skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) If that's the case they should be able to prove they are legitimate without to much effort. If a CA can't prove they are legitimate, well. Err.. they probably need to be booted then.

2) Correct but there are also many CA's that have managed to do a good job here. Why should we allow poorly behaved CAs in when it affects potentially billions of devices and people?

As for the external audits correct, they are very narrow in scope, there are also no requirements around change of control (e.g. company A buys an existing root CA).
Good point.

1. Inflation - Though I will not expound here because I’m not an expert.

2. Salaries in the US have been stagnant since the 70s which correlates to the start of the weakening of Big Labor by corporate and government interests.

Left-leaning source:

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

Right leaning source:

https://www.aei.org/articles/have-wages-stagnated-for-decade...

Brookings Institute coverage of both left and right sources:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/09/10/are-wages...
Quite possibly, but to 100% and for use cases with few charge/discharge cycles? In any case, hydrogen provides an existence proof that renewables can get to 100%, and probably more cheaply than nuclear.
> I don't see how this is better:

const alivePlayers = filter(x => x.isAlive)(players);
const scoresOfalivePlayers = map(x => x.score)(alivePlayers);
const highestScore = tryMax(scoresOfalivePlayers);

I think this is way better. The variable names tell me at an instantaneous glance what each clause is doing. I don't have to spend mental effort delving into what's going on with the lambdas, or scan back and forth to find a comment that may or may not be there or out of date if it is.

Furthermore, I'd wrap all of those lines together into a getHighestScore() function as well. That makes the complexity exactly as visible or as abstracted as you want at any given moment. The name of that function tells you what the aggregate of the operations is doing, and you can go look inside that function if you want to see the individual steps.
Do you have literally anything to back up the notion that customers do like it besides a restauranteur claiming customers like it?

Even if the people with nothing but their own dislike of it have only that, it's still more. Because they are customers.

The only thing you can really use as proof is that customers don't hate it enough to collectively stop. Which is hardly an endorsement.
Kids aren't going to operate a commercial floor waxing machine.
Kids shouldn't be responsible for hygiene of toilets or kitchens.
Kids shouldn't have access to stronger cleaning products.

Kids doing light chores aren't going to remove the need for a cleaning crew.

And your article agrees:

> Japanese schools have non-teaching staff called yomushuji [...] their main job is cleaning and maintenance.
I carry around my medical records like James Dalton (of the film, Roadhouse).
> Bullies back down when their bullshit gets called out.

Does Russia appear to be backing down?
> How does a host say how to find them on Mastodon (or ANY ActivityPub based platform)? They might say john@reallycoolpodcast.co.uk

Tell a non-techie "@johnsreallycoolpodcast" and there's a good chance they'll figure out it's a Twitter or Instagram username.

Tell a non-techie "john@reallycoolpodcast.co.uk" and they'll think it's an email address or at best infer the website URL from that.

Tell a non-techie there's a social media platform called "Mastodon" and they'll look at you funny, and after the initial awkwardness they'll dismiss it because they don't understand (nor care!) about the whole decentralisation aspect of it and how to navigate its inherent downsides.

Having Mastodon use email-like identifiers is a cute technical detail but is not only completely irrelevant for non-techies but actually hurts adoption as it's less recognisable than an "@username".
‘The last generation’: the young Chinese people vowing not to have children
When visiting the Big Island of Hawaii I commented on the color of the street lights, which was unfamiliar. It was LED lights, but had a yellowish color IIRC.

I was told they were specifically designed to be easy to filter out by the telescopes on Mauna Kea, and used all over the island.

On a related note, can totally recommend visiting Manua Kea if you're in the neighborhood. We watched the sunset from the top of Mauna Kea and it was quite something.
It's a mixture, most have not been anywhere near as highly valued as Databricks.

Databricks $28 billion

SpaceX & Tesla (~$120 billion & $421 billion)

LinkedIn sold for $26.5 billion

Yelp $2 billion

YouTube sold for $1.65 billion

Those are the major companies. Most of the PayPal mafia went on to do angel investing or work for VC firms.
Except not really, because they reversed course on that, added a bunch of new features, and continued to maintain and update it.

It never had feature parity with the site, but it did get better over time.
"willing to give her the benefit of the doubt"

That was her business model wasn't it?
I'm 49, so I suppose I fall into the "older" category. It's not clear to me that my age has anything to do with my assessment of ChatGPT though.

With that established...

I was talking a friend a couple of weeks ago, and recall saying something like

ChatGPT is the first thing I've encountered in a while that gives me that "we are living in the future" feeling.

Do I find it impressive? Yeah, definitely. But does that statement come with some caveats? Also "yeah, definitely."

What caveats? Well... while I find it impressive in a general sense, I'd stop short of some of the more hyperbole filled assessments I've seen out there. I don't, for example, think "ChatGPT is AI" or "ChatGPT is going to take all of our jobs" or even "ChatGPT is going to kill Google". Regarding AGI, I'm not even sure ChatGPT represents much at all in the way of progress towards that, although I lean towards a believe that it does represent some progress towards AGI. Maybe just not as much as some commentators would have you believe.

I would refer people who are really interested in this whole discussion to, among other things, the paper On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?[1] by Emily Bender, et al.

All of that aside, clearly it's a powerful and useful tool, and it also clearly has limitations.

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
Your primary concerns seem to be emotional - any hope, any path, where to begin, ever consider. Others have responded with encouragement, but as you know, encouragement does not create courage like success does. The solution there, I think, is to realize (moment to moment) that your feelings are a normal response to floundering: loss of energy and perspective. They are not real.

One aspect of your questions is essential: leverage, from networks and experiences

You're now recognizing that your diligence and skill did not add up to connections or milestones that could lead you to other opportunities.

That leads you to want help. Sure, help helps, but wanting help doesn't. Getting help might. Helping yourself? definitely helps. But realize that with your history, people who can give help are not inclined to help you. That includes partners, admissions and job evaluators, etc.

The solution is to work on something you can control, and use success in that to engage in more collaboration, and build from there.

Just don't forget the most important thing is to work on the right thing. Don't polish any turds, and don't hesitate to leave behind a bad investment.
Allegations of a fake diary would very well lead to real raid. Attempting to solicit crime even if crime didn't happen would be you guessed it ... a crime.

Lastly and most relevantly the diary being real in no way validates information received by unreliable sources about the contents of what they stole. A strategy older than civilization is to mix truth and lies.

Is any of that something I really had to tell you?
One of the most basic is “do your managers write code?”

My first company out of college actually banned it as a practice - EMs were not allowed to be active contributors.

I know at some companies, it’s actually a requirement, or at least heavily encouraged, for a manager to spend at least 20% time writing code.

And then some places are a mixed bag.

I can see both arguments! Just good to know that a company has a coherent philosophy on the issue.
These are also known as scream tests. We use them internally at $dayjob as part of EOL'ing APIs. Are they not common?
I think this is just another case of "history repeats itself"

People who went through COVID will now have an experience that will shape how they handle this situation in the future. This generation won't make this same "mistake" again, but a future generation may.

Just like how people who grew up with extreme bank instability (i.e. the Great Depression) stashed large sums of money in closets and dressers but we don't. Our decisions are largely based on the context of our experiences. If we don't have a certain experience, it probably won't be a factor in decision making.

Of course, you go to school to learn about past mistakes, but

(1) There are a billion mistakes that have been made in the past so even if you learn about them, without direct personal experience, you will probably repeat some anyway.

(2) In the end, we sort of want people to repeat mistakes because sometimes the conditions are different and the outcome could be positive. What happens when we get old is that we encounter negative experiences that discourages us from trying the same things in the future, which is great for survival but extremely negative for innovation. In the case of someone who grew up stashing money, they might be disdainful of banks and this could actually turn out to be a pretty bad trait.

So in the end, it is what it is. Cycles will always be a thing.
> The firm eventually conducted a focus group to discover the truth: participants were concerned about the price of the burger. "Why should we pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as we do for a quarter-pound of meat?" they asked.

> It turns out the majority of participants incorrectly believed one-third of a pound was actually smaller than a quarter of a pound. [1]

Sure maybe only a single person asked the question but it sounds like they then polled the entire focus group afterwards. I'm not too sure what leading question to ask to get somebody who understands 1/3 > 1/4 to answer the inverse.

[1]: https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractio...
There's a difference of dropping a bomb in the desert vs hauling nuclear waste across federal highways through people's "land" to get to Yucca Mountain. It's not exactly apples to apples of a comparison you're making here.

While it is definitely full of NIMBYism, there is a bit more complexity to the Yucca Mountain decision.
"Lithium is not exactly rare or hard to extract, you can even extract lithium from saltwater, so this argument seems specious. But, various alternative chemistries are being explored which could help in different ways."

Lithium is abundant as far as its total share in the Earth's crust goes, but it is my impression that mineable concentrations are rather rare, unless you are willing to spend obscene amounts of energy on purification. That is why only a few countries in the world actually produce lithium commercially.

We have some reserves of lithium in Czechia, but they would only be economically mineable if the bulk price rose significantly (as in, ten times or so), plus the mining methods would introduce a lot of poisons into the environment. Mining is usually seriously dirty.
I don't know about you but I mostly refer to people with they/him/her/his/hers when they are not present.
Ads come with tracking, so there's probably an issue of trusting all the data that apps would have to send back. Twitter would have to document just how much tracking their ads require, and 3rd party developers could balk at it and cause a stink. OTOH the first party app can track as much as it wants and it'll fly under the radar.
Ask HN: Commercial licenses for Rust embedded software libraries?
One of the libraries I'm working on while learning Rust would probably only be useful to a handful of embedded systems developers and hobbyists. There's no open source equivalent in Rust right now.

It's also the kind of library that, once it's written, sometimes the chunks of code that were tricky to figure out tend to get copyright-violatingly copied&pasted between projects (and, today, laundered through Copilot-like software), and soon treated as public domain.

With the idea in mind that maybe one or a few companies might want to use this library, saving them engineer-weeks of development, combined with the idea that I love receiving money...

What do you think about, instead of the LGPL license I'd normally use, making it GPL, with an added statement to contact me about other commercial license options?

And any other comments on when different kinds of embedded systems product developers are willing to pay for libraries, and what kind of pricing and licensing terms are appropriate?
Street lights are way too common. Let's phase them out entirely on non-pedestrian streets.

This is one of my favorite things about Palm Springs, which has almost no street lights. The darkness at night is truly beautiful. And it saves money and electricity to boot.

Maybe you could even get creative and have street lamps that dim up or down based on activity someday.
Youtube to this day allows uploaders to disable automatic captions for some reason.
Temperatures in One of Earth’s Coldest Corners Are the Highest in 1k Years
And how do you expect to effect such a change? Is it just a matter of generating sufficient outrage in your mind? Why should these people be forced to wait and suffer while you and your ilk write think pieces about silicon valley?

This is the problem with ideas like yours, there is no practical plan on offer to create the reality you are advocating for. Yet, you expect these people who are suffering right now to just sit tight. Its narcissism.
Well if you miss the first leg, it'll be pretty difficult to use subsequent legs anyway.
I used to take same day round trip flights all the time. Isn’t it normal for business travel? I could leave home at 7am, fly to stinky Sydney, meet my customers, and be home again by 7pm.
Show HN: Simple server-side push example Flask app using socketio (75 lines)
The Type Theory Forall podcast published an interview this week with Kevin Buzzard who has been coordinating the mathlib efforts[1] for Lean. If you're interested in math, theorem provers, or Lean, then it is worth listening to:

https://www.typetheoryforall.com/2023/01/16/26-Kevin-Buzzard...

[1] https://leanprover-community.github.io/
I'm going to use "skillet" for "skillset" from now on!
No. While we want to eliminate the need to switch jobs just to get a COLA, nothing about the contract would make job hopping harder.

Under all CWA contracts covering devs that I'm aware of, the employer gets to determine which grade a pay step the employee starts at when they are hired. Bargaining around your starting grade and step would be purely individual.

In the future, I would personally like to see the union operate a hiring hall that allows developers to go through one standardized certification processes. If they pass, they would then be eligible for placement with unionized employers for a certain period of time (e.g. two years). For those devs/qa/designers/etc. who prefer jumping from project to project, the hall system would eliminate the hassle of interviewing constantly. For employers, they would effectively be outsourcing a large part of recruitment to the union. Developing such a certification process, and getting a critical mass of software workers and employers on board would be a huge lift, though.

Some construction and merchant marine unions, back in the day, even had systems in place that allowed groups of coworkers to "ship out" as a group to employers when possible. I've hopped between jobs with groups of coworkers before, and it's great to arrive on a project and have rapport with your peers on day one.
|> is for functions the same thing that . is for methods

If you program in object oriented style then . is mostly all you need.

If you program in functional style you could really use |>
That's great. The issue is finding 99 more buyers so this can work at scale (the whole point of smr). Then you just have to deliver 100 reactors and do so on budget and without any defects.

This is why I say the regulation is the EASY part. People were amazed when Tesla got off the ground because it was the first time anyone had succeeded at starting a new car maker in 100 years. This is the same idea, but much harder.
What tipped me over the edge on my acceptance of tipping culture, was seeing a tip screen pop up on a display after paying at what was essentially a local fast-food place. What service am I tipping here for? That I liked the 1 minute I talked to worker?

When I was younger, It made sense to me to tip housekeeping if you make a small ask of them, or to tip a service worker if you make a request outside the norm; you're asking more of them than most people after all, and you want to add some grease. But what is with tipping for doing the standard of exchanging money for goods and services?
There are a lot of differences certainly, but there have been papers written about the similarities, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26697892 (arguments against are included there too).

The main reason why I draw parallels is because my main objective is progress towards machines achieving human-level intelligence. We already have an "AGI" which works incredibly well; the human brain. We should be studying it as deeply as possible and borrowing its means & mechanisms for use in our machine intelligence systems. Trying to re-invent the brain from scratch is surely going to be far harder.
Related:

The First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Was Just Approved by US Regulators - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32367791 - Aug 2022 (229 comments)

US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32282632 - July 2022 (742 comments)

Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has come - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30787076 - March 2022 (277 comments)

First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24485962 - Sept 2020 (105 comments)

Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24358850 - Sept 2020 (541 comments)

NuScale’s small nuclear reactor is first to get US safety approval - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24345288 - Sept 2020 (5 comments)

Related a bit more loosely:

China leads the quest for small modular nuclear reactors–will the world follow? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34395892 - Jan 2023 (41 comments)

Small Modular Reactors Exacerbate Challenges of Nuclear Waste - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31639398 - June 2022 (268 comments)

Next generation nuclear reactor to be built in Wyoming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27376834 - June 2021 (26 comments)

Wyoming site of new nuclear power plant from Bill Gates' TerraPower - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374840 - June 2021 (113 comments)

Small modular nuclear reactors may help polluting industries reduce emissions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25791023 - Jan 2021 (45 comments)

NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclear reactor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16984551 - May 2018 (124 comments)

Canada begins Small Modular Reactor strategy roadmap - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498617 - March 2018 (49 comments)

China's Yanlong: a small nuclear reactor strictly for district heating - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15967724 - Dec 2017 (60 comments)

Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Overcome Existing Barriers to Nuclear - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11751705 - May 2016 (84 comments)
Yes, but I would add that we're not in a recession currently. Really. There may be one coming, but it hasn't happened yet.
Exactly. When it is a small change, just comment it out. But when it’s a large change, create a .old.backup.2013-12-07.dontdelete.
Most folks working in restaraunts don't "benefit" -- in several states their hourly wage is $2.13 an hour plus tips. If no tables come in then that's literally all you get. Their "benefit" is, occasionally, a living wage.

There are a handful of very hot, busy venues with high prices and turnover, but those are the exception, not the rule. FAANG salaries vs. the average IT / tech worker.

See also:
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped
https://www.minimum-wage.org/tipped
> Making sure you're not showing them by nsfw content, etc. or your advertisers will pull out.

Which you can control by just returning the ads as part of the API response for the feed, which I'm sure how the official client does it. Making the client classify NSFW content and hide ads based on that seems like a stupid idea.
So I think one conceptual issue that makes this so hard to understand is that we tend to imagine a physical reality where light is a wave or a stream of particles. However, that is absolutely wrong. Both the wave and the particle concept are mental models we have constructed to explain light as a phenomenon and to calculate things. And in their respective realms, they work exceptionally well.

However, where things start to get complicated is when the models give different results. However, this doesn't mean something is wrong, it just means the mental model we use to make sense of nature is stretched beyond where it's applicable.

So to preface, light is neither a stream of particles or some sort of wave like the ones on the surface of water. Light is the excitation of the electromagnetic field and is described by a quantum field theory called the standard model. So. photons are 0-dimensional (so no size) excitations of this field and they interact with matter like our eyes, surfaces, sensors in an experiment and produce physical effects.
Yeah, airlines don't like that at all. Doing it once is highly unlikely to result in any action, but you're playing with fire either way.
On engineering career growth: from junior to senior and beyond
If anything, wouldn't airlines be happy if you already paid for the flight and miss it? Especially if they overbook.
Elsethread I was reminded of one of my favorite collection of essays on software development. The last post in its collection is titled "Ozymandias" http://thecodelesscode.com/case/234

I chanced upon an ancient cache of code:
a stack of printouts, tall as any man,
that in decaying boxes had been stowed.
Ten thousand crumbling pages long it ran.
Abandoned in the blackness to erode,
what steered a ship through blackness to the moon.
The language is unused in this late year.
The target hardware, likewise, lies in ruin.
Entombed within one lone procedure’s scope,
a line of code and then these words appear:

# TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE

The code beside persisting to the last—
as permanent as aught upon this sphere—
while overhead, a vacant moon flies past.

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...
I have been told that this never happens? And that assuming it happens frequently makes me a conspiracy theorist?