skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, this is time. We need new RedHat - distro/firm that DO development and pays for it. So earns too...

Which non-rpm based distro could be base for this ? Becouse rpm-based distros are (except RH) are pure joke, a re-compilators. Debian if you want to start from scratch, Ubuntu could be if they finally stard developing source code instead of looking something to sell. Not Arch, not Void - not business mentality. Maybe Void as a base after revriting everything into musl, including things like Oracle ;)

NixOs is in best technical possition but so far just sources (big) set and no comparable to RH development expertise...

Actually no one have RH-like expertise as far as I know. So new business-level distro needs funding for 15 years or so ?

"Back to the basics!" then :) Use stable, backcompatible, futureproof technologies ! C, C++, Perl (hehe he), git and maybe finally Lua, D and Julia ? In US Ruby probably too. Drop non-sense things like Gnome and moust of WWW insanity.

Or just wait what new IBM will bring to rest of us... Like Winland with it's by-design over-complications and imposibilities to have stable env.
"Calories in, calories out" still holds true. Some people just need less calories than others.
C# cleanly separates pointers into Java-style managed references that are opaque, and C-style unmanaged pointers that are transparent but can only be used inside "unsafe" blocks.
> Ever noticed that somehow only US enemies have "food shortages" ?

No, there are countries which the US doesn’t care about which also experience food shortages.

Also I can’t seem to tier your last two paragraphs together. Maybe you missed on sentences in between?

Look at this list:
https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/global-food-crisis-10-countr....
Vrite doesn't support mobile though, which seems important for OC's usage.
I don't think I've ever encountered a widely used program that doesn't have that information in its manpage. The manpage is the canonical source the article calls for.

With the exception of New Age software like Go, that for some reason doesn't use manpages, I'm not convinced that the problem implied here actually exists.
Sweden has long since maxed out on its hydro capacity and hydro is at times the largest portion of domestic energy production. Generation capacity to match domestic base load is not a problem in Sweden.

As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, Sweden is consistently (except literally a few days a year) a net energy exporter, in a national sense they don't really need more production. The issue is regional production, which fell off a cliff due to russian gas supplies to Germany being shut off and them deciding to continue with planned decommissioning of domestic nuclear generation during that period.
Interesting. I didn’t know you could do this. I can see how this can come in handy. Apparently there’s dtruss as an alternative for OS X.

https://8thlight.com/insights/dtrace-even-better-than-strace...
It's more common to have to guess in blackbox / proprietary software, like games.
Working memory: metric for state a programmer needs to keep in their head
I didn’t really get his point. Is he implying that there is some global conspiracy to keep food shortages in countries allied to the US a secret?
My experience with LLMs so far is that they very confidently give you an answer and very convincingly explain that answer but for certain portion of the time that answer is very wrong.

You can even get it to break its reasoning down into little convincing but, none the less, incorrect steps.

If I was running this course I would make that "artefact" part of the process.

i.e. I would tell students that the chatbot will occasionally very convincing lead them in the wrong direction but that they can fact check its answers in the course material.

I would set traps to ensure that they are doing that. ;)

Use LLMs but never trust them, they're the Cliff Clavin of information tools.
Wagner chief's 24 hours of chaos in Russia
Let me introduce you to the nightmare that is the Windows Registry...
It was a "copyright" issue, nothing to do with "ethics".
The "I see, thanks" part definitely is.
A lot of what was said can be inferred from the comments left in the code. Would be interesting to see whether it would produce the same description when all the comments are removed.
> Extended landing gear is also a constantly expenditure but generates no lift

Negligible lift. Fluid flowing around an object generates lift. Drag is more intuitive; if there is drag, there is lift. (They're just components of the aerodynamic force relative to the direction of relative fluid flow.)
Raku is pretty damn Cool
Yeah sure, for 95% of US involved conflicts your comment makes sense. For Ukraine it doesn't
How is Sony holding their "first party games" (which were all made form company acquisitions, just years ago) from Xboxes not literally the same thing as M$ purchasing Activision and blocking them from PlayStations?

Both are 1) buying a game making company, 2) making a game, 3) withholding it from the competition.
> But why do people buy a ps5 when gamepass is so good,

You might have just fallen into the trap you were warning us about. Do they know or care about "gamepass"? They know "playstation" because that's what their friends had when they were kids, etc. Brand can be incredibly strong.
Here (Australia) we've been using large battery parks to offset peak daytime solar into the evening peak demand periods.

eg. [1] ( $$ == AUD Australian )

French firm Neoen will build a mega battery in Collie after winning a two-year contract to smooth out energy supply and demand in Western Australia’s south-west grid, which is under strain from soaring midday peak supply from rooftop solar and ageing coal-fired power stations.

The battery, to be constructed from 224 Tesla “Megapacks”, can store 219 megawatts of energy for four hours during the day and discharge it back to the grid during high demand in the evening when solar generation falls.

...

UGL, a subsidiary of Spanish-owned CIMIC, has started construction on one of four grid-scale batteries in the south-west of WA. No cost was provided for the battery.

Synergy is commissioning a battery in Kwinana that can store 100 megawatts for two hours that was originally meant to be operating by the end of 2022.

In the May budget, the WA government allocated $2.3 billion for two further batteries.

Synergy will build another battery at Kwinana that can store or discharge 200 megawatts for four hours that is expected to start operating by late 2024.

The cost per megawatt isn't exactly clear in the news article - I'd have to table numbers from primary sources to declutter the journalistic filter.

South Australia is also investing in new battery parks [2] (on the back of the success of one of the earliest "city scale" battery parks globally)

[1] https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/tesla-...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-23/vanadium-flow-battery...
Australia tops coronavirus consumer panic
They built it off of companies they bought when they were 4/10 big, and they bought like 30. Microsoft is buying like 5 10/10 big companies and everyone starts freaking out.
It's not just the name of the city קיסריה [Keisariya], but also the title of the imperor - "Caesar" - קֵיסָר [keisar].
The title read without context sounds like it's suggesting they should report which IP address/country/jurisdiction they're in. To any random user on the internet. Which would be insane. But it's really only saying "which system path they're in, to e.g. a sys admin".
I mostly agree. However, I think it has more to do with the market power MS has across multiple domains.
One explanation that I heard is that the hardware is often sold at a loss. Online store purchases (subscriptions/games) are the real money maker.
Ditto. Sweden defines a working week as 40 hour. However, 1 hour of wellness and two daily coffee breaks (15 minutes) are usually included in working time. So "butt-in-chair" time is 36.5 hours per week.
Configuration files are like parents’ advice - carefully thought out, well-intentioned, but often overwritten by the ‘environment variables’ of real life experiences!
That was "more sophisticated" and I was given a sample script without a loop. (I got Terraform to wait in a retry loop, which was apparently too complex.)
My friends got playstations because their friends had them. They wanted to be in the same ecosystem so they could play together. Of course with cross console play, this is becoming less and less of a thing.
Doesn't the man page often list several potential locations where it looks for the file and the ordering behavior, leaving you to investigate and find which is actually loaded? It's still annoying.
strace uses ptrace, which some programs disable with prctl as a security measure.

So while this can be a useful hack, it doesn't always work.
No more. At least with apple Silicon dtrace is completely unusable.
The UN security council would never approve any sanctions in response to some countries launching unprovoked imperialist wars of aggressions.

Sow why even bring that up? UN could only “punish” small insignificant countries with no allies.
And here government have monopoly on hard stuff. And people are happy to live closer to their stores... I have never heard anyone anywhere to say they don't want to live next to one. Though generally they are next to super and hypermarkets.
Aries: A dataset of paper edits using GPT4 aligned to specific reviewer comments
Does it mean that Rocky will have legal access to source packages of RHEL (as soon as they go out for RHEL) to still be bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL?
All the software I write is configured through env vars... why use anything else ?
if those at a particular location _indeed_ have higher risk, then what's wrong with having a higher interest? Are you saying that a business must lend at a lower interest rate, for some sort of social justice and equality?

If those people at said particular location _actually_ does not have higher risk, but is only higher due to their location association (e.g., their job is secure, etc), then an enterprising lender could find that out, and thus get the business from those people at a lower interest rate. This would be a form of arbitrage - they will steal marketshare from another lender who is unwilling to lend at the lower rate.
> and only the final result should be interpreted as desired, e.g. as signed or unsigned.

Yes, and that's the latter half of what I quoted. The part that looks backwards, where it's using the labels "signed" and "unsigned".
I am entertained at how elaborate the detail of the weapon is, and yet the avatar is gripping the mag instead of the handguard.
Here's the paper itself: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12587

and the code/data repo: https://github.com/allenai/aries
Paper about a new encryption method that also prove that P != NP
> Why do you think Turkey suddenly switched sides after a failed coup?.

Switched sides to whom? What are you talking about?
Also, I do believe that programs should be capable of self-configuration

like if you need LLVM and didnt manage to find it under

"app_folder/llvm"

then let's go find it somewhere on the disk(s) and ask user if he wants to use it
Yeah for the record I'm not talking about delay loops, I'm talking about hardcoded sleeps in test code that cause random failures when unspoken invariants change. DevOps is a unique blend of hellfire that is almost unfair to compare to everything else in the industry. I'm glad I don't work in DevOps anymore.
It's by now well documented that Americans will take any kind of authoritarian inhuman abuse as long as it's being done by a corporation of unelected people.

They'll even aggressively defend it as long as its to enrich a few stockholders.
Seems like a uniquely Australian thing.

The PS1 cost 299$ at launch.

Nintendo64 cost 199$.

Here is an article comparing it:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/every-game-console-pric...
As a person who has both, you gotta admit the care that Sony puts into their hardware.

This time around the Xbox Series X is arguably sleeker, but by God is the controller pure trash.

The Xbox’s controller vibrations resemble those of a cheap trimmer, whereas the Playstation’s controller has a much nicer feel.

It’s also a fact that many games are better optimized for PS5, even though on paper the Xbox should have a slight edge.

I don’t care about console wars, and I’m glad I have both of them, but some games are only on PS5, which is another reason people opt for it.
This is not even remotely comparable to IRC. You either have not used IRC or have no idea what revolt is
"Every safety feature just allows us to push the boundary further"

Yes. Climbing with a rope makes you climb more dangerous areas. You plan for falling (which comes always with a risk involved).

When free solo, you do not. So unless you literally have a death wish, you climb way below the level, you would do with a rope.
The answers may disappoint you, though.

Let's try some.

> Is a dog conscious?

Probably yes. Dog are social animals, so it makes sense that they would have the ability to reflect on earlier events, including a memory of what they were thinking.

Since we don't have a common language so we can hear their introspective reports, it's hard to confirm, though.

> Is ChatGPT conscious?

No, it does not make observations of its own mental state. When it appears to do so, it is reconstructing plausible observations from its training set of others making such observations.

That's just the specific design of ChatGPT, though. It doesn't have an "inner thought" layer. Other AI designs could easily be conscious; it's just that the best ones we've so far managed to build, don't have it.

> Is ps conscious?

No, it doesn't think.

> Does consciousness survive death?

Obviously no. It's a property of the living brain.

Somehow, that was way too easy to answer for such a big question.
There's this expectation that the answer should cover all the mysteries of life and death. It doesn't. It just answers a specific question about consciousness, which, with my definition, is a simple question with a simple answer.
That’s part of what makes this story so interesting.

The thief did it because, basically, he wanted to. While mostly not selling hundreds of millions worth of art in his possession and living in poverty.
Feels like it badly needs the reciprocal "How to be a PM that engineers don’t hate". Otherwise it comes across as "Ten things you grunts need to do to make my career go better".

The OP makes some pretty big generalizations:

> A common area for things to get messy is QA. In many agile teams, PMs end up doing UAT or requirements checking before tickets go live... A common way this happens is if the engineering team is much less tenured than the PM, and the PM knows how to test better than the engineers. In any case, PM acting as QA is not a healthy state. If PM is catching lots of bugs in UAT, engineering teams need to re-evaluate their QA strategy and fix the problem ASAP.

Well that's one possibility, but I've never seen it in reality, let alone call it common. Another strong possibility is that the team (PM in particular) didn't spend enough time thinking through use-cases and writing acceptance tickets. And/or that whoever's supposed to be communicating with the customer isn't doing that well. Or indeed that the customer themselves doesn't understand their needs well (in which case quickly getting them an MVP without much acceptance testing is entirely the right thing to do, then iterating - but ideally that should have been budgeted up front, which would be on the PM as much as anybody - and more so if they're "more tenured"). So, less blamespreading, more the team rolling their sleeves up. Especially if the PM really aspires to be a "partner" to developers (as they say elsewhere).

And btw if the "engineering team is much less tenured than the PM" is a recurring pattern, then that suggests trying to scale too fast, or antipatterns in hiring/ development/ budget/ management/ retention/ compensation (for example any developer with half a clue in that org would eventually either aim to get promoted/ jump ship into PM/ quit). The solution isn't always to whip the developers harder. It may be about mismatches in management/ budget/ incentives/ KPI.
Can't disable DTrace :)

Though DTrace is "only" available on Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, illumos, and FreeBSD.

Oracle has relicensed DTrace to be Linux-friendly and even made kernel patches, but it'll probably never end up in the mainline kernel.
Microsoft are going to put the price of the console up in August (in addition to their game pass) in Australia, among other places. Not sure by how much.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/microsoft-to-raise-prices-o...
If the West is so hellbent on cracking down on everything we allegedly stand for (democracy, free press, free speech, etc) all that other fun illusionary stuff) why not skip the war with China and Russia and just settle with what we have and shake hands with them ?
In a country like Sweden, wind + hydro is all you really need. You use wind when it's available and hydro when it's not, and you produce synthetic fuels using excess power. Base load and storage are bigger issues in densely populated countries with less favorable geography.
Maybe console gammers are not that much into trying different games so gamepass is worthless. Personally I couldn't care less about a game subscription. I just want to buy the game I like and play it for 20 years at least!
To be fair, many in the AI field never thought this approach would have worked at all, and were caught with their pants down when results started coming out.
I’ve been running an experiment on myself. For reasons I won’t get into I take a great deal of antibiotics. Kills off the gut bacteria enough that I can introduce a new dominant type. Lost 40lbs in the last two months and I’m never hungry or tired. Indeed I can fast for weeks without the slightest discomfort or temptation. I simply burn my reserves, where before I was constantly craving more food. Every hour at least. Now I often just take a multivitamin and a glass of milk and I’m good for the day
To be fair former Warsaw pact countries didn’t necessarily really have that many shortages during the cold war. Yes certain products were hard to get but famine or even malnutrition weren’t a real concern
See the YouTube video by Not Just Bikes called “Why Cars Rarely Crash into Buildings in the Netherlands” for an interesting six minute talk about speed, road design and cultural expectations.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_0DgnJ1uQ
Tell HN ?
But that is exactly the information you need in order to determine which config file is being read in all situations. A single location doesn't cut it if the reality is more complicated.

If the goal is to find out which particular file is being used at this particular time, on this particular system, the maximum verbosity log might have that information, and otherwise strace can help, as described in the other comments.
Luckily modern programs rarely use it.
Not my battle and not the route I'd take :-)

My aim is to be resource and energy aware, abreast of options and best practices.

I'm absolutely not personally for a nuclear power plant here ( W.Australia ) nor anywhere else .. but were it done, best it done well.

Eg: Sweden has the option (should the people all agree) to quickly move to a new nuclear plant by, say, engaging South Korean designs and engineers (they throw them up fast) and contracting yellow cake supply from Canada | Australia.

But these are matters of cost, politics, trust in external suppliers, etc.
Half-Tato Diet Analysis
TLDR: 4 weeks analysis, significant but small (1.7lbs) weight loss
You can’t change env vars after a program is running, but I can change a file and send a SIGHUP.
Sony made Final Fantasy?
Nothing.

At least for now, the fastest ARM CPUs are not immune to Spectre, so the recent ARM cores have introduced a set of similar workarounds to the recent Intel and AMD CPUs, in order to serialize the execution and flush internal state around context changes.

Searching for "Speculative Processor Vulnerability" on the Arm developer site will find many resources describing possible attacks and the mitigations that must be implemented for various Arm cores.
Virtue signaling, is based on the premise that talking is easy and it brings you a serotonin rush to be validated by other people that feel the need to show the world they think the same as you, but then, you don't really have to put any real effort to change absolutely anything, and it's even socially acceptable in your like minded circle, to continue your daily life disregarding or doing the opposite of the principles you voice.

Moving away from Twitter would break both. 1st, you would have a lot less people validating you, breaking your serotonin rush. 2nd Actually changing platforms and building a new follower base involved some work.

It was doomed to fail since start.
don't give the systemd crowd any ideas, the Windows Registry is right up their alley
The USSR managed to catastrophically mismanaged its agricultural policy to such a degree that people would had actually been at the risk of starvation there without food imports from the west which lasted for decades.

So what you’re implying is absurd.
The Space Race may already be won
Interesting. I would spend a lot of time going over to others' desks in the office but I do prefer screenshare now. It's clearer what they are trying to show and I can have the code files open in my own editor at the same time. You lose some of the adhoc but gain some clarity.
Of course Intel would prefer to sell 32 expensive server CPUs instead of just one expensive server CPU.

Competition is good. We are lucky to have AMD.
The first graph in the article is a bit misleading, as it muddles together the full-time working hours and the amount and fraction of part-time work.

Fortunately, lower down in the article there's a graph that shows the full-time working hours per country.
> But I’m working on setting up a VPN at my house to tunnel all Netflix traffic through ...

On a technical point, you might be able to get away with just using Squid for the proxy, with pretty much default settings.

http://www.squid-cache.org

I used to use that years ago (not with Netflix though) running from a data centre, using an ssh (autossh) tunnel to reach it securely.

Worked pretty well, aside from the extra latency due to the packets having to go an extra half way around the world. ;)
The consoles used to be sold at a loss, that was back a long time ago, Xbox 360, PS3 I believe were the last generation to be sold at a loss. The next gen Xbox at the time was sold for a 20% markup on cogs or there about at the time.

Games sold on the consoles have around a 15 usd flat royalty for big titles, not sure how that affected low cost games at the time. The 360 needed 5 games to brake even, but I believe they had an attach rate of around 3 at launch and that was unreal and unexpected at the time.
Buried in the article are these remarks:

> As always with power balances, just be gracious.

> Know that there are implicit power dynamics that should be managed graciously...

> So, be a good partner...

But that's assuming like you said that in the organization, developers and PMs have similar reporting chains. The OP doesn't entertain the possibility that orgs and incentive structures might differ.
What is it about Second Life that keeps popping back up every couple of years with people writing stories about it.

Yet, it gets hyped again and people go there and it's a fricken ghost-town. There is no there there. It's just a whole lot of nothing. Since it's inception, I've tried and tried and tried to see what it's about, and there's nothing there except built-then-abandoned things, tons of advertising, and no people.