skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Respectfully, you have a too-reasonable hunch of how decisions are made at the executive level, and because of that, you're reaching an incorrect conclusion.

The primary factor driving the decision making process is not cost but risk.

Many fail to remember the lengths to which companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Sun and others went to create FUD around the adoption of OSS in the public sector. It involved lobbyists, marketing campaigns and a whole certifications industry.

When a CIO selects a technology, they aren't just weighing its merits and price tag; they are actively looking to leave a glowing legacy while actively doing everything they can to avoid being humiliated if the technology fails. See, the CIO knows that, as far as their board of directors is concerns, it's not the software that failed but the executive.

That's why enterprise support packages exist; it's an insurance policy and a promise that if something goes terribly wrong at 2am, someone is going to pick up the phone when you call.

Companies with expensive tools have an obvious interest in convincing their best customers that the competition in inherently risky.
My understanding is that the Block Island Wind Farm was essentially a pilot program, no?

It's nowhere near the scale of other offshore wind proposals in the US or Europe (NY alone plans to develop 9000MW of capacity in the next 15 years[1], versus the 30MW from Block Island), which makes me think it was more a proof of concept.

[1]: https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/All-Programs/offshore-wind
It won't find threading issues, or "implementation-defined behavior" (which isn't the same thing as undefined behavior).
This is weird though: if Google news delisted every newspaper from Spain, wouldn't that lead to Spanish users ditching Google news (and finding an alternative)?
It's not like they're interested in non-spanish news
That's a pretty big market. Heroku got to ~$500mm of revenue while they funneled their most valuable customers to AWS. Keeping those customers around (by, say, giving them lower level primitives) would have 10x'ed that, I bet.
It’s not a good solution when you spend a ton of money to force people to pay the averaged out market prices per time segment and they still don’t care.

It’s like making me spend $$$ to measure and charge me for how much co2 I exhale.

It’s technically correct: that co2 does contribute to global warming.

But it’s going to cost more to meter it than I could possibly save in conservation through this newfound incentive.
I am pretty sure in this case the scope is used just like scopes on artillery. You would be interested how artillery scopes resolve from tens of kilometers? They do not.
They seem to adopt a rapid iteration model closer to browser rather than typical language runtimes. So a browser 1.0 is nothing close to finished. I personally have no problem on it. But I think it is indeed strange that they sound so serious about correctness while constantly rolling new major versions.
Edit: I am mostly talking about websites with communities. I guess my question has a parallel to organisational pathologies, or disfunction. I like to see myself as a science-type, looking for cause and effect. Do website communities filter for pathology or produce pathology? Maybe I am just trying to fit a square metaphor into a spherical file.
You'd need to run many parallel processes like MD5(MD5(MD5(thing1))), MD5(MD5(MD5(thing2)))...

I think the math still works if you do that. But the cycle would have to be contained entirely within one of the individual runs. So that could potentially take longer.

The tricky part would be combing through the 160 exabytes of output to find the cycle.
Yep.

Feeling this too, and I think most of the comments are right. Take some time off and refocus and relearn how to enjoy life without the baggage of whatever you're hanging on to right now.

I'll add my personal anecdote. I recently took off almost a year, and have decided I'll be taking off an unspecified amount of time from "working". Might be 1 year or might be 10 years -- I think leaving it up to when it feels right is best.

If you have the finances sorted out for a few years off, do it. Things might be worse, the time off will be worth it. Things might get better, and you'll be well rested and prepared to act on it.
> Steam and Proton (which have made gaming work very well on Linux and have contributed to the complete loss of all productivity gained by any of the above programs).

;-)

Oddly enough I think we can thank Microsoft for creating a standard binary format for PC games on Linux. Now if we could just get a decent Proton (or equivalent) for macOS (CrossOver doesn't seem to work as well.)
Silphion: a miracle plant thought to be eaten into extinction 2k years ago
That's true but Fly's PaaS is perhaps more comparable to DigitalOcean's App Platform (its PaaS). For that, DO include 100GB for free while Fly include 160GB. Beyond that, DO charge $0.10/GB while Fly charge $0.02-$0.12/GB. Cheaper bandwidth for Fly's Machines (more comparable to droplets, as far as I can see) would be neat though.
read this page a bit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mitchell

also Baltimore, Maryland "peanut king"
I'm not sure the metaphor feels productive, especially given that there are entire suites and collections of other, non-pathological terms covering the same effects that are likely more appropriate for a number of reasons.

The behavior of someone you know with a given pathology may overlap with behavior or preferred perspectives you have witnessed here, but that's far from valid as a diagnosis and still manages to sound like a slight. I understand it's not your intention but to me this signals more homework to be done on your perceptions and their possible labels, for good reason.
The most maddening thing is how little other governments seem to care about it it.

Forcing windows, android, and ios on your citizens and gifting silicon valley a constant worldwide surveillance feed is incredibly harmful to long term interests. Forcing every business to use office365 to interact with any government office is a 1% income tax gifted to the american economy.
Without addressing anything else you said, calling the invasion of Panama and subsequent dictatorship “justified” is genuinely one of the dumbest things I have ever read on this site.
You could develop a different browser, but not change the underlying runtime.

But asking from a web based OS to be able to run a different web runtime is a bit like expecting that you can provide your own SurfaceFlinger on Android or the equivalent on iOS; there are reasonable limits to what can be swapped out by a 3rd party app.
We've lost the ability to just try software, stacks and stacks of floppy disks full, without risking everything in our computer.

We've lost the ability to just copy and run programs. The "portable software" movement is a step back in that direction.

We've lost the ability to have our own systems that others could access with a phone call, and instead now have internet "access" that actively prevents that type of use.

We lost the local communities that would form on these small shared systems, and the innovation that spawned from them.

We've lost the ability to get used to a program and just have it work for decades without incident. There are people who still would rather be using WordPerfect for MS-DOS.

We've lost hardware simple enough to comprehend, modify, repair, and trust. There's no single OS in charge of your PC, there are firmware systems under the OS taking care of things in the chipset, the SSDs and other interfaces.

We've lost the knowledge that no matter what, the next computer or OS would at least run things at the same speed, if not much faster.

We've lost 80x25 characters as a standard screen size, and the simplicity of a common text based interface that reliably acted the same on all compatible computers.

We lost manuals that actually told you all you needed to know. We also lost software stable enough in user interface that the book was still useful later.

Not all the losses were bad

We lost toggle switch or hex keypad boot code that had to be typed in manual. -- Yay!

We lost cassette tape based data and program storage. -- Yay!

We lost hardware that failed often enough you'd learn how to fix it. -- Yay!
Long lines form at borders as Russians flee military call-up
> While Project Shasta is in alpha, we only support Google Chrome on desktop.

I hate that this came up AFTER I logged in...
While this is 3rd hand from materials I have read over the years, it seems a lot of their human capital comes from referrals such as if you are a diplomat or their attaché and recruiting from such. It also might be relatively seamless to transfer from other agencies such as FBI, Military, NSA as you would have the background checks and clearance already done.

Also there are a lot of roles, support staff and other personal various degrees removed from the core programs and their corrupt nature.

And lastly, there are a few people I am sure that just want to take advantage of virtually unaccountable power and might even be in a position to profit from such.
> How is the driver giving the cyclist space if they expect the cyclist to move out of their way?

That's like asking, how is a motorist giving another motorist space, if he expects a motorist moving at 8 mph to pull over?

The faster motorist expects the slower one just to give up a portion of the space, for just a couple of seconds, to let them pass. Afterward, the slower one can have that space all to themselves until the cows come home, right?

"I need it for 3 seconds to get by; you can have it all day" is more than reasonable.

I don't understand where you're coming from. What if the cyclist comes to a complete halt and just stands there with the bike? Gee, how are you giving them space if you expect them to just stand off to the side and let other road users pass?
Governments can mandate this just like electrical outlets and emissions requirements.
It’s not easier, quite the opposite - “god” is essentially a psychological cheat code, convenient by making it possible to avoid thinking for oneself and instead shift responsibility of one’s conduct to mythology of choice.
Agreed 100%. The western world's framing of placing high value on human life and freedom is paramount, and the preservation of American hegemony is a critical component of both that, and ensuring world peace.

To all the salty tiers from oppressive regimes like russia, china, and iran, I say: vae victis.
This is beautiful. Douglas Hofstadter would be proud. 1337 at the end got me.
The SliTaz GNU/Linux operating system has been alive now for 16 years old and mainly funded by the developer community.

This fundraising was created for the project costs (domain, server), defray active developers, repay the funds invested by developers and ensure the project's sustainability.

We did not asked for any donations those last 6 years, but now it would really help!
I wish I could just mail Microsoft a check and a note that says "I am not a tech ignoramus, stop treating me like your side bitch" and get the same Windows experience I was enjoying a decade ago.
NPR article [0] points to climate as one of the causes. It also points to an analysis [1] that adds "The devastating impacts were also driven by the proximity of human settlements, infrastructure (homes, buildings, bridges), and agricultural land to flood plains, inadequate infrastructure, limited ex-ante risk reduction capacity, an outdated river management system ..."

[0] https://www.npr.org/2022/09/19/1123798981/climate-change-lik...

[1] https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/wp-content/uploads/S...
Listened about 10 minutes into the first episode, why do the speakers sound so nervous? Maybe it's because of a stubborn script or lack of prior preparation? It's just not very... podcast-like.
It's actually great, it just doesn't always support the newest standards.
having lived in Texas for many years and now back to Sacramento...

it wishes it was Austin. ;-)
That's what I'm talking about. Biden's 300bn plan will essentially lock the US to charging stations, I wish someone can tell them about this.
So we're just going to destroy huge parts of the Sierras so we can charge electric cars?
It's super easy to buy a gun online. The part that is not easy is getting around the step where it has to be shipped to someone or something (company) that has a federal firearms license, which then is supposed to perform the background check on you before handing over the weapon you paid for. But there's myriad websites that will happily take your credit card info and ship anything that's not NFA class 3 to the FFL of your choice.
Here's an update. The Nginx reverse proxy configuration update to work around the memory leakage issue in Hunchentoot has now been pushed to the GitHub repository of MathB.in too.

Commit: https://github.com/susam/mathb/commit/0dcedc0

Nginx configuration: https://github.com/susam/mathb/blob/main/etc/nginx/https.mat...
Narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease sometimes triggered by flu? Fascinating. If only we could control the immune system better, we could fix so many problems.
That's a good breakdown of the second age.

I would concur with the article's assessment that the Galadriel character is not true to the world.
It's not the question of grammar but semantics.

Wrong grammar is when you put the verb before the subject in English.
The grammar does not decide whether you say "on a call" or "in a call".

Wrong grammar would be if you used an incorrect case after the preposition, but the very choice of it involves the speaker and what semantics or meaning is meant by them.

Okay - you would find "NA" in the Russian corpus from the 17th century - but it is totally meaningless because East Ukraine was annexed in 17th century by Russia. I would have bet that this particular preposition was preferred.

I don't think any books on Russian grammar recommend a specific preposition - most likely you meant some stylistic compendium, but the style is something more subjective and even political in nature, isn't it?

In a nutshell, it's not a grammatical or historical thing, it's just shameless linguistical colonialism in its purest form.
I started my own podcast as well. Follow me from twitter or soundcloud. Danbobhollins on both.
There have been a lot of posts like this that boil down to "software engineering should be more like other engineering". What I find in all these threads is that people seem to think that just because there are certain standards and certification bodies that license engineers that all engineers of that sort participate.

They don't.

Computer engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, aerospace engineers, and probably more that I'm not specifically familiar with, design things like: cellular antennas, CPUs, rocket engines, spacecraft, EV charging stations, etc without these heavyweight certification structures. I tend to think we're better off without all that unnecessary red tape. There are better ways IMO to ensure that critical systems are engineered properly than to make engineers pay to take tests and pay license dues. I am also not generally a fan of saying that some body is in charge of all engineering standards for something.
Sounds like you want trabucco! https://github.com/ltworf/trabucco
> Ever seen a car from the 70s where it was hidden behind the license plate?

Yes, I have. Those are kind of cool, because it is equidistant from both sides.
Well 3D in the sense that characters could walk in front and behind scenery and objects. I.e. they could move toward or away from the screen. Growing up in that era I think the complaints about narrow solutions made them feel more constraining.

That said I enjoyed them anyway, and still do.
"The 1.3 percent was obtain by reducing the energy produced (1.4 quads) by a third, or to .91 quads and then multiplying .91 quads by the energy efficiency of the human body, 15 percent, which gives .137 quads, the amount of energy extracted from food. The .137 quads is then divided by the total energy that goes into food production, 10.4 quads."

This is the crux of his bad argument. Not going to waste my time proving why its wrong. Maybe someone else feels up to it.
Yep just like all apples attempts. If iTunes can’t even leverage its install base (ubiquitous back then) to make Ping a success (remember Ping?! I was one of the dozens of active users) around music or Game Center social features around games then I don’t see why it’d be any different for video.
Mozilla should build a better browser and fix their marketing if they want to gain back market share. Other browsers have managed to find ways to gain market share. I mean Brave has grown extremely rapidly headed by the ousted Mozilla CEO during Mozilla's decline
> Why is it so hard for some people to believe that these days, casting can cast a wider net and that there are plenty of qualified actors of all races that will still fit the parts being cast?

that's not the part that's hard to believe. there are enough talented actors to make an entire (good!) cast out of any single race if the management so desired.

the part that's hard to believe is that the racial makeup of the cast is not itself an intentional choice. this particular story is a PR minefield for a large company. in universe, there are multiple literal races (species?) of humanoid creatures that have intrinsic differences. there's no way they just "let the chips fall as they may" on those casting decisions.

I don't think they deliberately chose a diverse cast to be able to argue that anyone who didn't like the show was a racist. I do think it is part of a larger strategy to make their $750mm show appeal to a broad audience at the expense of upsetting nerds whose suspension of disbelief is shattered by an interracial dwarf marriage.
A lot of newer charging stations in the US also have this built in, as well. You can hook them up to the internet, or do it manually. How mine works is pretty clever: you plug it in, and it asks you if you'd like to go to 100% now or wait until charging is cheaper. If you don't reply, it will fast charge your car to about 40%, and then wait.
Ask HN: Where do you hang out with community?
I thought it would be fun to share where we spend our time socializing with other folks in different communities, both online and IRL. Could be fun to find new community gathering spaces.

Some suggestions to get the conversation going:

* Conferences

* Meetup groups

* Forums and message boards

* IRC/Discord/Slack servers/channels

* Social media platforms (twitter, facebook, etc.)

* P2P messaging platforms like scuttlebutt

* Hackerspaces

* Social coding sites (GitHub, GitLab, StackOverflow)

Might be interesting to include what your focus areas are too!

I'll start.

I'm a software consultant/contractor. I mostly stick to SRE, Node.js and node-adjacent projects (like GraphQL), infrastructure, package management, etc.

Places I hang out (a fairly short list):

* HN (r3trohack3r) - Impossible for me to resist a comment box on this site

* Twitter (@retrohack3r) - have cultivated a small set of thought leaders I tune into every once in a while

* GitHub (retrohacker) - almost exclusively work, very little socializing here

* LinkedIn (retrohacker) - stay in touch with ex-coworkers who I never exchanged contact information with

COVID pretty much ended conferences for me, though that may change soon! But I've been to JSConf, NodeSummit, DefCon, re:Invent, microservices days, serverless conf, and empire node (that I remember).
Ip block all datacenter ip address ranges effectively
Learn to play an instrument and start/join a band. Get a dog which needs lots of walks. Make (or buy but that's boring) a bow and start shooting, join a club. Basically find yourself some activity which you can do alone among people. Where there's people there's a chance of meeting someone who fills those gaps in your life.

About that "intellectual loneliness" bit I'd pose that a healthy mix of mental and physical - i.e. "dumb", but not really - work is the best way to keep both parts of yourself healthy and sane. I bought a 17th century farm and have been restoring it ever since, I cook on a wood-burning stove and heat the house with wood alone, getting firewood from the forest is a few weeks worth of "dumb" - but not really - work a year. Not everyone will be in the position to get a farm but there are plenty of other "down-to-earth, physical" things you can pick up, things which give some payoff - vegetables, firewood, fish, whatever.
Thanks. I'm in no hurry.
MD5 is vulnerable to both length extension and chosen prefix collisions, so I think an attacker can generate a collision even without knowing the prefix, just by observing a single output. That said, I'm also pretty sure HMAC-MD5 is still unbroken in practice.
It was freefalling for 24 seconds. 600fps downwards isn't even remotely surprising to me.
this class of device is considered NFA or AnyOtherWeapon [AOW] if it isnt a sporting rifle or pistol.

greater than 50 cal/12.5 mm is a Destructive Device.

this means a background check similar to a shortbarrel rifle, or fully automatic firearm is required as well as a taxation stamp for purchase and posession.

this isnt an over the counter purchase.
Sure; passive-aggressive maggots going 15 km/h (on vehicles of all types, motorized or not) are incapable of fucking off, so someone else has to.
I think that's part of the appeal :)

Windows has always had inelegant desktop metaphors, but it's straightforwardness makes it very easy to understand. It's slow, but it's also easier to understand than typing random things into Spotlight and hoping you get what you want. I don't like Windows by any stretch of the imagination, but it really does "just work" moreso than MacOS or Linux these days.
> I found it actually worked better if I omitted the x offset from the distance calculation (so just sqrt(y2 + z2)), otherwise objects near the edge of the field of view were weirdly distorted. But I wouldn't suggest doing that in the general case.

I think this is because you should actually just be dividing by y, the perpendicular distance through the screen. Probably adding z to the mix, while wrong, doesn't make it too weird because of the limited set of z values used.

If the result with just division by y looks distorted, then I would suggest fiddling with the value of k, which effectively controls how wide-angle versus telephoto things look.
ok wind aside, if that's true, how is it possible to aim it then? It can't possibly be true that you can precisely adjust your aim to hit a specific target if you can't even hit the same target by not changing your aim?
People can spend their time how they want, and I will continue to internally judge them, and they will continue to not care what I think (and they shouldn't). Such is the human condition.
I know there's such thing as idiomatic code, but I can't help but think the code in the tweet would be much more readable - and no ai needed - if the variables/methods/args were better named.
He was corrupted by Morgoth and became evil. But otherwise, yes.
Maybe not, if the alternative is installing enough battery to charge most people's electric cars at night.

My state's grid is over half nuclear, and our electric rates are not high.
> In 2010, President Obama directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki

>Good. Justified. The man was a terrorist.

are we sure about that? personally, I think Americans should give Americans fair trials and be proven guilty before condemned to death by drone-strike, but I'm a conservative.
The Battle Royale genre (Fortnite, PUBG, ect.) is the biggest new genre I can think of. The 100 player last-man-standing game mode probably wouldn't have been possible without the advancements in networking speed and infrastructure in the last 15ish years.