skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, people will find a reason to judge you anyways. I am jarred to the point of thinking none of it matters, usually the person has an opinion of me before I even meet them anyways.

Conversely, trying to move into relatively in demand things where supply / demand curve is bent out of shape helps. You can't discriminate for willy nilly reasons if you can't find enough candidates.
I'm willing to bet that people feeling like they're on the precipice of a civilization ending event and the massive uptick in authoritarian rhetoric and action probably had something to do with that.
This is happening in plenty of countries. This articles about German courts which has a more centralized legal system than most western countries.
You certainly didn't invent the term careerism. It even has its own wikipedia page.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careerism
Wrong again. Read the actual indictment.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-sup...
As a software engineer, I want what I made to last.

Sadly, that sentiment doesn't seem to be popular these days.
Most people don’t realize how much machinery Apple creates for their vendors to use.
Is there an equivalent but focus on maintenance? Going from windshield wiper changes, to oil/fuid changes to advanced (brake pad inspection, changes).
The magical role is that they conveniently provided the ECB, an institution that exists on German soil, with such "independence" that when a real crisis was presented, they were stripped of any actual decision making power and instead the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troika_(European_group) was formed to implement the largest scale changes.

The troika, of course being also conveniently headed by the German chancellor, or "the de facto leader of the European Union (EU)" as her Wikipedia page explains in its introductory description.
> faced the same cost of living fiasco

It seems like many people get into relationships for financial reasons, so this should be a motivator if anything.
Cash is important to preserve freedom.

Otherwise the centralized digital currency road someday leads to a bureaucrat locking your account because you wrongthinked.

You can already catch glimpses of this with payment processors refusing to do business with people they disagree with ideologically.
> not a publicly traded company making "forward looking statements" about 18 mounts out

Moreover one that successfully launched a decades-long product plan in M1. If long-term planning is fundamentally shocking to you, it might say more about you than whatever you’re criticising.
1) Most were built in the 70s, the ones still running were all built in 1982. Since then the safety precautions have changed considerably and this cannot be retrofitted. This is also part of the reason why new plants are much more expensive. Has nothing to do with "upgrading".

2) The majority of German companies do not want to return to nuclear: “The phasing out of nuclear energy was decided in 2011 in a political and social consensus and is clearly regulated by law. The use of nuclear energy for electricity production has therefore ended in Germany.”

This decision was made by the conservative Merkel government, not by the green party.

"The dismantling of the power plants, the disposal of radioactive material, the search for a repository - all of this consumes enormous sums of money. German authorities and research institutes are therefore expecting up to 34 cents per kilowatt hour for nuclear power - by far the highest price of all forms of energy."

https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/energie/energiewend...

3) The have provided a greater part of the electricity, not of the energy needs.

4) The decision was made in 2011, data shows only 21% in favour of nuclear.

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/196207/umfrag...

5) Backyard does not mean garden. It means near a village for example.
Yeah but it was changed before this piece and before NPR decided to leave. Twitter acknowledged that label was incorrect and changed it. Then NPR had a temper tantrum and left and this piece implied they left over that label. It’s misleading at best
Depends on the model, the SE is 7.82 Wh and that model is still on sale.

But even doubling the combined total, let alone a mere extra 3 Wh * 232e6 = 696 MWh = 0.7 GWh, Apple is still a small battery user compared to Tesla cars.
User-replaceable batteries create a waste stream of “used” batteries. I wonder what the recycling rate of those used batteries is, compared to the recycling rate of iPhones and their embedded batteries? Gut feel here says way lower. If true, killing the user-replaceable battery might be a net win for reducing consumption of problematic materials.
There's plenty of fireless smoke generators.
> Often a contractor/landscaper will give a nice discount (like 10%) if you pay them in cash. I assume they’re avoiding taxes but it’s none of my business.

In comparison to what ?

In comparison to bank transfer, then yes, maybe there's "funny business" going on.

In comparison to card payment, then probably not.

The "problem" with card payments from a small business perspective is three-fold:

1. You take a cashflow hit. Card companies typically sit on the cash for 5–7 days before allowing you to withdraw.
2. You take a fees hit, typically 1–2%, but AMEX are famous about charging more ! And that's just the transaction fee, if you are dealing with currency conversion then add a few percent extra...
3. The fraud risk (you do the job, someone pays on a card ... few weeks later, the card company claws the money back from you because either it wasn't their card or they did a fraudulent chargeback)

Which is why small businesses tend to prefer the irrevocable nature of bank transfers.

Yes you could say cash is technically irrevocable too, but it comes with other risks for the small business (counterfeit notes, employees taking from the till etc.etc.)
Scheduling and implementation are irrelevant to the complaint being made about high level languages.

No matter what the cpu does internally to arrive at producing the requested output from the supplied instructions, it DOES produce exactly the reqested and expected output from the given instructions.

What it does not do is for example maybe a + operator doesn't mean the same thing after some unknowable prior step changed the definition of +, or flatly not provide a means to manipulate some data in a way that a language author thought was crazy and no one could ever have a valid reason to do $thing like idk execute a string or something. Sure there are now optional settings and features you could consciously use, for example to enforce that data/exec seperation, but it doesn't just do it by it's own magic according to someone else's rules instead of your own code.
Part of the problem may be that professors have been more willing to hand over the reins of running the university to administrators in recent decades. On the surface, it may seem a good deal for the professors: they get to spend more time on researching the problems they are interested in. But the downside is they have ceded control to the "faceless bureaucracy" who care less about the traditional aims of a university (research, education) and more about the institution itself.
> Communism doesn't inherently include brutal totalitarian autocrats?

It's a "smoking causes cancer" situation. Just because other things also cause cancer doesn't mean that smoking doesn't. Read up on the history, look at each communist country, see what they become. Smoking causes cancer.

There's just still a bunch of communists who deny it because it's uncomfortable. Just like Neo-Nazis are denying the holocaust. If they were proud of it, they wouldn't deny it. They're not, but they'd like to keep the rest of their worldview intact and pretend that it didn't happen. Don't be like that, look at the history.
The solution is of course for women to take that first step more often. Both my wife and my mother took the first step.
This is nowhere near what OpenAI is doing. OpenAI to this is like AWS to Hetzner.
This would be cool.
99% of the controls and information (speed) are on a panel that you have to divert your eyes from the road to view or manipulate while driving. When I'm driving my gas engine car I divert my eyes a fraction of the distance to glance at the speed or other gauges, and it offers analog knobs in addition to the touchscreen interface. Tesla's design isn't just minimalist, it's dangerously poor design.

Also, for the premium price of a Tesla, I expect things like the weather stripping and other basic features to top quality. They aren't--far from it in fact. All of the other EVs I drove had some elements of that same "all digital" poor design, but none of them had any apparent defects in the basic structure of the vehicle, or the poor steering, etc. And they were comparably priced (Rivian) or less expensive (the others, save Mercedes).
> In a modern society ... maybe not.

True in a way...but I fear that your outlook on modern society is far more flattering than the reality. Even in the "best" little niches of modern human society.
My bank assets could be arrested any moment and they were arrested multiple times in the past. My cash paper could not.

I'm using cards for small payments because of convenience, but there's no way I'd ever trust all my money to bank.
My previous iPhone 8 lasted from 2016 to 2023. The only reason I stopped using it was because I accidentally broke the screen and the touch panel under it. It still received new iOS versions and updates.

What exactly is throwaway about that when compared to the hundreds of variants Samsung and others produce with a 2 year lifespan and then no updates after?
Twitter 2.0 is all just an anti-tax bro doing anti-tax stuff for the GOP.
But coal is the current alternative to nuclear power. A day may come when solar and wind will be, but it is not this day.
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Also true of someone who graduated from law. (It is interesting to note that all three - law, medicine, and architecture - have licensing requirements involving an imposing exam separate to the degree.)

My point is not to agree completely with Stallone’s quote, but rather to use it to represent the commonly-held belief that, while the stated value of a college degree is the information learned, the real value is proof of work ethic. I introduced that belief so that I could put forward my contention, that a third value of college degrees is emerging: proficiency at navigating modern DEI bureaucracy.

And to be clear, I believe it’s a valuable proficiency to have! For many companies, hiring a closet racist is undoubtedly more dangerous than hiring a lazy oaf.
Yet another half-baked and poorly supported AWS service. Now that they’re starting to see pressure on their margins I’d love to see AWS focus on their core products, but instead we get more spun off side projects.
If I were a German, this would piss me off more than anything: A lobbyist organization from another country managed to successfully manipulate the court of my home country.

Apologies from the USA. We don't support the RIAA.
Part of Mao's enduring legacy was his concept of the party line adapting to the will of the masses, and the sparrow extermination campaign was a failure in adapting the party line to this farmer discontent too well.

Mao did change Chinese culture, but it was by purging Western-style intellectuals and promoting mass organization to take command from the bottom-up, because he saw people on the ground being more correct than intellectuals who might not apply their learning to the actual conditions.

The successors after Mao adopting Deng Xiaoping's liberal attitudes towards economic development can be seen as a Party rebuke of Mao's policies. Yet they will still uphold Mao's legacy.
I have a backup of my email, and my domain DNS/registrar is not Google, so the real worst I'll be hit with is a loss of email for a bit as the DNS updates.
FWIW, the whole reason for SQLite is the observation that getting storage correct was extremely hard. Even with a filesystem and knowing to do fsync+rename, you can have data loss in surprising scenarios. The defaults for SQLite are tuned for durability and even still perform reasonably well. A lot of the tuning is about turning off that durability default.

These knobs by the way are part and parcel for generic storage systems. Including filesystems a bit too and definitely all databases I've ever seen (because different HW will have different optimal settings).
This is untrue. Yes there are specialized tools, even some per manufacturer, but in reality 95% of the jobs people will be doing can be done with a standard mechanics toolset.
I have the same suspicion regarding Google Podcasts. The UI is stable and it doesn't seem to try very hard to promote ads or podcasts I'm not already subscribed to. I do worry that someone in Google management will realize that this product exists and decide that it's in their personal interest to either "improve" it by rearranging the entire UI until it's unusable, or just shut it down entirely.
Why would I invest in games/hardware for Stadia if Google themselves admit that it might get shutdown at anytime?

Lying to consumers is the safer (short term) bet.
Here's a fun edge case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indotyphlops_braminus#Reproduc...

All individuals of this snake are female (presumably 'female' here is defined relative to other snakes) and reproduce parthenogenetically (sic?). By your definition, these wouldn't have a sex at all, presumably.
> Nuclear power plants provides stable power regardless of weather, wind and climate

I know some German powerplants have to lower power output when the cooling water gets low during heat waves: https://qz.com/1348969/europes-heatwave-is-forcing-nuclear-p...

But is that still the case with newly build plants?
It’s at least partially about recognizing that there are other ways to view the world than the default one we carry around inside our precious egos, ways that are — literally, in this case — equal to our defaults.
> Because it was just some clueless people in the IT department.

It speaks to a surprising lack of basic policy-making competence.

> Stanford doesn't have "language experts" on call to vet every bad idea from every department, nor would it be reasonable to expect them to.

I'm sure they have tenured English professors on campus. Apparently no one had the sense to walk across campus and run this by one.

And even if it was impossible to vet this language policy with a "language experts," due to the lack of a some pre-existing bureaucratized process to do so, that doesn't excuse the fact that they apparently failed to use a dictionary and some common sense.

> Hard to believe people are still getting bent out of shape about this.

I'm not "bent out of shape," I'm laughing at their amusing display of incompetence.
I ask for cash discounts all the time and it’s crazy how often you’ll get one, my doctor even gave me one!

Not sure it’s always tax avoidance, in my doctors case I just assume some portion covered the credit card fee, and some portion covered some reduced paperwork burden.
I like to leave cash tips whenever possible, in the hopes that the tip receiver will not pay tax on it.
With cash, I like that the vendor keeps 100% of the money instead of giving a ~3% tithe to the big financial companies. I also don't want every financial transaction to be required to be tracked by big companies. While >99% of my purchases I don't care if are tracked, I like the option being available, so I use cash to keep it a viable method.
With years of expertise reading AWS blogs and documentation, let me attempt to translate:

- Bedrock, an AWS service that makes base LLMs ("Foundational Models", FM) provided by both Amazon and third-parties accessible via API.

- Amazon Titan is one of these foundational models, provided by Amazon. Others include: ... things I've never heard of from companies I barely recognize.

Customer -> Bedrock -> Titan. Swap Titan for something better from a new AI start-up. It's another marketplace play.
I try (don't always succeed) to always have some cash with me when I go out, for "unforseen emergency" situations. I've been happy to do so a few times in my life so it's a good habit.

But, for daily use? I only use it for Kijiji/Facebook Marketplace purchases, that's pretty much it. I don't even use it for charity these days, most will have an online option.

I agree 101% in principle with the notion of less trackable (not untrackable) method of payment, but now that I have kids and work and mortgage and so on, I must admit that on a daily basis, convenience wins :-/
I see no reason for a decent quality and affordable EV not to achieve at least relative success.

At least here in Sweden, BYD isn't really positioning itself by being more "affordable". The cheapest car they sell here is around the same price as an entry level Tesla Model 3 and quite a bit more than an entry level VW ID.3. Their SUV, that they seem to be basing most of their sales campaign around, costs a lot more than for example the Ioniq 5 and is pushing close to BMW iX prices.
> requires ample garage space and a solid investment in tools and equipment

On that note, Autozone and OReilly's in the US offers free loaner tools, which would allow you to do most DIY-able jobs. The only tools you need to buy yourself is a decent socket set and a few screwdrivers, and the tools would pay itself back in money saved vs. taking it to a repair shop.
Wow, Yes HN headline is definetly false.
Why are you bring up non-media companies? That label was specifically for media. You know, the ones that are supposed to bring you neutral information.... which is why the label makes more sense for media companies.
I grew up very close to a coal power plant. Guess what, that is many times more dangerous than storing nuclear waste. I don‘t think I have ever heard anyone say they would rather live close to a coal plant.

Why is it a mistake or dishonest? That is the reality: Germany already powered many coal plants back up to replace gas and nuclear. Now it will take even longer to get rid of coal.
I think it only seems worse from Google because their product shutdowns don't seem to be tied to financials and if that isn't the case then it makes them unpredictable to us as consumers. Let's remember that Google offers a lot of their products entirely for free. Yet the reason for shutting down Stadia was: "it hasn't gained the traction with users that we expected".
But how does that make logical sense given that Gmail is free which means it costs money to Google and yet it gets to live forever but Stadia has paying customers and it's not good enough?
It seems wild, it initially makes no sense. Unless I'm being more than naive and we the users are quite LITERALLY sold out to advertisers. I always assumed it was a bit exaggerated. But then you still have to wonder why the Stadia users can't be sold out for a profit but the Gmail users can be? Video too expensive? I guess that must be it.
They are working on it. This is a new system a each label requires human research and consideration. They can’t do them all overnight.
The book (which I really like so far, 7 chapters in) is more of a deep dive which covers a lot of the gotchas and intricacies without shying away from the nastier parts of the language. The documentation on the official site should get you going in a couple of hours.
To my knowledge if you had a dead battery, and used magsafe you still wouldn't be able to use your phone.
their ad business...
I don't think you would make a very good babysitter for pets because of the worldview you've outlined.

That said, at least it's internally consistent. Are you aware that the way you're talking and thinking about this is highly abnormal, most people do not agree and some people would disagree quite violently? I assume as a functioning member of society you can handle these disagreements, otherwise you'd be imprisoned after your first conversation with a vegan activist or something. How would you handle it if society decided that AIs were to be afforded personhood and rights, like it was the law etc? Would you go along with it like you go along with animals having rights despite not caring about what happens to them personally? Or would you violate the law and abuse/disrespect them out of principle?
I think everyone agrees that the skillset will differ depending on the degree and the university. The point was that within the area of your degree, university also signals conformity.
Imperial units are unfortunately still in common use in the United States, the United Kingdom, and related colonies/ex-colonies. They are variable base number systems that people reckon with on a daily basis.

It wasn’t so long ago, historically speaking, that England used pounds, shillings, and pence! Decimal currency really was a fantastic innovation.
It might have been slower. They seem to introduce these types of things first (maybe second) and then the industry follows.
Sexual dimorphism means that the two different sexes can specialize on their niche. What the niche is can be very different (male seahorses give live birth) between species, but the one that doesn't have to do something can focus more one something else. You can have one guard the young and thus get more camouflage or other defense - while the other parent will hunt food and thus get more hunting abilities. There are many other examples in nature where the differences in behavior are and advantage to both (even if one clearly has the worse life overall it is an advantage to the species)
iPhones are LTS devices. My 8+ is still going strong and fully supported after nearly 6 years - with one battery replacement.
"Sign up to learn more", no pricing, a few early partners to provide glowing "testimony".
It’s worse than that. Apple had just switched PPC to Intel, and Jobs approached Intel in 2005 to make the iPhone SoC.

From Paul Otellini exit interview in 2013

>"We ended up not winning it or passing on it, depending on how you want to view it. And the world would have been a lot different if we'd done it… The thing you have to remember is that this was before the iPhone was introduced and no one knew what the iPhone would do... At the end of the day, there was a chip that they were interested in that they wanted to pay a certain price for and not a nickel more and that price was below our forecasted cost. I couldn't see it. It wasn't one of these things you can make up on volume. And in hindsight, the forecasted cost was wrong and the volume was 100x what anyone thought.”

The title of the article is "Paul Otellini's Intel: Can the Company That Built the Future Survive It?” and that is still a good question a decade later.

https://archive.is/B0Bbs
Stanford's history is a little shocking. Founder Amasa Leland Stanford, a robber baron, the 8th Governor of California and subsequent US Senator, died of heart failure, but had locomotor ataxia, a symptom of tabes dorsalis, which is a late consequence of neurosyphilis. His wife, cofounder Jane Sanford, died of strychnine poisoning, murdered by... we're really not sure, but my money's on her late husband's syphilic lover.
Substack was temporarily suspended for stealing data to seed their Twitter clone. They stopped and you can once again like and retweet their posts
Turkish guy accused of violating sanctions on Iran (no US bank account, only US nexus was that some of the banks he used had correspondent accounts with New York banks): https://www.paulhastings.com/insights/client-alerts/united-s...

Lebanese man extradited from Morocco for violating sanctions on himself (!): see ruling justifying this on https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-tajideen-1

It is trivial for the government to say that you directly or indirectly used some service operated by American company and therefore you are subject to American jurisdiction. Yes it’s unlikely to happen to any small time Tornado Cash user.
Not a single german nuclear plant was powered down to heat or low water.