skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can just take this exchange as an example, maybe that helps to clarify my actual position. Imagine if I had to contact an independent committee before I could "fire"(=ignore) your comment with several snide insults. I'd get bogged down, my work day would be slower. Imagine if somebody could drag me to court over every comment decision because hey, maybe I just ignored it for no good reason, or because you are black or white or have a certain religion. You could file an appeal at HN that I have to give you more attention. So in your desired reality we will have to find out during the court proceedings and in the meantime I am forced to pay you 15% more attention *by default* in an irrational attempt of fairness to all the other comments if they received 15% higher attention.

Having certain protections against discrimination is a good thing but they should be very carefully applied. We can already see that the New York Times Tech Guild does not seem to want careful application of these rules if their website doesn't even mention any evaluation of worker productivity or value, all their study apparently did was to look at pay difference without looking at work difference. A perfect example of a total failure to care about the correct things, a total failure to care about what the company needs to achieve (=actual value) and just looking at pay with no connection to possible reasons I enumerated. https://www.nyguild.org/post/pay-inequity-at-the-new-york-ti...
If you want a real backrooms story, which sadly ends in a death - https://youtu.be/sx14YtiLFIM?t=1461

I've been in similar architecture to the story and have never been in anything like it again. This wasn't a simple, old person lost in a normal place.

I have a recurring dream about it, it was so different. Although I urban explore I was just looking for a exit, and I guess because I urban explore I didn't notice the signs so I suddenly went from bright shops to a dark deserted maze.
They can't keep the bathrooms clean because their funding has stagnated and much of it has been redirected to firefighting. This is... what this entire article and discussion is about. It's a little bizarre that you could take "maybe government is the problem" from all this.

USFS employees seem generally great, and competent at their jobs. If any part of government is the problem, it's the legislators who aren't funding them well enough. That's not a reason to take management of the parks out of the government's hands; that's a reason to stop voting for pro big-business fiscal conservatives who want to trick people into privatizing things because "government doesn't work for this", when the reason it doesn't work is because they deliberately broke it.
See https://Schematix.com

Has a graph query capability which is like a reasoning engine. And beyond that, can run simulations on the models.

Multi user, version control with branch and merge, time shifting, etc.

It's for diagramming whole environments, not just discrete diagrams.
Sure but you still made up a quote that isn’t in that article either
Kubernetes is just combined infra admin practices. Whether we use it or not, we need to do the same things by local oriented way or vendor specific way .

1. Some operations on remote in local oriented way are time consuming and unmanageable.

2. With vendor specific way, our skill would be deprecated, having dependency to the vendors.

3. Kubernetes is not the best tools but it it popular.

As always, custom solution is the most powerful but should be replaced with more unified way for the stability of the development.
There have been endless lawsuits by homeowners alleging discrimination in their insurance rates. All this impairs granular risk assessment and insurance rates. A recent WSJ article was about lawsuits from homeowners who were quoted higher insurance rates because their roof was rotten and/or there were trees that could fall on their house.

The same has happened with auto insurance rates (men and women have different accident rates, so used to have different rates), and, glaringly, medical insurance rates.
May be we can step up and look into the way to distributing the process instead of handling it via the language specific compilers?
> there is no (to my knowledge) general-purpose, broadly-accepted way to deploy via Nix

`nix copy .#my-crap --to ssh://remote`

What you do with it then on the remote depends on your environment. At the minimum do a `nix-store --add-root` to make a symlink to whatever you just copied.

(The most painless path is if you're deploying an entire NixOS system, but that requires converting the remote host to NixOS first.)
Thanks to lack of multiline lambdas in Python, this package, Python to Html generators, GUIs etc all use side effects on the tree.

Can anybody explain if this works if we are creating multiple diagrams in a web app?

https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams/blob/master/diagrams/...
Ha! That's fun. Mediapipe api + threejs?
Not sure why you're getting downvotes, it's a legitimate question.

There are different kinds of adversary. A traditional tactic in politics is to find someone to blame. Trump blames immigrants, Muslims and China. He translated this into economic action by putting tarrifs on Chinese goods. (Tarrifs are a terrible idea, but one of the few things the president can do unilaterally.)

Thanks to his years of anti-chinese rhetoric, I think there's a substantial number of people who gave drunk that kool-aid and see China as adversarial.

Geopolitically, China is investing heavily in influence. There are lots of programs in other countries (especially Africa and Asia) where they are fostering trade and building infrastructure. This comes largely at the expense of US influence.

Militarily they are growing, and are one of the few countries which could inflict serious losses on American forces. They wouldn't win (yet) but the American public has less appetite for high losses than the Chinese do.

None of which stops them being huge trading partners of course. But the pendulum is swinging, and that distresses a significant number of US folk.
Why? Because not every tool can be used in all contexts. I use reflective listening to support friends.

It sounds like your argument is "If reflective listening is better, then it should be used universally." I'm not making that claim. The claim I'm making is that reflective listening is good for emotional validation.
Not enforcing federal law is different from violating federal law. Marijuana legalization is more gray. ICE for sure is active even in so called sanctuary cities.
Duckie AI
Wow! Great instrument, so excited to see it here
>prior to the 5 1/4" disk drive (a true "floppy" disk)

The 3.5" disks were "floppy" too: you just had to take the actual disc out out of its rigid protective shell.

>Supposedly they only stored 1.2MB but I recall seeing 2.X MB models for sale at boeing surplus in the mid 1990s

I can't find anything about this on this Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats

There are some old drives that store 2 Mb per disk, but that's megabits, not megabytes. It seems the very largest 8" disks ever achieved was 1.2MB, exactly the same as the 5.25".
> It is common belief in china that the state governance by the CCP is doing good for the country, and the proof is economic progress, material wealth and geopolitical strength.

I don't know, but how to define if a country is going towards a better path, if all the changes listed does not count?

If the people there belives, is it unresonable that the people not there argue about that?

I'm not saying it is not arguable, it really falls down to the North-Korea situation that almost everyone inside or outside see that place as hell, but I'm not sure if China feels alike here - a country does have significant economic progress, material wealth and 'geopolitical strength', which I don't think NK has all these.
If I can induce a race that corrupts a data structure so that it leaks data back to me that I shouldn’t have access to, does that count?
You’re not. To me the Next logo is primitive and void of creativity. The GameCube logo easily surpasses it in every category. Additional points go to the animation of the GameCube logo.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ksZh-FHuKpk
> But it's plausible that the Supreme Court could find government meddling on Social Security unconstitutional, because similar decisions have already been made in other countries.

I sincerely hope SCOTUS doesn't care at all about similar decisions made in other countries. What is or is not constitutional in the US should be based solely on the US constitution.
> ...but at least it's generally easy to see what you did wrong and fix it.

You're not actually "fixing" anything, you're just passing the ball of shit down the responsibility chain to the ops/infra team.

Which is fine if you work in a large corporation where this is a valid strategy.

Unfortunately though the software supply chain problem is a) very difficult and b) unavoidable.

Nix is the best (or maybe only) attempt to solve this problem with programmatic (vs organizational) tooling.
Man arrested for attempting to destroy Nashville power site
> Corporate in-house facebook

Did you mean workplace? That's discontinued now.
Go lets you use `unsafe.Pointer` (or indeed, assembly intrinsics) if you really want to, but those are certainly not used "ordinarily".
It doesn't really matter what people would call it. What matters is what it actually is.
Dividend buybacks aka stock manipulation. You are saying that it is logic that companies turn from making things to stock manipulation. That is a system that just doesn't work long term. I guess you are saying companies have a life cycle, and once it reaches the stock buyback phase they are basically dieing.
> Going in the other direction, prior to the 5 1/4" disk drive (a true "floppy" disk)

The “floppy disk” is named for the round mylar storage medium inside the square casing, which is both floppy and a disk in all the sizes they came in, not the square casing, which, while somewhat flexible in 8” and 5¼” sizes, is not really floppy, and absolutely not a disk, for any of them.
How to do this on android?
Thank you for the question ! My assumption is the same. For your question I am looping in the mirrord team.
Is there a caniuse for ebook readers?
> let's face it, two of the most dangerous jobs around at the moment are teaching and nursing, both of which are predominately done by women.

Not even in the top 10. 2024 numbers:

Logging – 100.7 per 100,000 workers

Roofing – 57.5

Fishing and hunting – 50.9

Construction trade helpers – 38.5

Air transportation – 35.9

Delivery trucking and commercial trucking – 30.4

Refuse and recycling – 22.6

Iron and steel – 21.3

Mining – 20.1

Agricultural workers – 20.0
Can you provide more evidence that logging suppressed the modern super fires?

It strikes me as implausible and unrelated:
- fire fighting costs is now exponentially more AFAIK

- that revenue from the 90s might not have gone back to forests

- while billions of log feet sounds a lot, it might not be

- young forests burn, old forests are fire resistant. That logging creates young forests

- logging requires access. Places inaccessible will still burn and still be a problem

- fire breaks from logging only helps so much with santa anna style winds that blow embers very, very far

- logging does not remove undergrowth, per the article it creates a ladder situation where tree tops will combust

- old growth west coast forests are fire adapted and burns are necessary. Logging and suppression do not seem like the right solutions

- conditions have changed since the 90s. Different rainfall patterns, different cycle of draughts, 30 more years of fire suppression and combustible materials, and 30 more years of (hyper fast) climate change (significant changes have occurred in that minuscule amount of time)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._(patient)
Good call! I was gonna specifically say "close the tab before reconnecting" but totally forgot about SWs.
From TFA, emphasis mine:
“The average age of homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 in 2023…”
In case this gives you some ideas/inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-by-mail_game
Even before hearing this story, I used to religiously check that any door I entered while straying from the beaten path (urbex, or simply exploring infrastructure not meant for the public) wouldn't lock behind me. I've stopped myself from entering a stairwell a few times because I wasn't sure if there'd be another exit I could take. Occasionally, if I'm feeling daring, I'll pull out one of the blank plastic cards from my wallet and jam the door latch with it, then keep going.
Yeah, SCP wiki is the original "profoundly bad horror worldbuilding" wiki, and practically everything bad in "the backrooms" is lifted from there with minimal changes.
https://archive.is/JQim2
Toward a Practical Perceptual Video Quality Metric (2016)
Regarding diagrams as code, the diagrams Haskell package is also worth a look. My goto "drawing" tool, as I wrote a Braille backend for it, which now lets me raster lots of stuff as Unicode Braille.

stack install diagrams-braille
brldia -w 120 clock $(date +%H) $(date +%M)
brldia -w 120 hilbert 4
> Also the parent comment doesn't seem to realize that a subsea cable would enable better connectivity for millions of people.

That comment specifically listed "connectivity" as something he thought governments should fund, and only complained about governments funding weapons.
Please keep this idea to yourself, or delete it if you can
Call it a parenting issue, dismiss, 1st amendment, whatever.

I choose whatever and call it unreasonable fixation and absurd negativism towards a single, arbitrarily selected open-lore idea. Whose roots, btw, find reflections in human perception itself, compared to much simpler plots.

Your reasons remain unclear, and I won’t hypothesize, but I’ve met a (pretty common) type before who cannot handle open-endedness in culture. People who can’t help but demand answers from the art house genre and cannot sit still when something is clearly off in a regular movie that is not marked as detective or pre-declared as rewatchable. It’s interesting that you mention religion, because in my experience, this also intersects a lot with religious people, who cannot wait for someone to slowly pull the curtain of knowledge and instead need the answers right here right now, which religion provides happily, creating an absolute closure of a human.
Yes! Necessary for a number of trees to reproduce. Morelle mushrooms are another example, their spores are fire activated. Look fo them in burn areas the following spring.

West coast trees evolved to drop their lower branches. They naturally won't have branches for 20 to 40 feet off the ground. They need to grow old enough to do that. Most forests have already been chopped down a few times over though in the last 150 years.
> So the country bands were aware of the new style of jazz but most people had never actually heard any and had to play what they imagined jazz to be, mostly based off verbal descriptions.

This I find fascinating. Misunderstandings (i.e. partial or third hand accounts) of ‘exotic’ art forms have played a vital part in the development of western art: Picasso ‘misunderstood’ African art to produce Cubism. William Blake ‘misunderstood’ Michelangelo to produce his etchings. Van Gogh ‘misunderstood’ Japanese prints to produce his paintings.
If Uber asks a stupid question they'll get a stupid answer. That's on them.
Is there a compatibility chart somewhere that lists possible upgrades for older Roomba models?
Like they did with that milk powder company and all livered happily ever after /$
If someone runs this on localhost to try it out, is any of the generated output sent to your system?

>> "Generations that aren't private may be featured in our public, community catalog"
Ask HN: How can I improve my chess game?
I want to improve my chess game. Can you recommend me some resources (websites, books...)
> back-channels ensure they aren't forced into a position

That's a great observation. Except in this case this back-channel is kind of glaringly public and possibly illegal?
The Alternative to Performance Reviews for Software Engineers (2023)
Last I checked it wasn’t available for men.
Since when has Taiwan had nukes? There was a nuclear program in the 80s and the US pressured them to abandon it. Even civilian nuclear engineering is not very popular in Taiwan. I’d be kind of surprised if Taiwan had any kind of nuclear weapons program and it wasn’t an international crisis, given how thoroughly each side of the straight spy on the other.
This is simply so misleading thats its nonsense.

So you bought a new phone for $40, and it was a POS?

My kids use my old iPhone 7, which is in the same price bracket and is nothing like that. Its fast enough for Roblox, Minecraft, and certainly fast enough for a web browser.

I have an old Dell USFF that I use for server purposes, but its a Skylake (so newer than what was the original conversation), with ssd and 16Gb, and that was <£50. That can boot with systemd in under 5 seconds. It can boot to the full Gnome desktop in under 6 seconds. Firefox can start and get the Office.com site up in less than 3 seconds.

Because thats what were talking about.

> But desktops with those specs are <$100, probably less than $50.

I just checked eBay. Yes they still are.
Still twice as expensive per TB as the LTO 5 tapes I'm getting on ebay.
I'm happy its working for you.
Make sure you need microservices-based architecture because it comes with its own complexity - a load balancer, container networking, distributed tracing, etc. If you application does not need to scale its sub-components independently, you are better off using a VM-based application. It's 10X cheaper to maintain/troubleshoot and is high performance/resources.
They should cancel their patents or software copyright on the cuda apis as a response. The only reason they are dominant is because of their software control.
Fascinating. Me mentioning NAT as a positive (blocks all incoming ports) prompts people to reply with a word salad that contains "crappy" and "corrupted". Fact is, NAT is being used in almost every apartment LAN setup since, what, 30 years? Its no surprise that people grew used to the implicit port block. And therefore its no surprise that when switching to IPv6, some people will discover the hard way that they now need to do extra work.

But hey, why think about it rationally, if you can throw crappy and corrupted around?
If the factories weren't bombed before Taiwan fell to the communists, I'd imagine hey would still be cut off from western semiconductor technology, so they would still end up falling behind even if they could get them restarted.
Most private owners are tree farms, right? Those burn like crazy. I've seen very few well managed tree farms, they do exist. Anecdotally, after observing several thousand linear miles of west coast forest, just a handful were well managed and fire resistant. The majority is a dense mass of q-tip like trees with dense underbrush. There in grows not trees, but tree trunks and the habitat is good for rats and no large game. (Sorry for the rant, I've got strong feelings on how gross tree farms are. To see how peevelant they are - check satellite images. It looks like a checkerboard, it is not due to images being stitched together, it is the boundaries of clear cuts and tree farms- and it is just everywhere (west coast))
Yeah, seems to be back now. It was down before though.
> Much less known is ED 2.88MB. Only ever shipped in some 1990 IBM PS/2 and NEXT computers. 80 tracks ~100KB/s speed.

It shipped in some 1990s IBM RS/6000s. I know for sure it was available on the Model 250, which came out in 1993 (and was one of the first PowerPC systems).

Documentation: https://www.ardent-tool.com/RS6000/docs/pdf/7011_Operator_Gu...
This article isn't worth the time spent reading it.

About the only thing they got right is the fact that large business has become delusional, and being delusional is not just a dick move.

Being delusional is synonymous with blind and evil at that level, but this is not some revolution, it is normal economics and it has predictable dynamics, that ultimately end in collapse, which is what we have been living through in a slow moving state of ruin, for quite some time but it is accelerating and it was caused by the central bankers and their comrades funded by preferential business loans, paid by your tax dollars through non-fractional banking.

We aren't that far off, and the talent brain drain that is happening is silent.

When you have malign parties cooperating to suppress wages, price gouge, cause shortage, impose higher costs on everyone, as well as keeping wages well below what is needed to secure financial safety for rearing children, and the employee can't find a job in their specialized profession despite being highly competent, those people leave for other options.

People stop having children, old with resources outcompetes young, and then there is a great dying.

People go where the jobs are, even if things normalize again later they don't just come back to that profession, they hang that hat up for good when its no longer viable.

No amount of money will bring them back to that profession. The golden time period for this seems to be about 1-2 years without being able to find work in their fields.

Once it happens, it becomes a closed road to them, and this psychology is sticky and is already happening. If you thought it was hard to find talent before, when you have large companies laying off 20% of their tech staff, they can't just rehire that 20% back because the competency isn't accounted for, you get the bottom of the barrel.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

You have a higher chance of losing the competent people forever than getting bare bones competency in a glut with no real way to validate competency.

Companies can be deceptive, but what that means is they lose credibility, and competent people discern, and when there is a silent vote of no confidence, where those intelligent people withdraw their support; ruin overtakes everything faster, and no amount of misinformation can hide this beyond a certain point.

If you are competent at your job, and there's a glut, you are better off going into another field despite being less proficient.

If companies are going to be malign, withdraw your support; stop giving them your mind. The time for talk came and went. Rise up, and take back the only thing you have of value that can't be taken from you without your consent; your mind.

Learn a productive trade, become a farmer, stop contributing support to systems that seek to destroy you. Prepare for the worst, because it is coming. The unprepared typically die, the prepared generally survive.
2 kids and one partner :)

Rent/Mortage 5500 (cupertino!! 1350 SFT)

Gas and Electricity : 450 (Includes electric dryer, electric stove etc, PGE is costly. Currently gas Furnace but moving to Heat pump soon)

Property tax : 2000 (Per month)

groceries : 500

Eating out/take out : 250

Lunch in office : 200

Travel/Vacations : 1000 (per month. Amortized. Yearly

Overseas to meet family plus one in summer break, one in thanksgiving plus one in fall break).

Retirement : 1800 (IRS max, per month, amortized)

Health insurance : 1000 (per month amortized)

Plumbing/House issues: 300 (per month amortized)

Gas for cars : 200

Childrens classes : 1000 (classes like soccer, chess, karate yada yada).

One cloud server : 12$ (per month)

Overseas Intern : 100 (per month)

Total (so far) : 15000 per month.
Not only do more bugs reproduce in staging than locally (for obvious reasons), but mirrord also saves you the trouble of figuring out how to run your stuff locally in the first place.
Previously, before you could add a single line of code to your microservice, you had to be able to run it and all of its dependencies on your local machine. This is such a huge challenge in some cases that people actually prefer to git push and deploy to the cloud for every little change.
With mirrord you can just clone the repo and debug.