skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The forced workflow is a feature IMO. In a production engineering scenario, it's very helpful to have tools that enforce some level of best practice. Especially since the time and money to rework incorrectly designed circuit boards can prohibitive.
All I can say is that modern times has made for some remarkably strange bedfellows. (and no, there is no implied sexual objectification towards Ms Wolf expressed there, its a common english-language expression for 'fellow travellers')

Naomi Wolf owns a lot of her misfortune. She was an interesting writer, who found lax journalistic models of "the underlying truth" destroyed trust in her stories, and then like many other people with fame in their hearts she doubled-down.

It doesn't mean I approve of Twitter, then or now, or what happened to her. But, to lay all of what happened to her at the door of twitter and to go to "it was the government out to get me" is .. well it's lax journalistic models of the "underlying truth" so I guess it's consistent.

But to wind up in the same boat as Musk and Trump, thats a really strange arc of connection.

I really liked "the Beauty Myth" -and I don't think I'll stop liking it, just because she went on to a pretty odd place. It's not that dissimilar to how I feel about Janet Malcolm: she pretty much wrecked the truth in search of a damn good story. Lots of writers wind up there, along different paths.

(maybe "the truth" isn't the phrase I'm looking for. Objectively, I don't think everything she says about her own situation and why Twitter shut her down is correct)
> And yet I can’t just Google “how to build a Bomb at home” and click on the first result and get detailed instructions for how to be a little terrorist.

But you can Google "the anarchist cookbook" and get that information just fine (for better or for worse[1])

[1] https://warontherocks.com/2018/09/books-as-contraband-the-st...
Direct contributions are a solved problem too, most projects have pull requests for technical contributions and donations buttons for financial contributions.

The hard part is indeed to convince people to contribute, but the Blender Development Fund shows that people who care do contribute financially.

https://fund.blender.org/activity/
What a fun idea
I think there's still a meaningful difference between runtime plugins (which to my understanding have to exist locally on the file system, outside of normal dependencies) vs normal dependencies that just sometimes have a native component. Deno projects won't occasionally accidentally have a native dependency like Node projects do; adding one will be a Big Deal that you choose to do on purpose, probably reserved for extreme cases, and for those special cases maybe you also choose to bail out and use Docker
Fair enough, but if the PLA wrote a paper on the military applications of high altitude balloons a year ago that's all I need to know.
Good questions for sure. The answer is probably "it depends", but knowing what we know about how gut is connected with the mind swapping it out probably is much more drastic than a mild head injury or taking some drugs.
Great writeup, thanks!

How did you check your phone's time synchronization?
The term "quant" has many meanings.

Originally it used to mean "quantitative", as opposed to "qualitative". It is a type of investment strategies where you target to be right "on average". Once you are right, say, 51% of the times, you aim to reach this asymptotic behavior by trading more and more. Either horizontally (trading more stocks) or vertically (trading more often). You want to keep the law of large numbers on your side to consistently earn that 1% edge that you found.

This contrasts with qualitative investment strategies (sometimes called "discretionary") where you target very precise and punctual events on which you have a very high (say 90%) chance of being correct.

You can imagine both these strategies with a coin toss game.

With a quantitative approach, you would try to find something that allows you to have just even barely more than a 50% chance of winning. Once you find that, you want to bet as much as possible. This is close to the strategy of a casino: they have games which all have an ever so slightly positive expected value, then they just have to make a lot of people play these games.

With a qualitative strategy, you would study very hard to find an event when you can predict at 90% chance the result of the coin toss. You don't play the game until this event is about to happen, and you bet big once it is about to happen.

Nowadays, the term "quant" has a broader meaning, which roughly encompass any kind of financial work which is heavy on math, or sophisticated. You can even find "back office quants", "pricing quants", etc
> It's copy protection.

This is always the official explanation.

It is just pure greed.
The stats they linked are per-capita.
There is some modern font there that did not exist during 95 era.

Notepad should pop up with some information.

I don’t think recycle bin looked like that.

Some of the font is less win95 and more commodore64.
When choosing how to lay out footprints during packing, does KiCad take into account electrical connections between them?

(This does sound like an extremely useful feature either way, but I'm curious.)
This is the abstention-only of climate management.
https://time.is

Per this thread https://twitter.com/tw__astro/status/1624908400902504451 it seems my time is a bit off, though. I took the filename and just checked the time offset in the video. Was considering checking metadata but thought 'nah, those few milliseconds difference'. However, exiftool says 2023:02:13 02:59:29, file name is 20230213_035256.mp4. Adding those three seconds to my previous guess comes out to the tweet's time.

As I write this, I'm still... what's the word, excited? Thrilled? Like, I'm still not down to baseline relaxed. It's really just five seconds of light show, but looking at an astronomical event unfolding, knowing this is hundreds of kilometers away in northwestern France, the tiny voice in the back of your head as you see it explode "could they have been wrong about it being just 1 meter?" I wasn't truly scared at any point but the combination of feelings and awe is still a little bit with me.
Some fun excerpts (each from a separate layoff):

> It all began when a dystopian future emerged, spelling trouble for our company.

> During the course of a recent office decor overhaul, a team of experts recommended the installation of an avocado green interior color scheme, in an effort to bring a youthful, creative flair to the workplace. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to us, avocados are a known source of malignant luck. The presence of this meddlesome shade of green seemed to bring about an unavoidable streak of bad luck, leading to a series of unfortunate economic and corporate decisions that ultimately culminated in the layoffs.

> As you may know, I recently passed a kidney stone, which was an incredibly painful experience. Unfortunately, this caused a butterfly-like effect that ultimately led to the layoffs. I know this may sound far-fetched, but it's true!

> Turns out, the coffee beans were switched with something else - unbeknownst to us at the time, they were cheap imitation beans. After further investigation, the switch was caused by an employee who was trying to save money. Unfortunately, due to the mistake, the amount of money it cost us to remedy the situation was incredibly high, resulting in the need to lay off 11% of our employees in order to keep the company afloat.

> Yes, our company recently decided to set out on a Medieval Quest, and unfortunately the costs associated with such a venture have been far too great for us to bear at this time. This has resulted in us having to make the difficult decision to lay off 11% of our workforce. I take full responsibility for this decision.

> It is with a heavy heart that I must report that we are letting go of 15% of our workforce due to a series of unexpected events surrounding the zombie apocalypse.

> It turns out that due to a time slip caused by a recent glitch in the space-time continuum, some of our more crucial personnel were displaced in the void of time.
> It's interesting to me that this has become such a common internet talking point. A while ago, I finished reading a history of the UN (the one by Stanley Meisler), and I definitely got the impression that the founders of the UN wanted it to be more than just a forum.

It's worth thinking about this context when considering the Korean War when it was UNC (UN Command) that was the primary defense force: https://www.unc.mil/History/1950-1953-Korean-War-Active-Conf...
Just because a managed fund outperformed a market doesn't mean it didn't happen by pure luck. There are lots of managed funds and most of them are not profitable. If each chooses portfolio randomly, some of them will outperform the market.
"Observe" is the gathering of information.

"Orient" is "given all this information, what are the possible solutions"

Decide on one solution, and then act upon it.

Repeat ad infinitum.
We said goodbye to Altium Designer when KiCad 6.0 was released. Altium’s focus and resources shifted towards trying to turn AD into a cloud-based tool. As a result the software people actually wanted to use suffered. Every release introduced a plethora of new bugs. Nobody really cared for cloud EDA. Altium thought they would be able to sell the company to Autodesk. This almost happened. In the end that did not happen.

KiCad 6.0 easily covered 95% of PCB design needs, if not 98%. With 7.0 things are better yet. At this point, I can’t see people paying thousands of dollars per year for maintenance on tools like AD. It makes no sense at all.
How does human echolocation work? (2017)
I knew the prompts were GPT but had no idea the CEO images were DALL-E.
Assuming "cleaner" means more sustainable for the environment (not only carbon footprint, but considering biodiversity), then I think it's pretty much a fact: we are living a mass extinction right now, and that's really correlated to our energy consumption.

If it's purely about carbon footprint ("let's finish killing the biodiversity and make living on Earth as close as possible to what it would be to live on Mars"), then it's still debatable whether or not we could keep increasing consumption with the end of fossil fuels (and that's coming).
UnitedBSD is great if you need a little help with your netBSD install, or just want to interact with other BSD/unix types. Very friendly community.

The author of the linked post, JuvenalUrbino, contributes a great deal imo.
There are websites ([0] as an example) that will help you predict where your balloon will land. When I was involved in a launch, we had a cheap GPS tracker, a couple of GoPros, a battery pack, and an Arduino with a bunch of shields to take readings. I don't remember the specific site we used at the time, but it was pretty damn accurate. It was especially useful in that the original location we wanted to launch from predicted the landing spot would be near the runway of an Air Force base. We moved our launch location based entirely on where this site predicted it would land.

Not only did our balloon have the parachute and radar reflector, we also put blinking lights on it. Since there was no transmitter on it, I had to call 2 different phone numbers to give status updates to report anticipated altitude progress. The first was the regional airport, and the second number was the larger airport 2 hours away that we were in the line of their approach pattern. The first airport would then notify the closer joint air base that they did not feel like we needed to call directly. At one point, we lost contact with our cheap GPS because it reached altitudes beyond what the company anticipated civilians to be doing. ATC informed us they were tracking it, and we were a little off in our altitude estimates within 5000'.

All of that to say, no, it was not e-waste. we got it all back minus the bits of the balloon that exploded into pieces no longer attached.

[0]https://www.stratoflights.com/en/tutorial/weather-balloon-to...
Amazing, the lengths that devs go to not to learn CSS fundamentals.
A photovoltaic industry that mostly depends on fossil fuels, doesn't it?
ML training also seems like it ought to be fairly dispatchable, right? Pause the training if there isn’t excess wind or solar. We’ll want to overbuild on renewable power capacity, so that if it not at peak, the lights can stay on. Having a use for that excess power seems like it ought to help economically incentivize the building.
This was done away with years ago. Components are no more.

There are still a couple of things that develop on long lived dev branches instead of directly at head, but my personal opinion is the need for those things to do that is mostly overstated (and having sent them cls in the past, it's deeply annoying).
Yeah, it sucks, but it's realistic: just look at how people in the real world have been acting.
We're not done with Web3
Smart move! I've always known about core 0 and IRQ processing, but this article introduced me to new dangers (under Linux) associated with core 1.

Love your user name too!
Plover! Zorton!
...you said, to someone who's been here almost since here's been here.
Two related reasons. 1m is quite small, so it needs to be close for us to detect it. Since we don’t have many observations, the error in estimates of its orbital path is high.

In general, it also is extra difficult to calculate the exact last little bit of a trajectory that will impact earth because the force models start getting really wild as something gets very close to earth - approximations stop working.
China spots mystery object over waters near northern port city
I'd never dream so high!
So sad that this feature (amongst many others) was present in Opera v12 (before they switched to Chromium). Still miss that browser, best UX ever.
Doesn't the normal GPL solve this problem as well?

I don't have strong opinions for or against AGPL, I'm just not really too sure why the GPL doesn't solve this as well.
So, I had this idea from a heartfelt meme that I saw online many years ago about someone who saved their XBOX because it had a save file from their dead brother. The save file was a replay of their last run around a particular track in the racing game. I was really moved by the meme and wanted to create a game that sort of "immortalizes" you like that. When I learned about machine learning, I identified it as a way to make that happen.
To make the current game, I started with a car driving around a track. The input data for the neural network was the distance from the central spline, tangent angles, and the preceding and the following curvature of the spline. It worked well but I wanted to add different gameplay than just driving around a track.
In the current iteration, the players are chasing a rabbit around the park and the input data is much simpler than in the first iteration - just the distance and angles. I'm only collecting 15000 data points right now, 5 minutes of game time at Unity's 50 physics per second.
I originally wanted the player to be able to play alongside multiple other data models that may choose to do different activities in the park. So, there was a track, a rabbit, and a butterfly - for each target, I collected different data points. But I wasn't able to make a network that accurately determined what they originally chose to do - i.e. which target they preferred - drive around the track or chase the rabbit or butterfly. The goal was to truly capture what a player preferred to do in the game space rather than just how effectively they were able to chase one goal. I'm still working on that.
Not the OP, but fossil fuels are not unlimited, until now we don't have anything close to them, and anyway more energy consumption tends to go with more loss of habitat (talking biodiversity).

I think there is a case to make about reducing energy consumption.
THIS- if you want a laser reflector for some hypothetical scenario;
Electroplate some mirror-polished silver onto a big ass heatsink bulk metal. Aluminum foil by itself isn't going to do shit for any high-powered attack; as soon as it reaches a critical temperature the surface will get rough on a molecular level, decreasing the reflectivity 100 fold and burning a hole in itself.
Agreed.

Every generation repeats the mistakes of the past, and every time "this time it's different". This time it's different because components.

I'm still well-disposed towards Tailwind and it provides ways to handle this. I was just amused that the example was so bad.
This is terrifying. I am glad I had an opportunity live part of my life before such times.
I guess it depends what you're doing. I haven't tried the autorouter, but I've found the push and shove routing is pretty good.
Thank you for posting! I've never knew something like this exists but now am grateful it does!
To add on your comment: I don't even think the philosophical discussion makes sense.

At the end of the day, what counts as the truth is how much fees you pay when sending a limit order that immediately crosses.

And the answer, for every single market on the planet, is "you pay taker fees". Period.
They listed it at the very end of the Release Notes but its a killer feature - I have been struggling with the random packing of components onto the PCB when the first export to PCB is done.
It almost made me delete most of the schematic and then incrementally add to schematic and then make it add to PCB but its such a pain.

This new Pack and Move feature seems like a life-saver, since we can use it anytime to add components to a selection with Shift-select and then that will pull it into the other desired grouping area on the PCB.
Yeah, it means that life is so good we have to imagine pain for novelty.
Making software available over a network for interaction does not seem to constitute distributing the software. So, no, it does not cover this situation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_Licens...
What happens when a high priority process RPCs to a low priority process to avoid priority inversion? Does the low priority process inherit the caller's priority for the duration of the call?
Sources for the "creates huge efficiencies" part?
> A cylinder that was 20’ long, and 5’ in radius

Your are dramatically underestimating the size of these things:

The Chinese high-altitude balloon shot down over the Atlantic off the coast of South Carolina over the weekend was 200 feet tall and carried a payload the size of a regional airliner, a U.S. Air Force general said in a briefing on Monday.

The balloon's superstructure and hardware weighed "in excess of a couple thousand pounds," said Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-spy-balloon-size-200-ft-jet-a...

Here's a similar sized one NASA put up a few years ago: https://remus.jpl.nasa.gov/balloon.htm
> A Message to T-Mobile Employees

> Hey Mobsters!

> It's with a heavy heart that I must deliver the news that due to unforeseen circumstances, 10% of our team is being laid off. It has been a difficult decision to make, but I take full responsibility for it.

> Unfortunately, too many sales were the root cause of this decision. To ensure our success in the future, it was necessary to make difficult choices like this. As you know, too much of a good thing is not good for our business model.

> We want to thank all of those who have worked so hard for us and wish them luck in their future endeavors.

> Sincerely,
> John "The Shark" Legere
Activision Blizzard Exec Has the Most Unhinged Last of Us TV Show Take Yet
My company has been virtual for 18 years. Remote working is tough (Gene Marks)
I have much sympathy with this. I believe there is a model of real-world practical economics at play here where the "cost" of a business simply gets re-directed to other spend, rather than actually being saved.

So, if you think moving to Bali will save you rent in NY, be prepared to pay some difference between NY rent and Bali rent to effect the outcome, as a "tax" on your higher income potential. Be prepared to pay excess costs compared to tourists. Be prepared to pay your Spanish health cost, your French or Dutch residency taxes.

The substantive point, that holding office lease with an in-building DC didn't mean you can save on the cloud costs because the cost of compute in the cloud, and s/w rental in the cloud turns out to be close to the capex/opex of being in an office is pretty much because those companies don't want to forgo the revenue they made, selling services in the office context. They might have initially discounted things, but in the long run, they want broadly the same income out of you as they god before.

So Atlassian stopped on-prem Jira, because they saw better money longterm in renting jira in the cloud. 1password wants cloud rent. O365 wants cloud rent rather than single time licence income. The list is endless.

"business grade" premium pricing for things which have next to no marginal difference in delivery irks me, but again, its how they make money: offer freemium for 1 account, charge like a wounded boar for more than 3, and don't let people share across private accounts so you can't game the price notch in a 5 person company. There is no s/w cost difference, sharing is zero-cost behind.

This is cost/price dis-join, meets rental vs capital, meets "we used to make money from you in the office, how can we make money from you now there's no office"
I wouldn't want to take karma away from the submitter of the 'losing' thread. That seems unsporting.
> Now more than ever people have begun to add a layer of skepticism and treat information as separate from reality itself.

This is pretty strong blanket statement. A disturbing amount of people have bought into conspiracies like Qanon in the last few years.
Europe's spend on energy crisis nears 800B euros
Note that if you have surplus of power, maybe you want to use it more wisely :).
Doesn't matter. Humans are not going to accept the the massively sustained decrease in living standards that it would require, which means it is not a politically acceptable solution, and therefore not a solution.

Whereas spending some money to get us all nuclear might be. If not, we will have to spend more to metigate the effects of global warming.

If we really wanted to solve this quickly and efficiently, we could kill all humans.
Not sure I understand your question. If you mean is it ok to link to a comment one posted in another thread, the answer is sure, absolutely, if it's relevant.
It's also the name of a connection when you have a single video signal sent to a distribution amplifier so that it becomes a 1-to-many signal. Each of the output connections is referred to as a tap.
Why do you think it’s the most interesting city in the world ?

I visited it as a tourist and I while the homeless problem makes it interesting and it was fun to see it in real life after being exposed to it so much in movies and video games, I didn’t see that many interesting things. At least compared to much older cities in other parts of the world.
It's nice MIT offers lectures like this and the gilbert strands lectures. Any other ML/Math related lectures recomended?
fetch is also an API in node (last few versions)

https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v18.x/docs/api/globals.html
Can you please quote what you think you're disagreeing with me about or how your reply has any relevance to my post?

Did you perhaps intend to reply to someone else?
It is bizarre considering they intentionally ripped out a lot of Postscript functionality from PDF to make it non-Turing complete.