skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed on preferring a bright 16:10 display. It might seem minor but that was on of the factors that pushed me over the edge to buy a ThinkPad X1 Nano instead of a Lemur Pro a couple of years ago.

I'm also not into numpads on laptops. Not that they aren't useful sometimes, but the they push the alpha cluster and trackpad off-center which is uncomfortable to type on which is hard to justify with how little I personally need one — a standalone numpad that I pull out of a drawer during tax season or whenever makes a lot more sense. Ultimately I think 15"+ laptops should offer keyboard options with and without numpads.
It's weird to me that scientists make so much hay of the Sokal affair given how unscientific it is.

It's a single data point. Did anyone ever claim the editorial process of Social Text caught 100% of bunk? If not, how do we determine what percent it catches based on one slipped-through paper?

I'd expect scientists to demand both more reproducibility and more data to draw conclusions from one anecdote.
Livia never ruled as regent for an emperor that had not yet come of age.
> the outcome is essentially the same right?

Nope, the difference can be found in the profits made by the company that does in fact own and run the wind farms. The government could capture that should it wish to build them itself. This has been a hot topic recently with regard to fossil fuel energy generators who have been making large profits (in the billions) at the expense of people's energy bills.
Having seen the horror shows that some people did to their computers. It is much better. Least priv is a decent thing to strive for. You want to reduce the attack surface. By giving people root you basically make the attack surface your entire computer. I am not going to make the trojan writers job easier.

Also as I have gotten older I also realized that I make mistakes too. Running as least privs reduces the fallout to 'i have to restore a few files' from 'i get to reinstall the whole computer again'. UAC/notroot are tools to help you. You can discard them. That is fine. Not going to judge. I am saying most people it helps them. Not that it matters much anymore anyway. Most of the people who did these silly things to their own computers have moved onto tablets.
The UK seems to have a very interesting situation. We also have a proposal for curtailment in Sweden for wind power producers, but for a different reason.

In the UK, curtailment seems needed due to power transfer capacity issues.

In Sweden it is purely due to grid stability reasons. As wind does not work as a baseload power source this becomes problematic as too much wind power generation can then negatively affect profitability for nuclear and hydro which are baseload power sources.

I would be interested to see how stable wind power production is across all hours and throughout the year in the UK. I imagine it's better than here, but is it good enough to support an industrial nation?
> As others have noted, part of the problem here is that the engineers in question are actually not yet smart enough.

That is highly subjective and purely a result of both perspective and bias. While you can point fingers to say that someone is not yet smart enough they are likely pointing a finger back at you and claiming the same.

The only solution for something like Dunning-Kruger is humility. The only solution to find the best solution (objectively) to any criteria is by comparing measurements. The actual problem is that almost nobody measures things, because the effort is too great. Instead most people will compensate for their lack of measures with a hearty dose of confidence.

There are people who sell confidence for a living, such as salesmen and pundits. That is highly appealing to people who lack the necessary critical nature to ask the right questions or apply the smallest amount of doubt.
I'll pose the argument that if Texas can, the UK can: https://www.texastribune.org/2013/10/14/7-billion-crez-proje...

And yeah that was a long time ago
Literally stealing billions of dollars doesn't seem that bad to you? If my almost-worth-16-billion-dollars company was failing, I would do a lot to save it, but that would never, ever include stealing other people's money, nor defrauding anyone, nor lying about anything. Which, of course, is why I'm unlikely to ever have a company worth nearly that much.

What you're really saying is: "If you were a narcissistic compulsive liar who was defrauding thousands of people and your lies began to untangle, you would dig yourself in deeper and deeper with more and more unrealistic lies until the whole thing collapsed. It happens all the time." Yes, that seems to be what happens to compulsive liars, and prison is absolutely appropriate for these people (when it results in this level of damages). The same behavior in 2008 also should have resulted in prison time. It did for one person, and probably should have for a lot more.
> Tangentially, while some vehicles presumably have worse mileage than a comparably-sized vehicle from the 1980s,

There's a challenge here: people have been encouraged to buy larger vehicles. A small car will have better mileage now but the kind of vehicle the average person is commuting to work in now is much larger than it was three decades ago. I would argue that this is in part due to the successful campaign which fossil fuel companies funded to reverse conservation wins of the late 70s & early 80s. It wasn't just them but they had a significant role in shaping the political and social discourse (e.g. promoting gas guzzling as a macho thing).
It's military grade!
Maybe but it's not the OP's fault? I think it's still fun to read and try to imagine what it was like, even if it's speculation.
TBH, a paper's abstract is supposed to summarize the purpose and findings in the paper, so auto-generation of what is otherwise "repeating what the rest of the paper says" should be considered a win; it's automating boring work.

If ChatGPT can't do that (i.e. if it's attaching abstracts disjoint from the paper body), it's not the right tool for the job. A tool for that job would be valuable.
Benchmark of simple operations against common KV datastores with Python clients
and the need for two of them in parallel to make them redundant from trawler and similar damages.
Usually education is the selected weapon against the latter, which means I could probably bastardize education into saying "we must protect people from themselves"

If you genuinely don't think the massive power imbalance between for-profit food providers and individual citizens should be regulated to prevent the use of addictive chemistry, do you also spend your time regularly arguing for all drugs to be legalized?
Twitch Fell Behind
I agree, but plenty of people seem to think this excuses immoral behavior by corporations. You can even see a couple in this thread. We can't really get effective legislation passed until we can agree that it is indeed bad for a corporation to lie, cause harm, etc, and that misbehaving corporations (and more importantly, the people who lead them) should be punished.
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night...
This is basically a tool to fire whoever you want with cause. Almost everyone works less than 8 hour days, so if you want to fire someone with cause you just selectively install time tracking software on their hardware.
It kind of smells of hypocrisy, it's comparable to when some italian authorities wanted to imprison scientists for not predicting earthquakes. Lots of scientists knew about it and didn't say anything, also earthquakes happen in earthquake zones.
Dr. Stutz gives 10 tools to help combat depression and dark days
My 2014 RMBP is finally ready to go to the great messenger bag in the sky. Apple no longer provides updates and the battery is swelling. I'm not excited about the new MacBook offerings. The hardware is neat but the OS really turns me off. Apple is on a crusade to make MacOS unusable and the lack of stability in the environment is too much for me.

I'm ready to make the leap into a Linux desktop environment just for the sake of stability but I want well supported hardware. Is System 76 a good option? The advice that makes sense to me is to "use what the devs use". Does an AMD-only System 76 check that box?
Yup, tons of educational garbage online. FreeCodeCamp is a big offender. 12 year olds teaching syntax. These places exist for a reason their job is to sell the illusion of knowledge.
ah makes sense, thanks
I have hired before. A few times. "Trust my gut" is still the best predictor of success for me. Every hire i have talked myself into didn't end up working out. Nowadays for hiring, i live by, "if it's not a strong yes, it's not a yes"
True.

I suspect that grid-scale electrolysis is near the very bottom of the economies-of-scale-S-curve and will have a promising future not just in power2gas2power, but also in producing the green hydrogen inputs needed for synthetic hydrocarbon fuels for hard-to-electrify applications like aviation.
Yes, the scaling induces visual artifacts that pretty substantially misrepresent what each algorithm should look like. (In particular it adds vertical and horizontal bars that aren't on the actual image.) Definitely make sure you view the images at the proper zoom level.
I find it highly noticeable in a 13 inch screen
The real issue for me is that the bot might generate incorrect text, imposing a yet-higher burden on readers who already find it difficult to keep up with the literature. It is hard enough, working sentence by sentence through a paper (or even an abstract) wondering whether the authors made a mistake in the work, had difficulty explaining that work clearly, or wasted my time by "pumping up" their work to get it published.

The day is already too short, with an expansion of journals. But, there's a sort of silver lining: many folks restrict their reading to authors that they know, and whose work (and writing) they trust. Institutions come into play also, for I assume any professor caught using a bot to write text will be denied tenure or, if they have tenure, denied further research funding. Rules regarding plagiarism require only the addition of a phrase or two to cover bot-generated text, and plagiarism is the big sin in academia.

Speaking of sins, another natural consequence of bot-generate text is that students will be assessed more on examinations, and less on assignments. And those exams will be either hand-written or done in controlled environments, with invigilators watching like hawks, as they do at conventional examinations. We may return to the "old days", when grades reflected an assessment of how well students can perform, working alone, without resources and under pressure. Many will view this as a step backward, but those departments that have started to see bot-generated assignments have very little choice, because the university that gives an A+ to every student will lose its reputation and funding very quickly.
How A British Submarine Spent Hours Under a Russian Aircraft Carrier
It's tough market. Take a step back.. take tomorrow off. Get your resume ready on the weekend and start applying. Give yourself a few days to understand the response level from applying and make a decision.

Don't give a month.. give two weeks when you need it (after the offer)
It just got delayed AFAIK.
List of commits before and after a security audit
I don't have a lot to add except that my experience with it has been very positive; your complaints are mostly valid, but for me those pain points disappear in the shadow of all the things I no longer have to spend time stressing about or debugging
In headlinese, your sentence would be short for "Person holds excessively strict ideas about English grammar and English posts". Not a great example to make your point.
That only works if you are taking more vacation than you were before
I'm currently in South Mission Beach. Still working though, so my joy is just taking the dog for long walks on the ocean/bay side every day. ;-)
How This Record Company Engineer Invented the CT Scanner
No thanks. VR is about the experience, not the content. Its killer app is being together in the same space as other people, not shopping or posting text. More immersion is better so it doesn't matter if you can easily look away from it, ideally you would have a smart passthrough that lets you bring elements of your surroundings into VR so that you can easily pick up a drink or find your couch. Moms won't be using VR as a time sink while they're waiting in the car to pick up the kids, they'll be using it when the kids are in bed so they can go out for drinks and a movie with their friends.
Any link you could share to check this out? Quick search leads to a youtube video of his, but the audio is so bad it's unwatchable (to me at least), maybe there is something better out there?
I've definitely seen my Tesla think that signs / lights on an overpass were on the freeway (that I was cruising down). I think I've also _not_ seen it make that mistake in a long time, since that spot is one I regularly pass, but I haven't made a study of it so :/
I wouldn't be excited about PEPs. GIL has been talked about for umpteen years.
I feel like there's a difference between slacking off at work and lying about how you spend your time.
The comparative advantage of England was wool. They didn't get the memo and started the industrial revolution instead.
Or do what I did and get on an A320 with a one-way ticket.

I haven't set foot anywhere in North America in almost ten years, and frankly I don't miss it.

The food is better, the transport is far better, the weather is better, and my health care costs are literally a rounding error.

Where do I live, you ask?

Not in the US.
Vim9jit: A vim9script to Lua transpiler written in Rust
This is old news already.
Why would you ask fossil fuel companies about the cost/benefit to begin with? They are a biased party

It may feel cathartic to lash out at perceived “evil” entities but you accomplish nothing that way. Some prefer perception of justice to actual results though, so to each their own.

I think you’d find a world without fossil fuels has quite a bit more misery than the one we have today. Green transition needs to be well thought out and planned for, not taken lightly
25% of that would probably go to fund the reelection campaign of the right congressmen.
> I suppose I could still accumulate dither error and do a one-pass, 1-bit raster by combining the world-space 256-level luminance information with whatever error information is in the accumulator.

That would be interesting to see. I like the idea of renderers that give up things e.g resolution in exchange for something else. Pixel depth is just another. Would be interesting what gains in other areas might be possible if the rasterisation stage turns into 1-bit. Then again the cost of actually operating on single bit stored values might out weight any gains... unless this is done in hardware.
I think one thing to consider is the requirements. I am guilty of overcomplicating a pretty straightforward high priority process in an embedded project. But when I asked, ok, what jitter is acceptable when driving these pins, the “product owner” (lol) just said as little as possible. Or if it was ok if the period was 75ms plus a few hundred cycles they said, well it would be better if it wasn’t. When I asked if it was ok if I used a ton of interrupt and DMA resources, they said that was fine. I was enjoying myself writing a little high precision callback and signaling framework, and exploring the fancier abilities of the micro.

Now, it worked fine, easy to work with, though not straight line c code, high quality unit tests in automation, sounds good. But really, if I was solving that problem for my own project I would have used like one interrupt, taken half the time, been much more straight forward to modify, and I can’t imagine it would have worked any worse. But I was giving management the option of good or perfect, without saying hey, when I leave, which I did, other developers are going to need to carefully read my docs and spend some time to get up to speed on the “perfect” option, and I have no reason to think the results of the good option will be measurably worse…
We Exist Inside a Giant Space Bubble, and Scientists Have Finally Mapped It
Also, there is no concept of time and space, everything happens instantaneously.
As a counterpoint, I found it extremely easy to find a new job without having an existing one.
400A (amps) is icc_max which is how much current the CPU allowed to pull when working at 100%.
Sorry about that! I gave up on RSS with the death of Google Reader. A Twitter follow is your best bet :)
And the concrete self-heals with water
finally, a game I'm good at
Well, I've been running my own mail servers for years, and I can tell you that getting Google and MS to handle your mail fairly is very challenging. There is more involved than what you mention, and many posts here on HN have discussed that.

There may be open standards, but Google and MS only want to interoperate with other big players. They don't want to bother with small fry.
Tailscale has been incredibly helpful to various open source groups, including the team behind headscale which implements an open source version of the tailscale head server. They also contribute directly and indirectly to a number of other open source ecosystems and libraries.

Basically they have done a lot to engender good will from others.
Isn't it how abstracts shall be ? - excluding phenomenal characteristics like: different formulas to get it, human or author involvement, creativity; in pure form being scientific form of some work, like an equation catching the essence without flaws or distractions - and that's what computers are for. to proceed, then humans may don't have to ??

But I'm lost at what those scientists are trying to find.. (?)
Microsoft Edge Workspaces
they are still voting for them, for example the House of Representatives is now majority Republican who almost all don't believe in global warming or believe in it and believe "eh, whatever, I got mine". Are they not as guilty as Exxon? Are the people voting for them any less responsible than Exxon. If you participate in the modern economy, are you not also complicit?
Why don't people just discuss the significant heritability of big-5 trait Neuroticism and many other traits
No f.....g labels! Neither factory, nor aftermarket stickers!

I even removed the IBM logo from my Thinkpads, at the times I used them.
Where that isn't possible, outside of the lid, like DELL, duct tape, silver or black, or black Edding for other stuff, like HP.
Bullshit. As a consultant, if I'm productive for 3 hours in an 8 hour day, I charge 3 hours, maybe a little more if it was due to context switching. According to this article, this woman admitted to falsifying hours and the repayment was in part due to the frivolous lawsuit she brought after being fired for falsifying timesheets, which is literally criminal fraud. She got off way, way easy. The "tracking software" sounds dangerous and stupid but in this case it sounds like it got one right.
Interesting choice for the first Webb exoplanet at 41 light years distance. There are 11 stars within 10 light years of us. Does their choice mean that none of the closer stars have systems that are edge-on to us?
When a few well funded companies absorb all of the growth in headcount do you believe they are allocating resources effectively against the overall economy’s need? That’s what happened here. Company A got cash to burn at no interest. Decided to hire more people and buy more services. Service company B saw a spike in POs and raised more capital to do the same. So up the chain with C,D,E, etc. But when raising money or hiring, none of them strayed too far from their original vision/thesis because boards and the public don’t like that (see: reaction to the Metaverse). So it just concentrated more eyeballs and dollars on a proportionally smaller surface.
Yes. Solo Software Engineer employed in a company of like 30 people.
The other people are Network Engineers, Security and Management.

Developing application for internal use. I'm employed with part-time contract (60%).

I'm burning out. I have to do everything. From project management, devops, gathering requirement, testing, customer support, documentation, instruct,... All you can think of doing as a team of at least 2-3 people, I'm doing it solo. This is not the way, I can feel it. The people don't open issues, don't communicate. I have to keep nagging, asking to give me feedback and test. Keep asking: test and give me a feedback. And then, when they need a feature to be usable, something breaks or don't work the way they thought should work (That's why damn it I asked to test and give me feedback). The thing that made me go crazy was when I asked to test a feature in the development version, so that when they feel ok, I would deploy it in production. I got answered: I can't be bothered to have two URLs and test on different version than the production version. I mean, what am I supposed to do?

I should at least be paid more. Looking for another company with an actual Software Engineer team, with an actual Project Manager and actual person/system that test the requirements/specification. With a member who spend most of his time to documenting and giving support. Thinking about quitting.
Yeah, I jump between 60hz, 120hz, and 240hz screens several times a day and while the difference in smoothness is very visible, if I'm not gaming I forget about it very quickly. Personally for work machines I find high density (preferably integer scaling friendly) preferable over extra frames.
You can read the tribunal decision here [1]

What should Reach have done? They fronted her money to set up a WFH office. They were paying her professional fees.

After five months, when her productivity was lower than expected, they began having weekly discussions about productivity. They installed TimeCamp, with her knowledge.

But... then, even when she presumably knew she was being monitored--she falsified her time sheets. In her words: "Clearly, it’s, I’ve plugged hours that I shouldn’t have plugged to files um when I wasn’t working on them and like, I can’t hide that"

She's a white-collar employee in the finance industry. If you can't trust her, you can't keep her.

Ultimately, they fired her.

They would have probably let it go there. But then _she_ sued them for $5,000 in wrongful termination claims. That's... pretty brazen!

[1]: https://decisions.civilresolutionbc.ca/crt/crtd/en/item/5230...
AI's pining for sensation is just one more reason to treat the development of highly functional sexbots as a national priority. I'm talking Moon landing grade effort.

It might not solve all (or any) of the world's problems but at least we won't have any fvcks left to give.
> Why not install 7 more? That would allow the entire current demand for the entire of NZ to come from the south island.

There is a very high bar for building infrastructure accross the Cook Strait due to environmental concerns.

The problem is a lot of our power is far south, not center of the South Island, and our costs to build are likely multiples of what is costs overseas.
This particular virus has a solid link to various forms of cancer:

"[Epstein–Barr virus] has also been implicated in several other diseases, including Burkitt's lymphoma, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, Hodgkin's lymphoma, stomach cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, multiple sclerosis, and lymphomatoid granulomatosis.".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein%E2%80%93Barr_virus#Rol...
I'm in the same situation. I can take this anymore...
Hard agree Cypher is the easiest way to read complex graph operations.
The problem is that writing good tests is harder than writing original code.

And what happens in most companies? We hired a junior engineer and don't have work for them... let them write tests!