skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
naw, it is probably based on the assumption that the payout can be life-changing big.

risking pocket change to win big is quasi-reasonable, even though it is a loosing bet. Because you don't notice the downside/drawdowns.

risking more than pocket change is not reasonable, because it is a loosing bet.

NB: I don't play the lottery.
Amazon is a big company. Need to preface that with what department.

E.g. Alexa might be getting headcount trimmed. But other areas might see influx of investment. some Amazon teams had reduced PIP over the last year as well.
> it did happen because of things he, and his contemporaries dreamed up

Well yes and no. The common root of all evil behind all the bank runs and market crashes throughout the last 100 years is monetary inflation. It is not a coincidence that the worst economic crises happened after the installation of the Federal Reserve.

For a good general overview on this topic I recommend reading „The Ethics of Money Production“.
> However, if you're actually a talented engineer these languages will hamstring you and your art.

Early in my career I thought of software as art. I was wrong.

The very last thing I want in any production software team is an artist looking to express themselves. I want the worlds most talented engineers who want to use consistent proven methods to create solid maintainable code with zero surprises.

Code as art has its place, granted, but that place is in the privacy of your own time in a repository with one single contributor. I occasionally still go back to writing lisp for fun, but it has no place in production.
Why create waste when it's not necessary?
Meta verse could be the next big thing and the long shot facebook needs.

It just happened that out of their control
1. Apple squeezed them out of ads revenue
2. Market went to shit

I hate Facebook as a company but I don’t see them making strategic mistakes…. Everyone is getting fired everywhere
> does D do that?

Yes:

c_longlong square(c_long x) {
static assert(c_longlong.sizeof > c_long.sizeof);
return cast(c_longlong)x * x;
}
LINE is DM-first. I'm aware that WeChat hosts a lot of memes like the "foreigners who won't follow zero covid policies are trash" one, so I know it must be public facing. Therefore WeChat probably would be a more apt comparison.
If I understand the simple Australian guide bellow correctly anyone who knows your name and home address can vote in your place. The only good thing about it is that abuse of that probably doesn't scale well.

https://www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/Publications/easy-read/file...
Yunohost : +1
It actually depends on the size of the pot. There have been times where there was positive expectancy.

[0]: https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/saturday-fun-...
I would pay more to not cover everything in toxic crap.
> How much is permanent ownership over a given plot of land worth?

> the government pays massive subsidies (public services) to make your land more valuable

Most of us have to pay taxes on property we own every year, pay for many of the public services (water, sewer, trash, etc.), and the benefits returned from taxes (like roads and police) are generally not worth the amount paid in a strict sense.

If you think a plot of land is oh so valuable, may I suggest you invest in some remote plots in Nevada, as there is no shortage, and they are quite inexpensive...
I wish we had your system.
RealityLabs is a $10billion initiative with only about $2 in revenue (Quest 2 headsets come from here).

RealityLabs Research is a large component and indeed the major R&D investment. This was spun out during the 2021Q4 earnings call when the different sectors of the company were reported separately for the first time, following the name change to Meta.
I can truly empathize. I’ve never wasted so much of my time on a vendor. It’s infuriating and certainly not worth the personal stress and agony. It shouldn’t be this hard!
I agree.

But the butthurt side of me wants to say: let those who wish for unsafety be unsafe.
> There's any number of companies saddled with their main systems being built in the weird assed framework that the fourth-to-last CTO decided was a good idea, and those companies are now stuck with the problem.

I'm going with this as the problem statement, and it is a problem, but I submit that being saddled with a technology is a cultural problem, not a technical one. Related: Conway's Law Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

> If you are the person deciding which technologies to use, you should probably be using the most mainstream thing you can, not the coolest newest thing that you read on Hacker News.

This solution does not address the problem statement, and so will sometimes be a good answer, but only by accident, and makes the same mistake as choosing "the coolest new thing on Hacker News". Choosing a technology to address a specific challenge is not always easy or obvious, but takes thought, humility, consideration, familiarity with the options, probably even a team decision. A manager that just top-down decides for the engineers is doing it wrong, whatever they choose.
That's why the GP is calling for enforcing them.
That 9% is assuming that the data gathering is perfect, that all people responsible in such an incident are breathalysed (it's not unknown for someone else to claim to be the driver/hunter in alcohol related incidents), and that the alcohol measurement took place soon enough to be useful.

And all that aside, if you can reduce that 9%, then that's less death and suffering, so why not do so?
You wrote: <<Google's cash reserves are in USD.>> I tried to search for confirmation of this fact. I cannot find anything. Do you have a source? And, can anyone confirm if you can pay for Google services using non-USD? I assume yes. I cannot believe that Google is selling adverts in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan and not accepting local currency. Also, Google has many, many employees overseas (ex-US), so they need lots of non-USD to pay local employees and expenses (office space, etc.).
Interesting... Next step, using natural selection, how good of a fencer can a cyborg plant become?
This is what I remember, and I'm not going to use all of their stupid jargon.

The core concept of Dfinity was supposed to be that they allowed developers to deploy secure Docker-like containers to anyone participating. It was a two-sided market, and the protocol was the market maker: hosts would join the network, which would earn them the Dfinity token. It seemed to be a replacement for mining.

They talked about things like censorship resistance, portability, etc.

It turns out that they had only signed up a single data center, so they were like a shitty ECS with unknowable pricing and absolutely no guarantees of security.

I even went as far as watching some of their videos. It was the most insane thing I've ever seen -- slick marketing production that looked like a parody of a futuristic TV talk show. It was beyond satire.
The tech like RN, GraphQL, doesn’t really bring them any money.

And what is the metaverse really? How is it monetized?

That’s OP’s point, aside from Facebook, everything they have is acquired - Whatsapp, Instagram, Occulus.

And even within Instagram, they constantly just copy other apps - Snapchat stories, Tiktok for reels, etc

Facebook can’t have an original idea to save their life
I don't think you answered the argument there, merely suggesting it's fine to kick the can down the road because "emergency now!"

First, we need to look at where renewables are being used and if they're actually in the areas of greatest pollution, i.e creating a net reduction rather than just meeting a government number.
jp --help

"It's complicated, you know"
Just play the whole album Damage Done by Dark Tranquillity on repeat and the code writes itself.
D uses `enum` to specify a manifest constant, which evaluates at compile time:

int i = f(3); // evaluate at run time
enum i = f(3); // evaluate at compile time

Note that it's not the function that is specified as being run at compile time, it is the use of the function that determines it. There is no difference between compile time functions and runtime functions. The use that triggers a function to be evaluated at compile time is when the function call is in a const-expression.
It's quite an achievement to create such a toxic fork that it's announcement gets flagged on HN.
Yeah, I got one of those “duplicate” ballots. News stories about it were posted all over political discussion sites as “proof” of fraud.

What they didn’t mention is that they all had serial numbers that tracked back to the registration roll anyway. If you tried to send both in, it wasn’t counted, and you’d be caught in the act.

I’m more comfortable with this process than I am with electronic voting with no paper record.
Yes, I understand how to plug something in to a u.FL connector. That was my point: I can kinda tack anything onto anything else dead-bug style, but it isn't "included".

The point of a Ring doorbell is to get something that just works-- not to string lots of high frequency coax, dedicate a wifi radio on the other side, figure out appropriate attenuation (probably want about 65dB total between coax and pad from 20dBm to -45dBm), and troubleshoot inevitable resulting fuckery.

If you'd come at things from another angle--- replying to the post above, and say-- well, you actually could just patch right into the wifi radio and run coax!-- your comment might have been favorably received.
Rust is not particularly funny. It is C and C++ with some SML syntax.

The one innovation in it is the borrow checker - making it somewhat dependent on the quality of the compiler and adding a bit of noise to syntax for exchange in predictability of the code - and the cargo packaging system, unusual for a statically typed fully compiled language.
I didn't get fingerprinted in Singapore, but haven't been through Changi in six years, so could well be a new thing, or they just think Kiwis are harmless.
"building a related tool intended to spot foreign nationals lacking proper visas when they depart the country."

Why would you be worried when they're leaving anyway?
Exactly. I expect that to happen to tether eventually, just because of inflation.

There's also the probability of a 'flippening' event in the future, because ETH is no longer PoW. So ETH would switch to be the #1 currency. Or maybe not.

But the cat is out of the bag, and cryptocurrencies are here to stay, and I would even say in any four year period they will still gain more than any other kind of asset for the foreseeable future.
Which part of the above linked bills call for them to run the elections in place of states?
Vlang uses fn too.
I would expect them to make more money selling special stamps to collectors (who then quickly make them disappear without ever using them) than they make by delivering mail. Better not disturb a business line like that.
what is this "article" of which you speak?
Most movies already reuse a lot color tones, shots, lines, scripts and sound effects.

I can't bear hearing the overused "sling" from a sword getting move one cm, or the "click" of a gun pointed in one direction.

I hate the blue + yellow + actor face template for half movie posters.

I get bored when I saw in the 80' the same "boy saves girl" cliche, then in 2000, "you are secretly the one, your destiny is saving the world", then now, "look they are all from a minority, how subversive!"

AI is just going to industrialized copy/pasting in a industry that have created the concept way before we had GUI.
Facebook employs over 58K people. This is not a big deal especially considering tech went on a *massive* hiring binge recently.

[0] Facebook had a recruiting crisis in 2021: https://www.protocol.com/workplace/facebook-docs-hiring-recr...

[1] Facebook aimed to hire 10K Europeans for metaverse in 2021: https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-plans-hire-10000...

People underestimate just how much COVID and the rapid work-from-home shift distorted the economy. Everyone suddenly became cloud-first overnight and needed man power to make it happen.
That sounds sensible
"Text Is the Universal Interface"

I've never understood this 'truth'.

How is "Temperature: 45C" somehow easier to parse/process than
0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x4D

You still always have to consider the exact structure of the text (<Field> <colon> <space> <value> <unit>) same as any binary format.
Yup. Apparently even their newest stealth bomber uses it internally: https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/03/kubernetes_b_21_bombe...
"Metaculus is a community dedicated to generating accurate predictions about future real-world events by aggregating the collective wisdom, insight, and intelligence of its participants"

There's no metaculus tournament for a nuclear strike.

"In February, after the invasion of Ukraine, greater public attention was paid to the possibility of nuclear escalation. Given the gravity of the topic, we temporarily set this tournament private to review and reinforce our security infrastructure."

https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/nuclear-risk-forecastin...

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/10745/russian-control-of...

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/10154/radiation-incident...
But that still says you shouldn’t :D

> if you could afford to buy several hundred million tickets, the math says you should.

I mean, unless you happen to be filthy rich already.
I don't think what happened around WP to designers is a strong indicator of what's necessarily gonna happen here.

It certainly could play out similarly but, at some point, if all the work in a field from now on only requires 1/100 of manual labor, people will probably go out of work.
Maybe not. Between NIMBY groups and the political polarization around climate change I think we can all pretty vividly imagine what Twitter would look like 60 seconds after draft legislation to this effect was proposed.
To use it daily you need a reason, or have the time & will to practice it.
Yeah EU passports are so smart you can scan them with a barcode scanner. But you can't board without a human person verifying your passport and boarding pass. So it's not that easy to fly with someone elses passport, and also I would assume highly illegal.

I suspect they get your picture on their screen through your census info, so they don't really need to handle your passport. It's a technical convenience.
While I've seen many projects out there use Oracle DB without that many issues, I'm inclined to say that MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL are both easier to work with due to how easy it is to setup new instances (either on a server, or in containers for testing/development) and how they're generally just simpler to use and more carefree products (though perhaps that's because of sane defaults, e.g. no problems with tablespaces that don't autoextend), even when something like Oracle XE exists.

On a more humorous/worrying note, there's also this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
This sort of practice goes back to BCPL, which wikipedia says is the first braced programming language. Because { and } weren't universally available, compilers also supported the sequence $( and $) to represent these, which were typeable and printable on just about anything.

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

This is the earliest example of this sort of thing i'm aware of - is there an earlier example?

Also, BCPL supported // for comments, again, probably the first use of this sequence.
But if you if you spread the image in a forum of haters, you may incite someone to kill that person. That's why there are laws against harassment. The danger is not the existence of an image, it is the act of communication that has consequences.
Probably an unpopular opinion but I liked the web better back when it was predominantly static (for the client) HTML with minimal/no imteractivity. It was more secure and it ran better even though we had slower connections and slower computers.
This is a bit of nebulous area, IANAL but I am not sure I would want to develop _open_ source medical device firmware.

Medical devices have a lot of strict regulations from multiple certification bodies (most famous one being FDA). Under IEC 62304, any RTOS becomes a SOUP item (Software Of Unknown Provenance). In practice this means that you would have to provide beyond reasonable evidence that the RTOS will do what you say it does, consistently. This is a long and expensive regulatory endeavor.

If you are going through the certification process and selling a medical device and then choose to open source its firmware, then more power to you.

However if you are thinking of publishing _open_ source firmware that will work on either 3rd party or open hardware, in my opinion you are setting yourself up for a world of litigation that very few individual persons can afford.
Not exactly co-founder, but for ReachExt K.K.'s new business line https://www.employmentjapan.com/we are looking for countrywise business partners. In a way the person or entity would be as good as a co-founder for his/her own country because the profit sharing will be as close to being a founder - though limited to the operations/business of one country.

In case of interest, please do check the details at https://www.employmentjapan.com/become-our-business-partners....
Agreed, however that kind of effort is already quite different from how it gets usually sold, and on distributed computing world and multi-processes scenarios for security isolation purposes, what I care about are mostly external resources.
Neither is the "Special Military Operation" in Ukraine.
How will Google monetise this though?
You can't get lead poisoning from lead solder, though. It doesn't even make sense to think you could get lead poisoning from a damaged Apple Watch, or any other bit of electronics.

This is why I said it's important to have a bit of physical literacy in your life.
I don't think we need this vendor.

I think that a tiny amount of money could be allocated from our taxes to create an open, transparent, and secure voting system.

We are buying from untrustworthy vendors when we could build a superior solution ourselves.

The federal/state bureaucracies that advocate proprietary voting systems should be liquidated.
Thanks for the update, it is very relevant to my comment.

I would add one more thing: despite being discouraged, you can use an image (say, vaultwarden/server) with the tag :latest (vaultwarden/server:latest) and automatically update images to the latest version (with for instance watchtower, which is also a docker image).

This may break things. From my personal experience (5+ years of self-hosting with docker), I had a problem twice. Once was with Home Assistant and the issue was documented on their site. 5 minutes later I was good to go. The other time was with Nextcloud which failed miserably, I had to revert back to the previous container AND use a backup.

So backup! :)

If the image allows it (it is usually documented with the image), you can limit the upgrades to major/monor/patch versions. Say your product is today at 3.2.5. If you use image:3, it will be updated up to the major version (3). You will not get version 4. You can also use lower versions (:3.2 in this example) and just get the patches.

It is a decision between security, new features and availability. My personal opinion, of someone who works 30 years in IT and information security is that newer is better - you won't be alone if things break (because a lot of people use :latest and do not read teh changelogs when upgrading)

Docker is a life saver for self-hosting.
I don't understand. Why would someone create lots of fake profiles?
Didn't Systems Concepts make a Dead Head board for the PDP-10?

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

I think Fen knows something about that...
Fortunately, D now has a C compiler embedded into it (ImportC). ImportC will compile C11 Standard code, and automatically make the interface to that C code available to D.

This means, if a C library is available, D can use it.

(There are some exceptions. While ImportC will handle C preprocessor metaprogramming just fine, those metaprogramming macros won't be available to the D code, other than simple #define manifest constant declarations.)
No. Color perception is relative.

Basically, what you are doing is adding a cast to the image. This cast cancels out with the cast that the backlights give. When you add two complementary color casts to each other, you end up with neutral gray.

This results in an image which is darker, but still has the full color range that the TV is designed for.
Ahh, the beginning of Picus News.
We're building Matano (https://github.com/matanolabs/matano), an open source security lake platform. It's a different approach since we normalize logs from JSON, csv, etc, and ingest them into Apache Iceberg tables, but it allows for massive scale and joins, aggregations, etc using SQL.
I read once about a famous mathematician who claimed that whenever he plays lottery he chooses the sequence 1,2,3,4,5,6 because nobody else would. Also it seems strange that so many people would choose a sequence that most people would call "not random" and suspicious (hence the article). Maybe those people follow the advice of this famous mathematician. Authorities should check the occurrence of this series in the previous games to see if that many people really like this sequence or if it was a one time event. Thinking about this, it would be interesting to see what numbers people choose, if there are some outliers preferred by many. I wonder if there are lotteries that publish such data?
Assuming both are completely rational and take decisions that are most beneficial to their citizens short and long term welfare.

Such an assumption has no rational basis itself.
OLED TV's try to prevent burn in, I am not sure it can compensate burn in
Reading that statement by Konnech, I am struck how brazen the NYT was. Given two opposing statements, they simply decided which one debunks the other, and passed it off as fact.

I wonder how many other instances of this there are in their other reporting, where reasonable accusations or suspicions are "debunked" simply by the accused stating "nu-uh".
I often accidentally call them "Grateful Dead Conferences" because so many tech people I knew and worked with in Silicon Valley and regularly saw at computer conferences and trade shows would show up (like you, Fen, Gilmore, Barlow, etc).

(That was back when the hippies were in charge, before the frat bros took over.)

Q: What did the Deadhead say when he ran out of marijuana?

A: "This music sucks!"

;)
Yeah, or you just put a nuclear reactor on the planes. If it fits in a truck, it fits in a plane.
I wonder if this is so 'generic' that e.g. AppleTV could add support for this? Take a photo of your TV with an iPhone when AppleTV is showing test image. And then the AppleTV output is calibrated appropriately to compensate for uneven backlight.
I got to queue behind some _very_ pissed off Brits in the non-EU queue post Brexit.

It was rather amusing, in a shameful way.
The german post did this last year for the physical stamps - the electronic stamps already had a code. This way, you get some tracking, but the only advtange is that you can see when your letter was automatically processed in a center, the postpeople don't scan normal letters
Anybody who cites 9/11 or terrorism as a reason to reduce civil liberties is a direct threat to American values. If you destroy what it means to be American in the face of terrorism, you are letting terrorists win. People need to understand that but sadly fascists increasingly availed of the cloak of national security to enact their schemes to destroy all of the hard won victories for progress.
Notable: Kelly only works if you're playing a multi-round game.

Also careful; I believe money-to-utility is already logarithmic for most people. We don't have a good intuition for what "billions of utility vs 1 utility" represents.
Hopefully this will turn out awesome and the world can finally accept and use nuclear power for good.
Did theonion bought theregister ? Or i miss something ?