skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Active HP-UX admin here.

the software being run is SAP R3/Oracle and there is plans to replace it, but that is not happening anytime soon due to the usual delays associated with ERP migrations.

License cost is a red herring here especially when dealing with enterprise applications from the likes of like SAP, Oracle and IBM, heck were probably paying as much for our SAP on SUSE subscriptions as we do for our HPUX licenses, and the real license costs is with the applications and databases.

And it's not that long ago(say 2014) that there were niches where the only real cost effective way to get enough single box io performance was to bye an non x68 box that came with it's own unix, so there is a lot of systems out there where the hardware aren't actually old enough for an 1:1 migration to make commercial sense and rewrites/redesigns of ERP software is risky with most projects overrun both the time and budgets by an order of magnitude, if they don't outright fail to deliver an new system.
same, and then I read your comment and thought "but that IS the title"... then I triple checked
I left FAANG basically because you had to play the politics and self-promotion game to get promoted. Woe be unto you if you worked on a "leaf" system -- something that consumed internal services but did not expose services to other engineering teams. You would have no internal engineers willing to vouch for your promotion because they weren't using your service or codebase. I really wanted to just execute and be rewarded without having to invest excess energy in marketing myself internally in the company.
Meta not upholding their their terms for access to the platform, and not following their own remediation policies.

Those hundred odd pages probably have specific clauses in there for what constitutes impersonation, repercussions and remediations etc - amongst their internal policies on resolution.

Chances are they've ignored their own legal T&C's for internal policies or "accepted practices" - which will definitely get their legal arm to review a few things.
Being against it, and against a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist crowing about air-quoting journos he's ban-hammering, are two different things.
I'm guessing there's group A who wants "fin nuggies" and group B who has 2 weeks reserved to wondering how to pay off rent tomorrow and the rising costs, and 2 weeks reserved to thinking how cool they'll be when they'll have a specific gadget.

Not a lot of inhumanity to be placed on either of those groups.
Yes that's how civilization was built. By pushing material science further and further. Do you think pressurized steam turbines just magically appeared?

Read the papers, they explain it all and characterize the tests.
I think a lot of that is the unofficial stack ranking all the FAANGs are using. It always pays to self-promote since the marginal difference between you and another person on the team might be zero. But if you've been promoting yourself to your manager and the other team member hasn't, you get RSUs/bonus while they get a PIP. You can even have lower actual performance but if your self-promotion is better than their output you get rewards while they get a PIP.
it's so wild to me that FAANG has these hiring walls set up — like crazy coding challenges — only for the best engineers to then do work equivalent to what you see at gov't or consulting jobs.

Why do they make it so hard to work for them, just for their employees to play status games?
Thinking we know the future risk profile of nuclear power from their past history is a dangerous fallacy.

Apart from the obvious "black swan" problems with that fallacy, so far nobody actually tried to cause incidents intentionally. And expanding nuclear power means scaling up access to nuclear material rapidly and massively. Including in countries with less stable prospects.

The "past risk profile" is worth nothing in that context.
A scam implies malfeasance or fraud. There can be scam companies anywhere. What I'm saying is that AI is not inherently full of scammy companies, unlike say crypto. Sure AI tech is over-hyped but it isn't designed to defraud people.
> It pains me to hear people say that they don't even get their headset out to show off at the company because they know it's going to be a mess of charging and updating before they can make it do something cool.

He has a point. The tens of billions of dollars seem to be mostly dedicated to adding invasive crap that makes the experience worse.

After the last update I had to "sync my Meta account" before I could do anything. I had to log in on the PC (with my headset on) and enter a code shown on the headset on my PC. Yea, that's fumbly.

Oh and after the latest update may play area is apparently too small for room scale mode, it always forces me back to stationary mode. What a mess.

This was after using the device just fine for two years without such boondoggle.
Anyone know if OCaml was used at FTX, btw? Given that it's big at Jane Street, where SBF worked.
I will do the bare minimum until I get another job if you drag me in for so much as a day in the office.
Polycarbonate is stronger and more shatter-resistant (it's used for fighter jet canopies, among other things) but also substantially more expensive.
https://archive.ph/0P9i7
I read that the original comment was laying the blame at the feet of individual consumer choices - implying that if people simply bought/consumed less of … whatever is causing the Colorado river to be depleted then things would fix themselves. And the reply is saying that there need to be explicit regulations to cause this, presumably because people have really no way to know the what environmental impact each dollar they spend has and where.
He's 9 years too late,got beaten by a Quebec historian / brewer.

https://cervoisealesia.com
https://untappd.com/b/temporale-alesia-cervoise-gauloise/271...
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30393/95340/
https://www.hebdorivenord.com/article/2019/01/30/lorsque-l-h...
macOS is the most widely used UNIX on the planet.
> Christopher Alexander

Now, see, for programmers of a certain age...

I bought the books, too. And no, I never finished reading them. So I am definitely in the club. ;-)
When acrylic aquariums fail (2018)
The $10B was the development of the very first XBox and no, MS never made 10B in income on that console, on the contrary MS lost 4 billion dollars on the first Xbox [1].

The total revenue for the entire Xbox division as a whole is currently about 16 billion dollars per year and does grow year over year by about 5-6% [2]. But it's worth noting that MS sells the Xbox at a loss and tries to recoup expenses through accessories and licensing. With that said MS stopped giving enough detailed information about Xbox's costs in order to deduce its profitability, but all the articles I find say that it continues to be an overall loser for MS.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2005-09-26-forbes-xbox-lost-microso...

[2] https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-closes-its-fis...
One solution is to spend time with them doing activities, playing.

I have noticed children (below 3) DO NOT prefer tablets/phones. If you give a two-year a tablet, wait until they are completed engaged and ask them "wanna go outside?" they will forget the tablet. Kids always prefer to play, but when parents do/can not spend time with them, they will happily find entertainment elsewhere.

I haven't tested this with children above 3, but I suspect it is the same up to 12.
Yes I don't think UBI is stable, politically. It will be a platform to make further promises from.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221217003034/https://pv-magazi...
I think it's funny that he's using ha platform he owns to silence his critics, but not an abuse.

He owns it; he gets to decide the rules, and everyone else gets to decide whether we want to use a platform with those rules

It's not going to work out well for musk financially when nobody wants to use it anymore, but that's his problem. Our problem is finding alternatives
Man, the use case is cool but that is just absolutely incredible that ChatGPT can browse the internet. Like holy cow.
Land Value Tax is probably the best way, the LTV can be tied to rent, so that if your rent is lower than the average in your area then your LTV overall goes down, etc. LVT can also go up based on how much is NEEDED to ensure everybody can afford a roof, no matter which part of the country they live in, and it should be more focused I think on just giving a set amount based on rent costs in your area, because the costs of living vary considerably, but people born/raised in SF shouldn't be forced to move to detroit just because it's cheaper when all their friends/family live back in SF.

People need to get over the ... but but X got more than me.... if you're worried about that then move to SF and you'll get as much as they get, because it all goes to landlords anyways.

Also much bigger restrictions on housing is needed with an airbnb or hospitality tax for any short-term rentals. Something that makes it almost worth just converting to a long-term instead.
The membership is pretty broad and varied: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

The funding comes from membership fees (based on for-profit status, annual revenue, and World Bank classification of country income of headquarters).

The W3C Staff, who form the bulk of the expenditure of the W3C, have pretty varied roles, from sysadmins in charge of the websites/email lists, to business development (to entice more companies to join and thus provide more funding). There's some degree of project management there, but by and large the project management is fixed by the process document and then left down to the individual groups (where the majority of participation is from representatives of the membership). There are some individuals who are paid directly by the W3C to work on specific technologies/areas (accessibility and internationalisation both come to mind), but not a huge number.
I am not surprised.

He is not leaving Meta to focus on AGI and build a new company.

This is other way around, he is so tired and disgusted that he is throwing the towel and focusing on something else.

This is not a vote of confidence.
have tested duckdb v0.6.0 2213f9c946

4e17b76fc101c9db7222e0cd8d6f5eee pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v8.txt

select count(*) from read_csv('pwned-passwords-sha1-ordered-by-hash-v8.txt', delim=':', header=False, columns={'Hash': 'VARCHAR', 'Count': 'INT'});

60.32s, 847223402 rows

create table hashes as select * from ...

OOM :(
set PRAGMA temp_directory

create table ...

144.92s (83.19s on BATCH CREATE, 61.53s on READ CSV)

select \* from hashes where Hash = 'F2B14F68EB995FACB3A1C35287B778D5BD785511'; -- secret123

0.0269s -- 1st
0.0043s -- 2nd
0.0026s -- 3rd
0.0062s -- 4th
0.0047s -- 5th

edits: attempt to fix formatting
Power-profile-daemon, wayland, and running a somewhat recent kernel will likely resolve these except the keyboard shortcuts (though, likely a newer libinput with wayland instead of X will also resolce this).

Which zenbook? Ill try to find one here to validate explicitly.

Its hard to have these conversations sometimes because people use old versions of meh distros and then carry their anecdotes forward for years.

I literally cannot find a Zenbook on the market that has hardware that should have these issues. I'd really, really like to know what custom kernel patches (really?) you were taking to get hardware to work.
They are killed in an instant in a rapid grinder and used for animal feed.

There is a large difference between killing animals as swiftly as possible to use as much as possible and knicking off a small bit they need to live and leaving them to a slow painful death.
The article doesn't seem particularly surprised and neither do any of the comments here.
looks like they were highest ever in the SF Bay area just 1 week after Thanksgiving but they've fallen quickly

https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater
How will this work considering sqlite databases cannot be accessed concurrently from several processes or even threads?
I’ve seen some doing 10 second previews of action parts and then proceed to setup and education. Too bad platforms encourage them to make you watch a couple of minutes of things that you may not be interested in at the time.
Depending on who you ask, a letter is not necessarily legal action.

https://lexlaw.co.uk/letter-before-claim-specialist-solicito...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_action

What is it with HN today, full of smarmy people seizing on semantics.

[EDIT] - I see why everyone is, I included the phrase "legal action", and meant to talk separately about sending a letter (not legal action, depending on who you ask). This is what I meant.

I do not mean to sue or open a case against Meta.
> warped incentives

Has anybody suggested "term limits" as a solution? Not that I assume they would be.
>Ukraine is outfighting Russia despite massive disadvantages numerically and technologically

You are somewhat misinformed about the Ukrainian war. Ukraine has 3-4 times less population than Russia, but it started full mobilization early in the war. Meanwhile Russia started partial mobilization just recently. So it was common for the Ukranian army to have a numerical advantage on the ground. Most of the recent Russian retreats can be attributed to the lack of personnel to properly mount defensive positions.

As for technological advantage... It depends. Ukraine effectively has the whole NATO and a number of additional countries as its rear and supply base, while Russia depends only on itself and a bit on Iran. In terms of communication systems, intelligence, and likely anti-tank and anti-ship systems, the Ukrainian army is miles ahead of Russia. Russia has advantage in air, artillery, anti-air, and ground-to-ground rocket systems.
No, I don't know that I myself possess qualia. I agree with Dennett that "qualia" is a philosopher invention that is incompatible with neuroscience. IMO "qualia" is just a rhetorical trick designed to justify human superiority.
Aren’t many of these fabs self-contained - ie they “use” a lot but treat and then re-use it
I still can’t see what I’d be supposed to do during a work vr “call”.

A physical meeting already has everyone looking at a whiteboard or screen, which is already solved by screensharing. Even if you could fully recreate the experience of being in a physical room, what are you supposed to gain from that?
Some government owned utility companies are extremely profitable and provide billion of dollars in profit to taxpayers.

A good example is Quebec, they nationalized all the electric corporations in the 1960s and it became a government monopoly.

http://www.hydroquebec.com/history-electricity-in-quebec/tim...
Yeah, I wasn't really thinking of performance. I was thinking of the dislike I have for working with Java. Past experiences with "enterprizey" Java is the worst. AbstractWidgetFactoryBuilderLoaderMaker, etc.
It's very interesting to me that he's giving up on VR entirely. If he thought it was just an issue with Facebook, presumably he'd jump in somewhere else and get the impact he was looking to have.

That's another sign to me that VR is once again not going anywhere. Or rather, half of it isn't. Oculus-style VR is two best in one: 3D persistent virtual worlds and stereoscopic facehugger interfaces. The former has had great success, mostly in games, but the latter has spent decades as the thing that people are supposed to want but don't actually use much when they get the chance.
As a Brit, that way seems most natural. Do Americans assume it to be pine-chon?
> AI in its current form is grifting.

Could you give some actual examples of projects or companies that you see as "grifting"?

Most companies are clearly communicating that they're in the R&D phase of the tech. R&D definitely isn't grifting.

The problem spaces where people find value and pay for AI isn't grifting either, like the bulk of content moderation happening now, recommendation systems, text to speech, speech to text, etc. The camera on my phone uses neural networks, with great success. I use ChatGPT daily, at this point.

What do you see as clearly being "grifting" (ok, lets try to keep Elon Musk related projects out of this)?
Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative
I'd love to see the reasoning where the California government, rather than prohibitive energy cost, is why we don't have privately bootstrapped desalination at a scale to replace the Colorado river.
But the point was to make it take less than 1ms. How would 3ms help?
Up here in Northern California quite a few of us live off grid with just solar/batteries. What law says that a grid hookup is required? Is it at the county level?
The entire problem is that acrylic is not plastic enough, so it fails catastrophically. Well, diamond has all the nice features for structure building, but it's even britter than acrylic. So your sci-fi diamond tank would fail in an even more sensational way.
The classic obligation of the state to testify who someone is -empowering citizens- ( by whatever means, including passports ) seems to be silently converted into the obligation of the citizen to proof who they are, taking power from them without their consent and potentially causing future abuse on a scale larger than the 1933 Reichstag fire.
Nearly 15M excess deaths occurred globally in 2020 and 2021
Steps to finding Pynchon's HN account:

1. Create a new HN account and populate it with posts containing samples of Pynchon's writing style

2. Go to: stylometry.net and put in the username of the HN account you created

3. Report back if anything of interest comes up

4. Split Paul Cole's $1 reward
You do have the choice to not build your house on that land. Unfortunately the city has to adhere to the mandated codes and the taxpayers should not be forced to pay for the road that now needs to be widened for emergency vehicles.
As others have said, the Wadworth Constant. You used to be able to add &wadsworth=1 to any youtube url and it would automatically skip ahead. They got rid of it at some point though.
In American politics, one fails UP. People admire a bigtime scumbag. Since he proved he can con people out of money, that in itself is a virtue to many people.
a huge portion of the alfalfa being irrigated isn't even used to feed american beef. The plants are literally sent to saudi arabia to feed cows there. You could entirely fix the agricultural use of water if you priced it more accurately. There is enough water to grow all the food we need and more, its just priced in a way that encourages the agricultural landlords who own the water rights to waste it because it is essentially costless to the individual rights holders. Price the water better and they will build conservation methods without lowering output.

(https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/water-wars/saudi-a....)
I think the solution is to both problems is that you "de-dollarize" major parts of the economy.

Instead of UBI as a bag of dollars, which landlords and merchants will immediately seek to plunder, you deliver highly-subsidized food, shelter, and rich public services. This is much harder to capture, and also has less of a ratchet factor.

Consider, for example, a universal health care component. The interest in more services and coverage wanes once it reaches a level of "good enough for most people." There may be some niche voters pulled in by "we'll also cover leeches", but most people will find those arguments uncompelling.

In the worst case, benefits do escalate, and you end up with more and more economic activity under government control, either as a direct UBI delivery system, or through ever growing tax rates to finance the subsidized programs. Which in and of itself may not be so bad. I know the entrpeneurship/free markets/self-directed mindset is very big in this community, but if the goal is maximizing quality-of-life metrics, this might be a viable way to deliver it. Ideally, we're all healthy, securely housed, and well fed, and our cultural-economic question becomes "how much of a discretionary hobby budget is $job_title worth?"
Watch this guy be very lucky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3U3ClFRjrQ

Compared to the side of the truck...
And Win7 Aero looked so good stock I never felt the need to go hunting for themes.

Then the abomination that is Windows 8 came along and took an enormous and terribly corrosive dump on the the party. Windows has been a conundrum to me ever since. It just doesn't feel right anymore like it used to with 2k, XP, and Win7.

I'm a bit sad about the decline, having spent many thousands of hours completely plugged in to Windows.. Every wish, only a click or keystroke away.

R.I.P. FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8

(for the youngn's: this is the everlasting devils0wn pirate cd key for Windows XP serial number. How awesome would it be if it also worked for a future version of Windows?)
Yeah, it's not a good look, especially since California is the only state that is adjacent to the ocean. Not only that, renewables like solar are perfect for desalination as you don't really need one of these systems to be running around the clock.
Gut bacteria helps you exercise by sending dopamine hits to the brain
Just like the rest of the internet, don't put too much weight on the parenting advice you find on HN.
> since the temporary enclave won't be effective

So far it's been very effective. My kid has no interest in screens and likes to do real world stuff instead.

I realize I won't be able to shield her from them forever nor would that be a good idea. But these are literally formative years. From age 0 to 3, the human brain grows to 80% of its adult size, 90% by 5. What happens during these years have an outsized impact on their rest of their lives. Let's set them up for success as much as possible. That's why it's been zero screen from day one and as long as possible. When will I introduce screens? Don't know. Will cross that bridge when we get there. Right now, we're doing great with no screens.

> How do you handle that? Bored kid at a restaurant, possibly misbehaving.

Answered here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34021771
I wish Elon didn't get sucked into culture wars, because slimming down Twitter's workforce wasn't a bad idea

I fantasized about someone buying Google and slimming it down too, because it used to be a great place to work (I worked there for over a decade). There were lots of great builders but they got drowned out by careerists

In fact I worked in the SF office around "fail whale" times at Twitter (2009), and there was a steady trickle of coworkers over to Twitter. Though from what I hear the leadership there was the real problem, and allowed the other problem to fester
Do you often hallucinate on the job?
I didn't understand how true this was until someone in the pebble reactor camp pointed out that these ideas were already known before the Manhattan project, and that there was a moment where the direction of investment was still up in the air and the war hawks won. I figured that was something someone discovered in the 80's and took a while to popularize. Nope.
Hey, the equation described in the post does seems to fit the expectations for some scenarios, but as the author mentioned it would be good to work around with much more real world data.

Thanks for the link, it is a good read.
I'm working with (although rather superficially) a ASML PAS5500 KrF DUV stepper. Its control workstation is based on some kind of unix (I guess Solaris).

The stepper is a tool that is too expensive to retire, and if routinely maintained, can remain operational and happily expose wafers for more than twenty years[1]. No surprise to see it contains some ancient (by consumer electronics standards) software.

[1] https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2021/three-decades-of-p...

Also, I used a HP 86142B optical spectrum analyzer last year, which runs HPUX.
Sounds like manic psychosis too. My ex loses touch with consensus reality sometimes when she's manic. It's frightening trying to interact with her and it's like she's not there.