skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that over-focus. Lots of small devices (especially older ones) don't have user-accessible fan speed control unfortunately and even if they do, fans degrade over time. I'm running one of the older NUCs as a home server right now and I'm really tempted to replace it with zimablade. Sure, I could replace the current loud fan, then play around with tweaks to slow it down while preserving the performance. But... I could just go passive instead. It's literally the opposite of tinkering too much.
Twitter isn't as universal as it used to be. Even people who didn't have a Twitter account would see Twitter embeds on every news page for the past decade. That's gone down a lot over the past year.
> These surveys from blind probably have a severe bias because the site attracts people that are disgruntled to begin with.

That doesn't explain the high approval ratings of other companies. Clearly some companies are treating their employees shittier than others.
That's half the argument for Guix, and the same train of thought that led me to Mercurial back in the 2000's.

For better or worse, Nix has owned the zeitgeist for several years now, and I'd be surprised to see it dethroned before the next paradigm shift.
Must be expensive to run on Google Cloud.

Also looks pretty complex.

The stabilization step presumably does a video encode …. that’s extremely expensive in terms of time, compute and money I wonder why it’s necessary.
>> Smart folks like duckdb realize the utility (and the pain of doing this in normal SQL)

I used to love the Microsoft Access visual query tool. Super intuitive but maybe a little too abstract for normal people. It would also produce SQL which was how I learned a little bit of that.
Benefit how exactly? This title/subject is way too biased.
I think this could use a bit more commentary, OP.
"In this case, officials at the V.C. Summer plant learned about cracks in fuel pipes in the facility’s diesel generator system in 2003. Utility workers fixed the initial crack, as well as other cracks four different times in the years after the initial work was done. But the NRC says the utility never adequately assessed what could be done to make sure the diesel piping system did not experience more cracking. The most recent cracks were identified in November 2022 during a 24-hour test of the system. Workers found a small leak on one of two diesel generator systems. The leak increased over time and workers discovered a 140-degree crack around a pipe, records show."

So they found cracks first in 2003, and fixed them. They found more cracks over the years and fixed them... what they have failed to do is to stop the cracking from occurring in the first place. That failure led to an even bigger crack happening during a test run of the system. According to Dominion, they plan to build a new pipe, which should fix this. The NRC seems to think they should have done this sooner, and the NRC is likely right, but I am no expert in these things.

It probably should also result in a much more throughout inspection of the plant to ensure that there are no other issues. Again, I have no expertise here.
Different things work for different people. I don't think this is for me, but it is very interesting. I like the look of it, and the ideas behind it are cool.
I'm glad you found them useful, thank you for letting me know!
Yeah, I'd expect that almost any code would react badly to modifying a ctor argument in parallel. That seems like a very bad thing to do in general.
My point was that as a new user the default experience is unfriendly and saying that I have to understand the nuance between different ram related packages in order to talk about it is just proving my point.
>Is that really on the table? If yes, then it's bat-s*it insane, it's maybe rude to call it that but there's no better word to describe it.

Not really. That might be the maximum sentence but the chance that a kid who's downloaded tiktok using a vpn of getting anywhere near that is near zero. See: https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
The only Autopay that has bitten me are the Wells Fargo credit cards. For some reason, the first payment has to be manually made, even after signing up for Autopay. Ever since then, I always manually make the first payment of at least the minimum.
Any discussion of handwritten code is incomplete without mentioning Edsger Dijkstra's approach, demonstrated in this beautiful interview: https://youtu.be/mLEOZO1GwVc?t=246

I'm surprised no one has mentioned it here yet.
Their software is free. Which means they have complications trying to incorporate certain licensed components into their product, those that are traditionally handed by a revenue sharing agreement on the sale of the product. When there is no revenue in the "sale" or distribution of a product that means some other non-traditional license needs to be agreed upon for the revenue share expecting 3rd party. Many, many licensing based business models do not afford the added expense of attorneys for custom license agreements, so they are simply refused. Therefore, free software often has to use nontraditional and custom licensing agreements or agree to some prior licensing business model approved method of paying them without them having to create a custom license enforcement mechanism for various clients. The free yet ad revenue supported game type software fits into an easily policed revenue stream a revenue share expecting 3rd party can be expected to accept. But BlackMagic's software is both free and not ad supported, so where is there revenue? Some share of the BlackMagic Cloud revenue? That'd be a custom agreement.
Vermont Utility Plans to End Outages by Giving Customers Batteries
Yes, other countries not only starve children after a terrorist attack but bomb them (Syria bombing Yarmouk, or razing entire villages) kidnap them and place in reeducation camps for years (China with Uyghurs) etc. It is all horrific stuff.

But even if Israel wants to go scorched earth on Gaza, why not bring friends? Why not have Egypt invade from the rafah crossing side and share the blame? Even from the perspective of not giving Hezbollah and Syria and Iran an excuse, and safeguarding Israeli lives, why not accept help? It’s not like the terrorusts are going anywhere, they’re trapped!

I want to know what happened to the proposals that neighboring countries have advanced in 2014 and why Israel always goes it alone. The more I observe politics during wartime the more shocked I am at the apparent sheer stupidity of the politicians. Is Hanlon’s razors appropriate here?
Context switching, cache coherency, and the way that, in practice, you end up with #threads >> #cores.
You can talk to your primary care provider about depression, at least in the U.S. If you don’t have a PCP, it’s true that you may have to wait a few months, but make an appointment anyway. Find out if you can get on a waitlist if a sooner appointment becomes available. Odds are, something will pop up sooner. That’s been my experience.

My dad was laid off three times in his life, including after I was just born. It wasn’t easy, but it was pretty common and expected for blue-collar people in his generation (baby boomers). Don’t make it into a bigger deal than it is.

Good luck.
On top of that, I think that Alphabet-owned YouTube is just as bad for kids as TikTok is, if not worse, I haven't heard a serious proposal coming from any Western government to ban YT for that reason.
https://archive.ph/OXLgE
I'll admit that Discworld is the first place I heard it. It's a perfect example of the sort of idiom authors should think about though, rather than using overly modern terms.
The color isn't great, but I'm more annoyed by how he arms and legs attach differently... Especially since the arms barely connect at all. (And at one point in the animation, I think they don't connect.)

It looks very amateur-ish to me, like someone's first Blender project.
Where's the contemporary research to determine which direction has advantage?
The other interesting detail here is the memory sizing problem. If I can consume all my RAM with caches and buffers, how much RAM do I need? The answer (as always) depends on what you're optimizing for. For performance, bigger is better. For cost, energy, etc you're going to want some way to calculate whether adding more RAM (and so having bigger caches) is worth the cost, heat, power, etc.

Gray and Putzolu's classic "The 5 minute rule for trading memory for disc accesses" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/38713.38755) from 1987 is probably one of the most important CS systems papers of all time. In it, they lay out a way of thinking about memory and cache sizing by comparing the cost of holding cache to the cost of access (this isn't the first use of that line of thinking, but is a very influential statement of it). Back then, they found that storing 4kB in RAM for 5 minutes costs about the same as reading it back from storage. So if you're going to access something again within 5 minutes you should keep it around. The constants have change a lot (RAM is way cheaper, IOs are way cheaper, block sizes are typically bigger) since then, but the logic and way of thinking are largely timeless.

The 5 minute rule is a quantitative way of thinking about the size of the working set, an idea that dates back at least to 1968 and Denning's "The working set model for program behavior" (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/363095.363141).

Back to marginal costs - the marginal cost of converting empty RAM to cache is zero in the minute, but only because the full cost has been borne up front when the machine is purchased. It's not zero, just pre-paid.
For both Norwegian and Chinese there are two separate written standards, along with the far more varied spoken dialects/languages.
> Isn't it very uneconomical?

On the contrary, the terms of credit cards include a "grace period": if you buy something on a card in the first day of a statement period, you will get a bill due to pay it off 45-50 days later (statement period closes after ~30 days, and then you bill is due a few weeks later). If you pay in full, carrying no balance over, there are _zero_ interest charges. Especially in today's rate environment, floating a few thousand dollars month to month for free is worth actual money, like a hundred bucks, if you invest in a 5% APY saving acct.

On top of that, many cards include a "cash back" feature, where every dollar you spend through the card gets you miles or a few pennies back. Figure about 2% cash back is a competitive rate, 2.5% at the top end, so it's about half as valuable as the float. This is basically fueled by networks charging merchants fees to accept credit card payments.

In theory merchants raise their rates to compensate for the merchant fees. In practice people paying cash pay the same as those who don't, so you might as well jump ship on this collective action problem.
You can see his complete test environment here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJLLl6AraX1POemgLfhirwg/com...
Not being contactable the same place all group stuff is organized or info distributed is either asking others to do work for you (to send you info everyone else got automatically) or means you’re opting to exclude yourself from those activities and discussions.

Less relevant if your friend/family circle doesn’t organize group activities or chat as a group often, I guess.
That's all fine, but you cannot have nicely behaved stack allocated structs and use the data hiding method outlined in that blog post, which I think is a pretty big caveat
Exactly, fighting on the stairs is pointless.

If you are the attacking army, just wait it out. You've won the siege, and any defenders up the stairs will have to either come down or starve to death. Why risk attacking up the stairs?
what happens if you're running down the stairs and come upon the attackers on the way down?
And finally 30 years after the film it is Madzda which offers a driver personalization system based on facial recognition similar to what has been imagined in Demolition Man: https://youtu.be/uCG5UZYEYeE
Converters for GU24 to use E26 (Ikea standard!) are $1 retail. Doesn't seem like you need to throw them all away?

>No concern that of all the GU24 fixtures that will need to be replaced and sent to landfill. //

Do you believe that legislatures weren't trying their best, it's not easy to make economical decisions when powerful profit seekers are trying to undermine you at every turn. Maybe they erred, I'm not sure it's as obviously wrong as you imagine. Who hasn't backed the wrong standard at some point?
The fact that they actually had to worry about the precision of drawings in addition to the actual device is amazing. It's such a foreign concept in the computer age, where you never want any information to be exclusively analog like that, you never want to directly rely on a steady hand, and drawings are just a UI on top of numbers and constraints.

I still think the Bendix is a bit outside the difficulty level of most modern tech work, but scribing lines on zinc sheets and decoding what's essentially UART without silicon is just insane. That's an amazing story right there!
This is good advice, thank you. I've tried Trazodone, but it gave me really strange nightmares (as someone who never has nightmares). I've found Gabapentin to be useful, but recently it's been less effective and I've had to up the dosage which gives me a bit of anxiety over wondering where that stops.

In the last 6 months the level of exercise I get has skyrocketed, and I thought it would help but it's ironically made it worse. Stress is definitely a possible factor, but there's nothing in my life that is particularly more stressful than it was before. That's why this has all been perplexing: my sleep hygiene and everything surrounding it has gotten better as my ability to sleep has gotten worse.
> Literally all some kid has to do is use the Photoshop magic wand feature to copy someone's face and post it on another image.

Do it, show me the results.

> High schoolers don't care about the difference. They'll harass the target just as much if those kinds of pictures show up around school.

You're moving the goalposts. I don't care if highschoolers will run with obvious, low quality crap. In fact, throughout this whole conversation, I didn't have highschoolers harassing each other on my mind at all. I was thinking about the more general problem, which includes things like harassing exes and potential employers coming across pictures during a job search.
I think you're probably right. I pay/autopay the statement balance by the due date but I don't send the CC company money that isn't actually due yet even though it's already on the card.
> VoIP/video call still stutters and glitches when you switch from wifi to cell or vice versa.

I'd be curious if you or anyone else has any ideas on preventing that, because I think it's impossible? A voip or video call uses one or more network sockets. If I'm using wifi, that socket goes over my network, which the server communicates with. If I suddenly switch to cellular, there will always need to be a reconnection over the cellular network, because the server was previously communicating over a completely different network route.
If you want to test this for yourself, he has provided a testing environment: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJLLl6AraX1POemgLfhirwg/com...
Yes, because why wouldn’t you call the people killing innocent 20 year olds at a fucking rave freedom fighters? Or going in families homes and killing parents in front of their children? Or raping and murdering innocent women? Or kidnapping and mutilating women and children?

Idgaf what nationality people are. When they commit acts like these, they are _not_ fighting for freedom, and they are _not_ worthy of any kind of respect. If it’s Americans, Russians, Chinese, Germans, or Palestinians committing these atrocities, it is disgusting, and they are _terrorists_, and I really hope that there is swift and harsh retaliation against these horrible human rights violators.
How would you characterize/contrast Regent vs. Chapel? What do you see are the main drawbacks/benefits of each?
Wisdom of any legislation aside, I'm curious how you can effectively "ban" a program or a website.

It seems futile to ban the distribution of software, and while you can get ISPs to block access to an IP/range, there are easy ways around this. See also: torrents of unlicensed-everything and the use of mirrors, proxies, etc. to access the sites that index them.

Not saying it wouldn't put a dent in use, but if all I had to do was get a copy of the installer I'd hardly consider that "banned". All sorts of software is technically illegal to distribute or acquire but it doesn't exactly seem to stop people who want it. In this case there wouldn't even be DRM to crack (like on a game or Photoshop or whatever).
Not really. There is nothing implicit at all. It was a very simple statement:

People self-*'ing does not automatically equal and/or lead to "pure chaos."

Yes, there are concerns. Unfortunately, Wired's hyperbole has more to do with their own revenue and profits than it does with the issue itself.
No, Unicode's closest equivalent to 'single graphical character' is extended grapheme clusters, and they are explicitly defined as what should disappear when you press backspace once.

Neither code points nor graphemes are equivalent to keystrokes in CJK languages; each character, precomposed or not, is written as a combination of other characters.

I appreciate the desire to round off a few edge cases, but remember that this is the majority of the world's population here (not counting English/commonly-used-in-English words like jalapeño - hope that ñ is precomposed!).

The only thing you can iterate ASCII-style is English minus all the diacritics in loanwords, same as ASCII itself.
I had an interview question at Twitter that no one ever got 100% right because no one ever asked what the entity indexes in a tweet actually were, code point indexes, everyone assumed they were whatever their language used in substring(). Here is an example correct solution using the Java code point API:

https://github.com/spullara/interviewcode/blob/master/src/ma...

Really unfortunate that Java/Windows standardized on Unicode-16 a little early.
I had a robin nest in my backyard close to my French doors. Every day one of them would pass by the doors, see their reflection and then attack it. Apparently they like to keep out competitors when they're nesting. They would at it for hours until I obscured the lower half with some potted plants.
Good news is that nuclear energy is safe and has zero long lasting ecological effects! Also management and governments are always competent. Otherwise, we would be in big, big trouble
I use `halffloat` for 16 bit floats. But be careful, there are several different encodings of 16 bit floats, so float16 isn't enough in and of itself.

SIMD types in D are done with:

__vector(byte[16]), __vector(int[8])

and an alias (typedef for the C folk) for this is commonly used, like `byte16` and `int8`.
I may be missing something, but I would like to be able to search by zip and return individual doctor's names.
> 'I feel hopeless': Living in Laos on the brink

Looks like Britain. The press in EU ,some months ago, was full about empty supermarkets shelves.

But pointing fingers at others is better. /s
My main gripe is lack of worthy sequels to my favourite games:

Deus ex, I really tried hard to like mankind divided but I don't know why I don't.

Wave race 64, even the GameCube sequel didn't capture the magic and every other attempt has rubbish water physics.

1080 snowboarding, the sequel was terrible, I left it back to the shop. No other snowboarding game captures the rewarding control scheme (same with wave race).

Goldeneye, ok perfect dark is good but why has no other game even attempted to capture what makes goldeneye special? It plays like a roller coaster that you can control. (I think someone on a gaming forum said that, I think they are correct).

Quake 3 and unreal tournament 99, no online shooter I've played compares to instagib on these.
Those are rarely used formats, most of plugins are either in Windows formats like VST, or in Mac formats.
> until you prove they're spying.

Not that I agree with the premise above, but:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-by...
Wouldn't the doors likely be on the wall of the spiral. A door in the spiral stairs seems very awkward.
> If there is even a slight or possible advantage to one direction then it would make sense to build it that way

If it's true that the battle at this point is lost for the defenders -- and known history indicates this is so -- then why would the builders choose directions based on this extremely unlikely scenario, instead of on just about any other consideration (aesthetic, practical, or even random)?
From a practical standpoint, there is no difference though. Without government, different strongmen will come and take your stuff, and maybe your life. There’s no free lunch.

“Rights” are a mental abstraction. The only real rights you have are the ones you can defend with force.
We feel like the free cloud plan is the way to go -- by keeping our core features free, we think it's the "level up" PM features that start to bring value worth paying for.
Yeah. I don't know who pushed this idea though, but have they seen the comment sections of corporate YouTube videos/ads? Much less political ones?

There are many reasons those comment sections are usually disabled, and one of them is to protect my brain from melting.
> It solves the problem that a e.g. browser eats all your memory.

It doesn't solve that. You get a little bit more headroom, but that's it. Not much ram is considered compressible anyway. On my Mac I'm barely reaching 10% of compressed memory anyway, so it doesn't make that much difference.
Ok, now enable us to let create Android Applications entirely in Rust (including the GUI). Let's get rid of Kotlin/Java monopoly in Android App development. Shall we?
The headline borrows from Marx for radical cred, but all of Doctorow's ideas are from the anarcho-liberal school of permanent impotence.

He spends the first 2000 words talking about how industry bribed the government to set unjust, inhumane policies on copyright, reverse-engineering, antitrust. Then in the 2nd half, all his tech proposals have to do with alternative tech solutions: federation, mastodon, driver coop apps, etc.

The problem with big tech is just capitalism. You don't fight capitalism with new apps. You fight capitalism with an independent political movement of workers. This movement wouldn't even be a tech-oriented movement because most people rightly don't give a fuck about tech.

We have to fight the political power of Musk and Zuckerberg by cutting off their ability to make profit. This happens through organizing in the workplace, and with a WORKERS PARTY opposed to the capitalist duopoly.