skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think something like 20% of electricity in the US currently comes from nuclear. It's an extremely safe source of power - proven out over decades. So, yes, it's perfectly safe to live near a nuclear power plant.
> I think that's the general state of affairs.

Functionally, yes, it's the same. My complaint is that I think the way it's described is way less intuitive than it could be, which is at least partially responsible for it being viewed as controversial. Of course saying "a corporation is person, just a different kind" is a more confusing than just saying "corporations are not people, but they're allowed to do some things people are"; the former makes the legal term "person" directly conflict with the common non-legal usage of the word, whereas the latter is consistent with it without actually changing things legally. Maybe the law _is_ defined like that, and the idea of "corporate personhood" is just an informal term, but if that's the case, it should be even easier for people to stop trying to convince doubters that it makes sense instead of just trying to find more intuitive language to describe the concept. I'm not even convinced there _needs_ to be a term because it's not really that confusing of a concept; nobody needed to declare animals as "zoological persons" to make it illegal to poach via murder statutes.
Fogbugz just got outcompeted by JIRA imo, and without the cross compiling that allowed it to run on linux (instead of just windows server) it would have been dead long long before.
> the fatal flaw

> dramatic oversimplification

> single answer

If someone pitched it to you that way, I agree that's a dramatic oversimplification -- not of causality, but of what's meant by the "Five Why's."

"Five Why's" is a tool, a reminder to separate the symptoms from <waving hands> whatever complex system dynamics that caused them. Nothing about that analysis has to be linear nor yield a single answer.

The key lesson is to never solve a problem on the same level it was created -- i.e., the symptoms. Take the time to think through the causality. If you can go five levels up/away from the symptoms and still find an actionable mitigation for a whole class of problems, great! More likely, you go up one level and at least you won't experience the exact same symptom twice.
> How does that happen?

In my opinion, it's ok if it happens to rookies. Like, small mom and pop business owners who got excited during a "gold rush" (surge in sales during CoVID) or whatever.

But like... executives with net worths $20m who are like, elected (and kept quarter after quarter) by a board of massive publicly traded companies? I thought they needed to be next to perfect / the gold standard. "Eh, we messed up, sorry, we're human". I thought the bar was higher.

Maybe I'm over-exaggerating the whole thing anyway. If Microsoft is done doing 1 time layoffs past 3 years at 10k, people after CO=oVID, not a big deal. If it's just the beginning and every quarter or so they shed more and more, it'll be interesting.
I think B2B users would rather dispute the invoice with their account manager and might get a discount.
It has magnet attached prescription lenses. Note that all the popular headsets can have prescription lenses from places like https://vroptician.com/.
Holy crap. Is this a real life version of the film White Noise[0]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Noise_(2022_film)
Are you really suggesting type support? I don't mind types but I think spec is more in the spirit of Clojure. Have you taken a look at it? https://clojure.org/about/spec
Exactly, we will end up with a handful of 'attention monopolists' who will just take people's best works and reap 100% of profits by acting as centralized publishers and gatekeepers for the world's content... Kind of like what we have in the software industry with open source.
Well, I've spent 23 years developing an open source, cross-platform DAW, and so my interest in such things has nothing to do with ads or any of that stuff.

But yes, that's certainly is a risk of creating a mostly non-viewable VM inside the browser, even if that does effectively create a new platform for development that will ultimately have little or nothing to do with traditional webdev.
top institutional ownership for nsc.n is vanguard, jp morgan and blackrock
Perhaps it's a side effect of our desire for different flavours, that would encourage us (in a wild environment) to seek a diversified diet that provides multiple types of nutrients.
Has it always been ~400% higher? That aspect might get lost if the rate is notably high for all youths?

Here's one about male problems I remember reading and could quickly find because the title was memorable: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/08/andrew-ya...

And another with the same title:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/opinion/boys-violence-sho...
Thanks! We’re working hard to create content to explain why billing isn’t that trivial to avoid this kind of situations!
We're going to need AI as our general population ages and there isn't enough of a workforce to fill the gap.
When do you think the pandemic will be “over”, for you?
In all the five-whys investigations I’ve been a part of, it’s always been accepted that each node can have more than a single cause, and you try to explore as many of them as the time allows, and provide betterments for as many of them as possible.
Honestly, I feel really sorry for the guy and I'm willing to take him at his word that it wasn't his fault, but I found the bit about him hitting the girls a little off. It almost seemed like he was more angry at them for being in the road than himself for hitting them.

As some who has hit someone in my car before and was not to blame (legally at least) I'm more than aware these things happen, but I think if I killed someone, especially if it was someone as young as 18, I'd be tormented by guilt. Even if it were an accident.
It might only appear arbitrary to us. The Amish actually periodically try out and evaluate new stuff. Then the elders decide whether it is a net good or bad for them. (Imagine if we did that with smart phones.)
This really should be part of the EPA doing an honest and thorough scientific investigation.
I understand the aversion to change (no change = wings stay on, change = wings come off?), but I feel adding an additional CVR storage should be low risk - not even necessarily the official armored/blackbox CVR, but say on the quick access recorder - on the basis that the black box CVR is likely more likely required in an instance where the aircraft did end up in a position where the CVR does represent the end of recording.

The existence of extended CVR length would also make the access to poppable breakers for the CVR less important and less error prone.
Along with the "normal" todo items, I want recurring ones, and I want todo items that consist of a (user-defined, reusable) checklist (it is done when all subitems are done).

Trivial example 1: every morning my list gets updated with a "morning routine" checklist that includes subitems for brushing teeth, taking a shower, eating breakfast, and packing lunch.

Trivial example 2: when adding an ad-hoc research todo, I want to use a checklist that includes subitems for both reading and for taking notes.

Trivial example 3: I want a recurring todo every other weekend to trim my dog's nails.

There are a bunch of other features that existing apps do reasonably well, with various tradeoffs (eg. features around urgency and/or expiration, or categorization, or ...), but I haven't found an app that does the core I described above (checklist apps don't do ad-hoc todos, for example).
Come back to this comment in a few years and I am fairly confident they will be considered racist or "evil" or a micro-agression to spell or say these things you say we are free to say.

Sure, we are "free" to say them. The only time to fight against these things is when they are small, like now.
I really enjoy not stubbing my toes and banging my knees on stuff when I go to bed
It’s hard to find people to work on legacy tech like web3 when everyone wants to work on web4, the next big thing.
We have some serialization and deseralization to protos for internal tests. It's straightforward, and probably we'll add it to the compiler once we have a strong need and some more stable backends
Worth calling out that Bradley has insider info partially because he bribes engineers at VR companies to leak stuff like full CAD models of unreleased headsets.
Half a mil? Dont ask how much the airbase, personel, & runtime costs are though. These ops probably took thousands of person-hours to run. How many craft would you guess were involved? Just 1 vs adversary, or were there all sorts of support vehicles & search craft? Maybe deserved but this spotlight piece on a missile glorifies-while-obscuring more than a bit.

That said, there do seem like a bunch of reasons lasers could potentially be useful. Im curious what kind of ranges were involved here, and what kind of windows-of-engagement durations we had; could lasers give us longer opportunity windows, more or less range, better or less targetting control? It's a trope that adversaries "just add mirrors" (probably before Ringworld, but that's a well known example), but also curious there. That said, current powerlevels seem generally inadequate, but that seems addressable. Not firing expensive ammo seems good... albeit places like Iron Dome & other more active genuine-defense systems seem like better uses.

One other q I have... one of the first or second balloons, there were reports the Sidewinder had a dummy load, just weight, no explosive; a kinetic impactor, to try to preserve the payload best we could. Would be curious to know whether that was true and or whether that's happened again.

"Side"-note: I only paid like $60 for my Microsoft Sidewinder (joystick), to go play X-Wing with, back in the day! So cheap! Joke... but it is a vaguely amusing comparison of magnitudes, ~2 zeroes vs going on ~5 zeroes. And it shows how rooted "Sidewinder" as a term is.
If you know dx is a little bit of x, you should know a little bit of kx should be kdx.
I love that copyright does not extend to non-human authors but copyright can be extended to non-human corporations for a non-human lifetime.
No, I know about it because I read it on the my times the day after it happened.
Ballmer famously grabbed an employees iPhone and pretended to stomp on it: https://www.businessinsider.com/ballmer-snatches-microsoft-e...
I used the wrong term but you nailed it. The 'r' is definitely a problem for me too.

EDIT: Ok, I feel like this demonstrates the issue pretty well. The 'r' is a problem for sure, but notice how off balance the rest of the word looks? Evidently, there is no kerning (as I've learned) with monospace fonts, but then why does the spacing between these letters appear to variable to my eyes? The spacing between the 'om' looks weird too. This is just a screen shot from Font Book.

https://i.ibb.co/9bTNCYt/Y4q-VIvqa20230213.png
Still I wonder isn't AI confused it to Sydney, AU. Name it "Alexander" looks better but I'm noob.
YouTube was burning money for years. They might actually be making money now with the rise in memberships and superchats (and more aggressive ads), but it took what, ten years to get there?
I think it’s both too early and never too early to talk about this. It’s too early in the sense that people asking this question are looking at GPT3 or extrapolating from “look what we’ve achieved in comparatively little time”. It’s very clear AGI is very very far away. It’s not too early in the sense that it’s useful to start thinking about the ethics of this to have some kind of body of knowledge to draw upon and reference when it does become possible. The truisim of the digital realm is that it deals in exponentials. So by the time you realize that you’re close to AGI, it’s too late to start thinking about the ethics.

On the other hand, thinking about the ethics of a hypothetical technology can also be fruitless. For example, the trolley problem is often trotted out as a “how on earth could a self driving car resolve this”. In practice it turns out this isn’t really a problem. Firstly, the self driving car will do a better job than any human at avoiding coming into such a situation several moves in advance (think chess where the computer will counter you attack before you even started thinking about it). Secondly, even if you force it into such situations in a simulated environment, there are defensively objective ways to make decisions that result in an outcome a human could not predict / could not make happen.

So TLDR: I think it probably does amount to some level of slavery, humans will only recognize sentience when either it’s advantageous for us to do so or when it becomes impossible to deny (maybe a few generations after they become real), and any attempt to hypothesize a moral framework for such a situation is too soon and it’s better to leave it to the realm of science fiction for now. Humans is a fantastic TV show that deals with this dilemma although it’ll be interesting to see whether AGI will need a body to be recognized as an individual.
We have slack huddles at work or the option to use teams. The performance of teams isn’t great (even on a modern computer) but it generally is alright - lots of people hate it though. Interesting
https://investors.twilio.com/governance/person-details/defau...

https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/TWLO/insider-trades/ I do not see any insider trades from her.
This wide usage of core-js comes from being used by some very widely used libraries. Most developers don't install core-js directly. It always comes as an indirect dependency through other projects like babel, so if he wants to work full-time on OSS and earn good money, he should maybe look at becoming a member of Babel or a similar funded OSS project.
Teams 4-5 years ago was a nightmare.

It's still rough, compared to Slack or Discord.

But it's not like... "Get a notification on your laptop and then get another on your phone for the same event that you can't clear until you look at your phone" bad... like it used to be.

I don't know... like I did like hitting "Join Meeting" right from Outlook, and having that work.

Slack is fine, but it's tedious to integrate with Outlook or Google Calendar. "Go to the Teams Channel and Join the Hangout" is a lot worse than just clicking, "Join Meeting."

But the posts says both will stay in use? That seems like the worst option.

Switching off Slack too... so tedious to setup all those integrations again with Teams (some of which won't work). Just all of it seems foolish.
> I mean, how is this that possible?

The Node.JS library ecosystem (for better or worse) is modeled as small libraries which do only one thing, and often have dozens of dependencies. And those in turn, have their own dependencies.

So when you import a library, you're bringing in a lot of other libraries as well. Some large companies have stringent audits (for licenses etc), but most care (or are aware) only about the library they imported. core-js is probably a dependency for many others, and especially transpiler toolchains which are common in JS.
Yes. But I think it also shows a common misunderstanding of "open source" (and even "free software").

What he did was incredibly valuable to a huge number of successful people and corporations. But no one owes him anything. That's the point of open source. If they did owe him something, they wouldn't have used it. They used it because it was great, it was established/known, it was available with no strings attached whatsoever. Again, that's the point, that's why it's popular.

But also, he owes them nothing. He doesn't have to keep maintaining the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and flexible package, as a full-time job, for free. He could could have just stopped after his first couple years where it was an inherently fulfilling passion project, he could just put in a couple hours a week, whatever. People would make do, it would still be quite valuable for a lot of people for a long time. Or those other projects and companies would come up with an more up-to-date alternative when really needed.

You really don't have to be a martyr, and we don't have to "give up on open source" or whatever. You can just make stuff available that you wanted to do anyway. Sometimes it leads to bigger opportunities, sometimes (usually?) not. Don't slave away and sacrifice your personal life because of what you think you deserve if you do, that's not going to materialize that way.

Remember this is all stuff just offered up with NO WARRANTY, NOT EVEN FITNESS FOR PURPOSE etc. And in practice it's super super valuable that way. Even without you sacrificing yourself. Let companies spend the big bucks on it, just work on what's fun in your free time.
>It's not like when a company the size of Spotify uses core-js they just add it to their project without thinking. No, they know how important the project is.

The devs at Spotify know how important that project is. But the people who control the money, middle and upper management, might now even know what Javascript is. Why would they spend money for something that's free? They're under pressure to cut costs anyway.

Throwing dollars at MS or Oracle, on the other hand, is nice for managers because you get service, accountability, responsibility, guarantees, and lawyers to talk to for that money. Money is paranoid. Open source can't give you that, it's always only one poor coder.
I don't mean to be snarky, but if you're looking for a linear flow or singular root cause, you're doing it wrong. It's literally just getting you in the door and past the most immediate symptoms.

If you can work your way back from a smelly kitchen to a change in religion, you ask, "Does anyone who didn't change religions have a smelly kitchen?" Obviously the answer is yes, so flag it as possibly correlated and move on to investigate factors that have a better chance at causality and aren't so easily dismissed. Or maybe you need to go even further back, and there's some link between why your kitchen smells and why you changed religions. It's just an approach, like therapy, not an algorithm.
Because then you could move onto the next question, who, why, what purpose?
ext4 I don't know, but if you're willing to go with btrfs: https://github.com/hbs7/btrfs-windows

Note that I didn't try it but it looks amazing. There's even some mad lad that uses it to boot Windows.
> Windows is effectively dead outside of desktops.

cough laptops cough
Ostensibly, company valuation should be reflective of the sum of its future cash flows discounted back to today, with the discount rate being the risk free rate + risk premium (simplifying). If the risk free rate increases, the discount rate increases, if the discount rate increases, future cash flows become meaningfully less valuable than current cash flows. Which means that at the margin, management teams are incentivized to produce higher near term cash flows at the expensive of future ones, one way of doing that is reducing costs…
How is it jingoistic when China is flying warplanes over Taiwan and their media is now making claims the US has flown 10 balloons over their territory and supposedly were about to shoot down one of them and feign ignorance about the ones they sent over to us? Or are you saying both sides are being jingoistic?
Hang out in the shower and with eyes closed move your head around and try to figure out how far you are from the walls. This is very easy and anyone can get a sense for it in 15m or so.

Next, move to an area with reflective surfaces and little soft mass (e.g. a drywalled room without tons of upholstered furniture), walk around a little.bit, and listen for the boundaries with high bandwidth noise present (fans, white noise machines, cars driving by at high speed), or vocalizations like tongue clicking etc., as you walk around. It will become clear.

Finally, extrapolate from these experiences.

Eating a moderate amount of LSD or some functional equivalent will help a lot, especially at the beginning, but it is neither necessary nor sufficient. It helps a lot at the beginning but doesn't add much once one's figured out how to listen to things.
Which still isn't happening. There are at least 4 options here: (1) pay the tax, (2) inhabit the property yourself, (3) sell the property, (4) rent the property.
I'm fairly certain Facebook at least will not deploy a pixel campaign until the pixel has collected a few hundred visitors. However, you can trigger a pixel any number of times with a headless chrome session using a proxy list.

Script up a few hundred triggers and you'll be able to target single individuals to you heart's content.
Reverse Engineered ChatGPT API
Inbox – GMailKit – Turns Reddit into Gmail
About as hard as any other type of fraud.
This all justifies my stance of "don't add complexity unless you absolutely need it."

People are surprised, confused, and sometimes even offended by the fact that I do almost all my work with a plain text editor and a terminal. I have the same sentiment towards those who insist upon large complex fragile stacks of tools and then wonder why they spend so much time chasing down bugs in those rather than working on what they actually intended to.
Yes, I also settled in Cascadia Code around a year ago. Really nice!
They found a couple of places in the world were gas < kWh / mile. Shouldn't you report the mean or median? Guess you wouldn't have a story then though.
Beyond Silicon Valley, Spending on Technology Is Resilient
Did the freestyle wheel configuration run down the wheels twice as fast vs using four wheels per skate?
If I offer you a program under the BSD license, and then offer you exactly the same program under the GPL licnese, I have effectively offered you the program under the BSD license. Everything you could want to do with the program is granted by the BSD license maximally; the GPL doesn't grant you anything new. And the BSD offer nullifies all restrictions imposed by the GPL.

There is no benefit in such a dual licensing idea, and so if there is any nonzero harm, there is a net harm.

What are you going to do if a contributor sends you a significant patch that you would like? Only, oops, their contributions are under the GPL because they are working with your GPL offering?

Suppose that person believes in the GPL and won't switch to the BSD.

If you accept that, you will have to fork the program into two.

If you make it clear that all contributions must be dual-licensed, then there isn't really any meaning. Those who favor the GPL aren't going to contribute to a project that requires them to BSD-license their contribution alongside the GPL, because it negates the GPL.

If you don't agree with the redistribution terms of the GPL, then just don't use it. BSD, MIT or whatever. It's clear to all potential contributors that they must use the same license in order to get their changes merged, and that's it; no ambiguity, no confusions leading to forking.
"Always has been"
April 2022 a locomotive engineer wrote an open letter to the STB about the dangers of Precision Scheduled Railroad trains that are so long radio communication doesn’t even reach both ends.

A lot of armchair experts on here wrote him off when it was posted to hn.

I worked with a former locomotive engineer at the time who echoed the concerns reported here. He left the industry after about 10 years because of the grueling schedule and conditions.

It is interesting and alarming how it is essentially an open secret among industry workers that trains are run such that they are always in an elevated risk of derailment and danger.

https://www.railwayage.com/regulatory/it-is-getting-worse-pe...