skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The most valuable part is not the land itself

...What?

> Here in Brazil

Ah. When your country is destroying 8,000 square km/year in Amazon rain forest (and disappearing the indigenous people who live on it), yeah, I guess you would think land is 'cheap.'

Anyway - you're missing the point. The "cost" is lost opportunity. At a certain point, between increased new panel efficiencies and the currently installed panels losing efficiency, the operator is missing out on enough power generation that they can upgrade and make more money in the long run.
“devices:
- /dev/kvm”

Well yeah, sure, you’re running a qemu vm in a container, that’s not exactly the same thing here.

No one will (should) ever expose /dev/kvm to containers in production.
Would it be nice if you no longer know who you are (as a person), or what you are capable of?

Until some kind of personality engineering methods emerge to shape your development you might not be in control of the changes.
I love the channel and have been watching for a few years. I agree that videos are the flashy things but in some ways videos have ruined the internet for me a bit (not your channel though). What I mean is if I'm trying to learn how to do something and search for a solution, I find a gazillion videos and will be lucky to find a page that has succinct, written instructions. It's very infuriating. So, I often (almost always) have to watch a 10 or 15 minute video for 2 minutes of information instead of having written info that gets to the point. Keep up the good work on Tech Tangents, its awesome.
I always wonder, sloths are so terrible at everything, how aren't they already extinct? What other quirky animals there would be, if they'd be the ones to somehow survive?
I have the opposite experience: junior developers tend not to do research on the tech stack and just use whatever framework they know with some shiny libraries on top of it.
> Even in places like Tokyo, they have to limit their use of A/C because it' so energy intensive due to the crazy amount of heat from the urban heat island effect.

I was in Singapore on Friday, for one day.

There's air-conditioning in the MRT (metro) stations, but (at least from what I experienced during my brief stay) the stations are not typically closed off from the outside.

You approach a station at street level and it's perhaps 33°C (91F) w/ humidity outside. Around midday my phone reported the weather as '33°C feels like 38°C (104F)'.

You go down an open set of stairs/escalators, and it gets progressively cooler and then you're in the metro and it's pleasantly cool. I was very quickly wondering whether this wasn't a mind-blowingly wasteful use of energy.

Anyone care to comment?
Stylized water shader in Unity
The guy I knew was extremely charismatic. He could talk to anyone for 5 minutes and you'd be convinced he was your best friend and would do anything for you. He also wouldn't hesitate to use you to his advantage, leaving you in the dust. Friendship meant nothing to him. He actually spent time in prison for participating in a scam where he'd call older people, form a friendship with them, then scam them out of their money. I'm sure he was absolutely brilliant at it.
Marvellous, I think, but not really fabulous.
I consider the size of relevant “horizons” - time, number of features, number of people. A junior should be able to have a positive impact working independently within very narrow horizons (a single function, 1 other person, 1 hour), and is showing growth as those horizons increase.
The myth of industrializing software engineering
Njalla: Suspended .TV Domains Could Soon Return to Life
I've heard this a lot over the years, but honestly, as a hiring manager, I'm not going to waste my time with a candidate whose resume shows them hopping companies every year or two.
Compulsory voting can reduce political polarization in the US, study finds
Don’t underestimate the elasticity of supply.
As someone who got thrown out for camera and video it was the thoughts of exploiting to cheat.

After the casinos were saturated, the enforcement changed.
Ask HN: What is this community's thoughtson the Cisco Splunk acquisition?
> The division only exists in large companies with highly segmented job roles.

In some companies, yes, but it's all relative to the company. Each company has its own job titles and levels. It would make sense to write a blog post about "How to get promoted to [title] in [company]". (And the honest answer might be self-promotion or brownnosing, for example.) The problem is that too many developers try to actualize and abstract these arbitrary job titles into some fundamental category of programming reality that exists independently of arbitrary corporate job titles. That's what I mean about drinking the corporate kool-aid. There are continual debates in blog posts and on social media about what "senior developer" means, with no reference to a particular company or job within a company, and I consider the debate to be all nonsense. It's worse than spaces vs. tabs, because at least spaces and tabs are real, well-defined characters.
I've never used Onlyfans but it seems to me the issue is parasocial relationships can be unhealthy, but I don't see why Onlyfans would be worse than obsessing over a Twitch streamer, talk show host, politician, or twitter obsessed billionaire.
This post illustrates a common and unfortunate misconception about async/await.

It's not "hurr durr don't block thread" which is where a lot of developers stop reading at, at their own loss. And then come asking about green threads in github issues in a classic X Y problem fashion.

It is a paradigm where method calls represent an asynchronously produced result, a Task/Promise. Therefore, if all you do is always just await all the results right after calling async methods, you have not used the other 80% of the features.

Task<T> is about composing, chaining and interleaving the tasks, sometimes hundreds or thousands at a time, to achieve (sometimes massively) parallel and concurrent execution of application logic. And we are blessed with C# making it as easy as it gets.
There's often a sweet spot to be had in mixing threads and coroutines, where you have a coroutine scheduler instance per thread, and a thread created per core.

Then rarely, if ever, migrate coroutines across schedulers, and rarely, if ever, share data between coroutines on different schedulers.

Coroutines can enable an ergonomic concurrent programming style while avoiding the need for any locking at all via cooperative scheduling. You generally end up with higher scheduling latencies, but potentially quite high throughput by removing any need for atomics/locking overheads, and no timer constantly interrupting execution for preemptive scheduling.
Insights, I think, but not really exposure.
You are saying that if Nigeria or Burundi or Mexico or Indonesia engaged in IP theft,they could build a competitive chip sector ?
The simpsons example is for a navigation system, not any AI. It is an analogy, not a test to be put to chatgpt.
"Allowed people to experiment..."

So, they experimented by trying new things, correct? Which, by definition, is a change (i.e., a distortion) in their sexual behavior.

If you try to read the "distortion" as being a non-judgmental "change", which was my intent, it may feel less triggering.
I think it is because the deal probably includes all that land being sold to the UAE-led consortium (Egypt will have a 35% stake as I understand).
I absolutely agree. This is clickbait junk science.
I'm wondering if a 'bed of nails' approach could be used to eliminate the mechanical difficulty of the flying probes? Basically a grid of (many thousands) probes at some resolution, connecting to essentially the same switch matrix backend you already have.

In particular something like [1] might just have enough resolution. The 'probes' now are just pads on the sensing PCB. This converts it from a mechanical problem to a crazy high density PCB layout problem, which sounds like it'd be up your alley!

Heat cure for the anisotropic layer is annoying, and might make it a single-use solution (but that's not bad if you're selling the boards!)

Another 'just dumb enough to work' concept would be to take the board scans, and print a custom PCB of the same pad layout mirrored, and you can directly mount the two boards face-to-face. Basically a board level breakout, either to make the wire soldering easier, or better, again directly incorporate the netlisting hardware.

[1] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b5005076018/
This paper is arguing that it’s impossible for an LLM to know the answer to every question, therefore it’s impossible to eliminate hallucination.

It’s easy to imagine an LLM that responds “I don’t know” to all questions. An LLM like that isn’t very useful, but it also doesn’t hallucinate. Eliminating hallucination by teaching it to recognize what it doesn’t know is probably a more sane approach than teaching an LLM to know literally everything in the universe.
Compensation not only in terms of getting more, but also in terms of keeping it from dropping off. Good luck fending off ageism if you don't shift into more managerial roles.
Can the low adoption of Mamba be attributed to what is being discussed today on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491863)?

Basically, Nvidia et al. don't want the AI research to move in a direction that requires less GPU compute, less training data, and less inference compute.

Someone on HN (I don't remember the name) mentioned that the idea of deep learning is backed by big tech because it benefits them the most as they are the only players in town with huge amounts of data. If the AI community would find entirely different approaches to AGI (maybe not even learning), who do you think would suffer the most from the implications?
Article mentions it was the guy’s employer who fired him. Rather than the government.
Hallucinations are essential for divergent thinking. Not everything is solved following goal driven approaches. Check out DreamGPT: https://github.com/DivergentAI/dreamGPT
How do you do, fellow troglodytes? We'll have a chance to shine again when civilization falls and we'll go back to hiding into the caves.
Your argument is "drawbacks to reinventing are not that high", even though I pointed out both usability and security issues. But what's the advantage? Other that giving the (correct) impression that the supposedly-open-network doesn't want to have anything to do with anybody else?

You're coming up with excuses not justifications. And "it looks like it hasn't hurt us too bad yet" is not a great one at that. Self-hosted deployments have barely started rolling out (well, relay is still centralized).
i don't otherwise follow solar, beyond being a strong supporter in theory. i'm an eastern european autist, who used his soviet education to price financial instruments for capitalist. i bought a farm to raise ponies, and got into solar contracts purely because a friend asked me to look at hers. the opening paragraph strongly resonates though. at least the people i deal with are country rich, they have land, they have some savings, they want to leave a little something for their grandkids. i wasn't aware of the details of rooftop solar (another sibling commentor pointed it out also), but i'm smh not surprised.
> They will only boast when they have something to show.

Oh, how to fail to acknowledge a culture... China never boasted work in progress. And since their largest companies are tied to the government, I don't think they'll be tempted to do that any soon.
its socio-technical. you have to balance the legitimate desire to leave people agency, but get them all on the same page. people don't like it these days, but consensus does wonders.

what _is_ purely social and hasn't been discussed here is the role a senior developer takes in shielding the team from organizational corruption. that's a much harder and painful task, and while the former gets easier as the team develops trust, the latter never seems to
A docker container is essentially a sandboxed process, not a VM.
Sovereignty doesn’t mean that much when it isn’t enforced. It’s a popular approach in the Middle East these days - countries agree to build company towns where residents can essentially pretend they’re living in the West, sometimes with a parallel justice system, no expectation of modest dress, etc. Look at KAUST and Neom (if that ever happens) in Saudi Arabia, Abdali in Amman, the Green Zone in Baghdad. It keeps the rich expats living in your country happy without making you actually improve living conditions for everyone, including the native-born population. I fully expect that the Gulf expats who move to this development will be made to feel like they’re still living in the Gulf, the security/police will be private, and it’ll be designated a “free trade zone.”
"You might not have found any games that suit your skill set, but that doesn't mean those of us who have are just making up stories about making money"

Sorry, somewhat trite and unfair, but, if there is a gambling-like dopamine reward cycle occurring, then the users would have a hard time being truly objective about any productivity boost in total. They may instead focus on the 'wins', without taking into account any overheads or 'losses', much as a gambler would do.
Glacial Longings
It is interesting language, but unfortunately when I see LLVM in all these new languages, I pass on. I chase for programming languages with C compilation target that will work well with https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
You can use Concurrent Locks from the standard library. And it has been communicated that you should not be using low level concurrency constructs for years.

But people just… don’t.
I also mean it in the sense of 10 years from now.

In 10 years, who is going to want to open up that unmaintained enterprise NodeJS project running on now-ancient Angular or React? Heck, what if it used Vue 2?

It’s probably going to be worse than what editing a decade-old PHP project feels like now. That’s if it even builds with just one year of no maintenance. At least the PHP project didn’t rely on packages as simple as leftpad or is-odd.
> At no point have I ever worked outside of contracted hours, and at no point will I ever do so. Sorry, no, once I did and it lead to me leaving the job..!

"At no point have I ever worked outside of contracted hours" but "once I did"? Anyway, you probably worked at large companies only; I work in a startup and if the other ops guy is offline I do work off-hours because, well, the website won’t go back up by itself.
Neither nickel nor cobalt are rare earth metals. They may be somewhat rare, and they come from the earth, but that's not what "rare earth" means.
It's the base layer for a lot of EDRs :-)
I think its not right to think of the OF type of person a traditional sex worker. Online sex work used to be the domain of women in failed states, who had no other options for work. But OF and the growing acceptance from the sex positivity crowd has attracted women that leave respectable corporate jobs or school to pursue this line of work. I listened to a lot of them on the Whatever podcast, and it strikes me if OF didn't exist, they would likely be working in HR or communications department in some large organization. They'd probably be getting paid less short term but long term I think it would be a lot better for them in terms of career trajectory, personal satisfaction, finding a partner, etc.

So maybe its a good thing
So have I! I’m puzzled but delighted by how widespread they are-and in fact I’m personally aware of vending locations in several places not reflected on the official map [0].

[0] http://www.euro-souvenirscheine.de/map.php
No we can’t “not link to that cesspool”, it’s still a very significant news source, one that is often covered and/or used as a source in the traditional media, albeit often times with a significant delay.
Especially since the research on expertise already has a useful and operationally defined scale! https://two-wrongs.com/stop-using-junior-and-senior.html
The PPP adjusted value within India is 3.5 versus the dollar in the US so the per capita GDP for India is closer to $12,000 per citizen, not all that far away from chinas’s $17,000.
Some people have different preferences when reading books. This could be genre, prose style, word count, descriptions, verbosity, types of characters, themes. Perhaps there could be an outline, wiki, and full text, author's notes for the AI to use, then each reader can have a version presented that goes into extra details in accordance to known user preferences then cliffnotes mode for the parts less interesting to that person.
Thanks! I tried the app out and was really blown away by how good the voice quality was. Definitely interested to see this project make progress!
This is a nice PoC. For how long are TXT records usually cached? Triweb might not see the latest changes to the websites for quite some time.
Wavelength: Spectrum Warfare Digital Service
> What does society look like to you on the other end of this?

Q: If you look back a few centuries, what does society look like to you?
Are you confusing that with N-nitroso-N-methylurea?
I fairly recently re-read some of Hansen’s work from the 80’s and it was quite prescient of the current state of the world (done in a time when a super computer would be firmly outmatched by a cheap cell phone of today), so I’m inclined to give him some consideration. Certainly his past performance makes no guarantees about his present work; I think he’s in much more of a mentor/managerial role these days anyway, but then again, I don’t think anyone can really tell you with certainty and precision what the future holds. That’s just the way it is.
I also fit that definition and wouldn't generalize. What I've observed is that the places that contain a lot of asocial people also have an above-average rate of sociopathic behaviors. This certainly fits my CS experience.
No technique can get you the news other than actually searching for and then parsing the published news.
Was this the same between both sexes?
I have a theory: If a country has an IQ of 95 or above, sanctions would likely prove ineffective in halting the acquisition of specific technologies within such a society.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37596497 has lots of discussion.
Ah, this page again! it's been more than two decades? since I saw this page last? It was fun to learn about coroutines from the author of PuttY the ssh client of choice on Windows those days.
But this fails to address the question and just reasserts that what I asked is true while seemingly sounding like you’re attacking me for bringing it up…?

> we would do well to look at ourselves rather than heckle people we don't understand.

When a question asked in good faith about faith is answered by accusing the asker of being a heckler is usually a sign that that bit of faith is threatened by critical thinking.

> it's standing on a branch and being sure it won't break.

When your branch has the political will to harm others you can believe I’ll be asking questions why you think that branch will hold.

I just hope you have the conviction of belief to answer honestly.

> accepting that humans do this and leaving them alone, respecting their autonomy, not picking on people

I like a simplified version of your suggested world
Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python
A national/central/reserve bank is very different from a normal bank.

To such a bank, national tender is actually pretty much a bond, and therefore they can issue more of it.

No such bank sells mortgage products to retail customers.
Individual investors are actually pretty disenfranchised compared to concentration of financial parties like institutional investors and private equity. This those more collected interests which are happy to install a Professional Managerial Class that are only interested in the abstract financials and ignore principal agent mismanagement of long term interests. But concentrated fictionalization agents and PMC they appoint preserve their control above their ability to manage healthy growth. And our system is unable to check them.
> Imagine Russia and Iran having access to hundreds Petaflops computers or even exascale!

Oh no?

Seriously though, so what if they do?
You'd be better off testing against something more recent if you wanted any useful information about bugs happening on modern user devices. Safari isn't a greenfield release-every-two-weeks browser, but they have major annual updates and have been known to regularly add features in point releases between major versions, it's changed quite a lot since the last Windows Safari release a decade ago or more.

You can get much more recent Safari (and iOS simulator Safari) releases through macOS virtualization, https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX though this skirts some Apple EULAs. If you want desktop Webkit rendering and JS interpreter parity, https://webkit.org/downloads/ also offers several Linux webkit browser options that would also likely be more accurate than Safari v5.
What did you mean when you later referred to it as damaging and addictive?
The bit about working weekends and evenings was especially annoying to me.

What people who do that don't realize is that pulling late nights and weekends for a deadline more often than not just validates badly planned deadlines that were never going to work out. It's a vicious cycle: if you sacrifice your personal life to hit a deadline, then the people in charge of setting deadlines get a false idea of what "normal" is and you'll end up doing the same thing next time.

It's not that there's never a valid case for working after hours (like, say, a dedicated on call rotation), but I'm pretty firmly opposed to doing so to meet a deadline. It's unfair to yourself and your co-workers to teach product/management/whoever that work can be planned out on the assumption that your team will pull late nights to make it happen on an arbitrary schedule.
JVM and CLR tick all the boxes.

Historically, there were performance complaints, but a lot of these were mitigated (AOT, heavily improved GC..., faster hardware). They are fast enough for a large majority of apps.
The average in this industry (startups) is ~2 years at best so that's a bit close-minded. A lot of startups don't even make it to the two year mark. 5 years is like a century.

At Google average tenure is 1.1 years, so looks like FANG is following the trend as well.

You're definitely missing out on the top 25% of the market if you only stick to people who (stupidly) stay in the same place with no diagonal upgrades for 3+ years.