skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how the KDE guys never seem to get quite this level of flammage.

I extensively use Gnome but I think it might be time for me to consider switching.
Not at all. The manager did it for money. For what, a month’s salary? If it were sick, it would be less common.
So you’re saying we need terrorism to keep the streets clean? /s
Which in itself is another flaw in ...whatever we even want to call this. It's not a proper study.

Yes, many here vote and (dis)trust statements based on tone of voice but despite the user losing their cool - for whatever reason - their criticism is still valid. It's reasonable to assume at the least moderate if not extreme bias in this self-selected group of people who're concerned with a lack of dark skies. Yet they didn't address nor attempt to control for it.
You aren’t doing the Gnome project any favours.
I don't think there's a nationwide database of walking gate fingerprints facilitated by your local DMVs.
Any STM32 L series or nRF can do very low power draw if used correctly. Gotchas include making sure other components on your board aren't drawing power.
This is a beautifully done blog. The author works at Square, according to his info page: https://codersblock.com/about/
New and soon to be published book on bare metal C by Steve Oualline (authors of several C programming books):

https://nostarch.com/bare-metal-c
I find it hard to believe it was just 133 accounts. I just got an email saying mine was one of the accounts compromised, even though I haven't used Mailchimp in over 12 years, and don't remember having ever used them for anything material.

From what I remember either I deleted the account, or they closed for inactivity, so it's weird they still had my data.
> Would the person who wrote the best dry-cleaner management software do well at a company like Google?

Offer them a job and find out.

> the required skills there are ‘getting things done in a company the size of Google’

this sounds like a fake excuse to exclude someone who has demonstrated a high degree of ability and skill, but doesn't fit your mental image of what a Google employee should be -- otherwise known as gatekeeping
It is the culture and I say this as an Indian. There are poorer nations surrounding India which are much cleaner - example: Srilanka, Nepal, Bhutan etc.

I won't go into what exact part of culture results in this because it will upset a lot of people - but I do ask Indians reading my comment to ponder upon it without becoming defensive
It also happens for backups to a computer over wifi.
Doesn't make sense. Why wouldn't they open the seal?
Franchisees shouldn't have their Franchisor making hiring and firing decisions, that just seems legally dubious given the franchisee is supposed to be a separate (but affiliated) company.
From my experience, this stuff isn’t limited to COVID-19, and I don’t mean that to minimize your experience with it. I just want to note that I had the flu in 2013; my temperature got up to 104F, and I was sub-par for about that same amount of time; it was about 6 months before I felt back to 100%.
How Smart Are the Robots Getting?
I spent 10 minutes looking for how the challenge would be set up. I couldn't find the requirements. Seems like publicity stunt that is uncashable. Have you seen the terms and conditions?

Would be very interested in them. Seems like Randi is straying out of his lane on this one.
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The same "transnational corporations from Silicon Valley" paying their outsourced third world workforce 3-5 times less than US residents for the same engineering tasks. But nobody calling it "exploitation", because this is how markets are working.
I don’t agree it’s a pro-science bias, but YMMV.

As stated before, I see there’s a much more balanced discussion on this topic on HN and as such, I prefer HN over Ars Technica, as it’s less of an echo chamber.
It is a fantasy: an alternative reality where the space race never ended...but I don't think it glosses over the money issue, instead it neatly justifies it by framing it as an arms race to control ever greater military assets: starting with the lunar operations command war base.

The thesis that military, defense contractors and a technological arms race justifies loads of money is not fantasy, but mundane reality: Pentagon budgets, audit failures in the the trillions, right? So I think it's a solid justification, I mean at least relative to the parameters of our own reality. What else are you going to measure it against?

You don't thinks so?
I watched all of those animations on Safari. The constant reminder that you wouldn't see anything on Safari had me doubt my sanity.
Hinduism's concept of salvation is very different from the Judeo-Christian understanding of salvation
I once delivered papers so obviously I’m qualified to explain how the Star Chamber picks tomorrow’s headlines.

Like the movie says: there is no conspiracy. Big brother is not watching you. It’s a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan.
„ Internal records indicate that there are also about 1,400 non-working employees of Twitter who are still being paid, but are no longer expected to fulfill their old responsibilities at the social media company. Many of them resigned when CEO Elon Musk sent out a "pledge" asking them to commit to "hardcore" work at Twitter 2.0 including long hours. “

1,300 employees and another 1,400 nonworking paid employees
Of course developers need an ongoing revenue source and of course new content isn't always going to fit a business model.

The company that I'm working at wants to provide game developers access to the secondary sales market. Users who are done with their game license can resell it and recoup some of what they paid and go buy another game. Game devs and publishers get a cut of each resale.

The typical profit curve for a game on Steam is a peak around release and then a steep, perpetual drop off.

We aim to reduce that drop-off to ensure that game devs can afford to keep building cool stuff.
And yet most people seem not to be concerned that we’re as close as we’ve ever been to a direct war between the world’s largest nuclear powers.
Agreed. This may sound harsh, but if you’re a software engineer at Microsoft with five years of experience (starting your career at Microsoft) making $300k+ a year and aren’t sitting on a massive pile of cash/investments, a layoff is the least of your worries. Hopefully most of the staff getting laid off have at least three months in cash not including severance.
Quanta magazine is doing amazing work; every time I see a link to it I know it will be good.
This could work for deal with an LLC former from abroad? Not us citizen?
My opinion: Life always carries a risk. Since the body bags are no longer lining the streets and the hospitals are no longer overwhelmed we can go back to normal.

There's lots of nasty illnesses, one of which will most likely kill you in the end. What matters is the fun you had getting there.
Wow, I thought it was just cus I was drunk
I think that's really depends on what you're trying to learn. If you want to learn about someone's position it may be better to ask them than play Devil's Advocate. If you want to learn about the devil's position, the other person won't be able to help you.

As you mentioned, time, place, and consent are important. You see this a lot in forums dedicated to debate. What consent means in general forms like this one is a little bit more ambiguous. Some people are looking to debate and some people are looking to just talk.
I'm impressed with the idea of a latent space being explored, which isn't a ChatGPT thing, but adjacent to it. Autoencoders and GANs are amazing ways to distill concepts out of a corpus and into neural networks.

We're just seeing the start of the power of these concepts. They're tools, but not anywhere near being an AGI.
It is not either/or.

It is all/and. There will be many kinds of storage.
You haven't understood his post, he is correct under worst-case scenario for nuclear -> once through fuel cycle achieves 5% burnup, that's 4 million MJ/KG, or roughly 60MWd/kg

Enrichment requires that we throw away most of uranium as depleted uranium, that's what he means by "7.4:1 tails/fuel ratio"
That's gives us ~20 years of power at 1KW, but we have are converting to electricity, so it really only gives us 6 years or so.

The main flaw with his argument is, in my understanding, he assumes a once-through fuel cycle, whereas France and others reprocess nuclear fuel. It also discards reactors that work on un-encirched uranium like CANDU.

I am not sure about the ores, but I am greatfull for the detailed writeup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor
I prefer MA’AM tbh
Is there a way to restore a backup to a Supervised device?
> grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too

> seem very confusing to grug

https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-microservices
> Isn’t it only recently that the conspiracists have gained so much ground?

It's always existed to some extent but the anti-vaxxers' attempts to promote the idea that vaccines cause autism really escalated things in the years around 2010, and covid gave them another major opportunity to raise fears and conspiracies.

There's also recently been an increasing (and often well deserved) lack of trust in science and medicine. These professions have refused to police themselves and they've allowed absolute junk to get published in "peer reviewed" journals, allowed corporations to pay for research concluding whatever they want to see in a press release, and they let ineffective and harmful medications be pushed onto the public by doctors who took kickbacks and bribes. The extreme lack of oversight and accountability at every level has made it increasingly difficult for people to trust these institutions and that's made people fearful and incentivized them to try to research things themselves to find out what's safe or best.

This has opened the door for a handful of charlatans and scam artists who seek to profit off of that fear through social media by deliberately misleading people who often don't have the education to know better, which isn't to say that they're not smart or even that they're generally uneducated. It's just that our education system is a joke. One of our two political parties opposes teaching critical thinking skills and casts doubt on even well established science and higher education in general. The average American reads at a 6th or 7th grade level and research papers aren't written for them (some have argued this too is often for petty and self-serving reasons)

Most of the antivaxxers are just people trying to do their best for themselves and their loved ones in an environment where they don't know what's trustworthy. Mixed in with them though are nutjobs and the people who know the movement is bullshit, but want to keep making money and fame off of the scam.

Meanwhile, little has been done to increase trust in science and medicine because of regulatory capture and all the money to be made pushing lies and bad medicine. An increase in antivaxxers and conspiracists is basically inevitable unless this changes.
Same problem, on programming questions it provides functions that dont exist.
> If you want someone to educate you, the polite thing to do is ask. This kind of "stealth learning" where you say things you don't believe, expecting to learn via corrections, is inconsiderate and inefficient.

Unfortunately, it is also unreasonably effective. I mean, learning by being wrong is how learning works. It's how science works.

Often the fastest way to find the right answer to a problem is to loudly and confidently proclaim the wrong answer.

As the ancient advice goes: want to know how to do something in Linux? Tell a bunch of Linux users Linux can't do that.

Sometimes I argue things I hope aren't true, but just don't have a good argument against in the hopes someone better equipped will come along and convince me I'm wrong.

I think as long as you're civil and willing to admit defeat then it isn't really a problem.
TikTok rolls out its ‘state-controlled media’ label to 40 more countries
Thanks for the hints, animal on the roof had me stumped.
Recently I came across this fascinating live coding talk on Rust which focus on traits and structs to build extensible software APIs

Type Driven API - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnacleqg6k

Type level programming - https://willcrichton.net/notes/type-level-programming/
The biggest differences between electricity and water is that water is that water is really hard to transport (cause heavy) and droughts can last for years and effect giant areas. With solar and wind on the other hand, their supply is fairly predictable and variation is mostly local (i.e. it sometimes is cloudy in Germany, but Germany and Britain have almost completely uncorrelated weather). Also it's easy to send electricity 2-4 thousand miles with only minor (10%) losses using high voltage DC. As such you can build a grid with 60-80% renewables with minimal storage. You just make it large to remove local variation in weather and use a mix of wind and solar for your renewables (which are anti-correlated which gives you better reliability). You then can make up any renewable shortages with peaker plants that burn fossil fuels, but if you have a little extra renewable capacity you can keep them from running most of the time.

Edit: Also hydro makes a really good battery for the several week timespan. It can't meet 100% of power needed but (especially if you bank water) can provide a decent percent of total demand for a while.
No, we're forming a line to take our turn like civilized internets.
It's interesting because coder is very locked into their view on one price.

I don't know lithium at all, but if you follow natural gas / fracking / oil production the question of what reserves are economically recoverable is HIGHLY price dependent (and highly variable). On low end $10-15/barrel cost of production or better. The only reason we have any production in the US is because oil costs more. If you said we would double oil usage prices would spike incredibly.

Same thing with solar net metering, Solar activists demand that soler gen (often during periods with solar curtailments already in effect) be reimbursed based on the same cost as electric rates during the evening (usually peak demand and low solar / wind). Again, depressing how economically nonsensical this all is for a supposedly scientifically grounded effort.

Anyways, rational heads (and economic forces) tend to prevail. I think we will see more TOU rates, and ideally this will at least create some market forces around storage.
Hey, that's a Ford Transit van.

And, sure enough, it is. Winnebago did a Ford Transit van conversion. Converting Ford Transit vans to RVs is a thing. There are kits.

"Biodegradable counter tops"?
I wonder what the implications are for “intransitive” dice and Casino-level gambling potential. Wonderful article.
I recently picked up a SkyWatcher Heritage 130p for my kids and it unexpectedly became a new obsession. I have plenty of light pollution where I am and it’s still amazing to check things out.

The 130p gives approximately 3.5x the light your eye normally sees and it’s quite portable. It has been a great intro to astronomy for me.
IMO the right answer is to make energy companies into cooperatives or not-for-profits.
Have you tried JetBrains Rider? I've found it pretty great on Mac and Linux.
I just read the inquiry linked in this article. Trustcor has made a statement after the result of this inquiry. https://trustcor.com/news/12012022.php

I seem to find myself much more on the fence about this topic than the average person, but I will say I think the correct decision was made. No doubt can exist about a CA's trustworthiness. From what I gathered there are some serious unaddressed issues.

-The email system provided by Trustcor is NOT e2ee. By default the mail-service DOES allow trustcor the possibility of viewing the email, which is in direct contradiction to their documentation.

-They claim the closest association trustcor had to magsafe was "shareholders of shareholders" but given their own statements this seems to be misleading, if not completely false. (correct me if I am wrong)

They say that they are no worse than other CAs and their downfall was due to the attention the process attracted and liken it to "...a public interrogation held in a town square." I think I agree, but I also think that maybe this level of investigation should be more common.
> The manager did it for money.

You assume a lot. Or maybe project. In the cases where I've been close enough to see, the managers were maintaining empathy and professionalism toward their team members even as they were facing uncertainty themselves. That's still hard. Whether they were staying for the money doesn't change that. Managers are people too, and not everyone is motivated solely by money.
Demand Microsoft to give away for free things they literally invested billions into?
This is perfectly safe, so long as you close the window after. You don't need to set it back.

> Process. Affects only the current PowerShell session.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...
Be that as it may, grossly incorrect, misleading, sensational headlines is precisely why a lot of people don't care for journalism anymore.
BMW expands deal with Solid Power for solid-state battery prototype
It's sad how many companies still won't let you install uBlock Origin for "security reasons".
This is a quite outdated view of consciousness.

The wikipedia article is a good starting point for this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness
Not according to the linked article! The claim is that WiFi backups are similarly affected.
instead of a url, it would just show a rectangle of color.
The primary author, Ted Unangst, has a couple of blog posts describing the inception of doas, and its intended typical use patterns:

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/doas

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/doas-mastery
Hydrogen is not very scale-sensitive. Many people would say it is not safe enough for residences.
Thank you for the detailed responce, am I correct in understanding this is for once-through fuel cycle? I was not able to find figures for total burnup once fuel reprocessing is taken into account. I think analysing large-scale transition to nuclear only makes sence with reprosessing.

> The typical ore mined in a mass expansion scenario (0.01-0.03%) would have an energy density between that of coal and crude oil.

This is really interesting, because I have seen a lot of hand-wringing about lithium mining, describing it as physically impossible.

We seem to be mining 8.5 billion tons of coal a year, and 100k tons of lithium a year. Assuming 2% for lithium, that puts us at 4 million tons of ore.

So we need 2000 times less earthmoving equipment to achieve the quantity of lithium we currently consume?

I am assuming here that 'Coal' is the name for stuff that's dug out of the ground, so comparing 'coal' and 'ore' is correct for estimating earthmoving required.

> Diurnal lithium battery storage is irrelevant where good pumped hydro is available

To me the entire point of this scenario is, what do I do if my country doesn't have it. That's going to be the dilemma facing half the world.
You have to remember that these companies have access to metrics that aren’t public yet. They can monitor sales day to day.

Wait until Q4 results come out. If companies like google have seen a drop in Q4 advertising revenue (unsurprising since it’s often an expense that gets cut first), they may be trimming headcount before the downturn in revenue is even made public.
Perhaps it's me but had absolutely no trouble interpreting the 'help' meassage. Before I did though, for at least some time, was trying to capture the queen :)
Great advice.

I have tried this often, while it is really useful, sometimes it isn't enough. What I found more useful a good chunk of the time (on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit..) is to start blocking people. There are some people that are so far off the mark that what they say not only gets in the way, it actively erodes the quality of what's out there. I've found it far more beneficial than just shrugging and moving on.
Used it last year and liked it, planning to use it this year.

Question: How does FreeTaxUSA make money to support this?
I worked at a place that did this, case-insensitive passwords and all. The worst part? They had unencrypted production database backups on all of their dev laptops, the majority of which left the premises after every night. I couldn't get a figure of how many laptops were lost but statistically speaking there had to have been at least 3 lost laptops with unencrypted production database backups per year using industry statistics.

Eventually I convinced leadership to invest in basic security after conservative but still embarrassingly high 6-to-7-figure estimates of annual loss expectancy that only took a measly 5 figures a year to eliminate 75% of the risk, but the company only went around to it a long while after I left the place.
I'd check out something like oil which is a large and high dollar market.

The relationship between production and price is well established, and no, production does not move inversely to price. This is because the marginal cost in almost any of these areas is higher per unit of production as production increases. That also of course makes sense logically.

Gold as well, same thing. You start by grabbing gold nuggets of the ground. The effort to mine more gold has not gotten easier, it's gotten harder over time.
>I'd be curious to know about any/all languages where types can be passed to functions, returned from functions -- and even generated at runtime by functions... that is, where the language regards types as first-class constructs...

Ecstasy (xtclang).
The model already contains “scratch space” via its billions of parameters.
I think it’s a mix of “execs are the top dogs so they can decide to splurge a little on themselves”, the key is “a little”, I have no idea how much a private concert costs but anything less than $1M is probably considered “acceptable amount of splurge”
Before COVID, the largest, and growing, anti-vax base were those who thought vaccines caused autism in children. Post-COVID total vaccine "skepticism" became a shibboleth for an order of magnitude more people.

I watched a lot of people that I formerly thought were intelligent make the leap from "COVID vaccines are harmful" to "anything bad that has happened since vaccination became common place is the fault of vaccines". Usually it was just contained to believing vaccines cause autism, but everything under the sun is being blamed on vaccines right now, from people being fat, to allergies, cancer and excess deaths.

To answer your question, there was an undercurrent of anti-vax sentiment in the past, and now it's been mainstreamed and is even dumber than it ever was. I believe you're correct in your assumptions.
The ORC (Open RPG Creative License) Alliance Grows
Maybe smaller companies, but large ones carry a lot of debt because it’s cheap.

Google has $28B in debt.
GoMechanic fiasco may be the end of honeymoon for Indian startups
I had the same negative reaction to the price, but that's as a hobbyist/explorer. Given the number of people launching products that sit on top of ChatGPT, I understand the high price point, as much as any pre-trained large language model can be said to 'understand' something.
Good question.

There are two answers: state filing (which sometimes costs) and add-ons such as their "Deluxe" offering.

They make money by being much smaller than TurboTax and the others. Less people means less money spent. They do this by optimizing for the easy 80% use case and letting TurboTax et al take the hard 20%.
Have you tried filtering for what you may need here: https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers/ ?