skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But this is because I was able to apply well-understood and rigorously accepted simplifying assumptions that were conservative (from the point of view of a factor of safety), and fully encapsulated all the understanding I needed to produce a part fit for use.

I am not sure how this is different from evaluating a library, database technology, or architecture, going through design review, learning properties of distributed systems (which have corresponding proofs by the way) to understand which properties you need to satisfy with a given solution, reading the documentation, viewing other open-source code that uses the technology, reading publications/testimonials from people and companies using it in productions, etc., etc., like we do.

In particular "applying simplifying assumptions" - this is what we all have to do particularly in a distributed, cloud-computing world where you are essentially purchasing a conceptual primitive (like "virtual CPU" or "replicated block storage" and building on top of simplifying assumptions about how those work, because you can't walk up to the NAS rack and start hitting it with a hammer to see if the data can be recovered after, the same way you can't hit a steel beam with an actual hurricane to know what will happen.

Although if I worked in the datacenter operations team for a cloud provider, I would absolutely hope to one day be able to test how we handle if I yank some plugs or hit the NAS rack with a hammer :)
> When was the last time any Youtube success was fictionalized content?

Today. There is ton of it.
Giving the government more money to piss away on foreign wars and wars against their own citizens will accomplish nothing.
Some electronic music fits the bill, to a degree, and there is plenty of niche stuff - New Music (i.e., contemporary classical), for example - but the OP is about broadly popular music.
Vacant land that is protected (park, etc) can actually increase value.
I mean, your article goes into almost no details. What crimes did he get bailed out for? What was his role in the murder?

The problems with analysis like what you're doing is it just doesn't work. Like, suppose we locked up every person. Crime outside prisons would plummet! What if we made people wear GPS units at all time? Executed everyone who sped or worse!

What you have to show is that it made sense to deny him bail at the time.
> If it's regularly expected that you ship bugs, you might be in a discipline that is distinct from engineering.

Totally disagree. Engineer = design and build things. Whether what you build has bugs or not is irrelevant to the definition.

> If you can usually reach for an abstraction to save you, you might be working in something that isn't engineering.

All science is based on abstraction. Laws of physics used by aerospace engineers are abstractions of some more complex reality.
It was free for 10 accounts. The number one massively applicable use case vs plain google accounts was vanity domain names and signing up was no harder than creating a regular gmail account. There are probably more vanity domain users than small businesses with 10 people. In fact I would venture to guess with the 10 address limit they are nearly 100% of the remaining users on the legacy program.

The cost of the domain name is $10 per domain per year or $1 per person per year little enough for one person to pay without thinking.

Most people keep an email address for a very very long time rarely switching unless a service ceases to exist.

Almost no domain owners are going to pony up $720 per year themselves and collection from other users will be an untenable hassle.

Basically every bullet point you listed is wrong. The remaining pool of users is likely 99% vanity users who would have used Gmail+custom domain forever at no real cost to Google over free Gmail none of which will migrate to Google workspace.

For Google the gain from this change will be identical to picking n random Gmail accounts and canceling them and keeping those users digital purchases as a giant fu.

Not ruinous but hardly profitable either.

Someone with an ounce of sense would have included the option to migrate all email accounts to regular Gmail accounts.
Is it no longer possible to push wealth down through employees? Or is the business architecture so exacting now that it is literally impossible for a large company to funnel money anywhere but up?

I suspect that the ladder is true. And this is because the money not funneling up is funneling out.
software engineering is like roman civil engineering
The question is how the digestion process will go.

Will the disease spread to Microsoft?
I’d say that there’s a pretty significant gap between “we’ve given you a federal ID for free, and you’re obligated to use it” and “you must provide your own photo ID to access government services, and we may or may not accept it”.

The former is about the government fixing its own mess, the latter foists responsibility for dysfunctional government systems onto individuals who may or may not do the correct song and dance to please whichever agency they’re dealing with. If we’re going to demand photo ID everywhere, the government should fix its own crap first before demanding more of the citizens.

I’d be fine with getting a federal ID and using it for my taxes. I’m deeply opposed to having to provide my own photo to fill out my taxes, especially since if they’re unhappy with my photo for whatever inscrutable reason, they can throw me in jail for not doing my taxes right.
Archaeologists Have Unearthed a 4k-Year-Old Board Game. Figure Out the Rules?
The way I see it, when it comes to preventing war, we have an approach that, while both literally and figuratively MAD, has worked OK so far, and an approach that we know doesn't work.

It would be great if we had more options, no argument there.
I've dug into this through the documentation and in discussions with workspace support and its not as bad as we fear, at least in terms of purchases.

If you cancel your workspace account, then the individual user accounts will still have access to non-workspace services [0], which importantly includes Google Play and all access to your purchases will be retained. Any other google services which aren't core apps will also work as normal.

Any former GFYD account becomes a semi-account with access to a subset of google services but not all. Since the account exists, it cannot be used to sign up for a free personal account, and you can never use google docs or have google docs shared with any former GFYD account.

Overall, this is a better resolution than I'd feared, but it seems ridiculous that being a loyal google customer for over 15 years leaves you disadvantaged.

[0] Core workspace apps: Calendar, Currently, Drive & Docs, Gmail, Chat, Meet, Groups for business, Jamboard, Keep, Sites, Tasks
Many companies have a culture of continuous deployment that often means "bugs happen, its part of life around here". You would go against the whole mantra of the company and industry. Not easy to tell the boss to fuck off.
And the rock keeps rolling down
Enterprise stuff is slowly moving away from the use cases that require solutions like 1Password, and since they are neither FIPS 140-2 validated or have FedRAMP ATOs, they have alot of work to do.

They also have the issue of all of the crypto nerds going nuts when they start getting their FIPS stuff done.
Just because the tenant doesn't pay rent, it doesn't meant he landlord doesn't have to pay his mortgage. Mortgages aren't given to people who don't have the capital reserves to withstand loss of rental income. The main differentiating factor between a landlord and a tenant is risk of default. If you are appraised to have a risk low enough for a bank to tolerate, you get a mortgage. If not, you don't. What's wrong with this process?

If you don't pay rent you are (supposed to be) evicted in short order and replaced with someone who does pay rent, specifically to avoid damaging the landlord as you describe.

> the monetary expected loss through negligence or crime on 700k home should be greater than that on 100k home

But that's not what we're talking about. The risk of significant damage through negligence by a tenant on a 700k home is much lower than the risk that same tenant would default on a 100k mortgage. That's the whole point.
Love this comment!

> (a) If it's regularly expected that you ship bugs, you might be in a discipline that is distinct from engineering.[0]

This might arise from the different contexts without implying a different activity is taking place. Fixing bugs after launch is something you can do in software engineering, but can't really do in (say) structural engineering. If they could invisibly and safely swap out part of a bridge without stopping traffic, I'm betting they'd do it all the time! In software we can, and it makes sense to use this feature of digital products as part of the engineering process, in order to meet other requirements, like time and cost.

(Whether it is overused or not is another question. I consider "good engineering" vs. "bad engineering" as distinct from "is engineering" or "is not engineering", ymmv)
> The usual way I've seen (and do myself) is to just let the process be killed and have its coredump taken, then `coredumpctl gdb $process_name -A '-ex "print $rax" -ex "quit"'` to get the syscall number, then check `systemd-analyze syscall-filter` for whether I want to allow just that one syscall or the whole group it's in.

Another approach would be to set SystemCallLog= to be the opposite of SystemCallFilter= (negate each group with ~) and then you'll see the call (and caller) in the journal.
Can you even get into Davos as a millionaire? I would guess that the PA/EAs of some private sector attendees have a 7 figures net worth…
I look at it like "sanitation engineer". That's a real engineering job that requires engineering expertise to do right, but the term is often used (sometimes derisively) for anyone who does anything involving waste/cleaning.
Yeah I also don't see the need for it. Maybe if you often commit completely broken code with meaningless messages... But usually most commits we do at work are still proper little changes (even if it's just 2 lines of a huge feature) with meaningful information in the git message. I would not want to lose that when merging back into the main branch.
totally forgot about that part. Rolling resistance seems to be at least an order of magnitude lower than friction so that does bring the numbers into a reasonable range.
That's really interesting - Do you do all the letter-sending yourself or outsource that?
> Has anybody provided even a single example of a US Citizen who was trying to figure out how to obtain some ID and couldn't figure out the process?

Not an US citizen, but a Texas resident.

It's not only that the process is painfully complex. For instance, homeless people who don't legally own a gun or can drive a car, are effectively excluded. Same goes for students whose bills are still attached to their families, would have a hard time proving their residence status.

If one can go pass this step, providing proof of identity is equally complicated [1]. It's amusing that some of the accepted documents are even harder and way more expensive to obtain, like a passport.

Not having a social security number makes the whole process almost impossible to complete.

Point is, this shouldn't be this complicated and time consuming. Someone with low income and working two or more jobs, would have a hard time going through the process.

[1] https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/driver-license/identificat...
If pay for it again in a heartbeat.
About as likely as I am to sit through a blockbuster with my friends and family deepfaked onto the cast.
Taxes are democratically controlled allocation of resources. We the people get together and decide what we want to do collectively. Wealthy people giving away their money is aristocracy or oligarchy, centering power in the wealthy - corrupt, and a threat to democracy and free markets.
I think you've kinda ignored the fact that this is a really good article with a complex take on the question that's tackling the silliness of the question head-on instead of just shouting opinions into the void.
Again!

They just had a breach like 4 months ago
Sad but I can't blame Google to stop long-running great free service. I'll just sign up for cheapest plan but I also wish good alternative migration path is provided.
>FYI, Phillips screwdrivers are often referred to as "star" in my experience by average people.

FYI, that's wrong. The proper generic term for Phillips, Frearson, Posidrive, and similar is cruciform or cross drive, not star.

>Best to just use the proper terms.

"Star drive" is the proper generic term inclusive of the trademarked Torx, its security Torx version, and similar 6-sided drivers.

Just as Robertson is a tradename for a type of square drive.

A quick search seems to only list Phillips as "star" drive for some Indian web sites.

[0]The hexalobular socket screw drive, often referred to by the original proprietary brand name Torx or by the alternative generic name star drive, uses a star-shaped recess in the fastener with six rounded points.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives

Also: https://www.sizes.com/tools//screw_drive.htm
Would the USA be better off by taxing people like Elon based on some percentage of his wealth? Does that include only his cash holdings, or real estate, or vested stock, or options, or other non-liquid assets and investments?

Or is it better to let people like Elon do what he thinks is best with that capital?

I'll side with Elon on this one.
I do not consider what I do now to be engineering. I'm responsible for a product used by my whole studio and I try to be very careful and produce a high quality deliverable, but I do not think of it as engineering.
Not crass, I like sharing! We're all here to learn from each other.

The monetization model is just referral links to Namecheap, where I get a 10% commission. I want to make that a bit more elegant (especially for people with uBlock Origin, which it doesn't track), and also add a few other referrals (logo makers and maybe hosting).

Couldn't think of other ways to monetize this without making it obnoxious (I hate ads, and making it pay-to-use also seems restrictive to me). If you have any ideas, I'd be open to hear them!
I disagree a little bit.

It is software vs hardware situation.

I can work on my laptop all day long and get a lot of stuff done.
I know how to use a laptop as long as it has an operating system
the applications I need.

That requires a lot of knowledge at several levels.
How to use the OS, how to use a specific application.
It also requires a physical dexterity keyboard, mouse
buttons, eyes etc.

It does not require much knowledge about what the
computer is doing while I am working.
If it stops working work stops.

Same with a car, you can learn to operate it,
and you have to learn to operate it in a safe and
responsible manner. (in theory)

If the car stops, I have no idea what to do.
From the movies I have learned to "pop the hood"
and look at the engine.

Usually looking at the engine is not sufficient for it
to start working again.

So I have to call someone to fix it.
From my observations engineers in many disciplines would wing it all the time. Sometimes because of time/budget constraints, or simply because of lack of established methodology for certain corner cases. The scope of 'corner cases' also tended to be a lot larger in their disciplines' infancy: things like bridges (and yes, aircraft) were regularly built with assumptions pulled out of one's asses.
33 States offer ID card fee waivers. There are 10 States that don't offer waivers but also require photo ID to vote.
randomness is just the absence of human ability to understand the pattern. Thats all. It doesn't mean it is truly unpredictable, just unpredictable by what we know right now.
True, but this source is carbon neutral.

Granted, we need to be carbon negative but it could still be used for some of portion of existing supply that is carbon positive.
> This has me wondering why the software world is so unpredictable in the first place… Also, why are we so inclined to think the physical world is so predictable?

Ignoring time spent designing, software's manufacturing time is essentially zero. Compare that with days/weeks for devices and years for vessels/structures. So because we're used to the latter timescale, the pace of software feels like watching a video at 100x speed.

If engineers could instantly and cheaply print each new version of the airplane or bridge they're tasked with building, they'd start looking a lot more like the software industry. When software doesn't have its rapid/free iteration superpower (as in the early days or in must-never-fail situations), it starts looking like traditional engineering.
I had an opposite experience. I went to my manager and described how I felt when I was feeling like OP early in the pandemic. I couldn't tell if it was anxiety, burnout or both.

He recommended an immediate two week vacation to clear my head and told me to plan my next vacation for two weeks 6 months out from my last vacation so that there was a constant light at the end of the tunnel. He was empathetic, and explained losing me would be costly and that he wants to avoid that. Had I not spoken up I would have ended up giving up a great job at a great company for what was mostly inside my own head.

I also went to my doctor and got anti-anxiety medication and that seemed to help. Now that I no longer had physical manifestations of my issues, and that fact that I was getting feedback that I was valued and that my health mattered, it really calmed me down.

If you have decent manager, they want to see you succeed, and they care about your well being. If they don't, bailing from the position is probably in your best interest anyways. Either way, it's an opportunity to see where you stand. Letting go will feel good in the short term, but maybe not so good long term. Doing nothing and hiding it will likely exacerbate the issue. I would say something, I at the very least deserve to be heard. What they do with the details is on them, not you.
Dream Achievers
pretty sure it's just implementation defined. In the sense that the implementation defines the allowed alignment, if nothing else (ie. on x86 the allowed alignment is 1 byte even if that's not optimal).
That is for the UN to decide, and I’m sure they will come up with a plan.

How much do you know about the post-WWII history of the Korean peninsula?

Options include sanctions, boycotts, shunning from international sports and cultural events, etc. Individual nations can go further and fund opposition groups etc.

Same question.
How does that work exactly if there is no international branch of a company in the EU? If a company is online with a presence large enough to attract European visitors, are they required to open an office in the EU? If not, are they supposed firewall visitors? That's assinine sounding.
> "if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad."

Wait, so he's saying that words can change meaning but mythical creatures cannot change character? It would seem to me that those are two sides of the same phenomenon.
This would be a lovely option to have and I find it hilarious that anyone imagines that subtitles are some kind of problem we are trying to get out of.

Adding text to movies has a huge array of advantages: it preserves the original performances, it makes the dialog accessible to people with hearing or auditory processing disabilities, they can be multiplexed in a way that audio cannot, etc. Obviously it would be wonderful to have an 'autodub' option! But the times where one would use it seem quite narrow.
OpenVPN has support for compression. Makes me wonder if it would work in your case.
Hello, I explicitly asked for it:

> How should one do the same with vanilla JS?

And you said:

> With the code here
> For too long we've let the supporters of inequality get away with arguments like ...

They always have arguments, but history shows that we can successfully tax wealthy people. It's not hard.
Heh, you're a great person, and a terrible consultant

https://despair.com/products/consulting
Cutting out processed foods and making your own food everyday makes a huge difference!
An engineer doesn't say "Move fast and break things".
Its a man year to migrate per user 10 Google app accounts to 10 Gmail accounts?

That seems... wrong. Do you actually work at Google?
I think this requires support from the service, no?

Not everything that wants to open up a port seems to support socket activation. I tried with 6tunnel and couldn't get it to work.
Make sure to check what the state of traffic is during the times of the day that you'd normally be leaving/coming home.

Once you get the home inspection back, don't be afraid to ask for the seller to fix questionable things before closing. Example: We have a heated driveway that was controlled directly by a breaker - we asked the seller to have a regular switch put in, which they did.

If the house doesn't come with appliances you're going to have to open your wallet for them. Do it after you're on contract but before closing. We had to live with a minifridge for over a month because we went to lowes on the day of the closing and the fridge we picked out took that long to get delivered.
yes we are

*if we is anything like me
The standard is no undue burden. That does not cover minor hassles like paperwork. Unless you're claiming it's some kind of language issue.
I saw fastmail mentioned but where else can I do one email address and aliases to that or wildcard catch all for other email addresses not in the alias list?
JIS screws will strip/cam out if you use a Philips, where I misunderstood this when replacing a rear lamp assembly on a 2016 Subaru, destroyed the JIS screw head where it had to be removed using the 10mm socket instead.

I've now used JIS bits for JIS screws and had no issues further than the initial.
make us pay more taxes” is ironic. If they wanted to pay “more taxes” they could just as easily stop avoiding taxation (they’d even save up on lobbyists and tax lawyers).

But then their rivals who disagree would continue their tax avoidance schemes, becoming wealthier than these “patriotic millionaires” and even, god forbid, forcing them (or their children) to work for the formers!
There's a chance that a push toward enterprise may even result in a feature a lot of us more savvy individual customers would love to see as well: self-hosting.
Democracy is two wolves and sheep voting on what's for dinner.

The voting majority does not necessarily have a right to my property because they said so.
Nice to see something happening in the GDPR compliance areas, because well over 90% of cookie banners are noncompliant with GDPR because they don't give "allow" and "reject" equal prominence (or they load cookies before you click accept).

For example, OneTrust gets it right on their website, but I have never seen a client of theirs get it right. So either OneTrust doesn't use their own software, or all their clients are specifically configuring it in a non-compliant way.

I have yet to hear of any general enforcement of this, despite noyb.eu's reporting of hundreds of websites to regulators.
Historically, taxes have overwhelmingly been a tool for those in power to extract wealth from those with less power.

I would approach any plan that claims it can decrease inequality via taxes with a highly critical eye.
AMD Removes ‘4GB VRAM Is Not Enough for Games’ Hours Before RX6500XT 4GB Launch
And millions of Americans will gleefully comply, "because of the convenience".
I've been on the other side of it.

I hated it but I had to pick the X best in the team.
You should have reported your manager to HR.
Definitely felt all of these, but I moved from LastPass to 1Password after 7 had been released so didn't know they were regressions. That's really shitty actually. I am honestly infuriated by shit like this because it just doesn't make any sense at all...