skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is not really an efficiency difference between creating heat from electricity with a space heater and creating heat from electricity with a computer.

Not sure if you were just joking or if you simply didn't know that miners can double as heaters without loss (or if you meant something else).
I am just checking I understand you.

That "everyone" (let's say everyone in a white collar job) can use Excel today is true. And yes it is possible to "program" in excel.

But that's in the "small". And I think you are saying that we don't have the programming ecosystem to support large scale development.

I think I agree. But we have to raise the floor of programming literacy a lot beyond "white collar excel".

But having said all that, I am dubious that we lack the principles of coding to be able to enable massive software projects - I think we lack the organisational (incentives / understanding / will) to do so.

We can imagine a mid sized company that is OSS based, avoids proprietary lock in of its data.
In the "How does it work" section at the bottom. You're right, Python could be much shorter, it defines a few variables for prettiness.
> Welcome to the dark side

Linux to me is the "light" side.
The poor population of those countries needs that cheap energy to not freeze to death and in general for everyday living.
> Pricing electricity so low that bitcoin mining is profitable during peak hours is absurd.

Electricity is not just a discretionary commodity, it serves an essential need enabling our modern society. It makes no sense to increase electricity prices and hike up inflation for the common person in an effort to dissuade crypto miners. If we really wanted to go that way, a better solution IMO is to introduce two electricity rates, one for things that perform useful services (by broad positive impact to society) and one other for PoW crypto mining.
It works by setting a license fee by law and making it hard enough / take long enough to change to make it impossible to punish or reward journalists for their work.

This could mean requiring 2/3 majorities for anything but a default adjustment for inflation. Or a 10-year lag for any budget changes, etc.
It would be wonderful if a generous individual wants to pay off someone’s student debt. However, the government shouldn’t force everyone to do it.
There's also this https://www.jpost.com/opinion/lets-get-long-buried-report-on...
why ban SUVs instead of raising the cost to operate them?
A private liberal arts college, 1200 students:

https://www.knox.edu/about-knox/fast-facts

Festivals in the historic district downtown:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galesburg_Historic_District

Doesn't seem like enough.

And note this:

> Walmart builds their buildings to last only 15-20 years and then builds a new facility. We are in year 15 of our Walmart, so they are exploring their next rebuild. If Walmart leaves its current location ...
In other words, there cant be a Shazam for cheese. It’s an impossible task.
Best be sleeping with one eye open then
Yes, very fair point. (Alcohol is very lindy, though!) Any non-drug techniques in particular you've had good experiences with?
We have a license fee in Germany, too. The income from that comes out at about twice of that in the UK. (With most of it burned for pensions.) And the public TV stations still appease our government so they (the government) never question the license fee amount.
Azure's pricing for data can be weird (or used to be.

Didn't they used to charge for transfers between resources in different AZ's in same region? And VNET peering I think was chargeable, so you'd have situations where within a region you'd be paying outbound AND INBOUND charges.

Anyways, the little I looked, the "free" bandwidth alliance data transfer really wasn't free from what I could see but I didn't look too hard.
I'm interested in criminology and I found his videos really good. YouTube is no longer place suitable for free speech; they are banning everybody left and right no matter what if you are going against popular consensus and their agenda.
Many Roman roads have lasted a long while. Maybe we should move back to cobble stone? Certainly easier to patch and replace and open up for underground utilities.
Apple forced to allow 3rd party payment in Netherlands App Store for dating apps
Very interesting.

I recently learned about OpenAPI generator [1], which uses a spec-first approach to generate boilerplate for several frameworks, including Flask and FastAPI.

I would like to build or find a no code / visual tool that lets you build a JSON Schema file, and then generates boilerplate for you. I want to move on from rigid cookiecutter tools that make you go through 15 or so steps and force you to start over if you make the tiniest mistake.

[1] https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator
Makes sense. 99% of what I know about container shipping comes from the movie Contraband and Season 2 of The Wire. ;)
Prior to 2020 I didn't know and din't care who was the Premier of my state in Australia. I was very proud to have spent a decade and half in Australia and quite glad to see my kids becoming true Aussies. Fair dinkum! Team Australia, team Victoria! No one in my family watched any news, occasionaly we'd look through a free local newspaper pulled from postbox, despite huge "please no junk mail" sign on it.

March 2020 started the first "lockdown". I though it did make sense, praised the JobKeeper program our federal govt introduced and was a bit disappointed in my employer trying to make a claim, as I thought we didn't really need it, as we didn't bear much losses. But it's a par for the course, I guess, whenever a financial support for business is made available it makes sense to claim a need. Worst case it will be refused.

By May 2020 Victoria was the last state to be getting opening up again. By then I already knew the Premier's name, but my only problem with him was that he appeared a bit too cautious (which is forgivable), and his rhetoric was the one of a kindergarten teacher - very patronizing, but not a big deal. The bigger distrust started when I've heard him saying literally "I am scared of this thing and you should be scared too". This was like a red rag for a bull for me. Since then every word out of collective govt mouth, every article, every slogan and every "order" was about drumming up fear, by all means. And those who did not want to fear were sent all sorts of "messages" and promised all sorts of punishments and executions. We've seen people handcuffed for posts on fb, pregnant lady interrogated for daring to sit on a park bench ("not one of the allowed reasons to leave home"), people arrested for sitting on a beach (more than 5km from their house), police in full riot gear, "kettling" of random people, drone surveillance, pepper spray and rubber bullets deployed liberally. It was more wild than response to political unrest in the proven dictatorship of Belarus! The fearmongering continues today with the same fervor, double vaccinated are new unvaccinated.

So yes, it was and still is all about being afraid. Sorry, this is something I cannot take from anyone. My willingness to collaborate on any issue is completely lost on govts of all colors. From now on I think it is absolutely ok to seek any possible loophole in any govt initiative, avoid paying dues as much as legally possible and generally comply with regulations in the most destructive and sabotaging ways - but all legal, of course. By the way, such was the recommendation of US or British counter-intelligence to German people sympathetic to Allied cause and wanting to contribute to counter-nazi effort without being implicated. I wonder whether the thought of such possibility crossed the enlightened minds of our new feudal lords?
Microsoft has always had the likes of Accenture or HCL moderating their forums and feedback sites.

You're better off shouting into the void than expecting to get anything useful out of those channels.
I like putting it another way: 125.96 terawatt-hours at 11 cents per Kwh (my local rate which is quite a bit higher than many places mining happens) is about $13.8 billion. This is much less than what the world spent on toothpaste in a year ($30bn), isn't much more than Americans spent on Halloween ($10bn), cigarette companies spent on US marketing ($8bn, with much more than that being how much American spent on cigarettes), and is only about 10x more than a single banking player (Bank of America) spends on cybersecurity per year. Do any of these figures seem as absurd to you?
I was thinking of bringing up the same point, but one could argue that it's for own gain to pay less on the energy bill.

It can be said much more broadly that people are changing behavior. Not everyone for sure, but there are few people left that will not claim to be making different personal choices for environmental reasons. I think a lot of them are worth very little and there are definitely hypocrites that take multiple flights per year and compensate that by plugging out phone chargers while not in use, but it's still something that's apparently on their mind. People do do things, and some people do significant things. If GP says that they only see people complaining about others without doing anything themselves, that must be a quite narrow bubble (from my point of view, at least).

Edit: maybe a less debatable example is meat replacement products in supermarkets popping up. It's not as if we have more compassion with animals today than ten years ago, what changed is that more people are aware of the climate impact of meat. If nobody was willing to do anything, who's financing the production and buys the shelf space? The products don't even hold that long before spoiling, so they must be sold nearly as fast as meat.
You need to distinguish between the Conservative government (= Boris Johnson' Lying Circus) and the Conservative Party. The latter are not well pleased with the former.
"Not a hot dog"
> > he's always defending imperialism and the current power structure as the correct, natural and inevitable course of events, with no other alternative possible.

> Isn't this an adhominem attack on the person's character without refuting the points?

No - why do you say that?

PP is attacking Fukuyama _based on his ideas_ - that imperialism is the natural course of events, the best for everyone, and inevitable. It is perfectly legitimate to critique someone's ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...

That is the reverse of ad hominem. A ad hominem argument would go, "Fukuyama is wrong because he's from Harvard/Asian/etc", and of course those arguments are false.
Haha. 21x for Telestra. Total crazy. They must be getting it from someone though, but that is abysmal. Good on cloudflare for detailing it - it's not just cloudflare who is impacted, the fees charged by others are also very high in these areas.
Work at a unicorn that is expected to IPO soon.

Work as a Principal Engineer for Roblox.[0]

[0] https://www.levels.fyi/leaderboard/Principal-Engineer/countr...
> $68,600 in Servers
I had never heard of wikidata, but might steal this idea for a similar app I have on F-Droid that pulls PDFs from Sci-Hub when a doi link is clicked using android's intent system https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.sigmarelax.doitoscihub/
I like the lifetimes, the traits, the pattern matching, but also that it's used by more people, yes
Careful, it is actually possible they want to fully privatise roads and hospitals.

I always find it funny when people come out with "but that would mean X!" and the target answers "yes, that would be great".
What is the problem with PoS that you speak about?
Indeed, XBox runs two versions of Windows via a type 1 hypervisor, one version is a minimal Windows kernel tailored for gaming, while the other supports the OS services required to have the UWP runtime running on the same hardware.

Not at all the same thing. /s
First of all, let me say that I understand where you're coming from. I too try not to use the latest fad just because of it. I use systemd instead of k8 when it's enough. I use plain JS instead of react when it's enough. I run cronjobs that updates jsons served by nginx instead of building graphql APIs.

But there's a good reason things like k8 and react become overused for everything these days, because they provide a standard that works for a relatively large spectrum of cases.

The argument of "you don't need X to do Y" is not wrong, but it doesn't make X absolutely useless. Your points are not really invalid imo, but i think you're missing the point of the continuum between centralised and decentralised systems
This is like HN bingo - how many posts before someone blames Apple for something totally unconnected.

Yesterday a poster blamed them somehow for Tesla leaving a brake pad off a car..
My watch was able to pick up the pressure wave in Switzerland, on the other side of the earth. It's the little spike around 25% from the left. I wouldn't have believed it but the magnitude, timing and shape line up with what others have reported from stationary barometers on twitter.

https://twitter.com/phreeza/status/1482693725168054277/photo...
In Bulgaria It's similar to Brazil, parties get a fixed funding from the taxpayer and have a limited amount of funding they can collect from donations, with strict reporting requirements. Just having a party present itself with the minimum required amount of signatures (500 IIRC) for an election is enough to get the official funds, and of course spending is tracked.

It certainly seems a much better way of doing things than the US.
"Fair share" is irrelevant, they're now designing an actual taxation policy. Instead they're trying to apportion costs to describe how high the expenses are, based on maintenance costs.
Their coverage is well within the range of opinion of every political party except far-right AfD. As such, it represents >90% of the voters in last year‘s election. They are not neutral when it comes to values such as democracy itself, and expecting them to be is silly.
This is definitely the way to go. If you can hear the shape of the symbols, it's much easier to advance in speed. I've used this method a couple times to learn all the letters, though I never seem to maintain my interest in it, and I suck at sending. How do folks practice that side of it? Just get on the air?
Former MSFTy, don’t bother wasting your time giving feedback. Nobody cares, those that cared left. Microsoft has a weird culture, very top down, very passive aggressive between departments. For a brief while I would diligently prepare bugs for the dog food software. I would even walk over to visit people responsible for it and chat about it. Even for software where ‘zero bugs’ was important they’d just delete a whole bunch of bugs and see if any bounce (come back). Eventually people get sick of refilling so they get to zero bug bounce by exhausting the very people trying to help them.

Enough social media pressure may end up risking a line item in a PMs yearly goals. So that might get looked at.

Even the some of the most backward laggards (e.g. government departments) are sick to death of Microsoft and have long been introducing policies that all new software has to be web only.

Those pointing to Azure as the future should known that they have very aggressive sales who often vastly oversell to customers. Customers aren’t renewing at the same level. Plus I don’t see them being able to compete with Amazon long term. You can only buy Skype for the bundled government customer so many times.
Yes, but that's also an argument why "tripling the tax" isn't something impossible, since tripling the tax that goes to the city would mean a relatively small increase to the total property tax someone is paying.
This can't be a good insulation barrier. It will have a lot of thermal bridging, so might as well not insulate with rockwool inside. Rockwool will mostly help with sound there.

The metal will also have another issue with condensation as the two different sides will have different temperature and moisture and it will condensate.
FBI's Operation Trojan Shield Had a Bigger U.S. Footprint
Are they actually using AWS/GCP for their servers? Lichess.org's IP address seem to belong to OVH.
Let's say hypothetically we find a way to create all of the weird matter necessary to create a warp bubble...

Changes to the shape of space-time willl still only travel at the speed of light, so I don't see how that would enable you to travel faster than light for any meaningful distance, as the warp bubble itself would be unable to keep up with the vehicle.
They were older, but hired less than a year before me. We had the same job responsibilities, same title, and similar qualities of work.

I would say that the company preyed on their age & education to low ball them. I knew what I was worth and asked for it and got it.

In my experience, it's less senior management and more payroll defining company policy especially at big tech. Senior managers get those pools to work with. Yes there are bonus/merit pools based on performance throughout the groups, but what I'm referring to is the company proactively matching market rate for employees they actually want to retain. Too many people leave purely for compensation and this is well before the pandemic/reshuffled market. Those retention gaps cause so much churn because those responsibilities are now spread throughout the remaining members. It's a cascading problem of not being able to hire fast enough, even at the biggest companies with the best benefits out there.

Merit bonuses hardly even keep up with inflation and are disguised as "you doing a good job, here's a 2-3% raise!". It's a winner-take all game even in the most privileged of positions in the workforce. Companies make even some of the best managers immoral by concealing or feigning ignorance about this information. You have to play ball just to get what you want or else you'll be walked over like a doormat.
If they don't want the free market to do its thing, I'm sure someone more dedicated could instead get something comparable made in China.
I’m glad we’re talking about the finances of towns here. Almost every town in America is bankrupt.

I disagree somewhat with the author here around the issues. For instance, he uses the $20/ft/road and points out they need roughly double the tax base to support their current roads.

Sure, that’s a way to look at it. Alternatively, they can cut back the roads, fill with gravel and honestly it might be cheaper to just build and maintain a concrete facility. If you can cut the price of laying concrete by 50% thatd also be a solution. Alternatively, pre-purchase X tons per year and reduce costs that way letting the concrete makers in the area expand and reduce overhead.

Regarding city planning, yes totally agree. I’d argue the major issue is that we lost manufacturing here in the United States. Factories paid relatively well, and were running at 20% fewer people per capita in the workforce than in the 60s. This means less wealth generated across the board, less wealth in these towns, etc.

Finally, IMO as a town the best investments are those that attract more jobs and wealth. So make fresh paint available for free to any businesses. Hire better police. Cut back on road quality. Cut back on taxes for businesses that bring net jobs. Invest in community activities, particularly for kids. Advertise.

It’s a difficult spot to be in, the reality is that smalls towns across the country were decimated between the 1990s - 2020s. Most of it was policies sending stuff over seas and reducing wealth creation in rural towns (where factories used to run). To fix that will require some national solutions and scaling back the towns which haven’t seen growth (and many declined) in 30 years
> Nobody is going to hurt themselves or others after watching it.

https://www.montanarightnow.com/community/man-says-he-was-sh...

Don't be so sure.
The thing is though, none of the leaks have been via the BBC, every single one is via an independent paper or channel - even traditionally right wing publications.

The other angle of this is how much Boris and this government are in debt/the pocket of Murdoch and News Corp. Boris and senior government ministers met with Murdoch and News Copt executives 40 times in the first 14 months of Boris’s government. This is as much about raining the BBC in so that Murdoch can have more control of the media landscape in the UK.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/rupert-murdochs-news-corp-met-min...
Maybe Bitcoin people could finance nuclear fusion research to keep up with the energy consumption.
Sure, but they have bigger problems and hopefully are seeking professional help not thinking about advanced productivity techniques like this thread is about.

For most people this is a perfectly fine point. This trend of "but wait this won't work for this particular group" in online conversation isn't useful.

This obviously wasn't directed at heavily depressed people or people struggling it was directed at otherwise normally functioning people trying to have an edge.
My rule of thumb is: if expert human eyes can't classify a thing looking at it, the ai will also fail.
Plus supervillains. They're notoriously expensive to arrest.
Wow. This is so useful. I'm always left a bit speechless when I come across something really useful like this. It should be a first stop for all would be entrepreneurs. Thanks.
I started following some Tumblr blogs just last week after a 2 or 3 year hiatus. I fell in love again with not having to log-in to see the content, or being blocked after simply scrolling through a few user-provided thumbnails.

Articles like this make me worried some ass-hat is soon gonna monetize this newly quiet corner of the internet, and make it shit like everything else.
The new design philosophy is ‘more familiar to on those unfamiliar with Windows’ I.e. Apple users. It also means they’re not interested in hearing how it used to work as you’re the exact opposite of who they’re trying to target.
We've been bootstrapping our weird tech/bio/techbio startup for the last four years... it's NOT EASY at all, but we've made it to the point that we're ramen profitable (For now) and it's kind of an amazing feeling.

Of course I'm making like 1/5 I would at a tech company, but we're literally saving people's lives, and that really makes up for not making as much.
This is not the idea that I expressed.
The other big thing was identifying the ideal as a detached single family house with a large lawn and dense housing as mostly for poor, likely brown, people with a few exceptions for rich people in desirable locations. Even things like condos have something of a “hasn’t made it” stigma for a lot of people, and that kind of thinking really locks in a lot of inefficient land use.

Awhile back I read an observation which really stuck with me questioning how much of the nostalgia many people have for college is due to that being the closest many Americans come to living in a walkable, high-density environment. Most people could do a lot better than 1-2 hours a day in solo car travel soaks up.
@dang plays nice, but OP is being really dense: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29465884
Same system here. It’s simple and effective.
Researchers trying to help patients “unlearn” back pain (2021)
> Why do the program managers even allow to remove such basic functionality?

This is the question that is burning a hole through my brain. At a certain point, Microsoft is going have to admit they are fucking over their internal operations, unless they have some secret copy of non-shit windows that is exclusively used internally...
It looks nice. If UI performance is a concern, one could move the GUI part to C++ and do some quick pybind11 Python bindings for better performance.

I've used this C++ ImGui node editor with similar features for some hacky synthesizer gui using this library: https://github.com/thedmd/imgui-node-editor