skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was in Dallas, I believe. But this was in the 80s before the Peace Dividend when there was a lot of defense money sloshing around. I met him in Chicago in the 90s and he, and a lot of TI folks, had left Texas as the defense related work dried up. The team I was on in Chicago was working on the flight data recorder for the F-22 which still had funding.
That is indeed what seems to be happening in this thread.

Either way, it should never be labeled "bad practice", as it was done here.
why would they? for most people in the western world it seems location doesn't matter anymore.
You are lucky, I got nothing for heavily suggesting a ~1M/year saving.

The only "personal" reward I get from that is: whenever I feel guilty for not having done much in a given day, I remind myself that by this action alone, I've saved my company several times what I would ever cost them.

Helps with self-esteem, but I don't think my company see it that way.
Only showing arguments on one side is bias, even if Wikipedia's editors don't like the side you're censoring.
Closest I could find in Unicode is Ƭ̵̬̊
Indeed. Thank you.

HN is a bit like the Whole Earth Catalogue’s “Access to Tools” section.

Curated, [gravity-powered][1] links are the Access to Tools article.

Ranked comments are the books related to the article displayed on the sidebar.

[1]: https://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2011/Learning_to_identify.pdf
I have this crazy idea that you could rewrite finger/fingerd in rust, and perhaps jail it for extra peace of mind and revive the service with some new, modern, even dare-I-say futuristic features. Haven’t spent any time on it this year but you just reminded me.
Precisely. If you chose your product/company name to be a common word in the english language you should expect it to be more difficult to exclude others from using it too. I don't think there's anything wrong with this, it's just the consequence of a non-distinctive trademark.

This should apply for both threads software and meta.

I'm a bit surprised how many people here have sympathy for companies trying to enforce exclusivity over common names. Let anybody use "threads" if they want.
Did they show any GPU benchmarks or otherwise give an indication that the Linux support will be relatively full-featured? Because what I've seen so far is just a Geekbench CPU score on Linux that was significantly higher than the Windows score because fan control wasn't working on Linux.
Helical Spirals Q&A with ChatGPT4
Comments from me to other submissions or comments to my submissions?
That's because Mr. Nissan doesn't sell cars. Here threads is already trademarked in the software space.
> Has anyone looked into the theory that SO2 is an "anti-greenhouse" gas

Yes.. there is an entire section in the IPCC report dedicated to this. This is also the reason they believe there is a "missing volcanic eruption," as it would explain data anomalies in their back projections. Make of that what you will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1808_mystery_eruption
I remember RZR, FLT and DRG.
There was also a group doing rips where they took out all alternate language audio, re-compressed cutscenes, and then repacked the whole came with uHARC, turning 9.4GB downloads into 5GB, maybe even less. I had a good internet connection already at that time, but I imagine for people in countries with bad internet (<2020s American internet for example) it must have been magical.
“From way up here I can see our doom.”
Not reasonable, IMO; if you sell back, you should sell back at a premium. Otherwise keep.
> you are literally seeing the benefit from upgrading right now, mesh shaders increase performance and reduce VRAM utilization substantially.

And yet, games were able to get on just fine without them for decades. Remedy's previous games worked just fine without them!

What's so special about this one that suddenly prevents it from running acceptably without it? Would anything of value have been lost if they had just reused the Control engine?
the same story was from ashai Linux developers. I saw on mastodon that they said they will not be upstreaming all changes for that reason
There are still more talented crackers in the wild, emulators still getting worked on, new DRMs being defeated, denuvo is the exception. Sadly you can't expect people to work a month+ for free for cracking games with arguably less quality every year.

Also a pet theory of mine is that teenagers (the ones with actually free time) currently tend to pick these skills less often, more computer and internet access but tons more of cheap entertainment and a steeper learning curve.
Who knows what I would have learned if I had TikTok, Instagram and infinite free/cheap games when growing up.
Another group to mention is Knights Of Doom. Bunch of high school kids from Turkiye, they were rebranding already existing cracks/warez releases. One of the innovation that they brought to the scene was self-typed serial number boxes. So, you insert a CD to setup a game for example, you go through installer and then you realise serial number is already typed in. They even had their own forum so.
I'm surprised that no one here disagreeing with him seems able to muster a non-ad-hominem argument against what he's saying.
I know nothing of Snowflake pricing, but how big is their infrastructure that leaving it on for an extended amount of time could see that much savings?

To put it another way, to rack up $500k spend for 30 days of constant provisioned time:

$500k/(30*24) = $694/hour

Presumably, with the 10 minute blocks, there was idle time where the spend was zero, so the instantaneous amount would be higher.
Open source projects rarely involve live services, or providing SaaS. In those situations I think microservices are much more helpful
I guess they will just unplug it? the fact that they need large amounts of electricity, which is not trivial to make, makes them very vulnerable. power is usually the first thing to go in a war. not to mention there is no machine that self replicates. full humanoid robots are going to have an immense support burden the same way that cars do with complex supply chains. I guess this is the reason nature didn't evolve robots
I think pledge(2) and unveil(2) would help to prevent "what can be done if a bug is exploited", yes?
If I were writing about it as a journalist I would just refer to it as Twitter.com.
I'd say that we need to discover a source of energy that produces SO2 as a byproduct, but given our species' track record we would probably trigger an ice-age in a few decades.
They had an incredible capacity to compress large games... as a broke person with ~1MB/s ADSL, it was the only reason I was able to pirate GTA IV back in the day. They really thought about the common gamer...
After recent news of FB offering paid subscriptions in the EU[1], I think it's important to remember they still largely exploit their users and non-users, via incessant tracking and shadow profiles.

One aspect this paper doesn't answer, and probably nobody outside FB _can_ answer, is what are these profiles used for? They can't possibly be only for giving potential new users a better onboarding experience; that's a lot of data to keep around for a minor percentage of new signups. I speculate they make a profit off of it on the $300bn data broker market, even though FB has denied selling user data. I don't trust anything they say publicly, so I'm curious what HN thinks, since all we can do is speculate.

This was previously discussed in 2022 with 145 comments[2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38068635

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30389905
DTrace (on Solaris at least) can instrument any userspace symbol or address, no need for static tracepoints in the app.

One problem that DTrace has is that the "pid" provider that you use for userspace app tracing only works on processes that are already running. So, if more processes with the executable of interest launch after you've started DTrace, its pid provider won't catch the new ones. Then you end up doing some tricks like tracking exec-s of the binary and restarting your DTrace script...
I wonder why you think PPM is not well-understood.

if anything, for normies, temperature is far less well understood than concentration, especially WRT zero.
I'm always struggled with these types of people who think they're better than you and expect you to treat them as such.

The weird part is if you show them up or prove that you're better than them in some way they become extremely ass kissing.

I find it disingenuous and nauseating and it seems that a lot of people are like this if not most people.

Maybe this is just the normal human hierarchy at work and I have autism and I don't connect with it.

I just try to treat everyone equally. I guess I'm the weirdo.
A hilarious juxtaposition. Generally Rust programs' source are forwards incompatible and a program written by a rust dev $now won't even be able to be compiled on a rustc from 3 months ago. This is not an exaggeration or hyperbole but something that happened to me multiple times in 2020-2022 before I stopped even attempting to use rust source code. Whereas a Perl program written today could be interpeted and executed on a perl interpeter from 1999.
Even if they didn’t make any offer before, I would think that’s proof that at least some of their personnel think there can be confusion.

Also, why would another team remove “anyone using the name "threads" on any of their properties”, if not after instruction from upper management?

Assuming that’s what triggered removal, that’s proof that upper management thinks there can be confusion.
Wordpress isn't really a web framework, it's a CMS with custom built themes which may include various frameworks.
I can’t stress enough the importance of house plants. Man this is depressing. I know the left-hand scale should be factored but this isn’t stock, it shouldn’t but “up and to the right”.
>My wife works in a heavily unionized industry

Which industry?

>You're free to negotiate directly better terms if you can, you just can't do worse

Do you have sources for this? I'm not doubting you, its just I admit I'm not experienced with unions but from what I've gathered from friends/family, you have certain "steps" in salary/benefits. Are you negotiating with the union or with the company? Can you negotiate every year or only when you first start?

>Saying that 2% or 5% should be able to get exactly what they want

Well, IMO its not really about people getting exactly what they want, its about getting what is owed to each individual. I would love to be paid $1,000,000 to make CRUD apps all day but that's not possible (unless I owned the business or something). As it is now, when you take on a job you can negotiate salary and benefits. No use fighting over an orange when one person wants to eat it and the other wants the skin. I've negotiated tens of thousands of dollars in salary. Sometimes a business needs something done fast and has the money. Sometimes they have less money but can meet you on vacation/benefits. If a union establishes a higher floor, it will be at the expense of a ceiling, at least for software. I'm not saying unions are reason for the horribly low tech salaries in Europe... but the way employment there is handled is certainly a factor. Why take risks on people if you can't really get rid of them after you hire them?

>Welcome to democracy [...] I'm not sure what you'd replace it with

Right now, I can represent myself to my employer and I deal directly with my employer. A union would introduce a middleman that may or may not represent me well. Of course, a union would bring with it "leverage" of collective negotiation... but for me, that is not worth it to give up my ability to negotiate as an individual.

I do get your points though. Democracy is a pretty awful system but it is the "least-worst." I think direct representation to your employer is the "least-worst" for software engineering though.
It feels like this article completely sidesteps the aspects of the trait of “PDA,” which maybe should be a central point.

I want to not care about authority, yet PDA and demands make it actually top of mind and debilitating
If anything, LLM can help process vast troves of customer data, communication and meta data more effectively than ever before.
Apparently (I don't remember it, although I probably did read the Byte magazine at the time) there was a rumor in the early 1980s that IBM's PC was going to be a shrunken 370, called the 380. [1][2]

I wish IBM would shrink their LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 Rack Mount down to at least an "under the desktop" model. To my knowledge, IBM still makes quality products and has excellent customer service. They have fun names too (Rockhopper and Emperor are types of penguins!) and they even have 3D models of their rack mount cloud computers with shadows. [3] In fact, when I first read about Oxide a year or two ago, I searched for "IBM cloud server", and left it at that. So IBM, could you please send someone from the LinuxONE down to Boca Raton to create our new PC? :) Thanks!

P.S. I would even accept a shrunken 370. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer

[2] https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-01/page/n313/...

[3] https://www.ibm.com/demos/it-infrastructure/ux/product.html#...
I can buy a shed from Home Depot for <$1,000 which is $229k less than that concrete home in Detroit if all we want to compare is price. So the question is how good are those $150k and $50k houses? If they're anything like the rest of American housing stock, they have utter shit for sound insulation, andmoft aren't much better for heat/cold insulation. Not that concrete is any good for thermal insulation, but sound insulation is a very underrate but very critical aspect for anything resembling dense housing.
Isn't it AGI people are afraid of and not AI per se?
You offer no data or citation to evidence your claims so I won’t bother attempting to refute your opinions.

> In large I feel your response missed the point I’m making.

Which is what? Beyond casting aspersions and making claims with no data the only point I see you making is: “I think I can do better by myself” which is an assertion laughably disproved by the basic history of labor organization.

I feel you missed the point when your argument failed to make cogent case as to why unions would actually hurt your job prospects beyond “a feeling.” Come back with some data and maybe you might actually have point that can be argued.
>You paid dues and got nothing but lower wages in return.

What exactly did you want in return? The entire purpose is to be a collective with your co-workers. Do assertive, high performers need unionization? No, but that's not the point.

>The union would also protect the jobs of under-performing employees which was just demoralizing

If the "under-performers" are the people who don't work 50 hours a week and treat their job like a job, I'm all for them being "protected".
Four offers! I'd love to see what those were. Any educated guesses?
Generic-ism is the goal with the name. The intention is for it to become a generic "everything" app, so a generic name makes sense. It signals a message too. The change from a community where everyone is chirping each other to one which values long-form discussion and balanced discourse. X also symbolizes strength and the crossing of paths.
Do you have any tips on how to stand out in the crowd? What is the government looking for in an application, generally?
When discussing microservices, the proponents almost always forget the key aspect of this concept, the micro part. The part that makes this stand out (everyone already heard about services, there's no convincing necessary here, if you feel like you need a service, you just make one, and don't fret about it).

So, whenever someone advocates for this concept, they "forget" to factor in the fragmentation caused by requiring that services be very small. To make this more concrete: if you have a monolith + microservice, you don't have microservices, because the later implies everything is split into tiny services, no monoliths.

Most of the arguments in favor of microservices fall apart as soon as you realize that it has to be micro. And once you back out of the "micro" requirement, you realize that nothing new or nothing deep is being offered.
Seems like it makes the point perfectly well. You are implying that smaller countries have fewer nukes because of US sanctions, but it could easily also be that those countries are simply smaller. Where it mattered, the US's main enemy, the US regulation did nothing to stop Russia from building as many nukes as they wanted to.

Also, the US has significantly less power worldwide than it did for most of that chart. Today, arguably, China exerts as much power as the US. American's always love to brag about how exceptional the US is, but often that isn't as true as they think and certainly won't be true for the long run.

Long term planning needs to avoid such arrogance.
Due to the high pressure in the closed circuit, the density of supercritical CO2 is similar to that of a liquid, and this allows very small turbines and pumps for a given power.

Nevertheless, the circuit must also include heat exchangers and those are not reduced in size as much as the turbines and the pumps.

Therefore the very small sCO2 turbine will be accompanied by much larger heat exchangers, so the reduction in size of a complete system is not so impressive as the shrinking of the turbine.

Even so, the sCO2 system has another advantage over the traditional steam turbines, when used for the recovery of the waste heat from a gas turbine, or when using any other high-temperature heat source, like a nuclear reactor. Because the steam generation happens at a constant temperature, which must be relatively low for reasonable pressures, the heat transfer from a high-temperature source is inefficient. Due to this, for the recovery of the waste heat of a gas turbine are used typically 3 steam turbines whose steam generators work at different temperatures and pressures, not a single turbine.

Supecritical CO2 can be heated with a heat exchanger having a gradient of temperature along it, which allows a single sCO2 turbine to replace 3 steam turbines in a combined-cycle power plant.
Well yeah, obviously different people have different dreams depending on what they value. Mine is ZFS but with the licensing situation fixed so it can be mainlined into Linux, or BTRFS but trustworthy and with better cross-platform support. Though I did also once sketch out a distributed filesystem that would combine the features of ZFS (ui, stability), BTRFS (heterogeneous pools), minio (distributed, erasure coding), ceph (distributed, FUSE+NFS+native kernel driver) to give me one ultimate filesystem that could scale from 1 disk in 1 drive to a single filesystem across dozens of machines and hundreds of drives. (Mostly, I noticed that at a high level, a lot of filesystems and sync tools boil down to "slice up your files into blocks, append a checksum, and then save/mirror/stream those blocks wherever you need to" - if you squint, BTRFS and bittorrent are really similar)
Idk if you've tried threads but personally I like it a ton more than twitter
Here's the literal money quote:

> Economic growth, as it is conventionally pursued, is unlikely to allow us to achieve our social, climate, and biodiversity goals. The fundamental challenge lies in the difficulty of decoupling economic growth from harmful environmental impacts (figure 5a). Although technological advancements and efficiency improvements can contribute to some degree of decoupling, they often fall short in mitigating the overall ecological footprint of economic activities (Hickel et al. 2021). The impacts vary greatly by wealth; in 2019, the top 10% of emitters were responsible for 48% of global emissions, whereas the bottom 50% were responsible for just 12% (Chancel 2022). We therefore need to change our economy to a system that supports meeting basic needs for all people instead of excessive consumption by the wealthy (O'Neill et al. 2018).
I got downleveled in a job offer recently after being interviewed about a project which I labored to make as simple and efficient as possible. They said after careful evaluation, the project wasn't technical enough to merit the title I wanted. Live and learn!
Le sigh. Threads is a generic term in messaging and forums (even BBS?) and has been since before Threads Software Limited started in 2014. Just being awarded a trademark doesn't mean it will hold up. Doesn't help that they've apparently let threads.com run since 2019.

Slack gets to trademark "Slack" for messaging software. Microsoft doesn't get to trademark "Word" for word processors.
I'm just more surprised they didn't just buy out the company outright. That used to be Microsoft's thing...why bother, if I can just "embrace and extinguish" them?
Rename tables and columns in Postgres with zero downtime
There are two distinct ways to earn karma.

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You don't get any karma for voting on someone else's thing.
I don't get it. Forum "threads" are a well-established, common word. How can you just trademark a core domain word like that?

It's like if a bank named itself (and trademarked) "Bank", or like if YouTube renamed to (and trademarked) "Videos".

The law shouldn't allow companies to buy rights to already-in-use words. Besides, why would you want to? Isn't it better to have a unique, memorable name?
You dismiss CCS (solution) by emphasizing the size of the carbon emitted (problem).

That's not a complete argument.

Do you have a critique of the IPCC's stance that CCS is part of the solution and necessary to decarbonize hard to abate sectors like steel/cement? [0]

[0] https://www.catf.us/2022/04/what-does-latest-ipcc-report-say...
For some reason, what actually stands out to me in this paper is the method in which they verified the rotational motion. They used single-molecule fluorescence and optically tracked the circular trajectories that the single molecule traced out while spinning. That's the most impressive part, in my opinion... I didn't know we could even resolve fluorescing particles on that scale, much less track their trajectories over time.
If you're going to note his credentials as a physist & Caltech president, you should also note that he was also employed by BP as the oil and gas company’s Chief Scientist from 2004 and 2009.

Remember, one of the oldest ruse of climate-change deniers is to equate weather and climate.
Good news - you're not, because your tax dollars doesn't pay for much of anything. The US Government has monetary sovereignty and "pays for things" that way.
Well, at least the newest iPhone Pro models finally support it! Apple seems to finally be coming around to the idea of non-MPEG codecs.

> HEVC and VVC seem to have more hardware support.

Yes to HEVC, but which common SoC already supports VVC? AV1 hardware support seems to be much more widespread.
Is this original (aka AI) content? I love it
We’ll just bury it like we do with our heads.
Funny you mention that, because the UK (CMA) ordered Facebook to undo its acquisition of Giphy after it had already closed on the grounds that Giphy might potentially have entered the UK market and competed with Facebook had it not been acquired

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/18/facebook-...
Looks like is really generic website, It would appreciated more niche debates rather than trying to cover any possible topic.
I think UK-wise it's likely to confuse consumers because Threads means post-nuclear wasteland there.
How soon we will see personal, indoor CO2 removal devices ?
This was supposed to be a personality test, not a political debate. Why would he even bring it up?