skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
estimate both a time and a confidence (or fitness).

2 weeks with 9/10 fitness is a very different estimate from 2 weeks and a 6/10 fitness. The latter should result in more discussion so those you're giving the estimate to can better understand how likely you are to miss that estimate and what they can do to facilitate a better estimate. "Give me 2 days to investigate this 1 thing that's a total unknown, I can probably give you a better estimate afterwards".

The problem is very few people on either side of that table ever want to do this.
And Galadriel’s troop fought a snow troll. We have Gil-Galad sending a troublesome commander to Valinor. Elrond used a contest with a dwarf prince as a start on an alliance between elves and dwarves. Orcs are tunneling below human villages to kidnap the inhabitants and Proto-hobbits are helping a man who fell from the sky.

Really nothing, I guess. /s
You can always "reconstruct the file" in order to replace lost physical documents, assuming there are digital copies elsewhere.

The IRS and the courts may lose files occasionally. Then there are fires, like the government records Missouri fire: https://www.archives.gov/personnel-records-center/fire-1973

It happens.
At a certain point these articles have blended into the background “this thing is bad for you” noise. We’ve all had COVID at this point. Either we will or we won’t have complications down the line. I don’t care to worry about it anymore.
Those are bad examples; Telcos are almost universally heavily regulated and as such in many (most?) countries out there can't just refuse people service.

Cloudflare is doing neither here. This is closer to Subway banning you than your phone company; it's highly optional to do business with CF.
There doesn't seem to be any kind of anonymization, so if there's only one person for a particular combination of race, ethnicity, sex, and job category, then their pay will effectively be reported directly. In theory, the state of California is supposed to make sure that that data isn't identifiable, but considering the recent personal data leaks, that doesn't seem like a particularly strong protection.
I find it very interesting that Amazon, after years of criticism for not doing anything regarding sellers gaming reviews, pauses reviews on the product they spent a billion dollars on.
I wouldn't judge Tolkien's work by the actions of a small segment of consequentialists who used their fandom to twist his themes into something they were never intended to be.
Actually, it is.

*Reading of this comment requires the READING PARTY, to agree to the terms and conditions of the comment. If you do not agree to these terms, you must delete the comment from your memory.

Terms: You are the READING PARTY

Conditions: The READING PARTY will agree with the comment.

Bulletproof legal argument.
I'm surprised most of the comments here are about the pros and cons of The Rings of Power. I thought it would be more about how Amazon reacted quickly and decisively to protect their own content and product from trolling reviews, but then why does it feel like so many of the other products on their site are swimming in BS reviews?
I suppose that is possible though I think using the same term to describe very different things begs for the creation of a new term. There appear to be concepts in medicine that touch upon this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_treatment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_coercion
That is a very naive viewpoint. You might think that economic central planning could allow us to maintain quality of life while increasing efficiency, but in reality that approach failed everywhere it was tried. That is historical reality, not mere political philosophy.
Not sure how this was supposed to work but I had two different browsers (safari and Ddg) open on my phone connected to the same room.

When I sent a message from the second browser, it didn’t get delivered to anyone, and the first room showed a message saying “someone has left the room”.

Looks like your message identity is driven off ip or something unique to the device rather than browser.
It was early days for IM and I guess storage was expensive.

Early ICQ didn't even store the contact list on the server so you had different contacts on every PC.
> if i have it already, then using it more comes with zero additional impact.

Except using it more means more wear and tear which means replacing it sooner. So unfortunately it doesn’t make the math easier.
It may not be hard, but it can be time-consuming. Knowing how long someone has written Python is useful information for how to onboard them, and how to interview them.
Yeah, there are almost too many reality shows like that, really.

I wouldn't make it a "trading places" thing. I'd like to see a full semester of retail work and a full semester of food service work be a requirement to get a bachelor's degree. I've done both, and for far longer than a semester each. One thing it taught me was to never get angry at someone who's trying to help me.
Since Redis is the data store, if your Redis instance goes away, do all of your tasks go away too?
I think wikipedia editors should be forced to reveal their identity and picture ( KYC)
The case of gentle snow-trolls susceptible to tickling existing in Tolkien's universe made me quite curious. The following turned up after a brief research session:

> Snow-trolls are mentioned only once in Tolkien's works, in reference to Helm Hammerhand stalking his enemies "like a snow-troll" during his sorties against the Dunlendings in the Long Winter. The trolls who lived in the Coldfells in western Eriador may have been similar to these. [1]

And the actual passage, from The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The House of Eorl":

> Helm [Hammerhand] held the fortress during the Long Winter. He blew his great war-horn, and broke through the Dunlending ranks, clad in white, stalking men like a snow-troll slaying them with his bare hands. However, his sons Haleth and Háma were slain and Helm grew gaunt because of grief and famine; still his horn would fill the Dunlendings with fear each time it was heard. During one of his night sorties Helm died, possibly from famine and cold; his body was discovered frozen in the snow still standing. [2]

I would say the "stalking" and the subsequent "slaying" similitudes rule out the gentle qualities of the snow-troll.

For the record I haven't watched RoP yet; something feels wrong about this interpretation of Tolkien's work and I think I'll save myself the disappointment.

[1] https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Snow-trolls
[2] https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Helm#cite_note-Helm-5
APNIC has, apparently, withdrawn the IP addresses and ASN for Kiwi Farms.

Fuck with the trans community, get blackholed. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Bad taste is simply a perception, you’re making an inference that the bad taste was caused by something but the perception precedes the inference.

Further the perception and response to that taste isn’t a inference that something is physically harmful. You can dislike perfectly healthy food. That said, if uranium had a bad taste people wouldn’t have been as harmed demonstrating the lack of perception of the initial minute harm resulted in greater long term harm.
Of course, all the to-do about alternative meats overlooks another dietary option, one with the lowest environmental footprint of all: Simply eat less meat and more beans, grains and vegetables. The additional processing involved in plant-based meats means that they generate 4.6 times more greenhouse gas than beans, and seven times more than peas, per unit of protein

It's sad to me that "western" cooking is so focused on meat as the centerpiece to cooking. When I first went vegan, trying to replicate meat centric dishes I grew up on with plant-based substitutions always lead to a disappointing meal.

The key to good plant-based cooking is exploring the space of possible dishes that never included meat or animals products to begin with. Instead focusing on distinct flavors and textures provided by plants and exploring there instead.
Is there a way to have foreign keys without the index and integrity constraint. I would love to be able to keep the relational mapping at the db layer. (I almost always actually want the integrity and indedx, but I'm just curious if its possible)
Dang that’s sad, I’m not intimate with the industry but commercial fishing just seems like (no pun intended) a net negative on the world. I do love watching deadliest catch though
Aside from getting money earlier mattering for compounding, this also breaks down if you donate stocks to charity.
> Faramir

In the movies, yes, but not in the books.
A bit off topic, but this remember me the effect used on the Coen brothers movie Inside Llewyn Davis, I love that movie, but the effect throw me off all the time and now is "the movie ruined with that effect" for me.
Honest question... I recall attempting to read the Simarillion and finding that it was a simple recitation of facts about middle earth. I abandoned this after some 150 pages.

This was many years ago, is my recollection flawed?
The idea of replicating this in a modern office is quite the amusing image. It strikes me as both true and false:

- no job is truly beneath me, and sometimes I have to wade into the weeds so better be prepared

- it's also a way to just get essentially free or cheap(er) labour by increasing the duties of those whose time would be better spent elsewhere.
Thanks for that pointer - I didn't realise that cars were being made under the MG name again, let along fairly reasonably priced electric SUVs!
i made one as well called SAQ!

https://github.com/tobymao/saq

Looks like you use BLPOP, but there could be race conditions or lost jobs if your workers crash, check out BLMOVE and RPOPLPUSH.
> If poisoning pigs were known to be more effective than shooting, would that change the calculus?

Depends on a lot of things. Relative cruelty of poisoning vs. shooting the pigs; utility of hunters enjoying pig meat; costs
& effectiveness of both strategies; etc.

I suspect you'd probably end up doing both.

On the other hand, it's a bit moot, because I don't think we know how to effectively poison pigs without greater harms. Texas was using specialty-warfarin in addition to the hunting efforts. It's arguably crueler than shooting them.

We definitely do trap wild pigs in many jurisdictions, but this is much less effective than shooting them, IMO.
Britain was a part of the Roman Empire for a long time. The lack of industrialization goes much deeper than river flow.
Given that the desert formed > 2 mya and human agriculture originated ~12 kya, this seems unlikely.

Modern humans themselves originated only 200 kya.

<https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014Natur.513..401Z>

<https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1886/origins-of-world-a...>
I dont think that human can learn this algorithms.

You should use machine learning. I think that those are ranking algorithm. Basically create a training set of known examples that you have, and try to predict the same behavior.

I do not think that this can be done via rule based approach.
I agree with the first part of your comment, but as to the last, I think the message the article is trying to send is "Don't step on people."
No. You're not actually supposed to read it, or he would've published it while he was alive.
How would you propose to realize that utopian vision? And please don't waste our time with any cryptocurrency BS.
Imagine seeing "is typing" for a couple of minutes, and then receiving a sticker.
> But to raise the poor up, what you fundamentally need is more energy.

Or to direct the energy differently, e.g. shift some of it from rich users to poor ones.

> in the US … even poor people can afford safe food and refrigeration

Poor people are living homeless in tents and cars. They can not afford safe refrigeration and many do not have good access to safe food.
I am ambivalent about your assertion. Developers can do much more while knowing much less than in the past, a lot of complicated details that could not be ignored in the past are out of sight and out of mind. However, from a systems engineering view, our software is deeply and vastly more complicated than it used to be. We routinely use software today that had no complexity equivalent in the 1990s.

No one wrote software in the 1990s like the advanced software we write today, it is qualitatively different. I think that perspective is lost on a lot of people that are not as old as I am. That increase in complexity is a serious barrier to understanding. The state-of-the-art today requires cognitive abilities that are much higher than they used to be. Hell, it is why C used to be an adequate language for most tasks.
Yeah I was pretty disappointed, was hoping for something more. Most of the problems the author ran into had nothing to do with PAM. Things like "distributions compile PAM without debug logging" (annoying but common) and "PAM is a plugin system, so setting breakpoints is hard because dlsym() is used" (how else would you implement a plugin system in C, without requiring build-time foreknowledge of every plugin that exists?) and then some misconception that this is a "Java kind of thing" because Sun did it (when libdl predates Java and is by no means a Sun-specific thing, even though it was indeed first seen in SunOS).

It just felt like reading about someone who hasn't used C all that much, digging into a C-based project and discovering how some not-particularly-esoteric things are usually done in C ("function pointers aren't type-safe!") and then being surprised... and disgusted in a pretty "language elitist" way.

PAM is by no means an amazing piece of software. It has some baked-in assumptions that made sense 30 years ago that maybe don't so much these days. And it could be designed in a way that's more secure (though I expect you could reimplement PAM with better isolation while still keeping the API and flexibility). But it's... surprisingly not that bad, considering its age.
With good insulation this is extremely effective and on hot days you absolutely want to cool your house during the morning. Good insulation is unfortunately not the norm here due to the combination of old houses and it historically being considered unimportant due to the climate.
fwiw, to convey that not everyone on either side is a bot, i can barely get through an episode of HOTD despite it's visual appeal while i wasn't even tempted to look at my phone during ROP.

HOTD, to me, lacks even one compelling, relatable, or likable character and has a boring story that feels as though is lacks any weight.

maybe it's because i just rewatched all of GOT thrones though and it's been a few years since i watched any of the Peter Jackson films. (and even longer since i read the books from both authors)
People should try being happy rather than angry. It's more fun!
Ask HN: What’s coming in the next few months in image generators?
What’s coming up in the next few months?

And where can I find more news and such? I’ve set up a subreddit for it but I’m the only one posting the news so it’s not news to me! Where else can we see more news related to generative ai tools? Especially news about what’s coming soon. Not generated images.
Exactly. Is it embarrassing that a hammer is better than our fists?
I haven't had COVID at this point, and information like this helps me understand how much I should be trying to continue this conservative lifestyle that's let me avoid it thus far.

It's helpful to know what the complications are, because not only can people better understand the potential source of issues, it helps direct research & attention to where it's needed for treatment.
The key consideration with investments is ROI. When the investor is a government; it can afford to take the long perspective. For most companies; and institutional investors, this works less well.

The key mechanism to protect inventions is patents. Patents have a limited shelf life. If you file a lot of patents today and it takes 30 years before you can apply them, they will have expired by then and others are free to take your inventions and build on that. So, if quantum computing requires another three decades to start making money, most of the companies that are currently being invested in will have failed and their patent portfolios and investment will be worthless. Their patents will have expired, their founding scientists will have moved on or retired, etc. At best those companies may be in a position to file more patents. So, any investors investing right now are making bets on how long it will take before there's a meaningful market to get an ROI and which companies are positioned best to take a chunk out of that market. The further that is out, the higher the risk of losing their investment.

There are billions flowing into quantum computing and the article is simply making the point that in terms of revenue potential there seems to be a lot of uncertainty about the practicality of current approaches, the lack of any real revenue (beyond consulting people on how awesome it would be if we had working quantum computing, etc.). And the lack of perspective on when all this will change. Very valid points. There are a few big companies investing in this stuff but none of them is betting their company on it. It's a side show at MS, Google, IBM, etc.

A long shot that might create some viable business decades further from now but if it all fails, their stocks will be fine. There's enough substance there for them to want to have a finger in the pie if it does take off but none of these companies seems to be counting on that happening any time soon.
Normally, they say it happens after a certain dosage, and it's a bit like a cliff effect: go a little over that dosage and suddenly you have liver damage.

However, surely this dosage would be radically different between different people: a 40kg woman is not like a 100kg man.

And finally, if this drug is SO dangerous if you have a little too much of it, I have zero confidence that it's at all safe at ANY normal dosage (esp. since the dangerous dosage is very close to the normal prescribed dosage; it's not like you have to down a whole bottle at once to have a big problem). I simply don't see how this drug should even be legal for OTC use, or why it should be used at all in most situations when there's better and safer alternatives: aspirin, ibuprofen, etc. Personally, I'm simply not going to take the risk. Why bother?
Y’all gonna Easter Island yourselves
Oh hey, that's my post.

Don't expect this to get much discussion, but hopefully it's useful!
I comment out and leave fragments of code that caused some problem, with an explanation of why that shouldn't be there.
In the books, the dichotomy between them is pretty significant. Boromir gave in to temptation to use it to defeat his enemies and was killed because of it. Faramir did not, suffered a bit for not having that weapon, but survived and was rewarded in the end. They were extremely clearly intended as a moral lesson.

The movies completely reversed Faramir.
Same situation as you and totally agreed.
When I say "sustainable", I don't just mean that the company might not have enough money to keep its lights on

It's more that some product manager or VP will notice this free service and want to attach their strings to it.

Having worked in big tech, it happens very often. Google Groups is a famous example at Google (among many). It was way better 15 years ago, but it just wasn't "worth it" to keep the lights on in its current state, so it shuffled through a series of product managers/teams who wanted to "improve" it.

Microsoft has a long history of this as well. I feel like this is another generational thing -- people forgot what Microsoft used to be like, and how their free products turned hostile. So far Github is OK, but I'm sure glad there are alternatives.

I prefer to just pay money to a company that provides a service, and I hope they profit from that. That incentives should be aligned. So far with Dreamhost that has worked out exactly as expected.

If I had spent any time migrating to the latest and greatest thing in the last 13 years, that would have easily burned the money I have saved by using a free service.

e.g. I have hosted sites on other platforms that are now down and useless, as I'm sure many others here have.
LOTR was like the most popular book in the world behind the Bible. Of course everyone who's general-aged knows about it.

Naming a government contractor Palantir is a joke on whoever did it of course, since the palantirs destroyed everyone who tried to use them.
The New Yorker's house style was minimalist – few images, links rarely – long before the dawn of modern SEO. (I wish they'd change it, though.)
Based on the kinds of things I've heard in the past about supposedly "anonymized" data being reassembled, I have to imagine that Amazon's lawyers would unequivocally decline that idea before the soundwaves finished reverberating off the conference room walls.
The article is merely a comment on the topic of discussion. Often the best comment, but not always.

Sometimes I find myself wishing there were more comments so I can learn more about the topic, and then realize I haven't read the article.
> "Rings of power is equal parts boring, predictable, and positively ho-hum in every respect."

Unfortunately, this seems to be a common issue with our current, cookie-cutter style of storytelling. I think the root cause is the rate at which streaming services are trying to produce content. I know my work suffers when I take on too much. I assume the same is true for Netflix, Apple, Amazon, etc.
Regardless of whether or not cp is against the tos, or there is a legal process in place for takedowns, the law against cp existing will kick in faster as sharing it is a criminal act regardless of why, who, or what posted/hosted it, so it won't stay up. It's a moot point.

The terms of service under discussion are about copyright infringement. The content itself is not illegal, and the dispute is about the rights to post it. Two very different things.
As far as the dog is concerned, I am the service staff.
Per capita energy consumption in the EU is lower than the US mostly because they are poorer (on a GDP per capita basis). Europeans would consume more energy if they could afford it.
Edited, though I can't commit to not ever making mistakes in the future :)
320kbps MP3 is indistinguishable and much smaller.
I haven't had it, and I certainly don't want it, reading these articles.
Interesting. On most environmental metrics other than land use, ground turkey is competitive with beyond/impossible.

(And pork isn't much worse.)
> > Your capacity is adjusted accordingly. ...

> That level of micromanagement is demoralizing and it hurts the company.

The micromanagement identified is not in the type of work which is most appropriate to success, but instead in the "detailed capacity accounting." This level of "accounting" does not convey trust in an engineer, thus demoralizing them by way of eliminating their autonomy (freedom from external control).

Encouraging engineers to "spend a sprint worth of time in every quarter" or the "next two weeks on a training or self-learning" is laudable, but does not qualify as providing autonomy or the lack of micromanagement. The reasons why are A) the decision is still solely yours and B) clearly time-driven instead of collaboratively prioritized.

You've complete autonomy ...

Not if you decide when, how long, and with what fixed frequency someone can work on tasks which impact "velocity."
>Maybe my memory is fuzzy, but I don't remember Flash being used for apps

Flash was used for apps; I remember one webmail provider which had built their frontend in Flash (can't remember the name sadly), and there various enterprise apps that were deployed with Adobe Flex (I remember Paychex being one of them).
I read it was supposed to be losely based on the books. Is that true as a person who's read everything?

I'd read the Hobbit and found the Hobbit Trilogy to be kind of ... wack.

It's kind of enjoyable if you don't think about the book too much though.