skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I suspect Twitter has no real evidence that their value proposition to customers is worth anything close to what they claim

What?? The value of their service is what their customers are willing to pay, which they've done so to the tune of BILLIONS per year. They would not continue to do so if they didn't get the value Twitter charges for their service.

Customers care about return on investment, and if spending $1 on the platform bring in more value than that, then they'll continue to spend on that platform. It really is that simple. Ad platforms have tools to help customers make the most of their spend, but ultimately ROI will dictate how much they'll spend on it.

I'm also a small-time Adwords user, and while I'm sure there's some click fraud going on, what I care about is getting more value per dollar than I spend.
I'm an european, and I never understood this...

We sent our soldiers to every shithole america decided to "bring democracy to", but now, ukraine has become so important, that we are willing to destroy our own economy and "passively fight" until the "last dead ukranian", to achieve what exactly?
Yep, my dad was forced to this "hotel" crap too.

...but he works in a field where stuff is still 80% on paper and he has colleagues with self-purchased reference books and the ilk literally from floor to ceiling.

He spent a week clearing out his office and will be going into full retirement now. There's no way he'll be spending time lugging around a pallet worth of books to a new hotel desk every morning - nor will he give his own books to the company.
At the rate we're going, I'm not so sure. "Bombed-out wasteland" seems possible.
My observation is that nearly every municipality had a taxi service with negative press, isolated in local news under different taxi brands, and in municipal court filings. This being about local taxi that bent the law to become entrenched themselves.

Whereas any incident with Uber is international news.

Makes it harder for me to elevate Uber’s issues as being as egregious as presented. I recognize their flaws, I also recognize the market need which still remains. So sure, make a better one thats more compliant. When I and others point this out we’re not giving Uber a pass. Just assigning a weight to the problems.
But for the vast majority of players there will be a difference in computer lines and human evaluation; even if you're playing a strong game there is still a world of difference between 2500 lichess and ~3300 FIDE stockfish. This is more true for the median ~1500 lichess player. Even if you put two GMs up against each other and give one a computer, some portion of games would include an obvious computer line that a ~2800 FIDE human wouldn't evaluate the same way as an engine.
But it isn't a problem of money. Sure we could pay for it. But that doesn't make things with a 1.5year lead-time appear in 3 weeks. You can buy _more_ but you can't buy _faster_.

So sure, in a year or two we can get these reactors back online. In 10 or 15 years we can even get new ones. But these time scales don't help in the next winter and on those time scales we can come up with solutions that are even better and not at risk at making eating shrooms you find in the forest killing you..
I've taken many, many taxis with barely a problem. They weren't (and aren't) shit at all to me.
Sure. And it can. We are talking about 3GW of nuclear on a grid which has like 100GW capacity vs 60-80GW consumption. Much more, if the sun is shining or wind is blowing. Yes, it is absolutely annoying to bring back some coal plants into service and using them more overall, but those 3 plants are only a small drip into the bucket.

If they would be easy to run longer, I would be all for it. But big money is better spent into reducing the gas dependency overall.
I thought the "closed" part of closed timelike curves takes care of that. Like in a Feynman diagram where a photon splits and recombines into an electron/positron pair, isn't that equivalent to an electron looping through time and annihilating itself? You could argue it's just a formalism, but mathematically it still seems like (trivial) time travel.

Why can't you extend that from a single particle to a system of particles? Where's the math break down?
I have the exact opposite experience. I run a 34” ultra wide on top of a 27” 16x9 monitor. The top one is angled down just a bit and there bottom one is angled up a bit. I just need to move by eyes to see them well. With side by side monitors I’m either straining my eyes or moving my neck.
Absolutely agree. And one more thing that looked incomprehensible just a short while ago was that Russia could completely shut down the gas flow to Europe (Russia needs money for the war in the end, so why would it do it?). However it seems quite a possible scenario as of now. Stakes became quite high, and unfortunately very little (if any) work is carried to stop the conflict and start negotiations.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

Do you always debate in a dishonest fashion?
What does one million followers mean though? Who cares about that unless you can monetize. Teens can’t monetize so their social capital is views.
> Basically every US company operating in the EU is breaking GDPR post-Privacy Shield right now

No expert but in New Relic you can select in which data center your data should be. In fact many websites of US newspapers are not accessible from the EU. Just recently I had to order a gadget through reship.com because I couldn't buy it directly...
All that is needed is monetary value of items to decrease.
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RhombicDodecahedron.html

Rhombic dodecahedron looks quite nice.

And you could mix it with cube grid for artificial structures in your world.
Both of those mention "network" without really saying what they consider a network, and without even an average number, as far as can tell :/ they spend much more time talking about how many meetings and emails are involved. (And their meeting load sounds low! Dang, all of my managers have had like 30+ per week. Though I don't think I've ever sent as many emails as even their low end lists. Maybe they're just avoiding Teams...)
> Ukraine could somehow "defeat" Russia while still avoiding WW3

Why? These kind of cold-war era proxy wars happened throughout history. One big power makes a move directly or indirectly, while the other side will be supported indirectly by other powers. It becomes a pure resource war, and no party has a reason to escalate it beyond the conflict zone. Russia has no reason to open new fronts even if NATO props the war zone, or covertly supports sabotage attacks within Russia's border - the same way the US or China fights proxy wars, based on success, they take it or leave it (for the time). Ukraine is a long term strategic investment for Russia, not a life and death struggle.
> This being about local taxi that bent the law to become entrenched themselves.

Can you give an example? I've never heard of that. They usually lack any power at all.

> nearly every municipality had a taxi service with negative press

Everyone seemed satisfied in my experience. I did see Uber's talking points everywhere on social media - how terrible taxis were. Unforunately, taxis lacked the money to run their own information campaign.
> I used to randomly do a thing or two in it because it seems like "there's a CPAN for that".

Yea, historically, every time I followed that siren song of "there's a CPAN for that", it inevitably led to ruin and tears. I found my CPAN experience to be buggy, fiddly, and overall unsuccessful. It's what drove me away from the eco-system entirely.
Ooh. I love that idea. The flawed mechanism is blocking the organic ones.
> Can you back that up? To me it looks like only 5% of uranium is in Russia

It's not about mining. You need to enrich uranium first, and a massive portion of world's industrial capacity for that is in Russia: https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/commentary/re... - "Russia had around a 46 percent share of global enrichment capacity in 2018".
Adaptability needs to be the rediscovered strength of market economies
That's certainly one rosy way to describe it. Another more realistic explanation one is that it's just an awful language to work in and people aren't writing new software in it.

I'm speaking as someone who had the misfortune of maintaining one of those 15 year old legacy Perl systems.

After finally rewriting the Perl based systems in Go, our outages went to nearly zero, and we could handle multiple times more traffic.

Engineer on-boarding was also easier because they could understand what was going on by just being able to read the code. A novel concept, I know.. /s But that was impossible to do with the Perl based services.
Next time go to software engineering if money is a priority but you still seek the intellectual challenge.

Cybersec pays well earlier than software engineering does, but you meet glass ceilings quite rapidly. Once you get really good at what you do, software engineering is where the real reward is.

Alternatively, if you don't mind focusing on a single product, becoming an expert in any commercial software that costs at least 1m$ to integrate in large companies will land you a high paying salary guaranteed with a tenth of the effort you'd need for software engineering or cybersecurity.
Why do they want happy workers and how do they measure happiness?

When exactly did Microsoft abandon all the lessons of Peopleware[1]?

And what about flow[2]? I recall people blocking out calendar time and putting do not disturb signs on their office doors[3] when they needed time to get into flow. Good managers helped make that happen. Does that not happen there anymore?

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67825.Peopleware

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-flow-state-of-mind-How-succe...

[3] We had actual offices, doubled up and individual. They had doors. It took almost 2 decades to finally work remotely so that I could have an office with a door again, this time in my home. Bliss!
Fantastic. I'm super excited to read these. Thank you so much!!!
> Still a million times better than what it replaced.

Not in my experience at all. I can't count how many taxis I've taken, with hardly any problems ever.

> corrupt

They lacked anywhere near the resources to be as corrupt as Uber!
For one the "water" moves near light speed effectively and tanks andand reservoirs are far more expensive, and gravity doesn't meaningfully apply. And there is some leakage with distance. And you cannot use a turbine to generate water from torque. Even if many equation structures are the same as fluid mechanics the assumptions break from differences.
Now if they could only find the seduction script written for the same engine. That seems to have been lost.
Is anything after Perl 5 relevant?
Perl <= 5 is the duct tape hold many corners of the Internet together.
I don't know anything significant after v 5.
We're for reducing suffering, not reducing death - the latter befalls everyone and everything.
are you trying to make a turbo tinder where women get 1000000 likes per month and men get 1 likes every ten years?

couldn't have chosen a worse demographic in my opinion, it's like a virtual engineering school dating scene(i.e probably not much fun ...)
Doesn't wage theft imply they aren't paying the amount that they agreed to pay?
This is google, so results might vary, but this is the first result for me:

https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/civilian-casualties...

"Civilian casualties of explosive violence mount as Taliban capture Kabul"

Somehow wikipedia is only the second link, mentioning the actual numbers of civilians.... but again... when was the last time news like this made headlines? When was the last time anyone imposed sanctions against countries killing civilians there?

Also, considering we're still there (eg. syria), we're still the occupying force there, why is there not daily reporting of what we did there and how bad it was? Why are there not international efforts to pull our soldiers out of there?
It was actually great! I was really not expecting to meet such a wonderful person. And definitely not expecting any dates to come out of a post that I thought made me sound quite desperate.

I was just curious about this concept of giving up in general because it came up quite frequently.
> This is provable from the math of special relativity ... you already understand the math of special relativity

I'm not saying anything is possible or not possible, but maths is a model, no more. Asserting the conclusions of the maths is to demonstrate nothing until you also make a convincing case that the maths is an accurate representation of reality, which you haven't done. I suppose the shorter version is, the map isn't the territory. I guess.
I won’t use Uber. It’s terrible and far worse than my experience with taxis. I’ve also said here before that many UK cities had better taxis systems before Uber but was shouted down. The only way Uber could compete was unprofitably undercutting the local market with a worse service.

Just because SF needed a new taxis system doesn’t mean they had to inflict it on the rest of the world.

You want to get to the airport for 5AM tomorrow morning? Good luck getting an Uber, they won’t let you book ahead and if you want to hail at the time they will cancel on you 4 times.

I’ve never had this issue with a taxi company and have got a pre booked taxi to time critical things a lot of times in my life.

But yeh, they have an app (weren’t even the first though) so HN loves them.
I’m currently on the Basic Plan: https://www.srpnet.com/prices/home/basic.aspx

Between $0.0829 and $0.1299 depending on peak/off-peak and seasonal. 3k sq ft house built in 2004.

Switching to their Time Of Use Demand plan, which it doesn’t seem like they have a public page for. It’s substantially cheaper per kwh than TOU - as low as $0.03 - but they have a fee for your peak demand in the month as high as $17 per excess kw.
Pretty much everyone with more than one production environment will. Imagine developing Firefox. How do you do a "self-healing deployment" automatically whenever trunk changes?
idea validation probably, good for him, not for the first visitors
Oh I agree, trying to backtrack and re-open those plants now is probably pointless. I'm just saying that gas is not needed for heat.
No, I'm afraid it would be way too much work to publish and maintain such a list, so the question boils down to asking "is the code public", and I'm afraid it isn't.
There is a web version being built right now, it should be done in the next week or so. If you're still monitoring this, I can comment here when it is, otherwise there is waitlist here to be emailed when it is here: https://www.whatcha.io/join

Right now, you can edit the data on already existing listings, with the ability to add your own coming very soon!
Given the volatility of crypto, a unique watch like this is a pretty good hedging instrument. As an asset, I'd put ~$2m into a watch like this before an NFT, and Richard Mille watches are sufficiently unique that they can be competitive to a similarly priced piece from one of the other makers. I've commented in depth before on the the political economics of ultra luxury items like these watches, and the only question to me is what their liquidity looks like.

It's the same as a Lamborghini. Something you can enjoy, with an acceptable level of depreciation, insurable as collateral on a loan for leverage into other productive assets, with a good and liquid aftermarket. Portability between countries is important as well for other kinds of transactions.

The engineering really is pretty cool, and what an amazing job it would be to design products to become alternative assets. Literally, art. What markets are missing now is assets like these to put rapidly deteriorating cash into, and the timing of the release of this watch is impeccable as people rush to get out of cash and look for alternative assets. Engineering like this also cuts out the curators and gatekeepers who appraise art (paintings were the original NFTs, imo), and sets a very high bar for entry for any imitators. One of the problems of wealth after a certain point is finding ways to appreciate and enjoy it instead of the drag of just managing it all. Something like this, you put a couple million into, get some enjoyment out of it, then when you want out, you get more than inflation adjusted remainder out of it, or take a small loss that isn't as bad as what you lost in another asset bubble popping had you put the money there.

Realistically, if there is something people love, with some engineering and craft you can make a million dollar+ version of it. They are beautiful examples of what they are, and the business of many of these things is the financial engineering around them.
"Excuses"? If you know that your company shuts down one year from now, why would you be ordering spare parts for five years into the future? Especially if you've known that date for twenty years like Germans did?
I agree with you except with the marginally better part. Their service is profundly revolutionary.

It isn't lack of capital or brains that prevented the taxi indistry before and after uber to provide the same service but beneficial to their interests. After all these years they are not even trying to compete with Uber they just want things to go back to the way they were where consumers are taken advantage of or discriminated against. Like it or not, Uber is more accessible to all types of consumers not just the ones drivers think will tip the most, they have better background checks and uniform and scrutinized safety controls and providen a viable primary or secondary income to drivers.

The local laws and regulations should get out of the way and enable what uber is trying to do with or without Uber. The livelihood of taxi drivers is not the law's problem, the well being od consumers and the economy however is. An outdated business model should not be put on a respirator by politicians. I am of the opinion that traditional taxi system with medallions and all that should be done with. Anyome who provides consumer transportation can compete fairly with Uber and pals.
23 threads in 14 years on a popular topic seems within what the format can handle. What am I missing?
One of the projects I keep putting off is creating a simple RISC based CPU on an FPGA and writing an assembler & compiler for it. It would probably serve no real purpose other than education for myself which is why I put it off...
Eliza really hits a sweet spot of 'often quite good conversation' from very simple code. There's a C# version here: https://github.com/sirkris/ELIZA.NET

Main class that does processing is interesting to look at:

https://github.com/sirkris/ELIZA.NET/blob/master/src/ELIZA.N...

Main script file data structure:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sirkris/ELIZA.NET/master/s...

There's a few other nuts and bolts but thats basically it
> The US has been telling Europe to get off of Russian gas & oil for decades, under multiple administrations

Yeah and buy American liquefied gas instead. Thanks but no thanks.
Essentially listener utilities (vs command line utilities). Code designed to solve specific problems, typically for their side effects and artifacts vs deployed code in production systems. One off simulations, etc.

No UI but the listener.
They're beautiful and impressive, but I find the amount of money that flows into "high horology" to be an sum with an egregious opportunity cost to society, made even worse by the fact that all that complexity goes towards a movement that is worse at keeping time than a rudimentary quartz. If people want Tamagotchis, they can get a Tamagotchi. I wish people would flex their donations to effective charities instead and find simpler luxuries.
That's good feedback. I'll have to give another go.
I wouldn’t bother replying further. Clearly they’ve got a very strong opinion on this. Multiple people have pointed out the issues with their line of thought but they continue to persist. They’ll understand if they reflect on it, maybe.
I wasn't aware of that. It was so drummed into me at university (Religious Studies) to avoid the word that I'm intrigued as to why another academic field would uses it seriously. Do you have any reading recommendations that might give an insight into its technical usage?
Indeed, it's a bit like finding it hard to get all that hyped up about the latest Intel i9 whatever-K. Sure it's objectively a monstrous amount of processing on a sliver of matter (just like the one before it), but it's "just" throwing more transistors and fab at the same thing as the [whatever-1]-K.

And then this is basically just an "if you know, you know" flex for a rich person. At least the incremental CPU "tick" or "tock" was somewhat useful, even if the -K variant is not especially useful in the general case.
It's a long story, but not exactly. Elasticsearch was developed independently by Shay Banon in 2010 and a couple others who are the founders of Elastic (http://www.elastic.co) under the Apache2 open source license. In March of 2015, Elastic acquired Found, a company offering cloud-hosted managed Elasticsearch clusters which became their "Elastic Cloud" product. In October of 2015, AWS launched their own managed Elasticsearch service called "AWS Elasticsearch Service". Werner Vogels announced it in a now-deleted tweet saying that it was a "great partnership between @elastic and #AWS" when, in fact, there was no partnership at all (thing https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/21/aws_not_ok_says_elast...). In January of 2021, Elastic changed the license under which Elasticsearch was developed from Apache2 to the "Elastic" license which allowed essentially all the same things as Apache2 (free use, modification, etc) so long as it was not used to provide a managed offering of Elasticsearch (https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change). This was done because Elastic viewed itself as developing the Elasticsearch product that AWS immediately took and used for its own "AWS Elasticsearch Service" in competition against Elastic's own Elastic Cloud service which was a significant source of revenue for Elastic. Additionally, Elastic sued AWS for trademark infringement for the use of the "Elasticsearch" trademark in the "AWS Elasticsearch Service" name. In response, AWS forked the last Apache2 release of Elasticsearch and named their fork "OpenSearch". They also changed the name of their managed offering to the "AWS OpenSearch Service".

During the same timeframe, many other companies have seen the same risk of AWS taking their open source products and providing competing managed offerings and have chosen various methods of protecting themselves from AWS competition. Many of them (including MongoDB, MariaDB, Confluent, CockroachDB, Sentry.io, Apollo, Graylog, Couchbase) have adopted licenses such as the SSPL, BSL, and even the Elastic license that prevent or strongly discourage AWS from using their products in a managed offering. Others such as Grafana Labs have partnered with AWS (under undisclosed terms) for a managed offering. It's an ongoing tension between companies that want to offer an open source product with a managed offering that monetizes it.
the chance of two SSD's failing at the same time under normal circumstances is extremely slim. So this might actually be a good cause of this incident.
TikTok is the most successful espionage operation of the 21st century so far, and it is based on a simple idea - people will happily give away their data and privacy if you consistently entertain them.

In my opinion the application should be shut down as soon as possible, but there are many lessons to learn from it. And most of them have little to do with technology.
Not as fast as you believe, and no one really cut ties with early USSR despite all its atrocities