skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing why people find German compound nouns interesting and notable. Does English have compound nouns and noun phrases? Certainly. But take your example: "gay clergy book row priest." The noun phrase literally represents the sum of its parts, i.e. a priest involved in a row over a gay clergy book. The phrase is complicated, but its meaning is straightforward. In German, however, it seems as if two unrelated nouns come together to form something unexpected. For instance the word for tortoise is "Schildkröte", translated literally as "shield toad." Is a tortoise a toad? Most native English speakers would say no. Does it have a shield? Again, most native English speakers would say no. So you have a case where there are two easily understood German words that come together to form something unexpected (to an English speaker). Perhaps a German would say that yes, a tortoise is a toad and yes, it has a shield. This is probably my own bias, but I don't think compound nouns in English form nouns in the same way as some German compound nouns do, or at least it feels to happen more often in German than in English.
See also "Do we really need swap on modern systems?" (2017):

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13715249
Just a reminder, not only no one went to jail for the actual fire, there were no charges filed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire#Criminal
It was a two-directional affair for them. Not just about reporting to a spreadsheet, but also about be able to shift things around during a meeting and then "sync" back at the end of the meeting. So a lot of stuff that's hard to automate, sadly.
I think standards of what is or isn't considered "safe" have shifted quite a bit too, and I don't think that's entirely a bad thing too. I lived in Asia for a while and some of the things I saw people do there... Yikes! From entire families (wife, husband, 2 young children) on a single scooter without helmet to the guy repairing my roof by stacking a chair on a wonky table and standing on top of that. They think it's perfectly fine though.

The UK in particular is somewhat obsessed with "health and safety", which is probably #2 on the favourite thing to complain about (after the weather, of course) but at the same time people gleefully participate in it too.

I lived in England for a while (as a Dutch person) and my English girlfriend was always paranoid about things I didn't see as a problem, for example I was perfectly comfterable carrying stuff from the car to the house and leaving the car unattended on the (enclosed!) parking lot for a minute, but she'd insist on locking it. N=1 of course, but I observed a number of other similar things over the years I lived there with different people. When it snowed for a bit the British were in a state of near-panic, and things like the Met announcing "there may be power cuts and shortages" didn't exactly help calm fears. It's 5cm of snow people, announced a week beforehand. We don't get snow that often in NL either, but I've never seen it anywhere near as chaotic as in England.

I guess I'm rambling a bit here, but my point is I think the problem is wider than just "kids". Partly, I think that's good: we're more aware of risks and deal with them a bit more consciously, but you can go too far in this; a risk-free life is a boring life hardly worth living.

"It's dangerous" or "it's a risk that [..] will happen" is almost always true in a sense and hard to argue against; "yes but no life can be without risk" comes of as weak, especially when it concerns something like your children.
Ah, I understand now, I didn't realize I'd been going back and forth with an out-and-out fascist. Don't think there's much more point to this!
This is pretty much the take you get right outta american high school: full of propaganda. This is extremely simplified, ignores mass amounts of genocide and slavery, and ignores historical events to compare it to. The development of america as a nation is built on the corpses of hundreds of millions of africans, chinese and native americans which notably were stripped of their 'right' to private property so that someone else's 'right' to private property could exist.

You do not in any way need to enslave people in order to develop land; only to develop land AND enrich a bourgeois class of people.
I think you might be mischaracterizing the issue a little bit, not maliciously but still a mischaracterization.

The idea of the "existence" of a trans person is subject to debate. There are a significant number of people that believe that "being" trans is actually not something of substance, that it is "all made up". Being an immigrant is different, nobody questions that an immigrant that themselves attests to being from country A and is now living in country B is making that up.

Bostock was a ruling about sexual orientation, not about gender. I think if you are citing the 2020 PEW poll on this topic it is probably quite obsolete as it seems clear that the partisan valence of this issue has changed quite a bit very recently. And even before 2020 the truth is that disputing the legitimacy of transgender people is a low salience issue for a lot of people but very activating for others (much like immigration) so the proportional impacts of what seems like an unpopular opinion is inflated.
> I came from a SunOS/Solaris & HP-UX background (late 90s) where we routinely configured swap for the machines.

Most non-Linux Unixes also do/did not allow memory (RAM+swap) over-commit by default, which may have coloured behaviours.
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This doesn't work if the content is coming from a dynamic source like a database.
Go check out some of the reddit forums on people doing stupid things and watch the "kids" pray for idiots to earn their darwin award along with calls for vigilante justice.
All good reasons. But an engineer/employee considering moving from a stable publicly traded company to a startup is justified in asking for the data.

I am evaluating options now and one of the reasons I am not so keen on offers from startups (even ones with multiple series of funding) is that they expect me to take the risk without sharing adequate information.
I'd appreciate if you expressed your opinions explicitly, rather than as snippy backhanders.

> Do we use whiteboard interviews for standardized tests or certifications? No.

Your position is not clear here. Are you claiming a written exam would be a better assessment for programming ability? That sounds bad?

For what its worth, I don't think whiteboards are the best way to assess programming skill either. My preference is for supervised programming assessments - like this article suggests. Whats your preference and why?

>> Seems like we don't even know how big a this problem is.

> Seems like you don't know.

Correct; I don't know. That is why I asked.

If the answer is obvious to you, maybe instead of insults you could link to a study?
Yes, but that's not quite how it works. As mentioned in this article, without swap, the system can live-lock before the OOM killer can take care of things. This has been my experience as well.

I had hoped that getting rid of swap would prevent thrashing, but instead the system would live-lock.
Earlier this year, Putin gave a speech about why Russia was invading Ukraine that went on and on about history, but conspicuously, even flagrantly, omitted any mention of the Nazi-Soviet pact.

It's clear this is a very sore point for many Russians, and a lot of anti-US propaganda I'm beginning to think is overcompensation for feelings about this history, rather than a calculated, rational strategy of psychological manipulation.
At what state? It’s more like 15-20 year break even by me; and I can’t sell power back to the grid.
but the rates are not low. AND… in the case of SBA or govt programs from other countries the debt comes with restrictions which will hamper your ability to be succesful.
I highly disagree with this.

I think it's because of the asymmetry between how hard it is to create something and how easy it is to destroy something. For example, it takes a team of skilled people months to construct a house and 1 idiot with a can of gas and a lighter to burn it down overnight.

This actually happens a lot - like in california a gender reveal party burned down thousands of acres of wildlife, destroyed homes, created pollution, and endangered lots of people.
Or repeal the Clinton-era law that made student loan debt non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. In that way, potential lenders would have incentive to determine ability to repay.
Yeah there's always economic miracles or Moore's law but for diodes or some shit, something, they all peter out. All of them. No exceptions. All of them.

Moore's law is in the saggy part of the S-curve, it's been morally dead for fourteen years in some ways, eleven years in others, and for eight years transistors flat out don't shrink at all they just pack more of them in the same space. I saw this coming, I did the math with the size of the transistors and the size of the chips and realized 99.5% of the area on a chip was empty back when 14 nanometer was the smallest. That's what new lithographies go for, they fill up that empty space. It ain't over til it's over, but when it is in fact over, it's over. It's over.

[1] South Korea, China, which is the new one? Is there a new one? A lot of the time it's artificial and carefully presented to market the exponential curve shit, mainly by lying about the beginning of the segment to make it look smaller and the end of the segment to make it look bigger. Shoehorning it. Also defining the segment as unique, like giving it an identity so it's meaningful to isolate it from the bigger picture which is not exponential because it has a past and a future. Moore's Law talks about transistors, why not talk about valves instead and look at the history since the nineteenth century, or since Leibniz for that matter? Like you can make a switch out of wood, people did, they transmitted energy by moving staffs of wood back and forth. Cuckoo clocks. Antikythera mechanism. The abacus. Mental arithmetic.

The big thing there is for usury, usurers have to keep the dream of exponential growth alive to charge exponential compound interest without getting tarred and feathered like so many usurers before them.
> the only times I have ever had dark moods in my adult live was during IBS episodes.

You've had a very happy life!
> The subreddit is definitely biased against men, but I don't know if it's representative of society at large.

Perhaps not in general (I don't know either way), but in the specific case of domestic violence, there is absolutely a societal bias (US perspective, here) against men who accuse a woman of domestic violence. In many places it's even considered "funny" that a man was "hurt by a girl", to the point that a man would never even consider reporting something like this.

Unfortunately, it's of course not all roses on the other side: while people certainly believe in the abstract that women experience domestic violence, there's still often a lot of bias against specific women when they accuse a male partner of domestic violence. ("But he seems like such a nice guy, I could never believe he'd do something like that!", etc.)
How is your mother going to make an insurance claim for a stolen car without a police report? Or is she just going to eat the loss?
Oh that’s lovely.
You can take increasing rates , but then you also need to take opportunity cost.

You paid say 50k cash for solar? Put that in SP500 for 6 years. It’s not 50k anymore.
A very high percentage of Visor users add custom columns to add context. This is data they create in the product that doesn't sync to Jira. So the workflow seems to go beyond unidirectional reporting.

It seems that no reporting tool is ever flexible enough to do that -- add custom columns to annotate, filter, and contextualize the report. Raw data is rarely "clean" enough and explanatory enough to just be exported into something for external consumption -- either via an exec or even externally to a different company (partner, client, etc.)
Kdiff3 can absolutely do edit in place: just type directly in the merge output window and save the result as usual.
link to patent (US; AU/WIPO also filed): https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/92/85/c0/6e9c2dc...
Here's the first one in there series: https://youtu.be/YOelRv7fMxY
Best to always assume people comment in good faith.
That makes zero sense. Watching a video is in no way to be compared with crashing a perfectly good airplane on purpose.
24kW can lost a long time if you don’t need AC. Should be days
I often wonder what it would've been like growing up with an older brother.
As someone barely qualified for MS FlightSim I think it's amazing how so many people, on the OG thread on HN and the Reddit ones I saw could point out things that made the whole scenario look odd. Pointing out little things that just made sense after it was laid out.

Terrible but educational. And also neat that so many "amateurs" could see the same flaws.
Indeed. At a past job we had this million dollar cluster of HP machines (T520s), and one of the managers wanted to do some end of year spending, so they upgraded the memory in the cluster from 2GB to 4GB (back when that was an insane amount of memory, ~1995).

But, we had not storage to back that new memory. They purchased 2GB per machine for god knows what, but didn't add 2GB discs. So we literally couldn't use it (because of how storage was allocated on that cluster, we couldn't just re-carve it to get an extra 2GB swap, it had dedicated 2GB drives for the swap).
I think the point is that, the more free RAM you have, the more data the OS can speculatively read from disk when there's otherwise unutilized bandwidth. If a program happens to need the data, then it's already in RAM and the access latency is almost zero, vs. the non-zero latency of waiting for a hard disk platter to spin around.

The claim being made is that there are certain situations where processes allocate a lot of physical memory but then very rarely accesses it. If it gets paged out to swap, then there's a latency hit on the next access. If the OS can avoid more latency hits total using the same physical RAM for caching, then the computer could do more overall calculations per second.
> Your existance and your selfconciousness as a human being is not in any way affected to some words somebody is using to describe their views.

IDK, if every time you encountered someone they referred to you by the wrong name, after being corrected every time they do so, that wouldn't affect you? I think that if someone consistently feminized my name and used feminine pronouns for me over the course of multiple interaction I would get pretty pissy, downright hostile.
If you control the flight path of the plane before ditching it should be possible to pick the relative point of impact.

And most (all?) parachutes allow the capability for the operator to control direction of flight and (relative) rate of descent.

Considering the stunt he pulled it seems he was confident he could do both.
I tried to log in with Twitter, but it asked for a million permissions, including being able to follow and unfollow on my behalf. I'm not cool with that.
Longmonsters!!! I love it!!
Fuck Comcast!
the framerate dropped in certain areas, it ran mostly consistently at 30fps but not perfectly consistently. These mods make it so that even in those areas it still maintains 30fps.
Even if you kill all species of mosquitoes that feed on humans, I doubt you have much of an impact on the ecosystem. There are still plenty that feed on other animals.
I used Z3, kiwisolver didn't offer the correct constraints for my geometry problems.
Is this due to memory constraints on your system? If so, then this would definitely help you profile _what_ in your code is trying to claim so much memory.
it is uncertain that the garage sale crap will bring in any money. or your inventory. besides, they discount it 90% anyway.

people do buy and sell small businesses. why is a pizza place worth any money? because of the customer database? but that is IP too, so why does that have value? why do i need to pay 50K for that but the code i spent writing for 15 years has “no value”? even if a FAANG is doing something similar right now but their code sucks?

i have had actual products in the market incorporating IP and the banks still think it is worth zero.
NASA’s New Material Built to Withstand Extreme Conditions
> In the Web PKI thanks to Certificate Transparency we can measure, the typical X509 certificate was issued by ISRG (Let's Encrypt) and thus cost well under one dollar (free to the subscriber, that cost is borne by the donors) and has a lifetime of precisely 90 days.

Yes, it's true that in the past few years Let's Encrypt has substantially altered the typical lifetime of web server certificates, as well as substantially eased the burden of refreshing a certificate in what I would guess to be the majority of use cases.

Revocation, however, is still a mess. OCSP services are slow and a privacy leak, and are largely ignored by browsers - in 2021 Firefox was still checking OCSP services but given they're so unreliable if it can't contact a service it assumes the certificate is fine. OCSP winds up being a trade-off between allowing an attacker to conduct a denial of service on all certificates or blocking revocations.

In practice the major browser vendors all do more or less the same thing - build their own proprietary list of revoked certificates and distribute it to browsers
from time to time, with varying sources and granularity on what they will and won't include in their centralised CRLs. I would have little faith in a timely revocation of a compromised server certificate.
Physics origins of the most important statistical ideas of recent times
Thanks for the link! Will definitely check it out next time I revisit my config.
Maybe it's a cultural difference between where I live and where you live, but it's definitely not normal for people to get mad at a child for staring. They're fairly inquisitive by nature.
I got a quote last fall in the SF Bay Area for a system:

- 6.4 kW (16x400W panels), microinverter-based (little to no maintenance expected in 25 years)

- estimated to produce 8,500 kWh in year 1

- the panels are warrantied to produce 86% in year 25. Let's use 80% as a more conservative estimate.

- up front cost: $16,500 after the federal tax incentive

- alternative: paying PG&E $.25/kWh on average (conservative estimate)

To a first approximation, the system would save $2,125 in the first year, or almost 13% of the initial investment. In year 25, we'd expect 6,800 kWh. At the same energy price, it'd be saving 10% of the initial investment. (This doesn't take into account inflation, changes in energy prices, and I'm sure other things. This is all very different if your local utility doesn't offer net metering, too.)

The system breaks even in year 8, similar to what others in this thread have reported. But you can also look at it as a pretty low-risk investment returning 10-13% per year for 25 years. That sounds pretty good to me.
> Comcast spent $500,000 in a tiny city of less than 100,000 people. You can be sure, Comcast will do all this again in a heartbeat.

Well duh. Assuming five people per home, and a market penetration of 50% (probably higher when you’re the only game in town), that’s only $50/home. That’s less than half of what they’d be getting from a subscribed home per month.

I’m surprised they didn’t spend even more fighting this.
Is VisualWorks still a product?
They sue and buy each other out, it's happened repeatedly across every industry that ma bell was broken up into.
Did BP uncap a well just for the youtube views?
Without going into too much detail, I think my biggest gripes are:

- outdated utilities, like `make` v3, that bite you in the ass every now and then,

- Docker support is bad, it's slow and quirky, and I use it a lot for development,

- hard to trust homebrew's security model,

- necessity to bind a phone number and email, deanonymizing your machine,

- recent security blunders like root login without a password,

- ridiculous amount of telemetry that's hard or impossible to disable.
The fact that there's no year 0 in our BC/AD system has probably caused a few!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
Right now the bottleneck is memory bandwidth & CPU lanes. NVMEoE lets you access storage from a VM that you can move around and, depending on what you are doing, you are probably already serving traffic over your NIC. If you only need to do a minimal amount of I/O to disk all of the lanes used for I/O when you're idle is useless. If you are doing things like cache servers, DBs that manage replication for themselves, etc you can really optimize storage using this approach.

Basically the difference between 25GB/s between your server and it's storage and 25GB/s between your server and it's clients is just where the packets are going.
>>if you're raising kids, to consider the upsides of so-called "free range"

you can't. It's basically illegal in USA and Canada, and your neighbours and school will report you and child services will have a nice chat first time, less nice next time.
ever heard of “not invented here”? even if you have valuable IP big tech companies think they can do better even if they cannot, or are simply greedy and will spend a multiple of what your IP costs just so they don’t need to acquire you. that is what i’ve noticed. there is little logic or reason.
BBC predicts the home of 2020 in 1989 [video]
>>> social security need money for 3 major things: unemployment, retirement, and health care ...

In USA, social security and health care are different issues. SS can be patched up. Health care is on course to consume the entire federal budget.
but he will claim that he didn't start the fire.

How exactly are you going to verify that unless the plane has some blackbox?
Unrelated, but a coincidence from 1946:

"To go near The Pit was slow, certain death, and it was respected and feared, and would be for centuries more. It winked and blinked redly at night, and was surrounded by a bald and broken tract stretching out and away over the horizon; and around it flickered a ghostly blue glow. Nothing lived there. Nothing could.

With such a war memorial, there could only be peace. The earth could never forget the horror that could be loosed by war.

That was Grenfell’s dream."
There are some depth cues in it:

- object overlap: overlapping object is assumed to be in front of occluded object

- color: dark background is distant, back in space

- water-surface-like pattern at the bottom, with stripes getting smaller and closer together toward the top.

- some scale variance in some of the rectangular patterns: they are vaguely similar to each other, at different scales: the smaller scales look distant.
They have very unusual license which I have never seen before: https://github.com/NASA-SW-VnV/ikos/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

Is anyone familiar with it? Is it OSI certified? (it's not on the OSI's site).
Analysis: The biodiversity footprint of the University of Oxford
If you personally looked at the books you could actually point me to some site with PDFs.

If you want to convince anybody maybe you should provide a source, especially since as you say it won't take much time.

I assume you are just a hypocrite who wanted to accuse the other side of doing the same thing you did and for caught and as such I'm not going to waste my time trying to prove your claim for you.
I got solar in northern California with new roof that needed to be replaced. I got 30 percent tax credit on the roof as well. Paid for the roof in cash but took 10 year loan out for the solar panels at 3.0 percent. Break even at this rate is about 4 years already a few year in. With inflation right now I feel like I got good deal borrowing the money. Right now my loan payment plus then 10.00 monthly connection fee is less than my average monthly bill before 2019. Not sure I would do it with needing a new roof though. But everybody experience will be different.