skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a frustrating thing to witness, because it was clear there was still so much potential in the situation. I've spent a long time since studying what makes companies successful at scale, and culture seems to be the key piece.

Not even a specific kind of culture, just one that most people at the company feel part of. Many people together can accomplish a great deal more than they could alone, and culture forms the basis of the communication network that allows them to figure out how to work together. Basically, people who trust each other have a lot less communication overhead.

Culture alone doesn't make a company scale, there's a lot of process you usually need, but you can't successfully implement those processes without a shared sense of culture. RIM did a lot of this, where they brought in process experts to improve efficiency across locations. But Waterloo itself was successful, so it was left alone until well into our first round of layoffs, and at that point the culture there had fragmented a fair bit.

I'm very sorry to hear you are going through a similar situation. It may be too late, but I do have one cultural silver bullet to offer:

Storytelling

Companies (or really any group of people) that scale successfully almost always do a fair amount of storytelling. Both in the myth making around their origins, like Steve Jobs and Apple, and in day-to-day employee experience. Storytelling is one of the oldest methods of sharing culture with someone, and throughout human history, the primary one we have relied upon. Telling someone a story helps them know what you care about, both in the content of the story, and the way you choose to tell it, which builds empathy, which is key to trust.

This why some companies fell apart completely when they went remote, because usually people who like each other will tell stories when they are in a room together, but they won't start a zoom meeting to tell the same story.

While I do have some specific processes I've adopted related to storytelling, I've become more and more convinced that ANY way you facilitate storytelling will help you build culture.

So if you have the opportunity, make time for storytelling with your co-workers, and encourage your leadership to do more of it.
I too thought flagging the comment was a bit too harsh so I tried vouching for it, but it didn't get resurrected.

I note that the comment is [dead] not [flagged] [dead], so maybe its state has to do with something else than the content of the comment? Just [dead] is, I think, shadowban.

I checked the poster's comments, but since it's a new account there's very few of them and I can't determine the reason for the [dead] from them.
Great take. Alan Watts described the issue pretty eloquently:

> It's beyond all categorization whatsoever, and so the Upanishads say, “all we can say of it positively is the negative.” Neti neti; 'it is not this, not that.

The above was specifically referring to “god”, however it’s pretty much the same concept. Anything we can symbolize is effectively not the ineffable thing that we want to represent with the symbols
Many countries have tried to boost it, so far nothing seem to work.

It’s a cultural thing and once it shift it doesn’t come back easily.

You would have to convince modern woman to stay at home and have 3+ child and you need most of them to do so.

Without return to traditional values that is not going to happen.
The package-url project provides a spec and implementation for a “package URL”
> but they obviously provide inconsistent performance

No. Unless you're using a "burstable" (overcommitted) instance family, this shouldn't be the case. The performance will be consistent, but you may get preempted before you finish your work. I would keep those concepts separate.
Batteries exist (and are getting better). Most of the intermittent nature of renewables is just solving for the timing issue (e.g. evening when demand is high and the sun goes down), so short term storage is what's most in demand.

Longer term storage is harder (e.g. it's cloudy for days on end), but even then there are renewable storage options like pumped hydro and generation of natural gas from electricity.
Pulling my comment out of a thread because I think it's important: nearly all of this article is plagiarized from years-old sources. Search any sentence with a number in it and you'll find it somewhere else. A few examples:

> At the end of 2021, Portugal became coal-free after shutting down its 628MW Pego coal-fired power plant...

https://www.energymonitor.ai/power/what-europe-can-learn-fro..., March 2022

> In January 2022, 4,085 GWh of electricity were generated in mainland Portugal...

https://www.unav.edu/web/global-affairs/portugal-a-strong-be..., February 2022

> In the same year, Electricity was the 7th most imported product in Portugal.

https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/electricity/r...

> On February 4th, 2022, China Three Gorges (Europe), S.A. notified EDP that...

https://www.edp.com/sites/default/files/2022-02/20220204_CTG..., February 2022

> Unfortunately, Portugal has some of the highest prices for electricity in Europe thanks to taxes...

Not sure the original source, but I found this quote verbatim in several other older articles.

Is this a real newspaper? The author of this article is apparently the publisher: https://www.theportugalnews.com/contacts. Is this is a real person, or is this like an auto-generated ad vehicle? Why is it all in English?

Edit: It does seem to be real: https://web.archive.org/web/20100601000000*/theportugalnews...., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portugal_News (those references are real books). Just kind of a bizarre publication.
The hydro comes from artificial lakes filled by rain and rivers coming from Spain. Rain is becoming less and less. Spain is keeping more and more of the river waters, despite some agreements on this.
The variation in price is crazy, $80/MWH for Atlantic vs. $20-$30 for many other regions?
So in the US, 60% of people buy iPhones and 95%+ buy non ChromeOS computers, yet Chrome is still the dominant browser. How is that of people didn’t make a choice.

And it’s not like Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook who all tried to enter the smart phone market and failed were some poor underfunded startups.
Anyone knows what's the cheapest energy storage technology? Basically, if a typical European country wants to add energy storage sufficient to supply the country for 4 hours, what's the cheapest technology?
> The users are still customers for Google, even if they are not explicitly paying out of their own wallets for the service -- they are free to walk away at any time.

No, that still doesn't make them customers. It makes them a capital resource that Google does not have complete control over. Which is something I'm not sure Google's executives fully grasp.

It is true that there can be customer relationships, in the economic sense, even if the value exchanged is not money on either side of the relationship. But in a customer relationship, the value exchange choice is voluntary on both sides. That is not true in the case of Google and its users; Google's value exchange choices are voluntary (it decides how its search service works and what ads to show the user, and what data to harvest from user interactions), but many user choices are not (users can choose whether or not to use Google search and what terms to search for, but they cannot choose what ads they get shown or what data Google harvests from their search activity).
That debatable. I’ve seen plenty of constructive criticism of government policies on this site.
The key to making breakthroughs in knowledge - either personal or societally - is to choose your battles to a degree.

There is simply too much to master, it’s a very good skill to be able to say “this is fascinating but too far afield of what I need to do”.

Alternately, choosing when to say “after dipping my toe in the water this clicks for me, I’m going to take a risk and go further” is an even harder skill to master.

This is why many people have trouble finishing a PhD dissertation. Play is a necessary step, but play without focus is a ticket to mediocrity.

Databases in particular are something one will run across in nearly any task and 99:100 times one likely shouldn’t dwell too much on what is inside the magic box.
Software is a mess.
>these robots look like American jet-setter and DJ Paris Hilton,

The Black Mirror vibe aside, is there a genuine market for this? Is anyone going to spend their time chatting with the simulacrum of Paris Hilton?

To me this feels as stereotypically Meta as it gets. Technologically impressive but completely inauthentic, like their Horizon VR world that seems dead. If anything it seems like people flock to the exact opposite. Real human interaction even if the tech isn't realistic, VRChat, Fortnite, Minecraft are all more 'metaverse' than this stuff.
You’re not living up to your moniker’s namesake with this comment. As a general matter, people in fact should have enough agency to be able to evaluate a situation and decide to sign away certain protections. There are many exceptions to this, but signing away one’s ability to freely leave a job without consequence in exchange for upskilling at their employer’s expense falls squarely into the principle above.
I wasn't commenting on the speed of ECC memory, although from what I've seen manufacturers don't offer ECC memory modules with a speed as high as non-ECC versions.

Anyway what bugs me about Zen < 4 is that you can install ECC memory, but you can't be sure that ECC is really working on some motherboards.

For Zen 4 at least there's DDR5 with its on-die ECC, but the path to the CPU might still be unprotected.
Never heard that story. It is funny. I have to try out this technique some time. Add an obvious flaw or oddity, which is easy to leave out afterwards, to a deliverable, so it covers up other problems or imperfections.
How American culture is related to my comment?
Perot Systems (later became EDS) was famous for this in the 80s with their college hires.
>Whichever way you look at it, renewables are saving our planet, not our pockets.

In the UK, last year renewables were actually lowering the bills.

Further the article blames the expense on taxes

So this isn't backed by facts or the article itself.

Also the 18% European average sounds low, is that total energy, rather than total electricity?

As for the UK, it's looking like renewables could outproduce fossil fuels for electricity this year.
I'm on of those. For those not familiar with this slang term, "stan" comes from a song of Eminem, an American rapper, and means fanatic.

I'm not seething at all. I'm cheering. Solar and wind are on an exponential trajectory in the US too. I'm am really happy for that.

It does not mean we should not pursue fission. But I'm a pro-technology guy. I can't easily understand how 80 years ago we got to the point of harnessing a source of energy ten million times more dense than fossil fuels, and then we collectively decide to just give it up. And I don't buy any of the arguments of the anti-technology crowd: it's too expensive, it's too dangerous, it's too easy to make bombs. Nuclear technology is indeed expensive, but all sorts of technologies can undergo a Moore's law period. Just look at the rocket technology in the era of Musk. Dangerous, yes, nuclear is not without dangers, but we've learned most of the problem cases and how to handle them. As for the danger of nuclear bombs, yes, that is there, but it's containable, and it has been contained for many decades.
Good ear. She is cofounder of a company that built their own “distributed column store”: https://youtu.be/tr2KcekX2kk?si=ID0qB-O2ucXF4GXC
I read an account a few years ago where an orange juice factory in S. America couldn't figure out what to do with the orange peels. Being filthy capitalist swine, they trucked it out to an arid area that was nothing but scrub, and dumped it.

Fast forward 20 years. It turned into a garden that created its own micro-climate. All sorts of vegetation, including trees, was thriving in it, and the area it occupied was slowly expanding.

It boggles the mind what can be done with the incredible amount of food waste humans generate.

Since then, when I eat an orange, I just throw the peels out into the yard.
It is true the amount of storage needed goes up the higher the percentage of intermittent generation on the grid. There are various models that say it can be done but it requires overbuilding generation and substantial investment in transmission in addition to storage.

It's for sure a hard problem.
I mean, the default of any new company is pre-product-market-fit, no? How else could you start something new? During such an early stage much of your code may be written as a very rough MVP that you're only really using to validate a concept. Sometimes, you're going to just have to trash all of it because the idea was totally wrong and people don't actually care about the problem you're solving.

Those, among others, are the types of cases where spending extra time getting something exactly right (even if just a few hours) is just not worth it.
I am too!

We focus on the United States, so we can have the deepest coverage for each of the regions. In some cases that means were the same as Electricity Maps. In other case, you'll see our data is more real time without relying on estimations.

We have a lot more than generation mix data. For the wholesale energy markets, we also have all the pricing data[1]!

In case you're curious we also have an open source library: https://github.com/kmax12/gridstatus

We'd love to expand, but every new region is hard to support in the same depth as what we currently have in the US

[1] https://www.gridstatus.io/datasets?filter=lmp
I think that another axis to take into consideration is the extent to which audio will originate outside the computer. The needs & desires of people recording actual performances on some kind of instrument (even an electronic one) are going to differ significantly from people working, as they say, entirely in the box.
A monumental achievement, especially when the EU average is only 18%.
I was a devoted Byte subscriber and reader for years. I even bought a poster or two of covers I liked from Robert Tinney. Steve Ciarcia's "Circuit Cellar" was my first read of any issue. Having embarked on an experimental science career by the mid-80s, I was always impressed by how he could present a new, /working/ hardware project every month.
My ninebot scooter (maybe not what you're asking, but it's a Segway product) slows down until it can't carry you anymore. First it just can no longer achieve the maximum velocity, then soon it can no longer reach standard speed, and then you're limping along at 4mph and you can no longer climb any grade without pushing. Finally you're pushing.

It's not particularly usable as a scooter without the battery.
As somebody who grew up as a person and as a programmer in 80s, the problem wasn't purity of the math or the chemicals. The problem was an extremely crappy level of manufacturing quality in everything and lacking facilities in quantity of available technology. I was lucky to grow up in a big city, have educated parents and study in one of the best schools in the country. So I had access to a variety of hardware and software and technology (domestic and imported). Most people however barely had access to programmable calculators, and the only way to actually get access to a PC-level computer would be either work in one of the places where it deemed necessary or build one by yourself (not that the parts would be easily accessible too, you may have to go to a special marketplace, etc.).

Same thing was with information materials - Soviet ones were badly made, severely outdated and rarely available without some kind of special access (you had to know people). I had to translate things from foreign materials (yes, I was lucky to know the right people to gain access to some foreign computer journals), bring books from other neighboring countries (e.g. Bulgaria), etc. As I said, I was lucky - most of my age peers were at best told what the computer is and how one would program it on a whiteboard, if at all.

So yes, by the 80s the Lysenkoist wars were in the past, and actually computers were thought as a way to solve the inadequacies of socialist planning (by then amply evident to all smart people, who were furiously searching for ways to prop up the collapsing system). But general weaknesses of economy, scientific culture, engineering culture, consumer goods manufacturing and in general overall decay of nearly everything (that very soon led to the collapse of the system) ensured that Soviet computer industry was constantly way behind and reduced to badly copying old Western samples, both in the high and consumer ends. It wasn't some one "panic" event that set the Soviets back - it was the inevitable consequence of the overall societal model, and could not have been avoided.

That said, once the USSR collapsed and people could access the world's technology and information freely, people from ex-Soviet countries caught up pretty quickly on the software, indeed - there are a lot of excellent programmers there, though many of them are "from there" already.
This happened to me, it was the emergency shortcut on the phone. Press the power button four times and it calls the police. You can turn it off. It was the button that kept triggering rather than a software fault.
Securing Cloud-Based CI Systems: Best Practices
Send a complaint to the FCC. The carrier will notice.
> it's wild that a country's government can even consider putting something as critical as its entire citizenry's health data in the hands of a foreign company.

The capital city of UK is Washington D.C. Since a long time.
I can't read this particular article, but in general, it is striking on how companies often view training their employees, either via external or internal means, as some great burden that is thrust unfairly upon them. Given such a situation, it isn't surprising that employment has become a lot more transactional and short-term. At least, this seems like a major component. There seems to be a general unwillingness, from both parties of employer and employee, to invest in the other beyond superficial means. It would be my guess though that this particular dynamic was initiated by corporations though, by reducing interest in training, placing pressure on universities to train entry-level employees for them, and reducing other long-term investments such as pensions.
Sorry, "switch" was the wrong word there, and I absolutely love the clip launcher. It's just kind of like the difference between editing text in a dumb editor vs an IDE or something like
slime; lowering the "cost" of trying stuff absolutely changes how you think about your music and what you do with it.
He uses the term in his non-typographer-oriented book about typography, so that would be a little surprising: https://practicaltypography.com/verdana-alternatives.html
This is very interesting, and I think massively underestimates the variability in how small molecular drugs are affected by the body. Small differences in molecules can have drastic effects on where, how, and how quickly they're adsorbed, and what systems they affect.

More than anything, I think this just underestimates the unpredictability of it all. To extend the author's metaphor, if you measure the 100 data points from shooting 10 different projectiles out of 10 different devices, on 10 different celestial bodies, you're still not going to have a lot of predictive power that can be generalized.
Snip,TeXpad,Ink to LaTeX, Mathpix, MyScript MathPad,... I used Mathpix ones (3 years ago it wasn't really good ocr from handwriting, but I have heard that they have made a lot of improvements since this time). I tried some of them, and I hope it will help.
It's still free!
is “baseball related code” moneyball kind of stuff?
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I didn't couldn't get SD+tools+seed to be deterministic.

Images generated, with the exact same settings (including seed), on m1 laptop are not the same as the images from my nvidia GPU desktop with the SD-webui.
I am using Ubuntu right now and have used it off and on alongside Windows the past few years.

Ubuntu is pretty bad, and my favorite setup was Windows with WSL used for software development. I got the best of both worlds that way. It was a real computer, with a real OS, but also good for dev.

I have not had an experience in recent memory where I got ads in Windows for McAfee or anything else. I had 0 popups within the past like 5 years for sure, if not decade. Sounds like your GF is installing weird crap that installs bloatware.

Here is a non-exhausitve list of all the problems that I have experienced since using a spare Linux machine I had as my main and only computer for the past several months (my Windows computer is out of commission):

Multiple ways to install software and not all of them auto-update properly.

My second monitor occasionally freezes for no reason (I'm just a lucky Linux user that it even works).

I can't use it with my wide MSI monitor, so I have a useless ~250+ USD monitor in my closet right now.

Docking station I have--which worked perfectly well with Windows computer--needs to be in some weird tilted position, like an old TV antenna, to work properly.

Randomly having to copy and paste commands from the internet to install things. The process of installing most things on this computer--whether a command line tool or just consumer GUI software--is just bad and fraught. Recently had an issue with Discord where I originally installed it via Snap, but that version didn't update automatically an update ago. Instead, the Discord client downloaded the .deb of the latest version from me, which I then had to manually run a command to install. Then I ended up with 2 separate Discord clients on my computer. Neither are auto-updating to the latest version, so I just use Discord in my browser now instead of trying to deal with that.

Honestly, this has actually been the least fraught episode of using Ubuntu I have experienced since I first started to use it ~9 years ago. At least this time, dual monitors worked out of the box, for example.

Windows is a perfectly usable OS, esp if you're coming from Ubuntu, which tries to have a GUI experience on par with Mac and Windows anyways.

It is definitely Ubuntu that feels like a toy OS to me as far as most day-to-day use is concerned.
And archiving. Personally I prefer to have the lossless format stored in my digital vault and use a lossy version on my portable devices for storage efficiency.
No mention of Bitwig, which just keeps adding new features and modularity.
Wok the Hydrogen: Measuring Galactic Neutral Hydrogen Using Kitchenware [PDF]
It's almost like scale is a quality of its own.

Dropping a snowball on you might tick you off.

Dropping an avalanche on you, and you probably won't have much to say.
Hydro never stops. Wind and solar are cyclical, but even aside from electrical batteries, there are multiple companies designing energy storage systems (cf EnergyVault which has been making rounds in the news https://www.energyvault.com/).
Great post, I wish we had more of these types of pragmatic techniques from zen buddhism/yoga. I've heard of this one as both a way to induce lucid dreaming and as just a yoga meditation but this post does not seem to mention that some people say the best results are often had right before falling asleep.
I wonder how they manage to obtain things like date of birth. Maybe from the Google account? I never provide the real one anyway :P

Gender though is pretty much a given when it comes to grindr, let's be honest :)

GPS Location being exfiltrated is really really bad though :( Especially for an app like this with serious criminal consequences in some backwater countries.