skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can confirm, live in Tokyo, most residential neighborhoods are 30-40 dB, even with constant construction activity all over the place.
>>In all seriousness, though, aren't people mostly paid what they're worth if they know how to demand it?

Yes, but the caveat is that most people don't know how to calculate their worth relative to the organization(s) they work with/for, and of those that do, the majority probably don't know how to negotiate/ask.
No, Health care is a government institution, not a private company.
> for a simple and working CI/CD

In my experience this mostly doesn't exist. For a public open source-only project, sure, you can use a variety of free simple CI/CD solutions. But as soon as you need anything more complicated than "run a public linter on my public code", you need to add plumbing that makes it complicated.

I am very interested in making the simplest possible CI method and deployment method, but I've never been able to make or use anything that wasn't complicated. The least-complicated solution I have ever seen is Drone.io, but even that's not all that simple.
The first line below the title:

> An essay from renowned photography historian Clément Chéroux’s book “Since 1839... Eleven Essays on Photography."
I just started writing a blog and I went through this thought process then. The reason I don't have comments on the blog is that I don't want to spend time moderating, and I usually access blogs from a forum like HN or reddit, where there is already a discussion. I know there is some fraction of the community that searches for blogs directly, but the main engagement I get is from reddit, so most of the audience doesn't need a comments section.
> should be called Chrome/Windows

I think you have problems making a difference between a operating-system and user applications, sometimes the lines are blurry, but Chrome for sure is not part of the OS, but one could argue that for example a installed GCC is a user-application.

>those that do should be called Chrome/Windows

Since you installed it it's clearly no part of then distribution called windows.
> Dependent types seem like they would have to be explicitly static

Right, because they lift values into type system, those values need to be well-typed themselves. You wouldn't be able to represent gradually typed dynamic/Any value then, I think. I might be wrong though, my understanding of type theory is limited at best :)

> to get proper optimization and reduce the overhead of dynamic checking and conversion

That's probably why very few gradual type systems are taken advantage of when optimizing. Typed Racked does this, but Typed Racket disallows untyped values within the typed module. Hack probably does it, too, but I have no experience using it. Common Lisp does it with correct optimization settings. Raku does this, but Raku was written from the ground up with gradual typing in mind. There are projects that try to transpile fully-typed subsets of dynamic languages to C (can't find the link right now), but that's a bit different. Other popular gradual type systems are basically advanced linters. There's a lot of development and potential in this area though, we'll see how it pans out in a few years :)
"Innocent until proven guilty"... This sentence has zero value in Google's enforcement of their ToS, even though it is a fundamental right.
Imagine someone working in support. When an activity gets flagged it gets assigned to someone. An automated system might take action (eg shadow banking).

Given the automation that worked might process 5000 cases a day.

If the automation can resolve more cases that figure might go up to 8000.

But if there’s an appeal that takes manual review and resolution that might wear up a lot of time stick that the rate drops to 3000.

This means two things:

1. There is an impact on the metric from false positives; and

2. Having human review is still part of the system ultimately. It rather it can always be escalated to such.

Now you might say the worker might be motivated to take the least time consuming action possible even if wrong but an appeal might be escalated above then and further time spent rectifying their mistake still counts against them.
(2015)

Also, I understand that pigweed refers to lots of non amaranth species depending on your locality.
He's not wrong - that's absolutely what YouTube and online Linux commentators would do. They have their own echo chamber, just as much as any tech community. Heck, considering your past posts, it's probably something you would do.

As for transparency in hardware, it probably will become more transparent once Apple feels that it is done and a finished science. They don't want to repeat Itanium.
Fascinating! When I read the WR for Tetris was 327 lines, I realised that I was in that league, too, at the time. I never knew I was that good! I never thought about competition or even world records at that time! I remember it became boring after a few hundred lines, and I am sure I never made 800, let alone the 4988 someone else posted.

Weird...
No. It’s backed by the community on opencollective, or at least will be someday.

I have a daytime job, so I’m not doing it for the money.
I know a group of devs collaborating on a side project. Same thing happened to them. They created a new developer account for this project, worked together on it, and the app vanished off the store and dev account terminated, along with one of the developer's personal developer account.

They assumed, but don't know, it was because the developer who had his personal account suspended as well once worked for a company who was kinda scummy and went fully scummy a few years after that developer left. Somehow that was associated with him personally and then the chain of guilt made its way to them.

This seems to re-enforce that this kind of chain of guilt is a thing.
And it's not only about features that go unused, but also features that are used but only in support of workflows that improves nobody's life. Or functionality that's used but is a wildly inefficient version of what could have been.
Good points. If anything, it is underestimating situation for large part of the world. At one point I was spending 5 hours in commute (NOT USA) per day. I moved after few years but I am sure 100s of thousands people are still doing it.

The psychological toll it took on me while travelling through crushingly crowded trains and buses still terrifies me.

If large number of paper/computer workers do not have to commute, space is left for people who have to travel for more serious reasons and have their commute less unpleasant.
A model that fails to model reality is generally useless, and something one hopes to avoid encountering at work.
I find working as a software engineer very boring. But my interest in computers is still big. Personally I like to ignore all the "YOU MUST LEARN <trendy language/framework etc>" and instead learn the older but very powerful tools and languages etc, I almost have nostalgia for them even though I was too young when they were first being created - the unix tools like sed, awk etc, perl, and of course Linux itself. I love learning about and using these for small fun tasks. Basically Linux is fun.
Yes of course we propose to make them provide support against their will.

Like we force telecom companies to serve rural areas against their will.

Like we force construction companies to use safety gear and have insurance for injuries against their will.

Like we force credit companies to provide mandatory disclosures.

Like we force airlines to do what the people in the control tower tell them to do.

And so on. The entire concept of a corporation is a legal fiction, a privilege granted by the state that enables them to pretend they even have something analogous to free will. Without the consent of the state companies wouldn’t exist at all. Maybe we should do a better job of reminding them of that.
I may have misinterpreted the explanation given in the post. It sounded to me like a developer they'd employed violated the TOS on their personal Google dev account. Google then recognised a connection between the dev and another Google account belonging to a company and opted to suspend that as well.

To use your example, that would be like an employee getting their bank account frozen for something they'd done in their personal life, and then the company having their bank frozen too for depositing money into the employee's account.
Books don't have comment sections either. Neither do plays. Do you think everyone who writes a book or stages a play does so only because of ego? Some do, surely, but many just have information or insight or entertainment they want to make available to others. In some subset of those cases, the incremental value of adding comments is nil (or worse). Maybe it's those who do crave comments who are blogging out of nothing but ego ... or maybe such dismissiveness is just generally ill considered.
This so much. I started doing UX and web design as a teenager and only later learned to code. This now helps me tremendously because I learned valuable lessons: In UX/UI design, you usually do like 10 variations of your design if you're not satisfied. This fixation on details often forces you to forget about the hole picture. In the end, you have to take a step back and try out other completely different approaches.
Memory lane. Way back in the mists of time, circa 2004 or 5 I wanted to learn about search indexing. I was a pre-rails ruby head and translated a large portion of lucene's index code into ruby as a learning exercise. The result was abysmal and somewhat wonky, but I did learn a bunch. Both about lucene and ruby's FFI.

Reading and translating code is such a great way to internalize a concept that you're unfamiliar with, while getting a glimpse into someone else's mental model.

Lots of people tell you to read code, but it's hard to overstate the power of filtering a codebase through your brain and out your fingertips.
I'd suggest following Bret Cannon's Syntactic Sugar series. It's an awesome overview of what goes behind different Python data structures.

https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/
...that was the feedback, and "this is probably legal" isn't relevant (assuming it's true).
"they can't guarantee that our screen setup at home is safe and we haven't completed a "Data Display Device Setup and Handling" course"
- I work for a small company so pardon my ignorance here but...ergonomically safe?? Please god tell me it's something more than that. Like some sort of security measure. What's so hard about flipping open a laptop and using a VPN?
Have you noticed that everyone who lives in the city in their 20s is saving up to buy a house? Not “a big apartment downtown”, a house. The dream is still a house and that implies suburbia.
Unraveling the Mystery of Parrot Longevity
https://www.youngmoney.co

https://tldr.tech

https://tldr.tech/crypto

https://doomberg.substack.com/

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
> openness, transperancy and clarity in the process

But that's what a public court gets you.
Apple’s stock is having its best winning streak since 2003
> If the only purpose you have in a job is to put on uncomfortable clothes and socialize I think we can go ahead and eliminate that job.

if you remove the human aspect and insist on framing the issue like that, can't we say the same thing for almost any job?

- If the only purpose you have in a job is to boost your ego and brag I think we can go ahead and eliminate that job.

- If the only purpose you have in a job is to chose the colors in an excel spreadsheet cells I think we can go ahead and eliminate that job.

- If the only purpose you have in a job is to do something a machine can do better I think we can go ahead and eliminate that job.

- If the only purpose you have in a job is to farm kind animals to later cruelly kill them I think we can go ahead and eliminate that job.

- If the only purpose you have in a job is to make money for yourself I think we can go ahead and eliminate that job.

...

not a great analysis if you ask me.
I agree.

That's why I prefaced with:

> You might read, that I am cynical regarding politics in my country

Anyone who trades with slavers lost his credibility. Everyone trading with warlords as well.

Either the Greens are a party of values (I don't have to share those) or they are a party of opportunists.

There are shades of grey. I attest to that. But being a pacifist and a humanist I can't accept dealing with either one (Putin as a war mongering statesman or the Qatar government embracing slavery as a Form of doing business).

When the Greens agreed for Germany to take part in an unconstitutional war in former Yugoslavia I was aghast. Nowadays I see it more differentiated. There was no way to ensure an UN peace mission. And we could either stand by an watch genocide or act.

There are other options now than to throw money at slavers imho. That's why I am being cynical.
Why were only landlords impacted here? Why didn't grocery stores have to just give away food? Why wasn't gasoline free?

Why would grocery stores and gas stations have to give their products away in order to maintain a quarantine? I don't understand that point.
The VMs described in the article are (faithfully) emulating real hardware lacking unpredictable timers or other sources of entropy. It’s not exclusively a VM problem; it’s a weird/old hardware problem, too.
I don't understand. My comment is to show that a catalyst can be a cause. How is everyone else reading it?
Debian's name is "Debian GNU/Linux" though, I don't think anyone refers to it as "Debian Linux".
Retirees who live on cruise ships
I use Fedora+Gnome, and I haven't ever felt that I am being told what to do. Plus you can totally just install Fedora with a different desktop if that is the case.
> SQL was not then, and is still not now, a very good blob or document storage system. Yet, there seemed to be no alternative to SQL for durability, short of relying directly upon the filesystem.

Yep, because it's a query language.
There are problems with how transparent you make things though (i.e., giving away the underlying signals). There’s a moving target between fraudsters and risk teams at companies where the fraudsters will try to run just up to the edge of alerting systems without passing over, then scale and repeat it.

If the signals used are made public, fraudsters will win every time. It’s the same with search engines- if they publish how a score is calculated, people will game it immediately.

Maybe the signals should be required to go through a review with authorities? Idk.
Understandable critique, but I absolutely love a lot of Grafana’s redundant offerings. For example, operationally speaking it is drastically simpler to set up a scalable Grafana Tempo instance than Jaeger, in my opinion. Grafana offering competent object storage backends for their software has made them dramatically easier to operate and maintain.

That’s also another thing: a decent amount of Grafana software (Mimir, Loki, Tempo…) are OSS, so while they definitely are using those softwares in their paid offering, they absolutely still benefit OSS users. I’m messing with Tempo for telemetry in my (admittedly embarrassingly weak) home lab endeavors and it’s pretty cool.
I think there’s a big difference which is that your computer is allowed to crash when one component breaks whereas a distributed system is typically more fault tolerant.
I think it is due to account level access. They tried claiming they hadn't been associated with them for 3 years but then admit that the developer had access to their account as recent as Dec 2021. Let's say this developer did something really dirty like stole user data and then Google finds out this developer still has app store permissions through this other company account.

I think Google handles these situations terribly from a PR perspective, because the moment someone posts negative publicity would be the perfect time to Google PR to show their hand and say no they are misleading the public.

There is probably a good reason they don't do that though. I could see how a company isn't really responsible for what another developer did that they may have not known about, but I don't think we are getting the full story here.
The main difference is that with your bank, in case you get locked out, you can call them or even go to a physical office where they'll attend you, and you, maybe, are able to fix this false positive case, even if from detection point of view is a justified one.

For Google, good luck if you get in contact with a person.
If they ban your account and you don’t know why
Did you say you had an economics degree?

> Incentives matter. The most famous example in economics is the idea of the demand curve—when something gets more expensive, people buy less of it. When it gets less expensive, people buy more of it.

> Some find this bedrock principle of economics hard to accept, based on introspection. “When the price of gas goes up, I still buy gasoline,” says the skeptic. Or in its more extreme form: “You need gasoline, so people will keep buying it even when it gets more expensive.”

> You may still buy gasoline when it gets more expensive. But you will try and find ways to buy less. Not necessarily zero, less.

> Thinking about how people respond to the incentive of the higher price opens up a world of possibility beyond the cold turkey of going without. When gasoline gets more expensive, some people car pool, some people drive at slower speeds, some try and combine multiple errands into one trip. Let the price of gasoline rise enough and be expected to stay higher for a long enough period of time and some people will buy a car that gets better mileage, move closer to work or postpone or cancel that order for the pleasure boat that takes $400 to fill its tank when gasoline is $3 a gallon.

> Not everyone will do all of these things. Some people will do very few of them. But the overall effect of an increase in the price of gasoline is to discourage the purchase of gasoline.
oh i see now thanks .. was not obvious that these images were clickable or had alt-text with name & title
Companies originally were given charters by the government, and limited liability for their owners, in order to perform a public good. Over time that "public good" part seems to have been completely forgotten about.

So now do we say that companies have the innate right to make profit without any regard for the public good? That profits are more important than what voters in a democracy want?
Good question! Grafana Mimir guarantees read-after-write. If a write request succeed, the metric samples you've written are guaranteed to be queried by any subsequent query.

Mimir employes write deamplification: it doesn't write immediately to the object storage but keeps most recently written data in-memory and/or local disk.

Mimir also employes several shared caches (supports Memcached) to reduce object storage (S3) access as much as possible.

You can learn more here in the Mimir architecture documentation:
https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/operators-guide/archit...
Yes, that’s been Thomas’s position for many years[1]. And I mostly agree with him on that.

[1]: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-rando...
Heh. True.

Let me try again...

Bullshit is hard to translate. Culturally, German branding may have comparatively less bullshit. And therefore less compulsion to translate nuance. Just describe what the product does.

Amazon recruiting will say stuff like "code ninjas needed to invent future!" Versus "get beaten like a rented mule for two years, to make Bezos even more rich, then fall over dead". (How would one translate either version?)

This LIDL/Schwartz pitch, perfectly normal for America, comes off kinda weird, like maybe satire, from a German company.
There's a Twitter account that has our company name, but it hasn't been used for a decade, and has only one Tweet. I'd love to pay Twitter to talk to them, so we can take over the account. Maybe they have a process for this anyways? I don't know. All I know is this account gets tagged all the time by people trying to tag our company.
Okay, but why? I am using Thanos today. It works, it's complex, when it breaks, it's a bit of a challenge to fix, but it happens. It doesn't break often.

It does the job. Mimir, which is based on Cortex, using either Mimir, or Cortex, what benefit am I getting?

I get asked every few months about moving off of Thanos to Cortex, and today now Mimir, and I don't have any substantial reason to do so. It feels like moving for the sake of moving.

I need to see some real reasoning as to why I am going to add value to move everything to Mimir.
> if you had a bank account shared between your developers, and someone who left the company started using it for money laundering, the entire account would be shut down and you would not be getting that money back. In fact, you might even be investigated by authorities for money laundering since it ran through your account.

I don't see how that analogy applies here. It would be more like if someone who had access to the shared bank account was using their own personal bank account for money laundering.

The developer wasn't breaking ToS on the company account, it was their own personal developer account. Quote from the reddit post:

> Our company used to have several employees with access to the business's Play Console, and one of them recently had done something wrong with "his own personal" Google Play Developer account.
Armless fossil sheds light on how animals like snakes lost their limbs
It’s digital advertising, not social media that is the competition.
I think the long-term consequences of the shift to remote and WFH are going to be fascinating.

- we need to redesign our homes, because every working adult needs a study/workspace that is quiet (and preferably not their bedroom)

- we need less office space, and probably don't need an office at all. Commercial real estate is going to hurt

- we need less transport infrastructure. If the Rush Hour stops being a thing, that has huge implications for transport planning (and business models)

- we can hire from different regions/countries/cultures. This has been happening over the last 20 years or so, but it steps up a notch with remote teams.

- we don't need to live near a city any more. Rural villages with decent wifi are viable again.

- "management by walking around" stops working. We actually have to measure employee output, rather than how long they moisten the chair for.

Any more?
Sears is free to say what they want on their website or distribute leaflets. That's not the same thing as donating cash.
CFS has an interesting design for that, too. MIT demonstrated joints in REBCO tape that don't introduce significant resistance. By putting these joints in the coils, CFS has a design that will let them open up the reactor and replace the inner wall annually. The inner wall will be 3D-printed, and immersed in a pool of molten salt that functions as coolant and breeding blanket.
Plenty of people use Twitter for commercial purposes.

It's also a big part of many people's social lives these days (like it or not).
You have misunderstood the issue,
This video also shows a live migration from Cortex to Mimir (running in Kubernetes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaGxTcJmzBw&ab_channel=Grafa...