skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TECHNICALLY they only supply loans and construction assistance to countries that don't have the infrastructure themselves yet, but, yeah.

Not like the US is much better though; US based investors and shell companies own property all across the world, and US intelligence agencies infiltrated / owned European based secure communications companies / products (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG).

Also, the US has public / non-secret army bases in 100+ countries, and secret police stations in loads of places elsewhere (50 prisons in 28 countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites)
"Prepared surface" is a whole thing in drag racing. I remember reading how Dodge got their Hellcat under 10 seconds, and it involved not only special tires, but also a specific gunk that is apparently common to spread on the tarmac, said to be sticky even to walk on it.

Normal things in drag racing I guess, but no way they'd allow that in Silverstone.
The corollary here is also that, if you do enough trailblazing that you start recognizing patterns that makes your estimates much more accurate, it means you likely know enough to automate away the predictable portions of the process - making future deliveries faster, but again not possible to estimate accurately.

And, if those predictable parts aren't very specific to your business niche, others will discover them too, and someone will eventually automate them away in form of a library/framework, service, methodology, or something else you'll end up adopting.

Ultimately, having such close feedback loop with automation, by virtue of being done in a virtual medium, makes the software process anti-inductive wrt. estimates. Like with stock market, exploiting some regularity effectively makes it go away.
Does it seem like we’re living in a world where these guys have no influence?
Interesting. Explainable AI is an import but difficult research field.

The real reason something is recommended is probably a sum of hundreds of signals. Or worse, a big neural network's final sigmoid turns out a bit high. Translating that into perspicuous reasons is nice work.
[Wing team member here]
Makes a lot of sense. As someone here guessed, this post was not something that we planned and it caught us off guard
> The Mac Pro is already in the extreme niche. The current Intel-based Mac Pro starts at $6000.

Oddly enough, the one I played with felt slower than the Mac Studio.
It was done earlier by Jim Hall with the Chaparrals.

"Although it was quickly banned, the 2J “vacuum cleaner” concept was copied eight years later by Brabham Formula 1 designer Gordon Murray who figured out a way to circumvent the rules." - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hall_(racing_driver)
https://archive.vn/V3NQ5
I have been bombarded by this "news" so many times in so many forms it's amazing. The list of ideas on restrictions in case of electricity shortages is very long, and this is in the "emergency" category I believe, so very unlikely to happen.
The non-news is: the Swiss are organized, who'd have thought.
> that gets worse single-core and multi-core Geekbench scores than the M1 Max found in a $2000 Mac Studio.

That's also because they didn't bother updating it for years. Just like the previous trashcan model.

I don't really understand how Apple gets away with that. The people that spend this kind of money to get top of the line hardware are the same ones that are ok buying 4-year-old hardware at introduction price???
The one time I've actually used an aggregate device, I synced the clock of one device to the other. It worked fine as far as I remember (it's been a couple of years).
Another great explanation (also in a game-development context) here [0], previously discussed here [1]

[0] https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/how-townscaper-works-a-s...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31799818
> lots of available jobs and the leverage to negotiate for better pay

The market is always portrayed as efficient money-for-time but reality is the market is often based around risk minimization and pounding square pegs into round holes and "proving" there's no one available for our immigration or other government program paperwork.

Plenty of openings are posted with no intention of filling them.
Quite ironic they suggest we use "demanding or entitled White woman" instead of "Karen". Isn't a Karen actually a "a female of European descent struggling with mental conditions of entitlement?"
I hope he changes his mind about Twitter soon
Yes, rule still applies. But I work in an area where nothing is little. It’s not just the code change, I have to think about all the changes that come along with the code fix.
By not looking at real estate as a proper asset class is a huge mistake. The chart in this article is a counter argument of single asset risk and serves as a visualization for the stepping stones to becoming independently wealthy.

The arguments of being house poor are transient at best. Yes some people buy more house than they can afford, but most people stabilize with time and earning potential.

Sometimes I see these articles and immediately think they are propaganda to the ethos of America.
If it were my company I would not let journalists anywhere near it or my employees either. All downside.
Isochoric supercooling looks much more promising. The body does not freeze solid. The temperature is lowered to below freezing, but all fluids remain fluids.

I'm not aware of experiments with animals, and obviously not humans. But here's an experiment with human cardiac tissue [1], which went quite well.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02650-9
> per-say

Quick note because you seem like the type of person who’d like to know, it’s “per se”: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/per_se
Not that I've found!
It does, but very little. No amount of fortitude can lift a broken arm to put food into someone's mouth.
Fair enough, but you have to realize that nobody calls themselves "alt-right" with the philosophy "Oh boy, more racism and school shootings is just what this country needs."
Quite possible this is due to a case of SMS traffic pumping fraud(https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/8360406023067-S...) backing up underlying resources. Does Twitter still have the resources to remediate something like that?
Yeah but what music production workflow needs the power of an “extreme” chip? The M1 Max and Pro (not to mention Ultra) are already practically overkill for the vast majority of musical workflows. Many producers work on plain M1 Airs as when everything has enough functional power, the lack of a fan becomes the most desirable feature.
TIL that the word "grandfather" originates from them phrase "grandfather clause", and not the other way around.
I assume that the monitor stand has much lower initial costs and needs to sell in lower quantities to break even.
Even though it's resolved I do find it very interesting. The reason why it still exists on the home page is evidence that others agree with this sentiment.
I think the people voting him step down from twitter were trying to save him and tesla (etc) and not trying to be mean. Most people can recognize an individual in crisis.
Another Fermi Paradox thread.

Take a shot any time von Neumann probes are mentioned.

Regarding the paper (or at least its abstract) it's worth mentioning that our own radio transmissions have become significantly less likely to be detected after our transition to digital, and that electromagnetic signals dissipate, so they might no longer be recognizable as intelligent signals beyond a certain distance. That would seem to restrict the "Contact Era" window from "a few hundred to a few thousand" years to a century or less. One would expect that advanced civilizations became essentially radio silent to us long before we were even capable of detecting their transmissions in theory.
> Quit being so scared.

Unfortunately not everyone may live in a region with multiple internet providers, such that they can switch to a different one if banned.
https://studentsfororwell.org
Tobi Lutke: Cool (programming) tech that are underrated but useful
I'd rather have someone DDoS Cloudflare than my home IP. Or just host somewhere that is not my home without Cloudflare.
A very fast internet connection would be 4gbps symmetrical. A modern NVME can read ~5gbps. DDR5 supports up to 51GBs. PCIE6 has a symmetrical 128GBs connection.

If file size is a bottleneck for you then you'll see better performance computing locally, especially if you can cache workloads in DDR5 before saving to the filesystem.
You also have to take into account that often a certain level of power play is going on: those developers need to be shown they are much lower in the hierarchy than the sales people.
The main criminal thing they did IMO is offering no upgrade path, at all until very late. IIRC you couldn't even import FCP7 projects for two years or so after FCPX release.
Especially since we don't even know what actual wavefunction collapse means.
oh, you mean like the US and its global reaching government?
One of the things that's nice about extreme sports is it's very clear where your boundaries lie and when you've crossed the line. You need the encouragement to find them which is where i think the whole "push yourself" comes from but once you do then you know where you stand. I use to do a lot of skateboarding when i was younger and taught my boys how to skate. I would tell them, attempt to violate the laws of physics and you will be punished. A hard slam is a very clear signal that what you assumed was not the case.
WordPerfect is still used by a lot of solicitor's offices. They have stuff on floppy going back to the 80s, when they were early adopters, and since That Big Firm There used WP, *you* used WP, so you could interoperate, and that meant that Other Big Firm used WP to interoperate with you, and so on.

Decades later you still need to pull stuff off those old floppies occasionally.
When AT&T owned HBO.
But how do you protect the shared secrets? Do you see my point? I wish there was some sort of industry best practice tool or book for modelling your threats and suggesting an architecture.
You could always turn off the Fisher Price UI and switch to Windows Classic style, up to Windows 7 actually.
> career

The fact of life of a pyramid shaped employment structure, is almost everyone is forced out eventually anyway, regardless of age.
I don’t think this is right. An efficient market the costs are equal. I think you meant this - if you fully load the economic story the cost of ownership and renting should be equal. It’s true though that markets are rarely ideally priced. The ideal price is a mean reversion target but can randomly diverge due to a ton of other idiosyncratic factors. In fact housing prices and rents are rarely in balance. They just tend towards each other.
They key point was not in acquiring information.. instead in authority to do something real with that information without real concequences.
Since it's a private company and all such policy decisions are ultimately at the discretion of management anyway, it doesn't have anything to do with democracy or legality.
> but other people have told me those terms make them uncomfortable

The question is, is the sum of their discomfort more or less than those who are discomforted by these kinds of lists?

(Maybe also add in the trivial annoyance of those like me who when "cd"ing into a folder now have to remember whether this one uses "main" or "master" instead of just being able to instantly swap)
i appreciate that "I cannot stress enough" is somewhat idiomatic, however it strikes me as odd to announce this but then not offer least some of the specific reasons you believe this.
A shortage occurs when the buyer (in the case of labour, the employer) is prevented from paying more. While there are certain labour segments, healthcare in particular, where government often prevents buyers from paying more, there is no real constraint on the general labour pool in this regard.

This means that the only reason there is a shortage is because labour is choosing to not charge higher rates for their work. When the media/government states that there is a labour shortage they are saying: "Hey workers, charge more already!" If that's not pro-labour, I don't know what is.
This fits with my experience; I would include the following:

What do the developers have to learn? New technology? New business domain?

Are there new system interconnections? How many?

How involved is the 'customer'? Who is the 'customer'? For B2B or enterprise software, do you have access to people who will actually be using your software?

===

A question I've been thinking about: Code, config, build and release pipelines, tests, documentation, etc are all the work product of software development, and those can be quantified (kind of). But what is the unit of work for software developers? I think it's the "try" - as in I had to try 100 different things to get this stupid thing to build. Those 100 things may have been in 2 logical work paths or 10 or 30. One path may have had 2 tries or 50. A path may have split into 2 or 3 or 10 other sub-paths.
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“Worse is better” is just a framing of “economies of scale beat niche products” from a niche enthusiast’s viewpoint.
after your first property tax bill, you realize that you have local taxing authorities as landlords (as well as federal).

we never really own our real estate (and i can't just leave and take it with me)
Threadreader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1604846804574560256.html
I'm happy to share this feedback with the Svelte team.

Can you share more about which code examples you're looking for? We can then try to make some better suggestions.

For connecting to Mongo, can you share your code? Is it using a direct connection through the driver or using the Data API?
The list can go on and on and we will one day witness the Standford IT Community doing "The Chief Apologies"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBGOryiqZZI
Carspotting 2022: Down the Road
These clouds are only visible before sunset or after sunrise. They're very weak and make themselves visible when the surface is in the shadow, but they are not thanks to their impressive an highly unusual altitude (they're well well above all weather).
You thought you were in a room with a nice friendly dog, all of the sudden the dog starts pacing and staring at you menacingly. You've found yourself in a bad situation for sure, but you should not consider how you tolerate a scary dog for any extended period of time. In the situation you can exit the room, get mauled, fight back and kill/incapacitate the dog. The grandparents comment applies only when there is an existing power balance in the engineers favor, if you don't put that power balance into place then their advice need not apply. Fuck your manager, if you do wind up fired let it roll off your back there was nothing you could do.
Police seize on Covid-19 tech to expand global surveillance – AP News
So to reword what you said, nobody was writing games for SGI workstations.

The video game industry is so huge that whatever hardware benefits from it, it will eventually crush the professional competition.

If AI is possible today, it's because billions have been invested in making our computers beasts at multiplying matrices.
On the right latitudes 60+ these can be seen each year in the months around summer solstice during the short nights. Here's a timelapse over 2 hours if you want to see how some types of them move through the sky https://imgur.com/gallery/PlyifNr
Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B over consumer loan violations
The ST in mono was alas only around 71hz. Still very nice. Sadly my family could not afford a mono monitor and and I used my ST through the family TV but I used a friend's mono monitor a few times and it was very nice.
So, at first, Elon Musk declared that the "current lords & peasants system" is bad.

Now, he's implementing a system where it's Lord Elon, his $8 Vassals, and the rest of the unwashed Peasants cannot speak.

He seems rather unclear on concepts of equality and free speech . . .
This has been my point in many arguments. I don't need an autopilot or 24/7 connectivity. I just want a basic jeep/sedan/truck that does what we've been doing with them for the past 100 years. My phone can do the rest of what I need from connectivity. I would be fine (more than fine) with a usb stick firmware upgrade. The less my car is connected over wifi/5g the better. I don't need anything beyond the standard instrument cluster. Upgrade me all around to LED lights everything and we're good. Think of me as a digital Amish. I only want those things that are functional and efficient.
The diversity of culture and ideas on HN likely substantially exceeds that of the Stanford administration.
Yes absolutely a Pi is likely plenty assuming it's fairly light load. That said, if you prefer x86 you may have better mileage using an older thinclient or perhaps even something like the ODroid H3 (or frankly any old laptop).

Just be sure to have a decent backup system in place as consumer grade equipment like the above may fail rather abruptly with little route to recovery.

Edit: you may want to check out Jupiter Broadcasting's Self-Hosted podcast. The show is very much geared towards DIY enthusiasts/small businesses.
A world where small and subtle fouls are continuously punished sounds pretty scary to me.
This looks really cool. It's the first time I've heard of fitlet, and seems like exactly what I've been looking for to replace my old noisy server.

Did you consider any alternatives when putting together this setup? Or for others reading, are there similar fanless options to compare?
> But now imagine your boss is using terms like "jewed down" or some other thing thing that applies to you, specifically. Are you harmed? It's very possible that you are harmed in a very literal sense; your career path is intertwined with a person that seems to think cheapness and haggling is synonymous with your people.

You would harmed by the prejudicial actions taken against you, like skipping you for advancement, but not by the use of the word specifically. If anything, letting people use the word makes it easier to gather evidence of any prejudice against you, so making the word taboo makes such prejudice easier to hide.
That's surprisingly hard to do well, and is a very very very slow process.
Ask HN: How to tell the world about your project?
Except for posting to HN, how do you tell the world about your projects that you are working on? If you don't have funds for adds how do you spread the word? Only through personal social media accounts?
What that costs more than my car...?????
What's your timeline? The dates on twitter suggest that it is abandoned.
The English language is deep in a crisis of lacking effective profanity. We neutered "fuck" by using it too much, Aussies use "cunt" as an adverb at the dinner table, all we're left with is ethnic slurs.
But the majority of his spill is about happiness and home ownership, so he's happy with a house he owned.

I don't hate maintenance as I grew up working around the house with my dad. But I absolutely will not do lawn care work, ehehhe!
> I reject the notion that anyone hearing or reading a word from this list could possibly experience anything properly categorized as "harm".

If you don't feel uncomfortable for any of these words or phrases, then consider yourself fortunate; it does not apply to you. But don't dismiss it because you're not offended for any of the words, just be fortunate it's not a problem you have.
https://xkcd.com/695/

https://old.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/6or057/xkcd_695_appar...

https://i.imgur.com/VbKV9DF_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&...
Anyone know how this runs under wine?
I'm all into OSR RPGs, but I think Monster Man [0] may have a general appeal. It's a gentle deconstruction of the monsters from Dungeons and Dragons, with a lot of the history and mythical underpinnings thrown in. Short (usually <10 mins), easy listening, and always delightful insights from a history professor with a passion for tabletop gaming.

Also G.Lo.P. [1] Curmudgeonly looks at current events in the culture, with lots of stories from old Hollywood movies/TV. When they dip into politics, it's conservative Happy Warrior stuff, nothing to be afraid of.

[0] - https://monsterman.libsyn.com/
[1] - https://ricochet.com/series/goldberg-long-podhoretz/
This is super clickbait.

tldr; no loophole, he’s just not tracking users.
As someone with a paid off mortgage (sort of), I can tell you that you still have to pay the State of Texas a Property/Wealth tax every year. They tell us we'll actually have power for this next extreme cold front, so maybe they actually put those to use in the last couple years.
Hands-On with Sony’s DualSense Edge, the $200 PS5 Gamepad
So I am curious how this comment will go, but I suspect this might be an unpopular take.
A while ago there was a concentrated effort by the right in the US to “regain” the mind space of universities, towards ideas of the alt-right and traditional right like protecting foetuses etc.
Since then I have been noticing an uptick of articles attempting to polarise and raise outrage against the “radical left” with one major avenue of attack being these “language initiatives”.
I’ve also noticed an uptick of false flag operations with certain academics of questionable intellect and pedigree.. being pushed past the edge into rather harmful attempts to purge otherwise harmless language, or to express other “extreme views” while trying to identify them selves as left.
To someone who has mostly viewed them self as a rational and somewhat left leaning intellectual this is exhausting. Frankly these days I do my best to hide from both the new right, and the polarised and misguided people that think they are left wing.
POLL: Should I step down as head of Pinboard? I will abide by the results of this poll.
Some users think they can track the location of phones using our API. Apparently there's a youtube video of somebody doing it. "Just enter the phone number and receive the exact location". It's not a feature we have, not in the documenation and I don't think anybody else has that feature either. Do you (anybody) really think there's just a free API on the internet that gives you the precise location of somebody's phone? Anyway, that leads to regular user complains, some users are angry at us.
Ha Elon does not need your protection.
I’ve yet to see a single consistent principle from them to be fair. Reactionary is kind of their defining feature. I was more talking about the outcomes that tend to follow them around.