skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the only thing that was ghost-posted as you "Thanks"? If so, I'd think you'd have very little in the way of damages here. If they had posted something substantive, like "I'm sorry for all the mistakes I made", then you could have a cause of action.

In many cases, whether there is a lawsuit worth pursuing depends on both (1) whether a wrong was committed, and (2) whether there are any damages worth recovering based on the wrong.

In some cases all you need is (1), for example if there are statutorily-specified damages. But in most cases, the recoverable damages will depend on how much you were actually injured/prejudiced by the wrong committed.
Is it true that space had no volume at the Big Bang? I understand that density rises without (known?) bound as we approach the Big Bang, but even if you compress infinite space by an infinite factor you might still have infinite space -- infinity divided by infinity is undefined.
there's dozens of us
> "why would this be necessary when the entirety of Great Britain is one synchronous grid?"

Because there are bottlenecks in capacity on the synchronous grid that restrict the amount of power that can be moved from north-to-south (or vice-versa).

It works out better/cheaper/easier to bypass those bottlenecks with efficient undersea HVDC links than to try and build more terrestrial AC transmission lines.
"Luxury?" LOL

The only thing approaching luxury is the price.
That's not how we should use it - give a few ideas, a bunch of notes, results and ask the model to write the text. It will write better text than most, but we are responsible for prompting it with valid data.
The explanation is in the title itself. In the font I just read it, the j was clear, the i/I was ambiguous like a | likely the same reason engineers use j.
I'm sorry but this reeks of made up bullshit for TV on a show that would be notoriously boring if not for invented drama. I'm sure they took a wave but I don't see any evidence that it was a rogue wave.
Dumbpw: Generate passwords for sites with dumb password policies
Oh yes I've been wondering about that too. I think what tipped me off about the feature is that I debugged some code using yacc, and it jumped right to the .y file. So yacc does that pretty effectively.

So I think that would be cool, but I don't usually use a debugger in Python (or even C++ -- I tend to write small programs using shell as the "REPL").

Oil is extremely test-driven and shell's stdin/stdout type interfaces means it's pretty easy to exhaustively test. Examples: https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.13.1/test/spec.wwz/survey...

The GC is the one case we have where that kind of testing/debugging doesn't suffice! So I started watching the CppCon videos on debuggers a couple years ago and found some good talks :)
Unethical, I’m not sure I find it all that nefarious. Strange yes, unethical, eh.
Huh? I'm not excluding any portion of the cohort I'm speaking of. You're either an A player or you're not.
> And even then, best estimates are that only 5% of the AN combusted.

You say that as though it is a good thing. The way I read it is that it could have been much, much worse if the conditions had been a bit different.
Your work account and resources are not yours. The company can use it's slack account which you were given access to previously to post anything. That said, whether they pretended to be you or not, if they said anything slanderous, harmful or materially damaging or if you can at least reasonably claim their posts were of that nature then you can absolutley sue the crap out of them.
How would the "core" be Rust and the rest of it be in C++, yet there be no "interop"?
Don't electrical engineers use j, because i is commonly used to represent current? I always ussumed it was from that.
Some Thoughts on an Async Cancellation Problem in Rust
To clarify, my latest comment didn’t mean to say they weren’t warned. Just the opposite: since they’re being charged now, that contradicts my earlier comment’s assumption that the SEC hadn’t been warning Gemini somehow.

Also, I don’t think Gemini ever offered 10% rates on any crypto. They were most famous for the ~8% on the Gemini stablecoin. Though this article mentions them taking as much as 4% percentage points as fees in their lending, which was passed through to Genesis, so the latter may have been charging that much.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-charges-genesis-gemini-wi...
Not a lot of people are familiar with how well ZFS is engineered compared to most other file systems and how life changingly different it is.
Sounds like a monorepo.
"Speaking in absolutes is never useful" is a great paradox
It also shows the poor management Mozilla has since they effectually cut-loose the Rust team and aren't investing too much in rewriting parts of FireFox in Rust.

Rust would've been a great USP for FireFox. They squandered it and now the competition is running with it. Both Google and Microsoft are all-in with Rust.
I'd be interested in the lessons learned, I might need them some day. For example, how do you ensure that the concrete blocks sink all of the fire debris?
Yea I’m left scratching my head too. Is there really a difference in reliability between an EC2 instance and colocated hardware?
There’s also more spiral galaxies than expected!

If steady state gained favor that would be super fun, but this quote from the article seems to throw a little cold water on that.

> At the same time, she notes that yesterday’s disks are different than modern ones. “They’re not today's Milky Way,” she notes. “They're turbulent, they're messy, and we need to study them more.”
I think I got confused because I was thinking about why it stuck to the wall, rather than why it accumulated charge. I know why electrically charged objects stick to things. The why of how they got like that is a bit different as you mentioned. Triboelectric effect is spooky, but there are some theories. It's one of those non-linear messy quantum things that's a pain in the neck to solve.
You need to manually check the first 2 values in a seperate test.
Very good post. A few years ago there was an interesting post linked here on HN about Stackoverflow's tech stack and I was surprised how simple it was. Basically a bunch of servers cache, load balancer, dotnet, sql. And in reality for most projects that is honestly just about what you need.
>it would have a pretty negative impact on me if my neighbor decided they wanted to leave their dead relatives in the open on a corner of the property abutting mine.

More or less negative than it would be if your neighbour was leaving animal remains instead of dead relatives?
I believe that is all covered under Catch 22.
And windmills. And solar cell improvements.
I thought the logic of inflation had no limit, and eventually, everywhere, even atoms themselves would come apart.
The point is that is just one strategy not the goal.
Wow I love it here. Where else can you post something and get a project leader chiming in within hours?

We are at a crossroads in moving towards GitOps and a CD vendor change, and are forced into some manifest conversion. From where we are coming from Helm is the obvious choice, but I do think we can do better, especially for debugging, readability, and inheritance.

ArgoCD’s support for jsonnet turned me onto it and Tanka, and now I’m going to take it for a more serious spin. I’m early days with it but I’m curious about how life is with having a compiled language for an infra development. I had the same reluctance when thinking about making the Typescript leap, but that turned out just fine. I kinda want to jsonnet all the things if it works out well, but I worry the compilation steps would make it cumbersome for some use cases.
>Certainly there are many unexplained effects in solid state physics

Wait for it… Why ice is slippery?

Usual explanation is completely incorrect. Actual semi-conclusive research just recently happened.
> How can we yield results from an industry being lead by automated derivatives of the past?

Even a human researcher need experiments to validate ideas. AI can generate plausible ideas, so why not run the experiment and let it learn from the outcomes? The source of learning comes from experimentation, that's how models escape the derivative trap. AlphaGo invented move 37, proving AI can be creative and smart.
This is probably 10th+ article on the topic on HN. And still good part of the comments are focused on the essays problem.

Considering the rate of the progress, grading high students in the next 5 years is not going to be the most important thing to worry about.
> If we pick exotic technology, it’ll be harder to hire (and we won’t ship as much product).

If you need to do something that's not just generic CRUD app/site... picking an exotic technology that high-powered programmers love, might make it easier to hire.

Compare:

"We're building a gig economy app to clean gas station bathrooms, and we eat our own dogfood!"

to:

"We're USING RUST to build something (not a crypto scam, honest), and WE WILL PAY YOU MONEY TO HACK RUST, and did we mention RUST!!!"
Or the Red Alert from Star Trek
I shoulda' read the post first -- thats the second answer.
56 old model looks like 26 [video]
Faster disks, no control plane to fail, simpler network, etc.

This isn't bias speaking, I work on Fly.io, our VMs are less reliable than EC2 VMs. AWS's pitch is that all the extra complexity in their infrastructure benefits you. So is ours! But it is, in fact, extra complexity that will bite you in the ass if you don't build your apps the right way.
There had been chatter that Gemini's Earn product wasn't subject to normal SEC regulation since Gemini was subject to more stringent regulation as a capital-B bank and could offer yield products like any other bank because of that regulatory status. Maybe not.

This does feel very much like closing the barn doors after the horses bolted though.
The first one was on my starting day. While showing me around the systems, he sat down at my PC and sent a vicious email, using _my_ account, to another group that I'd need to be on good terms with. I immediately had to go to them and diplomatically explain that I was not the one that wrote the email.

There were many other such instances, most worse and that were direct attacks against me. I probably could have won a lawsuit, but that's foolishness. If you're in a situation like that, run away as fast as you can!
This and sports betting.
I feel like we are not in alignment on what a senior engineer should do so lets first agree on that. The primary responsibility of a senior engineer is to move the business objectives forward. Code quality can be a business objective but that needs to be decided together with the business team. If that is not a business objective then the senior engineer is wasting their time and everyone else's time on it.

A solution is objectively better only if it moves the codebase forward towards the business objectives. More often that not this involves no refactoring but surgically adding features without changing or breaking any existing functionality.
What operating system are you using where you don't have a web browser?
Monterey Peninsula could become an island as epic flooding engulfs CA cities
The Serenity browser wasn't much better than netsurf last time I checked, in fact it was in many ways worse so I don't think they really compare in any substance at this point. Why don't you do it if it is so easy?
> If you know "this thing is broken", the commit log is a fantastic resource to figure out what changed which may have broke it. You submit a PR, and CI has to run; getting most CI platforms cleanly configured to, say, "only run the user-service tests if only the user-service changes" isn't straightforward. I understand there are some tools (Bazel?) which can do it, but the vast, vast majority of systems won't near-out-of-the-box, and will require messy pipelines and shell scripts to get rolling.

I'm not very familiar with the recently trending monorepo tools, but don't they generally provide a way to declare the dependencies between subrepos and prevent each subrepo from importing or otherwise depending on anything outside of those declared dependencies? If that's the case, then wouldn't CI be able to use that same dependency graph to determine when it needs to rebuild/redeploy each particular subrepo?
Lol, assume you are still your own self.
(author here - oh gee, hi hn!)

Yes, those things are always important (if not critical); it's not meant as a defense of bad architecture, merely to try to make those decisions through a product/customers-first lens.

(I did try to connect quality/reliablity, perhaps unsuccessfully, later in the post, e.g. in goals: "If the system is unreliable, we won’t ship as much product ... If we don’t replace this system, more and more customers will experience a broken product.")
I think he literally means Joe's computer closet.

Colo is fine if you can set it up extremely quickly and it takes minimal ongoing support time. Depending on what you mean by Colo, that may or may not be possible.
Just BTC -- 1000000% gain
> Open sets are just how we encode information topologically. Theyre sort of the "atoms" of topology; the types of opens sets you have say how the topology behaves.

This is an interesting perspective, thank you. It reminds me of NAND gates
Or maybe it's because the tooling's lacking, the support in linux distributions is spotty, some architectures aren't supported, is complex to interoperate and integrate with build systems, or any of the above? There's plenty of reasons one may opt to not to, however valid you may think they are.
You can chuck some regular tests in at the same time. They attack
different classes of bugs.

Property based tests fuzz test values you may not have dreamed of. Given a string as the required type it could generate some exotic stuff.
SerenityOS's LadyBird browser is an impressive project, but it doesn't prove that you can rewrite something like Chromium in a few years.

It does prove you can get something working. But it will take many more years to actually get to feature parity given the long tail of web APIs. It will also take many more years to be competitive on performance with existing engines. And even if you use a memory-safe language you'll be introducing many other bugs along the way.

This doesn't diminish the LadyBird browser in any way! It can still be useful for many people in many ways.
With 39 million raised to date that's a lot of figuring.

https://www.google.com/search?q=niron+magnetics+funding
I wonder if my Oura ring also infringes...

https://ouraring.com

https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851...
Sounds like very bad writing and/or reading skills to me - in what state are your docs, requirements, etc?

If I just stupidly write down what I would similarly babble (and must be that way, because parsing that takes double time of that?) - then at most twofold slower.. factor 10 only possible on mobile maybe. Now parse that!
Well, only kind of right? You can tell someone one thing then totally just go into the polling booth and vote for someone else, but liquid democracy means you literally just transferred your vote to someone else.
Mozilla is too busy trying to build online censorship tools and VR junk to bother with making their browser more secure.
According to their own status page, yes
In our experience, hens sometimes get into squabbles and the rooster is often the one who breaks up the fight. More like a peace keeper.
I would imagine a burning boat doesn't get anywhere near as hot or stays burning long enough to compare to a crematorium so you end up with a badly burnt corpse floating in the water...
Learning and exercising is something you can always do, no?
We do not call it witchcraft, because that is the end of the discussion and the answer. We call it unknown because it is knowable and is the beginning of the experiments.
> For example, between 6 and 19% of current childhood asthma in the US is attributable to gas stove use.[1] What parent would choose a gas stove if they knew there was a 1 in 20 to 1 in 5 chance that they would cause their child to have asthma?

Those odds only make sense if 100% of children have asthma. I believe the probability would actually be 0.4% to 1.8% given CDC child asthma prevalence figures[1]. I'm terrible at math though.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/asthmadata/Child_prevalence_state...
The fact that under the ec2‘s hood it’s a massively complex infrastructure as opposed to most colos.
Perhaps you are referring to some other distribution. Distribution of one of the tokens and distribution of power are unrelated in Obyte.

The article is a bit more general and its conclusions would equally apply to a hypothetical DAG-based network that uses the same tech but some different way of issuing the native currency.
> Surely HVDC links between Scotland and England could be built?

The article covers this and explains why it's not enough. Provisioning time for the links exceeds projected generation capacity increases in the Scotland.
Yes. In my experience, it's substantial. 200 servers in colo == maybe 1 failure every 6 months. 200 EC2 instances, one per month.

These are different things, though. If you're using AWS, you would build to account for this.
All states permit animal sacrifice as long as you how careful not to cause unnecessary pain to the animal.

Except for endangered animals I suppose.
If it’s patented it cannot be a trade secret. And vice versa. Trade secrets are defined by not having been shared yet, patents are defined by having been published publicly. Patents give you a temporary monopoly in exchange for contributing to public knowledge what might otherwise remain a trade secret.
I'm glad it works well for you. My grandpa (when he was alive) and uncle swear otherwise. Might be because they have significantly more chickens than that.
Fat EVs may cause 'more death on our roads' – watchdog
Thank you for this.

The job of the C-suite is accurate forecasting which is why they make 400x what the line worker does in large companies. Obviously they don't have a crystal ball but if scaled up the company hugely during a black swan event like covid and assumed that was the new normal I'd be personally ashamed and would either resign or give back my salary for a year+ to keep most of those employees and find a function for them. Perhaps via retraining, perhaps with instituting optional pay cuts to let people work 4 days a week, etc.
It threw into perspective for me how psychosis must have been viewed in
those times, before medicalization: a potentially valuable journey of growth
and transformation, rather than just like, “well that sucks”.

It was viewed like that for a small proportion of people, who ended being crazy enough to be interesting, but not so crazy as to be dangerous. A much larger fraction were exiled and left to fend for themselves, resulting in their eventual death. It's important to not over-romanticize "ancient" or "traditional" societies. They were groups of people, trying to survive in a world just as harsh as ours (or even harsher, in many cases) with far fewer resources. They had to make difficult choices about who to give food, clothing and medicine to, because they did not live in some kind of utopia, they lived in nature, with all its harshness and brutality.

Yes, if the shaman candidate went out on their vision quest, and returned cured, they were accoladed and held in high esteem. But for all the ones that ventured forth, how many never returned?
It's likely mostly sales staff
(author here)

Fair feedback, thanks!

I wrote that with myself as the listener in mind -- I often need the reminder that is the post's title -- but I can see how the delivery would sound abrasive to another reader. Gave it a light edit.
Ah OK very interesting ... So the tracing is precise, but what about rooting? From your other comment it sounded like that it can be imprecise. But maybe it's for dynamic linking where you don't have source access?

In any case, I would imagine embedding a C++ compiler at runtime does open up a lot more options!
Quote:

The closing price for Bitcoin (BTC) in 2012 was $13.45, on December 31, 2012. It was up 185% for the year.
Research in deep learning.
A VSCode plugin could inline the expected answer file, or at least link to it. I like a seperate file because what if you want whitespace checkin behaviour to be different?
Splitting your business’s mission across hard repository boundaries implies that… you know what you are doing! If that’s you then congratulations. Also: you’re kidding yourself.

For the rest of us, being virtually unable to rethink the structure of our components because they are ossified as named repositories is a technical and social disaster. Whole teams that should have faded and been reabsorbed elsewhere will live forever because the effort to dismantle and re-absorb their code into other components is astronomical.

The value we bring as engineers is in making sequences of small changes that keep us moving towards our business goal. Boundaries that get in the way are anathema to good engineering. Its exactly as if you were unable to move code between top level directories of your project. Ridiculous.
'Labor shortage' usually needs qualifying with 'at the price we want to pay'.
There was no way to ensure that. In the end, a couple bits of burnt wood broke off and were floating. We went around in a small boat and gathered them up.
How does this work with the big bang happening at a specific point in the past?
I'm not so interested in damages - I suppose this shows my lack of legal training in the way I asked the question! TBH I find it intensely creepy and BAD that an employer might post as you under any circumstances. It feels like I'm (me, the actual person) is being sock-puppetted. It highlights the extraordinary power employers have in WFH situations, and indeed, in any computer mediated interaction between employees. I've personally never seen this before, and find it quite alarming.
> your tech stack does not matter

> You will have problems if you have the worst tech stack

Cool, so we've established that I'm saying the tech stack matters. All of the problems above have to do with the tech stack. Yes performance is part of your tech stack. Yes, how easily you can monitor it and is part of your tech stack.

> 99% of startups won't be able to afford the best developers anyway. 99% of startups don't need the best developers. Average developers can make great products.

Here again, the tech stack matters. If you have known mediocre developers, you should pick a language like Java or Go because otherwise it's going to be a mess. If you have good developers, you should trust them to pick the technologies.
What I learned rebuilding our CI/CD pipelines for Chef Cookbooks
> What Mozilla/Firefox needs to understand is that end users do not care about standards purity/principles.

They might when their files get exfiltrated or encrypted. The file system access API UX is far too easily abused to misleading users into granting access to things they didn’t intend.