skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Perhaps they have a low marketshare nationally, but they have a high marketshare in a few specific markets? Maybe, lets see what the DoJ says.

I think it's very much this. National market share is meaningless. I live in Northern Virginia -- some SFH that rents in another market is meaningless for someone looking for an apartment here. In this area, it seems very much that all large multi-unit apartment buildings use RealPage. Individually owned condos that are rented out exist, but of course their quantity is very tiny compared to the number of apartment towers/complexes. SFHs, likewise, are poor substitutes, because someone in the price range of a studio, 1 or 2 bedroom unit isn't going to rent a SFH and splitting a SFH brings problems of its own.
A templating language would be a great case for using an arena allocator since objects will only live as long as it takes to fulfill the request.
I was disappointed that she didn't really talk about multilevel security, which had solved the computer security problem by the time of this talk. However, her focus on breaking things into individual systems instead of multiprogrammed ones could be seen as an effective approach at the time.

It wasn't until persistent internet connections became the norm, that this would have been shown to be an illusion. An illusion we continue to suffer for to this day.
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This was 1999. Monetization hadn't been invented yet.
Not true, at least not in Germany and Japan.
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Why would 99% of human life be over? If we covered the world with greenhouses we could feed trillions of people. We don't need to do that, we only need to feed 9 billion.

> requires an industrial civilization, perhaps even some computing capacity for feedback control, and a powerful source of energy. I don't see these prerequisites being met.

The powerful source of energy could be solar panels which we are currently producing at the rate of TW's per year. Solar panels are very resilient to disaster due to their highly distributed nature.
> Plato himself were slaves

His life would make for a really interesting (to say the least) biopic ...
True. In Alaska, bald eagles swarm fish boats the way seagulls will swarm your picnic at the beach. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLMa1DO-x5g
Absolutely love the logo, is there a term for this design style?

edit: closest I could find was 'Corporate Gen-X Cyber' (https://cari.institute/aesthetics/corporate-gen-x-cyber)
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Didn't know that. I always thought of Jupyter as originally a Python thing. Thanks for sharing that :)
I'm not commenting on the practicality or viability of this. Rather, I see a lot of commenters talking about cost. I understand some projects or technologies would literally be too expensive, but realistically, we need to move away from fossil fuels. We can't just keep polluting the Earth because it's cheaper than clean energy.
OK, I'll try - not as a rigorous argument, but not as a strawman, either.

Events shape cultures. You can find cultural remnants of past events that impacted a group decades later (especially traumatic events).

And, cultures shape events, because cultures shape the people that cause (at least some of) the events. And cultures shape peoples' response to the events.

So when you see a pattern that looks fairly similar across centuries, then you have at least some ground for suspecting that there is a stable system there - that events keep happening that shape the culture in a consistent way, and the culture keeps shaping events in ways that will give rise to the same kinds of events happening.

I wouldn't go as far as "deterministic". I don't think that much involving humans is ever truly deterministic. But there does seem to be a pattern of history, if not repeating itself, at least rhyming.
> With its promise of limitless energy by breaking down matter itself, nuclear power has long held a utopian promise for humanity

What a strange, science fictional way to describe fission! Surely it's not breaking down matter itself any more than burning wood or coal is. Would you say, about eating a sandwich, that it 'offers the promise of limitless energy by breaking down matter itself'?
Yes, several of them are still at Apple. For example Bud Tribble helps run the privacy team IIRC and Darin Adler is in charge of Safari, iMessage, Mail, etc.
I think the more important thing to talk about is that everyone calls Telegram "secure", but by default it's not E2EE. Which in the best case is PR and the worst case a honeypot.
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Being wrong about predictions is not lying.

And we don't yet know that these new predictions aren't the ones that are wrong.
> Even if the cocoa fruit sugars are more expensive in the markets of Switzerland than other sugars, the cheapest source of sugar at the cocoa plantation itself is still going to be the "leftover"/"waste" fruit.

Not necessarily. Chocolate abhors moisture, so sugars derived from the fruit and pulp will need to be extensively dehydrated. Over some range of energy and capital costs versus refined sugar cost, it may still be more expensive to have "whole fruit" processing on-site than to import refined sugar for processing.

> If the recipe these Swiss scientists have come up with is good enough, producers could start to build "whole chocolate" directly near the plantations and better compete in that market directly rather than in the cocoa bean "ingredient" market.

Is the expense of sugar really what makes the rest of the production chain (roasting, grinding, and final processing) infeasible on-site?

> And/or such a process might open up a much larger market for shipping the whole fruit, not just the beans, and moving the expensive labor parts closer to the industrial hubs.

If you're contemplating shipping the whole fruit without processing, I think this would still be infeasible. The fruit is wet, which would vastly increase the shipping cost per kilogram of final chocolate. Shipping the raw fruit might also require a cold chain, depending on how likely it is to ferment or spoil en-route.

You can analogize this to bulk shipments of sugar, where as I understand it early-stage milling is done near the sugar cane/beet plantations to remove most of the moisture. The raw cane sugar is largely dry, and it can be cost-effectively transported to sugar refineries for further processing.
IIRC, Qualcomm still holds patents on RaptorQ. They do provide a blanket license exemption for implementing RFC6330.
How do glorified Markov chains think?
I’d recommend you write a tampermonkey script to remove bad language if you’re this sensitive to it
The problem with Yucca Mountain wasn't just the fact that they were storing waste there so much as the transportation of the waste through towns and cities. In this case, once the waste is created it is already in place to dispose of a mile underground solving another issue.
What renewable starts to produce more towards the winter to compensate for this especially since that's when energy consumption also rises?
I’d wager BSDs move more packets every day than any other major OS. Network infrastructure is often running BSD, so does Netflix on its cache servers, network appliances…
That basically means nuclear is the main competitor to renewables. Nuclear has extremely high Capex, so want to run as much as possible. Renewables are dependent on the weather and want to produce when the sun is out or the wind is blowing.

I believe both have their uses, but I don't buy they go together well.
Oh! I get to talk about my favorite subject: the egregore.

When a company forms it is useful, if not entirely accurate, to describe it as an intelligent agent. This entity does not physically exist, the soul of Disney is not in it's avatar micky mouse, or it's CEO, it's in the (collection of) minds of everyone that sees Disney as an entity. Santa Clause does not exist outside your imagination, yet parents act as the egregore's hands giving out presents. To a real extent, Santa Clause is the cause of acts of good will, and even though Santa doesn't physically exist, physical actions are taken in Santa's name. Same with any accolades of any religion. Or employee's of a company.

Its truth value is orthogonal to it's predictive value, and it is very predictive. See, there are two kinds of general groups within the egregore, the hands (creators, generators, those occupied with the 'mission' of the egregore) and the mouth (those occupied with feeding and sustaining an egregore, sales/marketing). The hands start off in charge and everything works, but eventually the mouth gets control and eats the hands, starving the egregore.

An egregore eats it's own hands and starves to death. This is exactly what happened with Boeing.

It could be modeled from an individual's mind, but some concepts take a village to execute, and some(times) things emerge when you put a bunch of smaller things together. A wave isn't the matter in which it materializes, it's something emergent from when you move some material in a certain way.

But yeah, Atheist here, this is about as esoteric as I get :)
They don't care about votes outside of the swing states.

They care about the people who have been getting those billions for decades spending a small portion of it against them. Also they are concerned for their family members who happen to be upstanding people who landed in great jobs at charities owned by the people who get the billions to not feed people.
Yes, if it was very low that would be a problem. But it was 63%. So a prediction led to an earthquake more often than not.
You make it sound like companies didn't need to make money before 2000 rolled around.
No, but we cannot make any pure empirical judgements, just ones that we know are inflected by our particular social histories. Of course different humans have different traits, but IQ is not a measure of individual traits, its a mass measurement that correlates far more strongly with social factors such as nutrition and education than genetic heritage, which is what the article is saying
> I think the world is moving to more immutable systems

Mgmt doesn't care whether or not you want to build your system to be immutable, that's up to you! Mgmt let's you glue together the different pieces with a safe, reactive, distributed DSL.

Regarding your Talos comment, Kubernetes makes building things so complicated, so no, I don't think it will win out long term.
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I cannot decide if this is ingenious, incredible dumb, or maybe both at the same time.

Where does the "1 mile down" come from? That seems more like based on emotion than on science / engineering. If it isn't, I'd like to see some of the tradeoffs of different depths.

I could imagine that drilling this deep might be the most expensive part, so if you could get away with, say, half of the depth, that would be quite the advantage.

What do we know about the safety tradeoffs of putting a reactor that far underground?

I'm not trying to shoot down the idea, it's just so unexpected that I feel I haven't even begun to think of the right questions yet.
I really don’t think this is the case
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I was once excited about Udemy. I bought a lot of courses, most of which I never started.

But the few times I started a Udemy course, every single one was terrible, once I got past the first 20% or so. And contrary to their advertising, they did not allow me to return the course, because I had "completed too much" or something. IIRC I was around the 30-35% mark.

Totally different from Coursera, which can be hit and miss, but best stuff is very good.

Have you had a different experience? Which courses did you complete that were good?

TLDR: Udemy - cheap, and you get what you pay for.
Gemini is even better in that aspect, being even more to the point and neutral than Claude, it doesn't get on your nerves whatsoever. Having to use GPT is indeed as draining as it is to read LinkedIn posts.
They died only 6 years before Dropbox was founded and had a plan to have cloud storage and an app store. It seems possible they could have executed well on those fronts and have nautilus "just" be a high-end frontend to the services. It probably required a very different mix of engineering focus though.
I think The Last Psychatrist wrote, when women move in, it's a sign that power has moved on.

[Edit]

Found the quote:

"when more women enter a field, it means less men did, and if the men stopped going there, where did they go? [...] I don't want to be cynical, but boy oh boy is it hard not to observe that at the very moment in our history when we have the most women in the Senate, Congress is perceived to be pathetic, bickering, easily manipulated and powerless [...] I know it's not causal, I am saying the reverse: that if some field keeps the trappings of power but loses actual power, women enter it in droves and men abandon it like the Roanoke Colony. Again we must ask the question: if power seeking men aren't running for Senate, where did they go?"

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/01/no_self-respecting_w...

Wow, what a disservice to women to keep up the charade, didn't think there were so many women haters on HN.
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That is such a great quote.-
But it wouldn't have sounded archaic to a contemporaneous russian reader. So the translator's choice is to translate into modern english, as the original audience would have experienced it as modern russian for their time. Or to attempt to recreate a modern russian audience's sense of archaism in english. It's an artistic choice, neither is approach is inherently better than the other.
As a developer on a project like 5 years ago that was intended to integrate one of our products with Versa's equipment and Director, I'm surprised it took this long. There are probably more where that came from.
Meanwhile, I’m pretty happy with Musescore to make accordion sheet music for myself. Is Dorico worthwhile for amateurs?
So extra context that may help at least understand the perspective:

There was a considerable amount of overlap between the browser and the file manager originally. The notion of the modern day internet wasn't really here, and instead a lot of companies saw "browsing the web" as mostly equivalent to "browsing your files - but remotely".

Even Microsoft did this - "Windows Explorer" (The file manager) and "Internet Explorer" (The browser) shared a huge amount of code. To that point that I could still write COM browser helper objects that run in both of those programs as late as 2018 - only stopping when MS finally killed IE in favor of Edge-Chromium.

Basically - Back then the web was just files to be browsed, and that was the job of the file manager, and people correctly identified that the web had monetization opportunities. They were just bad at identifying exactly what they were.
Soon in Europe, only the protests stopped for a moment.
I mean, he has the emails. He can release them whenever he wants.

It only seems reasonable to assume the emails for FaceBook took the same form as the ones to Twitter. But he's welcome to prove me wrong.
Thank you for this, I just used this to create a rust based cli tool to create j2 yamls. This was motivated because we want to not use ansible j2 yaml generation instead to a standalone binary for it.

Now it feel like helm but it’s j2 and outputs a directory of yamls with base and overlays in kustomization way. So they can be iverriden in gitops by sre if needed
Wholeheartedly agree. Which is why the most valuable people in a company are those who can cross abstraction layers, vertically or horizontally, and reduce information loss from boundaries between abstractions.
I don't believe this stuff at all. Your average AP student has better study habits than Evariste Galois, and about a 0% chance of understanding Galois theory by the age that he invented it (19).
If you didn’t personally see it, it didn’t happen, got it.
The cost isn't so much the materials themselves as the regulatory burden imposed by them. You need to guard them indefinitely even after the plant is shut down. You need to inspect them regularly. If the waste is a mile underground under a couple megatons of rock and concrete then it's not a lasting cost to the company that built it.
I'm not saying you are, I'm saying that if you say what you are saying without qualifying that its only because of social factors that people of particular races tend to have lower IQs, then you are a racist, which is the generally agreed upon definition. Instead of evading the label, why not embrace it? For instance, I am a misogynist through and through, and if someone calls me one I affirm it. Why not accept that you are a racist instead of trying to pretend what you're saying has anything to do with objectivity and empirical science?
That's because all the text is inside <div> elements, so there is no hierarchy for a screenreader to latch on to: https://imgur.com/a/D78Tbgk

...And the three nav links are made via empty, transparent <a> containers absolutely positioned over <div> text. Focusing, therefore, has nothing to read.

N.b both left- and right-clicking activates these anchors, because navigation is implemented as a delegated `mousedown` event on the document.
Yeah, the safety is so well engineered that accidents like Fukushima literally can't happen.
This is the fundamental change in the concept of programming

From computer’s doing exactly what you state, with all the many challenges that creates

To is probabilistically solving for your intent, with all the many challenges that creates

Fair to say human beings probably need both to effectively communicate

Will be interesting to see if the current GenAI + ML + prompt engineering + code is sufficient
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This is true as well, it's very much overly apologetic. Especially noticable when using it in coding. When asking it why it did or said something seemingly contradictory, you're forced to very explicitly write something like "This is not asking for an apology or pointing out a mistake, this is a request for an explanation".
For a while dokku was selling a pro version with a web ui and json api. I don't really mind the CLI so while we bought it I don't really use it. I see there hasn't been much activity on pro, I wonder if it is still a focus.
Yes, but that doesn’t really do it for me, so I was wondering if someone who has used them could explain it better.
For a workplace to be very white means they are self-selecting whiteness for their employees instead of hiring in a way that gives equal opportunity to all people. In other words, they have (probably unconscious but still inexcusable) racism in their hiring practices. Reasonable people would agree this is a bad thing.
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> Durants' statement and your proposed riposte may be true at the same time)

For whatever it might be worth, I'd also tend to agree - they are not incompatible notions ...
> that does not give companies and individuals the ability to choose what they host on their sites?

No, it does not. The First Amendment is silent on e.g. ISPs or payment processors blocking a particular site based on its content. Until 1897, it was unestablished whether it restricted the states in any form [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago,_Burlington_%26_Quincy...
Just hit top 30 in all the standard races - thanks so much, this was such a delightful way to practice my new Glove80 :)
>but geothermal needs access to magma chambers.

No, not really. Geothermal can work wherever there's a big enough positive temperature anomaly in the ground. Rift systems with hydrothermal heat can work as well as regions over a deeper magma plume.

Exploiting shallow magma chambers is only possible in a couple regions like Iceland.
Would be interested to hear more about BSD as a daily driver.

Is the slower wifi problematic? How about browsing the web, are the major bowsers (chromium or Firefox) supported? What about running the tools necessary for web development (or any other language that isn’t C)?
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I'm not sure the distinction is meaningful at a high level. That which can be implemented in hardware can be emulated in software.

It may be significant with respect to a specific implementation. Do you mean to imply that the current crop of LLMs hallucinate only due to some flaw in the hardware they run on?
What if the scientist himself is very old?
> - The variation between IQ tests done by the same individual is significantly higher than almost any reasonable cross-group variation (men vs. woman, country A vs. country B, doctors vs. craftsmen, ...)

I don't know about your other points, but this doesn't seem believable.

Is there a reference for this?
The main problem with what you’re saying is that none of the lessons learned are new. They were all well-known before this ISA was designed, so if the designers had any intention of learning from the past, they had every opportunity to do so.
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> it would add a few sentences of incorrect information into the report intentionally and the report would not be able to be submitted if that information was still in the report.

This is an interesting safety feature but it would be better if the report submission went through and then resulted in disciplinary measures for the officer who submitted it. Simply blocking the submission makes it too easy to keep submitting the report with small edits in between, while never carefully verifying the full report.
Once critical mass of programmers relies on LLMs, original code creation and usage will decline, as LLMs will not provide these as suggestions. So entering the “dark ages of programming” will solve for that, as you won’t need to retrain LLMs.
Yes! Off top of my head https://kilobaser.com/ and https://www.localyze.com/
This reminds me of restaurants a bit.

You can price your menu high, such that it's mostly empty but sustainable.

The other option is pricing things low, and having the tables always be full. But of course, the employees need to work more.
I am uniformed on this, but those industries likely take time to scale up. A large scale desalination plant requires a significant amount of infrastructure.
I'm not talking about censorship but about access to private data.
if this leads to decrease of censorship, i m not complaining
> Where does the "1 mile down" come from?

The general idea is probably "if anything bad happens", nobody will really care, we'll just seal the shaft.
Cool idea! Going to check it out
> And the "right" has closer ties to the fossil fuel industry and has always had a vested interest in torpedoing nuclear.

Do they really? You might want to check out just how concentrated US nuclear plants are in southern, deeply red states: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/map-power-reactors.ht...
That `userService` example is just awful, it feels like it's trying to achieve so many things with exactly the worst options.

- Not using ES modules which is compounded by:
- Creating a random "bag of crap" as I call it by throwing all the functions into an exported object
- Can't even get static build time feedback about the functions you're calling or if they even eixst which you would if:

The better alternatives here are:

- Just have plain exported *functions* in an ES module
- If you need shared state both functions access then export a plain class in an ES module