skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't foresee software developers being useless, but I can tell you what I have seen... The big, smart companies are able to leverage highly paid developers better than ever. For example, about 10 years ago, I was working at a company that had 100 devs. They now have 10 highly paid (FAANG+) full time devs + subcontractors and make more money than ever.
Because he will do business with others that are more flexible. Customer lost for life.
I think the parent is asking, how do we know that story is truly how it happened? Perhaps it's an allegory about profit like you said, to teach others not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, as a parallel. Another comment in this thread talked about how changes in Roman microclimate made it unable to thrive anymore.
The state's monopoly, qua Max Weber, is on the claim to the legitimate use of violence. That is, the right and legitimacy of that right, is restricted to the state, or an entity acting in the effective capacity of a state, whatever it happens to call itself.

Absent this, one of three conditions exist;

1. There is no monopoly. In which case violence is widespread, and there is no state.

2. There is no legitimacy. In which case violence is capricious. This is your condition of tyranny (unaccountable power).

3. Some non-state power or agent assumes the monopoly on legitimate violence. In which case it becomes, by definition The State.

The state's claim is to legitimacy. A capricious exercise would be an abrogation of legitimacy

Weber, Max (1978). Roth, Guenther; Wittich, Claus (eds.). Economy and Society. Berkeley: U. California Press. p. 54.

<https://archive.org/details/economysociety00webe/page/54/mod...>

There's an excellent explanation of the common misunderstanding in this episode of the Talking Politics podcast: <https://play.acast.com/s/history-of-ideas/weberonleadership>

The misleading and abbreviated form that's frequently found online seems to have originated with Rothbard in the 1960s, and was further popularised by Nozick in the 1970s. It's now falsely accepted as a truth when in fact it is a gross misrepresentation and obscures the core principles Weber advanced.
I disagree, because it reduces the freedom of choice and variety of tools available for software development, and increases the dependency on bespoke tooling. Using a more sophisticated word processor shouldn’t reduce the readability of the text produced. If anything, IDE features should be helping to increase the readability of the resulting source code, instead of promoting a coding style that decreases it.

This is about decoupling. The same way one should be able to freely pick a VCS and CI/CD system of choice, one should also be free to pick the IDE, or any other system concerned with source code, of choice. Those should remain loosely coupled, and should each be easy to replace. The more requirements you impose on how source code has to be marked up for intelligible display, the more you restrict the choice of tools it can usefully work with, and the more laborious it becomes to create new adequate tools in that field.
Then they should be dismantled as a company and parted off to pay for the damages they caused.
Except that this is exactly what the post is implying.
They said it was extremely difficult to cultivate, but they were able to get them to sprout using cold stratification... Kind of a basic technique nowadays. Lavender, hardy hibiscus, some geraniums, phlox, Chinese lantern, black-eyed susan - all of these common plants need cold stratification to germinate. Home gardeners utilize a plastic bag and their refrigerator. I'm sure this was more vexing in ancient Rome, but the article was talking about cultivating the modern plant in question. Unless there was a lot more to it that the article glossed over, "extremely difficult" is not the the term I'd use to describe the process. It's one of the basic techniques propogators try with a new species when dropping the seeds in the dirt doesn't work.
I'm sure they'll treat the matter very seriously and profess that steps are being taken to prevent it happening again.
I just wanted to wire up shit, make pages, send requests & receive responses ... and not spend days trying to pick the right router, form, state and whatever library for my view layer, and look for TS definitions for them, so I stayed on Angular2+ ^^
an excellent example of how not to do things. if you need something esoteric enough that no one is going to grok the crontab without thought then you use something else.
I have a problem with such a claim. When measuring how "damaging to the environment" something is, what are we looking at? Compostable plastics, for example, might seem more eco when looking at the waste, but the truth is that just means they're breaking down into micro-plastics faster

How do we measure the impact of those microplastics? Is it by how expensive a micro-plastic clean-up would cost taxpayers? Is it by the (admittedly marginal, but very widescale) increases in health care costs to people that are impacted by it?

I think if we actually took a full-scale assessment of these sorts of impacts, we'd have a lot of trouble making such a claim
Figured it out. Someone can delete my question, if they wish. (facepalm).
Practically all software is licensed/sold without any warranty. I challenge you to find even a single counterexample.
I’ve been using iOS devices for years and getting what I want when I swipe down is a constant roll of the dice. Did I do it in the ambiguous zone for the control center or did I do it where I’ll get recent notifications? Oh wait if I’m on my phone instead of my tablet I need to swipe up for the control center. Why it needs to be different on the tablets I’ve never really known, it used to be from the bottom and it was really nice for it to be consistent. Maddening.
Do vintage toy cars contain lead?
The key insight is that this strategy causes there to be a strong correlation between the success of different prisoners.

As an example, let's say prisoner #10 opens his box and finds #21, then finds #5 in that box, then #84, then #51, then finally succeeds and finds his number 10 in box #51. These boxes form a cycle 10-21-5-84-51 (and then back to 10). Anyone who opens any of these boxes will eventually see the same set numbers that #10 did, so that means that we know prisoners #5, #10, #21, #51 and #84 will all succeed in finding their number by starting at their own box.

Compare that to the situation where they just randomly look in boxes and each independently have only a 50% chance to succeed - then the odds that those 5 prisoners all succeed would be (1/2)^5 = 1/32, or only about 3%. In every cycle containing n prisoners, instead of their success rate being (1/2)^n, now they all succeed together or all fail together.

Now that the success of every prisoner in the same cycle is perfectly correlated with each other, the prisoners' overall chance of success depends only on whether the random permutation created by the warden has any cycles >50 in length. If so, then everyone in that cycle will fail. If not, then all the cycles across the 100 boxes are short enough that all 100 prisoners will succeed.
You should try Midjourney.
How the world’s media got it wrong on residential school graves
lol wtf?
While carpentry also creates value, a carpenter needs significant equipment & capital to create something. A carpenter down on their luck can't immediately start building houses from scratch. A programmer down on their luck just needs a laptop (which is easy enough to get) and can start churning out MVPs that could at least provide some income.
This is a great suggestion and you can also call customer service of your bank or any other bank, dealership, grocery store, or any other service you are using. If you can do it in-person even better. With each passing, compare - how well you are getting understood.
Russia (and before that, the USSR) viewed nuclear weapons as just another form of artillery. The US did as well, between Davey Crockets, SADM, Pershing 2 and GLCM.
Feedback is frowned upon in audiophile circles:

https://www.audioholics.com/audio-amplifier/amp-myths-negati...
Different levels of wealth you and GP are talking about. Completely different.
Yes but there were still linearity issues. The senior engineer played with it for a bit until he said screw it, spend the money and be done. Project was small enough to justify the cost.
System is rigger for them. That will not happen in 1000 years.
While I’ve got a pretty good memory, a lot of the times I don’t have a direct or complete answer for their question. I’ll have a tingle of a memory that is similar to their question.

The same. Especially under pressure. Which makes it virtually impossible for me to pass an oral technical interview.
true, but i am not ready or able to call for the end of westphalian nation states, capitalism and the new world order.
That sounds quite a bit less true for RAM and SSD, typically as long as you're reading cache-line or block size, respectively, isn't it consistent costs for each read?
> My opinion is that...

You make it sound like you came up with that all by yourself
I'd bet that areas with the most stringent parking enforcement also have the highest stolen vehicle recovery rates. That seems more likely to me than the police actively seeking out and finding stolen vehicles.
Well if I knew less than the last guy I'm defo beat here :)

Would be interesting to see what those figures were like 5 years ago (i.e. a year or so after its initial release). It seems like the concern here is that embedded Dev for cars isn't getting getting to maturity.
They all work for me on Firefox. Btw. it's using the systems decoder.
What are the recent changes at Google?
Upon exiting the ARC, Chachra launched 8vdX (YC W22), a venture debt marketplace
Low cost ethernet transformers have a wider bandwidth and better linearity. And would work with similar topologies.
Edit: I linked an irrelevant paper due to a misreading
For nearly ten years now, I have judiciously photographed every rental car I use. On pickup I take at least four photos of each quarter and anything I can find which could possibly be argued as damage. On drop off I also take photos of the car from four quarters.

I’ve had, especially in Europe, multiple incidents where prior damage is described as “too minor to note” on pickup, but the guy handling returns has a very different opinion.
Agree. Falafel is delicious and fits perfect in so many places. Shame we can’t easily get a falafel marinara sandwich, etc.
Requiring a duty to protect is extremely dangerous to society.

It elevates police above regular citizens.

Contrary to popular perception police have almost no powers beyond that of regular citizens. Citizens can make arrests, police differ in that they can do so even if they are not direct witnesses of a crime. Citizens can enter private property to save lives, and can break laws and regulations to do so as well. Police can only enter private property absent a threat to life or property if given permission either by the owner or courts.

They have qualified immunity, as do several other professions and citizens acting in extraordinary capacities such as good samaritans.

The law and public expectations should be that police are regular citizens with a regular job, bound by the same laws as everyone else.

Not that they are specially-designated protectors.

They only become specially-designated protectors when they take someone into custody—- and depriving someone of their freedom of movement is one of the few things regular citizens cannot realistically do.

Elevating them to have some special extraordinary status is, again, very dangerous. Many powers would be enabled by such a status which do not exist today that could be justified by granting them a “duty” to protect.

Additionally, just from a philosophical perspective doing so would be immoral. Regular citizens, with very few exceptions such as vessel captains, parents, spouses, and employers (in the context of being required to be provide a safe working environment and facilitate rescue of endangered employees) having a “duty” to protect anyone. It is unreasonable, to myself and many others, to levy such a duty on anyone except in extraordinary circumstances.

Airline captains have a duty to protect their passengers. This RIGHTLY grants them near-total, absolute, and unquestionable authority over the conduct of their crew and all souls on board. Giving or forcing a duty to protect to or on police would do the same.

That’s bad.

And because police are NOT extraordinary they don’t have a parental-like duty to protect their children (the public). Nor are we their spouses or employees.

As far as cynicism goes, they don’t protect the interests of large corporations that’s more the purview of politicians. Police are generally just enforcing the laws as written.

The court decision and the cases it references you yourself linked to goes over some of my points.

Many people respond with “but what about when the police…” but the egregious cases of misconduct from which they draw outrage are what are wrong and should be stopped— not an absence of some duty to protect.
If you're writing on SATA SSD, yes.

If you're writing on NVMe, well, there is a good chance that if you're not at the high end (big site, a lot of things to do), you can just ignore that as the IOPS will be "good enough"

Like, single relatively shitty NVMe can still sustain ~700MB/s of random(4k block) writes. Use good ones, and use more than one and you quickly hit CPU barrier before you hit NVMe performance.

You still want to keep it kinda grouped together but that's mostly for the wear levelling reasons
The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather is like
> Self-driving cars will never do well in snow country during a blizzard.

> Failing to recognize the limitations of an idea or technology is the #1 way innovators, inventors and startups fail - they lack the critical thinking rigor and fail to nip bad ideas

Another failing is to assume your experience is the norm and failing to identify significant market niches.

I'm not sure if you meaning to, but you comment hints that you think self driving cars won't succeed because they cannot drive well in blizzards. I will tell you now that a significant portion of the worlds population has never experienced a blizzard, let alone attempted to drive in one.

If you were just using blizzards as one example of many for the reasons automated cars will fail to catch on, my apologies. That said, I think it's a great go to market strategy to identify a smaller niche to start with, and slowly expand as your product utility increases to service broader markets.
It indeed used to be supported before Wayland. I don't develop Wayland though, and if I did then it would look very different from how it exists now.
Law enforcement should punish Hertz for using an emergency service (in a consistently poor manner) for a "clerical" error they caused. But they won't.
Thank you so very much for sharing your valuable experience!
Lol, show me the US rental car company that refunds customers if they return the car early.
I'm firmly in the camp of "I'll believe it when I see it" for modern cargo airships actually going into use. People have been trying to do it since cargolifter AG in Germany raised vc money and went bankrupt 22 years ago. Thus far, none successfully.
You're a step too far with your assumptions. I'm a Googler. I've noped away when Pebble sold to Fitbit. But seeing from the inside how Google treats user data, I'd be 100% ok with the data going to Google instead.
There's the user guide...
Its kind of funny that IBM was part of OSF but still continued with AIX.
> Narcissism aside, I think more people lean towards the use case of "more battery is better"

With everything else equal, I'm offered a longer battery life with no tradeoff, I'll take it!

However, if I have to use arm binaries instead of amd64 binaries, I'm far less interested.

If I also have to use a laptop where I have little room to adjust the OS defaults, to the point of being in a walled garden, I start asking myself if I need it, and when.

> I don't want to have to find a power outlet

I agree, but TBH with anything over 5h, I rarely need to look for one. Maybe it happens once every month?
I once rented a car that was several months out of date on its registration. Fortunately for me it was only discovered by parking enforcement, not an actual arrest, so the rental company gets to pay that ticket apparently. But it was a pretty awful shock to me to find this out.
If you want to compare CPUs do benchmarks like Geekbench instead of comparing a single metric.
Ask HN: Does anyone actually Use GCP?
We are building a product to improve the DevEx of GCP and IaaS cloud. We are evening building and running this app on GCP! Gasps (we're not sure GCP even runs on GCP). For context, the search bar in the GCP web console can't even do proper substring searching on assets such as App Engine. In less than a month/16+ hour days, our two person team has already built superior search capabilities.

My co-founder has been sold on the pain-points on GCP, but the question becomes: why does anyone even bother? We believe there is some scale and inflection point at which GCP makes sense, but GCP products are disconnected from hobbyists. This month, we've received 10k visits and paid $120 on CloudRun (app server) and CloudSQL (Postgres). We used the lowest cost configuration including 1 CPU each. Yes, $120 for 2 x 1 CPU, 10GB SSD, 5GB ram total. It's not even been a month, actually. We had to pay an additional $30 for GCE VMs because:

1) CloudRun and CloudSQL can't talk to each other out of the box, so you have to provision a "Serverless VPC connector" which is backed by minimum of 2 VMs. It's also a single point of failure and bottleneck, which it has already failed over this month.

2) there is no UI to query CloudSQL. Even CLI querying is not possible because CloudSQL has a private IP and GCP's CLI's have no way to authenticate around this. As a workaround, we had to spin up "bastion" VMs which are the only thing that have a connection to CloudSQL. In which case, it seems GCP's CLI could be implemented to create a tunnel to a private CloudSQL.

This sort of snowflake behavior and devising workarounds in no person's land is a perpetual battle customers face with GCP. Other than documentation/DevRel, there isn't one particularly thing with GCP that is outright broken. It's just dozens and dozens and dozens of broken bits that add up. Our questions are these:

1) are GCP "serverless" (there's a lot of pain to get things working) just overpriced, or well fleshed our serverless products from startups just underpriced?

2) for people who seriously operate GCP do they just run VMs?

3) in 2022, is there anyone actually moving to GCP? If so, why? Obviously everyone knows Snapchat committed $2b in their S-1, but was that a mistake?

4) for larger businesses, could you share the kind of discounts/incentives you receive from GCP to make all of this make business sense.
Agree with everything you say. That said, just to add some context, and for anybody who might not be aware... even "identical" twins aren't actually strictly identical. That probably goes without saying for the most part, but the amount of differences that can be found in monozygotic (identical) twins turns out be somewhat surprising. See:

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/general-science/identical-...
Given the software advances in drone stabilization, would it not be possible to add some sort of dynamic stabilization to this hypothetical airship?
"... she's not tech savvy..." - well, I guess we found the culprit. You did let her use it with full admin rights, didn't you?

I recommend go to local policy and enable full audit for everything. When this happens in the future you'll have a clear picture of who/when/what.
These types can't usually think clearly under pressure. Besides, answering coding questions is very, very different from inventing those algorithms. It's a completely different way of thinking. That's why.
Ah, cue the long thread of “No because my special combination of hardware/special configuration demands caused problems so Linux bad!”
This was discussed earlier, from that discussion I understand it was cut as part of normal business and not some anti Scott Adams thing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32920254
Ok, not a common case, but far point. That would the real opposite then. When people talks about vegetarian versus "meat eaters" don't use it in this sense normally. Is often used by vegetarians as a synonym of fast food diet or "Mcdonalds diet" or "extreme obesity diet". They often flag this red-meat herring, and this is not really fair.

And then we are told that vegetarian diet is more healthy because X,Y and Z good stuff coming in plants A,B & C. But they forget to notice that omnivores receive exactly the same healthy benefits from exactly the same ingredients in their diets, because they also eat A,B and C. Plus the proven benefits that came from eating meat, fish or eggs.
The most toxic part of the SarsCov2 is the spike protein. Which is exactly what the vaccine makes you produce by the trillions.

What could go wrong?

I don't know how the media convinced everyone to take the Trump vaccine. I'll never trust humanity on anything ever again after this.
I was enjoying your comment until it stopped being informative and turned into pointless nastiness.
Why would anyone choose these over galvanic isolation?
This is really interesting, I hadn't thought of it like that. It looks like airships are one of those things that work much better as you scale them up.
Someone did test exactly that:

https://panthema.net/2019/0322-nvme-batched-block-access-spe...

From my experience as long as you can do that access multithreaded you won't really be penalized for random reads. Single threaded access I've seen as much as read performance halved (used fio for testing), but that didn't translate into multithreaded benchmarks
A family friend died of myocarditis 4 days after his shot. Perfectly healthy beforehand and only 24. Was pretty disgusting how his family was treated when they dared blaspheme any of the holy pharmaceutical companies.
And China has a few years head start in that direction.

The US following China's lead. I'd hope that the idea alone, of following in China's footsteps, is enough to get the US to change course.
Why Now: Timing and Product Success
I think the swiping back on new tab feature is a very well thought out piece of UX.

If a user taps a link that is set to open in a new window/tab, while the bottom/top (depending on user config) URL bar does animate to show the transition, the user may still expect to be able to navigate back to where they came from (especially in such a case where they haven't deliberately made the decision to open in a new tab).

I'd argue it would be worse UX for the back swipe to not navigate to the previous page in such circumstances than that it does but closes the tab (which is reasonably signalled by the URL bar animation).