skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the power dynamic between a single customer and large corporations, the smart thing to do is to assume malice until prove otherwise. This puts the onus on the corporations and, if we're lucky, creates an environment where they compete with each other to be seen as the most honest. The worst thing that happens is the single customer has to buy an SSD from someone they don't trust.

If we do the opposite, as you say, and assume everything is an honest mistake, that puts pressure on the single customer to prove that the organization with a huge marketing budget is doing something wrong. In this situation, the worst thing that happens is we all get taken advantage of.

Our collective distrust is the only power we have against massive marketing/PR budgets. It doesn't have to be angry, or sour, or cranky, we just collectively need to not take their word until we have a reason to do so.
"what's the value in getting the thing if you don't want it any more?" - I agree. That's why I don't really believe people who say they give up. Somewhere they still wanted it.
> Do you always debate in a dishonest fashion?

I'm simply not an English native speaker.

So the question goes right back at you, I guess.

Would you prefer to argue in Italian?

I can be much more precise in my native tongue.

p.s. please remind me what false arguments I provided. It would be much appreciated.
thanks.
It could definitely be changed in years if there was sufficient will to do it, unfortunately there isn't because despite all the drama nothing has really changed except prices have gone up a bit. If people started going after politicians and CEOs with violence I am sure they would figure out a way soon enough.

I definitely agree about American hubris though, they had the opportunity in the 1940s to use nuclear weapons against the Soviets to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons but the risk avoiders and pacifists won out, those who thought America would win without war because they were under God or because their system was better or something of those ideals. I guess that ultimately was true and it did potentially save lots of lives but culturally & militarily speaking I don't see modern Russia being much different from the USSR.

Whether you consider that Ukraine can 'win' the war depends on your definition of 'win'. They could certainly stop them from taking any more than what they currently have, perhaps even take back significant parts of Ukraine, but it would require much more military support than is currently given. The US seems content on draining Russia without really having them lose much of the territory they have gained.

I am not quite sure why people think you could just 'settle' with Russia. Settling would only happen when Putin wants it to happen, and from his own speeches and writings it is clear he wants to restore Russia to how the USSR was geopolitically. I remember even 5 years ago some Russian military guys I knew who would joke about one day being able to have a second try of mass raping German and Polish women (WW2 being the first) so in my view I doubt settling would do much except delay further ambition of Putin.

I very much doubt that Putin would be willing to go to WW3 over Ukraine though no matter how many military defeats he had in Ukraine, he isn't stupid and Ukraine isn't worth that much.
Gas to europe isn't the disaster many forsee.

If Europe loses gas supplies tomorrow, they would:

* Build coal gasification plants (they're fairly simple things, and don't require much special equipment - there are lots that already exist unused and are over 100 years old). Switch about a quarter of towns to 'town gas' rather than natural gas.

* cut down heating to only about half of buildings - 'stay with a friend' will be policy for the winter months.

* Switch off street lighting and other big non-critical electricity users.

* Shut down energy heavy industries - much of this has already happened because energy prices mean it isn't economical to make glass, pottery, aluminium, steel, etc.

* Don't interfere much with market prices - allow them to go sky high. But give each premises an energy credit approximately enough to heat and light one room for free - after that you pay sky high prices.

Using that strategy, current reserves would last 1 year at least.
Yes, it was exactly like that.
Ask actual individuals, take taxis yourself, ask people that try to be their own driver.

Not everything is about an information campaign but factors in common pain points from consumers.
TL;DR: for Microsoft, it's "to be energized and empowered to do meaningful work."
I reckon that it's not the collaboration itself makes you unhappy, it's the contemporary methods used such as constant interruptions over a multitude of communication tools, frequent brain-melting meetings with no obvious purpose, not having a solid leadership leaving the team members to their own devices.
You claim you don’t have an answer, but then state that by simple rephrasing the answer is obvious?

Can you specify a specific reason? There are historic examples of trade deals made for this reason such as with the Soviet Union or communist china. However I cannot think of an example where a country has given unilaterally favorable trade terms to a rival except out of fealty/tribute.
Solar panels continue to get better, and storage unit s getting cheaper. 140 wh/kg sodium ion will be a game changer for home batteries.

Imo the future is more independent home generation while the grid is backup and for commercial and ev recharge needs, outside of urban areas. That will be a far more resilient overall system.

Lcoe of non grid solar is high, but I believe this could be greatly improved with federal leadership and incentives. Of course that means opposing the power lobby
I believe the claim is that all risks combined now are slightly greater than the average nuclear risk during the 1953-1960 period.

Regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis in particular, the Wikipedia page says:

> The closest nuclear war threat, the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, reached crisis, climax, and resolution before the Clock could be set to reflect that possible doomsday.[citation needed]

If someone could add a citation, please do.
I think it's important to realize that Uber is what SV has become: Corruption and abuse of power as the primary tools of business, not innovation. Embrace of the powerful, not the little guy in their garage. Destroying other people and embracing sociopathology..

There's a long way from Steve Jobs' Apple, or Netscape, or many others (including FOSS!), who made exciting ground-breaking innovations, to Uber.
You won't heat homes using electricity more efficiently than with direct heaters without significantly redesigning them, so all this would do would be using even more primary energy than before. This is going to happen over time as nZEBs according to the 2010 and 2012 EU directives are going to replace old buildings in the building stock, but you can't make that happen overnight.

Also, since the origin of the electricity doesn't matter in this case, to say that you'd need to not shut down those nuclear plants is clearly wrong since you could just use the currently underutilized coal plants to get exactly the same effect -- except the lack of electricity is clearly not a problem.
Do you know any examples of semiconductor junctions being used in biological processes? It would be hilarious to me if there was a bacterium out there that just ”invented” a transistor or a diode for some silly reason.
For evidence of this I think the archaeologists should focus on finding the holes in the corners of the mustatils where they planted their tiki torches used to guide those UFO pilots home.

Maybe all the goat, cattle, and gazelle heads is just evidence that aliens are only interested in the rear portions of earth's animals. That would bolster my personal theory that earth is nothing more than a training ground for alien proctologists and gastroenterologists. Their first visit convinced them that there was nothing here but a bunch of assholes so they decided that in spite of that there was still something they could learn here.
Not a Raspberry Pi but an Arduino Due, a much less powerful CPU with much less RAM and storage.
I took it when I was an undergrad (that was ten years ago, but I hope the spirit remains the same) as my first CS class. It was very tough given my preparation, but the thing I appreciated was that it gave a very general introduction to many high-level concepts in fairly good detail. I felt I had a solid starting point in many things- programming paradigms, understanding data abstractions, levels of abstraction in program design, etc that I don't always see replicated in other introductory material.
From the post:

$id = $q->param('id');
$stmt = "select envip,mailfile,headers,subject,size,fromid,toid,date from quamail where id = $id";

Yikes. His claimed expertise is "Protect your e-mail server from ransomware attacks" too.
What is the mechanism by which this is allowed or disallowed? Could that also not be hacked?
It takes $420k per year to run Lichess -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29955204 - February 2022 (266 comments)
At least in the US you can pre-book. I’m no Uber fan but I haven’t experienced this cancelation you mention.
I'm good with it.
Of course "new guys" will learn the "language of the week", and "old bearded sysadmins" will continue using perl, but still.. i have stuff literally written a deacade+ ago, still working without issues, and i have stuff written in ruby, rewritten to python (2.6?), fixed for 2.7, and rewritten for python3, that I abondoned ~python 3.3, and rewritten in perl, just to be able to forget about it.
As much as I love Unix I am terrible at Perl. Anyone know any good resources for learning Perl 5?

I seem to stumble quite a bit with CPAN in comparison to pip or npm. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's because it's not a true package manager like those, and more of just a module downloader that's not as stateful?

CPAN pains I think are a huge reason why I haven't learned it better, also I think Perl can vary quite a bit with readability compared with other languages.

You can write nice looking Perl like those examples but I've also seen things with extremely dense and terse syntax that I can't even begin to walk through. To take an extreme example, RSA in 3 lines of Perl. I have always been curious how that is actual working code.
VeriSIM seems to be targeting drug discovery, rather than drug testing. I don't think scientists regularly use animal models for drug discovery, if at all, because it's really not that efficient (animals aside, you'd have to synthesize a dose of everything you want to try, which is non-trivial). With drug discovery, what you need to do is just shotgun a bunch of molecules and test that they're even bioactive, let alone therapeutic (you don't even need to find all the bioactive molecules, just yield enough for further testing).

For actual testing, there are also microfluidic systems and organ-on-a-chip systems that are a field of active research. I think most researchers are more confident in these systems than in-silico (even though organ-on-a-chip systems are a field of active research and have their own shortcomings) because biological systems are active on several different physiological scales, and simulating all of these is rather rough around the edges to say the least. C elegans and fruit fly simulations are still the target of research, and I think fruit flies aren't simulated accurately from the cellular level (though if anyone knows better let me know). Simulating anything more complicated is likely to require either enormous computational resources as well as actual discovery, since you'd need to first characterize everything before you can simulate it.
Yeah, just the right-click Search with Google Lens. I think it's built-in to Chrome these days?

Something about the "skinny vector people" just seemed really boilerplate to me, along with telltale signs of "someone used a bootstrap-like framework" like the cards not having the same vertical height. Nothing on the page made it seem like it was actually designed for a dev-centric service, it all just looked like it was ripped off a generic dating template. So I just wanted to confirm that hunch.
This might be an off topic and immature critique but the image under the "Start Meeting" heading places the hilt of the looking glass in a very... precarious location - maybe especially for a dating app.
> Let me be pedantic here: Uber isn't successful. They were able to build large-scale operations by pouring billions upon billions of dollars into it, and they haven't figured out how to make their business model work.

You are limiting success to a very narrow definition. They changed the world, and I'd argue for the better. I do not approve of the way they achieved this, but trying to minimize their success is also silly.
I don’t think this will work for cis folk, but maybe gay developers will find it useful? I don’t know.
> 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

Who are you describing? Can you name anyone?

> where consumers are taken advantage of

I've never felt taken advantage of in a taxi. I know Uber pushes this all the time, but can you give examples? I know with Uber or Lyft they collect data on me such as where I am and where I go.

> or discriminated against

Is there any evidence that it's better with ridesharing apps? I mean evidence, not the same claims long made by Uber.
They may agreed on settlement because case and outcome was not that obvious.
Non-accredited schools that are seeking accreditation always highlight this fact and what it means for students who start before accreditation is award. This school does not, so it almost certainly is not seeking accreditation, and since it's degree program is pretty overtly not a traditional academic degree program (not even in theology), but a religio-political indoctrination program designed to create warriors for a particular political viewpoint on behalf of a theocratic faction within Catholicism, I doubt it would have much chance at accreditation if it sought it.
Hi, Bobby Tables!
> What is your endgame here?

Im affraid the person you directed this question to (putler) doesnt read HN.

Russian win in Ukraine means more attacks in the future.
https://archive.ph/vfy0B
What a truly bizarre thing to say.
There will be NO fanfic in this interview please!
I think it should be healthy to be allowed to simply do your job if you are an engineer. If you are a good one you'll know when you need help and when you need to grind.

Instead you are constantly in a state of being micro managed by people who think that if they have lots of meetings and gather lots of metrics that will increase productivity but it's a silly idea when you think about it

The only thing that gets work done is well...doing work and any amount of time you take away from that isn't productive 9/10 times.
First, she is not a German journalist but one working for Russia one. Second, she is not independent, as she is just distributing Russian propaganda.
Do you really need to pay $15k a year to learn HVAC from guys with PhDs in Theology?
The Parry-Eliza conversation, mentioned in the podcast, is actually an RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc439
> Besides, in many fields, citations are provided just for completeness. "Previous studies have dealt with -TOPIC- (-CITATION_1-, -CITATION_2-, ...)" is quite a common construct in the natural sciences, for example. Exactly what information can be gleaned from this is uncertain to me, beyond "-CITATION_x- CITES -CITATION_1-", "-CITATION_x- CITES -CITATION_2-" and so forth. And this citation linkage is already available.

I published one paper before leaving academia. It was published in a top journal in the field and has about a dozen citations now (I get a notification email each time a new citation pops up). Every single one of them is this kind of citation-in-passing. Not a single one actually engaged with the content of the paper.

I have a couple other half-finished papers that I was working on before I quit, and sometimes I think about going back and polishing them up for publication, but given the reception my previous paper received it's hard to justify the time. It's not like I need papers for tenure now.
Not two SSDs, four: two in the main server, and two in the backup server.
... the leak is from 2013-2017 when Travis Kalanick was still CEO, I mean it was bad but we already know it.
The good intentions are clear in the individual posts but I agree that their sum can be cloying.

There are a lot of 'backfiring sums' like that in internet forums.
I'm interested here too. I've got a Crucial SSD from 2015 that's been on about:

* 100% of 2015-2017, let's add 2 years here

* Aboutish 50% of days since 2018 to 2020

* On and off again (5%?) since then until now.

So it's about 3 years of full use? I'm eyeballing the use here. So it may be close to the numbers that were given, but I'm not sure. Guess I could check the SMART stats to get a precise number and from there decide what to do about it.

Searching a bit it seems it's a well-known bug in "enterprise SSDs"[0, 1] (which my drive certainly isn't) but there aren't any real details about what causes it, other than "a firmaware bug".

[0] https://www.servethehome.com/hpe-issues-hpd7-fix-for-ssds-th...

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15673/dell-hpe-updates-for-40...
BuildZoom
> The reason group projects in school felt so terrible was because the end goal was collaboration, not some higher outcome

At least in my school the end goal was never collaboration but getting a good grade. Thus individuals who cared did most if not all work.

Those group projects had sense only if you were paired with equally skilled and motivated ppl.

And ofcourse you had to LIKE them. Its exteremely hard to be cooperative with ppl you consider as assholes.
There’s a fun list of minor errata to the podcast there as well.
They monetize by advertising on behalf of companies to their viewers. And they have no idea how to price their monetization so I presume the companies are winning here
HIF Global's project is not a biofuel. Maybe try reading it a third time?
I've been doing AirBnB Experiences a lot and it seems to be rather popular. I don't really see how it didn't work out.
Are you seriously saying that by default we should believe they intentionally planned to cause their customers to lose all of their data?
Agree, and nothing tells an employee they aren't valued more than not providing them an adequate workspace
This is a very strong claim that is almost certainly false.

Would you be willing to reveal your account so that it can be independently verified? For example I'm 2116 on lichess and looking over the last 10 opponents who are in the neighborhood of 2200, it is never the case that their moves are optimal compared to a chess engine. For the first 10 or so moves yeah sure, just play a book opening, but beyond that people at 2200 make plenty of mistakes every single game including blunders.

The idea that you can consistently make optimal moves over the course of a 30-40 move game beyond the book opening requires some kind of evidence because in examining the last 10 games of 10 accounts arbitrarily picked, there isn't a single one that isn't absolutely full of inaccuracies and mistakes.
You know, you could've just Googled a bit to find the relevant laws. For example, for Washington state: https://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9A.60.070

"...
(2) A person is guilty of knowingly using a false academic credential if the person knowingly uses a false academic credential or falsely claims to have a credential issued by an institution of higher education that is accredited by an accrediting association recognized as such by rule of the student achievement council:

(a) In a written or oral advertisement or other promotion of a business; or

(b) With the intent to:

(i) Obtain employment;

(ii) Obtain a license or certificate to practice a trade, profession, or occupation;

(iii) Obtain a promotion, compensation or other benefit, or an increase in compensation or other benefit, in employment or in the practice of a trade, profession, or occupation;

(iv) Obtain admission to an educational program in this state; or

(v) Gain a position in government with authority over another person, regardless of whether the person receives compensation for the position.

...

(4) Issuing a false academic credential is a class C felony.

(5) Knowingly using a false academic credential is a gross misdemeanor."

Seems doubtful that it gets prosecuted much though.
Use worse/more expensive versions of the technology.

The stuff is already here, it's just inertia that's keeping us from fully adopting it.
We're literally going into an era, where politicians are advising their citizens to "wear a warmer sweater" at home, in one of the strongest economies in the world. Every killowatt of energy helps, and if you're able to switch a percent or two of your people to use electricity for heat, that can save a lot of gas for areas, where there are no alternatives.

Yes, long term we can talk about many alternatives, but it's july... august, september, and it's already cold, space heaters cost ~10eur (2kW) and are still available (atleast more available than the alternatives).
Having lived in France, I would definitely agree on some level with that, I see an entire nation of people fighting over surpluses and a lot less productivity - but I wonder if even that would be enough.

Agree with Macron or not - that's at least him doing is job to 'make things happen' - but the degree of complicity is just to much.

There's money going somewhere somehow, that's the missing piece.

I don't suggest there is outright bribery because that's 'illegal' and would 'really get them in trouble' but something softer like campaign contributions or related causes, or favours here and there.
> Germany's shutting those down because of the Fukushima disaster.

No, they're not. The shutdown decision was made (and put into binding law!) almost ten years before Fukushima.
No, you cannot get the politico-religious indoctrination that is the overt mission of the “Catholoc Studies” education this school offers at your local CC; give the current Supreme Court a few more terms and if you live in a predominantly Catholic state, that may change, but historically the Establishment Clause jurisprudence would prevent it.
>If Europe loses gas supplies tomorrow, they would:

There is no IF, NS1 is being turned off tomorrow. https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/80867/

"Nord Stream AG to shut down both strings of Nord Stream gas pipeline on July 11-21 for scheduled repairs"

Most likely scenario at this point is "prolonged servicing" and no gas flow after 21.
The right campaigned on cancelling Kaepernick and right-wing religious universities are notoriously against free expression.
you mean het? cis is a different axis.

but yeah, I agree. the gender ratio is bound to be wack.
I have taken more taxis in more cities than you imagine. Thousands, I would guess. I've talked to many cab drivers and rideshare drivers about this exact issue: IME most think Uber/Lyft screw them, that cabs were better as their fate was in their hands (and they didn't have to provide a car!), but as Uber/Lyft control access to rides (the only real value they provide), the drivers have no choice.

Uber/Lyft also use corruption to get free use of our public commons - the streets that they clog - while with cabs it was fairly distributed in free market bidding for the public resource (i.e., medallions).