skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hilarious example: our org decided to "optimise" travel expenses by mandating all our bookings through a centralised travel service. The service offers a corporate portal that allows orgs to specify their policy and ensure compliance while letting employees "self-serve" to book travel.

Unfortunately the software is so bad and so complex that upon deployment, they realised they couldn't just roll this out for direct access to staff. It is full of travel-industry terminology nobody understands combined with corporate org policy terminology few understand.

So they designated specific staff as "travel managers" who would be the ones to book travel for their group. These people then get special training etc. In practices however none of the managers have time for this so we are all delegating it to admin staff that already do other admin type work for our teams.

And so the whole exercise has brought us full circle to where dedicated staff are effectively manually booking travel for us. And of course then COVID hit so nobody traveled for 2 years after that and we all prefer remote / zoom as much as possible anyway.
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. I'm a JS developer (and framework developer) and what you describe is a serious problem. It's great that there's so many problems solved, but some stuff is just a one or two liner that should be in your own app's /lib, not a dependency.

This is one reason I like Deno's idea of having a standard library (I just wish Ryan would have proposed that for Node directly instead of creating a brand new runtime).
what percentage of beef is currently done holistically?
The more widely his narrative is believed, the more money he makes. He's not behaving selflessly here.
It's only ever clever in hindsight. It's possible the best move right now is to buy 3x levered NASDAQ ETFs. And in hindsight it will look genius and obvious - market is down, buy levered ETFs. But the fact the market is down so much and you're now thinking about shorting kinda explains why it's not easy.

Also, bare in mind the only way to make money from a short position is to know when to sell - so how much further do you think markets will fall?
I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with:

1. The premise that ideologies exist in the world that are so extreme and violent in their nature that they should receive zero tolerance (e.g. nazism, fascism).

2. The premise that people who tolerate an ideology are tainted by that association.

3. That Georgia Meloni is a fascist.

Because 1 and 2 are not extremist views. They're held quite widely, and I don't think there are many people who believe you should sit down and listen when a nazi talks.

You say that my view is "My political opponents are Nazis" - but that's not what I've said at all. I believe that nazis are nazis, fascists are fascist, and these SPECIFIC ideas are beyond tolerance. Not just any idea I disagree with - there are plenty of ideas that I am politically opposed to that I strongly disagree with but I will gladly tolerate. Just not core premises like "do these people deserve to live" or "do these people deserve dignity".
Nuclear is not fundamentally expensive[0], and most nuclear power plants currently in operation were cheap when they were built. The high costs of building new powerplants is a result of going decades without building any, leading to a loss of experience. Even still, nuclear remains competitive with other traditional power generation technologies like coal. Only with recent advancements in fracking did natural gas supplant coal as the go to fuel, and Wind and solar have become extremely inexpensive, but only in the past 10 years, in large part due to a concerted effort to scale up those industries. In other parts of the world where nuclear power did not have a decades long hiatus it remains extremely competitive with even these renewables, for example in South Korea where LCOE for nuclear is half that of solar.

Of course you may have only became bearish on nuclear when the costs got high, but there are a large number of people who were bearish before then, which is what made costs high.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...
So you are blaming "warmongers in the Pentagon" for Russia theoretically dropping the first nuke? Wouldn't warmongers in the Kremlin be the responsible party?
Thanks kind stranger, I appreciate your patience!
How is Brave Microsoft(2)?
> KEY FACTS: I Bonds can be purchased through October 2022 at the current rate. That rate is applied to the 6 months after the purchase is made. For example, if you buy an I bond on July 1, 2022, the 9.62% would be applied through December 31, 2022. Interest is compounded semi-annually.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds...

So 6 months of that rate, regardless of when during the window it was purchased. But, yeah, after that it could either up or down. And you have to hold for at least 1 year, and lose 3 months of interest if you cash out prior to 5 years.
Well I don’t know the power consumption of this robot but did buy my kids a hover board for Christmas a few years back. The hover boards are 2 wheeled device you stand on and it moves you around as you pivot your foot at speeds of up to about 12km/hr. The battery is good for about 20-30km range which really surprised me. So for this robot maybe not as efficient as 2 wheels but I would guess it wouldn’t be hard to get a range of 10-20km quite easily with today’s current battery tech.
In fact, they could even claim to speak a truer form of French than the Parisien variety.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/deplorable-que...

It's similar to how American English preserves what modern British English has since lost.

https://www.languagehumanities.org/what-is-the-difference-be...

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-p...
A lot of the things that came with the Patriot act have been used predominantly to arrest drug dealers.
I also sold almost all my non-retirement stocks near the top and stopped purchasing more in mid 2021. I ignored the “timing the market” advice because it was obvious we were in an asset bubble and once inflation was in the mix, given low unemployment, the Fed mandate obviously pointed to interest rate hikes.

I’d not purchase short ETFs unless you know what you are doing. They are not the same as your standard long ETF. They have to pay for the cost to borrow, likely have much higher management fees than eg Vanguard ETFs, and of course in the long run are not something you want to hold.

You’d probably be better off holding short term treasuries (basically cash) hedged with some 1+y calls on broad market funds. If you want to buy back in sooner you could sell medium term puts. Or just lock in the gains you already made by purchasing now.

Please please please before you buy a bond ETF recognize that it’s not the same as buying a bond. With a bond index you can lose money at mark-to-market that you’d only recoup after decades of interest or if we want back down to lower rates.

While, in my opinion, the 1y outlook was clear 1y ago, it’s a lot less clear now. I don’t think anybody knows how high rates are going to have to go to stop inflation, the Fed timeline, and how bad a potential recession would be. An amicable end to the war in Ukraine could also fix the energy crisis quickly.
Sometimes it's ascribing the worst possible motive to someone you disagree with - sometimes you disagree with someone who has the worst possible motives. You're saying it's the former, I'm saying recently we've seen a lot of the latter.
no. you cant seize land without compensation, see the constitution. literally just don't insure it any more, or require much stronger buildings (like concrete). oh and quit bailing out insurers.
Meanwhile those of us dumb enough to wind up with TCL Roku TV's have lost (well I have lost personally):

- All app sideloading. Bye Pornhub app, you died too soon. Roku uninstalled the apps sideloaded from my tv's the day this changed. I've never been so angry.

- SHOUTCast App inexplicably removed from both TV's and unavailable now with unhelpful message saying it's gone because reasons.

- The 10.0.5 update one one of the two units REMOVED VOLUME LEVELLING, which the unit came with, and it's never come back.

Yeah Roku can get fucked. What a poor outcome those two tv's were ultimately. Removing functionality you had at purchase time should be illegal.
A major difference between your ISP and a VPN is that your ISP is generally an established company based in the same jurisdiction as you are. So, if they do something terrible, in theory at least, they can be brought to court. A non-trivial number of VPNs that claim to protect your privacy, however, are based all around the world with unclear corporate structures. If they do something terrible, you likely have no recourse at all. How much faith you want to put in a promise made by such a company is up to you - but I would push back on the idea that simply making a promise really provides much value by itself.
I'm seeing a lot of results (USA). Is this a region specific issue?

https://twitter.com/search?q=Giorgia+Meloni+filter%3Avideos&...
20ms is not perceptible to me at least, but the video compression is. Particle effects just don’t look nearly as good, and turning rapidly produces noticeable video artefacts.
Nope, you actually lock in 6 months of whatever the rate is time of purchase! It's a good deal!
I don't know that it's necessarily used for "clearing the snow", but FEMA funds on the order of millions of dollars have been used in NY for snow storms and blizzards in 2017, 2014, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000, and 1999 per their website[1]. While it doesn't list funding numbers, FEMA disasters were also declared in 1998, 1996, 1993, 1991, 1987, 1985 and 1977.

This is in addition to hurricane funds, the most recent of which was just last year in 2021.

And while FL has received significantly more FEMA funds than NY[2] (6.8B vs 405M), NY likewise receives significantly more than say their neighbor VT (56M) or far away MT (a mere 11M). Is all the money spent in NY likewise a "straight up handout to allow some specific people to keep getting a high value lifestyle on someone else's dime"?

[1]: https://www.fema.gov/locations/new%20york#declared-disasters
[2]: https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national-preparednes...
Fwiw, it looks like you can use pnpm as nodeLinker with yarn berry. I’m a fan of yarn’s plugin support and the extensibility that provides, so I’ll likely be trying that with pnpm as the linker and see how that goes.
It would maybe be more powerful, but also less efficient. If you want to insert different sets of columns, you just use multiple INSERT statements. The point of the current syntax is to be able to efficiently bulk-insert many rows using the same set of columns. That set of columns needs to be validated and mapped to the internal offsets (or whatever) only once for inserting an arbitrarily large number of rows, instead of having to repeat that validation and preprocessing for each row.
Someone linked me to 1-liners[0], which is - you guessed it - a bunch of one-liners. I think it's nice to have as a reference. But a dependency? Really?

My least favorite is assign.

Not only does JavaScript feature that natively (though I suppose the library may predate widespread support for Object.assign), the 1-liner assign flips the order of the parameters!

assign({ a: true }, { a: false }) -> { a: true }
Object.assign({ a: true }, { a: false }) -> { a: false }

And most of them are just straight-up pointless! Like, let's introduce a dependency for decrement lol

EDIT: In looking up whether the 1-liners assign predated widespread Object.assign support, I found that their implementation - confusingly named extend[1] at first - literally used Object.assign from the very beginning. And they still chose to mess with the parameter order. For shame lol

[0] https://github.com/1-liners/1-liners

[1] https://github.com/1-liners/1-liners/blob/7c1f8d51df4b4b3e0a...
Grantham is a notorious perma-bear, and given that article was posted right before a 20% rise in the market, I'm inclined to say that's another wrong call for him.
This is only necessary because Blizzard decided that IAPs + Free-to-Play (Overwatch 2) was worth more than charging customers outright for a quality product (Overwatch).
I don’t think that’s feasible, because the activities are child-like. Asking for that perspective shift requires a lifetime.

What the article does challenge successfully is whether the negative connotations are merited. i.e., childish.

And it uses a real life example to argue that it’s not merited at the big picture level.
I think you’re making a bit of a false comparison here.

How about this. Your house may be on fire. But no one knows. So we’re going to install martial law, and silence anyone who is of the camp who believes the house is not on fire, for two years. When it finally transpires that those people who believed the house was not on fire were right all along, and they knew it, then we will issue no apology, or acknowledgement.
Or we can say that this was a strong cat 4 instead.
It is fantastic if that means we have 3d acceleration.
The solution to all this dependency mess if for NPM to make a standard library. Yeah that sounds crazy and weird. But they are in the best place to make a unified standard library for Javascript. This would bypass all the junk transitive dependencies and have more libraries rely on a centralised but standard library.
Back in 2015 you might have some linguists work with data scientists to do feature engineering and use those as inputs to an LR model. I suppose you can let a deep learning model feature engineer for you, but either way, you'll get to some of the same heuristics you're thinking of.
>Only if you believe the theory of relativity is correct.

https://bohring.substack.com/p/how-do-we-know-that-general-r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_you_think_that_general...

https://archive.ph/iVZZu

https://www.livescience.com/black-hole-image-shows-einstein-...

Und so weiter, und so weiter...
> Survivor bias. Most clever financial things/hacks lose money.

Thanks for pointing this out. The other option is that the clever thing ties you up so you miss out on other opportunities.
Yet another step sleepwalking into the dystopian future. Sure, it's some ad account, who cares. But imagine one of the digital ID projects going mainstream, and the government adopting it, and you doing something as a kid banning you from every payroll system supporting this particular digital ID scheme. And there's nobody to talk to. It's just the way it is.
First thing is stand back a little from the hype and don't buy 100% into whatever consensus that there is going to be a recession. We may be looking back in retrospect and picking "right now" as the bottom and you liquidated everything at the worst possible time.
Agree that it gamifies text editing – vim motions are fun, even though I largely don't miss them in VS Code, or I use a vim extension when I do.

> …myself and a lot of other Neovim users are basically masochists to some extent.

It's great of you to say this, and heartwarming to see a sense of self-awareness on HN.

It's easy to rationalise our tech choices away (vim = speed, efficiency, freedom!). It's harder to admit that we may have chosen our tools simply because it's fun to walk a learning curve that runs sharply from pain to joy. Of course we could pick an easier tool! But then our path runs from apathy to apathy! And we'd be making it alongside people who think tools are just tools, instead of within a counterculture of likeminded people who think that tools are _everything_.

Maybe I should give neovim another shot…
I guess he was referring to this post two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32994937
Post that are not in English are usually ignored or flagged. Is there an equivalent of this in English?

Autotranslation for the lazy https://reflets-info.translate.goog/dossiers/altice-au-pays-...

> FILE: ALTICE IN THE LAND OF PIRATES

> The Altice group, owned by Patrick Drahi, has been the victim of ransomware. hackers have published masses of data on the Internet. These revelations shed light on a complex industrial group, based in countries that are very flexible in tax matters. They incidentally give to see the colossal way of life of a family as discreet as billionaire. Far from the end of announced abundance.

I recommend to at least translate the title here and add [French] at the end.

Is this the company? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altice_(company)
I mean, if the choice is expensive electricity and rolling blackouts because the entire country relied on unreliable sources of energy, I'd take the former. The best energy source is one that's robust and dependable, not one that's theoretically cheaper in some ideal circumstances.
> The company pushed back and, in 2016, the FDA reversed course, saying that it planned to update the definition—which leads us to the proposed update this week.

It took 6 years to update their definition of healthy? That's ridiculous.
Some popular ones can only be managed through the cloud.
We have that and it is still cheaper to book outside of it sometimes by many hundreds of $$$
> Musk asks fellow billionaire Larry Ellison if he’s interested in helping take Twitter private, and Ellison offers up $1 billion like it’s the spare change he’d find in his cushions to make a run for some snacks at 7-11. Musk replies that Ellison should invest $2 billion.

Sounds about right, in relative terms it is couch cushion money, for the world's wealthiest.
Some questions jump out there:

What does that amount of solar and storage look like in terms of material used for its construction as well as area occupied once it’s deployed?

What current examples do we have of projects at this scale?

What is the lifespan of the solar arrays and batteries?

What are the operating costs? How many personnel are required for maintenance and day to day operation?

What other infrastructure is necessary to support such a deployment? Transmission lines, buildings, monitoring facilities, security, roads, office space, etc.

What is the construction timeline for such a project?
Have you tried using Okular? It's a pretty serviceable PDF reader on Linux, and now has a Windows port as well.

Okular also comes with a per-page cropping mode, though it tends to cause issues when scrolling between pages. I prefer to use pdf-crop-margins (and on encrypted PDFs, qpdf --decrypt so pdf-crop-margins can read them) to generate a pre-cropped PDF that works on any reader, but keep the original PDF around for when I like it better.

Another trick is that on large 32+ inch screens, you can use Firefox's pdf.js in horizontal scrolling view to hold 2-3 pages on-screen simultaneously and cross-reference them easily, then switch to the hand tool for easy continuous scrolling.
I think there's a bit of a difference between a bug that went undiscovered for years and vetting third-party software to see if its telemetry compromises your employees or IP.

I mean, sure, if you want to avoid log4j from happening, you can write all of your software from the ground up in-house with no third party dependencies (or audit every line of code for every third-party program you do use), but I don't see how that's relevant to a discussion about whether VSCode is compromised to a degree that other editors aren't.
The article and comments so far miss what I believe is the main point of the annexation. Changing the legal status of that region vis-à-vis the Russian state expands Putin's executive powers in the conduct of the war.
Can someone recommend a good primer on _implementing state machines_? I’ve only really encountered the theory and the diagrams, but have had a harder time finding examples of actual implementations in code.
Yeah I made my HN username on a whim years ago after watching that movie and didn't realize it was a dumb choice. I wanted it to be 'hackery' and anon. Oops.
Aren't Tibco EAI? Why are they buying Citrix?
Seems like then the old adage of not saying anything at all if you have nothing nice to say might apply?
It is pretty hard to profit from short ETFs. The two you mentioned (SH, SQQQ) are pretty good destroyers of purchasing power: https://totalrealreturns.com/s/SH,SQQQ
He specificaly said it was a product that was probably still available on the market. Sounds really interesting and hard to find, I hope something like this comes out based on LLMs that can be easily fine tuned.
Building it maybe can get cheaper ... destruction and disposal will be even more expensive.

Look at Germany. They are the first to really destruct the first power plant and it will take 20 to 25 years. Everything has to be checked.
The US is unlikely to continue being able to recruit high value assets if those assets do not have some confidence they will be taken care of.

This sounds more short term thinking on particular individuals in the CIA than anything else
The concept is great, but the map on the site is very buggy on the desktop (Edge 105). Trying to zoom in with mouse wheel, it often randomly zooms out and in again. Trying to pan when dragging while zoomed in and near task markers, it will often pan back after releasing the mouse, and in one case, I've seen it pan back and forth between two points on the map in what looks like an infinite loop. It seems that it's trying to do some kind of snapping to the markers, and ends up fighting the user and/or itself.

Also, the markers disappear entirely past a certain zoom level. When that happens, zooming out one notch does not cause them to reappear, either - I had to do like 4 levels before they'd show up. The worst part is that it also happens when you click on a marker and the map auto-zooms on it.

EDIT: just realized that for that last problem, what happens is that a single combined marker (the one that shows a number) is broken up into individual markers. The problem there is that those individual markers often end up outside of the viewport, and so it looks like the combined markers just disappeared.
They built them only for non economic reasons. Either because they wanted material for bombs, or as national vanity projects or because they convinced themselves it would be cheap.

If you want those reasons, go for it. Iran for instance is pursuing at least one of these goals when it works towards nuclear "power". Just don't expect affordable electricity at the end...
What is a white-collar job?
See also: high definition TV
Prisoner Exchange Reveals Large Number of Foreign Mercenaries in Ukraine
I am just amazed that this is still an issue for JS when it has basically being fixed for other languages, being such a largely used language with such a fanatic user base claiming "its the best" I would expect this no longer being an issue nor all the security issues that come with it
I'm not a hater, I'm a realist. Services like this have a free tier to encourage paid accounts. When people abuse that free tier, everyone else suffers. It is not much effort to ask the support team for permission. I've also been on the devops team of having to run services like this and it really isn't fun when people abuse it. It is a lot of extra work.
Why not? Don't they compose easily with sub-state-machines?