skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MAD not only has prevented nuclear war but prevented many conventional wars. MAD is the worlds most successful peace initiatives. MAD is a defensive fortification in a world were we thought such was impossible. Those with weak stomachs, the Weizenbaums of this world, are too myopic to realize this truth.
Poland also votes on Sundays (although some referenda have been 2-day affairs). And I'm pretty much sure, it was never allowed to vote here without an ID.

I'm also baffled how that is a problem in UK/US.
Identify a WPBT Binary in the ACPI Table of Bios/UEFI [2017]
Yea, I've seen this get carried away even by just individual team members.

My personal favorite was tests that a team member introduced for an object that had all the default runtime parameters in it. Think like how long should a timeout be by default, before getting overridden by instance specific settings. This team member introduced a test that checked that each value was the same as it was configured to.

So if I wanted to update or add a default, I had to write it in two places, the actual default value, and the unit test that checked if the defaults were the same as the test required.
I would imagine that inside the land they control building lines could be quick but if they are exporting power (which I think is the main idea) they are not going to be able to have the autonomy to build the external lines they need.
Surely your statements are just corollaries which are noticeable with fewer users ? Hyrum's Law is more succinct because of its prefix, "With a sufficient number of users".

And I think we do see small systems where all observable behaviors are indeed depended upon, lots of trivial systems exhibit exactly this property, it's just it doesn't trigger the part of Hyrum's Law that apparently annoys you - "it does not matter what you promise in the contract" because if anybody did write a contract it would state the entire behavior, no surprises are possible.

And that permits a valuable conclusion from Hyrum's law. It's better to design my interface so that it's so simple any fool will use it right, than to document all the weird sharp edges of my interface so that I can potentially win an "Um, actually" episode each time a fool cuts themselves on the sharp edges. That's not always possible but often in our industry it's apparent nobody was even trying.
Author has a very hand wavey attitude toward prions.

There are many kinds of prions capable of causing spongiform encephalopathy in humans and likely others which are currently undiscovered. To suggest we continue eating brains because some people "probably have an immunity" is irresponsible. To my knowledge, evidence of immunity to prion disease has not been scientifically established.

Edit: Furthermore, prion diseases can have long incubation periods (years or decades before symptoms manifest), making them extremely difficult to detect in normal clinical settings.
> Worse, fragments are more likely to be lost. Many routers and firewalls treat fragments as a security risk because they don't include the information from higher-level protocols like TCP or UDP and can't be filtered based on port, so they drop all IP fragments.

I've seen worse than that. A firewall dropping the first fragment based on the UDP port number (which is available in the first fragment), but allowing further fragments.

I'd love to see their new discovery algorithm get widely distributed, it's 2024, and a lot of stuff still breaks or suffers terrible delays if I don't apply the proper settings with my 1492 MTU.
Cool, much appreciated (esp no Docker). Added to test section in my "Postgres Is Enough gist: https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f...
I've been working at Google about 10 years as "only" an L5 and have about $3M in stock just from stuff I haven't sold
In analysis and its applications, the L^2 norm is also rather special.
The human race also survived without electricity for just as long…
I think the point being made here is that those systems could also shield Russian infrastructure making it impossible for Ukraine to take those out and making them unable to defend their country.

I don't think the commenter you replied to tried to make a specific point here but they basically said that on the surface there are maybe a handful of areas that are problematic (like national surveillance and missile systems) but when you actually think about it, even defensive systems can be used to shield the aggressors and just like you wouldn't want to see a missile you worked on blowing up an orphanage on CNN, you probably wouldn't want to see the good guys desperately trying to get around your missile defence system and failing.

Ukraine is just another war where the good and the bad side is very clear (at least to me as a German). But a lot of conflicts in the recent past might have been more questionable.

Also, I think the point the linked article is trying to make is that if we all collectively would refuse to work military related jobs, there would neither be missiles nor missile defence systems. You just couldn't build those.

Not necessarily true anymore since we have enough nukes for everybody by now but in the mid 80s this sort of call to inaction might have been more reasonable.
A rather partisan definition. Modern conservatives, like Burke, have made the observation that change is frequently for the worse, and fast change promotes chaos and suffering, such as during the Reign of Terror.
> Nowadays this watchdog is init/PID1, on most distributions - systemd. If init can't be relied on to manage services, what guarantees do you have for the system to provide them?

Does that monitor actual (not just apparent link up) network connectivity or the ability to access remote networks? Not all failure modes are local to OS processes and sometimes rebooting fixes things like this.

process-specific monitoring can be quite useful but so is a generic "I can't reach my server I just want it to reboot now" with minimal complexity/dependencies. I can't imagine all of the failure modes where a simple bash watchdog script would help - and that's the point!

Now, if you have OOB access to the server (like in a data center) then you might not need or even want a watchdog script. But for remote and/or difficult to access servers (I refer to these as "mars probes"), they can be a life saver.
Like from sheep to cow (how we got mad cow disease) or cow to human (why mad cow disease mattered)?
Why is this a defense for them using the labor of non-consenting artists to generate a crappy header image?

Surely they could ask an artist to volunteer their time just as they volunteered theirs?
I was the manager for my team for 6 months. It’s not that bad in the end but it’s a completely different job. I’m going back to IC next month. This was my first and probably last stint in my 15 year career
Amazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional
Oh! Thanks for clarifying!
To make matters worse, it's a whole spectrum rather than some clear delineation between constructive discipline and psyche ruining abuse.

On the constructive end, you have feedback and learning that can improve someone. It reinforces healthy feelings encouraging positive and discouraging negative behavior, both for the individual and for their expectations of others.

On the destructive end, randomized punishment leads to neurosis. Without any proper correlation between actions and consequences, the recipient develops fear and agitation without any useful training on how to improve outcomes. As I recall, this is a textbook result even in lab rats. It doesn't require the complexity of the human psyche.

In between, you can still have things like PTSD or the "walking on egg shells" mentioned upthread. In this broad gray area, one might at best learn avoidance of abusers or toxic environments. Or one might infer that they are punished for their mere existence, which could channel into all sorts of detrimental coping strategies.

Another result can be generalized anxiety. One might learn that the world is just full of random threat, rather than taking the more personal view that the abuse is punishment focused on the self.
Also in the news: water is wet
extremely useful
Fair enough, I was taught the terminology in university on a course on fault tolerance.

Personally I wish their usage was more standardized, in fact if it was I wouldn't have had to explicitly mention they're taken from IEEE 610.12-1990 and that I'm using them to split "error" into 3 separate but related ideas for clarity.

Either I made it clear in the post I didn't make up the terms so no idea what the original commenter is on about.
And you'd be dead wrong.

Career QA here. E2E are the absolute highest pevel of test, that take the most time to implement, have the most dependencies, and tell you the least about what is actually wrong.

If you think finding what broke is painful with full suites of unit/integration tests under the E2E suite is bad, throw those out or stop maintaining them at all. Let me know how it goes.
The average solar power purchase agreement is $49 per megawatt hour¹. That is $49,000 per GWh. So if this plant can produce 1700 gigawatt hours per year then they would be able to earn on the order of $83,000,000 annually. Not too shabby.

(1)- https://www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-wind-renewable-energy...
Agile does not really works. It sometimes works, exceptionally, usually the more you try to do the by the book agile the worst it gets. Every single time they make agile reform, everything stats to suck and everything turns into ritualized micro management.
I never had an sd card in an rpi die, in years of continuous uptime, except for reboots.

I had one rpi become useless when its network stopped working.
> US is incredibly slow in building transmission lines, takes decades.

A lot of bitcoin miners use stranded power, which would otherwise go to waste. People often respond to me on HN that the power could be easily/cheaply sent elsewhere for better uses [0]. Comments like this just re-enforce the fact that these people have literally no idea what they are talking about. Thanks, I'll favorite this one. =)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39317583
> Having said that, we're going to be producing a large amount of power. So I'm not sure that all of it will be able to be consumed within Colorado.”

That’s a surprisingly vague statement on a billion dollar project. I’d expect there would be spreadsheets and models estimating production/consumption locations for decades out and the company would be quoting a percentage figure even if that was a guesstimate.
It's the other way around. Windows 3.x looked like OS/2 1.x
I'm sure that has nothing to do with one of them sending anyone who disagrees to rot in an Arctic prison.
Russia didn't disappear after the collapse. Germany was utterly defeated in the WW2, occupied by western allies and the soviet union and is demilitarized compared to France. Americans still have military bases there. Its whole existence after WW2 was reshaped by the victors to not be a threat again.
It is not at all uncommon for me to refactor the internals of a unit (ie, a class) in order to add a feature. Unit tests are extremely useful here.
Part of it may be the empire thing, but in the US even small town post offices from 1920 or earlier are luxurious by modern standards. We’d never ever spend what it’d take to build them like that now.

Small towns that didn’t have a town hall or courthouse or other civic buildings built by the 1930s or so tend to have government structures that look like (or are in!) strip malls. Or look like cheap funeral homes.

We’re “way richer now” but all our nice buildings are from when we were “poor”. That even goes for commercial and industrial buildings. The stock of nice 5-15 story brick buildings that can be renovated into attractive apartments is basically fixed (actually, declining), because we don’t build anything that attractive and durable anymore.

Similarly, it’s sometimes worrying how much of the very-nice infrastructure in our parks (state and national, both) was built by 1930s “New Deal” programs and hasn’t seen more than maintenance since. These are treasures we still enjoy today and we haven’t seriously invested in more of them in most of a century.
One does not reflect the other. A low approval rating does not make someone ruthless. A low approval rating does not make someone a dictator.

You’re not in the ballpark of making a coherent claim.
There could have been a whole article on how the Science establishment was bullied into submission by Ancel Keys...
Hugely profitable is perhaps misleading. It’s hugely profitable in the sense that the aggregate profits are high, simply due to both the sheer number of products sold and their high prices. But in terms of profit to expense ratios the Pharma industry is actually at the low end of the spectrum. Most other industries, including tech, are far more profitable in this regard.
Yeah they’re called political campaigns. Attack ads have always been a thing with the same goal: exploit the overactive fear response of simple minds.
thank you!

you became the person you would have needed as a kid

pretty much, yes. it took me decades to understand that myself.

i still sometimes loose my temper with my own kids, but once i noticed my kids copying my own behavior i started reflecting on that and try to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

the kids also helped me realize how much of what i do, both positive and negative is a reflection of my childhood. the same is true for my wife. and really, how could it be otherwise?

growing up is how we learn how to raise children. it's not school, or anywhere else.

this is a sort of different topic but i feel that this simple realization does not really reflect in public policy.

everyone seems to think that good education is enough to give people a better life. but little emphasis is placed on helping parents who are struggling. (and by helping i mean not taking the kids away, but provide services that lighten the parents load)
Abour 30 years ago, I remember using Disk Doubler / Auto Doubler to wring more out of an 80 Mb hard drive on a IIsi... having it work in the background seemed sort of miraculous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiskDoubler
https://archive.is/hLSxA

Who finds this surprising? (don't get me wrong, it's good to see reporting on this)
HN citation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39411064
Do you write for yourself or for other people?
Maybe also hallucinated by AI, just like their amazing glossary?

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/
That story is one of the weirder stories I've read on Hacker News recently. Cute though:

"The last hamster of the fields gave a timid crow when Alexander Resetaritz drew it out of the construction on his paw and pushed it into the transport box."
The link is about making Linux binaries on MacOS, which works because almost everything to build for Linux is already on OSX. The other way around it's not true. A Linux system does come neither with the OSX SDK nor the Apple patched llvm linker. I believe at least part of the required files cannot be legally distributed with a Linux system, but I might be wrong on that.
Jim Keller responds to Sam Altman's plan to raise $7T to make AI chips
It would be extremely weird and unsetting if they didn't.
>your suggestion that the way to avoid war with Russia is by not supporting Ukraine now

Show me where I said that.
Also, even if they did use native widgets that come with integrated accessibility features, would those actually work as intended for a multi user collaborative editor like Zed?

Imagine a group of four people live collaborating on a file in Zed. How do you present the actions that are being taken by everyone so that a screen reader can understand what is going on?

Mute everyone except the user? Speak every keystroke pressed by everyone all of the time? Announce line changes made by others when they pause for a while / when they move to another line?

In short, I think if accessibility for screen readers were to happen for Zed it would take a monumental amount of effort to make it usable, regardless of whether they are using native widgets or not.
This doesnt take into account capacity factors. A "800MW" solar plant would be expected to actually product 10-25% of that after day/night and seasons are taken into account. Nuclear plants are more of a 90+% capacity factor.
It’s politically risky to blatantly lie and cheat in a democracy, at least theoretically
From my tests, it did better than Gemini Ultra on a few reason/logic questions.
Most Germans do car washing on Sundays ;-)
200 billion PHP is 3.58 billion USD. The farm is 3500 MW and has 4000 MWh of battery storage. As of today 1 Wp (peak watt) of mainstream solar panels costs about 0.16 USD [1], and 1 kWh of li-ion battery costs about 140 USD [2]. Which means the panels alone cost 560M USD, and the batteries also cost 560M USD, so combined they represent 31% of the total 3.58B USD budget. It seems to be not very cost-efficient, as the overhead for everything else (2.46B USD) is quite large: inverters, mounting hardware, grid connection, installation, inspection, etc.

Edit: I was basing my "not very cost-efficient" remark on the fact that this solar plant is basically $1.00/W however the best utility-scale solar plants achieve about $0.80/W, or 20% less. However I forgot to account for the fact this plant has batteries, so a higher overhead is expected. So, after all, the capex is in line with what I'd expect.

[1] https://www.pvxchange.com/Price-Index
[2] https://about.bnef.com/blog/lithium-ion-battery-pack-prices-...
You would be surprised how often the system behaves unpredictably and it is because of RAM.
i had multiple times faulty ram and the symptoms are wildly different.

Also, when you download large files which you can run checksun against such as steam games, it is pretty common to find minor corruption (this i verified across many computers)
Lisp and Hardware Verification with ACL2 [video]
Sundar Pichai Is Google's Steve Ballmer
The last time I used Tinder (in San Francisco), I would guess it was about 90% people looking for long term relationships.
It certainly would be weird, but not sure about unsetting.
The article is a history that begins long before Hamas
If you're unlucky you get into mode with ZFS where every scrub corrupts more and more data, while ZFS itself thinks that all is OK because it computes the checksum on the data it just corrupted while scrubbing.

See https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/ecc-vs-non-ecc-ram...
Last year I've migrated my Kodi media player from a RasPi 4 to a N3350 mini PC and didn't look back, then recently also moved my NAS (N5105) and services (3215U) machine to mini PCs and unlocked Chromebooks I got used on either Ebay or flea markets. They're cheap and the computing power is on another planet compared to the PI while still maintaining a low power consumption.
They are, and have been doing to some degree or other for thousands of years. It really picked up in the late 19th century (e.g. Franco-Prussian war actually started due to shrewd deployment by Prussia of information warfare)
If you're asking I'm guessing your current work colleagues don't keep these distinctions in mind. Neither do mine x). They're great folk though!
I once had a mental health professional tell me:

In the majority of cases anger is not a primal emotion, but a derived one. It is a byproduct of a narrative you have in your mind (i.e. the narrative comes first, then the anger). As such, in most cases, you are in control of your anger.

jamiek88 says pretty much the same thing below.
I think the project can easily add Go to the list as cross compiling is built-in:

GOOS=darwin GOARCH=arm64 go build -o bin/app-silicon-darwin app.go
Sounds like you'll skip the "trouble with the law and court dates" phase of this. Congrats! You're doing great. I was not so lucky.

A special shout out to Instagram and Tik Tok for the miserable cherry on top. I hope those platforms implode before the next child becomes a teen.
This is especially ironic in light of Lenovo's own preinstalled malware and bloatware over the years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in...
There is no law of nature that says that the pace of US infrastructure improvements should be like that. It's a matter of policy. The US has built impressive projects before at a staggering rate, and they could do so in the future. (currently China is doing the same but on a larger scale. It shows it is possible if you have the political will)

When people say that the power "could" be sent elsewhere, they are right, you just need to build the damn transmission lines. It's not rocket science.
As a lowly web developer I must not know what i'm missing, can anyone explain what the issue is with an array being a list of references? Why is there a chase going on, is someone trying to get away?

> JavaScript is... You think you have an array of objects, but you really have an array of pointers to objects. So every single time you're walking over that, you're chasing it down.
> it's all the libraries that are the problem

And also header files which are also part of macOS SDK, as the project claims to support C codes.
I Did a Full Workday as a Software Engineer on an Android Phone
Context lies in how this corporation approaches bars it set itself, and UX the end user have to deal with resulting from it.

When a game studio releases new game, looking at previous games they released is a solid indicator of what quality we can expect. Same goes for software companies making new piece of software. Combined with how LLMs seem super useful until I want them to do something original, I would be very sceptical even in case a corp like Apple came up with this announcement. Seeing it comes from Microsoft, not trusting it isn't result of "hating them is popular", its result of experience.
When comparing solar to nuclear we also need to include storage and dimensioning to get an equivalent 24/7 output.

This might still make solar cheaper but difference will be smaller than headline numbers.
What's an affordable x86_64 NUC with ECC RAM? I remember getting frustrated trying to find one that I just abandoned the idea of making a home server altogether.

Please, I don't want to hear "you don't need ECC", I just want some recommendations.
I'm not surprised that most of rust guis are not a11y friendly, there is no established gui library yet, none of them I would call mature yet

Not long ago there weren't any gui libraries that wouldn't be just binding to existing C framework or was in proof of concept state of lifecycle

I'm sure this situation will improve in the future and I understand frustration of someone that rely on a11y features, but you need to understand that everyone first will try to achieve solid gui library before will start adding accessable functionality
Is not the definition of profit the excess charge after removing costs? By definition “no one should profit” does mean “at cost”.
That should be a much higher power envelope, no? I'm struggling to think of a workload that would like eight 8/12/16 core systems on a network more than one 64 or 128 core chip on the grounds that latency is harder to find than bandwidth.
This comment cannot honestly be in good faith, come on now.

You seriously can’t think of a single practical application for generating arbitrary media content on demand?
You just gave me a lesson "why one should not just paste things he found online into his terminal".
Your parameters have Em dash instead of a hyphen... I reinstalled git from dedicated official repositories before I realized my git is not old... the param is indeed incorrect.
Weird similarities. My daughter graduated in 2020, started at Epic, and met her boyfriend there.

They want an adventure, and they don't like Epic much, so they are leaving shortly. She has definitely ruled out grad school, after doing research summers in college, and observing how miserable the grad students were. And how glacially slow progress is. (She spent all summer analyzing data from a telescope only to find out, oopsie, the telescope was pointed the wrong way, never mind.)