there was a massive spike…
Stepping up for the pedants of my adopted hometown, I note the proper name of that institution is The Johns Hopkins University, named for its likewise plurally christened founder.

Around here we mostly just call it Hopkins or JHU.
Great Power Competition: The Emerging World Order
It’s incredible that you think it isn’t.
Innovation hasn't slowed down. Individuals are just having fewer effective ideas. This is expected. The contemporary world is a complicated place so any kind of real innovation requires coordination among large groups of specialists. The development of the vaccine is a very good example of real innovation because it demonstrates what specialists can accomplish when they effectively cooperate across commercial and governmental institutional boundaries.

So if something is slowing down innovation it is probably the incorrect emphasis on the lone genius focusing on hard problems. This is no longer a sensible model for innovation and it probably never was in the first place.
The perfect representation of the corporate version of The Castle or The Trial has to be the orientation scene from the Hudsucker Proxy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS42yIDQX6s&t=6s
I use torsocks.
Is that from American Psycho?
Open-source mail delivery platform for incoming and outgoing email
I have a relative that’s an appraiser, and he’s basically been scratching by for decades.
Five years ago my daughter worked for Amazon in a fulfillment center for a few weeks. From her experience I developed a theory—Amazon expects a steady stream of new hires, figuring most will leave within a month. The job is low skill enough that that a new hire can hit a baseline throughput expectation (the stated goal is of course higher) within a day or two. Aggressive management demands probably pushes that baseline up pretty much until a few days before the eventual burnout.

The ones that stay long term are those people willing to overlook a shit job, aggressive output measuring, and draconian management. Those folks generally aren’t beating the union drum within the org as loud as the transient 30 day folks. Unions have trouble finding purchase because organizers are fighting that turnover and the folks motivated to unionize don’t have the patience to get there.
It got discussed a lot - years ago - and is sometimes referred to as the "Block Size Wars"

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_size_limit_controversy
If a wheelchair and a robot cross paths, the robot isn't trained to give way I assume.
As others have already pointed out this exercise used a huge dish(a radio telescope[1]) and significant power. This is in no way an economically viable mode of communication. Using satellites in low earth orbit requires less power and a significantly smaller antenna. Putting LoRa on satellites has been done before, see e.g. [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwingeloo_Radio_Observatory

[2]: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4...
Was it failing at GMail before you flushed at 8.8.8.8? Because then you would have to wait while GMail's own cache expired, assuming they even use the public 8.8.8.8 service.
I took a quick look and wouldn't say it's exceedingly apparent.
As long as you prune branches that don't have action items, what's the problem?

5 why's presents a list of action items, and a justification for them. One action item could depend on two leaf nodes of the RCA, or solve multiple leaf nodes.
So much packaged sophistication yet can't match high fidelity audio.

I picked up a KZ-ZSN with a pair of dynamic and balanced armature drivers and haven't looked back in terms of sound quality. Imagine my surprise when I purchased another pair with 4BA + 1DD..

Both were under $30.

To each their own I guess.
Why does UBI follow a lack of useful labor? A dominant ideology in the US is that it is unjust to take from the skilled, so those without useful skills should simply be left to their struggles.
tl;dr describes a reimplementaton [0] of the Common Lisp Object Library System for emacs lisp. This allows using object-oriented strategies in emacs lisp scripts that might otherwise involve more abstract / lower level work over primitive lists for structure [1]. The title seems to be a reference to the 'form' package of the tool.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eieio.ht...

[1] To be clear, I've used CL only briefly. I'm only aware of emacs lisp by reputation. I don't doubt that experienced lispers are comfortable structuring their information as lists of lists and atoms.
It's been hilarious watching competing companies publish warring blog posts declaring each other full of shit. I mean, I knew, but thanks for airing each others' dirty underpants.
Almost all the mayo on the shelves in my mass-market supermarket contains soybean oil. Really sucks. When did that happen?
Our Rulers Are Not Rational Creatures: Notes from the Edge of Narrative Matrix
Libcontainer: Insecure handling of bind mount sources
>>Anyway, Moscow was an insignificant outpost during Mongol invasion and Grand Duchy of Moscow is what eventually became Tsardom of Russia, not Novgorod.

>It is the first time i see somebody excludes Novgorod from Russian history.

Surprised to say the least it took me a bit of pondering... Excluding Novgorod from Russian history the way you did is just like excluding Massachusetts from the history of US on the basis that Washington, DC was just a swamp at the time.
Imgur has been broken for me lately, too. I suspect it's my pi hole, since it's effecting all of my devices.
Reddit is one of, if not the single least reliable source of information on the Internet.

You are looking at algorithmic feeds which propagate only information which has the majority vote. Not only that, but a majority vote of a community which becomes more radical as any opposition or moderates are pushed out.

Point a microphone at a speaker and crank the gain. That awful feedback noise is Reddit.
Just one of thousands that do this kind of thing, sadly.
I have had similar induction experiences at some supposedly great academic institutions. The irony is that I am accepting a much lower pay at academia to, among other things, avoid experiencing this nonsense.

Dysfunctional organizations are something horrible we should punish as a society. They are an enormous waste of resources. I am surprised this Amazon department so dysfunctional, since the company as a whole is doing quite well.
Thank you for posting this. I’m glad you made the choices you did. I hope you find better working environment.
Much less grid storage is needed than you think. Batteries are sufficient and cheap enough. More exotic storage systems might be cheaper, but they're not necessary.

A 3x overbuild of solar+wind in an optimal mix, along with a continental grid and 3 hours worth of batteries is all you need for 99.99% reliability: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z

> It will also see the revival nuclear because grid storage can't be built cast enough and many governments don't want to invest in the infrastructure improvements that will be needed.

I don't understand this point -- if governments don't want to invest in infrastructure, why would they invest in nuclear which is an order of magnitude more expensive?
> it wouldn't take too long for partition tolerant crypos emerge

Wouldn’t it? This is an unsolved problem and there is nothing that implies it can ‘quickly emerge’.

One of the paradoxes about crypto is that all problems with it can be quickly solved in the future, but somehow continue to exist in the present.
Yes and Pink Floyd turned functional T-shirts into a free ad campaign.

It’s popular music. People love music and want to share their experience and affiliation with others. Which is kind of the point of popular music.
The "Drug Free Workplace Act" does not require drug testing.

There are drug testing requirements for specific jobs/industries that are safety and security related.

https://www.samhsa.gov/workplace/legal/federal-laws/safety-s...
Advantages of Using Painted Door Tests
When product teams are testing a new app, website or feature, they often rely on user feedback and analytics to figure out how best to improve it. But what if you could get direct input from real users without them ever seeing the current version of your product? Painted door tests provide that opportunity.
> If I didn't state upfront that I was the tech lead of Workers, someone would (rightly) call me out for astroturfing.

The way I usually see people handle this, and what I do myself, is to both state your relation to the company and clarify whether you're speaking for the company. Ex: "I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers, but speaking in my personal capacity..." or "I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers (speaking only for myself) ..."
Prediction: Some startup will create a fully automated robot that requires a gig economy worker with zero control of the device to provide the "muscle power" needed to legally run on sidewalks - a bicyclist-in-a-box purely used for motive power and to take the blame for when the control/steering algorithms crash the robot into a classful of schoolchildren...
There's a lot of ways you can get fancier and more precise quantitative results, sure. The basics is the cycle threshold. The next step further is just to try and come up with a fractional cycle number through interpolation-- e.g. if cycle 20 was not-quite-positive-but-very-close and cycle 21 was strongly positive, that implies a value close to 20, versus if cycle 20 was very far from positive and 21 was just barely over the threshold, that implies the real value is just under 21.

And there's further, but diminishing gains from fitting the fluorescence curves.
AWS is a monopoly if you're living in a HN bubble. The vast majority of "hosting" (internet or otherwise) doesn't use AWS. Large telco's (Telefonica, AT&T, China Unicom, ...) have numerous data centers. Conglomerates (Tata, ...) have numerous data centers. You have wholesalers (Equinix, Digital Realty, ...). You have dedicated providers (OVH, Hetzner, PhoenixNap, ...). VPS' (DO, Linode, Vultr,...) and shared hosting (GoDaddy, ...)

Then you have a lot of private data centers, e.g. I worked at a major bank that had its own datacenters (multiple around the world). Admittedly, these are super small compared to an AWS DC, but there's literally thousands of these around the world (I know for banking and government, but I assume other industries do this too).
Had the pleasure to announce the SH architecture and the SH-1 at the Microprocessor Forum in 1993. Maybe the first high performance embedded RISC device. Sega was the launch customer, but what we really wanted at he time was the hard disk market. Simple pitch: 10MIPS, 10M devices, $10 http://www.verycomputer.com/31_7a04bb69b4bdf1ee_1.htm

Was not a fan of the name SH, thought it was boring. Tried to get Hitachi to call it "Sonic" instead. As in (S)onic the (H)edgehog
Has to be said since this whole peice does not seem to mention .

Inventor of the PCR Technique, Dr Kary Mullis, About Anthony Fauci: He’s Not a Scientist and Doesn’t Understand Medicine. https://humansarefree.com/2021/01/dr-kary-mullis-about-antho...

The PCR Testing Scam: According to Its Inventor, Dr Kary Mullis, the Technique CANNOT Be Used to Detect Viruses. https://humansarefree.com/2021/01/pcr-testing-scam-technique...

And Here’s Exactly How the PCR is Being Misused in Detecting the Supposed Sars-Cov-2 Cases. https://humansarefree.com/2021/01/pcr-misused-in-detecting-s...

The Mysterious Death of Dr Fauci’s Most Notable Critic, Just Before COVID-19: Dr. Kary Mullis, the Inventor of the PCR Technique https://humansarefree.com/2021/05/mysterious-death-of-kary-m...
How To Set Your Side Mirrors:

1. Put your head against the side window.

2. Adjust the mirror so that you can (just barely) not see the side of your car.

3. Put your head above the centre console.

4. Ditto for the right mirror.

This is how the mirrors are designed to function, right from their very invention. You will have no/minimal blind spots. Yes, you can not see your car in the mirrors. That is okay: you do not need to see your own car, you need to see other cars.
> that’s how people interpret NFTs

Almost no ‘people’ interpret NFTs this way.

> There’s no mental model for owning this inmaterial thing that is pegged to a digital file that can be duplicated infinitely without your approval.

There is no mental model because there is no ownership.
MA sequences 30% of PCR tests, and has so far found only a single Omicron case...
> Finding new and creative ways to stick advertisements in front of people in ways that they can't easily avoid is indeed a way that some people try to make a living.

In other words “Pretty much all media, everywhere”
It isn't better, it's different.

There are a plethora of tools that go into a problem analysis, six sigma, lean, or whatever labelled toolbox.

The important thing is being able to use the tool, not just do it, as the parent mentions in their comment:

It's easy for a manager to say "do a 5 whys". It's another to be able to support fixing what it finds out. Or if not your manager and just you or a small team with seemingly everything in your control to introspect and challenge assumptions or prior work that might need rethinking. That's the hard part.
After reading it once, find a good reference that points out the threads between the old and new testaments. Taking into consideration the time between the writings, these are amazing.
This is completely anecdotal and local but I am so with you there.

We have had really great experiences with tradespeople in one way and also incredibly bad with others.

A lot electrical work is required to be done by an electrician here. But what do you do when you have the electrician come out for a quote, you have the manufacturers manual opened to the page with the specs and the electrician can't make sense of it?

The specs clearly stated that the appliance needed multiple separate lines, including min wire gauge and the double pole breaker amperage. I knew I didn't have enough space in the panel for the required double poles. That's part of the reason I called the guy in the first place. And then he tells me it's no problem, the existing wire is sufficient and I can just order the appliance and he's gonna 'hook it up'. Unbelievable!

It took me quite some time of repeating (in different ways) all the info presented in the manual to get him to call his boss, read out the manual multiple times, telling me various half truths, being made to call his boss again and relay the parts of the specs he left out to arrive at the final answer.

The only thing that guy would've been good for is changing alight fixture, which is something you are required to hire an electrician for here. Where I grew up that is something an electrician will not even consider giving you a call back about if you were to try and hire him.
Thank you for your hard work on workers and for your openness in these forums.

As a dev, it sounds to me like Fastly's whole purpose is wrapped up in attacking Cloudflare whereas Cloudflare is focused on innovating.
I agree with criticism of Wikipedia’s behavior. I disagree that ordinary visitors to the website should need to or indeed should manually manipulate the URL of the page they’re on in order to share it with someone else. If you’re sharing the URL directly with a specific person who you know feels strongly about which URL they received, then sure, do it to be nice. But I disagree with prescribing that one URL should be the default (when it’s not even clear which one it should be!) and complaining about other people not respecting your preferred default URL.
NIMBY nonsense is nothing new to Toronto city council. And dumb articles like this are nothing new to the CBC, either.
What do you mean unenforceable? In many jurisdictions it is a criminal offense to violate the terms of service of a web site. In Illinois the first violation is a misdemeanour punishable by a year in the county jail. Further violations carry 2-5 years in prison.
Paul Harvey Trots
It doesn’t scale. Even if they took 100% of the current US work visas, that would cover less than a third of their current hiring.
That's the missing piece for that Designed By Apple 300 dollar book.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/cbUMZ
Why do you think this doesn't happen often enough to fill a subreddit?

There are billions of workers around the world, tens of millions using reddit.
You are talking about GOP politicians and members. The comment you are replying to is talking about conservatives. Membership in these two groups is not exactly coincident. I hope that your comment is just based on confusion stemming on completely misunderstanding the right in the US, instead of deliberate attempt to identify the two groups as convenient for argument.
Yes. Here in Illinois violating terms of service carries up to 5 years in prison.

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=0...
Also check Node per Socket (NPS) settings on EPYC
Scientists Say They Caught China Successfully Changing the Weather