skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about gas peaker plants?

I think people are letting perfect be the enemy of good, sure they output carbon, but they seem like a much more affordable option for buffering dips in renewables output, compared to batteries or nuclear.
>No such thing as "an algorithm run amuck" - more like "another department run amuck". Someone programmed the thing, someone is running it deliberately.

Not to defend banks, but you know how many bugs the average large software system has?
It's based on the JavaScript Promise type. Where is the concurrency?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Asynchronous is not the same as concurrent.
Why not banks too?

Haven't used your money in a while? Poof! Someone else would make better use of them.

Real estate too. Taxes ain't enough - confiscate vacant property, and sell it at a flat rate at an ~open~ secret auction.

And cars too, of course. Didn't drive it on public roadways in a year? Clearly you don't need it.

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The first analogy is the closest one. People keep money in the bank for convenience, and that's what allows banks to operate.

Social networks use users' posts in the same way. It's their currency. Without it, they are nothing.

This is very different from gaming accounts, where a user profile is little more than the username. People cherish their post and comment history. It's their deposits into the social network.

Of course, I sincerely welcome this move by X. I wouldn't be able to come up with such a great way to shoot oneself in the foot.
I'm not sure why this got downvoted into oblivion. Even if you don't agree, it's not some outrageous drag on the discourse to suggest that "maybe this is inevitable, and we have to get used to it."

After all, we've gotten used to a million things as a society that Puritans said would ruin us and destroy the fabric of our lives, our families, our relationships, etc etc.

I'm sure it's pretty shitty to have nudes of you passed around at school, but the fact remains that this tech isn't going away, and it does seem rather likely that being able to create nudes/pornos of anyone trivially will eventually diminish the impact of them to the point of near insignificance.

If you know you can just type in "getnudes.io" or something and upload a couple pictures and get a full-blown porno of someone in seconds, then there's going to be pornos of everyone that anyone is interested in. To misquote The Incredibles, if everyone is nude, nobody is.
I've anecdotally seen plenty of evidence for object / other being permanence. However I don't know offhand of a good study design for gauging the perception of time rather than other factors like hunger, restroom need, sleep, etc.
Personal vehicles only save time at the individual level, but individual driving slows everyone down due to congestion. Even if mass transit is only faster for say 10% of people taking 10% of drivers off the road makes a huge difference. Imagine pandemic levels of traffic becoming the norm, except as you get people out of cars driving becomes more efficient. That’s the feedback loop which makes it seem like mass transit is always slow even when it’s massively improving things.

Building infrastructure is always an optimization problem and it impacts not just current users but also where people build apartments etc.
They have a large publisher (Paradox Interactive) who prescribes their schedules. They also made bet bookings from Cities: Skylines that put them quite evidently in AAA. Finally, they release the games for all major platforms. All together, this describes a AAA game developer.

In contrast, an AA developer would work with publishers like Annapurna Interactive, Devolver Digital or Team 17, while a III game would have a much smaller scope - like The Witness, The Stanley Parable, or Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. It is clear that Colossal Order doesn’t work with a small publisher or make games of indie scope.

If you were just sealioning, don’t do that please.
If you read the entire document they make it clear it is now required to amortize SRE expenditures and the majority of software development activities (as I previously quoted) are now considered SRE expenditures.

"(3) Software development. Section 13206(a) of the TCJA added new § 174(c)(3) to require that any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021, be treated as a research or experimental expenditure (and thus an SRE expenditure to the extent paid or incurred by the taxpayer during the taxable year in connection with the taxpayer’s trade or business)."

and

".02 Requirement to capitalize and amortize SRE expenditures. Taxpayers are required to capitalize SRE expenditures (as defined in section 4.02(2) of this notice) and amortize such expenditures ratably over the applicable § 174 amortization period beginning with the midpoint of the taxable year in which such expenditures are paid or incurred."
> making sure there's no stagnant water[...]

A couple of months ago I found mosquito larva in some stagnant water in a parking garage, and made sure to pore some bleach into that stagnant puddle when I returned.

I've wondered if the opposite of the "no stagnant water" advice wouldn't be more effective in countries that suffer more from mosquitos. I.e. intentionally create ideal breeding ponds for mosquitos, then kill the eggs/larva/pupa before they emerge from the water as adults.

Edit: Searching some more there's commercial products which allow for the DIY creation of cheap mosquito larva traps: https://www.audubonva.org/news/how-to-set-up-a-mosquito-larv... & https://summitchemical.com/products/mosquito-dunks/
Kant in shambles
I don't mind this notion in the sense of 'our sensory instruments can never/we can never know if they truly reflect reality', but the platonic/neoplatonic version where there's an idealised real world everything we see is a poor imitation of always bugged me
> I think it will lend itself to callers preferring to the use the same names in the calling function as in the parameters to take advantage of this feature, instead of using a name that is more appropriate for the context.

The more concrete a function is, it's more useful than not to have the names match (or be very similar); and that mismatched names smell of bad naming.

Comparing "customerName = customer.bankId" with "customerName = customer.name".. there's less cognitive overhead if the latter is the one which works.

For very 'concrete' functions, e.g. `updateInfo(bankId, customerName, payload)` or `updateInfo(customerName, bankId, payload)` both look correct, and it's possible to imagine one being a typo of another. Named arguments avoids this.

:o) And for those who use LLM tools which can quickly output lots of code which looks-correct-but-may-be-buggy, it's nice to have these 'conservative' features which reduce risk of 'looks correct, but is not what was intended'.

Whereas, say, the arguments to string.format or list.map, these functions are so abstract that positional arguments don't suffer the same risks (to the same extent).
https://archive.ph/xImHl
>p sure Xbox relinquished (inactive) gamertags

And with this move, the level of discourse on X is one step closer to that on Xbox .
The slander / reputation damage alone is the issue. It's an attack on their sense of self and community.
The bus situation is rapidly improved now. Buses are supposed to automatically take pictures of cars in the dedicated bus lane and will auto-fine drivers that park in them.
Other AAA titles have also had horrible, show-stopping launches. If the core game is good, the players will tolerate a lot of bullshit.
Thanks for sharing, that was a very entertaining read and gave me fond memories of the decade or so I worked in a phone switch.

My office was in a space that was shared by a large legacy phone switch, SONET node, and part of our regional data center but I worked in infrastructure doing software development. My proximity[0] meant I ended up being used to support larger infrastructure efforts at times, but it usually just meant I got a lot of good ... stories.

I wonder if there's a collection of Data Center centric "Daily WTF" stories or something similar.

For me, I think my favorite is when we had multiple unexplained power failures very late at night in our test/management DC[0]. It turned out "the big red kill switch" button behind the plexiglass thing designed to make sure someone doesn't accidentally "lean into it and shut everything off" was mistaken for the "master light switch" by the late night cleaning crew. Nobody thought about "the cleaning crew" because none of the other DCs allowed cleaning crew anywhere near them but this was a test switch (someone forgot about the other little detail). If memory serves, it took a few outages before they figured it out. The facilities manager actually hung around one night trying to witness it only to have the problem not happen (because the cleaning lady didn't turn the lights off when people were there, duh!). I'd like to say that it was almost a "maybe bugs/animals/ghosts are doing it" impulse that caused them to check the cameras but it was probably also the pattern being recognized as "days coinciding with times that the late night cleaning crew does their work."

Outside of that, the guy who made off with something like 4 of these legacy switch cards because some fool put a door stop on the door while moving some equipment in was probably really excited when he found out they were valued at "more than a car" but really disappointed when he put them on eBay for something like $20,000 (which was, I wanna say at least a 50% markdown), was quickly noticed by the supplier[2] was arrested and we were awaiting the return of our hardware.

[0] Among many other things due to a diverse 17-year career, there, but mostly just because I was cooperative/generally A-OK with doing things that "were far from my job" when I could help out my broader organization.

[1] When that went down, we couldn't connect to the management interfaces of any of the devices "in the network". It's bad.

[2] Alarms went off somewhere -- these guys know if you are using their crap, you're stuck with their crap and they really want you stuck paying them for their crap. I'm fairly certain the devices we used wouldn't even function outside of our network but I don't remember the specifics. AFAIK, there's no "pre-owned/liquidation-related market" except for stripping for parts/metals. When these things show up in unofficial channels, they're almost certainly hot.
These are not conservatives, they are criminals, authoritarians, fascists, and unhinged conspiracy theorists, who should not be given “free reach” to spread their message to millions of people.

On the other hand, pg, the creator of this site, was banned under the new management at Twitter. Ditto many other people whose only transgressions were saying words like “cis” or relaying publicly-available information.

Free speech indeed.
> I am also surprised with the idea that electricity consumption will go down. With heating going electric, cars going electric, and mass immigration (hence population growth), that seems counter intuitive to me.

The article says energy consumption (which includes electricity and also fossil fuels burned for heating/transportation) will go down, but electricity consumption will go up.

But even the rise in electricity consumption will be tempered by the fact that electrical end uses are so much more efficient than fossil fuel burning equivalents, in particular for heating and transportation.

Heat pumps can move 3-4 times more energy than they consume, and EVs are likewise far more efficient at turning energy into motion.
> 64TB NAS priceless

Gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers in this racket.
Elon didn’t get in because letting a celebrity billionaire in would be death for any Berlin club.

It would make the scene’s champagne Marxism just a little too obvious for comfort.

It has nothing to do with his vibe. A non-celebrity ultra high net worth individual would get the red carpet treatment. Berghain guestlist isn’t at all hard to get.
Do Programming Certifications Still Matter?
Having watched the video, all I can think about is this [1], Soul Limbo by Booker T. and the M.G.'s. Times were certainly better once upon a time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWHFa2848uM
You should try reading it, then, to see if it will be of any value to you.
> Your position is not universal

True. But neither is the other position
I think its gonna have the opposite effect long term. Look at how the kim k sex tape turned out. Now when a celeb has theirs leaked, its literally non news. Long term ai nudes will result in the same thing for the avg person.
If it has the same effect, what's the difference? She's clearly hurt. The person who generated it doesn't care that it's fake, and I bet anyone they share it with doesn't. Kids are brutal.
I suspect the encryption here is broken due to CTR mode AES with IV reuse. Try printing out the IV in the segment function. It's the same value across sessions.

Another thing I see is that AES-CTR is being used alone, so there is no integrity guarantee for the messages.

I didn't have time to look into it any more deeply. The user interface and concept look really nice, but I would strongly recommend a cryptographic audit. In general, you shouldn't have to reach for the subtle constructs in a cryptographic library to build product features.
Compared to the total cost of ownership of an automobile (Easily hitting $10,000/year), public transit looks like an absolute bargain.

And that's not counting all the other costs of automobile infrastructure. Endless parking lots, huge road footprint, 'free' curbside parking...
On the other hand, I'd rather debug/maintain one of these mechanisms than software. You can easily see what's going on, and why something might not be working, by simple visual inspection and manipulation.

Also, these are going to survive EMP very well.
Money falls out of armoured bank trucks all over highways when it’s supposed to be secured in the back sometimes. Stuff happens. Humans etc
People don't want to see people on their perceived level getting something they are not. People will accept people they perceive as at a lower level getting something but it can't be more than them . Because many people working are at the poverty level or lower these programs have to be set lower than that which is lower then the minimum needed.

The money spent on fighting individuals could be offered as a top-up to the working poor which would other programs to raise levels.
Speaking from experience it was just the crazy leaking out into the real world. The top guys have been fighting over which way the sky is falling for 40 years. I was pretty surprised others didn’t pick up on it.
I really like Go channels, and I was looking for something like this in JS.

One of the earlier implementations is this one, albeit not maintained anymore: https://github.com/NodeGuy/channel
I think I prefer its more concise API, e.g. for select (https://github.com/NodeGuy/channel/blob/main/API.md#examples). ts-chan's API looks a bit too verbose to my taste.

Here's an example from ts-chan:

import {recv, Chan, Select} from 'ts-chan';

const ch1 = new Chan<number>();
const ch2 = new Chan<string>();

void sendsToCh1ThenEventuallyClosesIt();
void sendsToCh2();

const select = new Select([recv(ch1), recv(ch2)]);
for (let running = true; running;) {
const i = await select.wait();
switch (i) {
case 0: {
const v = select.recv(select.cases[i]);
if (v.done) {
running = false;
break;
}
console.log(`rounded value: ${Math.round(v.value)}`);
break;
}
case 1: {
const v = select.recv(select.cases[i]);
if (v.done) {
throw new Error('ch2 unexpectedly closed');
}
console.log(`uppercase string value: ${v.value.toUpperCase()}`);
break;
}
default:
throw new Error('unreachable');
}
}

I would consider rewriting the API to something like this:

import { receive, Channel, select } from 'ts-chan';

const ch1 = new Channel<number>();
const ch2 = new Channel<string>();

void sendsToCh1ThenEventuallyClosesIt();
void sendsToCh2();

for (let running = true; running;) {
switch(await select([receive(ch1), receive(ch2)])) {
case ch1: {
if (ch1.done) {
running = false;
break;
}
console.log(`rounded value: ${Math.round(ch1.value)}`);
}
case ch2: {
if (ch1.done) {
throw new Error('ch2 unexpectedly closed');
}
console.log(`uppercase string value: ${ch2.value.toUpperCase()}`);
break;
}
}
}
Nvidia: No More NV Link Even on Pro GPUs?
We could potentially do it over the span of millions of years. Not without risk though. And generally we would want to move further from the sun when it reaches a later stage in its life and starts to expand. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Earth
Or, if that’s too hard, leave the orbit the same but slow the spin down a little so each day is longer. A 0.35% decrease in spin speed seems fine right?
I noticed that it "hallucinates" in the most direct sense of the word as the description goes on.
The TPM is a black box that has no business in hardware. It simply takes control away from you. Make excuses for 'only when watching a video' or 'only when you play a game', the overwhelming trend in technology is that any practical means to lock things down WILL be explored by capital, to maintain social dominance.

MS already has TPM and secure boot requirements. What's stopping them from colluding with the Copyright Cartel and embedding keys in the firmware that, if removed, disable functionality on the device or on property networks?

You are giving FAR too much trust to entities proven to have an interest in limiting computing freedoms.
> you can have a backup of your YouTube subscriptions, playlists etc emailed to you every month

Sent to your gmail account? :D
X is fine, hatred of it or equivocating about what was demonstrated in The Twitter Files does seem to say more about the media narratives one is predominately exposing oneself to, or one’s direct political leanings, more than reflect the reality for users on the platform.

I mean, I get to read translated tweets from both Bibi and the Ayatollah, which is a depth of exposure I’d not see in MSM. I like that about X. I don’t think you get that kind of thing on Threads. You can choose who you follow and interact with on X, there’s no shortage of fascinating people and personalities, and ultimately you make it what you want. Some of the new features, like Community Notes, are appreciated.

All else being equal, I prefer less government/NGO/employee censorship collusion, so that’s a big change compared to old Twitter. I like to see contrarian viewpoints. It also differentiates the platform from Facebook and YouTube. I realize some people think differently, and I guess that’s what Threads is for. But Twitter/X seems like a more vibrant place to me than it did before.

There’s still no shortage of left-leaning shit posting and there’s probably more right-leaning shit posting than was allowed before. Tune out the noise. The idea that clearing the leftist and establishment filters has made the place an abandoned and barren hellscape is quite the opposite of reality, IME.
No worries, you'll be mugged by reality sooner or later, I'm sorry to say.
How do you infer such a generalization when the OP was referring to something very specific?

It's possible for them to believe that the techno/rave/DJ scene is worse now, and that other similar culture/social activities done now are not.
I think people raise hundreds of millions of dollars to win a job that pays less than a junior SWE because they’re just so darn public spirited, obviously.
I don't think the difference matters in the slightest to the person being impersonated. It wouldn't matter to me, the damaging thing is that nudes of you are circulating not that the photos are real. How could anyone who isn't the victim even know the difference?
This comment made things more clear to me than the documentation that I saw, perhaps because I was looking at it from a Quest 3 perspective and their main page about it doesn't mention that at all.

I know what Open XR is all about but again, it's not clear which you should actually use for development if you're only targeting Quest devices, for instance. A little extra documentation would go a long way.

The same goes for all of the other things so frequently mentioned like their renderers.
Previously discussed is not bad--especially since the last discussion was 5+ years ago!
Could they try putting a very very strong and focused spotlight on the front of the train? The light would be visible through their eyelids and wake them up.
The FPU for the 8086 was a separate chip, and the IBM PC still required a board full of chips to make a working computer.

(If I recall correctly, it wasn't until the 486 that the FPU was incorporated.)
It sucks, but it's the lesser of two evils scenario.

A world where nudes of you are floating around and you can't make the claim that they're AI fakes is far worse than one where nudes of you are floating around and you can make that claim.

Even the slimmest of plausible deniability is enough to save face in a lot of situations.
I don't think the railcars are carrying fermented grain, they carry grain which spills and ferments... However getting grain to ferment is somewhat tricky compared to fruit, you need the right amount of water at the right time to get it to malt and then ferment so I'm surprised there's enough of it. Just surprising, not doubting it happens.

I assume the spills are from hoppers with worn out chutes, because I would not expect open hoppers for grain transport.
For science, I see how one insight leads to another, and there is a progression which leads to deeper and deeper understanding. And if there never was a Newton, gravity would have been described by someone else not too long after. That seems somewhat inevitable to me. But I don't grok philosophy. Is that also a progression of insights in a similar way? Or is it completely arbitrary what philosophical ponderings become important during different human eras?
This assumes that the new ponds will pull mosquitoes away from existing ponds. Is this true? (Maybe mosquitoes are limited by suitable breeding grounds, and introducing decoys could have no effect.)
Do you have a link or article for that? That's great if so, I hadn't heard about it.

(I live on one of the most heavily used SBS routes in Brooklyn, and I've been disheartened by the blatant disregard trucks and other large cars have for the bus lane and bus parking slots. The stop closely to me is more often than not occupied by a trailer truck, meaning that the SBS bus unloads 50+ directly into traffic.)
Hi, I've been involved in the dance scene stateside for 20+ years, and I'm also quite a bit of a skeptic myself. I would argue that it's not quite an urban legend, as US and European nightlife cultures both "party" a bit differently than one another - to condense this concept perhaps a bit unfairly, the general conception is that Americans party hard up front and can't "hang" for a long time, while Europeans pace out their partying over longer stretches of time.

There's at least a degree of resistance towards letting in too much of the American ethos, or at least in trying to make sure that the American tourist trying to get into the club is capable of hanging and respecting the hedonism within, as opposed to going balls to the wall for the sake of going balls to the wall.
Yeah no. Making a nude of someone without their permission seems like a pretty serious violation of a persons sense of self and identity. It seems worse to release it the public.
What do you mean "in the same sense we do?"

Pets are good at learning your schedule. They know when you normally come home, or when you feed them, and they start to get impatient if you're late in either.

Sure, that example relies on another factor as a frame of reference (hunger, or the sun setting). But don't humans do that as well? Our sense of time shifts dramatically when we're kept indoors without the ability to see natural light.