skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are indeed similar situations, but your examples except the first one do not come from the article. So it is not clear why do you assume that everyone did not read beyond the headline.
Clock time is not one metric. The metric I care about more, as a users of a car, bike, rental scooter, bus, and subway, is the variance in door-to-door time.

If it takes less 80% of the time but 20% of the time I'm 20 minutes late, I won't use public transport. (I'm not talking about rare occurrences, I'm talking about once a week on a random day being late.)

I also live in a very hot city with 5 months of summer a year, so walking distances and A/C are also a critical factor.
Not to mention Galaxy A55 which IMO offers superior value for money. I prefer it to even an S24 anyway.
Not sure if they knew about this or Kojima predicted the future, but a conceptually similar floating carrier was in Death Stranding: https://deathstranding.fandom.com/wiki/Floating_carrier

Maybe games inspire life?
That assumes the only causes of failure are environmental. I’ve definitely seen plenty of hardware failures but software failures are common, too, and keeping things synchronized is going to require more than “any people and processes” - that’s how you learn your backup has never been tested and database replication stopped working 3 days before the failure.
Right, but doesn't that mean projected output of 55% of 3.6Gw? i.e., about 2GW
Perhaps we'll look back at the deterioration of the American diet as the greatest self-inflicted error of the past 50 years. But it wasn't an accident. The dietary guidelines have been heavily influenced by agribusiness. This been catastrophic for health outcomes and quality of life.

There's way more to the story than dietary guidelines, and there isn't complete consensus on what caused the onset of the obesity epidemic, but the dietary guidelines are at the very least an embarrassing artifact of the problem.
Paradoxically, that line of thinking is what leads to worse experiences. It is impossible to optimise everything, and if you never give a chance to a bad movie or bad company, you will never be surprised. You cannot know if a movie is bad until you see it, you can only know what other people thought of it. Even the worst movie can mean something to someone at the right time. A bad movie in good company can even be more valuable than a good movie in good company: The moments after a bad movie when you both get to riff on what was wrong with it can lead to moments of laughter, joy, creativity, and human connection that are more lasting than watching a good movie.

Is laying down in the grass staring at the sky a mediocre experience? Maybe some days. In others it will be exactly what you needed and didn’t know.

Give too much emphasis on curating and spontaneous gems will pass you by.

I’m writing this to my younger self as much as I’m writing it to you. I have no doubt my words won’t change your outlook in one go and that you have to learn this experience for yourself, but the sooner you do the fewer time you’ll feel to have wasted.

And remember it doesn’t matter anyway. If you’re an atheist, dying means you won’t feel or remember anything. If you’re religious, dying means an eternal existence. Either way, “wasted” time makes no difference.
What you are doing here is leveling a straight up accusation of fraud against the researchers. An accusation of that magnitude requires extraordinary evidence. A simple claim that the video looks weird is insufficient.
Almost all roads are designed in the US by a professional engineer who is legally liable for the design. we need hold them responsible for not designing good infrastructure. If politicians don't allow for something safe than their job is to say it cannot be done.
I would also just say that a half of these 118,770 were over 25 Years old when they started, and only 44% of the total are for "advanced" level starts.

They are often not very high quality, sometimes it will be things like the person who puts bread in the oven at a supermarket getting a level 2 in kitchen skills and so on.

1,300 high quality apprenticeships is noticeable (which is nuts).
I don't mean to pick on your comment, but to respond to a prior comment, you are beginning with a very positive world view and interpreting the events from there.

Lazy API that did not vet a simple backdoor?

Good coders but accidentally pushed the debug version of the API?

I am going to have to say the second option feels less likely (yes, I have been called cynical).
Thiel said that monopolies like to pretend they have stiff competition, and paradoxically small companies pretend they have monopolies.

Which one do you think is true for amazon?
It makes me happy to live in a world where scores of intelligent people dedicate their lives to creating a magnum opus and end up with glue. Beautiful. Sure, we don’t really build cathedrals anymore but at least the world of adhesives (and packaging) is thriving.
That entirely depends on how you build your stack.

I always strongly push for setting up the whole infrastructure with a future migration in mind, and without tying the company closely to specific cloud services.

You lose out on some of the better cloud features, but it's worth it in cash alone: being able to say "we have built our stack to be platform agnostic, we can switch within a month" is very useful in discussions with sales...
The elephant in the room here is the ideological capture of the PSF via its CoC working group. It seems, at best, the power of an unaccountable body to arbitrarily enforce membership conditions (and the like), has not been properly thought through (though, of course, attempts were made). The absence of due process and accountability to the community means the members of this group have arbitrary power to shape the PSF+community however they wish.

They have thus far, explicitly equivocated community criticism of the PSF with "attacking" it; equivocated mentioning the difficulties some communities face with defending these difficulties; and equivocated mentioning the identities of victims of this enforcement with the converse bigotry that people of other identities ought be harmed.

Thus at this point there is no open question about whether the CoC group is enforcing the CoC or using abusing their juridical power to humiliate, defame and exclude members of the community which are critical of the PSF.

This is so repulsive to any reasonable person, the behaviour here is so public and so clearly abusive. Left to their own devices, a PSF operating under this capture will alienate significant numbers of the invested members of the python community -- who are aware-of, and concerned-by, such actions.

I think those of us merely observing this, with some stake in python as a language and community, ought make our repulsion clear. Since this is having, and will have, a serious deleterious impact on those most inclined to participate and invest time in projects of this kind.
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>It’s also where furkan gets pretty much all his content, before it gets paywalled.

Who/what is Furkan?
Searchable chat history works when people communicate in public channels. My experience at large financial institutions is that the vast majority of chat is person-to-person.

I try to encourage public (or group) chats but I _think_ people, especially juniors or new-joiners, are reluctant to look unknowledgeable.
I solve these very problems in the API stack. I cannot speak to raw performance at scale if that's you're thing, though I have long since solved the feature logic lifecycle, and it does not (generally) need this.

I would use UUID related stored procedures, for converting between forms, allowing binary IDs, uuid-form, and base32. Utilities I get. Logic override and transformation I do not. If it came to that, it's a legacy hack or you're doing it wrong.
> Today, over 70 percent of American adults and one-fifth of the children are overweight or obese,

Today I learned that 70% of Americans are obese. Never been to america but I'm truly baffled how people and the government could let this happen.

I know that in America the government is supposed not to interfere with people choice but here it's not just some people being lazy and camping at McDonald's.
It can require it if it is enabled. Which is not mandatory.
Let's look at it in a different way: the U.S. is definitely less subject to any of those risks than just about any other country (save for North Korea itself, where situation just can't be any worse). Everyone else is more sensitive to trade disruptions (because they import the bulkiest goods - energy - which U.S. exports). Everyone else except proverbial shithole countries (plus Israel), have worse demographic situation and thus poorer ability to recruit people to the armed forces. Everyone else is more geographically exposed save for South America that is too dysfunctional for anyone to even try occupying. In a way, fixing just a couple key issues like semiconductor dependency (which is being fixed as we speak although not without some hiccups), it might be a viable strategy to "let it burn" resulting in a 1940-style situation: everyone now needs America to rescue them but America does not need them at all, and is free to pick winners at will. Maybe even pitching dictators against one another to make world situation deliberately worse - to increase the flow of investment and people to the U.S. - is a good start.
I have some of those friends too. They can drink coffee at 11pm and sleep at 11.30. Meanwhile I can't sleep until 8 hours after drinking coffee. I don't know whether this is differing sensitivity to coffee or something else (better production of whatever it is that makes you tired at night perhaps).

A clear and curious correlation is this: The same people that can drink coffee late can and do take naps during the day too. That is: if they lie down in the middle of the afternoon, they could sleep for a little while. That's completely foreign to me, I have never in my soon 50 year life been able to take a daytime nap (at least not since I was 5). It's curious that it seems like a related capability, in my small sample.
What is most horrifying about this story is it is not about a person who is poor, or stuck in their ways and refusing help. It is about a person with both the will to get better and a caring family member advocating for him. If that kind of person can't get help, what chance does anyone else have?
I think it is pretty clear that Valve plays the long game.
Proton existed for years before SD was released.
You got lucky. US hospitals routinely turn people away for non-emergency conditions. That probably happens everywhere but I was only responding about US medical care.

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/obligation-prov...
This to me seems not a problem with remote vs. office, but a particular company culture. Meeting notes aren’t difficult to create.

The problem with chat-based solutions is people get lazy in articulation. So instead of a cohesive idea it’s spread across a giant thread. And instead of actually creating a proper document, it’s easy to say, “Meh, I’ll do it later it’s in slack.” But then it never gets done, and the info is privy to only those in the conversation.

It can be good or bad either way, but there’s no substitute for in-person communication; and there’s no substitute for a thoughtfully constructed document.
I would have like that, but trialing it for several weeks it seems too much effort and caution is required (I.e. easier to ruin a brew).
I take <5 minutes to make a coffee from roasted beans, whilst yerba required expertly making a stable mound, priming an isolated kettle, then pumping water in slowly throughout the day as to not over-extract.

Does it get much better with experience?
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Nuclear capacity should be around 90% when running baseload, with < 1 unplanned trip per year. The US have been very successful at getting the capacity factor higher; it is the cheapest way of producing more from the given assets. In addition the 10% unavailability is predictable and can be planned many months in advance (and can be delayed by a few weeks or so at lower power output). So multiple plants can plan their outages to not coincide ... one backup plant will serve as backup for more than one nuclear power stations.

However offshore wind has a capacity factor of 40% to 50%, and its lack of output is correlated with other wind farms. Therefore one backup power station can only really serve one wind farm.

Not only is it capacity factor but demand correlation that weights against the intermittents.
Indeed, we may as well finish it, certainly, but it's going to reduce appetite for future nuclear schemes enormously. Realistically I think small reactors are our last hope for net new nuclear in the UK - if we don't get them we'll end up with Wind/Solar and storage.
If a company leases their building (and I think most do) then the capital value is of little interest to them and won't influence these sort of decisions. The businesses that are struggling through all this are their landlords.
Yes, that's why it's usually the east part of large towns that is the poorer area, and the west is rich.
Throwing away is a real hassle. You often buy a new phone because the old one is broken. So data is on there but you cant turn it on. Get a drill out? Not sure I want to breath in that dust.
There's probably a more detailed report to be found if you go looking, and

the same qualifications apply to the nuclear reactors and turbines - it's unlikely they'll always run at peak all the time either.
Nope. Require it to be easily accessible by folks who don't know what ssh is.
Ideally over a link that they can run in their browser.
Maybe the next step is to walk a path with it once and then have it repeat it. I often have groceries delivered that require me to walk a dozen times to my basement to stow it away. If I have to do it once for "teaching" and then repeat it 11 more times, that would be a win.

Also, as a reminder to the "do you even lift, bro" crowd, there is an increasing number of aging people with declining physical strength that could potentially benefit from a product like this. Yes, with current drone technology this is too noisy / turbulent / energy inefficient to be entirely practical, but how many of these limits are due to fundamental physics constraints and how many still have quite a bit of room for expansion?
Fwiw and tangent warning:
Soft cell is a great band.

More pertinent:
My niece was asking about my Conus Textile shell last night, which led into an engaging discussion on cellular automata. Going from two dimensions down to one, was able to bring it back to the shell and the lights when on for her! It was great. I hit an impasse when extrapolating to cells which I had to brush over with generalities. This paper couldn’t have come at a better time for the sake of one childs curiosity. I can’t wait to share.
> I'll believe this change is really happening when AMZN starts reporting decline in their AWS gross returns. Is this declining?

Declining revenues isn't the sign of not being a monopoly. How is AWS actually a monopoly?
Apple historically haven't been great, but they're getting better now. I know people don't want to give credit for that because it didn't happen of their own volition, only when they were incentivised.

Me personally, I've never gotten to the 3 year mark on a smartphone and remained happy with it before my current iPhone 12. They would break, or stop receiving updates or have abysmal battery life or become too slow - literally none of these are issues I'm facing. I'll probably keep this for another year before replacing it with the iPhone 17.
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Output of the discussed nuclear facility is 3.6GW, which means weekly production of 604.8 GWh, or around 100x as much as currently installed storage capacity.

And going into only one type of electricity production especially with the unpredictability of renewables is never wise.
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They're quite rare but we do have some steep hills, like this 22% one:

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8471239,5.8741469,3a,90y,196...
> democracy is a way to get everyone to shut up

Democracy is a way to get people to acquiesce without violence. If you look at history, it's remarkable how common insurgencies and succession crises or breakaway warlords are.
> This type of attitude sometimes makes the world a worse place. If everyone has this attitude, the system can break down.

Its just literally the attitude of uber itself, were not talking about some social security system
It was an example of the kind of compute power, of course we can get pedantic on which hardware.
This approach will skew the population that leaves to the "troublemakers" who insist on working from home, so if those leave (from the WFO advocates' perspective), all the better...
When slacking in the office, it's essential to find other slackers to slack with. At home, I can slack alone just fine doing all the stuff that I normally do at home.
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[Hi from Argentina!]

I tried a few of the fill the lyrics games.

Are the empty slots "_____" chosen automatically or you selected them manually? What about the alternatives?

Some are very easy because the alternative makes no gramatical sense, or some sound too different to get confused. I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Do you have some insight about how you build them? [1]

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[1] I sometimes build multiple choice for math exams. We usually put 4 options with different difficulty. For 3(7-2) we would use, in a randomized order:

1) 15 (the correct one)

2) 19 (forget the parens, 37-2, very common error)

3) 27 (wrong sign, 3*(7+2), probably not common)

4) 12 (what! 3+7+2, just a trap in case they are choosing randomly)
In practice this doesn't result with a special-kinded instruction to hint the CPU branch-predictor but only affects the compiler to generate a codegen that is optimized for better CPU instruction-cache utilization. E.g. it will try to move the less likely code out from the hot code path and as such the likely code is going to be more dense and co-located next to each other.
Some people prefer working from home; others prefer office full time. I think hybrid orgs are going to be viable in some cases, but it’s harder to reap the benefits of in-person if only some are standing at the whiteboard.

In particular if you are a startup and can all fit in one meeting room, the opportunity cost of going remote is huge. For huge companies that need to train lots of new grads, remote can be painful for other reasons. But there are benefits too, and the optimal decision is going to depend on the company culture and work style.

I think it’s a terrible idea for government to step in and define universal rights to flexible work; this is a place where labor supply and demand should price in the preferences.
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You're treated lile a terrorist when you are a law abiding citizen.

Actual criminal? Society will bend over to accommodate you.
> Hungary is widely acknowledged to be in a state of nascent dictatorship anyway.

I'm Hungarian, I hate Orban [1], but your comment is not accurate.
It's not "widely acknowledged" and nobody is seriously using the word "dictatorship" to describe Hungary or Orban's regime, including Orban's fiercest opponents [in Hungary]. We have had various forms of dictatorships in Hungary, and this isn't one of them.

What we have today is most commonly referred to as an authoritarian form of democracy. But we have elections every 4 years, and if people were to vote against Orban, he'd be gone. The last one, in 2022, there were 20k opposition observers in the voting offices and they certified that everything was legit. Having said that there are multiple aspects that make the elections unfair. As we say in Hungary, the "football field is tilted to favor one side". For example, the election map is heavily optimized to favor Orban. Or, state media and 100% of state funds has been captured by Orban to run his misinformation campaigns, which does mean that by the time elections come, a significant % of the population has been indoctrinated and brainwashed. And so on.. But still, it's not a dictatorship. It's just that people are stupid, just as in every country, and unfortunately in 2010 Orban received a 2/3 majority which he used to accomplish the initial "tilt", and he's masterfully kept it up ever since.

Why is Hungary not a dictatorship? Your personal freedoms are not in danger, nobody has ever been killed or even hurt for political reasons in Hungary (unlike Russia). We have freedom of speech, you can go in front of the parliament building and say the nastiest things about Orban, and you'll be fine (unlike in Russia). We have opposition parties, who according to their seats in parliament receive state funding. We have fairly conducted and counted elections (unlike in Russia). We have tons of opposition media and they are free to operate, eg. the biggest Hungarian language political Youtube channels are opposition.

However, Hungary is definitely not a healthy democracy. We have widespread corruption wrt state funds. We have a significant imbalance in media reach in favor Orban. Orban is more than willing to run toxis misinformation campaigns and seed division and hatred that will take many years, possibly generations, to weed out. And, for still unknown reasons, Orban is in bed with Putin and runs Russian misinformation campaigns in Hungary. And so on..

Related to the OP, I can tell you that Orban and his cronies run a variety of misinformation campaigns [in Hungary], but nothing related to cryptography.

[1] https://bytepawn.com/why-i-dont-live-in-hungary.html
Interesting, thank you for that.

Do you have a source for that and any context (eg: "not power" time being used for "experiments" related to UK military nuclear uses, etc)?
I don't know if most people's work ethic is that high. At least mine isn't as I'm writing this from my home office during working hours while having basically procrastinated all day today.
Of course, you can also ask about the blockers ahead of time or just do something else. This does require your org to trust you with more than one strictly defined ticket at a time though.
The droning about there being no opportunities for advancement in life is so annoying and detached from reality.
no, 5.9GWh, so after 1 hour at 4.6GW we could do another hour at 1.3 GW (or another 16 Mins at 4.6HW)

~76 mins at 4.6GW.
WP Engine might try forking it (as they are free to now) but they don't contribute that much to Wordpress as is.
What's wrong with Qt?! I love it. KDE has long been my desktop of choice and Qt is my go to GUI framework for application development.

Qt Creator makes it so easy to whip together a UI that you can easily write code for. It's an absolute pleasure compared to alternatives (at least the ones that I've tried).