skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pumped hydro is great where it works, but we have used most of the best places for it. We also know it is an environmental disaster for the local area which needs to be balanced against the gain.

Even if you ignore that, it takes a lot of space.
Copy paste the text into and console text editor. Should easily see the "hidden" characters, then.
Twitter chaos spills into public view as Musk clashes with and fires employees
Why would anyone do that, when competition will probably pay more or same for less hours? Yeah I know, lay off, but those are here only temporarily.
Some primers about avoiding the basic mistakes when leaking (don't read them from your work laptop obviously. That would be the first mistake!):

https://freedom.press/news/sharing-sensitive-leaks-press/

https://mashable.com/article/leaking-hacking-data-nsa-anonym...
Absolutely not. He’s very publicly an a-hole and there’s no way that doesn’t seep into the company culture at large.

As for the hardcore long-hour expectations, who’s supposed to be raising the employees’ children? A nanny plus occasional weekend facetime?
California's ban doesn't start for new vehicles for 13 years. That's a very long time in this context.
Amazon returns no longer require printing out labels, so someone who does most/all their online ordering via Amazon wouldn't need a printer.
There's also something similar in "The human factor" by Graham Greene, a good spy story.
wait, since when python.org has a discuss subdomain? And it's running Discourse which is built on RoR? What the...
Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913-1916
Insulting? It's true. It's not an insult. You're using mental gymnastics right now to make your point.

3500 people employed in a company that has no oversight of what they do, which is capable of getting huge investment and which wastes that money without any care in the world.

It sounds like an awesome place for people who aren't really good at what they do. Recent letting go spree is a result of unproductive employees. You can call it insulting, but I didn't create this situation and if you're deliberately oblivious to what's in front of you - that's your choice.

I did not create this situation, I'm an observer and it's trivial to observe and assert that IT is full of terrible employees, many of whom are really, really bad at what they do.
Well, once all these go down the prices of currencies will also come down, which affects even those who had their coins in cold wallets - unless they plan to hold without making a profit until the heat death of the universe
I got a Kobo and it does bookmarks, text selection and dictionary search fine. I shop from a variety of places, but only buy DRM-free EPUB books (https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/drm-free/ for example)

I use Calibre to organise the books (and convert formats if necessary) and push them to the device.

I backup the entire collection using a USB backup drive irregularly (once a month or so). I'm experimenting with Syncthing to backup to a rented baremetal server. So far so good.
... This is not what a recession is. (They're talking about a supply shortfall)
> Montessori teaching is rigid in its own way and not the best for children with dyslexia/dysgraphia (though neither are standard public school curricula)

i didn't mention this in my comment but this point is true in my experience as well. My oldest has both dyslexia and dysgraphia and really struggled with reading the way Montessori teaches it. We had to get outside specialists and basically do a very intense summer school to get him up to speed and things figured out. Once we understood what was happening we were able to get state required accommodations at his Montessori which really helped. He's now at a public middle school magnet and doing pretty well. His reading and writing are, by far, his hardest subjects because he's basically got one hand tied behind his back because of the dyslexia/dysgraphia but the kid knows how to work and he gets through it.

edit: If i may brag, i've seen that kid of mine do things grown adults would run from. That summer school was 4 hrs a day of intense work and an absolute struggle many days ended in tears/frustration but he did it and beat dyslexia down to something he could manage. I've never seen anyone work like he did, when i'm getting lazy and phoning it in I think about him and pick up the pace.
Beginner's guide to AI image inpainting
Neither does Elon.
The rockets and the cars are real.

-Tunnels are BS

-Hyperloop is dumb BS

-TeslaBot demos are embarassingly bad

-Neuralink seems to be BS

-Solar Tiles are BS

-The PowerWall is semi-legit but overpriced

-The roadster/semi/cybertruck are suspiciously late

-A lot of the Mars plans are weak/delusional
I always get the feeling Musk is cosplaying the "startup mentality" without wanting to sacrifice his own need to bully people into submission.
Every piece of metal on a modern car body is structural, so basically all corrosion is a structural/crash hazard!
> There is a thing called web-development, emerged in the last couple of decades.

As someone who does web development, and has been doing it for longer than the last couple of decades, that statement seems unnecessarily dismissive.

> But most of the web pages that people use day to day are not "documents", they are apps.

While I would agree that the quantity of web pages people visit today that are 'apps' is substantially larger than it used to be, I do think there are a lot more plain HTML documents in use (particularly in boring corporate environments) than many who frequent HN would think.

Of course, if you are going to call anything that executes a significant amount of Javascript an 'app', I am not sure I'm interested in the argument.

My original response wasn't arguing about what was most common anyway -- you said "Web browsers are not hypertext documents viewers anymore." I was just pointing out that they still do a lot of that (and for things that I would not consider to be an 'app'). Admittedly the line between 'app' and 'document' is a bit fuzzy in some cases, but there are enough cases where (in my mind) it is not fuzzy that I still don't see your original comment as accurate.
Affordable trucks have mostly disappeared. They have been climbing up the price brackets for a few generations now. Its gotten to the point that before the Maverick your choices were either absurdly expensive luxury truck or buying a trim meant for commercial use that has no features at all. There did not exist a normal truck anymore. Well, they did nominally. But good luck finding one for sale. Why sell lower tier F-150s when you can build them as Raptors and have a higher profit margin?

So the Maverick is popular not because of any great quality it has. But because there is a massive hole in the market. Reviews I have seen show it as fairly mediocre and generally less capable than previous cheap trucks.
No, he's looking to get rid of all the bloat at Twitter and retain the engineers that want to work on engineering problems and not play at politics and activism. Good riddance.
The link I posted says you just disable the service that does the restarts shrug.
Heh glad it’s helpful ^_^

I have it constantly running with the menubar icon hidden, so even I forgot it existed. It just does its job when I go into a Zoom meeting.
Fuel cell efficiency is worse than electrolysis efficiency, about 50%. Even the worst batteries beat that.
I think their point is that what is readily learned or understood (and one's own intuition) are both informed by what they're already used to.

So many of us are used to the UI of one or more ecosystems that you're going to report on the subjective intuitiveness of any UI based on what we're already used to.

For all intents and purposes intuition is subjective and so is "intuitive".

There's value in building things that are "intuitive" to people who are used to existing UIs/systems _even if those existing UIs are bad_. There is also value (harder earned, for sure) in ignoring those existing patterns and bringing something truly better to the table...but you'll have people CORRECTLY pointing out that it's counter intuitive along the way.
Same. I've no interest in working for someone like this again... no matter how incredible the team they've build around them may be.
These are 2022 models. No states are forcing people to buy these. California will be forcing people to buy the 2035 models, for which reliability ratings don’t yet exist
So what? As long as it works, don't change it. This parts are deprecated since up to nearly a decade (Python 3.2 was released February 20th, 2011). And they will work for some more years. Some have not even a working replacement yet. Investing now in changing old code just to be compatible to a not even released version, is a bit pointless if you have more important work on the list.
No, I pasted a quote from an extremely respected thinker who, in the context of Effective Altruism, said that a financier who gave away virtually all his earnings would be morally superior to most of us. Giving away money is a good thing, everybody does it, by all means do it more. But the idea that you can purchase moral superiority, and, moreover, that the superiority you obtain is proportionate to the amount you donate relative to the average person? That is literally the logic of indulgences.

You've skipped the words "way ahead of most of us" in the quote I provided, is what I think happened.
It's not quick money, but writing books can generate an ongoing royalty stream. And, they're good resume builders if you want to do freelance work. It worked for me.

You can do worse than O'Reilly Media. https://www.oreilly.com/work-with-us.html

And there are other publishers.
Yes? It's called tampering with public property....

https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/readingpa/latest/readi...
> 1( A huge portion of Russian casualties came not because of Nazi, but total and complete ineptitude on the part of the Russian commanders, and later in the war, casual disregard of strategy in favor of brute force, no matter the casualties.

Careful with rehashing German canards about the USSR, repeated to their American interlocutors, and which mostly absolved the Wehrmacht of their own mistakes. "We were brilliant, it's just that the Soviet 'asiatic horde' was too numerous and didn't care about casualties". This has been shown to be false in more recent studies, less influenced by Cold War thinking. (For example: Glantz shows the frequent outnumbering of Soviets vs Germans was often due to concentration of force -- the Soviets weakened some sectors to overwhelm Germans in others, which is a sound tactic which the Germans failed to understand or prevent again and again, and who made them claim the Soviets were "a horde").

The conclusion of experts is also that as the war went on, Soviet strategic and operational thinking got better, not worse, while Germany's followed the opposite direction (and correspondingly, Stalin's confidence in his generals grew, while Hitler's weakened). They became masters at deception and strategic maneuver, it was just at the tactical level that the Germans were consistently better. As for casualties, well, Nazi Germany was hell-bent on eradicating the "surplus" Slav race from Eastern Europe, so... The fighting on the Eastern Front was savage and unlike what the Western Allies faced because the Germans were engaged in a war of extermination, and the casualties reflected this.

"It's not that the Germans were murdering them by the millions, it's that they were bad at defending themselves" is an odd argument.

> it completely ignores the pacific theaters which the United States, Australia and New Zealand took on

It doesn't ignore them, it's just that those theaters weren't as instrumental in defeating Nazi Germany as the Soviet Union's contribution to the war. It's just that the Pacific War looms larger in American culture, for understandable reasons.

> Once you dig into the numbers, the American aid to both GB and Russia kept both countries in the war in 1942

It's ok to bring attention to American industrial might and their very helpful assistance to the USSR, but it's even better to remember it was the Soviets who defeated Nazi Germany. It's the Soviets who heroically defended Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad, against all odds. It's the Soviets who disassembled whole factories and relocated them in record time to the Urals when they fell threatened by the German advance. It was the Soviets who, with Operation Bagration, inflicted the single largest military defeat on Nazi Germany (we have heard plenty about Normandy, why so little about Bagration?).

Especially since all of this was downplayed for political reasons during the Cold War.
>Maybe I'm in the minority, but I would generally assume that everybody has at least 1 printer at home.

I haven’t seen a home printer since I moved out. In all these years I’ve only needed to use a printer once (sheet music when I was learning piano).

It’s just not that common to use paper anymore, aside from school projects.
Hope? Many, many unusual education interventions have been attempted in the US public school system since the 1960s, and the vast majority end up having little lasting effect on test scores once they're scaled up (i.e., once the most motivated teachers and parents aren't disproportionately participating). So I doubt this program will magically improve test scores (and we're usually doing this in the worst schools in the first place, which means they have the least able or motivated teachers, students, and parents in the first place) once we scale up from the one charismatic founder.

There are other motivations for parents to opt for this program even if test scores ultimately can't be raised:

- If kids have to be in class for something anyway, they might as well be learning Chinese at the same time, which is at least a useful skill that's easier to learn in childhood.

- Chinese education is associated, rightly or wrongly, with more rigorous math instruction, which might well increase test scores even if the "underlying" math ability isn't increased.

- (Speculatively) teaching in Chinese might lessen children's exposure to "woke" ideology in the classroom. I can't find the article now, but I read an article a few weeks ago that argued that linguistic barriers form a major check on the spread of wokeness within countries, because wokeness achieves a lot of its power via equivocating between unobjectionable and "woke" definitions of words like "gender", "diversity", "racism", "tolerance", etc. For example, Germanic-speaking countries where the level of English knowledge is highest are the European countries most influenced by wokeness (outside of native English speaking countries), while for example the very idea of transgenderism seems ridiculous in Hungarian because the very word for "gender" in its non-grammatical sense is borrowed from English, making the equivocation mentioned above impossible. Chinese has its own similar political language around Communism, but China's soft cultural power in the West is quite weak, so no one's worried that their children in America will become fans of the CCP.
I'm always fascinated by these Billionaires who expect employees to work 24/7 for their company.
Basically as an employee you give your company your work force against a salary, you don't sell your life to it.

As an employee you are not a samouraï ready to die for your daimyo.

If you don't have a life beyond your job, you are basically ready for your next burn out.

These Billionaires might commit 100% of their time to their company, but it is for their personal gain. On the other hand, as an employee, you will never really earn more than what was contractually signed on your contract, when they will tremendously benefit from your work, your creativity and your intelligence.
Most of my information is from a book on the issue called "Sealed time".

Regarding the book as holy property, special item:
https://sureshemre.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/on-the-late-adop...

One such example is the delay of book printing in the osman cultural sphere.

Rest is on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_desecration#Respectful_d...

And in various scholar articles. Notice that its also a attempt to have cohension and prevent the forming of sects and cults.

https://raseef22.net/article/1070179-book-burning-islamic-hi...
You are going in circle here. SLS won't have many launches because it's too expensive, and they can't build more than one per year.

The cost and the tendency of its launch being scrubbed makes it a risk for any time sensitive mission, as shown by NASA decision to switch Europa Clipper to Falcon Heavy:

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/325106-europa-clipper-di...
Except the notice is about "removing deprecated modules"? Deprecation usually means "These are going away at some point. Be aware.".
Unintuitive things about macOS: the bar at the top is used both for app-context menus and for system-context settings. Wuh?

If you want to scan something, you have to go via system settings instead of running an app. Wuh?

They keep breaking drivers for important things, especially USB things, especially if it so happens that they decide to sell them themselves (like external keyboards). About a year ago I had an issue where previously functional USB UART drivers stopped working, result being I had to buy a Linux laptop for firmware work. Then, just last week, my Cherry mechanical keyboard stopped working, the windows key had previously functioned seamlessly as 'command' but ceased to do so. No amount of fiddling seemed to fix it. At this point I'll never buy another Apple device.

Fixing anything hardwareish requires remembering undocumented key combinations at boot time.

No rollback support on config changes.

One could go on...
For a premium I would and if the project was something that benefited humanity and not just made rich people more money. Yeah. Elon is no worse than most corporations, he is just much much worse at hiding it.
So what's going on here:

Hydrogen Powered Train in Germany: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hydrogen-powered-p...

and here:

Hydrogen Powered Toyota: https://www.toyota.com/mirai/
Many new cars do not come with a spare either. I had a family friend I needed to help, and their Dodge caravan minivan, only came with an air pump that had a sealant to patch holes in the tire.
This is exactly correct.

As far as affecting the state of TUI/CLI programs today, it becomes part of the culture as well as part of the overall look and feel of the system.

Yet, there are programs that break from convention: JOE, Dit, irssi, etc.
> We watch Marvel movie after Marvel movie where each one is advertising for the next movie.

Hey speak for yourself! Avoiding ads is difficult, but skipping mainstream movies goes a long way.
> Zero knowledge proofs also havent really caught on. And its not a new idea. The Fiat–Shamir heuristic is from 1986.

There's been a lot of advances in recent years in ZKPs, accompanied by a lot more interest. Fiat-Shamir is still used to turn interactive proofs into non-interactive, but the state of the art is far beyond just doing that. zk-SNARKs are less than 10 years old, zk-VMs are becoming more common, and the ZPrize competition is yielding some big steps forward in implementation performance. Probably blockchain applications are a major reason for recent increased interest and commercial R&D, even though that's not where the academics see the main applications.

If you're interested, the zkproof.org conference is currently still going, and the sessions can be watched live:

https://zkproof.org/events/workshop5/
I am directly addressing

>But a cultural take-over of the technical skill space by a crypto religion is far more series and needs addressing ASAP.

The technology is blockchain, and the skills are writing/reading smart contracts, developing websites making use of Wallets, and everything else that anti-crypto folks keep screaming "IT'S USELESS, USE POSTGRES INSTEAD". If that is true, then the ecosystem will die on its own.

The fact that Web3 is being banged on ad-nauseam as a marketing buzzword, muddying the waters to the point that no one is sure what the hell Web3 even is, does not undermine the technological foundation, which is blockchain. Again, if blockchain IS useless then it will die off, but ... Bitcoin is still going strong a decade in, despite all the bullshit that surrounds it, and is likely impossible to kill off completely. That alone has merit, IMO. Of course, you are free to disagree.

You can talk about it, but actively advocating that "cultural take-over of the technical skill space" needs "addressing" is complete and utter insanity. Blind hatred. You people have become as religious as crypto folks, except in the opposite direction. I've seen people advocating about blacklisting people who worked in crypto/web3 as well.

You are completely losing it. I am honestly worried.
> "... the five words written in 40 characters identified as Vasconic, suggest otherwise. The first – and only word – to be identified so far is sorioneku, a forerunner of the modern Basque word zorioneko, meaning good luck or good omen."

How did they know some set of characters meant sorioneku? Is this not the first time they have even seen these characters?
Ammonia trains might be a better answer.
If we are talking about the radio spectrum: Not much - other than the threat of the regulators showing up at your doorsteps after they found you with a van. If you are talking about the backbone so to say, it's not such a big Issue. The original packet-forwarder sends "json" over UDP. If you are using a packet-forwarder by one of the network operators, some of them are using MQTT (IP/TCP) as the transport.

Some gateways let you filter by network_id, this will not stop someone from pulliting/disrupting the radio spectrum, but it will stop your gateway from relaying those packets to your network-server.
People tend to forget MacOS is BSD under the hood, not a Linux distribution. So the way it handles installation software is going to be different. I personally think the way BSD handles software is better, Linux blurs the line between 3rd party software and system dependencies and that causes all kinds of issues when it’s time to update or remove stuff.
The other day I watched a self-described functional programmer implement a while loop using this custom-written conditionally recursive function.

There was nothing more elegant about it and it wasn't obvious from just looking at the function call what the function was doing. It wasn't any simpler than while(condition){}.

All because he didn't like while loops (and statements in general). It seemed tortuous and unnatural.

FP has some good parts but so does imperative programming, and I think throwing away the good parts of imperative programming and OOP for the sake of "pure" FP is a serious mistake.
I've seen the argument that "traditional auto makers" don't "get" how many people think - they concentrate on panel gaps or wind noise or door closing bump noise. Tesla isn't great there, but the Tesla software is good, and what some people call "kids" treat the car more like a smart phone. They don't care if your panel gaps are great - if your infotainment software is very laggy or crashes, it's a low quality car.
Anyone who doesn’t like his management style is playing at politics?

People leave jobs (or don’t take them) all the time because they don’t like how the boss uses their power. It’s a personal choice and doesn’t have anything to do with activism.
Is there really evidence to suggest that average competence, critical thinking, or intelligence has decreased?
Musk will probably be lionized for this. Jack Welch of GE had a doctrine "Six Sigma" that was pretty hard on workers, but he was hailed for using it.

On the other hand, Eddie Lampert used a weird libertarian method and ran Sears into the ground.

I think there's a lot of survivor bias in how business leaders are treated.