skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again:

> You appear unaware of the magnitude of the system that now supplies kerosene to aircraft.

Since that is an overwhelmingly larger effort than generating electricity by solid-state PV panels, automatically collected and distributed on the grid via transmission lines, and electrolysing and liquifying, and tanking hydrogen via completely automated machinery, your sense of outrage is wholly misplaced.

Of course, pumping LH2 into aircraft would involve some manual work with hoses. That is the only place where people need to be directly involved. No drilling technicians, pump operators, ship crews, refinery operators, truck drivers.

Obviously, when we do more work via the electric grid, the grid must be beefed up to handle the extra load. It is not honest to insist that the existing grid, unchanged, would need to shoulder increased load. If we need for it to carry more load, we augment it. That is overwhelmingly cheaper than pipelines, ships, and refineries.

Synthesizing hydrogen may be done anywhere at any time. There is exactly zero benefit to synthesizing in one place and transporting it to another, vs transmitting the power and synthesizing in place. Of course each airport may synthesize its own hydrogen. There is also no benefit in centralizing synthesis. Where you need it, drop equipment there.

Generating power is done where the power-generating equipment is. There is no benefit in doing that at the airport, instead of at a thousand places on the grid and sending it in via transmission line. Anyway, where do you imagine the airport would put its PV panels and wind turbines? Yes, we need more solar and wind farms. That is not a novel or insightful observation.

The entire "pumping, transporting, refining, transporting again, distributing" process, with all of it manual labor and industrial machinery, completely vanishes. Your lack of need to be aware of all that manual work done daily does not mean it is cheap or easy. It is done reliably just because it is a mature process, but it is very, very far from cheap or simple.
The next 'buffer state' after hypothetical UA fall is Poland, and make no mistakes about it - Poles will move to blowing up German infrastructure in retaliation this time around. You can pull Ribbentrop-Molotov only once. Majority of Poles know where Schroder is now and who he has been working for the last 25 years.

So Yes, Germany can dream of appeasing Russia by risking internal EU war with Poland.
Colocated in another company's data center.
A charitable interpretation of what you call modern dogma is that people acknowledge that we're not all the same (that's what diversity is about, I think), but that the differences aren't predicted by gender or race or culture or whatever. That is of course also not very compatible with LotR.
Missing: books, libraries, lectures, free-form conversation with real people.

There is a writer I follow on Twitter @dart_adams who has deep expertise in 80s and 90s rap and video games. An ongoing issue he constantly encounters is faulty information on Wikipedia which is the go-to source for journalists and others writers. Dart will dig up the relevant paper archive (online if available, at the Boston Public Library if not) to correct the faulty record.
The model's basically a directed acyclic graph (not a tree), with each edge being the diff between the two nodes it connects. I think the UX could be improved if it built on the language of graphs to make that model more apparent - node, edge, etc.

(I also believe the same thing about SQL and sets).
> But R&D tax writeoffs are pretty great

Great like salary tax writeoffs and rent tax writeoffs. (And even if R&D isn’t expensed right away it will still have the same impact on taxes in the end. Now it will be depreciated in five years in the US.)
> Do you buy by the watt though?

Usually in larger DC deployments, yes, you are quoted, metered, and billed by total power. The amount of space is (usually) an afterthought. There is more space than you can fill and remain under the power commit, which also correlates to total cooling load too.
macOS doesn't allow to create a new user called “sandbox”
On mainframes, they were already giving up profits and flexibility to IBM and that small ecosystem of related vendors.
I don't get it either. This is like one of those trick questions designed to prove that one can never actually be certain of something in CSS.
I think modern hero movies don't follow the Hero's journey any more.

Most times heroes in the heroes journey always loses something, a part of them dies off. Or when going back, it's never the same any more. See Lord of the Rings for the best example. Not sure if there's another modern one?
It took a while to figure out how the comment was related to the discussion. But I never said that CUDA would actually be difficult, just that I've never met a manager who would not turn down a programmer's suggestion to do calculation on GPU.
Media productions are daughters of their time. We currently have a situation where the elite in Hollywood are desperate to bring diversity and blackwashing into the stories. When a new LOTR series is shot in 50 years from now, this will no longer be an issue.
I pay $36/yr for Amazon prime. That's over 50x less. You'd need 13M new users who want to pay for just that, and nothing else.
Sounds to me like it's rather $665M in total, with a rebate of $116M.
The media capabilities API is basically useless. You have to query each format you support individually (with very specific details like resolution and bitrates, so you'll have to have all that data stored in a database that gets queried before attempting playback) and it's response is usually "everything is supported, nothing is smooth or power efficient".

EDIT: Forgot to mention, you need to know what the exact content type is for your media, both container and codec. With video, you also need to check the audio at the same time. And there isn't any documentation on the exact format that it's expecting.

It's a gigantic mess. You can't just give it a media stream and ask it "can you play this". It's often easier to just attempt to play the media and wait to see if it errors (which it can still do after even a few frames of playback succeed).
> amazing empires that ruled the african continent in the past

because then you'd have to confront that african empires had slaves too
Because that would require all these studios to actually create new things and take risks. And that's not what these corporations are known for, right?
That's true, but people tend to misunderstand this.

Of course sprinting all-out for 5 minutes is better than walking for 5 minutes. If all you have is 5 minutes, and you're trying to get the most out of that session without any other consideration, you should sprint.

But for most people, 5 minutes of all-out sprinting is very, very hard, and has a very fatiguing effect - you won't want to (or be able to) exercise again for a while. As opposed to walking, which most people can realistically do for a long time.

The concept here is the amount of fatigue you're accumulating. As a fat-loss tool, a low-fatigue exercise that you can do for a long time will mean much more total calories burned, as opposed to a high-fatigue exercise you'll only realistically do for a very short duration.
Based on what, second or third hand sources?

Jeff Bezos isn’t spending the money, Amazon is.
Just like Melkor creating the orcs...
No perhaps.

Ned being killed off early is a key part of the "no one is safe in the game of thrones!" motif. Having a known actor and playing against type (nice guy when usually villain) just underscores the surprise.

There is a similar story about Gene Wilder in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He first appears with a limp and then somersaults to show he's fine. The whole point of that scene is to have the audience think "I can never trust anything this guy says again".
Your advice about VUSEC is very cool. Slight piece of personal advice, when openly trying to get people to reach out to you by email, following that up with a comment in your profile saying you might not respond because of spam makes the reader ask why you haven't solved that issue yet.
Still puts a smile on my face every time I see it posted.

xkcd 1053
I’m disappointed that there aren’t any hubs with PoE or are nice enough to mount on the ceiling next to APs.

Heck, I’m disappointed there’s no ceiling-mount APs with built-in Z-wave/Zigbee.
GitDB, a distributed embeddable database on top of Git
Yeah, what was with that planet with the alien dog thing?
The highly sophisticated formula of "220 - age" leaves a bit of wiggle room, I'm sure. It would seem particularly convenient to have MHR reduce linearly (by whole numbers) annually.

I always thought of MHR as "you'll have a hard time getting your heart rate faster than this," not "your heart will explode if you work hard enough exceed this."
Why nobody ever talks about how much doctors are overpaid and over valued in this country? Why always demonize insurance companies?

I was in an ER for 7 days, I only saw the doctor 2 times for less than 5 mins each. In the final bill, the most expensive line item was doctor consultation.
Just wait until the magic moment where Sauron tells Frodo that he's his father.
Economics in general is more akin to religion than it is to science. Seems pretty hinged to me
Could also be the fact that a lot of video drivers/coders works slower on linux?
And not receive those sweet dollars?

I am sorry sir, I will not.
Nook is a simple, concatenative programming language written in Python
I had an interesting discussion with my 8yo recently about the highest mountain. It had never occurred to me, but "highest" does not have an agreed upon definition. There are actually a few competing definitions[1]:

There's Muana Kea, which is the _tallest_, meaning the furthest distance from the mountain's base to its peak.

There's Mount Everest (which I had assumed was the agreed upon "highest"), which has its peak at the highest altitude.

Chimborazo has the most unexpected definition of "highest", which is a peak that is furthest from the center of the Earth! We don't live on a perfect sphere, so some mountains can be "shorter" but still further from the core!

Would be interesting to see if the "highest websites" differ for each of these definitions!

[1]: https://geology.com/records/highest-mountain-in-the-world.sh...
"it" doesn't "consider" itself "anything". "It" is just predicting appropriate response.
The Air Force actually does this with avionics.

A lot of the older planes require electronic components that speak a protocol that ran on hardware that is not directly replaceable. Instead, they run "emulator" boxes that are the same physical size as the old components and have the same physical ports but run Linux (or some other modern embedded system) inside.
That percentage based rebate incentivizes accounting shenanigans to make it look as expensive as possible, who knows how many salaries included in that number Amazon was paying anyway, no matter if they would have produced that show or not.
But that talent comes cheaper, where is this $400MM going?
I've listened to the album a few times and I think it's actually pretty good. Rough edges, sure - but it's got energy (metaphorically speaking).
> Also, the actual difference unless you replace an enormous amount of your mass with muscle […] ends up being in the region of 1-200 calories per day, which is the difference between having a chocolate bar with your tea in the morning.

If you’re middle-aged (-ish) and healthy, overweight, but not obese, what made you overweight likely is a gain of, ballpark, 3 grams a day (that’s about a kg a year, or 10kg/decade, 30kg between the age of 20 and 50)

There’s about 7,700 kilocalories in a kg of body fat, so preventing that slow but steady weight increase only takes eating about 25kCal less per day or burning 25kCal more.

It doesn’t take much exercise to get there.
The Severance budget was over $300 million and that shot in NYC so $350 in NZ after rebate makes sense. I had heard they were spending $1 billion on the new LOTR, maybe that’s including rights and marketing
There’s great talent, but they don’t command large fees. So GP’s question stands.

They aren’t spending money on actors and writers, so where is the money going? That’s a lot of spirit gum.
Why not do both? There's nothing that disallows buying records if you use a streaming service.
This usage of equity is, what, five years old? Does something that new really call for an “I never thought I’d live to see the day”?
Yes, sounds like the 194 could have some extra from stress or something interfering with the measurement and 187 would be the usual maximum.
That's great. But why can't it show the current altitude while scrolling?
and i announce that by sharing a post that I'll be taking a break. its kinda like toasting to that I'll stop drinking the next morning. on a serious note tho, I don't really get why he says that poetry places importance on the ego- maybe it's a cultural difference, but a lot of great poems I'm familiar with are about nature and made up characters etc. tho i see how so many really really good poems throughout history are an overblown retelling of what I can only assume is the product of faith and mushrooms (looking at you, Dante)
I never understood the logic behind companies abandoning their own data centers and moving their gold (Data is the new gold) into somebody else hand. I see that many here are also thinking in the same line.

But when I spoke to a CTO of a F500 company. This was the take he had. He feels one of the major driving force is to reduce the carbon foot print of the company. His company is designing the system to have the crucial data on their own infrastructure but keep they other data & do the processing of cloud service. Instead of relying on 1 provider, they are using multiple. Also supporting some small local cloud providers.

This seems very relevant for a logistics company with a huge of fleet of air craft. Especially considering the upcoming carbon tax.
If they're not predicted by gender or race, then why do companies need 50% women? The very fact that that is a goal, means you do not believe these aren't predicted by race or gender, but that they are, and if you don't have 50% employees you are discriminating.

Of course the people in favour also say what you just said, which just shows how completely conflicting their views are.
> Which is probably closer to the author’s inspirations (Tolkien never set foot in New Zealand.)

Yes. A youthful walking holiday in the Alps was also a source of inspiration.
The Capitalist Kibbutz
OP was simply pointing out that by the looks of it, the new series will not be helmed by any Auteur. Peter Jackson was a modern auteur and people's expectations for LotR have been set by his distinct style.
No matter which distro you pick the DE is trivial to change; just install a new one and select it the next time you log in. If you want something super light you can even just use a WM like FVWM or CWM.

The main criteria for a distro you should have are:

1) Is the libc (and other libraries) compatible with my software? (closed software will need (possibly 32 bit) Glibc which excludes eg. Alpine.)

2) Are the packages I want available and up to date?

3) Do the attitudes of the maintainers seem good? (they shield you from nasty software and determine a lot about how the distro works.)

4) Do I like the configuration of things that are harder to change (package manager, init system, hotplug deamon, display manager, standard root dirs etc.)

Note that in general supported devices don't really change between distros. That depends on the kernel (which they all share) firmware (which they all mostly share) and mesa (which they all mostly share.) Nvidia might be the only exception since they tend to not publish driver sources.
Christopher Tolkein was hopelessly grumpy (or protective, depending on your perspective) about anyone doing anything with his father's works.

Personally, as a fan of Tolkein's works, I thought LoTR was fine. I didn't necessarily agree with all of Jackon's decisions, but, in the end, I enjoyed watching the movies (and still do). The Hobbit films are a different beast, for sure.
How to make a roguelike (Kotlin, 2018)
disagree, he doesnt explain how he backups stuff but I guess it is a on external server (otherwise he will lose everything in case the laptop is lost). If you are using an external server you might as well setup everything there (ideally a raspi/minipc). I have a lot of devices (tablet, mobile, laptop, desktop and home media) and being able to use all services from all devices is pretty convenient.
Facebook leaked much more couple years ago. Somehow everyone has forget that.

Some example news:
https://www.privacyaffairs.com/facebook-data-sold-on-hacker-...
Even though the MMO got cancelled, I hope they'll make Battle for Middle Earth 3. Honestly, BFME 2 was the shit.

Doubt it though, rts hasn't been the rage for a looooong time.
Previous poster literally writes about implementation details.

>You can, however, learn Git by reading about its architecture: blobs, trees, commits, pointers to commits (refs), and index (staging area where new commits are prepared).

Impl details of e.g dbs, std libs, runtimes, compilers, etc are for advanced/expert cases, not for slighly above normal
thats seems like a very delightful phrase, can you share a more in depth meaning?
Hmm, I think I've opened some log files that might be longer.
World wide format demographics means we have a cookie cutter adaption that probably just plays the script as a checklist needed to be done instead of anything inspiring.

How about a movie on a fictional global shopping conglomerate with a selfish CEO who doesn’t want to pay fair wages.
No but it has occurred to me to ask the interviewer some of my favorite math puzzles. Or at least casually mention one in passing and talk about my innovative solution…. especially as a counter to their puzzle-type questions ;)
> So the correct comparison

That may be your comparison but it’s not the one I meant.
I highly recommend this book by writer and academic Joseph Campbell: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Fac... (1949). It’s a fascinating study of comparative mythology from cultures around the world.
Joseph Campbell died in 1987, but some of his recorded lectures are available online, which I also recommend.
Apparently there was a "blogpost" of a developer showing of their code, where they accidentally leaked access tokens in a piece of commented code: https://archive.ph/mP3bh

This is completely unverified though, so take it with a grain of salt.
Seldom heard on a deathbed: "I wish I spent less time with my kids when they were young".
Agree. Watched for about five minutes, and already got the vibe that you describe so well, so didn’t bother with the rest. You have my sympathies for sticking it out.
I guess either not everybody follows my charitable interpretation, or they try to counteract supposed systemic biases by introducing quotas.
Enjoy this awesome cinemagraph from that opening scene (not my work):

“Los Angeles, November 2019”
Blade Runner (1982)
IWDRM
https://iwdrm.tumblr.com/post/2927811283
My Windows Machine has a weird bug where it uses the primary monitor as a webcam feed. Backfeeding that video gave me some interesting results.

https://imgur.com/a/2bBVv4t
I think that OP is not objecting to the usage of "equity" but its association with "dogma".
>Amazon cancels Lord of the Rings MMO video game

This stood out to me, let's just say the MMO came out as well. Then the entire thing looks like a long-term investment to reinvigorate the franchise.

I actually really liked the WB Game's RPGs
Terrible landing page indeed, when their "Why" page [1] has most of the answers new users would be looking for.

[1]: https://main.vitejs.dev/guide/why.html
Git switch and git restore were introduced in Git v2.23, way back in August 2019. So... they're not brand new in the last few months, but... like you (and another poster) I'm not aware of them, as I had ... 8-10 years of muscle memory before without them around. I'm actually trying to think back to when I first used git... I don't think I learned about it at all until around 2007 - company I was at had a lot of SVN and a couple of the folks on the team were exploring other options. And... IIRC, around mid-to-late 2008, someone at a local Ruby group demonstrated github. But... I'm not sure I actually started using git 'for real' until 2010 or so.

So... there was 9+ years of learning certain commands/styles and... switch/restore weren't part of that.

And I've mostly switched to GUIs for day to day stuff - the Tower Mac client and sometimes the JetBrains git tools. They might even now be using 'switch' and 'restore' for some basic operations behind the scenes.
> Trying to outsource it is like trying to outsource upper management.

You say that like it's bad.
Moving away from on-prem data centers does not reduce security costs. At best, it's a lateral move, and depending on the cloud setup, may actually be more expensive.

Ultimately, this is an opex vs. capex decision. Data centers are expensive, and require a lot of up front capital to go into the ground. FedEx is worldwide and moving more technology to the edge, so buying land, designing and constructing buildings, and then operating them for 10 years or more in a large number of locales requires a huge investment. They can take that money now and solve their problems immediately.

They are also not saying what they mean by "closing its data centers". FedEx announced a 10-year partnership with Switch last year to build and operate edge facilities. FedEx may be moving out of data centers it operates on its own into facilities built and run by others, and using "cloud-native" designs deployed on hardware in those facilities.
The last season of Game of Thrones is genuinely the worst possible ending to the show and genuinely takes the top spot for the most disappointing ending of all time. At least,HIMYM had its defenders but I've never seen a good thing spoken about the story in the final season.
I agree, isn't it way easier to switch vendors when running on the cloud? I'd say that encourages competition, since we can literally move the infrastructure using keystrokes instead of muscles.

This makes me think computer infra could potentially become a commodity.
The previous big case I remember was linkedin leak with 700M users:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674393

At this point I've basically accepted that all my info will be found on sites like fastpeoplesearch.com and that anything I tell any company (or I guess in this case, govt too) will eventually be leaked, correlated, and used against me.
IIRC when Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, one of the first things the SS did was to send representatives to the local churches.

In Denmark, every child was (I’m not sure if they still are actually?) registered at birth by the local parish in so called “church books”.

With these “databases” in hand, the SS had a neat list of all names, and the approximate location of peoples homes.

Those lists were used to identify and prosecute jews.
The transition to “cloud” is often more about the culture and capabilities of a company than the technology. If you have been on some shitty mainframe and a bunch of other technology from the 60s you cannot bank on that carrying you for the next 20-30 years. The people that know that stuff are ancient, expensive, and retiring. “Cloud” is a very good opportunity to jettison the legacy burden and reinvigorate the technical competence of the org.
I think in the end you kinda agreed with me?

QA won't test on another browser or if it does its results are ignored? So they don't make it work badly on purpose, just by negligence.

Regarding to believe it's all accidents, I don't affirm it's on purpose as to not attract shills, paid or otherwise.