skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any employee can refuse to work. Its called quitting.

That's a very different thing than this of course, which is based around the idea, its not worth it to fire them all.
If only the hardware compatibility was better. It hasn't worked on my past three laptops.
From context, do you mean "It definitely does support 1 hand lid operation" instead of "It definitely does not"?
Sounds a lot like Linkedin. It's just all "Congrats" messages when someone posts something. No substantial or meaningful discussion at all.
Just because you disagree with someone — even about something as fundamental as the nature of their personal identity —doesn’t mean you’re bigoted or “phobic.”

My mom believes she has an immortal soul that is redeemed by Jesus Christ whose body and blood are present in the Eucharist. I disagree. Does this make me a soulphobe who hates Catholics?
While I agree - plenty of CIOs and managers vote the opposite with their wallets.

Why not just set it to auto reboot every week, that seems to fix it - right?
Instagram Struggles with Fears of Losing Its ‘Pipeline’: Young Users
https://archive.ph/BX1hx
Soon Python will add sigils to variables and Satan will start having to wear mittens.
People can speak from the perspective of what companies need/want without neccesarily implying anything about what is best for society overall.
Many people live in the exclusion zone just fine. Their rates of cancer are not higher then anywhere else. Much of that area could be inhabited just fine.

And again, that's like saying 'Early Zepplins destroyed to much stuff we can never use airplanes again' as if the reactors there are in any way comparable to modern reactors.
It's really tough to find good people, but for 500K FAANG jobs, there's still a long line of applicants.

I don't think we've reached the state (yet) where firms are going to be keeping blacklists of activists.

But we're certainly heading in that direction as techies try to force employers into more extreme stances. Dave Chappelle is a popular guy with broad mainstream appeal, and it's incredibly arrogant for Netflix employees to try to deplatform him, or to try to dictate what Netflix, a company with a global reach, can show to a worldwide audience.

And I think we are going to see some mass firings and circulation of blacklists in at least some of the FAANGS before people wake up and realize they are no longer in college protesting some speaker they think makes them "unsafe". For these types of salaries, some professionalism is expected, and long term employers will demand it.
I strongly encourage you to try and achieve this in less than 24 working hours with the hardware and software that was available at that time. Even if you "cheat" and use high-end workstations and ~25 years of new knowledge and hindsight, even a talented programmer would likely struggle with this problem for multiple months.
If you haven't watched it, on what basis do you assert that the characterization of it as “sexualization of prepubescent children” is at all valid?

I haven't watched it, and have no specific opinion, but I certainly do know that many times when I’ve seen characterization of objectionable content in media it wasn't supported by a reasonable viewing of the media.
If anyone else is wondering, the 1k number reported comes from a source[1] not directly linked in this article.

[1]: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/netflix-d...

> "At least one thousand Netflix employees are expected to participate in a virtual walkout to protest Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos’ recent comments in support of Dave Chappelle’s latest special, The Closer, according to a current staffer who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter."

This should probably be the main article linked in this thread.

Anyways according to wikipedia Netflix has just over 12k employees, so 1k+ walkout would be 8%+ walkout which would be pretty significant.
Most of the stories point to this August 29th tweet:

https://twitter.com/DaphneDorman/status/1166937728681791488

Maybe that dragged on, maybe there’s some private messages he heard about which aren’t public but the main point was simply that it seems like a politically convenient stretch to state with certainty that the blame goes entirely to an undefined “mob” rather than any of the other factors her friends and family acknowledge. I don’t love mob tactics but to be honest that read more like an an attempt to stir up a reactionary mob rather than calm things down.
That list of murdered trans people is awful.

I wonder why only two I could find were trans men, and almost all were in large cities? Is it that much safer to be a trans man than a trans woman?

It’s a shame there isn’t any details at all around the circumstances of their deaths. I wonder if that could have relevant content at all?
Pythons existing threading support (via the threading module) can already do true concurrency just fine. Concurrency and parallelism are not the same thing. The GIL limits parallelism, making separate OS threads operate concurrently but not in parallel. Removing the GIL will allow threads in python programs to operate concurrently and in parallel.

https://go.dev/blog/waza-talk
Literally every steel mill worked this way for quite a long time and did just fine.
If you publicly rediculed her when she was just trying to mind her own business, i'd go with yes.

[I'm not making any comment on how right the twitter mob is. Haven't seen the commedy special, no idea what's said in it]
I think the national security aspect can be mitigated by keeping many of the existing fossil fuel plants operational as an emergency backup, but not running them in normal circumstances.
Technically every form of power is an indirect form of solar power.
And they will fail. I read long ago that the book "Ready Player One" was given to all FB employees and it is therefore fair to say that the metaverse is inspired by that book. Looking at Facebook today and trying to map that into a VR world will be a universe carpet bombed with advertisement and sponsored content. The universe you as a user would roam in would be like living on the canvas of a instance in Internet Explorer that has all available toolbars installed.
The majority were killed by their partners, who were of course not at all radical feminists.
In case the name doesn't ring a bell: Sinclair is the group that was widely reported on a few years ago in a series of viral videos that showed dozens of their anchors reciting the same exact line about fake news.[1] They control a large segment of the "local news" market, and viewers are frequently unaware that they are watching a Sinclair station.

[1] https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo?t=34
The man pages are the reference manual. You might want to search for "systemd service tutorial" or something like that, there's a lot of blogs that explain how to make a simple service.
Except coal has gotten super duper expensive, and most Chinese coal plants are designed to burn high grade coal such as produced in Australia. Many can’t run at all on the much more common lower grade coal that they can find inside of China, or they can’t run effectively on it.

So, the Chinese are spending way more money than they should on building super duper expensive coal plants that can’t effectively run on the kind of coal that they can get. And they have a coal embargo against Australia, so they can’t import the stuff that they could actually burn effectively.

Meanwhile, solar panels have continued to get progressively less expensive, so that even in China, it is now cheaper to run solar panels than it is to burn coal.
I would good money to have something like this in a PowerPoint extension.
I don't think the author's claim is accurate. In truth there is reporting on Iran in (to take just one example) the New York Times which has nothing to do with the nuclear deal and which frequently does cover the struggles of normal Iranians. There is probably less than the author wants, b/c he would like it to be more widely covered. This is understandable. But the situation in Iran is well covered. Indeed I follow it b/c I have an interest in the country and find that the Post and Times do a good job.

Articles not about the nuclear deal appear about once a month or slightly more frequently. What is more likely is that these articles are not that widely read. If this coverage were as widely read as coverage of the NFL, for example, no doubt more US newspapers would have bureaus in Iran.

Examples from the past few months... (This is excluding many articles having to do with the nuclear deal)

- September 28, "‘I Can’t Imagine a Good Future’: Young Iranians Increasingly Want Out" (page A-4)

- September 3, "An Iranian commander who said the West deployed lizards as nuke spies dies from Covid-19" (apparently did not appear in the print edition)

- August 13, "Iran’s Health System ‘Beyond Disastrous’ From Covid Surge" (page A1)

- August 5, "A New President Takes Office in Iran, Solidifying Hard-Line Control" (page A-8)

- July 28, "‘I Am Thirsty!’ Water Shortages Compound Iran’s Problems" (page A-10)

There is separately plenty of reporting about the nuclear deal. Plus Iran is mentioned frequently in articles about Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Saudi arabia, etc, depending on the topic.
Well there are still quite a lot of compiler bugs. I personally have open issues going back as far as 2018. Knowing the compiler has bugs and that new ones are constantly being discovered makes debugging a pain because you have a lot less confidence that the problem is your code. I have many times blamed the compiler for my mistakes, something I've almost never done with C.
Now do -Os

my results:

time ./size-optimized 30000
real 0m1,164s

time ./optimized2 30000
real 0m1,207s

time ./optimized3 30000
real 0m1,216s
That flaw is by no means inescapable. Renewable energy is cheap, so it doesn’t matter if you can’t store it efficiently. If you loose 75% of the energy by storage you can just make 4 times the amount to compensate. So the answer here is still the same: Infrastructure. Note we also have unexplored battery technology which might make storing more efficient in the future so really the answer here is primarily infrastructure (but also research and technology).

And the same goes for the lack of baseline. A flaw yes, but not so inescapable. You can diversify the grid with distributed, stored, and centralized power, each can compensate for the flaws in the other. You can capture wind off shore, dam for hydro in the mountains, and build whole bunch of solar in the desert. You can connect different climates with high voltage power lines such that if one area experiences low solar and low wind at the same time for weeks at a time, excess power generated from adjacent regions could compensate.

The answer is still the same: infrastructure.
I think most people in that situation would have saved up a lot of money so that they can support themselves properly during that period of time between jobs or between sources of income.
I have been following programming and technology for decades and I had never heard of it.

Every project should have a concise (one or two sentence) description in the GitHub README and the website's homepage. Even the most well-known tools.
How’s the trackpad? How does it compare to a MacBook? I can’t find a non apple laptop that comes even close in terms of high sensitivity, yet amazing palm typing reject, and multi finger gestures that work in almost every context.
Are you talking about entertainment videos where some random person tests there own car where the cut to the beginning the most difficult routes they have found where previous software and sometimes even human drivers have difficulty, with the uneventful parts often cut or sped up?

If so, I've seen quite a few of those for the Tesla FSD beta, but none for any other cars. Not that I try to find them, the Tesla hype must just make those come up more. Do you have any of them with other cars showing them go through these same routes without problems, that FSD struggles with? That might be fun to watch, even if it's not significant actual data.
> This seems to be a self reporting scheme for companies testing self driving cars in the state. I could find little or nothing about the details of the testing being done or methodology used by each company.

It is a self reporting scheme. Waymo publishes their methodology at [1], Aurora at [2]. I'm not aware who else publishes their methodology, so it's up to you how much you trust them.

> Hypothetically, could company A use company employees as human drivers driven specific routes chosen by the company, while company B used volunteers from the public in their own cars driving their own routes, and both data sets would go into the same CA DMV data?

Yes, why shouldn't it go to the same dataset? Company A tests in an area defined by their Operational Design Domain (ODD), company B's ODD is simply everywhere in CA (that's what they've committed to).

> Could company A have any incentive to improve miles per disengagement to the point where they might intensively train their drivers, direct them about certain situations which don't require disengagement, etc., choose to drive on routes known to be less difficult? And could the drivers employed to do so much test driving rapidly learn more about the behavior and know when they can avoid disengagement?

Sure, they can drive only in routes that are less difficult. But they have a product to develop (a public robotaxi service) and areas to expand. So they don't really have an incentive to exclusively work towards artificially reducing disengagement rate.

> Given Tesla FSD numbers are not included, are you saying that data is showing lidar systems are better by showing numbers for e.g., Waymo and Cruise vs other non-Tesla companies which don't use lidar? Which companies are those? I'd like to understand how you're using this CA DMV data.

Nope, I indeed mean they are better than Tesla. There are no other (aspiring or current) L4+ systems that don't use lidar. When Tesla used to report disengagement rate in CA, they were still worse than their competitors. That and the tons of YouTube videos showing FSD being unable to handle basic scenarios tells us their current disengagement rate is far worse than competitors.

What they should be really doing is start being transparent and report safety data like everyone else.

[1] https://waymo.com/safety

[2] https://safetycaseframework.aurora.tech/gsn
no. I think his initial research is what is necessary and, at best, he can do a video summary and focus on one or two specific recognized groups living on reservations. This topic goes deep. His whole thing is picking a mundane small feature of society and expounding on that to make it interesting, and the reality is that each indigenous culture should have many of those things to dive into, no different than how the UK or the Solar System has many different things to dive into (the inspiration for many of his other research videos). But trying to do a broader series on cultures in North America has far too much depth, unless he pivots to that. I'm sure its on his backburner, but I'm also sure he's too far ahead of the culture on this one.
The Story Stock Market
> If you #include <stdfix.h>, you gain access to compiler-understood fixed-point data types. For example, you get access to type _Accum, which is a 16.15 fixed point exactly like the one that we've been considering above.

You can actually use _Accum without including stdfix.h, at least for compilers that conform the embedded extension to C (ISO/IEC TR 18037 [1]). Stdfix.h just gives you a macro named `accum` among others; this approach has been used for any new C keyword since C99 (e.g. _Bool vs. stdbool.h, _Alignas vs. stdalign.h). The size of _Accum type is also not exactly defined (it can well be 4.27).

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1169.pdf
> infrastructure for nuclear energy generation is largely identical with that required for nuclear weapons production and maintenance

Total nonsense.

> It is difficult to envision nuclear energy as a global solution without also envisioning new nuclear weapons proliferation problems.

Totally false. In fact to opposite is true. Many nations with civilian nuclear power don't have nuclear weapons. While many countries with nuclear weapons don't have civilian power.

Very different technology.

> One position that seems attractive is keeping some nuclear plants online where they exist, but not building any new capacity.

Very attractive if you are pro climate change I guess.

> On a long enough time scale, we can engineer around base load requirements.

Yeah ok, so we are faced with climate change and we have a 100% proven technology, both in scale AND in terms of being green.

But you would rather wait for some hopeful future technology that might happen as some point and then might be able to scale.
I'm aware hardware support on Qubes has been problematic for some users. Luckily, it's looking to get a lot better with the up-and-coming Qubes R4.1 (currently on it's first release candidate). It will be shipping with a fully updated base hypervisor and kernel feature set to allow support for newer hardware.

I'm not quite sure the specifics of your hardware problem, but, feel free to file a bug on the Qubes issue tracker.
you don't have to have watched it to see how it was marketed

'preteen sexual exploration' doesn't need to be a socially acceptable form of entertainment
The Case Against Heatmaps
It wasn't entirely Python's inborn merits. For example, we don't use the best language for each task today. Instead, we use whatever language our coworkers and other companies use, which we often convince ourselves is the best language for a task.

The timing was critical, and although Python may be the Facebook of languages, one can't discount that it was extraordinarily lucky for Guido to be in the precise time and place to capitalize on good design choices.
Translation of Xi Jinping's "To Firmly Drive Common Prosperity" Essay
This suggests that the unrelated patches improve perf by 20% (0.92 * 1.20 ~= 1.10)

I would love to be proven wrong but I am skeptical.
It’s always interesting to bump into previously unknown services and sites, but these lists tend to get outdated over time. The most recent commit on this one was in April 2020 (a whole year and a half ago), and it shows.

Going through the first few items, I see volatile.wtf showing an under construction page, and Formspree requires registration.

I’m getting to know of new/unknown (to me) sites, but I’ll ignore the “no registrations” qualifier in the title.
> This is a pet peeve of mine, but someone actually tell me which millionaire/billionaire actually remained 'cancelled' after being cancelled.

From what I gather, Louis CK and Garrison Keillor are still cancelled (e.g. reduced to releasing stuff on their own personal websites).

Also, the kind of people who get canceled are entertainers and academics, and few if any of those are billionaires. I'm not even sure how "canceling" a billionaire would even work.
The Flickr Foundation
Flickr has set up a non-profit "to properly preserve and care for the Flickr Commons archive, support Commons members […], and plan for the very long-term health and longevity of the entire Flickr collection."
strong leadership can tolerate disagreement and critique. it’s weak leadership, of which we have an overabundance, that cannot. you advocate coercion, which is the favored tool of weak leadership.

also, it’s a fallacy that the senior managers of an organization (at least successful ones) “run” it. at best, they have outsize influence.
Stop paying attention to Twitter.
But there's no value in IPsec being like a piano. Continuing the analogue, nearly everyone would be playing the exact same handful of songs in the exact same way and if they don't, they're doing it wrong. Why on earth do you have to learn to play an instrument like that?

You don't want core pieces of security technology to have room for creativity.
I am amused you think that.

Suppose you want to know how soon a CPU will fail. You can’t just test 1 CPU for 1 month and say well each of it’s 1 billion transistors lasted 1 month so the CPU also last a long time. That logic obviously doesn’t work because the part fails when any component fails.

Your trying to apply that same logic to say all spent fuel pools are safe over their lifetime because each individual spent fuel pools is unlikely to fail in a given year.

It’s the same thing with nuclear reactors, each individual reactor is low risk but build 1,000 of them and some will likely fail over their collective 50 year lifespan.
I'm a random commenter with a chip on his shoulder.

<grumble> Please escape Discord links so people don't accidentally click a live one and thereby expose data to Hammer & Chisel, Inc. </grumble>

It's a constant slap-in-the-face how prevalent Discord is in the tech community. Need support with an obscure library? Discord. Want to talk to contributors for a project? Discord.

I honestly don't know why people so greatly prefer Discord to IRC. The interface? Network effects? Whatever it is, Discord and H&C are disgusting, and I pray the tech community finds a way to escape it.
Speaking in code: hands-free input with Talon
Honestly, college textbooks are scams.
Technology Connections has an interesting video about pre-cooling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f9GpMWdvWI

The author also made a good point that despite wind and solar being intermittent, they are actually fairly predictable a or less day in advance (thanks to weather forecasts).
This is the same family that agreed with their friendship, and supported Dave talking about her story and their friendship?

Sounds like we know who the real assholes in this whole thing are, and it's NOT Dave Chappelle.
Not nuclear! :)
My brother and I had the Fairchild and we preferred it to the Atari, though we enjoyed both. We were sad when the games stopped coming out for Fairchild and Atari started getting all the attention. Thanks @nicole for bringing back memories.
I remember a whole fascinating section about various hypertext system in a mid-80s issue of Byte. I spent hours pouring over the screenshots in it.

EDIT: here's a good summary article of pre-WWW hypertext systems from the 80s https://fibery.io/blog/hypertext-tools-from-the-80s/
Not yet AFAICT. I've been following the nix-processmgmt[1] project, which looks it could make NixOS independent of the init system.

[1]: https://github.com/svanderburg/nix-processmgmt
I searched for C++ SIMD library and it was PHP links. So it’s got a lot of work needed.
Game dev is a great move with this.

Async stuff is interesting to see
The forbidden erotica of ancient Pompeii
The DeskJet I linked wouldn't be able to complete that print job, under any circumstance. Besides running out of paper, and overflowing the output tray -- the cartridges would run out before you finished the print job. The newer consumer inkjets with tanks will have enough ink, but likely won't have the tray capacity either. Most consumer printers are made to max-out around the length of a long school paper or a family's tax return.
I'm specifically talking about places NOT California. Stories like your remind me why I refuse to move there.