skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> During this incident, we missed our RTO but met our RPO.

You missed your recovery time objective by ~2 weeks and did not properly communicate the issue from senior management until around a week into the outage. It is great to hear about how the company plans to do better, let's see how the next outage improves things.
> it looks a bit awkward, that the letters are staggered instead of deformed according to the flag curving

The curving is supposed to indicate z-axis movement - a flag billowing in the wind. The deformation would be of a bulge/pinch variety and not just following the curve. Either way, it's going to be a lot less legible.

> oval car sticker symbols

Yeah, that would have been ideal. They wouldn't be flags anymore, but I think it's a better compromise. And like you observed, instantly useful.
Bits don't rot. If a software that worked fine when it was released no longer works on the latest version of the platform, it is entirely the fault of the platform developer who failed to maintain backward compatibility. It is the consequence of deliberate platform choices and we should not try to shift the blame onto individual 3rd party developers or conjure up mystical forces like "bit rot".
Nice! Seems like a nice-to-have tablet! Does the framerate suck? My mom sometimes uses it to read digital books, but she's kind of tired of having to buy 'official' books
through the kindle store, sign in, wait for it to connect to the internet.
I've repeatedly asked for the lock screen to be the last page read. Then you can use it to display a reference page, or your daily schedule, or whatever.
Definitely brings up some good points. You may as well add new code points for every sexuality that is proposed, it's not like we're ever going to run out of space.

Contrary to what the article says, I do think that flags change frequently, but (in agreement with the article) that's not Unicode's problem. Its up to Apple and other emoji designers to update them, and it's free PR so why wouldn't they?
Likewise, for some reason it still seems to be socially acceptable among the educated professional and managerial classes to discriminate against the less intelligent and even openly mock them. There seems to be a social consensus now that it's wrong to make fun of people with an IQ below about 70 (intellectually disabled) but apparently those in the roughly 71 - 99 IQ range are fair game. Is that morally right? I don't understand it.
>the voter record has always been part of the public domain

I think you should make it clearer that "the voter record" does not include who you voted for.

Joe Schmoe is a Democrat and voted in the last election is presumably public information.

A record of who he voted for would be unprecedented and explosive news.
... but will it allow me to turn my Kindle off?
Quick advice from an EM on fast tracking your career in tech
By the time that happens, Bob has been promoted out of the team, or transferred somewhere where people don't read his code.
Even if they do, I wouldn’t want to work for them
Note, this seems to be different from TLS fingerprinting (which Google also does)
This is completely off topic here, but the first promotion of Int64 -> Float64 is also iffy as not every Int64 is exactly representable. The Int64 -> Float16 promotion also looks weird to me because Float16 range is so small
that’s what I love about HN. Thank you! now that’s hilarious! Unfortunately it fell completely flat for me without knowing the backstory. Or perhaps the execution of the story was just lame, particularly trying to tie the other story arc felt artificial and forced.
I wonder how the jailbreak works; is this a Linux kernel exploit or?
Glad to read an opinion from someone who can think for themselves. Rust/Swift propaganda can be quite effective. These languages solve fake problems.
For this reason (logical or not) I always feel avoid posting pictures of myself while on vacation and have a tendency to post a "summary" after I return home.
This is awesome. Just watched some Youtube videos of people using the app, looks great.
C++

I don't think Go or Rust has the mature graphics APIs you'd need
always get those two confused!
If you are looking for a modern free desktop accounting platform check out FrappeBooks - https://github.com/frappe/books. Version 1.0 is round the corner.
The measure of success for a corporation isn't number of products released, it's revenue/profit. Valve has higher revenue per employee than any other gaming company.

They have first mover advantage on a platform that's true, but even when competitors significantly undercut them they can't take any notable percentage of Steam market share. Epic is literally giving away free content every month and can't compete.
This is a bad case of body dysmorphia. The amount of variance in mating success attributed to a 3 inch difference in height is far less than improvements in personality/fitness/success can account for. Not condoning by any means women crapping on short guys, but empirically women readily change their stated height preferences in the face of other outlying factors. In contrast, it's much harder for women to change their level of desirability.
They adopt this belief based on repeated experience. You're going to take their entire life of observations and tell them to just try harder? What do you think they're doing?
Lol do you should keep an idiot who shot a (looks at notes for what’s as cheap as 600k in the army) a javelin missile while drunk? It’s prudent to apply the concept of nuance. If some intern deleted all these accounts you should fire the guy responsible for letting things free enough for the intern to do it but you should fire them. Whatever lesson learned could be learned from a wiki page detailing the incident.
> Java should be immune to that, but no.

I can't comment on Choco, but no garbage collector is immune against programmer's mistakes. For example, it's easy to create leaks with observable pattern (short-lived observers not unsubscribing from a long-lived observable). IOW: know when to use weak references.
There are managers and directors in tech who realize that their job is to hire the best given their budget.

This happens, in particular, when hiring technical middle management at "second tier but still amazing" employers. Outside of FAANG, but definitely household names. The unique characteristic is that their "ideal candidate" will almost certainly interview and is almost certainly unaffordable.

At lower tier employers, it's safe to tell yourself "we hire the best" because the best almost never apply (and, when they do, they're doing so for a very good reason and probably understand your constraints).

Also, for fungible roles, you always say "we hire the best" because you don't actually care about hiring the best but telling everyone that you did is good for morale because that means they're the best.
They're relevant to all the men not having casual sex.
> This quip never made much sense.

I see it as: Your employee just learned a valuable lesson, and you definitely don't want to hire another new employee to make that same mistake again.

Ultimately, it's the owner taking responsibility for the fuck up because they hired the employee, but still standing behind their decision to hire the employee.

If your employee is an idiot and makes up 39% of mistakes, of course you won't keep them around when they make a big one. But most employees are not fuck-ups, as you alluded to with 2% of doctors making a majority of malpractice suits.
How available was salt? Meat without salt is often not very tasty.
I kinda get it. I'm an ex poor, still frugal person, but I got a spot in a comfy company. My colleague is also a new hire and got 50% more salary. I don't need more money, but since I sense I'm more skilled than him, I have this itch that I should play the game a bit to maximize money. It's less about competing or getting rich, and more about shielding myself from an absurd system when a lot of dogs get all the money by putting you under the bus.. so I'd rather stop bleeding like an idiot :)
You are correct. I know nothing about how Rust was actually developed, but I'd bet a lot of money that its creators were very big into Haskell. In addition to traits/type classes, Rust has quasi-monads (the Try trait is a fraction of the functionality but ends up being 95% of the real world use IMO) and uses a weaker form of Hindley-Milner that, again, is good enough for 95% of inference. And of course it has sum types and a limited set if Haskell's pattern matching (with the @ syntax to boot).
Does this have a limit? I've been using this, which is max 20:

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/91477/anonymous-...
What context is informing your comment?

So far, data shows that well-made EVs have lower maintenance and repair costs than legacy vehicles in similar categories. There are definitely some fairly unreliable EVs—early leafs with horrible batteries (early technology), and exploding chevy bolts (GM...you tell me), but that isn't true for the latest or high end vehicles. Also, the USPS is self-insured (and therefore insurance costs are irrelevant), and chip shortages would really only impact the steady delivery of vehicles and (to a lesser extent) service parts.
Looks pretty cool! we recently release https://play.strawberry.rocks which also uses Pyodide, can't wait to have more python stuff in the browsers!
NFTs are just links, aren't they? Or did we already lose that battle, and linking to a copyrighted work is copyright infringement?
It's not like physics is 100% theoretical , untestable stuff.

Unfortunately the untestable stuff gets the most press. If you talk to experimental physicists in university, they'll tell you all that stuff isn't treated seriously by them, but reading the press you may get the impression that things like string theory are widely-respectable and that there is only some disagreement, usual science stuff. The press really distorts the picture of what most physicists think about these topics.

(Also, I wouldn't use the term "theoretical" for untestable stuff. I would use "speculative". "Theoretical physics" does not imply unfalsifiable speculation, it can actually be fruitful scientifically.)
But for whatever reason we might say that racism has led to violent strife or wars, but has social tension between tall and short men led to war? Heavy conflict does not seem to organize along lines of tall vs short.

And on a related question, what is the essence of sexiness, and is attraction to the sexy wrong?
That doesn't make sense, surely these women know their own height and can estimate from there. 2" is about 5cm, that's a substantial error when it amounts to "how much taller are they than me" and that gap on average is <15cm in USA.
What? That makes no sense. Something called "dprint" is obviously written in D.

...right?
Does the fact that sometimes graphic artists misinterpret commission requests imply that they are not conscious? People misunderstand each other all the time, and then play an interrogative game to try to synchronize their minds. That is, they ask questions.

DALL-E right now doesn't have the facility to ask questions, but iterating on the request statement is a bit of a proxy for it. I'd argue that this is exactly what understanding does in fact look like.

That isn't to say that DALL-E is AGI or conscious or anything like that. It's just to say that the mere presence of occasional misunderstanding is not a marker of un-intelligence. It's precisely when you are able to access the richness of symbolic reasoning that misinterpretation is at greatest risk, e.g. your calculator never misinterprets you.
Recently I was asked about something to manage a basic income/outcome finances for a small bar.

The lack of a basic "cash in the register in the morning", i.e. a basic ability to input the transactions in the different times of day (despite the backend supports it) was an instant no go for the task.

I used GnuCash for a couple of years to track the finances of my family, but the inability to place the transactions by the time is a thing which drived me to totally abandon the thing.
Half of the universe nowadays run on containers with volume mounts. No need to be worried about it being a container per se.

What you should worry about though is the underlying volume driver and its storage type. Volumes can be simple bind mounts to your local disk, being more or less identical to no container. But volumes can also be attached straight to a network disk, where same dangers apply as if you would have mounted that network disk on host.
I always upload books to the Kindle via wifi. You email the .mobi version to youremail@kindle.com, within a minute you will get a verify email, where you have to click the link, then the file gets pushed to your kindle. I'm too lazy to deal with wires and stuff.
Well, that still falls well short of "control [of] the mass distribution of information [the government] doesn't like".
I want to hear more about this AI-generated FOSS Final Fantasy. Is there anything you've shared about it yet?
Thick skin doesn’t solve the issue though. Shorter men are valued less in society regardless of how little you let it effect you emotionally. This has real tangible effects for your everyday experience.

Being made fun of and the source of jokes is never going to be solved by having “thick skin”. Shorter men will still be seen as lesser even if they don’t let it effect them mentally. End of the day - your material being will be markedly different than those with greater height regardless of how you respond to it. For some - this will be so severe that they will likely die alone due to it even though they themselves are not troubled by their height or the jokes people make about them. And honestly - letting it get to you might actually help.

Sometimes I wish I had been more insecure growing up because then I would’ve treated my acne and not had all the facial scarring. I almost didn’t get braces because I didn’t see the issue with my extremely British teeth. I wasn’t concerned about my attire (but I should have been!) because I didn’t think it mattered and I wasn’t concerned. Again - thick skin can actually be quite detrimental to your outcomes!
(for educational purposes only, do not try at home)

You can download books and send them via email to your Kindle. I do this all the time (with only free books, of course ;) )
What is your Series B startup? How does it use what you are building here? And how did you get it funded? :)
> Windows does not allocate handles sequentially

Indeed it does not, but it's not "random" either, i.e., they do get reused, probably rather quickly, so it does not solve the problem.

Mark Russinovich or Raymond Chen (I think) had an article about why it's a bad idea to forcibly close files that are in use and they gave exactly that as a reason: the closed handle gets valid again, but for a different object, and, voila - corruption!
Triple-clicking and dragging selects text paragraph-by-paragraph.
I like them both but disappointingly, they both insult people based on superficial traits. Seems like every time Stewart talked about Mitch McConnell he would do the turtle thing where he made fun of the way McConnell looks and speaks.
miss u bud, all the best.
Depends on what you're defending against. Sequential ids are easy to guess, and that's why we have ASLR for memory management.
The Oxford International Activebook [1] is a nice notebook.

- Spiral Bound
- A5+
- Polypropylene cover
- Lovely paper

While not available on Amazon.com, they are available at Amazon.co.uk and can be shipped to the US. [2]

[1] - https://www.my-oxford.com/int-en/oxford-international/oxford...
[2] - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000KJM824/ref=ppx_yo_dt...
Is there some way we can do this:

Bundle web articles I save as an ebook and send them to my Kindle. When I save new articles, that old book is updated on my Kindle - basically an append-only service.

I've been looking for this for a while, but don't find an easy way to update an existing book to append more pages to it. Any pointers are welcome, I'm willing to implement it.
Is it only for the 3x3x3 cube?
> If I ask for a red box on top of a blue box

The model has to encode those words into a fixed length vector, an architectural design decision, not an inherent requirement. For example translation systems can translate such phrases perfectly, but they don't pass the representation through a single vector bottleneck.
You think negative numbers in a signed type are a 1-in-a-1000 case, really?

Silently casting signed integers to unsigned is a terrible idea, and a recipe for bugs. And completely unnecessary to boot, because you could promote Int8 to Int16, and (Int16, UInt16) to (Int32, Int32).
I'm a short guy (5'6") married for nearly 2 decades to an even shorter woman (4'11"). Perhaps its easy for me to say it because I've beaten the odds, but it seems to me it would be better to die alone than to be in a shitty relationship or to be in a relationship with someone that thinks they are making a concession by dating a shorter person. People cannot help what they are/are not attracted to so I have no animosity towards women that like tall guys, but even if that shrinks the dating pool 200x that's a better situation than wasting time with a person that isn't really into you.

Also, gold diggers are shitty people. You can't have a real relationship with one.

I can't blame the desperate people that volunteer to become mail order brides for thinking that screwing over some poor sap from a 1st world country is a lesser evil than them having to remain in poverty, but you'd have to be insane to marry one.

There's no way to cheat the system, if a person isn't genuinely attracted to you, whether its physically or otherwise, you have no chance of building a life with them that's going to make the two of you happy.
From TFA, in case you were wondering:

> If you lose 10kg of fat, precisely 8.4kg comes out through your lungs and the remaining 1.6kg turns into water. In other words, nearly all the weight we lose is exhaled.
A better solution is to "just" be more thoughtful & honest about who (if any) needs to be fired (it sucks to fire people so a lot of managers put it off but really shouldn't, sometimes). I don't think there's a systematic/technocratic solution to a human/social problem like that, at least not one that doesn't have other massive downsides (like stack ranking).

Your hiring process should be good enough that firing is rare but nobody is perfect and if/when the situation arises (either due to a bad hiring decision or the situation changing) it's better to resolve it earlier rather than later.
The ACLU used to be a great organization, but it has basically completely abandoned its original mission:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

The internet archive is definitely worthy of a donation though.
One of the things that should be mentioned in videos like this is just how much data these particle experiments produce nowadays, or how long it takes to analyze it all, and even to write the programs to do that analysis. These things produce so much data, so fast, that the high performance computing setups needed to run particle physics are extremely interesting of their own right.

Now, I'm not saying that Sabine Hossenfelder should go into detail about that, but that she should mention the gargantuan amounts of data involved because that alone should be enough to cause people to wonder just how solid these results are.
Complaining about not getting enough dates is the number one reason you’re not getting enough dates
Ask HN: What is the best use for wasteland with little water in tropics?
I am planning to buy a wasteland measuring 5-10 acres in India without a lot of water. I plan to save water using rainwater harvesting and hoping that I run into some groundwater. This land has no irrigation facility.

What would be the most efficient use of something like this ? I am planning to start a small library/ school for impoverished tribals but I was wondering if there is any way a land like this can be made self sustaining using new technological or other solutions that I may not be aware of.

I always ask myself questions like:

What is the best way to convert sunlight & water to biomass ?

How to utilize solar energy locally ?

How much water can I reuse ?

The idea is to show that something sustainable can be done with right approach and hopefully support at least 4-5 poor people and more others (via education).
Damn I’m dumb. I wasn’t looking at the cloud section. Your right. Thank you!
I never thought that this would happen, but here I am referring to a post on Wall Street Oasis: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/off-topic/height-leagu...
They won't lose much if they 'cooperate' (pay more taxes) while others 'defect'. They'll still be very rich.
Great to see this. I stopped using GnuCash completely once the Android app stopped getting updates, but if this web app works well it might get me back into it.
I have this in my Amazfit Bip watch with one month battery life and always readable display and to this day I don't understand why there are pretty much none other watches using trans reflective display besides very expensive garmin which still has crappy battery life.

Had for few months stint with OLED smartwatch until I returned back to Bip, OLED was unbearable in daylight unless on maximum brightness and I had to charge it minimum twice a week, while I charge Bip once a month.
They've never wanted to defeat the pirates. The pirates are the excuse for all the shitfuckery.
Really it's a made up story from "data" that hasn't been shared from someone who is apparently happily married and learned about online dating at least second hand but seemingly just from tropes they've heard in online forums, so I'm not too worked up about the situation.
> You can do it, but it takes some work.

It's easy: create DLL/.so A with statically linked sqlite. create DLL/.so B with statically linked sqlite. Make a program using both DLLs.
The thing that turned me away from ynab is that their marketing seems to say that they're trying to change spending/saving behavior in some way. I don't need to plan or make a zbb, I just want to easily categorize and track my spending. Admittedly, I didn't even try their free trial, but it just didn't seem like a good fit.
The title is misleading on purpose. I consider this straight out misinformation from the BBC, they are misrepresenting what a study says, for clickbait reasons.
There is no right answer. Too much core functionality defined by the community can be confusing and lead to mixed quality. As a newbie, how do I even know what the “rust SDK” even looks like and what parts are better than others.

A large official language SDK has its own downsides too though. For my money, the .NET base class library is the best “batteries included” platform out there. It has certainly had its mis-steps over the years though. How many projects that went all-in on the original ASP.NET ( now called Webforms ) are now totally stranded on a technology island that the broad .NET community is racing away from? How about the graveyard of UI frameworks for .NET? WCF? Using the “official” solutions did not help guarantee any longevity for these technologies ( though they are mostly still “supported” ).

It is hard really to say that one approach is superior. The Rust tool chain at least makes the distributes solution easier. For some stuff at least. The lack of a baked in library might make things like use in the Linux kernel harder in some ways.
No. That's why it's called _shared_ memory segment. Between processes. It's like an in-memory file.
How does that make any sense? What those people need is a cheap EV with 50km range, and then rent a lnog-range vehicle for those few annual long trips. Why load your EV with several 100kg of ICE gear?
And if he's tall the comment might be high tower, or orange hair or big nose, big ears, bold, bad breath etc.

Stop trying to sanitise the world, that's why no one can live in it.