skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems quaint now to be upset about Star Citizen. There are so many "games" being promised now to people buying NFTs that don't even seem to be trying to be plausible. Like: No one working on our team has ever really made a game before but we plan to make a revolutionary one before the end of the year. Sure. At least Roberts Industries is trying.

But its still kind of scummy imo.
Better title: Bragging about how big of a modern American mansion we can build in the woods
> * European trucks typically run shorter hauls, and do not require a bunk in the cab as often as multi-day cross-country runs.

I find it hard to believe. There are tons of trucks, having multi-day cross-country runs. I know a few truckers, they all have. They sleep in their cabs. Sometimes there are 2 truckers, so they can swap whenever limits reached.

I see trucks from different countries any time I hit the road. If you ride on German autobahn, there is a never-ending stream of trucks from different countries.
One in 5 patients exhibit cognitive impairment several months after Covid-19
> Last I heard, your employer can apply for a greencard after 5 years on a visa. You can then become independent after a grace period with the sponsoring employer. 6 months is typical.

Having gone through L1 process myself I don't believe the 5 years until application is an official requirement. L1 visa itself maxes out at 5 years, so filing for the greencard with the work permit(EAD) at 5 year mark will leave the employee unable to work until the work permit is granted. I have seen cases when companies would file for a greencard almost immediately after transferring the employee on L1 visa.
The copper coming from "something" will be at least 1/2 inch thick, probably more so that it doesn't lose voltage. We're probably talking a 7/0 cable where 4/0 would be bare minimum.
As someone who started learning TLA+ in the new year, I'd also add:

* The class of bugs it excels at finding which humans can't just aren't that important for most cases!

I'm learning it by modeling one of our systems which I know has a race condition that sometimes results in a request being dropped, with the goal of having TLA+ prove it.

But if I actually filed this as a bug - three in every ~billion requests get dropped in a process that's already at best reporting 99.9% accurate anyway - it would go straight to the bottom of the backlog. Inconsistent CSS styling of our swagger probably costs us more than this.
Our neighborhood uses an FB group. There are typically 2-3 posts a week.

* lost and found (including pets)

* HOA announcements

* changes to the trash pickup schedule, special trash collections, etc

* other events (Santa parade)

* new neighbor introductions

* recommendations (repairs, babysitting, dog sitting)

* free stuff or stuff for sale

* general advice on house construction (many houses are similar)

It’s not important per se, and not everyone is in the group. But it does come in handy.
Ambitious games have so many points of failure. If you made. A perfect living replica of the Star Wars universe but the controls were kind of meh or the pacing of progress was too slow, or the difficulty is off it might still come off as a bad game. Or any universe. But the point being that nailing the complexity of your ambitions is very hard but also just a small piece of it.
Strange to say, I ordered a classic paperback science fiction book from Amazon. Shopping image was of a standard pocket book, used. (Imagine del Ray publishing from the 70's.)
What arrived, was a Xerox? copied book with a water mark, on American standard 81/2 x11" paper. It was almost unreadable because of water mark. It wasn't a paper back. It wasn't original publisher format in any way.
This has happened twice now, in completely different genres. I am dubious of buying any books from Amazon now. Powell's Books instead.
May I interest you in some completely unallegorical entertainment[1] in these trying times?

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/
> It's also hard to explain to your bosses that you won't have any actual code for 6 months.

Formal methods don't have to mean "stop the world and do nothing else". They're tools for thinking through (often) harder problems in a systematic way. They're applicable through every stage of development. During initial design and requirements gathering (where I've seen and used other methods, like describing systems via state chart and state machine models), during development to clarify some confusing portion of the system, in analysis of problems (like the ones I described in my other post), and so on.
No NFT game has raised even close to hundreds of millions of dollars (at least yet).
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23601
Same arguments from both sides, different day. So tired of the self-righteousness of both sides. The reality is that there are use-cases that are useful today with crypto. The reality is also that the vast majority of money in crypto is there for speculative reasons, not fundamental value. That's fine, it's a bet, stop caring about where people put there money. If you don't want to make a speculative bet, then don't. If you made a speculative bet and it paid off, no you are not a genius. No one cares, no one shows shit about fuck, let's all stop pretending and just understand that speculation != investment grade and allow for people who want to take significant risk on speculative bets.
laughs Apparently we wrote virtually the same comment, at the same time, with the same words. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30195702
Chef's Habitat project is in Rust: https://github.com/habitat-sh/habitat

I've never used it though.
There are probably other ways to build a modern-style home that don't involve this, but they currently aren't in vogue.

To which end, I wonder how long such a home would last, given the upkeep. The bling times come and go. Just look at history.
America has large cities scattered across the entire country. When I look at a map of the cities in Russia, the majority are in the far west and south with huge amounts of the country without any large cities.
Not the author, but do work with Chris at incident.io.

We continue to see smaller companies struggle with incident response, often picking processes designed for much larger organisations.

This guide is the "just do it this way" manual for smaller companies, helping them find something that works right out the gate.

Most of it is common sense, while some bits–such as the advice on post-mortems–might be considered unconventional. Will be interested in what people think!
> People need to be off the grid completely

I thought that when I was 16. Now that I'm 58, there is no way in hell I am in favor of every household having energy storage systems sufficient to see them through every night and season of high energy use. I'm all for some level of distributed power generation, and some level of distributed energy storage, but "people need to be off the grid completely" is, IMO, a step too far.
FB lost US about 2M users in summer 2020, but has been pretty flat since then.

See FB's slide 13: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/q4...

The drop this round is in the rest of the world and not US, Asia, or Europe which are flat or even up

The hot takes of Peak Facebook are unfounded, or at least premature.
No, I’m saying that people incorporate a $10k price of gasoline into the price of the vehicle instead of paying for them separately as you would with a BMW.
That seems like a genuine application of the technology. It's adding something uniquely useful that wasn't there before; rather than replacing something simple and reliable with something more complex, equivalently functional and marginally increasing convenience (if at all).

A functional low tech, un-networked equivalent for remote sensor notification to identify a specific event cannot exist. So fair enough.
I wasn't even thinking of looking at where the traffic is going. You end up with a very characteristic pattern of bandwidth usage that can be detected, on that basis alone.

It'll false positive and false negative sometimes but on average it'll be good enough. We're not talking cutting connections off, just throttling. If something other than video streaming briefly slows down, who's going to know to blame a false positive on the streaming throttling?
All the while, I have been enjoying Elite Dangerous, which ticks a lot of boxes. Frontier Development is building from the ground up, and even though it’s not without problems (they just had a year of fixing their bodged Odyssey release) , they seem to have a running space simulation.

I am not going to touch StarCitizen unless its a positively reviewed 1.0.
I'm running a small hot tub in central New Hampshire. I figure it costs me $15 per month in the winter.

Edit: Service in the US is generally 200A or 400A. I'd say 400A is overbuilt for what they have, but that doesn't mean they actually use much of that capacity.

For example, I average 1000 kWh per month, which is about 1.39 kW 24/7, or 12 amps average on my 200A service. The 200A is to have headroom for peak demands, and we probably never get close to 200A.

If I were to rewire my panel (it's full), I'd go for the 400A - it's just heavier copper in the three lines to the entrance panel. That would not increase my monthly power bill right now, but it would provide lots of excess capacity in case I want to switch to heat pumps and electric vehicles.

Since we heat with wood and propane and don't use electricity for either and have mostly LED lighting and a gas stove, I do wonder where all the power is going, especially at night. Too many computers, I guess. Add analysis to my to-do list!
Our use case is definitely a pathologically bad problem for Java's GC. Nevertheless, it is a real use case, and CPU and GC are the primary impacts to our service.
If they just want to get it once ongoing cost is not a concern.
I would pronounce the 'v' in Wolvic like in "vision" and the in your words 'f' like in "elfic". Which would make it clear Wolvic is written with a v. Would I be wrong?

(not a native English speaker)

(we have a town called Volvic here, known for its water. Pronounced like in "vision". I would pronounce Wolvic the same way, except the first letter would be pronounced like in "well")

(the English pronunciation is not a gift)
Thanks for the awesome post! Really insightful.

Most people in the tech hypes about US. Is it really worth as the hype to go through all these burdens and immigration process?

Does it really make a difference being somewhere else (for eg. Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK etc.) and being in the states? I am really curious to know about it.

There is a meme that most of the open source projects stand because of some European dude doing off the charity work! The European companies also offer work permit for the qualified people!
> Exactly. You see "both sides" using the exact same rhetoric

How much of this is due not so much to some kind of fundamental similarity between their positions but rather to the virtually complete removal of rhetoric from the typical curriculum? Perhaps people argue like children because their thoughts are childlike, but perhaps they’re merely incompetent rhetoricians.
“Class” here refers to pricing, does it not? Luxury car owners will be quick to point out that the Model 3 and Y are not “luxury” class even if the cost ranges aren’t far apart.
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True. Thanks for that.
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We have contractual obligations that mean that all work must be done in the US, by people who have a legal right to work in the US.
Look where big bosses from FDA ended up.
https://archive.is/tvBpf
Is it possible to stop movement of wild animals which are infected and transmit it back to humans? Impossible goal posts to pursue.
By that logic, does my employer pay my income taxes? Or I guess it’s their customers. Then again their customers are paying for the service through their income which comes from their employer… etc
How does that change anything? Most of the rail cars I see are also carrying containers.
I had, thanks for reminding me.
> I don’t know what the solution is, but the problems are pretty easy to see.

In theory, if you were dealing with one entity, it could be pretty easy.

But you are actually dealing with multiple entities:

- your utility’s transmission subsidiary

- your utility’s generation subsidiary

- your applicable regulatory entities

- your regional grid operator/planning organization

> Well, this is not in the interest of the utility at all (they lose money), but they still by policy get to ‘approve it’. This required a many-month (and many phone call) process of reviews, approvals, etc. which concluded in the utility activating (installing a meter for) the installation.

Your utility would much rather just say no and be done with it.

They similarly have no financial interests in operating a Kafka-esque bureaucracy that requires them to staff entire departments that are a net drain on their revenue.

But they are obligated by the state regulator to have a uniform framework and process for electricity generators (which you are now) to interconnect with their transmission network (you to their lines).

This pulls you into the category of safety, reliability, and financial requirements which are typically only applied to commercial generators.

The primary things the utility (both transmission and generation) wants to avoid is backfeeding and islanding — the former is dangerous to linemen, the latter is dangerous to your neighbors’ equipment.

> However, the payout is hilariously low (like $0.01/kWh) so of course everyone chooses the bank.

The payout for generation is negotiated by three entities: the regional grid operator which is committing to purchasing capacity, the utility’s transmission operator which charges to interconnect and deliver your power, and the state regulator who has the FINAL say on rates.

Additionally, your utility along with every other utility in America is engaged in demand management programs.

The TL;DR version is utilities pay tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to vendors over the span of a multi-year contract to REDUCE electric demand.

This typically manifests itself to retail customers the form of free Nest thermostats, time of use programs, and subsidized appliance efficiency upgrades (or rebates).

If they could redirect this money to small generators like yourself and have the same impact, they would drop their demand management programs in a heartbeat (and the regulatory obligations that come with it).

I wrote this on my phone, so I can’t easily list references, but I did use a number of searchable terms that will lead you in the right direction.
This an interesting aspect to me because it means even the lowest quality, poorest run, failing infrastructure ISP has nearly liquid assets of about $30 million USD if they have half a million customers.

That's a staggering amount of money & it isn't locked up in assets like real estate.
Reminds me of Dark & Light .... the largest MMO you'll never see!
Strongly agree with this.

I do not understand vegans who eat "imitation" meats. If you are ethically opposed to the slaughter of animals, why are you OK with pretending that you are still slaughtering them by actively buying things called "chik'n" and the like? That seems extremely perverse to me: 'I don't want to actually eat animals, but I want to pretend like I do'. Seriously, what?
If they are just sold on and continue to be used when they fail emissions testing, what is the point of emissions testing at all? The vehicles will just end up in countries that don't care, and emissions will rapidly get worse as they will get minimal maintenance and probably lower quality fuel.
> Igalia really seems to do interesting stuff.

A lot of which is WebKit based, so this is indeed an interesting twist.
i believe this is true but it is not reflected in the public earnings at all.

User growth in the US may be flat but earnings per US/CA active user is up which implies that the value is here and growing for users in the US/CA
I have several editions of Dune by Frank Herbert. The content is identical in all cases (with the sometimes exception of various forwards); the books differ significantly in presentation. How, as someone who has already consumed the content, am I to know if a particular edition is well made or interesting enough for me to add to my collection?

Maybe you think that is too niche; but Amazon has Amazon-specific versions of some books and also does print-on-demand. Without people reviewing the quality of these things, how am I to know the quality? This also extends to Blu-Ray collections and other things which contain content. Even a Kindle book isn't just the content; how well the book has been formatted matters.

To the extent there is a norm, the norm is that anything related to the thing you are purchasing is fair game; things related to the seller or shipper are not. (Understanding that sometimes Amazon is more than a seller.) If you want reviews specifically of the content, you should go to sites that are specifically for reviewing content.

To the extent there is a problem, the problem is that the star-rating is global for the entire review. I can't give a book 5 stars for content and 2 for book quality. And no matter how good the content, if you're charging me $20+ for a book with pages falling out, you're not getting five stars from me.
Not sure what the fuss is. Any company publicly registered in the US has to provide a reconciliation of its income taxes. Netflix 2021 1.0-k can Be found here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528018...

The relevant section is Note 10 Income Taxes which starts at the bottom of page 57.

The biggest drivers of the reduced taxes were stock options and the Tax Cuts and Job Act (TCJA). Stock options are just timing while I presume the TCJA are true credits.

This is not a mystery.
look. i have bben using "backup all" a small app that imports and exports vcf and other formats. served me well between 3 phone changes. i gt it, people want fast fast stuff, impatience and all that but its not difficult
I mean, isn't this the shipbuilder's responsibility? It's not bezos' responsibility to vet the bridge heights of the port and compare that to ship drawings.
This is the case at least in some parts of the US as well.

I believe in all of Texas (North Texas here), your costs are broken down by energy costs and delivery costs, the latter of which is paid to your TDU to maintain the infrastructure. For our plan the delivery charge is roughly 45% of the kWh price.
Or its genius as a software project because if they finished people would just be disappointed.
Fair point. I do agree with others though, the damage other apps like TikTok do is less for me to be happy about it overall. It's like Transitioning people from an alcohol addiction to a weed addiction, one is much more dangerous than the other, either might not be great for you.
> My biggest gripe is the fact I can't transfer it to my cousin

This seems like a gripe very particular to you and not generally relevant.
Indeed. This comes up all the time in American political discussion. People on the left say that we're a worn out, declining empire. People on the right say we're falling apart due to the left.

No matter your orientation, it's pretty clear that Neoliberalism, aka The Washington Concensus, is on its last legs. We're all just sort of hanging around waiting for the paradigm shift to start.
I've been around much longer and things are always changing. What I've seen, probably in the timeframe since COVID, is that people used to drop a comment and rarely revisit any of the children comments. The child comments used to be mostly positive and potentially additive if only a pat on the back. Now, more so than before, I see the top level commenter coming back to defend themselves in GGP level comments. The children to their comment is likely to point out something they missed, why they disagree, point out broken functionality, critique or otherwise add a hint of negativity to the comments.

There's two parts. 1) the negativity is increasing a bit 2) the commenter came back and chose to defend/counter themselves. #1 alone typically has sorted itself out in the past, negativity got downvoted fairly heavy to the point where I think folks probably self censored themselves. The community and mods have managed this type of thing fairly well. The #2 part seems to me a relatively recent development. I'd blame it on the WFH flexibility giving everyone more real-time usage of the site and that facilitates debate/arguments.

That's my totally made up hypothesis on this. I still don't think I'd characterize the level of discourse as problematic. The fact we're discussing politics and world topics more often as a community it's natural for us to disagree more.
COVID isn't deadly like rabies either. Indeed COVID is turning out to be less deadly than the flu for the vast majority of people, especially the more recent variants. While being far more virulent they are also far less likely to make one seriously ill, let alone kill.
U.S. Exposes Russian Effort to Fabricate Pretext for Invasion Using Fake Video
"I get the point that ...", "hobble your career"
FWIW, some things that you think of as necessarily dairy-forward have just become that way through modern culture. Pizza, for example, used to commonly have no cheese, and still is somewhat common without cheese in Italy (Pizza Marinara from Naples, for example).

I'm no huge advocate of vegan "cheese" and "meatloaf", but vegan pizza can be perfectly normal and traditional.
The carbon footprint of this individual is off the scale. He's got a funny idea of what 'low impact' means. Low impact is a well insulated residential flat. This is extreme impact.
He does, but didn't upload in months
This is a good conversation to have. I’ve been noticing it too.

Part of it is the general culture where disagreements aren’t allowed anymore. Anyone who doesn’t agree with you is a bad person. I blame the media trying to divide us.
The biggest thing in ecology right now is niche construction theory. It's the realization that organisms don't just respond to their environment, but also shape it and reproduce it

I think it's high time for the equivalent perspective to reach evolutionary molecular biology and realize that organisms aren't just gonna sit idly by and wait for the random process of mutation to let them adapt. As shown by the recent studies on the prevalence of genes being shared across animals,[0] there's clearly many mechanisms of action missing from our molecular analysis toolbox. One recent finding was the discovery of epigenetic inheritance. If epigenetics allows organisms to adapt to environments in their lifetimes and these adaptations can, in some capacity, be passed down. In addition, we've already shown a number of factors to increase the rates of mutation. Given these findings, I don't think it's far-fetched to imagine some level of "~~niche~~[gene] construction" happening at the molecular level

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/dna-jumps-between-animal-spec...
*Oculus

You seem to know what you're talking about but it's really hard to take it seriously when you misspell the company's name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_floating_tunnel
Is it so weird to imagine that having a shared communication space for one's neighborhood is desirable? There's a group for my neighborhood in Houston that's great for referrals (e.g., electricians), or notes about neighborhood businesses, etc. I can't imagine this idea is uniquely American, but maybe it is.

Yes, parents often participate in PTAs. Parent engagement is a big deal in education.

Yes, in many places in the US there are food trucks. People often enjoy them. Finding out where a given truck will be on Tuesday is useful!

Businesses generally keep Facebook pages in the US, usually as a supplement to a real web site, but also because Facebook has traditionally been where everyone is already.