skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two different use cases and we need support for both.

Personally I prefer flat rate for unlimited everything if we're talking cell phone. It's not like I'll cancel it from month to month.

But for $random_site that is linked to from HN... no way I'll pay for a subscription. But I wouldn't pay 0.25 either for one article. Give up on the whale pricing and charge 1 cent.

This use case also needs a frictionless way of paying. No way I'm making an account for each site.
Putin cares too much about his internal front. He will gladly throw any foreign property owned by the Russian state under the bus if he thinks giving the Russians the foreign brands they are accustomed to can quell any disobedience or unrest. Either Russia takes the nationalistic route and converts all of its fast food joints to Uncle Vania's, or it will surely reopen its McDonalds while violating their brands. I don't really think they give a damn anyway, their business relations with the West are gone for good and they won't be mended any time soon.

Russia makes most of its money from primary sector exports (grains, oil, gas, minerals, ...), and that's basically the only thing they care about. They are building new markets in Asia for that, in countries like China that definitely don't give a damn about Burger King's IP or whatever. They know that unless Putin is deposed tomorrow and Russia demilitarises the Europeans will switch to LNG and North African natural gas anyway, they are just playing ball with what they have.

Also, those properties in the West would probably get confiscated or sequestered very soon anyway.
>There are rumors
>Supposedly

I'd rather prefer people to have an opinion and share it, instead of sharing rumours and "supposedly" theories without sourcing them.
Ask HN: Do you try to use HN's commenting guidelines as rules for life?
How's it working out for you?
It is really hard to design an efficient ASIC to predict the future compared to just designing an efficient ASIC after the future arrives.

The tools available today support such rapid design/test cycles.
FreeBSD-13.1-Release
I agree with what you wrote here... I just don't see how it relates to what I said.

Start-up have terrible survival odds.
Decisions should not be arbitrary.
There should be a detailed plan.
The First-Ever Map Showing Wildfire Risk to American Homes
I think your almost right, but it's not necessarily authenticity... I think it's just money.

Large "authentic" search engines can exist to serve the rest of the web, those personal blogs and other small communities. Those sites have a natural tendency to not be trying to turn everything into a revenue stream, so if that was the prerequisite for an engine, it would be a perfect match and naturally dissuade marketing types.
It seems that McDonald's closed stores that operated directly under their control. As a result, only stores in westert part of Russia were closed (in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg). The stores in Siberia (i.e. Novosibirsk) and in Moscow airports continued operating as usual, as they are working under franchaising. Even the mobile app continued functioning.

So not much is going to change, I think. Hell, McDonalds is even open in DNR/LNR "republics" under the name "DonMac".
I think there's two kinds of SEO spam going on.

The black-hat kind is definitely made to extract money from ads. But those are easy to avoid for web veterans IMO. And I also feel that Google is doing its part, even though it's costing them money from those sweet ads!

But the white-hat kind, also known as content marketing, is made to let legit companies save money. Instead of paying for Google Advertisement, they get traffic by means of organic content. Think "Michelin Guide" or "Red Bull". Which is a jolly fine idea and responsible for a lot of good stuff, but the problem is that this has been taken to extremes, and now the web is littered with low-effort content made by freelancer writers getting peanuts.

I would personally prefer if those freelancer writers were doing 10 interesting Red Bull articles per month rather than 500 rehashes of contents from other websites. But who am I to judge.

In the news industry things are also very similar.
What I feel like can happen with these changes is they'd probably push this as "See how much money we've saved by using these ingredients instead and the change in taste is barely noticeable!". Then they'll go through this process 10 times in the span of years and you'd end up with something that taste completely different than the original.
McDonalds was one of the prime buyers of local meat and other agricultural goods.

Them leaving the market = huge loses for farmers and companies. They have goods, they don't have a big buyer.

Not to mention all McD's staff.

They will sell their business and instead of McD you will get another just food brand but with broken logistics, business processes and so on.
Adding to the list I have been building for very long -- "Becoming irrelevant, Google Search" -- here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cSMY5wXSKhJdMxeJEvTUJ21e...
> Things don't get done unless action is taken. Progress is volitional and requires effort whether it's at the scale of a single individual or an entire global economy. If action

I am under the impression that there has been much R&D towards fossil fuel alternatives. Perhaps there could have been more investment from the government side, but it is 2022, and a fossil fuel Toyota Corolla still has no electric alternative in terms of the utility per price.

But innovation and technology take time, and resources, and are not foolproof to produce an alternative to all of fossil fuel’s uses. But more importantly, low fossil fuel prices keep demand for alternatives low, and demand for fossil fuel high.

The requisite action that has to be taken is reduction of use of fossil fuels, regardless of progress in alternatives. Nature does not owe us the excessive use of fossil fuels in the mean time.
Do you have some personal examples where Python wasn't suitable over bash for a non-trivial task?

I am admittedly a not very good bash'er, and this week at work I whipped up my first "complicated" bash script, but ended up rewriting it in Python. It might have just been the case that the IO bound nature of my task fell right into Python's strong suits (async IO), but it had me wondering what scenarios a bash script would be better.

Essentially I had to:

* iterate over a list of hundreds of thousands of files

* make an api call via aws cli

* take result and process it through a few shell utilities (`date` and `touch`) to then update the timestamps on the files.

I initially wrote it in bash which spawned ~16 background workers (threads/processes?) via `&` and blocking via `wait -n`. This "worked" but was pretty slow as the threads were thrashing checking for responses. Doing anything more than 16 caused my computer to crawl lol.

I then rewrote it in Python with async IO and the async subprocess API (to run shell commands) and it was an order of magnitude faster.

I wish I was better at bash, but maybe I just haven't spent enough time with it. Doing this task made me feel like I could pretty much doing most things in Python if I need a non-trivial script.
I'm glad someone else said it. I want to think of problems that other people write the code to solve for me. I'm so tired of having an idea and no one but myself to work on it. It's led to a nice GitHub portfolio but I'd have rather that the stuff I built had existed already.

This is mainly because most other people can execute with a better level of completeness than I can in the context of open source dev. This is mainly because I don't actually like programming, but I sure as shit love the niche I am programming for...
Maybe the data is wrong then?

- It was not an exhaustive or comprehensive search

- Reporting non-zero would drawn government scrutiny for how a car was sold during a strict lockdown

- Industry group reporting zero is trying to draw alarm/attention to helping their industry
I used to do this with a graphite pencil, battery, simple 1 transistor amplifier, and a piezo buzzer.

Lots of fun. Makes me yearn for the days of radio shack.
Instead of concluding millions of people are top class idiots, the evidence might suggest consideration of what circumstances would drive somebody to what an outsider would perceive as an incredibly idiotic move.
If you're trying to boost your user numbers, I'm in. Results on topics I search for are very sparse, but it's all content I hadn't seen before, which is great.

Sounds like your search engine is not suitable as a replacement for more traditional search engines, but it might complement them very well. I'll give it a try.

As for the SEO bots: can't you simply block those?
Realistically, where you host is a business decision because it has costs. If you want to couple to a cloud provider, etc is also a busines decision. The CTO's job is to provide you with an expert opinion. He has to convince you not the other way around.

In this thread, we have a lot of technical people who would want this to be a technical decision. But it is not. It's a business decision and has long term consquences often lasting longer than the technical staff who made them. The reason cloud providers give credits is for vendor lock-in. It's an entirely apporirate decision to want to avoid vendor lock-in and when people are selling technical products to companies they sell the business value first and the technical value second.

The business decision here is do you want to spend time and money just now on moving or do you want to spend time and money later on. If you want to avoid vendor lock-in go for a cheaper hardware solution then you need to spend time and salary money on setting it up. If you want to stay with Azure then from what I've read in this thread from what you've said you're going to have to spend money later on for resources and you're going to have to spend time and money later on managing the costs. This seems literally like technical debt.

While it may be frustrating to technical people that a business person is making a decision that effects how they work this happens in every other industry. Business people decide the vendors, they decide the materials, etc all based on business reasons.
This is actually hilarious. It never occurred to me to do something like ask for $25/hr to a dev job I absolutely wouldn’t want anymore.

Now that I think of it, I might even take the minimum wage approach a la ‘Always Sunny’
https://youtu.be/m3rFQwTWyRc
I got a pair of Hoka Bondi at the recommendation of my foot surgeon. I had a lisfranc fracture last July.

I don't love the feel, but the support and cushioning is unparalleled. I ran 5.5 miles and walked another 5 with no foot pain at all
Playing word association the word that doesn't come to mind when you say "McDonalds patrons" is wealthy.
It's not longer very easy for small biz, but it's free so...
Because Russia has 10k nuclear warheads that yankees are apparently ignoring, and the expansion of NATO is happening on european soil at european stability expenses, which apparently EU leaders are ignoring, you guys seem to think that I come here to say these things because I am a fan of Mister Putin, I am not, but I am aware that actions have consequences and if Hilary Clinton and Obama tell a guy that he is Hitler, when the guy is at the head of a state with 10k nuclear warheads, then Clinton and Obama need to fuck off a stay out of European soil affairs, because it is ultimately European states that border with this state. I understand this is not an issue for you, as you don't border with it and don't have business and energy and companies depending on it, but we are, the wellbeing and stability of the continent depends on talking and dealing with Putin at the moment, so we need EU leaders to stop being US puppet and start keeping in mind european interests and lives
And Sweden's needs? Finland's? Ukraine's?

This is the failing of the tankie argument: "but but the evil US" (and to be clear, the US has done plenty of awful things) ignores that Russia's other problem here is that they do nothing to make anybody actually want to support them. And it just so happens that Russia doesn't have the friends they'd need to do what they want--who knew?--and that is a historical failing.

Appealing to power politics only works when the parties attempting to exert power aren't bad at it. It's why the weirdos online have to insist that it's a "CIA op" making Sweden and Finland look at the aggressive power next door and go "hello, NATO": because reality has kneecapped the myth.
The problem with this is that either you use a framework or you end up writing one ad hoc using your libraries.

Say you use a web server library to help you handle requests on the wire, you’ll probably end up writing something generic where you set up a server, and pass in just the application code to receive the request and return the response which the library will send back.

You just wrote code that surrounds your application code — you made a framework. Then you realize that handling things like logging shouldn’t be in every handler so you invent middleware, you realize that your big ole block of app code is actually lots of small ones in if statements about the path so you factor that out and invent routes, etc. etc.
Yes, you're right.

He could have used getpantry.cloud (or similar)
For all the things Heroku was ‘early’ at (in a good way), I think Adam’s values were also a great example. I’ve borrowed so many of these.
It looks like you are right. Sorry for spreading this. It was all over the news, but it seems it has later been debunked as the satirical work of a 3d artist: https://twitter.com/hoaxeye/status/1507595277859180545
Many states had free maps at their rest areas.

I think Rand McNally is still around. I think I bought a topo map they made just a few years ago.

In the online map world, there are free alternatives if any one of them started charging.
Also in the press release

> McDonald’s restaurants in Ukraine remain closed while the Company continues to pay full salaries for its employees in the country…
Exactly, ask yourself why you keep hear about them over here, that'll answser part of the reason why they are moving away from it and are looking for a "reset" with a new "brand"

The exodus
"Analysis:

One cat completed only the first trial before escaping from the room and climbing out of reach."

I quite enjoyed this bit.
Logo Management is practically a cliche. Can't think what else to do to justify the big bucks? New Logo™!

So articles like these completely miss the point of the commercial design industry.

The goal isn't sales - never mind brand awareness. The goal is to make C-suite execs feel like they're doing something exciting, and maybe even a little creative.

From that POV I'm sure the Tropicana rebrand was a huge success.

And if a design fails, it's always the agency's fault.
Came here to read this
Oh, what an idea: take some battle-tested router hardware, put it into the tiniest possible form factor, use the battle-tested router-oriented Linux distro. Instant win!

This thing still allows you to wire 4 Ethernet ports, if you feel like it. But apparently these pins can be used somehow differently, too.
The "notes" I'm taking are mostly slack reminders on important messages when I know I have to come back to it soon.

Also, because I'm very much still a junior, I started breaking down my tasks and writing checklists using Joplin. Especially for larger tasks, it helps me keep track of what needs to be done, resulting in (hopefully) less mistakes.
One Man's Quest to Collect Every Classic PC Game in Existence
By exiting countries they can bring down obesity rates.
Grid-free Monte Carlo for PDEs with spatially varying coefficients
Do you spend most of your days reading from a shell/entering commands in a shell? That might make it more/less likely to care about the tooling you use. I spend a lot of time editing code, so naturally I care about what editor I use. Same with the shell.
> "I would estimate this position would be $25/hr plus the usual benefits."

That's an excellent troll, well played.

It sounds like they are going to end up with someone who's unable to do the work but can stretch the truth
> Duck Duck Go paid me to do their projects. I can understand skipping it if you don't want to put the time in; but at least they aren't taking your work for free.

Correct, they did pay. But I didn't really care about that. My only interest was a permanent job, not a short term contract. If I want short term contracts, I can find those elsewhere.
It's not about surfacing organic human content, it's about only indexing organic human content. The problem is automated indexing. So long as indexing works according to defined rules, the advantage will be to those able to shape their content to those rules, and the spammers and scammers will win.

An idea I've had for a few years is making a social-network based index engine. The only pages that get indexed are pages that users themselves mark as worth indexing, and the only pages returned in your results are pages that were marked for indexing by people you added to your circles, or the people in their circles, or the people in those circles, etc (probably up to 5 or 6 degrees of separation).
YES! Thank you! A Rosetta stone at last! Prometheus has come and my hearth is lit.
All our new buildings trap the heat. The exteriors are almost always made of dark brick, which retains the heat, and never ever rendered white. Our roofs are dark, high, pitched, and stuffed with insulation. So there's a huge pocket of hot air sat above the house as well.

There was a TV programme recently where they were pointing thermal cameras at buildings and you could see the temperatures very much above "ambient" long into the evenings.

It's something we should address in the UK but unfortunately the whole building industry in the UK is 100% in favour of maximising developer profits and minimising their costs. So rather than the old fashioned way of building thicker walls to stay warm in winter and cool in summer, we now have one skin of thin brick work, insulation (foam), breeze block, more insulation, steel/aluminium frame with insulation, covered in plasterboard (the final interior wall). Maximum profit, quick to build, cheap materials.

Unless the government legislates, the UK is building a whole stock of housing that's going to be rather awful for future generations.
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Unix was originally designed to work on teletypes, which are even slower and higher-latency than e-ink.

Having used an e-ink device heavily for over a year, including both local (Termux) and remote (SSH) system use via it and a keyboard, I'm conveninced that for text-heavy work it's fully functional, and would probably be viable with a sufficiently-thoughtful GUI which adhered to the design principles and respected the imitations of e-ink:

1. Persistence is free.

2. Pixels are cheap

3. Paints are expensive

4. Refreshes are slow

5. Colour is limited to nonexistent.

6. Pagination over scroll.

7. Full refresh (of page or portion) over pan.

8. Reflective rather than emissive.

9. Minimise animation.

10. Line-art or halftones over shade gradients (images).
many industries needs explosions, that can't be easily electrified. Mines being the best example.
More generally there are thousands different types of machines that currently consume fuel and needs to be reinvented to be electrified, and the governments are not funding said transition because politicians are not more informed than the average joe.
We win, you lose: How shareholder value screwed the middle class (2018)
Tang, Sunny D, and Kool-aid basically ruined the entire juice industry by popularizing adding artificial flavor and coloring to sugar water. IMO they shouldn't even be allowed to show images of fruit in their packaging/marketing, shouldn't be able to market to kids, and they should have a surgeon general's warning about obesity akin to cigarette packaging and cancer.

I've accidentally bought what I thought was fruit juice more than one time, and learned my lesson about reading the label. Many people might not ever bother.
Well, might not have been zero. Might just be the official records to ensure the state doesn’t crack down
I'm an entrepreneur so I don't need to ask for permission
I disagree. The crash so far is actually worse than the financial crisis and dotcom combined. So it's not like dotcom all over again... it's much worse. It's also not done.

>An exceptionally robust job market. The Federal Reserve raising interest rates at a rapid clip. Overheated financial markets starting to correct themselves, with the frothiest sectors bearing the brunt.

This is low inflation thinking. It's easy to get caught up in low inflation thinking because it's been quite steady for quite some time. So not a key consideration for so long. High inflation is whole new ball game.

>The layoffs started as a trickle and became a gush. IPOs were shelved, and the companies that had gone public saw their share prices dwindle.

Yet I see signs in doors suggesting the opposite. People are hiring. This is next level issues, this isn't what we should expect.

>Inflation reached its highest level in a decade of 3.8% that March, and the Fed raised interest rates a half-percent in May to try to rein in inflation.

Yes indeed. If only the fed raised rates when it was 3.8% and not 8.3%.

> The attacks sent an already shaky economy into a temporary tailspin — a reminder that geopolitical events can cause more economic pain when the situation is already precarious.

Geopolitics is certainly a factor. A top democrat literally said the USA is at war. Which implies the democrats believe they are at war with Russia. In the not-geopolitics pov, some democrats also believe the second us civil war has already started.

>The bottom line: The U.S. may well escape a recession this time around. But when the market sentiment reverses, like it did 22 years ago and is doing now, it becomes more vulnerable to whatever bad news may arrive.

No, it's far more problematic. This is bigger than a 'the fed mismanaged and we're going to have a bad time for a year'

We don't really know yet what the story is. Perhaps it's major military mobilizations; energy, food, wood, metals are suddenly quite high.

Another possibility is that we are heading into 2nd great depression.
Nah. You'll more likely get your window smashed if you gonna put some Z-swastika on it. No doubt a lot of population in Russian affected by propoganda, but primary goal of Putin's propoganda is to make people passive and not to have opinion on anything at all.

But yeah if you put anything Ukraine-related or anti-war related police will come to you immediately.
But pure ASICs get rid of even more of the GPU than just the output stage.
A pure ASIC to cover the fundamental calculations in hardware with just a CPU to feed them data and pull results is the most efficient.

Think of something as direct as a cell phone modem. The batteries last as long as they do because a ton of the low level modem behavior is done in accelerator blocks direct in hardware, and the DSPs just route data between the blocks and manage the higher level protocols.
Look into https://ohmyz.sh/ or https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit (or any other plugin managers) and some nice plugins.
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What if I never call my cat by name but call it as ksksksksksks? Friend cat ought to understand who is called but seems that is more about my voice then about names.
As I commented elsewhere. They're not doing nothing. They're maintaining the organization. In a large company with a service that needs to be reliable, doing things quickly can result in things... breaking quickly and causing headaches when there's no consensus, etc. So everything needs to be done slowly and carefully and looping in dozens of people even for small trivial things. It sucks working this way, so they have to pay a lot for it.