skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Enough rock fell off a Himalayan peak to bury Paris to the height of the Eiffel Tower

> The falling mountain top would have displaced up to 27 cubic kilometres of rock—roughly enough to bury the entirety of Manhattan to about the height of the Empire State Building.

It's paywalled then on but I assume it's also enough rock to bury Dubai to the height of Burj Khalifa.
Not the OP, but here's half a dozen off the top of my head:

* WiFi mesh

* Cellular/LTE

* Satellite internet

* LoRa

* Bluetooth

* Ham radio sending data packets

* Walkie-talky voice communication with a few friends outside the school (probably not what the OP meant by "wireless network" but I think it's technically correct ;)
> I googled it

Google don’t index sites which contain that kind of information. :)

More seriously, I too would have bought a Fairphone (for ethical reasons) to replace the crap second-hand Android phone that I’d been using for the past 8 years. However, I recently received a gift of a new iPhone so I probably won’t be getting a new phone for another 8 years or so. The iPhone doesn’t have any bloatware and it does have lots of options for security and privacy so I’m happy to use it from that point of view. Aside from not being able to remove the battery, I don’t think the average user can do much better than that, given that they have no insight into or control over the baseband layer.

I’ve never owned a Pixel but I’d expect (hope) that one purchased directly from Google would be similar to in iPhone bought from Apple.
Using OpenAI Functions and Langchain to Extract Data from LLM Conversations
What do you mean every server? Pardon my ignorance, first time I am hearing about these folks.
Quotes by Herbert Spencer…

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance — that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Herbert Spencer (1820 – 1903)
> Maybe its really obvious you feel that way and you should find a company that has a product that resonates with you so you don't have to fake it.

Easier said than done. It's not for lack of trying. I apply to lots of companies where I actually think that the project is cool, but they don't respond back to me. At that point, what exactly am I supposed to do? Just completely exhaust all my savings until I find my dream job?

I do really try my best to "get into" whatever the company is doing, but it's exceedingly difficult for me to do that, and it's even harder for me to fake enthusiasm.

> You can but don't be expected to be paid high end tech salaries for it.

That's fair, and maybe I should expect it, but it's still exhausting and I don't have to like it.
I notice you skipped “Dhalgren”. Probably for the best.
And some companies go beyond and -expect- you to take a minimum number of paid days off, even sometimes in excess of giving you all the jurisdictional holidays off.

I used to think that the module in high school where we learned about “How The Other Half Lives” was provided as historical context. As an adult I’ve learned that the US continues to be a case study in two halves. A shame, as it needn’t be the way it is.

Edit: typo
For some things but rust will really destroy a lot of the valuable metals like iron as it decays then scatters, a lot of how useful that will stay will depend on how long and deep the collapse is. One of the main things will be energy as so much of the surface coal and easily accessible oil have been exploited. The best bet is probably recovering and refurbishing electric motors to rig generators but there's a lot of infrastructure around turning that into reliable power that would also be tough to recover.
Perhaps they could ask the other countries that don’t turn off the entire internet.
Or when hosting a private email server is worthy of being locked up but only if you are Hilary Clinton specifically.
> Craigslist is also very popular here. Does that count as social media?

I was going to make a joke about "Not since they removed the personal ads", but CL has threaded discussion forums, so it's definitely social media.
Can't recommend this Frontline doc enough: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAghNloeD5Y

It's older (2009) but it's scary how little we knew about this stuff even 10 years ago
You are aware that his job at FBI was also General Counsel, right?

Seems like one of the best candidates in the world for GC of Twitter if you ask me.
Meta's copycat machine
I'm not familiar enough with Django to say for sure, but I assume at this point it's almost entirely custom ORM and libraries on top of async django routing/response.
Lol. Do you think you are just going to use go and everything is going to scale to FB level size?

Facebook was already at a scale larger than 99.99999 percent of sites before they had HHVM
Implement a foundational year, similar to the Ciclo Básico Común (CBC) in Argentina, my country, which all students must pass to move on to their chosen majors. This serves both as a basic foundation for all students and acts as a filter to manage the number of students who continue to the specific fields of study.

For some highly competitive fields, like medicine or law, an entrance exam is implemented. This isn't a comprehensive test like the SAT or ACT, it's specific to the field of study.
Recently started using Joplin. I find myself reformatting everything I paste into it from the browser. I thought the long load time was just the program. Didn't realize it wasn't native. I find myself not using it because it does feel clunky and slow and just easier to take screenshots.
I just started using Obsidian and I use the vim keybinds that Obsidian ships with. My only issue so far is I can’t move the cursor back to the title from the body.
Just FYI there's some weird scroll-jacking happening on the homepage, at first it won't let you scroll down?

MacOS, latest Chrome.
> I think it was reckless of the buyer to assume

I do agree with this. It's bad business practice.
It was! The graphical leap from the PS1 to the Dreamcast still appears to me to be the starkest of the 3d era. And it had online connectivity, out of the box, from day one. Very impressive for the (very late) 1990's.
The Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations Canada is another truly awful character
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk_vs._Mark_Zuckerberg
As far as his stated reasons: He was fairly open about thinking Twitter was some leftist cabal holding back the truth.

As for my own take, twitter addiction seems to warp you, in ways that send you more reactionary. See Jordan Peterson's recent output there for example. It's like your own Overton Window gets shifted by the people you interact with.
Quite often, the choice of language is failing to see the forest for the trees. Saving nanoseconds or cycles because you chose C++ over Python pales in comparison to milliseconds spent at network barriers reading from a cache service or database
A reminder to others that Trump appointed HUNDREDS of hand picked judges all over, not just the supreme court. All while calling legal challenges to his actual crimes "Legislating from the bench"
seems super useful, try this prompt:

how do you use wrangler and glue to make athena tables using terraform
If you prefer, it'd make a whole bunch of press conferences unconstitutional.

It's quite common for elected officials to criticize private citizens and businesses. To be concrete: Ted Cruz (and a bunch of others) publicly pressured the NFL over players kneeling at games, in a clear attempt to suppress First Amendment expression by said players, without any hint of consequences.
There was a reddit link posted under another thread, which had a very extensive list.
It's unsustainable because that situation tends to end in violence.
Even a blind pig finds an acorn one in a while.
144 characters.
One extra year of study before beginning the major will be prohibitively expensive for the lower middle class and the poor people.
You could also post relevant facts, like stuff that happened more recently than 55 million years ago, when there were no humans, not even apes or monkeys.

I feel like this is a really old, easily debunked argument. Rapid change toward a much warmer climate is likely to kick off a very abrupt extinction event. Which, incidentally, has already begun.
> I've been writing code for 40 years and I still get caught out myself. I try to give realistic deadlines [...]

Call it immaturity, or perhaps just not being a "team player", but I've been coding for 15 years and stopped giving time estimates about 5 years ago.

I simply refuse, and instead, explain that I would just be making something up, and I'm not interested in taking responsibility for an arbitrary guess, since I know from experience how it can come back to haunt me.

I try to suggest saving such speculation for a time, hopefully in the near future, where the initial research has been completed and _some_ progress has been made on the foundation of the requested work, so that my speculation can have some basis in reality.

If all else fails, I give a wild estimate that I don't expect anyone to agree to, such as 2 years for work that might not even take 2 or 3 months.
Is there testing that can be done for these as a homeowner/renter?
> If you are the White House, you are not a regulator of anything

If you are the White House, you are the ur-regulator of anything any part of the executive branch is a regulator of, as well as the things that the Executive Office of the President is the actual direct regulator of (which are mostly internal to government operations.)
OVH is a hosting provider, you rent physical or virtual servers from them for a monthly fee. They protect their entire network with DDoS mitigation.

https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/security/anti-ddos/ddos-attack-m...
Suppose it's not something that the user would see as a number.

In that case, would you prefer 0.875 = 7/8 or 0.9?

If both would work well, which would you put in the source?
Typical rates:

$0.3 per payment within a country

$5.0 per international payment

I don't think that's expensive. And it is open to all banks and certain other financial institution.
That’s not contradictory?

It’s very common for scale-out architectures to read more data than is ultimately returned, because the former is pulled from individual shards and then some centralized filtering / post processing is applied in some API middleware layer.

Trying to fix that by pushing down more of the query/execution is sometimes but not always feasible or practical.
Japanese RPGs were largely transforming into interactive movies by that generation, which didn't lend itself well to the cartridge format.
As a co-founder, I'd say you can get wealthy or at least comfortable.

But, we started with two people. At some point we needed funding. That put us on a track of angel investors, VC's, and a cycle acquisition, buyback, funding, acquisition, buyback, etc.

As the techie guy, I found that tiring and distracting. When we changed from software as a product to SAAS, it got a lot less fun. When we grew to 2000 employees (mostly non-tech), the company was a pain.

So after 20 years (to the day), we sold it and moved on.
We need more of this type of root cause analysis in our industry.
Trump admin personnel behaved the same way. The platforms were free to ignore it in the same way.

The Trump administration is being prosecuted over entirely different acts.
You might enjoy The Long Ride by Lloyd Sumner -- dude set off on a bicycle with a couple hundred dollars in the early '70s and bicycled around the world.
That's not accurate; they get angle and time (distance) from the tower. It's a hell of a lot more precise than a circle somewhere around the tower.

https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2020/12/5g-positioning--wha...
You mean those naive, brainwashed fools in Western countries might learn ...

We know all about the topic. However, it's clear from the overall tone of how you communicate here (and your endless evasions when cornered on simple factual matters) that you are either not capable of, or are simply not interested in anything even remotely resembling a productive discussion about it.
You left out the rest of the sentence which makes it an incomplete sentence. Usually this is followed by "would you like another?" or something along the lines that becomes a yes or no question.

Merely saying "This is two for x." is a statement, not a question.
Interested to know the source for that 10% number.

Using this tool I'm seeing 12 months consumption at 17.4% gas. Last 30 days 28.47% (61% capacity). Gas capacity has been phased out as base load.
https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/CA-ON

IESO confirms this
https://www.ieso.ca/power-data (Supply tab)

Ontario will be dependent on 2000MW (~10% of demand) which has to come from areas also facing shortfalls. NERC puts the majority of the US as well as Ontario in "elevated risk in above-normal conditions".
https://globalnews.ca/news/9752079/ontario-risk-summer-power...

Rolling blackouts could happen in “extreme but plausible scenarios” like a "once in a decade" heat wave (NERC).

We're facing climate change temps, population growth strained infrastructure and phased out gas plants. I hope it doesn't happen, but the possibility is worth having a personal plan.
It turns out calling the app "Threads by Instagram" is not just a branding gimmick. The Instagram backend was always Python/Django since before the acquisition.
Using AI to Make the Perfect Chili Crisp
AI can model human perception to predict flavor. It can also optimize molecular interactions. What if we combined the two and did both? Creating the best tasting chili sauce, and it doesn't give you the Sh*ts
Geology went hard for uniformitarianism during the 19th century as a reaction against the earlier "catastrophist" worldview, which had interpreted all major land forms as consequences of the great global flood described in the Bible (or something like it). This yielded a strong preference for theories involving continuous processes operating over long spans of time, and skepticism of theories involving sudden, violent changes. This swung back to a better balance during the 20th century; with the ghost of Noah's Ark exorcised, the role of local "catastrophes" in geologic history could again be taken seriously.
or express a wide range of subtlety.
I hate to hijack this thread. But I hope this is still useful for decision-making/informative for OP. For folks out there who are ex-programmers and didn't love the corporate grind anymore... what other exit strategies did you guys pursue (besides going into management)?

I'll start. I felt like OP maybe about ~7 years ago. I hated the grind of learning and re-learning frameworks, ageism etc. I pivoted into data science for my day-job because I found it more interesting (and to do something more meaningful particularly if you're doing something related to research/public healthy/policy etc.). On the side, I also started applying my coding skills to option trading and making my own trading bots (where I re-gained a lot of my enthusiasm for coding back without the grind of agile and coding for myself and just for fun). I'm happier (and financially better off) today and my only regret is I didn't start sooner. Hope to hear more from others who exited coding monkey careers!
I'm surprised it's not higher considering high levels of PFAS has been found in rainwater worldwide.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/08/04/rainwater-everywhe...
A game across three cartridges would've cost a fortune, and that's assuming you somehow got a 1:1 rate between them

The problem is worse than that:

1. The largest NES cartridge is 64MB, a PS1 CD is 10x that, so imagine 30 carts

2. A lot of the data across the 3 discs is actually the same data. Think character models and attack animations for your party members, locations you can revisit at any time, the base world map, common soundtracks, etc. The disk to disk differences were mostly things like FMVs and event soundtracks as a result. So the minimum data for the game to run would exceed 1 cartridge. So not only would you have to swap discs at certain points in the story, you'd have to swap them at other points, e.g. because you were backtracking. Trying to gather a spell from a starter dungeon for Beta? Please remove Vincent from your party and insert cartridge 2.
I want to be a manager as well, and I haven’t had any opportunities to become one. I’m often a go-to but I haven’t been able to go one rung up to management, either because there are already people with management experience so I get passed up, or I joined a team that recently got a new manager. Either way, I’m not seeing any opportunities and it’s extremely maddening.

So if I can study my way into management, I’d love to know more about it. Simply getting a masters or an MBA shouldn’t cut it, because it’s just theory and not real experience, right?
Funny how we went through the monumental effort to build and adopt a whole new system of units just because a few people were bad at grade-school arithmetic and mental math.
I had watched a YT video of a developer using this library. His main complaint was the library polluting the global namespace. None of the functions are prefixed and there is a ton of generic named functions and it does define some common constants like for the colors (RED, BLUE, etc.)

Is this an actual issue or was he just being too judgemental?
I don’t think anyone is saying it’s causation, the correlation is in and of itself interesting!
Um... it went from around $25k to around $30k in the middle of June where it's sort of hovered over the last couple of weeks. Then it falls from about $31.1k to $30.9k and some dude says "It's at a 14 month high because of this thing that just happened!"

Okaaaaaaay.

You can actually go to public trading data and verify this. But I guess if you've been mainlining blockchain hype, you're not really that hip to consensus reality.

Sad. I remember when Fortune was a real news source.
Other towers can still passively track your signal. You also have to communicate with more than one tower during handoff between cells. This is a capability mandated by E911.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1:

To locate a mobile telephone geographically, there are two general approaches. One is to use some form of radiolocation from the cellular network; the other is to use a Global Positioning System receiver built into the phone itself. Both approaches are described by the Radio resource location services protocol (LCS protocol).
It's more akin to yelling that there isn't a fire when there is and avoiding all evidence so you can claim ignorance.
Which is why they were swiftly cut down when they ignored these requests.

Oh wait.
The Let's Encrypt extension is not installed by default and needs to be explicitly installed, and I've never seen a cPanel provider that has it.

You can't use ACME to get a cert without said extension.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that in practice in general Let's Encrypt is not usable with cPanel providers.

In the context of this conversation, people were talking about how Let's Encrypt certs can easily be used to enable HTTPS, and my point is that that's rarely possible with cPanel hosts.
This is why the basic solution of calling the firefighters out to break the windows of the vehicle and run a hose through it is more an actual solution.

Apparently it worked to get the Soviet diplomats to stop parking in front of hydrants.
Is the existence of God a straightforward and definitive proof for the existence of God^2?
It's also not free speech if it's only for some. The government is a very important player in our society, we depend on them being able to speak freely!
The purpose of the instructions is to learn the techniques. First you build with the instructions, then you tear it apart and build what you want.

Not everyone is into the instructions -- my daughter follows them meticulously and will only build with instructions. My son refuses to follow instructions and will only "master build".

When I was a kid I'd build with the instructions, and eventually I destroyed everything and built a whole city from scratch.

Every kid is different.
"Quite a few people in business have paired a liberal arts undergrad degree with an MBA. They seem to do just fine. But I think that’s a missed opportunity—much better would be an MBA on top of an engineering or math undergraduate degree. People with that combination are invaluable, and there aren’t nearly enough of them running around."

I needed to read that today, (Purdue computer eng + Harvard MBA here)
Weird, I have never seen carrier bloat on any Google phone (Nexus5...Pixel6A). Is this because of EU legislation?
Now that is Meta!
In my country's case, the colleges where the CBC is implemented are public and free for all students on the undergrad level (subsidized by taxes) and very affordable for masters/PhD.
> The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office isn’t the only one sharing that data; in May, EFF released a report showing that 71 law enforcement agencies in 22 California counties — including Sacramento County — were sharing such data. The practice is in violation of a 2015 law that states “a (California law enforcement) agency shall not sell, share, or transfer ALPR information, except to another (California law enforcement) agency, and only as otherwise permitted by law.”

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/civil-liberties-groups-de...

https://california.public.law/codes/ca_civ_code_section_1798....
I don't think I'm alone in that if I'm reading something that is anywhere near a 1-star, I don't finish it. And then go on to not leave a review. This skews my ratings indeed, because not every book I start is between 3-5 stars, but almost every book I _finish_ is.
> Any task based AI that is not necessarily conscious can just upload itself on many computers trivially

Really? Across the past 6 months of publicly available instruction-tuned LLMs, there has not been a single instance of such a breakout to my knowledge. Even in "AutoGPT" agentic-style environments, it's practically impossible for AI to attain any capabilities outside of what the user gives it. You could argue giving it too much power is dangerous, but... that's the case with all computers, and all AI. It doesn't inherently change the threat model of computing as we know it today.

You're not going to ever find a satisfying answer to this question. There will be fearmongers who insist such an event is inevitable despite having no evidence or examples of how it's possible, as well as yes-men who will blindly validate poorly considered AI applications with potential to cause real harm.

On the sort of "island of tangibility" from both a technical and a social perspective, LLMs don't really pose much of a threat to humanity. There's an old thought experiment called The Library of Babel, which poses a library filled with infinite knowledge. The problem is that the knowledge is lost in a sea of infinite noise, such that anyone researching a specific topic would drive themselves mad long before ever finding the truth. In a sense, that's sorta what AI represents. It is a powerful library with many inherent truths, but also one that is confident to lie to it's reader and procedurally warp reality. Deriving superhuman intelligence from that sort of model is impossible, I think.

So, make of it what you will. I remain unconvinced that today's LLMs are any more dangerous than, say, the advent of Machine Vision a few decades ago.
Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd/

Free Software definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

It is more than just having access to the source code.

It is what you can do with the source code.

Open Source Initiative license list: https://opensource.org/licenses/
Have you actually tried it?
Your conception of what constitutes an “opinion” is different than any other one I’ve ever encountered.