skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't listen to your podcast right now, but solar panels are more efficient than photosynthesis, and you can produce the wavelength of light needed for plants by LEDs using a fraction of that power, so what makes you say that the solar farm that powers a vertical farm will always take up more space than the vertical farm saves?
However I'm pretty sure PCIDSS does still say 90 days
> $112B spent

But what does "spent" mean? It means that money goes to miners, equipment manufacturers, etc. all of whom then go and spend that money living their lives. Since people aren't just fungible economic units, you can't just stop spending this money without actually incurring a much bigger debt in terms of actual societal impact from having a whole industry out of work....
Glad this got found. I remember when XML was being widely adopted that there'd be frequent vulnerabilities found in Java-based parsers.

A large part of this stems from how complicated XML can get - if it were only elements and attributes it might have been fine. Namespaces made it a bit more complicated. Processing Instructions made it hideous.
I was homeless for a few years. That means I stayed warm at night in freezing temps by piling three people into a too-small tent (one designed for two people) and sharing "bio heat" as our only heat source.

I hate long sleeves and seldom wore them.

Tight clothing actually cuts off your circulation and makes you colder.

The right material -- flannel, wool, sometimes knitwear -- can keep you warm even when wet.

Being cleaner helps keep you warm.

Eating warm cheese, like a quesadilla, helps keep you warm.

Because of my medical situation, I don't have carpeting, upholstered furniture, etc. My home is a lot less prone to being too hot in summer and too cold in winter than when I was living the standard North American Lifestyle steeped in Affluenza.

I keep intending to someday blog about such things, but it's always such insane drama to comment on it on internet forums that I figure there's no point and haven't gotten around to it. But we really don't talk about how our lifestyles have changed so much in recent decades and we seem to, on the whole, not wonder about things like "I wonder if a hundred years ago people were fundamentally more comfortable, temperature-wise, than they are today because their homes were more spartan simply because no one had the kind of wealth we have today?"

There's a lot of things that have changed and we seem oblivious to the possibility that those large scale changes may account for some of the issues individuals are experiencing. We tend to just medicalize it and act like "You, as an individual, have some kind of personal problem."
This is a good move. The Reddit apps have a huge audience but the content creation tools are lacking especially for video.
There are several theories as to why the M1 does so well on on JavaScript benchmarks.

>Firestorm can do 4 FADDs and 4 FMULs per cycle with respectively 3 and 4 cycles latency. That’s quadruple the per-cycle throughput of Intel CPUs and previous AMD CPUs, and still double that of the recent Zen3, of course, still running at lower frequency. This might be one reason why Apples does so well in browser benchmarks (JavaScript numbers are floating-point doubles).

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

>Apple has confirmed that it’s a massive 192KB instruction cache. That’s absolutely enormous and is 3x larger than the competing Arm designs, and 6x larger than current x86 designs, which yet again might explain why Apple does extremely well in very high instruction pressure workloads, such as the popular JavaScript benchmarks.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
Honestly mate, just go ahead and delete my account.
Absolutely this. The benefits of "casual exhibitionists" absolutely do not outweigh the risks and costs of having unverified and possibly illegal porn on your site.
> Heating a building when you aren't there is silly.

Is this true? I've thought about it for a while but can't quite wrap my head around an answer that feels obviously correct. It takes a lot of energy to raise the temperature of a house - more than to maintain a given temperature. Allowing for changing temperatures during the day, and concrete slabs and walls and the ground as heat stores, is it always the case that it uses less energy to have a lower set point while you're out and raise it when you get home than to just keep it at the comfortable level the whole time?
Yeah, I have had the same experience on my current vehicle. Almost impossible to get to the headlight bulb compartment without removing the front wheel to get to the access panel.
RELEVANT XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/936/
Why is one more justifiable than the other?
It feels like Google has never really truly cared about UI. They seem to grok UX, but the aesthetics always drift towards the geekier side of user interface design.

This isn't to say they don't have lots of user interface designers, or that they don't get branding. It's that they lack a modern creative direction vision that connects those two functions.
If anything this is adding value. I would assume most of these men were going to have little value in any society at any period of time, but increasingly less valuable as we go back in time. They were going to be disposable, at least now they have the illusion of intimacy.
You can't just take a screenshot of a 15-year-old product and note that nobody would put together a UI that way if they were starting from scratch. Of course they wouldn't, they would do something "clean" and "elegant" and "modern" and, above all, "simple". Those buttons are there because they do things that someone somewhere needs or really wants.

You know how people here typically praise Microsoft for their backwards compatibility? Yeah, well, old things that don't reinvent themselves grow warts. Old things that do reinvent themselves do so in part to limit themselves from past constraints. No free lunches.
In general it's around 4 hours at most, although occassionally I can manage double that if I work in the morning, take the afternoon off, then work into the night from about 10pm - 2am.

One of my most productive weeks ever was when I accompanied my wife on a work trip from London, UK, to Savannah, Georgia, which is 5 hours behind. Even though I was looking after my young daughter I go a huge amount done because my work day was:

First thing: Answer emails from the UK morning.

Morning: General admin.

Lunchtime: Answer emails from the UK afternoon.

Afternoon: A beautiful stretch of uninterrupted coding time while my daughter amused herself bum-shuffling around the room.

Even though I'm pretty good about closing my email client while working, just the knowledge that emails weren't piling up while I was coding gave me real peace of mind.

I think a huge amount of the stress of coding work is knowing in the back of your mind that there's a huge amount of crap piling up in the background that you're going to have to deal with afterwards. It reminds me of that Walter Benjamin piece about Paul Klee's painting Angelus Novus:

"This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."
Well, I tried using this exact argument on someone, and their reply was "I'm happy to provide all of these, and more, to any law enforcement agency that needs it. I'm not worried about government abusing this, and I don't understand why you do. I'm also not worried about stealing this information, because it simply won't happen to me".

There's no point in arguing with some people. The logic just doesn't work.
The Revenge Industry and Their “Silver Bullet”
Based on prior naming schemes, it will almost certainly be called an M1X. An A12X was more or less just two A12s stuck together, for instance.

That said, one might reasonably expect them to go even bigger for the iMac; it has much more thermal headroom than a 16" MBP.
I'm in the same situation as you were. Currently I'm the only senior engineer as others left shortly after I joined. They filling up their positions with juniors, because they are "enthusiastic".

In January I'm moving on to "Long term" and they will left with a bunch of juniors. Good luck with that on the long run
Does anyone have practical advice for how to say no to this as an employee without harming their career?
China has Xiaoice. We have Call of Duty. They both achieve the same ends. Imagine society where a bunch of alienated workers had a lot of free time on their hands.
It is going to be a difficult problem to address social gender equality, and a much harder problem than solving economical gender equality, but if history is anything to go by we will see improvement. Accepting inequality as a matter of harsh reality is just status quo.

I strongly believe that all people deserve well being in aspects of economical, social and personal health. The strongest tool to achieve that is through culture.

In the past people thought that the only method to address economical inequality was to redistribute wealth forcefully. We should not assume that the only method to address social inequality is also by force.
Yeah, that's what I currently do. However as traffic grows in both volume and origin, and can be hard (and expensive) to keep up. That's why a privacy-respecting provider who already has the infrastructure would be ideal.
Irrespective of why, cars and phones did not function in a more reliable manner back then. The statement is false.
I made the following thought experiment. If we downscale the M1 to a 8b transistor chip and make it use 14nm technology, would it still be faster than an i9 chip? I don't think so.
There are a lot of comments about interruptions, and a couple about interesting work. I'll add two more dimensions: Agency and Rewards.

I've worked intense 10-12hour workdays in the past for long periods of time (waves of 3mo), but they all had at least three of four things in common: Agency, Interesting, Interruption, Reward.

Agency is important to me -- am I bought into what I'm doing and understand the importance+urgency and get to direct the work -- or is someone up the chain jamming some feature down to check a box for their own personal reasons w/o good reason. This encompasses Respect -- where everyone understands the rationale and why some urgent deadline is present and people are not told to go on unknown journeys "just because" or "you dont understand"

Another is Reward. When working at a hedge fund, sometimes, things were not interesting but there was a clear reward I was psychologically aligned with the reward. Same when I was Founder/CTO -- there was a clear reward (not always monetary.)

I think when you hear 2hrs/3hrs/etc per day, often it is the fault of the organization for:

- Not having good business cases

- Thinking Engineers don't care about reasons for doing things

- Not providing distraction free blocks

- Not sufficiently sharing rewards with the company
And it's even worse than that, because they offer the ISAs to investors to purchase. Meaning they're bait and switching both the student and investors.
"Neural population control via deep image synthesis" - Pouya Bashivan, Kohitij Kar, James J. DiCarlo
Could someone explain what a "supply chain" exploit is?
I want to point out and give a shout-out to Belgrade Observatory and their team.

These people work without huge telescopes or excessive equipment and we should celebrate major contributions when they come from smaller teams like this.
I've been using Bitwarden for a bit over a year and generally been happy with it, but when my next renewal comes up I'm intending to switch to 1Password. (I think, that'll be in ~10 months, so I have some time to choose).

Why? I actually like BitWarden quite a bit. I like that it's open source and has been audited. I use it on Linux, my Chromebook and Android phone, and Firefox and Chrome browsers and it works very well. My wife uses it on iOS and didn't complain.

It is very nice that it has a 2-person free plan to try out. That how I first tried it, and for me and my wife sharing it, it worked just fine. You do have to pay to get TOTP 2 factor integration, so I got the family plan, and we also got it for work.

So why would I switch?

It's fairly clunky. Turns out, while my wife wasn't complaining, she also finds it "ugly". Which isn't the full reason to change, but... My co-workers really struggle with it.

The biggest issue is that often when you are adding items, the fact that you have to add it to a collection is scrolled off the bottom of the screen, and adding it adds it to your personal collection. Once you do that you can't move it to the shared group, you have to start over. Organizing passwords isn't really obvious, we used to have a password manager with a hierarchical structure and are struggling without it. Bitwarden has folders, but it's unclear that they do anything. It has collections, but likewise there's no real visualization. So you end up searching for everything and if you don't know what to search for you are kind of lost.

In short: I like BitWarden, but there are definite UI rough edges, especially difficult with multiple using it, and since Aug 2019 there's been no change.

Plusses though: Their support is super friendly.
> This is exactly why everyone hates using modern C++.

speak for youreself ?

> Their standards committee has run amok with every fancy feature that every new language comes out with in the past two decades. And what has that wrought?

given the amount of languages that reimplement C++ features (and sometimes have to be dragged by the feet to get them, e.g. generics and interface methods in java), I'd say that people who don't understand c++ are doomed to reinvent it :)
This is true, though now bigbubba420 gets a strike on his account for the complaint and inches closer to a ban. And music uploaders throw on a ton of content, so I don't see how it can merely be a case of ad revenues taken over and continuing to do the same with impunity.
Would they really want to use Google's OS? I would expect a FireTop, right?
Re. strawman: maybe this is a good essay, but I was referencing Dumblydorr's assertion that if someone else had written this essay it would be considered mediocre/not make it to the top of HN, and your response that this is irrelevant, since the author _is_ in fact PG.

I'm not sure where the no-true Scottsman is?

> I can’t really see what you are trying to accomplish by insisting there is something called a ‘good’ essay, whose hallmark is it’s persuasiveness in the absence of knowledge about the author.

Really? This seems entirely non-controversial to me. It's more-or-less "don't judge a book by its cover". Maybe I was over-emphasizing _how_ important this is ("hallmark" is probably too strong), but all-else-equal, a text being able to rely on the arguments made within as opposed to who the author is seems positive. And I think there's _obviously_ metrics by which you can judge an essay's good-ness beyond its author.

[SSC][0] is a good example. I think he writes very interesting essays that captivate and convince people on their own. The only "reputation" he had when he started was that he was psychiatrist. Recently he's gotten a bit more popular, but still, his reputation is just "someone who writes good essays".

Are you suggesting it's dangerous that SSC writes good, convincing essays, despite the fact that he's not some well-known figure?

If you have no previous knowledge of a cult, getting convinced by their writing seems to be more about getting convinced by bad arguments than it is about attempting to consider arguments directly. And once you're already in a cult, I think it's a very common feature to have members rely only on the reputation of the cult leader without trying to think critically about the actual things they're saying.

Like, let's say someone gets indoctrinated into a cult. You could say "Yeah, see, if they had just discounted the cult leader due to their reputation instead of trying to actually read what they had to say, they wouldn't have gotten indoctrinated." I guess? But they could have also used more scrutiny in examining the arguments? And if the reader isn't using scrutiny to examine the arguments, why do we think they're going to make good decisions about whose reputation to trust?

[0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/
Related question:

What's the best way to ventilate an old european house during winter?

I've taken up the habit of letting my bedroom windows (slightly) open at nighttime to have fresh air while sleeping.
I'm unsure this is really wise ecologically since outside air == cold air, but at the same time, there is no other way to get fresh air…

Any tip, or, better, professional opinion?
Your Ryzen probably comes with a Cooler (wraith prism). The CPU slows down considerably when it gets hot. Also, if you built the thing yourself, you might have added a super fast RAM, Motherboard, Nvme, and a capable graphic card.

Comparing Desktop to Laptop is Apple to Oranges. Otherwise the desktop market will no longer exist.
There used to be a series of books called "How to keep your XXX alive" In my case the XXX was "Toyota Pickup." I don't know if there's something similar for newer cars, but that book basically assumed you knew NOTHING and taught it to you. Including stuff like "don't rely on hydraulics: use jackstands."

I'd advise finding one, even if it's for the wrong car, since a lot of the basic stuff is the same. I started with that, a Haynes manual, and then found the complete Factory Service Manual for sale somewhere.

BTW: I have a set of 25+ year-old Harbor Freight jackstands that are fine. The bad ones IIRC, are from a specific batch a few years ago.

A long time ago I realized that the main difference between professional mechanics and myself is that they had the experience to (usually?) get something right the first time and the knowledge to do some things faster. But there's nothing they know that I can't learn; it'll just take me longer.

The first time I needed to change a flat, I had to ask for help because I had absolutely no idea what to do. But I watched closely and learned.
Another way to rephrase the question is: why don't
networked devices require signoff from a professionally licensed engineer on its specific software implementation before it goes to market?

You see "forethought" in devices offered to the public when regulation DEMANDS it: think cars, bridges, medical devices, because (or so it's been rationalized), the public needs accountability (a named, professionally licensed, buck-stops-with-them head to roll) when that product can cause harm.

But software harms TOO!. Think privacy, banking, relationships. Those can be harmed. It's always felt to me like a historical accident that networked devices, really most software in general, slipped past this accountability requirement. Without a specific , named accountable person, security seems to fall into the not-my-problem phenomenon, and continues generates articles like from the OP.

In the imagined future where signoff from professional engineers was required, you'd see pushback against a vendor by the engineer until the implementation was secure, because the engineer's licensure was on the line until it was secure. And the vendor couldn't just "shop" for a favorable signoff, because every engineer would be held to the same ethical standard and penalty.
Seems reasonable to expect that the version for 16" MBP/high-end 13"/iMac will be more or less the same thing but with more cores.
As I pointed out the other day in the comments of an article about Crunchyroll, they're actually a much better example than Pornhub. Much like YouTube, sites like Pornhub have the excuse that they ostensibly exist to let people upload their own, often amateur, content - and there was a lot of really good amateur content on there. Which, naturally, the commercial porn industry wanted to eradicate just as much as the pirated stuff because it was their direct competition. Part of the problem was that there's an inherent assymetry to this - it only takes a few really keen exhibitionists wanting to show off to entertain a much larger group of fans across the globe. Another part is that there's all kinds of niche content that, despite being both consensual and legal, isn't well served by mainstream porn (and in some cases can't be due to Masterard and Visa).
fluorescent lightS ended my in office career.

Would come in super early, turn lights off. Be fine for a couple hours. Others would come in and turn the lights on.

10-20 minutes later, boom massive migraine. Not the painful kind, but the IQ drop of 50+ points kind, completely drunk sensation.
Work refused to make any accommodations.
Tbh it's not that difficult, just hop in the IRC channel and ask for it
What alternative would you prefer? Not giving any loan at all for people in such circuimstances? Or give out money for free to anyone who pretends to be in this situation?
Same.

I have a specific schedule that I balance with caffeine pills, antacids, and advil.

I've also developed quite a few habits and strategies that help me keep pace.

Here's my virtual fist bump in solidarity.
Spoiler alert: the answer is that it's more profitable that way.
The hardest part is probably how you would handle payments.

I'm happy to pay for things like newspaper site subscriptions - I just don't want to give my card or any identifying information to known spammers, 30-days-to-unsubscribe data-sellers, and hostile companies that refuse to allow you to cancel subscriptions other than calling them during a 1 hour timespan once a week.

I'd be happy to throw $0.25 at a single article with no advertising or tracking and without leaking any identifying information at all - that means I have balance stored somehow, and I do not want to give even an email address [they've already shown that they cannot be trusted with it, much less anything else].

For example, NYT allows Californians purely because of the law that requires you to be able to sign up online -> cancel online only has this turned on if you have a CA billing address and CA geoip.

This is hostile, asshole design. The code is there already, the implementation is there already, they just require everyone in every other state to call in during tight hours if not absolutely forced to via regulation.

Blizzard/EA: Call of Duty has an option to opt out of selling your personal information. This option is only visible to be modified at all (not disabled - just gone entirely) if you are on a CA IP. If you ever log in once from another machine or another location, it's reset to retroactively sell all information and also not shown on the options menu.

Excessively heavy handed legal controls are needed because nobody can fucking behave.
As of today there are 68,446,700 unspent transaction outputs. Meanwhile there are approximately 2^256 possible private keys, so testing against any known wallets doesn't achieve any meaningful increase in your odds.
I love the idea and congratulate you on its execution, but I’d discourage others from trying the same, at least initially. The problem is that you have analysis-paralysis. You worry that you’ll make your 40-49 folder then realise that you missed something and want to re-arrange.

In most situations — you’ve found an exception — it’s better to think about it a bit but then just start. The numbers have no meaning, even if that doesn’t tickle my neatness gene quite as much as it might. ;-)