skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read a proper justification of why the biolabs are/were there. The pro-Putin argument is that since it's paid for by the Pentagon, it must mean they're researching weapons.

Well, the Dept of Defense does more than pay for weapons, defense also means defense against things like pandemic-causing viruses or pathogens that might destroy food, that's why they're funding labs to research these things (i.e. bio threats!) in Ukraine: https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defen...

Somehow, no one's been able to explain this clearly to everyone who's claiming "US-funded bio weapons!".
Addiction and tolerance are related, but distinct.
Hey thank you. That's a great suggestion! A few other folks have also sent feedback suggesting it, and it is a good way to handle it. We have lots of work to do on the UX and working on that now. Thank you and thanks for trying out Andi and suggesting that :)
And the engine was actually licensed from iD, so it was entirely legal.
Perhaps if we squeeze these two submissions together fast enough they will fuse.
ONNX lists CoreML support.
> No reason publically given, been privately told "not about people like you, but some others have taken a 2 year vacation so management is fed up".

This is exasperating: it’s basically saying managers aren’t doing their jobs and you should pay the consequences. If someone really did goof off that much, their supervisor should be looking for a new job too.

What I suspect is that nobody did this and what you’re really hearing is that senior management are distrustful and don’t believe people are working if they don’t see them. Everywhere I’ve heard that, it’s been pure projection.

Either way, I’d reconsider leaving. You have a stable situation so you can look for a place you really like without time pressure but the respect gradient probably won’t improve unless you have C-level turnover.
layoff freeze laws have been a thing in many countries during COVID

basically not only people took a 2 years paid vacation, they also could not be fired which incentivized the more parasitic workers to work even less

I know personally of a mailwoman working in Northern Italy for Italian Postal service (a public service) that went back to her home in Sicily and never showed up at work for 9 months because she could not be laid off.

So my mother in law who's also almost blind didn't get her mail for many weeks.

Nothing we could do about it.
There were no consequences whatsoever.
Systemd 251-rc1 Released With Experimental systemd-sysupdate Tool
I don't think that's a reasonable assumption. If we allow ourselves to assume no errors, we could just assume GPT-3 makes no errors and declare it equivalent to a code interpreter.
looks like we are witnessing the moment for the future of cloud in europe
I'm seeing the same thing, showing March 29. My current time is 2022-03-30 08:14:53 EDT.
Sure, but systems aren’t designed for individual termination throughput.

It’s easy for people to game the system and turn around and claim that it’s a discriminatory practice. It’s also easy for management to cut off an employee in bad faith to drum up a case for termination.

The easiest way to weed out the assholes is to change the rules for everyone, and purge those who are insubordinate. You’ll lose a few producers, but not as many as HN would leave you to believe.
The title seems opinionated. Link does not have any indication of an AWS competition. The services are hardly close to what AWS offers.
In some U.S. cities, there's a legal requirement for every business to accept cash. One fast food place said they were only accepting cards because the manager had left and taken the cash drawer with them (not trusting the employees to handle cash?). After being reminded of the local law, which they knew, they found a couple of workarounds.
The countryside is beautiful.

Everyone in the US who formerly worked in an office is threatening to quit if they can't work remotely full time now. No one is going back to offices. Oregon is a beautiful place to move to. 99% of it is not the city of Portland.
> I more than delivered with quite a few links there.

Random URLs from the Internet do not make reputable sources.

> All of which were unique folks with unique situations.

Wrong. Various websites belong to the same person.

> It seems to me you are referring to one of these but I genuinely don't know which you are talking about.

Then do some research before posting random stuff.

> Something abundantly clear to me is that there's some serious harassment going on at Debian.

Yes, and this is why an anti-harassment team has been created.

> People are requesting secret votes to avoid harassment. So this "expelled" troll isn't the problem.

The first sentence does not imply the second.
>Censorship isn’t futile. The regimes that use and used it aren’t stupid. It works. See how Milo and Gavin McInnes just disappeared from notice once Twitter/Google/Facebook decided that it was time to bring down the banhammer.

Your 2 examples are people who are clearly not censored. Censorship have made them greater in celebrity because of the censorship. Both of them have nice long wikipedia pages and you can go read or listen to what both of them have to say.

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

By censoring these 2 people, and even naming them right now, you have made them a greater celebrity than they were ever going to be.

>Censorship works.

I honestly haven't cared to listen to either of these people, they aren't in my political sphere and they are not my political opponent. However absolutely not. These 2 examples are censorship backfiring to huge degree.
From the article:

> But we've had a pretty good definition of abstraction since 1977, originally in the context of program analysis, and — I claim — it actually translates quite well into a precise definition of “abstraction” in engineering.

So I don't think the author is saying that all these other people are "wrong", but rather that this one particular definition seems to capture the underlying essence of what we intuitively think of when we say "abstraction", and the rest of the "hodgepodge of different concepts" break down if you analyze them a bit deeper (as the author did in the "Not Abstraction" section).
Bizarro World: World Record Tetris (2007)
I have heard this argument against WFH many times over. Especially from my relatives that work in bullshit jobs (cough ... investment banking ... cough).

I wonder if people that brings up this understand what they are really saying.
Because it's not like WFH reduces the amount of promotion that goes around.
Its just have the potential of reallocating it differently.
And this means that they are afraid that they will be out competed by others that are willing to be near decision makers to influence (or rather manipulate them).

I would argue that this says more about those people than about WFH.
I'm surprised they didn't call it Silvercrest Web Services
For the totally uninitiated, what's a neural engine in general? What are they used for, and why Apple added this to their products?
That's unlikely. For a start, many people like living in the city. It's fun and their friends and family are all there. Then there's everyone with children at school so they're not going to mess with the kids' education and friendship group. Another big problem is rural broadband. I know the countryside is nice, I may well retire there, but it's not where I am now and it's only a very small number of people who like the isolation.
Yes, I agree with you and I didn't see it as a problem when we had just one day in the office - I just took into account I'll do 1/4 less than usual - but now that we have 3 days in the office, it becomes visible. It's not a huge problem, just one of these little hings that make me think about finally switching my job to one of these companies offering giving you a choice between hybrid and fully remote, meaning you can come to the office when you want/need rather than when your boss thinks you should.
Anything you get from a network interface could have been interfered with by a third party.
During the pandemic (in one of the lower case moments) I went back into the office with my Manager. It was to on-board a summer intern. I realised from that point that I needed a 100% fully remote job.

* The office was mostly empty

* The only communication was between my manager and myself and it was pointless

* There were several people in what appeared to be 8 hour long teams meetings

* None of the people who were pushing to get people back into the office were actually in the office. None of the exec team for example none of the HR or any of the older engineers

* You had bizarre rules with the mask which was you didn't need one when you are sat at the desk but moving about you need one. Not only that most people were ignoring those rules completely

* The office actually felt even more shit than what I imagined it to be

* I still needed to do the daily stand up via teams

* I didn't have a webcam / microphone at the desk so I had to use my own headset and go without the camera

* You couldn't it right next to someone and talk to them about their computer so I had to have a teams call with the intern to get them setup

* The intern forgot everything I told him as he didn't take any notes and asked me the same questions that I had already answered for the next 2 weeks

* The normal cafeteria was shut (looked permanently) so I had to drive to get my lunch

* I had forgotten that my chair was actually broken so moving from my £300 secret lab chair to a 10 year old farty broken cheap £25 office chair was a culture shock

* The toilets had every second stall blocked off (pre-pandemic) these were always full and you would often have to wait

* If the toilets had more that X people in them you had to wait in a queue outside

* Only 1 person at a time was allowed into the kitchen not sure how that was supposed to work if the office was full

* I had never noticed this before but the décor in the place was terribad. The carpet was skanky/mostly worn away. Two walls were painted headache inducing red. They had a bunch of shit art on all the walls. The plants were all either fake or dead. There was 0 natural light. The windows didn't open and were facing a 3 story brick wall.

* I felt quite breathless when I was there as you couldn't open a window the place was very stuffy and felt like the o2 levels were low

* The AC would make a loud grinding noise every 30 minutes that felt like the building was going to collapse

My overall experience was that I felt degraded like the company had "done a Will Smith" and smacked me in the face in front of everyone. I started looking for a 100% remote job immediately after this.
STACKIT totally sounds like a legitimate AWS rival. It says so right in the name!
oO "you can launch a VM here" is not really a "rival to AWS" tbh...
Is that a bigger deal than OVH or Hertzner? I'm in the US but I'm a big fan of OVH. Run all my development on a bare metal OVH server in Canada.
What's new?

France released its own DS last year.
https://www.systeme-de-design.gouv.fr
The question I have after reading this article is what makes
Helion's DD (+ D3He) approach produces much fewer (and lower energy) neutrons than DT reactors, to the extent that the first wall could become a lifetime component of the reactor.

If you want extremely low neutron production, Princeton Satellite Systems has a scheme using a field reversed configuration (like Helion) but driven by an "odd parity" rotating magnetic field. This scheme causes 3He ions to have high energy, but the D ions to not, so DD fusion is suppressed. Neutron output is claimed to be just 0.1% of the fusion output, similar to p-11B. But you'd need a source of 3He. I have a question about recovery of energy from scattered 3He ions that didn't fuse in this scheme.
Ovh and hetzner have existed for ages. And you can actually purchase services from them.
Oh, ending homelessness is a stupid priority. Giving people the education to take care of themselves if they choose to is important, but what they do with it is only my problem if they make it my problem. I can't spend my life taking care of people who refuse to take care of themselves.
And as I was recently reminded, Google's legal cost is sunk. Those lawyers are salaried Google employees. The cost to put them on this case for the ten minutes it'd take to defend is only measurable in what else they could be doing for Google.
at this point boing boing’s forum is better than their blog, without an ad blocker it’s almost impossible to read
Lidl, the company that wasted 500 million Euro to integrate their system with SAP, but failed?
> don't see why a landlord would do that as opposed to renting to someone who presumably wants it and would pay money

You’re not sure they will pay the money or not trash the place. Same reason landlords are hesitant about renting in the real world.

In any case, this would be defeated by enlisting family members as back-up primary residents. (As in the old world, when property rights were enforced at sword point, sucks to be someone without a dependable family.) Though, again, the wealthy would likely opt out of renting and favour not owning or just own a single massive house and opt out of renting.

The fraud would be in people lying about their primary residences. Also, people lying about others’ lack of primary residence to appropriate their homes for their cronies. The injured family would be homeless while fighting for their property back, which somewhat compromises their ability to engage.
Thank you! We don't have a browser extension yet. You probably noticed we don't really give much help for installing the web app as a PWA or setting it as a default search. We're receiving a lot of feedback asking us to prioritize making that easier. That's an important part of the UX we're missing right now, and we have a lot of work to do there.

We hear the feedback on this and will prioritize an extension. I haven't written one before so that should be a fun project. So hopefully coming soon :)

Thanks again for trying Andi out and asking about that!
I see a bunch of editors using ropes. Are they in any way superior to RRB trees? My gut tells me no, but ai might be missing something.
I never liked the calendar from apple if I quickly wanted to look something up.

After looking at the OP website I was already thinking this is what I want.
However after learning from you that I could also type "cal" in the terminal, mind blown.

Thank you to both of you!
So it's a bunch of cost-effective web services, and then in the middle a lathe, a chainsaw and a heated towel rail?
Basically functions are not abstractions, the data structures that functions act on are the real abstractions. Because the data structures have been planned out in a particular way, functions can manipulate them as if they were manipulating concrete entities in the business domain. Here's a bunch of relevant quotes talking about that idea (credits to https://medium.com/webdevops/data-structures-548cbea9c520)

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

- Linus Torvalds

"Fold knowledge into data, so program logic can be stupid and robust."

- Eric S. Raymond

"Data dominates. If you’ve chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming."

- Rob Pike

"Representation is the Essence of Programming"

- Fred Brooks

"One of the key attributes of a "Good" representation, is the ease in which it is transformed into other valid information the computer can process."

- https://www.cs.utah.edu/~germain/PPS/Topics/information_repr...
> What are going doing holding so much $ and costs for nothing? Everyone who realizes this also cant rush out to sell. There's already loads of empty buildings and who is buying? Nobody, you'll get wrecked.

1) how many companies actually own their buildings? i think generally it’s only the already successful companies which own instead of lease — i.e. the ones who can recover from such a hit.

2) IF the office had negative utility, then the company is harming themselves by using it. whether they’re willing to sell it or not, that fact remains.
This assumes people's stated reasons for supporting/hating things are their actual reasons. As I said in another thread: a lot of times people just grasp the closest semi-logical explanation for the decisions that makes them look decent, because in their mind of course they're a decent person.

Like some Europeans enthusiastically welcoming Ukranian refugees although they were hostile towards Middle Eastern refugees. So they rationalize by saying these are women and children, and the M.E. refugees were men who should've stayed and faced (fought) their government's bullets.

IMO the Republican's reasons for a lot of things is just to retain power. Things like voter disenfrachisement, or opposing anything the Dems wants, because if the Dems get things pushed through, and people like it, it will make them (GOP) look bad.

Will you start writing "The reason this side opposes this is because they want to sabotage it for the other side and make them look bad, who cares about the public who's getting screwed"? You won't be seeing this on Twitter...
> Having these people in the office WOULD result in more work being done.

I disagree as I think those people did no work while in the office and kept doing no work outside the office.

I worked in a building where one person had a personal laptop open, daytrading all day. Instead of working. Of course they should have worked, but they didn’t.

People will shirk work in the office and outside.

I think it’s silly to assume someone who would log into Teams and then play PlayStation wouldn’t just close their office door and play games on their iPad for hours.
Anything that hosts anything is seen as a "competitor to AWS" since some people are able to boil down AWS to a "cloud host". Admittedly they've grown to do much much more specific things, but one could argue that's the center of their offering.
> I'm glad these tools exist and do help people, though I do think the potential risks are downplayed in our society.

I have been dealing with severe akathisia from medications I took for severe depression.

I have 2 rare immune mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system plus type 1 diabetes. None of this is even remotely as bad as the akathisia.

There are people who are cancer survivors, combat veterans, rape survivors, who all say that akathisia by far takes the cake in terms of traumatic experiences.

Please if you are going to be taking psych meds of any type, get genetic testing done:

https://Genomind.com

It is covered 100% by original Medicare and/or Medicaid. So, it is not like it is some non-proven technology.

You can develop akathisia spontaneously, too, so even if you are on psych meds now, you need to get tested.
How would I know this is Lidl? It's not in the references, which are underwhelming. From the site, this is no different from dozens of other consultancy-oriented cloud providers.
That's an interesting take, because it's not "going after Krebs", it's setting the stage to recover from damages from an employee who manipulated and bullied their way into access and power by taking advantage of the trust of Ubiquiti's current and potential customers in Krebs.

They're not suing to censor a researcher or to create a chilling effect on reporting about security or their company. They have to sue to show the court, their customers, and their investors exactly how Sharp manipulated public opinion to damage the company so he could "save it", how Sharp used Krebs' authority as a security reporter to damage the reputation and trust in their brand to apply that pressure and force leadership to act in the way he wanted, and to be able to claim appropriate damages by rightfully discrediting a false and inaccurate report.

Krebs either has to weaken his own brand and admit he was played or stick to his guns that he faithfully reported. Either way, this lawsuit ensures he's got to correct the report.
That could be the reason why it's done, and maybe it's helpful in such cases.

But what if I have some "pro-grade" SSD that doesn't need this? What if I have some huge battery that lasts for 2 hours when there's only 2% left?

Point is that the user should be able to have the final word, even if the default looks to be helpful.
Another possible reason would be that there’s a hardware bug which only occurs when both are enabled. (Not saying this is what’s happening here, but it’s very common to ship partly disabled chips to work around bugs.)
More of a reason for those that used to commute to take some of their reclaimed time to take a stroll/exercise during their normal commute hours... maybe even doing some of the things they would have done in the car or on the train like making calls or listening to podcasts.

Of course I'm a hypocrite for not exactly doing this myself... instead I take a short drive to pick up coffee in the morning. There's no traffic (esp at 5am) and it's quite a beautiful location. It at least helps define somewhat of a boundary between work and home life for me.
What's even weirder is that is the low level employees that are being told to go back. The execs probably never worked fully in office even before the pandemic.

This should tell you exactly why they are asking you back and it's not "collaborating". That's an excuse. It's because they don't trust you and think you're goofing off at home.
I think they'll have a hard time finding people to staff that, Lidl has a long history of underpaying and abusing their personnel and maybe they think that if Amazon can get away with that that they qualify at some level but datacenter employees are not going to like being dealt with like that. Lidl as an employer has a trackrecord that would cause me to think twice about hosting with them, no matter what the price.

That said, being part of the same 'group' there might be enough insulation to avoid this link damaging the company, but since the Lidl connection is proudly mentioned on each page in the footer. I think that they either don't realize that it might be a risk to declare that so openly or they don't care in the same way that scammers don't care about you figuring out they are scammers, if you are offended by that then they probably don't want to hire you because you just might be aware of your market value.

For some more information about Lidl employer-employee relationships:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidl#Working_conditions_and_la...
Blog comments are great when you have a high readership, and lot of quality comments.

Otherwise, you just have a lot of ongoing maintenance. Older posts look really old with a few early comments, and then gaps. If you want to rewrite part of a post, you’re sort of stuck with those parts referenced by comments.

If it’s so tricky, and your blog is a hobby/side project, it’s just logical to have blogs on the site you control, and discussion in the wild where network effects can boost it. Then leave open channels for people to contact you personally, if you want further engagement.

The medium seems to have settled into these features for your average blogger.
Some previous LWN discussions on this approach:

https://lwn.net/Articles/642166/

https://lwn.net/Articles/802360/
it says so at the bottom of the page:

"The Schwarz Group consists of the well-known brands Lidl and Kaufland, as well as Schwarz Produktion and waste and recycling management companies."