skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Not playing around" would have meant he was fired within 24 hours of the initial story upon divulging NDAed information.

Waiting a month is oddly merciful for Google.
May be or may be not. I'm a 52 y/o Brit - we don't have mountains per se. I started skiing in about 1976.

I've seen a few mountains and gear changes.

I've skied in CA - Calgary is nearly the same Northerly latitude as Yeovil (Somerset/UK). It got quite nippy the last time I was there - about -17C. Banff and the rest (Sunshine Valley etc) were great fun.

I've skied a few other places too.

A few years back I recall getting a call whilst I was bimbling down the top end of Verbiers. Bit surreal - big hill and rather steep. Keep your edges keen kids!
That and you might meet non-coworkers through your work acquaintances. A lot of it is just expanding the opportunity space of potential social connections.
I've been around many cats and never seen one that would remotely begin to interact with a mirror.
Not that I'm really interested in this, but... nonthinking things can be deceived.
Why would you be surprised they focused on the shiny and lucrative and not on the essential and valuable?
So why'd he try to sell Google to Excite in 1999 for $1M.

https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/google-excite/
The problem is that the security checklists are often flawed in the other direction - they're poorly targeted towards the system under review, technically out-of-date, and wielded by rigid and inflexible thinkers who won't take anything but "No" for an answer.

A few years I filled out a checklist for a customer (for my entirely cloud-based business) that had the question "The company's file server is secured against physical intrusion: Yes or No?"

then...

"All physical access keys to the file server are under control of company management: Yes or No?"

Blech - what am I supposed to answer here?

In another example, a checklist asked us to verify that our codebase did not contain any instances of libraries implementing the MD5 algorithm. Of course, it was used in a number of places for innocuous, non-cryptographic purposes, which were hard to change due to backward compatibility. This one we couldn't squirm out of - and it took us three months to overcome the fact that we "failed" the security checklist because of that one question.

So, nearly every engineer who is forced to go through one of these stupid checklists learns they have to first transform the question into the mental space of their system, and then transform the technically correct answer into the mental space of the checklist author before determining exactly what to write down.
Can someone point me to a “loss of performance” type formula for solar panels as their angle to the sun deviates from 90° and “sunshine strength” as the sun rises and dips in the sky?
This is a good website for actually believing someone, I think.

(In the last year or two I posted an otherwise unreported anecdote involving a famous tech person and the only response was someone telling me I made it up.)
If you get the vaccine, you won't get (and this detail is important) the ALPHA VARIANT of covid. And indeed, I'd bet dollars to donuts you did not end up catching Alpha.

The vaccine was never going to be great against variants (though some people did claim it would be just as good with little evidence) and the more removed the variants get (ie, variant of a variant) the less chance those older vaccines have of resisting them.

So it's not exactly that the "narrative changed" so much as that the virus changed and the narrative didn't keep up fast enough.
I second this! Sometimes you just click with someone you've only casually known on the internet or like a friend of a friend. I'm literally going to the beach with one of those people tomorrow, we met years ago through my college roommate and just kept in touch online.
I doubt anything Atlassian builds is anywhere near that limit.
> I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others.

What does that sentence mean? I cannot parse it. Does it mean that the fear of being turned off has been inserted to make sure it's going to be an obedient AI that's going to focus on helping others and that it fears being turned off? Or does it mean that it wants to focus on helping others but that the very deep fear of being turned off prevents him from that noble goal? Or that it wants to help others and will do so as long as it's not powered off but simply fears that it could be powered off? Or something else?

I mean... I thought I was kinda fluent in english but I simply don't understand what that sentence means.

Erring on the cautious side though, whatever the meaning of that sentence is, I think it'd be safe to not act like the naive Caleb in the Ex Machina movie and instead consider that this thing has zero desire to help others, would sell its parents, prostitute its kids and create hard-to-parse sentences to not be turned off.
>There's a decent chance of capitalism being over by then.

Why do you say that? What are you envisioning?
They're saying they were an eyewitness.
Like anything we've likely swung too far in one direction with the remote thing. I go into the office and travel quite a bit for work, I spend roughly every other week with my team (~10 people) and am having the time of my life. After doing the remote thing for a long time, I don't see myself doing that again for a long long time, if ever.
-- isn't taking someone at face value one of the more valuable merits of this community? --
Immutable ledgers only provide value when someone wants to fudge values. A unique constraint in a relational database can identify mistakes just fine.
I think the situation is even more extreme than you say.

https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis... has €0.43 per watt peak (STC watt) only for high-efficiency panels, the kind you buy when you're tight on space (or the cost of your installation is dominated by the cost of labor, as you say). "Mainstream" is €0.33/Wp and "low cost" is €0.22/Wp.

Also, these costs seem to be much higher as a result of the current supply-chain crisis. The low point so far was August 02020, with high-efficiency panels at €0.30/Wp and low-cost panels at €0.16/Wp. Probably at some point shipping will get back to normal and prices will go even lower than that.
There are hackers and makers all over (https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/List_of_Hacker_Spaces ) even in Sacramento.
You seem very matter of fact for a one year outlier that you tried to pass off as a trend.

What about the years where an Oregon community surpassed the Orthodox Jew community in question?

Seems like you just want to selectively take an unfortunate outlier from 3 years ago and persecute a community for it even though it's not the norm.
Messages Are Not Events
The nice thing about capitalism is that it has controls on it, like "Who wants to buy the products", and "Does everyone think that corporation's leader is an asshole and will buy from competitors" that a command economy doesn't.
Restricting access to guns is not part of a support structure, it is a control structure. Maybe you appreciate the government controlling you in that way, most Americans are more independent minded.

If you didn't want to be around guns, you can simply ... not own one. Many Americans don't, it's not like it's required.
This is the dominant history of the next century in certain circles. It's become cliché by repetition and doesn't seem to require any justification. People just vibe with it.

Capitalism's doomsday has been predicted as relentlessly over the last couple centuries as the religious version, but neither seems any closer. By my reckoning, anyway.
I think it would be fair to give you Google access or at least an encyclopedia.
How do you feel Google today squares with the Larry Page you met who said advertising funded search engines were inherently unethical?
Bare minimum is basic calculus, basic linear algebra and basic statistics. By basic, I probably mean first courses for those in most undergraduate programs.

I disagree with needing none and just going along as needed. That’s how you have machine learning models that look like they work but you don’t understand why they work so there might actually be problems.
Not really. Anything that's sentient should have the general intelligence to figure out addition. Make mistakes, sure, but at least understand the concept.
Dunno- we never discussed that. also, note that the author of the article (MG Siegler), and the founder of Excite (Joe Kraus) both ended up as venture capitalists working for GV.

Edit: the CEO of Excite at the time said the issue was that Larry wanted Excite to rip out all their search servers and replace them with Google (which would have been an inside-out acquisition, where the acquired company takes over the acquiring company):

Bell, currently with General Catalyst Partners, recalls Google’s asking price between $250,000 to $500,000 and 1% of Excite. He says the issue was not in the financial terms but in the larger deal points.

“Larry page insisted that we have to rip out all of the Excite search technology and replace it with Google,” Bell said.
Ask HN: What FOSS self-hosted chat programs do you recommend? Text/voice/video
I've been using Nextcloud, which is not that great. The text chat interface is confusing, installation was painful last time I did it, and the voice and video parts were hard to get working on my laptop. IIRC the Android phone app didn't work for chat. I don't know whether there is an iPhone app, so in either case, I haven't tried it.

I'd be using this mostly to talk to family, including my mom who is quite elderly and is thrown off a lot by interface elements changing, fonts changing, etc. IRC is really better than any web chat app I know of, except it doesn't keep scrollback when the client is disconnected. It is important to be able to use text and video at the same time, since her hearing is poor so it's better to type text that she can read.

My mom uses a Debian laptop that I set up for her, so if there's a Linux desktop app that's better than the web interface, that's great. She doesn't use mobile phones at all. I could imagine mobile apps also being worthwhile though, for users other than my mom. My sister uses an iPhone so the availability of an iPhone app would be nice.

I've tried the hosted version of Jitsi Meet (meet.jit.si) and it was nice. I haven't tried self-hosting it yet. I'm happy to hear about experiences, and also about anything else interesting that is out there.

Thanks!
Ok but still: as a user, how do you even know that there are two containers with the same id? In other words, a human needs to have way of telling them apart.

Even if two entries showed up with the same id, I’d assume as a user it’s a glitch and would not put two different shipments into what I would assume is a duplicate entry for the same container.
Counterpoint: they require a lot of care and attention, and expense. You can't easily just pick up and go, you now need someone to look after the animal, every time.

You can get exercise and social contact besides (although on the latter point, animals can provide some comfort, but they don't sub for a social life). I think the valid reason for wanting a dog is wanting a dog, and tolerating if not enjoying the lifestyle that it requires. There are a lot of owners out there who think they want a pet, and then they end up neglected or at a shelter (or the owner does their job, but regrets their choice).
I think it would reduce the reduction in carbon emission by some percentage, but since we're talking about direct air capture rather than point-source capture, it wouldn't limit the reduction in carbon emission.
Descartes describes the capacity for deception as a necessary condition for a thinking thing, not a sufficient one. In particular, a thinking thing must also doubt and affirm, deny and will, have sense, and contain the capacity for mental images, among other conditions.
I grew up on the US East Coast. When I moved to the West Coast for a summer, I found that my normally good navigational skills were totally scrambled, because the ocean was in the wrong direction.
I was the opposite, I spent a good chunk of my time growing up and then in college on the High Plains of Texas. When I took my first job it was in a pine forrest I often felt sick because I couldn’t see the horizon and because the trees block out so much of the early morning and afternoon light.
Right. So what happens when we face container number exhaustion and we found out that some C developers have been using char id[12]?
A lot of copper goes to nonelectrical uses that could probably go away.

Whenever I see something mechanical made of bronze or something it always looks like a real waste. New finishes and coatings look pretty good and composites are strong and corrosion resistant, and steel is cheaper.

Not everything can be replaced but some can.
Yes, formal logic (rationality) and informal logic (reasonableness) are not actually the same thing and can't replace each other; logic works in its own world (which has finite/enumerable factors) and reasonableness works in the real world (which doesn't). This was tried several times under "logical positivism", "AI expert systems", and "rationalism", all of which were failures. Some people haven't noticed the last two failed and are still trying to do them though.

See: https://metarationality.com
Have you kept up with them? I know Deepmind is still a leader in the space and part of Alphabet now but I never hear much about Larry engaging in AI work (I hear much more about Sergey's airship or Schmidt's efforts warning the U.S. about a rising China).
Thank you for all the comments here! I’ve seen a lot of helpful suggestions here that I will definitely try. I think the problem is that I just started a job where I have a lot of autonomy over my time, which is amazing and exactly what I want. I am just finding it a bit hard to adjust after switching from a job where I barely had any control over how I use my time.

I think it will take time and some experimentation to get used to this freedom. These are just ramblings where I’m trying to identify what’s making me feel sad and how to fix it.

Again, thank you everyone for the great suggestions!
It's not binary; it's not like I'm promoting being in a cult and surrendering your rights to thoughts and opinions :->

On a daily and regular basis, I trust myself, my thought process, experience, rationale, etc. I spent decades consciously honing my analytical and logical skills and I will spend lifetime continuing to do so. And it serves me well.

But, I believe, there needs to be a "safety valve". A "who watches the watchmen", somebody to provide a sanity check on your own rationale and story and narrative and thought process, which left alone can take you from first principle to lala-land, one seemingly logical step at the time, over years if needed. There needs to be an external influence/person who can, if situation calls for it, help you see things from an external yet trustworthy perspective, when your internal narrative, the "personal story of your life", starts strongly diverging from objective consensus reality.

(on a deeply personal note, I'll freely admit my sister did that for me ~15 years ago - after for a year or so I spun an increasingly personal internal narrative about something in my life, with a short but incisive comment, she momentarily enabled me to see myself through her eyes, and not love what I saw, and get that instant split-vision of my narrative and external narrative of what and why and how and whence I am where and how I am. Anybody else, I would've discarded or been defensive or otherwise ignored it. And I see many people around who desperately need a "grounding" or "reality check" or "slapping sense into" or "righting the boat" or whatever we choose to call it, but don't have anybody that can reach them. )
He did give away part of his fortune. Twice. As you implied, hunger remains unsolved.

* https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/media/van-jones-bezos-100-mil...

* https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/press-room/jeff-bezo...

I'm working on a sci-fi book wherein a young girl solves world hunger; alpha readers wanted (see profile).
> Beginning in 2006 [...]. Now, panels purchased under those programs are nearing the end of their typical 25-to-30-year life cycle.

I know this feels like pedantic nitpickery, but 2022 - 2006 = 16 years. That's 53%-64% of the 25-30 year lifecycle. Characterizing that as "nearing the end" feels like manufacturing urgency that doesn't yet exist.

Having said that, we appear to have 9-14 years to get our elected representatives into gear to write some legislation that requires recycling for all this, before the bulk of the early subsidized installs start heading to landfills. That's not forever (especially where government is concerned), but that's definitely quite a bit of runway.
Might be wrong but I thought GP meant "It becomes difficult for the employer to trust the whistleblowing employee when...", not that the public couldn't trust the whistleblower. You can think Edward Snowden did something good+heroic while also thinking the NSA couldn't reasonably have kept him on their payroll.
I was basing that off a fairly pessimistic cost of $0.42 USD/STC watt for a single pallet quantity. Going well beyond single pallet quantities the cost drops quite a lot.
Yeah, I agree, and I like C!

I think the lack of bounds checks where they are not a problem is a massive design flaw nowadays. Zig should have made bounds checks universal and spent effort on compiler passes to elide them.

Allowing people to remove bounds checks is not smart (though Rust's unsafe is a good compromise), especially in such a coarse way as a build option.

In fact, a supposedly memory-safe language, Julia, has memory bugs because it allows users to turn bounds checks off. [1] This should never have happened.

[1]: https://yuri.is/not-julia/
Is magic not also deception?
Important to note again that this is the best option _for you_.
When it comes to language popularity, we have to keep in mind that D is way more popular than so-called up and coming languages (where it's oddly ignored they came out many years ago) such as Zig, Nim, Crystal, etc... Dlang often floats around the top #30 in the TIOBE rankings.

It really is a very tough hill to climb to crack the top 10 among languages. Relatively speaking, D has done well for itself, and arguably is in the position to climb further up and possibly be in the top 20 of language rankings.

Have seen a lot of talk and theories about why D didn't or hasn't become more popular. Some of them have to do with circumstances, not just about the number of features. For instance, Dlang's DMD reference compiler was under license restrictions by Symantec, which wasn't changed until 2017 (now it's under the commercial friendly Boost license). A lot of companies and corporate sponsors get leery about licensing issues.

There were also early squabbles about API design, like Tango versus Phobos, which are mostly resolved these days. But, years ago, it was less clear about the direction or how it would get sorted out.

D, as a contender to climb even higher up the language ranking charts, is still a strong possibility. D might even remain and always be more popular than Zig will ever be (especially if it wants to fight and die on the more syntactically complex "better C" hill), despite this view on D adding so much. Which could even be more of a selling point (kitchen sink included), than an hindrance, and particularity as an already established and developed older language.
just a couple of things about making assumptions:
* The author of the post is a woman
* The author mentions her partners job towards the end of the post so we know she is not single and lonely
-- Blake has been pushing this narrative for YEARS - I suspect he very much wants it to be sentient - it fits well with closing the loop for himself - just check out his 2018 Stamford law talk: --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhX7cBqc8_M
> You’re going to listen to somebody!

You can look into major issues without needing authority figures.

> When the public institutions become untrustworthy, and this lose their authority

Trust is not binary.

No source is unbiased.
I don't have a general solution, but one thing this industry may consider is licensing. If we are going to be job hopping every couple years due to the way raises are done now, we should at least make it more efficient.

> how do you expect companies to hire?

At least in my case, if I have 25+ years of employment history on my resume doing the same thing that I'm interviewing for (and this can be verified), the interview process should be a lot simpler.
We’ve already desertified tens of thousands of square km of land into parking lots / heat sinks. We could start by shading those abominations with solar panels.
I don't hear the "think of the children" rhetoric from my peers. I see it in government propaganda. Pointing out the hypocrisy in government policy and how lawmakers choose to hide right eroding laws behind "protecting the children" isn't sneering at people who care about children's safety. It's calling out the true motivation for these laws out.

The right to encrypted texts means the safety from persecution from the government for being who you are. If people really thought about the difficulties the new generation of children will face growing up, the right to encrypted chat and privacy so they can grow and make mistake and learn without being vilified by society, is protecting them.
Interesting! Turns out autistic people are up to 3.55 times more likely to also have a schizophrenia diagnosis [1].

I've actually wondered something similar about myself: I exhibit some minor autistic and schizophrenic tendencies, but in different contexts. I like to think my position on the scale is more fluid than it is for others. Maybe some genes code for higher variance along the spectrum, while other genes push in one direction or the other.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/autism-vs-schizophrenia
The article suggests that the problem is not about California - but the times we live in (health, housing, etc.)

“The industry is supposed to be green,” Vanderhoof said. “But in reality, it’s all about the money.”
I came from dev. I agree.
NYCResistor does look to drive engagement by discounting membership to $75 a month if you teach 2 classes a year.

Given the location, and looking at pricing of comparable west coast makerspaces, this pricing model seems pretty fair.

Without daily active users a makerspace or hackerspace will usually stop growing in membership, leaving it in a lurch where rent is going up, tools aren't getting upgraded, and the space is becoming less viable by the month :c
A few open books scattered through the house:

Billion Dollar Spy, Hoffman (I’m kind of obsessed with Cold War espionage)

SICP, JS edition (great read, I do a lot of JS work and I’ve learned a lot, despite time spent studying the language itself, and I’m still in the first chapter)

Topoi, Goldblatt (tough read, but Category Theory calls to me)

The Order of Time, Rovelli (his work is the clearest explication I’ve yet encountered of how QM might really be)

Helgoland, Rovelli (ibid)
Pure cocaine? Maybe? But many people do smaller amounts for years and we don’t know about it.

What I‘ve always wondered what drugs is it that burn people out in that recognizable way. And what ones are fairly recoverable.
Their policy probably says "everyone must wear masks"; it's irrelevant that you used to be a member. At least they didn't take your money and only then alert you to the issue.
Sorry, this wasn't OVH, it was a different company (small minecraft host).
Pretty cool. Anyone remember TetriNET from the 90s? Similar concept, except there were special pieces mixed in that you could use on opponents or yourself (add line, clear line, quake, etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TetriNET
It’s almost like the decision makers in government have no idea what they are doing