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Google’s cost-cutting kills Pixelbook division
>To save on cooling costs, some tech companies have increasingly looked to place their data centers in colder climates;

When will the Antarctic data centers open?
Rust is mostly a systems programming language - like C++. The amount of jobs that require application development in such languages is a lot smaller than e.g. the amount of jobs for generic frontend (Javascript/Typescript) or backend development, since most businesses don't need to build an operating system, database or embedded system. That's why the job market for C++ was even small before Rust even showed up.

Of course one can also use Rust for applications which previously used Java, and still benefit from a stricter type system and a potential efficiency improvement. But the selling proposition becomes a bit tougher. Con's for adopting Rust are the higher complexity, and a potentially reduced developer ecosystem for particular domains which have a ton of Java/C#/Go/Javascript libraries.
Well, the SEC and IRS have both been repeatedly defunded and appointments made to make them as ineffective as possible - so yea, I think those efforts are paying off.
I use VentuSky. I pay for the premium layers. Happy customer
That’s all the hope I have left. Bring on iOS 16, I suppose. RIP Dark Sky
Right. Just like how we all benefitted when they bought Lala :(
But US salaries are much more than 12% higher.
My anecdote. I ride a bike and wear a suit at work, instead of showering at home I shower at work - just shifting the location of the activity.

My employer has actually responded to the demand for non-car options and repurposed a huge section of the multistory car park for bike parking, lockers and showers all for $5 a week which includes a towel service.

At my previous employer there was no such service, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover multiple showers in every building we owned at different sites - most office buildings do it turns out!
Most job applications for positions with any sort of physical aspect (grocery, hardware stores, maintenance) ask whether the applicant can lift 50 lbs (23 kg) over their head.
Never heard of such a thing in the US.

We did have repeat teachers for 3rd/4th grade (as the article described, it was probably due to staff shortages at the time), but by 5th/6th grade we moved to having different teachers for every subject.
You can do kernel TLS for sendfile at least, maybe for io_uring too? Probably not for HTTP/2, but I'm not convinced multiplexed tcp in tcp is a good protocol for the public internet anyway.
If you buy a Rolex on Amazon, it's almost guaranteed to be a counterfeit.
> The number of hours I have seen developers spend on things related to CI/CD is vast.

Sure, same as everything else that is overengineered. A simple, no-frills GitHub Action (or equivalent) should not take longer than a few hours to implement. If you need more time than that, it means that you have an overly complicated deployment process, which is a time sink when done manually anyway.
Only to bootstrap the language, it's certainly not the plan to require that forever.
Are there plans to go post-quantum, e.g. with Kyber Crystals and friends?

Or is that blocked on fully standardized algorithm choices?
> British government doesn't make any sense as it looks like a modern republic from a distance

A Canadian perspective... Did you know that king has to approve all of Canada's laws? So when Canadians elect their government, and that people-elected govt passes a law, that's not good enough to become law. It has to get Royal Assent from the current king/queen. Canadians even pledge allegiance to the 'King and his heirs' - and that includes Andrew the Pedophile - its part of the citizenship oath. Many Canadian will fight tooth and nail to keep this system intact.

Australia got smart and changed the citizenship oath some time ago. As a result, you no longer have to pledge to a pedophile!!
Seems like a gimmick.

For some years, we've had cars with HUDs that project things like speed, blind spot warnings, traffic signs, and GPS directions onto the windshield.

They're great - you can see how fast you're going without taking your eyes off the road, and chuckle when it reads a 20mph speed limit sign from a side street off the 12-lane interstate that you're driving on.

You also have a great way to signal your turning intentions to other people: turn signals.

So why would you muck about with a car's headlights of all things to display extra information? And how much do replacements cost for those 2-million pixel/1-million-micromirror headlights?
Agreed. Not only that, but there’s also a debate among historians about “presentism”—judging the past by present standards rather than by the standards of the time. For example, most (so-called) antiracists are presentists, which is why they advocate for tearing down statues of Lincoln and the like—people who were very progressive for their day, but who fell short of the standards of today (as though the people who are antiracist today would be as strident as they are if they grew up in the culture of Lincoln’s time).
Or just sell the t-shirts and get rich… NFT’s are worthless hype
Factoring in say 10x-100x repetition code for for error correction, existing silicon tech is already damn near to the launder limit. General purpose CPU and GPU architecture has some data flow logistics it could optimize, but ASICs are pretty much at the performance limit already.
Driving high and drunk are idiotic to equate. Not saying you can't be impaired high, but people can also drive after a joint better than anyone after equivalent alcohol intoxication.

This smells like teetotaling more than evidence-based discourse.
aside from showcasing, you have to factor in how the bottom is now out from MANY freelance artists who were already fairly lucky to have clients paying them $5/pop

for example, in the last two weeks, promotional flyers for parties in my area have been all AI generated, because Stable Diffusion is free and DALL-E 2 completely fumbled with their limited access and data credit system

its kind of game-over for the promo art trade, the transactions that were happening, are not happening
You could write an amusing short story about this where people will their bodies to their political causes so they can process publically.
They aren't mutually exclusive. Quality of the user experience is what people will pay for.
DENSE_RANK is not ANSI SQL, also you're implicitly performing a join with your "where" clause.
That's just a TeX engine, so it can run LaTeX or ConTeXt or plain TeX; it's not a new language. And I don't think it's maintained.
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Overweight is a tier below obesity. That's believable.
Nothing. excavation has stopped with no plans to continue. The decision has been made to preserve the site for future generations (at the expense of this one). We literally barely scratch the surface of discovery because of a contradiction at the heart of archaeology. Preservation before excavation. Yet the list of places to excavate only ever grows. Following current trends, the rest of Gobekli Tepe will never make it out of the ground.
The pendulum swings yet again. I remember in the 2000s when AMD and ATI were the best buys.
Err, yes. At least in my country rudeness is not a crime so you are, in fact, allowed to be rude to cashiers.
Trans fats are banned in the US: https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/trans-fat
Slightly off topic question/comment: You are running an async server, together with a blocking database client? That sounds more like a very tricky place ot get started. Are you dispatching all your database queries into an extra threadpool?
The standard library is very unlikely to include, or at least expose, non-final standards. I personally plan to toy with implementing Kyber soon, and plan to produce an experimental age [0] plugin. If a TLS experiment were to gain traction, I don't exclude we might support it in the standard library, since it would be negotiated and we'd be free to drop it later on.

[0]: https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/post-quantum-age/
> Absolutely nobody is being taught in schools to feel guilty for being white.

Now, that's a rather strong statement. I think quite a few moderate liberals would agree that there are real concerns with this kind of teaching, and that we should not turn history or social studies class into an occasion for grievance mongering and 'two minutes hate' of the supposedly dominating groups.
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I want to know, does "nginx -s reload" lead to trouble for your business? Someone said it's ok to do this because this action doesn't affect existing connections, but let's think about two cases:

1. NGINX doesn't know when the WebSocket connections will quit;

2. If using NGINX in K8s, should we do "nginx -s reload" when Pod changes?
Translation: "We chose to go to the Moon, not because it was easy, and not because it was hard, but because it was exactly hard enough to be within our grasp, but not in the Soviets' grasp. Once we get there and plant the flag, we are all set. No need to bother going there again for 50 years or so".
I have it, and love it. Plus they double as regular dongles for my pos M1 macbook
> Has any city ever actually tried ticketing people who block lanes?

There is a large amount of discourse about this on twitter, the issues as I’ve seen:

- Police don’t think to

- When it’s pointed out to them, police don’t want to.

- Police are often frequent bike lane parkers

- Non-police traffic wardens don’t think to

- When it’s pointed out to them, non-police traffic wardens are sometimes unsure how to actually ticket them as their handheld computer doesn’t have a wizard for bike lane parking and requires inputting of a special case

etc etc.

My experience, I think ticketing is of limited use to discourage it as the chances of getting ‘caught’ if you’re only there a short time is pretty low.
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Yes, but do you know about the Mongrel Banquet Club? The secret cabal of OSRians and their behind-the-scenes machinations? Google it my friend, google it. Many of the weird folk you allude to were members, I hear.
> Do you have some examples of that perhaps?

Not off hand (and Mozilla's official marketing rarely goes so low-level as to mention the browser engine itself by name), but (as someone who has been hanging out in Rust spaces since 2011) I recall the Servo devs always being very careful to disclaim any intentions to wholesale replace Gecko in Firefox (though I did always wonder if they were instructed to do so, as a way to keep Gecko contributors from rebelling).
I think the standard procedure in EV car fires is to just dump water on it to conduct the heat away as fast as possible, and to keep dumping water on it until the batteries can no longer self-ignite -- which can take awhile.
This feels somehow weird to read.
I've personally seen someone with bipolar disorder enter a months long psychotic episode after exposure to small amounts of THC. That is how I know it's a thing.

It happens.

I think psychotic illnesses are complex and there is no one cause. THC can be a factor. This is also what the Google results I linked you to said
Wasn't that the way OOP was supposed to work, back before people who didn't get it got their hands on it ? Isolated objects, messaging only, no notion of where the object resided. Just add idempotency guarantees and implicit parallelism for loops, and off you go. I can't think of any language that's actually like this though, so maybe it's harder than it looks.
That's like saying "well, making knives is easy" while ignoring everything that is needed to make materials then shaping them into final form.

It's only "easy" because bunch of people over years perfected every step of the process.
Pregnant women were included in the original safety studies (not by design, if you have 40k people some of them will become pregnant) and there were no safety signals. On the other hand we had pretty good information early on that being pregnant was a major risk factor in getting severe COVID.
Glad to know there are other people with this tendency.

I'm usually a good conversationalist but stop talking as soon as I've had a couple.
Thanks for name-dropping that book. I've always wondered what exactly happened to GE, and I love history books that speak to the modern corporate era we inhabit.

My personal favorites of the genre are Titan (about Rockefeller and Standard Oil), The Organization Man (an anthropological study of the "company man" archetype from post-WW2 America), and Shoe Dog (much lighter reading than the other two, and a great read about the founding of Nike).

Anyway, I just grabbed a copy. More history book recommendations welcome!
Changes literally nothing. I have no doubt that most truckers would still be fat if they had a tank of the freshest, purest air piped directly into their lungs 24/7.
$8 million USD penalty? What kind of joke is this?

Is the intention to serve as a deterrent or a not-so-subtle endorsement? Honestly, seems like the latter.

SEC seems to be full of industry insiders these days. I pulled my positions and exited all stock market investments recently, that shit is rigged.

I'm thinking of adhering to a new policy where I only invest into things where I can hunt them down and hit them with a stick or at least call a particular individual human being in real life. Otherwise incentives tend to get too perverse.
The king/queen can dissolve parliament: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_prerogative_in_the_Uni...

It is only by convention that he doesn't, that will only last until you get a bad king/queen and thr right opportunity.
He's not wrong. The 20,000dpi dollar bill joke just isn't as funny in a lower resolution.
What is sickening about a smooth transition of power?

The main thing you seem to criticise is the ritual itself, which to me seems pretty normal, albeit grandiose.
I thought that was funny. Nerdy, but funny.

I also am puzzles by the viability of using exothermic cement to smother a rxn
I like yr - they have a really great UI. Pretty sweet example of what proper government funded agencies can achieve. The forecast is only OK in areas that aren't Norway, Sweden or Denmark though. It's about on par with what I get from the default iOS app though, so I end up using yr anyway.
Be sure to have an ad blocker for Boing Boing. My god, the irony of a site that rails against the bad practices of web commercialism embracing all the bad practices of web commercialism.
I just typed in 'girl with a pearl earring vermeer' and got this:

https://drop.qoid.us/vermeer.png

And, for a slightly different scenario, here's what I got for 'pikachu':

https://drop.qoid.us/pikachu.png

But I think this sort of thing is the exception rather than the rule (similar to Copilot regurgitating the text of software licenses). Girl with a Pearl Earring is so famous that there are countless copies of it on the internet. I don't know what kind of deduplication process was used for Stable Diffusion, but if you consider multiple photos of the same painting, plus images distorted by compression, or cropped, or embedded in other images, plus attempts to redraw it or even parody it, I can easily imagine that the training set contained thousands of images or more that are essentially the same work. And so the model memorized it, albeit at low resolution.

Similarly, it's seen countless different images of Pikachu.

However, this seems to only apply to the very peak of popularity. I tested some other Pokemon: it does a decent job with Charizard, but with Bulbasaur and Squirtle and Jigglypuff its output only somewhat resembles the character design, and for less popular Pokemon there's no resemblance at all.
I was a kid back then and we had mac labs at school, and those things were always slow or hanging. Maybe because they were imacs? During the second coming of Jobs era, Macs never really blew me away performance wise until the intel transition.
I don't know where you're getting that idea about peanut butter and palm oil, it isn't true of the major US peanut butter brands

https://www.peanutbutter.com/peanut-butter/creamy

https://www.jif.com/peanut-butter/creamy/creamy-peanut-butte...
Even if the facilities don't exist we can store them in remote areas right. Maybe put each in a fireproof bag.

I'm not an expert but isn't one huge advantage of batteries is they are mostly solid so unlike c02 which disperses in the air we can store them in one place that doesn't cause harm.

For EV batteries couldn't we just put them in a fire proof, water proof bag or container until the battery is ready for processing
I hit this back in ‘03 or ‘04.

This page confirms it was add in Photoshop CS (October 2003): https://gist.github.com/msikma/04bfae8670300a12c55937c3b61d6...
* Disclaimer: I am an employee of Alphabet or one of its subsidiaries, but I do not work on this team, and didn't know anything about it prior to reading this article.
Did you end up using ReiserFS? How'd that go?
IIRC, earlier research by Bledsoe and Davies at UWashington found lots of confounding factors for maternal drug use. For example, alcohol use by crack users during pregnancy was effectively universal making it likely that the crack-baby epidemic in the 90s was most likely FAS. I believe they also found no correlation between marijuana use and developmental delays.
iOS added live video captions this year. Would love to have it added to the phone next year.
And way less obesity
Did you just notice you're in a monarchy? Have you never seen parliament open? You missed prorogation with the silly Black Rod nonsense?

I'm not sure how you can characterize this as some creeky system that's just showing its face now lol it's built into so much of your government, multiple times a year, including one extremely high profile case (the prorogation) only a few months ago.

Honestly, be grateful. I watch parliament for some sort of fucked up cathartic release because even the worst of your MPs have a base moral compass that would dwarf almost anyone in the US government. Just the fact that Johnson's party initiated the no-confidence is incredible, I can't imagine that happening in the US - 15% of a party turning against their party representative? Impossible here.

If the cost is some silly ceremony that is increasingly irrelevant every year, pay that cost.
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Maybe it’s reduce motion.
If he was going full scratch everything, why didn't he make a new markup and styling that would fix everything the web is wrong about instead of reinventing a jaggy wheel? That would've been a revolution.
But will that be sufficient to stop a technology like off the shelf drones?

I have a feeling that we're about to find out.
That's indeed possible, if one has a TLS stack which supports KTLS. I however don't think there's not too many of those yet, and probably even less so in Rust where both the library and a potential Rust wrapper would need to support it.
Wow, thank you for letting me know! 2004, that's much earlier than I expected...
It just seems like they are struggling as a company.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/modern-education-system-designed-...
This will only reduce the pressure on the currency issuer to improve the inherent anti counterfeit features of banknotes.
> weirdly fast
> deploy weekly

These are at odds with each other. In my previous role at a startup we deployed on average twice per day per developer. The automation necessary to make this hands off and reliable wasn’t actually that much. It rarely caused issues.
You thought it was hard to have fair elections, just wait until you have a lottery to choose the oligarchs.
There is a button: the “past” link below the title on this page. The link often works pretty well, but not in this case because the title “work is work” is particularly non-specific. You can easily search for past HN submits and comments using: https://hn.algolia.com/ e.g. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Fcodahale.com%2F%... or add dashes e.g. search for work-is-work https://hn.algolia.com/?query=work-is-work (Algolia search isn’t parsed like Google so quoting is not useful).
I was wondering the same. From the article it sounds like it was just a random assortment of lithium-ion batteries that someone was storing with the intention of turning into a large solar-connected battery, so probably a mix of cell chemistries.
The irony should be mentioned. many comments here point to human artists becoming obsolete, but it is a common refrain on this forum that people with art degrees already struggle to make a living. So which is it?

I really wish I knew what DFW had in mind when he said irony wasn't the point.
Swapping the engine out of a moving race car
It's only by convention that Parliament doesn't chop the King's head off. I would imagine that convention will last approximately the same amount of time.
The law as far as I know is concerned with derivation not exact copy.

It’s easy for these models to produce very close images to the source material with the right short input.
finally! doom at full speed
I don't follow. We live in the present so presentism seems pretty practical. Besides, this isn't ancient history. Civil Rights was only like 60 years ago. Strom Thurmond served in Congress this century. Is there any point in history that it would be acceptable to have a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest on public land?
Making Monopoly money for the kids?

You cannot make counterfeit currency with Photoshop. Paper money has security features that won't even convert to pixels in the first place, like holograms, transparencies and fibers embedded in the paper and such, never mind reproduce by conventional printing.

This whole deterrence system is idiotic.

People who accept an obviously fake printed copy of a banknote basically deserve it; it goes with their collection of wooden nickels.
Does iOS do the freaky-accurate “light rain starting in five minutes, ending twenty minutes later” thing? If so, I’d love to know where, I’ve missed it.
That’s the joke, pretty sure
In what way? It wasn't initially covered up, it didn't spread radiation over large areas of europe, no one died, and the cleanup will be completed within a year or so.
I think it is maintained, but perhaps not actively developed. LuaTeX I think is where more development is happening, but XeTeX is still faster in most cases.
I have had brain fog symptoms just as described in the article for about two years. I don’t want to increase your alarm, but it’s been every bit as terrifying as I imagined. I was diagnosed ADHD in 2018, the diagnosis and accessing treatment literally saved my life, and I quietly hope every day I’ll get back to the level of cognitive function I used to have so all of that doesn’t slip away. I have no idea if I had COVID, it’s entirely possible I’m only suffering long term burnout. But the cognitive difficulties I’ve had the last couple years are really not something I want anyone to experience.
To the outsider, difficulty can be measured in the "effect" or "affect" the language has in settings such as diplomacy where the multilingual multicultural raised creme de la creme meet and talk behind closed doors say at the U.N.
Are you sure you condone joking about the deaths of people in Grenfell Tower?

I've lived on these shores (South Somerset) for 52 years now and I have made the most awful jokes about some things as anyone probably has here. However, there is a point beyond which I won't go - causing deliberate hurt.

I don't know about the particular case that you refer to or actually skirt around - citation needed please.

A joke does not cause hurt beyond a slight nick with a possible small amount of blood loss. Beyond that it is not a joke and is an insult.
The headline is pure click bait.
s/the, the big buys at big chops/them, the big guys at the big shops/
They don't, but OS can pre-fetch files ahead of time. Zfs will load "hot" files as soon as it can.

You can also easily preload things into memory in boot yourself, so static websites usually don't serve files from disk.
So what happens after the next big earthquake in a place like SF?