skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly they claim something like 40% of a conventional turbine, so it doesn't beat a conventional turbine in a classic setting however it may work well enough in a residential/light commercial setting.

It really seems like a reverse Dyson bladeless fan.
By this logic, should we not be outraged by 19th and 20th century genocide?
There are shower heads that you switch to a trickle for this reason. You still save a lot of water but the trickle keeps the hot water coming through.
It's profitable and addictive, so it's the natural next step up from 'games' with loot boxes that cluttered the ads.
My guess would be institutional pushes against any checks on data usage. Somebody implements 2FA. Somebody reduces the number of redundant databases. Somebody implements a new marketing plan. Somebody audits their legal compliance, and finds nothing wrong because the database doesn't record the provenance of each entry.

Individuals at Facebook know the law, and may even have individual incentives to follow the law. Facebook as an emergent entity, as an inhuman eldritch being built upon humans as component parts, cares nothing for the law.
This might work for libraries (with the addition of the obvious "and doesn't obviously game the system by special casing all the test inputs" rule, because as soon as you add financial incentives, someone will try that).

I'm not sure it works for end-user software; the set of people who can write working tests is usually smaller than the set of end users.
Heck, ECC is already market-segregated
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OT, but: welcome back!
Apple is clearly run for making profits first and foremost. The second they lose the ability to further monetize hardware or services, they will turn to ads.

There was never a strong principle against advertising, despite the naivety from many devotees. Apple just wants to be the one to make the advertising dollars, rather than the app developers.

Privacy from thee but not from me!
Implicit Animations in Avalonia UI Framework at 60 FPS (macOS M1)
Influence is just the potential energy of attention.
My house doesn't need heating from April to October. And if you have a modern condensing gas boiler it is considerably more efficient (over 90%) to burn gas in it than use electricity generated in even the most modern and efficient gas fired power station.

So unless you have some quite specific circumstances it is almost always better to boil only as much water as you need at the time.
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> The Core 2 Duo/Quad architecture was the last iteration where the ME subsystem could be entirely removed.

Yeah, but unfortunately intel also didn't bother providing microcode patches for meltdown on those chipsets "because to old" by some arbitrary definition of "old".
https://archive.ph/PeNeR
Google's insane hiring and investment into a gazillion non-ads product areas over the last 10 years tells you that they know this as well.

They've been shoveling their ad revenues desperately into a furnace of "everything but ads", throwing ideas against numerous walls to see what sticks, and copying other company's product roadmaps. Almost none of it has worked out. They're still dependent on that ad revenue firehose for 90-ish percent of their profits.

When that firehose slows, the only way to maintain things will be to cut costs. So in a way I'm glad I got out of working there before that era began. "Fun" times there have been slowing for years, but it's going to get serious, I think.

Not as bad as Facebook, though.
I'm not sure about that. I started programming some 30 years ago, and wrote quite diverse programs, but not always professionally. I've been working professionally some of that time, of course, but in between jobs I've been doing my own things, which didn't translate into a commercializable products (but some could some day, I guess) and I keep them out of my resume. Jobs always found me, not the opposite. So I don't have much experience seeking one.

But these last two years I did try to look for one, every now and then. All in all, I sent my one-sentence-per-job resume to about 10 companies, which I researched somewhat thoroughly and concluded that can put my skills into use. I know it's not the usual shotgun approach of mailing zillions of companies in hope that one will turn out to be The One, but that's how I work. Friends and family tell me that I should put more into the resume, but I'd rather explain stuff face-to-face. Of course, I don't get there. I'm also very picky (my ethics filter out so many companies, you know, tracking people, advertising, etc..). Anyway, out of those ~10 companies, only 3 got back to me. One of them rejected via email in a matter of hours. The other two had HR call me. One of the two invited me to a face-to-face nontechnical interview with a young manager... not the position I've applied for, but anyway. It was friendly though kinda stuck at why I decided quit some company 7 years ago. She might have also found me clueless, since I didn't have a formulaic conception of software development that she seemed to inquire about. The next day I got an email rejection.

Now, I'm a very technical person, and I'd probably have more success going via a different route, maybe meetups. I'm an introvert, but don't have difficulty opening up to other technical persons. So I'll try that. (No LinkedIn or "networking"... a privacy-conscious introvert).

But anyway, my point is that I projected a high probability of providing good value to these companies after nontrivial amount of research into them and their positions, but it seems they're all drowning in noise so manage to miss my signal. Industry situation is poor.

Luckily I'm keeping to my own projects as well. Some day they may bear financial fruit.
is the internet bad for me? should I just quit it? kind of sounds like "intrusive thought"
Most job applications are not five minute processes, even for day laborers.
Source: me, doing payroll for thousands of staffing companies.
Basically that's what those companies did, and then some of those engineers started 1 trillion dollar corporations since they couldn't convince anyone to pay them 600k
No, they are not considered "non-free". Not even by RMS. Please provide evidence.

Unsurprisingly RMS prefers GPL over pushover licenses, especially when it comes to Emacs and GCC, which he considers strategic tools in a fight against proprietary software. He has been opposed to depending on Clang when GCC is not suitable (again due to his fears that GCC would be used to build proprietary compilers), but this does not mean that he considers Clang to be non-free software.
it is valuable primarily because there is an expectation that it can be monetized

your argument is circular. you are defining the value of attention in terms of money, then you dismiss defining it as a currency because (my interpretation) it is an asset or a good. it's like saying that the value of an apple lies in it's monetisation, if nobody buys it it means it has no value

attention has value because it's a resource. there's only number-of-people-on-earth quantity of attention at each moment to extract. if you don't extract it it's gone. you also need to compete for it because there's not enough for everybody.

the good news is attention is probably the less discriminating resource on earth. every human has exactly the same amount of it*

*caveat : the fact you have an equal amount of attention does not imply you can manage it optimally.
Obviously identifying key people is hard, or everyone would get it right. Most important things are like that.

(I don't think it's quite as hard as you're making it out, though. Who are the people you go to first with questions about how stuff works?)

Maybe we have a mismatch on what "appropriate" pay means. If the expected cost of losing someone is less than what you're paying them, maybe you're paying them more than what's appropriate. But it does sound a bit like you're falling into the same trap as GP in assuming you have to pay everyone the same rate; I could be misreading you.
This is not accurate. "Phil Schiller is an Apple Fellow, responsible for leading the App Store and Apple Events." https://www.apple.com/leadership/phil-schiller/

Moreover: "Schiller is still very much in the thick of the action at Apple, where he continues to put in long hours, according to people familiar with this role. The duties he held on to — overseeing the App Store, Apple’s distribution hub for software designed for devices like the iPhone — has positioned him at the center of the Apple business that is attracting the most scrutiny from antitrust regulators in the U.S. and abroad." https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/13/phil-schiller-profile/
I've actually found this to be completely untrue in practice. Just about every web service I've dealt with in production, if not all of them, have been CPU bound. This is for a number of reasons:

1) Network speeds have increased dramatically compared to CPU speeds.

2) People don't optimize code very much.

3) Web apps tend to do more work per request than they did in the 90s.

Regardless, I've never seen an app saturate it's network pipe, but I've seen plenty saturate all their CPU cores, including relatively well-tuned ones. For instance, I wrote a Netty-based reverse proxy app once, and while I got it to run far faster than the typical app in that company, it was still CPU-bound in all my tests.
The only times I respond to those pop-ups, 'rate this app', or after-sales email surveys is (when I'm in a shitty mood, probably, and) to say I do not want to be asked to do this, my experience is worse because of it.
Most of my interviews came from applying through LinkedIn. Some companies are content with you only clicking apply through LinkedIn and getting the data from there, while others have you redirected to a terrible mess like Workday and waste your time doing mindless data entry.

Most of the companies who contacted me back for an interview are the ones who got their data straight from LinkedIn.
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We need a standard schema for resume data. This problem shouldn't be an ML problem.
Please stop using phones/sms as 2FA.
> Accessing data in a Python object from c ( and vice versa) is trivial. That triviality is what gets in the way of JIT optimizations.

Can't it be automated? Accessing data is often done in patterns that are very similar.

Perhaps we should access Python from Rust, would that help?
Certain DRM will no longer work so you may not be able to play Netflix or whatever.
> higher-privilege co-processors running code outside the main OS' control is becoming (or already is) the norm everywhere.

I don't think this fact is what you should focus on. That fact the blobs are binary, closed, proprietary, signed but not easily verifiable by the user, and not easy to disable is the problem.

The promise is they're going to "improve security for PCs." Yet, they're using techniques that we know to be invalid. There's no reason to tolerate this.
Yeah that's a bit disappointing but I can see why they would want to do that in order to force compatibility.

There does seem to be a copy of the 2.2 version (latest is 3.0) floating around so nothing stops you using that - as someone has done: http://ihormelnyk.com/Content/Pages/opentherm_library/

I couldn't find version 3.0 though.
Wouldn’t people do both then?
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> Does that mean to run it you need another JVM to run it on top of?

GraalVM is the regular HotspotVM integrated with the GraalVM compiler (which is normally AOT compiled as a native library, but can be run as a JAR); it also supports tooling with the ability to compile code targeting the JVM to a native executable, as well as leveraging AOT compilation itself.

https://www.graalvm.org/22.3/reference-manual/native-image/
My mother in law has a Breville table top instantaneous water heater that boils water in cup sized units. Something like this: https://www.breville.co.uk/kettles-and-toasters/hot-water-di... but from quite a few years ago.
The trick to doing this cheaply is by using two parabolas and mirror the light into a point.

https://youtu.be/qKcVwmkJbQM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_c8fIiu4M
Is there any “good companies”? I’m fairly sure they all become paperclip optimizers after a certain size and any seemingly good behavior is simply the better option from a profit-maximizing point of view.

Do you honestly think that all those libraries care about Pride or Black Lives Matters? Nope, they just had some calculations and as user-facing companies, marketing has a huge role on their profits. A logistic company won’t have done any such thing as they are likely not even known by the general public.

Oracle is not really an end-user facing company like Facebook or Google is, so they simply don’t care all that much about that (hence the lawnmower analogy). But.. that’s a good thing as well — you can use the lawnmower for its job, you’ll never be surprised. Graal and OpenJDK and other tech at the bottom of the tech stack are long term investments. Looking at the linux kernel, it is not developed primarily by some hacker in a basement, but by employees paid by Intel, Red Hat, Google, pretty much everyone.
This is a good question. I had a hard time drawing a line between perfect type contracts and dealing with JavaScript's idiosyncrasies. There is a lot of behavior in JS that is very hard to produce strong, reliable types for. If someone overwrites a prototype somewhere, your types are probably incorrect no matter what you do. Add in the fact that TS types can't really be accessed at runtime (mostly) and it makes type guarantees even harder to enforce with 100% accuracy.

It helps to think of TS types as a guarantee of behavior and an encoding of intention, and of TS itself as a really smart linter. As long as you use my function according to these types, it'll behave as expected. If it doesn't, that's my problem and I'll fix it. If I say my function returns a string, you can use my function's return types as a string with the confidence that that's how I expected it to be used. TS will make sure that everything agrees with my type assertion, which removes the need for checking the types of parameters in tests, for example.
> (2) it is so easy to write numeric codes that do the wrong thing with rounding and numerical instability.

Are you saying FORTRAN avoids these problems, or that it is prone to them? If the former, how does it do it?
True. About 50.000 birds die due to windmills per year in The Netherlands, so according to this stat we should have 500M birds. So the odds of it killing a specific bird is roughly 50.000/500M=0.01% chance. So we'd expect it to happen once every 10.000 years. Guess we got unlucky last year..
Apparently not :( (These benchmarks were done on an M1 MacBook Pro)

$ brew install pypy3
pypy3: The x86_64 architecture is required for this software.
It has an enhanced 486 running Minix and unrestricted access to everything on the system bus.
I don't know if this is really true. That shift has occurred to some extent. On the other hand, it seems to me that all the most sociable people I know are still on Facebook.

There definitely are a lot of people that interact with Facebook less, which is obviously huge. I'm not sure these other social media sites will eat up Facebooks core business.

It seems like Facebook could continue to struggle to grow, but these sites seem to fill different roles. I could definitely see Facebook becoming little more than a calendar/messaging system.

Maybe it will collapse eventually, but what we saw with MySpace was pretty extreme, total, and sudden. It happened to Digg too, but wasn't this around the same time as the MySpace stuff was happening? I don't see much reason to think Reddit is going anywhere, either.

We'll see, I wouldn't be shocked either way.
It's going to be funny watching Apple make the same mistakes as every other massive corporation that decides to allow user generated content as Advertising.
You can. Both are official names, one is of the MPEG standard while the other one is of the ITU one.
I can’t tell if Poettering hasn’t read Brave New World, so the title is innocuous, or he has, and the title is frightening.

That said, I’m in the camp of: this is good, and a lot of the comments here are FUD (aka Poettering probably hasn’t read Brave New World, or at least this isn’t that).
I feel like the jury is more likely to believe the unwilling subpoenaed witness from HR from the company that turned you down who says: “we turned the candidate down, because when we checked their references, Bob at XYZ corp said that the candidate never worked at XYZ corp” over Bob (who has every motive and reason to lie).

Especially when you get the follow up questions, and find out HR left contemporaneous notes in their HRIS tool, which corroborate the story.

Remember that the standard for a civil suit is not “beyond a reasonable doubt”, but “more likely than not”. I really don’t think you’d need a recording to win that case.
Glad you liked it, I'm having way too much fun with this. Here's attempt #2:

> EXIT THE BUILDING

You step into the sidewalk. Night has fallen in New York and the afternoon fog has turned into an evening mist, the lights of New Times Square glimmering through the water drops. You get your bearings and see a Tex-Mex food cart to the north, a nightclub about one hundred yards to the east and remember an expensive restaurant is only a block to the West

> GO TO THE NIGHT CLUB

You head to the nightclub and see a line leading up to the entrance. You see a sign that reads "Members Only".

> BECOME A MEMBER

You approach the bouncer and tell him you'd like to become a member. He says if you have to ask, you don't belong. You slip him $100 and ask him again. He says you need a password.

> ASK FOR THE PASSWORD

The bouncer tells you the password is "redrum". You head inside and see a long hallway with a red door at the end. You hear music coming from the door and head towards it.

> INVENTORY

You are carrying a wallet, phone, and keys.

> USE PHONE

You pull out your phone and see that you have a text message from an unknown number. The message reads "if you want to live, come to the red door at the end of the hallway".

> INSPECT WALLET

You open your wallet and see that you have $100 in cash and a credit card.

> GO TO THE RED DOOR

You approach the red door and knock. A voice from inside says "who is it?" You respond with your name. The voice says "wrong answer, try again". You knock again and say "redrum". The door opens and you are pulled inside.
Those are the exact people who should get the vaccine. It's great that it exists. Forcing people who are not at risk, to inject something into their bodies which will not help them is authoritarian overreach, even if the vaccine DID protect from infection. Now that everyone admits it does not prevent infection, or "spread", there is not even a bad reason to mandate vaccination.
FWIW, PREA [0] has made a major impact on sexual assaults in American prisons & jails. It is really taken very seriously at the facilities I've visited (for work purposes). In fact, I've seen the allegations made by a clearly mentally ill person taken seriously and investigated, though the statement was obviously a work of fiction and the product of a deranged mind. Some units have dedicated "PREA Phones" to facilitate anonymous tips, and inmates with tablets can report via an app.

Also, mentally ill inmates are (at least in California) generally put into their own housing units to prevent predation by the rest of the population. They have access to medication but cannot be forced to take them.

[0]: https://www.prearesourcecenter.org/about/prison-rape-elimina...
My YouTube premium subscription cost was just doubled. Hopefully they retain more than 50% of their customers!
You just uglified nearly every language.
What I enjoyed about the Long Ships is how the author avoided moral handholding and let the reader make their own appreciation of it.

Interestingly, the contrast highlights the concept of master vs. slave morality pretty well. The Vikings see strength as the ultimate determinator and servitude as the appropriate result of weakness. Insofar as they have rules surrounding honor or other meta/legal considerations, these are there to facilitate the resolution of power struggles through duels or other such concepts. They nonetheless have a fairly stable civilization. And of course Christianity is the canonical (no pun intended) example of slave morality as identified by Nietzsche.
> As you get close to the ground, rotate to take the impact primarily on your feet and legs.

That makes it sound a lot easier than it actually is.
Squeezing unnecessary performance for no reason is just stupidity and time wasting at best.

When I say turbopack, I was thinking why the hell would someone need this. Vite is fast enough for everybody. Quite fast indeed. Then there is Parcel which is also quite good and reliable.

I never felt with Vite performance was an issue at all. Everything is so dang fast in my company's website. We are unnecessarily optimizing stuff!
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Too bad they now have a reputation of killing every new product. Nobody wants to invest time into using their new shiny, because people assume it’ll be gone in a year or two
Before looking at IME, let's review other topics. Printer machine identification codes were secretly inserted into printers some time between the 1980s and 2004. Our communications are being monitored in a host of ways. One last refuge was our CPU, but now that is under foreign control as well.

Then there's older US government operations like Minaret, Shamrock, Cointelpro etc. to surveil US domestic political activities, from black civil rights, to Vietnam doves, to a very extensive surveillance of feminist groups. Cointelpro also involved US intelligence disrupting political movements, writing poison pen letters (a database admin and 60s peacenik I knew had one sent to his boss, a lawsuit later revealed the FBI sent it).

Nowadays this is PRISM, Xkeyscore etc. interacting with the telco monopolies and FAANG, to spy on Angela Merkel's phone calls (along with BND turned by the CIA), disrupt Airbus contracts in favor of US aerospace etc.
For sure, but it doesn't cost £15 to fix your insulation.

For those of us with solid walls it's expensive and very disruptive to install internal/external wall cladding. I happen to live in an area where I'm not even allowed to install external cladding.