skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does the randomization have to happen in the database query? Assuming there aren't any large gaps in the distribution of IDs, and if you know the max_id, couldn't you pick a random number between min_id and max_id and get the record whose ID matches that random number?
> The best "DevOps" I've seen are generalists that can fit in on SRE, Systems/platform engineering, network, security types of teams, etc.

Just wanted to emphasize this. Additionally I'd say that every developer should be able to build DevOps pipelines. There is no make file engineer whose entire job is to write make files for other folks projects. There's no compiler engineer who takes the code from other devs to compile it for them. These, like devops, are fundamental skills a developer needs to know to be effective in modern dev teams. A developer who can't automate the build and deployment of their code is at a huge disadvantage.
> Shaming organizations into lowering exec comp probably won’t work: there’s a strong economic incentive to pay competitively.

Well I think you're right on the first half but I don't think you're correct on the second half.

Paying a CEO 5M vs 17M is a rounding error to a double-digit billion dollar company. Its like getting something on Amazon instead of Alibaba, sure Amazon is 3x the price but you obviously find the item cheap enough otherwise you'd be on Alibaba. Or perhaps you want the item now and don't want to spend months searching for a new CEO.
> Domain / IP could perhaps be inaccessible only from certain locations, and staff could be unaware in that case.

Your hypothetical scenario either involves a regional deployment being down, which I would be very surprise if any non-amateur setup didn't tracked with canaries, or if there's a problem with how the internet is being routed, which is something that's beyond the control of any team but canaries would also flag.
Still requires consent to run on a user's machine if shipped.

What Google et al are desperately trying to keep people from waking up to is that they have been treating your computer as theirs for the purposes of profit taking for decades. They've also tried to shape case law to normalize that state of affairs in their favor.

Their legal and lobbying departments are there for more than just contract writing.
Code generators are used because run-time introspection tends to be slow(er) and because debugging code generated at runtime is harder and because IDEs don't know how to deal with code generated at runtime. But there no reason why this should be so. No good reason to have a hard boundary between compiletime and runtime either. These are just historical artifacts.
What about it is useless?

I’ve found it to be incredibly useful. And prior to that I used ledger for a few years. Ledger was great, but personally I find YNAB to be more useful because the budgeting features are the focus, not the accounting.
It's really not a big stretch. We know that:

* this disease is born by insects

* the insects don't live in places that get too cold for them

* we witness the insects spreading into places that used to be too cold for them as the average temperature changes.

I don't see how "if the models are right and it gets warmer then the facts above will continue to apply in those areas" is somehow shocking or even dubious.

Over the summer we saw new cases of malaria contracted in the US too, for the same reasons: it got warm enough in parts of the south to support the right type of mosquito.
This really wants me to re-evaluate all the times I have gracefuly TOFU'd while SSHing into a machine or even logging onto a website.
Here are 2 relevant scenarios.

A homeless alcoholic withdraws and gets seizures, spending a week in the ICU. He is not on Medicaid, but qualifies. After paying for all his care and applying for Medicaid on his behalf. The hospital might get 50 cents back for every dollar they spent. (They spent on doctors; nurses, medications; EMR bill, case management, etc.).

This guy will essentially come back 5-6 times per year. With negative margins every time because that’s how Medicaid is designed.

2nd scenario is a 70 year old with a knee replacement surgery and great insurance Medicare + supplemental. He spend a day and half in the hospital and the money that his insurance paid, would be ~130-150% cost of care.

Average everything out; and you end up with 3-6% margins.

Obviously, salaries are big part of the cost. So, perhaps the margins will be better if the CEO is paid less. But, overall its a low-margin business because the biggest payers are Medicaid and Medicare and they more or less pay whatever they want via legislative means.
All of it looks awesome. The level of detail in the Factorio art style is absurd.
No, I'm being sincere: you write long responses, which is fine, but they're full of abstractions, and when I tried to make one of them concrete (about patented crops), you fled back into the abstraction rather than confronting and resolving the issue into a concrete position. You're not making substantive points about the topic, just lengthy ones.
Professional journalists have the responsibility to be epistemologically correct—to accurately say "X told us Y", "our reporter observed Z", etc. You can't jump the gun and launder speculation into truth.

That's what Silver's complaining about in the OP: not that the NYT got it wrong, but how in particular they got it wrong, making claims of confidence and certainty that weren't supported by what they had.
Most recruiters don't know the difference between C-shell and a seashell, why would you expect them to understand a topic most IT people can't fully grasp?
No, this is not at all comparable to the Pepe frog meme. No one is going to look for another symbol here.

That trend graph is for search interest. It's not surprising that we're past peak searches for that from non-Muslim majority countries and regions.

With all due respect, you're just wrong here. There is no trend of people abandoning this phrase. This would be like trying to say crosses were co-opted by the KKK so churches are getting rid of them and people are going to stop wearing jewelry with them. It's part of the call to prayer, part of the five daily prayers, part of supplication and dhikr, and part of many other Islamic traditions.
To be blunt I wished more DevOps had common sense.

DORA metrics don't mean anything if we are underperforming as a company and losing money.
The downside is that $10,000 may only be enough to buy a stick of gum in 2033.
The bigger point is.. who the f cares? This obsession with the stock market is probably one of the worst inventions in human history.
How does it compare to Anki? Are there any music specific features?
A collection of high-quality C++ libraries
That's not true. Short term bonds currently carry higher interest than longer term ones, that's what "inverted yield curve" is all about.[1]

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...
The real failure of Windows on ARM is that the performance of the hardware is shit

Like getting an M1 laptop and virtualizing Windows 11 has better performance than most actual Windows 11 ARM laptops
Brazil police arrest two intel agents for alleged illegal surveillance
Why would anyone invest in stocks when they can have higher, lower risk returns by buying govt. bonds / investing in money markets?
I don’t have an android device to test, but I’m not sure I understand how the app works. Does it sends a notification with a link to a YouTube video? I don’t really understand the YouTube link in screenshots, I somehow expected it would provide a music score to play.
We shouldn't have unelected individuals making choices that have such a high impact on society in the first place. You've detailed the mechanisms behind their high pay, but that is far from justifying it.
That's complete nonsense. They do it all the time, and they lie or distort at will. Just like every other government, military, or secret service.

Example:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/canadian-killed-a...

https://legionmagazine.com/one-martyr-down-the-untold-story-...

https://www.cjpme.org/fs_033

IDF fired on a UN post and killed neutral UN observers, including a Canadian citizen. They've never admitted it was deliberate... but they did it because of the specific neutrality interventions of that UN post... as a signal to STFU ... and everybody knows it. And because of alliances with Israel even the Canadian gov't wouldn't raise protest.

"The question of how and why it [UN base] was on their targeting list has never been legally resolved. The Israelis claim it was a data-entry error—put on their target list by mistake. But they have prevented any organization or government from verifying that claim; including both the UN and the Canadian government."

It's not like anybody is forcing you to think in terms where there's only Hamas or IDF to choose from. That's a mental framework you're choosing for yourself. It's not a football game.
What Is Superposition, Really?
Many people just support removing constitutional rights, and consider sometimes removing them from some people to be an improvement in that direction even if it's not total victory.
In this case, it means your actual error will be packed and boxed someplace behind a smart pointer, its type will be lost (so you wouldn't be able to match on its specific variants downstream might you want to) but it will be still able to format itself to a string and will comply with std::error::Error trait.
It's good advice if you don't know what to believe.

Presumably people in your proposed situation have an idea on what's believable haha.

I think it's pretty clear where the smart money is on who is lying at every stage here lol.
I wish there was an easier way to find deleted articles. You can see all versions of an article but if it's gone there seems to be no way to see anything.
You must specify concrete type.

There was a plan to have "natural type" so "var list = [1,2,3]" would be of type "List<int>" but it was postponed to C# 13 (https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/5354#issuecommen...)
Update: Did the title not save properly? Sorry about the ambiguous title.

What I meant to ask was: "Where does the phrase 'Blazingly Fast' come from?"
Try to be less cryptic and write what you mean?
Seems to be the same mashup of determinism and bad definitions.

Free will isn't the freedom to determine your microstate, independent of physics. Positing that is incoherent. It has to be something like presence in a feedback loop with measurements.

I pick up cup and drink water because I'm thirsty.

What value is there in retorting: No, trillions of cells maintain homeostasis by triggering a cascade of signals which transferred by neurons and measured by circuits in the brain which creates the conscious experience of thirst and having been trained since birth to associate water with alleviating this negative experience you ingest water. There was no choice only physics and training correlations.

This is only true in the most boring way. To claim: choices don't exist, only physics.
Yeah, no. In the context, it's an obvious hyperbolic metaphor. Nobody was meant to believe that it referred to real rape, no reasonable viewer would have believed that, and most likely nobody did believe that.
A single pane into subscriptions that you can end, or later re-start, with a click or two.

It’s not only the ease of subscribing, or canceling, but the ease of seeing all of your subscriptions and managing them all without doing any work to set up that view.
IRS Direct Tax Filing: The End of Intuit's Lobbying
I’m glad you used the travel nurse example because it shows why the comp is so high:

The board has to guarantee above all else that the CEO is aligned to serving the board and shareholders above all others ESPECIALLY their employees

So every CEO is just stating what their soul is worth.

I mean I guess it’s good that it’s so high because psychopaths that can perform at that level without fucking over their masters or being unpredictable are rare.
Reddit is considering a soft paywall if AI companies don't pay up
In most financial models, the return investors demand on risky assets like stocks depends on the opportunity cost of the risk free rate [eg 1]. As the risk free rate goes up, the return investors expect on risky assets also goes up which pushes their price down.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capm.asp
This fits an old adage of cops, "You may beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."

This is what that means, it's common for cops to punish people by simply forcing them to pay tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to beat charges they know won't stick. DAs go along with it because they know cops can destroy their career if they stop providing cases/evidence.
> Imagine if on 9/11 the press had within minutes come out and said, "Twin tower attacks ordered by Saddam Hussein kill 20,000, intelligence sources say." That didn't happen because the press at the time exercised some caution, yet they still covered the event.

That didn't happen because no intelligence sources said that.
That's what their claiming at least, but it's a lot different in how that actually gets interpreted once in court so it'll be interesting to see the filings and their reasoning in how they should be interpreted as fact instead of opinion, and how they claim that the statements are false too.
Lofty even-handedness was not my intention, I have a definite side in this conflict because it personally affects me. I'm not unbiased and make no claim to be. I live in Israel and I'm scared of how this will end because I have skin in the game.

It doesn't matter to me who hit the hospital because I don't believe it was intentional. That's not to say the deaths don't matter, they do, and we should mourn them. And that's not to say that blame for the overall war doesn't matter, it does, I don't mean to say that we can't know anything and I'm not offering some bland hope for a ceasefire and end of suffering for all sides.

I'm saying that I don't believe figuring out whose errant projectile is responsible for this particular tragedy materially changes how I feel about the war[0].

Can I prove that it wasn't intentional? No, I can't. But I consider it much more likely than the claim that it was intentional. The Israeli claim is that it was an Islamic Jihad mistake, they're not arguing it was intentional. I don't know if Hamas claims Israeli did it intentionally or by accident, but it is entirely against Israel's interest to hit it intentionally and I see no reason they'd kick the ball into their own goal so spectacularly. Mistakes happen. War is terrible. And yes, this war includes a lot of war crimes.

[0] If eventually we find actual evidence that this was an intentional strike by the Israeli military, I will retract my position and express shock and horror at my government. I already express my anger at my more extreme, fundamentalist countrymen for their actions and statements that I consider to be immoral. The fact that they're on my team does not spare them from my wrath, on the contrary, I get more angry at them for the damage they do than I do at the extremists on the other side.
You’re donating to rwbj? Why? That’s dumb af. It’s like donating to IKEA because it’s owned by a non profit. It’s a business that has exploited a regulatory system.

The only reason you’d donate to this hospital or Harvard or any other such exploits is if you think it’ll get you something: earlier treatment, admissions for your kids and so on.

If you want that and you know the game and you want the CEO to be paid less I don’t know what to say.
> The bigger point is.. who the f cares?

Investment firms and other orgs with large amounts of money, seeking what they always seek. More money. As I understand it, banks invested heavily in bonds which give under 2% return, but because of the cheap 5% bonds, they can't even dump them to capitalize on the 5%, because nobody wants to buy the old 2%.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sixGjiYSxAk
"Congress passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which contains the requirement that any caller using “artificial or pre-recorded voice” to a mobile phone number must have prior consent from the recipient."

The act doesn't specify that "any caller" must meet the requirement but that a "person" must. "The term “person” includes an individual, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, or corporation." The mayor is calling as a representative of The City of New York which doesn't meet this definition.
Sure, there's actually a chasm of difference between a protective order and a full criminal conviction. That's enough to meet the falsehood requirement of defamation.

However, to demonstrate actual malice, you have to demonstrate that the defendant knew of just how different the two things were, which is frankly a pretty tall ask.
Precisely because of the gaps. Tons of Wikipedia article ID's aren't valid for random selection because they've been deleted, because they're a disambiguation page, because they're a redirect, or they're a talk page or user page or whatever else.

My comment covered your suggestion already -- that's why I wrote "you encounter the same problem where the id gaps in deleted articles make certain articles more likely to be chosen".
TL;DR beware "MOU"s and parts pairing.

> “Memorandums of Understanding,” Not Laws

> There is a long history of MOUs in the repair world, and, generally speaking, they all seem to eventually favor big corporations.

> At the same time, as repair advocate Louis Rossmann, tech rights expert Cory Doctorow, organizations like iFixit, and Proctor have pointed out, Apple has found a new way to restrict repair, by “pairing” parts with specific phones. This means, for example, that an iPhone screen from one phone will not work if you put it on another phone, unless Apple recalibrates that part. This is a software, not a hardware limitation. I’ve written about this a handful of times, but it is essentially DRM for repair parts.

> It is possible that Apple and other big manufacturers believe that by supporting right to repair laws as currently written, their practices won’t actually be affected that much because they can just move toward a system where parts are artificially paired with individual devices (it is not clear, exactly, how the California law will deal with the parts pairing issue).
Didn't Tesla data center workers snatch a bunch of in car video of intimate moments? I doubt many of them were low paid kids.

At the end of the day trusting random people means you're just rolling the dice.
I had a fairly long back and forth with a service I pay for while using one of the many Firefox container extensions. They want to track me and a new profile every access they did not like because they begun fingerprinting for “security”. White listing didn’t work and I ended up having to install chrome for them.

It worked very well for the “you have three articles remaining” to view for free. Now I’m back to scrolling to the bottom of an article to make sure it doesn’t disappear into same login wall and see if reader view bypasses it before I start reading.
Brookhaven is really shady.

They are an incorporated city JUST north of the Atlanta core that has rapidly annexed unincorporated parts of the area and they are THROWING money around like a rapper in Magic City.

There's a lot of community uproar lately about them pushing ahead with a SEVENTY-EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR city hall which apparently was not bid on and is quite a bit more than a very large mixed use complex that is being built down the street. Residents complaining their taxes have DOUBLED since being annexed, etc.
Though, will having more Arginine, Manganese and B6 automatically trigger your own body to make spermidine? Isn't there maybe a limit when the body stops producing spermidine?
Every show on Apple TV+ (except Ted Lasso) has dismal viewership. The amount of money they spend for each viewer is insane, and they don't seem to be growing[1].

If Apple cared that much about viewership, they'd cancel most of their shows, not just Jon Stewart's.

1. https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/11/heres-how-apple-tv-growth-com....
> CEO salaries should be understood in relationship to the resources that they control.

Why? In every other case we’re told wages are set by how much it takes to get someone who can do the job to accept the position. What the company gets out of that person’s work sets a cap on potential compensation, but doesn’t set the actual amount paid.
That sounds a lot like once a wolf always, a wolf, which is a circular self-fulfilling prophecy.
That isn’t necessary. Iowa has no-fault divorce.
So much of my potential productivity would be lost if Dyson Sphere Program or Captain of Industry ran on macs.
The insane hypocrisy of pretending to care about how green you are as a company while also fighting tooth and nail to put your products into the landfill as quickly as possible is one of the most telling things about the modern “green business” movement.

It clearly shows that the companies doing this — which is most — are sustainability focused as long as it’s for more profit and don’t have honest environment commitments.

You can have all the low carbon datacenters you want, but if your primary product and its colossal manufacturing footprint is designed to fail and you oppose allowing people to use what they already paid for through planned obsolescence or even go out of your way to make your products impossible to repair you’re a total hypocrite.

I get why — profit. But consider this: try explaining why you spent years at Apple or Amazon doing everything you could to improve profits at the cost of the future even while ice melted and the ocean currents were clearly slowing to your great grandkids. You can’t. You’d just be another card carrying early 21st century moron.

Bringing our companies back into alignment with the life support systems of the earth is necessary and a priority, and we need to find a way to penalize this kind of behavior harshly and quickly. The real market incentives are not aligned with human survival on this planet.

Oh and btw, the people on HN are the most likely people to answer this call and make this change. The nerds and founders and execs and creatives. We make the system they’re talking about. It’s up to us.
Fixed income with qualified dividends somewhat avoids this tax drag.

EDIT: Retracted, I'm mistaken, qualified dividends only apply to returns from a US corporation or a qualified foreign corporation. You would need to build a ladder with a holding period sufficient to realize LTCG rates from a fixed income product.
I remember reading this post around the same time as I came across the concept of psychogeography, an interesting way of looking at how the exploration of our environments and how they're made up affects our attitude and emotions. Die Hard is a great example of this, so is The Shining. The deliberate disorientation and spatial impossibility of The Overlook conveys deep unease just by being what it is.