skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wealthy foreigners bring money from the outside into Portugal, so they are net positive. And not only money, but also knowledge, culture and diversity. Local restaurants are happy, local landlords are very happy, who is not happy is local renters. Maybe the tax should be imposed on the landlords' windfall profits instead?
Why? For real.
After exiting Microsoft’s Azure last month, Ola has now fully exited Google maps, moving to its in-house Ola maps, founder-CEO, Bhavish Aggarwal has said in a post on X.

He said that the company used to spend `100 crore a year on Google maps, which they have made zero by this move to in-house Ola maps.

Aggarwal said that Ola Cabs will see a number of features in the coming months, which include street view, neural radiance fields (NERFs), indoor images, 3D maps and drone maps, among others.
> Why even use SFTP?

Because that is the infrastructure they have, what their current arrangements support. We can offer a number of other methods, but if their other systems don't support than and they don't want to pay for upgrades, SFTP it is. Not that I have anything against gobs of data arriving via SFTP for cleaning and importing¹ – it is tried & tested, reliable, and if both sides have a clue² it is easy & pain free. Much the same set of reasons they still want to send us CSV formatted data, often Win1252 encoded rather than UTF8, not JSON or something else better defined.

> Just have them upload blobs to S3 or Azure Storage.

The data is ending up in Azure storage in our case. But any transfer method still has identification and authentication matters to deal with, and they need to understand and their other software needs to support, the method chosen. This is why SFTP often wins by default: it is a relatively proven technique that people see as secure, and it is commonly supported.

> The security is better and both are serverless solutions that cost basically nothing at normal scale.

The cost to the client is only zero if their other systems already support it. They are very much against anything that implies extra development costs or the cost & effort of assessing and switching to newer systems.

> PS: Azure Storage is multi-protocol and supports SFTP!

SFTP support in Azure is a pretty recent addition, some time in this last year IIRC. We (well, I) had to put together our own relay arrangement some years ago: OpenSSH, appropriately locked down, with blob containers in storage accounts mounted via blobfuse). It works well, in nice cheap VMs/containers.

SFTP support in Azure works out rather expensive for our use case, or any reasonable use case IMO. It needs the hierarchical namespace enabled though that is “only” an additional $27/month per storage account, but then you need to pay for SFTP support by the hour!³⁴ Unless we constrain the clients to sending data at specific times that comes to >$200 per month, per account. We can't get away with charging our smaller clients, or the bigger ones for that matter, an extra $2,400/yr nor can we afford to eat that ourselves. See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/ for reference.

We could work around the per-account part by stuffing all the data into multiple containers in one account – but that would not fly with some of the requirements financial sector companies understandably have for data at rest, so we would never pass an audit if we did that. Many even want their live and UAT/training/other environments to have completely separate storage accounts so that is potentially more than one lot of up to $2,400 per year per client needing SFTP. And even on one account, $2,400/year to enable 24/7 availability of SFTP transfers is absolutely ridiculous.

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[1] I'd rather it be cleaned first, but that is a separate issue

[2] This part is, of course, the problem…

[3] $0.30/hour: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/storage/bl...

[4] No shit… https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/storage/blobs/secure....
> Wikipedia has well documented and explored issues related to vandalism, bias, and misinformation.

Last I read about this, the error rate in Wikipedia was actually lower than in the Encyclopedia Britannica, by a measurable amount.

This was a while back, and admittedly it only counted articles where there was an equivalent article in both (which probably gives a better picture of Wikipedia, as those kinds of “boring” articles have less vandalism…) but it’s not immediately a given that Wikipedia is just objectively bad at being accurate.
Wouldn’t creating an index for each tag cost a lot of disk space? There are hundreds (thousands?) of OSM tags. I like their approach of combining a FTS table with a normal JSON query for ad-hoc queries.
Parchment? How modern, used to be that you could simply send someone to shout your message at them.
If I can only buy the $1 bread during the day, that's an issue, as I might also be hungry at night.
For a bit of context, "Nearly one in 10 English councils expect to go bust in next year"[0]. Which means they're forced to make brutal cuts across all services. It's not necessarily that they don't like librarians.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/nearly-one-i...
I remember playing JRPGs late into the night growing up and reading GamePro magazine. Those were my first experiences reading for fun and eventually led to me reading other things, like Dostoyevsky and PKD.
That could be viewed as a piece of "late stage capitalism" but that's only one part, right? The problem with the term is it's a catch-all for any perceived problem with capitalism. Maybe that issue is just a capitalism speed bump. As I said, we won't know we're in late stage until after the collapse.
When Regulation Encourages ISPs to Hack Their Customers
...and (not to disagree, just to clarify) Introversion/Extraversion is part of the Big Five. It is well-supported scientifically and relatively stable throughout life for most people.

(I say this because I've seen a lot of people who know "MBTI is bullshit" and have misunderstood that to mean that introversion and extraversion are also bullshit, because they don't know them outside of that context.)
AFAIK India didn't have corn either. Like chilies and potatoes and a few other plants, it came from the Americas.
Top ten algorithms of science and engineering in the 20th century
It is the result of an energy dependence on Russia that has been built up over years, not due to any specific subsidiaries.
I worry that this misses the point a little. All the OOB in the world will not help you if you cannot reach the management entity (eg IP-enabled PSU, terminal server, etc). It is also insufficient to protect against second order thundering-herd-type problems (e.g.: you log in, stop a worker process, and upstream, traffic is directed away from the node to the others, and starts causing new problems).

In telco operations, every MoP should have: an unambiguous linear sequence of steps, a procedure to verify that the desired result has been achieved, and a backout plan if things do go bad. This is drilled into you at every telco I ever worked at. Rogers' cardinal sin on the day of the outage was that they didn't have a backout plan at each step of the MoP.

More structurally, networks have a dependency graph that you ignore at your peril. X depends on Y depend on Z, and so on. And yes, loops are quite possible! OOB management is an attempt to add new links to the graph that only get used in a crisis. These kind of pull-it-out-when-you-need-it solutions are fine, but have a tendency to fail just when you need them. For one, they don't get exercised enough, and two, they may have their own dependencies on the graph that are not realized until too late.

So, what would this Internet rando prescribe? First order of business is to enumerate the dependency graph. I would wager that BGP, DNS, and the identity system are at or near the very top. Notice the deadly embrace of DNS and ID: if DNS is down, ID fails.

Next, study the failure modes of the elements. In the Rogers outage, a lack of route filters crashed a core router. That's a vague word, "crashed". Are we talking core dumps and SEGVs? Are we talking response times that skyrocketed, leading to peers timing out? Rogers really need to understand that. Typically in telco networks when nodes get "congested" like this there are escape valves built into the control plane protocol, eg a response that says "please back off and retry in rand(300)". They need to have a conversation with Cisco/Juniper etc and their router gurus about this.

Finally, the telco industry (or what's left of it) needs to do some introspection about the direction it is pulling vendors. For the last 15 years, telcos have been convinced that if only that can ingest some of that sweet, sweet cloud juice, their software costs will drop, they can slash operations costs, and watch the share price go brrr. Problem is, replacing legacy systems with ones cobbled together by vendors from a patchwork of kubernetes and prayers is guaranteed not to lead to the level of reliability that telcos and their regulators expect. If I'm a Rogers' operations manager and my network dies, I don't want to hear that some dude in India has to spend the next week picking through a service mesh and experimenting with multus to decide if turning if off and on again is gonna work.
Good move, but removing self checkout in SF is annoying
Oh, that's interesting. I recall reading something years ago about how humans typically don't like brassicas because the bitterness is overwhelming. But through regular introduction the tastebuds have a form of plasticity (I forget the actual term) to them and they'll eventually overcome the bitterness.

I wonder if the "cilantro tastes like soap" is a similar phenomenon.
+1 - went to pick up a copy, but they were all checked out.
Just add batteries. It's cheap. Fleet of installed grid batteries will exceed pumped hydro in maybe 2-3 years and will keep expanding at a crazy rate after. Storage is solved.

In general, renewable electricity is solved. Energy transition problems is now about marine and air transport for which no applicable solution exists yet (ammonia is too problematic from too many angles and hydrogen stubbornly refuses to really take off).
There are multiples. SaaS boilerplate is the last get-rich-fast scheme in tech. A quick google search brings you multiple results, this one the first open source:
https://github.com/apptension/saas-boilerplate
You got it backwards. US makes it impossible for skilled migrants to come and settle down. EU countries make it much easier.
IMO YouTube embeds are a bad experience anyway, especially on mobile. Just put a poster image with a link to the actual YouTube video.
100% re early det. Some projects to look at: GRAIL, PanSeer (blood cfDNA next-gen sequencing), and several ones looking at the fragmentome. I imagine an effective solution will take the form of something like this, but cheap and convenient enough so that everyone can get it done regularly.

"cancer isn't a single disease"is often used as a thought-terminating cliche.
Curation is hard and only getting harder with the sheer amount of content produced every year. AI/ML (whatever you want to call it) should be a tool to help librarians sift through the amount of content they need curate, but not think of it as a replacement for a human.
Get the climate change activists involved. How many of these videos have to play before the wasted electricity is equivalent to a car running for a year?
Labour were in power for an unrelenting increase in house prices from 1997 to 2007.
With a turnover of over 15.7 billion euros, and a 46 percent growth increase in comparison to 2022, the energy storage sector’s expansion in Germany continues at a fast pace ...

The toal capacity of household storage devices now has reached about 6 gigawatts, roughly equal to the capacity of Germany’s pumped hydro storage installations, the association said.

~ https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/energy-storage-capacity...
Indeed. Biogas has to be used to balance wind and solar. Not to be used as a carbon-free replacement for coal. This is ridiculous.
Define "people"
The lite version still has to download the thumbnail, which is somewhere around 100-150k by itself for the 720p version. YouTube does provide smaller thumbnails you could use instead but with modern screen resolutions you probably want the big one.
James Gleick – Isaac Newton
Only one short video where the crystal is very carefully held in a single place. This doesn’t give me a good demonstration of the capabilities.

Also, looks like the object in the video (cube) is not the same as the object being sold (pendant, shows upside down image).
Portugal fully understands that.

That is why they did make that law in the first place.

The problem is what they expected was something like "highly skilled migration contributing directly or indirectly to Portugal".

But that isn't exactly how it played out, which is why they removed tax brakes. I mean think about it. Just attracting talented people to be in your country and paying some tax isn't enough. You also need to be able to capitalize on them. E.g. by them working for your companies, them creating companies in your country, them settling in your country, etc. But AFIK that didn't really happen in case of Portugal.

> any move to attract talent is seen as net-negative,

not really

moves to attract talent are very common, through often focused with different dynamic then the US

through you might confuse the sentiment with the negative sentiment wrt. people coming as refuges instead of immigrants which are often perceived as not being skilled and just taking advantage of social systems etc., the same way it's commonly the case in the US (e.g. wrt. people from Mexico). Just to be clear I say perceived, because enough refuges are quite skilled/qualified just their qualifications are often not recognized due to bureaucratic reasons

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As a side not IMHO/AFIK the huge raise on apartment rent/buy cost in Lisbon is likely _not_ majorly related to the previous tax break programs. Mainly such raises can be observed in most relevant western (and beyond) Capitals around the world, driven by the most wealthy of mainly the western world (but also beyond, e.g. Saudi Arabia) using them as money banks and very term investments. The moment many do it will (did) also drive speculative investment. Which can lead to somewhat of a looping effect. Or in other words it's a side effect of the past ~10 years of (especially western) world economics.
GL.iNet Flint 2: WiFi 6, 2.5GbE, WireGuard performance
> No, The Solution is to publicly shame Google Inc for wasting the resources.

When a different part of Google publicly shames YT devs for this exact thing (https://web.dev/articles/embed-best-practices#use_click-to-l...), you know that there's little hope for change.
Thats what twitter bots are for.
Right, but it may be a fixable problem, even under the circumstances. These token generators have vast databases at their disposal and have crawled the entire public-facing internet. They should be able to assign confidence values to their drafts/statements, and reject low-confidence drafts/statements before putting them in front of users. They could do this by fact-checking their drafts in an adversarial way.

For instance, a cursory check of isfdb.org would have given ChatGPT better information than I was provided with.
You had WORDS? How decadent.
That sounds like 10-20 million in the UK; mostly listings stop at 5 bed.

Nice if you can afford it, but most people can't.
Idea: have a demo video for mobile users. I'm sure other users will appreciate it too.
Here's another data point: today, in 2024, I see the behavior mentioned in the 2nd and 3rd links on a daily basis on multiple of my Apple devices.
Libraries end up being fairly local, so local leadership matters. There are some amazing library systems in the US, and some that are terrible like you describe.
A Rant About "Technology"
Even ignoring all the "EvilCorp spending $billions to make video games even more addictive" stuff...what else are current-day western children allowed to do, that feels like useful work, and provides short-term senses of agency / accomplishment / self-worth?

In my childhood, we were at least free to roam the neighborhood - which contained plenty of good child playmate prospects, with similar freedom. Or help dad to build & maintain our house. (I can't recall that he ever brought in an electrician / plumber / HVAC tech / whatever, even for major stuff.)

But that mid-20th-century suburban idyll was still a huge self-worth downgrade from my parents' childhoods. They did farm & domestic labor, at scale, in economic circumstances where kids being good workers was very obviously important to their family's access to food, shelter, and clothing.
The author says they don't believe that a lighter version has been shown to reduce engagement.

I, on the other hand, fully believe that.

The recommended lite-youtube-embed project page has a demo of both lite and regular players [0], and the lite version takes noticeably longer to start playing the video.

Every additional millisecond of load time will reduce engagement, and here the difference is more on the order of hundreds of milliseconds or more.

[0] https://paulirish.github.io/lite-youtube-embed/
Attack of the clones: Getting RCE in Chrome's renderer
I only objected to the fixation on taxation levels and assumption that a particular rate is morally bad as if they capture much about anything. If I wasn’t clear enough I hope I am now.
Yes, I have, as I have young children and need to raise them somewhere more humane than the US. Portugal and Spain were the options, and Spain was what we preferred after living in both.
What's the saying again? anyways, it doesn't really matter

https://unherd.com/2023/03/is-call-of-duty-a-government-psyo...

Don't skip, go back and read the article, a little snippet to grab your interest: "One scenario being considered, it continues, “involves future war with China”"
The current _green_ minister of the economy actually had them running longer than the previous conservative government had planned them to, due to the russian gas crisis. Due to them being phased out there are essentially no spare parts, personell, and fuel, at this point they are being shut down for technical, economical, and organisatory reasons[0] instead of political ones.

Also to put things into perspective, Germany deployed as much solar in the last 3 years[1] as it had in total combined nuclear capacity ever (if you sum up every reactor ever build)[2].

0: https://www.bmuv.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Download_PDF/Nuklear...

1: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/ausbau-erne...

2: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil...
This could be put more succinct: Trivial problems are trivial.

Of course you can keep splitting your teams when you are delivering a well defined product to customers. You could probably also have not split those teams. 50 people is trivial to manage, you could all meet in a room, should you have kept them geographically close. You may even have succeeded despite neutering those teams into triviality. You simply don't know.

Try doing something even slightly more complicated: Build a bridge. Or run a hospital. Or even a pension fund. Or just a software company with a lot of products. Those nice trim teams would quickly run into the brick wall of human communication.

That's the tough part of any organization. And we as a society needs to organize on large scale to get the important things done, unfortunately. Getting the easy things done is not enough.
As the other poster mentioned, going to thousands of a °C implies precision that simply isn't there. The math conversion between °F and °C gives repeating decimals, so you were already rounding. The other poster was simply pointing out that your choice of rounding was implying precision that was unwarranted. Rounding to 56.7°C would have been plenty enough to make sense (reverses back to 134.06).

I tried finding information on the precision of the DV record and couldn't, but I personally doubt it was more that hundredths of a °F. I'd love for someone to provide data on the instruments used to record that record though, for my own edification.
Fair enough, I’ve lived in Spain as well, no children though.
I would argue the problem is for all the CI systems out there at the moment, there all "stupid": i.e. none of them try to predictively spin up an environment for a dev who is committing on a branch, none of them have any notion of promoting different "grades" of CI worker (i.e. an incremental versus a pristine) and none have any support for doing something nice like "lightweight test on push".

All of this should be possible, but the innovation is just not there.
[Ed. finding these resources is left as an exercise for the reader]
It is a massive problem and all under the guise of ‘our culture’. I get it somewhat but equality won’t happen if you keep it this non equal on the basic level. I get that you learn a language when you move (I did a bunch of times), but it will never get better than my english or of course dutch (my native tongue, although I am starting to forget words after having been abroad over 20 years); all my colleagues do speak english but refuse because of culture they say. I feel this is a pretty basic issue and a massive problem.
Because it turns out your Starlink connection goes to a ground station in your city which is connected to your network which is the one that is broken. So you can't manage it through Starlink when it's broken.
Population displacement is a crime against humanity.
Don't ask me, go do your own research if you really want to learn about this. It's a complex topic.

I agree that nuclear should have it's place in a modern energy grid for the time being, but the skepticism towards renewables from nuclear proponents is also not right. It may have been justified twenty years ago, but the world is different now.

The thing is that there's isn't one answer to how to smooth out renewable production, making it harder to mentally model than a simple "just build nuclear".

I'm going to just give a few ones that you need to take together:

* You don't need pumped hydro. There's a massive yearly 650 TWh of hydro in Europe, which can serve as a "virtual battery" by using it only when other renewable sources are low. The same, to a lesser extent, is true for bio-methane.

* Electricity is just about 10% of primary energy. The other 90% contain many sources of demand that are extremely amenable to load shifting. Cars, heating, to name two massive ones.

* Short term variations in renewable output (i.e, anything shorter than seasonal) can be smoothed by batteries, eventually. Not today, but, like PV, battery cost is on a staggering exponential decline.

* The EU has an integrated grid, nuclear will continue to be used in all European countries at least indirectly through imports.

From a high level economic perspective: The low and declining cost of a kWh PV provides a massive economic incentive to solve this.
Fancy seeing you here. Can I know why you guys hate me? I remain banned from FIX and AfRA.
Well neither IBM is doing much in terms of business machines lately. They are still a second tier giant with enormous turnover. They own a few pieces of popular tech either via acquisitions or licensing agreements but none that came from within the business. Nobody in the industry particularly cares what they're up to.