skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We pay a food company to feed a person calories they don't need so they develop diabetes etc which we pay doctor to cure, insurance company to adjudicate and drug company to medicate. We build roads and buildings and cars designed to require excessive maintenance and then wear out early, e.g. cheap uncoated metals. We develop JavaScript frameworks, rando databases, hipster languages etc and educate/certify people in them, write millions of LOC then replace them a few years later. This is shallow innovation and it's a crazy amount of make-work.

There's an alternative, which is to ask whether something EVEN HAS A CHANCE of being relevant in 10 years. Experimentation and risk-taking is fine, hamster-wheeling and "bullshit jobs" are a waste of life and destroy the earth, for little benefit.
Berlin proper has one of the highest density boar populatipns in Germany, including woodlands. As have other urban areas. Fun fact, hunters in those regions have the legal obligation to use silencers. Those are practically illegal in Germany otherwise.
I like François Chollet's take [0] on the Turing Test:

> Bots that "pass the Turing test" are to AI research what a David Copperfield show in Vegas is to physics research. (And yes, his shows do involve some amount of physics and engineering.)

[0]https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1344738704724611072
I’ve never really “got” the appeal of Word (outside of it being the prevailing standard) either, but my writing needs would be met well enough by TextEdit/WordPad in most cases or maybe AppleWorks 6.x or Word 2000 if we’re getting fancy, so…
Don’t read it, complete waste of time.
> there seems to be a lot of anger or rage in their music

this... this is sarcasm, or irony, right?

The 'R' literally stands for rage.

Against the machine. to wit, the capitalist machine.

So, to put the finishing sauce on your story, 'Rage against the machine' with the rage taken out, would be just the Machine, exemplified by Amex.

I just wasn't sure if you knew quite how appropriate that scenario fits the schema.
They’ll perhaps use slab track, like HS2 in the UK will use.
Palmer Luckey:U.S. falling behind in defense because Big Tech is scared of China
To be fair the good MS people did not mention that your synced data will ever be deleted, they only mention that you can disable the sync (by removing the account) and surely once you have removed the account you won't be able to access anymore the already synced data, a good question would be what happens if you re-add the account, will earlier synced data be accessible again?

Regardless whether the data is deleted or not, I find troubling that this synchronization with the Microsoft cloud is forced on the user (if I get this right you cannot add an e-mail account to outlook without opting in for this synchronization).
I wouldn't call myself anti-social, but I'm not terribly concerned about where I am in the social hierarchy. I do have a few friends that are very concerned with it and looking at some of their behavior is just exhausting.

I remember we were at a party and apparently there were some big wigs there. My friend was pointing people out to me like: "hey don't look this person in the eye", and "don't talk to this person, they are far too important". I proceeded to go up and talk to each one of the folks that he warned me about. Friend looked at me like I was insane, I looked at him like he was insane.
The problem ofc, is that despite paying a little better and being a more open career path for people who aren't traditional students (plenty of programs for working class people) the hours are god awful and the job can be potentially draining if not disturbing at times.

Most people I know rn who are nurses are desperately looking to switch careers.
Persistence of Memory (2017)
Cybernetics. That's the term you're looking for, not AI. The governor is a control system.
If I'm not mistaken, an average AC contains 200kg-1 ton CO2 equivalent gas.

Assuming we have one AC installation per person in developed countries, and each installation releases its full contents once every ten years, it would increase the carbon footprint of people in developed nations from ~10T/yr to ~10.02-10.1T a year.

Don't get me wrong - we should minimise the release of such gases and find better gases for AC, but it is not a significant issue right now.
What Do Authentication and Authorization Mean in Zero Trust?
This is a really odd description of zero trust.

For end users, zero trust looks like ‘not needing to check the VPN icon is green before you launch the payroll app’.

The concept of ‘being on the network’ goes away. Which is good, because that was a major source of confusion for end users.
me with escargot
You said it in your first paragraph. You've equated success with some kind of approval from others.

I'm saying some people, like Bill or the dwarf fortress brothers, or countless others, have a different idea of success.
Associating a class-based epithet with the worst behaved people you know isn't an argument against the existence of stereotyping the poor.

It's even worse, really. If you call somebody "white" trash, you're noting that this is a white person in a situation that you would expect of a nonwhite person. Expecting nonwhites to be poorer in the US is rational. Expecting nonwhites to be badly-behaved, stupid, and criminal is just racist. I'm sure you'll object to this, but I guarantee you don't call anybody "black trash."
The History and Evolution of Zero Trust
VAT is indeed included in Apple's list prices.
And, I assume I could buy a replacement cable if it frays, unlike with my old MagSafe Air, where I just had to replace the whole charger.
Pretty sure the WordPress API is still XML-RPC. Like many things in tech, it’s a lot more common than you might think, even after three or four “replacement” technologies.
Duck tends to be pretty expensive in upscale restaurants, but is generally available at a much more reasonable price in any good (but not necessarily fancy) Chinese restaurant.
I'm a Slow Thinker
The Media damaged? Yes. Absolutely. But journalists? Far less so.

Mainstream media and journalism are not synonymous.

The root problem is, the mainstream media has self-anointed themselves as journalists doing journalism. Worst, actual bonafide journalists mostly remained silent (which ironically calls into question their authenticity). All the while the masses believe they're getting news via jounalistic standards. They were not. This Orwellian phenomenon isn't limited to Covid.

It bears repeating: Mainstream media and journalism are not synonymous.

Perhaps not perfect but if we use this JH list as a filter it become obvious The Fourth Estate has failed us.

https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1

Editorial: Years ago, I was a regular and devoted reader of and often subscriber to the NY Times. The depth and breadth of its journalism kept me well informed. Its objectivity taught me the same.

Then - in the 90s - the stanards slipped, and best I can tell have been slipping ever since. Ironic that I learned from The Times how to spot the downfall of The Times.
That's a fair point and a good suggestion to consider.

One alleviating circumstance is that, running on AWS, a big portion of such issues (ones that would take a lot of time to resolve) would come from wider AWS outages - when there's significant leeway - the old adage that customers / big part of web would have bigger issues than us being down if an entire AWS region (or multiple) is down.

In Deno's case, most of "those" parts are self-managed and surely much more difficult to keep running reliably.
> It’s the price you pay to use the platform because it’s free.

? That doesn't make sense. It is most certainly not "free" and the real price is one that is far more than the costs of providing their services. The problem is that joe user doesn't understand the value of what they are paying so Facecrook is selling trinkets to the natives for land.
that lifetime ban on working for the Krogers may have represented a much bigger threat to Mr. Manager than it ever would to you
Yeah there's a banana on my table.
I inserted "agreement" in parentheses to clarify the meaning of contract as a type of legally binding agreement here as opposed to other usages of the word.

I don't think this is a controversial definition of the word contract (for example Wikipedia's entry for "contract" states, "A contract is a legally enforceable agreement...").

I did not say that contract and agreement are synonyms that can be replaced with each other in all circumstances, so I'm not really sure that your comment is relevant to what I wrote.

I was also trying to clarify that the employment contract might be titled "Employment Agreement" or something like that but is still a "contract."
In a world where electric second hand cars exist, the second-hand price of most ICE cars will be negative, sellers will have to give you money to accept the high fueling and maintenance costs.
It seems that the answer to your question is that the continuously-welded rails work only within a relatively narrow temperature range.

As mentioned at this link, the continuously-welded rails are made to be stress free at a specified temperature, for example 27 degrees Celsius in UK.

At lower temperatures the rails contract, which does not have bad consequences unless the temperature becomes so low that the rails will crack, because their strength has been exceeded by the contraction stress. At very low temperatures the trains may need to reduce their speed, so that the rails will not crack due to the additional stresses caused by a passing train.

At higher temperatures, the rails dilate, and when the temperature is high enough they will buckle. Due to that, the trains may need to reduce the speed, or even stop and wait for the rails to become colder.

At least a part of the rails from Germany have also been updated with continuously-welded rails.

In one of my trips, it was a hot summer day and because of the rail buckling all the trains had huge delays. Even if I should have arrived at the Frankfurt airport about 3 hours before my flight, due to the train delays caused by the hot weather, I have arrived so late that I have lost the flight.
This one? https://www.railengineer.co.uk/slab-track-paving-the-p-way/ How does this make the rails less likely to buckle? Just because it's held in place more tightly?
> Not sure if they are sociopaths, autistic, on drugs or simply elitist but it was an extremely unnerving experience.

I think "asshole" is the term you are looking for here.
Yes, I also highly recommend the night tour of Colosseum.

I've done day tours several times. Last time was was in October last year, and it was insanely crowded so I can't imagine how it is now. Definitely feel like there are more and more tourists in Rome.

There were a lot fewer people during the night tour, and we got to see more (getting below the floor of the arena), but it was also quite a lot more expensive as I remember.
> I understand (but can’t confirm) that France is quite egalitarian in comparison as well since the revolution.

In theory it is supposed to be egalitarian, and everyone will pay lip service to it. In practice, not so much.

As the sibling said about the Netherlands, there very much is a sort of class system built around education. When you meet someone, usually, the first question is "what do you do for a living" and the second is "where did you go to school".

People will also pay attention to the way you talk. If you have a "hood" accent, you'll be considered "less than" someone "without" accent. If you don't speak fluent French, it's also "better" to speak with an English/American accent than, say, eastern European.
There's an episode of "Decoder ring", an excellent podcast devoted to decoding cultural mysteries, on this subject: https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2021/08/selling-out
"So easy, so effective" seems like the most appropriate translation in this case
Europeans have been famous for marrying "rich but common" Americans for so long it's a running joke in Wodehouse books.
By not eating out, cooking all their own meals. Extreme couponing. Buying instant coffee that you make yourself instead of Starbucks. Not buying things they don't need. Several profitable side hustles. Using money from their main job to invest in SaaS products that they've built from scratch. Cycling instead of driving. Not having kids early.
What is layer 8?
All of the comments supporting this are by people who have failed to so much as google this topic. The Sahara used to get monsoon rains until about 11kya to 5kya[1] when the axis of the earth shifted a bit.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-really-tu...
Samsung's chip department is likely very far from their phone department. They make everything, basically, some say they even run a country.
I suspect that one of the activities a lawyer does in this case is prepping you to answer these questions. Rather than "dunno" the answer could be "It was an unremarkable night, I ate dinner at home, watched netflix, and went to bed". Odds are the browser history/location history on your phone would provide corroboration for the above if needed.
You're hearing something that other people are not if you've ever heard someone refer to Paris Hilton as "white trash." They might call her "trashy," but never white trash, because that would be absurd. She calls you white trash.
How hard would it to use this as a library? Our application does a lot of CSV processing and would love to try and see if this could help us streamline a lot of that.

Our application is written in Ruby so I was thinking just writing a wrapper which shells out to the cli.
The incentives are simple, profits are taxed.

To simplify, if you want to say develop new software you can call it a capital investment and pay for it with after tax money or call it operating expense and pay for it in pretax money. Guess which one is a better deal.
Yeah, Im not bowing before someone of a higher social class (in a figurative sense) and have no problem demonstrating that when the situation occurs. Don't be a dick to anyone, but you don't fucking special treatment.
I think it's easy to overestimate how many people approve of this attitude, because the ones who do are also extremely loud and present in mass media.
Again, that'd be an argument against breastfeeding, given that millenials were born at a peak time for breastfeeding. Really, though, it's probably got nothing to do with breastfeeding.
Mutually Assured Trust was the first thing that popped into my mind when reading the article. The premise of explaining things to end users and the difficulty of naming things also reminds me of the Kerberos paper [Designing an Authentication System:
a Dialogue in Four Scenes](https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dialogue.html). Zero Trust reminds me of Kerberos, reborn into a web-first world.
Godot and consoles, all you need to know
I can chime in on the road: there's probably insufficient color variation and that gets filtered out during patch-match. You can relax the NCC Threshold parameter and you should be able to reconstruct the road (you'll also get more outliers in other areas though). There might be an option in COLMAP to do that. In ODM you need to modify the fNCCThresholdKeep parameter in OpenMVS (you'll need to recompile OpenMVS).
She is much more part of their clan than she thinks. Her self promotion and differentiation skills are intense. Plus she uses any intervention to market her stuff a bit more.
Nursing shortages really are dire right now. I’m open to any suggestions including altering the female dominated culture of nursing to be more open to male communication styles.
You're confusing the absence of the off-the-shelf product with the absence of the technology.
This is not a problem with unions as a concept, but rather with the huge, centralised, bureaucratic, political entities they have become in practise. That type of organisation has some benefits, but I believe federations of highly local unions would be more effective for helping individual people deal with specific pickles.
Just to add some clarity, it's not that it "can leak" your account name, it deliberately pops up your account name and profile photo above the video to anyone that clicks the link.
Happiness is fleeting, and has a law of diminishing returns. It's human nature to have some problem to be working on. Lack of problems is not happiness, at least for me. I'm a type-A personality, so I need to be always getting shit done. Happiness is found in the process, not the destination.
Yeah; good for her. The point is that Starbucks and Amazon have created an ever raising floor for the price of labor.

They're low-skill/training jobs, so no skilled job is able to pay less than that. (Also, the Starbucks thing is part time, and she had babysat for other people too -- babysitting probably made sense at 2x the hourly rate of a part time job, but $25 isn't 2x anymore.)
Celebrities Are Guzzling Water While Regular Californians Cut Back
> shoveling children into furnaces

https://thediplomat.com/2021/07/factory-fire-reveals-banglad...
Reading the original BeyondCorp paper, I think Zero Trust was from the beginning construed as an end-user-facing replacement for VPNs. Sure, you can use it for backend services too, but it definitely doesn’t exclude end-users.
I need to move to France.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. We're trying for a different quality of discussion here.

If you want to write something substantive and relevant about that, or anyone/anything else, that's of course fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’m reading this as, he made racist or otherwise hateful statements in a semi-public forum and nobody was going to put their organization’s name behind that. It’s an interesting problem. On the one hand it’s a free country you can say what you please and your employee can fire you for it. On the other hand I think it’s inhumane for someone to lose their job - and most notably healthcare - because they are one of a large number of knob heads out there and were unwise enough to advertise it.
In those cases the assumption is you were made aware of the relevance of that day before, closer to what happened so you could recollect and fix the memories for later questioning.

Otherwise that kind of question is ridiculous.
Who gives a shit how evolution "built the mother"? It also built us to walk the plains and jog slowly after ruminants for hours on end to feed our tribes. In 2022, what the mother probably needs to do is get up in the morning reasonably refreshed and get in to her office.
A Generalization of Otsu's Method and Minimum Error Thresholding (2020)
The else None is redundant, though. If you want a one-liner in Python just ignore the indentation:

if date.today().weekday() == 5: print("It's Saturday")
Honestly one of the hardest things about zero trust is getting end users who aren’t used to it to stop trying to solve problems by turning on the VPN.

(We are almost completely zero trust, but obviously there are still a few legacy systems you need to connect to a VPN to access)

I don’t do deskside support, but I do have to help nontechnical people interact with apps and services occasionally, and often their first troubleshooting step is ‘make sure the VPN is on’, whereas mine tends to be ‘let’s eliminate a potential source of network craziness and make sure the VPN is definitely off’

So do tend to think that the important messaging for end users is that zero trust is about eliminating something - making things simpler.

Maybe ‘networkless’ would be a better word…
nobody cares dot jpg
ya lots of farm kids have pets like that and lots of us end up eating them later
Nobody cares if you feel sorry for them that isn't one of your friends or family members. The article isn't about you.

You might want to think about how easy life gets if you flatter and fuck wealthy people, and how hard it is if you don't know any.
Thank you for the candid feedback! It's definitely appreciated and we'll take note
> I think it's a leaky abstraction nonetheless, regardless if it causes issues in practice.

The abstraction is intentionally leak to meet a very valuable design goal: React plays well with other libraries that are manipulating the dom. This is a hard requirement for many businesses because libraries written without React in mind would often cost years to replicate.

So far as I can tell there's no reason someone couldn't apply the general approach to UIs React takes while also making it a less leaky abstraction. In a native scenario this makes a lot more sense because there's less components you might want to reuse vs the web.
I use ODM to map large areas (100-300) acres regularly. It's pretty much fire and forget on AWS spot instances.

Combined with Dronelink, my workflow is largely automated. Just a few more pieces I'd need to have in place to be able have it be more or less hands off.

The next piece I want to tackle is creating a watched directory or S3 bucket that automatically spins up a spot instance, monitors for the completeness of the work, downloads the results to S3, and shuts down the spot instance. Then all I'd have to do is watch the drone fly and move photos into a folder.
I wonder if there is some power or heat related limitation that prevents them from supporting multiple external monitors. It doesn't seem like it'd be trivial to support the same requirements for such a small/thin device.
Additional context: it wasn’t until 2015 that Walmart raised its minimum wage from the federal minimum to $9/hr. It’s now $12.
What happened to bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full?
All HN stories were pushed to bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full BigQuery table on daily basis, but since 1st July 2022, there are no updates.
I get the impression the dollar amount didn't change. Instead, the existence of the market did. (None of the other parents we know have been able to find babysitters either.)

Presumably, it'll even out after the labor shortages subside.
The "white savior" is still alive, and the more the unwashed masses resist the obvious good the more it grows.

You see it publicly and more vociferously after an election.
That's pretty opaque. :(
1) Starting early is no guarantee of anything. You see big differences in skills from different kids who start at the same age.

2) To become a virtuoso, you do have to practice obsessively, many hours a day every day. (I remember Steve Vai saying he practiced 10+ hours a day.) Again, this is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to achieve virtuosity.

3) Do virtuoso musicians have start young? I don't know. Kids have the most free time and the fewest responsibilities and other distractions. (It probably helps to start before you're old enough to date.) Few adults have the time or inclination to practice to the obsessive level required.

4) Most "teenage hackers" do not practice obsessively at the level of virtuoso musicians.

5) Most professional programmers are not virtuosos.

6) The music industry is not like the tech industry. And anyway, most of the money is made by songwriting, not by virtuoso performances. The analogy between tech and music (or between tech and sports for that matter) is not a good or useful one. The music industry is practically speaking a bad career choice. Only a lucky few do well. There's a reason it's filled with people who have no life except for music.
> More than three-quarters of track on the network today is modern on concrete sleepers.

"modern"? or "mounted"?
I may be missing something but this looks like an open source project vs. Auth0 which, while it has a free plan, is part of Okta and is a commercial product.
A must read before any coding interview.
Plasticity without genetic change – Michael Levin [video]