skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It comes and goes; it was also big in the late 90s.
I hate those -- they instantly make me nauseous.
> You boss gives you a deadline for a feature which is treated an non-negotiable so you cut corners to get it out. Your boss can't 'see' security vulnerabilities, but can see a UI. So you get told "good job" and then get given the next unachievable deadline.

If only that happened only in SK.

It definitely happens in the west too. Maybe its worse in SK because of the culture, but its definitely not unique. The problem of the boss or the customer seeing the UI but not security issues is universal.
My experience was that rental companies do the same thing for a lease. I paid for one more than once when leasing a house
I have one that's even worse than that. The company I worked at once insisted on you keeping a timesheet for work done and which clients should be billed for each 15 minute block. They charged the clients according to that. They even went as far as charging other internal teams for your time if you had a chat with a colleague in another team!

If you, however, had any unaccounted for blocks (i.e. not 8h per day), it'd be brought up in your appraisal, and on one occasion when we were told we had to work overtime one evening (about 4 hours) but wouldn't be paid for it, that's when my feelings towards their policy really shifted. From that point on, even if I'd worked late to get the work done for the customer, I made sure that the timesheet only listed the 8 hours so that the company wasn't going to profit from my misfortune. They picked up on that too, and weren't happy, but there was nothing they could do about it.

That culture was truly toxic as an employee. If you were a couple of minutes late for the start of the day, you were hauled into your manager's office for a 10 minute shouting at about the importance of time keeping. There was an unofficial "flexitime" working policy - "you can start any time you like before 9 and end any time you like after 5:30". Obviously, anyone who'd been there more than a year grew tired of this, and at 5:30 every day there was a stampede to leave the office. Nobody left even a minute early because we had timestamped entry/exit logs and we knew the consequences, but equally almost nobody was prepared to stay a minute longer than they had to.
Last time I looked at the amortization schedule for a 30 year fixed mortgage the payback was about 250% of the loan amount.

No other figures are consequential. Mortgages are a predatory thing pointed at the financially illiterate and the hopeless right now.
Any metaphysical framing of ‘why existence’ is a bit of a stretch and can never be proved or disproved. I’ve also wondered whether a logical atheist would care if they were logical considering time is zero sum :) Also, these ideas are harder to grok in the modern mindset of reductionism (also unprovable), but this conception of God and being is millenia old.
Even if they had wanted to, it would not have been possible, as the required fuel rods could not simply be ordered.
The operators were therefore also against continued operation
Bloomberg Terminal is a hardware/software dynamic duo!
Reuters and Dow Jones have competitive packages too.

Other software in finance:

kdb, for time-series analytics [0].

AmiBroker - amazing tech analysis package, and AmiBroker Formula Language (AFL - found this because I like J and APL), an array-based PL with debugger built-in to the AmiBroker platform. Fast [1].

I have been programming since 1978 starting on a Commodore PET 2001, but I saw computers and programming as tools. I was studying neural nets and genetic algorithms in the early 90s. I gravitated to lean, simple and easy software, but somehow every software I use just seems so bloated, in-your-face, inefficient, that I have chosen simple tools to use now. I keep a J interpreter open on my desktop along with Frink as more-than-desktop calculators. I use a Home edition of Mathematica, the orginal notebook interface, that has so much curated data and built-in functions that what was once complicated is now a great ecosystem to do math, analysis, reports, engineering, etc. And, yes, Excel, no matter how much it is disparaged by programmers. I gave up Inventor and other CAD programs for Alibre Design (yes, I have SolveSpace on my toolbar for fun!). I am so glad I steered clear of IT/SW engineering/etc. after speaking to many in all parts of the industry. The tool is their job, not the thing the tool does.

PS: I have run hundred-million-dollar construction jobs in SE Asia and MENA using WhatsApp in the field from my Samsung Note to annotate drawings, photos, etc. even though Slack and high-end PM programs were back in the office.

[0] https://kx.com/products/kdb/

[1] https://www.amibroker.com/
Wow. That really comes across as egotistical, self-aggrandising and belittling the prospect all at once. Bonus points for being long-winded and repetitive. If I were sent that prior to a meeting, I’d take my business somewhere else.
> First they simply use less power than before.

That's the effect of strangling their heavy industry via higher energy prices.
The ridiculous thing is that the FICO score is so focused on commercial profitability rather than risk. You get lower score if you as a consumer optimise your cost of credit, price shopping/taking advantage of new rates/offers… it’s really a credit and likely profitability score
I wonder how big the binary would be on a 1987 Amiga 500 would be then
Is it gonna be good enough for Tesla to own and insure-for liability?
Coppie: Rewrite content using 232 copywriting formulas with ChatGPT
Nickel is a replacement for the Nix programming language
Indeed, some big, rare and once costly things are just too cumbersome to have a huge market.

Who has the space to store an antique mainframe?

Same thing happens in other markets, industrial grade 12 foot bed CNC lathes can be picked up for similar prices to small hobby machines. Great deal if you have a spare barn, 3 phase power and the logistics to move it. Not many do!
Once you accept the idea that you're going to run SQL on the browser, the forces are going to inevitably pull you to having an entire DB engine in the browser anyhow. You're going to need the entire query parser, enough of the IO code to be able to read the DB (which is a lot of it), you're going to want the optimizer, you're going to need RPC to send the SQL and read the results... yes, there is certainly some stuff you can trim, but it's not like it's a horrible idea.

So even if someone, say, started a startup with the idea "I'm going to present an MVP of an in-browser DB engine people can use", in 5-10 years it'd be a nearly fully-fledged DB anyhow.
I don't shift goal post, I'm answering to:

> is nightmare fuel I didn't need to have in my life :(
Oh it ended up owned by Porsch? So confusing. I remember the short squeeze, but usually I don't follow this stuff.

I wasn't really quoting $58B as the price Apple would pay - just an indicator of the size of VW. But probably the wrong one I guess?

I know that a merger doesn't involve paying the market cap. It's more about convincing the shareholders that their final shares in the merged company would be worth more than the sum of whatever shares they have in each part. If it's legally structured as an acquisition, the purchase price is a bit of a fiction.
Sorry, I was confused trying to decipher exactly what was going on. I apologize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

There's always Elite, a whole space sim game in 1984
I think 20% is easily believable. LLM may not do more complex functions or work with your data, but a lot of the busywork of coding is done almost instantly. Just not having to look through library docs or sort through StackOverflow is already worth 10%.

I don't think LLM will replace software engineers anytime soon, as a whole, but removing the need for the bottom 10% is not a stretch at all. That has massive implications for salary, imo, except for the top end.
I'm not sure how many times we're going to re-learn this lesson:

* You cannot regulate a monopoly into good behavior. Recent example: Apple.

* You must destroy it.

All of these regulatory bureaus are a waste of time. Let the FTC loose like a Mantura.
Which company would you trust to build and operate an nuclear power plant without putting profit over security?
It seems hard to evaluate that in isolation. They’ve been planning on shuttering their nuclear plants for the last 20 years or so, right? Would they have invested as much in renewables if that wasn’t the plan?
That's it, a very clear formulation. As a teacher, that describes my experience precisely. I am willing to bet it describes all other high-burnout professions.
There are also some data lakes (though I have not really worked with any) that are homegrown and consist of smallish parquet files in a blob store; they might have several databases looking at them at any given time, and an embedded browser DB provides a frontend that is easier to stand up and auth against in some ways.

There may not be a reporting DB available to send queries to, in the traditional sense.
Yes, but the reason they say to do all the inquires around the same time is b/c many inquires spread out is a negative signal. It can mean that banks are turning a borrower down for whatever reason so they are now looking for a bank to take on the risk.
On the other hand nuclear was just 6% of the energy mix in its last year.

On the other hand Germany is aiming to building out 13 GW of solar in just 2024 (capacity factors non-withstanding).
With Elon, these types of massive changes are always just a year or two away and somehow never come or are not delivered as promised. They're bullish because it makes the stock price go up.
Further, if we engage with the likely meaning here, I would also pose the question: why do we need to promote a “lifestyle” at all.

If being straight is an inherent trait that isn’t a choice, surely promotion is pointless. If it is a choice then the question still stands. If sexual orientation is chosen, what difference would it make what someone chooses in the first place? They have a right to determine that for themselves.

But of course sexual orientation isn’t a choice, so promoting heterosexuality seems like it would be little more than a “the majority of us exist!” marketing campaign. Which seems bizarre to me.
This is absolutely amazing! Did you get permission to do this or did you have to tip the guards there?

I wish I saw something like this before going in. For those that don't know, guides aren't allowed into the tombs. So you kinda just wander around, don't understand anything (if you're me) and take some photos to try and ask the guide later what they mean.

Depending on your guide, all their answers might be bullshit and you'll end up googling later.

Edit: Just spent far too long clicking through all the tours available on your site, absolutely amazing. Really feels like I'm back in Egypt.
All that means is that electron is bloated
In the US, it's unrealistic to assume there's a canonical federal database which tracks every potential title complication including property tax liens at the local level. In my case, I had a (resolved) issue where the property/house I was buying was a subdivided larger property with an agricultural lien (for an apple orchard) that hadn't been lifted yet.

Titles have a lot of opportunities for complications in many places; there's no simple technology fix.

The insurance is annoying but it's an area that has the potential for really expensive issues.
More than 100k websites targeted in web supply chain attack
thanks! ya I think it will be more compelling when I add UI/visuals
I think it is a major shift in drug policy in Brazil
Interesting.

I guess with renewables, their growth can be a lot faster than nuclear because building nuclear power plants is a massive centralized undertaking, where as renewables, especially solar, is nimble and incrementally deployable.

So while nuclear seems good, it is logistically a nightmare and it is inflexible.

Where as renewables is decentralized and nimble.

I hadn't thought about it that way before.
There are plenty of indirect reasons to working hard. You are theoretically less likely to be fired. You gain a solid reputation among colleagues. You get better at the job which make is easier to get hired elsewhere. Also your conscience plays into it. You feel guilty if you slack off. And there is ego, people want to be the best, or at least not the worst.
You should switch immediately. The underrated piece is how much friendlier squishy shoes are on your joints and muscles. I have pretty good form and modern shoes still decrease my recovery time by like 1/3 compared to minimal ones.
Any of them? Coal is far more dangerous to human health and life than nuclear.

Pick your quasi-legitimate source, but they all agree that coal is ~10X more deadly than nuclear.

> Coal-fired energy chains are estimated to cause 12 times more deaths per gigawatt-ampere-year than nuclear energy chains, and coal is estimated to cause 820% more deaths per terawatt-hour of electricity produced than nuclear
In those cases where the government handles recording all transfer, there is typically a fund which covers loss due to fraudulent or erroneous transfers. Thus there is still title insurance, it's just hidden from view.
Post WWII, interdependence between European nations has generally been considered good for national security.
Also tons of coal power from Poland.

But that's the beauty of climate activism: As long as the emissions are happening somewhere else they don't count.

You kill your own industry and just import everything from China, where they use dirt cheap and very dirty energy from brown coal, but, hey, it does not count towards our carbon footprint.
> If nuclear was kept around, would its capacity allow for fossil fuels to be reduced more?

No. Germany is not even using its full potential for electrical energy at the moment.

> Nuclear was previously providing 22 GW (2022) to 20 GW (2010) of power, down to 12.1 GW (2011), then 8 (2019): currently (2023) lignite is outputing 18.6 GW of power, and hard coal is providing 18.9 GW.

Those numbers are irrelevant, they are not telling the usage. You can't freely replace one energy-source with some other. You need to look at the application and which energy-form it can use. And in Germany, the big historical problem is that the conversion to electrical applications was slow.
AI researchers run LLMs at lightbulb-esque 13 watts without loss in performance
It doesn't really matter as long as they can deliver what you ordered. Which you have to check regardless. So it's the skill of the buyer that decides the result.
30 TWh nuclear, replaced by 30 TWh renewables, from the article.
> is the interface also horrendously slow in yours

Yes. But I consider this to be the least of its problems — if it were slow, but actually worked, I'd be OK with it. The problem is that it is quite simply broken in a number of ways.

It looks as if no management at VW ever used the car. It should be mandatory for management to use any new car design as their home/family car for a month or so. I'd imagine some problems would be fixed in no time. Things like the car forgetting charging settings, the car being unable to link driver profiles to key fobs (!) and distinguish between drivers, the fact that some settings are per-driver, while others are per-car, or the fact that the phone app doesn't display any useful information, especially if you have two drivers. I mean, I could go on and on. It's mind-boggling that software of this quality has ever been released.
Does duckdb work with delta files?
> Let the FTC loose like a Mantura.

The wind instrument?
But infinite scrolling never worked properly on browsers. With infinite scrolling, it just forgets everything once you navigate out of the page. To resume from where you were, you have to scroll and scroll and scroll and load the results all over again. Even if you were a single page away when you hit the back button. I've now been conditioned to open almost every link in a new tab because of this and it drives me crazy. This and the fact that going a back a page is so slow nowadays for whatever reason.
Compromising informants working for a foreign government invading another foreign land is not a crime, nor much of a moral dilemma.

The risk inherent to collaborationism is also not one anyone but the informant must account for. Just as mercenaries operate in that same high-risk-reward / low-solidarity space, and accordingly join the cast of characters in war zones along with spies and informants without international sympathy.
Oh for sure, there needs to be a central authority to look after the commons. It's whoever controls that area, be it the federal/state/local government, or more traditionally the local lord or the king or whoever.
Reducing fossil fuel is a good thing for the climate, hence for humanity. This will help to avoid very costly consequences. So the fact that germans pay their electricity costlier should be seen as an investment.

And electricity is now sold by private companies. Let's change that to make prices lower.
Yeah sure, they helped one year out of the last 30 years where they've been importing from France. Good for them for that year.
That's actually false. Germany increasing their ability to import electricity from their neighbouring european countries is good for their national security, because it reduces their dependence on fossil fuels from Russia, the USA and the middle east, shifting those dependencies from rivals to their closest allies, and members of the same super-state union.

The more electrified Europe becomes, the less reliant they are on fuels imported from rivals outside the EU.

Besides, climate change is *also* a gigantic national security risk, more pressing than any regional rivalry.
If memory serves, devs were pretty upset when Jobs killed it. Think there is even a video on YT where one dev gives Jobs a mouthful. Using it, I can see why. It was an internet precursor.
That's net zero on carbon dioxide. The carbon comes out of the air, goes back in. I don't see what the big deal is. One of us has some confusion somewhere.
> No, I believe my cognition on this matter can be flawed. That's why the qualifiers "would probably be", "apparently", and "parts of".

Did you properly qualify each statement in your broader text?

Are you familiar with the terms "rhetoric", "interpretation", "reductionism", "perception", "misinformation", "Meme Magic", "emergence"? Do you think they may have some causal relevance to the (possible/alleged) "technical correctness" of your statements?

Do you think it is possible that speaking out in this manner/style may have non-trivial (which could range from "bad" to "extremely bad") negative effects on the overall system (which I think is at least part of your concern with the behavior of MAGA people)?

> But I agree with kome's response.

If that's the case, would you be willing to answer the questions I asked of kome?
Revenue makes up for many sins. And increasing revenue means you don’t need to be as paranoid to never make any mistakes.

Everyone knows this, which is why it’s actually really hard to always have increasing revenue, especially increasing faster than costs.
Twenty or so years ago Experian and FairIsaac were paid by USAID to help build credit bureau infrastructure in Kazakhstan.
USAID also paid their legal departments to help draft a law which would govern the whole process.
And guess what, in the result we got much fairer, more efficient, far more future-proof infra than the US has today.

Gov licenses credit bureaus and runs its own one.
Banks must report to all licensed bureaus and may choose which bureau to pull reports from. This means a report from any bureau is as good as from any other one.

Having a gov player in the market effectively creates a price ceiling, so a private bureau has to sell data for less than the government-run bureau.
Private bureau has to keep innovating to justify its existence and thus keep creating new products which predict creditworthiness better and better.
Credit report includes all the raw information, so banks are free to compute their own score and are not bound to anything stupidly archaic and awkward such as US FICO score, don't need to rely on any external score at all.
It is the XXI century, computing a credit decision out of a few hundred datapoints takes milliseconds, costs nothing.
So gov-run bureau sees a fraction of a % of the load yet effectively moderates the whole market.
The largest private bureau is owned by banks (like VISA used to be) and thus is working in the best interests of the banks.

Many (if not all) problems we see in the US financial sector are the result of regulatory and legislative negligence. Just some lazy folks trying to run things the way there were in the 80es.
I've had no issues with FB even with 2FA enabled.
IG is a different matter.

IG suspended my account for violations of ToS for my posts.
The problem here is I don't post on IG.
I just used the account because sometimes you are forced to find stuff there, that is no place else. I logged into to look at something then was told of my supposed transgressions, without being told what they were exactly (FB has the same fluid Community Standards where they don't tell you what rule you broke and logged me out).

IG gave me 90 days to appeal.

The problem is I had 2FA on IG using Texting (not my choice that is all they had when I set up the account) and they never actually sent any texts to allow me to login to appeal. Which I could not do.
They permanently suspended the account at the 90 day mark.

I've seen many other people complaining that IG 2FA doesn't work.
No one at IG/Meta cares.
Other EU member countries are running their own NPPs just fine. Sounds like a problem with lack of motivation.
State level initiative and referenda processes.
> only cater to rich people" is simply not sustainable at a wider scale.

People have been saying this about Carmel since the mid 1990s.

What is going on is sustainable as long as long-term economic growth is positive. Growth is the key... along with making sure that incentives and bond maturity are managed correctly.

edit: To be fair, Carmel is mostly middle class.
The language was largely phonetic, meaning words were spelled the way they sounded. This fact is my fav
Would probably have been faster if it wasn't for all the NIMBYs.
> Those numbers are irrelevant, they are not telling the usage.

Edit post to note capacity versus output:

* nuclear was providing 150 TWh at its peak (~2004)

* coal is currently providing 120 TWh

So nuclear could have covered all the output of coal, and then some.

* https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
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Moreover, DuckDB isn't exactly a “full-scale” DB in the sense that someone would think about Postgres/MySQL. It is an embedded database more like sqlite that happens to be good for analytical workloads. It doesn't have to worry about things like HA, user auth, network wire formats, etc. that a usual “full-scale” DB would.
In comparison to what people expect from "singularity", there's been basically 0 change of climate.
I think the real problem is that MS can cross-subsidize its Office bundles.

I doubt the price covers the costs, especially after they added Teams.

Kill the competition, raise the price. G-MAFIA/FAANG playbook
Of course, in ethics, you have to consider the situation where everyone has your mindset to determine whether it is bad.

Everyone thinking ‘sucker’ to those who work well reminds me of what it’s like to interact with many government institutions.

In that framing, the mindset might (probably) be unethical.