skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
disciplined programming is not popular anymore in favor hacking, continuous releases, agile, scrum, etc.

Wait what? Disciplined programming is not mutually exclusive with at least 3 of those 4 things (continuous releases, agile, scrum). If people treat those things as opposed to disciplined programming, it's because they don't understand the actual principles underlying them.
Probably didn't help that Microsoft was founded at the end of the Corporate Raider era either. If you ran a company and decided that one of your big successes was being in the right place at the right time, you might keep a bigger war chest to get you through your next bad luck window. But that pile of liquid assets paints a big bullseye on your forehead.

It was 'better' to just assume you were awesome and hope your luck held for years on end. And if it didn't, then you could tell a story about how talent got you big and bad luck took you out. No, it was luck both ways or skill both ways.
+1 I was also shocked to hear in a news conference the EU president Ursula von der Leyen threaten the Italian voters right before the election. Seriously, I was shocked. So much for believing in democracy.

I am very liberal politically, but I 100% support people on the right wing who run into trouble with the Neoliberal overlords.

We need to have respect for all people's opinions (that are non-violent, etc.) and support all people's rights to vote as they wish. I think the Neoliberals must envy China's authoritarian control of their population, because that is what I think the Neoliberals want also.

BTW, I joined the World Economic Forum for a while just to read directly what they were up to.
Looks good, Matt, and thanks for open source and SaaS flexibility. Can you add to or correct the comparisons to OpenZiti and Wireguard to help us frame the sweet spot for Ockam?

OpenZiti

In common: mTLS w/ built in PKI mgmt; attribute based access control; SDKs to embed in apps.

Different: OpenZiti includes the network overlay as well. Ockam add-ons may target other use cases?

Wireguard

In common: E2E encryption; hosted SaaS avail

Different: UDP hole punching; network-level segmentation; no mTLS; no app embed
Lmao, no.

When you put a webview in an app, the app is the browser. Period. A browser is by definition an app that displays webviews. And yes, a browser can access and modify the webpages it is displaying, no shit. That’s literallt the job of the browser, aka the user agent.
You can omit columns on a per-row basis with the DEFAULT keyword, it's just more cumbersome if your rows are very sparse. Your proposed syntax of:

INSERT ... VALUES (C1=v1, C2=v2), (C3=v3, C4=v4), (C5=v5, C6=v6)

in standard SQL is

INSERT ... (C1, C2, ... C6) VALUES (v1, v2, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT, DEFAULT), (DEFAULT, DEFAULT, v3, v4, DEFAULT, DEFAULT), ...
Yeah, the off-grid article is from almost five years ago now, things have changed, and power companies are more cognizant of it, too.
Imagine being of neither party and just seeing the rules and norms applied consistently to partisans on both sides.
It's not slowly dying in any way and has a really strong technology sector. The corruption stuff... I've lived in Montreal all my life and have never seen or heard of anyone confronted to that in any way; I think there were some issues in the construction industry, but like it's a million times overblown
> It does describe an awful lot of US cities though.

I think it describes the suburbs that a lot of these people are from. I don't think it characterizes North American cities, which this article definitely thinks it does. I was struggling to find anything distinct between Montreal and Chicago from all of these pictures. And I've lived in a lot of different large, small, and medium-sized US cities in my twisty journey from Chicago to Chicago, although my only coastal cities are Portland, OR and Baltimore.

I think the Toronto distribution (which I'm willing to assume is accurately described) is probably characteristic of a particular very rapid growth pattern with a particular income distribution, rather than some North American collective mistake.
Well, this isn’t a great plan, but I’m betting that the bottom will fall out at one point and crypto will crater hard. Until then, I’m taking my DCA (dollar cost average) funds and keeping them in Gemini and Abra Earn (50% each) and getting 7.15/7.5% return. When that happens, I’ll move quick to transfer my funds to whatever exchange has the most liquidity and I’ll pick either Ethereum or Cardano and spend half of my DCA money, then continue to buy more if anything drops 20% or more.

I’ve done this twice before, and it’s worked pretty well so far. My DCA funds will likely be 5-10% of my net work at that point.
Define good. What specific skills do you want? How much experience in each of those skills?

I have noticed that too many times employers want literal gods to come in and fix their entire tech stack, their product, and by extension their company.

Of course, they are frequently only paying average salaries.
You don't get to have it both ways.
Either it is acceptable to question the results of an election or it is not.

Either it is acceptable to try to alter the outcome (such as through a campaign to suborn electors to cause them to be faithless) or it is not.

"It's only wrong when they do it" is not a legitimate viewpoint, and nobody espousing it is worthy of being heard.
I recall having this theory quite a while ago. Let's say your diet includes eating powdered sugar donuts in the morning. The gut microbes that feed on it become plentiful. Then when you switch out diets, that particular microbe starts to die out. Then as they die, they release a hormone that causes the gut to signal the brain to crave that particular food type, and this is an evolved behavior for that microbe. And after a while of switching up the diet, those microbes finally get purged, and you don't have as bad of cravings anymore.

At least this is the sequence of events that really makes sense (to me), but I haven't read this in any research yet.
> "You'll own nothing and be happy" leads to these situations.

I was wondering if how many people buy into the vision "Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better". https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...
I think most folks actually agree on more than they would assume - today's media thrives by making it appear we're much more divided than reality.

> is that the police literally engage in work stoppage as soon as anyone starts talking about reform

I think this might be related to the recent "defund the police" movements and other similarly misguided attempts at reform. Making it more difficult or dangerous to do the work will absolutely result in stoppages, or at least the appearance of stoppages.

What gets left out of these conversations is the police's opinion. Why not engage with police and find solutions for making our communities better and safer? I think many would be surprised to find out the police actually do care majority of the time. Some folks spend an entire career in law enforcement, and some even obtain advanced degrees (masters and higher) on enforcement policies and actions - yet we do not involve them in these conversations at all, almost as-if us simpletons know best how to do their job (hint, we don't). Our ideas and their ideas should be discussed and consensus reached.
Same with most VPN providers. Just expands the search from "ask ISP" to "ask ISP, they tell government its a VPN company, ask VPN company".

Now, sure, they could "just" delete logs, but their government can "just" tell them not to, or even tell them to live send the logs to them directly.

So it's really "which country's government you trust".
>And enough natural resources to fund enough renewable ventures such as EV adoption and renewable energy production.

It's not just cars to move people. It's getting water to each house. And electrical to each house (hope it survives that recent storm!) And groceries to each house. And fire department coverage of each house. And Ambulance coverage to each house. And kids to school from each house. It's just a million things that are all made less efficient by choice.

And honestly, fine! Allow the people who want cars and SFH to have cars and SFH. But the problem that people ignore is that cars and SFH are the only affordable option in most of North America because of intentional policy choices and that is what articles like this are fighting.
and then every other update it "accidentally" gets set back to Edge
That only solves part of the problem, the civilian reactors are still too expensive to build. Nuclear is great, I went through the Naval Nuclear Power Program several decades ago myself, but it's not financially viable.

Let me say that again to those engineers who weren't listening:

Nuclear (fission) power is not, and will never be, financially viable for civilian powerplants.

I'll eat a roll of toilet paper covered in hot sauce if someday nuclear fission is financially viable enough to produce power for civilians at a decent scale.
Improving my DevSecOps skills as folks who can sell themselves as doing the jobs of three people will be more attractive in the eyes of employers (even if it's really just the same dev job I've been doing all along).
If it is a public square, then it is so because the majority of people choose to use it because of the controls and filtering and exclusion of "undesirables". If it's a company with a reach in billions that's because it provides, in its current form including filtering, a service that is valued (in attention time, if not dollars) by its users.

If one compels a Twitter to host things it has decided people don't want to see, why aren't we compelling the Kochs and Murdoch's of the world to support equally "leftist" positions? It's frankly an incoherent position that Twitter should be compelled to behave a certain way and yet Rupert can continue spouting his propaganda for literal generations unimpeded.

It's still an absolute dumpster fire regardless.
It would be cool for the same standard to apply to both sides.

Ever, on any subject, even just once.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. The only standard in existence is the double standard of "whatever I do is good, whatever they do is evil"
I would be astounded if "humanity" exists a million years from now. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't exist a thousand years from now. The thing is we are a technological species, we don't need to rely on random chance for evolution. We can already create DNA on demand and insert it into microorganisms. AFIAK we currently only do this with already-known proteins, but that is a limit of knowing what will be useful, not a limit of the technique.

As time goes on it seems inconceivable that we will not reach the point we can apply this to human DNA at conception. I expect the first manifestations will be editing out known-bad genes and replacing them with the properly-working equivalents. Next will come replacing ordinary genes with known-superior genes. Then they'll be inventing new superior genes.

I expect in almost all cases they'll make the edits backwards-compatible but we've all seen it with software--backwards compatibility only works over a range of generations. Don't expect v20 to play nice with v2. Once the mods reach the point that reproduction with a stock human is no longer possible we have a speciation event--the results can no longer be considered human even if they would not raise an eyebrow if dropped into today's society.

As for long-term protection of our solar system--I can't imagine why. It would be a lot easier to protect the Earth by moving it rather than moving anything that might threaten it.
Yes, the end result is that energy generated in the state is sufficiently renewable per the government mandate, with homes contributing to it where it makes more financial sense than building greenfield solar or wind. In states where total demand is falling, conventional fuel plants are also likely able to be closed.
> Honestly didn't realise you had to manually submit, thought it just happened automatically.

It happens automatically in default configuration.

You can enable manual upload in settings if you want, but then, well, you need to upload it manually.

I am contributor to StreetComplete - so maybe I will add feature to start reminding about upload if edits are old.
I don't think having compassion for fat people ever did them any good. That sounds too much like enabling. If you can't bring yourself to criticize fatness, better for you to simply stay silent about it and say nothing.
Speed. I complained about this earlier today, but I had to give up using Notion and Evernote because they took so much time to get to a point where I could quickly add my notes.

As for Obsidian, I would love to be able to have automatic backlinks, so that I can mention a page without filling it out and then see every place I have linked to it. E.g I can check my diary for each time I have mentioned a specific person, place, etc.

If we are going more wild, then maybe also have tags for specific things, so I can put in a contact or something and find all the places I mentioned that person.

Maybe extend that to the ability to mention todos in the middle of the text, so that if I am taking notes/planing a project I can jot down things I need/want to do in the future and then I can see them in some overview.

There are so many things that becomes possible when start treating things like information, rather than a really fancy printed page with undo and search.
He is almost certainly talking about Bluesky. It was created by Twitter after all.
> PDF has a lot of features, but it’s not complicated.

I'm not sure about, Acrobat reader in particular is very complicated, I'll rehash a famous old reddit comment --

Acrobat doesn't just read PDFs, it's a mail server, document lifecycle management system, DRM client, full-fledged document tracking system, it can have forms, it can gather statistics for your docs when you share them, it has audio and video playback. The manual is a couple thousand pages. Adobe's proposition to businesses is "You want a complete content tracking system? Wanna be able to effortlessly conduct surveys? Get next-level telemetry data from your users? Have we got the thing for you... the best part is all of your clients already have it installed!"

So good on you for ditching Adobe and not enabling this bull, SumatraPDF/emac's pdf-tools is perfect.

Regarding native GUI toolkits, they work but they're more work than Electron to deal with. Secondly, the big thing that us nerds keep failing to recognize is that software needs to be easy to use for grandmas and grandpas, part of that means having consistency in UI for users across the board from one system to the other. See how Zoom is nearly identical when using on iPad or Windows 7 or even Linux? Couldn't pull that off with GTK. I think with Qt you can modify your widgets quite a bit but you still don't have control over the minutiae of UI like you do with Electron.

Don't get me wrong it is still the wrong choice many times; the abomination that is MS Teams and Spotify is a flagrant violation of good taste and should be set on fire and nuked out of the fucking orbit, it is a heinous crime especially for big companies with the means to arrange large teams to build and deploy apps made with non-WebView-based frameworks, but for small shops I don't see any issue with Electron's use. VSCode launches instantaneously on my M2 Macbook Air. Zoom works flawlessly, along with a host of other Electron-based apps. I don't care too much if it's using some CPU here and there if I can't discern any slowness. Anyway, apps made with Tauri are much better in terms of CPU and memory usage, 1Password moved from Electron and Tauri and I'm certain more will follow and the next wave of desktop apps will surely be speedier now that Electron's slowness has become a bit of a meme.
Wow, they got that from fMRI data with an individual signal bandwidth of maybe 0.1Hz. This is like blurred image reconstruction. It's amazing that it works.

It's also like figuring out what a CPU is doing by looking at at heat dissipation images of the chip. fMRI is reading blood flow, not electrical signals.

If someone figures out how to read electrical activity deep in the brain without electrodes, it looks like decoding will be possible.
I think the OP's point is that it would be MORE renewable if the homeowners sat on their credits.
Human nature is inherently a bit of a crapshoot and progress on that front is slippery, but "make a reactor robust to neglect and abuse" is an engineering problem and progress on that front is sticky.

We've gotten much better at this particular engineering problem. For instance, Fukushima was designed in 1967, but if it had been designed in 1972 it would not have had its fatal flaw.
Neither - it was a random dude acting in an un-official capacity.

Regardless, one isolated example is not evidence of anything. Everyone agrees something very wrong happened in Uvalde.
I should have some way to resolve the issue outside of the automation. Barring that, I should be able to sue them libel.
I wrote a similar take here on the topic: https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html
What exactly is fragile about vim/neovim? I'd argue that they are incredibly stable, being as old as they are.

For another point I don't see being brought up, I love the .vimrc file. You can version control your entire editor config in one file. Other editors tend to spread config out across different files (one per plugin for example).

I've had to spend time configuring every editor I've used, but all that time is tracked and documented in vim. I can have everything set up instantly.
To me it looks like two people not knowing each other trying carefully to set up a huge project with huge stakes
I saw an article on HN a while ago about services that sell Amazon user e-mails - basically Amazon employees leaking data, such as here: https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/10/amazon-employees-email-add...
Yes, I can see that, but that would have to be balanced against the lower number of installations due to the higher costs to the homeowners. For many people, the payback period would be too long without the credits. As solar becomes less expensive, these programs will cease to exist, and already don't exist in many sunny states.
If we're launching 15k satellites per year as some people expect, the difference between 1 day deorbit and 5 years deorbit is something like 75,000 satellites.
It's a brave new world...
Yeah, you have to find the home inspectors that the realtors hate - those are the ones who may actually do something useful.

But if they don't see anything wrong, then any other ones won't see anything, either.
I'm almost certain that it went down like this:

Lew had cheating device that signals when she has the best hand without any other details. She has been cheating for a long time. This is the one hand where she made a huge mistake by becoming greedy in a big pot and reveals she is cheating.

The fact that she gave the money back makes it almost certain.
> for watching stuff

... while the browser is watching you [1].

> Microsoft isn’t that bad

Yes it is. That bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia
How recently would that still have been a prank? "Just cough into your phone..."
Hold on, you don't need anything like Ale or CoC to run LSPs in neovim?
Even assuming that's the case, isn't the counterargument "Fine, then governments need to subsidize investment into nuclear power plants, just as we do with other green technologies."
Please tell me how the output of a solar system will ever be useful to an ad company. The fact that you own a solar system is easily obtainable in a number of different ways (permit data, google earth, etc...). The fact that you own a solar system might provide some minuscule value to an ad company but the production data of that system is literally useless for ad targeting. A solar system is passive generation asset. It literally sits there and soaks up irradiance from the sun. The variation of that output is completely independent of the people that live in the house.
You may want to turn off the MSNBC, step outside and get some fresh air
Montreal used to have really good tech scene.

But nowadays, Toronto/Waterloo/Vancouver are way ahead. Even Ottawa and Calgary is catching up.
Except that it could help attackers beefen up their tools. A certain amount of obscurity is good to keep the attackers from having too much information.

I've been in the situation where a company kinda 'ghosts' me before. And found out I was indeed the bad player (unintentionally, of course).
Right. And how low can it go?
The rules should apply to both sides, and it is obvious that there is a double standard going on with what YouTube is doing here.
Sure. But even if you think that the referendum was fair, unforced, and valid (which I don't), even then Russia is doing something bogus, because the rest of the regions didn't vote to be annexed.
Maybe don't have the account that is linked to their adsense linked to anything but their adsense? Seems completely insane to link an adsense account you created for your child to anything but what it needs to be used for adsense.

Honestly, if you're making money from something you should have it away from your personal things. Just like how you shouldn't have AWS activated for your main amazon account.
Anti-bullying rules in schools will continue until the children get thinner...

Look at where we were 50 years ago, and where we are today. 50 years ago, lots of bullying but fat kids were rare. Today we have far less bullying, and a ton of fat kids. I don't think it's working.
Browsers already want to send every domain you visit to cloudflare via DoH.

Other options of securing DNS included "just" encrypting traffic to DNS server. But no, they decided to centralize sending DNS records via HTTPS
A lot of it is actually, I think, a consequence of heating during winter. A lot of the denser parts of Montréal have been built at a time where Hydro-electricity wasn't developed. Houses were heated by coal and oil mainly, which was delivered in small streets build behind the building as the stuff was nasty. Getting greather density meant easier delivery. This is only speculation.
Note that some vendors actually do. QuickLogic mentioned there was contributed by the company making these FPGAs.
I hope you're not too upset about that - there's a pretty good justification for it: It's both expensive and valuable for the utility to be there for your burst needs beyond whatever your panels generate at any particular time. But with net-metering by itself, there's no way to charge you for that expensive value if your net pull from the utility is zero, even though you might pull a lot at certain times.

You could go off-grid to avoid this, or install your own batteries, but both of those are obviously expensive and inconvenient in their own ways.

I'm not saying they got the price right ($10/kWh) or the model (more for larger arrays), but the overall principal is fine.
Did it end up costing you money to get that resolved? It drives me crazy that with housing contracts, they protect essentially everyone except the buyer. It's never anyone else's problem because of the contract somehow covering them (lawyers, agents, sellers, etc.), but somehow, the language never quite covers buyers.

We purchased a house, and within just days, the basement flooded because cleaning wipes were flushed down the toilet by the prior owner, clogging the system. So the sellers knew about the flooding or they flushed the stuff while moving out. It wasn't covered under any clause by interpretation, although it should have been by literal reading of the contract. Seller's can basically do whatever they want besides burn the house down.
why is it ok if firefox and opera do this but no one else?