skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Databricks unique selling point is the scalable data lake. The AI functionality is used, however, is hyped with a lot of hot air in this article. I can't see Databricks hitting $100 billion anytime soon.
What makes this story even less plausible is that this movie never had a wide release [1]. Very few people would see it.

After the WW2 the USSR got a lot "trophy" movies from Germany. Soviet censors selected a bunch of them for a wide release. These movies were dubbed. Another subset of these movies was approved for literally "closed screenings". This subset was subtitled. Here is a copy of CP decree from August 1948 [2] (Use Google Translate)

"1. Permit the USSR Ministry of Cinematography to release the following
50 foreign films from the trophy fund:

...

b) on a closed screen: "Notre Dame Cathedral", "Les Misérables",
The Jew Suess, The Prince and the Pauper, The Grapes of Wrath, ..."

[1] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B1...

[2] http://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/191477-postanovlenie-...
Can we please not turn this into a fury flame thread.

I don't think HN should take a perfectly interesting technical article and make it about the author's online identity.

Frankly a lot of this thread is really disappointing to read.
Median as a dev is about $115k, is what I meant. Sorry.
Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment
Her articles repeatedly top Hackernews. And her audience largely shares or graciously accepts her predilections. Do you know how many of the most powerful people on the internet are furries/otherkin?
And when they leave for the day, it’s as if they never worked on anything at all!
Because they think you just have to visit all the squares in no particular order.
The Tiniest Bird You've Ever Seen – Zebra Finch Hatching
my home office setup
Yes. Started as a lawyer at 31. Got laid off. Did a coding bootcamp at 37. Manage a team at 40. Very doable.
It's not a search engine. Asking it for direct lookup of things plays to its weaknesses, not to its strengths.

Similarly, don't judge it based on its ability to solve math problems.

When you use it for the many tasks it IS suitable for it's really, really impressive.
I've also seen it being used to refer to aliens. What's wrong with letting people choose their pronouns?
You throw these terms around, and I’m not sure you’re connotations are quite right.

Anything the wider public is not prepared to accept may be slurred as occultist, and you should know disparaging talk is the surviving side of the discussion.

I’m not advocating the harming of animals (certainly not mates) yet the underlying intrigue remains.
I try not to burn my referrals all at once. Nothing wrong with that, but I tend to do applications with places where I am referred one at a time. Otherwise I'll feel like I'm turning down a friend should the place make an offer.
AltspaceVR to Sunset the Platform on March 10, 2023
It also provides proof to the victims that they were on it. It may not bring justice from the same government that put them there in the first place, but spreading their stories may (hopefully) reduce its legitimacy and revoke the consent of the governed.
They should highlight the target square in the board instead of only writing it in the "clock".
How would you know what people didn’t do? Seems hard to measure.
The dialog could probably use some left/right padding or an alternate font to indicate it's not part of the main text. Initially I found it a bit unclear, and also hard to skim the article.
> However, if you have infrastructure that prevents fast-forward merges to main

I did say merge, did I not? Yes.

> > If you have a main branch which is always merged into then

If fast-forward is a “merge” too then fuck it, I can’t be bothered to use Git lingo since every idiotic little thing needs to be qualified (see also: Git tag, which is sometimes only an annotated tag but also sometimes also its cousin “lightweight tag”).

I guess I should have said “merge merge”. Huh.
It sure would be nice if scrolling worked on Chrome Android.

Edit: Thanks bcook, it's now working here, too!
Can't javascript already do [this][1]?

const thrush = (value, func, ...funcs) =>
func ? thrush(func(value), ...funcs) : value;

// no new syntax required
thrush(
envars,
Object.entries,
x => x.map(([key, val]) => `${key}=${val}`),
x => x.join(' '),
x => chalk.dim('$ ' + x, 'node', args.join(' ')),
console.log);

[1]: http://www.davidgoffredo.com/thrush.html
"Startups"
In any case, this is a variant of the "knight's tour."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_tour
It could take a lot of harrowing interviews before you find the peaceful place that doesn't basically haze interviewees. I think probably you've gotta be willing to just walk out of a bad interview situation. Maybe even having that mindset (that there's a way out) would help with the nerves?
Quit, learn how to be a bartender.
Why are we going off the rate of terror attacks in America
> the idea is to have a combination of the Socratic method of dialogue based teaching combined with a few consistently written characters

This is, of course, how the original Socratic dialogues are written, too! There are characters with distinctive personalities and points of view who (re)appear in multiple dialogues.

Maybe a lot of STEM folks here have never read Plato or other/later philosophical dialogues, or they never got a sense for how they can be useful. Maybe how it's interleaved with the main body of text is confusing for people as well?

Either way, I think the main idea of the format is good. Maybe some small formatting tweaks or a link at the top like 'how to read this document' would help get new readers to grok the format.
Use of such a device or any existing systems such as cameras or computer software by an employer to check on employees is highly illegal in Switzerland. In fact because some businesses have security cameras it is specifically forbidden to use this to track employees [1].

[1] https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/de/home/datenschutz/arbeits...
What's fun about it? I can't picture any outcome except those people on it facing a constant torrent of abuse.
If you don't like it, don't read it. Also consider not commenting. It's pretty well laid out in the HN guidelines.

"Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."
To be clear that burglar agrees that having lights helps against being targeted:

"A dog. Well-lit exterior. Nosy neighbors. A car always parked in the driveway. Lights on in the house. Anything that would normally lead someone to believe that there is someone home."
I recall needing/wanting to clone only a specific folder from a repo and the best solution being to use SVN.
I'm pretty sure I used that trick a few times and even shared it a couple of times. Don't know if it's possible with git now, but that was how I discovered this feature and it seemed eminently useful to me at the time!
That's actually exactly why I do such a grind when I'm interviewing. The first set of interviews affects me like you said, but if I keep at it, I get used to it. Which means the only way for me to do well is to keep at it until it's routine.
Lithium is far from easy to extract. It also needs to be refined on-site because its raw form is too low-density to economically transport. So most lithium mines require large amounts of water to fill brine pools. The number of sites that are actually viable to produce lithium are not nearly so common.

Again, the market disagrees with you not me. Lithium commodity prices are rising, and so are battery prices. People are indeed seeking to integrate batteries into the grid - I'm not disputing that. I'm pointing out that these batteries are actually becoming more expensive [1], not less and it's unlikely this trend will reverse on a dime.

1. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/new-york-battery-storage-co...
Trial/trolling balloons drive engagement and data analytics for group/individual sentiment analysis and message calibration.
Sabotaged at the end with a precision cut
A short note about how the coordinates work would also be helpful, or just highlight the target square, because not everyone knows chess notation by heart. I tried two different interpretations (both wrong) before finally resolving to google for it.
Or nano/pico for the biggest, but there were other options available. Midnight commander has an editor, too.
All three seem to be very talented at profiting from their own fearmongering.
> But also nobody will read your articles if the site looks like this.

But wait, Xe's articles frequently make it to the HN frontpage. Surely someone must be reading them?
OS/2 Warp on a 21st century PC: Arca Noae's making it happen
Agreed - in one case you're irradiating the land and air. In the other case you're safely trucking low-risk spent fuel in safe, secure enclosures and likely retaining the ability to reprocess and re-use that fuel in the future.
For me the instructions are pretty clear: every square "right to left, top to bottom" - except don’t land anywhere the queen can take you, and don’t take the queen. (i.e. somehow move to the upper-right, then one to the left and so forth going through the rows and columns backards and down, like reading right to left down a page.)

I gave up after 4 minutes. It's really tough and I only got partway through the second row. I play OK chess (slightly above average on lichess) but it is a really tough visualization exercise.

for anyone who did it to completion, how long did it take? did you speed up by the end?
How can you make such an assertion knowing only the size of the list?
So the customer got SMS spam from a third-party and there was no T-Mobile breach? The fuck up is the spammer makes spelling mistakes?
Wikipedia shows that number. And even if their profits drop, you can't honestly tell me that they will post a loss for 2022 or even 2023. Heck, their profit margin would still be solid.
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce: How the Sun Rose on the Silicon Valley (1983)
https://archive.is/gePeC
Am I understanding you correctly if I compare it to making the argument that, technically, you could run any Internet website from your laptop and network connectivity isn't actually required for using the web?
> Viktor Bout

That guy doesn't belong on the list. He sold weapons to terrorists, including anti-aircraft missiles, but I don't think that's a reasonable cause to believe he might attack an airplane himself. I wouldn't feel uncomfortable flying on the same plane as him.
> Unlike with Chernobyl, no one at the power plant died from radiation over-exposure. As of October 2011, a total of 388 people received radiation doses above the 20 millisieverts (mSv) permitted annually for occupationally exposed persons. Fourteen people received more than 100 mSv. To date, there is one case of fatal lung cancer that has been officially recognized as an occupational disease, but it is implausible to have resulted from the accident itself.
The number is probably closer to 50k based on other estimates so let’s go with that.

Expanding that we’re talking worldwide (and I bet most of the list is non-American) I feel like we could get to 50k pretty easily. The list isn’t just terrorists, but anyone who has been a real safety risk to flights (we’ve seen them in YouTube videos).

And the list accumulates year after year. I wonder how many are dead?
Is this true?

Do you not see any value in having some protection for the workers?
Layoffs is a classic example. Unless your survival depends on it you don't punish the workers for bad decisions.
This is silly, thank you for brightening my day
This has actually occurred to people who have visited me (as I mentioned in another post I’m in a class 2, just barely off of a class 1).

I find it comforting, but one family member was throughly freaked out/overwhelmed. It was a clear, moonless night and they’d never seen something like it in their entire life.
Because we're talking about America's No Fly list......
Since the dawn of computing, hardware (computer & memory) has been getting cheaper. And software has been filling the gap.

So if throwing effort at hardware no longer improves things, it must be time to put real effort into improving software. No, not making it bigger! Not by adding features. We could start by making it smaller, at reducing/removing/replacing. By investigating alternate models, instead of adding minor tweaks or very-specific-purpose features to our existing software.

Fixing "software" won't be easy, and won't be quick, or cheap. But we've put enormous amounts of effort (money) into hardware. It must be time to put serious effort into some of the alternative software architectures that have been proposed.
I’m going to have to raise my skeptic’s eyebrow here.

This is an extraordinary claim and therefore requires extraordinary evidence. I’d want to dig into the control groups before I made the leap that’s it’s meditation based.

Microbiome is largely a function of place + diet. There’s no known mechanism whereby meditation would influence it. If they’re proposing such a thing they better damn well eliminate all the known causes.
Your Chinese thread's too old to reply to, sadly. But as another learner of many languages: check out "Colloquial Chinese: by Ping-cheng T’ung and David E. Pollard. (Not newer versions by other authors!)

It covers the language only in Pinyin, covering the core grammar etc. very quickly, and giving you big dialogs with a lot of vocabulary. If you work hard with it, (ignoring introductory time figuring out the sound system) a month with 2-3 hours a day will give you about 3000 words of vocabulary and a good handle on the language.

While the structure of Chinese is very simple, besides getting used to the phonetics, the writing system constitutes the majority difficulty of the language (but very helpful to understand a lot of complex vocabulary, due to its composition) so ignoring it first will help a lot. The normal Chinese textbooks will cover as much material as this small book in 4-5 volumes, intended for multiple years of university classes.

To then learn how to read:

The books "The Most Common Radicals" and then "Rapid Literacy in Chinese" are amazing. ("Intensive Spoken Chinese" is meant to be done first, but the Colloquial book is better in my opinion.) I covered these two books in about 40 hours.

Then use various readers like "A new China. Intermediate reader of modern Chinese" by Chou Chih-ping, Chiang J., Eagar J or read forums, checking what each character/group of them is in the dictionary to build vocabulary.
"The samples that make such a calculation true."

THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING TO SEE! Which you didn't initial post!
> In some cases you will be correct. In others, millions will die.

And in the average case nothing happens. There's no reason to think it's a barbell shaped distribution with outcomes weighted towards the extremes.

Further, it's not a trap-door decision, and it's not a decision that leads to instant death and despair. If it becomes problematic, it's quite straightforward to reverse course.
This right here. If there are more and more of us who do just fine in an actual engineering job but need beta-blockers or other anxiolytics just to make it through an intense set of interviews maybe something's broken with the hiring process?
If that happens be prepared for it to become the No Employ list.

Employers run background checks via services, and those services will quickly integrate such a list as a flagged item on people.
I don't believe this list is the same list as the passenger blacklist airlines use for unruly drunks.
It would be much worse if they paid way above the local wages. It would trigger corruption. You'd could up with a black market in applications for the jobs, or protection racket, or highly paid leaks of the job interview problem sets, imagination has no limit.

You can say it's OpenAI's duty to make sure all these things don't happen. But they are not there to police the local society. They are there to run their own business. They don't have the competency to make sure corruption does not happen.
It's amazing how the web has come full circle now.

2023 web developers: I figured it out y'all. Send HTML from the server.

1994 web developer: ...excuse me? What else would you do?
My usual comparison is with cargo airplanes.
I'll take it over another tedious medium or substack turd. need more sites like this.
That study is useless from a system standpoint. Sure it is a bit interesting to look at the basic facts, but all energy systems are more complicated. For example it only mentions the world "sector coupling" once in the discussion, while it is central in any renewable system.

HVDC connections are being strung up across Europe. Sweden and Norway can together in an hour vary their hydro output by 15 GW, that is 15 nuclear reactors worth of balancing power backed by tens of TWh stored.

The research on 100% renewable systems have long embraced the thought of holistic approaches.

> The majority of studies show that a global transition to 100% renewable energy across all sectors – power, heat, transport and desalination – is feasible and economically viable.[5][6][7][8] A cross-sectoral, holistic approach is seen as an important feature of 100% renewable energy systems and is based on the assumption "that the best solutions can be found only if one focuses on the synergies between the sectors" of the energy system such as electricity, heat, transport or industry.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_renewable_energy

Here is a meta study on everything 100% renewable for the interested. The consensus is that it is possible without a doubt.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910
Commodity prices are rising… causing more mines to open… causing more supply… which will cause prices to drop. Why do you keep pointing to that? Your argument makes no sense. That’s how commodities scale.
Hm, I don't see any fetishes in this blog post.
That's a good point. I wonder how many adults keep up-to-date on their vaccines. I was 3 years past the schedule for my Td booster, despite yearly checkups, and only got it because I asked for it from my doctor after thinking it had been a long time.
Yes, that would be negative correlation.
"Why did it take so long?" and "Pointless bloat!" reactions were much more common:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3780367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6418337
Beginning of 2022 or 2023?
"do expressions" is one of the things mentioned in the Pipe Operator proposal as possibly a pre-req and one of many reasons the Pipe Operator seems to have stalled out at Stage 2 despite multiple attempts to push it past.

Personally, for the 3-case assignment I would love to see one of the smarter pattern matching "match" expression proposals make it further along over the over-generalized "do expressions". Especially now that C# has pattern matching switch expressions.
Yes it's been explained repeatedly - but almost always in vague terms referring to "storage" but carefully avoiding any nuanced discussion of what form of storage. When they do mention storage, they mention infeasible forms of storage. I'm happy to explain the shortcomings of the ones you listed:

"Small amounts of battery" are still amounts that would take centuries to provision. Again, I don't think people realize that 1 day's worth of storage is well over a hundred times annual battery production.

Hydroelectric storage requires more than just a hill. It requires a reservoir on top of the hill, another reservoir on the base of the hill, and access to a lake or river to fill these reservoirs. This is a much more specific set of geographic features than just "a hill".

And lastly, nobody has successfully operated a hydrogen electrolysis storage facility. This is totally unproven technology.
Oh wow... it was reading this comment that made me realise it's not called 'TimeTrain'.
Toot.pics: quickly and easily view Mastodon media descriptions
> the biggest expense is salaries

And this also gives these companies (and others) a reason to skip promotions and pay hikes for everyone else. This is just an excuse to exploit labor to increase profits when demand is falling.
On a related note, even where people do get to access the dark sky, it’s severely restricted by other “modern” phenomena with dubious origins.

cf. https://chaos.social/@phoenix/109630800743333177
Shown by what?
I think this is basically the same strategy I stumbled onto. It feels binary in nature, like you're either on circuit or off circuit within the target areas, and there's only that one degree of freedom within the small quadrants. If off circuit it seems like you have to go to one of the larger quadrants to get on the right circuit again and hit the target.
How can the no-fly list be secret in the first place? Or is this part of the outside-the-legal-system, men-in-black, constitution-does-not-apply type arrangement?
Increased shareholder pressure.

Chance to reset salaries within the company without losing out much on the market (doing layoffs in a similar time frame with others will pretty much leave you with options when you all start hiring again)

Showing the whip to their remaining work force, as the power dynamic becoming even slightly more equal is unthinkable.
>Users feed in their data and the AI makes predictions about the future. John Deere, for example, installs sensors in its farm equipment to measure things like engine temperature and hours of use. Databricks uses this raw data to predict when a tractor is likely to break down.

I'm pretty sure this is not what databricks does. Isn't databricks just a way to run queries on unstructured data? Or am I thinking of something else?
How to DM you? (I do not see a contact method in your HN profile. I think I am in the market to talk with a career coach, and that recommendation sounds like it might really help.) I have put an email address in my profile. Glad to hear your outlook and experiences. Thanks.
No, whoever is in charge of writing High Priority Memos on cx accounts at Metro by T-Mobile / T-Mobile Corporate made a typo in the Memo itself which links to a spam domain. The memo also claims this exact message was also sent to customers phones.

Typo URL in internal account memos + texts sent by the company to subscribers : http://metro-tmo.co/CustInfo

Actual legitimate URL they meant to put : http://metro-tmo.com/CustInfo
Nextgrid, I completely agree.

If I borrow one from Sirius XM...I listen to POTUS... and a host named Julie Mason who is on early in the mornings will say "for more information follow me @ Julie Mason on Twitter."

People figure it out.
If you configure your content blocker to hide the picture element, all the furries go away.
I'm not sure about this. Here's WHO is asking for this:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/15/major-inv...

His first argument is bullshit, because Google is effectively debt-free. So Google can choose what to do with its money. He is quite open about that it's simply HIM wanting money:

"TCI also called on Alphabet to increase its already substantial share repurchase programme to run down its $116bn of cash, given that large-scale mergers and acquisitions are limited owing to regulatory scrutiny. It urged it to copy Apple’s approach and become “cash neutral” over time."

His style described in the article sounds like "corporate raiding" from the 80s. One might point out corporate raiding caused a financial crash ...
Ah ffs, this is why we can't have nice things on the Internet.
And after the email spam, it just shuts off? Wouldn't a temporary outage be a better way to attend those not reading the old email box used to sign up for Github that they need to upgrade their software?
Sequels in Strategy Gaming, Part 1: Civilization II