skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That ship sailed 40 years ago. I get it - if Chernobyl didn't happen we would be in way better shape. But it happened, and expertise in nuclear plants rotted for 4 decades because of it.

It's now behind. Basically no one wants to fund new nuclear plants. They're incredibly risky considering how front-loaded the cost is.
What is your source for this? In Virginia you will only be denied unemployment if you are fired for misconduct - https://www.vec.virginia.gov/unemployed/faqs/Unemployment-In...
In general this is not how biological life has evolved and not how most decisions work within that framework.

Most decisions you'll ever make are "You have ___ seconds/minutes/hours to make a choice". And depending on the pressures you're under you will skip the expensive logical/rational processing as needed and fall back to heuristics.
I mean yeah, the scenario you present is remarkably more cooperative and considerate than the original proposition which I replied to, and I don't see a reasonable landlord rejecting the plan out-of-hand.

Of course, most landlords insist on consistency in maintenance, for example that all the ovens installed are the same make and model, so that they can be repaired or replaced when the time comes. A resident who installs their own equipment of whatever vintage is going to cause trouble for that maintenance flow, so it would seem to be in everyone's best interest to go through proper channels, and allow the landlord to select and install door locks consistent with what their maintenance team can handle, whatever that may be.
That's even scarier, IMO.

Just like NSO/Pegasus is only used for "good"

Look - I worked for Lockheed... My brother was personal flight surgeon to the Joint Chiefs. Dad was also in air force. Grandfather was a nuclear engineer for GE... Pretty well know the military

But one does need to pay attention to how tech and defense work together - especially when the defense eng of the equation is an opaque foreign military.

(When lockheed bought savi (rfid tracking systems for supplies/equipment/weapons/chemicals) - we had a several great engineers, of muslim/middle eastern descent, who quit over protest)
APL Practice Problems
All other opinions aside I object to the label "woke" applied to WotC, this term is thrown around without regard and it seems it's come to mean nothing at all.

WotC employed Pinkertons to confiscate cards from a person, they are not "woke" to anyone who earnestly uses that word.
It is down for me.
It seems you meant to include a reference to their status page. However, the link was not included.

Anyone know the link to their status page?
What is protesting then? If I protest against a Nazi speaker at a university, which side of this totalitarianism am I on? Am I the influential group punishing someone for wrongthink? The implication here is yes I am. So apparently a healthy "non-totalitarian" society cannot allow protest...
I know what you're getting at here, but one should never underestimate the ability of the "self-help" publishers and snake-oil communities in general to commercialize, popularize, and ultimately derail and derange any kind of wisdom they get their hands on. Lots of people involved in "self-improvement" also aren't being honest with themselves and are actually looking to rationalize whatever their existing bad behaviours are with sophisticated-seeming nonsense.

Stoicism is like Buddhism or anything else here, where you're better off with primary sources or certain vetted guides/commentaries. Talking to certain segments of people that loudly consider themselves practitioners may not be the best way to actually get acquainted with the philosophy..
The ESP32-C5 is supposed to have 5Ghz. https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-C5
Yeah that seems most likely. The targets will have been chosen for being likely to attract the attention of the relevant communities.
Your face is on backwards if you think it's acceptable to tell someone that their information is outdated without also providing the new and up to date information.
For those interested, it seems that it’s the flooding of rice fields that are responsible for the majority of the emissions this article is talking about. Something about anaerobic organic matter decay.

I am not an expert, but did some quick googling, and found a site proposing alternate methods of rice growing that reduce methane emissions.
I've never understood how people manage to use ! in a useful way. Primarily I think because if you get anything wrong, repeating the command does something completely different. But maybe I'm not fully familiar with all the functionality because I don't understand why sub commands would make a difference?
The social housing secret: how Vienna became the most livable city
That's true and doesn't detract from it being a waste of talent
Her name is Paula Vennells.

I take this opportunity to reinforce the association of her name with the scandal in future web searches.
Part of it might just be timing. The price of Magnesium and Lithium spiked in 2022; what was not viable prior to 2022 may be viable now.
In an environment where solar and geothermal electricity are abundant enough to make this work, it would be far easier to condense water straight from the air by refrigeration.
I used to work for a small business accounting software company.

We used to talk about reducing the amount of time people use the product. Doing accounting is NOT what small business owners should be spending time on, and our goal was to reduce the amount of time spent.

As the company got bigger, we started selling adjacent software, and suddenly time spent in the 'ecosystem' became an important factor for increasing revenue per user and the rest is history.

Especially in the B2B space with sales reps, it's hard to sell people on things they don't have to do.
https://status.kagi.com/ - Currently shows "No issues detected" (but down for me also)
I am more worried about position tracking of me by the US gov. or spyware companies in general. Does my phone connect to roaming towers when there is normal towers in range? Is there any way to blacklist the satellites?
Python Regular Expressions [video]
My point is that the way this made it to computing is not so much the specific "file of punch cards", but through a more abstract route: "a physical file is a way to store information in an organization" -> "anything that stores data in a system in general can be called a file" -> "data stored on a computer system is called a file". We used the expression "to have on file" / "to put on file" to mean "to have stored in some way, not necessarily in a physical file" even before computing was a thing.

So, "a file" in the figurative sense means "something that is stored" - whether that's a physical file in a file cabinet or someone's memory, or an entry in a ledger etc. This matches the term "file" as it is used in Windows and in most other operating systems, and the way it was used in the earliest Unix systems. However, it doesn't actually match the way it is used in modern Unix systems - a process or an event or a mutex is not "something that is stored". So, calling these things "files" is unusual and doesn't match the normal figurative meaning of "file", within or without computing.
glibc's LGPL is generally no problem because you honor that simply by dynamically linking against it. Normal desktop Linux distributions do have a "suitable shared library mechanism" as the LGPL calls it, so if your binary is dynamically linked against glibc, your users are free to link against the user's modified libc. The "Distribute object files to allow re-linking" thing only becomes relevant if you don't use a "suitable shared library mechanism" to dynamcially link against the LGPL-licensed library.

However, if you do choose to statically link against glibc (which is highly discouraged, for technical reasons) then yeah, you have to give your users access to object files or some other mechanism to statically link against a different version of glibc than the one in the executables you ship. And yeah, this might potentially be incompatible with the licenses for certain proprietary libraries, which simply means that you can't statically link against those binaries and LGPL-licensed libraries at the same time.

The stuff in GCC which gets includes into your binary (such as crt0.o, and whatever code it generates) is except from the GPL.

I have no idea what you're talking about wrt restricting your users to only run your binaries in the cloud.
Could someone explain what splatting is suitable for? I see lots of recreations of photographs. Is this some a kind of compression technique, or is there some other usage?
I think the biggest thing this new wave of water desalinization evangelists are latching onto is tightly integrating green energy sources into the process to effectively offset the energy costs (economically and ecologically). But honestly I can't tell if it's really a new generation of designs that'll make desalinization feasible where it currently isn't, or just another example of green washing.

For the basics, practical engineering did a good video on desalinization: https://youtu.be/mxqOPdEUNTs
This strikes me as an objection to people’s interpretation of the philosophy. Even the early stoics believed this would be the wrong way to live. The four core virtues include courage, and the people shying from confrontation would be lacking that virtue. They would also be willfully ignorant, thus lacking wisdom. Then finally, they would be lacking temperance by failing to resist their urge to hide from something that makes them uncomfortable.

I’m not saying stoicism is perfect or anything like it.

I describe what you’re noticing as “inviting death into life”. I do agree a lot of people use philosophies like stoicism to intellectualize and justify this behaviour. It’s a very common kind of psychological illness though, and people find all kinds of ways to do it. They suppress themselves (and those around them) by rationalizing their inability to engage in life.

I find a lot of people who do this can be very intelligent. When I realized how it works it was very eye-opening how little an intellect can protect you from maladaptive behaviours. The brain can seriously undermine itself through defensive and protective behaviour.
> For me it'll be at least a year before wifi 7 matters

Probably longer for me. WiFi currently meets my needs just fine, so there is no reason to toss out perfectly good equipment to upgrade. When my current APs break and I need to replace them, they'll have whatever standards happen to be on the market at the time.
Pnc is horrible. My experience with them is that their anti fraud algorithms on corporate credit cards might as well be non-existent.
Defining the '90s Music Canon
> The solar panels convert wasted sunlight into electricity, one of the most useful forms of energy, at the lowest cost ever in human history. The batteries make this power available at night, enabling 100% utilization of the higher capex systems downstream. The RO desal plant uses this power to strip salt out of fresh water

I wonder if you could store the energy as pressure instead of electricity in batteries.

From what I gather[1], the biggest energy draw in reverse osmosis is pressurizing the water to force it through the RO filters. So, while the sun is shining, fill a tank halfway with salty water, then use solar energy to run pumps to pressurize air above the water. When the sun isn't shining, you now have pressurized water you can let through the RO filters.

Compared to a regular RO plant, this requires high-pressure storage tanks and additional pumps. I'm unsure whether that costs less than batteries or not.

Another part of the analysis is that, if you do build the batteries, they can earn extra money with a side gig stabilizing the grid. Occasionally, when grid conditions get very gnarly, you could shut down the RO plant for a few hours and make a quick buck selling your battery power on the market.

Alternatively, you could pump the water uphill during the day and let gravity supply the energy to force it through the RO filters at night. This means you'll have to build a special reservoir for pre-treated salty water somewhere, though, and you need a lot of pressure, so it would need to be at a high elevation.

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[1] Source (kind of old): https://www.oas.org/dsd/publications/unit/oea59e/ch20.htm
Usually: shift is a new window and control is a new tab.
I call this the "Rationals spend a whole lot of time and effort ignoring their irrational parts"
Yeah, I will ask them. I haven't seen those. Thanks!
Beating them with pool cues about the head and shoulders until their retinas detach would be a great consequence.
ChatGPT for Teams in Name Only
lol those are the people who can't let go of their beloved, outdated stacks, no way can they develop as well as the new kids on the block
Not just millions, apparently they some a billion chips (according to their website)
Annie Nightingale: Trailblazing BBC Radio 1 DJ Dies at 83
Of some cultural significance in the UK. At least we still have Whispering Bob (Harris).
It's the rule of excluded middle misapplied to everyhing. When you think you have to decide an argument is either completely true or completely false, while in reality no argument is.
Agreed, this is so mystifying. Google Assistant is such an obvious use case.
> but you make no effort to show how it's false

I actually did show it, but I am happy to elaborate and explain further.

A common thing that malthusians do is just take one single metric, then extrapolate it out, and then yell about a doomsday based on that one metric.

One such example is horses. Many decades ago, there were people panicking about an extrapolated line related to horses and transportation.

Cities were supposedly going to fall apart, because of all the problems that an ever increasing amount of horse usage would cause.

We know this to be false, of course, because as our transportation usage increased, we used technology to switch to a new form of transportation (cars), which allowed us to continue to increase our transportation usage, without any of the problems that were predicted via a nieve extrapolated line.

The obvious parallel and point to such an analogy, would be that an extrapolated line based on one single metric, is the wrong thing to worry about because it doesn't take into account that we can switch to a different thing.

So, just like we switched from horses to cars to fulfill increasing amounts of transportation, we also might be able to switch from earth based energy usage, to non earth based energy usage, or to even switch away from the concept of "energy" itself to fulfill increased economic growth.

This is relevant to the topic because I was responding to someone who was also extrapolating out lines a whole 400 years into the future.

Ergo, that's why I criticized and disagreed with the concept of line extrapolation far into the future, which is something that malthusians like to do a lot.
Reddit used to show it, they intentionally removed it maybe around 2015
Boeing is toast, both in civil aviation and in the military. They gutted the engineering expertise that would have been needed to be successful. And now they just can't fix it.
Why even have a status page if it's not updated... I'd at least expect some kind of automated health check failing and updating the page.
First Token Cutoff LLM Sampling
Minus seven years. Facebook Aquila was launched in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Aquila

Oops, beaten by Solar Impulse, as other commenter points out.

Let's up the stakes? How long until a solar aircraft runs on another planet? NASA is talking up Mars Aerial and Ground Global Intelligent Explorer (MAGGIE). Very low atmospheric density, and 59% the solar energy. https://www.nasa.gov/general/mars-aerial-and-ground-global-i...
Interesting, I almost never have sound on so didn't know there was audio.
You're about 1 or 2 steps away from reinventing double entry bookkeeping. Buy yeah in a proper accounting system you'd have those entries which would be easy to check, and nobody would be able to remove or edit them and the system would keep track of who was responsible for which entry.

This system works well enough that it can be done with pen and paper. Perhaps consolidating some stuff from time to time (but keeping the calculations for X years).

As far as I can tell Horizon wasn't playing by the rules, either because of bugs or because of badly designed secret admin access (maybe to fix those bugs, but you can guess how well that goes).
More technology that I would never want in any of my farm machines. Seriously, screw every manufacturer that thinks this was a good idea.

Better yet, where are the engineers that signed up to build these systems that are outright hostile to all of the farmers that buy these machines? They owe us a damn good explanation.

EDIT: in the spirit of constructive positivity, many kudos to those people that implement these standards in open source. They are real heroes.
I still marvel our younger IT workers when I mention that in the 1990s, a very large percentage of sysadmins could not only program, but knew C and regularly wrote ad hoc tools in C (or Perl. Perl? What's Perl?).

These days, if you're a sysadmin who can program, you're considered some sort of wizard.
They had more people than they needed?
Is there a pattern to how the dice grids are constructed? I'm not finding an explanation in any of the documentation. If they are generated in some deterministic way, it would be possible to memorize the pattern and rebuild the grid on-demand. That would create some fun possibilities for passing messages to other people who are familiar with the system.

To be clear, I'm talking about these grids:

0 0 0 0 0
0 1 2 3 4
0 2 4 1 3
0 3 1 4 2
0 4 3 2 1
0 re-throw
I would argue that yes, you're not working around the GPL by going through a pipe. Your program still doesn't work if the remote process gets killed, so it's dependent on it.

> b) much of the Linux ecosystem is out of compliance with the GPL because it attempts to use pipe() to circumvent the GPL and this approach doesn't actually work.

What do you have in mind in particular?
Or any number of other ways to keep track of employee performance that don't rely on an inherently random outcome in an enterprise sales cycle? For example, responsiveness to inbound emails, outbound volume, demonstrated (lack of) knowledge of the product or market?

I don't think we should just give Cloudflare the benefit of the doubt here but man, we can do better than generic bad assumptions.
Haskell is definitely not like the others and your last statement would be untrue with that on the list.
I have had both problems. As it turns out, unsurprisingly, it varies from person to person.

It can also vary within a single person. They might, for example, ask questions too quickly when stuck on a technical question that could be solved by reading docs, but ask questions too slowly when stuck on an ambiguous product requiment that can only be personally answered by the PM or UX person.
This is the first I'm hearing that Steam's dropping Windows 10 support, got a source on this?
My dryer too
It does enable sharing GPTs with your team. Not sure visibility into other users chats would be a good feature.
You're suggesting they have obtained permission from the copyright holders of, say, libiconv, to distribute their code under a non-LGPL license?
The distinction between trying to solve a problem yourself vs ask for help is: are you figuring out a new problem, or figuring out the system?

If you're trying to figure out the system, you should probably ask for help ASAP and build up some knowledge. Over time you'll need to ask questions about the system less frequently.

If you're trying to figure out a new problem related to your work, slogging away at it for a while is more ok because it's value-add and a good learning experience.

The lines are a bit blurry, but that's how I tend to think about this.
> Israel is using AI apparently to target their bombings

How does that have anything to do with Palantir or even foreign countries providing military support to Israel? The AI system in the article you linked was developed in-house by Israeli military.

> These are the bombings that Biden has referred to as indiscriminate

I don’t want get into an argument on an unrelated topic or defend Israel whatsoever, but indiscriminate? You realize that the AI system described is only used for generating the initial list of potential target locations, right? The human analysts are the ones reviewing the targets and all relevant intel manually, and and then deciding which ones to act on. Their AI doesn’t make decisions or “pull the trigger” or aim or anything like that.

The AI is only in the loop for the very first step of the process (which is just generating a rough initial draft of potential target locations), every step after that is all good old manual work that would happen the exact same way as if AI didn’t exist at all.

None of this is a guess or a conjecture on my part, it was explicitly stated in the NPR article you linked.
It apparently does more so than Google.
Sales is not engineering. Its a different culture. It has some positives and some negatives. You can become filthy rich and it's a relative meritocracy. However if you don't sell you will be let go pretty quick.

Sales is one of those fields where you can pretty directly measure someone's performance relative to others. Sure there's some noise and luck, but it's not their job to hold your hand as much as hiring a junior eng
> It's not really a German-only thing.

Sure, relatively (compared to what one can have in the US) low salaries for software engineers is a EU wide thing. Some countries pay more some less, Germany is probably closer to the top if you consider EU.
promptFunc() {
echo "$(date +%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S) $(hostname) $PWD $(history 1)" \
>> ~/.full_history
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=promptFunc

Or, in zsh:

precmd() {
echo "$(date +%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S) $(hostname) $PWD $(history -1)" \
>> ~/.full_history
}
It seems to be back up now.
Have you gone through this process? You do not just get your benefits. You might need a hearing, a letter, a lawyer. Being fired is handled very differently with regards to unemployment than laid-off. Are you claiming otherwise.
I'm genuinely confused. Kaufmann and Hollingdale aren't modern translations?
I'm one of those extremely against ads people who use an adblocker all the time, or pay for services that allow me to in order to remove ads. That said, I still click on accept for those cookie dialogs.

I think it's entirely fair that someone track me on their own web property, or within their own application. Cross-site tracking is not wonderful, unless it's between a collection of related products from the same product suite. But overall I think it's a huge misstatement to say that people who are against ads are also rabid anti-track-anything people.

Within product tracking is both useful and important for helping companies improve their products. And often it's crucial for security, to detect attacks and the like.
Agile Equals Burnout
Down for me as well!
Citi has been pretty dysfunctional, and job cuts were coming, for a long time. I know there have been a lot of tech layoffs announced lately and maybe there is something behind those but I wouldn't assume this announcement has the same cause.

Fraser (the CEO) has been talking a big game for months about taking drastic action to turn Citi around. Sooner or later she had to actually do something or else her own position would start to look very vulnerable.
I guess you are calling Carmack a bad programmer?

But I agree that the layoffs probably aren't based on programmer quality. When big companies lay off, they generally select products, and if you are unlucky enough to be working on that product...off you go. Merit-based layoffs are more stealthy and continuous, those are definitely being ramped up now, but probably not in the numbers companies need to cut due to overhiring or hiring in the wrong areas.
Tacit J and K (2021) [pdf]
Get off my lawn! ;]