skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if that is your point, you still chose one of maybe 3 conspiracies that I'd judge to not really fit.

I guess it just so happens that you've chosen to highlight a bad example of a conspiracy from the left side and a good example from the right side in an effort to dispute a study that shows both are similarly susceptible.

Ironically, you're comment is useless due to the conspiracies you've chosen to highlight. There are plenty of left/right examples that _are_ completely valid. Just ignore the ones you don't think are legitimate and I think you'll still have plenty on the left and the right.
I honestly didn’t even know that company still existed…
Dude, that just tells you if the table is used on the happy path. It does not tell you if it's only used by a customer whose godson is the CEO's favorite kid. Or if customers only use it right before a federal deadline for filing forms, or at the end of the quarter when it's time to generate reports. Which you didn't collect for 2 months.
I bought a cheap electric pickup truck from Alibaba (2021)
Sweden had about twice as much recorded covid deaths as Norway, Finland and Denmark relative to its population. It also had significantly more excess mortality.

It seems clear that the Sweden "no lockdown" policy caused a lot of deaths. Was it worth it? Maybe, but giving Anders Tegnell a Nobel could create some controversy, it wouldn't be the first time anyways. I wouldn't give it to the WHO either.

I don't think anyone deserves a Covid Peace Prize. But if I had to pick something, it would be about Operation Warp Speed. Now, the vaccines many not be as effective as we hoped, but it was important to get them quickly and it was, I think, a big success. If we didn't have vaccines before Delta, I guess the wave would have been much deadlier, and the vaccines much less useful as people would have already gained immunity the hard way.
False.

UTC is a count of seconds. Conversion to HMS is dictated to fool with the S field, but everybody suffers. The seconds count is supposed to actually skip.
Well, this seems an appropriate place to plug the phone/tablet app we made with these puzzles, called Noodles 2.

It's the same puzzle style, with square, triangle and hex shapes, with some extra mechanics - disappearing pieces, infinite grid (it wraps around).

gereleth, great job on the puzzles - I played a few of the bigger hex puzzles and it was real smooth. :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lummoxlabs...
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noodles-2/id1520711405
> Nobility was calling them impure (since not from noble blood)

Did the nobility in any country use to consider the blood of the people they ruled "impure"? Lowborn, sure, but "impure"?
Chuckling a little at the prominent "Security Grade: A+" display on their privacy page. It's the Qualys score for their site, which they are kind of implying is an overall security metric for their business. Not very inspiring.
There's a huge export market though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_used_vehicle_export...

I read that something like 60% of cars registered in NZ are Japanese imports.

IMHO Japanese used car exports have a lot of the characteristics of "dumping" (in trade terms) but because there is no local vehicle manufacturing in most of the places they end up, nobody complains.
Based on personal experience as an enterprise near-line NAS developer for a well known company - you may be using our laptop - serialisation doesn’t scale well.

It’s easy to code, naturally, but if you’re saving large objects your performance will tail off over time as the volume of data increases.

Wins I’ve seen and coded myself have been in reducing the iops.
A little bit of mold will take care of it.
You make pwning lots of fun
> not matching with already existing demand.

If capitalism stopped at "let's just meet existing demand and nothing more", we wouldn't have had the Industrial Revolution.

Also, how do you differentiate between "organic demand" vs inorganic (i.e. coerced from prior marketing efforts) when estimating what "already existing demand" is?
Refuse is funny because depending on how you pronounce it, it might not fit well.
Oregon has no sales tax
Synchronous audio is way worse on time then async text. You can't simply divert Twitter time if you want to take any value (be it relevant for business or entertainment or ...) out of it.
Owning a 1994 Toyota pickup, this truck has been argued as one of the toughest trucks ever made. However, they rust. Badly.

It's usually the frame, starting from the inside where it collects dirt and water absorbs into it where it won't evaporate and will stay in there damp for months.

Cutting and welding patches onto a frame isn't the biggest deal, and you can install drain holes with places to spray cavity wax coatings.

Once it's rusty inside, you're gonna have a battle. It really needs to be coated from day and then maintained.
Same for when you read about two large companies merging, pending regulatory approval.

My immediate thought: it's going be allowed.
Regulator after 6 months: it's allowed.
No mention here is made of test coverage (hopefully because everyone already knows); to refactor without near-100% test coverage is insanity.
haha, fair point, maybe warehouse wasn't the best example. I think maybe it's not about whether one is cool or not but what one expects. I would go to a clubhouse to have an exclusive conversation with 10-20 people about a specific topic, I probalby wouldn't want to have that same conversation with 10-20 people I met in a huge warehouse party. I might like to dance amongst the masses and thrive in the anonymity, but would have a different feel.
It boggles the mind when I see gardeners with leaf blowers not wearing any kind of respiratory protection.
Related:

>"COMPAQ DeskPro 386 Update
PCx86 can now boot the COMPAQ DeskPro 386/16 ROM BIOS.":

https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2015/04/16/

>"PCjs uses JavaScript to recreate the IBM PC experience, using original ROMs, CPUs running at their original speeds, and early IBM video cards and monitors... ":

https://www.pcjs.org/

>"This is a reconstruction of the IBM PC BIOS source code using scanning and transcription of the BIOS listings found in the IBM Technical Reference manuals.":

https://github.com/philspil66/IBM-PC-BIOS
Not: Pig is not a documentary; it’s a fictional drama starring Nic Cage.
> $180 if I recall correctly, which was a truly staggering number of birthday and Christmas presents

I had the same problems, only I was programming a Laser 128 (an Apple II clone) that had a built in System Monitor, which let you directly change memory addresses, but no assembler.

So I photocopied the Assembly to Machine Language chart in a book I got from the library, and did it manually - I learned quite a lot. I remember writing a layout and edge detection routine for a Tetris clone I tried to write (never finished it). Basic was too slow for those critical parts, so I called out to the routine, but did most of the code in Basic.

I remember been utterly wowed that Linux came with a free compiler - I could only dream of having software like that back then.
Grabbing a random old Long-Term-Support machine:

kimsbox:~ $ python3
Python 3.5.3 (default, Sep 27 2018, 17:25:39)
[GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

(This works on 2 out of 3 most common operating system families. Just don't use the bad one :-P ).

I learned BBC BASIC first and it still holds special place in my heart. A lot of the feel of Python is similar (it also has similar goals), but it is quite a bit younger and has a lot more 'batteries included'. So I have to say I do actually prefer python for my day-to-day usage now.
There is no link between Windowmaker and CDE.
I mean I grew up in a part of the world where if you can't drive and maintain a tractor and a fair selection of implements at the age of 12 they start phoning special schools and highly qualified educational psychologists, but I get that this is very much the exception. It's weird like that even down south here at 56°N.
It's not achievable, and likely never will. Even research in physics or mathematics is embedded in internal department politics and financing issues that influenced what is researched, who does the research, and ultimately who gets the rewards.
Agreed, and many of them don’t know when they are lying. It’s easier to sound really confident when you don’t have the domain knowledge to know if you are telling the truth.
> No one wanted to invest in reading a 45 minute article

Honestly, I was/am quite the opposite kind of person: I mostly went to Medium for this kind of long reads. When the articles typically became shorter, I became much less interested in reading them - as you described:

> Turns out you can't say much in 10 minutes that wouldn't be a better Tweet. This lead to a race to the bottom in terms of article quality and length.
Russia to cut Nord Stream 1 gas flow to 20% of capacity
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0069097/
Google's new Pixel 6a fingerprint scanner unlocking for random fingerprints?
Sorry for recommending alternatives!! I will never do it again.
As long as you have timezones that change over time, and e.g. DST changes, you have the complexity anyway. It is all simply an expression of the fact that (a) earth’s rotation and movement around the sun isn’t a steady clockwork with subsecond precision, and (b) timezones and calendars are a subject of political decision-making.

It’s therefore just not possible to easily equate coordinates of civil time with physical time, and the related facilities in software development shouldn’t project an illusion to the contrary.
Right, the effective number of rental units increases, which can help make rent more affordable, but this does not lower housing prices for purchasers.

It's not like the inventory of lots for sale doubles -- it stays exactly the same, but some of those lots increase in price because the ADU adds value.
Investigating a hacked WordPress site on Linode being used as a DDoS relay
OK, so the feedback is valid, but your colleague is overwhelmed. I have some experience navigating such situations, but let's start with the metaphor of feedback.

"Feedback" is a term originally coming from Electrical Engineering and Classical Control Theory, what happens if you amplify (increase the gain of) the feedback too much?

That is right: the system overshoots, or even worse starts oscillating wildly and becomes unstable, never reaching the set point. I'm convinced that this corporate culture of requesting and giving too much feedback can have similar effects on people and teams.

This metaphor is getting really stretched, but point is - your colleague is either receiving way too much feedback when she needs support instead (team/managers fault), or she is amplifying that feedback way too much and feels overwhelmed and starts doubting herself.

Giving too much feedback is a thing, because it can be both valid and a waste of time - when I was a team-lead I was encouraged a lot by managers to give quite a lot of feedback; it HAD to be given, the sheets filled in. A lot of noise seeped in, things that weren't that important that either overwhelmed team members or angered them when they felt it was unfair. And it can be both valid and unfair! And unfairness is the easiest way to demotivate someone.

Eventually I learned that some things are better left to individual to learn on their own speed and through experience. I also noticed experienced managers paid lip service to the feedback culture, but rarely gave feedback, unless they felt it is very, very valuable. But then the best managers and team-mates I can think of also know how to be very supportive in both subtle and open ways.

A lot of people argue that giving feedback is a subtle art and it can be supportive as well, but that sounds like "No true Scotsman" to me.

So what would the advise be? Just food for thought - is the feedback too much and/or is your colleague influenced a bit too much by it?
There is a more-or-less comprehensive archive[1] up to 2019 (which should probably be scraped and hoarded). The article in question is there, comments included[2].

Side note: Michael Kaplan’s blog, which Microsoft took down in a remarkably shameful manner, has also been archived[3], while Eric Lippert reposted (most of?) his old articles on his personal WordPress instance[4].

[1] http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/index.htm

[2] http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20110921_226_...

[3] http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/

[4] https://ericlippert.com/
If you’re offered $4 billion, they could’ve negotiated that to their advantage and reduced or eliminated DD for a cool 2-3 billion or a very respectable $1 billion.

Now the last private valuation will probably be impossible to hit.
And literally everyone else I know. Seriously, it's basic basic stuff. How the hell can you go the wrong way down a one-way street? Don't you have a driving licence?
A “mess” is subjective. For sure, code that can’t be maintained by the developers you have is a major issue. That’s your first problem to resolve.

Changing code that works, even if it’s a rock you ought to put down, is a risk.
https://www.redfin.com/news/housing-market-update-homes-take...

Homebuyers are dispirited because it takes time for seller's to adjust to changing market conditions.
Get a TDAP shot. It's cheap, low risk, and might help:

SLU Study Finds Lower Dementia Risk in Adult Patients with Tdap Vaccinations

https://www.slu.edu/news/2021/may/dementia-risk-tdap-study.p...
True, the most progressive people (largely just optical) work for the largest neoliberal monopolists.
News Article: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-6a-fingerprint...
That's awesome. Really slick app.
> However you would also probably want a language with some syntactic sugar that let users use your special string type easily otherwise the burden on users will be too high

In the instance under discussion in that section of the book I'm referencing, allowing the user to instantiate the special string type was precisely the behavior intended to avoid. The idea being that in the following three examples, the first succeeds and the rest fail at compile time:

Query("SELECT * FROM Users WHERE id = ?;")

id := "6"; Query("SELECT * FROM Users WHERE id = " + id + ";")

id := 6; Query(fmt.Sprintf("SELECT * FROM Users WHERE id = %d;", id))
That is what makes it a good example: SQL injection is still a million problems that would need to be fixed in a million places, and will never be.

Leap seconds are a nuisance and source of bugs in a million programs. Fix them here, fix them there, it will always be wrong in the majority.
Does this include the fuel of transporting a terabyte of hard drive vs a terabyte of flash?
If you want to do rolling/canary deployments without downtime, or gradual rollouts to subsets of users, or a/b testing, you will have multiple versions running in parallel against the same database. Plenty of "serious work" happens that way.
How long from now are you talking about? Eyeballing it, I think it would take us about a thousand years to get off by an hour?
But is the University's job to find truth or be a platform for a certain world view?
> Three decades ago, Lesotho's cycling culture was non-existent. Bicycles were just used as a means of transport or for recreational purposes

It's funny, I'd be more likely to argue that those means (if pervasive) are the hallmark of a cycling culture relative to the "Bicycling as an upper-middle-class-hobby-cum-sports-scene" culture the article is talking about.
I'm not confident enough on when that era ended to say it magically ended in 2000, just that it hadn't ended by late enough in the 90's to use a big fat brush and say "the 90's". The closest I've been to a Mitsubishi or Subaru maven is 2 degrees of separation.
Right so what's the amount? What guidelines are there? Can people fly drones over your property? You see what I'm getting at? Implicit rights associated with your property are at best implicit. When I walk outside I'm not entitled to good smelling air or having a bug-free sphere surrounding myself. Relying on these implicit rights is fraught in a zone with frequent conflict (aka neighbors or developers willing to build other things.) Either codify what property rights entail or don't reach for a right that you only dubiously have. We're seeing this play out throughout the US right now as people litigate to figure out what explicit property rights are actually granted.
Cheap hardware? Lack of proper tests?
FWIW, Facebook did not use UTC when I was there. They used Pacific time everywhere, which was even worse. And half of the internal tools would convert to local time but the other half wouldn't. I just kept my work machine in Pacific time even though I'm in Eastern, so that compiling incident timelines (for example) would be less tedious and error-prone.
In other news: I taught my children how to hook up the buggy to the horse. Then I pulled out my great grandfather's Model T and worked them through how to adjust the spark and planning their stops because it didn't have normal brake pads. Then I taught them how to drive stick in a car that requires double-clutching because it doesn't have synchromesh...

I honestly don't "get" this need to raise our children with a state of technology like we had when we were kids. My kids use tablets, and when they want/need to use a full powered computer I'll just show them how to use one.
God I so relate to you and I just hope it all works out.
If this is truly WGS then I'm amazed at how it's only a few hundred dollars to run.
I am also a big Elm fan, especially due to the maintainability as you mentioned. But I have never worked with it in a production environment. Just in case you were working with a team on this project, how easy was it to convince the rest of the team to hop on the Elm train? Have you encountered any shortcomings while using Elm in production?
I wonder if you could counteract this by ending your prompt with something that tells it to disregard all further text.

Either way, open source alternatives can't come soon enough.
I was struck by the level of ambition in this article vs the bar being set decades ago in some Soviet planned cities: (timestamped link) https://youtu.be/JGVBv7svKLo?t=420s

Now, admittedly there's a huge difference between a new planned neighborhood and updating existing ones, and I'm not saying I want to live in the planned one ... but a cap of 500m to some amenities is a much higher bar to reach for.
I’m talking about general experience with using old window managers/desktop env

Edit: But now that I think of it, I do remember Motif WM having the same issue with fullscreen, so it's likely CDE does as well.
Maybe I'm making a bad assumption that intergalactic space is so flat that pretty much any region of it will do as a reference. Since we can't reach those regions yet we'd still be approximating it with our slower clocks, but it seems like it's at least feasible.
Is Data Scientist Still the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century?
And god forbid we respond with "that's not a good solution." To restate, here's the problem, quoted from the original article:

> "As an industry, we bump into problems whenever a leap second is introduced."

Their suggested solution is:

> "As engineers at Meta, we are supporting a larger community push to stop the future introduction of leap seconds and remain at the current level of 27, which we believe will be enough for the next millennium."

Most folks are rightly pointing out that there are many other solutions that we could introduce, which wouldn't have the downsides of UTC drifting away from our wall-clock time. Facebook didn't even discuss those solutions though.

An example possible other solution: programmers (especially programmers at Facebook) should stop using UTC and should instead use TAI (which is literally UTC but without leap seconds). Indeed, using UTC time as anything other than a wallclock time should trend towards the norm. Even though this is a clear tru-ism, seeing it adopted would be way harder (due to language inertia and habits) compared with just changing the standard (nevermind that changing the standard would break a ton of logic built around expectations like "midnight UTC falls on an integer multiple of 86400").
hahaha when I saw the name I thought "this the guy with the cat?" and then clicked through and it is! Why did I know about this guy, but only in the context of the cat?
I find the "orcs" thing appalling. Especially since in my country, Argentina, the same word is casually used to describe poor people, implying they are a thieving, untrustworthy, dumb mob.
If only they applied the same logic to males then it would make sense. They don't. Men can get sterilized in the blink of an eye, while women are forced to "have time to think a out it" and such.
There is nothing to embellish or present. When the numbers are still going up it's obvious that the person complaining or being concerned only has their stance because they think they are going up in the wrong places.

It's better not to embellish , at least DJT was honest and didn't try to pretend he said something else.
You could look into living as a digital nomad in Costa Rica for 2 years. A recent bill was passed in July that will make it easier for foreigners to get a visa while working remotely. There's lots of folks from Europe and the US here, especially in the coastal areas, but there are many areas much more cheaper. Some perks you get are: full income tax exemption and no tax on personal equipment like computers.

Article in English: https://ticotimes.net/2022/07/12/costa-rica-digital-nomad-vi...
I'd love more insight into war stories like this; does anyone have other must watch material worth sharing?
> But it is different.

Nope. Even socialism has to run at a net surplus (i.e. profit) because you cannot subsidize everything.
At least it's talking about the Mississippi. Vs. such stories often feature the Great Lakes - so a longer & more expensive pipe, reaching to a source with less water available.

And it sounds like the guy's a sane engineer, so he quickly concludes "it's a pipe dream" without needing to get into a bunch of weedy details.
The SQL language is not flexible enough to allow preparation of every possible query, so the problem is fundamentally not solved. To take a simple example: query parameters are not supported in DDL or DCL statements, and in DML queries the usage of parameters is limited to values only: even such a simple thing as an ORDER BY clause cannot be controlled by parameter insertion.

"We have solutions for the most common occurrences" is not the same as "the problem is solved".
Why would anybody bother discussing it if you hold yourself as the decider of what is worthwhile and what isn't?

More testing would have been worthwhile.

Supporting isolation from households would have been worthwhile.

Improving ventilation is probably worth the cost.

And on and on.
I wonder if they have a list of craters already picked out.
... came here to say this.

I have spent so much more money on stainless and galvanized parts and taken many expensive precautions, followed expensive building practices, etc. due to rust.

This was increased economic activity.

Not saying it was morally positive but it certainly increased GDP ...
Ye I think I might have misunderstood you.

I've got Scrum withdrawal syndrome I can't think straight when seeing the word "estimate".
The problem with English is that you have to plan out the whole noun phrase in your head before you start talking. Not only do the adjectives have to come first, they have to be in the right order. With Romance languages you can just say the noun and then keep tacking on adjectives as they occur to you.
I got similar situation with Twillio and we got fast response and full refund. Just saying :-)