skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"With grid-scale solar and batteries..."

From the article:

> “The problem with solar in Taiwan is that we don’t have a big area. We have the same population as Australia and use the same amount of electricity, but we are only half the size of Tasmania, and 79 percent of Taiwan is mountainous, so land acquisition is difficult.” Rooftop solar is expensive, and roof space is sometimes needed for other things, such as helicopter pads, public utilities, or water tanks.
Looks like crypto ad for the library and showing probably worst, most over-engineered method for „solving” transactions in more diverse environment.
Eventually consistency is big tradeoff not possible to accept in many payment and stock related areas.
Working in company where all described problems exist and were solved the worst way possible I see this article as very misleading. You don’t want the events instead of transactions - if something has to be commited together - you need to reachitect system and that’s it. Of course people who were building this monster for years will block anyone from doing this. Over-engineered AF, because most of the parts where transactions are required could be handled by single database, even SQL and currently are split between dozens of separate Mongo clusters.

"Event based consistency" leaves us in state where you can’t restore system to a stable, safe, consistent state. And of course you have a lot more fun in debugging and developing, because you (we, here) can’t test locally anything. Hundreds of mini-clones of prod setup running, wasting resources and always out of sync are ready to see the change and tell you a little more than nothing. Great DevEx…
I think you model Pro-Lifers incorrect. Do you know any dedicated catholics in real life? And yes, while it is a weird/artificial sci-fi tech, per definition unnatural, even people opposed seem to agree that the unborn child is innocent and did nothing wrong.

Anyway, I see more cautious interest for artificial wombs by anti-abortion advocates than by pro-abortion advocates.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2579952/anti-abortio...

> “The term ‘artificial wombs’ is misleading about this technology,” Catholic policy expert Leah Libresco Sargeant told the Washington Examiner. “A [neonatial intensive care unit] incubator is already a kind of artificial womb, trying to provide some of the support the baby would have otherwise gotten from his or her mother. If we’re able to provide better support to extremely premature babies, I’m all for it.”

While my feeling currently is that pro-phoicers see it as a “threat to abortion rights”, because it challenges the viability standard. That alone makes pro-lifers want to embrace it! See a typical discussion here among pro-lifers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/prolife/comments/1886k8z/abortion_i...

> Artificial wombs are the easiest way to test if someone actually views abortion as simply ending a pregnancy or ending a life. Most of the time, PC don’t want to admit they support the ending a life because it contradicts all their arguments that abortion is simply ending a pregnancy.

> It’s the most pro-choice thing ever for us to give them a solution that should be a compromise between our viewpoints, and them to still whine about wanting to kill their babies instead.
In the limit, security is opposed to everything that's good and nice, safety included.
Noticed strong candidates are somewhat easier to find than one year ago (talking about sr roles here), but other than that see no drying up, maybe different in US or maybe this article just being dramatic to get clicks
Nvidia SASS has a similar instruction too (LOP3.LUT)
Sounds like the new “capabilities” stuff in Scala.
I'm on IPv6 right now, and not because I went out of my way to be. IPv6 rollout wasn't slow because it was too hard; it was because it wasn't especially valuable. That's changed, and will continue to change. I agree that DNSSEC isn't good! But my point was that storing public keys isn't the hard part, and DNSSEC doesn't do a good job with the hard parts either.

Regarding where the PKI "should" be, it's good to want things!
I think what you call minor improvements would be considered significant to others who may benefit from it.
I use it since 2014, 10 years and counting. I used the first Jolla 1, which was a lovely device, with a very dim screen :) It uses Wayland, Pulseaudio and Qt. I also used it on a Sony Xperia XA2, and since recently am on a Sony Xperia 10 III.

The Android App support is good, I use Whatsapp and Signal with it, also Firefox and DuckDuckGo browser. Just keep in mind that the Android App support is to get a few apps running that are important to you. Choosing Sailfish also means choosing mostly native apps. The system browser is built on the Firefox engine. SSH support is lovely though. It feels just like desktop Linux.

Don't expect a super slick experience. Companies like Apple and Google are pooring billions into their mobile OS. A small comapny like Jolla cannot keep up with that. Also the Android drivers are as is, the Jolla developers cannot improve on them.

Edit: by the way, it uses Firejail to have apps locked into their own jail.
> fact free and incendiary

No. I believe it is factually accurate that many tech workers believe that technology progress marches steadily onwards and upwards. This is easily shown by the historical record to be patently false. Moreover, it's easy to imagine myriad ways we could regress technologically--nuclear war, asteroid impact, space weather, etc. So a belief in the inexorable progress of technology is therefore delusional. I believe it is a fact that tech companies' managers encourage these delusions by spinning up a bunch of pseudo religious sentiment using language like "innovation" to describe what is mostly actually really mundane, meaningless, and often actively harmful work. People hear that stuff, it goes to their heads, and they think they're "making the world a better place". The inexorable march of technology progress fits into such a world view.

> We currently don’t understand intelligence but there’s no barrier I’m aware of that prevents progress. In addition, we’ve discovered types of intelligence (LLM’s, AlphaGo Zero etc) that don’t depend on our ability to understand ourselves.

How can you claim both that we don't know what intelligence is, and that LLMs, AlphaGo Zero, and etc are "intelligent"?
Make Music at the Command Line on the Commodore C64 [video]
Just 3, plus 1 imaginary.
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I can't find a reference now. But from what I remember the logo is supposed to be on top facing the user when plugging a device in. This was part of the standard that defined the size/shape/etc of what USB is.
Rails clones in modern languages don’t get wide adoption. I wrote about why I think that is: https://hermanradtke.com/why-your-rails-like-framework-is-no...
That's quite a bar to set for any organization.
I'm not on a good mentalspace to discuss this, I will admit. By most accounts, I'm consider a "success" of homeschooling. And in that, I have some resentment. A child shouldn't be a social experiment. A child should be prepared to live in the society in which they live. And that's where I think homeschooling failed me.

I don't blame my parents for this. At the time, 35+ years ago, it was "different". I guess. I don't know. I know my parents did what they thought was best. I just don't think they knew what was best. They were barely in their 20s when they had me. I was well into my 30s when we had our kids. So now, I'm here with them, and I don't want them to experience the pervasive loneliness that I did.
I think the thing that got me to quit is that I kept on meeting the most messed up people or hearing of them basically just dying or accidentally/intentionally killing people while drunk. People who would in their disinhibition ask or tell me the most headed shit too, I think the guy in a tropical country asking me if I knew where to buy a human liver with a beer in his hand was probably what you could call a highlight in this regard.

If asian grocery stores are a thing in your area the nonalcoholic Japanese plum wine (umeshu) drinks are super delicious
DigiVatLib is a digital library service
Zig recently added "continue" to labeled switch[0], which re-evaluates the switch with a specified new value, pretty neat for state machine code. I'm tempted to sneak that into my C2Y implementation.

[0] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Labeled-switch
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I wanted to respond to you, because you had some excellent points.

> Mostly because I’ve spent almost a decade earning rather lucrative money on cleaning up after companies and organisations which did it.

For many companies, this is actually a pretty successful outcome. They built an app, they earned a pile of money, they kept adding customers, and now they have a mess. But they can afford to pay you to fix their mess!

My rule of thumb of "design for 10x scale" is intended to be used iteratively. When something is slow and miserable, take the current demand, multiply it by 10, and design something that can handle it. Sometimes, yeah, this means you need to split stuff up or use a non-SQL database. But at least it's a real need at that point. And there's no substitute for engineering knowledge and good taste.

But as other people have pointed out, people who can't use an RDBMS correctly are going to have a bad time implementing distributed transactions across microservices.

So I'm going to stick with my advice to start with a single database, and to only pull things out when there's a clear need to scale something.
> but this is like judging Android by the cheapest phone I can buy, which is also agonizingly slow

Nope, even running android on the same pinephone hardware results in a smooth system - it’s almost like google has been spending dollar billions on fixing and developing stuff that won’t magically appear in a userspace stuck in unix times. The kernel did get some upstreaming, that’s why linux laptops are remotely portable.

But for a mobile device you need a used space that understand the resource-constrained environment and are good citizens. This makes a huge difference in an age where racing-to-suspend is the way to conserve battery.
Yes! And no!

You will indeed need higher precision if you need a very large number of digits (more than what double precision gives you).

However, even with high precision, the algorithms you use to compute your moments matter: you might not have as many digits as you hope for. Variance, for example, is famously numerically unstable (sometimes giving a negative variance) when computed naively. A stable summation algorithm plugged into a variance computation (even a carefully written one) can sometimes give you six additional digits of precision in the variance that you might not get when doubling the precision (it depends on how big of a cancellation you had in your operations; too big, and doubling the precision will not be enough to recover, while a compensated summation would do fine).

I have seen this play out once in a clustering algorithm that would only work on some data when using a compensated summation to compute the variance.
Given that form most of my projects, the run button is a convenient wrapper over “cargo run” or “cargo test — test-name”, or “python file.py” not super convinced of the argument.

Maybe in C/C++ where build systems are some kind of lovecraftian nightmare?
Exactly! In theoretical computer science, we have a lot of experience coming up with new algorithms but no idea how to prove lower bounds. So I would say that new lower-bound technique is perhaps the most interesting thing we would learn from the proof of P!=NP.

But, of course, P vs NP is clearly central to computer science and math for a bunch of other reasons, hopefully, our video provided some intuitions.
This is one of the situations where I would use a more baity title: "Protect your teen from non-consensual ad tracking". The subject is boring and abstract enough that you need all the trigger words you can muster to garner the interest of the public at large.
Doesn't mean they're making the decisions.
Yes! But your lookup table will need 2^N bits for a function with N inputs. In this way you can easily enumerate all possible functions from N bits to 1 bit.

As a fun exercise, you can do this for all 2-bit -> 1-bit functions. There's only 16 of them, and most of them have very well known names like "and" (LUT 1000) or "xor" (LUT 0110). Some of them don't depend on some of the inputs (eg. LUT 1100 / 1010 which is "return A" and "return B" respectively) or even any of them (eg. LUT 0000 which always returns 0).
Skimming docs is like reading the dictionary. AI is more like a conversation.
And in some countries, mobile data is cheap and available almost everywhere. Many people don't connect their phones to a WiFi in their daily life. Which may then become a huge security issue, as the phone may not download software updates on mobile data with default settings, under the false assumption that mobile data is expensive.
IMHO it's good enough for daily usage if your needs are not very sophisticated and you are willing to deal with some rough edges.

It has some fantastic native & open indie applications, see https://openrepos.net.

If it managed to attract some extra users and gain a critical mass, it could become a credible (niche) alternative. It's nearly there.
I have yet to watch AI (2001). I was very inspired by asimov's book the positronic man where the main family robot Andrew NDR has a positronic brain and finds himself "feeling" human emotions.
I'd rather see Crystal on Rails. Combines the elegance of Ruby with the performance of a compiled language. And of course: macro support.
What has this to do with wayland or XFCE? The only major DE that is using client side decorations is gnome. This has been true since 2018:

> I heard that GNOME is currently trying to lobby for all applications implementing CSD. One of the arguments seems to be that CSD is a must on Wayland. That’s of course not the case. Nothing in Wayland enforces CSD. Wayland itself is as ignorant about this as X11. [...] In fact we created a protocol (supported by GTK) that allows to negotiate with the Wayland compositor whether to use CSD or SSD.

From https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2018/01/server-side-d...

Wayland is agnostic, and it's up to the compositor and application to decide what to do while operating under wayland.
Hi,
a few commenters on Youtube also asked us this question. I just now added the last section to the blog post that discusses it. Basically, although we only show how to find one arbitrary solution, you can use this trick to also find all of them efficiently in terms of the size of the input and the number of solutions.
It is simple: FEMA ran out of money to fund the foreign NGOs.
I don't know whether it's a controversial take or not, but I can't see how if one day the machine magically wakes up and somehow develops sentience that it follows logically that human intelligence would somehow "give way". I was hoping for a clear explanation of mechanically how such a thing might happen.
Although this is about LaTeX (not AMS-LaTeX) and is from 2014 (and I don't remember when this AMS-LaTeXism was introduced), nowadays instead of having to decide when to use `\ldots` and when to use `\cdots` one can use things like `\dotsb` for dots between binary operators and `\dotsc` for dots between commas. There are others that I don't remember, because those fulfill most of my needs. There's even `\dots`, which tries to determine what kind of dots are appropriate from context (and usually does a good job!).
Diffuse debris while at higher orbit can take out satellites in those higher orbits (like Iridium, Kuiper, etc..)
I'll put a word in for the game Bureau 13 and its related novels. Secret govenment agency that protects us from weird stuff. It's halfway between X-Files and Get Smart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_13
Actually exactly the opposite.

Green parties convinced people wind and solar would suffice. Now the net can't deal with the peaks and throughs. Here in the NL already one of our biggest tech companies is not opening a new datacenter because of lack of electricity available. We used to laugh at countries not having enough power...
TOC is used to claim that spaces should be owned. Bureaucrats will only protect a space insofar as it allows them to get their palms greased before leaving office. An owner on the other hand has their incentives aligned with both the space itself and its future.
I assume you are referring to gravitational lensing estimates of total matter versus visible?
Scary? That would be a problem. Best to get with a CFII if that’s the case.

I suspect you mean proficiency. If you’re not current you’re not legal.
Not for us. Mosses will be fine.

About our most heavily exploited fisheries on the planet, well... that will be an interesting question. Coral islands and coastal cities also will have a lot of aquatic fun for all public.
Not much. Just wine and occasionally.
It's much easier to intercept than enter orbit. ASATs are 100 kg rockets.
Intel added the satiric text about the rule with double-tongue depiction in one of their whitepapers around USB3 publication for a reason. Sadly couldn't find it.
I saw it as tool to monitor long running executions.
What you might get in a supplement, 0.3 mg to 3 mg or so.

It is like the feeling late after an LSD trip maybe 10-12 hours or more after the "usual dose" which would be 80 to 320 mcg.

Sensorium is lit up like a light psychedelic experience, might be weary but complete unable to shut down. In my image of myself in my mind's eye I am glowing with corona discharge.
d... dad?

(I don't know about 90 days but there's pretty extensive studies on how paternal alcohol use can affect fertility, motility, and behavioral outcomes including downstream of possible epigenetic shifts. That said I think you're probably pretty safe to ply the missus with a glass of wine before Adult Time)
I'm surprised people are saying this because Firefox works perfectly fine on X11 for me without config tweaks

If your hardware is supported (e.g. WiFi chips and GPUs are definitely a valid concern), I know of no post-install config that Debian with Cinnamon needs that you'd not also need to do on Windows, and Microsoft will put ads in your start menu for the trouble of buying their license at that
The DPP isn't anti-nuclear for strategic reasons - it's anti-nuclear for ideological reasons.

The nuclear program in Taiwan was heavily tied to the KMT's ambitions, and as a result Taiwan's anti-nuclear movement is heavily tied to Taiwan's pro-democracy movement which became the DPP, along with the MASSIVE beating nuclear power took all over Asia after the Fukushima disaster (which imo was overhyped in Chinese language media).

Politically speaking, Taiwan under authoritarian KMT rule was in a fairly similar spot to China today, and most of the significant gains that Taiwan saw happened after Taiwan democratized.

That said, anti-nuclear sentiment is equally strong in Mainland China as well, and aside from flashy tech demonstrations, the PRC prefers to use a mix of more politically palatable coal and renewables.

Finally, it is the 1980s-90s generation that is currently in power in Taiwan, and has been for a decade now. Anti-nuclear sentiment will remain for the foreseeable future [0]

[0] - https://www.cw.com.tw/article/5123009
Brightness of first Chinese broadband constellation satellites alarms
The trust is the only truly perpetual answer so far.
That's not really what the report is relying on. It's saying having a system of detections and interception satellites which can catch ~100 missiles forces the stakes to be more "all out or nothing" from large scale threats and "fully preventative" for small scale threats (e.g. North Korea). It also considers the satellite layer 1 of 3 layers that help achieve that small escalation prevention goal.

Nowhere does the report claim a Starlink type satellite layer would be or would need to be untouchable in a full scale WW3 scenario.
I’m down, I think this is an awesome idea.
I also did not lose weight but I recover from roller coasters faster.
As a counter point the growth in non-alcoholic beers is staggering. Also non-alcoholic spirits (believe it or not) are going to be a big deal according to a buddy in the space.
I think there's precedent for shipping them to Australia. It probably costs less to taxpayers, and it doesn't even harm Australians since our thieves are less dangerous than their spiders.
That's still the difference between lost in the mountains and "my coordinates are X, Y".
I had a Nokia N9, their second attempt at Meego/Maemo, to this date it's the weirdest consumer device I've ever owned. The device shipped with a front camera but it was not accessible through any default app. The closest I got to it working was a mirror app someone made in a Hackathon.

Issues aside it was a beautifully designed device, you could see real innovation. Unfortunately Nokia killed it before it even shipped.
If the post were C++ focused instead of Rust would it make the same, more or less sense?

A systems language with a high cognitive barrier to entry, compile times and less than a decade of wide adoption can’t reasonably be expected to compete with something like Rails in terms of approachability
> I'm amazed that directory traversal wasn't disabled.

Why would it have been? It seems intended to be navigated by visitors.
Data on 237K Comcast Customers Compromised in Debt Collector Hack
For what it's worth, Phoenix is quite rails like, as is the ash framework, and both are quietly popular
For new web applications, why recommend alternatives to Next.js?

How do you convince someone to use an alternative? The knowledge needed to understand why will help you get close enough in Next.js anyway.
in todays economy the difference between bieng
crazy and eccentric starts at about $2 million
and then generaly transitions into full batshit
insane at an order of magnitude higher

some mix of money,class,culture,fame and geography
will work to shield all but the predetory violent madmen

one interesting modern development is bluetooth
as it provides a constant background of people talking to themselves,gesturing and laughing

that,and at least in the west there are hordes of
semi functional dimented elders weirding the mix
wouldn't Russia/China/India just put nukes in orbit to be a step ahead?