skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“self host to reduce power consumption” isn’t entirely accurate, even within a leased environment at Equinix or using a typical ‘powered shell’ provider like Sabey, the larger providers will still be customizing heavily many aspects downstream of the switchgear (and that’s where some but not all of these efficiencies can be located).

Tidbits from Peter Desantis’ keynotes and before that James Hamilton at re:Invent indicate that like Meta, Amazon doesn’t use 19” form-factor racks, has in-rack UPS solutions, DC power delivery and a sled-based server architecture. All these videos are on YouTube and the last 3-4 years (2018 onward) are really interesting and worth watching.

I’m short I’d guess Amazon and others partnerships with Equinix (and equivalents) are about two things: time to market, and some markets not being worth the investment [1] to drop 3x 30MW facilities into.

[1] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/marketwatch/cutting-da...
How are they doing this with sustainable energy?
you still sound quite dystopian!
Sure, the words you exchange are now known to the other party.

But a native app can upload anything it wants anywhere. Not just the images you processed but anything it can access on your computer.
this comment will not age well ... at the currently stock price of 900 dollars.
it's all turboprops and no afterburner. so, expensive, but much more affordable than concorde, maybe to the point of competing with subsonic first class
Interesting that this is slower that the Concord which cruised at Mach 2. I wonder if a slightly lower speed makes the economics more sustainable.
I never quite understood how competitive bidding processes usually end up with similar outcomes.

If you personally need a Dell server, you go to dell.com and buy it.

If the government needs a Dell server, they start a tendering and bidding process and will end up paying double for the same server through some middleman who buys the server from Dell and resells to the government for double the price because they're good at writing bids for government projects.

Quite why there isn't competition I don't know. Maybe writing bids really is that expensive? Or maybe there is just collusion?
I've moved Windows Server into contained status at my organization and will not accept new software that required a Windows Server to run.

If you plan on shipping server software, I expect it to run on Linux, particularly in a container.
The West's historic drought is threatening hydropower at Hoover Dam
The NTSB (not the FAA) handles the part of aircraft accident investigations that you're likely interested in. They then make recommendations to the FAA on matters of aircrew or aircraft certification or other deficiencies that were in the causal chain of the accident.

They also don't travel to the vast majority of aircraft accidents, even ones with fatalities. They do travel to jet (or airline turboprop) accidents with fatalities, but small general aviation aircraft crash fairly regularly with only a small portion of those crashes getting any meaningful investigation from the NTSB.
> This is a nonsensical comparison though. New versions of GTK are actually new APIs.

Which has been my entire criticism! Gtk major versions being "new APIs" is what breaks backwards compatibility and causes existing applications, libraries to waste time keeping up.

It actually worse than Win32 vs WPF because the latter is something you can ignore as Win32 is still receiving improvements with bug fixes and new functionality, but Gtk development for any previous major version eventually stops all development. Not only that but even with new APIs, under Windows there is always some official way to use the previous APIs together with the new (e.g. mix Win32 with WPF) but there isn't anything like that for GtkN-1-with-GtkN (and even if there was it'd be pointless in long term as GtkN-1 would eventually stop working, unlike Win32).
Yeah, my own website hosted on Netlify is down.
stupid lip service
Some companies do go out of their ways however to try and match that 50:50, or to get "equal" representation in races. Which really just turns into being discriminatory hiring, but they'll call it "diverse hiring".
I'll be one of the few. Maybe I'll give a try to Debian but probably I'll end up using one of the Ubuntu replacement distroes that will popup. Or Pop!_OS outright.

I'll never trust Microsoft again after all they did in the 2000s. Transitively, I'll never trust any comparably sized company.
Why is it a strange hypothetical? Extremely similar situations were actually quite common historically. Many, many ethnic groups have been intentionally excluded from many types of jobs over the years. It's not just a hypothetical: It's a past reality that has real-world impacts that last through today.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/occupational-segreg...

https://prospect.org/features/black-workers-remember/
Why? Is it that you don't want to work for anybody that holds different views or that you are afraid that he might discriminate?

As far as I know there were no accusations of Eich treating anybody differently. Just because he opposed something doesn't mean any worker under him was discriminated against.

Do you work for yourself? If not, do you know the views held by every person you work for? Do you know for a fact that none of them hold similar views to Eich and just haven't been "caught"?

My point on the majority position is that you quite possibly work with and for people who hold the same views as Eich.
How much of that 60% is running .NET apps, though?

Not everyone who uses Azure is a "Microsoft shop", in terms of programming tech stack. Plenty of people use Azure as a cross-cloud redundancy play, or because they do business with Amazon competitors that refuse to have their data on AWS.
If they were just discussing racists, why restrict it to just the conservative ones?

Currently, Yale and Harvard are before the US Supreme Court for anti-Asian racism — and they’re liberal aligned institutions. Similarly, the Biden regime and its anti-White racism in farmer subsidies.
Along with anyone who found this a difficult decision once the facts were clear.

People with these beliefs don't belong anywhere in society where they can oppress others. Just as white people who think blacks are beneath them do not belong in any setting where they can affect a black person.
In my opinion, companies should produce "challenges" for leading personal, from a sort of internal investigations team, and among them should be corruption challenges, security challenges, nepotism challenges and discrimination challenges.

If you fail them, you get demoted or otherwise restructured.

Of course, this creates a atmosphere of distrust, but some things, like Meritocratic atmosphere, are worth it.
I know of 2 the persons you have linked are using steroids, I don't recommend anyone taking them. Certainly not if the goal of exercise is health.
Hail Christ! My Musclar Christian brother!
Rich people value time highly. Coach-class that gets you somewhere quickly can be worth a lot more than first-class that takes twice as long.
> coach class all the way

Has there been a render of the interior or something?
LHR is capacity constrained right now so they don't have slots to add more flights. Hopefully the runway expansion will be finished by the time Boom airliners are actually in service.
> So it's important that government websites don't rely on technology that isn't universally available.

IMO this should also mean they have offices and phone lines with minimal hold time. Not everyone can use the web fluently, and a website is a cheap replacement for human guidance.
Have browsers always done this?

I thought and heard that using a JS library from CDN is beneficial when users already have that same cached JS library from visiting other sites. But you're saying that's not a thing? So what's the benefit of using a CDN for jquery then?
So we can kind of rough it out - improving speed will make fuel costs go up (but how much?) but other fixed costs will go down (pilot time, airframe time, etc).

However you may also be stuck where the people who will pay for the faster time are the types who will NOT sit in cattle class, so your airplane will have to mainly be first-class/business style seating.
biofuels or synthetics. not sure if they plan to own the fuel supply chain, so "net zero" may come through offsets to cover the impact of producing the fuels
The free publicity alone will pay for that.
https://archive.ph/l3fly
Landing Page works but i get error 5xx when I login
What makes you think Wikipedia doesn't care about robots.txt?

Also, sloths can hold their breath underwater for up to 40 minutes.
Barebones Lambda Cube in OCaml
Receiving messages is free, so as long as you have a prepaid card that hasn’t been deactivated (not using it for a year is usual with my provider) you can receive text messages without paying.
> Casteism, while bad, is not racism. Saying casteism is ingrained in Indians on the other hand is racism.

Doesn't caste have some deep origins with race? I'm under the impression that thousands of years ago Indo-Europeans invaded an India populated by darker-skinned natives, and formed an elite that now finds some expression in caste. I could be wrong, though.
> which influence future branches

If you mean “future branches on other threads”, I recommend re-thinking your algorithm and/or data structures.

If the hardware has strong memory order like AMD64, on a massively-multicore CPU your code will be very slow because cache coherency protocols. Reading from a cache line recently modified by another core is typically even more expensive than L3 cache miss and roundtrip to system RAM.

Or if the hardware has weak memory order (like GPUs unless using interlocked instructions which are done by dedicated piece of hardware shared across the complete chip), recent changes to your state will be ignored by other cores. Other cores may load old data from their local caches. The performance is better, but the results are incorrect.
If you make enough money, you can get a place to live that has more than one room.

I have a room with bookshelves along one wall and a large world map on another wall, and it has a desk which goes up and down at the touch of a button. It's such a nice room that I go into it on weekends to spend fun time on my personal computer, but it's also where I go on weekdays to work.

I have a separate living room (with a TV), and kitchen, and bedroom, and so on. Not a mansion, but definitely some variety.

Then again, that's my personality. I don't feel cooped up unless I haven't left the house in a week or so. Other people feel cooped up in a lot shorter period of time.
When the trains are running smoothly no one celebrates the train engineer.
Timezone differences alone make F2F worthwhile, even if you're fully remote. A week here and there face-to-face on the same clock is valuable.
> Old .net has become ".net framework".

From my understanding, thats not quite right. AFAIK framework was adapted to differentiate it from standard, core and mono.
> "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

There's truth to this quote, but a lot missing. It sort of implies a world view where new technologies, like fashions, continuously spring up at a somewhat regular pace, so that each generation has its own technological reference point distinct from their children or parents. Think about it, that's probably approximately how you view the world, don't you? It's how it's been for generations.

But actually, it's only been that way for a handful of generations. For about 300 years or so. Prior to the industrial revolution, the pace of technological innovation was so slow most people would not notice it within their lifetime.

They could safely accept their parents advice on how to navigate the world, confident it would still apply in their time as it had in theirs. They could safely pass their own wisdom on to their children, secure in the same certainty. Probably people saw time as more cyclical, thinking of how winter leads to summer and back to winter, and how the parent begets the child who then themselves becomes a parent.

All that has been changed completely, utterly, and dramatically. We are now cut off from our prior generations because we have to recreate, in each generation, from scratch, the knowhow on how to cope with the environment we are born in.

Many technological innovations have been very beneficial for many, but there is a cost to a fast pace of change.
It's true that download count is a coarse metric, but it's the one we chose on this occasion to start with a manageably-sized cohort.

As it happens I gave a talk[0] about how to rank projects according to their risk. A surprisingly difficult topic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Lrb2rYLps
CS:GO is Direct3Dish with an OpenGL shim (or alternatively with a better Vulkan shim now).
Yeah. "Caste", "Color", doesn't matter, all the same shit. If someone sees a problem there, they're unfit for a lot of other stuff.
Turbofan (what's on most commercial jet aircraft), not turboprop (jet engine driving a propeller, generally on smaller commercial and some private aircraft).
That sounds a lot like the DARPA model too.
Other countries are not controlled by FDA regulations.
I think it is indeed an important part of the "solution".

Whenever people choose/buy a hardware device or the software they use, they collectively shape the landscape of products.

The people who want less locked digital life might choose GNU/Linux as operating system or MNT Reform as hardware device as an example. As social network they might choose Mastodon over twitter/fb/insta.
I learnt the most about compilation, and really raw computing, when as a late teenager I was trying to make sense of decompiled code[1]. I would thoroughly recommend it to anybody trying to learn. The laboriousness is what makes it worthwhile in that instance. I can't speak to any productivity standards, though.

[1]: interestingly enough, it's also how I learn foreign or dead languages. That might be a specific cognitive property.
U.S. test fires unarmed Minuteman III ICBM missile
I'm pretty sure a Europe-Australia line that doesn't take two days with 3 layovers would sell like hotcakes regardless of accommodations.
You can't correct racism against Bob be being racist in favor of Carl. Which is one reason why Affirmative Action is bullshit.
Most services should have a fallback. Often it is just emailing you a code, or texting a code to a phone number. This is because true, strict MFA would become a customer support nightmare - half your users would be locked out from day one.

Also realize you can use more than one 2fa device. At the step where it asks you to scan a QR code, you can scan it on multiple devices.

Also, you don't need to use a phone to store your codes. 1password can do this for you, and then your codes are available anywhere you are logged into 1pw.

The google authenticator app allows you to transfer your codes to another phone, but you need to remember to do that before wiping your old phone.
I knew there'd be at least one of you guys in this thread.
Happened at my last company. They hired an Indian CTO and before long, all the management under him was Indian. He basically made life unbearable for the existing leaders until they quit and then brought in someone he knew. Seemed like blatant racism to me.
Now the Netlify status page is reflecting the error
https://www.netlifystatus.com/incidents/pd2zn29f2mcj
I think it might also be, that if you are a company working on public sector projects, servers being within the country is required or preferred to win the contracts.

Haven't been in this space in a long time, but when I did work on such projects in Switzerland mid 2000s having anything outside the country would at least raise eyebrows. Back then we had to run most things on-premise, but from what I have heard, they opened up to the cloud to a degree.

See also the tags of the article "[...] Education, Government, Healthcare, Nonprofit, Public Sector, [...]"
Have you tried the virtual whiteboard in conjunction with an iPad and Apple Pencil? Or whatever the Surface equivalent is?

10000 better than a real white board
I got lucky then :-)
As long as it's not a desktop application that requires WPF.
> Weren't castes based on race and conquering populations initially?

We don't know the exact process, but there were several culturally, ancestrally and often phenotypically distinctive populations that encountered and mixed with each over millennia in the subcontinent and engaged in both conflict and cooperation, mostly for arable and pasturable land resources and access to water.

The societal power and identity structures and population genetic patterns that emerged from that process manifest in, but are not limited to, the caste system.

A latter such migration brought the Indo European language and customs, and it has had an outsized impact on elite cultural artifacts like religious literature. Colonial philologists discovered the Indo European linguistic connection between Sanskrit and European sacred languages and some became fetishized on it due to their own ancestral connection to it, while discounting the relevance of other South Asian ethnolinguistic groups.

In response, current Indian nativists have promoted the wholly unfounded idea that South Asia was closed to human in-migration until the Islamic era, and that Indian culture and peoples are strictly indigenous in ancestry.

Both the colonial theories of a single conquering Indo European invasion and the nationalist out-of-india theory are highly oversimplified and marketed towards their respective societies' ethno-nationalist impulses.
I won't doubt that muscle mass can be increased this easily, but to get the mental benefits of exercise does require a longer medium or high intensive practice.
To be fair, you would need a bigger more representative company. If your slice is CEOs' then that is pre-filtering for a lot of things. Tech role at apple skewed a fair bit, general role less so, a retail apple role thena different population all together.

Amazon possibly has enough employees in the fuller distribution of income / qualifications that would be an interesting dataset for slicing, but of course you will always find rouge slices and while they may have a reasonable explanation othertimes they do not - why are 90% of CEO of a listed companies are >50 years old, 22% of the population is under 18 its unfair they are not represented (lets not get into the number of old people in politics)
They will deal with the sonic booms the same way that Condorde did: by flying over water.
> The solution may to be ensure that OIDC itself has a way to log people in based on presenting a private key

Isn't that what the OIDC people are trying to achieve with SIOP (Self-Issued OpenID Providers)?

The work on that extension to OIDC is a bit new[0], but it seems to share Matrix's goal of decentralisation by letting users have portable identities that aren't dependent on big providers.

There is also work to make these SIOP identities integrate with the wider W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) ecosystem, through DID-SIOP[1], so that might create some more opportunities for interoperability.

[0] https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-self-issued-v2-1_0.h...

[1] https://www.didsiop.org/
It's hard to find a laptop nowadays with comparable "specs" --- and this I believe is by design. You can't get a "Retina" display anywhere else. Comparable real world "functionality" is a different story --- one based on need.

What is "Retina"?

Only Apple knows but it appears to mean more pixels than your eyes can detect. It is marketing more so than functionality. A lot of the high end Apple "features" or "specs" have little or no impact on real world functionality. They exist mainly to justify added expense and/or bragging rights.
Settle down and don't keep up with inflation because those same industries wont keep your pay up to date? Nah, I don't think so.
Wow what a terrible article. Python is a "fashionable" and "antisocial" language? whaaat?
Does your country's media show the recent advances in AI image generation?
The recent results have been mind-blowingly amazing, but there seems to be a lack of attention (or interest?) from journalists that cater to the general population.
I had to do a second loop over that myself.
>after all my point was about being possible on X11

Well my point was that it will always be an inferior experience on X11 even though it technically is possible in some circumstance. WM hints only work correctly if the window manager is compositing which many window managers are not, or do not want to add, and some X11 users still seem to insist on not using them... Any attempts to add this to X11 are fighting an uphill battle.

>I suggest try to actual read what people are writing

I did and I believe those replies are following those patterns. Those comments seem unrelated to the other things about backwards compatibility. It is an entirely separate concern.
Even just in the first example of removing a background, it is very intuitive how to do it using the website listed. But GIMP, for all it's improvements in recent years, does not make it nearly as intuitive, fast, and easy for a brand-new user to remove a background. And being presented with that UI would be intimidating for a lot of users compared to using a single-purpose website with a specific workflow.
NB: "where are you from?" is a question your HR training should already explicitly tell people not to ask candidates. I'm not in HR or management and I still make sure to mention it to new hires before doing my first interview alongside them. National origin is a protected class. Even within the US , "where are you from?" can proxy for a protected class. Race, mostly, or possibly religion.

It's also a question that's very easy to ask in good faith while making small talk, which makes it noticeably dangerous.
That may be true but it's not obvious it would be. Certainly in times past in the US receiving calls/texts could incur charges.
Most people don't care at all.
It is an earlier form of swan-based paper blockchain, each page is protected with a cygneture.
Not everybody's company is going to pay for a license if they already are licensing Visual Studio for everyone.

As an individual, I only have a little bit of time to tinker with personal projects, and while I like C#/.NET so far, I'm not yet at the point where I feel comfortable paying for Rider's subscription. So I'm also mostly using VS2022 Community and VS Code (on macOS) so far. Hoping to eventually get to a point where paying for Rider becomes a no brainer.
Can someone do the math on how much sustainable energy we would be wasting so people could get somewhere faster than a normal plane?
Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of COVID-19
JetBrains had to reimplement their own debugger to get around this.

And that one isn't usable outside of Rider either.
The trillion dollars didn't exist before so why is it a problem that it doesn't exist now?

While market cap is a popular number, it isn't meaningful wrt "total value" because the marginal price has no useful relationship to the average price.
I thought it was really cool and I noticed towards the end, it shifted away from organic evolution to architecture and structures. Then I saw farther down he posted another one projecting into the future the evolution of man and perhaps his replacement. If you did not see that at first, skip ahead on the second one to around 2:45 in.