skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never seen this at any Western STEM company I've been at. ICs have been rated on tickets and tickets alone, no matter how lossy the metric, in my experience. I've only seen this at Asian companies which don't track work through tickets.

But let's assume this is true. What does this have to do with "It feels like a waste to pretend that we just don't have anything in common despite the time.". Let's assume, to play devil's advocate, that 40% of your 8 hour day is a waste, that 3.2 hours of your day was a waste used to prop up performance reviews. This leaves 4.8 hours of a day with your coworkers actually working. That's 4.8 hours of building connection. To recreate this effect, I'd need to equivalently spend 4.8 hours per day connecting/socializing with others to build the same rapport. That's more than I've ever spent in any social context with friends sans events like week-long concerts or vacations and those are special occasions. This 4.8 hours of daily connection is now lost under a scenario where people don't form bonds at work.

I'm not sure how this complaint is relevant. Just because the time was superfluous or used to pad performance reviews, a claim that seems dubious for ticket-based companies, doesn't negate the time spent connecting. Getting annoyed/angry at a culture that rewards face-time is unrelated to the reality of time spent together in the same context.
I follow your logic but the sun is going to be hitting you for 70+ years. Your body surface area is probably equivalent to my 400W solar panel. That's a few KWh per day for 70+ years. How much oil will your decomposing body produce? How much energy will the vegetation in the Sahara desert produce?
<whisper>we're gonna need nuclear no matter what the "green" power people say</whisper>
You're still forcing a mindset onto the language that isn't present.

It's not 'a split stack' or any other particular solution. You pass in an allocator and it does it whichever way your chose allocator picks.

The goal is to explore sections of design space you're completely ruling out from before you even start.
France like all Western nations has a strong Christian heritage which is so much a part of it culture that it's influence continues without observance. That is the reason it clashes particularly with other faiths.

To be truly secular France would need to adopt non Christian sentiments, not ban them. That is if secularism is a valid objective. Thousands of years of history suggest not.
Been using Firefox for 80%+ of my use cases, but whenever I need to make a payment online, it is easier to just use Chrome which stores and syncs payment methods.

And I am amazed how Firefox doesn't have profiles unlike Chrome, or at least the implementation is so counterintuitive (I use "Personal" profile as a Facebook container for instance). On the other hand, Chrome profile switching and isolation are just still so good. I hope this is not some patent-protected thing which Firefox can't just copy for good.

If Mozilla team is reading, here is some direct feedback for why I couldn't completely switch over.
Typos as a Means for Circumventing Censorship
And especially when all means of communications with those friends and family took weeks.
Have you considered https://www.KryonEngine.org ?
You would better pump in heat, and sell the cold.
I got tired of speaking on behalf of a vague memory of Stephen Wolfram speaking that I just looked up the transcript.

6 SW: Yeah, I think… I think it’s not going to be true[that QC gives a speedup], that’s my guess. I think what’s going to happen is, if you take short algorithm for factoring, which is primarily a quantum Fourier transform, that Fourier transform is done beautifully quickly because there are all these threads that are running in parallel. The problem is, every thread is somewhere in a different place in branchial space, that thread, that us observers, we have to corral all those things back together again in order to tell what actually happened, and that’s… So there’s a… Usually in quantum computing one just says, “and then there’s a measurement.”

1:26:49.0 SW: Now, in actuality, when you have an actual device, you have all kinds of issues in making that measurement, all kinds of… How quickly does it decohere, all these kinds of things. There are all these kinds of very practical experimental features, and I think people have generally said, given the formalism of quantum mechanics, it’s like, well, all this quantum stuff happens and then boom, we do a measurement, and the boom, we do a measurement is actually pretty difficult in practice with actual experiments, that people have said, but if we do these experiments well enough, it will become the mathematical idealization that von Neumann and others made about how measurement works, and I don’t think that’s going to be true. I mean, we’re not sure yet, but it seems likely that there will be no way to do… To sort of, if you’re honest about how the measurement works, the measurement takes effort.
From the article:

"Just as converting chemical energy in the form of fuel into electricity endures 45-75% thermodynamic losses, converting electricity back into chemical fuels loses 60-70% of the energy in the process. Converting solar power into natural gas only to burn it in a gas turbine power plant could help with long term seasonal energy storage but is so much less cost competitive than other ways to stabilize electricity supply that we should expect this usage modality in, at most, niche cases."
And there’s all the crypto FUD that quantum computers will scale enough to break crypto algorithms
I think they're trying to say that insulation (and probably other factors) is not just one person's problem but an issue of a huge scale, which is true. If solar works for you, then that's great, but for a lot of people (the majority?) it wouldn't work, or at least not without spending a very large amount of money to retrofit your house for it.

I think it's a good point even if stated quite poorly.
I wonder why a VPN is the default solution (with all complications it ensues, some of which you've listed), when a simple SSH tunnel to any server in a sane location does just fine. `ssh server -D12345`, point your applications to socks5 at localhost:12345, and it's done. It's dead simple to only allow/deny those sites that you (don't) need to go through another server, and the traffic is encrypted (and optionally compressed), and looks just like another SSH connection.

I've used many other solutions (including WireGuard, etc.) on and off, but always come back to SSH.
A sun tracking ground mount that goes on a steel pole and can take the wind loading of just six 1.65 x 1.0 meter size 60 cell panels costs considerably more to buy, ship and install than the panels themselves. These days if you need more kWh per month your money is much better spent buying more fixed mount panels.
I think the author implied both more money and more foresight on keeping the ship design simple.

It plays well into the narrative though, Moitesser was much older and better funded which gave him the ability to presolve a lot of the problems.

Knox-Johnston had to make do with whatever he could from the onset.

I read it as you can spend time/money to store "maintenance capital" such that whenever you need it you have payed for it in advance or you can pay as you go... With the risks and uncertainty that comes with it.

What you cannot do is borrow technical maintenance indefinitely, sooner or later you must pay up.
> Right, and now your isp knows how many devices you have

It sounds crazy today, but this is how it used to be with IPv4 back in the day.

For instance at my first job, every employee's computer (Sun SPARCstations) and every server in the building was directly on the internet with a routable IP address. No firewalls in sight, no NAT.

sendmail ran on every box, so incoming email was handled directly by your own workstation, from anywhere in the internet. So my email address was name@myhostname.company.com (we did have aliases and forwarding so name@company.com also worked).

I ran FTP server and mailing lists and (slightly later) web sites from my workstation. This was peak decentralized internet and a wonderful time.
I know you are just illustrating an opinion and not meaning it literally, but I want to stress how ridiculous your number of 100 years is in reality.

The expected economic lifetime of a building in Germany is approximately 100 years. Which means that on average, the house will be torn down and rebuilt after at most 100 years, because additional upkeep would not make economic sense.

This means that if you do not change policy except mandating modern standards for new buildings (which is already done) and do literally jack-shit, the normal economic activity will have the problem sorted out in that timespan.

For reference: Of 22 million buildings in Germany, "only" 12.5 million are built before 1977.

The German government aims at having pretty much all buildings energetically renovated in 2050.

The biggest problem is that 1. there are many house-owners who literally do not give a shit even if they can save lots of money by an investment. Not everyone is economically minded and there is no political will (or legal basis) to force these people for their own good. And 2. for bigger apartment buildings etc. it is hard to do an invasive renovation while the units are occupied, limiting the scope of renovations to something that can be done in-place or one unit at a time or without affecting tenants.
Sure. I’m looking to work on something meaningful, and I’m also working on a social app idea and some others.
It's not super expensive, really. And this is something that building codes can address - either via the gentle option of requiring all newly built dwellings to be thermally efficient, or the somewhat more assertive route of requiring any home sold to have adequate insulation.
Response in code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201150
Pointless to discuss. Deserts are a really dumb place for solar farms.

Solar will coexist with agricultural land and existing reservoirs, and benefit both.
The distinction between "introvert" and "extrovert" is really about whether socializing is draining or recharging.

I'm extremely introverted and plenty "good at" (most forms of) socializing. It's also hard work for me. But it's hard work like going on a mountain hike is hard work: it's a fantastic experience (usually) and I am glad I do it, but I also simply can't do it 24/7/365.
>Let's say I'm off (in your favor) by a whopping order of magnitude.

No, let's say that you are off by three or four orders of magnitude. Because your first estimate really is that bad, and without it, your entire "argument" falls apart.
Add shipping container IDs and ship IDs to the list of annoying human-oriented numbers that you can't assume are unique. :P
Yes, we also don't know what consciousness is.
I rest my case :)
The assumption is that we [Americans] can embrace our hyphenated identities without disloyalty to a broader national project. An assumption that seems false in light of your (American) current events.

Perhaps France has noticed the result of allowing religion a place in politics. It's easy to see countries where this has been very retrograde (eg. Afghanistan and (I'm afraid) America); it's not easy to find countries with strong religious politics and a modern or rational outlook :(

(And yes, I anticipate there might be a reaction to this, civil debate being rare these days.)
Almost everyone in Spain calls it "Pendrive"
And the tinfoil hats people have a new champion. I hope they pay as well as Google.
> You're weirdly implying every country is an adversary of every other.

Isn't it? Ideology is a lie, people are all the same all over the world (except maybe for some peculiarities like western chauvinism). Everyone wants to live contented lives, be free, raise kids in peace and so on.

Every country should have it's own sovereign tech stacks simply to avoid effects of corruption or irresponsibility of global elites. Otherwise we see stuff like US' economic and sanction wars, which create pools of poverty, which inherently cause plunge of observance of human rights, which causes immense suffering of ordinary folk -- all that so someone could make money on something like cheap rare earth metals mining for selling electric car batteries.
It might be less cost effecient at the moment. But I kinda like the decentralized nature of it.
Tesla did a very good job marketing battery technology from energy.gov with the $1.2B Nevada gave them. A lesser man would have squandered all that cash. In all seriousness, however, Musk did a great job of convincing Compass and SDL to give Eberhart and Tarpenning money.
Do you need proof that 1 + 1 = 2?
Ultra-pure silicon is intrinsically valuable. Anyone dumping used-up panels is an idiot.
I’ve found that a couple of times in this thread. A way to describe a problem and have potentially applicable algorithms suggested would be cool
You can resolve some .. components without reading the filesystem and there are situations where it is useful to do that, while refusing to treat .. that cannot be resolved without accessing the filesystem.

One example is inside the implementation of a function that calculates relative paths:

1> (rel-path "a/b" "../c")
"../../../c"
2> (rel-path "../c" "a/b")
** rel-path: from path uses .. to escape common prefix: "../c" "a/b"
** during evaluation at expr-2:1 of form (rel-path "../c" "a/b")

The relative path from ../c to a/b cannot be calculated as a pure function of just the two strings, because we do not know what the current directory is called in the .. parent; that would require searching the file system.

The function is very useful with this restriction, which can be externally worked around if ever necessary, e.g. by tacking the absolute path of the current directory onto both arguments:

3> (rel-path `@(pwd)/../c` `@(pwd)/a/b`)
"../kaz/a/b"
That sounds like a handy project!

I agree re: zookeeper. It’s rarely been the part of the stack making me lose sleep. ~~Raft~~ seems like a way to “modernize” Kafka by detaching it from the Hadoop ecosystem — and I think that’s about it. :(
Please be careful with this line of thought as it can slide into whataboutism really quickly.
Maxi Computers Face Mini Conflict (1970)
I've never actually been to that city but that's a mid sized sports stadium you see to the left side. Tulsa I think is an extreme example, if you look at an aerial photo of Seattle from the 1970s there were a ton of "downtown" surface lots too, but now the land is way too valuable to use for that.

You can also see what looks like a regulation size baseball diamond to the top right side.
> The miners don't agree with Ethereum switching to Proof of Stake, and yet, watch what happens this autumn.

Yes, this time it will really happen. No way it will be delayed again, no sir.
it is actually not. Courts tend to punish those if they don't believe them - accusing partner of abuse is fairly often how you get less custody.

Restraining orders are not easy to get either. It can take quite a lot of fight even in cases where actual stalking and threats of violence are going on.
Verified Twitter Vulnerability Exposes Data from 5.4M Accounts
One issue that could arise is that delivery managers could take the worst case estimations as an absolute truth and would think that no task could go over the worst case scenarios. I'm sure there would be a few tasks that would go over and would break planning.

But it could work if people are aware that even worst case estimates are not absolute truths and could go over the limit some times.
"The alternative"? What?

Funny, that's another pet peeve with Hacker News. Posts that are phrased as if there's only two ways things could go and they're black or white, and completely unrealistic to anyone spending more than two seconds thinking about it.

The alternative is the one I presented (watching an actual variety of stuff), not some unrealistic crap.
> The catch is that power-to-gas tech described in the article

isn't real
Being a bit more kind, ipv6 only really started to get moving in the wild around ~2010 so we are at the start of the second decade. It has climbed steadily since this point and will be the majority globally within a couple of years. It is already the majority of traffic in the USA, Germany, France and India.
It'll take all the warriors from that war dying, that's the first step.

You're right about Vietnam tho, it was a very complex war.

They thought they were fighting for freedom, we thought we were fighting communism. Perhaps if South Vietnam was less corrupt.. wishful thinking.

In the end - no one comes away with clean hands from war. No one.
That sounds like a case of somestic violence - it frequently escalates precisely as reaction to victim searching freedom.
Interestingly I get more cache misses with the gray code solution but still fewer switches between cache lines. This has to be because the cache line prefetcher can predict the memory usage in the simple version but it's harder to predict in the gray code or de-interleave version.

Also, I have never thought about de-interleaving bits without using gray code but that seems to work similarly. The main reason I used gray code is that then we don't have to switch memory blocks as often since only one of the indexes changes every time so one of the current memory blocks can always stay the same as in the previous iteration.
Except, it really is just pumping water up a hill. Siting for pumped storage is overwhelmingly easier than for hydro generation. The latter needs a watershed. A dike around a hilltop does not.
I honestly hate them all at this point.

Overused crap that kills discussions, overused by uncreative people.
What is the certain way that was used that makes people think it was a professional? A clean cut is easier to fix that a hacksaw cut, but the technician can always cut off an extra piece to have a clean cut to join. A large missing piece is harder to fix, but even non professionals could think of that. Not sure what else was done to those cables.
> large scale statistical knowledge assimilation by the models

And who says our brain is not exactly that, but at an even greater scale?
I'm a LLM for the past 41 years and I agree.
deliberate typos are also a great way to avoid unwanted attention from recruiters. Mispell 'egnineer' on your LinkedIn profile if you want some peace
The Future of Corporate Governance Part I: The Problem of Twelve (2018) [pdf]
Everyone seems to be focussing on the debate about sentience, but iirc he was fired for breaching the employee confidentiality policy by talking to the media without approval. My understanding is a normal employee talking to the press about commercially confidential matters against policy and without approval would only have protection from retaliation under certain pretty narrow "whistleblower" public interest carve-outs.

eg you can talk to the media if you are reporting certain classes of wrongdoing (health and safety violations, financial malfeasance etc) and have raised the matter internally and got nowhere.

Turning off a computer program (sentient or not) is not currently a protected class of activity as far as I know.
It's not feasible, because our population is only currently possible due to the availability of energy. We can't have global supply chains, food and medicine moving across the world, much less being produced, without oil and gas. You simply don't reduce energy consumption beyond making TV illegal without starving more than half of the people alive today.

It is by no means a solution, that's kind of my point. There is no solution. We are made of the stuff that is causing this. Something like 68% of the bioavailable nitrogen in your body was produced via the Haber Bosch process. Most of the carbon in your body was produced as a result of fossil fuel extraction.

I didn't use the phrase "population control" because it's disingenuous. What I'm talking about is culling. No matter how you dice it, reducing energy availability, paving vast parts of the world to make up for what little energy we truly need, you're talking about killing billions of people and destroying a significant portion of the living surface of the earth. These are not options. And even if they were, the environmental destruction would be worse, it wouldn't even solve anything.

It doesn't derail the conversation, it is the conversation. I'm not arguing for population control, I think the idea is disgusting. I'm pointing out simply that all these pretty ideas people keep talking about, when you look at the magnitude of the problem, they're not viable solutions. If they're not viable then a conversation talking about them should be derailed because it isn't the conversation we should be having.
Ad hominem again, no hard data provided, just anecdotal evidence. Ignored all my other points. I'm the naive person. OK.
> On sale $59.99 ; regular price $79.99. Smallish keyboard however...

It may be small, but it has a proper inverted T for direction keys. That's already a better coding experience than many laptops that retail at 10x the price.
That wasn’t exactly a rocket science back then. I know at least one person who became a CS professor at university.
No it would not.

Philosophy people wrap themselves up in so many circular self justifying presuppositions that they can make up whatever arguments they want to justify almost anything.

It is much better to listen to people who study other, more falsifiable claims, in the material world.
Indian politician drinks water from polluted ‘holy’ river, gets hospitalised
"We are a space for nonbinary people and women (trans, cis, intersex, queer, straight, and not-fitting-into-those-labels). Membership is open to all women and nonbinary people, self-identified."

You know, it's a little crazy that it's men being constantly accused of sexism in the tech industry when there are hard-coded rules for excluding men from places, employment opportunities, and not simply treating everyone as equals.
Gstreamer. It has a learning curve but the documentation is excellent.
With these kinds of really cheap devices, it always makes me wonder whether you are not better off buying older used hardware instead... especially if you are looking for a cheap linux laptop.

For example, some time ago I got a Thinkpad X200 tablet in good condition off ebay for that price. I was mainly interested in the tablet functionality, but it's a nice little laptop that is still usable today.

Even if you are specifically interested in Chrome OS, Chrome OS Flex might be an option on used hardware.
Out of curiosity, who reading this believes that the ground of reality itself is sentient? You don't have to call this basic sentience "God" but this is generally what the better theologians identified as God, the all: the all that is, in a very classic phrasing from the Vedic philosophies characterized as "satchitananda" - being, conscious, and bliss. That is, the ground of reality exists (there is reality) it is conscious (which is the basic experience of our lives, consciousness, in different forms, we never step outside of this consciousness, even when we are imagining ourselves to be material) and finally, it is bliss.

But back to the question at the beginning: do you think the ground of reality is conscious? That is, at the most basic level, is Being Love?
Is it a fully computerised B2B system? I mean when I order some patch cables for a project, I do it via a web shop and pay with my corporate credit card. The vendor generates an order number but also asks me for customer purchase order reference. I just make something up that might have my initials and date and a serial like "MV-20220723-1". Others may not be so methodical.