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Came here to say the same thing:

https://www.salon.com/2022/03/14/how-5g-could-send-weather-f...

The central issue here is greed. The bands used for science (like 23.8 GHz) are critical, but not enough concern was given to them, so neighboring bands were auctioned off without proper consideration of consequences from interference, due to lobbying pressure from telecommunications companies. From the article:

While the FCC's 2019 auction of the 24 GHz spectrum band generated $2 billion in revenue for the Department of the Treasury, the costs from severe weather could be much greater.

This is the type of unintended consequence that comes with privatization of government services. What looks like a cost savings in the short term ends up being a cost increase in the long term. See also: the commons, natural monopoly.
The existence of an agency designed just to root out this behavior provides a lot of incentive. The folks who create the agency get say they're doing something about the problem and look good. The folks in the agency get jobs and all that entails.
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I assume Apple has some pretty strict rules about positing pictures from inside the office on social media.
> argv[0] is not the name of the program being invoked [...] it's simply another argument whose default value is the name of the program being invoked

That's your opinion. Another opinion would be that it's an interface contract with the calling program to pass the path to the program being invoked in argv[0]. This contract has been established by common practice and a corresponding expectation by most programs, even if it wasn't formally specified.

I'm not necessarily taking that position, but I can see convincing reasons to do so, and as such the reasoning in the article is also convincing.
The thing is, most people in most cities are living for themselves, not a global audience. Even a place like New York isn't all Broadway and haute couture, and there are a number of interesting neighborhoods that are generally overlooked by tourists.

I saw this recently with the issue of migrants in Martha's Vineyard, where people thought the entire island was populated by millionaires. There's a lot of wealthy people who go to these places for the summer, but the year-round population is much more complex. About 1/5 of the population are actually recent immigrants from Brazil[1], and if you look at the local school notices you'll see they're printed in English and Portuguese.

In an effort to get an "authentic" experience, it's possible to overlook the authentic experiences that are right in front of us.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220920163318/https://www.busin...
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I mean, presumably the author is talking about planning around how an established company is planning on improving or innovating on their existing product. I don't think the advice is useless to someone who doesn't have much experience with this kind of thing; believe it or not, organizing a large group of people is a complex and difficult thing. "It's about the product" isn't really advice that can be integrated into an organization of any significant size.
Often you can figure out what spacecraft/rocket a piece of debris came from with a good catalogue of orbits and some math - these are labeled "Debris." Often you just can't - these are labeled "Unknown."

The US Space Force does a lot of the object cataloging, and they occasionally will pretend one of their classified satellites doesn't exist, but there's only a handful of these.
I find that verbal communication is often very inefficient in engineering scenarios. There is a reason RFCs are not done verbally.
You apparently didn't heard about ocean acidification nor the fact that the latter provide half the oxygen you and I breath.

Oh sorry, i forgot we can techno-fix that with iron-seeding and massive alcali dumps.

So to make it short: these "solutions" provide FF companies more arguments to pump more oil.

BTW we are already MASSIVELY reducing forcing (0.8W/m2) with sulfur aerosols from sea shipping. When that goes down expect even faster heating, with consequences beyond what the bleakest models predict.

I leave you the size of the sun shade to get that negative forcing as an exercise.
Not only is this dude a sleazebag, he also sounds pretty stupid. He basically announced, to lots of people, that he was committing felonies, and did it in a way which leaves a large electronic paper trail, and then brags about it to yet more people. Then, he did other stuff ("Slushygate") which draws attention to himself and his department as a source of trouble, and then presumably is surprised when he gets discovered.
Oh, but what an amazing desk chair could be! Heated seat! Motorized recline, height, position adjustments! Seatbelts for those intense coding sessions (or, more realistically, desk chair races). Hell, managers will love them too as they already have the butt-in-seat sensors to know if their underlings are "working"
I think that needing legions of Archeologist-Programmers who will continuously tune the systems is much more likely.
The 4080 12gb release date hasn't been announced yet so it's likely that no boxes were printed or packed.

In the long run this is a good move considering how idiotic it is to give the same name to products with different dies and a ~30% performance difference.
It’s interesting how your points could be right yet you will have disagreement over whether it’s a problem.

Growth at any cost is utterly toxic in my view.

You describe lower European salaries, yet minimum wage in the US is outrageously low.

What the US seems to have created us a system for creating wealth inequality.
Thunderbolt 3 docks usually bring their own USB host controller to the table.
That host controller connects to the rest of your system over PCIe. So the dock has its own private USB, so to speak.

If you have a second Thunderbolt dock, you should be able to daisy-chain both docks, totally isolating your card from all your other USB devices while still maintaining that one-single-cable neatness.
Giant "sunshades" at L1, funded/designed/launched/operated by the Pentagon, using SpaceX Starships. Each "shade" consists of thousands of long variable-pitch "slats" (like a mini blind) in a very thin, light framework. The paper-thin slats are slightly curved ("for rigidity"), and the control system is always fiddling with their pitches - to keep the shade's location fixed, without expending rocket fuel, in spite of L1 being unstable, light pressure, the solar wind, etc.

And if any other nation down on Earth causes too much trouble? One quick flick of all the slats, and the sun briefly gets 10,000X brighter & hotter for them.

(Yes, I know enough optics to know that really wouldn't work. It's still a cool story.)
But the dynamics are still classical right? You are just using a highly accurate interatomic potential.
And one of the best things you can do "as a local" is ... buying weather-appropriate clothes you forgot! Almost all cities have thrift stores or equivalent, too, which can be even more fun.
Is there a way to set the time to 'now'?
Hiring practices which discriminate based on attributes that would otherwise be illegal to consider may be permitted if those attributes are Bona fide occupational qualifications (BFOQ.) For instance, blind people can't be bus drivers.

IQ tests are verboten after Griggs v. Duke Power Co. As far as I'm aware, claiming a BFOQ exemption to this will fail, or at best, is unproven. IQ tests discriminate by race (even if unintentionally) and BFOQ exemptions don't apply to racial discrimination. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Old soldiers rarely want to talk about what they've experienced. My father was horrified by my proposal to interview him on video about his WWII career.

And when they ask us

And they're certainly going to ask us

The reason why we didn't win the Croix de Guerre

Oh we'll never tell them

No we'll never tell them.

There was a front, but damned if we knew where.

[WWI soldier's song, based on a popular song of the time]
Yep. PG FTS works fine for a recall-based problem. If your data has a high cardinality then recall search works great. But with low cardinality data, you start needing BM25, ML, etc. The larger the dataset, the lower the cardinality in general. So PG FTS tends to work okay for small/medium datasets where most records are unique and you don't need advanced features like misspellings, synonyms, etc. Some of that advanced stuff is possible, but it's not out of the box and can be hard to set up.
Clearly, they're making up for the money left on the table for not increasing the price from 2080->3080.
Solid question and thanks for the callout. I'm never looking for uncritical acceptance. I am looking for a non-hostile environment though; ideologies which would be willing to explore the nuance and reasonings of the privacy movements and debate them with me are more than welcome.

Safe harbor was probably not the right word; I'm talking about people you can't even have basic privacy conversations with because their worldview is just so baseline different. It's next to impossible to have conversations about privacy with a person who believes you should be able to view all sensitive information about a person because of their belief that a transparent society is analogous to bleach. The people who believe they and their friends are the last bastion of good people on Earth and that they have nothing to hide cannot be reasoned with either.

These are people who won't even say, "privacy is important".
Thanks for the link. This is interesting work, although not related to operations on program syntax trees.

From what I understand, they are using reinforcement learning techniques inspired by AutoML to learn architectures for language models that are effective at code generation.

They have reinforcement learning models optimizing the neural networks that generate code.

Pretty cool and reminds of work that followed on the heels of AutoML to build neural networks to automatically solve arbitrary ML problems (with the problem as the input parameter).
> Interoperability between decentralized identity platforms is very important as it will allow people to conveniently move their digital identity and Verifiable Credentials between platforms

I think the best bet for interoperability is if existing OpenID implementations (identity providers and relying parties) add support for Self-Issued identities, although the standard for that is still in the process of being written.[0]

[0] https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-self-issued-v2-1_0.h...
Well if you have a mathematics undergraduate degree you would have taken classes "that went well beyond the freshman/sophomore level that everyone has."

I don't see why it's necessary to have a potentially unrelated PHD to do basic linear algebra.
we used Federacy. One big advantage we had though is our app is 100% serverless via Ruby on Jets. So it's a bunch of rails code that runs in lambda, makes the security footprint at lot easier to deal with. No EC2 instances for example.
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> Nope, it only happens when something outside changed Firefox's files … This never happens* in Windows and macOS (it might nag, but you can definitely dismiss it).

Happens with multiple Firefox instances too, `firefox -P -no-remote` (I think in recent versions the -no-remote is redundant), even on Windows with official installers. In that case you don't even get the error message; new tabs just remain blank. There might be a delay between process A's update and symptoms appearing in process B; not sure.
> The whole situation with Alex Jones has undermined the confidence I have with our court system

If it makes you feel any better, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family was fined SIX TIMES more than Alex Jones. 800k people dead for $6B versus a dozen families' feelings hurt for $1B.

Our court system recognizes that the value of a human life is $7.5K, but the value of precious feelings is $83MM.

This seems pretty fair to me.

The good news is that punitive damages haven't been awarded yet. Hoping that the cost for hurt feelings rises north of $100M. Looking forward to suing everyone who said false statements about me in public. It's going to be an incredible payday, and I can parlay the winnings into running a drug operation and killing rural Americans with opioids and only pay a rounding error for everyone I murder.

Can't wait.

Edit: Apologies, HackerNews, are my numbers off? Am I factually incorrect? Are we seriously supporting the position that the Allies should have just hit Hitler with a $45B fine for the whole "Holocaust Thing" and called it even? I know addressing downvotes is frowned upon, but I'm genuinely curious why HN thinks feelings are worth eleven thousand times more than lives.

Edit 2: Understood. Feelings really are worth four orders of magnitude more than lives, on this forum. Got it.
I've been on the equity side of the fence for a long time now. My conviction comes from the fact that I (as very-low-but-not-poor middle class) got a chance to go to a "wealthier" high school and that made all the difference in my life. There's such a huge gap in confidence, persuasion, and even believing in what one can realistically achieve based on who you are surrounded with.

My college on the other hand had a mix of students from all sorts of backgrounds and that's where I first hand saw the huge difference this makes. Even those with good grades came across as extremely lacking in confidence. A variety of other factors then adds up to completely mask their talent.

And because there's not a single interview (at least in our industry) that doesn't look at your communication and other soft skills, these students mostly hung back and didn't get the same internship or jobs that I could get. And I was in the exact same social background as them.

These differences are now extremely huge after about a decade and a half. That's why I'm convinced that comparing two people works well only when the platform they are operating on is comparable as well. Otherwise, you are not-quite-but-close-to comparing just the platforms/social strata.
The live replication (as it used to work in Litestream before the LiteFS move, without Consul) would have been perfect for our use case with Seafowl (I played around with Litestream before that but had to settle on PostgreSQL for the sample multi-node deployment [0]):

- rare writes that get directed to a single instance (e.g. using Fly.io's replay header), frequent reads (potentially at edge locations)

- no need to deploy a PostgreSQL cluster and set up logical replication

- SQLite database stored in object storage, reader replicas can boot up using the object storage copy and then get kept in sync by pulling data from the writer

- delay in replication is fine

LiteFS is probably going to be a great solution here since we're mainly using Fly.io and it has built-in support for it [1], but are there any alternatives that don't require Consul, still look like an SQLite database to the client and can work off of a HTTP connection to the primary, so that we don't have to require our users to deploy to Fly?

[0] https://seafowl.io/docs/guides/scaling-multiple-nodes

[1] https://fly.io/docs/litefs/getting-started/
You can usually buy it both ways, with or without the batteries.
There are a lot of things that would be profitable, that are held back by either belief that they can't be done or by failure of imagination on their ramifications. Or because people profit from the status quo remaining unchanged.

Non-scientific example: I just read The Box, a history of container shipping. It's remarkable how many transportation incumbents tried to put the kibosh on containerization because they believed it was either not practical or not profitable.

In the end containerization hurt many existing power structures, but it reinvented global commerce and opened unfathomable financial doors for the world as a whole, creating financial empires that were impossible before.
Yes ideally, we'll see. They jumped from 0.15.9 to 1.0.0 :)
Clearly some departments of Sony have engineers naming things. No marketing team would put out a product names the "Sony WH-1000XM4" not to be confused with the "Sony WF-1000XM4".

Overall Nvidia generally has a very good naming system. They are easy to understand if you look at them for more than a minute. Nvidia is 4090? 40 = Generation. 90 = Model. Higher model # is better. They've stuck with the general concept for the better part of 20 years.

Intel's naming is decent. Their cutsey names like Sandy Bridge, meh. No one can never remember those. But the Core numbering system is solid. i3 is lowest. i9 is highest. The processor numbers after that can be a little hard and do require a bit of a decorder matrix to understand. But as long as it's a system, with rules, that they follow, and can be explained fairly easily - I'm ok with it. Heck they have a page that gives you the magic decoder ring: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/processor...
Now put the performance numbers next to them.
The ECB mode in question is depreciated and has been such for a long time. So normally you would expect the issue would arise only if you had an old version of the software. So is the article claiming that new versions of the software are using the depreciated mode in error? It isn't clear to me how to get access to any more definite discussion (MSRC VULN-060517?). We need a definite list of exactly what software is generating ECB messages.
I think Postgres Full Text Search is "good enough" for some internal use cases, but for user facing search I had a project where there are a lot of weird edge cases that eventually makes it worth it to move something dedicated. I believed we used `websearch_to_tsquery` and users complained often enough where we swapped it out for quickwit. A big issue I remember is when users wanted to search for something and order by another field (such as find all documents matching query "x" order by creation date), and PG performance just took a massive nosedive. Even though we knew where was one or two fields we wanted to co-index with FTS, you can't have compound indexes when using FTS.
> Popular things are popular for a reason

Meh, it really depends. Some places look amazing on cameras and especially on drones, but aren't that interesting if you're not a bird.

Specifically, "un-popular tourists" generally don't like to hang out with hundreds of other tourists, pay exorbitant fees and being hassled by street sellers anywhere they go.

> the locals' way of life is definitely not unique anywhere in the world

This reads like satire. You can't tell me that life in Vietnam is anywhere near life in the US. I don't need to visit any tourist places in Vietnam to enjoy living there.
It's helpful to think of the USA as a gigantic factory that produces billionaires. The manufacturing process runs off of energy ("money") provided by banks, investors and government, and the raw materials that get consumed and discarded are the lives and livelihoods of workers, and the end product that pops off the assembly line is "wealthy people".
Thinking back on it, I don’t think geohot ever even disclosed the specifics of the bug, or publicly released any PoC before Sony sent the lawyers after him, and he was legally (and morally) prevented from hacking on Sony products after
You are not alone. This industry is full of Steve Jobs wannabes who all think they are working on the next big thing. They will correspondingly make the interview process a multiday hazing ritual while screaming about the lack of qualified people.

The self importance of people in this industry now rivals that of all the blue chip wall street banker douchebros.
This is pretty cool. So this will. turn the network into a kubernetes cluster? Interesting. Especially, the software implications. This could allow running various networky services on top of the network..
My two cents on Nvidia's rollback reasoning:

4080 12GB was universally panned. The 40 series launch also got heat for price gouging, particularly the higher cost for the low end of the launch (4080 12GB). They had to raise the cost of the lower end of the 40 series though if they wanted to maintain the value of the 30 series cards and clear out the remaining inventory. They couldn't just release a true 4070 for a true 4070 price. While the name was obviously bad, it seems likely that they wanted to obscure the release of a 4070-quality chip for a 4080-price while attempting to sell off remaining 30 series. Pure speculation: maybe they were hoping a "cheaper 4080" would come across to the uninformed as Nvidia trying to lower the entry cost for 40 series rather than raising it through an expensive 4070.

Two potential reasons for the rollback come to mind:
1) higher than expected 4090 demand means they can wait to launch a 4070.
2) higher than expected heat for the thinly veiled 4070 price gouging made it worth it to wait on the release since it helps sell more 30 series cards by raising the entry price for a 40 series while getting better PR in the process.
to be fair I believe you're also missing a citation showing better than isolated data of defunding creating better long term outcomes for sufficient stakeholders without unacceptable negative outcomes for others.
> if Alex had taken the lawsuit seriously and treated it with the gravitas most people would assign to a lawsuit like this, the judgement would be nowhere near $1B

What do you think it would have been?

I don't mind the "asshole tax" in courts, but I feel like it should be limited. The guy is an idiot, but all the more reason to judge him fairly.

$1B fine looks like a political decision (especially to his audience), and will probably give even more power to him.
There's a correspondent named Paul Salopek walking around the world and writing/shooting it for National Geographic. He started in Africa and he is currently in Asia, headed northeast. His final destination is Tierra del Fuego. I follow him on Twitter and it's very interesting seeing the pictures (mostly in rural areas) and understanding how he does it (he has locals walking with him on each leg). He's gone through many sets of hiking boots.

https://twitter.com/PaulSalopek

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk...
There's a qualitative difference between using AI for sourcing—that is, finding candidates you would not find normally—and using it for assessment.

The impact of a biased source is attenuated by having other sources and by the rest of your assessment process. Perhaps you end up with a marginally "worse" pool of candidates at the top of your hiring funnel... but, frankly, it's already hard to do much worse than the mix of LinkedIn keyword searches, resume screens and ad hoc channels teams use today. Crucially, if this happens, the impact on any given candidate is minimal—a bit more competition that, if the rest of the process is any good, should be negligible.

The impact of bias in how you reject candidates, on the other hand, fundamentally cannot be compensated for in the remaining process. A rejected candidate is already out! Any bias in rejecting steps is going to be directly reflected in the sort of teams you can recruit.

Mixing together sourcing methods that are biased in different ways can cancel out the bias. Mixing together assessment steps that are biased in different ways compounds the bias.

Traditional resumes are pretty awful any way you look at it[1] and developing new ways of sourcing qualified candidates that get overlooked by the traditional approach doesn't create the sorts of problems that new assessment methods do, so the research you're describing seems unambiguously useful.

[1]: interviewing.io did a cool study looking at how resumes compare against the mock interview performance of users on their site. They just don't work well. This isn't a peer-reviewed study, of course, but, frankly, the data and approach are more compelling than some of the peer-reviewed research I've seen on the subject.

https://blog.interviewing.io/resumes-suck-heres-the-data/