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> those people don't want papers authored, co-authored, or believed to be authored, by Geoff in their conference. That seems reasonable

No, it doesn't.

A scientific conference is not your backyard BBQ. The reasonable thing to do is to judge submissions on their scientific merit and relevance.
Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl
Can anyone recommend some good online resources to learn how to draw?

It's a skill that I've always wanted to improve but I don't know where to begin.
Also as a former fencer, I've realized that fencing has so little to do with most "blade" warfare, whether in real life or in the movies. Epee might be the closest to reality for parts of Europe with duels etc, but I think all three forms diverged pretty quickly since the death of an opponent kind of kills the sport.
Here's an video of RMS talking about the period referenced in that man page regarding the introduction of passwords on user accounts:

https://youtu.be/k0RYQVkQmWU?t=235
> In many cases, however, that’s not what happens, and the CTO was basically the smartest person with a CS degree standing close to the CEO when the company was formed. The end result is that a lot of startups wind up giving a huge chunk of equity to someone who is essentially doing a job a semi-decent engineer could have done.

I think fundamentally (early stage) CEOs are judged the same way as well right? First time founders, especially the CEO, having to figure out sales and GTM etc. - very rarely do they get it right the first time. I certainly didn't. That's the risk of running a startup and investing in a startup. As the company scales, both CEO and CTO have to grow into their "new" roles every 6-18 months anyway. So, it's weird to single out the CTO, or really any founding member at all for "cap table dead weight".
Again, i see the cost and risk of doing this. However

> Moreover, the regular insults and unaddressed put downs will accumulate.

> If you treat passive aggression or thinly veiled insult as something genuine or harmless fake compliment, you are in for a very bad time. Because you will be target of more and more of it.

is working as intended. We arent talking schoolyard but workplace. You are checking if cooperation is possible so you have to spend less effort on managing the people around you and your reaction to them. Getting a clear signal on that means you can go over to actual conflict if you enjoy that and use some levers. Or just get a better environment so you can focus on work.

The image that presents for third parties is another issue and brings us back to short vs long games. That you shouldnt be reacting is besides the point. You arent describing a professional, let alone cooperative environment if they reward pointless personal short term conflict dragging everyone down to that level. And even if you are stuck in a dog kernel, your approach isnt without its own dangers. Goating somebody into overreacting is a tried and true strategy to make them look bad / unstable.

In the end defaulting on personal workplace conflict means you opt into playing emotional games. Which i see no reason to do, especially as idiots doing this have home field advantage. If they really made a decision for conflict and you fancy joining in make sure you have the advantage and mop the floor with them. They arent all too smart after all. But cooperation will be off the table, you will have to constantly mince every word.

edit: This is really about job description. Do you really want to be a dog trainer?
Maybe 0.2%c? Either way, no gravity in outer space so isn't it like 0G?
I think the difference might be that you knew what you wanted to build. That's usually the bigger issue in projects like this.

The other thing I can think of is that small teams or individuals can often outpace larger teams, at least when it comes to pure software development - in practice, a team handles things like 3rd party integrations, customer feedback, stakeholder management, demos, etc as well.
This is a loop hole that is often exploited to punish people without the application of due process.

Terrible.
Not necessarily. Having sirens and lights flashing doesn't mean that the emergency vehicle can do whatever they like. They need to navigate red lights safely.

So the cruise vehicle could have failed to handle the situation as well as a human driver, but it's also possible that the emergency vehicle wasn't driving carefully enough.
A friend of mine has a solar panel on top of his old small hatchback. The car itself is petrol powered, but he has a surprisingly expansive 12V system all over the small cabin, including some Li-ion battery packs. This powers everything from a fridge to charging stations for go pro's and a raspberry pi. Before the solar panel he sometimes had to drive around the car just to recharge the li-ion batteries from the generator, but with the panel's it's essentially self sustaining.

However, the difference between powering some random electronics and actually making any meaningful impact on EV power usage is two completely different beasts...
Both-sidesism? This goes beyond political party. Creating parties was where we fucked up. First-past-the-post almost ensured that our elections would end up becoming team sports, at that point.

I'd be much more trusting of democracy or even representative democracy if the demos had a real say -- We should be voting on issues more than we do people. People can betray trust or twist a vote's meaning. Most of politics, as practiced, is sleight of hand and misleading people. If we vote on issues and then also vote on people whose leadership we trust to execute said issue conclusion, we'd get much closer to something representing the will of the people while also guarding against populist BS. That is the supposed goal of representative democracies, and yet in practice it's bread, circuses, and zero accountability from the top. Losing an election is not a replacement for consequences or taking responsibility for defying the will of your constituents.

But, you can't sell that as a sport to people and foment tribal thoughts as easily, so that's no good. /s
The article calls software from the 90s "old". Nobody used COBOL for mission-critical software at that time. There is embedded software I wrote in the 80s and 90s still running in the field, mostly written in C.
I can find that politician just fine from my German Twitter account.

From wikipedia "The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies statements by [the politician] as nationalist, Islamophobic, xenophobic and anti-constitutional."
If you're building an SPA for an Ecommerce site you've seriously misunderstood the web.

These days you can slap together a very capable PHP based Ecom solution using Livewire for those sections that need interactivity.

People really need to realise just how detremental to the user experience it is to have mountains of JS being needed just for an ecommerce site.
It could last longer if gaming with their game porting toolkit gets big enough to drive more Mac sales. Money talks.
It's not comparable. You don't install either. Nobody assumes you get every GNU project when you install one because its name coincides with the organization as a whole, because neither put themselves in the situation of creating that kind of confusion.
> C and C++ do not require variables to be initialized on declaration (explicitly or implicitly) like Go and Java. Reading from an uninitialized variable is undefined behavior.

Took me some time to understand that part :)

I always thought that an unassigned variable of type slice T was deemed uninitialized. (but then, what of assigning nil to a previously non-nil variable? Is it considered deinitialized?)

In fact, at the language level it could be considered uninitialized/deinitialized.
That's the variable typestate.
(cf definite assignment, ineffectual assignment analysis)

For the compiler, it still "points" to a memory location so it is initialized.

Am I right? (more than 344 comments, no one will find this one question lol :-)
Yes and the flaw itself is from self hosted gitlab instances that haven’t been patched and updated after known security flaws were found in 2021
regarding #6:

The Aptera can do pretty well on just solar charging, enough that many people could commute every day and never plug it in (if they can park it in the sun every day, which you can't)
Right but that still means they need to pick literally any other human output besides “energy”. At the very least it would have to be some very specific form of energy that humans emit.

Just like it would make no sense to explain the purpose of animal agriculture in human society as “extracting the animals’ energy”. Like you said, it’s the different form of energy (plus nutrients) that they can provide, not energy simpliciter.
You should take a look at GNU/Linux mobile operating systems every once in a while. They're making great strides and both popular GUIs KDE and GNOME have been working on making mobile a target in their ecosystems.

Fairphone comes with a five-year guarantee for repairs and parts, so none of that early planned obsolescence, and it works with all the Linux mobile distributions I have had my eyes on.
Thank you! I also forgot to link to a music video that a close friend made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Aoc2lAXP9s

It's a stop motion linocut... Each animated frame took him hours to make. A gem!
My brother, an artist who has not forgotten how to draw, immediately gave me his copy of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain when I asked the same question a few years back.

https://www.drawright.com/
>It's very very good to hold people accountable.

Passive voice. Who watches the watchers, who accounts for the accountability-bringers?
I am sure we can find a company in the YC Library that can help with the traffic spike
Contemporary art has emancipated itself from your taste. It now serves every conceivable taste. Including yours, though you may have to (like everyone else) look around to find what you want.
in Israel similar regulation created a bunch of ISP that were riding on infrastructure of the only incumbent telecom and cable companies. What resulted in lower prices for everybody without stalling upgrades of infrastructure. I got 2013 vdsl2 i think with 150/20 or something. Nowdays it's same with fiber deployment.

In same way mobile companies got regulated what created a big market for mvnos what dropped prices by factor or 3-4.

The problem not with unbundling but with how regulation was done and what loopholes it created (no idea what went down, but based on article many people spent a bunch of time in court fighting it). Though, my personal guess that incumbent telecom that were unbundled had also mobile businesses and decided to go for mobile broadband and just to let copper die. In Israel telecom/cable companies were forbidden from operating mobile network.

As anecdote, after I moved to states I had a chat on some network conference with somebody who claimed that he is very liberal and was complaining about quality/price of broadband/mobile in USA. I suggested to do same reforms as in Israel to what he replied that this is extremely crazy approach.
No, this is a misconception. The FBI is not just a law enforcement agency. It is also an intelligence agency.
Gtk and Qt both fell into this uncanny-valley too - QStyleSheet is very limited compared to browser CSS.
Yes, it's time inferior gui apps start freezing when you press C-z.
The husky.

They had kennels but they didn’t have doors or anything.

They would nap in the snow and let it pile up to keep them warm.

https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/wild...

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/hut-shackleton-antarctic.h...
One of the reasons I love living where I do, is because while I don't know any of the neighbours who live directly adjacent to me in their $2m houses, it's a relatively dense and active neighbourhood because of all the people forced to rent rooms from them, and we all walk to get our groceries or to the bars down the street, or meet at the gym, or see each other in the park. There's not a chance I'd move to some cul-de-sac, and it's frustrating that the possibility of securing a longer-term stay here isn't really possible any more.

Aside from that though, in my first 12 years as an adult, I've learned that if you see someone you know when you're out and about, wave to them, always, unless they're really occupied by something else; they might be gone/dead tomorrow, and nobody hates being acknowledged in a friendly way.
I feel somewhat conflicted about this. I'm from Finland, and while we aren't technically Scandinavian and might be something of an outlier among Northern Europeans in general, the stereotype is that we're not fond of small talk and prefer to be to the point and perhaps even blunt. But in terms of asking for things, I don't feel like I identify with the culture of directly asking. Feeling out or giving hints that I might appreciate some help without making outright requests seems a lot less intrusive and graceful to me. And while personality is probably also a factor, I don't think it's just me.

I think we're generally a high-context culture, and the "guessing" culture as postulated in the post immediately reminds me of that. I don't know if other Northern European cultures are less high-context but it makes me wonder if high vs. low context (possibly similar to guessing vs. asking) is not quite the same axis as bluntness.
The compatibility hacks are not "revert to old, terribly unsafe behavior". Rather, "use current, good behavior, lie to the application about what happened."
The wireless charging assembly has a serial number that's programmed into the phone at manufacturing time. Replacing that assembly (glued to the back glass) with one having a different serial number causes photos taken with flash to fail to save.
Alternatively, if you donate to uBlock Wikipedia stops asking you for money...
Those crypto gals over there? total bros
> Suppose that P = NP. To prove it, researchers would need to find a fast algorithm for an NP-complete problem, which might be hiding in some obscure corner of that vast landscape.

They wouldn't need to find such an algorithm. They would just need to prove that such an algorithm exists.
- One of them would occasionally advertise the author's other extensions when new or updated, either with a weird in-page popup notification or a video announcement on YouTube, which it would hijack the current tab or create and focus a new one for to show.

Looks like pocket tube, I see, "https://p.yousub.info/referral" mentions in the extension. I can fully comprehend Giphy's tracking code, but pocket tube's eludes me.

I have started a Github repo to try and report to report them, but I only have time for Giphy for now. [1] Plus I have not done this sort of thing before. Any pointers are very appreciated.

[1]: https://github.com/ColoursofOSINT/extensions-investigation
usually does
All human birth rate reduction is good for the planet.

The arguments here of whether the person was born in the UK or Kenya are pointless.

The overwhelming majority of the difficulties facing modern society are driven by too many people on the planet.

The current voluntary reduction in reproduction, unfortunately, is only going to be a drop in the bucket. Our massive overexploitation of natural resources, coupled with largely unmitigated toxic waste generation/disposal is going to lead to birth rate reduction on an unprecedented scale.

As ecosystem disruption begins to affect agricultural output, third world population will begin to feel the effects first. Then as these effects become global economic problems, warfare will proliferate.

We'll have War, Pestilence and Famine. The big three of population reduction.

In the next 100-200 years the earth will have a human population billions less than now.
i'm not reading any of that
People are focusing too much on the CPUC decision. That was only about whether they can charge for rides or not. Even if the CPUC had rejected their application, all these incidents would still have occurred. It's the DMV that is responsible for whether the cars are allowed on the road, and they rubber stamped it a long time ago.

My theory is that Cruise piggybacked on Waymo having a strong record and a public service running in Arizona already, and the DMV in classical government incompetence just assumed that if it works at a small scale it works just as well at a larger scale.
This reads like "the full TPM spec is too complicated for my use case, so I made my own TPM for my personal use case". That's not fixing TPM, that's inventing your own, custom TPM, that only works for a subset of the intended audience of the thing you're replacing.

It's like replacing all private cars by bikes and public transit. This solves the pollution problem, the traffic casualties program, and would solve transportation for the vast majority of people traveling on the road. It doesn't solve some niche use cases, like "trucks" or "construction work", but those are just bloat almost nobody needs in the first place, right?

From this description, Tillitis sure seems like a good alternative for TPMs. However, there's no Tillitis chip in my laptop or my desktop, but I do have a TPM. Things like SSH and PGP are already implemented. Tillitis isn't very interesting to me in its current state as advertised in this article.
My problem with fantasy is that the physics of the universe is not well presented. For the entire duration, I watch with the premise that anything and everything is possible until shown to be otherwise. It's probably different if the source material was read and the viewer already has that context. There's probably some science-fantasy that fits your description which I would enjoy more than the more typical magical/mystical sorts.
If WeChat required iris scans to work, would the Chinese "voluntarily" be doing it?

I'm specifically making this example about WeChat because it's basically impossible to exist in China without it and has the power imbalances inherent in dealing with the CCP that make it "voluntary" the same way donating money to someone with a gun pointed at your chest is "voluntary", since libertarians have a deliberately extremely warped view of that word.
At this point, I think we should be willing to call out these ideas for being unhelpful distractions from what will really be needed to combat climate change. As you point out, the math just doesn't add up. Photovoltaics on car roofs is just a dumb idea, beyond perhaps some novelty charging of accessories (e.g. running the A/C on hot, sunny days).

There was a good article recently (maybe it was Washington Post, can't remember), about what will really be needed to combat climate change, and I thought it was pretty great. Did a great job of highlighting the things to focus on that can actually be built fast enough (e.g. overbuilding renewables generation, upgrading electrical grids, "electrify everything", etc.) vs what are just distractions that are too small (or slow to build out) to make a dent in what actually needs to happen. You could perhaps argue with the author on some of the details around the edges, but the main points were pretty unassailable in my opinion.

These proposals that will never amount to more than a drop in the ocean aren't worth wasting time on, and worse than that, they can make people "feel" like they're doing something valuable when they really aren't (see: most plastics recycling).
Before I bought house I opened access panel on a side of the house to make sure that there is coax/etc going into the house and asked neighbors about availability of the service
Thought to be even more fair, there's also a thousand failed attempts that are absolute crap, too. Being "indie" doesn't make it good, but being "big commercial" at least usually ends up in something playable (though there have been exceptions to this!).
Would you consider LDPRELOAD a massive cost to Linux ? Because that's basically what it is.

You could give me the best kernel in the world, if I end up reading a file whenever I push a pixel to the screen, my performance will be dogshit. Windows's performance problems are not due to the kernel (or rather, not due to problems/bugs: some performance issues are just a choice. See NTFS's dreadful performance with Git: NTFS simply wasn't thought out for having thousands of very small files all being touched at the same time.)
> Linus has repeatedly stated that the ABI should be stable, “we don't break user space”.

Linus said that the userspace API to the kernel should be stable, which it mostly is. But a GNU/Linux system contains a lot more APIs (in userspace).
If it's coming from someone who could even remotely be considered a "host" to you, it's definitely a serious question, and they actively want to fulfill any needs you might have. Southern hospitality is a super real thing, it's pretty awesome.

If it's said as a greeting, "how y'all doing?" usually means "how are your family?," which also tends to be meant very genuinely.

Even outside of a host-guest dynamic, I do think Southerners tend to care more about pleasantries; when they ask about your weekend, they're a little more likely to really want to know.

Of course, this is all very broad strokes based on anecdotal experience. Plenty of cold/self-aggrandizing jerks in the South, too!
While they are humans, the gatekeeping in the system ensures only sinister humans will get those jobs.

CIA director admitted to interferring in elections.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374372-ex-...
In the JS/typescript world, neverthrow [1] may be the closest library for this. If anyone has good experience with something else, please reply. Not sure if neverthrow is the right choice after replacing all Errors in a 16k LOC engine library with it. It did added more "noise" to the code. Would a custom bespoke code/library add less noise? I'm not sure.

[1] https://github.com/supermacro/neverthrow
At my previous job, my assignment was to rebuild a front-end 10 years in the making; the company had lost (idk if they fired him or he moved on, I suspect the latter as he was one of the founders) their previous developer, who was both not a very good developer and very productive.

But yeah, when I joined that software had been built for over 8 years, using technology and practices from the 2000s (think AJAX where X is XML, a PHP back-end that concatenaded XML tags, and a Dojo front-end), and my goal was to rebuild it.

I spent 2.5 years there, using Go as back-end so it's all integrated (one issue was that the PHP runtime they had at customers couldn't be updated because RHEL didn't have a newer version in the repos), React as front-end, etc etc. But there was just too much functionality to rebuild, and they didn't / couldn't find other people to hire (until I quit, because of course).

In hindsight, while PHP wasn't really my thing, I should've focused on improving the existing codebase and then only incrementally improve and replace things in-place. I mean at the same time, I knew a full rebuild of that was a Bad Idea, but that's what they wanted and I wanted to do stuff in Go as well so I didn't challenge it too hard.

But yeah, I could've easily made the back-end twice as fast with at worst a week or two of work; half the back-end's processing time and memory usage was because they took that concatenated XML, parsed it, and converted it into JSON. Because at some point the previous author realized JSON is the new cool kid on the block.
You’re being disingenuous. Using a debugger is such an elementary part of a developer’s job that failure to master it is incompetence to me.
Sorry but I think Michaelangelo and Leonardo knew much more about art than you.
Apparently. Can you elaborate?
Oh, for the days when you could run a murderous android with a 6502!

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64
Because HN serves only text(html & css) with no javascript. (edit: a tiny amount of efficient js)

Frontpage right now = 35.67KB

This page is currently 18.34KB.

It's one of the only interesting sites left on the web that is 100% usable on 2G (EDGE) mobile data.