skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered that you might be subject to a kind of selection bias here? You ran into people that were successful enough to thrive here. What about all the others that did not succeed? That had to go back to wherever they came from because their visa ended and they could no longer stay in the country?

>Free markets have vaulted more people out of poverty, by far, than any other system yet devised. The historical record on that is pretty clear.

And unions are part of that free market. I don't know how much more free market one can get than people coming together to offer their labour in an organized fashion.
As some have said, reality is quite different. For example, my two last jobs:

- company uses Microsoft stack (.net, SQL server, windows server), so its 100 employees are also on windows
- company let's its 50 employees pick what they want, which is mostly MacOS

Why? Because it's less effort maintaining, and you don't run into compatibility problems for your other programs. With virtualization and docker, you can simulate your production servers much more easily than before!

Personally, I am a fan of Linux, having used Ubuntu, Debian and Manjaro, but nowadays use windows+wsl+docker for everything.
Care to share how?
Mastodon doesn’t need to do anything. But a mastodon that deserves the attention it gets in the Twitter turmoil is one that can - and actively tries - to be that Twitter alternative.

If it doesn’t do that in a hurry now, then it’s still a good project it’s just not one that will be worth any broad attention because it’s so small and niche.
_why was an extremely influential programmer, but he optimized for fun while writing, at expense of misery while debugging or changing the code years later. This can be felt in the whole Ruby ecosystem even today.

His distaste for tests is just a consequence of that.
> I’m talking about commercial banks themselves being in the process of creating money, which in the UK was indeed not an established fact until the 2000s.

There is a concerted effort amongst some fringe economists to make this argument, which is superficially plausible to the sort of laymen easily convinced that reading a couple of blogs arguing that an entire field is wrong is a substitute for reading anything written by that field.

But of course the Bank of England knew that commercial banks were involved in the process of creating money all along. Propping up private bank money was literally their job.
Show HN: A project I worked alone on over 10 years ago now
There are quite a few very, very good class D amplifier designs out there. “Very good” means highly efficient and with good enough fidelity (noise, distortion, etc) that no one will ever be able to distinguish them from perfect.

But, IMO quite annoyingly, these things generally have analog inputs. This means you need a good DAC (which exists and isn’t terribly expensive) and a good connection from the DAC to the amp. You can make a good connection out of inexpensive cables, but you still need to worry about ground loops and possibly signal levels.

So why aren’t there comparably good amplifiers with digital inputs and a DAC integrated directly? Fancy preamp features are unnecessary — if the input resolution is 24-bit, then volume control and such can be done digitally with effectively no loss.
I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make? This isn't some kind of big coverup. Pretty much everyone is aware of the fact that most renewables suffer from intermittency issues. These issues can be somewhat smoothed out over larger geographic areas (e.g. there's always wind somewhere), but until we can build better storage systems, there's no panacea here. Or anywhere else.

We're also quite keenly aware of the downsides of other energy sources. You could equally argue that there are many lies of omission related to fossil fuels or nuclear.
Ironically the origins probably stem from pre-Christian polytheistic (people using “pagan” here) practices anticipating the return of spring.
Extremely bad advice given on this page. Don"t mess with the machine-id!
Rather turn off phased updates.

Set this in some of your apt.conf.d:

Update-Manager::Always-Include-Phased-Updates;
APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates;
> Before the Simpsons there was no adult animation

There was adult animation from well known authors way before the Simpsons[1], even if you just consider the USA[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_and_One_Nights_(196...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat_(film)
The wonderful world of corporate OSS. Your needs come second to the company. Remember, kids: if you're not paying for it, you're the product.
I recently thought that pain is very certain and reliable: stub my toes and it’s equally painful every time.

Pleasure is also consistent but less so: eating an applie pie is pleasurable. Maybe not two days in a row though.

Satisfaction is much less certain and reliable. Something might be satisfying today but not next week.

Hanging out with friends. Satisfying. We laugh. Then it gets less satisfying. We still laugh. But no satisfaction.
Also, almost half of the French nuclear reactors were down for maintenance in 2022, requiring German coal and gas power plants to stabilize the European power grid.

The reactors only recently went online again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/business/france-nuclear-p...
it is what it is broskies. appreciate every moment :)
> I've never seen a company whose developers didn't commit live credentials into their source code.

I don’t do that, but I’m pretty pathological about stuff like that.

I learned it from the company I used to work for, who were paranoid to the point of lunacy, about Chinese hackers (they were breached once, and took the lesson to extremes).

I don’t think they are an outlier. I’ll bet lots of companies are just as tinfoil.

It’s a downright unbearable development environment, though.

I’ve heard banks can be even worse.
Americanized Ayurveda often is, but that ends up being the case for most of the initial attempts to use aspects of integrated systems from other cultures. This does not mean Ayurvedic practices, properly situated, do not have value.
I don't know, I think everyone is aware that storing excess energy surplus from renewables is an unsolved problem and you are moralizing and making the debate by choice of strong words (lie, slavery) unnecessary emotional.
As someone from the security domain you should know there is not one single tool/service that will solve all your security challenges. I did not claim VPN will.

Your example of employee laptop getting infected with malware should be remediated by proper device management. Which should include policies like forced updates, prevents software install, uses corporate firewall, up to date antivirus, etc.

Since you mentioned you work for a company that sells zero trust, your response sounds like your solution would replace VPN. Don’t get me wrong, but feels like you are wearing the sales hat now.

Yes, old fashion VPN appliances will be probably seize to exist. Replaced by modern equivalent like tailscale. Layered security is the answer.
The objections are to vertical farms for grain, not vertical farms in general. Leafy greens are ideal candidates for indoor growing by artificial light, since they need relatively little light and are quickly perishable. The savings in transportation and waste may thus offset the costs of electricity, lights, and other capital equipment. I think even those economics are usually marginal now, and such vertical farms are usually profitable only if they can sell their produce at a premium due to real or perceived better quality (outside unusual locations like the far North). But there's still room for improvement in LED efficiency, automation, etc., so maybe it will cross over.

The economics for grain are much worse--the plants need much more light, and the product is easily dried, stored, and transported. The processing is also highly automated already. Here's an article with some (dismal) numbers:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2002655117
Can a mere mortal usefully deploy openbmc on a small number of servers?
"They" were there (where they lived) and I just related their direct experience as related to me. This is an serious question I have for someone who was part of the movement, do you genuinely feel no empathy for the people who felt trapped in their homes and were buying firearms to protect themselves from events your group incited?
Lower-case hedonism (not the philosophy) gets a deservedly bad rap. There is little long-term satisfaction in pleasure-seeking.

Maybe Hedonism is sound.
You use the label “nihilist” as if it disproves anything. “Oh, it’s just X”
I've been taking a look at materials for creating a flywheel energy storage system and for the life of me I can't understand why people don't use basalt fibers as the material for the flywheel. It has similar properties to carbon fiber but is cheaper and heavier. Since the energy storage scales exponentially with speed but linearly with weight, it should make sense to optimize for materials with a high tensile strength. Basalt fiber is pretty easy to manufacture and there are tons of it all over the world.
Out of boredom I was checking airbyte. Here are some details:

1. They want you to ship like a startup: https://handbook.airbyte.com/company/methodology#done-better...

2. They are remote but will adjust your salary based on location: https://handbook.airbyte.com/people/compensation#nomading

3. They are transparent but there is no mention of salaries.

4. They support diversity more than the French republic (aka: tons of BS): https://handbook.airbyte.com/people/diversity-inclusion-and-...

5. They'll give you $100 on your birthday!! https://handbook.airbyte.com/people/expense-policy#birthdays

Building these books in the open is signalling. No one knows except, of course, for the people who have gone through whether that guideline is legit or not.
The first one is actually Japanese and the second is an independent production. Sure, it was not unheard of. But I think the Simpsons is what made it mainstream. My point was that adults were not sitting down in front of the TV to watch cartoons (and specially not ones based off of a video game). That was associated with kids.
Not arguing against the political failures, but mind that the impressions of "several family members" do not yield figures reliable for any conclusions.
In Germany “intermittency issues” are not only ignored but denied at the top.
If carbon emissions are the biggest threat we face, there are two choices: nuclear or deindustrialisation.
Sorry, that was a typo for addiction indeed. They should test at the level they claim to certify. So, an MSc. should not get questions that can be answered by rote, but it might be appropriate for a first-year student, when the topic is entirely new. And teachers should read essays for depth and understanding, instead of counting the words and skimming a few paragraphs. That'll draw complaints from the people that think every end goal and test of a course should be perfectly described and objective, but to them I say: move your pretty, empty heads elsewhere if you can't see you're parroting someone's failed attempt to operationalize a remote ideal.
Not to mention that people are often legitimate experts in a field and a leading expert on their own theory, and yet spout palpable nonsense about what supporters of the alternative theory believe to boost the credentials of their own theory.

Heterodox monetary theories are a particularly good example of this...
My first job (2016) involved dealing lots of servers used by telecom providers in many different DCs in different cities.

One of my most useful tools was a thumb drive full of old internet explorer, firefox, and Java installers.

The 50m ethernet cable (nicknamed BFC - big fucking cable) also deserves an honorable mention.
Talktopapers: Upload a paper to your drive and talk to it using Open AI
Couldn’t agree more.

Maybe this website would serve some purpose if we weren’t constantly being reminded of getting older, weaker, not having much time left, maybe you will get Alzheimers if you don’t do this One Weird Trick, etc. But as it stands we are reminded plenty of how short our lives are.
The role that commercial banks in money creation has been known since much before the 2000s. It's all laid out in Keynes' General Theory which was published in 1936, and it wasn't even a novel idea at the time.
The best part is that we can carry the Earth's other seeds with us and populate planets with our favorite plants and animals as we go.
Adding to that, the machine ID is a global identifier and changing it could lead to all sorts of unpredictable consequences elsewhere.
If Musk's goal was to destroy Twitter from the inside, he seems to be succeeding.
> Do you export all raw images from your camera to PNG too? JPG is good enough, and single-pass CD rips are just fine too.

No, i keep them in RAW and develop a few for albums and print and such.. No, JPGs and PNGs are not good enough, the loss is REAL when you try to actually develop the picture.

I must admit I _REALLY_ don't get this "good enough" mentality.. Like.. Here's this way to get a more precise representation of the music you bought, and you'll go "nah, that's not for me, I prefer whatever random data I happen to get on the first go".. for what? why ?

If you really want to have a different product on every playback, I guess vinyl is the way to go :P
Not if there are lots of files. mmap can be good for one big file.
If you are suspending a lot of heavy weights, you need something buoyant enough to hold them all up.

An old supertanker would work fine. You make tunnels from the bottom up to the reels, for the cables to run through. You would want to let it turn to face waves, but you need and electrical tie-in to shore, or anyway to the nearest wind farm to move power in and out. All the weights hanging deep under water keep it stable.

Motor/generator and winch are maybe where the engine was.
Probably the CIA. Remember when they kidnapped and then tortured a bunch of people for bogus reasons (he has the same name/watch as a terrorist, waterboarding it is!)? And the people involved not only didn't go to jail, but got promotions (is the head of the CIA still the one that had a major part in the torture program and destroyed evidence about it?).
That is indeed interesting to think about. What exact mechanism did you had in mind for thermal energy transport?
That would be nice if we were taught any concrete ways to do that. But we aren’t. “Confront”? What does that even mean?

The Dalai Lama allegedly meditates on dying every day. With the whole decay visualization business.
I wonder what the BMC was doing to hurt performance. Maybe it was questionable DVFS that stopped when the BMC died? Poor fan management that caused thermal throttling?
That is truly terrible. Not just from a "think of the children" perspective, but also from a "this doesn't fit the lore or the tone of the source material in the slightest" perspective.

I get it. It's hard to adapt a silent protagonist. But did they have to overcompensate so badly and make him an obnoxious sounding pervert?

I was furious about what Paramount did to Halo when they recently made that into a TV series (partly also for including the sexual desires and activities of the main character that were not accurate or relevant). But you know what?... at least I wasn't a Zelda fan in 1989.

Sometimes tight control over IP is a good thing. That's what I remind myself every time I'm sad there's no Half-Life 3 -- it's a shame there isn't more, but on the other hand at least we're not suffering from two mediocre reboots and an awful unfaithful TV series complete with a gratuitous Alyx-Gordon sex scene.

I haven't watched the Last of Us series yet but perhaps, considering the success of that and Sonic, the tide is turning on awful videogame adaptations. They'll never stop being mostly awful, but perhaps they'll stop being entirely awful.
> 800 you put in at the beginning, 50 you have to chip in at the end, you just paid 850 for that mixer.

Honestly, if in 2 years you still haven't managed to save > $800 worth of your time with the stand mixer, you probably shouldn't focus on that $50 of depreciation.
Engineering sure was different.

Now things are holonomically controlled, every behavior is arbitrary and computer generated, nothing arises from necessity if we can avoid it.

With a spoon, anything you add will probably make it worse, you can sit and think and not find anything to change other than the material. If I give it adjustable length, the mechanism may be unsanitary.

There's no long list of features to pick from, once you've decided you're not making a spork, there's no real question of what to include, so the feature set(Be spoon) feels perfect, since I have no alternate design to compare it to.

Once you add a microcontroller you have so much possibility. Why can't my flashlight report battery level via Bluetooth and alert me when it's fully charged? A minor convenience, but it could be cheap enough I'd pay for it.

The tradeoff is a bit more code and a cheap chip. And I'm sure there's a dozen other features that I'd like to have if they were cheap.

Not only does the thought of a perfect harmony of only the necessary parts not always arise in a modern mindset.... but I wouldn't know how to recognize it if I saw it anyway. Is there a real engineering reason to leave out a feature? Did they not think of it? Or are they just appealing to love of simplicity for it's own sake? I don't know, I wasn't at the meeting, so I'll probably be annoyed and leave a comment saying they shouldn't have left this or that out.

Now, simplicity feels more like another feature to include or exclude, it doesn't just arise from the desire for low cost and reliability, since we sometimes but not always can make insane complexity cheaply that lasts decades.

The difference is that simplicity isn't compatible with a lot of other features, because it's almost like intentionally choosing to give up arbitrariness and holonomic control.
I upvoted to counteract a downvote. Although I don't know how well this represents the truth of the whole situation in Portland, I think the only proper way to respond to plain information is with more information.
Anybody else notice that the “latest” page for search results is gone as well?

There used to be a top level group for seeing the most recent tweets matching a search term. It no longer appears for non-logged in users: https://twitter.com/search?q=Twitter%20search%20latest%20gon...
Very much like Covid, very much like infrastructure like railroads or highways, very much like the health-care system.
Their failure is incompetence fueled by ideology-driven politics for which they tried to undermine the very foundations of the German democracy (e.g., take away state-level authority during Covid).

The US wasn’t the only one who warned the German government about the geopolitical risk they would be exposed to.

Angela Merkel shut down nuclear power in Germany and then tied our industry to Putin.
Talk to datacenters with flywheels. There's plenty of problems that make them mostly useless.
There was nothing in European history comparable to the way Mongols and their Turko-Mongol successors massacred entire regions out of existence until WW2. They changed the entire ethnic make-up of Central Asia.
If emissions are reduced, emissions are not zero. That's the fundamental lie.

>Peaker plants are not baseload power

Not according to reality. [1] Gas has been producing consistently on a daily basis for over a year in Germany. Natural gas is used to prop up baseload generation in Germany and practically every region it's used.

[1] https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electric...
Maybe node_modules could move to SQLite.
Thats ok.

But there are bad apples everywhere. This seems like Russian roulette - gambling your early life financial stability in that your landlord is a usual straoght arrow so you can pay nominally lower rent.

Even a 5% counterparty risk in return for marginally lower rent seems like a bad deal considering the amount at risk is life changing. The deposit is not held in escrow. A loss of a non collaterized 300k loan in early marriage couples could be devastating.
The older I get, the more I appreciate the wisdom of religions, especially (but not exclusively) Buddhism. Versions of this can be found in many wisdom traditions.

Strive for tranquility and peace of mind by living simply, deeply caring for others, increasing genorosity, taking pleasure in the simple things, controlling the mind, cultivating positive emotions, being ethical.

If you do these things you will reduce suffering for yourself and others. That to me is an ultimate goal.
It’s adorable that you made an account to scold some random person for how their inner life works, as if you could glean that from a one-paragraph comment.

But as we all know: those who scold random people are the great teachers-by-example.
http://sdf.org
I don't care for robots if we're not there to experience the universe. They're just a byproduct, a piece of trash we'll leave after we're gone. I want us to explore, not our toasters.
Are you certain that those changes were not made manually when initial setup needed some tweaks to get working, perhaps?
I’m currently trying the new UI, but find it slower to work with than the old one. It has many things hidden behind menus now, which makes the UI prettier but less effective.
Loan loss provisions cost actual real profit though because they cause the bank to hold more risk capital reserves, which basically means some of their capital is dry powder and isn't generating returns. The difference between their expected rate of return on risk capital and the risk free rate (which you could see as "opportunity cost of capital" basically) is lost for this amount.
Looks like minecraft at first glance. Alot of programmers work on stuff alone nowadays but reach this level.
I can't judge if their employees need that much access to production.

However, if they need this, you need a detection mechanism. It doesn't have to be advanced; a threshold on the number of production keys accessed per day is sufficient. It should raise the alarm to the manager in question, who can then confirm if this is expected behaviour given the tasks assigned to the employee in question.
Why do you think pushing out broken updates to people and causing them to do extra work is a good thing? It's something that should happen as little as possible.

If the OS developers have the ability to save thousands of man hours of their users they should do so.
I agree, we need to focus on our local neighborhood. If there are breakthroughs, they'll come. We should make the most of what we already have.
Most places I’ve worked, has the concepts from above.

Security is lax at most companies but even having worked as an engineer on support rotation, customer anc production access was the last thing I could do and I needed to have exhausted all other options. I don’t feel retaining production access to generate tokens should be a thing.
If the Media Reported on Other Things Like It Does Effective Altruism
What you describe isn't how the "current system" works.
I think they are used everywhere because you can describe everything with them easily.
I mean i still prefer a set of points over a newly introduced definition of a "circle" just to be able to express a problem in mathematical language.
It's kind of the same for functions too, they're used to describe so many things sometimes in a weird context too.
I think the best abstraction is that which creates as little mental overhead as possible. Sets and relations are pretty basic and simple in that regard.
But notice that he mostly hits the mobilins with his pillow, rather than actually kill them with his sword. We've sort of just flipped: sex was ok, but violence was not.