skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sanctioned or not, Russians abroad find their money is 'toxic'
So that's basically what I described, which is something people understand because that's how it usually works. So again, I would drop "lifetime" and do as I suggested.

> The website and app state this everywhere possible

Hmm, I went to the website, clicked "buy lunar pro", got the pop-up that says "lifetime license + 1 year of free updates" without any further explanation.

If you need to explain your licensing then you're doing something wrong, anyway, when your product is aimed at the general public.
There are no panaceas in technology stacks, but it does shock me sometimes how teams blindly jump to React (and sometimes Next) just due to perceived popularity and don't actually do any analysis on what their problem points are, and whether it would make sense for them.
3He has almost exactly the availability of tritium, around here, because (almost) every last atom of tritium you manufacture will, in pretty short order, become 3He, unless you go fusing it first.

It seems likely that the atmosphere of Neptune has a useful fraction of 3He. But you need to get there first, with apparatus to collect it. For that, you probably need a fusion rocket, and 3He to burn in it.
Bull. My company has posted the highest sales and profits in it's multi-century history during the pandemic years.

This idea that people were slacking off during COVID is a myth.
Except microplastics are found all over the world and obesity epidemics only on certain countries.
Fully agreed! And this:

> That said, I like the attempt to introduce names for different flavours of abstraction to make discussion easier. That's definitely useful.

Is the real value of this article.
But can't the same be said for Rolex as long as you're not after their more popular stainless steel sport models?

While not "easy" per se, you could probably score a precious metal or two-tone Rolex at a dealer without a ridiculous amount of difficulty. I'd say you could get a SS Oyster Perpetual or DateJust (barring certain exceptions - i.e. the Tiffany dial) without too much difficulty too, unless things have changed drastically in the past few months.
Forefront of technical challenges? Are you effin' kidding me? That website that can't get its shit together for 15+ years I use it. Constantly and consistently there are tons of bugs in its behavior. Doubling comments, missing pictures, can't create photo albums, then they are created twice, site unavailable, some parts of site not working, feed not loading, videos not playing, back button almost completely broken. I could go on and on and on. Any browser, anytime.

I've never ever experienced any other popular system/service so broken.

I am sure behind it all is complex overengineered cathedral of frameworks, systems and libraries. Some of it may be even cool. But the final result is piece of shit, no matter how I look on it, no matter how many chances I give it.

Compared to quality of say various google apps is... well incomparable. So yeah, having this on resume is underwhelming, even without looking at moral topics.
I seems "killed by Google" deserves a broader meaning.
I should have put more emphasis on "as we know them." I think think cities will exist for sure, and they might be better. So I agree with you there, and I actually hope the same.

But modern cities have had two phases: first industrial growth, and more recently white collar/information worker city cores. Industry will still exist, but has already moved further out from city centers and cores. Currently, the life blood of large cities is closely tied up with the mega corps having their ego towers there and thus attracting innumerable highly paid workers which then spend their money in those city cores. With that going away and/or substantially changing, cities will change drastically too.
When I need formated code in docs or slides, I use the copy/paste with style capability of browsers.
It works from rendered content but also from IDE.
Nope, in EU pipes are very well insulated inside the walls. It's to prevent condensation and mold formation.
Do you know if webmentions do anything against spam or if they just defer that problem until the technology gets popular enough for spammers to catch on?
We need legislation forcing companies to manually review algorithmic decisions that impact people's lives - there has to be a proper appeals process.

It's simply not economical for many companies to deal with the long tail of false positives, so they don't. Google has billions of users, and if their algorithms are 99.999% right about bans, their metrics look great but that's still tens of thousands users wrongfully banned.

I'm not usually a fan of government intervention but this is such a no-brainer for regulation.

With how much our modern lives are dependent on services like Google's, they effectively become utilities and should be regulated as such.
If you have a priori knowledge of the schema (say, mapping to/from classes) you can convert anything. You don't even need something like JSON, you could just have a binary format and IDL.

JSON self-describes booleans, numbers, strings, arrays, objects, and null. This is especially convenient when working with dynamic or ambiguous structures, and working in dynamically typed languages. Timestamp is sufficiently common and useful that it should be added to that list.

If you mean ".NET parser pattern matches strings and converts them dynamically" - that's the same horrible behavior yaml parsers have and it causes endless trouble. Imagine parsing titles of posts and some clever author makes a title that matches the timestamp format.
Here’s what’s sad about this; TikTok was a product clearly built for “younger” users (Gen Z, younger millennials) the same way Facebook was in the aughts for its youthful cohort (older millennials). Facebook then evolved their product and made massive inroads with older audiences, sending their value and userbase soaring… point.

But in doing so Facebook left younger users underserved they chose TikTok. And now to paper over their product failure they’re crying to the government.
Unsure if we have evidence that microplastics build up in our food supplies and bodies at the same rate across the world, especially if this is the first study to even detect microplastics in the body.
Another example of why we should be opposing app-store-centric computing.
Not quite stars, but this is super duper close:

https://www.random.org/

> RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs.
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The most frustrating thing about reviews in like Amazon and similar is that they are written barely after the product has been bought. Like, how is one supposed to evaluate a brand new product?

I think it’s time to start a new kind of product review: the exit review. Let's reflect upon how a product performed over its duration of service instead of when it first arrived and people haven’t spent much time with it to learn the quirks.

That's why I'm building exitreviews.com to change the way people review products. We can then build a collection about where things break and how to fix them. We can then learn how to identify cheap products, keep corporations accountable, and start caring about the amount of waste we produce.

Aside from adding a product when it breaks, I also let users add it when they buy it. They then receive a yearly reminder of the products they have added and if they want to update their status ("hey there, did anything break or deteriorate? Click here if the condition is unchanged")

Of course, reviews like this are all hindsight, so they don't drive sales - which probably explains why nobody does them, because there's no money to be made doing them.
> Basically functions are not abstractions, the data structures that functions act on are the real abstractions

Maybe, but this is not at all what the article is arguing, however.
Interpreter? Sure. That interpretation is not "equivalent to executing the code", though.

Imagine a C compiler that does aggressive optimizations - sacrificing huge amounts of memory for speed. On one hand, it even reduces computational complexity, on the other it produces incorrect results for many cases.

GPT-3 as presented here would be comparable to that. Neither are equivalent to executing the original code.

Meanwhile, the result of something like gcc is, even if it runs on a computer with faulty RAM.
We cannot continue to allow big tech to provide these walled gardens with zero recourse. It's turning slowly into a Gibson-esque dystopia as they continue to set the rules under the guise of contracts and EULAs with a shadow legal system.

If it needs to be more expensive to publish and buy apps, so be it. This is unsustainable.
At least one is already using it https://www.honic.eu
I'm all for Bezos-focussed conspiracy theories, but I don't think you need a conspiracy theory to explain negative coverage of Facebook.
Escalating to Google 2nd level support, ( a.k.a.: Hacker News ) is a starting point.
Maybe they are consumed with ethics, rather than politics. As this article (and many others) explains, Meta does not act in an ethical manner with their actions towards users, the government, competitors, etc.

Why wouldn't a future employer take that into account?
Businesses should be measuring results before process. Not that process is unimportant, but especially with ICs, process can vary dramatically.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30771057, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30811297.
How does that make sense? Unix time is basically a stopwatch that someone started a long time ago. How would a leap second matter?
What a time to be alive. Some people spend considerable amount of time and money to delist themselves from google, yet others get it with 0 effort.
Your computer is a distributed system
(1) Facebook has consistently acted on a partisan basis supporting Republicans and right-wing causes as much as it can. Any normal company would have thrown Sheryl Steinberg under the bus for funding anti-semitic conspiracy theories but that kind of stuff is at the DNA core of Facebook. (2) That doesn't mean TikTok isn't toxic.
Isn't "overrepresented" another way of saying that each individual voter living in a rural area has effectively more voting power then it's counterpart living in a metropolis?

Thats why I'm stating it as a fact,as it sounds like very simple logical connection. It could be a misunderstanding on my part, but it always sounded like a very straightforward situation to me.
That hasn't been my experience at all. I use Autotools on all of my personal projects that are C or C++, and I deal with all kinds of build systems in my day-job doing embedded Linux work.

Autotools goes to extreme lengths to maintain portability across Unix-like systems. That's kind of its whole deal, and it's the reason why people choose it. It's also better at cross-compliation than any other build system I've used.

There are lots of packages out there that have some kind of ./configure script or a Makefile. But they're not all fully Autotoolized, not by a long shot.
What issues have you seen with Grafana alerting?

I'm curious because in my view it works so well that we abandoned alertmanager for Grafana alerts only well before v8.
Here we go again. Another day, another termination by Google Play.

The reason? None. The same as this one: [0]. Robots at Google once again de-platforming apps because they can and for no reason.

Like YouTube, Google will not change and it will only get worse. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30824079
It's very hard to actually demonstrate without a doubt, but a lot of the blog spam you see basically has a very clear numbers station vibe. No links, just fairly obviously machine generated word salad.
Electromagnetically. Slowing down the nuclei puts their kinetic energy into the magnetic field.
6 degrees of separation. Everyone is associated with everyone else, so basically Google should shut down itself at this point.
Why doesn’t HN have botspam then?
This has been my observation over the last 20 years. I truly enjoy socializing and collaborating in person. I usually worked from home once or twice a week before the pandemic. It was a fantastic convenience as I lived an hour from my office. Once the pandemic hit we were fully remote. At first I thought, "see? we're more productive, this is truly better". As time wore on, I can see why a hybrid approach might be a better solution. I have never seen a more disengaged engineering staff. We gather weekly on Zoom for a general "shoot the breeze talk about tech" conversation and 95% of the cameras are off. Those folks are completely silent. That's their choice of course but it makes the work environment very lonely. I've tried to rile my team up to go into the office once in awhile for whiteboarding sessions/collaboration but they're simply not interested. So, perhaps your assumption is true. Engineers, for the most part, do not want to socialize, they simply want to do their work and get paid. The only problem I have here is, I feel our product suffers due to lack of collaboration.
Just to add: pill form doesn't necessarily mean it's not pure MDMA; on the other hand, powder or crystal form doesn't mean it's pure MDMA. When buying illegal substances from unknown sources, the truth is you don't know what you are taking, period.
I'm really unsure why people still decide to build their companies under Google products
Nice. Thank you for sharing. I was just talking to someone about this, this past week.

I think most people (mentally stable people) should try psychedelics at least once in their lives. The people who need to do it the most are the people in positions of power. (Political leaders, CEOs, etc.)
Because Republicans have never been butchers of justice. /s

They both suck and do shitty things, but despite me voting third party almost every primary and election (when possible), they've managed to convince everyone else that it's a wasted vote so no one else does, so we're stuck with choosing between a giant douche and a turd sandwich, to quote a classic South Park episode.
4 Feb 2022 - Termination of my personal account (Ali Nadalizadeh)

This is pretty horrific!
I don't know the answer to this question, but living in Germany and interacting with their products, I'd say they are pretty good at what they do -- for consumers. I don't use Amazon since years, but recently had to and was shocked that it's basically impossible to find anything, just hundreds of products and no way to filter through anything. Their competition is way ahead of them. So I don't know if this translates to IT / cloud / etc, but it's not like they are completely clueless.

And as others have noted it's not just Lidl, this group owns also Kaufland which also swallowed up another chain (Real) recently. So they are huge.
Because unix time isn't a stopwatch that someone started a long time ago. Leap seconds change unix time because unix time is tied to UTC.
Habana has their own SynapseAI layer that their TF/PyTorch port runs on. Custom ops are supported too, via a compiler targeting the TPCs, using a C language variant.

Oh, and they have an open-source UM software stack for those but it's really not usable. Doesn't allow access to the systolic arrays (MME), only using the TPCs is just _starting_ to enumerate what it doesn't have. (but, it made the Linux kernel maintainers happy so...):

https://github.com/HabanaAI/SynapseAI_Core#limitations (not to be confused with the closed-source SynapseAI)
I've been worried of feeling the same. Now, I try to do software dev at companies whose product isn't software. Currently, that is souvenir manufacturing automation. The job is producing the simplest software that speeds up the production process. No need for fancy modern UIs, no need for subscriptions, no need for handling large amounts of private user data... it's nice. Much more gratifying than working at <insert-generic-big-tech-company-here>.
Pingu is quite good, and Plonsters too. I think both of them are available on YouTube.
Yep, my experience as well. I'd say (in keeping with the article's terms) that the intermediately-experienced tend to overuse indirection, but underuse abstraction.
Balloon Propaganda Campaigns in Korea
Upvoting for the same reason, although it does feel a bit counterintuitive to upvote such a horrible story.
Two low end Hetzner/OVH Boxes for redundancy should do the trick
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Just like anyone else having datacenters in Germany. AWS and Hetzner come to mind. Even though end customer electricity prices are among the highest not just globally but especially within Europe electricity prices for businesses with high demand are generally much lower and even ignoring that electricity prices won't have much of an effect on product prices.
Because of leap seconds, Unix time is also only valid for leap-seconds that the program knows about: in effect, only dates set in the past before the program (or system) was last updated to take new leap seconds into account.
My thought is that is could be time to try sending something like this to Russia
Samo Burja Interview: Russia, Ukraine, and the Emerging Global Order
With all the information out there, people crave for a cohesive narrative that will bring sense into their world.
Good insights in this interview.
The focus on Asia, specifically China, as a uniquely threatening force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril .
So far the “fixes” for capitalism have all made things worse. But no doubt the next idea we try will fix things!
There are Helm charts available for all Grafana products so if you already run a Kubernetes cluster and have spare capacity you can just throw it up there. Loki supports shipping logs to GCS/S3 natively and Prometheus can use Cortex (also available as a Helm chart) to do the same. Once you throw Grafana behind SSO and implement a backup cronjob you're done until you reach scale and have to start deploying/scaling individual components separately.

I implemented most of the above using Terraform on a managed DigitalOcean cluster on a Saturday a few months back; it wasn't super-hard. Alternatively you could rent a few VPSes someplace and use k3s or similar to get an unmanaged cluster.
The Western Sahara Conveyor Belt
Obviously, every HNer religiously reads and memorizes PG’s mediocre essays.

There’s no way you could hold the opinion that PR and influence pervade our society, without having read “Submarine”.
GDPR Art. 22: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/

But that's only part of it. A business account might not fall within these rules, and Google can enforce them anyway (after human review) with very little recourse available.

Breaking the App store duopoly is the solution.
Hmm good point. I guess you need entropy for a nonce.
The article paints a picture of playing shows at an absolutely insane frenetic pace, averaging two shows a days for months at a time, in unfamiliar places, not even knowing the language, with demanding and wildly varying audiences. Having been in a band and gigging around my local town, a bit, I can’t even imagine touring in another country and doing multiple shows per day month after month - especially as a fresh band just starting out and barely knowing the instruments. There’s no question this ‘trial by fire’ would have killed some bands and propelled others. While it’s true that some act or another would make it, it’s also true that the spoils may have gone to one of the bands that was working the hardest and trying the most things. In HN parlance, what they did was a huge extended and very hands-on A/B test, gathering a lot of data to figure out what works and what doesn’t. I guess my point is to at least somewhat acknowledge that they really put in the work, and not frame it as pure luck.
I didn’t know CNET created any internal tech.
I will say this once again: App Stores are too important in the current world to be left to the mercy of some big Internet company. I agree they should get a cut due to them being both the creators and maintainers of their platforms, but their ability to regulate what's in them should be left to a third party or government agency, just like trade is not left to its own devices and has regulators. Apple and Google are way too powerful for their own good.
Study improves understanding of superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene
Basic debugging knowledge is helpful, but I've found the ability to think about distributed, networked systems all the way down at the system level to be extremely helpful. We all encounter systems that are ill-documented, or complete black boxes, but peering at them with tools like `strace` / `jstack` (when a service is doing something itself with data) and `tcpdump` (when a service is asking another service to do something) opens up all sorts of possibilities.

Yes, distributed tracing tools do a much better job of this, but it's not always a given that a service will be instrumented. The generic tools (almost) always work.
> I can't think of a German lifestyle product or consumer brand

NIVEA, Braun, Miele, Bosch, Birkenstock, various chocolates ... and so on. Lots of marketing in awkward English.
Depending on how flat your organization is, this would be a job killer in many companies. Your CEO may grant you WFH, but all of the execs you report to will be aware of you going over their heads. Depending on how much political capital you have, this can be very risky.
So, are we rating whole cities? I don't really see the point. It's like nomadlist but with less data.

(sorry for being negative, but that's how I am)
> There are plenty of things happening around me that influence me

You’re being really pedantic with those examples - obviously, they weren’t talking about events like the “birth of a child”…
Share the "previous emails" they sent you, you either ignored them, or you know what you did wrong and are trying to play the innocent actor

Hard to judge without having all the data in hand
> Ignore the luddites that haven’t yet realized that Discord is the rebirth of IRC

Can I start hosting my own homeserver now?
similar treatments are now available with ketamine.
"Cash.app" had no name recognition for me and frankly the name sounds gimmicky. I hassumed it was some fly by night thing, but okay, thanks for informing me it has a longer history and large company behind it. Still, being free, it either presently has a revenue strategy (ie commercial surveillance), or it will inevitably pivot to one down the line.

> As soon as the government receives them they enter the permanent records of surveillance valley.

Uh no, US tax records are not public data, nor available for the surveillance industry to buy AFAIK. It's unavoidable that the government gets them, but the fewer parties that get mine the better.
I agree. These walled gardens wouldn't be the end of the world if you could actually talk to a human customer service person to resolve these issues. The problem is that companies are willing to use algorithms that are 95% correct because it's good enough for them, but that ignores that it's screwing over a percentage of their customers.
3He is exactly as available as T, tritium. Any tritium you don't burn becomes 3He on a perfectly predictable schedule.
Communicating sequential processes for multithreading (usable in all languages that support threading and blocking data-transfer-structures).
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With GDPR, it is seemingly illegal to host anything in the US, though (or anything with PII) - so that is one (forced) upside to these types of services.
It's because of heavy taxation, but the industries pay a lot less since they get taxed less.