skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, that's where you lose the discussion. You think motorists love huge parking lots or wide roads. They don't. They couldn't care less - they just want sufficient parking and sufficient travel lanes to get around. If there's one fast lane with less traffic, they'll be happier than 5 lanes of slow traffic. They don't want congestion, and are willing to support initiatives that reduce congestion. Right now, the only consistent initiative is either painting bike lanes in the middle of no where that no one will use or adding more car lanes.

But the frame of the discussion right now is to punish motorists for being motorists - they don't have a choice. They can't afford to live closer (or there's no options that give what they are looking for), and there's no safe, fast, or convenient way to any place they need to go without a car.

Give them a safe, fast, and convenient way from suburbia to downtown, and they'll support reducing highways into half their size. Right now, the discussion is "suburbia bad, car bad, you bad - be better"
Before "multiscan"/"multisync" CRTs, there were fixed mode CRTs which would break in one way or the other if the incoming signal had the wrong timings.

> My understanding is that monitors and/or graphics cards/drivers would reject potentially harmful configurations.

It's done in the monitor.
There might be energy everywhere, but there's not gas in Europe's gas pipelines and it gets really cold here in the winter.

Also, however "cookie cutter" coal power plants are, I doubt they can be spun up in months.
Didn't people, even Trump, say before that it is a bad idea to have only a single provider for a very important resource?
Highly exaggerated outcomes. But you can ameliorate increased heat, flooding, and pollution. You can’t fix freezing and starving to death. I’ll take the latter over letting humanity wither over some insane concept of “Mother Earth” as if a non-living planet cares or has thoughts and feelings. Earth will be fine - it is a rock. We only care about earth insofar it suits us. I don’t want humanity to die out and I don’t see humans as a cancer. We must thrive and grow and flourish and that requires energy.
> really? for mortgages?

https://www.commbank.com.au/home-loans/interest-rates.html

Check the fixed rate loans
You are now comparing Gates to a dictator in a country that brutally murders reporters for publishing critical pieces. Amongst other atrocities. I wouldn't give Bill G the time of day if on the street, but this is a pointless comparison.
I think thats a great book! I’ve read it too.

The irony is I learned about it from Bill Gates’s book list recommendations years ago.
Well as one of the last (meaning youngest) millenials, I grew up constantly being told MY generation was the entitled one. Participation trophies being the gold standard strawman argument, which was ironic given they were thrust upon us by the accusers.

To turn around and now call Gen Z the entitled one seems stupidly forgetful.
Those of us who were warning about this months ago were called Putin bots. EU needs to get their act together on energy (like wartime economy hair on fire emergency situation) or face serious deindustrialization and decrease in standards of living. Once you deindustrialize, it's hard to get it back (see Detroit and other similar places in the US and UK).
It can be empowering if you take it at face value. The obvious subtext is that it is something used to discourage the worker from seeking collective action or improving their working conditions. If you applied these ideas in real life we'd still be living with Victorian-style working conditions, and we'd be unable to do anything at all against structural economic problems that determine livelihoods way more than any personal responsibility or gumption.

Heck even the part about showing up early etc. to distinguish yourself is naïve even in the best light when you've spent time at a job.
Freezing to death versus possibly dying under a environmentalists future doomsday prediction is an easy and obvious choice.
Yes. No need to elaborate, the link speaks for itself.
Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
What you or I, or even Gates do in our personal lives has absolutely no effect on climate change.

Solutions or failures happen in other contexts. Gates does some real work in those.

The whole "I must recycle all my plastic bags or the planet will die" mentality is, to me, a weird form of delusion of grandeur. Seeing past that can be both freeing and depressing :)
Do comedy on Twitter.

This is half in jest, but I did find that when I did some amateur comedy on Twitter I focused more on making my tweets concise. Comedy is an economy of words and Twitter applies an upper bound. It was kinda fun, really.

I wonder if a similar approach is helpful? Learn to say what you need to say in few words, which might help avoid unintentional tone. …just be careful not to sound blunt.
I didn't know either, so I looked it up: The three initials stand for the three most important IT protection goals, often referred to as the "pillars of data security":

Confidentiality,

Integrity,

Availability.

There are other IT protection goals, including authenticity, privacy, reliability, and (non)repudiation.
Why do people excuse ideas they don't like as "bureaucracy"? It makes me sad.
Lol, Larry and Gary. Man, some parents. Maybe there’s a Barry too
America dropped 2 atomic bombs on live civilians and now they fear mongering the world into a new nuclear war. I think this beats everything and every argument for giving them the keys to owning the "peace of the world" but somehow you seem to hate russia more than facts.
And because you have sprints, you create lots and lots of small tasks, then focus on them, and then team members forget the "big picture" of how everything should fit together in the end (if they were ever aware of it). And when all of those small tasks are done, you notice that the sum of all those parts is not what you set out to build initially, and you need more time to shape it into something that resembles what you wanted to have.

To avoid this scenario, it takes really dedicated project managers, product owners and lead developers, and not everyone has those...
It would be interesting if the thing wrong with the "eyes are just cameras" logic was the subtle differences. Like how retinas are not flat, but concave or the way our eyes continuously reposition to fill in gaps in our vision. Such differences seem incidental or compensatory, but it's not impossible that our brain is able to make better distance/position judgements because of them.

The other missing piece is just how good the brain is at object recognition and persistence. A huge advantage when you have a 2d image and you need to gauge distance (at least partially) by size or when you need to avoid a moving obstacle by predicting its trajectory.
There was a cooperative agreement between the USSR and host country Cuba in 1962 to move nuclear missiles to 90 miles from the US mainland.
Always consult a lawyer with experience on these matters, interpretation of open source licenses is different in different jurisdictions.

In countries based on roman law (non-US, non-UK, non-Commonwealth):

When the code is on github marked as under the Apache-2.0 license by the copyright holder, then it is reasonable to assume that the Apache-2.0 license is applicable for your usage of that source code.

The compiled binaries are a different matter, especially when provided by the copyright holder themselves since they have the legal power to decide on different licenses for the same code.

So in principle a fork is legally possible with the intention of removing the EULA message. In case the copyright holders complain about such action, then the code should not be considered Apache-2.0 as advertised and such entities can be accused of fraud.
I'm not aware of any major discoveries that have come about from this technique. Can someone correct me?

I'd accept:

- elucidating a new signal transduction pathway

- discovering an uncharacterized enzyme

- measuring a biochemical constant of a known molecule (Kd e.g.)

- discovering a new drug target that then gets exploited
For a further bit of nostalgia, the page itself is archived from another site by using the program Teleport Pro, which is also from about the same time. This can be discovered by trying to follow the bottom link to Webalizer's site.

(Coincidentally, looking for a modern alternative to Teleport, particularly on Mac, is a surprisingly fruitless endeavour—at least if one has grown to limit themselves to open-source software. Meanwhile I expect at least two of the sites I sometimes use to go belly-up soonish.)

As for Webalizer itself: one of my first jobs was to make a log analyzer in Perl, and since I knew almost nothing about performant file access, string splitting and data crunching, the resulting code ran fairly slowly. So iirc I soon found Webalizer as the replacement, since it was written in C and by more competent people. Or perhaps I chose AWStats, can't remember.

(Come to think of it, the Perl thing might run okayish by now, since it was a stock Perl loop over the lines with a regular expression—bad but not fatal. Now I'll have to find the cd with the encrypted archives and figure out what was wrong with the code, dammit.)
They failed the execution but the idea itself is good. If ot males it easier to setup a new computer I'm all for it.
My team switched from Scrumban to full Kanban last month, and it's the best thing we ever did. Everything just feels so much more natural and fluid now that we don't have sprints anymore.

FWIW, Scrumban wasn't bad either, and it was way better for us than full Scrum would have been. The reason we switched was because we were basically operating like a Kanban team already, and the sprints were just arbitrary lines in the sand. We regularly had either a) tickets crossing over into multiple sprints or b) sprints we cleared out so fast that we had to start pulling tickets from the next one into the current one. And even after the switch to full Kanban we've kept the few Scrummy stuff that we like, such as biweekly retros.
As a reference, Boston averages 60 inches, which would put it at the lowest scale on this map. So, even the milder regions are still quite cold and snowy!
> "Oh, you can do it like THAT?! I was not aware. I'll take a shot at implementing the feature using that approach."

Next performance review, your manager goes: It seems like you're not really aware of a lot of techniques of how to solve problems efficiently. Maybe you should do more pairing with the other seemingly much better developers to strengthen your skills. And now you've cornered yourself as a junior for the next 2 years, who was "hired on the wrong level".

All of this is assuming that the team members will prioritise the performance of the team higher than their own performance, of which there are no incentives. The incentives is to make yourself look as good as possible (don't admit your idea is inferior), and skew the playing field to your advantage (insist on using the tools you know best) etc.

People simply don't spontaneously cooperate and simply don't "just get along" in a situation like this.

Even in hippie communities where everything is voluntary and there is no personal gain to be had, it still falls apart because some people just don't cooperate.

So how do you expect that to happen in a situation with money involved, and competition between people?

Why do the software industry and scrum think they have spontaneously discovered how people always just get along, inside a basic weekly planning schedule? That would literally be a nobel peace prize right there.
They are nominated by the Council and confirmed by the Parliament, it's cheap populism to imply they don't represent the public at large.
If that's the case, isn't that still crappy manager, if the manager below can't make the decisions necessary?
This is the dumbest take on Climate Change and I can't believe the HN crowd falls for it.

Thought Experiment:

Say, Bill Gates (and other VIPs) is respected enough that he can convert 5 Skeptics out a 100 Climate Deniers. So, In order for the successful climate actions Bill Gates has to change the minds of say 10,000 leaders in various positions across the world. That means he effectively has to meet 200,000 people across the globe.

If Climate Change is important, and you want quick action, do you want Bill Gates (and others) to

a) jet around the globe and try to convince 200,000 people in 5 years

or

b) Bicycle around the globe and try to convince 200,000 people in 50 years

Only a moron would suggest (b). I expect TikTokers and Redditors to pick option (b) as they are easily swayed by "Hurr Durr, Bill Gates Jets" arguments.
Blind optimism sounds like marketing. Actual optimism grounded in some sort of reality just sounds like regular conversation.
Which advocates in particular?
Why do you think buying a beach homes implies they don't believe what they are saying?
Are you arriving at the most convenient conclusion for yourself, rather than the most likely one?
And independent both from Russia and the US with energy.
I'm tired of seeking, testing and waiting for the 'right' notetaking tool, it's been years and damn I just want something like Onenote but open source and there isn't, I could cope with an old version that felt so perfect at the time, then they screwed up, just that view with the notes on the side, damn it.
Currently I just keep markdown notes in directories, I do have a self-hosted GetOutline.com instance which has been working surprisingly well, even the responsive mobile version, yet I'd like to have this same nice looking editor with files in my drive instead of a db, don't need any of the collab options.
Yes, people like predictable.

Tell management every project will take a month, and meet that expectation, then management will be happy.

While someone else who takes the same work and says it’ll take one week then is consistently 2 days late will be viewed as less effective.

So, by squeezing people into a guaranteed timeframe, in a mini death march aka sprint, you are forcing people to make [very] conservative estimates.

For larger companies this might be preferred, but I would argue, smaller companies should try to move faster.
Mohammed bin Salman’s public position is that global warming is real and dangerous and he has pledged that Saudi Arabia will be carbon neutral by 2060. I think if you wanted to make a case that he’s a hypocrite, there’s ample evidence out there.

But then the real question is why hypocrisy is so bad. All of us are hypocrites in different ways, on different things. Why is being a hypocrite on climate change worse than being wilfully ignorant?
After working with many methodologies, I think the most important thing is: regardless of which methodology you team is using, stick to the rules and deviate as less a possible from that, otherwise after some years, nobody understands the methodology in place, and people have real issues to follow it.
The Oldest Game, in link format? That's actually pretty clever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZOwaeAEIw0
Before software, hardware had more limited usage scope. A music box can play any song, provided the right "file", the same way an analog computer can simulate anything within the capabilities of its hwardare, with the right set of wires and dials.
Then why is everyone whining?
Responses from a local...

> - Inconsistent electricity supply (brown outs are somewhat common)

No serious data center in South Africa is affected by this. All have batteries and diesel generators.

> - Poor physical infrastructure (at least a decade ago, copper cable theft was common)

Luckily copper theft affects DC's and fibre less. With redundancies it is manageable.

> - Business-unfriendly practices - I don't have the exact details, but you often have to run things through a local company with sufficient black representation. Sounds innocent enough, but does create a monopoly you have to deal with. Effectively a tax or bribe depending on perspective.

Yes this is a long term problem with South Africa. It stems from the ruling party (ANC) being super corrupt and embracing victim mentality to shift the blame. But there are often ways around Black Economic Empowerment not involving bribes.

> - Poor connectivity to the rest of the world (slowly getting there with more fibre cables arriving)

There are tons of cables now. We rarely see international outages. Since COVID also a couple of additional redundancies.

> - (Edit) Severe water shortages, at least a couple years ago in Cape Town.

I don't think this affected DC's much. And it's not like we had empty taps. I remember just using sprinklers less and topping up my swimming pool from roof-collected water instead of drinking water. Water shortage is hopefully being addressed long term and reservoirs are mostly full.
> to become the safe haven currency that all other countries are hoarding

Probably because most of the oil is traded in dollars.
> I mean, think about the software you use. Of all the shops that produce that software, which ones do you trust more than others? I'd be willing to be it's the ones that delivery predictably. At the very least the ones that deliver updates reliably - as in they do what they say.

Of the software I use (slack, cloud infra, vim, Jira) exactly none of them tell me precisely when a feature will be delivered. They work hard on it and release it when it's ready.

A deadline like "in a few weeks" is acceptable. A deadline like "in 17 days" is asking to be missed.
I do love a good torch, and I keep one on me most of the time.

However, I meant non-illuminated phone camera. The new low light sensors combined with AI is incredible. They can see things when it looks pitch black to me.

Also not sure how opening a camera is finicky, just double tap the power button and it opens for me, and turning on the flash takes two taps - though I rarely use the flash.
These are the EPA limits for semiconductor fabs: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2008-07-22/E8-16746

You’re free to live wherever you choose.
They thought peace is more stable when both sides are economically intertwined.

And that is also the case.
What options would there be against Russia without the possibility of economic sanctions?

War!
And not only in Ukraine
And, mind you, we don't have an availability problem, we have a price problem. One that is caused by Russia's refusal to sell gas to Europe, one that hurts energy intensive industries at a time energy markets in general are disturbed to unrelated reasons, right after a pandemic that disrupted supply chains in the middle of global inflation.

But yeah, Germany's refusal to buy gas from the US after Trump said they should is the root cause of all of that.
> ... but are motivated by altruism, passion, recognition, etc.

The real question here is, is that sustainable? No body can survive on just these three, that's the reality here.

Altruism dies down, passion runs out, recognition fades off. Then what? Eventually, rationality kicks in and then you'll have a Sorry letter detailing why some repository that you probably already forgot ever existed now needs a new maintainer.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a completely self-centered person. In fact, I created a few FOSS projects myself, and I also put in my efforts just to make my users happy (well, some of the time), it's all done free of any charge. But to me, altruism is still extremely harmful, and should almost never be relied upon. On the same note, passion and recognition too must be justified to be productive, and then verified to be effective.

Also, let's don't ignore the fact that, even though some founder/maintainers of FOSS projects don't actually need to be reward by money, monetized support is the only realistic help most people welling/capable to contribute. So if the founder/maintainer accepts it, why not?
What "things" are you talking about, and most importantly, how is that "tiring" beyond just getting older?

Any time I hear someone talk about how everyone is tired now and they weren't before it smacks of "I'm the main character" syndrome in that they're going through the same thing every generation on Earth has gone through for millennia - getting older - but suddenly it's a crisis because it's them going through it.
in my experience - if you have a good team, it makes zero difference what methodology you use, they will deliver a decent or better product - conversely, if your team sucks, it also doesn't matter what methodology you use - the end product will be poor, if it works at all.

All the ceremonies in the world aren't going to change either of those things.
what is the ELi5 for Compressed Air Energy Storage - is it what it sounds like, just a massive pressure tank, energy being tapped by releasing the pressure?
I don’t buy this at all. What’s complex about weaning the continent off of Russian energy 8 years ago rather than all at once in a few years’ time? How is “dependence on Russian energy” a scapegoat? And the “hindsight is 20/20” action would have been arming Ukraine to the hilt 8 years ago—weaning off of Russian energy requires no such hindsight.
Oh my god! No, no, no, the author does not understand the purpose of sprints.

Assuming the originator of the concept of a sprint is Scrum (and it's a big assumption; normally I'd check, but I am lazy and somebody is clearly wrong on the internet), then the purposes of sprints are:

- to set a regular cadence/rhythm to work, and to set up periodic checkpoints for inspection of the done product and adaptation of the work that follows
- within a sprint, to produce a done increment that brings the team closer to the product
- by the end of the sprint, to allow stakeholders to inspect the done increment, to observe if anything is being done wrong or in the wrong order, to collect the feedback, and adjust, if necessary, the plans against the reality
- and then to repeat the same over the next iteration, and the next, and the next
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Being unrelenting on Russia invading Ukraine is a strategic measure to make further war in Europe unlikely.

I don't think there's a politician who didn't see that sanctioning Russia could lead to an unstable oil and gas situation, but on the whole it was deemed worth it (and in polls most people seem to agree).
I wouldn’t invest significant time or energy into anything that is primarily driven or funded by Google until it’s very established and somehow making them a boatload of money.
I think you are generally right. I used to teach physics at the university (and do research).

The actual, practical use of anything you learn at school is close to zero. There are a few life-sustaining topics that should be addressed (of my head: what is electrical power and current (to be safe and understand your bills), percentages, some biology (reproduction, and generally - human body), geography (rather detailed for your own country, tahns more and more general), etc.)

The problem is that many of these topics require at least a basic introduction that is not directly useful, but necessary to understand the rest.

You also need to account for the maturity of the student, and would like to start early.

All this means that by 15 you should have everything you need to be ready for everyday life.

I guess 16 is an average age until which education is compulsory by law. Unfortunately the education provided by then is not they useful, per your (again - reasonable) criteria.

The main obstacle I see is that except for a few brilliant students, you have a lot who start late. They are medium to say the least until 16 and then suddenly take off. A 14 yo doe snot have an idea about what to do later (and despite this we force them to make choices at 14 in France).

So overall al lot of things could be improved, but that would mean fundamentally altering the way school works (everyone is equal and gets the same education)