skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Web went all JavaScript instead of HTML sometime between 2000(2005?) and 2010(2015?). But by 2000 it was already wildly successful, so apparently it must have been HTML -- "hypermedia" -- that was the key to success, not JavaScript / JSON.
Cheap chicken is a very recent thing - like mid 1900s recent. Chickens need to feed on grain (unlike cattle), and chickens also produce eggs (unlike pigs), which means that they're both relatively expensive to raise (before industrial farming made grain cheap as well) and have a huge opportunity cost to slaughter for meat.
Cross border work burned me so very hard a few years ago.

I live in Canada, but got a position with Amazon where I'd fly around the US (and occasionally other countries) to do upgrades and launches of Amazon warehouses. Paid in US dollars because I was working in the US. A lot of fun, working with some of the best co-workers I've ever had. Most Monday mornings, I'd get an Uber to YYZ Toronto and fly to some new city and be back by Friday night.

Where I got burned was the weeks I did not fly anywhere and worked from home doing prep work. I didn't sync correctly with payroll and HR that I was doing this work in Canada, which implies that the Canada Revenue agency was owed my taxes for those days, not the IRS. But the company paid my taxes to the IRS since I was a US worker. (To be clear, they had a system to avoid this problem but I didn't understand and didn't set it up right).

Come tax time, I owed the CRA $15,000, and the IRS owed me $15,000. But there was 3-month long gap between the date to pay and the date I'd get my refund. We managed, but yeah that wasn't fun at all.
> and finally your very safe and secure OS running.

That's the one running on the Intel Management Engine, right? Or at least Intel would like to believe that's the case.

Jokes aside, I may be missing something. The BIOS came way before UEFI did. What am I missing here?
That works on bare metal you control. If you rent something with VM / hypervisor the mitigations are important to protect from other VMs on the machine.
Much like CNN is "The Most Trusted Name in News".
What infrastructure? They don't need too many people living there to manage all these. A landing strip, a pier, couple houses for the maintenance team.
A bungalow and a bar for their parliament.
The amount of "powerfully toxic substances" necessary to power the world off of uranium fission is many orders of magnitude lower than whatever we're producing now off of fossil fuels alone. Few should care because in the grand scheme of things mining, refining, and storing spent nuclear fuel is really not a big deal.
Nothing to see here no need to mask just wash your hands 10x a day and go back to work. The economy needs you
Siemens dropped out of the project and constructing nuclear power plants because of how much of a failure this reactor was.
You will want to do things at certain times that are not meetings, and for this an electronic todolist is really, really nice. I like Apples but only because it is built into their ecosystem anything but MS will do.

Never feel guilty about marking things of your todolist you didn't do. You don't put things on your todolist because you want to do them, you put them on your todolist because you don't want to have to remember them. If at a later point you decide you don't want to do them, you don't have to.
NFT Is Worthless: Copyright and Generative Art Problem for NFT Collections
I think Australia has plenty.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
> ATM, the only way to legally work remotely is either as a freelancer or opening your own company and contracting which come with their own set of pros and cons.

For immigrants from most countries, this only works if they are really wealthy or very lucky. We basically just let people buy themselves into immigration via Cyprus nationality, but hard work or education are minor points in a kafkaesque process to get in.
Good questions. I unfortunately can't help with any insight.

But my personal policy is to only take jobs that I could walk away from and quit the moment anything I'd want union support for comes up. A union for international employees seems next to impossible, especially with the employer of record thing getting in the way.

Luckily the market for my skills is such that I can afford that policy. You should probably only consider international employment relationships if you are going to be paid a butt load of money and can find a replacement job very easily.
Due to usage fluctuations it's not quite that simple
It’s so repetitive and in the end he not only comes to the same conclusion as the people he criticizes he also uses the same arguments. A nothing burger.
> Right now, a government agency would need to ask your bank to take your money

A government agency seizing your money rather than asking a bank to do so would often be an improvement over what we have in the US today: Banks routinely freeze peoples accounts with zero due process and little recourse, through the implicit (but not legally recognized) coercion of the impossible maze of bank regulation.

When your assets are frozen directly by the government you're more likely to get access to some amount of due process-- though not always (see: civil forfeiture).

In any case, since banks absolutely never stand up against the government to protect ordinary customers (drug cartels will billion dollar scale accounts are another matter...) it's hard to imagine a CBDC being worse in this particular respect.
That's actually a large amount of recent Presidents because Presidents are such a small group. I'm pretty sure Carter went to a state school. Reagan went to a private school that was certainly not an ivy.

We have to dig all the way back to Truman to find a President who never attended to college, so there's definitely "a greater trend of Presidents" to be college-educated.
> CPUs do OOO because they don’t trust compilers to get the order of instructions right.

Not really. CPUs do out-of-order because cache hits are unpredictable and it is crucial for single-threaded performance to make progress on dependent operations as soon as a loaded value is available.

There may be other, lower order, factors, but variable memory latency is the real reason.
1.2 acres at what tide?
Health insurance is associated with employment because originally, unions and other social organizations started providing it. They wanted to break the unions. So the government heavily subsidized employer-provided insurance through a tax break.

It was not "lumped on" employers. It was another attack on working people. Tax it just like other wages, and I promise you'll start to see it disappear.
I don't think it's sarcasm. Maybe North Korea is a better example. It would probably just be "Korea" if they didn't have nukes, but you can't exactly go in and overthrow the government when they can just wipe out all human life on the peninsula in an instant.

(People get upset at the implication that one country would take over another country, but the people of North Korea would probably not be worse off if that happened. Instead they suffer greatly because nobody can help them.)
It makes more sense for self-driving cars. If they get confused and just stop or pull over, you can have a technician remote in and drive it back to a depot or just get it unstuck.

If you're running them as a taxi service (which I think all the major self-driving companies except Tesla are), you need a way to get stats on the fleet and to direct a car to go pick someone up.

As of now, taxi services seem to be the focus of the self-driving industry because the LIDAR hardware (among a couple other things) is too pricey for consumers to justify owning. That's going to require some way to communicate with the cars. Cellular data seems a reasonable way to do that. I don't see a remarkable advantage over building their own boutique network of transmitters just to say they aren't technically on the internet.
Banking has shifted from low-volume high-profit (read: A bunch of rich people) to high-volume low-profit (read: normal folk and some poor people).

The reason why margin is low... is because you are the customer. I know many people feel "poor people are unbanked" and the industry is going in the direction to support them, but it also means banks have to find ways to get money from poor people and reduce costs everywhere possible.

Source: I used to work at a top 10 bank
That’s pretty sad. As a CS Professor, he should understand the distinction between a conjunction and disjunction.
Is wind not possible?
Standards of rigor evolve with time and the level of rigor in the Elements is abysmal compared to today.
I always wondered what people have against Tenet's audio. I originally saw it with headphones and using vlc and it was fine. Then I saw it on a TV and it was awful. I wonder if it was tested in normal environments.
Speaking of due process, 97% of criminal cases don't actually go to trial in the US and are instead settled with plea deals [0].

The sentencing is so harsh for anyone demanding trial and losing that it's mostly a paper right at this time. It does give people the warm fuzzy feeling of justice and correctness though.

If you're used to the EU justice or penal systems (very far from perfect and sometimes not even good, mind you), looking at the US systems must feel similar to a US citizen looking at SA justice - very lopsided, barbaric or cruel, disproportionate, and nothing close to fair.

[0] https://innocenceproject.org/guilty-pleas-on-the-rise-crimin...
The richest members of society already don't leave a large portion of their wealth sitting around as cash. Cash would be even more avoided if there were a realistic prospect of negative interest rates.
The average human consumes much less energy than the average Finn. (Though that number is likely to grow as the world becomes more industrialized.)
Plus proliferation of material for nuclear weapons.
Kazakhstan (under Russia's sphere of influence) is the largest producer at 36% of the global supply (5% from Russia itself.) It can be purchased from countries like Canada (15%) or Australia (12%). The next two are Namibia and Niger, each producing 8% of the global supply.
Yup. In the extreme e.g. someone kills 3 of my family members and only gets a year in prison? Maybe I should just kill them myself and get 6 months in prison.
I have found that rather than finding a way to sneak ads in, most non browser apps will just detect that the ads are missing and throw up an error refusing to display the content.
It's almost too old for itself.
> China is seems to be successful at large scale construction projects in a way that we can not replicate in the west

Are they? Considering that their population is higher than the whole of North America + EU + Russia combined, wouldn't it be fair to compare it that way? Sure, it's one country as opposed to several, but still, the population plays a huge role in this "amazing construction at scale".
Depleted uranium rounds are no more a nuclear weapon than aluminum.

If you want to make a serious argument, do a better job of understanding your citations.

And when we butchered your sons, boys
When we butchered your sons
Have a stick of our gum, boys
Have a stick of our bubblegum
We own half the world, oh say can you see?
And the name for our profits is democracy
So like it or not, you will have to be free
'Cause we're the cops of the world, boys
We're the cops of the world
And how much longer before rising sea levels swallows the whole island.
So there should be a body of knowledge and experienced people to handle all this. The employers and employees involved just need easy access to this.

Sounds like a nice way for some accounting firms to expand their market.
Have any managers here been asked to fire ppl so the company could more easily raise another round of funding? Firing as a signal to investors that the company won’t waste money.
The elevator is counter-weighted, there is electricity used whether you're going up or coming down, the point of the elevator is to change where people are, not generate electricity, so you're imagining an entirely new (and perhaps more dangerous) machine.
Squardle
Why is it banned? What is the accepted narrative and what is the alternative narrative?
> The similarities are greater than the dissimilarities.

Sometimes cultural relativism gets it right and opens our eyes to our own inadequacies, but this isn’t one of those times. Saudi justice is light-years (or maybe centuries) from US justice.
if you want to enforce higher standards than your colleagues, you have to put in most of the work to reach those standards. For instance, if you think a section of a code needs unit tests, maybe write some of the tests yourself or at least suggest how to.

also be modest, and make sure to frame your standards as cooperating to improve the company’s code, not competing to show you’re a better programmer

the ultimate goal is to make your high standards more of an asset (“he’s improving the code”) then a burden (“he’s criticizing us and making us do more work”)
This whole sharing economy is just a hack on labour law. Thats it.
> The neutral position is one that is presented without bias.

It seems like for you, "without bias" means biased towards the owners of papers, whereas bias towards the interests of workers "completely undermines journalistic integrity."

Find me a single person who doesn't have a financial interest in the costs of health care who isn't dead.
I think you misread the comment you replied to. They were saying they’re not employees, same as content creators for YouTube or independent iOS devs.
We have some users of Citus that are combining it with Postgis (Postgis is a big reason for many people to use Postgres). So it definitely sounds interesting to run this benchmark too. Thanks for sharing a link to the suite, I had not seen it before.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30622569
Why exactly wouldn't it remain in daylight time?
I have to say I think it's quite possible and comical that the professor interpreted your work on two of the three questions as additional evidence that you did know it should be an "and", since I would guess relatively few students would attempt any more than _one_ permutation if the assignment only asked for one.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
To boil it down:

Flags work brilliantly when the states are independent and there is no such thing as an inconsistent state... the moment you have strange interdependence you lose all the benefits.
How much more nuclear wast does that imply per decade?

How many more meltdowns per decade?
If mere cost/time predictability were the problem we could double any worst-case projection. Even at that price point it's something I think we should pursue alongside the more renewable sources. That electricity has been dirt(y) cheap in the past decades was great, but that's just not sustainable.

But yeah if we argue for another five years before getting started on at least the legislation/planning stages (after which we could still declare it a sunk cost, based on how the situation looks in 2027), we might as well forget about it.
Try https://deepl.com instead.
I disagree, but at least you didn't use the word "regurgitate".

I always find it funny when people say that tests are just about "regurgitating" information. It's such a cliché that just gets regurgitated in every argument over testing, as though it's visceral imagery actually gives it any real weight.

Tests can assess whether the student learnt the material covered in class. They can also test problem solving abilities.

Assignments test conscientiousness, and the ability to make good design trade-offs when working with a single customer who is buying 100 different custom products and doesn't really care about any of them.
Hydrogen fuel could change the way aircraft work, and look
I'll avoid the tiresome linguistic debate about what qualifies as "irony" and instead point out that sure, while Siemens is a "German" company, giving a multinational corporation a national identity very often does not make sense. Siemens has ~300 000 employees, and while it's one of Germany's biggest employers with ~100 000 employees in the country, that still means two thirds of the company does not work in Germany.

Also, Areva is French and Siemens hasn't held any shares in the company since 2009.
Are they within Belize's territorial waters? If so, all they did was tantamount to buying a plot of land, albeit one surrounded by water.
I feel like I've posted this comment too many times already but here goes....

Materials with long half lives are LESS radioactive than those with short half lives. Things with short half lives are what we make bombs out of and what fuel these reactors (EDIT: This is wrong, read the comment chain). All materials have a half life (probably/maybe, looking at you protons[2]), the longer it is, the safer they are.

https://www.kitco.com/commentaries/2021-11-30/Key-facts-abou...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay
You get to put all the information there, but have to place it in a sub-article. That way you force the writer to have a more faster introduction.
> someone on at a place in which you will never find a more wretched hive of disruption and innovation, but also called hacker news: hey we should found a startup that automatically logs into peoples’ bank accounts and downloads their statements and then stores them on amazon s3 in a badly configured bucket that’s ultimately publicly accessible to the entire world and then when that happens blame amazon for an opaque and insecure management tool but instead it’s obviously our fault for moving fast and breaking things

Is this a reference to something specific (like the Venmo reference later on), or just to poor security practices and data exposures in general?
https://whatisnuclear.com/non-proliferation.html
Once you're logged in, the credit card is ready to go.
People sometimes get diagnosed with ADHD in their 30s. It's not that they are incapable of doing things, depending on the kind of ADHD they have, they might just not feel any drive to do it, or have no sense for deadlines whatsoever. It can take years to get into the habits which help you overcome it.
> It would probably just be "Korea" if they didn't have nukes

Their first nuclear test was in 2006. Even their production of refined uranium and plutonium only began in the 80s, decades after the war came to a standstill.
Yeah, exactly. I am so grateful hosts like that exist :)
I think the OP is referring to the kind of thing you might find in frontend code, like maintaining state for things like isVisible, isExpanded, isSelected.
The very few who actually enforce DNSSEC, so that it would actually matter, probably don't trust Google.
That's a good point, people in Finland use more per capita than 80% of the global population, so if everyone were to have the same energy standards as Finland we'd probably need more like 10k reactors and 600 per year give or take.

Or we stick with the status quo, force everyone into their lane, and probably need like 3000 to 4000 reactors to serve current needs, and 150 to 200 per year. Give or take.

I think that's still in the same ballpark orders of magnitude-wise.
Because the US is the dominant cultural machine in the world.

And, that the American audience of HN should point this anger towards America so we can finally fix this.
I have the opposite problem. Subtitles draw my attention, even when I understand what's said just fine. And then it's extra distracting when the subtitles change the meaning of what is said (which happens both when watching Japanese movies with English or French subtitles, or English or French movies with Japanese subtitles)
You think I'm going and buying oil?
I don't see why it shouldn't be a reason for being hopeful? Admitting ignorance is generally a step in the right direction. No reason to be depressed about it.
> Literally the first day I got made head of engineering for the first time (so, running a group of dev teams, instead of just one) I was tasked with firing 20 engineers I had worked with for about 2 years.

I assume this was part of the deal? You can't say "hey, would you like to head-up engineering" without knowing this would be your first big assignment.
Exactly. There are always going to be low profit or unprofitable areas and it's unreasonable to expect an individual driver to subsidize those rides. That should fall on the company that's profiting in aggregate (ex: Uber). Unfortunately I think I'm in the minority with my belief that companies like Uber have a social obligation to serve economically depressed areas.

Everybody should be asking themselves where the line is when it comes to not being a profitable enough customer because, as wealth disparity increases, the odds of being on the wrong side of that line are going up for everyone in the bottom 50%.

> If you want to add another variable - rider ratings - that’s fine. Judge people based on their individual behavior - shocking I know.

Yes. Uber has all the info needed to obfuscate ride details to the point where they could reduce discriminatory biases and have drivers selecting rides based primarily on economics and rider reputation.
I do not try it crushed, but I do try "modern" farro (due to classic seeds selection I can't really say how similar to ancient one it is) and it's not much similar to corn, grains are bigger, absorb more water, have a bit more taste. They are still not beans but definitively more tasty even if chewy.

However we also should consider that ancient eating habits were FAR different than actual ones, so was life. It's very hard to compare "prices" in completely different societies... In some part of our history there were a big abundance of certain products, in some other a big deficiency, in the '700 in western European countries most people eat FAR more than now to a point we can't probably sustain the rhythm today, in the '300 there was a very deep crisis and most people have nearly nothing to eat etc. Prices can't be a unique measure like today.

Just imaging a society where most families do have a bit of farm animals, for them does it matter their "price"? They raise chickens at home, so they have eggs and meat, what sense does the price of these "products" makes to them? They might just trade them to the few who travel at an accordingly high price, but local "poor" do have them in their own backyard for "free". Similarly if most people outside cities (so most people numerically in general) grow wheat in their own backyard how much it matter it's price? They trade it for wealthy people living in cities or as taxes, to create strategic stocks handled by their governments to cope with regular crisis, that's form the price, not what people have to pay really for it.
In the US, telegram service ended in 2006! https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna11147506
> The number of new migrants required would be astronomical in a country already struggling with food and energy insecurity.

Interesting. You could be referring to several European countries, including the UK.

Also interesting: the Plague was largely responsible for the ending of serfdom, by greatly increasing the bargaining-power of peasants. I have wondered whether COVID might eventually precipitate similar tectonic social changes.