skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s actually every reason to believe we’ll plateau sooner rather than later because solar doesn’t work in the dark and I don’t think there’s a single grid scale battery system installed yet (the famous one in Australia that Tesla made so much news about is an arbitrage play that has nothing to do with solar energy storage). Cost is not the only factor that determines the energy mix.

There’s literally no existence proof yet that solar can supplant fossil fuels so everything is prognostication and articles of faith that to me seem overly optimistic. All existing growth in solar and wind is paired with a growth in fossil fuels too. So the argument is look at other positive data and yet nuclear somehow seems to directly correlate with fossil fuel usage in the grid without having to look at anything. In other words, our energy usage grows faster than solar and wind power plant construction can come online / it’s when solar/wind isn’t available meaning the difference is supplied by fossil fuels.
The fedora proposal this is based on.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/fno-omit-frame-pointe...
It's written in the linked article actually, there will be new lower privileged apps that can do this
That's incredibly clever!
Most people are in Shenzhen are from other parts of China, you'll hear Mandarin (the default) Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien etc - most people probably speak some dialect of Mandarin as well as their birth language
Also why when on a macOS system I never felt the urge to install Homebrew or something similar, it is just another UNIX flavour.
What scares me about this thread is it seems remote work even for devs is much harder these days if you have to be in the bay area and then still struggle.
What if said civilization existed in the hollow earth? Obviously, once you reach etruscan dinosaurs you'd stop digging!
They still don’t allow people to use non-official clients.
People liken stability. If you have a lot invested in a currency and then, due to some shortcoming, it is forked to another currency, you have to migrate your life over. Your wallet, your investments are now in bitcoin cash. Once might not be an issue, but this can easily happen every month for every perceived shortcoming. If the forks inherited the BTC name, clients needed no changes and the original were renamed, I think things would be different now. Basically, merge improvements to main.
And when you do show ID, to buy booze for example, it’s checked and immediate forgotten by a human. Computers don’t forget, and any attempts to make companies do so (GDPR) are met with massive pushback from the players in the industry

I have no problem with Joan over the road curtain twitching. It doesn’t scale. I have a massive problem with the 24/7 surveillance from ring though.
We still find fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago, and giant constructions are much better at surviving than skeletons.
But you can't send in 1000 people per second into most establishments you visit either. It's not an apt comparison.
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> Every OS has one—even Windows

To note that this is only became a thing when the Universal C Runtime was introduced in Windows 10, until then is was pretty much "Every C compiler provides their own", which was the common approach on non-UNIX systems.
Tinder started the same way
What’s even worse is that Island Gigantism is a Germanic derived word followed by a Latin derived word, while Insular Dwarfism has the etymologies the other way around.
I wonder if we’ll see compressed data transmission at some point.
A dystopian future we can all agree is more plausible than it should be
> Given that 97% of convictions are based on plea bargains, why would you imagine that sentencing is calibrated based on the 3% jury trials?

Because that's not how you measure options.

If I'm collecting a debt of $1,000 from you, and I come to you and say "hey, if you pay it this week, I'll settle for only $700", would you say "This person is stealing $300 from me!"?

Of course not. You always owed $1,000. This is an offer to pay less.

Just like those charged with a crime always faced a specific punishment. If you offer a lesser punishment, it's not a threat of a harsher punishment because you always faced it, even if plea bargains never existed.
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For context, the early comment setting up this hypothetical was:

> if the electoral system were more fair.

So no.
> With any experienced team of engineers and designers, PM'ing is not a full-time job, or at least, it shouldn't be.

after the free money era peaked, consultants have now pivoted to efficient downsizing.

when my previous corp merged with another, the first people fired where PM's. so its nothing new. imo PM is the epitome of the bs jobs phenomenon.
They already try to do that.
A particularly hostile version, where risk tends to rise exponentially.
Mostly that Postgres is amazing, runs anywhere and supports jsonb (which I use a lot). And I don't want to worry too much about mis-modeling; that's the entire point of a relational database with a type system.

Plus all the Mongo horror stories from people who I know and hold in high esteem. And recently talking to a data person explaining what a pita getting data out of their Mongo monstrosity into a format adequate for analysis.
Is there a good comparison of how each fabs nanometer metric (aka version number) lines up?
Seems like we already have those amongst the Tesla FSD proselytizers.
I remember seeing someone capture a single frame of TV (or possibly from a VHS video) on an Amstrad PCW at a trade conference some time in the late 80s and thinking that was the most incredible piece of technology ever. A frame of TV displayed in glorious dithered green phosphor.
All models are wrong, but some are useful. For several decades, ACT-R has been, and continues to be, one of the most useful and influential theories of cognitive architecture devised.
How is offering a lesser punishment "manipulation"? As a defendant, it's simply a choice - "Do I think I can beat this case?".

If you don't think you can, then you take the lesser punishment.

If you think you can beat it, you decline it because the better choice is "no punishment at all".
> But please, stop thinking the answer is more engineers.

The answer isn't more PM's either, though. In my experience when people are struggling, the default answer is "we need more X", be it engineers, PM's, money. It's very rare to have a group that looks at that and says "we need to do better with what we have" and is able to do so.

A good PM will make sure that everything your product team is working on is the correct thing to work on, which is so much more efficient than hiring 2 more engineers to work on those things. A bad PM can come in many different ways, (just like a bad engineer - we've all worked with the Arcitecture Astronaut for example).
And then there was Guantanamo, which proves all this stuff in the article is far from being universally accepted.
Chrome is the new Internet Explorer now. And it is creating its own cardinal sins
I like the origin of “Silurian”, especially the caveat in the second sentence.

> We name the hypothesis after a 1970 episode of the British science fiction TV series Doctor Who where a long-buried race of intelligent reptiles ‘Silurians’ are awakened by an experimental nuclear reactor.

> We are not however suggesting that intelligent reptiles actually existed in the Silurian age, nor that experimental nuclear physics is liable to wake them from hibernation.
How to learn chess as an adult (2021)
> But if they lose their tag once, they become young animals again. Which would skew any statistic.

How important these tags are for estimating bird life expectancy? If they are, isn't this going to cause, like, typically updating the Bayesian priors towards less longevity than they actually have? I'm not working in this field at all, so I'm guessing there are methods in use to counter this?
I find Amazon’s captchas so hard now! I have to do the audio one
Well it's not like there's a self driving car system in operation today that does not require a human in the driver seat at all. Waymo has so much catching up to do.
This animation gives you a great idea of how fast it has grown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shenzhen_Metro_evolution....

It's a modern subway (puts NY to shame) - I've been going since ~ 2010, almost every year a new line or two has opened up.

From the beginning you get on the subway in Hong Kong, take a train to the end of the line, exit the subway, go thru customs, walk over a bridge, thru CN customs, and down into the green line subway station in Shenzhen. Now days there's also a high speed train from Hong Kong/Kowloon
The article is actually making a case for fewer PMs, not to do away with PMs altogether. In startups, founders tend to do PM because they bring the vision for what to build. Additional PM hires in such environments aren't likely to add much value. Even in large enterprises, most product decisions are really taken by a handful of very senior roles. Most of the PM org is there primarily to ensure fulfillment of whatever decisions are taken. They get reduced to a more of a bureaucratic function, which is where most people's frustration arises.

Nobody likes to have a stakeholder with no power to make decisions. A product manager who cannot tell you what comes a year down the line. A project manager who cannot change processes to improve efficiency. An engineering manager who cannot create opportunities for their team. Or a tech lead who cannot prioritise tech debt. You cannot avoid bureaucracy in large organisations, but you can reduce the surface. There's a case to be made to consolidate such bureaucratic functions under a single role for a team. But in smaller organisations and startups, it can perhaps be done away with entirely too.
I once worked in a small business. The business was struggling , sometimes it made good money, sometimes not, and the work wasn't particular fun, but the owner looked at money as the main source of status.

On the other hand , his technical manager, who wasn't a smartie, was great at the technical side,derived status from doing,building,solving problems ,etc . Also from money but a lot from his profession.
Would you care to expand on how Anki helped you with Leetcode problems?
Did you just think of a solution in your head and then compared it with the back of the card?
> they do serve a non-theatrical purpose in many cases of throttling the speed of brute force attacks

Might do that unobtrusively for the average person, by using projects like mCaptcha [0] for instance.

[0] https://mcaptcha.org/
It goes all the way back to Windows 3.11, where printer drivers often directly fiddled the Centronics parallel port themselves.

The Centronics port is nominally one-way, but it didn't take long for people to realize you could use it for bidirectional communication, thanks to a self-test feature IBM built into the original PC's parallel port adapter, which everybody copied faithfully.

The most famous use was probably "LapLink" which enabled fast file transfer via a special cable.

Printers and their matching drivers used the bidirectional communication to provide mode detailed status information than the single "Paper Out" signal.

And the rest as they say, is a parade of horribles
For a while Shenzen had both - but charged a 2 kuai tax if you got in a petrol cab (the electric ones were blue) - now they're all electric
Despite all the talk, believe it or not, there are still open positions -- I work for a large telecom in the Bay Area, and I'm told we have 8,000 unfilled positions. But let's drill down a bit -- what is gone is the insanity -- we no longer pay $200,000 a year for dev-ops, you can no longer bring your dog to work. And, yes, we still have management that INSISTS if they can't see you in the chair, you must be scheming with a competitor. The jobs are there, but folks, we call it work, for a reason. If it were fun, we'd call it play. Mind you, I would completely understand anyone who said "I don't want that lifestyle anymore -- it was killing me!" But when you say that, you also say I don't want the paycheck. Decide what you will put up and what you won't put up with. I need medical coverage from a company that will be there, so I make my peace with the choices. I'm well paid, and well covered, but there is a price. Also, when you do shop around, remember, you know what you're worth -- both on the high and low end. Everyone talks about not selling out for a low salary -- but be careful. If someone is willing to pay you substantially more than you're used to, either you'd had a problem for years you didn't know about, or, why is everyone else refusing this job... And, as a final note, it's always easier to get a new job when you have one, so don't turn away what I call the "temporary job". I knew someone who was unemployed at the time -- and we had an open position that paid about $130K. He informed me "I will not work for people who do not value me and pay me at least $147K!" Now why it was $147K, as opposed to $150K, I have no idea, and at the moment, he was making nothing. So I don't understand. When I joined this company, I took a 30% cut. I wasn't happy about it, but a 30% cut is better than a 100% cut. (See I did pay attention in math class!) However, getting back into the workforce let me meet people again, and by blessed circumstances, meet people who moved me up over 20 years such that I've made back far more than I lost.
> It seems like all the big name companies are 100% for Wayland

nvidia?

> breaking compatibility with them seems like a hassle

They don't seem to be afraid of breaking compatibility -- witness deb/rpm, coreutils, glibc, etc...
Kind of both, it's lagging behind Firefox and Chrome for sure but the most annoying for me isn't really that but the bugs on basic web features. It definitely feels less stable, you never know what the next version will break.
something something quantum tunnelling for probabilistic FTL signalling (/s)
And in this case , with progressive “soft” failures of this kind, fuel contamination is a primary cause.
There’s still a lot of room to hide in that “almost”. Continental shields in Canada and Australia haven’t been recycled into the deep Earth and we can still find geological features there that are billions of years old.
Well, what you describe is basically the experience of any non-US startup founder, and especially those in poor, non-OECD countries.

No matter how good your idea and flawless your execution are, there's always an American venture capitalist ready to throw $100 million at some local copycat that will hire 20x mediocre staff and will soon bury you by simply moving faster and making splashes. Meanwhile, you are trying to pitch the idea to local cash-strapped investors, and they will expect 51% stake for a 200k investment - I kid you not.

It's the way of the world, capitals compound and scale makes it easier to grow. It's has always been like that, regardless if what you call capital is family wealth and connections, access to selective educational opportunities, access to the largest national market in the world, girls from modeling agencies etc.
The relevant data for the claim of the headline is in Table 3. On all the tasks with enough data, bots were both faster and more accurate than humans.
What do you mean "take the money" ? Is it some kind of payout to leave ?
This seems like a really shallow take masquerading as a deep one.

The core assertion that offering a lesser punishment in exchange for cooperation is a form of “torture” strikes me as an extreme exaggeration.
Introducing mCaptcha net
If you check my comment again, I’m saying it was abandoned after WHATWG formalised XHR. It existed a long time before that. I think XHR was a little earlier, but they were roughly contemporaneous. And of course, people were doing XHR stuff before XHR existed with things like invisible iframes, but those were just hacks.
Because it encourages the threat of a far greater punishment.
You very often also need some backchannel from the printer, e.g. for toner levels, available paper sizes, installed options. But there is a more important point:

Printer manufacturers also don't think like this. They desperately want to know what you are printing, order overpriced ink for you, sell additional services like print-by-mail, etc. All that won't work without lots of permissions for the printer support apps.

If it just were about the conversion path (print job, settings) -> (printer data stream), a PDL, filter program and a sandbox would be totally sufficient and nobody would ever need a "printer support app". If a printer needs such an app, it is already using too many privileges anyways, printer support apps should never be needed actually.

Edit: typo.
You mentioned some good things but also cast a large net. Are you referring to the Casimir Effect? Am just vaguely familiar with some of the general concepts but very much recommend this video on the topic, by a Prof/physicist

"Casimir Effect and Black Holes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRcmqZkGOK4
Except you can have objects in Postgres via jsonb; there's no trade off and you're both future and vendor proofed.
This is our business. Believe me we are trying.

It's more of a people problem than anything else. Wrapping the future in a palatable package for risk adverse bankers is truly a cursed problem. Everyone needs their medicine coated in some exquisite form of custom sugar or they won't even look at it.

Traction has been acquired though. We've got word of mouth doing the rounds and customers are coming to us out of the cold.

Paperless onboarding is our bread and butter, but we are eventually going to become the single pane of glass for any branch manager or frontline employee.

Back office is our next dragon. We are saving it for last because doing front office well (I.e. paperless signed docs straight to imaging system via api) means back office workload naturally reduces.

The opportunity is bananas. More than we can deal with and you basically have a mini market per core platform. I feel like you need a really special kind of team to do what we do. Our company president is a former banker with a strong vision of what an ideal in-branch customer experience looks like. I can't imagine it working out any other way.
HP-UX Vaults predate BSD jails, IBM ones on their mainframe and micros even more so.
You know, this probably also describes me and my strategy (I’ve only ever lived in the city I was born in and I’ve just found work here as needed). Maybe I shouldn’t worry so much, but for various reasons I really need my health insurance, so layoffs are pretty nerve-wracking for me as well.
I would suggest to replace the crying icon for a different image. It does not really help
Yeah, no, they can’t. Plenty of western examples, such as Mikrotik.
1. Its easy to look up the data, compared to the "spike" prices have come down, they remain far higher than 2020.
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/electricity-price
2. Its called revealed preference, they were wasting space that could be used for a more profitable endevor, coal mining.
Interesting title, but unfortunately paywalled.
This isn't related to your earlier comment.

You originally claimed this:

> It's not a threat of a "more severe sentence", it's a threat of a default sentence (the same sentence the accused would get if plea bargaining didn't exist at all). The plea bargain is an offer of a lesser sentence.

The plea bargain is an offer of a "lesser" sentence, where "lesser" refers to a comparison to the trial sentence.

It is not a comparison to the trial sentence from a counterfactual world in which plea bargains don't exist.

As ajb points out, given that all US sentences derive from plea bargains, the sentence associated with a plea bargain already is the sentence that is felt to be appropriate for the crime. In the counterfactual word, you'd expect the counterfactual trial sentence to be about equal to the real-world plea bargain sentence.
> It's not a threat of a "more severe sentence", it's a threat of a default sentence

The "default" is updated when you learn about plea bargain... You are now comparing options relative to plea sentence. If the best option "walk free" is uncertain even if you're not guilty (what if the other guy has a better lawyer or something) then plea sentence is the best certain option.
Main and backup. The last outage was because they have a single network provider. Those are rare, and can be dealt with relatively easily by dual connecting your server to two different networks and sharing across both and removing the dns entry for a broken one. But it’s not worthwhile for such a rare outage

The “outages” that are common are slowdowns for logged in users.
Hard disagree, cross role context is critical for intuition on getting stuff done. A designer with no insight on engineering will create shitty designs that take forever to build, create patterns that arent reusable, etc. Engineers with no insight on product will not be able to balance the debt/product ratio properly. You can say that all of this gets sorted out with proper communication, but knowledge and intuition will always beat leaky bucket cross role comms
You just need to buy network-ready printers with native PostScript or PDF support. Then it has always worked.

But most "cheap" (if not accounting for consumables) inkjet crap isn't like that.
The day this is used widely across browsers is the day devices you own can no longer be flashed with anything other than what the OEM puts on it--even if that is outdated or buggy.
Theoretically you don't need to reveal your identity to prove that you're human. You can use a zero knowledge proof instead, likely attached to something like an EU Digital ID, which would allow you to remain anonymous and also prove that you're human.
It's in Table 3.
It works well for computer science as well. Values have types (forms) and bytes (matter). One type can be instantiated in multiple ways, for example you can have multiple integers, like 1,2,3,4 or the bytes 01000001 can represent different information, like 65 or 'A'.

The interesting thing is null, because here the distinction sort of breaks down.
Ok, so we'll stipulate to some arbitrarily "fair" electoral system:

What makes it obvious that a leftward shift would grow today's Democratic base to that left _more_ than it might shrink it on the right?