skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No... say Mozilla Corp. owes 5m in taxes. They could pay the tax directly to IRS. Or they can donate/invest in a registered non-profit company. A percentage of that can be written off as a tax deduction. Since donating money also reduces the available amount that can be taxed... and they can be seen as charitable. It's a win-win depending on how you do it.

It looks like Mozilla Foundation also invested ~8m back to Mozilla Corp. for something but it's not clear what. I may have misunderstood it. I'm not a tax expert nor a lawyer, but it's a common tax strategy.
Yeah it was when I was going through a university class based on CEH about ten years ago. It includes war chalking and a bunch of other questionable subjects (BlackBerry Bluetooth stack attacks?). The whole experience left me feeling the certification is a waste of time unless an employer is asking for it (I'm on the swe side so certs are not applicable to me thankfully).

When I looked into war chalking and how it's discussed, I found that most of the news at the time was based on an FBI notice to businesses, which was picked up by the media as the ridiculous story it was. I honestly doubt it actually happened, beyond the two or three Usenet posters that inspired the notice.
I think one level of abstraction up, this is about whether to use externally meaningful (emails, etc) or internally meaningful ones (INT id's, etc).

The specter of having a "permanent ID" (contextless), is something which has never really existed nor ever will. Identity only exists in context to some environment, even in blockchain.
10Gb of "everything is a Flatpak" isn't exciting.
Sorry, I would assume more so, since they said the flavor was more concentrated and peanutty tasting
Wikipedia says:

> The motivation for representing sequential control logic in a ladder diagram was to allow factory engineers and technicians to develop software without additional training to learn a language such as FORTRAN or other general-purpose computer language.

> Ladder logic can be thought of as a rule-based language rather than a procedural language. A "rung" in the ladder represents a rule. When implemented with relays and other electromechanical devices, the various rules execute simultaneously and immediately.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_logic)

The combination of both statements entertains me, because while defenders of imperative languages might even admit that they are worse languages, they still cling on to the notion that imperative is easier to teach or understand and that other approaches requires genius level intellect. When it's mostly about what you are familiar with that determines what approach feels easy.

(Different approaches still differ in how well they can express or maintain your program whilst making errors harder to make, of course.)
Battleshort
compression is good, checksums are good.

It's a shame other FS's don't have it.
> The Fujitsu ones have D3417(-A!) boards (not -B) having proprietary power supplies with 16 power pins (no 24pin ATX but 16pin). There are Adapters on Aliexpress for 24PIN to 16pin (Bojiadafast), but this is a bit risky - I'm validating that atm.

They work just fine. The pinout is well known [1]. You can also adapt a normal ATX PSU if you boost 5VSB to 11V.

Fujitsu boards are great, and very inexpensive to purchase in the EU. Someone has even reverse engineered the license for the KVM features of their remote management (iRMC S4/S5) [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200923042644/https://sector.bi...

[2] https://watchmysys.com/blog/2023/01/fujitsu-irmc-s4-license/
There will be a smidgen of irony if the authors have to convert this to Word to submit to their journal.
Consistency – Surfing Complexity
Similarly, it's a common pattern to have a Makefile for each directory in a C project.
The runtime system is small and has very few dependencies. Binaries are quite small (when compressed).
The only flatpaks here are ones installed by the user after setup, or ones installed by Fedora (Firefox for instance, you don't want your browser updating only when your OS does).

Steam, gamescope, and nearly every other listed feature are native packages.
I think you might be remembering something else -- an exponential curve is proportional to its own rate of change. Exponential curves are smooth in the way I described -- if you zoom in far enough, they look straight.

The part about being proportional to its own rate of change does make exponential curves very important in calculus (and thus in science in general). Sine waves also have this property (although in a more complicated way). This is why you see exponential decay and sinusoidal oscillation so much in physics.
> People didn't pull out a magazine while in a group and read an article for 5 minutes

Are you being sarcastic? I'm 57 and I recall they absolutely DID do those things in the 70's and 80's. Trains and station platforms? Google some photos!
> the updater is busted, for the same reason the app stopped working. So re-download Keybase from http://Keybase.io and reinstall.

https://twitter.com/KeybaseIO/status/1741607828706545766
2023 in Review: RARBG, Zoro, Z-Library, Flawless, IPTV and AI
Not a techy channel but all the tech channels I follow have been listed in other comments so: https://youtube.com/@MartijnDoolaard

Beautiful and relaxing "vlogs" of his remote cabin restoration. Highly recommend.
There’s a lot of nutrition label gaming going on these days. It’s my understanding that the nutrition label is mostly enforced on the honor system so, probably easy to game.
Even if you don't like the application, spy and military tech is badass.
This same author says he wouldn’t consider AWS at gunpoint - which pretty accurately depicts his lack of experience with public clouds.
Some (not all) still applies. I just reworked the Bazel CI at $DAYJOB to simplify the entry points and just call `bazel build //...` And `bazel test //...` erc rather than a bunch of more specific targets. We've got caching etc effective enough that just testing everything is a viable default even in a tight dev loop.

I'm more concerned with duplication of config between the Build and CI configs. https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/07/modern-ci-is-too-co...
True! Although I can't think of any at the moment. You?
Pretty bad plan in general - but expecting free money from Oracle!?!
This is studying under what conditions sexual assault may seem morally acceptable depending on the 'victim.' To my mind, this is perverse; sexual assault should be morally unacceptable regardless of who (or what) the victim is. The immorality lies not only in the violation of the victim, but also in the lack of control of the immoral impulse in the perpetrator. This study seems to implicitly accept that sexual assault can be more or less moral depending on the circumstances.
Fair. However, applying Occam’s razor, I’d suggest tracking has more impact than the removal of lead from fuels.
> good place to study

I work with a lot of Stanford grads. They’re terrific folk.

But the concentration of corruption, delusion and depravity in its graduates, professors and administration begin to make one question if they were great and collected and resisted Stanford’s transformative effect, which increasingly (albeit with low confidence) looks like it may be net negative, or if they were transformed positively by the experience.
This is such a beautiful old school internet resource.

I don't have their book, but I do have a print of Socialist Modernism in the Former Yugoslavia [0]. It overlaps a lot in terms of photography and aesthetic but lacks the story.

[0]: https://urbanicagroup.ro/ushop/publications/album/socialist-...
Few new cars are highly affordable.

We need a continuous supply of new housing, or rebuilding, and in particular NYC should always be building up up up.

There are three ways to deal with shortages: waiting lists, market pricing out the lowest incomes, and building enough new housing to let everyone who wants to live there live their. Only the last option, build build build, is the least bit fair. Every other option is exclusionary and destructive to community.
Because of "poor thing" which he wrote, set in Glasgow.

I remember seeing him in the late 80s (puff) at a poetry reading (puff puff) in Balham (puff) where he consumed (puff puff puff) a ventolin inhaler (puff) the entire night. Based on my SOs reasoning (she is also asthmatic) he must have been totally wired, jittery as all hell. It doesn't just stimulate the lung lining.
US Supreme Court's Roberts urges 'caution' as AI reshapes legal field
https://archive.is/IHcqX
Man Thrown Off Delta Flight for Offering to Fix Broken Inflight Entertainment
"if" comes before the condition, "?" comes after. For a lot of people this seems to significantly improve readability.
People who urinated in public were compelled to register because statutes specified genital exposure in order to cover flashers but were overly broad and non-discretionary, causing an absurd result. Statutes covered flashers and prostitution because of scope creep; once you create a machine people want to use it for things. It's fairly obvious that there would be no registry to begin with if there were no rapists or pedophiles.

> The difficulty of proving rape is why rape conviction rates are low.

Even despite the low conviction rate, rape convictions are reversed at a higher rate than other crimes, because it's so difficult in those cases to know the truth.

> Imprisonment for rape is shorter than imprisonment for murder because most people consider murder worse than rape.

Many countries historically imposed the death penalty for rape and a few still do. Typically the ones less concerned about proof beyond a reasonable doubt in general.

People viscerally hate rapists and, even more, pedophiles. Murder is nominally worse but not by much. The penalty for rape and second degree murder are typically about the same. In multiple US states the penalty for rape is higher.
I think problem is that not every company can hire and retain proper development teams.

That is some wild goose chase that also causes buildup of „agile” smoke and mirrors market and the same with „low code” smoke and mirrors market.

I was quite skeptical about talent shortage in IT but the loner I work on the space the more I see and understand. As there are real issues with talent and agile or low code are ways of coping with the problem.
I think that Newpipe would be better than some website or even yt-dlp...
You get what you're paying for. Choosing hosting providers mainly by their price, will get you to the cheapest one. Guess how they make it cheap? By cutting on staff (also by moving the data center to a country with lower wages) and hardware and internet and backup power etc.
It’s funny you talking about “bias” when you simply refuse to acknowledge natural monopolies which are a real thing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly and just presume they have to be “granted by the Goverment”
Is this a resonance effect?
> Given that MIT grads are objectively superior to the rest of us that didn't get into any elite schools in basically every dimension I'd wager it's fairly high.

Genuflect when you say that fella.
I don't think one style would be too dominant. Looking at the prompt list I can see some themes favouring code generation and some favouring AI generation.

It would be kinda nice to see some people trying to blend the techniques, like particle systems generating depth-map ControlNets. Animation is still a tough proposition for AI, even with the video generation models available now, having control and consistency is a battle.
Is there any channel like this but specific to Enterprise problems and specific to like Java and Golang, platform engineering etc.
Just an FYI in case you haven’t read this: Recursive Make Considered Harmful [1]

[1] https://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf
I agree with you.

But here we were not talking about building new nuclear. We were talking about discontinuing existing nuclear.

In my state, New York, they decommissioned two perfectly good gigawatt reactors in 2020 and 2021. The idea was to replace them with renewables. Guess what? They build 3 natural gas power plants and replaced 2 GW worth of zero carbon electricity with 1.8 GW worth of emissions.

> As a result of the permanent shutdown of the plant, three new natural-gas fired power plants: Bayonne Energy Center, CPV Valley Energy Center, and Cricket Valley Energy Center were built, with a total capacity of 1.8 GW, replacing 90% of the 2.0 GW of carbon-free electricity previously generated by the plant. As a consequence, New York is expected to struggle to meet its climate goals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center
Absent of building code, it’s pretty disparaging to dismiss kitchen facilities in a permanent dwelling because someone might be able to afford eating out everyday in perpetuity.
Other universities have negatives too, but they are not newsworthy at lesser known schools. The heads of lesser-known schools aren't featured in Congressional hearings.
You would think that a browser extension would be better than a website.... that's what I do with Soundcloud anyways....
AR replaces phones easily, but technically AR is just an evolution from phones. Instead of holding the phone the the face, it’s held there for you + AR
Even "raw" flash as exposed in most Linux servers is not anywhere near raw. For embedded use cases, it absolutely matters, but if you have Linux and an enterprise NVMe SSD, nothing you do in userland will matter.
At my last company, I inherited the reins as custodian of a low-code application. Except this low-code application was designed in the early 2000s. Back then, "low-code" still involved HTML, CSS, Javascript, and a database scripting language - so I at least FELT like a programmer. That job paid a round-robin of 10 developers in 3 different locations over the course of ten years. In total, it probably took a total of 30 person-years to develop and maintain the software in its lifetime at the company.

This is on top of the $1 million/year licensing fee for the proprietary tool in all its own glory. This included a:

- proprietary, closed-source database

- proprietary, closed-source scripting language

- proprietary, closed-source "CI/CD" (more like, barf out some arbitrary, insecure mash of HTML, CSS, and Javascript into the browser)

We spent a significant amount of time trying to peer under the hood. Except, it was more like we were trying to rip the head off the cylinder block with a bunch of vice grips, and then safely put it back together. I cringe thinking back to the tactics we used to "research" - it was like hitting an engine with a hammer and trying to figure out what it does. We came up with all sorts of theories about hammers, about sounds that engines make when hit with hammers. But it was a complete waste of time. That's not how you study an engine. No transferable skills are learned in the process.

I try to make sense of my time there - I'm only a few years removed from that job still. I sometimes feel embarrassed that I didn't get out of there sooner. Why did it take me so long to figure out my software career would go nowhere if I worked on stuff like that?

I'm in a much better place now, working on good software in real languages with smart people. My skills have grown unbelievably in just a short space of time.

===

Low-code applications are worse than what everyone is saying. They are career-destroyers. It's okay to dip your toes in the water. But it's too easy to become reliant. You'll find that database details, CI/CD, even version control are handled by some mythical low-code tools that you don't understand (and can't configure).

Work on software where the company is in full control of every line of business logic they own. You might own only one small slice of the software, but it's so much easier to sleep at night knowing that every bite of the pie can be fine-tuned according to SOMEONE at the company.
"Phone" is a shorthand, because a ton of people seem to be using phones as their primary computing devices. They're streamlined and they have everything the average Joe could ever want - mostly a few social media apps and similar.

But also, the wording is definitely deliberate - the post is published by a company that's developed an iPhone app to combat this "addiction". So there's definitely some marketing angle involved here.
I don't like Oracle Cloud, but not for the reasons described in this article.

For me, it seemed like none of the documentation was written at a native English level, which made things confusing.

The Oracle Cloud platform is really lacking any passion, it's like the whole thing was designed by project managers who don't really understand the development ecosystem.
If I remember correctly, AMD LANCE is also one of those NICs that became commonly implemented virtually for VMs, along with NE2000, Intel's 8257x, and one of the popular Realtek models.

The double-inverter loop is like the electrical analog of a "snap action" physical mechanism[1]; it's bistable, refusing to stay in an intermediate position, and requires force to change its state.

[1] When https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_it toys became popular recently, the number of people who thought "that's a bistable memory" upon seeing them was unfortunately not many.
Effects of Mars Global Simulant (MGS-1) on Growth and Physiology of Sweet Potato
That would be a far less scientific, and true, conclusion than what was in the papers.

From the article:

> Retractions remain exceedingly rare for scientific papers: Just eight out of every 10,000 are retracted, according to a Retraction Watch database.
BTW my recommendation is limited to its use in this recipe, which is the sum of my experience with it https://ansonmills.com/recipes/413
When I say “they” not referring to individuals. I’m referring to the organization at a whole. It’s ironic that so many who operate under the umbrella of science and truth do things that are antithetical to that. At the end of the day these institutions are fighting for survival like everyone else - and they don’t always operate truthfully.
> They’re all wrought with dishonesty and self preservation.

Citation needed.
> The established risk factors to life expectancy – caloric intake, urbanization, obesity and education levels – were included as the potential confounders.

Odd that they don't control for income (high or low). Quote from the first search result I read on life expectancy and poverty in the US: "You might expect two or three years of life differential ... but 10 or 15 years … it’s an immense difference".

And I remember years ago that two cars was an indicator for longer life - presumably due to signaling higher income.
This article looks a lot like "this thing here can be done in 10 lines of easily understandable php, or you can read ten pages of text to see how to do it in rust"
Its a concrete explanation that matches reality in a more literal sense than stochastic models.

You can model the ocean as a blob of probabilities to handle large scale, but having a causal model is important.

Pilot wave theory has been ridiculed and ignored even when just mentioned by physicists for so long, I suspect its under researched.
What had been proposed that would help with that?

Winner takes all is a function of popularity and network effects; how does it relate to copyright?
What other sites are on the dopamine list?
There is a difference in scale - smartphones give access to a much wider array of content, even if you were to carry around a television and 20 newspapers.

There is also an important difference in kind - internet connected devices are bidirectional, which allows bad actors to implement addictive patterns that aren’t possible with one-directional media.

A big part of McLuhan’s idea of “the medium is the message” is that consuming the same content via two different mediums is not the same.
What's the truth behind the 'shoplifting epidemic'? Six key questions answered
About 1/2 (1/3?) of papers in a specific field, when replicated, produced similar results but less strong statistical measures of them.

It's fun to hear people complain about accuracy in this way.
Well yeah, they will - if anything, because it's likely we'll have some brand new method of ingesting information available in the near future - just like smartphones replaced desktop computers that replaced physical media as the "mainstream" information sources, something will eventually replace what we have now.
Add this point from the article for context: "This retraction is Tessier-Lavigne’s fourth in as many months, a stunning turn of events for a researcher of his stature."

That begs the question, how did at least four such cutting-edge research works with fabricated data and results go through the review process unscathed?
> His offer was immediately declined, and Sangster was ordered to return to his seat. Sangster says he immediately complied, but while waiting for departure, he decided to take the opportunity to write a complaint on the Delta app about the delay.

> The same flight attendant who had ordered him back to his seat noticed Sangster writing the complaint, and within minutes, a ground agent had boarded the plane and was telling Sangster to collect his belongings and get off.

I feel like there's more to this story than what the author suggests.

How does one "notice" another person on their phone writing a complaint?

It just looks like you're on the Delta app, which is normal on a flight.

And under that statement, the title is wrong, they weren't thrown off for offering to fix something, but for writing a complaint, which I don't believe.

Now if the person was vocal about their complaint as well, then I can see noticing...
What was it like to work on software before version control? What are some pros and cons to that kind of workflow?
I think we are going to see a time when social media progresses through the same celebrated to acceptance to tolerance that cigarette smoking has gone through.

Social media is no longer cool.
Yes, "discovered" was too way strong of a word there, and apologies to Charpentier. Thanks for the correction.

However, she did win the Nobel prize and I have found source after source that suggests she seemed to be fundamental to the development of the science.

My point remains -- you could literally substitute her name with one of a thousand names associated with high profile biomedical miracles to have originated from prestigious universities.
I don’t think smartphones would be meaningfully less addictive if they used old school, non backlit display technology.
Yeah, I prefer a single top-level file myself.
Its not because most of stuff is not retracted that its valid. Most studies are never replicated...
I'm in favor of treaties being taken seriously; the US has a bad record in this regard. But the definition of 'sacred site' seems impossibly vague.

Don't forget that Christians claim sacred dominion over the entire planet and that all of creation

All of the Abrahamic religions seem to take this approach, and it's why I think monotheism is trash. When I respond to claims of this sort it's with a simple 'I don't share your belief' and a refusal to engage any further with tier axioms.

dump rich peoples' cremains on the moon

I think NASA should split the difference by offering to dump the cremains, but not any identifiable markers about who they used to belong to. Just mix them in with the lunar dust and call it a day.
New personal exoskeleton unveiled to help wheelchair users walk around freely
> Is this number much less than it should be?

Maybe it's more than it should be, or just about right.

If we are just going to assume our biased preconceived notion is correct and the conflicting data is wrong, why have data? But if we use that method, what is the likelihood that our claim will eventually be retracted?
Thats what they want you to believe
If retractions are exceedingly rare, it could imply that, once published, fraudulent papers have a tendency to persist.