skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree with your sentiment, but think we should also have nuclear not just natural gas. Nuclear is reliable and clean. Why use natural gas if we don't need to?

Because natural gas is cheap and nuclear is not. If you’re using tax payer dollars, you absolutely can be wasteful and choose the more expensive option. That may even make sense when you factor in the cost of the carbon dioxide pollution. We’re not there yet, but it could come back around, especially if you implement a high enough carbon tax, which I’ve always advocated for.

I think you can get potentially very long term energy storage via pumped hydro, so I expect that would help as well. But natural gas can also be fired up occasionally on those very cloudy days when the wind is also not blowing. The pollution might not matter if you offset it via other means or you use green hydrogen or ammonia or something to that effect.

Since we already have a lot of natural gas power plants, we might not need to build any more, just maintain the more efficient ones in working order.
I would certainly consider Geek Squad blue collar type work.
That is very easy to say if politics has little or no relevance in your particular life. Understand that other people have different experiences.
What's interesting is that this actually represents the point in time where the NeXT people in charge started to realize that they didn't know everything and stopped resenting the idea that some of the classic Mac ideas were actually valuable to developers.

Prior to 10.3, there was no really adequate built-in replacement for some use cases of the classic Mac OS Resource Manager. You either compiled sqlite into your Mac app or used some often inferior solution. Sometimes plists were better! Sometimes really not, even with all of the limits of the classic Resource Manager.
I've always thought of it as such... but it probably falls into that borderline between the two.
I would love to see the estimates you're talking about because, as I said (and linked) above the estimates I've seen are much more dire!
Self Hosting your own compiler traditionally was the "end-game" of making a compile-able language.
It's a sort of proof of fitness that the language can literally stand on its own.

This article about Zig achieving self-hosted status in 2022[0] points out that they gained many advantages at the cost of a lot of time and effort through this process.
Incidentally, they decided to self-host while also supporting LLVM because of deficiencies in LLVM (mainly speed and target limitations).
This flexibility includes a separate "C" backend to compile Zig to C in order to target for example game consoles that require a specific C compiler be used.

> You say that like it's a critical goal of the Rust project rather than a trivia item.

In my opinion, you are overly minimizing the potential benefits to Rust and the Rust community for Rust to be self-hosted.

Of course, practically, right now it doesn't matter because most people are more than happy to use the already working system.

[0] https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-self-hosted-now-what/
Didn't Trump kill this?

I went through job corps as a teen. I was going through a rough time and they set me on a better path.
>A rising tide lifts all boats, and that is what has borne out by historical fact for capitalism.

This also misses that it does so by FORCING said highest boats to pay the state/federal taxes in which are used to ensure those with sinking boats don't turn into pirates to stay alive.

>The mega-ultra-rich (the top richest few thousand people in the world, like you said) aren't piling vaults with gold, Scrooge McDuck style. Their wealth is the productive assets they own, almost always companies that generate value for consumers.

Because we incentive investment. If we did not there would be plenty of ultra mega rich sitting on piles of gold pretending they were dragons.

Every damned discussion I see about this tries to pain everything in a binary when it's a far more complicated topic. The wealthy are far better off putting some sizeable portion of their wealth to ensure society works because it creates a feedback cycle where both their wealth, and the gross wealth of the society increases, and the society is one that is generally safer to take part in.
Thier losses decreased so yes. They are launching at an unbelievably cheap price compared to anyone else on the planet.

They are still heavily investing in starship and starling though so that is a large pot of why they are running at a loss
The Titan Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal
I like fun domains that just make sense :)
We use vault as a framework that associates authentication with secret engines via a policy framework. The Secret Engines could be AWS, PostGres Database, PKI, SSH Certificate Signer, Key value stores, etc... and the Authentication Framework might be LDAP, OKTA, or plain tokens. The Policy framework is pretty dynamic and has many thousands of possible policies mapping various authenticated entities to various authority (read, list, write, etc...) to various secret engines. Combine that with the syntactic niceties of template-rendering integration with the chosen secret-store, and maybe some clever stuff around single-use token wrapping - and I think of all of those features as belonging to a single product.

I'm relatively new to this field - and see tons of Vault at colleagues companies, and have friends who run/support Conjur (Enterprise more than cloud). Those are the only two secret-management framework/products I'd hear of - so was interesting in knowing what else had mindshare.
I also wrote a post inspired by this post: Oops, You Wrote a Database!

https://dx.tips/oops-database
TL;DR: someone reported a security issue for DVWA (for those that do not know what it is: the only role of DVWA is to intentionally implement vulnerabilities for learning purposes; it is never employed for delivering services or functionality to end users). It seems it's disputed: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-39848
here! https://dx.tips/oops-database
Confidence in Americans institutions. is at an all-time low.

The America of today is like a literal different country compared to the America of 1960's and before.

Its becoming a very low quality of life place for the average America teetering towards 3rd world levels of inequality with minimal social safety nets.

If you call Britain first world country, they're way worse than America.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-...

another interesting collection of data:
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Combination square blades are normally plain carbon steel, not stainless.

Actually, almost nothing in a wood shop is stainless because it sharpens poorly[0] compared to O1, A2, or any of the other tool steels you'll find in a wood shop.

[0] Yes, I realize that stainless and carbon steel are two whole classes of alloys, all with different characteristics. Based on my experiences with kitchen knives, I'll stand by my claim that at least the common ones sharpen poorly compared to the common carbon steel alloys.
>I also don't understand how it's not a conflict of interest to award his own company that contract?

This kind of inside dealing is just the status quo in american businesses today. Every CEO is on the board of the companies where their board members are CEOs. Really easy to get your board to approve a comp increase when they know you will do the same for them.

Big business is a social club and you ain't in it.
It doesn't seem that the law makes it illegal to use a browser that bypasses the block, unless the content was already illegal.
> the system will need to change. I believe this can very well be the start of the return of pen and paper and non-digital essays under the watchful eyes of teachers.

Nah, in reality it'll just result in sales of heavily locked-down test-taking kiosks with all manner of UBA enforcement to school districts by shady vendors. The solution to technological problems is only ever more technology.

My solution would be to fuzz the students into producing hallucinated answers. Bullshit the bullshitters-- ask them questions that are impossible to answer and see which ones complete the assignment. Anybody who completed the assignment fails. The ones that couldn't finish, you give partial credit based on their effort, and grade on a curve. We were never supposed to be testing students' ability to regurgitate trivia. They're not training to be Jeopardy contestants.
Yep, Griffin even shared the plenary talks with Musk when he gave the famous Mars Society announcement about going to Mars,
https://marspedia.org/images/9/99/2001_TMS_Conv_Sched.pdf

They were very close. Elon named his first born son Griffin.

Mike Griffin is all about putting (eventually) hypersonic weapons in space and resurrecting Brilliant Pebbles.

He was the early advocate for reusable launchers https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/may99/r... and the Falcon name came from his DARPA Falcon Project.
You are giving members of congress way too much credit. They don't care about the moon one bit, SLS is just a jobs program
The evolution of complex grammars: Grammatical complexity of 1,314 languages
Is everyone suited for military service?
If you think that all of the freshman that lived in the dorms went to every class, much less showed up on time for every class, I've got some beachfront property in Arizona to sell you...
No, you're wrong, I your local trillionaire am totally allow to buy up all the housing on the planet and let you rats sink! There is nothing that could possibly go wrong with this idea, it's what pure capitalism demands!
They can only capture the demand for orbital launch. The Russia aggression in 2022 helped a lot, as SpaceX took 'free' market share, and their superior (or rather, inferior) costs gave them the majority of commercial launches from every country except Russia/China, and they will also probably get most Nasa and US allies (except EU) launches.

I'll say they will cap at 8-10B revenue (+inflation).

But this year, SpaceX will
This is true, but the option is there if you want to offload the ops and servers to a cloud provider.
Weird how no one noticed this like 10 days ago... did Google not promote it?

(Well almost no one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37044844)
This isn't really fair. All of Android, the Go programming language, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Big Table, Kubernetes, V8, Chrome are all very good engineering, software that stands the test of time and is likely to remain in use for decades. It's not garbage. They're great at libraries, plumbing, infrastructure layer tooling that enables Internet scale.

What they aren't good at is consumer-facing web services with graphical frontends, at least since Gmail or so. Even there, businesses seem to like the G Suite.
a few million dollars works out to a surprisingly small amount of time when you add overhead.

Call the bug fix a development team of 20 people taking 3 months end to end from bug discovery to fix deployment. You'll probably have twice that much people time again in project management and communication overhead (1:2 ratio of dev time to communication overhead is actually amazing in defense contexts). Assume total cost per person of 200k per year (after factoring in benefits, overhead, and pork), so 60 people * 3 months * $200k/12 months = 3,000,000 USD.

It takes a lot of people to build an aircraft.
Not all are, but there has always been a vocal subculture like this.
The ultimate "the code is the documentation" is "the compiler is the language spec".
> some pretty-reasonable estimates put the total cost of NASA's "Space Launch System" at ~$5B per individual launch.

SLS is bad, but it's not quite that bad.

A full launch of SLS + Orion is ~4.1B. A launch of SLS without Orion (a theoretical cargo mission) is "just" ~$2.8B.
I found the climb up the cable to the summit scary enough as it was. I can't imagine what you'd do encountering a bear on there.
Lol - if you study libertarianism deeply, you'll find out most of these edge cases you think a centralized government is needed can be provided by a free market. In the Private Production of Defense, Hoppe argues that property owners and businesses can buy covergae from insurance agencies who will then have a vested interest in keeping their houses and communities crime-free.

Likewise, in a contract republic (or a charter city) individuals will agree to a neutral third party to arbitrate between them if they ever have a disagreement. This can be anyone from a spiritual authority they both respect, an authority in their industry, or a private court that's built a reputation for fairness, promising to pay the private court a percentage of any arbitration settlement they bring before it.

And if the court as much as makes one unfair ruling, it will drive away new business from parties who want a neutral third party. In a contract republic, individuals will be free to have their case judged by any judge, as long as both parties agree beforehand.

Opening the justice market will make sure crime gets punished, expedite justice, and reduce its cost.
The SLS is designed to reach political goals, not financial targets.
> The amazing part about examples like that is people read them, check that the compiler really does work on that basis, and then continue writing things in C++ anyway.

That isn't idiomatic C++ and hasn't been for a long time. Sure, it's possible to do it retro C-style, because backward compatibility, but you generally don't see that in a modern code base.
Thanks for sharing this. I am reminded of the talks by Nickolas Means (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xQeXOz0Ncs)
Whoops! We'll fix this right away. Good catch, thanks for the heads up!
Incredible viz.

I've experimented with zillions of 3d graphing layouts, usually in the context of PDM/ERP for manufacturing/logistics. Couple of roadblocks I've encountered that are also obstacles here (although he does a MUCH better job than I did in overcoming them, including dynamic distance between nodes, which I can't get away with, sad to say)

First is parallax, the phenomenon of things appearing larger when they are closer to the observer. What this means is that the node size CAN'T be significant in a 3d network unless the perspective is set to orthographic / isometric - because it's going to screw with parallax. How can you tell if the node is actually larger, or if it's just closer?

Second interesting thing about 3d networks is how the (Levenshtein or whatever parm) distance resolves in 3d space, and how that's going to be legible given that we don't have a fourth dimension to stick a camera in. On a 2d surface, the distance-driven force resolves in a 2d vector, so that looking down on it from above, no matter where the force vectors go, all the nodes will be theoretically visible. If you just plot plain distance as a force into 3 dimensions, just using geodesic or straightest line distance, the most tightly gathered nodes will disappear, i.e., be completely occluded. You won't see them!

One possible resolution for this problem, I've found, is classification of distance and assigning this class / category to a specific axis. For example, X axis can be time, Y axis can be a single vector (like, say, military / civilian adoption of a particular dual use part number, expressed as n), and Z axis can represent actual "real" distance (based on tokens, references, "where used", and whatever other factors, either all of them or some of them). This gives you structure where dimensions in the data viz are immediately significant, and simple isometric distance doesn't pile all the nodes in front of each other because they share the same space as the audience.

The takeaway here is that a 3d graph can't just use the same parameters as a 2d graph. The data has to be summarized differently so that the graph remains meaningful. Nothing WRONG with just dumping distance into straight 3d distance, but from the perspective of visual storytelling, it's not optimal.

Also, use isometric cameras. Sure, it's very pretty to have a camera swoop and dive, but it's not going to tell the data's story as well as an isometric camera. (Yes I know I am misusing "isometric" here, but it's the word most people recognize).
Bite-size Otterize: moving fast and (never) breaking things
What do you mean separate authorization logic? There are many layers to auth and usually they act as interceptors in request that go very fast. If you have blanket permissions to list, you are able to list resources you have access to... that's trivial. However `Blog` resources might have explicit deny policies on them as well, so yes those are also evaluated. Not sure how else you'd expect it to work sans caching like current state of resources and access.
Perhaps someone can write the inverse version of this post?

"Managing difficult managers"
Where did I say I thought that?

Although most do, because of the supervision. The "party problem" doesn't really start until sophomore year. Unless you're in a frat or sorority. Those count as "dorms" for the requirement, and are notorious.
I think most people focus on bringing back far-right people to the platform, making the application inaccessible to logged out users and the failed attempts at Twitter Premium or whatever it's being called.
You can use a calculator: https://www.unitsconverters.com/en/Mt/S-To-Gb/S/Utu-6007-376... - enter in 5600 MT/s and get 44.8 GB/s x 2 channels = 89.6 GB/s

I have a 7940HS on my desk now and the Memtest reports the same number.
Code: https://github.com/google/generative-ai-docs/tree/main/demos...
i actually did this its not for me they do let you allow live in dorms which i find is cool.
if you live in california their is also a program called

california conservation corps
https://ccc.ca.gov/

its like this but much more cooler i think
i was about to move in but due to health reasons of my own i couldnt :(((
There is no lesser GPLv2.0, you need a custom linking exception there too.
A plugin manager for the asdf version manager
People say this, but it hasn't been my experience in practice—the worst, most complex codebases I've seen have been in Python and Java.

But I guess they look simple and uniform at a superficial, syntactic level. If you can't follow that it's your fault, if you can't follow Lisp code it's Lisp's fault...
I care because I can't tell the difference between an LLM summarizing news and blogspam.

We've been living in a world where people read news articles, then wrote almost the same article on their own website to sell ads. It's been a standard business practice for a decade now, what's so special about LLM based blogspam? The end impact is still the same, people reading the blogspam instead of the source
> (the US for example is prescribing record levels of antidepressants)

I would argue that this is mostly very (too) efficient marketing and sales though, cynical as it sounds.
Does that invalidate the analogy?

The point I'm trying to make is if you rule these behaviors illegal, then you're necessarily making intelligent AI illegal, because humans are capable of the same behaviors.
You missed those years when TSLA was being shorted and when it was ok the brink of going under. It’s easy to hate but going public is two edged sword.
> But not allowing their own citizens to access content produced in that problematic country smacks of Soviet-style cold war isolation.

Nobody is talking about that, though. Almost none of the content on Tik-Tok is produced in China. They're just talking about banning _the corporation_ from operating in the united states.
The only person that has to lie is Musk. That's why SpaceX is run as an autocracy. Everyone else drinks the Mars Kool aid. People who have been around a while connect the dots.

To be more precise, the company is run by the DoD with significant technical and financial assistance. Elon is the main conduit between those deep resource and the rest of the company. He regularly meets with all teams to ensure they are aligned with "higher purposes".

To be even more precise, Elon is a front-man for a right-wing multi-decade program in American hegemony and actualizing it's crowning achievement--the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Creating a configuration file? I am afraid to inform you that you have started writing a compiler. What's the only way to avoid this? Your software not being successful.
According to that datasheet peak temp should be above 245C for at least 20s.
I read this as sarcasm.

So far I've seen and tested quite a few development methodologies, including a few flavors of Agile, and I've yet to be convinced of their usefulness.

We've been building software for more than half a century, but I think that the true nature of the beast is still not entirely understood.
Static initializers, and bytecode verification make it much harder to get fast application startup.

Class loaders, reflection, all methods being virtual, and iteration going through an interface make it much harder to get good performance with the complexity and warm-up time of a JIT.

Type erasure and single polymorphic dispatch makes the JVM's object representation a weird fit some languages.

UTF-16 strings are just awful.

Oracle's business practices rightly scare people away from wanting to build on top of anything they control.

The JVM is a very impressive technology, but it's also almost thirty years old and we've learned a lot since then.
"Crappy addictive content" shouldn't be illegal just like junk food shouldn't be illegal. People can make their own choices about what they consume without the government making decisions for them.
Also some refrigerants like R290 are flammable, so right sized leak with right mixing and spark can be cause of fire or small explosion.
Same at my young son's university. They looked out for each other, if somebody didn't show they'd check in back in the dorm, see if everything was all right.

Probably different at a state school, where kids are marking time until the job market. This was a private school in a small town upstate. Kids had a sense of purpose.
My ex-gf's sister went through this and lasted until a week before the end when she decided to get into a fist fight with another girl at the program. They immediately sent her back home and she lost everything she had gained. This ending up also eventually being the catalyst for losing her kids to the system.

I personally do not see why job training should have anything like an age requirement. If you're old enough to be on your own, and you need assistance, then assistance should be made available to you.
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Can someone explain what this does under the hood? Did find the text on their website very helpful. (Also, I don't know Rust)
It was targeted at the kind of person that is submitting or upvoting this kind of article to this website.
Dammit! Every time I try putting together an Ikea bookshelf, this happens!
The whole situation feels - as a total outsider - pretty bikesheddy. The lower the real world stakes, the higher the tension.
While deterministic execution for concurrent/distributed systems is great, there's also value in fuzzing the timing and order of asynchronous events to reveal race condition bugs in testing.
Oh, yes, thanks -- I read it too literally. It was meant in the sense of "being fruitful".
Do airlines also deduct mileage this way? I'm a bit incredulous.
This, especially when you combine it with pagination, filtering and ordering requirements.

Zanzibar implementations (eg. Spicedb, keto etc) offer functionality for listing resources accessible to a given principal, but as far as I can see none have a coherent solution for filtering and ordering.

The only solution I can see to this is as you suggest maintaining a shadow copy of the relationships in your db so you can answer the question with a regular SQL query. This obviously comes with a lot of headaches, and is the sole factor preventing us from adopting one of these systems, so I really hope I'm wrong about this.