skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be worth noting that no part of the human (etc) genome varies nearly as much as our immune system; (particularly the major histocompatibility complex - MHC) for the obvious reason that we're in a very active arms race with the small minority of microbes that are pernicious to us. So very sharp variations in immune function are not unexpected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_compl...
Your comment assumes it was a bad decision at the time, or that they might make bad future decisions that a new person would not.

It is entirely possible when budgets were available certain initiative made sense to fund. If budgets dry up you start cutting the least harmful thing even if it was still a good idea. It may just not be better than the thing over here that is more profitable or cost effective.
Especially when those messages are the last ones that appear after you've resolved every other issue.
*in public places; your home is still yours to cool as you wish (though few homes have AC)
Very cool and nostalgic! Had no idea the PS1 look was trending.

Also, due to Stack Overflow conditioning: fgetc() does not return 'char', it returns 'int' else EOF won't fit.
A few newspapers making a few million in losses?

Well, America has lost almost 1,800 papers since 2004, including more than 60 dailies and 1,700 weeklies. (Source: https://www.usnewsdeserts.com/reports/expanding-news-desert/...)

So if each newspaper needed just $500k to stay afloat, we’re talking almost a billion dollars. Craigslist was making a tenth of that in revenue, according to you. Their profit was a fraction of that.

I’m not criticising your dream. I’m criticising the people who advocate for this position in real life. “Tax/regulate tech! That’ll solve everything!”
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Ha ha. I talk about my Symbolics/MIT days in early episodes of my blog:

https://kaveh808.medium.com

Wish I still had the code, for sentimental reasons, but it all went up in a house fire.
> Yeah I generally agree with this take. Of course on HN and other technical sites the opinion "lol engineers should run companies" gets a lot of play, but plenty of engineers tank companies and don't get posted here with the alternative viewpoint.

Honestly, it's probably not so much that engineers should run companies, but that MBA/finance-types shouldn't (mainly because it seems their conventional wisdom has collected a lot of toxic ideas).
Okay, you have permission to criticize me. Granted I’m just one non-binary shmoe and not a representative of the trans community at all, but I give you 100% authorization to criticize me. Get all your jollies out, I won’t even object.
The government can pay and build things itself, however.
I dont think it's an issue, just an observation.
This is an internet forum (kinda), ya know?
>Which bubble are you referring to?

Copilot, pretty clear from the context.
Could you provide some details on this?
With GDPR the 'world' went out of www, overnight global censorship and no-one even noticed.
A legacy system had an error message like „hahaha operation failed!“ with no explanation, which was most infuriating.

They also had the ActOfGodException for things that should not happen…
> Isn't fine tuning ~= spending time configuring?

Yes, I use them as synonymous. My point was that spending time configuring is what makes you learn to master Emacs, but once this is done, your configuration can be quite minimalistic and you can still be very efficient.

Minimalistic configuration does not mean no package, it means a few selected packages that require a single or two lines each to be loaded, rather than full customization and something custom implementation of everything you need ^^.
I'd really like to see jails/BSD containers on macOS.

Running docker containers in a Linux VM works OK, but it makes me sad because I don't actually need or want another kernel beside Xnu. For that matter, I don't even need or want docker itself, just a container feature.

Though speaking of Linux, I actually wouldn't mind having BSD's Linux compatibility layer on macOS either.
You’re talking about technical aspects of colour support. Yeah, that requires a little bit of care, but it’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about how the colour values are unreliable, so that even when you have your 256 colours or whatever, you should only use about three of them in any default configuration.
Long and personal dedicace from General De Gaulle to a Free French fighter.
I guess the "don't wear ties" comment was meant to be less serious, but men's business clothing has driven a lot of office thermostats to 60⁰F over the course of my experience. Men in suits and ties are comfortable at the approximate temperature of a meat locker, while everyone else is freezing and energy is wasted. If the PM were serious about trendsetting to reduce energy use, he would ban the suit jacket and encourage men to wear shorts to work.
This is pretty weak.

All it does as proposed is to make it so you're entitled to a refund if the delay is over 3 hours. I think that means you don't fly, you can just get refunded and go home. That is like not a penalty. It does not appear to be compensation/refund on top of getting to complete the delayed flight, at least from what's in this article.
In case you missed it in the thread, the OP has a use case:

> I am helping a small school system with a number of Linux
workstations. Previously, the students (middle and high schools)
abused the sound cards in the systems. This was remedied by changing
the permissions on sound devices so that non-root users would be
denied access (something easily done remotely, and on an automated
basis.)

> At that point, the students started finding creative ways to abuse the
PC speaker, which became rather distracting. We unloaded and disabled
the PC speaker kernel module, which remedied the situation for a
while.

> However, over the past several weeks, the students have found more
creative ways to abuse the PC speaker (outside of the OS.) The Powers
that Be are asking that the PC speakers be disabled completely. With
the small number of techs we have, it would be very impractical to go
around to all systems and remove the PC speaker from each and every
computer case.

> So, the idea was raised about seeing if there was a way to blow the PC
speaker by loading a kernel module. If so, a mass-deployment of a
kernel module overnight would take care of the PC speaker problem once
and for all.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a800cda90706121325p18c85b00r7bc...
>These things never happen, and when they do, it's a good thing.
Talk about critical thinking...
How about alpine-systemd?
If you tag things you're effectively recreating an organizational hierarchy, just with labels instead of literal folders.

Plain search itself will always lack the feedback you get from the semantics you create by organizing things, unless you attach metadata to your search in some way. Simple example, you look for a math paper in your paper directory, and you find an even better one that you didn't remember. Of course recommender systems in search help with some of this, but search is mostly literal, it doesn't make connections the way you can.

Spotify can give you some popular punk bands that are like the ones you like, but it's unlikely to give you that one record from the local band that nobody else listens to that you manually curated in your playlist 12 years ago.
There are probably niche roles where it still comes up.

I spent a while last year writing toy compilers, and even a simple text-based game for CP/M using Z80 assembler. (Later porting to the ZX Spectrum). Maybe not so useful, but still kinda fun.
> 'Unexpected error occurred in logTicketResponse'

I prefer this one, despite the fact that users might like the "cutesy" option better. If the user creates a bugfix ticket, the more information the dev receives the better. When you receive a ticket that says "_____ didn't work" and nothing else, how are you supposed to act on that?

When possible, error messages should include _something_ anything to make it actionable. An error code, a descriptive message. Your example tells me exactly where to look in the codebase. I don't care about the verbiage, but generic error messages are almost impossible to reproduce in many cases, and should only be used as a last resort.
That seems "prohibitively convoluted" to me, if nothing else.
I like the idea of forking over half a million to live in some Bay Area crawl space and just listen to people like OP complain about ghost kitchens and refusing to Google restaurant reviews. The reviews already exist, how is providing even more in DoorDash’s interest?

“Let’s use UberEats instead, DoorDash doesn’t have reviews”.

If you don’t know what it is, either go by car or don’t order it.
I faced a website like this recently when booking a slot at my own German embassy, went a different route around the embassy instead. What I don't like about the slot system: You won't get a convenient time slot anyways so why do they bother setting it up like this in the first place? Why not just register with your contact details and receive an email with a guaranteed spot at a selection of three days instead. No more need to reload and no need for bots.
The Upper Austrian government did this for covid vaccinations in the early phase and it worked very well that way (early, high vaccination rate amongst the elderly and certain professions).
This kind of botspam is usually pretty easy to address with redbean using the finger https://redbean.dev/#finger and maxmind https://redbean.dev/#maxmind modules. The approach I usually recommend people isn't so much ip reputation, which can be unfair, but rather it allows you to find evidence of clients lying to you. For example, if the User-Agent says it's Windows with a language preference of English, but the TCP SYN packet says it's Linux and MaxMind says it's coming from China, then that means the client is lying (or being MiTM'd) and you can righteously hellban once it's fingered for the crime.
Send Data with a Phone's Flashlight
that is pretty cheap, compared to europe after all taxes... 31k gets you fake SUV on sedan platform, not F150
Umm in California, some version of the Government is always in the way of the build. Homes also have almost always sold well above building costs.
Clear as mud, given the context.
It's true. Internal docs have leaked.
I find it ironic that instead of adopting ND's unique technology, Sony shut it down and went with standard fare. In business, the platform with the most available "developers" usually wins out.

It's very difficult to justify the training effort and cost for non-mainstream technology, even if it is demonstrably more productive. Easier to just hire twice as many staff.
Not a great history here for residential
> has been upwards of 15 queries per second from bots

What type of queries are they generating? For what purpose are querying Marginalia? Scraping and filling internal search engines?

> If anyone could go ahead and find a solution to this mess

I would maybe trying to investigate why are querying your search engine. Is for the search results? Maybe from there you can create and sell an API service. Is for the wiki? Is for research purpose?

I would love to see some data, raw or with some behavior derived from it.
Yea that whole company and industry is a dark pattern. Convenient though.
They could at least stop preventing people that may want to build

Reforming zoning laws may not be the panacea but it's a vital first step
The worst ghost kitchen I've seen is for an exclusively gluten-free pizza place in Seattle. That's an appealing prospect if you have a serious celiac case and you can't eat food that's made in a typical pizza place where flour gets everywhere in the process. I looked up the address and it's actually a typical pasta and pizza Italian place with gluten in most items.
You've never hit the wrong key on a keyboard and made a mess, ever? I have.
Could not agree more. That is the core idea behind the power of novelty search and open-endedness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLi0eIdyQU4
Just end the interview early: why waste their time and yours?

It's similar to making a decision to fire someone: if you have a suspicion that someone won't work out, probably best to just immediately cut them. Don't think I've ever seen anyone in my entire career come back from poor performance unless it's due to unique / temporary life circumstances.
Most of the time you can put them in the trash. But don't pour them down the drain.
https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2022/1

No Delphi in top 50.
I think that for most apps, this is the wrong approach to use by default, as it will produce something that will always look out of place. I think you’re generally better to default to just using the five or so dependable colours, and not try to be cleverer. You may be able to mitigate the damage by checking what the default background and foreground colours are (and perhaps other of the top 16 colours, to get a feel for the style of theme) and choosing colours that will match as closely as possible while still supporting the flexibility you want, but that would be a fair bit of work to do well.

Terminals are not the web. As an extensive user of both terminal and web, and often a heavy customiser of both, I would strongly prefer that by default you prefer to fit in, even though it limits your degree of expression.
Then EU would have to do the same for FB, Goolge,Apple and americans will have to stop complaining about protectionism every time we give those giants a fine for doing bad things.
I hate Steam's auto-updating. Fortunately you can turn it off.

I think Switch games usually give you the option of starting without updating. And you can stay offline and just use physical game cartridges ... plug-and-play, like a classic Nintendo console. ;-)

Switch OS and game updates also seem ridiculously fast compared to some other consoles' updates.

Small quality of life features can add up to make a system much more pleasant to use.
Are these fictional interviews done by a human or GPT-3?

Can't find any information on the website but based on the footnotes it seems they are created thoroughly by a human, which is an exceptional display of human creativity!
That's what I gathered.
> What's the point in buying shares of a company with no possible upside?

As the Beatles would say, to get you money to buy you things.

A black box that spits out one dollar bill (after tax, if that’s your concern) every hour is a useful product to anyone even if there is « no possible upside ». Don’t you see the point in getting one if the price is right? Wouldn’t you pay $10000 to get one? $1000? $100? $10? $1?
My golden rule of sys admin is if you can't fix it, you reformat and replace it.

If you reproduce the error, congrats, now you get to figure out where to file the bug report with reproduction steps.
Do you mint one new NFT per site? Then you impose an excessive burden on users per new site they visit.

Do you mint one NFT per address? If blocking only applies to the one site, a malicious operator can just spam the next site using that address - after all, they own tons of addresses and have many sites to spam, and they can surely spam for at least a bit before getting caught (per site and per address).

If blocking is a public operation that gets you banned everywhere, well now one callous server owner can now disable your address’s ability to access anything.

I fail to see how Web3 NFTs solve any of these problems…
I've had kind of similar things before with DoorDash or UberEats. They'll show I have a discount or some amount off ($5 usually), and then only once I'm ready to actually submit my order the full fine print shows up that I needed to have a subtotal of $30, $40, or whatever. Maybe that's fine for a family but for one person it stinks to think "oh cool I've got a discount" and I waste my time thumbing through restaurants and putting together an order only for it to not be worth it.
The Anomaly of Cheap Complexity
$19/month is quite a jump up from free.

I set a business up to use Netlify to host a handful of legacy static sites (some with build processes, some without), because it was easier to do than S3 + Cloudfront.

They have a GitHub organisation account so looks like for the occasional updates I'll have to manually deploy.

If it was $5 or $10/month I doubt we'd give upgrading a second thought, but at this price point alternatives like build locally and SFTP to cheap shared hosting are worth the extra effort.
Great, now I will never be able to read Marcus Aurelius again without associating it with this satire.
All other things equal, sure.

However, proper reasoning while taking into account uncertainty is not so simple.

Let's do a thought experiment. Let's say you are the CEO and your estimate for the necessary layoff ranges between 2% and 11%. What to do? One and only one round of X% layoffs? What should X be? Or perhaps start with a round of 5% layoffs. The hope would be that the uncertainty decreases. Time passes. You might not need an additional round. Or if you do, it can be done more accurately.
And Resident Evil, surely?
Ehm... Sorry to break it to you, but people who think they were born the wrong sex are increasingly treated with hormones before the onset of puberty (with puberty-delaying treatments it's kind of the point). Not arguing whether it's good or bad, but by definition they are children at that point in time.
> It's pretty clear to me that YouTube wants to steer you towards content _they_ want you to watch and not content that you want to watch.

This is it. Exactly.
Why scientists are turning to Rust (2020)
After using Rails for 15 years, I'm looking for a future on Go. The niche where Rails is great is larger apps that don't need anything custom or deviating from the built-in Rails Way.

Simpler apps or services are simple in Go. Apps with heavy customization are also great with Go, and there's now plenty of libraries to help you outsource heavy lifting.
The keyboard may make things easier, I grant. Then the word is 'easier'. and 'faster'. I do use and like emacs BTW.

Then again I have RSI, do you reckon that's easier/faster for me?

> Another benefit is that keyboard input is higher-bandwith than mouse operations

Depends on the job - a mouse is far higher bandwidth for graphics editing, and I know cos I've done that when mice weren't a standard thing.

There's a simplicity of your argument here that misses an important point, use the right tool for the right job.

NB. I use a trackball and IMO that is better than a mouse in all situations I can think of. I recommend them.
There's an old joke I love.
"Why do elephants have red eyes? So they can better hide in cherry trees."
"But I've never heard of an elephant climbing a tree!"
"See how well they hide?"

It's a bit stereotypical by now to hear about influencers preaching 4am wakeup times. But the truth is that some of that stuff works. And more importantly, the general attitude of trying to improve your daily process sure as hell works. It took me well over a decade to move from very struggling freelancer to actually feeling ok with the work I put in, and I've definitely not stopped improving.
I can understand wanting to replace a COBOL host system but delays are almost to be expected for a project like that.

As an aside, I remember talking to someone who worked on the technology and they said they were writing Java day to day, so I'm guessing there are more than a few layers in the tech stack.
There is a way of telling your own people what is going on without breaking the rules of being a public traded company. This is just bad form.
>do you ask that kind of question of other companies who get articles about them in magazines?

Yes. Not audibly every time, but this article was particularly shallow, containing nothing but praise even though their security history is hardly immaculate.

By comparison, the last article about Amazon I read here was about their leaked document on trying to crush unions. The last about Google was either them shutting down some other product I've never heard of or a complaint about how their search is now worse.
https://archive.ph/7Tixx

Gotchu fam

Honestly though, the site seems to be trash, there’s almost certainly a better source for this info.
dang, could you change the clickbait title?
The Best Career Decision You Can Possibly Make
>How many more bottle-washers did they have to hire? Or are they using expensive people to wash bottles?

Good to get your message, it makes sense.

OTOH in the nicely appointed laboratory where the glassware cabinets are well stocked with spares, and hopefully breakage is low, by comparison there is virtually no burden from consumables as they move from trucks, to warehouses. Then delivery people streaming into the lab, days or weeks of supplies oveflowing from limited storage cabinets, and with waste removal operators following in turn.

IME there is much less of a use for disposables when the task does not need to be biologically sterile or when the cost can not be passed on to somebody like an insurance company.

In testing and research, but I'm industrial not clinical.

When I run it as a business, my clients deserve the best.

Sometimes cleaning glassware in advance and after a particular test or experiment, before returning the glassware to the shelf, needs to be routine.

Still that's only a handful of additional steps in what often amounts to a 1000-step process when you count every little thing.

And for that you've got to have chemists who take pride in every step, it's really no problem when they're already on staff.

>We observed the biggest cost savings from reducing operating times of fume hoods and cutting our use of organic solvents in the lab.

Energy is always so costly and exhaust blowers really compromise the climate control effectiveness. We have enough toxics that we depend on the constant flow of fresh air coming in to the whole lab as the hoods must stay on 24/7 with the sash at the calibrated height marked by the safety operator according to OSHA requirements.

So I've spent a lot of time over the years cutting waste in other ways since we're stuck wasting a significant amount of air-conditioning around-the-clock.

Don't get me started on organic solvents . . .
A PhD should be, at least in theory. Whether it is or not is a question - and "until dissertation" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

Importantly, a staff scientist position will never be. If you cannot tie your project to one of my grants, you are losing me money. For a student, that might be acceptable. For a staff scientist, it's not.
I don’t see how netlify is better than Cloudflare Pages at this point. Are there essential features netlify offers that CF doesn’t?
There's a lot of wavelengths (search "nm") mentioned in the referenced open access article [0]. But it takes some reading effort to find the relevant one.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31970-5
I don't inherently mind fun, but error messages being fun/cutesy is not the time.
As much as the actual scope of this will only affect a small number of users who happen to use the organisations feature, $19 for this feature is _a lot_ for some CI. My $5 droplet on DO gives me a jenkins with no limitations on what repos I can build, writing out statically to Nginx to serve, but I fully admit not everyone can run that sort of thing. In my case, the monthly time cost is next to zero, and it’s never gone down.

This pricing would make me think twice about using Netlify for anything other than a company already making money. Granted, thats not always a bad thing, Akamai has used that sort of model for years, but having services developers like for their personal stuff is usually the best way to get a foot in the door, and this is just another reason a dev might choose something else.