skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ITT: How Softbank and A16z broke up regional taxi mafias, while absorbing disproportionate press from many jurisdictions at once
I don’t know if they were from Canada but I photographed a family on vacation here in Minnesota and they said their “phones don’t work in this area.” They seemed surprised.

It was an extended family of 14 people and there are plenty of cell phone towers of various sorts that reach where we were.
And? What is the relevance of that? Not shutting them off wouldn't in any way influence the industrial and heating heating usages of natural gas in Germany which are the main problem.
Wow, thanks for sharing. I didn't realize how closely related they were.

(TLDR For anyone wondering, "recent HN issues" means HN very likely went down yesterday because of this same bug, when two (edit: two pairs, four total) enterprise SSDs with old firmware died after 40,000 hours close together. An admin of HN and its host both like this theory. See details in that thread.)

Edit: If you want to discuss that theory, it's probably better to do it in that other thread directly instead... dang and a person from M5 Hosting (HN's previous host) are both participating there.
Does the company need capacity planning in the form of making everyone do extra work instead of making one person glance around and report on the level of free desks or making a button one can click only when they tried to find a desk and couldn't?
Michael Parenti points out in one of his lectures on YouTube that it was unfortunate that the Soviet Union bought into the idea that high meat consumption constitutes a "better" diet and began diverting large amounts of its agricultural output to feeding livestock.
What Computer Science programs were you aware of where someone could graduate with no programming experience? I am unaware of any.
Exactly the same for me: some of my best work and most enjoyable time has been collaborating closely with people. And yet, some of my worst time has been in settings that can also be described as collaborative!

What made a difference? I see it as having two types of "collaboration": working together vs working on the same thing in parallel.

The problem is that the formal processes managers use to ostensibly encourage collaboration—and, of course, to track and direct individual work—push hard towards the latter model. Everybody working on their own tasks makes the work so much more legible! Having some other person or some process determine who works on what, when and then implicitly (or explicitly!) judging people based on how quickly they complete "their" tasks is not only awful for autonomy and job satisfaction but also actively makes it harder to collaborate meaningfully. I've worked on teams where people were afraid to spend too much time working together or helping each other because they didn't want to "waste" the other person's time—after all, you're clearly wasting time if you aren't consistently producing finished tickets!—which is absolutely toxic for creativity, culture and collaboration, but also a natural response to the incentives and structure imposed by the process.

I'm gradually starting to look for my next job and finding a culture where I can actually collaborate is one of my main goals, but it seems hard to evaluate from the outside. It's not clear how much an individual manager can do to foster the right sort of environment—a lot depends on the culture and structure at higher levels on the organization, as well as cross-team interactions—and it's the sort of thing where everyone is going to say their team is collaborative (and even believe it), and I don't see how a team could show rather than just say that.
> Still makes it harder to get through the door with an unaccredited degree.

But who is checking? I’ve never asked myself if someone’s degree is accredited. I wouldn’t even know how to check if I cared.
>Please link to English sources — as it makes it hard to hold you accountable for what appear to be false claims.

This is incredibly obnoxious. A) English language sources might not exist B) you can use Google etc translate so it's not up to the source provider to even find English language sources and C) you are assuming you are right.
Except... That's not always true. We were told the same, but we found the performance to be underwhelming, at best. Concurrent writes to the same row are orders of magnitude worse, certain read patterns are similarly slow, and you are severely limited in how many transactions you can have before the storage daemon gives up and you end up with double digit write latency for any write.

Yeah, for the most part it's better, but you lose the page cache buffer to stop you from running oom if you miscalculated your shared buffers, your cpu usage will go up significantly and sometimes things will be slower. While on paper the max IOPS are way higher, you do get more IOPS from migrating and then you run into other issues.

If you are or close to the 80k IOPS limit, or 65TB storage limit, there's no alternative, but the "aurora is always faster" line that AWS tries to sell you is bullshit.
This is the Catholic Church returning to its roots - ensuring the aristocracy a supply of diligent, compliant workers.
> [Mechanic brother] sees a lot of drivers who have a 3 year old car with 200k miles on them and basically a new car worth of repairs needed.

At the median rate for my city (Boston), those drivers were paid $1.07/mile* or $214K. They probably paid under $50K in gas, oil, tires, and repairs to that point, so they’re quite a bit ahead even if they have to throw the car away. Even at $0.66/mile for some of the worse cities, that’s still $132K in gross income.

* https://www.stilt.com/blog/2020/02/how-much-does-uber-pay/
How to implement switch exhaustiveness checker in Java 8?
I don't know where you got the idea that our universe doesn't obey special relativity? That's an odd thing to have learned...

SR is a subset of general relatively. So SR can be used perfectly well in situations that obey the constraints under which it was designed to be used.

As for your second paragraph, I'm not qualified to answer your question. GR is an extremely rigorous subject that requires a very high level of math to understand.

But something about your tone makes me wonder if you might be engaged in some kind of motivated reasoning... That you desire the viability of FTL travel because it's exciting or romantic?

If you think that describes your feelings on the subject, then the answer is almost certainly going to be "No".
What obvious risks and dangers?
One potential answer is Perl might be installed in more places by default, so portability. Things like MacOS have all three installed, but some random Linux environment might not. It's a bit of a stretch, but you asked hah
This works well for me, too. My wife is a teacher. I appreciate her schedule and her outside perspective on my chunk of the tech industry, and the diversity of our perspectives makes us a better parenting team. I also appreciate the income diversification; I know lots of couples who have highly correlated salaries. Not a reason to choose a partner but something to try and de-risk if you’re in that position. Lastly, it’s nice to bounce product ideas off someone who is unimpressed by flashy features.

This isn’t to say that I think developers dating developers is a bad idea, choosing a partner is the most personal possible choice and I’m glad to see an interesting new angle on it.
Becuase they act as an incentive to raise prices with no incremental value in healthcare delivered.

DSH rules are gamed to extract more from the program
If it were 53, I'd wonder "are they storing the time in the integer part of a double precision float?" That wouldn't go negative, it'd just start absorbing increments without changing the value.

Though that might cause a divide by zero?

What could cause unexpected behavior at 57 bits?

Perhaps storing fractions of an hour, like incrementing it every 1/16th of an hour and calculating a relative rate of change, causing a divide by zero?
It would be pretty trivial to flatten a Casio - or equivalent tech - to this degree. The biggest problem would be battery thickness. If you didn't support charging or battery replacement you could fix that with a standard ultra-thin rechargeable battery and solar power.

OLED panels are less than 1mm thick, so the display wouldn't be a problem.

I'd honestly be more interested in that as a product than in a clockwork Veblen toy.
haha. fair. if you're going to use a specialized linux distro or use linux for a very targeted purpose (ie rescue CD) you might get away without perl. short of that it's in every mainstream distribution.
1 - we think that a highly advanced alien civilisation would build massive startships that move at increadible speeds, Radio beacons that signal to alien civilisations, dyson spheres, etc. These things would be massive, easy to detect, and stick out like a sore thumb.

2 - with our instruments, we can observe vast swathes of space, many galaxies, quite precisely. So it appears that no highly advanced alien civilisation is in our galaxy or the nearby galaxies

3 - Even at our technology level, If we wanted to signal out into the void on purpose, we could signal quite far - thousands of lightyears, and if we wanted to target a particular star we could signal precisely with a large laser and that signal would be detectable across most of the galaxy.

So it stands to reason that there is no civilisation similar to ours in the near couple hundred lightyears and that there is no advanced civilisation, the way we envision them, in our or nearby galaxies. It could be that everyone is hiding, or our idea of advanced civilisation is wrong. Or anytthing else really. That;s hwy it's a paradox/
I don't care that you can't use it to communicate FTL. I care that the atoms are doing it or not.
My point is that high level human play online can be caused by computer analysis offline. One cannot observe a difference, as the moves are exactly the same.
> In what field is it technical? I have a degree in Religious Studies and we were taught it was strictly jargon.

Those two terms are synonymous. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jargon#Noun
Perl for me my goto replacement for non-trivial bash scripts. Perl is a practical extraction and report language as well -- need to ingest some text, do some pattern matching, transmorgify, and output a CSV -- Perl excels at that. BTW, I am referring to Perl 5 -- anything after that seems esoteric BS.
I didn’t say republicans wins everytime, they do get misfires just like everyone else.

I still think they are better than Dems in this area.

Just look at how they managed their goals with the justice system, starting with the Supreme Court. They don’t care about Trump that much because POTUS last either 4 or 8 years. Supreme Court, gerrymandering election maps, and so in outlast any POTUS picks.
Could you share any of those abstracts? I would be intrigued to read some research that highlights similarities between now and a century ago.
What I find most sad is, how differently we treat eg. USA when they decide to destroy a sovereign country due to their interests, compared to eg. now russia... I'm from slovenia, and we even sent soldiers to help them in afghanistan, and we still have them in syria... somehow noone mentions words like "war", "occupation", "civilian deaths" etc., when our soldiers are there...
No, it doesn't. The nuclear plants were never a substitute for residential gas heaters and the chemical industry consuming copious amounts of natural gas. Any shortfall from the nuclear shutdown can be covered by the underutilized coal plants. It's temporarily inconvenient but doesn't necessitate gas imports in any way.
>Which humans?

Consenting ones.

It's more ethical to pay a consenting human generously, than to force an animal to ingest dangerous substances for no compensation of any kind(besides euthanasia when they're deemed useless), it's also a lot more efficient and reliable, humans aren't 150lbs rats.

People risks their lives and health daily for a salary(or for a greater cause, which would still apply here) , why should this be any different? How is it any different from a firefighter?a bodyguard? a miner? a doctor in an ICU?

No matter how poor you are you have a choice, these animals never got one, there is plenty of times where I would have accepted to be a guinea pig for money.
Well, people were evacuated in time. The big question is: can they come back, like ever? The threat isn't so much people dying from radiation if evacuated in time, it is that large regions of densely populated central Europe can become uninhabitable and not usable for agriculture.
Western Chess, they got cowboy hats? Asking for a Persian friend...
https://archive.ph/f0Rkv
The ZDNet article links to the HBR article [0].

Which traces to this networking measurement article [1].

[0] https://hbr.org/2022/06/why-microsoft-measures-employee-thri...

[1] https://hbr.org/2020/08/can-you-be-too-well-connected
I don’t believe the Common Lisp specification says anything about threads. For example here[1] is the relevant section of the SBCL manual. As you can see it’s quite low level. If you’re using those primitives then yes you’ll have to manage barriers, synchronization, use atomic operations, or otherwise maintain sanity. The REPL (or SWANK) thread is just another thread.

Edit: I should add that the usual pattern is Bordeaux threads or some other higher level thing.

[1] http://www.sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Threading
HN discussion of that Greyball article (not just linking because my comment is the top one and explains it, or anything...).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13785564
> 2. we believed our leaders would have the sense to settle with Russia instead of destroying our country.

What settlement could Ukraine have with Russia that wouldn't be the end of Ukraine? Russia is demanding that Ukraine allow part of its territory to secede and form "independent" nations, as well as have Ukraine avoid bolstering its ability to protect itself from its neighbours. Do you think those countries won't try to take more territory from Ukraine, with Russian backing? Do you think Russia will really stop invading Ukraine, after having already done it twice?
Investors are betting that its possible.

Not in the strict uber model. Mind you. Providers will need to keep more of a share for it to work.
The common understanding of cult (which I would argue is probably "religion I don't like", but that doesn't matter) is not in use here. This is a technical usage in archaeology to refer to religious interaction with place and object... which is basically all prehistoric archaeology can see.
Electric heat is always an option. If the gas runs out, portable electric heaters could be used, if the electric grid can keep up.
1. 'The West' wasn't hubristic, Europe was. The US has been telling Europe to get off of Russian gas & oil for decades, under multiple administrations. Both parties have been extremely clear about this for over two decades now.

'I'm astounded at how many people continue to live in the 3rd fantasy of believing Ukraine could somehow "defeat" Russia while still avoiding WW3'

2. The US lost in Vietnam without using nukes. Even more relevant, the USSR lost in Afghanistan without using them! I believe Pakistan has lost 3 straight wars to its arch-enemy, with no nuclear weapons being used.

If we follow your logic to its conclusion, Russia can annex Poland, Lithuania, Germany, France, and so on, and at every step of the way we'd say 'well we can't defeat Russia or else they'll use nukes'. They'd be able to conquer.... everything this way. This seems bad? Would you like to live in this world?
Europe did not believe to be omnipotent but they just though that Russia could be trusted. Putin has thrown away a great deal looking for personal glory at the cost of Russia's future.

Did you believed that Russia was going to get Ukrainian territory easily, Putin thought that also.

> What is your end game?

Too avoid repeating the same mistake that with Hitler. Give Putin more territory and he will need hungry for even more. This may end the war now instead of encouraging further fights.
The only fair way to promote in largish organizations is to promote those obvioulsy outperforming anyone else (rare), exclude those obviously not performing, and then put everyone else into a lottery.

Almost no matter what you do, people will get promoted until they are no longer competent, so it's best not to put too much effort into deciding.

In fact, if you're worried about lawsuits, just put everyone into the lottery and promote that way.
Yes, you can heat homes using electricity, thus saving gas for things, where you cannot use electricity.
This has already been mentioned, but I can’t recommend CS50 highly enough. It literally changed my life. I was doing a music degree and ran into CS50 on Reddit somewhere and decided to give it a shot. Long story short I ended up getting a CS degree and working for a large tech company.
I love that all the diagrams are rotatable in 3d. it's such a great write up of how a mechanical watch works. The Youtube channel linked at the end (https://www.youtube.com/c/WristwatchRevival/videos) is a good companion to see the pieces in action.
Agreed. Was about to comment on the same. Seems like they wanted to imply that the religious practices were less evolved and complex than modern-day religions. But the word choice could be better.
Because none of those plan on taking over europe. Russia still has the goal to directly control all slavic countries and indirectly control the rest of Europe. Most europeans remember the USSR.
It “really goes wrong” only because we've set a really high bar for safety when talking about nuclear risks compared to most other carcinogenic risks: air pollution, pesticides, alcohol, tobacco, etc. If people where living in Prypiat right now, most of their cancer would come from other sources.

Because of the cultural stigma associated with radiations (which itself comes from the very real fear of a world-ending nuclear war during the early cold war) most smokers would refused to live around a nuclear accident site, even though it's quickly (after the most radioactive elements, namely iodine, has decayed away) much less dangerous than the cigarette they knowingly smoke all day.

Fun fact: did you know that in Germany alone the area of what has been destroyed by coal mining is comparable in size to the exclusion zone of Fukushima. This is when things go alright with coal: https://nitter.42l.fr/autommen/status/1538496930262704128#m

viewed from space: https://nitter.42l.fr/KetanJ0/status/1383023566766096386#m
In the 80s I integrated Eliza into a bot that would play an online, multiplayer (up to 16!) text adventure game that was hosted locally via dialup. Sometimes I would come home from school and someone would be talking to it in the chat room.
Shouldnt believe everything you read. This isnt going to happen. They're just going to stop making it an offence to advertise in imperial.
I doubt that he will be forced to go thru with the deal but ultimately he will have to pay for not going thru with it. That's why they have a clause in that speaks to what happens in case someone backs out. Right now the dollar amount is 1 billion dollars but I suspect that Twitter has reason to take him to court for a greater amount. He's totally disrupted Twitter's business for no reason related to Twitter. He'll have to pay big for that.
In my experience the actual expert does not need to be in the room. The actual expert wrote the standards that the college kids are auditing against. And even then, he or she is an expert in writing standards, which is not necessarily quite the same kind of expert you're thinking of.
We are animals, we're not more valuable than animals, since we ARE THEM, we have always and will always be equally valuable to animals.

There isn't one rational reason why a human should be worth more than any other animal.

If OP and their family AGREE to, then yes, of course, it would be infinitely better than testing on unwilling sentient beings.
> This article discusses the _original_ meaning of the word "cult", not the term in the sociology of religion, new religious movements called "cults", cults of personality, or popular cult followings.

Emphasis mine. As far as I was educated this is neither the commonly understood nor academically encouraged usage.
Not at the residential side in most places. Probably because people would find it "too complicated" and are unlikely to change their habits anyway, but they deal with it for automotive fuel so...
> somehow noone mentions words like "war", "occupation", "civilian deaths" etc., when our soldiers are there...

Read more newspapers. You can choose:
https://www.google.com/search?q=civilians%20dead%20in%20afgh...
Lift and Shift — move an application from one environment to another with minimal architecture changes. The difficulty comes when you have built-in assumptions that can’t be replicated to the new environment. Some good examples would be clusters that rely on floating ips, ARP, interface bonding, SCSI, or multicast.

Over the years cloud providers have added these features but they weren’t always available and definitely not something you would reach for in a cloud native setup.
Lessons I learned from 61 of the most influential JavaScript developers
With this article I set a goal for myself to find the most influential javascript developers, analyze their online presence (websites, social profiles, etc.), and try to uncover why they are considered successful professionals that we need to listen to.
The trend should be clear now, everything that's marketed as "smart" isn't for your benefit, but for the $$$ of someone else.
Perl is nice because most Linux distros come with it by default, and it's a more traditional scripting language than Bash. I just wish someone would combine Perl with Ruby syntax and somehow add that to the Linux standard base.
Do you want to know what navel gazing is?

This.

This is navel gazing.
> More than 180 journalists at 40 media outlets including Le Monde, Washington Post and the BBC [and the Guardian] will in the coming days publish a series of investigative reports about the tech giant.

OT: What happened to the NY Times? They seem to have stopped doing ground-breaking investigations of the powerful, including government. Instead, we get investigations of trends and porn sites. What are they doing? It would be an incredile resource to lose. Seriously, please share the last investigation they did that fits that description?
Why do you assume you know better than experts?
This may be one of those cases where it's hard to perceive how your comment came across to other people because you're presupposing all the knowledge (and good intentions) that you had in your head when you wrote it. It's natural to presuppose all that—we all do this—and then to forget that literally none of that information is available to other people. You have to include it explicitly if you want either your knowledge or your intention to come across. In fact, the comment you posted contained very little actual information and a lot of swipiness.

What was good: "These are tentative offers with multiple failure points with all sorts of conditions" is good, but not much, and it's not clear why/how that matters. If you had begun your comment with that sentence and then added more explanation, it would have been great.

What was bad:

- Leading with "Wrong" is a swipe and clearly against the site guidelines.

- "You obviously don’t work in finance or you’d know better, despite your username." is another swipe, definitely flamebait, and also clearly against the site guidelines.