skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Support systems have absolutely nothing to do with holding anyone accountable ever

Incorrect. Where I have worked the logs of support system tickets are systematically used to hold people accountable. 3x spike of networking support tickets? Someone(s) at some level are going to have to explain what's going on and be accountable for fixing the situation. Same for non-IT customer support systems.

Support systems are very routinely used in this way, it is part of the basic purpose.
Less credulous and more desperate.
Saudi Arabia needs something that can sustain the current lifestyle of Saudis when oil and gas revenue start to go down.
It’d certainly remove some pressure on Dublin housing.
I recently returned from a visit to NYC for the first time. While there, I tried to tell my partner about the overwhelming 'citiness' that NYC was exuding but of course I couldn't describe it well. Naturally she shook her head at me.

The trip was five days but I was still keenly aware of it into the very last evening. I had difficulty sleeping due to my inability to shut out all the noise -- sirens, honking, the occasional bit of shouting.

For reference - I was born, raised, and spent most of my adult life in very small Midwestern towns. We moved a lot when I was young and it wasn't long before I learned to feel the vibes of each different town.
>They start with a conclusion that they want, such as dual-ism, or philosophy souls, or all sorts of things, and then they wrap themselves in obfuscating circles

This is false; if you believe in a proposition, it entirely makes sense for you to argue for it. Whether those arguments are of quality is another matter, but the simple fact of arguing for a position you already hold does not make bad work.

>When the philosophers start making testable predictions

Philosophy isn't in the business of making testable predictions, just as logic or history isn't in the business of making testable predictions. Why must an argument make a testable prediction for you to take it seriously? Does this argument we're having now result in a testable prediction? If it doesn't, why did you reply? Or if it does, doesn't that show there's more to rational argumentation than testable predictions?

You assume that philosophy is like religion. Not so. I'm moderately well read on metaethics and none of your statements ring true to me, except in the case of poorly argued or shoddy philosophy, which I'm more than happy to admit does exist.
There's a traffic signal with a green or red light. If you get a green light, you keep going. They don't even ask for your documents. If you get a red light, you have to stop and go through the full process.
It is victim blaming.

They put their retirement savings into “insured” accounts with “guaranteed” reasonable returns.

You say they should have known it was scams, but if they were scams why was the news filled with tales of the success of crypto, and tech sites and “influencers” all aggressively pushing crypto.

If these were scams then why wasn’t the news filled with them being shut down?

No these are people who, as far as they understood, were simply storing their savings in a “high” interest rate savings account. They weren’t throwing money around on coin base, or following micro trends. They were doing the right thing, and trying to limit the amount of value their savings were losing to inflation.

Remember the account values of many of these services were reported as still belonging to them. What happened was one morning they woke up to find out that the balance they were seeing was a lie as the companies had sold off their assets, and lost all their money, without their permission, and was refusing to let them withdraw it.

Then some asshole like you comes along and says that it’s their fault.
The latest LTS version is JDK17 (e.g. records and switch expressions) and has been for long enough to be production ready. I reckon half of the people on this forum didn't even work in software when JDK8 was released.

Yes, Kotlin/Scala would stop driving you crazy. No, I don't see nearly enough Bay Area companies deprecating Java in their favor for new services :( They are probably betting on the next LTS to come soon enough (with pattern matching and hopefully Loom).
For me, the whole point of modifying the number system is modeling different kinds of structures. Both complex numbers and projective numbers are interesting in their own right and also useful for making models of both physical reality and other kinds of mathematical patterns. Each system has its own internal logic with its own quirks.
The really big deal in the last decade has been better magnets -- many of the "novel" approaches attracting recent funding are probably doomed to fail, but the MIT-associated consortia that simply aspire to building better tokamaks with modern magnets look encouraging.
Anyone who "invests" in something with "guaranteed" returns is a fool in my eyes. There is no such thing as a guaranteed return, and I suppose no amount of fools will change that fact.
Is this really the line you are going to use to convince people to avoid scams?

I'd like you to meet Sam the Scammer: "If you would have bought bitcoin on this date in 2019 you would have been up 200% by now. You would have doubled your money in 3 years. literally."
There's a lot of niche languages for niche specialties. Like Ada/Spark for aviation/defense/safety-critical systems, Coq and Isabelle for formal verification, FORTRAN and Julia for scientific computing, Mathematica for pure/applied math, Prolog for logic programming/planning/expert systems, R for stats, MiniZinc and TLA+ for modeling, Racket for compiler work, etc.

Ideas in these fields come through clearer/more cleanly in these languages. Learning the language is easy, the field is harder, but ideas of the field are reflected in the language.
Generally agree. The books are better to have anyway for no-battery access and to financially support the community. MP is important for last minute access/safety info though.
This article is about the ideas from a psychologist who died in 1937.

In modern psychology, there is plenty of research into trauma based on way more than just Freud's theories, with actual measurable evidence.
Some breakthroughs in plasma modelling, too. https://www.sciencealert.com/physics-breakthrough-as-ai-succ...
Yeah there was a time when I thought my speed of typing was the thing slowing down my thesis writing. So I spent a week training Dragon Naturally Speaking to be able to transcribe my voice.

Turns out that really wasn't the bottleneck, and I had just spent another week distracting myself with technology to avoid writing.
There's been a number of in person ctfs where hacking infrastructure was fair game... And did not have static arp entries set, and I ended up mitming all the traffic to the score server.
> Hire for fire feels like an urban myth. We do a lot of work to find you, interview you, hire you, and train you

Your unspoken assumption here is that recruiters, HR and managers have perfectly aligned incentives. It is trivial to find instances when this is not the case - e.g. a high-performance team being forced to fire their "least effective" member[s]- this relies on the theory that talent is uniformly distributed across Amazon.
Cryptocurrencies do not generate revenue from investors. They don't generate any revenue.

Uber stock doesn't generate revenue either as it's not a profitable company. In the current meta paying dividends is worse that doing stock buybacks so it's unlikely for the stock to ever be a revenue generating asset.
I wonder if Jörg Schilling's (RIP) star* handles this better. I recall he was pretty scathing about GNU tar back when I used Solaris.

* http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/star.html
I love KDE and you can pry it from my cold dead hands.

That said, KDE+Wayland have not been stable for me across a variety of distros and hardware configs (responses are anywhere between "impossible" to poiting at another piece of software in the stack). Akonadi self-destructs every other week and is unrecoverable (only on Debian stable has is been 99% stable for me). Kmail devs have taken out a few features (such as letting you configure the reply button to reply to all by default) with neckbearded argumentation. Both these are a pity: I believe KDE PIM software is a hair shy from being the best and most versatile PIM software on Earth.

It's the best DE+apps I have ever used, but completely perfect it is of course not.

Baloo can be configured to not index file contents, which only a bad distro would default it to.
I must agree here. This article suggests that injecting some snark into sports journalism was somehow revolutionary. It isn't. It's easy to be snarky and negative. It's harder to be generous, balanced and thoughtful. Gawker and Deadspin were all about snark and, in retrospect, no one really misses them.
The book used a very pessimistic 10% efficiency for panels installed in large scale solar farms:

https://www.withouthotair.com/c6/page_41.shtml

If a breakthrough of solar technology occurs and the cost of photovoltaics
came down enough that we could deploy panels all over the countryside,
what is the maximum conceivable production? Well, if we covered 5% of
the UK with 10%-efficient panels, we’d have

10% × 100 W/m2 × 200 m2 per person ≈ 50 kWh/day/person.

I assumed only 10%-efficient panels, by the way, because I imagine that
solar panels would be mass-produced on such a scale only if they were
very cheap, and it’s the lower-efficiency panels that will get cheap first.

Utility scale panels today are commonly a bit over 20%.
> Something is deeply wrong with such an adversarial ecosystem. If sites don't want to be found and indexed why go to any effort to include them?

I think it is not about being found. It is more about being copied.

These sites are afraid their content is stolen, so they only allow Google to crawl them.
> a possible mechanism for this [...] They promise to "take care of" every interaction with Amazon FBA that requires English knowledge, and to only bother the seller for things that are really important.

Very likely.

In my previous comment, I focused on the perspective of individual sellers (i.e. entrepreneurial) who have bulk contracts with the local manufacturers. They are the group who are unlikely to commit to "all-inclusive" packages, as they value financial cost overwhelmingly more than personal time, relative to other groups. Think college students, retirees, unemployed, people from poorer areas, etc. They are ubiquitously known as 'wang dai', literally online retailer or agent. These are the first wave of significant online retailing in China. As they want to expand abroad, those who gained some first experience are packaging courses at minimal entry fee (~10USD!). There were a long period where these courses are bombarded via WeChat. (There still are, but the trend has shifted to other topics)

Naturally, the manufacturers want a bigger piece of the cake and now dominates their own online presence in China. To further expand beyond abroad, as they probably do not have adequate language/platform in-house expertise. This is a perfect match to the services you described - outsourcing to e.g. Amazon/eBay specialists.

In either case the point still stands. There's a snowball effect of following the lead of whoever is known to be successful and became the 'authority'.

> you'd expect less than perfect 100% engagement

I agree imperfect engagement is expected on the whole, but how the 100% metric is derived can be misleading. Is it 100% of the top 100 items i.e. the cream of the crop? How different would it be if the procrastinators or failures or one-offs are also included?

Also, I don't think analogue activities like driving is, analogous. Probably closer to Pride Day / French Flag photo overlay across various social platforms. Or SEO.

> a Borg Queen that could be taken down

I think we are aligned that there's a Borg Queen, but not on the rigidness of the hierarchy.

I believe it's weakly/organically structured, unless there's a monopoly, that I'm not aware of, happened.
Not to mention that we've already made great headway into transforming plants and trees into a variety of stable fuel sources that can be used to heat and power our lives during the time periods where solar panels don't generate enough electricity.

Our time would be better spent investing in making these conversion processes more reliable and efficient. Alcohol from fermentation of sugars, methane from anaerobic digestion, syngas/biogas/woodgas from gasification of woody biomass, and charcoal from the remaining carbon. All of these are fuel sources available from plants that pull in CO2 naturally from the environment, completing a cycle of energy production that doesn't alter our current CO2 levels upwards. They can be done on waste biomass left over from current agricultural processes or plants used for landscaping needs (hedges, shade trees, etc.). In fact, if you store away the carbon left over after gasification as biochar you can lower CO2 levels over time.
It's easy to make the assumption that Earth is not the only planet to evolve a species that's capable of high technology, to the extent they can re-work the surface of the planet in complex ways that would be a clear marker of intelligence.

But it does now follow, and it is by no means certain that such life would be sentient in any way recognizable to us, or us to them.

You're doing what everyone else is doing - conflating a link between intelligence and sentience that's just a projection of your human bias.
I think the cycle repeats, as Jomboy Media seems to be the current "different" sports journalism outlet.

Just through their breakdown videos, you see how much more entertaining sports can be (even some harder to understand sports) without the pomp and circumstance of the "official" (boring) commentators and league-affiliated highlight reels.

I don't follow sports enough to care about their other ventures, but it seems having an outsider's view can lead to more honesty in reporting, and more interesting content.
I'm not the grandparent poster you replied to, but this is pretty standard operating procedure for political success in almost any large organization.
Tangential aside, which amused me to remember. My old-fashioned, rural (southern US) grandmother used to tell me to never trust a man who didn’t like cats, because he would dislike a woman for the same reasons. (Barring allergies)
Look for "Glycee" printers, they are basically fancy inject prints.

I had some prints done in the UK, onto archival paper, the print quality was fantastic.
Depending on the source image your milage may vary though. I had prepped my own imagery and soft-proofed them prior to printing - I'm a designer so have a good understanding of what I'm doing.
This isn't some unique insight of mine. There's a section about it in the wikipedia page for MWI, which I linked in my comment. Everett himself referenced the problem and attempted, unconvincingly, to argue around it in his original paper.

The mystery to me is why the obvious flaw in the idea hasn't killed it dead for so many smart people, such as David Deutsch. Instead they engage in bizarre logical contortions to try and recover the Born probabilities and some shadow of a meaning for them. If you think there's some actual merit in their attempts, listed at the wiki link I pasted, I'm all ears.
I’m visiting Peru soon. People choose to take day-long bus rides rather than a <2h flight getting from Lima to Cusco. I find it hard to believe that a train wouldn’t have at least some interest for budget travelers or people who value time less than most of us here
Glad to see this on the front page. One of those posts I reread every now and then. Better yet it’s written by Anna Patterson, who in addition to the mentioned searches at the bottom wrote chunks of Cuil (interesting even if it failed) and works on parts of Googles index both before Cuil and I think now.

Sadly it’s a little out of date. I’d love to see a more modern post by someone. Perhaps the authors of mojeek, right dao or someone Elise running their own custom index. Heck I’d pay for some by Matt Wells of Gigablast or those behind Blekko. The whole space is so secretive that for those really interested in the space only crumbs of information are ever really released.

If you are into this space or just curious the videos about bitfunnel which forms parts of the bing index are an excellent watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Xoy5w5ydM and https://www.clsp.jhu.edu/events/mike-hopcroft-microsoft/#.YT...
You got the myth part right: having a single team with 10 rock-star engineers.

1. Amazon isn't so special that even they can control the distribution curve to only have rockstars,

2. This is too big for a single team in the first place, let alone 10 rockstars,

3. You don't want any rockstars, let alone only rockstars on your teams,

4. Managing low performers is a magnitude more work than solid performers; no
manager would do this to themselves on purpose. It would be easier to cut their 2 least rockin' stars.
A little thin on substance, but apropo, IMO. I often ponder how society would have benefited with more Adler & less Freud psychology. If only the father of propaganda had been Adler's nephew...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
It’s near consensus if not full consensus that Amazons number one problem is the URA and work environment that fosters. Even Microsoft reversed course on this after Nadella took over. It’s what I think has lead to their high attrition issues
In France they closed flights up to 500km competing with TGV.
500km is less than 2h in TGV, you show up 5mim before departure, you have no annoying security check and stupid questions asked, and you arrive in city center. Planes cannot compete with this offer.

Even more since SNCF launched their low cost TGV (Ouigo).
Isn't one of the supposed advantages of C that it works on many platforms?
If you like that, HackFortress is a CTF that combined both sides, the video game playing and the hack style CTF. Looks like they're going to be back this year for defcon, I ran a team for several years.

I found it to be some of the most fun ctfs I played, partially because it was extremely time-bound. Rounds were 20 to 30 minutes each. It meant that you still had the rest of your conference time for other activities, rather than taking over your entire weekend.
Why’s this 66 year old fridge better than the one I got now
Commercial contracts are where risk and reward meet. CTOs need to minimise the first and maximise the second, and this concise guide helps you do just that, nothing more.
REBCO high-temperature superconductors have potentially changed the game. They can support stronger fields which means smaller devices for same confinement. Commercial production seems to only started in the last decade.

MIT's research, spun out as CFS, may be prompting other startups.
Nothing happens on Firefox Mobile on Android.
Where do the best Scottish players go to play club football? In the nations you listed, the best of the best end up in Barca, RM, Bayern, etc… They then return with best practices and an aura that influences the entire team.

If Scottish club football is the pinnacle for Scottish players then this may be a factor?
> was that it should make money

Most public transit isn't profitable, but they take fares to partially fund their operating costs. This aligns incentives
I’m glad, but I hope we still invest in Plan-B’s because we are literally betting our civilisation on moving away from carbon.
Fuck off, these were largely people who thought they were putting their life savings in with companies that were guaranteeing returns that were not outrageous, and were by and large being advertised as high interest savings accounts

They were doing what the “experts” were telling them was the right thing to do.

Fuck off with your victim blaming BS.
I wonder how this compares to the amount of money invested in crypto startups in the past few years. (I don't mean the value of crypto or the amount of money that was traded into it -- just the amount VCs invested into crypto startups.)

I don't know if that means people that allocate capital think crypto has a better chance of changing the world than nuclear fusion -- or if it's something else. But it is strange to compare the funding of each.
In my own city I'm not sure there are any such companies. But I was involved in helping out with a hiring round for Thales recently that were looking for 15 devs. They had very strong language requirements.
I don't see anything special with Firefox on Android, not logged in to Google :(
What "happens to them" is that their life is sustained by calories and nutrition they would not otherwise be able to afford.

This kind of GMO is literally (not figuratively!) life-saving technology.

Just like the Haber process enabled fertilizer to be produced cheaply, saving billions of lives. Without it, India would have faced mass-starvation and its population would be half of what it is now.

Now, you may wish to argue that the World has become overpopulated as a consequence, but then the question becomes: How would you reduce the population?

Most people would prefer to elevate societies through sufficient sustenance, comprehensive health-care, and stable governments. This seems to reliably result in negative or zero population growth.

Your view seems to be that it's preferable to starve hundreds of millions to death, leaving the survivors in abject poverty to avoid... what... "meddling with nature"?
Seconding this - does it just not show up on firefox mobile or..?
These kind of Easter eggs were way more endearing when Google wasn't the incumbent monopoly powering the surveillance economy.
Wow this gave me such an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia. I really miss the early years of the web.
Do you want to burn new carbon that’s in the ground, or recycle what’s already in the air?

We have tremendous infrastructure already dedicated to using natural gas (cooking, heating, transport, industrial equipment) and it won’t be electrified overnight.

First get to carbon neutral, then worry about carbon negative.
A lot of people these days are quick to self diagnosis their own “trauma”, to the point that any negative or scary thing that occurred to them in the past could be a candidate for “trauma”. I’m sure this has the effect of minimizing people with actual trauma.
That's a weird prejudice. I understand if it was about dogs, but there's plenty of reasons not to like cats.
Very American view on things. This has nothing to do with languages and Islam, read more about the history of France to understand why this is important https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion

In let's say Sweden - there is a freedom of religion, where even public bathhouses can dictate special opening hours for muslim women. In France such lunacy is unthinkable because they have freedom from religion, i.e religious people are not free from the rules that apply to everyone else.
And after that, make sure everyone pays for using public air
If you are struggling with insomnia after coming off alcohol - try valerian sleeping pills. They work similar to GHB or alcohol.
Not really, the government has a competing incentive for people to consume transportation as it has knock-on effects on economic activity and tax revenue while at the same time driving down the marginal cost of transportation
I have most of LaMothe's books, but the other one was new to me. Thanks!
So was solar and nuclear.
>> It also has another clear objective: helping citizens to reduce fuel
consumption as energy prices soar.

Train travel may be "better" than auto, but reducing consumption by making the product free doesn't mesh with any economics I've ever studied.
Amtrak is more expensive than a flight for a reason, making it free would make it inaccessible
I appreciate this all-too-rare take. It concerns me that it's so popular to be negative. I believe a lot more good can come about with a positive attitude -- honest and critical at times, yes, but at some point you just gotta put your boots on and get to work.
There’s plenty of reasons not to like dogs as well.