skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fastmail's status page has historically been pretty good.
That's what people have thought. A small yield (.5-1kT) to destroy a Ukrainian army base would not warrant a full-scale nuclear response, but would show the world they are willing to cross that line in the sand. Are the US/EU ready for that?

Things are going to get "interesting".
This mentality worked for the past 40 years but it won't work for the next 40 years.
> but why not also have a textual link or icon pointing to your feed!?

Sure. I was only providing my perspective, the perspective of a RSS feed aggregator writer. To me, automatic discovery is more important than an icon.

I am not sure you and I are talking about the same thing. I am against appending random query string to an otherwise perfectly fine url because it adds to the burden of the feed aggregator if it wants to de-duplicate the links gathered from various sources. Of course you are free to append anything to the URLs on your website for any purposes.
I will never forget the words of a previous tenant of mine. The profile is silicon valley worker, remote outside the us due to the pandemic, total “comp” 500k: “i dont invest in real estate because its too much hassle and i made my money on the stock market with shares earned from my employer”. Fast forward to the onset of the market crash, my real estate sold, his “portfolio” down one million. I feel sorry for him but i am glad i went the only way that can’t fail (unless there’s excessive taxation): real estate. You dont get rich but boy am i doing fine.

Getting back to your question, i’d wait it out. Markets go up and down all the time.
Yes because in the 1940s the cost of distribution was high and production was high. Currently there are over a half a dozen large streaming services in the US.

If we are going to apply standards in the 40s to a completely different era, let’s apply laws that were meant to govern horses to cars.
I agree and experience the same. This is actually what makes vim's record and repeat so cool. Sometimes as I'm executing something I realizer there is a pattern and start recording. Two attempts later I'm done formatting a big block of text.
It's not about necessity, it's about convenience. It could be argued that you don't need a mouse to navigate a web page either (there are VIM plugins for web browsers), but a mouse is much more user friendly and easier to use. Sure, you can practice for days with VIM and get really fast at selecting pieces of code in the screen and jumping around with just a few keystrokes... or you can use a mouse.

I like VIM, it is my favourite editor, but I can understand why some people just don't see the appeal. At least for me, the bottlenecks in productivity don't come with how fast I can type code.
This is true, but in reality what happens a team has estimated that 40 points of work is need to reach the point that management has requested, for a 30point capacity sprint, it always ends up being a discussion with the team about “scaling down estimation” and never a discussion about “how do we break it to management that what they have requested is impossible to achieve”
What happens if you go to an insecure site like http://neverssl.com/ on the same device and browser?
Rhapsody let you pick specific albums. And, honestly, I mostly use streaming to play curated playlists these days.
When I switched over to Fastmail, my intent was to use clients for reading and composing. As soon as I started using the web interface, I realized it was better than running a separate mail application.

On iOS is still use the default Mail app, but on my two desktops the web app is fantastic.
So what you’re saying is that you didn’t need the nanny state to step in and you were able to make your own choices what to do with your money and your time?
A minor detail, but I really enjoyed when he wrote "spaceship".
Perhaps they meant in Greece specifically?
Not OP, but I've been using vim for 20+ years and I get enormous utility out of the mouse wheel for scrolling - especially with a trackpoint.

I spend an enormous amount of time _reading_ code and I want to move up and down quite a lot, but C-U/C-D move too fast (losing mental context) and C-E/C-Y are too slow and RSI-inducing; the wheel very easily allows you to encode an additional "velocity" dimension that the keyboard simply doesn't have.

When reading code, the mouse also allows you to navigate reasonably effectively using only one hand, leaving the other hand free for sipping coffee and taking notes.
22 TB drives also exist. Slam 10 of those into a NAS and you’re good for a while.
That's a really fair concern, in fact it's one that's bitten me quite a few times. Can't count the times I stared at a page waiting for an update, only to realize I'm looking at production, or vice versa.

This why I ended up building a small UI overlay to show the current preview and allow exiting the preview and switching between prod/dev modes (in fact I just shipped this yesterday in preparation for the launch since I knew it would make a huge difference to developer experience).

This is not in the demo because it was recorded a while ago, but take a look at this Live Preview I just created to see what it looks like: https://reflame.app/~r/start-preview/?mode=development&varia...
I’d argue that people don’t actually comprehend consequence very well, and I sincerely doubt we do it much better than some other species. We have priorities which overwhelm our ability to reason well and self-serving tendencies which seem to exacerbate this problem.

We’re good at technology but woefully bad at many things.

I’m not aiming to argue here, especially not to suggest we shouldn’t be accountable. I suppose I think we give ourselves too much credit and other species not enough. We are objectively bad, especially collectively, at making good choices for the world we inhabit. It’s evidently a deficiency of our species.
Venmo is owned by PayPal, not a competitor to PayPal.
To be fair, it’s Jim Blinn, one of the pioneers of computer graphics, so his admission could be read as a polite way of saying that AG as studied by mathematicians is needlessly abstract and lacking any real-world applications :)
It forces internet usage to be attached to real identities, in order to make sure your not breaking the laws with children, and all the bad, bad consequences that can come from that.

And if you don't see how that can be an issue, you have lived a blessed life where you or your family & friends were not prosecuted by violent authoritarian governments arms, that exist in liberal democracies today or discriminated against for minority attribute X, both of which exist even in Scandinavia today.
> Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms.

Wait 'til you find out that those "microorganisms" are themselves machines...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_machine#Biological
> 100 TB of raw data

Surely the raw data is input, so ingress costs, which is free?

The problem is if you have large amounts of intermediate data, and you want to transfer that somewhere else to continue analysis. Then it's "expensive". So the logical conclusion is to do all the work on the cloud, so you never have egress costs. That causes anxiety, sure. That said, 100TB costs $1000 to egress, assuming that your $50M/yr covers a Verizon 10GB/s line.

These opinions are my own and not those of my employer or former employer.
The Crusader Kings series focuses primarily on individuals, their traits, their dynasty, managing your court and vassals, rather than focusing on nations. This means that the game is less of a grand strategy title, and more of a role-playing game. At it's core, you scheme, you wage war and you play the diplomacy game by marrying and allying.

I just had a playthrough in CK2 AGOT (A Song of Ice and Fire mod), where I role-played as a lunatic obsessed with religion, burning people, sleeping with other people's wives and having incest relations to expand my bloodline while keeping it pure. Vanilla CK2 (and CK3) are all about this moment to moment character driven gameplay.

EU doesn't really focus on the individuals as much, and it's more of a traditional RTS game if you will, with resource managing as its core, rather than character roleplay.

EDIT: Should probably mention that the time period is also very different, but mechanically, they're different games. Same with Hearts of Iron or Victoria. They all look somewhat similar, but they all have their own quirks that set them apart from each other in terms of gameplay.
Like you I tend to agree that the effort delivering front end projects often seems to outweigh the value added over recent years. I can think of half a dozen projects I've seen over the last few years where the effort teams put into figuring out stacks of new tools was an order of magnitude greater than the value added (and most of the projects failed to deliver or became haunted forests soon afterwards which is even worse!) It's not sustainable, businesses are wasting far too much money and too many talented developers are left feeling inadequate.

The most important thing in any organisation is to ensure teams are setup to succeed - that means they're using tools which enable them to work efficiently, ship easily and reliably, and their work can be maintained in future.

With that in mind, my advice would be:

1. Ensure there is a process where new tools are scrutinised by peers. I always push developers and teams to explain their tech choices in terms of the value added and often as we dig into this together the justifications melt away. Asking for a timeboxed proof of concept can also be effective - battling toolchain woes and trying to manipulate tools into solving the problems a team actually has often helps lead to better decision making (think https://boringtechnology.club/)

2. Try to work in organisations where developers can be close to their users and are empowered to suggest new features and self serve analytics data. Teams able to build empathy with their users and are motivated to solve problems for those users are more likely to favour choices which provide value quickly - this is a big nudge towards making simpler choices.

3. Give developers space for learning and experimenting. Whilst tempting, picking up a suite of new tools to deliver each new project is a really crap way to encourage self development because those new tools will more often be a big distraction than a force multiplier. Many developers are highly motivated by trying out new tools and frameworks, and some of those might lead to something great in future, so give developers the time and space to try them and make sure their learnings are shared with the team to help level them up too.
Yes, but with a twist: this giant machine worries about its future, its kids, its wealth, its financial assets.
Arguably, "one party" in this sense could mean "rulers."
Some people seem to think all slang terms for cultural groups are automatically derogatory. A sizable proportion of people from the US get offended that people from Latin America call them “gringos” too (which is ridiculous IMO).
Have a Neovim config file in Lua that imports / evals your standard Vimrc.
Try 400
It’s certainly an exaggeration, but there are a billion or so military age people in the world, and millions of people waiting in the U.S. visa backlog. I would not be surprised if such a program was very popular.
Don't you have more protection with credit cards than with debit cards?
https://archive.ph/eweJT

Of course I don't blame the business- if there is a demand for this then someone will exploit it. Somehow the idea has a snowpiercer vibe though, with the people up front living in abject luxury and making the rest eat bugs, which is certainly the road we seem to be on
This comment thread is a great resource for movie pirating sites.
Yep, the Strategic Disaster Reserve is well topped up.
Your entire argument rests on conflating law with ethics. Those are very much not the same thing. We can go through a litany of old laws that were unethical, and suggesting that those who lacked the ability to change those laws were thus morally subject to them is not only false, but extremely unethical.
>Why does this happen?

I wrote about a hypothesis here: https://medium.com/@scott.stevenson/how-to-finally-make-some...

Most of us are scared by the ambiguity of actual creative work, so unless we are under the threat of deadline, we seek out "structured games" to play so that we can put off the anxiety of freeform work. These games are:

(1) Tool Game: Researching and setting up tools
(2) Learning Game: Books, podcasts, courses
(3) Maintenance Game: Cleaning up our desktop, desk, house, etc.
(4) Process Game: Setting up new processes and following them

The knowledge that things are actually easy and straightforward means we actually need to do the creative part of the work--many people are not ready to face that knowledge.
Was this all based on a incorrect legalistic reading of some rules or did they actually say anything in the first place?
I would not call any of those growth at this point, nor are they companies with strong fundamentals.

Like, just my pov - but their years of growth are done and the competition is in.
There's usually a process to handle negative information that comes up.

Court and police record keeping is poor and identities aren't always verified --- if someone is arested and doesn't have ID, but it's not worth charging them with anything, you let them go in the morning, and file it under whatever info they gave.

So any big company has gotten false positives and knows how to deal with it. Depending on the details, they may delay or pause employment while the background check company does the legwork to get more details on the negative information to see if they can determine if it's actually you.
In short, outside of the time period, CK3 is focused on characters, rulers of kingdoms, counts etc. Whereas EU4 has that aspect very much abstracted away (you embody the state not a person)
It makes CK3 a mix of RPG and strategy.
The Federal Reserve launched Operation Twist on September 21, 2011.

It's only wise to buy stocks when the Federal Reserve is printing money or you know that they will print money.
> But isn't inflation measured by some kind of average price index?

CPI (Consumer Price Index) is often used to measure inflation, but is an imperfect measure. First, it only measures the prices of household consumption, not wages, business expenses, etc. Second, as this BLS article says: "The CPI has been criticized for having both an upward bias (overstating inflation) and a downward bias (understating inflation). Much of the criticism asserting an upward bias comes from the academic community. In 1995, Congress, aware of such criticism, commissioned a group of academic economists, led by Michael Boskin, to study and report on the CPI. The resulting study, titled "Toward A More Accurate Measure Of The Cost Of Living" (but often referred to as the Boskin Report), summarized the viewpoint that the CPI was upwardly biased. The report asserted that the CPI overstated inflation because of three main reasons: it omitted consumer substitution, did not fully account for quality change, and failed to properly reflect the addition of new goods. BLS has introduced some methodological changes since the report came out in 1996. Although these changes were intended to make the CPI more accurate, some think that they have introduced a downward bias."

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-1/consumer-price-index-d...

> Is it possible to measure "how much money public will want to hold"?

No, not directly. We can only measure proxies, then debate how useful the proxies are.

The more holistic a metric is, the better a gauge of inflation it is. To the extent it measures relative price changes, rather than total-market price changes (including the price of labor), it may incorporate economic effects other than inflation. One flaw of the CPI for serving as a complete measure of inflation is right there in the name: Consumer Price.
> So the government should step in because there is not enough competition with eight+ streaming services? They are already competing to get content deals from producers and studios.

You're missing the point. The proposal is to split competition in the single integrated market of content+distribution into two separate markets, one for content and a separate one for distribution.

The point is that by bundling the two of them together you're reducing competition, because just by simple mathematics there are fewer companies capable of both compared to companies that specialise in one. Content production is a hard industry, so is distribution.

> Are you saying that it should be illegal for any distributor to also produce shows?

The proposal is that distributors will have to split their business into two independent businesses. If there's a local news channel, then it gets split into a local news producer and a general distributor that also distributes other things.

The internet has already done that for the most part though, it used to be that newspapers were the exclusive distributors and thus could maintain a local monopoly on local news. The internet swept that away and now anybody could get local news from anywhere else on earth.

The linked article is lamenting that the trend is reversing, such that distributors are once again the same people as the content producers.

> Let’s not stop at TV. It should also be illegal for websites to pay writers to produce content and newspapers to hire reporters and editors to produce exclusive content.

That's a strawman. Nobody's saying it should extend past TV, please debate the idea on its own merits.
Or tricked into worrying about that as a control signal to perform its main task in service of its microorganism operators ;)
DALL·E 2 vs. $10 Fiverr Commissions
Big thumbs up to the Landmark Histories project (http://thelandmarkancienthistories.com/). Excellent production value making reading these histories much more managable -- you're 100% right on the frequent maps and good appendixes.

Don't have Anabasis, but Herodotus was excellent.
Yes, the interesting question is how they did this.
Actually linux distro package repo have the list and the way to compile and load into system for obvious reasons. (Otherwise how do they compile the wifi drivers for themselves?)

But no one is even going to say how to actually do it publicly because it is illegal to do (and probably also unsafe to do).
Shame that you don't need senior backenders. I just finished a very toxic contract and I'm looking for more stable employment. And I'm very interested in the area that Noco is serving.

But still, if you need a very practical guy with 20 years of career who is now mainly working with Elixir and Rust, give me a ping.
Faster as in having something newer than Quake 2 run with 120 on modern hardware?

By the time we have ray/path traced global illumination in a $current_year game, all of my hair would be white
There are only three major studios and music costs a lot less to produce. There are also various release windows for movies where studios can get paid multiple times.

Also Spotify is losing money and can never be truly profitable with 70% of everything they make contractually going back to the labels. Subscription music is a sucky business and it only makes sense as a feature for a larger platform
Wouldn't caching verification data require the endpoints to hold user sessions? Thus, if the government withheld verification services for a user, wouldn't it prevent that user from creating new independent sessions on their current endpoints, as well as preventing that user from verifying on new endpoints?
> Regarding letting customers talk, the teams that were most successful had great salesforce hygiene,

CRM hygiene is not correlated with sales success in my experience, but I’ll grant that might be different depending on the market segmentation a given sales rep works in (specifically, it is more important the smaller and thus more numerous a set of customers that a sales rep covers.) I’m a sales manager of a team that has consistently, over a period of several years, been the #1 revenue producer for a large cybersecurity company. Our reps have atrocious CRM hygiene. I spend a ridiculous amount of time chasing them to do the bare minimum to keep the people who care about CRM hygiene off our backs and to handle the one part of the CRM data set that is actually important (accurate opportunity forecast categories are commonly used to drive product demand/manufacturing/capacity planning forecasts.)

> Likely they were evaluated as sales representatives based on the quality of the data that they provided in Salesforce as well as quota attainment.

Sales reps are judged on things like “quality of data provided in Salesforce” only when their quota attainment is poor. There’s a reason nobody on my team has been fired or seriously reprimanded for basically ignoring the CRM for years. It would be like firing Tom Brady for not writing down a play by play analysis of each game.
This is basically my guess. In the event of no mitigations you have to pessimistically flush TLB. In the case of mitigations the flush only has to happen in specific instances, which PCID significantly helps with but requires cooperation from both hardware and software.

So maybe even something like "if PCID is not set, flush the cache" vs "if PCID changes, flush the cache".

I think that would certainly account for this, and they could have improved the performance with PCID by increasing the PCID cache size.
It is absolutely my favorite and very different than most UIs out there. I wish more UIs were like FastMail. It is super snappy.
I want to come back to this comment later and try these out. Thanks
Mentioned by most, still another vote for K&R "The C Programming Language" - for the sheer joy of it! It still puts a smile on my face recalling how much fun it made learning C. :-) Don't think I've read as measured and not-boring for another language since. Close to as much fun to read was maybe Steve Maguire's "Writing Solid Code". Not strictly about learning C, but the examples are all in C. (some people dislike it's K&R not ANSI C)
Two bayesians can come up with different answers if they use different priors, there are rarely clear-cut rules for choice of prior (if there is a commonly accepted value, how much weight do you put on it?). Two frequentists can come up with different answers if they define their ensembles differently. A frequentist and a bayesian can come up with the same answer if the implicit prior built in to the ensemble matches the explicit prior adopted by the bayesian.

Since bayesians understand that they can't trace back their probability updates all the way back to a single ultimate prior, they do not actually talk about distributions over the quantity of interest either. Ultimately it's the same as what a frequentist would do.

When a bayesian lets a somewhat arbitrarily adopted prior stand in for the "ultimate prior," so that they can interpret their answer as a distribution over the variable of interest, they are not doing anything differently from when a frequentist fudges the exact concepts and treats their answer about the degree to which the model would predict the measured outcomes as if it was the probability of the model being true.

There are no schools of statistics that offer an unqualified "probability that the model is true," and that may be philosophically impossible AFAIK.
> Why does this happen?

A few answers already but let me add one: Complex technologies favour seniors who are capable of understanding the complexity, over juniors who might struggle more. And it's seniors who make the decisions on what technology to use, so I think it's "rational" if they (even subconsciously) make choices which benefit them. They don't want to get replaced by cheaper juniors.
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