skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm.... I played through both Baulder's Gate, BG2 and a bunch of the associated games - Icewind Dale etc. Had a very familiar feel to me. Obviously your milage varies
Enter BlackRock. https://theconversation.com/these-three-firms-own-corporate-...
i like the name it's like "shhh bb its ok"
that's good, i'd only heard about the initial boneheaded policy
i absolutely loved McD's spicy crispy chicken sandwich. is spicy mccrispy something different? it was quite a bit spicier than i expected (which is why i loved it probably)
Maybe you need to reevaluate your opinion of Rao based on your new evidence.
The company I work for took COVID as an opportunity to bail on their large office lease.

They moved to a cheaper and smaller office that really doesn't have room for what you propose.

I don't doubt that there are some companies that will try to do that, but it just makes life easier for remote companies that are hiring.
I continue to use heroku because I’ll never be able to “write a bunch of yaml” matching my needs. I don’t want to even enter that world of agony.
Ooooh, hard disagree. Just because I live in a place where the police claim jurisdiction doesn't mean I consent to it.

Their threats don't protect me any more than I protect myself with threats against others. Which I don't. I'm big on consent.

Do not say something so nakedly condescending and dismissive of my stated views.

Do you do this to others?

'i don't consent to [...]'

'sure you do. [...]'

For your sake and those you interact with, I hope the answer is 'no'.
It's mostly to give you an idea on amenities. Like a 1 star campsite will have Turkish toilets and showers; three stars you'll find swimming pools and mini golf courses. Prices for the night usually correlate with stars in an upward trajectory.
Have you been inside a McDonald’s recently? The prices are outrageous. I don’t see how the average person could afford to eat there.
The opposite of user-first development sounds pretty good then. Finally, cars built according to how an automaker wants instead of as a checklist of things to attract as many customer dollars as possible.
Strong disagree. Managing up is an increasingly necessary and valuable skill, the further in your career you progress.
I'm not playing the contrarian just to do so, I'm noting that there is a potential correlation between "allows linux users (AKA relaxed requirements / a lower baseline for cheating assurance)" and a higher percentage of cheaters in their game. At the start of both Valorant and Overwatch's lifetimes, it was effectively impossible to find a cheater in a PC match, and even now there isn't much evidence for there being widespread cheats available for <$100/month for these games.
It's a particular incidence of racism by someone working in a system, but I wouldn't call it "systemic racism" because there is not a recurring, broad, historical problem of white people not being able to get welfare. In fact, the majority of welfare recipients are white.

Additionally, most of the poverty programs I am familiar with are not a subjective decision process. You either meet the requirements or you don't. If you don't, they tell you why and you either agree or you have to appeal and get whatever incorrect information they have on file corrected.
Like I said,

The police as an institution should be eliminated.

Was I unclear?
https://archive.ph/8juoa
Absolutely glorious. thx
Funny story… Century Link got 500 feet of fiber pulled to my house, and I didn’t pay a dime.

When they subdivided my neighborhood it was supposed to have fiber. All my neighbors had it, but not me. There’s supposed to be a major connection every other house, and mine should have it, but it doesn’t.

The person at Century Link that came out to my place and found the problem pulled the original plans for the subdivision, figured out who screwed up, contacted that company, and got fiber to my place. They had to go 500 feet, under a street and two driveways. Now I have fiber.

Thanks dude at Century Link.

p.s. Comcast (Xfinity) came out and looked too. They noped the hell out right away.
A few dollars in manufacturing costs per vehicle easily adds up to millions.
Fortran is a simple lovely fast parallel language. That is my opinion after 20-years of professional development in more than half a dozen languages.
That last one's good advice. There's nothing guaranteeing that a given YouTube video or article, or even website is going to stay up. If I really like a video, I'll try to download it just in case it gets pulled down - either by the author or by the DMCA/platform. I haven't figured out how I'd like to rehost them but I'm sure there's something out there.
>The phrase lingua Franca shows why languages become dominant, because they’re the one spoken by the most powerful group of people. It’s not because English is uniquely good at absorbing from different languages. Japanese uses a ton of foreign loanwords for things. So does Hindu.

This isn't true. English is easily the most-spoken 2nd language in the world, and it's not just because of Anglophone nation power, it's because English is an easily-learned language. I live in Japan, and while Japanese borrows a lot of foreign words (mostly from English), it's not ever going to become dominant because it's just too hard to learn. It's the same with Chinese. Any language that requires you to learn thousands of glyphs just to be fluent in the written version isn't going to go far worldwide compared to a language that uses 26 (and shares those with a large array of other languages).

English is a uniquely simple language to learn compared to the languages of other powerful nations (Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German); some of those have extremely baroque writing systems (or simply unique and different, for Cyrillic), and all of them have very complicated grammar rules. By contrast, any idiot can learn a little basic English quickly and speak it well enough to be understood, even if it's technically incorrect.
Mine gives a little “island” pop up when I flip the switch either way
I never used Windows in my life, but I got an old ThinkPad on eBay a couple months ago that shipped with Windows 11. I didn't have time to set up Linux, so I used it a bit to browse and so on for about a month before I finally got around to wiping it.

It's really unpleasant. Aside from the ads, the battery life made me think I'd gotten a used computer with totally shot battery and I was ready to order a new one. Nope, after finally switching to Linux it lasts almost twice as long, with no special config whatsoever. I also kept getting random crashes requiring a reboot. I thought there might be bad memory or something. Nope, no issues whatsoever since putting Arch on.

Would not recommend.

I did kind of like the splash screen with world photos, I guess.
I always managed to miss him live, to my regret. I have his COVID-era box set with a fragment of the plate that he hand painted, broke and recorded, but it feels so sad to never have been in the same room or crossed his path randomly in NYC (one can dream). Having never experienced a Morricone performance, either, and knowing that I'd probably never see Ryuichi on stage, is what drove me this year to see as many favorite musical acts live as possible, before it's too late.

Sakamoto had a way of doing and thinking through things better than many, but still with some sort of simplicity. I mean, he was in a class of his own even for something as mundane as washing hands: https://youtu.be/VnV4GGXIhfM (of course, this hits differently now than when it first came out)

RIP Ryuichi
The only reason we have to try to guess from the video is because Tesla doesn't reveal how much the damn thing weighs. Why has Tesla been so reluctant to reveal something as fundamental as how much the Tesla Semi weighs?

> There’s nothing particularly difficult about 1MW charging

Other than, you know, actually supplying a freaking million watts of electricity. And what if you need to charge ten at once? You really don't seem to grasp just how much electricity that is.
McDonald's only made $6,000,000,000+ last year on $23+ billion in revenue at a ~35% profit margin.

They reversed the downward trend in revenue (which occurred simultaneously with a tremendous increase in profitability) and bounced back from 2020 magnificently.

Their stock price has ONLY roughly doubled in the last five years and their dividend has ONLY doubled in the last 10.

Obviously that is not good enough so they're going to lay off a couple thousand people to get that margin up by two points.

Pathetic.

This is 100% a stock juicing play. I'm willing to bet there's a cadre of executives who all came on at the same time pre-pandemic (during the revenue turnaround) whose options are maturing and the price isn't where they want it to be because of the pandemic. McDonalds is as healthy a company as its food is unhealthy.
This should catch you up from the last time they reduced production: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3675262-democr...
I'm old enough to remember the first edition of this when it was published in 1993. This is actually not the original version, Albini expanded it at some point and added all the technical stuff about recording, microphones, DATs, etc.
I see no apology, but why do you seem to take offense at pointing out the existence of racism?
Yeah but this stuff get pushed as a higher priority over communication, that's my problem with every argument about "preserving culture".

If everybody in Italy understands "computer", calling it "calcolatore" is outright against communication (that word in italian is closer to "device to do math operations", which is technically correct, but not what people imagine)
Same person who picks the dead that we do and don’t honor. Presumably.
Seems very similar to how things are run where I'm at. I've been here 10 years now and I think it's been a very good way to do things for us.

Now that I'm more senior I do get called into more meetings. But still it's usually not more than 2-3 per week and almost all of those are 30 minutes, or an hour tops, and very efficient. Most of the other meetings my boss does and relays info to us through issue tracker or mail/chat. Like you, he spends a lot of his time in meetings.

In some cases he'll forward the invite and let us know he might ask us to join to answer one or two specific questions. In those cases we do just that. While not interruption-free, since we're aware the disruption of the 2-5 minute diversion is minimal.

We do have a longer weekly team meeting where we go through all issues being worked on and upcoming work. This might be an hour or two depending.

We're office-based though, and noticed during the pandemic that some extra follow-up was needed. So my boss would usually do a quick call at the end of the day every other day or so to follow up each of us, and also for the social bit.
I struggle to eat chicken anywhere now due to white striping and woody chicken. Raw chicken breast where the fibers looks like spaghetti is the worst.

I've bitten into fast food chicken sandwiches that I've thrown out immediately.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003257912...

"Spaghetti meat (SM), woody breast (WB), and white striping (WS) are myopathies affecting breast muscle of broiler chickens, and are characterized by a loss of myofibers and an increase in fibrous tissue. The conditions develop in intensive broiler chicken production systems, and cause poor meat process-ability and negative customer perception leading to monetary losses. "
Incremental compilation has been a thing since the days of Smalltalk. (At least.) It's a feature of every Java IDE I've ever used. I do appreciate quick Golang builds but being able to change something in an IDE and see instantly if it compiles is a big plus of many lanugage.s
Woodworking using only hand tools can be a remarkably space-efficient and neighbour-friendly pastime. I started out that hobby making little projects, mainly using a few unpowered tools (plus a cordless drill) in an area the size of a small writing desk.
Wasn't this the basis of the failed Olestra products? https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/619261/olestra-fat-free-...
i can't make any kind of sense out of your comment
Why Tetris Consumed Your Brain
This is true of all restaurants. In fact, I would expect McDonald's to be a beneficiary of this as consumers replace more expensive options with McDonald's.
It’s an additional datapoint, sure. What I would like is actual corroborating or refuting accounts, either way, though.
Us govt cut access to GPS during Indo Pak war.
Counterintuitively, write performance in modern databases is primarily constrained by disk read performance.

That said, it is increasingly rare for disk I/O to be a bottleneck for inserts. When your storage will happily sustain 10+ GB/s of write throughput, you tend to run out of things like network and memory bandwidth first.
Duplicating HTTP status in the response body is an anti-pattern
The license is the limit, the worst you are allow to behave before you are breaking the law. You're not necessarily good actor just because you're within the bounds of the license.

It's important that licenses permit broadly rather than trying to set a tight boundary because if you get wrapped up in litigation over the boundary it can result in life destroying expenses. Prudent people should stay well away from the harry edge to avoid unnecessary risk.

Whining about behavior you consider anti-social is a perfectly valid mechanism to push for change in the world and compared to tight licenses and litigation much less costly and less likely to cause collateral damage.
that's it for me as well; when I was a child, McDonald's was the cheap option. Nowadays it's more in the middle of the price range of where I get my food, which is crazy considering what you're getting. It's cheaper and healthier to get Japanese, Thai, or Chinese takeaway.
She has time to write blog posts, but claims she doesn't have a few minutes to update the lying front page that makes claims like pcg having just as good prediction difficulty as chacha20 and other misleading entries.
Those above the High Table, so to speak.
> Whereas EV technology has almost no maintenance, a motor with one moving part and regenerative braking that means even the brakes last forever. The accountants at Toyota would definitely frown at that.

That doesn't seem right.

Of all the major brands, Toyota (and Lexus) is the most reliable. They are the opposite of planned obsolescence - they work hard to make their cars last for a very long time.

I suppose in the short term, that's a downside for them, but in the long term, their reputation for being extremely reliable pays off in multiple ways - more demand, higher residual value, etc.

I have no idea why the Japanese auto makers chased hydrogen so hard, but there as to be some other reason. Otherwise we would have seen declining reliability in their gas lineup before now.
> articles about prompt engineers with no experience or technical skills commanding six figure

Please share an example.
I've only seen articles claiming this might exist, based one attention-seeking job ad from one company, which didn't claim "no experience or technical skills".
In terms of DSLs, this is the crux of Puppet vs. Chef.

The danger (and power) of the Chef DSL is it allows imperative Ruby anywhere, including shops that liberally use monkeypatching "to put out fires".

Puppet is a custom DSL that doesn't have this problem but it lacks the power of Chef.

Declarative is generally even more limited than DSLs like Puppet and can't support complex logic. It maybe worth externalizing complex logic into "helpers" or other systems, but this creates a "Javascript frontend + something else backend" code-synchronization problem.

Declarative seems "easy" and "looks like data" but it rapidly runs into limitations.

(The other confusion with Chef is without unified_mode, there are 2 main execution phases that run on clients: compile-time and converge-time. unified_mode makes it easier for novices whereas 2 phase allows for the compile phase to adjust node settings when using an "API" model without databags or run_state.)
Also, the fed kept saying employment was too high
I think they meant in Medieval times - some I would assume would be on horseback/cart.
People complaining about income vs. wealth in the replies have a point, yes the real distinction of wealth is the ability to not work. I wonder if they've considered why themselves, as a reasonably leveled FAANG engineer, have far more capability to "become" rich than almost every other citizen.
When Graham Greene Met Ernest Hemingway on the Set of 'Our Man in Havana'
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just eat at home? A full meal for three people at McDonald’s in my area is around $35.
I'm certainly not going to claim that x86 and its irregularities and extensions of extensions is in _any way_ a good choice for the lingua franca instruction set (or IR in this way of thinking). Its aggressively strictly ordered memory model likely even makes it particularly unsuitable, it just had good inertia and early entrance.

The "RISC of the 80s and 90s" RISC principles were that you exposed your actual hardware features and didn't microcode to keep circuit paths short and simple and let the compiler be clever, so at the time it sort of did imply you couldn't make dramatic changes to your execution model without exposing it to the instruction set. It was about '96 before the RISC designs (PA-RISC2.0 parts, MIPS R10000) started extensively hiding behaviors from the interface so they could go out-of-order.

That changed later, and yeah, modern "RISC" designs are rich instruction sets being picked apart into whatever micro ops are locally convenient by deep out of order dynamic decoders in front of very wide arrays of microop execution units (eg. ARM A77 https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures... ), but it took a later change of mindset to get there.

Really, the A64 instruction set is one of the few in wide use that is clearly _designed_ for the paradigm, and that has probably helped with its success (and should continue to, as long as ARM, Inc. doesn't squeeze too hard on the licensing front).
Math's Pedagogical Curse – Grant Sanderson JPBM Award Lecture [video]
https://archive.md/NPasT
Oh for sure, but the thing to remember is that in metro areas it will get oversubscribed just like it is on the East Coast of the US.
The real robots.txt :-)
Back when a lot of us started getting involved with this, most 'engineers' had physics, engineering, mathematics, and other various backgrounds because software engineering degrees were too freaking new

Or in some cases, humanities backgrounds (Medieval Lit, philosophy, etc).
But you can't get too far. It's like trying to design a pharmaceutical without using a microscope or chemistry to study the target system, just throwing drugs at a human model and seeing what happens.
Sandboxie is great, didn't know there was a fork.
I’ve entirely stopped eating fast food because every time I go, I’m enraged by how I am charged full service prices for low-quality, greasy, garbage and poor service. I’ll instead make my own food, which is much cheaper and tastes much better. I’ve resigned myself to only eating at restaurants socially, or if they make something better than I can.
I don’t know why -
But your single air exchange heat pump driving a single head unit in the 9,000-12,000 range seems to be incredibly efficient. Once you go to a larger unit, and more heads, the efficiency drops.

It’s fascinating to even see the huge increase in switchable units - running your 4/5 ton unit at 4 tons is much more efficient. (Usually)
[Narrator: They’re not.]
I haven't tested this, per say, however I've noticed that Firefox is noticeably slower and buggier than Chrome or other webkit-based browsers. whether or not that is due to the parent or the engine I do not know. I still use Firefox, however, thanks to Google and Microsoft constantly pushing me to use their stuff. If Google could have stuck with Chromium/webkit/related tech being open source with no motivation, I would have never switched.

As it is I still have to open up edge to get decent quality streams from Streaming sites because Firefox doesn't support the DRM used.

The actual biggest gripes for me:

* tabs can, and do, crash. When this happens, pots luck on whether the browser can recover or not.
* NVIDIA driver updates on Windows almost always cause Firefox to stop rendering stuff prior to reboot. Edge and Chrome do not have this issue. While I can somewhat understand, Mozilla should warn users. I've updated several times across 4 NVIDIA GPUs and I've had this issue. Firefox has asked me to restore tabs exactly once. The rest of the time they were gone.
* The really odd theme of the day is that hitting reload on Firefox shows signals that it is reloading, but it never does. If I duplicate the tab the site loads fine. Dev console shows no errors.
Firefox is at least 10% slower on major sites like twitter, etc. vs chrome/edge, as of my last test.
Now you're just being silly.

The answer lies between your initial zero and your over dramatic 3x imaginary ball of dung.

If your government is sensible and transparent I'm sure there are public domain white papers that cover their discussions and recommendations which might make for an interesting read and put an end to this silly posturing.
Click “raw” then it flows pretty well. Reader mode on Safari is fine.
Gotta switch to dark meat, friend
Want to chat about this? If it's interesting, I might look into it ;)

I've got no answer to your question, but it amuses me to no end that what should be a simple problem of finding someone fit for a role is still largely unsolved.

On the last team I worked with, my manager complained a lot about how hard hiring is. On the other end of the spectrum, you hear a lot of complaints about how hard getting hired is.
Given that it's global, and already rolled out to many countries, I'd have to assume the customer pool is tens or hundreds of millions of customers.

Also the sats are some of the cheapest, most mass-produced ever, and SpaceX's launch costs are a tiny fraction of anything done previously.

Given what they've achieved so far, I kind of trust SpaceX to have run the numbers on this more than you or I.
That would take a lot longer than the sledgehammer method.
The markets are certainly too large for any one player to consistently change them. But there is probably a lot of group think going on.
Or it demonstrates it's an inefficient means to an end.

Just because highways keep getting bigger doesn't mean it's the best mode of transport.
I love coffee, but I've determined that consuming caffeine negatively affects my sleep even 6-8 hours later. I agree with your fixes, though my own rule is simply to not consume anything caffeinated after 15:00.
Thanks for posting the raw data, it's super interesting and I wasn't able to find it on my own.

I think we are mostly in alignment, I have just been focused on "how to lower taxes on W2 income" where your point is that anyone can diversify their income streams and find opportunities with lower tax rates.

Anyway, I appreciate the info you shared. Cheers.
Goodbye Rust
Sure. But we also can synthesize methane from captured carbon dioxide and green hydrogen. It's still more expensive than fossil methane, but it's getting cheaper.

But we can start transitioning factories to use methane right now, starting from fossil methane and slowly moving to greener sources.
How Oxygen Is Made
I'm still not following. You seem to have said above that the 8086 was an iteration of the 8088, whereas Wikipedia claims that the 8088 is instead a variant of the 8086. It also says that the 8088 came out after the 8086. Can you restate and clarify your claim? A typo seems like the most likely explanation, but maybe I'm just misunderstanding.