skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely there is some way to sequester the carbon in those trees? Seems preferable to letting them burn and releasing it back into the atmosphere.

Maybe we could chop the trees down and build homes out of them? Could help w/ California's homelessness problem...
Agreed, except that companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon are orders of magnitude more powerful than traditional media companies. Keep in mind that Google and Facebook are the gateway to the internet for the vast majority of users. If Facebook erases news, a vast majority of people may never know it happened.

If Google orders search results that highlight whatever it likes on the first page, and buries what it does not on the 10th page, people's understanding of the issues will be severely skewed. We are talking about companies that have the power to manipulate ideas and information orders of magnitude greater than anything in human history.
POWER in uppercase had always been for clustered mainframes and full depth racked servers
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Where does their money come from? Terraform Cloud and HashiCorp Cloud? Instead of increasing the velocity of Terraform so that Pulumi, Scalr, Spacelift, Env0, and a couple others cannot catch up with them, they are slowing down. Meanwhile, AWS has CDK and Azure has Bicep...
> they seem to have successfully contained SARS-CoV2

There is no evidence of that.

Wuhan was devastated by alpha, with around 45,000 deaths in a city of 11 million. (The 5 crematoria ran day and nite for months, and the 1-year funeral rites were mobbed with family members.)

Several cities are currently under lockdown, as China has struggled with delta.

Compounding that is the Chinese Sino* vaccines only have about 50% efficacy, which WHO considers ineffective for a vaccine.

China has also spread corona globally via their BRI workers. A dozen Iran leaders died from Chinese commercial flights.

So don't believe a single word the CCP says.
> we'll do to HTTP what we did to SMTP

they already did it - it's called chrome.
I'm not sure if this is helpful to you, but at some point I realized that I was using "open tab" to represent many different things. Once I started naming the uses, I realized that I could shift them to use-related systems. E.g., a "to read" tab gets fed to Instapaper and closed. a "to do" tab ends up on a relevant Kanban board. A "I might want to be able to find this again" tab goes into Pinboard. Tabs that are basically apps I want to keep open get turned into apps.

That, combined with relatively small units of work (most of my kanban cards are in the 0.25-2.0 day range) means that I can just go on tab closing sprees frequently.

I ended up liking this approach because having a zillion open tabs introduces a subtle stress and anxiety that's sort of like when I visit a hoarder.
Correct title: "ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop". There's no "well behaving ad".
Absolutely, it's a real treasure. Was so fun exploring before smartphones and digital maps.
The problem here is a human one, not a governmental one. The government is just doing what humans tend to do: consolidate and protect power.

The fact that this doesn’t serve anyone (other than their) interest is really just a side effect of the underlying cause.

We should champion this issue and we should fight to keep this kind of thing from happening. But the deeper issue here is one of human nature. How do we build a system that guards against ourselves? 50 years ago I would’ve pointed to our own government as an example, but I’m becoming less and less sure.
"only those with children could vote" implies removing the right to vote from people without children, which has nothing to do with compulsory voting.
I agree that this stuff can definitely be handled better.

https://github.com/django-query-profiler/django-query-profil... has a neat option for detecting likely N+1 queries. I usually use the Django Debug Toolbar for this.

Django's ".only()" method lets you specify just the columns you want to retrieve - with the downside that any additional property access can trigger another SQL query. I thought I'd seen code somewhere that can turn those into errors but I'm failing to dig it up again now.

I've used the assertNumQueries() assertion in tests to guard against future changes that accidentally increase the number of queries being made without me intending that.

The points you raise are valid, but there are various levels of mitigations for them. Always room for improvement though!
i just want as much bandwidth and accuracy through a bci as i can get with a keyboard
If you are growing single organs such as a liver, I would assume it to be more cost effective to simply grow the individual organ. If you are growing more complex structures and organ systems such as entire limbs or, for instance, a large portion of circulatory system (I have no idea how that would work surgically speaking, but we're already so far out in the weeds in this thread) I could see it making sense to grow the supporting structures in tandem.
If you are not more expensive than your accountant, you should probably do the work yourself. You're not making enough money to pay extra to avoid taxes, and unoptimized taxes are easy enough.
Here is a free tool that I made for better time-boxing: https://crushentropy.com/

(markdown for planning your day)
I get a kick out of stuff like this - I’m mostly an exec these days, but I recently prototyped a small database system to feed a business process in SQLite on my laptop.

To my amusement, my little SQLite prototype smoked the “enterprise” database. Turns out that a MacBook Pro SSD performs better than the SAN, and the query planner needs more tlc. We ended up running the queries off my laptop for a few days while the DBAs did their thing.
I think this kind of marketing language is aimed more at potential employees / investors than customers. Employees and investors often want to imagine themselves as part of a narrative where they're "democratizing" something.
> These benchmarks show that a very cheap server can easily handle 50 requests a minute to a "full stack" website.

I did, and all I see is someone spinning some numbers idly, like, hey, if I can lay 1 brick every second, then with 20000 people we can build a house in one second! So good!

a) entirely and totally lacking in experience running a heavy load website.

b) 50 requests a minute is so atrociously bad, it’s not even worth talking about.

c) there isnt any db load going on here, this is a full page single table query. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/contrib/flatpages/

Sure maybe a db exists, but it’s not relevant when you compare this to the complexity of doing write operations.

Ie. this is some hiiiigh level arm chair commentary right here.

Sure, they’re just talking about their website, but anyone going “oh yeah, look at this, those mangadex guys should learn a thing or two and run it on django”. …has no idea what they’re talking about.
> Tesla is basically the Apple of cars already. They raised the bar quit high for Apple to break into that market and not look like an also ran type product (i.e. like most of Tesla's competition right now).

The Apple of cars is Porsche, not Tesla. Porsche’s design language, desirability, quality and customer service is Apple-like in the car industry. Tesla is the opposite of that. High volume $40k cars with horrendous quality control issues, subpar interior quality and customer service.

Tesla, however, does set the bar high when it comes to being an EV and technology integration. Everything else, not so much.
It's complex.

When I first moved to Australia I rankled at compulsory voting as I believe that not participating is a valid political act. Countries without compulsory voting talk about the turnout as relative to previous years, and if it falls too far there will be questions about a mandate to govern.

In Australia that can't happen as turnout is always high, this leads to very little opportunity to overhaul the mechanism of elections to make it more applicable to the community, or to overhaul political parties entirely. Red team or Blue team are guaranteed some high proportion of the country voting for them and it gives a false sense of relevance.

However I'm now fully in favour of compulsory voting. Why?

Look at America, what an absolute shambles of a democratic system. One party spending decades attempting to stop black people voting. Voter suppression and gerrymandering (also not possible in Australia) baked into the political system. No thanks.

Australian politicians are no better, they would reach for those tactics in a heartbeat, compulsory voting stops us from heading down that path. There is no utopia, the system has problems, but the trade-off is worth it.
unpopular opinion most certainly but we are all part of the problem. if I apply for google right now I'm another one of their 10k applicants today. Google are never going to hire me. The solutions begins with applicants self filtering instead of blasting every company with their resume, then complaining that said companies are unable to scale their recruitment process.

Be more honest with yourself before you apply. Are you really qualified. Are you either already at or above the level of everyone they currently employ?
Best read in a smug Bavarian accent.
I have no issues with the protocol - I really like it. I really want this to succeed. I'm talking about the way the protocol is presented to the world, the project as a whole. You need to show people it's cool, it's flexible, it can do useful things while also embodying privacy and low cruft.

Otherwise it ends up like Brainfuck - impressively clever, but you wouldn't want to use it for anything. It could be great for education or in many other contexts, but it's important to show something.
“Reliably” is the tricky bit.

Accessibility gear needs to be robust, but a lot of the BCIs, especially the noninvasive ones, tend to be a bit janky. As a result, you can zip around in VR once the experienced lab tech sets you up, but maybe don’t have the DOF to control a real wheelchair or a system that disabled people can set up themselves. Some of this is probably just need some good systems engineering, but there are some legit technical challenges too.

I think this will start to change soon: there’s a lot of money flowing into neurotech and hopefully, some of it will end up with people who are more serious than hype-y. (If nothing else, I’d like a job :-))
There is this spectacular rocket failure: https://youtu.be/ycRVAcZC5R4

According to the reports it happened because a technician installed the innertial measurement unit upside down. It was supposedly designed to be impossible to do that, but the technician found a clever way to bend the PCB :)
Pretty sure it goes back a lot farther than 2010. As I recall Sean Barrett mentioned using it when working on Theif, which was released in 1998.
> An engineer can write the description, but only the lawyer can write the claims.

If anyone needs a one-sentence rationale why the entire concept of a software patent should be invalid, here it is.
> Windows is everywhere.

Not on the cellphone, smartv, router, supercomputer, webserver or tablet I use. Actually, they all run the same (with some customization) kernel.
Thank you! There are a few others like this:
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Yes? That was the point I was making, you don’t necessarily want universal suffrage. Those with long-term interest are better for society
> A marketing analyst who knows a little bit of HTML coding is going to benefit. A secretary who knows a little bit of javascript is going to benefit.

You'll need to explain both of these because it isn't obvious why or how. Neither one would ever need to utilize those skills in their normal performance of their work.

> A manager who understands some programming will certainly be more relaxed on set deadlines.

A manager of what? If they're running an industrial size stamping press, I kind of doubt it.

I feel like as a core skill knowing intermediate Microsoft Excel is more likely to result in productivity increases and personal enrichment for most non-IT people. Lists (sort, filter, input validation), calculations, statistics, automation, graphs, all a few weeks away in Excel as opposed to years away with programming.

This type of "programming is a panacea" arguing is rarely explained from end to end. Instead, it is just an arguing thrown out without exploration or explanation, and we're just meant to buy it because programming is cool or whatever. The real reason programming has such a halo right now is that it is well paid, and the subtle implication is that everyone will eventually "see the light" and become a programmer and get a big pay/career bump.

If programming is really a panacea imagine a world where it isn't a well paid skill/job/career, and then ask yourself why you're really arguing what you're arguing. People can make this same shallow argument about: accounting/finances, vehicle mechanics, cooking, medicine, sales/marketing, etc. And they're just as right about those as programmers are about this.
But why decrease your salary by more than 50%? I mean the effective per-hour salary.

Hey boss, you're paying me $100/hour, but I'll work twice as much! Now you'll only be paying me $50/hour, and the best part is that I'm loving it!
I whole heartedly agree. I made a top-level comment, but I think it bears repeating: this is human nature at play.

Governmental parties are making plays for more power under the guise of working “for the people”, but sadly they are deluded.

Not sure what the answer is here, but just voicing that you’re 100% correct in my estimation. This pandemic and the tragedies yet to come will always be leveraged by those in power to gain more power.
Thank you so much! Great suggestion--will see about adding that feature in coming days. I hope you enjoy the music! You might also like the reduced static version (a little different interface--it is searchable): https://www.locserendipity.com/Listen.html
A bot should do it. Because sometimes people throw a tantrum, so it's easier to just ignore a PR. Or a maintainer might post a quick reply, only to be bitten later on. I love and live by open source, but the drama can be exhausting.
Both parties _are_ becoming more authoritarian. The Economist just wrote a great summary of what's going on:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/09/04/the-threat-from...
Back when state population was measured in the tens of thousands.
I've learned most of these things while writing SIMD code in C++. PC processors have very fast bitwise instructions processing fp32 and fp64 vectors, like andnps, xorpd, and the rest of them.
Exposing a Fraudulent $100M Corporate Takeover
why? the explanation is entirely reasonable and was expected beforehand
Getting back to their prison state roots.
The trend is that anything that invokes National Security or Think of Dah Children gets bipartisan support and flies through without comment.
Microsoft has no threat on the desktop. Apple has a respectable slice but still small compared to Microsoft. With regard to linux... well, if ME, Vista and 8 couldn't bring it into a good position, I don't know what would.
Imo - Best defense is to get off of mainstream software. Bet they'll have a packaged zero click exploit for iOS but not Caylx :)

But that's not for everyone
> The amount of "celebrity" someone has directly effects how much attention their statements will get, and thus the impact of those statements.

Or behave in a way in which nobody would purchase their products, which their role as CEO defines as one of their highest priorities.

Quarterbacks play football well.

Are you seeing how this is a silly comparison?
> (by the way, the examiners do, most of the time, look for it)

Sure, but usually superficially (and not, I think, required); which is fair - you can't practically require the patent examiners to have the kind of breadth and depth necessary to have a good feel for this.
Thanks for the thoughtful responses and the link -- Django Query Profiler looks nice!
I imagine it is easier to deal with in the abstract than confronted in the real thing

I find the argument that my civil liberties are being more impacted if you don’t wear a mask more impactful than the reverse.
ACLU has already been taken by the new American leftist orthodoxy. Turning the tide will require new thinking.
One that I came across was on a recurring sales receipt because that's the only way to auto-pay with a card, and when the card wouldn't process the receipt status would still say "paid". Had to click into the receipt to see the card payment failed.

After a few years it was fixed, so that it says "paid (failed)".
> I derive happiness from working towards an enormous goal.

Why an “enormous” goal? Does that come from a place of hubris. Do you push other people towards your enormous goal even at the cost of relationships and health?

And how much does you “enormous” goal actually benefit society?
Australia's always been a bit icky when it comes to digital rights and censorship, but this just takes it over the top.
I think that’s not the full story. The standard says:

A quiet NaN bit string should be encoded with the first bit (d1) of the trailing significand field T being 1. A signaling NaN bit string should be encoded with the first bit of the trailing significand field being 0

That does use “should” (not “shall”) and is described as a “preferred encoding”, so it’s standards-compliant to do something else, but it’s not recommended.
Oh neat a picture of nothing
Four eyes spying on your citizens and sending reports back to your intelligence agency is sort of the point of Five Eyes (well, one of the points).

It ain't cheating if you're not spying on your own people.
I suspect the reference to 1890 may be to Bellamy’s Looking Backward, one of the most popular books its time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Backward
There's a difference between "hustle" and "hustle culture". Most reasonable people don't hate people who work hard. That's their prerogative.

"Hustle culture", or the expectation that anything less than "hustling" is invalid or invaluable is what people hate. They don't hate people who decide that they want to devote their spare time to a new startup, personal project, or whatever, just the (rather common) attitude and culture of people who subscribe that lifestyle.
"democratize" is double-speak for "closed source".
It is not any unreleased OS though. It is a major release of the most widely used desktop OS in the world, that presumably got through many layers of testing and was released to a small set of outside users before the final rollout less than 1 month away. One would expect a pretty solid state by then.
> Looking at the Basic Talos II motherboard and CPU bundle, that's already 3480 USD.

That's quite competitive with AmigaOne once you account for the far better performance you get with the Talos. Run a free AROS operating system on the board and you've got a great, future-proof machine for all sorts of uses.
Yeah, but I'm thinking this is a repeat of Windows Vista and I'll be able to stay on 10 for a while before they create Windows 12 which will be a much better release.
- Working on your own project/company is tremendously different from working at someone else's stupid company that is obviously doomed to fail but you have a mortgage and kids so you need to work there for at least a year before switching jobs in order to not have your resume look weird

- Taking time off for vacation and getting adequate sleep are literally the things hustle culture rails against, since normies do that and to "succeed" you have to not do those
I don't have any mainstream social media presence. I deleted those accounts years ago. Could the AFP create profiles in my name with my likeness?
Yes it is toxic. It's all about striking it rich, not necessarily making people's lives meaningfully better.

It also in puts work on a pedestal when work is just a small component of a life well lived.
I believe the author has missed the point here. The conversation is not that “working hard is a bad thing”. “Hustle culture” is about making character judgements based on how many “hustles” one has going on at any given time. That is, if you aren’t killing yourself trying, then you aren’t trying. This is obviously awful and not a culture I want to live in. I’m happy that the author is having fun with their business, and that they’re able to devote a lot of energy to it. But someone who makes other choices isn’t lesser. Hustling isn’t righteous, it’s just a thing you can do if you want (and are able).

Edit: worth stating that “hustling” is almost never necessary. It can be a ploy to convince workers to save the venture money by doing extra work. It can be a tactic of control, or superiority. One thing is certain: it’s gross.
Mandatory voting can be done well if the first two options for every race are "I approve of none of these candidates" and "I approve of all of these candidates". Nobody should be forced to vote for a candidate that they don't want to, but it's also useful to be able to distinguish between a disaffected voter (the first option) and an apathetic voter (the second option). With non-mandatory voting, that distinction is erased, and the winner gets to freely claim that they have a mandate of the masses even if 70% of the eligible populace stayed home because they hate all the candidates.
Hurricanes Now Look Different
CGTN is Chinese State Owned btw.
>What we need, instead, is a literature of self-awareness.

>Anyways, back to work.

I'm a bit confused; isn't this the exact kind of preachy post that the author is deriding here? Maybe a big part of what makes posts irritating is the preachy influencer attitude rather than the actual subject matter.
He didn't. By stating that he has now way of verifying he most likely meant that he exhaust all the ways, within his ability, to verify it. While the other poster made no effort to verify if Jacques is not a bot (it's easy). There's a difference in actively verifying given statements and passively accepting all that is written or all doubts that a busy mind can produce.
I would add that people leaving is a cascading failure. One person leaves. That load falls on someone else, leading them to leave too, and so on. "Backfill fast" might seem like the answer, but it compounds the problem when the team that is under greater pressure due to attrition must now stop and work interviews and training instead. Pair that with paranoid managers who decide that now is the time to drop spyware riddled laptops on the whole team, since all the new people are getting them anyway...

The major loss of a team member leaving is the institutional knowledge. They wrote some things that need maintenance and the knowledge on how to do that leaves with them. If I'm an experienced person treading water in a new code base, I may as well get a salary bump by leaving for a new company. Management really doesn't put themselves in our shoes.
This also creates trust issues in a lot of applications like Point of Sale, Machine Control Devices, Security and Automation Solutions, Motion Control Solutions, Etc.

I miss Balmer a little bit. Developers hate this shit. Have trust that if you support developers, they will advocate your OS.