skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost nobody has the fastest Macs either, and high end Macs were not the market segment Commodore competed against.

Maybe it'd have gone better if they did. But the vast majority of Commodores Amiga sales were the low end machines that were hurt by being overtaken by PCs in the games market.
All foreign relations are an expression of power. Taiwan is a country if enough powerful nations say so and are willing to defend the idea. Mainland China is part of the Republic of China if Taiwan has the military might. The one china policy holds as long as the KMT and PRC are in power. Etc etc etc.
PGE charges me 50c/kwh just to deliver my power. I still spend an additional 12c/kwh for it to be generated. My bill last two months were $200 each for a 1 bed in SF. Insane.
(Since we're discussing counterfactuals and could-have-beens)

In a macabre way, maybe suicidal ideation due to suppressed emotions is nature's way of managing male populations? What if men stopped killing themselves because they felt safe sharing their feelings? What if that led to testosterone fueled "musth" rages where men started to go on rampages just to let off steam? That world would be worse for everyone involved.
EA Won't Let Me Play This Game – So I Hacked It [video]
I can almost read the unit of measure for speed, etc... what a mess (a bit late)
Profit is not a problem. The problem is PG&E is pretty much a monopoly enabled by Californian state.
This is highly situational. Full time office would cost me $2500 in public transport. Rent difference to 2 bedroom is $15k pa here. The increased amenity of the extra room is totally worth it, but not everyone has the means to pay up to 10k a year extra in rent.
Developer experience (developer happiness, speed of development)
Both of those link say, "Sorry, this position has been filled."
Yes, pretty much, but it depends. Your 2 cm/s RC vehicle might still experience high-frequency vibrations (in the range of the motor rpm) and you might want to sample that.
So they should be able to drop prices without it affecting earnings
oh to be young and a dreamer. now, i just want to get work done with the most efficient tool for the job. that kind of hell is for the young
For a mini-surprise, check the prime factors of 44100.
Personally I’d chose almond or wine.
You don’t need export here:

export DURATION="${1:-1m}"

it should be just

DURATION="${1:-1m}"

“export” is a keyword that makes a variable available to subprocesses.
I read that as B.I. taking the problems at Theranos as being entirely that the tech didn't work out, and ignoring the whole thing about lies and fraud.
Profit at any cost is absolutely a problem.
Hit a funny on Edge the other day: every time a page would open the browser "don't close this tab" dialog (like if you need to save something), the browser window would go on a crazy loop of resizing 1px width and repositioning itself 1px to the left, till it arrived on the left border of the monitor.
For the current year. Not last year.
Why is the state government so adverse to nationalizing them vs allowing them to leach off of their collective customer base? $2B in profits after a rate hike? Outrageous. Who cares what it costs to nationalize at this point, y’all are already getting raked over the coals with no end in sight.
He is right, but, in that sense, every job done in front of a computer is a dying profession, because by the time coding is automated so will every other computer based office job.

However, be wary of getting AI to write your code too soon. In its current state you will save several hours of writing code, only to spend hours more on maintenance. Maintaining code is much harder than writing it. You won't have a human to ask "What was the intention behind X weird pattern".

Capitalism, if it survives, will be forced to change. Or it will end up eating its own head off.
Profit in free markets drives competitors to come in and eat those profits.

The problem we have right now is that BigCos use government to erect barriers to entry.
How many fighter jets does Russia have left? Have many well trained Ukrainian pilots are there now - mind you per which aircraft - and how many planes?

Macron made one vague statement. How many French troops, where, doing what?

Russia says... a lot of things.

The US has been arming Taiwan for a long time. These are a few green berets on a training mission, not particularly new.

WWIII might be in the cards. <- Congrats, the media got its clicks.
PG&E has had rate increases in 2022 and 2023. There is no way they can claim no relationship between rate increases and profitability.

If anything, 2023 profits should then mean 2024 rate increases which were made on the claims of company losing money were unnecessary.
Quite. If the founder isn’t in jail, and nobody died, then it’s just a startup that didn’t scale.

Another pet peeve is people describing Adam Neumann as flying too close to the sun. If you made a list of people who have historically flown exactly, to a micrometer, the idealest distance from the sun, he’s in the top ten. He enriched himself beyond measure and the people who’s money he took seem keen to give him more of it.
"Increased profits have nothing to do with increased rates" is like saying "the wetness on your leg has nothing to do with me taking a leak on it." I don't know if they think people are stupid, or if they just have a monopoly of they're little slice of the country so there's nothing anybody can do.
> It’s entirely possible to be a landlord and a decent person at the same time.

I know that's true in theory but in practice landlords, as a group, are some of the shittiest human beings I know.
Let me know when we have the tech to render the real sun's power on your TV screen.

Reproduction of reality is not the goal, because it's unachievable.
It's a very small force, no threat to China's military.
Looks awesome!
How is the response you get getting from the users?
Also for Hasura use case, does a BOT on docs sufficient. Asking because as per my understanding, a lot of query would be around troubleshooting.
you say "ninja tracking bad boy", I say "surveilling, privacy-invading, creepy stalker"
Honestly I have no idea. They are a D-tier company in really any metric, it’s amazing they’re still in business after how many people they’ve killed. If I had to guess it’s because Newsom is eyeballing 2028 and it could be a bad look. If not for centrist voters, then for larger corporate donors.
> $2B in profits after a rate hike

$2B were because of rate increases in 2022 and 2023. Technically the rate hike is after $2B profits, which is somehow even worse
At some point in the past, I attended a Sun security-themed Thang in Los Angeles (small group).

The presenter was talking about a Solaris PAM integration with LDAP auth right before the break for lunch. The auth was done via a "query-username-and-password-strings-from-LDAP-and-compare-locally" method. I pointed out some issues with that - needing a privileged account for the query since the password LDAP attribute is usually protected, password hash on the wire (l0pht was a thing by then, so it felt wrong to sling those around), couple of others.

To their credit, I spent the lunch break with a couple of their engineers in front of a whiteboard working through a 'bind[1]-as-user-to-auth' mechanism instead. I'd like to think this helped their PAM LDAP module become more secure.

[1] https://ldap.com/the-ldap-bind-operation/
It depends who you ask.

In practice, it is an independent country. But the People's Republic of China (PRC) has a "one China" policy where they claim Taiwan as theirs.

PRC spends a large deal of their diplomatic efforts trying to enforce their policy.
There are plenty of monopolies, duopolies, etc in the "free" market that have nothing to do with governments. Example: How broadband companies share the map and don't intrude into each other's "territories".
Republic of China is an independent country, but for now its territory is limited to just the island of Taiwan instead of its legitimate territory of mainland China.
That is how I read it
Has anyone else noticed that apocalypse is constantly around the corner?

Regardless of the echo chamber, I can almost always find a doom-monger whispering the sweet sounds of imminent world ending disaster.

Climate change? Imminent tyranny? New pandemic? Economic or currency collapse? WWIII? Aliens? AI?

The list goes on until I'm totally desensitized and burnt out.
At the risk of overgeneralizing myself:

People in Japan tend to avoid talking about personal matters in the workplace. In my twenty years at a university here, I have met almost none of the spouses or partners of my colleagues, and there have been quite a few colleagues—including ones I worked closely with—whose marital or relationship status I never knew. Faculty social gatherings never included spouses or partners, except informal events organized by the foreign faculty. My impression is that the situation is quite different at universities in the U.S.

The exception was children: My Japanese colleagues—both male and female—often mentioned their kids, and at the campus where I worked until COVID it was not unusual for faculty to bring their children to the office during school vacations. The faculty all had private offices, and there was no problem with children hanging out there during the day. That would be much more difficult for office workers, though.

Another reason why Japanese people you meet seem reserved could be the language barrier. If they aren’t fluent in English, they may seem less outgoing than they would in their native language.

Good luck with your Japanese studies. Knowing the language makes things much easier here.
Santander cuts 320 US jobs in digital shift, Bloomberg reports
None of that sounds insane?
When’s the Formosan independence referendum?
Public utilities don't operate in a free market. It's not possible, the infrastructure is public.
I'm not sure you're getting my implicit point, which is fair because I didn't spell it out. What programming is is not just getting a computer to do something. In many cases, that is the easy part. Programming is just as much if not more so understanding a domain and imparting that to a computer process. Thus, for an AI to be able to do that, we'd solve extra-human intelligence, as even most humans are terrible at system design.

Yes, I would guess that a EE understands how to program a computer to get it to do something. But that isn't all that programming is. So the CEO claiming that we can in the future program via human language is him failing to understand that we already fail at doing this.
For the last few months, we have done our best to reduce both our electric and gas usages. Unfortunately, regardless of however much we reduce, each bill came higher than the one before.
That's insane. Are they sweeping all the state/city mandates into the delivery charge?

Example from the SE: base charge of $35 (static, I believe) + 10.6c/kwh.
> Sometimes I get the feeling everyone is on Adderall but me.

No, of course not.

Some of us are on Vyvanse.

In all seriousness, programming just attracts us ADHD types.
Sure,

> But the notion that anything coming out of our earnings report is in direct result of the rate increase, is completely false.

emphasis on the rate increase.

But of course there was a rate hike in 2023 as well:

The average PG&E bill may soon be going up a shocking $35 a month - Feb 3, 2023
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/pge-utility-bill-increas...
I had very similar issues with my nzxt AIO and a Ryzen 5900X. What annoyed me the most is that other vendors offer water temperature based fan control by default. This makes NZXT AIOs basically unfit for modern CPUs and I don't understand why they're recommended and well reviewed.

I switched to a Fractal Celsius and its default setting is to control pump and fan speed by water temp. Problem solved.
BigCos using government to erect barriers to entry isn't a distortion of free markets. It’s an inherent outcome of capitalism's maturity, where monopolies and oligopolies emerge naturally.
GenAI Worms: The Next-Generation Malware Targeting LLM Applications
This is a reason I avoided going into real estate because the market of renters... is high risk. You really have to go for scale and play the distopian macro game or its a huge gambit. My sister rented out a house and it was gross... used tampons everywhere.
It's also used for subject isolation in much the same way as depth of field.

Only objects not moving relative to the frame can be seen sharply.
The actual comparisons from TFA:

> That meant he had to grow fast and figure out the engineering on the fly — the classic entrepreneurial strategy of Silicon Valley. When it works, you get Tesla; when it doesn't, you get Theranos.

> But if Theranos taught us anything, it's that a business model won't work if it hinges on a technology that doesn't exist. Sebastiani wasn't an Elizabeth Holmes-style grifter. Marshmallows are real! But he did ignore the experts, and proceeded without having the necessary technology in place. If there wasn't a machine that could mass-produce his marshmallows, he would just build one. How hard could it be? In Silicon Valley parlance, he would fake it until he could make it.

The article is severely whitewashing the Theranos fraud. That's why it sees the comparison as legbitimate; it doesn't actually understand what Theranos did that was wrong.
But you are saving the climate
My virus was getting detected by antivirus softwares so I switched two ASM instructions with each other in the binary...
Some scientists have been studying airborne virus transmission and respirators' effectiveness well before COVID-19. I recommend following the work of Linsey Marr [0].

Measless is known to have infected people at a stadium 100 feet away [1].

Influenza is known to infect through dust particles [2]. I can't find the study, but this is valid outdoors, too.

[0]: https://twitter.com/linseymarr

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/14/measles-infection-virus-...

[2]: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/airborne-viruses-can-spread-dus...
What would happen if the state took ownership of distribution and ran it at $0 profit? Customers could choose any generation service they like.

Any downsides?
Housing prices hadn’t really gone down in the 20 or so years before 2008. So the “risk” of decreasing prices was just under-appreciated.

When the firms started making tons of money, it’s probably easy to ignore the risk department.

Margin call is another great movie. Doesn’t really explain the details of what went wrong, but I think it shows how a financial institution unravels when they accept that the risk is real and it is going to come down.
A much cleaner and portable solution to the races triggered by duplicated and early signals is to set up a pipe and have signal handlers write the signal number to that pipe.

A write syscall is permitted in a signal handler and now you can (p)select/poll the signals like any other file descriptor
The Netherlands doesn't have the US kind of weird zoning laws, yet we're still suffering a housing crisis.

The power is simply way too skewed in favor of gigantic companies with coffers that are infinitely deep when you compare them to any individual looking for housing. They can buy dozens of building at a time and completely eek out individuals looking for a home for themselves and their families, and what can anyone do about it?

Imo corporations should be legally barred from owning residential property of any kind, and there should be limits to what an individual can own for themselves as well, be it at the neighbourhood/district/city/state/country level. The overwhelmingly large majority of people need no more than a single home, the only people this kind of rule would affect negatively are the ones that aren't struggling in the first place.
Independent of China or China?
The state has been releasing water in order to leave room for this winter’s snowfall.

We still have a lot of risk: the snowpack is part of our reservoir system, but warm summers have been melting the snow faster than usual. So it’s good the state wants to build additional reservoir capacity.
We should find a nice name for people wasting time at discussions with a AI-bot. Bornbir seems a one-person troll shop. For them to entertain and harass dozens (or are the others AIs too and am I stuck in the past) is very wasteful.
Reading and understanding documentation is a true waste of time. I just press the ‘I can has usb?’ Button and it lays works well enough for me to sell to people.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing that.
For people outside USA/California, PG&E serves gas and electricity to two thirds of California.

They're featured in the film Erin Brockovitch for knowingly dumping 1400 million litres of hexavalent chromium contaminated water in the 50s and not informing the water board until the 80s, resulting in countless cancer deaths in Hinkley, California.

Their equipment has led to many wildfires (eg, approximately 40 of the 315 wildfires in PG&E's service area in 2017 and 2018 were allegedly caused by PG&E equipment). They've been guilty multiple times of criminal negligence, including for gas explosions (see comments below from epistasis and toomuchtodo).

They've had controversies surrounding tax dodging, deforestation, dirty tactics to maintain monopoly, collusion with regulatory agencies, and rates that are among the highest in the US (eg, electricity rates in 2021 were 80% above the national average).

Overall, a real treasure of a utility company.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Com...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Com...
They're literally granted monopolies by local governments.
Nobody is considering giving AI unrestricted access to anything yet. Code written by AI is reviewed by humans, and I would be shocked to hear that sysadmins are considering letting AI agents execute arbitrary commands.
I have my private office. It's at home.
I mean, transportation is pre-tax, so not really $2500.

There's also no such thing as a free lunch. If your employer is buying you an office, then that comes right out of your take-home pay. Or, you're underpaid. Ultimately you provide $X value to the business, your salary and rent for an office don't increase the value, so they directly compete with each other. That's why open offices are so popular, people only compare offers with the $ that they take home. So, they don't put anything else into the other buckets. (I watched Google gradually remove all the perks in order to give people higher total comp. Part of it was taxing snacks and health insurance like income, but part of it was people leaving for the other FAANGs that had less benefits but paid more. The market decided they didn't want private offices at work.)
It's independent, but for historical reasons we have to pretend that it kind of isn't.

But it is, obviously. Anyone who's not a moron can see that.
Other folks have highlighted the basics, so here's an analogous situation to think about: imagine that the US civil war saw the CSA taking over the territory of the USA, with the US federal government moving to a large hypothetical island off the East Coast. The CSA never completely eliminated all constituent US elements, so the USA still technically exists.

Fast forward to sixty years after the fighting just stopped one day. How would you view those two political entities? Are they equal? Does the existence of the CSA mean the USA doesn't exist as a country? What if the CSA implements trade policies which dissuade you from recognizing the USA as an independent nation? Does the USA still exist in your eyes? Is the USA or the CSA the "true" country?

The answer at this point in time is quite simple: the Republic of China (aka Taiwan) is clearly an independent country. However, the People's Republic of China (aka China) holds such economic power, they bully the rest of the world (though trade policies, etc.) into not recognizing Taiwan as an independent country. Also, the combination of geography and maritime law means that if Taiwan is an independent country, China has very little direct access to the open seas. They want freedom of navigation, so there's a geopolitical angle as well. Look into the construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea to advance the Nine Dashed Line policy.

You also need to remember that Chinese civilization is extremely old. The PRC claims to hold something called the Mandate of Heaven, which is a fairly important concept in Chinese history, as it is divine authority to rule over the Chinese people. Frankly, based on how the PRC acts, the RC clearly holds the Mandate of Heaven these days.
Certain political parties hate anything not making a profit, even government services, so the major downside that I see is getting politicians to agree to it.

For what it's worth, I agree with you and feel many things should be turned into non-profit government services.
How did you achieve this? tweaked by hand? i'm in the middle of building a pc and would love to know more.
"non-profit" and "not-for-profit" are super misleading terms. I worked for a "non-profit" for about a year, they made boatloads of money that just went into the hands of the staff and the head of the company, not sure about the board if directors...

https://www.nonprofitcollegesonline.com/non-profits/
Power grid operators are basically a textbook example of a natural monopoly. In other words, it wouldn’t make sense to have multiple companies running power lines to houses. This isn’t like a coffee shop where it makes sense for there to be multiple in the same neighborhood competing on price.
I don't know, the geographic mess is everywhere:

«A giant anaconda species captured recently in the Amazon of Ecuador»

The Orinoco basin doesn't reach Ecuador... The Orinoco basin is within Colombia and Venezuela (and touches Brazil).
Energy efficiency is about making it practically abundant.

With LEDs, energy is no longer a major limit on light for example.
Download the General Rate Case (GRC)…all 1000+ pages, on the CPUC website and see how much control PG&E has over its operations and rates.

https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/electrical-ene...

(Hint: it’s near zero)

PG&E can’t fill their toilet paper dispensers in their bathrooms without CPUC’s ok. Ok, a slight exaggeration, but things like replacing a chain link fence on a substation that costs $200k gets rejected. That’s how detailed CPUC gets into PG&E’s operation and finances. Keep in mind it took 3 years for PG&E and CPUC to finalize these rates. They started in 2020.

You’re probably asking, who the hell is CPUC? And who nominates those on the CPUC board? Governor Newsom. He nominates them directly.

My theory is keeping PG&E private provides a convenient whipping boy for the state politicians. If it was made public then all those problems would be Newsom’s (political) problems? Right now? Newsom gets votes for his “tough talk” about PG&E which is hilarious to me.

Newsom! PG&E? That’s you buddy!
Also of note is their handling of their fossil gas infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pge-safety-investigat...
Regarding the 30-foot distance, my daughter was home and had not seen anyone for 2 weeks. If she got it from us, the 4 PCRs we've had would have shown us being the source. She had symptoms - headache, a fever, a sore throat, and nasal congestion. She had several positive PCR tests after the first one.

It is possible, given the right conditions. My point was that if I can smell somebody's perfume from a great distance, I can also inhale their virus.
Would be nice if we could just recognize Taiwan as an independent country.

I realize there are good reasons not to do so right now -- RoC itself still says on paper they own all of China, and the West is still too dependent on Chinese manufacturing -- but it would be good to move towards recognizing reality.