skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally everyone is vulnerable to falling bricks, whereas the evidence shows that those who will die from covid are most likely obese / elderly / smokers / diabetics / etc.
> There should be no settling, no clearing, every transaction should be immediate and final.

I hear they're trying this idea on something called the "Blockchain" and that it's all going really well.
> there being negative sentiment about XP

I, on the other hand, clearly remember a huge wave of disgust and resentment towards XP right after it came out. Slow and bloated, with hideous, gimmicky visuals, it had been an object of all kinds of ridicule and criticisms by "sophisticated" computer users.
If there was reasoning it would consistently get the parity of 1023^2 correct.
It is worth all of those things... when you have a novel pandemic to blunt.

However, once the disease is characterized, you have effective treatments and protocols for the most sick, and you have decent rates of vaccination and recent infection... needs shift.

The critical factor is {max hospital ICU capacity} + 1 more seriously ill person, and when you're dealing with exponential growth rates and a virgin population, that can be hit pretty easily.

The fact that we didn't (in most parts of the world, for most of the time) is a triumph of modern health policy.
Pretty much everyone i remember hated XP's "Fisher Price" look.

Also there was a ton of compatibility issues, at the time Microsoft saw Win98 as the biggest competitor to XP and it wasn't until SP2 that XP was seen as good.

Funny enough, a quick search for "windows xp fisher price" has this Ars Technica article about exactly that topic (people hating Windows XP when it first came out):

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/memor...
Yes, i remember there have been early experiments leveraging the matrix protocol for many scenarios including blog platforms and social media...But i don;t think its popular to do so. Most people interested in federated social media tend to use ActivityPub (protocol), and use servers and clients already optimized for such a social media use case on the Fediverse (mastodon is a recent popular software stack, but there are many, many others).
We have this ridiculous app called CultureAmp. Every quarter we get emails and slacks from HR and managers asking us to complete it. It’s an absolute waste of time and no one really values it and yet you need to fill it out. This did not exist when the company was small. When you hire more people there are jobs that exist just to organize these things. To make things worse there is not a single question that asks “What the company can do better”.
But your child will not be almost three forever. I have one in the same age bracket myself with three older siblings. The little one has practically no interest in screen time anyway, but it's a completely different story with the older ones.

At some point, they will get in touch with media one way or the other. In our case, once they get into school, they'll be using ipads anyway. So, I agree that for very little children, there's is absolutely no need to expose them to any screen time, but at some point as they get older, they will need to learn how to use phones and media.

We're still very restrictive with screen time, though. It's more like a treat that they get to play with a device for 30 minutes (which I, honestly, find already too long, but I'm not a single parent).
TV, not before 3 years. The personal console, not before 6 years. Internet, after 9 years. Social networks, after 12 years.
Oh yay, more puzzles!

In the same vein, I really enjoyed Vizzles [0] which is a regular puzzle with themed "riddles/puns" (the ones we've done so far were plays on words of movies and books), and also Odd Pieces [1], in which you construct a puzzle that is _slightly_ different from what you see on the box (the "lore" is that the puzzle you construct is at a moment in the future of the scene played out in the box).

I found these to be refreshing twists on typical puzzles, which we enjoy a lot as well.

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samuelmilham/vizzles-vi...
[1] https://oddpieces.com/
Use look:

look $(echo -n password | sha1sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | tr a-z A-Z) pwned.txt

from man page:

NAME

look - display lines beginning with a given string

DESCRIPTION

The look utility displays any lines in file which contain string. As look performs a binary search, the lines in file must be sorted (where sort(1) was given the same options -d and/or -f that look is invoked with).

example:

justin@box:~/data$ time look $(echo -n secret123 | sha1sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | tr a-z A-Z) pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v6.txt
F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511:17384

real 0m0.212s
user 0m0.005s
sys 0m0.001s

justin@box:~/data$ time look $(echo -n secret123 | sha1sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | tr a-z A-Z) pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v6.txt
F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511:17384

real 0m0.002s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.001s
I was thinking of the Ed Sheeran and Martin Gaye lawsuit.
Even just a one off with a particularly maverick Rogue Trader could introduce people to the various spacefaring species of the 41st Millenium - Stealing from the Tau, sparring with Dark Eldar, and enlisting aid of the Inquisition when Chaos comes a calling.
> Pynchon (pronounced pin-CHON)

Hmm—who knew?

He took Nabokov's course at Cornell btw.
The contractors slowly learned, and then at an increasing rate, that profit was higher when construction was strung out over time.
It’s weird that individuals are taxed on revenue but corporations are (usually?) taxed on profit.
Coinbase's market cap shrinks to its 2018 Series E valuation
I find it interesting, a big WH40k show is coming, and currently a WH40k: Rogue Trader (tabletop system) CRPG is in Alpha. Two things I did not expect.
Google cache had it, which makes sense since they regularly give cover to the CIA -- no surprise propaganda like this got archived in full.

(Usually it's wayback that has something, and Google either nothing, or just a cache of the paywall lol)

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%...

World War II was long ago. Western intelligence agencies haven't fought fascism for a long time, hence recycling stories like these.
Twitter is going to implode soon, and take Tesla down with it. It’s gonna be interesting to watch…
I was referring to the use of MPH (which is probably wrong) and FPS mixed together.

I don't care about bullet caliber being mixed mm and inch - I consider them to just be "a size" and not a measurement.
I Believe in Free Speech, So Long as I Get to Change What Free Speech Means
They aren't a safety risk though.
Combined-cycle gas turbines are fine for backing up renewables and storage. They are used for that today. As the amount of renewables and then storage built out increases, the amount of time the gas turbines must run, and thus total operating expense, declines.

It should be clear that to build out storage when there is not surplus renewable generating capacity to "charge" it from would be foolish. The immediate exception is to time-shift renewable energy generated at midday peak for evening delivery, as is being done successfully today.

Steam turbines, by contrast, are expensive to operate, and slow to start up and shut down.

Capital expense of renewables is very low already, and still falling. Even substantial overbuild to charge storage from does not change this. Cost of various forms of storage is falling even faster. By the time much storage is needed, it will be very cheap.
Since they are still developing this as tech, I am not surprised if they are not really discussing how to recycle it.

Recycling would depend on how much of this ends up getting built, how much value there is in the components, and whether there is a cost/risk of not recycling. If only a small number are ever built, then recycling isn't much of a concern.

There doesn't seem to be anything in here that is radically different than other batteries and the components are less toxic than many.
From both sides. It’s unreal. The same people calling him out for these bans had no problem with the previous bans against the other side. And he certainly has made a mess of this issue as well.
> There's a line of thought that if we're impressed with what we have, if it just gets bigger maybe eventually 'reasoning' will just emerge as a side effect. This is somewhat unclear and not really a strategy per se.

A recent analysis revealed that training on code might be the reason GPT-3 acquired multi-step reasoning abilities. It doesn't do that without code. So it looks like reasoning is emerging as a side effect of code.

(section 3, long article) https://yaofu.notion.site/How-does-GPT-Obtain-its-Ability-Tr...
Think of any bans and constraints as a loaded spring. Unless they have something that they enjoy / rewarded for / need to do with their time, you'll just frustrate them. They'll do the alcohol, drugs, TV, internet all behind your back. Or maybe they'll binge on it after they leave your house.

Instead, maybe introduce them to alternatives that are worth being addicted to. And, lead by example. Try to find something that you and they would enjoy doing together.
As an Elixir (which steps on Erlang) and Rust dev I'm curious if you think OCaml 5.0 / Eio will give the Erlang's BEAM VM and Rust's tokio a run for their money in the parallel runtime space.

I'm super curious about OCaml, picked it up and left it several times in the last 3 years. Now that multicore is here I'll absolutely be picking it up again and try to use it for parallel scripting and for some of my work. Great job!
Ask your company to consider using Microsoft Teams instead. It's so repulsive that you and everyone else will probably be far less willing to communicate at all.

Only half-joking.
Oh that's interesting. That's how a lot of jobs here work too (more common with white collar ones).

Although some jobs (especially those with a pension) that have a sick day allotment will give you a credit for unused sick days. Eg my dad retired one month early because he had unused vacation and sick days.

Some jobs also give you a lump of time off and say "this is paid time off, you can use it for sick time OR vacation". But that's only for short sicknesses, like if you need 1-2 days for a cold. If you're sick for more than 5 days you get paid by the government instead of your employer
Those are good points, thank you for the feedback and well-wishes!
I have been experimenting with different cell phone policies over the past few years with my kids and here is what we settled on.

At our house, we have 6 children ranging in ages from 7-12 (3 of them are mine). No cell phones allowed Mon-Fri, but on Saturday and Sunday, they can have their phones from 2pm-9pm. We sleep at 9pm everyday. Sometimes during the week I'll let them watch a movie. Also, if they want to use their phone for learning something new like oragami, a piano tune or how to draw, then I let them use it for an hour or however long they need it as long as they are responsible.

The result is lots of imaginative play time like fashion shows, disco parties and pretend school. There is a lot of time for studying and playing instruments. All the kids were "A" students this last quarter.
this doesn't really influence my comment, if 1 million people over the past 2 years died of falling bricks I'd wear a helmet
The whole thing with Musk's wild flapping back and forth and massive value destruction is entertaining schadenfreude, but I don't think anyone is really surprised that his ego has been bruised repeatedly over the last year and he's trying to create himself a reality where he's the smartest guy in the room again.

I don't know exactly what happens when someone on the narcissist spectrum starts feeling the world turning against them, but I imagine that the humility required to reboot his relationship with the world is out of reach. He's a human, worked hard, had some lucky breaks and good fortune, and now he's completely out of his depth.

My prediction for the next year is that twitter slowly bleeds users, ends up a shell of itself and virtually everyone who was previously interesting to follow there moves _somewhere_ else. As a follow-on, the world moving on from the last decade of social media will in retrospect be seen as a Good Thing and we'll all be better for it.
Long time ago I used a little windows program called TraxTime by SpudCity Software. Both seem to have passed into antiquity, but I really liked the punch-clock model it used. It was also really easy to go back and edit your in/out times when needed.
Oh I have no doubts they'll give everything a whirl. There's a certain amount of suffering required before you start reconsidering lessons you had previously written off.
nokne us stopping anyone from leaving EU markets. This whole post is a hissy fit about wanting to have your cake and eating it too
No, but while offering more pay might bring back nurses who have left for other careers, it will not bring new nurses on quickly as training takes a lot of time.
In Poland, there's plenty of "special economic zones" and the companies which establish there are off the hook for corporate income taxes for the next 30 years (IIRC). Other EU countries probably also have similar things?
Or alternatively it allows for resource-strapped companies not to waste a bunch of their time on leads that cannot yield a net-positive relationship for both sides.
>hot coffee lawsuit should have been thrown out

Lots of these people don't realize factual details of the case. I was one such person. But the details are convincing.

NSFL/Gore Warning:
https://www.deshawlaw.com/blog/the-real-facts-of-the-mcdonal...
Damn it, they have tea on that list of oxalates. Adderal to the rescue!
>This impulse to blame/scold people for a natural phenomenon is unnerving.

Yeah, but as far as our governments will share more information on this, this SARS-CoV-2 virus was invented by people in a lab, and it escaped from a lab, due to human error.
* Transmission - I am using HTTP to request assets into the page, I have managed to reduce my total asset requests down to only 4. Other than that I am using websockets for absolutely everything, because the way I am using websockets is 8x faster than HTTP. Its like all the benefits of gRPC without the frustration of protobuf. It isn't just faster its also way easier to manage from the application code because there is no round trip and no callback/promise/await on transmission. Just fire and forget.

* Automation - I am automating the shit out of it. I am automating my documentation, bundling, compilation, and a few other things as much as possible in my build step, which is under 4 seconds. I use TypeScript to type absolutely every declaration. I use TypeScript-ESLint to enforce use of TypeScript declarations and a bunch of custom rules to eliminate known bad practices like "this", bind, call, and apply.

* Framework - What a dirty word. I am not using any of this nonsense. TypeScript is good enough. I have a simple 4 step solution for state management, otherwise I just work directly to the DOM and my current application is an OS GUI. Don't knock it til you try it.

* Performance - You don't know how slow you are until you measure things with numbers. Today I managed to reduce my page load time with state restoration (an OS GUI in the browser) from about 300ms to 192ms by eliminating a CSS reflow and removing 90%+ instances of innerHTML. In the browser the performance tab/graph in the developer tools is fantastic. In Node I prefer to write my own performance tools that typically intertwine with test automation. I eliminated the css reflow by visually hiding all dynamically rendered elements until everything is fully built into the DOM. To dynamically size things vertically I removed some JavaScript arithmetic based upon parent container clientHeight and instead am using CSS min-height:100%.
Complexity? I have a small site that would run just fine with SQLite. I’d switch over in a heartbeat.
The basilisk will remember this.
And if you’re going to whipsaw back to “this was all normal and within Twitter’s rights as a private company”, just stop for a minute and look at yourselves.
Problem: You open a terminal and type the string ‘ababa’ but you are free to replace any button presses with backspace. Is there a combination where the terminal reads `ba` at the end?
I don't buy it. Maine has small power faults attributed to falling trees, but it's usually limited to only a few residents at a time because they PROACTIVELY trim problem trees and build a redundant system that can route around a downed line. We also have ice storms every year and after many people died from it in the 90s we decided to stop that from being a problem too. The fact is, it's not hard or expensive to make a reliable network when you charge 30 cents per kWh, hell, CMP was building around ice storms and occasional windstorms and all those other problems we experience for 6 cents per kWh until very recently! They basically replaced every line in the lower half of the state with that price

A reliable transmission grid does not require burying cables! It requires engineering and fault analysis and proactive spending and caring about your customers. If your distributor doesn't have reliable infrastructure, it's not because they can't afford it, it's because they don't care and don't have to fear losing you as a customer.
That would be hugely disappointing for all the people calling out Elon Musk as a scammer for his Tesla work for many years now. I'm sure those people would rather see Tesla go down due to its failures, rather than because of Twitter.
"Join Linux" -> "And the Linux Foundation" ftfy, gizmodo. "linux" is not an entity which would make sense in this title imho.
Another big advantage of using Slack in a browser is being able to customize everything using addons like Stylus (I customize colours and fonts).
We could do with more software people studying his actual work, which was building humane, living spaces that make people whole.

It's funny, I just ordered copies of The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language and Notes on the Synthesis of Form earlier this year, intending to start a deep dive into Alexander's work. This is something I've been wanting to do for some time, and kinda regret that it's taken me this long to even get as far as ordering the books. Now to find time to dig into them...

sigh So much to learn, so little time. :-(
Because the name sounds somewhat like cadmium? Or why do you bring it up?
Their goalpost is now "wow so now the pro-censorship crowd cares about free speech?"
What you give up with linux is the hardware compatibility. The linux bigots would say you get better HW compatibility but that is only true if your HW is old junk the manufacture abandoned years back.

Nvidia tends to be a bit of a no-no when it comes to linux these days because of the wayland fiasco (and others), although it might be getting better with their latest opensource driver efforts. Who knows, but the fact does remain that linux's refusal to have a binary driver ABI fsk's anything that doesn't have an opensource driver, so usually just make sure one exists before even trying the HW.
The last 10 years isn't a great sample (was 2011 really not part of the "digital era"?). It'd be interesting to see this spread across the last century -- my suspicion is that bestsellers have increased in length over the last 50 years, due to diminished serialization.
What do you say to the enormous hidden costs of decommissioning nuclear: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantl...

Are these only an issue for legacy sites and not so much for new builds?
Vs. those darn limeys, where you just have to know that a QF 17-pounder is a WWII anti-tank gun, but a QF 18-pounder is a WWI field artillery piece...
In Unix just split the input text into a smaller chunk and fork a few processes to speed up the processing.

If the input file is even larger and you have a lot of RAM, use your favorite programming language and call mmap() syscall.
Disclaimer: I am working on an analytics operating system on top of dbt, and we have overlaps with dbt cloud.

I think dbt is a great tool but such a significant price increase at this time of the year + forcing people to upgrade to Enterprise, on a product that is quite feature limited, is quite draconian - reminded me of the 90s IT software selling.

I have heard time again from data leaders how the dbt cloud price-value curve is broken - very little product updates & hefty price increases. As y'all have been saying, I think some of the options going forward are:

1. You can cut down your dbt-cloud seats and move people to VSCode (Cost: $100k+/yr) - zero tool cost, but very high time & FTE cost to build and maintain.

2. You accept the price hike and increase your budget (Cost: 100 - 600% up, likely no budget left for 2023)

3. Migrate to alternatives such as paradime.io (up to 70% cheaper) - and you get a fuller platform covering 80% of your daily analytics work + Looker / Tableau integration, Github apps, CI/CD etc.

If anyone is interested, I am happy to demo what we've been building.
> That was the best version Microsoft ever made

No. 7 was a rollback on Vista. The best one which was not a step back but rather a step forward was Windows 2000. (Some even swear by NT4, which I feel also has some merit.)
Let me fix your reasoning. Pro government journalists suspended after trying to intimidate a powerful critic by doxxing his location. FBI likely involved.
I had to use that at a previous company! I'm having flash backs...
> Imo it's part of being a professional to be able to answer the question "what are you working on"

I do that almost every day during standups and every week during 1:1s. I have no problem with it. What I do have a problem with, is when I'm forced into making judgements about my work. That's for someone who gets paid more than me to do in the corporate context. My opinion about my work and all the other self-reflection stays with me. I don't want to bootstrap their work by coming up with all sorts of ways of rewriting history to match some artificial and arbitrary expectations which are anyway outside of my control. And so is the performance review itself, in the end. Some places even allow you to review what your boss said about your performance review and even 'contest' it. You know what happened when you did that? Literally nothing, except for a checked box saying that the employee disagrees. It's all pretend.
The first proof is basically just begging the question.

It says that having infinitely many composite numbers must mean infinitely many factors, and thus infinitely many primes.

But we can construct infinite sets of numbers from finite prime factors easily. [2] and the powers of 2.

Which might be a good starting point to teach someone Euclid's proof that there are infinite primes, but ChatGPT didn't get all the way there.
500 lines or less and the rest of Architecture of Open Source Applications series
http://www.aosabook.org/en/
What about only taxing B2C revenue? Then the degree of vertical integration wouldn't matter.
Complexity? MySQL 1 click installs on damn near every WordPress install. I fail to see how it is complex.
we’ll miss you :’(
I kept wanting to set one up and struggling with syntax errors, thanks for posting this.

(If anyone knows a good guide to "rolling your own", I may give it one more go in that gap between Christmas and New Year's)

I really like Jeckyll since it's static and low bandwidth, so I can worry less about DDOSing and can stand up a dot onion to avoid censorship.

(Or so I'm told... I've not run many servers in my day, more of a troll who learned python, nmap, and metasploit after realizing civil society is anything but.)
MySQL is a bit of a faff for the average person who wants to self-host WordPress. SQLite can be made more user friendly. Plus, MySQL is more expensive to host.
I'm curious as to how much of your site depends on WordPress, vs. just using a static site generator.