skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta has repeatedly shown that they want to commoditize AI, their recent releases of large models cement this. Anything that they can do to undermine the dominant position of Nvidia, OpenAI (and hence Microsoft), Apple et al and make them a replaceable cog furthers Meta's own goals. Having companies challenge Nvidia on the hardware front lines up with this plan nicely.
I think this is a John Dies at the End reference! If not, John Dies at the End references this. A salute to you either way! Great book series.
what I add depends entirely on what I am able to find at the moment. depending on the flavor profile I'm going for, I'll either start with a base of Fresno or jalapeño, and adjust with other peppers from there. I find that Thai peppers or habanero give a decent heat, but using something like sugar rush peach can give you both heat and additional flavor if you are careful with your amount used.

as for "when" - put them in the brine with the rest of the peppers, wait your couple of weeks, then blend.
Same. "Staff" was entry level. The word "Junior" was not used in job titles, and I still think it sounds belittling.
Hm... some articles are saying "largest new" and others just "largest". I don't think it's the largest but maybe it depends on what we mean by "geothermal development".

The article quotes 400 MW and 125 wells, but according to a Wikipedia list [0] there are at least two geothermal complexes in the U.S. that produce more power than that and at least one that has over 350 wells [1] that appears to not only be the largest geothermal complex in the country, but in the whole world.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geothermal_power_stati...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geysers
He worked there for a few weeks:

https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-heiferman-startup-care...
It says dotcom in the title so it must be around 1999/2000 give or take a couple years.
People want to be "a really productive IC" and just churn out tickets and never have any meetings and be short with their peers. That's fine if you accept that there is a ceiling to your career if you behave that way, and that ceiling is far below Staff level both in terms of respect and also impact and compensation, and rightly so. But expecting to continue to get promotions and buckets of money for churning out JIRA tickets is not something that should be "normalized."

At some point you have to be nice to work with, be able to communicate to a group why you want to make the changes you want to make, be able to adapt those changes to fit in with changing demands from leadership, and/or be able to convince your boss's boss why it's worth pushing back on those changing demands. That's all still IC work. "Doing tickets" is great but is a small part of a bigger picture.
This is not true. The US does not have better overall outcomes than the rest of the western world. We are better in some areas, worse in others, but overall outcomes are roughly the same, at a much higher cost per person
Smartphone use decreases trustworthiness of strangers
Yeah, eating local and in season fruits and vegetables should give you all the benefits. Eating imported/out of season fruits and vegetables will come but with worse taste and probably more expensive.
A world filled with MS Power Point presentations with lots of bullet points and sprint velocity charts and 2 hour technical meetings is a sad world.

Stuck? Hardly. I protect my mental well being by working on mid size companies where where science and politics are important and yet, separate and equal concerns.
Using webrtc is actually overkill in this case. What you really want is just the ICE part used by webrtc to establish a peer-to-peer connection. That's what tailscale does, too. Webrtc then adds a lot of media-related protocols on top of that connection, which, of course, the Peerfetch application doesn't care about.
I haven't asked them much about sex, but I have "role played" with them to discuss health issues and drugs. Otherwise you just get an endless string of canned warnings and non-answers. It's tedious.
Yes. Mostly done by people who don't have the money to spend in the first place.
> Giving away the source does not protect the game creator and actively harms them since they are giving up trade secrets.

Then maybe they shouldn't have published the game in the first place. If you can't do the bare minimum that the market demands/requires by regulation then you can't engage with it. Simple as.
It's actually called mutation testing. And luckily it's almost fully automated.
most jam is very acidic so botulism is not a concern
https://archive.is/Kc0Wx

> 'Suicide Tuesday’ is a term that is sometimes used to describe the negative aftereffects that users may experience following an episode of ecstasy use

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3152632/
Except how often does that _really_ happen?
As someone deep in an embedded cave, that's illuminating. You have a completely different meaning abstracted on top of the word "register".

Over here, in AVR and MSP430 and Cortex-M0 land, there are about 16 registers, instructions take at most 2 registers, and write to the destination (often also a source argument, ADD R1 R2 does R1 := R1 + R2). There is no 'frontend', no renaming, no aliasing, no garbage collector; what you see is what you get.

I assume that sometime long ago, the words had the original meaning, but they gradually added abstractions that were still mostly indiscernible at each step of the journey until they had completely diverged.
Thank you. This is very helpful. Getting the data of the old platform should not be a huge issue. Because we’re filling some gaps with a low-code solution, the infrastructure to get data out is already there.

Feasibly, we could replace functionality bit by bit.
That shift has already started in various areas.

You see it with phones but also with cars where OEMs require Secure Boot enabled devices when possible. This ranges from the central unit to all small ECUs.

You can kind of see it pushed for desktops as the default mode but at least there for now you usually have a way to disable it.

For embedded devices though they never really provide a way to disable it. I think you could find a compromise where you could provide a physical method to disable it. If you disable it you clear all the DRM keys and other secrets. This way you can still protect against malicious updates for most users and tinkerers can do what they want once the company stops supporting it.
Last year I was really into non-ebay auctions. Basically traditional auctions that were also online.

I got super excited when I saw a Commodore 64 was coming up soon, until I noticed the starting price was around $100,000. It was actually for a collection of unreleased digital art from Andy Warhol, and they were throwing in the computer for free. Apparently there is a lot of it that they still haven’t sorted through.

I don’t know anything about art, I was just bummed it wasn’t a cheap retro computer.
Yes, and Apple took a harder beating than usual because it was overvalued (ahead of itself) beforehand. Plausible potential future about to rhyme with the past.
Well there's a differnece between half-assed and incomplete.

Your example still shows that you've put some thought into the draft, you know what you need to say, and where you need help filling in the details.
Stupid here, but how hard is to change it to alphabumerical?
When calculating employment I wondered if half a day per week should count as employed. My conclusion was that it should count, but as 1/10 employed.

If the normal work week is defined as 4 days and people work 6 anyway we could count them as 6/4 employed.

If people work 6 days while 5 is considered normal in the rest of the world they would work 6/5.

With 5 days nothing really changes, it is hard to argue something improved without changing anything.

I do imagine that managers are a major source of counterproductivity, giving them extra shifts would create more work, perhaps even jobs.
Groq and xAI's Grok?

"No, not that Gro[q/k]"
> SQLite is for sure not the one size fits all solution

Nor is Postgres. PG is surprisingly versatile. E.g. with some extensions can be used as key-value storage (hashtable), document database, time-series db and so on. And it works quite well. Beyond "good enough" for many use cases. Added benefit, aside from having to run only one db-server, is that you can mix it: part relational, part document, etc.

But the PG versions nearly ever get as good as focused, dedicated solutions get. Which makes sense if you think about it: a team developing a dedicated key-value storage that does that and only that, for years, will always produce a better key-value storage then one bolted onto a generic RDBMS.

A practical example was where we used ltree extension to store ever growing hierarchies. We needed access control over subtrees (so that the X report for John only includes the entities of Johns devision and lower). While it worked in PG, it turned out that "simply replacing" it with OpenLDAP, which had all this built in, made it faster, easier and above all easier to maintain.
It would have been, if all the major trading platforms weren’t having technical issues and nobody could login. They’re starting to get resolved now, but people missed out on a 3% increase by the time they did.
Be interesting to see what happens if/when the Fed cuts rates a bit, through they will remain relatively high compared to zero interest rate land.

One one hand the economics feels very uncertain and feels like things could fall apart a bit (employment - some folks have been looking for months for a job, continued mass layoffs, some political uncertainties).

I am curious how Japan was able to keep rates so low for so long - was there some thumb on scale stuff keeping them down (ie, forced buying of govt debt?)
I'm around the service industry daily/nightly, used to bartend, lots of my friends still bartend. Apart from the social aspect of actually enjoying working with your coworkers, cool regulars, general night life fun, etc, the world has collectively lost it's mind since 2020 and there is not a chance I would ever do industry again.

The amount of drama, fights, and just people in general being rude assholes since 2020 is astronomically higher than it was when I bartended around 2005-2010 and way higher post 2020.

I used to bartend on dirty 6th in austin a decade ago and I won't even walk down that street today. Society has lost its mind.

I live in a busy bar neighborhood here in denver and we just had a door guy get shot and killed 2-3 weeks ago, literally on my street at a restaurant I go to every few weeks 4 blocks away in broad daylight on a Sunday. A 14-15 year old (iirc) running around on a scooter harassing people shot him in a scuffle.
Yeah, you're right. Sorry about that one.
The difference is often that “Member of technical staff” and “Staff” are two different things. Lots of companies have “member of staff” ~= swe 1 and 2 but then simultaneously also have staff above senior.
That’s quite a weird misrepresentation of the feature. You can configure it yourself to remind you to go to bed at a certain time, if you’d like to try to have more consistent sleep patterns.
AMD Releases ROCm 6.2 with New Components, Improves PyTorch and TensorFlow
I don't know why, but certain people tend to be very resistant to the stupendous power of information systems. One such information system, the dragonfly brain, is amazing, and another such information system, the human brain, may never be sufficient to understand it... in the raw. But it is a proven fact that human brains can build tools and other information systems.

Take that DJI drone. For the sake of argument, let's assume it took 300 000 years to develop: that's for how long we know anatomically modern humans have been around. We could reduce it to 10000 years, to account only for modern estates and concentration of resources in such quality that people get time to do science, invent new things, and imprint all of that in the web of human culture (another information system). Anyhow, humans have developed a thing that flies and has a camera, and the two things are connected, in 300000 years. Insects evolved 2.6 billion years after life appeared on Earth. Is the DJI drone not as amazing as the dragonfly? And if not, but we keep making new versions of it for the next 1000 years, will it be able to catch up to the dragonfly?
You make a fine point. If you follow this regression to its limit you're going to end up doing your cryptography on a MCU core with a separate, controlled tool chain. TPM hardware has been a thing for a while as well. Also, HSMs.

This seems a lot more sane than trying to retrofit these concerns onto the entire stack of general purpose hardware and software.
I have the sleep schedule reminders turned off and it still knows when I’m sleeping.
Simpler, but not necessarily as capable! From < https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-authentication/>:

> If you encrypt and then sign, an attacker can strip your signature, replace it with their own, and make it look like they encrypted the file even if they don't actually know the contents.

> If you sign and then encrypt, the recipient can decrypt the file, keep your signature, and encrypt it to a different recipient, making it look like you intended to send the file to them.
Associative tools, thinking, and creativity: On augmenting creativity
The Deno Package Paradox
The main thing I use ChatGPT for at this point is tip-of-my-tongue type questions... "What's the name for when you..." or "What's the word for...". I didn't see that in any of the examples they listed, but it is the one category of question ChatGPT has never failed to nail for me, and basically the only thing I trust it to do anymore without double-checking its responses, or feeling like I've just wasted my time.
I feel the same way, but rather about being a receptionist. Which is an option if you are concerned about manual labor.
I did this between jobs (and slightly overlapping) for a while, about 6 months. It didn't pay the bills and I got a seemingly permanent repetitive stress injury from working in the kitchen, but it was fun and an excellent change of pace. My god I was never confused about how to do a task and when I left work I was just done, there was no todo list hanging over my head.
The case filing: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25031741/elon-vs-open...
Do you mean they should treat even if there is no diagnosis?
And recently, the firmness of the 2% target has changed.

Flexible Average Inflation Targeting (FAIT) allows for the Fed to let inflation to run above 2%, with the hopeful expectation of bringing it down below it at some point.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/assessing-the-federal-res...
I do something similar with Google search results. I hide results from Pinterest, Quora, TikTok, ...
Sometimes, I have to remind myself that a lot of people on the web are 13 years old.
The underlying problem you are describing is the spirit of the web browser. It has been designed to be extremely resilient to sloppy / wrong coding. This is the reason JavaScript has weird features like Automatic Semicolon Insertion and why every browser tolerates sloppy HTML markup (even though they don’t clean it up in the same ways).
The problem is all of those can be ambiguous. "Hot" can mean high temperature, "spicy" can mean e.g. lots of garlic or cumin, or any other spices, and "piquant" can mean tart like citrus.

Perhaps the lack of a dedicated mapping to "capsaicin sensation" stems historically from England's reputedly bland cuisine...
Personally, I'd argue there's a _lot_ more stability for someone in the modern West than a hunter/gatherer living on the plains. I'm not really sure what stability you're talking about in hunter gatherer societies, my understanding is that they generally existed on the edge of subsistence and would be absolutely mind boggled by amount of excess we enjoy today.
So 45% do not, and that’s ok?

Or the huge percentage of that 55% where their coverage is high deductible, so it’s functionally just a “you won’t be instantly bankrupted if you have a heart attack” not basic healthcare?

The bizarrely antisocial and frankly sociopathic “I’ve got mine, other people can get fucked” attitude people like you have is sickening.
There was some series of books in the 80s about secret things and it talked about the cocaine history. written by William something? I can't find it in a quick search.
I'd love to have this out of the box with Java. I know it's possible already with other tooling but it seemed complicated or came with downsides.
That actually is one of the points of pop art. Why should a soup can be a piece of art? Why does our culture hold advertisements and products to such a high degree?

One of the keys to opening the world of modern art to me was that modern art isn’t about what you see so such as what it makes you feel or think about or discuss. It’s a starting point, not an ending.
Genuine question: does "cooling" the center of the Earth via geothermal power plants have any sort of ramifications?
If we converted to using 100% geothermal power, what kinds of effects would that have on the Earth's core?
The first thing I'd think was someone without any skill was randomly clicking around some early bitmap paint software.
Maybe, but I don't believe it:

> (And I do not believe it's bloggers feeling the need to warn about it that's suppressing the numbers!)

As for safe recipes being established part of the culture (no puns intended?) - yeah, well that's somewhat the point, C. botulinum spores can't be seen, but other things can, we've developed preservation techniques that work for both, it's rare anyway, it doesn't warrant worrying about specifically. It's the nastiest thing that almost certainly isn't going to happen.
A lot of geology is funded by petrochemicals and mining companies, since they invest top dollar into figuring out what’s under us.
>Amazon

Guarantee you these are lots of bootlegs and other-region copies behind resold. So probably Amazon is worst for the artists because even the labels are getting cheated there.

>Bandcamp

As I understand it, this is (was?) one of the few places an artist could still get a good deal. Bandcamp positions itself more as a marketplace and takes (iirc) 16ish percent. Let me check that against their website:

"when a fan buys something on Bandcamp, an average of 82% of the money goes to you" (https://bandcamp.com/artists?from=footer)

So yeah, they get a lot of the niche weird music. I buy a lot of NWOTHM music off there for this reason.
> Nobody thanked me.

Do you think this is still true?

This resonates with me. I used to work in tech, but I recently joined my family's brick-and-mortar business. No one says thank you, no one appreciates you. I find it amazing that this culture of thanklessness exists even in the US (I'm in India) in non-tech jobs.

P.S. I worked at all fronts of the business before joining the management. Worked at the counter, as a delivery personal, as a sales executive, etc. And when I say "Nobody thanked me" I mean no one at the company appreciated my efforts.
Thank you for arguing petty semantics and proving my point so well :)

It is all bribery, plain and simple.
We need to include in this analogy that the bank is robbed every other week because they forgot to close the vault or they left a pile of cash sitting outside while they went to lunch. In such a situation if an upstanding citizen checks that the vault is actually locked--"did they remember to lock it today?"--the actions of that citizen don't concern me.

But let's set the analogy aside.

If companies want full control over their systems and who may test the security of those systems, that's fine with me, so long as their full control also comes with full liability. The problem is we currently give companies full control without any responsibility or liability.
> writing code because that’s considered beneath their pay grade and they’d likely be chastised for it at my company)

Make certain the planning people have no idea what the project actually looks like. Recipe for success, no doubt.

Sarcasm asside, I do understand not assigning coding tasks to someone who doesn't have the bandwidth but to be chastised for pitching in seems non-ideal.
Record emissions from wildfires across the Americas in 2024
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I admit I don't understand the mechanism - but this just sounds like they created an a flawed system that has nothing to do with nurses or patient or even health care.

An improperly devised system that can be easily circumvented.

It is not relevant to the subject matter of health care, it is not different than corn subsidy or whatever.
The dataset: https://wildchat.allen.ai
I do agree that US costs are much higher per person.

It is not true that countries with our scale (population) are at or above our healthcare quality (scale matters).

For reference, here are the countries I am talking about: India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, Mexico.

Those are the Top-10 most populous countries (with US at number 3, after China). Mexico at #10 has 200M fewer persons, so calling that the same scale is generous.

I have no doubt that Norway or Singapore has better healthcare than the US.
I don't know when people started conflating "being a really productive IC" with "getting to the top of the IC ladder but not having to do anything I don't want to do."
Linux backup workflow for hackers with restic and rclone
My company kinda does this - it gives you an assessment first. If you pass the test, you can skip the training. I have only seen this the last couple years, but I hope more companies head this direction.
I think as long as gas companies have a place to hide in greenwashing, they're going to do it. Maybe carbon capture is a fine thing to invest in, but I can tell you that as long as it's on the table, the other options aren't going to get as much investment as they should.
When this buggy method is compiled (not run) with Smalltalk, errors and warnings are shown. The code cannot be run because it failed to compile.

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list := #(1 8 4 5 3).

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ifFalse: [max := max].

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