skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The DR is seen as a pioneer in SEZs, which give special tax and regulatory treatment to foreign capital.

This also feels like an even more complicated way of saying slavery.
Oh nice I had an interview last week... Let's see how it goes for candidates in middle of the process...
The Cynefin framework can be really useful for having this conversation. https://lizkeogh.com/cynefin-for-developers/

How well do the people executing the project know the codebase, data, and tech stack they're working with? How understood and confirmed are the requirements? The less those things are true, the less certain you can be with estimates. At the extreme, all you can do is poke the system and commit to providing feedback on what you've learned.

At the same time, you should be trying to make the system more lucid, both for yourself and new joiners on the team, such that estimates can become more accurate. The more senior you are as an engineer, the quicker you should be able to do that.
Are the connections & referals on the basis of my imported current contacts? Or how does it work?
I was waiting for a /s at the end of this comment, but now I can't tell if you're kidding.
Your comment just shows you don't understand what he wrote. His critique is affected not at all by the existence of higher magnetic fields.

ITER's volumetric power density is 400x worse than a PWR. ARC's is just 40x worse. Lidsky was pointing out DT fusion reactors are always going to be (generously) 10x lower in volumetric power density than fission reactors, due to limits on handling the power flowing through the first wall. Higher magnetic fields let ARC be better than ITER, but still sucking relative to fission reactors.
The nature of having opinions is that you think you’re right, so welcome to the club.
Or keep deploying daily anyway so when everyone is out the production env. is pretty up to date and undeployed feature inventory low.
> trying to achieve

Intellectual curiosity, applied to the care of ideas.

«Disguise»: I have no idea what you are talking about. My only interest on whether the submitted site falls into the category of "wiki" can be linguistic - not about the site itself (of interest respectfully relative).
In recent years, many tools have been created in the note-taking space. They often market themselves as something like "personal knowledge management tools", "Zettelkasten" or "second brain".
There are just so many solutions now (and it seems like every week someone develops a new one). I keep a list where I note down solutions I see mentioned. In case you are still in search of a tool, here is a short extract containing some of the more popular tools from my note:

Obsidian, logseq, roam, foam, org mode, notion, remnote, evernote, dendron, zettlr, tiddlywiki, joplin, devonthink, thebrain, heptabase, scrintal, ...

Now I don't know what you are referring to with "sustainable", if you mean finding a note-taking workflow that is easy to keep up for you, then of course that highly depends on your personal needs (method of input, type of content, multi-platform requirements etc.).

My advice would be:

1. pick something that works outside the browser

2. pick something that you can sync, and that has a mobile solution for quick notes on-the-go

3. pick something that works on a "future-proof" plain-text format, e.g. .txt files or .md

4. some tools offer spaced repetition integration, either as core functionality, as plugin, or by syncing to a dedicated SRS app like Anki. If you find a way to frictionlessly create SR cards in your notes, that can be a nice way of keeping some knowledge "cached"

5. keep it simple in general, don't rely too much on specific tools or workflows. they will all cease to work/go out of business at some point.

6. If you are going with any solution that operates on a local folder of .md/.txt/.org files, a nice goodie is that you can actually version your notes with git.
>> God if they exists, could have created world we everyone were in a state of continually bliss, but what would be a point of that?

> please, isn't that what heaven is supposed to be?

No, I doubt it would be like that, not like what a junkie experiences when they inject heroin in a vein. There would be some sort of meaning to it.
This is a common saying or trope with the number varying to a degree. The original version I know of is that in the Soviet military it was an acceptable loss to lose two people out of a hundred during a regular training operation.
It’s not clear they fell behind during the debt period. The timing is off isn’t it. They fell behind later

Aren’t there other crazy divergences out there? Singapore and mylasia or something?
What's wrong with trading with China?
I hadn't realised until very recently that most hydrogen produced comes from coal: https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/explain...

Most of the time it isn't a green fuel at all and is just a way to keep mining coal.
This isn’t one of those cases where the only thing you care about is if something happens or not as humanity would need to deal with and thus pay for every nuclear accident. As there is no discount if it happens twice vs once every reactor is an independent risk. Thus, 500 reactors is 500x the risk.

You might argue multiple major disasters might result in more reactors being shut down as knee jerk reaction, but shutting down 500 additional reactors is 5x more expensive than shutting down 100.
These kind of fractal have actually 4 dimentional structure since c_x and c_y can also be parameters. I'd love to see their slice as 3D, but have yet to find a good way to visualize them...

https://i.imgur.com/JRfLy6R.mp4
There is a strange obsession with Haiti among the American elites.

Ranging from the Clintons to Hollywood, also the music industry and the oil industry. They all seem very interested in that place.

I wonder why, there is no shortage of poor countries in Latin Americas. Bitcoiners for example chose El Salvador
Oh yeah I remember your reply (not word for word but the approach of using it). If you search around for using process dictionary it seems to go against the grain of Elixir since it introduces mutable state which is fundamentally against what the language provides. It did lead to much easier to understand code because it brings the language more in line with how other languages work where you can update a variable outside of a specific scope. Maybe it's a good example of the idea of "sharp knives" but applied to Elixir instead of Ruby.

I don't think the data structure was that crazy or rare. It boiled down to looping over 2 lists and wanting to keep an independent count of each one.
> confiscation of their property and land

Observe the colonial/imperial mindset - gun-trotting French sail to the Caribbean and steal land from Taino Indians, and kidnap and enslave Africans to do the work. Then back home, the king is guillotined and eventually even Danton is guillotined. The enslaved Africans eventually rebel against the slave masters, and they get into a sanctimonious huff about how "their land" was confiscated.
That is just an opinion and not a statement of fact. There are many different types of people and not all people have the same motivation. A lot of people care quite a lot about amusement and self-actualization at work. What a business owner might want does not change that.

(and let's face it, there are many many business owners who care way less about business problems being solved than they care about "being the boss")
Yeah it makes sense to build 4 car factories and compete on quality/cost/safety which benefits the consumer. But having 2 electricity distribution networks, water pipes, sewerage, is simply a waste. Even privatising the land titles registration office is dumb as it is a natural monopoly and would require regulation to stop the $50 title change from becoming $50,000.
Seems like imagemagick was coredumping and my measurement wasn't correct. So I raised imagemagick memory limits and I made sure both were using the same jpeg quality and downsampling filter and:

ImageMagick

time convert original.jpg -filter Lanczos -set option:filter:lobes 3 -resize 50% -quality 75% im.jpg
91.43s user 3.65s system 424% cpu 22.396 total
avg shared (code): 0 KB
avg unshared (data/stack): 0 KB
total (sum): 0 KB
max memory: 10553 MB
page faults from disk: 0
other page faults: 2993653

vips

time vips resize original.jpg "vips.jpg[Q=75]" 0.5 --kernel lanczos3
13.00s user 0.15s system 194% cpu 6.771 total
avg shared (code): 0 KB
avg unshared (data/stack): 0 KB
total (sum): 0 KB
max memory: 255 MB
page faults from disk: 11
other page faults: 60951

So Imagemagick does: 40x the memory, almost 4x the time, almost 9x the CPU time.

Versions and computer:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz (8 cores)
16GB RAM
Debian 11
Kernel 5.18.8-xanmod1-x64v2 (software not rebuilt for x64v2 instructions)
ImageMagick 6.9.11-60 Q16 x86_64 2021-01-25 https://imagemagick.org
vips-8.12.2-Mon Feb 28 21:28:00 UTC 2022

Options for zsh time:

TIMEFMT='%U user %S system %P cpu %*E total'$'\n'\
'avg shared (code): %X KB'$'\n'\
'avg unshared (data/stack): %D KB'$'\n'\
'total (sum): %K KB'$'\n'\
'max memory: %M 'MB''$'\n'\
'page faults from disk: %F'$'\n'\
'other page faults: %R'
In the wake of independence, Haiti carried out a genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre
The survey was just 21 people "exclusively contacted in BIID internet forums". How many people who cut off a limb and regretted it would stick around the forum that fed their compulsion to do it?
> genocide

> confiscation of their property and land

Which is how they got it too, so at the very least I would be careful about using that as justification.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Haiti#Spanish_histo...

"Following the arrival of Europeans, La Hispaniola's indigenous Taino population suffered greatly to near extinction, in possibly the worst case of depopulation in the Americas."

I don't think that just because it's different people now on both sides makes it possible to use such actions to argue from a moral high ground, the power difference and who oppressed whom remained in place even though the peoples changed.
Yeah having no idea of the premise or game before playing it made uncovering the mystery through the plot a great experience. I didn't even know the enemies were gonna be robots. Great story
Well, as a company you can choose to do the right thing, or you can choose to weasel your way out of uncomfortable situations using lawyers and the fact that the law is always lagging behind technological development.
Zimbabwe had a similar land redistribution- went from breadbasket to a tough spot
Lol?

> but I assume that in the japanese case there are some engineers that have implemented some safety and are supervising

[0]

> that made it some weird nationality thing

Oh pesky me! [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32210363

[1] https://imgur.com/a/wi2tf0N
How our brains cope with speaking more than one language
> small EU companies need to follow the law from the start.

It’s much easier starting everything with the law in mind than it is trying to retroactively apply it.
Anyone can give an untested hypothesis and claim it will solve the problem. Executing a plan competently and being held accountable for the result is a much bigger challenge.
There will be a very great deal of ammonia synthesis, worldwide, just because ammonia is so useful for so many things, ultimately billions of tons annually. Ammonia is very transportable.

Even liquified hydrogen is about as transportable as LNG, which is shipped all over.
This. Oh definitely, this.
Confiscation is a strange word to use if the "Property" included slaves:

> France demanding a 150 million franc indemnity to be paid by Haiti in claims over property – including Haitian slaves
I'm pretty sure he couldn't draft a merger contract.
Why does anyone have to give up a vacation?

Unless you're building intelligence or defence software or something like that.
When I was a kid I had a sound editing application (think of something like audacity) and it had a tool to generate white noise. I was deathly afraid of generating white noise and then slowing it down because I thought that I may find hidden messages.
If engineers are unwilling to commit to a schedule, then here are some things that might help:

- Make sure that the requirements are solid (you can't commit if you don't know to what you are committing)

- Make sure that the environment is consistent (I can't commit to a timeline if the people on my team are constantly rotated around)

- Ask the enigneers why they can't or don't want to commit and fix that
Why would you want to drive away engineers?
hell yeah. something like that without [sane] moderators would turn into fucking reddit.
> There's no plausible mechanism by which a file might suffer a few bitflips and be saved by careful application of a CRC -- bitrot often zeros out entire sectors.

A CRC, no, absolutely not. But this is exactly what PAR2 recovery records do, they do it well, and they (or their equivalents) need to be easier to enable in more places.

Setting up a replication and durability scheme is a major pain in the ass. Passing the `--add-recovery-record` switch on the command line is very, very easy, and it is good enough for many cases where "best effort" protection against corruption is all that is needed.
And unfortunately, it's not just France

> For decades to come, the United States was the dominant power in Haiti, dissolving parliament at gunpoint, killing thousands and shipping a big portion of Haiti’s earnings to bankers in New York while the farmers who helped generate the profits often lived near starvation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/takeaways-...
As long as you don’t have anal sex with them you can meet up with whoever you like
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/urgent-monkeypox-alert-some-new-...
I am just going to add that Apple computers are fine for many people who are looking to create, rather than to consume and communicate. It has the industry standard office productivity suite, graphics design and publishing software, software development tools, and much more. The reason why I bring this up is because we sometimes have the tendency to paint Apple products as having very little value outside of casual/home uses. The reality is that they are actually fairly powerful tools. They won't fill every niche as tools, but that has more to do with the size of the user base in various markets.
"One popular theory is that Haiti’s poverty is a result of its indemnity to France. Although Haiti declared independence in 1804, France refused to formally recognise it. In 1825, Haiti and France struck a deal: France would recognise Haiti’s independence in exchange for an indemnity for the lost plantations and slaves. Haiti paid millions of dollars every year to France until the debt was finally paid off in 1947. Interest in this explanation has been reignited with recent attention from the New York Times. But the debt payments were a fraction of customs revenues, which were themselves a small fraction of the Haitian economy. Furthermore, the most significant divergence came long after the debt was paid off.

Indeed, Mats Lundahl, the leading economic historian of Haiti, does not even include the indemnity in his list of decisive events in Haiti’s economic history."

Can you explain how this is not addressing it, or "hand waving it away"? It addresses it explicitly and criticizes it. Seems like a reasonable criticism if in fact that NYT article ignored those two big problems with its thesis. Also, how did the NYT article address Lundahl's work which it disputes?
This is true, though I need to add the missing phrase - "CTF challenges typically do not involve zero days" in real world software.

They do however strictly involve zero days in software created for the purpose of the CTF - that's basically what CTFs are about.
> If you can't deliver then maybe you're not a good enough for the job.

I've seen more than once projects with ill-equipped team members. I've been one myself, too.

Even in established tech corporations, the process of team creation can be screwed up due to multiple reasons. I've seen DevOps engineers tasked with writing apps because PM did not checked what their role was. And that was a high-importance project in a huge, publicly traded, tech corporation.

Expecting engineers to estimate work they haven't done before ends up in guesstimation which is almost never correct.

PMs asking for estimations in pioneer projects create problems for themself, which they sometimes later blame on team members.
They've been doing twitter threads. A bit hit and miss, but sometimes they've been pretty interesting.

https://twitter.com/Neeva/status/1541506420318822406

https://twitter.com/Neeva/status/1547293389539852288
If you're referring to a product feature the dev wants versus a feature the customer wants, I don't think there will ever be a case when the former takes priority
I think non-crowdsourced manual curation (by you/your trusted volunteers) would be a feature. Sure, search would have more limited results, but really with how much cruft there is I don't see that as a bad thing. Start with the "known good/useful" domains and branch out from there.
> We found that Haitians paid about $560 million in today’s dollars. But that doesn’t nearly capture the true loss. If that money had simply stayed in the Haitian economy and grown at the nation’s actual pace over the last two centuries — rather than being shipped off to France, without any goods or services being provided in return — it would have added a staggering $21 billion to Haiti over time, even accounting for its notorious corruption and waste.
The problem - it bears the risk of becoming self-censorship.
Blowback from the nighties, when we started with gtk2. Dmitry still working on it, I see.
> and I trust him that he did

Trust him more. This anecdote is as old as couchette cars.
I don't know what you mean by that, and I suspect you don't either.

If I have a copy on my NAS, on a local backup disk, and in GCS, then there's no plausible risk to that data. I could go further and put another copy into AWS Glacier, or write it to tape and store it at my bank. At enterprise price points there's vendors like Iron Mountain who will store tapes by the container-load.

To claim that multiple copies is insufficient is absurd.
Correct.

Racism is everywhere. It depends on what you do with it and if you spend your life being a victim.

I’ve chosen to not even notice it my whole life and so I don’t feel disadvantaged oppressed in the slightest on any part of the globe.
It is explained here in French: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/ameriques/haiti-le-poids-d...

The price was 150 millions francs, or one year of revenue. They took private loans to pay it. Later the debt was lowered to 90 millions and was paid in full in 1883. The private loans however were paid back in 1947.
> It is often technically difficult but more importantly economically prohibitive to run nuclear as on demand sources.

I'd just like to point out that the US Navy has an excellent track record running nuclear reactors that ramp up to full and down to zero rapidly, in submarines.

The US Navy does not have quite the same financial constraints as commercial land-based power, but constraints still exist.

I fully agree that solar PV and wind, especially PV, are much more atttractive to investors because you can be earning cashflow from your first MW of capacity while you're installing the second (which takes weeks (or days!) instead of years), and you can iterate and scale this all the way to 10 TW or more of capacity, as the demand requires.
Things can vary by state. However, I don't know of any state that isn't going to take sides (literally why the judge/master is there if it comes to a trial). Courts are generally not going to ignore any claims about abuse.

This is a well known issue that may be more prevalent in some states than others, but is certainly a national issue.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/order-of-protection-and-j_b_9...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-worst-thing-a-woman-c_b_8...
There are so many actors and groups and dynamics and forces in effect in the relations that we commonly call "work", that trying to reduce it to a single purpose is laughably naïve.
I thought a lot about this and tried several different methods in my early twenties.

I encourage you to abandon this pursuit and let your human mind perform it’s most wonderful magic: synthesizing, compressing and expanding mental inputs.

Don’t get in the way of this magic:

throw everything you can into the input chute and marvel at the connections that result.
So are you saying that only one plant will fail out of the many we need to build and that our only option is to continue using hydrocarbons for energy?

I'm tempted to be hopeful and say that nuclear will solve all our problems but seeing how the energy industry got us here in the first place I'm sceptical they have our best interests at heart.
It’s hilarious to me to think “let’s put all the managers on one team…”
> After reviewing thousands of pages of archival documents, some centuries old, and consulting with 15 of the world’s leading economists, our correspondents calculated that the payments to France cost Haiti from $21 billion to $115 billion in lost economic growth over time. That is as much as eight times the size of Haiti’s entire economy in 2020.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/takeaways-...
Most of these, I think, relate to a single kinda-meta-problem.

Managing software orgs is hard, and most orgs can't do it well. Using additional management methods, more managers, and more engineers can make the software org less efficient. Software production is weird. Efficiency of software orgs is extremely plastic. An effective 15 person team can outperform a 150 person team and this is normal. Very extreme compared to most fields employing such numbers. Software can be really important & high value. Value can be utterly disconnected from the cost of producing it.

I say "less efficient" purposely rather than "worse." It might actually make sense to go from an efficient 25 person team to an inefficient 500 person team. The additional cost of might be dwarfed by the benefits of marginally more higher output. That might be better economically (even socially), but less efficient.

If you're in one of these orgs, you will not be more happy though. Efficiency feels good. Inefficiency feels bad.
This can lead to side-channel attacks, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME
I don't think it needs to include everyone unless it is a monopoly? (IANAL)

Of course, it could be inclusive, but each seller must prove their worth, and longterm sellers are always preferred.
To be fair, consider the human brain as purely a neural network that trains on any and all artwork it encounters over its lifetime. It then produces a piece of artwork. Is it wrong for that brain to charge for copies of the artwork?

I find it quite amusing that there seems to be overlap between people who think IP/copyright law needs an overhaul, and people who think that Github Code Pilot and DallE are exploitive.
Mediawiki is some of the worst software ever developed, no sane person would use it. This site is using https://dokuwiki.org
Donor sperm is a good option if you don’t mind raising a child that’s not yours.
You write that you don't want to manage engineers?

But from what you write you cannot manage budgets and deadlines.

Managing budget and deadlines is not about setting some "ideal world" and then whipping these lazy engineers to deliver exactly that.

Managing budget and deadlines is about - well we delivered X/Y at that date it already was $yyy in terms of money. If it went well maybe you can increase work load, maybe look at things again and stop gold-plating to move further. If it went wrong cut the scope - check what went wrong, lower the risk of not delivering by simplifying tasks. Check if maybe you miss some specialistic knowledge to hire someone to help and account that risk against budget or tell customer that you need something specific that they have to deliver.