skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure the mismanaged water is a problem but I am not sure baring the use for "agrarian business interests" aka Food production, is the solution either.

It really is though. They're using over 90% of the water in the state, so where else do you suggest cutting it from? Further, if you look into the state of California's water rights, you will come to understand that the problem is, in fact, a group of reactionary agri-barons who jealously protect their ability to freeload off the State's natural resources.
We have that in Budapest too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Children's_Railway
If the system went from "our system thinks this looks like revenge porn" to "we are sending you a warning in case you are, verify that you are not doing it or change your actions immediately. you may be banned on review if it appears you did" I think you might be right.

But that's not happening. It goes from "our system thinks this looks like revenge porn" to "you are banned". And even "we double checked, you are banned". If Best Buy said "your actions seem similar to thieves" and kicked you out and banned you while quoting theft laws, without checking if you had stolen something, yes. I would say they were accusing you of theft, because they are acting as if you did. Actions can accuse as well.
I doubt “we” can really fix public transit. The places where it’s great have an immense culture towards it. Here even places where the public transit network is extensive like NYC or Boston still face huge funding shortfalls and a lot of antagonism from their statehouses. Maybe self driving cars is an easier problem.
If it’s anything like American McDonald’s those card readers should be hooked up over the network- not USB. There shouldn’t be a trivial way to use them as card skimmers, the software loaded on them, doesn’t just like hand out card numbers it processes the transaction.

Now, if they are hackable, and if they’re networked, or if you’re in America, your target is the Ethernet ports strategically hidden around the store. Look under and behind soda machines, inside cabinets in the lobby used to store napkins and stuff, randomly on the walls in the playplace etc

I don’t know about skimming cards from those ethernet ports, but you will have full access to the entire POS system which includes ordering and business data and the backend server.
the problem I have with k8s or whole concept of "cloud native" is it almost ONLY focus on web based application, if your application is not HTTP based or "stateless", it is very hard to run or design to be "cloud native" , specially in a managed k8s service(like eks/aks).
Point one: Outsourcing companies typically win with bottom barrel bids so the bean counters have maximum organizational leverage to perform the transition and the execs get maximum balance sheet/stock option strike price effects.

The people that work at these firms (TCS/Wipro for example) are very high turnover. The bad people get punted, the good people leave as soon as they can get a better job.

And as explained elsewhere, the bean counters don't add up the increased load on the managers, the reduced execution/delivery, the dead pool effect of chasing away not only your good IT people, but the good non-IT people that were effectively "interfacing" with IT (not a small skill) that get frustrated with the extra communication barriers.

There are other ramifications: the onshore people will use the offshore as excuses (deservedly or otherwise). This will create adversarial or paranoia relations, a lot of the IT - not-IT projects require trust and openness to get to the final product.

The offshore people also know that the onshore people are "stuck" with them, and they have 12 timezones and a language barrier and to hide behind. They know that if the onshore bitches about them to the upper management, upper management are going to tell them "tough shit this is the way it is make it work".

Point Two: oh yes, your best people will leave (dead pool effect) not only on IT but in your main business who don't want to deal with the huge overhead increase. And that is to the benefit of your competitors. And they'll go to your industry competitors because that's there depth of skill. And they'll be resentful and motivated.

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But we need to get real about the markets in America. Almost every market is a cartel, duopoly, or monopoly. They aren't looking to dominate the world and compete, they are about defending their market share, and making their stock option prices/expected performance.

So companies won't view IT as a weapon. You deploy IT as a weapon if you're competing, like Amazon or startups. Large enterprises will do outsourcing in the same way they do pointless reorgs/restructures. It moves the deck chairs, as long as it doesn't hurt things TOO much, they next management team will come in and get to invest money to clean things up.

Tesla is another example where a company used IT like a weapon. It's software integration in the cars far outstripped main auto and caught them with their pants down. But they had to, because they were penetrating a fairly ossified market. Their self-driving may be a lot of smoke and mirrors to some, I see it and think "wow that, while absolutely not ready for primetime and a long way off, is very impressive", but it is undeniably being invested in because Tesla sees software as a weapon.
Some of these still exist! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Park_Railway
I think maybe we're using different definitions of the term "context-switch". Certainly it's an interruption, but I don't really think that sitting down with another engineer to do a focused code review where they've already written out a PR description and thought hard about the problem is comparable to starting a brand new branch or picking it up after a while away and trying to juggle 2, 3, or 4 in-progress tickets.
Tesla should be liable by virtue of calling things 'autopilot' or 'full self driving' which aren't.
Within reason. Firing for revealing your salary, a protected action, can get the employer in trouble even in at-will states.
MDMA is not ancestral and you won't find guys doing it in ancient Babylon

The point is boys have a penis and they draw penises.

The penis has always been a symbol of fertility because it represents the seed. Semen in English translates to the Italian word seme (which means both sperm and seed) and, no wonders, it comes from Latin semen (pronounced /'se|me|n/), but the Latin word meant "from the same roots". In Greek it's σπέρμα (pronounced /'spέrma/), in Italian the same word is sperma, in English it's sperm.

From σπέρμα (seed) comes the Italian word speme, that means "hope"

In Japanese, Chinese, Sino-Tibetan, Vietnamese, the word is always related to "sprout" and "grow".

The Japanese kanji for sperm has two roots from Chinese alphabet, one means energy, perfect, the second means child.

MDMA is just a synthetic drug of this time and place (mostly the west), it doesn't mean anything for anyone.

So, while girls today are (mostly) free to express their artistic abilities, unlike the ancient past, they prefer to draw vulvas (in various forms from the most realistic to the metaphorical ones) and not dicks, because they do not have one.
Adding this to the well/known gamesmanship in peer review, debate over tenure and etc. means it’s past time to reform a large chunk of academia.

But we are reforming, right? Merit based learning is over, and so really, what's it matter?
Congo to Auction Land to Oil Companies
i was wondering if this was due to unicode indeed. I had hoped that the benchmarks required languages to perform the same kinds of string check, otherwise there's really no point indeed.
Absolutely. Cat 8 can carry 40Gbps. Higher frequency signals demand tighter tolerances and more expensive designs. Cat 6 can only do 1Gbps at that distance.
Transit is not a replacement for cars in USA outside of the densest urban cores, and those areas are paradoxically the worst offenders for crime, drugs, and other urban issues which keep many off of transit.
Given a list of options of ways to achieve a goal, prefer the one which would have been most natural to a human throughout the last 100,000 years except for the last 100.

Need to eat 3,000 kcal? Beef and vegetables would be more natural than a Big Mac. Need to go somewhere 3 km away? Waking or jogging would be more natural than cycling or using the car.
Actually some coal plants did fail in the freeze as well.
Yes. I have considered that.

At the end of the day, we elect politicians based on which areas of our daily lives we want to be screwed over..it seems like... There are no winners amongst the voting, tax paying public.
Founder here… looking into this.
If by "novel" you mean "modern", then potentially, but they would have to be actually good translations, and released to the public domain via CC0. We only work on public domain books.
> You can tell surgeons that they need to ride a bike

That's not a good analogy. Fixing broken flesh and bones has nothing to do with knowing how to ride a bike

A better analogy would be getting a sponsor in A.A. because you could get a sponsor who wasn't an alcoholic (and some do) but it's accepted that it takes an alcoholic to help an alcoholic. In other words, it takes some experience with the drug at hand to help someone with that drug.

> The drug is nowhere as innocuous as the people selling you make you think

There have been some famous acid casualties, such as Syd Barret of Pink Floyd. I'm sure we all know someone who did too much. However, there have been millions, perhaps billions of psychedelic trips taken over the last 60 years, yet the psyche wards aren't overflowing with people made sick by their trips.
So it’s good that we have separation of religion and governance in modern democracies..having learnt from our historical past, yes?

No religion will have special treatment or status over any other. This is win-win. Faith is personal, after all and this makes everyone free to follow their faith.
This isn't going to get me internet points, but after a few decades, I like to get my experience down.

> Well, I'm proceeding from the assumption that thoughtful review, which takes time, is desirable

Ofc it's desirable. Nobody is arguing this.

> If the situation is really that dire, then it's even more important that you ship product that works.

That is simply incorrect. Broken features (in innumerable shades) are debuted all the time to secure future investment in various ways which are not just financial. Sometimes it's community confidence, sometimes it's leadership clout, etc. Betas are a thing. This fear-mongering about 2500 lines of code is pearl clutching that hobbles large organizations that either fail to deliver or fail to deliver stability, regardless of their processes that drags on development for 4x or 10x, which they have misplaced confidence in.

> I hope that most of us, most of the time, aren't less than a business day away from unemployment, and so there's usually time for code reviews. (If not, there's a lot of useless material about it!)

There is lots of useless material about it. The number one rule is "don't interrupt the flow of money" but that rule doesn't extend to every project forever. Large organizations get less and less efficient over time (see rule 1) because perfect is the enemy of good. It's a good tradeoff, when you have an organization that can't keep up with how much money they are making to start piling on additional process because you don't know where your weaknesses are so anything that goes wrong gets an additional check. Most orgs are not in this boat.

If you don't look like you're making your money's worth, even if you can explain how some side-process adds value, someone starts looking for your replacement and eventually they will find one and you're gone. That's true, regardless if you work at some mom and pop shop or Amazon. You're always one day away from unemployment, even if you don't know what day the chain of events started. So code reviews that block features can hurt you and have put a lot of people out of work, I can attest. Ofc we're talking about more and more extreme situations, but the idea is the same. Code reviews are a scale and that scale has a tradeoff.

The gut-check is when a company has a merger/acquisition deal. The team doesn't have a lot of time to vet the other company's codebase. You do your best to have your info meetings, try to run parts of the code with data, make your recommendations, and the escrow eventually closes. 2500? How do you think you'll do when looking at millions of lines? At some point, you will be forced into black box testing and realize that this is what matters foremost. Look at the interface, look at the expectations, look at the data. After that, the rest is gravy that can be addressed later.
Drivable Volumetric Avatars Using Texel-Aligned Features
Don't need to imagine. Just go to Oslo.
I find it hilarious that in the stock footage of two "workers" in the tunnel the woman is wearing high heels LMAO
Parts of Texas are literally considered rain forests.
Here’s a couple of articles on the performance of IO and slowness of other stuff that I find particularly interesting:

https://itnext.io/modern-storage-is-plenty-fast-it-is-the-ap...

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/06/surprisingly-slow/
Small train but not run by kids... :/
https://visitorinvictoria.ca/train-rides-heritage-acres/#:~:....
Your analogy to microservices is apt. It’s unchecked technologism at its worst.

We already have the solutions for the future of transport, but they’re not sexy like self-driving cars, and they don’t prop up the auto industry. Walking, bikes, buses, trams, metros, combined with more dense mixed-use zoning everywhere.
> and I don't care if it takes two to tango

Well, at least you are acknowledging your bias.
Very cute story!
I have a lot of my files going back to my first computer. Maybe 2003 or so. I have a lot of screenshots, high school work. I have all of my chat logs from msn. I just know when I’m older and my mind is weaker, looking back will help jog my memory.
Are you aware that someone is selling your books on Kobo with the Standard Ebooks publisher name?

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=standard%20ebooks&ac...
> By energy industry do you mean oil and gas? Are they the ones building nuclear plants?

Yes I was referring to oil and gas. While they are not the ones building nuclear power plants as we have seen when a particular part of the energy industry becomes entrenched it has a tendency to use its profits to change the narrative around its downsides.
Also, "How I Feel About Logarithms": https://youtu.be/N-7tcTIrers

Genius.
Data is the new oil, again
Then OP, or you, should cite the study that shows this isn't anecdotal evidence. It does not fall to me to back up other people's points.
Yeah, Azure freezing hiring is kind of weird since it has been extremely profitable and is such a gigantic org. Cloud also seems like it should have very consistent cash flows.
Wasm can be a key piece of the system you seek. A simple VM, the heap is serializable and the linkage to the outside world has to be fully defined.
> Blueprint (https://blueprintjs.com) made by Palantir has been my go-to otherwise but it misses some common things (like a table).

I see a table package for Blueprint - what’s missing from that? (I know nothing about Blueprint)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@blueprintjs/table
If you want highly scalable at Google's scale, HTTP-based stateless services that can be scaled up/down in response to traffic are highly desirable properties.

The real problem is k8s and "cloud native" are designed for Google's scale, not yours.
Strengthening the muscles is definitely the answer, the only question is which muscles actually became injured and weak. PT is changing pretty fast these days so I expect it's hard to find a good one that's up to date.

As general advice, almost everyone these days has some variation of upper crossed syndrome given the way they use laptops and phones, so upper and mid lats, rotator cuff muscles and some neck stabilizers are weak, which leads to slouched posture. I can't say this is specifically the type of corrections you need, but hopefully this useful routine will help otherd avoid such problems (I'm not affiliated it's just a good video):

https://youtu.be/i1tjJGGcoYs
Hey Now!
Sure, that may be the case. But that's the risk Netflix runs.

How does that answer my question in the slightest?
k3s will run on a $5 droplet happily. If you want k8s for the yaml and not for the heavy-duty hyperscale redundancy, k3s works great
There's been some talk about improving the Kobo browser experience, if you want to take a crack at it! https://github.com/standardebooks/web/issues/126
There are over 1,000 wildlife overpasses and underpasses in America as well: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/31/climate/wildl...
What?!? Workers want as much compensation as possible, and rightly so, as any rational actor would.
SDL2 Tutorial
Yes! If you are in trans circles this stuff is all common knowledge as everyone wants to talk about this stuff, but I understand the stories don't get in to the wider discourse as often.
You can read HN in the Factor listener:

https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2020/04/18/fun-factor-libraries.ht...
You Don’t Batch Cook When You’re Suicidal (2020)
Do Not Buy Epson Printers
do not buy Epson Printers. I have purchased three and all three tells me to replace brand new cartridges with same message. Called Epson and they would not help because the one year warranty expired.
Oh dear. It's getting really hard for anyone to defend this contraption. Perhaps that explains the silence from the Tesla autopilot crowd shocked by the news of this yet another collision from an unsafe piece of 'safety critical' software.

Both Autopilot and FSD (Fools Self Driving) needs to be investigated urgently.
I have a coworker that decided to make an offer on a house but not make it contingent on selling their existing house. They are currently paying two mortgages and it seems like they'll sell their previous house for quite a bit less than what they expected.
I'm getting old and my eye sight is going. Are there any read-a-loud options you can recommend? The Edge browser does a decent job on PDF's in a voice you can select, but it's kind of hacky for an entire book.
I imagine it would start with competitive leagues first and then slowly expand into mainstream if the technology proved itself.
Indeed. This is the one incompatibility I have seen in the wild. On my previous machine I actually created a secondary case-sensitive partition to store code on. But unfortunately our iOS app doesn’t work on a case-sensitive file system so this meant having two different project folders. On my new machine I’ve not bothered and I’m just careful about casing.
Sounds more intimidating and less like a future investment than learning some coding skills. I started coding with 12. What's the problem? Let these kids code.
3 Channels, Planning and Publishing Tools, 3 Channels, Planning and Publishing Tools, 3 Channels, Planning and Publishing Tools.

https://i.imgur.com/LyPb4mc.png

Is this an error?
Also a big fan of https://gitlab.com/wavexx/git-assembler (and previously topgit). Works with the basic idea that you can rebuild branches by combining, merging or rebasing automatically on top of others. I frequently use this to build a local branch which is an amalgamation of the main branch + required patches so that I can work (and later submit) on a clean branch without being blocked.
Chris Double's posts on Factor:

https://bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/factor/index.html
> Mr. Brin and Ms. Shanahan are now involved in divorce mediation, with Ms. Shanahan seeking more than $1 billion, according to people familiar with the negotiations.

Not really familiar with dovorce laws.

Can anyone tell me, if one cheats on her husband, does she still claim alimony or compensation in any form?

What does the law say?
Yes this is a well known effect of trans men taking testosterone. But trans issues in the wider discourse currently still boil down to some very basic stuff with no real nuance or understanding.
If you make in a month what others do in a year, you can retire after 6-8 years and never worry about having to find another job if you play your cards right.

Accounting for taxes and moderate expenses, at the end you should be sitting on close to 2m USD. That's more money than the vast majority of people make in their lifetime (after taxes). If you don't plan to live to a hundred you'll be fine even if you don't do any higher-risky investing, slowly spending it.
> Shall I compile a list of stories that major media outlets have buried?

This is relevant how? You do understand the logical error you just made, right?

> Supposing they do go to court, but major media outlets still don't cover it?

Then we will have some evidence of the truthfulness (or falsehood) of the plaintiff's case.
Proctoring means someone watching over your shoulder and surrounding environment. That is, setting up cameras for a side-on view, and behind you - with visibility of your screen(s). Only relevant for tournaments.
Of course they can become untrusted regardless of what they do. But the whole question is whether you acknowledge that people also have a major impact through their actions of what people think of them.

What exactly is “doing their best”? Is it lying, trusting the end to justify the means?
I see the Lamoire issue as scientism vs science. Scientism won because before the science can happen there must be a plausible mechanism. Google refuses to test for sentience out of basic hubris. It is the new RC church. Lamoire is an affront to their dogma. That goes double if they are religious unless they court pantheism, which most consider a sexy atheism.

Traditions that consider consciousness to be a basic property of matter, and quantum effects like conscious collapse of the wave function are nudging us that way, would fully support sentience arising in a machine. A related effect would be the ensoulment of machines by computer programmers. They are more than machines because humans programmed them using their intent put down in language. Physical materialists would consider the notion ludicrous, but do we really live in a material world? Yes. And no. I have seen ensouled machines. Not supposed to happen, but there it is. Maybe I'm another Lamoire, just not a Google-fired one. I can definitely believe a machine, being constructed of matter, can evolve sentience.
Photos don’t load on mobile :/
People always say this, but there are plenty of companies that have been "chasing short term profits" for decades and are now worth hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars.

Plenty of armchair CEOs on this site who simply don't appreciate the market position and power of the companies they judge. I'm not saying this won't be bad for Netflix long run, I'm saying I simply don't know. But I would bet that Netflix management have spent a lot more time than either you or I to understand the implications.
Benjamin Franklin said, paraphrasing William Blackstone, that “it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer.” I feel like society chucks that principal out of the window as soon as children are involved.
Sunday Ticket has never been for the masses, it has always been exclusive to DirectTV, which has far fewer subscribers than cable.
Internet Withdrawal (And my long tortured history with computers)
Don't take any gap between L3 and your current job of you have one. They laid off my step mom a few years ago right after she started working. Luckily, she was able to get unemployment, but L3 should not be trusted.
Doesn't every modern nation have the land owned by a tiny minority?
Definitely weird. Perhaps the podcast summary was not itself written by Bari?
I can't speak for him, but my old devices are a pair of Kindle DXs. AFAICT there is no real upgrade for those.
Looking at your site, I realise I'd forgotten to mention we do lots of Python & Python-adjacent stuff (though we're only recruiting trainers at the moment). But if that's your bread & butter, drop me an email and I'll introduce you to our CTO.