skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People being asked to handler cost reduction haven't got an issue with that. The company is an abstract entity, and if it could think, it would certainly have an issue with handicapping productive employees.

I would rather point out the dishonest personnel, paid to reduce costs by x, who won't hesitate to sell some brillant ideas that will ultimately cost the company 2x to 10x. Elsewhere. Making sure it isn't clearly noticeable in the short term.
For me it’s the near total lack of hope for a cure. Your body, your proteins, slowly becoming its own undoing.
To be fair they're not US funded, they're US supplied. US and Uk weapons manufacturers are making lots of money because Saudi Arabia and the UAE are buying weapons from them. They're not using money from the USA to do this.
Getting insurance to reimburse for a purchased Covid test [require fax or mail]
Lets look at real results

So invention of soap and hygene doubled life expectancy.

The industrial revolution / steam engine has taken us from 1% gdp frowth per ccenturyt o 3-5% GDP growth, so over 100x improvement.

Those are historic changes. What important metric has the internet increased at least by 50%?
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Yes, a Mancunian and a New Zealander might have similar if not more trouble.
Consumers do not want the subscription model. Consumers never wanted the subscription model. That will strike some here as obvious, but it's the important point in all this.

The root issue is that big tech has too much power. It is thrusting a model onto the public that primarily benefits itself.

I'll bet some of the people here on HN who argue for the subscription model work at smaller businesses, not for big tech. That seems crazy to me: customers can't afford to experiment when it comes to subscriptions. A customer who shells out for 'essential' subscriptions (ie: Netflix, Adobe, Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc) won't have money left to subscribe to your Shopping List app.

If a 'conversation' is needed, its aim should be how to defang (pun intended) big tech. A conversation about 'subscription software' alone is pointless unless you have the ear of Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, etc.
Do you know someone like this Emoji Activist?
First hit from Google for “Did they use soap in biblical times?”:

>”Soap became hugely popular throughout the Roman Empire, around 100 BC to 400 AD. When the ruins of Pompeii were excavated, an entire soap factory was discovered in the rubble.”
Plug, but if you're into Geany you might have a use for my "Gitbrowser" plug-in [1].

It's very light-weight (at the cost of features, it's really a browser and not a GUI for Git) and suits Geany just fine in my opinion. I especially like the "Quick Open" feature, which uses Levenshtein distance sorting to help you find a file from a few characters in the name. :)

[1]: https://github.com/unwind/gitbrowser
It's the distance between cause and effect. What were you doing 5 years ago today? In 2 years, maybe you develop a 100% fatal disease and die because of it - and there's no way to verify until you actually do or do not die of it, so you don't know it's coming.

The only reliable prion disease diagnostic is brain tissue biopsy.
It seems like a more accurate comparison would be container images and webassembly. Kubernetes is a orchestrator that tells containers where to run, how many, etc. For WebAssembly to replace Kubernetes, enterprises would need some other orchastration engine - or conceivably, Kubernetes could run webassembly packages in addition to container images.
You have antibodies against virus or bacteria.

Even Ebola with a microscopic amount of contact and immediate treatment you can recover.

Prions, not so much. Death sentence.
I prefer the short paths myself. I create something similar and add it to the quick access in explorer.
Unlike VSCode and most modern IDEs, Notepad++ has no concept of a workspace. I can use it to open any file anywhere on my filesystem or on a remote server, and Notepad++ won't balk about those files belonging to different projects or try to index every file on the disk.

I usually have a whole bunch of small things going on at the same time, and having them all open in a single Notepad++ window is much easier than juggling a half dozen VSCode windows. (I do use VSCode heavily for a couple of major, ongoing projects with clearly defined workspaces.)
My monthly electricity bill went up by ~29%, so sounds about right. In fact, my electricity provider raised everyone's rate, even those with a contract, but giving an option to leave and find another provider, and shortly thereafter went bankrupt.
There are a lot of security reasons to get away from compiled native code as well as convenience reasons. Something like Spectre/Meltdown could have been mitigated completely with a JIT upgrade.

Then there's the huge advantage of encouraging more competition in the CPU market. Something like RISC-V would have a much better chance if you didn't have to recompile everything for it.

I'm surprised native binary is still the standard. Back in the 1990s when I saw Java and then .NET I thought it would be dead by now outside of specialized high performance libraries for things like codecs and cryptography.
I think it's just that the usual protections do nothing against them. Boiling, freezing, disinfecting do nothing. There is no cure, no treatment, just a slow and inevitable decline.

I think my own fear of rabies is actually somewhat similar, but yours may be different.
You literally said that Andalusian and others "are dialects because they have not been politicized like Catalan or Basque", suggesting that what makes a language a language instead of a dialect it's its political weight.

Certainly, Catalan is used as a political tool, but it's a little hypocritical to think that Spanish is not. We all know how political questions should be solved in a democracy.
Expected i guess

I don't know how it is in the US, electricity prices have skyrocketed in europe
These events remind I should renew my amateur radio license and practice.
In a few minutes of Googling, I can't seem to find a decent time series of average German electricity prices (€ct/kWh) by month. What has the increase been? [1] reports 54% (!!!) increase since 2020. Why?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/euro-zone-consumers-...
According to https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ they have 4 stations (3 in the west and 1 in the lower populated east) with access to a total of 5 cables, and 1 cable is wired into 2 stations.
Well, the written density of source code has to match the impedance of the programmers that deal with it, not the computer, which deals with binary executable just fine.

It seems to me the more clever you are, the harder it is to understand and debug code. Breaking things down into logical steps, but not too far, works best for me, and I suspect, but can't prove, the general case as well.
I am surprised by the number of people completely missing the piece's tone!

I wonder if the folks seeing nerd shaming are being thrown off by the Napoleon-Dynamite-esque photo.
Until you realize every single satellite that both transmits and receives information has solved this problem already, including Starlink.
Big +1 on this. Elon Musk is not a philanthropist. The goal of Starlink is just to bring Internet to people that can afford an expensive system just for themselves by literally annoying everyone else.

It's the same thing with the Boring Company and public transports: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-awkward-dislike-mass-t...
Nah.

Years ago, if you wanted to use Adobe Photoshop, you had to pay thousands of dollars for a license. Now you can pay for a subscription for the period of time you use the software.

It is easy to justify the subscription cost if you are making money using Photoshop.
Prions to me feel like what the miasma must have felt like to people of centuries prior
"This article is about the cancelled Sentinel Space Telescope for detecting asteroids."

Don't think it's doing a lot of monitoring honestly.
I always wonder how much more truth there is to haunted houses and forbidden lands than we think. Just superstition? Maybe, but maybe not.
It's my understanding that is reason for the PS3 having Linux / other OS support at launch. It was classified as a "computer" vs gaming device and this resulted in a lower import tax for certain countries.
> strongly-consistent datastore

I think you are referring to the upcoming R2 object store? I’m not aware of what I would think of as a “strongly-consistent datastore” which would be closer to a traditional database with querying. It’s that that I think is missing.

Quite right they have partnered with other db providers, however I think there is a need for something native to their platform that ensures good proximity to Workers to ensure low latency.
They went from nuclear to coal and gas to be more green.[0]

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2020/01/11/costs...
You're absolutely right. It's saddening to see how little regulation there is, or even how little focus there is on regulating business in space. I don't want to sound naive, but it's frustrating that us citizens of any countries have no weight on such important matters. All for the Musks and Bezos' of this world I guess.
Companies are not made of 100% engineers. Production costs are only part of recurring expenses in a business. At the very minimum you have to pay an executive team, a marketing team, a network/security team, a legal team, an accounting team... these guys don't work for free, and want to be paid every year at worst - more often, every month. Even if each "team" is one person in your garage, you have to pay them. And when you scale up, now you have investors to service, and they also would very much like to get regular dividends from their investment (or see constant growth in the value of their share).

Note: I'm not defending the practice (if you dig in my comment history, you'll see pretty incendiary stuff against SaaS abuse very recently), I'm just saying that it's what business naturally tends like - in the same way it naturally tends towards paying people as little as possible, exploiting them, etc etc. This is what the market becomes when left to its own devices. If we don't like it, we need to proactively intervene in law.
Photoshop CS2 in 2005 was $599 for the full version. Today that's the equivalent of $850. That would pay for 3.5 years with the current subscription model. So if you were upgrading every 2 years it's actually cheaper now, but of course if you wanted to keep the old version for 5 years it would be more expensive.
You don't get it, do you?

This asswipe, Martin. He fucked up Bukowski's poems. With his mincing, middle-class stink.

Oh, it's not a dirty poem anymore, it's a vulgar one. By the time he's done, it sounds like Bukowski went to Vassar.

Now you? You're going to mince around like this too?

But Michael Phillips -- he respects Bukowski. He knows how to write. He uses the right goddamn word in the right goddamn place.

Like: "castrating". Because Martin took the balls from his poems. "shitty". Because he shat all over them. "unmolested". Because it's like he diddles kids.

That's the same thing you're doing. You're trying to castrate Phillips. And you know what that is?

Rape.
ID cards should be free if they are a requirement to vote. Many people cant afford the 50-100$ required to get an ID, sounds crazy but it's true.
Including skipping upgrades?
> bottled

That says more about Reading than about Meatloaf
(Random person, don't actually know)

Check this out:

> Fly Postgres clusters are just regular Fly applications. If you need to customize Postgres in any way, you may fork this repo and deploy using normal Fly deployment procedures. You won't be able to use fly postgres commands with custom clusters. But it's a great way to experiment and potentially contribute back useful features!

https://github.com/fly-apps/postgres-ha
The advent of agriculture and animal husbandry is generally thought to be much more recent than your comment makes it sound. More like ten thousand years ago.
The ingress can be free with Nginx but not the inbound firewall rule that passes the traffic to Nginx. And 'coincidentally' it costs the same $ as using their load balancer which automatically has this rule applied.
I think prions are a bigger problem in crowded single-species environment than in comparatively sparse mixed-species pre-industrial world.

In particular when you feed cows proteins made from dead cows it's making it more likely to create prion problems than when wild animals live in small herds in forests (and the ones that are sick are killed by predators or starvation before they can infect others more than likely).
Nature made you inquisitive and able to use and create tools, but you think engaging in those behaviors is somehow un-natural.
This comment was very helpful, thank you!
The only thing more undignified than being a hexagon is pretending to be a hexagon.
+8 pears. Oranges don't have cores!
Beautiful yet heavy on my iOS device. Couldn’t get through process of purchase.
No, no, and no. The only one remotely close in scope is LLVM-IR, and even then scope is pretty significantly different. LLVM-IR is a general purpose IR for native compilation. Wasm is deliberately small in scope and designed for sandboxing.

Lua and JS are not even binary languages.
This is why we don't eat brains, people!
Same-Address Load-Load Ordering in RISC-V
You cannot get physically addicted to weed. You will never have withdrawals from quitting weed like you do with alcohol or heroin. Perhaps you can get mentally addicted to it but that applies to literally anything.
Have you ever tried going on a hike in a forest during one of the experiences? It’s there you can realize we are living at the bottom of a sea of air. The trees are like coral and everything feels so alive. It’s like exploring the planet for the first time.
I meant it more as a figure of speech. Nobody is trying to shoehorn health into random poisons. BTW there are allowable amounts to many poisons. There aren't allowable amounts of things like lead and butane.

The question is why we're trying so hard to make something healthy. The answer is obvious, because we like it. You don't see doctors trying to come up with justifications for why we should drink arsenic or cyanide, just as long as it's tiny amounts.

Alcohol causes cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, anxiety, and many nasty things. It may be one thing to tell people that their glass of wine a day is OKAY, but we shouldn't be telling them it's "healthy" without good reason. The better analogy is smoking, because the harms are more similar than people think.
I had researched on prions and the Kuru disease for a class while looking at the impacts of animal testing (the Kuru disease is a prion found in New Guinea and is considered to be the first prion disease). Prions are scarily dangerous - near-fatal if exposed to it, and stable at much higher temperatures that regular non-misfolded proteins.

However, your chances of getting prions is very low. As long as you avoid "exotic" meat like monkey brains and stay in countries with strong regulatory bodies (like the US/EU etc) the risk of exposure is extremely limited. Bonus points if you avoid swimming in random bodies of water to not get contaminated water with brain-eating amoeba traveling up your nose.
How do you distinguish a text file from a binary file? It's just bytes. But for the sake of it, I created a 10 GB .txt file containing the same ASCII-only line repeated 100 million times. Unsurprisingly, notepad.exe still says the file is too large. And it also hangs with a 1 GB version.
That’s a cool background. Can you share more about your product?

I’m also struggling to see the great benefit of generics apart from “it’s quicker than using interface types, trust us”.

I didn’t know a ring buffer was a “formal” data structure thingy but implemented one for a toy multiplayer game I’m building very slowly. There’s a “circular list” of the 5 last received messages from the server and if the position as indicated by the server deviated above a certain threshold I warp the player back to where they should be according to the server.

I knew these message objects were gonna be allocated/nuked constantly so I just have 5 one pointing to the other and the last pointing back to the first and I go around overwriting them.
It’s like saying that beans are the new cars.
Well, they don't stop working on an improved app and new features while you don't want to update.

You don't only get compatibility with X with the new version but all that as well.
... which happened after an Iran funded rebel group launched rockets against Saudi Arabia's ally
You underestimate Fortnite, that's about the only way to talk to peers when you're 14 years old. (imo exactly the same kind of 'monopoly' that Facebook has)
My most recent monthly bill was $̶0̶.̶0̶4̶6̶/̶k̶W̶h̶ $0.092/kWh

Edited to show fully burdened rate, inclusive of delivery charges and other fees and taxes.
> you didn't have to login in vlsub unless you use VPN for some strange reason

So, you don't have to login unless you have to login.

Got it.

Also, this:

https://github.com/exebetche/vlsub#2013-09-05-version-0910

> 2013-09-05 (version 0.9.10)

> Add possibility to set opensubtitles.org username/password in config menu to avoid download limit to unlogged users

You can add this to the list of reasons you needed username/password for vlsub at some point, when you hit their download limit. Which is something that used to happen a lot with fansubs.
My company (management consulting) has smashed profitability records the last two years. A large part of that was not having office expenses and not doing in-person events. It’s completely apparent that many people used the office as their social outlet, with little work of value happening during those interactions. We are more productive in fewer hours.

Beyond that, our clients are seeing increased success on their major initiatives — communications are much easier when handled digitally as it forces some amount of PMO hygiene if you want to get anything done.

I actually am noticing a bifurcation of companies: the ones who pivoted to full remote indefinitely are able to pay more and are winning the war for talent, particularly in engineering roles. On top of that, it turns out out in-person isn’t so great or efficient when over half your meeting participants are virtual: everyone in the meeting room needs their laptop open anyway for the camera and hot mic issues abound.

Personally, I’m not going back. If they try to push us back, I’m getting another job. This is why employers pulled back on trying to bring everyone back — one of my clients who announced in October they were requiring everyone in-office in January saw 30% of their engineering staff walk out the door over the course of 6 weeks. That’s apocalyptic, it will take them a year plus to recover as most of their teams are now in the “on-call death spiral”. They are now permanently hybrid for all roles, not just engineering.
When did you receive your email? I too am a Hetzner customer but haven't received such an email (so far).
I got one too, only for one of my two servers though:

The monthly prices will change for the following servers you use:

Server name new price old price Starting on
SB42 #xxxxxx 43.20 Euro 40.31 Euro 2022-03-15

Doesn't seem so bad to me.
The most ardent KBG agents are rolling in their graves - the 'free west' has a tracker on every citizen, and they even paid for the privilidge! Trully capitalism delivers results!
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Why is this being accepted at face value rather than being subject to the same level of scrutiny and skepticism that the studies about ivermectin were?
Center for Covid control told workers to lie about results, ex-employees say
I don't understand your question.

GP proposed to filter out O2 by burning carbon. This will create a CO2-rich gas, perhaps at about 30% (depends of the density of CO2 compared to O2).

GP didn't mean that we deplete oxygen in the athmosphere, but that this is an intermediate step inside the CO2 scrubbing apparatus. Perhaps that's why you got downvotes.

The burnt carbon will be gained back by the Gallium process, however this might not work out anyway because the process needs to be very efficient in filtering out CO2, as someone else already pointed out.

In my opinion the idea of burning hydrogen seems a lot better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994000
Hetzner is a wonderful provider, and as transparent as possible, with exceptional prices/value.

I've recently decided to stop renting a machine - I've had 3 server auction machines across 10 years - with 2x3TB enterprise (internal ecc protected) HDD, Xeon, 16GB ECC RAM, etc. The hw is aging, the disks were reasonably new, and it all just works, for practically pennies compared to cloud providers (no IO, no internal bw cost, fully dedicated CPUs, and so on). My reason to leave it was lack of need; I decided to move my backups and archives offline and my services to a tiny home "server".
I went from an occasional social user to a habitual personal user...because COVID and staying at home were killing me. And it actually doubled my productivity. But eventually got to the point where I HAD to smoke to perform, and definitely had a way worse sober baseline after a year of persistent use. So I stopped. Regret having gone down that path =(.
... and now Russia is becoming belligerent and there's a chance they will be targeted with sanctions if they invade Ukraine, which would cause gas prices to explode. Some of this risk is probably being preemptively priced into the market via speculation on gas.
He's got a somewhat Catalan accent and Catalan itself used to be part of Occitan, the boundaries aren't quite clear where they meet (whether in Aran or in Roussillon). It became its own language after Peter the Catholic died at the battle of Muret. Catalonia became culturally and politically cut out from Southern France and Catalan developed its own standard in isolation from the other courts it previously was affiliated with.
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl...

British Airways were fined under GDPR.

> Almost certainly necessary since if they weren't "addicted to ad placement and tracking" as GP put it they wouldn't have to stop and thing about GDPR.

How very eurocentric.
It's part of a strange sociolect, but that doesn't invalidate that it's well attested enough so that the meaning is obvious to any English speaker.
> having the circle not reset after every color change is probably not feasible unless the module order is fairly convoluted right?

Not necessarily no. The thing is that you could have an early module that implements a framework to manage state.
For the circle rotation, it is quite easy, it is a single number.
You could do something like:

`let circle_rotation = managed_state "circle_rotation" Float 0.0`

"The rotation of the circle is represented by a float initialized to 0".
Then even when your module is reloaded, the hypothetical framework takes care of preserving this piece of state.
And almost every game available on cartridge has some kind of patch only downloadable from the store. Some don't even have all their data on the cartridge and need a download to function at all...
Steve Yegge's old blog[1] has some of the best essays I've ever read.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/blog-rants
Neuralink lines up clinical trials in humans
Reading your comment I remembered the guy who implemented 3D doom in Excel

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/3d-engine-entirely-made...
You don't need to use these product or services, the choice is yours. If you derive value, you should assign that value a cost and that's exactly what we're seeing.

To be blunt, you seem like you're ranting and your conjecture is not wrong but just, opinionated.
It might be. There's also the thing that MSG's effects are "magical" and feel addicting which might make people a bit concerned about the "mystery substance" (instead of testing it in a lab to determine if it's actually safe or not).