skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like how open-plan offices boost productivity right?

I think we just have to face the fact that many people and companies spend a lot of money on suboptimal things.
No, these are market prices. We have no subsidized power in Finland.
I'm genuinely confused by this. Most of my friends (pre-covid) would holiday fairly regularly outside of Eurpope. We're not especially wealthy or unusual as far as I know. I can't think of many people I know who only holiday in the EU.

South-East Asia is a hugely popular destination. Do we know different demographics?
Because they are such an irrelevant part of the market that they basically could disappear and no one would care, and the hobbyist/non-professional people who don't mind using years-old software could as well just use Free/Open alternatives?

There is nothing stopping Joe-who-only-pays-full-licences to continue using his MS 2007 Office suite, is there?
> Companies do so many suboptimal things that this argument isn't credible. We've seen how many organizations can barely limp through a "digital transformation",

But startups [1] (the original context of this thread) aren’t “digitally transforming” themselves, they’re trying to create completely new approaches to outdated ones. The question is: Is the increased friction of remote communication a competitive disadvantage when in the company formation stage? What about the growth stage? If so, does the extra friction overwhelm the company’s other strengths, like market demand?

I suppose we’ll see in ten years or so if any/many unicorns emerge that started as fully remote. [2] (My guess is that we’ll still see most startups were not fully remote.)

[1] The YC definition: Venture-backed, huge growth, winner-takes-all, etc.

[2] Someone please start a spreadsheet/investment fund.
Guide on deploying EdgeDB on fly.io:

https://www.edgedb.com/docs/guides/deployment/fly_io
I don't know who actually wants to own part of this company. They betrayed their user base. Other than Cathy Wood institutions hate them. There are now legitimate competitors with slick UI. PFOF is a regulatory risk.

Good news is, their market cap is now approaching their cash on hand (~$10B). So maybe that would be the floor.
And also because it's not the only variable at play. Considering the variable "protection against the elements", one of the groups have cars as protection, while other have mere shoes or bikes. So different variables can be combined to try to balance things out.
somebody got a whooping 63% increase (from 32.51 to 53.24 EUR)
It's a reference to a Radiohead song. :)
> Excel’s boundless rectangles yield themselves to my whim as I sort columns and freeze rows like a rational demigod.

I wonder if the author is a "top sheethead," (part of the pro excel scene)? The article doesn't offer an opinion on the controversial Chinese localization fix of 2019[1] for example.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY
What if the only languages/compilers without that "flaw" had similar performance to lower optimization levels?

(I don't know if that's the case, but it's what I thought the GP was implying.)
I’m amused by the people who ask for optimization and then complain about it. Or the “it did what I said, not what I meant” crowd.

But, officially, undefined behavior is always undefined, not just at higher optimization levels.
Using your own domain, you pay per user on the platform.

So if you had 5 users using it, you now have to pay for those seats.

Regarding workspace, there's different plans/tiers. Here's a list of them, https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html

On all of them you keep gmail, docs, sheets, drive. But now if you had 5 users, you are paying 5 x $6 x 12 months = $360/year
I have similar feelings about pep8's defaults on things that don't matter. It complains about comment formatting. The default 79 character line limit is also pretty unreasonable in 2022, especially when combined with the demand to use spaces instead of tabs.
Rarely do I see a mention of Ultraedit. Although it is a paid software, it was nice and polished as expected. However, I have very limited experience with it. Any thoughts?
Too bad indeed, StackOverflow is IMO one of the better job boards.
I really like the UX: searching by 'tech tags', filtering on location, salary ranges for many postings.

I got a really nice job through it once by searching for niche technologies.
Almost all recent tech IPO\SPACs got killed in the last few months.

It all just feels like a huge pump and dump, even if there is solid tech\product in some cases (but just not worth anywhere near the IPO valuations).
Free money! Yay
I can't help but have flashbacks about the JVM, managed code and all the discussions the Forerunners in traditional IT used to have.

It's like we are doomed to reinvent certain kinds of technology (with circumstantial advantages due to historical context). Runtimes, process orchestration, databases, the works, everything old is "new" again.
They can do those things. But that’s not what most employers want in my experience. And it’s not how most of these relationships operate.

For an example see the response by the OP below.

The remote worker is treated like an employee except for how they are paid.

Few of the distinctions have to do with being in a certain place at a certain time. It’s more about controlling how they work. And in most the examples I’ve seen, remote workers are expected to be available during a certain set of hours, they must do the work in very specific way, they are forbidden from subcontracting, they are provided tools, the work is expected to continue long term, and the level of control generally prohibits them from working for multiple clients at a time.

It’s common for businesses to ignore these guidelines, but the more common it gets for companies to outsource work this way, the more news stories you’ll see and the more likely enforcement will happen.
Did you respond sarkily because you thought I was bragging or something? I'm not sure I understand why I provoked this reaction from you.
I'm a complete layman in this field, but the logical conflict between these two sections concerned me:

> she stabbed her left thumb with a curved forceps while cleaning a cryostat — a machine that can cut tissues at very low temperatures — that she used to slice brain sections from transgenic mice infected with a sheep-adapted form of BSE

Then later:

> Aguzzi declined to comment on the French CJD cases, but told Science his lab never handles human or bovine prions for research purposes, only for diagnostics. "We conduct research only on mouse-adapted sheep prions, which have never been shown to be infectious to humans," Aguzzi says.

Am I missing something, or is the logical conclusion that Aguzzi thinks his lab is avoiding disaster by only using mouse-adapted sheep prions, but the lady is suspected to have been infected by an injury related to "transgenic mice infected with a sheep-adapted form of BSE". I hope there's some nuance here, because otherwise it sounds like Aguzzi's lab isn't actually avoiding infection. Perhaps the lady's case isn't considered to have definitely confirmed infectiousness due to uncertainty (though no uncertainty seemed to be mentioned)? Or the mouse-adapted sheep prions Aguzzi's lab uses are different to the transgenic mice infected with a sheep-adapted form of BSE? I have no idea; it's just that the apparent conflict between these two sections jumped out to my layman's eyes.
One can be anti-mandate without being anti-vaccine. One can be pro-therapeutic without being anti-vaccine. One can be pro-investigation of therapeutics without being anti-vaccine. One can be pro-doctoral autonomy (with regards to off label prescription) without being anti-vaccine.

I'm thankful for the vaccine, it's saved a lot of lives, especially of those at high risk. I don't think it should be mandated and I certainly don't think it should be given to children. I think we should be investing as much into early treatment as we are into vaccines. We certainly shouldn't be limiting access to things that have been proven to work, like monoclonal anti-bodies. I think things like Ivermectin should be investigated for use. I don't think we should be calling it "horse dewormer" when it's an FDA-approved medication with billions of doses distributed worldwide. And while we shouldn't be promoting anything that isn't proven, we shouldn't be sanctioning physicians for prescribing a safe drug off-label.

In short: yes, the opposite side of the political spectrum is more diverse than you're currently accounting for. Lumping "the other" into a single category is natural and well described by Social Identity Theory [1], but not helpful to discussions like this.

[1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_identity_theory]
And now it’s too late to edit, I see an error:

> $nominal_interest + $inflation

Should either be:

> $nominal_interest - $inflation

Or:

> $nominal_interest + $deflation
> Blame the victim?

I don't think it makes sense to call anyone making an informed decision to overpay for a service a victim. If you don't think the deal is reasonable, then don't accept the deal and use something else.

The exception being profiteering in the case of a shortage, but I don't think this is the case. There is no software shortage being taken advantage of.
Yeah they really are scary dangerous. The risk of exposure is low. There are some other important transmission channels to consider. As you noted on their temperature stability, prions aren't sterilized by normal medical sterilization procedures including autoclaving. So transmission of prions by surgical instruments can occur and is well documented. The conventional advice is that surgical instruments contaminated with prions need to be thrown out. It can also occur with organ transplants. Advice: don't read about this if you're scheduled for surgery. It's probably the smallest risk you'll encounter but it might really capture your imagination.

As noted in the article, prions are also responsible for 'mad cow disease', Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) as well as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. If you really want to get into prions you can start with the wikipedia entries for those. They're pretty incredible from a physics / biology standpoint.

The thing the article doesn't point out that is important to keep in mind is that CJD is a really awful neurological wasting disease and it's likely that in those seven years Émilie Jaumain and her family suffered terribly.
Against the survival of the prettiest
Yes. CSS is Turing complete.
We not need wait long. Launching satellites is comically expensive. This endeavor will surely fail just as fast as it started.
According to this site I "spent" no less than 200,000 "microcovids" last week. It was a normal week, like pretty much any other week in the past year, and I am not a particularly social person.
Much of Europe is on the same shared grid, so energy prices goes up everywhere when Germany cuts nuclear power. Unless there is sufficent energy available to replace it. (Spoiler: There aren't)
The terms of service mention they expressly reserve the right to chance any of the conditions or prices _with_ prior notice.

Which I guess they’re giving us now.
From the article: "Many modern buildings put up today seem uglier than traditional ones around them. Some say this is because we’ve torn down the ugly old buildings, and only see the survivors. Are they right?"
Austria approves Europe's first vaccine mandate for all adults
> I think the kernel of truth is that people WANT tools that they can use from childhood to old age. Tools that will remain constant. Tools that can serve a variety of purposes. Tools that will be familiar even as the world changes.

People say they want tools like that... then whinge when said tools don't keep in lockstep with current-year UI fads.

The example I think of is Emacs. It works more or less the way it did when I became an Emacs user over 25 years ago, with vastly improved functionality, and it's worked that way since long before I started using it. And yet Hackernews, Reddit, and the Emacs mailing lists themselves are awash with people whose only contribution is to declare that Emacs will die unless it is completely overhauled and to look and behave exactly like the poster's favorite current-year IDE. Which was Eclipse 20 years ago, Sublime Text or JetBrains 10 years ago, and VSCode today.

Those other tools come and go, but Emacs is forever. Well, that is, until a successful campaign is launched to convince the world that its current UI is racist, misogynist, ableist, or otherwise harms some marginalized group, and the Emacs maintainership is disbanded and replaced with leaders more respectful of modern ESG guidelines.
Sure, at the time of writing, 62% of France's production of electricity is nuclear.

We're importing 9392MW also.
Remember, this is anecdotal.

I'd view the problems with marijuana (and heroin) as symptoms of mental health issues; not the cause.
Sure ... look for high CPU then anonymous miners cap their CPU usage. And a few legitimate users (and potential customers) get locked for reasons they don't understand.

Repeat with every other trick you use to detect abuse.
I’m not sure why you’re asking if I missed that part given it was me that shared the anecdote to begin with.
Security vulnerability in Rust standard library
That's what Terraform pretty much is. All it does is manage a graph of dependencies/resources and then relies on a provider, which implements the CRUD.

Not super familiar with Hashicorp's other product Nomad but I'd think it have a similar approach, but more of a continuous lifecycle check?
This is good information. Thank you to share.

Do you think Finnish electricity prices are so much cheaper because of ample nuclear power?
This is how it works in Sweden too. The house owner is most of the time responsible for the snow on the walkway outside their house. The city will often clear it off if you call and ask for help but you will have to wait until everything else is done.

What we are talking about is the parts of the street that is state owned like designated bicycle/pedestrian roads separate from the road.

All the plowing is also done by a private contractor that has a prenegotiated contract with the state before winter comes. They in their turn will hire whatever they can get their hands on if it's a bad winter.
I'd rather such things be a purely hardware implementation.
Still better than Peloton I guess
>can we stop equating rape which is a shockingly violent violation/assult of a real a human being with anything less

sure, we can but in fact using rape as a metaphor for really bad things that one person does to another person is not used to downgrade rape but really to point a finger at why the thing being done is bad. Because rape has power as a bad thing.

Sure, but I mean we must not use rape as an analogy for anything that is not rape, holocaust for anything that is not holocaust, fraud must only be used for things that are legally prosecutable as fraud and so forth. The language must be cleaned and simplified, metaphor and analogy while a seemingly necessary component of the human mind must be excised.
Good thing housing prices in Idaho are up 32% this year alone!
I can’t remember off the top of my head. We had an issue where every couple of months the database would quickly grow to consume the entire disk. We checked that there were no long running read transactions and did some other debugging but couldn’t figure it out. Swapping out for Bolt seemed to fix that issue.

I haven’t heard of anyone else with the same issue since then so I assume it’s probably fixed.
People are rightfully pointing out how ridiculous some of the overt substantive changes in that end poem are, but I was pretty amazed by how even the quite minor changes totally alter the feel of the thing too.

"Sit on a couch and look at a wall"

to

"Laying on the couch and looking at the wall"

loses a lot somehow in a hard-to-pin-down way. It's almost an impressively efficient butchering
Based on discussions with friends who have been medalists from International Olympiads more than once, there is no need of any real linguistic knowledge.

General knowledge of language groups may be helpful, but often the problems were for some language used from <1k people. And usully you wouldn't have heard them at all, or would not have additional information where it is spoken.
How not to code an HTML page by hand.
Using trustpilot as evidence of quality of a company is really strange. First and foremost trustpilot is 100% scam.
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Can anyone comment on why intel has decided to go with relatively a large amount of E cores compared to P cores? One of the i3's even has 8 E cores and only 2 P cores. Apple seems to have taken the opposite approach with the M1 pro/max (8 P cores and 2 E cores), although I'm not even sure if the P/E designation are comparable between the two with how complicated CPU's are becoming.
And Mac!
Hasn't it been said before that it is inevitable in a company with 100K+ employees that to get noticed and promoted, it is not acceptable to accept what you already have is decent enough, you have to think of something new and then convince everyone that they haven't lived until the camera corrects your URLs for you?

There is an amount of vanity in a company having mad numbers of employees seemingly unecessarily but who is the person who decides that we can cut 5000 jobs and split the work up between the other people you already have? The CEO? Why bother? You have bucket loads of cash so the status quo is easier any maybe once in a blue moon, someone actually comes up with something really clever.
I suspect the issue is that, prions require a fairly large series of coincidences to be viable, so the biological niche is a pretty small one. I think they're much more specific conditions than that required of viruses.

In addition, your body probably has evolved to use proteins that aren't particularly susceptible to misfolding AND accumulation. (Perhaps a long time ago, it WAS quite common?)
It kind of reflect the model where by subscriptions, you fund the ongoing development. Also a nice move that when you cancel, your installed software doesn't stop working. As far as I remember, they generate a product key that can be used for perpetual licenses and the software won't be phoning home.
Like a seed crystal causing super cooled water to suddenly freeze in seconds?
It may be unusable for “modern” operating systems (you could write an early UNIX clone with just ISO C because early UNIX didn’t support much).

But that’s basically always been the case. I doubt you could stay within the first ISO C standard and write a modern operating system.
Gosh, if this study is true, then it means I'd have mentat-like powers if I never touched cannabis.
Agree that judo/jiu-jitsu have far less risk of head trauma/concussion, but as far as sports go they are still relatively dangerous - I quit after having one too many injuries.

I would say probably the safest sport, and my current favorite, is Olympic weightlifting, although climbing is in many ways similar to jiu-jitsu, and much safer.
+1, living in a large-ish German city, that aligns with what I pay at home.

For the generally curious, you can go to https://www.verivox.de/ click on "Strom" (= electricity), type in a german postcode (grab one off google maps, 5-digit number), and type in a kWh / year number. (The "number of persons" is just a fill-in aid for the kWh/yr.)

That said, these numbers are entirely useless for discussions around a hoster like Hetzner — they're end user prices.
For one, we have had a new carbon tax since then (which also drove up the prices for petrol) and a couple old nuclear plants shut down.

The really important thing however is geopolitics and rabid capitalism colliding badly. Basically, for a very long time it was usual business practice of utilities to go for long-term contracts for natural gas and electricity itself... but nowadays, the market has shifted towards spot price contracts, which are usually cheaper. Under "normal" conditions, that would not have been a problem... but when market conditions dramatically change, everyone on a spot contract is pretty much fucked. Additionally, dynamic capacity ("Regelenergie") exploded in price for the same reasons [1], and that dynamic capacity which is needed to balance out unstable renewables (solar/wind) has to be paid for by all the consumers, further contributing to price hikes.

We do have regulations in place to prevent consumers from being on the hook for thousands of dollars like in that Texas power crunch, but nevertheless a couple of "discounter utilities" had to cease operating and a whole lot of others were forced to rapidly hike prices. The result of that was that the local utilities, which by law have to cover for such situations ("Grundversorgung"), were hit with an onslaught of new customers that they hadn't bought supply contracts for... meaning they had to raise the prices, too.

It's an all-around clusterfuck. The fact that our government was in a transition phase until mid of December didn't help either, and expensive energy is actually what the Greens want as an incentive for people and companies to save power - whereas the Social Democrats focus on how the crisis affects poor people (pretty badly!) and the Liberal Democrats only care about the economy aka their large donors. So it's not like actual solutions are going to crop up... sigh.

[1]: https://www.next-kraftwerke.de/energie-blog/steigende-preise...
~30 year old company when I was there 10 years ago. 100 employees total, half of them customer service. I spent half my time supporting sales. It was pure telesales.
It doesn't seem like anyone is taking the position here that C is flawless. Rather, the question is, given both its flaws and its ubitquity, is it acceptable to trade off developer head-wall interactions for the possibility of high performance.

The only winning move is not to play. (with C)
There is a node image you can use to run web assembly. Assuming everything you do is web assembly then using that as a base image would cut down the amount of downloads that'd have to happen for new applications.
Looks like rufo is looking for maintainers: https://github.com/ruby-formatter/rufo/issues/272
It went so far that some electricity lines carrying power between states have had massive year-long hold-ups because of problems of where to actually put them due to nimby's.
This was likely a retaliatory attack for the rebel missile attack on Abu Dhabi a couple days ago.

You'll note the Saudi press release specifically calls out Iranian backed arms trafficking at the target (which is relevant since the missiles were likely Iranian supplies).