skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also ignoring that we have chosen to make nuclear expensive. There are a variety of points on the cost-safety tradeoff curve. We have continuously chosen to push ourselves as far along that curve as we know how to reach, with us moving farther each time a new technology allows it. We have never stopped to ask "how does this amount of safety compare to other forms of power generation" or "how much additional safety are we getting for the cost to implement that safety".
That’s assuming people play more when the download is faster.

And to answer your question: for everybody involved it’s better yes.
If you turn your head sideways and squint a little it looks a little like functional react using SQL syntax to replace JSX
If this is "slavery"... why should anyone care? The idea that they can be forced to work without pay bothers you, but that they can be forced to live in a cage doesn't?
How does that relate to my comment?

It's possible for at least 1 person in any given country to hop on a plane or recruit world experts to come, with enough money, even in Somalia or Afghanistan, which don't have functioning systems of any kind.

I wasn't making any claims to the contrary, if you misread.
The plant is old and past its expected lifetime. As a result it will be more expensive to operate and less safe. It was planned for decommission, precisely because it is old.
The buddhist philosophy (bumper sticker: compassionate skepticism) is very much about joy and reducing suffering. But being ignorant of your likelihood to grow old/ill and eventually die is not a recipe for joy either.
Usually that is reserved for Google IO and Android DevEx talks.

Also the article does indeed describe some examples of what was optimized.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Agree with this last paragraph 100% — I would also highlight that part of the value consultants provide is in helping senior management cut through politics to actually solve problems and encourage cross-functional cooperation.
The article specifically calls that out as “conventional wisdom.”

“Conventional wisdom suggests that richer individuals put more of their assets toward high risk investments, which can result in higher returns. But our research finds that wealthy people often earn a higher return even on more conservative investments.”
You don't need to use Ubuntu. A distro with recent KDE release is better.
It depends. I'd rather go with a venture-baked open-source solution rather than something made by one person in his free time
Do you have a source on that? Everything I've read about Perelman is that he hates the limelight. I can't imagine him running towards such a hype-riddled field.
I think part of the reason Cloudflare is free for personal stuff is to harvest information. Information they otherwise wouldn't get.
> For comparison, the median US household income was $70,784 in 2021

That $79,000 expectation figure appears to be an average, not median, but even so -- given that $79,000 is pretty close to the median income, having that as the average minimum salary expectation sounds completely reasonable and unsurprising.

What surprised me was the gender breakdown. Why do women have so much lower of a salary expectation?
Reminds me of this classic April Fool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_PK1eDQyVg
They said they liked to start their engineers on the assembly line for a few months so they "know what's going on". Um, no, not for me. Found out later that "no" was definitely the right call. What they really liked was having engineers working on their assembly line.
Why Congress is considering a ‘right to repair' law for car owners
I'm not sure we're looking at the same thing, but I fixed an issue with the just intonation transcription. Now, the largest non-transient deviation from 440 Hz scale is 0.14 semitones, caused by Debussy modulating by a third (5/4).
In most of human history, the type of jobs available were relatively stable century to century; today, the types of jobs aren't even stable decade to decade.

The automation of physical labor let us turn to intellectual labor and creative labor. The coming automation of intellectual and creative labor is not like the previous automations of physical labor, because it leaves human jobs no where else to turn to.

CGP Grey's "Humans Need Not Apply" video[1,2] covered this almost a decade ago:

> Imagine a pair of horses in the early 1900s talking about technology. One worries all these new mechanical muscles will make horses unnecessary.

> The other reminds him that everything so far has made their lives easier -- remember all that farm work? Remember running coast-to-coast delivering mail? Remember riding into battle? All terrible. These city jobs are pretty cushy -- and with so many humans in the cities there are more jobs for horses than ever.

> Even if this car thingy takes off you might say, there will be new jobs for horses we can't imagine.

> But you, dear viewer, from beyond 2000 know what happened -- there are still working horses, but nothing like before. The horse population peaked in 1915 -- from that point on it was nothing but down.

> There isn’t a rule of economics that says better technology makes more, better jobs for horses. It sounds shockingly dumb to even say that out loud, but swap horses for humans and suddenly people think it sounds about right.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
[2] (transcript) https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/humans-need-not-apply
Poor people don’t have money to invest. At best, they squirrel a little bit away in a savings account and earn a low interest rate that maybe matches inflation if they’re lucky.

Rich people invest in stocks. Richer people also invest in private equity etc.

The results should surprise no one.
You should avoid using git for storing music unless you use git-annex or git-lfs.

Git is storing at least two copies of files: one in your working tree and one as a zlib compressed blob in the object store.

It may also store more copies if, for example, you updated embedded metadata and then have to recommit the file.
Latin1 does match the Unicode values (0-255).
Oh wow, didn't realize 512 can already be factored. Thanks for this.
I worked at an MBB for a few years. With CS background, mostly on digitalization topics.

Never before did I spend so much energy into truly trying to solve the problems our clients had. More than once, our recommendation was to go along with an idea that was already present within their organisation (presented sharply and as factual as possible).

But it also happened that we recommended going a completely different way to whatever their CEO, the VPs, middle managers or employees wanted, because we discovered they were so entrenched in their way of thinking.
I am grateful to have had the privilege to do this work.
The visual aspect is a bit annoying, but in an era of insane reputation inflation, I think 5 star % makes more sense than average rating.
Why lifeless AI is not intelligent (2021)
You exclude LLC but Irvine Company LLC is a multi billion dollar company (wholly owned by someone worth $15.8b) that has hundreds of buildings and tens of thousands of units (maybe over a hundred thousand, counting is hard).
Why would Valve do this for a trillion-dollar walled-garden?
Sure thing. Well done!!
Steve Jobs, whatever else you want to say about him, had charisma. It's a big part of why he was successful. So that's kind of the point. He had an ability to take a message like "trust me bro, it's awesome" and say it in a way that it would resonate, and that ability was most of the secret sauce of being Steve Jobs.
Java nowadays does the same.
Mac is just another tightly closed platform, Valve could get squeezed from by Apple at any time. There's just no reason to invest in it.

If you can afford a Mac, you can afford a Steam Deck.
This is very true. The more ambitious the scope is, the more difficult it is to provide a bid in that format. Also, expensive engagements are priced on perceived value anyway.
Remember that every company, like every interviewer, is trying to put their best foot forward during the interview process.

You can never expect them to be on any better behavior, so expect this as your top bar for your relationship and you'll not have many surprises.

As a corollary, that means anything that looks like a red flag is probably an iceberg.
I think the 1880s person might have an easier time with smartphones.

Tell them we figured out how to bind souls from beyond the veil into magic mirrors, and they'll immediately understand how it can show arbitrary images, video, sound, simulation.

Show a smartphone to someone from 1950 who just saw the atom bomb a few years earlier and might have read Foundation — where Hari Seldon is introduced as being so mathematically inclined he not only has a calculator, but has used it so much the numbers have worn off the buttons — and they won't understand how a device the size of a single vacuum tube can create novel art in the style of the great masters (or whatever Spock's line was in the episode where they met an immortal who had actually been many of the great artists in Earth's history; gen-AI is certainly already causing upheaval, we have yet to find out if this will end up with something analogous to the way the industrial revolution lead directly to the invention of Communism), and best everyone at chess, and speak 40 languages (contrary to what you say, I believe this alone has changed the world significantly), and take photographs (let alone video), and have a built-in library of tens of thousands of books (true story: I got my dad a 1 gig USB stick at his request, when I gave it to him my gran asked how many books it could store, I said "about 600 the size of the Bible" and she was incredulous).

Society may have learned a lot in that time, but it's been a very long time since any one of us saw the whole thing.

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And if you do the same with medicine rather than hand radio, you get most DNA research from double helix on, successful organ transplants, the end of smallpox, MRI, IVF, oral contraceptives, and some vat-grown organs.

What we do to mice would make us seem like either gods or demons, and I'm not sure which.

GM food is pretty significant, too.
InfluxData is Venture Funded company which is in search of sustainable business model. Things have not been doing great for them

https://www.teamblind.com/post/InfluxData-Layoff-jc2cUv8u
https://www.reddit.com/r/influxdb/comments/14vph93/all_data_...

This is the danger with single vendor Open Source projects, which have not yet reached sustainability.
Where's the liability in harmful AI speech? [pdf]
You should check out the WaPo article that originally published his concerns. He frequently makes many errors audibly with a reporter who is trying rather hard to see his point of view. I’m not trying to be rude, but he came off like kind of a sucker that would fall for a lot of scammer tactics. There were usually some form of strangeness such as him deciding when the content limit of the conversation began and ended. Further, he asks only leading questions, which would be fine if transformers didn’t specifically train to output the maximum likelihood text tokens from the distribution of their training set, which was internet text created by humans.

He was frequently cited as an engineer but I don’t think he actually had a strong background in engineering but rather in philosophy.
Clear case of you’re using it wrong

I don’t know how you expect a designer to fill 27” with an article. Surely they could add several columns just for you, though, a great investment of team hours.

There are very few types of websites that benefit from all that space and it’s usually video and photos.
The Simplest Walking Robot: A bipedal robot with 1 actuator and 2 rigid bodies
I once read that in the olden days, one would work away on a machine for some time, and when evening came, you'd start the garbage collection process to write all relevant data to tape, from which you'd start again the next morning.
I thought right, then. wmf said there was little incentive. I assume they have these sort of incentives for consumers and not just businesses?
I think we're well past that point ;)
Perhaps, but this has little to do with it.

In what scenario is user-auditable traceability of firmware images anything but a good thing?
Yep. It also really depends on your hardware.

In my experience, I had no problem playing Overwatch 1 at 144fps through Proton on my 1050ti.
SHOULD is a recommendation, not a requirement, and it refers only to newly-defined header fields, not existing ones. The text implies that 8-bit characters in existing fields are to be interpreted as ISO-8859-1.
This is immensely helpful, thanks.

Will MergerFS mount points behave the same as on the host inside of a docker container if passed as a bind mount?
One of the slowest parts of boot-up is memory checking, where the speed has increased exponentially, but so has the size.
Such citations are not valued by $FIELD (for most values of FIELD). Only citations of published papers count.
I love on the one side that Google takes security serious. On macOS, Windows and Linux I can easily set up a device in a way that makes it (a decent passphrase required) all but impossible for any attacker to retrieve the data on the device or modify the OS if the device is at rest. LUKS/Bitlocker/FileVault encryption and UEFI Secure Boot (x86)/SIP (Apple) make sure of that.

The problem is that way too many mobile applications these days take extraordinary difficult steps to make sure it's impossible to exercise the freedoms granted by the GPL in practice. If you "root" your phone, it's a constant game of whack-a-mole to keep banking, Netflix, Google Pay and other applications running.

On top of that it's impossible to put a new root of trust in place... I don't want a secure boot warning message if a firmware is running that I flashed on the device, I want it visible when someone else placed a manipulated firmware on it. And that point applies to Apple just as well.
I wish someone at microsoft would do this for o365. Losing 2-5 seconds any time I click a link is painful.
10x? More like 2-3x
“Present-day AI is still not truly intelligent, not because it is made of materials and building blocks that are different from those of the human brain, but because it is designed to solve the problems chosen by humans,” Lee writes. “If AI is truly intelligent, it must have its own goals and seek solutions to any problems for its own sake. AI is built to improve the well-being and prosperity of human beings rather than its own.”
> How do I actually purchase my own copy of music these days?

I buy my music on CDs or through a service like Bandcamp that lets me purchase music directly in a non-DRM lossless format.

I've also had some good luck buying music directly from the websites of the musicians that made it.

> Do I need to purchase a CD, then rip it myself?

That's what I do if I can't find a good encoding for purchase.

> If so, are artists generally still pressing and distributing CDs?

A lot are, yes, but it depends on what sort of music you're into. Another great source, if you like small indie bands, is to go to their concerts and buy the CDs they always have for sale there.

> I recall Amazon Music used to have a "Download mp3" feature, but not sure if they still offer that.

They do, but don't do that. Their MP3s are poor quality (and you don't want MP3s anyway. Look for something lossless like FLAC).
Placing windows side by side is the correct usage of the available space, I hold no qualms against you.
“That is true today. Will it be true 50 years from now?”

Almost certainly, unless the “we prefer everyone equally poor” brand of politics succeeds. The most insidious belief is that the system is some how rigged against you no matter what you do. It just isn’t true.
The answer I get from people working at market makers I’ve talked to is that they provide liquidity (so you can buy or sell a security immediately rather than waiting minutes or hours?) and decrease volatility.

An example is onions futures; see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act and check the onions price history: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU01130216/ compared to a commodity where futures trading in common, like corn: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PMAIZMTUSDM where there are price swings but the volatility and frequency of the swings is lower.

I’m a layperson, not involved in finance, but this is the value add I most commonly hear about.
You suggested that in your previous comment, and I explained already why I don't think that's a good idea: it's liable to cause your alternative suggestion to get ignored and proliferate bad practices.

If someone has a genuine desire to help, then they also inherently have an interest in making sure people don't continue down paths which are likely to lead to more problems in the end. Otherwise, you might end up spending more time supporting the follow-on issues created due to the misapplications of your own advice than you spent providing the support in the first place, which would not be an efficient way of helping.
While on the topic, I think EUPL should become the default license for open-source projects in the business context. It's a weak copyleft license (OSI and FSF approved), so it does not strike mortal fear of "viral" license spread on business partners. Similar to EPL, MPL, and LGPL, it creates an obligation of sharing back the changes made to weak-copyleft licensed portion of the code. Finally, EUPL closes the SaaS loophole, which is similar to a non-existent Affero LGPL license.
Let's pretend you can. What would be the point? I'll crop it slightly differently, and copyright it too.
Exactly, I have some of the kind that actually have a visible yellow tint and blue reflect -- I get eyestrain after a long time, but without them on the crappy monitors at my old job I got eyestrain within one hour, and my phone was unusable at the end of the day.
Seems like definitely a CYA move. Some things seem intuitively 'right' but following that intuition isn't always necessarily the best move. But right or wrong, many folks want a CYA card, and hiring external consulting group is usually it.
Housing activists and unions found common ground in California
I don't see that as a bad thing. Stack Overflow only wants to focus on questions that have a verifiable answer. Other types of questions still matter, they just don't matter on Stack Overflow.
That makes sense.

I agree that it's must be a standard understanding among statisticians that one of these interpretations is implied (although maybe given what happened with the Monty Hall problem, it's not really so standard?). It's legitimately interesting that these two different interpretations result in different answers, but I feel that it is rather confusing to tell an outsider of the field that 1/3 is "the" answer and that their intuitions are wrong -- when actually it's just one conventional interpretation.

The Monty Hall problem is often understated, and for example the "intuitive" answer of 1/2 (i.e. that switching doesn't matter) can be restored if we assume the host himself didn't know where the car was and just happened to reveal another mule by chance. The assumption that the host knows where the car is is often not mentioned explicitly. Now it's just convention that in other such scenarios that there should be a similar understanding.
Isn’t this more of an example of “suicide by cat”? My cat gets dive bombed by crows occasionally but I think they are mostly playing on both sides…
Cygnus made it work. Long way from those origins to the redhat or hashicorp of today though.
You've got to go way more than 100x. An 80x24 character screen used 2K of memory. Running two 4K monitors today uses 50MB of memory.

That's 25,000x more usage of memory for the interface alone.
This happened several years ago with a registrar I had at my domains at called RegisterFly. Upper management fraud and fighting led to the company spiraling, ICANN accreditation getting canceled and the site shutting down. ICANN transferred all ownership over to GoDaddy at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RegisterFly
A pretty bad faith assumption that turned out to be factually incorrect. The OP elaborated in another comment that them and their friends that had issues with visas were from Russia. I am fairly certain that they are more likely than not to pass that "test" you referenced.
Indeed Launches 'Job Jukebox' on Spotify
Obviously gimmicky, but fun.
Anti-obesity drug improves associative learning in people with obesity
I think most zoning regulations came as a backlash to the crime waves in the 60s/70s and were intended to keep "safe" neighborhoods "safe". This uses house prices as a tool to separate people into "desirables" and "undesirables" (roughly). China (and the former Soviet Union) did/does it more explicitly via the hukou system - if you don't have a hukou, you can't live in a given city nor attend the school/use the city's resources.

The process in the Soviet Union might not have involved financial capital, but it involved human capital (i.e. if your profession was not "respectable", or if you were ever convicted of a criminal act, you might not receive permission to get an apartment (or even a room) in a top tier city like St. Petersburg or Moscow)
I run pipewire and let me offer some generic tips:

* Make loopback devices that are always there for headphones/mic -- software doesn't handle connection/disconnection well

* Keep all your processing in carla (i load it with systemd as a user unit on login)

* You still need some way to control "pulse audio" (even though it's pipewire provided) for per-app volume control, profile selections, etc, so you probably want pavucontrol for that.
I think you need far more basic practical examples how to play the thing, just figuring out a random major chord was a hassle and I still have no idea how to play some specific chord like for example the most basic C major chord. And if I understand it correctly, moving from e.g. major to minor chord requires transposing the right hand with the left-hand keys?

Of course the instrument having hidden state makes all this far more complicated. Would be neat if the key labels would also indicate the absolute note so I wouldn't need to do mental arithmetic here.
You seem to be trying to replace a basic peer-review of an engineering design that typically involves a paid team with advice from poorly-known, pseudonymous strangers with reputation crowd-sourced from a web site's user-rating system.

Frankly, I think that's asking a bit much. If you want a high-quality peer review of design proposals to bounce ideas off of others and discuss tradeoffs, you need a team. Maybe something like a meetup group or mailing list for a specific technology, programming language, or industry sector. But it goes beyond one-off Q&A, and I can also understand why Stack Overflow, with a goal of becoming a repository of perpetually useful knowledge that is general enough to be useful for anyone into the indefinite future, does not want to host such project-specific discussions.

Why not just develop in the open and collaborate explicitly with other parties also working on the same project? What you're asking for sounds close to something like the various special interest groups and public discussion of improvement proposals you see in things like the Python programming language or Kubernetes, or discussion on LWN about specific challenges the Linux kernel team faces.
Whether this is true today or not, wait a year or two until we're saturated with a million AI spam articles from an explosion of ai generated websites that all cross-reference each other for SEO. If you don't figure out some way to stand out, you're going to be in even more trouble than everyone else
RIP: Computer graphics pioneer John Warnock dies at 82
It's been like 4 months
My thoughts on the 2023 FTC robotics season
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here except some people/companies have different priorities -- and if that's the case then there's room for both VC backed startups and smaller open-source projects.
I agree 2/3, I agree 2/3. The answer to the last question is 1/2.