skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anything he was heavily influenced by Medtner, afaik.
Then its about time that Github fixes the issue.
Another interpretation would be that they are just uncovering the fact that behind many nice and kind behaviours lie some very selfish interests.

In every human interaction you can perceive the battle over power, social status and personal interests. It's just the way it is. Some people can see it, others not or just don't want to.
>Why are manhole covers round?
Because you can't fall them through its circular opening.
By the way, it also might be a wankel engine shape, if I remember it right...
What scandal!? I love Biscoff.
You’re getting unsolicited term sheets?
I agree with most of this, but

>keep as little money as possible in your checking account, keep a book balance of $100, transfer # from savings on a weekly basis to cover what is due.

I am not sure what the point of that is if they are in the same financial institution. Also most savings accounts pay shit for interest, and most checking accounts still pay shit but it is about double the amount of shit...
That’s the harm - you’re taking things the body and brain are used to and simulating them to elicit the response you want.

I’m sure a company could develop an AI advanced enough to imitate a cute employee who is really into you when you have an issue - and use that to encourage you to spend way more because “they love you”.

Hell, I bet you could offer “CEO on HackerNews” as a marketing service - keep an eye on posts involving your company and impersonate the CEO as necessary- and of course be able to actually call him in if needed. Probably already being done …
The endgame appears to be the complete elimination of KF and all copies of it.

They might claim that its mere existence psychologically harms marginalized people, but it seems that their real goal is more about power. You get a ton of clout by both appearing as a marginalized person under attack as well as winning victories over enemies. Right now, Keffals and another person are fighting over who gets to take credit for this.

The more long-term goal is to establish a precedent that sites that are "harmful" are simply not allowed to be on the internet. This will serve as an example to any ISP that might consider hosting them or anyone like them in the future. All it will take is someone finding the site, reporting it to Keffals and gang, and the mob flooding their CDNs, data centers, upstreams, and business partners with demands to either deplatform or be deplatformed themselves.

There's currently no defense against the "Layer 8 DDoS".
Yes, still having hiccups for me. I started having issues about 24 hours ago.

What is the reason for this spate of outages? GitHub is a mature, stable product. What core features could its engineers possibly need to be working on that whatever they did broke core backend functionality so badly?
I think doing a refactor and bug fix in separate PRs makes sense. But I would say do the refactor first, and then do the bug fix on top of it. This solves two problems:

* It can make the bug fix diff much easier to read/understand

* It makes the refactor a dependency of the bug fix, so it doesn't end up getting dropped as "not important enough"

Of course, if the refactor automatically makes the bug go away, then it's fine to do a single PR, because the refactor is the bug fix.
Then we should use a less general word than "technology", because it becomes hard to reason about the problem and gives arguments to luddites who don't make the distinction. "Big tech" is short enough to be used in conversations.

> But I disagree that it is possible for individuals to simply change their behavior and create that world using their collective purchasing power. This arrangement works well for the companies and investors that create the options consumers may choose from, and they have and continue to offer the set of options that match their preferences.

With proper cultural norms, it will definitely be possible to change the current corporate technology landscape to be more user-friendly. Individual consumption habits have a huge impact, that's why the advertising industry is so big after all. Of course the necessary cultural change won't happen without a collective pain and awareness of the problem. I would say we might be half-way there in the pain dimension, and awareness of the benefits of open-source is growing everyday (what with the explosion of AI artwork thanks to the Stable Diffusion open-source release).
I've worked at a handful of FAANG companies in the Bay Area and Canada, and I have numerous close friends working at early to mid stage startups in San Francisco. Anecdotally, those at startups earn ~20-30% less cash and dramatically less total compensation if you consider the expected value of their equity packages. By my rough math, you really need to be employee <= 10 and exit at over $1B for the TC to surpass what a typical senior engineer can earn with far less risk at BigCo.
ThoughtWorks made an app that does this: https://github.com/cloud-carbon-footprint/cloud-carbon-footp... but mainly works with aws, azure, and gcp

You might be interested in their methodology page https://cloudcarbonfootprint.org/docs/methodology/

Full disclosure: My company was one of the early testers of the app
Just buy some 2x4's and plywood and start building. It's not that hard. Building does not have to be this complicated. The building systems and products out today make it incredibly easy and (before the ridiculously low interest rates) pretty cheap.
This whole campaign has been damning for the folks trying to take down kiwifarms. All of the evidence of their bad past behavior that used to be confined to one obscure site is now plastered all over the internet, and millions of people know about it.

My personal semi-conspiracy theory on this is that the search warrant served on Keffals (no, not a SWAT call, a search warrant) contained some note that they got probable cause from evidence on a kiwifarms thread. Since then, Keffals has been running to countries with no extradition treaties to Canada and trying their hardest to erase that evidence from the internet under the guise of stopping suicides.
Let's see, we already have deep faked audio that can be trained to sound like anyone, deep faked video, and chat bots that can be trained to talk/write like anyone, so scaling this to millions of customers is not far off
How is priority of memory usage managed between 10 different apps using that kind of allocation policy?

I have never seen Chrome starting to use much less memory when memory pressure becomes high and I have been monitoring it many times. There is some GC like behavior releasing a small amount of memory from time to time, but nothing really significant when systems starts running out of avaliable physical memory.
I think Unity falls into this camp.
I guess what is needed is a BSD implementation of btrfs.

Still, something similar to fuse might help with the licensing.
Anyone who owns real estate in certain markets is already familiar with the mountains of “handwritten” notes offering to buy far under market value. This’ll just make it harder to detect.
My Carbon X1 with 8 i7 cores isn't broken. Rather, the internet browser I use largely for work has issues managing a large collection of tabs that include a few heavy web-apps (gmail, meet, sheets and play music).
Ultimately, culture will be defined by a strange sort of radical authenticity defined by ever more subtle and specific signals of genuine humanity.

Sophisticated cants will emerge that are structurally challenging for computers to emulate.

And because there's a lot of work going into preventing AI from computing anything racist, sexist, or offensive to HR, the new ways of communicating will likely gravitate towards those spaces -- but ironically.
You're right - they said -20F. I didn't leave out the minus sign, I didn't even see it!, and it's interesting why. Thirty years ago my parents had a house having both a gas furnace and a heat pump that worked in tandem. They had a problem with their furnace that they didn't immediately fix because they were using the heat pump. Then they got the bill. It was nearly 3x more expensive than usual. My dad immediately got the furnace fixed.

What I recall my dad saying is when the furnace guy came out to fix the furnace my dad was talking to the furnace guy about the bill. The furnace guy said heat pumps get very inefficient below 20F. So my dad's system was designed to run the heat pump until the outside temperature got to 20F and then it would switch over to the furnace, if available. If it detected the furnace not coming on then it would continue to run the heat pump. So I've had it in my head ever since that you don't want to run a heat pump below 20F.

Are the new heat pumps different? Is it now -20F instead of 20F before your costs soar?
Admittedly I've lived exactly what you're saying, I do get it. But I'd love to explore less impactful alternatives. It depends a lot on the companies attitude towards it, and how it's implemented too. If the process of tracking time is too complicated, with too many layers of management wrapped up in the tracking process, you have a brand new overhead, and it's saddled with stress and miscommunication. Tracking non-billable hours can at least be done in a reasonable way, and maybe you're doing that .

You can see the difference between asking someone to track "Meetings" as a line item, and asking them to track "Meetings for client X to job number 22324, wait no, that was last months, the new job number is 22342, and it's not billable this month, but next month it's billable again, I'm not the PM for next month so you'll have to chase up the job number with the new PM..."
Meh, big tech are private corporations. That's what they've been doing for thousands of years.

If you care about censorship-resistance, support decentralized projects.
What does “half-written” mean, in this context?
The people driving the effort to deplatform it were verifiably doxxed, harrassed and threatened, often times in real life, through swatting and in-person harrassment. Some of them were children.

This isn't even witch-hunt style "newspaper will embellish the story", this was published on the forums by the ones harrassing people. The goal of the forums was to provide a space for doxxers to share info on people they didn't like (that they called "lolcows"), and elicit a reaction out of them for i guess entertainment?

KF was a site for snuff movies, except instead of a guy torturing and killing another, it was psychological abuse of the highest degree.
In the case of the US you cant easily tax sugar production.

The bulk of US sugar comes from "HFCS" (high fructose corn syrup) which is HEAVILY subsidized in the first place.

So taxing something you are subsidizing makes zero sense.

Remove the subsidy and the price of corn will go up, and with it the price of HFCS.
That can still happen when you go in to make your purchase. My understanding was that this plugin would merely show you that it was available at the store.

In any case, any sale that wasn't lost to Amazon is still a win for these stores.
"United States federal law does not protect people against obesity discrimination"

If we are going to talk about laws for obesity discrimination. Isn't it better to discuss height or attractiveness discrimination first? We know those things can't be change by lifestyle at all.

Weight and obesity is a hard topic to discuss concretely because people are individuals. It's like sleep, some people can operate on 3 hours of sleep, while others need 9. However, by in large, it's calories in vs calories out.
Which comes in handy because they regularly offer lower base prices to non-Prime customers. Add it to your account then log in and keep the discount with free shipping. Sometimes I've saved over ten dollars on a single item this way.
I drop a post it saying “thank you” and the song I was listening to while making each part at oakclifflaser.com but my orders are in teh single digits per month haha

/it’s just a hobby thing I run for my rocket buddies
There are. But I think this company is more self aware and honest than most I’ve seen. Check there latest blog post - “ you have to start somewhere”

The issue is cost of magnets, you need 1000’s dollars of magnets to make a small fridge like a home refrigerator. This group is well know for their work on recycling magnets, which can cut down costs easily 10x if they crack the code to down to 100x suddenly you have a fridge that is silent Freon free etc and a compelling value proposition.

Maybe the recycling tech that results from this startup will be more valuable than the refrigerator tech.
Data Invariants
While I very much doubt if the entire process is going to be carbon negative, "straight up lie" is very strongly worded. In essence, by building wooden structures you can store CO2 in urban environments that are currently dominated by concrete. To be sure, to be carbon negative the whole process needs proper thought; the trees for the wood of course needs to be replanted and the energy used in milling, construction and transportation need to be sourced durable, I get that.

But I mean, if we want anything to be carbon negative we need to capture carbon from the atmosphere and put it somewhere; e.g. reclaiming land for forests or putting carbon back into the ground where we got it from, but putting carbon in constructions as part of the solution, why not? For dealing with climate change, the important part is getting it out of the atmosphere.
Evidence KF has tried to stay obscure?
The idea that we must provide a platform for people to actively organize harassment campaigns designed to kill people in order to avoid "tyranny" is beyond absurd.
I always day dreamed of a way to extract energy from the heat gradient between cold and dark sides. Possibly a huge pipe with a heat exchanging fluid at higher latitudes.

But with the prices on solar in recent years, I think that’s mostly discarded.
Structurally modifying wood can be done even better than fire treatment, hence the mention of polymer enhanced wood. (And yes, biopolymers work for this.)
It says "experiments show" but I'd need to know the methodology.

There is a real risk of selection bias here in that you only send handwritten thank you notes to your biggest, most loyal or most important clients. There is a line in this about it's only effective with clients who have some brand loyalty. So did the experiment account for this?

I'm reminded of of the "we value your opinion" or (worse) "you've been selected" for a survey. Surveys are zero cost of the Internet so I haven't been carefully chosen. That survey has simply been sent to everyone. It feels inauthentic.

If I buy a lime juicer and get a hand written thank you note it would similarly feel inauthentic.

High value clients tend to be high touch. It's why big ad spenders have account managers. High touch can take many forms. I'd be wary of simply trusting handwritten thank you notes in a vaccum.
Given that Santa Monica is in the USA, my suspicion is that it's wood frame rather than mass timber as deployed elsewhere, with thick heavily insulated flooring, see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZGuSC7KNvM
Yes, yes it was. Kiwifarms users harassed, stalked, and doxxed 3 people (at least) into suicide and ruined many people's lives. How many people has an average site like Hacker News bullied into suicide?
More specifically, they need a filesystem that both Windows and MacOS can read. No one wants to take their SD card to a friend's computer and have it not work for reasons they won't understand.

The shared set there is basically just fat and exfat.

If Microsoft and Apple collaborated on a new filesystem, or even just supported it, then we might have a possible successor. However even with that, the millions of already shipped devices won't support it. This during the transition period of many years there will still need to be support for fat.

That keeps fat the lowest common denominator and everything supporting it.
Domain name[s] and a decent/minimal host that doesn't blackhole port 25 egress.
Why Not: From Common Lisp to Julia
Make Faster and Better Decisions
Some parameters to consider in the discussion:

1. We need buildings to live in

2. It takes materials to make buildings. What are the potential materials?

A. Wood

B. Metal

C. Concrete

D. Soil

E. Rock

F. Plastic

G. Ceramics (brick)

H. Others?

3. It takes energy to process materials for construction.

4. It takes energy to construct buildings.

5. Energy sources:

A. Sun

B. Wind

C. Water/Ocean

D. Nuclear

E. Fossil fuels

F. Others?

6. Other parameters? e.g. cost, speed, labor, quality, durability, aesthetics, etc.

If one takes all of the parameters into consideration, a model (with weighting) can be developed and one can attempt to optimize the model for either net CO2, or convenience, or whatever. It's a decision problem.

Calling all math/physics/engineering folks in this forum: please propose a way to help figure this out. And thank you.
Do ships have different fuel tanks to switch between just to enter territorial waters?
Amazes me the number of people who cry foul when something like this occurs. “Waaa censorship! This is evil! The internet is collapsing! Omg!”

1. Archive.org probably has just disallowed access. Not outright purged.

2. Shit drops off the internet literally every day

3. It’s a site full of edgelord incels who have a history of being complete pieces of shit

4. This isn’t a precursor to some horrible dystopian future of corporate control of thoughts!!111 that happened long ago ;)

Seriously though. All the panty twisting “oh noooo” wreaks of disingenuous bullshit under the guise of “but freedoms!”

You don’t have to leave the entirety of the content up to gauge it.

I mean, do you want TWBM to archive and leave up all childporn sites it accidentally crawls or similar? So individuals can gauge if it’s /actually/ bad or if it’s just a handful of twitter users squawking?

C’mon.
The goal seems to be to erase all mention of any bad behavior on the part of the people campaigning against kiwifarms. Possibly to erase evidence of criminal activity.
Facebook engineers: we have no idea where we keep all your personal data
Banking is a heavily regulated industry, more or less an extension of the US Government at this point

They fit in the new place in law where you are not a "state actor" so you do not have to adhere to the limits placed on the state by that pesky constitution, but have been grated state like powers and authority to more or less do anything they want to individuals without any possibility of recourse.
Apple’s Numbers spreadsheet also has regex support FYI.
I agree with this.

The example of 1000s of packages having a transitive dep on a package which left-pads strings looks bad, however the two obvious alternatives to this are:

1. everyone writes their own function to left-pad. As well as being wasteful, most of these implementations are incorrect or perform badly or have their own security issues.

2. the function to left-pad is part of a huge package which does thousands of things, eg. the programming language itself, or some standard library. In order to get a new version of left-pad, you have to upgrade the whole thing, and are potentially left with irreconcilable incompatibilities.
At those prices you can afford to hire someone to follow the customer around with a broom to sweep the street in front of them.

Part of it is also signaling that you are NOT too busy to write the letter - which means you are not overloaded and will be available when needed.
Indeed, centralized, nearly monopolistic solutions are better, because they have all the information, and all the required infrastructure, and can plan and optimize globally, not locally... although I've heard that that line of reasoning ("centralized supply and distribution works great!") has been thoroughly debunked with empirical evidence around 1989-1991.
You are 100% right!

...

It is a controversial opinion!
If the idea is to take down sites where doxxing and harassment occur, these should be the first targets.
And on a camera that costs anywhere from USD$1000 to USD$6500 does the cost of an exFAT license really matter?
What is even the point? https://www.githubstatus.com/

Save money by just not having the page or the people pretending they do something useful by maintaining it.
Not correct. The insurance paid 80k for the device and 300k total for the surgery after one year of fighting almost daily.

Also: if you make a certain amount of money and they hit you with a 100k bill you can't just declare bankruptcy. The court won't allow you to do it because you make too much money.
The removal in question is an archive. A read-only snapshot cannot be used to coordinate anything. But it can be used to view the documentation they have collected.

Therefore it would seem that this particular removal is motivated by erasing the documentation and performing a cover up.
Not the OP, but Americans as a whole are very unhealthy (with 42% of the population being obese and over two-thirds being overweight) and culturally have very high expectations of what medicine can do for them, as opposed to making difficult changes to their lifestyle.

A part of the latter is based on the actual superiority of the quality of medical care in this country -- due to the high levels of wealth produced by this (mostly market-oriented) economy and advanced medical technology, doctors can in fact perform miracles here that they cannot elsewhere.
so you are saying my startup wouldn't have failed if I had simply handwritten a note to my customers
If there's evidence of criminal activity on Keffals (or others) part, the police would have it. KF having a copy doesn't serve any legal benefit. And if the evidence is credible enough, then the police will charge and arrest her, and the evidence will be released during the trial.
I believe that guess and explain are two different verbs
I had the same response. It should really read - sincere sales increase sales - thats the model. Whatever is considered to be the next sincere thing will be emulated by marketing and ruined.
Functional programming is about programming with pure functions, not lambdas. Lambdas are obviously very convenient in functional languages, but I think having access to high-quality immutable data structure implementations is more important for pushing a functional style of programming.
In the most recent episode of the Last Week in AWS podcast Corey Quinn just talked about this topic https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/how-google-cloud-and-aws-...

For AWS, there is also Customer Carbon Footprint tool available https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/aws-launc...
Is engineering management bullshit?
I assume that meant hand written.

“Dearest Kon-Peki, thank you for purchasing the hydraulic wall crusher 9000. I think you will find this one will last slightly longer than the 8000, but as always, I am ready to sell you the newest model of this one were to suffer the ignominy so many do.”

(It’s probably jewelry but it often amuses me that small businesses will spend millions on equipment with a phone call and some grunting but other purchases for half the money require so much hand holding.)
The problem with heat will solve itself, because the amount of GHG we pumped out already will heat everything up sufficiently, or more than that.

As for cars, for mass transport nothing beats ships or rail.
The last mile, however, remains to be trucks for the forseeable future.