skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replacing coal with cleaner energy is great. Shutting down coal, blocking natural gas, and ending up with energy shortages and blackouts is terrible.
It's more that Matrix is different to Jabber/XMPP.

In Matrix, your chatrooms synchronise chat history between servers (rather than passing messages around), and that history is replicated equally over the participating servers, a bit like Git.

In XMPP, you pass messages between clients on different servers using a given server as a hub, and clients can choose to back up their message history on their local server.

Which architecture you prefer probably depends on whether you think instant messaging should be about passing messages or archiving chat history.
I don’t think it is. If you pay for software it generally comes with some warranty and guarantee of fitness for purpose.
Except for some of the more exotic ones (phase change wax cooling) these are frequently used in Florida and you still need AC, certainly during the summer. Don’t get me wrong, bad dumb Americans and especially Floridians and all that, but this place is strictly uninhabitable without AC.
This is a surprising assessment given most of the blog post is explaining how to build the type system in a way it can give feedback on all _existing real projects_ already written in Elixir. :)

It is the opposite of optimizing for type theorists and rather exploring how to bring values to the existing millions of lines of code.

Edit: I am the author.
Curious how long it takes this conversation to become about Rust
I'm not sure what you're envisioning, but I'm expecting that to be a full-blown argument with a chatbot aligned specifically to prevent you from not using Edge.
Feels more like incompetence and red tape. Canadian immigration authorities are not the greatest at background checks. I've had distant relatives buy fake credentials in PB and HP to emigrate to Canada and they're now PRs and Citizens
I would imagine that if you are fighting the SEC then $5m isn’t very much?
I'd like to point out that, although it is illegal to put lead in water supply lines in the US, there is a loophole that allows it in hot water lines.

As a result, for certain fittings, most big-box hardware stores only sell the leaded variants, and label them "hot water heater supply line" or something similar.
It's one of the most significant open source messaging systems that exist today. Anyone can audit it at any time.

What more do you want?
Those engineers have been MBA-types in developer clothing for over 2 decades now.

The engineer as hacker hasn't been anywhere close to leadership roles for quite a while. Perhaps ever since the 90s. I don't see a passion for computing and hacking with such people, just for making money and VCs. That's why the end product doesn't even matter to them.
It depends on the type of game, but 360 raycasts per bot is definitely a code smell that warrants a closer look at how the game is being architected.
Yep. This is like Apple mocking Google for not implementing iMessage...

Google like promoting the idea that "RCS is public", which it is unless you want to use all the things that people actually like RCS for, at which point it's "Let's talk".

I actually think Google would license its proprietary RCS extensions to Apple for free (it makes Android more compelling if it can actually talk to iPhones, and might reduce some of the "green bubble stigma" (which is bullshit anyway) associated with Androids, but I can't see how it really benefits Apple to do that...

Anyone who cares about the colour of their bubble in text has the choice of buying an iPhone right now. If they don't buy the phone, they don't care enough to do anything other than bitch, if they do buy the phone, Apple gets a win from the purchase. Implementing RCS seems like a net loss for Apple from that perspective.

There is the marginal gain in security/privacy if some people in a texting social group are on Android and the rest are on iPhones. I'm not sure that's enough for Apple to give up the cash-cow though.
you basically need to recreate the scenes in home assistant and use the hue bridge as as dumb of a bridge as you can. There should be little to no things that home assistant scenes can't do that hue scenes can.

I'll still probably recommend hue light bulbs with the caveat that I don't recommend their bridge/app, compared to the other bulbs I've used they are much more reliable and handle color changes much more smoothly & consistently.
Jet fuel never contained lead. (re: "chemtrails")

Old small piston-engined aircraft are now in the processes of validating and phasing out leaded fuel.

The primary sources of lead people consume will be from industrial pollution, old paint, and old water pipes.
No this is not correct. If someone spreads a rumor and you don’t know that the information is from an authoritative source it’s not MNPI. It’s speculation.

If someone anonymously posts on Twitter that Splunk is going to get acquired by Cisco and you immediately buy options, and you don’t know who this Twitter account is, then it’s speculation. Also it’s no longer non-public information if someone posts it on Twitter.
> we're 10 years away from a world where

...software developers have adapted to the newest tools and started working at a higher level of abstraction, just as we have been doing over and over since the beginning of the art.
Performant GUI Applications
I am going crazy with all the electron-based applications that use several gigabytes of memory without doing anything. What are good options and frameworks for making applications that are performant and low on memory usage? C and Gtk? C++ and Qt? I want to make something like Google Maps, but with decent performance.
"strange"? or "crime"?
It's possible for IQ to be a good population measure while being a poor individual measure. (FWIW, I think proponents and opponents of IQ testing all overstate their cases.)
My experience was different. I did not know it existed before joining a team in Cisco to work on the signalling part. Afterwards when moving to Microsoft I saw how terrible Teams was in comparison. But to this day I would love to get back to Slack if truth be told :)
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?param...

most of the Stewart case was about her actions post the tip. If she’d had just said “my broker told me to sell” she’d likely be good to go (who knows). But she didn’t. She obscured and made it obvious with her actions that she was trying to steal from other shareholders (by acting on information she should not have).
No, the trader bought 260 options. See second photo in the tweet, first row, column "volume". 260 options times $4 equals $1,040 invested, which turned into $475k.
Microsoft maintains their kernels/OSes for that long because people are willing to pay for that support.

It's pretty disrespectful to call Linux's process a "bad joke" when these developers mostly aren't getting paid to maintain major versions for any length of time that you'd consider more reasonable.

Meanwhile, if you do want longer-term support for a specific kernel+OS combo, IBM/Red Hat (among others) will be happy to sell it to you. You may think it's inefficient for each enterprise distro to have their own internal kernel fork that they maintain (rather than all contributing to a centralized LTS kernel), but that's the choice they've all seemingly collectively made. I guess they feel that if they're on the hook to support it, they want full and final say of what goes into it.

Also consider that Windows doesn't sell a kernel: they sell a full OS. In the Windows world, you don't mix and match kernel versions with the rest of the system. You get what Microsoft has tested and released together. With Linux, I can start with today's Debian stable and run it for years, but continue updating to a new major kernel version (self-building it if I want or need) every two months. The development and support cycle for an OS is very different than that of a kernel. You just can't compare the two directly. If you want to, compare Windows with RHEL.

Also-also consider that Windows and Linux are used in very different contexts. Microsoft's customers may largely care about different things than (e.g.) Red Hat's customers.
I guess you disagree with my point that having a disease is different from having the risk allele for it, but I stand by that distinction.

I specifically addressed timing of onset being important in my original comment, because that matters to the person living with the problem.
So you signed up for a bank account with an address that wasn't properly formatted and you're upset at the USPS?

I thought it was common knowledge to, when moving to a new address, check one is using the correct formatting via the USPS online validator.

It's picky because "rd" is not valid. You would know this if you did a simple google search:

https://pe.usps.com/text/pub28/28apf.htm
All except their new wifi connected ones... called Wiz.. watch out for those, much more affordable but really crappy app/setup situation.
Critical race theory explains IQ differences between socioeconomic groups (including races) extremely well.
Toyota upends robot learning: New AI masters complex tasks in hours
C was my first love as an adult programmer. I still enjoy its economy and expressiveness, even though I've written no production code in it for over a decade. So it saddens me, but I agree: it's time to retire C and C++, and put some serious work into migrating security/safety critical codebases to more robust languages.
I’ll call you an unicorn :)

I know they have a free license for super small deployments but haven’t heard of anyone actually using it.
Oh, neat! I hadn't read this, but my hypo is literally case (3). His answer: "who knows?". Excellent.

In my hypo and his, the origin of the private information I've acquired is still business my employer has conducted, so there's a better-than-baseline probability that the SEC would see this as misappropriation --- even if my employer wasn't directly going to trade on this, or if it was hard to trace any harm to my employer, it's still potentially not OK for me to profit from it.
I don't have any links on my lock screen, but some settings links do open in Edge; others open in my chosen default browser. This inconsistency should be fixed, but I'm not sure what a browser choice screen does to fix this issue.
Sometimes I dream of a pseudo natural language configuration language based on the ideas of Inform7

https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_6_1.html

The blog database is a postgres database named "foo" at host "db.example.com" with username "harry" and password "bar"

The thing is that probably needs tool assistance as much or more than any other configuration format would.
A Scanner Darkly is probably the best PKD adaptation
> End user experience though? No real difference,

There is a huge difference. You create work profile with gapps, route it through a vpn and everything just works.

On calyx with its microg even notifications aren't working reliably.
You need a coordinator talking to the zigbee bulbs, in most cases this is a usb-dongle for $20-50. Zigbee2mqtt has a great list of different dongles and their pros/cons. The other functionality of a propriatary hub will be fulfilled by home assistant or Zigbee2mqtt+nodered.
> According to a press release from Bloomberg Philanthropies, this push to shut down coal-fired power plants will push officials to invest in renewable energy and clean jobs.

On one hand, it's better if we get rid of coal than if we don't, and we should do it now.

On the other hand, people who work at coal plants and lose their jobs will not turn around and become solar panel installers or wind turbine maintenance technicians. The most likely outcome is life will get worse for them. We've seen the consequences of this already from the manufacturing sector, and it's not pretty. Drugs, poverty, violence, depression.

I'm not saying we should not close down coal plants, I'm just saying there will be consequences and "they'll all work for clean tech, and live happily ever after" is not a responsible plan.
> inefficient raycasts aren't some sort of pathological edge case.

You're right that raycasts aren't an edge case in terms of usage, but Juan Linietsky's point is that the inefficient path used for this API call is a rare exception to the efficient paths used by the vast majority of the API.
> When it comes to domains where consistency does matter, we just don't do unit conversions. For instance, flight altitude is measured in feet, even when it's thousands of feet, instead of miles. If you're flying an airplane at 30,000 feet, who cares how many miles that is?

Wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliding_flight#Glide_ratio

Your plane is up at 30000 feet and your engines are out. The nearest airport is 47 nautical miles out. The plane has a glide ratio of 15. Will you make it?

It's easy in metric: 9.1 km altitude, 87 km distance.

> Again, even "metric" countries don't commit to the bit here; name me a country where the highway speed limit is in meters per second.

I actually much prefer metres per second. It makes things like kinetic energy calculations easier. If I wanted to know the KE of a 1500 kg, 100 km/h car, I would first need to convert to m/s. Ditto the kilowatt-hour; it needs to die in favor of megajoules.
This would be useful for mailing ballots.
Are there any successful security firms? They all seem to be burning money.
I think it's a pretty straightforward thing: intelligence somewhat correlates with life/career outcomes overall, and it's not linear. Separately, IQ tests are reasonably good, though imperfect measures of general intelligence. Also separately, if you look at careers where high intelligence is needed, then IQ correlates much better.

IQ does not principally measure test-taking abilities or SES. Yes, those correlations exist, but their effect sizes are not nearly as large as a certain political ideologies would have you believe. And simultaneously, it's not as ironclad as the other political ideology would have you believe. It's very reliable as these things go, but noisy at the margin.

EDIT: a sibling comment correctly points out that aggregate effects do not always apply individuals.
But Red Hat and Rust just Roll off the tongue
Dendron is an Obsidian-alike plugin for VS Code.

https://www.dendron.so/
You are correct. The amount "$22,000" purchased options quoted in the tweet is not supported by the screenshots which show 260 options were purchased, for a total of $1,040, which is now worth $475k. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37602079
If anything, I hope we’ve learned that node uptimes are unimportant. It used to be a badge of honor to show some system hadn’t been rebooted in $years. Now that just implies that there’s unpatched vulnerabilities and countless hand-made configuration changes that nobody remembers and that will be lost if the machine dies.

A sign of a responsible organization these days is how short-lived their hosts are. If every machine in an organization has an uptime less than a week, I feel pretty confident in that org’s ability to recover from a disaster. I also know it’s harder for attackers to keep a foothold once in the system, since everything is being constantly updated and reimaged.
This is not in any way the case
I honestly don’t know enough about the theories to dismiss or validate them offhand, but the article quotes an official as saying that it seems as though the primary issue is that things like ceramic cookware and other household items had more lead in them than initially believed:

> Fuller said part of this "missing piece of the puzzle" was revealed in a Pure Earth report released on Tuesday, which analyzed 5,000 samples of consumer goods and food in 25 developing countries.

>It found high rates of lead contamination in metal pots and pans, ceramic cookware, paint, cosmetics and toys.

>"This is why poorer countries have so much lead poisoning," Fuller said. "It's items in the kitchen that are poisoning them."
Roughly how many shortcuts in other apps like Obsidian would you need to rebind to avoid the annoyance?
Absolutely agree!

If you haven't checked it out, NestedText takes this approach.
So I would expect that warrants would be issued, India and Canada would cooperate in the investigation and sentences would be handed by cooperating judicial systems. There's precedent for cross country justice being served. If this isn't working between Canada and India, it should be fixed. If Canada isn't cooperating where it ought, Canada should improve. I don't know anything about that. But was there an interpol warrant on this person?
my ikea stuff is pretty reliable, they seem conservative on adding features, but if you don't care about those specific features (which you probably don't) they've been pretty great, if not always the nicest design for the buttons/controllers.
Options are legal to sell because in MOST cases (where insider trading is not happening), selling call options is a nice way to get "free money" (*note not actually free) and facilitates hedging and liquidity in the market. It's a financial product like any other.

Let's take a boring case -- that $10 stock is NOT going to $1000 tomorrow, they're not finding a cure for cancer, etc. So 99.9999999/100, if you sold someone the option for $.01, it's going to expire worthless tomorrow. You have 1M shares, you sell the call options for 1M * $.01 = $10,000.

You let some other people place bets on a thing that might (but probably won't) happen, and you get $10,000 just for owning the stock. It's like an interest payment (with some risk).

If the thing DOES happen, you are taking a risk that you'll have to sell your stock for slightly less than if you'd held it, so you're giving up some potential gains.

But in the long run, this is all priced out and balances out (in theory, in an efficient market). You get $10,000 in "interest" but are taking the risk that you might lose some upside in a black swan event, and the buyers are paying a nominal amount to take a bet on the other side. They might have spent $10k in order to possibly make a $billion -- those are risks that some people price and want to take (like a lottery).
Again, hand-waving.

When the question is "how accurate is it to refer to Linux systems as GNU/Linux", and 3.6 billion devices run Android, and probably as many TVs, home internet devices (modems, wifi, etc), don't ship with the GNU userspace, then the answer very well might be "not accurate at all".

In fact, at this point, I would be surprised to learn that there are more Linux based computers running GNU userspace than not running GNU userspace.

In my house, off the top of my head, I can count 7(!) devices that I know for a fact use Linux and don't have the GNU userspace, three that I'm unsure of, and two that do. And, you probably also have more Linux devices in your household not running GNU userspace, than those that do.

As for the compiler? That's a valid point, but I don't think that earns you naming rights :) We don't call it Windows/Visual Studio 11 or macos/clang.
Andor is well worth a watch though
First detections of collider neutrinos generate excitement
Really? 0%? That seems unjustifiably confident.
What's happening to the old Fry's Electronics sites in Silicon Valley?
> It is against the law for holders of nonpublic material information to use the information to their advantage in trading stocks.

The US and Europe differ on how exactly this should work.

In Europe, your view is correct. In the US, it's about obligation. You can trade on material non-public info if you discovered it on your own without doing anything illegal.
Yeah, no true scotsman, I mean no true software developer, would ever do anything like that.

Except Google, Meta and the like do exist.
The marketing division of the Microsoft software corporation defines a Large Language Model as "Your virtual pal who's fun to be with."
> Security is the operating system's job, not the application programmer.

That’s just flat out not true. It’s jot possible for an operating system to be perfectly secure without unduly locking down the capabilities of applications.
An intentional tip, right? Not an "overheard conversation".
Let's say you live in front of the Splunk office, and you see tens of people in suits, a limo with a CISCO sticker, as well as a lot of commotion on the office in front of you. You strongly suspect something is happening, you buy $22k of Splunk calls.

Is that insider trading?
The Implications of Scaling Airflow: From Infrastructure to Python Limitations
Stewart was convicted and jailed for obstruction of justice and lying to investigators, not for insider trading.
Not even close.

There do exist products made for for a variety of Youtube/video/streaming needs, including lighting, and they are niche.

You might think "but there are many many Youtubers/streamers" but in comparison with the overall market for such lamps, they're insignificant in number.

Hue and co (from Amazon, IKEA, etc) are mass market products.
Go is tough to get approved in certain Red Hat markets. Simply because it calls out to github for packages without an audit tool. A lot of finance companies have blocked the use of Golang because of that. Totally fine with Java and their own Nexus. Same with Javascript and their own NPM on Nexus. But they can't see past `go get github.com...`

When they totally could be doing `go get sources.redhat.com...`
I haven't used anything but Hue, but I've been looking to get off them because they're so unreliable. Like clockwork, one or two bulbs go bad every year and will still be dimly lit even when "off", or worse still they will start flickering constantly when "off". It's kind of depressing if something with such poor quality is the most reliable option out there. :(
epic water filter + nalgene 32 oz hdpe bottle is a great, lightweight filtered drinking water on-demand system

filter pitchers are easy to use and a good safe guard against poor plumbing if you haven't had your home water tested
Explain this in more details. The outline I gather of your position is that "the US killed Ben Laden on Pakistani territory so India killed someone on Canadian territory, Canada had it coming for what they did to Ben Laden". Fill in the details.
Prometheus would be an example of that
The police were bad, but the writing was the worst part of that game for me. None of the missions really felt meaningful, and a lot of their dramatic setpieces are strung along on cheesy dialogue and pulp-author logic. The amount of effort put into technical congruity feels nonexistent in the game, which intentionally or not makes it hard for me to roleplay as a competent hacker. People sling 50's greaser slang and cutely pretend it's enough to explain brain implants. The voice acting is largely great, which makes it a shame that so much time is spent zooming in on Keanu and his half-asleep delivery. The tone verges closer to Borderlands than Bethesda, which is concerning considering neither game really set a high bar for self-serious roleplaying.

I don't know what I expected. I had never played a CDPR game before Cyberpunk 2077, but no part of that game really sets a high benchmark for the industry in my opinion. Everything it does feels like it's been done better somewhere else, and none of the storytelling compels me to play along.

/rant
Probably about ten years worth.