skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It happens one "maybe we should use [alternative] until Google gets its act together" at a meeting at a time. Microsoft was still a behemoth when no one still took it seriously outside people who were on a first name basis with a licensing auditor, and it's struggling to gain trust and respect back. Same with IBM, though they seem unconcerned with image. Collapses are never quick or complete at this scale.

It starts with a loss of cultural cachet among the people who influence spending. It looks like hip startups with rows of desks with Apple machines where Windows was the default for a decade or two before.
Now you have a libre licensed LISP Machine emulator with a libre firmware:

https://tumbleweed.nu
As I remember, it would have been very odd for them to do that in 2008 or 2009 when it was so immensley popular. But that was 4 or 5 year into it's life, well beyond the typical lifetime of Googles products.

Them shutting it down in 2005 or 2006 would have been annoying or disappointing like the shutdown of Google Wave but understandable.

It's all about brand expectations. Google is synonymous with unreliability because they don't have another brand to shoulder that association. It used to be "Beta" but no longer.
Greetings fellow developers, I've engineered a web application harnessing the capabilities of ChatGPT. This dynamic AI-powered platform autonomously generates portions of its codebase, while sourcing other snippets from the web. I'd appreciate your insights on potential redundancies or gaps in functionality.

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My annual amount paid to JetBrains is easily justified by my productivity improvement using their products. If you are willing to reduce your productivity to prove a point, that's your choice.
>thousands of years

After a few decades most of it will have decaded into low radioactivity industrial waste.
Assembly is about as much abstraction as rot13 is encryption.
Strange, I was taught that sex that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes.

You're describing anisogamy. Large males are sexually selected for in elephant seals because they can fight off other males, but small males are sexually selected for in spiders for they can mate with the female quickly while avoiding being eaten.
As an American, it's so interesting to look at the intra-European differences we normally ignore.

France managed to scale nuclear power with the consent of the population, and it's gone fine, but for some reason countries right next door don't see anything worth learning.

I guess you could say the same about America and Canada, but some of us are accustomed to seeing Europeans as more enlightened than us politically. I suppose people around the world are not that different in the end.
Well, if I want to give a casual acquaintance 10 bucks, it is still faster to reach into my wallet and pull out a piece of paper than it is to get their Venmo or Paypal information.

And not everyone has access to Venmo. Anyone under the age of 18 can't legally use Venmo.

There are plenty of legit uses for paper currency.
For the government, direct technology transfer is much less of an incentive than building a domestic supply chain, which helps every other player in the industry, plus Tesla and other automakers are big taxpayers.
Crazy ants have wacky genetics due to their never-before-seen way of reproducing
Apparently they'll start selling here in NL in Q4/23, I will definitely go and have a look at them to see what they've made.
Look into Asse II.

West Germany was looking for a nuclear waste site. I think long to medium term? Not sure. Anyhow, they had like about a dozen potential sites. But then East Germany places a nuclear waste site very close to the border.

Politicians do what they do best, step over the suggestion of the scientist and place all the nuclear waste into Asse II, which is close to the border. Just to fuck with East Germany. No, Asse II was not on the list of potential sites :)))

Now we are combined again with a nuclear waste site smack in the middle of Germany. Groundwater leaks in and we have to dig up the old rusting barrels again.

They have to dig a whole new tunnel just to get to them. It's insane. Oh, and before that we and a few other countries just throw the barrels into the ocean.

This was a long time ago, so you might think we found a new site. No :) NIMBY is strong.

France and Finnland have some decent long term storage.

Combine the bad government track record with that Germany is the birth place of homeopathy and 50% of the population believes in angels. Sprinkle in a bit of Fukushima and Chernobyl. My mother sometimes talks about how she was scared and my sister could not play outside.

Sure, a large part of it is not rational.
I don’t trust that the infrastructure will always work.

I’ve had my cards rejected randomly. Since I travel a lot and mainly use cards abroad, I’ve had my cards rejected more times than not. It’s pretty troublesome to be stranded somewhere and unable to get a hotel or ride a train because your card was rejected.

I always keep a fat wad of cash for that reason. Also that at any time my bank could be shut down, governments or banks could decide I don’t have a right to buy something, power outages could render payments useless, or hackers could easily take down a network if they were motivated (and state-level actors have plenty of motivation now).
This is rather brilliant as an announcement.

Cobalt was/is the most conflict associated of the battery inputs. Thus R&D has pushed cobalt content lower and lower over the years.

The net result is old batteries contain tons more cobalt by weight than these new batteries Apple is expecting to use in 2025.

Of course I feel remiss not to point out how Apple is the party responsible for killing the user replaceable battery.
To be precise, what seems to have gone wrong is that youtube-dl went down the "insane compatibility" road.

The new maintainer has put demands in place to support python 2.6 and up, which is fucking bonkers. Nevermind the fact that 2.6 is even deader than 2.7 ever was (which was the version of python2 officially deprecated three years ago). A side effect of this is that the new maintainer also rejects any patches that introduce new dependencies (existing ones being used is fine though), which has killed support since nobody wants to reimplement certain things to work with a python version that is pretty much only used by one guy still running Windows XP (who began to whine on the issue tracker about being ignored even though XP hasn't even been enterprise supported by Microsoft since 2019 but I guess this one guy is a valuable user?)

yt-dlp on the other hand follows the "reasonable" road of compatibility, which is "current python3 version + 5 minor versions going back" (which is also the standard used for deprecating things in the python stdlib and security patches). Much better and it seems to have healthier contributors as a result.
In terms of the privacy policy, how are y'all making sure queries containing PII get anonymized?
Again, I don't personally hold that opinion. But you have to play the game and get past the recruiters who may.
Very fond of lubuntu, which I managed to get installed on NTFS in a directory on my C:drive allowing switching back-and-forth between it and my Windows install, and really wish that that was still a thing.
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There are VS Code and JetBrains extensions, it's part of the AWS Toolkit (can be a bit hard to find). https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codewhisperer/latest/userguide/s...
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It is a way to avoid paying fees on every single transaction, and keeps your purchases from being tracked.
£15.99/month in rip off UK
The Toyota Camry is not in the same boat as the Spark. I guess we need to clarify. You examples are talking about bottom of the barrel cheap (9K-16K in 2023). The Camry is cheap but at 26K base it is not in the same segment as the cars you describe.
Coal plants should be gone by 2038. Though the current government coalition is still trying to speed this up to 2030. This seems not entirely feasible though they'll probably get quite far with it. Anyway, some time between 2030 and 2038 most of these plants should be gone. Lignite should be gone sooner than that.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-coal-region-brin...
For network, I believe io_uring is used for disk access though
Do you mean biological purpose? This may be the wrong question to ask; gender is arguably to a large extent part of _culture_, which is more or less the stuff that we've built on top of biology.

There's no _biological_ reason that ancient Celtic women were allowed own property while contemporary ancient Roman women were a literal possession of their father or husband and ancient Greek women weren't really allowed leave the house; that was _culture_. (Simplified example, btw; there were edge-cases where Roman women were essentially emancipated, say, and Celtic and Greek practices differed dramatically by region, but even within a pretty restricted time and area of the world there were massive differences in how this all worked)
France has a long term storage for nuclear waste. Germany has to dig their waste up again because groundwater is leaking in.
I'm impressed: the article is about the rich diversity of different sexes in nature (it does not even go into gender) but all you are getting out of it is some anti-woke sentiment?

Could you please re-read the article and at least absorb the complexity of sex and biology in nature in general? At least be a bit amazed how little we seem to grasp about reproductive processes even on a biological level. And then maybe even feel the need a little to reflect how the article might mean that you're not living in such "sad times" but (maybe) the opposite.
Absolutely! I spent 20+ happy years in academia. I loved research, I loved working with grad students. Were it not for the funding changes and the retirement of my faculty, I hope I would still be there now.
Nuclear waste is a solved problem that only fear mongers bring up anymore.
https://nautil.us/no-animals-do-not-have-genders-237938/
The applications that don’t need the highest energy density are shifting away from cobalt.
To be fair, all private media should have a “corporate ad funded” label, or maybe better yet, a list of their top 5 ad purchasers.
compare it to high-end lines and Google is #3 in some markets and #4 in others, which is unmitigated success

companies don't get to #3 or #4 in some of the most lucrative sectors in the world and then just decide to close shop because they're not #1 or #2

there are a bunch of profitable companies that ONLY make money in Pixel's sector, are recognised brands and they are already behind the Pixel in market share

it's essentially like being Rolex in the watch business (number 1 or 2 in profit depending on market) and just closing shop because Casio sells 1000x+ more watches
It's been fixed but the new maintainer refuses to release a new version until someone manages to help him figure out how to get automated builds running (which seems to have been the problem for the past year and he refuses to just do a manual build so that youtube-dl at least works with YouTube).

yt-dlp is a better maintained fork.
Linux isn't written in standard C. Not only does it not accept C's aliasing rules (hence the kernel is compiled with them disabled, which the standard doesn't offer), it doesn't even accept the memory model, because it had its own memory model first and it likes that one better.

As a result to some extent GCC and Clang are also compilers for some sort of "Linux C" which is strongly reminiscent of the ISO standard language but distinct.

And there's no reason you would choose C++ for a project where you'd otherwise use C on account of the (exaggerated) relationship between the two languages, the reason you'd do it would be that you want C++ features, and Linus doesn't want C++ features. Projects to "just" compile the existing Linux code but with C++ compilers failed AFAIK.
But does it qualify on the ones that matter? I genuinely don't think it matters whether a person's mind is running on fat and water or silicon and copper. What should matter is if it's a person. We need a test for it that we're willing to stick to.
This is something I learned in management that I think also made me a better engineer. It's important to be able to code switch on the fly. Shift your whole persona to fit in with the group with which you're immediately dealing, and be able to translate things into their own language. Then go to the next group and immediately morph to fit their culture. Rinse & repeat.
Cool, so it ought to be Early Modern English akin to the language of Shakespeare then?
Likewise in the UK
> all due to us

Sorry, but what do you or I have to do with chinese rivers being poluted by local fishers?
Unfortunately, it's not taken that way in modern times. Nowadays it's usually used for arguments like "Hate X? You must be secretly X!"
Gendered behavior in humans is different; it's wildly different across cultures.

> The assertion that gender is “socially constructed”

Who asserted this? A straw man?
> Fukujima was essentially the event that made the government speed up the whole plan.

It's wild to me that Fukushima was held up as a reasonable justification to accelerate nuclear decommissioning in Germany. Even ignoring the extent to which the disaster in question could have been mitigated, was anyone expecting a tsunami to suddenly manifest over Bavaria?
We as germans would like to keep our nuclear powerplants running as long as possible, but the question of how to store the nuclear waste for the little timespan of hundreds of thousand years has not been answered in a satisfying way.
The issue of nuclear waste storage is a complex and difficult one, as nuclear waste can remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years and requires specialized storage facilities that are secure and environmentally safe. Despite ongoing research and development into new storage technologies, no country has yet come up with a completely satisfactory solution to this problem.
My guess is that they're cutting the portfolio down to feature only chipsets and add-in cards. Just CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, networking, and the associated add-in cards for all of the above. It makes sense if anything - it really focuses on their core business. No more side-projects with questionable profitability.

In the last 2 years since Pat Gelsinger took over, they've cut RealSense, Movidius, Optane Memory, IPO'd MobileEye, and now exited the Server Systems business. The only odd-balls left are their NUC business. Considering how popular these are in the enterprise market I can't it going anywhere any time soon, beyond spinning it out into a separate company, but it seems like the strategy has pretty much come to fruition. Now their balance sheet is in check, and their Intel Foundry Service taking customer ready for the new fabs to come online, I could see them really coming back into relevancy again.
Well the final storage problem for nuclear waste is not solved, and will likely never be solved. Second, nuclear power is not as competitive as everybody thinks without hefty subsidies. And what became important more recently, the Uranium is mostly imported from Russia and former USSR states.

Switching off the nuclear power plants is a concious descision of the German society to go without from nuclear power. The descision is not between nuclear and fossil. The decision is between nuclear, and using less energy (when renewable cannot fill the gap).

I find it surprising that the proponents of nuclear power, who are often free-market libertarians, have so little faith in the market. If we produce less power, prices will go up at first. But only marginally, because it will become more lucrative to build new (renewable) power plants. And energy-intensive industry will be scaled back in times where not much is generated. The economy works basically like a buffered solution. That's why I'm confident, when we turn off the last nuclear plant, nothing will happen.
It’s maybe not as stupid as it seems.

Nuclear power makes sense in stable peaceful societies where long term planning and maintenance mitigate the risks associated with it.

Europe is perhaps, not currently a stable peaceful place where that makes sense.

In other circumstances I’d be all for nuclear power… but, maybe some solar panels that won’t fuck anything up if the conflict in Ukraine gets out of hand or global warming / ai / banking crisis causes a society collapse isn’t such a bad call in the short term, eh?
Most people do not get over it.
For the past many decades the French political elite has been ignoring populist sentiments among the French population.

That is a good thing regarding nuclear energy but much more problematic when it comes to issues like the recent pension reforms.
Sorry if my question was misleading - I mean how good/bad do they find it compared to copilot. (Not how do they search for it).
I also do a lot of hiring, and the most important thing I see is to filter out the candidates who basically can't code at all.

When you never did any hiring, you assume you're mainly looking for good candidates. When you actually have the experience, you know that at least 30% of applicants can't even code the most basic thing.

So I was wondering how you, hiring more than 100 developers, weeded out those candidates who "do the talk but can't walk".

Another thing: how many of those 100 developers you hired were bad hires?
Interesting point, but seems unlikely to be a root cause of the difference? If anything I would guess the causation goes in the other direction - France was more committed and so did a more thoughtful job setting up nuclear sustainably.
Split brain is when a highly available system, such as a PostgreSQL cluster, becomes fragmented due to a network partition.
If even literally printing money isn't profitable, no wonder people are struggling.
Expensive compared to what? It’s only expensive if you ignore the negative externalities of literally everything else.
Right. You can’t call ‘Google Codejam’ a product. It’s an open competition.
History will point to Germany when class starts to discuss regressive energy policy.
... I mean, it's not hidden at all. If you want (you probably do not; they are astonishingly obsessive and horrible) to find the alternative reddit clones that people fled to when fatpeoplehate or the Nazi subreddits or the worst of the TERF subreddits or whatever were banned, well, they're right there, they are not a secret.
Toxoplasma. Cordyceps.

Parasites.

There are many creatures which lack any kind of trait we would call intelligence that can use vastly more intelligent and complex creatures to their own ends.
I’d make the case it is the opposite. One off-brand browser can hold up the industry’s migration for years.

The cost model of images is such that you only get the full benefits of a new compression system if it is so widely used you can abandon old formats. That’s because the cost of images includes storage, transfer, plus handling and processing costs. If you have to maintain a large number of different formats, say JPEG, WEBP, AVIF,and JPEG-XL it’s just awful.

I can’t really use a new format until Safari supports it on mobile and mac at the very least. My take up of WEBP was considerably delayed because Apple was slow to get it in Safari on older Intel macs (one of which i have.)
How does the university have authority to decide to go to the police or not? I'm always confused when people report crimes against them to a church, school, or some other organization and then the organization decides not to engage the police or legal. The victim is just suppose to shrug and say "oh well, i guess i'm just out of luck!".

The victim should go straight to the police and report a crime was committed against them. At least leave it up to actual investigators to make a decision if a crime was committed or not and not some third party with motive to sweep it under the rug.
No company wants to run the plants, they are very old, expensive and only ever provided 5% of the energy anyway. The population overwhelmingly rejects it (rightfully so) and nobody wants the fuel dumped in their backyard later. And the locations we had planned for that is broken.
there are many reasons of course :)

for example, germany does not have much space for radioactive waste and the people do not want to live near radioactive waste. so politicians can't decide where to put all the waste.

also the performance of nuclear plants are not convincing: if you look to france where many nuclear plants have to shut down because there is not enough water to cool down the plants.
It was just announced, so any opinions on this would be uninformed.
I hear this reasoning often but never see it being applied in practice.

For starters why are single sex sports and single sex changing rooms so controversial?

Similarly if gender and sex are entirely distinct. Does that not mean that the trans community is the strongest supporter of traditional gender roles? Afterall what does it mean to change gender if differing social attitudes to gender ought be extinguished?
He’s not a researcher though. He’s a lecturer.
Presumably because the article linked above says that the rumoured deadline for gaining sufficient market share is this year? Also, yes revenues have been growing, but is GCP profitable after all this time? As you point out, it's been 4 years since that article was published.
In 2021 the remaining (!) 6 power plants produced more electricity than all installed solar capacity.

The nuclear waste storage is not solved because it is a policy not to solve it.

On all metrics coal is more damaging and dangerous than nuclear.
> By themselves, some recent actions taken by Stanford were somewhat humorous. The school has been the butt of jokes by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and numerous other major and local papers. For example, the IT department came out with its “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative” to be used on its websites. The national media had a field day with this action, especially when it recommended no longer using the word “American.”

Wow. That document says the word "chief" should not be used because it's a "cultural appropriation" of indigenous communities.

The word is derived from Latin via French, and was first used in 14th-century Middle English (i.e. pre-contact): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chief.

How can a supposed academic institution put out such a policy that obviously hadn't been vetted by a language expert, let alone someone who could be bothered to use a dictionary?