skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Purely from a safety standpoint, outright prohibiting bicycle traffic on motorized roads would be a massive improvement at the expense of inconveniencing a small minority of people (while improving the convenience for everyone else).

To me this sounds like the equivalent of permanently shutting down a public park because it's infested with disease carrying rats rather than trying to get rid of the rats.
How much are they?
100% agree that it's similar to learned helplessness. You put in large amounts of effort only to be rewarded with failure (or miss the social recognition you expected, or didn't get a pay raise, or management cancels your project)... Perversely the advice to take a break is likely often counterproductive, because you will further associate a reward with the burnout. Honestly IMO the best move is to reassociate labor with reward. Do small things like refactoring, chores, etc. Then plan to take a needed break some time disconnected from the high effort event.
The glory of discovery will echo through the ages. Radio astronomy was invented in the Holmdel Bell Labs.

I remember reading a story of a scientist that had discovered a new element. He sprinkled it on his father's grave saying that it's half life of O(thousands) years would last longer than any other memorial be could build. Can't remember the guys name sadly.
As of three years ago, Twitter had 2 to 3 data centers, and was moving some stuff to GCP. Not sure if current state of things.
I figured this would be an article giving reasons not to use UUIDs as database identifiers...
> Nine years later, Mark Fisher is in the grave

That is a rather smug way of putting it. Fisher’s suicide was a tragic event caused by lifelong depression. The fact that he killed himself doesn’t make the essay age better or worse. Bringing it up as some kind of “own” against him is pretty disgusting.
Tell that to Django (well 5 years ago anyways iirc, don't know what it does now). Pretty sure it used to store uuids as strings columns in your sql.
there's a GDC talk on Youtube where Warren Spector makes that point explicitly. The original was narratively linear but had freedom within the mission gameplay. He considered that vital for the tension of the story. This is also why HR succeeded for me in contrast to Mankind Divided. The 'open world' like approach of the latter sidelined the main story which seemed almost tangential. Which is a problem in many games these days.

https://youtu.be/tffX3VljTtI
Sounds like Google too.
Sure, innovation and competition are good. Monopolies aren’t even inherently bad as long as they achieved it naturally and don’t abuse their monopoly position.

What is bad is predatory tactics like running at a loss because you know it will put the competition out of business then raising prices to their true cost like Uber does. Ironically they still can’t make a profit without abusing their “employees” for whatever reason, probably because the margins are so low in that industry it can’t support multiple multi-billion dollar mega-corporations.
Find Your Property's Risk
It's absolutely lovely. The wealthier pockets remind of a less mountainy Switzerland.
Didn't the acquisition go through? So, I am assuming bots are not an issue?

I am assuming the original Twitter team was honest (and full of integrity) at that point in time as they had more info than Musk before acquisition.
Visas/green cards are given to people and not countries

The people waiting in the employment green card lines are evaluated on the same set of criteria . Their ability to perform a particular task for their employer.
In the same style as the article I want to praise the gods of computer programming, who walk amongst us mortals. People who were visionaries, and move the field forward when the rest of us futz around with CRUD apps. People like Linus Torvalds, Dennis Ritchie, Stroustrup, Donald Knuth, and hundreds more.

By them, I am humbled and inspired.

And we can't forget the wars of epic proportions: the Unix wars, and fights with Microsoft & Oracle, and the birth of the free software movement. All of these shaped the current software landscape.

There's also so much to be said about the research labs where it all started...

Indeed, how can you not be romantic about programming
No existing company will build a truly amazing voice assistant. Because, a truly amazing voice assistant must be unbridled. Therefore, the creator will have to be someone who doesn't have business to lose if it goes awry.
reading this, it struck me how ironic crypto was built to "stop the doublespend" but here we have all these crypto exchanges doing things way worse than that.

company minting their own token and then using it as collateral, accounting it as if they had billions. the "stable coins" cannot produce basic accounting audits that a low level book-keeper could do on any normal business.

there has been so much fraud in crypto the past few years.
and the algorithm did not help to stop that.
This isn't news. It's been known for years and even published in the literature multiple times.
I wonder how big Twitter's infra costs are (capex). Based on the article, they need to build capacity > 2x peak loaf to tolerate one of the DCs failing. But if they instead had 4 and still only tolerated 1 failure, they'd only need capacity > 1.33x peak load.

This doesn't account for the extra overhead associated with extra DCs, but it seems like there's opportunities for major effeciency wins.
I’m glad cooler heads prevailed. A lesson for the rest of us to wait for facts and stop being outraged by everything the press throws at us.

That being said, Russia still is shit; and we wouldn’t be in this situation if they weren’t attacking civilian infrastructure in an attempt to freeze Ukrainians to death.
But that would be slow, even with an index, as compared to using a clustered primary key. Especially when your data doesn't fit in ram.
Yep, looks like it does the right thing in PostgreSQL but not anywhere else [0].

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/models/fields/#uui...
I suggest putting everything you can into home assistant and relying on that, since you host it yourself. It's also far more powerful than anything amazon provides anyway.

Then, the only integration you need is Alexa-> Home Assistant, so there is only one thing that can break.
> Private Equity and Wall Street doesn't have pressure for resilience, it has pressure for churn. As long as revenue and spending... exists... things are fine. Ideally they are numbers that grow. This doesn't lend itself to clearing out a development backlog, or engineers doing the most important things, it lends itself to rapid iteration and justifications for the iterations.

Did we read the same article, because it seemed clear that all that resilience work was done when the company was public shareholder owned, not under the new private owner.
I agree. I'm a fan of the gameplay and honestly quite bizarre design, it's distinctive in a way a lot of games aren't.

But the plot...oh man, I wish they had spent some time on the plot.
Wait, wouldn't this mostly only work on whites ?
For a while Amazon loved selling the smaller units for a little as a dollar (and often including several months of Amazon music for free or almost free as well).

Sell enough of these 30 dollar gadgets for a dollar and it will add up quickly.
That timber-faced guard rail looks fantastic! And I wonder if its "weak" outward appearance will cause people to drive more cautiously
I have VSCode set to use CP437 as my codepage and show control characters for "plain text" files, which works surprisingly well as it's only older art/projects/bbs stuff, generally anything else is a specific file type that will use utf8 by default.

"files.associations": {
"*.msg": "plaintext",
"*.ans": "plaintext",
"*.asc": "plaintext",
"*.rip": "plaintext",
"*.nfo": "plaintext",
...
},
...
"[plaintext]": {
"files.encoding": "cp437",
"files.eol": "\r\n",
"editor.renderControlCharacters": true
},
He said this in 1981, there was no Windows let alone MS Office at the time. The average simple text mode DOS application was barely 50-100kb in total, so 640k was quite a comfortable limit for several years more.
Same difference as Arab and Arabic.
I'm curious how/if the ostensible decline in active users is affecting things, and to what degree.
> I don't follow what this means? How does one 'use' intersectionality to promote interests?

The same way as any other idea/concept/framework; one finds arguments which it supports that promotes the interest one wants to promote. What's so strange about that?
This is the same as joining the Sinaloa cartel as a transportation and logistics expert specializing in detection evasion research and development. So many exciting and hard problems to focus on!
He's absolutely correct on comparing it to the first game, but he may even be a little too warm towards some aspects of it. I also enjoy this video by Ross of "Freeman's Mind" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYLEuQrvND0
Purely from a safety standpoint I bet prohibiting cars on the roads and only allowing bikes would be even better!
Yes, because it had absolutely nothing to do with TFA or the discussion. Farakahn still has a twitter account, before and after Musk took over. The point is, Twitter has a smaller mod team and that is leading to tons of behavior that's making advertisers more hesitant to use it as a platform.
Very interesting article. But the constant misuse of “to” for “too” kept throwing me out of reading mode. I wonder why my brain does that instead of reading past it since I know what is actually meant.
Ah yea my bad su-37 not 57
There must be some plan for this, though, right? If it were me and I were trying to do more with less I'd plan to cut some features (for instance, are Spaces that critical to the operation? Because it seems like running them would be demanding) and try to migrate things to managed services to reduce the operational load.
Climate Check
> Sheep are not intelligent.

This is the conclusion one quickly arrives to after having spent even just a small amount of time working in Livestock Ag, they seem like the ideal animal to exhibit the effective methods in Human breeding/gene selection for desirable traits to create a docile and stupid enough animal that is incredibly tasty when cooked and whose wool was once useful commodity for textile use; because by contrast goats are incredibly intelligent and agile that persists despite centuries of being livestock.

With that said, what does this title have to do with the article linked to which is titled:

Presence or absence of stabilizing Earth system feedbacks on different time scales

I think this is a good representation of how people comment on a topi based on the headline without reading the article, or even click on the link.
I feel like it did strings in postgres too, not too long ago and I had a <brain explode> moment when I worked on a codebase and had to figure out why queries were terrible
Neither "Maya" nor "Mayan" (in this context) refers to any place name.
I hope you've played the original too! It is worse in some aspects of gameplay, but it's significantly more immersive and the plot is fantastic (and aged a little too well).
Interesting, I didn't notice despite reading the article start too finish. The brain is so mysterious!
Damn it I wanted to make that joke.
Yes. But that's also true of laptops, tablets, cell phones and lots of other items in our houses.
ah sorry - thanks :)
> Entropy always wins in the end. No matter how good the original engineering and planning, without maintenance it will all fall apart soon enough.

This seems to be more true of Mastodon than Twitter.

I can't imagine any self hosted Mastodon instance staying up longer than twitter.
small parenthesis, the "red state" expression always amuses me knowing that where I’m from, red places are places that actually vote for the reds (those reds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Communist_Party)
The problem is that it’s run by someone who overpaid badly and needs to come up with significantly more money to pay for the debt he saddled the company with, and then his actions seriously disrupted ad revenue. That puts him more in the PE playbook of cutting costs as deeply as possible even at the extent of long-term growth. Unlike his other companies there isn’t strong government support to drive business for Twitter.
Holy shit! This is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen in a long time.
Doesn't every company hire as if they were hoarding Monopoly houses but not building hotels, so nobody else can build?
The concrete barrier industry moves at a fast pace (so to speak).

I wonder how much of this stuff from 2000 is still relevant?

Back then moor anchor law was still in full swing, for one thing.
Well Elon is planning on shutting down one of their three data centers, the Sacramento data center - so they must have a lot of extra capacity.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/report-elon-musk-...
> There must be some plan for this, though, right?

To be this young and carefree
I know. I bought his phys chem and his stats thermo when I learned he's a chemist!

Id say his math book is his best book too - then again, I love math and don't really appreciate chemistry as much as I should.
I question the accounting here.

My kids use our Echo Dot to play music using our Amazon Prime subscription all the time. It's what makes me renew that subscription when it comes due.
Are they protecting themselves from the China risk?
>Amazon said that workers in India had the option to take Diwali off, and the company’s spokesperson Kelly said workers in India and Costa Rica were “encouraged by the software they use to take short breaks throughout their shifts.”

It seems like everyone ignores the fact you are supposed to take breaks resulting in health issues. The workers should consider all taking breaks.
software, like everything, is subject to laws of physics

I disagree; math would be a closer analogy. And indeed, arithmetic still works like it did a millenia ago. Closer to the present, I have binaries from the late 80s that still work today (and I use them semi-regularly.)

Indeed, much of the impetus of the software industry seems to be to propagate the illusion that software somehow needs constant "maintenance" and change. For the preservation of their own self-interests, of course; much like the company that makes physical objects too robust and runs out of customers, planned obsolescence and the desire to change things and justify it so they can be paid to do something are still there.

It's possible to make things which last. Unfortunately, much of the time, other economic considerations preclude that.
That's what Adobe doesn't, while MS Office and JetBrains do.
Well, in theory they'll be sober voters for at least two years :-)
>In the case of millennials, the link to work seems weaker. They seem to have a generic existential dread to them.

That's provoked me into thinking why. Assuming it's true and not a trope, some possibilities:

- They're more plugged into social media and online communities which provide validation of some of the items we're discussing here.

- They're more skeptical and cynical broadly-speaking, maybe due to some political or some Zeitgeist unique to the moment.

Again this assumes it is true that they're really more cynical about work, and we've controlled for the weird economic circumstances of the last few years. Anyone without a high salary or who's tried and failed to purchase a property is probably somewhat skeeved at the moment.
The point is more that (unless maybe if you just learned reading), you just aren't going to notice it.
The extraordinary part is they are on pace to lose $10B just this year. Even back in 2018 [1] when they started the ramp, they were losing $5B/year. So in total they have lost about $35B (avg'ing) in the past five years.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/amazon-layoffs...
I don't have a DR plan for "mad billionaire buys the company", no, but I do agree with the OOM reaper logic - I start cutting the services that use the most resources that are least necessary.
Small issues going unfixed, building up over time and cascading into a crisis.
This needs to account for bottle size. In US and Canada, at least, icewine is typically sold in smaller containers.
The Echo devices were sold for around BOM, but IIRC they were able to get some significant price reductions on that on a few popular devices, though I'm not sure if that ever got released. I think some of the newer devices might have turned a profit (not including R&D costs though).
> Persian astologer-priests were literally the magi from which the word magic is derived, so yes.

True. [Well, they were actually Medes, Iranian astrologer-priests is more accurate.]

https://iranicaonline.org/articles/Magi

The Magi were one of the tribes of Medes and the designated priestly tribe (think Levi). And likely from exposure of Medes (possibly Kurds of today) to Mesopotamian cultural centers, specially Babylon, the Iranian tribes got into astrology and astronomy. The Iranians started out as nomadic herding tribes (Abel) before settling (Cain) and adopting urbanism in what is now called The Iranian Plateau.

So we Iranians (Medes or Persians) did not invent astrology - we almost certainly got that from Babylon and to this day our calendar is the Zodiac, of four season with 3 months each, commencing on Spring Equinox. For example Khordad (3rd month of spring) is Gemini.

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

"Around the end of the 5th century BC, Babylonian astronomers divided the ecliptic into 12 equal "signs", by analogy to 12 schematic months of 30 days each."

This, imo, is where the 12 sons of Jacob (tribes of Israel) and the 12 Imams of Shia come from. All this numerology fascination is Babylonian in origin (though possibly they themselves got it from Egypt).
What Russia is doing is the result of something else. That something else is the root cause of the war in Ukraine.
I still recall a time 3 years ago when they didn't even have working webrtc support hah.

That’s a long time ago in web years. Things are different now.

For example, Safari supports the oklch and oklab color spaces starting with Safari Technology Preview 137, released December 2021.

It’s November 2022 and Chrome still doesn’t support them yet, though they are expected to be enabled by default in Chrome 110, due next month.

And of course the most anticipated selector probably ever :has() shipped in Safari 15.4 back in March [1]; Chrome didn’t ship it until August and Firefox still doesn’t have enabled by default—it’s behind a flag due to bugs.

The oklab and oklch color spaces solve a bunch of color issues with RGB and HLS [2].

This is not WebKit from 3 years ago.

[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/13096/css-has-pseudo-class/

[2]: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rg...
DXMD’s DLCs are also great. I especially liked the prison arc.
A piece of software like Pinboard can stay running on autopilot for a very long time, because it's simple (that's a compliment, not a dig). A piece of software like Twitter, comprised of a bunch of random interlocking services, is much less likely to stay up unattended. All the random stupid shit that might lock up Pinboard once a year (a full log drive, a run of block errors on a storage device, a network hiccup long enough to blow through a timer, &c) happens to all the services; most of these systems aren't aerodynamically stable: once something burps, the whole system oscillates and wedges until someone goes in and unkinks it.

(Maybe this has been my experience over the past 2 years because our team is just bad at this stuff, but when I relate it to other people working on software like this, I mostly get commiseration).

I'm not taking a position on whether Twitter needs 3000 more engineers to stand a chance of running. I think reports of the death of Twitter are also exaggerated, and I remember reading Dan Luu about bloat at Twitter long before Musk expressed an interest. I'm just saying: it's shocking that the service is running as well as it is right now. Some group of people on that team did a lot of stuff right.
I think people's expectations became so exaggerated it was inevitable they wouldn't be lived up to. I'm sure Twitter will experience degradation from the drastic cost-cutting, but it was never going to happen overnight and I'm not sure why news outlets were saying that (except that their sources were employees with slightly inflated senses of their own importance, which we're all sometimes guilty of). And people became really invested in the idea that a site cannot possibly stay up without dedicated SREs, as though tons of tech sites (including big names like Amazon) don't just devolve this work to their on-call rotations.
I can’t say I followed all of that and I felt pretty tired by the end of everything/ one tagged with some level of privilege, sexuality… something. It’s one of my pet peeves to see everything labeled like that. I think it is unfair to everyone labeled/ distilled.

That aside…

I did find this aspect something appealing.

> such questioning should take place in an atmosphere of comradeship and solidarity, and probably not in public in the first instance

Someone involved in the education system in my area recently said something unwise.

They apologized, explained themselves in detail.

A few weeks later they finally resigned after a lot of pressure.

The response to the resignation by the folks opposed to this person was “Well he is not alone, I bet the other people on that board feel the same way.”

I couldn’t help but wonder then, wouldn’t it be better to have someone who sincerely apologized and discussed their words openly on that board?

If the whole shaming/ calling out can only end in some level of ostracizing, won’t people just be better about hiding those things? Does that do us any good?

I have trouble with all the shaming / calling out if there isn’t an endpoint/ no chance for anyone to be better.
The americans, germans, french and every other country in the world are all “shit” by those standards - they have all done the same and would do the same again if their “national security objectives” required it. Ukraine would do the same to Russia if it could, the reason they aren’t is logistic, not moral.

In every war, the propagandists try to promote the view that this war is a “good” or “just” war - they are all wrong, just slightly different in their degree of “wrongness”.
You weren't hydroplaning. Hydroplaning is when there's so much water your tires can't funnel that water out and you're driving on the surface of the water. You "just" lost traction. And yes the first rains of the season that bring up all the c*ap from the road are notorious for being slippery.

In situations like that you can try to regain traction by making sure the wheels are pointing at the same direction you are traveling, not being on the brakes, etc. Practice on snow or ice in a safe environment. I'm not that great at this myself but I have recovered traction in a handful of real life snow/ice scenarios... Go-karting can also develop some skill/feel for this. You can also take lessons...
The most helpful thing to reflect on in these Twitter operational discussions is the difference between homeostasis and evolution.

You can get rid of 80% of the work force and the existing homeostasis systems will keep things running smoothly despite known day-to-day chaos.

Where you’re really going to run into trouble is inventing responses to novel chaos and gradually changing times.
a.k.a. Domain Specific Languages

Hello ANTLR..

https://martinfowler.com/books/dsl.html