skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capitalism is successfully optimizing for what I as a consumer can detect. I am not capable of simply looking at a device and knowing whether the metal is the quality metal it needs to be, or if it is merely some cheap metal that will bend if I breath on it too hard.

($YOU may be. I'm not.)

Except that nowadays I tend to just guess the latter and I'm statistically correct anyhow.

Superman has a quote about living in a world of cardboard, where he must control his every move lest he rip through everything. I'm beginning to feel that way myself with these consumer products. If you take them even 5% out of spec expect them to catastrophically fail. They'll catastrophically fail even if you use them entirely within spec. I'd happily pay a bit extra for something that wouldn't but there's no way for the manufacturer to successfully convey to me that this is such a thing even if they wanted to. The metaphorical water is so metaphorically muddied that it's just dry dust now anyhow, with fake 5 star reviews and decades of refinement on marketing messages about how this vegetable peeler peels vegetables so well that it will even enhance your marriage prospects.
Have you never lived in the SF bay area? I had multiple friends colleagues who lived with housemates while making six figures in software jobs. It's very normal.
Even if you register for a service, the service needs to ask you to explicitly opt in for any kind of tracking that you might want.
> 24fps I suspect will be displaced by some sort of VR as the predominate high-end story medium.

I seriously doubt it. For one, VR headsets are broadly incompatible with the theater business. You can make it work in smalls scales or in amusement parks (where the park admission and food sales are where the money is made) but broadly it doesn't work because the headsets are expensive and you need to disinfect them to prevent lice. It would be like bowling alley shoes except you wear them on your face... very gross.

At home, wearing a VR headset to watch a movie works for a solo experience, but ruins the fun of watching movies with others. VR is bachelor tech, doomed to be niche.
See also SMBC making this point a few years ago: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/college-level-mathematics

The problem is that being privately tutored by UC Berkeley faculty is worth much less than a UC Berkeley degree[1], even though you might learn a lot more. And starting a new university from scratch is apparently difficult, although I share your confusion on exactly which part is so difficult, and whether the difficulty could be circumvented by getting a billion or so in private donations, or if it's a case of "no matter how much money you pump into Brown, it'll never become Harvard. Only Harvard can become Harvard".

[1]: Unless you go and make yourself famous for it, which in this case might be quite doable[2]. But the general point that just learning the material without an official piece of paper recognized by the system is often worth significantly less than having the piece of paper.

[2]: And someone should do it and make headlines.
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I would also highly recommend The Tyranny of Science by him

See this review for a decent overview of it:

https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-tyranny-of-science/
Sure, again, I'm not saying everything else is perfect but note that this thread is about the clean energy transition — nuclear is better than burning coal but when you're comparing it to wind/solr/hydro/geothermal none of those have anything like the same need for long-term planning.
Looking at the pantone color it appears more yellow to me. I have seen a lot of minor regional variation though, especially when weathering affects things, so they may be orangier in your area. You could always say they're yellange.
It's definitely a win for the US if it doesn't provoke Russia into attacking the US with nukes now or 10 years from now. (10 years from now Russia's security establishment will still probably be quite bitter about the US's assistance to Ukraine; that bitterness combined with contemporaneous US actions might provoke an attack.)

Russia's high-level security bureaucrats don't perceive the causes of the war in Ukraine to be what most of in the US perceive them to be.
Consent-o-matic is great! Managing my cookie preferences on different sites used to be more annoying that it was worth to me, but with the extension it doesn't require any additional effort. It's also interesting to see the number of clicks it saves on its statistics page, with certain types of cookie dialogs apparently taking more than 12 clicks on average (and good ones only taking one click per site, or even "0", not sure how that works)
Right and they could use some of that money to lower tuition but they don't.
Only works if you actually do pull requests. I wonder what startups like Coherence think of Trunk-based Development and Dave Farley-style CI/CD?
The color gradient background on this page plays tricks on my eyes when trying to read on desktop. I hate it.
Exactly! But 1 - 0.999... should be considered the infinitesimalest.
It’s crazy how many people are still under the impression that holding newly vested RSUs can result in some sort of tax advantage. I work at a FAANG and, despite the massive amount of internal docs on the topic, incredibly smart engineers routinely mention taxes as a reason for not selling newly vested shares.
Extending your comparison, do you believe the conservative activists and organizers of the 50s and 60s knew of the FBI’s campaign against MLK and others, but were perfectly okay because it served their political interests? Because it seems that you are saying liberal activists and organizers of today are co-signing the FBI’s psychops for political gain. If true that seems fringe, not mainstream but I could be wrong.

Also from a political organizing perspective, it’s advantageous for anyone critical of the FBI to talk about their actions of the past, as a way to bring more attention to what they are doing today. A partisan argument does the exact opposite.
Somehow I doubt you would accept below market rate pay for your own job for the "good of society". You're a valuable professional, after all! But these laboring drones, why they should understand sacrifices need to be made for society! How selfish of them to ask for reasonable pay!
Are you sure that wasn’t the point?

OIDC is the biggest monopoly play in the industry right now and it’s an absolute privacy nightmare. Almost nobody seems to even notice.

Of course history has shown that people will trade literally everything for convenience so it will probably succeed. In the future if you get your Google account locked you won’t be able to access your bank account or buy a plane ticket and Google will know everything you use at all times and be able to log into anything you use. But it’ll be convenient.
OL3 tests continue after Christmas, full production postponed to March
rename staging.* preview.*

...there you go.
The alternative is unmitigated surveillance capitalism. Most people don’t want to be spied on.
Sounds very similar to a psychopath incapable of empathy.
Obviously everyone is different, but (aside from Shakespeare) the two books I read in HS that I most liked were Cather in the Rye and A Tale of Two Cities. I should note that after liking A Tale of Two Cities so much, I tried David Copperfield and Oliver Twist and found neither to my liking. I had my great expectations of Dickens' other work rather crushed at that point.

Oh, and forcing anyone to read Melville should be a crime. A very few people I know loved the experience, but I was unable to finish Billy Bud much less Moby Dick.
> I wonder if anyone ever sold a "software optical mouse".

You could if you really want to...

https://8051enthusiast.github.io/2020/04/14/003-Stream_Video...
It's of course my own interpretation of what's important about music, but I've found that an arrangement sounds better if everyone's in tune and playing robotically than if everyone's out of tune and playing with a lot of passion. You kind of said it with "as long as a baseline level of intonation is in place"; if someone's playing way out of tune but with a lot of feel and passion... you get folk punk and "gifted kid" middle school folk ensembles.
Whoops, yes, brain fart above. There are still 2^22 ways to arrange the other chromosomes passed in an egg or sperm.
Agree with your disagreement! Whether classified as cost center or profit center largely depends on the type of company or organization. For the first half of my career, I would agree with OP: that engineering was viewed as a cost center. However, after transitioning to a software company, me and my teammates were generating revenue.
Context:

> Olkiluoto 3, a 1.6-gigawatt European Pressurised Water Reactor (EPR), was granted a construction permit in 2005 and it was originally scheduled to be completed in 2009. However, the project has faced a seemingly endless series of technical problems, delays, cost overruns and legal disputes.
Which ones run Mastodon servers? What's the purpose of such organizations?
In my experience even the add-ons I can find for Safari on iOS rarely do what they say they will do. Nothing ever works as well as ublock origin on a desktop browser and it so frustrating. Having mobile firefox + ublock is one of the few things I still miss about android.
What's better than selling a phone to a household of 10 people? Selling 10 phones to a household of 10 people.

What's better than selling 10 phones to 10 people? Selling 100 phones to 10 people over 10 years.

Planned obsolescence is a necessary technology to ensure the endless growth of revenue, as required by our economic system.
I guess my question is more specifically why something like Widevine falls under this, but commonly used anti-adblocking scripts (that are still regularly blocked by ad-blockers) don't. Are anti-adblockers on that exception list you refer to?
Great to see progress on this front.

Hopefully, eventually it'll be possible to emulate all the way up to iOS 6, which would be incredible from a software preservation perspective.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34093356
If I recall, this is mainly caused by the shift to USB as the connector du jour. Since it's a poll centric protocol, under heavy load, system responsiveness decays.

Back in the days of P/S 2, where input was interrupt driven, the background tasks would be interrupted by input coming in, ensuring the user could move the mouse around. Now whether they could get the outcome of a click to register is a different story. The click would, but there'd be no guarantee the click handler would execute before background processing resumed, because it'd be considered an event that'd get scheduled after whatever is currently starving the CPU thread.
I understand where your frustration is coming from. As a founder, you do your best to prepare for the best and worst outcomes at the same time. It sounds like they ran a real recruitment process and paid you for your time, hoping to hire you.

However, the funding market is very poor. It's likely they realized that someone of your calibre, while useful to the org, wasn't absolutely, 100% needed to the survival of the company. That's not to say you weren't impressive. It's just that founders right now are in survival mode, not "Let's hire the best talent we can find" mode. Founders are trying to use the minimum resources possible to get to their next milestone.

It sounds like the YC founders made a tough call but one that protected their runway.
A footnote is nice, but you can't really take a well known phrase and just redefine it according to your needs, while clickbaiting a bunch of people.
Music is much much bigger than gatekeepers would like people to believe, and the only thing that matters is what comes out of the speakers.

Find an instrument you enjoy playing. For me,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCtUtI3IeFQ

because it is easy to jack in my headphones, press buttons, spin knobs and make sounds that I enjoy...the important words: easy and enjoy.

Sequencers and arpeggiators are a blessing. Drum machines doubly so. MIDI manna from heaven. Nothing wrong with a piano, but there's no need to wait for decades of practice to get good enough to make myself happy. YMMV.

Good luck.
The criminal liability is in lying specifically about having the PE license, for work that requires it. Nobody is going to prison for calling themselves an "engineer" on their resume when they apply for a job that itself is called "engineer" by the recruiter.
There's a video up of Barry Harris giving a class around feeling the and that this reminded me of. Not sure why you're being down-voted, because feel is super important to practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uMNrujMdJU
Why is that "bonkers"? What should these workers be paid in your opinion? Perhaps this is exactly the attitude that's causing this problem?
I see your point, but Facebook had large collection of code written in php(still is?), and they are far from having "lack of investment or interest in technology."
I don't use them all at the same time :D sometimes I might go for months without touching some of them but I always find an excuse to go back so I don't lose the knowledge. No particular reason to try to keep up with many languages, I just enjoy it.
If you read down you'll see mention of A batteries and B batteries, used in "farm radios". That's why the batteries you buy now go from C and D, with AA and AAA coming later.
Another case of A and B becoming obsolete, like floppy drives did.
React Flow 11.4.0 Release
I agree, not supporting NUL is really a historical c-ism that we should get rid of.

/s
If an IdP is SAML compliant, you only need to write code once. Of course, if you also want to authz based on IdP roles, you will need to have a mapper (from your app perms to IdP roles), but this is not because of differences in IdP
> Hyperthreads aren't real CPU cores

I can't think of a good principled reason to say SMT cores aren't "real".

I'm assuming the answer isn't "because they share some computing stuff". What I think you'd call "real" cores also share resources like L2/L3 caches, sometimes DMA engines, etc.

And IIRC, each Intel SMT (hyper-thread) unit has its on instruction pointer and (non-SIMD?) register set.
I'm a physicist, and read AM. It didn't overturn my own thinking about how to do science, but helped me understand my discomfort when non-scientists try to assert "the scientific method." Imposing a rigid methodology on science, that doesn't reflect the reality of how science is done, can be used as a weapon against science.

Over the years I grew uncomfortable with the fact that I could not track down any of his references, e.g., to Aristotle. I don't remember the specific cases any more, but still it was a bit unnerving.
From LinkedIn it looks like both cofounders and half of the employees are Russian or at least Eastern European, so I imagine their network of mentors is seeded with friends-of-friends, or maybe they have ties to university programs or alumni networks in Eastern Europe.
What are submarine articles?
When I was young I read "The Adolescence of P1" by Thomas J Ryan. The plot involved an AI created by mistake, and its creator. I long supposed something like that was possible for the internet as a whole, as there are any number of self-replicating programs out there infecting systems that interact with each other.

Having seen the amount of compute that goes into training large language models, it seems evident to me that even all of the compute on the internet ever in a random process wouldn't come anywhere near close to that type of result.

It is now possible to use large amount of compute to compile a chatbot, and it is possible that a network of those chatbots could actually learn things. That remains to be seen.
I remember seeing one whipped out during my university days in the 60s.

Awesome little thing.
Ephemerals are great, local environments are great, staging (or beta, or pre-prod) are great.

Not every product is the same, and there's no reason for a single deployment approach to the problem. These different types of deployments are just tools to be picked and chosen from to deliver the best solution for a given problem. This article made Coherence look not particularly savvy, and I'm not sure I'd trust them as an expert partner after reading this. If anyone from Coherence is reading this, you can talk to experts in deployments by talking about how complementary preview environments can help solve problems in staging while not handwaving over the necessity of pre-production environments like you did in the Traditional staging bottlenecks section.
It's amazing looking at the staying power of flat design. 10 years ago, some commentators on HN were calling flat design a fad. 10 years later, we only evolved to flat 2.0 with saturated hue on buttons and bit of shadow around buttons. Oh we got some cute superfluous animations.
Fitzgerald was very American--and specifically very Northeast upper class. He was even a writer on the film [Dartmouth] Winter Carnival in 1939--not one of the great 1939 films--but, so the story goes, he ended up getting kicked off the picture because he kept getting drunk in Dartmouth fraternities.

I suspect some familiarity with that milieu helps one appreciate Fitzgerald just as some familiarity with the South helps one fully appreciate Faulkner.
> the people that actually did try to murder the congress.

You honestly believe that there was an attempt to murder the congress? They planned a mass murder, but settled for selfies in the rotunda?

> When Trump's January 6 riot happened, there were just the much smaller regular capital police forces at the capital, no national guards.

Could you clarify what exactly you're trying to say here? You seem to be implying some kind of vast right-wing conspiracy.
Please consider still doing so!
There are locations where renewables cannot provide base load all year round.
I’ve recently started to work through implementing DSP as VST plugins. But I never really thought that a pedal type DSP unit was tractable as a hobbyist. I’m pretty excited to follow your work and see if I can do some pedal style effect or basic synth work in hardware.
Gemany^W Allemagne^W Tyskland^W Saksa^W Németország^W Deutschland would like a word.
Most IdPs support SAML IIRC
I used to buy and do light repairs to shortwave and AM radios. A relic of that time is that I have an "isolation transformer", a 1:1 transformer to isolate the radio from ground. 110 in, 110 out.
In my experience this means they're fitting wrong and there's undue stress in the place that they're failing. For crotch area specifically, look into Duluth Trading's "Ballroom" pants.

Alternately, the moment you buy new pants, add some iron-on patch reinforcement across the area. A two-dollar giant patch can spread the force out quite a bit and probably double the lifetime of the unreinforced fabric.

But really, a tailor should be able to tell you what's wrong with the fit and how to fix it.
Yes, I'm inviting you to leave. There are plenty of websites where you can feel warm and cozy with idiocy like this but I would much prefer it if HN did not go in that direction.

If you seriously believe nobody died on Jan. 6th last year and that everybody that does not readily agree with your nutty conclusions must be psy-op'd or lacks critical thinking skills then you have problems. But I'd prefer them to stay your problems and not to spill over into this community.
Why would you give that advice when the job titles are all "xyz engineer"?
OpenID supporting any provider would have been nice, but from my limited experience at implementing it suffered from the same issues as this blog post is describing - inconsistent implementations.

OIDC is basically an admission that supporting any arbitrary provider had failed, and you need to actually test with each specific implementation before marking it as being supported.
Not only that, in the first 5 minutes of the boys video the kids were provided with a bunch of water guns, paint tubes, and paint brushes. Add in the fact that the place is furnished like a fun house and not a normal living space. What did they think the kids were going to do there with all that?
- Incorrect use of statistics tools.

- Cherry-picking of data.

- Flawed or missing controls.

- Lack of replication, and in the few cases where it's attempted, failure to replicate.

- Non-publication of failures.

- Publish-or-perish providing huge incentives to publish junk.

- Peer review being an old boys club that enforces the party line.

- All funding coming from few sources that tacitly use their funding power to fund only those that toe the party line.

- So much basic science having been done by now that the remaining science to do is generally expensive to do, thus inviting the above funding / control problem.

- Dogmatism.

- Media attention.

These are the problems that plague science today. Some of these have been there for a long time, like dogmatism. There are people alive today who were taught that the continents don't move, and that noticing that South America and Africa fit together and concluding that they must have moved is nonsense of the highest order. There are people alive today whose treatment for Polio was not physical therapy but immobilization. The list of dogma, old and new, is long. The malign ways in which some lords of science fiefdoms defend their dogmas have not gone away in spite of Popper's method.
DARPA-developed ontological based approach to record everything, all the time
Apps draining your battery to check for notifications is the worst thing about degoogled Android. With notifications enabled my telegram client can drain my battery in a very low number of hours (got suggestions here? any client supporting UnifiedPush?)

So this is welcome, but it requires application support. And if apps on your phone use both GCM and UnifiedPush you still end up with multiple providers. But at least I think I can trust UnifiedPush to be light on my battery.
This was 2003; over five years ago. Shortly after announcing the closure of the LifeLog product, the DOD/DARPA had no observable link to the launch of Facebook, in February of 2004. There remain to be no clear evidences of DoD or other state-level agencies interacting with, concerned with, nor immersed within the most significant set of social technologies to date, now, in 2022, nor could any reasonable motivation be corroborated with factual observation.

Hard to find the original page for LifeLog, DARPA is probably pretty good at scrubbing from Arhive.org but I don't recall Aspx running on .html in 2003

https://web.archive.org/web/20040215000000*/http://www.darpa...

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/630-f03/lifelog.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20030618163435/http://www.silico...
Ask HN: What’s the Scientific Consensus on Gravitons?
Humanity’s basic needs don’t include books, movies, songs, art, etc.