skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert, but given the fact that Russian space agency officials have threatened to bring the ISS crashing down to Earth to destroy it and any city in its way, and other countries are scrambling to figure out how to continue without Russian equipment in as quick a turnover as possible... I doubt it. I think if anything, Putin's latest tantrum is just going to slow down, or even temporarily halt, space exploration.
A lot of people here saying it's mostly about rejection, but in my case it can also be about someone becoming obsessed with my product or even indifferent to it. Maybe indifference is still a form of rejection somehow though.

The bigger thing I see for myself is the fear of not having control. Not knowing in which direction things will go. I think this happens to me a lot in life, where i want to be able to predict and know what will happen. When i think of this in software, i can go into hyperdrive because of how quickly and far software can scale—the multiplier effect on any imperfections.

I don't really have an answer at this moment for his to deal with it...what came to me in the last few days is that I would rather be more present and less perfect. When i try to be perfect, i tend to close off and hide until a big reveal, and throughout that time I'm not showing up with myself or the things I've made. Conversely, if i focus on being more present, I can prioritize showing up over showing up with the perfect thing.

I thought about this in the context of posting photos of myself online and to friends. I've gained weight over the last few years and don't feel very confident in how I look right now. And yet, many times, I'm just happy to see my friends, regardless of how they look. Maybe I have an initial shock at how they've changed, but that can quickly fade into "but I'm glad to see them." So I imagine this may work with products as well: the initial "hmm, why does it look/function this way" changing into "but I'm at least glad it exists and I have access to it"
You can setup Legacy Browser Support[0] to redirect specific URL pattern from Chrome to another browser.

[0]: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9270076
You know I'm a different person, right?

> More than 10% of my suburb has rooftop, there are 3 small grid arrays within 100k

Great! I'm not anti-solar. Nor is anyone I know that is pro-nuclear. We tend to also be pro-renewables. It is just that nuclear shouldn't be taken off the table when we're facing a crisis.
not fit for purpose
So you want to study mathematics
Are you really suggesting that Russia wouldn't be willing to launch nukes if just Europe went to war with it instead of Europe + America?

I don't see how that follows.
I condemn any kind of invasion, so I agree with you on that part.

It amazes me that only some breaches of the Budapest memorandum are mentioned often, while others are somehow forgotten!
For a washing machine especially, the inefficiencies of turning mechanical energy to electrical energy and then back are going to be be pretty bad. If you could work out gearing to spin the tub mechanically, it might be better, although the back and forth motion of agitation isn't something I'd know how to do. Pumping the water and spin dry should be relatively simple, although getting enough speed for effective spinning may be a challenge.
Yeah, zero is probably not the best thing to return if left == right; same with an all red interval. Wasn't thinking carefully enough when generalizing it, but I will fix.
Inverters are tiny and cost almost nothing.

Here's one for under $50 that will do what you want:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Car-Power-Inverter-12V-to-240V-A...
> While it was probably considered rude

It was extraordinarily rude.
I ended up using ublock origin to block the "recommendation" sidebars on twitter and youtube. So glad for that. Is there a way to stop the infinite scroll?

The stuff on the sidebar is related, sort-of, but you're not expecting it and you are not necessarily in a critical state of mind when you notice it and instinctively click. Meanwhile, I imagine, giant inscrutable algorithms are tweaking knobs in our heads that we don't even know about, always making incremental progress towards taking away all our attention without us even being aware of it.
In place FS conversion looks like black magic to me! Props to the authors!!
No, the hope is, if say, Germany and all the North and Eastern Europe is out of NATO, they would make their own coalition, which would be non-nuclear and could go to war directly, to defend Ukraine better. The MAD not working properly complicates the situation, yes, but then our only other choice is capitulation to Russia. As I said, long-term, I favor complete nuke ban in which NATO is not helping (largely due to lack of US willingness), unfortunately.
I think small reactors are proven to be feasible now, and can be producing energy in short term.

Fusion is a longer-term bet – it's probably coming, but there's no certainty on the timeline.
I said it on the Gizmodo article about this, and I'll say it here: this does way more damage than help. It hurts average citizens far more than the government or military members at fault, and it gives Russian citizens another bit of "evidence" of all their propaganda being true about the "evil, harmful, petty West who want to hurt Russian people".
In our case (NJ in US), we went through extensive adopt/foster training provided by State government. They were very blunt about the range of potential issues, the fact that most adopted kids will have some level of attachment disorder, many have been abused or neglected, many will have health or other mental issues.

We were prepared for some pretty difficult potential scenarios.

As it was, we got very, very lucky. Our kids are incredibly healthy. They did suffer neglect and abuse (the latter in foster care), but we somehow handled it. The general rule is the number of years of neglect or abuse is the number of years the kids will take to recover. It was right on the money for us, at 13, our son who was adopted at 7, is finally showing signs of complete normalcy.
> "nothing came out of them."

I understand you to mean that there was not a dramatic result; I believe there were results - engineers and managers changed their goals to include more testing of components, IIHS and regulators also added testing. Automakers do respond to forced recalls. Reputational harm taken as seriously as direct fines and punishment.
Reminds me that Apple once had fresh designs.

I wish Apple would get brave and push out a radical new design.
Really most organisations that end up in the cloud don't need elasticity. I have worked with a number of companies and they all run entirely static sized clusters. They don't even benefit from scaling down the cluster out of peak hours because their load is that small.
We have blameless postmortems after major incidents like "the app is completely down." The action items aren't always followed, even easy ones like "new PRs should not use X function, they should instead use Y function." Two days later a PR will be approved and merged that uses X function. So then I'll make a meeting a month later saying "here are all the action items from the last couple postmortems that I don't think we're following" and everyone will be in full agreement again, but still nothing changed.

So given that, I don't feel very comfortable pushing hard for any process changes. I already feel like I'm bordering on annoying.
I've only seen that in local places. Otherwise its too easy to just leave from bigger venues without paying.
Note this is about using pirated software. This isn't about breaking protection in software to allow it to be used. Breaking copy protection is still illegal in Russia.
Sir Patrick Stewart buying Russian currency as a bit: "ay, there's the rub"
My reading of the write up was that the new code didn’t introduce the bug, but merely exposed a latent uninitialised memory bug?
TBH the thing annoyed me most in this story is the "Someone had to start the disclosure process on linux-distros again and if they didn't no one would know"-part. There are certainly silent bug fixes where the author intentionally (or not) does not post to linux-distros or any other maillists even after stable release. It would take an hour to dig a good example tho. (Okay, maybe 10 minutes if I'm going to read Brad Spengler's rants)

I guess a Linux kernel security advisory process is needed to fix this, but yeah :(
Even if fusion is feasible, it will not solve the problems people keep hoping it will.

1. Proliferation. A thorium reactor already has no proliferation risks

2. Costs. LOL. At least 2000 years to recoup the R&D, and then OpEx still exists

3. Fuel availability. Thorium. Reactor.

4. Waste. Where do you think all those neutrons will go? The container. which will slowly become radioactive as you transmute it thus... IT will also become brittle and need replacement. It is ... nuclear waste. Radioactive and in need of storage. Also: a thorium reactor can use existing nuclear waste to for a while it'll REDUCE amount of waste we have to deal with

The one and only thing fusion does have going for it: at least IN THEORY it might be possible to do on a space ship by collecting interstellar gas. Not much heavy isotopes there but plenty oh H and some He
Because you can't just shift all of your supply chains to cut off all dependence on imports from Europe overnight.

In the long term, Russia can survive by selling gas to Europe, and buying goods from China. In the short term, there's an absolute madhouse in the domestic markets.

Unlike in the Soviet days, when most of its domestic products were locally produced, Russia has de-industrialized, and all of its supply chains have become incredibly dependant on the West. It can't turn back the clock 40 years overnight.
I've written a custom web server and the reason was performance. Web servers have the potential to do quite a lot and each of those activities adds latency, so it made sense to write my own web server to implement exactly what I needed and nothing more.

A minimalist, custom web server can approach 10m req/s as seen on the Techempower Benchmarks.
I did some back of the envelope math on these a few years ago based on Amazon's truck numbers and proposed profit figures and they were between $7.18 to $28.74 per day per driver. This was based on Amazon's optimistic figures.

With Amazon putting those numbers in the proposal, the real numbers would almost certainly be worse. Between minimum wage and gas, that margin is eliminated.

These are the urban equivalent of the contract chicken growers. Give them a flat rate and make them absorb increasing costs.
>Two parents, ideally their parents, is best. Absent that, continuity is the next best thing.

>I am not worried about a kid being where they are theoretically best of

Again you contradict yourself. Earlier you were worried about what's "best." Now you claim you're not. The fact that you continue to contradict yourself is a product of your inability to discuss this rationally (nor with 'continuity'), not not due to some genuine concern for doing what is, overall, best for these children.

>The goal of having these adopted children thrive is secondary to the goal of raising them to the age of 18 with the highest chance of avoiding problematic damage.

Spending a childhood with a family that doesn't want you presents the possibility of higher "problematic damage" than having the option to move to one that does.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but remember that information is lost in the blur. It's as if you posterized an image to two colors - just because you know the algorithm doesn't mean you can revert the process.
Let’s Put Cheap, Portable Nuclear Reactors onto Barges (2021)
Yeah, more interdependent. That’s why they routed around Ukraine and Poland. Anyone with quarter of brain would know how it’s gonna end.
There was talk of a recently written book that said everything is on a 75-100 year cycle of peace and chaos, and chaos was going to be happening again and soon. This was in 2018-2019 and every year since 2020 has been worse than the previous.

edit - book is the fouth turning, pretty accurate given it was written in 1997:

https://www.businessinsider.com/protests-coronavirus-crisis-...
> what if non-religious people are actually the most religious of them all. humor me.

I can't. It's self-contradictory. Religion is wholly based in faith: believing when you have no concrete, demonstrable, scientific reason to. No religion can exist without that core concept, you have to be willing to believe when you have no proof. More broadly all mysticism is based on faith, and all mysticism (ghost hunters! magic rocks! miracles!) similarly runs counter to science accordingly.

So non-religious scientifically-oriented people have more faith (willingness to base their lives and beliefs around things they can't prove exist) than religious people do? No.

In terms of religion, asking for proof, requiring evidence, is the true first sin: thou shalt not! Religion builds upon that first step, you must first suspend your rational mental self and then turn your brain over to someone else's opinions as fact (which you then must accept as true, even if there's no way to prove such; religion is always based on subservience to someone else's faith-based opinions; religion begins at the point where you turn off your brain and hand it to someone else who says: because I say so, and you must believe what they're saying and specifically not let reason interfere). Here's how religion begins for everyone: someone tells you a (typically fantastical) story, with absolutely no evidence to support it, and then you believe it; to believe it you have to shut down inspection, debate, skepticism, reasoning, and so on. One of the core tenets of all religion is: don't ask such questions; who are you to question; etc. Even the more docile religions fold at those corners eventually and require that you stop asking questions or challenging (aka shut your brain off and just believe on faith).

Science is contrary to faith. People occasionally try to worm around that in touchy-feely ways, you'll run across historical quotes by famous scientists saying dumb things like: my science is rooted in a powerful faith, dur dur dur. But that's just someone smart (at a thing) saying something exceptionally stupid about a different realm of thought and should be regarded as such. Like putting much stock into the dumb things Stephen Hawking used to say in the political or economic realm; geniuses are quite typically gifted at one thing, very rarely at two things, and people commonly seem to make the mistake of thinking that translates widely, when the opposite is true and it very rarely translates widely.

Science grows stronger through questioning, debate, inquiry, challenging notions, requiring evidence to believe. Religion - and all faith based systems - wither when confronted by such, without exception. They react in such opposite manners, because they are indeed opposites.
I'm at a company that is about one tier below FAANG and I'm making 250 total at a senior 1 role. Or I was before the stock market started tanking, now I'll be making about 220.
then when you try ingesting the footage into the machine/cpu/hard drive/router/cloud storage/...

it's not really something you can win as an individual on an infinite timescale

(unless you plan to keep your VHS around for the next few hundred years)
The cure is using other software. It's almost all so fucking terrible—yes, even from FAANG—that before long you'll stop feeling bad about your own bugs.

That's not an excuse to get lazy about bugs, but it ought to help you not feel so bad about it.

Apple's way better about software quality in general, than most. Yet every day I use their alarmingly-janky multi-user login/switching screen. If I my M1 Air falls asleep while not connected to power, I'll have to juggle wifi networks to get it re-connected (if I don't want to wait the several minutes it takes it to sort things back out without that intervention). Last I checked opening a link in a new tab in the background while in a "tab group" in Safari still caused a flash of the real content before loading the blank-tab screen and losing the original URL, when you eventually switch to the backgrounded tab, basically making tab groups unusable. Even they ship bugs in big, user-facing ways, and leave them there for months or years.
Putin would approve
Drop the `solar` subdomain: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/03/how-to-build-bike-ge...
Sure, but that's semantics. You are acquiring a thing which has value to you, and has value to its owner, and which the owner has asked you to pay for. You can't pretend the thing you have acquired is without value if you wanted it. Piracy is really about "do I want to pay, and can you stop me from getting it without paying?" and this business about "I'm not really stealing because it's digital and the marginal cost of production is zero" is just self-justification.
Its ok, Poland will take them all.

I bet last years Putin exercise of pushing Iraqi and Afghanistan male refugees over Belarus border somehow made him think Poland would do the same to Ukrainian women and children.
It is not absolutely necessary to use Russian-owned planes for civilian aviation. Foreign airlines (Chinese, Indian, etc...) can take over the routes.

It is only necessarily for regional flights.
Lots to unpack, here.

How old is the company? There's certainly a stage where features are critical, but there's also one where you have 80% coverage, and it's time to harden them and clarify the product and feature set?

What does customer churn look like? That'll tell you how bad the problem really is.

The alerting situation sounds bad. Sometimes it can be that they're mostly false alarms, in which case people will ignore them. The fix there is spending a few days tuning the thresholds and cleaning up unmeaningful alerts. This is also an opportunity to drive this. If people are ignoring real alerts, that's bad, and it's harder to fix. What would happen in an actual outage?

You're at a startup. Have you talked with anyone on the sales side about what they're hearing? Is it hurting sales or retention? Look for people with titles like account manager, account executive, solutions engineer, etc.

How small is the startup? If it's less than 150 people, the signs actually point to it being a somewhat real issue, and you don't desperately need the job, you can book a meeting with someone high up. CEOs at startups have open door policies for things like this that slip through the cracks. Just do your homework beforehand, only do this rarely, and be ready for it to possibly backfire (but if it does, you don't want to work there, anyway). Keep in mind that all codebases are shit, especially the one you're currently working on.

If things are bad enough that it hurts sales or retention, and there's no push from sales or drive in engineering to fix things. I'd leave. Remember that part of your compensation is equity, and the company's success depends on the success of the customers.

Another way of framing issues only happening 1% of the time is you only get beat up with a baseball bat on your way to the office twice per year. One place I worked had a known issue we were very unhappy with where the p95 latency was .5s, p99 was 1s, and p999 was 10s. People feel p99+ more, and it's usually better to track these metrics on the high-end.

And the obligatory "it's a feature, not a bug."
You're also being hit with more IR when you're closer. That being said, getting the same amount of light from an LED seems to only take 10% as much power, but they're also probably putting out much less IR, but LEDs still heat up a little, ...
I don't think the "will-to-power" is absent at all. rather, the private sector is a better path to power for someone with technical chops, influencing through money instead of formal political authority. of course by the time you have this much money, your interests tend to diverge from the frontline engineers.
I've been on a Math journey since I retired a couple of years ago and I agree with all the books mentioned that I know and look forward to picking up some of the one I do not know. I agree baby Rudin is essential, but I find it tough going.

Some books I liked for self study because they have answers:

Introduction to Analysis, Mattock.

Elementary Differential Geometry, Pressley.

There is also recently Needham's Visual Differential Geometry and Forms, which is great.

Edit: I should also mention Topology without Tears (free, online, very good) https://www.topologywithouttears.net/
But you just did as you're the OP?
Does BTRFS actually need to be augmented like that? I've been afraid of using it for a NAS because it doesn't sound like it's as trustworthy as ZFS when it comes to handling bitrot. But I don't know if that's actually true. When I tried to find info on it a couple weeks ago, a lot of people were trying to claim that bitrot isn't a thing if you have ECC RAM.
"Britain last year backed a $546 million funding round at the company to develop the country's first small modular nuclear reactor (SMR), part of its drive to reach net zero carbon emissions and promote new technology with export potential."

Cool. Although I foresee exporting this technology will be difficult as far as fuel and waste supply chain goes. Having the possibility of multiple new, smaller countries receive nuclear power makes moving fuel and waste across multiple borders more difficult. Also, protecting the technology so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands becomes more difficult as well (assuming these things can enrich uranium).

"Each mini plant can power around one million homes...".

This is where I did a spit take. I was really underestimating the capacity for these "mini" reactors. Being able to power so many homes (and being more centralized than I thought) means these reactors would still require huge infrastructure investment in order to spread the power.
bcachefs is written by the same person who wrote bcache... And that has a lot of subtle eat-your-data pitfalls.[1] I don't really trust bcachefs not to do the same.

[1]: https://omattos.com/2020/01/02/bcache.html
The guts of the M1 mini are significantly smaller than the case. There was a video where someone made a smaller case recently that shows just how much you can shrink it.

https://youtu.be/pQWGFKhBQwU
Seems pretty tame compared to the genocide happening in the americas at that time.
I'm impressed at the relatively high efficiency of the system. Pedalling at 150 watts and recovering 100 watts of electricity is higher than I would have expected from such a simple system.

I'm very curious how much better the system would perform if the flywheel were attached directly to the drive-train instead of via friction roller. In practice this might not give much higher efficiency, but I would guess that the chain and primary sprocket would wear out slower than a tire friction-running a flywheel.

(They mention that they don't do this because this because it would be harder to build. I believe that. But I'm still curious.)
Fusion isn't proven yet, so government can't really plan for it. Even if it does arrive, nobody knows when that might be. It could easily be in 100 years for all we know. Small nuclear reactors are seen as a way to get the benefits of fission at lower cost.
>I follow Stadia a bit, will try to answer. First understand, Google will never tell you the truth. Even if they were going to shut it down in 10 minutes, their last email to you would be to tell you it's not going anywhere.

Oof this rings so true. I hear it SO OFTEN about Google, and I can't imagine that this kind of reputation doesn't hurt their ability to get folks to choose to build services/buy-in to their offerings. Are they just at a scale such that they genuinely don't care about concerns like this?