skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think Airbnb has far better prospects than Uber/Lyft/DoorDash because they have a much stronger balance sheet and a bit more of a moat against competitors. The car/delivery services have the problem that most of their customers live in the area so someone doesn’t need to compete globally before they can undercut them (here in DC, multiple neighbors have commented that the taxis are both cheaper and more dependable now so they only use Uber when traveling), whereas Airbnb’s reputation does help travelers pick them over random websites in unfamiliar locations.
Nobody but China has a clue how much power it takes to produce a solar panel and nobody has done a recalc but you know it's hardly a net benefit and also here's a link with some numbers? Well which is it, you didn't use a number or you're claiming the numbers in that link?

I'm also not sure I follow what you're saying about Europe's power anyways. Natural gas was never a leader for production, coal used to be 3x the production, it's only in the last 5 years that flipped.

I'm trying to understand what numbers you're basing your claims on because they don't make any sense but you state them very authoritatively.
Fyi, CNBC (a news site) is citing a figure in a white paper by Envoy, an employee analytics platform, that leaders regret not having more employee analytics.

> "73% workplace leaders believe that easier access to data would enable them to drive smarter decisions about their space, programs, and policies... "

> "80% of executives say they would have approached their
company’s return-to-office strategy differently if
they had access to workplace data to inform their decision-making.

Here's the source:

https://envoy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Workplace_Data_...
You're just a busy mom, and you're having a dinner party, and invitees have given you dietary restriction lists as long as your arm.

You go to the grocery store, and you see three brands of ketchup. One is labeled "vegan ketchup!" and two are not -- which do you choose?
Awesome. English is not my main language as I’m Portuguese. I will review that.
For the same reason people write dictionaries.
He was permitted to travel to New York under the terms of his bail to meet with lawyers.
>Yes. Terroristic threat, for example.

This is such an important point. The PATRIOT Act threw protections for citizens out the window in cases of terrorism (no evidence required). DOD requires no trials, no warrants, only notifying judges with an accompanying gag-order and no input or oversight from them (making it illegal for them to divulge suspected abuses) to wiretap or kill anyone. President Obama used a drone strike to explode a 16 y/o boy (a US citizen) in Yemen[0]. This is only one of the cases we know about, and it’s impossible to know the extent it’s been used. I know that’s not the case here, but it is such a huge problem that needs to be fixed legislatively - I felt it necessary to comment.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Aw...
> My larger point is that Americans are largely under the delusion that heavily taxing the 1% would be enough, which is just not the case.

728 people in the US own more assets than half the US population together [1].

Let that fact sink in, and then ask yourself why the fuck no one in the US has taken to the pitchforks yet. At least here in Europe, the lower classes are on serious strike runs the last months - the UK, France and Germany are just examples.

You know what, you could leave each of these 728 uber rich people a billion dollar each. Enough money that neither they nor their children and their children have to work a day in their lifes ever. Basically, aristocracy, "landed gentry" or however you want to call it, just legally recognized. The rest of the wealth gets distributed among the population. Easy, isn't it?

[1] https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/04/13/728-billionaires-hold...
What they say in an anon survey, and what they say to their employees may be very different things.
> Before if you started with thread and then realised you were GIL-limited then switching from the threading module to the multiprocessing module was a complete change

Is this true?

I've been switching back and forth between multiprocessing.Pool and multiprocessing.dummy.Pool for a very long time. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
This is one of my favourite websites. It cries out "I have my own fashion sense, and you'll just have to accept it while I provide you with a truckload of useful information."
I'm not quite seeing your point. Are you saying the article's usage is inconsistent with the meaning of sunk cost? In some cases companies have multi-year leases for office space that is drastically underutilized due to WFH. Does that not count as a sunk cost in your opinion? It's true rent is paid on an ongoing prorated basis but to quote from Investopedia, "Sunk costs also cover certain expenses that are committed but yet to [be] paid." [0]

Like I said, maybe I'm just missing the point you're making?

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sunkcost.asp

(edit: upon posting I see others have already raised this question)
People who are awaiting trail or extradition are typically held during that process if they're considered a flight risk, which I think that's been shown to be a real risk since he was convicted for that.
https://twitter.com/al_mu7ami/status/1690124304447344641?s=2...
>Ultimately identity should be empowering not oppressive.

I agree completely. Are there any examples of that though, where it is empowering?

Talking about government (or any bureaucracy) there is no chance of empowerment, at least from the administrative arm. Software is written by lowest bidders for the convenience of administrators, to help them treat people like cattle. This can only change when we complain to real politicians who could potentially advocate for empowerment. As long as bureaucrats are in charge, it only gets worse.
While I personally don’t think—now—that SBF in retrospect likely posed this kind of risk, the scale of the grift is the kind of thing where someone pulling it off is quite likely to have motive and means to cause quite heinous outcomes to perceived threats.

A quiet but apparently amicable distancing may be the most someone feels safe doing.
local-exec is like Rust’s unsafe: essential when you need it but something which should stick out in reviews to make sure it actually is needed.
Which doesn't make sense for power generation since there will always be some percentage of neutrons produced by any type of fusion reaction that can only be useful for generating steam.

To entirely skip the steam cycle portion is to intentionally make a much less efficient design.

For space-constrained, high-value, applications where economics don't matter that much, such as a submarine, that would make sense, but otherwise...
The with context manager doesn't seem mandatory. It seems mostly like a convenience to call executor.shutdown() implicitly when the block is done.
I was recently offered a long-term contract job that was double anything I would expect my salary to be. Why? Because the company instituted a policy of not hiring new remote employees. So the workaround to get the help they need is to hire contractors that aren't beholden to silly employee policies.
IDK if simplicity is really the go-to judgment process for learning from people like this. I mean if you really want to chase that argument--it's simpler than even that. He's human! Therefore he does stupid human things. He's only human after all! (ad infinitum)

Imagine though, if SBF had a reasonable, nuanced opportunity to understand his blind spots long before he got into business.

I've coached people who think just like SBF, discussed the same blind spots, and most of those people were grateful to reach a new understanding. But you'd never get that far if you said, "you have the mindset of a trust fund kid, end of story."

So, that's definitely a thing, to be able to un-simplify a broad generalization, and turn that into problem-solving leverage where others may fear to wade into details.
Problem is, the personality traits that lead people to commit crimes in the first place are the same personality traits that lead people to eviscerate their own defense. The unfortunate truth is that most people who have the self-control to engender the best possible outcome for their case don't find themselves in court to begin with.
This seems to be far afield of what I'd typically expect to see in an RFC.
Practically every fraudster or white collar criminal has gotten away with a pretty large sum of money right up until they haven't.

Every single one that caught is an idiot - they misunderstood the system they were trying to rip off, they misunderstood and/or didn't think through what checks and balances exist in the system to catch things after they happen. They are idiots.
Mike Tyson said it more simply: "Everybody has a plan until you get hit in the face."
Stop people from progressing the conversation without addressing your arguments
You’re a manager, not a dictator. Manage that shit.

If it’s a low priority for you but not for someone else, you are prioritizing wrong. Don’t complain because someone doesn’t want to play politics with you. Learn your team, play to their strengths.
This doesn't work because DBAs are rarely on the dev team's sprint schedule. If the DBAs are blocking them devs can and will figure out how to route around the gatekeepers. In general, keep the logic in the app not the db.
Except in mandatory DRM jurisdictions.
Less extreme, but Simon Peyton Jones never did a PhD.

Yet he eventually became a Lecturer and a Professor at UCL and Glasgow, respectively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones#Education
There were separate unrelated issues with the 980 pro and 990 pro early firmware both of which were patched.
Relevant blog on improving PostgreSQL performance on ZFS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29647645
I love these guys, they are just knocking down the engineering challenges in their plan to completely characterize and control a fusion stream. Sometimes they feel like the Tortoise in the race to a working fusion power plant but they are answering questions (managing wall temps and hold fusion in streams[1]) that the Tokamak folks have yet to solve. My bias though is I'm way more on the "D" side of the R&D spectrum and following ITER often feels like pure "R."

[1] https://www.iter.org/of-interest/1188
I find it completely implausible that the current court will find this to be an undue burden. Sure, if they banned porn, you could probably cobble together a coalition to save it. But the court that doesn’t care about SESTA/FOSTA will not plausibly care about an ID requirement.
"Generosity" in the context of arguments refers to excessive obeisance, not literally giving someone this or that.

> ...damn you must judge people so hard. :D

I'm advocating for not judging hundreds of thousands of people more harshly than you appear to judge SBF. Again: what makes him different?
> e: to be clear, I am pointing out a fact of how the world works here, not condoning it

I mentioned the same thing, it doesn't seem to make any difference in situations involving extreme consumer-advocacy flex, I mean who are we to attempt to get two completely separate lines of thought to coexist ;-)
You’re pushing on a string here — when I asked for some supporting evidence for their claims, the poster responded that… Well… I’ll let the response speak for itself:

> I don’t need a citation other than the fact that they share the common root word, and that people with common sense, which we would hope to be on the Supreme Court, see the argument that I’ve made is perfectly logical. I don’t need freaking precedence. I’m setting the precedence right now by giving a better logical argument than anybody else apparently ever has
> (The Globe and Mail) – A Vancouver woman who went to hospital seeking help for suicidal thoughts says she was further distressed by a clinician who unexpectedly suggested medical assistance in dying. Kathrin Mentler, 37, lives with chronic depression and suicidality, both of which she says were exacerbated by a traumatic event early this year. Feeling particularly vulnerable in June, she went to Vancouver General Hospital looking for psychiatric help in dealing with feelings of hopelessness she feared she couldn’t shake. Instead, Ms. Mentler says a clinician told her there would be long waits to see a psychiatrist and that the health care system is “broken.” That was followed by a jarring question: “Have you considered MAID?”

"'I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin.' The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices" - C.S. Lewis

EDIT: Also the actual article is located here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/british-columbia/...

EDIT EDIT:

> Ms. Mentler had not considered MAID before, but told the clinician of her past attempts to end her life by overdosing on medication. She said the clinician replied that such a method could result in brain damage and other harms, and that MAID would be a more “comfortable” process during which she would be given sedating benzodiazepines among other drugs.

I think that kind of spits in the face of the claim that "they were just trying to gauge here suicidality"
IANAL but it seems all this stupidity may cost him what really matters: he may lose any chance of minimum security prison. That’s the real prize if prison time is all but guaranteed.

He could still get a decade in ClubFed with work release which… while obviously not great, is a hell of a lot better than living under guard in a low or medium security prison.
The problem that Qualcomm and all the other ARM manufacturers have: they're impossible for tinkerers to get ahold of, outside of Raspberry Pi and a truckload of shitty, barely supported clones. And even then, the RPi still doesn't have the basics of PCIe working - in 2023 [1]. What. The. Fuck. Yes, Apple theoretically offers ARM devices, but they are not cheap, not extendable at all beyond USB-C and a ton of stuff doesn't work on Linux.

In contrast, say I want to develop something on Intel? No problem, I head to Amazon, buy a CPU, a motherboard and try if that old ATX power supply is still working. I plug in whatever card I need and it Just Works.

Steve Ballmer was right on track with "developers, developers, developers" - because if the ecosystem is crap or impossible to use for creative people on a low budget, guess what, they won't and go for the alternative. Linux started out on x86 for a reason, and Android blasted Windows Mobile (and everyone else but Apple) to pieces despite it being a solidly established player. A large part was due to neglected developers: outdated APIs, expensive and half-broken dev tools (developing for WinCE was a real pain in the proverbial arse), and a complete inability to even try to match Apple's innovation. Apple had a monopoly on capacitive touchscreens for years!

If the ARM ecosystem players actually want to throw punches towards the unholy duopoly of Intel/AMD, they need to standardize on a common core of UEFI and get modular, working components out on the market.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/external-graphics-car...
It is very eesh. But tbf, I would precisely use this for single-drive monthly cold storage backups of a large raid nas for example.
This is great work. I use https://upstract.com/ (the new popurls) for this now personally.
Safari's support for WebAuthn does not include support for "direct attestation", if that's what you're referring to.

EDIT: Or do you mean "Private Access Tokens"? I just found out about this now and wow... looks like I've got some reading to do, but so-far it seems far more limited in scope than Google's version, and doesn't seem like it can be used to fingerprint visitors between sessions either. ( https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-att... )
That's a problem associated with a particular cooling system design, so it's more of a thermal power problem than a nuclear power problem.
> If possible, have a whiteboard way at the back of the room where it's visible but incomprehensible.

Bonus points if it's at a steep angle from the camera, making only one side of it slightly comprehensible, as the other side diminishes into unreadable scribbles
It makes me so sad that Russia has chosen to not be part of the western world going forward. Such a needless divorce created by Russia for what, so that they can kill their 'brotherly' slavic neighbors?

I always wanted to see the Hermitage. I have Russia adjacent ancestry (from talking to Russians online to try and trace it I was told I am jewish and not Russian and was then told in very crappy ways that the two are very much different). The old Russia literature is still great and of huge influence in the west and I am still very much interested in old Russia no matter that new Russia has chosen to extract themselves from the western world I live in and that embraced my great great grandparents when Russia rejected them.
Doe these threatening emails convey any kind of warning to prospective new employees? Not just in the WFH/RTO topic, but if they are this draconian in one area, would it not be safe to assume it would span other areas as well?

Even if I was looking for a new job where the WFH issue didn't exist, I'd personally still be hesitant about working at a place managed by people doubling down like that
Hmm, imagine if banks already gave you NFC capable cards and our phones... that would make the process a lot easier.

(yes, i'm talking about every modern..ish credit and debit card)
> The point was that with Ubuntu, you didn't even need to do that, so non-technical users could use it without hassle, and this was the entire point of Ubuntu.

The point was, other popular distros were doing that 4+ years before Ubuntu was. Fedora and Debian were just about the only major Linux distros that didn't include them. Just like how other distros had better installers, better themes/user experiences, etc than Ubuntu:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37068058

Also, if you had the "technical skill" to even know to download Fedora, I find it baffling that you didn't have the skill to type "nvidia drivers fedora" into Google. People were doing the same thing for Windows for a decade+ at that time.

Sure, Ubuntu eventually became nice-looking and easy to install. But they didn't innovate those things in anyway. Instead, they became so off the backs of a bunch of other communities doing real hard work and contributing nothing themselves.
They literally are the outsider in that case though
I wonder what will happen to the remaining Yandex assets in Russia. Will Putin simply nationalize them? If he does, it's uncertain whether the Russian branch of the company can sustain itself, given a potential mass exodus of talent.
> There is witness intimidation going right now on another high profile case and I doubt they’ll revoke bail.

The Other Guy has the sense to do vague and diffuse public messaging that (so far, without more of a pattern or additional acts) that has still gotten him warned about continuing it.
Reminds me of how like a month ago people were asking me why I was hesitant to trust chatGPT for recipes, and I honestly felt like the answer was self-evident. If you know enough about cooking to correct the errors an LLM gives you in a recipe, you probably don't even need to search recipes to begin with. Also there are already recipe search engines that find recipes for you that involve the ingredients you request... I'll skip the LLM for now.
You seem to think these managers have even a shred of self-awareness...
I took it as a tongue in cheek reference to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
> they labeled 98 participants (81%) from the THC group as being impaired based on their performance, and 31 participants (49%) from the placebo group.

So you have a 50/50 chance of being pulled over sober and having a "highly trained law enforcement officer" declare you high. I hope all cannabis related impaired charges resulting from field sobriety tests are invalidated on this basis, it's ridiculous.
> Good that I am leaving soon.

I get the impression the manager is thinking the same thing.
Hi from Argentina! I can think in Spanish and English. I'm not sure how I learned that, it took a lot of years. Perhaps writing comments here helped, because the pressure is lower than when I talk, because I can go back and fix the text.

Can you watch movies with the voices in English? It helps to learn to understand. You can watch them first with subtitles in Portuguese, then subtitles in English, and then without subtitles. (I'm not sure if it's helpful for your objective.)

But I can't do elementary math in English. For something like 25+17 have to fall back to Spanish. (Most of the time I even read the numbers in Spanish.) (Perhaps I need to learn the addition and multiplication tables in English???)

(And about prepositions: I make a lot of errors. I'd probably be more accurate if I use a random generator to choice the propositions.)
See

https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-competi...

for the FTC's contact information
>And order food! Have some cookies, croissants, pizza delivered right as the meeting starts.

as if the snacks one has in their own home are so undesirable that this is the compelling factor. such a good post left on such a weak point.
As others have said, I was talking about concatenation as opposed to interpolation. Interpolation still has challenges. It's hard to make arbitrary sentences with many placeholders work with agreement. But concatenation is almost always a bad choice.

Also am not talking about this as an absolute moral-ethical challenge. In the examples I gave, it's usually less work long term on the developer to do the right thing, and a more efficient use of translation budget because you're not spending money to get convoluted translations that sound confusing or don't sound idiomatic. Why bother translating if your users are going to use English anyways?
I could see a plausible 10x growth if literally the entire world achieved within the ballpark of 2023 US levels of per capita wealth.
If I remember it correctly (it was a long time ago), he never fully supported the war. It didn't take a genius to notice that the goals set by the presidency were (literally) impossible and not the kind of thing you do achieve a war.

But whatever position he had, Iraq turning into a clusterfuck wasn't a sign of bad leadership by his part. It was a sign of bad ethics, but not leadership. His options were all of getting out of his position, disobeying the people above him, or leading the US into a clusterfuck.
No, solar farms in the desert with a HVDC lines obviously.
Snowden made himself a pariah. Two wrongs don't make a right, fleeing to Russia was a bad choice. Your suggestion that we are falling for some grand scheme or propaganda unless we subscribe to your opinion is dishonest.
> A suite of tests might be better: point them at a candidate browser and they'll tell you which naughty and which nice features that browser supports.

Perhaps we could have a suite of Web Platform Tests? And we could host them at https://wpt.fyi ?