skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A salesperson not selling anything for 3 months was never heard of

It's funny that you say this then go on to accuse others of never having had jobs.

I've worked around enterprise sales for years and it's entirely possible for reps to go 3 quarters without closing business if they're in a strategic patch or they're trying to build a new vertical/geo. Sales cycles run anywhere from 6-24 months of you're selling enterprise software of any substance or scale, and unless you're getting hot deals from the last person, you're going to be starting most of those at 0. That's why we have ramps.

That said, there are definitely metrics you can look at to see if someone is on the right path at the 3/6 month mark. It's just not necessarily closed business.
1. absolutely no, the article talk explicitly of "phones and drones";

2. No, it's related to "phones and drones", I've explicitly written that this device make sense in niche application, microvolt application like "preserve the state of small amount of RAM";

3. I don't think the name matter, can be battery, generator, whatever: microamperes remain;
Moreover isotope based battery isn't a new technology, you can buy these kind of battery from electronic industrial shops. EEVBlog on Youtube also did tests and debunking.
To me "occupied" means there is control enforced by troops on the ground. Israel didn't have any control of what went on inside Gaza.

Gaza was blockaded. Israel tried to control who and what goes in and out of Gaza (to try to limit the weapons Hamas has). But Israel had no control over what the Hamas Gaza government did in Gaza, how they spent their budget, what they built, what they taught in schools, what their military was planning.
The specific thing of "copy the imprinted marks" can be constructed by hand by scrubbing the back of ordinary paper with soft graphite, and this is something still done by artists using traditional workflows. It's helpful when working with tracing paper as a way to iterate on a drawing and to copy it over to an unspoiled final surface.
I can’t wait to see how the picture comes out!
Fabrizio De André: Dolcenera (Live) [video]
This reminds me of a recurring thought I have had over the past 15 years using UNIX-like OS. In the past, there were many more computer architectures commonly in use, and some UNIX-like OS projects made efforts to port their OS to a variety of architectures. (Not naming names, but please note I am not referring to Linux.)

Today there are fewer archs in common use, but there is still variety in hardware. UNIX-like OS projects make efforts to port their OS to a variety of hardware. Assuming they make an attempt and are successful, this usually takes time. There will usually be a considerable period of time where the hardware is for sale but before the non-Linux UNIX-like OS project is running on the hardware, and able to utilise enough of its features to justify installing it.

And so the recurring idea I kept having was "Why not prioritise support for a particular hardware product."^1 Of course this idea is unpleasantly inequitable, but the practical benefits could justify it. As it happens, eventually, the project I was using started to officially prioritise certain architectures.

1. The hardware product chosen for prioritisation should be one that is likely to be produced for many years, not the type that is a passing fad.

The benefit I imagined is that someone who prefers to install a non-Linux UNIX-like OS themselves could purchase a new item of hardware and install the OS on it and have every feature working _immediately_. Generally, this would be potentially 100% of people using this non-Linux UNIX-like OS. There is no GUI, all are capable of installing the OS with or without an installer, all understand how to compile software from source.

To some extent, this already happens. There are some particular hardware products, e.g., development boards, that are produced for many years that continue to work with this non-Linux UNIX-like OS and they tend to receive consistent attention by the OS project volunteers.

To sum it up, the pipe dream here is that some non-Linux UNIX-like OS user who does not like pre-installed OS and likes to install the OS himself can purchase a brand new device and _know_ 100% that all the features of the hardware will work.
I have been doing Linux sysadmin for 20 years and I just stopped trying to understand SELinux. It looks and feels like an abomination borne out of some IBM or other antediluvian corporate UNIX system for programmers wearing suit and tie.

Terrible documentation, terrible mental model, terrible CLI UX, terrible error messages.

I run Fedora and SELinux is working well enough, but it's a piece of machinery I can't wait to see replaced, however useful people swear it is.
I personally don't think this is very likely (main question: how do they actually manage to get those planets paired and ejected in the first place??? The energy requirements are quite literally astronomical) but it is a very cool idea.

Would make a great novel.
> So what is it, Podman? Should I just use Kubernetes?

If you're talking about a production system for any business larger than a 10 person tech startup; yeah, probably. Alternatively there's Docker Swarm and Hashicorp Nomad. Though Swarm is not nearly as flexible, it's just easy to use. And Nomad... well, let's just say I've been paying closer attention to Hashicorp's build processes in their open source repos like Packer and Vault as of late and they do some stuff that seems shady to me so use at your own risk.
Not sure how much I am allowed to go into detail here, but can confirm what 127361 wrote: the sensors harvest power from the electromagnetic field in normal use. However, considering "power outage detection" is a selling point, you can draw your own conclusions about there being some power storage onboard ;)
No one harasses me either, but I don't have a anime girl persona.

Seems like white people complaining they are never the target of racism. Have some empathy.
Java was inspired by Objective-C experience at Sun, many of its features are inspired in Objective-C, and Java EE was originally a Objective-C framework, Distributed Objects Everywhere.

The first IDE vendors for Java, were doing Smalltalk.

So the Java critic is kind of ironic.
Like other comments there seems to be an implied “managers as superman” here- and it’s not a surprise - perhaps the last fifty or hundred years have mixed “aristocracy”, “elite”, and “white collar management”. It’s hard for even trades Union fish to see water.

Anyway, I think we are seeing a rethinking of what management is - and that will have implications for elite / aristocracy as well. There will be a fight.

My two cents are that the “workers” for many industries are moving from human beings to CPUs. There are amazing photos of rooms of “accountants” simply adding numbers on adding machines which are passed up the line till the corporation gets a final number. Each of those got replaced with whatever IBM made in 1956 (besides Fortran). The manager of that room of humans suddenly stopped worrying about Bob’s attitude and had to worry about silicon.

Something less obvious and photogenic has been happening for years.

Coders in short are the new managers (supervisors)

But we have three other jobs of “management”

- technical lead : understands the details of his area deeply and can make trade offs and build a better engineered product (ie door plugs that don’t fall out)

Product management- honestly I remain dubious about this as a category - with good user communication a tech lead can do most of this, until we shade into strongly fashion / FMCG

- organisational manager - someone looking at the needs of the org - how will this affect the nebulous idea of the company. This is the point at which politics takes over - this level of management is primarily running budgets 100x their own salary and so can be seen more as financier or VC than part of the company. However this is how for example the Post Office justifies jailing it’s own employees

I am wandering off the point a bit - paint fumes I suspect, but there is one final point to make - management differs above from working in the company - on day to day operations - and working on changing the company - new projects and initiatives. Theoretically the cut off is supervisory (ie. Coders are new managers)

But that’s never true - most innovation bubbles up and is then selected in a competition by various hierarchies

I think the point I am making is that we do not need superman as manager - we need properly aligned systems and incentives, which I suspect only happens in open daylight
I tend to just make and run shell scripts that configure and run bubblewrap[1].

Everything is nicely explicit and allows for a good mental model of what's going to happen when you run it.

source "/path/bwrap_helper.sh"
FLAGS=(
${FLAGS_ROOTFS_DISTROX_MIN[@]}
${FLAGS_ENV_XDG_GUI[@]}
${FLAGS_PULSE[@]}
${FLAGS_GPU_ACCEL[@]}
--new-session
--bind /path/jail123 /home/user
)
exec bwrap "${FLAGS[@]}" --seccomp 10 10< /path/a_filter.bpf -- /usr/bin/gui_app "$@"

[1] <https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap>
That's overly simplistic and untrue. If you write a C# / .Net program you're not "just calling C code", you're not calling C at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio_De_Andr%C3%A9
But can I use it to build a better, paid-for, app without having to give up my source code because of the GPL thing?
Yes but someone else ( the military) operates them, just as they do trucks and forklifts and whatever.

I’m talking about Lockheed contracting with civilian governments to operate welfare systems and such.
Housing first does not work.
The site looks beautiful and the utility of it reminds me of Adobe’s kuler. Good job

If I had to make one suggestion, for the site - the gradients and effects look really great, but in addition, if the selected colours were also shown as solid colour blocks, it would help so much to visualise how they would work as a palette. (I’m viewing on mobile so if this is already happening on desktop, a mobile version would be great)
Interesting. I expect that SpaceX will start supporting voice calls with this system in the not too distant future, so maybe that will make it work automatically. Unless the telcos can get their act together before then and change their standards to support text-to-911 without a service agreement.
Claude is a good AI but when it starts lecturing me I turn to Bard, ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Pi. I've learned to avoid Claude for questions when I know it will repond with a scold. Pi is usually a good alternative in this case.
Ghettos.
Decker – A HyperCard Replacement
The 7 Mbit/s are for an entire cell, i.e. all devices simultaneously transmitting in it, not per device.

Iridium (a comparable system) used to support about 10 Mbit/s per satellite in its first satellite generation, which had 48 spot beams each. The second generation supports about a megabit per modem, but these have larger antennas than a regular satphone.

> Apple doesn't disclose the bitrate of their Emergency SOS feature but it uses Globalstar's L-Band for uplink and I believe the bitrate of that channel is 9.6 kbps.

I'm almost certain Apple doesn't even use the full 9.6 kbit/s modulation scheme for their emergency SOS feature: As you mention, it's way too slow for that (having used it myself – even just transmitting my location takes a couple of seconds, and that's a message of only a few bytes).

Globalstar satellites are bent-pipe relays, so Apple could be using whatever custom modulation and coding scheme they need to stay within the constraints of their power and SNR envelope. With the iPhone's built-in antenna and transmit power (around 2 watts or so, if I remember correctly), I'd be surprised if it was more than a couple hundred bits per second.

Regular (i.e. non-smartphone) satellite messengers are much faster than that and only take a few seconds to transmit and receive messages of hundreds of bytes.
It's trivially easy to do 3D graphics using a 2D API if you don't need rasterized z-buffering (which Stellaris obviously doesn't).
From a bit of googling I think that there are different conceptions of what a townhome is across different regions, so it might be helpful to describe exactly what you're referring to.

Where I live, a townhouse/townhome is more or less just a single-family home without space to the left and right—it has a front door and usually at least a second story (sometimes three), it most often has a garage, and the left and right walls are shared with the next unit [0]. Typical total living area between all the floors is 1000-1500 sqft.

Judging from the picture in the article, the kind of townhome that I'm thinking of would absolutely not be a more efficient use of land per housing unit than what they're doing here with these tiny homes.

I'm assuming that you're referring to something different?

[0] This is typical of what I think of as a townhome, if anything a bit more efficient than most: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2914-Yates-St-Denver-CO-8...

Edit: Here's a link to the property on Google maps so you can see the full scale of each unit: https://maps.app.goo.gl/cqLLmbU3Rtufkfx78
> even Chuck Norris will have bugs writing complex software in assembly.

Surely you mean CPUs will have bugs executing Chuck Norris' impeccable assembly code.
Would decompilation be closer to arithmetic or translation?
One of the things you learn in taking a SOLAS class (International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea) is that you will most likely not talk with SAR responders even if you have a sat phone. An EPIRB is the primary means of sending a distress call for initiating a SAR response. It’s just the way the rescue system is set up internationally.
Thanks for the idea and for the code!
That's WiFi/Bluetooth signal strength mapping amounts of data.
> By that logic, it doesn't appear that the US government would have any way to collect their income taxes except for honor-system voluntary payment.

That's why they collect income taxes directly from employers instead of trying to collect from employees.
> Barcelona

Last time I was there beaches were swamped by drug dealers and the city by pickpockets. Berlin is not as bad but it’s not great either. Wouldnt recommend them to anyone.
Rust has always supported some variety of Rc<…> because the borrow checker cannot account for every possible way of writing safe code. It's not something that has "made its way in" from the outside, it's just as inherent to the language as anything else in it.
It's just like communism in that it entirely ignores the needs and capacity of an individual and makes them slaves to the idealism of the state.

They're no better than a homeless encampment because you can't give people a house and then expect them to act like a homeowner overnight. It was the wrong problem to solve, and I think people rush to solve it out of self conscious guilt and a desire to quickly make the _apparent_ parts of the problem disappear from common view.

It's a cruel and ridiculous strategy.
The ethics of generation ships always seems like a ridiculous issue to worry about: no one born today for a say in the circumstances of their birth, nott the ideology they get raised in. And there's a lot of bad options if that's anywhere on Earth.
Likely due to technical limitations. At least docker does its port-forwarding with iptables (or these days, nftables), and the forwarding rules themselves span multiple custom tables/chains. If you ever do 'iptables-save' to inspect what rules have been created when a container is running, it may look a bit funky.

So updating a purportedly single rule might actually require to update several underlying traffic mangling rules, with logic that is not readily apparent. Or even easy to reason about. When you add the ability to route traffic directly from container to container without passing through the outermost interface, things can get quite hairy.
Lack of guilt and empathy do imply psychopathy though. And those are traits that end up being business leaders inherently due to the fact that businesses and shareholders make their money through the theft of profits generated by the people who do the real work.
There is another reason - single-family dwelling housing.

As an example I proposed to the City of Alameda a few years back to develop a tiny-home community on the base end of the island...

I was working with tiny home manufacturers but the city had their zoning laws set that tiny homes would not work - even in a planned area:

the zoning requirements were that each lot must be 2,000 SF min. for any dwelling - and can only have one primary entrance... but here was the reason that is important:

You could not put more than one unit on anything less than 2,000 as multiple units in that area cannot have separate entrances and shared utilities - otherwise its condidered an apartment building and would require a single entrance, cannot share power, water, etc.

Sothe zoning laws (and permitting process) need to be overhauled in most municipalities to accomodate tiny home groups - regardless if the intended residents are from the homeless population or single/couples that want that lifestyle irrespective income/career style.
For those who do not want WiFi on their appliances you still can get highly rated reasonably priced washing machines without WiFi, even from the companies that are putting WiFi in nearly everything.

E.g., I recently bought an LG WM3400CW washing machine for $650. On Consumer Reports it is tied for 3rd on the front loader ratings list. The LG 3900 and 4000 are tied for #1 with overall scores of 87, then the 3400, 8900, and 3600 tied for #3 with overall scores of 85.

Nearly every LG has WiFi nowadays, but not the 3400. Consumer Reports says it does but I think they probably got confused because it has LG's "Smart Diagnosis" which lets you get diagnostic information via LG's mobile app.

On models with WiFi Smart Diagnosis does indeed use WiFi.

On models without WiFi it uses sound. The washing machine plays sounds that sound similar to the sounds that acoustic modems made back in the pre-broadband internet days. Their mobile app listens to those and extracts the diagnostics data.
Check out the NetBSD or OpenSSH source. Both are exceptional
Modern forensic analysis tools would be able to detect the high entropy encrypted data within the host file fairly easily. Additionally, the process of embedding the unencrypted session key, salt, file size, and then the encrypted data as a struct like you are would increase the detection of embedded data.

Half the battle is making sure the hidden data cannot be detected and the second is that the data cannot be read if detected. A more algorithmic approach to the embedding and extraction which uses properties of the host file to determine the relative locations of the session key, salt, file size, and data would likely better hide the presence of the embedded/encrypted data.

I recently made a novel implementation of, "An Image Steganography Algorithm using LSB Replacement through XOR Substitution (DOI:10.1109/ICOIACT46704.2019.8938486)" which you can find here: https://github.com/JustinPack/XOR_LSB_Stego

While my approach is a simple one lacking any inherent encryption, it could easily be added. I think you will find the paper a highly interesting read and it is also in my project.

Cheers and great work nonetheless.
Said no ohs advisor ever.

Engineering in buffer for safety is one of the most common practices.

I mean hey if you wanna roll the dice standing up next to some high pressure hydraulic gear on machinery that's running a few psi away from failure because it's super efficient be my guest.

But I'm not gonna enjoy the one day in 10000 when something goes a Lil awry and you get cut in half because old mate ordered hoses without steel sheathing because the unsheathed ones were rated for the same pressure but were cheaper and more cost efficient.

That's some 1950s old world business ideology there.

Also another example. All lifting straps for cranes and lifting hardware is generally capable of 3x to 4x its safe working load. Buffers are everywhere and they save lives.
How Temporal Works
no.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/politics/elon-musk-whi...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/07/elon-musk...
If dollars are even still a thing
You may think it’s a joke. But it’s pretty much the core idea of the Enlightenment (that everyone can think for themselves and don’t need priests to tell them what to think). The motto of the Royal Society is “Nullius in verba”, “take nobody’s word for it”.
> It is also trivial for them to hop worlds - either wait for a flyby

How so? The gravity well of a gas/ice giant would be absolutely massive. Even if you could get away from the planet, waiting for a flyby in interstellar space could well take millions of years between encounters.
If you read the article, this is discussed. It’s not a panacea but helping some people is better than shrugging and helping none.
It also has voltage, vibration, ground clearance, inclination so you are also measuring snow and wind and other scada shit.

What's actually cool is I've never seen a drone install anything before. Closest thing is placing a bomb, which has an high amount of tolerance.

They say it can be installed without shutting down power. Think of all the things it skips, outages and the paperwork, working from heights and the paperwork, clearance zones and the paperwork. It's probably a 20 man team down to 10.
That would be great, but in addition to network-side changes it would definitely require changes to existing baseband firmware as well – i.e. it's not happening for existing phones.
Yeah, it was alright. They did a really good job considering it was made-for-TV.
> budgets exhausted at EOY

Nope! Often there's money left over for whatever reason, and in many places if you don't use it this year, you'll lose it next year. Nothing like walking out of a decrepit meeting room in November and then back into the same meeting room in late January but now it's kitted out with 3x50" TV's and a studio quality camera.

> yourself and your potential customers taking vacation time

Only if all the important initiatives have been finalised before the end of the year! The buyers have targets they're supposed to be hitting also, and often one of those is "purchased a new CRM/ERP/WTF for implementation in FYx+1".
Ah yes, a not invasive at all super viable solution. I think most women would prefer to be single than participate in a state sanctioned dating app that requires that they be spied on for four years.

“Dating apps are popular in Iran, but from now on only Hamdam will be legal.

Iranian law also criminalises consensual sexual relationships outside marriage.

According to Hamdam's website, users will have to verify their identity and undergo a psychological test before they start searching for a partner.” [0]

When a match is found, the app "introduces the families together with the presence of service consultants", who will "accompany" the couple for four years after their marriage.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57818758
I remember a Bulgarian who was working for the EU told me Luxembourg was crazy boring and that she was happy that the EU bureaucracy moved her (and some other second class Eastern European employees) to another more vibrant city in Eastern Europe.

Milan, no. Crazy expensive and too sophisticated. Bergamo, yes. Prague, too full of tourists. Plzen or Brno, better. Lisbon, same. Berlin has crappy broadband and it takes forever to get it hooked up. I'd much rather work in Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg. They have good beer and Gruß Gott. Copenhagen? No way. Crazy expensive, the weather is just crap even compared to London. The countryside is much nicer in Denmark if you can put up with the weather.
Of course, that's the question for older machines. Yes, safer with sharp bits down but cleaner with sharp bits up.

Most newer machines have a dedicated cutlery tray/shelf which lays all items horizontally. https://www.miele.com.au/domestic/1534.htm?&&&info=200004447...