skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Russia does not want to "integrate" (i.e. adopt Western "values" for the benefit of those Western countries), Putin has said that out in the open back in Munich, in 2007,

Then I guess I'm confused about your comment:

> I still cannot understand what the US strategists think when they're throwing the Russians (and their huge mineral resources) directly into China's hands.

It seems you understand yea? Russia doesn't want themselves or their minerals in the hands of the West.

> I thought this global hegemonic thing that the US has had been left out somewhere in Iraq or/and Afghanistan.

No, it's just continued to evolve. Moving out of Afghanistan for example left a mess in the backyard of Iran, Pakistan, and China. Iraq so far has been a flawed, but growing in success endeavor.

> Afaik the US doesn't produce as much, it's China that does.

Sure, but that's not a lack of ability.

> In case of a future proxy war between China and the US cutting access to mineral resources might have been one of the main tactics adopted by the US. It's easier to do that when China brings in its resources via marine transport (it's a well established fact that the US dominates the planetary oceans), way harder to do that if said transport of resources is carried out "inside" a huge landmass like Eurasia.

I think there'd be a direct war. But I'm not sure you're disagreeing with me? The point I made was that the US Navy dominates the oceans and would block marine transport to China. In order for China to pivot into a defensive mode here it would have to spend a lot of noticeable money on infrastructure development for a future war that may or may not occur depending on its own actions. If China preemptively launched an attack and didn't build out this infrastructure, then it would be blockaded. If it did build out this infrastructure but didn't attack then it spent a lot of money for no good reason. Certainly the option is to try and build these networks in case of launching an attack, but that would happen regardless of US action.
I tried it once. It's extremely limited with only being able to use their few built-in integrations and stock themes with no ability to edit them. $108/year is a lot of money to not be able to touch your theme. An extra $72/year will get you wordpress.com with custom theme and plugin support. Drop $3/month and you can get write.as.

The starter plan is a bad deal.
Battery storage projects have tended to be smaller and in the UK average around 20MW. They have followed the pattern of distributed energy rather than big projects connecting at 400kV. In the UK there is over 20GW in the pipeline.
Hoepfully the European Union will make them care soon.
> Be really careful with the yellows: if there is low impact, you might be confusing work for progress. If there is low urgency, you might be overestimaging the value of your work.

On the flipside, if only high-urgency projects get done, you end up becoming a 500+ employee IT service provider without a proper Identity and Access Management System (IAM), without a Privileged Access Management system (PAM), a haphazard, ad-hoc secrets store and so on.

That's all fine and good for a 10-person company, you can get by like that when you're 100, above 200 maybe it starts to get icky...

Yes, I understand that if really nothing progresses, you have to prioritize ruthlessly, but you cannot keep doing only high urgency projects forever.
The Choo framework is set up to replace the <body> with its render, but any <script> on the page when it's loaded should run—it just won't appear in the inspector after Choo renders.

EDIT: Unless you're talking about it surviving after saving the wiki, in which case it won't remain. I'm actively working on support for extending Feather Wiki that allows whatever custom JavaScript you want, in a very similar way to how the custom CSS is preserved. But it's not ready yet. Keep an eye out for version 1.3.0 in the near future!
> Engineering wants to work off tech debt, refine, and innovate.

I know I'm not the only one who is backing away slowly from the concept of tech debt, and I'm not the only one trying to drag other people with me.

Tech debt has turned into hippie-dippie bullshit in the minds of many people. It was an attempt at enlightened self interest by appealing to the bean counters, but if you're talking to bean counters you've already lost.

The developers want easy things to be easy so they don't have to spend half their time slogging through code that does everything the wrong way, half their time explaining why everything takes so long (heading toward infinity), and half their time implementing new functionality. And yes that's 3/2 which is why we have people doing 60 hour work weeks.

A long time ago I saw a speaker claim that it's not tech debt, it's wear and tear. I don't know if I agree entirely with that characterization, but I definitely think that it's less wrong.
mono repo approach (or something to that direction)
CEO of Eco alleges that YC-backed Pebble copied its business model, materials
It’s a little amazing they didn’t bother to summarize in the text and assumed everyone would watch the video. That’s actually a very interesting piece of information and deserved more real estate in the article than stopping creates a road hazard - duh.
I've only really ever needed one decorator. The lovely @fuckit from fuckit. Tells your code to ignore all errors and keep on truckin.

Great for prod if an error is unnacceptable

(or more realistically, web scraping where you just don't care about one off errors)
Sorry for the late reply mate. I'm currently on 20mg Adderall XR, but I'm very interested in exploring alternatives because the duration is very limited for me (I have acid issues in my stomach) and the side-effects are prominent.
It is $52k to prioritize bugs which Uber reports to be impacted by, ahead of other bugs
Right - you should apply to an advisor and compromise on the university, not apply to a university and compromise on the advisor.
>and by God did they care.

I find it generally bad advice to chase after something when the main driver is social prestige. For one, by definition, you hinging your esteem to the (possibly fickle) opinion of somebody else and two, the people who are in fields for status rather than because of intrinsic joy of the work itself are often not the most productive or ethical.

For example, the surgeons I know who are in the field mainly due to the status it confers seem to be quite miserable.
This is one of the main things a good leader should be doing. Not just execs, but up and down the chain, one of the most valuable things a leader can do is get everyone pointed in the right direction. Make decisions about priorities, communicate those decisions to the team and the rest of the org, and then commit to getting them done. Ruthlessly prioritize and be willing to say no.

It's not actually easy, for a number of reasons. One is organizational. If your boss isn't doing the same then then it's going to be harder for you to do it. If you're responsible to multiple people who don't have any common chain of command then it's going to be really hard. And it involves saying "no" and standing your ground.
> She also argued for a different legal rationale, one based on equal rights for women rather than privacy. Laws banning abortion had been written by men and were enforced by men, but their burden fell entirely on women.

RBG was a brilliant legal mind and invoking the Equal Protection Clause (which is what she argued for) would have been orders of magnitude more robust than invoking some vague "right to privacy" that's barely in the Constitution to begin with.
That's what we do. But (at least until now, it's slowly changing...) you could still take a beautifully designed theme and butcher it by doing some of the things I describe above.
They share a common main contractor and construction.
No real comment other than damn, what a solid-gold piece of writing and advice. Felt like I was just nodding along to every other sentence. Awesome stuff.

I particularly liked breaking down “priority” into the intersection of urgency and impact.
Your reaction is understandable but you lack a larger perspective. I have never argued that society does not benefit from PhDs only that when talking about compensation one must include all the factors.

Would you accept a job offer before considering the benefits package? I would certainly not.
Some truth in that, for sure. I think they're clearly aiming at the Squarespace / Wix market which is probably the scenario you describe.
Broadcom in Talks to Pay About $60B for VMware
Show HN: Sportaculous, a lightweight daily sports game
It'd be more likely they'd mandate Mac, Linux and Mobile to all support a common app format. Which they already kind of do, the web.
> These colleges are all "nonprofit" (and get significant tax benefits), so where is the money even going?

1. Non-teaching admin positions, like vice presidents and associate deans of whatever, and all of their organizations and support staff.

2. Large bureaucracies that eat money and grow continuously.

3. Country club campuses and amenities.

4. Student services.

5. Legal departments and regulatory compliance.
> Housing is the most simple supply/demand issue imaginable.

It is not as simple as supply and demand. There is a huge profit motive as all that controls supply and the type of supply. It is one thing to build studio apartments but do we need "luxury" studio apartments for a 50% premium?

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=luxury+...

Since housing is a need people will pay what they have to. So the supply and demand chart is skewed. Also, that demand also includes people who demand two houses. And an artificially low supply, well who does that benefit?

If there was enough supply built housing prices would crash. How do you think people who view their houses as an investment feel about that?

people do not need to be evicted when the economy crashes. That as a choice in 2008 that Bush and Obama made. They bailed out the banks instead of the people. But the solution is deeper than that as well. There is no way out, and people with more money then you will have it all and you will have nothing, that is how this all works.
I've worked with Redshift for about 5-ish years and BigQuery for about a year. IMO BigQuery wins hands down.

From an operational perspective we've had almost 0 issues with BQ, whereas with Redshift we had to constantly keep giving it TLC. Right from creating users /schemas to WLM tuning, structuring files as Parquet for Spectrum access, understanding why and how spectrum performs in different scenarios, etc. everything was a chore. All this redshift specific specialization I was learning was not really contributing to the product in a meaningful way.

Switched to Bq, a year ago, and it's been mostly self driving. the only thing we had to tend to was the slots and bit of a learning curve for the org about partitioning keys (there is a setting in BQ that fails your query IF partition key is not specified)

Having switched to BQ it's really hard for me to imagine going back to Redshift. It almost feels antiquated.
Here's a possible answer:

First, fix health (8h+ sleep, diet with minimal processed foods and added sugars and seed oils, few hours of exercise a week)

Then, find meaningful work and good social support/tribe/friends
For those unfamiliar, ROS is an open source, robotics toolkit that's widely used in industry and research. It's a pretty amazing project.

https://www.ros.org/blog/ecosystem/
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Google Blocked My Site After My Post on Google Ads Monopolistic Dark Patterns
I published this post in September 2021 - https://joelx.com/google-ads-dark-patterns/16883/.

That same month, my Google organic traffic to 3,200 posts on my site cratered to zero.

Google Search Console shows no manual actions and no problems with the site.

I also had published some conservative posts, though nothing with misinformation about the election or coronavirus. Mostly my views on patents and such.
I have worked at an FPGA company, but on soft-IP, so I have some expertise but I wouldn't consider myself an expert, but I've certainly talked to them. What I observed is that whilst there technically is a bit pattern being programmed to hardware, the rules surrounding what combination of bits is incredibly complex. The simplest example of this is that you could programme two registers, one to drive a net low, the other to drive a net high and just basically screw up your chip. The rules that prevent that aren't a set of last minute "sign-off the image" type rules. Thhey're embedded into every part of the compiler. There were game changing hardware resources that genuinely were going to be hidden from customers because we didn't have the software resources to actually expose them in a safe manner (honestly, it's really very complex).

Ok, so that's the technical reasoning. On the business side, FPGA companies (like basically every ASIC company today) produce 1 design and disable a bunch of stuff for market segmentation. VU7P? Well that's physically the same as the VU5P but the software limits what you can compile on to it. So to enable open source interfaces they'd need to add an entire layer of DRM ontop of the current solutions. You can argue about the ethics, but it is what it is. Also, marketing drove Altera and Xilinx. Don't get any ideas that these were silicon valley engineer led start ups. It was a marketing game, you see that in their leadership and I'd argue you saw it in their share price growth too.
Isn't a bit too early to jump the gun like that?

Back in the days those who were copied at least did wait to see if the project became successful before piling in.
Ask HN: What admin services/platforms do you recommend for new small businesses?
I'm happy that my company is growing! I'm doing my best to keep the administrative part of the business synced and simple. But it seems like there are so many options to pick from.

So I thought it'd be cool to hear about your experiences, if you're working/have worked in the small business space. What have you found useful, functional, and/or frictionless?
Super niche but this would be great to build a comprehensive clip archive of the genovaverse.

Search by text, generated videos of frequent phrases and other meme-worthy sayings from the Sith Lord.

What do you think about that DALE?
Let me enhance the wiki definition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhF_56SxrGk
Hey all - this is just a fun little side project. Would love to see if anyone else thinks it's fun. Maybe I'll add in leaderboards if anyone uses it.
Flutter Enhances Web Apps
Windows 11 25120 has a new desktop search box. Results always shown in MS Edge
I'm no economist but my understanding is that even though we are printing money like MMT advocates, we are not implementing any of the policy decisions to combat inflation. Namely large tax increases on ultra rich.

Since we've started printing we seen a huge rise in wealth inequality and more billionaires than ever, but we don't fight the inflation with high taxes on them so assets they use (high end real estate, art, crypto, yachts) have blown up as have things they invest the extra money into (middle class housing). We should be getting ride of the extra cash floating around with higher taxes.
FWIW I would also support a ban on headers in soccer.
The individual municipalities are not the ones driving up cost and delaying completion. They do not benefit from delays and cost overruns. It is not hard to find who does benefit from those.

It is yet to be seen whether those empowered to gatekeep nuke projects will be able to identify enough places where they can extract graft from projects using from SMRs. If not, they will surely steer clear, even at the expense of having no nuke to milk at all.
Yes, that's implied because we're talking about abortion in humans.

> With that out of the way we must now talk about, "what makes human life special?" and "at what point does it become special?"

Ugh, I'd rather not. There's no good reason to dive into this, and it always ends in ugly eugenics territory. E.g., "Just hear me out, what if the mentally disabled aren't really people?". I'd prefer to keep a wide berth around that--the great thing about human rights is that (apart from the abortion issue) every human gets them.
The full saga of Apple’s troubled mixed reality headset has been revealed
Being able to change your mind is a feature of democracy.
Don't forget the vaccine isn't ready for use until it's been tested which takes a lot longer than 100 days.
What's the point of being vc funded and profitable?

By definition if you are profitable you don't need external capital to exist and thus don't need vc money
Authentication Is Static, yet Attackers Are Dynamic: Filling the Critical Gap
I disagree, generally it's important to get feedback often and early. Conferences and publications are an important part of the process. That is not to defend the salami strategies of some research labs, but science is moving to fast to wait for your deeply thought out 500 page opus dei, which likely has been obsoleted by some finding published at a conference 2 years ago that you didn't attend.

I have seen the false perception a few times that a PhD is mainly about sitting down and thinking deeply for a long time without talking to anyone and then getting an eureka moment and writing it all up. This is not how most modern science is done (maybe it's still possible if you're a genius in very few select areas of mathematics). So if this is what you think a PhD is about, you're likely not going to enjoy it.
Link to the original tweet: https://twitter.com/andy_bromberg/status/1528817375541350404...
70-year-old astronomy photos may be clues to alien visitors – study
Any thought on providing an option to make a super cut that produces a desired output?

Ie `videogrep --input *.mp4 --produce "I am a robot"` and will find all the pieces it needs to produce the desired output?
Every google app will include a copy of chrome for maximum spyware, sounds insane.
I imagine it is not too different from borrowing against your profitability in order to grow faster.
I wonder how that law is worded - could you for instance fill up several X gallon jugs (1, 5, 55 [~4L, ~19L and ~208L] - whatever you have/need) during those permitted used windows, and water the plants from that supply as needed?

I could see the time window applying to the actual act of watering the plants ("don't water during the hottest/brightest part of the day, to avoid wasting most of it to evaporation"), but the specific days seem to me like they're just for load balancing...

I believe some areas object to the use of rain barrels, so I wonder if this option would fall under the same or similar restrictions.
> You have to tolerate the consequences of our own policies.

Thank you for saying this. The wealthy love to externalize the human costs of their lifestyle.
According to AdSense, the monetization isn't halted. Our level of 'invalid traffic' is staggering, though. We'll be keeping a closer eye on things.
High-efficiency cooling via the monolithic integration of copper on electronics
It's libertarian in the sense that the final stage of libertarianism is that the well-connected insiders get to abuse everyone else, with zero recourse against them.

In this sense, Web3 is a tremendous success of libertarian thought. No rules, no laws, and an absolute honeypot for hustlers, thieves, and fraudsters. Anonymous founders running off with the money, repeat fraudsters pulling off bigger and bigger heists, and money being poured into the dumbest schemes which, inevitably, end poorly.

I can't think of a better condemnation of libertarianism.
It really does look better than DALL-E, at least from the images on the site. Hard to believe how quickly progress is being made to lucid dreaming while awake.
It's the difference between being a feature factory and having a real product strategy.

If you actually have some kind of customer in mind, and you have ideas of problems that you're solving for them, then this can be valuable feedback even if it's a lie. Digging into the feature might expose you to a new customer problem that weren't aware of. You can talk to other customers and prospects and understand if this is a problem they have as well. You can take that information and extrapolate it into a real set of use cases, think about the size of the market of "customers who have this problem," and decide if it's something that makes sense to tackle with your product. Then you can design features to solve the real problem.

If you just have a feature factory then all you'll do is build the feature as the prospect specified. You'll go back, they'll still say no, and now you have no idea how to market this feature or if it would even be useful for anyone else or it's just built around the customer's internal process.
Jesus Christ. Unlike DALL-E 2, it gets the details right. It also can generate text. The quality is insanely good. This is absolutely mental.
Above-ground bermed reinforced concrete structures would be a pretty good bet — less issues with flooding than a bunker, but it's still resistant to wind and things the wind carries with it.

Wal-Mart's data center in Missouri, bermed and built directly on bedrock:

https://cryptome.org/eyeball/walmart/walmart-birds.htm
The salary is as high as it is in part due to the Union -- but the UC starting salary for lecturers regardless of discipline and location is around $60K. But computer science is in a roughly better position because a few tenured faculty advocated for higher wages so they could actually make hires. Still multiple people are leaving because the workload/stress/salary are out of alignment.
annotated tags are immutable, they're part of the history that makes up the sha.

normal tags are just labels that can be changed or deleted at will. removing a normal/lightweight tag from history doesn't change any commits and doesn't require a force push.

that is why the article recommends annotated tags. you have to force push to rewrite those. then the git describe tags based on those will be immutable unless someone goes out of their way to rewrite history.
I have an alternative solution to work with an existing struct that you can't change, e.g. protobuf generated code: https://jackieli.dev/posts/pointers-in-go-used-in-sql-scanne...

type nullString struct {
s *string
}

func (ts nullString) Scan(value interface{}) error {
if value == nil {
*ts.s = "" // nil to empty
return nil
}
switch t := value.(type) {
case string:
*ts.s = t
default:
return fmt.Errorf("expect string in sql scan, got: %T", value)
}
return nil
}

func (n *nullString) Value() (driver.Value, error) {
if n.s == nil {
return "", nil
}
return *n.s, nil
}

Then use it:

var node struct { Name string }
db.QueryRow("select name from node where id=?", id).Scan(nullString(&node.Name))
Mark the "should". It's just an opinion, not a fact.
I suspect from your comment that you're not familiar with the actual experience of R1 academic research. It is a Darwinian process that involves repeatedly submitting papers to highly competitive conferences for peer-review (a typical top-tier conference in computer security averages <20% acceptance rate.) You must do this many times just to get an Assistant Professorship. Then, assuming you publish N papers during grad school, you need to continue publishing maybe N/2 additional papers (or more) per year while also submitting successful grant proposals to organizations like NSF. These proposals are even more competitive (and worse: these organizations also consider your publication history and reputation, not just the merits of the proposal.) If you do this unabated for seven years or so then you might get tenure, which means you'll get to keep jumping those hurdles for another 25 years or so.

Of course you can argue that all this academic competition selects for the wrong thing (that's subjective) but the competition and testing is never-ending. There is a reason that a lot of people leave for industry, simply because it's so much less stressful.