skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring Badenoch's comments for a second - all of the plans for things to happen "by 2050" are essentially plans to not do anyting for many years. Still,

Q: Is "Net Zero" emissions by 2050 possible?

A: That doesn't matter at all! Suppose only "net 2%" is possible by 2050, or even "net 5%", or whatever. Fine, let's do that, and stave off most of the effects of global warming.

Warming is evident now already, both in average temperatures and in extreme weather event increasing in frequency and severity. So, action needs to be taken now, and never mind what's the exact percentage in 2050. That does not mean everything needs to be fixed in a day, and there will surely be changes along the way; but human society, and world states in particular, need to make short-term plans for significant reductions in emissions. And those plans need to be put into practice almost-immediately.

Instead, we have the modified version of climate denialism: From "it's not a problem" to "it's not a serious problem" to "we can no longer do anything about it, it's too late" - with their conclusion always being not to change government policy, not to tax, not to invest public funds in alternatives to what they sell right now, and in short to keep their donors rich and getting richer.
This site has been great for a while. I learned so much of the astronomy I know from one of the podcasts the owner of this site started https://www.astronomycast.com/
Columbia expels, suspends students after government threats
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Negotiate? I’ve had two kinds of landlord, faceless corporations that regularly changed completely without anybody noticing where you could never talk to anyone who could actually negotiate, it was just whatever the computer spit out…

And “some guy” for whom the terms of the contract were mostly suggestions protected by the fact that tenants were too busy or poor to pursue legal recourse to the point of a solution.
The super-rich are already leaving Britain[1] so realistically if they want to raise more money they'll just tax workers a bit more since they're less economically mobile. No matter how much European politicians try to deny it, the Laffer is real, and long-term uncompetitive tax policies are not good for government income.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/22/millionaire-...
If you haven’t used it I would try and kick the tires through your company. It’s a pretty powerful tool to put multiple cloud providers under a single pane of glass and normalize security terminology across them. And that’s before you get into the automations, the remediation, the optional Code and Defend add-ons, and more
Yeah! Non-destructive editing is huge. I learned graphics editing with Paint Shop Pro back in the day and easily transitioned to Gimp successfully in the late 90s. Been using it exclusively for twenty years and slowly but surely (haha) keeps getting better.

The new widgets are kinda nice too. They've had the RCs in Fedora for a while.

(If you're here to shit on gimp because it doesn't work like adobe, please take it outside, or slashdot.)
Well you stopped claiming the goal was "nebulous", at least.

UK emission is about 1% of global emissions.

China is rapidly expanding its renewable capacity, much faster even than they are expanding nuclear.
imagine comparing management at a small research lab to a multi-national corporation. Such unfounded hubris.
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Thanks for commenting

- Memprep
Giving untrusted users ssh access... You mean like every shared hosting company or shell provider?
Small discussion (19 points, 8 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43316590
Wait until military people put the receiver on their chest.

Then all the military dramas will flip from "sniper acquired target" to "communication with friendlies reestablished"
13in MacBook Air (new M4, with 24GB RAM) and Mac Mini as desktop the best setup I’ve ever had. I debated between the 13in and 15inch MacBook Airs and am so glad I went with the 13.
13 inch Mac book air.

After years of large MBp I switched to 15 inch MB air. Then the 13 inch. It’s moment of inertia is closer to the palm holding - i.e., it feels very light.

Screen is a bit tight. So all I do I crank up the size (setResX), put on pair of 0.5 readers and voila instant large screen. I can go all the way to 2560x and still read and work.
Under $100K they're covering housing, food, and more:

> Undergraduate students from families with annual incomes of $100,000 or less will not only have tuition covered but also housing, food, health services and other student services, the university said.

A very confusing aspect of the US college system is that very few students pay the full sticker price. Most universities have sliding scales for tuition through various grants and scholarships.

Strangely, even talking to college students reveals that most of them don't understand this situation. You'll frequently hear college students explain that they got "lucky" to get a lot of grants, discounts, and/or scholarships to attend, but in reality all but the most wealthy families get a lot of "tuition assistance".

The situation confuses foreigners and even US people to no end, but it allows universities to admit a much wider range of students than they normally would. It's not uncommon to look at their statistics and find a significant portion of their student body pays nearly nothing in tuition. Harvard is taking this to an extreme, but there are similar programs at all of the other big universities.

One critical exception: There are sleazy for-profit universities who take advantage of the fact that some people don't understand this game and use it to charge exorbitant rates to people who can't afford it. Avoid those, obviously, and do your part to discourage others from looking at them.

This sliding scale tuition structure explains the massive discrepancy between the $200K+ per year sticker price for a 4-year degree at private universities and the fact that most students graduate with nowhere near that much debt.
Non-destructive editing sounds great!
Sounds like a nice way to do IFF. Optical transponder. Only responds on a valid challenge received.
This is true for public universities but does not apply to Harvard, which is not part of the government. Any benefit that Harvard obtains from an increased tax base is incredibly attenuated and not really relevant.
> It removes tons of overhead and cruft

Can you elaborate? Here, or with links? What kinds of overhead and cruft?
Tuition assistance isn't a binary all-or-nothing.

Every university like this uses a sliding scale.

In this case, their scale slides to the point that under $200K family income you pay nothing for tuition.

Under $100K they'll even cover food and housing.
It "technically is" if you redefine it to include it. In other words, it isn't.
Don't forget prior to GitHub Microsoft ran the home-grown, TFS-enabled Codeplex. It worked quite well if using Visual Studio but obviously, like Skype, there was no reason to run it when "something better" came along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodePlex
Maybe it's because this isn't about looking at other people's toupees?

At the least a bad manager can make the place you spend a majority of your waking hours a worse place to be, and at their worse they can permanently harm the trajectory of your career or even your mental (and by proxy physical) health.

Some analogies are limited by the weight their original context conveys. I wouldn't let a surgeon get away with "the ethics board will only talk about this heinous thing I did, when most of the time they don't see me at all".
France seeks to solve its reckless spending problem by increasing taxes on the rich, and setting up yet another rediscovery of the Laffer curve? I can hardly believe it!
Lately duckdb is becoming a serious competitor for my use of datasette because it's eliminating a step for most of my workflows - converting csv to sqlite.

I've been thinking about how to swap it in as a backend for datasette (maybe as a plugin?) but it seems inherently riskier as it needs to at very least be able to read a folder to list all the csvs available for my usecase. If I could hook that up with its native s3 support I'd be unstoppable (at work)
Who lied? What, specifically, did they lie about? Some people died from it. Some people have long term disability from it. Without the benefit of hindsight, what would you have done differently if you were in control? How would you have justified your choices over the alternatives?
Then managers are only a salary line -- one that can go away apparently.
They are not ? Most of your references are more than a decade ago, (alongside Apple) compared to peers like Microsoft they are very much do not have acquisition culture .

Mandiant is only large acquisition in the last 10 years > $1B which is very small stakes in todays VC ecosystem.

Compare that to MS they have bought GitHub, LinkedIn, Activison, Nuance, Zenimax all well over $5B . Combined these alone is $100-120B, MS has also done plenty of mid budget buys too.

Even more B2B/traditional tech like IBM (redhat, Hashicorp etc) or salesforce have been more active too.
Is it known how Rippling obtained information about D.S.' Slack activity? Does Slack provide this information or did Rippling obtain this information by running third party monitoring software on D.S.' machine?
I thought I'd never see the day! At long last, I'll be able to use non-destructive editing.

Hopefully they'll adopt a more sane release strategy going forward.
> “fulfillment … which is a very different place to being in … working in an office.”

Where does it say anything about this being only “office” jobs, as you put it.
Meaning it'll fail like all previous attempts and this will be yet another tax raise on people having a decent job, but nowhere near rich.

What people imagine this means is a tax on rich people. An appartment in the center of paris costs about 10.000 per month. If you calculate how much you need to own to afford that on interest income alone, it's 120000/4% = 3,000,000. Make it 4 million to cover eating out every day as well. That would be the lowest level I would see as super-rich.

But wealth tax, where it exists (e.g. Switzerland) starts at 111.059. This is in a country where a downpayment for a basic apartment would be at least 160000 (but more likely 200.000). So even in famously not-super-low-but-still-pretty-low-tax-Switzerland it's mostly taxing what you would call "professionals". People with a decent, but not spectacular, job (accountant, programmer, ... not FANG wages or doctors). Oh, and looking at the country's finances it becomes immediately clear: Switzerland is low tax because it also has very low unemployment/social support and very low pensions.

The solution to this USED to be inflation, government deficits of 10% even 20% in Southern Europe (before the euro was introduced, which transferred control of inflation to the independent ECB, preventing government deficits financed by inflation, as was the norm in the 1980s and 1990s for example)
More than half of Harvard undergraduates come from families making under $200k per year.
My local landlords just leave buildings mostly empty on a hope and prayer that some day high rent will be desired again, and no doubt as the basis for some kind of tax scam or financing requirement.

The “move in promos” should be illegal as they use them as ways to strip you of rights and never lower rent for market prices.
Why would they need a "legitimate reason"? They are people like any other people. Anyone has the right to read things on Twitter. Police officers are normal people, they don't have special rights or privileges and they don't have special restrictions or limitations. That is the foundation of policing by consent.
Ask HN: Revolutions happening now
What is undergoing fundamental change right now? Any area is fair game: technology, science, art, business, politics, etc.
ICBMs would be more confident in their starting position and orientation. SLBMs would necessarily have more uncertainty in the initial conditions.
Yes, they all pay royalties, and all the drives pay licensing for read heads.
That would be a good enough reason to drop Roku if they start doing this.
DNNs do not have special generalization powers. If anything, their generalization is likely weaker than more mathematically principled techniques like the SVM.

If you try to train a DNN to solve a classical ML problem like the "Wine Quality" dataset from the UCI Machine Learning repo [0], you will get abysmal results and overfitting.

The "magic" of LLMs comes from the training paradigm. Because the optimization is word prediction, you effectively have a data sample size equal to the number of words in the corpus - an inconceivably vast number. Because you are training against a vast dataset, you can use a proportionally immense model (e.g. 400B parameters) without overfitting. This vast (but justified) model complexity is what creates the amazing abilities of GPT/etc.

What wasn't obvious 10 years ago was the principle of "reusability" - the idea that the vastly complex model you trained using the LLM paradigm would have any practical value. Why is it useful to build an immensely sophisticated word prediction machine, who cares about predicting words? The reason is that all those concepts you learned from word-prediction can be reused for related NLP tasks.

[0] https://archive.ics.uci.edu/dataset/186/wine+quality
this isn't true. I know because at some point XFinity started dropping ipv6 connections for me and I noticed because a number of sites (forget which) were broken
The main problem wasn't all the smaller features but one big one in particular that can't be split into smaller pieces, the new addressing scheme. They wanted to replace all the existing addresses, which meant replacing all the routes. Besides the difficulty of that by itself, it automatically meant that the v6 versions of DNS, DHCP, NAT, etc wouldn't support v4, rather it'd be a totally separate stack.

There were also some small things. And routers often having bad defaults for v6, which btw, would not even be a concern if they left the big thing alone.
Speaking of https://www.why3.org/

For completeness https://github.com/creusot-rs/creusot

The French were right about so many things.
Very similar to my favorite trip toy of the 90s… rock ‘star’ Todd Rundgren’s Flowfazer. Quite mesmerizing for toddlers, too.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flowfazer/id507935335
I'm also impressed that the question in the title is answered in the first sentence. No SEO fluff increasing the dwell time for every user for artificial metrics. Clean, concise, and fast. What the internet was meant to be
I actually tried a couple different engines before landing on OSRM. I started with R5 (since it can also do public transit) then switched to Valhalla.

The main limiting factor was speed. Basically all routing engines except for OSRM are too slow to compute continent-scale travel time matrices. For reference, it took Valhalla around a week to finish 3 billion point-to-point pairs. OSRM did the same calculation in about 2 hours.

I can't speak to Graphhopper since I haven't tried it. Maybe something to test in the future!
Small Claims Court would only take a few weeks
And that there was documentation on how it worked.
I'm using a 10 year old 15" MBP right now, and while I have several other smaller models, nothing feels as right to me as this large screen and solid keyboard on my lap.
Observing distant nuclear fusion, before unleashing it locally.
Can you name some examples of popular .Net applications on GNU/Linux or *BSD operating systems?
There are, of course, programming languages that have non-English keywords, they're just not very popular.

I guess if you're learning all of C/C++/Java/Python/etc... the "English" keyword meanings are a tiny/trivial part of what you need to learn anyway.

Also, using English means you only need ASCII, and a US keyboard layout which allows easy entry of the printable ASCII characters. For Japanese, Arabic, etc... you need need Unicode, input methods, UTF-8 / UTF-16 etc., all of a sudden there's a whole lot more to go wrong than if you use English in ASCII.
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Hi everyone,

I know this is different from the content that typically gets posted here, but myself and a group of students are working on a project for the cybersecurity company, Fortinet. We're working with the marketing department and they've asked us to put together a quick survey to measure a bunch of different performance metrics. The problem is we're having trouble finding people who actually have experience working with Fortinet or really any cybersecurity software in general. This survey should only take 5 minutes of your time and if you don't mind filling it out, my group mates and I would appreciate it so much. I really wouldn't be bugging you guys if I felt like we had any other option, but because we have to find our own participants for the survey this is the best option I could think of. Thank you again!
Those who don't learn from the past... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/07/16/o...>
China has a Net Zero goal since 2020 targetting 2060 with an interim target of peaking emissions by 2030 but they'll probably hit them early given their recent momentum.

They are supposed to be releasing new NDC targets about now as well.
I believe in this case, "open" = supports UNIX/POSIX apis.
And yet probably everyone you know in EU has a cheaper Internet per GB that folks in the US. I have 2 SIM cards, one provider charges me $10/GB, while the other has a 2-GB packet for $6.
Do you store your SSDs powered? They can lose information if they're not semi-frequently powered on.
Plain text is the best archival format.
I think you also need to account for the amount of bad.

Like a bad programmer can push terrible code, get caught at review and performance managed.

But a bad manager can cause much more harm. An organisation with bad management can punch itself in the face very hard and cause significant issues.

Like I have only seen a terrible management culture in 2 of my employees, but for 1 of them, it lead to:

30 or 40 careers damaged, internal stalinist purges.
Months wasted on drama.
21 million yearly recurring in wasted IT expense. Probably close on 500 million in non recurring waste over 4 years.
4 million yearly recurring in executive waste.
Significant brand damage, significant resume damage for people who worked through it.
Actual end user harm.
I was recently helping someone shop for a laptop and stumbled upon the LG gram. I was really impressed with the build quality and how light it was. I think it was a 16in though. I prefer smaller screen 13/14 but I was very tempted to get one myself.
Totally disagree on the first part.

Totally agree on the second part.

They were all on stage together, regardless of how they got there. They are all there.
I don’t have a problem with the idea that violent protestors are subject to consequences, but what political philosophy exactly trusts the federal government to make that distinction without due process or checks and balances, because it’s not any of the ones typically represented in America.
n=1 but i've tried "manual" .venv, conda/miniconda, pipenv, poetry, and finally now at uv. uv is great. poetry feels like it's focused on people who are publishing packages. uv is great to use for personal dev, spinning up/down lots of venv, speedy, and uvx/uv script is very convenient compared to having all my sandbox project in one poetry env.
I’ve been using GIMP as long as I can remember, more or less. Say what you will about the UI/UX but it remains top tier free software. So glad to see this.
It was a good system. It no longer really exists and has been replaced by endless reprioritization and detailed bean counting justifying every single small action to prove to layers of management that what you are doing is worthwhile as Google slowly rots into a decayed husk of its old self.
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I desperately hope it is not added, Meneide throws a tantrum like he did about his Rust conference talk, and he leaves the C committee forever. He is a malign influence that is on record as saying he dislikes C and wants it to be replaced by Rust.
UB can be converted to ID by using -fwrapv (to "standardize" the wrapround, which does not necessarily help if the overflow was not intentional) or -ftrapv (generate an exception).
Is your last comment referring to users friendliness? If so, that's a valid critique.
I know, insane if true. But it seems like Parker is pretty litigious these days, and I guess feels like he's losing? There was a very cringe snake game a couple of months ago where the Deel logo was a snake, which leads me to believe he's not fighting from the point of strength.

May fav part: "D.S. was heard ‘doing something’ on his phone by the independent solicitor, who also heard D.S. flush the toilet— suggesting that D.S. may have attempted to flush his phone down the toilet rather than provide it for inspection."
What do you mean by dropping ipv6 connections, like dropping ipv6 packets? That's only an issue if you're using v6. I disabled ipv6 on my router years ago and have never had a problem just using v4.
Strongly disagree, both with the claim that the protestors don't care about peace elsewhere, and with the claim that Israel's actions are "defensive".
Not just deports but sends them to a supermax prison in El Salvador without any trial. Not much innocent till proven guilty going on. And probably some of the people they round up will be innocent.
C's main selling point is not standardisation. It was widely used before standardisation and only standardised because it was useful.
How do you get it to paste without popping a new layer into existence that you have to deal with and decide to anchor or tear off into its own thing?
Should tax land more and income less. Income from work is at least productive, owning land is not. #Georgism
Imagine actually wanting to work at Amazon
https://archive.is/Q0ETI
So ChatGPT or Nigerians or me apparently... :`(
I've participated on their forum for years and a I've seen enough of the code to feel good about it

certainly more confident than the alternatives, and I know with certainty the voice assistant I'm running doesn't leave my home because I configured and verified it myself