skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The likelihood of a HN comment being correct is inversely proportional to its certainty.

I'm sure of it.
Is it properly grounded?
I know plenty of parents for whom private school is a must-have. Even if they themselves went to public school.
You can measure improvements. You don't have to guess.
However, I understand that a lot of work can't easily be evaluated for user impact.
Google "Safe browsing" is the blatant excuse by Google to collect all your browsing history.

Disabling it is behind dark patterns.
So I could make a plant watering reminder system by listening to the ultrasound in theory
> racist and ignorant

> random pompous clueless stranger

> sleep back in your mother's basement

> sweet intelligent discussion site

You're certainly not acting like you're interested in keeping this space "sweet and intelligent"
I heard this exactly how most Americans reacted to black people fighting for their rights.
Could you link an example of this kind of cartoon?

edit: here's a link https://archive.is/g0msl Shocking that the NYT published something like this
It makes me think of the gift cards grift. [0]

You're basically giving your money away to the airline to keep, instead of having it in your bank account.

It's not real money, if the airline goes bankrupt tomorrow do you have your points?

[0] - https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/more-than-you-want-to...
Ironically hosted on the free/open source website run by Prusa, because thingiverse went away from core principles.
This , nobody liked JS on server side world before. Until node came in.
And many people still hate JS even after year of serverside development. Especially who had done work with far sound languages like python and ruby on Django or RoR frameworks. There is no Quality framework for JS on that space even though many startups are using node as backend. Django Popularity rising back these days on hires .
I'm a Prusa user, I assembled several printers for myself and my friends for a few years now, and I follow many Prusa user groups. Many Prusa users are actively mean against the company, think the printers are overpriced and actively try to get cheap clones. Not all people are like that, but a very large percentage are like this, and don't recognize the value that Prusa put on the table. So, yes, I believe that when doing products like that, that can be fully copied by other vendors, their past business model was really a danger. Anyway it's a shame that they can't continue like in the past.
>That's needlessly pedantic, and wrong.

I'm sorry but you don't see the irony of saying my point is "pedantic" and then you go well ashctually.

And even if we skip past that I'm not wrong since I said de facto not de jure (which even then you are wrong, _socialist_ federal republic is not the same as federal republic, that's like saying USSR is the same as modern day Russia).

The video is about the war not the state, since the war didn't happen during titos reign.

Hence why I think you can gloss over the oversimplification.
Outsiders miss the underlying class struggle here. When an employer underpays a position the door opens to nepotism and class discrimination. If the pay is below a reasonable wage for the associated costs, ie living in london, only those with outside income will apply. They take the position for the prestige and power the office conveys rather than the money paid. So it goes to the son-in-law of someone important, some upstart who needs a fancy stamp on the resume to justify his inevitable next appointment up the civil service hierarchy. Several New York law firms do this. Pay new lawyers nothing and you are free to hire only from a narrow group of legal and political families. Also, every political party filling campaign positions with "volunteers" hoping to get a position of power if the condidate wins office. They are all sons and daughters from political families.

Once upon a time many high positions did not pay. Some even required regular payment from the office holder. Want to be near the seat of power in london? Want the ear of the king? That will cost you. Ever watch tales about The Three Musketeers? In reality, the musketeers were drawn from elite families because they had to cover all of thier own costs. It was a prestige position for sons of power wanting to work near the palace.
I think it's a more a case of "don't attribute to maliciousness what can easily be explained by stupidity"; i.e. the powers that be a trying to cut their way to success.
Uk - Britain is ceaselessly proud of it's NHS, and 10 years ago it was fine.

I wiuld call in as a student complaining about a running nose and would get an appointment withing a day or two.

In the past few years it fell off a cliff.

Recently I called in about a serious infection and got told there are no appointment left this month. At all. It was the 2nd of March.

Thr only way to get treatlent is to go to the accidents and emergency department of a hospital and to sit for 6 hours in a queue.
I immediately did the same calculation, the climate impact per user also seems non-negligible. Doing some back of the envelope maths, 20W per core server power consumption equals 240.000kWh per hour. At 500g CO2eq/kWh this gives us roughly a billion kilograms of CO2eqs per year. At approx 300M MAUs this is roughly 3.5kg/user/year. Not completely off the charts but still important, reducing the time to 120 CPU seconds per execution would have the similar impact as 300M people not traveling 10-15km by car.

Energy costs per user is also interesting, if at all close, at 0.25c per kWh the power consumption cost per user would be greater than 5$ per year.
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The 70% is not for conversion into electricity but for total useable energy if the waste heat is used in district heating networks. It can reach up to 80% of the primary fuel used. While that seems worse then simply burning it at the end user you have to keep in mind that you also gain electricity which can be used to drive a heat pump. This is by far the best way to burn gas if heat is needed as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration
> They specifically mention being paid £55k as being equivalent to $100k in the US. It isn’t.

I think you're missing some benefits. I don't know anything specific about this job offer and what would be on the paper offer, but UK public sector offers quite insane benefits compared to private sector, where salary might be like 50-60% of total compensation. Some I'm failiar with: free access to public nurseries (normal price was around £1200/monthy), 50% of costs for private high school, high retirement employer contributions, refunds for all public transport tickets used to get to work, access to gym, swimming pool, sauna, massage and therapies with max. 1 entry per day, free car parking during working days and weekends (otherwise £3-5 per hour), up to £100 per month for books - and this doesn't include annual training budget.

While the cash is quite low and won't get you far with luxury holidays abroad, it offers very high living standard in the UK.
Payroll taxes matter to some extent when comparing employment in different tax regimes because they determine (some of) the total cost to the employer. They can also matter for contracting arrangements. Though the local job market probably matters more.
I was a mid level - seniorish engineer at the time. We initially discussed that 6 figure role, but I did not feel ready at all. They said it was fine and that the range for the level below was £75-85k, which I thought was pretty good. It was a big corp in the health industry btw.
The modern web - a representative screenshot
> It’s mostly for me and friends I know personally – nothing like the bigger, public ones.

I'd agree with you if it had thousands of users, but not when the user count is 8. If you have 8 users on your SMTP server, damn easy to know with certainty if any of them did anything that might be considered malicious.
That hasn't been my experience. Maybe I'm just tired of being around people who feel the existence of cities is a personal affront.
Yeah reading his other comments you have a point. How stopping the space programme would help solve ‘rape culture’ isn’t exactly obvious to me. Are there any countries that solved a sociological problem by not having a space programme? Seems daft, and quite possibly maliciously so.
Pikuma is definitely one of the best resources available on the subject: https://pikuma.com/courses/cpp-2d-game-engine-development

He explains every mathematical concept in an easy to follow format and the course is broad and accessible.

I highly recommend.
Disclaimer: I'm not fefe.
As an Indian, I'm proud of what ISRO does. With the constraints given to them, (financial, political, social) it's a marvel they're still able to deliver results as often as they do.

As an Indian taxpayer I'm frustrated that I effectively cannot control how my money is used.

The central government spent $2 B on the Central Vista project, which is a wholly unnecessary construction project for our 550 MPs to feel better about themselves. Incidentally, this is the same as the entire annual budget allocated to ISRO, which benefits hundreds of millions of Indians and no doubt has an effect of all of us.

I would much rather they double ISROs budget and let MPs work in the perfectly adequate building they already had.
Yeah, late 90s/00s I was an exception that I had my own apartment. All my friends had roommates. A couple really industrious ones bought a house and then had 2-3 roommates so they could afford it.
Because the original comment was about two similarly named but different functions. Otherme123's example didn't have that.
Honestly thought it's troll cuz April fools or something, but the guy actually has like 10% usefull suggestions in the PR.
Will probably close that one tho.
As others said, it is a junior role -- "a head", not "the head" that will (from a job description) manage a 2-person team in a 40-person org pretty far removed from leadership.
>"Do you really want to spend that much time isolated, only interacting with other people through screens?"

Absolutely. And I do not need to be "interacting" when I am working. There is a chat / email which I would read at my convenience. In case of emergency there are calls.
It seems you are basing your thoughts just anecdotally. For instance, I'm sure "winter" in USA doesn't mean 6 months of snow and cloud. I'm sure in some areas winter actually is probably better. And sure wind isn't good energy in all locations - but in areas where it is you can probably harness it at quite high density. I'm in Australia and was just looking at this research here looking at cost effectiveness. It seems to both look at the actual generation capability (that is amount of sun and wind) but also cost of distribution and whether it is going to impact wilderness or other uses. Have a look at the heat maps they have created. I'm sure there are similar studies in the USA. https://re100.eng.anu.edu.au/heatmaps/#map-links
Do we know what categories a website to be part of the 'safe browsing' list? Did the author confirm that his similarly designed mastodon server was the culprit or just a hunch?

I didn't realise Google safe browsing extended beyond google products. In a way, it makes me think about what other products have ties in to google.
HTTP/2 is just plain silly, HTTP/3 is a silly idea but implemented correctly.

Neither are particularly useful unless you're a web browser. I'm sticking to HTTP/1.1 myself in all of my code.
There's plenty of competition for domestic flights in NA imo, there has to be a reason they all charge as much as they do
> "More than days away, but hopefully not many weeks away"

I find it amusing how close this sounds to your average run-of-the-mill Early Access steam game. "Next patch will be more than days. And more than weeks. But not more than many weeks! Probably... We hope...I think"
I've read "The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop. Excellent and very pleasant read. Can anyone recommend other books about PARC? I'm particularly interested in the Alto computer, its development, technical details and so on. What happened with the Alto development is both fantastic and a tragedy and I guess that's why I'm so keen to read more about it.

Edit: Also while not strictly on a regular computer, I highly recommend: "Digital Apollo Human and Machine in Spaceflight" by David A. Mindell which tells the story of the Apollo's computer development.
Ah yes, just like fossil-fueled cars, but on a different scale :)
I mean, it's fucking NASA. I'd probably work there for free just to be able to say I'd done it.

"Oh, you got a lot of RSUs for your social media click-tracking? That's nice. I helped bullseye an asteroid 9.6 million km away, potentially saving every life on Earth. But yeah, that new infinite scroll is cool, too."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...

We're not there yet. Currently, this setup is non-sensical since a lot of other measures should be implemented first, but even currently existing tech is pretty efficient, all things considered. And it only gets better from here.
Well, you still can write XML compliant modern HTML.
Just don't forget to serve it with HTTP header:

`Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8`.

The browser will treat it as XML.

But that is not true for all HTML, of course.
So you are kind of right.
Whenever I bring up the topic of Georgism or land value tax, people look at me like I am mentally ill. The idea of taxing the right to exclusive use over a piece of land - something that no human has ever put effort into existing - is so utterly foreign to most people. Unfortunate.

There was a reform of the German property tax system, since the federal constitutional court ruled that the old system was unfair. The current model allows the 16 states to set up their own system, if they wish so, and interestingly enough, Baden-Württemberg turned the property tax into an actual land value tax, taxing only the land value itself, not the real estate on it. Of course there was a documentary the other day about a land owner crying that he is forced to build more houses to rent out and cover the cost of the LVT. That was the point all along!
It's so funny to read discussions of "whether or not renewables are viable for replacement of all or most of electricity needs in the U.S.". Here in Europe, we have it figured many years ago and are replacing fossil-fueled generation at a crazy rate, will probably push it to a niche use (gas peakers to fill void when there's neither sun or wind and before enough electrolyzers are put online), in less than 10 years.
I did recently, and it is still as good as that first time I saw it, together with one other person in an otherwise empty arthouse movie theater. I picked it completely at random, on a day I skipped work, and the whole thing felt completely magical.
in theory yes, in practice no

basically this makes peer connections stateful, but maintaining that state accurately is very difficult, especially when considering tomography changes in the system

in fact if you can manage that state correctly, you've solved a problem that's roughly the same as the problem that CRDTs solve

(in other words, you're almost certainly not gonna solve that problem correctly)
Dear fish, congrats on meeting the human race. Now please stay away from us at all costs--no other species had had a good time having met us.

Your affectionately, a regular, concerned, human.
Do you think it is in any world fair to steal a car from someone who has done nothing to you?
Alternately, they could be forced to find a UK resident first, before hiring a foreigner. First, you make an ad with requirements that have 0 possible candidates. You wait a few weeks as a proof that you tried to hire locally. Then you make a semi-hidden ad with the real position and salary*

*happened in my country. Position for a software engineer with 1.5x min wage salary.
If I understand it right, it's not exactly the same algorithm. It's Pagerank, with lots more features and weights than in the past, run first. Then quite a lot of bolted on ML passes afterwards, each specialized for something different. One to suss out low quality content, one to identify low quality incoming links, one to boost the effect of brand/authority, and so on...many many more of these.

Which apparently worked well for quite a long time, but also dangerous over time because you don't really know why something now ranks well, or doesn't. The best you can do is have human raters score various searches, tweak a bunch of weights/knobs, and try over and over again.

Meaning, perhaps it's not that the internet is too big, but that the overall model is too big and disjointed to manage well. Also, if you're on this team, you're competing with the ad side that's continually pushing the organic results down the page, where they matter less. A lot of fussy tuning around "quaint hotel in Paris" seems wasted when the end user is 3 scroll events away from the organic results.
Why not take dumb money if it's available? And money hardly gets any dumber than there.
I am just curious where would you go? In my eyes today’s Germany is also bad choice for working and living comfy lifestyle. It was nice low wage country with dirt cheap groceries and not too expensive housing. Now it is still low wage country with high cost of living.
Yes, but the sub-thread here started with someone suggesting they'd be paying 50% tax, and when talking in terms of employees, it's not normal to include it. When including it, we're usually talking about total tax wedge rather than tax rate (e.g. see OECD Taxing Wages).

Even so, as noted, you'd not hit 50% even with payroll taxes at anywhere near the income levels stated. At the stated 100k GBP contracted salary, your "salary" including payroll tax would be 113,207 GBP, and your total tax wedge would be 41% (compared to 33% combined income tax and NI).
Why would a wealthy person do this job?
This is all about regulation, although each layer of regulation tends to be popular.

Many things typically seen as good add to the cost of housing.

Building is difficult because of zoning restrictions.

Building is expensive because of labor and zoning and construction and accessibility and many other regulations.

Renting also is risky for a landlord because of eviction protection laws.

And so forth. Housing doesn’t need to be so expensive and scarce. We made it so. We have far better technology than in the past, we can build better, safer, faster, cheaper. Except we can’t.
>"After a while, it starts to feel like I ship code into the void"

It depends on what's your role. I am responsible for product design and development. I definitely do not feel like my part of code is shipped "into the void". I see it working and serving customers
"Responsible people"
Microcontrollers are often under-utilized, but that's just because their task is simple. The problem is that current designs use a lot of them: One or more per module. This could probably be reduced by a redesign, but then they could probably also shift to more available chips.
"I'm fast coming to the conclusion that all renewable tech is about allowing the government to have deep control over your energy, and to put you in a situation where you are forced to buy very expensive gear from mega-corps."

That sounds like unfounded paranoia. It has literally never been easier to be an energy-independent anarchist living in a hut somewhere than today.
Yepp. The power plant in my area claims 83% efficiency for that pipeline already (natural gas to electricity & heat), using heat coupling (about 50% electricity). And they're working on powering that with hydrogen in the future.
One of my favorites is Fabien's own "Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D". He does a really good job at explaining how id Software managed to create a first person shooter for the 386, including code samples in C how very specific problems were solved etc. But also how the team worked etc etc.

https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/
Where are you based? I'm in central London and - whilst I agree it has been and could be better - have had no problem getting an appointment. Most of it is app based now, right? I'll message in the morning or the night before, a doctor will video call within 48 hours (usually, but often same day) and will ask me to come in if I need to. Otherwise they'll just prescribe after the call and send the prescription to my local pharmacy.
Yeah but then you live in Croydon.
Swedish home loans are in general not nonrecourse: the bank can take everything you have, and basically enslave you for 5 years.
Is there an industry that would not take SA money? I don't understand the point of this article.
"A crazy rate" that is unfortunately still much too slow to limit warming to 2° or below.
Why does the prioritization happen?
Yeah honestly I think they should just patent their innovations and then be quite liberal about granting patent licenses for reasonable fees (and not going after open source projects).

That seems way more achievable legally than a "you can copy it you can't rip it off" license.
So not true
Mastodon, perhaps unwisely, replicates all media it encounters.
Such skills are certainly a bonus, but they would not be a requirement. It is common thinking that every good general should first have been a good footsoldier. The reality is that the vast majority of great generals never were. The most important skills for senior leaders to succeed are rarely similar to those needed to succeed on the front lines of any project.
Matsu undersea cable repaired ending 50 day internet outage
Minus the concentration and motivation parts, so does does coffee, tea and other caffeine based products but you don’t see anyone clamouring to ban those.
Why are you comparing Putin to Hitler instead of Stalin.
Excellent. There are only a few thousand coal power plants globally

https://www.statista.com/statistics/859266/number-of-coal-po...

They generate something like 25% of greenhouse gases. When should be expect these to be replaced, and get the 25% drop in emissions?

Replacing over a billion ICE cars seems with EV’s is going to be so much more work, for example.

An immediate 25% drop in emissions might even buy us a few more years before we need to get to net zero emissions.
Well, my apologies. I became testy and had to blow off the steam. I felt like exploding.

I can't be fighting a fellow bully and simultaneously be a student participating in group discussions in classroom when it comes to arseholes like the above.

This one was the first or maybe second from my side since 2014. You see, I couldn't have imagined this rude surprise of racism at HN. It felt so personal, even though there is no abnormal attachment to my country, I felt I had to give him a good earfull.

I have nothing against comments of criticism like these, even though coming from a fellow Indian, you see - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35407658

It doesn't feel like I got blew by my own people reading that comment. It didn't knock the wind out of me. It didn't make me insecure.
The JVM has a selection of four generational GCs. Two of them are the most sophisticated GCs available anywhere.

It's not a matter of some unique brilliance. Java is simply in such high demand that it has the sufficient resources to have state of the art optimising compilers and GCs.