skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to tell. Given that DDG signed a confidentially agreement barring discussion, the "employee mentioning on twitter" might have been the only feasible way to get the information out.

That said, this has been going on a while, and it seems more likely that DDG was fine with keeping it secret and the employee was probably acting independently.

I think the fact the DDG signed the confidentiality agreement willingly does not speak well of their overall priorities.
As many others have mentioned, dotfiles in a git repo (https://github.com/lachenmayer/dotfiles), mainly for having unified shell themes/aliases/etc. on all machines I use.
I use several search engines, but my primary right now is startpage. It's been ok (If you'd asked me what color the page is I couldn't have told you).
A week without a car: one person's experience commuting in Boise without driving
https://toggl.com/blog/mars-software-development
Very much related
I meant commercialization potential for companies like Google, where anything less than a hundred million is probably a failure :) Hopefully for the non-Googles of the world (i.e. you), there's a good pathway forward!
Same. VMware leagues better than the various horrible Openstack deployments some customers want to use.

I have in depth knowledge of kvm and the issue isn’t kvm it’s everything else.
Tiny Robotic Crab Is Smallest-Ever Remote-Controlled Walking Robot
Dell survived. Nothing to be ashamed of making clones, they enabled the growth of the PC industry.
> Brave search is a possibility, but they’re owned and managed by a homophobic douchebag.

Here we go again... He donated a few thousands dollars in 2008 and 2010 to a referendum campaign against same-sex marriage. He then repeatedly said he was sorry.

Is this being a "homophobic douchebag", considering that all politicians from both sides of the aisle held the same views at some point not so distant in time from 2008?

Just to put things in context, in 2008 Joe Biden asserted he opposed “redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage.” Also a "homophobic douchebag"?

Also the guy is a genius, he invented Javascript, his technical prowess would probably have an effect on Brave, rather than his political views.

This intolerance of even the slightest political dissent is worrying.
Doesn’t all this smell ENRON’ish?
> There's no test framework/runner worth a damn.

The built-in unittest module is essentially a clone of JUnit, so it can't be much worse, and most of the remaining limitations are fixed by pytest which people seem pretty happy with. What test frameworks are you comparing them to?
Tax rates on small businesses - especially in my county/state combination - are absolutely brutal and have significantly gone up over time in comparison to larger businesses as a percentage of revenue. There's a lot of reasons for this, none of which I think are deliberately intended to harm small businesses, to be clear, but it's frustrating all the same.
Two thought experiments to evaluate automated stablecoins
What happened with Netflix? Is this about the price hike, or is there some other Thing I'm supposed to be upset about?
Even just #commenting on weirdness you discovered while working on tech-debt code can be invaluable; a little note on the two hours you spent on it could save days later when trying to figure out why something isn't working. Sometimes the problems can't be fixed right then, but you can mark them so later when it does break you have a hint as to what is going wrong.
Twitter to pay $150M for using 2FA credentials to push ads
Wordpress.com announces new 'Starter' plan below controversial 'Pro' plan
Of course. Everything sucks. But people keep buying stuff and we incrementally improve the experience, so it is what it is.

Our marketing team wanted to move everything to Shopify, and then I asked them to do a cost-benefit analysis compared to the 0% we pay with our current setup (plus Stripe fees).

When the estimate came back in the hundreds of thousands of dollars more per year, I took the opportunity to lecture them on rent-seeking and middleman evaporation of profits that these software startups/businesses capture silently from organizations who just don't do the math.
Full title includes the chemical formula:

"Li[Ni0.5Mn0.3Co0.2]O2 as a Superior Alternative to LiFePO4 for Long-Lived Low Voltage Li-Ion Cells"

"Li[Ni₀.₅Mn₀.₃Co₀.₂]O₂ as a Superior Alternative to LiFePO₄ for Long-lived Low Voltage Li-Ion Cells"

Populist overview "Tesla battery research group unveils paper on new high-energy-density battery that could last 100 years"

https://electrek.co/2022/05/24/tesla-battery-research-paper-...
I think you misunderstand the purpose of a search engine. They would be borderline worthless if they did not make any attempt to sort results by relevance and quality. It is why SEO is such a big industry, because everyone and their mother wants to convince Google that their website is both high quality and highly relevant for a given search term.
Chats have always been super-useful for a more technical crowd, IRC is still alive somehow.
I think there's a healthy middle ground here. Endless tweaking of settings tends to be a waste of time, but if you spend hours a day on a computer, you might as well make it comfortable. Some people use no $EDITOR plugins and wear it like a badge of honor, this is pretty silly to me. The few minutes it takes to install and learn about a plugin might save you hundreds on hours in the future.

I guess my personal strategy is to run with the defaults until you find the pain points, and install/configure something to address them. And put them in git repo if possible.
When people talk enterprise they are talking 2000+ person companies. They are not doing their ERP payroll etc using excel.
I'm at work and thus can't listen to a 45-minute podcast, so forgive me if they talk about this in it already. There's a type of reinforcement learning, the name of which I can't remember now, where the goal function is basically replaced with direct human feedback. By doing this, the AI learns not how to optimize a specific concrete value, but how to optimize "doing what the human wants me to do". The result is an AI whose effective morality matches the morality of its human user in addition to being able to complete its actual task (because completing the task in a "bad" way gets it punished the same as if it didn't complete the task -- or possibly even worse).

That's one potential solution to the alignment problem, and of course it can be adapted to more than just reinforcement learning as long as there's a human in the training loop to modify the goalposts. It does very much slow training down, as it takes much more time for a person to step in and check out the intermediate results for goal modification, but it helps ensure alignment.

All of which I mention because doing something like this is a first step towards machine empathy. To have empathy -- which is just a simulation of anothers' emotions within ourselves -- we must first have a good theory of mind -- that is, a good understanding of others' goals and desires. Emotions themselves can be thought of as reward functions for learning: positive emotions evolved to guide us toward behaviors that help, and negative ones evolved to guide us away from behaviors that hurt. If an AI can understand a human user's desired goals, then the "only" other component it needs for empathy ("only" in quotes because it's quite a large challenge) is the ability to determine whether any given situation aligns with the user's desires or not, even though the AI may not be the cause of the situation.
yeah sure, I have zero user and well, it may be like that until my death :-)

that project was an excuse for learning rust. But now I understant rust a bit more, well, I'm a bit scare to wait 45 sec on each build for a side project (ie a project I do on my very limited spare time) :-)

but anyway, rust is really cool to work with (I have a python/C++/assembler/R background). The level of checking it does is really mindblowing (and frustrating at times :-))
Zuckerberg’s metaverse to lose significant money in the near term
Rise of the Ransomware Cartels
I manually scp config files whenever I set up a new pc (I should really set up somethin better)
What an XMPP server supports:

- XML
- XHTML
- vCard
- Bookmarks
- Message Archive
- P2P
- VoIP
- Multi-user Chat
- File Transfer
- Data Forms
- Service Discovery
- Pub-Sub & Personal Eventing
- Bidirectional Synchronous HTTP Streams
- WebSockets
- Push Notification
- Protocol Gateways
- TLS
- OTR
- PGP

What an SMTP server supports:

- SMTP
- TLS

175 XMPP specifications (https://xmpp.org/extensions/)

24 SMTP specifications (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol#...)
1491 by Michael Mann is a must read for anyone even vaguely interested in the Americas before European arrival. It’s a fantastic book that will change how you think about indigenous cultures in the Americas and make this kind of thing seem a lot less surprising.
This includes all the security apparatus.
Police (quite numerous), prison guards, military cadets, security services and, of course, National Guard and Armed Forces. But from those many are guarding bases and other important objects, training, staying in reserve, etc.
The fighting force is much smaller than those 700 thousand.
I want an RPG which has:

- the open world and exploration of Xenoblade Chronicles

- the long-term play and grinding of The Last Story or Diablo 3

- the wonderful motion-control of Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (the Wii version please --- archery on the Switch just isn't the same)
Is it time to spin up http://fuckedcompany.com/ again?
It would be nice, but I think this is a survey of an evolving field and there probably isn't any one pivotal paper. Plugging some key names (Marletto, Halpern) and key terms (constructor theory, resource theory) from the article into Google Scholar, or visiting the linked researchers' websites, will probably get you what you're looking for.
no problem. here is a thread of people checking it out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedLetterMedia/comments/uxoegh/ever...

it's considered funny when one of these movie reviewers calls something "aids" but it says it with a varying amount if "i"'sin the word. so it would be cool if we could find all the instances of rich evans being crass.
What a bonkers story. Thank you for sharing.
I have a big cinderblock set of bookshelves in the back of my garage. It's where the not quite ready to go out yet books go. I did some book downsizing during the pandemic. This summer I'm going to try to get some more books and a fair bit of clothing out of the house.
> I doubt wasm-bindgen will be your cup of tea as it’s Rust stuff, though perhaps there may be value in looking at what it generates.

Yeah, Rust isn't part of the sqlite project's toolchain, but wasm is entirely new to the project and we're eager to learn more about it and to make sure that the JS/wasm code is not only usable but also "good code" (or at least "presentable" code!). Yes, we currently rely on emscripten's generated bits, but i've made an active effort to slowly trim down those dependencies as i get a clearer picture of where the borders between wasm, JS, emscripten, and client code lie. Ideally we wouldn't be dependent on one compiler, but currently we are. Baby steps!
Same here! I just looked back through my emails to see if it was the same "Bolt" I remembered.

I always imagined it being a much smaller startup, not an $11B valuation. And it seems the market has backed me up on that.
If I understand correctly, numpy at least originally was a wrapper around some Fortran libraries. So you could get the same functionality and performance in Fortran.

Am I missing something? Is there some way in which numpy is superior to, say, Linpack (other than not having to use Fortran to call it)?

Is there anything unique about Python that enables this approach? Couldn't Go, say, do the same thing? Or C++?
DDG's downranking was the result of politics, not of merit or technical reasons. Furthermore, what one person's 'disinformation' is another's lived experience. Hell, it might be the accepted truth tomorrow.
I have to mention this cliche here (although it's probably already been mentioned):
If you're not paying, you're the product, not the customer.
To be clear, your question is asking why smart people get excited about simple things that provide a lot of value?
Not really. They have different penetrative properties, but the risk of a stray bullet hitting more than one person falls off exponentially over pretty short distances. The only real chance of a bullet hitting more than one person is if they are very close to each other in that moment, like a dense crowd.

I can't explain the math in great detail here, but, if we assume something like an urban residential complex, the risk of two people standing along the same line from a misfire at 30 ft is already so small that the extra risk a bullet capable of 60ft, or 120ft of travel poses (I'm using small distances because I'm assuming walls/furniture in the way) is only a fractional increase.

If you look at people being hit by strays, it actually doesn't correlate at all with caliber/magazine/etc., since most incidents are 9mm handguns being fired in urban environments.

If you consider dense crowds instead, then the extra risk can be a multiplier (say 2-5 if you're going from 9mm to .50), but I am totally fine with any gun just not being allowed at events like that assuming police are on site.
This caught my eye:

> As she gripped her gun, she felt as if she’d stepped into one of the true-crime documentaries she binge-watched at night.

Seems like an incredibly bad idea for police officers to be binge-watching that stuff. They’ll get the worse cases drilled into their heads, right before going out on a (real) street the next morning.
There’s tech debt and then there’s poor engineering leadership. There’s no valid reason for a startup looking for market fit to switch frameworks or feature flags multiple times unless you’re just being clueless and looking for silver bullets. Just pick a few “boring” technologies and you’ll be perfectly capable of building anything “web” for at least a decade without messing around .
> put some kind of indicator or watermark stating the compression is neural

That ship has sailed.

Smartphone cameras and laptop webcams already use machine learning algos to improve low light performance and noise. The result is that the images already contain details that are generated.

And it's impossible to turn off.
My feelings exactly. I love go because of how productive and resilient can be. In months programming in it I've barely had any null pointer exceptions. If it compiles, and passes the linters, it mostly works aswell.
I agree with all of these statements.

The point I'm trying to get across is that there are many different theoretical scenarios for revolutions and rebellions, beyond the one scenario the parent comment theorized, or events similar in spirit to the American Revolution.

For example, the degraded ability for society to agree on what is true may be an avenue for a hostile state to cause civil unrest. That scenario may play out better for the targeted society if the population is not widely armed.

One good example, one bad. Both possible!
I've wondered why we don't just assume the arrow of time was reversed in the past? We know that in the past the universe was more organized (had less entropy), so it doesn't seem like much of a stretch from believing entropy started out that way. Wouldn't that make it easier things like life to form, etc. and simpler than reaching for alien life / multiverse theories? Or does it make it just as difficult? Just a lazy armchair physicist here, but maybe evening TO morning was the first day?
Then you probably don’t understand the value of any big tech company? All of them are premised on ideas that are trivial on the surface but involve difficult engineering challenges at scale.
Sounds like it was an AMD and/or driver issue. We never had trouble with our intel GWs.
Indeed. My overall complaint about Go is that despite being a very new programming language, it hasn't incorporated a lot of lessons learned long ago (e.g., the billion dollar mistake). One of my favorite articles about Go is http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
I bought the first DS and never played it because it flat out required a controller. I bought a controller to use with ES because the game got so much hype. From what I have read, you can use M+KB with ES, but it is sub-optimal in a game that requires hyper optimal play.
We'd need to flood it with salt water. Best example as to why this shouldn't be done is the California Salton Sea ecological disaster.
Last pay phones leave NYC
One of the things I love the most about it is that we can use CI to update flake inputs and build configs on a cadence, which is almost like having dependabot for machine configuration.
I could have sworn it was Berenstain v. US…

Weird.
Since "backronyms" are a thing, I think they should adopt the camel as the logo, given that's what I see in my head when I think of perl: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/cover/0596000278/250w/
NCTC could drop ‘cable’ as industry group eyes name change
> where you take out loans get your salary - and you only actually make money if your company grows 10x in one year - and even in that case your benefit is slim - while the VCs and founders walk off with 85% of the gains

Better: the VCs own stock with liquidation preference over the common stock they loaned you money to buy. If there's venture debt, they are also part of the estate that will be paid by those loans if the company goes bankrupt.

This all smells. Especially given, to my knowledge, Bolt didn't let even its employees take liquidity in their shares through traditional channels.
Sometimes being nice ends up being unfair. Given the "talk to us we'll work something out" part of the message I bet that's what Bolt is basically doing - in the cases where people are now "screwed" they're going to arrange for a grant or something to make people whole.
Yes, and not just maintenance, new systems.
https://www.twitch.tv/ortopilot
Maybe someone can clarify this for me, because I'm not sure I understand how this is possible: when the loans were announced, it was said that ~half of employees took the loan. But here, when 200 people were laid off, only a "single digit" number of employees that were let go had these loans. Even if that number is 9, that's like 4.5% of the laid off employees.

How is that possible, except by Bolt explicitly not laying off employees with loans? I don't know if such a thing is illegal, but "you are indebted to us so we'll give you preferential treatment" doesn't feel _not_ illegal.
Quacks like it.
Eliminate gun free zones.

Mass shooters overwhelmingly prefer to target such locations for obvious reasons. If it becomes known that most attempted mass shooters will die an ignominious death before they achieve their goal, the incentive for copycat shooters will be gone.
Yup. I run one laptop and four servers on Nix. It is the only sane option I have come across so far(I used bare git repos with Arch before).
Before it was a part of flutter it went through years of silence and effective death.

From roughly 2013->2015 the mailing list was practically silent on dart.

Even then, the language got "rebooted" with a v2 in 2018 to try and stir up some new life in a language everyone thought was dead.
Do you know much money and effort goes into eliminating leukemia?
> to cover employees' tax burdens due to exercising their options.

Not just the tax burdens, the exercise price as well
I'm in no way defending Bolt, but your comment exudes snobbery as well as ignorance about what should drive a company's valuation. There are many incredible software engineers that care far more about the problem at hand being solved than whether the technical solution strokes their intellectual ego or not. This type of punching down at other software developers really isn't good.
This throws me back to the good ol' days of fitting all software in a few dozens/hundreds of KBs on Speccy and similar systems. Current software engineering practices are so wasteful on computer resources, and imho unnecessarily so, when we keep in mind what was possible on those systems with 1000x less compute power decades ago.
Nothing specific. Just the general irritation of cheap, low quality content; shows cancelled before they run their course; etc.

I find myself trying to watch new shows on there, and getting bored halfway through the first episode of some series. I'd pay $5 or $10 a month, but not $16. It ain't that good.
I wonder if this might have been more deadly if he had fired fewer shots but deliberately aimed each of them at a person. The percentage of wounded survivors in that shooting was atypical.
VMware learned their lesson from OpenStack, where emerging upstream technology threatened their virtualization monopoly. They also were forced to go in this direction by their enterprise customers, who are very dependent themselves on open source technology.

One of the opportunities at VMware is monetize the open source investment more effectively, especially Kubernetes. I still don't totally understand how they plan to do that but wish them (you) all well.

Disclaimer: Former employee of VMware
The dev stack is evolving. I asked Scott Hanselman, Juraci Paixã, and Ilai Fallach what's new in their developer toolbox. Here's what I found out
> why you would think that I'm missing anything.

Because your other comments were rather light in content, you know? It's hard to piece together a full picture of what you mean without you taking the time to actually write it down... :)

To be perfectly honest, I can't help you here - I have no idea what does it matter whether the ruling class is capitalist, aristocratic, teocratic, military, or whatever other ways of getting power there are. Maybe people think that some ways of getting power are... I don't know, inherently better in the moral sense? Is that really important?

I think what matters is how the ruling elite behaves. The drive-by comments about how it's capitalism that makes workers in SK miserable are severely misguided, in my opinion. Reading - as a hobby - about history of East Asia, I would say it's the opposite: the ruling class became capitalist, without really changing their behavior, or (the most important part) the reasons underlying their behavior and acceptance of it by society at large.

I thought you're missing that bit, because you focused heavily on the ruling elite being this or that, while I think the topic here is not about what it is, but what it does, and how the other people view and react to what the elites do. You mentioned America/USA, so I wanted to point out the huge difference between the thinking of the majority in the "land of the free" on their minority elites vs. in South Korea and some other Asian countries.

Because I don't see a huge difference between capitalists or other kinds of elites, I missed the reason why you focused on that part of the argument. At best, I thought the comments about evil capitalists were a kind of virtue signalling (look, that's what capitalism wants for all of us! we need to do something! or something like that). I don't think anyone did that to aggravate anyone or you personally, it's just that people often don't have the 2 cents to add to the discussion, but still want to do it, so they borrow a talking point (a dime a dozen) and throw that in.
Apple hates offering choices. But yes this would be the obvious option. Though in this particular case I don't really care but I can imagine some people would. It's also not really nice to change this in a point-update. UI changes should remain reserved for major updates IMO.
A great comment from someone very knowledgeable in the field.