skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point I was trying to make[0] is independent from the actual planned duration of the structure[1].

Of course it would apply also to the less lasting one.

In a perfect world, besides ordinary maintenance (which rarely is performed anyway in a timely manner) when a bridge is near to its planned end of life (let's stay on the 50 year duration) it should be inspected and - if it is the case - its life could be extended by - say - 10% or 5 years, BUT there should already be present:

1) the projects and all authorizations for the new bridge

2) a reserve of money ready to be spent on the new bridge

Then (and this is actually an increased cost/waste) these "granted" extensions of life could be repeated a number of times BUT should be "hard-capped" anyway to - say - 30% of the planned duration, in name of more certain safety, it will happen that you will demolish and rebuild a perfectly good bridge, but you will also in many cases prevent a disaster.

What happens in the real world is that once the 50 years have passed, an inspection is made, and it is determined that everything is good enough, let's make another inspection in 5 years time or let's make this minor repair, and let's see what happens in 5 years time, rinse and repeat until the structure has double the planned lifetime and finally something happens (be it a structural failure, an accident, whatever) that forces to close the bridge (or to reduce load on it or in the worst case the bridge collapses) and at this point starts the race to make the project, get the authorizations, gather the money, etc, which adds two or three years to the time needed to have the new bridge built and usable.

If you prefer, the issue I was trying to point out is that usually we need an "unexpected" event to trigger an "emergency response" whilst the bridge nearing its end of life is something known and expected.

[0] which is that once something is built, for some reasons it is often considered (wrongly) to be eternal

[1] which anyway is only a very rough estimate, not an exact number, duration for reinforced concrete or steel bridges depends on so many factors that is impossible to determine accurately a possible "structural" life.
Not only does pretending to work happen in the office, it happens anywhere work happens. Gas stations, store clerks, cashiers, fast food, everywhere.

People that are lazy and pretend are not limited to offices or remote roles.
Probably has alot to do with how the cops are trained and what cop culture is embraced as well.
US police are more often a problem then police in other western countries.
Why is this written with slashes and fat arrows?
Hello and good luck with your business.

There's been some discussion about the accuracy of environmental footprint calculators. In particular, there are concnerns that such calculations don't take into account the consequences of choices made to reduce one's footprint, which may end up increasing, rather than decreasing, emissions.

For a brief introduction see:

Environmental footprint calculators have one big flaw we need to talk about

https://theconversation.com/environmental-footprint-calculat...

And in particular some research cited in the article, like:

Using Attributional Life Cycle Assessment to Estimate Climate-Change Mitigation Benefits Misleads Policy Makers

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.12074

Is your company aware of this discussion? If so, what are your plans to address those concerns?
>Not doing Easter eggs proves loyalty to power and order

Power and loyalty is everything these days. Surrender to corporate or perish. All whimsy is to be management-approved.
The spam profiles on UpWork tend to borrow identities from other parts of the internet and not other UpWork profiles. When I reverse image search my applicants’ profile photos, the fake ones are mostly taken from LinkedIn.
If you can't show you're going to have the cashflow to pay it back any time soon (or later), you may have trouble with that.
It's indeed a pretty cool combination of ideas to get to the final exploit. I just had a discussion about whether programming is mostly creative or analytical. Seeing this post, the answer (next time) will be "yes."
SMIC is shipping Bitcoin-mining semiconductors using 7-nanometer technology. But without EUV how is it possible?
I can't think of anything in the wild. You could get far with setting up some webhooks and sending events to IFTTT.

Having it self hosted, in the end its a matter of logging some information about users requesting access in to a database, having a UI to display data from said database and having some small automation to add the IP to a whitelist / blacklist.
I'll reach out to you directly, perhaps I can participate in the nomachine Network beta and provide feedback that way. Thanks for the reply!

Edit: contacted you with ticket# WU07T00092
Like I posted in another comment, the Asset purchase programme (APP) and pandemic emergency purchase programme (PEPP) will continue for some time, so I'd think they plan to use those as lever for such things, iow. the lending rates aren't the single "tunable" parameter, for better or worse.

FWIW, until recently I was cautiously optimistic w.r.t. Italy, but the stunt of ex-premier Conte's M5S and Salvini's Lega driving out Draghi's (relatively) competent gov in favor of populism damped that a bit.. One of the biggest droughts in Italy's history won't help the economy either.
in comparison to the amount of people taking out home loans in order to get in on the housing bubble that was subsidized by the government ... yes definitely
I for one will be very happy when the EU forces my US iPhone to drop lightning.

/s
Or if homogeneous data is fine, just cat or dd from a source like /dev/zero.
That would be one of the exceptions. For example, high-frequency trading firms always need developers on call while they are actively operating. Keeping those systems running correctly is essential to their role in the company. Same with small companies who have no other staff, assuming they even have enough employees (15) to be under ADA. :)

For the more common scenario of on-call rotation, it would be very difficult to make that argument because other people can take up the disabled person's shifts.
the fundamental risks of crypto seems to just be a repeat of the fundamental risks of unregulated banking... first as tragedy then as farce eh?
An exchange is kind of like thermodynamics.

No matter how complex and viable a perpetual motion machine looks, you can't get more energy out than goes in.

Similarly - no complex restructuring of money into different assets will make more money come out than goes in.

Money only grows in a non zero-sum way when it's put to work in the real world: e.g. creating value by creating a product which is more valuable than the sum of its parts.
I think the canonical resource on this is https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/
We could argue who is to blame for higher gas/oil prices until the cows come home, however I ask the questions; years from now will we look back at this as the defining moment we realized we needed to hasten our move away from carbon based energy sources and renew investment in nuclear energy again to facilitate that move?

I think gas/oil prices going up like this needed to happen.
> they went over how they handle a billion requests a day with mostly a Rails monolith

1 day has 246060=86400 seconds. 1bn/86400 is more than 10000 reqs/second, so each request has to be served in less than 100 us. According to [1], random access on an SSD is about 150us. This suggests to me it's likely that most of these are being served cached from a CDN. Are we supposed to be surprised that this can be done by a rails monolith? We don't know how many of those requests are actually hitting the rails app.

[1] https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832
Very interesting. I'm curious that what software did you build or maintain? :)
What economic value comes from that stuff? reusable rocket boosters are a rounding error on the American economy.
Ask HN: Should we have a “total votes” in addition to comment points?
I'm often seeing my comments fluctuate between positive and negative, which is fine, but also interesting.. Am I the only one who'd find it very interesting to also be able to see how many total votes your "0 points" comment actually have?
This is what happens on a classical UNIX terminal, other platforms have different workflows.
They probably want to buy it for alpha. What else would a PE firm want with a high multiple, low growth pubic company.
Vitalik Buterin about Ethereum at EthCC
> Other users have provided the link, but my heart sinks a little every time I see this brought up, especially when the commenter is singled out by name. People forget that this is a real person. He also happens to be a first-class HN contributor, and has been for many years.

> I realize it's internet fun to point neon arrows at people seeming outrageously wrong in the past, but the truth is that people aren't reading that comment accurately and there's a huge dose of hindsight fallacy here.

The full comment by dang has more context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067281
This is awesome! Your hardware looks fantastic, so pleased to see it had a Noctua fan. This is typically the kind of thing hardware manufacturers would try to save money on. Will definitely consider and spread the word about PiBox!
Be Using It Test Driven Development (TDD)
Hell yeah - it's amazing to finally get someone to understand something you created and pay for it!
Circle and USDC: Building a Stable Platform
The Great Tech Salary Crash
Just to be clear, this is a recommendation based on an assumption of benefits of in-flight air ventilation. It does make sense that you may be more at risk for airborne pathogens while the ventilation is disabled (usually on the tarmac) but the title is misleading without any studies whatsoever to back the claim.
I temporarily agree with this, but once TLS ECH gets widely deployed then I won't. I can see an ISP blocking a single domain, but not all of Cloudflare just because it's hosted there.
I have a hard time believing the fundamental problem is the world is "culture".
After Covid-19 and a personal battle with Toxoplasmosis, I think people need a reminder of the unforgiving brutality of nature and evolution.

The Toxoplasomsis parasite infects over 800,000 persons each year in the United States. We are finding out our models were wrong, and this parasite can cause cysts and behaviorial modification(probably via hormones) in human brains.

No one talks about this, and I only found out because this parasite was giving me polycystic ovary syndrome! It's all an absolute nitemare, and a great awakening about how these parasites violate our bodies and minds.

I think Evolution is the biggest enemy that we as humans must overcome with technology.
>Whether they indeed bypassed that system for the NEL and provably allowed excessive accesses being their holdings, well, that's for the court to hear

Pretty sure this summary judgment openly admits they did.
Plenty. The sql-like interface (in Q) is mostly syntactic sugar; the functional style takes you much further. That said KX is making a huge push on ease of use and front end where you don’t necessarily need to use Q.
Why are we putting generic pictures behind auth?

I get paranoia, but come on. I'd rather open it, and monitor for strange activity/fail2ban to automate banning malicious actors.

Don't overthink it. We're sharing pictures, not government secrets.
There is no limitation that this has to be served by a single server
This math assumes that the requests are serial (each begins and completes before the next one starts), rather than concurrent.
1964: Arthur C CLARKE predicts the future
you are surprised that people will cash out after highs?
Because there was a massive recession?
Rails monoliths (any monolith actually) don't have to be deployed only once, they can still scale if needed.
It's blatantly true. Just compare the fines of VW who explicitly systematically cheated emissions tests on diesel vehicles to EU fines on Google... for recommending google products on google websites. Services are the one piece of trade between the US and EU which the US is a net exporter. Considering the number of fines and taxes which explicitly target those it's pretty clear what's going on.
> The more well compensated you are, the more disconnected you are from the perils of working class poverty.

For sure, but there's a type of blindness that comes from our culture and class expectations too.

I know many service workers who make more than white collar workers. But -- critically -- the white collar workers are unaware of it. You could say the white collar workers are banking on social clout for why they feel better than the service workers they utilize, but I don't think so. It looks like straight up ignorance and willful projection.

The service workers are happy to let the white-collar-fools carry on with the delusions --> it leads to big tips when the white collars need to show off and there's a payoff for workers who can put on a show of subservience while ultimately enjoying more freedom.
GNU coreutils `true` is 80 lines

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/true....

Busybox `true` is 38 lines

https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/master/coreutils/true...

The simplest implementation is 0 bytes

https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/966896123548872705
> The primary problem with student loans is needing them in the first place.

Exactly. Education should be fully provided by the government for every person.
Zendesk is a million times better than Freshdesk, ServiceNow, Jira service desk, in the context of basic ticket management workflow.
They are a direct competitor for Service Cloud. Salesforce usually acquirers to expand their product lines rather than snuffing out a competitor.
When you have people claiming the vaccine doesn't work and a public figure goes to the press to overstate that the vaccine not only works, but it is essentially, perfect, then it's not a bad mistake - it's a knee-jerk response to the "conspiracy" criticism without evidence.
Most buildings are close enough to cookie cutter. I used to work for a builder, he could look at a brand new house print and estimate how much it would cost to build the house within a thousand dollars. You can count the walls, stairs, and a few other features and know what it will cost because those are cookie cutter. Sure the arrangement is different, but that doesn't actually cost anything. So long it is a "stick framed single family house" it is easy to estimate because they are all cookie cutter. Change any of that and you need someone else to estimate as there are different rules for each change. Most of the changes you can make have someone who has experience and can accurately estimate it.

Or in programming terms, I can estimate how long "hello world" well take me to write. My estimate won't change if you tell me to write in it in German, so long as you give me the German translation of hello world. You can substitute any of the thousands of other languages in the world, it won't change the estimate. Of course if you tell me instead of a programming language I know I need to write it in one that I don't that will change the estimate.
Stories like this make me wonder why I keep getting job advertisements from crypto companies for absolute insane amounts of money.
I've had success with https://moonlightwork.com in the past.
Apple Agrees to Settle Butterfly Keyboard Class-Action Suit for $50M
Yes, although it didn't differ much from regular, full-time work. Basically only for tax reasons.
Comics writer Alan Grant has passed away at 73
Landing on Mars is fundamentally similar to landing on the Moon - slightly easier in some ways (no humans, some atmosphere), slightly harder in others (much farther away, so need more energy; much slower comms, so impossible to manually correct anything). Launching a space telescope is easier than either, as you don't have to land.

The robotics wasn't there to create the rover, so the mission wouldn't have made sense, but the technology that allowed NASA to land on the moon wpuld have allowed them to land something on Mars as well.

Honestly, a better counter would have been the gravitational wave detector, the kind of precision we have achieved in measurement is awe-inspiring. On the other hand, the Michelson-Morley experiment was also quite impressive for its time, though a good few orders of magnitude less precise.
Anyone else curious to see what terms Three Arrows Capital was offering?

For seemingly everyone in crypto to have such significant exposure to them, it looks like the entire industry was funneling retail funds into 3AC.

Maybe some of these clear ponzi schemes offering 20% yield were themselves promised 20.5% yield by 3AC.

It's an interesting take. Because it kind of lets everyone off the hook.

Wild speculation here BUT...

If I'm a token and I offer investors 20% but loan to 3AC at 20.5% and they seem credible, I can semi-credibly blame their unexpected default.

For their role as a hedge-fund 3AC can buy tokens with money loaned from those same tokens, pay dividends as they rise and simply fold as they fall.
I also would have thought Scheme to be the natural choice, but I get that "CL" is considered industrial-grade and as many people in the CL community have its advocates.
My school makes me use Microsoft Teams. In order to communicate with my classmates, I have to use Facebook Messenger. The new law will hopefully resolve that. Are you expecting me to drop out of school instead just so I don't have to use proprietary software?
Lemmy is a huge no-no for this reason: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1224

Hardcoded censoring of certain words is outright insane (to me at least).
do you have any contact info that we can reach out to?
> and in features like line numbering, modes for showing (non-printable) special characters or whitespace and option parsing for said features.

I remember a page somewhere saying plan9 people where very much against making cat be a generic tool for all those use cases, and it should do what it says in the name: concatenate files.
Great idea, climate change as a service. Who said the soviets weren't enterprising.. /s
What's the corporate interest in impeaching Trump or not? I think that has less to do with corporations and more to do with Republican politicians (correctly) concluding that their Republican voters don't want Trump impeached.
Because big tech is overwhelmingly not European, thus there's little blow back to trade actions. Suggest a policy that may harm the balance sheet of the German Automotive sector and you'll see it killed on the spot.
Show HN: A Linktree alternative for indie authors
That's awesome, thank you for the correction.
When I used to manage shipyard jobs in the oil business, I did a lot of walking or taking a boat from location to location, waiting for a delivery, trying to get a supplier or purchasing on the phone, etc. And there would be crane operators waiting for something to lift. Or a crew waiting on the crane operators to finish so they could shut down some system. Etc. Etc.

In general, my experience was that jobs took about twice as long as it seemed they should ideally take if you "sharpened your pencils" on the estimates. And that assumed no critical dependency like the delivery of critical equipment slipped out or some complicated refurb (like the subsea blowout preventer equipment) didn't take a lot longer than expected.
And not being able to call people twats. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1224
Social market economies exists and do fine - Nordic countries, even China.

That's the only version of "communism" I can see as a steelman.

Communism as a centrally planned economy can not work until central planning system will be as smart and knowledgeable about peoples needs as the people themselves.
You can have cities designed for cars that aren't hostile to other modes of transport. It's just nonexistent in practice in the US.

See anti-bike lane movements, lack of over and underpasses for pedestrians, sidewalks that quite literally connect nothing and go nowhere, local laws that prohibit walking on roads where there is no other access between locations, no crossings, signage, or road markings for pedestrians in commercial areas, etc.

Go to a modern local shopping strip, park near the road, and walk the sidewalks. See if there's ramp or stair access between all parking lots and appropriate crossings between them. See if there are indicators before all curbs and paths for a blind person or someone in a wheel chair or with a stroller to travel.

Being designed for cars only would imply useless designs wouldn't exist. They do, so we know that something is governing these things, just poorly and not in the favor of not-cars.
The house was literally for sale to the public since 2016 through end of 2021. If it was worth more than what I paid, someone would have purchased it before I did.

This is how free markets work.
why not work part-time for a small company?
Depends on what I'm doing. If I'm working on my usual BE stuff, I'd probably go for years - I can't remember the last time I googled something about this. If you ask me to do frontend work I'd probably get stuck within a few days.
“I think worldwide tech salaries may equalize pretty fast” – Sam Altman
real jobs?

Also, I don't think that the main proposition of cryptocurrency is that you don't need a centralized exchange. If you want to exchange fiat for cryptocurrency via the credit card or bank transfer, you need a trusted peer who can accept those forms of payment- whether that's a business or an individual. The centralization and insecurity of exchanges is due to their weakest link- the centralization and insecurity of the fiat system.
What other Amazon efforts in health care are you aware of and what other acquisitions have there been to call their record terrible? I'm only aware of https://amazon.care/
I absolutely reject the premise that the we should only consider inventions that single-handedly revolutionize the world. A lot of these so-called incremental rounding errors add up to significant sums.
This makes me wonder, all of these boutique healthcare companies (One Medical, Forward, and others that I just don't know about) are they actually profitable or are they all just needing to be bought out?

On the other side, I am really curious where this makes any sense for Amazon? I could see arguments about healthcare for their employees (didn't they bring that in house or something?), "synergy" with them using AWS (and maybe improvements to medical related services in AWS), and/or something related to their 2 prescription offerings.

But outside of those few things... I am unclear where this one is coming from for Amazon.
There's multiple things to consider with the crypto space:

1) Bitcoin: It is attempting to establish hard money standard outside of state authority. It's slow going. Takes a long time to build and educate. Currently largely treated as a store of value, but there are efforts under way to make it usable as a method of payment (the Lightning network).

2) Tether and fully backed stablecoins: These provide dollar liquidity to the crypto ecosystem. More importantly, they are a very important store of wealth for the developing world, where they want dollars but laws and capital controls prevent stunt that.

3) Shitcoin casinos: The space for degenerate gamblers.
A new lease on undeveloped land takes several years to reach production, so decisions made on leasing new lands now will have an effect only a few years from now.
Do you believe the EU is more protectionist than the US? If so, you are too biased to have a meaningful conversation with.