skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal, biased, cynical, enterprise marinated opinions follow:

Turn off notifications. Don't have Slack visible all the time.

Stop working on multiple things at the same time (unless you really know what you're doing and can handle it; tip: you probably don't and can't).

Have an actual process behind your tickets. Tickets are never directly assigned to anyone by the reporters; on that route lies madness. Have someone triage the tickets and prioritize them. Lesser prio tickets will just have to wait, a human can offer a finite amount of work per time unit.

Slack is no substitute for actually having order in things. Slack is not a ticketing system or even a good system for assigning work, and it most definitely is not a project manager or a scrum master. It's just a chat system, treat it like that.

I for one cannot live with notifications enabled in anything. I turn everything off by default. All sounds, all blinking little shits and bubbles which pop up constantly -- there's NO NEED for anyone to suffer at the mercy of attention-begging engagement gadgets.

I check Slack and such when I have the mental bandwidth available to process whatever is in them, usually when I have some minutes (e.g. after kicking off flashing or a build, running a long grep). Then, I do a quick sweep to check things.

I use a form of Eisenhower matrix. Urgent/non-important: if you can delegate, do so; if not, "please file a ticket/comment on the ticket". Non-urgent/non-important: IGNORE. The important/non-urgent goes to the personal prio-2 TODO list to check later. The urgent/important: if I'm working on it, these become do-it-nows in a prio-1 TODO list. Otherwise they go to prio-2 TODO list to check later.

TODO lists are best in free form bullets/tickboxes, either electronically or on paper. I wouldn't use a phone app unless you really need the mobility.
0.30/kWh is really a lot. Its a massive subsidy. 0.5/kWh seems a bit mean, but it's the same as here in the UK.
The main thing with solar is that it's cheaper to use what you generate. Due to the sun, you probably can't use all the midday, and are in deficit at night... but that's why flat rate doesn't make sense. Evening electricity is usually more expensive, daytime very cheap. (Weather dependent, of course)
Paying at flat rate is to encourage adoption, but doesn't make economic sense. Batteries are pretty cheap now. Solar + battery will pay back in under 4y, even in dull England.
It is clear that Taibbi et al. are cherry-picking FBI interactions that will draw the most clicks and outrage from fans of the new management.

If they had published communications between the FBI and Twitter from, say, June 2020, I imagine their audience would not be able to muster quite as much indignation.
> Is that coercion?

Taibbi also brings that up -

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603890210252668928

> An FBI agent just reached out with a key point about the “gross” subservience of Twitter before the FBI: “A lot of companies we deal with are adversarial to us. Like T-Mobile is totally adversarial. They love leaking things we're saying if we don't get our process right.” (1/2)

> “I feel like that’s the default position. People used to get mad about that in the Bureau, but — they're supposed to represent their clients and their customers. Why in the hell would you expect them to make it easy on you? Do the right thing. Do it the right way.”

Sounds like Twitter just went along with it, without coercion. Which you may choose to criticize as weakness or cowardice, but maybe that's just how they chose to do business.

> I don’t disagree with what you posted at all.

Then you agree that your earlier statement "That goes well beyond the remit of the FBI and violates numerous norms of law enforcement influence over public speech" is wrong and baseless, given the legal context that I have provided.

> And what makes me more uncomfortable is when people read the story and say “so what? It’s a nothingburger”.

For the record, my stance is that it's not a nothingburger, but it is so insignificant so as to provide a convenient distraction for actual malicious acts that are going on, like the Z-Library shutdown. And that all of this is underwhelming, much like this other poster's opinion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34024363

"A whole bunch of mildly unsatisfactory situations" seems to be an adequate summation of this whole situation. Which this thread, like all culture wars, has made a mountain out of.
> the 64GB ram

It's 64 MB RAM
Attestation is a big mess right now, but there's a consortium working on it, with Red Hat involved: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-confidential-containers-... https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/understanding-confidential-co...

(Note confidential containers builds on top of confidential hardware VMs)
The issue is if they did this, what would happen is:

1) An enormous pile of cash would accumulate on Google's balance sheet.
2) The spinoffs would be subject to normal commercial rules about risk, rate of return and such.
3) The spinoffs couldn't be "brand Google." Which is a not-inconsiderable thing.

Clearly though, it's a good call.
2.5c isn't great, but 5 years is. Shows its definitely worth it if you've got any kind of load during the day. Are you able to make any use of the peak rates after 3 over there?

From what I hear SA is one of the best places in the country to generate. Optimal temperature for the panels plus lots of sunlight. 8 years seems like nothing with the genny and battery. We tried but couldn't make the numbers work with any kind of decent backup, this was 3 years ago.

Cheers for the info!
In practice, yes. They did.

I have worked at another organization (hosted server provider) where I was in contact with the FBI and other law enforcement.

There's a world of difference between what was shown they did at twitter by noting things that were "worrisome" or against a reasonable site's ToS and forcing anyone to take things down.

I have told agents that certain materials were acceptable and that we would take no action. Not much they could do there without an actual warrant.
Here is something fun to do with this: copy the description of a song from songtell (like Bohemian Rhapsody) and ask ChatGPT to write a song that matches that description.
As a part of the diaspora, I agree with nitin-pai. Xi has all but destroyed China’s rise by killing Deng’s vision for China.

Besides, if you believe so much in the mainland and CCP, why did you leave?

In my opinion, if the mainland was a democracy, it would have probably overtaken the US by now in almost metric other than the military. Shenzhen would have also left Silicon Valley in the dust a long time ago. It’s too bad.
Starting from the assumption that self reviews make sense only in companies where you are left with full freedom;in places where you manager actually tells you what to do, they are meaningles.

That said, in the former kind on company (the one that allows you to break you neck as you wish), I find extremely educational doing self-reviews, especially if you do them incrementally as the year passes by so that, by the time the review is needed, you just need to "JIT" the document and serve it out.
It provides a way to tell in advance if you are working on something that feels like bullshit on paper.
Interesting, can you give rough order of magnitude for the txn/s throughout achieved? Would also be really interested on more info or pointers to the hardware reliability mechanisms!
Perhaps keep your physical sensations in your mind, work on your awareness.

It's possible that your body got addicted to the dopamine rush of checking messages. Which is more immediately rewarding than putting in work.
This week in KDE: Wayland fractional scaling
I just want to say that rooftop solar is a complete mess in my country in Central Europe. Since the Ukraine crisis, electricity prices went up like crazy and people actually got those prices for their solar energy. The problem is: nobody was actually paying the market rate prices as a consumer which means that you payed, for example, 8ct/KWh for using energy and got 80ct/KWh for delivering. Now the government is subsidizing those insane energy prices such that the consumers still pay an affordable rate and solar pays of in no time. Everyone who could afford it of course bought rooftop solar, but now a cap has been introduced such that you are only allowed to deliver a tiny amount of energy to the grid while your neighbor, who started before the cap was introduced, delivers 10x the amount.
The whole point of introducing the (icky) "qualia" concept is that it's not the same thing as appearing alive to external observers.

As I understand things, we have no way of knowing the answer. So there's no point in assuming in either direction (unless that makes you feel more comfortable).

Personally I avoid being confident in something in the almost provable absence of any evidence. Feels more hygienic to reply "don't know" to this whole problem than to waste time trying to find an answer (as I'm hopelessly outmatched by the cursed nature of the problem).
That really is fascinating and well worth a read. The sums of money are amazing, love the network that builds up to produce these.
No one had heard of Zoom in January 2020.

If it worked the way people wanted and was available in April 2020 people would have used it.
implement zero-logging. but that's not profitable.
Can you give examples of the latter? I know from personal experience (of looking at disassembly of JIT output) that, when CLR generics are instantiated with structs, it is perfectly capable of full monomorphization with inlining of stuff similar to C++ <algorithm>.
Lawsuits suggest some video game cheating could be illegal
Just a side note that at least openSUSE has community-backed solutions for distributing the codecs anyway (long live OBS). This is not optimal long term solution but it works(tm) for at least AMD.

(Background: I'm daily driving openSUSE tumbleweed and had to deal with it fairly recently)
So it's going from good intentioned gov subsidy over the short term to incentivized adoption -> hard cuts to meet the long term realities of the market?

I guess the people who bet on centralized subsidies probably want some middle ground. But California saw it was mostly going to private companies engineered to take advantage of [current subsidy] and anything half-way would just continue pumping money into greenco instead of the future? And they decided to cut and run and bet on raw energy/climate outcomes instead of whats best for greenco?
You proof is tautological or whatever: it assumes the thing it's trying to prove.

"The fact that I can pray to God and he hears me proves that he exists"
If i had nickel for every time i had been in a conversation where someone “proved they were right” even though they were nowhere near there, ok, i wouldn’t have millions but I’d have somewhere in the $50s which is a lot higher than you’d expect
To extend your extension. My local farmshop actually buys surplus homegrown fruit and veg (for vouchers) and sells them at cost.
What proponents of the "Well if we just removed all the regulatory requirements we could build loads of nuclear much faster than renewables" argument fail to take into account is that the building of renewables is also massively constrained by regulatory requirements, that if removed would lower the cost and make roll out much more rapid. In the UK the Tories have essentially banned building on shore wind for the past several years, removed subsidies for household solar (and insulation and other energy efficiency measures), and threatened to legislate against solar panels on farmland. Remove these obstacles and you could build out more renewables more easily, in the same way as if you removed regulatory obstacles to new nuclear. We need a mix of solutions that can be rolled out rapidly, and it is probably easier to roll out wind, solar and improve energy efficiency than it is to persuade people to build new nuclear reactors. As it is we seem to be locked into this ridiculous "I demand a perfect, preferably macho big science solution" attitude towards actually doing anything.
Like with my example of The Beautiful South above, it feels like the prompt could use a reminder that songs are a work of art and may have a hidden meaning or another interpretation. It _almost_ gets there with that creepy DCFC song...
I worked in a semiconductor probe and test group and we had many older Teradynes connected to Sun computers running Solaris.. There were also old mainframes running Solaris (these were slowly being sunset but from my understanding, it was challenging due to many many cronjobs, etc..). We were tasked with keeping all systems up year round, which made any type of migration slow.
Mostly, yes. Them and a few other startups in this area.

It feels though like they only nibble at a few of the problems. If at the core it is a regulation problem, then you can't just fix it with technology.
Ah yes thanks, still pretty good though for on-package for £3-odd (UK price).
https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005004970779483.html
its weird that people don't see this as softcore porn, which is what most of it is
Big corps usually prohibit their employees from expressing their personal opinions. It’s sometimes tolerated but always against the employment contract. So whenever you’re saying something, bigcorp could decide that “this one’s too far”. On a topic with as much PR as this one, it’s rather dangerous to comment on if you gave a medium-to-high level position.

The reason big corps do it is so that their PR department has ANY chance of sending a coherent message. So it’s not even evil behaviour IMHO.

All that to say, I understand why they used an anonymous account. Of course, that doesn’t mean one has to believe them, it’s their word against Carmack’s. But it’s good to hear that perspective IMO.
I've been watching shorts a bit because I'm curious about the algorithm and also I don't wanna install tiktok and some of those vids are legit quite amusing.

Most of what it suggests is inline with my youtube subscriptions, but it does consistently push two things I'm totally disinterested in: Andrew Tate interview clips and some weird spam channel that's just videos of attractive female athletes. Nothing I do in the UX to say "stop showing me these" seems to matter.
This is persuasive reasoning. But basically "There are no conscious entities we know of period (other than ourselves)" is a much simpler belief.
This is not a prediction about AI, but a realistic guess how it will be used in the future. Based on how the benefits of automation and productivity increases have been shared with the general populace in the past. Hint: they mostly haven't been shared. Instead we have billionaires whose money disappears into offshore tax havens, all the while civilian infrastructure and society in general crumbles.
I recommend "Slowness" by Milan Kundera, he has some interesting thoughts about elite/popularity/celebrities. To be honest one can be pretty "elite" without gaining this amount of popularity. Elon is trying to become a celebrity with his actions so he shouldn't complain that people treat him like a celebrity.

It's hard for me to give an example of anonymous US billionaires, but the richest guy in Poland is pretty much anonymous. Last time I checked there were no photos of him, no biography, and even people in his big company didn't know how he looks sometimes.

Edit: His name is Tomasz Biernacki, here is a bloomberg article altough I can't pass the paywall https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/reclusive...
If it was true that this still was the CCP’s main strategy for Taiwan, it would have been a relief. This was the policy before Xi’s ascension. Unfortunately, Xi isn’t very bright or as patient as his predecessors.
One killer feature for me aside from usability for less-technical people are comments. While comments are not be necessary for certain types of websites, I consider them essential for anything you might call a blog.
Another way of phrasing it is “sharp STEM grass with strong interpersonal skills”, which seems like a good thing?
On non-logged-in/no-history YouTube (e.g. a new private browsing window), there'll usually be 1-3 such shorts in the shelf on the homepage.

Logged in, I think it's tried to show me such a video just once, after I'd been scrolling for way too long. I hit 'dislike' and it hasn't tried again.
A simplified definition could be: It's ray tracing if the ray direction is never chosen randomly, randomness (Monte Carlo integration) makes it path tracing.
TikTok pays almost nothing. That's why all the big TikTokers use it to promote their youtube, their random artisanal product, or some other monetization angle.
Can you make left turns? Can you stop at red lights?

Then you have a driver.
Why did my battery go flat? An interesting investigation
That term is apt for Reddit's engineering teams as well.
The performance review process at Meta and Google is so exhausting… It eats up a good 50% of everyone in the EM structure, without (in my and my colleagues’ experience anyway) any tangible benefit.
I don't quite understand if you're deliberately ignoring my point of if you're that out of touch.

Perhaps you've forever lived in an academic/industrial bubble, but a significant part of the population and definitely the vast majoirity of those that would engage in taking a virtual confrontation to IRL, are borderline illiterate, have significant difficulty parsing simple manuals. You're describing setting up a computer with Linux, configuring an SDR and configuring some software to parse the data stream.

To most people, that's lunar...
> commonly there simply isn't a productive way to walk the line

I think that sums up the problem of institutional dynamics and
individual talent rather well. For people with strong work ethics,
sense of duty and genuine creative optimism, it's very painful to sit
in a room of avoidant, grinning suits being superficially nice to one
another wasting time trying to find "clever" reasons not to do
anything. The whole show is a cloying deadlock. It's squandering human
intelligence and life opportunities. I can't be witness to that
tragedy and no remuneration, however many zeros you add, can make it
worthwhile.
> On a Wednesday morning during an unbearable late-summer heat wave, I sat in the back seat of my mother’s car,

Nothing says "this is going to be an overly-long narrative driven story" than talking about the weather in the first sentence.
As a communist, respect to pragmatic anarchist comrades.

State power can be useful, even if we both wish to be rid of it.
No — it doesn’t.

When that chart turns negative, it means that the ratio of COVID deaths to non-COVID excess is less than one, ie there is more non-COVID excess death than COVID deaths. When there is no non-COVID excess, but still COVID deaths, the chart shoots up; when there’s none of either, it clamps to the black line. This is a log-scale chart of their ratio; that solid black line represents a ratio of 1, ie, equal amounts.

The chart going below the black line represents positive excess death in a ratio that favors non-COVID excess deaths.

Edit: I’ve added a log chart of excess deaths, with the black line at zero, ie, the expected amount.

https://zmichaelgehlke.com/images/shaded-excess-mortality.pn...

> concepts like "non-COVID excess" doesn't even start to make sense

Sure they do: excess deaths which exceed the number of registered COVID deaths in the same period. We can detect that by looking at all cause mortality and subtracting identified COVID mortality.
From the perspective of the grid/utility it is fairly accurate though. They pay for electricity to be made at wholesale rates at every instant of time to meet demand. During the peak of the day in CA, wholesale electricity prices are near zero, and sometimes even go negative due to overproduction. Then in the evening they shoot through the roof. So they're getting power that can be even worse than useless during the day and having to provide it at the most expensive times to those same customers. The grid operator experiences this as basically buying useless trinkets (daytime solar) for massive amounts of gold (peak power demands that require capital intensive plants that hardly get used).
i'd probably just do whatever the fbi wanted so as to save myself a possible hassle. which is the point: the fbi can fuck with me. to say, "well, the fbi is just reporting stuff" ignores that the fbi has power. power is something people seem to have an odd tendency to ignore.
Yes but, and this is the point that people seem to miss, that means you don't have to have them burning the rest of the time. This is still better than the actual situation that "we shouldn't do anything unless its big nuclear" proponents are helping to maintain where you are burning carbon all the time because we aren't building nuclear reactors in the real world for a variety of reasons (mostly political) and aren't likely to do so any time soon. So let's do the thing that makes things better and is politically possible even if its not perfect rather than doing nothing.
Try it yourself. Strap something 8 hours or longer around your head, don't move, because every small tremor distorts the vision of the device.

VR in its current form is eye cocaine, nothing more. Why watch poppy avatars hop around in a virtual reality, while you are bound to do nothing?

In every way, VR should be restricted to very few use cases, not to - hello Zuck - rebuild reality completely and hereby track everything you do or see to deliver even more addictive material to your eye vision.

It sounds cool, some use cases look cool, but the very fact that hardly anyone at Meta uses their own device/creature, speaks volumes. I am glad, JC takes consequences and abandons this experiment.
I think that position confuses ethics with condemnation of an individual.

You can be ethically against stealing, but still see the positive elements in the life of a thief.

It is absolutely not necessary to turn the discussion around Musk into a trial. It is possible he is neither guilty or innocent, but rather a mixture of good and bad - like everyone on here, even those condemning him as a terrible human.
This is a pretty impressive project, though the results (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwXs9RB6uD0) are somewhat disappointing. From what I see toward the end of the video, the image is blurry with poor colour rendition, although it is fantastically low latency.

I suspect you're currently limited by the optics you're using, lack of white-balance and low CRI lighting. Looking forward to seeing further tests!
Interactive Xkcd
I don't know, but it runs off of a 5V/0.5A power supply if that helps at all.
I used to cheat at Age of Empires 2. It was fun, but eventually very stale to empty all the single player campaign maps with a swarm of cobra cars. Getting better at playing without cheats is way more satisfying.
I disagree with anarchists as much as the next guy, but a quick google gets a bunch of results that contradict your definitions. It seems that anarchism is, at best, very rarely defined in the way you provided.
It’s a great idea - I just wish they’d skipped this bit

Spill will use blockchain technology…
> Imagine if you had the Trump admin suggesting whose accounts to review?

The highly publicized examples of taking down tweets with nude images of Hunter Biden happened when Trump was president. Is everybody ignoring that fact in this story and just assuming that the FBI is aligned with the democrats regardless of who runs the executive branch?
Click on the cartoon and use your arrow keys.
Interesting perspective, I see how my argument doesn't work. Still, I can't help but feel that forcing a woman through pregnancy is justified if it's not consensual... I hope the technology for artificial uterus is developped during our lifetime