skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand. Here in the US 70% of my electricity comes from coal and gas. My county literally passed a law banning solar projects a few years ago because of fear mongering about renewables. The alternative to solar is the status quo of coal and gas. To build out nuclear energy, you would not only have to take decades to build up the infrastructure and capacity but also convince locals that nuclear energy is a viable alternative when enough people were able to convince the local government that large scale solar projects are harmful to environment.
I mean, I imagine the risks from insider threats (selling or dumping secrets etc) would be heightened in this environment. Especially if two layoffs already happened.

They'd need to have a bulletproof insider threat program, one they're not laying anyone off from to mitigate the risk of their own team becoming a threat.

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Tldr: once you've had two layoffs back to back, the risk isn't low morale, it's animosity.
Yes, and the next best time is now.
I just broke out in hives reading your post, thanks.
Motivators to start updating your resume, maybe.
I agree — the corporates have stop building and making `for` their users. They make their services so the users have no option but to get more and more comfortable in their ecosystem, and never get out.

Very soon, we will have providers/companies/champions/fighters that keep building the middleware transports to connect their behemoths.

Btw, someone somewhere popped up a better term — AGAMEMNON (Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Ebay, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, Netflix)
Someone else posted this recently and features both XKCD and supportive, positive thoughts. Enjoy!

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Yes, documentation (for just about anything) is one thing I really miss from the last millennium.
If I read the parent correctly it is already how it is in the US. If you do it yourself it is free, and for most people it wouldn't even be that complicated.
This is exactly what you do for RWD cars if you don't have good throttle control. But this is not a fast way to set up a car. Recall: "loose is fast and on the edge of out of control."
I haven't set up a No True Scotsman proposition, I made a very clear and straightforward assertion, that I've challenged others to disprove.

Show me one scientific paper on Machine Learning that suggests it's similar in mechanism to the human brain's method of learning.

It's not a lack of logical or rhetorical means to disprove that's stopping you (i.e. I'm not moving any goalposts), it's the lack of evidence existing, and that's not a No True Scotsman fallacy, it's just the thing legitimately not existing.
Niches shouldn't be ignored but also not be overrated. I wonder does the author counts airplane as niche
Based on book-mass alone, I suspect Stephenson chomps on editor souls for breakfast.
Will they give one month Premium to the laid-off as part of their outplacement program?
When do you think we’ll have something that can do “verify this proof of the ABC conjecture” and it would check the proof?
No, this is intended to tackle bot signups. No one, not even a moron like Musk, believes that $1/y is the value of a social network user. He will continue selling user data and pushing ads.
From a software perspective you probably wouldn't see Falcon at all. You'd use, say, the RDMA verbs API and under the hood it's accelerated by Falcon.
Very interesting guide. I liked the examples.

The understanding of the author on each subgenre is surprisingly different from mine.
I’ve enjoyed listening to psychedelic electronic music while programming since discovering Shpongle twenty years ago. I feel like it helps my brain get into the right mode somehow. I’m not familiar with the definitions of a lot of these sub-taxonomies but interested in listening to them!

I have a coding playlist I’ve put together over the years that is more towards the psybient/chillout end but includes some trance as well, I like the variation in speed and intensity: https://spotify.link/CHSvf399YDb
amusing since no genre is "real"
They over hired during the pandemic.
OpenAi is Microsoft, so that term not really works.
Ha, I get it. That is a helpful model.
Very relunctantly, VS Code. The bit I'm actually having the hardest time with is IntellIj's SQL/DB stuff
Oh! I used WordStar a LONG time ago (1992-1993, as far I remember), before WordPerfect.
Beatport is the main hub for digging for electronic music. A lot of producers are active on soundcloud and bandcamp. Looking at specific labels in particular is usually pretty good to find similar-but-different music.
The food would be fresher, I hope.
https://music.ishkur.com/
There are at least two of us. I loathed Three Body Problem with a flaming passion. There was like a decent 30 page sci-fi story surrounded by ~300 pages of incomprehensible frittering around.

Folks have told me they liked the later books better, but I’ve never felt the urge to try them.
One issue with this sort of software is that either Security/Corporate will never let you install it, or could raise their eyebrow or question it or it may get flagged etc

This statement has no bearing or reflection on any potential security implications re: this particular software (whether they may or may not exist)—- it’s just a general statement that this type of software could be put under the microscope in a corporate environment and potential users should be aware of that..
And gRPC is basically HTTP/2. Difficult to get more standards-friendly than that.

I suppose when some people advocate for "standards" they just mean the shitty systems prevalent in the industry they happen to have been used to.
I'm curious if anyone here has experimented with Anki in collaboration?

As the author of this post notes, and I concur, others might not come up with his questions. I read the discussion he presented and thought to myself, I doubt I would have created the set of cards he came up with because my matrix memory is weak.

I've had great experiences with pair programming and amplifying my learning software development. Feels like this could work with anything and Anki.
We still have them in the KC metro area, Fwiw.
Aisra – AI-Powered Sports Rehabilitation App: Upcoming MVP Progress
Not per account. Also the point is you then need 5000 methods of payment, making correlation between accounts trivial.
It's bizarre because realistically, Google as a company basically only consumes electricity. That's it's dominant environmental input. Even E-waste is going to be irrelevant - just put it in a container in the desert somewhere for the next 1000 years.

So their entire sustainability model can basically just be: "solar panels and some type of energy storage".
Is this the new standard boilerplate / disclaimer?

> Before getting into the evidence, we need to first talk about sex and gender. “Sex” typically refers to biological sex, which can be defined by myriad characteristics such as chromosomes, hormone levels, gonads, external genitalia and secondary sex characteristics. The terms “female” and “male” are often used in relation to biological sex. “Gender” refers to how an individual identifies—woman, man, nonbinary, and so forth. Much of the scientific literature confuses and conflates female/male and woman/man terminology without providing definitions to clarify what it is referring to and why those terms were chosen. For the purpose of describing anatomical and physiological evidence, most of the literature uses “female” and “male,” so we use those words here when discussing the results of such studies. For ethnographic and archaeological evidence, we are attempting to reconstruct social roles, for which the terms “woman” and “man” are usually used. Unfortunately, both these word sets assume a binary, which does not exist biologically, psychologically or socially. Sex and gender both exist as a spectrum, but when citing the work of others, it is difficult to add that nuance.
It’s not just that. Remember this is normal in the US.

Paper sucks. Tax filing helpers (people/software) have always cost money. “The government sucks” and won’t try to help you.

And, oh yeah, ads and tax prep stores everywhere.

No one questions it. They don’t like it, but they accept it. Just like so many other things in the US because we’ve never seen anything else.
If you limit yourself to the plaintext horses, you'll miss flying cars
> If your concern is zero days, nothing you do with your phone is safe.

safeR. There are no absolutes in security. And not using public chargers totally will.

> A similar thing if your concern is nation states

If you live in the middle of USA you are probably OK but many people live in or near nation states that could totally install juice jackers centrally.
1. Your forwarding table would have to be larger because Ethernet uses exact match instead of longest prefix match. For example, you might be limited to 128K servers total while Google has millions.

2. The Ethernet header has less entropy for ECMP than a UDP/IP header. Maybe you could add entropy somewhere but ASICs may not support it.

3. You're breaking compatibility with... everything. Maybe Google could afford this but no one else could.
"...Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”

For half the money, too, probably
C. 1990, I volunteered in the library at the middle school I was attending. The checkout machine was a then antiquated green phosphor monochrome Apple IIe with a fixed laser scanner wand shape like a large pen that had to be dragged across a barcode.

Although this was before the internet and the Internet, there was a large, single purpose, DOS-based computer with a searchable encyclopedia and a Library of Congress catalog.

Dewey Decimal Classification represent.
It’s not from there? HTTP/3 is QUIC, right?
Seems to be the legacy taxi industry fighting back with somewhat ride-share-like pricing ("avoid surge pricing"), "professional drivers, more thorough background checks and vehicle inspections", "price shown in app will still be an estimate, not upfront pricing". Currently in NYC, CHI, DC, PHL, MIA, FLL, LA.

[0]: https://www.gocurb.com/

[1]: https://www.ridester.com/curb-app-work/
If the problem was just that, the CEOs would be super happy. The bigger problem is that most big techs can't hold their absurdly huge revenue (with their crap services), much less grow it. At first they can cut costs to keep the profit high but then they are losing morale, revenue gets impacted more, brand gets affected. It is a downward spiral. It will only get worse when the fines start to come from every country they have operations.
> fix a few minor issues

It's always the last 20% that are demanding. You're left with tricky edge cases, legal battles, and operational challenges.
I have a couple of these recommendations on vinyl. Great guide!
Jeez, the layoffs will continue until morale improves i guess
That $5,000/mo is 5,000 payment transactions that need to come from somewhere. People running illegal or shady activities are not super fond of leaving their fingerprints all over payment gateways (this is the entire reason cryptocurrencies exist). Even if they're not doing anything illegal, they are certainly violating the TOS and tracking down fresh credit cards each time one of their accounts gets banned presents a significant logistical problem.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/6/18/the-fallacy-of-...

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2014/07/jeremy-bowens-gaz...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shield#2008%E2%80%932009...

https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a... (This article is honestly, one of the most shiver-inducing ones)

Honestly, for how ubiquitous this claim is, I've never been able to find more than a handful of clips of urban warfare (?)

I don't think it's that much of a surprise that in the world's most densest urban area, militants will be in a city?

Either way, "human shields" isn't a valid defense. Especially if you don't provide evidence for __every single instance__ you're causing civilian damage.

Edit:

I decided to end up doing more research on this.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/015/2009/en/

Apparently makes a claim that there was no evidence of human shields in the major war then.

Honestly - I feel like this is one of those situations where an entity has lied so much about a specific thing, that takes a life on its own.

It's how journalists don't fact check cops and just report their reports as fact. I'm guessing a similar thing has happened here.

I mean, we've seen how dangerous not supporting Israel has been in terms of reputational damage.

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Edit 2:

Even more research. I did find https://stratcomcoe.org/publications/hybrid-threats-hamas-us...

Seeing this is apparently from NATO, I assumed there'd be more to say here. But the list of incidents they referenced are primarily "IDF Spokesperson".
“Layers are only ever added, not removed.”

This is a long read but you might find it enjoyable:

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
A couple months ago I was enrolled in an oracle training, in 1h I saw many instances of "AI" and "blockchain" repeated over and over again sometime in the same sentence.
thanks, my only comment on this topic was going to be "where can I find more like shpongle". Well, I guess the second comment would be "when will somebody make a Generative Shpongle?"
I recently deployed getoutline.com to my personal kubernetes cluster. It's free to self-host and everything is saved in markdown. It also has collaborative features.

I believe it's intended for documentation. But I use it as my note taking app.
Faked Crystals and Faked Data
Yeah, if you're going to be pedantic, check your facts, see the sibling. Since I'm assuming an 8086 interrupt table, I'm also going to assume 8-bit chars, as that's the x86 addressing model. And dereferencing a null pointer is UB, so you can't count on anything anyway without making further assumptions.
Any chance you typo'd that? I can't find it.
Given the long term lack of success of the firm and the rapid incremental success of other tech lineages, what secrets would be worth dumping? Here’s not how do it?
Camp: Camera Preconditioning for Neural Radiance Fields
Apes together strong!
You don’t get to pick who leaves too, I gotta think the proactive self starter types are more likely to leave.

Folks resigned to whatever / want to be laid off stay.

Heck I was the latter once, stayed for a while waiting for my payout.
And why could mitigate that? On-prem install? Open source?
> co-invented by the former Twitter CEO

Jack Dorsey no longer believes in or participates on Bluesky. He deleted his account a month ago. Is his former involvement really still relevant?
Mmm, the screenshots bring back memories... a place I worked in the early 80s (right around when you could still look at the IBM PC and plausibly predict that even with all of IBM behind it, it just wasn't going to work out, it got so many things wrong, and was so slow compared to older hardware... no really, we believed that) we did a lot of ludicrous things with an IMSAI. One of them was WordStar split-screen mode - you could open a second file - read-only - on the upper part of the screen, scroll through it with a subset of wordstar keys, and hit something to swap back and forth (I forget what, we had serial terminals with a lot of function keys back then, and brightly colored wordstar labels for them.) The trick was that wordstar had a documented hook for "custom" display drivers and keyboard drivers... so we could easily lie to wordstar that the screen was shorter, and edit the cursor movement sequences to all have an offset, so it would draw on the lower 2/3 of the screen and we had the upper 1/3 for our shenanigans.

This was a couple of years before I first used emacs. (Also, I am sort of amazed that we got paid to do it - very cheap highschool student interns basically, so there were a lot of outright anti-economic aspects of the whole thing. Loads of fun though :-)
Nanban Ventures: With "Friends" Like These
How L.A.'s bird population is shaped by historic redlining
These things are partially related - telcos running things in the cloud, in software, is actually running on top of these hardware innovations, it is just abstracted from them.
>Someone needs to come up with a better name for this. “Quiet quitting” absolutely does not imply the above meaning… that’s simply work and nothing else.

Yeah, that's called "work to rule".
In some sense, everything that has happened was inevitable. We colloquially speak of the “possible but didn’t happen” as if it’s very different from and the “impossible” but in fact those things which didn’t happen were impossible in retrospect. Maybe there is only the “actual”.
Yeah and Slavic people are called that thanks to being enslaved all the time. But this thread is not about them (or Neanderthal).
I was thinking of Sir Isaac Newton but yeah Einstein probably has some ghosts in his closest.
Could you also embed other electron-based apps in this? Thinking an already existing electron-based terminal app. Those are normally oversized and memory hogs but at least for a quick and dirty/accessible terminal tab within this it might be cool, and memory-loving/heavy/large apps are just kind of the nature of the beast these days
> southwestern and southern US (SF, ...)

I never considered SF as southwestern, but Wikipedia says you're correct
I used to work at Big Tech Company and would need to bike through Sterlin court to get to my office in building <redacted> campus.
https://archive.ph/hWKgL
Are they designing the riscv cores themselves?
I’m only suggesting that the great mind is flawed and contradictory. He is a man of his time, of course, but just perhaps a bit too quick to settle into the advantages of being a man of significant influence.

People change and perhaps I’m being harsh. I just thought the paradox was interesting.
People don’t care about public recording as much as they did
at the time of the glass launch.

The ubiquity of the smartphone camera and the public revelations about government surveillance did much to normalize recording in public.

It would be nice to establish norms and laws around anonymization of facial recordings and the need to auto-blur.

But I wouldn’t count on public outrage to hold the line on recording. I don’t anticipate the degree of public backlash we saw with glass.
by splitting your resources across many projects, you run the risk of all of them not reaching a critical threshold for which they experience exponential growth.
The 1950s isn’t pre-modern.
There's an interesting article that explains why that is the way it is

https://www.theregister.com/2011/11/04/bofh_2011_episode_17/
Sunny Albania turns to solar power to fuel development
is GGGP's comment about being forced to hire PD officers as security any different than the forced requirement that film producers in Los Angeles are required to hire ex-LAPD as security, that has been going on for years?

while the article i reference is from ~2008[0], as an LA resident living in Hollywood, i see examples of retired LAPD guys every week "guarding" film sets even in 2023:

Such talk has angered Todd -- who estimates that he makes $100,000 a year working on film sets -- and the other 150-odd retired cops who have the required LAPD-issued permits to assist movie and TV productions.

and

Melissa Patack, a vice president of the Motion Picture Assn. of America, said a wholesale change from retired to off-duty, active LAPD officers would seriously undermine the ability of directors and producers to stay on schedule and budget. Retired officers, who are not subject to the LAPD’s strict overtime limits, can remain on set for the typical 12- to 16-hour days. Patack imagines a scenario where producers instead would have to hire multiple crews of off-duty police officers and disrupt shoots to switch them.

why on earth is there a REQUIREMENT that a film set's producers hire one of retired 150 LAPD officers? based on my many viewings of these ex-LAPD guys, all they do is lounge around on their motorcycles -- not materially different behavior than a regular security person who similarly lounges around, yet is presumably paid much less than an ex-LAPD officer.

it's not just the cops that are corrupt, it's the people who require you to hire them.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-16-me-films...

edited because i messed up the formatting.
This is a nice simple explanation of it. It's also why stock holders use "points" instead of "dollars." A stock share going up $1.50 is amazing if it was a penny stock, and absolutely not worth mentioning if it was say, Tesla. But the points have the same meaning for either stock - one is just a lot higher of a point than the other, even though the dollar change was the same.
I will resort to Reader on Safari. Perhaps other reader extensions will let you copy.

Or turn off Javascript. I keep a window open on the desktop to toggle this. Haven’t figured a shortcut on ios to make this easier.

Ios keeps changing anyway.

I got Sheriff, Userscripts and StopTheScript (all free, IIRC) but haven’t exercised them.

Can’t speak for other browsers and platforms, since an extension is required, or disabling javascript.
Microsoft in talks to sign on Amazon as customer in $1B cloud tools deal
Maybe due in part to the historical deprivation of economic opportunities that would be preferable to such vulnerable arrangements.
Would it be okay if the app is not asking for payment? It seems like it is the same thing as embedding video on website
Cops are different in that they are always on the job. If they see a crime happening, they are obligated to intervene even if they are off duty (probably with some reasonable exceptions, e.g. they aren't going to be writing parking tickets).

The moonlighting cop is still a cop even if off-duty, still has arrest powers and is authorized to use deadly force even while working the second "security" job.
Does Waymo still have two CEOs? Seems like an unusual situation that isn't sustainable if tough decisions need to get made.
Totally unrelated to employee retention, skills development, and possible future projects?
To be able to charge business customers $500-$1500+/month for 10-gig and run an IPX? Sounds cheap!
Since 3 body was first published in 2008 and Extremis in 2017, I think you mean to say "I convinced myself that Extremis was the same story as 3 body"... maybe it's irrelevant, but precedence can matter sometimes
This appears to intended to enable activists to organize protests with just their phones when the centralized telecommunication infrastructure is disrupted by the government. It is a different use case.
This is a treasure trove and I am immensely grateful for your sharing it.
This is all well and good and I agree with most of it, but at some point you need to ask does abundance doesn’t mean happiness or true satisfaction. Can A society they thrives off always pushing be truly content? And if not then what is the point?
AI and smart mouthguards: the new frontline in fight against brain injuries
Amazing write-up.