skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they were going for "Ever Afloat" but had a typo.
What ads? I haven't seen an ad for over a decade.
Unchecked power begats purges. DeSantis is just following the tyrant playbook.

Keeping the loyal opposition around, the Democrats & misc Liberals in this case, is the only thing that's preventing an all out Republican civil war.
Edit: he apparently was not strapped in "well" (or at all) and when the pilot went negative G after a dramatic post-takeoff climb, the dude flew out of the seat and probably instinctively grabbed for something.

https://youtu.be/-zIxqKwoHsM?t=427
> Journaling means every block has a checksum.

No it doesn’t.

Many journal filesystems use a checksum for log entries, but that is certainly not covering every block of the filesystem with a checksum. And that checksum only comes into play during log recoveries. Once a block is committed to disk there is no checksum in play (unless the fs has special support for it).

Some newer journaling filesystems support metadata checksumming, but that is not some requirement to be journaling. XFS has not always supported metadata checksumming, and it’s a relatively recent addition to ext4 (like last decade). NTFS doesn’t do checksums on even metadata. This is one reason why ReFS is a thing.
Here's another. The number one, in the mathematical sense, remains the same value, regardless of the time or galaxy that you discuss the number 'one'. Mind you, I'm not describing the 'one' as tied to a physical quality like temperature, mass, heat transfer etc.
There might be a potential market in HFT/trading firms (market makers). They're struggling to recruit right now (industry is doing very well, so high headcount growth) and they're usually pretty small so joining w/ friends means working in closer proximity than you might get in big tech.

Their small class size and heavy new-grad hiring also means that they're usually more flexible with recruiting and some would probably welcome a new pipeline for talented new grads like this.
> Either way, playing a zero-sum game still seems at odds with value creation.

Tesla is very volatile... if you sell at all-time-high and buy shorts at the same time doesn't seem very risky
> an event or events that threaten the health, safety or wellbeing of a large group of people

In a despotic country that could be a constant thing.
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Bad gateway for me.
This is a pretty awful doc. While technically it's not wrong, it doesn't continue to follow the flow long enough. The example given of "creating money" by creating a balance in someone's account is meaningless. In practice, the money is almost immediately sent to... the seller of the house. They may then go pay off their mortgage at their bank... and nothing much has changed.

I can "create money" too, out of thin air. I'll create a line of credit for you. $10,000. Boom, you have money to spend. I made it out of nothing. You have an account with me for $10,000. Problems arise when you actually go to spend it. Do I have enough assets so I can in fact send the money to the seller of the tractor you just purchased? It just became more concrete.

The idea banks make money out of thin air is a stupid idea, it sounds clever but does nothing except muddy the waters. Nobody used to say the local grocer was "creating money out of thin air" when they created a line of credit. In both cases they have enabled more economic activity - and "creating money" as defined by big brains in economic departments at universities is just a fancy, abstract way of saying "enabled more economic activity by creating credit".
Can you please clarify why this is? I don't understand why it would decrease security.
No, the correct way to do it is to reduce the size of the money supply, or at least slow its growth.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
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I have heard this line a fair few times as well (not taking a stance in terms of whether it is factually true or not) and it is in my experience fairly common among supporters of authoritarian systems. Given that the leadership is largely (if not entirely) infallible, clearly it was the execution of their orders that was flawed and the fix should be to give them further power and prune some underlings. Rinse, repeat, and the system survives.

Look at a TV “audience” with Putin and you will see the very same pattern.
Your assumption is true, but only for rooted phylogenetic trees. In unrooted trees the node representing the most ancestral state is absent and thus no directionality can be determined.
If you are an attacker, all that is necessary is to compromise one device. Super easy by comparison to a locked-down corporate device, and you are off to the races.

All a vengeful IT staff member has to do is name and shame the hospital. It would be a sign screaming "attack me." It would probably be as easy as leaving some flash drives in the parking lot.
Twitter, under shareholder pressure, begins deal talks with Musk
It's a common myth but so-called "right to work" laws have nothing to do with non-competes.
This has really saddened me. Many of the early were insanely important events.

The cities that hosted them revere their remnants as if they were holy (Eiffel Tower, etc.)

But the world has forgotten.
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What bothers me in the past few days is to make sense of what’s happening in Shanghai. There are quite a bit of rumors, but nothing makes sense. However, now I think that I have arrived at a reasonable explanation of what happened.

First, let’s establish some facts:

1. Once you have more than 10k cases in a city with Omicron (R0 ~ 9), true zero-covid policy (as opposed to zero-covid in-face policy, a.k.a. Hong Kong) will cause big human suffering no matter what. There are limitations on what an organization can do.

2. Xi is not a smart person, but he has a big picture in mind and is ruthless. He doesn’t mind being hated in one place, as long as he maintains the power.

3. There are no success stories under CCP to fight one faction against another with street movements. CCP is allergic to any instability, especially after the Cultural Revolution. That is why 1989 can only be ended in that particular way.
If you only looked at the symptomatic cases in Shanghai, it can be argued that the dynamic zeroing policy is working, and there is no exponential growth.

With these facts in mind, it doesn’t make sense if Shanghai Clique wants to use the Shanghai situation as ammunition against Xi. The dissatisfaction of Shanghai people will only translate into street movement, a.k.a: instability. If it is a way to prove zero-covid policy doesn’t work, anywhere else is much better to start, and you want it to be nation-wide. For example, Beijing is a much better place to start and Xi would lose face big time.

What’s more plausible, is the following:

Shanghai encountered an outbreak of Omicron, and they chose to weather through this with a combination of under-testing and natural immunity (Shanghai has the highest vaccination rate in China and it shows from the asymptomatic cases). Xi & his people saw an opening to expel Shanghai Clique once for all, and start to implement the most strict zero-covid policy in Shanghai.

So far, the reaction has been what they were expecting. People are revolting, which in turn fueled hatred against Shanghainese in other parts of China. Further instability in Shanghai ensured, and that can only help him to consolidate power more just before the Conference. Remember, Xi’s base is never the middle-class from big cities.

What Shanghai Clique can do:

Contrary to other rumors, there are limited options Shanghai Clique has. Street movements (like Colour Revolution) would guarantee a failure, and further erosion of their power. However, they can leverage Jiang’s influence by having him visit Fangcang. He enjoyed great respect from the old generation of Shanghai. However, this is a tricky balance because aligning themselves as sympathizers to street movements is a sure way to lose power within CCP (like Zhao in 1989).
It would be flagged because people clicked the links. Why could be any number of reasons… almost certainly a variety.
>"Western leaders don't get up in the morning and recite lists of them."

Well they should as they've caused quite a share of those crises.
We will need hundreds of GW-scale ammonia synthesis plants. Thousands, maybe. Fortunately, there are no impediments to operating them at any required scale. You just add on more units.

Nuclear reactors have very difficult engineering problems unknown in most other technologies. For a nuke, you might actually need to build a GW-scale pilot plant to discover the failure modes that show up there. Not so, most things. A bigger dam just needs more turbines. A bigger wind farm just needs more wind turbines. A bigger solar farm just needs more panels. A bigger ammonia plant just needs more catalyzer units. You can start it running after the first one, and add more at leisure.

That is a thing that makes renewables + storage so much more attractive than nukes: You are guaranteed no unpleasant surprises, and no existential disasters. That it is also radically cheaper, and starts working immediately, is icing on a very nice cake.
You are advocating indiscriminate and collective hatred towards entire nationalities. That hatred is the root cause of genocide.

And if that is truly your attitude, you don’t even have a consistent moral basis to claim that genocide is categorically wrong. By your logic, an entire nationality of people are collectively responsible for whatever their regime and military do. Since a hostile military can be justifiably killed, why not the civilian populace? I have an answer that question; do you?
I upload a before and after picture or a video to the ticket, and then link it in the PR description, so design or product can comment before developers.
Twitter is reportedly reconsidering Elon Musk's bid
I wonder if someone pretending would be less by it.
Birthday if you want to access any account. Not if you want to access a targeted account.

Whether the math is right if it were birthday I don't remember at the moment.
I have to wonder, if part of the motivation in publicizing this row between billionaires has something to do with an effort to prop up the price of TSLA.
Unfortunately, being offended doesn't make you correct:

> The neologism two-spirit was created in English, then translated into Ojibwe, in 1990 at the third annual Native American/First Nations gay and lesbian conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, as a replacement for the offensive, anthropological term, berdache.

> The primary purpose of coining a new term was to encourage the replacement of the outdated, and offensive, anthropological term berdache, which means "passive partner in sodomy, boy prostitute"

(from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit#Etymology)
If I recall correctly Nvidia does not allow you to put consumer cards into data centers. They force you to buy a different line of cards which are like 10x more expensive. That may be a driver of the AWS price.

Update — I do recall correctly. Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-bans-consumer...
Well Beijing has taken over Shanghai. The number of deaths is miss reported. (If someone has heart disease and dies of covid it’s reported as heart disease, this keeps their numbers Low and explains why America gets 22k deaths from seasonal flu and China gets 50 despite having 4-5 times the population.)

And hospitals aren’t coping, and office blocks are being turned into quarantine facilities that lack basic things like showers.

Even the actual quarantine facilities are being used despite not being completed.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CcJFpN3pEN3/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M...

https://www.whatsonweibo.com/aerial-view-photos-of-shanghai-...
> It is a partially self-correcting problem. Leaders die.

But the next people do the same. One major question that the younger generation doesn't ask is, 'how do I not repeat that mistake when I have power?'
I doubt that term was enforceable anyway.

Random things don’t become real just because they’re written down. Contracts have to represent “a meeting of the minds” and there has to be adequate consideration (expensive asks should be paid for). Slipping an uncompensated noncompete clause into a sports liability waiver has a low chance of satisfying either principle.
I think it's common for fleets to have similar named. Here's some of the ship names of Royal Carribbean, which follow '____ of the Seas' convention:

Quantum of the Seas

Anthem of the Seas

Ovation of the Seas

Spectrum of the Seas

Harmony of the Seas

Symphony of the Seas

Wonder of the Seas*

Freedom of the Seas

Liberty of the Seas

Independence of the Seas

Radiance of the Seas

Brilliance of the Seas

Serenade of the Seas

Jewel of the Seas

Voyager of the Seas

Explorer of the Seas

Adventure of the Seas

Navigator of the Seas

Mariner of the Seas

They have plenty more ships.

*The largest cruise ship as of Jan 2022.
All this talk about soap but none about clean water!
> representations of people actually having sex? Nah that's pron.

Not every culture is the same. Maybe your culture perceives that as taboo and therefore erotica. Perhaps a hunter gatherer society would not even think people having sex in front of them as taboo or erotic. Who knows? We're stuck so deep in our culture that we can't perceive it any other way. Our brains get wired that way due to our culture and upbringing and there is a loss of plasticity after that. The point I'm making is that it is overly simplistic to make assumptions of what is and is not erotic to an ancient culture separated by 2000 years.
One of the reasons the cost looks so radically different is also because it is not comparing the same things.

AWS is not just GPU + electricity. It's GPU + a server + a rack + electricity + network + a physical data center + real estate + labor + reserve capacity + automation, etc...
I just tried the cloudflare one and saw something interesting, while it was gathering data, the bandwidth doubled from below my advertised rate to above it, which kind of suggests my ISP recognized it was a speed test and increased the bandwidth...
My guess is there's too much money on the table for those in the western establishment (corporate media and government) to call a spade a spade. If official criticism of China becomes too strong then the public might start asking for the sort of economic sanctions that would hurt western business interests as well. Basically, a manifestation of that old theory about international trade preempting wars.
They are certainly related. The reason the deposits aren't sitting there is because they went flying out the door to fund the loans the bank made. If the bank could just fund loans out of thin air, they wouldn't need bank deposits in the first place.

Just go look at the balance sheet of a real bank. You'll see it all balances very nicely - there are assets (mostly loans to businesses and consumers), liabilities (mostly deposits) and shareholders equity (mostly money shareholders put up). Here is one to look at:

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/72971/000007...

All those 100's of billions of loans on the books are funded.

Money comes in, money goes out, nothing much has changed in 1000s of years.
Yes, exactly. Who cares that page numbers might canonically be for one paper size and not correspond to page sizes on some device? You can scroll or whatever and still use the canonical page numbers.
One thing that I observe about how China deals with COVID: leadership assumes that they have perfect control over perfect people.

Therefore they try these type of solutions like complete lock-down of a city of 26m people.

They assume that they are perfect as leaders, so planning is perfect and takes everything into consideration.

They assume that people will execute their orders perfectly, even under extreme hardship (hunger, lack of medication, being separated from children in hospital, being separated from sick parents, etc).

Of course none of that is true.

For all its failures, democracy at least has taught us to incorporate the human imperfection into the process and the decisions.

We have to compensate for human imperfection, the same way a good engineer takes into consideration the imperfection of the materials, imperfection of signals, numerical imperfections in algorithms, etc.

I am curious when China will adjust their model/plan for COVID to consider the vast amount of counter-evidence that is accumulating.
How long before someone figures out how to encode lightweight higher kinded types[1] in Golang. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

[1] https://ybogomolov.me/01-higher-kinded-types/
It's fairly cheap to build if you're allowed to build, though. The issue is all the paperwork.
It's a non-issue he's addressed many times. What happens after you collide a single hash, you need to have a useful commit that isn't going to destroy the ability of the code to run AND do something useful to you, etc etc? Also what happens after the next commit, where all the hashes recalculate? It's possible to be an issue, but highly improbable. More likely your creds are hacked or the fact that no one signs their commits finally bites us on a wide scale.
I do wonder what a good World's Fair of 2022 would look like. Perhaps it's a bit silly, but I think the movie Tomorrowland got at some sort fundamental change in outlook that seems to have accompanied the earlier World's Fairs. How would you avoid making it simply a trade show?
>> “My dad got a job straight out of high school, saved up, and bought a house in his 20s,” said Anne Dakota, a 21-year-old receptionist from Asheville, North Carolina, who earns minimum wage. “I don’t even think that’s possible for me, at least with the current money I make.”

> I think this is pretty much the whole story. It’s very hard to be motivated to work when you could save your entire adult life and still struggle be able to afford such “entry level” things as a house or even a new car.

This makes sense if the father were also a receptionist in a similar sized company.
Yes, this was my thought as well. The beginning of the waiver read something like "In consideration of the services received from COMPANY NAME, ..." and my immediate reaction was "I'm the one paying you here, not the other way around." The owner is a real estate attorney so I'm sure he's not oblivious either.
On a related note - used hotel towels and washcloths seem to end up in jails. I saw various brands products, sometimes in good condition, sometimes worn to threads, handed out for use by the detainees when I was inside.
Same thing in Nazi Germany. The Fuhrer was considered to be above party politics and the anti-semitic actions of the nazi state. Of course he wasn’t, but its a tried and true tactic I guess.
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The Federal Reserve operates like any other bank with the exception that as a central bank it is exempted from capital ratios and also serves as the Bank for the US Treasury. Because it isn’t limited by capital ratios it can’t absorb losses and so is constrained by US Congress to US guaranteed debt instruments.

If this were not the case and the Federal Reserve were to lose money and be need to be bailed out the Federal Reserve would be making fiscal policy which is reserved to the US Congress by the constitution.

In other words the Federal Reserve would be able to bail out Ford Motors investors (if it wanted to) by simply buying unlimited amounts of Ford Motors bonds at below market rates. This would tend to piss off Congress who rightly believes that the Constitution grants them that authority.

In some cases Congress has granted the Federal Reserve some authority to purchase other assets such as during the 2008 financial crisis. I’m that case a specific amount of money was allocated by Congress. The Federal Reserve ended up leveraging up the allocated funds which ended up working out for the Taxpayer but didn’t make some in Congress happy.

The net-net of that rambling is that the Federal Reserve is fairly limited in what it can buy so it has very limited control over where they money it creates goes. It can flow into assets like stocks or real estate or into consumer loans to purchase groceries if there are people willing and able to assume more debt and banks able to lend it.

Congress and the Federal Reserve working together have more options. Congress can allocate $1 trillion dollars to fund a green energy program and then the Federal Reserve can buy all of the bonds necessary for the Treasury to fund it. The Treasury pays interest on those bonds and the Federal Reserve gives it back to Congress. As long as the Federal Reserve continues to roll the bonds it is essentially “free money”.

Of course nothing is ever really free as this free money transfers purchasing power from people holding cash as they are diluted. This is essentially what happened during covid.

Long term the bill still has to be paid either through taxes or increased inflation (like we’re seeing now) both with consequences for the economy.

If Congress wanted to provide more tools to the Federal Reserve it could provide them with tools to funnel money directly to households. For example creating an “America Saves” program where employers would be required to fund an employee savings account each year invested in US Treasuries which employees could borrow against and interest paid accumulated to the employee.

The Federal Reserve could create money by purchasing Treasuries from these accounts when consumers took out loans and remove money by increasing interest rates and limiting the percentage of assets that could be borrowed against.
Ask HN: Tech employees' comp about go down with Meta, Netflix, etc. struggling?
The past few years, salary for SWE and Data Scientists was buoyed by the really competitive offers from the likes of Meta, Uber, Netflix, etc. Now that those companies are facing serious headwind with shrinking profit. Do you see a re-pricing for SWE/DS salary across the board?
Or he's just acting in the interests of American corporations who in turn have financial interests in China. Not so much an organized conspiracy, but rather an emergent behavior from a system of common incentives. Like Chomsky describes in Manufacturing Consent.
BPMN 2.0 is a reasonable start.
Microsoft is looking to put ads in games – Can it please players and brands?
Given how often I've seen

> There is no runtime available right now. Please change the compute type or try again later.

recently, that's not always true.

It's always funny to me when you run into a wall of "no more instances" in AWS. It doesn't happen often unless you're at a massive scale, but it does happen surprisingly often with the GPU types
Correct idea, wrong party.

It's the ADs that are the poison. All of that ad money from Chinese companies and related entities; it sure would be a shame if (News station) got blacklisted as an AD network partner.
#shanghaistrong
Ahhh, now I see!
There is no forest, only trees.
How can one be sure that this is proper sterilized? Mistakes can happen in the process, making this a potential source of disease. No thanks.
Our daughter was born a month premature, but was absolutely normal. Yet the hospital insisted on nicu for the first night. That was already too harrowing for us first time parents. Can't imagine what you guys went through (Jacques, Noe) and very glad in the end everything worked out. Being used to posts/replies from Jacques (and others) on tech subjects I forget that everyone here is still human with human problems. Thank you for sharing and injecting a dose of humanity and empathy in me.