skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are probably correct, but I've also heard that the Saudis have one huge challenge diversifying out of oil: they are so damn lazy after decades and decades of oil money revenues.

They tried setting up all the satellite colleges in Saudi Arabia, and they couldn't get students to actually try. The US higher ed is full of party students getting rubberstamp diplomas, but there are also a segment (usually harder sciences and premed/prelaw/etc) that work REALLY hard. As I understand it, all of the saudi schools are just rubberstampers, they can't get the hard sciences students.

MBS probably needs to have a really nasty streak, because there is such massive corruption in the Saudi ruling structure.

But again, I don't want to seem like I'm defending them. I cannot wait for alternative energy and BEVs to drop the floor out from under them. They SHOULD have a soft landing with all that sovereign investment money, but... those slush funds can disappear fast... And once America DGAF about the middle east from a security standpoint, they'll just be a bunch of lazy billionaires.

Once the oil is meaningless, America's military shield is gone. Shiite Iran can invade Saudi Arabia, and Iran actually has fighting forces. Saudi Arabia does not.
The answer in the UK is "No."

Misdirected payments can be disputed by the reciever in which case it gets settled with legal action by the sender.
A much better article on Anandtech [1]. Dual Stack 116 Layers. And as noted inside the article 100+ layer per stack isn't exactly new.

Personally I am interested in Cost per Bit reduction. Hopefully there will be news in Flash Memory Summit new week. I wouldn't mind to have a slow 100 write cycle NAND that cost a third of today's price. Think 2TB USB Stick for $49.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/17509/microns-232-layer-nand-...
1k writes sounds good enough for consumer hardware I suppose. As long as there's some some type of S.M.A.R.T. system to warn the user before it wears out.
> But it's not the car manufacturer's responsibility to prevent that

Imagine someone installs a cheap third-party ADAS in a Tesla that causes a multi-car pile-up. Should we expect highway patrol officers be able to determine if some third-party software interfered with the normal operation of the car? And, even if Tesla Inc is legally in the clear because the customer did it, they are the #1 target for bad news headlines because they're 'the Apple of Cars' (at least in terms of how much hype they attract), so by the time they set the record straight they've already lost some good-will.
Previous console makers haven't done this. If they ever did increase prices for a console it would be wrapped up in some incremental improvement of the hardware.

I don't recall ever seeing a price increase on the same hardware.
The Psychology of Tackling Hard Problems (2012)
rqlite is very cool, but it's also much more ambitious than LiteFS; it's Raft consistency for every instance of the database, where Litestream/LiteFS is replication (for single-writer multi-reader setups, where reads are answered quickly from edges or read caches, and writes are funneled to a central node --- with LiteFS, an elected central node). Raft is, of course, more powerful, but it's also its own whole thing to manage and monitor.

The advantage of LiteFS/Litestream is that, for the most part, the database is "just" SQLite. You can't really say that, to the same extent, about rqlite.

I hope rqlite takes off! It's a good project.

We've spent a lot of time at Fly.io wrestling with Consul, but that's because we abuse it. That's what the article is about: we shoehorned Consul into a part of our architecture where we're taxed for features it has that we don't actually use (the overwhelming majority of all the data we have in Consul is stuff for which there's a single, continually available source of truth for the data, and Consul was just a "convenient" way to replicate it). Consul is great for the stuff it's meant for.

I wouldn't hesitate to reach for Consul in a new design. I just wouldn't use it for the thing we used it for.
Looks like we brought down bash.org...
Sideloading has always bothered me as a term. It infers an insidious process when you want to get out of the shackles of the gatekeepers. Pure marketing genius from the Apple folks who want to maintain their monopoly.
This.

In medium sized companies no one cares how expensive is the cloud bill.

What matters is getting the infrastructure and any devop and many devs are already used to AWS so it is chosen by default.
Yeah, other VPNs do the same thing as wg-quick. Although they also may make a ton of more specific routes which take precedence over ones from wg-quick. It's fairly rare that routes don't get cleaned up, but a reconnect/disconnect or a reboot fixes it.

The host route to the VPN endpoint is sometimes there, but sometimes it's to a p-2-p interface, sometimes just the local device IP. Depends on the OS, tunnel interface, routes, etc.
If you don't want leap seconds use TAI. If you do want leap seconds use UTC.

This is like people saying that we shouldn't have daylight savings so we should redefine GMT to not have DST. That is not only stupid but breaks all use cases where you care about historical DST.

This is why we have UTC, it's GMT - DST. People in 1960 could figure this out. Are we so incompetent that our grandfathers were better programmers than us?
I found the edge marking on mobile to just be a random source of confusion. Kept doing it by accident.
You have to respect the condom lovers as long as its not illegal or toxic
You can pretty much guess that the same year they are opting out is the same year China is ready to host on their station. I don't think anyone is too surprised.
Science does indeed have a lot of problems, but is the problem really that science is broken, or that our expectations of it are.

> Ideally, we’d like to measure the benefit provided by a study to society. We might ask: had this piece of research not been funded, would a given invention have been delayed? If so, for how long? And what was the impact of that on societal welfare? We could also try to estimate intermediate metrics of research usefulness, like whether a given basic research paper will end up being used as input to an application. It is an argument for humility, not epistemic nihilism.

The whole promise of basic science research is that it may be valuable in ways that are immeasurable, or certainly uncapitalizable. One major issue with science is that we're always hoping that it will say more than it should. I would take a more mindfulness-y approach to science. You do science because it is a good end, and if you do it for that reason, good things will come. If you chase "good science" you get the problems we have.
This is the only time that it is correct for a journalist to use the word "decimate".
IIUC, Google w/o cloud or YouTube handles more network requests, storage, and bandwidth than Amazon + AWS by a large margin.

They don't need to "catch up" on infra. They need to catch up on their product offering.
With the Silverado EV, the fine print says this: "Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price excludes destination freight charge, tax, title, license, dealer fees, optional equipment, and other options. Participating dealer determines final price. Estimated Destination Freight Charge is $1,695; subject to change"

They are making it fairly clear that the dealer ultimately gets to set the sales price, even for reservation from before the launch.
By a foot you of course mean the foot-meter, a measure good enough for everyone and one which will stop breaking metric conversions if we just defined three feet to be a meter.
It's too bad consumer protection law has somewhat crumpled. This would be a great lawsuit.
That case possibly looks like obeying sanctions, although they have failed to explain why they think this customer is in Crimea. For example, OVH may have discovered that the Russian ISP involved was putting fake data into geoip, and if you're aware you can't just pretend you don't know.

BTW, if it was just "we don't want to do business with you any more", that depends on what your contract says. Most consumer ISP contracts allow an ISP to drop a customer for any reason without explanation.
Waymo isn't part of Google though, it's a separate company owned by the Alphabet holding corporation. The other bets within Alphabet do have cultures that are different from Google.

Anyway, I think Waymo is doing much better at this than the rest of the competition. If not Waymo then who? Uber's approach was much worse, and got canceled.
It's not an edge case. Perfectly reasonable suggestion for the author.
Uh, despite the best attempts of credit card companies to hide the fact, their card processing fees do raise the price of gasoline. Before they held as much power over gas retailers, gas stations used to list a cash price and a credit price. The cash price was usually around a nickel cheaper. But now the merchant card agreements prevent having dual pricing (though some businesses try to get away with dual pricing).
note that if they lied in the ceremony process, the only thing they could do is undetectably mint zcash. they would not be able to deanonymize shielded transactions
You don't think they can start building trucks and tanks again, over the next few years? Do you think sanctions will hold up longer or prevent cooperation with China & India? It's not like it's a full, world-wide cancellation of Russia. More of a step in the direction of bifurcation
Straw arguments aside, my point is you can't say "BLM rioted" (at least in Seattle where I have 1st person experience). BLM held protests during the day and the marches were peaceful. BLM did not run the CHOP, they had speakers there, but did not run it. Saying "BLM rioted" is propaganda and seeks to draw a false equivalence. It's commonly lost that the experience in Seattle is very different from what happened in Portland. In Seattle the police moved in and cracked skulls for a week, so I agree "not being taken care of by functional responsible adults."

Sorry to call a response straw arguments, but nothing of what I have said is refuted by acknowledging violence occurred in the CHOP. Though, that is not without its own nuance.

The conservative media narrative is that the CHOP was lawless, was like Portland with buildings being burned every night, and before it was non-stop riots on the streets. (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/15/dont-liste...)

As a first person account, and not as talking point, this was just not the case. The police responded with an aggregate violence that was greater than the night-time-post-protest issues that were happening - the CHOP brought immediate relief and was pretty close to a festival atmosphere for its entire first week (again, not as a talking point, as observed - the CHOP was in our commute path to work and we traversed it daily).

I don't want to toss talking points back and forth. An important difference of perspective is the role of the police presence. In Seattle, the police were largely inflaming the situation (1) and their departure defused it (for some time until, other problems cropped up). This is an important difference compared to the narrative that the police were doing too little (they were doing quite a lot).

(1) https://www.king5.com/article/news/community/facing-race/sea...

"Without working with protesters to understand their goals and work toward mutually agreeable solutions, the department continued to make tactical decisions that did not de-escalate the situation,” the report says."

Coming from 'k5', a very conservative viewpoint, saying "did not de-escalate" is another way of saying they were doing nothing to help things, but make them worse. The after-action report of the police response that the article is reporting on largely found low incidents of police brutality (a controversial finding), but the police in a number of ways could have avoided antagonizing the crowd.

*Which is all to say, in Seattle, had the police protected the protests & protestors, it would have all been different.
It drives me nuts that folks create marketing copy in the screenshots of app stores. Why even have the screenshots enforced for the size of the phone if they don't enforce them being actual screenshots.
I find it bizarre that you are okay with misleading sales, so long as the price is low. The only judgement you should need when making a purchase is what the product claims to be. If it claims to be one thing, but turns out to be another, then that is fraud. It's not okay to lie to your customers because you're not asking for as much money as your competitors.
The thesis is that we should be experimenting on how to get best results. In other words, we should treat science funding scientifically, testing hypothesis, examining results and course correcting based on the evidence.

To your point about inaction, from the article:

"""

This does not mean we should wait decades before implementing any change. Waiting for strong, crystal-clear evidence to act would be engaging in the same flawed thinking that led to the claim that “there is no evidence that masks work” which we heard last year—the costs of delays or inaction would be high. Demands for open access, “red teaming” science, or running multiple-lab reproducibility studies (be it in the social or life sciences, or elsewhere) shouldn’t get stalled by the lack of RCTs. Where there are strong theoretical considerations, indirect evidence, and broad agreement that a proposal will improve science, without a serious cost if we’re wrong, we should just go ahead in at least some cases, and assess the benefits afterwards.

"""

The last paragraph sums up the thesis:

"""

Those interested in meta-science may disagree about what the best way to reform science is, but all of us can agree that we need more evidence about the proposals being made. We have many interesting, reasonable ideas ready to be tried. It is a glaring irony that the very same institutions that enable practitioners of the scientific method to do their work don’t apply that same method to themselves. It is time to change that.

"""
Amazon wrote off it's Rivian investment. Cashflow positive.
Yeah they are going to stacked cells because the endurance is so bad at smaller process nodes.

SSD prices have stalled for quite a while. By now they should be getting in shouting distance of hard drives but unfortunately memory makers are much more of a colluding trust than Hard Drive manufacturers.

What I really want is a high-lifetime write medium to go with SSDs. Hard disks aren't really it. It's too bad the DVD/CD form factor/drive died with high speed internet, holographic storage would have been great. But there was no investment/demand to push it.
It is compared to some of the current prices for this RAV4 Prime.
You can sideload the sidequest store.
> the bank also tells you: “we are giving you a million dollars, it’s yours”.

This doesn’t seem to be the case with the larger battery though? Nothing in the tweet thread indicates that Tesla explicitly stated the car is now a 90 and the original owner can keep it forever.
Again, the limits are not fixed, and therefore cannot be clearly defined. If a customer is spending $5K / month on dedicated servers, Hetzner might earn enough from renting hardware to cover truly unlimited usage of bandwidth. If a customer is spending only $50 / month, that's a completely different case. Such a customer might simply be not valuable enough to keep.
Dropbox has been moving away from Python. A lot of their new backend infrastructure is now written in Go. I don't have any inside knowledge, but it would surprise me if Dropbox ever used Python for their Windows client.

My guess is that it's a .NET executable, and was built using C#.
if anything the ageism goes in the other direction IMO - "experienced" commands a salary premium even when their actual skill and useful experience is no better than a fresh grad.
> Procuring 30,000 laptops is quite different than procuring 200 laptops.

Yes, you get a cheaper per-unit basis in bulk, and it becomes worth investing in larger scale automation to set up those laptops, so that the per-laptop cost of getting them ready for the employees is cheaper too. Economies of scale work in favor of larger numbers. A company that "only" procures 200 laptops per year won't even have a dedicated person for that job; if you're procuring 30k laptops per year you're going to have several full-time people whose only responsibility is working on and improving that process.
I can see this happening, having worked with former Disney people (back office finance type stuff). Almost every day, "well at Disney we did it this way..." even years removed from there. Granted, sometimes the Disney Way was better! But other times I'd have to say, "that's not a bad idea, but unfortunately we don't yet have the resources or reputation of Disney to make a similar tactic work for this project."
It's because they're collecting rents from having state legislation pretty much guarantee they're the only way to buy a car brand (other than Tesla). And though collusion might be hard to prove, it's pretty obvious to a shopper that the price transparency from the Internet is just as potent a weapon for dealers as it is for shoppers.
When market conditions dropped the price of gas in 2020 to record levels because demand was so low and supplies were high, I didn’t see people claiming we shouldn’t let gas stations do that because it enticed people to buy gas.
There must be a difference between “misdirected” payments vs “they accidentally added a few extra zeros at the end” though. Surely the receiver has no recourse for the latter.
You are technically supposed to inform the insurance company of any and all upgrades you make, street legal or not. They are insuring the car as it came from the factory, and while most upgrades won't change things substantially, there could be increased wear and tear, for instance, depending on the tune.

You may not be legally required to, but the insurance company will pretend the upgrade doesn't exist at best, and actively claim it caused the damage, depending on the upgrade.

https://www.valuepenguin.com/special-auto-insurance-coverage...

https://www.askadamskutner.com/auto-accident/insurance-for-a...
As advice for hiring managers this twitter thread is very actionable: stop judging people harshly for working their way up.

As advice for candidates who want to work at TrendyCo outside of what's itself a very elite "class" of people he anecdotally knows, it's not very useful: "try for that exciting job you want, and if you can't get it then, sure, take any job." Here's the problem with that advice: the class system is already in play before even your first job.

What colleges do you think fancy tech employers hang out at and recruit at? What internships do you think are going to get your resume past their initial screen? Things like "Microsoft stack, not relevant" and "low profile school" are already a problem for many.

(The broader problem with wanting to work at TrendyCo is that by definition so does everyone else so they're going to be drowning in applications and have to resort to some stupid/arbitrary process to filter things down.)
Prep how exactly? If I knew an asteroid was coming I'd quit job and do hobbies or travel full time.
I see my Marianne walking away from this deal.
The same we didn't know if cigarettes were harmful, right?

There is just so much we don't know, every time someone is profiting real nicely.

And so much we do know every time someone is profiting real nicely.
We have laws in Australia that stop this sort of unhinged price rise... but yeah... I'm waiting in excess of 13 months for my Rav4 Cruiser
A poorly built building, disregarding catastrophic collapse, can

a) affect your health. [0]

b) lose large amounts of value, requiring significant investment of extra capital to remedy. Given a home is usually a person's largest investment, this can be ruinous. [1] [2] [3]

There's a reason building designs are regulated, and plans checked to ensure that they're appropriate for the planned site. Again, not saying that building consent processing shouldn't be sped up, it's a significant bottle-neck, but you have to accept that old trade-off, fast, good, cheap, choose two.

I'm not sure what level of government handles these things in Florida, is it at a county level? Anyhow, how have they implemented changes in response to this bill? Have they hired additional staff? How is that being funded, is it coming at the cost of other municipal spending, or will they increase application fees or taxes?

Or, will they just start rubber-stamping applications to meet the requirements with the staff they have? Or, were they just all sitting around with their thumbs up their butt? I highly doubt it's the latter, but seeing as it was implied throughout the entire article, I'll offer it for consideration.

The article was completely silent on this. And history is rife with the unintended consequences of well-intentioned policies. For example, when a centre-right government in my country wanted to reduce the amount of people on waiting lists for publicly funded elective procedures, it set targets, and penalties. But it didn't increase funding, as it believed that there was "waste" in the system, so wanted the healthcare providers to reduce that "waste" and use it to fund more surgeries. Then the consequences kicked in - people were put on "secret" waiting lists until they could be seen within the timeframes set by central government for the "official" waiting list [4]. Some people were simply not put on a waiting list for surgery they needed, because they wouldn't get it in time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoor_mold#Causes_and_growing...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_homes_crisis

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_condo_crisis

[3]: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~raojw/crd/reference/referenc...

[4]: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/memo-reveals-secret-waiting-li...
>It seems strange that it took so long for the opposite service to appear.

Apple wouldn't allow it on App Store. And accessing those information likely requires lot of approval at different levels. The only thing changed was the Anti-Trust issues going on where Apple continues to claim people could switch to Android. So now having Google's App on their Store is part of that. And I would not be surprised if Apple intent to use it as their PR later along with shit loads of submarine articles.
Ask HN: Do you think that it's OK to have QUIC's connection IDs unencrypted?
Indeed, JARs are just ZIP files (and can even be uncompressed), so this trick works to make self-executable JAR files that consist of a shell script concatenated with the actual JAR.

https://blog.frankel.ch/creating-self-contained-executable-j...

https://coderwall.com/p/ssuaxa/how-to-make-a-jar-file-linux-...
If you start a line with (, [, +, -, or /, then a semicolon is necessary to disambiguate and prevent it from operating on the previous line.

Personally, I like to put a semicolon at the beginning of such a line only, and omit semicolons otherwise where they're unnecessary.
> This number is only factoring gas as a energy source.

Wow, that's great! I didn't realize ICE tech has improved so much. That's better than a new little Ford Fiesta, weighing nearly half as much.
It's really not that interesting of a story. The business manager for the apartment complex I was at was not being prompt on responding. So for 2 days, I sat in the lobby so every time he stepped out of his office, there I was just waiting. I also got to have a little chat with anyone and everyone about why I was there. This included new prospective residents coming to visit the complex as well as existing residents.
If a man dragged a little cart behind him, and also wore a backpack, he could go months on dense food.

Even if you just put two 10kg bags of oats in your backpack, that's going to last.

20kg? Soldiers have that much to carry, and often more, with weight of gun, ammo, rations, bedroll, and more... yet march day long.