skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you're not engaged in any sort of commerce? Just hanging out on your own land consuming what you grew for yourself, like carrots?
Not to mention actually rolling back stock trades. . . .
> If I get fired the government pays me my salary for a year while I'm looking for another job.

Theoretically. My experience was that getting unemployment benefits as a skilled worker is practically impossible. You have to interview constantly, and there are lots of companies interviewing recently laid off tech workers, and they offer crap salaries knowing that only so many offers can be turned down before your claims are rejected.
? this was one of my more earnest comments
Op’s message was that people think it’s their duty to force pain on people for some higher calling.

As I said, nobody wants that. Emphasis on “wants”, emphasis on “that”. The same people calling for climate action are the ones calling for a just transitions - UBI, green new deals, etc. so if they were to get their way it wouldn’t actually be painful. That’s the “wants” part.

But even if we don’t get those things, it actually has to happen - it’s not some random desire. It’s an existential threat to human life. So, it has to be done at whatever cost. Not because they “believe in some higher calling” - because the facts are that this is going to hurt everyone if we don’t deal with it at great scale asap. And that’s the “that” part.
The way the cruise ship industry gets around the Jones Act is by making stops in foreign ports.

Sometimes these are important stops for the cruise itself (ie: stop in a nice Caribbean port), and sometimes they're "Technical stops" -- ie: Prince Rupert BC :-)

It would be illegal for a foreign-flagged, foreign built, foreign-crewed cruise ship to leave an American port for an Alaska cruise, and then return to the same port, for example, without the convenient Canadian ports in between.
FTX/SBF is the only thing holding the crypto market from completely crashing into non-existence. He can only delay the inevitable for so long..
> What kind of a 100 year future does Atlassian have?

We're talking about a company that produces products that are widely used. JIRA is not the issue, but the company that produced it. 100 years is stretching it, but I would believe that Atlassian outlasts yahoo.
Can you be specific? What was the phone and what was hardware on desktop that you're comparing here?
>Other British grammarians, and even some Americans, agreed that it was horrible. Eventuate is less controversial these days, though its use is still regarded by the occasional critic as pompous, ponderous, and unnecessary...

Glad I'm not the only one.
We used to admit states to the Union in pairs so that there was an equal number of free and slave states. THAT is partisanship.
Edit: Rust 1.62 uses futexes directly; ParkingLot is a thing but not backing mutex on Linux. Thanks to ibraheemdev for the correction.

I'm working to understand how Rust 1.62 avoid allocations for futex-based locks. I think the summary is this:

1. A mutex is a u8. The mutex fast path is locking via atomic ops to set a bit.

2. Contention is resolved by adding the blocked thread into a wait queue. The queue is allocated/discovered via a global hash table, keyed by the address of the mutex. The mutex keeps a stable address while locked, as the lock holds shared ownership and so the mutex cannot be moved for the duration.

I ported a POSIX semaphore wrapper from C++ to Rust, and needed an extra allocation for the same reason, to get an int with a stable address. Unfortunately this technique won't work for semaphores, they need to be async-signal safe. So I'm still stuck with `Pin<Box<UnsafeCell<sem_t>>>` where in C++ it's just `sem_t` and a deleted move constructor.

Anyways this is a lot of hoops to jump through to avoid non-movable types, hope it's worth it!
I think this (education) is a lacking area in Rust.

You can read the reference book, and even a few other ones, but still not being able to have a sufficient/solid grasp of the language. I couldn't find good material past the beginner stage (I consider Rust for Rustaceans advanced).

My personal advice is to find some project you'd like to implement, and practice a lot, or contribute to small projects you like, without worrying about best practices.

There have been definitely many moments where I wanted to close the Rust chapter, and that's why I think it's more important than other languages to keep the motivation high, which I think is best achieved by working on projects.

Rustlings is nice but... not stimulating.
>>That said, I would like congress to take up the matter of clean air and water directly, instead of this cowering behind other agencies after abdicating of their duties.

Exactly - put them on the record voting for or against whatever they want - and the voters can vote to replace or keep those people based on how they actually voted - right now they all like to give speeches, raise money and not much else - congress, do your job, even if it costs you your job.
Comparitive advantage is a fundamental principle and cannot be violated, at least without causing a lot of nasty long term consequences
Ask HN: Does getting a CS degree make you think less of programming?
And maybe you won't find programming as enjoyable as your hobby/indie programming days?
The data on the document is just a snapshot of the data in electronic systems. These systems are used every single day when you use physical documents in healthcare or any other government-related scenarios to double-check on that physical document.
I think it really boils down to "use your best judgement", but people are usually uncomfortable with that.

In terms of theory for agile practice, one typically sees discussion of industrial control theory and analogies based on thermostatic controls, but it seems surface-deep to me.
(Former Wolfram employee)
Glad you like the documentation system, there is a lot of hard work going into making the examples in that documentation, and making sure they are linked to other relevant areas.
"running just fine in production" is your assessment.

The court's job isn't to decide if the system runs well or not. It's to uphold the legal structure which was established long ago, because of the initial belief thaf in the long run a system without checks and balances will fall apart.

Federal branch agencies need clear limits to their power. There are many historical examples of why this matters. Congress failed to create clear limits for the EPA, and the court is telling them they need to do their job. That's the court's job.

I like seeing one branch of government do its job and keep another branch accountable. Nothing prevents Congress from granting them those powers explicitly - except for political will, which is exactly the point (agencies shouldn't be doing things for which there is no political will).
> your ID gets scanned, the scan hits a government server for verification.

I mean, you're already assuming things work a certain way that is not necessarily true. The ID card could just have all the information stored and signed by the govt. Then a scanner would only have to check that the signature is valid, no need to actually ping the govt server.

I haven't checked the technical details, so I've got no clue. But this is how the EU COVID-19 vaccine verification works IIRC. No pinging of a central server is ever done - the mobile app just checks that the message in the QR code is properly signed with the expected root of trust.
Somehow it makes it worse. You know how things could be, but you’re stuck with this… thing.
Coming out and saying there won't be any layoffs is code for, there's going to be layoffs.
It simply takes the advantage away from Microsoft. That's not wishful thinking, that's strategy.

Small changes in a situation like this can make a big difference in outcome.
That's a decade in Elon Musk time! :-)
How do you spend that much money in such a short time frame? That's almost $1m/day.
And I'm sure no one is disenfranchised by feeling their vote doesn't "count" or matter due to gerrymandering. /s

> As recently as 2012, the Electoral College favored Democrats. Obama would have won in 2012 even if he had lost the popular vote

Except he didn't lose the popular vote. That "honor" is reserved for the last 2 republican presidents (2000 & 2016)
> Says who? How in the world does that work for things like pollution (which isn't stopped at state lines) or basic rights such as the right to love who you love and/or get married?

Says the Constitution...
10th Ammendment: any power not explicitly enumerated to congress is left to the states.

Article 1 Section 8 enumerates the powers that the federal government has, along with some granted through ammendments.
What's reactionary about applying checks and balances?
I meant to say that offering Mathematica free at an early stage of the educational process for improved chance of lock-in later in life is a point I agree is bad. I'm not opposed to proprietary software, in fact I use some, but I do not like that sort of lock-in practice.

I stand by the fact that the comparison to drug dealers is not true.
There's a very, very long path from legal but shady (to me) business practices to things like engaging in all out war with rival dealers, getting people hooked on stuff that in many cases renders them zombies, torturing and killing people that owe you money or that get in your way, forcing rural people to plant what you want or getting them killed or displaces, which are all part of the things drug dealers do. Not even the Microsoft from the 90s was comparable to that.

So, to try and restate my original reply in a hopefully clearer way: I agree with the point you're trying to make, but I think the analogy you chose may go against it for some readers.
Table 1 made me realize you could probably protect the rainforests and improve American health and help US ranchers with a small tariff on Brazilian beef. I'm sure most Brazilians would be 1) happy to each cheaper beef and 2) welcome reduced pressure on their rainforests. Even the Brazilian ranchers don't necessarily lose. They still have beef to sell. They just won't have to invest as much in land-clearing.
I'm not sure what you even mean by that statement that there has never been a functioning decentralized cryptocurrency. I would need you to explain what your bar is for decentralization, and why it's so high.

As for privacy, the technology has come a long way in the last decade due to the development of Zero-Knowlege Proofs. I can share a few links if you are interested.
You're selling puts on BTC struck at 1000 at a discount? Yes, I'll take a few.
You're saying Dropbox is a grift with a $7bn market cap?
People like Kinzinger are exactly what people mean when they say "boomer." Totally disconnected from what people actually think or want and righteously angry about it.

EDIT: The whole point of the jan6 protest was that we're not convinced the current government was, in fact, elected by us.
Good thing that Lucy lost her passport and not her phone.
Original commenter here.

Every one should be able to use Git. However, Git really isn't the best tool for everyone - or even most developers.
Does SQL define a default order/placement for NULLs in numeric (or otherwise) columns?
Using an IR camera and Raspberry Pi to scan an invisibly marked card deck
Yep and I can't find any reference to the bitcoin core client ever having anything to do with poker.
Agreed. Jira and Confluence search is easily the worst I've ever used and to your point it's more of a box to check for product people versus being useful to end users. It is absolutely where data goes to die.

I've been using https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs and find it much easier, nicer looking, and people are excited to not use Confluence.
I'm a solo founder. My ezInvoice app has been running for over 20 years, and I have users that have been using it almost that long.

After the first time when users call for help they know they're going to talk to me and that I'll go click by click with them to get them up to speed or reproduce the issue they're experiencing, and that I'll address any issues they run into.

Truth is, I very seldom get calls for help, or bug reports, or suggestions for new features. I have a "News" page where I post what I'm working on, and a "Beta" app they can check out to test new features and check out design changes.

I develop on an Mac Mini and mostly use BBEdit, Fetch, and Firefox/Brave. Over those 20 years I've had to call BBEdit and Fetch for help a few times and their support has always been top notch. I doubt they have many employees or get many support calls. Their software is mature and does what it's supposed to do.

I've also tried to get support from Apple, Google, and Microsoft on occasion over the years and it's close to impossible to talk to anyone. The one time I talked to someone at Google about an Adwords account they were rude and worthless (that was close to 20 years ago). I don't recall ever talking to a person at the others, but I recall feeling lost when searching for help on their websites.

I reported an issue to the Opera web browser folks earlier this year. They didn't respond at all. They did fix the issue, but never made any announcement about it. That bothered me enough to download Brave and I've been using it since to test my work. I don't know that they'd be any better, but I haven't had an issue with their browser to worry about.

I have a "one strike and your out" approach to apps and services I use.
What is Systems Programming, Really? (2018)
You can read the particular text granting the authority here:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2013-title42/html...

If you think that isn't a broad, explicit grant of authority to regulate air pollution from stationary sources, I don't know what to tell you.

The majority on the decision are basically saying, "well, my gut says they didn't mean that much authority, so we're going to shut down this program."
A ground station isn't a client terminal. Ground stations are what provide the upstream link to the internet.

Client terminals are more like cell modems.
It's really not that at all. It's a very one-sided talking point, if you're hearing it a lot that simply demonstrates which media bubble you're in.

Search for the phrase "unelected judges": the results are all right-wing sources, literally starting with the Heritage foundation and Daniel Horowitz.

Over here in my media bubble I'm hearing a lot of complaints about judges who borderline perjured themselves in their confirmation hearings, "activist judges" (also a Republican talking point, now being used by Democrats to point out the hypocrisy of that talking point being used when the Heritage Foundation exists), "theocrats", and "destroying stare decisis".

"Unelected" doesn't enter into it, because of course judges shouldn't be elected, the whole point of the judicial system was supposed to be for them to be insulated from politics and focus on the law.
> Can you provide examples where linear growth in resource consumption does not reflect on linear growth in clouds?

Sure - you were hosting your DB just fine with 100 customers using standard SSD, but now at 1000 you're blowing your IOPS budget and need to upgrade to premium SSD. The premium SSD costs twice what the standard SSD does for the same space - your usage will not have doubled.

Or - god help you, you were hosting your db just fine with 100 customers using a small VM, and to avoid having to think about it, you've decided to move from a self-managed db on a VM to something like Cosmos DB. No growth in usage at all from you, but your costs are about to shoot way up.

Or - I've added a customer in a region that has poor connectivity to my current region of choice - oops, setting up edge services closer to them is going to hurt. Now I'm sending data between regions, incurring all sorts of costs between services that I wasn't with a single region setup.

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My experience with the cloud (and I've been a heavy user of both Azure and AWS, not as much GCP) is this: There are bands of costs, within that band, costs will tend to grow linearly as you grow.

The problem, is that you will outgrow the band you're in. There is a hard limit on something that you weren't thinking about (IOPS, for example) and once you hit that you have to jump to a different band with a new cost structure.

Usually, that means increasing base spend by a large amount compared to usage, and then getting slightly better cost/use at the new higher base.
In 1999, what web1 companies had cash flows or even a business model that could become profitable? In hindsight it is obvious because we know that things worked out, but at the time it was just speculation, and the crash was the market calling it worthless. Similar objections then around what underlying value is and how the tech was useless. The ways to monetize often were invented much later (eg search ads).

If you were a middle age farmer, sure you might like to look at or smell a flower but you would be crazy to say stop growing wheat and plant tulips. But as society advances markets can emerge to serve needs of people that were not possible before.

I agree crypto tokens is just speculative investing. But that doesn't imply that the value doesn't stick-- it doesn't have to either collapse to zero or go up forever. Monetary premium is a real thing and necessary for humans to transact. You can't predict what money we will use in the future.
> Of course, the option of just using a simpler VCS doesn't tell anything bad about people. Why did we standardize on git again?

My issue wasn't with their refusal to use Git per se. It was their refusal to find something better than SVN.

Given the choice, I too would pick something other than Git. But still better than SVN.
And if WW3 went hot today, we wouldn't be able to build enough ships anyway. Jones Act is utterly useless in that it causes a lot of pain without solving the problem it was designed to fix.
It seems unreasonable to essentially accuse the group "gay and trans people" of being a religion of fundamentalist zealots who demand total fealty.
Imagine living in a deflationary world where you live as a slave to unaccountable powerful holders of Bitcoin, where a man who holds 20% of the worlds wealth will continue to do so forever into perpetuity, at 0 risk. Do you think this is a world where real wealth creation (goods, intellectual property, etc) is possible?
Hopefully you meant that as funny...because it is!
> Republicans won almost 1.5 million more total votes in 2016 for the House, the country's primary law-making body

Cherry-picked stats are banal.

Democrats won almost 5 million more votes in the CURRENT election, which is more than the entire population of Mississippi and West Virginia combined. That's why it's not unfair to claim a "minority rule" at play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_House_of_Re...

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_pop...
I'm willing to send it to you for comments if you wouldn't mind. Rather not post it publicly as even with my name removed the experiences and school will narrow me down. Thanks for the feedback
Very nice, I would really dig an HTTP API of this.
But I don’t have to please every client and don’t have to jump through hoops for small dollars. It would depend on the product/market if this was the normal expectation then I’d find that out rather quickly and may decide differently. But I’ve never been asked for anything like this and would gladly just say no if it was a small dollar value at stake.
all money is political. good starting point: https://washingtonspectator.org/paranoia-on-parade/
And also, keeping a SaaS online isn't the only effort involved in keeping it stable, useful, and relevant.
Agility in the Construction Industry
Nowhere does the article claim that the Starlink service is poor, or that other services come close.

The RDOF auction had specific criteria, and as noted in the article, participants could bid at four tiers: 25/3, 50/5, 100/20 and 1000/500 Mbps. Simply put, Starlink bid at 100/20, and they have an obligation to meet that in order to qualify for the fund.

There's plenty of evidence that they can do just that, albeit with some open questions about how things will go as they continue to roll out the network and take on more subscribers.

I don't understand the anger throughout the rest of this comment. Geos that qualify for RDOF funding are just a subset of Starlink's market, and arguably any Internet provider bidding for those funds should be held to the standard set when bidding for those funds.

It's fine (and justified, IMO) to be angry about how crappy telcos have been for years, and their misuse of funding is certainly upsetting, but are you suggesting that Starlink should somehow be absolved of their responsibilities because of past transgressions by legacy telcos?

> Why can't we have nice things? This.

What is the nice thing here that we cannot have? Why?

> Think about what Starlink means to Africa, central asia, interior australia, remote south africa.

I think the value of Starlink is tremendous hard to estimate, especially in these traditionally underserved regions. But how does the RDOF funding conversation have anything to do with that?
Just read the dissenting opinions. That you chose not to, clearly, is a choice you made to avoid confronting differing viewpoints.

Also, consistently and repeatedly asking others to research for you is an easy debating tactic used frequently to bury inconvenient facts behind a barrage of requests.
another problem, though, is that as production methods change, there becomes less meaningful low-end work. Making bolts might have been a basic job at some point, but is basically only done by large automated machines now, or in small batches to incredibly high tolerance on CNCs.

The thing we need to bring back is the full supply chain. E.g. it doesn't make sense to build things here if 90% of the components come from Shenzhen.
It's baffling because practically all learning resources on git emphasize its decentralized nature. Even the online free book explains that several times. They never left me with any confusion regarding the difference between git and github, even though my first version control was the centralized subversion. I don't understand how any developer can learn git without this idea being drilled in constantly.
Most Alaskan cruises stop in Vancouver, BC instead. That way it also capitalizes on Canadian cruisegoers, and it's a pretty good (albeit similar to Seattle) stop.
uh, for the record, selling data is a problem in and of itself. but good to note you don't mind as you can attach a palatable political spin to it.
Except Malevich had written extensively about why he painted the Black Square and he never said it was to reject god.

Malevich even wrote an essay "Бог не скинут: Искусство, церковь, фабрика" (God is not thrown down: Art, church, factory) in which he argued that god exists because it is impossible to prove otherwise.

From this essay it is possible to conclude that Malevich in Black Square painted god as he imagined it. He wrote that since the seventh day of creation god rests and does nothing. That is why it appears as if god does not exists. Black Square depicts nothing.
"most if not all bugs"

Unfortunatelly logic errors are not caught - this would require some sophisticated AI in compiler. But other problems should be caught.

Of course Rust will not prevent you from placing backdoors and other more sophisticated vulnerabilities in code. Compiler is great, but you still have to think.
Not really. You are correct in that we need to switch to renewables NOW.

But we've already warned the world 1 degree or so. Renewables won't do anything about that. A sun shade can.
Been thinking this as well. At this point, it will either be Meta, Apple, or Google.
The factories that built most of the equipment in WW2 didn't exist prior to WW2. They were built because of it.