skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would they take down their previous report? I can only speculate that it was flawed in some way
Unfortunately I don't have any link to such a job post, but when I've seen them in the past they've clearly stated what they are about, so keywords like "COBOL" or "Mainframe" would certainly find them. Sorry I couldn't be any more help.
Exactly! I've been thinking along the same lines -- becoming a billionaire requires a person who will ignore the many offramps that occur along the way. Like, Elon could have retired after he sold his first company and had $20M liquid. But he rolled that over into a new company, again and again, like a pathological gambler on the world's best hot streak.

Is life better as the world's (second) richest man vs just $20M? Maybe? It seems like you have a ton of new worries about your family's security, and you become inevitably embroiled in world politics, and a target for state intelligence agencies. But you've won the status wars, and rich people who you once admired now suck up to you.

It takes a very specific personality type to choose that tradeoff.
> I also set up Linux for computer-illiterate old ladies. They love it.

I think you're trying to say that they don't have problems with the browser, and maybe an email client. If they're computer-illiterate, they don't know enough about an operating system to have an opinion at all, other than being happy about it turning on and off when they want.

Don't mistake that for loving Linux, because it is not really praise of Linux, it is praise for a computer that works well enough to run a web browser, which is an extremely low bar.
Something that immediately comes to mind is https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11#readme.

Of course, this is an earlier generation. But if the commenter is correct that VS Code is one of the greatest pieces of engineering of our time, then what the heck are we doing. And if the commenter is incorrect, then what the heck are we doing as a community in our duty to educate to the extent that the commenter doesn't realize that massive projects like this have been implemented, and continue to be implemented.

We have rockets that land by themselves, trucks making cross-country autonomous trips without intervention, multiple systems that can securely run arbitrary sandboxed code from anywhere in the world by simply typing a URL. I'd want someone to be excited not by an IDE for an IDE's sake, but what they can build with their IDE.
I can only imagine the smell. I remember once having a small aquarium as a kid and it had that 'fishy' smell to it. The whole place must smell like that now.
Implementing ABI Stability Support in Swift [video]
Is this the same IPCC that strongly claimed "nuclear energy" is bad in 2009, and now are strongly advocating the use of nuclear energy in 2022?
Some of our users are using Baserow for time tracking. It can be self-hosted, and you can create a data structure that fits your needs. You can for example create a projects table containing all the projects you're working on. Then create a time table with a relationship to the projects, a numeric "hours spend" field and a description field. Every time you worked on a project, you just add a time entry. You can also share worked hours with your clients.
The point is that neither of those is happening because the plants are not being built at all.

They are footing an entirely different kind of bill instead, paid with an entirely different kind of currency.

Instead of paying for a nuclear plant, regardless by what mechanism, they are living with continued use of coal and gas, or simply not enough capacity to meet the upcoming needs of things like wider adoption of EVs.
Is this true for Stevia as well?
The Christmas presents will be all the issues and bugs that will be discovered between now and Christmas eve in the shiny new multicore runtime.
For those kinds of prices, it almost makes sense to lay your own power cable between a group of 5-10 neighbours to exchange power whenever one person has excess solar generation and another needs power for their water heater.

Only when the whole group needs power take from the grid.

Technically, this would simply involve a ~200 amp cable down the street and one electricity meter for the group. No smartness is needed at all - electricity will always flow naturally in whatever direction saves the group the most money.

Bureaucratically, moving power from one house to another requires so much paperwork the incumbent provider will never let you do it.
The domestic honey bee is honestly doing fine these days, varroa is better understood and controlled (for now) in captive populations.
> Every money-losing tech company claims that they could turn the spigot to profitability at any time

A bit of an exaggeration but there is some truth here, tech companies are notorious for feeding all their revenue back into growth. However in Twitter’s case it was absolutely true. It had a solid perch and wasn’t going anywhere… until Elon took over and became Trump 2.0 except “this time, he owns the site!”
Saturated fats increase total cholesterol and by extension risk, but the ldl ratio is worsened when you include refined carbs and sugar, with little in the way of fiber and protein.
Glucose and Sucrose are not similar.

Glucose is easily and readily available for the body's use, with little processing, and can be metabolized quickly energizing the brain directly (brains feed on glucose).

The majority of the sugars in Honey are the glucose type and those are 'better' sugars for humans.

I'm a type 2 diabetic and I utilize honey instead of sugar wherever possible. I've been doing this for several years now, and there was a definite and definitive corrolation between my A1C levels prior to switching and after switching to Honey.
We asked AI to write Christmas songs in the style of Slipknot, Iron Maiden, etc.
Loosely measure search, CVs, and job ads: https://gradientflow.com/the-vector-database-index/

This kind of analysis is rarely precise, but is useful for rougher tasks like tiering

My personal question is if vector indexes are/will be a good-enough general DB feature / compute lib for most users & use cases. A lucrative niche market can still happen as VC dollars disappear, similar to graph DBs, so not a knock, just important for folks deciding how to build things.
> There are very few pieces of software that are here today and ticks a lot of the boxes of computer science. That are open source, cross-platform, extensible and has a modern stack.

Open source: there’s loads. I’m very surprised to read that comment here of all places. But even if we take your comment at face value, licensing has naff all to do with engineering impressiveness.

Cross platform: again I’d beg to differ there there aren’t many. And again I’d also like to point out that something not being cross platform doesn’t negate it being impressive engineering.

Extensible: this is another metric you’ve added that I disagree is a requirement

Used a modern stack: this absolutely shouldn’t matter when one talks about “of all time” like the GP was. Otherwise you’re intentionally skewing the results to only include recent developments.

> I often wish it wasn't so but the reality is that a shit ton of development has gone into browsers and in many cases other areas just aren't comparable.

The point of the GPs tangent was comparing all software engineering.

Sure, if you say VSCode is the greatest software engineering project of all time then suffix that comment with a dozen footnotes describing a dozen exclusions to the scope, then the claim might be more reasonable. But that wasn’t what the GP said and nor is it then “greatest”.

Frankly though, I wouldn’t even extend that description of his to modern IDEs specifically, let alone the broader context they intended.
Ah ok thanks for correcting me
The article talks about learning curves, but learning curves apply to airplanes, not airports. Nuclear is the latter.
Good meetings don't just happen. Set, and stick to, an agenda with times. Set a second meeting that's more open-ended with optional attendance. People need the social aspect, and it will pop out at the seams of you don't make space for it.
I always like this story about MacOs.

- Most OSes do a full dhcp look up when they connect to a network even if they have connected to the network before. Wifi saved networks is a good example of a network where you have some historical information on the connection

- MacOs however keeps track of the IP addresses that it saw for each of the networks it has connected to recently. If it sees a network it's been on before, it first tries to just use the old IP address. This is under the assumption that the lease is still tied to the user's laptop.

- In the best case, the laptop gets a working IP very quickly and in the worst case, you just do dhcp again

- From a user's perspective, if they walk into a meeting with a bunch of folks with non Mac laptops, it will seem like the Mac connects much faster than everyone else's machine

When I read this story, the author pointed out that many people say "Macs just feel like they work better!" and used this as an example. Granted, this partly comes from owning the ENTIRE stack from hardware to drivers to OS etc which is something only Mac can do.
> it's still interesting what happens when you try to click one of those Mastodon links...

For those who Nitterize their Twitter: Twitter sends Mastadon clicks to a Unsafe Link Warning page.

Man. I'm kind of in awe of Musk's limitless ability to diminish himself.
So, what can you do with a process ID?
Because that's the only clean energy source working 24/7 reliably and large scale electricity storage options are pretty much all terrible.

Additionally the usage spikes are in winter where solar production is at the lowest of the year and it's not like you can gamble the electricity grid on having wind or not.
I'm not diagnosed with ADHD, but Slack's notification noises trigger a visceral fight-or-flight response in me. Not PTSD surely, but in that spectrum.

This was from an early stage startup experience with 10 hour timezone deltas, and never-not being on call for some crucial infrastructure.

The sounds still evoke the dread,annoyance, and simmering resentment that accompanied a 4AM slack ping with the CTO just saying "Hey"
Oh interesting, then indeed, certainly worth fuzzing about.
I like this explanation: https://gigamonkeys.com/book/introduction-why-lisp.html
At a previous company I had a very similar problem, and eventually converted an old SIM-less phone into my Slack device and mounted it in a stand on my desk. (Slack was not deemed a sensitive company app that had to run on company devices, which considering the access to customer channels and prod-affecting chatops features seemed stupid, but I'm not IT.)

I could physically turn Slack off by turning the phone off, and the only other way to get through to me was async, via email or in tickets.

A coworker I trusted had my personal cell number and texted me when something was actually urgent, which happened twice in 6 months.
This is a reflection on your perception, what you imagine to be possible, and how much respect you afford "normies", more than it is a reflection on me.
The internet is amazing! The way it allows people to connect, help each other and sometimes also reconnect is heartwarming.

If you have a PayPal account, I will gladly contribute to your microscope fund!

Thank you again, and happy end of year!
How does the Pauli exclusion principle create a force in degenerate matter?
This will backfire in 10 years when EV's take off and PG&E doesn't have enough generation capacity.
I had a gig which required opening ridiculously large XML files (metadata for music albums). Some classical music compilations (think "6 CD bargain bin" boxsets) would end up with 1-2GB XML files.

Sublime didn't even flinch when opening and navigating around the file. Truly impressive text editor and absolutely worth the license cost.
Waymo expands service areas in San Francisco and Phoenix
Not sure if this would help, but I recently learned about a product called iMazing[1] that lets you browse and edit iTunes backups.

You can't access the whole filesystem of a running iDevice with it, but you can access the whole filesystem of the backup. So I suspect it might be possible for you to clean-up the backup offline & then restore it. (At a minimum it should enable you to extract the valuable contents out of the backup and manually restore it on top of a clean iOS install.)

I've used it with some success to extract info from the photos database. I just wish they had a consumer-facing (read: more affordable/perpetually licensed) version of their CLI tool.

[1]: https://imazing.com/
This is one of the benefits of being "obscure in only one area at a time" - just like you shouldn't break more than one law at a time, heh.

Linux is a relatively obscure OS, but you were on popular hardware with a popular SSD which helped increase the chance that someone else had run into a similar issue.
Most of those banned have nothing at all to do with providing updates from the public database of jet flight plans.

The only common thread is that they report in Elon Musk. They have nothing to do with the stalking incident, just with annoying Musk by doing other journalism.

Further, if he was doing what you were saying, that's not a new rule. The new rule that Musk made as to bring back doxxers and targeted harassers like LibsOfTikTok, that had been putting innocent people at great bodily risk by inflaming people with falsehoods and then sending them after people in real life. Yet LibsOfTikTok is still on Twitter!!
I heard some time ago that Intel runs the VMS operating system on much of its production floor. DEC's relational database for this platform was Rdb.

The Rdb database, originally written by DEC, was bought by Oracle in the '90s. It was actually the first commercial database to implement a "cost-based optimizer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Rdb

It was purchased by Oracle, is still maintained, and is likely on Intel's VMS systems.

https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.htm...

(I also have an account on a system that runs it.)
No, it's adding friction for honesty's sake. You don't have six thousand friends. You have five friends, tops, and like two hundred acquaintances tops[0].

There's nothing to "get back into"-- it was all just a lie to flatter you. The network effect stops working for you in the low three digits. You're just part of a people directory owned by some corporation.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Maine syrup on par with Québec?!?

FIGHT ME BRO!
Losing my google account has to be a worst nightmare scenario. I've started disentangling slowly, starting with mail, but Google Photos is just so convenient.
I personally think this is an emotional overreaction and, based on the location of the recent incident (far from his plane), I think @ElonJet was not involved (and probably doesn't pose any threat to Elon), but I don't think that means his previous statements were a lie.

Anyone would change their mind and overreact after an attack on their child.

And in a broader context, the new policy seems like a good idea. In general, I suspect real-time location tracking does more harm than good, and none of us would tolerate a website tracking our location.
if jfk and is bro were guilty in marilyn's death then you could only blackmail those who don't want any harm to come upon jfk ... why would those people collaborate killing jfk then?
Honey makes me smart, or so I feel. It awakens some interesting mental dynamics on myself. How? No other sugar does it, perhaps a bit maple juice.
Dang, had no idea that org-mode had that feature.

TIL! https://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-commands.html
> I seem to recall Dell saying that you should never store a suspended laptop in a laptop bag, because there are situations where it might wake up and overheat.

Which is the stupidest thing ever. I want to see Apple use this to shame Dell in ad.
Putin threw half the world into recession with an economy the size of Italy's. That's how little our technocrats cared about energy security - we sleptwalked into that entirely thanks to them.

Energy security would be better served by throwing the same amount of money at carbon neutral alternatives that are proven, deployed and already 2-5x cheaper. Solar, wind, pumped storage, batteries, etc.

For technocrats, civilian nuclear power is just a means to support the military nuclear industrial complex, which represents the apex of hard power. Energy security is of secondary if not tertiary concern to them.
Using Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana to Monitor QuestDB in Kubernetes
>stomach acid

Apples and oranges.

Unlike eating and excreting, the production (and destruction) of stomach acid doesn't change the body's overall pH.

Rather, the body produces acid by dumping alkalinity (specifically potassium bicarbonate) into the blood plasma.[0]

[0] https://teachmephysiology.com/gastrointestinal-system/stomac...
Sorry, I meant to say Japanese history.

It's the 4th biggest recorded on the Richter scale.
My wife said that YouTube footage looks like a 1960's wework lol.
Been dabbling in f# lately, but this has me wanting to give OCaml a try for comparison, very interested in the new effects stuff.
I mean because you’re using their platform and these are the terms - people have always been free to use other brokers, like the ones that charged commission.

Regulations also mean that you have to get NBBO or better so your fill price is never worse than the market
The Boring Conservatism of Elon Musk
Several years back I was thinking about the ideal shape of solar panels, and concluded that the best is the geodesic dome shaped structure. This shape will have the optimum sunlight exposure regardless of the location of the sun during the day.
I will take a guess:

German man raided by police after calling politician a “dick” on Twitter - https://reclaimthenet.org/german-man-raided-by-police-after-...

German prosecutors raid far-right AfD's headquarters - https://www.dw.com/en/germany-prosecutors-raid-far-right-afd... (Since Deutsche Welle is a 'respectable' news outlet, they have omitted the context that the raid, on 28th September 2022, happened 11 days ahead of the state election [1], over allegations from 2016-2018)

Germany: Migration background abolished in police database - https://www.bild.de/regional/berlin/berlin-aktuell/wegen-dat... (If you don't like journalists reporting on statistics, simply don't collect the statistics, then turn around and say there's "no evidence" of their claims. Not all press control is done by force.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Lower_Saxony_state_electi...
> For instance, do you think Tether is "fucked" too?

Uh, yes!?!

> isn't saying that Binance is "fucked" a bit much at this time

Sort of. The claim is that all the signs are there. A “Binance is fucked” rhetoric may increase the bank run on them, which may fuck them.

The fact that they’re dealing with a bank run, in part out of fear that the same will happen to them as FTX, will increase the probability, all depending on how sound their business is.

If they start freezing accounts, we know we’re hitting bottom.
This. Please point us to where things happen.

Also, how fluent in German must one be?
The title uses an absolute value. You are desperate to split hairs and missing the larger point.
That isn't the main reason...

The main reason is that a power company defends its existence by generating and delivering as much power as possible.

If everyone had on-site generation and batteries, PG&E would barely be required, and if they were to bill too much, users would just disconnect from the grid entirely (some battery systems can already work without a grid).

To defend their existence, they need to do everything possible to stop homeowners not needing their service. And discouraging rooftop solar is part of that.
Not sure about Germany but in the UK the designers would be unlikely to still be liable anymore under the original contract to design this, liability under the contract would be up to 12 years from when the work under the contract was completed. They might be liable in tort for professional negligence but it's much harder to prove that this has occurred especially after 20 years. More likely the company that was under contract to inspect/maintain this will get hammered.
I've had linux evenings, windows evenings, macOS evenings, hardware evenings, software evenings, house evenings.

Anything you use has a chance of failure and on the whole I feel Linux has taken less time to do what I want to do with it than other similar options.

Thought I started using macOS at home because I got tired of dealing with Linux desktop shit, so take that as you will.

> “If you’ve ever read a mystery story you know that a detective never works so hard as when he’s on vacation. He’s like the postman who goes for a long walk on his day off.”

I got tired of taking the long walks.
I don’t really understand the geodome fascination. They aren’t very space efficient structures because of all the low hight space at the perimeter that’s difficult to use.
Looks like a fun project but also illustrates why geodesic domes never caught on as a standard construction type: nodes/hubs or whatever you want to call them are a problem. Most standard construction joints have 90 or 45 degree angles, not the complex geometry found at a geodesic node. While initial construction is not that bad, maintenance and replacement over time (particularly with wooden structures) would be very difficult. All-steel construction of nodes and interconnecting beams, wih careful rust-resistant treatment, might be more viable, but that likely increases costs quite a bit.
> Radioactive cleanup article often fail to mention that we don't see biological harm with doses less than 100 mSv acute or 300 mSv over a long period of time.

Waste from fission plants and incidents is hard to estimate for a variety of reasons. It tends to be incredibly long-lived. Small non-lethal (even non-harmful) amounts can accumulate in animals and plants to the point where there's still an impact from Chernobyl on widespread populations decades later [1]:

> The German boars roam in forests nearly 950 miles (1,500 kilometers ) from Chernobyl. Yet, the amount of radioactive cesium-137 within their tissue often registers dozens of times beyond the recommended limit for consumption and thousands of times above normal.

It's worth noting that not all toxic byproducts are radioactive. Cesium is toxic on its own. The Uranium and Plutonium decay chains include a lot of metals that even if you ignore the radioactive element, they're toxic, sometimes incredibly so.

> ... 8 million people die per year due to air pollution from fossil and renewable biofuel combustion.

[citation needed]

This study [2] argues 1M/year, most of those concentrated in SE Asia (due to lack of regulation combined with coal use) and it's predominantly coal. For the US it's around 20,000. It's also not clear to me if this study includes emissions from automobiles.

> ... nuclear accidents cause far less life and environmental harm than fossil/biofuel.

The Chernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone, decades later, still stands at (literally) a thousand square miles.

Nuclear advocates always bring up coal (as a false dichotomy and it paints nuclear in the best light) and deaths because it's in many ways the least impactful dimension for nuclear. Likewise, they always talk about operational costs while brushing over capital costs (and thus the total cost of ownership) and the costs of waste handling and storage and ultimately the site cleanup costs. As the article notes here the current estimate for this one site sits at 121 billion pounds and will likely rise and take a century or more.

[1]: https://phys.org/news/2011-04-germany-radioactive-boars-lega...

[2]: https://www.healtheffects.org/publication/global-burden-dise...
Nope. Jackie did it: http://jackieiskillerqueen.blogspot.com/