skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of which is evidence that a cartel was necessary to enforce different standards; consumer preference would have solved that problem on its own.

Power efficiency problems only require cooperation to solve in instances where the downsides aren't immediately visible to the consumer (ie, long-term decreased power costs, labeling, environmental costs). But people definitely weren't worried about environmental efficiency of light bulbs when the Phoebus Cartel started up. For consumer-visible deficiencies (as in literally how much visible light a lightbulb produces), you don't need collusion to convince consumers to make the switch to a clearly (pun intended) better product.

It's worth noting just how janky and circuitous these standards were as a way of increasing efficiency, given that Phoebus Cartel had perfectly good measures for efficiency that they could have targeted instead. There were not rules for minimum lumens, or max wattage, or minimum efficiency; there were only rules on maximum lifespan. In fact, for their "class B" category of lamps, not only did the Phoebus Cartel not impose minimum efficiency measures, they actually included an upper bound on how efficient Class B lamps were allowed to be.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the Phoebus Cartel was primarily worried about the environmental costs of inefficient light bulbs, and I think it's extremely unlikely that in the absence of a cartel consumers would have been unable to tell the difference between a dim lightbulb and a bright one when making purchasing decisions. The most likely explanation of their behavior is the simplest one; they set constraints designed to maximize profits and decrease the risk of large competitors out-innovating each other, and then designed engineering optimizations and standards to fit into those constraints, not the other way around.
You found a PCB layout designer, not a design engineer. A good one is a real force multiplier that can lay out boards faster and more professionally than pretty much any EE I've worked with that lays out his own boards. You might not have enough work to keep one busy, though, and plainly that wasn't what you were looking for.
For a given task, figure out two ways to do it: the perfect way, and the imperfect way. Choose the imperfect way. Once it's done, ask yourself if you regret getting it done the imperfect way, or if it's actually fine now that it's done.
There's already a reactor that can do this (CANDU reactor), and has been operational for decades, no research required. That there is little new investment in building them tells me that no one really cares about reducing the amount of nuclear waste, and that it's all very political.
Yeah I'd suspect slowly charging up a battery with the bike generator and then quickly discharging the battery to boil the water would be quite a bit more efficient.
I set that image as my phone background for a constant reminder.
In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong
Is this essentially 4 xbox's crammed into a 2U server?
"How were those first few bites?"
It's an interesting move, but I'd evaluate a pivot to YouTube as a business risk given their automated demonetizations. It's likely better in this situation as they'd have a dedicated rep responsible for the 50k check, but it's still something I'd be wary of.
Article 5 only applies if a country is attacked. So if the US or UK are attacking, it doesn't apply. However if China attacks the UK in Asia, then article 5 applies and NATO countries will coordinate to respond to that, militarily of not. This is called deterrence.

> Austria is an odd example, given that it's completely surrounded by "friendlies".

This kind of thinking has produced the current nightmare IMO. The unwillingness to invest in common security has enabled Russia.
When I tried it a few days ago, the loading times to open the game were fairly bad. Couldn't actually see how long it would take to load a flight, because the UI was borked (or non intuitive enough that I couldn't figure out how to select a departure airport)
From a design perspective, modern hardware leaves little room for imagination without excess/useless material. reducing components to a fraction of their size is the radical design which is leveraged to make a product as frictionless as possible on the consumer side
Dog food your own product.

You can uncover annoyances, bugs etc. that you might otherwise have missed or understand the pain of.
> 400 MW of wind capacity

Isn't that 400 MW when it's windy vs 470 MW all day long?
Is that a peak or sustained 400 MW of wind power?
Back in those days, medicine recipe are held as secret.

Recipe as secret is not compatible with modern standards like peer-review / FDA approval, etc ...
Thankfully my brain was programmed/imprinted during the "pull to refresh" era. I rarely scroll past a page length before I move on to something else or scroll to the top and refresh. On a more serious note I've had problems with TikTok.

The most helpful thing I've done to manage this is to make it incredibly difficult/annoying to access your stuff. I don't have the Instagram app on my phone and all though I have several twitter accounts I only keep 1 signed in to my twitter app.
Probably they feel about as happy about NATO on their doorstep, as the U.S. would feel about Mexico entering into a Chinese or Russian military alliance. The U.S. would not accept it, in other words.
> You'd need to get a second reactor installed just to break even for one round of R & D funding. It just doesn't work.

They aren’t planning to make one or two, they want to make dozens of them.
I still haven't seen a canonical bit of (non lobbyist funded) ROI that shows that same dollar investment isn't better spent on alternate means (varies by nation of course but by and large some combo of renewables for most geos seems a better bet, and less of an environmental AND security risk).
The closest I have to those is painstakingly trying every single VESA driver on the SimCity 2000 CD until I found one that would work with whatever off-brand video card the 386 happened to have (it was an Oak driver, though I think the card just happened to be compatible with it).
The slicer does maintain hole diameters, but just like CNC milling HDPE, you should expect dimensions to change a little after printing. If you need to have a tight tolerance fit on something, expect to run a drill or chucking reamer through it after printing. If it's really tight tolerances, it's easy enough to melt or press a drill bushing or threaded insert into an oversized hole to get fits tighter than you're likely able to hit with a mill.

Your expensive parts likely go through many steps before and after manufacturing already that involve things like fixturing the material in place, rotating it and reacquiring datums, running taps through by hand, deburring sharp edges, etc; you should not expect 3D printing to be as easy as sending the STEP file to the machine and getting a complete part out. Sanding, acetone vapor polish, drilling, reaming, tapping, etc. are normal parts of the manufacturing and prototyping process.
I have to admit I didn't vote at all during that election, half because of how unlikable both candidates were.

But the other half of the reason was that I kind of figured Hilary had it in the bag. She was simply better resourced in terms of money and in terms of the groups and individuals who were supporting her. How could she not win? Especially against Trump? Sure, she made some mistakes along the way, but Trump also mocked a disabled reporter during one of his campaign appearances. One could argue that he made just as many mistakes, if not more.

I don't really think Trump had any unfair advantages one could consider substantial (if anything he had a lot of disadvantages) nor do I believe that Hilary made any mistakes that were really damaging to her campaign. Its nuts, but the most convincing explanation I can think of is the weirdest and most esoteric one.

Just can't ignore those spooky synchronicities.
Oh I just mean, QBasic was the language I used for that project.

I can't actually remember it in detail now, but this was when I was 15 or 16. It was a database application; I guess mine would have been music lending.

I wonder if I still have the code. I definitely still wish I had the book.

I really enjoyed QBASIC because of the gentle way you were exposed to better programming practices; I've always admired that.

Five or six years later, my uni project was a BASIC-to-C transpiler for a simple dialect of BASIC as a teaching language with some specific language extensions for message-passing parallel programming. It had a simple IDE, too.

In some ways it is a shame BASIC itself is really gone; modern implementations only have a whisper of its original simplicity.
The people of Ukraine will without question suffer more from Putin's war than the Russian people will from sanctions. What's the alternative without risking an escalation to nuclear war? Cutting off the wealth and resources that fund the war machine has the nasty side-effect of hurting the Russian people, but I think they would prefer it to an irradiated wasteland or, if everyone decided not to use nukes, a NATO occupation.
I've of the opinion that this is the future of gaming. Hard stuff will be done on cloud GPUs.
It has multiplayer features, but that's certainly not the case here. Switching off all the online features doesn't change the loading time at all. It's just a lot of potential to make it faster: When you start FS on my machine it takes 2 minutes or so with only brief moments of CPU usage exceeding 2 of the available 24 cores. All while both GPU and IO are basically idle. I'm not sure what's going on. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a "GTA online" type of lazyness happening somewhere (see https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...)
> 400 MW of wind capacity

these 400MW are not the same as the ones provided by nuclear. that’s the difference.
Most likely OP cannot afford the team of comprehensive legal advisors which would be necessary to achieve a truly fair outcome. I imagine OP has been dealing with this situation mostly silently for approximately a year by now. The "wheels of justice" turn slowly but generally inexorably. Once the FBI decides to bring charges, they almost always have already completely made up their mind and get exactly the outcome they want.

OP's life has been and will continue to be thoroughly destroyed by the consequences of their poor judgement and there's likely no actions OP can take at this point to change the medium-term outcomes. Barring winning the lottery (in some form or another), OP would not be able to pay this debt if they lived to be 1,000 years old. And it's not dischargeable in bankruptcy. That's ignoring any potential jail time and consequences on OP's future employment options.

So, quite frankly, at this point OP is probably posting here in a state of pseudo-panic, because there's very little chance this post would make it worse now that he's already been criminally charged -- again, 99+% of the time, the main outcomes are usually decided at the time of charging, not sentencing.

Long-term, OP may be able to eventually build a life that they are happy with. But they will have many, many doors closed to them.

On an absolute scale, it's possible that OP's actions directly caused a response that wasted many, many man-years of labor even if the data leaked wasn't itself important (technical and legal investigation, management conversations/energy/time that could have been spent on other things, security containment and mitigation, FBI investigators times, the courts time). Its probably not possible for OP to "pay back" the time and energy to all those people that they've affected.

But on a relative scale, its likely that no individual or corporation was threatened with existential harm over this, while OP certainly is facing what feels like existential consequences. So that will be very very hard for them to deal with right now.
Two possibilities. Depending on what you are doing you might be able to purchase modules that are pre-certified and avoid certification that way. For example, if one wanted to have a product that uses WiFi normally you need FCC certification for that - but it’s also possible to purchase WiFi modules that are already FCC certified and avoid having to go through that process yourself.

The second tip if for some reason you have to certify yourself is that when it comes to bureaucratic processes that you don’t want to get wrong and that you aren’t super familiar with I’ve had a lot of luck with finding people on Upwork or Fiverr that specialize in that particular process.
Where I work recently disclosed another vulnerability in a similar vein.

https://sra.io/blog/letitgo-a-case-study-in-expired-domains-...

Spooky stuff for sure.
> give him welfare... and he'll... stay down

Are you sure it's not: he'll fare... well?
Revenue maximization.
IIRC there's a param in the slicers I've used that can fine tune hole sizes.
The way I look at it, try to go server less (jamstack) otherwise roll ur own distributed cdn and web servers (linode, digital ocean). For db use the cloud (dbaas). Once you have financial success (team of 3-5 on just ops) go in house.
Wind costs a lot more when you add in the storage tech required to power your citizens homes on non-windy days.
Thanks! Replying a bit here since that post is from 2015. One can write anecdotal examples that are biased both ways. But let's talk about a single issue, the IX/IY registers.

The IX/IY registers are heavyweight but one needs to remember the "best-practices" of that era and architecture. In well optimized Z80 code, the IX/IY registers are often used for critical "global variables" that you can keep all the time in registers across many subroutine calls (think "segment registers": base pointers for important tables or buffers that are not fixed addresses through the whole program). Their performance beats needing frequent indirect load/store from pointers stored in memory via other registers that often need to be preserved/restored.

You can also use some relatively low-latency instructions that involve IX/IY, in particular PUSH/POP were often used in optimized buffer-copy routines: you burn all registers to fetch up to 20 bytes of contiguous data with POPs, then you patch the SP register and issue PUSHs in inverse order to store those 20 bytes in another location; loop if needed for >20 bytes, even with loop overhead this is faster than LDIR/LDDR. Games used that trick all the time for block copies like sprite bitblt or double-buffer animation.

I'll be more convinced by realistic benchmarks, and yes the Fib2 that I quoted before is not impressive even for the standards of CPU microbenchmarks, but maybe someone would know some real-world code that had good ports to both CPUs and could give a better verdict. Unfortunately games are never good choices, the 8-bit systems had radically different architectures for essential features like video and audio so "ports" were often full rewrites even at a high level like rendering strategies... there might be exceptions, like the AI component of a chess game.
>because others see it being accidentally used

This isn't my observation. The OK sign was used explicitly to represent white supremacy by people who wanted to "troll" others into believing it was being used that way "earnestly". But using X symbol to represent Y is not something that is subject to earnestness nor irony - i.e. meaning follows usage, not the other way around (and that is not even considering the fact that a subset of people participating in the trolling did explicitly support white supremacy). That property is intrinsic to language. When you use a symbol to represent something, then it is being used to represent that thing. It is self-fulfilling. If I merely told you that some symbol X represented Y, then I would be lying. If I used symbol X to represent Y, and got a large enough group of other people to do it, then I am creating a new contextual meaning for symbol X. People reacting to its use are not "tricked". They are responding to a reality I have created.
YouTube premium supports background playback. Or if you have an Android phone, you can try YouTube Vanced.
As I've said elsewhere: Russia has chosen a path to becoming a Chinese vassal state. They're going to be China's Saudi Arabia more or less.
Surely the costs can be reduced once the mini nuclear reactor technology is used more widely?
Quality assurance is a craft in it self which takes experts years to master. As a devops your expertise lies elsewhere. When a bug of yours makes it to production that is a failure of the QA process but not yours personally. If you are expected to do your own QA then just know that QA is not your expertise and you are bound to make mistakes.

If this keeps happening perhaps you can try to persuade your bosses to hire a qualified QA expert. If they don’t want to then perhaps quality is not as much of a priority for upper management as it is for you, and you can free your self of the blame. Sacrificing quality is sometimes a reasonable choice for a company with limited resources, and the bugs that you put to production might be a result of that choice by the upper management.
This reminds me of the Cube Hackintosh conversions....I just wish that design worked out better in the court of public (consumer) opinion....
The point is that I pay hundreds of dollars for JetBrains and Russian citizens return the favor for stuff that I write. That's what we've agreed on as two countries. Agreements aren't a new construct.
entitlement spending is tied into medical and other prices that are out of control. A lot of that wealth would be much better spend by the poor and middle class than by the wealthy hoarding it away.
As it stands wind and solar can’t power 100% due to them being unavailable at times. Not to mention the insane amount of land and storage capacity required. Nuclear is ideally suited for the last 30% or so that’ll continue to be some form of steady state power generation required to augment renewables.
That's why my rule doesn't put it in the junk folder. I put it in a sub-folder of the inbox so that it is easily seen.
I know, you're just joking about current events, but still...

It would be nice if we could mention nuclear power projects without instantly brandishing fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

after all, some studies attribute deaths from fossil fuel as high as 1 in 5 premature deaths!

[1] https://www.nrdc.org/stories/fossil-fuel-air-pollution-kills...
In almost Urban area, the rural voters know about this company or that company that is on a government contract and fails to deliver the goods and services, while the companies owners are living like Kings of the rural area.

The narrative you are using is the opposite side of the same coin that Republicans use about how wealthy people who vote for paying for more taxes should just donate money to the government. If the government is giving out money, you'd be a fool to refuse to take it because it's going to get dispersed either way and the voters arent getting their taxes back.
Its all well and good to take people at face value when you ask them a direct question, but when the data consistently bears out that that is not the truth you have a responsibility to look at reality.

Response bias is well studied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response_bias

Especially when one has been fed a narrative specifically to cover underlying beliefs in something that has more social acceptability.

"The democrats are smug" okay...lets ask the follow-up question. Why? how? please explain? Taking people at their literal word for why they do something is basically the worst possible version of any social sciences research.
You could say that about any law though. It was as legally binding as anything else Parliament passes.
Who cares if the data center mines crypto, processes Facebook ads, or makes Pokémon appear on people's phones? As long as the city negotiates and put clauses to cover themselves in the contract then they should go for it. Why try to police what some idiotic company or person wants to do with electricity. Put fair costs and reasonable parameters on it, then get out of the way.
You skipped over Omigod which was right after ChaosDB. https://www.wiz.io/blog/omigod-critical-vulnerabilities-in-o...
While this is completely true, the PiDP-11 mentioned by the parent is based on SimH, which does simulate PDP-10 (as well as dozens of other early systems).

[1] https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
[2] https://github.com/simh/simh
lol ... found it @ http://web.archive.org/web/19980419152907/http://freshmeat.u...

What a nostalgia trigger. This was from back when Freshmeat was on unreal.org!
> ...like that villain from Shrek: "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make".

Surely you see that in this analogy it is Putin who is the villain (Lord Farquaad)?
12 mln people are not going to come. The Russians are badly overextended and the Ukrainians are cutting off their supplies. The task force is going to fail badly within weeks.
I may be an outlier, but I finished interviewing recently and I can give you some insights.

I would say that there are plenty of jobs that pay around 200-250k cash for mid career anyway. (Including bonus and salary.) Usually in high growth startups.

For example I interviewed with a company going into series B that offered that much in cash comp + remote, and it was a smallish team of 50. Very sane hiring process, a pair programming exercise and a bunch of walking through prev projects. Had a couple startups that I ended up canceling with just b/c I got an offer I liked from someone else, but I'd assume it's the same.

If you don't like algo questions some high paying companies like Stripe have alternative processes too.

Other public startups, like Spotify, which pay about that much and have a pretty reasonable process compared to FAANG. Easier algo questions, less toxicity in hiring.

I will caution you for my anecdata, I have some FAANG experience out of college and I passed multiple FAANG processes, as well as working for an HFT in school doing backofficey work. So maybe since I was well prepared for interviews + had some branding they were willing to pay higher than usual for me.

If you or anyone else in the thread wants to chat about it feel free to email/dm me :)
Not only that, but he refused to follow the order after Michael Jackson refused it too.
I spend time making my perfectionist vision very clear. Diagrams, written descriptions, etc of what my perfectionist design would be for a given project. So I’m confident I know in detail what it would take. That scratches a lot of the itch.

Then I say “What could I do in X weeks that I can actually ship and that is a real step toward the first Y % of my perfect vision” and I execute on that. I make sure that I am actually building part of my perfectionist vision, not some hacky garbage, but just limited in scope to be achievable in limited time.

Inevitably, along the way I realise my perfect was mostly wrong so this is an iterative process. I refine and repeat.

But your perfectionism is not wrong - use it to your advantage! Just make sure you are also a perfectionist about actually executing your ideas and shipping something.
So anyone different from Putin is a drug addict who is high or drunk most of the time?

I would describe Putin's behavior as much more strange and insane, by the way. Threatening nuclear war while attempting to annex a peaceful, sovereign neighbor is not a sane behavior. Assassinating and jailing political opponents is not sane.

If you're going to compare the two, you're going to have a hard time convincing anyone outside of the Russian propaganda sphere that Putin is the less insane or erratic.
Rolls Royce hasn’t produced cars in years. They sold their brand and factory to BMW. They’re a jet engine manufacturer though.
> instead a proper safety net + opportunities for advancement (eg. free college/healthcare)

I don’t think more subsidized communication and psychology grads would make the US a better place.