skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you share the numbers you used for that conclusion? It feels like a solar panel will produce ridiculously more power than is required to make it so it seems hard to believe small scale gas combustion engines are more carbon efficient regardless if that initial energy is from a coal or gas power plant. I'm not sure what a reasonable range of numbers for the energy needed for panel production is though so I'm curious what you used.
The cloud platform is not and never has been open source.
Why watermarking AI-generated content won’t guarantee trust online
In Once Were Brothers Scorcese tells how he planned out the shooting for the whole concert. One thing you might not pick up on: there are NO shots of the audience at all.
Airline Passengers Will Be Forced to Pay for $5T Carbon Cleanup
Its relative harmless. In Germany some basements are more harmful that a necklace out of uraniumglass. Even light clothes stop the alpharadiation of the uranium. Even the air stops it after a few centimeters.
Unpopular opinion: There are a lot of free networking products, and it probably makes sense to hide all that in the margins of a few products (egress, NAT gateways) rather than penny pinch every API.
I used to work for a small ISP. The boss specifically wanted speed tests to be exempted from traffic shaping.
Here is Melbourne, Australia our train system used to run on I believe a PDP based system established in 1982 until the mid 2000's when they started a transition to an all new system simply because the hardware was getting too old to maintain.

The intermediate step was to emulate the old systems software on Windows XP machines until all the other signal systems could be upgraded.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112040545/https://www.smh.c...
I actually found this very helpful. There’s so much cruft and bullshit and promotion among web frameworks and tech, it’s difficult to get a sense of what is the right decision if you’re new to web dev.
73.6% of all statistics are made up.
Of which product?
Maybe this has something to do with the local opinion on Haskell?
Roof-mounted solar water heaters were very common in South India too. Our childhood home had two solar panels heating a tank of water. Worked very well in summer, and there was a backup electric heater for the winter months. We also got some rebate from the electricity supplier, if I remember correctly.

The entire system was quite simple, and hasn't needed any maintenance in close to 20 years, I think?

What are the benefits of solar electric panels compared to water heating panels?
> However, there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals, without providing material contributions back.

Vendors like Hashicorp, that take advantage of contributors who give away their work(PRs) under the MPL, only to then have this work relicensed to a different license?

Hashicorp could just request the source code from those "vendors" (after all, the MPL has copyleft) and integrate their changes. (They have to be users first but this shouldn't be that big of a problem).

I wonder who the freeloader really is. CLAs should not be accepted. Ever.
Great for the arctic circle.
I love HATEOS style APIs as a user, but not as a developer building them. Because they're not trivial to build and creates a lot of coupling between systems.

For example, if I have a device, which belongs to organization, HATEOS advises me to include a link to `organization` object and how to get there.

But, if I am writing a microservice for devices or any other isolated logic from organizations model and how organizations model is exposed externally. Now I need to create coupling between 2 systems and know how to address owner `organization`.
Stack Overflow's strike is over: But its problems persist
It'd also be nice if employees of Red Hat wouldn't make personal attacks on folks affiliated with Rocky Linux (and to a greater extent CIQ), justified or not, but I can understand nhanlon's defensiveness, just as I understand the defensiveness from many on Red Hat's payroll surrounding everything the past month+.
I wonder why they released the source code for this one. Is it purely because of the principles, or did they have a legal requirement since the old one is also GPL licensed?

I'm assuming they don't have legal requirements since they owned the old code anyway.
A better example might be North Korean hackers who are explicitly legal under their government and quite proficient at revenue generation on the cyber seas.
> I think encouraging people to write their infra configuration in a general purpose imperative language is quite possibly the worst idea I've ever encountered.

Good news: Pulumi is also entirely declarative. The model is what matters in this regard, not the syntax used to express it.
Open Source is poorly defined. All the most popular "open source" licenses are restrictive. The restrictions are what differentiates them. Hell, look at GPL..

It's a spectrum IMHO from closed-source to "do whatever you want" source.
Guns mounted on the wings will increase the roll moment of inertia, making the airplane less agile.
i think that's the opposite of the intent

they're saying that you don't need to be comfortable with ides and fancy debuggers and cmake and language servers and game development engines and ci pipelines and all kinds of complicated stuff to write c successfully

a bare-bones text editor and the most minimal build system are plenty

and if they aren't plenty, they're not saying that's a problem with you, but with c

i don't agree (ctags, valgrind, git, and gdb go a long way towards making c usable, and evidently c is the best language for a lot of things even ctags and gdb struggle with, like linux kernel drivers, and cmake evidently helps a lot if you care about ms-windows) but that's what they said, and you totally misunderstood them because you somehow got the idea that vim and make are some kind of super advanced tools rather than relics from the 01980s

they're maybe a bit unprepossessing at first glance but mostly what they are is simple and primitive

think of using a hammer rather than a cam-driven turret lathe

you can go lower tech than make too now that cpus and c compilers are so fast

while sleep 1; do # ci pipeline
gcc -Wall -funny -mtune=i69 *.c -lm -liberty -letmypeoplego -o proggie && # build system
./proggie --run-tests # test runner
done

c compiles fast enough that this scales to several thousand lines of code, c++ very much does not

of course you need a testing framework

if (!strcmp(argv[1], "--run-tests")) return run_tests();

... three seconds latair ...

int run_tests()
{
return test_ui() ||
test_network() ||
test_parsing();
}

int test_parsing()
{
assert(trees_equal(parse("3+4"),
parse("3 + 4")));
assert(!trees_equal(parse("3+4"),
parse("3 + 5")));
...
}

now i'm not saying you shouldn't write a test runner in unity and distribute your ci pipeline with zmq and mqtt and whatever the fuck. better ux is worth my weight in gold, and i have programmer gut. also zmq is metal as fuck

what i am saying is that the difference between no test runner and an infinite loop in bash is much bigger than the difference between the bash loop and circleci or gitlab pipelines. so don't be intimidated by articles like this which make it sound like you need a team of phds to set up a test runner. writing tests and running them is what helps, not so much stylishness

except for version control. a build script in shell is a serviceable alternative to make, but cp -a proggie/src snapshot.$(date +%Y-%m-%d) is not a serviceable alternative to git

also if 3d test runners with inotify and particle systems with custom shaders mean that people write more tests and see the tests fail sooner after they break shit, that could make a real difference
Not possible, at least for vault and terraform
The way the architecture works, any fork would have an impossible task to take off and maintain compatibility
Forget cmake in 2023.

Using Zig is way easier, faster and more flexible.

I'm not talking about Zig as a language, but as a toolchain to compile C/C++ code.
About Perma.cc
British law enforcement are pretty rich to pull out the think of the children card especially after decades of ignoring grooming gangs.
I didn't realize that! I wonder how performant a small Llama would be on iOS.
> In other words, a big reason that moving rate are down is that the economic incentive to move can be low: in places with higher wages, the higher cost of living offsets these gains, especially for low-income workers.

Yes, but it's only half that story. Why wouldn't this same idea trigger people with better paying skills to move to new lower cost areas when they would benefit? That is, moving isn't always about "moving up".

Sure they'd likely be taking a pay cut but still faring better because other costs (e.g., housing) are relatively lower. Why isn't this on the rise?
Right, and as my comment alludes to, quantize it to FP4, they got a nice CLI tool that took me about 15 seconds to do that to a 150 MB model. Here youd do that with each shard
No it was evidence that:

(1) Apple was a small company going into a new area with a very unusual design for the time. Apple couldn't make enough of them from day 1.

(2) the phone market required major business changes to adapt to the iPhone. AT&T made all kinds of unusual concessions to Apple to make the logistics, and Apple's business needs.

A complete redesign of how phone software, hardware, interfaces work, along with major changes to cellular partnerships and logistics, is not an "accident".

The polish was excellent too. Every phone I used before the iPhone had limited and flaky interfaces, from basic phones to handheld computer phones.

Bill Gates was floored when he saw the iPhone, by his own report.

Steve Jobs was obsessed with the design of the phone and how he needed to change cellular business models. They designed numerous candidate hardware, and two alternate internally designed operating systems, before settling for the iOS they delivered. Steve didn't always get everything right, but "accident" isn't particularly applicable to anything Steve did.
I’m assuming this is the father of William?
The irony is that voters thought of free market for SMEs and regulation for big corporations* and the Tories did the opposite - big corporations have essentially a free reign and SMEs are crippled with high tax and regulation (e.g. IR35 to stop small service based business from operating, while exempting big corporations from it).

*(with the focus of getting them to pay taxes - HMRC even today literally has no idea about the scale of tax avoidance, because they don't audit big corporations).
This is cool but the name is confusing. First of all, git is not being scraped nor is git being used to do any scraping, git is only used as the storage format for the snapshots. Second, there is no scraping happening at all. Scraping is when you parse a file intended for human display in order to extract the embedded unstructured data. The examples given are about periodically downloading an already structured json file and uploading it to github. No parsing is happening unless you count when he manually searches for the json file in the browser dev tools.
So when user deletes the app, it sends two separate messages to AWS: one to the Cognito which stores the user ID and email, and one to the Dynamo database that has user data linked to the anonymized ID. The data are deleted independently, and upon receiving the success message from both of them, the account is fully deleted. That way, the user data in Dynamo DB does not have to know what is happening in Cognito.
I made no suggestion that it is. I am just reacting to the condescending attitude to one of the great musicians and cultural thinkers of our times.

People who are less excited or connected to the coal face of technology are not necessarily ignorant or engaging in motivated reasoning if they question an innovation.
Windows would be not open source and not closed source according to them. I think most people would call it closed source however.
It's certainly been sad and eye-opening to realise that while the rest of us who read George Orwell's 1984 considered it a worst case scenario, those attracted to careers in the government have found it heartwarming and inspirational.

There's nothing in that book you couldn't justify with "think of the children".

It seems that, as usual, the only way to escape tyranny is emigration, but I worry one day we'll run out of freer countries to emigrate to.
Seems like we've been fighting over The Clipper Chip in one form or another for the last 30 years.
Tribes 2 was my first taste of modding, the game holds a super special place in my heart too. Then came Ultima Online emulators Sphere and RunUO that turned me from a gamer into a programmer too.
Seriously. The whole "Ford to NYC: Drop Dead" thing was in 1975...
Google Effect
You are missing a big part of the needed work. I would suggest this approach. Make a list of every person you have worked with over these 11 years, everyone with whom you had non-trivial/extended interactions. Probably a long list! Go through that list, and think about- which of these people did you like to work with. Which liked working with you. Which ones appreciated the unique things you brought to the table when working on a problem. Be very selective. This is probably a much shorter list! For each of them, track down their email and compose a personal message communicating that you remember working with them on X, you enjoyed the experience. You are looking for a new challenge and would love to get coffee/zoom coffee/touch base. Send the message. After doing this for each of the very selective group, reduce the selectivity a bit and repeat, composing a still personal message, just reaching out.

In terms of skills, yes, you may be helped by figuring out a focus and gaining depth in a particular area. But which area? Here you do need to do another layer of analysis beyond job postings, but you will also need to figure out what interests you, what you would be motivated to do. Which might be more technology or it might at your level of seniority be other areas like business domain or people areas. If business domain or people areas are interesting then you will want to double down on setting up conversations with your network. But if technology is interesting the very best thing to do is the learn in public. Take your lack of knowledge as a strength, start from zero, and use your existing skills to learn how something is implemented, and teach yourself, documenting as you go, to the level of depth that satisfies you. Publish that work. If you have worked at the kernel/file system level you find especially in user space platforms like k8s many oddities and curiosities. Listen to your curiosity and document those oddities. You might actually find something that needs fixing, in that case, submit a PR.

Both of these approaches- reaching out to your network, and following and documenting your curiosity- take time. Doing the job hunt with recruiters does as well. But this way you are growing yourself as an asset, in relationships, and in skills.

HTH. Good luck.
regarding your other point about limitations of how statically typed languages parse data. How about making this kind of response:

class Organization:
id: string
name: string
... couple of common fields ...
supplier: Supplier # supplier specific fields
agency: Agency # agency specific fields
....
Maybe this is a strawman argument unworthy of serious discussion.
In programming circles ‘grok’ has long been used to describe that moment when you finally understand the piece of code you’ve been staring at all day.

So the AI folks are just borrowing something that had already been co-opted 30+ years ago.
Silencer or a “WIX fuel filter (wink, wink)”?
Location: Phoenix

Remote: Y

Willing to relocate: N

Technologies: Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, Perl, Ruby, Python, PostgreSQL, Kafka, CI/CD, REST API

Resume/CV: https://warpedreality.org/resume.pdf | https://www.linkedin.com/in/justindhunter

Email: justin.d.hunter@gmail.com
I never took it but I shot on the range at one point. As I recall, the pistol team at the time was one of the best teams after the service academies and some of the better shots were some fellow photographers on the newspaper.
sorry, but no that's not the origin. 604 => Goa

but otherwise, yes, i'm an old school mac head since Apple II days
> Northwest Arkansas with 100°F and 99% humidity

People like to throw numbers like 90°F at 90%+ humidity. It doesn't work like this. If you look at the hourly data for Bentonville, AR (Northwest Arkansas) on the hottest day of the month [1] you see that by the time temperature got to 101°F humidity was at 32%. It is sticky as hell, but I guess as a number 30% doesn't sound impressive enough.

[1] https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ar/bentonville...
It need not be HashiCorp employees. I merged as many (if not more) PRs into Terraform after leaving as I did while working there - the notion of community maintainers was nixed in 2018, though that was never communicated.
This may not be appropriate for your use case, but rotating the publicly facing email address when you get spam or on an interval may help here.
For example hello-XXXXX@site.com (hello-a5b84@site.com, hello-jux8k@site.com, …).

I believe most legitimate visitors send an email shortly after visiting a page with the address while spam emails often have a much longer lead time with new addresses (it takes time to get scraped, put in a database, and then get used).

However this does mean that extended communication on that address and saved addresses will not work well.
the missile is currently experiencing critical levels of being a sleepy lil guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csp_OABIsBM
The size makes it tough for App Store deployment, but I could imagine using a local LLM on-device for an enterprise app.
> Ideology is great until people need to eat. That’s what revenue is for.

It isn't just the need to eat. There's also the issue of keeping investors happy and their continual drive to maintain growth or earnings at stratospheric levels.

Strict IP laws are the only safe way to do that, and that is why so much software has leveraged them over the years. The internet era felt like an aberration for a while, but things seem to be shifting back to high double digit margins as the only desirable goal.
Eh, I wouldn't want the MechEs to be left out.
AWWWW... It would be great to share some "meta-data" on the usecase - i wonder whether it is narrow task (that can be done via CRON job), or something that are more general and can be creative and not in control sometimes.
What kind of tools that the agent use? (Web-search/ Generating content/...)
Did you made any modification to the code or use it "as is". if so- how much time did you spend on the modification and in what kind of areas...

Feel free to answer only subset of the questions that you feel comfortable with them.
The midpoint by travel point mattered more in an era where travel across the country was measured in weeks or months.

At this point the only people with difficult transport are those in rural communities that may lack air services, though to combat this somewhat Congress funds the Essential Air Service at hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Seems to have had some healthy habits and a positive mindset, so...

What led to his death?
Meta- would be my guess. Metacapacitor, metachemistry, metaconductor... It works.
Through the power of ultrachemistry
When I first used a modern VR headset, it felt so real to me that I felt like I was truly in the virtual space. It was an amazing and memorable feeling.

After several years of using one intermittently, it doesn't feel any more real than my monitor. My brain taught itself to see all the elements that make it artificial, and while it's still amazing as a technological feat, it no longer feels real at all.

I feel that a similar thing happened to me with the latest round of generative AI improvements. A year ago they felt amazing and almost sentient. Now my brain has started to internalize the patterns in the output, and while I'm still impressed and amazed by the technological prowess and data summarization utilities, it no longer feels amazing.

I think if AI is to truly get a foothold in art, it would first need to have a capacity to generate a new voice and viewpoint and imbue its work with the kind of fresh meaning that separates a good piece of writing from a boring or empty genre work. That said, I do think AI is even now ready to make inroads in 'boring or empty genre work'. When I ask AI to write something, while I don't see artistic merit in the output, I do see the same level of merit that I see in a mediocre human written piece.

I guess if I am scared by anything, it is this: if a great human artist often begins their life building/selling boring and derivative works, and AI displaces the market for paying humans for boring and derivative works, then will fewer artists have an opportunity to first wallow in, and then transcend, mediocrity?

If that is true, then I suppose I am worried, and I understand where Nick Cave is coming from.
This is all from memory so, I might be missing some things:

Adds 10 extra weapons

Changes the damage ratio of all weapons

Imports the "gravity mines" from one of the Q2 expansion packs

Adds togglable "moon boots" (low gravity, on a per-player basis)

Adds a grappling hook, with swing physics

Has "secret" command to turn invisible. (I can't remember what it is). Because back in 1999 I didn't realize people could unpack binaries and read them.
Sundar Iyer's First Open Address: Co-Accused in Cisco Caste Discrimination Case [video]
Sundar Iyer, in his first public address post his court case, outlines how he, his co-accused Ramana Kompella, and 50+ of his Cisco co-workers were deliberately, wrongfully and maliciously targeted by the California CRD (aided by Equality Labs) in the now infamous Cisco caste discrimination case.

California Policy Center's whitepaper on corruption at CRD: https://californiapolicycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/0....

Do checkout https://castecon.com/ and https://castegate.org/.
On the plus side they don't need to panic, they can keep using the last open source version and patch it themselves if needed.
It's been about a decade since I ran desktop Linux in any meaningful capacity but I feel like that was the way a significant portion of the gui apps worked.
Another week, another rugpull.
Are there any reselling a rebuilt RHEL?
Yeah our (concrete tile) roof is about 80 years old. The only maintenance has been replacing broken tiles after a particularly bad hail storm.
X (formerly Twitter) lowers impression requirement for ad revenue
Until government orders ISPs to to send details of all customers who connected to known VPN services and then issue everyone a fine as a warning or worse.

The thing is, currently nothing works in the UK, so if you think you'll be able to dispute anything...
ID has traditionally release code for their games when they reach...I forget, 10 years, or end of official support or something. This is just continuing the tradition of giving their games the longest of tale by opening them up. Check it out. https://github.com/id-Software
The CLA is a relatively recent thing. They certainly do not have my sign-off, though I haven't checked whether all code contributed after February of 2017 has been replaced (yet).