skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German work councils are a nightmare for security.

I had to spend time in front of them to literally beg them to let us install an EDR (and heard similar stories from others).

At some point I said fuck it, we will disconnect this country and they will have problems.

This helped me to understand that the work council is the last to fall with people routinely working to there, so they do not care. Also Germany of too big of a country.

The net effect is that some projects do not go there anymore because of the complications.

Note 1: the installation was for security reasons. They had a security problem once and I was calling the work council on daily calls (twice a day) to show them that I can be a pain on the ass as well (it was in the contract we signed with them). Calls were at 8 and 21.

I hope they understood a bit why I was asking for the security measures.

Note 2: I am grateful when they ( and the ones in my country) fight for employees protection. This is great to work in such a country. There is however a moment where they lose content with the reality.
I agree with your general point about avoiding centralized data, but StackExchange definitely stands as unique since all of its posts are in the creative commons. Due to that, I think SE is one of the few bastions for sharing knowledge since it doesn't own its users answers.

Not saying that SE is the end all be all of QA forums, just that it's a much better centralized system than you are giving it credit.
If I were to work on building a search engine from scratch, I would probably approach this from these directions:

(1) Investigate if running a DNS server will help me get a more robust picture of what websites exist.

(2) Investigate if supplying a custom browser would help me to leverage client PCs to do the crawling / processing for me.

(3) Investigate if there is any point in building a search engine with the data gathered in a non-proffit way... Non-proffits are not as sustainable as for proffit corporations.
Yeah that's the week of X event. I only play the campaign so it's kinda OK for me. What I really hate is the week of plague...
Just a tip that while HN looks like reddit, it's not reddit. And deliberately so.

E.g. you can't downvotes responses to your own comment. This to steer into a different type of conversation.

I can't say I've fully internalized it, but it does make for much less shitposting compared to reddit.

The downvotes i don't think are due to disagreement or even anger.

I understand your frustration (especially since the critique is so unspecific), but i believe the downvotes don't mean what you think they mean, and it's not personal.
I would even say pair with similarly or even more jr programmers as knowledge aren't subsets and trying to explain something really makes you learn it. Do be careful to not say things that you've read but don't understand, or if doing so state it as such.
> there were plenty of reasons to be skeptical of rapid nationwide adoption of Chinese 5G tech into the United States' telecommunications infrastructure, but it pretty much got swept under the rug

... widespread bans of, and embargo against involved companies, and pushing for the same in allied countries, is "sweeping under the rug"?
California could easily build reservoirs, but they don't -- which makes the constant water fear mongering annoying. Reservoirs would capture much of the rainfall which isn't absorbed into ground water, and currently flows to the sea. The reservoirs would create new habitat for wildlife.... the downsides are few, if any.
In practice, not so much. Every gas station in my area installed these things, and they are busy as they've ever been. You would have to go well out of your way to avoid ads.
Granted it was 30 years ago but when I was a grad student in physics, there were a variety of options for how to write your dissertation. From what I observed, my guess would have been that Latex takes about twice as long as Word.

But it wasn't a fair comparison, because the students using Latex were also using Unix computers, and were genuinely interested in the nuts and bolts of the process. They were also settled on being able to push a button and have a beautiful book slide out of the laser printer.

The students who used more primitive tools simply accepted that their formatting would be more primitive. I used an antiquated scientific word processing program called T3 on a MS-DOS machine, and covered for its deficiencies by fixing my manuscript with pen and ink before taking it to be photocopied.

In my dad's dissertation from the 1950s, the equations, chemical diagrams, and graphs, are all drawn by hand. You wrote your manuscript by hand, and paid a typist to make the final copies after your committee had approved it.

Today, I think formal typesetting is disappearing. They should compare Latex, Word, Jupyter, and the e-mail editor.
The AC unit can do heating if you just run the pump in the opposite direction. It is just a feature the manufacturer did not bother to install/wants extra money for (it is literally a single $20 part for the valve).

Obviously they are not the most efficient heaters as they are not designed for it but they would still work.
China-Lithuania tension: German firms may have to shut factories in Baltic state
How do people actually read this and take it seriously? It's listicle level non-conformist hogwash, ran through a thesaurus. By all means, watch more old movies and read more books. But don't pretend it makes you anything other than pretentiously edgy.
That has helpful technical info on the technical problem. Radar altimeters work in 4.2-4.4GHz. Some 5G systems use 3.7-3.98GHz. The document describes mostly theoretical problems; the only actual example they site was part of a deliberate radar jamming military test.
This is a much less cynical Outlook.
It already is. Along with the companies. The top tier paying companies are flooded with candidates and difficult to get into because of articles like this.

People are already doing all this. Probably about as many that ever could. It’s why the interview process is so ridiculous and keeps getting more difficult.
Think of open source development the way you think about evolution.
It's mostly untargeted, random mutation where 20 Solutions to the same problem pop up and one or two survive in the long run.

It's just random people doing random things and making the same mistakes over and over, it's horribly inefficient but incredibly resilient as a social mechanism.
Distributions are an attempt to orchestrate the resulting chaos into something coherent and usable, and since they are open source in nature, they suffer from the very same inefficiencies (and resilience)
Betamax did what it did very well, too. Better than VHS, which was its more popular alternative. I think that's the author's point.

The question is not whether Kubernetes is technically excellent or superior. It's whether Kubernetes will continue to dominate the service orchestration space in spite of its greater complexity.
>sometimes they start cutting off heads of whoever is in charge

I wish they'd actually done so to Stalin, seeing as he was the one in charge and his policies were the cause of the famine. Instead, it seems like the majority swallowed his propaganda blaming the kulaks hook, line, and sinker.
Sure, but visibility is also impacted and is not something that improves with consistent rain. People should always adjust their driving style when it rains.
Regular server/client beats SPA because each request starts with an empty state, whereas SPAs build up bugs as they try and fail for mutate state over time.

What about an SPA that made internal requests to a server backend, running in the browser?
5G is kind of three things.

5G on existing frequencies can do more data with the same spectrum. Something something MIMO. This is broadly useful, if you have an 5G capable device and your network updated their base station equipment. 5G and 4G are supposed to be better at sharing spectrum on demand vs 4G and 2/3G.

5G on new, nearby frequency, in the US, there was a second round of taking historically TV spectrum and reallocating it for communications. These bands will most likely need new antennas on towers as well as on handsets. These tend to be lower frequencies, which could be useful for distance and structure penetration, but may not always be built out.

Then there's the millimeter wave stuff. Very high frequency, very fast, great for density, like maybe transit stations and arenas. This is the stuff that needs a tower on every light pole or whatever. I don't think this is going to get a lot of deployment, but it gets a lot of press. I think this is the part the FAA is objecting to for now.
Not to mention the limited resources municipalities have to deal with these events, since they just don't happen that often.

It is more common to see 4WD vehicles abandoned in ditches because they didn't realize 4WD doesn't help with braking or going down a hill.

Wanna learn how to drive in the snow? Tackle an unplowed, 45 degree hill littered with vehicles that didn't make it.
I presumed you knew about native Americans, but that doesn't mean the geologist considered them.

Anyway, it's still relevant since many populations in the Sonoran and Mojave had highly intensive traditional agriculture. I assume those are the areas that were being discussed?

The lack of what we'd traditionally call intensive agriculture in places like central valley is mainly just a historical semantic distinction. They cultivated and intensively shaped their local environments to maximize food production, but they weren't herding or clearing fields so it doesn't count.
sweet! Any way to get these over (weekly) emails?
Yeah, that's a problem.

FK JOIN was a casually tossed off addition that, in retrospect, I shouldn't have included.
> 2) Why do salaries not rise? Mid-term the hard cap for salary increases is the increase in worker productivity.

That's not true at all. Firms can take in monopoly profits and pay workers above their productivity indefinitely.

There's no hard cap, just that workers are unlikely to be powerful enough to negotiate such an arrangement. (NBA players union is good example.)

Shareholders are in a sense workers with 0 productivity, and yet they receive more payment than 0.
to this i'll add horn of the abyss (hota) -- a rather active (and fully playable, including competitively) community expansion to heroes3 -- bringing a new town, new creatures etc. etc. -- generally considered to be at least on par quality- and scope-wise with the official add-ons.

https://www.hota.acidcave.net/about_the_project.html

https://h3hota.com/ (the site is geared towards seasoned players, but be sure to check out https://h3hota.com/en/gallery for some visuals)
Does it have labels and full-text search, at least?

edit: does the described setup include a UI at all?
I was also curious about this, so I looked at the Airworthiness Directive[1] referenced in the example NOTAM.
Basically, the argument is that the radio altimeter receivers "must detect faint signals reflected off the ground to measure altitude" and [C-band 5G signals] "could significantly degrade RA functions [...] if the altimeter is unable to sufficiently reject those signals".

So it seems it is basically a question of how wide is the RF input filter bandwidth of RAs on commercial aircraft.

[1] https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf...
$20 / yr is perfectly reasonable. GM wants $50/mo for that service. The basic on/off, lock / unlock function is still $25/mo.
Nice point. Reminds me of this: https://web.archive.org/web/20131028201123/http://www.wra1th...
Unfortunately it seems the original page died.
So in conclusion you agree that freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences, and the USA law also agrees - “Yelling fire in a crowded theatre” etc.

Which is the point of discussion you started when you said “it does precisely mean there are never any legal consequences for saying anything”.
Also, the type of person diligent enough to save a large fraction of their income for decade(s) isn’t likely to just sit around doing nothing. They’ll just do what they want.
I don't know, but I don't know how common it is for any modern car to leave you stranded. I figure every problem that requires a professional to fix should count equally, otherwise, including panel misalignment (which IMO raises concerns about their entire quality process given how easy it is to spot in the factory).

A lot of cars have automatic braking, BTW, including many Hondas. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of models have it by now.
Are you saying that the only reason to treat other humans well is because the law says you must?

I would say that is precisely backwards: one should treat other humans well, for a variety of reasons. We write that down in law as a shared agreement. But the law is not itself the reason -- it springs from the reasons.
>"If, sitting in your garage/basement, you invent a tech covered by a secret patent then you will be getting a job offer."

Or being told to shut up and get lost. And can't sue back because the lawsuit will be dismissed on the basis of national security.
You should contact a technical recruiter. There are I'm sure thousands of software development openings in your area from companies you have never heard of but with salaries that are 60-80% of FAANG.
> The Marriage of Anti-Mimetic and Anti-Fragility

And that was when I realized the whole article was bullshit.
Agreed. Judging from this example: https://github.com/rajasegar/htmx-trello which uses htmx in pug templates combined with hyperscript the results are... dubious and hardly scalable.
Semi conspiracy alert: 5G is mainly motivated by surveillance through IoT. 4G is still mostly ok as a regular "cellphone" network but isn't cheap enough to be embedded in every device. Many consumer goods now have a wifi option (like my new dishwasher) but it still need to be configured after installation, which many people won't care to do. 5G will make it cheap enough for manufacturers to bundle always-on cellular modems in every device. The cost of networking plan will be assumed by the manufacturer and be offset by the value of telemetry data collected and subscription services made possible by the always-on network. Special dishwasher cycles for an extra 3$ and other shenanigans. Obsolence no longer has to be preprogrammed but can be declared unilaterally at the time most convenient by and for marketing departments.
Maybe I will if that's what it takes.

Our society has serious problems when it allows a single person to be a bottleneck on something like this.

A better society might allocate some existing resources to evaluate new ideas in parallel in case these ideas are actually, truly valuable.
Thank you for sharing a counterpoint. IMO this act of skepticism is the most important trait of the HN culture.

That being said, I read through the counterpoint article and found it pretty hollow. In fact it seems to strengthen my belief that Sapiens is a valuable book. I kept expecting the author to point out where Harari’s assertions were wrong, but each section more or less boiled down to Harari is either not funny or not clever. The author even contradicts his article’s own thesis partway through:

“Nonetheless, his version of human history involves moral judgments that suggest he is not so thoroughly reductionist, or as cynical about the human condition, as he appears to be at first glance.“

+1 for Harari
Ditto. I had him pegged as well meaning but sometimes a bit less knowledgeable than he wanted to come across but that didn't stand the test of interaction.
Atleast their FAQ says all problems are not equal.

"Engine major, engine cooling, transmission major, and drive system problems are more likely to take a car out of service and to be more expensive to repair than the other problem areas. Consequently, we weight these areas more heavily in our calculations of model year overall reliability verdict. Problems such as broken trim and in-car electronics have a much smaller weight."

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...
I use and recommend the prometheus blackbox_exporter. You can configure a TCP connectivity check with TLS validation and an SMTP "expect" transcript. If you ran this in the cloud from multiple probing regions/clouds you'd have a monitoring scheme on par with what Google uses to monitor Gmail.
Most people don't realize that the vast majority of GA aircraft are positively ancient though. When the average hardware among hobbyists is >30 years old the definition of "crappiest of hardware" takes on a different meaning.
The examples of surviving wicker fence walls are amazing.
Wesnoth is too heavily based on RNG for me (and apparently a lot of others who have tried it). Different terrain tiles changing your chance of getting hit is a cool idea in theory, but in practice it makes strategy less important and lucky dice rolls more important, especially when some tiles can give you a 70% or 80% chance to dodge. Increasing defense based on the tile you're on (and maybe a small dodge chance boost like +5% or +10%) would make it much more about strategy.
Christmas doesn't celebrate the winter solstice, it happens to be a few days after the winter solstice. In some places, the solstice is far more important holiday than Christmas, like for Buddhists in HK where I live, who celebrate the solstice with family
Half of these things feel like you can have way better solutions:

- Spot price the gallon and set the minimum order increment to 5 gallons. Pre-purchase and then arrive to collect or pay the spot price at the time of arrival

- Switch the stall queue to a ticket system. You buy your thing and plug in a contact number (or wait). You are either notified by phone (or by voice when you’re there). Lots of food courts already do this.

- There’s no reason to buy coal mines. You can just political currency instead of normal currency. If your time is worthless or you have cultivated political currency for a while, the former is incredibly cheap
dang must have the day off or something. The number of rulebreaking "shallow dismissals" in the comments is staggering. Hope you don't let it get to you! This community often thinks it's the center of the internet in my experience, and by proxy any mistake that happens is some sort of crime against the internet that you should pay for.
My grief (and grieving) is not with this.

If you had an advanced degree in math or physics, hedge funds in NYC was always an option to maximize your talent in exchange for money. But one also had an option to choose something different and still make an upper middle class living.

It seems these days, only the finance/tech offer such living. NOT choosing tech is choosing barely middle class living, and everyone else is delegated to hand-to-mouth living.
No one is suggesting having no goal. But if you have exactly the same goals as everyone else - build a business, become an executive, do executive things - while persuading yourself that you are somehow different because you read a few extra books and don't use a GPS etc, you are very much not operating outside of your culture, never mind being counter to it.

And you are at least metaphorically - and possibly also literally - "doing what your father did."

What goals are genuinely countercultural in 2022?
I think there is another solution, not discussed in the article, which lies between CPU isolation and pinning, and that is virtualizing the container’s /proc so to not let it think the number of available (logical) processors is larger than a certain limit set by the cluster operator, but which is actually lower than the physical capacity of a server (so to allow overbooking and increase their ‘redacted’ savings in $M). This is basically presenting a container/application with a number of vCPUs that it can use in any way it sees fit, but with all the (invisible) control group (quota) limits (i.e., “throttling”) the author discusses in the text and that avoids the application to spawn so many threads that inevitably overloads the physical server and destroys tail latency.

This is at the kernel level, opposed to paravirtualization. And I guess this is Twitter’s use case, but should not be confused by the typical vCPUs offers one sees in most cloud providers, which is usually done through hypervisors such as Qeme/KVM, VMware, or Xen.

I’m not sure why Mesos (maybe this one tried and didn’t succeed), nor K8S (available through external Intel code) or even Docker, never really thought about that, but I guess they want to keep their internal (operational) overheads up to a limit, and possibly also to maintain the metastability of their services [1]. But now we see where it leads to, with all these redacted numbers in the article.

[1] https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s...

Ps: edits for clarifications.
Is there a difference between pulse-density modulation and sigma-delta modulation? I've seen the sigma-delta hardware in STM32s and wanted a project to use them.
I’m a big fan of this theory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY
How does it increase power consumption?
No, I don't.

I want to run in the forest, stand outside in the rain, enjoy a pint with a friend after handing over a crisp fiver. I want to chop firewood and build a cabinet. I want to feel the cold Siberian breeze, and thank the postman with a bottle of wine. Drive my old, rusty, loud car through busy city traffic, and fuck my partner over the kitchen worktop.

The only real use I can see for VR that would actually appeal is in disability adjustment. Everything mentioned in the article sounds like a junkie's version of the real thing.
Are UK salaries quoted post-tax? USA salaries and wages are usually quoted pre-tax. Obviously not a 5-10x difference, but that still makes comparison more difficult with regions that usually discuss post-tax earnings.
Plenty of plows and gritters in Scotland (all with names like Lord Coldemort and Buzz Lightyear)

A fair number of plows in northern England too, the A66 across the Pennines is often blocked. Further south it’s typically just gritters spreading salt on the roads, but it’s rare to have the type of snow you need to shift.

We had heavy snow in the south east and northern france back in December 2010, my flight to the US was cancelled on the 22nd, I managed to get one from Paris to Newark for the 23rd, and had to drive from Bedfordshire to Paris. Felt like a massive blizzard driving though it, could barely see the tracks of the vehicle 800 yards ahead coming down through france.

Landed in a clear New York on the 23rd, but then went out for dinner opposite the hotel in Tribecca, possibly that night. The snow came down, and kept coming. First time I’d ever seen a snow plow in person, and the drifts the next morning with covering taxis. It was a different world to the 3-6” of heavy snow we were used to.
They don't completely stop though. You poop out liquid that (I've read) comes mostly from your body's dead blood cells.
Here’s a good explanation from somebody on Twitter that I mostly share.

“Web3: “user-generated authority, enabled by self-certifying web protocols.” A superset of technologies that include blockchains, but are not limited to them.

Or we can just use “Self-Certifying Web Protocols” (SCWP).”

https://twitter.com/arcalinea/status/1474124531895713792?s=2...
Tesla phantom braking only happens with Autopilot braking, not automatic emergency braking.
I’ll second that recommendation. For any who don’t know him, Juan Browne’s videos are the best resource I’ve found for sober, no-bullshit reporting and analysis on everything related to aviation.

Juan (a.k.a. Blancolirio on YouTube) is an airline pilot and former military aviator who doesn’t sensationalize and really knows his stuff.
Something like 4chan in the past