skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing that can supplant the dollar right now.

The Yuan is radioactive now that the Western world is compartmentalizing China.

The Euro may not even survive the next few years if energy, conflict and other issues take down the EU.

Japanese Yen? British Pound? No way.

What's left? Nothing really. The dollar is it, and everyone knows it.
I think the answer here is to point your current tickets higher. When someone asks for estimates on time, or points, you give a higher estimate so as to not leave as much tech debt behind. In theory or course, may not work in practice.
That and he only tried to join in on climate change way after it was politically convenient and he was trying to build his image. As well he has said some poor ideas about climate change solutions when he was first stepping his toes in the water. Which is fine if people don't hold onto your words - as someone with a fair bit of power its detrimental to other initiatives.

Since then I still don't know which of his initiatives have shown a high probability of success.
Given some of his ideas shown during discovery (like having to pay with doge for tweets) and his tendency to shoot from the hip, there’s a non trivial chance that Twitter won’t be a major platform in 2 years from now.
Yes, he scapegoated Indians. But they also want to avoid an economic crisis to begin with, if it can be helped. Trade as deterrence is an imperfect but still partly true IR theory.
It did [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_Protection_Program
Front-end:
- vercel.com
- nginx load balanced next.js apps running on digital ocean

Back-end:
- fly.io
- nginx load balanced python/node apps running on digital ocean
The website itself didn’t seem to load the photos properly on my iPhone, but can see them at archive.ph: https://archive.ph/GwT5r
I'm sure he is crying about it on instagram
> Einstein in relativity is the Balto of Lorentz-Poincare, which is why his Nobel prize mentioned the photoelectric effect and not relativity.

That doesn’t add up because there was no Nobel prize at all for relativity to anyone. Searching online the consensus seems to be a mix of things:

* general confusion that his photoelectric Nobel was for relativity.

* the experimental proof of relativity came at a time when anti-semitism was on the rise and so there was enough of a fig leaf of “there’s disagreement / dispute of it being proven”.

* Einstein didn’t attend the ceremony because of a prescheduled lecture tour in Japan (But also possibly because of a fear for personal safety as his name was on a hit list by the perpetrators of a successful assassination). This made it seem like he snubbed the prize committee (which maybe he also did because he probably should have had 3 Nobels for all his contributions and felt like that prize wasn’t handed out on merit).

Certainly by 1945 special relativity was proven as otherwise there wouldn’t be an atomic bomb and yet still no Nobel for anyone.
>Lower the prices, and suddenly those people can justify (or even simply afford) satisfing the demand that never went away.

Or they can wait more to buy cheaper. Sure, they won't do that if you sell carrots, but they will do if you sell cars.
I've had some amazing pairing sessions and really really terrible sessions (FWIW I try to be a good pair). I accept everything you say about pairing, it has some really good team impacts.

It gets abused though far too often not just as a tool to upskill team members but also as a way to 'keep them honest'. The always on, always teaching/learning is exhausting. The constant social interaction is grueling, and I'm an ambivert (ENTP-A E=51%). I pity the actual introverts.

I've discovered, years later, that I much prefer to be alone with my thoughts when programming. Not sure I'll ever go back to an open plan office either.
In that case, you might want to monitor the directory too, not just the file. I believe this is even how it is supposed to work.
That, or they do need a therapist but the first one wasn't good, or a good fit. The relationship with the therapist is one of the biggest factors in the success of therapy.
> We would be able to find a balance between quality and price if the Fed stopped printing new money to erase lower prices.

That is... a weirdly revisionist interpretation. People have been complaining about consumer electronics quality consistently and pervasively for decades and decades. Absolutely nothing about that point is "modern" or "new". Yet... you really think it's due to events of the last few months? And not even just any events, politically charged events interpreted and explained using partisan language[1]. Really?

[1] Seriously, one of the easiest ways to tell whether or not to pay attention to an economics argument is whether it includes the phrase "printing money".
The reason why is because you won't find neoliberalism in IR. The author is an academic, I have a postgrad in IR, neoliberalism was a term invented by people who opposed the ideas, there is no accepted positive definition of neoliberalism, and it isn't a term you see often outside popular culture.
tldr: do error handling.
> And if the oceanic cables land in population centers,

The cable will land in Cape Town, a coastal population centre.

Johannesburg is the largest business and population centre, but it's far inland. Cape Town, though it is further south, will have a smaller ping time to US and Europe.
I chose an EV6 over a Model 3, and every day I'm given reasons as to why that was the right choice.
If you count podcasts it would be a lot less than that. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine under the right conditions a (micro)blogging equivalent of Apple Podcasts could take off.
Whatever Happened to Those Self-Service Passport Kiosks at Airports?
The IR Anthology contains 58835 papers on the study of information retrieval
Virgin Atlantic Pulls Out of Hong Kong, Closes Offices
Making Music from Images with Python
Absolutely, and it ran a full fledged palm OS.
I love it when something needs to be done to unblock a large group of testers but the dev team says “the sprint is closed. Come back in three weeks and we will consider it”. Truly Agile.
If it’s running in a shell, it’d be the terminal session’s shell. If it’s running as a daemon, in a traditional Unix environment, it’d be the init process (pid 0).
I wonder if, as a child, he was ever told that he wouldn't amount to much.
It's the same in Scotland. Right now the whole country is powered by 100% renewable energy but everything is priced based on all power being generated in and for London from natural gas, because we have to prop up England's failed capitalist experiment.
Atlassian is being actively exploited to compromise corporate networks
Does anyone know if he actually buys carbon offsets for his footprint? I mean that would be one way to negate the impact of flying around. I imagine he does.
It's less than 100 lines

https://github.com/parvardegr/sharing/blob/main/bin/index.js
It is on-going. See some remarks before on whether he would be faster if he use vi.

(Sorry have to run …)
Most therapists, being aware of that research, at least give a 15 minute call to get a general idea of fit and stuff.
Why Traditional Logging and Observability Waste Developer Time
That makes sense, but suggests that calculus is perhaps the most difficult concept to wrap one's head around, which flies in the face of the idea that is easy to teach to children. It is not clear where the breakdown occurs here.
Hot take: If you take three months planning, either it's incredibly complex or you're holding it wrong. If your directors aren't able to recognize either case well before the 3 months mark, get yourself new directors. (Source: I am one of those pointy-haired monsters. The sinking feeling in your gut starts at the end of month one, the latest)

And the third paragraph kind of lays bare the problem with sprints: The PM can only look at all the work that needs to be done if, well, there was a discovery phase to list all the work that needs to be done. That discovery looks suspiciously like planning.

That's why agile focuses on continuous delivery of value. It's excellent for projects where it's hard to estimate the full scope, but there are many intermediate targets that are valuable to the customer. You go along until enough value is delivered, and then move on. Not all projects work like that. Some things only generate any value at the end of a long slog. Some things can be delivered incrementally but require a predictable end date. (Hello, Black Friday!)

And so, you get to adopt methodology to the problem at hand. Sometimes, you really need to spend the planning up front. Sometimes it's enough to sketch it out on a napkin. Sometimes you can do things sprint-by-sprint. Sometimes, you have larger checkpoints and sprints in between. The idea that any single methodology works for every problem is an idea favored by the consulting industry, but not a reality. And it predates agile, by a lot - I've been a process consulting victim way back in the early 80s. (And the mass of miracle methodologies directly led to "No Silver Bullet")
> Real evidence shows that during catastrophic moments like earthquakes and prolonged famine and even war, human societies have shown remarkable strength to save and to protect and to help one another, sometimes at great individual sacrifice.

I find it hard to agree with this after COVID showed that a substantial portion of the US and global population weren't willing to wear masks to protect their fellow man and life saving vaccines were purposefully politicized. I also think that post apocalyptic novels typically live in a world where traditional power structures have been abandoned/destroyed and individualism is necessary for survival so I'm not sure one can draw a parallel between typical catastrophes and apocalyptic events.
My point still stands: society doesn't become free-er by restricting freedom.
Personally, I also dislike sprints. I much prefer a kanban approach with just a big, prioritized to-do list, where devs just pick the top ticket and do that. Preferably a tech lead prioritizes the list together with the PM.

But to be fair, I've worked like this mostly in places that have also enjoyed a continuous deployment way of working, with possibly multiple releases per day. In other places I can kinda see the point for "this is the stuff that needs to go into the next release" kind of sprints, but even then I'm not sure it's an improvement over straight up kanban.

I kinda feel like Ockham's razor would cut the sprint from the ideal work method tbh.
Wow this is intro to computer systems?
It is not hypocritical, because I do not expect others to behave in a way I do not.

For example, I want fossil fuels to be drastically costlier to force everyone to use smaller vehicles and live in denser communities enabling public transit.

But I do not want other individuals to have to do that while I do not. I am willing to make the sacrifices if everyone will, but if everyone is not going to, then I have a hard time seeing why I should.
> and South Africa is probably the only decent choice in southern Africa.

It’s not racism, it’s just cost-benefit analysis, am I reading it correctly?
The car is _designed_ so that it doesn't get to hot. If, despite this, it gets hot it will be stopped.
Now, those are the requirements and some suppliers might disregard them with the prize of their liability.
> rapidly strengthening against pretty much every other currency on the planet

that's only because of the inflation brought about by the disastrous economic response to covid, a response which ironically was initiated by the same politicians that are now claiming inflation needs to be brought down.
Why would that be the only thing holding it up? The US military and the resulting stability if the US is keeping it up. The amount of debt is not an issue, its eventual ability to pay off the debt is and keep in mind a huge chunk of this debt is intragovernmental (different parts of the governmenr borrowing from treasury).

If the military weakens and/or the US is seen as very unstable or if for some reason defaults on its debt obligations, then it will lose reserve currency status.

Look at the Chinese RMB for example, their military is not all that tested and their stability hinges upon one guy Xi keeping power and they are fairly new to having a great economy with housing crashes, corruptiom purges, predatory loans in africa, looming conflict with US on multiple geopolitical conflicts. Most of the west might end up sanctioning their currency in a major war like with Russia.

Big, scary and stable wins the game everytime for reserve currency.
I’m saying they couldn’t do it because it’s a safety related feature of a heavily safety-regulated product category. I don’t think any EULA could override that.
Some truly hilarious moments...

> Last night Musk tweeted that “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app,” which sounds exhausting. The app will do everything, but it will start with two functions: You can read tweets, or you can be shot on a rocket into space. Choose wisely.

And also:

> Is he going to try to raise more money? Is he going to go out to potential investors again and say “changed my mind, Twitter is great now, this’ll be fun, can I pencil you in for $1 billion?” (...) Every little bit helps, no? What does the disclosure document for that investment look like? “Yes Elon Musk has said that Twitter is a dysfunctional fraudulent conspiracy, but everything is fine now, and it’s an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.”
Former chemist here. I worked in a lab where our main goal was to attach a special fluorophore (= fluorescent molecular probe) to a protein so we could observe how it changes conformation under different conditions. The way we did that was with click chemistry: we incorporated a synthetic amino acid (homopropargylglycine) into the protein and then used a copper-catalyzed click reaction to attach the probe to the synthetic amino acid. (Specifically this reaction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_chemistry#Copper(I)-cata...). It's definitely cool stuff.
The Department of Redundancy Department informs you that was not an accident.
> Vimeo also provides some DRM‐free digital downloads

Awesome. Digital downloads are my favorite kind of download.
Every day is a joy.
> I have a government client that has locked down all outgoing access for a web server except though a socks proxy.

If you're running Linux, there's a utility called "tsocks" which wraps any other command and redirects all network servers through a SOCKS proxy defined in /etc/tsocks.conf, e.g.:

tsocks pip install somepackage

One downside is that since it relies on some linker magic, it doesn't work for static binaries. But for most common usage, it served me just fine.
Ukraine’s New Offensive Is Fueled by Captured Russian Weapons
So, I still don't like Gates for various historical reasons.

Even some of his climate stuff annoys me.

But, it's highly likely that if you ranked the whole human race on how much they'd done to reduce climate change, he may well be at the top.

So if it's about "doing his share" then he's probably doing okay.

But regardless, I don't want people to stop flying, I want them to stop releasing fossil C02 in the air because it's inefficient. Inefficiencies on an individual scale don't matter, inefficiencies on a civilization wide scale add up quickly.

I don't see how flying, or doing any other rich person thing, reduces his credibility. Unless you believe dealing with climate change is going to make us all poorer, which it isn't.

If you're really all about hating rich people, then there's lots of "climate justice" projects aiming to help poor people and carbon taxes that replace regressive taxes would be a good thing to champion.
This is the constructivist school of IR, which says that nationalism can cause war.

We should not get wedded to a particular prism. They're all partly true.

Trade and treaties deter war to an extent (liberalism). Nationalism can sometimes be a major factor as in Iraq 2003 (constructivism). And sometimes it's actually about defense concerns, e.g. the Soviet-Finnish Winter War (realism). These are all partly true theories.
Caravanserai: Inns Along the Silk Road
This is a rich people toy, they'll have fresh clothes waiting at their destination...
What's a good search term for makers/retailers of "camera housings that are basically safes"?
I think you miss that one persons effort if collective done has an impact. So if everyone recycles or lowers their energy use it has impact. However if one person doesn't, that in and of itself won't change the trajectory, however if everyone did it would.

I'm sure there is some kind of name for this.
Just search Knuth organ on youtube an you get several hits
I played with the HTTP/2.0 only protection a while back but had legit users complain that the site wouldn't load (they were running old browsers).

How did you set up LUA scripting to provide a JS hidden browser test with Nginx and HAProxy?
It is an art installation. Every last detail of every art installation is "for clicks" (where not just for kicks).
Intel drivers have been filled with issues on 5.x.x, from frequent hungs to this.
both terms are widely used. sneakers and tennis shoes, soda and pop.
The people complaining about this generally don't believe in carbon offsets either.
self-removed for inaccuracy.
Printing (currency debasement) could be thought of as a form of soft default.
If it's a 10 hour window presumably most people are eating multiple meals, but it's not really underspecified since you can eat whenever you want during that time.

There are other people doing 4 hour windows for IF in which case it's more like a single meal, but that's not what this study tested.

(This is just explaining the idea, not advocating IF)
I mostly agree with your general point, but the US wouldn't default if China stopped buying US debt. The numbers are a little out of date, but in December 2021, China held $1.1 trillion out of $23.1 trillion in US debt, or just under 5%. [0]

There's extremely high demand for US debt as it's considered the safest bond in the world. All that would happen is interest rates might go up a bit, Congress raising taxes to make up a shortfall, or perhaps some kind of Fed intervention. Default is out of the question.

[0] https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RS22331.pdf
Holy shit, McCarthy has a new novel coming out Oct 25! Mark the day guys.
"Would it seriously have gone to anywhere else?"

Absolutely - Egypt.

Much larger population, more deeply entrenched data (phone) usage, and cable landings that are close, in hops, to European cable landings like Marseille.

During a lunch conversation years ago with init7 (European IP transit) engineers we discussed a fictional CDN and I, naively, threw out Dubai as a potential regional hub and they scoffed. Egypt is where the peering is.
They are good. They are not amazing. Radeon RX 6650 XT at $300 kind of spoils it for Intel. But they should help keep AMD pricing in check.
In Argentina is common knowledge considering our inflation as a form of taxation that does not need the creation of a concrete tax law.
Thanks for breaking down how this would actually work in practice. As an amateur player, I don't think I personally would be able to tell the difference between playing a much better player and a good bot, or a bad player and a bad bot.
...while also keep a number of network devices always connected, reachable and correctly configured.

Have one router break or someone disconnect one cable and your servers will power down.

"simple".
That I know of, this general idea dates back to Robert Heinlein's SF story The Man Who Sold The Moon, published in 1950.

Anyone know of an earlier source?
Having inflation does not cause your currency to get stronger.

The cause is simply that the US is well positioned and most other countries are not, so the demand for dollars is very high.
I love this idea. Do you have any specific courses you can point to?
Can you conceal carry a gun in Australia?
The $xxx I spent on my expensive science books in college have paid for themselves many times over. Not just in job opportunities- the chance to see summarized, organized information that represents the state of the art in 10+K of human years of knowledge gathering.
Honestly wonder how much of a HN crowd viewpoint that is. I'm not sure there's too much "correlation" between the two. Instead I'd say that if your job involves communication and data, then that necessitates decent visualisations and whatever "design skills" that entails.

Honestly, you don't need "design skills" to make a decent graph ... just the wherewithal to think about what would make a graph clearer/easier to understand the same we expect of ourselves with writing.
It's a data structure for unstructured data.
It's from Weber. Here's the relevant paragraph of Politics as a Vocation:

> 'Every state is founded on force,' said Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk. That is indeed right. If no social institutions existed which knew the use of violence, then the concept of 'state' would be eliminated, and a condition would emerge that could be designated as 'anarchy,' in the specific sense of this word. Of course, force is certainly not the normal or the only means of the state--nobody says that--but force is a means specific to the state. Today the relation between the state and violence is an especially intimate one. In the past, the most varied institutions--beginning with the sib--have known the use of physical force as quite normal. Today, however, we have to say that a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Note that 'territory' is one of the characteristics of the state. Specifically, at the present time, the right to use physical force is ascribed to other institutions or to individuals only to the extent to which the state permits it. The state is considered the sole source of the 'right' to use violence. Hence, 'politics' for us means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
Those all sound like examples of people who didn't realize what went into a house and bought one they couldn't afford.
Not a joke, my fingers and brain know vim and I don't. Often have to try it out to know what command I'm actually using.
Blood Meridian is like a poem, that is movie but in a form of a sculpture and in prose.
This project wraps `inotifywait`[0] which I didn't know about until just now. Really useful utility, thanks for sharing!

[0] - https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/inotifywait.1.html
Zendure SuperBase V 64 kWh solid-state energy storage system launches