skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The American constitutional system didn’t envision the situation we find ourselves in now.

The weaponization of mass political speech for a second time is a big problem. The first time (circa 1920-1950) was easier to control as broadcasters had a many to one model. Today, the government failed to leverage regulation of social media.

So here we are. Reactionary business interests leverage semi-autonomous evangelical Christian communities, WSJ republicans and fanatics who believe that reptilian aliens from a 1980s TV show are controlling a global network of Democratic Party functionaries/child molesters and globalist Jewish people to do whatever.

On the opposing side, you have traditional moderate “big tent” political machinery. Everyone from unionists, to LGBTQ+, to African Americans, to moderates to more progressive or radical people with a long tail of issues.

The problem is the “simple message” of the right can be turned up and down depending on the audience. The “big tent” of mainstream politics is more complex. Many of the groups in the “big tent” don’t see eye to eye.
If I can define advice as lessens that I've learned over time and would give others, it would be to always say hello or acknowledge an acquaintance's presence when you get the chance, even if you don't have the time or necessarily want to chat. You never know when they won't be there anymore.

Another one would be to try and measure your success at something if what you want is measurable improvement, but try not to measurably improve everything, because you become hollow. Don't let "passion" for something overcome the needs that should be met by it, whether it be a lover or a company.

Likewise, don't do for an employer (and maybe any other entity) what they wouldn't do for you, don't think of your employer as anything more than that, and don't make sacrifices for them if you have no clear pathway and control over how you can be rewarded for it. Promises are bullshit.

Also, one that might just be for me, but I would share with someone else if they were interested, is to not bother trying to learn something unless you can close the feedback loop of practicing it. That means being able to deliberately allocate ongoing time to it and treat it like a hobby rather than just reading or just listening. I used to think that I could just read article after article and technical book after technical book, or listening to podcasts during every piece of downtime, but it more or less ended up being worthless and now I think of it as basically stupid. There has to be an output to match the input, and for you to allocate the time to that, it probably needs to be sufficiently fun or rewarding rather than arbitrary.

Lastly, building on that previous one, taking vacations away from the computer and work. Take the downtime, otherwise you'll be forced to, and you might as well enjoy it before burning out.
It's also worth noting that a year of growth of "just" 27.5% after growing 33% the prior year, the 27.5% represents more growth-in-dollars this year than the 33% did last year.
Yes! Very excited by this. We developed this together out-of-tree, and it's been available in ports (FreeBSD's package system) for a while now. This here is about moving it into the FreeBSD base system, so that it'll now be developed and improved alongside the rest of the operating system. Terrific step forward.
So, first of all, as others have noted, events of this sort are happening significantly more frequently than that.

Second,

> practically, a 1:70 tail event is usually outside a regulator's tolerance

Where are you getting this? I can think of many, many counterexamples.

Maybe you mean to limit this to utility regulators planning for outage resiliency? I'd be curious about where that came from. (Maybe inverting the rule of 72 and... something?)

Anyway, the simple fact remains that Texas has a small, inflexible grid that's been populated with low-margin providers playing financial engineering games rather than providing resiliency, and it needs a ton of work.

Even if you are correct that the minimax they've arrived at made sense in the past, it clearly no longer does.
Yeah.. no compute shaders though, among other things
I noticed this as well - I really don't care for it, but was not particularly offended by it. I only use Chrome for my work browser because it makes life easier, so at least I won't have to put up with it being there much.

It may in some cases be helpful, but in general I'm very opposed to these "attention grabber" features. I really just want to get into what I'm doing and not see little doodads hanging around my screen for little benefit of my own.

The results themselves obviously don't visually fit either - looks like they just slammed an iframe on the side instead of giving it some kind of native browser chrome/UI experience. Lazy.
AWS still has a great unrealised revenue backlog which are not on the statements for the current year/quarter (from long-term commitments).

$104.3 billion as of September 30, 2022. [0]

[0] https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2022/q3/...
> I have thought about submitting the following question to see what happens:

> ” Prove that a regular complex valued additive set function defined on a field of sets in a compact space is countably additive.”

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The "what will happen" is clearly spelled over a decade ago (6 years before the paper was written) - https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1803/how-to-as...

> How do I ask a homework question on this website?

> Please put some work into formulating your question. Please do not just copy and paste the exact question text from your homework sheet. In particular, when you are asking for help, writing in imperative mode ("Show that...", "Compute...", or "Prove or find a counterexample: ...") is at the very least impolite: you are, after all, trying to ask a question, not give an assignment. It also turns many people off.

> ...

> Show your work. You should definitely include any partial work you have done. This will help bolster your claim that you are not just coming here asking other people to do your homework for you, and it will help the answerers to give more clinical responses. Showing your work will help us gauge where you are having problems: if it is a technical thing near the end, a short to the point answer will suffice; if it is some fundamental problem with understanding the subject, we will then write a longer, more detailed response. It will also prevent people from spending a lot of time going over ground that you have already covered or understand well already.
Twitter needs to cater to all of its advertisers. Advertisers are where the money comes from. If advertisers don't like what they see, more will pull out of advertising on Twitter and the money will stop.
I hope that getting that off your chest was a help to you but for the rest of us Twitter would surely be a better place to share that.
I know and this is often the case, but the height limit still applies in the whole county, even 5 miles from the city center.

However at least my local city council has understood that taller buildings is the way to go.
> My question is: can one be self-employed fixing bugs? If so, what are some effective strategies to make it a reality?

As a former freelance developer, I think you might be able to make this work. I would guess that:

- You'd need to do a lot of work to find clients and build a reputation. "Fixing bugs" is a specialized niche.

- You'd probably work on lots of small projects, which means lots of deal closing and high daily/weekly rates.

- You'd need to look for projects in severe trouble.

- You'd need to fix not just the bugs, but the underlying organizational processes that are causing the project to be buggy.

But if you're willing to write articles about debuggung, set up automatic bug reporting tools, collect bug metrics, and teach teams to do 5 Whys/root cause analysis, I think you could probably find a market out there somewhere. There are always buggy projects in trouble, and some number of companies would pay an expert to help save an important project. You'd still spend half your time running the business, not debugging (or even training people to debug).

Of course, there are probably much easier ways to make a living as a freelance software developer. But if you enjoy "debugging" organizational issues as much as you like finding software bugs, there's probably a market here.
Here's an article with some more details about how she came to invent assembly language. This is a "necessity is the mother of invention" tale that I always find fascinating starting with "Andrew Booth, whom Kathleen would eventually marry, had previously done X-ray crystallography research at the University of Birmingham and that included doing a lot of computations. This started him down the path of building computing machines to make the work easier.":

https://hackaday.com/2018/08/21/kathleen-booth-assembling-ea...
I'm no philosopher but my understanding is the stoics didn't simply choose not to care, they were selective about what they cared about.

When someone insults you are they responsible for how much you value their opinion? Are they responsible for how much you want to be accepted? Are they responsible for how many rejections you have had in the past?
over many periods there has been a short-run tradeoff.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52cdc300e4b012...

the phillips curve can shift, that is of course worthy of study. one interesting thing that happened in that period is oil prices collapsed.

you either believe in supply and demand, or you don't. if you believe in it, then greater than full employment leads to rising wages, and inflation if productivity doesn't follow. if you don't believe in supply and demand, then discussion about a lot of economic theory is pointless.

https://www.moneyandbanking.com/commentary/2017/5/29/the-phi...
Yes, lots of people are fearful that they no longer have control over the discussion. The same people who had no business being arbiters of truth in the first place, and demonstrated with stunning brilliance why.
Is the UDP work a precursor to HTTP/3 support? I don't see HTTP/3 mentioned in the announcement, so I assume that something else is needed to make it work still?

Edit: I take that back, I see "Add HTTP/3 binary frame content view" in the commits. So does that mean it works? I would have thought that would be a headline-level announcement, though?

Either way, amazing stuff, and thanks for the brilliant work!
Just to be clear. The one change everybody is waiting for is excess renewables capacity at peak times, not improvement on storage technologies.

Of course, improvement at storage will always be good. It's just not the bottleneck right now.

So, yeah, the article is great news. And it won't change the electricity paradigm at all. Both at the same time.
I don’t think OP was talking about “want”, just refuting that Netherlands has hit the limits of growth.
What should I do if I see a bear? First, don’t run away
i'd rather know acceleration than velocity
The norm is 6-12 weeks in my experience. I have never heard of 104. I think that's unusual.
What exactly is the problem anyone would be trying to solve by adding third party clients?
> when all I wanted was an approximation of Mac OS/Unity

If you want a MacOS clone then KDE isn't for you. I can't blame KDE for not following the MacOS philosophy. Try GNOME as that copies MacOS. KDE is better for the people coming off Windows.
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will hurt for life” is how I used to say it.

Never say anything that couldn’t stand as the last thing you say to someone. You’re words matter more than you realize.
The Noonday Demon. A beautiful book on depression. Heartbreaking and life-affirming in turns.
If you have children and they have children, etc, then at least something you did will matter to someone.

It may never be written in history books but every person alive today has an unbroken string of “things done” that stretches back in time.

And even if you never had children, anything you did or said that resulted in someone else having children shook the pillars of history.
I just looked at the Wikipedia article about her and it appears her and her husband were often overlooked while making huge contributions.
Ask HN: Alternative TLD System Designs?
Completely hypothetical question here, since the TLD system won't be changed any time soon, but I'm curious anyway what HN thinks.

TLD's are commonly used for things other than what they actually mean. .co (Columbia) is used as a cheaper .com (commercial). .io (Indian Ocean territories) is used for tech-related stuff (input/output). .es (Spain) is used to make English domain names plural. Many other examples abound. One problem resulting from this is a sort of class system for TLD's - .com/.net/org are the Brahmans, and everything else one of the lower casts to varying degrees.

When I step back and look at the system critically, it's a mess, semantically at least. Though to its credit it works despite that (or maybe even because of it - flexibility to break rules and repurpose parts for unforeseen uses). Given that hindsight is 20/20, are there alternative TLD systems that capture the range of semantic meaning and intent better, and that don't result in tiers of (perceived) value?
Libel cases aren’t about having your feelings hurt, it’s about reputation damage. Internal vs external.
Phone keyboard, or trying to avoid auto filtering?

In addition, why not come say this with your main account?
The most memorable thing most normal people could do is change their last name before having children.
Ideological clone of Musk or Gadde? I'd imagine that if there's more freedom in what can be written then it doesn't matter, a censor that supports free speech is no censor at all.
100% the parents… teachers can influence but it’s the parents legal responsibility to not raise a monster.
> The question is, are the meds helping?

According to him yes, he can concentrate well now. He doesn't talk about his other issues and when I bring them up he doesn't say anything.

According to his wife yes his concentration is improved but not his anxiety, depression or anhedonia.
PCs Cost More than Macs (2004)
> My mom has been concerned that my teenage step sister and her peers almost all identify as non binary

No one is "binary". Even the voltage levels inside electronic circuits, that everyone calls binary, are not binary. What's up with this contemporary obsession for seeing everything in pure black-and-white terms and dismissing the power of the rare, mysterious and unknown liminal states of being, acknowledged since time immemorial by countless traditions?
Along these lines is “sorry with an explanation/excuse is not sorry”.
> Consumers also hate paying for things. I've always thought when Google came along that it was a shining beacon for being the one corporation that gives everything away for free.

All of Google's offerings do indeed have a price, just not a financial one in most cases.
I'm not sure why CAs would be invited to the embargo, they're in the business of signing certs and while they do process untrusted certs so do zillions of other cert using folks.
Yeah. I've mentioned this before, but in DDR5 and beyond the nominal channel width goes from 64 bit to 32 bit -- and an ECC protected channel goes from 72 bit to 40 bit. (It would be possible to ECC protect a 32-bit channel with 39 bits, but the actual DRAM ICs come in multiples of 8 bits.)

This means that applications that bond channels together and read/write/ECC-check in 64-bit chunks can have 8 unassigned bits per 80-bit read, while still ECC protecting the full width. I haven't seen any discussion of this capability, but it's super interesting to me.
Yes.

Probably a better article 3 days ago here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33340066

It's very interesting. It's been known for a while but they are narrowing the possible reasons with this new research.

Given it's perhaps a pandemic level of destruction, with 8% chance during a person lifetime and actually fun to research you'd think more would done.
At system scale, a 1% loss is a huge deal. Perf teams on operating systems do things for systemwide performance with small percentage wins all the time. Whether this is the right trade off for D, whether it’s feasible to flip a global switch for “slower code but optimal GC” or whether it’s an intractable problem I can’t say, but Walter is correct on this point.
Binance Is Creating a Team That Aims to Help Twitter with Things Like Bots
It wasn’t a very detailed comment, but let’s be real here. Resource extraction and energy industries own Texas politics, and have for over a century.
Your evidence for masks working is ... movies?

This has come up so often, but clearly, repetition must continue. Masks and mask mandates had no effect on COVID at any point. Even a cursory amount of time spent with the case graphs and start/end dates will show that to be clear. You simply cannot find inflection points in the case graphs that correlate with mask mandates being added or removed. The reason is, masking assumed SARS-CoV-2 spreads via large water droplets. The mask was supposed to catch these droplets if you were infected and coughed. But actually SARS-CoV-2 spreads like a gas, via invisible aerosols that can float in the air.

The article discusses this briefly:

Animal experiments to test the efficacy of vaccines generated highly infectious aerosols that are “difficult to detect,” the interim report says, adding that “there were concerns about conducting this type of research in a BSL2 laboratory.”

and

Two and a half months earlier, according to the interim report, procurement officials at the WIV posted a call for bids on a government website seeking a costly air incinerator. The post was dated Nov. 19, 2019, the very day that the visiting CAS safety official arrived to address a “complex and grave” situation there … If somehow the HEPA filter system failed, because there was a tear or breach … then your quick fix would be to bring in an air incinerator.

This was actually known from the start by people paying attention. The Diamond Princess cruise ship proved it. The whole ship was placed in lockdown, where people weren't allowed to leave their cabins, and the initial infections were also confined to quarters. Yet very quickly COVID was cropping up all over the ship despite the lack of contact. Therefore it must have been spreading via the air ducts as a consequence. This sort of thing was to be expected because SARS-1 was found by investigators in Hong Kong to have spread within an apartment building placed in lockdown via the drain pipes connecting bathrooms, and even between buildings, via aerosol spread. Search for "Environmental transmission of SARS at Amoy Gardens" to see.

The outbreak on the Diamond Princess revealed not only that lockdowns wouldn't work, but also that lots of people appeared to have prior immunity, somehow. Unfortunately even though this rather 'useful' outbreak happened very early on, the results were ignored by epidemiologists. The reason is fairly clear if you read their papers: they have developed a culture of ignoring inconvenient data and replacing it with assumptions. Epidemiology papers and models will routinely have dozens or even hundreds of assumptions in them, even about variables that have observational data available, and always to the same end of exaggerating both severity of an epidemic along with the ability to control it. Aerosol spread would have rendered epidemiologists entirely useless, as there's no known way to contain or reduce the spread of such a virus, so they'd have had nothing to contribute. Hence the replacement of observational data with the assumption of highly localized droplet spread, to which several different containment strategies could be applied.
Article - https://archive.is/NHYWg
A few things that make full-time bug fixing unlikely in a freelance capacity:

First, you need a significant amount of access and context on any codebase to be productive. Unless you're promising them a long-term commitment (and at that point are you really freelancing?) they might be hesitant to invest in fully training you, getting you credentials, etc. It's more likely that you'll get a niche project that you can work on independently, somewhat detached from the main project.

Second, even if you do build up enough context to work on big bugs, their causes are rarely shallow. What if you find a need for a major refactor or technology migration? As a freelancer, you have limited stakes in the process. So pushing your solution will involve playing all the normal politics, but as an outsider without any leverage. Hope you're convincing and enjoy lots of meetings.

Third, sadly, bugs just are not prioritized in today's product-led software environment. Existing employees are likely staring at their own backlog of bugs that they would love to fix, but which have been de-prioritized to push out new feature work. If (big if) a bug becomes a priority, full-time people with the most context on the problem are going to be doing the actual work - probably in a hurry. So freelancers are more likely to pick up the slack on low-priority feature work while the core devs are putting out fires.
Any reason why Common Lisp is not considered?
Like the halteres of flies, perhaps?

Another possibility/question I was idly wondering about is whether they were proportionately larger for juveniles and served some purpose that full-grown adults did not need. Maybe digging out of nests? - though I think specializations only for hatching (e.g. egg teeth) tend to disappear shortly after.
I have a hobby, thanks. It involves trying to learn more about the world, making reasonable judgements about authenticity of what I hear, and asking in good faith for more evidence when what is provided is insufficient - "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
And if you can’t be happy now, you won’t be happy later.

And if something is required to make you happy, you are letting your happiness be controlled by others.
Because you're fourteen, those randos are your peer group, and you're stuck with them all day. Also, you're fourteen so you haven't quite figured out whose opinions should be important to you, and also you're wildly insecure about your position in your world.
POC as in "proof of concept" ?

Starlink is not the first system for data via low-earth-orbit satellites.

There is Orbcomm that carries short data messages. Orbcomm is used for things like getting a few bytes of sensor information from a pumping station in Siberia or tracking devices far away from cellphone network coverage. If a device is down in a valley it may have to wait for a satellite to be directly overhead to exchange messages.

There is the Iridium satellite phone network.

AIUI, Starlink became practical a) because Musk can hurl lots of satellites into a pretty low orbit relatively cheaply, partially due to reusing booster rockets instead of letting them drop into the Ocean and building more.

and b) because you can have ten billion transistors in a silicon chip so the satellites can do high speed data stuff with the miserable amount of power available from solar panels.

The design of the satellites and user terminals can all be done and tested without hurling anything into orbit.
Do you mean the poster is wrong, we did vote for commissioners? Or do you mean you agree with the policy and don't care how it was arrived at?
I think the claim might be related to openbsd's claim on their website:

> Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!

https://www.openbsd.org/

I remember a time when it was zero, not two.
See Pony.
there is a quiet non-profit based around Palo Alto that builds long-term residential solar installations, directly under the wing of PG&E. The tradeoff is that they put three "phone home" operators in your solar controller, and reserve the right to shutoff power back into the grid for their own reasons; high-quality installs though.