skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you operate them at 33%, that is equivalent to their power output costing 3x as much, because it costs the same to build and run, 33% or 100%. But their output is already not competitive at 100%. Power offered at more than 3x the going rate finds no bidders. Your debt service demands revenue from sales of 100% output.

You have to take whatever you can get for the power, even if it doesn't cover operating cost, to pay down the capital you spent building. When it becomes clear that you cannot bring in enough to pay for operations and debt service, you have no choice but to declare bankruptcy.

Of course, all this is foreseeable. So, you don't get the capital to build at all, because who wants to loan money that will predictably be defaulted on?
If you end up buying a ticket you found in skyscanner on the same device then they'll (often) attribute, or partially attribute, that sale to the ad view even if you didn't click (obviously only if you aren't adblocking or if they're getting around your blocking).
PowerShell also has a weird default encoding when piping.
This is called “Blockbusting”. Wonderful.
NAT Gateway and a bunch of our other fancy networking gadgets are based on a thing publicly called Hyperplane, and at the end of the day it's just EC2 instances. I'm skeptical that we'd ever use T series instances for this kind of thing for multiple reasons, but there are efforts to move internal systems to Graviton.

The reason for the hourly cost is a bit subtler than that, but we are working on the cost of this stuff.

(Source: Work at AWS.)
I'm not a lawyer. I'm just saying that the CFAA is extremely broad.
I have yet to work with an external recruiter (not an in-house one) that wasn't horrible at their job. I'm aware of how much a recruiter can make when placing someone and it's surprising to me that the world of recruiters doesn't look more like real estate (where repeat business is their bread and butter). I wish I had friends/coworkers who could recommend a competent recruiter but I've only ever heard horror stories from them as well.

All recruiters I've worked with have the following failings:

1. Zero, and I mean zero, knowledge of anything technical and/or related to tech. They will fumble/mixup frameworks and languages constantly. I'm not asking for deep knowledge but it's not hard to learn about the big frameworks (just the names and generally what they do "frontend framework", "backend framework", "ORM") and google is free.

2. Terrible communication. They will ghost you or miss scheduled calls and then come up with sob stories of why they couldn't even send a text/email letting you know they wouldn't be able to make the meeting

3. Liars. They will lie about any and everything to try to place you. Have a tiny blurb about a lang/framework on your resume? They will mis-represent you as an expert and/or they will lie to you about what a company is looking for.

4. This is a part-time gig at best for them. Before I learned all recruiters were terrible I tried contacting a recruiter I had talked to in the past when I was looking for a new job, of course they weren't doing recruiting anymore. There must be massive turnover in this industry.

5. Lazy. 2 jobs ago I literally handed the recruiter the company I wanted to work for on a silver platter. I was young and native and thought I needed to go through a recruiter even though I knew the company was hiring. They failed at the simple task of handing the company my resume. I ended up contacting the company directly and was hired within a week. I never heard from that recruiter again, they didn't even follow up.

I know that real estate has high turnover as well but there /are/ good agents out there. Do good recruiters even exist (not talking in-house)? Every time I switch jobs I consider quitting tech and just becoming a tech recruiter because they are all so terrible and I know I could do better.
I infer that it means "small and hard to kill".
WSL isn't a shell. You install any shell you want inside WSL. I use fish.
There's a lot less fish in the ocean then there used to be, will be a while before you're feeding your tribe with one of these
> it's mostly going to have to build that on top of areas that are currently full of single family detached. This is not going to make current denizens of those "nice neighbourhoods" happy, naturally.

They're not happy with megatowers. They're ok with missing middle (townhouses).

There is a whole stretch of roads being bought out and converted to missing middle that leads to downtown. (Oak, Cambie).
Note, for folks familiar with auto engines (that are overwhelmingly one spark plug per cylinder), avgas piston engines are overwhelmingly two plugs per cylinder, so there are two flame fronts to cover the wildly larger radius pistons.

An IO-550 is a very common 6-cylinder aircraft engine. 550 cubic inches (just over 9 liters) of displacement from 6 cylinders (5.25” bore x 4.25” stroke, redline typically 2700 RPM).
I think you would be surprised by the treatment endured by even the most well-off people of color. I know a guy who's very financially successful, lives in an expensive neighborhood, drives a luxury car, wears expensive "professional" clothes, and so on. He still talks about repeatedly getting pulled over either for a clearly made up reason (e.g tail light being out when it's clearly not) or for no stated reason at all.
Hahaha holy shit that was not something I was ever expecting to hear! If you've got any questions about it you'd like to put some answers in the archive, send an email to egypt@urnash.com.
> the company only generated $600K in revenue in 2021

Ain't none of the investors catch this ... ? Losing money is one thing, but this seems to me as really low growth right?
Google has figured out a "legal" way to monetize one company's trademark to that company's competitors. Really makes a mockery of the trademark system.

I'd imagine if google didn't have such well financed lobbyists and lawyers, there would have been legal concessions years ago to eliminate this practice.
Workers in the field of logic made steady progress in shortening the axioms throughout the 20th century, after Alfred N. Whitehead's axiomatization in 1898. Edward Huntington reduced it to three axioms using fourteen instances of two operators (OR and NOT) in 1933. Herbert Robbins conjectured it could be reduced to thirteen instances of those operator but could not prove it. Alfred Tarski also investigated and could not prove it. In 1967, Carew Meredith proved the axiomatization could be reduced twelve instances of OR and NOT (with only two axioms). Later, Meredith shows it could be reduced to two axioms with ten instances of a single operator (NAND). Several single-axioms systems were later found, but they were very long axioms. William McCune proved the Robbins conjection in 1996. And finally Wolfram and McCune apparently independently discovered and proved that the shortest possible single-axiom has only six instances of a single operator (NAND).

That this list of workers includes names like Whitehead and Tarski suggests that this was in fact something that (some) significant people did care about. I'm not sure how much value to give to this heuristic, but every name on the list of workers above is an 'important enough person' to have their own Wikipedia article. Certainly when I look discrete math classes in university, this was discussed as if it was an interesting topic (and I personally was interested).
> there was a flight of the smart people out to the early PC graphics card industry causing serious brain drain in the company

Yeah, I can imagine you could count on the fingers of your hands, the number of people could, back then, design 3D acceleration hardware, so it must have been a pretty exclusive club in the Bay Area at the time where everyone in this field knew each other, I can only assume.
An interesting thought:
A superweapon more powerful than nuclear weapons might with a single use cause the end of life as we know it. As such, you would not test or demonstrate it, therefore the weapon might not be useful.
Can you please explain to all non-Canadians why you "can't build a home on your own property"?? Are you complaining about permitting, or what? Please explain the context.
Also can be pretty handy when there's hardware that needs something very specific to happen to work properly. Mocks can give you (some) confidence that when you poke the I2C bus, you won't hang it up.

But it's very easy to overdo it and end up testing irrelevant implementation details instead.
Have you used git submodules before? I've only used them once and vowed to never use them again.

It's effectively just a pointer to a hash, and ends up being useless for versioning + a really nice footgun for tracking upstream updates.

The monorepo vs manyrepo tradeoff boils down to this:

Do you want more complicated build + deploy tooling or do you want more complicated dependency management?

If the former, pick monorepo. If the latter, pick manyrepo.
The real winners are the boomer generation. When they graduated college in the mid 60's wages were enormous relative to the cost of property. Property in all the now hotly competitive areas was dirt cheap too. If you bought in SF back then you've probably made 100x or more on the property value.
The problem is that poorer people or renters generally are subsidizing richer people or homeowners generally. Depending on if your view is that Canadian governments are too big or too small, you'd say that renters are being unfairly overtaxed and should be given a break, or that homeowners are not paying their fair share and should be taxed more.
A rising tide floats all boats.
I'm not contending that supply isn't the real issue, just that there's no way you're going to be able to change the culture around individual home ownership, nimbyism, and zoning laws on any reasonable time-frame. A better current solution that likely has wide-spread support would be to limit the demand rather than throw more money into the demand side.

Limiting large investors does not solve the problem, but it could help alleviate some acute symptoms.
Thanks! I've has a look at CopyQ and I don't think it can do what I want on Windows: https://copyq.readthedocs.io/en/latest/scripting-api.html#li...

I don't want multiple clipboards or history or a clipboard manager, I just want the Primary Selection thing from Linux.

I just want any text selection anywhere to be automatically kept somewhere and allow me to paste it in on a middle mouse click. I would _love_ to be wrong, but I don't think that's a thing on Windows?
Late stage capitalism is weird capitalism
> I’m sure there are talented recruiters but generally I’m lucky if they connect any dots properly.

I'd love to meet one. Every recruiter I've worked with had trouble walking and chewing gum. It's infuriating that they aren't better at their jobs given how much they can make by placing even 1 developer.
"they turned the frickin' frogs gay, and me too" - l cuboniks
Really - you haven’t seen a more miserable group on REDDIT than fatfire? Come on.

It seems you’re saying there’s no meaning to life if I understand that text right.

I don’t know about you - but am a regular reader on fatfire fwiw and I do find my life immensely meaningful. I like finding goals, working towards them and possibly achieving them even (sometimes) or refocusing again. I look at the human experience as the meaning. Money definitely allows for varied experiences while I can pawn away the grunt work of living. Take it for what you will!
I've been using beancount [1] and beancount-import [2] for a while now and I'm liking it quite a bit. Every month I download CSVs of transaction data from my various accounts (checking, savings, credit card, etc.) and run beancount-import to categorize and reconcile transactions (I've written a few custom importers for this) into the ledger. I can then use bean-query (part of beancount) to perform SQL queries over the ledger data (i.e. expenses in the past month grouped by category). I feel like I'm just scratching the surface so far of what's possible with these tools but it has definitely helped me be more organized with my personal finances.

[1] https://github.com/beancount/beancount/

[2] https://github.com/jbms/beancount-import
I don't think that's a fair characterization of what happened. First, they scaled a simple solution for a long time and migrated away from it before it exploded spectacularly. I don't recall them explicitly saying how much time they spent on it, so how is it possibly to say whether it was worth the time or not? I also don't remember if it was here or on Twitter, but one of the engineers listed the many features they built and shipped _instead_ messing with their database. I'd say that was a good business decision - they got more features to their customers sooner and dealt with a scaling issue before it impacted customers.
Yeah that's basically where I'm at. The ability to not have to move and the ability to improve the place and keep the value of my improvements are worth a large premium to me.
I thought this was about side-loading, and could not believe my eyes.

It's literally just about apps not developed by Apple...
It's one of those "yes, but no" situations. We now have a particle that is ~126 GeV, behaves like what the Higgs boson was predicted to be.

However, if the Higgs field is exactly what we think it is, it seems to imply energy densities several magnitudes bigger than the currently observed vacuum energy density of the universe. This leads to either the cosmological constant is wrong and/or there was no Big Bang, or the Grand Unified Theory is missing another major component instead of merely missing the discovery of the Higgs boson and an accurate measurement of the Higgs field.
He is talking about all time high levels of censorship if you count the number of humans being censored. I've been banned and unbanned 4 times (130k subs on youtube.) An ex president was removed everywhere. Tons of people are banned every single day, with no recourse but to go to empty alt-tech sites where no one watches.

You are also at all time high surveillance. You're also at all time high freedom of movement restriction. I could go on, but I'm tired of gritting my teeth.
You guys severely underestimate how many people have some wine or a beer and tweet lol.

Drunk tweeting is a thing.
My last response to you as you’re obviously not arguing in good faith. The sentence that offended you is very simple. PhD programs in the UK are almost universally dissertation-only. While full-time you are expected to finish in three to four years, you can enroll part-time and finish in eight. The latter path is intended for those who are self-funded and typically already working full-time in whatever profession. An MA or MSc, with as or more stringent coursework than in the US, would be required in either case, but the MA can also be completed part-time. Look at the website of almost any English PhD program.

Again, my only argument is that the EU offers more options for advanced studies alongside another career than the US, which is something I have firsthand experience with.
Hikaru Nakamura, American Chess Superman
> there could be a water-exchange where you can consume or inject clear water and receive/spend

> the execution would need to be heavily regulated (possibly limited to highly trusted actors)

You mean like how you pay your hydro bill to your local water provider for the treated water coming out of your tap?

Consider this: you could get a coinbase card today to pay your water bill with crypto. Now just ask yourself why isn't this more widespread among consumers and up the water provider chain and that should provide some clues for how good/bad of an idea crypto-for-water is. One simple TL;DR answer is that currency to pay for services related to water infrastructure must function like currency, i.e. be liquid, stable, widely accepted, functional in the present (as opposed to some pie in the sky future), etc.
Speculation isn’t great, but let’s not pretend this is some elaborate scheme orchestrated by all the homeowners.

If it’s feasible and profitable to build new homes, then developers will do so.

Everyone loves the simple solution of “build more houses”. Very few actually consider the execution of the master plan. What would it take for you to start building homes? It’s an enormous risk, requires tons of upfront capital, specialized labor and supplies.

When everyone wants to live in the same areas, housing prices go up. Lifting zoning restrictions isn’t some magic bullet that will alleviate that fact.
I directionally agree with the author, but I wish they had defined what they meant by 'fair', since the concept is so prominent in their post.

The meaning of that word seems to vary depending on a speaker's intent and underlying beliefs about humanity.
Stop fighting the platform:

1. winget is great and is not abandoned, but yes, don't count on it to do software updates for you. Central third-party package updates are not a thing on Windows or MacOS (outside of their app stores). Every application is in charge of its own updating.

Linux distributions can pull this off because the software they install is almost all open source. On Windows and MacOS, it's proprietary software shipped as binaries. You could force them to go through an app store, but that would require closing the platform to non-app-store installs in order to get uptake.

Microsoft is trying to encourage people to distribute software as msix packages, but because it's a backwards-compatible open platform, uptake is optional.

2. Powershell is great. You do way less text wrangling and escaping and such non-sense as you have to do with bash, and instead you interact with real functions ("commands" or "cmdlets") that take objects as arguments. You can also call into any .NET function. You can embed C# class definitions. And you can even call win32 functions with a little more work (but it's rare you wouldn't be able to accomplish something with either powershell commands or .NET functions).

BUT, it is more verbose. Accept this and you will be happy.

3. Windows is extremely customizable. You probably just don't know it. Certainly, with registry tweaks you can customize way more than you can in Gnome. And if you're willing to do some win32 shell programming, you can make it do just about anything. Hence companies like Stardock that will happily sell you software to customize Windows any way you want.

4. You can definitely get middle click paste working with, e.g., an AutoHotKey script.

5. Most of your points are petty complaints about defaults you can easily change.
There is no legitimate complaint about empty housing, not just because empty houses pay the same tax as occupied ones, but because empty housing is a myth.
It's funny because I don't even see "Related Tweets" anymore. It's just "More Tweets" immediately underneath a tweet and its threads. They're not even bothering to find tweets that related to what you're reading. They've gone to the Buzzfeed or Daily Mail strategy of finding the most engaging things and putting them in your periphery to ensure you stay on the site.
I think Microsoft has given up on consumers for Windows. I don't believe it cares about them any more. The Windows tax is still around, but I'm pretty sure computer sales in general are a lot lower than they used to be. Hardware upgrades aren't so rapid any more. You're not seeing clock speeds double every couple years like you did in the 90s and early 2000s. Sure, they're adding more and more cores, but that has little or no benefit to someone who doesn't run serious software. I replaced my laptop last year, only after the previous one, which I'd had for at least 8 years suffered a motherboard death. I left Windows 10 on it, but I'm thinking about switching to Linux Mint. I will definitely do so when I have no other option to avoid Windows 11.
i really wish unit testing was easier for graphics / webgl / 3d development
> I feel like it’s almost an attempt to appease citizens by blaming the issue on “foreigners”

As a Canadian, I agree with this.

Part of the problem is that the federal govt doesn't have jurisdiction over the actually issues causing the problem. I _think_ the provinces own it but delegate it to the cities. But for some reason, this isn't an issue in those elections. BC had an election less than a year ago and housing wasn't an issue outside of Reddit. And BC has the second worse housing market in the country (Vancouver).

EDIT: Actually, that BC election was a year and a half ago. I even looked that up before posting and got it wrong. The covid time warp strikes again.
Also, yes, I mean: most computer works are about information manipulation, retrieving, filtering, composing information. Such information might be text, images, videos, audios, "databases" etc and to manipulate, filter and compose we need something to do so as we wish.

Still today there are no such "comprehensive tool" for anything like that, our modern most advanced tools are Notebook UIs like Jupyter or experiments like Wolfram Alpha. Emacs with org-mode is far more flexible than them and actively developed by still limited in graphics and usage terms. Xerox workstations of course are from a different era, and much less computing power but still they have had something, and they dream to evolve in that way.

Modern Smalltalks seems to have forgotten this part, much focused on "the programming side", modern systems can't even reach something like old ones since they are "individual products" with very limited IPCs...
Most test frameworks only really show you the failing tests in any detail as the top level results.

As you say, you don't care that there are 20k passing tests. You care just care that there is 1 failure.
Actually if you do that, you’ll be able to start your own religion and have the king follow you.
I think he enjoys living in his own bubble and justifies to himself that his work is important. It takes a massive ego to convince oneself that they can do no wrong
This should probably have a (2012) added to the title, it's interesting but a bit dated. For example the criticism of Australia not buying F-22s, when the discussion the last few years has been all about F-35s.
I use it to bypass all of the JavaScript popup fluff: Cookie Usage, Newsletter Opt-in, Popup Blocker Warning, Large Headers & Footers; I keep my Text/Windows Large for accessibility and this usually trashes the websites to where I can't even close Newsletter opt-in windows.
Doesn’t have anything to do with wings. This is just economic nonsense.
Plug in 2 random external monitors that may or may not be the same resolution
Can you say what instance types are currently used for NAT gateways then? m5.large?
You could try using find(1) to display the results and use that to capture the results, and then use cut(1), sed(1), or awk(1) to convert that to a CSV that could be loaded into your database of choice:

find . -print -ls | awk ... > /tmp/foo.txt

Not sure if that gives you what you want, but it's a relatively fast way to get to what you want, I think.
At least on Steam there is the _option_ for developers to publish individual depots for different locales, and a single game download can be made of multiple depots (so you could have a global base depot, and then put localised content in depots per locale). https://steamdb.info/sub/398272/depots/