skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in Government R&D microdevice fab for years and it was a lot of fun but hard work. What made it fun is always working on something new and challenging (inventing new processes), but in a relatively low stress environment with a lot of other absolutely brilliant people (like I was dumbest person in the room, all the time, every time).

I would not consider working in a production fab for the going salaries these days... mostly boring work, on-call all the time, in bunny suit most of the day, bean-counters controlling all of the major decisions. Screw that... life is too short and we all die at the end.
EU legislators are experts at coming up with a bunch of good regulations but then cancelling it all out with a hefty dash of blanket, pro-surveillance legislation.
They're probably excluding SteamOS as not a desktop distro (very debatable), and it's not hard to see how including other Ubuntu releases from Other would push Ubuntu up at least another 0.6% to move above Arch.
Unlike the "survival of the fittest" though, It seems like this often turns into a race to the bottom.

If cities/stats were competing primarily based on quality of life/services/infrastructure then that would be great, but instead they often wind up trying to just offer ever more lavish tax incentives.
You aren't wrong, but a lot of the risk of "good code" nowadays is that there is more of it. An added risk is a lot of "good code" is leaning heavily on practices that are not good for performance.

I don't want to push for lax testing standards. And I generally prefer modern build practices for programming. It is hard to take a lot of criticism of gaming code seriously, though, as games were shipped at what feels like a higher success throughput than most business software.
> if you re in tech your salary depends on advertising money somewhere along the chain

You say that like it's a good thing.
Alignment used to be a big problem with CSS. Before improvements like flexbox and grid, people used to struggle to do basic alignment, like horizontal or vertical centering, or simply spacing items apart. There were a lot of (ab)uses of floats, tables, and relative/absolute positioning used for layout

IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera had their own separate rendering engines. IE was also notorious for running with "quirks mode" out of the box which basically meant that IE was render pages in a non-standard way by default

It was possible to develop things correctly, of course. But resources, both in terms of availability of documentation as well as time, were not as easy to find as they are today
Assuming:

* average 1% asset management fee (modal number if you poke around)

* 0% investment carry (hedge funds get away with charging this, but most asset managers don't)

* 9% effective tax rate (revenues disproportionately go to high earners)

gets you $1.8B lost tax revenues. The 0% carry assumption is very conservative, so the $1.8B is a lower bound. Even so, CA and NY collect about $400B annually. As a first order thing, this doesn't move the needle very much.
You have to be careful of what you mean by "does it actually work".

Does the dowsing find water hidden in a random spot or is the dowser tapping into subconscious knowledge about the land to find it. The parent is talking about the latter.

Look up "Ideomotor phenomenon" in your source. It's right above the pseudoscience bit.
This guy really needs to lay off the

Sudden dramatic sentence.

approach to writing articles. It's not as impactful as he thinks, and really annoying when it's done every 3 sentences.

tl;dr: any contact with other people and any trading with them constitutes "the grid".
This is one of the more exciting things I've seen proposed for C in quite a while. The ability to finally clean up the `intmax_t` mess in a reasonably straight-forward, backwards-compatible fashion would be a huge win.

All the best,
SE kind of has fantastic polish on its own - its new features like cargo rockets work flawlessly IMO, but sure, it has not been cut down to reasonable length.
https://twitter.com/dotcoma
It's unsustainable to do advertising while maintaing user privacy? Someone tell the whole advertising industry from 1950 to 2000 or so.
Interesting how this is forcing these companies to objectively improve their products -- chronological feeds, friends and follows only, etc is what users have been begging for and being ignored, because advertising trash salad is more profitable.

If the long-term effects end up being along the lines of the big social corps withdrawing from the EU, I see that as an enormous win for that economic zone. The presence of these companies, the influence of their products on society and individual mental health have been shown to be overall harmful.
Most people balance the ideal of a free market with other ideals, such as freedom from corporate predation.
Great answers. The only thing I'll add to number 3 is that you can also get the LLM to cite which source it used within the matching snippets. A simple example with OpenAI functions-style declarations looks something like this: https://gist.github.com/czue/81eea58cb718e67be7c57c224800e30...

If you do this you can pare down the citation from everything that returned from embedding search to what the bot actually used to generate its answer.
It's a bogeyman designed to shift the blame of Dropbox's bait and switch tactic to paying customers. Customers are guilty by association to the unpopular thing of the day, cryptocurrencies.

The official blog post by Dropbox is interesting too. They also describe "individuals pooling storage for personal use cases" as "abusive."

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product/updates-to-our-stora...

More reason to drop Dropbox I guess.

https://www.drop-dropbox.com/
The moral framework of those see the subscription price as a donation for a good cause.
TachyonGPT, free AI-generated work items in Azure DevOps
Free tool for those in ADO
While not as authoritative as I would like, a quick search came up with this:

https://www.mhmcpa.com/insights/article/evaluating-economic-...

> States are currently electing to move from performance-based sourcing methods to market-based sourcing, which may prove difficult for PE/VC firms that will be required to allocate management fees to the home states of their investors rather than where they conduct business. The management company may be considered to have economic nexus in a state where its fund’s investors are located if management fees are allocated to those states and economic nexus thresholds are exceeded.

https://rsmus.com/insights/services/business-tax/state-nexus...
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Isn't there any PPA for Debian with proprietary drivers, for example for aforementioned Nvidia graphic cards?
LTN is really nice, but it is "fun" (for some people, like me) to build a LTN-like network in vanilla before using LTN going forward.

Once you've "figured it out" it's much easier to drop down "smart stations" instead of building them yourself each time.

Just like I recommend players who want to do city blocks build their own blueprints instead of just loading up someone's (even if you later switch to someone's standard blueprint, you'll at least understand the why).

And of course, it's a sandbox game! You could just download a completed map, but there's no fun in that.
Good thing I'm not in tech, then. Pheeee-ew!

edit: but to add some substance:

If you (yes you, OP) are in the online advertising sphere, surely you're at the losing end of many battles, not just this lil EU thing? I'm thinking the ever-growing prevalence of adblockers, tracker-blocking, e-mail trackers being blocked etc.?

For you it must be like a game of whack-a-mole, except your mallet is increasingly smaller, and the moles' velocity is approaching lightspeed
Those two other problems that it does solve could be done in a less centralized way, couldn't they? E.g., add a record to DNS that contains a public key for the domain. Clients can grab that when they are grabbing the server IP address.
Brave is filled with features I do not want or care about and I do not trust it. I am perfectly content with LibreWolf, though I am happy to recommend Firefox to people, too, as for all of its misgivings, I still think it is one of the better options for casual users.

That doesn't mean we're all good, though. Chrome has a lot of advantages by virtue of being a Google product, for casual users, like Chromecast support.
> If you use the internet, or an app, you must protect yourself.

That's easier said than done when it comes to the tracking that enables this sort of advertising. What method do you suggest?

> I assume everyone is a capitalist

I don't think that's a valid assumption. Also, there are many different kinds of capitalists. I'm a capitalist in the most basic sense, being an entrepreneur, but I see a lot of things asserted under the banner of "capitalism" that I disagree with.

> so wouldn't adding laws here somehow subsidize and therefore tarnish the market?

I honestly don't understand what you're getting at here.
Unless the $2T moves to Texas Banks and trades on Texas exchanges (are there any?), The $2T stays where it is and so is irrelevant to the story, just there for the click baiting.
I’m curious: if the water isn’t considered potable, would you want to be watering plants with it? Is the contamination more often bacterial than chemical?
Not mine as far as I know. As a consulting company of course we advertise, but not really to normal people. At least I don't think I've ever seen online ads for services that involve a team of programmers and large sums of money.
I think it's pretty clear from the blog posts that they tried to make trains as simple as they could, and it's as complex as it is now because that's the simplest it can be without having actual errors and bugs.
> The biggest problem I found is that Chrome Manifest V3 requires background.service_worker (they removed background.scripts), while Firefox Manifest V3 requires background.scripts (they never implemented background.service_worker)

It's a work in progress: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1609923

> I decided to keep two foo-manifest.json versions in a manifest/ subdirectory, and copy one to ../manifest.json depending on which browser I'm testing. It's a bit tedious. Not sure if a better solution exists.

Personally, I favor having a build step that produces the final manifest. The basic idea is that you have a common manifest.json + paired down browser-specific files that override the general settings as necessary. It's not a perfect solution, but I think it makes maintenance a bit easier.
I wouldn't mind that, especially wherever behavioural profiling is involved.

You'd call a person wearing a tinfoil hat a crazy, yet we are tolerating what effectively could be considered an effort at mass scale, targeted mind control. It's obnoxious on the less competent end of the spectrum, and an outright violation on the other.

I used to consider advertisements an intellectual equivalent of fast-food; I think it's gone far worse than that, and as individuals, we are poorly equipped to stand up to it. I do understand businesses rely on advertising to stay alive, but without regulation, there just seems to be no end to how much abuse adtech is ready to inflict upon us.
I think this will evolve advertising in interesting ways.

"Ads 1.0" had a viewpoint of trying to scrape every last little bit of data about a user's interests: from their email, messages, calendar, search history, friendships, and discussions. There was a mental model that you can't really know what's going to resonate with a person until you have their life under a microscope. This the "surveillance capitalism" take.

There's a view, perhaps not universally shared, that humans may not actually be as complicated as all that. That if you have a person play a short game, engage in a chat session a few minutes long, swipe on people they find interesting, or even just pay careful attention to how much of a video someone watches -- that discerning their personality and interests is challenging but totally viable.

Let's remember: the Cambridge Analytica debacle didn't stem from a full dump of someone's private Facebook history - it was mainly personality tests that were very quick to complete. It turned out that such a quick & casual test is mostly sufficient signal to be actionable re: how they were likely to vote and how to influence that vote.

In this mode, we'll see the rise of superapps that have rich ways of engaging and rich telemetry to discern your interests without having to "snoop" on you. They'll just engage you directly.

In this way, privacy is preserved nicely but ads can still be well-targeted.
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I think this is a deeper point that really gets to the heart of what's happening. If you or a corporation have some money, where does it reside? Unless the money is in something tangible (briefcase of cash, gold bullion, or real estate), it doesn't really reside anywhere. On the other hand, you do, which is what determines your tax liability.
It's closer to what Oracle tried to do with Hudson.
without online media, computers would be in the sector of scientific instruments
Asian origin here with fairly conservative parents. Raised kids myself and understand how hard it is. It was for my parents but my mum didnt work nor did my grandma so they spent all the time with them and the dads just focused on their work and came home not having to think about anything else.

I'm not saying only Dads should work. But what I'm saying is back in the day 1 person could work and still make ends meet and now 2 people work, we have more hectic lives and no time for kids, plus the cost and no real incentive for having kids. Back in the day societal pressures/religion would mean you would have kids.

Now I can see a lot of people around me asking the question, why bother for all that stress? I feel this is self inflicted in richer countries.
> "These tapes hold 50 TB of production data, and we have about 45 TB in production. Backups and restores will be faster, we'll have fewer tapes to manage for backups"

Sure, if "production" means database. Which is sometimes sensible and sometimes extremely far off.

> than it is to explain the different types of data you need to move to tape, the expected compression ratio, etc.

To some extent, but you mostly just need two numbers. Database capacity and photo/video/audio capacity.
Living near Boston, as my moniker suggests, I have noticed that winters are getting milder and summers hotter. Overall that has not been a bad trade-off.
More people die from extreme cold than extreme heat, so global warming is likely saving lives. The question is discussed at https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Which-Kills-More-People-Ex... .
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> sometimes causes a collapse in living conditions.

'white flight' is not contingent on a 'collapse in living conditions'.

> Later on, if other...

Gentrification does not imply that the region must have /originally/ been primarily white middle class.
Very cool idea, would only be interested if self-hosted options were available though.
It's not sanctions alone. It's the chinese culture of guanxi and corruption that will.

Individualism and exceptionalism is not rewarded.
It’s more like competing to be the most-appetizing wildebeest.
If they do, they likely have to give plenty of notice due to third party providers, and will still have to maintain the old protocol/a for older versions of all the providers.
They have blueprints now, and they are pretty handy.

The game is still in early access, but it is feeling pretty close to a 1.0 product. The next major update is moving the game to Unreal Engine 5.

What I really like about this game is that you can build vertically, a feature afforded by being in 3D. It allows for some truly massive and beautiful factory designs.
So which of the foundations mentioned in the article are you working for? You are clearly not intending to engage in good faith, and defer to smearing techniques.
NixOS and never look back.
Pretty much all companies in China are required by law to co-operate with the government. They don't need a warrant or anything like that. There is no such thing as a truly private enterprise in China.

Plus, as paranoid as the CCP is, they probably have agents in these big businesses keeping track on things.

Hmm, that sounds a lot like the Twitter files story :)
For small fixed-length vectors, like 3D graphics, use tuples. They are contiguous in memory, fast to copy, and fixed O(1) time to access.
The problem is that low quality sites can be monetized easily. No one would create a crappy site if they couldn't earn money from it.
I don't care anything about what drop box' internal decision making process. I was specifically asking about why crypto needs storage that users were using drop box in the first place. Your soapbox rant is boring to me and unappreciated
That's exactly what I've been looking into lately.

Did you have any specific discs in mind?

I recently bought "Sony Blu-ray BD-R XL 128GB", but I couldn't find any info whether its organic or inorganic.
Mental Model of Prisma Migrate
Alice shows her project to Bob. Bob comes up with some mostly-unnecessary criticism of it as a way to shoehorn in a mention of his own project.
> without online media, computers would be in the sector of scientific instruments

Computers were already common household items before massive online advertising even existed.

So forgive me if I don't find your arguments convincing (and it's not just because of this specific argument).
Why oh why didn’t they add a dash to the GitHub org name? Is it too late to fix that or will be squinting at the repo owner for years to come?

opentffoundation

vs

open-tf-foundation
I'm in Toronto, Canada, where 35C summers with high humidity are quite common.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humid_continental_climate

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto#Climate
I really think you need to study more history.... there are massive chunks of what was once fertile land in Iraq that will never be cultivated again. Humans had settled and cultivated it for millennia, but salinization has ruined the dirt.

Humans moved away from there and now depend on other land. It was 'easy' back then because the other land was empty. But uh, we've ran out of that empty land. As we burn up more land with climate disasters, over farming, and land destruction via building and run off we aren't getting new land back. These are not short term problems like wars. These are problems that last at geologic time scales.
>> Normally, when a site changes URLs, you can use a redirect to send visitors to the new address. But, if the old address is HTTPS, that doesn't work: the old address will display a misleading security warning instead of redirecting.

> That too is an outright fabrication. I just tried a 301 redirect from HTTPS to HTTP and it worked fine, on up-to-date Firefox, no security warning. Maybe the author promised to never get rid of TLS with a `Strict-Transport-Security` header? Don't do that?

I think the author wants to be able to move a site by setting the old domain's DNS to point at the new site's server and have the server 301 all/old domains to the new domain. Which... you can still do, just with HTTPS in play you have to handle certs for any old domain(s) you're redirecting.
> spent fuel is deemed spent in the first place because it's no longer emitting enough heat/neutrons to be worth keeping in the reactor.

It's in a fission reactor and those isotopes aren't fissile, and aren't a huge proportion of the "spent fuel" to begin with. To be useful it has to be separated.

Short-lived highly radioactive substances are commercially valuable as radiation sources. Medium-lived radioactive substances are useful in RTGs (not fission reactors). Long-lived radioactive substances are often fissile and therefore useful as reactor fuel.

But none of them are useful when they're all mixed together, because what they're each useful for is a different thing. So separate them.
We use these for monthly meetings of a non-profit (very small, only 6 board members)
In most cases you can drill just about anywhere and find water. So any approach from random to looking at geological features (which you can gather from seismograph data, if needed set off an explosion in controlled locations...) will find water. The latter approach may find a specific place where a less deep well can work, but in most locations there isn't that much a difference (at least not among the reasonable places to drill your well - if you are willing to pay for miles of pipe you can maybe have a useful choice of location).
The sit-ins were specifically targeted to break the laws they wanted changed. I don’t think many people are protesting laws saying that you can’t stand in the middle of the road.
Overbidding has guaranteed downside. Underbidding has non-guaranteed upside. It’s pretty clear that if you’re playing an iterated game then you always underbid. Of course it’s a different story if it’s a unique item that you really want.
I really liked his distinction between "normal game" and "what the modded players want" - you have a similar distinction in Minecraft and it's important for modded players to realize and remember that the normal game shouldn't be the modded one, they are different markets (and the modded players are the ones who go out of their way to 'get more').
Vault will be last on my list to replace. It's boring and it works and it's integration with K8s is actually much better than it's integration with Nomad.

Eventually though, I'd like to move to AWS Secrets Manager.
Trazodone should not be compared with those other drugs. It is hardly anticholinergic, and it lacks many of the side effects of Seroquel or Ambien. It can actually improve sleep architecture; it acts as a slow-wave sleep enhancer. In addition, it may increase the "arousal threshold" in certain patients with sleep apnea. This translates into less disruptions to sleep overall. [1][2]

Comparing this to something like Ambien- which disrupts sleep cycles and correlates with increased mortality overall- just isn't factual. [3]

Anecdotally, a low dose of trazodone (25 mg) prevents sleep maintenance insomnia for me. You should definitely have a sleep study done regardless. Wishing you some restful sleep!

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30689583/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25719754/

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30353805/
There are three web browser engines, and Brave isn't the upstream for any one of them.
>At least this firmly puts to rest the myth that taxes are somehow proportional to the government services you use.

No one seriously thinks "taxes are somehow proportional to the government services you use" at the individual level. The statement only applies at a societal level.
Release engineer here.

With the exception of the first example (I'm not sure how good it would be at event monitoring like that, though we're absolutely going to try it out!), I think all of these should work. We've tested the daily spend report already.

Give it a shot and let us know how it works for you!
Absolutely - 500 years is far enough ahead that it could have happened more than once!
Sun is a great example of a company that had excellent engineers but a terrible business model. Instead of fixing the business model, they tried to extract as much value out what they had and it ultimately lead to the death of the company.

Terraform is the gateway to Hashicorp and it feels like they're going to lose it.
I too remember people buying 3000 rolls of toilet paper, but it turns out at the end of the day I could still wipe my butt.