skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Author: proudly declares himself Unix herder, wants to keep track of which systems are important.

Because not all environments are webapps which dozens or hundreds of systems configured in a cookie cutter matter. Plenty of IT environments have pets because plenty of IT environments are not Web Scale™. And plenty of IT environments have staff churn and legacy systems where knowledge can become murky (see reference about "archaeology").

An IMAP server is different than a web server is different than an NFS server, and there may also be inter-dependencies between them.
Great marketing in my opinion
I don’t find the quotes shared actually proof of the claims made. Of course rooftop solar messes with utility profits, but the operative question is how. The article seems assume simple 1:1 demand reduction as the driver of lowering profits, but, for example, a larger driver could be a shift from base load generation (cheaper) to peaker generation (more expensive). Another possibility could be net metering laws creating demand for services (usage of utility at night as if it were a giant battery) without actually paying for the cost of utility infrastructure and the services provided by incorrectly equating a kWh as the same no matter when it’s generated.

Full disclosure: I have rooftop solar and also benefit from net metering, so I am not speaking as one who can’t see why the consumer desires those things.
OKRs are simply an extension of the fact that companies and departments need some sort of 3-6 month roadmap. That is to ensure cross-department and external communication can be done somewhat smoothly. Waterfall used to do this inherently. Now we've got OKRs and SAFe.
It seems to me that this approach could make PCB design more approachable to blind people, as it's based on text rather than a visual UI. There are already blind electrical engineers and makers [1], but I don't know how they design PCBs.

[1]: https://nfb.org/sites/default/files/images/nfb/publications/...
I understand this sentiment, but I worry that the people ripping off billionaires aren't exactly giving back to society either.

Sometimes I ponder about business opportunities catering to the upper end market, making things ridiculously expensive just to capture the super rich segment, and using the profits for good in society (somehow).

Most people/businesses don't operate like this I suppose - they just want a yacht of their own, or to infinitely grow their business.
Before arriving at the goal, or before setting that goal?
Unfortunately humanity is constantly on the verge of self destruction so I would expect to come back to a radioactive smoldering place with some survivors roaming around still trying to finish one another with sticks and stones.
The layoff is more a result of share price going down.
The perfect camera autofocus when object distance changed quickly, especially since it's "macro" distance at times. No real camera auto focus is that good.

Also, some things are too perfect/lacking imperfections. The lamp shade texture for instance is too even & perfect
It depends on who defines and why they define the O in OKR.
I would argue even the "wider industry" still administrates systems that must be treated as pets because they were not designed to be treated as cattle.
The modern Italian town of Ercolano lies just over Herculaneum, so excavations of the rest of the ancient town are a bit tricky. Only about a quarter has been excavated so far, in contrast to Pompeii, which are two-thirds out.
It’s a little known fact that IQ is positively correlated with income, but there’s no correlation at all with net wealth. It is to be expected that there will be entire industries that spring up to extract some of that wealth from the less bright wealthy. The art market is one of such industries.
What is this? What is this a bot account? No link, no comments just a marketing account?
I think there are plenty of people who have the same uncomfortable feeling.

I used to see this sort of thing a lot at Apple and I used to classify the people concerned as those that work AT Apple rather than people that work FOR Apple.
Sometimes it seems like some people have a pathological need to be a doomer about any human activity.

See also: "Kessler syndrome" doomerism about LEO satellites, the debris of which would only be a concern for a few years.
With a domain like insideclimatenews.org, I feel this article meets my expectations in treating more competition -> less profits as some sort of news.

The major issue we've seen was showcased in Germany [0] where renewable sources simultaneously destroyed profits and drove record high prices for consumers, because they were bought in by a program of subsidies that decoupled retail and wholesale prices. As long as solar demand is driven by actual market forces, then it'll follow the usual market dynamic of more entrants with lower costs leading to lower prices. The only way that can't happen is if legislators roll in to do something stupid, like a special subsidy.

There are also the secondary reliability issues; things like the Texas cold snap a few years ago where wind was so unreliable the contingency plans just assumed it wasn't there from what I recall. But then the reliable generation didn't work either and it was a double whammy into major crisis. That will do weird things to profits, I won't attempt to forecast that one.

[0] I don't speak German so if someone wants to challenge this go ahead, but the prices seemed to speak for themselves.
Thunderbird is developed on top of Firefox.
Totally agree with this diagram, it's a great representation.

Now if I could only get stakeholders and less experienced people on the team to understand why it's important, and get them to follow it.
It’s still available on certain models, right?
Beautiful Code – Greg Wilson's Vision for Software Design
I think I was primed because of the title, so I was more attentive. For me it was the candle that appears unnatural, also pencils are a little too perfect and the label on the lighter is a little too clean. After 10th watching also the speaker and the wooden thing look a little artificial. If I didn't know it was a render I might have put the oddness of the candle on some compression issue.
Play Integrity API passes enough for most apps, including Google Pay (the only known exception is Mc Donalds) by simply reusing the "fingerprint" of another device (the "fingerprint" is basically just a version number, except it's globally unique not just model-unique). In those cases, if the system says "sorry I don't know how to do the secure boot chain verification" rather than "the secure boot chain says it is an un-certified firmware", Play Integrity API will say all is good.
> if your fact were true, the universe would be a black hole.

The mass of ordinary matter in the universe is 2×10^53 kilograms, which would have a Schwarzchild radius of 31.39 billion light years. The explanation from popular science communicators on this topic have never satisfied me.

Your maths is correct for one cubic light year of butter. Proxima Centauri is 4.247 light years away, and that gives such a cube of water[0] a mass of 6.468×10^52 kilograms[1], which would have a Schwarzchild radius of 10.15 billion light years.

[0] At STP, which isn't realistic at all

[1] Close enough; I think it was Brian Cox who once joked that in cosmology it is standard practice to approximate π as 1.
You can watch 4K streams on a Oculus Quest with Bigscreen. They will also do 3D movies and Bigscreen rents them.

HDR is missing and the resolution and color accuracy is lower but you can buy 6 Meta Quest 3s for the price. I don't think Apple has ever shipped a product with a bigger price discrepancy to it's competitors than AVP. It's not moderately more expensive and better but massively more expensive.
Probably less if you install them all at the same time.
And cookies that are necessary to perform service required by end user don't require consent.
Thanks for breaking it down like that
I think this might be a client-side issue, since I can see those letters normally.
Disney corp could even pay to have regularly scheduled "shooting stars" over their parks.
> intuitive discussion and people who have great intuition

I just don't buy that this does the same thing OKRs do.

Cross-org alignment

Public commitments and priorities (ie ability to say no to other stuff)

Measure progress/success
The scans used for the grand prize look like this : https://scrollprize.org/img/grandprize/scroll1.mp4

It's a cut through the scroll, with the time dimension in this video representing the location of the cut along the scroll lengthwise.

As you can see from the mess it's far from trivial to find the surface of any of the sheets in the scroll, often they layers are blended together messes.

You may be thinking of the scans they used of an unwrapped sheet, those were as you describe and were used to help figure out methods for the real challenge.
Rather than relativistic speeds, which would be bad:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
Of course, net metering is a GIANT implicit subsidy for solar.

Even simply allowing to use the grid to co-consume electricity from it while ALSO using rooftop solar for self-consumption, without ability to feed solar power back into the grid, is a small-time subsidy now, and will be a huge subsidy a few years down the road. Because it means rejecting all the cheap energy which utility can produce with solar (which will become nearly free very soon, and is already quite cheap), and consume only the most expensive electricity the utility produces.

Net metering was always meant to be a temporary perk, it will cease to exist soon. Then crackdowns on rooftop solar will follow (people will be allowed to either have an off-grid solar+batteries setups, or use the grid, but not both at same time).
What term do you want me to use instead of 'mainstream media'?

Fine, makeshift weapons that you wouldn't use to overthrow a country. No weapons that Antifa wouldn't have anyway, and they were less coordinated than an Antifa riot (Oh whoops Antifa is not a thing according to your trustworthy sources).

When all media outles actually face the consequences of their lies (not just right wing ones), then maybe you'll have a leg to stand on. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but anyone still stumping for the mainstream media is utterly naive, and yes Fox and OANN are also mainstream.
Business advice plagued by survivor bias (2009)
I think EU should put legislation hammer here.

That - you can't ban an account unless providing clear, direct and irrefutable evidence of serious nature such as pornography, hate speech or terrorism etc.

This should be applicable to every online service provider.
Wouldn't that be some form of kinetic orbital bombardment. Not sure that you want to have this in your backyard.
> Then Mozilla had a sustainability crisis and

One way to word it... CEO had a 400% pay increase since 2018

All while Firefox browser market share dropped from 11.87% to 7.58% during the same period.

World would be a better place without the Mozilla Foundation
The articles author: Emil Ernerfeldt https://github.com/emilk

interviewed his mother: Marianne Ernerfeldt

about her experiences as a programmer in the late 1960s onwards.

Many of the passages in his article are direct transcriptions of her responses.
Sorry, I was a bit imprecise there. I meant before setting such a goal ("arriving at that being a goal").
Thanks from me too. So far I've only used Flux in my homelab only, but I found it far better than ArgoCD, which I use at work.
Or we could, you know, just tax them and achieve the same thing.
It's not buried. They make one button green and the other grey, and 90% of users will click on the green button.
I'm aware that someone jumping off a balcony under their own steam could theoretically be a murder or manslaughter case. My point is that we don't know if anything like that actually happened here. If there is no prospect of proving beyond reasonable doubt that it did, then there is not much for the police to do. It's a sad and frustrating situation for the family. But the police are not Miss Marple; their job is to catch criminals, not solve mysteries.
We don't know if that's the kind of thing that happened here or not. I literally mentioned the kind of scenario you have in mind in my comment:

>[...] in such danger at that very moment from the other people in the apartment that those people could be held legally responsible for the death.
Yes, they do. Maybe some nerds don't, but 90% of people do.
That's a partial answer, but not the full story.

The Beaufort scale is designed to grow as B^1.5, and so it has a natural direct extension. 13-16 on the extended Beaufort scale do not map onto category 2-5 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale#Extended_scale). As others mention, SSHWS was designed to reflect building damage.

Apparently, Saffir's original scale only included wind speed; Simpson augmented it to include storm surge and flooding. However, the categories were at times conflicting (e.g. Hurricane Charley in 2004 was a category 4 that led to a storm surge of 7 feet, or Katrina that made landfall as a category 3 but led to a storm surge of 20+ feet in places). To reduce public confusion, the NHC simplified the scale to only use a single prescriptive factor, wind speed (oddly, while still keeping Simpson's name attached to the thing even though they removed his contribution).

https://www.nps.gov/articles/saffir-simpson-hurricane-scale.... contains the multi-factor scale that was discontinued in 2009.
Why So Many Brilliant People Are Losers
The powerful view of the hardware is a lot of hype and can only be applied to Macs costing largely over 2k which puts them in a category where they are in fact pretty weak hardware.

And that's if we consider the benchmarks and take all the numbers as truth because in practice real world performance is really not great, even at a very high price.

For example, a 24GB M2 MacBook Pro plays Dota 2 worse than a barely mid-tier AMD APU. Once you realize that, you understand that not only porting will be a lot of work, but porting to the majority of the userbase that is using bottom of the barrel Apple hardware, would be an optimisation nightmare for still a pretty low number of users all things considered.

There is the Apple Silicon hyper and then there is the reality: outside of power consumption optimisation, not really interesting in itself.
Holding back the humanity from what? Technological progress?

I encourage every technophile to read Technological Slavery by Dr. David Skrbina: https://ia800300.us.archive.org/21/items/tk-Technological-Sl...
If you want to download the narrated audio file so you can play it back faster or later, it's here: https://static.nytimes.com/narrated-articles/audm-embed/newy...
I think they mean github
Lago: Open-Source Alternative to Stripe Is Hiring a Solution Engineer
I have had the same experience. I was constantly bumping into unexpected limitations. Moving to CH felt like the opposite, with many more ”Wow, I didn’t expect this to be possible but it is” experiences.

There is a place for BQ but it is good to set expectations correctly and also look at the constraints. They are sometimes not obvious. The docs do helpfully outline the limitations, for example:

- Materialized views: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/materialized-views-in...
- Indexes: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/search-intro#limitati...
Much of the prices originate from the solar more than 10 years ago. The prices were much different then. But the subsidies arguably jump started some of the global solar industry.
Humanity has actually solved many issues brought up by scientists before they caused drastic harm. A few that come to mind are acid rain, smog, DDT, and CFC’s.

Catalytic converters in aggregate costs something like 1/2 a trillion dollars for clean air. We don’t hear about Acid rain because sulfur dioxide emissions are down well over 90% thus dealing with the actual problem.

Even CO2 emissions are well below the “do nothing” projections. Instead of being hopeless humanity has a long track record of some basic cost benefit analysis and then mitigating issues.
His book reviews. Or this: https://brankomilanovic.substack.com/p/impatience-a-deep-cau...
Dedicated Video Game Sales Units
After messing around with various cross platform desktop toolkits, including a big Electron app and some smaller Tauri apps, I've settled on Flutter. It's not perfect but the results I'm getting are so far much better than anything I was able to achieve using repurposed web tech.
We actually looked into it and found it to be the Rust allocator after all (the memory is freed after a day or two and afaict should not cause oom issues). I'm sorry for not writing this up in the issue, this was heavily investigated by another maintainer and they have not yet found the time to write this up.
Can confirm, tried to enable it day 1, got denied, because the Organisation Admin has to enable it.
I haven't messed with it yet but from looking into it, this should absolutely work.

https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Building-on-ARM-desktop-...
Google and Mozilla don't like Apple's new iOS browser rules
Why not use this energy for mining? What is the terminal velocity anyhow?
Show HN: SearchApi – real-time SERP API
SearchApi is a robust real-time SERP API delivering structured data from a collection of search engines including Google Search, Google Shopping, Google Jobs, YouTube, Amazon, and many more.

SearchApi key features:
- Supports precise location geo-targeting.
- Uses only premium proxies.
- Superior ads scraping rate.
- Structures Google (Search, News, Jobs, Shopping and other services) results into JSON in real-time.
- US-Legal scraping protection.
Why choose between Elixir and Python when you can have the best of both? Read about the tricks to borrowing Python libraries for your Elixir applications.
Show HN: Visualizing Memory Allocations
Memgraph is a little tool to inspect and visualize the heap usage of your applications; it will give you a good idea of the general allocation behavior of your code and show things like fragmentation, garbage collection behavior, leaking rates, interaction between threads, etc.
MLC Pulls an Oprah as Everyone Gets Audited: Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube
Great things can be achieved if some smart people organize others to work towards common goals.

I think the biggest success isn't the recovered text but organizing such an endeavor with such success.

Totally inspiring!
Seeing that this is from 2016, it does not really apply to the current market, which is BRUTAL. I have 20 years of experience, I just built my own SaaS service, and I have a pretty eclectic experience with languages and frameworks.

Forget interviews - I don't even get phone screens. Recruiters will ghost you, which is new. Usually you would not be able to get rid of them.

I think when an interview does come along, I will approach my salary demands gingerly.
Affordable internet goal is threatened by the looming expiration of subsidies
You can write performant app if you want. But why stopping other on what they want to do?
"Screen-on" is a meaningless term in the context of eink.
They all started to look staged after the first billion though.
Here's the thing: any definition of mathematical reasoning that excludes the natural numbers, isn't a definition of mathematical reasoning.

For example, I cannot convince some constructivists that A or not A is always true when it comes to mathematical reasoning. But it is always true, anything else just doesn't make sense. So a constructivist who doesn't acknowledge that, I cannot take anything serious they say. Note that this is different from coming up with interpretations of ∨ and ¬ such that A ∨ ¬A is not always ⊤, such as Heyting Algebras, for example. And it is different from doing constructive mathematics, which is a very interesting subject.

Voevodsky was not a constructivist. He was looking for a way to do the kind of mathematics he likes on a computer to ensure correctness. He first visited the Isabelle development group to find about that, but simple type theory was not flexible enough for his purposes. So afterwards he fell into the hands of the dependent type theorists, who are all constructivists. He tried to do classical mathematics in their framework, that's where his univalence axiom comes from, but that didn't really work out well so far, and I doubt it ever will (but I don't really understand it, so that's just my opinion).
This is being worked on https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/579
Google calls out spyware firms and advocates for tighter regulation
Pretty much any synthetic fabric, which includes most fitness wear, is going to fill your laundry and washer with microplastics. However the real problem occurs in the dryer, which heats the stuff and produces dust. Running some relatively solid plastic bags through a washer (only) is probably 999 on a list of 1000 things to worry about regarding microplastics in your home.

As far as what “the average person will do,” I’ve never personally had a hygiene problem with reusable plastic bags that couldn’t be solved with a sponge or a Lysol wipe in 30 seconds. But if the OP is really suffering with large numbers of dirty bags, a gentle wash with detergent is the simplest and most effective answer. At a certain point, it feels like this discussion is more about preferences re: reusable bags and less about trying to solve problems.
Because your average Joe doesn't know the difference and the race to the bottom affects everyone.
I'm sure I want it. Unfortunately my house is too close to the center of my backyard.

My neighbours are too close too. Any stray parts would cut into the proceeds of ticket sales to the bunker at the center where you can watch live streams of the parcels hitting on top of you.
Demonstrate it yourself in practice?

I worked in such an environment and that’s how it’s done. Demonstrate it to your team, set expectations, have conversations about what matters. Encourage improved processes.
I feel like it works 99% of the time for me, can’t name a website where it doesn’t.
Apple Vision Pro or $4K?
I think the best you're going to do is to start some sort of workers-owned crafting shop that pays well, provides a pension, and has a company culture of doing just absolutely everything possible in house and with minimal automation. Machine the screws that hold the widgets together in house, laminate your own plywood from wood species chosen and grown and milled in house.

The idea is to create a ton of good paying jobs that range from artisans and artists to mindless make-work, while creating a lot of cachet for finely crafted items with just absurd price tags.
> Or you might want to have redundant cooling.

Can you provide a cost centre or credit card for which they can bill this to? In case you didn't notice the domain, it is UToronto: academic departments aren't generally flush with cash.

Further, you have to have physical space to fit the extra cooling equipment and pipes: not always easy or possible to do in old university buildings.
Yikes, having read your comments, I think there's some irony here.
Who is anyone to tell me not to perform calculations on my computer?
That's insanity.
Crontab UI: Easy and safe way to manage your crontab file
I've been watching the W/$ price charts of solar panels for a while now. I don't think that argument is very good, the price trends are too consistent. It looks a lot like Germany just screwed itself over by being impatient. The AfD vote isn't the sign of a happy voter base enjoying a thriving real economy.

But it is too late now and insofar as there may be a problem, it is one for the Germans.
They’re not political at all in the US. They’re called passports, and nobody has a problem with them (as far as I know). No one has to force anyone to use it, but that’s their problem if they want to inconvenience themselves by having to prove their identity in person rather than use an API provided by the USPS (since they already do identity verification for passports).