skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The budget lists system administration cost at $12,875.29. Presumably that's not a full-time sysadmin. And there's no line-item for a devops engineer.

So administration costs aren't zero today, but I suspect they'd be higher if they moved off the cloud.
> The police and intelligences agencies aren’t intercepting the communications of normal and petty criminals.

Snowden showed otherwise - they're spying on everyone's conversations, criminal or not.
Funny, I just tried it on a comte and it thought it was gruyere. Still probably a better guess than a lot of people I know would give

(Edit, reading below I see others noticed the same thing)
Wait, the aliens guy?
"bottom of the barrel X developers" means the cheapest/worst among X developers. You can say bottom of the barrel European developers, bottom of the barrel American developers, bottom of the barrel Indian developers etc. None of those statements says anything about how the quality of those developers relates to developers outside of that area, it just says you take the bottom for that particular group.
I think it's against against dependence. You can choose who you buy your diesel from, and you store a however big tank of diesel you deem appropriate. In stark contrast to a powerline.
I've read it. Unfortunately, I thought it was terribly written. Also, it's a philosophy book, not a guide for practitioners.
Germany, but what is the upside to do the PCR test? You get officially in Isolation and can get a visit from the regulatory office to check if you are at home. AFAICS there is no upside. You won't get any treatment protocol, any help. You just get more pressure over you. I won't have the proof of recovery, but actually I don't need it since I have all certificates (2 shots + booster). That's make me think if this whole thing makes sense: As it is now, I can go everywhere (even with an antigen positive), because I have the booster certificate and therefore I don't have to test myself. The only real meaningful approach would be test everyone, everywhere regardless of the vaccination.
The Heaven's Gate website is still alive
Indeed! Although I'd frame Bir Tawil as a good steppingstone. Anyone interested in Mars colonization should first also setup a prototype Mars base in the interior of Antarctica.

It has the same advantages as Bir Tawil, and it's still much warmer than Mars. If you can't succeed at Bir Tawil, you can't expect to succeed at Antarctica, and if you can't succeed in Antarctica, you can't expect to last on Mars.
That’s the same gimmick the US government uses, associating encryption with the boogeyman of the day, usually terrorism, child abuse, or Nazis. However it might also include migrants, drug dealers, unwed teenage mothers, welfare recipients, a laundry list of non-caucasians, and the Irish (I like to add that one in just to highlight the absurdity but the US really toned down the anti-Irish stuff in the 40s).
That is true. Well, in the case of being smashed by a hypothetical FTL wave the imparted energy should be sufficient to alter the course clear of Earth.
Lots of people are looking at local waste-water COVID testing data as a way to get prevalence in an area.

Here’s my local area - note the scale!

https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

And the US CDC program for this national effort: https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/surveillance/wastewater-sur...
The BBC appeases the government of the day. They’re not the firebrand impartial service folks here make them out to be.

Their domestic political coverage over the last 5 years has really damaged their brand.
I don't think right-to-left is the issue, since numbers in Arabic are still written left-to-right. However, they use different digits, which don't fit on a 7-segment display, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals .

And there's also Thai numerals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_numerals .
“Science Myths” in Textbooks and Popular Culture
You're on a forum with a bunch of programmers and other computer people. It's not pretentious to number things the way that we number everything else.
I know; I just pretend that clipboard doesn't exist. I've never found it convenient for anything other than pasting to terminals that screw up the CTRL-C/CTRL-V shortcuts.
> But any belief system that is actively encouraging suicide has clearly crossed a line.

Does "handle these venomous snakes, God will protect you" count?
I opted to upgrade to Fedora instead. Honestly.

I've been pretty happy. Whatever remaining faith I had in MS's stewardship of Windows was lost with 11. Which is a shame, because over the years I generally preferred them to Apple - I still have my first-gen Zune.

But Windows 11, no thanks. I'm out.
I always found it weird that people call Tumblrs blogs. A post on your blog there is more like a tweet; people can pile on, amplify it beyond what your intended audience could have possibly been. This can be great or disastrous. It’s yet another social network — hardly resembles a blog at all.
I scaled my SaaS pretty far with no sysadmin nor Devops, nor any plans to acquire either. I know enough to setup some cloud servers, but I’m not qualified to manage barebones Linux at scale. The hacker news go rent a Hertzer trope is rather tired. If it was better, why aren’t more people picking it?
Somewhat related to this is the excellent presentation "Why greatness cannot be planned: myth of the objective" by Kenneth Stanley which I highly recommend! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI
Right, but in the end it sounds like this: because some (or many) employers don't have a good judgement, we should simply hide the past to everyone. It sounds like a collective punishment to me.

In the end, you cannot make the universe fair by enacting human laws. Paid or not, mistakes from the past exist even if you hide it under the carpet. Same as you need to learn from history, not to ignore it, this particular history should be available, not hidden.
And how does the QR code get my food from the kitchen to my table?

How does the QR code handle a request like "do you have a baby-seat for our 2 year old?", and subsequently point me towards where said baby seat can be found and offer a solution how it gets to my table?

How does the QR code resolve the situation that another set of customers already uses said baby seat?

How does the QR code resolve the situation that we are 12 people, we all want to sit next to each other in the non-smoking area, but there are only 2 tables there each sitting 5 people?

How do I explain to the QR code that there must have been a mixup in the kitchen and what was delivered to me was not what I ordered?

How does the QR code deal with unruly customers who harass other guests?

How does the QR code deal with a requirement like checking vaccination certificates, which was implemented by law on short notice and not part of the systems original spec?
I think the key here, as a responsible developer, is ensuring isomorphism between the GUI representation and the generated code. To the extent that the development method could be swapped without repercussion.

Most GUI tools, presumably in speed to market, skip this. But as soon as you've created something that can only be viewed & modified in a visual editor... you've become part of the problem.

So I'd approach this from a "If my tool is successful, and users use all the editors we give them, what will their support story for a 10 year old codebase look like?" (If you care about the greater good)
That thousands of HN visitors are going to buy one.
Here is a direct link to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcUM9US4XdMROZ57-OIR...
Prof. McElreath has been adding two new videos every week.

Also, for anyone who prefers to use the pythons for the coding, I recommend the PyMC3 notebooks https://github.com/pymc-devs/resources/tree/master/Rethinkin... There is also a discussion forum related to this repo here https://gitter.im/Statistical-Rethinking-with-Python-and-PyM...
Nobody said that Indian developers are worse than average. Just that there is a big difference if you take cheap Indian developers instead of expensive Indian developers in terms of cost per head, which is why you say that you picked the cheapest Indian developers. Not sure why you would read that as if Indian developers are worse, it is really hard to read it that way. I guess people here just react because it is fun to react, but it really just reads as if they picked the cheapest among Indians and no how Indians relates to other groups at all.

And by Indian developers most likely they meant developers stationed in India and not ethnic group, as location is the main degerminator of cost. So the description was for the cheapest developers you can find in India.
> Why shouldn't businesses provide i.e. (K-12) education? Because, unless every single student goes to work for the company, then the value they create is lost to them. So you cannot align the interests of the business with providing quality education.

But this ignores the fact that private schools do exist and are successful in many countries. The incentives are aligned in some cases - if the education is bad, the parents will take their kids to a different school, or never go to the bad school in the first place. If it's good, they'll be willing to pay higher fees.

I'm not sure what is meant by "unless every single student goes to work for the company, then the value they create is lost to them" - (some of) the value they create is captured by the school by charging fees. Isn't that the whole point of private education? This is the idea of markets in general: when a voluntary transaction takes place, both sides believe they benefit. If fees are $10,000, the parent will only pay this if they value the education at more than $10,000, although they may not think about it in these terms. Some parents will make gigantic sacrifices in the millions of dollars (in lost earning potential if nothing else) for their kids.

You are right that private schools don't always have an incentive to provide good education. The schools have that incentive if and only if the parents care about the child's education and have the ability to choose schools. In many cases they don't care, and the children are the innocent victims in that case. In many cases parents care, but cannot afford to move and the school effectively has a local monopoly on poor people forced to go there. No market system can really work with a monopoly.

Agreed that universal private education wouldn't be the best, but I think it's because the buyer of the service and the beneficiary are different, and there is an element of monopoly. I don't think it's because the schools lack a mechanism to capture value, they can just charge fees.
QR code menu, order, pay might be fine for McDonald's but at any nice place it is a terrible experience that sours the whole thing.

Reading a menu with your phone is terrible, there is no way to ask about specials, to hold items you are allergic to to get a recommendation.

It makes a nice place look cheap and in return I never leave a tip.
I found that source code extremely familiar and was wondering what it was.

I saw the shebang and still didn’t understand what the heck roku was.

Until I searched it:

“Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Formerly known as Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019.”
I assume with "tax" you mean "tax + health insurance + unemployment insurance + retirement savings etc"?
For a long time I used to work at one of Kronos's competitors. This space is so incredibly behind the times that it doesn't surprise me ar all. Up until recently time capture/entry software was still on premise (or even via paper time sheets!) For most large enterprises.
Regrettably, my visceral reaction to that site kept me from reading very far.

But yeah, conservatories are definitely that. "You, too, can get an expensive education and then struggle to compete with 200 other kids just like you for the the very few paying gigs in classical music!"
When you are given priors you have to be very careful about what answer you are getting actually says. It says there are different viral profile in one group vs the other when we explicitly select for people with virus. Doesn't really tell us the detail involved of actually getting the virus.
> Chances are something unsettling has happened within 150m of you, some time in history.

Better?
You may not agree with the line, but it's not shoehorned in, it's what the article was written for. It's literally in the lede:

> Over the centuries, Brunhild and Fredegund were dismissed and even parodied. But a new book shows how they outwitted their enemies like few in history
I just got the booster, because it makes the life easier. For example: To go to fitness studio or restaurants. Either you are double vaxed + 24 hours test or you are double vaxed + boosted, then you don't need a test. So I boosted. 3 shots biontech/pfizer. Now I'm positive. If I wanted, I could still go to fitness studio and restaurant, even being positive, which really doesn't make sense to me.
Western militaries have bombed schools, hospitals, and weddings across the world, and by your stated logic in this post you are personally morally responsible for this. Maybe getting a late paycheck and W-2 can be called tit for tat!
I have no skin in this debate, but the companies I have worked for simply see a line item on their budget they can shrink after a product has been built. They use a small team of western devs to build and launch something and they go "Why do we need to pay this team to sit here and fix bugs??". They move the team somewhere else and hire an offshore team to manage the project. Project runs fine until something crucial needs to be fixed or a new feature needs to be added. Thing gets duct taped together until the project collapses. Repeat ad infinitum.
I found it easy.
No, at least not in any way we know about. I was caused by violent volcanic activity which is governed by forces from the earth's interior.
It’s the opposite. The older the bug, the less likely it will be fixed. Those old bugs are one of the most reliable sources of information how the software behaves.
That looks neat and was very interesting. Pandas is sometimes a dark art to know how to do something fast enough.

Port the functionality of the R package but try to keep it python. Run flake8.
Yes. And I have been challenging many of these false beliefs and bias for over a decade. The amount of crap people take as gospel from VCs. ( Not hating on VCs ) Things like "Execution eats strategy for breakfast".

But this is tiring. For a different reason.

So what happen is media will now try this narrative. See if it works. And if it did, it will enter a positive feedback loop ( in terms of clicks ) and the whole PR industry reinforces itself. Mass public will now start hating on these success stories. The pendulum will swing from one end to another.

Success Stories Cause False Beliefs About Success wasn't "false" 10 years ago. It is only false now because the narrative no longer works for masses.

Everything depends on context. But no one want the context, they only want the answer.
Tim Davie has literally no editorial control though.
Why ideologies harm individuals
The campaign as described sounds like what would be classified as hate speech against any other identifiable group, and yet so long as governments and their appendant "agencies" approve of creating new identifiable groups to target with otherwise proscribed speech, it's somehow acceptable?

This is Hutu vs. Tutsi meets Gobbels level propaganda, and I'm sure it must be very fun to be so righteous, we know how it ends. While mainstream society and discourses are not allowed to reason about the applicability or justness of violence, these official parties appear free to incite and direct it, and notably, to selectively enforce the provisions against it so that it's directed at the right people.

These are dishonest parties working in bad faith using special protection, what are the alternatives? I'm afraid the only thing they will understand is cost.
This is most likely because the SNES's audio was entire ADPCM based. The CPS1 was basically doing MIDI, while all audio on the SNES was done with samples, and so the samples could be made to sound more realistic than typical MIDI.
I wouldn't even call it "very very very good vaccine". It's just a different problem each vaccine has to solve. Some problems are inherently harder: flu, coronavirus, hiv
Yes radio is paid for by the license.
That para makes 2 more important points:

"Vaccination status: those who have received three doses of a vaccine and test positive for COVID-19 are more likely to be infected with infections compatible with the Omicron variant compared with those who are unvaccinated, though individuals who had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine continued to be less likely to test positive for COVID-19, regardless of variant. It is too early to draw conclusions from our data on the effectiveness of vaccines against the Omicron variant."
Huge +1 to patio11. This one is so good: https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/business-of-saas
'Digital Suez': How the internet flows through Egypt
I tried a pyflow a couple years ago. It was very confusing and not intuitive at all, which is what I think one of the biggest advantages of these types of GUIs is supposed to be. Doing simple things like adding inputs and operations to the graph were very difficult.

I ended up developing my own tool based on the flowchart editor in pyqtgraph. The GUI for that was quite intuitive and the code to modify it was also far simpler. That said there are a few features from pyflow that I wish the pyqtgraph editor had, like subgraphs.
If they did have that capability do you think they would use it to take down and prosecute a small time drug dealer exposing what they are doing? Even exposing this capability to the Police by give them “secret” intelligence would inevitably result in the knowledge of their capabilities leaking.

If they do have this capability it is only every going to be used for large scale organised crime, terrorism and state security.
> 2 key properties: permissionless and artificial scarcity. I haven't heard of any successful implementation of both without the use of Blockchain. Have you?

Perhaps Because they are not that interesting or useful? So far you've given me two "solutions" in search of a problem.

> What I don't agree with it that this regulation is good. I think most of it is very very bad for people, designed to keep them under control.

Go and read something on food and drug safety (like Horse Named Jim, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_(horse)), an automotive safety, on emission safety, on workplace safety, on...

There's high probability that you're alive and healthy today precisely because of regulations.

> In my country, this control takes very draconian forms against anyone who is in opposition to the (criminal) government.

Ah yes. And crypto will surely help with that because that criminal government will never ever find a way to bust you for trying to convert that "censorship resistant crypto" into, you know, actual money you have to pay for food, rent, electricity etc.
Many worlds isn't non-local, it works the same as Copenhagen when it comes to Bell's Theorem. If you're experiencing quantum effects you haven't decohered yet, and it's just bog-standard quantum physics, not a hidden variable theory.
As a traveler and a foodie, foods are a big part in my travels. But there isn't a single best resource to find the best foods in each countries. So, I am starting this project to solve that problem.

This is my experimentation to serve travelers/nomads with the list of best food in every country.

Add the best food you've tasted in the countries you've visited or your own country.
Feel free to add more columns to specify more details about a food.
Have you seen even one other article mention the origin of that phrase? I haven’t.
> Find it in your heart to be angered by injustice, rather than by the reaction against it.

Yes, there is injustice in the world. For example, right now there are people in concentration camps being enslaved and forced to do work making goods for big corporations, with the goods then being sold on the shelves of your local supermarket.

Or another example: right now there are massive corporations that unfairly make billions of dollars through rent-seeking. Often this involves bribing politicians to get a favourable regulatory environment. (Note that I am not complaining about companies that get rich making thinks people want, but only about one that get rich through rent-seeking).

A third example: in the USA the healthcare system costs per capita more than in any other country in the world, yet Americans have worse health -- for example they die earlier -- than in the vast majority of rich countries. This system continues to exist because it serves well the section of the ruling class that owns/runs the healthcare industry, even though many die every year because of it.

There are real injustices in the world, real things that could be fixed to make people's lives better. Find it in your heart to care about these things, rather than merely engaging in performative sanctimoniousness about the phrase “It ain’t over till the fat lady sings”.

If woke people diverted their energy to finding real solutions to real problems rather than virtue climbing, they'd probably be able to cause significant good in the world. But as I see it their effect is mostly negative.
I also used to be linux nerd but as I grow old I find such thing uninteresting. I wish for simple interface where I can kill process, view cpu use etc. In htop its like 3-4 steps to send kill signal which I don't like. And task manager is easy to access to like right click on task bar and click on task manager or Ctrl + Alt + Del.

Also searching is generally not hard in task manager, you can just type process name and it should select it. Yes, it can be tricky sometime but most of time I use it to see process which consumes high cpu or internet bandwidth.

I do agree with GP, windows task manager is simple. If we need advance feature we can use process hacker etc.

I do agree with you too. So its just a matter of taste. But most user aren't nerd and they want something simple like task manager. My mom would simply refuse to use linux because she simply doesn't like cli interface.
My guess is that you live in a newer suburb where the infrastructure isn’t 100-150 years old. When your sewers, water lines, roads, municipal buildings, etc. are over a century old, you can no longer delay maintenance without cutting service levels. This is why older rural areas of the country like Appalachia are dotted with so many ghost towns; it stopped making sense to invest in those places decades ago because the infrastructure was so far gone it was just cheaper to build a new town somewhere else.

Many rust belt towns are going through this right now; my mom grew up in a rural factory town in southern NY that once had a population of nearly 10,000 — 50 years later, that population is closer to 500. And still dropping because most of the lots in town are unoccupied, rotting homes left behind when previous owners died that would be torn down if there was the money to do so, but there isn’t and it drags down property values of everything in the area.

Pittsburgh — a city big enough to have 3 professional sports teams — has entire neighborhoods that have been abandoned and fenced off after the population dropped by over 50% since the 1970s. Mostly so that the city doesn’t have to maintain power, sewer, water and roads in those areas because there just isn’t the money to rebuild them. There is an entire subway system under the city that has simply been abandoned due to lack of upkeep. The city is on an upward trajectory again, but property values in the city are still astonishingly low (10 years ago you could buy a livable-if-dated house in a good location for $50,000) and taxes are high.