skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If he were smuggling in food, sure, but I struggle to see how helping the North Korean government use crypto is going to lead to the people eating better.
>which is not subject to rules about fairness.

I think this is the point everyone agrees on. You are right that "deserve's got nothing to with it"

IT is just obnoxious when most of rhetoric and discussion is about fairness, equality, and high minded ideals when directed outside the US.

Might makes right. Given that, coherent discussion on how and when to use that power is best served by dropping the rhetoric.

Once you accept the US can embargo Cuba to keep it impoverished for personal gain, Then, you can ask if the US should continue doing so.
To be honest, I do not understand your comment.

> The company financial deciders do not want a setup that does not have a billing pattern and clear legal obligations.

I haven’t ever met a CTO or CIO, who would make budget decisions like that, neither I do it this way myself. The reality in 2022 is the same as it was in 2012 or in 2002: when you choose a solution, you consider all long term costs.
In 2022 TCO for the server software includes everything that I mentioned in my comment and more. There’s a lot of use cases for OSS in corporate environment, for sure, but not every OSS solution is cheap or even affordable. Running on-premise open source collaboration tool is certainly not cheap if you do it right.
> For most of american history

I see some things saying it was common among certain immigrant groups before 1900 (it doesn't say whether it was a majority):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arranged_marriage

Now that it is 2022 though we're closer to 1900 than 1900 is to the enactment of the constitution, so even then I'm not sure it would be most of american history unless maybe going colonial or pre-colonial (or are talking north+south america).
There's a significant downside to congregating (e.g.) solitary bees - they can get cleaned out by predators. We had every tube in a 30-tube hotel opened and emptied over a weekend by some kind of parasitoid wasp.

Now we leave old flower stalks up over the winter.
> taking care of everything in their lives outside of his specific business functions.

You're just making stuff up. You don't know this is the case.
If the stored heat is on the level of getting the emitter into the white-hot, how is the "battery" turned off, to hold the "charge"?

The article mentions a mirror layer as part of the cell, for retaining the energy of out of band photons. Would that be the "off" solution, just bounce them back when they are not needed? Cell moved out of the path? Somehow that triggers "too simple to be true" heuristics in me, but on the other hand... yeah, mirrors (or just very white surfaces, precise direction is not needed) can be quite capable of not getting heated by incoming photons, and that must mean bouncing them back.
Unfortunately, this is for paid subscribers only. (Scott mostly does public posts because his subscribers generally seem to want his work widely accessible.)

For those curious, it's the story of Xi Jinping "translated" into a story of Jason Shea as an attempt to make it more legible to people unfamiliar with the culture and history of China. e.g., "party secretary of Shanghai" becomes "mayor of New York City" as an attempt at an analogous comparison.
I created two web apps to help when playing the boardgame Gloomhaven. Both were coded in Elm and were done partly because I had a need for them but mainly just for the joy of coding in Elm. I'll link the github repos of both, the demo is linked in the README for each.

The first app is Battle Objectives [0] which I made so that my group could play with some "enhanced battle objectives" I found online. The fan-made enhanced battle objectives are freely available on Boardgame Geek but I didn't want to print out and cut out all the cards so I coded them into an app. I linked this app on BGG but didn't think it was getting any use from anyone outside my personal Gloomhaven group. But I also found out while writing this post that someone forked Battle Objectives to translate it to German so I guess someone was using it! [1]

The second one is Hitdeck [2] which I made to automate the tedium of reshuffling my hitdeck and of rebuilding it to add and remove cards as the game went on.

Edit: I almost forgot I coded a complete emulation of a solo card game called Friday [3] [4]. I enjoyed the card game a lot but it's well suited to many fast paced rounds and I got tired of having to shuffle all the cards so I made an app to emulate all of that. It's unfortunately just for me because I never got around to adding a tutorial or anything so unless you already know the rules of Friday you'll be pretty lost trying to play.

[0] https://github.com/tristanpendergrass/battle-objectives

[1] https://github.com/ToM-Korn/kampfziele

[2] https://github.com/tristanpendergrass/hitdeck

[3] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43570/friday

[4] https://github.com/tristanpendergrass/legendary-barnacle
Yes, but for some reason I don't think of bumblebees as bees. Irrational, I know!
What are these people using now? Is there any place where they already advertise their needs? Then you could find them there and offer to extend their reach by duplicating their ad on your site.
Translated into a slightly different venue: if partner A's sense of order is jarred by laundry near, and not in, hamper, but partner B just doesn't care, then the steady state is A always cleaning up after B.

A's happiness depends on a certain degree of order in the shared space, and B is oblivious to that degree of order. Or more likely, it requires a conscious exercise of effort to perceive the degree of order.

If B is unwilling to make that effort, they are discovering that they care less about A's happiness than the relative effort required. Eventually, A figures out how low their value is, and takes their relationship elsewhere.
"Job hunting while day jobbing" is that a thing? For people who have a day job and want to switch, I only see one real alternative: "job hunting after having quit their job". The alternative sounds more stressful to me. How is it any different from doing any personal project, e.g.improving one's house while having a day job?
That said, the article has some good points, like: don't panic, your boss will not notice it so easily, and if so, it is not such a big deal -- you want to leave anyways.
Not all investment is good, but finding a few bad investments doesn't make all investments bad, obviously.

I already advocate for zoning reform at all levels including federalizing the zoning rules to preclude obstinate city councils from banning the desperately needed development within towns.

Large tracts of forest are kind of useless if your job is in a city and the city council won't let you build a house to live near it lol. "If you want houses so bad why don't you build them in a forest well away from anything" is among the worst arguments I've ever heard.
No, it is not justifying what he did. According to US law, he is clearly at fault. However, pointing out NK atrocities to have him morally wrong is not appropriate. With that logic, we should be also approving Iran or NK punishment of their citizens when they work with US.
Does it work on Android?
You're using a rather narrow/implementation specific definition of snapshot.

I believe EBS snapshots are equivalent to you temp-snapshot, incremental/deduplicated backup/delete temp snapshot combination. Logically it's still a snapshot, because it contains all data of the volume at a specific point in time, but the cloud provider abstracts away the details of how it achieves durability.
Those thermocouples are less than 10% efficient, usually less than 5%.

This means you have to dissipate more than 10 times more energy as heat than the energy you actually want to use as electricity.

Dissipating heat in space is not easy because unlike earth there is no surrounding fluid to dissipate heat into through convection. This means you have to spend precious mass budget on huge (compared to your energy budget) direct heat radiation systems that cannot leverage convection efficiencies.

Thus, a significant energy efficiency increase would be a big deal for RTG powered spacecraft design. It is curious that the article above does not consider this.

Bonus thought: consider what this lack of convection problem means for "Hyperloop" type vehicle systems that operate in a vacuum tunnel, as most conventional trains dissipate excess braking energy through convection from resistive heating elements atop the roof.
I wouldn’t expect them to advertise such a thing, but the question is “can they recover from their own mistakes” not “can they recover from mine.” I don’t care if this is with an “account-level restore” or whatever; it shouldn’t be my concern.
That's why they're so cheap, compared to a lot of other offerings.
> I can't imagine not being willing to move to any first world country that my senior executive spouse got transferred to -- as a senior corporate executive they've have a ton of resources at their disposal to make the move as easy as possible.

I can see it easily. After move, all your friends and all your life are far away. You have to change habits, language, adjust to different culture. You are very likely to be super lonely most of time. And you loose actual support network where you live. You can get some paid one, but that is something different. If she worked or had other ambitions (entirely possible she did not), those are likely gone after the move.

Many people like and have build their lives. And many if not most don't want to uproot and change everything.
I thought we were talking about olfactory nerves? You're just shifting semantics.
FWIW, I am happy to pay a premium for the living situation I want. I do that today across high housing costs / taxes / cost of local goods/services. I'd happily support paying for other externalities (e.g. carbon taxes).
I wouldn't expect it if I just asked. I think it's reasonable as part of their disaster recovery though.
Personally, I prefer the choice of simply using a language that doesn't have GC. No GC, no GC tuning problem. Seems ideal!

That said, I've worked on several embedded systems, and the never allocate memory rule that most of them had for runtime was critical to maintaining real-time-like performance. One was written in C++, which meant that we basically couldn't make use of most of the stl and boost. We had to roll our own implementations of plenty of data structures used on the performance critical threads as a result. I couldn't imagine using a language with GC baked in for such a system. But the results spoke for themselves: microsecond level latencies and performance that scaled well with increased CPU core counts.
Banks didn't expect to be bailed out. That question has been studied

Bank upper management just didn't care that they'd be bailed out or not because their incentives were on fairly short term horizons.
I'm pretty sure the "I literally don't care" is a reference to one of Carlsen's answers in an interview ("I don't even remotely care").
An interesting observation is that over the years, I've sort of found that if there are not many good results, maybe I'm not asking the right questions, or I'm not thinking about the problem the right way. For example, you come up with some weird programming idea to solve a problem and no results are found -- I'm almost always headed down the wrong path. This has been proved to me over and over again as sort of a canary in the search coal mine.

Google still solves all my questions, if I'm asking the right questions, I guess is what I'm getting at.
Engineering mistakes happen.

The most inexcusable thing is not communicating with the paying customers who have been affected for over a week.

Atlassian's Global Head of Customer Success probably should have been fired but here she is promoting Atlassian Cloud on LinkedIn three days ago: https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/gertie-rizzo-5b70061

Actually reading a bit more, it seems like their customer team was partying in Las Vegas instead of taking care of business: https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/hashtag/atlassianteam22

Priorities.
Sounds like having a fallback pre-defined would be prudent if it's that important and you don't feel you could collectively extemporise something. "If Slack goes down, the plan is to use WhatsApp/Teams/Jeff's Matrix homeserver in his garage until service comes back. A list of group channels will be emailed if that happens."

Then if it does go down, you don't have to waste the first day arguing about the plan.
I remember them being taken down. The panels were taken down because they were ugly, costly to maintain, and ineffective.

The panels did not generate electricity. They were used to warm some of the water used at the White House.
Atlassian about to dip over the next few years as firms around the world slowly remove themselves from their ecosystem of products.
One valid use case for this is for the software to detect when you're speaking while on mute and notify you that "you're on mute". Maybe I dreamed it up, but I thought I've seen this before (WebEx?).

I could imagine a soft-mute feature where you're on mute when you're not talking (perhaps to keep down on background noise) but if your app detects that you're actively talking, it will unmute you. It might lose the first word or two that you say but could be effective. I could also see this going horribly awry when someone thinks they are on mute rather than soft mute and say something Biden-esque, like "what a stupid son of a bitch".
A judge is responsible for decisions around sentencing and prision conditions. The choices they make have a big impact on whether prison will be successful in reforming a person. Sending 16 year olds to adult prison or decisions around solitary or conditions (no visitors) or type of prison can have a huge impact.
There's no cost to privacy if it's all being written to /dev/null. I'm not worried because the cost benefit analysis is not even remotely in the video conferencing app's favor to listen to that traffic. Are they really going to use the compute time to analyze all this audio, then do what? Try and monetize data on what people are doing in the background of their video calls?

The technical cost of deploying this is probably large, and the cost to reputation immense if they were caught doing this. By comparison, giving people the additional sense of privacy by actually turning off and on the mic is likely more than outweighed by the annoyance of lag between turning on and off your mic and being heard by the other chat members.

Although they could do something like write random bits of audio to the stream when the mic is muted in software. That'd at least let users know that the actual audio isn't leaving their device. But the hardware peripheral activation is probably not going to go away.
A bunch! Budgeting software, fitness tracking, a small CRM for a private preschool that my wife worked at, a command line journaling tool, etc
You need vacuum super insulation.
Basically take a thermos, and fill the vacuum with (mostly) non-touching reflective foil. It's the golden stuff satellites are wrapped in.
Why would you be with a person you aren’t willing to change yourself for ?
Apparently not, as someone below pointed out.

Oh well, I was briefly excited but there's a big enough gap that it probably won't work as is
Depends on where in the stack the error happened.
As difficult as it is to juggle a day job and interviews, that's how most employed people switch jobs. And it's particularly stressful in software, as that project is more intensive than just interviews, but also involves technical interview prep.

Certainly, it's a shame that there's no short-term unemployment benefits for those who want to leave a job and commit full-time to finding a new one for a few months, while recovering from burnout or just resting.
Yeah. An app to let me control my 5k monitor’s brightness in Linux. Tons of little utilities, like my blog generator. A Firefox send clone.
> all free market models work only in so far as all actors have equal access to information.

You need to investigate some better models. The useful ones don't assume equal access to information. Uniform access to information doesn't exist, and moreover distribution of information is one of the functions of the market. Information itself is a good which can only be acquired at a cost. Perfect information (not perfectly equal information) would indeed improve efficiency, but that doesn't happen on its own. Unequal information is better for market efficiency than less information; in a trade between A and B, both A and B knowing a relevant fact is ideal but only A or B knowing leads to better trades than neither knowing, provided neither party is actively deceiving the other about the nature of the goods being exchanged.

> It is a type of fraud - I'm acting as if the publicly known information is up to date, but in fact I know something the rest of the market doesn't about the value of the good I'm trading.

"Acting as if" is not the same as making an actionable claim. You are under no obligation to advise anyone on future market conditions. It's only fraud if you make the trade under false pretenses which, unless you actually claimed to be making the trade based on only public information, is not happening here. The product being sold is exactly as described; whatever might happen in the future to affect its market value is out of scope.

> It's like selling beans that have been publicly shown to be magical, while I happen to know the public show was staged and they are in fact normal beans.

There's nothing wrong that so long as you're not misrepresenting your product as having some sort of magic properties (which would include being involved in that staged demonstration). There is no fraud here as long as you do not claim that they are magical. What anyone else might claim about them and the motivations for buying them are not your concern. Your role is simply to provide the advertised product.
just say "The Jew"

I know you want to!
I have repetitive strain injury in my hands which made it difficult to play online poker (it's a lot of mouse moving and clicking i.e. folding)

So I created a script which took a screenshot every 100ms, it scanned the image and checked the cards I had.

If the cards were bad (e.g 2h7s), it clicked "fold" for me automatically
Considering the trouble I have with WebEx again and again UX indeed comes late.

I often call it "golf-course-ware" the sales person goes golfing with the executive, they discuss features and prices and discounts ober the match and the executive typically doesn't have to use the software but only their employees or the assistant.

Interestingly Zoom for me was a game changer in usability and it spread during pandemic, when executives where at home partially without their physical conference room with video conf setup and without assistant.
It seems from the article that the real reason is that the guy is extremely dull. I don’t think I could live with a person who makes bullet-point list of reasons why he has left a glass near a sink.
Tweaks to cache.addAll() and importScripts() coming in Chrome 71
He did mention that he would never care to change his behavior and had two reasons to continue doing it. I guess that doesn't mean it's the hill he would go to die on. I do struggle with the same thing, at what point is it something that's no longer a conversation, you should just change because the other person decided they cared enough about it. Having the wife end a marriage over it also seems ridiculous. If people can't come to realize they are asking for something silly but it's a big deal to them, that seems like that partner's problem. If I just sit around and say everything is "important", does that mean I get to have it my way all the time?
Trust me, if someone could clone Jira and its functionality they would have done so already. Truth is that if you build one product for 20 years you have a giant lead in features. If all it took was having a Kanban board then Jira would have died years ago.
Those arguing for/against whether the dishes are trivial are missing the point.

You always ultimately make the choice whether these demands, whether too many or not, are worth it. You decide.

Dan Savage does a brief talk about this titled the Price of Admission.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1tCAXVsClw
I found it - ChampSoftware and the ChampCable
I would prefer they get down to Earth.
You have a heat reservoir, i.e. a well-insulated and very hot object, that stores energy as heat. If you insulate it with mirrors, that can look like bouncing photons back into the reservoir.

When you want to generate energy, you open the insulation and let heat out to hit this chip.

It’s like opening an oven door to let some hot air out.
I love this! I've always assumed it was a rude boy emoji. Was briefly in a high school ska band :D
Here are two things I use often that I pieced together using code made by people who can actually write good code:

1. HTML Form to File.txt, to quickly create a post for publishing with a static website generator like Hugo or Jekyll: https://www.simongriffee.com/work/form-to-txt/

2. Pasta Clock, for cooking pasta al dente, not al mush: https://www.simongriffee.com/pastaclock/
The 4 options would make me secure. I genuinely find other people interesting, I can pull the craziest stories out of people. People always have an interesting story, crimes are often involved lol. As for my self-esteem... my ego is probably a bit too big.
The sanctions imposed on South Africa in the 1980s absolutely crippled the country and are widely seen as a successful contribution in the efforts of bringing down Apartheid.
Some people are into shibari. And some aren’t. And both are okay.

Edit-add: also, I think “being with a person who never triggers a negative response in you” is just plain impossible. On some days I trigger a negative response with myself :-)

But based on my limited experience of two 10+ years relationships, I can say life is so much easier and fun when you have less things to disagree about.

But I also acknowledge that this is how I am wired - for some, fights are stimulating. Hence my initial reply with shibari. There exist rather interesting pathways to happiness.
Yes. And it’s a strange one.

I made a program to gender swap any text you put into it and then got a book deal to rewrite and illustrate Fairy Tales. It’s been published around the world.

https://genderswappedfairytales.com

The idea is to shine a light on the original versions but it also creates a lot of never-written-before characters. A lot of brave princesses and lady-beasts, but also men desperately wanting children and being rewarded for kindness.

I wrote the gender swap algorithm in Swift. It seemed like it would just be a simple auto replace type thing when I started but there’s some weird things in English, for example with his/him/her/hers where they don’t swap back and forth sensibly and you have to understand the context.

It was his > it was hers.

It was his sword > it was her sword

So I ended up down this rabbit hole of natural language processing to break up each sentence into verbs, nouns etc to work out the correct words to use. Even tried training an AI to do it based on the finished swapped text but a whole bunch of rules worked more reliably.
> Hundreds! Doesn't everyone?

I certainly have. Interestingly, one was the same "sanity check" program for my internet connection, because of the same ISP you mention. Amazing coincidence...I don't think. :-)
> The USSR is long dead though

Someone is attempting a revival just now.
Yes I created http://lazyday.tv to help me find and track things to watch. Ive been making use of it for several years now and it’s available to the general public for free. No sign ups required. No ads displayed.
When you're hurting someone it's on you to stop before they decide they've had enough. After that you can work with them to get what you want in a way that makes sense for you both. Compromise always comes after harm reduction.
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