skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solar seems like a best fit for existing buildings, like Musk's solar roofs/windows. For wide spaces there can be other options, like wind, which has a much lower footprint. But even a well placed solar farm does not need to smother wildlife, e.g. you leave space in between, plant lower bushes, etc.

As regards efficiency, solar is nowadays not bad, there's a reason it is the cheapest energy in many countries, especially during the summer months.
A company not providing all devices necessary to do your job is a huge blaring red flag.

When there are legal issues, any device that has ever had company data on it is fair game for legal discovery.

This means if you’ve used your personal laptop or cellphone to ever log into a company account, you will be legally required to turn it over to company lawyers.

If you wipe it or delete anything including private photos congratulations you’re now guilty of destruction of evidence and potentially obstruction of Justice.

Keep a total and complete firewall between work and personal devices and data.

As an added benefit, this pays dividends on keeping a healthy work life balance.

Not on call? No work phone.
USD2021$15M per Falcon 9 launch (re-used, assuming first launch was paid for by a customer) [0]

60 Starlink satellites per Falcon 9 launch [1]

= + USD2021$250,000 in launch costs per satellite (+ manufacturing / ops costs)

[0] https://www.elonx.net/how-much-does-it-cost-to-launch-a-reus...

[1] https://space4peace.org/starlink-gears-up-to-launch-nearly-1...
It is? I thought the rollout of that change wasn't coming for a few more years. I feel like I've had to turn it on explicitly in Firefox and Chrome fairly recently.
It depends on the state but some states, as you say, want you to file for even working a single day and states are apparently really starting to crack down.
> could have achieved its core goals --- memory safety and robust concurrency --- as a dialect of C++ instead

The C++ Standard committee disagree with you - and not for lack of trying, either. The C++ Core Guidelines are the best they could come up with, and these are not rigorously enforced unlike the safe subset of Rust.
I’m by no means suggesting it be mandatory, only available for those who do want to maintain their identity across disparate systems.

If you want to be $random_uuid, that’s fine too.
What's really interesting is that these models are using some non-trivial portion of all easily accessible human writing -- yet humans learn language really well with significantly less input data. What's missing in the field to replicate human performance in learning?
Consistent Fitness – YC for Fitness
Hey HN! This is Joe (nezaj) and Stopa (stopachka). Both of us are Clojure hackers [1]. For the last few years, we’ve been on a journey to get fit. To do this, we hired a personal trainer, created a mini-community within our friend group, and built custom tools for ourselves, to create a sort of “Datadog for our fitness”.

3 months ago, we had a realization: what if we tried to create a company that did this? A combo of a nutrition coach, personal trainer, community, and custom tools that helps you get in the best shape of your life.

We weren’t experts, so we started off by launching a free cohort, and signing up 20 people. The cohort ended a month ago and folks lost an average of 7-8LBs over the last 3 months. Our top performers had up to 9% weight loss!

It started off with an Excel spreadsheet and a Slack group. But very soon, it turned into (a) a Slack bot, (b) a mobile app, and (c) a curriculum, that progressively sets you up with the habits to reach and maintain the best shape of your life. [2]

With Consistent, you get a bundled set of curriculum and tools to help you learn what you don’t know you don’t know, and make progress.

The program is 4 months, and costs 799 (200 dollars each month). This is equivalent to 2 sessions with a personal trainer a month. To keep us aligned, we’re also offering a 100% money-back guarantee. If at any point you choose to leave the program (even 1 day before close), you can get your money back.

There’s one catch though.

We require you weigh yourself everyday, log your food everyday, and log your exercise everyday. In addition you need to send a reflection once a week as well as a shirtless progress photo.

We've already signed up several founders + engineers and have a couple more spots for our next cohort, which starts October 17th. If you’re interested, please let us know by filling out our interest form!

[1] The story: https://consistent.fit/posts/founder-diaries/

[2] Product demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3izicogMCM
The issue with "expensive to calculate" values like the duration of media (for example, variable encodings) is that the encoder tries to help others avoid rematerializing these values by saving its calculation in some metadata. The problem is consumers then have to "trust" the encoder; this post demonstrates a non-malicious case, but perhaps there are more malicious cases (like the vulnerability in Android's libstagefreight years ago).

For example, I wrote an iTunes-in-the-browser web app; I needed to know durations of songs to display them. MP3 doesn't include these in metadata IIRC, so I needed to pre-process them with ffmpeg just to have duration data. I wasn't doing anything with that other than displaying it. But it would have been nice to just have that info in the metadata.
They're gonna get in trouble for that logo if this gets any significant amount of attention.
Playwright is essentially a headless chrome, firefox, and webkit browser with a nice API that's intended for automation/scraping. It's far more heavy than something like curl, but it has all the capabilities of any browser you want (not just chrome as with puppeteer) and makes stuff like interacting with javascript a breeze.

It's similar to Google's puppeteer, but in my opinion even with chrome much more pleasant and productive. Microsoft's best developer tool IMO, saves me tons of time.
How many of those type of reactors have they build in past 10 years? Unless they are building at least 1 a year I don't consider it overall proper experience. And realistically we should aim to much higher numbers, as at that point most problems would already have solutions and quality would be substantially higher with skilled workers.
I use Vivaldi, the performance issues are news to me and it seems pretty good. Though the latest update it keeps crashing when I open file selections, need to figure out what’s going on there. Before that it was very stable for me. I wouldn’t want to give up its tab management now though, especially its ability to do side by side/tiled groups.
I'd jump at an opportunity for 3 days a week even if the work was from the office :)
In my experience and talking with other parents it's often more nuanced than public vs private (or red vs blue). The best schools in our region are dominated by wealthy suburban public schools, a few elite magnet public schools, and a few expensive ($60k+) private schools. Whereas the performance of the cheaper private schools and most charters don't seem to be substantially better or worse than the average public school.

However, there are definitely a couple public school districts that entered into a death spiral and the parents fleeing those are what keep the mediocre private/charter schools in business.

But if there's one thing I've learned is that parents rarely base their actual school choices on their politics -- the most left-wing liberals will send their kids to a private school and the most right-wing conservatives will send their kids to a public school if they think that's in the kids' best interest.
We need “leetcode for managers.”
Well Norway should probably not do solar (except marginal, e.g. instead of traditional roof tiles solar roofs instead). But Norway had plenty of hydro and thermal options, even wind should work well in the more southern areas.
Something poetic about this is that Lisp was the original "AI language", back when AI was more about reasoning and decision trees.

One of the classical books - Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - even uses a robot vacuum cleaner navigating a grid as one of its toy scenarios :)
Let me know when they actually break ground and start building one :-).

I fully support TSMC's efforts to diversify the jurisdictions that have semi-conductor fabs though. That is a huge win for them and makes the Chinese mainland threat to assimilate Taiwan less? More fab capacity is a win.
Bindiff and POC for the IOMFB vulnerability, iOS 15.0.2
Yes. And so is working from home. It's all broken.
I second BBEdit. I have used BBEdit since the late 90s and I personally find it to have the best Search and Replace GUI of any editor I have used on any platform. This despite the fact, I mostly use VSCode on Windows for the last few years

The GUI is very keyboard friendly

It supports GREP

It remembers past searches and replaces so when you need to repeat a search from earlier you don’t have to reconstruct it

Text Factories allow you to build very complex work flows

The presentation of search results is first rate.

Multi-file search GUI and results presentation is the best.

Oh, and the file comparison tools are amount the best too.
I'm sure this will work great for powering an aircraft, too. You could just let it all hang from an anchor at the highest point in the battery :-P
Unless it is and will forever be a very small dev team, choosing a language based on popularity is a great idea. But maybe it depends on what you consider popular. I think Python would qualify.
> 'Public Relations' is the result of the word 'propaganda' being given the propaganda treatment

This meme elides over the historical reason Bernays et al eschewed the term propaganda: the fascist regimes were printing outright lies, something he worked to avoid. To differentiate propaganda which doesn’t lie (but still, of course, seeks to influence) from the kind which embraces outright lying, the term “public relations” emerged.
> This list intended only for company with Common Lisp and Scheme usage

I remember reading somewhere that user-generated tags were a good idea, even if there are some "synonims", because people that talk about "films" and people that talk about "cinema" clearly don't want to spend time together. I think it's the case here. People that want to exclude anything that's not Scheme or Lisp aren't going to be convinced.
I do not believe for one second (I could be dead wrong of course!) that platforms know what I am spending money on. It is not that I am not getting perfect deals fed to me in ads, it is that I am getting fed things I do not have a slight interest in and would absolutely never purchase. I play tennis and if I was getting fed ads for racquets that cost $500 or tennis ball machines that cost $3k that would be one thing (not a very good deal and I would never spend that much money) but what I am getting are ads for hoola hoops which I would not buy even if someone was selling them for $1.
> Without Germany's readily available gas turbines, France wouldn't be able to stabilize their net

Nonsense. Nuclear energy could power much more in France, it's only for political reasons that the grid managers do not ramp up nuclear production to meet demand, thus having to import electricity at times. The nuclear-powered baseline could be much higher without issues others than political (% of renewable energy in the mix)
Software engineering has always been a team sport, even though we've known since The Mythical Man Month that throwing more programmers at a problem just slows the work down.

Choosing a non-mainstream language can absolutely contribute business value. For example, toy or tool, making your creation extensible adds value. Multiple businesses have spawned from this, and Lisp and Lua are prime candidates of non-mainstream languages that billion dollar companies have decided to choose to build substantial portions of their products around so that users could extend.

Even someone who doesn't know AutoLISP can look at an AutoLISP script from decades ago and get it within an hour.

For another example, after being scolded for using Unicode to write my overstrikes, I wanted to see how difficult it would be to extend Arc's markdown to add DHTML overstrikes (DHTML and Unicode both have their own ways of doing them). This wasn't hard, despite not being intensely familiar with Arc and pg's programming style being relatively off-beat (Arc is essentially sillyScheme, and he takes full advantage of writing things and defining them later, which is normally easy to cope with but part of the design philosophy of Arc was to minimize syntax, so it sometimes takes longer than you would see in a less holistically-cultivated Scheme). I checked

(def markdown
... )

and figured out how to add to it pretty quickly.
Interview: Thoughts in Between with Matt Clifford
Despite the many shared traits with some fossil fuels: extraction by mining, finite amounts, subject to geopolitics… uranium is a chemical element and not a fossil fuel, especially the “fossil” part.
Off-topic, but is levels.fyi... on the level? I ask because I'm hearing about all sorts of 350k-500k offers for senior engineers, but they're not showing up there. My current salary seems right about "in band" on there, but people in my network who I talk to seem to think I'm way underpaid.
I didn't completely get it, but it sure sounds scary. Probably because I don't know what happened at Harrisburg. Did people die there?
> Every time I have a problem like this, I just think back to the Magic Mouse with the charging port on the bottom.

I thought this was the dumbest goddamn thing ever until I was issued one at work. It turned out to be completely fine. The (long) battery life and (fast) charge time make it a non-issue. The degree to which it'd have been better with a more-traditionally-placed port is so tiny that it's hardly worth consideration.

Now, the backward-ass assumptions about how I'll prefer to charge my gen. 1 Pencil and which mode would be the better one to require a tiny, easy-to-lose adapter—that's another matter. "Surely users will want to plug it in to an iOS device lightning port to charge, such that it makes the iOS device nearly impossible to use while the Pencil's charging, and in a way that looks designed to break the charging connector on the Pencil if you look at it wrong, rather than simply charging it with their normal charger—which they couldn't use to charge the iOS device while the pencil's in its lightning port, anyway—while continuing to use their tablet or phone normally. Surely wanting to plug it in to a normal charger will be unusual, and not something that people want to do in all but the most unusual circumstances." eyeroll
Working is broken?
I think I got my first programming job because the interviewers noticed I was smart and driven and figured I'd be cheap enough they could afford to give me a go.

That company was less dysfunctional than the one in the article, admittedly, although arguably not by much.
They are reading the script. It is an narrative.

Mostly it is very hard politics.

Forcing tech people to live in zone X will increase voters and tax revenues to political party Z.

there is whole system to "milk" the middle class.

Rents, taxes, products, private schools, medical centers, etc.

Now with remote working suddenly some rents are getting lower in high rent places.

People are now really choosing where they want to be and whom they will socialize.

Imagine the audacity of serfs having freedom..
The race to save California's famous sequoia trees [video]
Looking forward fiddling with this!

Great move to open source this. 250 dollar was a fair price, but this way more people can enjoy Remix and thus the web will advance.
Just be around lol, and really manage how you maintain your uptime so you can deal with their downtime. Easier said than done.
The world is broken.
I've seen a lot of data that shows hours per week have gone up, but hours isn't necessarily productivity.
Fixing the major defect involved a minor update?

You resubmitted it to Apple twice without noticing, and you're mad at Apple for all the "delays". Really? Other developers were waiting their turn in the review line while you were going back and forth with the reviewers on an update that was defective from the start. Take some responsibility!
> An email would be nice. Maybe a fruit basket.

Ask not what Apple can do for you -- ask what you can do for Apple.
It feels rare to see Amazon ever make a change to such a publicly stated policy like this...

Jeff Bezos recently stepped down as CEO. Google tells me that happened July 5th of this year, a few months ago.

He founded the company. It's essentially under new management for the first time ever.

I don't think you can infer much from this incident. There are too many unusual factors at play and we don't have an established track record for what the "new normal" (post Bezos) will be for Amazon.
I recently wrote about this topic and am in agreement that the term is poorly defined and thus you can’t really define how the metaverse is different from today’s Internet. My conclusion is that the VR-ness is the least interesting aspect of it. The most interesting aspect to me is that ability to do business with anyone and to do so anonymously (as your avatar).

https://www.startuplevelup.com/musings-on-the-metaverse/

I also think that Discord is the platform most likely to become the eventual metaverse and would love to invest or be involved somehow!
Our local grocery store (Fred Meyer, aka Kroger) has started charging a fee to take out extra and get cash back. Not a lot, but a bit annoying. I used to get cash that way all the time, but even for a nominal fee I just avoid that store now. I am weird, yes.
Have you ever seen black standup?
Living in Maui, I have a remote job (my agency/consultancy) and a job doing fun stuff (driving people to Hana, Haleakala OR working on a whalewatching boat). I am setting up residual income streams to save for my own property here.

I have a startup/movement I am working on as well, freeing up my time from clients to invest more time and money into it.

Balance is the key to fulfillment, to longevity.
I don't understand why you gave the example of C++ (Linux)

Linux is written in C, and, perhaps someday, Rust.

Linus doesn't like C++ and has explicitly objected to, among other things, its enthusiasm for implicit allocation. Rust's implicit allocation all lives in libraries and so the Rust for Linux project ripped that out.
It is really nice, OpenVPN is good, but it is definitely harder to configure, and slower. I also like that it is hard to shoot yourself in the foot with Wireguard given it is really hard to mess up and create an insecure config.

ProtonVPN is also at least a bit better than other commercial VPNs, specifically the "Secure Core" feature is quite good. Proton is one of only like two or three companies I actually trust when it comes to their security and honesty.
IMHO no even if I've been working from home since 2006 when I became self employed.

What's broken is having to go to the office every single day. In my experience before and after starting to work from home there is an absolute need to work face to face either to create some bonds between the team members or with a customer or in those rare phases when you have to create something and you need to go full speed with brainstorming sessions, talk to people etc. In those cases a physical presence is much more efficient that remote communications.
I think op means that a graph is not sufficient to describe a NN. If a layer is Y=XB, then you draw that as set of nodes Y and individual weight b_ij as edge-weights from X. Right.

But can you describe things like concat, max-pooling, attention etc. without changing the meaning of the edges?
Or do you have to annotate edges to now mean "apply function here"? If so, op probably wants to say that you are describing more than a graph. There's a graph there, but you need more, you need elaborate descriptions of what edges do. In that case, op could be correct to say that technically, NN are not graphs.

Or, perhaps NN can generally be represented by vertices and edge lists. It certainly isn't the usual way to draw them, though.
I agree, but do try to keep an open mind.

This "reclaim" stuff seems like it really doesn't recognize the reality of the civil war at all, it just comes off as a way to make invading peaceful neighbors whose stuff you want seem like it's the status quo rather than an extreme step opposed in force by the local population.

It makes no sense. I'm sure the media is biased towards prioritizing reporting about the India/China border conflict, the China/Taiwan conflict, the China/Vietnam conflict, the China/Indonesia conflict... but still, those are all significant conflicts. I buy that they're being more heavily reported on, but not that the facts are literally incorrect. It's not like I'm getting news from NPR, and the publisher definitely has no great attachement to US hegemony.
I guess we can dispense with the usual idea that workers have no choice but submit to anything a company wants.
This is likely to run into the same problem Gaim did before it changed to Pidgin. Or Lindows...
I actually saw one of the few commercial Smalltalk vendors hiring a while back. Though, it seemed like it was less writing smalltalk and more building the underlying platform.
They can rent it free to BLM and other social causes?

It is better than giving money to "something" they would be providing real stuff and places.
foundry is a capital intensives business.

the processing steps that is involved is like 300+. that's why you hear the term "yield" in the semis foundry business. each step that went wrong is going to affect your yield.

here is a short video that show the semis fab process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9arR8T0Qts
That's not true, you don't need any consent banners at all!

As long as you're not spying on your users or stealing their data.

Simple as that.

For example:

https://noyb.eu/en

https://codeberg.org/

See any consent banners? No? Just guess why.
Speaking of tax, allowing employees to work from home may allow them to avoid the newly created Seattle payroll tax: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/tax/articles/city-of-s...
I think we shouldn't be forgetting about the disposal of solar panels as well - https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/solar-panel-was...
I'm shallow, I need screenshots before I try a GUI
Public relations doesn't distinguish itself from propaganda by not lying; that is itself propaganda about "public relations". Public relations lies nonstop. Public relations is nothing more than a rebranding of propaganda because propaganda became associated with fascism.

And Bernays had no qualms about lying. This is the man who endeavored to convince women that cigarettes were "Torches of Freedom." He was an amoral psychopathic dirtbag.

And yes, he knew what he was doing was wrong:

> Throughout the job, Bernays concealed the fact that he was working for the American Tobacco Company, and succeeded in keeping his own name out of the affair as well. Staff were instructed never to mention his name. Third parties were used, and various notable people received payments to promote smoking publicly as if on their own initiative.[47] (Decades later, however, Bernays boasted about his role.)[48] Bernays did not smoke cigarettes himself, and persistently tried to induce his wife Doris to quit.[49]