skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah but that was for a Mac. In the days before the internet as we know it you didn't have commodity RAM for workstations. You had to pay extra or risk voiding your warranty. Plus someone else was paying so why run the risk?

Sure the chips were commodity but the modules would have a different pinout. They would be advertised as better.t

Another problem was that the more memory you bought the more it cost per megabyte. A set of chips to fill the sockets with 128Mb would cost three times as much as a set of chips that filled the sockets to give 64Mb.
They ended up turning a profit year after they dropped Unity and the team involved, I believe. But otherwise, Shuttleworth definitely does reinvest most of the profits.
Unattractive men aren’t entitled to anything, sorry. I don’t think the numbers mean people are too restrictive. Honestly, I’m surprised it’s not more polarized.
Yeah. I am planning to get Portuguese residency through property purchase along with some friends, although we might not go for rural. Only need to spend 14 days/yr there, though.

It is a 350-500k EUR investment. If you rent the property out you should be able to cover the debt service. (Obviously it exposes you to Portuguese RE risk, as well as EUR currency risk, and requires good credit, but a 500k piece of property is a lower bar than, say, a 150k fee, and a Portuguese passport is a whole lot better than most citizenship by investment programs.)

I’d probably spend 2-3 months/yr in Portugal if I had a nice small house or apartment somewhere. It is a good country.
I also have terrible memory. If I'm coding something and forget some pattern (not sybtax, because the IDE handles that...) I just do a quick search of my code within my IDE.

I have a One Note for frequent queries.
Makes sense, things got really butchered in the translation. Our police used to be green until, what feels like really recently. So there are still a lot of sayings around involving "the people in green". Now they are apparently blue across the EU.
So I hear your point but don’t understand why you think it’s arguing against the need for this article? What’s wrong with drawing attention to something you and your peers weren’t thinking about, or doing something to help inform people’s choices?

Perhaps awareness and concrete data of energy usage has to come first? Yes, the article is pointing out something that all the developers you talk to might not know. Doesn’t that make it a good thing? Maybe in the near future you will hear them start to talk about energy. Maybe now that you’re becoming aware, you can be the first among the people you know to talk about the energy usage of your software choices.

Anecdotally, my own experience is that I didn’t hear a lot or think a lot about energy usage until I switched from games & web development to working at a hardware company. My peers now do talk about energy, even though most only write software.

You’re right that most people do choose based on convenience, especially when they lack any other reasons to make the choice. Historically, choosing solely on convenience has contributed to global environmental problems, and people globally are only just becoming aware of the environmental costs of their choices. Separately, Moore’s law only just recently stopped working, so it’s not surprising to me that energy usage has suddenly become more important. Reducing energy use is now one of the primary ways we can increase speed & efficiency, unlike the recent past.
It's very convenient in the car. Get in, drop the phone in the charging area and you're done, phone is now charging. Hell you can even use some apps through the infotainment system through carplay; it's great.
What services do you want? I can handle my own police/medical/fire in a small settlement. Same with k-12 schools.
I support the general idea of not having to work 12 hours a day for 6 days. That's crazy. But there are other venues for labour activism than changing the license. And in other Chinese industries that aren't related to software at all, labour activism is quite successful as well. So there is no need to resort to license changes. As for your PS, there is no indication that it's a protest and not just a license.
Deja Vu: Code.org/Amazon's 2018 and ScratchEd's 2010 Dance Parties
F*ck you Kyle
That's what I'm referring to. I believe there is a runtime clause that means a program (Ex: hello world) isn't automatically under the GPL. However, a lot of the Adacore libraries are either GPL or commercial. At least this is how it has been explained to me.
Ask HN: Career advice – (long) LOA after taking a new SWE position
I'm currently studying for tech interviews after leaving previous company (after 6 years) for hiking few thousand miles (Pacific Crest Trail + more).
I have the privilege to be able to dedicate a lot of time for studying at the moment, which might help increasing my chances of passing interviews at Google/Amazon/FB.
However, it's likely that I'll want to go on another 4-6 months hike (CDT) in a year from now.
It'd make no sense for me to invest so much of my time to try and get an offer from one of these companies just to quit a year later (or even perhaps even two), which leaves me with other options whose feasibility is a big unknown for me:

1. Get an unpaid leave of absence - that would be ideal, though I have no idea how long after one starts working in any of these companies, it's possible to get 5 months off.

2. Delayed contract - use this one year to work for another company while preparing for job interviews at Google/Amazon/Facebook.
Attempt to interview 2-3 months before quitting for hiking and if I get offers, I'll try to sign a contract that starts shortly after my hike should end. I've heard (I think it was on SE daily) Google offering contracts for up to a year forward but I'm not sure if it's a standard thing and how it'd work on the other two.

3. Combine these strategies - try to sign a contract with one of the big four that's not on the top of your list, interview for the others before going for a hike and attempt to leverage the current position in order to get better offer on a delayed contract. This is obviously is the least likely option with a lot of unknowns to it.

So, my questions are:
What do you know of Unpaid LOA in these companies? Same for delayed contracts and finally - are these options I described here even make sense?
What other options would you come up with if you had some time to spend on studying now but you wanted time of in about a year from now?

Thanks.
JavaScript gets a lot of flak about weird coercions but I never found them a big source of errors compared to say more basic things like forgetting function arguments or getting them in the wrong order. Coercions are way less of a problem in TypeScript as well because coercions that change the type will get flagged at compile time.
Note that it MUST be taken prior to consumption:

"Pretreatment with NAC significantly protected against acute ethanol-induced liver damage in a dose-independent manner. Correspondingly, pretreatment with NAC significantly attenuated acute ethanol-induced lipid peroxidation and GSH depletion and inhibited hepatic TNF-alpha mRNA expression. By contrast, post-treatment with NAC aggravated ethanol-induced hepatic lipid peroxidation and worsened acute ethanol-induced liver damage in a dose-dependent manner. Taken together, NAC has a dual effect on acute ethanol-induced liver damage. Pretreatment with NAC prevent from acute ethanol-induced liver damage via counteracting ethanol-induced oxidative stress. When administered after ethanol, NAC might behave as a pro-oxidant and aggravate acute ethanol-induced liver damage."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16439183
this is interesting - does anyone have a link to the repo
Another sign that industrialized civilisation consumes its inhabitants. All to the citys, to sit in tiny cubicles and apartments, waiting lonely for ones demise. What a triumph, what a archivment.
> Ideally I would like to work remotely having a balance between research and coding (is this even possible?)

This is possible depending on the network of contacts you develop. And PhD programs and the conference circiut are a great place to meet interesting people.
Right, but MLK would not have identified himself as a "white moderate except ___," nor said "I like order, but also ___". His point was he had a different worldview from the white moderate, and tacking on to the white moderate would not have accomplished his goals.

Open source is definitely political, but it's also a very specific political movement. There can be other political movements with other goals. The reasons that open source advocates dislike licenses with restrictions on use are not just "we don't want to be political" or "we don't want to rock the boat." Some have a moral/ethical opinion that you should not restrict use via copyright, usually that you should not be able to restrict use via copyright. Some have a pragmatic opinion that attempts to restrict use will lead to worse outcomes.

The 996.ICU folks seem like they would be better served with their own movement that doesn't go by the name of "open source." We don't need to add that label to them.
Probably not true for cancer risk: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2223525/
It's funny that the ones who complain about wealth distribution the most are the ones who have insanely more wealth that includes pretty much everyone on HN.

It's a pool club where only rich come.
I live in Brazil. Under Brazilian labor laws, a work week is defined as 44 hours, with each work day having up to 8 hours. So you just excluded companies that have ever had anyone do more than one hour of (paid) overtime any week. Which is basically every company in my country, considering (occasional, paid) overtime is normal and predicted in the relevant laws.

Here, 12 hour shifts with 36 hour rest periods is also the norm for security guards, etc. (So that 4 can provide 24h security) That results in more than 45 hours every other week.

The license also doesn't specify how to remedy the situation in case it's ever violated, which feels very draconian and not very pragmatic.
Try taking CBD instead. My depression is almost cured because of it. It helped when prescription meds didn't.
Meanwhile, in Canada, the providers are starting to market 5G, but the data pricing is so terrible, 3G is more than enough and still requires ample rationing.

I have to be careful not to stream too many podcasts. Forget music or video.
There are more conveniences than just at home, e.g. in the car, you just place it in the place holder and it charges, no cables to fumble with. No multitude of connectors and there is also a portion of society that has trouble with keeping their hand steady to plug in small connectors - its accessibility for folks with disabilities.

Wireless charging is the future.
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So true. My impression of one guy at my current organization is that he had some skills and productivity years in the past, but now he’s just given up and fiddles around on his phone while doing occasional low-effort tasks and trying to bully newcomers into doing things he can take credit for. Why he’s still there is beyond me. Very unlikely (in my opinion) that he could get away with this remotely.
Welp. I have no recollection of what research I did to conclude that it was “legit”, but I believe that was my post on Wikipedia. As I don’t have memory or note of that research, I can’t really stand behind either my initial claim or my counterclaim.
I went to one of his seminars and walked out. There was very little substance. At one point he told everyone they should bring a technical document when bringing their pet to the vet.

edit: Some other things he suggested: don't use powerpoint. Write a technical document and have everyone read it before the meeting. He also showed how he himself could have saved the space shuttle discovery.

Sorry if I'm coming off as a bit negative. I like the books, they have some good insights but the seminar itself was terrible.
Bauhaus: 100 years old but still ubiquitous in our homes today
Why does the root need to be encrypted? What's wrong with an unencrypted root and /var and /home and swap and /mnt/storage being on encrypted partitions/zpools?

I boot my machines and then ssh into them with a script that pipes a local gpg -d to them to unlock their disks, mount appropriate filesystems, and start necessary daemons. Unless the daemons are poorly-behaved, no data that is specific to me aside from the host's SSH key is ever written to the root - only the OS/distro files.

I thought this is what everyone does.
Planes don’t have built in compasses?

edit: yes they do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_instruments
That's nothing, the Jaquet-Droz family were producing glyphs from mechanical analogue storage in ~1770. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY_wfKVjuJM
I absolutely agree that it wasn't clear. I don't think wattage per clock cycle is a meaningful measure here - after all, all languages will have the same wattage per clock cycle, if they're executing the same instructions.

What's important is wattage per unit of useful end product, in my example pricing an option. For others, it might be wattage per web page served or anything else.
I don't say that there are thousands of people around any random point, I meant that I would be really surprised if any of the places being talked about in the article is really isolated.

It also depends on your definition of being "50km away from everything". What place are you thinking of?
Why's that, again?
Is this kind of lisence enforcement possible? Any prior art?
70% of Americans with credit card debt admit they can't pay it off this yea
Tesla doesn’t charge for map updates.
Uhm... of course there is?

https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU

https://996.icu/#/en_US

Even on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507620

The link just shows you one particular file in the repo, but that should be obvious to anyone who ever used GitHub.
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It's not that easy when you are clinically depressed. Sometimes you need something to cure the physical and biological aspects of depression before you can even consider having the mindset you need to "get a life and friend group".
This is only half the truth. Article 29 states (as usual) that member states have two years to transpose the directive into national law. If that doesn't happen (or the transposition does not fully cover the requirements) the Commission will start the infringement procedure.
> Your second sentence is nonsense.

No it is not. But I see that you are a "founder" and thus profiting from my work. Your opinion is self-serving and meaningless.
A mostly abandoned village in Croatia that I was in still had a food truck come by 3x/week in a Sprinter. A meat truck once a week and some other food truck.

Pricing was somewhere around what the city grocery stores charged.

You could phone in orders.

In business for decades. Meanwhile in the “modern” world, I have to go to the store for my food...

One local said he only went into town once a month.
That was quite interesting. I knew Tokyo was big but wow! I live in Singapore. I think it's a sweet spot for high density cities.
Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim
Excited about “Higher order type inference from generic functions”. Great for libraries like RxJS, Ramda and axax.
I wish they just did not sell to foreign investors. And yes I would be fine if other countries did the same, why do I need to own a place in 'x' country? This is, again, capitalism at the expense of the people who actually live in the region. I am not against immigration and owning property but a person or organization who are simply buying up property just to make a profit and have no intention of ever living there should be stopped. Or at the least heavily taxed to discourage the practice.
The guidelines ask you not to make arguments like that. You should especially refrain from them when you don't understand the argument you're attempting to rebut.
I would assume those words would leak into the public lexicon without the public realizing their origins.

The gay community back then was largely camouflaged within the few areas they were accepted: artistic communities and long naval voyages (where men having sex with men was considered a reality of life at sea). So people may associate those words with the larger groups which were not suspected of being gay.
I had never used a side-by-side window manager before but, after seeing a coworker using TotalCommander, I stumbled across Double Commander (https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/). It's open source, cross platform, and "is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas."

While I cannot comment on how it stacks up to Total Commander, I've ended up liking it quite a bit.
I'm not entirely sure why all of this even exists, it seems like it creates a lot of potential for bugs. I've been developing in JS for years and I've never intentionally used type coercion. If I ever needed to operate on multiple types I would always explicitly cast them to the correct type beforehand.
We're not talking about your phone, Brian. Keep up.
Oh no. Someone might get my music playlist and navigation history along with dash cam footage.

This is deeply personal to me. I would die if the next owner finds out I like Roxette, drive to places and take two attempts to parallel park.

What 2019 car should I buy to avoid this?
Considering how i read HN and thus how i’m reading this — and that i don’t have a twitter account — i guess i have to agree!

RSS is very, very nice. Especially for keeping track of all the journals I have to keep an eye on.
>* is memory consumption...*

???

You're recommending a slower language, that uses more watts, on a presumably 24/7 backend...

to save a few bucks on memory?

As I said, if you want a company to switch to c++ or rust because you want to save money on memory IN ADDITION to all the money you're saving on watts, while getting the same or better performance? That might make some sense.

Switching to go makes, No, sense. You end up paying more money per user session to do the equivalent work. (Even worse, each user waits longer because the work is done slower.)

And then, like typical engineers, we'd proceed to explain to our bosses that all of this is actually better...

because our new program uses less memory.
Please use your main HN account. Temporary accounts for the purpose of hiding will continue to be banned.
I don't think that's really the sell. The sell is that hosting within the US is the only protection you can have from NSA, since they have a total, unencumbered free hand when it comes to services hosted outside the US, without even a legal formalism to stop them. Like all national SIGINT agencies, breaking into everything outside their own borders is literally their chartered job.
The right question to ask is "why wouldn't it".
And wouldn't encypting this require the user to enter a password on each trip where they want to make use of the info?

Ultimately it doesn't strike me as unreasonable for the user to need to wipe their info from their car when they sell/scrap it, just as they need to remove their physical belongings from the interior. (Although I'm sure things could be designed better to make the wipe process easier to accomplish and harder to forget.)
That forces you to write very unnatural Rust - it makes it a much clunkier language.
While the inventory stays constant, the environment is not in a stable state right now regarding greenhouse gases.

Considering than methane is two orders of magnitude more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2 [0], removing it from the atmosphere will also do good alongside reducing CO2 emissions.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bad-of-a-gree...
I bet Apple said to their engineers something like “if you can improve performance by gluing components and other non-repairable things please do”. It hurts their business having the upgrade cycle being every 30 months rather than every 18 months.
I'm an insider.

The SSH keys are all on Google Doc, but its only shared with Elon and need to know staff.
Does Homework Work?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease

> In 2007, it was predicted that populations could become locally extinct within 10–15 years of DFTD occurring, and predicted that the disease would spread across the entire range of the Tasmanian devils causing the devils to become extinct within 25–35 years.

Oh man :(

Is this kind of stuff "normal" (historically), or is it likely to be another result of our general poisoning of everything? There is this,

> In 2004, Kathryn Medlock found three oddly shaped devil skulls in European museums and found a description of a devil in London Zoo dying, which showed a similarity to DFTD

but that's a.) not much and b.) the source for that is dead or had the URL changed, and I can't find it: https://www.google.com/search?q=abc+%22Devil+Disease%22+medl...
> the biggest creditors usually get paid first

In bankruptcy, the size of the claim doesn't determine its priority.

The law determines claim priority, and the company doesn't have much discretion.

First in line are secured creditors who lent against collateral. In Wow's case, the airplanes collateralize most of the debt.

Then comes employees, taxes and bank loans.

After that comes unsecured bonds.

Next are unsecured creditors with unpaid invoices.

After that is preferred stock.

And if there is anything left over, it goes to common shareholders.
Witchhunt, rape and torture are on the rise in Papua New Guinea
There is in fact blind trust in blockchains. It's blind trust in stone-written legislature that has the aim of being universal. You can't change what trust means, it's a highly complex concept which already has a meaning for individuals and groups, prior to any techno-financial objective/essential/analytic metric you map to it. BGP has understood that, SCP too. ssl/tls PKI also works that way although big corps effectively control the policy using large CAs and browser bundles. On the "dns" side, there is the gnunet name system which goes that way too [1].

Names and identities are always relative to a (tree of) policy and decentralization of control means that ultimately the root is you. Blockchains (quite well-defined by handshake actually, as crypto-financially incentivized strong consensus) take the incompatible route of making statements public and permanent (instead of gated and amendable) and conflating abstract protocol with concrete network (eg imposing a distinguished core policy). Blockchains may be participatory but they are totalitarian and authoritarian, they deny the possibility of local independence. It's "either you are us or you don't exist". It's authoritarian in the same way android permissions are (or were, i don't recall the specifics): either you accept all we ask or you don't install. There is no room for negotiation since the whole thing works as a monolithic black box and treats you as an outsider/client/consumer.

I believe a core property for a decentralized naming protocol should be to stop trying to construct trust anchors and concrete network. Fluctuations and definitions of these trust anchors cannot be governed by tech, they will come out of meetings, social circles, interests, beliefs. As such the system should encourage that out-of-band behavior and make it easy to have the system controlled by the real-life status of these anchors and the scope of the networks.

[1] A Censorship-Resistant, Privacy-Enhancing and Fully Decentralized Name System. Matthias Wachs, Martin Schanzenbach, Christian Grothoff.