skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. The second case makes rentals illiquid to the benefit of current residents. But then, why would anyone dare move to a city like that? Again, that’s what I experienced (the inability to find housing) and that’s what I don’t want to experience again.

Now take those decisions en masse: you want a city with a healthy economy, but the city is now stuck since it’s labor resources become illiquid along with its rental market. Now, some people want that, but HN readers (I think?) will be biased towards vibrancy.
It’s probably more complex than a slow memory leak, but is very reminiscent of one.
On Wikipedia is the claim "The telescope also originally had military intelligence uses, including locating Soviet radar installations by detecting their signals bouncing off the Moon."[0], which gives this[1](by name, but unlinked) as its source. It would be interesting to know more.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
Looks similar to this paper "A Backpack Recording Platform for Neural Measurements in Ambulatory Insects"[1]

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9531790
Not related to OpenBSD itself, more for "minimalistic" approach - screenshots with irssi were popular like 25 or 20 years ago.
I see kinda nothing new here, just fly stuck in amber.

Has minimalistic meant to be "limited"? Then makes sense.

TUI based? Somewhat makes a bit of sense.

Minimalistic but yet full featured? I couldn't see that on provided sample.
The Joy of Fixing Bugs
Default KDE does more out of the box, and is very usable. Resource usage seems OK. I recommend it over Gnome.

The only thing I liked about Gnome was the appearance, which was something purely superficial.

(I don't use Linux anymore.)
I don't understand how it's legal for vendors to actually refuse cash.

I get it that there's multiple reasons they wouldn't want to and they can say it's their policy, etc but it's on the paper money itself "LEGAL tender for ALL debts public and PRIVATE".

It's like when you hear the stories about people paying debts with buckets of coins. Obviously a huge PitA but technically allowed.
Local communities would be stronger and more resilient with more local crafts-people providing meaningful labor within said communities.

Currently, everything is extraction and the US is rotting from the inside out because of it.
I've found the folks forget just how HUGE the USA is. It might be possible to do this in a few core urban areas, but out in the hinterlands where there's nothing but cropland that feeds the core many roads are maintained only when they condition of the road causes serious damage.
One theory I subscribe to is that 1971 is when the US hit peak oil production. By that metric, the Covid boost to real wages could be the aberration.
Can we get another Bond film to fund rebuilding it?
4 weeks is aprox 1/12 of a year.

A train costs multiple millions of £.

So 'thousands' of pounds seems reasonable to keep them running properly for 1/12 of the year.

Are leaves heavy and sticky when just fallen? From my experience that seems to be the case when they've been around a while. The whole issue is that the network is running at near capacity. If they're being moved away every hour, it doesn't seem like you'd get that issue.

Ultimately it hasn't been done, so in some sense you are correct. I think it's more a case that they can't be bothered, rather than a technical or financial limitation.
For compliance reasons, you can always hard delete data. It's also not a terrible idea to hard delete data that has been soft deleted x time ago.
The title should be "how to build software for an SRE"
"But more generally, lacking flexibility is a negative by itself."

Not for baseload generation.
> A bookmarkable interface for executing read-only SQL queries against your database

We use Metabase at my work and I love it. It handles visualizations out of the box and I can write SQL like my heart desires, while still being able to help out our designers, customer success, and sales needs. Their "questions" (what they call a query) can be parameterized and added to dashboards and everything works so well.

Also one of the few large projects I see that's written in Closure.
Bang on. To add fuel to the fire (heh), the fire mentioned by parent wasn’t perceived as deadly and then suddenly was safe. It was and is deadly unless the precautions our society has spent thousands of years developing are carefully followed. Exactly what we must do with technology. Except we don’t have thousands of years.
Full thread unroll: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1581643197427523584.html
> I’m amazed at how slow the missile was. It was not rocket powered, but had an engine. I understand now how they can be shot down. There is time to aim and fire a missile.

These slower things are actually quite a challenge for systems designed to shoot down fast moving missiles, it’s easier to filter for unusually fast moving objects than slower ones.
Go-to-market strategy guide for blockchain and technical products
It's not to kill the app entirely, it's to force the user to upgrade to a maintained version rather than just having the app crash if backwards compatibility is required to be broken. I tend to do it with two flags, one to enable an upgrade nag notification and another to hard kill switch the version.
> Also when does a Factorio system ever work? There's permanently a pressure for it to do more, stuff stuck on the wrong belts, not enough of some input...

Sounds like a growing SaaS company.
A lot of construction costs are also related to the insurance, specially against liabilities, financial costs and other, non-enviromental costs.
Even if you're building a more amicable jurisdiction, those costs cascade down from your upstream supply chain.
It's not really a binary question though, is it? There are a bunch of questions you need to unpack:

- Is the global climate warming?

- Is this due to man-made causes, rather than some other global cycle?

- Will the impact of this change be as serious as modelling (and hockey stick graphs) predict? What is your level of certainty?

- Is it the biggest risk facing mankind today? Could we save more lives using the money for something else?

- Are the proposed solutions worse than what you believe the likely impact of climate change to be?
Is this really true? How do you learn to classify when others are bull shitting you vs. when they're sincere? Specifically, how do you tell when a founder or investor is in it for a pump-and-dump vs actually trying to build a lasting business? Uber has built incredible tech, negotiated deals globally, become a vocabulary word (i.e. let's an get an uber.) Uber's engineering blog shows real complex ongoing projects.

Or to put in reddit terms: how do you know when you've joined a pump-n-dump business?
> I cannot even conjure up a single reason when this is a benefit to the individual.

I find no individual value in meetings, but I still accept participation a lot of the time as it appears that others derive benefit from my contributions. Perhaps direct individual benefit misses the forest for the trees? Clearly there is some kind of benefit found else nobody would accept and we wouldn't be there to talk about it.
This feels like a paid ad for something very mediocre.
Isn't it the case that houses in undesirable areas are much cheaper?

The literal roof over the head is generally affordable - but having it in the location and standard people want is where it gets expensive.

However the desirable area and standard of housing is a want not a necessity. I want it too btw, same as everyone else!

The other thing I wonder, is if everyone is 'entitled' to a nice area and house, who pays for it all, and how do we fit everyone into the nicer areas?
Well, that's the point at which the USA really began migrating from a fundamentally industrial-centric economy to a fundamentally financial-centric economy, in terms of where the profits and power accumulated.
This is completely wrong, wind and solar variability is a HUGE problem that we do not currently have the storage technology to mitigate. The assumption that we do is starting to feel like a religion.
Some companies do it for expensive training that COULD otherwise be purchased by the employee but they choose to go this route instead. medical field, pilots and law are common examples.

In those cases, it can be a good deal if you land in a good company - you get a paycheck and a free education that increases your earning potential for the rest of your career.

The article is not about those situations though.
Anytime you bring up the fact that Uber has far too many engineers someone inevitably brings up the a defense along the lines of "you don't understand how complex it is" or "they operate in so many different markets, so of course they need that many".

So your theory is probably correct, economies of scale don't exist. This is the same reason why a delivery company in Texas isn't also doing bike courier deliveries in Hanoi. On the surface it is very similar but they really have nothing to do with one another.
This is great. We use Sentry for our projects, which serves the same purpose.

I was wondering if using info statements in certain places are seen as a good practice, for example.
JWST reveals new surprises on galaxy organic molecules near black holes
They beat a man with a helmet outside, and one was pulled in and been beaten.It was just a group fight.
The "Deepfake Puppetry" term used in the article seemed to me like an improved term, an excellent and accurate description. It is using deepfake technology, and the "puppetry" term both describes accurately what it is doing — animating a target image like a puppet — and includes a vivid description to the nontechnical audience.

"Facial Masking" is not bad either, quite accurate, but I'm not sure it provides as broad a description than "Deepfake Puppetry".

Either way, it is important to get a term that is both accurate and resonating with the audience to ensure that the general public understands the serious potential damage for this technology (as with any powerful tool, can be used for good or evil).
The first option is what I'm using. CloudFlare in front of GitHub Pages. It seems to work well, my blog gets literally dozens of visits a month and it's never gone down.
> There are a lot of unbanked people here

Would you support removing cash if everyone was given a bank account? Perhaps with the government?

OPs point was that cash not being accepted means you have no privacy in a place you might want it. Governments love credit cards, easy pay, etc. Especially in the case where your transactions are kept with you forever so that future governments can punish you.
Kanal: Channels 80x faster than the standard library
Arguably all cruise missiles are drones.
One reply tweet notes "a complex system always operates in a failure state", but to find more discussion on this point it's worth noting that this is a restatement of:

> "The Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem (F.F.T.): complex systems usually operate in a failure mode."

-- John Gall, General Systemantics (aka Systemantics, aka The Systems Bible), 1977 < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics >

Searching for "fundamental failure mode theorem" will provide interesting further insights on this.
It's not a debt until the produce is sold. Any vendor can refuse to sell, which means there's no debt.
Honestly, any competent Linux or FreeBSD admin should adapt to OpenBSD easily.
maybe some people get confused thinking that unidirectional sync (send only) works like a backup?

it is possible to use syncthing for backups, but that is actually one of the pain points. there is an option to specify to ignore deletes, but that option is hidden in advanced settings, and there is no quick way to check if it is turned on. every time i delete something that i want to keep on the backup side. (like pictures from my phone, where i am running out of space) i first go to the destination/backup server and double check that this option is turned on to make sure that i won't accidentally have the backup deleted too.

it's also an issue that i can't see the remote settings from the client side. i have to connect to the remote server to check.

there is also a problem with the way it resolves conflicts. if you have "ignore delete" set up, and then you delete files, syncthing will tell you that the two locations are out of sync. it offers a button to force a sync, but there is no preview explaining what that button will do. there is also no choice in how the out-of-sync status should be resolved (in which direction the sync should happen to get the two locations in sync).

i have always been afraid to ever push that button, and there is no way to make it go away. i think this is an UX bug, because if i intentionally configure to ignore deletes, then deletes should not count as a difference. they should actually be ignored.
If you dig into the numbers of the taxi market you'll learn that this market had very low margins even before Uber "disrupted" it (certain local markets excluded). Good for me that I realized this before I focussed on this "obvious" and tempting market with my own company.

The only real disruption Uber delivered was that it got rid of the employees every taxi company has and convinced many people that driving for them is a win (although often this is not true, if you consider all expenses).

Certainly there is some small efficiency gains through the app and disrupting some nonsense regulations (e.g. here in Germany a taxi has to return to its station before it can pick up a new passenger). But the major part is the employee trick.

Maybe they bet on the self-driving cars, but they sold ATG and so this can't be part of their plan.
When money is free, this is what people will do, because it makes them money. It's interesting to see things crash and burn though now feds raised rates.
Hmm, what does he mean "I woke up the next day"? Did he leave Factorio running, or did it get an online component while I wasn't looking?
Well I don't want to over egg our acceptance of 'different', there are certainly differences that aren't accepted, and certainly weren't in the past.
The funny thing is I actually can't tell which party you're referring to. All of those accusations can and have been leveled against each party by the other. I think that actually says a lot about the real cause of the legislative gridlock you're referring to: when each side insists the other is a bunch of fascists that they simply can't work with, well... they won't work with them, and this is the result.
Everything is mostly normal, you can still find 5000 euro bottles of Petrus in the (no longer 24 hour) supermarket.

Even the curfew feels more or less normal, it’s not too long ago they had the same for COVID.
Maple Trees
They address this in the abstract (or the introduction, I forget).
I did and did not find that passage at all convincing or even completely coherent. Like I tried to gently indicate I think this article is very bad.
They don't teach that in college.
But you could ask this question of any state(+DC). Therefore we should not do anything.
Humans have to be rebooted at most every 2 days to avoid misleading auditory data among other things.
What I want to see is the the change in the percent of people who only have access to one brand umbrella of large grocery store crosstabbed against various distances (5,10,20 miles).

Will this take the number of people with a single brand of grocery stores within 10 miles from 10% to 20% or 5% to 7%? I really have no idea.
I don't think people would interpret it that way, especially if it was red. But maybe surrounding the value in parentheses is a more unambiguous way to denote "this figure indicates a loss" but I'm not sure how well-known that is
EDIT: nevermind, ZeroTier has its own issues, so I went back to Tailscale.
The price France is paying for Niger's uranium has been higher that world market price for a long time.
The main reason France has an interest in it is to be independent from Russia and Kazakhstan production.

Niger is a desert with catastrophic demographics.
I'm not sure I've ever really understood the scale argument. Sure it's not developing the app. And OK--it's a single app and brand in many (though not all) different cities and countries. But how many people are flitting from place to place sufficiently for that to be a significant market? Heck I've been one of those people and I've rarely used Uber/Lyft.
I guess these flight attendants have never flew their own airline as a customer. This doesn't shock me at all from AA.
My understanding is that much like tracing blockchain transactions, cash is much easier to trace for governments than most people realize.

For example, it is my understanding, most banks and ATMs scan serial numbers when receiving or distributing cash; oddly, banks will not give you itemized list of serial numbers of the bills they distributed, which would be useful in cash seizures. Also my understanding that most cash withdrawals are spent with vendor that deposits the larger bills back on receipt and do not recycle them back into circulation. As such, not sure what percentage of cash transactions are traceable, but not an insignificant percentage and per person, given largest enough cash flow, would be very hard to stay anonymous; which is not even account for tracing asset flows themselves related to the transactions.
I took a cash payment for relocation once that I'd have to pay back if I left in a year. The total value was around $3000. It paid my relocation expenses and then a little bit, so that was good.

A bunch of other new hires at that time took a "relocation package" where the company managed everything, including paying the moving company. The total cost to relocate just one individual was supposedly something like $20000. They were liable for that amount if they quit in the first year. This was the point in my career I decided I would never sign anything that left me liable for a bill I can't negotiate.
Its more like, ignoring the fact that they took in more $$ in revenue than they spent in expenses, they lost money.

Cash flow positive is an important milestone. Whether its sustainable is the real question.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm

> Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," states: "United States coins and currency [including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve Banks and national banks] are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues." This statute means that all U.S. money as identified above is a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor.

That taco shop that doesn't want to deal with cash isn't a creditor.
Arecibo Memorial Skate Park.
Uber, as much as I dislike them, seems to be cash flow positive.

So it’s more like ‘well shit, my stocks are tanking but I got a raise at work that more than offsets any cost of living increases’. No problems paying for gas, but year over year balance sheet is all in the red.
Lots of California and East Coast companies are hiring remote these days. You could easily break $150k without moving if you interview well. $200k+ is attainable once you have more of a track record of working for such companies.

My resume is all Silicon Valley/Bay Area tech, so my inbox has more of these opportunities. It might be harder at the beginning but you only need one of those jobs to establish that "pedigree" (it's dumb, I know).
Are there any abusive relationships that can't be made acceptable with a contract? If so, under what conditions is a contract not enough to excuse exploitation?
I second Vaclav's book. Good for techno-optimists!
Yeah, I gave up after a few paras. Manipulative folk gonna manipulate.
I think you missed the sarcasm in my comment. I know non-binary people exist. I happen to be one of them myself.
There’s a long history of readable & funny magic numbers in file formats[1] especially 0xcafebabe and 0xdeadbeef[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#In_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadbeef

And yea, if you allow numbers, the list of words you can make is pretty long, I get 364 words from this (even much longer if you allow both I and L, but I pruned those because I mapped both to the number 1):

< /usr/share/dict/words perl -ne 'print if m/^[abcdefilzsbtgo]*$/ && m/^........$/;' | perl -ne 'print if !(m/i/ && m/l/);' | tr 'ilzstgo' '1125790' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' | perl -ne 'print "0x$_"' | column
I had no idea logging in would only sign me up for an email list, I thought I would be able to mess around with a demo or something too

Pretty annoying
Homeless is an exaggeration. That guy is just bankrupt now. I don't understand why it took so long for many of those medallion holders to declare bankruptcy, though. I suspect it's because they are often immigrants from cultures where bankruptcy (or the equivalent) is associated with shame... In the US, bankruptcy is (or should be) associated with freedom.

The real asshole is the $TAXI guy. I wonder what happened to him.
There are two good lessons here:

1) Robust system design involves identifying the parts of your system that are mission-critical and always monitoring them. NASA missions have great automation and a 24/7-staffed mission control.

2) If a system failure can result in massive secondary damage, isolate that system. Warehouses receiving orbital payloads should probably be nice and far away from the base you care about.
While I think writing tests for the "happy" path builds good momentum, especially for a code base with no existing tests, the real value lies in writing tests that exercise the edge cases. Guy Steele put it best:

"I spent a lot of time worrying about edge cases. That’s something I learned from Trenchard More and his array theory for APL. His contention was that if you took care fo the edge cases then the stuff in the middle usually took care of itself."
Because drivers are setting their mirrors incorrectly.

So many people set them so that they can see the side of their own car - that's incorrect! They need to angle it out to the point where they cannot see the side of their car, that way traffic should seemlessly be visible from the rearview mirror to the sideview mirror to the driver or passenger window.
Yeah it sucks. For corporations. How about for the actual human employees? Does it not suck to have to stay at a job because paying for training would be too much? Rules should help humans not corporations .
If your minimalist desktop is just terminal space, why bother with X?
Technology != Infrastructure

We have the tech (you're almost certainly already using it), we have not deployed it at sufficient scale yet.

But we are building the factories to make the batteries, and the mines to feed the factories, as fast as we can raise money to do so.

I'm not sure what's happening with hydrogen (apparently it's much cheaper than batteries?); but regardless, that technology predates all forms of generating electricity more complex than the etymological origin of the word (ἤλεκτρον, amber) — "rubbing things together" was the only option when Deimand and van Troostwijk charged their Leyden jar back in 1789 and demonstrated electrolysis.