skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies have already begun using RCS as an opportunity to flood my phone with ads that take up way too much space in the notification shade. Also not from the US, so I can just use a 3rd party app
Yes, this. I read it back when it came back and while it drew many parallels between computed systems with very few rules and real world phenomena, it never really did more than show examples and say, "Look, look how similar this is, this could be a thing, right?"

It was interesting and one of the best explorations of automata that I've seen, but I don't think anyone could draw any conclusions from it.
The first two Swedish nuclear plants won't come online for at least 12 years, and the next eight aren't scheduled to be operational until 2045. That's 22 years in the future.

Personally I think your timeline for storage is going to prove wildly conservative (we already have 5GW installed in CA, China is building capacity exponentially.) But even if you're right: these nuclear plants are going to come online right at the moment when storage makes them economically obsolete.
No. The US government should stay out of other countries business’. They should even stay out of NATO. But again, I’m sure you don’t have that level of consistency.
Absolutely, but I'd rather just have you read this paper on environmental justice laws in the nuclear industry. It will educate you a bit more.

For the nuclear energy industry, environmental justice considerations are relevant to every stage of the life cycle of nuclear energy.

https://www.bdlaw.com/publications/nuclear-energy-and-enviro...
RCS isn't either - it is a proprietary feature when using Google's client with Google's server.
Did you try and fix it yourself? Was that not allowed?
What is that jockey doing on the horse? We only pay him to race!
I mean it is because everyone else is doing it. Because everyone else incorporated in Delaware, that's where the case law is well established, all existing contracts are written in terms of DE corporate case law, etc. etc.

We all could have picked Road Island or New York instead. But for historical reasons it was Delaware.
Both you and I know that your support or hate are limited to comments on the Internet. No one really worries about that moving the needle. When the thing is done, you'll fall into line with the new norms. I doubt anyone is that concerned one way or another.
I personally use a 28600lm, 2ft, 220W linear bay light from superbrightleds.com for $130. The CRI is only 80+, but I personally don't think I can tell the difference. Like the other poster, I am cheap, but like actually cheap in that I made a spreadsheet to get the greatest lumens/$.

I wouldn't suggest going brighter though, 30klm is already bright enough I can't look at the light directly and need to bounce it off the walls for comfort. The cat doesn't seem to mind though: https://i.imgur.com/aTegmqR.mp4
Very, very nice!

Could even reuse the explicit template parameter for the verbosity level, like:

log<I>(…); // info
log<D>(…); // debug
How the Brain Stops Time (2010)
We need it now and in the future. Cleaning up many industries amounts to increasing energy expenditure in order to turn pollutants into benign side products. There is no reason to expect our energy demands to go down and every reason to think they will continue to rise in massive amounts. Especially if you expect the poor countries to continue to industrialize and modernize.
My take is that the Swedes think Trump has a realistic chance in 2024 and that would be the end of NATO. And they don't want to be the next Ukraine.

"From 1945 to 1972[1] the government ran a clandestine nuclear weapons program"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_weapons_progra...
Hi, privacy and anonymity are different things. Named transactions can still be private.
Did you had issues with overuse of CPU after a sleep on win10? And vmmem using 7Go
of ram with absolutely nothing running on win11?

I would rather use the 8G macpro than my 16G windows for any task: 4Go for the ms bloat + 7 Go for vmmem, I'm very, very short on usable memory.
How difficult is it to change, in practice? If I've got an LLC or a corp in a different state, can I form a DE C corp and arrange to have that buy my whatever?
When you are making multi-million dollars, that’s when you spend the money on the cloud. There is a spot somewhere between “survive on cloud credits” and “survive in the cloud” where “survive on bare metal” makes far more sense. The transitions are hard, but it is worth it.
They claimed 80% was the level needed to see effectiveness. That’s not the same thing as “requiring” anything of their customers.
It’s not countries mandating a minimum price (although regulators often impose a maximum), but the carriers themselves.

> If you are drawing as much billable traffic as you are sending

SMS verification traffic is usually unidirectional, so that’s very unlikely to be the case.
> How can BG make you unemployable?

- He could drag up and publicise something you wrote at some point and make you one of the "today's twitter main character" people. (Last I heard Justine Sacco was still unemployed). If he did this by paying a competent PR firm, you'd never know it wasn't just something that happened by coincidence

- He could get linkedin to quietly drop or deprioritise your job applications

- He could get outlook to quietly drop your emails, or mark them as spam, or show an unprofessional profile picture. You'd never know why you weren't being hired.

- He could put something bad on the "credit report" (different from your actual credit report, and no practical way to see it for yourself) that Experian etc. send to potential employers. Again you'd just silently not get hired and never know why

- Given the silicon valley wage-fixing scandal happened and the punishment was minimal, there's probably an old-school blacklist he could put you on if he was feeling retro

> Who has he done this to?

We don't know. Unlike governments, private entities have no accountability (as long as they have money to burn); investigative journalists aren't going after them, FOIA doesn't exist for them...
any excuse to not donate!
IANAL, and perhaps you are but I don’t believe it is 100% legal. Seems like a matter of degree. What the parent is describing could reasonably be construed as illegal signaling and/or pricing collusion if the market is itself the mechanism for collusion. There will be some interesting internal emails.

Good overview of signaling here - https://www.jonesday.com/-/media/files/publications/2016/09/...
Just your typical political/social warfare manipulation piece. Everyone involved in it is horrendously politically biased, and you have to follow their links 10 layers deep trying to find the source of anything they've claimed, and at the very bottom of the links nothing they link to even exists anymore.
There are two types of remote hands: dumb and smart (under various names)

Most colocation facilities include dumb hands for free. Push a button, tell me what lights are on, plug in a monitor and tell me what it says, move the network cable from port 14 to 15, replace the drive with the spare sitting in the rack, etc.

Smart hands are billed around $100-$300/hr or a flat rate per task from a menu. Write an image to a USB stick and reinstall the OS on a server. Unrack and replace a switch. Figure out which drive has failed in the server and replace it. etc.

I've ran computers in datacenters for 20+ years and maybe used smart hands 1 or 2 times.
Why 5%?

It is doable and people do it.

Here in Australia anyway.

You just need enough Solar, enough battery, and controls on your power load.

Not saying it’s easy or commonplace right now, but if you really want to, you can go off-grid!

In Australia at least.
There's quite a history of capabilities-based research OS's that culminated in, but did not start with L4 (of which seL4 is a later variant).
I really hope this happens in my lifetime! Is anyone currently working on it?
Total idle speculation: magicians are more likely to be skeptics, and therefore less prone to madness of crowds or self-deceit.
This approach is at odds with rule of law and historically has not redressed injustices but rather created societies where power is even more concentrated and even less accountable.

The primary purpose of any and all reparations rhetoric in the US today is to divide the electorate by anything other than economic position in order to maintain a status quo whose legitimacy is beginning to erode. And it's working quite well, since you're delivering grandiose proclamations while advocating for nihilism and ignorance towards the existing legal processes that will actually impact the lives of millions of people in the coming years.
Getting Started with Great Expectations – Part 2
I agree, should've done responsible disclosure
So my partner is in hr for a large firm. There was 3 day event last year where a bunch of her and peer companies got together with a middle person to “level set” and share aggregate salary data.

The entire point of the event was to ensure incoming data to the salary aggregation company was sound.

They wait 2-4 months for a report / dstabase and they can now lookup industry salary by level and function. Its super accurate because they all go together beforehand to ensure that!

Id be shocked if the same thing wasnt happening here. No need to collude / conspire on actual offers when you already have super accurate aggregate pricing information, you already know what your competitors are going to be asking for like properties, price a little up or down.
Hosting for the world is different than hosting for yourself.
Did they study a lot of professions? Just by chance one of them can incur into a type I error.
My own experience with this:

I don't know whether it was RealPage being used, but when I was leaving my apartment outside of D.C., I wanted to extend my lease by 3 months, into December. A very normal occurrence.

I went to the leasing office and asked to extend. We sat down and they typed some info into the computer. They said I could get the lease extension for 50% more than my current rate per month.

This seemed ludicrous so I asked why it was so expensive. They calmly explained about the new software they were using which set the rates for all new leases, which they were not authorized to override. They said the increased cost was due to the very large new building which went up a couple blocks away. Not owned by the same company. The building had been completed around December the year before. Many tenants were expected to be leaving around that time when their 1-year lease was up.

I couldn't believe this could be legal and asked the agent how this was legal to collude with another building. He said it sure seemed odd but all of the buildings in this city had just started using this software. This was just some guy working in a leasing office but he claimed it was because the boom in high-rise apartments in the city had created too much competition and the owners had all agreed to use this software to fix that.

Eventually, after some back-and-forth, I learned that changing my lease end date by a couple days reduced the rent increase from 50% to 5%. So I ended up with a 3 month and 6 day extension.
There’s literally no difference in price. The only difference is that people more receptive to retail sales pitch buy androids as the reps get spiffs to move them.
> Right, but the <></> syntax still feels like a hack around a need to have just one node at the top of the three.

It’s roughly analogous to an array (and in some implementations it literally produces an array). The “hack” isn’t around returning multiple nodes, you can’t produce (and therefore return) an expression of multiple anything without some container.

> There are many situations in HTML where you want a plain string inside the tag, like <input checked>

Some implementations do accept that (checked prop without any curly braces or prop value assignment), with roughly the same semantics (the prop is assigned a boolean true). React doesn’t accept it IIRC, but React has quite a few rules beyond JSX (as specified, and as used in other implementations).

> But inside it, which is where the JSX magic happens, you have to resort to things like:

You don’t! You only have to use an expression. This is perfectly valid JSX (assuming whatever is outside the outer curly braces is also valid):

{(() => {
if (isItTrue) {
return <i>yep</i>;
} else {
return <b>nope</b>;
}
})()}

> That's probably the biggest complement to JSX possible :) I admire Lisp from afar, but could never stand the parentheses.

It really is a pretty close analogy, not just a compliment. And in most uses, JSX is almost exactly akin to a Lisp macro (the biggest difference besides delimiters and host language semantics is that the “macro” definition is supplied by some arbitrary tooling external to the host language).
1. Yes, I happen to think that the difference between this:

fn f() {
if foo && bar {
if foo {

} else {

}
}
}

and this:

fn g() {
if foo && bar {
h()
}
}

fn h() {
if foo {

} else {

}
}

is not worth talking about.

2. If we're talking about things like validate user input at the boundaries (and if you're a library developer, "user input" might refer to what the library users will pass in to your code), then I think that is a valid and useful guideline. If we talk about "don't spend time executing a bunch of code when you can exit early", then I'll also agree, although in most contexts, this doesn't really matter at the granularity of functions - but it does matter that you e.g. reject invalid input early on in your request handling (assuming a web app here) and not start processing it before deciding that you don't need to (with the notable exception of password validation, which should always be constant time).

3. What I mean by "big picture" is things like clearly delineating which parts of the codebase are responsible for what - for example, which parts of the code contain logic related to the database, which parts are related to business logic, which parts to interfacing with external APIs, which parts about handling responses. It's things such as "functional core, imperative shell" (Gary Bernhard) or other means to try to manage side effects. It's deciding whether to write blocking or non-blocking code, and in the latter case, how exactly to go about it (instead of making a total mess by mixing both styles with a lot of back and forth). It's about deciding on how you want to structure your test suite so it gives you the maximum amount of confidence.

4. I think ORMs provide mostly false confidence and outside of prototype scenarios, I wouldn't personally use them anymore - especially not ones like Hibernate and ActiveRecord - but, alas, it's not always my decision. Their biggest flaw is IMHO that they pollute your domain model (and sometimes even your presentation logic - looking at you, ActiveRecord) with database logic, just for the convenience of being able to call "save()" directly on an object. I don't terribly mind writing raw SQL (as long as you properly parameterize inputs), although I think that generally, type-safe query builders with a 1:1 relationship to SQL (such as jOOQ) are preferable. I do think that all of your SQL-related logic in your application shouldn't be scattered randomly across 10,000 files - it should be in a dedicated place (a number of files grouped in a common folder/package/module, maybe) so that if you need to review certain aspects of it (related to security or performance, e.g. avoiding N+1 queries), you don't have to hunt that logic down throughout your whole application.
Does this mean that if a company uses a third-party to help it determine wages it's colluding?
> In any case, it's obvious that the study was colored by the belief that there is legitimately an association between creativity and psychopathy, so it was flawed from the start...

-------------

Granted, the author's use of the term psychopathy was a bit crass. However, the association between artists and self-destruction is an ancient one. Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was perhaps the first person to write seriously about artists. He states that most artists have inherited from nature...

"...a certain element of savagery and madness, which, besides making them strange and eccentric, had brought it about that very often there was revealed in them more the obscure darkness of vice than the brightness and splendour of those virtues that make men immortal."

> Piers D. G. Britton. “Raphael and the bad humours of painters in Vasari’s Lives of the
Artists*”. In: Renaissance Studies 22.2 (2008), pp. 174–196

More recently, others have written about the significant impact that syphilis-related mania had on a number of notable artists of the late 19th and early 20th century, such as Edouard Manet (1832-1883), Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) and Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).

> Julien Bogousslavsky and Laurent Tatu. “ ́Edouard Manet’s Tabes Dorsalis: From Painful
Ataxia to Phantom Limb”. In: European Neurology 76.1-2 (2016), pp. 75–84

> Haroun Jedidi et al. “A brief history of syphilis. The disease through the art and the artist”. In: Revue medicale de Liege 73 (July 2018), pp. 363–369.

Should an artist be unfortunate enough to have lived a trauma-free life, there is a chance that he might invent one. The German artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) claimed to have experienced life-threatening injuries as a fighter pilot in the second world war which had influenced the form and content of his art. However, towards the end of his life it was found that these experiences were almost entirely untrue.

> Benjamin HD Buchloh. “Beuys: the Twilight of the Idol; Preliminary Notes for a Critique”. In: Artforum 18.5 (1980), pp. 35–43.

Significantly, this revelation did not particularly affected his reputation as an artist. What does this tell us about the audience/consumer's need for an artist to be accompanied (explained?) by a myth?

Then of course, is the link between addiction and creativity. We all know of the positive and negative impact that drugs had on popular music. But did you know that the painter J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) was a morphine addict? And Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)?

I could go on.
This cracked me up. I was "asked" to get some AWS certs since I joined a company that was an AWS Partner. We have a new VP that is forcing other people to get them. Big waste of time for all practical purposes.
LOL, behold the MS-branded VNC!
Nah, I would have been in favor of prosecuting them and never letting the company name be used again, cancel their patents, etc. Same for all the complicit companies. Others can learn from that, but the ones complicit? No way.
there is a difference between doing research when selling vs. asking a company for advice and being required to take their price at least 80% of the time.

there is also the issue of market concentration. generally speaking in a regular, healthy market many people hold stock and possibly undercut each other. In financial cases where there is actual price fixing going on (e.g. LIBOR) there has been a lot of prosecution.
> pressurization of aircraft is not required till 12,500 ft

Well, no. I don't think cabin altitude for passenger airliners has ever been that high, so you need pressurization much lower than that (typically starting around 6000 ft for modern aircraft).

Edit: Even the Boeing 307 Stratoliner was pressurized to 8000 ft.
> How is this winter looking?

Gas storage is at 100% right now, so no shortcomings to expect really. [1]

Building of renewables has been huge this year with 10.000 MW of new power generation in the first three quarters. Might still get a little bit higher with Q4/23 but as the whole year was expected with 9.000 MW in total those numbers look pretty good, with for example over 700k new solar systems across the country. [2]

I was looking into getting a new electricity rate for my parents and have prices have fallen steeply in comparison to last year. Prices per kWh are down from something like 45 cents to 30 cents for fully renewable energy. While that might be still more expensive than elsewhere I think that's a good price.

Little bump is that the Constitutional Court just ruled that money from the Covid-19 rescue packages, that was not used, might not be repurposed for fighting climate change. Obviously it's not like that money really _existed_ somewhere at all, but just moving it in the books was ruled not okay. We'll see what that leads too.

Companies moving out of Germany because of high energy prices seems like a poor excuse. Power for the industry was/is subsidized like crazy, that has been cut somewhat down so everybody pays a fair share.

For our company, that finally got things going. We're looking into modernizing our heating, utilizing heat recovery systems, switching all lights to LEDs (that alone is heavily subsidized, so not that expensive), putting up movement sensors to automatically turn off lights and installing even more solar panels on the roof. Numbers might look a bit worse next year due to those investments but it will help long-term.

In society there's just quite a bit of fearmongering going on and people always feel like they personally are fucked especially hard in these times. Like ten times harder than the neighbor whose name they don't even know.

Change sometimes hurts. But it's necessary.

[1]: (German) https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/Gasspeicher-in-Deutschla...

[2]: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/ausbau-erne...
But the idea/premise of a highway is to move stuff (people, drugs in your trunk) from one location to another one.

The idea/premise of a private frequency band is to move data (voice, binary,..) from one point to another (or many).

The idea/premise of ham radio is to learn and experiment, to test your devices, compare with others, see how far your signal reaches, etc. It was never meant to be a means for private 1-on-1 conversations.

How will i test my receiver if your transmission is encrypted? What will I learn from that? How do I know that you're not abusing the bands for commercial use? And what do other ham radio operators gain from you transmitting encrypted data?
Yep LoL!

That’s how it goes.

For them, other tech works though.

Wind and hydro to whatever extent.

And of course Nuclear.
This one stupid time, I tried to smoke weed through a filter, and the amount of brown tar gunk that came through the filter was so gross... I swore I would never think about that again. I can only imagine for Snoop, he's been smoking a long time. Maybe it was a combination of health problems and his family. I sure do Hope he's OK.
Your reasoning seems a bit odd.

The hospitals are laying off because they overstaffed out of fear of not being able to handle the demands of the pandemic. Now that the pandemic is gone they cannot economically support the headcount.

If we had not locked down many many more people would have died, and the health care system would have actually broken down. You’re saying that we should have not locked down and just staffed the crematoriums instead?
Cartels don’t work without an enforcement mechanism to punish defectors. Otherwise you’d be crazy not to lower your rents by 10% and make it up on volume.

This is obviously true in many markets where price discovery is easier: Mobile network operators don’t need a service to report on their competitors’ pricing. They know it and somehow a cartel fails to form.
Yes, Capisco gang!
> "However, many magicians perform familiar tricks or variations of them without feeling the need to innovate."

Which makes these magicians craftspeople, rather than artists. Clearly some subset of magicians are actually artists, but the real takeaway is that neither the researcher nor the article author understand what makes something art.

I mean by this standard, you could write literally the exact same article about Subway Sandwich Artists.
Their collector is used to send infrastructure logs to GCP (instead of Datadog).

My guess is this is to save on costs. GCP logging is probably cheaper than Datadog, and infrastructure logs may not be needed as frequently as application logs.