skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm was talking about the recent increase. But in longer term global oil production depends on demand. You can't sell more than there is demand for. The only effect US production increase has is that other countries can sell less. Considering that Russia will use oil income directly for expansionist wars and Iran will finance global terrorism then it is only a positive outcome.

When it comes to wealth then nobody demanded China to participate in single party controlled economy experiments that crippled its economical growth for decades and kept large parts of its population poor. Lets remind that this is the (perhaps naive) goodwill of the West that has allowed China to prosper.

Another point when it comes to per capita usage: China has tripled its population by close to 3 times post WW2. While US population has also increased then it has been in large part by immigration (including Chinese immigrants). The same applies to EU - they are sinks for the population growth in other countries while their native population declines.

Yes, per capita primary energy consumption of China is 2.5 times less than that of US, but US consumption is already by itself incredibly high. The difference between China and Germany is only 1.3 times and China is using more energy per capita than is United Kingdom.

So it is by no degree justified for China to expect the same level per capita energy usage as United States.

The first step for China is to stop aggressive increase in fossil fuel usage. If it can signal that it can be cooperative then other countries can make further adjustments. If China does not play along, US will neither.
Anyone have good tips for getting more out of copilot?
Something like (ht-j g foo 'log') could be a function. Someone could do that in Javascript like htj.(g, foo, 'log') or whatever, which is no more or less clear. You wouldn't have a code generation step to deal with, but you can expand macro calls in situations when the macro body isn't readable.
Those mistakes chiefly being starting at the low end and not doing anything to make the platform particularly more interesting than what was already out there. Users don’t talk about budget devices and developers don’t talk about mediocre platforms, and so the positive dev-user feedback loop needed to kickstart a platform never materialized.

I think a third totally new platform could be established even today, but it’s going to take smart planning and flawless execution to make happen.
> A shared library would only be there across processes of different executable images if its users primarily, continuously execute the same paths in shared libs rather than anything unique in their own executable image

Yes, like libc/WinApi, Cairo/whatever graphics library of your OS, Gtk/Qt etc

All of the apps on my desktop (I don't use electron) share vast majority of their code (see above) and spend most of their time drawing UI through shared libs or doing their own business logic but that's part of their code and not subject to shared lib overhead.
> The claims they actually expected to win an actual hot war in a few weeks

They were not expecting an actual hot war (hence the "Special Military Operation"). I think that the plan was to quickly capture and/or replace the government, have the country go into chaos, have good "patriotic" people already in place to act as with the new government, and then realign the country towards Russia.

Capturing Kyiv or at least forcing the government abroad was a big part of that.

But even assuming I was wrong, the main point remains: I think it is clear that they were not expecting a years-long hot war with a neighbor, and that is a massive failure intelligence-wise
Chrome had billions of advertising dollars to back it.

Then Chrome directed more people into their ad funnel as the default action.

Then Google started buying up more glass and real estate. More people to shove though.

Now websites don't run in Firefox. (One of my lawyer's websites doesn't!)

Now Cookies and web standards are changing so Google is the only arbiter of targeted online ads.

It's time for anti-trust!
rclone is not a proper backup tool. It's like an rsync that integrates with all the clouds.
You can kinda use it as one though. I had Borg in my todo for a long time too -- experimented with it and restic which are proper backup tools -- they are a little more involved than rclone (and scary, as they can get corrupted and you are essentially reliant on the software to get your files back).
I found rclone much simpler to work with. As they always say, any backup is better than no backup!

The simplest thing you can probably do is use rclone to copy your most important files to a B2 bucket. Enable Object-lock on the B2 bucket to ensure no deletion just to be safe. You can then run rclone on server and from your devices with cron jobs to archive your important stuff. This is not a proper backup as I said, if you rename files or delete unwanted stuff it wont leave on the backup bucket but it's usable for stuff like photos and the like, anything you don't want to lose.

(I lied, simplest thing is actually probably just copying to an external hard drive, but I find having rclone cron jobs much more practical)
Cissp, csslp, issap, issep,heck even a dog eared copy of the security+ would have helped...
They are like stop signs and stop lights. It prevents you from driving like you want, but makes everyone more free to get to where they want to go.
The series of podcast episodes is worth a listen. The task is not just imagining an ideal shape balancing the 3 constraints, but to do one that will actually come out a pasta extruder die. Getting the trough inside the curl might not work within that implicit 4th constraint.
Yes, generally the best you can hope for normally is cancellation of the agreement -- that is, a refund. If you want to contest a EULA, you can't continue using the product. If the manufacturer has a policy of no-questions-asked refund on seeing the EULA, then there's not much more the consumer can ask for; if the seller were to refuse the refund, then that would likely count as a hidden term.
The rule he wanted was, "Don't use the word 'fag', even if you're British and obviously referring to nothing but a cigarette".

The rule he wrote literally does not prohibit a non-Brit from using 'fag'; it addresses itself to Brits and thus doesn't apply to anyone else. That is left to the "spirit", presumably.

If I see a rule like "pregnant mothers, don't smoke weed", I can ignore it, since I'm not a woman.
That’s nothing compared to their shipping prices!

$51AUD for the pasta.

$350AUD for the shipping lol.

Suffice to say, I didn’t buy any.
Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2023
Did you have no choice to kill this civilian?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/s/YO2FAvEcNN

How can you defend this blatant killing of a civilian waiving a white flag?
The 100MHz 6502 (2022)
> And contrary to many people, I'm fine with the (eternal?) limbo that we then end up with: parts of the codebase using the new stuff, parts still using the old stuff.

That is fine when, as you described it, there are only two types of code: one still using old technique/technology A and the other using newer version B.

Where it becomes a problem is when you haven't finished the transition and realise you need to start moving on to C, or you leave and the new person doesn't understand the difference (and probably also has their own desired replacement). Before you know it, you have three or even more styles of code in play at once, with diminishing ability to keep moving to the latest version. This is sometimes called the lava layer antipattern [1]

[1] https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lava-layer-anti-...
I also cannot see why regenerative braking alone is any different, in terms of tire wear, than caliper-on-rotor braking used for the same deceleration. There is something associated with regenerative breaking that I can see being a tire wear issue... one pedal driving.

In an ICE car, oscillating around the proper pedal position needed to maintain a particular speed leads to a cycle of coasting (not so hard on tires) and accelerating (harder on tires). With one pedal driving, at least with excessive oscillation, the cycle consists of regenerative breaking (harder on tires than coasting) and potentially more acceleration because the car slowed more rapidly. The more consistent you are at maintaining pedal position, the less the difference.

This might be best exhibited in downhill driving. An EV nudges the driver to be intentional about their downhill speed by applying regenerative braking, thereby requiring the driver to push the pedal down to reduce the braking. But on steep enough hills, there is still some braking. In an ICE vehicle, the driver might be more prone to just coast and let the car go a bit faster than they would have intentionally chosen.
This seems like a reasonable default. Encrypting data without having a reasonable recovery method (such as uploading the key to the cloud), would cause more harm than it would help. And if the user is already straying from the happy path in set up, it's probably a good idea to avoid encrypting and assume they know what they're doing.

Note that this is the same on Mac OS: all drives are encrypted by default, but turning on FileVault gives you the option of either uploading the key to iCloud, or have a recovery key printed out, which you are expected to keep safe: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/protect-data-on-you...
That’s just Safari in drag
Google bought their way into a lot of software bundling deals too. From time to time I still encounter Windows installers that try to install Chrome alongside whatever the main program is.
Ah, the sky equivalent of a yacht.
It's an interesting idea, but in general you don't come most of the way to a stop coasting in an ICE car unless you're already at a low speed. Usually you coast some, and then you have to brake significantly still.
It seems pretty scummy since it convinces and uses language that would lead users to believe they are getting an OOTB disk encrypted system even if they opt to not become a part of Microsoft's data silo.
IIRC, Dan's original design had an an internal channel, but the pasta die manufacturer said it wasn't feasible to manufacture, so the design was adapted into the trough.
Does anyone know if this has been patented? When digestive biscuits first came out in 1890, they were patented.
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You left out the part where it says "If a device uses only local accounts, then it remains unprotected even though the data is encrypted"

I think you are confusing "device encryption" with "disk encryption" (BitLocker)
But they could do it under the guise of a distributed barometric weather station system.

….which actually kinda seems doable
Properly enterprisey. They didn't record the pathways or announce them. It was just all there to make it seem sophisticated rather than a guy on a cell phone.
Conversely, you’re entirely responsible for maintenance and system upgrades/replacement on a per household basis which people won’t budget for
The problem is these stories while inconsistent in the ways you mention are also inexplicably consistent in other ways.

Imagine we have another small population of moderately more technologically advanced hominids right here on Earth. Say they want to fool us and make us think they are ET. Imagine they have technology we we have, like VR, drugs, and some we don’t like novel high energy hydroelectrodynamic atmospheric propulsion.

Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and if you experienced it, you would probably find yourself hallucinating details like the ones you mentioned to make it fit into some kind of coherent picture based on the technology and even physics you know.
Recently I wiped the contents of the Trusted Platform Module of a laptop. Now the laptop failed to boot as the Bitlocker key was not stored in the TPM anymore.

To my surprise it was possible to get a code from Microsoft to access the laptop's disk again, as one of the admin accounts was a Microsoft account.

I strongly suspect, Microsoft does only activate Bitlocker during the OOBE if it can set-up this kind of Bitlocker recovery mechanism, storing an (indirect) decryption key at Microsoft.
that's only in those 14 states and that's only rapes resulting in pregnancy, I'm sure there's like 10x as many just in those states, I mean how often does intercourse not turn into pregnancy randomly, since there's only a small fertility window per month.
> I now value simplicity more than I did before and I find myself scowling at some of the advanced modern programming features, grumbling that they exist to solve uncommon problems or, worse, to provide an exciting toy to otherwise bored programmers

I wonder if this is “maturing” as a software engineer or becoming more “specialized” (a nice way to say, not wanting to touch/learn new technology)

I also find myself placing a premium in simplicity, but what if “simple” for me simply means what I’m familiar with?
You think that is a conspiracy and not emergent behavior?
User agent strings should still be visible in server analytics though, no?
I don't consider myself a datascientist but I did some HN x XKCD analysis a while ago. The HN dataset is hosted on Google BigQuery and it is included in some TB per month of free tier processing you get. I.e. you can answer your question quite easily. See my stuff if you are interested: https://www.quaxio.com/hackernews_xkcd_citations/
Microsoft does not compensate its employees well relative to its peers by a significant margin.
I've been grinding Leetcode lately and I've discovered that AI can oftentimes give a better explanation of a solution than Leetcode does. I can also followup questions without scanning through forum posts in hope someone was as confused as I was.

I'm not asking LLMs to write code for me in this scenario -- I need to get by in interviews without AI assistance. But as a personal tutor it is turning out to be helpful.
They should be here to ensure we don’t do anything that could hurt anyone not on Earth’s surface.
> You are conflating bad writing with personal preference

Seems like a silly thing to say. Of course what is good or bad writing is a matter of personal taste. I'm not conflating anything.

> No fallout doesn't come close. Fallout is structured so you can't kill critical main characters until it's time. They structure the script in a way where it's impossible.

> Bg 3 solves the issue by using replacement characters. You kill off a critical person to early another person will take his place and fulfill his role.

That's effectively the same thing. One just feels more video-gamey, but the game's linearity

What happens if you kill the replacement? Does it generate a new person to continue? Seems silly to me.

> This is way better than putting up invulnerability guards the way most games do.

That's just, like, your opinion man.

> I mean read what you wrote. Where in any of your paragraphs was writing actually commented on? You are commenting more on plot and choices.

Plot and choices are part of writing, no? This seems seriously nitpicky.

Writing isn't just "the act of putting words into a sentence", it's all of the decisions that led to that sentence existing.

If I complained that the dialogue often sounded like it came from a high school student (Karlach doing fist pumps and shouting "Hell Yeah" whenever she likes something, for example) would you similarly complain that I'm not talking about the "writing" but the "prose"?

By the way, I didn't disagree when Shadowheart seemed so easily swayed. I just thought she was a poorly written character to have her strong convictions overruled so easily.

Same with Lae'zel when she turned on the Gith queen basically because I told her to.

Two characters that never once expressed any doubts about their divine missions, both turned away from them based on a single choice I made.

That seems like weakly written characters to me.
Trains take a really long time to stop because the tracks frequently aren't clean - even a tiny bit of leaves or grease can cut the coefficient of dynamic friction down 10x
This exact scenario happened to me. I was flying United business class SFO to EWR and the guy next to me was writing a Powerpoint slide in 9000-point bold type "BUY XYZ CORP FOR 880 MILLION" and when I got to work a few hours later our counsel advised me that it was not at all improper to trade on that information, which we did.
Software Devolution in the Hands of Apple
The fourth point, which most comments seem to be missing: would a court and appeals court take that same stance?

here in the US, quoting statutes on this topic is not useful because we also don’t have a specific statute, we have a couple of general fraud statutes that the regulator has contorted itself to fit scenarios in
Does your kettle have a separate charger? What connector is there?

USB kettle is not a joke you can find plenty on Amazon.

But I'm thinking about cordless appliances: shaver, toothbrush, vacuum cleaner, etc.
At least some of this is hopefully on the horizon with the stylable select initiative (this was previously called "selectlist" but they seem to have pivoted to alter/enhance the select element instead):

https://open-ui.org/components/selectlist/
Italian politics is getting worse and worse. We're such a clown country.
The mass of a vehicle does not determine the braking distance, assuming the braking is coefficient of friction limited.
> So a random person that happens to sit next to a CEO on an airplane can trade on whatever they hear.

I am under the impression that this would also be illegal, because trading on the basis of MNPI is itself illegal, irrespective of insider/outsider status.
Or if you are in a position where you can sabotage it somehow (introduce a bug in an update that calls the HCF instruction)...
AI-generated porn is targeting women and kids all over the world
Chips are good when someone finds your pet (and takes it somewhere with a chip reader). But many lost pets are scared and skittish and won’t come anywhere close enough to strangers to be caught.

The main purpose of posters is to make people aware.

E.g., a lost dog will usually find an area they feel safe and start hanging around. People near there will see it, and if they know a dog is lost may call it in (getting the number from the poster or social media). Once people looking for the dog know where it is hanging out, they can trap it (maybe first using a drone to narrow down where the dog is).
Often, it's not that easy. NYT had a good article on this: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office...
The FireFox app lets me send websites from my phone to my desktop which I like
> by true French speakers

Was that really a thing in the middle ages? Every region had its own dialect and people living in the half of the territory of modern France didn't even speak any form of "French". e.g. Occitan is as Italian or Spanish as it is French.
> I think the writing in Baldur's Gate 3 is successful for what it is.

I would agree with that. I just was disappointed because I had been led to believe it was transcendent.

Maybe if I hadn't had my hopes up, I wouldn't be so critical of it now.
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To add some other points - rooftop solar being the future is untested. Most of the installations were done in an environment where solar wasn't really commercially viable and people were trying to push water uphill with a shovel. Which can be done, mind you. There are cases like Germany where they seem to have done a lot of damage to their own energy supply.

But now that solar seems to be a viable option it is unclear what the equilibrium point is. For coal, it didn't make sense to give everyone a generator. Even coal-powered fireplaces in homes turned out to be noncompetitive for heating, which is a bit of an unexpected outcome. So since rooftop solar is dangerous to install and comes with a maintenance burden as well as presumably increased risk to consumers, it might still turn out that the best approach is a big centralised solar farm with huge economies of scale. Keep maintaining and using a distribution grid.

Grids are expensive, so it could shake out either way. But I don't think the public knows what will happen yet.
Well a carbon tax would essentially end coal.
Ruby on Rails accepts arrays as parameters to the ORM's ".where(...)", which means "OR" between the array values. So if the code does something like "User.where(name: name, password: password)", I could totally see this happening.
The real comedy of all this navel gazing and head shaking is we could capture all this excess methane to use as affordable winter heating or turbine fuel but it would literally crater a very lucrative natural gas oligopoly in a fortnight. Artificial scarcity is a planned feature in western capitalism.
Epistemic Hell
>A few decades later and the technological gap was so large that the US seemed to be from an alien world compared to the Soviet Union.

Only for consumer tech, not military. Also, as the war in Ukraine proves, you don't need cutting edge chips to inflict worlds of pain on another country, but 100+ year old tech of mortar cannons and shells are more than enough.

Plus, high tech Russian weapons use commercial off the shelf chips from the west that you can't stop them buying off the free market anyway. An Arduino or Raspberry Pi could very easily guide a bomb. You don't need an Nvidia A100 for that.
A large fraction of Economist readers may have fulfilling white-collar jobs, but billions of people do not, and for them working until they die is less appealing.
Allowing browsers to set themselves as default should not be allowed, and I don't think that should be an issue that Mozilla is tracking to be "fixed".
What's the reasoning for allowing select to have hr children but not optgroup? It doesn't seem like it would be any more problematic but I imagine I'm missing some relevant issue.
The US Eastern coast has a generally more extreme climate than the European west coast. The prevailing wind patterns are west to east so the harsh continental air is blown over the US East coast and the relatively warmer Atlantic air is blown over Europe.

The US west coast is mild near the ocean, but quickly hits mountains and the Eastern side of those mountains has a much more extreme climate. Seattle has a climate not too different than London and much more mild than Boston.
I could guess, an "anonymous payment credential service" could do something like this:
1. User completes payment for the paid for service,
2. To track the payment entitlement, a random, unique ID is generated by the service for the user, that is not related to any of their data.
3. This ID is saved in a database as a valid payment key.
4. The database records IDs in shuffled batches, or with semi-random fuzzy / low resolution timestamps to prevent correlation between payment time and ID generation.
5. Each ID has an entitlement limit or usage stopping point, ensuring it's only valid for the subscribed period.

Another way might be Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), but that might be more complex. They might even use their BAT crypto stuff for this somehow, I suppose. Whatever solution, would need a fundamental solution for how to avoid correlation, I think.
The absolute first thing I ever do when publicly working on a doc like that (if I absolutely must) is Ctrl+r any trademarks, swapping them for [#x].
That's actually so cool. As Italian, I've just realized I take pasta shapes for granted. They're actually something that can be invented and that involves plenty of creativity and passion.
LOL retire, as if it were still a choice for the 99%.
These little guys have no conception of light, the sea floor, or the existence of a surface. Any aliens we could cross paths with are probably more relatable.
Not the very oldest, but the Wii