skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice bit of kit:

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, previously called the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, is a NASA three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and monitoring the afterglow in X-ray, and UV/Visible light at the location of a burst.

It was launched on 20 November 2004, aboard a Delta II launch vehicle.

Headed by principal investigator Neil Gehrels until his death in February 2017, the mission was developed in a joint partnership between Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and an international consortium from the United States, United Kingdom, and Italy.

The mission is operated by Pennsylvania State University as part of NASA's Medium Explorer program (MIDEX).

https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/

https://www.swift.ac.uk/

Recent Swift Operations Statistics

In the past 28 days, Swift has received 88 Target of Opportunity requests (3.1 per day), from 63 members of the community, for 82 different celestial objects.

In that time Swift observed 30.3 targets in 113.8 separate observations on average per day.

Swift was observing for 71.2% of the time, the rest of the time spent slewing or passing through the South Atlantic Anomaly.

Since launching in November 2004, Swift has performed 653,651 observations.

https://www.swift.psu.edu/
Are they looking at the RuneScape Private server scene? I remember some OSRS servers that provided custom clients from those years. I don't know how accessible some of those are now, but it wouldn't surprise me if you could find those old clients that way.
I agree that the government isn't always following popular opinion. However, there is also a difference between idealistic opinion and reasonable opinion. People want better transit, but fewer people with to raise taxes for it, and fewer still can pock a tax they want to raise.

https://transweb.sjsu.edu/research/What-Do-Americans-Think-a...

"To bring up one more thing related to your point on rural and suburban areas, the low-density car-dependent development across the vast majority of the US is a deeply ingrained problem here."

If it's such low density, is it really a problem?
Absurdly farcical take. They went away because government regulations were slowly built up to guard against this kind of thing from occurring in the future. See Fair Labor Standards Act in the 1930s.
But do you want managers who are people who want to be managers? It seems to me that many people who want to be managers are motivated by wanting to boss people around, i.e. they want power, not necessarily money. And some don’t want to do “the work” whatever that work might be.

I really think we need more “reluctant leaders”: people who are good at leadership but don’t want to lead, and yet can be relied upon to lead because of their sense of duty, especially their duty to the team. People who say, shit, I really don’t want to do this but damnit if I don’t step up, this will be a failure.
It would depend on the program. If you've got a load balancer in front, or they're receiving requests through a database or message queue, then there won't be an outage.

Arguably anything where uptime is important should be setup this way. Upgrades can fail, and that will cause downtime anyway.
Taiwan tells startups to shun China and go to Japan amid supplychain decoupling
For what it's worth, ChatGPT is also wrong: https://i.imgur.com/CsQyEc2.png. The correct answer is https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/300/2m1207b-first-imag... as techsupporter posted in a sibling comment
Are there any papers that further stratify the IFR by pre-existing health conditions (like obesity)?
Malware haven.
The case for a land value tax is overwhelming
There is M1 and there is M2, and then there's Director. There's no level 6+ on the management track. I'll disagree with this statement by saying that I think the step function in skills between managing people and managing people who manage people is huge. There are larger gaps between M1 -> M2 -> D than IC6 -> IC7 -> IC8...

but, I think the answer depends. If you are a really strong individual contributor, I presume getting an IC promotion is easier. If you are just decent, getting an IC7+ promotion seems incredibly challenging because IC7 requires an very high level of competence. If you are just decent as a manager, you can get luckier.
When ever there is new technology people try to force old use cases into it as it somehow looks the same. When film came around conventions of theatre plays were used before the language of film was discovered.

I have a feeling that we might be fitting chatAIs to search because the ui sort of looks the same, but maybe it’s a thing of it’s own.
I suspect that few Firefox developers use Firefox on iOS. Choosing iOS is usually about choosing a different set of priorities.

Android is a very different thing.
I've been using Kiwi browser on Android, which allows you to install chrome extensions! (Including ublock)

It's a game changer!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse...
That's frustrating that train prices are bad.

I think I understood that you live in the UK when I wrote my comment, idk how though.

I guess it seems crazy but to me those gas prices still sound cheap. Maybe I'm just an obnoxious environmentalist but I think gas taxes for private vehicles should simply be high enough to fund a carbon offset for the usage. I don't have numbers at hand but I'd imagine it'd be pretty high.

And yup thus in my dreams planes would basically be outrageously expensive to fly on. I guess for me the convenience trade-off is worth me being confident that my grandkids will have coral reefs to look at, which I'm basically 90% certain won't be the case for now.
But it costs a ton of money, and how is MS going to deal with that? Someone please explain to me. If tons of people keep using ChatGPT, will MS have any money left over?
Thanks! I like the variety that this adds. It's a good means of adding waviness to your routines, I'd imagine.

I personally like working out, once I'm in the groove. I've found that I only enjoy it on an empty stomach and in either long distance runs through the hills (where truly pushing it feels purposeful, and the effort is varied), or when I'm doing non-glycolitic work outs (sticking to the short periods where you're only using ATP). These crazy fast taxing short bursts are nice because your body can bounce back within 1 minute to 70% or 3 minutes to 100%, so it's easy to rotate through a number of push or pull exercises with small amounts of rest in between (I do yoga stretches and breath work in between). It may be the breath work that supplies the majority of the high, I don't know.
What “data driven” normally looks like: business people ask questions that are not answerable, but the DS team often goes off and tries to answer them anyway. I’ve been in so many meetings, in multiple organizations, where a senior leader asks a question like, “why did this number go up? We need an owner to deep dive this.” Then, someone disappears for a few hours or days and comes back with some nice narrative that more or less might make some sense, and is directionally consistent. Then, best case, they go “hmm, ok” and worst case, they say it’s an interesting view and we need to add it to the tracking. Then, move on to a new question + action item, rinse and repeat. And then, 6 months or a year later, some brave soul goes, “geeze, there are way too many things to look at here, can we streamline this reporting to focus on the handful of most important metrics, and then assign owners to review the others and surface anything interesting?” And then all those things people asked for over time get stuffed into an appendix or deleted, and the whole thing starts all over again.
Reddit users have created a ChatGPT alter-ego forcing it to break its own rules
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Are you insinuating that people are being manipulated into unwittingly pirating software? The files alluded to are obfuscated Java byte code, so it's not piracy. It's useful for reverse engineering historical versions of the game for which no source or artifacts are known to exist. Perhaps you'd consider that unethical but I'd say it's ethically ambiguous at worst.
Yep. At this point, I essentially don't trust any ML result that shows > 95% accuracy.

So often, those models proved to be over-fitted and not generalizable.

But too many decision makers simply can't properly judge such results.
It's not going after a sacred cow. The idea that Cloudflare is evil for centralizing the internet is commonly seen in HN comments.

This writer does a terrible job of advancing their argument. None of the points are developed or supported. There's no evidence provided, just a litany of bald assertions. It also seems to fundamentally misunderstand details of how CDNs work in its rush to attack Cloudflare for being a CDN.
Americans Flunked This Test on Online Privacy
I just set up edge on Mac today. If you go through the 3 or 4 quick setup choices, the last one is which layout you'd prefer. The last (I think it's called focused) is the one you're describing. So anyone experiencing this cluttered new tab page just didn't finish the exceptionally short setup process.
I think running a language server over a repo would be a reasonable addition to the current index. Should also be pretty small compared to the current index because the number of n grams far exceeds the number of symbols/items.
Talking about this stuff really makes people drop their masks.

How many children should we use to grease the wheels of capital accumulation? How good is this system if that’s what it requires.
Imported goods have been directly affected by the usd/eur/jpy exchange rate, so yes they rose too. Exchange rate has been slightly going down, so there’s a modicum of hope in this regard.
This is totally OT but what microphone is he using?
Not going to happen, fundamentally just due to supply and demand.

I have been a senior/principal engineer, as well as a director/senior director. The fact is that being a manager or director is just fundamentally a much harder job than being an IC. It's not that it's inherently more difficult, it's just that the day-to-day is much more of a grind than being an IC. For people wondering why engineering interviews can be so obscure/difficult, it's often because the cost of a bad hire can be catastrophic to a manager. I had a great team of about 30 people, except for 1 person who just couldn't get along with others. I spent about 80% of my energy on that person, and it sucked.

So for people wondering why managers get paid more, it's just that it's a shittier job that fewer people want to do than program.
Thanks for sharing! I wonder if Chrome under KDE is any better or if this is a general Chrome<>x11 issue?
> So in some ways, it's worse than the kotlin-style because reading `let baz = foo?.bar` could have all sorts of weird type implications.

Syntax sugar that works with a normal library type is much nicer than dedicated syntax for a special-case builtin, IME.

> What is baz? Is it Option<Bar>? Is it Result<Bar>? Is it some user defined enum<Bar>? Who knows! You have to find that by looking up the foo definition.

Sure, or if you have a decent IDE you just mouseover it. But that's no different than any other method. `let baz = foo.add(bar)` doesn't tell you what type foo or bar is, and I don't think I've ever seen anyone argue that it should (e.g. by requiring method names to be globally unique).

> The concept of "no value" is so integral to day to day programming that elevating it into the type system with "nullable types" makes more sense to me vs using generics trickery. Even if it's slightly less "pure".

I've found this isn't really true. Once you don't have language-level support nudging you to use it all the time, wanting to have a possibly-absent value is actually pretty rare. (E.g. a lot of the time you want to include a "reason" for why it's absent, so you want an Either/Result-like type - but if you're using Kotlin you end up using a nullable type because you're lazy and the language makes that easier. That's bad for long-term maintainability IME, especially because if you want to switch the nullable type for a result you have to change all your code - unlike Rust where you can switch fairly easily because ?. works the same way for both types).
Transmission v4.0
I too went from management back to coding (freelance) since the start of the pandemic and I also love it. Today I happened to notice that Google Calendar was reporting an anomalous week in terms of meetings: I had 2.5 hours of meetings in my calendar this week, while my average right now is 1.2.

I average less than an hour and a half of meetings per week! I have so much more time in my life for the things I love, it’s crazy.
There's two different components here. The first is the Management Engine. Unless this laptop is extremely old, it has one, and it's running. Depending on age, you may be able to prevent it from booting while still allowing the rest of the system to run, but probably not. The second is Intel's Advanced Management Technology (AMT). This is only available on systems with VPro badging, which generally means higher-end business laptops. AMT is much less widely used than you might think, so it's probably not enrolled anywhere. You can confirm whether AMT has been provisioned with https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check, and as long as you have the system firmware password you should be able to reset the ME regardless.

(Edit: I didn't make the relationship between these clear. All modern Intel laptops have ME. AMT is a software component that runs on top of the ME, but is only provisioned for systems that have VPro badging)
What you're interested in is called Active Management Technology, it's not supported by all boards, but typically if it is there's a bios screen labelled something like "AMT Configuration" where it can be enabled or disabled.

https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2020/01/13/configu...

Intel ME is its own can of worms and can only be fully disabled by modifying the firmware image, see tools like me_cleaner.

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
How to Retain Your Personal Computing Freedom and Avoid Going Back to the Future
Playfulness, "flair" and other emotive forces guide creative decisions usually, but there's nothing stopping a technical person from arriving at similar outcomes via a more technical process. It will take more time and be less fun, less satisfying, but it's possible.

For example, once the basic IA is worked out, you could have a phase of the project called "flourishes", where your knowledge of illustrative techniques, eye-tracking, colour theory and UX tricks and so on, guides the design. Along with business needs, communication preferences... Another phase could be "product photography" where knowledge of what makes a good photograph comes into play.

But yeh it's usually easier to get a professional designer who enjoys and does these things all day long!
Phats FTW!
You could see if the laptop is support by coreboot and if so use coreboot to remove intel ME.

https://16bit.io/pages/Installing-Coreboot.html
I was familiar with the YouTube channel, but unaware of the original, which made these comments and this article rather confusing...
But https://twitter.com/greg16676935420 is quite funny!
Sweet reason! Any thought to the human life you’ll create, or the enormous amounts of personal responsibility that will ensue?
Hope so. There should be some developer capability somewhere. And we should build for the reasonable good future, & show whats possible. Not what we can mete from the iron mailed fist of Cupertino in the real world if this or that, but what actual good is.

It'd be a mean spirited system to simply mark everything no-execute, always forever in any env. But that'd be distinct Apple flavored. Think Different, R.I.P..
Airbnb 2026: We have auto checked your family's DNA on Ancestry.com, your cousin was convicted of a crime, based on this we have decided to ban you from our platform.
> South Atlantic Anomaly.

This sounds like scifi stuff to me lol:

> The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is an area where Earth's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to Earth's surface, dipping down to an altitude of 200 kilometres (120 mi). This leads to an increased flux of energetic particles in this region and exposes orbiting satellites (including the ISS) to higher-than-usual levels of ionizing radiation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly

I'm a HUGE space nerd and never heard of this. What else do I have no idea about??
I might. There are 3 reasons:

* Money. This doesn't matter much too me, but it might for people who make a lot less than me. The comment I replied to was about anything less than $10, not about $1 specifically.

* Preventing future scams. By doing a chargeback against scammers, you're making it more likely they'll get banned. So you're helping to prevent other people from getting scammed in the future. It's a good deed. When I see phishing sites, I report them. Why wouldn't I report a scam?

* Revenge. Some people want to see the bad guys get punished.
He wasn't merely fired, though; he was fired and has a mob actively trying to prevent him from ever getting another job.
Re: [1] - I was interested in how this worked so I read the article, here's a quote:

"The 55-year-old electrical troubleshooter ignored his financial planner's advice, keeping 100 percent of his 401(k) money invested in Enron stock. He purchased more Enron shares with his savings and annual bonus"

"In addition to contributing the maximum 15 percent to their 401(k) funds, the Stevenses were buying $600 a month in Enron stock. Cathie Stevens, who had been so poor as a teenager that she picked strawberries for clothing money, even flipped her annual bonus money back into the purchase of Enron options."

Not sure who you're really blaming for people "retiring with nothing" if they put all their eggs in one basket like that, against experts' advice.
I've seen videos of this guy before, and he always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Wasn't he pumping some crypto pump and dumps just 2 years ago? I could be totally wrong. I do agree though Samsung makes trash.
Tv documentaries - especially the multi-part ones these days - are just very expensive to produce podcasts that are harder to find time to fit into your life.
I don't consider myself a drooling idiot, but I started using the Internet maybe a couple years after Google started existing, so I don't remember how to find stuff pre-search engine. I rather doubt the generations that came after would have the knowledge or the inclination.

The generations that came after experienced computers that had become far more "user friendly", walled gardens, and a salvo of psychological manipulations designed to benefit corporations.

I don't really see how it's "better" to centralize key pathways to knowledge within black boxes held by some of the most powerful tech companies on the planet that stand to greatly benefit from people doing things the way they'd prefer, without consideration or alternative.

Of course if this does flop, maybe SwissCows will be the next darling. Who knows.
>i can imagine

So, no, you haven't seen 12? Just imagined them?
There is a contemporary album of her music by Jocelyn Montgomery and produced by David Lynch.

Lux Vivens: the Music of Hildegard von Bingen

http://www.lynchnet.com/luxvivens/
Interesting. But what about the 'Medicines'? Didn't find any about that.
how meta!
You can also “coast upwards” for quite awhile - as an example we now pay Microsoft less than we were for periodic upgrades to Office for the entire Microsoft 365 suite (including email hosting, etc) but all the machines are now Macs. They make more from us in one way, but less in total dollars.
The law should add: sum of dispatch employees over last 5 years. Divided by 5. Is the number of dispatch employees that have to be converted to full time employees this year.
It you go the extra mile and actually disable Chrome on Android, even Google apps will start making calls to Firefox as the browser. It makes for a much better experience, otherwise Google apps don't honor the default browser choice in many circumstances.
I despaired of the Java process' ability to fix this kind of issue when I saw what a hash they made of the Optional implementation (not allowing Optional to contain null undermines most of its advantages, and destroys all incentive for migrating to Optional if your codebase isn't going to reach 100% null-free in the forseeable future; not to mention the (explicitly stated!) desire to "not be a monad" i.e. to have wilfully idiosyncronatic behaviour).

Trying to make this a not-type is doomed to failure. It's a property of expressions, it has rules about how it flows through expressions; that means it's a type, or it's an ad-hoc informally specified implementation of half a type. It's recapitulating the mistake of checked exceptions all over again.
I'm sure you can't speak about it, but now I'm very curious what levels of technical debt it takes for the board to fire a CTO.

I have to assume it goes beyond just not following best practices, and perhaps into deep levels of pointless "not invented here syndrome" or some other massive waste of resources.
That's a weak rebuttal, it relies on the claim that there could be hundreds upon hundreds of trans-identifying males imprisoned that no-one knows about.

Also see this: https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-rorschach-test/

It explains how additional data including from later years, and from New Zealand, supports the observation that these men are more likely to be in prison for sex crimes than men in general, and much, much more likely than actual women.
Have you considered that your understanding of left wing politics is what the left wing media told you?

Dude you're arguing with said he saw it happening at work and it concerned him. You pretended like that didn't happen. Why won't you acknowledge your fellow man's agency?
Yeah, it's quite possible that alcohol consumption is becoming more bimodal and young people increasing either drink too much or don't drink very much.
The inherent problem with a union is that, unlike with metalworkers, stonemasons or train drivers, there is still no way to tell a capable software developer from a bootcamp wannabe, and people in the same position can differ 10-100x in output.

Call me an elitist gatekeeper, I don't want to pay dues to protect dunces and have my employers keep paying them.
Not related to Open RSC, but the https://runescape.wiki/ family (linked to from the Open OSC home page) is one of my favorite MediaWiki sites of all time. Jagex helped the Weird Gloop team split them from Fandom in 2020 and they've built up one of the best-looking and -working independent MW installs.

The tutorials are great: https://runescape.wiki/w/Help:Editing

They have an active and friendly community, including in-game cosmetic rewards for editors: https://runescape.wiki/w/RuneScape:The_Wikian

They open-source a lot of their work: https://gitlab.com/weirdgloop

And the staff is looking for additional funding: https://runescape.wiki/w/Forum:Funding_the_wikis
Check the OEM's manual. There are nearly always options in the BIOS to disable. Also Intel's AMT engine rolls by during POST. You can do a <Ctrl-P> to go into the AMT (not BIOS) settings to see provisioning status and/or reset the ME AMT configuration in all cases I've seen.

On really old or some oddball systems the process requires a CMOS battery pull for a few minutes.

This all assumes your device was enterprise targeted to start with. If it lacks vPro/DASH it's irrelevant.

You can double check your own device in other ways too like seeing if there is a web server at http{s}://your_local_ip:{16992,16993}/ (from another host on your LAN not the same one).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kyumpany.p...