skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your suggestion does not comport with reality.

> collision speeds would be measured in millimeters per second, and forces in millinewtons.

What satellite ending their end of life, and already in orbit do you suggest are capable of such delicate manoeuvring? This is a very delicate task you are describing, and most satellites are simply not designed for it.

> The main risk is that the satellites touch at the 'wrong angle' or blocking an attitude control thruster.

If someone tries this, the most likely outcome is that the satelites wizz by each other without ever touching. If you somehow manage to aim the "pushing" satellite accurately enough at the "stranded" satellite they would most likely collide at anything from a few hundred meter/s to a few of km/s depending on the orbital arrangements.
I think that is an argument for the term rather than against. A SWE SHOULD be held responsible for the things they make and the impacts it causes. Additionally, so should PMs and CEOs but heyyyy.
I guess the big issue is that it is easy to place blame in the case of a bridge failing...but much harder when a system products mass suicides.
Now Lenovo can join smartphone manufacturers and Google on the as-successful-as-drug-empires stage! Seriously, increasing profit for the sake of profit is a terrible goal. We as consumers need to be less susceptible to the marketing hype and demand to have only technology that serves us.
Okay, feel free to explain why EA Sports FC 24, the thirtyfirst installment of a soccer video game in the past 30 years from EA is what people need, and how this marketing copy:

> Play before 1 Nov to become a Founder and get exclusive benefits in EA SPORTS FC™ 24

isn't "manufacturing need".
That is, until you hit the limits of performance and latency. Speed of light is a b*tch regardless of what kind of engineer you are.
The facts and honesty I was talking about are exactly what gets characterised as alarmist, so I’m not sure which side you’re arguing.
Templates for Chat Models in Transformers
So are implementation problems of civil engineering the equivalent of prod problems in software engineering?
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Apparently, the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (the board that regulates other engineering fields in the USA, such as civil engineering) used to offer a Professional Engineer (PE) exam for software engineering, but it was dropped in 2019 due to lack of participation and bad prospects for increased participation.

https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...
That all makes sense (although I think this feature appeared in Windows 7 rather than XP), and I certainly understand the value of a background mode.

But does the working-set cap _work_? In that scenario where you've got heavy memory pressure I still think it doesn't.

If the background process is typically touching less than 32 MiB in a second then a per-second trimming could reduce the working-set effectively.

If the background process is typically touching more than 32 MiB in a second then the fault-time trimming doesn't work because while it trims the memory from the working set, there is no time for the memory to be paged out, and if the memory did get paged out it would make it even worse because it would need to be paged in. So, CPU (and perhaps disk) overhead is increased, but memory pressure remains the same.

The problem (a process touching too much memory) is real. However the solution does not work. A working-set cap doesn't actually reduce memory pressure on foreground applications any more than a per-second trim.
Wow! Did you build the Calendar component by yourself, or is it using a library?
I think the point you’re responding to is saying it isn’t about the money, it’s the reputation hit.

If you have several choices and one is getting sanctioned for shitty practices, maybe you’ll look elsewhere.

Saying you’re a rocket engineer sounds pretty neat, but the shine wears off a bit if people recognise your employer for negative reasons.
A college friend of mine was from Singapore. After he got a job at FAANG, he bought an Aston Martin. He said it was so cheap compared to owning a fancy car in Singapore, that it was an appealing deal from his perspective. I learned that his tires cost as much as my car. A year or two later, he bought an second Aston.

He eventually moved back to Singapore, but kept his cars here, at his in-laws house.
I think this price increase is only for the ad-supported tier, but yeah, it's funny how all the streaming services have gone up on price almost simultaneously. Something something market collusion.
>How is that any more dangerous to the end user than just going to an http site that they don't know personally?

Installing a random root cert to your trust store is a very dangerous thing to do but you're looking at this from the wrong end. I'm not talking about the dangers of a random user installing a random TLS root cert from me I send them over, what, email? That's just not going to happen. It shouldn't happen.

I'm talking about the ability for human persons to host visitable websites without corporate oversight and control. With HTTP/1.1 I can just host a website from my IP and it's good. Anyone can visit. With HTTP/3 before anyone can visit my website I first have to go ask permission every ~90 days from a third party corporation. And if I piss them off (or people who put pressure on them in certain political regions), say by hosting a pdf copy of a scientific journal article, or a list of local abortion clinics, they can revoke my ability to host a visitable website.

With HTTP/3, as a human person, the cure is worse than the "disease".
> We could easily cut our use of fossil fuels if we weren't trying to balance that with an arbitrary GDP growth target. We could stop incentivizing people and companies to consume disposable products. We could stop subsidizing massive industrial farms and instead focus on eating locally and growing some of your own food.

Then it's the small task of changing the economic model of the entire developed (and less developed, and exploited) world. The model that all of the richest and most powerful people depend on.
I think climate activists want to drastically raise the cost of owning and operating a car, which will make a cars a luxury good unavailable to the middle class. As people catch on, this policy stance will become very unpopular.
it’s probably the same as this chromium bug which impacts Opera: https://blogs.opera.com/security/2023/10/screen-capture-noti...

basically it’s warming up a cache… i wonder what triggers it in the background, maybe the app restarted itself for an update?
The author leaves out what to me is the most compelling argument against static types: it is somewhat at odds with interactive development with a running system, as seen in smalltalk and lisp.

Now, not a lot of developers are really doing this. But it's still a good reason for those who are.
I noticed a quirk in my microwave recently if you apply pressure to the door handle it'll turn on the microwave. Kinda spooky.
Two-3rd of CEOs think staff will return to office five days a week, survey finds
Singapore is a city-state with limited space and stellar public transport...the absurd cost of owning a personal vehicle is easily justifiable. You can hardly justify this structure in most other places...residents will revolt, lol

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.
I was in Singapore some months back.

So clean, so humid+warm+sticky, and when I compare the headcount cost in various locations (countries & cities), for the same grade:
1 Singaporean = 1.3 Londoners
1 Singaporean = 1.8 Warsawians
1 Singaporean = 4 Chennaians

So.. yes.. car ownership IS expensive but a "Director" in Singapore nets crazy amounts. And if you think car ownership is expensive.. wait to look to rent a flat in a cozy area...
Yeah, how dare they design laptops not filled to the brim with unnecessary components?
Those 'faulty' memory parts were often 'fixed' by reseating them, a problem soldered-on memory doesn't have.
Broken fans were probably the cheapest obtainable.
Those things just don't break so often anymore. I prefer welded shut quality stuff over a never ending chain of repairs.

I like Apple for batteries that last longer than 12 months, screens with high resolution and reference color, lightweight housing that's not too flimsy. (just don't talk about the keyboards from 2016-2018 ;) )
> are people scamming you with clever marketing? … Are you honest with yourself?

This is still an adversarial tone which is more likely to create resistance. It comes across as insulting their intelligence.

Convincing people to change is really hard!
From the outside how would you tell the difference between this and a back door agreement between regulators to offer a low fine in exchange for favors down the line?
It can be tough to find a full-time jobs as I found the prospect for web developer roles in the current economy is low that could left quite a lot of us jobless or pursue part-time jobs despite the workforce group has been keeping us in contact.

Living between a multi-story car park (the rich parking their cars), luxury estate and a neighbour park (Punggol Park), with a construction noise pollution that can last 24 hours. I'm just a poor guy but I have been reaching government for assistance, yet failed lots of times. Those my neighbours just sleeping well.
Realistically I almost never see upvoted comments saying a governmental fine was too much, even when the fine is, say, significantly greater than the entire companies revenue.
Pause have no meaningful value for language models. If pause tokens are produced from speech analysis, LLMs will just become better at imitating speaking, not smarter.
Young men have a genetic proclivity for getting their asses handed to them in war. It's surprisingly easy to order men to their deaths when they're convinced it's to protect their tribe from some other tribal threat. We've been doing it for longer than we've been human.

Nothing in our evolutionary history has prepared us for climate change. We have more trivial things to worry about.
Machine learning reveals how to dissolve polymeric materials in organic solvents
You can wipe a generic PC and reinstall the OS, which will deal with all but the most nefarious malware.

No such luck with these random Android devices, generally. You are generally obligated to use the system image provided by the untrustworthy vendor.
Anthropomorphizing LLM is at best misleading, but probably extremely dangerous. At first I didn’t care too much, the “hallucination” term got traction, now the ladies on The View are saying it and thinking they “understand ai”.

The public needs to know how LLM work, they don’t need bs abstractions that blur or even erase the lines between humans and technology. LLM don’t hallucinate, they don’t confabulate. They are machines that operate according to principles all educated people need to understand. It’s the duty of the people who understand it better to educate them, not with half truths and metaphors (though I sort of like rms’ “bullshit generator” - it’s obviously wrong enough/funny in a way that lets people know it’s not a precise technical definition, while coming very close to being an accurate technical definition.)

The danger of ai is this: confusing human and machine. They are separate and different, and must remain that way. LLM aren’t capable of hallucinating, confabulating any more than they are capable of falling in love or serving on jury duty. They repeat the patterns found in the text you feed them. That’s it.
Uhhh, $180k is an awesome developer salary in the US (as long as you’re not talking about silicon valley salaries, which most Americans aren’t).

There are also definitely juniors in the US making $60k (and probably even less).
That is quite frankly a ridiculous, unsubstantiated statement.
CEO of Regent, startup developing electric seagliders: “$60M Series A”
This is also the place that famously canes people for petty crimes.
Yes sure, it's always possible. My narrow experience leads me to believe, however, that some necessary threshold hasn't been crossed yet. And there's vanishingly little chance that I personally will be participating in such a revolution. Therefore from my perspective, it isn't happening yet and I can only wait to see if it does - meanwhile, I'm on the opposite side.
It just frustrates me that I have brought this up multiple times, wondering why we are paying to do this training and then we can't actually do the training.

Like it would be one thing if the URL then just had the full URL in it and we could still see where it was going. But no, it is a completely obfuscated URL.

The worst part is, it isn't like it takes you to a page to verify you actually want to go to this link. It just takes you right there assuming you are on a browser that has approved that it can open links from your email.

I really really want to do know what good this does AT ALL besides likely checking some checkbox for something.
the people that collect that money, now have enough income to be car owners at that price
The current dropdown actually allowing you to choose any search engine (and add search options to any of them as well)
Didn't Anaconda show that the whole Pip approach is flawed and we need a language-agnostic/multi-language approach?
Where does my car get the time from? It drifts and changes every time I start it up. Every 3 months I have to change it manually by 10ish minutes or more, but it’s inconsistent
This doesn't change the Python language or packaging so wouldn't require a PEP, I'm working with release managers on this GitHub repo: https://github.com/python/release-tools
One of the things I think hardware should adopt from software is modular debuggability of system components. I'm a software guy building a display board with a battery management system. I'm building the bms as a pluggable component on the display to make my development easier and the end unit more iterable.
This was my experience: "Try it" -> "Log in" -> close tab

Sorry, but I'm not going to jump through hoops to try it.
Nobody is stopping you from only buying a new phone once every 5 years.

Many (without much conscious thought maybe even) are doing this too.

Simply replace when needed. That’s all there is to it.
I'd settle for them honoring their warranty.
Can you share more on how to write a good two paragraph cover letters? I try to write good cover letter but at the end of the day sentences feel generic and the job description never usually contains enough meat to bite onto. How can I convince an employer that I am actually interested to have a conversation with them about the job?
Off topic, but I'm curious about the lack of capitalization for "Nasa" (sic). Is this an oversight by the editor or a style guide choice? "BBC" is capitalized in another article, so presumably it's just a typo?
But you can still pick the option with the most seeders, which should get you what you're looking for most of the time.

The spam problem isn't nonexistent within the centralized services either.
> global
Cesium, NIST.
> Under the new format, posts linking to third-party news stories or websites automatically load those articles’ lead images in preview tiles along with their web domains — but with no headlines, depriving readers of key context from the publishers about their articles, according to a review by The Washington Post on Thursday.

Headlines often lack context, opting for click-bait (like this paywall article).

Can't even read the article without bypassing or subscribing.

https://archive.ph/3gd6E
Americans wear ignorance as a badge of honor, specifically, ignorance of math.

"Let's not get lost in the details", "Let's take a 30,000 foot view of the problem", etc. are common sayings in corporate America that boil down to "I'm not that confident in math, so can we stick to hard-to-prove-false qualitative claims only, please?"

I love this sentiment, I hope it takes off, but I gave up trying years ago.
TLDR: "How am I supposed to bullshit investors if every time I say obvious nonsense there's a line of people pointing it out?"
Depends on the legal language of the lease.

If there’s any language regarding the dwelling being habitable, then the lack of a license makes it by definition not a habitable dwelling and thus the he never fulfilled his end of the agreement, making it necessary to refund the rent paid.

In other words, services might be rendered, but not the services as agreed upon in the lease.

The secondary matter would be if occupying someone’s property is an allowable remedy until the payment is made, which is a bit more thorny, on the other hand, occupation notwithstanding, it’s not uncommon to maintain possession of someone’s property until payment is made as a form of leverage (e.g. keeping a customer’s laptop until they’ve made payment for repairs made on said laptop).

What’s interesting is that he’s a Netherlands native, but then acts stumped about LA’s Just Cause requirement.

In the Netherlands leases for consumers are always under a Just Cause principle and pretty much the only way to cancel a lease as a landlord is non-payment.

End dates in leases are void, landlord wanting to occupy the property themselves is not a valid reason to cancel the lease, sale of property is not a valid reason to cancel the lease (lease gets transferred over to new owner).

Basically the only way to get a tenant out is if the tenant cancels the lease themselves or if there’s a significant period of non-payment.
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server
What do you think should be the role of the first world ?
And a death penalty for smuggling drugs.

EDIT: It seems that Singapore is more authorian than I thought (based on the Human Rights Wikipedia article). People would be complaining more about that were it not for the fact that it is a market-based economy.
- which government?

- did I emit a ton of CO2 when I cut down a tree?

- what happens to the cost of medical plastics, etc? Did you just kill millions in poor countries because the cost of care went up so much?

This stuff is hard. Pretending it is simple stops us from working on the hard parts.
Model does not "consider" answer, it inferes it from training data. If there are "pause" tokens in trainig data, they will be present in inference data with similar density. In other words, "garbage in - garbage out".
It's a good idea but that would mean companies now have to pay. And they don't like it. (unless is for useless shit nobody cares about that doesnt make your job easier, they got loads for that)
When I count all my pieces of clothing damaged by chewing gums, recall the felling of disgust when accidentally touching a chewing gum attached under a seat or table, see the awful black stains created by trampled chewing gums... yes, this industry deserves it.
Depends. I want less than zero regulation when it comes to speech and civilian cryptography use. When it comes to aircraft though, the existing regulations aren't strict enough.

It matters who and what you're regulating. I generally believe most laws and regulations should apply directly to corporations and governments in order to check their power. The activity of individuals shouldn't need much regulation beyond a basic framework for civilized society.
Haha! Why isn't this by default? Why is this even non-default?
And not just one, millions of them.
My previous career was mechanical engineering. I was on track to be a licensed engineer in my country, I have a mechE masters degree.

Even in “traditional engineering” some people refer to certain tasks as “not real engineering”. Usually they are talking with their ego and wish it was the 70’s so they could be drafting with pencil.

Their opinion doesnt mean anything and is basically regressive.

So the idea of if any task is “real engineering” is just such a pointless debate.

Defining any activity as engineering or “not engineering” isn't useful.

Calling yourself a software engineer is fine as a job application tool, but needing to be seen as an “engineer” is just meaningless ego.

Ive seen this debate for over a decade at this point, some like to split developers vs engineers by some arbitrary standards, but honestly it doesnt and has never meant anything.
Even the car-free parts of cities are noisy. Go to any bar or restaurant district in a pedestrian-only zone with a sound meter and tell me it’s quiet and I’ll tell you that your hearing aids and meter’s batteries need to be replaced.

Cars are noisy. People are noisy, whether inside or outside of cars.
Fees to own gasoline cars in Norway and Denmark are fairly comparable as far as I understand, and they haven't revolted.
The World Meteorological Organization estimates that in the 50 years from 1970 to 2019, deaths from climate dropped to one-third[0]. That's not one-third the rate; that's one-third of the absolute number of deaths, even as the world population more than doubled in that time period and atmospheric CO2 went from ~325ppm to ~410ppm.

In my opinion, this reduction in deaths is mostly due to the increasing ability of the developing world to better master their environment, enabled by technological advances powered largely by cheap energy from fossil fuels. If you have alternative explanations, I'm happy to hear it. But as the evidence stands, it would be more delusional to think climate change will cause rampant mass deaths.

[0]: https://library.wmo.int/viewer/57564/download?file=1267_Atla...
When I see how people behave recklessly in some places, I'll be low-key wishing for this kind of law.
No, it's still actual, but they don't have a listing the fund.krita.org database because they sponsored us directly.
My knowledge is a few years out of date (but I would be surprised if the situation is different now). The Fortran is the primary version, the C is a parallel implementation that follows the Fortran, and the Python wraps the C. Calculations from each are compared to each other as well as calculations produced by https://iausofa.org/
So a government that violently suppresses dissent and only wealthy people can emit CO2? Yeah, sounds great! I don’t think eco-fascism is going to get broad support…
I think the point of QUIC is 'if the implementation other using is problematic, I can use my own. And no random middlebox will prevent me from doing so' instead of `everyone must bring their own QUIC implementation.`

There is a slight different here. It's the difference between 'the right to do' and 'the requirement to do'.

While at same time. You must use 'system tcp implementation' and you are not allowed to use custom one. Because even system allow it (maybe require root permission or something), the middlebox won't.
This does not address the example given above.
Perversely, this "settled knowledge" nonsense actively inhibits the growth of knowledge and just leads to the "justified true belief" swamp...

All we have is our current best explanations/understanding. We use them to make progress until we find a problem with it – something it fails to account for, something it makes an incorrect prediction for etc.

Then, we attempt to conjecture new explanations which solves the new problem while still accounting for all the useful aspects of the old theory.

That is knowledge creation, and also progress.

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> Does anybody else find it frustrating to be asked about their home life at work?

Not frustrating, but certainly inappropriate. I haven't run into this very often, but when I have, I just kept my answers vague and generic.
It's Done. The Future Is Battery-Powered Electric Cars
I thought it was a very fun, stream-of-consciousness kind of read.
Funny you say this because we are having a challenge with a friend to make an affiliate site, and see who wins
Fees to own cars vs. fees to own gasoline cars, I'm sensing there's an important difference here.