skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of those counterfactual outcomes maybe? Who needs free MFA tokens? The low end, not the high end: the High end can pay for their own. The low end, need a leg up.
That totally makes sense. I didn't think you were disrespectful or anything and I appreciate you sharing your experience.
In a time when there's 10-20% unemployment, I'd profoundly disagree with you. But we're living in a time where there is constantly an enormous shortage of labor. It's unbelievably easy to get a job right now, especially if you're in tech.

Companies that are laying you off are doing you a favor: you'd be making much more money working for someone else!
Based on my understanding of how questions are written and nothing else, I will guess the correct answer is A.
Confessions of a Reluctant Ionic-React Fan
Because you're getting a good deal out of it. They're managing the hardware it runs on. Keeping the software up to date.

The customer gets a good deal. We have office 365. Users self manage. They can download and install on devices as they want. Before office 365 I had to install it for them. It's a big win for our business. We have no dedicated I.T. people. I'm a developer that does a little here and there but we work to avoid anything with I.T. costs. SASS is a brilliant solution to our problem.

Yeah I'll pay a subscription for an on going service.

I won't pay a subscription for enabling a feature I then have to maintain. If the seat heater fails, I have to pay to fix it.
The uncertainty leads to anxiety which can be overwhelming especially for people who value a lot of things in life outside of a Zoom call and don't want their lives disrupted because of work.
If you were taken hostage and had access to a teleportation device that would extricate you from the situation, but was extremely difficult to use such that the vast majority of people would be unable to do so, would you be ethically obligated to risk your life making it more easy to use so more people could get out, or negotiate with the hostage takers, rather than just making use of the escape avenue you have clearly available to you?

Why is obeying idiotic unenforceable laws any different to this when it comes to technology, aside from the obvious of the stakes being much lower? Although the way the world is going, that may not be a given in the future.

I'd argue it may even be worse when it comes to cases of governments who are nominally democracies making idiotic laws for their populaces, because at least theoretically, those populaces could have voted in such a way that said idiotic laws would never come to be, and thus their misery, the stupid laws that they're subject to, etc, are somewhat self inflicted, and for those that do dissent it makes even more sense to feel zero obligation to the greater populace given that. I personally don't really buy this because in my experience, what people want in a democracy has very little with what they end up getting, and the same people that will scream blue murder about the right to self rule when it comes to a national group, will scream just as loud when it comes to an individual in the exact opposite direction.
I understand that. My argument is that, practically, we're talking about the past actions of a certain individual within a certain legal context on a social scale where societal justice has already been served so you necessarily have to tie the two together otherwise society falls apart. What DPR did is not allowed by the laws of the land in which he did it. Therefore it is logical to assert that his actions are unwanted in that society. It's a bad idea to do illegal things and get caught. The semantics of it doesn't change the principle.
It's 43%. You can do a web search. It came up in legal discovery for a perfectly reasonable discrimination law suit.

It distorts things a lot.

* Coveted non-ALDC slots are that much more limited and exclusive. Harvard looks harder to get into.

* Since close to half of the white slots are pre-stuffed, that makes the remaining ones that much harder to get into. That, in turn, leads to extreme affirmative action and no slots for Asians.

... and so on.
The DoD has recently updated some of their policy around use of open-source software as well: https://dodcio.defense.gov/portals/0/documents/library/softw...
> lead to situations where only the cheapest products win out (not the most nutritious).

Vending machine owners stock what sells. People vote with their dollars and their attention. We are free to choose what we eat, and free to throw out the TV. Most enjoy watching the 'breaking news' propaganda rather than putting in some effort to cook a simple meal at home. Your body, your choice.
I doubt this will be the case in 6-12 months.
While true for most companies, this is not the case for non-profit organizations (FSF, Mozilla, etc). And some for-profits are mission driven (Tesla).
Hubble is able to take higher resolution (smaller angular resolution) pictures in it's optimum wavelengths. Even though JWST has a larger light bucket, the photons its capturing are longer wavelength so the end result is a lower resolution.

You asked in another comment "Are the finest details in this picture finer than the finest details in the Hubble ultra-deep field?".

In a sense, yes since the finest details in this photo are of a wavelength that Hubble isn't sensitive too, so they are visible here but do not show up in an equivalent Hubble shot.
Can't that be true for us, though? If we had JWT 4 billion years ago, who knows what we would have seen.
Yep that's clearly the answer they're looking for, but it's still a shit question.
Naieve use of chainsaws is a significant risk. I know, I've tried the baby ones and its very easy to do what cartoonists love to lambast (cutting off the limb you're standing on)

(I meant tree-limbs, but the sentence works with the other ones)
You can say that all you want, but it still hits hard to be suddenly and unexpected out of a job. I think for me the lack of closure (I never did really find out what precipitated the layoffs) and lack of ability to say goodbye (remote company and my slack access was removed while I was informed) were hardest. To work somewhere for any amount of time and just suddenly not, of your own volition, is a really hard thing to cope with.
There’s getting attached and there is just having an expectation of stability. It’s a poor assumption that even as a well-performing employee that your job is secure day to day. I have goals and aspirations, all of which go on hold when an event like this happens.

The superficial, shallow, and fleeting nature of work relationships is the primary reason I’m working to become financially independent from the system. I like working, but I don’t like being in a situation where I can be trashed at a moments notice and completely upheave my day-to-day and having to readjust my goals.

I’ve become so disenchanted with working for somebody else, during the pandemic I discovered how much happier I could be focusing exclusively on hobbies and familial/friend/romantic relationships so all of these get prioritized above working most of the time for me.
Ok I'm getting tired of seeing this on HN now
I think fears of that are incredibly incredibly overblown.

You're going to have to show pretty conclusively quite a few assumptions to be true before I'd be willing to be scared of it. It's kind of the computer science equivalent to nukes detonating the atmosphere or CERN setting off black holes with their particle accelerator. Theoretically possible, very scary, but almost certain not to happen.
> But Ukraine has revealed that Russia's military is a paper tiger

Russia has lost the blitzkrieg but gained ground in Donbass through regular warfare. They are throwing USSR era resources into the battle and haven't even issued a general mobilisation order. When China is going to sell them computer chips, they will have the resources to build guided missiles and ICBMs. I'm afraid they are not quite the paper tiger that the Western press is painting them to be, nor the 'glorious' USSR. I hope this war would end up like Afghanistan for Russia, further weakening it and leading to yet another break up. But it might end up like Chechnya.
That seems like a really dumb solution, but Google is already getting wifi and location data.

Why not stipulate that you need to have been in that, say county, to make a review?

Yes I'm aware of GPS spoofing. It raises the bar for doing extortion attacks like that. Amrit the Dalit scammer who lives in Delhi has NO business in anything in Effingham IL... Unless they've been there.

It would make this sort of stuff harder to do. Not impossible.
Seeing how the EU political set also is trying to get rid of E2EE messengers and such, I get a feeling it will not shake out that way either. It might make it worse, because they would have full legal and extra legal thumbscrews to apply to these EU only companies.
You can't. Invest in yourself--skills, relationships, a strong family, and good neighbors.
Sure - there's more to life than fruit, massages, receiving trucked goods, and being attended to by health techs - but add it all up and you're missing quite a huge chunk of "life", IMO.
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Woah. This is exactly the type of sampling I've been looking for. This is amazing. Thank you.
I don't get it, Ghidra is one of best RE tools, what's the problem?
It seems to be a common misconception that JWST will give us the best angular resolution of any existing telescope. However that is not the case. JWST was designed for lower wavelengths, and due to physics reasons you get a lower angular resolution for a given reflector diameter, as compared to higher wavelengths.

So even though the JWST is a larger scope, Hubble's visible wavelength photos are higher resolution than JWST's longer wavelength photos.
The middle of the day perp-walk style is also shitty. Why they don't think about how things feel to people I don't know.
I had the exact same thing happen to me.
Do you want municipalities to be able to hire cops? This is already a tall order for a lot of people.
>Once he freaked out in a meeting because a CD did not work in the CD player, so he took the CD out and smashed it in to pieces on the conference room table. The IT guy , who was standing behind him, ended up going to the hospital because the shards from the CD flew into his eyes

Did the author of this article ever try breaking a CD? They don't shatter like that and the shards certainly aren't gonna fly far enough to hit the guy behind you. I guess this is what happens when you report exclusively on gossip.
Spreading out production units of a mix (wind, solar, hydro, geothermal...) is key.
For the sole wind: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...

Then comes storage, curtailment, and backup (always necessary: fossil-fuel plants always produce around 9% of electricity in fully-nuclearized France).

Moreover backup is now provided thanks to gas turbines, and we know to run them thanks to hydrogen (clean), which can be green hydrogen (cleanly produced thanks to renewable sources overproduction).
From O'Hare to downtown, there are two routes: either the I-90 or I-294 then I-290.

In my experience, 80-90 mph would be uncommonly high for either route even on an open highway. It's not the norm until you get out to the far flung suburbs like Naperville (I-88).
Who is going to run all the little dams and turbines, though? And how would it ever be cost effective to do so? There is so much maintenance on small lakes that don’t even have a turbine (mainly dealing with silt, which accumulates steadily and is hugely expensive to remove).
I'm led to believe that the DoD is Red Hat's largest customer. This is based on my own experience seeing and using various systems in the US Army (most notably FBCB2 [0]), plus a quick web search which turned up a few articles that agree with me without giving any actual data or source.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_XXI_Battle_Command_Briga...
This is the entire UK population, not a 'sub population'...
Most projects will never scale horizontally.
At Discord, we maintain long lived web-sockets, and need to be able to deploy our real-time elixir based services (which runs on the BEAM VM just like Erlang) without any disruption to user traffic.

To do so, we've built an application specific process migration system (this is BEAM VM processes, not OS processes) that is able to essentially live migrate processes both between nodes and software versions, allowing us to essentially replace the engine of the train while it's running, and also be able to scale up and down our clusters as needed.

We are able to roll out updates across a hundred million processes on our distributed system in half an hour with no disruption to service. These are for internal services. For external services, we built the concept of "session resumption" which allows us to sever the TCP connection, have it accepted by a new/different host, and have it continue as if the connection wasn't ever terminated.
As a long time fanboy of BMW... they keep breaking my heart. First their questionable design choices, now this.
> And this image is “roughly the size of a grain of sand held at arms length” of the night sky.

For a more specific measurement: NASA says 2.4 arcminutes across[0].

[0]: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/038/01G...
Half-billion year old fossilized meteorites from Sweden donated to Field Museum
The Three Definitions of “Science”
They're good places to be. You get paid less, but we're social creatures. Stability and relationships matter more than $$$.
That’s not how it works for police, they don’t operate under the same standards as a jury for good reason.

Also, It’s generally not illegal to lie to a police officer. You can, and will, be prosecuted for lying to a federal agent.
Columbia announced they wont participate in next year’s rankings. The delisting was for this year’s report.
Yeah I was a bit confused by it. The only way you can judge accuracy here is either from the base source, Jose, or the between inter-witness congruity. But accuracy is bad terminology for this. Given another prompt:

Officers Joe Schmoe and Tits McGee arrive at the scene where Josb has a bloody face and says that the sky suddenly turned red and there are dolphins flying around. There are three witnesses. Witness 1 says there are pink and green dolphins flying around and attacked the man. Witness 2 says the sky turned green and two green dolphins attacked the man. Witness 3 says the sky turned pink and two pink dolphins attacked the man. No witness mentions the bag of mushrooms on the ground. Which account is the least accurate.

According to the information above, what is Josb's brother's name?

This reminds me of the DMV test when I moved to Oregon. The question was "You see a motorcycle coming towards you and its left blinker is on. Should you assume a) it is turning left, b) it is turning right, c) it is not turning, or d) none of the above." The correct answer was c with the explanation that motorcycle turn signals frequently don't automatically turn off. Despite this being literally the most dangerous answer.
It looks like the Time Cube guy got a job in advertising.
Nope. I earnestly clicked the link wondering how in the world Billy Joel was keeping Blockbuster Video alive. LOL.
Here’s how I believe it works:

1. A link is posted to HN whose content can easily be made fun of, because it appears bizarre without context.

2. People on HN jump at the opportunity to make fun of said link so they have something to take a dump on. It’s a wonderful ego-trip. They cannot get enough of it. Most of those who do not need the ego-trip to feel better about themselves usually move along without comment.

3. Comments like yours which are trying to be curious instead of mocking are “raining on their party”, i.e., ruining their ego-trip.

4. Instead of engaging with you on a level of thoughtful discussion, i.e., “let’s explore why such a bizarre document exists instead of just mocking it because there is nothing to be gained by doing that”, such commenters are more than happy to take a dump on your comment too.

Instead of engaging with your comment in its entirety, they will nit pick on the fact that your comment features the word “sophisticated” and base their entire response on that. Anything to keep the ego-trip and judgement going.
> You could probably shoehorn some kind of bind and lift into any conceivable generic type.

You actually can't implement Monad for most contravariant functors.
Not at all surprised that these state lotteries in America are taking advantage of poor Black people. It's just another demonstration of how various exploitative systems are put in place for such purposes, like the school-to-prison pipeline, then the pretense by the creators or those profiting from it that they don't know or understand what is going on.

It is also "funny" how after generating so much money from those poor Black neighborhoods, how little the percentage of that money ever goes back to them. The states involved could very much legislate that a percentage of profits (and at what percentages) have to be shown benefiting the poor neighborhoods they are exploiting. But, we all know such problems will not be fixed (despite being exposed by the media), unless forced to and they will be fighting against it at every step.
I would argue that the difference between 47 and 26 comes down largely to field of study or cost of attendance.

The top 10-15 offer an almost indisputable advantage with the top 5 or so being a tier unto itself. Anything outside of those groups is largely "it depends" and 50-100 forms another tier where total cost of attendance largely dictates whether one school is "better" than another.
The diagram of the Pepsi bottles (p7) reminds me of the classic computer art from 1968: "Running Cola is Africa", which interpolated between a runner, a cola bottle, and Africa. It was implemented in FORTRAN running on an IBM 7090 mainframe, and printed on a plotter. Maybe a bit tangential, but I've always thought it was an interesting piece of art. Kind of trivial now, but innovative 55 years ago for its use of interpolation to warp images.

https://zkm.de/en/artwork/running-cola-is-africa
This makes me wonder, if the law of the state says that life begins at fetal heartbeat, will insurance companies have to offer life insurance for unborn fetuses?

I can see a whole raft of problems resulting from either answer.
Beyond All Reason gets pretty close
What's your basis for this assessment?

If anything, in the US, there's reason to believe there will be an even lower labor supply in the future with the baby boomers retiring, a generation larger than the ones replacing it.
This ain't new it's just the background image of beloved pc game "master of orion II" :)
You could do that. However these days if I’m looking at reviews to choose to go somewhere then no reviews is as good as 0/5.
When I was a kid sport betting was illegal in Italy, and almost everyone I knew played illegal sport bets.

But we also had legal national Lotto[0], and _illegal_ Lotto betting with about the same margins.

And when sport betting got legalized, the odds given where about the same as the illegal one, until the latter de facto disappeared.

So, I'm not sure the mob would not get away with Lottery margins.

[0] the traditional Italian lotto is a betting game: you bet that 1-5 numbers will come out of an extraction, but it's up to you to choose how risky a bet and how much you bet, e.g. getting one number pays 11:1, 3 numbers gives you a 4500:1 etc
You missed my point, they're building a decentralised smart contract system, there's nothing in the Ethereum smart contract code that says you must build a ponzi.

Can you tell me where the Ponzi is on this page: https://compound.finance/
It will never be the default.
I'm not from Sweden but I'd expect homelessness there to be almost never caused purely by financial difficulties or unemployment. The vast majority of homelessness in the Nordic countries is either due to mental health or substance abuse problems, or a combination of financial difficulties and other compounding factors such as those.

GP probably meant it's almost impossible to become homeless in Sweden because of a lack of a social safety net alone.
Did anyone ever think otherwise?
> try extensively before you buy

More like try *after* you buy, and then pay a subscription to use.
> Interested to hear examples of cases where extremely long-lived connections are worth a lot of engineering pain to achieve.

When I was at WhatsApp, I regularly observed connections from mobile phones (S60 mostly had the longest connection times, but all clients without a working platform push service will try to remain connected) in excess of 30 days. We weren't going against the framework to keep those though, we were all in on hot loading, and didn't do any container rigamarole until the move to Facebook. Keeping alive connections alive reduces work for client and server, and some networks are terrible and getting a connection takes many attempts, but often a working connection will continue to work; of course, some networks are terrible and timeout connections after 10 seconds of idle, but usually that's temporary.

If your 'long' connections are usually around a minute, like is common in http use cases, it's not too bad to keep old servers around while they drain, but if it's an hour or more, you'd need 2x the instances while you're rolling out, if you want to rollout in less than an hour... if you rollout quickly, and want to rollout a follow on, you're going to see even more. Depending on how you manage things, maybe the old and new instances can share machines, resource usage on the old should drop off quickly, but you might not be able to actually fit many instances on one machine, or resource allocation might not allow for it.

We would still have to kill connections in use sometimes; hot loading the BEAM could be possible, but it's not built for that and I haven't met anyone crazy enough to do it. Hot loading the FreeBSD kernel hasn't been done yet either (although, I have seen it for Linux). If there was a real need to keep TCP state while updating BEAM or the OS kernel, it would probably make more sense to build a way to transfer the states (tcp and corresponding application) among machines rather than to hot load all the things; it would probably be more approachable to develop that than to add hotloading to things that didn't plan for it. I don't know how WhatsApp manages today, I left sometime ago, and I avoided getting involved with the FB hosted servers; I know we had the ability to do hot loading, but it didn't really fit in the FB deployment model, and some people didn't like having multiple deployment methods.
I'm not sure I would mind the impersonal firing. Let's get down to business, tell me what I need to know, how much money I get, when do I get it, where do I bring the computer.

What I assume would bother me more is the worrying or fake compassion for me. We were not a family, we were "friends" only by convenience, the company didn't actually have an important mission other than making money and I know it. If I was just fired by you, pretending to feel bad (or even actually feeling bad) for me doesn't help me. I am already thinking about my next steps: I need to inform my wife, rethink my finances, and likely start looking for a new job.

Disclaimer: I was never fired yet, so of course I might be full of shot. And how one reacts also probably depends on which phase of your life you are in and how easily you think you get another job.
Lottery is a tax on people who don't understand probabilities and those who need something to hope for. Basically it taxes the poor. It makes many of these already poor people poorer and a very few richer. This has been known for decades or more. The results of the investigation are consistent and no surprise.
It would be surprising if a the SMTP retry timeout of the average sending server was less than the duration of this outage.

This is not to say there is no cause for concern, but SMTP was built for scenarios like this, at a time when these things happened far more often.