skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix seems to be down. Status page says it is up but twitter and my service say otherwise. Interesting to see what the issue is.
Of course, I can't see a reason why #embed wouldn't be useful for microcontrollers. In fact, I imagine it's a key target market for a feature like that, resource managers are complex and tools like bin2c have always felt like a terrible back.

I was solely replying to the commenter who said that all reasonable modern systems have filesystems so I put one in for the embedded software developers.
> Engineers typically do not realize that their manager's role is to manage people and process

In my experience, where ever engineers are not realizing that, it is when management is not managing process and people. Both management of process and of people are visible - when manager is doing it, engineers and know. But, fairly often management is preoccupied much more by activities directly visible to their bosses and and much less with those that can improve internal functioning of the team.

> and knowing how to build software is not necessary but definitely useful - mainly for questioning your engineers when they tell you something that sounds crazy.

If you are supposed to manage process, you need to know what engineers, testers, analysts, customer support do on daily basis. You dont need to be star, but you need to know where they spend time and what their issues are. Otherwise your process wont solve issues that are occurring in your team. You will be solving imaginary issues some other teams have you read about on the internet.

And the above is greatly frustrating for everyone under you.
Not sure why publishers are not filing class action lawsuit. Complaining on Twitter is worthless. Corraborating and supporting distribution of illegal copyrighted goods has to be crime.
You lost any credibility the moment you went off in your original comment. You are in no position to make such assessments.

The video is good, on topic and highly relevant to this discussion.
Nuclear in the UK has a capacity factor of around 60%. Availability is in the 70-80% range.

Yeah it's (usually) planned, but it's a decently long time in which you need those gas plants.

Why not just build solar instead and fuel those same gas plants with hydrogen or methane you plucked from the air with your $20-30/MWh unscheduled electricity?

Plus, you can get solar and storage as an off the shelf item today as a retail customer for less per watt than recent reactors in UK/France or even USA. 8kW nameplate solar and 16kWh storage capacity is about $10k which matches 1kW of net from eg UK projects of around 2.5GW net for 26 billion pounds fairly closely.

Yeah if you live far north or have a long cloudy month in winter you'll be relying on that gas plant, but so does the nuclear reactor. Plus you'll be dumping 10-20kWh/day into the grid on the good days. Provides a decent incentive to figure out how to store it, and even if you're only getting 5c/kWh for it, it'll pay for replacement in 7-10 years or so when prices have dropped another 50-80% without sacrificing your kilowatt.
Storage is cheap and getting cheaper even faster than solar or wind.

By the time we need storage (after enough renewable generation is built to charge it from) storage will be very cheap. It will not be made of lithium batteries.
south korea also paid huge amounts of money to developed nations in exchange they applied policies that were favoring those countries. they are now one of the most developed countries on earth.
But do not under any circumstances be tempted to demonstrate said janky prototype, unless you want to get re-tasked while said janky prototype gets merged into the build because 'schedule' .. and then be haunted by the damned thing for at least the next three years
Are you sure it's the cheese? My golden retriever mutt used to eat cheese rinds almost daily and lived 15 years.
> The poster has not stated that robots would be inherently unsafe. (And if they were judged so, it would also be in consideration that humans also are.)

But he has. The statements

> This is appalling. There is no world in which an industrial robot like that should be operating next to a child.

> I assume you are referring to driverless cars. Those aren't inherently unsafe. Neither are six axis robots. As I mentioned, cobots are well suited for this sort of situation.

Together form a very easy to interpret implicit argument that "industrial robots" are "inherently unsafe" (since that was used to distinguish them from driverless cars) and that cobots are, by virtue of not being "inherently unsafe" (like "industrial robots"), well suited. Even just the choice of words for "industrial robots" lay bare a moral judgment of using them for entertainment purposes near children. Is there anything less "industrial" about the 500KW motor on a tesla?

If you want to claim that he didn't _directly_ and _explicitly_ state that argument outright, then you're right. It doesn't take a lot of reading between the lines to come to the conclusion that he considers there to be some difference.

> Anyway: the difference is in explicit projectual intention. [...]

So what's the argument here? That driverless cars were made to be safe and this chess playing robot wasn't? With how driverless cars have been pushed onto the roads with over the top promises and negligent safety features, how do you even begin to substantiate that argument?
The main reason those cheaper EVs are not widely available yet is that the more expensive vehicles are more lucrative and the whole market is supply constrained. So, most manufacturers are just churning out big expensive SUVs as fast as they can and are allocating all their battery supplies to that because they make more profit on those. As the market continues to double in size for the next few decades, inevitably, they'll start churning out cheaper/smaller/lighter vehicles as well. Basically, the market is far from saturated yet so that might take a few years.

Hybrids have a role in the market for the brief period of time that battery production capacity is not large enough yet to replace them with cheaper EVs. But they are inherently more complex and costly to manufacture and drive. So, that's not going to last long.
By energy industry do you mean oil and gas? Are they the ones building nuclear plants?

Engineering improves over time, considering we seem to have someone who works in the industry in this thread perhaps they can inform us about current failure rates and risks. My assumption is that due to past failures, extra mitigations have been put into place with modern reactors.
Ha ha, brilliant idea! Let us know if it works. ;)
And when performance reviews come around the person who built the thing never gets appropriate credit because it never launched (not their fault). :/
Why would opex and amortised capital scale with fuel price?
I struggle to understand why you are so sure of this. Traveling by train is already far, far more popular than traveling by plane in most parts of the world, but you don't see security checks there.
Deconstructing Success
Maybe. The upside of integrating it with a search engine is that you kinda can get dead link detection for free. Otherwise link rot is a real bitch to deal with for web directories maintained by few people.

Could probably back it off some human-readable format in a git repo or something, pull requests might help with moderation, and recruiting volunteers might be easier if the data is open and available/forkable for other projects.
I think people would be much happier if they find amusement and self-actualization in the work they do.
Barcelona school and residents create solar energy community
Apica CD Notebook (96 sheets, 192 pages)

https://www.jetpens.com/Apica-Premium-C.D.-Notebook-B5-7-mm-...

+

Pilot Vanishing Point Fountain Pen
(Or Lamy Safari 2000)

After using Remarkable tablet (and iPad with pencil) for nearly 2 years, and various notes tech (mem.ai, roam, logseq), for “serious”
notes (I.e learning a new topic) I went back to my handwriting days and realized what I was missing. Key features:

1. You can flip through pages really fast and find your notes from visual cues. Ah yes I remember how the page looked, here it is.

2. You can create an index page to quickly find topics you’ve written about. No need to build an exhaustive index right away. When you find yourself hunting for “where did I write about this equation”, then make an entry after finding it.

3. You can freely make diagrams, link things on a page with arrows, circle portions of text or equations and write side notes in different color pens (stabilo pens are good for this)

4. No shoulder/wrist strain issues from computer typing.

5. You really do find yourself revisiting your notes often. Even if you don’t, remember Feynman:

>”A visitor came to Richard Feynman's office. When he saw Fenyman's notebooks, he was excited to see "records of Feynman's thinking." Feynman replied, "They aren't a record of my thinking process. They are my thinking process." Writing is thinking. Plenty of people think, then write.”

Of course “write” can be interpreted as writing on computer, but Especially for “mathy” notes, I believe writing with pen + paper makes a huge difference in learning, thinking, retention, recall.

I’m no Luddite but I’d like to focus on what really matters (my learning and recall, and yes the quality of my experience) and avoid contributing to some startup’s ARR and a VC’s returns.

I still use logseq (and Apple notes) for less serious things like quick meeting notes or pasting receipts etc.
I still remember their famous quote "Enjoy being poor" while gambling in the modern Tulip mania.
Self driving on open roads where 80km/h is possible is basically a solved problem.

And if people cared about efficiency enough to drive at 80 they'd do it now. Low efficiency stsrt/stop driving is the problem to solve.
> What a business owner might want does not change that

A business owner decides what the purpose of the business is, and what constitutes useful "work" within that context. If I'm hired to do x,y and z and I decide my motivation is rather to surf the web all day or spend all my time on personal projects, that doesn't change the purpose of work, it just means I'm not working.
We're talking about long-term archiving here. That means centuries.

My brother the archaelogical archivist of ancient (~2000 years BCE) mesopotamian artifacts has a lot to say about archival formats. His raw material is mostly fired clay tablets. Those archives keep working, partially, even if broken. That's good, because many of them are in fact broken when found.

But their ordering and other metadata about where they were found is written in archaeologists' notebooks, and many of those notebooks are now over a century old. Paper deteriorates. If a lost flake of paper from a page in the notebook rendered the whole notebook useless, that would be a disastrous outcome for that archive.

A decade ago I suggested digitizing the notebooks and storing the bits on CD-ROMs. He laughed, saying "we don't know enough about the long-term viability of CD-ROMs and their readers."

Now, when they get around it it, they're digitizing the notebooks and storing them on PDFs on backed-up RAID10 volumes. But they're also printing them on acid-free paper and putting them with the originals in the vaults where they store old books.

My point: planning for centuries long archiving is difficult. Formats with redundancy, at least with forward error correction codes, are very helpful. Formats that can be rendered useless by a few bit-flips, not so much.
This is nonsense. Replication to storage in different failure domains is quite sufficient to ensure long-term data preservation, and errors cannot "propagate" to archives unless your risk model involves angry wizards.
Do you think someone is qualified to manage a process they don't understand?
To clarify, the problem doesn't only exist with symlinks pointing outside of the extraction directory. The problem exists if the symlink's target path is a relative directory which contains "..". That means a symlink at "somedir/subdir1/foo" which points to "../bar" will also use the delayed link mechanism, even though the symlink doesn't point to outside of the extraction directory.

Relative symlinks which contain ".." are incredibly common in some contexts.
Does SquashFS support cross-file compression? - i.e. how well does it compress a folder with a number of similar files?
It would be interesting to make a new account to test that. I assumed it's because they have so many millions of customers locked in with free ("free") prime shipping that they know they'll be fine price matching upwards as long as it's a similar price elsewhere online, because they are who most people I know think of when you "need something like tomorrow" and don't want to go shopping.

I think a lot of sellers also include the shipping cost in the price of the item and ship it to Amazon so it can be PRIME-eligible.
See Casey Handmer[1]. We are underproducing solar PV by at least 4.8 TW (nameplate) per year: we're only producing about 4% of what we need.

There is no such thing as overproduction, there are only manufacturing bottlenecks in batteries, electrolyzers, and reverse osmosis water plants.

1. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2022/07/22/were-going-to-...
Luckily for the EU not a single company was located in the EU prior to GDPR.

I mean nothing stops even small US companies from planning for GDPR if they want to expand to Europe. There's no advantage for European companies here.
I just thought the same, but guess what: Their Website still exists (https://www.fractint.org/) and the last binary package is from April this year :)
I'd say decent notes are still important in a way that's not contrary to what you're saying. Our minds are very good processors but are not the best memory banks. Knowing what to take note of is part of that skill.

Sure there are people with eidetic and impressive memories but for most it's easier to just take notes of something and know where to look for the info later. That's one reason why I still keep to-do lists and calendars. Sure I can just use my brain to store all of these things, but it's easier to just have notes to look back onto and use my mental energy for other tasks it's more suited for.
This is saying "you shouldn't care if you pay the tax to your nation" which may not be illegal but is definitely sketchy.
I agree with this one. Nothing frustrates me more than the huge friction from PR to deployment.
I’m a seriously interested layman at best, so I could be failing to understand some of the subtleties, if so I apologize.

I’ve got no agenda around Everett’s initial idea and monograph being the end state. To your point, there are some known flaws with his initial formulation.

I find the idea that QM needs an interpretation absurd, MWI was a step on the path to that way of thinking. At a high level, the notion that all possible outcomes of an observable-producing operator on the wave function are equally “real” is clarifying.

I tend to agree with Deutsch and Marletto that “that which is admissible is admitted”.

It’s possible we’re in violent agreement.

QM, and more specifically QEM and QCD make wildly accurate predictions. As long as no one is talking about a causal structure unique to “consciousness” or some ridiculous narcissism like that, I’m very satisfied to rely on the falsifiable and well-tested laws.
The old and rarely used we stole your land and enslaved you fair and square defense.
> 2. Construction time - average is 10 years, we don’t have that long to wait

You've been saying that for last 20 years. It's pathetic by this point.
Best time to start doing things (anything) was 30 years ago. Second best time is now
> On the other side, every single person from there I've asked this specifically agreed their country is utterly corrupt mess, government after government, with tight coupling to big brother russia and mafia.

No, not really. For example, Estonia has been very well governed, including deep digitalisation of the economy, one of the best educational systems in the world and a complete and utter dislike/hate for all things Russian.

I gather you don't know what you are talking about but painting broad strokes so wrongly over 3 States who have been peacefully revolutionised in the past 30 years is offensive.
> Most of the first dogs of the Americas died out, for unclear reasons, and were replaced by European dogs—though it's not thought colonization was to blame.

That’s quite an interesting tidbit. Has anyone read more on this?
Metaprogramming: I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let Computer Write Code
Don't forget management having engineers stop what they're doing to build elaborate dashboards to track OKRs, satisfaction metrics, whatever else, only to never look at it and only parade it around to other managers as a show of how in-tune with the product they're supposed to be.
Well that and the string theory people can kindly die in a fire.
Focus relentlessly on reducing developer friction
> These kind of fractal have actually 4 dimentional structure since c_x and c_y can also be parameters

They're not parameters in that sense.

The fractal is computed by taking each point on the plane as coordinates (c_x, c_y), and then iteratively applying the recursion relation. Then, with luminosity depending on how quickly that sequence escapes to infinity, we color in that point (c_x, c_y) in our image.
An article[1] from the edbrowse submission a few days ago[2] goes into a lot of detail about this.

[1] http://www.eklhad.net/philosophy.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148474
Are you suggesting that since Russia has a position on gays that you don't agree with, bigotry and hatred of Russia is justified?
I'd not say it's necessarily better designed - it's just simpler. Few bytes of some headers, LZMA compressed data, checksum, done. No support for seeks and stuff like that
Ah, but then it's not especially counterintuitive: causally independent events can happen in any order... The layman's notion of "time" implies causality/irreversibility.

Events that have no causal relation between all have their own little timeline, and it's not troubling or surprising to consider that they are simultaneous / that we examine them in a kind of superposition.

Or am I saying something stupid? ;-)
>abandon this pursuit and let your human mind perform it’s most wonderful magic: synthesizing, compressing and expanding mental inputs.

Not sure if you're trying to convey some "zen" advice but the way I actually synthesize & connect information is to take notes. My previous comment on how many thinkers use notes like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30331114

If you're suggesting that the mind makes more synthesis & connections without notes, I guess that's possible but that's not what happens in my case. Maybe that just means brains are different.
If you don’t remember a topic well enough to google the details when you need them, have you really learned it?
I disagree. I believe capitalism is actually about maximizing the return on capital.

Sometimes this takes the form of MBA paperclip optimization, but it can also take the form of simply making something lots of people want. Hollywood is an example of the latter - they don't seem that concerned with minimizing costs, because they believe that if they make a good movie that resonates with audiences, they'll still get a 10x return on investment. :)
sure, the power of fascism. as long as you engage in fascist politics, you will be rich.

in Haiti the US ensured that nothing much changed in the last century. this article is the typical mouthpiece of such propaganda
I think the point here may be that when you’re dealing with an occupation in which the best engineers can pick and chose. Then you’re likely to lose your best engineers unless you’re exceptionally good at managing them. Especially if you introduce boundaries and restraints.

I’m not sure it’s naive to view the world like the author does. I’ve worked both sides of the fence, and while I’m now back in software development I do see the appreciation for my experience with creating the most business value out of your resources that managers come with. The thing is, though, if I don’t have to work in a place with too much bureaucracy or too many constraints then I’m not going to do so. I obviously try not to be an asshole about it. I don’t follow the company dress code in the basement troll factory where they placed IT, but I do have a suit at work that I can change into whenever I leave the “cave”. Those sort of things, so naturally I’ll play a long way in regards to what management want, but I’m never going to do estimates by the hour until the job market actively forces me to do so. Which likely won’t be in our lifetime. So when/if management go down the route of treating Software Development like they treat any other department (which like you state also are under significant constraint) then the company is just very likely to lose their most talented developers very quickly. I suspect that it would be (and probably is) exactly like that in any department, it’s just easier to get away with in engineering because we’re privileged enough to be able to leave our jobs today and have another good job by tomorrow.
I appreciate this. It takes much mental effort to go through this and almost force yourself to be there knowing you’re falling outside.

In some cases though the chasm remains even more pronounced.
I've gotten a lot of use from a version of Zettelkasten in Roam recently.

The general idea is this.

1. Take "Literature Notes" in your own words as you consume content. These are little summaries of ideas in the text that are usually 1-3 lines. For paper books, I do this in a little Muji notebook. For digital resources, these go straight in Roam.
2. When you have finished the resource, copy your notes to one page and summarise them in "Permanent Notes".
3. Keep your Permanent Notes in one Permanent Note page and link everything together.

The best guide I found for getting this kind of system set up was https://www.nateliason.com/blog/smart-notes. The original "How to Take Smart Notes" book is also good, but much less concrete.

Really, I found step 1 to be the most valuable. I was previously processing highlights from articles and books and that weirdly took more time. Writing little notes as you go along saves only what is relevant and it's much more direct for your use cases.

As a word of warning though, I really haven't gotten this stuff to work very well for programming (or disciplines where you need to exercise knowledge rather than archive it in a system). I either find I need to memorise the stuff more directly with Anki, or having to practice skills in a real world context.
I hope this feeling is me catching onto the joke in the name rather than being a first responder
I think too many people equate fiction and lies. Stock prices and market caps are not complete lies (the company is still worth something) but they are fictions. I like to think of fiction as "a lie that tells a truth that cannot be told any other way" (adapted from Albert Camus).

Market caps and startup valuations are fictions. That doesn't mean that they don't say something important - they convey information about who has market power, political power, technological progress, etc. All of those things are worth a lot. Fictions can affect reality. They are frequently more powerful than truths. Theranos, Nikola, and Tesla have all moved billions of dollars of real money on the back of fictional product descriptions.
You seem to be ignoring the Polish and Germans that were allowed to stay (and considered legislatively black!)
I play around with fractals a lot and once I fiddled with mandelbrot and found something that resembled a pig running on two legs.

I guess it would be called the running pig fractal.

This might be a message from god: don't eat pork.