skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the scariest thing out there - apart from possibly downed trees and
power lines - is other drivers

I expected Linus to be more scared by an internet outage than SUVs!
Re: "due to miscalculations by all sides"

Miscalculations is giving an out that isn't warranted.

At least one party involved wanted the "war" to continue.
the citation is history
same here, I was thinking of doing just that as a screen-saver!

My initial idea before reading your comment (probably hard too implement) - take around the "most replayed segment" if there is one.

Would love to have the script to play around!
Speculating

How about a chat interface, where you correct the result and provide more contextual information about those columns?

Those chats could be later fed back to the model and ran a DPO optimisation on top
Asymptote[0] is excellent IME.

[0] https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/
This is a true observation, a part of it also comes from the threshold where you can afford a team of personal financial advisors and some lawyers for wealth management.

The masses have to pay taxes but i've met plenty of wealthy people that reach this "escape velocity" when they can afford people to setup intricate schemes to absolutely minimise taxes, then their money become almost autonomous as other people are constantly working on increasing their small cut of it while you are doing very little.

So while most countries have some progressive tax system on the surface, this only penalises "new money", the middle classes and the naive or inexperienced founders - the really rich pay less than everyone else, so there is in effect a regressive tax system globally favouring old money or people well connected to the law and financial complexes.

A good example of these gates to the upper classes, at least in EU, is from a fundamental level like early tax brackets, because if any regular person "hits it big" in some way, a lot of the money will disappear into taxes and bureaucratic mazes, favouring the workers who average out their pay over many years staying in lower brackets or rich people who'd just put the money into a company or fund.

So the "system" really doesn't like people entering the upper echelons and will do everything to siphon your money before this escape velocity.
Cell towers need power too.
This feels like the tech equivalent of tax avoidance.

If too many people do this - AWS will "just close the loophole".

There's not one AWS - there are probably dozens if not hundreds of AWS - each with their own KPIs. One wants to reduce your spend - but not tell you how to really reduce your spend.

If you make something complex enough (AWS) - it will be impossible for customers to optimize in any one factor - as everything is complected together.
You're looking at it wrong. We can't change the laws of physics, but we can change society. That's the practical difference.
Sounds neat but its really expensive and will never get pictures as good as a real camera despite costing as much. You can also just use Merlin on your phone.
>> I've heard the horror stories about games industry conditions

Yes, they are unfortunately true more often than not. My suggestion is to leverage your prior Game Dev related profile/experience to get into lower level of graphics tools stack (sorry that didn't come through). These exist in semi and FAANG's (but be prepared to play a bit of the leetcode game as well). Just check F and fruit company with 3D Graphics as keyword!
Inequality decreases inflation because rich don't spend much of their earnings, unlike middle class and especially poor.

See: decade of QE -> no inflation; some modest amounts of cash given to the poor as covid checks -> massive inflation.

THAT is the only problem with inequality i can see: it reduces economic growth because it decreases spending in the economy. If we can somehow trick the rich into spending same proportion of their income as the middle class does (that is, simply explain them that there's nothing shameful about megayachts/private jets/private armies in the 3rd world/crazy longshot startups/islands full of hookers), things will get back in balance.
Honestly that's the sad story behind drm in a nutshell. Pirates get a better product.
one word. kickbacks.

in india this was and is present on every level but now the government is moving towards e-tendering on a B2G model where a govt official can buy a chair from anywhere in the country or a float a tender and bidders would participate from anywhere.

on a smaller scale things are back to old days with kickbacks and favoritism but lets say a govt contract to manage a website, well there will be competition.

Now, i have worked with govt departments who float these tenders and many tenders which are to be given to a particular person often are given requirements taht only the intended person has and no one else.

on paper it would look like only 1 person was eligible but in reality the tender itself was made according to the wishes and situaion of the contractor
Here in (somewhat) rural New York the power goes out for a couple hours at least a few times per year. Sometimes up to 6 hours.

In my town most people have propane (or gas) generators to compensate.
Through my three year old son I've discovered the concept of Fumikiri channels on YouTube in which railway crossing signs not only protect railway crossings, but have families, go to restaurants, etc. It's a subgenre of train videos we never realised we needed.
As a society we should aim for everyone having this thing. The best state is for everybody to be idle because they all own enough capital not to have to work.

Besides, preventing this outcome is silly unless there is solid evidence that the alternative is more economically efficient. Jeff Bezos being rich doesn't diminish the quality of my life in any way. Same for all the other wealthy folk.
I thought meaning was pretty clear in OP but I can't understand what you're saying/asking. Perceived weakness entices aggressors of course, unless you think it's normal that states are picking fights they know they will lose. Rather than asking for citations of simple logical conclusions it might be better to try and throw out your idea of decent counterexamples.

Like, you might say Hamas isn't fighting because of perceived weakness, and in a sense they know they will lose. You can explain this in the perceived weakness framework only if the real war is a PR war where you hope to get allies for the shooting war.
For a change let's talk about uniform charging cable.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-30/elon-musk...

paper gains paper losses
We cannot pause the world and wait until we fix emissions
Sounds like a cool dad.
Really? I would say most rural places, if have a power issue, won't get it resolved in one hour...
> Of course, this is Oregon, so "storm" here is what some people
would probably consider "somewhat windy", and "winter" here means that
the temperature is approaching -10°C.

Hehe, I hope though his time estimate is not correct? Still baffled that certain power strategies and gas dependencies of certain other countries were not too long ago heavily discussed and criticized as the end, with people soon to be dying and freezing (just very theoretically, as this never manifested), largely by not involved US citizens, while these outages seem to be the norm and quite kind of accepted in the US nowadays? Wrong impression, likely very different?
There’s no real capital gains. You’d always be taxed the fictitious amount, whether or not you made more or less, or even lost money. But they are planning to change it because it was unfair to people who just put their wealth in their checking account and were being taxed as if they invested it.
> I totally fail to understand why this is a polarizing issue as 99.5% of people are on the same side of the threshold...

Because one day it could be you on the other side. You’re gonna pull yerself by your bootstraps and are totally going to become one those filthy rich people. Everyone can make it in America. All you need is hard work and country music. You wouldn’t want to tax your soon-to-be fellow rich men, now would you? What are you, a commie? A socialist? Why, one day that could be yourself you’re taxing there, buddy. Take the government’s filthy hands out of your money. Yeehaw!
No great surprise there.

Orders/renewals for Symantec products were effectively impossible for about 18 months following their Broadcom experience.

IIRC, in the end they just gave everyone a 1-year subscription extension.

Edit: Ooops - that gets a mention at the bottom of the linked article...
Exactly. I used to plug in my earphones into the mic socket to use as a microphone when I didn't have one around.
>I totally fail to understand why this is a polarizing issue as 99.5% of people are on the same side of the threshold...

Because 99.5% of the people are not on the same side. There is a class of bureaucrats and military that benefits from this status quo. It's currently happy, as it can easily stage a coup. (most billionaires are old people). The money is going to the right people; the reality is that 60-70% of the world population is disposable. In the US, 40% are already inactive. 20-30% are probably holding jobs that we can live without. Most of the other 30-40% could be out sourced though the "elites" are now re-thinking that because they can't trust off-shore stuff like before.

But that's the US, a developed country. The rest of the world is poor and useless and no one is quite interested in doing anything about it. (Except for China, though they are a bit obsessed about control to the detriment of their goals).
The IDs are arbitrary and chosen by the author.

Outside the secure context they had the information to select which (arbitrary) ID they wanted to pass into the secure context. So they call `random()` until they know the next call to it will produce the desired ID. Then they pass control to the secure context which calls `random()` and uses the result as a the ID to lookup what action to take in the same arbitary ID<->action mapping table.
Then again, I think the opposite is (at this moment) equally unfalsifiable. Humans have on average 86 billion neurons, sperm whales have bigger brains and their average neuron count is 200 billion. African elephants have 257 billion neurons. There are some reasons to believe we are kind of special.
RAM upgrade was always the first thing to do back in the day, and my personal computers all have expansion slots. But when I’m involved choosing new computers at my work, I’m struck by how many are not upgradable.
So people who work all the time increase their worth, while people who don't work actually lose wealth? I'm quite surprised
Everything in the universe is composed of atoms, therefore nature doesn't exist, the term doesn't mean anything. What are humans but a collection of atoms?

And yet, despite nature being composed of atoms, we can speak of nature. We can speak of humanity, despite humans being primates, and we can speak of civilization, despite other primates not being capable of civilization. Language is merely breathing and moving the tongue, yet choking is not language. Water is not hydrogen peroxide despite both being composed of hydrogen and oxygen.

Not every reductio ad absurdum argument succeeds in disproving the value of the abstraction it seeks to deconstruct. All social constructs are not natural constructs in the sense that "natural" is being employed here. Capitalism is not defined by the laws of physics. Animals don't practice capitalism. Capitalism is a "natural construct" in that we humans are biological entities and therefore a part of nature, but capitalism is not a natural construct in the sense that it is defined entirely by physical law or immutable biological instinct. The context matters.

These terms do have meaning. The fact that you can attempt an argument based on their semantics, which differs from simply pounding random letters on the keyboard, demonstrates that they have meaning.
Seems to work now.

Here's what I emailed you - putting it here as all general advice that might be useful.

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First impressions are that for 13 years experience you CV is a bit short. I would not be concerned about letting your CV go onto multiple pages, there's nothing wrong with a long CV when you have sufficient experience to fill the space.

You don't have anything about who you are on the CV - just a few paragraphs to give the reader a broad brush about what it is you do and what you are bringing to the table can really help.

For each company I generally include something brief about what the company (or the part of the company I'm working in) does - you want the reader to think "That's an interesting business - I bet this guy learnt a thing or two there". People are trying to pattern match against what they are looking for. So anything you can do that will trigger thoughts like "I bet this guy has seen the same problems we have" or "We're going to hit similar things to what this guy has seen" etc..

What's the impact what you've done had on the business and users? For example the recent work you've done sounds like pretty important stuff - rather than listing it as a bunch of technical achievements try and reframe it as impacts on the business and users. E.g.

"Created a set of user friendly administration tools for trial staff that allowed them to easily monitor participants’ progress, and generate statistical data. This allowed them to focus on blah blah blah blah..."

Think about why you were hired for each role - what is it about you that made them pick you and then try and express that in the CV along with how you met those needs. e.g. in the recent University job you were probably hired because of your expertise in software engineering and you probably brought a lot of experience to the role on how to leverage technology to get the job done.

I always try and remember that the person doing the initial read of the CV is not going to be technical - you need to get someone excited about the problems you can solve in the business.

Everyone has a list of technologies they've used on their CV - so you need to stand out from them.
> As someone who was born on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain

Why is there still a need to start responses in such a cliche manner. As someone who was also born there ... who cares

> I can assure you capitalism, freedom and democracy

Capitalism, freedom, and democracy are all seperate concepts. Capitalism seeks to maximize capital at the expense of labour time. Freedom mens nothing if you dont have the time (eaten up by labour) and capital to enjoy it. Democracy means nothing if you dont have time to be educated about policies you vote for (we have objective mass media for that). Anyway, if you want a more extreme example of freedom and democracy not equal capitalism just look at Russia and China
> As a society, we should prevent "escape capital" to be a thing.

Why, though? You always hear people say that one person having too much wealth is a problem but rarely hear a good reason. Just because one person is richer, does not mean another is poorer. Wealth is not a limited pie where everyone only gets one piece of it. Wealth is created. If one person's ideas and actions brings up the standard of living for everyone else, I'm fine with that person having more wealth.
Oxfam carefully picked the dates they used to make the gain as large as possible. They used November 2023 compared to March 2020. What happened in March of 2020? The stock market dropped from 3380 (Feb 10) to 2304 (March 16). For the end date, if they had used Oct 30 instead of November, the S&P was at 4358. The Using the numbers I just gave, the gain would only be 29%, not 114%. That's a huge difference. (As you probably suspect, I also carefully picked the dates I used to minimize the gain.)
A right-wing guy who grew up in poverty and thinks there's an elite conspiracy by the rich to keep the poor in their place?

And his message is that all you need to do to be successful is work hard. But the elite forces are using their privilege to systematically exclude him because they would "prefer him to talk about how luck, systemic forces, privilege" and so have blocked his success despite his hard work?

Well, isn't that ironic?
Home can read/write previously created Bitlocker protected drives. On systems that have proper modern standby/tpm (mainly laptops) it also supports whole disk encryption.
> article is effectively cherry-picking the people who've done the best in terms of wealth

Well yes, but that's the point of the article. The systems we have in place allow for, and ensure, insane wealth concentration in a few people. It doesn't matter who they are or if they change.
Get a Windows 11 development environment
You don’t suspend bizops because you’re selling a business.

That sounds like a great way to cause your biz to not sell at all.
...and some people use them to describe things you can't touch (ba dum tss)
The point is to reach mass media.
There is a case to be made to not install all updates as soon as they are available.
> Like how is zuckerberg hoarding

Buying up 500 acres of native land in Hawaii for a start.

not sharing meta's wealth w employees, supporting Thiel and Bannon, and Cambridge Analytica.

Massive layoffs.
>War is avoided if one party is so strong that an attack is futile.

Did you mean to write 'if both parties are so strong an attack is futile'? A stronger party can always attack a weaker party if it feels it has more to gain than lose by doing so. The US was briefly the only party in a position to do that, but there's clearly an interest by regional powers to expand their territory. I see the invasion of Ukraine as an excellent example of that.

In that light, supporting an insurgency against economic rivals seems like a pretty decent strategy - done well it can make the cost of invading a weaker rival unpalatable on all sides, without contributing to the praetorian guard problem.

The trouble I think becomes, it's possible to pull the smaller party's backers into a situation where it can be an avenue to wage economic war against them. The petrodollar is essentially over at this point, in large part because of how the Ukraine war shaped out. Supporting the smaller side in an asymmetric war is traditionally more capital efficient than being the larger party, but that isn't obviously the case in Ukraine. I'm definitely watching this space.
He does a lot of builds during the merge process on some Threadripper machine.
Future? Is this sarcasm?
Anyone know of any sql management server / GUI software that use AI and your db schema (no data) to aid in SQL generation?

I use SQLStudio on a mac, which I love but sadly, no AI
Tell HN: HMD Global might not be the exclusive licensee of Nokia phones anymore
I monitored the Nokia Website for security advisories and noticed, that they changed their footer on the website from before HMD Global as "exclusive Licensee for Phones and Tablets" to "a Licensee for Phones and Tablets".
Here is a simple yardstick to find out what optimal Gini index is: same as Gini index of tinder likes. Because that's an objective rating of how intrinsically unequal people really are.

Income distribution in all developed countries is far cry from Tinder distribution. Interestingly, asset distribution is somewhere close. Maybe because it has less social impact and is thus subject to much less political manipulation.
> What does the government do with 100bn in tax revenue? Would they spend it better than Zuckerberg?

I don't think they'd spend it on macadamia nuts for wagyu cows, that's for sure.

Your government is supposed to be elected democratically, so you have some say over it.

Also, the 100bn doesn't even need to be an extra, taxes on other things/ppl could be lowered to have the exact same tax income.
Sorry you got offended, that wasn't my intention. Pointing out inaccuracies is not aggressive, and in this case, I was reinforcing your claim, by saying USB2 is not only capable of tens of audio channels, but hundreds.

I was just adding context, and I'm happy you provided even more. 32/384 is indeed at the extreme top of digital audio signals, beyond what many people consider to be useful. Even in such cases, USB2 can still do the job, but most modern devices will use USB3 or Thunderbolt, simply to avoid issues and ensure enough headroom on the digital bus.
> brief power outage

> typically able to resolve this kind of issue within ~10 days time

We seem to have a different opinion on what constitutes a "brief" power outage. I live in a third-world country, and 24 hours is already a long power outage.
On-paper military strength is often not decisive. The Viet-Cong and the Taliban showed they had a stronger will to fight than the US, despite their lopsided military inferiority. Usually that applies more in a defensive context, but not always.
"(At any rate: Raspberry Pis have always just been bare boards, not complete systems.)"

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/
Most things will emit light in infrared and above if you put enough amps through them...
No, your actual gain in capital would not be taxed. The only thing that is being taxed is the "fictitious" gain on the monetary value of your capital at a certain date (peildatum).

Everyone agrees that this system is dumb as shit, but our tax department is too incompetent to implement a sane capital gain tax like they have in, for example. Australia.
Also to the other side ...

Most people are doomed to live from paycheck to paycheck. There is no room for improvement or optimization.

Once you have your yearly needs on a bank account and more to come plus enough time you can invest in random ideas when they come, buy things in bulk and safe a lot of money or go for the expensive thing to safe money in long term.

Basically there is a 'point poor' where you are doomed to stay poor, where you have to little to change anything about it.
I'd like to give a shout out to SaskPower and SaskEnergy, the crown companies that responsible for electricity and power in Saskatchewan. They're not perfect, and it's easy to gripe about them, but on the whole I'm very happy with the service we receive.

Also see SGI for auto insurance and SaskTel. We pay less for better service than anywhere else in Canada.
Imagine you found a bug in your codebase. For the sake of the example, let's say that every 100th uploaded file gets deleted forever.

The questions you are posing are mostly the equivalent of asking "but what if someone was using this feature as their Recycling bin? How will the time spent fixing it fit within the project's budget? And what if the developer who committed that code leaves the company because he doesn't like being told he writes faulty code?"

The answer to those questions, of course, is "somehow". And maybe not all hours will be properly budgeted. But any mildly reasonable efforts towards fixing the obvious problem that's causing real harm to your users right now is better than opening a committee to discuss a framework for fixing integrity-related bugs in a proactive manner.
It comes up frequently in several fields and on the East Coast. There’s an entire layer of our economy and government that all but requires the right college to be on your resume.
Just because you frame Git to be a certain way, doesn't mean I agree with it.

Define Git for me then please. Obviously we're using very different tools. Git itself, for me, manages diffs (or rather refs of diffs) as a tree. Branches are pointers. That's it.

/e: and why on earth is it an algebra about publishing? As I said before, imho it's not about publishing, but about tracking. Publishing is just an aspect.
Explains why previously dormant terrorists groups like Hamas and ISIS have suddenly been re-activated since Russia invaded Ukraine and why concerned world leaders keep making ridiculously reckless comments geared towards incitement of potential military conflict.