skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would go as far as to say it's not just limited to FLOSS contributors. In my experience at Google, not every service is profitable or brings in revenue, so it can be hard to justify "impact" on those teams. I certainly remember beating my head on how to spin my contributions as having "impact."
In the thread Sam Altman giving a demo of this [*] I find multiple people trying to query "solar panels" or "rabbit", are they some meme in the context of AI-generated arts?

[*] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1511724264629678084
This seems like a strictly Google only problem. And by extension this is the problem with promotion committees that are removed from day to day of the candidate getting promoted. People are ridiculously bad at measuring growth based on some obscure company wide criteria - which is abstract at best and useless at worst at a company large enough as Google.

I'm at AWS and the promotion process here is largely contained within the candidate's org which is at best two levels higher but in the same business. So if your team's business relies on contributions to FOSS, its impact is measurable and leaders and the 'committee' can easily tell you if your contributions are at the next level.
The TOS on quoting someone? You're saying that if I want to quote something someone says on Twitter in my book or in a newspaper, I have to follow their TOS and style it their way? No, I think not. Applying Twitter's styling to quotes is a nicety. It's nice for the blogger that it looks good on a blog and it's nice for Twitter that they get a link back and their branding guidelines get followed, but there's no way Twitter is going to be able to enforce their TOS on quoting something that someone else said just because it was said on their platform.
Oh, definitely. But once you've worked with them, you at least know what you're getting into: A metastable dysfunctional relationship that you'll at least both stick around in, for the good of the kids. (Money is the kids in this bad analogy)
Full-color night vision is almost a reality after a deep learning breakthrough
I think some of this is because hands are very involved in both communication and threat assessment, so we as humans put a lot of automatic attention on them. We aren't even usually aware of it--unless something looks off

Personally I really like leaning into the discontinuities and quirkiness of generated images. This is output from GLID-3: https://twitter.com/mwegner/status/1511139661095178241
Does file that don't contain any LF is valid "text file", though?
I have a personal blog at https://www.brosstribe.com where I blog about stuff I've done, so I can find it later and remember it.

I also run a little BBQ cheet sheet app, at https://www.time2temp.com where I welcome pull requests for more times and Temps for BBQ.
If the additional complexity is just "Use this premade thing" and it only adds a half hour here and there of work, while also giving you essentially a premade and pre-documented workflow than new people will instantly know(Whatever your "bloated" tool tells you to do), then it might be a net win anyway.

If the extra complexity is microservices and containers you might have an issue, but microservices are kind of a UNIX philosophy derivative, I'm not sure the complexity is really intentionally added(Like when someone uses an SPA framework or something), it just kind of shows up by itself when you pile on thousands of separate simple things without really realizing the big picture is a nightmare.
The thing is that the executable is not ran at all. You get the error coming from OS directly before, not after it fake-ish exited like explained in article for Linux/MacOS.

I think this was neatly explained by Ray in one of his older entries. The OS tries to load the .exe's header, then assign heap+stack according to that header, and only then will start the execution at entry point pointed by the header.

So, empty file -> no header -> OS complains -> no execution + above error.
Fair point, it is indeed over two decades old if you start from bit gold (and hard for me to argue against with a straight face after using DARPANET as an inception point for the Internet, even if bit gold was only theorised).
You've made the strongest case I've seen for some knowledge flexibility by bringing up tech freelancing, but this generalization is still ensconced in tech specialism. The last two posts have lost sight of the bigger picture.

The conversation began with the OP talking about wide cross-disciplinary pursuits.

"A couple of years back I started dabbling in the social sciences and humanities (my background is in ecology / evolutionary biology), and became interested in one discipline after another. From psychology to history of science to anthropology and sociology, to economics and politics, to philosophy and religious studies and cultural studies, etc."

My post was a reply to a response to "Refuse to Choose" and the concept of a "Scanner", someone who is looking at many different disciplines that do not all immediately relate to one another.

And my original post was to the effect of "Yes, being a scanner is a weakness if you can't synthesize your cross disciplinary knowledge into extremely valuable non-obvious insights and/or awe-inspiring products".

Basically, think of ideas as being distanced apart from each other. Some of them are in your head, others in mine, some are in a book, or a movie. If we are specialists working together on a project, then to access and synthesize ideas that exist in both our heads we need to have a meeting, which takes significant time. To access it from media, we're going to need to consume media and study, which takes even more time. A helpful analogy would be the memory hierarchy if you know a bit about computer architecture.

But, if many different ideas exist already, only in one person's head, no meetings are needed. They can just work, synthesizing as they go. That is where the "Scanner" emerges from their cocoon and inverts what has been up to then a weakness sapping the ability to excel in one field, instead becoming what one might call "A Renaissance Man".
try cursing? lol
Ah, yes. I noped out of that once, though I had to stick it out for a year or so before I could call it quits.
Explore World
Nice! Thanks for sharing it.
Baseball novice here: Where does the cheating come in? Why is the catcher the one calling the shots?
I made https://jfornear.com with Jekyll and GitHub Pages. I haven’t updated it since 2019... I’ve been focused on building https://pinjour.com lately.
It responds to calls from their frontend code, by necessity. It is not meant for public use. Just because you are technically capable to interact with it yourself does not mean you legally can.

Just because you can physically enter a strangers house does not shield you from trespassing charges.

Society / the legal system is not code. There is all sorts of nuance and morals and subjectivity involved beyond the "bits on the wire", so to speak. You can go to prison for accessing a website you know you shouldn't, even if the HTTP response code is 200.
Anonymous has gained access to the Kremlin's security cameras
I mean, if we want to run with the man analogies...

The empty set is a valid set. Perfectly reasonable, and completely necessary in many cases.

But the empty Group is not a valid Group. A Group requires an identity element, which means non-empty. The smallest valid Group, the Trivial Group, still requires an element.

I would argue a diploma or a banknote resemble a Group more than a Set. There are required elements, such as an issuing institution.
Look at the bright side... more $$$ for your efforts.
We should come with the device converting fungi signals into digital signals and connect vast fungi mycelium networks to the internet. To connect our forests to the internet.
Scroll through https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... for some inside takes from a loomperson.
"When will we stop ravaging this planet in the name of greed?"

People want to have children. Those children want a first world standard of living. The governments want population and per capita consumption to continue growing, because that's what drives our economy.

I feel we are at the point where we can't meet those needs and desires sustainably for everyone. If anything, industrialization and scale of industrial activity will continue to grow.
All apps should be written as a single, stand-alone, self-contained file.
Teens help MIT teach lending algorithms not to be racist
OP is MVP!
For your D&D games: https://random-name.org
Yes FB is entirely in org too. It's weird to go out of org.
Elon Musk delayed filing a form and made $156M
Can you elaborate more? Why it was not justified? The more detailed the better (If possible, concrete issues that you faced) ?
We could collect those minerals from asteroids. We could also mine deep underground without disturbing the surface. But, open pit mining certainly is dramatically more cost effective than either of those options.

My problem with open pit gold mines in particular is that, while gold does have industrial uses, the primary function is to be a shiny thing worth money and I find this activity to be arbitrary and not clear the bar of "worth destroying and toxifying a landscape" and thus greedful.
https://kaikunze.de/

used Hugo as site generator. Source is here: https://github.com/kkai/web-source
Robotics. try something simple first, program a Pi to drive a stepper motor, or a drone thruster, then start breaking/disecting things to get mechanical inspiration and parts.

build an appreciation for how code has real world consequences.
https://aarontag.dev

It's very minimal from a style standpoint, with no images except the SVG "logo", and all static. But for all of it's not much I really like how it's turned out.

There's a blog too, although I don't post NEARLY enough

(I'm also currently looking for work, https://aarontag.dev/resume.html)
You could easily repurpose that code for drawing Quantum Circuits and thus representing quantum computations. I'm tempted to make a pull request this instant and do it myself.
This thread is ridiculous. At FAANG, and everywhere really, promos are decided based on impact and influence. FAANG are just more likely to be working on open source projects than employees at other companies.

All impact is difficult to quantify, not just contributions to OSS. The only easily quantifiable achievements for an engineer are delivered projects that directly generate revenue. In the teams I’ve worked in, I’d say that covers perhaps a third of projects.
https://dronesitter.com/sim - Building a drone simulator with WebGL
Here are mine:

blog: https://www.davidwparker.com/

portfolio: https://www.codenameparker.com/

app for my Youtube videos: https://www.programmingtil.com/

fun podcast site: https://www.listenaddict.com/

All are made with Svelte (SvelteKit for the first three and Sapper for ListenAddict). Rails API backend. PostgreSQL.
Probably the most common way people interact with Tcl is through python, ironically. Tcl has a GUI library called Tk, through tkinter, available as part of the python standard library.

Outside of Tk, Tcl pops up in a couple of odd places, usually as part of some testing system (expect(1) and SQLite use it) or build system, though use has fallen off quite a bit since the 1990s.

Placing somewhere between a lisp and shell, it's incredibly effective as a language for gluing things together and creating DSLs, and is fairly easy to embed in a manner similar to Lua.

Definitely not a perfect language, but one that I find extremely comfortable to work in and iterate quickly for certain projects.

Antirez's blog has a pretty concise explanation of Tcl's features and what makes it special:

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html
Advice can be given at face value, and advice can be taken that way as well.

I suppose I should add a disclaimer, in case this wasn’t already implied: you don’t have to take any advice from other people.
I'm sure this is late, but OP might like zola, It's a SSG that's contained in one binary (written in rust), It's lightweight and more barebones than most SSGs imo.

been using it and have enjoyed it so far.
I'm not sure I agree with the statement, you're putting forth a lot of assertions without the actual quantitative data to back up what you're saying, and even though you think it sounds intuitive that doesn't necessarily make it valid.

I'd actually argue the reverse, I think you see a lot more effort towards acquiring things that are illegal than you would otherwise.
I made https://towardssoftware.com! It’s a Django app running Wagtail CMS, and since that’s all just Django I can hack on it super easily. Wagtail runs the part of the site with writing and tils.
> Every nuclear disaster is unique

No nuclear disaster in history has added up to a bad single bus accident.

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> and to absolutely refuse to shoulder the costs of anything going wrong. \n This is what the nuclear industry does

This is, of course, the exact opposite of true. Nuclear power is the only kind of power expected to carry full disaster insurance (not even dams, which have death counts in the six digits.)
AC can and will definitely flow through inductors, especially the 220V/60Hz one you have at outlet. I challenge you to connect an inductor, even one of several Henry's as value, to your outlet and to your hand and comeback here and tell me if it shocked you or not.
> In France the new nuclear reactors have been plagued by hardware issue, delays

That's odd, can you show me some evidence of that?
It's funny, because people tend to think performance artists are the ones full of shit... I suppose life really does imitate art.
https://deadcomputersociety.com/

This is my website which contains projects, a small blog, and links to things I've created. It's a static site generated using Zola as well as a few other scripts. I've definitely put more time and effort into the custom theme it uses than I have the actual content on there, but I do have a number of posts in the works that I'll get around to publishing someday.
Retype builds directly off Markdown files, which you can store anywhere, including GitHub. The retype.com website is built directly from a GitHub repo, see https://github.com/retypeapp/retype

The retype.com website is also hosted on GitHub Pages. Any change that is committed to the GitHub repo will trigger the website to be rebuilt by Retype using GitHub Actions, see https://retype.com/hosting/github-pages/.

Hope this helps clarify that Retype is even more tightly integrated with GitHub, or any other source management system. You have complete control and ownership of your source content files.
Page content is bundled into the binary (or maybe not, it's not too clear from post)
> In the meantime, a barebones crew operates Chernobyl infrastructure, while the sacrophagus was shelled by Russian troops.

and even under these conditions, once again, zero deaths

the point you're trying to make actually works against you
When C99 introduced the restrict keyword this argument fell apart.

But I can assure you, the vast majority of legacy Fortran is not vectorizable. At least not without a bit of refactoring.

Oh and did I mention, most of this legacy code was hand optimized for memory utilization. You see, back in the day 8k of memory was cutting edge HPC and about half that went to the OS and compiler. Well we all know, everything is a balancing act between time and space - the old timers traded time for space just to be able to do the computation at all on the hardware they had.
Any encryption scheme may have an oracle by definition of oracle. You’re (possibly intentionally) changing the situation by refusing to allow OTP to be an actual encryption scheme.

Here is a blog post that summarizes some facts about Vernan’s OTP as it is defined in cryptography: https://wiki.soimort.org/crypto/one-time-pad/

Regardless, this is a silly discussion with nothing to be gained by me.
https://will.gleich.tech A resume website I made for my last job search. Need to do more blogging but a fun blog post about cheap homelab GCP Failover.

I've been meaning to do a post about solar powered ethereum miner.
For 3 cents a _month_ Cloud Run can store over a gigabyte of containers and run them on-demand.
I've got my travel blog https://kevinandsam.travel that I made with Gatsby and my personal blog https://kevinhughes.ca using Jekyll.
It is non-trivial to release hardware where the serial number is showing as mated to a managed domain.

If you're power washing and as soon as it connects online it gets cps.edu remote policies you're gonna need district IT to release the serial from management.
As a musician I'm super interested in the Frission Waves concept.
I made a proof of concept language once of something along that idea.

https://github.com/mypalmike/skastic
Pasta intake and risks of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease
https://brajeshwar.com is my personal website since 2001. Always have been kinda minimal.
Don't forget the tamale. The origin of the tamale dates back 7k - 11k years. They were eaten by the Aztec and Maya civilizations and previously as well by the Olmec and Toltec. And tamales were sacred, food of the gods. I've always loved tamales. They're a treat and good for you, too.
There is Fungi[1] language, by the way. It has nothing to do with real fungi though.

[1] https://github.com/Adapton/fungi-lang.rust
I suspect that 95% of business applications could be implemented just fine with that architecture. However I would use SQLite instead of a plain file. Just for added commit safety.
L7+ tech generally has in and out of org reviewing the promo. One for context, one for keeping the bar even.
Let me know when you can speak English to a computer and have it generate CRUD code that satisfies all engineering and design constraints. The AI will need to be dynamic enough to understand nuance, missing gaps in the requirements spec, have context on the application being built, able to suggest improvements on product design, know how to make changes through the same conversational interface, etc.

Let me know when you find a single programmer who can do that reliably.
I'm just surprised that there isn't some bog standard authentication puzzle piece that goes with learning OTPs.
Fun: https://sfc.fm/ Super Nintendo music emulated in the browser

Emulation Blog: https://eludevisibility.org/ Mostly retro gaming prototype and other development hardware or otherwise obscure content.
The author has published a new post: "Just more confusion" https://rootprivileges.net/2022/04/07/hi-wordpress-com-youve...
blog / bookmarks: https://www.johnxie.com
http://www.iblaine.com

* hosted on github

* Uses a Jekyll template

* minimal content, a few blog posts, projects, links to social media

I've always wanted to host a unix terminal as my personal site but every gadget, feature, piece of content is something that may need maintenance.
There are a lot of state laws that resemble each other, but there are often subtle differences. My point is that there is no overarching coordination other than maybe AASHTO (which can only make recommendations), and legislators are often only interested in the highway department if there's a contract they can steer to a friend.
I knew this about the programming languages which wrap execution in a shell, but I never knew that execlp/execvp/execvpe handled ENOEXEC internally and wrapped the command in a shell too. TIL!
Because gamers are naturally visual creatures. People who create games these days usually are gamers who enjoy games. and so that visual stimulation and visual way of playing, learning probably carries across, at least for the beginners.
It's not as safe as you believe it to be, in the case of total electrical power failure in a fly by wire airliner, and the corresponding loss of hydraulic pressure there's very little that a pilot can do with that point.

As far as the extremely unlikely hostage situation goes, if it were AI controlled that would be even less likely attempts from people to hijack an airplane in the first place since there wouldn't be a human element a.k.a. a pilot that they could appeal to their emotion.
Exactly. If you are an L7 and making an average L7 salary, nobody should have to squint and tie themselves in knots to figure out the connection between your contribution and your employer’s revenue. You are a Ferrari that is purchased new each year.

There’s a place where you can work on things that don’t generate revenue but are morally/technically interesting: it’s called “academia”.
If your code is performance critical, it absolutely matters. Most Fortran code is FORTRAN 77, and 2-20x slower than it could be because it was written for processors without vectorization, out of order execution, modern branch predictors, or any of the other hardware advances of the past 30 years. Modern compilers can mitigate this slightly, but the algorithms that old FORTRAN code use are fundamentally inefficient on modern hardware.
Adding dependencies is the opposite of simple.
I've seen small startups waste their time with things like self-hosted Kubernetes in a quarter-rack of colo space for workloads they could have instead hosted with KVM or on cloud instances with 1/100ths of the management overhead. Scale that up to a half-dozen racks of servers and you're really still telling the same story. Even OpenStack of all things is easier to manage.

This covers the scale of the actual operations of 99% of companies. Probably some more 9's there afterwards. Go and read about how StackOverflow's infrastructure has developed over the years and how damned simple and effective it is.

If you aren't Fortune 100 or you don't have extremely specific performance needs for your (re)deployments, then it's highly likely that rolling out Kubernetes infrastructure is akin to driving screws with a sledgehammer.

I think part of this is the downside of capital being far too cheap for too long. Companies have way overbuilt their infrastructure for reasons that aren't really moving the needle forward. Many barely make an effort to control their costs. At most companies my expectation going in is to look at their infrastructure and see somewhere between 0.02 and 10% hardware utilization across everything they have. Even the companies running Kubernetes hardly seem to be doing a better job because very rarely is Kubernetes running 100% of their infrastructure, if even 10%.
How hard is it for Federal employees to authenticate themselves to each other?

> accused of providing Secret Service officers and agents with rent-free apartments — including a penthouse worth over $40,000 a year — along with iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, flat screen television, a generator, gun case and other policing tools, according to court documents.

Are we to assume this kind of thing is so common as to not raise suspicions? Don't they have to fill out forms to get this stuff, usually?

What kind of utter chuckle fuck operation are they running?
I used to work at a place whose webserver was in TCL (AOLServer). Once I figured out some of the gotchas, I learned to really like TCL.

Like you mention, it's used as glue in lots of places, for instance in my Electrical Engineering classes to glue together VHDL/Verilog and program FGPAs.
https://vlad.gg / https://vlad.lgbt

Hugo, automatic dark mode, and a few goodies on hover. Otherwise pretty light and standard.
How many do you think are scared of becoming pariahs by saying anything counter to popular narrative?

I'd say it's a significant number. Wouldn't want to lose the chance to ever get a research project funded again.
Elizabeth Holmes didn’t exist, so it was necessary to invent her
I write articles about Linux, DevOps, and Cloud : https://shyamjos.com/
Glad to hear that you prefer shell scripting, but please consider that there are many (web) devs out there who prefer JavaScript:

"Many [devs] are more familiar with the Chrome DevTools console than they are with a Unix command-line prompt. More familiar with WebSockets than BSD sockets, MDN than man pages. (...) Many developers, we think, prefer web-first abstraction layers." -- https://deno.com/blog/the-deno-company