skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty wacky.

But a vast fleet of super-lightweight orbiting mirrors joined up to direct sunshine onto solar farms on the ground might be made to work. (Of course their weight in orbit is zero. What matters was their weight on the launch pad.)

The mirrors are optically flat, but mass only milligrams. Very gently unfolded and joined together by thousands of mechanical spiders, they focus sunlight onto another, much smaller mirror many thousands of miles away that rotates to redirect the light to a ground-based array as it turns past. This mirror has many faces (6?) so that as it rotates and the ground target finally turns out of view, the next face picks out another farm to take its light.
100% this, and this is why it's so dumb when people say things like "everyone needs to stop having kids to save the earth". Future generations are the only reason we should care about any long-term environmental issues. If humanity were about to go extinct, I don't see any issue with the last surviving human burning all of the remaining fossil fuels just for fun.
If you told McDonald's to double their number of McRibs produced next year that would be an incredible challenge to meet. They already sell enough that it affects the global pork market, it'd be insane for them to double their demand for pork. What about other supplies, would this result in a reduced burger demand? How can they ensure they can respond appropriately either way? They probably run near fridge/storage capacity, does increasing this mean they need to also increase storage at restaurants?

That's a 2X increase. Now do it again and a half for a 5x. Crazy to say there's a "scaling wall" that once you "pierce" it's easy to scale up. It's the opposite, McDonald's already knows how to supply and sell X McRibs a year, there's no company that's ever sold 5X those McRibs so they have to figure it out themselves.
Seeing this right after finishing a webhook integration.
I worked on a embedded hardware application using Linux and "cameras".

We (like many people) were using sensors from OmniVision[0] and there was a dedicated contractor who's entire area of focus (and life's work) was getting photons from the sensor of the camera into something usable by software. In our case that was an unholy combination of vendor software, custom code derived from very obscure NDA-only datasheets, and a bunch of custom plugins for gstreamer that could actually make use of the sensor, interfaces, and hardware encoding silicon.

It was one of the more eye-opening "WOW, so that's how the sausage is made" experiences of my life.

[0] - https://www.ovt.com/
You are going to build the view agnostic API anyway for Android and iOS. So why not use the same API for the web app, too?
You raise a good assumption I think is being missed - the choice criteria has not changed between the time of interviewing the first applicant and selecting the n/e-th applicant. The housing market is too volatile for this assumption to hold.
Safari content blockers are passive and don't run arbitrary code on pages.
About 15% is slåtter and grazeland. Slåtter might include some grazing, but the vast majority of things growing there won't be eaten. I think it is pretty safe to say that the vast majority of the grass feed land is suitable for human crops since "vall" is most often used in rotational crop systems.

We CAN grow such crops in Sweden, at least in the southern parts. I lived next to a quinoa field with comparatively high yields. And we have been growing white beans for years. Pre pandemic there were trials with soybeans on Öland and in Skåne with promising results.
Who cares the economists predicted it will only cost us 4% of GDP. It is not like roads are necessary for the economy. Adaptation is also much cheaper than prevention, we can used the saved money to just buy bigger trucks with adaptive suspensions to cancel out the bumps in the road.
>Domains that resolve to private IPs: attacker could set up foo.com which resolves to a private IP

There's a clever extension to this attack; a naive way to mitigate it is to do a DNS resolution first to verify it's not a private IP and then do the actual request. An attacker can simply return a public IP on the first DNS resolution (with a 0 TTY) and then return a private IP on the second. This is called a "TOCTOU" (time-of-check time-of-use) vulnerability. I've written about this and other security best practices on my blog here - https://www.ameyalokare.com/technology/webhooks/2021/05/03/s...

I've also built an egress proxy that prevents such attacks here - https://github.com/juggernaut/webhook-sentry

Same caveat applies, use at your own risk :-)
The most fascinating thing about this story is we're witnessing the making of a myth - and how good people are at myth making. People love telling these stories even when they know they may not be 100% true. It's the story that matters, not the veracity. That's the challenge of a historian, separating fact from myth.
I just realized that I have some stepper motors in a box from an old robotics project I did. I'm going to attempt this next week.
This is innovation and proper engineering. They choose freebsd. Shows they are not afraid of solving actual hard problems that yield impressive results. These are the types of engineers i’d hire in a heart beat - if i ever was to own a successful company.

Simply following trends and doing what everyone else does leads to mediocre results and the assembly line type of work that most software development has become.
Army's New 'Tactical Bra'
I've certainly gotten into the habit of "interviewing the interviewer", in a reasonable sense. After all I'm looking to see if the job suits me just as much as the employer wants to make sure I suit the job.

But I've never considered asking a full interview worth of questions over multiple sessions. "As much as, if not more than" seems really exaggerated. That implies that candidates are asking 30-60 minutes of questions straight, then doing it again a week or two later. Maybe even asking the employer to do a take-home? I can't imagine the look on an interviewers face if I asked them to do a take-home.
For candidates, reading these questions are a great exercise and depending on where you are in your career, you need some of these.

In practice, that list has too many unanswerable questions (framed in a way that can only make the company or its team or its manager look bad).

I think this all come from our analytical and correctness bias, and maybe some late bound experimentation plus garbage collection of the details that needs adaptation are a more practical solution.

Feeling the vibe suddenly seems important.
No. All mutations are random. In the past, ASD might have been more or less adaptive than it is today.
I'm interested on not swapping which is a simple matter of RAM size, regardless if that is unified or not - which I believe I touched in my post
Had a LackRack(ish) running in my closet for a year or so.

It's a good and dirty way to free up space on top of your server(s) for a monitor and keyboard.
I'm not even sure I'd trust it to hold more than a single 1U server as depicted in the article, for that matter.
NASA has teams of engineers focused on supply chain and reliability.

Supply Chain Risk Management, https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/supply-chain-risk-manag...

“NASA’s Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) program ensures that the systems within NASA’s spaceflight programs and projects perform as required throughout their life cycles to satisfy mission objectives.”
https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/reliability-and-maintai...
> handwriting that becomes increasingly illegible to the general population

Are younger people really not able to read cursive? I find that hard to believe; it's still the same letters.
What do you think should happen if a more senior person brings their breadth of experience or expertise and the junior engineer disagrees and does something else?
The engineer is happy because they know to bend forward and reach with their arms.
Please sign the petition on change.org:
https://www.change.org/p/open-source-development-is-in-dange...
It works fine and lots of people do it, I have been using mine without issue for a few years now. It helps to put a concrete slab in it, but it's not necessary. The lack table does have a tendency to amplify the noise though.

Here is a guide by Prusa to build one for their printers: https://blog.prusa3d.com/mmu2s-printer-enclosure_30215/
There is no reason to think that a paid search engine like Kagi will get rid of one of it's signature functionality, but if you're interested in an extension for browser: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
I think this just validates their points. Netflix has more engineers and 8 years of them building and fixing things, so they have fewer issues.
What do you mean by specialised chips and functions? The tests here are running pretty generic code where there's no M2 magic that could speed them up. The unsupported hardware in Asahi currently is just extra hardware, not the basic CPU operation.

Then again, there are some features supported by Asahi but not macos https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1556297295838453760
If they depend on people being disciplined and not making mistakes - I would not like to join such a company as a newbie.

They have to have tough time hiring anyone or retaining newbies, even if it is about experienced people.
I love the idea of a standard but it gets colorful as you start digging in what the individual leaders are doing.

On the signature front, there's this but it's not enough:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-mes...
Discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32504567
Browser and kernel development couldn't be more different.

> Maybe in the past, but today we "just" emulate it.

"Just emulating" is almost impossible. For testing to be actually reliable, you'd need to recreate all the hardware behavior in code. OS virtualization relies on re-exposing the hardware and kernel primitives to VMs, no VM is reimplementing the Intel architecture for memory management, for example.

> then test the outout of that (in the emulator).

Another hard topic. What's the output of a kernel? In an emulator the only thing you have is access to the memory areas (RAM, screen, devices). You can't really rebuild the state of the kernel, or access internal structures that tell you information about how it is. If you're lucky and advanced enough in the boot sequence that the kernel has configured the serial port for comms and debugging, you might be able to get some information, but not that much, and it'd still be impossible to test certain parts of the boot sequence.
Interesting that we have this Turkish proverb: Allah'ın hakkı üçtür - Translation: God gives (ordains) three chances.

Almost matches the optimal chance for success rounded down.
> Apple M2 (Linux/8gb/4c)
This is an error on Phoronix's part. The M2 has 8 physical cores with no SMT which makes it 8c/8t. You can see all 8 cores in the die shots https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/apple-m2-die-shot-and-ar...
And legacy c/opengl, where the variables names tell you the return type...
Tech reviews online are largely useless. Just like the "shocked face" thumbnail, reviewers have realized that their viewers want entertainment more than they want a review. So the video largely ends up being an infomercial with a lot of product shots, rehashing of specs and largely generic opinions.
That is, however, an artifact of how Apple is pricing the models. The price difference between 8GB and 16GB is $200. This is absurd -- there's no way the added cost in ram is more than $50 for them and due to their market position and massive volume, it's probably quite a bit below that.
Of those I only have Prime, and really agree. It was never as good I don't think, but lately in particular it's been so slow to start (and then it's an advert! It'll do it again for the actual content once I click 'skip'!) and occasionally pauses to buffer mid-stream.

I don't get that with Netflix, I've occasionally had it crash out 'sorry this could not be played right now' (which is a weird bug itself - because it always loads fast & fine when I immediately press play on it again) but never such slow loading or pausing.
For Twitter it's Settings and Privacy > Accessibility, display and languages > Display > Web browser > Use in-app browser

This is on Android, I'm not sure if it's the same on iOS
The advice with this list should be: you can ask anything you want but not all of it. Pick a few topics that matter the most to you and not randomly. But definitely ask questions. Especially when you have concerns around the topics that those questions cover. You can also highlight your own skills by asking pointed questions about things that relate to those skills.

Also, maybe ask open questions rather than closed questions. Several questions on the list are very closed questions. Like what "version control system do you use?" They are not going to give you a lot of insight regardless of the answer and the answer is likely to be not very surprising.

That's also a good trick as an interviewer. Ask really broad and open questions and see what comes back. It's not about what you answer but how you answer. If I was interviewing, I'd bounce those questions back. So in case of the version control question, I'd ask some open question about your experience or opinion on that topic.
Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors for global cancer deaths
> Only grass can grow there

Forests can also grow there. They are far more valuable for bio-diversity and as carbon sinks.
Have they won the lawsuit? Perhaps consider witholding judgement?
We nearly had them in England. :(

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/may/20/home-informati...
Netflix also has production studios they now own making content.
> Is it terrible for wealthy billionaires to fund people with particular perspectives on what to do about the climate?

The vagueness here is problematic. Not all "particular perspectives" are the same. It matters if the "particular perspectives" were rational and respectful of the science.
> This seems to be the mainstream opinion as well,

I don't agree with you.

There are many people who do care about future generations.

And maybe there are other people that share my opinion:

1) future generations deserve our attention and our best efforts, but only the efforts that can have an actual impact are worth to be taken. Going back to Stone Age for the others to keep enjoying modern comfort and spoiling my efforts any way? No, thanks! Convincing peoples around the world to formally engage in reducing emissions and then respecting the agreement? Sign me in!

2) despite our best efforts, we know that climate change is here to stay. Let's stop pretending that we can revert it in a couple of years! We are having several droughts, and it's likely they will be back next year: we need to act during this winter to save some water for next summer; we have to stop now to export produce from California. Not in twenty years, not in five years, but now! The ocean level is going up, and it will keep going up: stop building on the coast, stop moving to coastal cities built on flat terrain. Stop it now!
It seems like a sketchy idea to directly screw in the server to the table legs. Much better to install rack sliders that are supported from both front and back.

Just don't pull out the server if there's no one holding down the table. Or better, keep servers where they belong: in a freaking data center, NOT your house ! :-)
And ironically, the more dangerous one...most people - including elected officials and other regulators - know nothing about.

Plastic isn't regulated because we have recycling.

I fear PFASs - to your point, far more dangerous - will enjoy the same ignorance is bliss freedom.
> Now the idiotic argument that is often heard is "well, if we didn't grow grass we could grow something humans want, like.. soybeans".

Or we could let the wild take over that land.
For hiring orgs, I have a phrase that I repeat quite often on LinkedIn:

"How you hire is whom you hire."

Along the same lines, for the candidates, I might now have to add:

"The question you ask* are as important as the answers you give."

That said, unfortunately, quite often the candidates' side of the process is a second class citizen. If I had $20 for everytime the candidate was tossed token "We have 5 minutes...got any questions..."* I'd have Bezos' FY money.

And now we're back to where we started: How you hire is whom you hire.

*If they give you sufficient time for questions.
There has always been catastropic weather. The climate has always been changing. The current tag line is 'climate change is accelerating due to human released CO2.'

I believe human released CO2 is more or less inconsequential. We face far bigger problems with industrial chemical pollution. Put your money where your mouth is and quit buy any good made from materials from environmentally hostile countries. Advocate for banning imports from environmental destroyers.

As long as we keep talking about CO2, we're not going to make any progress and we're going to exhaust all of our other precious resources long before we burn to death.
Why are the numbers so big??
Patents is often a concern. Maybe you think you're not violating any patents. But somebody with access to your code could find something that looks like a violation. Real or not, it can spell trouble for you.

Your code delivery could also contain parts that are licensed from other companies, limiting your options with regards to licensing.

One way to limit the problem is to put most of your "secret sauce" code onto one or more sub-processors embedded in the imaging hardware. The register bank of your hardware would only be accessible to these sub-processors, meaning that you don't have to publish your register definitions. Then you can deliver the sub-processor microcode as a binary blob (independent of the host OS) and let the kernel module itself be open-source. This approach is taken by at least some vendors.
It should in principle be okay to disagree with whatever posture you like, just it should be okay for billionaires to fund the viewpoints of their choice if other billionaires can fund more dominant viewpoints of their choice without problems. I'd say it's you who misses the forest for the trees, and the other poster's main point, which to my reading was that if the Gates Foundation (and many others) can funnel billions to a certain climate science/policy stance, it's nothing short of hypocritical for hysteria to be devoted on people like the Koch brothers for doing the same in a different direction.

On a final note, while the basic scientific consensus that human caused climate change is a real thing seems quite firmly settled, there are many details and disagreements that no self-respecting scientist can claim don't exist. There are enough of these for plenty of healthy debate, even on major points, to be a good thing, as it almost always is on most topics. There's also no shortage of self-interested politics being mixed into narratives pushing for aggressive climate change responses. This is rarely conducive to completely honest discourse from either side of the table.
But again it's not. TDP isn't a defined thing. There's no standard for it. It's literally a made up value by the SoC manufacturer, and in the case of laptops the laptop manufacturer even gets to fiddle with it.

That said in this case it is a small difference regardless. The 6850U's TDP per AMD's spec is 15W-28W. That's bang on the same as M2 basically. There's no 3x difference here. Unless there is because again TDP is a made up number with no formal definition.
A lot of people getting upset that you're highlighting that the account is a bot. Before anyone else tells mrktsn off, please read the user's profile.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Traubenfuchs

I also think that the bot did a good job here.
I wonder if it would help to fill them with some high density expanding foam? (Using some form of resin would probably be prohibitively expensive).
Russia plans to take nuclear plant off grid – Ukraine
Best Practices for Using Webhooks
Yeah, I was going to suggest the same: farm-factory sites are easily identifiable by the number of Ads, especially on the doubleclick.net domain. But maybe for Google in the long-run would be a net positive to ban those sites anyway, due to better "organic" results and how people will see Google results.
They often are, but the standards groups don't seem to actually produce that changed new version (likely because they wouldn't have a way to reference it?) - governments just implement the diffs in the law.
Disallowing redirects altogether is probably too big of a hammer. There are legit reasons to use redirects (like migration to new versions). A limit to the number of redirects seems ideal -- that's what Twilio does, for example.
The ads on this site are bonkers, is this the original article?

edit: appeareantly it's a legit site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing_Boing. Buzzword seems legit compared to this.
I certainly don't want to run afoul of the etiquette rules here but I would ask yourself if you are projecting your long-standing familiarity and the resulting intuition that you have with these units onto everyone else.

Nobody who uses meters outside of setting the international standard or working in particle physics would have a working idea where they denoting meters in wavelengths of radioactive decay or hemisphere spanning fractions. They approximate it to something they can relate to just like you do. It's easy to skewer imperial units too with silly examples stories e.g. Fahrenheit.

Similarly just because it's convenient to me to think of (mile!) country roads, quarter sections, and acres from familiarity despite using metric elsewhere due to the grids from historical land allocations in Western Canada doesn't devalue other ways of measuring.
Right, she claims to have been there, but never claims to be the one who actually found it.
Time to unlearn some things about English that aren’t true. Less is fine to use. Also, myriad can be a noun, literally has always been used figuratively, responding to ‘how are you?’ with ‘I’m good’ is perfectly fine. I’ve tried correcting people too, but the older I get, the more I find out that it’s me who’s wrong and policing language is almost never correct.

The idea to use “fewer” for countable things was someone’s personal preference. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/fewer-vs-less

“This rule is simple enough and looks easy enough to follow, but it's not accurate for all usage. The fact is that less is also sometimes used to refer to number among things that are counted.

“This isn't an example of how modern English is going to the dogs. Less has been used this way for well over a thousand years—nearly as long as there's been a written English language.”

See also the list of common counter examples.
So does Instagram
Primordial black holes might explain dark matter
Elderly woman hit with subscription after asking Alexa to say the Hail Mary