skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago the U.S. Navy reportedly was experimenting with producing jet fuel from air and seawater aboard aircraft carriers, using the electrical power from the carriers' nuclear reactors. I wasn't able to find anything recent about the project.

https://patentyogi.com/aircraft/us-navy-plans-produce-jet-fu...

Also: https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1902335116
Nothing is free.

Opportunity costs are real.

So if you're executing the mundane and the outsource-able, while the heavy lifting sits idle...that's foolish. It's the road to ruin.

Time is money.
Make works remarkably well. You’re just confusing it with C compilation. None of these complaints have anything to do with make.

Autotools, which generate configure scripts, was built to work around the specific issues associated with old-school C cross platform compilation (with shared libraries, version differences, and misc libc editions). Ditto valgrind, et.al.

So, yeah. Make’s fine. You just don’t like C. Which, that’s cool, just unrelated.
There is a difference between people with high IQ's (the full set) and High IQ workers (a variable subset of those).
Let's compare a highly valuable and needed metal with 6000+ years of history as a solid investment, with...cryptocurrencies and their proven record of having no real life utility but lots of speculation. Makes sense.
EDIT: Not really a serious suggestion

Make is not _that_ portable. If you're using high level languages and only need a task runner to kick off your compiler, watch rules or similar and need portability, you could write an executable bash script with functions that serve as your commands;

#!/bin/bash
set -e

function build() {
echo "Your build steps"
}

function clean() {
echo "Your clean steps"
}

eval $1 $@

Which you can run with

$ ./task clean
$ ./task build

You can also write these kinds of task scripts in JavaScript or Python - which might be easier to manage compatibility with Windows
I tried defeating GPT detectors recently by prompting it something like "write with high perplexity" (https://towardsdatascience.com/perplexity-in-language-models...) and although it worked, I also couldn't get it to stop literally using the word "perplexity" in the output.
See https://github.com/casey/just/pull/1470
Definitely take this into account when driving too! Don’t just rubberneck at the victims. Check surroundings to see what could’ve caused it.

I was out on pescadero creek road and saw a guy had wrapped his 911 turbo around a tree. This particular bend would send you off a hillside if not for the trees. I slowed not just to gawk at the loss of a great car or to have sympathy for a man who just lost a valuable asset but cause I was wondering, “how did he manage that? Is something wrong with the road?” Didn’t notice anything wrong with the road but I took it slow anyway.

He probably just took the corner too hot. Waved a happy wave to him as I finished the turn slowly then revved back up to the usual fun speeds to enjoy the remaining 150 bends.
I'm hyper aware that one can write spaghetti in any language, but node and its ecosystem just seems to embrace it; let's just consider the entrypoint, for example: https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-mirror/blob/0.2.90/i...
Banks don't work with crypto. It's known.
> I minted nearly 1 BTC rather a lot of years ago and it vanished with a Pentium II to III upgrade (or similar).

How did you do that?
What would a family even do with bitcoin or a chunk of gold?
Tech industry risk appetite is inverse to the prime rate. With rates at near zero, there's going to be lots of growth because, hey free money. As that prime rate increases you need a lot better justifications to borrow money for new endeavors. The tech market gets a lot tighter in that case.

Inversion means that bondholders value short terms more than long terms. That happens when the future is uncertain. If you think rates will go up substantially in a couple of months it's better to buy the short term bond and then later roll to the long term bond then to buy and hold a long term bond which will increase in yield as the prime increases. (Increasing yield is bad for bond holders).
One potential negative would be if you want to go back to your former employer they may not want your back just to walk out any time.
This is a dangerous idea to put in the head of impressionable young tech workers during a difficult economic time.

First of all, it's ridiculous to equate Meta with all companies. The mistake to watch out for is treating a company as a human being, and expecting the relationship to have similar social dynamics to that between natural persons. Companies are not humans, and the bigger they get the more apparent the truth becomes. However, in negotiating a job offer, you will also be dealing with humans, and your reputation very much matters on what those humans think as a result of your actions. Ghosting Meta (or any other mega corp) is not a big deal, they will forget you in 30 seconds. On the other hand, if you do this to a smaller company, especially one that is very resource constrained, they may be putting a lot of eggs in your basket, and backing out last minute could materially hurt them in a way that they won't soon forget. This could very much matter down the line, because even if the company goes out of business, the leaders there will likely still be around and may pop up on hiring committees/reference checks you least expect.
Someone needs to host a simple website with a timeline of every goalpost Gary moves further into public space as the years go on.
This website will need ddos and legal protection, because Marcus will be furious and might sue.

Just how much of social status armor do ascendant pundits really have? We'll see.
Or create escape rooms for kids. In each room is all the information you need to solve the puzzle and escape. The final room you get to within an allotted time period determines your grade.

Edit: by Escape Room, I mean like the fun kind you would go to with friends or colleagues. I'm not saying we should torture children... Google if you haven't heard of one.
Was there no chance that the rocks were due to a rock slide, or was it out in the middle of nowhere such that it could only have either been put there or fallen off a truck?
Even if Arnie had killed anyone prior to the reveal, it would've still been consistent. He didn't have any orders not to do that until later, and the way he took them onboard it seemed clear that the orders were a change to his tactics. Although, seeing who sent him back, it's probably strange they weren't his original orders anyway. I always found the Terminator movies full of that kind of circular weirdness.

Anyway for the T2 twist, I always just assumed that when T1 was shot, Arnie was kinda unknown, but by T2 he was a pretty big Hollywood action star and couldn't be the bad guy anymore. So they had to wrangle him being the good guy into a sequel if they wanted him back.
Just to highlight Singapore government pays millions to high IQ talent to be government ministers. Singapore Prime Minister for example draw about 2-3mil USD range a year in salary and can code sudoku in c++. Many of the civil servants are scholars and have PhDs.
Looking at Public HashiCorp Go.mod Files
I don’t enjoy arithmetic or typing much either, but they are skills you have to learn in school so you can do things you _do_ enjoy. I think “writing an essay” is about the same.
> - currencies (wheter fiat or crypto) have no value. You can't do anything with them

You can pay taxes to stay out of jail with fiat, which seems desirable.
because that's no where near gigabit. and what large majority of users do is that really the metric we're going for here?

also, when's the last time you transferred a large amount of data over that slow of a connection? i don't care! I do it every day, and i'm all that matters!!! /s
Hey, empirical methods are not allowed in this debate!
> The better you are at your job, the lower the likelihood that you'll lose your job, and if you do, the shorter the period until you find another job.

This is true to some extent but should come with the warning that you want to keep in mind what the market is looking for. If you’re a Rust/Linux expert and you live somewhere where most of the local IT demand is C#/Windows, or where most of the businesses are small/stable and just don’t hire all that often, you might have a hard time regardless of your skill level. Remote work helps but you’re also competing with everyone else who was just laid off, too.

Good generic advice is to have reserves proportional to things like that and also your difficulty of moving (e.g. people with kids in school might want to be comfortable not moving for at least 6 months).
It worked, but required extra care and smart team working together.

Where I ran into trouble was trying to port an app from one Smalltalk to another. Should be easy right because Smalltalk really is a very simple language. But the ways your code could depend on anything in your image are countless. And no standard language definition with conformance tests.

I guess the situation with Smalltalk versions was much like the trouble you have with database vendors today. Or perhaps cloud-providers. Except that Smalltalk was so productive that anybody could easily create their own customizations.

In the database world you can write your own views and stored procedures. But you can't modify the base platform on which you must write those things. In Smalltalk it is very easy to modify the platform, and save those modifications in your image.

IF you had to declare every class and method you use from the image you wouldn't do so much of it. It would not feel very productive having to declare every dependency. But then, you would have fewer dependencies in the end and your code would be much more portable.
Yea, that’s the idea. Someone is buying when there’s blood in the streets and it’s not usually the idiots.
What would be an unprofessional handling look like? Ghosting?
Calling this an obituary is rather hyperbolic.

It is, though, yet another indication that crypto is losing momentum among mainstream consumers. Perhaps that's simply collateral damage from a downturn that's affecting all segments of the economy. But, then again, perhaps not. It strikes me as a distinct, qualitatively important development that's worth observing carefully rather than dismissing out of hand.
> ...the kitchen is a small, separate chamber with a door where the resident...[can]...open the window.

I don't know why this arrangement is so rare in the USA. It should be standard.
This would be both more honest and more comprehensible if it used the original title, instead of "Writing an IaC Rosetta Stone"
Implementation language is not very relevant. If you have to look at the source code of your build tool, you've already lost.
>but if i were an english teacher assigning research-like papers, i'd definitely incorporate chatgpt responses into my assignments.

now THAT is a creative thing to do. I like that. I suppose the calculator version would be to do something like: "here is a simple graph plot, create an equation that produces a similar plot"

Wish there were more teachers like you embracing this stuff as a tool rather than doing your best to design a curriculum to 'defeat' it.
If you commit the [package-lock.json] file, it ensures the same versions of the dependencies are installed.

Another option is to [containerize] your project.

[package-lock.json]: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v9/configuring-npm/package-lock-j...

[containerize]: https://www.docker.com/resources/what-container/
Gas without exhaust is terrible, of course. I don't know why american built such houses.
I have no law experience but I feel like no longer recognizing a previous license you created doesn't force an upgrade to a new license, but rather would invalidate any licensing at all on all content that had the old license.
Yeah but having to wait a year or three (three actually because as someone working remotely, you're self employed and self employed always require 3 years salary for anything) during which 80% of apartments reject you because you don't fit the criteria of the "garantie loyer impayé" is more than frustrating. It's downright hostile. Getting a mortgage is a pipe dream...

Being a French national and not being able to get a mortgage to buy an apartment for my mum is also more than a little frustrating. And that's despite having quite a bit of money saved.
Way more interesting than I expected.

One of the things I learned was that even though I would have described myself as comfortable writing Haskell code... I sure never learned all of the fundamentals of how it is parsed.

All of the details are in the article - all of them - so there's a lot I didn't read. If I were implementing a parser, I read this carefully.

The most interesting part was the explanation that parsing this statement:

foo = let x = 1 in x

involves realizing that one interpretation leads to a parse error, so an extra closing brace } should be emitted at the end.
I have no recollection of a "craze" at all.

I remember Furbys being a punchline on late night TV and such. But I didn't know there was a craze and a shortage.

Of course, those were my college years, and didn't have many young kids in my life... so I guess I didn't know what was popular with them!
Yes, I was also confused by that era because that's not the era I recall using amber monitors in.

I do miss them, but only in the sense that if I had to pick a monochrome display for some reason it would be at the top of my list probably.
To be clear: I think these policies favoring certain groups and those requiring academics to swear fidelity to these preferences is entirely immoral. The people doing this are wrong and society should course correct.
Not sure if I'm lucky, or if things have improved. But I've probably ran it at all cores busy compiling for 100 hours so far, and had uptime in the weeks, currently at 5 days.

I did use a beefy usb-c power brick, rated for 40 watts to ensure it's never getting less power than it asks for.

So far I'd say it's at least as stable as my RPi, and doesn't have anything ugly like storage or network connected via USB.
Going from dramatic doomsaying about "falling dominoes" to tepid observations that are almost impossible to not have come true, is really quite the downgrade.

There will be pain because there's always pain to come with the mind bogglingly good times? I mean I and so so so many others in tech have done well enough in the last 5 years or so to weather quite a bit to understate the tech market leading up to this. Sure there's going to be unlucky folks who enter the market at the tail end of the current round of musical chairs, but even the doomsayer admits the long-term is up so...

The only people I feel bad for are those who missed out because they were too busy thumbing their noses down at the crowd.
Don’t forget to support unionization efforts: companies have significant advantages over individuals so anything you can do to even out the power dynamic will help.
This is just cynical and wrong. School is about ideological indoctrination and conditioning the political subject via propaganda during childhood development away from the prying eyes of disobedient parents. Read your Plato and Dewey.
Checklists may sound dumb and boring, but they are actually great! They make it easy to just do the job and not think much about its structure, somehow reducing overall tediousness. Checklists together with snippets in some sort of a knowledge base (I simply use OBTF.txt with folds) help with processes that are too hard to automate timely and/or completely. This also enables gradual automation and knowledge collection rather than living in all-or-nothing world. Also, I find it very useful when your knowledge base grows without being shaped for and nailed down to a specific project with its own quirks. It becomes your own well-commented stdlib for doing things.
Isn't it already like this though?

Most companies won't do that by default, but when push comes to shove, they care about the bottom line much more than the person. Plus they have almost all of the leverage.

I agree with the GP because the power imbalance is too big. They're also not saying people should screw companies over all the time. Just to not feel guilty if/when it makes sense to take a better offer.
Being fair, your rant is about autotools and c compilation, not make, so your own post is as equally suspect for being satire.
Contemporaneous daring fireball post: https://daringfireball.net/2003/01/safari

I love how at the time he thought that lacking tabbed browsing was no big deal, since its a broken paradigm anyway. Surely Apple has something better than tabs up their sleeve!
> What really blows my mind is Democrats/Far Left Progressives siding with neocons, deep staters and warmongers. Is that what is meant by "side switch"?

If you look into the origin of the Neocons you may be surprised to find they were Marxists[1][2][3]. More specifically, Trotskyists, who simply found a different path to achieve the goal the COMINTERN once sought - globalist revolution using "democracy" as their weapon/tool. Understood in that context, a lot of seemingly incongruous things start to make sense.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/06/neoco...

[2] https://theweek.com/articles/528827/rise-neocons

[3] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/05/shac-m23.html
I used one(ISA) as text console next to a PCI-card, next to an AGP-Card around 1996, or so. True triple head setup! With BIOS boot set to Hercules as primary. Then when XFree86 got up, the other screens lit up, too. Worked under BSD & Linux :-)
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You seem to be forgetting the hard forks of bitcoin.

https://www.investopedia.com/tech/history-bitcoin-hard-forks...

Creating new digital currencies is also rampant. It seems to me that a finite representation of the current wealth of the economy (the money in circulation) is not even desirable. New things are being created all the time that increase that wealth. It seems reasonable to be able to adjust the amount of currency in circulation to reflect that.
How'd that happen? I'm using a Complete C2, in fact, "abusing it" would be a more apt description considering how careless I've treated it at times, and it's still in perfect shape. (I did break one of those telescope tubes though).
Difference now is that VCs have lost interest in the crypto space.

LPs are freaking out over what happened with FTX and wanting to limit their exposure and investors in general are increasingly dubious that crypto is capable of generating sustainable, highly profitable businesses.
Sonic only works some places, specifically where there are overhead power lines they can use to route the cables.

There used to be some discussion about "microtrenching" so they could cost-effectively bury fiber throughout the city but the Board of Supervisors shut that down pretty definitively (or rather: made requirements that made it too expensive for sonic).

So Sonic is really good where you can get it, but you can't get it in much of the city. You also have to be careful, because Sonic has two types of offering: fiber (good) and reselling at&t dsl (pretty bad). Only get them if you get the actual fiber!
> You don’t have an algorithm either.

Are you saying algorithms don't exist, can't be followed and reasoned about, and proven correct, or not?
I mean, if you want to be technical, anything involving death is tragic. That doesn't also mean I that I feel sorry or sad for them.
There will always be people who find any field interesting enough to do it at their own detriment. I was a teacher because I just thought it would be enjoyable and interesting, and I was young and didn't think the stress or low pay would be a problem for me. I assume most doctors start out the same way.

Sooooo basically it's almost always an emotional decision, unless you're already in a family that assumes and pressures you to be a doctor. (Though in that case I'd argue it's still an emotional thing, but the emotion is the pride of the family instead of your personal interest in medicine.)

I think that everyone picking a career straight out of high school is doing it based on their feelings towards that field. Maybe they think it would be super dope to have a bunch of money, so they decide to go to school for finance. Maybe they watched a lot of investigation shows and decided to go into forensics because they wanted the excitement and achievement of solving crimes. etc etc
I mean, META stock has been a worse investment year over year than bitcoin. I know everything is relative, but the "momentum losing" I think is fueled by people who vehemently dislike this technology more than what the market is determining
Don’t need to pay taxes if you don’t earn or own anything
I missed both beanie babies and furbies in Australia. I think I have seen one though.
I have the feeling that this crypto winter is different than the previous ones.

I think that we're finally reaching a critical mass of people understanding the nature of the proposition.
grains of sand are finite
GPT-3 content marketing tools already exist https://jasper.ai
I don't do much corporate work in a corporate environment so my thoughts might not be high value but...

1) designs that tend to be desktop first (and opposed to mobile first). Lots of images, extra long scrolling on mobile, etc. Basically an experience that doesn't impress on mobile.

2) designers that write cheques that developers have to cash. Mind you, it's good to be pushed outside your dev comfort zone, but there are limits (especially when there are time / budget limits).

3) designs where the UX wasn't thought through, or simply isn't user friendly, and even after pointing out the (obvious) flaws there's no revisions.
Think so too
Regardless of what Wikipedia says, if you take almost 1/10 mile to stop at 65 MPH, either you or your car is doing something wrong.
As a hiring manager who has had multiple people back out or leave early in their tenure, for personal reasons, I try hard to never take it personally and just try to support them in their decision. People gotta do what's right for them. It might be inconvenient for me or I might think they're not making the best choice, but such is life.
I don’t believe that Google docs concurrent editing came from wave. I thought they were separate though I might be wrong.
Chinese invasion of Taiwan would fail at cost to US, Chinese and Taiwanese
Very well written and impactful read. This story is about extreme examples, seemingly about people ignoring obvious dangers and thinking "it won't happen to me!".

But the conclusion resonates heavily with me, it bears a very fundamental and important truth that has nothing to do with the extremes of raging torrents or scorching heat pictured: real, actual nature bears fatal risks for anyone, if you are unprepared, uninformed and not cautious.

I'm living in Austria, a rather boring place but one of the countries with impressive natural landscapes and some of the highest peaks in the Alps. Most of these destinations have good infrastructure and are well visited touristic landmarks, and would seem tame compared to the extremes depicted in the article.

But every year we have countless helicopter rescues of utterly unprepared tourists surprised by Alpine weather, and luckily not often but still regular casualties. So common, that "stupid {German,Italian,Youcallit} tourist getting himself nearly killed because he thought mountaineering was a Sunday afternoon hike" has become a huge meme in our country.

And that struck me hard in this story. Even if you don't venture into really dangerous places, being naive or oblivious to the forces of nature will put you into seriously dangerous situations.

To put it in perspective: there's no summer here without some tourist getting maimed or nearly killed by a cow because they thought it's nice taking a picture, disregarding it's calves and threatening behaviour.
OpenAI developing software to detect ChatGPT text
Lightning frequently hits the same places because they offer good paths to ground. Tall buildings, trees, etc. get hit all the time.