skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 1914 English translation of his 1499 Italian books from archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/ancientdoubleent00geij
Ben Laposky: Oscillons and early oscilloscope art
let's make a thought experiment, if you make X amount of money and you were given this amount every month for rest of your life and could do whatever you wanted, would you still keep going to your current place of employment for 40+hours a week?

and if so, what % of people in the world you think would say the same?

of course I was writing in generalities in my previous post, I'm not commenting on the odd neurosurgeon or astronaut who realized their childhood dreams, let's be real here

and yeah, if I ever have "employees" it will be on partner to partner basis with sharing risk and profit, I don't dream of subjugating other human beings for my benefit while keeping them in the dark and scheming, which to be honest is what most companies do...
Keep a Steam Deck next to your toilet.
Depends what you mean by "better at software engineering".

What Google seems to do really well is building robust systems at a scale that pushes the limits of what humanity is capable of. If you collect anecdotes from engineers who've worked on scaling systems at the small number of companies at this scale, there seems to be general agreement that Google is "the best". My understanding from these anecdotes is that Google core services are "on fire" less than everywhere else and require less maintenance.

But that's a pretty narrow definition of software engineering. AWS, by all accounts, is much better at productizing something useful to the world. I've heard that the reason Microsoft lags Google in stability could plausibly be accounted for by the fact that they care so much more about maintaining backwards compatibility (which Google very clearly does not care about).

All that said, I don't think its "best at software engineering" is a terribly useful category, better to say they are plausibly "best at a very specific and very difficult kind of software engineering".
this is interesting. why do you think this is better than just using python?

do you have any research with students that shows this is a “better mousetrap”?
Extensions can inspect and control a lot of network data. You can't mitigate it, it's a permission to be given sparingly.
Didn't know Unity relies on a garbage collected language. How do they deal with the mark and sweep pauses?
There is absolutely zero legal usecase for cryptocurrencies. None. "oh but it might be useful for doing-" you are wrong. Full stop.

"but what about censorship" Circumventing government censorship is, by definition, illegal.

"but what about trustless" We do not live in a world where there is nobody that can be trusted. And if we did, why the hell would you want a currency where nothing can ever be reversed?

"but what about NFTs/smart contracts/DAO" All of these are useless and have resulted in nothing but blatant scams and illegal activity (because that's all cryptocurrency is useful for)

Cryptocurrencies have many great uses. You can gamble with them, you can buy drugs with them, you can pay ransom on software that just locked down your entire business for a day, as well as many other illegal activities. EVERY SINGLE OTHER USE, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, is something that centralized systems already do well. And if someone is trying to convince you otherwise, they are either trying to pass the bag to you or make you a part of their scam.
I think this ship has sailed, especially with people adding an extra dose of latency in the form of Bluetooth headsets.
You have a good heart, and I’m not saying I entirely disagree with you, but think of it this way:

If I’m paying taxes, I want it to go to something I care about. “Non-dom” status is blatant fraud for sure and I can’t entirely support that. But, shopping around for preferential territories is kind of what everyone is already doing, right? Imagine if your town made it illegal or expensive for you to move to a neighboring town? That’s the problem cryptocurrency is solving for the rich
Challaneges and Technology of Sub-Sea Cable Installation (MakaiLay)
It was a bit disappointing to see Matt Damon shilling cryptocurrency in a Superbowl commercial. Not surprising, I suppose, but still disappointing.
You assume wrong! Approximately one in five BTC minted so far has been lost.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/business/tens-of-billions...
Thoughts on FluxAi
Has anybody used FluxAi? Most PCB designs strike me as not so difficult. IMO PCBs get hard when you introduce RF or high speed signaling. I wonder how flux deals with this and if they have support for simulating RF or design rules for laying down SERDES links such as PCI-e for example...
The Weather Year Round Anywhere on Earth
Google has not pushed anything relevant to the user space for many, many years. It's not without reason people meme about Google Graveyard. Here in Hackernews, people constantly whine about their ads, their irrelevant google search, and what have you. Their latest "flagship" phone is littered with bugs.

I wouldn't call them "evolving" anything software as of late. Their hard science departments seem good though, but these aren't software engineering
Once the energy storage demand follows the PV exponential curve a little longer, it will be obvious to everyone that batteries won't cut it, and you will see people starting to deploy stuff like hydrogen electrolysis and liquefaction for storage combined with hydrogen fired gas turbine powerplants.

Several of the established players are close to achieving dry-low-NOx 100% hydrogen gas turbines. Then you are talking about >500 MW power per unit and a thermodynamic efficiency of >65%. If you are in the "extremely abundant but too variable renewable power" scenario, these things will be the major stabilisers. You can easily imagine smoothing out even seasonal fluctuations with them.
colleagues are what makes or breaks the job experience, rest of it is just business and if you are not part of c-suite be prepared for short end of the stick
The Myth of the Machine
> Especially when you have to assume that we live in some fantasy world where nobody can be trusted

I think the value of crypto is that trust is not required to participate in the system and transact. You don't need to be second guessing every single person to benefit from this. It doesn't hurt to have a system that minimizes the consequences when trust is abused. It is a bit like the adage of wanting privacy even if you have nothing to hide. I might not want someone to have the option of stealing my money in a transaction, even if I don't think that they actually will.
The difference is not in how common the occurrence is but whether the aid is extraordinary or ordinary.

If instead of being sewn up with a violinist, the person in the thought experiment woke up with an embryo implanted in their uterus, then separating themselves from the embryo would be removing ordinary aid and the embryo would die from being deprived of basic nutrition.

This latter case is what happens in e.g. date rape, which is, I think, the whole purpose of the "violinist" thought experiment to begin with.
Yes, I recently tried to find some song, and wrote

*Chewbacca jazz song comet*

And the third result was the video I was looking for (The Comet Is Coming - Summon The Fire)
That's a pretty bold claim not backed up by any evidence and I can think of numerous counter examples. So if you make such a claim I you really make a bit of an effort to support it.
Start by reviewing your company process for performance management. Then follow it. At each step notify HR of your intentions. Document all meetings you have with the individual concerned and HR.

Set clear achievable short term goals with the individual that enable you to clearly identify and articulate their poor performance. Use that to reiterate performance expectations. If performance doesn’t improve, begin escalating with HR support (by that I mean tell them what you intend to do next and get them to sit in on formal meetings).

Having been through this myself it’s about ensuring it isn’t a surprise to the individual concerned that their performance is poor and creating the evidence that you followed a reasonable process leading up to any termination because worst case you and the Company end up being taken to employment tribunal. And that’s where your thorough notes and evidence that HR were advised on the steps you were planning to take are key.

And as a manager you have to pursue this because the wider team will know who’s not performing and be watching to see how the business addresses it. If you’re lucky the individual will decide to leave once they realise the direction of travel.

Good luck. And I recommend the book “Radical Candor”
It may not have been only women, but

> In 1935, the first group of female human computers were hired. Before electronic computers, all mathematical equations and computations would be done by hand by people, often known as human computers. With the advent of World War II, many male employees at NACA left to fight overseas. More and more women were needed to fill their roles, and soon African American women were hired to help with the shortfall.

> These African American women were sent to a segregated computing section known as the West Area Computing Unit, which was the center of the 2016 movie Hidden Figures. In April 1942, a memo was passed around stating that, “The engineers admit themselves that the girl computers do the work more rapidly and accurately than they could.” The women computers were becoming increasingly more valuable and doing incredible work along the way.

https://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/women-nasa
If it's just the hot water, it could be your water heater. I would not expect soldered copper pipe, even with leaded solder, to be leaching that much lead. The vast majority of the solder is not exposed to the water, it's just sealing the lap joint of the fittings.
Reducing yearly revenue from 250 billion to 200 billion seems like a reasonable tradeoff for not hobbling and annoying more than half the population of the earth and also maintaining brand longevity. Right now they are further and further ripening for disruption by an upstart.
Where is your example of speedy safe optimized code executed by eval() that wouldn't just be better as regular code?
I don't know about that specific model, but I'd expect a "gaming" headset to attempt to have both a high-enough quality and a very low lag.

There are also DECT headsets which seem to have very low lag. Quality isn't great, but you wouldn't expect it to be given the size of the phones. But it works great for voice and has a very long range.
My other concern is that their tooling works in the browser which probably means either typescript or js. If they have simulation support, I hope it's not implemented in ts or js...

I know wasm is also a thing now - so maybe they compiled C or Rust to Wasm or something.
Even if electricity generation is from coal, EVs produce less CO2 than ICEs, because big power plants are much more efficient than small engines. Plus all the other benefits they have, especially in cities.
The Medici family supposedly invented it. Very fascinating family.

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/how-the-medici-family-...
podman isn't like docker compose either. It offers no way to orchestrate multiple containers using templates like docker compose. It is simply a daemonless “container engine”.
Canadians and Australians have housing sizes comparable to the states.
It's such a funny sport. It's like serious slavs vs germans mostly and then you look in the audience and there's RZA rubbing his chin
I prefer to try to learn to love something that you believe can bring you success. It is very difficult to do something day in and day out that you don't love some part of. You just have to figure out your angle. I don't love my current business, but I love business in general and I love building things that people like to use.
Please don't be snarky on HN or take threads into predictable flamewars.

There are ways to make substantive points about this topic, but this way just leads to yet another tedious conflagration.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Honestly I think it's exactly the opposite, there's way too much opportunity for graft, and that's the only reason they ever get pursued.

It's much easier to take some graft off a super size construction project with few bidders and massive transaction costs compared to small repeatable transactions that happen with smaller projects.

Nuclear construction often ends up with people in jail. It's happening in South Carolina, and happened in South Korea too, and up until the corruption was found, SK had been touted as a modern nuclear success story that could maybe be replicated in the US.

So we are left with only China and Russia's Rosatom as the only builders that claim to be able to deliver at a reasonable cost. We just need to trust the builders enough to construct in our countries, with our workforces, and somehow get a hugely complex construction project with lots of high-precision welding and construction pours done on time and accurately.
I'm not sure what you meant with the link, but the parent is right, so adding an explanation here: M1 Ultra has about 400GB/s theoretical bandwidth but Anandtech shows that none of the SoC blocks can actually reach that, pretty far for it. It seems that Apple summed all the bandwidth to all the blocks to get there, which does mean something but not that the GPU has access to this (the GPU memory controllers seem to be the bottleneck).

On the contrary, a 3080 laptop does reach 400GB/s, I'm personally seeing this routinely on AI workloads, so that's part of the explanation for subpar perf here (the other ones being probably matrix math and mixed precision)
CT is cool, but who is writing/submitting those logs?
Yeah, modular thorium reactors would be awesome. But at the stage of development they're currently at, we'd better be very close to carbon neutral by the time the first one could be connected to the grid.
I love reimplementations.

I’ve recently been playing Julius, a reimplementation of Caesar III;
and Augustus, a form with extra features:

https://github.com/bvschaik/julius
https://github.com/Keriew/augustus
You trust those same certificate authorities every time you enter your credit card number in a web form.
Missing TLS intermediate certificates can create mysterious browser problems
> My point exactly.

No, your point is that this reckoning is happening because the alleged killer is white and the victims are black.

Trying to change your point to which murders were live-streamed and the exact number of connections to follow for investigation is a smokescreen.

> No murders were streamed live on videogames (or anywhere, in 1993), yet they got congressional hearings.

Or is your point truly that no deaths 30 years ago resulted in congressional inquiry, and you're shocked that a mass murder planned and live-streamed on social media now is resulting in inquiry?
actually it seems that it was because a lot of other well known models are not yet supported, missing ops in the Metal backend
Super weird reading comments like this, when you're saying that being opposed to these industries is "morality policing":

- illegal drug trafficking/sales
- sex trafficking
- immigration trafficking
- child sexual abuse material sales
- contract killing

If being opposed to these industries makes me into the "morality police", then I think you're delusional. You could make the same argument for any crime; that all laws are "morality policing".

These industries destroy an enormous number of lives and we should be crushing the people who profit from them.
What do you think about adding "acceptance of death" to that list?
That ruling stated that the SEC isn't allowed to enforce rules _without_ a jury. They can still take people to court but there needs to be a jury involved.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/sec-in-house-judges...
There are binaries and strings. Binaries is what are used as efficient "strings" most often these days. Binaries allow matching, even building bitstrings (binary strings not ending on an 8 bit boundary). Even more interesting, strings and binaries can be combined in iolists, which is an arbitrarily nested or combined list of binaries or other lists. Those can be used for efficient IO and IO drivers know how to emit or consume those.

For additional details I recommend https://adoptingerlang.org/docs/development/hard_to_get_righ... which also mentions how unicode is handled. It turned out quite a bit easier because of how Erlang represents strings.
Ask HN: What Happened to Zas Editor?
Zas editor made a splash here on HN a few weeks ago. The binary hasn’t been available for a week or so, the domain, zeditor.com is up for sale, and the GitHub issues repo doesn’t have any owner activity.

Was it all too much? Is it just they used the now unsavoury Z in their product name?
I don't think US has many relevant freedoms left. Some people cling very hard to legacy 18th century ones while the Moloch just gobbles up all the new ones stemming from progress.
The one thing that strikes me about "boring" people is how seldom they are actually bored. They are finely tuned organs of consumption, able to discern the finest differences between states and measures, and are endlessly fascinated (and driven) by this consumption to consume more and more at finer and finer levels. They are the sensitive instruments by which the universe discovers itself.

Claiming that being boring (as opposed to inflicting boredom) is a negative characteristic is like judging a scalpel on its ability to crush boulders.
You can not have trustless consensus when you have the commodity created outside of the block chain. Bitcoin works because mining both verifies transactions and creates new bitcoins. A blockchain that verifies transactions but just blindly stores newly created commodity units has no purpose. It's just an inefficient database.
> Everybody knows rooftop solar costs several times utility-scale solar

Nope. Not true. The fact that contractors are raping people doesn't mean that's the cost. The system I installed for about $30K was quoted at $100K. If people pay stupid money for solar that's their problem.

> If you get only 14% duty cycle, you are doing worse than most.

Not sure where that number comes from.

Oh, wait, that's 1/7 th. Ah, you are using my 7x figure to attack my argument? Show me the math that compares any solar system to a nuclear power generator. See, the fact that you used this 14% figure confirmed my suspicion. You really don't know what you are talking about. For all I know you have the mathematical skills to do the numbers, you just haven't taken the time to do it and, as a result, are operating under ideas that can only be described as part of a cult rather than science and engineering.

> Ask the people in Georgia and South Carolina how much value they got for the $15B they spend on their 0W nuke plant.

By that logic aircraft should not have been developed, ever. If a few failures means a technology is to be avoided most of what we enjoy today would not exist.

You are intentionally avoiding the mathematical realities of solar by using a project that was grotesquely mismanaged to sidestep reality.

Google says there are 440 nuclear reactors in the world. One or two failed projects due to abject incompetence clearly isn't an argument at all in support of anything other than, don't hire idiots.

Do you even know the answer?

If I asked you to describe top level requirements for a photovoltaic array that would be the equivalent of a 1 GW nuclear power plant. What would you say? Do you have any idea at all? Can you describe the calculations?

Probably not. Most people don't. They like to argue, sometimes passionately, and yet few actually know what they are talking about.

So what's your answer?

The photovoltaic equivalent of a 1 GW nuclear power plant is calculated as follows:

...

I'll wait.
Marxist socialism may require force, but most others define socialism as having democratic or anarchic systems of control.

All societies force their members to do something to be part of them, and some societies do not allow people to leave, even if they disagree with core parts of that social contract.

I disagree with large chunks of the US social contract, but find it a good balance overall. Yet I am still forced to take part in many systems that I would rather not take part in.
Or maybe they are a continental European, who, of American writings, appreciate mostly the rustic type-- and be stranger to usages of "kontrapunkt" outside of a high art context
Hah. In truth, I deserve that feedback.

I’ve been slacking on adding proper CI/CD to my blog, while my apps on Netlify/Vercel don’t have this issue. I’ll take this as the proper kick in the pants to work on that.
Suppose for the sake of the argument that renewables only produced power around noon. If you build more renewables until they produce more power than you need before you invest in storage you run your fossil fuel plants a lot more than if you invest a little in storage to be able to shift massive overproduction around noon to other times of the day.

It's probably best if we increase the carbon price until the market figures out how much storage is economical.
Thanks for the recommendation. Having skimmed the book, yes, it would be fantastic to give the material the same treatment Paul Verhoeven gave to Starship Troopers specifically in its reappraised interpretation.
A Decentralized Protocol for Remunerating the Open-Source Ecosystem
The masses always choose wisely. "The Wisdom of Crowds".
Seems like the NY AG felt like it, that’s how. It’s not like things weren’t investigated at all in those other situations, here they decided to make a press release about it.
For those that are getting a 404 not found, here's the link from archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220519020040/https://addyosman...
The choice is never between this storage or no storage. It is always between this storage and all the other storage choices. Whichever is cheapest while matching local requirements best wins. Over time, the winner changes, so each time you add more storage, you choose over again, and may end up with several different kinds, which can be an advantage if they have different characteristics.

There will be a hell of a lot of money made in meeting people's storage needs. I will be betting on producers of factories to synthesize ammonia.
Sorry, I was unclear, when I said system, I did mean my region or country, not the world.
> together, dealing with their weird failure modes, etc. Basically, RAFT sucks. It really isn't very resilient AT ALL. You can literally take down an entire RAFT cluster with a single packet. One freakin packet.

etcd (the core of k8s) uses raft as its consensus algorithm. I’m not even sure what you are conflating, or what this magical single packet you are referring to is. Kubernetes will very much not continue to work if etcd goes down which is why people tend to host it outside of k8s itself for production use cases.
That's because there were no other options. This is now another option.
Me too! Battle Chess is what got me into chess back in the 80s.

Apparently there's a new-ish version on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/200150/Battle_Chess_Game_...
Does torchaudio work for you? I can get torch and torchvision to work but not torchaudio