skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct. Lidl pays their staff more than any other UK supermarket. But this might not be the case in other countries, plus doesn't mean they don't abuse their staff in other ways.

Source: friend who was a market researcher for Tesco
Cities existed before oil. A city without cars can actually be a massive improvement
Knowing how to use your tools. Operating systems, window managers, editors, debuggers, cli&gui tools in general, keyboard shortcuts etc. I often find the lack of this pretty jarring, watching how slow and ineffective some people are when using their basic tooling, even though they are a couple of years into their career and have written a todo app in a dozen currently cool languages/framework on the side.

I feels a bit like watching a chef, that has all the theoretical knowledge about food composition and such, but takes 5 minutes to chop an onion.
But what if they keep building up, like acidification of oceans?
In [1]: length = 10_000

In [2]: %%timeit
...: pre = [None] * length
...:
...:
38.7 µs ± 128 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10,000 loops each)

In [3]: %%timeit
...: pre = np.empty(length, dtype=int)
...:
...:
1.32 µs ± 6.59 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1,000,000 loops each)
> Besides the fact that this comment is unfounded

How so? Windows is well-known for a long time now to be a universal backdoor (which you agree to in the ToS) and that's why "windows debloater" scripts are more popular than ever. On the app level, VSCodium has plenty of threads on this very site discussing how outrageous it is that the official VSCode is distributed with trackers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19650109

> I'd reckon that's better than making yourself vulnerable to a supply chain attack?

I don't understand. Why would anyone else be more susceptible to supply chain attacks than Microsoft? If anything, being a big org with many departments is a bigger attack surface, while having so many users is a strong incentive to get hacked.
Thanks! :-(
No, talking to people is stressful and it's unreliable.
I would not say they are on the way out, but definitely out of the mainstream and growth is limited in this space. I would say the same is true of podcasts to a certain degree, with quick videos taking over this space.
There is nothing "technically correct" about having an opinion on how important glibc and coreutils are to the operating system and including an acknowledgment in the name. This is a normative claim that I'm not particularly interest in. I call it Linux and don't plan to change, nor do I roll my eyes into the back of my head when someone calls it GNU/Linux. Okay, I lied about the last part.
I agree with it - but I've heard often that people didn't like his text.
So, going with the Mexican dog analogy: the pain of working from the office is still less than the other scenario.

If I had two offers, and one was 20% less compensation plus WFH and the other +20% but working from office ONCE a day, I'd go for the WFH one.

Of course everybody's factors are different.
>>> Buying a subscription to gay.com from Syria.

>> Why were you so confident in your non-credible example?

> The other poster is probably very confident because gay.com redirects to https://lalgbtcenter.org, which is an LGBT advocacy group in Los Angeles.

I doubt they knew that. It's inconsistent with their thought of "buying a subscription to gay.com," and it raises the question of why someone in Syria would even be interested in a LA-focused advocacy group. Plus in their reply indicated they thought of it as a porn site. What kind of advocacy group has a paywall that someone would want to see behind?
"I didn't."

So can you explain then, where I implyed "that making voting secret creates fear"?

By stating, that there is no need for secret voting, when people are not afraid?

If so, you might want to study basic logic (again). You cannot just reverse statements and implications and jump to conclusions

There can be secret voting, with people scared to speak their minds and secret voting with people not afraid to speak their minds.

And there can be open voting with people scared to speak their minds and open voting with people not afraid to speak their mind.

I think secret voting is only useful, for situations with fear involved. No more, no less.
> Instead, a lot of people who have returned to their offices for some or all of the week have found that they’re the only ones there, or others are staying isolated in their offices, and all communication still happens over email, Slack, or Zoom. As a result, they’re spending time commuting to and from the office and dealing with all the hassles of in-person work but without any of the promised payoff.

Hahaha, like this wasn't true before the pandemic.

It sure as hell was for me, anyway.
This may be due to unions. In one of my previous jobs we were providing a software for digital subscriptions to their news site. The plan was to also integrate with their SAP for offline subscriptions. We offered to do the integration in a way where a user would buy online and it would get inserted into their SAP via an API. This was a no go, since before they've had a couple of people doing this manually and they couldn't fire them due to unions so they decided we would be sending the orders for offline subscriptions to them and they'll physically enter it into SAP. I wish I was joking.
Normally I wouldn't, but seeing as your post is about being corrected in English, I'll correct you.

>nobody correct you anymore

Should be "nobody corrects you anymore"
Hackers hit video game, stealing more than $600M in cryptocurrency
When I managed a large team, I had custom 'Thank You' cards printed that were blank (you could also use store-bought blank Thank You cards) and handwrote a specific message for each individual noting down what I appreciated an signed them. I would leave these notes at their desk either before or after their work. It was always a surprise for them and many of them treasured these notes and had them pinned on their walls for several years.

A sincere 'Thanks' in the presence of their peers also works.

You can do this with all work colleagues who have played a significant part in an initiative that you are leading/responsible for, including those outside of your department.
It seems the whole industry considers underhanded tactics a good thing. Facebook has been exploiting users' phonebooks from Day 1, it's not new. It's just that the industry bent towards facebook-like rather than the reverse
It probably depends on the chip yield, and the sample size of whatever survey was used for the assertion it was always the second engine disabled.

It would be reasonable to assume that if both engines work, then the second is always the one to be disabled. Therefore to have the second enabled you'd need to find one where the first engine has failed, and has no other chip killing faults. Depending on the yield TSMC gets, these could be quite rare, so you'd have to have quite a large survey to find them.

Or as other people have noted, it could be an errata meaning the second core is broken, as this isn't the only possible reason.
Your logic is severely flawed. Why were only landlords impacted here? Why didn't grocery stores have to just give away food? Why wasn't gasoline free?

This was the government attempting to usurp part of the economy without much timely recourse for those on the losing end.
Designing a REST API: Unix Time vs. ISO-8601 (2013)
> This may sound like a rant, but I genuinely think these little details would go a long way to actually showing that the German economy does have some sort of international mindset.

Except it doesn’t.
Not only that, but spend time learning your tools as you use them. If you're like me, reading about a tool for four hours then trying to recall that information while using it is a wasted effort. You have to be continuously learning in increments over weeks, months, and maybe even years. Never stop learning.
Man, there are some cynics in this thread. So it's a feature they loved and found incredible. So what? If you don't agree that's fine, no need to be so negative.
> there are no available solutions that meet the specs I listed

We're going in circles. "Preserve presentation across platforms" is an anti-feature. No one has created a solution that satisfies that constraint because it's (a) a lot of work for (b) something that is the opposite of what the people involved are actually aiming for.

If you're preparing material for print and it's important to be able to represent the exact printed layout (e.g. to print again), then PDF makes sense. If printing doesn't appear in the pipeline twice or even once, then PDF is very, very bad.

> I much prefer PDFs to blog posts, personally - they are mine, I can annotate them, etc.

You can do that with blog posts.

> I find much more thought is put into a PDF than a blog post

I don't. I find, as I alluded to before, that there's much less thought put into trying to express things clearly and economically. Instead, that concern is replaced with a concern for writing in a way that sounds "academic" but is painful to read.

PS:

> ePub is 'responsibly wielded HTML'

Not at all. EPUB is very irresponsibly designed. "The format works in my browser today" should have been the #1 sanity check on that workgroup's output. They failed.
..and when you are a customer there you know that you are core business and not just on some service that might be ended any day due to some strategic coin flip. I have no idea how these sidecar business ever establish themselves in terms of trust (same certainly applies to early years AWS)
I was appalled to find our office lease was $20,000 a month. We could hire two FTEs for the price of that office, and we are not even in a premium space.

To your point about efficiency: I don't believe our office produces 2 FTE's worth of additional productivity across the whole org.

Leadership thinks it does, but assuming we acquire decent talent, that would be a net 10% increase in engineering. I don't believe the office could ever achieve a 10% increase in output.
It’s also .NET Core 3.1…
What you say is write and I am guilty of that too. I would feel very rude or out of place telling a colleague of mine to capitalize the first letter after Dear X. Even if I wanted to. So I just write my reply correctly and hope they notice :)
A dark pattern I just learned about with TurboTax, is that if you attempt to downgrade from paid to free when it is time to file (even without utilizing paid features), they force you to completely start over from scratch. For a lot of people, they may not even know they are in "paid mode" until it comes time to punch in the debit card.
Remember reading about ancient people foolishly consuming led or kings that went mad from consuming gold? I guess we are those people for microplastics.
There's a good book about it: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1476637.Political_Ponero...
I think this comes down to how badly designed cities are now since we've been nearly 50 or so years into the single use zoning regulation scheme. What we've gotten in return for this experiment is lower tax revenue, higher infrastructure costs, and ungodly amounts of commute time. If anything, this is a great time for cities of all sizes to down size their physical footprint and get more multi-use zoning in play. It'll take decades but we might actually start looking like Amsterdam or Barcelona in a half a century or more.
I solve that problem by just not having any voicemail box.
I don't by the "more efficient" argument.

The IRS could generate online forms (or snail mail) with what they know and let us add deductions and other income. They should know salary/wages, they could know investment income (not sure if broker report to the IRS, or just send forms to filers).

Even if the filer has to manually enter deductions, credits, etc, doing it on an IRS site has several benefits... no $50+ fee for H&R/TaxCut/etc, no $500+ for a CPA (for fairly typical tax situations), no worrying about whether online submission processed correctly (because you'd be submitting directly to the IRS instead of relying on a 3rd party to submit for you). Multiply that time/money/stress savings across the population and it's a MASSIVE benefit to society.
China Plans New Restrictions in Its Booming Live-Streaming Sector
I got anxiety reading this. I hope are able to find something else, even if (judging by your last sentence) you don't want to.
Tell me this isn't an inside job.
"Calculus for solving all sorts of problems."

Is this really common? I know I'm not in a top tier job, so maybe they don't give dummies like me the hard problems, but I've never had to use calculus to solve a real world problem.
There's always someone who judges the pastimes of others, and makes value statements regarding something they're perceiving from the outside.

The Guitar Hero community is honestly pretty close knit, given the size of it relative to other more popular games. Some of my absolute best friends in the world I met through Guitar Hero.

Your dismissive statement has about as much cultural value as what you attribute to Guitar Hero.

At this point, the Guitar Hero community is its own subculture.
Since the door/lock analogy is widely used I would like to point that they have 2 other major advantages

1: they have the effect of warning you of unauthorized access: you can maybe break a door/window in a matter of minutes but you wont catch me napping nor you will be able to make it look like nobody broke in.

2: they keep unmotivated attackers out and can move the attacks off to you and on less protected properties.
If you discount the title, which is a bit click-baity and not actually featured on the website, this makes a bit more sense.

This is one of several companies in Germany reluctant to host with the existing US based cloud providers. So, they decided to use off the shelf software (openstack probably) and stick it on computers in data centers that they own. That's of course not an alternative to AWS other than that it is a self-hosted cloud and as such an alternative to not self-hosting it. Nothing wrong with self hosting stuff. Lots of companies do that for all sorts of reasons. White labeling it and selling your self hosted cloud to others is also not that uncommon. There's an enormous long tail of data centers that do exactly that. Lidl is big enough that they probably could justify spending a little extra on hardware and doing a little side business with like minded German companies.

It's a weird side effect of a lot of relatively large companies in Germany that are effectively family owned businesses that just became very large over time that don't like the idea of not being in control of their own assets and infrastructure. They are old fashioned, don't like change, and not very flexible.

The added dimension here in Germany is that a lot of these companies have yet to modernize their IT and are relatively clueless on that front. Lidl would be a good example of such a company. And not for a lack of trying. They are the same company that botched their deal with SAP after spending half a billion on them by insisting on so many customizations that the project just never shipped and they pulled the plug. They want custom everything and they ask for stuff they think they need without understanding their own needs. It's a combination of stubbornness, arrogance and corporate stupidity. That same reflex is driving them to do this. They could probably have saved quite a bit of money by just using existing cloud services.

I actually have to deal with this sentiment as we are based in Germany with our company. A lot of Germans are mildly psychotic/irrational about things in the cloud. I've met Germans that insist that financial service can't be hosted in AWS. Horse shit of course, many banks in Germany do exactly that and Amazon has a nice data center in Frankfurt for that. It's one of their main sites in Europe as it is a big market and they'll comply with whatever to keep that business going.

Google Cloud is currently what we host on because it is good, cheap, and easy to use. But we have customers that don't like that at all and we are looking into dedicated setups for these customers on various German providers. They'll get the same stuff at a great premium that we will charge them for without any shame. These services are typically more expensive, harder to use, less reliable, and more poorly supported. There is no upside other than the "hosted in Germany" thing. Pay more for way less. Their choice but a huge PITA for our operations.
This. Know your tools. Try other tools even if you finally decide to keep what you are used to. But you should master any software (including your OS), any programming language, any keystroke of actions that you use everyday.

By mastering I mean, not knowing everything, but knowing more than you knew yesterday.

A pretty underrated hint about learning keystrokes : _print Cheat Sheets_ (they are available in pdf for most tools) and keep them somewhere on your desk. You will discover tons of cools tricks while waiting for things.
It would be great if you could share this via url. You don't have to store anything, just query params.

https://calendar.sharats.me?g=20220101,20220102, ....

You can save the year you're viewing as well as any highlighted dates and their color. You can fit a lot in query params or further even compress the dates.
Hetzner has entered the chat.

(They rock)
Awesome work! Reminds me of awesome-prometheus-rules but with a community behind it.

Ignore the luddites that haven’t yet realized that Discord is the rebirth of IRC, it’s a great place to host your community.
Seems like you vote for vector space embedding :) I’ve seen interesting paper about finding unknown embeddings and I think it’s important skill that AI also will poses.
I'm not saying the concept isn't real, I'm just generally skeptical of prescriptive statements such as GGP.

There are plenty of things happening around me that influence me, like kind gestures big or small, the birth of my children, learning about things (that are verifiable), which I can assure you are not staged or driven by someone.
Ha, nope. We have enough servers on prem. Colocation/cloud doesn't fit for our stuff (HPC) anyway.
> Edit: I also see this all the time in Email correspondence, you can immediately tell if a person is a native German speaker because they don't capitalize the first letter in an English email after "Dear X, we are writing <blah>"

I don’t get it, which part is supposed to be capitalized, “dear” or “we”? As a native English speaker the sentence looks correct as it’s written. Or maybe I have bad attention to detail.
Plenty providers have verification only when something seems "off" in some way. Amazon has both lots of experience and data for payment verification and the margin to absorb fraud costs that do go through, smaller providers not so much.
Your Logitech M350 is an ergonomic nightmare.

The video is really nice and every minute is worth it
The usefulness depends on whether it's an external or an internal requirement. For something Hetzner need themselves it's quite useless. If there's an external requirement to verify the identity of the customer (say to shield them in case of people renting servers for criminal purposes or whatever) then an image of your passport proves that Hetzner tried to verify your identity and that you forged a government document to trick them.

Of course today we have better methods, but Hetzner was founded in the dot.com bubble and since then focused their innovation on providing cheap and reliable servers, not on changing business processes that work (or making pretty interfaces).
Most radioactive waste disposal schemes I've heard of have been shelved because of NIMBYism. But it hasn't even been an issue, because most radioactive waste is so benign that just leaving it in storage containers on-site is fine anyway.
Came here to say this. The library of Alexandria fell into disrepair. Try not to let the same thing happen to you, or all that knowledge will be for nothing.
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Rogan is a true dipshit; it makes me feel bad that I'm adding to the negativity around Portland. I resisted doing that through the entire pandemic while everyone I knew was like "how are you still in that hell hole"... I have hope because Portland is one of the only places in America where you can still sit at a cafe and truly talk crazy political shit with people from the far left and far right at the same table, because it's also the city with the highest number of books and magazines bought per capita. You just can't do that in Dallas. So there's something to it. But it's like living in fucking Berlin, 1929. Who knows whether it'll cough out a Hitler or a Stalin.
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I think i'm even more confused. Why would my rental car need network access at all? (it's already a shame and a great source of cost/problems that it has any electronics)

Also, what prevents my TLS/SSH/whatever certs from working in an offline setup? i do that all the time without downsides, so i'm probably missing your point. if you have a page explaining your project and usecase feel free to link
> Doing that too often, without letting your serotonin rebuild, can cause serotonin syndrome.

Serotonin syndrome is when you have too much serotonin, not too little.
The second part of the comment yes. The first was about how pervasive the use of fax was within German business. But in Japan it's worst:

"Japan’s reliance on fax machines lambasted by coronavirus doctor": https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-ja...

"Japan Can't Get Rid of the Fax Machine With Offices Demanding It Stays": https://www.insider.com/japan-cant-get-rid-the-fax-machine-o...
AMD stock cooler is perfectly Ok

Mine wasn't (3400 series Ryzen CPU). Well its performance was perfectly fine, the fan noise was far louder than what I found acceptable. However instead of replacing the whole cooler I just replaced the fan and have had zero problems with either noise or cooling since.
I don't know this person that well, i just read his paper linked in this comment page that said similar things on Nordhaus to what I've already read.
> I can't spend my life taking care of people who refuse to take care of themselves.

This is how a society collapses, when people think they know who "refuses" to take care of themselves and who simply cannot.
Where do they assume that?
"Dear Ms. Smith,

We would like to inform you..."

vs

"
Dear Ms. Smith,

we would like to inform you..."
It is the same in CSS as in OOP.

Inheritance is good and nice but...

You should not build 20 layers of it. You can build really nice CSS layout where components are separated and that is idea of component frameworks. There you have maybe 2 layers of cascade and that is it.

So it is people building castles in the sand thinking they are smart, until water comes in and all is washed away.
And HN threads die and lock out after a time, there’s no long term commenting.

But for most people who have a blog and don’t have a “trusted group of commenters” the value of comments is low to nil.
Same in Romania, biggest salaries in the industry.
This is one part whataboutism and one part pointing out that multiple extremists are being extreme.
see image for my history after clicking the generate button a few times.
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3He is very sparse in the lunar regolith, maybe 10 ppb. So that's not a long term source, and extracting it would be very difficult.

I have hoped there's a "Planet X" in the outer solar system that's sufficiently small to easily land on and return to space, but large enough that it could retain some primordial helium in its atmosphere. If so, it might be the best place in the solar system to obtain the isotope, assuming a D3He fusion rocket could get out there and back quickly enough.
Electricity availability: 99.98% / month