skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR; Take a look at Octopus Energy [1] and the other companies within the Octopus Energy Group [2]. Be a part of tangible and real-world progress toward a clean and sustainable global energy system (not just renewables!) backed by smart software and technology.

You can find a list of global openings at: https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy

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I went through a similar journey after feeling incredibly guilty and unhappy working for a company that helped others extract even more oil and gas from the planet. It completely changed my outlook on what I wanted from a job, and made me determined to refocus my career toward things that have a tangible benefit on society and the planet. I could spend the rest of my life working on stuff, or I could spend it on things that actually matter.

It turns out that there are surprisingly few companies around that not only do something "good", but also deliver on that with tangible results.

Renewable energy is a fantastic area to be involved in right now, we're just at the start of a monumental shift toward not only more renewable generation (eg. wind farms), but also the surrounding technology, infrastructure and policy that's required to make it happen in a reliable and cost-effective way (eg. batteries, EVs, smart energy grids, change in consumer behaviours).

I've been working at Octopus Energy since January doing visualisation (eg. 3D graphics, dataviz), who are involved in nearly every aspect of the transition to a modern and clean energy system around the world. They started in the UK but are now spread across many other countries (eg. Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, US and others).

What I love about the Octopus Energy Group is that there's something for everyone. Want to work with electric vehicles? Check out Octopus Electric Vehicles [3]. Want to work on the core software that is already in production, enabling the transition to smarter energy systems? Check out Kraken Technologies [4] and Kraken Flex [5]. Want to be involved with the physical assets of a smart and clean energy system? Check out Octopus Energy Generation [6]. And there's plenty more.

It's the first time in 10 years (since working at Mozilla) that I've felt part of a shared mission for good. It's both fulfilling and highly addictive. And it also helps that the Octopus ethos is to treat people like adults, so the trust and work-life balance is fantastic. We're all here to work together towards the same goal, and it genuinely feels that way.

Long story short, there's something for everyone and I've never been happier. Come join us!

[1] https://octopus.energy
[2] https://octopusenergy.group
[3] https://octopusenergy.group/octopus-electric-vehicles
[4] https://kraken.tech/
[5] https://octopusenergy.group/kraken-flex
[6] https://octopusenergy.group/octopus-energy-generation
Intel is not dropping support for it on a lot of CPUs.

The only thing they've done is disable it in the hybrid Alder Lake cores, presumably because the E-cores couldn't support it (while the P-cores could), and they didn't want to deal with the headaches of ISA extensions being supported only on some cores in the system.
Sometimes you can't buy the same collateral e.g. if the basket has many elements/currencies/stocks.
I was running an x86 VM on my 16Mhz 68030 Mac LCII in 1996 in college - SoftPC by Insignia Solutions.
Yeah, I call bullshit. Cloudflare is not about to stop supporting IPv4 in seven years.
Well I mean this article is demoing a 28% improvement (if I did my math right) for json parsing.

Sure AVX-512 is only applicable to specific workloads, and even many of those workloads the cost/opportunity of optimizing for AVX-512 might not be worth it. But there clearly ARE usecases that would benefit, and it might be worth it for more consumer applications to optimize for AVX-512 - but only if it can be used.

The way I see it is that the benefit of optimizing for AVX-512 is far higher if it becomes normal for consumer CPUs to have it. A 28% improvement is pretty decent, but it's only worth implementing if enough people can utilize it.
The Data General acquisition, which got them CLARiiON, arguably saved the company during the downturn--given that belt-tightening really hurt Symmetrix sales.
Not Hostile Takeover but yeah Warfare Incorporated is similar. Seems dead though.
For many maybe not, but when writing the foundations of software it is good to start fast. There are libraries that abstract various simd architectures now too. Simdjson has their own and there are ones lile KUMI
I wish the game was more explicit ($) on how much the founder was worth at the end.

I've played it a few times and too often it just says "you own X%" of the company but you have no idea what the market cap is for the company.
Because SMTP was absolutely necessary for everyone and XMPP wasn't - and moreover, there was active interest in making XMPP fail. At first, all competitors supported XMPP to lure users, and in the end they dropped the support. Same old story as always, see Slack shutting down their IRC gateway.
This looks slightly more serious than my attempt to move on from the whole IPv6 fiasco by skipping it and going directly to IPv7 in that he made a website and I did not.
Correct. 5,000g / 2.6 g per m^3 = 1,923 m^3

Okay let’s say the bottom 10m of atmosphere is available for water making. That means there are 10 million cubic meters of air per square km, or per 50 people. We will need to dry out 1,923 x 50 = 96,150 cubic meters of air. But there is 10,000,000 available, meaning we are only drying out just under 1% of the air.
Through Recession and a Pandemic, the Book Business Is Thriving in Buenos Aires
In spite of all the valid criticism, we still got lucky that we ended up having this nonproprietary, decentralized, universally supported medium called email. A large number of businesses still (and will continue) to run on email, as does a certain subset of open source and other projects (using mailing lists).

> companies no longer send confidential info through it.

It depends, B2B absolutely still do.
Sadly, the links you posted as a source for the annual deaths from mass shootings per capita make it clear the two numbers don't even measure the same things:

> For example, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) defines a mass shooting as a single attack that happens in a public place and in which three or more people are killed with a firearm. However, most other stat trackers require at least four fatalities. Similarly, some databases include events in which at least four people were wounded, but not necessarily killed. Others do not. Some databases include occurrences in which the shooter killed only family members (but still in a public place, such as a restaurant). Others do not. Some databases include organized terrorist attacks, armed robberies gone wrong, and gang-related shootings. Other databases discard some or all of these incidents. In fact, in a 2019 study that compared four different databases, the number of mass shooting events recorded in the U.S. for the year 2017 ranged from a low of 11 to a high of 346. Clearly, a significant error margin exists, particularly when creating country-to-country comparisons.

> Transporting them from your home to the range is legal, but they must be unloaded, locked, and permits are required for the transport.

Why not make transporting a firearm illegal if it's done with the intent of committing a crime? There's a well defined notion of intent in criminal law. Why are guns magically exempt from this and the assumption is immediately made that the owner is malicious?

> The harsh reality may be that the number of guns per capita floating around really is an important factor.

To me it points toward the opposite conclusion. People will just commit mass murders differently. Now, these won't get labelled as mass shooting so the stats will look better. [0] [1] [2] [3] [4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafia_family_murders

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/11/03/quebec-police-release-new-deta...

[2] https://www.the-sun.com/news/2445508/toronto-van-attack-ince...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London,_Ontario_truck_attack

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Calgary_stabbing
Good point. Should have clarified I was referring to CPU SIMD.
I noticed it recently too, but disconnecting my Bluetooth headset first allowed it to suspend properly (it seems like the wifi chip kept it awake before making like a yo-yo back and forth).
Good to hear, please keep the number of possibilities high by storing the images just as files. Do you have public code to test or follow for interested TW5 users? Thanks!
Long drives can be completed with electric cars now that they can charge much more quickly, something the Leaf cannot do.
He was certainly typecast

> I think the same about De Niro

Watch Taxi Driver, Silver Linings Playbook, and Stardust. For a meta-take on that, watch Meet the Parents.
Employers cannot replace financial advice from an advisor with a fiduciary duty. Providing general education is good, and so is getting them free sessions with a financial advisor. But I don't totally agree they should be liable.

This was an incredibly risky program, and I don't understand how Bolt was valued last year. But engineers were potentially sitting on a life changing amount of money. Not exercising could have cost engineers hundreds of thousands in additional taxes if Bolt had a great IPO. They needed to get financial advice from an independent advisor.
I agree.

It's really starting down a bad path when we start asking megacorps to do the government's job. Corporations are fundamentally not subject to the will of the people, and it is almost impossible for the people to countervail the control authority of the extremely small set of owners who own the majority of voting shares.

Let the justice system crack down on people or organizations "violating human rights" and give companies like Amazon orders to cease service if necessary. Or pass laws to require them to filter some extremely specific use cases, such as the dissemination of child pornography.

Mega corporations shouldn't be the ones deciding what is and is not a socially acceptable activity.
In addition to enjoying esphome for the ease of use and solid integration with Home Assistant, I find the technical underpinnings interesting.

- Users produce yaml describing a microcontroller connected to (sensors, inputs, outputs, networks, services, etc).

- A python layer type checks that yaml, and spits out autogenerated C++ code (which can be inspected if desired)

- C++ is compiled and installed onto the hardware

- future updates can be made OTA

- extensible by either writing (hopefully small amounts of) C++ inside yaml (lambdas), or including/referencing C++ code (external components)

I’m still not positive I like yaml for the DSL, but that might be a personal bias and I’m not sure what an obviously better solution would be.
I love ESPHome. Here's some of the stuff I've been able to accomplish:

- Expose IR commands for turning our bedroom fan on/off along with some battery-powered candles

- Flashed it to a Sonoff S31 to detect if our electric fireplace is on/off based on power usage.

- Secondary ESP32 that controls said fireplace with IR commands and has an attached dfplayer MP3 module to play a loop of fireplace sounds

- Wired up some photoresistors to an ESP32 that are spaced to match the status lights on our washing machine. The same ESP32 has an accelerometer attached to our dryer that changes its state depending on vibrations of the dryer.

- There's an ESP32 in our garage that has two VL53L0X time-of-flight range sensors to detect whether the garbage or recycling bin is out. In my automations I check if it's garbage or recycling day and send a notification if the bins haven't been taken out.

All of my automations are written in C#/.NET using NetDaemon.
For a CEO with a $200M package, everything is negotiable and would depend highly on the mode of departure.
> It sounds like DeVault let them know their proxy was hitting his service too hard, and they immediately responded by saying they could dial it down

I'm not ignoring that Drew complained and they offered to dial it down. That's a reasonable response if it were an isolated case. The problem is that it isn't an isolated case. This is how the module cache works, which means it is doing that kind of load against other module sources too.

If you're going to impose these resource demands on others then they should be managed for everyone affected not just the one who complains about it.

- Repeatedly pulling an entire repo over and over again is an antisocial act that is unfairly imposing bandwidth/CPU costs on third parties

- They should not expect every impacted party to obtain an opt-out individually because of unasked-for extra resource demands

- The system that excessively polls is broken, not its victims
When your power source is a solar satellite in geosynchronous orbit, for starters :)
TypeScript 4.7 released with full ES module support in Node.js
Hum... Somebody posted an automated water pistol for scaring pigeons not long ago.
Except for you. It's just the rest of the public which is dumb, of course.
The criticism is pretty specific:

> In sum, 1) An internal Stanford document finds repeated failure by Stanford staff, 2) Both Giammalva and Madarasz quietly depart Stanford, 3) Giammalva has been accused of past misconduct, and 4) the Dean overseeing all this, Lisa Caldera, has been the subject of an ethics complaint. Despite this, President Tessier-Lavigne’s administration released a public statement in January 2022 chastising the lawsuit from two Stanford faculty over their dead son and called any criticism “unfounded.”

> These are no isolated incidents. On March 7 2019 Stanford cyclist Kelly Caitlin died by suicide in what was her second suicide attempt that year. Between the first suicide attempt and the second one, Stanford denied Kelly access to two psychologists she requested on campus.

> President Tessier-Lavigne’s administration responded in an unsigned letter that I believe was designed to mislead regulators. The letter lies about the date of certain events, lies about the materiality of events, lies about the nature of events, lies by omission, and created a fiction to deceive regulators.

> Not only did President Tessier-Lavigne’s administration deceive WSCUC regulators, but the two and only original investigative case notes that provided a direct glimpse into the matter were destroyed and forged.

So, take the contrast between the difficulty that students have getting help from her when it is her main job to help them, vs how easy it is to her "side hustle" clients to reach her:

> On the intake form for Caldera College Consulting, customers can suggest time availability Monday-Sunday in the Morning, Midday, Afternoon, and Evening. On Instagram Dean Caldera has also shared a direct deposit link to her Venmo bank account so customers have “an easy way to connect to my services.”

vs:

> Mental health at Stanford is an afterthought. The administration’s neglect is single-handedly responsible for my breakdown. I spent 45 minutes on hold with [Stanford] during an emergency trying to get help before my parents rushed to get me.

> I got upset and hung up on the crisis line. They didn’t call back or follow up in any way.

> “No help when we needed it — had to fly out from the East Coast to save my son myself.”
I think there is a systematic bias in our perception of ancient peoples that is influenced by the scarcity of archeological evidence, combined with a common logical fallacy. Until we have evidence that people did X before year Y, we are biased towards assuming they did not.

We continuously hear headlines of the form “discovery people did X before previously thought.” But why did we think they did not do those things earlier?

The fallacy is to be over conservative and assume that if we have no evidence that something happened, it probably didn’t.

But our prior assumption should be that the earliest evidence for X is much later than the first X.
There are a lot of product-minded engineers out there (user-facing outcomes focused). There are also a lot of engineers who enjoy the engineering decisions and challenges at particular stages of a company's growth. Both (and many others) are good and healthy mindsets.

You don't have to be a kernel hacker to be a good or motivated engineer.
equivalent to spam in its current iteration
> This doesn't seem like compelling evidence without diving into why

Fair enough, but not only is a company pushing us towards renewable energy better than a company resisting that better in the abstract, the real issue is the specific companies that the ESG index kept while booting Tesla.

https://slate.com/technology/2016/12/exxon-mobil-is-the-wors...
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/22/772241282/exxon-is-on-trial-a...
https://www.vox.com/22429551/climate-change-crisis-exxonmobi...

The list goes on and on and on, and this isn't even taking into account all of their lawsuits from employees about inappropriate workplace things. Again, it's not that Tesla is some pristine company, but that it's extremely hypocritical for booting Tesla from a list but keeping at least one other company that is far worse in pretty much every way, and that's what really calls into question the legitimacy of the ESG ratings.

> [criticism about criticism about Tesla relying on oil-based roads]
> Well I guess I'll like to evaluate from a systems thinking standpoint. N-order impacts are relevant.

Of course they are relevant, but dinging a company because they don't solve every tangential issue seems defeatist, and every ESG index company has at least as many ways in which they could theoretically do much more if we start connecting the dots to everything in the system they're a part of. So it's just back to the original point: the ESG scoring seems, at best, pretty inconsistent.
Not sure. The only thing that comes to mind are clients that prefer ipv6 over ipv4. In Linux this is defined or defaulted via /etc/gai.conf. If the file is absent ipv6 will be preferred by some DNS libraries and applications. Those clients will try ipv6 DNS lookups and if that does not exist will retry with ipv4. That adds the delay of RTT of the DNS server combined with cache or lack thereof.
> Those numbers suggest the risk rises 50%, but Studdert said it was actually higher: in a separate calculation designed to better account for where people live and other factors, the researchers estimated the risk was more than twice as high.
I agree with the last point, so I usually end up delegating any sort of logic handling to my automations. ESPHome will just report the state of sensors, my code figures out what to do with them.
This is most certainly targeted towards AWS being used by ICE. And not just in a generic way of them hosting ICE servers, but with ICE using Amazon Rekognition to identify undocumented immigrants (and allegedly AWS had meetings with ICE to convince them to use the service). The human rights violations come up when you talk about kids being separated from their families and then straight up lost, and the various other immoral things ICE does.

This isn't something Amazon isn't aware of, I went to the AWS Summit in NYC a few years ago and every few minutes the Keynote got interrupted by another protester yelling "Cut ties with ICE" and getting dragged out of the room. I don't think I was the only one quickly googling on their phones to figure out what they were talking about. I couldn't move my previous company off of AWS, but I moved all my personal servers and I steered my new company away from them.
It would pause for a few seconds on 1-3kloc files on a fully loaded 2019 macbook pro.
appreciate the forthrightness, but frankly, that's an unconvincing answer. participants should have full control over their own data rather than offloading trust to government agencies or corporate organizations that are potentially themselves corrupt.

note, for instance, that many gov agencies blindly and willingly send PII to google without participant permission.
Fair in the sense OP is using it is in the moral sense, not the economic sense. Paying someone tens of millions of dollars when the lowest paid workers in that company make ten bucks an hour may be "fair" in the economic sense, in that it's what the market will bear, but I don't think it is any way fair in a moral sense.

I think too often people let the "morals" of the market replace actual human morals, and assume that because the market is "free" or essentially some uncontrollable algorithm, anything it does is moral by human standards. It's easy to throw your hands up and say "oh, well that's just what the market will bear" and assume all moral responsibility has been accounted for. But I disagree.
> New Zealand didn't pass such a law

Yes, they bloody well did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_(Prohibited_Firearms,_Mag...

Cherry-picking and failure to do basic research aren't good for discussion. Not when others do it - an accusation you've slung in multiple branches of this thread - and not when you do it. Please do your part to keep this from deteriorating even further.
Many people have won the lottery. That doesn't make it likely.
Twitch still is
These are all renderings. Why no photos?
Building a New Political Faction Based on Ideas from YIMBYism
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if your first thought is that the fine isn’t enough, often these fines go along with agreements to change business practices. in this case:

>In addition to imposing a $150 million civil penalty for violating the 2011 order, the new order adds more provisions to protect consumers in the future:

>Twitter is prohibited from using the phone numbers and email addresses it illegally collected to serve ads.

>Twitter must notify users about its improper use of phone numbers and email addresses, tell them about the FTC law enforcement action, and explain how they can turn off personalized ads and review their multi-factor authentication settings.

>Twitter must provide multi-factor authentication options that don’t require people to provide a phone number.

>Twitter must implement an enhanced privacy program and a beefed-up information security program that includes multiple new provisions spelled out in the order, get privacy and security assessments by an independent third party approved by the FTC, and report privacy or security incidents to the FTC within 30 days.
100%. It's very familiar if you've played any souls games. I'm actually playing DS3 now, and I really wish I had played it before Elden Ring, because a lot of the concepts are the same, and it took me a while to grok Elden Ring.

Once you understand the systems of the game and how they work it gets a lot smoother. It's definitely a very unique genre.
ASAN is pretty great with these cases as well. Spent much time looking for the needle in the haystack before ASAN came along.
when i first heard that lisp was supposed to be good for making DSLs, my first thought was 'gross, i'll just stick to writing plain lisp thankyouverymuch'

but i think that's a misunderstanding- it's not a suggestion to make a mess with reader macros or whatever, its an observation that common lisp _naturally_ builds up to form the language constructs needed in your domain, simply by virtue of providing the tools and syntactic flexibility needed to construct them

another thing that seems to put off newcomers to cl is the parallax between the promise of a smooth, polished dev environment, vs the nuts-and-bolts-exposed nature of the core language itself (eg the infamous eq/eql/equal/equalp situation)- but i think this can be explained as how cl is _not_ a scripting language, and you are expected to paper over these edges as you define the system

cl gives you the best tools in the business to turn itself into a dev interface so clean it might as well be a DSL