skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should, but we can't. Not with all the other "freedoms" we (want to) enjoy.
That would be a single node though, in contrast to cloudflare's edge, and would probably slow down download speeds for everyone outside europe
I would not trust somebody who calls themselves a professional chef if they couldn't sharpen a knife.
Not really. Where's the charging infra? Everyone else is patchwork of shitty alternatives.
The point you are replying to is that stainless steel is unnecessary, because 'normal' steel will ast more than 1000 years in the conditions described.
> Now we're at 4 layers of management

For a grocery store. That's insane bloat.

> reached a point where anybody with real power to make changes has been completely isolated from the public. It's just powerless workers being yelled at by a powerless public. I don't really know how we fix that.

Just get groceries delivered.
I just gave you examples of EU inner workings. They are also incredibly interconnected, almost as much as the US. Still, they have institutions to give some power to the smaller entities/states. The US institutions are not made the way they are because "people could not travel far enough in a day", they are made as such to provide checks and balances. As an European living in the US, I feel like you have more stable mechanisms that work better than even the modern EU.
Conceivably, but I was a lot more enthusiastic about this possibility 35 years ago before the humans had much experience with it. It turns out DNA is a really shitty programming language for humans. Like, worse than Malbolge.
I ran into the visa issue with a non-developer hire. I'll ask if they have an opinion about pay. They probably know the student's capacity better than I do.
Ah, that sucks. First I've heard of that happening. Maybe try with a new email or with the email+suffix@ hack?
The event in question is The Australian Open… making your comment sound very strange.
some university will buy it first! actually this sounds like good, but this so difficult.

if someone glad to try some secret drug, maybe they can killed by error one...
Since there is a fee for making a trade, how much are you investing before a 0.03% return makes back that overhead?
BTW, I just also realized, that I get a lot of my articles/news from my Google News widget on my Android phone (and in the Google News app on my iPad), and the AI on that has curated a pretty decent list of topics that I like to follow.
You can renounce your US citizenship
>"one of many," that was the implied intent.

Well I've failed to see the implication but this might be my fault as English is not my first language. If you truly meant "one of many" then we have nothing to argue about. Hence no need to label me being as politically charged.
I'd guess that's because of another phenomenon: A "good" house is one ready to sell to the next guy. Youre never living in your own house, always the next buyer's house. Hence the need to keep up with the latest fads, desired by the next guy who is buying from you for the sake of the next guy.
An actually capable dedicated bare metal server with a good amount of RAM, CPU and disk, and 1Gbps will be more like $250-300/mo USD.

This would be approximately equivalent in spec to what you could build for $2500 purchase cost if buying a 1U machine and colocating itself.

For 30 bucks a month you'll get something very old and weak.
I'm both a coder and an author, so I'd say I'd type a LOT (I have a little under 2.5 million words written in my Grammarly total over the past few years and I wrote 50k in 30 days a few months ago for National Novel Writing Month, but I'm generally pretty much always coding and/or writing).

I don't look at the keyboard. There's a few spots you can touch-anchor with on the LYB (both with fingers and e.g. wrists) so you don't really have much problem with drift, which was my main issue at the start. It's a slightly different stance than the typical only-fingertips-touch one I use on "real" keyboards and you need a little bit of the muscle memory you have on e.g. hitting multiple physical keys at once and making sure they register in the correct order, but I type roughly 120WPM on touch and ~130WPM on tactile. The convenience factor for the former makes it so much more worthwhile for on-the-go writing IMO.
Bandwidth is cheap. Cloud providers are insanely expensive for bandwidth. Cloudflare is peering in a lot of locations, making it even cheaper for them.
At least in Germany it's usual to have a trail period of a half year in any job. During this time both, the employer or the employee, can resign form the contract with usually a two weeks notice period. Neither side needs to specify reasons in detail.

As this is a normal contractual regulation there is almost no risk of any legal trouble (usually).

On the other hand side as soon as this trail period ends all the German workplace protection regulations start to apply in case of permanent employment contracts. So after the trail period ended it gets quite difficult for an employer to get rid of an employee.

But all in all that's pretty fair, imho. After a half year you quite surely know whether you like the workplace, or form the other perspective, the employee.
Night owls at increased risk for psychiatric disorders compared to early birds
I look back fondly on the internal wiki pages documenting all the available "bar space" in the Facebook Seattle office.
The Least Interesting Generation
> The explosion in VC capital has been primarily driven by a reach for yield among institutions, endowments, pensions and sovereign wealth funds.

Also, where else would they invest this money?
Thanks for the answer, that's really informative!

> In my opinion, investing in a proper driver architecture with a stable interface would be a massive step toward better Linux hardware support and broader adoption.

Eh, I have mixed feelings about this. Part of what makes Linux so great is that most of its drivers are open source - which allows the devices it supports to stay supported basically forever (though bitrot certainly is a thing). And they achieved this by making maintaining out-of-tree drivers so damn painful.

A stable interface would sort of undermine this. I honestly don't know if that'd be preferable to the status quo.
Personally, I'd be absolutely ecstatic to do nothing all day. I love nothing more than a quiet day with nothing on the agenda where I can just chill out and enjoy the world.

Solving interesting problems is fun and all, but I don't really care to define my life around it.
You're likely pressing too hard. Look for pens that don't require force to dispense ink, such as a fineliner. Crummy ballpoint pens would be what you want to avoid if this indeed is the cause.
Discord is a good bet
https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Fictitio...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3202493

One of the harmful externalities of the practice is that when incorrect / impossible prophetic claims are made (and they are), they negatively impact the progress of science since they are generally presumed to be true and so might be used to refute a legitimate science or technical claim.
"xcrun safari-web-extension-converter" is one, for example.
I get the RSS feed of Hacker News via Feedbin, but only as a backup; I find it much more pleasant to log on to the website once or twice a day and browse.
This is undoubtedly better than most chuck-it-on-AWS types would achieve, but it's still quite a bit more expensive than could achieved with marginally more effort. They are already on Digital Ocean - if they used their managed database offering, they could slash their Firestore bill and get rid of their Argo bill, bringing the cost sub $200 (but - massively reduced returns on investment of effort).
That's a great idea. We've seen some challenges in 2021 with Google Colab in school environments and they've only recently been resolved.

We love using Colab for teaching coding. The Jupyter notebook environment is great for learning, and the familiar Google Docs interface makes our students feel comfortable right away.

I'd love to make a Colab-based course for kids. Just haven't been able to devote the time to building it out fully. We have most of our Python basics materials in a Colab and we use it for our returning students to get back up to speed at the start of a new course.
> Your nemesis is not your enemy. Or, put differently, your nemesis is more than just an enemy. Rather, the nemesis is an adversary is who is like your dark twin. Even as you battle with the nemesis, you share a kind of DNA. The gaze at your nemesis is like looking into a mirror, but one of those fun house mirrors at the carnival, where everything is both recognizable and distorted. In every way, this relationship is more powerful and volatile than a battle between enemies.

I have worked with people who fit this description, and I have certainly felt as if my desire to beat them, or at least not be beaten by them, has pushed me to do my best work.

But it's fundamentally an adversarial relationship, and it reminds me a bit of my kids' favorite movie, "Monsters, Inc." You can become so convinced that you need fear to excel that you fail to realize there's a better way.

The people who have TRULY led me to be my best have not been adversaries. They have been supportive mentors. They do everything that the nemeses do, in terms of bringing out the best work in me, but they do it through building up rather than tearing down.

And when I say they do everything the nemeses do, I really mean that. I can't think of any way that a nemesis has led me to grow that couldn't have been also achieved by a strong, encouraging mentor or manager.
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If you are worried about getting your blog post to the top of Reddit or Hacker News (I've never been there myself); you can have a very modest web server or even a pay per request serverless sort of thing and pay $20 real quick to Cloudflare if you happen to get popular. It's the Bart Simpson method of highly scalability[0], for static content you can have global datacenter coverage in a couple minutes or so if you use them for DNS to start with. It even works if the origin server goes down.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKU3hMvD31w
> Software engineers specifically probably benefited a lot from WFHing in 2020-2021 by being able to grind leetcode during downtime within working hours.

Speaking for myself, grinding leetcode in 2021 was very difficult because I was close to burning-out (very little outdoor recreation, blurred lines between work hours and non-work hours which resulted in me frequently working 9-11 hours per day (with breaks). I think it would have been easier pre-covid.

With in-person schools and daycares closed and the kids at home, there was no "downtime within working hours" - cue the working late at night after kids had gone to bed to make up for it (and the subsequent near-burnout experience).

Also, my recruiter told me they were seeing record-high post-screen interview cancellations by interviewees during COVID times - but perhaps their numbers were not representative. My suspicion is that there was a massive mental health disaster that was mostly hidden from view[1], and software engineers were not spared.

1. I wasn't even aware of my mental state until I started grinding leetcode and recognized the tell-tale signs of burnout as I had experienced full-blown burnout before (my self-motivation was reduced, but not yet gone)
That was my first post in this thread - so I don’t know which previous one you’re referring to.

I don’t know how you expect a pure consumerist class be able to exist alongside a productive class - sooner or later the productive class is going to want to distinguish itself, pushing the consumerists down far enough. The consumers are gonna want the latest gadget eventually - they’re not gonna be ok just with basic food / shelter, which’s going to only keep raising the bar of what the consumers are entitled to - which essentially means the society isn’t going to function. Nobody wants to keep paying for some no name set of folks to keep mooching off them and worse getting the same lifestyle for free.

So the only way I see a pure consumer setup working out is where you’re zombied out or made into a pet. Or I see that as the end result.

I think almost all the innovations exist because of hard work. My above point addresses why folks want their whole society to be productive - so everyone works / contributes the best they can. It could be a doctor / nurse / janitor / manual labor / line cook feeding them / day care employee etc.

Re why not allow for folks to become pets: I hate to Godwin this argument, but I don’t think our society is going to make peace with that ever. Even the existence of a higher race will change the equation completely up side down for us - forget about them harnessing humans as pets. There have been way too many lessons from slavery for this to be acceptable.

Re why is innovation a moral good: we either move forward and harness nature or it harnesses us. Just like how covid emerged - there are always new challenges. Eventual the sun is going to go nova - we need to be off this solar system long before that. However you want to think - be in short or long times, we need innovation. I think stagnation / advocacy for the same is actually a moral bad because it dooms humanity’s future.

Note: you might be referring to a very minimalistic homeless lifestyle when you mean a pure consumer sector, in that case - that exists now. We will continue to take care of folks who choose that (or unfortunately forced into it) with increasing quality over time, but that will never be looked upon as a positive thing. It is always going to be a something to avoid - there is always going to be a stigma and danger surrounding the same. I am hoping that’s not the argument you’re going for.
Here's 1950 - 2020: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50622
Concrete dome reinforced with basalt of fiberglass rebar. WAY cheaper, stronger. Like Monolithic.org in TX
Depends on how its structured, but if the SaaS is purely a B2B service for specific things likely not. The data controller is still X, they merely use Z as a data processor for their operations, and as such X has the obligation towards you to answer access requests. Whereas if its a LinkedIn-type thing of "create profile on our site, apply to many companies through it", it likely would look different.
Yup, they're great. At work they've become almost legendary. Usually one can only find bic pens and the like, but occasionally these make their way to a cupboard somewhere and once word gets out it is immediately raided. I even bought green (colour not found in the office) ones once with my own money just to be able to swagger off with. Very well spent money indeed.
Question:

I want to make a live video streaming website a la Twitch.tv. How much would CloudFlare charge me to stream 8 Mbps to ~80,000 viewers for 4 hours?
This is much more laid out than the article. Thank you. The author would do well to be more clear on their real point - so much of it is buried in the epilogue.

For reference, they seem to be:

- Medical procedures [should not] be forced onto people without an impenetrable foundation of evidence to support them

- Vaccination status should not limit people's ability to dine in restaurants and board planes with impunity[1]

- No one should be shamed for not being vaccinated

Part of me wonders what they author thinks would be an "impenetrable foundation of evidence", but if it's written similarly, we may never know.

1. This was difficult to tie back to vaccines directly. It seemed to be based on an idea that rational actors should be able to make individual choices.
You might like Ronald Coase's "The Nature of the Firm". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

A business is a socialist command economy embedded in a market economy, which has odd boundary effects at the interfaces.
I'm starting to get as tired of "I miss RSS" blog posts as I used to be of those ever-so-authentic-and-grassroots "RSS is dying!" blog posts years and years ago.

I don't miss RSS, I use it all the damn time.
> the sourdough trend from 2020.

ITYM ~2005 (±5?).
> The driver and transportation company should be on top of weather and highway safety and be responsible for making the right judgement calls.

This is absurd and unenforceable. Good luck holding Uber accountable for the weather or whether the highway has potholes.
The Voyager Tricorder V2
any purveyor of fine chemicals (polymers, etc) and petroleum processing company (hydrocarbon analysis).
Schneider One Business [0] is one of the best rollerballs I've ever used. It has a saturated blue color. It has low friction with enough tactile feedback and a nice grip. I wish it had more consistency between units. I had lemons, ink of which doesn't flow well or flow too much resulting in thicker lines.

[0] https://schneiderpen.com/en_us/rollerballs/one-business-blue...
In Texas, yes they are, but it's something that's rarely prosecuted.
Does Not Compute
Try writing with a pencil?

If you find that your hand hurts even when writing with a pencil, maybe you're gripping it too tight.

Anecdotally, I did go through a a few months of not writing anything by hand, and it did feel weird when I wrote again. Using a regular HB pencil for a while helped.
The size of the system font was basically a proxy for DPI. If you set scale to higher than 100% in, say, Win2K, it would also increase that size.

(This doesn't handle multi-monitor setups well, since font size would be the same for them all. But multiple monitors were not exactly common back then.)

WM_DPICHANGED is a late addition, yes, but it's only necessary for the apps to dynamically reflow if the user changes that setting. Before it showed up, you'd have to restart the app for it to register the new value - but that does not preclude DPI independence as such.

The real problem was that almost everything in Win32 outside of CreateDialog uses device pixels to position. You were supposed to use GetDialogBaseUnits and/or MapDialogRect manually to get the correct values, and very few apps did.

For another early example, Visual Basic (VB6, pre-.NET, so we're talking 1998) measured everything in twips.
Sounds like just another day in the consumer electronics world …
Were you working on electrical systems or mechanical?
How did the switch to software engineering go for you / what made you switch?
I'd prefer not to get arrested. If your advertising is driving people mad enough that potential arson (I'm a bit suspect of pouring liquid fuel over electronic equipment) is seen as a legitimate response... Well, then my comment about losing serenity and focus is really underselling the damage.
I think the custom around these parts is to submit the link and then add a comment with additional context. This makes it easy for folks to easily click through and see the project you want to show off.

I guarantee you'll get better traction, because I'm interested but to lazy to copy paste.

Warmest regards and good luck!
I was responding to what you wrote.

I was worried it could be inferred the flat out execution would be the same level of "real" for psychological as it is for the physiological. I was worried someone who has gone through insanely torturous psychological opiate withdrawal for instance would think that if they're both just as real, that means their odds of involuntary death from psychological withdrawal and physiological withdraw looks the same and they can just mentally power through physiological addiction like some strong-willed people may be able to with psychological addiction.

Of course this is wrong. You can't willpower your way out of delerium tremens. You can be executed, no matter what conscious decision you make.

I do not believe this is what you wrote. I was adding to the conversation. Do you believe it is ok to add to the conversation? Not every comment is meant to literally attempt to disprove the person above them. I was not disproving your statement.
Because it is a danger to women to have to work with someone that even allegedly committed violence against women.
Not sure if the numbers bear this out, but presumably reducing employee sick leave would be a rational argument on the hospital part?

Reducing employee hospitalization by firing them doesn't strike me as particularly sensible...
Yup, that was important to us as well for our first kid. And we actually ended up with a name we're very pleased with (and one that had never really crossed my mind before), something I honestly didn't think would be possible when we started.
That's the right way to think about it.

An idealized company in a static market that has been making the same real (i.e. inflation adjusted) profits for a while and is expected to for quite some time will have its price track inflation, so any dividends paid out will be on top of inflation.

Real life is much messier than the above, due to things like speculation (how much some people think other people will think the company will be worth in a year), changes in the broader market (if the "zero risk" rate of returns goes up or down, then equities, which have higher risk will tend to move in the opposite direction), and such can have drastic effects on a company's market value.
You are relying on special knowledge and understanding so it’s simple to you. It’s not necessarily simple to the 70 year old grandmother sitting on a jury. Does she understand what Morse code is, probably. Can she create an equivalence between Morse code and Base64? Well that is what a defense attorney has to do now, ain’t it?

But all of that still doesn’t matter if that reporter was in possession of data he was not authorized to have and the law prohibits that . So what you have is decoded data in possession by someone who wasn’t allowed to have it but could be valid for him to have possession if it was encoded. If that is the way the law is written or the jury instruction is given…it’s a hill for the defense to climb.
> While in Japan, that's not the case:

> Every Japanese knows what local businesses are run by the Yakuza, knows where local Yakuza headquarter is

False for most people. Organized crime is universally accepted as a negative thing in Japan, obviously. I found you post falsehoods about Japan constantly. You may had gotten bad experiences.
> I would love to read about the history of this space, if anyone knows of a good article/blog/book.

somewhat related - https://decider.com/2021/10/07/the-billion-dollar-code-netfl...
I'm writing a safe Rust DNS server library:

https://gitlab.com/leonhard-llc/ops/-/tree/safe-dns/safe-dns

My goal is to have libraries for all the common services. Then I can run web, APIs, DNS, and email from a single static binary, with no config files.

Then the next stage is to run the server in a unikernel in a VM, eliminating the OS. The following stage is to run the server directly on bare metal, eliminating the hypervisor kernel and OS. The final stage is to run the server as firmware directly on the CPU, shipping built-from-source firmware for all peripherals, eliminating all unauditable binary blobs from the server.