skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Restricting "freedom of speech" to simply the ability to function in an environment with no intrapersonal or governmental violence gives us at best a faded facsimile of it.

Most "totalitarian" countries don't function by literally throwing people in prison or beating them for saying Bad Things: that's far too expensive to be total and widespread. It functions by removing people from positions of media exposure; by denying them access to physical or network media; by ascribing implicit or explicit social credit scores that governs access to resources. None of those things are violent and rarely even explicitly ordered by the State. In fact, "no one has the right to a platform to hurt society/the nation" is how those totalitarian regimes typically justify their repression. And they're still every bit as much a restriction on freedom of speech.
Oh so you mean it quite literally - that's it's very rust prone.
IDK, where I live land is cheap (think $10k) but even the shittiest land with a house on it is expensive (you would easily pay $250k+ for a house that would cost $125k in labor and materials build). Zoning and Building codes mean houses are artificially constrained in a way land is not.

There's an insane premium on zoning and permitting the land to build, as well as having the irreplaceable liberty to be covered by a grandfathered structure that is no longer legally buildable.
It’s a large universe, so it’s probably happened.

Though it would be cool to see a 9 star rack and one super fast white star heading toward them.

But apparently god does not play pool with the universe.
Congrats, we don't all have a Tesla? I'm thinking of the mediocre touchscreen in my Honda.
With https://planetscale.com/features/rewind you can just drop the table and bring it back if you have errors.
That’s fair, good point :)
The article makes the same point a couple of sentences later:

> these days UTC is equally bad for both digital applications and scientists, who often choose TAI or UT1 instead.
Yes, that is indeed correct. Thank you for clarifying for me.
> Do you have trouble with parallel parking?

Many times when I see people having difficulty parallel parking, it’s because they don’t know when to turn and how much. They end up parked 3 feet from the curb because of their timing errors.

Something like this would make it easier to park in spaces, but it won’t fix of not knowing the steps to parallel park.
> That said, I read OPs complaints about polarization and taxes, and I wonder if Latin America might address some of these issues

Thank you, that somehow nails it. Some countries on our to-be-checked-list are in Latin America. A personal minus is, that both of us don't speak spanish or portugese.

Nevertheless we will dig deeper. Thanks for your opinion.
Hmm, we have one of the rusty c classes, made in South Africa. The doors, bonnet etc have been just fine. Underneath is the disaster. Particularly the rear end which has collapsed several times as it just rusted through in the first ten years. Bizarre. Bodged up by a backstreet garage it still goes, engine just fine, never a problem, just that faint disconcerting worry the wheels will fall off again...
My dude, they kill people and hang them from bridges in northern mexico. They kidnapped a school bus of kids and slaughtered them.

I realize the US has violence as well, but at least it's usually one deranged guy, or two gangbangers that have a beef. In mexico it's organized violence. This isn't the work of one crazy guy, it's the work of an organization which does it to terrorize the local population.

Seriously. Go look at the US state department guidelines for travel to various Mexican provinces. This is not just something that's overhyped in the media. If the state department is telling you that you should not visit large swaths of mexico, that's a stone sober assessment based on real evidence.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...
How much is pushed vs pulled?Many resource extraction projects are cancelled because they wouldn't be economical with all the added costs to ameliorate pollution. Perhaps if the developing world had higher standards and better enforcement, it would cost more and thus not undercut local production.
The bulk of the problem is that it's not even being recognized as a problem by municipalities, traffic safety administrations and police departments.

I shouldn't have to avoid driving after sunset because 80% of the general population are idiots who put LEDs in housings where LEDs shouldn't be used.
I can accept my mistakes, can you? The plant in Dresden is apparently no longer producing fuels and it also made gasoline, my mistake.

I'll repeat what I previously said. Power-to-gas refers to gas fuels (this includes LNG), it doesn't refer to liquid fuels such as gasoline. E-gas in this case refers to synthetic methane, it doesn't stand for e-gasoline. This entire thread is focused on creating synthetic methane (the Sabatier process mentioned in the Terraform Industries article), you referred to a plant from 2013 so naturally I assume it's the e-gas plant that opened there since that is the topic at hand and e-gas is a gas. The plant in Wertle is not a hydrogen plant, but it produces hydrogen as part of the Sabatier process. Yes, you mentioned Dresden but it didn't produce the gas this topic is about and it started producing in 2014...
There aren’t plans to launch an identical telescope. Perhaps the costs of manufacturing and testing are high enough that we might as well launch a different telescope with different capabilities?

The Roman Space Telescope is a wide field instrument that is now under development and slated to launch in 2026 [1]. The Astro2020 decadal survey from the National Academies also recommended “a large (~6m diameter) Infrared/Optical/Ultraviolet space telescope” to observe exoplanets [2].

[1]: https://spacenews.com/nasa-selects-falcon-heavy-to-launch-ro...

[2]: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/26141/interactive...
Based on the article, that doesn't seem to be the reason for pushback.
Chevrolet and GMC full size pickup trucks and SUVs are probably the worst offenders. Which seems counter intuitive since many of GM's engineering and design happens in northern climates with salted roads. It's not all of GM's vehicles which are subject to this, many do have good corrosion resistance, they just choose to only use such techniques on a subset of the vehicles they produce.

For example: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2020/MC-10178959-9999.pdf

A few years back now Toyota had a big recall on Tundra pickups for improperly applied corrosion prevention. I'm to believe they corrected this as it was quite expensive for them to repair so many customer vehicles.
The question isn't _new_ runs of fiber vs coax, everyone just runs fiber for that. It's the cost of upgrading existing runs. HFC (hybrid fiber coax) networks have been the norm for a long time. When the original coax was run it was significantly cheaper to run it even accounting for inflation. Like all major construction projects (which is what a coax replacement is) costs in the US are spiraling upwards: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-08/why-build...
Nah. Show me evidence it is "solved".
Picking the 99% or top decile or whatever is not padding, it's the actual job of estimating. Anyone who talks about "padding" rather than uncertainty doesn't understand estimating yet.
I thought his point was valuable, but you're right - life is certainly not all boring.

But it's important to be able to dwell in boredom, or "less exciting" things.

I think it's fundamentally about purpose. If you know that your work allows you to do the things you love, and you can find any joy in it, then it's possible to be content with the trade.

If you can't find joy in the job: you have some soul searching to do. Is it that the job just sucks? (they're out there) Or are you having trouble enjoying life generally? It sounds like it's more of the latter. If so, the job isn't the problem and a new one won't be the solution.

When I've felt like that, what's helped is to change my environment. Really seek out things I feel driven to do (hobbies, new sports, exploration, etc). Learn new things, meet new people. Take some vacation. Quit seeking cheap gratification and invest in myself in ways I feel good about (working out, being active, helping people, meditating/etc). Be honest about your situation, is there something secretly driving you nuts that you could fix but are avoiding awareness of?

And doing drugs, binging on shows, video games - these will sap you of your own internal reservoir of drive, and probably make you feel bad right after you've done it. Kind of like junk food for the mind.

In the interium, I'd say forget about the video game (and don't shame yourself on that) and just pick very small things to play with intellectually. The goal should be something modest and achievable that you're genuinely driven towards. Do something small achievable that you'll feel good about, and just do it. Do this a few times, and congratulate yourself on the achievement (focus on the benefit of the learning or effort). Make this a pattern, and you'll start to dig out of the hole.
I assume you are Czech. I'm curious to hear what makes you happy about the new right-wing government?

It seems to have started following the same modus operandi that made a huge mess in Brazil: sectarian politics, removing 'leftists' from every inch of government institutions and instrumenting them with friends, reverting climate policies, etc. But this is only looking from afar.
Ok so now, can I go directly to a therapist or do I need to fight a bureaucratic machine to get a recommendation or some shit.
The actual name is French: temps atomique international. I guess we're lucky at least all of the first letters are the same.
Wow. Never knew Wise offers business account going to open it now. Hoping this works.
You can spend $800 on a meal, or you can spend $1,000+ on a graphics card, or $1,600 for a good seat at the World Cup. Either way it's entertainment.

A meal like this isn't nutrition. It's a show about food that you get to taste.
Please add animal fats or olive oil to your diet. The modern processed oils are bad. Animal based fats or olive, coconut and other traditional oils are better. Avoid palm, corn, vegetable oil. Also salt is healthy. Check out the channel what I've learned on youtube.
Maybe not commonly, but I would like to know for sure.
Encapsulation is a founding principle of OOP. You should not be able to directly tool with a class' internals, but use its methods to interact with it.

The practical reason is that this way you have limited paths (methods) with which the inner workings of a class can be modified with, whereas if anything would be public, any other obejct would be able to change a class' status rendering debugging incredibly more complicaed.

This is also a part of the Open-Closed principle: "software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%E2%80%93closed_principle
Yes, absolutely. As soon as majority ownership of a company changes from one nationality to another you're kidding yourself if you want to continue to see it as belonging to the country where it originated.

The shareholders control who runs the company, what it does, how it does it and ultimately where the profits are. It's just like outsourcing. But we don't like it when we look at Asian companies owning famous Western brands. But when McDonalds operates in China we're quick to call it an American company. That works both ways.
I just pour a little vinegar into the tub, wash as usual. I haven't had any particular issues with vinegar smells pouring it onto clothing, but I still try to miss. If for instance someone pulled the clothes out and piled them up, put the vinegar in before the clothes. I've heard advice to put it into the bleach dispenser, but bleach and vinegar have a similar problem to bleach and ammonia. Mixing them produces chlorine gas. If you have shared equipment (say, roommates), you're living dangerously if you do that.

One theory is that the acid just cancels out hard water and makes the detergent more effective, but I don't buy that. Seattle water is so soft that home brewers have to add minerals to the water or the yeast won't multiply properly. In fact most of us are using way too much detergent in our laundry and our dishwashers because of it. I've also run out of vinegar enough times and have known this trick for enough years that I know for certain that washing 1x with vinegar always gets the mildew smell out, but 1x without it only works less than half the time.
Streaming Economics in a Visual Format
and that's why i commented. thiel is an idle opportunist, not an innovator or thought leader, and should be disregarded in such confines.
(I know almost nothing about guns and this comment is not advocating for any specific policy)

> they need the casings which could also be restricted

Are casings particularly hard to make? It seems like anyone with the tools and skills to make a gun from parts could also make little cylinders that fit in that gun. Or just do the cannon thing, have a vaguely spherical ball and some explosive stuff packed behind it.
It's not just a headsche for Meta's programmers. Anyone involved with bookkeeping and synchronizing has an unnecessary bugbear to deal with. Every six months is simply too often. If it was switched to an adjustment made every 2-10 decades with at least a decade to update the file then the problem would be greatly lessened.
Illegal Brazil gold tied to Italian refiner and Big Tech customers
The explanation given in the consultation was for "context". The Scottish whisky industry is nominally aware of the environmental issues with peat. The article goes on to discuss how they are starting to deal with it, considering it is essential to a substantial swath of their products.
I'll add my anecdote. Nightshade vegetables, in particular the potato, wreak havoc on my body. Took me years to figure out. I didn't even know what a nightshade was. Every few months I'll start to question my sanity and I'm sure potatoes won't bother me. Without fail, every time, rashes, pain, insomnia, deep depressive thoughts, all within 8 hours of consuming potatoes. It's truly crazy. I still have a hard time believing it. Funny enough, I grew up in Idaho, can't eat potatoes. Sweet potatoes it is!
Ideally, a government (temporally) "steers" a state, which, again ideally, would be the property of its inhabitants.
At one point in time I used OpenGrok to try understand large projects.

Without documentation I find large projects difficult to understand. There's literally too many global symbols and I cannot see the forest for the trees.

What's the model of this program? What are the core principles that the author is using? Do I really need to read every file to understand what is going on?

With Leetcode style programs there's one file with everything in it and I can usually find the entry point. The problem is well defined.

I can see the moving parts in a Leetcode style problem. The looping, the data structure creation and control flow, arrays and recursion.

Large mature codebases such as Java projects have thousands to millions of small files and packages it can be difficult to see how things fit together, every file seems to be 10-20 lines long.

I like C projects as they have lots of code in one file. Everything I need to understand a module is in one file and I can use vim folding.
Is FOSS merely for hobbyists, or should Fedora be something that large organizations can trust?
I’ve seen lots of Software Engineers in this community and I was wondering if anyone would like to share their experience with finding engineering jobs: What's the most common way of getting hired - do you typically apply for jobs, or have you mostly been headhunted so far? What are your pain points when job-seeking? What does your ideal scenario look like? Has that changed over time?

I work for Otta - we're a startup and we curate the best jobs in tech to help people discover innovative companies that are actively hiring. Especially given the current tech layoffs and the potential recession, we’re doing a big research project to learn more about the pain points experienced during job search and how we can help Software Engineers find fulfilling jobs more easily.

I don't want to go against community guidelines, but the fact that we had almost 1M candidates on the platform gives me strong conviction that this research will genuinely benefit lots of you!

If anyone is interested in taking part in this (you'd also enter a draw for a £200 / $250 Amazon voucher, with an extra £50 / $60 if we select you for follow-up qualitative research), please upvote and comment here and I'll send a link over. Thank you!
As much as I love these concepts, there's a hidden externality to consider: If one car only needs extremely small margins to park, it's possible for conventional cars ahead or behind to lose too much of their normally-expected larger buffer space, and be unable to (easily) leave.
Germany has the highest GDP per Capita, the least debt per Capita, and is growing faster than any of the other EU countries in the last 10 years.

I think that has little to do with WWII.
Czech police use seized Ferrari as a pursuit vehicle
> puts the value of average SSN at ~$4.50

Damn close to the black market rate [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessedamiani/2020/03/25/your-so...
It seems there is increasing amount of people who actually want the sun be overhead at 13 and midnight to be at 1... Or even later...

So, if we stop actually caring about normal time, why should we care about leap seconds either...
I think it's a long bow to draw from log4j to open-source security in general. I'm not saying there's nothing there, but in general the governance questions around this risk are (I think) pretty well thought out. The evidence is in the CVE process, and in things like OpenBSD rigour in patching.

If you go to closed source, its not really any better. Really, the problem is the dependency chain in infrastructure on any kind of externality which isn't understood. My memory is that Cisco IOS ran for decades with an implicit dependency on the (free) CMU SNMP library, or some similar code, which became the open threat. The risks in attack on NTP and the like persisted a long time not because the coders didn't know there was a hole, because the packaged dependencies on NTP code hadn't kept up, people were using older distros and older library bindings, without much awareness.

People who code these fundamentals (OpenSSL, LibreSSL, like code) take these risks extremely seriously. it's the roll-your-own, and the second-order dependencies on these systems which tend to have the gaps. Roll your own are usually just naieve well meaning, without understanding of risk. Second order dependencies may well know in principle the risks, and went to a crypto library to try and avoid them. The thing is, there is no static dependency which is safe. You have to keep current, to avoid open risks in the older code.

In general, indirect dependency chains through git, or through something like an NPM repo which can randomly update (or not) in the background is pretty scary.
Their SUV/truck lower body panels also rust prematurely in the snow belt compared to contemporary American vehicles. This is particularly prominent on tailgates/hatches above the rear bumper when people don't diligently brush off the snow.
In general, I hate when people doing people things gets replaced by bureaucracy doing bureaucracy things. Structure should support people, not the other way around. That includes time. If people want midnight (on their clocks) to match midnight (in their lives) or whatever, then the structure and code we put to it needs to support that. That includes changing things like time zones and calendars and leap years, and yes, leap seconds too.

Just because we suck at codifying things doesn’t mean we should change the goal to make it easier to codify. If you need a more straightforward clock in your software, use just TAI or something, instead of trying to redefine calendars.
You are missing Rust somewhere.
When the first PlayStation came out, I worked at a feature film VFX studio attempting a game industry gamble: all, and I do mean ALL, early PlayStation games were aimed above the age range a typical Nintendo title targets. Their/our strategy was to make a game targeting younger gamers who were being left out of the PlayStation more mature push. Well, once we had the game created (which looked amazing at the time) the PlayStation and game industry marketing firms we met were simply useless. They were the target market, they only cared to work with games they'd play themselves. In fact, I found the game industry overall to lack the ability to work on projects they'd not personally purchase. There is a huge amount of immaturity in the game industry.
Ah yeah the good ol "we're losing tens of thousands a day". If you really make such money, you also should be able to afford a legal department.
It was a nefarious front-room deal. Administrations used to campaign on higher housing values (as if that were a different thing to higher housing costs/prices.) Policies have been designed to pump public money into the housing market through subsidies and tax breaks.

If housing prices drop, the middle-class homeowner gets vocally angry at the presiding administration.
Ironically, C++ does have a standard container that can be added together and multiplied by scalars... and it's called an array; std::valarray, to be specific.
I imagine a substantial part of this is the rusting of rebar in concrete structures. The problem of rebar has fascinated me, and one German company has begin making carbon fiber reinforced concrete instead of steel, with amazing results. You can reduce environmental waste by having structures last longer and you use less concrete. I'm looking forward to this becoming more ubiquitous.

https://www.aboutcivil.org/carbon-reinforced-concrete-buildi...
This sounds like a sensible solution. If Facebook wants to start using non-UTC time coordination, like TAI, they by all means should try it. They only need to publish their own NTP servers I guess, but that shouldn't be a big problem for an organization of their size.

As far as I can tell, TAI will always be offset from UTC by an integer amount of full seconds, and I guess time coordination between large independent systems is mostly useful just when comparing log timestamps (I would guess almost all sensible software uses already account for much larger clock drifts than the current leap second count of 37, right?)

After adopting TAI, Facebook engineers just need to remember that their log timestamps are offset by N seconds from all the others.
Not to mention all of the tax kickbacks and money that goes to people who buy and develop houses in poorer areas.
And now you've made an abusive edit; your original comment here was mocking and pointing out that it was the GP "wishing" for a failure.

GP wished for a (moderately) likely failure: failure to detonate. GP obviously didn't wish for unlikely failures, like spontaneous detonation, ICBMs all flying to Washington DC, etc.
That's not quite what I said. I said to look things up if you don't understand, I made the assumption that the one asking has taken maths courses before. I interpreted bone up on as refreshing old knowledge but I could be wrong.
I think he is, can second that. Not having to jump around 10 files with multiple classes and remembering where goes what usually means I can understand the code faster.

Not sure about literature but for almost any technical matter I prefer learning from the smaller details instead of the big picture - it's often too vague and just doesn't stick in my memory.