skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me a bit of Colourlovers[0]. That website is unfortunately rather bloated though.

Obviously, the best color is #BADA55

[0] - https://www.colourlovers.com/colors/most-loved/all-time/meta
To add to your saying: Probably this is the Linux year we anticipated for so long. Maybe it's here!
> Not sure about the mfgr- could be rounding for memory saliency. . .

In that case, I would expect them to be rounding down, not up, and to at least mention the exact number somewhere.

> but re HN they’re counting clock time not power on time. Could have easily been turned off total 10 days for maintenance etc.

I seriously doubt HN has been down for 10 days over the last five years. As discussed in the other thread I linked, this has been one of the longest HN outages.
Thank you for this project. I don't plan to use it in production, but it will be interesting to test it in a small network.
> If you retract papers that were just 'wrong' you would be retracting at least 50% of the work published in a lot of fields.

Wouldn't that be a win? Don't people read & reference these published, reviewed, non-retracted 'wrong' papers with the assumption that they are right?
> 4. By design, distributed consensus protocols diffuse responsibility for a function among several difficult-to-identify parties. While this may be an effective way to prevent some kinds of centralization, it also means that making someone accountable for how the function is performed is difficult, and often impossible. While the protocol might use cryptographic techniques to assure correct operation, they may not capture all requirements, and may not be correctly used by the protocol designers.

Ummm, what? If something is decentralized, then that's kind of the point that you can't hold "someone accountable for how the function is performed". If you could hold someone accountable, then you would be able to censor the function at that point of control. This just seems like a criticism of decentralization as a whole.

Also, at the beginning of the Decentralization Techniques section they said...

> "Choosing the appropriate techniques for decentralization requires balancing the specific goals of the function against centralization risk, because completely precluding all forms of centralization through technical means is rarely achievable."

So is it that decentralization is impossible to achieve or that it's achievable, but undesirable? I feel like I'm being gaslighted by the IETF.
Why do they have a re-painted Transrapid 07 on their grounds?[1]

Trnasrapid seems like a much more mature and capable design than their own. E.g. While Transrapid uses a T-shaped track, Bögl uses a U-shaped track. That's not going to work well with snow or falling leaves, not to mention people on platforms discarding items into the tracks…

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Transport+System+B%C3%B6gl...
A nice piece to discuss this old topic. It appears that there was a better understanding of it then than today by general public. Mainly the fact that the discussion is more important than the result of it.

Today, when majority of populace in the west is demanding/calling for more government, more totalitarian control and decision making of bureaucrats over all aspects of their lifes .... (I broadly refer to the government mandates and all these and their tangents: race, etnicity, sex, energy, wages, etc)...from the concluding paragraphs of the article (I to a large degree see how this is a valid summary):

"Ultimately, this must mean that politics denies the rational nature of man. Ultimately, it means that politics is just another form of residual magic in our culture — a belief that somehow things come from nothing; that things may be given to some without first taking them from others; that all the tools of man's survival are his by accident or divine right and not by pure and simple inventiveness and work. "
All in all I think the article starts by meaning well but hinges its position on flawed premises. From the article

> There, among the scrolls and codices they copied, religious professionals sat at desks and performed skilled labor that couldn’t be done elsewhere.

That is correct, the office as an institution was created to

1. cluster work and

2. enable work to be done that could not be done elsewhere (because of machinery/materials, etc)

The first cause, clustering and organizing work has been disolved by the organizing capabilities of the modern web.

The second cause has (at least in knowledge work) lost importance due to digitalization.

I think all in all the office as an optimized for work space will endure, companies will still have them and nippy small startups will still share them somehow in the future but I do not think our usage of them will ever return any where near what it was pre 2020, especially not with the commuting lifestyle
I ignore all 1 star and 5 star reviews. They both are rubber stamping a binary vibe instead of giving real reviews. The SaaS vendors who penalize less than 5 star reviews are as much to blame as the angry folk who give 1 star reviews for minor reasons. When reading reviews, I look at people who took some actual time to make comments and give ratings in the middle.

So the answer is yes - the internet in general has a review problem, but knowing that upfront can at least help parse the information.
Just checked, and you're right. Hmm, suspicious, although looking at RADB (https://www.radb.net/query?advanced_query=1&keywords=AS13335...) it seems that it routes more than that list.
It drives me absolutey potty that there are no scale bars in the wide and aerial pictures. I have no idea if the rocks they're made of are centimetres or metres across, and can't judge the overall size at all!
this is what i keep telling my friends who get .dev .io .ninja or whatever. Spam filters don't care how fun and quirky your domain is. Neither do boomers they won't recognize it as a domain either. Just get the damn .com
I feel like I am in better company shooting on CMOS.
True my bad
There's not enough wood to replace the coal we're using now, no.

But if we are only talking about a fraction of today's usage that is doable.
Define adequate security. Maybe I want to adopt post quantum crypto but now the law doesn't allow it? Or u2f not totp but the law doesn't allow it? Law can hold back security just as much as improve it. Remember how long it took the feds to get off 3DES? Remember all the leaks of personal data (like all military in US or basically everybody in china)? Govts are shit at security.
The problem here is that big, concentrated solar farms are far cheaper to install per kWh generated.
Curious about the downvotes here.
Sounds like it’s a fundamental safety issue not just geared towards thieves. Even workers can trip and break a wire!
I started my first programming job, well trainee programmer in September 1989. Five people applied for the job and I ended up taking my TV and Atari ST to the interview to show them some stuff I had written in STOS Basic.

Got the job and started with dBase II on Concurrent DOS.
In the early 2000s I got an Adaptec SCSI card and a bunch of SCSI CD-ROM drives for free somewhere; I had a stack of 6 CD drives with discs for the games I was playing in them all the time.

This went wrong when I was cleaning my desk and I lifted them while I was playing Baldur's Gate II, creating a big scratch on the disc. I polished it up with some toothpaste and it worked fine after that (even used that same disc to install the game later, IIRC).

Kinda ridiculous really, but it was good fun playing around with these sort of things when I was young.
> which are less accident prone.

All nuclear powerplants are cheap and free from accidents when they only exist as Powerpoint reactors. Reality has had a tendency to change that.
That’s not quite what this editorial says. Rather, it pushes the tired agenda of criminals-don’t-obey-laws-so-why-regulate-guns with some (typically) intellectually dishonest sophistry, claiming for example that Illinois’s “red flag” law should have caught the shooter when the mechanics of that particular law are about enabling individuals to proactively petition the court to prevent someone from obtaining a gun.

And, anyway, they are not anti-intellectuals; indeed the National Review is chock-full of ego-bruised Never Trumpists who proudly (if somewhat more quietly, now) champion their classical educations. Isn’t it doubly damning, then, to see them deploy their abilities in service of deceptive polemic?
The Paved PaaS to Microservices at Netflix
You could ask a few of your friend/colleagues if your joking is annoying, or if they love it.

I get the feeling from your comment that you're fine just the way you are! But why not ask them if it's a positive for them, rather than try to guess.
It needs a `preventDefault` on the keypress events.
> You are assuming that Russia has any interest beyond the borders of the USSR

Again refer to Medvedev's comment about "the creation of an open Eurasia from Lisbon to Vladivostok".

Then again what would be Russia's interest in USSR? Do you believe that Russia has any rights to Poland, Ukraine, Estonia?
Shanghai IS the Transrapid. Siemens first build it and than sold the whole technology to China, because the Transrapid is basically dead end.

I think, they extended the original track later on. But no new one will be ever build.
Part of it is worker safety too... But in general if someone chooses a substantially less safe design and then a thief breaks in and gets injured, yes they would probably end up paying out.

In the USA, that's normally what "up to code" means. Exceptions from code requirements are quite easy to get, but if you have an exception and someone gets injured, all the liability will be on you.
In case anyone is interested http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/index.html is effectively a less-organized Commodore equivalent
You need to leave the US and look at European Unis. EPFL, ETH Zürich, Delft, TÜ Berlin/Munich.
A couple of years ago, I was going through a short stint of burn-out. I needed some time away, so I put a mattress in the back of my car and went to Germany for a few days. I loved the idea of not having to go anywhere and not having to discuss the next location with anyone. If I saw a place with a nice view around dinner time, I'd just stop there, warm up some food and eat, enjoying the view. Those couple of days were zen. I need to do this again some time, but for some reason when not burnt out, people are less accepting of this kind of thing.
The deep learning obesity crisis
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But why is someone willing to pay them? Because luxury watches are a status item. Why are they a status item? Because enough people believe them to be one.

So value (in this sense) is not really between buyer and seller at all, but a common agreement between a large enough number of people.

What OP in this discussion did was shine a spotlight on that fact, maybe in the hopes of getting at least one person to change what they think is valuable, to ultimately help society redirect money to more needed things.
> meaning up to 500 km/h (~300 mph)

from the website: Cruising speed of up to 150 km/h

I'm guessing that the value proposition of this particular system is that it's cut certain performance corners to achieve a far lower cost while still providing more than adequate speed for the intracity use case.
> soviet stores. There is no 10 kinds of everything, but the ones available are guaranteed to be fairly good quality

According to people from the former soviet block I know, the reason they got so good at fixing stuff is because the first thing they did after buying an appliance from a store (after it became available eventually) was fixing it because nothing ever worked as expected. I guess "nothing" is an overstatement but I still wouldn't use the soviet union as an example for great product quality.
> If you are a new resident, or move to a new apartment there? You are basically fucked.

It's funny how Berlin/Germany just can't manage to point the gun away from it's foot when it comes to building affordable housing and energy independence.

It's as if Germans have some economic masochistic tendencies and just enjoy being gouged until they can't afford to live anymore, thinking that salvation consists in more regulations, instead of just investing in housing/energy.
"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."

-- Blaise Pascal
Nope. They just need to be Markdown files.
>I agree that things should be much better but until there is a book of "this is the right way to do signup/signin/account reset/ etc. " then most of us are trying to do things the best way we know how to and sometimes bad things happen.

And when these (hopefully rare) bad things happen (and are documented and reproducible) what do you propose, do nothing and wait some more until that book is published by someone?

Or take note of what happened (useful to later publish the "other" book "these are the wrong ways to do signup/signin/account reset/ etc. ") and quickly implement a remedy for the found issue?
"Controversial" gives a boost to polarizing comments, but it doesn't help with the fact that posts with ever so slightly unpopular opinions get downvoted, and unless they are somewhat polarizing won't get any upvotes.

When I look at my post history, I see that my most thoughtful and balanced comments are either ignored or downvoted. My most upvoted comments are usually rants that lots of people agree with, but I don't consider them worthy of the attention.
Since parent is taking power consumption and disk storage into consideration, it's fair to assume they are considering a local approach, meaning privacy is as good/bad as any other local data you have on disk today.
The new, fast, high density flash chips from the big name flash chip vendors are not generally even listed on the vendor websites. You have to talk to a sales person and convince them you're actually going to buy in volume to even get data on the latest generation of flash ICs. You will also likely need more than 50 friends to meet the order minimums, unless your 50 friends each want to buy about an ExaByte worth of flash chips.

Also, with these multiple level flash technologies (quad level is current tech, triple is still used in some SSD/NVMe) the read, write, and ECC algorithms are non-trivial to the point where last I checked even mainline Linux's raw flash driver support won't do anything beyond single level cell flashes (and very few new embedded designs are choosing raw parallel NAND flash, instead opting for things like eMMC or UFS which have built-in controllers to handle this).
The budget is only loosely related to social policy. Social policy is related to who gets what rights and priveleges.
> because renewable energy production can drop to zero

On a small scale, yes, but on a large enough scale that's not the case. There's always wind or sunshine somewhere. You do need to have good transport and interconnections to take advantage of that, though.
Stalagmites, but not just stalagmites (my emphasis):

> In one chamber, 336 metres from the cave entrance, are enigmatic structures – including a ring 7 metres across – built from stalagmites snapped from the cave floor.

Predating modern humans:

> Natural limestone growths have begun to cover parts of the structure, so by dating these growths a team led by Jacques Jaubert at the University of Bordeaux could work out an approximate age for the stalagmite constructions.

> They are roughly 175,000 years old, which means they easily predate the arrival of modern humans in Europe. They were built at a time when Neanderthals were the only hominins in the region.
A New Two Repo Approach to React Native Development
Using a two repo approach to improve DX and boost team efficiency.
I think the horrible truth about the education system is, is that it discourages wonder.

In college, you have 5 courses per semester, possibly homework and an important test at the end.

The homework has to be finished, essays need to be written and facts need to be learned for tests. All of this times 5. I think the most mentally draining part of it all is the constant context switching.

In the end the hunger of students to delve deeper is not super high, and a lot of lecturers want to stay close to the courses structure they originally planned out (sometimes years or decades ago).

A good lecturer can make one course go a little better, but IMO it's the system that discourages interest.
Well, the trick is then processing those events. For `input` events it's fairly straightforward, put the character on the screen. But IMEs can also issue a composition event sequence, and it's not obvious how to handle those in a sensible way. If you wait for `compositionend`, then nothing will be visible until the composition is done. The usual thing is to overwrite each time with the current state from `compositionupdate` events, but in this case that requires moving the cursor backwards.

Perhaps the cursor could pause during a composition event?

For testing, you can easily generate composition events from a Mac keyboard, e.g.

1. Press option-e and observe an acute accent with an underline: ´
2. Press a vowel and observe the lone accent transform into the accented character: é
Hey there. will add it - have recently ordered a package from them so I can verify the label too.
Preposterous.

These are clearly UFO launching strips.
"Intellectual upbringing" is huge: correctly pronouncing the shibboleths, hearing all of the dog-whistles, yet never whistling the wrong one. Saying the right thing, but in the wrong way, has ended many an academic career.

Ex-wife is an English professor. Department-wide "purges" were not unheard of. She was spared, though this was probably because she was a lowly adjunct.
Their github issue handling did not give me the same impression that parent has of him.
A similar issue is {}, {"mylist": null} and {"mylist": []}. Three ways to represent a missing or empty list.
Being a huge fan of the 2010 sequel, I finally watched the original a couple of years ago. If you’re not affected by nostalgia or if you weren’t there when it changed the game, it’s not the greatest movie.

It’s pretty weird though…the good kind of weird, I think. And it was interesting to see how it immortalized a very early 80s sense of computing: everything is a “program” that does a single, limited thing.
Us crosses the electric-car tipping point for mass adoption
To buy more tesla stocks than he had before, at a lower price point each.

He doesn't hide he would like to have the company private. Owning more stocks moves him closer to this ideal.

Just speculating, I have no inside info on what he really wants to do with the cash.
> strings

I see what you did there.
Form Energy is a unicorn company that exists specifically to solve this problem with their multi-day iron air battery. I’m sure there are other companies working on this as well..
Cynically speaking – it's based on a track made from pre-cast concrete elements, which Max Bögl (a construction company and concrete manufacturer at heart) will happily build for you.

It's also marketed as a fully turn-key system where everything starting from the design and finishing with the vehicles and operations control will be provided by Bögl, which conversely also means that it's a fully proprietary system and you're dependent on Bögl for continuing support or any future expansions, too.
I believe there is also a standalone online demo of the translation engine here: https://mozilla.github.io/translate/
I believe it was IBM, not the government.
I may be an extreme outliar, but these numbers seem quite low to me?
The highest salaries listed there were about 30-40% lower than my new grad salary.
Granted it’s an offer for an american big tech company, but even many of my peers with less than stellar CV’s did better than the data shows.
Out of facilities
Of course. All anthropological work about contemporary society seeks to inform public opinion which dictates policy.
> battery startups expect range will matter less as public electric vehicle (EV) chargers become ubiquitous

No, give me range so I don't have to charge all the time. 400 miles is what I want. There are BEVs that achieve it (or near enough) in highway driving, though they are expensive:

https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/

https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-cons...

Better cheaper batteries, please.
that is super cool
step 1: Be rich and have a lot of time on your hands
Not all parties are necessarily equal: if you have a distributed system, but 90% of the nodes are controlled by Google (or Meta, or Amazon, etc.) do you actually have a distributed system? It can be important to know who controls the nodes in a distributed system, and this can often be opaque or designed to be undiscoverable. This is the concern in those places.

Merely knowing who controls the nodes doesn’t mean you actually can trivially censor them: if you have thousands of nodes controlled by different organisations globally you’ll have a much harder time censoring them than a distributed system where a single organisation has a significant share.
So then employees need to return to the office because The Office must subsist? It truly seems like that is what many companies are saying, showing in the clearest way that they haven’t ever really cared about their employees and all the “great culture” and “we are a family” is all hot air just to take even more from the workers.

I’ve been gauging the values of a company lately based on their return-to-office mandates, because now, like seldom before, we have a very clear metric of what the company values.

A company that truly cares about the well-being of it workforce makes for very effective and highly motivated employees that lends itself to higher productivity and, if managed correctly, increased profits…

> _Offices have never been about increased efficiency. Instead, the office has acted as a brake, slowing down a company’s mission to sell products or services_

I think this could signal yet again for disruption in industries. If a company is intentionally throwing away the effectiveness of a happy workforce, a competitor with some common sense could capture that and start killing dinosaurs that might be due to die already.

Anyways, just my two cents :)
That won't give you a ranking in practice - you'd get 90% of colours receiving 0 votes so there's no way to distinguish them. I think the output of this game would be more interesting to analyse.
I'm guessing the part production is automated but low yield and the mechanisms/watches hand-assembled. For a run of 150 it makes no sense making a custom assembly device.

Why does the production process have to be unique for the result to be art? It's like saying Picasso wasn't making art because he used paint, brushes and canvass like everyone else.
>american big tech company,

US big-tech definitely skew the statistics and don't really represent the norm in EU/Germany. Traditional German (tech) companies, not just IT, pay piss poor salaries in comparison to the US ones in EU.
We should not forget the backstory of this company.

Max Bögel is the largest family-owned construction company in Germany. They build mainly infrastructure like roads, but where also involved in the Gigafactory in Grünheide in Germany.

So, for them its a new business unit to build more infrastructure as a whole contractor. They can delivery everything, not like it is today in infrastructure projects where you have many different contractors providing different parts.

So, they want to sell more concrete.
It's actually incorrect, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32054460