skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maintenance costs overrun any efficiency gains by using geothermal even under optimal conditions, so unless there's other reasons to use it, ideological or economic, most companies will stick to the local grid.

There are some really cool innovations with graphene coatings generating power as hot saltwater flows over it, simplifying power generation by basically creating giant linear convection flows(, as well as graphene coatings on bits to increase durability.) The technology has a ways to go to compete with solar or coal or gas if grid proximity isn't a problem.
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Roughly yes. How are we still working 40hrs/week just to put a roof over our head and feed our families when we are equipped with technologies that have exponentially increased the productive output of each individual?

The answer is that land has gotten more expensive, so everything on it has gotten more expensive. The solution is not to avoid wage increases, as this “FUD” accusation assumes, but to raise wages and tax the daylights out of landowners (like myself) so society can recoup the benefits of its productivity!
If you have an hour go watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCWAvcsnIFg. I think you can have change and new features in a more reasonable way. Btw. my opinion is you are not crazy there is a lot of change for changes sake
Yes it does - it's specified via a registry key. I tried to find a reliable page to link to but the best I could find was this:

https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-autoexec.html

Many, many, moons ago Windows NT had support for an 'autoexec.nt' batch file which did the same, so it's not a new feature just horribly undocumented.
If the SaaS is complex, this becomes impractical if toggles for "all new features" is the goal. Maybe a subset is doable.

If it's a simple SaaS by all means go for it. I really like the idea of being able to toggle things I like/don't like. But most of the times I become a "second-rate" citizen in the eyes of devs when I'm on a lesser-used subset of features.

Example is this service I'm using to manage my small company's finance; because I refuse to toggle on a feature that makes life easier for most people (but not mine), getting support for bugs has been very difficult.
Why I missed that is not the meaning of the phrase "to cobble something together", but its root in "cobbler", which is - at least for me - something I rarely use.
i'm currently the only developer on a project. i now have ... 3-5 'managers' (depending on how you count) involved in planning/direction. PM on "my" side, PM on "client's" side, PO on "client's side", and... some other 'higher ups' on each side that drop in now and then.

Recently, they've instituted formal RCA process with "5 whys" and... every 'why' ultimately ends up being my fault. Now... they're not saying 'fault' directly, but no matter how you cut it, I forgot to add another test, or I didn't document something clearly enough, or I forgot some error checking, or... I forgot to remind someone of something or... whatever.

"Oh, don't take it personally! It's not just you, we're a team". But.. I'm the only one doing the work that is breaking, and I'm the only one fixing it, and every documented RCA lives on, pointing out that I made mistakes, and each document is delivered to 12 stakeholders every time there's a mistake, and mine is the only name on it attached to the 'root cause'.

"What lessons can we learn from this?" That we can't sustain this pace, and adding more managers is not helping the situation in any way.

I've been saying for a while we're formalizing way too much stuff, and that most of the practices they're bringing in from other places all had the baseline of "more developers than managers" in a team environment. I'm a team of one, and processes designed for teams of 3-5-10 aren't appropriate, imo.
i don't think JavaScript going to die but its time that we have another option for the web. JavaScript have its warts. some people love JavaScript and some don't. its not fair for JavaScript to be the only option. i see Web Assembly as an option for people who doesn't like JavaScript warts to use their favor langue to develop for the web.
Hello World :) I am working on a blog post reviewing 1 year's worth of progress which should be up some time next week.
Agree with these outcomes in the short term. Amazon is at a point in its trajectory where it is still genuinely innovating in order to build dominance, and that is creating a surplus that can be shared with consumers and platform participants. It has stayed at that point -- which Bezos calls "day 0" -- for an amazingly long time!

On the inevitable "day 1", Amazon will start coasting on its structural dominance and being net-extractive from consumers and platform participants. At that point they will be ripe for disruption themselves... but if their dominance has eroded previously healthy markets (for demand acquisition, warehousing, last mile logistics, etc.), they might spend longer in senescence than they did improving things. That's why I think antitrust is a good tool, that should eventually be applied to catalyze fresh growth.
The five whys also works well on people who hold irrational beliefs. Ask them why they believe what they do a few times and they will often eventually end up at a dead end or an obvious logical fallacy. It may not immediately change their mind, but it will make them question their beliefs, which is a first step.
That line of thinking is actually really valuable, here's some insights:

(1) The company has either a sales issue or a pitch issue, if reasonable sales targets can't attract investors.

(2) Investors aren't adequately informed on the space and may not be a good fit for the company, if they're only interested in the company if it scales faster.

(3) Alternatively, if investors are short-term greedy, they may be informed on the space but not see a long-term viable path (in which case, silly of them to be investors, but also, analyze why they're long-term bearish).

(4) What other measures could be indicative of success and worth showing to investors, instead of unreasonably high sales projections?
I’d argue that’s the same for any service. Privacy policy is ok now, wait for the company to be acquired, new company doesn’t have to adhere to old privacy policy.
I just wonder if people will confuse AWS with the other AWS, Amazon War Services
I suspect a lot of it would be the success of garage-based inventors, and the pure-R&D divisions in larger corporations (Xerox-PARC, HP Labs, etc.)

The former is likely harder to achieve now, much like how games development is now an affair involving large teams whereas games developed in the 1980s may have been single-person affairs. The act of making a computer and all related silicon is a much more complex affair, the last CPU design you could probably feasibly keep in your head may be the MC68000 .

The latter too is now still a thing, but much less open, and either rent-seeking through patent, or pure profit with lower tolerance for wild ideas (less risk tolerated for an obvious cost-centre).
From my reading
>Henkes, in the SEC complaint, said he told Tesla management that Tesla needs to shut down the fire-prone solar systems, report to safety regulators and notify consumers.

it appears this person did not stayed quiet and only start speaking after getting fired, he did the right thing and was fired because of that(allegedly).
Not San Francisco. If you walk around the city for a few minutes, you’ll find drug deals happen in plain sight and at all hours of the day.
> Among their findings – based on core data from the Facebook-led community project Papers With Code (PWC)

Oh boy. PWC is not even close to a representative sample of what datasets are being used in papers. It's also often out of date.
One more complicating question -- does the hide value of an animal incentivize better treatment during its life?
Hi! In terms of your credential flow - did you get a quote extension from Spotify for your use-case? I know that this kind of log in flow is really restricted without requested (at least in my experience working with the API).
Powershell does. Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
There are over one trillion SQLite databases in active use
You would think getting the notes and converting them to chords, and tablature, would be one of those "exactly suited for neural nets" type of problem.

If you want the chords to "Here comes the sun," you can find dozens of hits, but try something slightly obscure and they are hard to come by. (People with great ears have no idea what I am talking about.)
What I've found while working in defense is that when your customer issues a statement of work with clear high level requirements then you're going to need waterfall (even if just at a high level).
> a compiler that emits trustable code, regardless of how untrusted the source is

Hasn't this been one of the goals of the design of WebAssembly since day one, and something that has been getting people excited about it too? Using something for one of its intended purposes isn't really a "hack", no?
This article shows what many people suspected at the time, that Tesla’s 2016 “Paint it Black” demo was a fraud. Even though the text in the video said “the driver is only there for legal purposes,” it turns out that the route was 3d mapped in advance, and that the car had an unreported collision with a roadside barrier in a previous attempt.
Clean your living space.

Then find somewhere where people are littering, and get a picker and clean that up too. Take a before and after photo. You'll soon find out that you're not useless.

Eventually that will help give you the answer to:

>and why would they want me to help them and not somebody else?

If you're having trouble with the above, speaking to a professional therapist might help.
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Probably because Amazon is.

And to be fair: though Amazon seems unstoppable now, so did Microsoft, IBM, Sears, GM, Kodak, and many others.
As usual with secret terms.
> 2) The entire software world is built on VC money.

I don't think that is the case (depending of course on how we define "the entire software world") I've been a developer for 20 years and never worked for a VC funded company.

There is a tonne of software development outside the realm of VC's.
McLuhan's dissertation, "The Classical Trivium," is well worth the read:

https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Trivium-Place-Thomas-Learni...
You can wipe up all the slime with your Apple Cloth^(tm)
I’ve heard of Peertube, it was on HN recently. But none of the others.

Oddly unmentioned are Vimeo and Dailymotion, which have been around much longer and probably have larger user bases and network effects.
HN can't handle the truth.
Agreed. In constructive environment with high levels of trust you can often take a shortcut and simply ask: What problem are we actually trying to solve?
I don't know how things have changed over the past 25 years, but I used to work as a defense contractor and would frequently have to visit the Navy Annex in Virginia which was also HQ US Marine Corps.

It always struck me as weird that the guardhouse gate to enter was manned by a $12 hour off-brand security guard. I mentioned it to someone at one point, and I was told "Do you know how much it costs to train a Marine? It would be an outrageous waste of resources to staff that guardhouse with a Marine."

Go figure.
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Cheers, lots of things from San Francisco get featured on HN but the Grateful Dead have to be my favourite!
See also The Lindy Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Loosely related, the MacBook Pro 2021 laptop display uses PWM [1], which is said to cause more eye fatigue. Does anyone know more about this? How much does it affect a typical user? Or are there ways to mitigate this?

PWM is also present on iPads and smartphones, but the laptop screen is something that is used more often and for longer periods of time; which is why I'm primarily interested in PWM in laptops.

[1]: "Like on the iPad Pro's Mini-LED screen, we can detect constant PWM flickering at all brightness levels.", https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-14-2021-M1-P...
IIF you hold the desire to die to be rational. I can believe that 2 + 2 = 5, but it doesn't. The desire to die may be derived not from an actual desire, but an expression of mental or physical illness which could be treated in such a way that I (rationally) do not desire to die (right now).

Whether there are valid exceptions or mere failures of treatment is what most people are inclined to debate (plus the difficulty in discerning rational consent, free of pressure or other external failures).
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The only way the government can increase benefits is to take more from everybody else.
That wasn't behind a flag.

Really, I'd call that a prank, which is bad taste in software, not an Easter egg.
Transformers are basically CNNs with fixed-sized convolutions per layer (called heads in the lingo). Whereas CNNs have different-sized convolutions at each layer.

Instead of looking at things through many lenses, like a CNN, the Transformer cross-examines everything through the same lense (aka attention or focus).

Transformers-in-Transformers (TiTs) is, in effect, adding more CNN-like layers to each regular transformer layer.
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As an experiment, I replace "Russian" with "Black" in titles.
Totally! We can also go ahead and tax away all the gains captured by landlords on the unimproved value of their land (definitionally price movement that is not due to them).
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Hi, I didn't get a quote extension, I never actually looked at the quote limitation because I was only using it myself.

Edit: I checked on the Spotify developer dashboard and it says "App Status: Granted quota extension"
PHP has some Easter eggs which reveal contributor credits in response to a request with certain GET parameters. This can be used to fingerprint the server version: https://labs.detectify.com/2012/10/29/do-you-dare-to-show-yo...
thank you! I also found the same thing during my PhD and it took a basic-pay-topublish paper and 2 years to get my supervisor to agree that this is not really going anywhere with publications and switch to a field, where I am more comfortable with producing publications. Essentially my field has 1 big dataset, and then domain experts "improve" models by creating their own data (200 samples) and then claim a "novel" method (which is not transferable at all).

The pay2publish-paper was sent back by 2 journals with reviews indicating exactly "our method is better, just use the right (our) thing" (which I _all_ refuted for the professor by doing it, but the editor wouldn't hear anymore...). And then there's papers predicting features through a complex preprocessing pipeline in these journals. Academia and big companies are just idiotic.
#4) We aren't innovating in the same way that we used to so many of us are doing rather pointless tasks to justify our existence.
Oh my God

I thought you were joking - "there's no way this is true"

Direct link:
https://shop.tesla.com/product/cyberwhistle?sku=1715672-00-A

What kind of nightmare dystopia is this timeline.
I think the answer is good, but misses one important point - it is not like there is a thin barrier where there's a sharp pressure gradient, such that you can "pop" the volcano, or allow it to fizz like a shaken coke can with a tiny hole.

When you drill down into the volcano, the hole just collapses on itself and plugs itself back up. The closer you get to the caldera, the rock become viscous and hot. Not only does your drill bit melt, but it's like trying to a hole into warming ice-cream - you don't accomplish anything.

Geothermal energy plants function by drilling holes near magma chambers, and allowing some heat to radiate into the bore hole, and then up the shaft. ...and while this process extracts some heat, the energy withdrawn is orders of magnitude smaller than what is present.
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Another vote for cumputer-distance prescription.

Also, I have two monitors so naturally switch my gaze between the two through the day as I work, which helps.

One monitor is very large, and I set the resolution low so fonts and such are uncommonly large. Why strain?

Remember to look up and into the distance every few minutes.
That seems solvable, for example by blocking programmatic control of playback until you allow it for a given video element. That way it only "breaks" when the user wants it to be "broken".
Maybe software devs are like peacocks, flaunting their colorful feathers to catch a mate (customer). And now the peacocks have found a way to change their pattern every week.

Or maybe this is hell and we are being punished for sins in our past lives.
It refers to Shopify’s “arming the rebels” slogan.
Ikea has multiple price tiers (e.g. “good”, better, best). The bottom tier is basically disposable dorm furniture, which is likely to be ruined/tossed anyway. Move up a tier if you want something that’s cheaper than other alternatives and lasts.

The only thing I’ve found that competes with their mid tier is used furniture. (Which is obviously better for the environment than buying new.)
I think the reason Five Whys seems silly to a lot of engineers (or engineer-minded types) is because we naturally progress through the first few whys on our own. Our entire work is basically: "That didn't work—why? Because this function didn't get called—why? Because this if-else branch went the wrong way—why?"

Other fields don't immediately critique facts when presented to them. They're asked to update a model before the 12PM call and the get right on it. Five Whys gives them a framework for pausing, thinking, and critiquing their tasks before they set off on them.

I'll note that the engineer's default criticism isn't always positive: sometimes engineers overly-question and end up derailing the actual work. Critique is important, but sometimes executing according to the plan is more important.
Sure. Was only debunking the false premise that it needs to be secret, which the article highlights as why it's a really bad idea.
Did you publish the port? Can't find any mentions on your website(s).
Well have you charged less than market rate for rent? I had a place for 10 years that I was charging about 60% market rate on because the lady was old and lived off social security. I had negative cash flow on it.

My other rental has a negative cash flow as well.

I make good money so I can afford it.

If every single person who complained about the plight of the poor actually physically went and helped the poor, their plight would be less, instead you do nothing and go vote for the politicians to do something.

You wanna talk about a farce, how about this one - the politicians care about the poor.

Talking to immigrant Uber drivers in SF, ironically they hate the government there and it reminds them of the corrupt ones in their own country, the one the “caring progressives” keep voting for.
Could you provide an example of what you mean? It seems obvious that using a non-Go library with Go would be more complicated, but is that not also the case with C or C++? Do they have some special way of using a Go or Python library that Go does not reciprocate?
They aren’t new. They’ve been around since the 1990s. There has definitely been a resurgence though, fueled by retail traders looking for volatile and highly levered equities.
[0] https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/sites/default/file...

You wouldn't want to drill into the magma chamber to relieve pressure, instead you would drill next to the magma chamber to cool the rocks on the edge, shrinking the chamber. Every few decades after the chamber had shrunk, you'd drill a new set of boreholes closer. The expense would be substantial, but well within the range of major government projects, and if you use the heat for power generation you can recover some of that cost - indeed if you subsidize the initial logistical setup, the long term operation can likely be fiscally self sustaining.
I too feel an innocence has been lost in software and the internet. It's a shame that things can't be so whimsical, but it is also good that serious software is taken more and more serious.

I think this is the right decision by curl and I support it.
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Yes, linking the two (public and private) identities is doxxing, because... it links the two.
BuzzFeed can die a horrible death for all I care. Their rep is forever one below Maury Povich.

That decent shops like TruthDig went under because of arrogant owners/investors while TD lives is a travesty.
From what I read they made well over $19 billion in revenue in 2020. They are making plenty of money they can afford to put towards the problem. They just don’t want to take from their own bottom line.
> I've never quite understood, over 30 years of experience in software development, what problems Waterfall presented that warranted a complete refactor...

Because layers of management who need to continually justify their existence can never, ever keep themselves from putting their big fat thumb in the pie and fucking everything up.
Linguistics: Astadhyayi of Panini, the first generative grammar and arguably kickstarted the Western structural linguistic tradition via Saussure

Logic: Navya Nyāya developed formal logical approaches and proof paradigms 600 years before the West

Poetics: Pingala mathematically defined poetic meters with combinatorics (DeBruijn Sequences, Pascals triangle, etc) over 2000 years ago and the Sanskrit poetic tradition is widely recognized as one of the most aesthetically sophisticated. Check out the Sisupala Vadha of Magha for crazy poetry stuff.

Astronomy: Gupta-era astronomers developed the base 10 positional numeral system to make calculations easier, and as a result, Indian calendar systems have accounted for the precession of the Earth for over a thousand years

Rhetoric: the Nyāya school developed a formal theory of debate that was used in intellectual circles across the subcontinent for centuries. It enabled debaters to identify argumentative strategies and logical fallacies.

Mineralogy and Geography: there's a lot of Puranic literature about this but I'm personally not too familiar

Statecraft: Kautilya's Arthasastra is the most famous example but there are countless other treatises over the ages discussing politics and warfare

Each of these examples I gave are but a small sample of the work done by Sanskrit intellectuals over the past few millennia. Don't blame your ancestors for your own ignorance.
I totally understand this stance. Not every game had cheat codes, not every movie/TV show has hidden details, and so not every piece of software has to have easter eggs. That kind of defeats the fun of it anyway, knowing that everything has a joke.

I personally like adding easter eggs to my own code, but I wouldn't do it in software used by billions. At most a funny comment in the code, but nothing executable.
Long-haul truckers don't strike me as likely to be stopping for #1s, especially not with the amounts of coffee they're reputed to consume.
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