skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we waited for the renewables and lost another decade. Solar and wind are up to perhaps 10% global usage?

Maybe we can get it to 25% by 2030?

Hopefully we can stop building coal plants. Incredible emissions. 40% of global electricity…

And Germany is restarting

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/world/europe/germany-russ...
Just make sure you put yourself in really risky, dangerous, and stupid situations involving your own code. You'll either learn quickly or destroy yourself in the process.
dang what is anybody who isnt in that group supposed to do?
> “We don’t want another 9/11 in this country,” said Mr. Russo, who noted that the system frees up officers to focus on asking the “important questions that help us keep terrorists and drug smugglers out of the country.”

Fuck anyone who uses 9/11 as an excuse to reduce anyone's civil liberties. On the one hand, they are almost always defending some ass-backwards initiative that doesn't actually keep us secure. And on the other, we freaked out way too much over 9/11. 3,000 people died in 9/11, and we started two wars that lasted 20 years and killed 375,000 civilians. Yet the same number of people (~2500) die every month in traffic collisions - 600,000 dead over 20 years - and we have not yet implemented any draconian safety measures after decades of uninterrupted vehicular deaths.
Recent Deloitte research revealed that 77% of professionals have experienced burnout at their current jobs. Other McKinsey data shows that 49% of employees say they're at least somewhat burned out.

And the path to burnout isn't only paved for employees—it's common among business owners too. In one survey, 42% of business owners reported recently experiencing burnout.

So here's the natural next question: what can you do? When workplace stress is as much of a staple of our careers as a stuffed inbox or a morning cup of coffee, is there actually any way to beat burnout—or even prevent it in the first place?

To solve this question, we need to first make sense of the ever-present burnout puzzle.
I feel like this is going to result in a generation of adults with absolutely awful taste. Imagine if your favourite childhood show was, like, a poorly animated spiderman-driving-a-car video on YouTube.
Reusing the Sony CRT Module of an HP 16500A Logic Analyzer
Unfortunately, the fraud is hardly new.

Nixon did not lose to Kennedy as meekly as some assert, despite some evidence of fraud in Illinois:

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-drama-behind-preside...

It would have been far better for the country if Kennedy had lost (to say nothing of Kennedy himself).

Let's go back further:

https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-1884-presidential...

Election fraud has a long history in the United States.

It must end.
You are not really disagreeing with the GP. Your reply provides the context behind which parties are in disagreement in the GP’s last sentence which you quoted in your reply:

“They just disagree on which government that should be.”
There's also a famous Dutch physicist, Gerard 't Hooft, whose family name is "'t Hooft", including the initial(!!) apostrophe. Imagine that.
Kotlin was recognized by Google because it was getting traction, not the other way around. Get your facts straight.
Coconut oil, avocado oil, olive oil, cocoa butter, etc are all much better alternatives.
I worked at a large internet company when LinkedIn was growing. It was an immense source of spam because it encouraged people to upload the whole address book. And for years, they wouldn't let you tell them not to send you anything else unless you created an account, which yeah, not going to create an account at viral spam central, thanks.
like being first in line to buy a touch bar macbook pro
20 years ago, Java was already becoming pretty big in the enterprise. Today there are plenty of Java jobs from your bog standard banks and insurance companies all the way up to the BigTech companies. The biggest ponds don’t have fish using Erlang.

BTW, what languages do you think all of those BigTech companies that pay well are using?

I just keep bringing up C# because that’s the language I have the most experience with. But substitute $any popular language.
> I stopped considering programming “fun” after doing it for 10 years across 4 assembly languages (65C02, 68K, PPC, x86) before I graduated from college in 1996.

this makes me sad to hear. I fell in love with programming at age 7 and still love it at 32. I'm extremely fortunate to enjoy something that pays well, rather than languishing at a cushy job that leaves me empty.

> Every single leveling guideline I have seen at any tech company don’t mention “ability to code in an esoteric language well”. It’s all about “scope”, “impact”, “managing ambiguity”, etc. “Coding ability” really only comes into play from junior to mid. After that it is about system design even at the interviews.

if you're hiring plumbers, sure. it's not all plumbing, though. there's algorithm design, compiler engineering, formal verification, program synthesis, numerical methods, etc. etc.

the really effective people in those fields use (or make) weird languages. Isabelle's written in HOL, Coq in OCaml, Agda in Haskell. having a knack for weird languages is a plus for brainy jobs working on that kind of stuff.
I don't know if he actually lives in NZ? I know he bought a high country farm and allegedly imported a premade bunker- rich Americans went through a phase of considering us a lifeboat.

Oh, and his company was denied consent to build your usual "rich guy house with a view".

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/billionaire-peter-thiels-plans...
The Java Syntactic Extender, which I think was 2001, should be interesting to you then.

https://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/papers/jse-oopsla-2001.pdf
My concern is that Musk will open it back up to anybody, including the former president.

I take no pleasure in that ban but it is unfortunately appropriate.
So huh, how many years before they're going to sunset it? :P
What's wrong with our elections is a different thing than what's wrong with our politics.

Related, but distinct.
Outside of the moralized "Santa Claus" worldview that is fed to children, and simplistic propaganda/click-bait/news for the masses, international relations are always complex, highly compartmentalized, and subject to tight "current rules of engagement" control in each little area.

That helps keep things calm, predictable, & controlled. And provides thousands of tiny "carrots & sticks" levers for leaders to fiddle with, while having to think about maximizing their nation's advantage in each of many little areas. Vs. the obvious dangers of a relationship state space where "at peace" and "total war" only had a few intermediate states between them.
Actually, codesharing have already existed way before MVNOs were operational.
That's what I was thinking, some kind of USB-D card standard that specified exactly where the port goes. It would be extra cool because it could also serve as a battery format, just make a power bank in that size.

USB 2.0 and 1.1 are trivial solved problems in practice. They're built into so many chips now, and it's far easier to work with in terms of PCB design. Stuff like the ESP32-S2 or even the soft implementations in 8 bit micros are really good and just work, plus you have the possibility of fully driverless stuff pretending to be storage, keyboards, midi, ethernet, etc, and it's all just as easy as any other Arduino lib, no protocol understanding needed.

It's true that you can't do dumb passive stuff with it(Although if you really wanted to you could use a dedicated USB to SPI/I2C/GPIO whatever chip and have the PC emulate whatever you want), but that doesn't really hold back products, things are just done differently.

It sucks for anyone trying to make gadgets that aren't just a microcontroller plus code, but there's so many possibilities with the new style that it's worth learning.

For hobby tinkering type stuff and exploring stuff outside "A PC that talks to a MCU", yeah, it's not really a supported use case.
For a bare-metal cluster one simple set and forget about it solution is to port forward another external port (e.g., randomish 51203) to the internal control-plane-ip:6443 and block port scan attacks using fail2ban, DenyHosts, psad, etc. This should prevent most of the attacks.
> At least today society is notably, collectively, smarter. There are a lot more naysayers in general, and whole there will be crashes, they tend to be more limited in scope and reach.

Is that really true?
American Airlines ordered 130 330neos and 100 "re-engined 737s" while Boeing was still pitching their "smaller 787" design. Note that this was the first time AA had ever ordered a non-Boeing plane.

Everything stems from Boeing taking this deal. Within the constraints of the 737 type certification: more efficient engines are larger, larger engines must move forward, forward engines change flight characteristics, flight characteristics must be augmented to maintain certification.

So you are correct that Boeing had choices other than "crashy 737", but that choice was between throwing billions away to Airbus and the crashy 737.
Hyperinflation does appear to have a loose definition of >=50% inflation by month.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

> Normal inflation is not new, and nothing to panic about - its how the world currently works, and how it has for at least 50 years.

Even Rome had inflation, they’d dilute the amount of silver and gold in their coins.

The challenge at the moment is an asset deflation with a consumable inflation; with an economy which is shrinking. This is called stagflation and is different and has its own challenges.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation
So, are you thinking more about laying people off recently? :)
I also remember Zig inventing bitfields in another blog post, it is a revolutionary language
As mentioned, the competition is already here.

ZA is not the largest African economy (I believe Nigeria is slightly larger, but they also have ~4x the population to "brute force" the numbers), but it is the most developed with a good amount of techies in the area.

This means more workforce to hire from and more customers.

Central Africa from east to west won't have as nice latency, but it'll be potentially better than EU hosting - or at least it's another option available to them. However I doubt they had to suffer 200ms latency on a roundtrip to EU servers like the Southern Africa.
Fantastic book. I used Learn C in 21 days and that is what started everything for me. I had a second book on Linux administration and installed Slackware from 1.44mb disks, ultimately setting up pppd and using Mosaic.

Great memories!
Most cables are privately owned, as is most of the internet actually. The telcos juts interface with each other and sell each other bandwidth on their cables.

That said, Google will likely reserve some portion of the cable for their inter-datacenter use. That’s how you get fast cross region data transfer in GCP. Same for AWS and Azure, all have some capacity reserved for data between their datacenters.
0.000000000000001 chance - cost $0
0.000000033333333 chance - cost $4

Which one comes up on top, expected value wise?
Our company counts 9 people but only 5 are responsible for generating over 1 Mio USD in revenues per year, with a 4-days week policy. Thanks to them, the remaining 4 can work on startup ideas without raising capital. The road was bumpy with many failed attempts — here are our most important learnings so far.
I recently flew from Greece to London on an Australian passport and was able to utilize the same automated passport lanes as everyone else. It's amazing what a difference they make, I was off the plane and through customs in less than 30 minutes. The same system is used in Australia, NZ and I'm sure other countries too. It's a shame the same system can't (or won't) be adopted by the US.
Nomad? I don't like them but they are mid market priced.
These are bromides offered by a bureaucracy on issues over which it has no control.

The claims are easily dismissed.
This direction will provide the visuals but what also must be brought in is a language model and text to speech (TTS) so that you may talk and interact with these things.
Except why is no one asking the question why so few places are desirable and doing something to alleviate it.
Unfortunately, doing anything the police don’t like is de facto a crime. Even if they can’t convict you, they can put an arrest on your record which has consequences potentially more severe than jail time.
Phone number often yields address, which often yields street view for the car make. Doesn’t sound like they had thaaaat much.
Ok, but do you really think you’d have a hard time finding work with your xx years of experience, regardless of what language you have been most recently working in?

As in, reductio ad absurdum, “if only I had been working in Java, I’d be safe, but because I worked in Ruby, I am going have to go flip burgers, as no one will let me near their precious production code now?”

I mean, yeah, ok, there was the dotcom bust, and I suppose another could happen at any point, but somehow I get the impression that you’re arguing that using any language except the most mainstream option (whatever that might be for a given industry) is too risky? Or am I misreading?
Look at serverbuilds.net to learn how to find the right hardware to buy to host your selfhosted apps.

Look into some VM hosting Hypervisor. I am using VMware because that is what all my jobs have been using. You can use ESXi for free. You could also look into something like proxmox.

If you buy and build right, you could have enough CPU bandwidth and memory to all that you would want. Put all your VMs on SSDs, multiple VMs sharing a single HDD could be considered a war crime.

Learn docker and docker-compose. Use https://www.composerize.com/ to help in the transition from docker to docker-compose. Have a look at linuxserver.io for already built docker images for most of what you want to do.

Keep an eye on Humble Bundle for a DevOps or networking/sysadmin book collection.

If you want to roll your own firewall and router, look into pfSense.

It takes a while to learn and understand, but it is worth it.
Science is bigger than politics and war. The US and Russia still worked together in the space area during the cold war in some ways, despite the two nations being a hair away from wiping each other off the face of the earth
Yeah! I've tried to explain to people what taking LSD can be like, to those who've never experienced it. It's very similar to the output from these tools: the same stimulus but exaggerated, wrong in subtle or not so subtle ways, uncanny and fascinating. Basically never creates something from the whole cloth, out of nothing so to speak.
Not in the FAQ:

"If this is so important, why don't these changes apply to special stamps?"

and

"You're designing new stamps, but you're putting the Late Queen on them, not the new King?"
I don't think it's always easy. it's been quite a struggle becoming proficient in Haskell, just drinking from the firehose of type theory you need to get things done.

also note that Jane Street does everything in OCaml. I can't believe it's bad for their employees' careers. probably because they're not looking for the same jobs as the average JavaScript pleb.
> Property in desirably places is especially intrinsically limited.

Yes...but property values are way up all over. Boise, Phoenix, Nashville...even middle of nowhere Kansas.

El Paso is having it rough. They've always had super cheap houses to the point of unbelievable...what most would consider a decked out mansion for 300k or so, and a 3+ percent property tax. Guess what's happening now that everyone's regular ol 150k house is now worth 400k?

Valuable property will always have value, but the vast majority of US property is not so desirable. It's already stalled, and it's going to be a bloodbath next year.

The real question is what happens when all the buyers of the last 3 or so years are underwater? We either end up in 2008 again, or tons of bailouts which just pushes inflation further towards the houses being worth it again.
Look ma, an NPD.
I hope bots win. They will show more humanity than HR.
Reminds me of this oft-quoted Wozniak bit between my pal and me:

[The Future of AI Is] "Scary and Very Bad for People"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/steve-wozniak-future-ai-scary...
Why don’t we require voters to show ID? It seems the system is flawed from the very beginning, there is little oversight and too much trust in local “officials”.
Jira-ish tools help immensely if the project manager changes mid-project… at least some knowledge will be in work items if the previous pm actually did any work.
Not "unlimited", but "more than anything else".

We know the energy density is there, based on thermonuclear weapons.

Yes, the designs for a power plant that are similarly impressive don't exist today. That's where research and engineering can help.

Yes, any new thing is expensive. These points are not necessarily intrinsic to the process.
Of course.

It's nonetheless a shitty thing to do, independent of whether this person actually does it. People absolutely do the thing they may have been joking about.

I stand by the opinion that the behavior you endorse is the behavior you walk by. So, I believe it's important to call out casual "jokes" at other's expense like this. Just like if someone was like, "women, and I right?"
I’ll absolutely pick competent Java developer who never touched a line of Android over mediocre “Android” developer.
Is this just epiphenomenalism? Does it account for the fact that we can talk about consciousness at all?
Of course it is, but it was suggested that the businesses would save money by accepting cash; it might be a case of six of one, half a dozen of the other.
I suppose this will allow Debian to compete against some of its derivatives such as Ubuntu.
You saw my original spiel about going to work to exchange labor for money? I don’t go to work to find excitement. I go to work to provide food and shelter.

My excitement during the first decade of my career came from my working hobby as a fitness instructor and running with friends. In less than a month my “excitement” is going to come from my wife and I living out of two suitcases flying across the country staying in mid tier hotels for a few years.

I could spend my free time learning a new programming language. But I am finding it much more “exciting” learning Spanish so when we stay in Mexico for a few weeks, I can at least be able to communicate somewhat.
The animation in Paw Patrol is kind of awful. Compare with Wonder Pets and it's night and day.
So... when do we reach the point where bots hire other bots?

(Or are we there already?)
They can have it. It's broken anyway. Even the basics don't work anymore. My father can't get an injury looked at. After weeks he got a doctor's appointment, doctor says he needs tests at the local hospital. Local hospital doesn't pick up the phone and only has a webpage for booking appointments, said page simply says there are no appointments available. As in, permanently. Not like, no slots in the next few weeks. As in, the site won't let you book appointments at all.

The injury doesn't seem to be healing and I'm getting worried. It's not an emergency but the sort of thing that maybe can fester and get worse. They're starting to talk about going private but it seems everyone talks about that now so I'm not sure it's so easy.
Sounds like a good move... From their about page:

Splunkers have received over 1,020 patents to date

that tells me everything I need to know.
Just look under this thread, I wrote one possible solution of using .innerText from constructed DOM. (Or maybe open window in another domain). However @repiret may be right - corporate proxy is already invasive enough, that means the users are already in mercy of those.

But still, I'd go with safer practices. Even in the slightly unlikely case someone manages to hack 3rd party (Stripe) and send your users arbitrary HTML for some periods of time... :)
IIRC some airports have them in the US - legacy of a trial run maybe? Oh, I see they're removing them because they don't do facial recognition.

That's weird though, our ones in NZ use facial recognition, have to scan your passport, and then step into the booth, and look at the camera.

They don't fingerprint us though, that's some specialness I've only encountered in the US.
N.B. The author of that thread is a longtime Chrome contributor.
Certainly not C#, lol.

Even OCamls share would be bigger within big tech, thanks to Meta.
Why the Death of India's Groundbreaking Mars Orbiter Is a Big Deal
Good riddance to long books
The old "armies will cross borders if goods don't argument." A comforting and hopeful delusion.

People made the exact same arguments in the early 1900s, they became convinced after international incident after international incident became solved without bloodshed none would. They argued that because the economies we're so intertwined with Germany being the world's leading producer of electrical appliances that were being used in English homes no one would ever want to fight a war there would be nothing to gain and everything to lose. The British in particular as the financial capital of the world pushed and leaned on this narrative hard, nothing would be more disruptive to their fiance and capital schemes than a large scale conflict. Every country in the world had treaties and agreements to try and avoid anything happening.

Then in 1914 a young disgruntled Serbian nationalist that didn't care about the economy or international relations, who cared only about the existential emptiness he had cured with fanatical nationalism assassinated the Archduke of a relatively minor European power that was considered to be on its way out.

It turns out in a national scramble for survival the economy is considered a cheap thing, especially when the actual cost is being paid in the blood of tens of thousands of young men each day.

So let me ask you this question if you are convinced that it will be too expensive to let these tensions explode, as thousands of feet march to the beat, what would you say is the price of a mile?
How much strong-arming is going on vs. active reverse lobbying. We see real censorship (backed with guns) in Russia today -- I don't think this is comparable to the current administration asking CEOs to not enable the spreading of verifiable misinformation.

I find it interesting that other bans don't get the same concern from the usual suspects, e.g., abortion gag laws, library book bans, don't say gay laws, etc.
Should the former president retake office I expect bans of political enemies and more -- the type of abuse that you rightfully fear.

This is a nuanced subject and requires corresponding consideration. We all agree that some speech isn't good for society but remain at odds over what that speech is.
This year's physics Nobel Prize was for “spooky action at a distance.”
The KC-46 uses a different refueling boom control system than the KC-767 which is overly complex and makes to hard for operators to see what they're doing.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40821/kc-46as-long-tro...
There were days in prior peaks where we had 2-3k dead from covid.

Heck we had days in IL where we had 200+ dead in a day. (How much does a 737 hold and how much did those people's medical bills cost?)
Don't some fuels like gasoline evaporate more quickly under lower pressure?
but when everyone see him, there is always the photo in their brain. this is about goat, but they fake pedo photo? Rick will lose his job first.
The problem with automated systems is the collection of biometric data. It’s far too invasive and is a perverse incentive to grow identification databases.
I have no interest in using these gates and being forced into a face recognition data collection is pretty crappy.
Remember another fact: if you cannot get a job or go to the university, that's an opportunity to start a business or go on a B2B/freelancing contract. And smart people are the ones who should do it.

Easier said than done but pressure and needs lead to innovation.