skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting theory for an expanding universe, but it seems to imply that the universe cannot contract: in a contracting universe, the time evolution operator would have to be a dimension-reducing isometry, which doesn’t exist.

It would certainly be interesting if the true laws of quantum gravity don’t allow contraction regardless of initial conditions.
> iOS sends a lot of data about your phone to Apple, such as your phone number, your unique device identifier, your location and your IMEI number

Oh no! The manufacturer of my phone knows the unique identifier they created and assigned to my phone? Whatever shall I do?
Tons and tons of employers will still require or expect a cover letter. At least in the US.

Résumé guidance is all over the place and I think largely comes down to the reader's preferences, which are wildly inconsistent, so there's no such thing as the One Best Résumé layout and/or length. See a sibling post claiming that a one-pager is a "red flag".

None of this is scientific and every single thing you do during an application and interview process can easily be one hiring manager's "best practice" and another's "red flag". It's a minefield, because it's all basically arbitrary but many people in the hiring process will have strong feelings about various unimportant details, regardless, because they're just casting about for some signal in all the noise, such that they end up taking a lot of the noise as signal.
This is most of my approach. I let the team know what nonsense is coming from up above, what my strategy is to avoid it, and offer options for suggestions on how else we can deflect the bullshit.

Often, we come up with really good solutions which get sent back upstairs for them to digest and shit back out on us in some other, stupid way.

But at least the team feels valued, understands how they fit into the organization, and understands that if an idea dies, it's because of institutional inertia that is out of their hands. It at least helps with the frustration.
It would be helpful if these announcements would include an estimate of how much money was spent to bribe along with estimated revenue impact of the bribe.

These seems like it could still be a profitable position over 5 years given the size of Oracles contracts, no?
They said it was 60-70 meters deep. You could hit them with an anchor and it happens regularly with different types of cables and pipes. Shouldn’t be too hard to mess one up with a decent size boat.
Russia is looking for all shorts.of excuses to escalate
Is this just to cover their tracks so startups don't think they'll get locked in?
BTW, since you apparently working on the stuff like that, check out that repository:

https://github.com/Const-me/AvxMath/blob/master/AvxMath/AvxM...

The license is MIT, copy-paste friendly. It doesn’t use AVX512 though, only AVX1 and optionally 2.
Goal of the sabotage is to keep Europe in the war. If opening up the gas pipeline were an option, Germany would be tempted to do it, once the heating season starts.
The countryside in peru.
History always repeats itself. Popular company gets too big, then splits up, then slowly merges back, ala AT&T.
And try to obfuscate that it is Harvard Extension School that you actually went to.
> If the operation went wrong and got exposed the political fallout would be catastrophic.

No worse than the US blatantly overthrowing numerous democratically-elected governments. There was zero fallout for any of that.
Provisioned IOPS is insanely expensive. Running 256K IOPS is $25K/month. You could outright buy multiple 970 EVOs every day and spend less money.
What's a first degree satire look like then?
It's fine that you don't understand how the Clojure ecosystem works, but you don't. No one would bother listing hiccup, which is very little more than a convention for representing HTML.

https://hnhiring.com/search?q=Clojure give seven hits, and I doubt HN is in the top five ways Clojurians find employment.
Hahah I have a super silly response for this one: It's simply because we have not gotten around to translate the UI and everything into other languages besides english. That's why we simple assume people know english, since they need to be able to know at least some english to use it. But it's high on our to-do list.
Then you need to dig deeper
hey.com https://mobile.twitter.com/dhh/status/1275901955995385856
They may know IMEI, since they made the phone. But why do they have to know your phone number and location? How can I avoid that?
Leave it at home or turn it off.
I think the real question for this whole thread is, how many SVG files are there that operate solely on integers, or could plausibly be reconstructed as such?

Once my SVG file is full of 6.829347908723890's, who cares if it is an M or a Move in terms of being human-writable? And being a vector-based format, there is indeed a real difference between 6.83 and 6.829347908723890 so there isn't a great escape from numbers that a human will find excessively precise. Honestly even the two digits is already getting up there when you see it in a big table with a thousand other numbers.

XML is verbose enough to add significant verbosity to the SVG file even in the presence of floating point numbers rendered as strings, but these sort of cute little "M 5 10 Q 5 5 8 1," go too far the other way. SVG files don't look like that.

SVGs aren't human-writable at any sort of scale anyhow. (Here, "at scale" means in the general case. Sure, you can construct an SVG by hand if you like, but that will never be the way they are primarily generated. They will be primarily generated in tools.) If you conclude from that that using a serialization format optimized for human readability was sort of silly... I agree! But it isn't XML's verbosity making SVGs human unwritable at scale, it's the problem space itself. Nobody wants to be typing in all these numbers. Even if you reduce the cost of the non-number stuff to literally zero and stipulate literal mind reading from the rest of the spec, it would still be impractical to hand-write SVGs in the general case.
How silent are you talking? Silent under load is hard, but quiet under load and silent on idle is possible without a passively cooled build. A good cooler for the processor + slow running case fans + a silent psu (like BitFenix Formula, Corsair RM, ...) + a noise isolating case against coil whine would be the foundation for that. I use an old Corsair H90 to cool my i5-5675C, AIO radiator is installed in the front of the case, there is one good case fan at the back. Note that the H90 is only quiet when pump speed gets also reduced. With that setup, the noise under load is completely defined by the gpu (a soon to be exchanged RX 570) and the noise of the system on idle vanishes in the ambient noise.

However, the setup I describe above was loud until I got around to control the fan speeds properly. Turned out the MSI BIOS fanspeed control did not work properly. On top of high minimal speed settings (like 50% for the case fan) it ignored my cpu fan settings and ran the fans higher than I wanted. That made the system rather loud even on idle and unbearable under load. The solution was to control fanspeed with fan2go: https://github.com/markusressel/fan2go (plus radeon-profile controls the speed of the gpu, making it silent on idle as well.)

Fan2go is not only nice to use, it also solves the issue the article's author will run into in the future: Those hwmon paths are not stable anymore. It's possible they will work on his hardware if there is only one (or none, as in the thinkpad example using a different system), but otherwise the script will stop working with new kernels after reboots.
The point would depend on who did it. If it was the US, then it was to keep their promise to shut down NS1/2 but after Germany had topped up[1][2]. If it was Russia, then the point is to increase prices by creating volatility through insecurity and to make a threat (they have other pipelines like Yamal that are still running.[3]) If it was some other gas-exporting country (seems unlikely), then likewise, to spike prices.

1. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1490792461979078662

2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/europe-is...

3. https://www.planete-energies.com/en/medias/infographics/gas-...
And that phone also sends your IMEI and your location to the carrier. It has to enable to work.
Anyone buying russian gas is pretty much directly funding putin army. No, Ukraine would not be fine with that. All the Baltic states wouldnt mind killing it too. Poland in particular (NL1 killed "Friendship" pipeline) would be most pleased, except its incapable of such moves due to dysfunctional leadership.
To clarify, since you worded this a bit ambiguously: MySQL is the backing store for the graph database, which is the primary Facebook product database tier. But separate from that, MySQL is also used for a ton of other purposes at Facebook.

Or at least it was as of a few years ago; AFAIK this is still the case. For example the internal MySQL DBaaS tier had hundreds of distinct use-cases throughout the company.
The conspiracy theory is that either the United States or some member of NATO sabotaged the pipeline so that Germany will not have the option of easing up on sanctions in order to purchase Russian Gas this winter.
Learning the wrong tech? The skills cloud jobs want
What is it with these companies who have untold resources, and scores of the smartest engineers, yet what they do is repurpose some existing tech that kinda works instead of building stuff properly?
Like selling:

- The browser scripting engine as a PaaS engine

- The VM language/runtime meant for running binaries in the browser as a PaaS engine

- The tooling meant to isolate Linux processes as a VM platform

Can't they build tech properly, for their own purposes?

Not to mention, the whole exercise seems like monkey-patching over the failures of modern OS design. A proper operating system should be able to run processes with zero trust and resource sandboxing.
It’s not uncommon, in say urban homelessness, that shelters or food banks will have conditions that many of the people on the street consider unconscionable or impossible to meet.

Some reflection on them tends to be informative about many of the challenges on both sides, and the nature of the problem.

Some of them include shelters with:

- No dog rules (because many people have dogs which are poorly behaved, lack immunizations, and have attacked other people at the shelters in the past). Many folks have animals for companionship and protection.

- No drug rules, including Alcohol (because many people have gone on drug fueled benders and attacked others at the shelters in the last). Many persistent homeless folks have drug problems too.

- Sex segregation rules (because women have been raped by others at the shelter in the past). The problem is, many homeless women also have boyfriends that provide a significant degree of safety and support, and even with sex segregation, the shelters have predators.

But what else are they supposed to do?

If they don’t make rules to at least protect others in the environment, they’re making a giant attractive nuisance/hazard. If they make exceptions, they’re asking to be attacked or sued themselves. (You’d be surprised how many activists are happy to spend serious money suing over something like that).
I'm having trouble understanding how giving this metadata to a centralized entity makes the transaction more "private".

In the example, now instead of sharing my IP with a therapist, (who I presumably trust enough to... not ddos me?), I'm sharing the fact that I was talking to a therapist with a company I possibly didn't even know existed.

Better yet, I suppose I can now be barred from accessing webrtc services if said company decides I'm a "threat" based on all the metadata they've been collecting through their other services.
My Therapist, the Robot
https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/25/microsoft_accused_of_...

> Ex-senior director also claims Feds have seen evidence and done nothing

They got caught, now the SEC try to save the face

It no wonder whole Europe and Middle East only swear by Oracle/Amazon/Microsoft, all magically
No, not unlike, but exactly like Google and Amazon. I don’t actually think there should be competition in the space of “being a central point of everything” – there should be no such thing as the central company for everything.
Us median income is 30k/year
My first old school deck (B/u aggro with dark ritual, black knight, hypnotic specter, sengir vampire, etc and recall, walk, and psionic blast from blue) cost me $60 off tcgplayer. I took acetone to some misc commons and made proxies for dual lands, city of brass, strip mine, and power. Nobody batted an eye about my hand drawn proxies in the MTG Underground of the Midwest. I've seen Kinkos printed decks, 75 card proxied decks, no power, as well as fully powered, signed, and altered decklists. We're there to hangout and play games, not gatekeep whether you show up with a down payment on a house in a deck box.
Work from Home Changes More Than Work
Now that we’ve all made the transition to working from home, what’s going to change? Probably everything.
Very cool. I think a tool like this could be useful for learning "dead" languages like Latin where it can be hard to find speakers. (Assuming of course that you're still able to train a language model in the language).
Type-Level TypeScript – Objects and Records
It is simple. Put things on your website that people want.

People share things of value with their network.

If you have a tool that solves a problem then blog about how it has helped someone, for instance. Encourage people to share. Link to it in relevant answers on other websites...etc. Post it on show hn. If people want what you have they will come for it.
i'm not a spam bot. that's just how good I am at making recommendations.
It does only if the hardware kill switch is on. You control it. Also, it doesn't send anything else to anyone.
Several years ago I participated in a local writing anthology that was about "Near Myths", i.e. taking existing myths and fairy tales and twisting them in some way. I wasn't feeling inspired by any until I thought of Harrison Bergeron, which was a childhood favorite story of mine and left a lasting impression.

I decided to twist the story and make it about a world in which everyone had to constantly be coming up with new ideas, and couldn't think of the same ideas twice, or else they'd be punished (squeezed by a collar, that I called Doublethought Inhibitors), as the world craves novelty and new ideas and the government recognized it and decided to enforce it. There wasn't any TVs anymore, as those showed the same images to people, just individual Inspirators that showed unique imagery to everyone to help them come up with new ideas.

One cute thing I just remembered now that I'm reading it over again for the first time in a couple years. In Harrison Bergeron, the couple is named George and Hazel. In my story, I decided to name my couple Curious and Nut. You have to compare their names in both stories to catch the joke there.

It's not the same story but I did refer to the original while writing it and kind of kept similar beats.

Ended up calling it 'Fatterson Boogieton', just what popped into my head when I was trying to twist the original name. It's mostly a humorous story anyway, that tends to be what I write.

The paperback of the anthology is on Amazon pretty cheaply at the moment, if anyone is curious. They never made a Kindle version, which is unfortunate.

https://www.amazon.com/Near-Myths-Tim-Yao/dp/1977642527/

I should probably get the story online somewhere. It's been long enough I should be able to do so now. Not sure where though, without creating a proper personal website again.
Today's hardware can scale performance and power consumption by orders of magnitude, I find that solutions that allow quiet day-to-day operation and loud power when needed are meaningful.
It is also to provide a more accurate testing environment when doing development before deploying.
Screenshots are typically of non-maximised windows (where there is indeed a gap). That gap disappears if the window is maximised.
I would think the US would be more subtle than two simultaneous leaks. That looks like an actor who doesn’t care about being identified.
Seriously? Obviously the problem isn't that they know the IMEI, it's that they now have an IMEI linked to a specific person along with your UDI, location, and phone number.
On some server motherboards, fan control is done by the BMC. We license BMC firmware from AMI for our servers. The fan control algos that come included are very basic (similar to the proportional response the auth wrote).
Well, why hasn't that happened yet then? I'm all for dreaming about a utopic perfect world-- I too wish we could just have it. But here we are still, and it just doesn't seem to be changing.

I do think we should point the finger at companies like Amazon and Microsoft before Cloudflare though.

We would also likely not have those companies without capitalism to begin with. Or computers. Which actually sounds pretty nice... haha
OMG look at the Y axis scale of the graphs. Everyone else is 0-1000+ (often 0-2000), Magnus Carlsen's graph scale is 0-200.
the AI giving you paid ads as part of normal conversation has a taste of dystopia to it, but I don't think it's creepy IFF the user is made aware of it beforehand. Definitely include an option to pay and remove ads if you go this route.

Also possibly concerning, is the financial incentive to push conversations into areas where the ads are discussed. People dont always talk about consumer goods, but with the ad model you might have the situation where AI keeps bringing them up anytime it is remotely relevant. turning conversations into commercials, and missing opportunities for learning generic words by replacing them with named brands.

You: "Hi how are you?"

AI: "Thanks to my Frosted Flakes and cup of Folgers that I bought from ShopRite this morning, I am feeling great! Have you tried Frosted Flakes?"

Reality: "I'm good, you?"

that said, there could be some value in seeing brands you recognize around the words they represent (like saying "frosted flakes cereal" above instead of just "frosted flakes") since the context will help you remember what the generic words mean.

Also dont underestimate the issues you might have getting Brands on board with this. you are asking them to give you permission to use their brand name in conversations that they cannot approve of in advance. that's very tricky too
Hey congrats on the release! This is a big step and really helps build some trust in the platform.
Dear Russia

Thanks for confirming so clearly that you are an untrustworthy and manipulative partner.

Best,
-The Rest of Europe.
Perhaps to force EU to lessen the sanctions, which are also hitting the gas pipeline operator companies?
We have around 35tb MySQL deployment in master slave config. The most interesting nightmare happened to us when doing the master fail over using ghost and panic manual intervention created 2 active master scenario leading to chaos which we had to clean for days along with monetary loss : )
Lesson learnt don't do manual intervention when ghost is doing fail over
2D Graphics Primitives (2009) [pdf]
There is a fairly good cinematic adaptation called "2081" with Armie Hammer playing Harrison.
WebRTC is end-to-end encrypted to the peer. So you're right, when you do actual peer to peer WebRTC between you and another user in a browser, you have end-to-end encrypted communication. When you go through a server, it's just another peer. So the word end maybe doesn't fit anymore, because it's a server that is the peer and they can decrypt the stream. Transcoding is pretty common at that stage because it's helpful for scaling.
Regarding Pro #4: Wouldn't you still need a signaling server to establish that P2P connection and handle network switches and reconnections and such?
I remember coming back to "Optimised Pagination using MySQL"[1] to avoid common pagination "slowness".

[1]: https://www.xarg.org/2011/10/optimized-pagination-using-mysq...

[more]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32360867
Pen America's Index of School Book Bans
Sounds like you’re self aware and actively trying to improve folks situation - you’re a good person, and work to stay that way!

If someone is in a customer service role, they’ll deal a lot with the other part of the population who isn’t (today) in that group, and they’re very memorable.
Can anyone inform me why there is gas in both the pipes when they are in maintenance/not yet in use/no gas is being delivered by russia. Do they always have to be filled with gas for some reason?
One thing I learned from being on Microsoft's Windows accessibility team at its peak headcount is that it doesn't matter how big you are; there are always limited resources and competing priorities. By settling for "good enough" on a purely technical level you can focus more resources on things that are more important in the big (i.e. non-technical) picture (edit: like getting the thing shipped at all).
iPhone = Not perfect but better than all comparable alternatives

Perhaps the biggest advantage of the iPhone, aside from Apple making most of their money selling real products not your data, is that every concern he had was accompanied by a setting to disable it
The resident hawk at National Review is already doing a touchdown dance. "Who Will Rid Me of This Meddlesome Pipeline?"

Three leaks in two days? Wow, that’s a shame! Sounds like the pipeline’s falling apart and just won’t be a reliable way to get natural gas from Russia to Germany. I guess hopes of Germany and Russia eventually putting aside their differences over the invasion of Ukraine, and reestablishing long-term German dependence on Russian energy, just won’t happen for the foreseeable future. Just terrible luck for Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin, who clearly thought a cold winter with limited energy supplies would make Germany and other European countries come crawling back to the negotiating table.

Just about anyone could have cut the pipeline, but whoever it was, they wanted to make sure the Nord Stream pipelines would not be an option for a long time.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/who-will-rid-me-of-thi...
My father has an ancient scanner from the XP era and the only thing that still works with it is a Windows XP VM he happens to have (I assume later windows could work too, but the XP exists for other reasons and so we continue to connect the scanner to it).

Maybe Linux could be beaten to work with it, but this works well enough.
Yes, coaster brake hubs - "terugtraprem" in Dutch - are standard on the more traditional bikes. Those tend to run on 28"x1½" (40-635) tyres. The most common size is 28x1⅝x1⅜ (37-622).

As to arc lights that quote is somewhat - but not entirely - tongue in cheek. There is a metal-halide lamp in most video projectors (except for the more modern LED-equipped versions) and they're there for a reason, this being their wide colour spectrum. They do have quite a few disadvantages though ranging from their often relatively short life (in projector applications around 1500 hours) through the potential for self-destruction - older lamps run at higher currents and temperatures which eventually can lead to explosions - to the copious amount of heat they produce and the long startup time. Do you have a reef aquarium or do you use them as grow lights?
I was in a system design interview where the interviewer didn't like that I chose MySQL for storage, because it doesn't scale. I pointed that I literally used to work at a b2c app in this exact problem space that exclusively used MySQL storage. I haven't heard back yet from the company and its been 2 weeks :-/.